[Footnote 80]: The stranger was Spener.
[Footnote 81]: The father now held a situation at a pious court; the princess, whose attendant he was, was an active promoter of the match.
[Footnote 82]: A special virtue was ascribed by the superstitious not only to inherited metal but to inherited knowledge, particularly of smiths, shepherds, and executioners.
[Footnote 83]: Mounted mercenaries who had no groom boy. The einspänner performed in peace the service of gensdarmes.
[Footnote 84]: The Duke of Holstein is Bishop of Lubeck. The court preacher called him, according to the case, his duke or bishop. This double position of the weak prince, and his conduct, denote the helpless condition of the Protestant Church.
[Footnote 85]: J. M. von Loen, "Der Adel," 1732, pp. 133-4.
[Footnote 86]: He related the story later with glee; his wife, from living with him, had become quite different. But Kate's question, whether the German Commander-in-Chief was brother of the Prussian Duke, appeared so extraordinary to Luther, because just then, 1526, all details concerning Albrecht of Prussia were discussed in the circle of the Wittenbergers; and she, the most closely united to Luther, knew nothing of him. Katherine had then already lived in the families of friends at Wittenberg two years, so that it was not entirely the fault of the convent that she sat so quiet and helpless in the house of her husband.
[Footnote 87]: Dr. Johann Salomo Semler's "Lebensbeschriebung," drawn up by himself, 2nd part, appeared in 1781. The here-mentioned lady friend is not named; she appears to have been noble, or of the higher official class.
[Footnote 88]: He sought for composure by thinking of both the demoiselles, in Halle and Saalfeld.
[Footnote 89]: The letter is given, because its purport is almost identical with one written by the beautiful Ursula Freherin to her bridegroom in 1598, in vol. i. of "Pictures of German Life," p. 233. For the letter here published the Editor has to thank Baron Ernst von Stockmar.