[Footnote 64]: An allusion to the thief whose execution Sastrow saw in Rome.--Translator.
[Footnote 65]: The bishopric of Cammin had been secularized; the importance of the debate bore wholly upon the revenues.--Translator.
[Footnote 66]: This son, who became a doctor of law and who died in 1593 without issue, had a very hasty temper. On one occasion he drew his sword at a sitting of the Council whither his father had sent him to present a document. On another occasion he shook the hall by violently striking the magisterial bench with his fist, while his father kept saying: "Gently, Johannes, gently."--Translator.
[Footnote 67]: It is to his two daughters Catherine and Amnistia, and to his two sons-in-law Heinrich Gottschalk and Jacob Clerike, and to their children, that Sastrow has dedicated his Memoirs, his son being already dead.--Translator.