Luther put in a good word with them that they would like to put up with their brother and cousin Heinrich Cotta studying law in France.
From the original in Christ. Francisci Paullini, Ferraria-Thuringi, Rerum et Antiquitatum Germanicarum Syntagma 2c. Francofurti ad Moenum, Anno M. DC. XCVIII [in Corp. ref. incorrect: 1598]. 4to . p. 201, in Historia Isenacensis and in De Wette- Seidemann, vol. VI, p. 290.
To the honorable, prudent, Friedrich and Bonaventuren Cotten, cousins, citizens of Eisenach, my favorable good friends.
No. 2855.