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68o G E R MANY, [Middle-Mark.<br />

VIII. The circle <strong>of</strong> Storko and Becßoy<br />

Which lies betwixt th<strong>of</strong>e <strong>of</strong> Telto, Obcrbarnim, Lebus and Loiver Lufatia.<br />

In this circle are one hundred and feven villages, and it is <strong>com</strong>poled <strong>of</strong><br />

the lordfhips oi Bee/ko and Storko, which pafled from the Strelen family to<br />

that <strong>of</strong> Biberßein, by the latter <strong>of</strong> which, with the confent <strong>of</strong> Lewis<br />

King <strong>of</strong> Hungary and Bohemia as Lord paramount, it was mortgaged in<br />

1 51 8 to Thierry bilhop <strong>of</strong> Lebus, On the fecularization <strong>of</strong> that bifhopric,<br />

King Ferdinand \. in 1558 transferred thefe lordlhips with right <strong>of</strong> redemption<br />

to John Marggrave <strong>of</strong> Brandenburg ; and at length in 1575 the<br />

Eleftor John George was inverted with them in fief by Maximilian II.<br />

wh<strong>of</strong>e fuccelibrs have from time to time kept up the inveftiture. Thele<br />

lordfliips produce a fine wool.<br />

In them lies,<br />

1. Beesko, a fmall town, lying on the Spree. A duty is paid here to the<br />

Eledlor <strong>of</strong> Saxony on account <strong>of</strong> Lower-Lujatia.<br />

2. Storko, a fmall town which fuflfered very confiderably by a fire in 171 2.<br />

At this place is an ecclefiaftical infpedlion, and a cuftom-houfe for Loiver-<br />

Lujatia belonging to the Elector <strong>of</strong> Saxony.<br />

3. The bailiwick <strong>of</strong> .S^d'«/(^/(?r/.<br />

4. Begeln, Birkholz, Brietfch, Cojfenblat, Cumero, Drachetidorf, Fa!-<br />

kenberg, Glejendorf, Great-Beucho, Great and Little Kietz, Hartman/do/f,<br />

HermJdorJ] Kothen, Kraufznich, Kre^eJitz, Leib/i/ch, Liebeno, Mehrz, Muncbh<strong>of</strong>en,<br />

NeuendorJ, Radelo, Rago, Plesko, Pl<strong>of</strong>zien, R<strong>of</strong>zmanfdorf, Saro, Sau~<br />

loen, Schwerin, Selcho Tauche, Trepten, Vorwerk and WaJJcrburg,<br />

End <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Fifth Voi-ume.

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