See St. Louis Edition, Vol. XXII, 13. Table Talks, Cap. 1, § 10.
No. 3314.
Concerns and contract in the Mansfeld dispute, raised by Luther and Jonas.
Printed in the Hallische Theile, p. 471; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXI, p. 689; in Walch, vol. XXI, Nachlese, 261*; in De Wette, vol. V, p. 792 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 56, p. 155.
The Lord D. Martini and D. Jonä Bedenken, die Kirchen zu Mansfeld belangende.
The church on the castle.
The dean of the castle shall be accepted and paid by the common lordship, he shall govern the churches, preach on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
The other servants, as a capellan, a cantor, two chorales, four boys and the sexton, are to be accepted by the decanus and to be
1) "quad" == bad.
have to govern. However, as far as the chaplain and sexton are concerned, any person shall be accepted with the consent of the lords and in the presence of their officials.
The chaplain shall perform the sacraments and see to it that the ceremonies are properly performed. The other persons know what they should do.
The two chorales and four boys shall live at the school and be kept there under the supervision of the schoolmaster. And the two chorales shall each help to read two hours a day in the school, for which the schoolmaster needs them.
The parish priest in the valley is to be accepted by the common lordship; and since this parish has no more than 52 guilders in income, our gracious lords want to give 100 guilders annually in honor of God and at the intercession of both of us, D. Martini and D. Jonä. Jonä, annually 100 florins for the maintenance of a priest, and with such alms serve Christ for his kingdom. On the other hand, the people of Mansfeld shall lend the house in the churchyard, where the dean is now, to the deanery, and let their pastor, preacher and chaplain live in the other three houses next to it. And so that unity is kept in both churches, the dean shall take care that, as a common church order made by the venerable D. Martino, the same is kept properly. However, the dean, pastor and other servants shall be subject to the superintendent at Eisleben.
The school in the Mansfeld valley.
For this purpose, our gracious lords have given about one prebend, and now ordered for it: fifteen florins Count Gebhart, fifteen florins Count Albrecht, forty florins the young lords. And it is the request of the doctors that J. J. G. G. want such money to remain at the school, and that it be ordered to be given to the quarters.
Salary of the persons, the servants at the castle.
Two hundred florins, fifteen bushels of wheat, fifteen bushels of rye, fifteen bushels of barley, five ounces of wood to the dean.
Letters from the year 1546. No. 3314.
One hundred guilders to the capellan, forty guilders to the cantor, two and thirty guilders [to each of the] 1) two choralists, eight guilders to each boy, likewise to each a skirt on Michaelmas. Thirty guilders to the sexton, forty guilders to the organist.
Summa in money 506 guilders.
The total amount that all the persons have to maintain makes 568 guilders, 9 groschen on the castle.
The contract was signed by both doctors after prior consultation, and approved and executed by all the Counts of Mansfeld.
I Martinus Luther, Doctor of the Holy Scriptures, announce with this open letter that the well-born and noble gentlemen, Mr. Gebhart, Mr. Albrecht, Mr. Philipps, and Mr. Hans George, brothers and cousins, Counts and Lords of Mansfeld 2c., and next reported both counts, for themselves and J. Gn. young and underage brothers, on my, also the venerable, my dear friend, D. Jonä, cultivated interlocution, in honor of God, and for the promotion of common benefit, the following articles, order half of the churches, schools, hospitals, matrimonial matters and the ecclesiastical ban, have finally and amicably compared with each other.
Namely, J. G. shall and want to maintain the most distinguished person in the church at Eisleben St. Andreä, who shall be pastor and superintendent, and who shall be appointed and accepted by well-reported 2) counts, I. G. heirs and descendants. The same superintendent shall be paid five hundred florins annually, so that he may be well and prosperously maintained. He shall also have the building, where the St. Andreä school used to be, together with the house in which Mr. Clemen currently lives, prepared and built, so that he can maintain himself well and in good standing. Count Albrecht will pay two fifths and the other counts three fifths of the building costs. But the other persons in the church St. Andreä,
1) Inserted by us. Without this addition, instead of: "both" it should read: "each".
2) "well-reported" put by us instead of: "well-reported" in the issues.
outside the school persons, shall have to appoint count Philipps and count Hans George. Count Albrecht, however, shall appoint all persons in St. Niclas and Peter Parish Churches as patrons. The same Superattenden shall take care of all parish priests and prebendaries of this county doctrine and customs, shall require them, and shall address and punish them in the presence of assigned persons. And in case they do not want to be obedient, they are to be reported to the lord under whom they sat and urged by him to Christian and due obedience.
Also the disputed matrimonial matters in the whole dominion shall be brought before this superintendent, who shall then require the assigned ones, as often as a matrimonial matter will arise, also to write to the count, if the matters concern the common dominion, or however one all alone competent subjects, then J. G. shall then write to the count, if it concerns common subjects. G. shall then, if it concerns common subjects, send their entire council, or, if it concerns a count's subjects alone, then the same count shall send his council to such action. If, however, J. G. would not send all his councilors, if it concerned the subjects of the common lordship, or one of them, if it concerned J. G. of one of the subjects, the superintendent shall nevertheless, in addition to those assigned to him, dispose of the equity according to divine rights and ordinances.
For the sake of the schools, it is agreed that the two schools, which J. G. kept hard by St. Andre's churches, shall be combined: so that there shall be a noble Latin school here in Eisleben, which J. G. will maintain in good order. will give the schoolmaster 200 florins, the other after him 100 florins, the third 90 florins, the fourth 80 florins, the fifth 50 florins and the sixth 40 florins, the seventh also 40 florins, and the eighth 30 florins.
J.G. shall also have to dismiss the same school persons in case of need and to accept them anew.
The superintendent and the school personnel will receive 1130 florins, of which Count Albrechten will receive 452 florins on two fifths, and the other counts 678 florins on three fifths.
Letters from the year 1546. No. 3314.
Such sums shall be divided by those ordered to do so, each quarter the fourth part, to each person according to his or her number. And on all holidays, or when preaching takes place, both churches, St. Andreä and Nicolai, shall be supplied with collaborators and pupils from this combined school. But the children's school at St. Peter's in the city of Eisleben shall nevertheless remain.
It has been agreed that the houses that have now been brought to churches and schools, which belong to whichever lord they wish, shall remain with the schools and churches.
Settlement of the Dechanei on the Castle and the Parish in the Mansfeld Valley: is agreed, negotiated and agreed by both counts, that the contract, which was recently established, which states that count Hoier and his young cousins are to lend the deanery, count Gebhart and Albrecht are to lend the parish in the valley from now on, shall be null and void in this point, so that from now on the deanery on the castle and the parish in the valley are to go to the fief of all counts. And after there were five fiefs in the church at the castle outside the dechantry, which were divided, so that each lord was given one fief to lend: so now the use of these five fiefs, such as the dean, chaplain, choir master, choir pupils, organist, four boys and sexton for maintenance and reward, shall be used for the maintenance of the dechant and the church people at the castle. Namely, the dean has been ordered to receive 200 florins annually from now on. The same dean is to take on a chaplain, who is also sent to preach, as well as the choirmaster, and the two choir students and four boys, but all with the advice of the counts, officials or commanders.
The dean shall also preach on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays when he can do so in his body; the chaplain shall perform the sacraments, and on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays he shall give a German lesson from Luther's sermons, and shall have 100 florins annually for his salary. The cantor, in addition to the two chorales, shall maintain the church and singing diligently. And the cantor shall be paid 40 guilders, and each chorister 32 guilders.
The chorales, however, shall be obliged to read every day for two hours in the school in the valley and to help where the schoolmaster needs them. In addition, four boys are to be kept to help with the singing: each of them is to receive 8 guilders annually and a skirt on Michaelmas. The sexton shall be paid 30 guilders and the organist 40 guilders annually. Thus, the amount that goes to the deanery and church servants of the castle is 506 florins, not including the clothing of the four boys.
Now that there are no more, as recorded in the inheritance register above, the reported Counts want to arrange that which is lacking, namely Count Albrecht two fifths, and the other Counts, as Count Philipps and Count Hans Georg together with J. G. brothers, three fifths of certain pensions. G. brothers, will arrange three fifths of certain annuities, and thus procure that such 506 1) florins, with that which is already available, will be made payable and will certainly be payable at Easter.
And because Count Albrecht let the income of the fief, which was called the fourteen emergency helpers, and which was his responsibility, follow the council of Heckstädt for a while, he wants to make such income again valid, or insure another end. However, as far as the parish is concerned, since the same, as the citizens of the Mansfeld Valley give little for its maintenance, does not have an income of more than 52 guilders, 2) the citizens shall be talked to in such a way that the parish priest will have at least one and a half hundred guilders. And if the counts could not provide him with such from the community, what is then lacking, the counts shall reimburse and provide that the priest shall have one and a half hundred florins. The dean, however, shall have and keep his dwelling in the churchyard, where the present dean, Mr. Michael, is inside. And in the three houses next to it shall live pastor, preacher and chaplain, as they have been assigned. And so that unity is kept in both churches, the dean shall take care that, as a common church order, made by me D. Martino, the same
1) Wrong in all editions: "560".
2) "has" put by us instead of: "have".
be kept in an orderly manner. However, the dean, pastor and other servants shall be subject to the superintendent at Eisleben.
In order that the school at Mansfeld may be maintained in a more stately manner, the Counts intend to give 15 florins from each fifth for the board, as it has been used until now, and to make sure that the end, when the maintenance of the others is decreed, is received and provided for.
The two hospitals in Eisleben, the Holy Spirit and St. Catharina, are to be combined with all benefits and staffing, but the healthy are to be separated in different chambers from the unclean and infirm. And J. G. want to order eight persons from their noble citizens, who are most in service, together with a hospital master, to preside over the poor people most faithfully, and to provide for them, also to make the light slate, such as all that which the hospitals in Erfurt and other ends have outstanding, operational again. If it were also a matter of the hospital's land or anything else being stolen, the J. G. would want it to be brought back.
As far as matrimonial matters and degrees, as well as the ecclesiastical ban, are concerned, J. G., together with their councilors, superintendents, and guards, want to establish a Christian order in the county, and then have it established and publicized according to Christ's word and order.
In witness and constant, firm attitude, the Counts have promised for themselves, J. G. heirs, young brothers and descendants, to keep this act unbreakable to us, D. Martins Luthero and D. Justo Jonä. Justo Jonä, whereupon we now reported, and both Doctores, this treaty and grant twofold, affirmed with our attached petitions, signed with our own hand, assigned the one to Count Albrechten, and the other to the 1) other Counts. Done at Eisleben, on Tuesday, the sixteenth month of February, after the birth of Christ our Lord, in the fifteen hundred and six and fortieth year.
Martinus Luther, D. Justus Jonas, D.
1) "the" put by us instead of: "the".
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