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 370 LUTHER'S CORRESPONDENCE AND Let 3"

31a THE COUNCILLORS OF THE ELECTOR FREDERIC TO

PHILIP MELANCHTHON.

Corpus reformatorunt, i. 269. (October)/ isaa

Our kind service to you, learned, honorable and good friend. The coadjutor^ and councillors of our gracious lord the Bishop of Freising and Naumburg have written to us about the Pope's bull and Dr. Eck's doings, and have asked us to give their messenger letters to Wittenberg so that he can get a printed or written copy of the learned Dr. Luther's appeal against this bull, as you will learn further from their letters. But as we have no knowledge, except what rumor has brought us, of Luther's appeal against the papal bull, we have replied to the said coadjutor and councillors that we have sent their letter to you as to one who is well posted on Luther's actions and that they should find out all about it from you. Wherefore in the absence and place of our gra- cious Elector Frederic we kindly beg you to give the messen- ger of the said coadjutor and councillors whatever informa- tion you can in order that he may announce it to them at Zeitz. Our gracious lord will take this in good part, and so shall we, personally. The Councilloks.*

��311. ERASMUS TO GODSCHALK ROSEMUND, RECTOR OF

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN.

Erasmi opera (1703), iii. 585. Louvain, October 18, I5»

Letters nos. 311-14 evidently belong close together soon after the burning of Luther's works at Louvain, October 8, and the consequent attack on Erasmus. The only one which can be accurately dated is no. 311. The others must, at any rate, fall between August, 1520, and February, 1521, while Rosemund was rector. I believe that they at^ come in October, before Erasmus left for Cologne, where we fiiK^ him in the first days of November.

Rosemund (1483-December 5, 1526) studied at Louvain, where h^ began teaching arts in 1509 and theology in 1515. In 1518 he becamr

^The Corpus Reformatorum dates this November 15, but the erents allttded to show that it must have been earlier, perhaiM "15 Kal. Novemb.," i. e^ October 18.

'Henry Schmtedberg, on whom and this affair, cf. infra, November 13.

■Probably Fabian von Feilitzsch, Hatigold von Einsiedel and John von Tanben- heim, spoken of by Luther in the aforementioned letter of November 13.

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