This document notified by us sub. No. 1825 will have to be placed here. In the second line of the text, with Seckendorf and the Erlanger Briefwechsel, Vol. IX, p. 21, it is probably more correct to read: "Cardinals" instead of: Concils, which Burkhardt offers. The Erl. Briefw. states that this letter will have been written in the first period of the peace negotiations opened by Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz and Elector Ludwig of the Palatinate with the Protestant estates, especially Chursachsen and Hessen. On May 26, the Mainz envoys, Christoph Türk, the Hessian chancellor, and Wolfgang von Bach, bailiff of Querfurt, went to the Elector to initiate the peace negotiations. Instead of the content we have set, we would like to assume something like: Luther advises not to reject the peace negotiations with Mainz.
No. 181 6a.