o whom, as I hope, done no injustice."

With this we have enough about Zwingli's relation to the Papal See.
That he had broken with it decidedly will be inferred from what has
been quoted. By the government also Rome was not particularly feared.
It seemed to set more value on its connection with the Bishop, which
leads us now to take a glance at affairs in Constance.

Since the year 1496 the episcopal chair in that place was occupied by
Hugo of Hohenlandenberg. History has a great deal to tell about his
legations in the name of the Emperor, his treaties with the
Confederates, his synodal constitutions, his ordinances and his
pastoral letters. He was, particularly in his old age, an active,
grasping man, restlessly employed in the maintenance and extension of
his cathedral chapter, especially of its revenues. Scandalous facts
could be adduced to prove the latter. The knowledge of his character
made the Confederate governments shy of him, so that he was not always
successful in his negotiations with them. In regard to scientific
culture he needed foreign support, and when with the beginning of
reform circumstances became more difficult, he was forced to a greater
dependence on his general-vicar.

In the latter, who was at an earlier period Zwingli's friend, we now
find his most bitter and decided enemy. John Heigerlin, son of a smith
in the village of Leutkirch, had, according to the prevailing custom,
assumed the Latin name of Faber (Smith). To the clerical estate, to
which he devoted himself, after completing his studies in Vienna, he
brought talent of no common order, and ambition to turn it to the best
account. First a popular preacher in Linden, and esteemed likewise as
an author, he afterwards accepted a call from the Bishop of Constance,
who, as well as the Diocesan of Basle, wished to have him in his
service. At the same time the degree of Doctor of the Common Law was
conferred on him by the University of Freiburg. With all the better
minds of the age he took a lively interest in the awakening of science,
which immediately preceded the Reformation. He it was, who chiefly
prevailed on the Bishop to declare against the wretched trade in
indulgences, and encouraged Zwingli in his battle against it. Every
improvement was altogether right in his eyes, if it only proceeded from
the priesthood; every light, so long as it remained under its
patronage. But nothing is more foreign to the spirit of caste than the
fundamen