empire. His character may be judged from
the statement of one of his own privy council-
lors that it were well known with what
roguery and knavery he had come into the
benefice, how his whole life long he had naught
that was good in his thought, was full of
malice, a knave, and his disposition never good
towards his countryfolk. That the foregoing
estimate is in nowise too severe his public
acts amply testify.

On the opening of the Lutheran Reformation,
it is not surprising that the Salzburgers showed
themselves eminently favourable to the new
doctrines. Here, as elsewhere, were to be
found enthusiastic reformers amongst the
clergy. With these must be included the
confessor of the archbishop himself. No sooner
did the latter become aware of the fact than
he threw the priest, whose name was Kasten-
bauer, into prison, and gave orders for all those
acknowledging the Lutheran heresy, were they
clerical or lay, to be pursued with heavy pains
and penalties. But the cunning prelate had a
plan in view for making the spread' of the
Lutheran movement a shoeing-horn to an
ambitious scheme of his own for doing away

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