[Footnote 49: On Palm-Sunday it was the custom of the Catholics to draw to the churchyard a large wooden ass on wheels, with a figure of Christ as large as life upon it. After the consecration of palms the people streamed thither. The choir of scholars sang the words of the Evangelist, _Cum audisset populus, quia Jesus venit Hierosolymam, acceperunt ramos palmarum_, &c. Then eight of the scholars stepped forth, pointed to the ass, and sang aloud, _Hic est, qui venturus est_ (the lesser _Hic est_); to this the choir responded, _In salutem populi_. Then eight other scholars pointed to the ass and sang, _Hic est salus nostra et redemtio Israel_ (the great _Hic est_). Then eight other scholars knelt before the ass, clasped their hands over their heads, and sang, _Quantus est iste ad throni et dominationes occurrunt? Noli timere, filia Sion, ecce Rex tuus._ This already was a very grand performance for the scholars; but afterwards there came six other scholars who knelt down, their faces to the earth, clasped their hands of one accord over their heads, and sang the _Salve_; and when they had finished it they went forward three steps, knelt down again, and sang thrice, _Salve Rex, fabricator mundi_, &c. Then they drew the ass forwards, and so on. Faithfully given from a description of the solemnity, in the archives of St. Gallen, printed in Kessler's 'Life of J. J. Bernet.'] [Footnote 50: The father Sastrow did not go to the communion from a conscientious feeling, because he would not fulfil the condition of forgiving his enemies.] [Footnote 51: _Querela de ecclesia. Epicedion Martyrus Christi, D. Roberti Barns, Angli. Authore Joanne Sastroviano._ Lubecae, 1542, 8; directed against Henry VIII. of England, who in tolerable distichs was compared to Busiris and similar ancient characters.] [Footnote 52: The guests were counted by tables, twelve persons being generally reckoned to each table.] [Footnote 53: The reward to the first bearer of good news. It was the universal custom in Germany, in the middle ages, to demand and give the "botenbrot."] [Footnote 54: Thomas Platter, the father, married again later, and had six children by his second wife.] [Footnote 55: 'Biography of Hans von Schweinichen,' v., Buesching, 1 S. 157. The host is the same Marcus Fugger who wrote the best work on the training of horses in the sixteenth century. He himself had a large stud, first in Hungary, and then at the foot of the Allganer Alps.] [Footnote 56: Compare with this the beautiful characteristic of Wilibald Pirkheimer in D Strauss Hutten, 1.] [Footnote 57: Margaret Horng of Ernstkirchen was twice married, first to Dr. Johann von Glauburg at Lichtenstein, then to Weicker Frosch, both of Frankfort families.] [Footnote 58: This refers to the presents of the bridegroom to the female relation of the bride.] [Footnote 59: The bridegroom was a widower.]