[Footnote 21: A kind of Eldorado.]
[Footnote 22: The famous cavalry commander of the Imperialists.]
[Footnote 23: The musqueteer supported his piece on a prop or stake.]
[Footnote 24: See chap. iii.]
[Footnote 25: viz. Lippstadt.]
[Footnote 26: The initials only of the name are given in the original.]
[Footnote 27: The pastor was "Reformed" (i.e. Calvinist).]
[Footnote 28: I.e., at the Antipodes: "at the other end of the world."]
[Footnote 29: Referring to a body of Breton troops sent by Richelieu to help Guebriant. They turned out worthless.]
[Footnote 30: "Bearskinner" was the troopers" name for a malingerer. It was taken from a very old legend.]
[Footnote 31: The allusion is to the escape of the robber-knight, Eppelin von Gailingen, from the Castle of Nuremberg.]
[Footnote 32: In 1063 the retainers of the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Abbot of Fulda fought in church at Goslar, and much bloodshed ensued.]
[Footnote 33: Act as a usurer or cheat.]
[Footnote 34: He may possibly mean the three old fortifications of which ruins still remain: Schwaben-, Schweden-, and Alexander-schanze; all of which are close to his favourite spa at Griesbach.]
[Footnote 35: See chap. xi. above.]
[Footnote 36: This was "Courage," the heroine of some of Grimmelshausen"s later romances.]
[Footnote 37: Unknown.]
[Footnote 38: The jest is now unintelligible.]
[Footnote 39: It was really Christian of Brunswick, marching to join Mansfeld.]
[Footnote 40: "Goblin" or rather "bogey" lake.]
[Footnote 41: D"Enghien.]
[Footnote 42: A hedge schoolmaster.]
[Footnote 43: Offa. Offenburg.]
[Footnote 44: Baiersbronn.]
[Footnote 45: Literally "a Bohemian ear-picker."]