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40 cf. J. F. Kiessling, Das Lehrgebaude der Wiedertauffer (Leipzig, 1776), p.
xiii f.
41 cf. his Testamentum in Sandius, Bibliotheca, p. 195.
42 cf. Lubieniecius, p. 192.
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1 cf. Wotschke, Briefwechsel, pp. 246—274.
2 cf. Krajewski to Hosius, Lublin, May 31, 1566, in Wotschke, op. cit., p. 272,
n. 1.
3 The statement of Lubieniecius (Historia, p. 194), repeated by many historians
during all the generations since, that at the Diet of Lublin in 1566 a decree was
promulgated by the Senate by which all Trideists and Anabaptists were
proscribed, and required to leave the country within a month, must be definitely
denied. The earliest sources until recently accessible are scanty and confused.
The written draft of a decree, discussed in the Senate and acceptable to the
King, has been mistaken for a valid decree, but it was never adopted. The term
Trideists here applied to the Antitrinitarians refers to a view that had an early
but short-lived currency among them, which held to the essential deity of
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three distinct persons, without also asserting
their hypostatical unity Hence Catholic writers of this period called them
(strangely enough) Trinitarii. The earliest printed sources for the ‘Decree of
Lublin’ are in Schomann’s Testamentum (in Sandius, Bibliotheca, p. 194), and
Lubieniecius, op. cit., p. 194. Passing by many mistaken accounts of it, cf. the
correct account in Teodor Wierzbowski, Uchansciana (Warszawa, 1890), iii,
132, 134; id., Uchanski, p. 445 f; and the very conclusive review of the subject
by Stanislaw Bodniak, ‘Sprawa wygnania Arjan w r. 1566’ (The matter of the
banishment of Arians in 1566), Reformacja w Polsce, v (1928), 52—59.
4 cf. Schomann, Testamentum, in Sandius, Bibliotheca, p. 194; Sandius, id. op.,
p. 82; Lauterbach, Socinismus, p. 28; Lukaszewicz, Geschichte, p. 18, n. 27;
Friese, Kirchengesch., ii, 243.
5 For the above episodes, cf. Lubieniecius, op. cit., pp. 194—197.