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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00682	A relation containing the manner of the solemnities at the election and coronation of Ferdinand the Emperour, in Francford the 30. of August last past, 1619 With other occurrences in Bohemia, and diuers parts of Germany, for three moneths last past.		1620 (1620)	STC 10816; ESTC S105587	17,390	46

24 But to whose trust these Armories are to be committed and what costs and charges are needfull for prouiding and storing vp armes therein let consultation be had hereafter At this time there was a Parliament holden at Vratislavia by the Princes and the States of Silesia The King sent to it one Otto Melander a noble Heroicall Gentleman and one of his Councell who from the Prince of Lignitz in the name of the rest of the Princes and States brought backe this answere viz They say that by relation of the Noble and Honourable Parsonage Otto Melander and also by his Maiesties Royall Letters which hee deliuered vnto them they were giuen to vnderstand that Ferdinand hath determined since the Emperour Matthias is now deceased to vndertake the gouernment of the Kingdome and to confirme vnto these Princes and Countries all lawes rights and priuiledges as well generall as speciall all Grants and Customes euen the Maiestatis Diploma the Charters of State which were granted by his Predecessours the Kings of Bohemia by Ferdinand Maximilian Rodolphus and Matthias and that hee is determined not onely to confirme whatsoeuer hath beene granted by his Predecessors but also to send his Confirmation vnto them or if at this time it be full of danger to send such Confirmations yet at least hee will accept whatsoeuer speciall priuiledges any of the Prouinces can shew for themselues That looke what dissentions and disagreements there be betwixt the Romish Catholiques and Protestants he is purposed to compound them That hee would in these places confirme the Office of the King and accept from him the Oath of Allegiance and did hope that by this meanes it would come to passe that seeing hee promised moreouer to take vpon him and to discharge the Emperours debts which hee owed in the Prouinces of Silesia the States of Silesia would not onely pay such Contributions as they had formerly promised but also would performe all other duties and offices which were due vnto him That in so doing hee himselfe also might haue cause to declare and shew his fatherly loue and affection vnto them still more and more And that also the States of Bohemia to whom in like manner he had already sent the Confirmation of their Priuiledges might thereby take occasion to settle themselues to due obedience that so all troubles being composed and warres ended the Kingdome might enioy her former peace and tranquilitie But as heretofore it gaue them great contentment that the Emperour Matthias was pleased to deuise a way how his Kingdomes and Countries might be prouided of one to be their head and to succeed him after his death and that so all occasions of warres and seditions being cut off peace and tranquility might be preserued and continued in the Kingdome So also they called to minde when that Succession was giuen to Ferdinand vpon what conditions they accepted it and what promises they receiued from him and what they on the other side were bound to performe vnto him and so they wish with all their hearts that Matthias his departure had hapned at such time as all things being in peace they might quietly vse and enioy their piuiledges and immunities and Ferdinand might obtaine the wished end of his Succession with greatest facilitie for so nothing could haue hindered them but that vpon the receipt of the Letters of Confirmation of their generall and speciall priuiledges they had forthwith accepted him for their King and had performed vnto him all such offices as were due But howsoeuer it be they are exceeding glad that he remembring his promise made vnto them is desirous to put it in execution But they doubt not but that Ferdinand will set before his eyes how lamentable and confused the state of those Countries is and that the combustion is now spread so farre and growne so vehement that it cannot without great difficultie and danger be extinguished and suppressed and that hee will be pleased to take into his consideration how farre these times are altered from those wherein his succession to the Kingdome of Bohemia was made As namely that now the publique peace and quiet is disturbed all the Country embroyled with warres their Townes sacked and spoyled and euery place fraught with Soldiers and armed men That their priuiledges confirmed heretofore are of no power or strength to defend them from these euils And that not onely Disputations and diuers wrested interpretations haue beene inuented to discredit that profitable businesse of Defence vndertaken for the profit and good of all but also that warres are prepared and great violence done to the Subiect so that it seemeth that the bare confirmation of Priuiledges is not now any longer sufficient to establish peace in that Kingdome and those Provinces but it is necessary that what before was promised in words be now shewed in deed and action Also they doubt not but that he will be pleased to remember what a quiet sweet and calme state there was thorow the whole kingdome of Bohemia and the other confederate countries not onely in the dayes of former Kings his Predecessors but euen at that very time when he was admitted to the succession in the same kingdome and how farre it is estranged from that tranquility how much it concerneth the common wealth that the ancient and wholesome ordinances of the kingdome and the old custome be obserued not onely about the designation but also about the acceptation of the King whosoeuer he shall bee All which things being duly considered The King and all others may easily perceiue that although they in times past did elect and designe him to bee their chiefe Soueraigne Duke and that of their owne free will and pleasure without any eye or regard to the Kingdome of Bohemia yet the case with the Kingdom and other prouinces standing so as it doth they may not to the great preiudice of others as well concerning the execution of the designation as concerning the designation it selfe accept and admit him to be their gouernour Also that the King by the premises may easily coniecture that these embroilements and combustions together with the troubles and hurts which followed thereupon in point of religion throughout Bohemia and Silesia cannot be remedied and laid asleepe by the bare charter of confirmation of priuiledges but that these times desire to see the effect of this confirmation and doe require deedes and not words These things considered they hope and beseech his maiesty that he would be pleased not to take it in ill part that weighing the great danger of these times they thinke it good for them to expect vntill he doe not onely vndertake the gouernment and administration of the kingdome of Bohemia but also stinting all these troubles doe settle the whole kingdome in that state which their priuiledges doe require and that they may freely without warre and molestation enioy their priuiledges confirmed And that this may be done very well if all warres being ended he would ipso facto