# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1862_S311
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A Contribution to the Improvement of the Editions of Luther's Works. 311

No. 456 is a fragment from No. 516, 712, and 871; it is therefore to be dated
December 31, 1543. Likewise in de Wette: IV, 496; IV, 659; V,
612. In the case of this letter, the editor of the Erlangen edition has noted and
indicated the repeated printing, at 56, LX.

No. 463, headed "to a nobleman," is to be addressed to Johannes von
Riedtesel, Electoral Saxon chamberlain, as follows from comparing it
with No. 428 and No. 510:

No. 463, Vol. 55, p. 42, line 11 from the bottom: "your false friends," likewise
No. 428, Vol. 54, p. 342.

No. 463, Vol. 55, p. 43, line 9 from the bottom: "your son," in No. 510, Vol.
55, p. 110: "our student Johann Riedtesel."

No. 463, Vol. 44, line 1 from the top: "Doctor Martinus" (Luther's little
son, jestingly so called), the godson of Riedtesel, Volume
54, p. 342.

"To an Unnamed Person" in the heading of No. 508 is to be changed
to "To a Nobleman," as the address "Stern Sir" shows.

The heading of No. 545 should read "To Christian III, King
of Denmark." Compare Vol. 62, p. 96.

On No. 574, see what is noted at No. 249.

The date of No. 626 must read February 26, 1540. Compare the
date of No. 622. This letter was written one day later.

No. 609 is, as appears from the letter, addressed to a preacher.

No. 648 A is a fabricated letter, patched together out of No. 816b
and 820*, which is found in this form in all the collections except the Eisleben one.
It is to be struck.

No. 660 is, in Volume 64, p. 316, wrongly assigned to the year 1542.
The remark there, "missing in de W.," is incorrect, for the letter stands at
V, 392.

II. Corrections to the Text, Supplements, and Conjectures. Volume 55.

Vol. 55, p. 109, line 2 from the bottom, insert in the gap: "truth."
       p. 110, line 1 from the top,   "   "   "   "  "rib."
       p. 110, line 6 from the top,   "   "   "   "  "friendly." (?)
       p. 120, line 18 from the bottom, instead of "Joraff" read "Jacoff," that is, "Jacob."

The gaps at Vol. 55, p. 152, are probably to be filled in as follows:
"Your Electoral Grace shall have him brought [before you], and have the two
parties accuse each other as sharply as possible[.] For he appeals so loudly to God, his
[innocence,] and to justice, that I am not glad to hear it, and if [he]
were to be convicted of the deed, then I would advise that, on account of his high
appeal, [which he] makes — should it be found false — he
be shorn accordingly of the [scab, so] that," etc.

Vol. 55, p. 159, line 7 from the bottom, instead of "und" [and] read "wir" [we]. For the rest,
the passage can be made intelligible by correcting the punctuation: