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A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers…A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers…
A famous and godly history containing the lives a[nd] acts of three renowned reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martin Luther, John Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaration of Martin Luther's faith before the Emperor Charles the fifth, and the illustre estates of the empire of Germany, with an oration of his death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melanchthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.A famous and godly history contaynyng the lyues a[nd] actes of three renowmed reformers of the Christia[n] Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and Huldericke Zuinglius. The declaracion of Martin Luthers faythe before the Emperoure Charles the fyft, and the illustre estates of the empyre of Germanye, with an oration of hys death, all set forth in Latin by Philip Melancthon, Wolfgangus Faber, Capito. Simon Grineus, [and] Oswald Miconus, newly Englished by Henry Bennet Callesian.
London: printed by John Awdely, 1561London: printed by Iohn Awdely, 1561
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And after four of the clock, Ulr•k Pappen him, and Caspar Sturm the Emperors Herald (who conducted Mart•n Luther from Wittenberg, to Worms) came for Luther, and accompanied him through the garden of the Knights of the Rhodes place, to the Earle Palatine's palace, and least the people should molest him, that thronged in frequency on the direct way to the Emperors Palace, he was led by secret stairs to y• place where he was appointed to have audience. Yet many, who perceived the pretence, violently rushed in, and were resisted to no purpose, many ascended the Galleries, because they desired to be hold Luther.
And after foure of the clocke, Vlr•k Pappen him, and Caspar Sturm the Emperours Heraul•e (who conducted Mart•n Luther from W••teberg, to Wormes) came for Luther, and accompanied hym through the garden of the Knightes of the Rhodes place, to the Earle Palatines palaice, and least the people shoulde molest hym, that thronged in frequency on the direct way to the Emperous Palaice, he was led by secret stayres to y• place where he was appoynted to haue audience. Yet many, who perceiued the pretence, violently rushed in, and wer resisted to no purpose, many ascended the Galleries, because they desyred to be hold Luther.
Thus standing before the Imperial1 Majesty, the Electors, Dukes, Earls, & all the Estates of the Empire, assembled there. He was first advertised by Ulricke of Pappenhim to keep silence, till such time as he was interrogated. Then the Ambassador of the Empire named John Ecke, the Bishop of Triers general official, with a loud and intelligible voice first in Latin, then in Dutch, according ⟨image 27⟩