The banking house of Fugger supplied the necessary funds, and in addition the agents of the emperor-elect were obliged to sign a "capitulation" making all sorts of concessions to the princes.

One of these, exacted by Frederic of Saxony in the interest of Luther, was that no subject should be outlawed without being heard.
The settlement of the imperial election enabled the pope once more to turn his attention to the suppression of the rapidly growing heresy.
After the Leipzig debate the universities of Cologne and Louvain had condemned Luther's positions.

Eck went to Rome in March, 1520, and impressed the curia, which was already planning a bull condemning the heretic, with the danger of delay.

After long discussions the bull _Exsurge Domine_ was ratified by the College of Cardinals and promulgated by Leo on June 15.

[Sidenote: Bull against Luther, 1520] In this, forty-one of Luther's sayings, relating to the sacraments of penance and the eucharist, to indulgences and {78} the power of the pope, to free will and purgatory, and to a few other matters, were anathematized as heretical or scandalous or false or offensive to pious ears.