. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. stones which had been laidready to hurl down on the invaders. A good drive further on, and lying away from the roadand near the river, is the village of Kerz. There is a fineruin here of a Cistercian abbey, founded 1173, which KingMatthew, in 1477, suppressed f<rob dissolutos conventio-nalium mores/ and made a present of to the Church ofHermannstadt. In any other country this monumentwould have been kept with care, and would attract visi-tors to wander round its crumbling remains. Here, whatTime spa
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. stones which had been laidready to hurl down on the invaders. A good drive further on, and lying away from the roadand near the river, is the village of Kerz. There is a fineruin here of a Cistercian abbey, founded 1173, which KingMatthew, in 1477, suppressed f<rob dissolutos conventio-nalium mores/ and made a present of to the Church ofHermannstadt. In any other country this monumentwould have been kept with care, and would attract visi-tors to wander round its crumbling remains. Here, whatTime spares Man demolishes. At the bottom of thehouse-stairs were two handsome capitals, and even in thevillages portions of the abbey were to be found. The dwel- 524 TRANSYLVANIA. lers here, although Saxons, had been originally vacthe monastery; they remained in a state of villeinage till1848.* The soil around was bad and stony; the vil-lagers, like the Savoyards, go far away to foreign laito get a subsistence, and return home later with thelittle fortune they have made : some have been as far. RUIN <)F KEEZEM ABBEY. Constantinople. The families wore rich in children, eventhose who had possessions. It was noticeable also thatin eleven years there had been but one divorce; for theclergyman would not hear of it, and told the parties theymust agree. But a little further on the influences al-luded to in Chapter XVII. were again in the ascendant * In walking through the village, the peasantry addressed the;:as Herr Vater. They did not say I wish you a good morning, but Dem Ilerrn Vater einen gut en Morgen, and on leaving Gott Mgne deniIlerm Vater. There was the same kiiulh relation between the ckman and his parishioners which exists in all the Saxon SOUTHWARDS. 525 amoner those better off*, and there was no houseful of chil-dren, no pleasant hubbub of their cheery voices. In the church porch I saw the same stone hanging upin terrorem for the frail as in the other village mention
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