Probably their draftsman was Sebastian Lotzer, the tanner who for years past had preached apostolic communism.

It is not impossible that the Anabaptist Balthasar Huebmaier had a hand in them.
Their demands are moderate and would be considered matters of self-evident justice to-day.

The first article is for the right of each community to choose its own pastor.

The second protests against the minor tithes on vegetables paid to the clergy, though expressly admitting the legality of the tithes on grain.

The third article demands freedom for the serfs, the fourth and fifth, ask for the right to hunt and to cut wood in the forests.