extortionate to George in this matter; and exacted heavy sums for
the actual possession of Oppeln and Ratibor. George, going so
zealously ahead in Protestant affairs, grew less and less a
favorite with Kaisers. But so, at any rate, on peaceable
unquestionable grounds, grounds valid as Imperial Law and ready
money, George is at last Lord of these two little Countries, in
the plain of South-Silesia, as of Jagerndorf among the Mountains
hard by. George has and holds the Duchy of Jagerndorf, with these
appendages (Jagerndorf since 1524, Ratibor and Oppeln since some
years later); and lives constantly, or at the due intervals, in
his own strong Mountain-Castle of Jagerndorf there,--we have no
doubt, to the marked benefit of good men in those parts.
Hereby has Jagerndorf joined itself to the Brandenburg
Territories: and the reader can note the circumstance, for it will
prove memorable one day.

In the business of the Reformation, Margraf George was very noble.
A simple-hearted, truth-loving, modestly valiant man; rising
unconsciously, in that great element, into the heroic figure.
"George the Pious (DER FROMME)," "George the Confessor
(BEKENNER)," were the names he got from his countrymen.
Once this business had become practical, George interfered a
little more in the Culmbach Government; his brother Casimir, who
likewise had Reformation tendencies, rather hanging back in
comparison to George.

In 1525 the Town-populations, in the Culmbach region, big Nurnberg
in the van, had gone quite ahead in the new Doctrine; and were
becoming irrepressibly impatient to clear out the old mendacities,
and have the Gospel preached freely to them. This was a