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A47719
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The emperors answer to the French king's manifesto translated from the Latin.
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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.
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1688
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Wing L1108; ESTC R13327
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THE EMPERORS ANSWER TO THE French King's MANIFESTO Translated from the LATIN LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons in Cornhill over against the Royal Exchange MDCLXXXVIII THE EMPERORS ANSWER TO THE French King's MANIFESTO IT is known to the whole Christian World that when the Peace of Numigen within a little after its Conclusion was by the French King many wayes violated and large Countreys and Provinces contrary to the Express Tenour of the said Peace were under the new and strange Pretences of Re-unions and Dependencies and the like torn away from the Roman Empire there being a kind of a Mock Court of Justice Erected at Metz and Brisac in which the French Ministers acted the parts at once of Pleaders Witâ—â—sses and Judges that it was at last agreed in the Year 1684 upon the 15th of August between His Most Sacred Majesty the Emperor on the one part and the Most Serene King of France on the other that there should be a Mutual Cessation from all Acts of Hostility to be Inviolably observed for Twenty Years And that for the Honour of God and the security of the Christian Religion which was in Danger and not without great Advantage to the French Affairs It being permitted in the mean time to the French that they should have quiet and peaceable Possession of almost a Sixth part of the Provinces which after the Peace of Numigen remained of right to the Empire It is known also with what strictness in the mean time and Confidence in the King's Word and favourable Interpretation of all suspitious Actions and Injuries which His Majesty the Emperour suffered and which the Princes and States of the Empire often complain'd that they suffered from the Crown of France the said Peace on the Emperours side was observed And how His Majesty the Emperour trusting in the Faith of this League was unmov'd at every thing insomuch that His Subjects as well as Forreigners did wonder that He seem'd not to be in any Fear though His Frontiers lay open every where to the French if they wou'd break their Faith there being scarce above one or two Legions to defend such a large open Country the Confederates themselves being call'd away to Hungary and the Frontier Carrisons such as Philipsburg Constance and the rest being in a manner neglected and disregarded And all to the intent that His Imperial Majesty might defend the Christian Religion in Regions far remote though He saw in the mean time the French Forces unreasonably encreas'd new and unnecessary Garrisons made on the bank of the Rhine which belong'd not to the French King and that Fraud and Violence was every where to be fear'd from Him. Certainly to this day there has not been any one Action on the Account of which the King might justly accuse the Emperor of so much as attempting to break His Eaith much less of actually doing it Nay those little suspicions which France lov'd to make to it self as if Caesar had in Thought or in his secret Wishes inclin'd to any such Thing were by him immediately discuss'd and the Matter fully clear'd by his great Moderation in that he let alone what he might lawfully have taken and generously omitted advantagious Opportunities lest he might seem by any the least spark to kindle the Flame of the French Jealousie Yet behold now again that Flame breaks out on a sudden which the French Court unwillingly cover'd over for a time The French seize on the Diocess of Cologne Invade the Palatinate Besiege Philipsburg and without observing any Law or Article of the Peace or so much as the Ancient Manner of King 's going to War one with another the French King falls most unjustly upon the Emperour and the Empire like one that had been long secretly a contriving it And at last forsooth in His smooth-tongued fashion not when He denounced War but when He had already begun it He orders His Fallacious Memorial to be presented us in which He does not Excuse but openly Avow the Violence and Injustice of His Arms as if He had been provoked to a War and did not bring it on a sudden upon those who thought nothing of it In those His Letters or that His Manifesto He publishes those which the Compiler of 'em calls the Causes whereby the Most Christian King is induced to take Arms again against Caesur and the Empire and by which He sayes the Christian World ought to be convinced of His sincere desire of the publick Tranquillity thereof That forsooth His Sacred Majesty the Emperor intends to make a Peace with the Turk that He may turn His Arms against France This He will have to appear First In that presently after the Peace concluded the Emperour sought new Alliances which by divers Artifices and Craft were transacted at Ausburg and Norimburg contrary to the French Interest Secondly For that Although the Emperor were perswaded even by the Popes Ministers to turn the Twenty Years Truce into a perpetual Peace yielding only thus much to France that what the French now enjoy'd for so long by vertue of the Truce they should enjoy for ever by this Peace yet Caesar would by no means yield to it Thirdly For that the Most Serene Elector Palatine has violently invaded and taken possession of divers Goods moveable and immoveable which belong to the Dutchess of Orleans by Inheritance from the deceased Lords her Father and Brother and hitherto detains 'em finding means to elude by divers Arts the Patience both of the King and His Brother but depending all the while upon the protection of the Emperor whom He therefore has perswaded to make peace with the Turk and to bring back His Arms to the Rhine having enter'd into divers Leagues for that purpose For that in the fourth and last place The Cardinal of Furstenburg contrary to the Holy Canons the freedom of the Chapter and the Instrument of peace His former Faults which by the Emperor had been pardon'd being brought into remembrance and alledg'd against Him by the Emperors Embassador before a Session of the Chapter is openly and expresly excluded from the Electoral Dignity and the Most Serene Prince Joseph Clement of Bavaria by base Arts the Pope Himself being seduced and a Brief of Eligibility as they call it obtain'd from Him to the scandal of all People and the Forces of the Protestants being brought into the Electorate of Cologne is violently thrust in in His stead with this malicious Intention that he the said Clement of Bavaria being by entring into Orders hindered from Marrying if the Most Serene Elector of Bavaria should happen to dye as he is at present without Issue which may easily be he exposing himself continually to so many dangers in the War then a Family suspected alwayes by the House of Austria should be taken out of the way By all which 't is said it may appear clearer than the Sun at Noon-day that the Emperour not regarding the desolation of the Arch-Bishoprick