Intercession for an Anhalt servant because of a piece of land that belonged to the monastery near Weida.
Handwritten in Cod. Printed by Buddeus, p. 242 and by De Wette, vol. IV, p. 528. German by Walch, vol. XXI, 1257 f.
To the man to be highly honored in Christ, Magister Georg Spalatin, Archbishop of Meissen and the Voigtland, the extremely faithful servant of the Word.
Grace and peace in Christ! My dear Spalatin, this man from Roden,5 ) a servant of the princes of Anhalt, a good man, has asked me to recommend him to you. For him it is about a certain field near Weida, of which it is said that you visitators have leased it as a part of the goods of the nunnery, but the father of this man is said to have brought the very same field into cultivation (excoluisse); therefore he desires that if this happens to others who have not worked it, then he should be much more deprived of it.
4) Walch translated Sabbatho by "Sunday".
5) a Roden perhaps: from the town of Roda, in Altenburg.
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neither leased nor otherwise granted. You will hear the matter from him yourself, only you will help him, if you can, for my sake. Then I would like to be at the will of the princes of Anhalt in this matter and in much greater things, who have now accepted the gospel with a strong spirit, while the bishop of Halle and other great princes fight against it in vain, and who confess it fearlessly. Do that which I promise myself of you. Christ be with you. Greet your chain (catenam) with its grapes. 1534. on the Saturday 1) before Palmarum [March 28]. Yours, Martin Luther, D.
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