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 write to Dr. Pascha* at Magdeburg for Hebrew books. When you have done it first I will do it and quickly; please see to it. I will look out for my own affairs.

The number of students increases daily, so that the little city cannot receive them all, and many are forced to return. We are not able to provide Adrian with a lodging suitable to him, nor are we pleased that others should be turned out for him, which, however, he has begun to do. If in this af- fair he has written anything or done anything (for he wished to see you about it personally) you know my opinion and Melanchthon's : we will not second him nor consent to his turning out anyone unwillingly from the house of the bailiff or anyone else; if they kindly wish to go, we shall be pleased and thankful. ...

I have received a letter from Staupitz at Nuremberg, prais- ing me at last and more hopeful in my cause than he was formerly wont to write. Wenzel Link writes that they have received the "doctrinal asses,"* and that he has good hope. Thus my ship is tossed; now hope, now fear is at the helm; but it is nothing to me. Martin Luther, Augustinian.

253. JOHN ECK TO [JOHN FABER AT CONSTANCE].

Lutheri opera varii argumenti, iv. 256. Rome, May 3, 1520.

This letter is addressed simply **To a Vicar" ; Professor G. Kawerau kindly identifies him for me with John Heigerlin, called Faber (1478- May 21, 1541), who studied at Tubingen, took orders and matriculated at Freiburg by 1509. In 1516 he was chancellor of the Bishop of Basle, in 15 18 he became Vicar of the Bishop of Constance, and in 1521 Suffragan Bishop; 1523 minister to Ferdinand, 1528-38 Coadjutor Bishop of Neustadt, Bishop of Vienna 1530. P. S. Allen, ii. 189.

Greeting. Most worthy Vicar, your John Ulrich came to me on the journey, and we went to Rome happily together. I took our most holy Lord [the Pope] the book on the Primacy of Peter. I would rather tell you face to face than write you on a dead paper, how kind the Supreme Pontiff and the very reverend cardinals were and are to me.

The first draft of a bull has been made against Luther, and

^The identity of this person is not certain; perhaps Alvesleben. n'he Condemnation of Luther by Cologne and Louvain.

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