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 sented the book, and received the Pope's thanks in Latin. On Saturday, the 5th, the Pope complimented him on his oration. Then Qerk moved, in the name of Cardinal Wolsey, that the book should be approved by a formal decree of the consistory. The Pope said that the Gallican Church, in condemning the errors of Luther, had sanctioned as many errors against the Roman Church. In the next consistory the King will have his titles given him and his bulls sped.

Sia JUAN MANUEL, IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR IN ROME, TO

THE EMPEROR.

Bergenroth, 1509-2$, no. 363. Rome, October 17, 1521.

. . . The King of England has sent a book against Martin Luther to the Pope. It is said that all the learned men of Eng- land have taken part in its composition. Hears that it is a good book. The Pope has given to the King of England the title of "Defender of the Christian Faith." This title preju- dices no one, as all Christian princes are, or ought to be, de- fenders of the faith.

51 !• ALBERT BURER TO BEATUS RHENANUS.

ARC, vi (1909), 192. WriTENBERG, October 19^ 1521.

Burer of Brugg (Pontanus), was a famulus of Beatus Rhenanus in 15 17. He went from Schlettstadt to Basle in 15 19, and to Witten- berg early in 1521, studying there several semesters. In 1537 he be- came schoolmaster in NiedersiebenthaL Many of his letters, 1519-22, in Briefwechsel des Beatus Rhenanus. (See Smith, pp. 120 and 147.)

. . . On October 13, which is the Sunday after St. Denis's Day, masses ceased to be celebrated in the Augus- tinian friary at Wittenberg, and instead of mass a friar,* who is certainly learned, as are many of the friars in that cloister, preached to the people for two hours together on Christian faith. He did the same after dinner, but only for the space of one hour, and thus spoke of the abuse of the mass that all who have heard him — and the chapel was brim full — were astonished.

On October 17 that sermon was followed up by a learned

iZwilling.

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