he Confederacy, but
allowed to those who were authorized to transact business for the
_Buergerrecht_ and alliances of like character. The following
injunction was issued by the deputies of all the Thirteen Cantons: "In
order that we may not be again plunged into disunion and greater
discord, through reviling and recrimination, all and every one shall be
specially forbidden, on pain of severe punishment, to deal in
unbecoming scandal, wanton, useless and injurious words of shame,
abuse, filth and insult, scornful expressions, disparagements and
taunts, such as human ingenuity knows how to devise; no one shall any
longer venture to pick at, assail or blacken his neighbor with
slanders, books of libel, prints, sayings, songs, verses and other
means of provocation; but each one shall suffer his neighbor to remain
quiet, undisturbed and in every way unmolested in the enjoyment of
peace." The summer of the following year was fixed upon as the time of
payment for the indemnity to cover the additional expenses incurred by
the war and the support of the surviving relatives of the pastor
Kaiser, who was burned at the stake, and authority was given to the
Reformed Cities to stop the export of provisions into the Five Cantons,
in case of refusal. In regard to the rents, tithes and revenues of the
monasteries and clerical foundations, they could either continue as
heretofore, be allowed under changed conditions, or abolished
altogether. Every one of these articles contained material for a
future explosion. It was impossible to comply with them fully, because
on the one side a conviction of their justice or expediency was
wanting, and on the other they were considered as far too lax in their
requirements--because individual cases usually occurred in such a shape
that their conditions were not applicable in every particular, and
finally, because the embers of passion still glowed in the bosoms of
those who were in power; and among the leaders of both parties, the
desire of carrying out their own ecclesiastical system or political
plans outweighed their interest in the welfare of their common
fatherland.

Since Catholic bailiffs ruled in the Territories, who could blame them
for watching anxiously over those communities, in which the mass and
images were still retained, and for striving to prevent the entrance of
Reformed preaching, the influx of Zwinglian doctrines and writings? But
who, on the other hand, could take umbrage, if indi