[Footnote 68: Benedict Edlbeck, pritschmeister: "Ordentliche beschreibung des grossen Schiessen in Zwickau," 1574, p. 82.] [Footnote 69: Even the valiant Quad von Kinkelbach counts this as one of the wonders of Frankfort: "Teutscher Nation Herlichbuit," 1609, p. 171. Compare it with Christoff Roesener: "Ehren Tittel der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst der Fechter," 1589, p. 4. The _Federfechter_ gave their freedom to their scholars at princes' courts; also, for example, at Dresden, 1614, at the great Schaufechter which followed the prize-shooting, where a Fechter was stabbed by a rapier.--Wolffgang Ferber's "Relation eines fuernehmen Stahlschiessens zu Dresden," 1614.] [Footnote 70: Derisive terms applied to certain localities.--_Tr_.] [Footnote 71: Invitation circular of the Kehlheimers in "Bairische Annalen."] [Footnote 72: The Swiss also were subject to the _pritschmeister_. In the woodcut on the title-page of the curious poem "Aussreden der Schuetzen von Hans Heinrich Grob, Zuerich, 1602," there is delineated a rifle shooting, in which the _pritschmeister_, in complete fool's dress, is castigating two Shooters in the way above described.] [Footnote 73: Called Koenigsschiessen, as a king was elected for the occasion.--_Tr_.] [Footnote 74: An open space round the town.--_Tr_.] [Footnote 75: A court entertainment, representing life in an inn.--_Tr_.] [Footnote 76: Von Rohr, "Ceremoniel-Wissenschaft," p. 261.] [Footnote 77: "_De ratione status in Imperio nostro Romano-Germanico_, 1640." The expression is not invented by Chemnitz, it had been introduced before him in diplomatic jargon by the Italians--their _ragione di Dominio_, or _di Stato_ (in Latin, _ratio status_; in French, _raison d'estat_; in German, _Staatsklugheit_) denotes the method of dealing in the finesses of politics, a system of unwritten maxims of government in which only practical statesmen were versed.] [Footnote 78: The title runs thus: "_Idolum Principium_, that is, the rulers' idol, which they worship in these days and call _Ratio Status_, described in a not fabulous fable, after the manner of history."] [Footnote 79: "Lebens Beschreibung Johannis Petersen," 1717; 2nd edit. 1719, 8. "Leben Frauen Johanna Eleonora Petersen," 1718; 2nd edit. 1719, 8.] [Footnote 80: The stranger was Spener.] [Footnote 81: The father now held a situation at a pious court; the princess, whose attendant he was, was an active promoter of the match.] [Footnote 82: A special virtue was ascribed by the superstitious not only to inherited metal but to inherited knowledge, particularly of smiths, shepherds, and executioners.] [Footnote 83: Mounted mercenaries who had no groom boy. The einspaenner performed in peace the service of gensdarmes.] [Footnote 84: The Duke of Holstein is Bishop of Lubeck. The court preacher called him, according to the case, his duke or bishop. This double position of the weak prince, and his conduct, denote the helpless condition of the Protestant Church.]