Absolution, papal, 89

Adanius, Adam, letter to, re the Sacrament, 204

Against the Papacy in Rome, founded by the Devil, 449, 457

Agricola, John, of Eisleben, letters to, 73, 149, 150, 152, 158, 182, 235; his Antinomianism denounced by Luther, 355, 391

Albrecht, Archbishop of Mayence, letters to, 17, 89, 313; elsewhere, 11, 322, 335, etc.

Albrecht, Count, of Mansfeld, letters to, 69 (re proceedings at Worms), 386 (interceding for his brother-in-law, Mackerode); elsewhere, 31

Aleander, papal Legate, 61, 364

Alliance, Evangelical, 149

Altenberg, letter to Burgomaster and Town Council of, recommending preachers, 104

Amand, defection of, 133

Amsdorf, Nicolas von, at first Professor in Wittenberg, later Bishop of Naumburg, letters to, 53, 73, 167, 180, 186, 187, 188, 189, 194, 205, 253, 254, 270, 279, 295, 364, 417, 429, 441, 443, 450, 455, 456, 459. 467; elsewhere mentioned, 102, 112; made a Bishop, 408

Anhalt, Princes of, letter to, 279; Prince Joachim of, letters to, 289, 299, 303; letter to Wolfgang of, 397

Antinomians, 356

Aristotle, neglect of the study of, 15

Athanasius, 286

Augsburg, Confession of, 229, 230, 240, 338; Diet of (A.D. 1518), 33, 59 ; Diet of (A.D. 1530), 202, 206, 219, 246; letter to the clergy in, 312

Augustine, St., 14, 15

Augustinians in Erfurt, letter to Order of, 3

Baptism, 296, 304, 337

Barbara, Sigismund's Queen, 62

Baumgartner, Jerome, letter to, 129 (advising him to marry Katherine von Bora); elsewhere, 455; letter to wife of, re her husband's imprisonment, 442

Beier, Leonhardt, letters to, 145, 148, 175

Bercken, Johann, Augustinian Prior in Mainz, letter to, 7

Berndt, Ambrose, letter to, 350 (consoling him on his wife's death)

Beyer, Christian, reads Confession of Augsburg in German before the Emperor, 229, 230

Birds, complaint of the, a jocular reproof to Wolfgang Sieberger, Luther's half-witted servant, 300

Bishops, consecration by, 320; alleged immorality of Roman Catholic, 9, 91

Bora, Katherine von, at first a nun, afterwards wife of Luther, letters to, 196, 209, 240, 241, 246, 252, 276, 299, 342, 388, 389, 390, 460, 469, 470, 471; elsewhere mentioned, 129, 140, 321

Brandenburg, Elector Joachim II. of, letters to, 377, 381, 451; George, Margrave of, 330; widowed Electress of, 437

Brauer, Wolfgang, pastor at Jessen, letter to, 336 (on private communion)

Braun, John, vicar in Eisenach, letters to, 1, 2

Brenz, John, letter to, 196 (praising his exposition of Amos)

Brisger, Eberhardt, letters to, 159, 304, 427

Brismann, John, letter to, 132

Brück, George, Chancellor of Saxony, letters to, 119, 183, 238, 334, 380, 421; elsewhere, 229

Brunswick, Herzogin Elizabeth of, letter to, 361

Bucer, Martin, preacher in Strassburg, letters to, 260, 327, 353, 368

Buchholzer, George, Provost in Berlin, letter to, 378 (on the constitution of the Church); elsewhere, 451

Bugenhagen, also called Johannes Pomeranus, also Pommer, letters to, 271, 285; elsewhere, 109, 112, 132, 183, 287; promotes Reformation in Copenhagen, 353