Transcription
Original in German · manuscript
Provisional reading: uncertain words are followed by [?], illegible or cut-off passages are marked […].
First page of the manuscript chronicle of Lauterbourg (200 pages in German in the hand of Christophe Horrer, dated 1683, kept in the town's Archives); the title is calligraphed. Only this page is reproduced; the text stops in mid-sentence. The « R. » at the foot of the page is in the original.
Original text (German)
Lautterburger Statt Ordnung undt Beschreibung
Alles Herkommen, Recht, undt Gerechtigkeiten, die solche bey der Statt Lautterburg, von undenckhlicher Zeit hero, geübt, undt gehandthabt worden, auch alle erlangte Privilegien, Gnaden, undt Freyheiten, von Bischoff [?] Matheus [?] undt andern nachkommenden gnädigen Landtsfürsten, undt Herren […], biß [?] jetziger Zeit zu Regierung des Hochwürdigsten [?] Landtsfürsten, undt Herrn, Herren Johann Hugo, Ertzbischoffen zu Trier, des heyligen Römischen Reichs durch Gallien, undt deß Königreichs Arelatt Ertzcantzler, undt Churfürsten, Bischoffen zu Speyr, Administrator zu Prüm, Probst zu Weissenburg, undt Römisch Kayserl. Majestät Cammer Richter [?] […], Anno 1678, den 4ten Juny zu Coblentz, auf Ehrenbreitstein [?], der Statt Lautterburger Exercier [?], Recht, undt Gerechtigkeiten, so sich [?] bisher [?] […] erstreckt [?], alß mit einem gnädigen Decret confirmirt, bestättigt, und handtzuhaben [?] versprochen [?], wie [?] nit desto weniger haben Ihre Königl. Majestät […] alß Ihr [?] Souverainer Herr Anno 1680 […] die Possession undt Huldigung genommen, der Statt Vorsteher [?] die […]
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English translation
Ordinance and description of the town of Lauterbourg
All the customs, rights and privileges exercised and upheld in the town of Lauterbourg since time immemorial, and all the privileges, graces and franchises obtained from Bishop [?] Matthew [?] and from the other gracious sovereign princes and lords who came after him […], up to [?] the present time, under the rule of the Most Reverend [?] Prince and Lord, the Lord Johann Hugo, Archbishop of Trier, Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire for Gaul and the Kingdom of Arles, Prince-Elector, Bishop of Speyer, Administrator of Prüm, Provost of Wissembourg and judge of the Chamber [?] of His Roman Imperial Majesty […], who in the year 1678, on the 4th of June, at Koblenz, at Ehrenbreitstein [?], confirmed and ratified by a gracious decree the customs [?], rights and privileges of the town of Lauterbourg, in all the extent they had until then [?] […], and promised [?] to uphold them; nevertheless His Royal Majesty […], as sovereign lord, took possession [of the town] in the year 1680 […] and received its homage, the officers [?] of the town […]
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