(Regest.)
Pope Paul III had announced a conciliar meeting for May 3, 1537. On July 24, the Elector sent the edict of the Pope (see No. 2262) to the scholars at Wittenberg with the request to give their opinion on it. Brück received in a letter, dated Herzberg, July 26, the order to have the objection prepared and delivered within 14 days. This was done. Melanchthon is the author of it. The signatories have already been named in No. 2262.
The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. H, p. 123. 54. Manuscript in Cod. Galli I, x. 111. Printed in Corp. Ref., vol. III, 119.
No. 2268.