. 311. Cf. Erasmus Op.,
1513.]

[Footnote 363: "Sapendo, _come sua Maesta m'ha detto_, che Cesare in
Fiandra aveva sospeso ogni esecuzione di morte contro questi eretici, ha
anche egli concesso che contra ogni sorte di eretici si proceda come
avanti, ma _citra mortem_, eccetto i sacramentarii." Relazione del
clarissimo Marino Giustiniano (1535), Relaz. Venete, i. 155.]

[Footnote 364: Francis I. to the German Princes, February 1, 1535,
Bretschneider, Corpus Reform., ii. 828, etc.]

[Footnote 365: Sturm to Melanchthon, March 4, 1535, Bretschneider,
Corpus Reform., ii. 855, etc.]

[Footnote 366: A letter of Vore is found in Bretschneider, _ubi supra_,
ii, 859.]

[Footnote 367: Melanchthon to Sturm, May 5, 1535, ibid., ii. 873.]

[Footnote 368: Ibid., ii. 879. The address was, "Dilecto nostro Philippo
Melanchthoni."]

[Footnote 369: "Nihil est quod de vestro congressu non sperem," are
Cardinal du Bellay's words, June 27th. Ibid., ii. 880, 881.]

[Footnote 370: Ibid., ii. 904, 905. The university had been temporarily
removed from Wittemberg to Jena, on account of the prevalence of the
plague.]

[Footnote 371: Luther to the Elector of Saxony, Aug. 17, 1535, Works
(Ed. Dr. J. K. Innischer), lv. 103.]

[Footnote 372: August 28, 1535. The reasons alleged to Francis were, the
injurious rumors the mission might give rise to, and the damage to the
university from Melanchthon's absence. At some future time, the elector
said, he would permit Melanchthon to visit the French king, should his
Majesty still desire him to do so, and present hinderances be removed.]

[Footnote 373: "Subindignabundus hinc discessit." Luther to Justus
Jonas, Aug. 19.]

[Footnote 374: "Daneben was eurer Person halb, dessgleichen auch in
Sachen des Evangelii fuer Trost, Hoffnung oder Zuversicht zu dem
Franzosen zu haben, ist wohl zu bedenken, dieweil vormals wenig Treue
oder Glaube von ihm gehalten, wie solches die oeffentliche Geschicht
anzeigen." Letter of Aug. 24, 1535. The elector expressed himself at
greater length to his chancellor, Dr. Brueck (Pontanus). Such a mission
would appear suspicious when the elector was on the point of having a
conference with the King of Hungary and Bohemia. Melanchthon might make
concessions that Dr. Martin (Luther) and others could not agree to, and
the scandal of division might arise. Besides, he could not believe the
French in earnest; they doubtless only intended to take advantage of
Melanchthon's indeci