cost much money; but if it were to be taken in hand without money, I then verily think the Emperor, for his part, had long since begun some ungodly enterprise; but to disburse money for the Pope’s cause he is not very liberal. Anno 1546, in the same year which Luther died, the Emperor Charles took a war in hand against the States of the Augsburgh Confession, in which John Frederick, Prince Elector of Saxony, was taken prisoner before the town of Mulburgh; at which time the Landgrave of Hessen, upon
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