[Endnote 34: In the year 1638 a ship, on board of which were all the Electoral jewels to the amount of sixty thousand gulden, was plundered by a detachment from the corps of General Monticuculi, and all the jewels abstracted. Count Schwarzenberg had three officers concerned in it arrested, and carried to Spandow for trial. Although the Emperor himself desired the release of the imperial officers, the Stadtholder not only refused this, but even subjected the three officers to the torture, in order to extort from them a confession of the place where the jewels had been hid. But they confessed nothing, meanwhile remaining in confinement until the Elector Frederick William restored to them their freedom. Vide von Orlich, The Great Elector, vol. i, p. 53.]
[Endnote 35: Droysen, History of Prussian Politics, p. 180.]
[Endnote 36: The Elector's own words. Vide Droysen, History of Prussian
Politics, vol. iii, p. 220.]
[Endnote 37: The Elector's own words. See von Orlich, History of Prussia.]
[Endnote 38: Burgsdorf's own words. Vide History of Prussia, by von
Orlich, vol. ii, p. 390.]
[Endnote 39: The Elector's own words. See Droysen, History of Prussian
Politics, vol. iii, p. 223.]
[Endnote 40: Burgsdorf's own words. See ibid., p. 224.]
[Endnote 41: The Elector's own words. See Droysen, vol. in, p. 223.]
[Endnote 42: Schwarzenberg's own words. See Droysen, History of Prussian
Politics.]
[Endnote 43: See von Orlich, History of Prussia, vol. i, p. 60.]