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538 GERMANY. [Saxony.
§. 9. An Eleftor of Saxony ftiles himfelf : Duke of Saxony, Juliers,
Cleve and the Berg, ai aljo of Engern aiui Weftphalia, Arch-Marjhal and
Elector oj the hok Roman Empire, Landgrave in Thuringia, Marggrave of
Meißen, and iike-ccife &/" Upper ^W Lower Lufatia, Burggrave oJ Ma^dcburg,
PriKcely Count of Henneberg, Count 0/ the Mark, Ravensberg,
Barbv and Hanau, and Lord of Ravenftein. The arms on account of the
dutchy of Saxony are a garland of rue (or according to Zollman, an ornamental
filatee for the head and hair) placed obliquely from right to left
over eight, or according to others, over ten hüesfa/?k and Or, ranged alternately
above each other ; on account of Thuringia, a lion marked with
four tranfverfe ftrokes argent and gules, drawn alternately, open jaws, an.
exerted tongue guks, and gripes projetfled Or, and on the head a crown of
the fame, in a field azure; on account of Meijfen, a Y\on fable, with an
exerted tongue gules, gripes projefled of the fame, and a double inverted
tail, in a field Or ; on account of fullers, a lion armed fable and argent,
with a tongue exerted gules, in a field Or ; on account of Clcves, in a field
gules^ an efcutcheon argent, in the center of which are eight fcepters conjoined
Or ; on account of the Berg, a lion guks, crowned azure, in a field
argent ; on account of Engern. and Weßphalia, an eagle crowned Or, in a
field azure, with three hornets horns gules, in a fi.eld. argent ; on account
of the Palatinate of Saxony, an eagle difplayed Or, and crowned witli the
ikme, ia a field azure, as alfo an eagle uncrowned Or, in a field fable-,
on account of Loiver Lufatia, an ox gules and courant with a belly argent,
in a field of the fame > on account of Upper Lifatia, part of a wall Or,
trowelled fable, and built battlement fafliion, in a field azure ; on account
of the Mark of Landsberg, \.\\o eredl fefles in a field Or ; on account of
the leigniory of Pleffein, a lion divided Or and argent, in a field azure
for the county of Orlamunde, a Won fable crowned gules, and clothed with
rofe-leaves of the fame, in a field Or ; on account of the burggravate of
Magdeburg, an efcutcheon divided longitudinally downwards, in whole
fore-field gules appears a fe?ni-argent eagle crowned Or, and in the hinder-field
argent, four bars gules ; for the county of Brene, three femicircles
gules, or three hornets horns cantoned argent,, in a field of the
fame 3 on account of the burggraviate of Altenburg, a rofe gules with
feeds Or, and painted "certe, in a field argent; for the county, of Eifen^
berg, three feftes azure in a field argent ; for the county of Ravensberg,
three chevrons gules, placed above each other, and from below to
the top fixed or conjoined in each other, in a field argent ; for the
county of the Mark, a fefle confifting of th-iee cheq^uers ^«/fi and argent,
in a field Or ; on account of the Regalia^ a-n efcutcheon modelled Or ; for
the county of Hanau, three chevrons gules, in a field Or ; for the princely
county oi Henneberg, a hen placed on a mount verte, and in a