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A00679 The particular state of the government of the Emperour, Ferdinand the Second As it was at his decease in the yeere 1636. Translated out of Latin by R.W.; Status particularis regiminis S.C. Majestatis Ferdinandi II. English. R. W., fl. 1637. 1637 (1637) STC 10813; ESTC S101977 33,264 80

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and in the Vpper Austria and somewhat in the Lower have brought above three and forty millions of florins to the Imperiall Treasury since the yeare 1618. CHAP. 7. Of the Empresse King FERDINAND the third the Queene MARY Archduke Leopald William and the Emperours daughters ELeonora the Roman Empresse daughter of Vincent the elder Duke of Mantova and sister to the late deceased Duke Vincent of Mantova is now thirty seven yeares of age of a perfect stature gentle countenance and wise a good wife liberall mercifull and meeke She had for her dowry from her Ducall house about three hundred thousand crownes And his Imperiall Majesty hath given her lands in lower Austria to above that valew in exchange When she was crowned at Presburg the Hungarians presented her a hundred thousand Rixdollers and in the second provinciall Dyet of Hungary eighteene thousand Rixdollers and another time also thirty thousand His Imperiall Majesty allowes her commonly every moneth two thousand florins which in English is no more than three hundred pounds sterling a Country house commonly called Favoritenhoff Her habit is almost Spannish she is pious and religious and entertaines Ecclesiasticall persons with great love and honour and chiefly Capuchins and Carmelites His Imperiall Majesty hath left foure children living Ferdinand the third King of Hungary and Bohemia Leopald William Archduke of Austria Maria Anna wife of Maximilian Duke of Bavaria and and Cecilia Renata who is yet unmarried all borne of his Imperiall Majesties first wife who was his cosin german and sister to Maximilian Duke of Bavaria King Ferdinand the third is now of nine and twenty yeares of age compleat hee is well favoured of an heroicke countenance and fashion of a taller stature than his father blacke haire and beard becomming his royall face and giving it a manly forme hee is wise prudent and serious carefull of his reputation silent and in many things like the Duke of Bavaria He payes his debts duely but withall he knowes well how to practice the proverb Ne quid nimis or rather as the Dutch Neere reckon'd well payd yet will be wanting in nothing which is just and decent His studies in which he hath well profited are fit for a King as well necessary in warre as in peace chiefly the Mathematickes and art of warre and fortification he speakes many Languages German Italian Latin Bohemian and Spannish He is devout and religious and he hath a particular Court of his owne The Queene his wife is the Infanta Mary sister of Philip the 4th King of Spaine whose dowry the same with the Queene of France was five hundred thousand crownes every crowne valued at thirteene ryals The King her brother also was at the care and charge of her transport even to the furthest parts of Austria Archduke Leopold William Bishop Strasburg Bassan and Halberstadt is three and twenty yeeres of age tall and of a strong complexion a lover of hunting he hath put on the habit of a Churchman But it is said that he will not continue in this Ecclesiasticall state but intends to marry The Archdutchesse Mary Anne who is now married to the Duke of Bavaria her uncle of the age of twenty eight well bred devout and vertuous prudent and industrious of blacke haire and eyes of a most sweet countenance well skil'd in German and Italian Vadislaus the now King of Poland should have married her but they say the marriage was hindred by the States of Poland and by the Kings Counsellors shee was afterwards intended for the Cardinall Infant the onely sonne also of the Prince Palatine of Newburg Albert Duke of Bavaria as also Bethlem Gabor Prince of Transilvania by the example of Sigismund Bather desired to have married her to which effect the Transilvanian sent his Ambassadours to his sacred Imperiall Majesty at Newstat But at last her uncle Maximilian Duke of Bavaria carried her The yonger Imperiall Princesse the Archdutchesse Cecilia Ranata is five and twenty yeares old fairer fac'd than her sister godly vertuous and very well brought up but speakes her Mother tongue onely German and although she understand Italian she speakes it not The common opinion and conjecture is she shall be married to the Cardinall Infant These two Imperiall Princesses are of a perfect proportion and stature and somewhat of a strong complexion CHAP. 8. Of the foure chiefe Officers of the Imperiall Court the High Steward the High Marshall High Chamberlaine and High Master of the Horse and of those of the Chamber and of their Aydes Pages of honour Guards aswell horse as foot Court Chaplaines and Imperiall father Confessour THe highest and chiefest Office of the Imperiall Court is the high Steward a grave man stately and now aged who heretofore under the Emperour Matthias was high Chamberlaine The high Marshall of the Court is a great and profitable office of authority and reputation whose jurisdiction extends it selfe not onely over all the Courtiers Officers and others belonging to the Imperiall Court but also over foraigne Agents Residents Ambassadours and Deputies solliciting and negotiating affaires and businesses in the Imperiall Court and over all that have any imployment at Court workemen Iewes and such like His office also is to assigne lodgings to every one according to discretion when the Emperour removes his Court elsewhere except at the Electorall and Imperiall Dyets for there the hereditary Marshall of the Empire doth exercise his jurisdiction The said Court Marshall hath his Quartermaster and other inferiour harbingers commonly called Furriers under him who have the charge of billetting and lodgings And his Imperiall Majesty being absent the chiefe Marshall of the Court is his Vicegerent Vnder the jurisdiction of the high Chamberlaine are those of the chamber and all others serving therein He conducts all Kings Ambassadours and other Princes Lords and Knights unto their audience with his Imperiall Majesty He receives all letters of credence from all Agents and Soliciters as well of forraigne Princes as of those of the Empire and all others sent to the Imperiall Court directed to his Imperiall Majesty and signifies the prefixed time of their audience by a huisher of the Chamber He often watcheth whole nights himselfe before the Imperiall Chamber he weares a guilt key of the chamber as doe the rest of the chamber tyed to a blacke silke string which is a signe they are of the Chamber to his Imperiall Majesty Those of the Chamber receive themselves the golden key from the high Chamberlaine and going from Court they are bound to deliver it up to him againe and returning backe to the Imperiall Court they receive it againe and weare it as before Their monthly stipend is forty florins six pound sterling with their dyet at Court as also have the other twelve of the Chamber in ordinary There are divers others also of the Chamber who receive neither wages nor dyet nor ought else except the guilt key with the title and honour Two of the twelve of the Camber in