Bartholomew Sastrow, by Bartholomew Sastrow and Albert D. Vandam This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Author: Bartholomew Sastrow Albert D. Vandam Release Date: October 29, 2010 [EBook #33891] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARTHOLOMEW SASTROW *** Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/bartholomewsastr00sastiala [Illustration: Charles the Fifth.] BARTHOLOMEW SASTROW BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A GERMAN BURGOMASTER Bartholomew Sastrow, by 1 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 Bartholomew Sastrow, by 2 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 I 3 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 II 4 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 III 5 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 IV 6 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 V 7 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 VI 8 CHAPTER VII From Rome to Stralsund, by Viterbo, Florence, Mantua, Trent, Innspruck, Ratisbon and Nuremberg Various Adventures PART II CHAPTER VII 9 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 I 10 [...]... of German Protestantism, for it witnessed the publication of Luther's three great Reformation tracts the Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, the Babylonish Captivity, and the Freedom of a Christian Man It seemed in that year as if the whole of Germany might be brought to make common cause against the Pope The clergy, the nobility, the towns, the peasants all had their separate cause... notary on a mission to the emperor Ten years before the Dukes of Pomerania had joined the League of Smalkald, and they were now thoroughly alarmed at the Imperial victory at Muhlberg, and anxious to make their peace with Charles The journey of the envoys is full of historical interest Sastrow had to cross the field of Muhlberg and received ocular assurance of the horrors of the war and of the barbarities... claimed a delay of a twelvemonth and a day, which was accorded to him; after which my father appealed to the council of Stralsund and afterwards to that of Lubeck In due time my father started for Lubeck, and took me with him At Rostock, we lodged at the sign of The Hop, in the Market Place My father had a considerable sum upon him to pay cash for his purchases of salt, salted cod-fish and soap, and as a. .. took advantage of the opportunity; on the pretext of paying a visit to their cousin, they repaired to Gribon They had come down in the world, and they no longer minded either the company or the fare of the peasantry; consequently, during the meal that followed they sat down at the same table with my grandfather When they had drunk their fill towards nightfall, they all got up together to have a look at... the constitution of his city There was the mob of workmen who were only too glad of an excuse to plunder the priests and break the altars But side by side with greed and violence there was the moral revolt against "the fables, the absurdities, and the impious lies" of the pulpit, and against the vices of priest and monk The recollection of the early days of Puritan enthusiasm, when the fathers of the. .. 1528 the States were called together at Stettin to ratify the pact of succession between the Elector of Brandenburg and the Dukes of Pomerania The deputy of Greifswald, Burgomaster Gaspard Bunsaw, my mother's first cousin, took me with him as page, or rather as companion, and also to enable me to see something new Our host had a magnificent garden; on the banks of a vast lake uprose a vast tower with an... enjoy the roasting We too now can look on while the flames crackle HERBERT A L FISHER New College, Oxford PART I CHAPTER I 21 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 My father was born in 1488, in the village of Rantzin, in the inn close to the cemetery, on the road to Anclam Even... children at Greifswald, and carried on the family business It happened that Bartholomew' s great-uncle, Burgomaster Nicholas Smiterlow the second, of Stralsund, was at that time residing at Greifswald He possessed the avuncular virtues, had his great-nephew taught Latin, and earned his eternal gratitude In time the heirs of the slain man were appeased and 1,000 marks of blood-money enabled the elder Sastrow. .. (Wulf) The teaching combined the chief elements of Humanism and of Protestant theology, the works of Cicero and Terence on the one hand, and the De Anima of Melanchthon on the other Meanwhile (1534-37) there were great disturbances in Stralsund An ambitious demagogue of Lubeck, George Wullenweber, had involved the Hanseatic League in a Danish war Smiterlow and Nicolas Sastrow thought that the war was wrong... hour was an honest and God-fearing woman My father's register shows that the marriage took place in 1514, the Sunday after St Catherine's Day; the husband, as I often heard him say, was still short of five and twenty At the fast just before Advent, in 1515, Providence granted the young couple a son who was named Johannes, after his paternal grandfather; he died in 1545, at Aquapendente, in Italy In . 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. received ocular assurance of the horrors of the war and of the barbarities practised by the Spanish troops. He was a spectator of the humiliation of the Landgrave