From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

Pope had returned any answer, and what it was.
Campeggio, though he assumed an air of surprise,
had expected this interrogatory to be put to him,
and was not unprepared for the part he was to act.
"As to their demands," he said, "there had been
only three copies of them brought privately to
Rome, whereof one had fallen into his hands; but
the Pope and college of cardinals could not believe
that they had been framed by the princes; they
thought that some private persons had published
them in hatred to the court of Rome; and thus he
had no instructions as to that particular."
The surprise the legate's answer gave the Diet,
and the indignation it kindled among its members,
may be imagined.
The Emperor Charles, whom the war with
Francis kept in Spain, had sent his ambassador,
John Hunnaart, to the Diet to complain that the
decree of Worms, which had been enacted with
their unanimous consent, was not observed, and to
demand that it be put in execution – in other words,
that Luther be put to death, and that the Gospel be
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