FOOTNOTES:
[18] There was some idea of a younger brother being elected.
[19] In three years Suess gained a profit of 20,000 florins out of the sale of jewellery alone.
[20] The Duke, at Suess's instigation, wrote to the Emperor to get the Jew factotum ennobled, but was refused.
[21] On the following night a confectioner set up a transparency exhibiting the Devil carrying off the Duke.