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VOSBORG.
Chap. XLIII.
irrinute journal of all they saw, and the events which
took place at the different courts they visited. When
he departed for England poor “ Est-il-possible,” who had
no memory, begged of his tutor the loan of the
manuscript, “For,” said he, “I shall never know what to talk
to the foreign ambassadors about when they ask for
audiences, or recollect who to inquire after, unless I am
able to refresh my memory.”
So the worthy tutor, now bishop, lent his journal to
his dull-witted pupil, and never got it back again; a
fact to be regretted, as a four years’ tom through
Europe, with all the minute details of visits to foreign
courts in the seventeenth century, would now be of
immense interest. Probably it is hidden away
somewhere among the royal archives.
A very strict bishop, too, this vieux militaire
became. He in his charge writes strict injunctions to his
priests not to appear when “travelling” in secular
clothes (which might be read with advantage by some
of our own parsons one meets in shooting jackets on the
Continent)—not to have intercourse with those who call
themselves “ diviners ”—profess to discover stolen
goods—never to bless “necromancers,” recalling to
their memory how a certain priest, “Niels in, Henne,”
who was accused of causing ships to be wrecked for his
own advantage, had been burnt as a wizard, to the
great scandal of the clergy, not many years since.*
* Not only were the parsons accused, and suffered from accusations
of witchcraft, but ladies of high rank lost their heads. Christian IV.
hated witchcraft from his heart’s core. In 1608 he caused to be
beheaded Mrs. Bridget Rosenkrantz; and again, in 1621, in writing
about the indictment of another suspected lady, he says, “
Concerning this young lady, she must be strictly examined, and in no way
spared ; when you can get no more out of her, cut off her head.” She
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