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A18489	The manifest of the most illustrious, and soveraigne prince, Charles Lodovvick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Prince Electour of the sacred Empire: Duke of Bavaria, &c. Concerning the right of his succession both in the princedome, lands, and estates of the Palatinate: as also in the dignity, voice, session, and function of the electorship-Palatine thereunto annexed. Translated, anno. M.DC.XXXVII.; Manifestum sive deductio. English	Karl Ludwig, Elector Palatine, 1617-1680.	1637 (1637)	STC 5046; ESTC S107765	37,055	164

causes which moved His Majesty to thinke it most necessary then to transferre our Electorall Dignity upon the Duke of Bavaria without delay For after many considerations alledgd which made him resolve never to restore Our said Lord and Father He thus writeth Letters of the Emperour for translation of the Electourship Palatine to the Duke of Bavaria Since we have concluded with our selves even before God gave us this great victory That the Palatine once proscribed could no more be restored without manifest danger of the Catholicke party and all our house and considering that the Duke of Bavaria is a Zealous Defender of the Catholicke cause and that his Countrey is a Bulwarke for ours against the Dutch Princes Wee have of our owne proper motion but inspired no doubt from God given the Palatine Electorship unto him as to a Prince endowed with great riches and full of wisedome to beare so high a Dignity And forasmuch as his help and services have stood us much in stead and may be still of great use unto us for recovering Our Kingdomes and Estates The time it selfe seemeth to require it more than he that we hasten the performance of our promise in transferring the Electourship upon him whereby wee shall also ease our selves of much trouble and cut off all hope from the Palatine and His friends who with too much importunity presse his restitution And because this worke needeth the assistance of the King of Spaine we have thought by your meanes earnestly to exhort him not to neglect this fit occasion to advance the establishment of Our House and the cause of Religion to both which He is well inclined For he cannot be ignorant that in this opinion Our Ancestours were confirmed that the foundations and pillars of Our House were laid and grounded in Germany which ought with so much the more care be defended against Our enemies because if the foundations be shaken the Fabricke cannot long subsist Now among all Adversaries against the greatnesse of Our House none hath beene more opposite within the bounds of Germany than the Count Palatins as it appeareth by the time of Maximil I. Charles V. Ferdinand I. and Rodolph II. This being certaine that the rebellion of the Netherlands against His grandfather Philip II. was fomented from the Palatinate and that He will never bee able to reduce them to His obedience unlesse this Stocke bee first rooted out of the Empire In the postscript of the said Letter this motive was likewise added That if we had one Catholike voyce more than wee have we should also be assured that the Empire would remaine in the Catholike hands and by consequence in Our House to the advancement whereof the Duke of Bavaria would willingly concurre in requitall of this great benefit having beene exalted by an Emperour of Our House to so High a Dignity In another Letter of the Emperours written to the King of Spaine under the 〈◊〉 of May 1622 are these words Since it may be presumed that the English Ambassadour hath Commission amongst other things to urge the restitution of the Palatine now exiled We thought good to acquaint you in confidence that We have lately promised for many reasons the Electorall Dignity and Prerogative fallen into Our hands unto the Duke of Bavaria as to one who during these publike troubles and confusions hath well deserved of Vs of the Empire of Religion and of Our house and still ceaseth not to undergoe infinite charges notwithout the danger of his life and Estates insomuch as having already granted Him our letters Patents nothing now remaineth but what dependeth on time and occasion namely to give Him investiture and introduce Him into the Electoral Colledge and so to put Him in full possession If any man would know the foule and the fayre of this pretended promise and translation of the Electourship how it was negotiated contrived and agreed by the suggestion of the Pope and operation of certaine Monkes as also how it was secretly carryed and concealed from the Colledge of Electours who were afterwards assembled at Ratisbone onely to approve the said translation and to assist the solemne Investiture with their presence we shall send the Reader to the Publike Acts and originall letters out of which these things following are extracted First in the Emperours letter of his own hand to Don Balthazar de Zuniga bearing date 15 of October 1621. are these words Moreover I cannot for beare to acquaint you that since wee have divers times both by word and writing promised the Duke of Bavaria who hath so much obliged us to transfer the Electourship Palatine upon him We know not by what meanes we can withdraw our promises without wounding our honour and provoking Gods anger against us In another letter written with the Emperous owne hand to Hiacynthus a Capucin bearing date 15 October 1621. Although wee doubt not but you will handle the businesse committed to your charg with that wisedome God hath given you yet for the trust we have put in you wee will not for beare to give you this advise That ye should not mention in the Court of Spaine that the Duke of Bavaria hath already the Investiture in his hands for we feare that if they should know so much it would infallibly breed rather harme than good but ye shall rather labour to rectifie those errours which are currant there and dispose them not onely to agree with our opinions but also to assist us in our designes that we may perfect this blessed worke so necessary for the preservation of our holy faith and by consequent of our Family For yee know well enough that if the King of Spayne should abandon us we were not able of our selves to make our promise good to the Duke of Bavaria In the Emperours Resolution given in writing to the Popes Nuncio Fabritio Verospo at Vienna in February 1622 are these words Resolution of the Emperour about the translation His Imperiall Maiesty having well considered the pregnant reasons which moved his Holinesse to perswade him to transferre upon the Duke of Bavaria the Electorall Dignity Titles Honours taken from the Palatine proforibed doth first of all duely thanke his Holinesse for shewing by so grave an Ambassage his Fatherly care to increase the Catholike Religion and relieve the miserable estate of the Empire and that his Holinesse might see the providence and care of his Maiesty concurring with him in the same ayme and ends Hee hath already begun that Translation which his Holinesse desired and assured the Duke of Bavaria thereof by his Letters Patents The Count d'Ognate Spanish Ambassadour at Vienna caused a memoriall to bee presented to the Pope by his brother Ambassadour then at Rome beginning thus Hiacinthus the Capuchin was sent by your Holinesse to the Emperour to exhort Him partly to continue the warre against the Hereticks Enemies of our Mother Church and disobedient to your Holinesse partly to dispose him to translate the Electorall dignity upon

children of the Palatine His Brother and the next of that Agnation all of whom are as yet unaccused and therefore much lesse convinced of any crime And a little after The Translation being of no lesse moment then the Ban did questionlesse alike belong to their deliberation for as they were Electours and States of the Emperour so were they also of the Empire and were therefore called the props and pillars of the Empire and if the Emperour cannot by His own power bestow any Fee nor any Towne fallen in reversion without the knowledge of the Electours and Estates how much more is their assent necessary in transferring of so supreame a Tenure of the Empire as is an Electorall Dignity This would be too grievous and great a wrong to the temporall Electours Princes and Estates to their children and blood if without hearing of their cause or privity of the Colledge Electorall they should be dispossessed of their Estates and Dignities and deprived of their simultaneous and undeprivable Succession Their Lord and Master hoped that the rest of his Electorall Fellowes would never approve of such proceedings nor be a cause that the condition of an Electour which hath alwayes been of such sway in the Empire should become worse than a Gentleman 's in Poland who cannot be proscribed but in a Diet of the Kingdome In the answere which the Electours and Princes assembled at Ratisbone together with the Ambassadours of such as were absent made unto the Emperours Proposition exhibited to them the 30 of Ianuary 1623. This was represented in the name of the two Electors of Saxe and Brandenburg Answeres made to the Emperour touching the Translation That not to speak of the Count Palatines defence these things ought to be duely considered in the point of the Translation First whether those of His children who before His Outlawry were included by the providence of their Ancestors in the Electorall Right and Succession can afterwards bee excluded Next whether His Brother guiltlesse of any transgression who neither hath nor could by reason of his nonage offend the Emperour or whether the kindred and next of His Agnation that not onely testified their innocency but likewise their service and fidelity to His Majesty in these occasions can be justly debarred from their pretentions It was further represented in the report of the Electours and Princes made upon certaine points of the Emperours Proposition the 15. February of the said yeere The Suffrages sufficiently declared what the opinion was of the two Electours of Saxe and Brandenburg about the point of Translation And albeit these words Without ought prescribing were inserted in the last relation yet their Highnesses have thought good to retract them forasmuch as the said words cannot stand with the Capitulation by which His Majesty is so farre and formally bound that this matter cannot be left to the freedome of His will For it is expresly ordained That no businesse of importance should passe without the knowledge and approbation of the Electours and that no Estate of the Empire should be Outlawed without a due and formall hearing Which Capitulation being a fundamentall and unrepealed law in the Empire ought no more to be brought in question but rather obeyed than disputed And because their Dignities as Electours temporall descended to their posterity by inheritance They tooke themselves to have the greater interest and so the more obliged to preserve the said Authority Furthermore to confirme the votes aforesaid the Electour of Saxe wrote to the Archbishop of Mentz during the said Diet 23 February 1623. to this purpose VVe hoped that our good and wholesome exhortations grounded not upon opinions but upon the lawes and examples of the Empire would have found more credit than they have done then these wayes had not beene taken which must needs leade to bitternesse and trouble of which as we cannot approve for the Reasons which ye know so the mischiefes which may follow thereupon will justifie our innocencie though increase our griefe Sorry we are to see such proceedings in our dayes and so hopelesse of remedy which maketh us the more constant to our former suffrages that are registred in your Chancery desiring nothing more than that our sound and sincere remonstrances may hereafter be remembred when the events perhaps will not answere to the designes And a little after What if in the proscribing an Electour and placing another in his roome the advise of Electours be not taken we see not wherein consisteth that Authoritie nor how it can be secured not what it differeth from any other Estate To alleadge necessity or that the Colledge shall incurre no harme is but a sleight excuse For Capitulations are stricti juris and admit no exceptions or if any the interpretations thereof belong to the Colledge in Body without which all is in vaine whatsoever is at the present promised As for the Translation it selfe wee never thought it a way to peace but rather to warre and could not therefore assent unto it In which opinion Wee are still the more confirmed for as much that since the establishment of the Golden Bull the like example hath not been found and if wee take that of Duke Maurice abovesaid it declareth quite the contrary Besides that clause inserted into his Majesties resolution touching the Children and Agnation of Electours in very umbragious and may rather exasperate than still the cause for there is decided that a third person innocent may be deprived of his simultaneous Investiture and lose that inherent Right which is proper to himselfe for the crime which is proper to another Where hence will follow that the Children and Agnation must settle their Right by arbitrement and composition and that which was before cleare and legall will now become disputable and uncertaine but because this doth not alone import the Palatine House but all the rest of Electors and Princes who have obtained the same Investiture by propriety taking an oath and kissing the sword VVe must be so much the more carefull not to approve of such a fact which may endamage the whole Empire In another letter to the said Arch-bishop of Mentz dated from Dresden the 10. of October 1623. the Electour of Saxe giveth this Councell It was our true and sincere affection first to his Majestie as Head of the Empire and then to all the members which made us deliver those suffrages in open Councell registred in the Imperiall Chancery wherby sufficiently appeareth what meanes we judged fittest to obtaine a settled peace But we have learned by sad experience that since the said Assembly where that Resolution was most hotly taken which we esteemed most unpeaceable all things in the Empire have grown worse and worse And somewhat after The restitution was propounded for this regard because the Ban the execution and the Translation which as yee know followed thereupon were all resolved without the knowledge or assent of the Electours which assent is neverthelesse necessary if so

occasion that the Empire should longer groane under those miseries oppressions which threaten utter destruction And therefore if the Rights of all Parties may be so provided for that none may suffer wrong we are contented to redintegrate the Colledge by acknowledging the Duke of Bavaria for Electour But before he be put in possession we think it needfull first of all that all the Armies speedily dislodge out of the Lands and Territories of the Electours Princes and Townes Imperiall whereby it may appeare that the said Duke be received for respect to the Emperour and zeale of publike peace rather than by constraint which caution is the more reasonable because the troops of the Duke of Brunswick and Count Mansfelt are utterly routed and disbanded and all the Evangeliks have licensed their souldiers so as there being nothing more to be feared it would be unjust and against the lawes of the Empire to burden it with souldiers when there is no warre and oppresse those parts with superfluous charges which live in quiet and obedience Secondly that letters of recognisance be given by his Imperiall Majesty as also by the Duke of Bavaria fully testifying that neither the Ban of the Count Palatine nor Translation of the Electorate shall be any way hereafter alledged to the preiudice of the Electorall greatnesse and dignity or of the Golden Bull or Imperiall Capitulation or else of the Electorall Princely Houses in their severall Rights and Investitures Thirdly that the Rights of all those shall be no wise diminished to whom the Electourship Palatine belonged before the said Ban or Translation but that in their severall degrees they may after the death of the said Duke of Bavaria be admitted into their Rights without delay Vpon these Conditions we shall not refuse to acknowledge the said Duke for the present and the rather because whatsoever shall hereafter happen the Suffrages which we have delivered in open Counsell and which are inserted in the Records of the Empire will beare us witnesse to all Posterity that we failed not in due time place and manner to represent all things which our oath and Electorall Office required The Electour of Brandenburg in his answere given the Baron Hannibal of Dona dated at Coningsberg 22 May 1627. thus declareth The only cause which hath hitherto stopped His Highnes from agreeing to the point of Translation was That he thought it would rather sowe the seeds of discord than be a bond of peace and stirre up forraine Armes then quiet all at home since He hath found by experience to the great losse and ruine of His Countrey as well as other Estates that he was not mistaken in his beliefe But forasmuch as His Highnesse understandeth that His Imperiall Maiesty is out of hope that the Empire would ever be appeased unlesse the Electorall Colledge be first unanimously conjoyned by the introduction of the Duke of Bavaria That on his part he might further the Counsells of Peace and Prosperity of the Empire and avoyd the imputation of future Calamities His Highnesse is not unwilling to beare respect and obedience to His Imperiall Wisdome and conforme himselfe unto His will by receiving and acknowledging the Duke of Bavaria for a Coelectour during his life upon these tearmes and reservations First That he intendeth not by this Act any way to depart from the Suffrage and declaration of his Conscience made in the Diet at Ratisbone touching the publication of the Ban and Translation of the Electorate thereupon ensuing Secondly That thereby He will nothing derogate from the preheminence of the Electorall Colledge nor from the Sanctions of the Golden Bull nor Lawes and Constitutions of the Empire nor the Capitulation Imperiall nor yet from the Rights and Investitures of other Electorall and Princely Houses against any whereof He meaneth not that this His Act shall be drawne in consequence Thirdly He purposeth not in the least manner to prejudice by this His declaration the Cause of the Prince Palatine nor His Children Brother Blood or Agnation much lesse to contribute to their exclusion or any was to charge Himselfe with the Palatine Cause Wee are not ignorant that neere twenty yeeres agoe and now afresh since the Translation of our Electorate certaine rumours have been spread abroad especially in the Courts of forraine Princes as if the Electorall Dignity had of old beene an exed to the House of Bavaria and not of the Palatinate and that heretofore Contracts of alternation had beene made and observed betweene both Houses that they should enjoy the Dignity by turnes All which hath beene forged to this end that it should not seeme strange that the Session and vote Electorall which had been so long neglected by the Predecessours of the Duke of Bavaria should be restored by his industry and returne to the proper house Not to enter into the debatement or this Cause which is a digression from the purpose nor to repeate that which persons of quality have published to refute this vaine pretention we will wholly referre our selves to the Golden Bull as to that supreame and fundamentall law which can onely determine this cause whereby it will appeare whether the Electorate belong to the Bavarian or Palatine Line and what is to bee judged of the pretended part of alternation In the 7. Title thus we finde it Law for entailing the Electourship upon the Palatinate and not on Bavaria Since therefore it is commonly knowne to almost the whole world that the King of Bohemia Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Saxe Marquis of Brandenburg have by reason of their Kingdome and Principalities the Right Suffrage and Session to chuse with the Ecclesiasticall Electours a King of the Romanes and install him Emperour And that they are therefore established as true Electours of the Empire with authority to make Elections c. And in the beginning of the 20. Title Whereas all and every one of the said Princedomes by vertue whereof the Temporall Electours have full power right and suffrage to elect the King of the Romanes and make him Emperour together with their rights functions dignities and appurtenances are so straightly knit and united c. By another Edict of the Emperour Charles the 4. who enacted the Golden Bull the same was confirmed Anno 1356 in these words That the right of Election was annexed and founded upon the County Palatine his Imperiall Majesty and all the other Princes had certaine knowledge and no doubt was to be made thereof And a little lower For as much as we firmely know that the voice and Power Elective are founded with such right in the lands of the County Palatine and office of high Truckcesse that the one cannot subsist without the other To this may be added That the Count Palatine by reason of the Palatinate and not of the Dutchy of Bavaria is provisionally the Vicar of the Empire as the Golden Bull clearely ordaineth in the 5 title As often as the Empire shall fall in vacancy

forfeited nor translated but onely by failing in blood But for the better understanding of this Point wee must know That the Electorall and Soveraigne Estates which hold in Fee upon the Empire are farre more transcendent than common Tenures of Inheritance It is true indeed that Lands and Lordships which descend by inheritance from the last Possessour to the next heire are subject to many changes They may be sold morgaged alienated attainted confiscated according to the severall Reasons and Statutes of Law and all to the prejudice of the lawfull heires But Electorall Tenures so long as the State of the Empire standeth are warranted against all these kind of changes and but in one onely Case are immutable and unreversable to the Empire and that is for deficiency of male Issue by the Fathers side and extinction of blood For when the Estates of the Empire found it at the first needfull for the policy and peace thereof to erect the Electorall Colledge and invest the three Houses of the Palatinate Saxe and Brandenburg which at that time were Soveraigne with the power elective there passed a Contract betweene the said Houses and the Empire that the said Electorall Dignity should remaine rooted in them and descend from Father to Sonne and so to the next males of the Fathers blood comprehending all that should hereafter be borne as if they had beene then extant and enabling them to succeed in their owne proper inherent and unalienable Right for ever This stipulation in the first Investiture hath beene a leading Rule and President for all after times wherein it hath beene the constant use and practise in the Empire to keepe up the same forme and in all Electorall vacancyes to admit and invest the next of the male blood without rub or interruption This Custome hath received strength and authority in the Empire for the continuance of times from the foundation of Lawes from Covenants and Capitulations from tryall and experience from the approbation of all Estates and from the reverent esteeme and inviolation of it selfe till these present times And for further declaration of this ancient Right and Regality of Succession in Electorall Houses it hath beene a maxime and opinion delivered in all Ages that they succeed not by right of inheritance nor by any will or disposition of the last possessour but by the providence of their Ancestours and by Covenant made with the first Contracters whereby the Right of every male who should appertaine to that Stock and Linage to the worlds end was actually included not onely as pretenders in their owne time but as Compossessours from that present From which infallible grounds these consequences naturally will arise First that it is not in the power of any Father or possessour of these Electorall Lands and Dignities to alienate or engage them to the prejudice of their Blood though it were to pay a Dowry or redeeme a Captive or for any other extreame necessity the reason is because they have no further right in them then during the life of their owne persons and cannot therefore alienate the right of others who by their decease step into their place by surrogation and not inheritance Secondly no Predecessour nor Father can by any Felonious crime whatsoever though it were of the highest treason attaint the blood or forfeit the Right of his Successours who are not guilty of the same crime because their claime is not from their Father but from their Stocke invested in their birth and blood and by Law irrevocable Thirdly the Emperour being onely upon certaine Conditions by choyce not by nature Administrator of the Empire on which these Electorall Dignities and Estates doe hold hath no direct power or dominion over these Tenures all He can doe by the uttermost of Law is to lay His Action against the right of the party offending but not against the Right of the rest which resideth in their innocent blood and is locked up within the barres of immutability as too noble and precious a gift to depend upon the fact or keeping or inheritance of any possessour Since therefore as well the Electorall claime belonging by Covenant to our House as the naturall and lawfull possession of our Estates and Regalities are delivered by our Ancestours and devolved upon us as the first in blood no earth by power whatsoever can call them into question or deprive us our brethren or Agnation of our right and much lesse transferre it to any other without rearing it out of the faith full custodie of ancient Covenants stable lawes and venerable customes and obtruding forraigne plots and innovations and making an irreparable rent in the frame and bodie of the sacred Empire Had wee our brethren or blood beene as guiltie of crime as we are laded with punishments yet if any respect had beene showne to the ordinances of the Empire to the Capitulations of Emperours or to the grave and solid remonstrances of the two foresaid Electours wee should at least have beene tryed by the law but since the proceedings against us in our tender innocence hath been no lesse extreme and rigorous than if we were the most obstinate enemies of the Empire and highest delinquents against His Imperiall Majestie wee doubt not but God in whom we trust and who is Iudge of all will doe us right and when he pleaseth pronounce his sentence according to the justice and equitle of our cause In the meane time we hope that all Kings Potentates Electours Princes Estates and Persons whatsoever that free from partialitie and voide of passion shall examine these violent and precipitious proceedings by our blamelesse innocence will not only be touched with a sense and compassion of our case but will esteemethem all as vicious and unjust and of no force to prejudice our Rights unto which God and nature the consent and sanction of the whole Empire hath entitle us And that the rather both because nothing to this day hath beene nor can be laid to the charge of us or our brethren as criminall against the Estates and lawes of the Empire or his Imperiall Majestie as for that the seysure of our prerogatives the detention of our Estates the translation of our Dignity and the present perpetuation of all like so many linkes of usurpation were contrived and compassed in the time of our nonage whereby wee could not sooner protest nor oppose nor vindicate our Rights nor cuter into the government of our affaires till now that we have attained our Majority Heere wee may note that if the two Electours of Saxe and Brand enburg judged at the first that the translation of our Electourship though but for a time and restrained onely to the person and life of the Duke of Bayaria would not withstanding be injurious to the preheminence of the Colledgre Electorall and to all temporall Princes as depriving innocents of their inherent and simultaneous Right invested in their blood and planted in their Stocke against all the lawes Rights formes and

customes of the Empire and would therefore in stead of peace be a cause as the events have shewne of further exasperations and of cruell warres which might waste the Empire How then can they but resent this present Act whereby without suit and try all Wee were comdemned in Our minority when wee were neither indited nor could bee guilty of any crime and Our Estates and Royalties translated from Vs our brethren and Agnation to the Line of Duke William farre removed and that for ever And what else can they judge of it but as of an attempt and conspiration never heard of not onely to fill the Empire with mistrusts factions hatreds and utter desperations but likewise to outrage the fabricke of the State and undermine the very foundations that upon the rubbage and slavery of the same might bee raised a new and absolute Domination As long therefore as the Electorall Colledge shall be reputed the foundation of the Empire and the Golden Bull the Imperiall Capitulation and the Constitutions of State for inviolable lawes whereby the whole body should be governed and knit together so long can neither Wee Our Brethren nor Agnation altogether innocent and inculpable be deprived of Our Estares and Dignities without manifest rupture of all Right and open violation of ' humane peace and societie Neither is it sufficient to alleadge the successe of armes and victories gotten in the field for a proofe and testimony of the justice of their cause for then the condition of Christians and truth of the Religion we professe would be much worse than Turkes and Mahumetans And if any thinke that their designes bee so smoothly carried and their strength so great that they may dissolve change and dispose of all things as they lift without the feare of any forraigne opposition let them know that there is no Councell against God nor might against his providence which hath bounded the thoughts of men and set a period upon their power and albeit they may surmount humane vengeance and outward force yet great oppressions never want an inward worme to gnaw downe the pillars of pride and lay them in the dust even as it shall please him who raiseth and disposeth Princes and transporteth Kingdomes for unrighteousnesse Let every one therefore in his owne impartiall judgment consider from the publike Acts and authenticall letters of his Imperiall Majesty from the suffrages and other documents of the Electours and Princes temporall from the infinite and untolerable wrongs disgraces and oppressions of our House whether we have not just cause to publish our Complaints against these unjust proceedings and to protest against them before God and the world And therefore wee doe by this present and publike Manifest in the best and most solemne forme according to all Right and custome withstand and protest against them and every one of them leaving this our Protestation as a perpetuall witnesse of the outward injuries done against our Right to this Age and all posterity And as wee are thus forced to protest against our wrongs so we doe freely professe in the sight of God and upon our Conscience that whatsoever hath been recited alledged urged or proved in this Manifest is onely for the defence and evidence of our just cause and for the maintenance of our proper and inherent Rights devolved to us from our Ancestours and not any way to blacke or despite or offend any living soule of what condition soever These Asseverations being done wee make our recourse unto Your Imperiall Majesty to all Kings Electours Princes and Estates as to the Dispencers of Iustice Protectours of Innocence and Guardians of oppressed Orphans here below We appeale â Caesare male informato praeoccupato irato ad Caesarem Electores ordines Imperii tan quam Pares Curiae melius informandos affectibus vaeuos and humbly beseech your Imperiall Majesty That if Our innocence will not move you yee would bee moved with your selfe and call to mind your owne finall resolution which ye gave to the Electours and Princes at the Diet at Ratisbone the 23 February 1623. Wherein yee were pleased to promise and declare That ye never intended neither was it your will by any Act which was passed in the Palatine Cause to crosse or prejudice the preeminence of Electours nor your owne Capitulation nor the Golden Bull nor Constitutions of the Empire nor for that businesse to take or intrench from any the Right and due which to any belonged By vertue of this your Imperiall Declaration confirmed since to divers Princes within and without the Empire as also for those many instances and mediations made in Our behalfe We again beseech your Majesty to restore Vs to Our Rights to Invest Vs in Our Electorship and Estates and to protect Vs in the same as a most faithfull and eminent member of the Empire not suffering any hands to withhold Our Right nor trouble Vs in the lawfull possession of that which God and Nature hath appointed Vs Whereby yee shall imitate the best examples of your Predecessours who upon better informations and advice have left the wayes of rigour for the wayes of peace And so ye shall use that high power committed to your trust to still the present stormes to repaire the breaches heale the fractions and wounds of your owne members and to establish the Empire in peace and unity which is now falling to desolation And that our owne requests may bee the better seconded wee intreat all Kings Electours Princes and Estates that they would employ their Power and send their exhortations as in all places where they shal thinke it availeable so especially with His Imperiall Majestie and the Duke of Bavaria to the end that being put into the peaceable possession of our proper Rights and Electorall and Ancient House which hath produced Kings and Emperours and done such services both to the Austrian and Bavarian House and stood so long a prop and pillar of the Empire bee not razed nor demolished in our dayes nor Wee and Our blood which spring up within the walls thereof to be driven to desperation nor seek Councels from Necessity Wherein as they have all some interest either in regard of that reproch which our injuries and affronts unredressed may cast upon them with most of whom we have the honour to be allyed or else for the consequence which may fall upon themselves if this fire bee not timely quenched so they shall labour in a most Christian work pleasing to God and glorious among men Which we desire of them with this further assurance that our carriage and intentions to His Imperiall Majesty the whole Empire shall be ever sincere loyall and respectfull Zealous to remove jealousies and distrusts to confirme friendship and intelligence to preserve the rights and authorities of all and with our power to establish publike peace and advance the good of all Christendome And for themselves They shall lay an eternall obligation upon Vs our brethren and our whole House upon all occasions to acknowledge this their favour and by the faithfull offices of our friendship and vicinity to make them thankfull retribution And for conclusion to close up all Wee doe heereby summon and exhort all our Liegemen Vassals and Subjects that hold in fee on our Electorall House in due time not to faile of doing homage faith loyalty and obedience unto us as to their naturall Lord and Prince hoping that every one of them will bee carefull to discharge their bonds and duties and take heed of failing under the Censure of the lawes by any felonious or disobedient act Heere shall end our present Manifest which for defence of Our inseparable rights and information of the whole world we were faine to publish by inevitable necessity Given at London the 12. of Ianuary 1636. Charles Lodowicke Electour