[11] Cp. Enders, 2, p. 480, note 5.
[12] “Iungam Hutteno et spiritum meum,” etc. Letter of September 11, 1520, quoted above.
[13] To Spalatin, November 13, 1520, “Briefwechsel,” 2, p. 523. The “attack” was supposed to have taken place in the beginning of November. But Aleander, in the letters he sent to Rome in the middle of December, does not speak of an actual attack, but merely of threats addressed by Hutten to the Archbishop of Treves, and reported by the latter to Aleander. Cp. A. Wrede, “Deutsche Reichstagsakten unter Karl V,” Bd. 2, Gotha, 1896, p. 460 f., and P. Kalkoff, “Die Depeschen des Nuntius Aleander vom Wormser Reichstag,”² Halle, 1897, pp. 32, 46.
[14] Letter of December 4, 1520, in “Briefwechsel Luthers,” 3, p. 5 f. The able politician Capito served Luther well also at a later date. It was chiefly owing to him that the carrying out of the Worms proscription was prevented.
[15] Letter of December 9, 1520, Böcking, 1, p. 435 ff.
[16] Luther to Spalatin, December 15, 1520, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 20. If the Papacy be not overthrown, the alternative is “aut ultima dies instat.”
[17] “Nollem vi et caede pro evangelio certari,” etc. To Spalatin, January 16, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 73.
[18] “Princeps noster ut prudenter et fideliter ita et constanter agit,” etc., February 9, 1521, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 85. Luther was then engaged on the “Assertio,” “Opp. Lat. var.,” 5, p. 156. “Werke,” Weim. ed., 7, p. 91 ff. Cp. “Werke,” Erl. ed., 24², p. 55.
[19] Böhmer, “Luther im Lichte der neueren Forschung,”² p. 64.
[20] “Werke,” Weim. ed., 6, p. 277 ff.; Erl. ed., 27, p. 85 ff.