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Deux-ponts.]
GERMANY.
George John, who, in confequence of a treaty of partition, entered into in
the year 1556, with the above-mentioned Duke Wolfgang, fucceeded in
the dominions of the Eledlor-palatine to the lordHiip oi Lutzelßcin and the
Eledor's portion of the territory o( Gutenberg, Abfenz, and the wine tenths
at Weiffenburg and Kleeburg. But, the year 1 566, brought a confiderable
addition to the grandeur of Duke George John, the Emperor creating
him a Prince of the Empire with right of a feat and vote in the Diet. All
thefe privileges defcended to his grandfon Duke Leopold Leivis, who dying
in the year 1694, without male illue, was the laft of the line of his greatgrand-father
Rupert. His territories were claimed by the Eleftor-palatine,
Palfgraves of Deux-ponts, Sulzbach and Birkenfeld. At length, in the year
1733, an agreement was entered into between the feveral claimants, by
which it was ftipulated, that the Eleftor-palatine fhould hold Veldenz and
Lautereck ; and the Palfgraves of Birkenfeld and Sukzbach poffefs the county
of Lutzelßein betwixt them; and, with refpedl to the feat and vote in the
Imperial and circular Diets, as lord of Felde?iz, Charles Philip, the Eledor,
was to hold thefe during life, after which they were to be fliared alternately,
from year to year, by the Palfgraves of Birkenfeld and Sulzbach;
and thus it has continued ever fince the year 1743, without the leafl: difcontent
on either fide.
§. 2. The lands which devolved, in the manner above-mentioned, to
Duke Rupert, and are now held by the Eledlor-palatine, form two upper
bailiwicks j
viz.
1. The upper bailiwick of ^fZ;/^;?z, lying on the Mofelle, and being furrounded
on all fides by the Eledtorate of Triers. In it is
Veldenz, a borough, containing a feat of that name at half an hour's diftance
from it, together with the villages of Borgen, or Burgen, Duffemont, noted
for its excellent Mofelle wine ; Mullheim, containing a parifli-church j j4ndeln
and Kornhaufen.
2. The upper bailiwick of Lautereck lies on the river Glan, and
contains
Lautereck, a borough, or fmall town, feated on the river Glan.
The villages of Heinzenhaufeu, Lohnwciler, Berfweikr and Weiffweiler,
Romigsberg, originally a convent, but now a feat.
The DuTCHY of DEUX-PONTS,
§. I. 'T~^HE prefent dutchy oi Deux-ponts is compofed of the ancient
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county of Deux-ponts and fome parts of the preceding county of
Veldenz; the laft, indeed, conftitutes two thirds of the dutchy. In the year
3385, Eberhard^ laft count thereof, fold half this county to the Palatine
Loufe