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for their defender under the Einperor. This immunity was ratified bv tlie
Emperors JFiKceßaus and Sigifmund, and the convent reckoned an immediate
State of the Empire. In the years 1446, 1459, 1460 and 1475' '^ entered
in the tnatricula oi the Empire, and in 1521 was fummoned to the
Diet at Wonns^ and by a decree thereof rated at four horfe-men and lixtvfeven
foot. \\\ the year 1511, an agreement was entered into betwixt
Frederick, Palatine of the Rinne, the duke of Bavaria as his guardian,
and the abbey ; in which the latter paid {qvqx\ hundred and fifty florins
down in lieu of the land-tax required of it, the duke engaging for himfelf,
fucceflbrs, pupil and heirs, that no taxes fliould at any time be required of
the abbey, its vaffals and eftates ; but that it fliould continue, as before,
in the full and unmolefted enjoyment of its rights, jurifdidions, powers,
mortgages and revenues. In the year 1527, the Palatine and abbey entered
into another cor.vention, that, in confideration of the fum of one hundred
florins annually paid to that Prince, he lliould take it into his protedion,
but without any jurifdidion or power of impoiing a tax thereon, and that
one party fliouid be at liberty to renounce the compadl of reciprocal aid.
In the year 1534, by virtue of a new agreement, which was ratified, in
the year 1541, by the Emperor Charles, it was agreed that the abbey (hould
accept of, acknowledge, have and continue the Eledlor-palatine as proprietor
of the county of Griajpach for their perpetual patron and defender; and,
in confideration of fuch protection yearly, pay to him the fum of fix hundred
florins ; that the Eledor-palatine ihould have criminal jurifdidion in
the places within the diftridl of the abbey, but without any manner of ]\\-
rifdidion over its vaflals, polTefllons or lands, or in any (hape opprefs them ;
but the Pfalzgraves afterwards making feveral attempts againlf the independency
of this abbey, and a long and vehement conteft arifing on that account
betwixt the circles of Sivabia and Bavaria, each laying claim to it
and the abbey fometimes fiding with one, fomecimes with another, and
fometimes with neither, at length, in the year 1757, it was formally admitted
by the circle of Sioabia on the bench of prelates betwixt Urfperg
and Rogge?iburg, though the circle ot Bavaria did not fail to enter a protefl:
againft it. In the Diet of the Empire the abbot poflefies the firil feat
among the prelates of the Rhine. The aflfelfment of the abbey in the ?natricida
of the PJmpire amounted formerly to two hundred and eighty-two
florins. In the year 170 1, it engaged to pay annually, at two ftated terms,
the fum of three hundred florins to the ched of the circle o'i Bavaria-, and,
in cafe of a proportionate augmentation of fupplies, to raife four hundred
within the terms fpecified. In the year 1757, it contributed two hundred
and fixteen men to the contingency of the circle of Bavaria, declarin'j itfelf,
however, at the fame time as belonging to that of Swabia. To a kammerziele,
or the Imperial chamber at Wetzlar, it is afl^efled at three hundre'd and
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