[Footnote 29]: Referring to a body of Breton troops sent by Richelieu to help Guébriant. They turned out worthless.
[Footnote 30]: "Bearskinner" was the troopers' name for a malingerer. It was taken from a very old legend.
[Footnote 31]: The allusion is to the escape of the robber-knight, Eppelin von Gailingen, from the Castle of Nuremberg.
[Footnote 32]: In 1063 the retainers of the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Abbot of Fulda fought in church at Goslar, and much bloodshed ensued.
[Footnote 33]: Act as a usurer or cheat.
[Footnote 34]: He may possibly mean the three old fortifications of which ruins still remain: Schwaben-, Schweden-, and Alexander-schanze; all of which are close to his favourite spa at Griesbach.
[Footnote 35]: See chap. xi. above.
[Footnote 36]: This was "Courage," the heroine of some of Grimmelshausen's later romances.
[Footnote 37]: Unknown.
[Footnote 38]: The jest is now unintelligible.