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1535.] to recognize the authority of the Pope; accompanying this statement with a declaration that they would accept any terms not plainly unjust and impious. These articles were transmitted to Paris, and again retransmitted to Germany, with every prospect of a mutually satisfactory result; and Melancthon was waiting only till the Bishop could accompany him, to go in person to Paris, and consult with the Sorbonne.

This momentary (for it was only momentary) weakness of the German Protestants was in part owing to their want of confidence in Henry VIII. The King had learnt to entertain a respect for the foreign Reformers, far unlike the repugnance of earlier years; but