HUSK IS SON, WILLIAM

(1770. a 1830), Brit. financier and politician; Sec. of Treasury, 1804; pres., Board of Trade, 1823; Colonial Sec., 1827. Advocated free trade, and secured reduction of import duties. ian religious leader, of peasant family$ studied at Prague Univ., where he Jectured, becoming rector of Behtlehem chapel, 1402. H. studied Wycliffe’s writings, and gradually adopted unorthodox views; proceedings taken against him, 1408; forbidden to preach or perform priestly duties; elected rector of Univ., 1409, but this led to further proceedings against him; excommunicated, 1410, and writings burnt; after further troubles obliged to leave Prague in 1412, and wrote De Ecclesia. In 1414 he went to the general council at Con stance to defend his views, being granted a safe conduct from King Sigismund; after lengthy trial condemned July 6, 1415, and, refusing to recant, burnt. Continuing the work of Wycliffo, H. helped to prepare the way for the Reformation. WUSSAR, name originally given in 1458 to Hungarian light cavalry soldiers; name means ‘twenty,’ since one man in twenty was chosen for service.