22  Mitteilungen,  Niirnjberg,  vol.  viii,  p.  244.     The  minute  continues:
"...  also  to  add  to  the  proclamation  that  no  one  shall  shoot  the
knobs  off  the  towers."


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also  no  one  whoever  it  be,  woman  or  man,  shall  dance  the  same,  and
in  dancing  shall  not  take  by  the  neck  or  embrace  one  another.23

Let  us  set  beside  this  ordinance  one  of  the  same  kind  from
the  late  sixteenth  century,  when  the  Reformation  had  had
ample  time  to  work  in  the  blood  of  the  council.  For  the
sake  of  a  complete  comparison  I  quote  freely  also  from  this
one,  which  like  the  other  opens  with  an  elaborate  announce-
ment of  motives.
