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That of the dates and countries which thefe houfea 

 poflefied. (3.) That of the archbifhopricks, bi- 

 fhopricks, abbies, military orders, &c. (4.) That 

 of the free cities and thofe that hold immediately 

 of the empire, &c. To which may be added divers 

 hiftorical matters, as (5.) an inquiry into the 

 origin of electors, and in what manner the 

 chiefs of divers Germanic nations recovered their 

 liberty by the right of poftliminy, after the ex- 

 tinction of the Carolovinian houfe. (6.) The 

 particular hiftory of the Anfeatic league. (7.) 

 That of the war of thirty years ; and numberlefs 

 other particulars which relate to the Modern 

 Hiftory of Germany. The hiftory of the houfe 

 of Auftria, and that of Brandenburg, merit a 

 more particular ftudy, becaufe the heads of thefc 

 auguft houfes are at this day elevated to the firlt 

 rank among the fovereigns of Europe. 



XXT. XIII. rhe Hiftory of tbe Kings of Bohe- 

 mia. This country, fituate on the borders of the 

 Elbe, was anciently inhabited by the Sclavi, whom 

 they named Behemanns or Behaims, for it is not 

 more than 200 years fince they called Bohemia, 

 Bchaigna. It was originally governed by dukes, 

 the firft of whom, named Zicco, conducted, 

 with his brother Lecho, in the year 550, a 

 powerful colony into this country, uninhabited, 

 and almoft covered with forefts. From his time 

 there have been twenty-two dukes in Bohemia, 

 the courfe of 536 years, down to the year 1086. 

 The luft of chcfe dukes was named Uladifhuis If. 



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