FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER FOURTH:
Footnote [1] In substance, they had reference to the relation of the people to the government, the tithes, the rate of interest, villanage, freedom of trade, the property of the monasteries and the right to choose preachers.
Footnote [2] Rœubli, Stumpf, and Brœdlein, whom we have mentioned.
Footnote [3] Outside of the Confederacy. In what relation, is not clear from the connection.
Footnote [4] This included not only the seven articles, (corn, rye, oats, barley, wheat, wine, hay), but whatever else each district had paid into the great tithe from time immemorial.
Footnote [5] The subscription of this letter is characteristic: Conrad Grebel, Andreas Castelberg, Felix Manz, Heinrich Aberly, Johannes Brœdlin, Hans Oggenfuss, Hans Huiuf, thy countrymen of Hall, and seven new disciples of Muenzer rather than Luther.
Footnote [6] Huldreich Zwingli's Werke. Herausg. von Schuler und Schulthess. Band II. Abthg. 1. S. 230. ff.
Footnote [7] Acts of the Apostles, xix, 3-5.
Footnote [8] Bullinger has a description of the occurrence in his "Origin of the Anabaptists."
Footnote [9] Called in latter times among the people, The Heretic's Tower.