may perhaps allude again. The Line of Margraf George the Pious
ends in this George Friedrich, who had no children; the Line of
Margraf George, and the Elder Culmbach Line altogether (1603),
Albert Alcibiades, Casimir's one son, having likewise died
without posterity.

"Of the younger Brothers," says my Authority, "some four were in
the Church; two of whom rose to be Prelates;--here are the four:--

"1. One, Wilhelm by name, was Bishop of Riga, in the remote
Prussian outskirts, and became Protestant;--among the first great
Prelates who took that heretical course; being favored by
circumstances to cast out the 'V. D. (Verbum Diaboli),'
as Philip read it. He is a wise-looking man, with
magnificent beard, with something of contemptuous patience in the
meditative eyes of him. He had great troubles with his Riga
people,--as indeed was a perennial case between their Bishop and
them, of whatever creed he might be.

"2. The other Prelate held fast by the Papal Orthodoxy: he had got
upon the ladder of promotion towards Magdeburg; hoping to follow
his Cousin KUR-MAINZ, the eloquent conciliatory Cardinal, in that
part of his pluralities. As he did,--little to his comfort, poor
man; having suffered a good deal in the sieges and religious
troubles of his Magdeburgers; who ended by ordering him away,
having openly declared themselves Protestant, at length. He had to
go; and occupy himself complaining, soliciting Aulic-Councils and
the like, for therest of his life.

"3. The PROBST of Wurzburg (PROVOST, kind of Head-Canon there);