| [157] On this subject see _Königshoven_, who has preserved some | | very valuable original proceedings. The most important are, the | | criminal examinations of ten Jews, at Chillon, on the Lake of | | Geneva, held in September and October, 1348.—V. Appendix. They | | produced the most strange confessions, and sanctioned, by the | | false name of justice, the blood-thirsty fanaticism which lighted | | the funeral piles. Copies of these proceedings were sent to Bern | | and Strasburg, where they gave rise to the first persecutions | | against the Jews.—V. also the original document of the offensive | | and defensive Alliance between _Berthold von Götz_, Bishop of | | Strasburg, and many powerful lords and nobles, in favour of the | | city of Strasburg, against Charles IV. The latter saw himself | | compelled, in consequence, to grant to that city an amnesty for the | | Jewish persecutions, which in our days would be deemed disgraceful | | to an imperial crown. Not to mention many other documents, which no | | less clearly shew the spirit of the 14th century, p. 1021. f. | | | | [158] _Guillelm. de Nangis_, p. 110. | | | | [159] “Curationem omnem respuit pestis confirmata.”—_Chalin_, p. 33. | | | | [160] _Jacob. Francischini de Ambrosiis._ In the Appendix to the | | Istorie Pistolesi, in _Muratori_, Tom. XI. p. 528. | | | | [161] _Gentilis de Fulgineo_ Consilia. De Peste Cons. I. II. fol. | | 76, 77. Venet. 1514. fol. | | | | [162] —“venenosa putredo circa partes cordis et pulmonis de quibus | | exeunte venenoso vapore, periculum est in vicinitatibus.” Cons. I. | | fol. 76, a. | | | | [163] _Dr. Maclean’s_ notion that the doctrine of contagion was | | first promulgated in the year 1547, by Pope Paul III., &c., thus | | falls to the ground, together with all the arguments founded on | | it.—See _Maclean_ on Epid. and Pestilent. Diseases, 8vo, 1817, Pt. | | II. Book II. ch. 3, 4.—_Transl. note._ | | | | [164] Lippitudo contagione spectantium oculos afficit.—_Chalin de | | Vinario_, p. 149. | | | | [165] See the Author’s Geschichte der Heilkunde, Vol. II. P. III. |