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 'tanquam iurisconsultus legato adesset' (Schulte, op. cit., p. 724). He is charged by modern historians with not having spoken plainly all that he knew about the origin of the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals. England may have contributed a little towards the explosion of the great forgery by means of books that were lent to the Magdeburg Centuriators by Queen Elizabeth and Abp. Parker. See Foreign Calendar, 15612, pp. 117 9.

See Mr Pollard's life of Story in See also Dyer's Reports, f. 300. On his arraignment for high treason Story ineffectually pleaded that he had become a subject of the king of Spain.

See Stintzing, Ulrich Zasius, pp. 216 ff.

Ranke, History of the Reformation in Germany (transl. Austin), vol. II., pp. 978.

The Nihil hoc ad edictum praetoris! is currently ascribed to Cujas, but the ultimate authority for the story I do not know. See Brissaud, Histoire du droit français, p. 355: 'La science laïque déclarait par la bouche d'un de ses plus grands représentants qu'elle n'e'tait plus l'humble servante de la théologie; elle affirmait sa sécularisation.' It seems that Cujas ('wie beinahe alle Rechtsgelehrten seiner Zeit') at first sided with the Reformers, but that he afterwards, at least outwardly, made his peace with the Catholic church (Spangenberg, Jacob Cujas und seine Zeitgenossen,