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 Bohemian, the enemy of the Duke of Saxony, who had followed Luther to Worms, and on the road after his de- parture.

The mode of capture is narrated as follows : Luther on the day of the Invention of the Cross, having preached at a village in the province of Saxony, dismissed the herald who had ac- companied him, and in the afternoon, having got into a wagon with one or two persons, for the purpose of visiting some of his relations in that neighborhood, he was attacked in itinere by this Hector, the Bohemian, who made Luther change his apparel, and carried him off, whither it is not known.

The Dean of Mayence^ has written this same account to the Nuncio. This morning the intelligence was in general circulation, though it is not credited by the Nuncio and persons of judgment, who consider it a feint, artfully devised by Luther, to enable him to go more freely into Denmark, or elsewhere, as shall seem fit to him.

. 482. ANTONIO SURIAN TO THE SIGNORY OF VENICE. Brown iii, no. 210. Lonzx>n, May 13, 1521.

Brown beads this 'The Same to the Same," an error, as the last letter was written by Contarini. The true writer is given by referring to Sanuto's Diarii, ed. G. M. Thomas, 1883, p. 43.

Sorian was Venetian Ambassador in England.

On this Sunday morning {sic) the condemnation of Friar Martin Luther as an heretic was proclaimed.

King Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, with the ambassadors and others, went to the Royal Palace at St. Paul's ; the ambas- sadors were the Pope's, the Emperor's, and himself (Surian). The French ambassador was not present on account of dis- putes about precedence.

Cardinal Wolsey, with many bishops in canonicals and the ambassadors, all on horseback, proceeded to the door of St. Paul's Church with a great multitude of people. On dismount-

the Elector of Saxony and of the exiled Abbot of Fulda, Burgravc Hartmann von Kirchberg. Friedberg, the place where Luther dismissed the herald, belonged to Hector, and it was doubtless this fact that gave rise to the rumor. KalkofT, Brief e, pL 87, note 128.

^Lawrence Truchscss of Pommersfelden, 1473-1543. On him sec J. B. Kissling ia Der KaikcUk, 2906, pp. I'l^, 93'X24 snd x67-aoi.

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