Intercession for Lionhard Rosler, that the duke would pay him the back pay.
The original is in Königsberg, Staats-Archiv, Schieblade LXII. Printed by Tschackert, on Luther's correspondence (in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, XI, 1889, p. 276, No. I) and in Erl. Briefwechsel, vol. IX, p. 153.
To the noble and highborn prince and lord, Lord Albrechten, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia 2c., my gracious lord.
G[nade] u[nd] F[riede]. Sublime, highborn Prince! Lionhard Rosler has asked me to write to E. F. G. and request, because he is now burdened with children and otherwise also well obliged, that E. F. G. graciously send him the debt, as he indicates, of some salary in arrears. 2) Accordingly, my humble request is that E. F. G. should
2) Lionhard Rosler, servant and captain of the Elector of Saxony, addressed a letter to the Duke on the same day, which is also in the Königsberg archives, in which he asks to finally pay the two months of back pay from the Prussian-Polish War of 1520/21, in which he had been recruited as a mercenary leader in the service of the Order. (Erl. Briefw.)
Addendum to the letters from 1531 to 1536.
and mean his distress in a Christian way, so that he may preserve his own all the more, because he has received disfavor here, with all innocence, that is true, and yet hurt him and be hard on him. Hereby commanded by God. Date XIII Februarii. At Wittenburg.
E. F. G.
D. Martinus Luther.
No. 1878a.