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was itfelf rendered immediately fubjedt to the papal fee, and by various donations
greatly enriched. In 1545, Duke Maurice, with the confentofhis
brother Duke^«^z^/z«, purchafed the cloyfler of the council ofPegau, together
with the buildings and eftates thereof, as alfo the upper and lower juiifdictions,
for the fum of 9500 florins. The prefent amt-houfe here ftands on
the fpot on which formerly flood the cloyrter. In 1 644, Pegau was clofely
befieged by Torße?ifon the S'-i.vedifj
general.
2. Groiizfch, a fmall town, fituated not far from the Eißer, in a pleafant
fpot between the rivulets of Schwenke and Sclmauder, and belonging at prefent
to the family of Winkler^ who are iikewife Barons of SchwetideiidorJ . The
old Counts of Groitzjch are famous in hiftory, particularly the brave Count
Wiprecht, who was alfo Marggrave of Lufatia and Burggrave of Magdeburg^
One half hour's diftance from hence lies Altcn-Groiizjch, a village, in which
formerly was an adminiftration.
3. Schwerzen, a village, feated on the canal near Pegau, and anciently
called Schworz. In the year 1084, this place was erected into a town and
fortified by Count Wiprecht, but funk again to a village.
4. Aiidigaß, Bohlen, Elßertrehnitz, Great-Storkewitz, Medeivitzßh and
Wiederau, all parochial-villages containing noble eftates.
5. The adminiftration oiLobnitz, belonging to the Counts oiWerther, and
comprizing in it Lobnitz and other villages,
XIV. The foundation amt of Würzen, containing in it twenty-twoimmediate
vaflals and feventy-fix villages. The Sates of the Vogtland
circle, in the larger feledion, wanting, at the Land-Diet of 1718, to procure
to themfelves the precedency of the States of the foundation of Würzen,
and maintaining that the circles ought to follow each other without interruption,
and not be feparated by the admixture of the States of the foundation ;.
the latter, and in conjundtion with them thofe alfo of the Leipzig circle,
added, by way of reply, that, by virtue of the conftant poftulation, and the
thereby eftablirtied capitulation and agreement of the foundation oi Meißen,.
they were received in the above manner into the hereditary countries, and
were not to be feparated from them again ; that there was alfo a gracious
order, bearing date in March 17, to be found in the adts of the Diet of
1661, by which the States of the foundation were annexed to the nobility
of the Leipzig circle, and confequently to be confidered, in this refpedl,
as no other than States of that circle, to the direftion of which fome
alfo among them had been chofen at different times by the whole circle ;,
and thus they ought to enjoy the like privileges with them, as the province
at the nomination of the perfons of the larger feledion, and the Sovereigns,
by the confirmation thereof, had always gracioufly allowed it, and added,
them immediately to the Leipzig circle. The conclufion therefore of thefe
difputes was, that they fubmitted to the fentence of the lefter feledion :.
upon which that feiedtion decreed, by a majority of voices, that the States
of