Luther sends G. Schmaltzung as pastor.
From a copy in De Wette, vol. IV, p. 502 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 38.
To the honorable, prudent gentlemen, mayor and council of Kitzingen, my favorable gentlemen and good friends.
G. and Fried in Christ. Honorable, thoughtful gentlemen and friends! As your request has been
1) Walch reads: "Dreyer".
So you have him, your pastor Mr. G. Schmaltzung. But because the way is far and the food is hard for him, I ask you to be helpful to him, because he is coming to your service, and no one can or should serve at his own expense, as St. Paul teaches. With caplänen and shall, as it is due, he will report to you well; for the personell will become thin and strange. Hereby God commanded, Amen. 1534 the Fabiani [Jan. 20].
Martin Luther, D.
No. 2033.