Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/bartholomewsastr00sastiala [Illustration: Charles the Fifth.] BARTHOLOMEW SASTROW BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A GERMAN BURGOMASTER Translated by Albert D. Vandam. Introduction by Herbert A. L. Fisher, M.A. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_. LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 1905 Contents PART I Introduction CHAPTER I Abominable Murder of My Grandfather--My Parents and their Family--Fatal Misadventure of my Father--Troubles at Stralsund--Appeal of the Evangelical Preachers CHAPTER II My Student's Days at Greifswald--Victor Bole and his tragical End--A Servant possessed by the Devil--My Brother Johannes' Preceptors and Mine--My Father's never-ending Law Suits CHAPTER III Showing the Ingratitude, Foolishness and Wickedness of the People, and how, when once infected with a bad Spirit, it returns with Difficulty to Common-Sense--Smiterlow, Lorbeer, and the Duke of Mecklenberg--Fall of the Seditious Regime of the Forty-eight CHAPTER IV Dr. Martin Luther writes to my Father--My Studies at Rostock and at Greifswald--Something about my hard Life at Spires--I am admitted as a Public Notary--Dr. Hose CHAPTER V Stay at Pforzheim--Margrave Ernest--My extreme Penury at Worms, followed by Great Plenty at a Receiver's of the Order of St. John's--I do not lengthen this Summary, seeing that but for my Respect for the Truth, I would willingly pass over many Episodes in Silence CHAPTER VI Travels in Italy--What happened to me in Rome--I take Steps to recover my Brother's Property--I become aware of some strange Particulars--I suddenly leave Rome CHAPTER VII From Rome to Stralsund, by Viterbo, Florence, Mantua, Trent, Innspruck, Ratisbon and Nuremberg--Various Adventures PART II CHAPTER I I am appointed Pomeranian Secretary--Something about my diurnal and nocturnal Journeys with the Chancellor--Missions in the Camps--Dangers in the Wake of the Army CHAPTER II A Twelve Months' Stay at Augsburg during the Diet--Something about the Emperor and Princes--Sebastian Vogelsberg--Concerning the Interim Journey to Cologne CHAPTER III