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GERMANY.
maining there ; and likewife, ex commiffionc Gf delcgatione Qefarea, of all the
refcrvata and regalia formerly belonging to the dukes, have been committed
to Imperial ftewards and adminiftrators refiding in Upper and
Loiver-Sivabia.
§. 6. Over the country of Sioabia, as in other provinces, have been appointed
Advocati prcvincicc ge7ieraks, procuratores regni feu Lnperii, & praefedli
provinciaks ; whofe office is, in fuch parts as belong not to the inheritance
of the dukes of Sivahia^ but are immediately fubjed: to the Empire;
befides a general attention to the dues of the Empire and Emperor to colleft,
by means of their deputies, the Imperial rrg^j//«, cafualdes and revenues
in the territories of the Princes, counts, lords, abbies, convents and towns,
and pay them in to the Imperial treafury. Such procurators are known to
have exilled in Swabia fo long ago as the tenth century, and till the begining
of the fifteenth they were fometimes two ; viz. one in Upper and one
in Lcrwer-Siaabia. In the year i;^79, the Emperor Wiiiceßain made a
fecond mortgage of the two Imperial prccuratorlhips in Upper and Lower-
Swabia, to Leopold III. duke of Außrin, on a loan of 40,000 guilders,
which terminated at lafl in his aftual pofleffion of them, and he held rhem
for feveral years ; but, in the year 1386, on the death of L?o/>c/^, the dukes
of Auftritt were diverted of thefe procuratorfliips, which, for many years
after, inftead of being mortgaged, were almoft annually tilled by a new
procurator. In the year 141 5, the Emperor Sigmu?jd, at the council of
Conflanz, with the confent of the Empire, again mortgaged them to Hatis,
I )rd-fl;eward x^^ Waldhurg, for 6000 i^Z^^/^Z/Z) guldens;
but thefe lords-llewarc's
were obliged gradually to augment the mortgage-money to 13,200 florinr.
The Emperor Frederick III. on his accefiion to the government, enabled his
brother Albert, duke of Außria, to redeem the procuratorfliip from thofe noblemen,
and gave him in writing the jurifdidtion over it. To this the lord-
Üeward was obliged to confent; and, in the years 14^2 and 1453, y.i/nes, at
that time lord-fteward, entered into acompacl, by which he was no longer to
exercife the procuratorfhip, either in his own name or in that of the Empire,
but in behalf of Duke Albert, and to term himfelf his procurator. In this
fituation the procuratorlhip of Swabia continued for many years, both on
account of the non-payment of the mortgage-money and the revolt of Duke
Albert, in the year 1460, againft his brother the Emipexov P)-ederick, who,
in the year 1463, put him under the ban of the Empire. Thus the procuratorlhip
devolved to Ha7is, James'?, fon ; and, though at the fame t"me
Sigmuvd, duke o? Außria, made application for it in the year 1464, to
the Emperor Frederick, and obtained his permiflion for the redemption of
it, yet he entered not upon it till the year 1473, Duke Albert of Bavaria
having, by the Emperor's indulgence, undertaken the faid redemption
but at the fame time he again mortgaged it for a like fum to the lordfteward
Hans, or John, who held it, together with the caftle of Ravenf-
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