the people, and that the ſervice of the Church might be in their own tongue,
2. That the Clerks or Miniſters might uſurp no authority in ſecular things.
3. That the word of God might be freely preached and without diſturbance.
4. That there may bee publicke puniſhment for publick offences.
4. The Legate of the Pope demanding if that they had not any more articles to propound, becauſe he heard it reported that they affirmed that the Order of the Monks were from the Divells, Procopius made anſwer, from whence otherwiſe could they derive their Original which was inſtituted neither by the Patriarks nor Prophets, neither by Chriſt nor the Apoſtles, &c.
5. After this Delegates were deputed who on both ſides, for forty days together, diſputed on the articles. And when the Bohemians could not be confuted, they were drawn at laſt to a friendly compoſition, John Rokizane with the hope of an Arch-Biſhopprick, being corrupted himſelf, and ſeducing others of the Commiſſioners, the affairs were ſo carried, that the Bohemians promiſed to return unto the obedience of the Church of Rome, and to obſerve all their traditions and their rites, the uſe of the Cup being among other demands excepted. Theſe four Articles were
afterwards
