AN

HISTORICAL

DEVELOPEMENT

OF THE PRESENT

POLITICAL CONSTITUTION

OF THE

GERMANIC EMPIRE.

By JOHN STEPHEN PÜTTER,

PRIVY COUNSELLOR OF JUSTICE, ORDINARY PROFESSOR
OF LAWS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN, MEM-
BER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN, &C.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,

With NOTES, and a comparative View of the REVENUES,
POPULATION, FORCES, &c. of the respective TERRITORIES,
from the Statistical Tables lately published at BERLIN,

Printed for T. PAYNE and SON, Mews Gate; L. DAVIS, Holborn; B. WHITE
and SON, Fleet-ftreet; G. NICOL, Pall-Mall; P. ELMSLY, Strand; and
J. FLETCHER, at Oxford.

M,DCC,XC.

FROM THE RESIGNATION OF CHARLES V. TO THE

TREATY OF WESTPHALIA.

1558-1648.

CHAPTER I.

Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. 1558-1576.

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2

Firft inftance of the refignation of a reigning Emperor

Capitulation of the Emperor and the Electoral Union renewed ibid.

Coronation of the Emperor no longer celebrated at Rome

End of the Council of Trent

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ibid.

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Abuses in the Catholic Church not abolished

Enterprize of William of Grumbach against Würtzburg,

and the disturbances at Gotha

Which occafion the Affembly of Deputations, and generál

Diet

CHAPTER

The first Years of the Reign of Rudolphus II.

1576-1582. Right of Primogeniture in the

Houfe of Auftria, and feveral other Houfes-

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