[Footnote 70]: Derisive terms applied to certain localities.--Tr.
[Footnote 71]: Invitation circular of the Kehlheimers in "Bairische Annalen."
[Footnote 72]: The Swiss also were subject to the pritschmeister. In the woodcut on the title-page of the curious poem "Aussreden der Schützen von Hans Heinrich Grob, Zürich, 1602," there is delineated a rifle shooting, in which the pritschmeister, in complete fool's dress, is castigating two Shooters in the way above described.
[Footnote 73]: Called Königsschiessen, as a king was elected for the occasion.--Tr.
[Footnote 74]: An open space round the town.--Tr.
[Footnote 75]: A court entertainment, representing life in an inn.--Tr.
[Footnote 76]: Von Rohr, "Ceremoniel-Wissenschaft," p. 261.
[Footnote 77]: "De ratione status in Imperio nostro Romano-Germanico, 1640." The expression is not invented by Chemnitz, it had been introduced before him in diplomatic jargon by the Italians--their ragione di Dominio, or di Stato (in Latin, ratio status; in French, raison d'estat; in German, Staatsklugheit) denotes the method of dealing in the finesses of politics, a system of unwritten maxims of government in which only practical statesmen were versed.
[Footnote 78]: The title runs thus: "Idolum Principium, that is, the rulers' idol, which they worship in these days and call Ratio Status, described in a not fabulous fable, after the manner of history."
[Footnote 79]: "Lebens Beschreibung Johannis Petersen," 1717; 2nd edit. 1719, 8. "Leben Frauen Johanna Eleonora Petersen," 1718; 2nd edit. 1719, 8.