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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03490	The Golden bull: or, The fundamentall lavves and constitutions of the Empire Shewing, the persons and priuiledges of the princes electors, the manner of the election, the forme and ceremonies thereof, with other politique orders to be obserued by the states and subiects of the Empire, which shall bee assembed at Francford (for the election of the now next emperour) the tenth day of Iuly next ensuing. 1619.; Bulla Aurea. English	Holy Roman Empire.	1619 (1619)	STC 13611; ESTC S104148	28,314	60

c. within three moneths orderly ensuing one the other eyther you or your deputie or deputies sufficiently authorized may take care to be at the place for the same appoynted according to the Law in the same case prouided there to deliberate conferre and agree with the other Princes our co-Electors vpon the election of the said King of Romaines by Gods helpe to be made Emperour and there to stay and remaine vntill the said election be fully finished and accomplished and to doe and performe all other things thereunto appertaining as by the Laws in that case prouided are set downe wherein we pray you not to faile otherwise notwithstanding yours or your deputies absence wee will with the Princes your co-Electors and ours according to the authoritie in that case prouided by the Law proceede to the Election A forme of a Letter of Depulation to be made by one of the Princes Electors vnto his Deputie or Deputies by him to be sent to the Election VVEe by the grace of God c. of the holie Empire c. by these presents make known vnto all men That forasmuch as the Election of the King of Romaines for certaine speciall causes is to be made wee respecting the honour of the Empire and desiring to further and aduance the same lest it should be neglected or omitted being assured of the fidelitie industrie and circumspection of our louing friend or friends c. and knowing by indubitate presumption the singular confidence of them in generall and of euery one of them in particular so that without contrarietie whatsoeuer one of them shall take in hand the others will agree consent vnto and performe● according to Law and reason in the best manner meanes and forme that we may or can deuise we haue made elected and chosen them to be our lawfull Deputies in any place where-soeuer together with the other Princes our co-Electors aswel ecclesiasticall as temporall to agree and consult vpon some fit person to be chosen King of Romaines and for vs and in our name in the same consultation to be made to name a person and the same to choose to be King of Romaines and after to be Emperour And further in our name to take any necessary due and accustomed oathe in that behalfe vsed or to be vsed as also to make and appoynt one or more deputies in his or their places and them againe to reuoke at his or their willes and pleasures and to doe and performe all other things which in or about the premises vntill the saide consultation deliberation and election be finished and done shal be necessary fit and conuenient as we and in such manner and forme as we may can or might possibly doe if we were personally present at the sayd consultation deliberation nomination and election holding accounting and conferring and by these presents for euer hereafter confirming whatsoeuer our Deputies and Substitutes aforesaid as also their Deputies or Substitutes or euery or any of them in generall or particular shall do act and performe in the premises in what manner soeuer c. Of the order in Procession to be holden by the Arch-bishops electors of the Empire FOr that it is before set downe and declared in the beginning of these our Constitutions what order shall bee helde and obserued by the Ecclesiasticall Princes Electors in sitting and placing themselues in Counsell at the Table and other Solemnities imperiall where the Princes Electors are to goe with sit or accompany the Emperour or the King of Romains wherein we thinke to haue sufficiently declared what shall be done at those times and those places We thinke it conuenient to declare what order shall be vsed by them when the Emperour or the King of Romaines shall goe abroad or in procession Therefore wee ordayne this perpetuall order to be obserued That as often and when as the Emperour or King of Romaines with the said Princes Electors is to goe on procession and that the Banner is to be borne before him the Arch-bishop of Tryer shall goe directly next before the Emperour or the King and he onely that beares the Banner shall goe betweene them And when the Emperor or King goes abroade without the Banner then the said Arch-bishop shall goe in like manner directly before the Emperour or King and no man shall goe betweene them and the other two Arch-bishops Electors shall obserue their places according to the distinction of their Prouinces touching their sitting in places aforesaid formerly declared and so likewise to be obserued in Processions Of the order in Procession to be holden by the temporall Princes Electors and by whom the ensignes of Honour shall be borne TO declare what order is to be vsed when the Emperour or King of Romaines goes in Procession by the secular Princes Electors whereof wee haue formerly spoken We ordaine and appoint that as often as any celebration of the Emperiall assemblies is to be done where the Princes Electors are to accompany the Emperour or King of Romaines when he goeth abroad or on procession and that the imperiall or regall ensignes are to be borne before them the Duke of Saxon bearing the imperiall or regall sword shall goe next before the Emperour or King betweene the Arch-Bishop of Tryer and him the Countie Palatine of the Rhine shall beare the imperiall globe on the right hand the Margraue of Brandenburgh the Scepter on the left hand and the King of Bohemia shall directly goe next behinde the Emperour Of the blessing to be giuen by the Arch-bishops in the Emperours presence AS often as in the Emperours or the King of Romaines presence Masse is to be celebrated that the Arch-bishops of Mentz Tryer and Collen or two of them shall chance to be present at the Confession which is wont to be said before Masse and in reaching or offering the Gospel to be kist and the Pax after the Agnus Dei is borne about as also in the Benediction after the solemnitie of the Masse is finished and likewise before Masse is said and at grace after meate this order shall be obserued among them which by their counsell and aduise we haue set downe that the first day all these things shall be obserued and done by the first the second day by the second and the third day by the third of them and in the absence of the first second or third of them in that case the second shall doe that which the first or the last should haue done and so orderly as it falles out when any of them is not present that they may one after another orderly by course obtaine that honour and giue example vnto others to doe the like when time shall fall out and thereby incite them to the same conniuence and charitable inclination in obseruing the same course If any man shall enter into any wicked conspiracie or faction by oath or promise with any Princes Gentlemen or priuate and common people or shall giue them any counsell or aduise

inferiour Princes thereunto appointed by the Emperour The Empresse or the Queene of Romaines apparelled in her Imperiall vestures shall goe and follow after the Emperour or the King of Romaines and the King of Bohemia whose place is to goe next after the Emperour an indifferent space from them her Ladies and Maides of Honor orderly following her to the Court. The offices of the Princes Electors at the Solemnities which are to be obserued in the Emperours Court at royall feasts and assemblies VVE ordaine and appoint that when the Emperour or King of Romaines shall celebrate any solemne feasts whereat the Princes Electors are to serue and execute their Offices heereafter declared and set downe the Emperour or the King sitting in the Imperiall Throne the Duke of Saxon shall execute his office in this manner Before the Gate of the Emperour or the King there shall be set a heape of Oates so high that it shall reach to the breast or saddle of the horse whereon the sayd Duke shall ride who shall beare in his hand a siluer Wand and a Measure of siluer which both together shall weigh two hundred Markes of siluer and sitting vpon his horse shall first fill that measure full of Oates and shall giue it to his seruant that is next vnto him which done sticking his staffe in the Oates hee shall goe backe againe and then his vice-Marshall Seigneur de Papenheym comming thither or in his absence the Marshall of the Court shall distribute the rest of the Oates The Emperour or the King being gone in to sit at the Table the Arch-bishops Princes Electors standing before the Table with the rest of the Prelates shall say grace according to the order formerly set downe and when grace is sayd the three Arch-bishops if they be all there or two or one of them shall receiue the Imperiall or Regall Seale and Tipe from the Chancellor of the Court hee in whose Chancellours iurisdiction that feast or solemnitie shall chaunce to be celebrated standing in the middle and the other two on either side of him shall all lay their hands vpon the Staffe whereon the said Seale and Type hangs and so carry it and with great reuerence laye it vpon the Table before the Emperour or the King who presently shall deliuer the same againe vnto them in whose Arch-chancelors precinct it shall then be as aforesaid he shall carry the greater Seale about his necke to the end of the Table and from thence to his house riding from the Emperours Court vpon his horse The Staffe whereof mention was formerly made must be siluer waighing two hundred Markes the third part of the value whereof euery one of the Arch-Bishops must pay and contribute equally and that Staffe with the Seales and Types must presently be giuen to the Chancelour of the Emperours Court to vse them when occasion serueth after that he who by order carrying the great Seale about his necke from the Court is gone home to his lodging as aforesaid he shall presently send it backe againe by one of his friends on horse-backe to the Emperours Court to the Chancelour which according to the dignitie of the place and the fauour which hee is to beare to the Court of the Chancerie hee is bound freely to deliuer to the said Chancelour Then the Margraue of Brandenburgh Lord High-Chamberlaine of the Empire comming on horse-backe with a Siluer Bason waying twelue Markes in Siluer full of water in his hand and a fine cleane Towell on his arme lighting downe must giue the Emperour or King of Romaines water to wash his hands after him the Earle Palatine of the Rhine must come on horse-backe with foure siluer Platters in his hands full of meate euery one of them waying three Markes in value who lighting off from his horse must carrie and set them downe vpon the Table before the Emperour or King after him the King of Bohemia chiefe Butler of the Empire riding on a horse with a Napkin on his arme and a couered cup in his hand waighing twelue Markes full of Wine mixt with water lighting downe giueth the cup to the Emperour or King of Romaines to drinke Further wee ordaine that the Secular Princes Electors hauing performed their offices the Earle of Falkenstein vice-Chamberlaine shall take the Horse and Bason from the Margraue of Brandenburgh for his fee the chiefe master cooke of Noremburgh the horse and dishes from the Earle Palatine for his fee the Earle of Limburgh vice-Butler the Horse and Cup from the King of Bohemia for his fee and the Baron of Papenheym vice-Marshall the Horse Staffe and Measure aforesaid from the Duke of Saxon for his fee if they be there personally present to execute their offices but if they or any of them shall be absent at that time then the ordinary officers of the Emperours or King of Romaines Court in their absence that is to say in euery one of their places that are absent whose place is to execute the same as to his office belongeth shall take away and haue the aforesaid things The Emperors table must be in suth sort prepared placed that it must stand six foot higher then the rest of the tables in the hall whereat vpon that day the Emperour or King of Romaines must sit alone The Table whereat the Empresse or Queene of Romaines shall sit must stand on the one side of the Hall three foote lower then the Emperours Table and so many foot higher aboue the Princes Electors which Princes shall haue their Seates or Tables one as high as another lower then the Emperours or Kings Table being seauen in number which shall stand three on the right hand and three on the left and the seauenth directly before the Emperour or King as in our Ordinance formerly made for the order manner by them to be obserued in sitting downe in the Emperours presence is at large declared and no man shall sit with them at the saide Tables but themselues alone Neyther shall any of the saide secular Princes Electors hauing performed his office sit downe at the Table appoynted for him as long as the rest of his Co-electors Princes are performing their offices but while any of them or their Officers are about the performing therof he shal stand at the Table appointed for him expecting the performance of their offices aforesaid and then euerie one of them shall sit downe at his seuerall Table Also we finde in the ancient Records time out of minde that those that were our Predecessors thought it fit and conuenient to be obserued that the election of the King of Romaines to be future Emperour should be made in the City of Franc●ford and that his first Coronation should bee done in the City of Aquisgranie and the first solemne feast held in the City of Noremburgh wherefore for many considerations we ordaine and appoynt the same to be so obserued in time to come vnlesse any lawfull cause of hinderance or impeachment thereof fall out