P. 61.  ‘I’ll be thy pupil.’  Cf.  Lib.  II section 4.  ’She used also, by words and examples, to oblige the worldly ladies who came to her to give up the vanity of the world, at least in some one particular.’

P. 62.  ‘Conrad enters.’  Cf.  Lib.  III. section 9, where this story of the disobeyed message and the punishment inflicted by Conrad for it is told word for word.

P. 66.  ‘Peaceably come by.’  Cf.  Lib.  II. section 6.

P. 67.  ‘Bond-slaves.’  Cf.  Note 11.

P. 69.  ‘Elizabeth passes.’  Cf.  Lib.  II. section 5.  ’This most Christian mother, impletis purgationis suae diebus, used to dress herself in serge, and, taking in her arms her new-born child, used to go forth secretly, barefooted, by the difficult descent from the castle, by a rough and rocky road to a remote church, carrying her infant in her own arms, after the example of the Virgin Mother, and offering him upon the altar to the Lord with a taper’ (and with gold, says another biographer).

P. 71.  ‘Give us bread.’  Cf.  Lib.  III. section 6.  ’A.D. 1225, while the Landgrave was gone to Italy to the Emperor, a severe famine arose throughout all Almaine; and lasting for nearly two years, destroyed many with hunger.  Then Elizabeth, moved with compassion for the miserable, collected all the corn from her granaries, and distributed it as alms for the poor.  She also built a hospital at the foot of the Wartburg, wherein she placed all those who could not wait for the general distribution. . . .  She sold her own ornaments to feed the members of Christ. . . .  Cuidam misero lac desideranti, ad mulgendum se praebuit!’—­See p. 153.

P 80.  ‘Ladies’ tenderness.’  Cf.  Lib.  III. section 8.  ’When the courtiers and stewards complained on his return of the Lady Elizabeth’s too great extravagance in almsgiving, “Let her alone,” quoth he, “to do good, and to give whatever she will for God’s sake, only keep Wartburg and Neuenberg in my hands."’

P. 87.  ‘A crusader’s cross.’  Cf.  Lib.  IV. section 1.  ’In the year 1227 there was a general “Passagium” to the Holy Land, in which Frederick the Emperor also crossed the seas’ (or rather did not cross the seas, says Heinrich Stero, in his annals, but having got as far as Sicily, came back again—­miserably disappointing and breaking up the expedition, whereof the greater part died at the various ports—­and was excommunicated for so doing); ’and Lewis, landgrave of the Thuringians, took the cross likewise in the name of Jesus Christ, and . . . did not immediately fix the badge which he had received to his garment, as the matter is, lest his wife, who loved him with the most tender affection, seeing this, should be anxious and disturbed, . . . but she found it while turning over his purse, and fainted, struck down with a wonderful consternation.’

P. 90.  ‘I must be gone.’  Cf.  Lib.  IV. section 2.  A chapter in which Dietrich rises into a truly noble and pathetic strain.  ‘Coming to Schmalcald,’ he says, ’Lewis found his dearest friends, whom he had ordered to meet him there, not wishing to depart without taking leave of them.’