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A02254	The proceedings of the Grisons, in the yeere 1618 VVherein are truely and cleerely laid open the lawfull and vrgent causes of calling an assembly of the commons: and of their due proceeding and honourable prosecution of iustice, which they were enforced to vse against some false and perfidious patriots, in a full congregation, and with absolute power met together at Tosana. Imprinted and published by commandement of the lords the heads, the counsailours and commons of the three confederations of the renowned free states of the Grisons: in maintenance of the truth, and romoouing all manner of calumniation.; Grawpündtnerische Handlungen des M.DC.XVII. Jahrs. English	Graubünden (Switzerland)	1619 (1619)	STC 12390; ESTC S103461	32,839	93

takes bribes to the summe of a thousand Florens and more betweene both parties in difference and in the end shamefully deceiues the one and the other To defend a Traitour and saue him harmelesse from danger of the Law hee tooke a bribe of a thousand and fiue hundred Crownes In another case of difference he tooke seuen hundred eightie Crownes of one partie and a thousand of the other and then failed them both In a difference of suite depending betweene two Comminalties hee tooke foure hundred Crownes apiece and effected nothing for either His treacherous practices against his Countrey cannot sufficiently be related as appeareth by vvhat hath beene said and by his indeuours at all times to make himselfe Lord of the Gouernment as likewise appeareth by the Processe of Zambra and other actions of his owne vvhich tended to fauour and further the treacherous capitulation vvith the house of Millan to depriue vs of our Priuiledges and Iurisdictions and to enthrall vs vnder the power of forraine Princes Among other meanes he hath vsed hee hath also serued his turne of these which follow The yeare 1603. he complotted with Iohn Battista Zambra to further or rather enforce a League aboue and against all other intelligences and Leagues wee had formerly contracted labouring that the Fort Fuentes might be built and withholding our people from hindring the proceeding of the said vvorke And the Three Confederations Generall in the yeere 1606. being truely enformed that all their secrets of State vvere discouered to forraine Princes they established a Priuy Councell of fifteene men to the intent that all their Deliberations might bee entrusted to secret Confidence whereupon Planta and his Complices being so debarred from the knowledge of any thing raised that dangerous tumult in the yeere 1607. Iohn-Peter Mora da Piur hath also confessed Planta's Treason touching the Fort and that he was moued by him and wonne by his subtill sleights corruptions and Donatiues to the calling back of his forces as by Planta's Letter to his Brother Pompeius appeareth and by Letters of other his Adherents dated the 3. of October 1604. In the yeere 1610. to our great losse and griefe the French King Henry the fourth was murthered after whose death Monsieur Pasquale the French Embassadour resident with vs sent a secret dispatch to Millan in the yeere 1611. to treat with Signor Alphonso Casale Embassadour in Switzerland for the King of Spain that he would cause a League or new intelligence to be made between the State of Millan and the Three Confederations Generall and to the intent the said Treatie might not bee hindred the said French Embassadour and Captaine Planta beeing both agreed vpon the businesse though the French Kings were alwaies against it hee gaue Planta sixe thousand Crownes of gold and two thousand and fiue hundred Frankes of yeerely pension to be distributed as he thought good without being bound to make any account that hee and his Adherents would help to breake the League with Venice which was contrarie to the Treatie betweene Millan and vs as appeares by the Letters of Pompeius and his Adherents in the yeere 1612. and by a Memoriall written with Captaine Planta's own hand The renunciation of the League between the State of Venice and vs beeing procured and bought by money Planta presently drawes out some Articles of the League of Zuz Wherein some Comminalties dwelling vpon the Passages are bound not to grant passage to any whatsoeuer through our Countries that all friendship and aide of ours towards the Venetians might be broken And the said Casale hauing in the yeere 1617. required a League with vs and free passage in name of the house of Millan they which were authors of the League of Zuz and of the deniall of passage to the Souldiers of forraine States were the first that granted the King of Spaine free passage for his Forces through all our Countreys and vpon all occasions contrary to what they had formerly concluded So that the falshood of Planta and his Adherents doubly appeared Against these Treaties of Planta and other his Complices diuers good Patriots both of the Clergie and Laitie so earnestly laboured as they were by no meanes accepted herevpon Planta much enraged thought vpon a speedy and liuely reuenge beginning to prosecute those of most honestie and reputation farre more then formerly hee had done and stirring them of the vpper Agnadina to tumult hee made them rise in Armes with Ensignes displayed to thrust violently Signor Padauino out of our Countrey vvho had retyred himselfe before their comming he hath also conuented the people together brought thither by his Adherents and Seruants framing diuers barbarous Articles and constraining all men to obserue them The second of which Articles was this That no Church-man of any Comminaltie should dare to speake or giue his voice in any businesse concerning the Countrey though this be lawfull to euery free man of our State be he neuer so poore and base and this he did because in all his machinations and plots hee neuer found stiffer resistance then from the Clergie Moreouer they haue had diuers and sundry consultations vvith Maximilian Mora to put them to silence and stop their mouthes altogether and lastly they haue found it fit to forbid them by a generall Law not to meddle with matters of State or the good of their common Countrey or to bee informers of the present corruptions So much the Diuell hath blinded their eyes that they neither can nor vvill see or suffer the wholesome admonition of faithfull Subiects They haue also settled a Court of Iustice the decrees whereof by confession of some of the Iudges themselues were wholly managed and dispatched by the aduice and information of the two Brothers onely Iudges also were chosen such as stood partially affected to forraine Princes of whose liberalitie they had bountifully tasted who also were bound by Oath to defend the Bishop of Coira against our Prouinciall lawes to which they were sworne vvhich they did by many indirect waies and by the procurement of the inwardest friends to the Planta's who by their bad proceedings haue deceiued many honest men and diuers honourable Comminalties with their large summes of money More especially they haue persecuted the said Clergie calling them to appeare before them and charging them not to meddle or once speake in the Spanish businesse fining some of them in grosse summes for hauing spoken too much and among the rest they brought one Preacher by force from his house in Coira without any cause but meere malice threatening imprisonment and death or banishment to others On the other side they haue offered to maintaine the Bishop of Coira with strong hand who as is aforesaid had beene banished by Proclamation out of the Three Confederations Generall and hath lately beene charged by forme of Law with many notorious crimes and not regarding his manifold transgressions they haue consented to his escape out of the Countrey and granted free passage for

necessary Reformation Whereupon the Magistrates calling into consideration the importance of the businesse and other waighty reasons resolued to propound these gneuances to the Councellers Comminalties of the People as to the supreme Magistrate whom they ought and must obey And accordingly in a Synode holden in April 1618. by the Protestant Diuines they drew a Bill the same in substance with that former to be offered to the Councellers and Comminalties ouer all their Churches earnestly requiring and humbly beseeching that a speedy course might be taken by the States Generall for remedy of so great an inconuenience by all the faire wayes and ordinary meanes possible without tumult or disturbance of the State for the recouery of their liberty Spirituall and Ciuill and for their freeing from the treacherous Complots and perfidious Treaties which some of our men haue entertained with diuers Princes and forraine States yet so as not to prouoke these men to indignation despight or wicked deliberations but rather to carry the businesse with such temper and moderation that as the faithfulnesse integrity of our fore-fathers is honoured and magnified by vs so ours to our posterity might be recommended And though this our endeuours to a milde and quiet proceeding hath beene published and made knowne to the world yet the chiefe heads of that corruption haue laboured with all their might to crosse our deseignes to turne all to smoake and to continue in their former practices and violent insolencies Hereupon they of the Clergie haue with more vehemency vrged and pressed in their Sermons for a generall reformation of the State and that the people would make choyce of some honourable Persons of the Country such as were vnpassionate and free from any interest or engagement with other Princes or States to whom they might lay open the notorious perfidie of some men tyrannising amongst them as an insolency no longer to be endured and the principall cause of hindering the intended Reformation Into this number the Adherents and Clyents of these treacherous and malicious men presently intruded forcing themselues by all possible meanes to hinder and make frustrate all the good effects by good men desired Whereupon the people despairing to bring the businesse to any wished yssue by so small a number of persons deputed and finding that these tyrannisers ouer the State could no wayes be ouer-topped but by a greater number they proceed not by way of resistance and force but by pluralitie of voices and by exclusion of all sorts of corruptions and false insinuations To which purpose the fiue Comminalties of the lower Agnadina lying vnder the Waltasna with those of Munstertal met together in the end of Iune last earnestly by their letters solliciting all the other Cōminalties and Deputies of the Three Confederations to do the like and iointly to assist them as a people oppressed and afflicted their ancient power and authority being wrested from them and engrossed and vsurped by certaine priuate persons their voices falsified their Lawes changed and their goods daily and vnduly taken from them vnder pretext of Magistracie Iustice to the end the new Lawes might be abrogated their ancient Countrey restored to the former libertie the Treasures of Princes and States forraine might not bee seazed vpon by priuate persons without the knowledge and consent of the People as also that Princes might be no more abused and entertained with their false promises and perfidious treachery but that a lawfull and impartial Court of Iustice might be established by the whole Countrey for the punishment of these their transgressions formerly committed for the defence of all true-hearted and honest Compatriots Vpon these instant intreaties and admonitions there ioined presently with them certaine Comminalties of the Iurisdictions of the Cade with Ensignes display de and a great number of men namely they of the higher Agnadina Pregello Posclauia Firstenau and Berguno resoluing to assist their neighbours in the reformation of the publike State and establishing a lawfull and vnpassionate Court of Iustice against these traiterous Delinquents to their common country so that this proceeding might stand with the good liking approbation of the other Comminalties While this is in Treatie Rodulphus Planta chiefe head of the tyrannizing faction dwelling at Zernes in the lower Agnadina vpon Waltasna notwithstanding the safe-conduct which the people granted to him and his Ensignes by aduice and counsaile of his adherents fortifies himselfe with men and munition in his house and Tower anciently called Wildenberg placing there in Garrison and in the streets of Zernes 600. of his men all good souldiers taking an oath of them to defend him to keepe the passages throwe downe the Bridges and to make open and hostile warre against the Confederats and his neere neighbours He hath also demanded militarie succours from others thereby to drawe a ciuill Warre vpon his owne Countrey but they of Cade comming to assaile his house and hee doubting lest his men might be forced to render vp the Place and him in it as not being able to make head against so great a power of the Confederates perceiuing also that his taking of armes in such hostile manner had greatly incensed them against him one morning very early with some few of his trustiest followers he escaped and fledde Shortly after the house was assaulted and that which in the first furie was not spoiled and consumed was taken by Inuentory and carefully preserued Meane while the other Comminalties of the Three Confederations deputed their chiefe officers in Agnadina who in their Assembly resolued to send them an Embassage of certaine graue persons both Spirituall Temporall with offer to ioyne with them to reforme the Right Iustice in the whole State so that they would lay downe armes and dismisse those troupes But receiuing answere that the power and Adherents of the offenders was so great as that without more assistance it was vnpossible to effect what they had propoūded they gaue them good acceptance all the Comminalties of the Countrey laid downe their Ensignes vnited themselues vnto them First in Coira and then in Tosana a village in the Grison Confederation where in the Common Councell for the reestablishing of our State and gouernment they haue reuiued certaine ancient and laudable Prouinciall Lawes and made other new vpon occasions of these late transgressions but with all good temper and moderation whereunto they also that staide at home haue giuen their free consent the substance whereof is as followeth That both the Religions Reformed Catholique in all our Countreys and Iurisdictions shall haue their free exercise and euery Countrey be iointly defended by all the rest in the Religion it professeth That in all our Countreys euery Confederation Comminaltie Iurisdiction Persons priuate Nobles and common People shall be maintained in their Priuiledges Liberties Customes Honours and goods and shall be content in euery controuersie and suite of Law with one indifferent and vnpassionate Iudgement That our