81).] But his principal achievement in Brandenburg History is his recovery of the Province called the Neumark to that Electorate.

In the thriftless Sigismund times, the Neumark had been pledged, had been sold; Teutsch Ritterdom, to whose dominions it lay contiguous, had purchased it with money down.

The Teutsch Ritters were fallen moneyless enough since then; they offered to pledge the Neumark to Friedrich, who accepted, and advanced the sum: after a while the Teutsch Ritters, for a small farther sum, agreed to sell Neumark.

[Michaelis, i.

301.] Into which Transaction, with its dates and circumstances, let us cast one glance, for our behoof afterwards.