The general history of Spain from the first peopling of it by Tubal, till the death of King Ferdinand, who united the crowns of Castile and Aragon : with a continuation to the death of King Philip III / written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana ; to which are added, two supplements, the first by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen de Soto, bringing it down to the present reign ; the whole translated from the Spanish by Capt. John Stevens.

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Title: The general history of Spain from the first peopling of it by Tubal, till the death of King Ferdinand, who united the crowns of Castile and Aragon : with a continuation to the death of King Philip III / written in Spanish by the R.F.F. John de Mariana ; to which are added, two supplements, the first by F. Ferdinand Camargo y Salcedo, the other by F. Basil Varen de Soto, bringing it down to the present reign ; the whole translated from the Spanish by Capt. John Stevens.
Author: Mariana, Juan de, 1535-1624.
Publication: London :: Printed for Richard Sare ... and Thomas Bennet ...,; 1699.
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Anno 1541.

The Emperor having pacified Flanders, and punished the Rebellion at Ghent, went away for Germany, hoping to reconcile the Hereticks to the Church. Many Disputes happened betwixt the Divines of both Parties, which might have been a sure Remedy for that * 1.1 Distemper, had the Obstinacy of the Hereticks been to be convinced by any Arguments. The last Year on the 25th of November, at Worms, was began a Conference betwixt the Divines, which held on till this Year, but upon the coming of the Emperor all things were referred to the Diet at Ratisbon, which was opened the 5th of April. The Divines ap∣pointed on both sides disputed, the Chief for the Catholicks was John Eccius, for the He∣reticks Philip Melancton. Cardinal Gaspar Contarenus, the Popes Legate at this Diet, granted to the adverse Party certain Points relating to Justification, and Transubstantiati∣on, for which after his return to Rome he was publickly reproved by Cardinal Peter Gar∣rafa, who was afterwards Pope, and called Paul the Fourth. All men guessed by the severity of the Reprimand that it came from the Pope, who was there present, and therefore the Reflection upon him was the greater. The Diet at Ratisbon being broke up, the Emperor went into Italy, and conferred with the Pope at Luca in September. The chief Subject of their Conference was about Assembling a General Council. Leaving the Pope, he went to Genoa, where Andrew Doria had a great Fleet in readiness to go over to Argiers on the Coast of Africk. The Season was then too far advanced, therefore the Pope and others laboured to disswade the Emperor from that Enterprize, but he was not to be moved. Being come upon the Coast of Africk about the end of October, and having lost great part of his Fleet in a terrible Storm, he was forced to retire to Bugia, whence he passed over much afflicted to Carthagena, having done nothing and sustained great loss. Ferdinand Cor∣tes, who accompanied the Emperor in this Expedition, his Galley sinking, was obliged to swim for his Life, and lost two Cups made of Emraulds, which he had tyed about him in a cloath, and were worth 300000 Duccats.

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Disputes about Re∣ligion in Germany.

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