neighboring countries
his severity is known. Scarcely a hangman in our fatherland has
executed so many as have been condemned by the unrighteous sentences of
Faber." And at the close, in a simple narrative of Hans Huglin of
Lindau, who was burnt as a heretic, we read: "While the poor miserable
man was compelled to groan thus (he had been on the rack), the Vicary
sat there and laughed. When the poor man saw this, he said: O, dear
Sir, why do you laugh at me; I am but an abandoned creature, who am not
worth laughing at. Laugh over yourself, and God forgive you; you know
not what you do. At which words the Vicary, who looked at him still
more wickedly, was ashamed to laugh and grew very red; since which all
the world has pitied the poor man."

Footnote 5: Printed entire under the title of "_Uslegen und Grand der
Schlussreden_," in the first volume of Zwingli's works, edited by
Schuler and Schultheiss.

Footnote 6: Explanation of the Final Discourses, viz, the 26, 27, 33,
64th, et cet.

Footnote 7: He, who is acquainted with history in its sources, knows
that this assertion of Zwingli is by no means maliciously snatched from
the air. It cannot indeed be charged against all convent-property; but,
to illustrate the mode, in which a part at least of such acquisitions
were obtained during the Middle Ages, I will insert here a document,
which was preserved in their archives by our forefathers of Zurich,
_expressly for the information of posterity_, and which, drawn up on
parchment and furnished with the seal of State, is still extant. The
monasteries had plainly fallen off from their original severe rules.
For the better understanding of it, the orthography and punctuation
only are brought nearer to modern style.

"To all, who see this letter or hear it read, we, the Council of
Zurich, whose name are written after, make known, that we saw the
letter of the burghers of Strassburg, entire, true, and sealed with
their public seal, as stands hereafter written. And that we and our
successors after us, if a similar case arise in our midst, may be able
to judge the more correctly, we have, with the leave of our burghers,
willingly, publicly and unanimously written this letter from the heart,
and publicly sealed it with our burghers' great seal, _for a perpetual
and eternal record_.

"To the honorable, the wise and the discreet, the Council and burghers
generally of Basel, of Colmar, of Schlettstadt, of Rheinau, of Naffach,
and