Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie
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up <strong>in</strong> Old Prague were convers<strong>in</strong>g with their pastor<br />
Werbenius, the chief gaoler entered <strong>and</strong> announced<br />
the hour of supper. They looked at each other, <strong>and</strong><br />
all declared that they desired to eat no more on<br />
earth. Nevertheless, that their bodies might not be<br />
fa<strong>in</strong>t when they should be led out to execution,<br />
they agreed to sit down at table <strong>and</strong> partake of<br />
someth<strong>in</strong>g. One laid the cloth, another the plates, a<br />
third brought water to wash, a fourth said grace,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a fifth observed that this was their last meal on<br />
earth, <strong>and</strong> that tomorrow they should sit down <strong>and</strong><br />
sup with Christ <strong>in</strong> heaven. The remark was<br />
overheard by the Prefect of Old Prague. On go<strong>in</strong>g<br />
out to his friends he observed jeer<strong>in</strong>gly, "What<br />
th<strong>in</strong>k ye? These men believe that Christ keeps<br />
cooks to regale them <strong>in</strong> heaven!" On these words<br />
be<strong>in</strong>g told to Jakessius, the m<strong>in</strong>ister, he replied that<br />
"Jesus too had a troublesome spectator at his last<br />
supper, Judas Iscariot."<br />
Meanwhile they were told that the barons <strong>and</strong><br />
noblemen were pass<strong>in</strong>g from the tower to the<br />
courthouse, near to the market-place, where the<br />
scaffold on which they were to die had already<br />
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