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whom after eleven yeares Philip Biſhop of Sidon and Mutina did ſucceed, Hee being reſident ſometimes at Prague, ſometimes at Cuttenburge, did for three yeares ſpace ordaine Calixtine Miniſters, which being paſſed they were againe enforced to flatter the Pope and Biſhops of Rome, ſo miſerable was their ſlavery, that willing to ſeem to have forſaken Antichriſt, yet they did not ſtick to fight under his ſtandards.

6. But ſome of the ſchollers amongſt whom was Iohn Bozhink ſo truly hated the Pope, that having received letters of commendation from the Univerſity, they went as farre as Armenia to be ordained Miniſters. And becauſe that there the ſame had arrived of the Hereſie of the Bohemians, they were the more strictly examined: and it being found that they agreed with them in the chiefeſt Articles of Religion, and alſo in the language, they were ordained Miniſters, in the yeare 1499. Two of thoſe did afterwards ſuffer the flames of Martyrdome by the Romanes, to wit, Martin a Taborite, with his Deacon, who were both burned at Radnice.

Chap. 28.