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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 33 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_045.jpg |
| Transcript | Origin and Growth which was composed naioil oi aitisans, but did not exclude all the old Councilloi . I ork ot innovation Hon the artisans to form Guilds. On the whole the new Council was not a sl Prosperity is a cynical but (jpnvincing test of a government. Confusion and disorder obtained, and commerce was affected by the lack of police and the Kttl power of the Council. The finances of the suffered accordingly. The partisans of the old refused to contribute. It was therefore a good thing for Nuremberg when, in 1349, the opposition of the V ch party broke down, and terms wen- made which left Karl master of the situation. Nurembe; he proceeded to restore the shit us qm ante then new Council l was elected, and the ringleaders ot tin- conspiracy were banished with their farj] 1 The new Council was :«> COttSlst of eight attSSaiM and thirty-four patricians, l'lu- artisans, 1 on special 04 The Guilds were suppressed, and even such Unioi I before the Revolution were pUl umler the control of the COUM U kept in their own hands the decision oi even the smallest matter^, which wviv wont to hi- decided in Other towns by the Guilds. Members of the Council had to be fathers of families, <>. the thirty-loin patrician members eligible for the office of Burgonui- by two, one old and the other young, they held office by turn tor four One 0! the duties of the yoi:n t the func torturing prisoners, The elder hail to perform the .>•• asking the opinion of the hot From the thirteen older n* bosen as a secret committee. From this committee tin from this triumvirate two were rhosflll. the d the first person in the town. There was another. 01 I med which vaiied in num bers, and d by the smaller Council from the patrician and leading and even trom the lower hoUStt. Mcmbe: elected lor life, and had no powers of importance. c 33 |