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the Bishoprick of Spire; * it was taken from the * since the sir st
French after a long -Siege, in the year 1676, by thtt
the Germans, who relying on the Faith of the
Truce, have not a very strong Garrison in it. into ths Hands
Spire is a pretty little City, weak and without “/^French.
Trade, tho’ it was famous heretofore: that which ^^cit?™'
makes it considerable at present is the Imperial*
Chamber, which, after it had mov’d from place to
place for above Two hundred years, was fix’d here
by Charles V. This Chamber is a Sovereign Court,
where all the Affairs of the Empire that are
brought before it, are judg’d without appeal, un-
less in some few Cases. The Chief f Judge re-1 This ju jge
presents the Emperors Person, and has the Imperial muft always be
Scepter laid before him as a mark of the Dignity a Roman Ca-
with which he is cloth’d. thohck, and
has 4000
Crowns Salary. Os the two Presidents, one is a Roman Catholick, and the
other a Protestant; and os the Fifteen Assiflants, there are only Seven Prote-
stants, the rest being Roman-Catholicks. The Presidents have 2000 Crowns
each, and every Assistant jooo. The Chamber never meddles with'the Bufi-
ness os the War. 'Tit remarkable, that the contending Parties can never disco-
ver the Names os thofe who st ate the Case, either besore or asterit'm decided:
They who appeal to the Emperor are oblig'd to confign a, certain Sum, which, if
they receive a savourable Sentence, is reslord to 'em-, is otherinise^they lose it.
Heiss
There is also another great Tribunal in Germany
call’d Council os the Court, because ’tis held at
Vienna, or follows the Imperial Court. This
'll Council is not perpetual, nor, in all respeds,of |] This Council
equal Dignity with the Imperial Chamber ; yet it alfo compos'd
Cases of the same nature are also debated, and °f Members, os
soveraignly determin’d here. No Suits can be re-btth Reli^10W'
mov'd from one of these Chambers to the other;
only in some cases a review os the judgment
my be obtain’d before the Emperor himself.
he express Orders which the Mareschal de
Tur . ne receiv’d during the last Wars,not to disturb
c interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the
Chamber os Spire, makes the Members of that
Court
the Bishoprick of Spire; * it was taken from the * since the sir st
French after a long -Siege, in the year 1676, by thtt
the Germans, who relying on the Faith of the
Truce, have not a very strong Garrison in it. into ths Hands
Spire is a pretty little City, weak and without “/^French.
Trade, tho’ it was famous heretofore: that which ^^cit?™'
makes it considerable at present is the Imperial*
Chamber, which, after it had mov’d from place to
place for above Two hundred years, was fix’d here
by Charles V. This Chamber is a Sovereign Court,
where all the Affairs of the Empire that are
brought before it, are judg’d without appeal, un-
less in some few Cases. The Chief f Judge re-1 This ju jge
presents the Emperors Person, and has the Imperial muft always be
Scepter laid before him as a mark of the Dignity a Roman Ca-
with which he is cloth’d. thohck, and
has 4000
Crowns Salary. Os the two Presidents, one is a Roman Catholick, and the
other a Protestant; and os the Fifteen Assiflants, there are only Seven Prote-
stants, the rest being Roman-Catholicks. The Presidents have 2000 Crowns
each, and every Assistant jooo. The Chamber never meddles with'the Bufi-
ness os the War. 'Tit remarkable, that the contending Parties can never disco-
ver the Names os thofe who st ate the Case, either besore or asterit'm decided:
They who appeal to the Emperor are oblig'd to confign a, certain Sum, which, if
they receive a savourable Sentence, is reslord to 'em-, is otherinise^they lose it.
Heiss
There is also another great Tribunal in Germany
call’d Council os the Court, because ’tis held at
Vienna, or follows the Imperial Court. This
'll Council is not perpetual, nor, in all respeds,of |] This Council
equal Dignity with the Imperial Chamber ; yet it alfo compos'd
Cases of the same nature are also debated, and °f Members, os
soveraignly determin’d here. No Suits can be re-btth Reli^10W'
mov'd from one of these Chambers to the other;
only in some cases a review os the judgment
my be obtain’d before the Emperor himself.
he express Orders which the Mareschal de
Tur . ne receiv’d during the last Wars,not to disturb
c interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the
Chamber os Spire, makes the Members of that
Court