I 26 Adam Pálka and Moravians never accepted peace, unity, and Catholic faith, and therefore they shall not receive communion in both kinds by the authority of Christ and his Church.”11 (5) Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the final reply to the Bohemian ambassadors (1462): “Communion in both kinds was allowed for those who have the custom (i.e. communion in both kinds) and accept ecclesiastic unity in everything else except for the article of communion. However, as you never accepted Church unity and conformity, you were never worthy of the permission.”12 (6) An anonymous treatise in Prague manuscript I F 18 (date unknown): “Had they observed the Compactata, they would have been allowed to receive communion licitly and meritoriously [...] they never observed the Compactata, and for that reason they always received communion illicitly and sinned deeply and alas, they sin until this day by receiving communion; among them, some boast of the concession of the holy council, even though it does not benefit them because they do not observe the aforementioned Compactata.”13 “Communicants in both kinds are in threefold distinction. The first are those who practice it out of a concession of the Apostolic See or general holy council, and these practice it licitly and meritoriously, if there are any. However, there are no Bohemians like this, as emerged above, as they did not observe the Compactata.”14 Let us point out a few observations related to the quoted passages. First, the authors promoted the idea that the 1436 treaty between the Hussites and council had never been fulfilled by the former party. They expressed such a view by simply employing the words “never” or “not” (nunquam, non), the only exception being Ebendorfer who spoke of the Bohemians’ continuous refusal to act according to the Compactata. The alleged non-fulfillment of the Compactata and the illegality of Utraquism stemming from it were almost always clearly connected to the Compactata pas11 Die Denkschrift des Breslauer Domherrn Nikolaus Tempelfeld von Brieg ueber die Wahl Georgs von Podiebrad, ed. Johann Loserth (Vienna, 1880), 141–42: “Si Bohemi et Moravi pacem, unitatem et fidem catholicam receperint et se ritibus ecclesie universalis conformaverint, ipsi sub duplici specie auctoritate Christi et ecclesie sue usum illum habentes communicare poterint. Sed Bohemi et Moravi pacem, unitatem et fidem catholicam non receperunt, ergo ipsi sub duplici specie auctoritate Christi et sue ecclesie non communicabunt.” 12 Archiv český. Čili staré písemné památky české i moravské, vol. 8, ed. Josef Kalousek (Prague, 1888), 362: “Concessa est communio calicis usum habentibus et unionem recipientibus ecclesiasticam in omnibus aliis preterquam in articulo communionis. Sed unionem ecclessiasticam et conformitatem nunquam recepistis, non igitur indulti fuistis capaces.” Pius’ speech of 1462 has been frequently addressed by historians. See Rudolf Urbánek, Věk poděbradský, vol. 4, České dějiny, III/4 (Prague, 1962), 531–34; Frederick G. Heymann, George of Bohemia. King of Heretics (Princeton, 1965), 275–77; Otakar Odložilík, The Hussite King. Bohemia in European Affairs 1440–1471 (New Brunswick/New Jersey, 1965), 133; Šmahel, “Die Basler Kompaktaten,” 107; Pálka, “The Compactata of Basel,” 197–201. 13 Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic, MS I F 18, f. 303r: “Que compactata si servassent, licite sic communicare potuissent et meritorie [...] nunquam illa compactata servaverunt, et idcirco semper illicite communicando graviter peccaverunt et heu, usque hodie communicando peccant, inter quos aliqui de indulto sacri concilii gloriantur, cum tamen eis nichil proderit non servatis compactatis predictis.” This treatise has been referenced by Dušan Coufal, “Rukopis I F 18 a polemické dílo Jana z Hradce,” in Kříž z Telče (1434–1504). Písař, sběratel a autor, eds. Lucie Doležalová and Michal Dragoun (Prague, 2020), 220. 14 Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic, MS I F 18, f. 303r: “Communicantes sub duplici specie sunt in triplici differencia. Primi sunt, qui faciunt hoc ex indulto sedis apostolice aut sacri concilii generalis et hii hoc licite ac meritorie faciunt, si qui tales sunt. Non tamen tales sunt modo Bohemi quidam, ut supra patuit, cum non servarent compactata.”
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