The power of appointment to high ecclesiastical positions was divided, annates were confirmed, and in general a considerable increase of the authority of the Curia was established.
Protests began at once in the form of "Gravamina" or lists of grievances drawn up at each Diet as a petition, and in part enacted into laws.

In 1452 the Spiritual Electors demanded that the emperor proceed with reform on the basis of the decrees of Constance.

In 1457 the clergy refused to be taxed for a crusade.

In 1461 the princes appealed against the sale of indulgences.

The Gravamina of this year were very bitter, complaining of the practice of usury by priests, of the pomp of the cardinals and of the pope's habit of giving promises of preferment to certain sees and then declaring the places vacant on the plea of having made a "mental reservation" in favor of some one else.
The Roman clergy were called in this bill of grievances "public fornicators, keepers of concubines, ruffians, pimps and sinners in various other {46} respects." Drastic proposals of reform were defeated by the pope.
[Sidenote: Gravamina] The Gravamina continued.