the Weftern Banks of the Rhine. The Swedes, m the 
laft German Wars, demolifli’d it. The Epifcopal See 
is under the Jurifdiaion of the Archbifliop of Mayence^ 
it is well built, and has feveral good Churches. In the 
Cathedral, which is beautified with four large Towers, 
the Rjoman Catholicks, Lutherans and Calvinijls preach in 
their Turns at different Hours. It is very populous 
from the the vaft Concourfe of People which attend their 
Law Suits here. The Imperial Chamber, which was 
by Maximilian eftablifh’d at Worms, being fince removed 
to Spires, in which, not only private Caufes, but alfo 
the Differences betwixt the Princes of the Empire, are 
determined without Appeal. Manheim lies at the Con- 
flux of the Rhine and Neccar, which, from a Village, 
is in a few Years encreafed to a Town, with large fair 
Streets, walled about and defended by a very ftrong 
Caftle or Fortrefs. I faw the Model of a Palace the 
Eledtor is building, and in that Part which is already 
built, are many good Pidlures, and among the reft, a 
Landfldp, with the Hiftory of the Swifs Confederacy. 
13. In our Way from Heidelberg towards Nurenberg, 
we travel’d along the Neccar in rocky Ways to Mojpach ; 
the fecond to Poxberg, where we faw nothing but an 
old Caftle ; and the fame Day came to Merkenthal, or 
Mergentheim,t\\Q,R&Mtnct of the Grand Mafters of the 
^eutonick Order. It is a very well built Town, with a 
handfome Piazza, which has a Fountain in the Centre, 
and a Statue of one of the Grand Mafters of thk Order, 
with a long Corridore from the Palace. This Order took its 
Rife under the Emperor Frederick I. who, in his Expe- 
dition againft the Holy Land, being accompanied by 
many Gentlemen of Germany, in Emulation of the 
Knights Templars, entred into an Order, which being 
approved by Pope Celefiine III. they waged afterwards 
War againft the Pagans inhabiting Prujfia and Linjonia, 
and fubdued them ; of which they remain’d Mafters, 
till they were at firft difpoffefs’d of thefe Countries by the 
Poles, and afterwards by the Swedes *, fo that there is 
nothing remaining now of this Order, but a few Com- 
manderies in Germany. They wear a plain black Crofs 
on a white Mantle ; and the Dignity of Grand Mafter 
(who takes Place of all the Biftiops) is generally be- 
llow’d upon one of the firft Rank among the Princes 
of Germany. 
As we pafs’d by Lauterbach, we faw a Church, a 
very noble Strudfure, on the Top of a high Hill, where 
the Pilgrims perform their Devotions in great Num- 
bers. The next Place we came to was Rotenberg, an 
Imperial City, fituate near the Head Spring of the Ri- 
ver Tauber ; which, after it has pafs’d by Rotiengen and 
Landen, falls into the Main near Wertheim. We lodg’d 
that Night at Burgperner, paffing the next Day by 
Schantzbach, came before Night to Nurenberg. This 
City may very well claim the Prerogative of being the 
faireft in Germany \ moft of the Houfes being built of 
Free-ftone, very high, and many of them painted on 
the Outfide, and adorned with gilded Balls on the 
Top •, they are generally fix or feven Stories and 
though the City is at a good Diftance from any navi- 
o-able River, and fituated in a barren Country ; yet is 
it very populous, the Induftry of the Inhabitants being 
fuch, as to be accounted the beft Artificers in Germany, 
in Steel, Brafs, Ivory, and Wood, which creates a vaft 
Trade here, and retains it. tt • 7 7 
The three chief Churches are, the Hofptal Church 
lately built ; that of St. Lawrence, which is famous for 
its Bi^'nefs, with two Steeples in the Front j and that 
of S^Sebald, which excels the reft. Here you fee a 
wooden Crucifix fo carved, as to be valued at an excef- 
five Rate 1 W^ithout the Church is another of black 
Wood. In fliort, as the Lutheran Religion is exercifed 
here in Its full Pomp, fo this ftately Church, and efpe- 
cially the Pulpit, which is excellently carved and gilt, 
may challenge one of the firft Places among thofe of 
that Religion. Every Morning Half an Hour is fpent 
in this Church in reading certain Paflages out of the 
Scripture by the Prieft, before he preaches to the 
People. The Senate- Houfe is worth the Notice of 
any Traveller ; the Hall is very fpacious, and the 
Chambers lofty, ‘ and adorn’d with many good Pidures, 
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the Floor being paved with Stones gilt, and intermix’d 
with feveral Colours. In one of thefe Chambers you 
fee the Pidure of moft of the Great Perfons of Germa- 
ny, that were entertaiaed in the Halls ; another of the 
Three Brothers of Sa:^ 7 iy \ an Elephant painted to the 
Life a Piece of St. John, another of St. Mark, and 
two more of St. Peter and St. Paul, both done by Al- 
bert Barer % but that of Adam and Eve, by the fame 
Hand, exceeds all the reft, with this Infcription : 
Albertus Barer Alman faciebat pojl Virginis par turn, 1507. 
There is alfo another very rare Piece, of St. Luke 
drawing the Pidure of our Saviour, and the Virgin 
Mary. As you enter the Shambles, you fee a large Ox 
carved in Wood, and painted over, with this Infcrip- 
tion ; 
Omnia habent ortus fuague incrementa, fed eccs 
^em cernis, nunquam Bos fuit hie, Vi t ulus. 
The Caftle of Nurenberg is feated upon a Hill. The 
Emperor’s Pidure, his Chapel, a very fine Well, and 
other Pidures of the Eledors, are very remarkable. 
They fliew’d us alfo the Armour of Hebbele van Gaillein- 
gen, a famous Sorcerer in thofe Parts, and the Print of 
his Horfe’s Feet in the Wall of the Caftle ; from 
whence, as they tell you, he leap’d with his Horfe over 
the Town Ditch. They were then bufy in making a 
new Fountain ; I muft confefs, that the Brafs Statues 
intended for it, were excellent Pieces ; The Sea Horfes 
were of a very large Size, and the Sea-Nymphs ex- 
ceeded the ordinary Stature of Women : The Statue 
of Neptune, defign’d to be fet on the Top, was above 
ten Foot high. 
The fmall River Pegnitz pafles through the City, near 
which are feveral Scone Bridges j below it joins with 
the River Rednitz, that unites its Waters with the 
Maine at Bamberg, which laft falls afterwards into the 
Rhine. The River Rednitz has its Rife ^tJVeiJfenburg, 
at no great Diftance from the River Altmul, which falls 
into the Banube not far from Ratisbon. This Conveni- 
ency induced Charles the Great to endeavour a Commu- 
nication between the Rhine and the Banube ; but after 
he had advanced about two German Leagues in this 
Work, his warlike Employments, and fome other Dif- 
ficulties, made him give over his Defign. 
14. Not above four Leagues from Nurenberg is Al- 
torff, a Town under their Jurifdidion, with an Univer- 
fity ereded in 1623. They have here a very handfome 
Phyfick Garden, containing above 2000 Plants. The 
Anatomy School is not very large, yet has feveral Ske- 
letons, of a Hart, of a Horfe, of a Man, and of a 
Bear, bigger than a Horfe ; befides fome very ancient 
Pidures, as that of Mofes, and of a Ninivite. Dr. JVa- 
genfeyl (whofe Brother travell’d with me from Heidel- 
berg) Profeffor of the Civil Law and Hiftory, fhew’d me 
alfo a good Colledion of his own, of Rarities and 
Coins, which he had gather’d in. his Travels through 
Europe. In the Univerfity Library I faw a fair Hortus 
Eyfietenfis, and Toungerman"^ Colledion of Plants, by 
his own Hands. 
Leaving Nurenbprg,vjQ pafTed through Newmark in the 
Upper Palatinate, belonging to the Eledor of Bavaria ; 
and the next Day by the Way of Heinaw, fubjed to 
the Duke of Newburg, to Ratisbon, anciently called Au- 
gufta Tiberii, and Colonia EJuartanornm, from the Fourth 
Italick Legion, which had their Quarters alTigned them 
here, as being the chief Place belonging to the Romans 
on thofe Frontiers. Some are of Opinion, that Tiberius 
fettled a Colony here in the Year of our Saviour’s Paf- 
fion j but it owes its chief Increafe to the Emperor Ar- 
nulphus. Near it the River Regen falls into the Ba- 
nube, whence the Germans give it the Name of Regens- 
burg. It has a Bridge of Wood below the Town, and 
another of Stone, the faireft that is to be feen upon the 
Banube, being fupported by fifteen Arches. It is an 
Imperial City, and tolerably 'well fortified, and has 
many ftately Buildings, both private and publick. The 
Cathedral of St. Peter ' is a very fair Edifice, on the 
South- 
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