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A10593	Two very lamentable relations the one, the grieuances for religion, of those of Stiria, Carinthia, and Crayne, vnder Ferdinand then Duke of Gratz, now Emperour. The other, the now present most humble supplication, of certayne of the states of lower Austria, vnto the said Emperour. Wherein is shewed the most terrible, inhumane, and barbarian tyrannies, committed by the Emperours souldiers, specially the Casockes and Wallons, in the said countrie. Done out of the Dutch, and printed.		1620 (1620)	STC 20866; ESTC S119790	6,195	20

Preachers and Schoole-masters yea euen those that willingly would sometimes goe out of the Countrey for deuotion to heare a Sermon or communicate were constrained to pay the tenth penny being out of his Highnesse Countries although it be manifest de iure that nemo extra territorium suum can punish any man All these iniuries are directly against his Highnesse now Emperour owne Edict giuen to those of the Religion the last of Aprill 1599. 20. These great and grieuous troubles and tyrannicall vexations which wee haue beene and are plagued withall were not so much to be pittied if there were any hope of our ease or reliefe But alas the vnmercifull answer and resolution of his Highnesse now Emperour giuen to the Protestants the eighth of December 1609. which was plainely told those of the religion That he would neuer yeeld to their demandes and that hee would continue in this his resolution euen till his graue and that before he would yeeld for any of the least of their demands concerning their Religion he would rather aduenture the losse of all that euer he had of God and with a white Staffe goe barefooted out of all his Countries Also his Highnesse now Emperour did threaten mightily the Protestant Estates vowing that he would be reuenged on them for seeking any tolleration alleadging that it was against his princely Authoritie 21. To conclude this last is the worst of all that his Highnesse now Emperor will not heare his Nobility Gentry nor one of those of the Religion but he oftentimes cōmanded them vpon paine of their liues to keepe perpetuall silence as in Anno 1598. the thirtyeth of September the fifth of May 1599. the fifth of March 1601. and this last time the eighth of December 1609. Also it is most manifest in that Edict in the yeere 1599. hee absolutely forbids vnder the paine of death that no man of what degree or qualitie whatsoeuer should entertaine any Preacher or Minister of the Gospell vowing also that hee will not heare any more of their grieuances Which is dura acerbavox regnantis non velle audire scripta accipere contrà quàm Vetula illa obijciebat Regi Macedonum Philippo audientiam recusanti Si non vis audire noli ergo Regnare The abuses in Religion is no new thing especially of the spirituall sort but if the Spiritualitie did commit any excesse or gaue any euill example it was to be seene into by their temporall Princes and Lords as we haue a fine example in the History of Stiria fol. 81 in the yeere of God 1518. When Doctor Luther had gotten the vpper hand he gaue in a long Catalogue of Complaints and abuses of the Clergie to the Emperour Maximilian complayning of the abuses of their Benefices their neglect of Gods Seruice the insolencies committed in their Diocesse the carelesnesse of their saluation of the euill gouerning of Church liuings and of the too many idle persons that were maintained to the heauie burthen of the Countrey as sundry sorts of Abbots Canonicats Prebendes Commendats and many others his Imperiall Maiestie graciously did promise a redresse giuing command to all Dukes and Lords to see a reformation But at this time there is greater cause of redresse of abuses since it is to bee plainely seene that wickednesse hath gotten the vpper hand and alas there is no hope of helpe or redresse If this Prince deales so hardly with his owne much more cruelty is to be looked for at his hands if he can haue the vpper hand of others The most humble Supplication of certaine of the States of lower Austria made vnto the Emperour Wherein is shewed the most terrible inhumane and barbarian tyrannyes committed by the Emperours Souldiers by the Casockes and Wallons in the said Countrie MOst gracious Prince the vnspeakeable spoyling destruction miserie trouble calamitie and subiection of these countries wrought and effected by the accursed Cosackes and others your Maiesties Souldiers brought into the same together with the robbings murtherings sackings burnings massacrings and other barbarian cruelties vsed and committed therein mooueth and prouoketh vs in the name and behalfe of our principall Lords the whole Countrey to take and haue our recourse next vnto God to your Emperiall Maiestie with sighes and teares to renew our former complaints In regard that the same in the least degree are not yet redressed neither hath your Imperiall Maiesty nor you Generals granted any message nor Mandate in writing for their safe conducts and to obtayne some reliefe therein for your poore subiects For although your Maiesty hath heretofore oftentimes beene certified and aduised how and in what manner the Countrie in generall is spoyled and destroyed both the Gentil-men and Commons rob'd and ransackt some of the Pesants kild and some of them driuen from house home into the Woods and Mountaynes Vines and earable Lands spoyled and laid waste humanitie set aside vertue modestie honestie policy law and right hindred and neglected and an innumerable company of sinnes and shamefull and horrible actions are daily committed and cruelly exercised by the Souldiers Your Maiestie hauing most graciously granted and promised to take speedy order for the redressing and preuention thereof and to that end vouchsafed your Gracious Commission to the Generall of your army for the ceasing and stay of the same being compelled thereunto by meere necessitie and force your poore and humble Subiects are againe vnited to renew their said complaints and to let your Maiesty know that the said insolencies are not by any meanes ceased nor yet lessened but rather from day to day and continually are still committed and more and more encreased and wax stronger yea and in such barbarian vnchristian and inhumane manner that we are astonished and abashed to thinke thereon and in a manner haue a detestation to name them to certifie your Maiesty thereof Therefore sith the vnruly Souldiers specially the Cosackes stil persist in such their strange feareful and detestable actions and that there is no forbearance nor distaste thereof in any sort as also being certified that the same is to be continued and practised by others of your Maiesties troops Wee being vpon more then a sure ground for that we are certainely perswaded in our consciences that it cannot be answered before God together with the States whose Officers are respectiuely to maintaine the Countrie moued with no small griefe and inward vexation of mind to behold the miserable state of the country-people being gouernours and fathers of the same as the duty of euery Gouuernor and States-man bindeth him most heartily and earnestly desiring and wishing to see a remedie therein Hoping that your Imperiall Maiestie will not in any wise be offended nor take it in euill part that in some sort we make the same knowne vnto your Maiesty only to the end that your said Maiesty as a Christian Potentate and a most gracious Prince of the house of Austria may the rather with all speede seeke to