leges as would ferve to preferve their religious Rules, and for to encourage others to come and dwell with him. To this he added:

"But if you have chang'd your Mind about "this, as you have done with regard to Herrn"baag, it is a thing indifferent to me; more

efpecially as I am certain I fhall have no Pro"fit, but lofe by it, and as my Views are only "to make you rejoice, and to render your Ser"vices fruitful and memorable to the House of Ifenburgh (30)

This Letter gave no Satisfaction to Mr. Brauer; who answered he had not yet made the Report of the Count's two laft Letters, for he was fure this would have given the Sovereign a worse Opinion of feveral things, and that his Lord had taken no further Notice of these Affairs.

To this Count Zinzendorf anfwered:

"I don't fend you Letters to make a Report of them, but to give you private Notice. "I don't know what Ideas your Prince can have "that could be ftill worfe. I abfolutely want "him to trust me, or elfe I'll drop the Matter en

(30) This fhould feparate the Count of Budingen for to make him not take care of the Means used by them to become Proprietors of the Sovereign's Demefnes, and for that Reason Count Zinzendorf wanted to have an Accefs to the Archieves of Budingen, to which purpose he asked the Counsellor of the Regency then being, June 21, 1743.

Could not a little Cheft, with ftrong Locks, find room "in the Archieves of Budingen, which might be marked that "it might be found again a hundred Years hence, without reflecting upon the fame? And would you be fo kind as to charge yourfelf with this Affair? I have at Geneve and Lon"don many important Records and Deeds in very good Se "curity, but fo many about fuch Affairs are not fit to be in "other Places, but in fuch as are near to the Metropolis of "the Community."

But who knows what fort of Documents he would have brought there, and what wou'd become of this Archieve if they fhould have been admitted to come into it.

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tirely, even only for this Reason. I have no. thing to do with Leustadt nor with the other "Farms, for they do not belong to me, nor will "I have them, fince that I heard the Gene"ral meddles with this Affair. What I did " was done out of Love and particular Efteem, "partly out of Duty. To this you must add, "that I fpoke friendly and cordially to you, " and I'll continue to do fo if you yourself makes ઃઃ me any Proposals (31).'

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(31) It is furprizing how Count Zinzendorf cloaks his Intentions. Here he fays that he had nothing to do with the mortgaged Farms, and it hath been proved before, Sect. 12. Note 4. How bufy he was to become the Poffeffor of the fame, and Mr. Beuning in a Letter of the 7th of March 1747, told his Administrator:

"Go to our Papa and ask him what he wants to be done, "for I have figned over my Goods to him.

Count Zinzendorf fays he should not like to poffefs these Farms, and moves in the mean Time for the Continuation of the Negociation, and when this was complied with, he made the Question if he could not have Leuftadt? And answered, after it had been told him that he could buy the fame, that he would take a Lease of these mortgaged Lands for 99 Years, according to the Cuftom in England, fo that he fhould be Poffeffor of the fame by giving the Loan, and the Contract need not be altered. He found afterwards that this Propofal would not be approved of, therefore he offered to make an exchange for Leuftadt with the Village of Lindheim; which laft he pretend to have acquired of the Baron Schrautenbach. But he repeated his good Intention for to obtain Leuftadt, when he found that all thefe Offerings were rejected: and wrote therefore to Mr. Brauer, Jan. 27, 1748, thus:

"In the mean Time that I would difengage my dear Cou"fin of the Mortgage to Mr. Beuning, and that you dif"anulled my Plan of exchanging Leuftadt for Lindheim, the "former of which you could make no Profit, but which was " of equal Value to me with Lindheim, notwithstanding that "Leuftadt is of more Importance. I opened Negociations with "others and always was left in the Lurch, fo that I nego"ciated 100,000 Guilders with the Dutch, and had made a "Ceffion of that fine Town of Trebus in Upper-Laufsnitz to "the Baron of Schrautenbach, to no purpose, for I never have "heard any thing of the Matter, and am not used to make "any offers in a Hurry." I very

But the danger in which the Sovereign was entangled, was already too well known, and it appeared from former Negociations, that things did

"I very well know that you may give a flight Answer, by "aking me, who obliged you to be fo ferviceable? and "it would be a hard matter to anfwer this Queftion; for "it is a true Observation of the Italians, that there are cer"tain Moments which one ought to take care of. This every body knows; but he that does not mind the Profit of his "Neighbours, without his private Intereft, can't have an Idea "of fuch free Services. These I perform. I had no other "Reason to offer in writing to take the Mortgage in hand, "to the good of the Houfe of Budingen, to give the Poffeffion "of the fame again into the Sovereign's hands, but that I "had Money ready for this purpose. Nor had I any other "Reason for to exchange Leuftadt for Lindheim, but that I "did not want fo large a Commodity for the boarding of Children, whereto I could not make any use of an active Jurifdiction. For I have given away more than one thou"fand of Subjects, without having any Money for them, only to make me free of the Embaraffment in an eafy way "to the fame, but never did I ftrive to increase the Num"ber of them.

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"My Seat in Laufsnitz will meet with the fame Fate as "that of the Castle, viz. to be a Nursery for young Chil“dren, as I have had no Answer to my kind offer about exchanging Leuftadt for Lindheim, which laft I have given "back to the Baron of Schrautenbach, after he had ordered "the fame to me; for I just now understand that Herman (who "farmed Leuftadt (hath fo an inviolable Right and Title to "the former Town, and you have rejected my kind Offers, "which you feem'd to like first. But I won't refuse to ferve you for all that, if you ever should chufe to make fuch a'Change "without that I should be the Gainer by it, for the Recefs of "the Administration given in the Year, 1744, authorizes me hereto."

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Reafon tells every body that Count Zinzendorf wanted to become a Sovereign in thefe Territories. Mr. Beuning's Letter to his Adminiftrator Shuckard, written in July, 1747, a Month after Budingen had obliged the Inhabitants to do Homage, whereby Count Zinzendorf's Views were fruftrated, will ferve as a further proof of this:

"I can't say that I did every thing with the Confent of "my Heart, and I forefaw the prefent Accidents. Perhaps "it is good that fuch Things happen in the Beginning, and,

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did grow always worfe by ufing thefe Means. This brought the Sovereign to the Refolution to avoid thefe by the fureft Method. The Disputes began about Beuning's Pretenfion to the Independence of all the Inhabitants of thefe mortgaged Lands, and to a Jurifdiction which he himielf would adminifter during the Contract. All these were Strangers, not one of them had done Homage, and therefore the Council at Budingen gave the following Opinion:

"All the Revenues had hitherto been left in "the Creditors hands without deducting one "Farthing. That it was but juft he should pay "N. B. for to tell the Truth, it was but an Effay if Matters " would go on fo or not, and nothing elfe. I with only that if "we were to go on upon the old footing, they would order **things fo that at laft there would be nothing spoil'd. I

never defpifed the Council, but I could do no otherwife, and * I find myself well enough by making use of the fame, and "it is certainly better to be obedient than to act kubborn.” This blind Obedience caufed Mr. Beuning to write to the Sovereign of Budingen, February 15, 3748.

"It was to be wifhed that dear Count Zinzendorf would follow the Advice of his Friends, for ufing the common "Ways in temporal Affairs. People would return him then "more Thanks, and he would not expofe his Inclination for "to ferve any body in worldly Affairs, to fo many fufpicious "and finifter Interpretations. But, if you will ever believe 86 me, I take the Liberty to affure you that Count Zinzen

dorf, according to his own domeftic Affairs, which I know "perfectly well, cannot meddle with my Affairs, I have with " Meerboltz, or Budingen, without hurting himself very much, " and all that he has done were the effects of his Love to*wards you.

If you confront this with Mr. Beuning's Letter to his Ad. miniftrator, (Sect. 12. Note 4.) you will fee that they are under an abfolute Obligation to write as they are ordered. And Count Zinzendorf wrote to Mr. Brauer, June 30, 1747.

"I ask the Favour of you to tell me once the Reafons "that made you think I wanted to make a Property of the "Farms, even if you should do it a Year hence. For I call

the Saviour to witness, that I never intended it, nor do not know what I should do it for, and that whosoever makes you "believe fo is a Deceiver.".

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himself in this manner the Intereft and part of "the Capital, but his being Independent was not "neceffary to this, much lefs that he should exert "a Jurifdiction over the Inhabitants of these Pre"mises, and fuch as fhould have any Complaints "against them. It was agreed, that it would "be good, that the Inhabitants that had done no Homage fhould do the fame, whereby their "giving the Hands fhould, to fhew them still 66 more Mildness, ferve instead of an Oath. That "Mr. Beuning's Administration fhould be con"firmed, if they had thus acknowledged the "Sovereign, tho' with this Condition, that the "Lands fhould never come into Count Zinzen"dorf's Hands, who had began to meddle with

them, and that none of them fhould pay any "Refpect to this Nobleman's Order, nor fhould "they give their Confent to any Ceffion of Mr. "Beuning, in favour of the faid Count."

The Regency added this laft Claufe, because it was known, (Vide Sect. 12. Note 4.) that in the very beginning the Moravians had done all they could to bring this Mortgage into Count Zinzendorf's Hands, that the real Creditor M. Beuning fhould only lend his Name to deal with the Counts of Ifenburgh upon more eafy Terms; that an Inftrument for fuch a Ceffion had been drawn up already, which Count Zinzendorf would not put in Execution, in order to obtain under various pretexts, the Confent of the Counts of Ifenburgh, for which last Reason all Negociations had been broke off.

The Sovereign approved and confirmed this Opinion, and brought the fame fo far in Execu→ tion that the Inhabitants were obliged to do Homage on the above-mention'd Conditions, Anno 1747, to which they agreed. Mr. Shukard, Beuning's Adminiftrator made first fome Scruples, but

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