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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87270	A letter from Pope Innocent XII to the emperour wherein he indeavours to perswade him to a peace : with his Imperial Majesties answer : to which is subjoyned the resolutions of the confederates in the present conjuncture / done out of French.	Innocent XII, Pope, 1615-1700.; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing I204B; ESTC R43648	5,224	4

in the Christian World by the Reinforcement of the Articles of Pacification concluded at the Pyrenean and Westphalian Treaties which have been violated by France It will be necessary above all things for your Holiness to employ all your best offices and that with the utmost efficacy you can to induce the King of France to restore things to the State required by the Articles of those two Treaties as he himself testifies to be inclin'd to do If Your Holiness can obtain from that Prince a thing so just We will not be wanting on our side to use Our utmost endeavours that the Pious Intentions of your Holiness for the good of Christendom and the offer of your Paternal Care and good Offices for the advancement of Peace which are to Us most acceptable may be embraced by Our Allies and produce their desired effect This is what We thought Our duty to Answer to your Holinesses Letter which was so pleasing to Us and which We have accordingly done with all due respect to Your Holiness Whom We pray God long to preserve both for the good of the Church in General and Our own in Particular At Vienna the 20th of March 1691. The Resolution taken by the Confederate Princes and other Allied Powers in Relation to France HAVING Resolv'd to make this Year a Descent into France that by so attacking Our Common Enemy where Our efforts may be most sensibly felt We may the more easily Reduce him to Reason In order thereunto We first all Solemnly Swear and Protest before God That We will make no Peace with Lewis the Fourteenth but upon the conditions Stipulated by the Articles of the Pyrenean and Westphalian Treaties which have been violated by France and upon those other agreements which We have hereunto Subjoyned which tho' they be partly the Fundamental Rights of the French Nation and partly priviledges confirm'd by the most solemn Edicts have been with no less violence and injustice infring'd I Till the General Estates of the Kingdom be restored to their Ancient Liberties Power and Share in the Legislative and suprem Power and till both the Clergy Nobility and Third Estate be Reinstated in all their former Legal priviledges And till there be good provision made that all Kings of France in time to come shall be obliged to convoke the said Estates when they shall need money for any Publick concerns and shall have no power in any manner or upon any pretence whatsoever to raise any Taxes or any sort of Imposts without their Consent II. Till the several Courts of Parliament in the Kingdom be reinstated into that sufficient and Legal authority with which they were primarily invested That so without being awed by any check from an arbitrary Power or being obstructed by the corruptions ordinarily arising from undue and illegal promotions to those high Posts of Judicature they may be both able and well inclined to do justice indifferently to all Parties III. Till all the Cities of the Kingdom be restored to their old Charters and Priviledges and to the Revenues assigned for their support and the Publick good of their several Corporations which have been so Inhumanly and unjustly Ravished from Them IV. Till and those Swarms of Caterpillers of Monopolists pernicious Publicans and Farmers of the Royal Revenues and other oppressed undertakers be Removed and all the illegal and new invented Charges and Taxes be taken off as in particular the Irregular Lodging and Quartering both of Courtiers and Soldiers the exactions for Winter quarters the salaries of Governours and Multitude of Sham Debts and private businesses of the Crown unnecessarily and without authority charged upon particular Persons Towns or Cities and which enter not into the State or Accounts of the publick Revenues of Extraordinary excises upon Wine Cider and other Liquors the Gabelle upon Corn and Flour upon Hoofed Beasts and Salt the unreasonable and unexampled imposts upon the Marks of Paper Money and all Utensils or Movables made of Metal upon Hats Silk-stockings Wooll and Woollen Manufactures Shoes Slippers Wooden Shoes all sorts of Linnen and Perriwigs as also upon Tobaco Coffee Tea Chocolate c. upon all Manufactures of Silk and upon all the Estates and Goods of Noble or Gentlemen every five Years the Tax of the Frank Fifts and several other oppressive exactions upon the Buyers and Sellers or Morgagers of Lands Houses c. and upon the Officers of the Courts of Judicature and of the Treasury and Exchequer of the Injurious and Arbitrary Retrenchment of Wages Raising or Lowering the value and debasing the purity of Mony and Coin and unjust Reunion to the Crown-Lands and possession long enjoyed by great and deserving Families upon Dispotical pretences and besides an infinite many other new and unheard exactions of the strange impositions upon Marriages Christnings Buryings and Bastards c. and to conclude all in a Word Till the Revenues of the Crown be Fixed and Reduced within such certain and moderate Bounds as shall seem most Requisite to the wisdom of the General Estates when Conven'd and good provission be made that no succeeding French Monarchs shall ever pass those bounds V. Till he has Rendred to all the Protestants of his Kingdoms the Estates Effects and Liberties they were seised of by vertue of the Edict of Nants and all other priviledges they injoyed thereby according to the true meaning and to the full extent of the said Edict And till for their future security both in their Civil and Religious Rights and Capacities according to the meaning of the said Edict the said French King shall have deliver'd some sufficient cautionary Towns to be held and fortified by those Protestant Allies that shall be made Guardians or Conservators of the Treaty to be agreed upon VI. And Lastly We Declare as in the sight of God That in these our just attempts We are not actuated by any hatred or animosity against the French Nation nor by any ambitious designs to Conquer or Seise on any of the Antient and Lawful Dominions of France or to dismember that Monarchy of any of the Provinces justly belonging to it but that Our ultimate aim is only to repress that exhorbitant Power whereby that Crown has been inabled hitherto to oppress its own Subjects and Threaten the Liberty of all Europe besides And that We advance towards the Frontiers of France with as hearty an intention to Right the wrongs of its Subjects as those of Our own people esteeming the reestablishment of their just and antient Liberties to be the best Bulwark of Our own against Our and their Common Oppressor And that therefore We do friendly and heartily invite them to come in to Us and to joyn their Arms and other assistance with Us towards their Deliverance assuring them We will treat them as Our bes● friends and will take care to preserve their Persons Towns Lands and all that shall concern them as if they were our own But at the same time We have thought fit also to Declare to all that shall not comply with Our invitations and assistances intended for their Common good That We shall Distinguish them for Enemies of their Country and of all sort of Christianity and Humanity and as Barbarous wretches that have abetted and approv'd all the persecutions Burnings Desolations and other Vexations which have been committed by those of their Nation both within and without France and shall make them feel without mercy those pains which their inhumane Countrey-men have made so many thousands of miserable people suffer And We have thought fit to make Publick this Our Declaration that all the World might know the sincerity of Our Resolutions and particularly those of the French Nation which groan under the intolerable oppression of the present Government there and who with the loss of their Liberty have redoubl'd their desires of Recovering it again that they may be inform'd to whom and with what confidence and assurance they may apply themselves in this great opportunity offer'd them by the Just and Almighty God to Regain their antient freedom and priviledges which have been so long and so cruelly extorted and detained from them FINIS Dublin Re-Printed by Andrew Crook at their Majesties Printing-House on Ormonde-Key