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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08843	A briefe information of the affaires of the Palatinate The which consist in foure principall heads, which be 1. The acceptation of the crowne of Bohemia. 2. The difference and controuersie which hath ensued thereof, betweene the Emperour Ferdinand, and the King Frederick. 3. The proscription and bloudy proceeding that hath ensued thereof. 4. And the interposition of the King of great Brittaine, and with that which hath happened in the meane space.; Briefve information des affaires du Palatinat. English.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 19126; ESTC S113908	30,407	62

with an Emperour but as with an Archduke of Austria who before that hee came to the Crowne Imperiall had alreadie commenced and begun the Warre And as for the Dignitie Imperiall the Elector Palatine hath alwayes protested to recognize him for Emperor and in this qualitie to render and to giue him all obedience and respect in conformitie vnto the Constitutions of the Empire Thirdly the Elector Iohn Fredericke at that time detained and kept prisoner renounced the foureteenth day of May in the yeere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen in the Campe before Wittenberg for him and his heires all the Rights that he could pretend vpon the Electorate of Saxonie the which Renunciation was ratified by his three sonnes and his brother which thing cannot be said on the behalfe of the Elector Palatine And though that the example of the Elector Palatine may not be compared and resembled with the example of the Elector Iohn Fredericke of Saxonie betweene the which there is as much difference notwithstanding then there is betweene Summer and Winter so it is that there is not any that can iustifie the said pretended Proscription for that the Emperour which is now at this day is obliged and bound by his Capitulation confirmed by his corporall Oath not to doe the like thereafter Since that then the Iniustice of the Proscription precipitated against the Prince Palatine is so vniust it will not be amisse to see and view also the Iniustice or more rather enormious excesse of the Execution The Execution hath beene commenced a good space of time before the publication of the Sentence and as well before as after the Palatinate hath beene made the Scaffold vpon the which hath beene played the most horrible the most cruell and the most detestable Tragedies that euer any man heard or saw since the Empire had the Name of Christian Some pretend that the Prince hath offended and for it the people haue beene punished These poore innocent Countreyes haue beene exposed in prey vnto forraine and strange Nations Cossaques Croatians and other Barbarians who vnder the sacred Name of the Emperour haue pilled saccaged rauaged massacred them and burned their habitations and houses in such sort that the Heauens doth bemoane and feele the sobbes and groanes of manie thousand Christian soules that neuer had any knowledge and much lesse of partaking in the Affaires of Bohemia The Ayre is yet obscured and darkened with the smoake of so many Townes Villages Boroughes Castles Houses and Hamlets burned and consumed with Fire and the Earth is yet all moist and dyed as it were with a deluge of bloud at the which the liuing haue horror and the posteritie will haue detestation These poore innocents are brought vnder the yoake of a perpetuall miserie there is carryed away out of the Palatinate a great number of persons women and children into strange Countries of the which some haue beene barbarously sold vpon the frontiers of Turkie And in most parts of the Palatinate these wretched soules are dayly depriued of the exercises of their Religion that not onely the solace of their bodies is taken from them but they are also depriued of the consolation of their soules The Countrey is dismembred the Territories are diuided and the Subiects are constrained and enforced to doe homage vnto strangers The little that remaineth of their goods is confiscated and especially the goods of Officers and seruants of the said Lord are escheated To be short there is done all the mischiefe and euill that the mallice of men can deuise And for the execution of all those violences and excesses the Duke of Bauyer and those of the League haue most passionately and furiously imployed their Armes and the doing there of doth violate and breake the faith and promise by them giuen and made at the Treatie of Vlmes in the which it was accorded and decreed vnder the Signature Letters and Seales of the said Duke of Bauyer That they shall not make any Inuasion or Act of Hostilitie within the one or the other of the two Palatinates vnder any colour name or pretext whatsoeuer it was nor to meddle with any thing within the said Palatinates But that is not all These Outrages were not committed onely against the Elector Palatine but they haue driuen away the Duke of Symmeren his brother out of his Patrimonie his Countreyes Goods and Reuenues they haue ruined his subiects who are yet to this day incessantly euill entreated and consumed and impouerished with all sort of Exactions Contributions and other insupportable Charges And yet hee was neuer accused much lesse conuicted of any Crime yea rather the Emperour himselfe hath declared him to be innocent The bordering Countreyes haue not beene much better dealt withall and entreated but extreamely molested pilled and rauaged in diuers quarters against the Treatie of M●●tz and of Asc●affenburg made by the Commiss●ries of the Emperour with them of the Vnion and ratified by the Imperiall Maiestie by the which Treaties it was promised vnto all the Princes Estates and Cities of the Empire That vnto them there should no Hurt D●mmage Incommoditie or Trouble bee done for or concerning the subiect of these Affaires nor otherwise And not to stand and enlarge ones selfe vpon the particulars but to descend and come vnto the generalitie this Proscription and Execution so vindicatiue hath in that manner afflicted all the Corps and Bodie of the Empire that it seemeth to be the downefall of its totall ruine Moreouer they were not content to depriue the Prince Palatine of his Estates and Dignities Electoralls but they haue also depriued his Children and Brother and his other neere Kinsmen though they were all Innocents taking away from them the benefit of their Inuestitutes in Remainder and Reuersion for to giue them vnto the Duke of Bauyer in recompence of so much bloud hee hath shed and fire kindled and when hee hath put him in the pretended possession of the said Estates and Dignities the said Kinsmen and Allyes are put vnto suite together by way of Law or by an amiable Composition to whom they shall appertaine after the death of the Dukes of Bauyer and you neuerthelesse before the Cause come so farre there are giuen vnto the Duke of Neaburg Letters of expectancie for to be preferred thereto and placed therein before all others The true cause of this extraordinarie rigorous proceedings against the House Electorall Palatine is clearely expressed in the Letters written by the Emperour vnto Don Balthazar d' Cuiuga principall Councellor vnto the King of Spaine dated the fifteenth day of October in the yeere of our Lord one thousand six hundred twentie and one to bee seene in the Chancelrie of Spaine a Booke so called that is to say That forasmuch as they haue heretofore made opposition vnto the House of Austria the which thinketh that it cannot extend his domination so farre as it proiccteth if that the said House of the Palatine be not vtterly ruinated So