DUttING THE MIDDLE AGE. 



fore Ferdinand I. Grand Dukcof Tufcany; and 

 of Cofmopolita, in the prefencc of the Duke of 

 Saxony; and Sendivogius before the Emperor 

 Rudolphus II. and fnnilar (lories of many o- 

 then. Hut from all thefe various accounts, the 

 truth is not rendered in the lead more obvious. 

 Nay, by the difcovery of the fraudulent mea- 

 fures of Thurneiferus, it is evident he took pains 

 to conceid it. 



There is a report of a tranfmutation perform- 

 ed in Pomcrania, before king Guftavus Adol- 

 pluis, and that ducats ilamped with the ligns ot* 

 mercury and copper \vcrc coined iVoin the gold 

 produced by it *. Alfo, a (lory is told of u 

 merchant of Lubec giving in a prcfent a hun- 

 drcd pounds of chemical gold, to the fame king, 

 from which ducats were made bearing the figna 

 of mercury and fuiphur. One of thefe pieces of 

 money, ilruck at Erfordia, in the year 1634, is 

 ilill to be fecn in. the royal cabinet of medals; 

 but no conclufion can be drawn from it, as we 

 have other coin of Erfordia, called grofcben, 

 with fimilar imprcffions. After the Saxons 

 made peace with the emperor, the Erfordians 

 were no longer permitted to coin money with 

 the Swedifh armsf. 



Among ail the various inftanccs of tranfmu- 

 tation fo warmly fupportcd by the believers in 



alchcmillry 



* Borrichius dc ortu ct progrcfiu chemise, r.d hnem. 

 f Bcrchi Bcikiifn. om Suenfka myot ocl) Skadcp. p. i. 



