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purposed going on to Moscow. This Ahasverus was at Lubeck in 1601, also about the same date in Revel in Livonia, and in Cracow in Poland. In Moscow he was seen of many and spoken to by many.

“What thoughtful, God-fearing persons are to think of the said person, is at their option. God’s works are wondrous and past finding out, and are manifested day by day, only to be revealed in full at the last great day of account.

“Dated, Revel, August 1st, 1613.
         “D. W.
         “D.
       “Chrysostomus Dudulceus,
             “Westphalus.”

The statement that the Wandering Jew appeared in Lubeck in 1601, does not tally with the more precise chronicle of Henricus Bangert, which gives:—“Die 14 Januarii Anno MDCIII., adnotatum reliquit Lubecæ fuisse Judæum ilium immortalem, qui se Christi crucifixioni interfuisse affirmavit[1].”

In 1604 he seems to have appeared in Paris. Rudolph Botoreus says under this date: “I fear

  1. Henr. Bangert, Comment. de Ortu, Vita, et Excessu Coleri.