"I, Hans Keppel, have written this, amidst all my distress and suffering, and have my ink from the black of the burnt wick of the light that is burning above. What God will further do with me, depends on his grace and mercy. But if they give us no more food, we shall not last long. May God help and support us. Amen. Hactenus Keppel." On the day that Keppel wrote this, two of them died; and he and the others later. This diary is given most accurately in 'Stenzel Script. Rer.' Siles. iv.] [Footnote 10: In 1526.] [Footnote 11: The famous royal castle of Vissegrad on a bend of the Danube four leagues north of Buda--Pesth.] [Footnote 12: Ban Ladislaus von Gara was cousin to Queen Elizabeth.] [Footnote 13: He was cousin to the queen and Ladislaus von Gara.] [Footnote 14: The name is destroyed in the old manuscript.] [Footnote 15: Maria Zell in Styria.] [Footnote 16: The princess Elizabeth.] [Footnote 17: Pfaff, a contemptuous name for a priest.] [Footnote 18: A large stove used chiefly in Germany and Switzerland: it was built of brown-glazed tiles cemented together; the door of it was outside the room; it was heated by large logs of wood, and was sometimes large enough to have beds made on it.] [Footnote 19: For this see the 'Theologia Teuetsch,' the best work of the time previous to the Reformation, by an unknown writer of Tanler's school, which was in fact the main source from which Luther drew his opinions; an admirable work even for us.] [Footnote 20: Exhortation to the ecclesiastics collected at the Diet at Augsburg.] [Footnote 21: It is thus represented in the woodcut on the title-page of a work entitled, 'Complaint of a Layman, called Hans Schwall, of the vile abuse of Christian Life,' 521, 4.] [Footnote 22: The similarity of his Latinized name with that of Oswald Myconius, of Geisshaueser, teacher of Thomas Platter, is not owing to any relationship.] [Footnote 23: Luther writes in 1541:--"So I desire and beg of our dear God to allow me to be sick, and to lay aside this mortal coil in your stead; therefore I beg and admonish you in all earnestness to pray to God together with us, that He may preserve you in life for the service and improvement of his church, and to the confusion of the devil. "_May the Lord never allow me to hear, as long as I live, that you are dead, but ordain that you shall outlive me. This I earnestly pray for, and being certified of it, will have it so, and my will shall come to pass. Amen._"] [Footnote 24: See 'Dr. Martin Luther's Passion,' written by Marcellus; the author is probably the marshal of Strasbourg.] [Footnote 25: It was the evening of the 4th March, 1522.] [Footnote 26: A spirit supposed to haunt certain parts of Germany in those days.]