[64] "Blasphemias cuiusdam in ecclesiam Dei ore sacrilego debacchantis." [65] This imaginary personage was supposed to have been the founder of the sect of Pickhards or Beghards, a vague designation which was applied to many mediæval heretics, but more particularly to the Waldenses. [66] See Chapter VI. [67] Lord Peter was the last of the illustrious family of Rosenberg. [68] The red rose was the device of the lords of Rosenberg. [69] Rosenberg died in 1611. The Bohemian uprising against the House of Habsburg began in 1618, and the battle of the White Mountain--the term of Bohemian independence--was fought in 1620. [70] See Chapter VI. [71] In Bohemian _rota_ (see note, p. 161). [72] Probably an allusion to the celebrated Doctor Jessenius, rector of the University of Prague, whom the Bohemians employed in their negotiations with Hungary, and who was famed for his eloquence. His tongue was cut out before he was decapitated, and his body was quartered after death. [73] This was the name given to the members of the Provisional Government formed at Prague in 1618 after the Defenestration. [74] See Chapter IV. p. 157. [75] _Historie o puvodu Jednoty_ ("History of the Origin of the Unity"), quoted by Jireček. [76] Of English works on this subject, I may mention the "Extract of the Letter of the late Bishop Jablonsky to his Excellency C. Zinzendorf: As touching the succession of Episcopal Consecration; the Bohemian Brethren have got their Ordination from the Waldenses about the year 1467, and have kept the same carefully and without interruption." Printed in _Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia_, 1749, as Appendix VII. [77] That the choice was made by the drawing of lots, which is here only hinted at, is more fully explained in the later accounts of Brother Jaffet and Komenský; they tell us that the brethren chose nine of their number, and then intrusted a boy who was unaware of their intentions with twelve slips of paper; of these, nine were blank and three contained the word "Jest." The nine chosen men then drew the slips of paper, and all those containing the word "Jest" were drawn; this was considered as signifying that God wished the Unity to have three spiritual chiefs. [78] In Bohemian _úzky_, literally "narrow." [79] In Eastern Bohemia, between the towns of Wildenschwert and Pardubic. [80] In the Journal of the Bohemian Museum (_Časopis Musea Království_ _Českého_) for 1886. [81] See Chapter IV. [82] The Bohemian word _roh_ signifies "horn" in German and English. [83] I quote the name as given by Dr. Jireček. [84] This passage recalls Dante's "Pape Satan! Pape Satan Aleppe!" (_Inferno_, Canto VII.). [85] See later. [86] The Latin passage is written in that language in Blahoslav's (Bohemian) work, which I quote. The Latin spelling is also that of Blahoslav. [87] This, no doubt, refers to some theological difference between Lucas and Blahoslav. [88] See Chapter VI. [89] See Chapter VI.