Master at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliffe, Considered the first Church reformer, Key predecessor to the Protestant movement of the sixteenth century
“they came to the town hall to present their petitions for their tithes. ” Ah!” said the lords,” you [Huss] said before that tithes were not purely alms; but you assert now that they are, and so condemn yourselves.” Huss noticed this absurd course of the clergy. “I wonder,” says he, with stinging sarcasm, . . .They condemned the article that tithes were alms; now they beg that their salaries,which are alms, may not be taken away.” p.275
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“With Wickliffe, he had accounted tithes mere alms, or voluntary grants” p.274