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Mt. R A y’j Travels 
Book II. 
Charges. Here alfo the ProfefTors publlfh an annual Ca- 
talogue of their Names and intended publick Leftures. 
The Eledlor Palatine is abfolute in his Dominions, 
having alfo the Supremacy in Ecclefiaftical Affairs, which 
formerly belonged to the Bifhop of Spiers^ but fince the 
Reformation the Ecclefiaftical Jurifdidlion has been an- 
nexed to the Sovereignty : He is the univerfal Patron 
of all vacant Benefices, tho* he permits the Ecclefiaftical 
Council, (compofed of two Clergymen and two Lay- 
men) to prefent unto him two, out of whom he chufes 
one. The Generality of the Palatinate are of the Re- 
formed Religion, and divided into three Prefectures 
(the biggeft of which is fubdivided into lefs) each of 
which has an Infpedor, who is one of the Paftors of that 
Prefecture^ and differs not from the other in Rank or 
Power, but hath only a larger Salary. Each confiderable 
Town has alfo a peculiar Prefecture, or Presbytery : 
Thus that of Heidelbergh is compofed of five Minifters of 
that City, two Deputies from each of the before-men- 
tioned Jurifdiflions, except the Aulica, and two from 
each of the four Wards of the City, making in all tvv^enty 
one, in which the Laymen have equal Voices with the 
Minifters, thefe enjoying no other Prerogative in this 
Point, than that one of them prefides always in his Turn. 
They cafft inflift any Church Cenfure, unlefs it be ma- 
king the Tranfgreffor fubmit to a publick Confeffion at 
the Church Door, and to promife Amendment, the reft 
is left to the Determination of the Civil Magiftrate. As 
the Eledtor is univerfal Patron, fo he is M after of all the 
Tithes, which for Conveniency fake, he allows to fome 
Minifters in certain Places, but provides fettled Salaries 
for the reft out of the Church Revenues. 
19. July 25. We hired a Coach, which was to car- 
ry us in three Days to Strashurgh : We had fcarce tra- 
velled three Leagues, but we pafs’d in Sight of the ce- 
lebrated Fortrefs of Philipsburgh, feated in a Plain near 
the Rhine ; a League further we pafs’d through Graffe, 
and lodged that Night at the Village of Linknom. 
July 26. After a Journey of four Leagues, we baited 
at Rajpach, two Leagues further paffed through Stolho- 
ven, and a League more through Lichtenaw, all in con- 
fiderable Places ; we lodged that Night at the Village 
called Sertz, 
July-zj. We crofs’d the Rhine ovtv a Bridge laid 
over the two Channels, made of Fir-trees laid clofe toge- 
ther, inftead of Boats, and foon after came to Stras- 
burgh. In our Journey thither we faw Abundance of 
Indian Wheat planted, as alfo fome Lathyrus fatwus, 
and Carthamus, or baftard Saffron. The Blattaria, So- 
Udago Saracenica, are wild hereabouts, and in the 
adjacent Meadows of Strasburgh, Carduus Pratenfis 
CPragi. 
Strasburgh is a free Imperial City, rich and populous, 
of a great Circumference, and well fortified with regular 
Out-works. It is govern’d by two Councils, one con- 
fifting of feventy one, in which are fix Burgomajiers, as 
many Stadtmafiers, fifteen Patres Patrie, and thirteen 
felefted out of the Militia. The greater Council is com- 
pofed of three hundred Citizens, chofen by the feveral 
Companies of the City. The Women are generally 
handfome, and th€ Inhabitants Lutherans, though the 
Roman Catholkks have alfo a Church and four Convents, 
two for Men, and two for Women. The Reformed 
have their Church at fome Diftance out of the Town. 
It is an Epifcopal See ; the Bifhop has a Palace in the 
City, but is not allowed to ftay there above three Days 
at a Time, but may continue in an Inn for eight Days 
together. The Armory or Arfenal here, may compare 
with any in Germany, and is not much inferior to any I 
faw elfe where. The publick Granaries, Store-houfes, 
and Wine-cellars, are worth feeing. The Domo, or Ca- 
thedral Church, is a noble Strudlure, with a Pair of 
folding Doors of Brafs at the Weft ]End. Here is the 
famous Clock deferibed by feveral Authors, which is a 
Piece of moft excellent Workmanfhip, made by a Citizen 
of this Place, whofe Name was Ifaac Harbrecht. But what 
is moft: remarkable, is the Steeple, the higheft that ever 
I met with, and curioufly built of carved Stone, having 
fix hundred fixty two Steps from the Bottom to the 
Top s we went up fix hundred and forty Steps to a Place 
they call the Crown, from whence w'e took a View of the 
adjacent Country at a great Diftance. 
About ten Hours diftant from Strashurgh, towards 
the Side of Stutgard, are very good acid mineral Springs, 
the Waters of which they drink here and in other Cities 
with Wine. In this, as well as other Imperal Cities in 
thofe Parts, the Inhabitants, but efpecially the Women, 
adhere ftill to an odd Way of Dreffing, which yet is 
very different one from another, each having their pe- 
culiar Habits 5 fo that their Condition may be diftin- 
guifhed at Sight. July We continued our Journey 
towards Baftl, paffing the fame Day through the Vil- 
lage of ?ind Augujt I, through Marklef?eim, 
and two Leagues thence in Sight of the ftrong Town and 
Fortrefs of Brifac, feated upon a Rock, and lodged that 
Night at Lodejheim. 
20. Aug. 2. After a League and a half riding, we arri- 
ved Tit Bafil, a large and noble City, well built of Stone, 
the Houfes very high, and painted for the moft Part on 
the Outfide. It is divided by the PCivtr Rhine into two 
Parts (that on the North fide being called Little Bafil) 
join’d together by a Bridge fuftained by fourteen 
Arches. The chief Ornaments, of this populous and 
rich City are its Fountains, of which it has above three 
hundred. It is one of theXIII. Swifs Cantons, itsTerritories 
comprehending above one hundred Villages. The Bi- 
fhop oh Badenh?^s not the ieaft Jurifdidlion in the Town, 
being not fuffered to lodge here one Night, but keeps 
his Refidence at Broudint. The Government is admini- 
ftred by a greater and leffer Council •, the laft confifts of 
fixty four Perfons, chofen by the fifteen Companies, and 
the greater, of all the Magiftrates and the leffer Coun- 
cil. The Univerfity of this Place was founded by Pope 
Pius II. in which are feventeen ProfefTors, three of Di- 
vinity, three of Law, three of Phyfick, and eight in 
Philofophy and polite Literature. They keep Ledlures 
every Day in the Week in Term-time, except Tburjdays 
and Saturdays, but have very fmall Salaries. The Ec- 
clefiaftical Goverment is in the Hands of three ProfefTors 
of Divinity, four Scholarche, and the Minifters. The 
Senate have the Power of nominating three Perfons to 
any vacant Benefice, out of whom the Minifters chufe 
one. In thefe Cities the Minifters live upon their yearly 
Salaries, but in the Country they have half inTythts and 
the other half in Money. The Minifters here are at Li- 
berty to change their Profeflion and become Laymen 
when -ever they pleafe. They are of the Reformed Re^ 
ligion, as are all the other Proteftanc Cantons. 
Erafmus lived Part of his latter Days, and ended his 
Life in this City ; his Monument, which is of Marble, 
on the North Side of the Communion Table in the great 
Church, being to be feen to this Day. He was the Foun- 
der of a College in Bafil for twenty Students of Divi- 
nity (in which Number are however comprehended the 
the Beadle and a School-mafter) ten of whom are to be 
Natives of Bafil 5 they may ftay there as long as they 
continue unmarried, though the Magiftrates have a Pow- 
er to command any of them thence, if they think it 
convenient. They are under the Infpedtion of a Re- 
gent, without whofe Leave none of them dare ftay out 
of the College one Night. In the fame Church where 
Erafmus lies inter’d is alfo his Library, commonly called 
Bibliotheca Amberbachiana, becaufe Erafmus gave it by 
his laft Will to one Mr. Amberbach. 1 faw the Lid Te- 
ftament written with his own Hand in half a Sheet of 
Paper, bearing Date 12 Feb, 1536. In this Library 
are alfo feveral very curious Pieces of Painting, done by 
that famons Mafter Johannes Holbenius, a Native of this 
City •, fome Diplomata of the Pope to Erafmus, his 
Seal and Ring, a fine Gold Medal fent to him by the 
King of Poland, befides other good Coins and Medals, 
both ancient and modern ; three Rappers of Copper 
(worth about a Farthing a-piece) turned into Gold, as 
they fay, by tlmt famous Alchymift: Leonard Turnitius, 
who tranfmuted the famous Nail of Florence \ feveral 
znci^ut Entaglio ; fome Manuferipts of Amberbach, con- 
taining the Antiquities of Augufia Rauracorum, ancient- 
ly a great City, but now turn’d into a Village called 
Augft, near Bafil. The Profeflbrs and Minifters wear 
Ruffs, and a Kind of Caps painted Uke Sugar-loaves 
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