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A08843	A briefe information of the affaires of the Palatinate The which consist in foure principall heads, which be 1. The acceptation of the crowne of Bohemia. 2. The difference and controuersie which hath ensued thereof, betweene the Emperour Ferdinand, and the King Frederick. 3. The proscription and bloudy proceeding that hath ensued thereof. 4. And the interposition of the King of great Brittaine, and with that which hath happened in the meane space.; Briefve information des affaires du Palatinat. English.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 19126; ESTC S113908	30,407	62

A BRIEFE INFORMATION OF THE AFFAIRES OF THE PALATINATE THE WHICH CONSIST IN foure principall heads Which be 1. The acceptation of the Crowne of BOHEMIA 2. The difference and controuersie which hath ensued thereof betweene the Emperour FERDINAND and the King FREDERICK 3. The proscription and bloudy preceeding that hath ensued thereof 4. And the interposition of the King of great BRITTAINE and with that which hath happened in the meane spac● Printed M.DC.XXIIII A BRIEFE INFORMATION OF THE AFFAIRES OF THE PALATINATE The affaires of the PALATINATE consist in foure principall heads Concerning the first head FOR this many ages past the Realme of Boheme hath beene alwayes holden both within and without the Empire for electiue and not hereditarie The Letters Reuersalls of all the Kings of Bohemia which haue successiuely beene euen to the Emperour Ferdinand the second haue a cleare and expresse recognition and confession that they haue and possesse it not by any hereditary right but by the free election good will and consent of the estates of the said Realme according to the Golden Bull their liberties and priuiledges There hath not beene any but onely the Emperour Ferdinand the second who hath challenged a partension of a succession hereditary the which hee foundeth principally vpon a certaine disposition of the King Vladislaus his great Grandfather by his Mothers side made on the sixth day of Ianuary 1510. in regard of the Dutchesse Anne his daughter who was afterward the wife of the Emperour Ferdinand the first the Copie whereof ensueth word for word Vladislaus by the grace of God King of Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatio c. Marquesse of Morauia Duke of Lucemburg and of Silesia Marquesse of Lusatia c. Be it knowne to all men by these presents since that God by his diuine grace hath giuen vs heires both sonnes and daughters and that by his diuine prouidence as also by the aduise and counsell of our Subicots Prelates Princes Lords and all the estates of our Realmes wee haue first caused the most excellent Prince King Lewes our most beloued sonne to be crowned King of Hungary who afterward by the free will of the Barrons Nobles and Townes of the Kingdome of Boheme hath beene crowned and receiued in the same Realme But if it shall happen that the said King Lewes dye without heires which God forbid then the Dutchesse Anne our daughter shall remaine and be true heire of the Realme of Boheme land by power and vertue of the rights constitutions and priuiledges of the Realme of Boheme And we hauing had regard vnto that and considering the singular affection deuotion and promptitude that our Subiects of both our Realmes shew vnto vs we thinke and iudge it to be right and equitable to prouide for them in such sort that for the necessities of the affaires of these two Crownes and Realmes they may treate and negotiate in their owne mother tongues with our heires and their future Lords And for that cause we haue ordained and doe ordaine that our heires haue to make their abode in a place fit and conuenable to the end that the subiects of the Crowne of Hungarie as well as they of the Crowne of Bohemia and those of the Crowne of Bohemia as well as they of the Crowne of Hungarie may enioy and haue their presence and may haue accesse vnto them They shall be also bound and obliged to entertaine neere vnto them an equall number of men and women Natiues of the Kingdome of Bohemia and Hungarie to the purpose that they may learne the Languages of Hungarie and of Bohemia freely and without impeachment And that the Estates of euerie one of the same Crownes may sufficiently and at large conferre with them in their owne Languages touching their necessities Moreouer wee promise vnto them of the Realme of Bohemia not to marry nor to promise in marriage the Duchesse Anne our daughter without their counsaile And wee promise all this which is contained in these presents in the word of a King and doe also promise vnto the Barons Nobles and all the Estates of the Realme of Bohemia to obserue it fully and inuiolably without any cōtrauention in any fashion whatsoeuer In witnesse whereof wee haue caused our Royall Scale to be set vnto these presents abouesaid Yeuen in our Castle of Prage on the Friday after the Feast of the 3. Kings in the yere of our Lord 1510. and of our raigns to wit of Hungarie the 20. and of Bohemia the 39. This disposition of the King Vladeslaus is set downe by the Emperour Ferdinand at this time for the strongest Bese and foundation for the hereditarie right that he claymeth vnto the Crowne of Bohemia forasmuch as the Duchesse Anne his grandmother is called heire of the Realme of Bohemia and that as hee sayth by vertue of other precedent agreements Now I will not enlarge my selfe heere to dispute vpon this Foundation for that the Estates of Bohemia haue alreadie refuted it very amply and solidely by their Writings and especially by their Booke called the Deduction which they published in the yeere of our Lord 1620. But I would onely as by the way shew the manifest nullitie thereof by the contradiction that is therein For first it appeareth by the Reuersalls of the said King Vladislaus giuen vnto the Estates of Bohemia on the day of his Assumption to the Crowne that he acknowledged and confessed that hee obtained and receiued the said Crowne by the pure sranke and free will and election of the said Estates and not by any right hereditarie If then hee had not any right hereditarie much lesse had he power to conferre and giue a right of succession hereditarie vnto his daughter Secondly if in regard of his person he had had such a right of succession yet it had not beene lawfull for him to dispose thereof vnto his sonne for that the Realme and Electorate of Bohemia was holden of the Empire only to the heires males as the other Electorates be and cannot fall vnto the Distaffe Women being vncapable to performe the Functions and Offices of men required in the Office of the Electors by vertue of the Golden Bull. Thirdly the said disposition containeth a most grosse and palpable absurditie in that the King Vladislaus saith in it that his sonne hath beene receiuea by the free choise of the Barons Nobles and Townes of the Realme and that hee addeth then by and by that his daughter shal be heire of the said Realme after his death for if the sonne could not come thereto but by the way of free election how can it be concluded that the daughter haue a right of succession hereditary in a estate taile vnto the heires males which her brother had not And to make this absurdly more euident behold the Copie of another Letter Reuersall which Vladislaus gaue vnto the Estates of Bohemia when that they designed accepted Duke Lewis his sonne for to be their future King Vladislaus by the grace of

God King of Hungary and Bohemia Be it knowne vnto all men whosoeuer that shall see or heare these presents Forasmuch as the Barrons Nobles the Townes of Prague and the other Townes together with the communalty of the Realme of Bohemia hauing by their free choyse and without any obligation of theirs thereunto chosen and crowned in our life time the Serenissime Prince and Lord Lewis King of Hungary as they before time haue done vnto vs their affection by the said election of King Lewis our sonne yet with this charge that as long as we shall be in life we shall retaine and hold the gouernment and possession of our said Realme and the Prouinces incorporated without any impeachment of King Lewis our dearest sonne vntill our death That on the other part we will not faile continually to acknowledge it and will protect and giue order that they shall be maintained without any trauerse or trouble in their rights franchises priuiledges and customes as wee haue promised and doe promise them by these presents when that King Lewis our most deare sonne shall come vnto the age of maioritie and after our decease shall take possession and administration of his Realme of Bohemia hee shall be obliged to doe and accomplish all that which the Kings of Bohemia our predecessors as also our selues haue done and accomplished by Obligation in such manner and forme as wee haue giuen them expresse Letters signed with our hand and sealed with our Scale with this reseruation That if King Lewes our dearest sonue doth not accomplish all that which is contained in our said Letters to them exhibited in satisfying to all that vnto which the Kings of Bohemia are bound they shall also not be bound on the other part to admit the said King Lewes in the possession and gouernment of the Realme and that for so long time and vntill that he hath made totall satisfaction according to the more ample purport of our said Letters but when hee hath made such satisfaction the said Estates and they of the Prouinces incorporated shall be reciprocally obliged and bound to sweare vnto him loyaltie and to be faithfull vnto him in all humilitie as vnto their crowned King After the death of King Lewes who was slaine in the battaile of Mohaz in the yeere 1526. the Archduke Ferdinand married the said Duchesse Anne and sent the same yeere his Embassadours vnto the Estates of Bohemia requiring them to chuse and receiue him for their King alledging amongst other reasons that the said Anne his Wife was the neerest vnto the Crowne and though that the Estates graunted his request in giuing the Scepter and Crowne vnto him this was not in any sort in contemplation of the pretension of his Wife but of their free consent as is most euidently seene by his Letters Reuersalls which follow Nos Ferdinandus Dei gratia Rex Bohemia Infans Hispaniarum Archidux Austria Marchio Mora●●● Dux Lucemburgia Silesia Marchio Lusa●●a c. Notum faci●us tenore prasentium vniuersis Quemadmodum Barones Nobiles etiam Ciuitates ac tota Communit as Regni Bohemiae ex sua libera bona voluntate iuxta libertates Regni Elegerunt Nos in Regeon Bohemiae Quapropter recognoscimus quod hoc ipsum ab Oratoribus ipsorum abunde intelleximus re ipsa cognouimus comperimus quod praefati status communita● ill●us Regni non ex aliquo debito sed ita pront supra scriptum est eam Electionem eligentes Nos in Regem Bohemia exlibera et bona voluntate fecerunt Harmn testimonio literarum sigilli nostri quo hactenus tanquam Archidux Austriae vsi sumus appensione roboratarum Datum in Ciuitate nostra Vienna die tertia decima Mensis Decembris anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo sexto Regni vero nostri anno primo True it is that these Reuersalls were afterward deliuered vp by the Estates of Bohemia vnto King Ferdinand at his instance who put in the stead of them other Reuersalls where many things are found to be changed against che intention and approbation of the said Estates The Emperor Ferdinand the first and the said Anne his wife had a sonne called Maximilian the second and Charles d'Austria the Estates of Bohemia chose Maximilian the second Emperor who gaue vnto them Reuersals like in substance to those which his father had giuen in acknowledging their free election without pretension of any right After his death they chose Rudolph the second Emperour his sonne and in the life time of the Emperour Rudolph they designed for their King the Archduke Matthias who was also afterward Emperour It is fit to be noted that the said Emperours Maximilian Rudolph and Matthias though all descended from the said Anne and all by right of priority to be preferred before the said Archduke Charles and the Emperour Ferdinand the second his sonne haue at their assumption vnto the Crowne of Bohemia frankely confessed by their Reuersals not to pretend vnto it any hereditarie right but to haue recceiued it by the free Election of the Estates and especially the Emperor Rudolph hauing in his life time consented vnto the Election of Matthias his brother gaue them a very ample and large Letter of Assecuration dated on the Saterday after Quatuor tempora in the yeere 1608 That the said designation ought to be holden for a free and voluntarie Election Reception without any preiudice vnto their Priuiledges Rights Statutes Customes and such like things In like manner the Archduke Matthias made his Reuersals dated on the Wednesday after S. Iohn Baptist acknowledging and confessing by them repeating it often and in plain words That it was not by Obligation but by a franke and free Electionand wil that the said Estates had designed and receiued him for King after the decease of the Emperor Rudolph his brother An Extract of the Reuersals of the Empereur RVDOLPH FOrasmuch as wee as King of Bohemia haue giuen our consent vnto the Estates that at such time as the said Archduke Matthias of Austria our eldest brother when he shall request them lawfully and duly according to their priuiledges and liberties be chosen after vs for heire apparant of the Realme of Bohemia c. And a little lower Wee and the Archduke Matthias our brother when he shall haue obtained such prouision will puruey and assure the said Estates by Reuersals sufficient for that purpose That the same shall not bring presently nor hereafter any preiudice or damage vnto their priuiledges liberties good and laudable customes and vsages c. And yet more low Wherefore wee for vs our heires and the Kings of Bohemia that shall be hereafter promise vnto all the Barons Nobles Townes of Prage other Townes and to all the Communaltie representing the Estates of the Crowne of Bohemia That the said free Election of the Archduke Matthias our most deare brother for to be heire apparant and after our death King of Bohemia shall not apport from

with an Emperour but as with an Archduke of Austria who before that hee came to the Crowne Imperiall had alreadie commenced and begun the Warre And as for the Dignitie Imperiall the Elector Palatine hath alwayes protested to recognize him for Emperor and in this qualitie to render and to giue him all obedience and respect in conformitie vnto the Constitutions of the Empire Thirdly the Elector Iohn Fredericke at that time detained and kept prisoner renounced the foureteenth day of May in the yeere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen in the Campe before Wittenberg for him and his heires all the Rights that he could pretend vpon the Electorate of Saxonie the which Renunciation was ratified by his three sonnes and his brother which thing cannot be said on the behalfe of the Elector Palatine And though that the example of the Elector Palatine may not be compared and resembled with the example of the Elector Iohn Fredericke of Saxonie betweene the which there is as much difference notwithstanding then there is betweene Summer and Winter so it is that there is not any that can iustifie the said pretended Proscription for that the Emperour which is now at this day is obliged and bound by his Capitulation confirmed by his corporall Oath not to doe the like thereafter Since that then the Iniustice of the Proscription precipitated against the Prince Palatine is so vniust it will not be amisse to see and view also the Iniustice or more rather enormious excesse of the Execution The Execution hath beene commenced a good space of time before the publication of the Sentence and as well before as after the Palatinate hath beene made the Scaffold vpon the which hath beene played the most horrible the most cruell and the most detestable Tragedies that euer any man heard or saw since the Empire had the Name of Christian Some pretend that the Prince hath offended and for it the people haue beene punished These poore innocent Countreyes haue beene exposed in prey vnto forraine and strange Nations Cossaques Croatians and other Barbarians who vnder the sacred Name of the Emperour haue pilled saccaged rauaged massacred them and burned their habitations and houses in such sort that the Heauens doth bemoane and feele the sobbes and groanes of manie thousand Christian soules that neuer had any knowledge and much lesse of partaking in the Affaires of Bohemia The Ayre is yet obscured and darkened with the smoake of so many Townes Villages Boroughes Castles Houses and Hamlets burned and consumed with Fire and the Earth is yet all moist and dyed as it were with a deluge of bloud at the which the liuing haue horror and the posteritie will haue detestation These poore innocents are brought vnder the yoake of a perpetuall miserie there is carryed away out of the Palatinate a great number of persons women and children into strange Countries of the which some haue beene barbarously sold vpon the frontiers of Turkie And in most parts of the Palatinate these wretched soules are dayly depriued of the exercises of their Religion that not onely the solace of their bodies is taken from them but they are also depriued of the consolation of their soules The Countrey is dismembred the Territories are diuided and the Subiects are constrained and enforced to doe homage vnto strangers The little that remaineth of their goods is confiscated and especially the goods of Officers and seruants of the said Lord are escheated To be short there is done all the mischiefe and euill that the mallice of men can deuise And for the execution of all those violences and excesses the Duke of Bauyer and those of the League haue most passionately and furiously imployed their Armes and the doing there of doth violate and breake the faith and promise by them giuen and made at the Treatie of Vlmes in the which it was accorded and decreed vnder the Signature Letters and Seales of the said Duke of Bauyer That they shall not make any Inuasion or Act of Hostilitie within the one or the other of the two Palatinates vnder any colour name or pretext whatsoeuer it was nor to meddle with any thing within the said Palatinates But that is not all These Outrages were not committed onely against the Elector Palatine but they haue driuen away the Duke of Symmeren his brother out of his Patrimonie his Countreyes Goods and Reuenues they haue ruined his subiects who are yet to this day incessantly euill entreated and consumed and impouerished with all sort of Exactions Contributions and other insupportable Charges And yet hee was neuer accused much lesse conuicted of any Crime yea rather the Emperour himselfe hath declared him to be innocent The bordering Countreyes haue not beene much better dealt withall and entreated but extreamely molested pilled and rauaged in diuers quarters against the Treatie of M●●tz and of Asc●affenburg made by the Commiss●ries of the Emperour with them of the Vnion and ratified by the Imperiall Maiestie by the which Treaties it was promised vnto all the Princes Estates and Cities of the Empire That vnto them there should no Hurt D●mmage Incommoditie or Trouble bee done for or concerning the subiect of these Affaires nor otherwise And not to stand and enlarge ones selfe vpon the particulars but to descend and come vnto the generalitie this Proscription and Execution so vindicatiue hath in that manner afflicted all the Corps and Bodie of the Empire that it seemeth to be the downefall of its totall ruine Moreouer they were not content to depriue the Prince Palatine of his Estates and Dignities Electoralls but they haue also depriued his Children and Brother and his other neere Kinsmen though they were all Innocents taking away from them the benefit of their Inuestitutes in Remainder and Reuersion for to giue them vnto the Duke of Bauyer in recompence of so much bloud hee hath shed and fire kindled and when hee hath put him in the pretended possession of the said Estates and Dignities the said Kinsmen and Allyes are put vnto suite together by way of Law or by an amiable Composition to whom they shall appertaine after the death of the Dukes of Bauyer and you neuerthelesse before the Cause come so farre there are giuen vnto the Duke of Neaburg Letters of expectancie for to be preferred thereto and placed therein before all others The true cause of this extraordinarie rigorous proceedings against the House Electorall Palatine is clearely expressed in the Letters written by the Emperour vnto Don Balthazar d' Cuiuga principall Councellor vnto the King of Spaine dated the fifteenth day of October in the yeere of our Lord one thousand six hundred twentie and one to bee seene in the Chancelrie of Spaine a Booke so called that is to say That forasmuch as they haue heretofore made opposition vnto the House of Austria the which thinketh that it cannot extend his domination so farre as it proiccteth if that the said House of the Palatine be not vtterly ruinated So