[64] "Blasphemias cuiusdam in ecclesiam Dei ore sacrilego debacchantis."
[65] This imaginary personage was supposed to have been the founder of the sect of Pickhards or Beghards, a vague designation which was applied to many mediæval heretics, but more particularly to the Waldenses.
[66] See Chapter VI.
[67] Lord Peter was the last of the illustrious family of Rosenberg.
[68] The red rose was the device of the lords of Rosenberg.
[69] Rosenberg died in 1611. The Bohemian uprising against the House of Habsburg began in 1618, and the battle of the White Mountain—the term of Bohemian independence—was fought in 1620.
[70] See Chapter VI.
[71] In Bohemian rota (see note, p. [161]).
[72] Probably an allusion to the celebrated Doctor Jessenius, rector of the University of Prague, whom the Bohemians employed in their negotiations with Hungary, and who was famed for his eloquence. His tongue was cut out before he was decapitated, and his body was quartered after death.
[73] This was the name given to the members of the Provisional Government formed at Prague in 1618 after the Defenestration.