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It is requested that every Subscriber to this great Undertaking would be pleased to set down the County and place of his Habitation together with directions how to send to him to the end that notice may be given him according as the Work goes forwaad WHereas his most Sacred Majesty has been Graciously pleased for the promoting of this Design to permit that his Collections of Maps and Descriptions of Countries may be perused that such of them as have not yet been published and are thought proper for this work may be taken into it and whereas his Royal Highness and his Highness Prince Rupert have been also pleased to promise the same favour and the like has been done by the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Williamson one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and President of the Royal Society and also by the most learned Dr. Isaac Vossius who is pleased to communicate his most copious and exquisite Collections and it is hoped that the same will be done by several other persons of Honour and Quality therefore it is humbly desired that all Gentlemen who have any particular Maps or Relations of new Discoveries or any more perfect descriptions of places already known would be pleased to send the same to the said Moses Pitt who will give sufficient security for the safe return of the same unprejudiced and if they shall be thought proper by the persons hereafter mentioned to be inserted he will take care that it shall be done and that the obligation shall be thankfully acknowledged in such manner as shall be to their own best satisfaction May 3 1678. 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Comites and Amici used by their Emperors to the greatest Officers in the Court and State whence afterwards in the Eastern Empire we meet with Comites sacrarum largitionum Comites metallorum Comites rerum privatarum Comites Patrimonii c. in all which expressions Comes manifestly signifies the same thing as Praefectus or Magister The reason why the name of Palatine which as we have said denotes only such as are members of the King 's or Emperor's Houshold should afterwards be join'd with a Province remote from the Court seems plain enough For whereas other ordinary Counts had only a power subordinate to that of the Counts Palatine who exercis'd supreme Jurisdiction in the Emperors name these had all the Royalties and Jura Imperii in their respective Provinces which the Counts Palatine enjoy'd at Court And the like forms of speaking we meet with among the old Romans in the Officiary Dignities of Praefectus Praetorio Orientis Praefectus Praetorio Illyrici Praefectus Praetorio Italiae and Praefectus Praetorio Galliarum Where we see the Title of the Houshold or Emperors Palace transferr'd to these several Provinces to denote that they who bore those Offices being as so many Vice-Roys in their peculiar Territories should enjoy like Power Jurisdiction and Dignity in their respective Dominions as if by the name of Praefecti Praetorio they had always liv'd with the Emperor in his Court The additional Title of Palatine hath been conferr'd upon the Counts of Habspurg Tubing Witelenspach Schiern Ortenberg and several other Princes of the Empire In some old lists of the German Princes we find mention made of four Ertz-Pfaltz-Graven or Archi-Palatini viz. Rheni Saxoniae Franciae or Franconiae Hungariae But at this day the Counts Palatine of the Rhine are so singularly eminent Princes by this Title that commonly no other place is understood by the general name of the Palatinate but only their Territories However Saxony is still a Pfaltzgraffschaft or Palatinate and the Duke thereof hath the Soveraignty of a Count Palatine tho he be not so stiled because the Title of Duke is rarely join'd with Palatinus Of the Authority and Power of the Counts Palatine of the Rhine we shall speak more at large hereafter when we come to a particular Description of their Territories What the Dignity of a Count of the Empire is â—â—nts of 〈◊〉 Emâ— may be learn'd from the Patent granted by the Emperor Rudolph II. to Thomas Arundel of Wardour in Wiltshire afterwards made Lord Arundel of Wardour by King James for the creating of him a Count of the Empire which Title his Heirs have kept to this day That the Title is hereditary appears from this passage in the Patent Te supradictum Thomam Arundelium qui jam ante Comitum consanguinitatem a majoribus acceptam in Anglia obtines omnesque singulos liberos haeredes posteros descendentes tuos legitimos utriusque Sexus natos aeternaque serie nascituros etiam veros sacros Romani Imperii Comites Comitissas creavimus fecimus nominavimus c. The learned Mr. Cambden in his History of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth speaking of this Patent tells us that whoever hath the Title of Count of the Empire conferr'd on him has withall a Seat assign'd him and may give his voice in the Imperial Diets he may purchase an Estate in any part of the Emperor's Dominions may list Volunteers and cannot be su'd in any Court of Judicature save only the Imperial Chamber By vertue of the aforesaid Patent the Title of Count of the Sacred Empire is at present enjoy'd by the Right Honourable Henry Lord Arundell of Warder Those of the Nobility whom the ancient Francic Kings made Governors of such Provinces as were of the Frontiers of the Empire Mark-graven were stiled Mark-Graven from the old word Marken which signifies the outmost Marks or Limits of the Empire in the same sence as we use the word Marshes speaking of the bounds betwixt England and Scotland or Wales From the High Dutch Mark-Grave the Latins borrow'd their Marchio and Marggravius the Italians Marchese and the later Greeks their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 instead of our French Marquis and Marchioness Some Etymologists have endeavour'd to bring the Title of Mark-Grave from the old Francic word Mare sometimes written March signifying an Horse and these fancy there was no great difference formerly between the Titles and Offices of Marschal and Mark-Grave or Mar-Grave as they write it In the Feuds we read Qui de Marchia investitur Marchio dicitur Dicitur autem Marchia quia Marcha ut plurimum juxta mare sit posita Where what is said of the derivation of the word Marchio from Marcha is true but if by ut plurimum juxta Mare the Author means that the word Mare bears a part in the original of Mark-Grave or Marquise he is manifestly mistaken For altho the Marca Anconitana and Trevigiana in Italy as also the Marquisate of the Holy Empire in Brabant and the Marca Normanica and Britannica in France be adjoining to the Sea yet the Marquisates of Misnia Lusatia Brandenburg Moravia Austria Mountferrat and Susa in Savoy are inland Countries but had the name of Margrafchaften fixt on them because they were such Provinces as were the Limits or Frontiers of the German Kingdom When Marquises as well as Dukes and Counts began to multiply in the German Empire there were four of them who had the Title of Die vier hohen Mark-Graffen i. e. The four High or Chief Marquises These were they of Brandenburg Merhern or Moravia Meissen and Baden whose Territories are thence call'd die vier hohen Markgrafchaften i. e. The four Chief Marquisates In the Titles of Landtgrave and Burggrave the termination grave signifies the same thing as in Markgrave Landtgraven Landt in the German tongue signifies no more then a Province or Territory so that the word Landtgrave if literally translated must be render'd Comes Provincialis a Count that has supreme Government in some particular Province Landtherr was anciently a Title of the same signification and conferr'd upon the Lords of Verona who were of the Family de la Scala or the Scaligers of Mirandula Padua and Millain who were lookt upon as Princes equal in power and dignity to as many Counts Palatine The Germans usually reckon up four Landtgraves as well as four Dukes four Counts four Marquises and four of most other Dignities as most eminent in the Empire these are the Landtgraves of Thuringen Hessen Alsace and Luchtenburg of which the Landtgrave of Hessen is at this day a Prince of the greatest note The most ancient Creation of a Landtgrave which we meet with in History is that of Ludowic III. Count of Thuringen who by the Emperor Lotharius his Father-in-Law had his Title alter'd into Landtgrave of the same place in the year 1126. Sometimes we meet with the word Landtgrave made use of to signifie