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A33299	A briefe and yet exact and accurate description of the present state of the great & mighty empire of Germany both touching the formes of their civil government and profession in religion / taken by a diligent and faithfull surveyor of it, with much paines travelled over that whole country to informe himself and others of these things ; now published by Sa. Clarke ... for the publick good.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4503; ESTC R37719	29,102	55

other place in Europe I shall describe the order thereof as I did see it the twenty fourth of June 1569. First the House is builded four square of Free stone the two lengths are each one of them three hundred foot long and the breadths each one of them one hundred seventy five foot broad every one of these lengths and breadths hath three roomes or Stories In the lowest roomes are the great Ordnance being about fifty six double Cannons that carry a shot which waieth one hundred and sixty pound and three hundred and fifty Culvernis half Cannons Cannon pieces Sacres Fawcons Rabnets and other small Field pieces all of brasse ready mounted on very good carriages and furnished with all things necessary as shot made with the Hammer to an infinite number Chargers Scowrers Horsetraines Pioneers tooles c. And every of those have three or four great peices hanging for them on the walles eleven harquebushes a crock In the two uppermost roomes or stories are Armor as Corslets black and parcell white very good and of the newest fashion Calivers long Curriours Daggs Pikes armed and unarmed Lances Halberds Partisons Holy water sprinkles two hand-swordes and swordes with basket hiltes thirty six Ensignes Drums Fiffes and all other things necessary for the furniture of four Regiments to every Regiment ten Ensignes and to every Ensigne three hundred men which is twelve thousand Footmen and Curaces for the proofe for two thousand Horsemen so that of the sodain this Prince is able to furnish into the Field fourteen thousand men with Armour in every point which is only in his City of Dresden His Cities besides at Lipsia Wittimberge and Guicca are said to have also their severall Armories besides that every Subject in all his Dominions to his ability is bound to have his proper furniture both for himself and his Servants for as many as every man keepeth a Corselet a Harquebush a Halberd and a Pike of the which that are able to bear Armour the Prince if need require may well make into the Field eighty thousand men whereof six thousand shall be Horsemen leaving his Country notwithstanding with sufficient Guard This Prince as he hath not the perfect knowledg of God like unto the Count Pallatine even so is his conversation such as misliketh all men universally he is misliked for his inaffability for ever since the Wars of Gottha he hath kept himself so secret as no man except one or two of his Privy Counsell can either see him or speak with him he keepeth himself still within his Privy Chamber where he learneth to play on the Virginals the which exercise he doth so earnestly apply as almost he never ceaseth but when he must either eat or sleep Not long since his mind was to learn the Latin Tongue whereof he was utterly ignorant and now he hath so profited in a short time therein that he is able commonly to understand any thing that is either spoken or written in Latin The great delight that he hath in hunting the Stagg and wild Boar bringeth him some time abroad but then he is so accompanied on either side with all his Guard and with at the least four hundred Horsemen that no man almost for what cause so ever it be is suffered to come to his speech he seldom giveth any Princes Ambassadors audience in his own person but answereth them by his Chancelour or chief Councellour The Princes of Germany do not love him although by reason of his great power and authority they flatter him because of his extream dealing with his kinsman Duke John Frederick from whose Father Duke Maurice this Electors Brother did take the Electorship and the most part of this living besides all which the said Duke Maurice dying without issue male left unto Duke Augustus his Brother whereupon such displeasure grew between these Houses as I shall hereafter declare that the eldest Son of John Frederick the old Elector is spoiled both of all his Land Liberty Further this Duke Augustus is hated of his Nobility and Gentlemen as well for the cause last recited as also for purchasing of late the Lands of one Miltitz a Gentleman in Misnia in a manner against his will for the which he paid one hundred and sixty thousand Guildrnes and as it is said the Woods only on the same Lands were worth as much He offendeth his Nobility also for his other cruelties in tormenting of Men with such Deaths and specially for cutting in four peices of late on Carolutius a Gentleman of an ancient House and one of his Houshould servitors who albeit he had committed things worthy of death yet the manner of his execution seemed so strange and was so odious to the Gentlemen of his Court● as they all went forth of the City that day that he suffered death The People of his Cities love him not for his Covetousnesse because there is no traffique nor handleing whereof there may arise any commodity or gain but he getteth it into his own hands As for example the gain that they were wont to have in buying and selling the Mettall that riseth of his Mines he hath now taken into his own hands Besides that he maketh Silke dieth Cloth selleth Malt and handleth every thing himself whereof any proffit may grow He hath furthermore raised such taskes and impositions upon his People and hath turned the Tenants out of certain Lands that he lately purchased whose Ancestors have held the same time out of mind and they know not now where to place themselves again and hath converted the same to his own use in such sort as throughout all his Country there is great complaint of him All these things are the more grievous and specially marked by reason that the memory of the late Princes his predecessors is fresh who albeit in some respects wanted not their faults yet generally for affability mercifulness and liberallity were very much commended The cause why this Elector was s●irred to deal so extreamly with his Cozen John Frederick I think it not amiss to insert in this place as well because it is not yet to my knowledge set forth truly by any other as also for that upon the grudg between the Princes of this House dependeth almost the Weale or ruine of all Germany by reason of the Alliances that either part hath with the most Noblest Houses not onely in Dutchland but in other Kingdoms neer about The story as I have heard it credibly reported is this In Anno 1567 John Frederick of Wymar in Saxony Son unto John Frederick the late Elector of Saxony kept within his Jurisdiction one William Grombache and certain other Rebels to the Empire for the which cause he was also declared by a publick Decree a Rebell to the same State of the Empire This Grombache was an Ancient Captain about threescore and ten years old born in Franconia of a Noble and Ancient house and from his Youth was brought up in the exercise of War and

or to make too much an unequall devision of Land is very dangerous as it appeareth by that which John Selden writeth in the fourteenth book of his History touching the devisions of the Lands of the Dukes of Saxony whereof sprang the first quarrell betwixt them of that house and was cause of a great Civill War in Germany Such inequality in Partition is not therefore lightly seen except it be for certain such causes as are prescribed in the Civil Law that is in case the Son conspireth his Fathers death or doth not his endeavour to redeem him out of Prison if he be taken by their Enemies c. If the Father dieth Intestate then doe his Children divide his goods equally pro raeta Portione Sons have the Land and the Daughters the Mony and in case there be no Mony left then the Sons are bound every one out of his portion of Land to pay a certain summe of Money towards the Dowry of his Sisters In the which cases there are certain Ordinances whereby every one knoweth what to have according to their quality The Subjects of all the Princes and Gentlemen in Germany do hold their Lands ether in Feodo for paying a chief rent and acknowledging Homage or in Fee-Farm paying a certain Rent either in Money Corn or Wine or in all Or else there are Tennants at the will of the Lord for so many years and for so much Rent as is agreed between the Lord and the Tennant There is almost no Prince Nobleman nor Gentleman but hath certain Vassals that of right do owe them their labour some to sowe some to mowe till carry ditch hedge c. by whose labour their Demesnes are for the most part Manured Thus I have as briefly as I could set forth by the examples of the Count Palatine and the Elector of Saxony the form of Government in Politicall matters of the two first Estates that is to say of the Spirituall and Temporall Potentates who both in their Houshold service and Civill Affairs have also the most part the same Order and Form that the foresaid Electors have Touching the third estate which I said was of the Free Cities thus much is to be understood that of the same Free Cities some are meerly Subject to the Empire as Augusta Acona Argentina Francfordia ad Menum Lubeca Hamburga Vlma Colonia Spira Noriberge c. And other some for that they were once under another Lord to whom every one yet acknowledgeth a certain duty do therefore yield no such contribution as the Imperiall Cities do as for Example Magdeburge Erford Breme Brunswicke Luniburge c. have each of them a severall Lord who is either the Bishop or Duke of the name that every one is called by to whom they owe their Homage and a small Duty besides But they use notwithstanding their own proper Municipall Laws which have their ground on the Civill Laws and their Ancient Customs as the Imperiall Cities do from the which their Laws Ordinances and Customs it is lawfull for the Citizens in some cases to appeall to the Chamber of the Empire which is at Spires They are all Governed either by Democriti's that is by certain chosen out of the multitude of the common people or by the State of Olygarchy that is by a few of the Wealthiest and most Principall of the People Or else by Aristocracy that is by a few of the best sort not in respect of their Wealth but of their Vertue They got their liberties either by purchase of money or else by the favour of the Emperor or by force of Arms from that Prince that was their Sovereign and have by that means of liberty such traffique and handling as they are grown so rich that they have fortified their Cities and Territories in such sort as they fear not the force of the Enemy be they never so mighty There are four Cities which are called by an Ancient name The four Cities of the Empire and are free that is Augusta Metis Acona Lubeca Whereof Metis is at present under the French King and is not free as the rest be Also there are four other Cities which are named the Dorffes that is the Towns of the Empire viz. Bamberga Erlistadia Haganoa Ulma whereof Bamberga is now under a Bishop and Salistadium under Archduke Ferdinando the Emperors brother that now is There be also four other Cities which are termed The Boores of the Empire that is the Villages but yet are notwithstanding great Cities as Collen Regensburge Constantia and Saltzburge the which three last are all Subjects to the Bishops of that name There be many other Cities of great fame and force as Magdeburge which sustained the siege by the space of thirteen moneths together of the Emperours Lieutenant Duke Maurice Elector of Saxon and others the mightiest Princes of Germany In the which siege they took Prisoner George Duke of Mechelburg and in the end compounded not with so unreasonable conditions as the other Cities did in the Wars of Smascald For they would never agree to receive the Interim no more than the Cities of Brunswiche Hamburge Lubecke and the sons of John Frederick the Elector of Saxon did Breame standing upon the River of Wesar is likewise famous for resisting Duke Erike of Brunswicke Lieutenant Generall to the Emperour Charles the fifth where he besieged the same in vain and was in the end by the help of the Hamburgers conducted by Coúnte Peninge chased away from thence and forced to leave his great Ordinance behinde him Brunswicke standeth neer the River of Owker which taking in another little River called the Sconder above the Town of Zell falleth into the Weser the which City of Brunswick hath been at variance with their Dukes from the year of 1536 untill this present year 1569. Henricus Senior Duke of Brunswick besieged it a whole year in vain Henricus Junior the Father of Duke Julius that now is besieged it twice once by the space of six weeks and another time eight weeks together and prevailed not The said Duke Julius is now agreed with them and entreth the Town with seven hundred Horse the third of October next but is not to remain there with any force In this City is an Ancient Monument of a monstrous Brazen Lyon the which beast Duke Henricus surnamed Leo is said to have brought thither with him out of England There is also made in this City the best Harnis for the proof and otherwise and the best Daggers and Firelocks that be in all Europe Lubeck upon the River of Trowe hath as it were conserved the King of Denmark in his seat against the Swede but is at this day greatly Impoverished because of the continuall Wars they have had with the King of Sweden and stopping of a River between them and the City of Hamburge called the Trow with Jasper Bucolt a Gentleman of that Country because they refused to pay a small towl unto him hath of mallice thrown a number of