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 everybody for me, for you are many, — ^John Schwertfager, Peter Swaven* and the whole church that is in his house, Henry of Ziitphen," Master Lucas* and Christian,* Dr. Eschaus," and as many others as occur to you. You need not greet Master Eisleben * or the fat Fleming,* for I am writing to them as I have written to the prior.* See what shameful paper I have had to use for you. Again farewell.

Among the birds singing sweetly in the branches and prais- ing God with all their powers night and day.

Yours, Martin.

490. CASPAR CONTARINI TO THE SIGNORY OF VENICE. Brown, 1520-1526, no. 223. Worms^ May 26, 1521.

A brief had arrived from the Pope in praise of the declara- tion made against Martin Luther, exhorting the Emperor to continue persecuting him, and to issue his imperial mandates for the burning of his works and books. Orders given for committing to the flames all the works of Martin Luther ; he himself to be outlawed and forbidden to reside in these parts.

491. CASPAR CONTARINI TO THE SIGNORY OF VENICE. Brown, 1520-1526, no. 224. Worms, May 28, 1521.

The imperial mandates against Martin Luther had been issued; and it was said that on the morrow (the 29th of May)

^ A Danish noble studying at Wittenberg. He had been with Luther at Worms. Cf. Vol. I, pp. 521, 523.

'Henry Moller of Zutphen (i489(?)-i524), an Augustinian monk, matriculated at Wittenberg 1508 (B.A., 1509; M.A., 1511). Leaving Wittenberg in 1514, he became subprior in Cologne, then (1516) prior in Dordrecht. Persecuted be- cause of his Lutheran views, he left Dordrecht in 1520 and returned to Witten> berg, where he remained till 1522, going to Antwerp as prior of the Augustinian House. He was imprisoned there, but released by an uprising of the people, and went to Bremen, where he preached until November, 1524, removing to Meldorf. On the 9th of November he was seized by a mob, gathered from neighboring towns and villages, and put to death, December xo, is^4' His life, by Iken (Halle, 1886; Verein fUr Ref., no. la). Rtalencyk,

■ Cranach.


 * Doring.


 * Cf. Vol. I, p. 300, n. 4.

is to be found in Vol. XXIII of the Realencyklopadie. He first met Luther January 6, 15 16; studied medicine 1 521-3, from which career he was turned to theology by Luther almost forcibly at Easter, 1523.
 * John Agricola, on whom see Vol. I, p. 189. Further information about him

•Helt.
 * James Probst

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