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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44712	A discours of the empire, and of the election of a king of the Romans, the greatest busines of Christendom now in agitation as also of the Colledg of Electors, their particular interests, and who is most likely to be the next emperour / by J.H.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3065; ESTC R4781	35,171	133

that you would no further molest Them In Charles the fifts time the Livonians fell off and He summoning them to their obedience and menacing to reduce them otherwise by force they sent him a geering Answer That they beleev'd his Horse wold tyre before he could reach the skirts of Liefland as Thuanus hath it A German Author hath it upon record that since the reign of Rodolph the first above two hundred States and Princes have un-membred and emancipated themselfs from the German Emperour who were us'd to obey his summons make their apparance accordingly Touching Germany it self 't is tru that it is a huge Continent and full of Princes which make som compare her to a Firmament spangled with Stars Others compare the Emperour to a great Luminary incircled with the seven Planets meaning the Septemvirat or the Colledg of Electors and not improperly for this agrees with the Caesarean Arms which are Sol Saturn arm'd and crown'd Mars and the Eagle displayed with two heads yet though therby the Emperour be call'd Rex Regum these Princes are prejudicial to his greatnes wherof Ibraim Ambassador to Solyman the great Turk gave a hint by an ingenuous Fable which was thus When Maximilian the second was chosen Emperour the foresayed Ibraim was then at Frankfort who having bin a Spectator to the ceremony and observ'd what great Princes attended the Emperour that day and being told that som of them could rayse an Army of them selfs and maintain it against any power The Ambassador smilingly sayed That he doubted not of the puissance of Germany but he observ'd that the Minds and Actions the Counsels and Interests of the Germans were like a beast with many heads and tayls which in case of necessity being to pass through a hedg and ev'ry head seeking to find a particular hole to pass thorough they were a hindrance one to another ev'ry head drawing after his own fancy and so hazarded the destruction both of all the heads body tayls But the Empire of Solyman his great Master was like a beast with many tayls yet she had but one head which head being to get thorough or over any passage without any confusion or difference of fancy all the tayls and the whole body follow'd smoothly after Lastly the fatallst cause of the decay of Caesar was the monstrou successes of the Mahumetan whose half Moon fill'd out of the Wane of the Roman Empire both East and West It being a sad saying that whersoever the Turks horse sets once his foot ther 's no Christian grasse will ever grow there again The sixth Section Of enlarging the Colledg of Electors from seven to an Octumvirat And the Contest that is now twixt the Count Palatin of the Rhin and the Duke of Bavaria touching the Vicarship of the Empire THe attempting the Crown of Bohemia by Frederiqne Count Palatin of the Rhin as it prov'd unsuccessfull unto himself and Family so it prov'd fatal to all Christendom besides as the preceding Comet did foretell An. 1618. for directly or collaterally it hath bin the cause of all the warrs that happen'd ever since in Christendome which made King Iames as if he had bin Prophet as well as Prince to say unto his privy Councell upon the first tydings which were brought him that his son-in-law was gone to Prague My Lords this is a sad busines and the youngest man amongst us shall not live to see the end of it which prov'd tru The Bohemian Crown was first offer'd by the Revolters to the Duke of Saxony but hee out of a political prudence as well as out of the fidelity and alleageance he ow'd the Emperour declin'd it Then they reflected upon the Count Palatin of the Rhin as a Prince that might be par negotio and able to go through-stitch with it In regard of his powerful alliances The King of great Britain being his Father-in-law the King of Denmark his Onckle the states of Holland his confederatts and Maurice Prince of Orenge with the Duke of Bovillon who was call'd the old Ardenian fox being also his Oncles which last three incited him first unto that great Attempt though he paus'd a good while upon it and resolv'd twice to decline it till his lady seem'd to reproch his pusillanimity telling him Had you Sir the courage to venture upon a King of great Britains sole Daughter and will you not venture upon a Crown when 't is offer'd you The Count Palatin then was look'd upon as one of the fortunatst Princes in Germany Having the best lady in his bed the best stable of horses the best library of Books the best cellar of wine of any of the rest Maximilian the old Duke of Bavaria stuck close to the Emperour in this quartell for by his assistance and conduct an army of 25000. was routed by lesse then fifteen thousand and the City of Prague with the whole Kingdom was recover'd for the Emperour On the otherside by the arms of the King of Spain and the conduct of Marquis Spinola the Palatinat was conquer'd though the Princes of the Vnion had an Army of forty thousand effectif men under the Marquis of Ansback and others to defend it but 't was sayed that dolus versabatur in Generalibus that the Generals were corrupted and that the acquest was made more by Spanish pistolls than by Spinola's Sword Herupon at a solemn Assembly of the Electors at Ratisbon Anno 1623 the Electorship of the Rhin and the Archidapifership with all the prerogatives and perquisits the authorities and enfranchisements and honors annexed therunto was conferr'd upon the Duke of Bavaria for term of life But in another Assembly 1628 which was five yeers after at Prague this great Grant was not only confirm'd unto him during his own life but entayl'd upon his Heirs to Perpetuity and withall the upper Palatinat was transferr'd unto him with the County of Cham in consideration of his expences in the wars which amounted to thirteen million of Dollars But in the Treaties at Munster and Osnabrug Anno 1652 fower and twenty yeers after this Grant was qualified that in case the Gulihelmian line which is the House of Bavaria did fayl without Masculine issue the Electorship of the Rhin with the Archidapifership and all the prerogatives therof shold revert to the Rodulphian line which is the Palatin being the elder House of the two Now concerning the Gulielmian or Bavarian line ther are but 4 living wherof two are Churchmen viz. the Archbishop of Colen and the Bishop of Frizing which can leave no issue behind Then is ther the now Duke of BAVARIA and his Brother nor are they also likely to get issue for as the Tradition in Germany goes Maximilian the former Duke of Bavaria having maried the last Emperours Sister who was young and the Duke being old and crazy having 5 issues then about his body ther were some Jesuitts that brought such a prolifical cordial from Italy that enabled the old Duke to get children but