on the authority of Sebastianus ab Adelzhausen, the head of the
    monastery at that time; namely in 1615.  He also adorns his pages with
    a copper cut of the martyr about to be precipitated into the river,
    from the bank—­with his hands tied behind him, without any stone about
    his neck.  But the painting, as well as the text of the Acta Sanctorum,
    describes the precipitation as from a bridge.  The form of the
    Invocation to the Saint is, “O MARTYR and SAINT, FLORIAN, keep us, we
    beseech thee, by night and by day, from all harm by FIRE, or from
    other casualties of this life.”

[98] “Nostris vero temporibus Reverendissimi Praepositi studio augustum sanc
    templum raro marmore affatim emicans, paucisque inuidens assurexit.” 
    This is the language of the Germania Austriaca, seu Topographia
    Omnium Germaniae Provinciarum, 1701, folio, p. 16:  when speaking of
    THE MONASTERY of ST. FLORIAN.

[99] See p. 78, ante.

[100] It may be only sufficient to carry it as far back as the twelfth
    century.  What precedes that period is, as usual, obscure and
    unsatisfactory.  The monastery was originally of the Benedictin
    order; but it was changed to the Augustine order by Engelbert. 
    After this latter, Altman reformed and put it upon a most respectable
    footing—­in 1080.  He was, however, a severe disciplinarian.  Perhaps
    the crypt mentioned by M. Klein might be of the latter end of the
    XIIth century; but no visible portion of the superincumbent building
    can be older than the XVIth century.

[101] The history of this monastery is sufficiently fertile in marvellous
    events; but my business is to be equally brief and sober in the
    account of it.  In the Scriptores Rerum Austriacarum of
    Pez, vol. i. col. 162-309, there is a chronicle of the
    monastery, from the year of its foundation to 1564, begun to be
    written by an anonymous author in 1132, and continued to the latter
    period by other coeval writers—­all monks of the monastery.  It is
    printed by Pez for the first time—­and he calls it “an ancient and
    genuine chronicle.”  The word Moelk, or Moelck,—­or, as it appears in the
    first map in the Germania Austriaca, seu Topographia Omnium
    Germaniae Provinciarum, 1701, fol.  Melck—­was formerly written
    “Medilicense, Medlicense, Medlicum, Medlich, and Medelick, or
    Mellicense.”  This anonymous chronicle, which concludes at col. 290, is
    followed by “a short chtonicle of Conrad de Wizenberg,” and “an
    anonymous history of the Foundation of the Monastery,” compared with
    six other MSS. of the same kind in the library at Moelk.  The whole is
    concluded by “an ancient Necrology of the Monastery,” commenced in the
    XIIth century, from a vellum MS. of the same date.