[90] The passages quoted in Latin are in that language in Blahoslav's Bohemian book. I shall continue quoting Blahoslav's writings as he published them, without further mention of the fact. The constant use of Latin words and phrases is a particularity of Blahoslav. [91] See Chapter VI. [92] See my _Bohemia, an Historical Sketch_, p. 270. [93] Following the Bohemian writers, I thus describe jointly the Lutherans, Utraquists, and Bohemian Brethren, who were united in their opposition to Rome. [94] See my _Bohemia, an Historical Sketch_, p. 299 _et seq._ [95] See Note 1, p. 200. [96] See Chapter VI. [97] See Chapter VI. [98] Those who wish to study the life of Komenský in greater detail should read Mr. Keatinge's biographical and historical introduction to his recently published English version of the _Didactica Magna_. The biography of Komenský is founded on the best German and Latin authorities. It is only occasionally that mistakes occur, as when it is stated (on page 1 of the introduction) that the Unity "took a position midway between the Utraquists and the Roman Catholics." The Utraquists were, on the contrary, nearest to Rome, and some of them were indeed prepared to accept all its teaching if the right to receive communion _sub utraque_, in the two kinds, were granted them. The Brethren were of all Bohemian reformers most antagonistic to the Church of Rome, and refused to recognise all institutions which, according to their views, had not existed in the primitive Church. [99] See Chapter VI. [100] Komenský alludes to the confiscation of the estates of the nobles who belonged to the Unity. The peasants on their estates were generally of their faith, and were treated more mildly than on other estates. Komenský therefore uses the word "subject" (_oddaný_) instead of "serf." [101] See my _Bohemia, an Historical Sketch_, pp. 397 and 398. Want of space prevents my repeating the short account of Kotter's "prophecies" given there. [102] As late as in 1657 Komenský, in his _Lux in Tenebris_, republished the prophecies of Kotter, Ponatovská, and Drabik, The last-named disreputable prophet will be mentioned later. [103] Mr. Keatinge: _The Great Didactic._ Mr. Keatinge's preface contains much interesting information concerning Hartlib and his friends. [104] This table of contents can be found in my _Bohemia, an Historical Sketch_, p. 403. [105] Bohnslav Lescynski was the grandfather of Stanislas Lescynski, for some time King of Poland. [106] Published in Mr. Patera's _Korrespondence Komenského_. [107] I have retained Komenský's plan of dividing his letter into numbered paragraphs, but want of space has obliged me to abridge the letter considerably, and I have omitted altogether one or two paragraphs of little interest. [108] See later, p, 286.