The  diet,  having  listened  to  a  number  of  unmeaning
promises  and  declarations,  desired  to  know  the  pope's
intentions  respecting  the  methods  which,  in  the  pre-
ceding year,  they  had  proposed  to  Cheregato  for  re-
storing the  peace  of  the  church  ;  and  also,  whether  the
legate  was  charged  with  any  satisfactory  answer  to  the
MEMORIAL  of  grievances  which  they  had  sent  to  Rome  ?

Campeggio  replied,  that  he  knew  of  no  plan  devised
by  them  for  composing  the  religious  differences,  ex-
cept the  edict  of  Worms,  That  edict,  though  appror-


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eel  by  the  emperor,  and  sanctioned  by  the  general  con
sent,  had  not  been  obeyed  ;  and  the  execution  of  it
ought,  in  his  judgment,  to  be  the  first  object  of  their
deliberations.  As  to  the  memorial  of  grievances,  he
allowed  that  three  copies  of  it  had  found  their  way  to
private  persons  at  Rome,  and  that  one  of  them  had
fallen  into  his  own  hands  ;  but  that  the  pope  and  car-
dinals considered  it  as  the  production  of  a  private  per-
son, and  by  no  means  of  the  German  princes.  He
had  no  instructions  about  it.  There  were  articles  in  it
which  even  bordered  upon  heresy;  and  the  publication
of  them  was  highly  disrespectful  to  the  Roman  see.
