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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'i S. V. 127., June 5. '58. 



" They were condemned and burned alive on the 22nd 

 May, 1370. Thus runs the story of the miracle, which, 

 like all the others of the IMiddle Ages, ends in the 

 slaughter and spoliation of the Jews." 



A full account may be seen in Computatio Go- 

 defridi de Turri Receptoris Brabatitia, anno 1 369 

 — 70; Archives de la Cour des Comptes mix Ar- 

 chives du Royaume; C. Desniet, Hisioire de la 

 Religion Catholique en Brabant, p. 137. 



JuLiDS Kessler, late Missionary to 

 the Jews in Belgium. 

 191. Lee Bank Road, Birmingham, 



H. A. will find an account of this extraordinary 

 legend in Staphylus and Stapleton's attack upon 

 the English Bibles published in the reign of Ed- 

 ward Vf. and Elizabeth, entitled l^he Apologie, 

 small 4to., 1565, folio 60, rev. In proof of the real 

 presence : — 



"The stories of the lewes may testifie clerely this 

 matter, which happened in diuers places, as at Passau, 

 Breslau, Regenspurg, and Tekendorph in Bauaria in the 

 yeare of our Lorde 1337, and afterward at Berlin in the 

 Marchise of Brandeburg in the yere 1512. And now 

 lately in Pole in the dyocese of the ArchebishopofGnesna, 

 1556. In all whiclie places it bathe ben seen, that out of 

 the Hoste of our Lordes bodj', foined in with daggers by 

 the lewes, bloud hath gushed out." * 



All which may be as true as another assertion 

 on folio 69. of the same volume, that Luther and 

 Melancthon allowed each of their followers to have 

 two icives — one step towards our modern Mor- 

 monism. George OrroR. 



Your correspondent 11. A. will find, in Wouters 

 & Hennes's Histoire de la Ville de Bruxelles (vol. i. 

 p. 130.), the various versions, ably condensed, of 

 the sacrilege of the Host in the church of St. 

 Gudule. Henry D'Avbney. 



The Great Historical, Geographical, and Poeti- 

 cal Dictionary, refers to "Bosquet in vita, Bened. 

 XII., Sponde, a.c. 1331," as authority for the 

 following : — 



" Armleder, a Captain that headed a great number of 

 Peasants in Germany, who Massacred all the Jews they 

 could meet with, because a Jew ran a Penknife into a 

 Consecrated Host. After they had Plunder'd and Ba- 

 nish'd the Jews, they fell upon the Christians, until the 

 Emperor Lewis of Bavaria caus'd their Leader to be 

 seiz'd and put to death ; this happen'd in 1338." 



R.W. 



AMERICA DISCOVERED IN THE ELEVENTH CENTUET. 



(2"<* S. V. 314.) 



The colonisation of Greenland in the tenth, and 

 the discovery of America in the eleventh cen- 



* It is very singular that, as this book was printed at 

 Antwerp and privileged at Brussels, no mention is made 

 in Brussels or Paris of this miracle. 



turies, by the Icelanders and Norwegians, are to 

 be received as pieces of history well attested. I 

 would refer to the Antiquitates Americance, pub- 

 lished by the Society of Northern Antiquaries at 

 Copenluigen, of which an abstract is to he found 

 in the Journal of the Royal Geographicul Society, 

 (vol. viii. p. 114.); Humboldt's Cosmos,VI. Epoch, 

 Oceanic Discoveries, and notes referred to, Sabine's 

 translation (vol. ii. p. 230.) ; and a supplementary 

 chapter on the colonisation of Greenland and dis- 

 covery of the American continent by the Scan- 

 dinavians, is given in Blackwell's edition of the 

 translation of Mallet's Northern Antiquities. When 

 reading Mr. Laing's translation of Snorro Sturle- 

 son's Heimshringla, I had remarked in the trans- 

 lator's Preliminary Dissertation (vol. i. p. 159.) a 

 notice of Columbus being in Iceland in 1477, and 

 the likelihood of his becoming acquainted there 

 with the Norwegian discovery of Vinland in North 

 America five centuries before. The discovery of, 

 America was made in 1492, Mr. Laing, as noted 

 by me, states in substance. From Memoirs of 

 Columbus by his son Fernando, it appears that in 

 February, 1477, Columbus visited Tyle (Thule) 

 in Friesland, an island as large as England, with 

 which the English, especially those of Bristol, 

 drive a great trade. It is a curious circumstance 

 that he mentions. He came to the island without 

 meeting any ice, and the sea was not frozen. And 

 in an authentic document of March in the same 

 year 1477, it is mentioned, as a kind of testimony 

 of which the document is the protocol, when there 

 was no snow whatever upon the ground at the 

 date it was executed, a rare circumstance by 

 which it would be held in remembrance. 



In 1477, Magnus Eyolfson was bishop of Skal- 

 hot ; he had been abbot of the monastery of Hel- 

 gafel, where the old accounts concerning Vinland 

 and Greenland were, it is supposed, originally 

 written and preserved ; other discoverers were 

 people from that neighbourhood. Columbus came 

 in spring to the south end of Iceland, where Whale- 

 fiurd was the usual harbour ; and it is known 

 that Bishop Magnus, in the spring of that year, 

 was on a visitation in this part of his See ; and it 

 is to be presumed Columbus must have met and 

 conversed with him. W. H. Z. 



The first supplementary chapter in Blackwell's 

 edition of Mallet's Northern Antiquities, by Bi- 

 shop Percy (Bohn's Antiq. Library), is espe- 

 cially devoted to the investigation of this subject. 

 See also the sketch given in Lord Ellesmere's 

 Guide to Northern Archceology, of the contents 

 of the Antiqtiitates Americana, sive Scriptores 

 Septentrionales Rerum Ante- Columbianarum in 

 America, a work published by the Royal Society 

 of Northern Antiquaries, and which, I have no 

 doubt, may be found upon the shelves of the Bri- 

 tish Museum. Wm. Matthews. 



