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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

THE REASONS which Compelled the States of BOHEMIA to reject the Archduke FERDINAND c. and inforced them to Elect a new KING Together VVITH 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 at Dort Printed by George Waters VERY CONSIDERABLE REASONS WHY THE Arch-Duke FERDINAND neither could nor indeede ought to be admitted to the gouernment and possession of the Kingdome of Bohemia c. 1. HEE was not chosen King of Bohemia according to the accustomed manner and the ancient obserued priuiledges of that Kingdome but rather was neuer chosen at all onely would bee admitted and Crowned as shall bee cleared in the amplifying of this first and the third Article 2. Hee attayned to this comming in and Coronation which was done in the life time of the Emperor Mathias by sinister meanes and vnlawfull practises thorough the suggestion and ayde of some vnfaithfull and disloyall Members of that Kingdome corrupted partly by guiftes and promises and partly by sharpenes of threatnings wherewith they were attempted by the States for the time being and for that purpose assembled Which election notwithstanding was made vpon this condition that if hee did not punctually obserue his promises the States were neither by Oath nor by any other way obliged vnto him 3. Hee did not onely not obserue the Conditions but diuers wayes directly and de facto contraried that Oath which he had made to the States and those Reuersall letters which hee hath giuen the Prouinces and which is more hee did not onely intrude into the gouernment of that Kingdome in the life time of the Emperour Mathias but after his death as hee hath done while he liued and indeed much more declared himselfe an open Enemy there and all this to the end to roote out the true Religion in those partes and to depriue and Frustrate the States of that Crowne and the incorporated Countries as of the free Election of a King so of their other Priuiledges and of purpose to bring them wholly vnder the Spanish yoake whereby hee Forfaicted all hee could there pretend vnto after the death of the Emperour Mathias and so did absolutely dissolue and loose the Oath of fidelity giuen him by that Kingdome and those Prouinces as shall hereafter in another more ample declaration not yet published bee particulary demonstrated to the view of all the world this following exposition seruing in the meane time for a briefe information on euery point For the first reason it may be vniuersally knowne that the Bohemian Nation hath alwayes euer since the Countrey was inhabited had the free Election of their Prince which from time to time Carefull of holding their owne due they haue obserued asmuch as in them lay that were true to the State of their Country as wil plainly appeare both by Histories and by their priuiledges and other rules proper vnto them And this Free Election their ancient Custome hath since also beene yeelded and confirmed vnto them authentically from Emperours by their Golden Bulles and increase of Priuiledges For example there are yet to bee seene the originals of three Golden Bulles of th' Emperour Frederick dated in the yeares of out Lord 1212 1216. and 1231. by which he confirmed the Kings chosen by the States and saide expresly That the States of that Kingdome haue power to choose a King of their owne free will and that the Romane Emperours were to giue their Regall right to him whom they Elected This acknowledgement and confirmation hath beene reiterated by diuers other Golden Bulles and Letters Patents of the Emperor Charles the 4. th in the yeares 1248 and 1370. thereby is made a reassurance vnto them of the Priuledges graunted by the Emperour Fredericke wherein besides is a more ample mention made that the Bohemians haue free power to elect a King and it is agreeably confirmed by the Golden Bull of the same Emperour at that time King of Bohemia which hee granted to the whole Romane Empire Where speaking of the Seauen Electors what belongs to their office in particular and what Principalities might fall to the Empire the seauerill Chapter hath these worde That if any of their principalities come to be 〈◊〉 or thence to fall to the Emperour it shall bee in the power of the Emperour of the King then Raignig to have the ordering of it as of a thing lawfully fallen to him and the Empire Sauing alwayes the Priviledges Rights and Statutes of 〈◊〉 touching the free Election of a King in case that Kingdome should come to be voyde and Sauing those likewise of the Empire that haue power and right to choose a King of Bohemia according to the tenour of their Priuiledges and those good and ancient Customes besides which they have obtained of the Emperours Kings of the Romanes which by this law and Imperiall Edict we haue no meaning to deragate from or to preindice in any kinde whatsoeuer but most religiously to protect them and to cause them to be observed not onely for the present but euer lastingly for the time to come in euery point and Article agreeing with their true forme and tenour c. as it is more largely expressed in that Golden Bull giuen at Neurembergh 1356. and published Now howsouer Charles the 4. th after he had confirmed the Bull of the Emperor Frederick did withall adde some other clause to the confirmation which doubtlesse hee did for the aduantage of himselfe and his successors that is to say The intent thereof ought to be thus vnderstood that in case the Issue male or Female of the direct line Reyall should come to faile that then the Free Election of a King shall bee in the power of the States of Bohemia and the Prouinces belonging to that Kingdome This exposition notwithstanding tooke no place nor was euer obserued First because it was directly contrary to ancient Statute and Custome and against the meaning of that Bull of the Emperor Frederick Secondly suppose it possible such a Law might haue beene obserued it could yet extend no further then to the race of the Emperor Charles as descended from the House of Luxenburgh that is to say vntill the death of his two Sonnes Wencestans and Sigismund who after they had been Romane Emperors and Kings of Bohemia dyed with out any lineall Heyre and left none to succeed but their Sister Elizabeth married to Albertus Archduke of Austria to whom shee brought a Son called Vladislans After the decease of this Vladislaus the States of Bohemia by vertue of their Freedomes and Priuiledges elected a King who was neither to the House of Luxenburg nor of that of Austria namely King George of Kustat whome the House of Austria was so farre from not approuing of as on the contrary Frederick the 3. the

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