Another long list of grievances relating to the tyranny and extortion of Rome was presented in 1510.

The acts of the Diet of Augsburg in the summer of 1518 are eloquent testimony to the state of popular feeling when Luther had just begun his career.

To this Diet Leo X sent as special legate Cardinal Cajetan, requesting a subsidy for a crusade against the Turk.

It was proposed that an impost of ten per cent.

be laid on the incomes of the clergy and one of five per cent.