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Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster By: Albert D. Vandam |
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[Illustration: Charles the Fifth.] BARTHOLOMEW SASTROW BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A GERMAN BURGOMASTER Translated by Albert D. Vandam. Introduction by Herbert A. L. Fisher, M.A. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS . LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 1905 Contents PART I Introduction CHAPTER I Abominable Murder of My Grandfather My Parents and their Family Fatal Misadventure of my Father Troubles at Stralsund Appeal of the Evangelical Preachers CHAPTER II My Student's Days at Greifswald Victor Bole and his tragical End A Servant possessed by the Devil My Brother Johannes' Preceptors and Mine My Father's never ending Law Suits CHAPTER III Showing the Ingratitude, Foolishness and Wickedness of the People, and how, when once infected with a bad Spirit, it returns with Difficulty to Common Sense Smiterlow, Lorbeer, and the Duke of Mecklenberg Fall of the Seditious Regime of the Forty eight CHAPTER IV Dr. Martin Luther writes to my Father My Studies at Rostock and at Greifswald Something about my hard Life at Spires I am admitted as a Public Notary Dr. Hose CHAPTER V Stay at Pforzheim Margrave Ernest My extreme Penury at Worms, followed by Great Plenty at a Receiver's of the Order of St. John's I do not lengthen this Summary, seeing that but for my Respect for the Truth, I would willingly pass over many Episodes in Silence CHAPTER VI Travels in Italy What happened to me in Rome I take Steps to recover my Brother's Property I become aware of some strange Particulars I suddenly leave Rome CHAPTER VII From Rome to Stralsund, by Viterbo, Florence, Mantua, Trent, Innspruck, Ratisbon and Nuremberg Various Adventures PART II CHAPTER I I am appointed Pomeranian Secretary Something about my diurnal and nocturnal Journeys with the Chancellor Missions in the Camps Dangers in the Wake of the Army CHAPTER II A Twelve Months' Stay at Augsburg during the Diet Something about the Emperor and Princes Sebastian Vogelsberg Concerning the Interim Journey to Cologne CHAPTER III How I held for two Years the Office of Solicitator at the Imperial Chamber at Spires Visit to Herr Sebastian Münster Journey to Flanders Character of King Philip I leave the Prince's Service PART III CHAPTER I Arrival at Greifswald Betrothal and Marriage An Old Custom I am in Peril Martin Weyer, Bishop CHAPTER II Severe Difficulties after my Marriage My Labours and Success as a Law writer and Notary, and subsequently as a Procurator An Account of some of the Cases in which I was engaged CHAPTER III The Greifswald Council appoints me the City's Secretary Delicate Mission to Stralsund Burgomaster Christopher Lorbeer and his Sons Journey to Bergen I settle at Stralsund Illustrations Charles the Fifth frontispiece Martin Luther Stettin, Wittenberg, Spires The Diet of Augsburg An Execution at the time of the Reformation Ferdinand the First Melanchthon View of Stralsund INTRODUCTION If we wish to understand the pedestrian side of German life in the sixteenth century, I know of no better document than the autobiography of Bartholomew Sastrow... Continue reading book >>
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