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DEDICATION.

talking; and I humbly dedicate and commend myself to the patronage of Your Majesty, in whose service I have grown old, and pray Your Majesty to deign to accept this book with the same clemency and kindness which Your Majesty has ever vouchsafed to its author himself.

Vienna, First of March 1549.

The same, Your Majesty’s faithful Councillor and Chamberlain, and Governor of the Austrian Treasury,

SIGISMUND,

Baron of Herberstein, Neyperg, and Guettenhag.