his
    predecessors.”  I go a great way in thinking with Stengelius; for this
    worthy Abbot built the Monks a “good supper-room, two dormitories, a
    sort of hospital for the sick, and a LIBRARY, with an abundant stock
    of new books.  Also a sacristy, furnished with most costly robes, &c.
    Monasteriologia; sign.  A. It was doubtless the BIBLIOTHECA
    WOLFRADTIANA in which I tarried—­as above described—­with equal
    pleasure and profit.

[93] See vol. ii. p. 199.

[94] This I presume to be the “spurious” Birmingham edition, which is
    noticed by Steevens in the Edit.  Shakspeare, 1813. 8vo. vol.
    ii. p. 151.

[95] They were both secured.  One copy is now in the ALTHORP LIBRARY, and
    the other in that of Mr. Heber.

[96] On the very night of my arrival at Lintz, late as it was, I wrote a
    letter to the Abbot, or head of the monastery, addressed thus—­as the
    Professor had written it down:  “Ad Reverendissimum Dominum Anselmum
    Mayerhoffer inclyti Monasterii Cremifanensis Abbatem vigilantissimum
    Cremifanum.”  This was enclosed in a letter to the Professor
    himself with the following direction:  “Ad Rev. Dm.  Udalricum
    Hartenschneider Professum Monasterij Cremifanensis et Historiae ibidem
    Professorem publicum.  Cremifanum:”  the Professor having put into
    my hands the following written memorandum:  “Pro commutandis—­quos
    designasti in Bibliotheca nostra, libris—­primo Abbatem adire, aut
    litteris saltem interrogare necesse est:  quas, si tibi placuerit, ad
    me dirigere poteris.”

    [Autograph]

This he wrote with extreme rapidity.  In my letter, I repeated the offer about the Monasticon; with the addition of about a dozen napoleons for the early printed books above mentioned; requesting to have an answer, poste restante, at Vienna.  No answer has since reached me.  The Abbot should seem to have preferred Statius to Dugdale. [But his Statius NOW has declined wofully in pecuniary worth:  while the Dugdale, in its newly edited form, has risen threefold.]

LETTER IX.

THE MONASTERIES OF ST. FLORIAN, MOeLK, AND GOeTTWIC.

Vienna; Hotel of the Emperor of Hungary, Aug. 31, 1818.

MY DEAR FRIEND;

Give me your heartiest congratulations; for I have reached, and am well lodged at, the extreme limit of my “BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND PICTURESQUE TOUR.”  Behold me, therefore, at VIENNA, the capital of Austria:  once the abode of mighty monarchs and renowned chieftains:  and the scene probably of more political vicissitudes than any other capital in Europe.  The ferocious Turk, the subtle Italian, and the impetuous Frenchman, have each claimed Vienna as their place of residence by right of conquest; and its ramparts have been probably battered by more bullets and balls than were ever discharged at any other fortified metropolis.