You set another date in the Starschedel matrimonial case, 14 days later than before.
The original is in the Weimar Archives, Reg. D, fol. 49. 433 (without personal signatures). Printed by Burkhardt, p. 468.
God's grace through Jesus Christ, "our" Savior, and our subservient, willing services are always before Your Lordship. Most Serene, Highborn Prince, Most Gracious Lord! By E. churf. G. gracious letter and order we have sent the citation to the durchl. etc. Lord Philipsen, Duke of Brunswick, our most gracious Lord, have had the day extended by 14 days, and have also issued a special preliminary decision to the Maidens of Starschedel (Storschiedel) guardians, all of which we hereby humbly send to Your Lordship, and acknowledge that we are humbly obliged to serve Your Lordship, and are also prepared to do so and always willing. Date Wittenberg, Friday after Exaudi [May 22] Anno 1545.
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Martinus Luther, Johann Bugenhagen, i.e. Scripture Doctor, and the appointed commissioners of the Consistorii at Wittenberg.
No. 3225. May 23, 1545.
Duke Albrecht of Prussia to Luther.
(Regest.)
The Duke thanks him, answering his letter of May 2 (No. 3211), for his continued paternal benevolence and apologizes that he cannot write himself because of government business.
No. 3226.
To the mayor and council of Hammelburg.
M. Friedrich Bachofer of Leipzig, Diaconus at Wittenberg, had gone to Hammelburg as a preacher in January 1543. He demanded of the Schultheißen there that he should urge the Jews to attend his sermons.
and to be baptized. The Schultheiss turned to the Fulda abbot, Philipp Schenk von Schweinsberg, for measures of behavior and received instructions to protect the Jews against Bachofer's insolence. Bachofer also received a warning. He went mad about it. Luther sent medicine, spoke out about the circumstances and the abbot, and wished that Bachofer be sent to Wittenberg.
The original is at the public library in Fulda. Printed in the Journal von und für Deutschland 1785. Zweiter Jahrgang, erstes Stück, p. 61; in the "Archiv des hist. Verein für den Untermainkreis", vol. III, issue 2. Würzburg 1835. 8. p. 153 and in De Wette-Seidemann, vol.VI, p. 376 f.
To the honorable and wise gentlemen, mayor and council of Hammelburg, my favorable good friends.
Letters from the year 1545. No. 3227. 3228. 3229.
No. 3227.