p. 157.]
[Footnote 16: This work was printed in 1542; it was put into the
renowned _Index librorum prohibitorum_ first printed in 1629, and the
Bohemian part last in 1767; the original author of which was the
famous Jesuit Koniash, one of the most violent book-destroyers who
ever lived. Not only all books written by the Hussites or their
immediate predecessors, but even many catholic writers also of that
period were put upon this list; e.g. the historian Hagek, translations
of AEneas Sylvius, etc.]
[Footnote 17: Ann, queen of England, sister to king Wenceslaus of
Bohemia, possessed a Bible in Latin, German and Bohemian; to which
circumstance Wickliffe alluded in one of his writings, quoted by Huss
in his reply to Stockes, Tom. I. p.108. See Dobrovsky's _Gesch. der
boehm. Sprache_, p.142.]
[Footnote 18: The Bohemians, like the Germans, adopted the Latin
alphabet; but the former, receiving it from the Germans, adopted it in
the corrupted form of these latter, viz. they imitated the Gothic
letters, so called, in which also all ancient Bohemian books are
printed. In modern times the genuine Roman letters have nearly
supplanted them; to which several different signs are added to adapt
them to the Slavic sounds.
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