CHAPTER VI.

The Emperor Lewis the Bavarian — Charles IV. — Wen- ceslaus — Rupertian Reformation — Encroachments of the Fehm-courts — Case of Nickel Weller and the Town of Gdrlitz— Of the City of Dantzip:— Of Hans David and the Teutonic Knights — Other instances of the presumption of the Free-counts — Citation of the Emperor Frederic III. — Case of the Count of Tecken- hurg ...... 385