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so unfortunately. It is related of this Anthony 

 that on the return of the emperor from his ex- 

 pedition to the African shore, a fire of cinnamon, 

 much more costly then than in the present day, 

 was kindled in the apartment prepared for him, 

 into which the host, in acknowledgment of the 

 honour of the visit, threw all the bills, bonds, and 

 other securities, which he held for money ad- 

 vanced to his imperial guest. This man is re- 

 ported to have died possessed of six million golden 

 crowns in ready money, besides estates, jewels, and 

 goods in every part of Europe and in both the 

 Indies. 



When Charles V. was in Paris, and had surveyed 

 all the wealth of the royal treasury, and the col- 

 lection of rarities assembled in that capital, he 

 declared that " he had one linen weaver in Augs- 

 burg who had money more than sufficient to pay 

 for the whole of the valuables he had seen." 



In the " Spiegel der Ehren," the splendour of 

 the furniture, the magnificence of the palaces, 

 and, above all, the unbounded charity of this 

 family is recorded and most lavishly praised; 

 and it is affirmed of the successors of the twelve 

 children which Anthony left, that they had so 

 branched out in the year I6i9> as to number 

 " forty-seven counts and countesses, and as many 

 children as there are days in the year; and thus 

 the blessings of Heaven rested visibly on their 

 succeeding generations." 



