From Holland the relation also penetrated the German states, finding
ready welcome and arousing eager curiosity. Hippe regards the tract
issued by Wilhelm Serlin, at Frankfort on the Main, as the first of the
German publications, and, being translated [17]from the Dutch, he
shows that the translator used both the Amsterdam and the Rotterdam
publications.{1} The Hamburg version claimed to be derived from the
English original, but it followed closely the Serlin translation from
the Dutch with modifications which might have been drawn from the
London tract. An edition not mentioned by Hippe or identified by any
bibliographer is in the John Carter Brown Library, and opens with the
statement that it is translated from the English and not from the Dutch.
It closely follows the text of the London first part. Very likely it is
the edition found at Copenhagen, if the similarity of titles offers an
indication of the contents. South Germany obtained its information from
France, and while neither of the two issues avowedly translated from the
French gives the place of publication, the fact that one is in Munich
and the other in Strassburg offers some reason to conjecture that they
came from the presses of those cities. The Munich issue is for the most
part a summary of what was in the first London issue, and, if translated
directly from a French version, must have been from one not now located,
for it is different from those in the list in this volume. Of the
Strassburg text, Hippe states that it follows the Rotterdam pamphlet
Finally, at Breslau is what calls itself a complete publication of the
combined parts from a copy obtained from London, but it is more probably
based upon the Dutch translations printed in Amsterdam and Rotterdam,
with additions drawn from the English.{2}