I was to be captured by somebody, but does not know the place of my captivity. My brother/ seeing the horsemen in time, crept out of the wagon and is said to have reached Waltershausen in the evening, unheralded and on foot.
Now I have put off my old garments and dress like a knight, letting hair and beard grow, so that you would not know me — indeed I have hardly become acquainted with myself. Now I am in Giristian liberty, free from all tyrannical laws, though I should have preferred that the Dresden hog* had killed me publicly while preaching, had God pleased that I should suffer for His Word. The Lord's will be done ! Farewell and pray for me. Salute all the court.
Martin Luther.
484- WOLSEY TO BOOTH,* BISHOP OF HEREFORD.
Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, iii, no. 1279.
Westminster, May 14, 1521.
Commanding him to search for all books, pamphlets, and papers composed or edited by Martin Luther, and transmit them to Wolsey within fifteen days after the date of this ad- monition. My house at Westminster, 14 May, 1521.
To this mandate is appended a list of the errors of Martin Luther to the number of forty-two.*
485. LEWIS SPINELLI, SECRETARY OF THE VENETIAN AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND, TO HIS BROTHER, CASPAR SPINELLI. SECRETARY OF THE VENETIAN AMBASSADOR IN FRANCE.
Brown, 1520^ no. 213. London, May 14-17, 1521.
On Sunday last, the 12th, the ambassadors. Papal, Imperial,
and Venetian, were taken to a palace of the Queen's, and
there during two hours awaited the Cardinal of York, the
Legate [Wolsey] who came on horseback with a great train
of nobility. On his arrival all went processionally to the
- Tbe Angnstiiiian, John Pettcnstciner. C/. Vol. I, p. 521, n. 3*
< Duke George of Saxony.
'Charles Booth was Bishop of Hereford, 1516-35.
- Taken from the bull Exsurge Domine, of June 15, 1520. Polydore Virgil,
AugUat Historic*, xxvii, fol. 664, speaks of the large number of books by Luther burned in Eagland. The above is given in full in Wilkins, Concilia Magnae BriU omnia* (1737), ill, 690. This forbids all to have or to print Luther's books.
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