[1058] Synod. Vuitemberg. (Lutheri Opp. II. 470).
[1059] Lutheri Opp. II. 477 sqq.—In this edition the tract is dated 1522 in the index and 1521 in the text. Henke and Ranke, however, agree in assigning it to a period subsequent to his return from Wartburg.
[1060] Spalatin. Annal. ann. 1523.—The fact that Spalatin recorded whether he wore the cowl or not, shows the importance which Luther’s friends attached to his example with respect to it.
[1061] Spalatin. Annal. ann. 1522.
[1062] Supplement. Epistt. M. Lutheri No. 31 (Halæ, 1703).
[1063] Spalatin. Annal. ann. 1523.—Thammii Chron. Colditens.—Link married a daughter of Suicer, a lawyer of Oldenburg in Misnia, and the bride’s example was shortly afterwards followed by her two sisters, one of whom was united to Wolfgang Fuess, parish priest of Kolditz, and formerly a monk of Gera; while the other accepted the addresses of the parish priest of Kitscheren. (Spalatin, ubi sup.)
[1064] Spalatin, ubi sup.—How these innovations were regarded in Rome is manifested in a minatory epistle addressed, in 1522, by Adrian II. to the Elector Frederic of Saxony. “Et cum ipse sit apostata ac professionis suæ desertor, ut plurimos sui faciat similes, sancta illa Deo vasa polluere non veretur, consecratasque virgines et vitam monasticam professas extrahere a monasteriis suis, et mundo imo diabolo, quem semel abjuraverunt, reddere ... Christi sacerdotes etiam vilissimis copulat meretricibus etc.” (Hartzheim VI. 192.)
[1065] See the address of Frederic Nausea, surnamed Blancicampianus, afterwards Bishop of Vienna, at the Council of Mainz in 1527.—Synod. Mogunt. ann. 1527 (Hartzheim VI. 207).
[1066] Reformat. Cleri German. ann. 1524 c. 26 (Goldast. Constit. Imp. III. 491).
[1067] Spalatin. Annal. ann. 1524.