New_System_of_Geogra.. - Medievalcoinage.com

Brandenburg.] GERMANY. 629
perpetual deputies of the whole body of the nobility and of the towns,
their
provincial trealiirer, fecretary, receiver, excife-mafter and clerk. Whenever
the nobility and towns are jointly obliged to railed collections, the Bobility.
by virtue of the recels of 1643, contribute about 410 rixdolinrs to the
1 000, but the towns pay 590. The hereditary niar(h:ils of the M.-rk of
Brandenburg are the Ga'ifes, noble Londö of Pullkz ; its hereditary chamberlains,
the Counts of iV/Jiövr/// ; its hereditary'cup-bearers, the family of
Hacken; its hereditary fupreme purveyor, the family o'l Sckulenlmrg ; its
hereditary fewers, formerly the family of iZ'>^v/\^f6-/^, but, 101740, the Counts
of Munchow obtained that otiice j its hereditary treafurers, the family of
Schenk; and its hereditary rangers, i\vA.i oi Groben.
§. 5. The greatclf part of the inhabitants of the Mark profefs themfelves
of the Protelfant Lutheran church, the preachers belonging to which are
ranged under fixty-nine fpiritual infpeäions, and their heads partly Ifiled in-
Ipectors and partly alfo provofts.
Not only the royal and electoral houfe, but
likewife a conüderable part of the inhabitants, profefs themfelves of this
church. The entertained, or refugee Boketnians, have tlieir own peculiar
mode of worfliip and are T^cw^/z-catholics. Every inhabitant here enjoys
an unrcttrained liberty of confcience.
§.6. The fine and numerous manufadures and fabricks here, the
great^ril: part of which were introduced by the refugee French, and are to be
found at Berlin and Potfdatn, make cloths and divers forts of wooUen-ftuffs,,
as, namely, camlets, calamanco's, ftamine's, flannels, &c. filk-ftutfs and
velvets, tapeftries, gold and falver-lace, leather, tobacco, fugar, all manner
of purified colour-earths, alum, faltpetre, gunpowder, divers forts of wares
in wrought and caft-iron and fteel, brafs, arms, very large and excellent
rairrours, a very fine and true (ort of porcelain, which exceeds even the
Mifnian in whitenefs, and other things. At Berlin are alfo excellent painters,
ftatuaries and engravers. Admirable things are likewife performed
here in the jewelling, goldfmiths and enamelling way ; apd fine mathematical
inftruments made. Tiie Berlin coaches are famous and in great
eileem every where. By means of thefe feverai manufactures, fabricks and
arts, a faving is made not only of large fums of money, and the fame kept
in the country,
but wares to the amount of many tons of gold are alfo exported
to other parts. By means too of the above-defcribed (§.3.) navigable
rivers and canals, this trade is greatly promoted.
§. 7. The fciences are in high efteem and much pradtifed in the Mark,
and for the advancement and promotion of them the common Latin fchools,
with ihegymna/ia, the univerfity of Frank/art on the Oder, and the academy
of fciences at Berlin, are of u(e.
§. 8. It has been already remarked above (in §. 4.) that in old times the
Suevi, and in particular the Semnones, who were a branch of them, refided
ia
"