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The Reformation, against which the Emperor had so repeatedly to promise his interference, and with which he was compelled to seek for a peaceful understanding, continued meanwhile to gain ground in various parts of Germany.
[Illustration: Fig. 45.-JONAS. (From a portrait by Cranach, in his
Album at Berlin, 1543.)]
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