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neighbouring cities, and there the archives of the Hanfe are preferved. 

 To this city, as the more immediate head of the firft divifion, there were 

 annexed 



Hamburgh, Lunenburg, Gripswald, 



Rostock, Stettin, Colberg, 



Wismar, Anclam, Stargard, and 



Stralsund, Golnaw, Stolpe^ 



Cologne was the chief city of the second region, in which were comprehended 

 Wesel, Hervorden, - Venlo, 



Duesburg, Paderborn, Elburg, 



Emmerich, Lemgow, Harderwick, 



Warburg, Bilefeld, Daventer, 



Unna_, Lipstadt, Campen, 



Ham, Coesfeld, Swolle, 



Munster, Nimeguen Groningen, 



Osnaburg, Zutphen, Bolswert, 



Dortmund, Rui-emond, and 



Soest, Arnheim, Stavern. 



Brunswick, the capital of the third region, had under its jurisdiction 

 Magdeburg, Hildesheim, Stade, 



Goslar, Hanover, Bremen, 



Einbeck, Ulsa, Hamelen, and 



Gottingen, Buxtehude, Minden. 



Dantzik, the chief city of Prussia, was at the head of the fourth region^ 

 consisting of 



Koningsberg, Brunsberg, • and also sundry towns in 



Colmar, Riga? Slavonia. 



Thorn, Dorpt, 



Elbing, Reval, 



There were alfo fome cities, whofe right to the privileges of the 

 Hanfeatic aflbciation was controverted, viz. 



Stendale, Breslaw, Halberstadt, 



Soltvvedale, Cracow, Helmstadt, 



Berlin, Hall, Ryla, 



Brandenburg, Aschersleben, Nordheim, and 



Frankfort on the Oder, Quedlinburg, Dinant*. 



The four chief fadories of the Hanfe merchants were eftablifhed at 

 NovoGROD in Ruflia, London in England, probably the moft antient as 

 well as the moft important of the whole, Bruges in Flanders, and Bergen 

 in Norway. All the merchants of every one of the Hanfe towns had a 

 right to trade to thofe fadories, and to enjoy all the privileges obtained 

 from the fovereigns of the countries, conforming to the regulations en- 

 aded for the general good of the whole confederacy f . 



* Dinant was at tliis time in ruins, l)ut after, many, which is fomclimcs followed by Werdoii- 



wards revived. Wtrdcnliagen extends the num- hagen, the profcfTed hidorian of the Hanfe rc- 



ber of cities of this dcfcription to forty-four, among publics. But, though accuracy and unquellionable 



which arc Lifbon and Stockholm. authenticity might be expcitcil from the records 



•j- Thefe lills and other notices are taken from preferved at Lubeek, fuch is, uolwithflanding, the 



Bcrtius, who w rote a book upon the cities of Get. uncertainty of Hanfeatic hillory, that of the lifts 



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