Note 128 — LETTER XIX.

Strasbourg was an Episcopal See before the Year 376, for one Arnaud Bishop of Strasbourg was then present at the Council of Cologne. The Chapter is composed of 24 Members, viz. 12 Capitulars, and 12 Domicilairs, who must be all Princes or Counts. From 1592 the Canons were Lutherans, and Catholics till 1681, when Lewis XIV. having taken Strasbourg, established a Bishop there whose See was at Molsheim, and caused the Cathedral to be restored to the Catholic Canons; and notwithstanding the contrary Dispositions of the Treaty of Westphalia, in 1687, he turn'd the Lutheran Canons out of Brudersdorff, and the Prebends which they retain'd in the Chapter: Nevertheless the Lutheran Religion is tolerated in this City.