The election of the emperor was definitively intrusted to the seven electors, who had practically exercised this right for a long time ; 2 three ecclesiastics : 1 Archbishop of Mainz (arch-chancellor of Germany) ; 2 Archbishop of Trier (arch-chancellor of Burgundy) ; 3 Archbishop of Cologne (arch-chancellor of Italy) ; four secu- lar: 4 King of Bohemia (arch-seneschal); 5 Count Palatine of the Rhine (arch-steward); 6 Duke of Saxon-Wittenberg (arch-mar- shall); 7 Margrave of Brandenburg (arch-chamberlain).

Estab- lishment of the indivisibility and inalienableness of the electoral states, which were made hereditary in the male line and received cer- tain regalia (privilegium de non appellando, etc).

The electoral vote went with the land.

1 So called from the gold case which contained the seal.

2 The electoral vote had been disputed between the two Saxon lines and the two lines of Wittelsbach.