Intercession for Kunz Pfeilschmidt in a debt case.
The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg, N, pag. 108. z. 5. 1. Printed by Burkhardt, p. 269.
1) Instead of: "to say yield" we suppose: "to hunt yield".
2) Here we have deleted a superfluous "will".
Grace and peace in Christ! Strict, honorable, dear sir, friendly godfather! I ask you very kindly (although I know that you like to do such things and help poor people), to show this Kunz Pfeilschmidt 3) favorable support, because he now lays fifty guilders to pay m. gn. Lord, and shall also have heard from you words of disconsolation, where he would attack himself with payment, if it could come to the grace that he would have to give four hundred florins, annually on Martin fifty. Nevertheless, there is hardship there; seven children, and no mother to go with them, may nevertheless wear down another man, of which I am also writing to my lord. Lord. Hereby commanded by God, Amen. On the day of Simonis and Judä [Oct. 28].1536. Martin Luther, D.
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