A law against monopolies was passed, limiting the capital of any single company to fifty thousand gulden.

In order to provide money for the central government a customs duty of 4 per cent.
ad valorem was ordered.

Both these measures weighed on the cities, which accordingly sent an embassy to Charles.

They succeeded in inducing him to disallow both laws.
[Sidenote: Diet of Nuremberg, 1524] The next Diet, which assembled at Nuremberg early in 1524, naturally refrained from passing more futile laws for the emperor to veto, but on the other hand it took a stronger stand than ever on the religious question.

The Edict of Worms was still nominally in force and was still to all intents and purposes flouted.