[168] Sir John Hacket, writing from Ghent on the 6th of September, describes as the general impression that the Pope's "trust was to assure his alliance on both sides." "He trusts to bring about that his Majesty the French king and he shall become and remain in good, fast, and sure alliance together; and so ensuring that they three (the Pope, Francis, and Charles V.) shall be able to reform and set good order in the rest of Christendom. But whether his Unhappiness's--I mean his Holiness's--intention, is set for the welfare and utility of Christendom, or for his own insincerity and singular purpose, I remit that to God and to them that know more of the world than I do."--Hacket to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 506. [169] John the Magnanimous, son of John the Steadfast, and nephew of the Elector Frederick, Luther's first protector. [170] _State Papers_, Vol. VII. pp. 499-501. [171] Princeps Elector ducit se imparem ut Regiæ Celsitudinis vel aliorum regum oratores eâ lege in aulâ suâ degerent; vereturque ne ob id apud Cæsaream majestatem unicum ejus Dominum et alios male audiret, possetque sinistre tale institutum interpretari.--Reply of the Elector: _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 503. [172] Vaughan to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 509. [173] I consider the man, with other two--that is to say, the Landgrave von Hesse and the Duke of Lunenberg--to be the chief and principal defenders and maintainers of the Lutheran sect: who considering the same with no small difficulty to be defended, as well against the emperor and the bishops of Germany, his nigh and shrewd neighbours, as against the most opinion of all Christian men, feareth to raise any other new matter whereby they should take a larger and peradventure a better occasion to revenge the same. The King's Highness seeketh to have intelligence with them, as they conjecture to have them confederate with him; yea, and that against the emperor, if he would anything pretend against the king.--Here is the thing which I think feareth the duke.--Vaughan to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol VII. pp. 509, 510. [174] Hall, p. 805. [175] _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 512. [176] The Duke of Albany, during the minority of James V., had headed the party in Scotland most opposed to the English. He expelled the queen-mother, Margaret, sister of Henry; he seized the persons of the two young princes, whom he shut up in Stirling, where the younger brother died under suspicion of foul play (_Despatches of Giustiniani_, Vol. I. p. 157); and subsequently, in his genius for intrigue, he gained over the queen dowager herself in a manner which touched her honour.--Lord Thomas Dacre to Queen Margaret: Ellis, second series, Vol. I. p. 279. [177] Ex his tamen, qui hæc a Pontifice, audierunt, intelligo regem vehementissime instare, ut vestræ majestatis expectationi satisfiat Pontifex.--Peter Vannes to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 518. [178] _State Papers_, Vol. VII. p. 520.