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i64 GERMANY. [Coflanz,
pre-eminence over him was along conteft, which produced many folid pieces
on both fides. In the year 1521, by the Imperial matricula, the quota of
the biihopric of Coßanz was fourteen horfe and fixteen foot, or four hundred
and eight florins. In 1545 it was affefTed one half lefs; but in 1567
was raifed to ten horfe and thirty foot, or two hundred and forty florins :
the cathedral, however, till the year 1683, paid only the fmaller alTefl'ment
of feven horfe and thirty foot, or two hundred and four florins, both towards
the taxes of the Empire and thofe of the Circle of Siv^bia. On account
of the ühhzy Ol Reichenau, which has been incorporated with the bifnopric,
in the year 1545 a particular aflTeiTment was made at two horfe
and four foot, or forty florins. In the year 1683, the whole taxation of
the bifliopric, and the abbey of Rcichenau alfo included, was reduced by
the Imperial mairicula to one hundred and eight florins,
to which eight florins
flfty kruitzers being added for the lordlliip of Ittejidorfy purchafed in
1649, ^^ vvhole amount of the bifliopric's contingent is one hundred and
iixteen florins fifty kruitzers. A further redudion was applied for, but oppofed
by the whole Circle. To the Kammerziclc, or Imperial chamber at
Wetxlar^ the billiopric, together with the abbey of Reichctuiu, was in the
year 1726, rated atone hundred and tv/enty-one rix-dollars fixty-one kruitzers
and a half. The ancient taxation of the bifhopric in the papal treafury
is 2500 florins ; but in 1704 only four hundred and ten were paid for the
confirmation of bifliop John Francis.
§. 5. The colleges of this bifhop are, the ecclefiaflical council, the courtcouncil,
and the treafury. His officers are the Upper-Vogte, or Chief-intendant,
together with the Aintnumncr^ or Prefeft,
§. 6. The bifliop's board-revenue, according to a report made from the
chapter to the court oti Rome in the year 171 2, amounted only to 20,000
florins.
§. 7. We now proceed to
I. The mofi: remarkable places belonging to the biflioprlc, which are as
follow, mz.
Merßurg or Morfpurg, a city lying on the Bodenjee and the ufual refldence
of the bifliop, containing a feminary for fecular clergy and a nunnery
oi Dominicans. This town is
faid to have been conferred on the bifliopric
by the counts oi Rordorf. In the year 1647 the palace here was burnt
down by the Swedes. Its neighbourhood produces plenty of wine.
Obf. Near the city flands a crofs in the lake, on which is an infcription
importing that the lake in that part is tv/o thoufand nine hundred fathoms
broad, and one hundred and eight deep.
Markdorf or Marchdorf a little town in which was formerly a collegiate
church, at prefent converted into a nunnery of Fra?icifcans. Near
the town fliands
a convent of Capuchins.
liteiidorf, an Imperial lordflfip, purchafed by the cathedral of the city of
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