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bench of Sccffen,
or aldermen, and that of the fecond bench of the council,
together with the third, which is compofed of artificers and tradefinen, and
which is alfo fummoned in matters of general concern, and executes the
offices relating to the police ; but the diredlion of important affairs is lodged
in the two former, out of whom the two burgher-mafters are annually chofen.
Law-fuits here are determined by the Schqffens and Syndics. The
members of the confiftory are two Schoffln, the Senior miiiißerii, the two
oldefl: paftors, and two civilians.
The city is fortified, and maintains feven companies of foldiers as its contingent
to the Circle, together with two more as a garrifon. Its bridge
over the Ädayn is four hundred feet long, and contains fourteen wide
arches.
The territory of this city as reprefented in Homann?, correct map of it,
N" 107 in the yishis of Germany contains, exclufive of the great number
of feats and farms in it,
Bornheim, Haufen, and Upper-rod three villages, formerly fubjedl to the
court at Bornheimerbergs, but by a treatv concluded with Hanau in the year
1481, transferred to thtcxiy o'f Frankfort.
The church-village of Lower-rod, three fourths of which belonged to the
city, and one to tlie Teutonic order.
Not far from it ftands the Uppcr-Forßbaus of Frankfort on the forefl: of
Frankfort, which, as Mr. Burt of Tfetiburg Birßein has fhewn at large, belongs
to the foreft of Dreyeicher, and accordingly both the city of Frankfort
and its dependencies have ever paid certain particular duties to the lords of
that
foreft.
Over the free Imperial villages of Sulzbach and Soden (in which is a
warm bath and fome falt-pits) Mentz, as count of Konigßein, and the city
of Frankfort as protestor and patron, jointly appoint a chief magiftrate.
Lo-x-er-Urfel, a village, of which Solms-Rodelbeini hsiS z\(o di^zxt.
Bonames, alfo called Bornes, a little walled town lituate on the Nidda.
In it is a fief belonging to the bilhop of Fulda.
Lcwer-Erkenbach, a church-village.
Durkelweil, or Dortelweil, a church-village fituate not far from the
Nidda.
The Imperial City o/'Friedf. erg.
Friedberg, a town on the Wetterau, ftands near the Usbach on the ridge
of hills called the Hohe, in a very fertile country. It was formerly larger
than at prefent, being a free Imperial Lutheran town, and in the Diet holds
the twelfth feat on the bench of the Imperial towns of the Rhine.
It alfo fits and votes in the Diet of the Upper-Rhine. In the matricula
of the Empire it ftands at twenty-four florins, and its rate to the chamber
at Wetzlar is twenty-nine rix-dollars twenty-nine kruitzers. In the
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