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A51765	A manifesto, or, An account of the state of the present differences between the most serene and potent King of Denmark and Norway Christian the V., and the most serene Duke of Sleswick and Holstein-Gottorp Christian Albert together with some letters of the King of Great Britain, the King of Denmark, and the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, concerning a mediation in these differences, which the king of Great Britain most generously offer'd, and the king of Denmark refused and slighted : as also some other letters of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lunenbourgh, the emperor, &c., whereby the calumnies of a certain Danish minister are plainly detected.	Christian Albrecht, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, 1641-1695.	1677 (1677)	Wing M428A; ESTC R12344	65,710	126

the Duke of Gottorp has not yet been able to learn the particulars and conditions of the Agreement The King of Denmark in the mean time challenging to himself the whole Power in these Countries against all Right and excluding the Duke of Gottorp from all share not only there but also in the District of Stad-budjad a Fief of the House of Brunswick and Lunenbourg For when this Cause was under debate in the Imperial Court the King of Denmark himself by Letters to the Duke of Lunenbourg desired him amongst other things to intercede with the Emperour that the said District Stad-budjad no ways belonging to those Provinces might not be involved in that Controversie The Duke obtained his desires from the Emperour and therefore when the Sentence given by his Imperial Majesty concerning these Countries came to be put in Execution The Dukes of Brunswick Lunenbourg exempted again the said District from the Execution and in express terms reserved to the House of Gottorp their Rights in it Notwithstanding all this the King commanded Homage to be paid to him alone by all the Subjects of that District not only excluding the Duke but using his Ambassador ill who had entred his Protestation against it and attempting also to Usurp to himself the Toll of E 〈…〉 upon Weser belonging by Inheritance partly to the House of Gottorp and partly to the Kings of Denmark endeavouring to dispossess the Duke of both While these Differences encreased more and more the King of Denmark in order to the carrying on his designes against the Swedes and the House of Gottorp the more secretly and succesfully caused the Swedish Ambassador then at Copenhaguen negotiating a Marriage for the King his Master and thereby a firm Peace to be received with the greatest demonstrations of kindness and friendship And at the same time the Chancellor of Denmark wrote very civilly to the Resident of Gottorp then at Hambourgh telling him he would meet him half way to endeavour a fair composition of all the differences betwixt the King and the Duke which he said he desired above all things and doubted not but a few hours would put an end to what had been kept on foot so many years if he would be pleased to meet him accordingly The King himself afterwards declared his mind to the same purpose to the President more than once and last of all by the Earl of Oldenbourgh who told the President that the King desired nothing more then to have his Presence and assistance to accommodate these difficulties in so critical a juncture by which compliance of his he would oblige his Majesty who was inclined to hearken to an accommodation After this the Earl was sent by the King to the Duke of Gottorp to assure him of his Friendship and let him know the necessity of the President 's going to his Majesty and after a short stay went to Hamborough with Letters from the Duke to the President for whose further security to come to the King at Rensbourgh his Majesty sent him a Passeport and one of his Trumpets Soon after the King of Denmark going to Holstein to put his designs in Execution acquainted the Duke of Gottorp with his Journey desiring him not to be troubled at it as having no other intention therin but to compose all things to both their satisfactions The Duke of Gottorp trusting to several Letters full of the like assurances when the King was on his way with all his Army to Holstein sent one of his Gentlemen to Hadersleby to complement him and went himself soon after with his Brother the Bishop of Lubeck and the Earl of Aldenburgh then returned from Hambourgh to meet his Majesty waiting upon him at Hensbourgh after which the King being to go through Dennewerk and his Highness having entertained him there with all imaginable respect and splendour the King desired him to come and see him at Rendsbourgh where he was to stay for sometime and for a larger expression of kindness both his Majesty and his Chancellor drunk several times to the good success of the approaching Consultation After this Adolphus Kielmannus chief Minister to the Duke of Gottorp notwithstanding his Sickness and the dissuasions of his Friends went directly from Hambourgh to Rensbourgh where having confer'd with the Chancellor of Denmark above eight hours about the principal matters in debate he offer'd the Government of Tunderen for the County of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst and having removed all other Impediments he could think upon and taking the business to be near its conclusion and to want nothing but the ratification and subscription of the Princes he went to Gottorp to let his Master know how far they had proceeded and with what success The Prince himself that nothing might be wanting on his part for composing the remaining Differences deputed Adolphus Buchwaldius Governour of Sleswick Frederick Kielmannus the President and Andrew Cramer one of his Counsellors of State with a special Commission to go to Rendsbourg June 22. 1675. being Arrived there they confer'd the next day with the Earl of Rantzo and the Lord Wibius and Gloxinius his Majesties Counsellors of State and they being the same that had assisted at the Assembly of the States at Kilon on the part of the King without effecting any thing renewed the matter of the Taxes saying That the King persisted still in his demand of the greater part of them for the maintenance of his Army which granted his Majesty would bind himself by Reversal Letters as they call them a thing not so much as mentioned in the Assembly of the States never to make this a President for the future But the newness of that being a prejudice great enough the Duke of Gottorp thought it not secure to recede from the Antient Customs yet to gratify the King he made this Proposal That the greater Taxes should be paid but to be equally divided and employed by each Prince in raising and maintaining Souldiers for the defence of the said Dukedomes and that the States might the easier consent thereunto he desired the whole business might be proposed to them it being most agreeable to Antient Customes and former Treaties especially that of the Union to consult the States about raising of an Army maintaining and quartering it and then proceed according to their resolutions While they were thus debating concerning Taxes and other things the Chancellor of Denmark wrote from Rendsbourgh to the President Kielmannus acquainting him that the King being ready for a Treaty it would be advantageous to both Princes if the Duke of Gottorp would please to come to the King at Rendsbourgh and by his Presence promote an Amicable composure of all these matters The Duke remembring his Majesty had desired the same thing of him at Dennewerk to shew at once his duty to the King and his inclinations to Peace sent one of his Gentlemen upon St. John Baptists day to his Majesty to acquaint him that his Master was ready to wait upon him

against another Prince that is Soveraign as well as he and his Equal the injur'd Prince or any for him may perform the Office of Pretor use all means to procure a full and ample Reparation of his damages If the Duke of Gottorp is not strong enough to do it himself all Christian Princes and Commonwealths must make this cause theirs and employ all their Power to restore him For Wars may be undertook not only for Friends and Allies but for men as such if they are barbarously injured Grot. lib. 3. de I. B. P. c. 25. n. 1. seq And who is more injur'd than he who by a Cousin of the same Family his near Ally and Brother against his Faith so many times sworn is so ill used as to be deprived of all his Authority and Dignity Therefore since other Princes are not a little concerned when the condition of any Prince is brought so low contrary to all Justice and when perhaps his entire ruin is endeavoured especially if these base Counsels proceed from Ministers who in their actions and speeches have no regard to the great Asserter of Faith and consequently less to Faith it self the foundation of Justice and the tie of all human Societies all Princes and States ought first of all to take care that Faith be kept inviolable and Treaties and Contracts between them be not violated lest this tie of Friendship and Society being broke the world should fall into confusion by their c●nnivence before the time decreed by Divine Providence And those Princes and States are chiefly obliged to take care of this Restitution who have guaranted the Treaties between the King of Denmark and the House of Gottorp and have signed the Instruments of Peace between Sweden and Germany and that of Roschild and Oliva engaging for the performance of them in such terms and expressions that if they were meant as they are set down which is not at all to be doubted no man but will believe they intend to perform their Promises And to induce them thereunto without any delay let the great danger of this example and the greatness of the Injuries be considered and that it is also the earnest request of the Duke of Gottorp who is every day more and more oppressed with new Injuries And since amongst these Princes that are Securities the good will of the most Serene and Potent King of Great Britain towards the House of Gottorp appears above the rest his Majesty having not only engaged himself with other Princes and States for the preservation of the Peace at Roschild and the Treaty of Copenhaguen made between the King of Denmark and the House of Gottorp soon after that at Roschild but having also passed his word and Guaranty for the Soveraignty yielded by the King and Kingdom of Denmark to the House of Gottorp and most especially his Majesty being now the Mediator of all publick Differences Give us leave most Potent King to let all the World know this great affection of your Majestie 's towards the House of Gottorp and to put you in mind of your special Engagement to our Duke for the Soveraignty of Sleswick which you can as easily make good as you were pleased to engage for it that you may be known for as great a Defender of the Civil as of the Christian Faith and in judging the Differences between the King of Denmark and the House of Gottorp or disposing all things to a Peace make use of that Equity and Moderation which may prove a Remedy to the Injur'd a Defence to the Oppressed and a Reward of Eternal Glory to your Majesty and the Noble People of England THE ARTICLES Of the TREATY at Rendsbourgh KNow all Men to whom these Presents shall come That whereas for the common Security and Safety several Treaties of Union and Conjunction have been heretofore made between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Dukedoms of Sleswick and Holstein which have been renewed augmented and changed according to the Exigence of times and that the most Serene and Potent Prince and Lord Christian the V. King of Denmark and Norway Goths and Vandals Duke of Sleswick and Holstein Stormar and Dithmars Earl of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst and the most Reverend and Serene Prince and Lord the Lord Christian Albert Heir of Norway Coadjutor of the Bishoprick of Lubeck Duke of Sleswick and Holstein Stormar and Dithmars Earl of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst judging it very necessary in these dangerous and troublesome times that such Treaties of Union be renewed after the Example of their Ancestors and be accommodated to the present condition and State of their Kingdoms and Dominions And his said Majesty having appointed on his part Here the Names of the Kings Commissioners were inserted and the said Duke on his part Here the Names of the Dukes Commissioners were inserted and the said Commissioners having accordingly met together have agreed upon the following Articles I. As his Royal Majesty and his most Serene Highness do Govern joyntly the Dukedom of Sleswick and Holstein and the Countries incorporated therein so they shall both endeavour according to the Contents of the former Treaties of Union unanimously to direct all their Counsels for the safety and augmentation of the said Dukedoms and to preserve them from all damage danger and detriment II. Therefore as often as necessity shall require it or any danger seems to threaten these Dukedoms they shall both do all they can by united Counsels and Forces to prevent it and if the thing comes to a War let no Truce be made nor Peace contracted before the danger be removed from both their Heads and satisfaction be made to both by the Enemy and the publick security provided for III. And as therefore his Royal Majesty by this takes entirely upon him the Guaranty and Defence both of the most Serene Duke and the part he has in the Dukedoms so his said most Serene Highness promises again that as often as his Royal Majesty shall be necessitated to draw Forces from his Kingdomes for the defence of these Dukedoms and the Countries incorporated therein or shall be in War against any Forrein Prince whosoever he be none excepted though his Majesty thinks it already his due by the Union he shall not only give him free passage through his Land and all his Towns but liberty to List and Muster Souldiers assigning them quarters and places to Encamp and helping the King with all his Power IIII. Because also during these troublesome times his Royal Majesty could not forbear by an unavoidable necessity to ask leave for his further security to put Garrisons of his own into the Forts of Gottorp and Tonningen and the Fortress of Stapelholme which his most Serene Highness has granted upon this certain hope that these troubles being over and the Peace made all things should be entirely given back and restored as they were And his most Serene Highness having made certain Leagues in which there are some things which give

by the King of Denmark have been forced to endure all his affronts and injuries VVe know that the Laws of Nature and Nations are for Us and we do not think that any Prince will oppose it but those who over-byassed by Partiality or the desire of their own advantage would have a Peace for themselves and theirs though at Our Cost and the loss of Our Dignities and Dominions not reflecting that the sum of Our Cause is only whether VVe shall become a Subject or be a free Prince again and after Our Example Whether the other Princes of the Empire must not hereafter rather become Subjects than enjoy their ancient Rights of free Princes This being contrary to all Justice to the Treaties so often repeated and so Religiously Sworn to to the common Interest of all Princes and to the Honour and Authority of your most Serene Majesty and other the Princes who are Guarantees VVe do earnestly recommend Our Cause to their good VVill and just Affection and VVe have particularly great hopes in your most Serene Majesties Equity and Protection And if the King of Denmark desires to be admitted and heard at Nimeguen sure it cannot be upon any other Terms than that he must in all things stand to that Law which he intends to use against others and endure as patiently the just Complaints of those who have been highly injur'd by him preferred to that great Assembly as he has perhaps resolved vigorously to prosecute others there Nay let the King of Denmark be willing or not to accept of this Mediation and Place certainly VVe will rely so entirely and constantly upon the Guaranty of the several Princes who have entred into it and especially upon the general and particular one of your most Serene Majesty that VVe had rather suffer any thing whatsoever then be forced away from that Sacred Anchor being well assured that your Majesty will employ your Authority as well against those that decline your Mediation as for those that have accepted thereof and that Our Restoration and Safety will be secure and certain upon your most Serene Majesties Faith which the Kings of Great Britain have always Religiously kept to God and men May it please God that this Great Affair of the Peace may succeed under the Auspices of your most Serene Majesty and to your Immortal Praise That every body may have his own and none be hereafter Injur'd And so we most earnestly recommend your most Serene Majesty to his Grace and Protection Given at Hambourgh the first of Octob. 1677. Christian Albert by the Grace of God Heir of Norway named Coadjutor of Lubeck Duke of Sleswick Holstein Stormar Dithmars Earl of Oldenbourg and Delmenhorst c. A Letter to his Majesty the King of Denmarke from the Dukes of Brunswick-Lunenburgh c. Most Serene WE have thought fit to let your Majesty understand that his Highness the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp Our Beloved Cousin has lately signified unto Us that although the Affairs concerning the Succession of the Imperial Feifs the Counties of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst after a long dispute have at last been brought to a full and final determination and particularly the Town and Country of Bu●jading a Feif of Our Princely House has been adjudged not to depend upon the said two Counties which also at the time of Execution shortly after in the Month of May remained except and exempted accordingly his said Highness conceiving no other hopes but that as he equally shares with your Majesty in the same Rights and Regalities and has 1674 received the Investiture of the same from Our Princely House he should accordingly enjoy the same quietly for the future Yet his Highness found afterward in effect that the Provincial Judge constituted by your Majesty and him joyntly was removed from his Office without the knowledge or consent of his Highness and an other put into his room who in Publick Prayers contrary to the former Customs caused his Highness to be left out pretending that your Majesty had given him orders so to do a Copy of which being communicated to Us we thought fit here to insert it and commanded all those Officers both Ecclesiastical and Secular to do homage to none but your Majesty by which means the said Town and Country of Budjad seems in effect subject to the ab●vesaid Imperial Execution VVherefore his Highness thought fit and necessary to mind Us of the Dominium directum which Our Princely House holds over those Lands and that your Majesty and He were joyntly invested therewith by Our Princely House and that according to the Universal Laws of Fiefs as well as by the abovesaid Covenant made at Hambourgh and the Instruments thereof duly interchanged we ought to Protect him as Feudatarie of Our House in this his manifest Right so solemnly gotten by the said Covenant and Agreement and to desire Us that without delay VVe would do Our parts and endeavour with your Majesty that his Highness neither directly nor indirectly be disturbed in the possession of those Regalities and enjoyment of the Revenues of the said Lands but be suffered to continue therein quietly VVhereas now it is manifest by the said Treaty which praemeditatè and after much pains was at last concluded 1653 at Hambourgh viz. That the said Town and Country of Bu●jad is a separate thing and Independent from the Imperial Fiefs the Counties of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhors● and since your Majesties Archives will show what between his late Majesty your Father of Blessed Memory and Us has passed and that his Majesty during the said Process of Law about the Succession of the said Counties in a Letter dated at Copenhaguen the 29 of January 1668 desired of Us that pursuant to the second Article of the said Treaty or Covenant wherein it is expresly provided that not any of the Princes of Holstein either of the collateral or any other line of that House shall ever have pretension now or for the future thereupon and that on the contrary it shall neither lie in Our Power to confer the same upon any of them VVe should make Our most humble Address to his Imperial Majesty to demonstrate the Interest of Our Princely House and so prevent that the Town and County of Bu●jading from being drawn into the Controversie about the Oldenbourgh Succession c. which we have done accordingly and the effect of it was that that not only in the Sentence and Executions Commission afterwards published not one word of them was mentioned but also when VVe George William the 22 and 24 of May at Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst proceeded to the Execution upon the said Town and County of Budjading by Our Sub-Delegats appointed for that purpose in the presence and hearing of the Duke of Holstein-Pleun's Deputy his Chancellor they were purposely and in plain Terms excepted and exempted as it appears by the Rolls kept for that Act. VVherefore we could not but find Our Selves obliged at the request of Our Cousin Duke Christian

if he would give him leave The King commending this Resolution of the Prince said twice he hoped the President Kielmannus would come along too Accordingly next day the Duke being perswaded that all was sincerely and honestly intended begun that unhappy Journy with the President and some others and being near Rendsburgh was received with the shooting of several Guns But hearing there from some of his what had been said in the Kings Name about the Taxes his Highness desired it might be regulated according to former Treaties and Antient Customes and as to other things he declared himself as above protesting he would always obey the King and wholly employ these Taxes in a War for the defence of his Country At last comes that fatal and unfortunate day the 26. of June in which all the designs that had been so long a-hatching against the House of Gottorp to its Ruin were to be put in Execution and that hidden Fire to break out into open Flames It was hastened by some Letters that came that very day from the Elector of Brandenbourg and brought the News of the defeat of the Swedes in the Province of La Mark Assoon as they were read all things seemed to favour the Kings designs and conspire to the Ruin of the House of Gottorp The Danes glad and proud of this good Omen thought it not sit to delay or dissemble it any longer but called a Council of VVar shut the Gates drew up their Draw-bridges sent their Forces to Sleswick Tonninghen and up and down shut up the Harbour with a Boom disarmed and secured the Dukes Troop of Guards and permitted none to sti 〈…〉 unless they could show the Kings leave under his own Hand The Duke himself instead of being Invited to Dine with the King as formerly had his Dinner brought him apart in his drawing Room and Guards set to watch him his Chamber-doors being bolted every Night None of the King Ministers being suffered to come near him for some days except the Sieur Winterfield High-Marshal of the Court to whom the Duke having called him to him said That he was a Prince of the Empire there unworthily Treated contrary to his expectation and undeservedly nay contrary to the greatest Protestations and assurances of Friendship and Publick Faith desiring him to acquaint the King therewith that his Majesty might permit him to depart But alas all was in vain it being resolved that the Blow should be followed this Detention being but a Prologue to more mischief For the Duke and his Ministers being now in their Power and a fair opportunity presenting it self to invade the Swedes weakned by their loss at F●●●berlin the Kings Deputies having sent for Buchwaldius Frederick Christian Kielman and Cramer to Court told them that the Case being alter'd they were no more to dispute about giving the greatest part of the Taxes to the King who would now challenge the whole alone and quarter his Army up and down in the Dukes Territories to preserve them from the Enemy and that the Emperors Requisitorial Letters might be obeyed which they would therefore now exhibite to them shewing also by this their ill-will and premeditated Designs against the House of Gottorp Moreover they added that the King had for a long time been jealous of the Dukes designs and inclinations and being to carry his Army out of the Country he thought he ought to take care to leave no Enemies behind him wherein he could not secure himself but by seizing upon the Castle of Gottorp the strong Town of Tonningen and all the Dukes Forces till the change of Affairs might secure him otherwise That it was not sit for the Kings Majesty to exchange the Counties of Oldenbourgh and Delmenhorst for that of Tunderen That these and other things could not be done in haste but required more time than the King could now spare fearing lest some third Party might in the mean while seize those Provinces That the King therefore would put Garrisons into all the Fortified places of the Country and provide all other things necessary for its Defence protesting withal that if any loss should happen by the Dukes delay the Reparation of it would be required from the Author thereof but if the Duke would accept of one hundred and fifty thousand Dollars offered him at Copenhaguen to renounce his Right to them they still hoped his Majesty might be prevailed upon at the Dukes request to pay that mony The Danes having proposed these severe conditions and the Dukes Commissioners having been to consult their Master returned this Answer That as to the Taxes the Duke without prejudice to his Right was forced to yield to the present juncture of time in that Matter That the Requisitorial Letters of the Emperor concerned onely the Dukedom of Holstein not that of Sleswick and they being according to the Constitutions of the Empire and the Pragmatick Sanction could require nothing of him but a safe Passage which his Highness would never deny when ever the King should desire it That the Castle of Gottorp was neither by Art nor Scituation so strong as to be formidable and therefore the King might well permit the Duke to secure the place of his Residence and Habitation with some Souldiers and for an evident proof of his respect the Duke was contented his Majesty should have as strong a Garrison in Tonningen as he himself provided both should take the Oath of Fidelity to each Prince and that the King would oblige himself that upon the change of Affairs all things should be restored again as they were That if the King would dispose solely of all things in these Countries at his Pleasure the Duke must yield to it but hoped his Right should be saved entire That he had never committed nor omitted any thing that might entitle the King to demand reparation of him and for the Proposals of an Exchange they were neither such as imposed a necessity upon his Majesties will nor derogated from it That he would leave the Transactions of Copenhaguen till they were set on Foot again And lastly That he earnestly begged that the King would no longer delay to grant him and his Liberty to go where they would This most reasonable Answer of the Duke proved of no effect the Danes being resolved to pass to the greatest Extremities For the Kings Deputies signified again in Writing That their Master persisted firm in his first offers hoping to provoke the Duke to discover his mind in the same manner But he replyed only as before requesting again That the King would not urge so much the Surrender of his Castles and Forts but consent to some easier Terms than these which the Danes said were only Bagatelles But that King and his Minister were so far from remiting any thing of the Rigour of their Demands that they added Rebukes and Threats For said they the Dukes absolute Power over Sleswick being extorted from the King by force of Arms the Duke had thereby lost