475 (CHRISTIAN to Baireuth; JOACHIM ERNST to Anspach);--See Genealogical Diagram, inra, p.

309a.] He was a prudent, thrifty Herr; no mistresses, no luxuries allowed; at the sight of a new-fashioned coat, he would fly out on an unhappy youth, and pack him from his presence.

Very strict in point of justice: a peasant once appealing to him, in one of his inspection-journeys through the country, "Grant me justice, DURCHLAUCHT, against So-and-so; I am your highness's born subject!"-- "Thou shouldst have it, man, wert thou a born Turk!" answered Johann George .-- There is something anxious, grave and, as it were, surprised in the look of this good Herr.

He made the GERA BOND above spoken of;--founded the Younger Culmbach Line, with that important Law of Primogeniture strictly superadded.

A conspicuous thrift, veracity, modest solidity, looks through the conduct of this Herr;--a determined Protestant he too, as indeed all the following were and are.