to the King not to allow them to enter the realm, and doubts not Wolsey will assist. Luther's sect has made some stir in Paris, and in the See of Meaux — ^the bishop* of which, with his chaplain, James Faber," is called in judicium. Some doc- tors of Paris are in prison, and some are fled. Hears that it has touched a higher head * than any of these. We have cause to thank God for sending such a Christian spirit to the King that the realm is hitherto preserved in integrity.
71a CHARLES CONTARINI TO ANGELO GABRIEL. Brown, 1520-6, no. 1174. Augsbxtrg, December 4, 1525.
The Lutheran sect has made such progress that in these parts they follow no other doctrine. The only masses said are those in the Lutheran fashion, briefly and simply repeat- ing the Epistle and Gospel, all in the German tongue, and consecrating before the people and aloud; and those who attend the mass all communicate without confession. Books against Luther are no longer to be had. All the churches ex- cept the cathedrals are despoiled, without images, without candles. Meat is eaten every day without distinction, and no attention paid to holy days. They preach against the mass, and say it was devised by Lucifer; they call prayer execrable.
719. LUTHER TO GEORGE SPALATIN, AT ALTENBURG. Enders, v, 278. WrrrENBERG, December 6, 15^.
/^I wish you grace and peace in the Lord, and also joy with your sweetest little wife, also in the Lord. Your marriage is as pleasing to me as it is displeasing to those priests of Baal.* Indeed God has given me no greater happiness, except the Gospel, than to see you married, though this, too, is a gift of the Gospel, and no small fruit of our evangelical teaching. Why I am absent, and wherefore I could not come to your
^William Briconnet (1470-1533). made Bishop of Meanx, 15x6, sympatbixed w!di iht Reformers at first, but later persecuted them. BU.
- Lef^re d'£taples. At this time the Parlement of Paris and the Sorbonne
were proceeding energetically against Berquin and others. Lindsay, ii, 143.
■Margaret of Navarre, sister of King Francis I.
- The Canons of Altenburg. Spalatin was having a hard struggle with them*
Many letters of his on the subject printed in AGR., i, igyff. Cf. M. von Tiling: Dfr Kampf gtgen di§ missa privata, Neue kirchliche ZeiUchrift, xx, a.
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