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Mergentheim.] G E R M A N T.
2. At Egerf}:eim, a parochial-village, is an upper-amt bailiff. This town
is inhabited by the lubjc(fls of various Lords.
3. Hohlach, in ancient records c&Wed Hcbm/cch, a village, vv^hich is the
original place of the Counts of Hohenlohe.
4. T\\Q vev^nut-zmi oi Maynbernheim, having its feat at
Moynbernbeim^ a fmall town, lying not far from the river Mayn, and
which in the year 1366 was a town, and came in 1500 to the marggravi.il-houfe.
5. The revenue-amt o^ Stephanßerg, Vk^hich has its feat at
Stephanfberg, a citadel and borough, iituated not far from the river
Mayn, and environed by the territory of Wurzburg. This place was purchafed
in the year 1502.
6. The revenue and judge-amt o( Litfle-Lajikbeim, fituated at
Little-Lankheim, a market-town, which lies not far from the foregoing
place. The amt-office here is alfo denominated from the ruinous citadel
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of Cnßell, fituate not far from it.
7. The revenue-amt of Brixenftadt, which has its feat at
Brixenßadt, or Prichfenßadt, a fmall town, lying on the borders of the
county of Caßell, and which was purchafed by the Burggrave Frederick V\
in the year 1381, of King IVenzel oi Bohemia. In 1632 this place was
taken by the Imperialifls, by whom it was plundered and laid wafle. Here
is ftill an ordinary Imperial immunity or alylum, for fuch as have accidentally
been guilty of man-flaughter.
8. The prefedturate of Furstenforst, which takes its name from a
ruinous citadel, and is environed by the bifliopric of Bamberg, being fituated
in the neighbourhood of Burg-Hafzlach.
XVII. The marggravial-houfe of Onolzbach is alfo pofTefled of a fhare
in the large village of Randerßicker in the bilhopric of Wurzburg.
Of the T E u T o N I c K Order m general^ hut w
particular of the Maßerdorn o/" Mergenth eim^
and the Bailimck of Franconia.
§. I. ' I ""HE Teutonick order was founded in the year 11 90 in Pakßiney
* and the Knights of this order were called Knights of the
Virgin Mary, or brothers of
the 'Teutonick houfe of our Lady of yerujalern.
They are to bind themfelves by vow to the defence of the Chrißian!
religion and the Holy Land,
and likewife to the lervice of the poor and ück;
Vol. V. M m m i-)