ters, dated at Conſtance in the yeare 1413, invited the Bohemians to renounce the errors of Wicklif & Huſſe. But afterward in the year 1420, he publickly excommunicated them at Florence, and excited the Emperor, Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marqueſſes, Earles, Barons, Governours, Cityes, Common-wealths, to take up armes againſt them, and did intreat them by the wounds of Chriſt, and their owne ſalvation, unanimouſly fall upon them, and quite extirpate that ſacrilegious and curſed nation, and promiſed a univerſall remiſſion of ſinnes to the moſt wicked perſon that ſhould kill but one bohemian.
4 Sygiſmund the Emperour being inflamed by this incentive, with all Germany and the neighbouring Kingdomes, yeelded himſelfe a ſervant to Antichriſtian Tyrany and in the ſame yeare he enters Bohemia with a ſtrong army, and wearies them with 13 years continued warre, and this was called the Huſite warre, concerning which Eneas Sylvius writes they would rather be admired than believed of poſterity, in regard Siſka the Bohemian Captaine and his ſucceſſours did alwaies vanquiſh the contrary party.
5 But the ſtate of the bohemian affaires were very confuſed at home, when ſome of them ſtood for the Emperor and Pope, others defended the uſe of the cup, from whence they were called Calikstiles upon this ground, with horrible cruelty they were inflamed to deſtroy each other.
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