in a grave which had been prepared by the said Julio to bury Geronimo after the commission of the murder."-- _Origin and Genealogy of the Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant_.] [Footnote 21: _Order and Proclamation of Messire Van Schoonhoven, bailiff, and of the Burgomaster, Constables, and Council of the city of Antwerp_: "It having come to the knowledge of the bailiff, burgomaster, and constables of this city that Geronimo Deodati, a merchant of Lucca, went out yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, from his residence in this city, near the Convent of the Dominicans, and that he was seen for the last time beyond the Square of Meir, and since then he has not been heard of, and we know not what has become of him, so that there is great suspicion that the said Geronimo has been maltreated, or even put to death; therefore, the magistrates of the same city do proclaim that he who first will give information as to what has become of the said Geronimo, will receive the sum of three hundred florins."-- _Extract from the "Book of Laws of the City of Antwerp_."] [Footnote 22: "The bailiff said that the magistrates had determined to search all the stables, cellars, and gardens, to discover whether the ground in any of these places had been recently dug."-- E.

Van Meteren, _History of the Low Countries_.] [Footnote 23: "Simon Turchi was known to be a perverse and immoral man; in a word, he was a compound of every vice and every evil inclination."-- _Matteo Bandello_.] [Footnote 24: "Go and do what I have commanded you.

Disinter the body, take it on your shoulders and cast it into the sewer which is in the square where the three streets meet."-- _Simon Turchi_ .-- _Matteo Bandello_.] [Footnote 25: "I will send Bernardo to help you, and I will order him to obey you, whatever you may command.

When you have thrown the body into the sewer, you can, by a quick movement, push Bernardo in also.

The sewer is deep, and whoever falls into it is immediately drowned."-- _Matteo Bandello_.] [Footnote 26: "Simon Turchi begged Julio to take the crime upon himself."-- Van Meteren, _History of the Low Countries_.].