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g^ GERMANY, [Salm.
ads and mafriculas of the Empire all Loraine, without any exception, is
included in the Circle of the Upper Rhine ; but it is only on account of the
Margravate of Nomeny that he is a member of the college of Princes and
the Diet of the upper Circle of the Rhine, and that he pays the ftipulated
ium of IÖOO florins. Since the ceffion, however, of this Margravate to
France all payments on account thereof, due either to the Empire, Circle or
Chamber at Wetzlar have been difcontinued.
LI
T'he
Principality and County of
S A L M,
E S on the Wafgau mountains betwixt Loraine and Lower-AIface, and
in contradiftindion to the lower county of Salm, within the dutchy of
Luxemburg, is alfo called the upper county of Salm. "John and Simon,
fons to 'John., count of Salm, divided the ancient county oi Salm into two
equal portions. Paul, the lalT: male defcendant of the former left a daughter
named Chrißina, who, on her marriage with Francis of Loraine, count of
Vaudemont, brought him one half of the county of 5'^/;w, together with other
eflates of her father's. "Jobannetta, only daughter and heirefs to the beforementioned
Count Simon, in the year 1459 annexed one half of the county
to her hufband, John Wild and Rhinegrave, from whom was defcended
the Wild and Rhinegrave Philip Otho, count of Salm. Ncufuille, who in
the year 1623 was raifed to be a Prince of the Empire. His fon Leopold
Philip, Charles Wild and Rhingrave, together with other Princes of
Salm, lord oi Vinßingen and Anholt, was in 1654 admitted into the college
of Princes. His fon Charles Thierry Otho, Prince of Salm, in the year 1668,
obtained from the direftory of the Circle of the Upper-Rhine at Worms, a
teftimonial that the princely county of Salm (for fo it is termed in the
Prince's petition and the teftimonial of the diredory) was and fliould continue
an immediate imperial county and member of the Circle of the Upper-
Rhine. In his fon Lewis Otho became extind the ancient line of the
Princes oi Salm, on which John Philip Domifiic, Jofeph Albert, his brother,
Philip °JoJep>h and Nicholas Leopold, fons to his father's brother, and all
great
grandfoi)ß to Frederic the Great, founder of the Flemijh collateral line of
that o^ Sahn, agreed in a partition of the lands and titles oi Salm. The laft
line was named the Hoogßrat or Salm zu Salm, and the two former the
Lcutz-Lces ot Salm-KJrburg. Thefe two lines, in the year 1743, divided
the lands which had devolved to them into two equal fhares, voting alternately
in the Diet as Prince of Salm. Its afTeffment in the imperial matriiula
is two horfe and four foot, or forty florins ^er month ; and to the
4 chamber