"Eight victories," they count on Albert's part,--furious successful skirmishes, call them;--in one of which, I remember, Albert plunged in alone, his Ritters being rather shy; and laid about him hugely, hanging by a standard he had taken, till his life was nearly beaten out.

[1449 (Rentsch, p.

399).] Eight victories; and also one defeat, wherein Albert got captured, and had to ransom himself.

The captor was one Kunz of Kauffungen, the Nurnberg hired General at the time: a man known to some readers for his Stealing of the Saxon Princes (PRINZENRAUB, they call it); a feat which cost Kunz his head.

[Carlyle's _Miscellanies_ (London, 1869), vi.