[132] So says the Polish historian Dlugoss, Loc. cit., while most of his contemporaries, mention only the poisoning of the wells. It is evident, that in the state of their feelings, it mattered little to them to add another still more formidable accusation.
[133] In those places where no Jews resided, as in Leipsig, Magdeburg, Brieg, Frankenstein, &c. the grave-diggers were accused of the crime.—V. Möhsen’s History of the Sciences in the March of Brandenburg, T. II. p. 265.
[134] See the original proceedings, in the Appendix.
[135] Hermanni Gygantis Flores temporum, sive Chronicon Universale—Ed. Meuschen. Lugdun, Bat. 1743. 4to. p. 139. Hermann, a Franciscan monk of Franconia, who wrote in the year 1349, was an eye-witness of the most revolting scenes of vengeance, throughout all Germany.
[136] Guid. Cauliac. Loc. cit.
[137] Hermann. Loc. cit.
[138] Albert Argentin.—Königshoven, Loc. cit.
[139] Dies was ouch die Vergift, die die Juden döttete. “This is also the poison that killed the Jews,” observes Königshoven, which he illustrates by saying, that their increase in Germany was very great, and their mode of gaining a livelihood, which, however, was the only resource left them, had engendered ill-will against them in all quarters.
[140] Many wealthy Jews, for example, were, on their way to the stake, stripped of their garments, for the sake of the gold coin that was sewed in them.—Albert Argentinens.
[141] Vide preceding note.