I must bid you farewell in haste.  I start for Vienna within twenty minutes from this time, and it is now nearly-mid-day.  But ere I reach the capital of Austria, I hope to pay a string of MONASTIC VISITS:—­beginning with that of St. Florian, about a dozen miles from this place, just before you reach Ens, the next post town; so that, ere I again address you (which cannot be until I reach Vienna,) I shall have made rather a rambling and romantic tour.  “Omne ignotum pro magnifico”—­yet, if I mistake not; (from all that I can collect here) experience will confirm what hope and ignorance suggest.

[90] Vol. ii. p. 352-3.

[91] See p. 217 ante.

[92] It should seem, from the pages of PEZ and NIDANUS, that Charlemagne
    was either the founder, or the patron, or endower, of almost every
    monastery in Germany.  Stengelius, however, gives a a very romantic
    origin to the foundation of Chremsminster.  “The eldest son of Tassilo,
    a Duke or Elector of Bavaria, went out a hunting in the winter; when,
    having been separated from his companions, in a large wood, he met a
    wild boar of an enormous size, near a fountain and pool of water. 
    Notwithstanding the fearful odds between them, Tassilo gallantly
    received the animal upon the point of his hunting spear, and
    dispatched him with a tremendous wound:  not however without a fatal
    result to himself.  Rage, agony, and over exertion... proved fatal to
    the conqueror:  and when, excited by the barking of the dogs, his
    father and the troop of huntsmen came up to see what it might be, they
    witnessed the spectacle of the boar and the young Tassilo lying DEAD
    by the side of each other.  The father built the MONASTERY of
    CHREMSMINSTER upon the fatal spot—­to the memory of his beloved but
    unfortunate son.  He endowed it with large possessions, and his
    endowments were confirmed by Pope Adrian and the Emperor
    Charlemagne—­in the year 777.  The history of the monastery is lost in
    darkness, till the year 1046, when Engelbert, Bishop of Passau,
    consecrated it anew; and in 1165, Diepold, another Bishop of Passau,
    added greatly to its possessions; but he was, in other respects, as
    well as Manegold in 1206, a very violent and mischievous character. 
    Bishop Ulric, in 1216, was a great benefactor to it; but I do not
    perceive when the present building was erected:  although it is
    possible there may be portions of it as old as the thirteenth century. 
    See Pez:  Script.  Rer.  Austriac., vol. i. col. 1305, &c.:  vol. ii.
    col. 67, &c.  At the time of publishing the Monasteriologia of
    Stengelius, 1638, (where there is a bird’s-eye view of the monastery,
    as it now generally appears) Wolffradt (or Wolfardt) was the
    Abbot—­who, in the author’s opinion, “had no superior among