“Item 10 gulden given and presented to Doctor Faustus _philosophus_ in honour of his having cast for my gracious master a nativity or _indicium_, paid on Sunday after Scholastica by the order of Reverendissimus.” A less flattering entry is that in the minutes of the resolutions of the Town Council of Ingolstadt in 1528:— “To-day, Wednesday after St. Vitus, 1528. The fortune-teller shall be ordered to leave the town and spend his penny elsewhere.” This is supplemented by another entry in the record of expulsions: “To-day, Wednesday after St. Vitus, 1528, one who calls himself Dr. Jörg Faustus of Heidelberg has been told to spend his penny elsewhere, and has promised not to resent or mock such summons of the authorities.” It will be noticed that the same Christian name again occurs, in conjunction with the reference to Heidelberg. There is then a gap of some eleven years before we meet the name again in the _Index Sanitatis_ of the physician Philipp Begardi of Worms, published in 1539:— “There is also to be found a renowned and bold man; I did not wish to have mentioned his name, but it will not be hidden or unknown. For some years ago he wandered through almost every province, principality and kingdom, made his name known to everybody, and boasted loudly of his great art, not only in medicine, but also in chiromancy, necromancy, physiognomy, crystal-gazing and more of such arts. And not only boasted, but also gave himself out to be and wrote himself as a famous and experienced master. He also himself acknowledged and did not deny, that he was, and was called Faust, and signed himself _Philosophus Philosophorum_, etc. There has, however, been a great number of people, who have complained to me, that they have been swindled by him. His promises were as great as those of Thessalus. Similarly his fame, like that of Theophrastus also; but the fulfilment, as I learn, was found to be very small and fraudulent; yet he was not slow in taking money, and at his departure many people were cheated. But what can one do about it, gone is gone.” When Philipp von Hutten, the cousin of the more famous Ulrich von Hutten, was about to start on his first expedition to Venezuela in 1534, Faust prophesied that the voyage would be unfortunate, and he was right, for von Hutten, in a description of the voyage written in 1540, writes: “I must acknowledge that the philosopher Faustus divined it correctly, for we have had a very bad year.” A rival fortune-teller, Joachim Camerarius, who had declared that the voyage would be lucky, asks in a letter to a friend, written in 1536, what Faust can prophesy about the German Emperor’s next battle with the King of France. Johann Gast, a protestant clergyman at Basle, relates two anecdotes of Faust in the edition of his _Sermones Convivales_ which appeared in 1548:— “_Concerning the Necromancer Faust._