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Breiteneck.] GERMAN<br />

Y.<br />

383<br />

this now extinft familv takes its name, lies in the pretedurate <strong>of</strong> Aihlitig<br />

in Upper-Bavaria, iioi tar from the market-town <strong>of</strong> Aibluig.<br />

§.3. The Eledtor<strong>of</strong> Bavaria joins himfelf to no college <strong>of</strong> Counts <strong>of</strong> the-<br />

Empire, at the Dit^t there<strong>of</strong>, on account <strong>of</strong> this feigniory, but in the circle<br />

<strong>of</strong> Bavaria is p<strong>of</strong>feficd <strong>of</strong> a voice on that account. To a Roman month it<br />

pays twenty florins, and to each chamber-term is rated at ten rixdollars,<br />

feventy-three kruitzers.<br />

§. 4. The m<strong>of</strong>t remarkable places in it are,<br />

ruins.<br />

1. Hohen-WaMeck, a village. The ancient caille <strong>of</strong> JVaUcck lies in<br />

2. Schliers, a coUegiate-foundarion, feated on the fee,, or lake, oi Schlias.<br />

3. Miesbach, or Mtifpach, a market- town.<br />

4. Wallenburgf or Waldsnberg, a citadel.<br />

The Seigniory <strong>of</strong><br />

B R E I -1 E N E C K,<br />

§. I. T^HIS feigniory lies in the upper palatinate, and the places be-<br />

-*•<br />

longing to it are within the liberties <strong>of</strong> the pfleg-anat <strong>of</strong> Neumarkt^<br />

being difperfed up and down in the dutchy oi Neuburg.<br />

§. 2. The places and eflates <strong>of</strong> which this feigniory confiffs were taken«<br />

by the Imperial general Count John o^l'illy, in the time <strong>of</strong> the thirty years<br />

war, and raifed by the Emperor, under the name <strong>of</strong> Breiteneck, to an Impcrrbl-:(eigniory;<br />

and Count TiV/y was, on account there<strong>of</strong>, received, in the year<br />

1648, at the Diet <strong>of</strong> the circle at Wajferburg, among the States <strong>of</strong> the circlt<br />

oi Bavaria. But the Counts <strong>of</strong> 7/7^ be<strong>com</strong>ing extindt in the year 1724, in<br />

the perfon <strong>of</strong> Count Ferdinand Laurence., the fief-eftates fell to the Eledlor<br />

<strong>of</strong> Bavaria^ and the hereditary ones to the laft Count's fifter, named<br />

Maria Anna Catherina-, who was confort to Antony, the elder Count <strong>of</strong><br />

Montjort.<br />

§.3. The Elector <strong>of</strong> Bavaria, at the Diets <strong>of</strong> the circle there<strong>of</strong>, is<br />

p<strong>of</strong>leffed <strong>of</strong> the voice <strong>of</strong> Breiteneck, but at the Diets <strong>of</strong> the Empire joins<br />

himfelf to no college <strong>of</strong> Counts on account <strong>of</strong> this feigniory. To a Roman<br />

month its contribution is fixed at twenty florins, and to each chamber-term.<br />

at<br />

thirty-five rixdollars.<br />

§. 4. In it we fhall take notice <strong>of</strong>,<br />

L. The fief-eftates which fell to the Eledor <strong>of</strong> Bavaria : namely,<br />

I..<br />

Of

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