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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) LXXXII.: To his Friends in Bohemia 3 ( June 29, 1415) - The Letters of John Hus
LXXXII.: To his Friends in Bohemia 3 ( June 29, 1415) - Jan Huss, The Letters of John Hus [1904]Edition used:The Letters of John Hus. With Introductions and Explanatory Notes by Herbert B. Workman and R. Martin Pope (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904).
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- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I.—: Letters Written Before the Death of Archbishop Zbinek ( June 30, 1408— September 28, 1411)
- Letter I: To Zbinek, Archbishop of Prague ( Undated: June 30, 1408; Prague )
- Letter II: To the Nuns of a Certain Convent ( Undated: September 1408?)
- Letter III: To Zbinek, Archbishop of Prague ( Undated: Early December 1408)
- Letter IV: To Master Zawissius, Rector of Prachaticz ( Late Autumn, 1408)
- Letter V: To the People of Laun 1 ( Undated: About 1410)
- Letter VI: The Letter of Richard Wyche ( London: September 8, 1410)
- Letter VII: To a Certain Monk ( January 18, 1411)
- Letter VIII: To John Barbatus and the People of Chrumnaw ( May 25, 1411)
- IX.: To John XXIII., The Roman Pontiff 1 ( September 1, 1411)
- X.: To the College of Cardinals ( Without Date: Early In September 1411)
- Part II.—: From the Death of Zbinek to the Exile of Hus ( September 1411— September 1412)
- XI.: To the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Bohemia ( Undated: December 1411)
- XII.: To the People of Pilsen 1 ( Undated: March ( ? ) 1412)
- XIII.: To Ladislaus, King of Poland ( June 10, 1412 1 )
- XIV.: To the Brethren of the Monastery of Dolein, In Moravia ( Undated: Summer 1412)
- XV.: To Masters Martin and Nicolas Miliczin ( Undated: August ( ? ) 1412)
- Part III.—: Letters Written During the Exile of Hus ( September 1412— August 1414)
- XVI.: To the People of Prague. ( Without Date: Early In October 1412).
- XVII.: To the Same. ( Without Date: Early In October 1412)
- XVIII.: To the Same ( Without Date: October ( ? ) 1412)
- XIX.: To the Same ( Without Date: October 1412)
- XX.: To the Faithful Bohemians ( Without Date: December 1412 1 )
- XXI.: To the People of Prague ( Without Date: December 1412)
- XXII.: To the Same ( December 25, 1412)
- XXIII.: To the Same 1 ( Without Date: January ( ? ) 1413)
- XXIV.: To the Same ( Without Date: January ( ? ) 1413)
- XXV.: To the Synod of Prague In the Year 1413 ( Without Date: After February 6, 1413 1 )
- XXVI.: To Master Christian of Prachaticz, Rector of the University of Prague. ( Without Date: Early 1413)
- XXVII.: To the Same ( Without Date: After April 1413 5 )
- XXVIII.: To the Same ( Without Date: After April 1413)
- XXIX.: To the Same ( Without Date: 1413)
- XXX.: To the Same ( Without Date: End of April ( ? ) 1413 1 )
- XXXI.: To Master John Sybart 2 In the University of Vienna ( July 1, 1413)
- XXXII.: To the People of Prague ( Without Date: Early In 1414 1 )
- Part IV.—: Letters Written On the Journey to Constance ( August—november, 1414.)
- Notice to the Synod
- Appeal to the Court
- XXXIII.: To Sigismund, King of the Romans and of Hungary ( Prague: September 1, 1414)
- XXXIV.: To His Bohemian Friends On Starting For Constance ( Without Place: Near Krakowec; Without Date: October 12, 1414)
- XXXV.: To Master Martin, His Disciple 2 ( Prague, Beginning of October 1414)
- XXXVI.: To His Bohemian Friends ( Nuremberg, October 20, 1414)
- XXXVII.: To the Same ( Constance, November 4, 1414)
- XXXVIII.: To the Same ( Constance, November 6, 1414)
- XXXIX.: To the Faithful Bohemians 1 ( Constance, November 16, 1414)
- Part V.—: Letters Written During the Imprisonment At the Blackfriars ( November 16, 1414— March 24, 1415)
- Xl.: to the People of Prague 1 ( Blackfriars, January 19, 1415)
- Xli.: to John of Chlum ( Blackfriars, Without Date: January 1415)
- Xlii.: to John of Chlum ( Blackfriars, Without Date: February 1415)
- Xliii.: to Peter Mladenowic ( Without Date: February 1415)
- Xliv.: to John of Chlum ( Undated: February 1415)
- Xlv.: to the Same ( Without Date: February, 1415)
- Xlvi.: to His Friends At Constance ( Without Date: End of February 1415)
- Xlvii.: to John of Chlum ( Without Date: February 28 ( ? ), 1415)
- Xlviii.: to John of Chlum ( Without Date: March 4, 1415)
- Xlix.: to John of Chlum ( Without Date: March 6 Th, 1415 3 )
- L.: to His Friends ( Without Date: Middle March 1415)
- Li.: to His Friends After the Pope’s Flight ( Without Date: March 21, 1415)
- Lii.: to the Same ( March 24, 1415)
- Part VI.—: Letters Written From the Franciscan Friary ( June 5, 1415— July 6, 1415)
- Liii.: to John of Chlum ( Without Date: Morning, June 5, 1415)
- Liv.: to His Friends Staying On In Constance ( Without Date: June 5, 1415)
- Lv.: to John of Chlum ( Without Date: June 6, 1415)
- Lvi.: to Peter Mladenowic ( Without Date: June 6, 1415)
- Lvii.: to His Friends Staying On In Constance ( Without Date: June 7, 1415 1 )
- Lviii.: to His Friends In Constance ( Without Date: June 8, 1415)
- Lix.: to the Same ( Without Date: June 9 Or 10, 1415 2 )
- Lx.: to His Friends Staying On In Constance ( Without Date: After June 8, 1415)
- Lxi.: to Henry Skopek De Duba ( Without Date: June 9, 1415 1 )
- Lxii.: to a Friend ( June 9, 1415)
- Lxiii.: to His Bohemian Friends ( Without Date: Shortly After June 8, 1415)
- Lxiv.: to All the People of Bohemia 5 ( June 10, 1415)
- Lxv.: to Henry Skopek De Duba 1 ( June 13, 1413)
- Lxvi.: to Master Martin, His Disciple 1 ( June 16, 1415)
- Lxvii.: Master John Hus to the “father” ( Without Date: Middle of June )
- Lxviii.: Master John Hus to the “father” ( Without Date: Middle of June 1415)
- Lxix.: to His Friends In Constance ( Without Date: After June 18, 1415)
- Lxx.: to His Friends In Constance ( June 21, 1415)
- Lxxi.: to Gallus (hawlik 1 ), Preacher In the Bethlehem ( June 21, 1415)
- Lxxii.: to Master Christian ( Without Date: About June 22, 1415)
- Lxxiii.: to His Friends At Constance ( June 23, 1415)
- Lxxiv.: to the Faithful Bohemians 1 ( June 24, 1415)
- Lxxv.: to His Bohemian Friends ( Without Date: June 24 Or 25, 1415)
- Lxxvi.: to the Faithful Bohemians 5 ( June 26, 1415)
- Lxxvii.: to the Same ( June 27, 1415)
- Lxxviii.: to the University of Prague ( June 27, 1415)
- Lxxix.: to Barons Wenzel De Duba and John of Chlum ( Undated: ? Middle Or End of June )
- Lxxx.: to John of Chlum ( June 29, 1415)
- Lxxxi.: to Wenzel De Duba ( June 29, 1415)
- Lxxxii.: to His Friends In Bohemia 3 ( June 29, 1415)
- Hus’s Final Declaration ( July 1, 1415)
- Appendix A: a Doubtful Letter of Hus
LXXXII.
To his Friends in Bohemia
(June 29, 1415)
God be with you! May it please Him to bestow upon you the eternal reward for the many kindnesses you have shown me, and still do show, although perhaps in the body I am already dead. Do not suffer Baron John of Chlum, faithful, steadfast knight that he is and my kind benefactor, to run any risk. I pray this for God’s sake, dear Master Peter, Superintendent of the Mint, and Mistress Anna! I entreat you also to live a good life and obey God, as I have often told you. Give thanks in my name to my gracious mistress the Queen for all the kindnesses she hath conferred on me. Greet your family and the other faithful friends, whose names I may not mention. I entreat you all to pray to God in my behalf; by His help we shall soon meet together in His gracious and holy presence. Amen. I write this in prison in fetters, which I am wearing, I trust, for the gospel of God, expecting every moment the sentence of death. For God’s sake, I pray you suffer not good priests to be oppressed.
Master Hus,
in hope a servant of God.
Peter, dearest friend, keep my fur cloak in memory of me.
Lord Henry Lefl, live a good life with thy wife. My thanks to thee! God be thy reward!
Faithful friend, Master Lideři and Mistress Margaret, Masters Skuoček and Mikeška and others: may God grant you an eternal reward for your toils and the other kindness you have conferred on me.
Master Christian, faithful and beloved, God be with thee!
Master Martin, my disciple, remember those things which I taught thee.
Master Nicolas and Peter, the Queen’s chaplain, and the other masters and priests, be diligent students of God’s word.
Priest Gallus, preach the word of God.
Finally, I entreat you all to persevere in the truth of God.
On the feast day of the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, about the time of the evening meal. The three letters written on June 29 are the last that Hus wrote. The month’s grace was evidently fruitless, and Sigismund was in a hurry to depart for Perpignan, there to meet, by agreement, Benedict XIII. and Ferdinand of Aragon, the chief supporter of the Spanish anti-pope, and arrange for the ending of the schism. This journey had twice already been postponed, and admitted of no further delay. For on June 15 the proctor of Gregory XII.—Charles di Malatesta—had arrived in Rome and commenced negotiations for Gregory’s abdication. On July 4 all arrangements were completed, and the Council summoned to listen to a bull of Gregory, convoking and then approving the Council and all its doings, and concluding with a proclamation of his own resignation. But before Sigismund could be allowed to depart from Constance the Council were resolute that he should appear as a consenting party to the death of Hus. It was determined, therefore, to bring matters to an issue. On July 1—two days after Hus’s last letter, and after Sigismund’s return from his short holiday at Ueberlingen—Hus was visited by a deputation of eight prelates, with Hus’s gaoler, the Archbishop of Riga, at their head, who endeavoured once more to persuade the Reformer that he could reasonably recant. Hus replied by writing out with his own hand his final decision.
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