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 their duty to God and his vicar and protect the honor of the Emperor. Now that Glapion desired our advice in the name of the Emperor, we declared that it was necessary for the Emperor to have him brought into the city as inconspicuously as possible, that he should assign him lodgings in his palace where no suspected person could talk with him, and, finally, that, as appointed in the imperial mandate, he should simply be asked whether he would recant. If they did not observe this last point, the evil would be made worse than ever. This counsel pleased the confessor; we all then went to the Em- peror, gave him our opinion and received his promise that he would act accordingly. On the next day we heard that Luther would dwell in the Augustinian cloister and have a guard, so that no one unapproved by the Emperor could speak with him. I expect, however, that as has always hap- pened before, they will do just the contrary to what they say*. • •

445. SPALATIN TO THE ELECTOR FREDERIC OF SAXONY. Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, ii. 127.

(Worms, middle of April, 1521.) Most gracious Lord. To-day I received secret informa- tion that the Emperor's confessor* is mortally hostile and averse to Dr. Martin, let him pretend to be as friendly as he likes. He is deeply shocked to hear that Dr. Martin is on the way hither. Yesterday he was with Duke George. . ..

Your obedient chaplain,

Spalatin.

446. RICHARD PACE TO THOMAS WOLSEY.

Letters and Papers of Henry VIIL, iii. no. 1233. (English; partly condensed, partly direct quotation.) Greenwich, April 16, 1521.

At my arrival I found the King reading a new book of Luther's,* the same as that of which you sent a copy written by me. On the King's dispraising the book, I presented the Pope's bull and breve,* at which his Majesty was well con-

'GUpion. Cf, Smith, op. cit., 11 off.

3This was probably the BabyloniaH Captivity tent by Tunttall, supra, no. 383. On Henry's Defence of the Seven Sacraments against Luther, cf, EngHsh His- torical Review, c. 656ff.

The Exsurge Domine, and Leo's letter to Wolsey, commanding him to bum Luther's books. Rymer: Foedera (3d edition 1741)* ▼*• i94«

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