The Court of common Judicature at Herrnhaag, had, Anno 1742, afked the Regency of Budingen for Requifitorial Letters, and given the following Certificate with the underwritten Names of Mr. de Lutzow, Mr. Shinbergs, and of Mr. Hayde Affeffor in the faid Court.

"John Tobias Pflaumer hath required of us, to "give him a Certificate, purporting that he hath "lived here a Year and a half, and that his "Conduct always hath been fuch, that we always "approved of him. He farther defired us to "recommend him to the Regency, as he is will

ing to fettle here, that the faid' Regency might

grant him their requifitorial Letters, and use "their Interpofition to bring his Tutors to an Accompt, that he might come to the Poffeffion "of his Goods, as he now is come to Age. We "therefore have granted him this Certificate, feal'd "with the Seal of the Court of the common Ju"dicature. Herrnhaag, June 8, 1748.

The Regency granted this Demand, and the Money belonging to this Perfon was fent to Herrnhaag, and was afterwards clearly found to have been brought in the Community's Coffer, or in thofe of the fame. Would it therefore not have been a Sin to leave the Administration of Justice to them?

SECT. XXII.

The 10th Sect, was thus canvaffed.

"This Director must act with his two Affeffors, "whom he muft fwear into their Office in the Name "of their Sovereign, and take care of the Formali"ties in oeconomical Matters. Except this, the general Diaconat, which affifts all Communities, "throughout the world, and which more particu"larly takes care of the Community's Credit at Herrnhaag, where the fame is called the Diaconat, a

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free Company, like fome privileged Colleges in the Ter ritories of other Sovereigns, as a College of Com"merce, all which in Places of Importance take care "of the Trade. The fame can't be obliged to fhew its "Books to any body, or give an Account of its Manage

ment, except when the fame should be too short in "Law. They have proved themfelves to be true "Managers of the public Wealth, by difperfing

more than a hundred thousand Guilders, with"out cofting the Community one fingle Penny. "The Members of the fame are elected or dif"miffed by the general Diaconat which hath fuf"tain'd the Credit of all Moravian Brethren, "with more than two Millions. This the more "because that the fame does not aim at any pri"vate Intereft but the real Credit of the Diaconat "of the Churches.

This plainly fhews that they wanted to be independent, and answers the Idea Mr. de Damnitz gave of this Diaconat, Jan. 5, 1748. Saying:

"The general Diaconat takes care of the Oeco66 nomy of all the Communities all over the World, "whoever have Colonies of us, affifts them, lends Money to their Undertakings, negociates and "makes Contracts with the Lords of the Manors, "or their Exchequer, but hath never a certain "Abode."

And Count Zinzendorf, in a Letter to Mr. Brauer, April 17, 1750, said:

"There is a general Company erected which "is independent from the Community. The fame "(after that I have refign'd) confifts of one Pre"fident and ten or twelve Affeffors. This Company has above a Million to lend out at 4, 5, "and 6 per Cent. in Europe and America. The most "Part thereof is lent out to other Lords by our "Recommendation."

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The fpecial Diaconat is the fame in every Colony. The General receives and preferves the Sums which are gotten from others, and difpofes of the fame by directing the special Diaconats how to employ them. They ufe the Name of Community very promifcuoufly. If one becomes a Moravian Brother or Sifter, he or she gives, we fuppofe, 300l. This he gives to the Community, that is to the general Diaconat, which gives him a little bit of Paper as a Bill of Exchange. So this becomes the Community. These two Colleges are the very Pillars of the Unitas Fratrum. What Sovereign could now govern fuch, a Company that has no certain Abode, and is to be independent wherever it is?

A Perfon who went from them declared in a Lawfuit at Budingen, that the general Diaconat was as potent as the greatest Duke in Germany. Count Zinzendorf himfelf fays that it was fo rich, what will become of it at laft? The most Part of the Brethren give their Money to the fame at 4 per Cent. The fpecial Diaconat of each Colony has the Revenues of the fame. Private Persons first kept Apothecaries, Ironmongers, Grocers Shops, &c. but the Diaconat foon found means to come to the Poffeffion of them. The Proprietors or others, became Journeymen in them, and the Diaconat had the Profit of the Goods fold. So was it with the Community's Inn, for they themselves said, Jan. 5, 1748.

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"That the general Diaconat took the Revenues " of the common Cafh, out of the Lodgings, Shops, Apothecaries, &c. and that all thefe things belonged to its Accompt." A Brother that has no more than 4 per Cent. wants different Neceffaries, these he abfolutely muft buy in the Shops, and fo the general Diaconat_pays no more than 2 per Cent. They fend their People abroad, many of them die and where can any body ask for

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their Money? What can his Children ask for, who conftitutes Tutors over them?

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"The general Diaconat is not a College of Ifenburgh, but travels about. No more can be pre"tended of the fame, except that the Diaconus "when he comes hither to look over the Ac

compts of the Colony, fhall give notice of his "Prefence, and be a Stranger equal as the ordi66 nary and common Juftice.'

What is the meaning of their being Strangers, and therefore independent? Count Zinzendorf replied when he was told that this could not be agreed to:

"No other Evil can arife from treating fuch "univerfal Servants of the Lord with cavilling, "but that the fame avoid thefe Territories and "leave the Matter about the Loan as it is. The "Poffeffor of Herrnhaag redemands his Money, "The Houfes pay with what they contain, the "Lands are given back for ready Payment, and "left to be inhabited by thofe who please. There "may thereby happen fome acts of Violence, let "them then happen to whom they will; for it must "happen foon.

But notwithstanding this threatening, the Statutes were rejected.

The 11th Sect. of these Statutes is:

"And whereas the Deputies of the Church have "always acknowledged and admitted, and the "Contracts made with them, by their Majefties "the Kings of Great-Britain, Pruffia, Denmark, the "States-General, his Grace the Duke of Holftein and "other Sovereigns, and the Count of Ifenburgb Budingen

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Budingen himself, who has three of them in his own Hands; No Alteration therefore can be made "in any Regulations of the Community without confult"ing the civil Elders of the Moravian Church, or "the general Diaconat, or at least the deputed Syndick "of the Unitas Fratrum. Thefe, let them have any other Office in the Community whatsoever "it may be, fhall only ftile themselves Deputies "of the Brethren for this Affair. The King of Pruffia's ftile in Silefia would be the best if the Sovereign fhould order any thing, or when any "extraordinary Cafe fhould happen, who without "any more Titles addreffes himself to the Directory of the Community of the Brethren. That Com

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munity which is interested, elects their Deputies, "and is to bring the Cafe before them, and give "their Answer in. This is abfolutely neceffary, "and must be strictly, obferved by a Community "that renounces all matters of War.

Both Contracts with Budingen (for there never has been a third) were made with Deputies of the new Inhabitants, and all these Denominations are yet ́ unknown. Count Zinzendorf thought his own People would find themselves wrong'd, and would also make new Regulations, affifted therein by the Sovereign; he therefore wanted to prevent this by making the Syndick Mafter over them all, tho' under a very low and humble Denomination. Where is the Directorium of the Brethren elfe to be found but in the general Diaconat which really is independent?

They argue that the Sovereign fhould have the right to fend his Orders to Herrnhaag which fhould contain nothing new but Things in general. For the 12th Section is thus:

"But the ordinary, and all Orders of the So"vereign, which contain nothing new, but Matters in general, and only fome particular Affairs, are

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