The History of the Thirty Years' War
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A system of Theology so called, prepared by order of the Emperor Charles V. for the use of Germany, to reconcile the differences between the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans, which, however, was rejected by both parties – Ed.
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Grand-master of the kitchen.
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Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate were already Protestant.
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– Priests' plunder; alluding to the means by which the expense of its erection had been defrayed. —
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– A ton of gold in Sweden amounts to 100,000 rix dollars. —
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– Gefreyter, a person exempt from watching duty, nearly corresponding to the corporal. —
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– Schiller is mistaken as to this point. Leslie was a Scotchman, and Buttler an Irishman and a papist. He died a general in the Emperor's service, and founded, at Prague, a convent of Irish Franciscans which still exists. —
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– The first was occasioned by the death of Gustavus Adolphus. —