The History of the Emperor Charles V Author:William Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Subjects: History / Europe / General History / Europe / Germany History / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get... more » free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK Landgrave, was of great advantage to Maurice. t x- It served to justify his subsequent proceedings, 1551. and to demonstrate the necessity of employing arms in order to extort that equitable concession, which his mediation or treaty could not obtain. It was of use, too, to confirm the Emperor in his security, as both the solemnity of the application, and the solicitude with which so many Princes were drawn in to enforce it, led him to conclude that they placed all their hopes of restoring the Landgrave to liberty, in gaining his consent to dismiss him. 1552. Maurice employed artifices still more refined continues to conceal his machinations, to amuse the Em- to amuse peror, and to gain time. He affected to be peror. more solicitous than ever to find out some expedient for removing the difficulties with regard to the safe-conduct for the Protestant divines appointed to attend the council, so that they might repair thither without any apprehension of danger. His ambassadors at Trent had frequent conferences concerning this matter with the Imperial ambassadors in that city, and laid open their sentiments to them with the appearance of the most unreserved confidence. He was willing, at last, to have it believed, that he thought all differences with respect to this preliminary article were on the point of being adjusted; and in order to give credit to this opinion, he commanded Melancthon, together with his brethren, to set out on their journey to Trent. At the same time, he held a close correspond- ence with the Imp...« less