§.XII late (2): Partial assent / Art. X hardness — Tetrapolitani; refused or barred from subscription
Or (2) they sincerely agree with most of the Confession, yet because of a harder phrasing in one article or another — above all the tenth — they have neither taken the whole Confession nor subscribed, whether by their own abstention or because others barred them.
Such were the so-called Tetrapolitans of Strasbourg, Memmingen, Constance, and Lindau, who once followed Zwingli on the Supper and therefore presented their own Confession at the Augsburg Diet, which the Emperor meant to reject together with the Augsburg.
Chytraeus, pp. 678–679. Our writers (Pareus, Georg Pauli, and others) show that they refused subscription; others, citing Chytraeus's History p. 130, hold that the Protestant Estates' judgment at least partly forced them not to subscribe.
Latin
Vel (2.) plerisque saltem dictae Confessionis, sincero animo adstipulantur, licèt ob duriorem unam vel alteram Articuli, maximè decimi, phrasin haud omnino admissam, nec amplexi Confessionem in totum sint, nec ei subscripserint, à Subscriptione vel semet abstinentes ipsos, vel ab aliis prohibiti: Quales Tetrapolitani vulgò dicti, Argentinenses, Memmingenses, Constantienses & Lindavienses, Zwinglii Dogma de S. Coena olim secuti, exhibitâ ob id peculiari in Comitiis Augustanis, Confessione, una tamen, cum Augustana, à Caesare rejicienda. Chytr. pag. 678. 679. Renuisse hos subscribere Augustanae Confessioni, ostendunt passim Nostrates, Pareus, Georgius Pauli, &c. aliis interim e Chytraeo Historia, pag. 130. sustinentibus, eos à subscribendo, ex Statuum Protestanticorum sententia, per plura saltem, coercitos fuisse.