Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

Majestats-Brief, one object of which was to
empower the Protestants in Bohemia to open
churches and schools wherever they pleased. This
"Royal Charter," moreover, made over to them [20]
the University of Prague, and permitted them to
appoint a public administrator of their affairs. It
was in virtue of this last very important concession
that the Protestant Church of Bohemia now
attained more nearly than ever, before or since, to a
perfect union and a settled government.
Footnotes:
1. Isaiah 26:21
2. See ante, vol. 1., bk. 3
3. We have in the same place narrated the origin
of the "United Brethren," their election by lot
of three men who were afterwards ordained by
Stephen, associated with whom, in the laying
on of hands, were other Waldensian pastors.
Comenius, who relates the transaction, terms
Stephen a chief man or bishop among the
Waldenses. He afterwards suffered martyrdom
for the faith.
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