[186] “Jus Potandi,” from the original, published in 1616, by “Dr. M. Oberbreyer,” Introduction. Heilbronn: Gebr. Henninger. Whether “Jus Potandi” be a satire, as it probably is, or a serious production, it very faithfully reflects the drinking habits of the time. [187] Studenten-Lieder des Mittelalters. Heilbronn: Gebr. Henninger. [188] Jus Potandi, p. xvi., Introduction. [189] “Das Leipziger gekräuterte, bauchzerreissende Rastrum.”—_Jus Potandi_, clause 8, p. 13. See also, “Speise und Trank vergangener Zeiten in Deutschland,” p. 46, where many other kinds of beer are mentioned. [190] Jus Potandi, clause 24, p. 31. [191] Ibid., clause 25, p. 34. [192] Ibid., clause 48, p. 69. See “Speise und Trank,” &c., p. 38, where the drunkenness of females is referred to. [193] Ibid., clause 18, p. 22. [194] Jus Potandi, clause 34, p. 45. [195] Ibid., clause 15, p. 20. [196] Ibid., clause 45, p. 64. [197] Similar codes will hereafter be referred to, of an undoubtedly serious character, as existing in France and England. [198] Full confirmation of this state of things is given in “Speise und Trank,” &c., pp. 10, 11, 28, 31, 32, and at p. 34, where an account is given of a hundred and ten persons drinking four tuns of beer and one and half ohm of wine at a sitting. [199] “Saus und Braus” in German is equivalent to “revelry” in English. [200] The same practice prevailed even amongst women. Speise und Trank, &c., p. 38. [201] Speise und Trank, &c., pp. 11, 12, 18. [202] Eckehardus, jun.: De Casibus Monast. St. Galli, cap. ix. p. 41; also Speise und Trank, &c., p. 17, as to monasteries in the Black Forest. [203] Rabanus Maurus. The Discipline of Drink, by Rev. T. E. Bridgett. Burns & Oates. [204] _Loc. cit._, p. 141. [205] As to the luxury and drunkenness of priests, see also “Speise und Trank,” &c., pp. 10, 11, 17. [206] Speise und Trank, &c., pp. 47, 48. The first coffee-house was opened in Vienna in 1683; in Augsburg, 1713; in Stuttgart, 1712. This part of the subject will be fully treated of in one of the chapters on England. [207] Petersen, “Concluding remarks.” [208] The German Working Man. Longmans & Co. [209] Discipline of Drink, p. 255. All the German Culture Unions are practically temperance societies, although alcoholic drink (chiefly German beer) is freely obtainable in them. [210] The events which have happened in Berlin whilst this treatise is passing through the press lead the author to add, “without assassination.” [211] Discipline of Drink, chap. xi. [212] Homes of Other Days, by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., p. 294, Trübner & Co.; British Monachism, by T. D. Fosbrooke, p. 47, Nichols & Son and Rivington, 1802. [213] Homes of Other Days, p. 42. [214] Discipline of Drink, p. 77. [215] Harleian, Cottonian, &c.