obility. Within another month that appeal appeared.

The men of Leipzig feared the work of Luther, and the rector of
the University had pled for mercy. Luther replied that Leipzig
deserved to be placed in the pillory[31], that he had no desire
to make sport of the city and its university, but was pressed
into it by the bombast of the Romanist, who boasted that he was a
"public teacher of the Holy Scripture at Leipzig"; and by the
fact that Alveld had dedicated his work to the city and its
Council. Alveld answered Lonicer and Luther bitterly, but Luther
replied no more.

Theodore E. Smauk.

_Lebanon, Pennsylvania._

FOOTNOTES

[1] Still earlier, in his _Resolutions to the 95 Theses_
(Resolut. Disputat., etc. Erl. Fr. Ed. II, 122 sqq., 137
sqq.) Luther had in an historical and objective way spoken
of a time when the Roman Church had not been exalted over
the other churches, at least not above those of Greece; that
it was thus yet in the time of Pope Gregory I.

[2] Luther's Thirteen Theses against Eck's Thirteen Theses.
Frater Mar. Luth. Dsupt. etc., Erl.-Fr. Ed. III, 4 sqq., 11
sqq. "Bruder Martin Luther's Disputation und Entschuldigung
wider die Anschuldigungen des D. Johann Eck." St. Louis Ed.
XVIII, 718. The oldest print is doubtless one in possession
of the University at Halle.

[3] January 10, 1520, to Spalatin; January 26, to John Lang;
February 5, to Spalatin; February 18, to Spalatin; April,
Alved to Luther; Ma 5, May 17, May 31, June 8, and June 20,
to Spalatin, with a letter of July or August to Peter
Mosellanus, rector of the University at Leipzig.

[4] He alluded to the subject in his Sermon on the Ban.

[5] Kostlin, _Theology of Luther_, translated by Hay, I, 363.

[6] _Martin Luther_, I, 299.

[7] Alved's second book, the _Confutatio Inepti_, was dedicated
to the Council and honorable citizens of the city of Leipzig on
the 23d of April, and appeared in print in the middle of May. Its
smooth and popular form roused Luther to this reply, which was
put in press before the end of May, and published before the end
of June.

[8] See Luther to Spalatin, July 20, 1519.

[9] See Luther to Spalatin, May 5, 1520. "Exiit tandem frater
Augustinus Afveidenais cum sus offs," etc. He characterises Alved
in this letter, and refers to the approval it found in Meissen in
his letter to Spalatin of May 17th.

[10] The title is as follows: "Super apostolica ne-de, An
Videlicet diuino sit iure nec ne, an