FEUDAL TYRANTS, Volume I. ◆ ◆ ◆ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS; OR, _The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans_. A ROMANCE. _TAKEN FROM THE GERMAN._ IN FOUR VOLUMES. ◆ ◆ ◆ BY M. G. LEWIS, AUTHOR OF _The Bravo of Venice, Adelgitha, Rugantino, &c._ ◆ ◆ ◆ VOL. I. ═══════════════════ _SECOND EDITION_. ═══════════════════ The portals sound, and pacing forth With stately steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of regal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go. — GRAY. ══════════════════════════════════ London: Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick-Street, Soho, FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. ── 1807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS, &c. &c. &c. ═════════════════════ PART THE FIRST. ═════════════════════ ELIZABETH OF TORRENBURG ◆ ◆ ◆ LETTERS. ◆ ◆ ◆ _Conrad, Abbot of Cloister-Curwald, to Elizabeth, the Widowed Countess of Torrenburg[1]._ Footnote 1: The real name is _Toggenburg_; but as this would have sounded harsh in English ears, I have taken the liberty of softening it a little; and in several parts of this work I have changed the names of places and personages entirely.