He fortified Towns; all Towns are to be walled and warded,--to be BURGS in fact; and the inhabitants BURGhers, or men capable of defending Burgs.

Everywhere the ninth man is to serve as soldier in his Town; other eight in the country are to feed and support him: _Heergeruthe_ (War-tackle, what is called HERIOT in our old Books) descends to the eldest son of a fighting man who had served, as with us.

'All robbers are made soldiers' (unless they prefer hanging); and WEAPON-SHOWS and drill are kept up.

This is a man who will make some impression upon Anarchy, and its Wends and Huns.
His standard was St.Michael, as we have seen,--WHOSE sword is derived from a very high quarter! A pious man;--founded Quedlinburg Abbey, and much else in that kind, having a pious Wife withal, Mechtildis, who took the main hand in that of Quedlinburg; whose LIFE is in Leibnitz, [Leibnitz, _Scriptores Rerum Brunswicensium,_ &c.

(Hanover, 1707), i.
196.] not the legiblest of Books .-- On the whole, a right gallant King and 'Fowler.' Died, A.D.936 (at Memmleben, a Monastery on the Unstrut, not far from Schulpforte), age sixty; had reigned only seventeen years, and done so much.