the punishment inflicted by Conrad for
it is told word for word.

P. 66. 'Peaceably come by.' Cf. Lib. II. section 6.

P. 67. 'Bond-slaves.' Cf. Note 11.

P. 69. 'Elizabeth passes.' Cf. Lib. II. section 5. 'This most
Christian mother, impletis purgationis suae diebus, used to dress
herself in serge, and, taking in her arms her new-born child, used
to go forth secretly, barefooted, by the difficult descent from the
castle, by a rough and rocky road to a remote church, carrying her
infant in her own arms, after the example of the Virgin Mother, and
offering him upon the altar to the Lord with a taper' (and with
gold, says another biographer).

P. 71. 'Give us bread.' Cf. Lib. III. section 6. 'A.D. 1225,
while the Landgrave was gone to Italy to the Emperor, a severe
famine arose throughout all Almaine; and lasting for nearly two
years, destroyed many with hunger. Then Elizabeth, moved with
compassion for the miserable, collected all the corn from her
granaries, and distributed it as alms for the poor. She also built
a hospital at the foot of the Wartburg, wherein she placed all those
who could not wait for the general distribution. . . . She sold her
own ornaments to feed the members of Christ. . . . Cuidam misero
lac desideranti, ad mulgendum se praebuit!'--See p. 153.

P 80. 'Ladies' tenderness.' Cf. Lib. III. section 8. 'When the
courtiers and stewards complained on his return of the Lady
Elizabeth's too great extravagance in almsgiving, "Let her alone,"
quoth he, "to do good, and to give whatever she will for God's sake,
only keep Wartburg and Neuenberg in my hands."'

P. 87. 'A crusader's cross.' Cf. Lib. IV. section 1. 'In the year
1227 there was a general "Passagium" to the Holy Land, in which
Frederick the Emperor also crossed the seas' (or rather did _not_
cross the seas, says Heinrich Stero, in his annals, but having got
as far as Sicily, came back again--miserably disappointing and
breaking up the expedition, whereof the greater part died at the
various ports--and was excommunicated for so doing); 'and Lewis,
landgrave of the Thuringians, took the cross likewise in the name of
Jesus Christ, and . . . did not immediately fix the badge which he
had received to his garment, as the matter is, lest his wife, who
loved him with the most tender affection, seeing this, should be
anxious and disturbed, . . . but she found it while turning over his
purse, and fainted, struck down with a wonder