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418 GERMANY, [Culmbach.
tranfplerced the two crowns, the word Concordant. Between the crofs,
by which the golden pKite was iurrounded, were feefi two black Fnijjian,
and the like number of red Brandenburg eagles. This crofs was worn
about the neck at a blue ribbon. The Marggrave George William, as hereditary
Prince, io early as the year 1705, laid the ground for the order of
Sincerity, which in 1712, on his entrance upon the regency, he completed.
This lall order the Marggrave Frederick revived in 1744, and it is commonly
called the order of the red eagle. The prefent fymbol of the order
h a fquare, white, enamelled crofs. of gold, which is worn pendent at a
fcarlet coloured watered ribbon, reaching from the neck to the breaft. In
the ftar, which the Knights of this order bear on their breads, is feen the
Brandenburg red eagle, and the folknving circumfcription round it viz.
Sincere & ccnßanter. Tiie reigning Marggrave is head and mafter of this
order.
§. 10. The reigning Marggrave of B>andenburg-Bayreuth has, on account
ol the principality oi Bayreuth, both feat and voice in the council of
the Princes of the Empire, and is alfo co-fummoning Prince of the circle of
Franconia, fee above, p. 389. To a Roman month he pays three hundred
and twenty-nine florins, and to each chamber-term three hundred and
thirty-eight rixdollars, fourteen kruitzers and a quarter.
§. II. The princely colleges here are, tlie high minifterial and privyeounci!
college, in which the Marggrave himfelf prefides, and under which
fland the privy-expedition, and the privy-chancery ; as alio the regencycollege
and regency-chancery, together with the aulic tribunal, the tribunal
for noble fiefs, the chamber-colle;,;e, the feudal-court, the confiflory, and
the matrimonial tribunal. The bufinefs of the mines is under the infpection
of the mine-offices at Golkronach, Wiinjiedel, and Nayla. The principality
itfelf is divided into prefedlurate and provincial captainfhips, as alfo
into upper-prefefturates, to which belong towns and amts.
§. 12. Keyßer fays that the Prince's revenues here, in 1730, fcarce
amounted to 550,000 guldens, but that they might be improved to a
much greater fum. And we are alTured, that by good oeconomy, they
might be made to amount to one million of guldens.
§. 13. This Marggrave always keeps up a guard of horfe, and a fmall
body of huifars, as alfo two regiments of foot, befides which a militia is
maintained here, which is appointed by the towns and pre fed:u rates, and in
the captainfliip of Bayreuth confifts of ten companies, in that o^ Culmbach
of eleven, in that of Hof of nine, in that of Wupjiedel of eight, in that of
Erlangen of five, and in that of Neußadt on the j4ijch of two battallions,
tlie firft of which confifts of five and the fecond of feven companies. The
province has its own commiflTariate -office of war.
§.14. In the more accurate defcription of this principality its divifiorhs
iinto prefedui-ate and provincial captainfhipSj and upper-prefeclurates are
tp. be füllp.wedi. I- ^'