Public Drinking in the Early Modern World Vol 2: Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800 2

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface List of figures Notes on contributors Bibliography 1 Introduction Part 1: Nominative Sources 2 Imperial and Territorial Authorities Legal Regulations at Imperial Level Extract from the imperial police ordinance (1530) Regulations at Confederate Level: Negotiations of the Swiss Diet Agreement on wine prices (1530) New rules on public house prices and pledging of healths submitted for approval to all cantonal governments (1532) Confirmation of the new rules on prices and pledging of healths (1534) Persistent concerns about publicans’ charges Regulations at Territorial Level: The Principality of Bavaria The public peace [Landfrieden] includes the following article (1244) Regulation of games in public houses according to a territorial ordinance (1553) Excerpts from the territorial and police ordinance (1616) Excerpts from a Bavarian public house ordinance (1631) Regulations at Territorial Level: The Swiss Canton of Bern Closing of superfluous public houses (1571) Common instructions regarding publicans (1575) Publicans’ responsibilities (1617) Publicans’ greed as an obstacle to trade (1619) Prohibition of wine imports (1718) Prohibition of spirits Regulations for beer Regulations for public houses in the customary law of the Pays de Vaud, the French-speaking territory conquered by Bern in 1536 (1730) Taxation Proceedings over wine taxes in the Swiss Confederation Extracts from the register of possessions and claims [Salbuch] of the Bavarian Duke (1583) List of beer taxes levied from publicans in the Bavarian district of Dachau (1788-9) Regulations for public houses in the Pays de Vaud (1730) Surveys and Registers of Public Houses The Swiss Canton of Zurch Extract from the register of approved public houses in Zurich’s rural territory, prompted by the moral concerns of the Zwinglian Reformation and drawn up in consultation with local officials (1530) Bavaria Extracts from a register of inns, beer houses and breweries in all districts and manors of Upper and Lower Bavaria (1580) Extracts from the register of public houses in the districts and manors of Electoral Bavaria (1806-8) Bern Preparatory reports for a territorial survey of Bernese public houses (1626-7) The territorial survey of Bernese public houses, identifying unnecessary and illegitimate establishments for closure (1628) Documents, statements and reports submitted to the wine tax authorities in preparation for a new territorial survey of Bernese public houses (1786-9) Register of Public Houses in Bern’s German and French Lands (1789) Theory Ulrich Tengler, Layman's Mirror: On the Proper Administration of Civic and Captial Law (1509) Jost de Damhouder, The Practice of Criminal Law (Praxis rerum criminalium) (1575) Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg, Metamorphosis telae indicariae: Or, Strange Court Cases Extracts from a legal treatise on hospitality written by the lawyer Johann Gotthard Böckel of Helmstedt (1702) Extracts relating to public houses from a commentary on the Bavarian civil law code of 1756 by the lawyer and state official Wiguläus Xaverius Aloysius Kreittmayr (1758) 3 Ecclesiastical Authorities Legal Aspects Regulations in the Reformed (Zwinglian) Canton of Bern Extract from the ‘reformation’ mandate issued by the Council of Bern for its territory following the decision to adopt the new faith (1528) Extract from the ‘reformation’ mandate issued by the Swiss governor of the condominion of Thurgovia on behalf of the ruling cantons (1530) Extract from a Bernese mandate against Anabaptists (1538) Extracts from Bernese consistory court ordinances Extracts from Bernese moral ordinances Duties of elders [Ehegeümer] according to the court ordinance of the Bernese manor of Diessbach (1619) Council instruction to the elders and pastors of the five quarters of the city of Bern (1721) Regulation by a Catholic Prelate Extracts from the land- and police-ordinance of Prince Bishop Georg of Kempten in South-West Germany (1562) Concerns and Campaigns Johannes Wolff, Little Confession Manual (1478) Sermon against drunkenness delivered in Halberstadt by the Lutheran theologian Eberhard Weidensee of Goslar, (c. 1540) Sermon on public houses delivered to the synod of Zurich by its principal clergyman, the antistes Johann Jacob Breitinger (1639) Tensions between minister Johann Jakob Hürsch and the family of innkeeper Juncker in the Bernese village of Neuenegg (1659) Tensions over public dances between parish priest Paul Prucker and innkeeper Joseph Mayrhofer in the Bavarian manor of Bayerbach, district of Griesbach (1756) Lobbying by the Reformed consistory of the parish of Penthaz (district of Morges in the Pays de Vaud) against the local public house (1786) Services and Interactions Provision of funds and services for local churches by early modern publicans(1736-90) Public houses owned or operated by members of the secular and regular clergy (1500-1806) Public houses and their keepers supporting religious life Clergymen (ab-)using public houses Religious activities, discussions and tensions in public houses 4 Local Authorities Local Laws Medieval origins of public house regulation in Bern and Thun (mid-thirteenth century) Public house legislation in the town and territory of Burgdorf, an urban commune subject to the city of Bern, but with extensive manorial and jurisdictional rights of its own (1273-1707) Extracts from records relating to the publicans’ guild in the Swiss town of Solothurn (1474-1821) Ordinance for the drinking hall of the publicans’ guild in the town of Villingen (1491) Extracts from East Bavarian customary laws relating to public houses (1400-late eighteenth century) Public house regulation in the Bernese district of Konolfingen (1473-1581) Controlling excess drinking in Ulm (1502) Regulation of public houses in the Upper Simmental valley (1504-1796) Moral concerns in Ulm (1527) Regarding brandy ([1530s]) Regarding drinking and other frivolous behaviour (1538) Eating, drinking and credit in public houses (1540) New Poor Laws to keep the poor from spending money in public houses (1541) Regarding foreign and local beggars (1544) Concerning publicans and wine sellers (1546) The new publican and innkeeper ordinance (1554) Restrictions on service (1559) Brandy regulations from Nuremberg (1567-1648) Controlling meals in inflationary times (1574) Rules governing the night in Augsburg (1579) Demarcations of the respective powers over public houses between the town of Burgdorf and the territorial government of Bern (1583-1712) Requirement for good beer in Nördlingen (1587) Regulations regarding public houses in the city of Bern (1594) Supervision of strangers in the City of Bern (1604-1793) An Honourable Council’s Declaration in reference to the article of the Punishment Ordinance on Drinking in the Villages within two miles of the city of Augsburg (1607) Controlling visitors to the city (1617) Day-to-day administration of tavern affairs by the town of Burgdorf (1619-1712) Augsburg Police Ordinance (1621) Announcement and Placard regarding drinking and eating at wine and beer houses, regarding weddings, and regarding exporting beer (1622) Ban on continuous drinking and eating in beer houses (1628) Proclamation regarding the establishment of a weekly hour of prayer in Nördlingen (1631) Wartime decree on lodging strangers (1634) Proclamation: Abstain from all drinking and Kermis festivals in the villages (1639) Wine, wine trade and publicans’ ordinance for the city of Bern (1641) Extracts from the minutes of the town council of Dachau, Bavaria (1650) Instructions to the Burgomaster in Augsburg: Altercations in inns and public houses (1653) Renewal of the guild ordinance for the publicans and brewers of Villingen by the town council (1668) Wine sale ordinance for the city of Bern (1672) Augsburg decree on idle journeymen (1675) Police, Clothing and Wedding Ordinance (1683) Decree against the adulteration of wine in the city of Bern (1696) Distilling in Augsburg (1699) A Most Noble and Most Wise Council of the Holy Roman Imperial City of Augsburg’s Renewed and Expanded Discipline and Punishment Ordinance of the Year 1734 (1734) Wine sale ordinance issued by the Council of Bern (1739) Controlling late-night drinking in Augsburg (1745) Ordinance and Articles to which all brandy-makers must yearly swear a personal oath to God the Almighty before the Office of Excise Taxes (1746) Local Taxes and Dues Excise wine tax in the Bernese town of Burgdorf (1481) Ordinance for publicans and sellers of wine, mead, and beer (c. 1519) City of Augsburg Wine sellers’ ordinance (1524) Extracts out of Memmingen’s New Book of Statutes (1510 and 1522) Public house fee owed to a manorial lord in the canton of Bern (1534) In Regard to Excise Tax, and also serving wine and beer (c. 1552) Division of rights between two joint owners of the manor of Münsingen (1570) Public house fees in the manor of Münsingen (1572) Instructions to the Burgomaster in Augsburg regarding drinking outside the city, and permission slips for doing so (1583-95) Records of the Nördlingen City Treasury The arrest and interrogation of Balthasar Gausmair, Beer Inspector (1591) Chronicle of the brewer Georg Siedler of Augsburg on the punishment of tax evaders and new drinking rules Brewer Hans Lang reacts to rules against drinking during the week (1591) Interrogations of irresponsible wine market officials in Augsburg (1599) Ordinance of the city of Augsburg regarding wine traders, wine registry officials, and others (1603) Public house fees in the manors of the town of Burgdorf (1626) Decree regarding the raising of excise tax (1633) Treasury accounts for the town of Mindelheim (1646-76) Revenue from excise taxes and hospitality expenses in the chamber accounts of the town of Dachau (1650) Excise tax on oats for horses in Augsburg (1674) Excise wine taxes in the city of Bern (1688, 1787-8) List of revenues and dues at the Neuherberg inn, north of Munich, submitted to the manorial administration in support of a petition by its keeper, Johann Georg Pez, for the grant of additional lands and privileges (1754) Extracts relating to public houses from the registers of manorial revenues kept by electoral officials in the Bavarian district of Dachau (1770) Sales and Leases of Public Houses Grant of the bathing house of Enggistein near Bern as a fief by the manorial lord of Worb (1454) Extracts from a letter of purchase for the Falcon inn in the city of Bern (1546) Deed conveying the manorial inn of Worb near Bern as an inheritable fief to keeper Conrad Brunner (1556) Lease of the Lion inn at Idstein near Frankfurt, issued by the Prince of Nassau to one of his officials (1692) Extracts from the letter of purchase for the inn at Perlach near Munich, sold by Johann and Monica Grüner to Joseph Saurle (1736) Extracts from the lease of the rural inn at Spiezwiler in the Bernese Oberland by Albrecht von Erlach, manorial lord, to publican Linder (1784) Part 2: Reflections 5 Travel Literature Hans von Waldheim, ‘Travels through the Swiss Confederation in 1474’ (1474) Francesco Vettori, Journeys and Travels in Bavarian Swabia and Adjacent Territories (1507) Antonio de Beatis, The Journey of Cardinal Luigi d'Aragona through Germany, the Netherlands, France and Northern Italy (1517-18) Johannes Stumpf, A Travel Report (1544) Hans von Schweinichen, Loves, Lust and Life of the Germans in the Sixteenth Century (1602) Elie Brackenhoffer, Travels in Switzerland (1646) Giacomo Casanova, Romantic Journeys through Switzerland (1760) Sophie de la Roche, Diary of a Journey through Switzerland (1787) Madame Marie Jeanne, Voyage in Switzerland (1787) Travel Manuals Georg Mayr, The Little Travel Book (1612) ‘New Dictionary for Travellers’ kept at the Post inn at Brack near Munich (1730) Joseph Florian Stürtzer, Trade card (c. 1770) Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, On Dealings with Humans (1790) Gottlob Friedrich Krebel, Europe’s Most Notable Journeys (1792) Johann Gottfried Ebel, Instruction (1793) Johann Georg Heinzmann, Description of the City and Republic of Bern (1794) Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis, Phrase Book (1799) 6 Diaries and Autobiographies Publicans Chronicle of Augsburg Brewer Georg Siedler (1597-1619) Johann/Hanns Weils, Diary (1639-87) Patrons Johannes Butzbach, Report of a Journey (1506) Thomas Platter, Life Description ([1529]) Felix Platter, Diary (1552) Augustin Güntzer, A Small Book about my Entire Life (1616-18) Ulrich Bräker, Diary (1770-95) 7 Comedy, Drama and Novels Comic Tales (Schwänke) Till Eulenspiegel, An Entertaining Read about Till Eulenspiegel (1515) Johannes Pauil, Of Jest and Earnestness (1522) Georg Wickram, Tales for the Road (1555) Drama Hans Rudolf Manuel, ‘The Wine Play’ (1548) Novels Story of Fortunatus and his Sons (1509) Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen The Marvellous Bird’s Nest (1672) 8 Moral and Medical Literature Rule of Health (1475) Hieronymus Brunschwig, The Book of Distilling (1508) Women's Natural Secrets and Qualities by Albertus Magnus, Midwives and Child-Bearing Women (1531) Lorenz Friese, Mirror of Medicine (1529) Walther Ryff, Mirror and Rule of Health, Primarily Aimed at the Country, Habits, Types and Temperaments of the Germans (1544) Walter Ryff, The New Large Book of Distilling (1545) Luis Lobera de Avila, A Banquet for Courtiers and Nobles (1551) Hans Sachs, ‘The Four Remarkable Properties and the Effect of Wine’ (1528) Hans Sachs, ‘The Isle of Bacchus: The Wine-God and its Description’ (1553) Matthäus Friderich, Against the Devil of Drink, much Improved and in many Places Expanded (1557) Dr Achilles Gasser, Augsburg physicians closing speech [and] admonition to the two Drinking Room Societies in Augsburg (1570) The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race (1610) Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg, Metamorphosis telae indicariae: Or, Strange Court Cases (1668) Extract from a conversation among friends about the variety, benefits and dangers of public houses (1719) 9 Other Genres Specialized Texts Anonymous essay on public houses published in a Swiss journal (1749) Entries for ‘public houses’ and related terms in Zedler’s Encyclopaedia (1731-54) Chronicles Wilhelm Rem, Chronicle of Recent Events 1512-1527 (1512-27) Paul Hector Mair, ‘First Chronicle’ (1547-65) The Gasser-Welser Chronicle (1595) Chronicle of the Brewer Georg Siedler of Augsburg (1619) Appolonia Hefele ‘Special Recollections’ (1578) ‘The Chronicle of the Peasant Jodokus Jost’ (early to mid-seventeenth century) Gebhart Florian and Achilles August von Lersner, ‘Chronicle of the Famous, Free, Imperial, Electoral and Merchant City of Frankfurt am Main’ (1664-1734) Further Genres Lorenz von Westenrieder, ‘Topographical survey of the Bavarian district of Dachau’(1792) Johann Peter Willebrand, Layout of a Beautiful Town (1775-6) Editorial Notes