Re Den entreated Charles to call a general council for the reformation of the church; and, though the king pleaded that it belonged to the Ppe and not to him to call a general council, he laid the proposition bere his holiness, and recommended it as a step much to be desired. Bet his holiness, who thought differently, alarmed and exasperated, demanded the punishment of these daring heretics. In superstitious Federation for the Papal authority, Charles banished Janovius from the kingdom. Communion in both kinds was then abolished. s could celebrate the sacrament of the supper after their acmed manner only in private houses, in woods and caves, at the hazard of their lives. They were plundered, beaten, drowned in ers, and according to a proclamation issued 18th September, 1376, re committed to the flames. Janovius subsequently returned to &temia, where, however, he now lived in privacy. He died 30th Neber, 1394, predicting, with his dying breath, the coming re on of the church. "The rage of the enemies of truth," said he has now prevailed against us, but this shall not always last; iran becare people shall arise, without sword or power, over whom they shall not be able to prevail." I Th before Anne came to this country, the Popish doctrines had terested in Bohemia, and successful efforts made to enlighten ery of her countrymen. This state of matters had a very farae inflence upon her mind. She became a thoughtful in; and though, from living in an age when only some rays of baddawned upon the human mind, her views of Divine truth in many respects obscure and imperfect, they were yet more ed than was common among persons of her rank, or indeed, persons of any condition of life in that age of darkness. As tive times there were saints in Cesar's household, so in her r's palace there were individuals friendly to the truth, from the derived important advantages. dar II, to whom Anne was afterwards united in marriage, Vaughan's Life of Wickliffe, vol. ii., pp. 158-163. was the son of Edward, Prince of Wales, who was usually styled t Black Prince, from the colour of his armour, by his wife Joan daughter and heir of his uncle Edmund, Earl of Kent. He was bo at Bourdeaux in 1367. He lost his father 8th June, 1376; and on t death of his grandfather Edward III., in June the following ye he succeeded to the throne, being then a boy of ten years of age. The fame of Anne having reached England, Richard, when on about thirteen years of age, began to think of her as his future par ner on the throne, and, in the year 1380, she was sought for him the council of regency which conducted the government during 1 minority. But it was not till some time after, when, having reach her fifteenth year, she was judged capable of choosing for herse that the marriage was determined upon. She is said to have be induced to become the consort of Richard, not only from the pr spect of being elevated to the English throne, but from the repor which had reached Bohemia of a revival of religion in England und John Wickliffe, whose name and some of whose writings were know in that country. All arrangements for her marriage with Richa having been made, she was nobly escorted from Prague on h way to England. On her arrival at Calais, the news having reache the Parliament, which was then sitting, it was prorogued till afte Christmas, and divers of the nobility were sent to meet her and atten her in crossing over to Dover. Having safely landed at Dover, sh rested there for two days, and then made a grand entry into Lo don, to the great delight of the people, who were proud that the sovereign was to obtain for his wife "Cæsar's sister."2 It is worthy of notice, that the natives of her own country chose to accompany her to England on the occasion of her marriage, and t occupy situations in her household establishment, had adopted th Reformed opinions. If her own wishes were consulted in this choic this would argue that she was of corresponding sentiments. 1 She had been previously married to Sir Thomas Holland, by whom she ha several children. 2 Stowe's Annals, or General Chronicle of England, edit. London, 1615, p. 294. Immediately upon her arrival, and before the marriage had taken plave, she gave an interesting proof of her considerate, humane, and able disposition. In that year an insurrection had broken out England The tyranny and oppression of the haughty nobility entry had excited a spirit of strong dissatisfaction among the pe and this spirit was inflamed by a mob orator, John Ball, a st, who perambulated the country promulgating the equality of as being sprung from the same original stock, proclaiming that there were no gentry jure divino, and denouncing all the distinctos of rank in a strain very like that of the levellers in modern In an address to many thousands of the people assembled at kheath, he began with these lines "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" Laing them the text for an insurrectionary declamation, which Pred the people to a high pitch of resentment against the governIt was then that this couplet became as a household word the masses of the people. The train being thus laid for an ak, the rigour with which the unpopular tax of three groats er head was levied by the tax-gatherers, to whom it had been fredat, caused the explosion. The people took up arms, and in Jme they mustered 100,000 men. But by the prudent and prompt Rent of Richard, who displayed on this occasion an address pense of mind which raised expectation as to his capacity, Arwards realized, the insurrection was quelled. Tranquillity fire prevailed when the queen landed in England; yet many bing for their lives. The penalties of rebellion and treaang over the heads of thousands. This was a painful thought any princess. The condition of the people excited her com; she felt that they had well-founded causes of complaint, and that their sufferings had driven them to insurrection. led with Richard and his counsellors that a general pardon Bane's Annals, or General Chronicle of England, edit. London, 1615, p. 294. She should be extended to the insurgents and other culprits through the kingdom. Her entreaties, as might be expected from the cumstances, were not made in vain. A proclamation was issu granting a general pardon to culprits of all sorts-with, however considerable number of exceptions at first- upon their mak application either personally or by writing, and paying the fee the great seal. The king's letters to the sheriffs throughout E land, dated 13th December, 1381, commanding them to cause 1 pardon to be proclaimed in the towns and places under their ju diction, begin with stating that his majesty had been moved this exercise of royal clemency, "from the fear of God, and at t special request of the most serene lady, the Lady Anne, about become, by the will of God, our consort."1 Anne was married to Richard with much pomp and ceremony the 14th of January, 1382, in the Chapel-Royal of Westminst Palace. Among other demonstrations of joy on the occasion we the representation of plays, and the exhibition of magnificent pag ants, with which it was customary at that time to give éclat to t marriage of princes. From the favourable reports Richard had hear of the accomplishments and good qualities of this princess, he thoug himself so fortunate in gaining her for his bride, that instead of r ceiving a dowry with her, he gladly gave her brother the Emper Wenceslaus ten thousand merks for the alliance, besides defrayin all the expenses connected with her journey to England. T daughter of Barnabe, Duke of Milan, had been offered to him with large sum of gold. But he had fixed his heart upon Anne of Bohemi and was bent upon having her at any price. The happy pair were greatly charmed with each other. Richar though his character, when afterwards more fully developed, betraye serious defects, was the goodliest personage of all the kings who ha been since the Conquest, tall of stature, of a handsome person, of 1 Rymer's Foedera, tom. iii., pars iii. et iv., p. 131. far and amiable countenance; and being of warm affections, he was Etted in many respects for domestic happiness. Anne's "beauty," ayy Miss Strickland, "must have been limited to stature and comption, for the features of her statue are homely and undignified. A narrow high-pointed forehead, a long upper lip, cheeks whose fness increased towards the lower part of the face, can scarcely de her to claim a reputation for beauty." But in the eyes of hard, no woman was so lovely as his own blooming Bohemian The head-dress she wore must have neutralized the defects f her face in some degree, by giving an appearance of breadth to her arrow forehead." At this period there were two rival popes. Gregory XI. having ed in 1378, the cardinals assembled at Rome to elect a successor, la thus queen's days noble women used high attire on their heads, piked horns bored caps), with long trained gowns, and rode on side-saddles, after the example of the pen, who first brought that fashion into this land, for before women were used to de astride, like men."-Stowe's Annals, p. 295. But "the side-saddle of Anne of |