But at last, a complaint was lodged against them for taking the estate
of a lady from the lawful heirs; therefore we begged them again to give
us a paper like that of the barefooted friars, as they had promised to
do. Then they said proudly, that rather than do it they would let their
heads be chopped off with axes. This made us unwilling to have them as
clergymen, since they would not keep their promises. And when we began
to build on the commons of our city before their gates, they ran to our
women and beat our servants with clubs and shovels till one was killed.
At which we became the more wroth and would have torn their gate from
its hinges. This have we written to you and pray, since we need your
counsel and favor in this matter, that you will act a friendly part,
because we lean on you and would do the same for you in an hour of like
need. We also pray you, if we get judges in this affair, who are allied
to you, that you will influence them toward us, so that they will
be favorable to our rights, just as we would do for you in the same
strait."

The names of he Council (at Zurich, as above) are Burkard von
Hottingen, Rudolph von Beggenhoven, Chuon von Tuebelnstein, Henry Vinko
and Jacob from the Mezie, knights, Ruodolf der Muelner, Ruodolf der
Kriek, Ulric der Truebor, Peter Wolfleibsche, Ulric im Gewelbe, Henry
Stoeri and John Pilgrin Burger. This paper was transcribed in the
twelve-hundred and eighty-seventh year, from God's birth on the Monday
after Saint Urban's day, when the indication was the XVth.

Footnote 8: Or in other words: Without religion the state succumbs to
materialism. But the prevalence of materialism is least consistent with
the welfare of a republic. The freest state _ought_ to be the most
religious: the most religious only _durst_ be the most free.

Footnote 9: The assailed could indeed appeal, at least for a partial
justification of their love of the chase, to an article of their
statutes, revised in the year 1346, according to which and others, a
horse, a hound, and a falcon or sparrow-hawk, for hunting, had to be
presented to the chaplain of the foundation, who ministered at the
annual festival in the church of Zollikon.

Footnote 10: Satisfactory explanations of them are given by _Wirz_ in
his Swiss Church History, continued by _Kirchhofer_, Vol. V. p. 139.

Footnote 11: In St. Gall, for instance, forty wagon-loads of the ruins
of wood en images were carried to the swamps and burnt t