Martyrs Mirror 341FURTHER OBSERVATION TOUCHING THE HISTORY ITSELF, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNT OF CARION, P. MELANCTHON AND C. PEUCER

"In the time of Emperor Louis the Pious," said authors say, "Johannes Scotus read. and explained publicly in the schools, Dionysius' treatise Hierarchia. This Johannes Scotus, when he censured and refuted with good.reasons, the false and impious tenet of the sacrifice of the mass, concerning which others at that time taught that in the Supper Christ was to be offered up for the living and the dead, was stabbed to death by his disciples and hearers, with their penknives." Chron. Carion., from the beginning o f the world until Chirles L'., enlarged by Phil. Melancthon and Casp. Peucer, printed 1586, 4th book, fol. 476, col. 1.