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Landgrave Philip of Hesse to Luther and Melanchthon.

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Landgrave Philip of Hesse to Luther and Melanchthon.

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The Landgrave reports on his negotiations with Rosenberg in the Baumgärtner matter. 7)

Mitgetheilt von M. Lenz in der Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, IV, 152. The above regest in Kolde, Analecta, p. 410.

but of Margaretha Moschwitz, with whom a secret engagement had allegedly taken place. See No. 3158.

5) Instead of: videtur is probably to be read videntur.

6) Instead of: intelligerent we have assumed intelligerem.

7) A Frankish nobleman, Albrecht von Rosenberg (not, as Bretschneider in Corp. Ref., vol. V, 418, note, and Neudecker, Merkwürdige Aktenstücke, p. 448, note 39, state: Johann Thomas von Rosenberg), had captured Hieronymus Baumgärtner, a Nuremberg councilor, on May 31, 1544, because of an old grudge against the Nurembergers stemming from disputes with the Swabian League. Baumgärtner was not released from his prison until August 4, 1545 (Corp. Ref., V, 827).

No. 3190.