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tenor of the inftrument of purchafe, together with tlie principality of the
upper Palatinate, as elcheated and appertaining to him the faid Emperor,
and likewile the fovereignty, power, pre-eminence, and all jurifdicTiions
and regalia of all kinds whatever, both over 1 ind and people, as a fief derived
from his Imperial Majefty and the holy Empire ; but it was not till
the year 1631 that the Emperor inverted this Eledor and his heirs with
the Rchemiati fiefs lying in the upper Palatinate. Thus the dutchv of the
upper Palatinate confifts both of Imperial and Bohemian fiefs. To the former
relates claufe the ninth in the fourth article of the peace of Weßphallay
namely, that on the total extimftion of the Wubilmina, i. e. the Bavarian
line, the line palatine lliall ei;ijoy not only the upper Palatinate, but alfo the
elecfloral dignity of the houfe of Bavaria, and Ihall be inverted with them
both by unanitnous confent, and at one and the fame time. In the year 17065
the Eledor of Bavaria being put under the ban of the Empire, the Emperor
granted the upper Palatinate to the Eleftor-palatine ; but the peace of
Baaden in 1714 put an end to his port"ertion thereof. This dutchy intitles
not to feat or voice either in the college of Princes or in the circle of Bavaria.
The territories of Sulzbach and the diftrict of Viljeck belonging to
Bamberg divide it into the fouthern and northern parts.
I. In the fouthern part are the following pfleggerichts, viz.
1 The pfleggericht of Amberg, containing
Amberg, the capital of the dutchy and the refidence of the Elector's governor,
as alfo of every branch of the regency. This town lies on the Vih-,
which runs through it, being fortified, and the largeft place in the upper
Palatinate. In it is an eledtoral-palace, as alfo a cathedral dedicated to
S. Martin, together with a college of Jefuits, in which is a beautiful church,
to which have been transferied the lands of C^^/ convent, and three other
monarteries. Amberg is faid to have been raifed from a village to a town in
the year 1297. In 1703 it was taken by the Imperialifts.
On a mountain near it ftands the pilgrimage church of Maria-HuJfe, or
'Mary\ help ; and in its neighbourhood is an iron-mine, but under the direction
of a particular mine-fteward.
Hambach, a walled maiket-town, feated on the Vih.
Schnaitbach, alfo a walled market-town.
Animertbal, a large village containing two feats j and which, in the tenth
and eleventh centuries, gave title to' Counts.
The caftle of Afcha, and the feudal eftates of Eberman/Jcrf, Garmaßorf,
Gozendorf, Haimhuf, HaifmiU, Kemnat, Kitnersbruck, Lintacb, Mofz^
Pruck, Sigars, 'Tnim, Urjenkoln, and Za?2:.
2. The pfleggerichts of Ffaffenhofen and Hainburg, to which belongs
Fjaffenhnfen, a market-town in which is a feat,
Lauterbofen, a market-town.
Cajieli formerly a Benedtäine convent, at prefent made over to the Jefuits
of.