throwing them into Dungeons at the Caſtle of Podebrad, and at Lititz, he killed many of them, Lupatius with ſome others, having addreſſed themſelves to Rokizane.
CHAP. XVIII
The beginning of the fraternity in Bohemia.
1. BUt when the Bohemians for certain years, did in vain deſire, that their Arch-biſhop might be inveſted in his Dignity, having for that purpoſe ſent ſo many Legates unto Rome, and the Pope refuſed to do it, unleſs that Rokizane ſhould renounce the Cup: The Cardinall of Saint Angelo being alſo ſent to Prague, in the year 1448. was commanded under the pretence of Treaty, to call for the Agreement on the four Articles, and to bring them with him: which having gotten into his hands, he ſtole away with them, but was quickly overtaken, and enforced to return them. Rokizane finding himſelfe thus deluded, reaſſuming new hatred againſt the Pope, when out of the Revelations, and the Prophecy of Daniel, he had ſhewed that the Pope was the great Antichriſt, and we, ſaith he, unleſſe we ſhall withdraw our obedience from him, are but a miſerable and a damned crew, he proceeded and told the people that the law of Chriſt, and not the agreement on the Articles were to be held for the rules of Religion, that all
