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 to hear those who pray. I hope the Lord will preserve him Cor us, or rather for himself in these matters.

I am not worrying about Miltitz, the Elector of Mayence and the rest. I should like to see all the tyrants at Rome ill at ease that they might know that they are men who have a God.

I know that Lucas Cranach has a cloth, but that he does not know to whom he owes it, nor did I ask. I saw also chamois-hair cloths, nor does he know to whom he owes these, nor were they inquired for, lest perchance there should be some error, if the same thing should be sold to different people. Perhaps they all have come to you to-day.

Day before yesterday I had a message from Sylvester von Schatimburg,^ a Franconian noble, who has a son^ here com- nended to Melanchthon. He promises me sure protection if the elector should be endangered by my cause. While not iespising this offer I prefer to rely only on Christ as my pro- tector, who perhaps has given Schaumburg this idea. Fare- HTcll in the Lord. Martin Luther, Augustinian,

257. ERASMUS TO OECOLAMPADIUS. Erasmi epistolae (Lond.), xxxiii. 21. Erasmi opera (1703), iii. 555.

LouvAiN, May 14, 1520."

. . . The kings of England and France are preparing for

i conference at Calais about June i.* The Archbishop of

ZTanterbury* invites me to be present. They almost burnt

^uther's books in England, but a humble, though seasonably

>A Icnight of Munnerstadt in Franconia, born between the years 1466 and 1471. [e led a wild life of feud with his neighbors, for which he was thrice out- iwed by the Empire. He entered the service of the Count of Henneberg 1502, f the Bishop of Bamberg 1511, later of the Teutonic Order and of the Bishop f IVurzburg in 1522. The fall of Sickingen endangered him in 1523, though he •mm only indirectly concerned with the rising. He died 1534. Life by '. Kipp, 1911-

'Ambrose ron Schaumburg, the oldest son of Sylvester, at this time probably e t we cn 16 and 18 years old. In 1529 he went on a campaign against the Turks a company with his father. He died about 1535. Kipp, op. cit.

'Wrongly dated in the Opera of 1703, as June 14.

•On this cf. Preserved Smith, in Engluh Historical Review, c. 657.

iWilltam Warham (i45o?-August 22, 153^)1 won advancement by his legal ittainments. He was Master of the Rolls 1494-1502, Bishop of London 1501, Arclibtshop of Canterbury 1503, Lord Chancellor of England 1504-15; Chancellor of Oxford University 1506 till his death. His attitude to the Reformation is iliown by one of his letters published below.

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