There had also been two risings, closely connected, the first, in 1513, deriving its name of "Bundschuh" from the peasant's tied shoe, a class emblem, and the {88} second, in 1514, called "Poor Conrad" after the peasant's nickname.

If the memory of the suppression of all these revolts might dampen the hopes of the poor, on the other hand the successful rise of the Swiss democracy was a perpetual example and encouragement to them.
[Sidenote: Causes] The most fundamental cause of all these risings alike was, of course, the cry of the oppressed for justice.

This is eternal, as is also one of the main alignments into which society usually divides itself, the opposition of the poor and the rich.

It is therefore not very important to inquire whether the lot of the third estate was getting better or worse during the first quarter of the sixteenth century.

In either case there was a great load of wrong and tyranny to be thrown off.