1 Taschenbuch fÜr Geschichte und Alterthum in Sud-Deutschland, von Heinrich Schreiber, Fribourg, 1839, p. 333. The Basle MSS. are here reprinted without any alteration.

2 These Trials are also recorded in an old MS. of Hieron. Wilh. Ebner, printed in Joh. Heumanni Exercitationes iuris universi, vol. I. (Altdorfi, 1749, 4^o.) No. XIII. Observatio de lingua occulta, pp. 174-180. Both Knebel and Ebner’s accounts differ merely in style and dialect; in all essential points they closely harmonize.

3 Brant wrote this work, and superintended its progress through the press whilst residing in this city.

4 This printer carried on business at Augsburg, partly alone, partly in connection with others, from 1505 to 1516. His editions of the Liber Vagatorum would seem therefore to have been printed between the years 1512-16.

5 Published at Wittemberg.

6 The title-page of this edition is adorned with a facsimile of the woodcut which occurs in Öglin’s edition,—the same, indeed, which is given in this translation.

7 D’AubignÉ, Hist. Ref. vol. iv. p. 10 (1853).

8 Consisting of nine leaves only. An edition appeared in 1603, and a reprint of the first edition was published in Westminster in 1813 (8^vo).

9 See page 21.

10 page 47.

11 Literally “prisoners let-loose.”

12 Debissern.

13 In the original Biltregerin (Bildtragerin), i.e. Billet-wearers.

14 Beulen, bumps, or protuberances?

15 Ubern SÖnzen ganger.

16 Gensscherer, i. e. gansscherer.

17 In the original KOT, i. e. kat.

18 On this passage Luther remarks:—“But now it is all over with these too!”

19 “GÜt und greym,” gÜt.