. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. THE PERMUTATION COMPLETED. 55 The ladies of the house of Bismarck seemed even more discon-solate at the loss of Burgstall than the men. To terminate theirlamentations, the Prince allowed each of them the sum of onehundred gulden. The representatives of the younger branch—Jobst and Georgevon Bismarck—were still more unfortunate. They hesitated. longer than their cousins, not from want of will, but because theproffered compensation was still more incommensurate with whatthey lost. But at last, moved by the instances and promisesof the Prince, they
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. THE PERMUTATION COMPLETED. 55 The ladies of the house of Bismarck seemed even more discon-solate at the loss of Burgstall than the men. To terminate theirlamentations, the Prince allowed each of them the sum of onehundred gulden. The representatives of the younger branch—Jobst and Georgevon Bismarck—were still more unfortunate. They hesitated. longer than their cousins, not from want of will, but because theproffered compensation was still more incommensurate with whatthey lost. But at last, moved by the instances and promisesof the Prince, they agreed to accept Schonhausen and Fisch-beck. On the 14th December of the year 1562, all the Bismarcks hadmet together atLetzlingen with the Prince, and the agreementswere here executed by which they surrendered Burgstall forCrevese and Schonhausen. The grandchildren of the first Claus 56 THE TEEATY OF LETZLINGEN. von Bismarck might well be sorry at this surrender. The ex-change expressly excluded the Hospital of St. Gertrude at Sten-dal, as well as their possessions at Wolmirstadt, Burg, and otherremote places in the Archbishopric of Magdeburg. The Permu-tation, as it was called, did not alter the vassaldom of the Bis-marcks; they continued to be lieges of Magdeburg for the fiefsabandoned with Burgstall, and vassals of Brandenburg, as before,belonging to the Alt Mark nobility in res
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