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A HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN

LITERATURE

Swedish envoys alone made an ineffective appeal in favour of the Unity and the other non-Roman inhabitants of Bohemia. In a treatise published in 1522 Lucas attacked Luther's teaching on several points, but on receiving a conciliatory answer from the great German reformer he decided on entering into negotiations with him. He sent a member of the Unity, Brother Roh^ or Horn, to Wittenberg with copies of several of his works. Luther does not seem to have had a very clear idea of the identity of the community which wished to enter into relations with him, for he addressed his answer to " his dear nobles and friends the brethren called Waldenses living in Bohemia and Moravia." The contents of the letter appear to have displeased Lucas, who wrote several treatises for the purpose of "strengthening" the brethren against the teaching of Luther. Lucas, indeed, somewhat later sent a second messenger to Wittenberg, but the disagreement continued, and subsequently a complete rupture took place. To the end of his life Lucas continued to labour at the reorganisation of the Unity. One of his latest and most important works was his Zprdva Knezka (" Instruction for the Clergy of the Unity"), published in 1526; he died two years later. It has already been mentioned that

Brother

Lucas

Dr. Jirecek in his biography was a voluminous writer. published in 1875 enumerates sixty-eight works of Lucas,

some of which, it is true, are known only by repute and Since the appearance of Dr. have not been preserved. book, Dr. Goll has discovered works of Lucas

Jirecek's

that are not included in his hst. ' The Bohemian word roA signifies

"horn"

Among the works of in German and English.