Venice: August 1540

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

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'Venice: August 1540', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554, (London, 1873) pp. 87. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol5/p87 [accessed 26 April 2024]

August 1540

Aug. 7. Original Letter Book of Francesco Contarini in St. Mark's Library. 223. Francesco Contarini, Venetian Ambassador with the Emperor, to the Signory.
With regard to the 11 doctors on either side to be elected [by the Catholics and Protestants], that they may assemble next October at the Diet of Worms, this mode of election is not much approved of by the Catholics in general, because the 11 Protestants will be all united, whereas some of the Catholics may perhaps adhere to their opponents respecting the marriage of priests, the communion under both forms, and the like.
The Hague, 7th August 1540.
[Italian.]
Aug. 10. Original Letter Book of Francesco Contarini in St. Mark's Library. 224. The Same to the Same.
Since my last of the 7th, it has been heard for certain that the most serene King of England has caused Cromwell to be beheaded. He, moreover, made a better end than the evil, of which he had been in great part the cause, deserved.
Nothing more is said about the repudiation, it being already a stale affair (per esser cosa vecchia).
The Hague, 10th August 1540.
[Italian.]
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