THE HISTORICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. F. R. S. E. PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND HISTORIOGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, BY THE RIGHT REV. GEORGE GLEIĠ, LL.D. F.R.S. E. ONE OF THE BISHOPS OF THE SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH. A NEW EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. VI. EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR DOIG & STIRLING, EDINBURGH; OTRIDGE & SON, LONDON; AND M. KEENE, DUBLIN; BY JOHN BROWN. 1813. THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. BOOK V. Continued from Vol. V. V. 1530. fairs, civil many, AFTER the publication of the peace at Bologna, and the BOOK ceremony of his coronation as king of Lombardy and emperor of the Romans, which the pope performed with the accustomed formalities, nothing detained Charles in Italya, State of af and he began to prepare for his journey to Germany and religi His presence became every day more necessary in that ous, in Gerz country, and was solicited with equal importunity by the Feb. 22 Catholics and by the favourers of the new doctrines, and 24. During that long interval of tranquillity which the absence of the emperor, the contests between him and the pope, and his attention to the war with France, afforded them, the latter gained much ground. Most of the princes who had embraced Luther's opinions, had not only established in their territories that form of worship which he H. Cornel. Agrippa de duplici coronatione Car. V. ap. Scard. ii, 266. VOL. VI. |