[2] Agnes Strickland: Lives of the Queens of England, v. 1, p. 592.
[3] See in History: Wratislaw’s Adventures; Šašek’s Diary of an Embassy. The Embassy which Šašek describes was led by Leo z Rožmitálu (Leo von Rosmital), a highly distinguished personage. The Embassy, or mission, consisted of forty persons with fifty-two horses and a Kamer-wagon and set out from Prague November 26, 1465. Šašek (Shassek) relates how, when the mission reached London (p. 430) “crowds assembled in the streets to stare at these Bohemian Samsons and Absolons.” In London they remained for forty days, being feasted by the King and the nobility. At Dunkirk they (the Bohemians) caught the first view of the sea—Shakespeare’s description of Bohemia in the Winter’s Tale as “desert country near the sea” to the contrary notwithstanding.
[4] John Hill Burton: The History of Scotland, v. 3, p. 114. The lords of Kravař were an ancient Bohemian family, who took a prominent part in the affairs of their nation already in the thirteenth century. Certain branches of the family were strong Hussite partisans.
[5] Andrew Lang: History of Scotland, from the Roman Occupation, v. 1, pp. 310-11.
[6] John Thurloe: Collection of State Papers, v. 2, p. 441.
[7] Charles Harding Firth: The Last Years of the Protectorate, 1656-1658. Also Vaughn: Protectorate of Cromwell, v. II, p. 447.
[8] See article Moravští Bratři v Americe by Thomas Čapek, Osvěta, Prague. 19:565-72. 1889.
[9] Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England. Book IX., p. 128.
[10] The 1910 U. S. census has found in the country 539,392 people of Bohemian stock, of whom 228,738 were foreign born, 310,654 native born.
[11] For Augustine Herrman’s life see Památky Českých Emigrantů v Americe (Data on Bohemian Immigration to America), by Thomas Čapek, Omaha, 1907. J. V. Nigrin described Herrman’s map in the Chicago Svornost, August 2-9, 1914.