ABSTRACT
In 1526, a Baslerin named Anna Sackerin married one Martin Blossner. At the negotiations before the wedding, Hans Sacker and his wife Katherina were representatives for Anna; she was his kinswoman (Bas). Hans at first offered to give fifteen pounds as her dowry; the groom and his allies remarked that this was not very much, and Hans immediately doubled it to thirty pounds. He expounded poignantly that
he had raised the daughter as a child; she had shown much love and friendship to him, so much that until now he had been like her father, and wanted now afterwards to remain as much as her father, to help her daily with horse and cart, with ships, and dishes, at the potter’s trade [the groom was a potter], with health, with money, with anything else. 1
