About Caspar Beyer's marriage case; about tyranny of forestry officials.
Printed in the Altenburg edition, vol. VIII, p. 1002; in the Leipzig edition, vol. XXII, p. 577; in Walch, vol. XXI, 498; in De Wette, vol. V, p. 669 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 56, p. 103 f.
Grace and peace in the Lord! I thank E. A., my dear lord and godfather, for your kind offer to promote the cause of Caspar Beyer; I will leave you, it will soon be done, amen. Otherwise, I would have spoken, regardless of the fact that you would have considered the lawyer a private absolution, and that he should never have gotten a wife. However, I do not consider myself a private person, and I would trust that God would make my sentence more popular with many people than our Consistorii. Quia verbum Domini regnat etc.
Because you are also traveling to my most gracious lord, I ask that you see this writing on the way or 2) otherwise, and ask my G. F. G. for it. H. that H. C. F. G. would have a gracious understanding. The clamor is truly too strong about the huntmasters and some officials, that the people also do not use their own wood.
2) "or" placed by us instead of: "without" in the outputs.
Letters from the year 1544. No. 3125. 3126. 3127.
need. The common prayer will once force a curse on them, that cannot be missing; so some say, and some believe, that my G. H. the game will be very less; I do not know if it is true. Hiemit GOtt commanded, Amen. Saturday after Viti [June 21]
E. A.
Martin. Luther, D.
No. 3126.