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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 69 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_079.jpg |
| Transcript | Nuremberg and the Reformation the Golden Bull. With the advance oi on, which was ever opposed to the feudal system, this Faustrecht had come to be regarded as intolerable by such princes, bishops and free towns as suffered from the consequent disorder of the country and the marauding expeditions of the free-knights. For the residence . baron had become, as we hi hich, as 1 ns or avarice dictated, a band of marauders sallied forth to back his quarrel or to collect an extorted revenue from the merchants who presumed DO pass through his domain. Princes and bishops, abbots and wealthy merchants of the towns banded together, therefore, to enforce the new ordinance and to suppress the petty feudatories, who, like Gdtz, struggled to maintain their privilege and independence. Under Sigismund various efforts had been made to suppress the harrying of the knights and many robber-nests on solitary rocks were tar. When taken the robbers, especially those of the lo\ made short work of and dealt with in various ways—wavs best illustrated by a visit to the torture chambers of the castle. There was one H Schuttensamen, for instance, on whose head the Council put a pfio itizen of Bamberg came forward and claimed the rea ing he had shot him. A tier he had received the money his story was found to be a stretch of the r n and he was burnt accordingly. Ten iter (1474) the robber also got burnt. So bitterly were these knights hated and feared that even the great tourneys, such as the one recorded in 1446,1 when all the neighbouring nobles came in from 1 Berthold Veil took part in it. had the great hall in hi> boUSfl la tlu- DfcUngnSM decorated with a repre- 011 linen. I :icil. in 162.;. bad tl veiling ot upper em and nan* Knhn, bast d oa this. 69 |