[1025] Æneæ Sylvii de Concil. Basil. Lib. II.
[1026] De Continentia Sacerdotum, Nürnb. 1510, Prop. 6, 7.
[1027] Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. ann. 1479.
[1028] Serrarii Hist. Rer. Mogunt. Lib. I. c. 34.
[1029] Fleury, Hist. Eccles. Liv. CXVI. No. 30-38.
[1030] Krasniski, Reformation in Poland, I. 110.
[1031] Gravamina German. Nationis, No. VII.—Remed. contra Gravamina (Freher. et Struv. II. 677-8).
In the previous century some remonstrances against grievances had been uttered, but in a very different tone from this.
[1032] Avisamenta ad Cæsar. Majest. (Ibid. p. 680).
[1033] When Diether was elected Archbishop of Mainz, in 1459, his envoys sent to obtain his confirmation from Pius II. were stupefied with a demand for 20,506 florins—more than double the amount of annates previously assessed on the see. He refused to yield to the demand, but by a little sharp practice between the Apostolic Chamber and the Roman bankers he became entangled, and on his persistent refusal he was prosecuted for the amount, deposed by the pope, and Adolph of Nassau appointed in his place, leading to a bloody war and the devastation of city and territory.—Appell. Dom. Dytheri (Senckenberg. Selecta Juris T. IV. p. 393).—Cf. Helwich de Dissidio Moguntino (Rer. Moguntiac. Script. T. II.). This is probably the fraud alluded to by the Diet of 1510, where it was complained that the annates of the see of Mainz were raised from 10,000 florins to 25,000; and this latter sum was exacted seven times in one generation, resulting in taxation on the peasantry so severe that an insurrection against the clergy was threatened.—Remed. contra Gravam. (Freher. et Struv. II. 678).