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some towns the magistrates attended him

through their streets.

Upon arriving at Constance, Huss was

granted full liberty. To the emperor's safe-

conduct was added a personal assurance of

protection by the pope. But, in violation of

these solemn and repeated declarations, the

Reformer was in a short time arrested, by

order of the pope and cardinals, and thrust

into a loathsome dungeon. Later he was

transferred to a strong castle across the

Rhine and there kept a prisoner. The pope,

profiting little by his perfidy, was soon after

committed to the same prison. Ibid., vol. 1, p.

247. He had been proved before the council

to be guilty of the basest crimes, besides

murder, simony, and adultery, “sins not fit to

be named.” So the council itself declared, and

he was finally deprived of the tiara and