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of Poland, From thence , keeping the Vtfiula upon the left hand , I 

 went to tvarfaw , and faw there the Court of King sigifmund , which 

 is a noble and fplendid Habitation. 



From warfaw 1 return'd to Brejlaw> taking the Road toward tbe Lower 

 SileftAy defigningto vifitoneof the principal Officers of theEmperours 

 Houlhold , 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 walcfteyne in purluance of the Orders he receiv'd , I 

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

 the French , lb that being earnestly oblig'd by both together , I could 

 not withftand the teftimonies of their kindnefs. There 1 underftood 

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

 Third, to Crown him King of the Romans 5 fo that I, who had feen 

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

 to fee the third Solemnity alfo , took leave of my Colonel , and hafted 

 to Ratisbone. 



At that time arriv'd to Ratisbone lèverai 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 Enrobe, that liv'd in Frankfort , whofe Father had fent 

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

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

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

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

 receiv'd a fmall 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 pafs'd by , and there having 

 ftab'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 

 hadeas'd his ftomach- but upon (ècond thoughts, imagining it might 

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

 with Lanthorns , beheld the tragick fpecticle 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 fboner 

 wafli'd , 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 difcovery. However the Jew was feiz'd that 

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

 ordain, that a "Jew for killing a chrtjlian mould be hung upon a Gibbet by 

 the Heels , and that two fierce Dogs mould 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 Emprefs that the 

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

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



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