[Recess].
Contributors: Georg Friedrich Karl, Margrave of Bayreuth, d. 1735.
Published: 1729
Language: ger
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Privileges and immunities -- Germany -- Bayreuth (Principality); Law -- Germany -- Bayreuth (Principality); Manuscripts, German -- Washington (D.C.); Bayreuth (Principality) -- History -- Sources.
Other titles: Rezess; Von Gottes Gnaden Wir Georg Friederich Carl, Marggraf zu Brandenburg in Preussen
Notes: Ms.
Title from the concluding statement on p. [49] which reads: Diessen zu Uhrkund ist die dermahlige Verhandlung zu gegenwärtigen Recess in Zweyen Original Exemplarien ... So geschehen in Unssserer Residenz Stadt Bayreuth, den 22. Februarij a[nn]o 1729. Georg Friedrich Carl, M. z. B. [etc.]
Text begins: Von Gottes Gnaden Wir Georg Friederich Carl, Marggraf zu Brandenburg in Preussen ...
The document confirms previously established privileges and deals with more recent grievances of the estates, primarily of minor nobility (Ritterschaft). The matters dealt with concern regulation of crafts, inheritance, customs, roads, hunting rights, penal law, court procedures, fees for the services of Bayreuth officials, titles of civil servants, church patronage, etc.
Copy written by 3 or more scribes, no doubt in Germany.
The last page is blank.
No. [16] in a volume of contemporary materials with devised title Margraviate Ansbach (96-156983)