D’A. DE LAS. Marie-, on lit fur la Porte Occiden-tale l’Infcription fuivante en Memoi-re de l’Hommage de la Ville y fit auRoi de Prüfe fon nouveau Maître en1719. L» D. Q. Mo Oquam Tremendushic eft Locus , Dei Domus Cali PortaRegi Prußa Friâerico Willielmo Pomera-nia Duci incomparabili maximo Portahac ad Homagmm patuit prima Pomera-nia quorum pia hic teguntur OjJa princi-pum fufpims > tot Santiis Majorum Pac-tis glorioßßimi cyEvi merito magni PatrisVoto Regum Regnique Suacia quajitoJuri Cimul folemniter cejjo exoptatum nu-nc fu a Majeftas addidit Complementumfuosque antiquos hic data Fide Pomœra-nos Sanctijfmo fit inviolabili recepit Sa-cramento , Menfe Augtifh Die Laureato17' 9 -
Tout y eit conferve au dedans decette Eglife dans le même Etat quedu Temps des Catholiques fes premiersMaîtres, jufqu’au Beniner (a) excep-té pourtant le Nombre des Autels quieft réduit à un comme dans toutes lesEglifes tant Luthériens qu’ Anglicanes .Cet Autel eft fort beau; Les Ta-bleaux 6c les Statues de l’Hiftoire Sa-crée y font par tout de fort bons mor-ceaux; Les Orgues bonnes 6c bienOrnées, l’Eglife de S. Jacques ne ce-de guéres à celle-là à ces Egards ; ony bâtiifoit un nouvel Autel avec desColomnes d’Ordre Corinthien qui ,s’il eft achevé, doit furpafier en beau-té ceux de toutes les autres Eglifes deStetin ♦ S. Jean qu’on appelle commu-nément l’Eglife du Cloître à caufequ’elle appartenoit autrefois à un Mo-naftere, celle de S. Nicolas 3 qu’on ap-pelle G aderout h, 6c celle de S. Pierre& Paul dans les Fauxbourgs , ne leurcèdent guercs qu’en grandeur.
Le College qu’on nomme Gymna-Jium 6c fur la Porte duquel on litSchola Senatoria, a produit defameux Magiftrats 6c d’autres grands
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(tí) On a laiffc le Bénitier non-feulement dansles Eglifes Luthériennes bâties par les Catholiques ,mais dans les Anglicanes & on en a converti l’U-fage en celui de Fonts Bâti fin aux , en plufieurs fur-tout à la Campagne en Angleterre .
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have copy’d as faithfully as i was ableto read it as alfo the foregoing, forboth have pretty much fuffer’d fromthe Injuries of Air , and have notbeen reliev’d by the Care of Men»This Building confifts now of a fineManage and good Stables for Hor feswith Lodgings for the fevcral Ferfonsthat belong thereto and others. ThatCaftle and this Building whichis properly a Part thereof being fitua-ted as they are upon a Hill do afforda vaft and pleafant Profpeét not onlyover the whole City but alfo upon theNeighbouring Country which i muftfay that it is very fértil in all Sorts ofCorn 6c neceffaries to life, i ought tofay the like of all the Countries i paf-s’d thro from Fiamburgh to this Place.There are 4 Lutheran Churches withinthe Walls of Stetin befides the Chapelmention’d and 2 more in the Subur-bs viz. S. Mary's , S» fame's , S. John's ,é. Nicholas whitin, and one dedicatedto S» Peter and S» Paul 6c the othercall’d Gaderotiht without, y fay Lu-theran Churches ; for thofe who Fol-low Calvin's Reformation and the Ro-man Catholicks have but fome Hallswithout fteeples. The Chief amongtheFormer fs S. Mary's 3 there is feen overthe Weitem Gate the Latin Infcrip-tion here above infer ted in Memory ofthe Homage which this City madetothe King of Pruffia her new Mailer inAuguft 1719» Every thing has beenpreferv’d therein this Church in thefame Condition or pretty near as inthe Time of the Roman Catholicks even¡the Holy Water - Stock ( b) except the! Number of Altars which are reduc’d! to one in all the Lutheran 6c fo in the An -\glican churches. This Altaris very fine,the Statues and Pictures of the SacredHiftory are all very good Pieces ,the Organs are good and finely ador-med, S fame's is not much inferiourZ 2 to
C b) The Holy Water-Stock has been left not on-ly in the Lutheran but in the Anglican Churchesbuilt by the Roman Catholicks and the U fe thereofhas been converted in Baptismal-Fonts in many ofthem efpecially in the Country in England.