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8 'Jthe Circle (?/' /^^ U p p e r R h i n e.
§, 6. The arms of this bifhopric are a filver key, lying in an oblique
pofture, with the wards turned upwards, and having on each fide four
golden ftars,
in a black field.
§. 7. The biOiop of Worim is fubjedl to the archbifiiopric of Mentz. In
the circle of the Vpper Rhine he is the fummoning Prince and diredlor. In
the council of the Princes of the empire he exchanges place on the fpiritual
bench with the Eledlor of Wurzburg. His matricular evaluation is two
horfe and thirteen foot, or feventy-fix florins, and to one chamber-term he
gives fifty rix-doUars, fixty-four kruitzers.
§. 8. The moft worthy chapter of this place, as alfo the cathedra!, has
its feat in the Imperial city of Worms, and confifts of thirteen Capitulars and
nine Domicelli.
§. 9. The princely regency here confifts of a prefident, a chancellor,
aulick and regency counfellors and fecretaries ; the epifcopal vicarfhip, of
a vicar-general, official and fpiritual counfellors ; the aulick judicatory, of
a prefident, an aulick judge, commifiTaries and counfellors, who are all
members of the regency, together with a fecretary ; and the aulick chamber,
of a prefident, provincial clerk, counfellors, fecretary, and a fifcal general.
§. 10. In this bifhopric are the following places.
1
bailiwick.
Stein, a fortrefs lying on the river Wefchnitz, which is the feat of a
2. Nordkeifn, Hoßjeim, and Lamberthctm Proteflant churches and church
belonging to the amt or bailiwick of Stein.
villages,
3. Neuhaufen, a borough, having a procurator, who holds jurifdidlion
ever this and the following boroughs. The Proteftant churches here were
begun by the catholics, in the year 1699, to be ufed in common. In this
place was anciently a royal court, which Dagobert King of the Franks
eredled into a church, and bidiop Samuel, in the year 847, into a collegiate
one. This foundation the Eleilor palatine Frederick 111. fupprefied in the
year 1565, in the room thereof founding a princely fchool, or Gymnajium
illujlre, in which twelve tables are held j but under the catholic Electors all
was again taken away. The revenues of this fupprefi'ed foundation amounted
yearly to between fifteen and twenty thoufand tlorins, and in the year 1706
it was fully ceded by the Eleftor-palatine to the bifliopric of Worms, upon
which Francis Lewis, Eledor of Mentz and biihop of that place, founded
an orphan-houfe at Worms.
4. Rhein-Turkheitn, a borough fituate on the Rhine, the Protefiant church'
belonging to which was formerly a filial of the church oi OtthoJ, but in the
year 1730 was added that oi Neuhaufen. In the year 1699 the catholics
alfo began to make ufe of it for divine fervice. In this town the family.
of de Ron has an
hereditary feat.
5. Hockheim, a borough, in which till the year 1730, was a Protefiant
filial church belonging to the church of Neuhaufen, but by the catholicseredled