It was pervaded with the idea of equality in the spirit of the Taborite literature of the age, from which it took its origin.
The so-called _Reformation of Kaiser Sigismund_ dealt especially with the peasantry--the serfs and villeins of the time; that attributed to Friedrich was mainly concerned with the rising population of the towns.

All towns and communes were to undergo a constitutional transformation.

Handicraftsmen should receive just wages; all roads should be free; taxes, dues, and levies should be abolished; trading capital was to be limited to a maximum of 10,000 _gulden_; all surplus capital should fall to the Imperial authorities, who should lend it in case of need to poor handicraftsmen at 5 per cent.; uniformity of coinage and of weights and measures was to be decreed, together with the abolition of the Roman and Canon law.

Legists, priests, and princes were to be severely dealt with.

But, curiously enough, the middle and lower nobility, especially the knighthood, were more tenderly handled, being treated as themselves victims of their feudal superiors, lay and ecclesiastic, especially the latter.