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 Mayence and the doctor of the Counts of Mansfeld and many others urged Luther on, as he would lose everyone's favor if he would not allow any judge in the world. . . . Finally, we agreed to decide on a judge at the end of the debate, and in the meantime that it should [not] be allowed to have the debate printed. . . . The Wittenbergers are full of gall, rage and poison, and arouse odium against me. The Town Council received so many threats from them, though none of them were definite, that on the same night they put a guard of thirty-four armed men in the next houses, so that if there was any disturbance its authors might get what they deserved. People still put their hopes on Luther, but none whatever on Carlstadt. Luther was not allowed to preach at Leipsic, but the Duke of Pomerania,* who is Rector of Wittenberg, at the suggestion of the monk, got him to preach on the gospel for the day in the castle, which he did. The whole sermon, delivered on June 29, was Bohemian. On the next morning, Sunday, at the desire of citizens and doctors, I preached and rebutted his hair-splitting errors. . ..

161. WENZEL ROZD'ALOWSKY TO LUTHER.

Enders, il 78. Prague, July 17, 1519.

On July 16, John Poduska, a Hussite priest, who had already em- braced Luther's doctrine, wrote him a letter of encouragement. On the following day his assistant, Rozd'alowsky, provost of the Emperor Charles's Collegium at Prague, wrote the letter here translated. Both Poduska and Rozd'alowsky died of the plague in 1520. The letters reached Luther on October 3, after having been apparently opened and read by some Catholics, who reported the contents to Emser, who on August 13 forwarded this information to Zack, a Catholic official at Prague. Luther later came into close touch with the Bohemian Brethren, many of whom followed him.

Dear Martin Luther, I have read your works through and be married and in 1524 became dean of the medical faculty. He was a friend of Erasmus and Reuchlin, and special physician to Albert of Mayence. G. Wust- nann: Der Wirt von Auerbachs Ktller, 1902. O. Clemen in Ntues Archiv fur mchsische Geschichte, xxir. 1903.

iDuke Barnim XI. of Pomerania (1501*1573), began to reign in conjunction with his elder brother George in October, 1523. He studied at Wittenberg in 1 51 5* soon after which he was made honorary Rector of the institution. He was a warm friend of the Reformation, which was organized in his dominions by Bttgenhagen in 1534. AUgemtine deutsche Biographie,

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