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Excerpt from The Modern Part of an Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time, Vol. 29: Compiled From Original Writers
As for the circle of Burgundy, which takes its name from that province, now difmembered from the empire, and be longing to the king of France, it was formerly under the direetorfhip and fovereignty of the king of Spain, and com prehended not only Higb Burgundy, or Francbe Compte, but likewife the feventeen provinces of the Low Countries, which in the reign of Gbarler V. Were received as members of the empire, independent indeed of the imperial chamber with refpe? to juftice, but fubjeel to pay as much as is levied from two electors, in cafe of a war againfi the Turk: how ever, this contribution was never railed; and is now intirely omitted in the rolls of the contingencies of the empire. Ex clufive of this circle, therefore, the contributions for a Ro man month, paid by all the others, amount to 2419 horle men, and foot foldiers; or, in money, to 7 ?orins; and this tax is augmented double, triple, and qua druple, according to the number of troops to be railed, but always in proportion to the ellablilhed rates in the book of matriculation.
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