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A39387 The emperour and the empire betray'd by whom and how written by a minister of state residing at that court to one of the Protestant princes of the empire.; Empereur et l'empire trahis, et par qui & comment. English. 1682 Cerdan, Jean-Paul, comte de. 1682 (1682) Wing E716; ESTC R27323 33,952 136

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Forests Rivers Ponds and all other Common Rights of what nature soever More on all sorts of Merchandises Imported or Exported The Custom The Custom for the Value The Foreign Besides the Custom of Lions Burdeaux and Roan which take their Names from the Places and are levied with all Rigour imaginable not only upon Importation into the Realm or Exportation out of it into Foreign Countries but in most of the Frontiers of the Provinces upon passing out of one into another within the Kingdom And we may expect the like Exactions to be established in the several Provinces of the Empire on several pretences All these Subsidies and many others which to avoid Prolixity I pass over in silence are one way or other punctually paid where-ever any Subjects of the French Monarchy live with no other distinction but that the Lords and Gentlemen have Right to hold free from Imposition so many Acres of Land for their Maintenance as may be Husbanded with two Yoke of Oxen provided the Owner hold that Estate in Demean for as to what is let out to Farmers as they pay the King Taxes for the profit of the Farms they pay so much the less Rent to the Landlord so that in effect the Nobleman in France pays Taxes as well as the Boor Which the Princes the Nobles the Magistrates and Subjects of the Empire of what Degree soever have reason seriously to consider For 't is folly to fancy they can make their Capitulations so advantageous as to exempt them from paying these intollerable Subsidies The Provinces of Guienne Languedoc Provence Dauphine Bourgundy and Britain and most of the other Provinces of France had herefore their particular Princes as most of the Provinces of the Empire now have and the principal Cities and Towns in these Provinces of France had then as great Priviledges and Immunities as any Free Towns of the Empire But the Kings of France having invaded all these Principalities and seized the Liberties of the Cities have since the taking of Rochel reduced them into so absolute Slavery that the Citizens and Inhabitants have quite lost the Resolution and Generosity to endeavour a Recovery of their Liberties and are so bridled with strong Garrisons and Citadels and we may expect the like in all Countries of the Empire if ever under a French Government that they are not in a condition to stir at least to any considerable purpose This may suffice for the first point I pass to the Second The second Point This deserves the more exact consideration for that if ever the Dauphin be chosen King of the Romans since the Court of Rome and the Jesuits by the important Services these have done the Crown of France of late and promise to do for the future and the Cardinalships they flatter the Nephews and Relations of the principal Ministers of France with the hopes of do what they please in the Council of France and what is published to the contrary on the account of Regalities now in controversie is but Cheat and Illusion the cruel persecution raised and carried on some years last past against the Protestants of that Kingdom the disgrace of Pompone being not of their Cabal and of Theatin the Princess of Brvaria's Confessor intimating sufficiently the extraordinary Credit that Society hath in the Court of France I say if ever the Dauphin be elected King of the Romans the Empire is to expect two things First To see him at the Head of the best Forces of France upon the specious pretence of Religion and restoring the Estates belonging to the Church undertaking in the Empire aganst the Protestant Party what Charles the Fifth and Ferdinand the Second attempted to execute Secondly That this affair will be so obstinately fomented protected by the Court of Rome that the Empire will be in danger to be involved in a War more cruel more bloody and dangerous than any the former Wars raised for that Cause And there is reason enough to believe that the late War as well as the Peace since made were hatched and carried on by the Court of Rome in hopes of being able by the Power of the French Forces to work the entire Ruin of the Protestant Party of Europe which we see every day decay by degrees And I am much mistaken if the Money sent by the Pope into Poland was not design'd for a Project of this nature Prince William of Furstenberg might if he pleased furnish us with clear Evidence of authentick Memoirs to this purpose but we are not to expect it from him lest by such a Discovery he lose the Recompence the Court of Rome designs him for the Pains he hath taken and continues to bring to effect this Popish Project in the Empire and consequently in all Europe By what hath been said your Highness may see the Fortune of the Empire if ever it fall by any means whatever under the intolerable Yoke of the Despotical Government of France And I think I need say no more to convince every Member of the Empire and all the States of it in general without any great depth of Policy or knowledge of War what their Duty to Religion their Glory and Interest oblige them to do for preserving themselves from falling under a Yoke of that nature But to preserve themselves effectually from this Yoke I conceive it extremely considerable to enquire first Whence all this Mischief proceeds Which known will give us light what must further be done And particularly from what Part the first Attack may be expected and what Defence is to be made The Mischiefs I have mentioned unquestionably have their rise from the Designs and Fomentations of the Court of Rome and the Jesuits who at present at least direct and dispose of the French Projects and Forces and without any Mercy or Respect pretend with the Assistance of those Forces and their own secret Managements of Affairs to sacrifice all to the Re-establishment of the Papal Grandeur I conceive in Right and Justice two things are to be done but I doubt much whether the one will be The first is That since the Publick Good and Safety of the Empire consists in living without Innovation according to the Ancient Rights Immunities and Privelidges and the Concordats established by Law which every Member of the Empire is obliged to observe and that the Pretensions of the Court of Rome and the Jesuits are as inconsistent as those of France with the Publick Good and safety of the Empire Every Member of the Empire without flattering themselves any longer with hopes of Favour from Rome or from France and without distinction of Religion applying themselves seriously to procure and promote the Preservation and Publick Good of the Empire should without delay take such Measures that neither the Court of Rome the Jesuits nor France may attain their Ends. And in order to this That every Member of the Empire should put it self into a Posture and Condition by uniting their Forces to oppose Force