[554] Cp. Janssen-Pastor, “Gesch. des deutschen Volkes,” 814, pp. 378 f., 384 ff., 392.
[555] See above, p. 167, n. 3.
[556] J. Löhr, “Methodisch-kritische Beiträge zur Gesch. der Sittlichkeit des Klerus, besonders der Erzdiözese Köln, am Ausgange des MA.” (“Reformationsgesch. Studien und Texte,” Hft. 17, 1910).
[557] Page 44.
[558] Page 59.
[559] Page 65. That all offenders without exception were punished is of course not likely.
[560] Ibid., pp. 1-24.—For the 16th and 17th centuries we refer the reader to J. Schmidlin, “Die kirchl. Zustände in Deutschland vor dem Dreissigjährigen Kriege nach den bischöflichen Diözesanberichten an den Heiligen Stuhl,” Freiburg, 1908-1911 (“Erläuterungen usw. zu Janssens Gesch.,” 7, Hft. 1-10). In the “Hist. Jahrb.,” 31, 1910, p. 163, we read of the reports contained in the first part of the work: “They commence by revealing the sad depths to which Catholic life had sunk, but go on to show an ever-increasing vigour on the part of the bishops, in many cases crowned with complete success.”
[561] “De vita et miraculis Iohannis Gerson,” s.l.e.a. (1506), B 4b; Janssen-Pastor, 118, p. 681. Wimpfeling is, however, answering the Augustinian, Johann Paltz, who had attacked the secular clergy; elsewhere he witnesses to the grave blots on the life of the secular clergy.
[562] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 60, p. 400 (“Tischreden”). Cp. Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 186: “Cum summo fletu spectatorum.”
[563] Ibid., Weim. ed., 7, p. 239; Erl. ed., 16², p. 234.