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three buffaloes or hunting horns pearl, lying over each other ftringed and
garnidied topaz, m a field ruby.
§. 4. In the Diet of the Empire they have a feat and vote in the college
of Swabian Counts. In the circle of Swabia the Antony main line enjoys
three votes as Counts, who are named from the three chief branches.
And
thefe three principal branches of the Antony Wnt are alfefled in the Imperial
matrictda at one hundred and eight florins, vi-z. the Marx-Fugger line
twenty-two florins, twenty-one kruitzers, fix hellers ; i\ie John Ftiggcr \me
forty-three florins, thirty-fix kruitzers, fix hellers ; and the James Fugger at
forty-two florins, one kruitzer, four hellers. The contingency of the firft
to the Imperial chamber is twelve ruthlers, eight kruitzers and a half, of
the fecond twenty-nine ruthlers, forty-fix kruitzers ; of the third twentyeight
ruthlers, twenty-eight kruitzers. For the lordfiiip of IFafferburs; it
pays in particular eight florins to the taxes of the Empire, and fourtl-en
ruthlers to the chamber at Wetzlar.
§. 5. The lordfliips and eflatesof the CountsofFz(g"^^rareof three forts, w'js.
I. One of the Außrian lands in the circle of Swabia, namelv the counties
of Kircbberg and Weiffenhorn, which they hold at prefent only as a
mortgage of the houfe oi Au/iria and belonging to the Raymund line, as
fliewn in Vol. IV. p. 245. The aflefTment in the Imperial matricuJa for this
county, which amounts to twenty-eight florins, is paid to the circle of
Aiißria but appointed by the houfe of that name. The taxation paid for
it to the chamber oi Wetzlar is faid to amount to fixty-feven ruthlers, fiftyfour
kruitzers and tliree
quarters.
Obf. The Counts of Fugger formerly poflefied alfo fome confiderable
lordfliips in Alface and the Sundgau as mortgages belonging to the houfe
of Außria; but thefe countries falling to the crown oi Frattce, it redeemed
them from the Counts of Fugger, conferring them on its natural fubjedts.
2. Part of them belong to the immediate Imperial Noblefle of Sivabia,
being moftly poflefied by the branches and collateral defcendants of the
Antony line and paying taxes to that body, as Dietenheim, Brandenburg,
Heitnertingen, Grunenbach, and Wald, which fliall be mentioned among
the Noblefl^e of the canton of the Danube.
§. 6. Thus to this part belong only the lands in the cuxle of Swabia
which are pofi'efl'ed by the Antony line, viz.
1. To the prefent chief branch of Marx Fugger belongs
Norndorff, a lordfliip, fituate between the rivers Schmutter and Lech: In
it is the market-town of the fame name : with
The villages of Ehingen and Lauterbrorin^ and thofe of Dutenßein, Ditzingen,
and Wagenhof, lying betwixt the dutchy of Neuburg and the lord»
fhip of Eglingen.
2. The Hans-Fugger principal branch, particularly
The collateral line
of Kirchheim are proprietors of
N n 2 I . The