Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I.

by Gustav Freytag

[Footnote 20]: Ib., vol. i., pp. 150-59.

[Footnote 21]: "Imperial Privileges and Sanctions for Silesia," vol. i., p. 125.

[Footnote 22]: Ib., vol. i., p. 138.

[Footnote 23]: Seven hundred and fifty of these have been reckoned by C. H. von Lang, in his "Historical Development of German Taxation," 1793.

[Footnote 24]: F. von Liebenroth: "Fragments from my Diary," 1701, p. 159. The writer was a Saxon officer, a sensible and loyal man.

[Footnote 25]: District regulations for the Principalities of Oppeln and Ratibor of the year 1561.

[Footnote 26]: The provincial ordinances for the Principalities of Oppeln and Ratibor, year 1561.

[Footnote 27]: Von Hohberg: "Country Life of the Nobles," 1687. See the Introduction.

[Footnote 28]: Imperial Privil. and Sanct., vol. iv., p. 1213.

[Footnote 29]: One may nearly estimate the proportion of the peasants to the collective population of Germany, about 1750, at from 65 to 70 per cent.; of these four-fifths were villeins, thus more than half the people.