I would willingly see you with the Seignior Wenceslaus and Master Christian. If you speak to the vice-chamberlain, I think he will permit you to be admitted. Converse before my guards in Latin. . . . . . . I did not dare keep the articles about my person. Make Peter copy what I have written on the Ten Commandments of God.
If I live I will answer the articles of the Chancellor of Paris;[1] if I die, God will answer them for me at the day of judgment.
I know not where is my faithful brother in Christ. Is Master Christian with you? I pray you salute him, as likewise the Seignior Wenceslaus, and the other faithful Bohemians.[2]
Torment not yourself about the living being dear here. Live as you can; and should God permit me to leave the prison, you will not repent these expenses.
If you see the Seignior Henry of Plumlovitz, or Stibor of Botz, salute them for me.
It will be eight weeks to-morrow that John Huss has been confined in this refectory.[3]
- ↑ John Gerson. Huss adds,—Scribet in manifesto Zeleznyian. The meaning of this latter word is not clear.
- ↑ John Huss here repeats what he had said in a former part of this letter, which is written in Latin, and is often very obscure, indicating a certain derangement, occasioned, without doubt, by acute sufferings.
- ↑ In the refectory of the Minor Brothers. The date of this letter is thus fixed as 22d January 1415.
