John Huss and the Hussite Wars - James Aitken Wylie

uproar as on the occasion of Huss's first appearance
before them. Jerome's assailants were chiefly the
doctors, and especially the famous Gerson, with
whom he had chanced to dispute in Paris and
Heidelberg, when attending the universities of
these cities. At night he was conducted to the
dungeon of a tower in the cemetery of St. Paul. His
chains, riveted to a lofty beam, did not permit of
his sitting down; and his arms, crossed behind on
his neck and tied with fetters, bent his head
downward and occasioned him great suffering. He
fell ill, and his enemies, fearing that death would
snatch him from them, relaxed somewhat the rigor
of his treatment; nevertheless in that dreadful
prison he remained an entire year.
Meanwhile a letter was received from the
barons of Bohemia, which convinced the Council
that it had deceived itself when it fancied it had
done with Huss when it threw his ashes into the
Rhine. A storm was evidently brewing, and should
the Fathers plant a second stake, the tempest would
be all the more sure to burst, and with the more
awful fury. Instead of burning Jerome, it were
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