Researches into the history of playing cards; with illustrations of the origin of printing and engraving on wood .. (1816)
Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858 · London, R. Triphook · leaf 68
licence arbitrarily. … * The word Lansknechte appears to in the tenth century. He accounts them have been sometimes spelt Lanzenknecht, the fifth order of Germans, who had_.origi- or Lanz-Knecht: its military and German nally but four; the Clergy, the Nobility, the Citizens, and the Peasantry, to which origin is…
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