News.
From Aurifaber's unprinted collection in Schütze, Vol. II, p. 277 and in De Wette, Vol. IV, p. 643.
Grace and peace in the Lord! So that I am not forced to write everything to you myself, my dear Jonas, I will send you the reading material myself, as my laziness advises me, which you will send back. The Augsburg messenger had left when your letter arrived. I will send it to Leipzig 2c. if I can.
With the robbers 1) the thing behaves in such a way: When he had left Magdeburg, and was still three miles in the bishop's territory, near Andersleben, he fell among the robbers who had ambushed those returning from the fair to Magdeburg. They held "the deadly thing" under his nose and forced him to give up his horse, as well as the excellent animal that the Augsburgers had sent as a gift to Duke Ernst, and after receiving his travel money, 13 florins, they tied him to a tree and left, having received an oath that he would not raise a cry or complaint for three hours. Thus he stood abandoned in the forest for two hours, exposed to the wild beasts; at last, after the ropes had been loosened by tugging and pulling, he came on foot to the captain of some castle. He sent to the prince, who sent him back with clothes and travel money, and also with a horse. Again, these robbers dare many things. I also send [the report about] the wedding bash of the Polish bride. Besides, there is nothing I could write. Schnepf will put your smith (fabrum) before you through his letter. But that faithless Jew, to whom we have procured ten florins here, runs these things. For Philip describes him in his letter as being very bad. Magister Sehusen was buried yesterday; the plague took him, and he followed his wife. My Hans was frightened by my carter, but when the matter was properly examined, he soon got up; he was afflicted with a slight fever. Otherwise, all is well, and they are pure, but perhaps not all; but one swallow does not make a summer.
Greetings to you and yours my mistress
1) Compare No. 2181.
No. 2184.