Caesar Pflug complained of this notice, and commanded the rector of the university to issue a mandate against those who thus plagued Eck, which was done. I send your Grace a copy of it; it did no good. They have made a song about him which they sing in the streets. He is much troubled ; his self-confidence and boasting are charged against him; people daily write him hostile letters in the cloister and refuse him personal or financial aid. There are more than fifty students from Wittenberg here, who make it their business to annoy him. To-day he published a pamphlet against Luther, of which I send your Grace four copies. The grey monk has also printed something against Luther. Only one quaternion is finished as yet, which I also send to your Grace.
To-day I intend going to Fabian von Feilitzsch to ask him to write Luther to come to Lichtenberg or Eilenberg, where I hope to negotiate with him to get him to fulfill his promise. I will bring him security from this bull, for it has no power for twenty-one days, during which period I shall have ample time to go to him and to write of it. I told Eck that he did wrong to publish the bull while things were being negotiated in a friendly way, and that he should properly have written first to ask me what I had done. He kept silence thereupon and sighed, as if he were sorry. I cannot write your Grace how bitter people are against him. I fear the safe-conduct will not help him, but that he will be smitten. . . .
303. LUTHER TO GEORGE SPALATIN. Enders, ii. 486. (Wittenberg), October 3, 1520.
Greeting. I have received many letters from you, dear Spalatin, and am surprised that the one I wrote in answer to yours dated at Buttstadt has not yet reached you. That which I wrote later contained the same request about sending me the writings of the fathers from Eisleben, but I hope my let- ters have reached you in the meantime. Miltitz has begged me to write privately to the Roman Pontiff saying that I never meant to twit him personally. I have not yet written,*
^Luther later dectdtd to do so, however, and this resulted in his third great pamphlet of i$2o, the Liberty of a Christian Man, Cf. Smith, op. cit., 88.
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