THE CONCILIUMS SAAL AT CONSTANZ.

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is, however, a curious carved doorway at the principal en-trance, tliat is rieh as the screento some choir.

In the interior the nave is supported by sixteen pillars,each of which is a single block, with solid Byzantine capi-tals. Near one of these, the custos points out to you thespot where the " heresiarch Huss " stood when sentence ofdeath by burning was pronounced against him..

Frorn Ins dungeon in the cloisters at the back of theCathedral, Huss was led forth at six in the morning, on the 6thof Jury, 1415, and "was reeeived," says Professor Eiselein," by the Archbishop of Riga (to whose care, as keeper of theseals of the Council, Huss had latterly been entrusted), at St.Stephan's Kirche, in the Platten Strasse (this church, with itssharp steeple, may be seen nearly facing the Cathedral in themap given at page 403); after which he was condueted bythe beadles to the front of the Dom, where, " being a heretic,"he was obliged to wait outside the door tili the mass was over.

Then the portals were thrown back, and he was taken byfour bishops — the deputies of four national Churches—to thesixth pillar in the nave, where he was put to kneel on ahuge slab of stone, with a pole supporting a priest's robesbeside him. The Bishop, Jacob of Lodi, hereupon, as theDeath - sentencer {Galcjen-pater") of the Council, discoursedupon the words of Paul, "that the body of sin may bedestroyed."

" Huss, however," the Bishop added, " had come to Con-stanz under the Empcror's Warrant of safe-conduet;" and atthe mention of the words the Reformer cast upon the Em-peror, who sat there in liis robe of State, such a witheringlook of rebuke that it made the royal Kar grow crimsonwith shame.

Next, the Bishop of Concordia read a decree, in whichsentence of exeommunication, with two months' imprison-