Response to No. 3169 concerning the scholarship for Kemberg.
The original concept is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. Mm, fol. 47 d. N. 26. Printed by Burkhardt, p. 462.
Our greeting before. Venerable and reverend, dear devotee! We have read your letter concerning the scholarship of Kemberg, and in your gracious opinion we do not know how to behave, that we do not remember any reasons for some disfavor given to us by Kemberg, nor have we forgotten them with the distribution of the scholarship, but have provided them with a scholarship, like other similar towns of ours. However, since the income of the three monasteries of Altenburg, Gotha and Eisenach has not yet been transferred, because many persons have pledged their fiefs and prebends for life or for a considerable period of time, we have not yet come to the execution of our entire order, which extends to 150 students, but to begin with, and so that they would not all have to wait for the settlement in question, we had to direct the division to 70 persons now, according to the occasion of the settled income, and assign them (as much as is ordered for the citizens' children) to the most distinguished cities. However, as soon as the income of the aforementioned monasteries continues to be distributed, those of Kemberg (Kemrick) shall also receive theirs, and ultimately all other of our towns, as many of which must now wait for the indicated distribution, shall also be provided in accordance with our gracious decree, which you shall give to those of Kemberg (Kemrick).
Letters from the year 1544. No. 3171. 3172.
Kemberg (Kembrik) on our behalf and report it. We will not hold you back in our gracious opinion, and we are graciously inclined to you. Date Torgau, Monday after the holy Christian day [Dec. 29] Anno 1544.
No. 3172.
End of December 1544.1)