Answer to No. 2224: The Elector fulfills Luther's request for payment of the Wartburg loan to Hieronymus Weller.
The original concept is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. Oo, Eisenach. Printed by Burkhardt, p. 251.
Our greeting before. Worthy, dear devotee ! We have received your letter concerning the forty guilders that we owe to Doctor Hieronymo Weller for the fief at Wartenberg Castle, and we do, according to your request, write to the appointed sequestrators in Thuringia. 2) to send the forty guilders in question to our mayor at Eisenach, who would know how to answer it in its proper place. He may boldly apply to the mayor, [so] the money of our oversight will follow him immediately. [We do not want you to do this in your gracious opinion. Date Torgau, Saturday after Judica [April 8] Anno 1536.
No. 2227.