12. “The foreign armies have brought the ‘black death’ into the land. What the sword spares the pestilence shall devour. Berg shall be depopulated, and the fields without owners; so that one may plough from the river Sieg up to the hills without being (Scoticè) challenged. Those who have hid themselves among the hills shall again cultivate the land.” See No. 20 of Jaspers’ predictions. 13. “About this time France will be divided internally.” See Jaspers, No. 12. 14. “The German Empire shall choose a peasant for Emperor. He shall govern Germany a year and a day.” The Archduke John, late regent of the empire, had long lived, banished from court, as a Styrian peasant, adopting the costume and manners of the peasantry. He also married a peasant girl. His regency lasted little more than a year, and, indeed, after the year had expired, he only returned to Frankfort in order to resign his power to the present commission. 15. “But he who after him shall wear the imperial crown, he will be the man for whom the world has long looked with hope. He shall be called Roman Emperor, and shall give peace to the world. He shall restore Siegburg and Heisterbach, (two convents, above mentioned.) 16. “Then shall there be no more Jews in Germany, and the heretics shall beat their own breasts. 17. “And after that shall be a good happy time. The praise of God shall dwell on earth; and there shall be no war, except beyond the seas. Then shall the fugitive brethren return, and dwell in their homes in peace for ever and ever. “Men should heed well what I have said, for much evil may be averted by prayer; and although people jeer me, saying I am a simple fiddler, yet the time will come when they shall find my words true.” See Jaspers’ predictions, Nos. 18 and 23. Brother Herrman, also, in verses 96–100, prophesies happy times, and the restoration of the convents of Chorin and Lehnin. The next seer is Anton (Anthony), called the Youth of Elsen, a village near Paderborn, in Westphalia. He had the gift of the “second sight”—that is, he saw visions—and has a great reputation in that country as a true seer. His predictions were first collected by Dr Kutscheit, from whose work the author extracts as follows. The date is not given by our curate. 1. “When the convent of Abdinghof is occupied by soldiers, armed with long poles, to which little flags are attached, and when these troops leave the convent, then is the time near.” At this time (1849) Prussian lancers occupy the convent, which has been converted into a barrack. This was not the case when the prediction was made. 2. “From Neuhaus, houses may be seen on the Bock, (Buck,) and a village is founded between Paderborn and Elsen. Then is the time near.”