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A16302	The true copies of sundrie letters concerning the affaires of Bohemia, as they haue beene seuerally writen in High Dutch, Latine and French, to princes, and other men of account. Newly translated and printed	Saincte Foy, François de.; Christian II, Elector of Saxony, 1583-1611.; Bethlen, Gábor, Prince of Transylvania, 1580-1629.	1620 (1620)	STC 3214; ESTC S121080	17,678	44

of Treasure and impouerisher of Kingdomes For I am sure here was so great remonstrance of abundance that a man would sweare they neyther wanted men nor money To morrow is a preparation to celebrate the Baron of Donaws marriage and the next day an expectation of a Tilting and euerie day an inuitation of iollitie For in truth they that saw the noble customes and princely iollity of King Frederick his Queene his Brother the Duke of Weymar and the rest of the Lords and Ladies more then solemnitie of Prayers and giuing thankes vnto God would little imagine they had such intanglements of affaires abroad or at any time discomforts at home A Letter written by a French Gentleman being in the Armie of the King of Bohemia To a friend and neighbour of his in Poicton vpon the occasion of the Voyage of the Ambassadour of the Emperour Ferdinand sent into France SIR I Haue receiued yours wherein is contained the request of succour propounded by the Ambassadour of the Emperour to our King and hauing communicated it to those of our Nation which are here as I am I doe here represent vnto you the iudgement which wee doe all make of what may and ought to be answered to those who are of opinion to yeeld the succour which is required by an inueterate enemie to France and to the House of our Kings against the King Frederick of Bohemia one of our ancient Allies and one whose House hath deserued so well and so often of the House of our Kings and of France in generall Wee say then that if these Inducers are not more Spanish then French at the least they doe heauily offend against the Principles of our State by a grosse folly by a remarkable basenesse and by a manifest iniustice By folly first in setting themselues against those who serue for a counterpoyse for the State of France to balance it against a power so great as is alreadie become fearefull to all the States of Christendome particularly in this that by the Instrumencie of the Iesuites it pretendeth to be erected into a fift Monarchie by the ruine of other Kings and Princes The second follie were to goe with such facilitie to the succour of them who in the life time of Henry the fourth did refuse his interposition to accommodate the differences risen betweene certaine Princes of the Empire allied and confederated with France one of the principall Officers of the Emperour Rodulph hauing dared to say that the King should trouble himselfe with the affaires of his own State and in the difference now in question while it was yet in termes to bee accōmodated my Lord the Duke of Neuers being then at Vienna and hauing charge from our King to offer his interposition it was neglected and contemned And now after the Turke hath refused to giue them succour sued for at his gate foure seuerall times they come to our King and State against which they haue continually practized during these last fiftie yeares which they haue deuided by ciuill warres and thereunto cōtributed their armes and practises and made vse of our miseries as farre forth as they could This is far from taking hold vpon the occasion which is presented as it were by the hand and conduct of God to regaine Cambray Nauarre and other Demesnes of France vsurped by this House and to take from them the means to vse the like courses hereafter and to ouercome the Allies of France The third folly were out of meere iollitie to intangle our selues in a quarrell to reestablish that which it seemes the will of God is that it should not bee whose workes doe appeare in the sudden consent of so many Nations and the vnanimous cōciliation of so different inclinations all swaying to cast off the yoke of a domination violent and cruell and tending to the ouerthrow of all right both diuine and humane The fourth folly were to drayne the reuennues of the King to weaken him in Men by the diminutions which such warres doe bring and to reduce the harts of the French to the affection of that Stranger from whose faction the preceding Kings haue had pain enough to diuert them and into which they had beene throwne by wicked inducements The fifth were in that our King taking a resolution to beare his Armes against his Allies in fauour of the common enemie it might cause so great an hatred against him that they might grow to accord with this enemie thrust on by an indignation which could not bee in this case but very forcible ioyntly to turn their forces against the State of France which they should find drained of money weakned in men and no way prepared for such an inconuenience Whereas the true Counsell of State were when the Neighbours are in warre to make a stock of money to furnish the frontiers with men and munitions of warre and to keepe our selues on our Gard more then euer So should it likewise be a great ingratitude and basenesse to perswade a most Christian King to render euill for good to those Princes who haue so often so readily and so vsefully succoured him with Men Armes and Money for which hee is yet indebted in sums of very great importance employed for the conseruation of the House Royall and State of France against the attempts and assaults of those who are not now ashamed to demand succour against our Benefactors Herein likewise are they answered that would succour the Emperor vnder hand for that which is naught being done openly is not better by being done in secret and to commit a basenesse in secret is as much as to commit a theft without witnesse Besides that it is vnworthy of the dignitie of our King to counsell him to such actions which haue need to be concealed and yet cannot be being subiect to disaduow and reuocation when hee shall bee required thereto by his Allies Finally there should bee a great wickednesse in such a proceeding and a great iniustice in the maine matter for as to the first who is it that can approue that one should runne vpon his friends vpon the simple report of his enemies Must not both the parties be heard and haue leisure to informe the King of their actions or if you will not belieue them to send vnto the place to know the truth And as for the maine cause it will be found very good on the side of the Bohemians For first the Emperour Ferdinand was neuer chosen neither could be King of Bohemia then when it is pretended that hee was chosen hee was not chosen because the States of Morauia Silesia and Lusatia were not called vnto it and the principall persons of Bohemia had no voice in it but this pretended Election was made by the surprize of certaine Pensioners of Spaine who on the other side could not proceed to a new Election during the life of the Emperour who was also King of Bohemia for hee that liues hath no Heire But supposing the Election of Ferdinand

in their Declaration are sufficiently iustified against this accusation Finally To omit nothing which may carrie any speciousnesse with it there is proposed the feare lest the Turke may make vse of this diuision But on which side hath he beene alreadie inuited but by the Emperour Ferdinand who hath not onely caused the King of Spaine to sue to him for peace but hath caused his Ambassadour to make exceeding great instance foure seuerall times to the great Lord at his gate to giue him succour which hauing beene refused him he comes now to our King out of despaire of all other assistance But if this apprehension be seriously taken it is that that should inuite the other Princes of Christendome to leaue Bohemia in Peace and to order the grieuances done vnto the Empire and vs not to exasperate against France in all the allies kindred and friends of the King of Bohemia who are neither so few nor so weake but that they ought to be taken into consideration See here Sir What is our iudgement concerning this vndue request made of succour to our King by his inueterated enemies against the most certaine and vsefull allies of his House and Crowne Wherein we esteeme that all his good and faithfull subiects will agree with vs and that they will call to minde the meanes vpon which the State of France our common Countrey is founded and hath subsisted for so many yeares not to permit that a new Counsail which among the Iesuites they call of Conscience should not onely taxe all other Counsellers as if they had no Conscience but vnder this pretence doth ouerthrow all order both diuine and humane For I pray what would haue become of the State of France during the warres of the League when these Inducers of Counsels of Conscience did rage against our Kings did pursue their ruine Let them remember that by such Counsels and Counsellers there hath hitherto arriued all misfortune to those Princes which haue hearkned to them and beene serued by them The King of Poland for his part could tell how hee came to lose Swethland so could the house of Austria it selfe speake of the Low-Countries many yeares since and that which is now to be seene in respect of the realmes of Bohemia and Prouinces incorporated Hungarie and Austria This is enough to cause other Princes to beware at the least henceforward And I pray God with all other good French-men to giue our King the grace both to testifie in the view of all Christendome which hath her eyes vpon him the stedfastnesse of his word to his good friends and allies against their common enemie for their protection and the repose of his subiects and his iust indignation against those who doe counsaile him to the contrarie I am SIR Your seruant Neighbour and faithfull friend François de Saincte Foy. From Prague this 20. of Ianuarie 1620. An Aduertisement written in forme of a Letter by the late deceassed Prince Christian the Second Elector of Saxony to Matthias King of Hungarie Archduke of Austria and afterwards Romane Emperour Translated out of high Dutch into Latine out of Latine into French and lastly out of French into English CHristian Elector of Saxonie greeteth you happily We receiued your Letters most illustrious King dated at Vienna the 27. of September of this yeare present Wherein according to your accustomed manner of friendly imparting your selfe vnto vs by Letters you giue vs to vnderstand that the happie euent of cheerefull homage yeelded vnto you by the States of Morauia the twentieth of August in the Citie of Prin putting you in liuely hope of the like successe from the people of the lower Austria you haue notwithstanding found the quite contrarie that is to say you finde there is no pressing the States of this Countrie to any oath of fidelitie before their iust complaints be heard and their ancient rites and priuiledges confirmed although your Maiestie had many times promised to redresse their agrieuances according to the equitie of their cause as the custome in this case is On which bare promise the Inhabitants beyond the Ens would not relie but perseuered constantly in the former resolution And therfore you require that wee would not giue credit to those which go about to settle some sinister opinion in our mind but rather that we should perswade them to lay aside their obstinacie and so to come vnder the obedience which they owe vnto you with the surplusage of all that which is further comprehended in the same Letters Your Maiestie certainely may be assured that you are no waies deceiued in the good opinion you entertaine of our fidelitie towards you in that from our first entrie made vpon the Electorship we may confidently auerre without any vaine boasting that all our Counsels aimed at the preseruation of the greatnesse reputation and authoritie of the house of Austria in maintaining the securitie thereof against all their enemies And therefore we cannot without singular discontentment apprehend the discommoditie accrewing thereby to you which daily augmenteth in euerie mans sight and other affaires proceeding continually with the same contrariety seeme further to threaten you with worser successe And though it no waies beseemeth vs to prescribe you vnlesse of an happie and fortunate reigne notwithstanding you manifesting daily the great amitie and confidence you repose in vs we will not feare to deliuer vnto you freely our opinion and aduice touching this matter humbly intreating you to take it in good part whereof we assure our selues from your accustomed humanitie and clemencie And first of all who knowes not how the house of Austria hath hitherto beene eleuated aboue all other Princely Families vnder the sacred Empire with how many seuerall dignities it hath beene augmented to euerie mans satisfaction and contentment so that many persons both of high and meane calling haue voluntarily come vnder her tutelage and protection being verie well entreated and with all wished clemencie But there is no man how faint a louer of truth soeuer he be which must not needs confesse how your Family of long time hath met with no more violent aduersaries then the Court of Rome and Sect of Iesuites together with those that adhere vnto them with their turbulent and immoderate Counsels which the States of the Empire neither could nor can any wayes support Your Serenitie otherwise conceiues that no other reason mooued the so many goodly Prouinces of the Netherlands to shrinke from their hereditarie and naturall Lord then these so intemperate and precipitant courses which haue planted such irradicable defiance between Subiects and their Princes and Magistrates that no Treaties can remoue or supplant the same As in verie truth all those consulted Treaties could neuer confirme those Estates in any setled peace Furthermore what hath so extenuated and dishonoured so many renowned victories obtained by the sacred Imperiall Maiestie against the Turke as Belioyeuse by a secret instinct out of the Iesuites Schooles For the common enemie being

shall purchase immortall glorie and endlesse exaltations both amongst Strangers and the Princes of the Empire obtayning further from God all blessings both of bodie and soule and the same God will daily amplifie you with new dignities and most wished euents Contrariwise if you suffer the Iesuites and their Locusts so to abuse your bountie and clemencie which will not sincke into our perswasion Let it suffice that we innocently protest that all our reiterated Admonitions aymed at no other end but to preuent the House of Austria from those perils and dangers which threaten it and any vnexpected accidents falling out to the contrarie we are exempted herein from fault blame And thus in sincere equitie we hope to be excused by God and Men the which out of our affectionate loue and zeale wee did not thinke good to conceale from your Highnesse Dated the 6. of Octob. 1608. at Dresden To the Reader THe late Elector of Saxonie Christian the second by name who was elder Brother to him that now possesseth the Electorship and who in all times held good correspondence and amitie with Archduke Matthias afterwardes King of Hungarie and Bohemia and not long since late Emperour Defunct seeing this good Prince much grieued for the ill counsell and aduise which hee had followed in the managing of his affaires implicitely threatning himselfe and the House of Austria to lose the said Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungarie with the Prouinces thereunto annexed hee resolued to write vnto Matthias this Letter in the Moneth of October 1608. which is to say twelue yeares since which being truly prophetical in that which afterwards ensued it hath beene thought of good importance and sufficiently deseruing to bee translated into Latine French and lastly into English for a Caueat and Instruction to all Princes and States that they neuer fall into the like inconuenience To the Emperours most Sacred and Royall Maiestie Most gracious Lord AT what time wee sate in Counsell with our Princes and Nobilitie moued by the vrgent occasions of the renowned Kingdome of Hungarie I did at once receiue one answer from your Maiestie vnto both my Letters sent by the Illustrious Gentleman Stephen Haller as my Letters occasions so requiring were two so hauing obtained an answere which agreeable to the weight of the affaires consisted of two parts the matter was maturely deliberated by the Counsell and perceiuing present danger in delay I would not deferre to sollicite your Maiestie the more earnestly about the last declaration of your Highnesse gracious pleasure And whereas I perceiue your Maiestie doth simply and absolutely vnderstand my declaration of the truce in this sense that during the time of League no ayde may be sent by the Hungarians to the Bohemians and the rest of their Confederates the retexing of which question will much illustrate both parts of the present answere your Royall Maiestie may please to vnderstand the whole course of the matter in this sense and not otherwise In the Polonian Assembly there haue beene three contracts made with me only and in those many transactions and that for diuers respects confirmed First Truce and Conditions of Peace with your Imperiall Maiestie Secondly with the Bohemians and the other Confederate Prouinces Thirdly with the Peeres and States of the Illustrions Kingdome of Hungarie And I confesse that I seemed in the opinion of many so entangled by that parley contrarie almost and opposite in diuers passages vnto it selfe that deserued and promised equitie could not possibly bee obserued towards both parties but the one must either bee something neglected or iniuried by me which so sinister conceit of mee that I may speedily remooue from the mindes of men especially if your sacred Maiestie or Counsellors haue entertained it pleaseth it you to be informed of the certaine truth and diuerse conclusions The Hungarian Nation hath confirmed a perpetuall league with the Bohemians and we haue promised mutually by oath to liue and dye together in withstanding all enemies so as to make peace or warre with any not aduertizing the other is vnlawfull for either part This agreement and couenant betwixt vs tooke place when by notice giuen them and their consent I ratified the peace which I now haue with your Maiestie But since the second Article I being silent doth oblige your Maiestie expresly to grant the same peace vpon demand to our Complices and Confederates the Bohemians and the other Prouinces which you haue granted vs and that your Maiestie is bound to harken after my motions which doe but seeke that the cessation of Armes vpon iust and equall conditions should bee on euery side granted If I shall perceiue your Maiestie to satisfie in no part this solemne protestation but contrarily with renewed forces to sound the alarme and put your Souldiers in Armes to suppresse vs if I obserue your Maiestie as daily complaints informe contrary to the hope and expectation of all good men to swerue alreadie which be farre from you from this agreement who can bee ignorant that my selfe is no longer neither the Hungarian Nation obliged to you Nay if wee aide not without delay our friends whose protection we vndertake we shall vnworthily bee accused by them of disloyaltie I doe therefore abundantly satisfie the Bohemians and others in soliciting your Maiestie for their truce like our owne which if I obtayne of you as due by couenant or if I discerne their suspected and dangerous estate by vaine lingrings and delayes neither your Maiestie nor any other shall euer accuse mee or the Hungarian Nation of promise breaking if wee finde our most bitter enemies whom obligation tyed to league and peaceablenesse Wherefore your Maiestie is not otherwise to vnderstand my declaration of the truce placed expressely in the second Article then the writing it selfe witnesseth that this our league with the Bohemians is not neither can bee made simply common as if together at the same time and in all kindes of league wee were tyed to each other Neither are they so neglected and forsaken of vs that there is no profit procured vnto them by our confederacie Moreouer I requiring it and fauouring iust and equall conditions your Maiesty is by couenant bound to grant like truce vnto them as to vs which if you doe not we are no further to contend in the matter with words and pen. Let truth ouer sway all things Since I labour and sweate now the third time in solliciting your Maiestie in our Confederates and Friends cause and that with obtestation Thus much concerning the Intreaties had with your Maiestie and the Confederate Princes COncerning the Articles concluded in the Consultations past at Polonia the distinction is manifest enough in them both of the truce confirmed with your Maiestie and the league established and concluded by the Confederates The inward administration and gouernment of the Subiects of the Kingdome vntill the truce is expired or till the next following and proclaymed generall Assembly of State howsoeuer prescribed by the

Princes and Lords is I suppose so highly weighed that it should not molest either your Maiestie or others Assuredly I thinke it fitter to giue place to so many complaints and to mens disturbed appetites in this state of things then hauing not yet laid hand vpon the tossing bridle discourage Subiects mindes a far off with too much securitie which hitherto I confesse ingeniously is so performed by your Maiestie that opposing by all means our studies and endeuour the industrie of the seditious hath more auailed more is the griefe then theirs whose labour is imployed in composing controuersies But I am ignorant being a stranger in that administration where your Maiesties dignitie is impeached or the libertie of the Kingdome so restrayned since your Maiestie in confirming the league did sauourably consent to my free and absolute Gouernment Neither for my part is it vrged in what esteeme and regard these present Articles and publike Constitutions are of in those places which belong to your Dominion But I see the prescribers of those Lawes doe indeuour to conforme my manner of Gouernment and Reigne to their owne pleasure From which it is manifest that neither this administration according to the Articles nor any thing else can violate the Peace and League with your Maiestie and so with sufficient diligence plainenesse I haue declared the three conclusions Neither at this time will I vndertake any thing besides an earnest solliciting vrging and expecting of your Maiesties pleasure and resolution concerning this my third and last and most iust demand in behalfe of our Confederates And whereas your Maiestie designeth long time for the deliberating of this matter and hath sent vnto mee to intreat of it doubtlesse that cause will moue suspicions in mens thoughts not without some danger which cannot be remoued without certaine reall and desired tydings of peace established God preserue your Royall and Emperiall Maiestie long happie and studious of peace Giuen in our free and Regall City Cassouia 15. Martij 1620. A Letter written about the 18. of March 1620. to the Illustrious Prince of Anhalt by the renowned Prince of Hungary and Transiluania Most Illustrious Prince and honored friend NOtwithstanding wee haue more diligently obserued in the ternarie request made to the Romane Emperour on the behalfe of making League with the Confederates how he constantly determineth and though wee should expect his answere before our expedition of aide to the Confederate Lords yet vnderstanding to our great griefe the hostile proceedings of Caesar and his partakers against them wee thought by these presents with all friendly speed to signifie it vnto your Highnesse desiring you would withdraw your forces and not presently and hand to hand conflicting with the enemie hazard your Armie vntill this present day our succours which with deliberate counsell wee haue appointed for the Confederate Princes be ioyned with you Yet in the interim if Caesars Armies shall make excursion or spoyle in the Territories of Morauia or Austria or remouing his Tents shall pitch them in more fortified places or shall seeme to hinder the meanes of procuring victuals and reliefe wee deny because of the distance of place that you are to depart vntill the comming of our Forces in the speedie furnishing dispatching of whom we will vse on our parts all diligence to the end their speedie arriuing may abundantly recompence delay Which thing we thought fit not to conceale from your Illustrious Person but recommending vnto you our sincere endeuours do wish the happie successe and fortune of these attempts From Cassouia 17. March 1620. Your Highnesse sincere friend in all Offices Simon Pectius Chancellor to the Christian Prince Gabriel A Letter written the 19. of March 1620. To the illustrious Christian Prince of Anhalt by the renowned Gabriel Prince of Hungary and Transiluania Illustrious Prince and noble friend WE vnderstand by both your Letters sent vnto vs not only the vnfriendly but also hostile intentions of Caesar towards vs not without great admiration and griefe Which thing happening contrarie to our hope and opinion he may not maruell if in deferring our aides longer then necessity and our owne desires require we prouide for our selues For hauing made such League with Ferdinand as hee was to grant the like vpon demand to our Friends and Confederates it appeareth by the last Letters sent by Caesar and also by the inclosed in what manner wee haue sollicited and vrged the granting thereof in Caesars Court. Perceiuing therefore Caesars so manifest hostilitie and the truce to be broken and violated by him and that hee hath not satisfied the agrements betwixt vs and him wee will conuert by Gods helpe all our cogitations studies forces to the aide of our Confederates neither will wee make delay in an office so necessarie Of which things by our Secretary or Gentleman Vsher we would more fully signifie vnto you And commending your Illustrious Lordship to the diuine protection doe wish all felicitie against the common Enemie Giuen in the free and kingly Citie Cassouia 16. March 1620. Gabriel the Prince A Letter written by the Prince of Transiluania to the Duke of Bauare Mightie Prince and Excellent friend VVE doubt not but your Excellencie hath sufficiently vnderstood of the present troubles and the successe of them in the Noble Kingdome of Hungary but concerning their causes and proper Reasons you haue not onely diuersly and indirectly bin informed but also our opposers haue delated vnto you vnmeet and vntrue rumours concerning both our purposes and person These we will in disdaine passe by as the Fictions and Comments of giddie braines rather then discouer them with tedious ambages Your Grace shall now receiue the true description of our designements When as vnwittingly he pressed the person of the most sacred Emperour and Kingly Maiestie of Ferdinand because of the ancient persecution of our Orthodox and sound Religion bearing it well in minde So that the Gouernment and Administration of his Maiestie was not only suspected but grudged at by all his Subiects the couered and lurking fire in their minds beganne first in Bohemia to flame forth Which in the beginning they might easily and with Clemencie if they had so pleased according to wisedome and due office haue extinguished ere it had proceeded to such combustion But hauing now by many companies of people aggregated together from all the most remote parts of Europe so ouer-spread and ouer-runne Bohemia Morauia that the Inhabitants were almost constrayned to surrender to the Enemie both life and goods libertie and their Religion they threatned with like tumultuous Armes and Forces to inuade and oppresse presently publikely and resolutely Hungary and Transiluania wee and the other Princes beeing vanquished and surprized Wherefore the Morauians and Bohemians with the Austrians and other Confederates doe all of them protest vnto vs the perill of those ensuing warres and intreate vs by the right of our ancient league to succour their afflicted and decaying State Being therfore sollicited by so many Kingdomes and compelled by the authoritie of ancient league we did our condition so requiring aide by counsell and approbation our Confederate friends yet so as we determined neither to haue any forces of the Turke neither to suppresse the Romane Catholikes or any other Religion the Iesuiticall Factionly excepted but would maintayne the profession of our Orthodoxe Faith and free the liberties impayred Estates of other Countries from violence and tyrannie Wherefore our actions witnesse that our intention hath bin no other hitherto forasmuch as we haue confirmed a league with his Imperiall and Royall Maiestie in the Kingdome of Hungarie so that hee would please after sufficient demand to grant the same Articles to the Bohemians the other our confederates which wee haue not ceased by our Letters and Ambassages to solicite to the intent the ruines of the Kingdomes and the streames of Christian bloud might be diuerted Moreouer that Armes laid aside profitable intreaties and agreements might take place and such broyles might cease peace bee obtayned by the attending of both parts to most iust and equal conditions Our selues desire rather to manifest our wishes to deserue well and highly of all Christian Princes and Kingdomes by practice rather then by wordes and Letters Amongst the which also attributing very much to your princely equanimitie in these troublesome times of Christian Kingdomes doe commend with singular confidence our owne indeuours and our Confederates vnto you the principall scope whereof being no other then the establishing of peace tranquillity the restoring vnto liberty our Countries Lawes Religion it is meet your Excellence do promote and further amongst those with whom you shall conuerse this so holy and commendable studie and doe sincerely fauour the rights and equitie of our Confederates and conceite vs most respectfull of you in all things But if which wee suppose not his Imperiall Maiestie shall altogether deny to our Confederates the conditions of Peace being solemnely demanded or not vnderstanding first by way of peaceable in treaty the iust and equall cause of both parts shall by his owne enterprise or by other conuert his power to the vtter ruine of those Kingdomes wee cannot in any case so forsake our friends as not to shew our selues incontinently enemies vnto them whosoeuer shall so inuade them and breake the Truce Which thing being vnfit to be done among Christians so it behooueth your Highnesse to prouide for the concord of Christian Kingdomes rather then fauour wars and hostile enmities Concerning all which we desire to know your Highnes pleasure and sentence We doe wish vnto your Excellence vnfainedly all prosperitie Giuen in our Towne Rima Zombath 29. Ianuary 1620. Your Excellencies assured Gabriel the Prince FINIS