as you often do, or to Oecolampadius, be mindful of me and do not disdain to write me a consolatory sheet.* For it wiB be a perpetual memorial both of your friendship and of your kindness. Farewell and be commended to God Almighty. May he deign to keep you long safe and sound for the com- mon utility of his Church. Amen.
Brother Guy Bild of Hochstadt.
248. GEORGE SPALATIN TO CHRISTIAN BAYER AT
WITTENBERG.
T. Kolde: Friedrich der Weise (Erlangen, 1881), p. 41.
Wittenberg Castle, April 22, 152a
Bayer of Langheim matriculated at Wittenberg 1503, B. A. 1504, M. A. 1505, then became professor at the university and burgomaster. About 1528 he became Chancellor of Electoral Saxony, in which capacity he attended the Diet of Augsburg 1530, and there read the famous Confession. He died October 21, 1535. Enders, vii. 135.
Peace. Dear Colleague, you have always been so ready to please me that I have conceived the hope that nothing I ask will ever be refused by you, and especially when it concerns my friend Dr. Luther. Wherefore please draw up and send to me to-day a memorandum as to how you think we should act in case Luther is excommunicated, either singly, or (which God forbid!) with most clement and Christian elector, or with this university and now illustrious city. You can do nothing worthier of yourself or more pleasing to good men. ... G. Spalatin.
249. LUTHER TO JOHN HESS AT BRESLAU. Enders, ii. 384. Wittenberg, April 27, iS2a
Greeting. Dear Hess, I will write more elsewhere; at present I am very busy and must write briefly so that you will at least not think that your letter to me was not delivered. Moibanus* will tell you more. I thank you for the Emperor Honorius* and more for the prayers you promise to oflFer up for me, which, as I greatly need them, I rely on not a little.
^Luther did write to Bild {infra, no. 254), but neither this letter nor those he wrote to Adelmann have been preserved.
'Later a colleague of Hess at Breslau, where he taught Greek. He had spent a short time at Wittenberg.
'Probably an old Roman coin, such as Hess collected.
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