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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

no small jealousies to his Royal Majesty that he may hereafter be more secure of the intentions of his most Serene Highness and all occasion of mistrust be wholly taken away it is agreed and covenanted on both sides that it shall not be lawful hereafter for his most Serene Highness to make any Alliances with Forrein Princes and States without a previous communication with his Majesty and his consent obtained nor make use of any of those already made to the prejudice and detriment of his Royal Majesty V. And that the Forts and Strong-holds that are necessary for the Defence of these Dukedoms and Countries therein incorporated may be provided and furnished with all necessaries according to the Exigencies of times and the threatning dangers with least trouble to the States of the Provinces both Parties have agreed that hereafter the Contributions shall be brought into a common Treasury and shall not be imployed to any other use than this now mentioned VI. But because the Contributions that have been paid till now have been so far from keeping the Souldiers which are appointed for the Defence of these Dukedoms that his Majesty has been necessitated to add considerable sums out of his own Revenue and his most Serene Highness having put into his Coffers the best part of the Contributions he has received and employed the same to other uses for which his Majesty pretends a satisfaction to be made to him Therefore in lieu of a compensation and that all things as much as is possible may be re-establisht in the same state and restored according to the Rule of the antient Division which Hereditarily has been granted to each House His most Serene Highness quits wholly and for ever to his Royal Majesty the Territory of Swabstadt with half of the Chapter of Sleswick and of the Cathedral Church which together with the said Territory of Swabstadt was heretofore yielded to his most Serene Highness by his Sacred Royal Majesty of glorious Memory with all the Appurtenances Revenues Profits Domains Prerogatives and Royalties as his most Serene Highness had the same yielded to him and has quietly possessed till now VII As to the Controversies about the limits and other things relating to the Territories of Ripen and Tundern the discussion whereof remains in suspence till now they shall be decided by Equity and according to the Opinions of the Royal Commissioners who were present at the last Assembly held for that purpose and if hereafter any differences or disputes should arise either between his Majesty himself and his most Serene Highness or their subjects which cannot be determined by them they shall be composed amicably and according to the Articles of Union VIII And nothing being intended on both sides by the renewing of this Union and Treaty but to re-establish a perpetual and most necessary good understanding between the Royal and Ducal Families and to keep the same inviolable for ever and the novelties and changes which have happened in process of time having given not a little occasion of mistrust it is at last agreed and Covenanted that to reduce all things to their former condition as soon as may be his most Serene Highness and his Successors shall renounce fully and for ever their Soveraignty over the Dukedom of Sleswick and it's appurtenances together with the Island of Femaria which they obtained by the Peace of Roschild and the Treaty of Copenhaguen in the same manner as if they had never obtained or been in possession of the said Soveraignty and shall be obliged no less than heretofore within a year and a day as often as the case either by the death of the Lord or of the Vassal shall happen to demand and receive in due manner as heretofore hath been used from the Kings of Denmark the Investiture of the said Dukedom of Sleswick and it's Appurtenances together with the Island of Femaria and to perform all things according to the form prescribed by the Act of Renuntiation to be made by his most Serene Highness for which end his most Serene Highness has also obliged himself to deliver up again and consign into the hands of his Royal Majesty the Instrument he received from his late Sacred Majesty of glorious Memory and from these Senators of the Kingdom then in being which is hereby made void and rendred null Lastly this Union and Transaction shall remain entire and firm as the Basis and foundation of an everlasting Friendship and Alliance between both Houses and as a strong obligation by which his Royal Majesty and his most Serene Highness are joyned together and shall be inviolably observed by both parties and their Successors neither shall any of them do any thing contrary hereunto or suffer the same to be done and besides all that is not here altered shall by vertue of the antient Treaties remain in full force For the greater assurance of the performance of these Presents these Articles of Union and Agreement have been by Us as well his Majesties as his Highnesses Commissioners deputed for this affair signed and Sealed at Rendsbourg the 10. of July 1675. Out of the Articles of Vnion made 1533. Neither Party shall enter into a War without the Counsel and consent of the other And the same is confirmed by the other Treaties of Vnion Out of the Transaction at Othenwaldt 1579. If his Majesty for the defence of his Provinces and Subjects or the Conservation of his Dignity is necessitated to take up Arms so that the business cannot be determined by way of Justice or a fair Composure the most Serene Duke of Gottorp if the War hath been undertaken and ended by his advice and with his full consent after a previous deliberation shall be obliged to send the Succours agreed upon Out of the Concordats of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Dukedom of Sleswick Holstein 1593. Neither of the Parties shall make War without the Advice and consent of the other but if it happen that the King and Kingdom of Denmark and the Dukes of Sleswick and Holstein consent to refer their Controversies to the Cognizance and Decision of a Judicial Court and nevertheless either of them be attacked by force of Arms the other Party shall send such ●roops to his Assistance as by the following Articles are agreed upon Out of the Vnion renewed in the Year 1624. The Party whose Counsel and help is imployed may and ought to make use of this Right to profer his Mediation to the Parties entring into War for the composing their differences without coming to Arms and to this end must invite and joyn with him other Neutral Princes and States and if there be time and no danger will arise by delay let him propose all just and equitable conditions not derogating from the Dignity of the Princes engaged nor prejudicial to the cause and try what success that may have before they come to an open Rupture Out of the Inventory 4 Jul. 1675. made when the Fort of Tonningen

aforesaid Duke to a better and more exact observance and execution of the Ancient Treaties and all others to the performance whereof he has bound himself and seriously dissuade him from his usual pernicious designs against Us. The many proofs VVe have of your Justice and your experienced commendable Constancy and Faithfulness in keeping your Treaties makes Us promise Our Selves this from your Majesties friendship being also resolved never to suffer any thing to be wanting in Us that may prove for the advantage of your Majesty and your Subjects and perswade you of Our sincere affection towards you By which your Majesty c. Given at Our Court at Landscroon the 4th of August 1677. The Duke of Holsteins Letter to his Majesty the King of Great Britain in Answer to the King of Denmarks Most Serene and Potent Prince c. HAving had a view of the Letters written to your most Serene Majesty by the King of Denmark the 4th of August of this present Year We find by them that his Majesty of Denmark does indeed commend your Majesties offers of Mediation for composing Our Controversies but in reality shews an aversion thereunto and declines it as unnecessary endeavouring to demonstrate the same by colouring his Actions with the specious pretence of ancient and late Treaties and accusing Our Lord and Father and Us with a great many things These Letters being full of such complaints VVe cannot but defend Our Innocence and free Our Honour from such accusations by letting your most Serene Majesty understand Our Reasons why the differences between Us and the King of Denmark ought not to be excluded out of the Negotiations for an Universal Peace not indeed can be debated any-where else without great danger and prejudice to Us. VVe have been so observing of the ancient Treaties and Alliances that for several Ages the Dukes of Gottorp have lived under the Authority and at the Devotion of the Kings of Denmark But VVe are not by any Treaties to be oppressed by those who are obliged by Vertue of Our Alliances to defend Us nor are VVe to submit Our Selves to a voluntary Slavery but are rather by the said Treaties freed from so sad a Yoke Let the Kings of Denmark but consider how they could make VVars upon VVars and involve the Dukes of Gottorp's Territories so often in the Calamities attending VVar not only without consulting the Dukes but against their will and earnest dissuasions from the same without breach to the ancient Treat●es and Alliances from which VVe are sure it cannot be proved that Our Ancestors ever receded rashly or unjustly As to the Articles of Rendsbourgh VVe confess that VVe do not think Our Selves further oblig'd to them then either the goodness or equity of the cause or of the way of proceeding will oblige Us. We came as Friends and Guests to Rendsbourgh inticed with great hopes and ample Protestations that all things should be sincerely and fairly transacted and determined But We were against the Laws of Nations and Friendship Treated like Enemies detained Prisoners guarded with Souldiers and at last sent from one Prison to another every-where besieged and through fear and threatnings compelled unjustly to most unreasonable conditions which the very way of proceeding argues to be null Therefore VVe are so far from consenting to them freely and voluntarily that VVe have never so much as freely ratified them For those things that are done by force and through fear may be sometimes made valid by a subsequent free consent yet no consent is to be esteemed such except the person who is said to have consented freely be first set at full liberty when on the contrary fear once caused in any transaction is supposed to continue still and VVe were the more disturbed thereby because VVe were by the King deprived of all good Counsels Our Principal Ministers being violently carried away Prisoners to Copenhaguen and the rest frighted from Us by this unheard-of Example The Soveraignty of the Dukedom of Sleswick purchased with a very good Title and at a dear rate was yielded up to Our House by Frederick the Third King of Denmark by his own free and often repeated consent and has been quietly possessed by Us for above Sixteen years neither is it any matter that it was obtained partly by the fortunate Successes of the Arms of Sweden since it is undoubtedly true that VVars may be made not only for O●r own good but for the good of others and that the King of Sweden was then justly provoked to take up Arms against the Danes and that if the King of Denmark has suffered any force it being but just he cannot pretend to any Right of Restitution VVe cannot like wise conceal that by this and the foregoing Wars made by the Kings of Denmark VVe have contracted many great Debts and Our Subjects are so exhausted by Contributions that part of them have been forced to quit the Country and the rest are glad if they can get the coarsest sort of Bread to eat Now when VVe quitted by the last Treaty all Our pretensions of satisfaction from the King of Denmark in consideration of the Soveraignty which was yielded up to Us what have we got I pray that any one should envy Us for It is the King of Denmark only is the gainer who by that opportunity got the Soveraignty of that part of the Dukedom of Sleswick which is his and thereby soon after an occasion of getting the Monarchy of the whole Kingdom Therefore since that Our Lord and Father was by so many Solemn and publick Treaties absolutely freed from the tie of Vassalage and Homage it cannot certainly be imputed to him that he had without any regard of his Alliance to the Kingdom of Denmark extorted the Soveraignty of the said Dukedome unless the King will slight all the Treaties of Peace and Conventions that have been made upon that occasion and by his Example incite the Kings of Spain and Poland nay his own Subjects to repossess themselves of their lost Provinces and Ancient Rights and Authorities as soon as they shall have an occasion and power to do it We do with all gratitude acknowledge your Majesties favour that besides the general Guaranty of all the conditions of the Peace at Roschild you have been pleased to oblige your Self to a special one for the Preservation and Assertion of this Soveraignty It is without any ground the King of Denmark pretends that VVe obtained the Soveraignty by the favour of Cromwell only For besides that the good Offices and Mediations of other Kings and States intervened in this Affair and the conclusion thereof VVe do not well conceive how the King of Denmark can show which of the Usurpers Acts your Majesty is pleased to hold ●or good and which not For it will not consist with reason of State and the publick good that they should be all annulled Nay if the King of Denmark will be pleased to look into the circumstances of this matter he

setting aside your strict Ties and Duties towards Us and the whole Roman Empire will thus lose your Self and by such prohibited and culpable advantages take the Enemies part contrary to the publick Statutes of the Empire and Our Imperial Avocatories published thereupon yet have We thought good kindly to acquaint and seriously to admonish you by these that in case things should be thus your Dilection might betimes desist from such Enterprizes and embracing better Counsel comport your Self according to what Duty doth require of a Loyal Member of the Empire lest otherwise We should be obliged to cause your Dilection be proceeded against according to Our Imperial Avocatories all which is for your Dilections Government Tendring withal Our Imperial Grace and good VVill to your Dilection Dated at Our Castle at Lintz the 6th of January in the Year of Our Lord 1677. of Our Reign in the Roman Empire the 19th In Hungary the 22th and in Bohemia the 21th LEOPOLD V. Leopold William Count of Konigsegg Ad mandatum Sacrae Caesareae Majestatis proprium John Ambrose Hogell The Duke of Holstein's Answer to the foregoing Letter of the Emperor Most Serene c. YOur Imperial Majesties most gracious Letter from Lintz of the 6th Instant hath been some days ago delivered to Me by your Imperial Majesties Minister here residing the Lord Baron of Rond 〈…〉 and received by Me with all the humblest respects Imaginable but with extream astonishment I understood by the contents thereof that your Imperial Majesty had got Information as if I had not only for my part approved of those Proposals which had been made to me by Graventable the Swedish Minister lately Residing here in Hamborough about certain Levies to be made in Foreign Parts and had come to a certain conclusion with him in that affair but also that for the promoting of the said Levies I had made use of Kielman my late President 's Moneys that lie here and taken thereof the Sum of 200000 Rix-dollars and that I also did employ in this affair the Swedish President Kley who hitherto hath pretended to live here as a private man and another person named Vlcke Wherefore your Imperial Majesty most graciously hath thought good to acquaint me therewith and seriously to admonish me that in case things should be thus which yet your Imperial Majesty would scarce expect from me I may betimes desist from such Enterprizes and embracing better Counsel compor● my Self according to what Duty doth require of a Loyal Member of the Empire lest otherwise your Imperial Majesty should be obliged to cause Me be proceeded against according to your published Imperial Avocatories It is true I can promise my Self nothing else from your Imperial Majesties most mild and yet most just disposition but that your Imperial Majesties very gracious Letter although occasioned by the industrious contrivance of some envious persons who by all ways and means seek very watchfully the oppression and ruin of my self and my Ducal House hath been sent to me for no other end but that your Imperial Majesty might thereby get a fitter occasion to discover my Innocency and consequently by your Imperial Majesties Authority and highest Power to Protect me as a Loyal Member and Prince of the Empire against those who have made no Conscience for the space of these 19 Months to Treat me unworthily and oppress me undeservedly leaving me nothing of all my Princely Dignity but bare life However when I call to mind again in what manner your Imperial Majesties Requisitorials concerning me which were delivered into his Majesty the King of Denmarks hands have been by the contrivance of some Ministers bearing an hatred to me abused so far that they begun almost from that very hour to exhaust my poor Subjects as well of Holstein as of Sleswick with intolerable Contributions and to render them quite uncapable to contribute so much as they were lawfully bound to do for the upholding my Princely State and Dignity which proceedings are yet till this very moment continued to the utter destruction of my Territories though no further Imperial Requisitorials have been signified to me which have been granted to other States of the lower Circle of Saxony in the point of Quarters Then have I just reason to fear that they likewise now under your Imperial Majesties highest Name and Authority though against your Imperial Majesties will and intention do go about to colour and palliate what they newly have contriv'd for the finishing of my premeditated ruin and partly have already brought to an Execution All which I have by my former complaints with all submission represented to your Imperial Majesty and thereby most humbly implored your speedy Protection whereunto also I do now refer my self in hopes your Imperial Majesty will be pleased not only most graciously to hear but also see them according to your Imperial Clemency forthwith redressed Concerning those Accusations brought before your Imperial Majesty and laid home at my door I should never have Imagined upon what bottom and foundation they could be grounded unless your Imperial Majesty by the Nomination of certain Persons had obliged me to a more exact Information whereupon I most humbly can assure your Imperial Majesty by the true and faithful Word of a Prince that I never had the least knowledge of these specified Projects touching the Levies of some Forreign Forces much less have I approved of the same or dealt or agreed about them directly or indirectly with any man in the VVorld And I can protest with Truth it self that Kleyhe the King of Sweden's President hath not all the time of his abode here made any Propositions to me concerning my Conjunction with Forreign Crowns against your Imperial Majesty and your high Allies nor ever offered to perswade me to any such thing But this I do declare willingly and freely that I have caused my disconsolate condition whereunto I find my self undeservedly reduced to be fully represented to his Majesty the King of Great Britain as Guarantee of the Northern Peace which first of all began to bleed and suffer on my side to whom I made it my humble Request that his said Majesty would be pleased in respect both of that General and Special Guaranty taken upon him concerning my Soveraignty over the Dukedom of Sleswick lawfully obtained to procure my Restitution and due Satisfaction which I have been so far from disowning that I was content that the Memorials about the said Subject exhibited from time to time by my Deputy should be faithfully communicated to the Danish Minister residing in England For which end I have also employed at that Court the same Vlcken my Counsellor there whom I did for almost two years imploy at your Imperial Majesties Court and have amongst other Negotiations also caused my most humble Remonstrations and frequent Instances by him to be made to your Imperial Majesty for my Protection with certain hopes that he hath behaved himself so well that no cause is left to mistrust him or to charge him with any sinister and ill-grounded accusations Since therefore the abovesaid foul aspersions studiously contrived by my ill-wishers can never be proved nor laid to my door the rest consequently must fall to the ground which charge me that for the carrying on of such fictitious Levies I should have taken and employed the said Sum of 200000 Rixdollers belonging to the Heirs of Kielman which monies I do not know in the least if they do lye here or no. Whereas now my Innocency and the Fictitiousness of those Sinister imputations do sufficiently appear by the premises I can with all submission assure your Imperial Majesty that nothing in the World shall be ever forced from me which may offend and interrupt my Loyal Duties tendred to your Imperial Majesty and to the Roman Empire and that Devotion which my Ancestors have Sealed with their Princely Blood to the Mighty House of Austria I do therefore again most humbly implore your Imperial Majesty as the most Sacred Head of the Empire that your Imperial Majesty would be pleased not to give way to the Suspicions raised against me but rather out of your Highest Fatherly care provide such ways and means whereby I as a devoted Co-member of the Roman Empire may be upheld and freed from all my pressing Calamities Thus longingly I do look for your Imperial Majesties effectual and gracious Resolution c. Dated at Hambourgh the 20 of Jan. Ann. 1677. FINIS Grot. lib. 3. c. 20. n. 27. seq See the Patent for the Grant of this Soveraignty in Lundorpius Contin part 8. lib. 8. cap. 10. pag. 318. and elsewhere

shall endeavour by a Friendly Mediation or by opposing all necessary means against force that these Countries Dominions and Territories with all the Rights Royalties Soveraign and absolute Dominion or Soveraignty thereof may remain whole and safe to him And for the greater security of all and singular the Premises VVe have subscribed this Instrument of Guaranty with Our own hand and have caused Our Great Seal of England to be affixed thereunto Given at Our Palace of Westminster the 23. day of February in the year one Thousand six Hundred Sixty five and in the Eighteen year of Our Reign Charles R. SOME LETTERS OF THE KING OF Great Britain THE King of Denmark AND THE DUKE OF Holstein Gottorp The King of Great Britains Letter to His Majesty the King of Denmark concerning a Mediation in the differences between His Majesty and the Duke of Holstein Gottorp CHarles the Second By the Grace of God King of Great Britain c. To the most Serene and Potent Prince Christian the Fifth by the same Grace of Denmark Norway Goths and Vandals King Duke of Sleswick c. Greeting VVe were extreamly troubled to hear of the Differences lately arisen between your Majesty and Our good Cousin the Duke of Holstein for the nearness and tie of Blood and common Interests between you and therefore out of the Affection VVe bear to both your Families and the good and advantage of the same VVe did almost a Year ago offer our Mediation and good Offices between you and VVe had long since charged Our Minister residing at your Court to do it more solemnly if your Majesties Envoy residing with Us had not induced and desired Us as in favour of himself that all VVe should resolve to do therein might be done through his hands which We the rather consented to then because he charged himself seriously to represent to your Majesty the offers VVe made of Our Offices and Mediation But your Majesty having not hitherto sent Us any direct Answer thereunto and your said Envoy having only by the by insinuated to Us that your Majesty rather desisired that since this Affair seemed to be purely Domestick and concerned only the private Interests of two Princes of the same Blood it might be left to be determined among your selves VVe hoped not to have found your Majesty in this mind which VVe perceive by your Envoys discourse you are of However VVe cannot but out of the desire VVe have to reconcile two Princes that are of a Blood so nearly Related to Us and for other considerations which induce Us to concern Our Selves with a more special care in this matter than perhaps VVe should otherwise repeat again in the most solemn manner the first Offer of Our Mediation and good Offices not doubting but that your Majesty after having seriously reflected upon the thing will think fit to admit of Our good Offices and Mediation which you may be confident VVe shall always apply on all occasions which may concern your Majesty in such manner as you have reason to expect from the mutual Friendship between Us of which VVe shall always give your Majesty those Proofs and Arguments which you can desire c. July 2. 1677. The King of Denmark's Answer to his Majesty the King of Great Britain CHristian the Fifth By the Grace of God King of Denmark c. To the most Serene and Potent Prince Charles the II. by the same Grace King of Great Britain c. Greeting By your Majesties Letters of the 10th of July last past VVe have understood more at large what Reasons induced you to offer Us your Mediation and good Offices for composing the Differences arising between Us and Our Cousin and Kinsman Christian Albert Duke of Holstein This Offer of your Majesties has been the more pleasing to Us because VVe do not doubt at all but it proceeds from a sincere and Brotherly affection towards Us and We put so great a trust in your Friendship that if there were place for any Mediation in these Differences VVe would as readily accept of your Interposition for the composing of them as VVe have accepted of the same in the present Negotiation for an Universal Peace which We have constantly endeavour'd should remain solely in your Majesty But the Disputes and Controversies complained of by the Duke of Gottorp to your Majesty being grounded upon no other foundation than his endeavours to lay aside all the Alliances and Treaties which have subsisted for many Ages betwixt Our Royal Predecessors and his and especially that which he Voluntarily made with Us at Rendsbourgh and approved several times after and so to free himself from all those ties by which he is bound to Us as a Vassal of Our Kingdom of Denmark and Our Dukedoms of Sleswick and Holstein are united together hoping after the Example of his Father who in the last unhappy VVar supported by the Arms of the King of Sweden his Son-in-Law and by the favour and unjust Authority of the English Usurper Cromwell without any respect of his obligations to Our Kingdom under colour of some frivolous and groundless pretensions extorted most unjust and almost intolerable conditions from Our Lord and Father of blessed and glorious Memory to accomplish and perfect his pernicious designs and unjust attempts in these troublesome times as well by the help of his Neighbours Armes as your Majesties Authority The Truth hereof appears also by this that though VVe have divers times proposed to his Dilection to restore him unto the former condition of his Ancestors if he would keep to the aforesaid Treaties and fulfil their Tenor he does not cease nevertheless to complain of Force and to sollicite the help and succours of other Princes and States to finish those unjust Enterprises he has proposed to himself From whence your Majesty according to your singular Prudence will easily judge whether VVe can without the greatest prejudice to Our Rights recede from the ancient Treaties and those which have been made between Us and the Duke of Gottorp upon which the safety of Our Kingdoms and Dominions in great measure depends or suffer them to be disputed and thereby expose Our Selves to new and everlasting Differences and Quarrels especially since it is expresly covenanted by the said Treaties that if any disputes shall hereafter arise they shall not be composed by the Mediation of other Princes but by other friendly and amicable means For these and other Reasons which we have ordered Our Envoy Extraordinary Resident at your Majesties Court to represent more amply to your Majesty We do not doubt in the least but your Majesty will not only think it wholly unjust that We should consent to such prejudicial Treaties and so contrary to the aforesaid Conventions and Domestick agreements but also that by vertue of the Alliances VVe have with your Majesty by which each of Us is obliged to promote the good of the other and to keep all dangers from him your Majesty will compel the