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514 GERMANY. [Nürnberg.
II. The corn-office. 12. The cenfor-office, eftabliihed for the government
of handicrafrs. 13. The tallow-ottice. 14. The rent-inafter's
oßice. 15. The ilieriff's, or inquifition-office. 16. The office belonging
to the town charity. 17. The country charity office. 18. The Scbald
wood office. 19. The Z,tfz/r£7;tT wood office. 20. The fpital-office, belonging
to ihe order of the tlch Gboft. 21. The cloyfter-officeof St. Clare
and Fulmeuib. 22. The twelve fraternities of Mendel. 23. The twelve
fraternities of Landauer. 24. The fpltal of St. Martha., ereöed for the
reception of pilgrims. 25. The arfenal-office. 26. The cheft-office.
27. The mint-office. 28. The office belonging to the orphan-houfe or
foundling-hofpital. All thefe feveral offices are filled up with deputies
of the council, deliberators, afleflors, adminiftrators, (äc. Some of them,
namely as for inftance, N" 17— 22, and 24— 26, are to be confidered as
adminiriraiory country prefeöurates, they having their jurifdidion there.
Niirnberg has no particular conliftory, but the magiftracy in it exercife all
confiftorial rights in capital matters. The greateft part of the clergy in the
town are referred io the fcholarchate and the ecclefiaftic office, and thofe
who officiate at the fpital to the upper adminiftrator thereof, that is to the
firft councellor at the Imperial fortrefs, for their firft inftance. Moft of
the country curates are referred to the adminlftratory-prefeiturates, and
feventeen of them to the country charity office. The town-court prefides
in matrimonial affairs, and the theological faculty at Altorj confecrates the
new ecclefiaflics. The military * force of this town confifts of feven
companies of foot, each of which in time of peace contains one hundred
men, but in time of war is one hundred and eighty- five ftrong ; of two
companies of cuiraffiers, each confifling of eighty-five men, and two
of invalids, amounting to two hundred and twenty-fix. Out of the
burgherffiip twenty-five fbandards are always kept in arms, each of which
confirts of between three and four hundred men, exclufive of two hundred
gunners, and two companies of the town cavalry.
I fhall not infift here upon the great reputation which divers Nurnbergers
have for a long time part: acquired in the arts of painting and engraving,
but only mention the number of its ingenious artifts and handicrafts people
who execute in ivory, wood, and metal, numberlefs ingenious things at
a very low price, which are exported all over the world. It is true, indeed,
thofe
toys do not bring in fomuch money to the town at prefent as they did
formerly, but this article is even yet confiderable, Niirnberg being one of
the greateft trading towns in Germany. Geography is much indebted to the
celebrated {hop for land-charts eftabliihed here by "^ohn Bapt. Homajin, and
this (hop is alfo a real ornament and a great honour to the town.
The Nürnbergeri'\\t originally defcended from the Norici, who quitting
their own country fettled in the ancient Nordgau, and there founded the
O.'firum Ncricum. Lambertus Schafnaburgenßi furniihes us with the earlieft
account
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