[826]. Brandt i. p. 41.
[827]. Röhrich, Ref. in Elsass, i. p. 338. Ranke, iii p. 367.
[828]. ‘In Transisalania arma bellica apud sectarios quosdam inveniri.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 82.
[829]. ‘Non papismum solum, sed Lutheri quoque et Zwinglii doctrinam vehementer reprehendebat.’—Ibid. p. 83. Emmius, Hist. rer. Frisic. lib. lv. p. 860.
[830]. ‘Se Enochum esse affirmavit.’—Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 87.
[831]. ‘Lutherum et pontificem Romanum esse falsos prophetas, Lutherum tamen altero deteriorem.’—Opus restitutionis. Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 83.
[832]. ‘Ululantem potius quam clamantem.’—Emmius, Hist. rerum Frisicarum, lib. lvii. fol. 884. Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 91.
[833]. Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 92.
[834]. See Mr. Motley’s great work on the Foundation of the United Provinces, part ii. ch. i. It contains an account of the early days of the Reformation in the Netherlands. The Christianity which was propagated in the times of which we are speaking became the principal cause of the great and tragic revolution described by this historian.
[835]. ‘Confessioni Augustanæ paucissimi adherent, sed Calvinismus omnium pæne corda occupavit’—Viglius van Zuichem to Hopper.