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 71 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_081.jpg |
Transcript | Nuremberg and / nation Bamberg. These he plundered and took prisoners as they were crossing <eim. G did not treat his prisoners too gently, but used the art of torture to persuade them to offer huge ransoms. The news of this seizure caused consternation and surprise in Nuremberg. Gotz's letter of notice came only nine days later to the Council. Spies were sent out to disco\ei his a hereabouts: the town was prepared for a siege, and 800 mercenary soldiers were hired. Gotz was outlawed. But the Council were accused of being slack to avenge, what they called handful of small merchants, not of patrician families," and Maximilian was not willing to be plunged into an Imperial war "to recover a merchant's sac }>er.,, it he did do was to attempt to bring about one of his favourite compromises. The Markgraf was appointed to arbitrate, and his award was that Nuremberg should pay a certain sum. As is not unusual in the case of arbitrations, the money was not paid. Gotz, laughing at the sentence of outlawry that had been passed upon him, pal the princes who resented peace and order in an 1 tinned to ravage, burn and pillage, until >ian League was renewed, at the end of 1 51 2, to keep tl d peace," at which Maximilian aimed. Nuremberg once more joined thrf I 1 ■, on Maximilian's injunction, though she distrusted the alliance with the Markgraf thereby involved. The League, however, decided in January 1513 to take ess the outlawed nobles and to destroy the castles of the robber-knights. But the Emperor I aid that he wanted to arrive St tul compromise with I The NuremlM would be content if the latte | | (>m- pensate the merchSI be bases thev had suffered. |