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A68953	The Reasons which compelled the states of Bohemia to reject the Archduke Ferdinand &c. and inforced them to elect a new king together with the proposition which was made vppon the first motion of the choyce of th'Elector Palatine to bee King of Bohemia by the states of that kingdome in their publique assembly on the sixteenth of August, being the birth day of the same Elector Palatine / translated out of the French copies.		1619 (1619)	STC 3212.5; ESTC S121190	15,875	34

and at large bee vnderstood in the defences and griefes of this Land which are published From these vnlawfull Oppressions it grew to this by the conspiracies of those false Statesmen that for a long time they looked after no other subject then warre the effusion of blood Insomuch as the late Emperour was carryed away and suborned by them to the inuading of this faire Kingdome and the Inhabitants with an Army which hath destroyed a good part of it by pillage fire and sword Wherein King Ferdinand did not onely giue testimony that hee tooke contentment but which is more became himselfe both a Counsailour and an executor against the Kingdome and intruded into the Gouernment thereof to be inuested before his time thereby raising his purpose to bee a cause of infinite vnsufferable oppressions and calamities The truth whereof is as cleere as day For the world can not bee ignorant that he inuested himselfe in the Gouernment while the Emperour Mathias was yet liuing insomuch as against the will of the Emperour hee did both cast and imprison Cardinall Klesel President of the Priuie Councell and one of whose imployment his Majesty receiued seruice in all his Counsailes Further in that the saide Ferdinand did not onely aduise a Warre against this Kingdome but also imployed his owne Forces which he had in Friaull to inuade the Land commaunding them to make spoyle of it and to put the Inhabitants to Fire and Sword Item for hauing himselfe in person held an Assembly in the Marquisat of Marauia against the Kingdom of Boheme where hee demaunded both to joyne the Troupes of Morauia to those of the Emperour and their passage through the saide Marquisat and then indeede partly by faire wordes partly by threatnings he perswaded the States of Morauia to allow of the passage Item for hauing after the decease of the Emperour not only taken into his pay and seruice all the Forces and open enemies of that Kingdome but also caused all the leuies made before to bee aduanced and brought in many thousand Spaniards and other forces by meanes whereof horrible Cruelties and Tyrannies were exercised by Fire and Sword and Sackings both in Bohemia and Morauia and much greater then in the time of the Emperour Mathias Insomuch that they spared neither olde nor young men nor women no not the innocent Babes whereof many of them were in there Mothers bellyes and which is more in worse then a Barberous fashion digged their bodyes out of their Graues stripped them and binding their hands and feete together layde them starke naked in a horrible manner vpon the Altars and set them at the doores of Churches And though it bee well knowne to the world that he neuer entred into possession of this Kingdome yet not withstanding he hath not forborne by his letters to make choyce of and to admit for his Lieutenants the aforesaid treacherous Patriots who are the source and originall cause of all this euill some of which hee hath yet by his person who for being perfidious to this Kingdome and for other great considerations were banished of whome notwithstanuing hee doth serue himselfe both in his Counsailes and Embassages manifesting thereby that he doth approoue of all the mischiefe they haue donne euen vntill this present for the abolishing and cassation of the franchises and Priuiledges of the Countrey and that hee makes more accompt of such men then of the whole Kingdome by which euery one may easily iudge what the Prouinces may expect or hope for so such a Lord. Especially if wee consider withall the Contracts and treaties which haue passed betweene the King of Spaine and King Ferdinand not onely for so much as concerneth the Kingdome of Bohemia and the incorporated Prouinces thereof but chiefly also concerning the free Kingdome of Hungarie and that this was donne euen then when he was neither yet receiued nor Crowned in any of the two Kingdomes which Treaties as then were kept secret and concealed from the Prouinces but discouered afterwards and brought to light by a singular diuine prouidence In those treaties the Free Election and the Priuiledges which the said two Kingdomes haue by vertue of that Election are entirely cut off and appropriated Hereditarily to the King of Spaine and his Successors in such sort as the King of Spaine doth now quit and yeeld his Hereditary right vnto King Ferdinand but with this restriction that vpon default of Heyres males of the race of King Ferdinand the said two Kingdomes with the depending Prouinces shall fall by right of Succession to the King of Spaine his Heyres and Successors As indeed the saide Archduke Ferdinand euer since the said contracts were passed hath changed the olde style wherewith the precedent Emperours and Kings of Boheme alwayes contented themselues for that the Emperours Ferdinand Maximilian rnd Rodolphe did ordinarily write Our Kingdomes and Prouinces Hereditarie but the Archduke Ferdinand doth write now in this fashion Our Kingdomes Hereditarie and Prouinces By this wee may againe easily iudge what was the drift of King Ferdinand and why hee would not bee chosen but onely acknowledged in Bohemia namely to suppresse the Free Election and accordingly to be Lieutenant of the King of Spaine in these Countries vntill such time as hee had in the end entirely reduced them to the Spanish yoake and seruitude But if the States had then had any knowledge of the said contracts doubtlesse they had sufficient cause both to contradict and oppose them selues against it For all men know that the Kinges of those Kingdomes which are not Hereditary but subsist by a Free Election as hath been formerly prooued touching the Kingdome of Bohemia cannot make any contract with a stranger Prince without the approbation and consent of the States and all such treaties are in themselues voyde and of none effect Such and the like treaties might prooue exceeding dangerous to the Empire for by this meanes the King of Spaine would thrust in a foote to the Empire as King of Bohemia from whence would necessarily follow that he must be Elector of the Empire by vertue of the Golden Bull of the Emperour Charles the 4. th and so hereafter would affect and pretend also to be King of the Romanes at which all the Spanish practises doe leuell and ayme which would bee expresly contrary to the Golden Bull and the Oath of the other Electors as also against the Ordinances and constitutions of the Empire and by this meanes the Imperial Crowne would be quite taken away from the Germane Nation and bee made entirely Hereditary as they haue endeauoured and practised to make the Crowne of Bohemia All which together with that hath been written by the States of Bohemia to the Colledge of Electors lately held at Franckford as also how they protested against the Election of the person of King Ferdinand to the Crowne of the Kings of the Romanes will plainely appeare by their writings Since then in regard hereof the Prouinces haue acknowledged and

Howsoeuer it is euident that the Emperour Ferdinand himselfe did very well iudge and consider that this Kingdome and the Prouinces incorporate were not Hereditary and that those Letters Patents could take no place nor bee of force with Posteritie against the ancient Priuiledges and Statutes It is euident in this that the same Emperour called a generall Assembly of the Countrey in the yeare 1549. where hee desired of the States of Bohemia that Archduke Maximilian his eldest Sonne might after his death bee receiued for their King Which the States accorded vnto to the end that in the life time of his Maiesty his Sonne might carry the name of King vpon condition neuerthelesse that hee should not be invested in the gouernment during the time of his Father According to which Condition and likewise by vertue of certaine interchanged Articles the Coronation of King Maximilian and his wife Queene Mary succeeded not vntill the yeare 1562. In like manner Maximilian comming to be Emperour presented his eldest Son Rodolph and desired he might be accepted of and Crowned King of Bohemia for the future which the States consented vnto accepted of him and declared him then vpon certaine present conditions and afterwards drew from him his Letters of Assurance Furthermore were the Kingdome and the Prouinces incorporate Hereditary to the House of Austria it is to be belieued that it had beene altogether vnnecessary to seeke to the States by request for the Succession since vpon the termes of Inheritance euery eldest Sonne comming to furuiue the Father there must haue discended a right vnto his owne person for his title to the Crowne without any intercession as the Archdukes of Austria themselues doe exemplifie by their owne claimes to their Countryes of inheritance It may hereunto bee added that from the Acceptation and declaration of those two Kings Maximilian and Rodolphe there can no prejudice fall vpon the Freedome of Election since both of them being the eldest Sonnes of Kinges of Bohemia their successe in all reason might happen to bee the more easie and yet it was not done without both seeking and obtaining the willing consent of the States Thence therefore there can no argument be drawne that the States by that Act haue quitt the right of their free Election If yet there will bee something inferred thence to the contrary the proceeding of Rodolphe himselfe will confesse that inference an errour For being vnmarryed and without Children it was the designe of the Archduke Mathias as the eldest Brother to his Imperiall Majesty to procure himselfe first nominated King of Bohemia the Emperour yet liuing and by the intercession of his Majesty that afterwards hee might bee Elected and Crowned according to custome And in this case where lineall heyres haue fayled it neuer sufficed the conferring of the succession vpon another to haue these wordes vsed onely Acceptation Declaration and Coronation but there was alwayes regard had aswell of the one part as the other to the sauing of the Free Election which the States haue by vertue of their ancient Priuiledges from Fredericke the Emperour and others As indeede the Emperour Rodolphe himselfe also did anew in all indifferent vnderstandings very authentically confirme and ratifie the same Priuiledges to the States in this point that his Majesty sought and interceded to them for his Brother the Archduke Mathias that by vertue of their Priuiledges and freedomes and of their owne bounty and free will they would first designe his Brother for King of Bohemia and afterwards Elect him Accordingly the Archduke Mathias obserued the same sence and desired hee might bee Elected after the ordinary custome It followes that his Majesty the Emperour interceding and the Archduke being so Elected they haue both of them very manifestly acknowledged and confirmed that in such a case howsoeuer if not otherwise where the right line is extinguished the States haue a free Election Which besides the authority it receiues from Priuiledges and Customes of auncient vse it hath more then sufficiently beene ratified likewise not onely by a contract passed before Prague in the yeare 1608. between his Imperiall Majesty the Archduke and the Prouinces but also by the proposition made on the parte of the same Emperour in the generall Assembly of the States and by the Letters of Assurance from both their Majesties Imperiall and Royall Moreouer the States of the Reformed Church of the Crowne of Bohemia after the persecutions they had susteyned were competently prouided for by his Majesty the Emperour Rodolphe their King with an Edict of Pacification vpon the cause of Religion and the free exercise thereof according to the agreement with the generall Assembly of the States in the yeare 1608. and as it hath since beene confirmed in 1610. at the request of the Electors of the Empire sollicited by the States And their said Majesties confirmed certain accords passed between those of the Religion of the Gospell and the Romane Catholiques as also betweene those of the Religion of the Gospell themseues And all this for the conser●●tion and aduancement of mutuall Amitie and agreement in such a manner that in whome soeuer the least opposition or contradiction that can bee imagined should be found to bee intended against that Edict of Pacification or the other accords hee should be proceeded against as a disturber of the publicke quiet From these proceedings our people generally did promise themselues that thence forth they should liue in a peaceable condition together both vnder his Majesty and the succeeding Kings of Bohemia and that euery man might serue God safely and obey the Magistrates But incontinently vpon it and sine likewise these promises met with persons of turbulent and wicked dispositions who by the suggestion of an euill spirit haue laboured to make the world vnderstand that nothing could be more contrary to their mindes then the free election of a King and the free exercise of Religion And out of that maleuolent nature refused to signe the Edict of pacification and the agreements passed with the matter depending on them which his Imperiall Majesty and other peaceable Romane Catholike Estates had by example inuited them vnto but bent themselues with all their might partly by their secret Conspiracies and Fraudulent practices and partly by abusing their offices and by their impudent malice to ouerthrow the whole worke of Peace and to dispose euen his Majesty himselfe to the consent of this ruyne not withstanding that presently vpon it in a publicke Assembly of the States they were protested against that in case the States of the Religion of the Gospell should come to bee yet further molested the offence should be imputed to them alone and they should bee proceeded against as troublers and infringers of the publick ●●…iet This caution wrought no regard in them but on the contrary they were so farre from it as euen in the life time of the Emperour Mathias it was the principall point of their study to prouide themselues for the time to