A. D. 1 139. 321 



ing the petty dates incorporated with Genoa by conqueft or purchafe, 

 but moft frequently by the later, it may be fufficicnt to obferve, that 

 all the counts, marquifcs, lords of caflles, and alfo many cities, which 

 had acquired independence of the emperors or other fuperiors by pur- 

 chafe, or by taking advantage of the convulfions of the times, through- 

 out the whole extent of the Ligurian coaft, became, one after another, 

 fubjed to the powerful city of Genoa, upon fuch terms as they could 

 make for themfelves *. {Caffari Ann, Gen. L. i, ap. Muratori Script. V, 

 vi. — Muratori Antiq. V. iv, col. 16!.] 



What is here faid of Genoa holds equally true, though on a fmallec 

 fcale, with refpedl to Pifa, and the other chief cities of Italy. 



1 1 40 — Adolphus earl of Nordalbing, having acquired the province 

 of Wagreland, then almoft depopulated by the expulfion and flaughter 

 of the Slavi, and finding the ruins of a town on a peninfula formed by 

 the jundtion of the rivers Trave and Wochniz, which he thought an ex- 

 cellent fituation for a harbour, built a city there, and gave it the name 

 of Lubeck. The adjacent country was foon occupied and cultivated by 

 induflrious people, whom he invited, and encouraged by grants of lands, 

 to remove from Flanders, Holland, Frifeland, 8t.c. and Lubeck, fituated 

 in a country naturally fertile and interfeded by navigable rivers, foon 

 became a celebrated emporium, having many vefTels belonging to the 

 inhabitants. The trade of the neighbouring cities was fo much eclipfed 

 by it, that Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, who appears to have been 

 over-lord of the country, demanded of Adolphus one half of his new 

 city as a compenfation for the lofs he fuftained by the diminution of the 

 trade of his city of Lunenburg, and, on his refufal, prohibited the fale 

 of any kind of merchandize at Lubeck, except articles of food. He 

 alfo fhut up the fountains of fait at Thodeflo, in order to promote the 

 fale of the fait of Lunenburg, and ordered the feat of the trade to be 

 transferred to Bardwik. A conflagration, which happened in the year 

 1 158, would have ruined the city irrecoverably, if Adolphus had not 

 then refigned it to Henry, who, to induceahe citizens to rebuild their 

 houfes, immediately revoked the prohibition of trade, eflabliihed a mint 

 and a cuflom-houfe, and fent mefTengers to all the countries of the 

 North to invite the merchants to trade with Lubeck. Thus fupported, 

 the city immediately fprung up out of its afhes, and the number of in- 

 habitants dayly increafing, it foon became more profperous than before. 

 \yita Adolphi ex Helmoldi Ann. — Bertii Rer. Germ. L. iii, p. 177.] 



1 1 46 — Greece, or rather the Roman empire in Europe (at this time 

 nearly the fame in extent with the modern European Turkey), even in 

 its degenerate fl:ate continued to excell all the reft of Europe in the qua- 

 lity and variety of its manufadures, and in the ingenuity of its work- 



* It has already been obferved, that the Genoefe and Pifans contefted the fovereignty of Sardinia 

 and Corfica. 



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