[Footnote 50]: In 1603 this was already denounced from Vienna; the abuse became very bad during the war.--Kais. Privil. und Sanct., vol. i., p. 117.
[Footnote 51]: Kais. Privil. und Sanct., vol. iv., p. 1125.
[Footnote 52]: Kais. Privil. und Sanct., vol. i, p. 377, year 1712.
[Footnote 53]: Kais. Privil. und Sanct., vol. iii., pp. 989 and 1021.
[Footnote 54]: J. B. von Bohr, "Ceremoniel Wissenschaft," p. 229.
[Footnote 55]: J. B. von Bohr, ibid., p. 33.
[Footnote 56]: For when the splendid prince had arrived at the object of his wishes by countless bribery to the Polish grandees, and after he had proved his new Catholicism to his party--less through the enforced testimony of the Pope than by the expenditure of some thalers and a half measure of brandy to each noble elector--then, at his eventful coronation on the 5th of September, 1697, the inventive powers of the chamberlain were strained to the uttermost, for the costume was to be antique, at the same time Polish and also fashionable and suitable to a cavalier. Therefore the king wore on his well-powdered head a Polish cap with a heron's plume; on his body a strong golden breastplate, over his short French breeches a short Roman tunic, on his feet sandals, over all a blue ermine cloak; the whole dress covered with splendid precious stones. He became faint at the coronation, and it was doubtful whether it was owing to the uncomfortable costume or to shame. The Poles ate on this day three roast oxen, while at the Emperor's coronation at Frankfort only one was customary.--Compare Förster, "Höfe und Cabinette Europas," vol. iii., p. 51.
[Footnote 57]: Letters of recommendation entitling the holder to sustenance in some ecclesiastical foundation.--Tr.
[Footnote 58]: She certainly was not a girl of loose character, as Hüllmann in the "Städtewesen," vol. ii., assumes; on the contrary, she passed in the sports as the symbol of a city which was supposed to be under the protection of the Holy Virgin, and, till the time of Tilly, boasted of never having been taken. It is possible that the maiden may have been a serf, but this is not certain.
[Footnote 59]: Wolffgang Ferber, Prietzschenmeister--jest maker--"Gründliche Beschreibung eines fürnehmen fürstlichen Armbrustschiessens zu Coburg," 1614.