[Footnote 63]: Hohenburg and Bissingen lay in the territory of Oettingen. The Counts of Oettingen claimed to be lords paramount over these properties.
[Footnote 64]: The princes stood by the members of their own order; and this family, as we know, belonged to the higher nobility. Their struggle for seigniorial rights over property occasioned many battles in the sixteenth century; and the claims of Schärtlin appeared to them particularly arrogant, as his nobility by birth was more than doubtful.
[Footnote 65]: Bishop of Breslau, the crown commissary of Bohemia, under the supremacy of which Silesia was then incorporated.
[Footnote 66]: Winds are nothing but good and bad spirits.--'Table Talk.'
[Footnote 67]: At one time Luther was inclined to think that he himself had one or two especial devils as opponents, who lurked about him and accompanied him to the dormitory in the cloister.--'Table Talk.'
[Footnote 68]: 'The compact alliance of the world-famed Duke of Luxemburg--General and Court-Marshal to the King of France--with Satan, and the terrible catastrophe that followed.' Frankfort and Leipzig, 1716.
[Footnote 69]: The title of the manuscript is, 'Wonderful Tidings of a Money Devil; a strange, incredible, yet true story. Published at Frankfort on the Oder, where it took place, 1538, 4.'
[Footnote 70]: Pfaff was the nickname of the Roman Catholic priests in those days.
[Footnote 71]: This does not mean mushroom, still less bath sponge, as the Dean understood it; it is the Bavarian word Schwaim, pronounced Schwam, "The Floating Shadow."