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ROESKILDE.
Chap. VIII.
adding the crime of child-murder to the list. Still
you will find many people who yet credit the assertion
and will relate it as a fact; myself, after having studied
the question pretty deeply, dismiss it as unworthy of
belief.
When James I. of England visited Copenhagen, he
made a special pilgrimage to Roeskilde, in order to
converse on matters of theological doctrine with Nicholas
Hemming, a celebrated theologian, who, on account of
his Calvinistic tendencies, had been removed from his
office of Professor of the University of Copenhagen.
Then Bishop Paul Matthias preached before him a
learned discourse in Latin, with which, as well as with
the assemblage of priests of the diocese, who came to
do him honour, King James expressed himself much
gratified.
The bishopric or stift of Roeskilde was suppressed
at the Reformation, and later a Bishop of Zealand
appointed.
This city—in old books written Rothschild—furnishes
a patronymic to the Rothschild family, who, in the last
century, emigrated from Denmark. A Jew, on going
to another land, where Solomons and Levis were
plentiful as strawberries in June, was called, to distinguish
himself, Solomon of Bamberg, Levi of Frankfort, and
so on, till he ended by assuming as a surname the
birthplace of his ancestors.
Having lingered long enough, we now gain the station,
and in one hour are landed at Copenhagen.
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