regularly set up in business for himself
after having gone through the various stages of training in conformity
with the rules or prescriptions of his guild, after having constructed
his masterpiece to the satisfaction of a specially appointed
commission, and after fulfilling certain requirements as to age,
citizenship, and in some cases possession of a certain amount of
property. It was usual for journeymen to spend a certain time in
travelling going from one centre of their trade to another.]

[Footnote 20: From another passage (_Der Feind_, chap. i) it appears
that the reference is to a series of regulations dealing with the wine
industry, of date August 24, 1498, in the reign of Maximilian I.]

[Footnote 21: Sulphur is burnt inside the cask (care being taken that
it does not touch it) in order to keep it sweet and pure, as well as to
impart both flavour and colour to the wine.]

[Footnote 22: See note 2, p. 15. The German _Meistersinger_ always sang
without any accompaniment of musical instruments.]

[Footnote 23: This is one of the principal round towers, erected
1558-1568, in the town walls; it is situated on the south-east.]

[Footnote 24: Peter Vischer (_c._ 1455-1529), a native of Nuremberg,
one of the most distinguished of German sculptors, was chiefly engaged
in making monuments for deceased princes in various parts of Germany
and central Europe. The shrine in St. Sebald's, mentioned above, is
generally considered his masterpiece.]

[Footnote 25: Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1569) of Florence, goldsmith and
worker in metals. Mr. W. M. Rossetti rightly says that his biography,
written by himself, forms one of the most "fascinating" of books. It
has been translated into English by Thomas Roscoe, and by Goethe into
German.]

[Footnote 26: Holzschuher was the name of an old and important family
in Nuremberg. Fifty-four years before the date of the present story,
that is in 1526, a member of the family was burgomaster of his native
town, and was painted by Duerer.]

[Footnote 27: The family of Fugger, which rose from the position of
poor weavers to be the richest merchant princes in Augsburg, decorated
their house with frescoes externally, like so many other old German
families.]

[Footnote 28: During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
there existed in many German towns (Nuremberg, Frankfort, Strasburg,
Ulm, Mayence, &c.) associations or guild-like corporations of burghers,
the object of wh