Life of the Famous Antonius Corvinus

significantly enlarged. It is pleasing to me that I have given these most worthy gentlemen some occasion for the elimination of the fable of the Hamelin children—

Because this essay in manuscript only made up one sheet A "sheet" (Bogen) refers to a standard unit of paper used in 18th-century printing; the author is explaining why he expanded the work., and was somewhat briefly composed, I have, to please the publisher, somewhat expanded it in an open letter to Pastor Fein. And this is the reason why I sought to adorn my mentioned letter with several useful annotations—which do not strictly belong to the subject matter, yet may not be unpleasant to the kind reader. For this reason, I also wrote to Provost Harenberg, who, after everything had already been printed, sent me an extract of the life story of the Bishop of Minden, WEDEKIND, who died in 1261, taken from his reliable and diplomatic diplomatic: in this period, the study of "diplomatics" referred to the scholarly analysis of historical charters and official documents description of the Lords and Counts of Stumpenhausen and Hoya. This extract is very substantial and testifies to the historical insight of this famous man; because this extract clarifies the aforementioned treatise of Pastor Fein (after he had accepted the Provost's opinion) in no small way, I have therefore had it printed at the end.

It will not be useless to further note here that in my letter at the cited place on pages 18 and 19, I included a short account of the invention by Pastor Ernst Conrad von Brinken of Great Twylpstedt regarding how to determine the longitude at sea original: longitudinem super mari; but as I hear, the de-