"'Tis a papist," said he, "who goes to mass, and eats no meat on fast days." He had no great objection to his character, but insurmountable ones to his religion.

"Old Count William," said he, "was an evangelical lord to his dying day.

This man is a papist!" The marriage, then, was to be a mixed marriage.

It is necessary, however, to beware of anachronisms upon the subject.

Lutherans were not yet formally denounced as heretics.