[256]. ‘Virium humanarum defectum, omniumque bonorum operum indigentiam monstrans.’—Gerdesius, Ann. p. 357.

[257]. ‘Occæcatos pontificia superstitione superiores totos in se armaret’—Ibid. and Dan. Bibl., i. p. 5.

[258]. Luther, Opp. xxii. (Walch) von der Beruf, p. 2378 et seq.

[259]. Gerdesius, iii. p. 358.

[260]. Schlegel, Geschichte des Oldenburgischen Stammes, i. p. 148. Munter, iii. p. 101.

[261]. Munter, iii. p. 161.

[262]. Gerdesius, iii. Monum., p. 202.

[263]. Munter, Kirchengeschichte, iii. p. 171. Gerdesius, Ann. iii. p. 354.

[264]. Gerdesius (iii. p. 626) calls him—Nicolaus Martini cognomine Tondebinder; and says in a note—Claus Martensen dictus Vascularius.

[265]. Munter, iii. p. 190.