Postremvs Catalogvs Haereticorum Romæ conflatus, 1559

let them declare it: for the Apostolic See, which is the most pious mother of all the oppressed, will always be ready to relieve them and, to the best of its ability, to help and protect them. Therefore, the Princes, provoked and invited by the nuncio, brought forth those hundred grievances which exist in many places, and asked that he carry them with him to Rome. This happened in the year 1522.

When, therefore, the Pontiffs who succeeded Adrian felt most indignant that he had confessed in the formula of action those things about the Roman Church which we recorded above, and that he had asked through his legate that the grievances be brought forth, and since they think of nothing less than correcting errors and vices, and nothing less than relieving Germany and the remaining provinces oppressed in such unworthy ways—rather, they wish to persevere in exercising their former tyranny more than ever before—they have now rejected both that entire legation of Adrian and those hundred grievances as heretical writings, threatening grave punishment to all who read them or have them at home. Go now and hope for an amendment from these Antichrists. By the faith of gods and men, what could have been done by them more insolently? What