[761] Motley, p. 60, notes that the numbers have been put often at fifty thousand, and sometimes even at a hundred thousand; but this, as he admits, is incredible.
[762] And still the rhetorical historian, sworn to maintain the Teutonic character for "liberty," declaims in his elementary manner that that has been seen to be the "master passion" of the race from Cæsar's time to Charles's (Motley, p. 49; compare pp. 25-29).
[763] Cited by Puffendorf, Introduction to the History of Europe, Eng. tr. 7th ed. 1711, i, 240.
[764] Robertson, Charles V, bk. vi, ed. cited, p. 495; Armstrong, as cited, pp. 78-82.
[765] Armstrong, as cited, pp. 83, 84.
[766] Motley, Rise, p. 138.
[767] Id. pp. 138, 139; Grattan, p. 87.
[768] Ullmann, Reformers before the Reformation, Eng. tr. 1855, ii, 14-17, 172-77.
[769] Cp. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, Pref. ch. viii, § 12.
[770] Motley, Rise, p. 36.