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310 G E R M A N T. [Buxheim.
AUGSBURG.
2. The Abbey of S. Ulrich and S. Afra in
In the Imperial C'^v of Augihurg flands the abbey of St. VlriJ: and
St. Afra; from which, towards the beginning of the eleventh century,
Bruno, bifliop oi Augsburg, removed the lay-brothers, filling it with BemdiSltne
Monks, under the direction of an abbot, and alfo prevailed with :he
Emperor Hcn7-y II. to grant them five villages, after he himPlf had tranfferred
all the wealth of tliis church to the bifliopric and feparated the incomes
of the two churches from each other. In the years 1323 and 1335,
the Emperor Z/?ic75 conferred two privileges on the abbot, declaring him his
chaplain and receiving him and the convent, together with a'l its lands and
vafTals, into his particular protedlion ; and likewife pafTtd an adt that the
abbot and the convent (hould not be indidlable before any other perio;
than
the Emperor himlelf. In the vear 1417, the Emperor 6>^//;wW granted a
charter to the convent and at the fame tiine put it under the vicariate protedlion
of the city of Augsburg, to which, however, it pays the fum of one
hundred golden guilders per annum as protedtion-money. In the year
1422, the freedom of this city was granted to the convent. In 1576,
the bifhop of Augsburg was for difputing the immediate dependency of this
abbey on the Empire, and for affuming the fovereignty over it ; but, in the
year 1577, he received an order from the fifcal of the Empire enjoining him
not to impofe any tax on the abbey or exercife any kind of temporal jurifdiftion
over it, being, as a State of the Empire, to remain unmolefted in its
privileges. In the general Diet its abbot fits among the prelates of the
Rhine, and in the matn'cula is affeflTed at twenty florins ; but the taxes for the
Empire, and other contributions, it ufually pays into the ofiice of the bifhop
of Augsburg.
^. The Villages belonging to the Carthtißa7i monaftery of
B U X H E I M.
The chartreux of Buxheim is under the proteftion of Außria ;
and for
that reafon has been mentioned above. On account, however of its villages,
it pays taxes to the circle of Swabia.
Weßerhard is a hamlet about half an hour's diftance from the convent,
fituated not far from the river Her,
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