The Count of Helfenstein[70] was in command at the castle. Here, if any one should favour another religion than the Roman, he would be wise to keep silent thereanent. On the gate between the town and the suburb there is a long inscription in Latin, written in the year 1552, which declares that the _Senatus populusque_ of the town built this monument to the memory of the brothers William and Louis, dukes _utriusque Boiariæ_. Here there are many conceits after the following fashion: “_Horridum militem esse decet, nec auro cœlatum, sed animo et ferro fretum_;” and at the top thereof, “_Cavea stultorum mundus_.” And in another place, very conspicuous, are certain words taken from some Latin historian,[71] concerning the battle which the Consul Marcellus lost to a king of this nation: “_Carolami Boiorumque Regis cum Marcello Cos. pugna quâ eum vicit_,” &c. Besides these there are divers appropriate mottoes in Latin over the doors of private houses. These people constantly refurbish their towns and churches, which in consequence have a most prosperous look; and, as it happened most seasonably for the amenity of our visit, everything had been newly set in order in this place three or four years before; for they always put the date upon their work. The clock of this town, like those in many other towns in this country, sounds all the quarters; and they say there is one in Nuremburg which sounds the minutes. We left the town after dinner, and after going four leagues over a lengthy plain of pasture, very level, like the plain of La Beausse, we arrived at Augsburg. [Illustration: AUGSBURG _To face p. 128_, vol. i. ]