Chap. III. 
Low-Countries, Germany, 
but not near the Rhine^ zxi^ he was buried in the Campo 
Martio at Rome fo that in all likelihood this was one 
of the Statues or triumphal Arches erected near the 
Banks of the Rhine to his Memory, after the Senate 
had bellowed upon him the Sirname of Germankus. 
The Church Ornaments in which the Eledlor fays 
Mafs, are remarkable for their Riches ; and the Cano- 
py under which the Hod is carried, upon certain Fef- 
tivals, in Proceflion, is all cover’d with Pearls. 
Every one of the Eledors oi Mentz bears the Arms 
of his own Family, but he quarters Gules a Wheel Ar- 
gent^ which are the Arms of the Eledlorate, the Original 
of which they deduce from the firll Eledor, who was 
the Son of a Wheelwright. 
In the Cathedral you fee a great many magnificent 
Tombs of the Eledors interr’d here. The Chapter 
confifls of forty two Gentlemen, twenty four of which 
only are Capitularies. The Proteflants are allowed Ha- 
bitations at Mentz, but not the Exercife of their Reli- 
gion. The City is fufficiently large, but indifferently 
peopled, neither is the Univerfity in any great Efleem 
now : However, its Situation is very pleafanc, in a mod 
excellent Country. The Eledor of Mentz is the firll 
among the Eccleliaftical Eledors, Chancellor of the Em- 
pire, and Dean of the Eledoral College *, in Right of 
which he prefides in the Diets, and at Imperial Eledions. 
8 . After having crofs’d the Rhine at Mentz, we em- 
bark’d on the tv Maine in the ordinary Palfage-boatj 
which carried us in one Day to Frankfort, a City much 
exceeding Mentz in Beauty, Riches, Bignefs, Number 
of Inhabitants, and Strength, being fortified with eleven 
Baftions, which though they have fome Defeds, yet 
they are in fome Meafure repaired by its Situation in a 
flat Country : The Houfes are generally built of the 
lame red Stone I mentioned before, or elfe of Wood, 
or Plaifter cover’d with Slates. The Maine, a confi- 
derable large River, leaves it on the Right, and a Stone 
Bridge of four hundred Paces in Length joins it with 
Sakerbaufen,. The Territories of this City are of no 
great Extent : The Senate, as well as the greatefl Part 
of the Inhabitants, are Lutherans, though the Roman 
Catholicks are polfefs’d of the Cathedral Church, 
where the Ceremony of anointing the Emperor is per- 
form’d ; however, they are not allow’d to make any 
publick Proceflions. The Calvinijis inhabiting here, 
have a Church at Bochenheim, a fmalf-Hour’s Walk 
from thence, in the Country of Hanaw, but are obli- 
ged to marry and to chrillen their Children in the 
Lutheran Churches. 
In the Townhoule is the Apartment where the So- 
lemnity of the Eledion of the Emperor is perform’d, 
and where one of the Originals of the Golden Bull is 
preferv’d. It is hung only with Tapellry, and furnilh’d 
with fome Elbow Chairs of black Velvet, and a large 
Table cover’d with a green Carpet. On one Side of 
this Apartment is a Hall, where certain Ceremo- 
nies are perform’d immediately after the Eledion, 
which being over, the Emperor goes from thence to 
the Church, where he is crown’d. 
The Golden Bull is a 'Book in Fluarto, of twenty four 
Leaves in Parchment hitch’d together, and covered 
with a Piece of Vellum, without any further Ornament. 
The Seal, which is about two Inches and a half broad, 
and cover’d with Gold, is faftened to it by a String 
of twilled Silk of divers Colours ; upon this Seal, which 
appears not unlike a Medal, you fee the Effigies of the 
Emperor Charles IV. feated and crown’d, with a 
Scepter in his Right Hand, and the Globe in the Left, 
having the Shield of the Empire on his Right, and that 
of Bohemia on his Left, with this Infcription round it. 
Carolus partus Divind favente dementia Romano- 
rum Imperator femper Augujius, 
And on each Side near the two Scutcheons, Et Bohe- 
mia Rex. On the Reverfe is a Gate of a Caftle betwixt 
two Towers, which denotes Rome, as is apparent by 
the following Infcription about it. 
Roma Caput Mundi regit Orlis frcena rotundu 
And upon the Gate betwixt thefe two Towers, 
Roma Aurea. 
This Bull, intended to be the Foundation of thd 
Conftitution of the Empire, vjzs mTidit 2Lt Nuremhurgb 
by Charles IV. with the general Confent of the States^j 
in 1356, and contains the Manner of the Election of 
the Emperor, and of the King of the Romans, as alfo 
many Things relating to the Rank, Alfemblies, Rights^ 
Immunities and Succeffions of the Eledlors, and in 
what Manner every one of them is to perform his 
Funftion. Frankfort is by this Bull appointed for the 
Eleilion of the Emperor 5 notwithftanding which, 
Henry II. was elected at Mentz, and Henry III, at Aix 
la Chapelle j fome others have been chofen at Cologne^ 
Augsburgh, and Ratishon, not to mention feveral other 
Innovations introduc’d fince that Time^ efpecially by 
the Treaties of Weftphalia. 
At Dr. Peter’s, who makes the famous Treacle of 
Frankfort, we faw many Curiofities, and among the 
reft, a Stone taken out of a human Body, of the 
Bignefs of a Man’s Head, which he bought for Six- 
teen hundred Crowns. 
There are abundance of Jews at Frankfort, but they 
are not near lb rich as thofe of Amfierdam, being ufed 
in a Manner like Slaves here, viz, to fetch the Water 
when any Fire happens to break out in the City ; for 
the reft, their chief Employment is to go from one Inn 
to another to fell their Commodities to Foreigners, and 
fo pick up a poor Living. 
I need not tell you, that the three annual Fairs of 
Frankfort contribute not a little to its Fame and Riches^ 
The Univerfity acknowledges for its Founders, Joa- 
chim and Albert of Brandenburgh, in 1506. 
9. As we were taking Coach to leave Frankfort, we 
obferved the Coachman to put fome Salt upon each 
of his Horfes, which he told us was a never-failing 
Antidote againft Witchcraft, and other unlucky Ac- 
cidents. 
Having pafled the Rhine at Gernjheim^ we entred a 
Wood, where the Roads provM very bad ; but after 
that, for two Leagues, till we came to Worms, ex- 
ceeding good. 
The City of Worms is feated about three or four 
hundred Paces from the Rhine, on the Left, in a moft 
fruitful Country, having no other Fortifications but a 
double Wall : It was formerly an Archbiflioprick, till 
the See was removed to Mentz by Pope Zachary, bufe 
ftill remains a Biffiop’s See, and that Prelate has great 
Authority there though it is an Imperial City. It S not 
inferior in Bignefs to Frankfort, but ill peopled and poor. 
I faw a Houfe that was fold for a thoufand Crowns^ 
which had yielded formerly as much annual Rent ; and 
there are fo many void Spaces within the Compafs of 
the Place, that the Vines planted there are computed 
to produce every Year fifteen hundred Fuders of Wine, 
a Fuder being a Cask that holds no lefs than two hun- 
dred and fifty Englifh Gallons. This Wine is in fuch 
high Efteem in thofe Parts, that they have turn’d it 
into a Proverb, and fay. It is fweeter than the Virgin’s 
Milk ', whence queftionlefs is alfo arifen the Cuftom of 
prefenting it to Perfons pf Note that travel that Way, 
with fome Fiffi, Cfc. and this is ftiled Wine of Honour. 
Befides that, the Lutherans have one Church for their 
own Ufe here ; they preach by Turns with the Roma- 
nilis in the Dominican Church, all the reft being in the 
Pofleffion of the Roman Catholicks, who don’t carry the 
Hoft in publick, nor make any Proceflion, except on 
the Day after Eafier. The Calvinijis have a Church at 
Newhaufel in the Palatinate, about half a League from 
Worms, where the Lutherans now and then chfifteii 
their Children, quite contrary to what is praflifed by 
the Lutherans at Frankfort. 
The Church of St. Paul, as well as that of St. John^ 
are very ancient Structures, the beft of the two being 
built of vaft fquare Stones, in a very irregular Mannner, 
with narrow Windows, and Galleries all round the 
putfide juft under the Roof 5 the Walls are twelve 
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