From hence we proceed to the celebrated cloister of Premonstratensians, called the _Shawhoff_ in which above an hundred persons are maintained in a princely manner. I was here shewn a rich chapel, wherein before the incursion of the Swedes were many large and curious statues of solid brass, particularly those of the twelve _Apostles_; which by Count _Koningsmarck_ were converted into canon, when he took this part of the city, tho he was soon again repulsed. In the middle of the church, in a stately open monument, is preserved the body of _St. Norbert_, the founder of this order. Over the tomb is suspended a gilt crown of a prodigious size, the diameter of the rimb being at least three ells. After the chapel I saw their library, which is neat and well filled, but with books in the taste of the last age. They have here a monkish contrivance of a wheeling desk with six sides, on each of which may lie several books, so as to be turned round in their order, without falling off in the motion. From the library we passed to their private chapel, wherein is a crucifix, which the monk, who shewed it us, attested to have seen illuminated in the night, while no candle was in the room. In an adjoining gallery is a large statue of our _Savior_, which they affirm to have once sweat blood about the neck, and shew the marks thereof still remaining. From hence we are carried to their winter refectory, a large and regular stove room, well contrived for warmth and beauty at the same time. But their summer refectory is a pattern of beauty, proportion, and magnificence, being paved with black and white marble, with three large windows on one side, and round the walls about twelve large pictures of eminent persons of their order; and the whole is exceedingly well contrived, both for the entertainment of the mind, and repose of the body. They shewed us likewise another large room, with a numerous collection of their most meritorious members in little squares; and last of all the chambers of the monks, with two adjoining gardens, one for the fathers, the other for the brethren of the society, which completed the pleasure of the sight. Next to this convent we went to see a Jewish synagogue, of which there are eight in this place, the number of that nation amounting to above ten thousand, who for distinction sake are all obliged to wear a blue ruff. On the stately bridge over the _Muldaw_ are to be observed several curious statues of the _Virgin_; of our _Savior_; and of the new _Saint_ lately set up in all parts of this kingdom, as well as on all the bridges of _Vienna_, being a curious piece of cast brass with this inscription: DIVO IOANNI NEPOMENENO ANNO MCCCLXXXIII AB HOC PONTE DEIECTO EREXIT MATTHIAS L. B. DE WVNESWITZ ANNO MDCLXXXIII. He was here drowned for not revealing to the King of Bohemia a confession of his Queen.