[1099] Thammii Chron. Coldicens.
[1100] Chron. Waldeccense (Hahnii Collect. Monument. I. 851).
[1101] Confess. Augustanæ P. II. Art. ii., vi.
In his Apology for the Augsburg Confession, however, even the coldness of Melanchthon is warmed in describing the hideous licentiousness caused by the law of celibacy (Lutheri Opp. Jenæ, T. IV. p. 252-3).
[1102] Deliberat. de Concordia etc. c. iii., v. (Goldast. I. 509).
[1103] See Letter of Bergenroth to Romilly, from Simancas, June 14th, 1863 (Cartwright’s Memoir of Bergenroth, London, 1870, p. 124).
[1104] Sentent. Caroli V. § 5 (Ibid. I. 510).—Rescript. Caroli V. § 5 (Ibid. III. 512). Henke, Append. ad Calixt. pp. 595-6.
[1105] Kerssenbroch Bell. Anabaptist. cap. 15, 31.
[1106] How little the situation was comprehended is amusingly shown in a letter from an enlightened and liberal prelate, Johann Schmidt, Bishop of Vienna, to Ferdinand, in 1540, concerning some proposed negotiations then on foot for a reconciliation between the churches. He lays down as a condition precedent to reunion that all the church lands confiscated by the Protestants shall be restored, and the monastic orders reëstablished. The mesne profits, he admits, cannot be collected, but some composition for them should be made.—Le Plat, Monument. Concil. Trident. II. 649.
[1107] An elaborate series of documents relating to these transactions may be found in Goldast. Constit. Imp. I. 511, III. 172-235. Also in Le Plat, Monument. Concil. Trident. Vol. II.