their
disorderly doings. How miserably the assembly at T[oe]ss ended, you
will all have learned by this time, and that a new one, still more
numerous, is announced to meet at Kloten. Our Lords hope, that, if you
are invited, you will not go, but if they desire it, and you do, let it
be only to warn them back to duty; and although we believe everything
good of you, that yet you will inform the government of your mind, the
rather because the people of the lake have been one with the city of
Zurich from time immemorial and esteemed as burghers of the same, and
it is hoped will be so forever."

Of the answers sent in, as far as they are still extant, the most
characteristic may be here quoted:

"To the notice"--wrote _Manedorf_--"which Our Lords have laid before us
concerning a strange convocation in the duchy of Kyburg and several
manors, our answer is: When our Lords agreed, with their whole canton,
to give the go-by to all princes and lords, and thereby spared the
blood of many honest people, then we gave them praise and thanks
therefor, and it is our earnest will and opinion that Our Lords ought
to adhere to that and punish all who transgress their prohibition,
whether for the French or other lords, each one according to his
desert. For this we are willing to pledge person and property, and so
we have already signified to Our Lords. Since they have read before us
the articles and grievances, under which the honest people of the
manors think they lie, we confess that we have no part at all in them.
And since Our Lords have come a second time to learn what our feelings
may be toward them, in regard to the preachings of the Holy Gospel, we
again pray them to keep steadfastly to it, and if any one, whoever he
may be, wishes to oppress them in this, we cheerfully pledge to them
our honor, our lives, our property, and whatever else God has given us.
Thus, it is again our humble prayer and desire that you have the Holy
Gospel, aforenamed, still preached more and more, and hope that by
God's Word many things, of which the poor man now complains, may be
done away. But it seems to us, that selfishness yet prevails, and is
little willing to relieve the common man, and that there are several
preachers, who, after beginning to preach the Holy Gospel, now deceive
themselves. Since then we learn, that Our Lords have banished several
preachers from their territory,[2] although they knew they preached
nothing but the Holy Word of God