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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt:... LETTERS OF JOHN HUSS. ATTESTATION OF PETER MALDONIEWITZ, CALLED THE NOTARY. These pages are all faithfully copied from the Letters of John Huss, written with his own hand, and they correspond, word for word, with the originals.* FIRST SERIES. LETTERS WRITTEN AT THE PERIOD OF THE INTERDICTION OF JOHN HUSS, AND OF HIS EXILE FROM PRAGUE IN 1411; SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN 1410. The letters of this series contain the greater part of the admirable exhortations addressed by John Huss to the believers of his church. They are not distinguished either for the great diversity of incidents, or the dramatic interest of those in the second series, but they clearly evidence the great intrepidity, Christian piety, love for his brethren, and true greatness, that pervaded the mind of Huss. The writer already felt a presentiment of his martyrdom; and it is easy to perceive in reading them, that he would not give way when his time * This attestation of the faithful Maldoniewitz is found after John Huss's letters, in the old collection of his works.--Johann. Hut. Hiit. Monum. vol. i., p. 95. LETTEK I. TO THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, t [In this letter, John Huss complains of having been falsely denounced, and humbly demands to be dispensed from being obliged to appear in person. For the same purpose, John Huss makes an appeal to John XXIII., J which has been in * For historical details relative to this period of the life of John Huss, see The Reformers before the Reformation, vol. i., hook i. f Of all the letters that have been saved of John Huss, this is the only one addressed to his ecclesiastical superiors, the dignitaries of the Church. It is valuable, inasmuch that it shews the respect with which he addressed them, his ardent desire to...