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well as numerous other polemical Some Bohemian treatises, both Latin and Bohemian. hymns written by him have also been preserved. Jacoas being the bellus however, most worthy of notice principal author of the celebrated Articles of Prague, that played so important part in Bohemian history. After this event we find little mention of Jacobellus, and he died in retirement in 1429. Closely connected with his friend the Englishman, Peter Payne,^ Jacobellus have here whose name has already been mentioned. He was no space to sketch out his adventurous career. obliged to fly from England, no doubt as being an adherent of Wycliffe, and settled in Bohemia, obtaining, in 1417, the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Prague. He belonged, like Jacobellus, to the more and when the ideas of Pribram advanced Utraquists gained ground in that Church, even joined the Taborites. Peter Payne was also one of the Bohemian envoys at the Council of Basel, where he was occasionally in violent conflict with his countrymen, the English bishops. Though living so long in Bohemia, Magister Englis appears never to have thoroughly mastered the language at least certain that when chalof the country. pubhc theological lenged by Magister Pribram to disputation in that language, Peter was obliged to decline. Some religious treatises, written in Latin, in which Payne defends the teaching of Wycliffe, have been preserved. He appears toward the end of his life to have cast his lot entirely with the men of Tabor, and was still living in that town in 1452. Among the members of the advanced Calixtine party, as
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