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Zwingli's request, that the proceedings should be written down by secretaries under oath, and the Latin language used, was declined by the landgrave; likewise the wish of Luther and Melanchton, for the aid of respectable Papists.
Yet this letter, although made out in the names of the Eight Cantons, was not signed by Glarus and Solothurn; not by Glarus, because there also public opinion was rising up more and more in favor of Zwingli's reforms, which obliged the deputies to be very guarded; not by Solothurn, because she hesitated about expressing herself so strongly to her neighbor Bern, to whom she was bound by so many ties.
Already it seemed, that with the laughter of Zwingli's friends, and the inglorious flight of his opponents, the whole thing would come to an end, when Jacob Wagner, pastor of Neftenbach, by a question cunningly thrown out, in regard to the offence of the pastor of Fislispach imprisoned at Constance, induced the Vicar-General to say something about this man.
The Saxons were evidently irritated by Zwingli's unconstrained behavior and bold language. He gave them plainly to understand, that he feared in Luther a sort of new Pope. "I will not have it," once dropped from the lips of the latter, "Must you then have everything just as you wish?" asked Zwingli.
In regard to scientific culture he needed foreign support, and when with the beginning of reform circumstances became more difficult, he was forced to a greater dependence on his general-vicar. In the latter, who was at an earlier period Zwingli's friend, we now find his most bitter and decided enemy.
The earliest traces of a fire, which afterwards broke out destructively, began to appear first on the evening of the second day. Mention has already been made of Conrad Grebel, Zwingli's previous friend and admirer, and also of his father, the councilor Jacob Grebel.
Zwingli's absence had lasted seven weeks, from the 3d of September to the 19th of October, 1529. The Landfriede granted the choice of their own ecclesiastical system to the inhabitants of the Common Territories.
We also get most valuable help in the work of identification from the Itineraries of the middle ages especially from that of the celebrated pilgrim from Einsiedlen, Zwingli's town in Switzerland who visited Rome in the eighth century, and left his manuscript to his own abbey, where it may still be seen.
It should be said that there is a considerable family of Campèlls or Campbèlls in the Graubünden, who are fabled to deduce their stock from a Scotch Protestant of Zwingli's time; and this made it irresistible to imagine that in our friend Bernardo I had chanced upon a notable specimen of atavism.
The result was an affirmation of the rights of the Pope and the bishops, and a feeble explanation, which left the government free scope to act for itself and it all ended in a simple reprimand to the transgressors. But Zwingli's opponents were by no means satisfied.
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