Note 106 — XXVIII.—To Farel.
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As one of the cities in league with Smalkald for the defence of the Gospel, the town of Minden had just been placed under the ban of the empire. The Roman Catholic princes of Germany confederated at Nuremberg prepared to execute the sentence against which the Protestant princes had solemnly protested.—Sleidan, Commentarii, lib. xii. p. 338, édit. de 1612, in 4to.