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He came to me for an elector's right, as a vote in our electorate the Four Counties was sometimes worth as much as forty shillings, besides unlimited grog. We were Conservatives then, true patriots, and we imitated feebly, it is true, but earnestly the time-honoured customs of old England. Mr. Nicholas had been a man of many employments, and of many religions.
Once more he raised his head with a vigorous start, shook back into their place the brown locks which had fallen down over forehead and cheeks, and met the Elector's looks of inquiry with a full, intrepid gaze. "Most gracious father," he said, with quiet, passionless voice, "very little can be said about the petty court of Doornward.
The Pope, so defied, brought out his thunders; he excommunicated Luther; he wrote again to the elector, entreating him not to soil his name and lineage by becoming a protector of heretics; and he required him, without further ceremony, to render up the criminal to justice. The elector's power was limited. As yet, the quarrel was simply between Luther and the Pope.
Wolfgang's spirits rose as the town of Salzburg faded into the haze of that September morning; the sense of freedom was exhilarating; he had escaped the place associated in his mind with tyranny and oppression, to seek his fortune in new and wider fields. At Munich where they first halted, Wolfgang sought an engagement at the Elector's Court.
In answer to the Elector's dismayed question as to how all this was possible in so short a time, he added that three weeks had passed since the departure of this man and that the instructions he had received had charged him to settle the business with all possible dispatch immediately after his arrival in Vienna.
"They say the folks at Saint James's are very uneasy," said my Uncle Charles, "and the Elector's son is to be sent against the Prince with a larger army. I hear he set forth for Edinburgh last night." "What, Fred?" said Grandmamma. "Fred? "That is the lad who was wounded at Dettingen?" replied she. "The same," he made answer. "Oh, they are not without pluck, this family, foreigners though they be.
Luther relates how he had incurred the Elector's displeasure by a sermon preached in his Castle Church against indulgences: he preached, however, again before the exhibition held in February 1517.
The remembrance of the evil service which Maximilian had rendered him with the Emperor, at the Diet at Ratisbon, was deeply engraved on the implacable mind of the duke, and the Elector's late attempts to prevent his reinstatement, were no secret to him.
Thence, he went on to Mannheim, a town that is memorable as the place where he first met the Webers, and made the acquaintance of Herr Cannabich, the director of the music at the elector's court, and one who proved a stanch friend through everything to the young composer.
He temporised and delayed; while Luther himself, probably at the elector's instigation, made overtures for peace to the Pope. Saving his duty to Christ, he promised to be for the future an obedient son of the Church, and to say no more about indulgences if Tetzel ceased to defend them. 'My being such a small creature, Luther said afterwards, 'was a misfortune for the Pope.
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