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that great Conqueror From his Loins after several generations descended Billiengus a potent King of the Vandals whose Mother say some was Charles the Great 's Sister He was the first that after his own conversion brought in the profession of Christianity into Mecklenburg tho afterwards at the instigation of his Son Micislaus both himself and all his Subjects turn'd Apostates The next famous Prince of Mecklenburg was Gottschalck surnam'd the Godly who would often himself take the pains to preach Christianity to his Subjects by whom he was at last for his Religion murder'd in the year 1066. From him descended amongst many others Henry II. who dying in the year 1228 left behind him two Sons Nicolot and John From the former of these sprang all the succeeding Princes of the Vandals until William the last Prince of that Line who died in the year 1430. From the later surnam'd Knese Janko or John the Divine because he had taken a Doctor of Divinity 's degree in the University at Paris are descended the present Dukes of Mecklenburg This John left behind him Henry who was six and twenty years kept prisoner by the Turks Father to Henry surnam'd the Lion whose two Sons Albert and John Dukes of Mecklenburg were by the Emperor Charles IV. created Princes of the Empire in the year 1349. Which is not to be understood tho I find this construction put upon it by several of the modern German Historians as if these two Princes before Charles's creation had been only ordinary Lords or Barons of Mecklenburg and by the Emperor advanc'd to the dignity of Princes or Dukes For from him they receiv'd no more than an admission into the number of the Estates of the Empire under whose protection they were brougth by making themselves members thereof upon condition they should be subject to its Laws and contribute to its necessities Albert's eldest Son Albert II. was chosen King of Sweden and not long after taken prisoner by Margaret Queen of Denmark by whom after several years imprisonment he was at last releas'd upon the payment of a vast ransom So that the management of the Dukedom of Mecklenburg was committed to his Brother Magnus a Prince that if we believe Chytraeus who in his first Book of the Saxon Chronicle has given him a noble character was nomine re Magnus endow'd with all the excellent qualities that are requisite to make a brave Prince His Son John who succeeded his Father in the Dukedom founded the University at Rostock in the year 1419. This Duke's Successors Henry the Fat and Magnus II. Founder of the Cathedral Church at Rostock upon the death of William the last Prince of the Vandals made themselves Masters of the whole Land of Mecklenburg After the death of this Magnus and his Son Albert II. the Dukedom came to his Grandchild John Albert in the year 1547 who first brought in the Lutheran Confession into his Dominions by demolishing Popish Abbeys and converting their Revenues to the use of the University at Rostock His Son John III. who died in the year 1592 left two Sons the eldest was Adolph Frideric who married Ann-Mary Countess of East Frisland by whom amongst other children he had Christian-Ludowic the present Duke of Mecklenburg-Swerin His youngest Son was Gustavus Adolphus who seated himself at Gustrow In the late Civil Wars in Germany the whole Land of Mecklenburg was overrun by the Imperial Army and the Dukedom conferr'd upon their ambitious and at last unfortunate General Albrecht Duke of Friedland However within a little while after the two Dukes Adolph Frideric and John Albrecht were reinstated in their Dominions by Gustavus Adolphus the victorious King of Sweden their Kinsman For a character of the present Dukes of Mecklenburg the Reader may have recourse to the following descriptions of Swerin and Gustrow the places of their residence The strength of these Princes would be considerable enough Militâ—â—â— strength sufficient to secure their own Territories and keep their neighbours in awe if firmly united Their equal pretensions to the sole government of the City and University at Rostock did formerly occasion some animosities between the two Houses but this quarrel has for some years last past been quite laid aside and now a difference in Religion the Duke of Swerin being a Romanist and he of Gustrow a Lutheran is the greatest cause of their mutual fears and jealousies Heretofore they thought it their chief interest to adhere to the Swedes and secure themselves under the wings of the potent Kings of that Nations but when after the many conquests of the brave Gustavus Adolphus the power of those Princes grew so formidable as to threaten an universal slavery to their neighbours round about them rather then the defence of any of their Liberties the Dukes of Mecklenburg thought it high time to relinquish that party and join with the Dane and Branburger in opposing their common enemy the King of Sweden They saw Wismar rent out of their hands without any probability of being ever recover'd and they had reason to fear that a great part of the adjoining Country would follow it if their ruin were not timely prevented by the strength of their new Allies The whole Land of Mecklenburg so much I mean as is now subject to the two Dukes which bear that Title is usually divided into these six parts Territries The Dukedomes of Mecklenburg strictly so call'd and Vandalia the Earldom of Swerin the Baronies of Rostock and Stargard and the Bishopric of Butzow In the Dukedom of Mecklenburg are reckon'd the Cities of Wismar to which is the neighbouring Island Poel Tempsin Gades Rhena and Bucow In the Dukedom of Vandalia Gustrow Sterneberg Malchin Stavenhagen Ivenack Neu-Calven Warin Pentzlin Rebell Wredenhagen Malchau Tetrou Goltberg Parchum Plage Lupsian Grabou Domitz Neu-Statt Eldenau and Gorlosen In the Barony of Rostock the City of Rostock Ribnitz Gnoien Tessin Laga Schwan Salines and Morlou In the Barony of Stargard Brandeburg Stargard Furstenburg Strelitz Mirow Fredland and Wesenberg And lastly in the Bishopric of Butzow the City of Butzow and the Peninsula of Swerin The most considerable Cities in the Dukedom of MECKLENBURG I. LUBEC Lubec This City is indeed situate in Wagerland and for that reason we have already given the Reader some short account of it in the Description of Denmark but because it is of it self an Imperial City wholly independant upon the Crown of Denmark and immediately subject to the Emperor of Germany we have reserv'd a more particular survey of it for this place And it cannot so properly be referr'd to any particular Province of the Empire as the Dukedom of Mecklenburg For altho the Citizens of Lubec do not pay any manner of tribute or homage to the Princes of Mecklenburg yet it may perhaps as justly be reckon'd part of that Dukedom as Bremen which never yet acknowledg'd any subjection to the Kings of Sweden may be esteem'd part of that Principality which now bears
Villages and Forts Of the late Accessions in Pomeren and the Empire HOw far the victorious Arms of Gustavus Adolphus spred themselves in the Empire of Germany passing over the Elb the Rhine and the Danow in one year and thereby becoming as well the terror as wonder of Europe is sufficiently known to all the world and how after his death the Swedish Conquests in those parts began to lessen and several places of importance to be either forcibly regain'd by the Emperor or by the succeeding Kings of Sweden freely yielded up to him is no less manifest What Cities Towns Forts Titles Territories c. were by a Ratification of Peace concluded between the Imperial Ministers and the Swedish Agents in lieu of those many and large Dominions which Gustavus Adolphus had possess'd himself of given up into the hands of the Swedes either absolutely and for ever or under some conditions to be by the Swedes observ'd we shall in this place only mention remitting the more large description of them to Pomeren Germany c. whereunto they did formerly belong and where an account of them may be expected By a Treaty of Peace between the Imperial Plenipotentiaries and Swedish Ministers held at Osnabrug and Munster A. D. 1649 it was concluded That because Christina Queen of Sweden had required of the Emperor and the Electoral Princes that satisfaction should be made her for delivering up to them several places which had been by her Father in the late Wars brought under the Swedish power and likewise upon account that she earnestly desired as much as in her lay to restore and promote the publick peace of the Empire which the Emperor and their Electoral Highnesses on the other part were very ready by all means to advance and take care of His Imperial Majesty with the consent of the Electoral Princes and States of the Empire should give up to the Queen of Sweden and to her Heirs and Successors these following Dominions to be held by them in full right of possession as a perpetual and immediate Feud of the Empire viz. 1. All Nether-Pomeren commonly call'd Nor-Pomern with the Isle of Rugen in the Baltic Sea in the same manner and extent as the late Dukes of Pomeren had possess'd and enjoy'd the same And also in Further-Pomeren Stetin Gartz Dam Golnau the Isle Wollin with part of the River Oder that encompasseth it the Sea commonly call'd das Frische Haff with its three Bays Peine Swine and Divenow and so much land on each side as shall be agreed on by the Commissioners to be appointed for assigning the just limits for both Parties Which said Kingdom of Pomeren and principality of Rugen with all Dominions belonging or places annex'd to either of them and also all Territories Prefectures Cities Forts Towns Villages Feuds Rivers Isles c. with all Tributes Revenues Titles Dignities Preeminences Immunities and Praerogatives Ecclesiastical or Civil with all other Rights and Priviledges should from that day 27 of July A. 1648 for ever belong to and be freely used and inviolably possess'd by the then Queen of Sweden her heirs and Successors in as full and ample manner as the former Dukes of Pomeren had had enjoy'd or govern'd the same Moreover That the King of Sweden and the Duke of Brandenburg should both of them use the Titles and Arms of Pomeren after the manner that the former Dukes of Pomeren used them The King of Sweden for ever and the Dukes of Brandenburgh so long as any of the Issue Male of that Family remain'd but that upon defect of the masculine Line of the house of Brandenburg none should lay claim to those Titles and Arms of Pomeren but the Kings of Sweden solely to retain them without any Competitor and not only so but then to have all Further Pomeren with the Bishoprick and Chapter of Camminen yielded up to them and their successors for ever 2. That the Emperor with the consent of the Electors should give up to the said Queen and her successors for ever the City and Port of Wismar with the Fort Walfisch and the Prefectures of Poel the Towns Sehedorff Wietendorff Brandenhusen and Wangern which belong to the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Lubeck excepted and Newen Closter with all Rights and Priviledges belonging to them in as full and ample manner as the Dukes of Meklenburg had before enjoy'd and possess'd them 3. That the Emperor with c. should give up to the Queen of Sweden and her successors for ever the Arch-Bishoprick of Breme and the Bishoprick of Verden with the Town and Prefecture of Wilshausen and also all the Right the Arch-Bishops of Breme had to the Chapter and Dioeces of Hamburg provided that the house of Holsatia and the City and Chapter of Hamburg retain'd their respective liberties possessions c. with all and singular Rights Priviledges c. Ecclesiastical or Civil to the said Arch-Bishoprick Bishoprick and Prefecture in any-wise belonging yet to retain them for ever as an immediate Fee of the Empire using the ancient Arms which belong'd to them but changing the Ecclefiastical Title into a secular one viz. that of Arch-Bishop and Bishops into Duke of Breme and Verden And likewise the Kings of Sweden by vertue of this Grant to have priviledge to be present at all Diets of the Empire under the Titles of Dukes of Breme Verden and Pomeren Princes of Rugen and Lords of Wismar and to take place amongst the secular Princes on the fifth seat in the said Diets and in all Controversies arising concerning these Territories to appeal to some of his Imperial Majestie 's Courts of Judicature there to have them determin'd 4. That the Queen of Sweden or her successors might have power to erect an Vniversity where they thought most convenient in any part of these new Dominions Lastly that her Majesty of Sweden and her successors should acknowledge all these Possessions as Feudiatary to the Emperor and receive all Investitures from and as their Predecessors and other Vassals of the Empire formerly used to do to take an Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to him and his Imperial successors for ever By these additional Dominions in Pomeren and Germany which at present by reason of the wars between the two Northern Crowns are very much disturb'd and in great confusion the Kings of Sweden had as was said several new Titles conferr'd upon them which with others that are taken from their late conquests in Livonia Carelia c. make up the greatest part of the whole Catalogue The present King styling himself thus The most Serene and most c. Prince Charles XI King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals and Hereditary Prince Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esthonia Livonia Carelia Breme Verde Stetin Pomeren Cassubie and Wenden Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves Bergen c. Of the new Accessions in Denmark within the Baltic Sea viz. Scania Hallandia
claim'd by vertue of the Treatyes of Roschild Copenhagen and Westphalia which by this Treaty were confirm'd The Duke expected besides being restored to his Countries some recompence for the damages he had sustained during the war and at least to have had back the Canon being an hundred excellent Brass pieces which were taken out of Tunningen when it was seized and dismantled by Denmark But his expectation in this point were not answered One of the Articles of the same Treaty was That the Country of Rixingen belonging to Count Alefelt Chancellor of Denmark made Governour of Holstein in the year 1663 upon the death of Christian Earl of Rantzaw chief Minister of State to the late King Frideric III. confiscated during the war should be restored to him DITMARS THE inhabitants of this Province are a remnant of the ancient Saxons and retain much of the prowess and heroic spirits of their ancestors Some will have the word writ Deutsch or Teutschmarsh i. e. the German or Dutch Marsh because the people are reliques of the German-Saxons and the Country plain and fenny The Ditmarssians were never like the Wagrians and Stormarians brought under subjection to the Earls of Holstein till that whole Earldom was annexed to the Crown of Denmark And tho they were given by the Emperor Frideric III. to Christian Earl of Oldenburgh the first Danish King of that House yet soon after they threw off this yoke and refused to acknowledg themselves subject to him or his successors till by the valour and good fortune of King Frideric II. they were vanquished and forced to submit in the year 1559. In this expedition the King of Denmark was assisted by John and Adolph Dukes of Holstein his Cousin-Germans Whereupon they sharing the conquest with him Ditmars was divided into two parts whereof the Southern fell to the King of Denmark and the Northern to the Dukes of Holstein The only places of note in Ditmars are 1. Meldorp the chief Town in the Province seated on the German Ocean and a place of good trade 2. Heyde which is a large but poor City on the borders of the great barren Sands of the same name which overspread the middle of the Country 3. Lunden opposite to Tonningen near the mouth of the Eyder STORMAR STormar Stormars or Stormarsh signifies no more then the Marshy ground lying along the banks of the river Stoer For 't is observable that the inhabitants of the Great Dukedom of Holstein are distinguished by names taken from the nature of the soil in that part of the Country they inhabit And the ancient Marsi were nothing else then a people that liv'd in these bogs and fens and thence took their name Hamburgh of which City we shall have occasion to give a large description elsewhere stands in Stormar Hamburgh and upon that score the Earls and Dukes of Holstein have always pretended a right to this City and demanded homage of the Citizens These pretensions were judged legal and the right and title of the said Dukes ratified by the Emperor Charles IV. in the year 1374. Whereupon the Hamburghers swore allegiance to Christian I. King of Denmark acknowledging him and his successors their lawful Lords But not long after they endeavoured to throw off that yoke presuming much upon their own strength and the assistance they promise themselves upon all occasions from the rest of the Hans Towns This last year 1679 the present King of Denmark renewed his claim and came before this City with an Army of sixteen or seventeen thousand men to demand homage entring the Elb with fourteen men of war and seizing several Merchant-ships English and others at Gluckstadt On the ninth of November an agreement was signed between the King and this City the Articles of which were I. That his Majesty and this City shall remain unprejudiced in their several rights and pretentions and that the point of homage shall be amicably determined by Treaty or by an ordinary process before the Chamber of Spire and that in the mean time this City shall enjoy a Neutrality and free commerce as formerly II. That this City with a thankful acknowledgment of his Majesties good will towards them shall remain in an humble devotion towards him and shall to the utmost of their power further his good and prevent any evil they know likely to happen to him III. That for the greater manifestation of this their devotion this City shall send a formal Deputation to his Majesty IV. That this City in consideration of his Majesties being graciously pleased to receive them again into his favour shall pay him 220000 Crowns at four Terms the first payment to be made immediately after the ratifying the Recess the second within six months after and the third and last at the end of other six months V. That his Majesty shall quit all his pretentions to any Lands which this City at present holds either in particular or in common with the City of Lubeck shall release the Ships stopt DITHMARSIA RENDESBURGUM KIEL et BORDESHOLM in Occidentali pâ—rte HOLSATIAE Tabula Geographica novissima DUCATUS STORMARIAE in Meriodionali parte HOLSATIAE Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios et Mosem Pitt WAGRIA quae est PARS ORIENTALID HOLSATIAE Ex Officina Janssonio-Waesbergios et Moses Pitt at Gluckstadt and shall ratifie this Recess within eight days Five days after the signing of this Interim Recess so called because it leaves both parties in the same rights they had before the Deputies of Hamburgh according to the tenure of the third Article waited on the King of Denmark at his Quarters at Pinneberg and being admitted to Audience spoke to him in the following words Most Serene and most Potent King most Gracious Lord Whereas your Royal Majesty is by the mercy of God happily arrived in this your Dukedom and consequently in the neighbourhood of this City of Hamburgh and hath caused proposals consisting in three points to be made to the said City and hath desired their resolution thereupon And whereas the first point through the shortness of time and for other reasons could not be determined at present and that your Majesty hath therefore been graciously pleased to refer the same to an amicable agreement or to a legal determination and in the mean time to remove the displeasure you had taken against the said City and by an Interims Recess graciously to agree That as well the rights and pretentions of your Majesty as of the said City shall remain unprejudiced The Burgermasters and Raedts Deputies do in the name of themselves and of all the Burghers appear before your Majesty and do promise faithfully to observe the said Interims Recess in all its points and clauses and particularly to bear your Majesty most humble and becoming devotion That to the utmost of their power they will further your Majesties good and hinder all ill and detriment from happening to your Majesty Provided this City be left in a quiet and undisturbed enjoyment of their
for promotion Which says Wimpheling was a saying that became so great an Emperor He Reign'd nineteen years and ten months 875. Charles the Bald a base mean-spirited man Ludowic the First 's Son succeeded his Nephew Pope John IX perswaded him with fair words and money to come to Rome for his Coronation and there to receive the Imperial Scepter from his hands He Reign'd only two years being poyson'd as was supposed by one Sedechias a Jewish Physitian 878. Ludowic surnam'd Balbus succeeded his Father Charles but never enjoy'd the Crown if it was which many question ever set upon his head When he had linger'd out a year and an half he dyed leaving his Throne to 879. Charles III. surnam'd the Gross from his bulk and fatness He might have been stiled a second Charles the Great if he had been as successful in managing as obtaining of Kingdoms For by the death of his two Brothers all Germany France and Italy came into his hands He was the first that added the year of our Lord to the year of his Reign in the dating of any public Proclamations Grants c. At last when by several base actions especially in concluding a dishonourable peace betwixt himself and the Normans in which he gave them that part of France which is still called Normandy he had contracted the hatred of the whole Empire he was deposed by his Nobles and dyed miserably in a poor beggarly Village in Schwaben 888. Arnolph Natural Son of Caroloman Duke of Carinthia and King of Bavaria was elected into the room of Charles thus deposed and rul'd the Empire with a strong arm for twelve years He quell'd the Rebels in Moravia and Normandy and defeated Guido and Berengarius who had made head against him in Italy He storm'd Rome and took it but soon after was poyson'd there by the procurement of Guido's wife and dyed in great misery being eaten up of Lice which the poyson bred in his body 900. Ludowic IV. Arnolph's Son was elected by the Nobles into his Father's stead The Hungarians were continually at war with this Emperor who had seldom the good fortune to come off the field a Conqueror In these skirmishes a great part of the German Nobility was cut off which shortned his life and brought him to his grave before he had got a Son to inherit his Throne He dyed an unfortunate Prince and with him the Family of Charles the Great was wholly extinct During his Reign there was another Ludowic set up for Emperor by the Pope in Italy who was taken prisoner and had his eyes put out by Berengarius King of Lombardy 912. After the death of the Emperor Ludowic the Princes of Germany proffer'd the Imperial Crown to Otto Duke of Saxony who had the name of the wisest man and best Soldier of his time But old Age had render'd him at least in his own conceit unfit for Government Whereupon he made over the proffer'd Empire to Conrad Duke of Franconia who upon Otto's recommendation was immediately declared Emperor He was no sooner stept into the Throne but his carriage disobliged a great many of the Princes of the Empire who made war upon him and put him hard to 't to keep the reins in his hand Henry Duke of Saxony Duke Otto's Son engag'd him the oftest and with greatest courage and success However Conrad by his last Will and Testament notwithstanding the frequent quarrels between him and that Duke bequeathed his Empire to Henry whom he had experienced to be a Prince that for his valour and conduct deserv'd an Empire 919. Henry surnamed Auceps from the great delight he took in Hawking was by the German Princes according to the tenour of the Emperor Conrad's Will proclaim'd King of the Romans at Fritzlar Soon after the Pope fent to proffer his service in consecrating and anointing him Emperor but it was not accepted For Henry return'd his Holiness this answer that 't was enough for him that Gods providence and the voices of his Nobility had made him King of the Romans They that fancied this Title too mean might in Gods name go to Rome for Consecration and Vnction but for his own part he was satisfied with the honour already conferr'd on him He was a valiant and prudent Prince one that composed most of the animosities and quarrels of his own people and bravely defended them from the incursions of the Hungarians and other foreign Enemies He was the first that instituted the sports of Tilts and Turnaments and fortified the great Towns in Germany Ordering that every ninth Bore should remove his Family into a City and that the Citizens should be maintain'd by a Contribution of the third part of the Corn and Hay round about the Country Having overthrown the Hungarians at a memorable Battel near Mersburg he had the title of Pater Patriae rerum Dominus Imperator conferr'd upon him Afterwards going into Italy he was taken with an Apoplexy of which to the great grief of the whole German Nation he dyed after he had reign'd seven years and six months 936. Otto the Emperor Henry's Son succeeded his Father in the Empire and equall'd him in all his acts of piety wisdom and prowess whence he was surnamed the Great He compell'd Harald King of Denmark to acknowledg the Emperor of Germany's Supremacy and embrace Christianity subdued the Bohemians and forc'd their Prince Boleslaus to turn Christian deposed Pope John XII and put Leo VIII in his place making a Decree that for the future the power of chusing Popes should be in the Emperor alone The fashion of Christening of Bells was first brought up in his Reign 973. Otho II. succeeded his Father Otho the Great He found the Empire in peace and excepting some small skirmishes betwixt him and his Cousin Henry Duke of Bavaria whom some malecontent Bishops had proclaimed Emperor never met with any opposition in his own Dominions He overthrew the Turks in Apulia and was thence stiled Pallida Saracenorum mors He reign'd eleven years and at his death left the Empire as he found it in perfect peace 984. Otho III. surnamed the Child was advanc'd to his Father's Throne at ten years of age but quickly grew up to be a Prince of wonderful sagacity and prudence Some say he was the first that instituted the manner of Electing an Emperor by the majority of the Voices of Seven Electors of which more hereafter He reign'd eighteen years and dyed in Italy being poyson'd with a pair of Gloves presented to him by the wife of Crescentius a Rebel whom he had caus'd to be hang'd The woman had been his Concubine for some time after her husbands death and was in hopes of being married to him and so made an Empress But when she saw him ready to leave Italy without taking notice of any former contract betwixt them and preparing for a return to Germany she was resolv'd by this expedient to satisfie her revenge tho she could not provide for her
eating too much of a Melon tho he was never tax'd for being guilty of any manner of intemperance in meat or drink but always esteem'd a severe punisher of drunkenness and gluttony 1493. Maximilian succeeded his Father Frideric having been before his Fathers death Crown'd King of the Romans in the year 1486. From his birth till he was almost nine years old he is said to have been utterly speechless but afterwards he gain'd the use of his tongue and prov'd one of the most eloquent and learned Emperors that Germany ever bred He married Mary the only Daughter and Heiress of Charles Duke of Burgundy upon which marriage all the Dukedoms Marquisats Earldoms and other Dominions of which the said Charles had been Lord were for ever annex'd to the Territories of the House of Austria The wars he was engag'd in against his neighbours on all hands especially the Venetians were almost innumerable tho for the most part he was forc'd to take up Arms in his own defence 'T is reported of him that he would never pass by a Gallows or Gibbet without a reverent salute in these words Salve sancta Justitia For five years before his death which happen'd in the twenty-fifth year of his reign he had his Coffin always by him and carried after him in every expedition he undertook which gave some of his retinue occasion to conjecture that he had some great treasure in it and that the pretence of its putting him in mind of mortality was only a false veil to blind the vulgar 1519. Charles V. Son to Philip King of Spain was elected Emperor and Crown'd with the greatest pomp imaginable at Aix la Chappel A puissant and brave Prince who well deserv'd the surname of Great conferr'd on him by Pope Paul III. The whole History of his Life seems to be nothing else but a Catalogue of his Conquests The writers of those times mention forty great victories obtain'd by him and seventy battels from which he came off the field a Conqueror The Pope of Rome and the French King were at the same time his prisoners He quash'd the League made by the Protestants at Schmalcade and took the Elector of Saxony and Landtgrave of Hassia prisoners He forced the Great Turk to relinquish Vienna and afterwards won the Kingdom of Tunis At last having reign'd thirty-eight years loaded with victories and honour he resign'd the Empire and betook himself to a Monastery where he was used to say That he had more pleasure and satisfaction in the retired and solitary enjoyment of one day in a Monk's Cell then ever he could perceive in all the fortunate Triumphs that attended the rest of his life 1558. Ferdinand I. upon the voluntary resignation of his Brother Charles V. was by an unanimous consent of the Electors declared Emperor tho Pope Pius IV. refused to pronounce the Election valid because Ferdinand had granted the Lutherans a toleration But some say the same Pope was afterwards so far reconciled to him as to grant him the priviledg of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in both kinds He was a mild peaceful and temperate Prince a hard student and perfect Master of the Latin tongue He was exceeding courteous to all even the meanest of his Subjects and had a certain hour in every day in which he attended the suits and complaints of poor men When some of his Courtiers objected to him the inconveniences that would follow upon the permission of so easie an access to all manner of supplicants he answer'd That himself could expect but harsh usage at Gods Throne if beggars were hinder'd from approaching his He dyed of a Catarrh in the sixty-first year of his age after he had reign'd six years 1564. Maximilian II. Ferdinand's Son and King of Bohemia was elected into his Fathers room being first proclaim'd King of the Romans at Francfurt and afterwards Crown'd King of Hungary This Emperor prov'd as great a favourer of the Protestants as his Father insomuch that some Roman Catholics have not stuck to call him the Lutheran Emperor He renewed the Articles of Peace agreed upon between the Protestant and Popish parties at Passaw and granted some of his Nobility and branches of the Austrian Family a free exercise of the Lutheran Religion Qui in conscientiis Imperium sibi sumunt conantur coeli arcem invadere is a saying which Historians know not whether to attribute to this Emperor or Maximilian I. but 't is most probable it was the former's since he is known to have been the greatest favourer of the Protestant perswasion that ever rul'd the German Empire He dyed at Ratisbon in the year 1576 having reign'd twelve years 1576. Rudolph Maximilian's Son was elected Emperor immediately upon his Father's death Some curious Chronologers have fancied his coming to the Imperial Crown in this year something ominous since the Numeral letters in RVdoLphVs IMperator AVgVstVs make up the number 1576. He was a Prince exceedingly addicted to the studies of all manner of Arts and Sciences especially the Mathematics and Mechanics In both which he receiv'd great assistance from the famous Astronomer Tycho Brahe who dyed in his Court where he had spent the greatest part of his banishment Several Cities and Provinces in Germany at his request began to make use of the Gregorian account tho many Ambassadors sent from the Electors to Rotenburg to treat of this particular rejected it The greatest war he engaged himself in was against the Turks with whom at last he concluded a Peace in the year 1600. But the truth is he minded his book more then Arts of Chivalry and was a greater Scholar then Soldier Which gave his Brother Matthias opportunity of undermining and cheating him of the Kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia and forcing him to content himself with the Arch-Dukedom of Austria and the Empire 1612. Matthias upon his Brother's death was Elected and Crown'd Emperor at Francfurt The Protestant Religion was as much persecuted by this Emperor as it was encouraged by his predecessor Which harshness and severity gave occasion to that bloody Civil-war which broke out first in Bohemia and had afterwards like to have set the whole Empire in a flame When the oppression which the Protestants lay under had occasioned some dangerous seditions in a great many considerable Cities and Market-Towns in the Kingdom of Bohemia the Emperor order'd a Synod to be call'd at Prague designing to allow the dissenting party as they term'd the Lutherans some small priviledges but such as should be far short of the large Charter given and confirm'd to them by his Brother Rudolph At this meeting the Emperors Ambassadors William Slabate and Jurislaw Bazius where thrown out of the window for their domineering carriage and so perished This mightily incensed the Emperor who endeavouring to be reveng'd had like to have ruin'd himself and his Empire He dyed without issue having reign'd seven years 1619. Ferdinand of Gratz Arch-Duke of Austria and Grandson to Ferdinand I. by