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A Defer iption of Vienna 5 15
But here are no small number of Jews, who have a distindf Habita¬
tion, assigned them oxer the Water. They have also a Street allowed
therisin the City for the day time, but they !must all depart at night be-
yond the River into the Suburbs.
They are much distasted by the Citizens and Tradesmen, and the
Scholars agree but ill With them. While I was at Vienna there was a
quarrel between them to an high degree. For the Scholars assaulted
the Jews Town, beat, wounded, and threw divers of them into the Ri-
ver. Divers Scholars were wounded, some killed, and also some Souk
diers, who were commanded out to compole the Fray : and the Jews
Town was guarded many days by the Souldiers of the City. This
begot such ill Blood, and Complaints, that a good number of the
Jews were to be banilhed at a certain day. The Jews, to ingratiate
with the Empress, then with Child, presented her with a noble Silver
Cradle fwd lhe would not receive it; and there was great danger of the
general banilhment of them when I left that City,which was afterwards
effected, they being severely prohibited from living, not only at Vien-
na^ but in any part of Auftria, where there were formerly wrhole Vil-
lages of them, so as they were forced to betake themfelves into the Do-
minions of the 7^r£,urito Venice,into Poland and Bohemia. They being
not permitted to dwell in the Neighbour Countries of Hungary,
to the Emperor, Styria, or Carinthia. But many of them went to Buda
and were besiegedthere in the year i684.and becoming obsti'nate haters
of the G^rw^j,they assisted the Turks with their Purses and with w7hat
elsethey were able to maintain the Town agaihff the Imperial ForceSo
I must confess they seemed useful to Vienna for ready accommodati-
on of any thing, either by sale or exchange, but the people looked
with an ill eye upon them, as taking away much of their Trade and
Employment. They also looked upon them as useless to them in war
for the defence of the place-as Souldiers ; and were not without some
jealousie that they held Correspondence with the Turks, and gave
them Intelligence of their Affairs. Yet the Souldiery dealt much
with them, and Captains for the suddain habiting, furnishing, and ac-
commodating of their Companies. And dining one day with a
Commander at a Jews House,amongst other Discourse,I asked the jfejp
concerning the ten Tribes, and where they were ? He said. they were
sar off in Asia, b yond .a great Lake which was continually ft or my, an I
fcarce payable, but upon their Sabbath-day, upon which days the Jews
do not willingly travel.
I have seen their C'ircumciffon at Rome, Padua, and other parts.
Their Physicians, ordinarily profess great skill in Zkrines ; and the com-
mon people resort unto them rather than unto Christians, and are so
credulous, and have such an opinion of them, that they might be made
to believe they have some old Receipts of King Solomon.
There are many Jews in Italy, yet they seem to me to be in greater
numbers in Germany. In Amsterdam they are also grown very nu-
merous. At Francksurt they told me there were seven thousand of
them, which seemed scarce credible. At Colen they are in great num-
bers: at Hamburg not a few. But the greatess number .Purely is in
Prague.
Though they be permitted in many Countries, yet divers Chriftiati
Princes and States have aligned them some mark in their Habits^
to7
But here are no small number of Jews, who have a distindf Habita¬
tion, assigned them oxer the Water. They have also a Street allowed
therisin the City for the day time, but they !must all depart at night be-
yond the River into the Suburbs.
They are much distasted by the Citizens and Tradesmen, and the
Scholars agree but ill With them. While I was at Vienna there was a
quarrel between them to an high degree. For the Scholars assaulted
the Jews Town, beat, wounded, and threw divers of them into the Ri-
ver. Divers Scholars were wounded, some killed, and also some Souk
diers, who were commanded out to compole the Fray : and the Jews
Town was guarded many days by the Souldiers of the City. This
begot such ill Blood, and Complaints, that a good number of the
Jews were to be banilhed at a certain day. The Jews, to ingratiate
with the Empress, then with Child, presented her with a noble Silver
Cradle fwd lhe would not receive it; and there was great danger of the
general banilhment of them when I left that City,which was afterwards
effected, they being severely prohibited from living, not only at Vien-
na^ but in any part of Auftria, where there were formerly wrhole Vil-
lages of them, so as they were forced to betake themfelves into the Do-
minions of the 7^r£,urito Venice,into Poland and Bohemia. They being
not permitted to dwell in the Neighbour Countries of Hungary,
to the Emperor, Styria, or Carinthia. But many of them went to Buda
and were besiegedthere in the year i684.and becoming obsti'nate haters
of the G^rw^j,they assisted the Turks with their Purses and with w7hat
elsethey were able to maintain the Town agaihff the Imperial ForceSo
I must confess they seemed useful to Vienna for ready accommodati-
on of any thing, either by sale or exchange, but the people looked
with an ill eye upon them, as taking away much of their Trade and
Employment. They also looked upon them as useless to them in war
for the defence of the place-as Souldiers ; and were not without some
jealousie that they held Correspondence with the Turks, and gave
them Intelligence of their Affairs. Yet the Souldiery dealt much
with them, and Captains for the suddain habiting, furnishing, and ac-
commodating of their Companies. And dining one day with a
Commander at a Jews House,amongst other Discourse,I asked the jfejp
concerning the ten Tribes, and where they were ? He said. they were
sar off in Asia, b yond .a great Lake which was continually ft or my, an I
fcarce payable, but upon their Sabbath-day, upon which days the Jews
do not willingly travel.
I have seen their C'ircumciffon at Rome, Padua, and other parts.
Their Physicians, ordinarily profess great skill in Zkrines ; and the com-
mon people resort unto them rather than unto Christians, and are so
credulous, and have such an opinion of them, that they might be made
to believe they have some old Receipts of King Solomon.
There are many Jews in Italy, yet they seem to me to be in greater
numbers in Germany. In Amsterdam they are also grown very nu-
merous. At Francksurt they told me there were seven thousand of
them, which seemed scarce credible. At Colen they are in great num-
bers: at Hamburg not a few. But the greatess number .Purely is in
Prague.
Though they be permitted in many Countries, yet divers Chriftiati
Princes and States have aligned them some mark in their Habits^
to7