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6o A New Voyage Vol. I.
great noise at Wormes, where they tell a Thousand
Stories of them, and when they once enter upon
that Subjed, every one is at liberty to say what
he pleases of them.
FRANKEN- We only passed thro’ Frankendal, the Fortifica-
DAL. tions of which are pretty good, and would be
better if they were lined ; but they are forced to
Hope them too much, because the too soft and ill
cemented Earth could not otherwise support ’em.
This defed is yet apparently greater in the Forti-
MANHEIM fications of Manheim. These two little places
belong to the Eledor Palatine. ’Tis but two
Hours Journey from one to the other. The
situation of Manheim is its greatest Strength : For
it is not commanded by any riling Ground, and
is almost surrounded by the Neckar and the Rhine.
There is a'good Garrison in the Citadel; but the
greatest Rarity that I found in it is the Temple call’d
the Concord. The Eledor Charles Louis, Father of
the late Eledor Charles, caused this Church to be
built, to serve in common for the Rrotesiants or
Calvinists, and the Lutherans. But this Prince be-
ing of a pleasant Humour, and not very scrupu-
lous about Religion, the first Day they preach’d
in this Church, permitted a Popilh Priett of the
Neighbourhood to preach there also; who pro-
nounc’d rather a Panegyrick on the Prince, than a
Sermon. This seem’d at first to be only one of the
Eledor’s Frolicks : And they were so far from
pretending, that it shou’d be made a Precedent,
that the Lutherans and Calvinisss continu’d to have
the soie use of the Church. But at last this pre-
sent Eledor being a Roman Catholick, hath thought
fit to joyn those of his Communion with the o-
thers. And besides his Will, which is the strong-
est Argument he pretends this reason, that it is
not contrary to the Intention ;os the Founder,
which he proves from the Harangue of the
Priest.
great noise at Wormes, where they tell a Thousand
Stories of them, and when they once enter upon
that Subjed, every one is at liberty to say what
he pleases of them.
FRANKEN- We only passed thro’ Frankendal, the Fortifica-
DAL. tions of which are pretty good, and would be
better if they were lined ; but they are forced to
Hope them too much, because the too soft and ill
cemented Earth could not otherwise support ’em.
This defed is yet apparently greater in the Forti-
MANHEIM fications of Manheim. These two little places
belong to the Eledor Palatine. ’Tis but two
Hours Journey from one to the other. The
situation of Manheim is its greatest Strength : For
it is not commanded by any riling Ground, and
is almost surrounded by the Neckar and the Rhine.
There is a'good Garrison in the Citadel; but the
greatest Rarity that I found in it is the Temple call’d
the Concord. The Eledor Charles Louis, Father of
the late Eledor Charles, caused this Church to be
built, to serve in common for the Rrotesiants or
Calvinists, and the Lutherans. But this Prince be-
ing of a pleasant Humour, and not very scrupu-
lous about Religion, the first Day they preach’d
in this Church, permitted a Popilh Priett of the
Neighbourhood to preach there also; who pro-
nounc’d rather a Panegyrick on the Prince, than a
Sermon. This seem’d at first to be only one of the
Eledor’s Frolicks : And they were so far from
pretending, that it shou’d be made a Precedent,
that the Lutherans and Calvinisss continu’d to have
the soie use of the Church. But at last this pre-
sent Eledor being a Roman Catholick, hath thought
fit to joyn those of his Communion with the o-
thers. And besides his Will, which is the strong-
est Argument he pretends this reason, that it is
not contrary to the Intention ;os the Founder,
which he proves from the Harangue of the
Priest.