and demand should
be necessary. They also will send no one either to Kloten or elsewhere,
if Our Lords or the Canton desire it, for they wish to speak and to do
their best, always to be obedient to Our Lords and adhere faithfully to
the Word of God. We entrust the matter to Our Lords, who know well what
may be to the praise and honor of them and the city."

In the name of the "honest men of _H[oe]ngg_," the envoys of the
Council were informed, that they would not lay anything to the charge
of others, but whatever their loving neighbors on Lake Zurich and in
the free bailiwicks would agree upon, that would satisfy them also; and
they were ready to place wholly at the disposal of Our Lords, in the
hour of need, their persons and property.

They of _Regensberg_ complained, that several of their neighbors had
threatened, that, if they did not go to Kloten on Thursday, "they would
run through their houses." Therefore they had appointed "two discreet
and honorable men; but still would pledge their person and property to
Our Lords."

The letter from the bailiwick of _Regenstorf_ bears strong marks of a
clerical pen: "Since, in these perilous times, various dissensions have
arisen between you. Our Lords, and some parts of the canton, touching
tithes, interest and other grievances, out of which sundry conspiracies
and meetings have grown and prospered so far, that a part has
subscribed the other article and still subscribes; all which is better
known to you than to us; what will result from it no one can tell; many
fear more evil than good; may God overrule all for the best!--Hitherto
we have abstained from all further progress in these affairs. But now,
since one cries out, 'not so,' and another, 'may be so,' and we have
been invited to a meeting of the Kyburgers, and their deputies, and
have had the seventeen articles shown to us--and since, after all this,
very lately, the honorable Master Jos von Kusen and Master Wegmann were
sent to us by you with friendly greetings, and withheld nothing
touching affairs now current and your labor and trouble therewith, and
explained to us particularly, by word and writing, about the three
communities of Kyburg, Grueningen and Greifensee, and several other
matters, and asked us for our answer--we then resolved with one accord,
that it would be too difficult to communicate such a reply at once, and
therefore desired a postponement till to-day; and now this again is the
will, vote and opin