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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 70 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_080.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nuremberg the surrounding country and tilted and displayed their skill and valour in the market-place, were very unpopular with the peace-loving burghers. Nuremberg, then, joined the Swabian League to suppress such knights as chose still to indul the forbidden Club Law or Faustrecht. It was not long before she came into direct collision with Got/. von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand. Gotz, who had a fine gift for chastising the gutter-blooded citizens of a free town, had long been anxious to try conclusions with the men of Nuremberg. He carried out his intention on a very futile pretext. The Nuremberg seems, had pursued and fought in the adjacent woods some unknown knights, who had refused, when challenged, to give their names as honest knights and lied. Now, some years after, Hans von Geislingen, brother of George, the Squire of Eustace of Liechtenstein, who was killed on this occasion, demanded blood-monev for his brother, and on being refused, he seized some Nuremberg citizens and merchants' caravans. He was outlawed, but this did not prevent Gotz von Berlichingen from helping him. George, he declared, had been his page (a statement that had the defect of being untrue), and he demanded a large sum of money in compensation. When this was refused Gotz did not send an Absagebrief^ or letter of notice of war, but merely a note saying that he was considering, with his friends, how to get compensation. His bitterness was further increased by the action of the Council, who shortly afterwards decapitated Sebastian von Seckendorf, a knight who had long been a source of annoyance, and whom they had at last been successful in catching. Suddenly, and without warning, Gotz and his friends swooped down on a party of fifty-fife Nuremberg merchants who were travelling back from the fair at Leipzig, under the escort of the Bishop ot 70 |