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 is circulated about Dr. Strauss. Greet my sister-in-law, your dear vine, and her grapes. God have you in His keeping. The two sermons preached at the Elector's funeral are in press.

Martin Luther.

688, PACE TO WOLSEY.

Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, iv, no. 1383. Venice, June 3, 1525.

. . . Hears from Almayne that the villains spoil and sub- vert all the country, putting the lords spiritual and temporal to great vexations. Some they have compelled to agree with them and permit Luther's heresies in their dominions. The Bishop of Trent* writes me that the Duke of Loren* lately killed about 20,000 of them while entering his duchy from Alsacia.

689. JUSTUS JONAS TO SPALATIN. Kawerau, 94. (WrrrENBERc), June 14, 1525.

Grace and peace from God. This letter will come to you, my dear Spalatin, as the bearer of gjeat news. Our Luther has married Catharine von Bora. I was present and was a witness of the marriage yesterday.* Seeing that sight I had to give way to my feelings and could not refrain from tears. Now that it has happened and is the will of God, I wish this good and true man and beloved father in the Lord much hap- piness. God is wonderful in His works and ways. Farewell. I have sent you this word, hiring a messenger for this pur- pose only. There were present Lucas* the painter and his wife. Dr. Apel * and Bugenhagen. Philip * was not there.

^Bernard yon Glees.

'This wms true. Duke Antony of Lorraine, who considered the war as a crusade in defence of the Church, smote the peasants at Zabem on May 17. Then and immediately afterwards 20,000 rustics perished. Janssen-Paator,** ii, 649f.

Spalatin in his Annals, ed. Mencken, ii, 645: "Our Luther has married Catharine ▼on Bora. Yesterday I was present and saw the bride lying in the marriage chamber." At that time, after the ceremony, the bride and groom were led to the nuptial bed and left there, their union bdng blessed the following morning.
 * The first part of this letter is foui|4 in a different form, as registered by

^ Lucas Cranach.

■John Apel (1486-1536), born at Nuremberg, matriculated at Wittenberg, xsoa. In Z519 he held a canonry at Wurzburg, and at that time abducted a nun from the convent to marry her, for which he was held in prison for some months. Prom 1524-30 he lectured on jurisprudence at Wittenberg. In XS30 he accepted • call to become chancellor for Albert of Prussia. ADB.


 * Melanchthon.

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