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THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
time, was the filling of the chief places of trust. This he could not do freely, but was obliged to select one of four persons named to him by the proprietors of landed rights and other high authorities. The chief movers in the insurrection made use of this practice in their own interests, by having themselves all proposed for offices, notwithstanding their lack often of the needed qualifications. Thus the place of Chief Burggrave was given to Bohuchwal Berka, that of High Steward to William von Lobkowitz, that of Chief Justice to Count Joachim Andrew Schlick, that of Chancellor to Wenceslas William von Ruppa, and Budowec was placed at the head of the Court of Appeals. Count Thurn was again made Burggrave of Carlstein.
