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pity; if he will none of that, and if, perhaps, he hopes for something more in accordance with his own ideas, then I shall be quite willing to lose even this wish [i.e., to keep friends with him].
6oi. HARRY LORD MORLEY TO HENRY VIH.
Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, iii, no. 390. Cologne, October 4, 1523.
Henry Parker, Lord Morley (1476-1556), a professional diplomatist, at this time an envoy to Ferdinand of Austria. DNB.
As to what Morley wrote to the King, that by his letters to the German princes there was some hope of the return of the Germans from Luther, he is now compelled again to forsake that hope, "assuring your Grace that, as we can hear, all the country is like to fall from the right way, for daily nearer and nearer to Flandersward this flame of heresy in- creaseth, and, without God's help and the assistance of your Grace and other like princes, is like to subvert all aunsient faith. Luther's books goeth abroad in every place, and his followers also mock and scorn the Pope, his cardinals, . . . also abominable pictures, among other one I send to your Highness, which I think your Highness will laugh at, for Dr. Morener [Mumar], your friar and our guide, is one of the sort, your Grace may well see in the picture, which picture I had great business to get here in Coleyn ; howbeit in Frank- forde and High Almayne as well these as other worse than this may be had in great plenty. This hitherto part I have heard and part seen."
602. LUTHER TO SPALATIN. Enders, iv, 243. Wittenbesg, October x^ 1593.
Grace and peace. The Provost Jonas * has asked me to see if you can get some game for Monday, for the pastor of Nordhausen,* and one other* with him, will put on the trap-
Paber, and calls it "the ]>relude to war," Horawitz: Bratmuma, ii. no. 5, p. 601. Soon after this he began his Diatribe on the Free Will.
1 Jonas was at the time Dean of the Theological Faculty.
'James Gethe, matriculated 1508 at Erfurt, at Wittenberg 1523, later (iS4S) pastor at Frankenhausen.
■ Casptr Glats, matriculated at Wittenberg 15^3* became rector of the mii f ml^
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