*****
[To this old manuscript are added the following lines in another hand:
‘On the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1680, in this
place, Brother Ambrosius was hanged, and on the following day his body
was buried under the gallows, close to that of the girl Benedicta, whom
he killed. This Benedicta, though called the hangman’s daughter, was (as
is now known through declarations of the youth Rochus) the bastard child
of the Saltmaster by the hangman’s wife. It is also veritably attested
by the same youth that the maiden cherished a secret and forbidden love
for him who slew her in ignorance of her passion. In all else Brother
Ambrosius was a faithful servant of the Lord. Pray for him, pray for
him!]