to Lewis in Hungary, who comming afterward to Prague, and having delivered letters to divers, nay even to the conſiſtory, and to Zahere, he moſt flatteringly did inſinuate that there might be an union in the Church. In the meane time Iohn Paſoke was made Conſull at Prague, a deceitfull, cruell and ſuperſtious man, whoſe faction potently prevailing, Zahere joined himſelf with that part, and wrote in that nature to the Legate in the name of the conſiſtory, that it was an evident teſtimony that hee was delivered over to a reprobate ſenſe, for after other things hee concluded with theſe words. As alwayes heretofore ſo now alſo wee hold nothing more deare or ancient, than that we may be found conſtant in the body of the Church by the unity of faith, and obedience to the Apoſtolicall ſeat, neither can your reverence expect any thing more welcome than what it ſhall receive from our Legates, whom ſhortly we wil ſend unto you. For truly our Bohemia ſupporting it ſelfe on the moſt ſure foundation of the moſt ſure Rock the Catholick faith, hath ſuſtained & broken al thoſe waves of errors, with which our neighbour countries in Germany have been ſhaken, and as a Beacon placed in the middeſt of a tempeſtuous ſea, it holds forth a cleare light to every Sea-man, and (ſheweth them a Haven ſafe from Shipwrack. We truſt therefore moſt reverend father for the buſineſ concerning which your ſacred reverence did write
