[_Lat. orig. minute_--_Library of Geneva._ Vol. 106.]
[442] The Protestant princes of Germany, the steady allies of France
against the House of Austria, abandoned their usual policy on this
occasion, and joined the Emperor against Francis I. They alleged as
their motive for this change, the impious alliance of that monarch
with the Turks, whose arms threatened equally France and Italy, and
they wrote to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland, inviting them
to follow their example, by refusing their assistance to Francis
I.--See Sleidan, lib. xv. pp. 441-446.