169.] [Footnote 342: _Ibid._, iii., 1659, 1772.] [Footnote 343: _Ibid._, ii., 3673.] [Footnote 344: _L.

and P._, ii., 4257.] [Footnote 345: _Ibid._, iii., 1220.] [Footnote 346: _Ibid._, 1233.] His book was finished before 21st May, 1521, when the King wrote to Leo, saying that "ever since he knew Luther's heresy in Germany, he had made it his study how to extirpate it.

He had called the learned of his kingdom to consider these errors and denounce them, and (p.

125) exhort others to do the same.

He had urged the Emperor and Electors, since this pestilent fellow would not return to God, to extirpate him and his heretical books.