Note 58 — LETTER XVI.
Reading edition
Eine alte Freiheit.—At the great Councils of the Church, the political meetings, such as coronations and the like, and other assemblages in the middle ages, a part of the city or encampment where they were held, was appropriated to the persons of forbidden professions who resorted thither; such as jugglers, gamblers, light women, &c. This part was called the Freiheit or Free Quarter.—Transl.