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A48104 A letter giving an account of the manner of chusing Joseph King of Hungaria to be king of the Romans, on Jan. 21. 1689/90 By the eight electors of the sacred Roman empire. Licens'd, Jan. 18. 1690. 1690 (1690) Wing L1549B; ESTC R213611 9,091 14

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A LETTER Giving an ACCOUNT Of the manner of chusing JOSEPH King of HUNGARIA TO BE King of the Romans On JAN 21. 16889 90. By the eight Electors of the Sacred Roman Empire LICENS'D Jan. 18. 1690. LONDON Printed for R. Bently and are to be sold by R. Baldwin in the Old Baily 1690. A LETTER Giving an Account of the chusing the King of the ROMANS WHEN Charles the Great had overcome Desiderius the King of the Lombards and put him to flight the Pope Leo the Senate and the People of Rome conferred the Imperial Dignity with an unanimous consent upon him with the Kingdom of Germany and in his Posterity it has continued by a hereditary Succession to Louys the IV. or as some write by a mixt one viz. by a hereditary and elective Succession The Caroline Line being ended by Louys the IV. the Princes of the Empire did offer the Imperial Crown with one consent to Otto Prince of Saxony but Prince Otto being of a great Age did refuse that great Honour and advised the Princes to chuse Conrad Duke of Franconia commending him for a great Heroe and a very expert Man in Wars and worthy of the Imperial Crown The Princes approving of his counsel offered the Imperial Crown to the said Conrad Prince of Franconia which he readily accepted of To him succeeded Henry surnamed the Fowler and Henry was succeeded by Otto the Great and Otto the Great by Otto the XI And after him the others came to the Crown by a mixt Succession partly by a Hereditary partly by an Elective one till Henry the Fourth's time But in his time the Princes of the Empire by the Popes instigation whose interest it was that the strength of the Empire by a free Election might be lessened and appaised did wholly abrogate the hereditary Succession and established by a publick Law That no body should come to the Royal Power and Dignity by Inheritance as it formerly used to be and that if the King's Son were never so worthy and accomplished a Prince yet he should not by Succession but by Election come to the Throne Notwithstanding this Law according to the Custom of the Germans they always used to prefer the deceased King's Son or his nearest Relation if they were worthy and qualified They sometimes chose the King's Son or his nearest Kindred the Parents living and had also a great regard to the Royal Line in their Election because they did see that the neglect thereof and the passing over the Royal Blood commonly caused great Troubles And perhaps if this old German custom in the Election had not been revived again the Commonwealth would have faln to a total decay And this has been the cause that out of the most illustrious Austrian Family from Albert the II. without any interruption eleven Emperors have been chosen Ferdinand the IV. not comprehended who dyed King of the Romans Yet this did not lessen or derogate in the least the liberty of Election nor did out of this long time accrue any right to the Family of Austria For it is not the Family but the prudent choice of the Electors that makes them Roman Kings and Emperors and it is by reason of the great Power and Honour and the Merits of their Ancestors and because the Kingdoms which this Family possesses which are like a Bulwark to Germany against the Turkish Cruelty and Fury that the Electors have been pleased to chuse out of it their Head and without some very great Reasons they will never leave the same Now to assure you of this free Election we will see what the Capitulations provide in this case which they did swear to keep First of all we neither shall nor will pretend to any Succession or Inheritance of the Sacred Roman Empire nor assume or attempt the same Nor shall we in no wise and manner aspire or endeavour to attain to it for our selves for our Heirs and Successors neither for any body else But on the contrary We as well as our Issue our Heirs and Successors will maintain the Electors their Heirs and Successors for ever in their free election of the King of the Romans according to the Golden Bull and the same as often and in all cases when they shall think it necessary for the conservation of the Fundamental Laws and this Capitulation as also when they shall think it necessary and for the good of the Empire to chuse a King of the Romans in the Roman Emperor's Life time that they may do it as well without as with his consent And as it has been of old according to the Golden Bull the ancient Rights and other Laws and Liberties that if any thing should come to decay or be infringed so that the necessity and occasion should require That the Vicars of the Empire should meet and consult together about the Affairs of the sacred Roman Empire the said Vicars then shall in no wise be molested or disturbed This Election is twofold Ordinary and Extraordinary The Ordinary is that of an Emperor when the Empire is become vacant either by the Emperors Death or by his Resignation or else when he is deposed from the Empire But the Extraordinary Election is that of a King of the Romans when in the Emperor's Life time with or without his consent the Electors of the Empire chuse a King of the Romans who in the Emperor's absence or when he is indisposed governs and manages the Empire And who after the Emperor's Death without any further Election succeeds the Emperor in his Name Dignity and Power and this is done to avoid an Interregnum as a thing that is very seldom prosperous The Persons that chuse him are the Electors of the Sacred Roman Empire who enjoyed that Right of chusing first by custom but after it was confirmed to them by an express Law in the Golden Bull of Charles the IV. A great many are of that opinion That this extraordinary Election of a Roman King is against the Constitutions of the Empire and that the same Election does repugn the Liberties of the Electors and that under the pretence of the said Election the Emperors can aspire and design a hereditary Succession It is true that it is not conformable to the Golden Bull although there are many Examples that thus has been chosen a King of the Romans yet by right it ought not to be so because when the Golden Bull speaks of such a King it is meant in case of necessity when the Imperial See is vacant and the Empire is without a Head and Governour For the words in the Golden Bull as often as and whensoever are to be understood as often and when the Empire is vacant Besides the Power Right and Authority of the Temporal Electors to whom the Government of the Empire and the Vicarship in such cases is intrusted by the Golden Bull is very much diminished and weakned because they cannot exercise their Rights nor enjoy their Prerogatives moreover it looks