4th. Bishops instead of going to Rome for the _pallium_, shall be bound to ask for confirmation by the king.[278] A great religious revolution was hereby brought about in the kingdom. By the abolition of celibacy the hierarchy was destroyed; by the abolition of the _pallium_ relations with the papacy were suppressed; and the first two articles allowed the evangelical church to be built up on the ruins of Rome. The first impulse of the clergy was to reject the whole of the articles; but the dread in which the bishops stood of Christian, the fear lest some foreign power should reinstate him on the throne, made them tremble. If the king did place himself on the side of the Gospel, he was at least moderate, while Christian was violent and cruel. The prelates held their peace. In accepting the liberty which was left them, they had indeed somewhat of the air of men who were being put in chains; but far from crying out very loudly, they showed some eagerness to submit. They had, it is true, one consolation; their tithes, their property were secured to them, _so long as they should not be called in question by lawful trial_. Nevertheless, beneath this apparent submission lay hidden an immovable resolution. All the prelates were determined to defend energetically the doctrine and the constitution of the papacy, and to seize the first favorable opportunity to fall on the Reformation and to drive it out of Denmark.[279] Footnote 245: Schlegel, _Geschichte des Oldenburgischen Stammes_, i. p. 53. Footnote 246: ‘Ut doctrina evangelica per Lutheri quosdam discipulos Cimbrorum animis instillaretur indulserat.’—Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 353. Footnote 247: Munter, _Kirchengeschichte von Dänemark und Norwegen_, iii. pp. 101, 145. Footnote 248: ‘Propriæ virtutis vestræ memores qua Lutheranam hæresin ferro et gladio persequendam semper duxistis.’—Raynaldi, _Ann._ 1525, No. 29. Munter, _Kirchengeschichte_, iii. p. 115. Footnote 249: Munter, _Kirchengeschichte_, iii. p. 592. Footnote 250: Munter, _Kirchengeschichte_, iii. p. 565. Footnote 251: Michelsen’s Preface. See Henderson’s ‘Dissertation on Mikkelsen’s Translation.’ Dänische Bibliothek, i. p. 120. Munter, _Kirchengeschichte_, iii. pp. 128-144. Gerdesius, _Annales Reformationis_, iii. pp. 356-362. Footnote 252: Olivarii _Vita Pauli Eliæ_, p. 169. Munter, iii. p. 142. Footnote 253: Munter, iii. pp. 560, 585, 599. Footnote 254: A: M. Mallet, _Histoire de Danemark_, iv. p. 27. Munter, _Kirchengeschicte_, iii., p. 169. Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 360. Footnote 255: ‘Quantum huc usque a vera salutis via deflexerant monstrando.’—Gerdesius, _Ann._ iii. p. 357. Footnote 256: ‘Virium humanarum defectum, omniumque bonorum operum indigentiam monstrans.’—Gerdesius, _Ann._ p. 357. Footnote 257: ‘Occæcatos pontificia superstitione superiores totos in se armaret’—_Ibid._ and _Dan. Bibl._, i. p. 5. Footnote 258: