t, and made it
into new money by alloying it with copper and other metals.]

[Footnote 31: Boetzinger gives this account to his children.]

[Footnote 32: In a sheet of this kind, entitled, 'A Noteworthy
Hungarian and the Netherlands New Newspaper,' 1599, has already the
form and contents of a modern newspaper. It contains a short
correspondence with different cities, in the form of eleven letters;
amongst them reports of four vessels which had come to Amsterdam with
spices, and of a new toll which the court at Brussels had levied on
merchants' goods, of ten stivers on each pound of silk.]

[Footnote 33: The sources of the following description were taken from
the flying-sheets and brochures, first of the year 1620-24, and also
from the later writings of the sixteenth century upon coinage, a rich
literature.]

[Footnote 34: The new money was almost pure copper boiled and blanched;
this lasted a week, and then it became glowing red. The bottles,
kettles, pipes, gutters, and whatever else was of copper, were taken
away to the mint, and made into money. An honest man could not venture
to lodge any one, as he could not but fear that his guest might wrench
away his copper in the night, and carry it off. Wherever there was an
old copper font in a church, it was taken to the mint; its sanctity did
not save it; those sold it who had been baptized in it. Mueller,
'Chronika von Sangerhausen.']

[Footnote 35: A batz was four kreuzer.]

[Footnote 36: In the decrees of the Diet the words do not occur before
the Thirty years' war; they appear to be new in 1621.]

[Footnote 37: In 1770 the population was only 2126; but in 1845 it had
increased again to 4500.]

[Footnote 38: The Emperor was sovereign of Silesia, as King of
Bohemia.]

[Footnote 39: The bunch of keys in the middle ages was not only an
important symbol of right, but also the popular weapon of women.]

[Footnote 40: We have to thank Professor Brueckner of Meiningen, for the
communication of the following summary: it is printed in 'Memorials of
Franconian and Thuringian History and Statistics,' 1852.

In nineteen villages of the former domain of Henneberg there were in
the years--
1634 1649 1849

Families 1773 316 1916
Houses 1717 627 1558
In 17 villages--Cattle 1402 244 1994
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