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By killing Hus, the church authorities provided the Czech reformers with a martyr. From then on, the movement, hitherto known as Wycliffite, took the name Hussite, and it grew rapidly. The Hussites reacted emotionally against the Council of Constance, the German king Sigismund, and the conservative clergy. A letter of protest, signed by 452 members of the nobility, was dispatched to Constance in September 1415. The contemptuous reaction of the council, which indicted all the Bohemian signatories, increased the Hussites’ discontent, as did the burning at the stake of another reformer, Hus’s friend Jerome of Prague, in May 1416. Hus ...(100 of 22138 words)