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Excerpts Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTS ET COLLECTANEA .
H .-EC SPARSA COEGI . GYPSIES . CURIOUS ACCOUNT
OF THEIR FIRST APPEARA _ . CE AT PARIS , IX' 142 7 . [ FROM AN 01 . 0 FRENCH CHRONICLE . ]
( O . N Sunday the 17 th day of August , 1427 , there came to Paris — twelve men 0 : 1 horseback ,- AVIIO said they were Christians ' , and Ave re from the LOWER EGYPT . And on the day of St . Jean Decolace came the who e tribe of their followers . These were not more in number than one hundred and twenty . They had all rings in their ears' . The men were of a very dark complexion , with curled '
hair . The Avomen were the highest and the darkest coloured Avomen that Avere ever seen ; their faces Avere as if they had been slashed ; their hair black as the tail of a horse . They wore old blankets tied round their shoulders with a bit of packthread ; underneath , a most miserable shift . These Avere all their clothes , in ' short , they AVCre the poorest creatures that were ever seen in France since the
creation ; and in spite of their poverty , there we ' re seen among them sorceresses , who looked at the . hands of persons , and told thetri Avhat had happened , or Avhat was to happen ; and made several persons that were married extremely unhappy : far to a man that asked ' his fortune , they said , ' your Avii ' e , your wife , your wife , has made you a cuckold : ' and to a woman they said ' your husband is
faithless to you . ' And what was worse , speaking either by the help of the magic art , or by some other means , or by the aid of the enemy of mankind , or by the dint of superior knowledge , they emptied ' people ' s pockets of their money , which they put into their own , as people said . And indeed , adds the chronicler , I myself went three or four times to speak to them ; but I never lost a farthing . Nor
did I ever see them 'look upon rny hand ; but that was what the common peopie said of them . So that the account of what they did reached the ears of the Archbishop of Paris , AVIVO went to them , taking with him a minim , called Le petit Jacobin , Avho , by the order of the bishop , preached a fine sermon to them , and AVIIO excommunicated all those AVIIO behaved in this maimertogether with those
, ivho -had believed in them , and had shewn'them their hands , and ordered them to leave Paris ; and accordingly they quitted Paris , on the clay of our Lord in September , and went towards Po . itoise , VOL . vii , K k
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Excerpts Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTS ET COLLECTANEA .
H .-EC SPARSA COEGI . GYPSIES . CURIOUS ACCOUNT
OF THEIR FIRST APPEARA _ . CE AT PARIS , IX' 142 7 . [ FROM AN 01 . 0 FRENCH CHRONICLE . ]
( O . N Sunday the 17 th day of August , 1427 , there came to Paris — twelve men 0 : 1 horseback ,- AVIIO said they were Christians ' , and Ave re from the LOWER EGYPT . And on the day of St . Jean Decolace came the who e tribe of their followers . These were not more in number than one hundred and twenty . They had all rings in their ears' . The men were of a very dark complexion , with curled '
hair . The Avomen were the highest and the darkest coloured Avomen that Avere ever seen ; their faces Avere as if they had been slashed ; their hair black as the tail of a horse . They wore old blankets tied round their shoulders with a bit of packthread ; underneath , a most miserable shift . These Avere all their clothes , in ' short , they AVCre the poorest creatures that were ever seen in France since the
creation ; and in spite of their poverty , there we ' re seen among them sorceresses , who looked at the . hands of persons , and told thetri Avhat had happened , or Avhat was to happen ; and made several persons that were married extremely unhappy : far to a man that asked ' his fortune , they said , ' your Avii ' e , your wife , your wife , has made you a cuckold : ' and to a woman they said ' your husband is
faithless to you . ' And what was worse , speaking either by the help of the magic art , or by some other means , or by the aid of the enemy of mankind , or by the dint of superior knowledge , they emptied ' people ' s pockets of their money , which they put into their own , as people said . And indeed , adds the chronicler , I myself went three or four times to speak to them ; but I never lost a farthing . Nor
did I ever see them 'look upon rny hand ; but that was what the common peopie said of them . So that the account of what they did reached the ears of the Archbishop of Paris , AVIVO went to them , taking with him a minim , called Le petit Jacobin , Avho , by the order of the bishop , preached a fine sermon to them , and AVIIO excommunicated all those AVIIO behaved in this maimertogether with those
, ivho -had believed in them , and had shewn'them their hands , and ordered them to leave Paris ; and accordingly they quitted Paris , on the clay of our Lord in September , and went towards Po . itoise , VOL . vii , K k