(Editor summarizes this letter the original is in Hamburg; a handwritten cope in Dresden; also printed by Kolde and in Erlangen. Why some letters are summarized I am not certain.Probably following Walch.)
SUMMARY: Agricola and Frosch have been in Exile for a month and do not know where they will find a home city for themselves and their wives and children. For the time they are living in Nuernberg at the Aegidien-cloister. They are yet receiving salary from Augsburg but are uncertain whether they will be called back there. To be sure the Council there has declared that in matters of faith they will not go along with the Emperor's orders. Yet, God only knows, whether this is out of fear of the common people or because of love for the Word. The Sacramentarians are boasting that Luther has yielded to them; the Papists cry from every chancel that Agricola and Frosch have led Augsburg astray and infected them with heretical doctrine. They request that if they are not able to return that the Elector (of Saxony) would find a position for them and that Channcelor Brueck has also been made aware. Luther might interced for them with the Prince.
The letter is said to be of Nov.1,1530 from Nuernberg. NOTES:This is not the Eisleben Agricola.
When we were visiting Augsburg several years we were at the Church where Evangelical services were held during the Diet but I don't remember the name but it's not far down the main drag as I remember.
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