[Footnote 53]: The reward to the first bearer of good news. It was the universal custom in Germany, in the middle ages, to demand and give the "botenbrot."
[Footnote 54]: Thomas Platter, the father, married again later, and had six children by his second wife.
[Footnote 55]: 'Biography of Hans von Schweinichen,' v., Büsching, 1 S. 157. The host is the same Marcus Fugger who wrote the best work on the training of horses in the sixteenth century. He himself had a large stud, first in Hungary, and then at the foot of the Allganer Alps.
[Footnote 56]: Compare with this the beautiful characteristic of Wilibald Pirkheimer in D Strauss Hutten, 1.
[Footnote 57]: Margaret Horng of Ernstkirchen was twice married, first to Dr. Johann von Glauburg at Lichtenstein, then to Weicker Frosch, both of Frankfort families.
[Footnote 58]: This refers to the presents of the bridegroom to the female relation of the bride.
[Footnote 59]: The bridegroom was a widower.
[Footnote 60]: After the marriage feast the shoes are taken from the feet of the bride and given to the best-man.
[Footnote 61]: Of the ceremonial of fetching home the bride, and the festive entrance into the city of Frankfort. This fetching home took place with a splendour which made an epoch in the patrician circles of Frankfort. 1598.
[Footnote 62]: Götz's method of acting is characteristic: he enters into a quarrel with the rich Nurembergers, seeks for causes of quarrel, and waylays their merchants. The supposition that the Nurembergers hold a good comrade of his in durance is sufficient for him; of a like character is the ground of offence, that they had stabbed in another quarrel a servant whom he had wished to take into his service. There is nothing further said of Fitz von Littwach, than that Götz was obliged to reconcile himself with the Nurembergers. The grounds upon which Götz broke bounds are in themselves remarkable, as will be perceived in the following narrative.