This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...some very grievous disease. What think you?" At length, on the 23rd of February, 1589, just a week after he had completed the fifty-sixth year of his age, with scarcely any preceding disease, he calmly breathed his last at Breslau, in the presence of his wife and children, ejaculating, at short intervals, the words, " O, Lord Jesus, save me " The medical men who attended him differed as to the cause of his death, some supposing that it was caused by the breaking of an ulcer in the lungs, and others that it was the result of apoplexy. " That his death followed that eclipse," says Praetorius, " I regard as a matter of no importance whatever. What if consternation killed him?" His body was interred in tho church of St. Elizabeth, the principal one of tho city, without any funeral pomp; and his widow erected to his memory a monument in black marble, bearing the following inscription. " D. O. M. S. Andrew Dudithio ab Horechouicza Dno. in Smigla; antiquiss. prosapia, virtute singulari, eruditione multiiuga, diuersissimarum linguarum excellenti cognitione, plurimarumque et maximarum rerum usu vere illustri et incomparabili viro III. Impp. Ferdinandi I. Maximiuani II. Rudolphi II. Consilium); summis honorum, tum sacris, tum profanis, legationibusque ampliss. apud exteros Reges et Dynastas, maxima cum laude perfuncto; carissimo omnibus; adverso nemini, cunctis admirationi, marito exoptatissimo atquc desideratissimo, suo et lihcrorum nomine multis cum lacrymis posuit, Elisabetha, ex illustri et atnplissima Sboroviorum familia oriunda, quae, ut in hac vita, cum dulcissimo conjuge per annos decem conjunetissime vixit, ita ne mortuum quidem deserere, sed cum eodem, in eodem sepulchro quiescere voluit. Vixit maritus ami. 56, d. 7, ...