[Footnote 14: The great poet for the people, a native of Nuremberg.] [Footnote 15: Means Hoejack, which was adopted by Ulrich von Hutten as a characteristic title of a political squib in defence of the peasantry.--_Trans_.] [Footnote 16: Quaint title of a series of pamphlets denouncing abuses in Church and State, published about 1521.--_Trans_.] [Footnote 17: A colloquy between a fox and wolf, in the "Staigerwaldt," 1524, p. 6. Under the similitude of a wolf and fox two fugitive junkers of the Sickingen party discourse together. The plundering of the nobles having been strongly spoken of, the wolf says: "By this voracity, we have made enemies of many citizens and peasants, who have lately bound themselves to take away all our lives, if they can catch us." Fox: "Who are these citizens and peasants?" Wolf: "Those who live in Upper Swabia, Augsburg, Ulm, Kempten, Bibrach, Memmingen, and by the Neckar, and the Nurembergers and Bavarians on the frontier."] [Footnote 18: Full details of the sufferings of the country people during the war will be found in the second volume of "The Pictures of German life."] [Footnote 19: "Imperial Privileges and Sanctions for Silesia," vols. i., p. 166; iii., 759.] [Footnote 20: Ib., vol. i., pp. 150-59.] [Footnote 21: "Imperial Privileges and Sanctions for Silesia," vol. i., p. 125.] [Footnote 22: Ib., vol. i., p. 138.] [Footnote 23: Seven hundred and fifty of these have been reckoned by C. H. von Lang, in his "Historical Development of German Taxation," 1793.] [Footnote 24: F. von Liebenroth: "Fragments from my Diary," 1701, p. 159. The writer was a Saxon officer, a sensible and loyal man.] [Footnote 25: District regulations for the Principalities of Oppeln and Ratibor of the year 1561.] [Footnote 26: The provincial ordinances for the Principalities of Oppeln and Ratibor, year 1561.] [Footnote 27: Von Hohberg: "Country Life of the Nobles," 1687. See the Introduction.] [Footnote 28: Imperial Privil. and Sanct., vol. iv., p. 1213.] [Footnote 29: One may nearly estimate the proportion of the peasants to the collective population of Germany, about 1750, at from 65 to 70 per cent.; of these four-fifths were villeins, thus more than half the people.] [Footnote 30: "The Exposure of the Vices, Morals, and Evils of the thick-skinned, coarse-grained, and wicked Peasantry," by _Veroandro_, of _Truth Castle_, 1684. The author appears to have been the same clergyman who added verses to the later editions of the Simplicissimus, and pointed the moral.] [Footnote 31: "The Happy and Unhappy Peasantry," p. 178. Frankfort, s. a. About 1700.] [Footnote 32: "Lasterprob," p. 82.] [Footnote 33: "The Happy and Unhappy Peasant Class." p. 155.] [Footnote 34: "Kurtze Beschreibung, der Acker-Leuthe und Ehrenlob," p. 33. Hof. 1701.] [Footnote 35: "Imperial Privil. and Sanct.," vols. ii., p. 584; v., 1511.] [Footnote 36: F. von Liebenroth, p. 146.] [Footnote 37: Supreme Court of the Empire.]