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 traction or else to come to us under our safe-conduct. He contemptuously refused to obey these conunands, and is ob- stinate in his false opinion, when he should have preferred to have followed better advice. Wherefore we have declared that this abuser of our patience and his aiders and abettors are contumacious heretics. . ..

Wherefore we exhort your Highness in the Lord and re- quire you by the bowels of the mercy of Almighty God, ac- cording to the custom of your predecessors, who in doubtful and dangerous matters always assisted the Roman Pontiffs, to act as a Catholic prince, and to agree with us, as you ought, in all things which can be done by you for the maintenance of the Catholic faith, and that you will fulfil all that we have spoken of by the issuance of declaratory letters. Thus it will become known to all the faithful by the general edict to be published by your care in all places of Germany, that the said Martin and his heretical aiders and abettors are to be smit- ten with those punishments which we decreed against them in our letter, unless they recant. . ..

382. LUTHER TO SPALATIN AT WORMS. Enders, iii. 75. Wittenberg, January 21, 1521.

Greeting. Dear Spalatin, I expect you have received or soon will receive what I sent you with my Assertion by Tau- benheim. Meantime, I have read your letter to Stromer. My German translation of the Assertion is in press. I send a specimen of it; it is better than in Latin. . ..

They say the Bishops of Meissen and Merseburg have de- cided to execute the bull ; the Lord's will be done. We have no other news; you have new experiences daily. Farewell in Christ our Lord} Amen.

Martin Luther, Augustinian.

383. CUTHBERT TUNSTALL TO CARDINAL WOLSEY.

Brewer: Reign of Henry VIII. (1884), i. 615, English.

Worms, January 21, 1521.

Tunstall (1474-1579) studied at Oxford and Cambridge and in Italy. Returned to England by December, 1506, and in 1509 became

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