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1. Duchy of Brabant (in part), with the towns Lowen, Brussels, and 

 Antwerp. 



2, Mecheln ; 3, Limburg ; 4, Luxemburg ; 5, Gelderland (in part, capital 

 Roermonde) ; 6, Flanders ; 7, Doornik or Tournay ; 8, the Free Lands 

 (including Middelburg and Ostende ; 9, Hennegau (capital, Mons) ; 10, 

 Namur or Namen. 



IIL The Circle of Westphalia, likewise called Lower Rhenish West- 

 phalian Circle, whose directors were the Bishop of Miinster, and alternately 

 the Electors of Brandenburg and of the Palatinate included : 1, the 

 Bishoprics of Miinster, Paderborn, Liittich, and Osnabruck ; 2, the Abbacies, 

 Corvey, Stable, and Malmedy (united), Werden, St. Cornelis-Miinster, 

 Essen, Thorn, and Herford ; 8, the Duchies of Cleves and Geldern (in part), 

 both Prussian ; Julich and Berg (capital, Dusseldorf ), Oldenburg ; 4, the 

 Principalities of Minden, East Friesland, and Mors, all belonging to the 

 king of Prussia ; Verden, Nassau ; 5, the Counties Mark, Ravensburg, 

 Tecklenburg, and Lingen, belonging to the king of Prussia ; Wied, Sayn, 

 Lippe, Bentheim, Steinfurt, Virnenburg, Gronsfeld, Reckheim, Holzapfel, 

 Blankenheim and Gerolstein, Kerpen and Lommersum, Schleiden, Haller- 

 miinde, Fagnolles, Schaumburg, Hoya, Diepholz and Spiegelberg, Rietberg, 

 Pyrmont ; 6, Anhalt, Winneiiburg and Beilstein, Gehmen, Gimborn and 

 Neustadt, Wickerad, &c. ; 7, the three towns, Cologne, Aachen (Aix la 

 Chapelle), and Dortmund. 



IV. The KuR Rhine Circle embraced : 1, the Electorate of Mentz ; 2, 

 the Electorate of Trier ; 3, the Electorate of Cologne ; 4, the Palatinate ; 

 5, the Principality Arenberg ; 6, Coblentz ; 7, Niederisenburg ; 8, Beilstein ; 

 and 9, Rheineck. 



V. The L^pper Rhine Circle embraced : 1, the five Bishoprics, Worms, 

 Speier, Strasburg, Basel, and Fulda ; 2, Weissenburg ; 3, Hertersheim ; 4, 

 Priim and Odenheim ; 5, Hesse ; 6, Simmern, Lantern, and Veldenz ; 

 Zweibriicken, Hersfeld, Waldeck, Nassau in part, Wiesbaden ; 7, Sponheim, 

 Salm, Hanau-Miinzenberg, Solms, Konigstein, Oberisenburg, Leiningen, 

 Wittgenstein, Falkenstein, Kriechingen, and Wartenburg ; 8, Reipoltskir- 

 chen, Hanau-Lichtenberg, Bretzenheim, Dachstuhl, and Ollbriich ; 9, the five 

 free towns of Worms, Speier, Frankfurt on the Maine, Friedberg, and Wetzlar. 



VL The SwABiAN Circle, whose Director and most powerful prince was 

 the Duke of Wiirtemberg, embraced : 1, the Bishoprics Constance and 

 Augsburg : 2, Ellwangen, Kempten, Lindau, and Buchau ; 3, Wiirtemberg 

 and Teck ; 4, Baden ; 5, Hohenzollern Sigmaringen and Liechtenstein ; 6, 

 Thengen and Oettingen ; Stiihlingen, Baar, &c. ; Kletgaw ; 7, twenty 

 Abbacies and one Provostship ; 8, twenty-eight Manors and Counties of 

 the Houses Waldburg, Fugger, Konigsegg, &c. ; 9, thirty-one free cities, as 

 Augsburg, Ulm, Esslingen, &c. 



Vn. The Bavarian Circle embraced : 1, Salzburg ; 2, Freising, 



Regensburg, and Passau ; 3, Berchtesgaden ; 4, Lower and Upper Miinster ; 



5, the Duchy of Bavaria ; 6, Neuburg and Sulzbach ; 7, Leuchtenberg and 



Sternstein ; 8, Haag and Ortenburg ; 9, Ehrenfels, Sulzbiirg, Pyrbaum, 



Hohen waldeck, and Breiteneck ; 10, the free town Reichsst ^dt. 



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