Note 365 — Chapter I

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. i. p. 295. There was a sudden rise in the price of wood all over Europe about that date, and it is alleged to be one of the causes why the poorer classes in Germany were obliged to give up the earlier almost universal use of the steam bath. In the fifteenth century, masters gave their workmen not Trinkgelt, but Badgelt. Nichols, The Epistles of Erasmus, i. 40.