the AUTHO R. 



of Poland. From thence , keeping the VifiuU upon the left hind , I 

 went to Warsaw , and faw there the Court of King Sigifmtmd, , which 

 is a noble andfplendid Habitation. 



From fvarfaw I returned to Brejlaw, taking the Road toward the Lower 

 SiMia, defigningjp vifitoneof the princi})al Officers of theEmperours 

 Houfhold , who was my particular acquaintance. But about two 

 Leagues from Glogaw , meeting with Colonel Butler , a scotch Gentle- 

 man , Colonel of one of the Emperours Regiments of Horfe , who 

 afterwards kill'd walefieync in purluance of the Orders he receiv'd , I 

 gave over my fhrft intended journey. His Wife was a great lover of 

 the French , fo that being earner! ly oblig'd by both together , I could 

 not withftand the teftimonies of their kindnefs. There 1 underltood 

 that the Emperour was going to Ratisbone with his Son Ferdinand the 

 Third, to Crown him King of the Romans • . fo that 1 , who had feen 

 the Coronations of the Kings of Hungary and Bohemia , being defirous 

 to fee the third Solemnity alio , took leave of my Colonel , and haded 

 to Ratisbone. 



At that time arnv'd to Ratisbone feveral Jewellers , one of which 

 came to his end by an accident fo tragical , that all the whole Court 

 pity'd his untimely fate. He was the only Son of one of the richeft 

 Merchants of Europe, that liv'd in Frankfort, whofe Father had lent 

 him with Jewels to fell at trie Coronation. For fear of being Robb'd 

 he had conveigh'd them before into the hands of a Jew in Ratisbone , his 

 Correfpondent,tobe deliver'd to his Son at his coming. This young 

 man arriving at Ratubone , went to the Jew, who told him that he had 

 receiv'd a fmali Casket of Jewels from his Father, which he might take 

 away , when he pleas'd. At the fame time the Jew invited the young 

 man to drink , and carry'd him to a publick Houfe upon the Key of the 

 City, where they continu'd 'till about an hour after day was ihut in. 

 At this time , both going out together , the Jew led the young man 

 through a private Street where few people pals'd by , and there having 

 ftabb'd him five or fix times in the Belly with a Dagger , left him 

 wallowing in his Blood. A while after , one of the Emperour's 

 Trumpets going that way in the dark , ftumbl'd at the Legs of the 

 unfortunate youth , who ftill breath'd, and fell upon his Body. . At firft 

 feeling his hands wet , he thought it had been fome drunken fellow that 

 had eas'd his ftomach • but upon fecond thoughts , imaging it might 

 be fome wounded perfon , he ran and call'd the Officers , who coming 

 with Lanthorns , beheld the tropick fpectacle of a young man weltring 

 in his own gore. Thereupon the Officers carrying the Body to the 

 fame publick Houfe, as being next at hand , his face was no fooner 

 wanYd, but the Woman and Maid of the Houfe knew- him to be the 

 fame young man that had been there drinking with the Jew not long 

 before. But as for the young man he prefently expir'd , without being 

 able to make the leaft difcoverv. However the Jew was feiz'd that 

 evening, and being feiz'd , coieisil the Crime. The Imperial Laws 

 ordain, that a Jew for killing a chnftian ihould be hung upon a Gibbet by 

 the Heels , and that two fierce Dogs (hould be hung by him in the fame 

 manner, to the end, that the Dogs in their madnefs mould tear out 

 his Bowels. But the Jews made fuch prefents to the Empfefs that the 

 Sentence was chang'd , though the punilhment was not much lefs 

 rigorous. For his flefh was torn with red hot Pincers from feveral 



C 2 3 F« r ts 



