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A44712	A discours of the empire, and of the election of a king of the Romans, the greatest busines of Christendom now in agitation as also of the Colledg of Electors, their particular interests, and who is most likely to be the next emperour / by J.H.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3065; ESTC R4781	35,171	133

for fower descents together did strangely degenerat and prov'd but poor spirited men His Son Lewis was call'd the Gentle for his soft nature Charles the Bald was of a baser alloy than hee Lewis the stuttring inferior to both Charles the grosse the last Emperour and King of France died a most disastrous death After him the Empire was soly devolv'd to the Germans Charlemain and his Dependants enjoy'd it 118 yeers then it came to the House of Saxony who held it 117 yeers The House of Suevia 110 other families wherof the House of the Count Palatine of the Rhin and of Nassaw were somtimes held the Empire 112 yeers untill it came to the House of Austria who have held it longer than any one Family ever did Now ther is a remarquable Tradition how the House of Austria came to that comble of greatnes which they report thus Rodulph Earl of Habspurg returning homeward fromhunting one day overtook a Priest that had the Eucharist under his habit comming from visiting a sick body The Earl finding he was tyr'd alighted and help'd the Priest a horsback and holding the bridle in his hand wayted upon him as a lacquay till he came to the Church and replac'd the Host upon the Altar The Priest sang an extraordinary Masse where the Earl devoutly attended all the while and pronouncing the Benediction at the end he cross'd the Earl saying that for so signal and a sweet Act of piety His House shold be one of the greatest and most glorious Families that ever was upon Earth which prov'd tru for a while after not only the German Empire but the East and West Indies with all the Dominions of Spain wherof some are the tother side of the world came to that Family And now my Lord I will proceed to the Septemvirat or Colledg of Electors wherof I promis'd an account in the beginning whose Creture the Emperour may be sayed to be for t is their breath that makes him The second Section Touching the Septemvirat or Electors of the Roman Emperour their primitive Constitution and power with their precedence and offices c. FOr two hundred yeers after Charlemain who was the Restaurator of the Occidental parts of the Roman Monarchy which had bin so pittifully shatter'd by the irruption of sundry barbarous peeple as was sayed before and therfore meritoriously stil'd the first Emperour of the West I say for a long time ther was no certain or regular way of Election and the customs was that the Emperour regnant us'd to nominate recommend his Son or neerest Kinsman to the German Princes but in the yeerabout 1000 after the Incarnation Rome began to rayse up her crest and brussle by re-demanding and challenging the Election of the Emperour alledging 't was a prerogative of Hers de jure antiquo The raking up of the ashes of this old Right was like to kindle a great fyre on both side of the Hills for the Italian Princes stuck to Her in the claym But Otho the third a prudent Prince found a way to prevent it by procuring a Cosen of his to be created Pope by the name of Gregory the fift who being a German born was so favorable and indulgent of his own Countrey that he confirm'd the choosing of the VVestern Emperour to the German Nation but the Romans with some Italian Princes stomaching heerat they depos'd Gregory and chose the Bishop of Placentia Pope in his place by the title of Iohn the ninth Otho took this in so great indignation that he suddenly rays'd an Imperial Army clammer'd or'e the Alpes and made his way by the point of the Sword towards Rome which open'd her Gates unto him without much difficulty so he seaz'd upon the person of the new Pope disoculated that counterfait light of the Church by plucking out his eyes and replac'd Gregory the fift his Cousin in Saint Peters chair with triumph Otho being victoriously return'd to Germany convoqu'd the chiefest Princes and propos'd unto them the multiplicity of inconveniences encumbrance and causes of confusion that the incertain and unestablish'd way of choosing an Emperour and his immediat Successor was subject unto therfore he desir'd them to consider of a more regular way of Election so after many mature deliberations and bandings of opinions they fell upon settling a Septemvirat viz. seven Princes in whom a plenary power shold be invested to elect an Emperour and his next Successor Herupon the Colledg of Electors was founded and constituted but they must be all within the German pale Addresses were made to the Pope about this business who not only approv'd herof but was ready to confirm the Act provided that three of the sayed Electors were Ecclesiastiques So the Western Empire was made purely Elective giving encouragements therby for Princes of Vertue and merit to aspire Herupon the Archbishop of Mentz the Archbishop of Collen and the Archbishop of Tryers were chosen for the three Spiritual and for the secular the Palsgrave of the Rhin the Duke of Saxony the Marquis of Brandenburg and in case their suffrages were equal the Duke of Bohemia made about 80 yeers after King was chosen to have a session among them and whom he nam'd of those two that they had elected shold be Emperour so that the Bohemian might be call'd rather an Umpire than an Elector in these transactions This great Act was solemnly voted and enroll'd in the Imperial Chamber and som hundred of yeers after 't was ratified and fortified by the famous Aurea Bulla the Golden Bull who regulated matters more punctually touching the Offices the Precedencies and other particulars reflecting upon the sayed Electors The Archbishop of Mentz was made High-Chancellor of Germany He of Colen High-Chancellor of Italy and he of Tryers High-Chancellor of France The Duke of Saxony was made sacri imperii Archi-Marascallus Lord high Marshall of the sacred Empire The Count Palatin of the Rhin sacri imperii Archidapifer Lord high Sewer of the sacred Empire The Marquis of Brandenburg was made sacri imperii Archicamerarius Lord high Chamberlain of the sacred Empire The Duke now King of Bohemia was made sacri imperii Archipincerna Lord chief Buttler of the sacred Empire all which offices are contracted in this tetrastique Moguntinensis Trierensis Coloniensis Quilibet Imperii fit Cancellarius horum Et Palatinus Dapifer Dux portitor ensis Marchio Praepofitus camerae Pincerna Bohemus Thus in English Mentz Colen Tryers let these Three Each of Them an Arch-Chancellor bee Duke bear the Sword Count the first Dish take up Marquis look to the Chamber Boheme the Cup So the secular Electors are compos'd of a King a Duke a Marquis and a Count Upon an occasion of a new choise these with the Ecclesiastiques were to be summon'd by the Archbishop of Mentz to assemble within three months time and to be garded by the Countrey as they passed along but their retinue was not to exceed two hundred horse wherof ther shold be but fifty armed

Crown of England is call'd the Imperiall Crown and the City of London the Imperiall Chamber Now touching the respects that other Christian Kings owe the Emperour they acknowledge no other but that of precedence only though Henry the second of England in his letter which stands upon record to Frederique Barbarossa and Richard the first in his to Henry the 6. Emperour seem to acknowledg a kind of subordination by way of Complement but Edward the third of England wold not kisse the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria's feet at their Enterview in Colen and the reason he alledg'd was because he was Rex inunctus habens vitam membrum in potestate sua c. because he was an anointed King having life and limb in his power c. which Edward as the German Annals attest Ab Electoribus fuit vocatus et nominatus Vicarius Imperii he was call'd and nominated Vicar of the Empire and as some have it was offer'd to be Emperrour in regard of his acquests and glorious Exploits in France whence he brought the three flower de luces upon his Sword after the French had sent him that geering answer that la Couronne de France n'est pas liee a la quenoville that the Crown of France was not tied to a distaff Add herunto that the Emperour cannot be call'd so pure and independent a Monark as some other Kings for besides that he is but Tenant for life and govern'd by Diets which are Imperial Parlements the Electors may be sayed to be his Associats and to have a share in the goverment Nay the Emperour by the ancient customs of the Empire may be brought to answer in causis pro quibus impetitus fuerit sayeth the Bull before the Count Palatin of the Rhin but he can passe no Iudgement unlesse the Emperour himself be present in Imperiali curia Ther want no examples that some Emperours have bin depos'd for their mal-administration an instance shall be made in Wenceslaus in the yeer 1400. who was formally degraded by the Archbishop of Mentz upon a publique theater in the plaines of Brubach neer the river of Rhin by a judicial sentence which I thought worthy the inserting here VVee Iehn Archbishop of Moguntia Prince Elector and Archchancellor of the German Nation in the name of other Princes Electors Dukes Landgraves Counts and other Lords Barons and Potentats of the Empire in regard of divers dommageable interests and for the special importance of all the Empire we do depose and deprive by common consent and Mature deliberation Wincestaus as negligent unprofitable and unworthy of the Roman Empire We degrade him of all the dignities and of all the honors which were due to him from the Empire and we publish him in the presence of all the Princes Barons and Potentats of the Empire for a prophane person and unworthy of such an honor and dignity Enjoyning Evry one of what quality or condition soever he bee not to yeeld him obedience as Emperour prohibiting evry one to payhim any kind of tribut fief or forfeiture either by Right or by covenant or any office appertaining to the Empire Nay we will that those perquisits be reserv'd untill God doth give us the grace to elect an Emperour that may be for the benefit of the whole Empire and the Christian Common-weale And it is well known how often he hath bin admonish'd by the Princes Electors both in publique and privat and particularly by ev'ry one of our Order that he wold leave his unworthy deportments and carry himself as his Dignity requir'd Concerning the King of the Romans it is but a modern title peculiar to him who is declar'd Heir apparent or the design'd Successor of the Empire But at first he who was so chosen was called Caesar and it was the Emperour Adrian who first cal'd AeliusVerus by that title insomuch that the family of Iulius Caesar being extinct in the person of Domitius Nero who was the sixt in descent as afore was told the name Caesar ceas'd to be us'd as the name of a family or blood but it was us'd as a name meer honorary and precedent to the Empire Afterwards the design'd Successor to the Empire was call'd Despote after that he was call'd King of Italy then King of Germany and lastly King of the Romans Romischer Konig in high Dutch and the Emperour himself was only call'd Caesar Keyser in Dutch wch appellation continueth to this day And it was Charles the 5 who introduc'd the title of King of the Romans who since is acknowleg'd the immediat and unquestionable apparent Heir and to succeed in the Empire whether it be by Resignation by deprivation or death being in proximo fastigio collocatus to the Emperour Nay som Civilians hold that the King of the Romans may make Edicts without the regnant Emperour being bound only as they say Majestatem Imperialem comiter observare making him hereby to owe a duty of reverence but not of superiority to the Keysar or Emperour The 4 Section Touching the Diet or Imperial Parlement and the members therof with the Division of Germany and the strength of the Emperour THe German Empire is divided to ten Circles viz. Austria the high and low Franconia Bavaria Saxonia Westphalia the lower Circle of Saxony Burgundy the two Palatinatts The goverment wherof is principally in the Emperour contractedly in the Electors and diffusively in the Diet or Imperiall Parlement and other Courts wherof the Chamber of Spire is the Supreme whence ther is no appeal In the Diets after the Emperour the Princes Electors are the prime state among whom the Prelats have still the priority The second state is compos'd of four Arch-bishops viz. he of Magdenkurg who is primat of all Germany He of Salzburg he of Besanson and the Arch-bishop of Breme which Archbishoprick the Kings of Denmark have had a long time Then ther are one and thirty Bishops and eleven Abbats wherof he of Fulda is the chief having above fourscore thousand rich dollers in annuall revenue Then come the secular Princes of the Empire wherof the Arch-dukes of Austria are first and they are divided into two branches viz. of Germany and Burgundy The third Estate is compos'd of Imperial towns which are about sixty five in nomber som wherof hold soly from the Emperour which are accounted the most noble and some are Relevant from other Princes Ther is another sort of Towns call'd the Hansiatique Towns twixt whom ther is a strong confederacy and fraternal league in merchantile affairs They are divided into fower classes or Metropolitan Cities to wit Lubeck Colen Brunswick and Danzick who have a solemn yeerly convention at Lubeck where they keep their Records The Hans or Hansiatique Association is of long antiquity touching the word some wold fetch it from hand because they of the Society plight their faith when they enter into the fraternity others derive it from the word Hansa which is Counsell or advice in the Gothique toung