The electoral vote of Saxony was given to Maurice, and with it the best part of John Frederic's lands, including Wittenberg.
No change of religion was required.

The net result of the war was to {129} increase the imperial power, but to put a very slight check upon the expansion of Protestantism.
And yet it was for precisely this end that Charles chiefly valued his authority.

Immediately, acting independently of the pope, he made another effort to restore the confessional unity of Germany.

The Diet of Augsburg [Sidenote: 1547-8] accepted under pressure from him a decree called the Interim because it was to be valid only until the final decisions of a general council.

Though intended to apply only to Protestant states--the Catholics had, instead, a _formula reformationis_--the Interim [Sidenote: The Interim, June 30, 1548], drawn up by Romanist divines, was naturally Catholic in tenor.