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24- GERMANY,
[Prüm.
Grleßmm, or Griefen, a village feated on the 'Rloine, which defcended
likewife to the order from the lords o^ Stauffen.
Schlaf, a village, which was transferred to the order by Ego, count of
Freyki/'g.
The villages ofUßatifin JVendlmgen and Efpach or Efchbacb.
To the grand-prior belong alfo certain tythes and other revenues in the
vale of Kirchzarten, with a commandery at Freyburg.
PRÜM.
I'he Princely Abbey of
§^ I. np H E BenediBijte abbey of Prüm lies in the forefl: of Ardenne, be-
•^ twixt the bailiwicks of Schoneck and Schonberg, in the eledtorate
of triers, and the duchy of Luxembourg. It was founded in the eighth
centuiy by Pepin, King of the Franh, and his fpoufe. In the year 883
the 'Normam deftroyed it, and about ten years after it was again furprifed
by thofe fierce favages, who put many of the religious to the fword. In
the year 1017, a canonry was fettled in this place. In the year 1343, for
its greater fecurity, it put itfelf under the archbifhopric of TnVr^ ; and in
1579, by a papal bull, was for ever annexed to the board-lands of the
archbifliopric, and incorporated with it, which annexment and incorporation
was confirmed in i z^yK, by the Emperor Maximilian II. and thus it
was that the Eledlor of 'Triers became adminiftrator of this abbey, and the
arms he bears as fuch are mentioned in the archbifhopric of Triers.
§. 2. The archbifl^iop oi Triers, as adminiftrator of this abbey, fits and
votes on the ecclefiafi:ical bench in the college of Princes,
before the abbots
of Stablo andCorvey, but the precedence betwixt thefe abbies is contefted,
and according to fome, they take place alternately. The Eledlor alfo, with
refpedl to Priim, is taxed in the matricula of the Empire at one horfeman
and thirteen foot. In the laft publication of the ufual matricula, Priim pays
to the chamber at Wezlar thirty-eight rthlr. fixty-two and a half kruitzersj
but others fay, that by a particular adl of the Empire, dated 1727, the
quota of this abbey is only eleven rthlr. five kruitzers ; Prutn likewife entitles
the Eledtor of Triers to a feat and vote in the Diet of the Circle of the
Upper Rhine, where he fits the lafi: on the bench of Princes.
§. 3. The prior and convent of this abbey have, indeed, a court of juftic©
for civil caufes, either perfonal or within the lower jurifdidion, but with a
right of appeal to the court of Triers, whereas the tribunal eredted at Prüm,
by the Eledor of Triers, decides finally in all criminal cafes, and others pertaining
to the high jurifdidion.
§. 4. The