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A68953 The Reasons which compelled the states of Bohemia to reject the Archduke Ferdinand &c. and inforced them to elect a new king together with the proposition which was made vppon the first motion of the choyce of th'Elector Palatine to bee King of Bohemia by the states of that kingdome in their publique assembly on the sixteenth of August, being the birth day of the same Elector Palatine / translated out of the French copies. 1619 (1619) STC 3212.5; ESTC S121190 15,875 34

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first of that Family then Emperour of the Romanes did confirme and ratifie the Priuiledges of the Kingdome of Bohemia to the said K. George as doth amply appeare by the saide confirmation Dated 1459. Thence it may easily bee seene that the foresaide clause and condition inserted in the Confirmation of Charles the Fourth was vtterly abolished and by that meanes the Kingdome of Bohemia is declared Free and not tyed to any particular race or Family And that Bohemia hath a Freedome of Election and is in not kinde a Kingdome hereditary the following example will justifie for although King George left Sonnes behinde him yet there was not one of them that euer came either to gouerne or to bee Elected there But after the Fathers departure the Bohemians Elected and Crowned Vladislaus of the Family of the Princes of Lituania Sonne to Casimir King of Polonia Anno 1471. On whome the Emperor Frederick conferred the Tenures and confirmed them vnto him as it is to bee seene at large in the Act for that purpose 1480. Now where it will be objected that this K. Vladislaus by his Letters patentes in the fauour of his Daughter Anne first acknowledging that the States of Bohemia meerly of their owne free will had Crowned and receiued his sonne Lewijs for their King did then ordaine that his Sonne Lewijs comming to dye without Issue the inheritance of the Kingdome should remaine with his Daughter Anne to that objection this Answere Since as hath already beene said the clause of restraint inserted by Charles is wholy annihilated and that the States haue had their Election free as by examples there hath sufficient testimony been giuen that is to say That the house of Austria inherited not the succession of the Kingdome after the Election of K. George nor euen the Sonnes of the same George preferred against the choise of Vladislaus King of Polonia by the same authority of reason therefore it was much lesse in the power prerogatiue of Vladislaus to ordaine his Daughter heyre to the Kingdom against the priuiledges of the Country without both the conuocation the consent of the States so as indeed she could not inherite the Kingdome after her Father but after her Brother and was Queene then but as being the Wife of another elected King That there was no conuocation of the States it is an vnquestionable truth and it followes necessarily they gaue not their consent neither did they euer permither in any thing effectually to enioy the Gouernment But after King Lewijs was fallen in battaile and that the heroyick Prince Ferdinand Archduke of Austria had married the Lady Anne that sister of King Lewijs the States of Bohem then of their owne Free will and by vertue of their Priuildges Elected Archduke Ferdinand for their King 1526. Indeed the King according to custome being once crowned as Soueraigne the Lady Anne afterwardes was Crowned as his companion and no otherwise And if euen at that time the Freedome of the States Election will yet be quarelled withall let King Ferdinands Reuersall letters bee enquired of they will satisfie for it They were giuen at Vienna the Thirteenth of December 1526. And for their better strength the oath hee gaue the States will declare it selfe But there hath very lately beene discouered a strange fact-committed vpon those Reuersall Letters of Ferdinand the Emperour done without the knowledge much lesse the consent of the body of the States The said Letters hauing beene copyed in Parchment out of the originall and inserted to the other Priuiledges of the Countrey in a booke expresly appointed for that purpose and that the originall it selfe was placed there with other priuiledges and that the said Reuersall Letters themselues as it is said were annexed to the Statutes and Ordinances of the Country for the space of Nineteene yeares together remaine yet to be seene It is now found out that after the expiration of those nineteene yeares that is to say in the yeare 1545. some person not yet come into publicke knowledge in the Register of the Countries customes vppon the margine of those Reuersall Letters writt these wordes following The Letters were rendred his Maiesty by the States of Bohemia in the generall Assembly of the States of the Country at the Castle of Prague on Monday after the Ascention of the most blessed Virgin Mary in the yeare 1545. and in place of those were other Letters giuen to the said States of the Kingdome in the Bohemian tongue which were likewise inserted into this booke in the leafe c. Done at the Castle of Prague the Wednesday after St. Aegidius day 1545. Now that this point was in this manner euer effected or that the States in their full Assemblie did euer render those Reuersall Letters to the King and receiued other Patentes in their place it can no way bee found For in the generall Assembly held the same yeare at the Castle of Prague which at this day remaines quoted in the Register of the Countrey there is not any mention made thereof no not so much as in the proposition itselfe then opened on the part of the King Neither were the Letters Patents supposed to bee giuen instead of the first assurances according to that forme addition written in the saide booke but afterwards included in another It may thence bee easily iudged that the writer of those added words whosoeur he was did it out of a priuate authority to please some other persons Thence likewise it may very easily bee perceiued to what ayme the corruption was directed namely by this meanes to frustrate and depriue the States for the time to come to the Freedome of their Election As indeed those Patents doe nothing agree with the first Assurances saue onely in this That the States ought to looke to themselues that the said election of King Ferdinand may not derogate nor bee preiuidiciall to their Priuiledges But the saide Reuersals haue in them another sence directly contrary to all the Priuiledges and Freedomes of the Countrey both olde and new and particularly in this that there are againe alledged the insertions both of Charles the 4. th in his confirmation and of Vladislaus for the aduancement of his disposition towards his Daughter which as hath beene said is long agoe made voyde and was obserued onely in one case alone the States notwithstanding hauing alwayes retayned the free Election Now that this was not done to violate the Priuiledges rather then to confirme them wee referre to the iudgement of the whole world The reason why the States haue not receiued perfect knowledge of all these indirect passages vntill now is that from time to time they haue been concealed by the principall Officers of the land who were Romane Catholiques For the States in the diuers pursuites of their cause aswell to the generall Assemblies of the Countrey as otherwaies could neuer get so much as a hearing of the Priuiledges read much lesse a possession of the writings or copyes of them