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A70938	The declaration or manifesto of George Racokzkie, Prince of Transylvania, to the states and peeres of Hvngarie together with the reasons added thereunto of his modern taking up to armes the 17 of February, Anno 1644 / George Racokzkie ...	Transylvania (Principality). Sovereign (1630-1648 : Rákóczi György I); Rákóczi György I, Prince of Transylvania, 1593-1648.	1644 (1644)	Wing R147; ESTC R2349	4,336	8

THE DECLARATION OR MANIFESTO OF George Racokzkie Prince of Transylvania to the STATES and PEERES of HVNGARIE Together With the reasons added thereunto of his modern taking up of Armes the 17. of February Anno 1644. George Racokzkie by the Grace of God Prince of Transylvania Lord of a part of the Kingdome of HVNGARIE and Count of ZEKELLA London Printed for Edward Blackmore and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Angell May 28. 1644. The Declaration or Manifesto OF George Racokzkie Prince of Transylvania to the States and Peeres of Hungarie George Racokzkie by the grace of God Prince of Transylvania Lord of a part of the Kingdome of Hungarie and Count of ZEKELLA To the right Honourable and right Worshipfull Our well-beloved LORDS and GENTRY Greeting HOw precious and of what high esteeme there be with every one the liberty of the soule and body hereof we need not to seeke afar off many examples nor to write thereof to your Lordships in many words The modern state condition of the Occidentall Provinces doth sufficiently testifie it which to reduce the aforesaid inestimable good to it's ancient State and condition have counted for nothing all other Temporall and precious goods yea with hazarding and quite losing their own lives doe not cease as yet to fight for it How seriously also the Countreyes of Portugall and Catalonia who sate under the Spanish power and taken up A●mes not in defence of the liberty of their soules but only in defence of their temporall liberty do labour and endeavour to settle the same in the former condition of liberty is not unknown to your Lordships especially my Countryman the Hungarian how much blood they have shed for it yea how many of them have suffered death so●it We have sufficient examples thereof What troubles and miseries O● Nation especially sinc●●he yeare 1619. hath suffered in this case hereof whole bundles of letters full of complaints are to be found with us How often also We have not only been admonished but also quite forced aswell by the Protestants as by the Roman Catholicks that Wee at last would awaken and remedie the grievances because otherwise if the oppression of the priviledges and liberties should further encrease and enlarge it self Our Children and Posterity would be forced to possesse a Kingdome hereafter that had lost all Liberty We have been desired also by some of the high Officers and Ministers of the Crown which have discovered unto Us that the Clergie intends to make the Kingdom of Hungarie hereditarie Subject to the House of Austria and withal strives to domineer both Spiritually and Temporally over the fellow Members of th●ir Religion to keep them under It is not unknown to your Lordships how many complaints there have bin made against those last Wils and Testament that have bin forced from some and thereby the lands and goods of the right natuall heir been alienated The Clergy hath begun also to impropriate unto it selfe the chiefest Offices and places in the Frontier Townes of the Kingdome and thus to pull fully out of the hands of the Temporall States and Peeres that small Prerogative which they had left unto them But what shall I say of the washing of the common Revenues of the whole Kingdom and then the ruine following thereupon which however must concern also the Clergie it selfe With what swiftnesse or tricks also the Jesuits are crept into the Kingdome to the utmost ruine of the libertie thereof of the Protestant Religion which by all meanes and wayes is expressed and with what unjustnesse also in the Frontier Townes themselves those that have Iura Pa●r●natus in the Churches are troubled hereof your Lordships have sufficiently been enformed One of the Spirituall Prelates also who is yet living with His Imperial Majesties knowledge hath desired Us also by a confiding person and in His Imperiall Majesties name promised unto Us to turne over also all Our lands and goods situated in the Kingdome of Hungarie to Our Heirs and Successors which are as yet pawned to Us till they are redeemed 〈◊〉 to shew unto Us yet greater and more graces and favour if We 〈◊〉 o●●y give Our assent unto it that Hungarie might be an Hereditary Kingdome to the house of Austria but whereas neither Our Conscience nor also the zeale and love we beare to Our Hungarian nation could give way to it We returned unto him that answer as hath been see m●g to an Hungarian Prince loving his native Countrey and desining the liberty of his Countrey Concerning the authority of the Palatine it was laid thus that nothing but the meer name was left to that office though He do sollicite something for the good of the Countrey yet he labours in vaine yea withall is prohibited to do it How zealous the Protestant States and Peeres as well in particular as in generall have been in the Dyet Anno 1638. to sollicite that their grievances might be redressed but what effect after divers great charges and expences your Lordships have seen thereof and enjoyed indeed is sufficiently manifest unto every one The decree which His Imperiall Majesty caused to be imparted to the Protestant States and Peeres is in Sp●ci● in Our hands but that notwithstanding hereupon divers Churches and Ministers houses have bin taken away and the Ministers driven out of them to repeat all would require a great deale more of time If we now consider the violation of Our corporall liberties We finde it that the offices and places are conferred upon no Protestant fellow-Member of the Countrey neither are they preserred to any higher dignity and if by chance one or other attains thereunto yet he hath no honour trust and credit with them Moreover also though the Protestants have good right or claime to some requisition yet they labour to hinder therein in one or other way Yea it happened also that one that pretended a just cause to his Lands notwithstanding by reason of a pretended contrad●ction went in extream danger of his life about it When the 13 Counties in Generall in the yeare 1640. 641. 643. petitioned his Imperiall Majestie and the Lord Palatine for the redressing of their Grievances what benefit profit got your Lordships by it yea what unkind entertainment your Lordships Deputies had for demanding of their just cause and with what sharp and bitter words they have beene sent away againe your Lordships have still in fresh memory all which how justly We took it to heart so as well Our conscience as also our duty ●o the glory and serv●ce of God and the love and zeale to the Libertie of Our native Country and Nation required Us yea by some of the Protestant States and Peeres also and not lesse by some of the Roman Catholiques We have beene exhorted upon Our soules salvation and in a manner beene forced that for defence of their Liberties We would rise Wherefore We could suffer this no longer nor see the apparant ruine and