The emperour and the empire betray'd by whom and how written by a minister of state residing at that court to one of the Protestant princes of the empire.
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The emperour and the empire betray'd by whom and how written by a minister of state residing at that court to one of the Protestant princes of the empire.
Empereur et l'empire trahis, et par qui & comment. English. 1682
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THE
EMPEROUR
And
the
EMPIRE
BETRAY'D
:
By
Whom
and
How.
Written
by
a
Minister
of
State
residing
at
that
Court
,
to
one
of
the
Protestant
Princes
of
the
Empire
.
Published
for
the
satisfaction
of
all
good
Protestants
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
B.
M.
at
the
Duke
of
Lorrain's
Head
in
Westminster
.
1682.
TO
THE
READER
.
THE
extraordinary
Conduct
of
the
Imperial
Court
and
Council
for
some
years
past
,
having
rais'd
the
Curiosity
of
a
great
Prince
of
the
Empire
,
to
find
out
at
any
rate
the
true
Causes
and
Grounds
of
Counsels
and
Actions
that
had
so
much
surprized
him
,
he
made
choice
of
a
Minister
whom
he
judged
best
capable
to
execute
this
Design
,
and
having
given
him
Instructions
for
the
purpose
,
dispatched
him
privately
under
other
pretences
to
the
Emperours
Court
at
Prague
The
Minister
acquitted
himself
well
,
and
gave
his
Master
an
ample
account
of
his
Business
by
Letter
,
of
the
13.
of
February
1680.
The
Master
(
a
right
German
,
and
truly
generous
Prince
)
laid
his
Commands
on
me
to
publish
those
important
Secrets
,
the
value
whereof
will
soon
appear
by
the
reading
,
from
which
I
will
no
longer
detain
you
.
Farewell
.
THE
EMPEROUR
AHD
THE
EMPIRE
Betrayed
.
AND
By
Whom
,
and
How.
In
a
LETTER
.
My
Lord
,
'T
IS
the
duty
of
a
Servant
not
to
conceal
any
thing
from
his
Prince
and
Master
,
especially
when
he
is
pleased
to
honour
him
with
his
Confidence
,
as
your
Higness
hath
done
in
sending
me
to
this
Court
:
To
clear
my self
from
the
Guilt
and
Reproach
of
having
been
wanting
to
this
Duty
,
I
take
the
liberty
to
give
your
Highness
a
faithful
and
candid
account
in
Writing
;
what
I
have
discovered
most
pertinent
and
Essential
to
the
business
,
you
were
pleased
to
employ
me
in
.
I
shall
do
it
with
the
less
scruple
and
reserve
,
having
sent
this
Letter
by
an
Express
,
in
whom
I
have
entire
Confidence
,
and
doubt
not
but
he
will
,
according
to
my
order
,
deliver
it
into
your
Hands
.
To
begin
with
the
best
part
of
what
I
have
to
deliver
,
I
am
to
inform
your
Highness
,
that
His
Imperial
Majesty
is
,
in
my
Opinion
,
a
pious
Prince
,
good
natured
,
and
of
a
sweet
and
gentle
Disposition
,
and
not
at
all
inclined
to
contend
with
the
Princes
his
Neighbours
,
or
make
War
on
his
Inferiors
:
That
,
pursuant
to
this
natural
Inclination
for
Repose
and
for
Peace
,
this
Prince
hath
an
Antipathy
against
any
thing
that
disturbs
or
opposes
his
quiet
Disposition
,
and
hath
eased
himself
wholly
of
the
management
and
direction
of
his
Affairs
of
State
,
and
of
War
,
by
committing
all
to
the
Conduct
of
his
principal
Ministers
.
'T
is
hard
for
a
Prince
to
intrust
a
Minister
with
Affairs
of
this
mighty
Importance
,
without
opening
to
him
all
his
Mind
,
and
imparting
the
greatest
and
deepest
of
his
Secrets
:
And
from
hence
,
I
believe
it
hath
unhappily
followed
that
this
Prince
,
having
by
degrees
accustomed
himself
to
leave
the
greatest
part
of
his
Affairs
to
the
Conduct
of
his
Ministers
,
hath
reserved
to
himself
only
the
Title
and
Pomp
,
the
Splendour
and
Name
of
the
Dignities
and
Grandeur
proper
to
his
Character
.
In
a
Word
,
had
his
Imperial
Majesty
never
so
little
minded
his
great
Affairs
,
he
would
never
have
yielded
to
sign
that
shameful
and
ignominious
Peace
with
France
,
subscribed
by
the
Imperial
Embassadours
at
the
Congress
ad
Nimiguen
;
the
unhappy
Effects
whereof
we
have
seen
in
seven
Particulars
of
great
importance
.
First
,
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
by
those
few
strokes
of
his
Pen
,
hath
in
all
probability
,
lost
for
ever
the
Esteem
,
the
Friendship
and
Confidence
of
the
Princes
his
Friends
and
Allyes
;
who
would
have
generously
defended
and
preserved
him
from
ruine
,
by
the
force
of
their
Arms.
Seconldy
,
That
his
own
Troops
have
been
shamefully
forced
to
quit
all
the
Countries
of
the
Empire
,
while
those
of
France
have
been
actually
there
,
and
continue
to
this
day
insulting
and
Domineering
as
they
please
over
the
Princes
,
the
Cities
,
the
Countries
and
Provinces
of
the
Empire
.
Thirdly
,
That
by
the
Execution
of
this
Peace
,
the
Estates
,
the
Persons
and
the
Courts
of
the
three
Ecclesiastical
Electors
of
the
Empire
,
and
of
the
Elector
Palatine
of
the
Rhine
,
stand
in
a
manner
expos'd
every
hour
to
the
violences
and
irruptions
of
the
Arms
of
France
;
and
consequently
,
in
case
of
an
Election
of
a
King
of
the
Romans
,
we
may
probably
find
by
their
Suffrages
what
may
be
expected
from
Slaves
to
that
proud
and
ambitious
Crown
.
Fourthly
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
having
by
that
Peace
tacitely
consented
to
the
late
Cession
on
made
by
Spain
of
the
County
of
Burgundy
to
the
Crown
of
France
:
It
follows
,
that
if
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
(
in
Case
of
failure
of
Issue
in
the
House
of
Spain
)
should
in
his
own
Right
,
or
in
the
Right
of
the
Arch-Dutchess
his
Daughter
,
the
Heir
to
the
Estates
of
that
Monarchy
,
he
hath
by
that
Article
of
the
County
of
Burgundy
,
released
his
Right
to
it
,
and
deprived
his
Successors
,
and
the
Empire
of
the
Convenience
that
Country
might
upon
a
favourable
Revolution
have
afforded
them
to
lead
an
Army
without
opposition
into
the
heart
of
France
:
And
should
Lorrain
be
ever
restored
to
the
Empire
,
yet
this
Article
will
be
an
infallible
means
for
France
to
maintain
continually
an
Army
on
the
Frontiers
of
Germany
,
and
invade
it
as
often
as
it
shall
appear
to
be
for
the
Interest
and
Grandeur
of
the
French
to
attack
the
Germans
.
Fifthly
,
That
though
Swizzerland
be
throughly
convinced
by
the
building
the
Fortress
of
Hunninges
,
of
the
Ambitious
designs
of
France
,
and
consequently
concerned
and
inclined
to
make
a
League
with
all
,
or
part
of
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
in
defence
of
the
Common
Liberty
;
yet
the
unfortunate
Session
of
the
County
of
Burgundy
hath
furnished
the
Pensioners
of
France
,
(
whom
no
Counsel
or
Caution
of
that
Republick
is
free
from
)
with
a
plausible
argument
,
to
perswade
that
Republick
not
to
stir
in
its
own
defence
,
till
it
be
perhaps
too
late
,
and
out
of
its
power
to
help
it self
:
For
,
say
they
,
What
shall
we
do
?
The
Cantons
of
Bern
,
Fribourgh
and
Sollurre
cannot
subsist
without
the
Salt
of
that
Province
:
Besides
the
Forces
his
most
Christian
Majesty
keeps
actually
on
Foot
there
,
may
justly
alarm
us
to
be
cautious
to
the
utmost
,
what
measures
we
take
,
and
consider
all
things
before
we
ingage
in
any
:
By
such
discourses
as
these
(
though
groundless
if
we
suppose
an
Union
of
the
Forces
of
the
Empire
with
the
Swisse
,
which
would
infallibly
draw
in
many
more
)
it
may
fall
out
that
this
Republick
(
if
the
lowest
party
prevail
not
against
those
Traytors
to
their
Country
)
may
to
its
own
mischief
,
and
the
ruin
of
others
,
lye
still
and
look
on
,
as
unconcerned
,
and
consequently
be
a
Member
wholly
useless
to
the
Publick
,
for
defence
of
the
Common
Liberty
,
which
would
be
in
the
present
Conjuncture
of
more
mischievous
Consequence
han
most
are
aware
of
.
Sixthly
,
That
by
this
peace
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
,
who
hath
had
the
honour
to
Marry
a
great
Queen
eldest
Sister
to
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
hath
found
as
little
respect
in
this
Peace
,
as
if
he
had
married
the
Daughter
of
a
Burgo-Master
of
Colmar
;
and
hath
been
violently
robb'd
,
and
intirely
dispossest
of
his
Dukedoms
of
Lorrain
and
Bar
,
and
several
other
Lands
he
held
in
Soveraignty
,
being
his
Hereditary
Estates
,
and
descended
to
him
by
unquestionable
right
of
Succession
:
Which
others
looked
on
with
so
little
concern
,
as
if
this
Prince
(
stript
of
all
he
could
call
his
own
)
had
lost
no
more
than
a
Ring
,
or
a
Farm
of
a
thousand
Crowns
value
.
Seventhly
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
the
Empire
by
Signing
a
Peace
(
to
give
it
its
right
Name
)
so
unbecoming
and
unworthy
,
have
raised
the
courage
and
hopes
of
the
most
Christian
King
to
that
height
,
that
he
looks
on
both
with
so
much
indifference
and
scorn
,
that
he
hath
openly
undertaken
at
once
three
things
,
which
(
I
believe
)
were
ever
heard
of
in
the
Empire
,
at
least
when
it
had
the
advantage
of
a
Head
that
had
the
least
jealousie
and
care
for
its
Glory
.
The
first
,
that
without
any
Lawful
Mission
,
the
Emperor
being
young
,
and
in
perfect
Health
,
he
solicites
vigorously
the
two
Electors
of
the
North
side
of
the
Empire
,
for
their
Suffrage
at
the
next
Election
of
a
King
of
the
Romans
.
I
mention
only
these
two
Electors
,
for
as
for
the
others
,
he
makes
no
doubt
by
fair
means
or
by
force
to
dispose
of
them
as
he
shall
think
fit
.
The
second
,
that
,
as
if
he
were
dealing
only
with
the
Farmers
of
his
Revenues
,
or
the
Poysoners
of
Paris
,
he
hath
by
a
Declaration
erected
at
Metz
(
as
formerly
at
Brisak
)
a
Court
compos'd
according
to
the
course
of
that
Kingdom
,
of
a
dozen
Hangm
—
where
though
the
smallest
Duke
and
Peer
of
France
,
is
not
obliged
to
appear
;
His
most
Christian
Majesty
,
as
Judge
and
Party
,
cites
by
some
Catchpole
of
that
Clandestine
Jurisdiction
,
Princes
of
the
most
ancient
Illustrious
Houses
of
the
Empire
(
which
he
hath
nothing
to
do
withall
)
to
make
their
appearance
,
to
give
him
Account
by
what
right
they
possess
what
their
Predecessors
have
for
three
or
four
hundred
Years
peaceably
enjoyed
.
This
invention
,
with
the
help
of
the
Knight
of
the
Post
,
and
a
Map
of
the
Country
drawn
out
at
pleasure
,
(
but
of
the
old
fashion
,
the
better
to
colour
the
business
)
is
the
ground
of
his
pretensions
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
Lorrain
,
the
whole
Dukedom
of
Deuxpents
,
and
the
best
part
of
Alsatia
,
as
far
as
Lauterbourgh
,
are
ancient
Dependencies
of
the
Bishopricks
of
Metz
,
Toul
and
Verdun
,
and
must
consequently
be
re-united
to
the
Demeans
of
that
Crown
with
as
much
ease
,
as
the
Lands
of
some
wretched
Treasurers
of
France
have
been
resumed
by
his
Majesty
.
The
third
is
,
that
to
the
end
his
new
Paper-pretences
,
may
be
as
effectual
as
the
right
of
devolution
of
the
low
Countries
in
1667
and
1668.
He
hath
upon
the
Frontiers
on
this
side
considerable
Forces
in
readiness
to
Execute
the
Reunion
,
or
rather
,
under
that
pretence
,
to
do
what
he
shall
think
fit
in
the
Empire
;
when
all
this
while
,
neithe
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
nor
any
Prince
of
the
Empire
dares
openly
stir
.
As
if
what
hath
already
been
done
to
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
,
and
other
Princes
and
Cities
of
the
Empire
in
Alsatia
,
were
not
only
a
certain
presage
,
but
an
unquestionable
President
,
whereby
all
other
Princes
and
States
of
the
Empire
of
what
quality
and
degree
soever
,
may
clearly
see
the
Fortune
of
those
Princes
and
States
,
who
have
the
misfortune
to
hold
of
that
Crown
,
or
be
Neighbours
to
its
Dominions
:
The
consequences
that
naturally
follow
so
untoward
,
and
so
unhappy
a
State
of
Affairs
will
oblige
us
to
Conclude
;
Woe
to
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
if
he
do
not
wholly
alter
his
Conduct
,
and
God
grant
I
speak
not
prophetically
and
truly
,
as
Micajah
when
I
say
His
Imperial
Majesty
will
dearly
rue
his
trusting
his
Council
with
the
direction
and
management
of
Affairs
of
this
Nature
:
And
wo
to
His
Imperial
Majesty
and
the
Empire
,
they
ever
signed
that
false
and
fatal
Peace
,
whereby
both
will
naturally
fall
(
unless
God
by
special
interposition
prevent
it
)
under
the
slavery
of
that
absolute
and
despotical
Dominion
.
Yet
I
would
not
be
thought
to
be
of
Opinion
,
that
if
all
His
Imperial
Majesty's
Council
were
such
as
it
ought
to
be
,
Affairs
would
be
in
that
ill
condition
we
find
them
;
but
the
greater
part
of
that
Council
being
weak
or
corrupted
,
as
I
dare
say
it
is
,
we
are
not
to
doubt
,
but
if
it
continues
,
things
will
still
grow
worse
and
worse
:
I
have
been
bold
to
say
,
the
greater
part
of
the
Imperial
Council
is
Weak
or
Corrupt
:
And
to
make
my
words
good
,
I
will
proceed
by
degrees
from
smaller
matters
to
those
of
greatest
importance
,
to
prove
what
I
affirm
by
unquestionable
Instances
.
The
first
Instance
.
Commissary
General
Capellier
surpriz'd
the
Steward
of
his
House
in
the
very
act
of
Traiterous
Correspondence
with
the
Minister
of
France
,
to
whom
he
gave
an
exact
Account
of
all
he
could
discover
at
his
Master's
House
.
The
Letters
he
sent
to
the
French
Minister
and
those
he
received
from
him
were
seized
at
the
Imperial
Post
Office
at
Frankfort
:
And
though
this
happened
in
the
heat
of
the
War
between
the
two
Nations
,
and
the
Traitor
upon
discovery
of
the
matter
was
arrested
,
and
carried
to
Philipsbourgh
,
&
From
thence
to
Vienna
,
yet
he
(
a
Fellow
worth
nothing
)
found
at
Court
such
powerful
support
,
that
he
was
set
at
Liberty
,
and
cleared
as
a
gallant
Person
.
The
second
Instance
.
The
Siege
of
Phillipsbourg
,
being
form'd
by
the
Imperial
Troops
and
those
of
the
Circles
,
and
the
place
so
much
straitned
that
they
began
to
want
Powder
in
the
Town
,
two
Brothers
,
Burgesses
of
Franckfort
,
corrupted
by
a
French
Minister
,
undertook
to
buy
several
Waggon
Loads
of
Powder
in
the
Empire
,
and
to
conveigh
them
into
Phillipsbourg
with
other
Ammunition
.
But
the
Convoy
for
executing
the
Design
having
been
surprized
by
the
Imperialists
,
and
one
of
the
Rogues
taken
and
sent
to
Vienna
,
he
was
not
long
there
but
he
was
set
at
liberty
as
a
very
honest
Fellow
.
The
third
Instance
.
He
that
commanded
in
Fribourgh
,
when
taken
by
Marshal
Crequi
,
could
not
deny
himself
notoriously
guilty
of
Cowardice
,
or
Treason
;
being
arrested
for
his
Crimes
,
and
carried
first
to
Inspruck
,
and
thence
to
Vienna
:
he
was
look'd
upon
as
a
Sacrifice
necessary
to
be
offer'd
to
expiate
so
hainous
an
offence
against
Equity
,
Policy
,
and
the
Discipline
of
War
;
but
because
he
was
related
to
a
principal
Minister
,
or
rather
because
a
Great
One
was
afraid
he
might
(
if
put
hard
to
it
)
make
some
discoveries
:
He
was
fully
acquitted
,
and
cleared
from
all
that
was
laid
to
his
charge
;
and
in
such
a
manner
,
that
he
retired
home
as
confident
,
and
unconcerned
,
as
ever
the
French
Governour
of
Phillipsbourgh
could
have
done
,
after
the
generous
defence
he
made
of
the
Post
he
commanded
.
The
Fourth
Instance
.
The
Duke
of
Saxe
Eisnach
having
had
the
Command
of
a
little
Army
on
the
Rnine
,
being
an
active
and
brave
Prince
,
neglected
not
any
thing
that
might
conduce
to
the
worthy
discharging
the
Duty
of
his
place
;
those
of
the
Imperial
Council
,
who
took
part
with
France
,
having
designs
contrary
to
those
of
that
Prince
,
were
as
active
on
the
other
side
,
by
close
and
sudden
wayes
to
bring
two
things
to
pass
:
The
first
was
to
raise
and
establish
a
mis-understanding
between
this
Prince
,
and
his
Highness
of
Lorrain
;
Commander
in
chief
of
the
great
Army
of
the
Empire
:
The
Second
was
,
to
order
the
distribution
of
Ammunition
necessary
for
the
Army
in
such
a
manner
,
that
when
it
was
provided
of
one
sort
,
it
should
certainly
want
another
:
When
it
had
Cannon
,
it
wanted
Carriages
;
and
when
it
had
both
these
it
should
have
neither
Powder
nor
Bullet
:
And
to
give
those
of
the
Council
their
due
,
their
designs
took
effect
to
admiration
,
for
the
whole
story
of
that
Campaign
is
(
in
short
)
no
more
but
a
misunderstanding
between
these
Princes
,
and
want
of
Ammunition
.
But
this
was
not
enough
,
for
the
malice
of
these
Emissaries
,
they
poceeded
further
to
hire
one
under
the
name
of
Dela
Magdelaine
,
who
having
been
instructed
by
the
Major
Domo
of
the
Abbot
S.
Gall
(
of
whom
we
shall
have
occasion
to
speak
hereafter
)
was
set
on
to
seduce
and
surprize
this
Prince
:
In
a
word
,
he
came
to
the
Duke
of
Saxe
Eysenach
to
propose
to
him
the
surprizal
of
a
Fortress
belonging
to
France
in
the
higher
Alsatia
:
The
proposal
was
guilded
over
with
so
much
probability
of
success
,
that
the
Duke
animated
with
zeal
to
do
something
great
for
the
Glory
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
the
Interest
of
his
Country
,
greedily
hearkned
,
and
quickly
embraced
the
proposal
.
After
some
necessary
precautions
for
the
Enterprise
,
Duneewald
was
commanded
to
undertake
the
Execution
,
and
having
in
the
Action
discovered
the
Cheat
,
the
Duke
us'd
his
endeavours
to
have
the
Criminal
Arrested
:
But
all
to
no
purpose
;
for
the
Major
Domo
had
already
secured
him
in
a
place
of
safety
:
I
make
no
doubt
but
every
one
will
grant
me
,
this
Rogue
deserved
death
,
and
had
not
any
colour
of
pretence
,
to
find
esteem
or
safety
in
the
Empire
:
But
it
proved
quite
otherwise
upon
his
Capitulation
,
(
I
mean
that
with
the
Major
Domo
)
for
the
Rogue
,
having
play'd
this
excellent
trick
,
had
the
impudence
to
go
to
the
Emperours
Court
,
where
he
was
very
well
received
,
and
highly
treated
,
and
sent
thence
to
Breslaw
,
where
Count
Shaftkutsch
,
President
of
the
Imperial
Chamber
in
Silesia
,
pays
him
constantly
,
by
order
from
above
,
annually
a
considerable
Pension
:
This
arrant
Cheat
goes
now
as
formerly
under
the
Name
of
Cygale
,
and
gives
out
he
is
a-kin
to
the
Grand
Signior
:
But
it
hath
been
made
appear
in
France
and
England
,
that
he
is
a
Native
of
Maldavia
,
and
was
Groom
to
a
Prince
of
that
Country
:
This
is
the
true
Character
of
him
,
the
rest
that
is
said
of
him
are
but
inventions
of
Jesuits
and
Monks
,
who
go
snips
with
him
in
the
Presents
he
receives
on
his
Lying
pretences
.
I
have
been
more
particular
in
my
account
to
your
Highness
of
this
Fellow
,
to
arm
you
the
better
against
a
surprize
,
by
his
Fictions
and
Artifices
,
which
he
continues
to
practise
every
day
in
hope
to
get
something
from
those
he
can
impose
upon
.
The
Fifth
Instance
.
By
what
I
have
said
formerly
of
Swizzerland
,
it
may
appear
of
what
importance
it
may
be
to
the
Emperor
and
Empire
to
make
that
Republick
sensible
of
their
true
interest
,
and
treat
with
them
for
a
League
and
Union
of
Forces
in
defence
of
the
Common
Liberty
;
and
(
to
bring
this
about
)
to
employ
in
the
Negotiation
,
Persons
not
only
capable
and
faithful
,
but
acceptable
to
those
they
are
to
treat
with
:
Yet
as
if
the
Emperor's
Council
made
it
their
business
to
do
in
this
as
other
particulars
,
only
what
may
gain
them
the
favour
,
or
the
Gold
of
His
most
Christian
Majesty
.
'T
is
fit
to
know
the
Person
the
Emperor's
Council
employs
in
all
those
important
Negotiations
they
have
with
that
Republick
.
It
is
no
other
than
the
Abbot
S.
Gall's
Major
Domo
,
above
mentioned
,
called
Monsieur
Fidelle
,
(
Mr.
Faithful
,
)
but
by
the
same
figure
of
speech
our
Divines
call
the
Prince
of
Darkness
an
Angel
of
Light
:
For
this
Fellow
is
notoriously
known
and
confest
to
be
the
falsest
of
Men.
Yet
being
a
Person
of
a
very
ready
wit
,
a
lively
fancy
,
and
naturally
active
in
what
he
undertakes
,
sometimes
he
openly
acts
on
the
part
of
France
,
and
publickly
solicits
Suffrages
in
this
Republick
in
favour
of
that
Crown
;
sometimes
he
turns
his
Coat
,
and
is
on
the
sudden
all
for
the
House
of
Austria
:
This
man
from
a
petty
Pedler
of
Italy
,
is
become
excessive
Rich
,
which
I
mention
as
a
circumstance
whereby
it
may
be
the
better
known
what
a
Man
he
is
,
how
fit
to
negotiate
the
Interests
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
to
be
the
Confident
and
Councellor
of
the
Ministers
of
State
;
His
Council
sends
into
these
parts
:
And
to
make
appear
their
Wisdom
or
Collution
in
this
particular
,
I
must
acquaint
your
Highness
with
a
matter
generally
known
throughout
the
Swisse
Cantons
.
That
this
man
is
owner
of
a
Moity
of
two
Swisse
Companies
,
now
actually
in
the
Service
of
the
French
,
under
the
command
of
his
Son
in
Law
:
(
An
Ordinary
Traffick
among
the
Swisses
)
That
his
most
Christian
Majesty
hath
within
these
three
years
bestowed
on
him
a
Rich
Canonry
,
in
the
higher
Alsatia
,
or
Brisgow
,
which
one
of
his
Sons
is
invested
in
:
That
't
is
this
faithful
Minister
of
the
Imperial
Court
,
hath
since
the
beginning
of
the
last
War
,
bought
all
the
Horses
his
Christian
Majesty
had
need
of
for
his
Armies
,
and
caused
them
to
be
transported
from
the
Port
of
Wasserbourgh
in
Germany
(
where
his
Master
hath
a
Bayliff
,
and
no
small
Power
)
to
the
Port
of
Rochas
,
in
Swizzerland
,
which
is
a
place
whereof
his
Master
is
Soveraign
Prince
:
That
this
man
being
the
principal
incendiary
and
Fomenter
of
all
the
troubles
and
broils
hapned
in
Swisserland
,
these
last
twenty
years
;
is
so
generally
hated
by
all
good
people
of
that
Nation
,
that
to
procure
the
miscarriages
of
any
affair
of
the
Dyets
of
Baden
,
there
is
no
surer
means
than
to
make
the
Assembly
suspect
this
man
hath
a
hand
,
or
is
any
way
concerned
in
it
.
This
appeared
clearly
in
the
affair
of
the
County
of
Burgundy
,
for
Count
Cazatti
,
the
Spanish
Embassadour
,
having
very
unadvisedly
resolved
to
make
use
of
this
mans
Counsel
and
Conduct
in
a
matter
of
that
importance
,
that
mighty
affair
was
utterly
ruin'd
by
that
very
means
:
Notwithstanding
all
,
this
man
is
the
Confident
and
privy
Councellour
of
all
the
Ministers
his
Imperial
Majesty
sends
to
that
Nation
;
and
their
first
business
,
when
arrived
there
,
is
to
visit
him
,
to
consult
him
and
communicate
to
him
all
their
instructions
:
This
about
three
years
since
,
occasion'd
a
pleasant
passage
at
the
Dyet
of
Baden
:
An
Envoy
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
(
whom
I
purposely
forbear
to
name
)
according
to
the
Custom
of
his
Predecessors
in
that
Employ
,
and
the
Orders
establisht
,
went
presently
after
his
arrival
to
consult
this
Oracle
;
going
afterward
to
Baden
,
the
Envoy
was
strangely
surprized
to
find
that
Gravelle
the
French
Embassadour
had
already
Communicated
to
the
Assembly
all
the
private
Instructions
the
Envoy
had
received
from
the
Council
at
Vienna
:
Thus
that
Envoy's
Nogotiations
came
to
nothing
,
and
so
will
all
others
his
Imperial
Majesty
shall
permit
to
be
managed
by
the
false
and
Corrupt
Conduct
of
a
Man
so
base
,
and
altogether
unworthy
the
honour
of
that
Employment
.
The
Sixth
Instance
.
'T
is
an
infallible
Maxim
,
that
every
Prince
dispossest
of
his
Estate
,
may
hold
for
certain
,
there
will
be
nothing
omitted
on
the
part
of
the
Usurper
,
or
a
Conquerour
in
possession
to
ruin
him
,
if
possible
,
and
all
his
Generation
.
Therefore
't
is
not
strange
,
that
the
Ministers
of
France
(
though
perhaps
in
this
particular
against
the
intention
and
without
the
order
of
his
most
Christian
Majesty
)
leave
no
stone
unturned
for
the
destruction
of
his
Highness
of
Lorrain
:
But
it
may
surprize
any
man
to
find
that
the
Imperial
Governour
of
Phillipsbourgh
,
should
(
so
openly
and
notoriously
,
as
he
did
)
have
attempted
the
destruction
of
that
Prince
,
by
the
trap
he
caused
cunningly
to
be
made
in
the
bridge
of
that
place
,
for
that
purpose
,
through
which
the
good
Prince
fell
headlong
to
the
bottom
of
the
Ditch
:
May
we
not
justly
infer
,
this
Governor
had
capitulated
and
agreed
with
some
Minister
of
the
Enemy
to
commit
so
vile
a
Treason
?
May
we
not
conclude
so
black
an
attempt
against
a
Soveraign
Prince
,
Brother
in
Law
to
the
Emperor
,
and
at
that
time
representing
the
Person
of
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
under
the
Character
of
Generalissimo
of
his
Armies
,
unquestionably
merited
exemplary
punishment
?
No
honest
Man
but
expected
the
Criminal
should
have
been
made
a
Sacrifice
to
Justice
and
Vengeance
,
when
he
was
taken
and
carried
under
a
strong
Guard
to
Vienna
.
But
all
that
was
meer
shew
,
for
the
Favourers
of
France
had
that
influence
over
the
Council
at
Vienna
,
that
this
Villain
,
as
the
former
,
past
altogether
unpunished
.
The
seventh
Instance
.
It
appears
publickly
his
most
Christian
Majesty
since
the
Peace
Arms
by
Sea
and
Land
more
powerfully
than
before
;
and
France
being
not
sufficient
for
the
Levies
he
makes
,
he
is
come
by
his
Ambassadour
to
the
Center
of
the
Empire
,
to
Frankford
and
to
Prague
to
compleat
them
.
He
causes
Fortresses
and
Places
of
strength
to
be
every
day
built
on
Saar
,
the
Rhine
,
and
all
the
Frontiers
of
Germany
,
I
think
there
needs
no
better
evidence
of
his
having
a
Design
to
reduce
Almayn
into
a
condition
of
disability
of
help
it self
,
when
he
thinks
fit
to
attacque
it
;
if
we
consider
farther
,
that
he
causes
his
Commissaries
to
buy
up
all
the
Corn
in
Swabe
and
Franconia
,
which
is
daily
carried
away
into
his
Magazins
in
Lorrain
,
Alsatia
,
and
the
County
of
Burgundy
.
Let
us
examine
on
the
other
side
the
conduct
of
the
Head
and
Natural
Defender
of
the
Empire
,
or
rather
of
his
unhappy
Council
:
This
Prince
hath
since
the
Peace
reformed
all
his
Troops
;
and
in
particular
the
Garrison
of
Rhinefeld
,
which
is
of
principal
consequence
:
Let
us
weigh
the
matter
without
prejudice
:
He
hath
disbanded
most
of
his
old
Regiments
,
and
kept
on
foot
only
part
of
the
new
.
A
man
must
be
blind
,
and
void
of
common
sense
,
who
comprehends
not
that
the
Imperial
Council
hath
in
this
particular
acted
by
inteligence
with
the
Council
of
France
,
and
by
their
direction
,
to
deprive
the
Emperor
of
the
only
Officers
and
Soldiers
capable
to
defend
him
,
and
to
make
them
immediately
go
over
into
the
service
of
France
:
The
matter
hath
fallen
out
according
to
their
design
,
and
I
leave
it
to
any
man
versed
in
matters
of
State
or
of
War
,
to
judge
what
a
Conduct
so
extraordinary
as
this
doth
naturally
signifie
.
I
should
be
too
tedious
to
give
you
all
the
Instances
I
know
whereby
to
prove
the
Emperour
is
certainly
betray'd
by
the
greater
part
of
his
Council
.
But
to
be
short
,
let
it
be
observed
,
that
the
same
Council
that
cleared
the
Steward
of
Commissary
Capelliers
,
the
Traytors
of
Frankfort
who
would
have
furnished
Philipsbourgh
with
Powder
in
the
Siege
,
and
the
Governour
of
Fribourgh
:
The
same
Council
that
hath
protected
at
Brestaw
the
Villain
who
abused
the
Duke
of
Saxe
Eisnach
,
and
procur'd
a
Pension
to
be
setled
on
him
;
the
same
Council
that
hath
setled
the
Major
Domo
of
the
Abbot
S.
Gall.
to
be
the
Imperial
Minister
in
Switzerland
,
and
prevented
the
exemplary
punishment
of
the
Governour
of
Phillipsbourgh
;
the
same
Council
that
advised
His
Imperial
Majesty
to
reforme
the
greatest
part
of
his
Troops
,
and
in
the
manner
I
have
told
you
;
this
is
the
very
Council
hath
clearly
acquitted
and
approved
of
all
the
Conduct
and
publick
Robberies
and
Insolencies
of
Commissary
Capelliers
,
and
others
:
and
by
causing
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
to
sign
the
late
shameful
Peace
,
have
reduced
the
too
good
Prince
into
such
a
Condition
,
that
(
without
a
special
Providence
of
God
to
the
:
contrary
)
no
Prince
will
henceforth
without
much
difficulty
and
caution
relye
on
his
Word
or
his
Signet
:
So
that
considering
the
Activity
,
the
Power
and
Interest
of
his
Enemy
,
with
the
credit
and
influence
he
hath
in
the
Emperor's
Council
,
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
as
to
his
Elective
Imperial
Crown
(
and
I
know
not
what
to
say
of
his
Hereditary
Dominions
and
Estates
)
seems
reduced
to
the
Condition
of
a
Chilperic
,
or
a
Charles
in
France
;
for
he
hath
more
than
one
Pepin
,
or
one
Hugh
Capet
to
deal
with
.
Nor
do
I
see
he
hath
any
greater
Authority
than
had
those
two
unfortunate
Kings
,
who
were
violently
thrust
out
of
their
Thrones
;
which
neither
they
,
nor
any
of
their
Posterity
ever
regained
.
The
better
to
convince
the
World
how
foully
His
Imperial
Majesty
is
betrayed
by
his
Council
,
and
in
him
all
the
Princes
and
States
of
the
Empire
,
and
that
there
hath
been
of
a
long
time
a
horrid
and
villainous
Plot
carried
on
against
them
with
great
cunning
and
caution
,
give
me
leave
to
observe
that
it
proceeds
from
the
secret
Engines
of
this
Plot
,
that
His
Imperial
Majesty's
two
Sisters
were
Married
to
Princes
,
both
Robbed
of
their
Dominions
and
Estates
:
As
to
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
,
Husband
of
the
Elder
,
he
continues
to
this
day
stript
of
all
his
Estates
,
and
if
the
late
Peace
hold
,
I
see
little
hopes
of
his
Re-establishment
.
And
it
cannot
be
deny'd
but
that
the
Duke
of
Newbourgh
,
though
restored
by
the
Peace
to
the
Dukedoms
of
Juliers
and
Berg
,
was
out
of
possession
of
both
at
the
time
of
the
Marriage
of
his
Son
to
the
Emperor's
younger
Sister
.
The
Reasons
of
these
Marriages
were
,
that
the
Princesses
being
Married
(
as
they
are
)
to
Princes
uncapable
to
afford
His
Imperial
Majesty
any
Succour
at
need
,
neither
His
Majesty
nor
his
Allies
might
have
any
benfit
by
the
Marriages
.
And
that
when
ever
France
should
be
desirous
of
Peace
,
there
might
be
those
in
the
Imperial
Councils
and
Court
,
whose
Interest
would
oblige
them
to
desire
and
procure
it
,
in
order
to
their
restoration
and
re-establishment
in
their
Estates
,
and
to
free
themselves
from
the
necessity
of
begging
their
Bread
elsewhere
.
It
hath
happened
accordingly
as
to
the
Duke
of
Newburgh
at
least
,
for
having
not
wherewith
to
bear
the
Charge
of
the
Marriage
of
his
Son
with
the
Emperor's
Sister
,
without
being
restored
to
the
Dutchies
of
Juliers
and
Berg
,
which
could
not
(
at
least
so
speedily
)
be
effected
without
a
Peace
,
what
wonder
is
it
,
that
this
Prince
hath
for
the
time
past
(
being
forced
by
his
Necessities
)
joyned
with
that
part
of
the
Emperor's
Council
that
was
for
Peace
,
and
assisted
them
in
perswading
His
Imperial
Majesty
to
sign
it
on
any
Condition
:
Nor
can
it
appear
strange
,
if
this
Prince
for
the
suture
joyn
with
the
same
Council
,
and
use
all
his
Credit
and
Interest
with
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
never
to
enter
into
a
War
with
France
,
though
he
have
never
so
great
Reason
for
it
.
For
when
wants
and
Necessities
enter
in
at
the
Door
,
Honour
and
Friendship
flyeth
out
at
the
windows
.
His
Highness
of
Lorrain
(
to
give
him
his
due
)
hath
done
bravely
on
his
occasion
,
having
generously
chosen
to
run
the
Risque
of
losing
all
,
rather
than
sign
so
shameful
and
unjust
a
Peace
,
as
that
proposed
to
him
by
France
:
And
I
shall
be
very
much
deceived
,
if
he
or
his
recover
not
their
Estates
rather
by
this
than
any
other
Conduct
:
For
Revolutions
are
Common
to
all
,
and
I
have
particular
Reasons
to
believe
it
may
one
day
happen
so
in
the
Affairs
of
his
Highness
.
This
I
think
is
more
than
sufficient
to
Evince
that
His
Imperial
Majesty
hath
been
basely
betrayed
by
his
Council
.
My
next
business
is
to
shew
by
what
sort
of
People
he
hath
been
chiefly
betrayed
,
and
with
what
Covers
they
have
guilded
those
Pills
,
which
they
have
made
this
Good
and
August
Prince
swallow
from
time
to
time
.
To
find
the
bottom
of
this
business
,
we
must
look
a
great
way
back
,
as
far
as
the
beginning
of
the
War
,
which
France
by
Concert
with
England
,
the
Elector
of
Cologne
,
the
Duke
of
Newburgh
,
and
the
Bishop
of
Munster
,
made
against
the
United
Provinces
in
1672.
After
several
Alliances
with
the
Deceased
Elector
of
Bavaria
,
and
Duke
of
Hanover
,
and
others
,
which
were
but
too
visible
during
that
War.
Several
pretences
have
been
made
use
of
to
colour
that
Rupture
,
but
the
truth
is
,
it
was
fomented
only
by
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
:
To
give
your
Highness
full
and
clear
satisfaction
in
this
particular
,
be
pleased
to
permit
me
to
put
you
in
mind
,
that
a
little
before
the
breaking
out
of
that
War
,
his
Royal
Highness
of
Savoy
Deceased
,
having
taken
his
Measures
with
the
Court
and
Council
of
France
,
made
open
War
against
the
Republick
of
Genoa
.
The
Court
of
Rome
wisely
judging
the
Duke
of
Savoy
would
not
have
engaged
in
that
Enterprize
without
assurance
before
hand
of
Succour
and
Protection
from
France
,
if
needful
;
and
that
those
petty
Sparks
might
raise
a
General
Conflagration
in
Italy
,
which
in
time
might
draw
over
thither
all
the
French
Forces
,
and
consequently
expose
that
Country
to
inevitable
Ruin
;
that
subtil
and
cunning
Court
,
to
save
themselves
from
the
storm
,
applied
themselves
seriously
,
In
the
First
place
,
to
put
an
end
upon
any
terms
to
the
War
between
the
Duke
and
the
Republick
,
which
Monsieur
Gaumont
soon
after
effected
.
In
the
next
place
,
being
sensible
what
formidable
Forces
His
Most
Christian
Majesty
had
then
on
foot
,
and
that
that
Monarch
could
not
forbear
breaking
out
into
a
new
War
;
the
Court
of
Rome
resolved
to
use
all
their
endeavours
to
divert
from
themselves
and
their
Neighbours
,
the
Effects
of
the
French
Arms
,
and
cause
them
to
fall
on
some
other
Country
of
Europe
,
the
most
remote
that
might
be
from
Italy
,
and
where
it
might
be
most
Convenient
for
the
Interest
of
the
Pope
:
The
Jesuits
having
given
directions
to
this
purpose
,
the
affair
was
manag'd
with
that
subtilty
,
the
Storm
fell
altogether
on
the
United
Provinces
,
the
Court
of
Rome
assuring
it self
,
that
if
that
Republique
were
once
destroy'd
,
the
whole
Protestant
Party
would
naturally
come
to
ruin
,
and
the
Papal
Authority
in
a
short
time
recover
it's
primitive
Grandeur
and
Glory
.
Great
Obstacles
were
quickly
discovered
against
the
carrying
on
this
mighty
Project
:
The
most
Christian
King
who
clearly
saw
what
the
Court
of
Rome
aim'd
at
,
was
,
or
pretended
to
be
,
unwilling
to
engage
in
Open
War
against
the
United
Provinces
,
but
on
two
Conditions
.
First
,
That
the
Court
of
Rome
should
secretly
consent
and
give
way
that
he
might
,
if
he
could
,
joyn
the
Provinces
of
the
Spanish
Netherlands
and
Lorrain
,
with
what
he
could
Conquer
from
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
,
to
form
or
restore
the
Ancient
Kingdom
of
Austrasia
.
Secondly
,
that
the
Court
of
Rome
should
assure
him
,
to
their
Power
,
to
procure
his
Majesty
and
the
Dauphin
,
(
who
was
designed
the
New
King
of
Austrasia
,
)
the
Imperial
Crown
.
As
to
the
point
of
the
Spanish
Netherlands
,
it
must
be
observ'd
,
that
to
bring
about
the
Design
,
it
was
absolutely
necessary
to
manage
his
Majesty
of
Great
Brittain
,
(
whose
interests
there
were
very
considerable
)
and
there
could
be
no
hopes
to
give
him
satisfaction
without
Sacrificing
to
him
something
very
considerable
of
what
belong'd
to
the
Spaniard
.
It
would
have
been
almost
impossible
for
any
but
the
Jesuits
Interests
,
so
different
,
to
reconcile
and
overcome
so
great
and
Numerous
Difficulties
.
The
two
Branches
of
the
most
August
House
of
Austria
,
had
heap'd
most
considerable
Favours
,
and
showed
their
Bounties
,
on
the
Society
of
Jesuits
:
But
when
they
are
concerned
for
the
Grandeur
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
Interests
of
the
Miter
(
which
(
by
the
way
)
the
Society
looks
on
with
the
same
Ardour
a
young
Prince
in
Love
would
eye
the
advantages
,
the
Glory
and
Interests
of
a
Beautiful
and
rich
Queen
,
whom
he
made
no
doubt
but
he
should
one
day
enjoy
)
all
Thoughts
and
memory
of
the
favours
received
from
the
August
Family
,
are
wholly
laid
aside
on
that
occasion
;
the
Jesuits
fell
immdiately
to
find
out
Expedients
for
two
Reasons
,
full
of
Justice
and
Equity
,
according
to
the
Politick
Maxims
of
that
Blessed
Society
.
The
first
was
that
whereas
the
House
of
Austria
in
the
present
Conjuncture
was
notoriously
unable
to
raise
the
Roman
Bishops
to
their
former
Estate
of
Grandeur
and
Glory
,
and
that
there
was
not
any
but
His
most
Christian
Majesty
,
who
by
his
Forces
and
Interests
could
work
this
kind
of
Miracle
it
was
absolutely
necessary
to
remove
all
Difficulties
and
Obstacles
that
might
hinder
the
effecting
an
enterprise
so
Profitable
and
Glorious
.
The
Second
,
That
in
case
the
Design
should
take
effect
,
the
Society
was
assured
of
having
in
recompence
of
their
pains
,
two
great
Abbies
,
Heads
of
their
Orders
,
the
one
in
the
Ancient
Kingdom
of
France
,
the
other
in
the
New
Conquests
:
Which
Abbys
were
to
be
added
to
the
vast
Patrimony
of
this
Society
,
besides
the
assurances
they
had
by
the
protection
of
France
,
to
obtain
a
Settlement
in
Amsterdam
,
and
elsewhere
.
Upon
these
Grounds
they
procur'd
the
Treaties
to
be
privately
sign'd
between
France
and
Rome
,
and
between
France
and
England
,
by
vertue
whereof
the
War
was
quickly
begun
against
the
United
Provinces
.
I
pass
over
in
silence
the
satisfaction
his
Majesty
of
Great
Brittain
was
to
have
,
as
impertinent
to
my
present
business
:
It
may
be
observed
,
that
as
under
the
Reign
of
Philip
the
second
France
was
to
have
been
made
(
as
far
as
it
lay
in
the
Power
of
Rome
)
a
Sacrifice
to
the
Interests
of
the
Papal
Miter
,
and
the
Monarch
of
Spain
,
't
is
now
become
the
turn
of
the
most
August
House
of
Austria
,
(
according
to
this
Project
)
to
be
Sacrificed
to
the
interests
of
the
Papacy
,
the
Jesuits
and
his
most
Christian
Majesty
.
And
that
as
the
principal
design
of
the
Jesuits
,
and
of
France
,
was
the
absolute
destruction
of
the
Protestant
Party
,
it
was
from
hence
it
proceeded
,
that
a
League
was
form'd
and
sign'd
by
most
of
the
Catholick
Princes
of
Germany
,
and
incorporated
into
the
Treaties
above
mention'd
,
wherein
every
of
the
Confederates
had
,
or
at
least
thought
to
have
had
his
design
,
and
compass'd
his
ends
,
as
afterwards
appear'd
:
Hence
also
it
proceeded
that
France
,
having
anciently
had
very
strict
alliances
with
the
Protestant
Princes
of
Germany
,
conceal'd
very
carefully
the
present
design
from
all
its
ancient
Allyes
of
that
Communion
.
The
Court
of
Rome
,
and
the
Society
as
carefully
conceal'd
it
from
both
branches
of
the
House
of
Austria
;
and
all
this
for
reasons
,
than
which
nothing
is
more
easily
apprehended
:
For
the
same
reason
it
was
,
that
in
the
beginning
of
this
War
,
nothing
was
omitted
by
the
Popes
Nuncio
,
the
Jesuits
,
and
their
Emissaries
,
to
lull
asleep
the
Councils
of
Vienna
and
Madrid
;
and
that
afterwards
they
did
with
all
possible
diligence
reveal
to
the
Ministers
of
France
,
all
they
could
discover
of
the
deliberations
of
the
Imperial
Council
,
or
the
Spanish
.
For
the
same
reason
it
was
,
that
his
Imperial
Majesty
by
the
clear
Remonstrances
of
the
Elector
of
Brandenbourgh
being
made
sensible
of
the
Trap
cunningly
laid
for
him
by
the
French
,
and
having
commanded
an
Army
to
joyn
with
that
Elector
on
the
Rhine
,
those
Emissaries
of
Rome
laid
all
their
heads
together
,
and
for
their
Master-piece
to
carry
on
the
Design
,
effected
two
things
.
The
first
was
the
Rebellion
of
the
Male
Contents
in
Hungary
,
not
yet
Suppressed
,
whereby
they
endeavour'd
,
if
possible
,
to
give
the
Emperour
so
strong
a
diversion
,
that
it
might
not
be
in
his
Power
to
assist
his
Allies
.
The
second
,
I
have
from
an
Anonimous
Author
of
an
Essay
of
the
Interest
of
the
Protestant
Princes
and
States
,
Printed
in
the
year
,
1676.
and
treating
of
several
things
,
in
this
respect
very
considerable
:
The
Author
in
my
Opinion
deserves
the
more
Credit
,
in
that
he
hath
lash'd
the
Society
to
some
purpose
in
his
Discourse
,
yet
not
one
of
it's
Patrons
or
Partisans
hath
undertook
to
refute
him
:
The
account
he
gives
of
the
first
Campaign
,
I
will
repeat
Word
for
Word
from
the
Original
,
as
very
sutable
to
my
purpose
.
In
the
Year
1672.
when
the
Arms
of
France
were
so
prosperous
,
that
all
Europe
looked
on
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
as
very
near
Destruction
,
His
Electoral
Highness
of
Brandenbourgh
wisely
foreseeing
the
Consequences
to
be
expected
from
the
Ambitious
Enterprizes
of
France
,
if
not
stopped
in
time
,
gained
himself
the
Reputation
,
not
only
of
having
been
the
first
Prince
of
Christendom
who
drew
his
Sword
in
Protection
of
that
broken
State
,
but
by
vigorous
Remonstrances
to
the
Court
of
Vienna
,
was
the
cause
that
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
awaking
out
of
the
Lethargy
some
corrupt
Counsellors
had
cast
him
into
,
resolved
to
Arm
vigorously
,
and
joyn
with
his
Electoral
Highness
in
Defence
of
that
Republique
:
His
Electoral
Highness
in
pursuance
of
this
Resolution
being
advanc'd
towards
the
Rhine
,
with
a
considerable
Army
,
and
Count
Montecuculi
being
on
his
way
thither
in
the
Head
of
an
Imperial
Army
,
with
design
to
act
jointly
,
and
to
do
something
considerable
in
favour
of
the
Republique
.
France
,
allarm'd
by
the
March
of
the
two
German
Armies
,
had
detach'd
Marshal
Turenne
,
with
a
Body
of
an
Army
to
observe
the
motions
of
the
other
two
:
But
by
the
several
Marches
and
Counter-Marches
these
two
Armies
had
made
,
especially
that
of
Brandenbourgh
,
sometimes
making
as
if
they
would
pass
the
Rhine
in
several
places
,
sometimes
in
being
ready
to
fall
upon
the
Allies
of
France
beyond
the
Rhine
,
Turennes
Army
was
so
tyr'd
out
and
harassed
,
that
about
the
end
of
the
Campaign
it
was
almost
quite
dissipated
,
and
found
it self
in
so
miserable
a
Condition
,
that
't
is
certain
all
Turenne
was
able
to
do
,
was
to
be
on
the
defensive
against
one
of
those
Armies
,
and
that
if
both
Armies
had
join'd
,
Turenne
had
been
inevitably
lost
,
as
was
publickly
confest
.
His
Electoral
Highness
of
Brandenburgh
knowing
how
easie
it
was
to
destroy
Turenne
,
and
the
Consequence
of
his
Defeat
,
caused
a
vigorous
Remonstrance
of
all
to
be
made
to
the
Council
of
Vienna
;
it
was
so
effectual
,
that
positive
Orders
were
sent
Montecuculi
to
join
his
Electoral
Highness
and
Fight
Turenne
,
without
further
loss
of
time
;
which
would
have
broken
all
the
open
and
hidden
Measures
of
France
,
and
by
one
blow
freed
the
Empire
and
Holland
from
Oppression
.
But
other
matters
were
in
hand
for
the
Interest
of
Rome
.
His
Majesty
of
Great
Brittain
had
permitted
himself
to
be
perswaded
to
publish
about
that
time
,
a
Declaration
(
whereof
he
made
Report
to
his
Parliament
,
)
whereby
a
Tolleration
and
Indulgence
was
granted
in
favour
of
the
Nonconformists
of
his
Kingdom
.
Though
it
may
be
thought
it
was
not
so
much
for
favouring
the
particular
Conventicles
of
the
Sectaries
of
the
Protestant
Party
,
as
,
under
the
name
of
Non-Conformists
,
to
introduce
Popery
again
into
that
Estate
,
though
contrary
to
the
Designs
and
Intentions
of
His
Majesty
,
who
granted
it
only
in
favour
of
the
tender
Consciences
of
his
Protestant
Subjects
:
This
Step
towards
Popery
being
the
First
Fruits
the
Court
of
Rome
had
promised
it self
from
the
Ruin
of
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
,
't
is
no
wonder
that
Court
set
all
hands
at
work
to
effect
that
Ruin.
The
then
principal
Obstacles
of
the
Design
,
was
the
Resolution
of
His
Electoral
Highness
against
Turenne
,
the
Destruction
of
his
Army
being
capable
to
Re-establish
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
,
and
that
Re-establishment
would
have
destroyed
all
the
Projects
of
the
Jesuits
in
England
.
Here
it
was
the
Jesuits
plaid
their
part
to
prevent
the
blow
from
fallin
on
Turenne
,
and
they
acted
it
too
well
for
the
general
Good
of
Europe
:
for
Montecuculi
instead
of
receiving
Express
Order
to
joyn
Brandenbourgh's
Army
,
and
fight
Turenne
,
received
Orders
quite
contrary
;
whereby
he
was
absolutely
forbidden
to
do
the
one
or
the
other
.
To
drive
this
Nail
to
the
head
;
the
venerable
Society
(
whose
impudence
nothing
can
parallel
)
made
it
their
business
several
ways
to
infuse
into
his
Electoral
Highness
a
jealousie
of
the
Emperour
,
as
insincere
in
his
intentions
:
this
was
effected
with
the
greater
facility
,
for
that
his
E.
H.
of
Brandenbourgh
,
having
received
from
the
Court
of
Vienna
,
a
formal
Letter
,
which
gave
him
an
exact
account
of
the
true
order
his
Imperial
Majesty
had
sent
Montecuculi
to
join
him
and
fight
the
French
,
and
his
E.
H.
having
summoned
Montecuculi
to
execute
that
Order
,
Montecuculi
,
who
knew
he
had
Orders
quite
contrary
,
but
knew
nothing
of
the
former
,
of
which
the
Elector
had
account
,
could
do
no
less
than
refuse
the
one
and
the
other
,
nor
could
his
Electoral
Highness
choose
upon
the
refusal
,
but
suspect
the
sincerity
of
the
Emperor's
Intentions
.
This
was
not
enough
for
those
Masters
of
mischief
,
for
at
the
same
time
those
Emissaries
omitted
nothing
that
might
instill
into
Montecuculi
,
a
suspicion
of
the
sincerity
of
the
Elector's
Intentions
.
These
Jealousies
being
but
too
deeply
established
,
especially
on
this
last
side
,
't
is
no
wonder
His
Electoral
Highness
was
at
last
perswaded
(
as
these
Emissaries
had
by
a
third
Hand
infinuated
to
him
)
that
the
House
of
Austria
treated
under-hand
a
separate
Peace
with
France
:
Which
appeared
the
more
probable
,
by
the
daily
Advice
he
had
of
the
miserable
estate
of
Turenne's
Army
,
growing
every
hour
worse
and
worse
,
and
the
obstinacy
of
Montecuculi
,
neither
to
joyn
him
,
nor
fight
.
The
Emissaries
foreseeing
this
misunderstanding
would
vanish
intime
time
,
when
the
truth
should
appear
,
made
use
of
that
conjuncture
to
set
on
the
Duke
of
Newbourgh
to
manage
a
particular
Peace
between
his
Electoral
Highness
and
France
;
which
the
Electoral
,
jealous
of
the
Imperialists
,
and
vext
at
their
proceedings
,
was
at
last
perswaded
to
accept
,
and
with
so
much
the
more
reason
,
that
as
to
Holland
he
pretended
they
had
not
satisfied
their
Engagements
to
him
,
and
as
to
the
Interests
of
the
Empire
he
reserved
himself
intire
liberty
to
arm
in
its
defence
,
if
France
should
attacque
it
.
The
Elector
was
concerned
in
Reputation
to
make
the
Emperour
sensible
of
his
just
Resentments
of
Montecuculi's
proceeding
:
Montecuculi
was
strangely
surprized
,
when
at
his
return
to
Vienna
his
Master
called
him
to
a
strict
account
of
his
Conduct
,
and
the
Reasons
why
he
had
neither
joined
Brandenbourgh's
Army
,
nor
fought
Turenne
,
when
express
Orders
had
been
sent
him
for
both
.
But
if
Montecuculi
was
surprized
at
the
Question
,
his
Imperial
Majesty
was
no
less
at
the
Answer
,
when
his
sage
General
produced
for
his
discharge
an
Order
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
in
very
good
form
,
expresly
forbidding
him
either
to
joyn
with
Brandenbourgh
or
fight
Turenne
:
And
't
is
certain
,
this
General
found
all
the
justice
of
his
Cause
,
and
the
assurance
his
Master
had
of
his
fidelity
,
little
enough
to
clear
him
of
this
unhappy
Affair
.
I
know
this
business
is
one
of
those
Riddles
never
to
be
decypher'd
,
unless
the
Author
will
voluntarily
give
us
the
Key
.
I
know
't
is
from
hence
it
proceeds
,
that
one
of
the
principal
Wretches
of
this
Court
hath
been
formerly
charged
with
this
Forgery
:
But
to
speak
the
truth
,
the
whole
guilt
of
this
Affair
lies
at
the
Doors
of
the
Emissaries
of
Rome
in
this
Court
,
who
by
secret
Contrivances
with
those
of
France
,
found
the
means
to
intercept
the
true
Original
Order
,
and
in
the
same
dispatch
to
transmit
a
false
one
,
but
very
well
Counterfeit
both
the
Hand
and
Seal
:
And
that
by
People
who
are
not
now
to
learn
that
Trade
.
It
being
certain
we
should
not
have
seen
so
many
Troubles
in
Hungary
,
as
daily
are
there
,
had
these
Emissaries
less
credit
in
the
Emperours
Court.
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
the
Elector
of
Brandenbourgh
,
and
Count
Montecuculi
know
the
truth
of
all
that
concerns
them
in
this
Affair
:
But
I
am
well
assur'd
not
one
of
the
three
knows
the
secret
Engines
set
at
work
in
the
business
.
What
I
know
thereof
comes
not
from
them
,
but
from
a
place
where
every
particular
of
this
Negotiation
was
known
,
and
by
whom
it
was
animated
.
Certain
it
is
,
if
the
point
of
the
Catholicon
in
England
had
not
been
found
;
the
Ministers
of
France
could
not
have
so
easily
compassed
this
Forgery
;
but
by
that
every
thing
became
feasible
,
the
Directors
of
the
Society
having
voluntarily
undertaken
to
master
all
Difficulties
.
By
the
ingenious
Deduction
of
this
Relation
,
where
the
Author
speaks
plainly
,
as
a
man
well
instructed
and
acquainted
with
the
fineness
,
and
superfineness
of
the
management
,
and
by
what
I
have
said
before
,
on
the
same
Subject
,
and
every
one
may
of
himself
apprehend
it
appears
that
it
proceeds
from
a
Principle
of
a
Papal
,
or
Jesuitical
Ambition
,
the
Council
of
Vienna
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
War
,
hath
been
so
well
penetrated
,
directed
,
or
altered
,
that
all
the
Expeditions
of
the
Imperial
Army
(
except
with
convenient
distinctions
,
the
considerable
Important
taking
of
Bonne
,
the
long
and
langushing
Siege
of
Phillipsbourgh
,
and
the
taking
it
at
last
,
and
the
death
of
Turenne
,
which
was
meerly
accidental
)
I
say
all
the
Expeditions
,
these
three
Points
excepted
,
have
been
from
the
beginnings
of
the
Campaigns
to
the
end
of
them
,
but
so
many
Processions
and
Pilgrimages
of
Shame
and
of
Misery
,
of
Disorder
and
confusion
,
as
the
Subjects
of
the
Empire
know
too
well
,
who
have
been
flay'd
to
the
bone
,
and
had
their
Marrow
suckedout
by
Winter
quarters
,
without
consideration
,
or
mercy
,
but
especially
the
Protestant
States
and
people
,
and
other
Princes
,
Lords
,
Magistrates
,
Countries
and
Towns
,
who
have
felt
the
smart
of
that
fiery
Tryal
.
From
the
same
principle
it
is
,
that
when
by
the
Expulsion
of
the
Swedes
out
of
the
Patrimony
of
the
Empire
,
his
Electoral
Highness
of
Brandenbourgh
,
and
his
Highness
of
Zell
and
Osnabourgh
were
in
a
condition
(
notwithstanding
the
particular
peace
of
the
United
Provinces
and
Spain
)
to
transport
the
chief
of
their
Forces
upon
the
Frontiers
of
France
,
and
by
so
glorious
an
Action
,
to
oblige
France
infallibly
to
make
a
peace
with
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
,
according
to
Justice
and
Equity
,
then
were
the
Emissaries
of
Rome
,
so
powerful
in
the
Council
at
Vienna
,
that
they
obliged
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
to
the
prejudice
of
all
his
Treaties
,
to
seal
privately
such
a
peace
with
France
,
as
we
have
mentioned
before
;
which
hath
been
manag'd
with
so
much
dexterity
,
that
that
good
(
but
for
that
time
too
credulous
)
Prince
did
believe
,
and
perhaps
is
still
of
the
same
mind
,
that
he
acted
according
to
the
most
judicious
Maxims
of
Religion
and
Prudence
:
And
because
it
may
concern
your
Highness
to
be
inform'd
what
Artifices
were
used
by
the
Jesuits
and
Ministers
of
France
,
who
went
hand
in
hand
,
acting
by
concert
in
all
this
Affair
,
to
engage
his
Imperial
Majesty
to
sign
that
fatal
Peace
,
there
were
sent
from
France
under
other
pretences
the
Dutchess
of
Meclenbourgh
to
the
Court
of
Zell
,
and
the
Count
of
D'
Epause
to
that
of
Brandenbourgh
,
and
at
the
same
time
the
Jesuits
labour'd
so
effectually
,
that
his
Imperial
Majesty
was
made
believe
(
though
certainly
without
just
ground
)
that
the
Houses
of
Brandenbourgh
and
Lunenbourgh
had
already
agreed
,
or
were
just
upon
agreeing
,
to
a
separate
Peace
with
France
;
whereby
his
Imperial
Majesty
would
be
left
alone
a
prey
to
the
French
Ambition
.
True
it
is
,
if
those
Princes
were
in
that
Conjuncture
(
as
is
very
probable
)
very
willing
to
keep
what
they
had
conquer'd
from
the
Swede
:
I
think
they
had
done
well
to
have
dismist
those
Envoys
from
their
Courts
,
which
had
they
done
,
it
would
at
least
have
taken
away
from
the
Emperours
corrupt
Council
,
all
pretence
of
rendring
them
suspitious
to
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
hastening
him
in
pursuance
of
that
suspition
to
sign
the
peace
under
Consideration
.
To
sum
up
all
,
we
may
from
what
hath
been
said
,
reasonably
infer
these
three
particulars
.
First
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
hath
been
basely
betrayed
by
the
greater
part
of
his
Council
;
for
I
am
not
so
malicious
and
unjust
to
confound
the
innocent
with
the
guilty
,
and
not
to
make
an
exception
(
out
of
the
general
clause
)
in
favour
of
those
of
his
Council
,
who
are
men
of
Integrity
and
Honour
,
who
in
truth
I
think
are
very
few
,
and
not
much
in
Credit
.
Secondly
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
being
so
villanously
betray'd
by
his
Council
,
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
,
through
the
indissoluble
union
of
the
head
and
Members
cannot
but
miserably
participate
the
misfortune
and
sufferings
of
its
Soveraign
,
as
is
very
well
known
by
a
fatal
,
and
too
long
experience
.
Thirdly
,
that
't
is
easie
for
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
the
Empire
,
to
know
whom
they
have
equallly
cause
to
complain
of
,
and
from
what
Principle
not
only
this
Treason
is
derived
,
but
all
the
mischiefs
that
have
afflicted
Christendom
,
for
above
an
Age
,
but
especially
the
Empire
since
the
beginning
of
the
late
War
:
I
say
for
above
an
Age
,
as
to
the
General
;
because
that
which
his
most
Christian
Majesty
,
instigated
by
the
Jesuits
,
undertakes
in
our
days
,
is
but
the
same
,
which
,
by
instigation
of
their
predecessors
,
Charles
the
first
,
the
Emperour
Fardinand
the
Second
,
and
Philip
the
Second
of
Spain
,
did
in
their
days
.
As
to
the
Empire
in
particular
I
say
,
since
the
beginning
of
the
last
War
;
because
't
is
certain
his
Imperial
Majesty
hath
been
since
that
time
by
the
means
I
have
mentioned
,
so
closely
beset
,
and
so
strictly
observed
,
that
't
is
not
in
his
power
to
speak
,
to
advise
,
to
wish
,
or
do
any
thing
,
but
the
Society
knows
,
and
absolutely
destroys
it
,
if
not
suitable
to
their
particular
Interests
and
Designs
:
There
is
not
a
person
in
the
Emperor's
Court
,
but
knows
,
that
no
man
without
certain
ruin
dare
oppose
in
that
Court
that
Cabal
in
any
matter
though
never
so
little
:
To
conclude
this
Point
,
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
as
a
Slave
to
the
Society
,
as
things
stand
at
present
,
serves
only
to
Authorize
his
own
Ruin
,
the
Ruin
of
his
August
Family
,
and
of
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
:
For
the
very
Moment
I
write
,
France
publickly
solicits
in
the
Empire
,
(
as
I
said
before
)
the
Nomination
of
a
King
of
the
Romans
in
favour
of
the
Dauphin
,
which
in
all
probability
will
be
managed
with
so
much
dexterity
and
subtilty
,
that
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
if
he
follow
the
advice
of
his
Council
,
Spiritual
or
Temporal
,
will
think
himself
obliged
in
Conscience
voluntarily
to
give
way
to
it
.
This
,
my
Lord
,
is
the
true
state
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
and
his
Council
since
the
last
Peace
.
Three
things
remain
to
be
considered
.
First
,
The
particular
Advantages
the
Court
of
Rome
,
and
the
Jesuits
procured
themselves
by
the
late
War.
Secondly
,
What
Advantages
they
design'd
themselves
by
the
late
Peace
,
and
its
consequences
.
Thirdly
,
What
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
may
expect
from
the
present
state
of
Affairs
.
The
Advantages
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
procured
themselves
,
by
the
late
War
,
have
not
been
so
great
as
they
promised
themselves
,
for
God
having
preserved
the
United
Provinces
,
whose
utter
Destruction
they
had
projected
;
't
is
certain
,
most
of
their
Projects
in
England
,
and
elsewhere
,
were
defeated
:
Yet
the
Advantages
of
the
Papacy
over
the
Protestant
Party
,
in
the
late
War
,
are
very
considerable
;
and
consist
in
five
Particulars
.
1.
That
by
the
fire
of
War
,
kindled
by
the
Artifices
of
Rome
,
and
the
Jesuits
,
between
England
and
the
United
Provinces
;
those
two
Protestant
Powers
have
unhappily
consumed
very
considerable
Forces
in
Men
,
Money
,
Ships
,
Ammunition
,
and
loss
of
Trade
,
the
Soul
and
Substance
of
the
Riches
of
both
Countries
.
2.
That
the
United
Provinces
have
in
defence
of
themselves
against
France
and
its
Allies
in
Germany
,
been
forced
to
spend
their
Men
and
their
Money
,
besides
loss
of
Trade
during
the
War.
3.
That
Swede
,
Denmark
,
Brandenbourgh
,
and
Zell
,
have
consumed
their
Forces
during
all
this
War
,
kindled
by
the
Artifices
of
the
same
Party
,
between
Swede
,
and
the
three
Princes
of
Denmark
,
Brandenbourgh
,
and
Lunenbourgh
,
both
by
Sea
and
Land.
4.
That
under
pretence
of
this
War
,
the
Protestant
States
of
the
Empire
,
as
well
during
the
Campaignes
as
by
Winter-Quarters
,
have
been
miserably
harrassed
and
exhausted
with
Exactions
,
Burnings
,
Contributions
to
that
degree
,
that
most
of
the
Protestant
Imperial
Towns
are
almost
ruined
;
and
several
of
them
as
well
as
the
Palatinate
,
and
other
Countries
,
out
of
hopes
of
recovery
in
an
Age
;
while
the
Hereditary
Countries
,
and
Bavaria
,
and
many
other
places
of
the
Roman
Communion
in
the
Empire
,
have
been
preserved
as
the
Apple
of
an
Eye
,
or
so
little
opprest
they
scarce
feel
it
.
5.
That
France
by
this
War
,
having
conquered
the
County
of
Burgundy
,
and
kept
it
by
the
Peace
free
from
Condition
of
Exchange
,
it
is
to
be
observ'd
,
that
whereas
this
Province
,
belonging
heretofore
to
Spain
,
was
,
by
reason
of
its
distance
from
the
heart
of
that
Kingdom
,
not
in
a
condition
to
hurt
the
Protestant
Cantons
of
the
Swisses
;
now
that
it
belongs
to
France
,
we
art
not
to
flatter
our selves
,
but
it
belongs
to
a
Power
which
may
every
hour
make
a
sudden
irruption
into
the
Canton
of
Bern
,
and
under
the
specious
pretence
of
Religion
put
the
Protestant
and
Roman
Cantons
in
disorder
,
and
by
degrees
work
their
inevitable
ruine
;
unless
that
Republick
have
the
Courage
and
Judgment
to
enter
into
confederacy
with
those
that
ought
to
preserve
it
from
destruction
,
which
the
building
the
Fortress
of
Hunningen
,
may
sufficiently
instruct
them
,
is
certainly
intended
them
.
I
reckon
all
these
to
be
real
advantages
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
have
by
the
last
War
procur'd
themselves
against
the
Protestant
Party
:
For
where
resolution
is
taken
to
ruine
an
Enemy
under
several
heads
,
the
best
way
to
effect
it
,
is
to
divide
the
Powers
,
and
engage
them
as
much
as
may
be
in
War
,
one
against
another
,
to
the
Consumption
of
their
Forces
;
and
to
fortifie
your self
on
their
Frontiers
,
that
you
may
make
sudden
Inroads
into
their
Countries
when
you
please
:
The
Court
of
Rome
,
and
the
Jesuits
,
by
the
Access
they
have
had
to
the
Council
of
France
,
and
the
House
of
Austria
,
and
by
the
help
of
the
Counsellors
there
,
and
in
the
Protestant
Courts
,
have
with
great
dexterity
put
these
Maxims
in
practice
during
the
late
War
:
For
His
Majesty
of
Swedland
,
managed
by
France
,
His
Majesty
of
Denmark
,
His
Electoral
Highness
of
Brandenbourgh
,
and
His
Highness
of
Zell
,
managed
by
the
Imperial
Court
,
will
take
the
pains
to
search
to
the
bottom
,
by
what
Motives
and
Artifices
they
have
been
all
four
engaged
in
a
War
,
which
hath
ruined
their
Estates
for
more
than
ten
years
.
I
doubt
not
(
with
the
respect
and
submission
that
is
due
to
them
)
but
they
will
find
that
the
modern
Romans
have
with
great
insolence
and
perfidiousness
practised
upon
them
what
the
ancient
Romans
did
for
divertisement
to
their
Gladiators
:
for
when
these
men
had
by
bloody
,
and
oftentimes
mortal
Combats
,
sufficiently
diverted
the
Spectators
,
and
the
Magistrate
made
them
a
Sign
to
give
out
,
they
were
bound
to
do
it
,
and
in
what
condition
soever
they
were
to
go
every
one
home
,
as
these
four
Princes
were
in
the
end
forced
to
do
.
This
may
serve
for
an
excellent
and
important
instruction
for
England
,
Holland
,
Swede
and
Denmark
,
and
all
the
Protestant
States
and
Princes
of
Germany
,
to
avoid
effectually
the
snares
the
Court
of
Rome
every
day
lays
for
them
the
ways
I
have
observed
,
with
a
setled
design
to
destroy
not
only
their
Religion
but
their
Temporal
Estates
.
The
Second
Point
.
The
Advantages
the
Court
of
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
proposed
to
themselves
by
the
conclusion
of
the
Peace
between
his
Imperial
Majesty
and
France
,
may
be
reduced
to
three
principal
Heads
.
1.
By
the
Maxims
observed
in
the
first
part
of
my
Letter
,
to
fix
(
without
danger
of
any
probable
variation
)
the
Designs
of
France
,
and
the
Efforts
of
their
Arms
,
against
the
Empire
and
Northern
Countries
,
as
most
remote
from
Italy
,
and
most
convenient
by
the
progress
of
those
Arms
to
ruine
the
Prorestant
Party
and
consequently
to
advance
the
re-establishment
of
the
Papal
Grandeur
and
Authority
,
the
fall
of
the
one
producing
naturally
the
exaltation
of
the
other
.
And
for
attaining
this
end
,
to
procure
this
Peace
to
be
so
made
,
that
his
most
Christian
Majesty
might
be
fully
perswaded
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
(
in
prejudice
to
all
other
Powers
of
Christendom
)
studied
nothing
more
than
his
exaltation
,
and
an
effectual
setling
and
establishing
in
time
an
absolute
Monarchick
Authority
over
Europe
:
And
that
this
project
might
be
made
appear
so
facil
and
easie
to
this
Prince
that
he
might
be
the
better
tempted
to
undertake
it
:
In
order
to
these
ends
,
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
could
not
have
done
any
thing
whereby
more
effectually
to
demonstrate
their
zeal
and
close
adherence
to
the
Grandeur
and
Exaltation
of
the
most
Christian
King
,
than
by
making
(
as
they
have
done
with
so
much
craft
and
perfidiousness
)
a
Sacrifice
of
the
Emperour
and
Empire
(
with
all
that
concerned
the
Glory
and
Interest
of
both
)
the
better
to
carry
on
the
Designs
of
the
French
:
Their
project
in
this
particular
hath
proved
so
effectual
,
and
discover'd
so
many
divisions
,
so
much
ignorance
,
weakness
,
and
baseness
,
in
the
Empire
,
that
his
most
Christian
Majesty
may
by
these
appearances
rationally
judge
he
may
probably
succeed
in
whatever
he
shall
attempt
against
the
Empire
(
though
I
am
not
of
opinion
he
will
find
it
so
easie
a
matter
as
he
hath
been
made
believe
'
t
is
.
)
But
we
are
to
believe
this
Prince
is
perswaded
,
that
to
attain
all
his
ends
,
the
Empire
being
the
natural
obstacle
against
an
Universal
Monarchy
,
it
must
be
his
business
to
attempt
the
Empire
in
the
first
place
.
Nor
can
it
be
doubted
,
but
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
,
making
full
account
the
most
Christian
King
will
be
very
well
able
by
his
Forces
to
master
the
Empire
,
have
hastened
with
all
diligence
possible
the
signing
the
Peace
between
his
Imperial
Majesty
and
France
,
upon
design
that
his
most
Christian
Majesty
being
by
this
expedient
of
the
Peace
free
from
War
,
in
case
the
perpetual
Plots
of
the
Court
of
Rome
,
and
the
Jesuits
in
England
,
or
elsewhere
,
should
be
so
prosperous
,
as
,
with
the
help
of
Forreign
aid
,
to
effect
the
re-establishment
of
the
Popes
Authority
there
,
they
might
make
use
of
the
French
Forces
to
invade
that
Kingdom
,
or
other
Countries
,
for
the
ends
I
have
mentioned
:
And
if
by
Gods
Providence
the
perfidious
and
damnable
Conspiracy
of
the
Jesuits
against
the
King
the
Religion
and
State
of
England
had
not
been
discovered
the
last
year
,
I
believe
England
had
e're
this
felt
the
Effects
of
what
I
observe
.
Be
pleased
to
allow
me
leave
on
this
occcasion
to
say
,
that
unless
his
Majesty
of
Great
Brittain
be
willing
to
fall
,
with
all
his
People
,
under
the
slavery
of
the
Pope
,
the
Jesuits
,
and
France
,
he
hath
great
Cause
to
take
heed
left
the
Warlike
Preparations
of
all
sorts
made
by
the
French
in
all
their
Ports
,
and
on
the
Coasts
of
the
Ocean
,
be
not
made
upon
some
such
design
;
for
by
the
Scheme
of
the
Plot
Ireland
is
looked
upon
as
a
Country
which
may
unquestionably
procure
France
the
absolute
Dominion
of
the
Sea
,
and
of
Trade
,
and
the
Conquests
of
the
West
Indies
,
according
to
their
ancient
and
primitive
project
.
3.
The
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
having
that
influence
over
the
Imperial
Council
,
that
it
was
in
their
power
to
do
what
they
pleased
there
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
the
signing
of
the
Peace
was
prest
on
this
farther
design
,
that
His
Imperial
Majesty
(
the
Peace
concluded
)
finding
himself
in
a
condition
to
dispose
of
the
greatest
part
of
his
Forces
,
they
might
easily
perswade
him
to
employ
them
to
root
out
the
Protestant
Party
in
Hungary
,
and
perfect
the
pretended
Reformation
in
Silesia
:
And
it
was
well
for
that
People
that
God
provided
for
their
safety
by
very
extraordinary
means
,
I
mean
the
Plague
;
for
had
not
that
broken
out
,
it
is
not
credible
but
Dunewald
the
Apostate
,
now
a
formal
Creature
of
the
Jesuits
,
had
been
sent
thither
with
an
Army
to
do
something
.
Happy
would
it
be
for
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
if
by
just
and
solid
Reflections
on
the
Disasters
successively
fallen
upon
his
August
Family
,
for
having
too
much
espoused
the
violent
and
cruel
passions
of
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
,
and
by
considering
this
Scourge
of
God
which
hath
forced
him
to
quit
his
Capital
City
,
and
in
a
manner
follows
him
visibly
wherever
he
goes
,
he
would
be
sensible
the
Hand
of
God
is
not
stretched
out
against
him
,
as
heretofore
against
David
,
for
his
Sin
,
but
because
he
hath
stretched
out
his
hand
to
oppress
the
only
Congregations
of
Christians
in
his
Dominions
,
whose
Worship
is
not
infected
with
Idolatry
,
and
who
according
to
the
Precepts
of
the
Gospel
adore
the
Soveraign
and
Supreme
Creator
in
Spirit
and
in
Truth
.
But
far
happier
should
His
Imperial
Majesty
be
,
if
by
such
reflections
God
would
give
him
the
Grace
,
as
he
did
to
the
Emperor
Charles
the
Fifth
before
de
died
,
to
acknowledge
and
own
the
Truth
he
persecutes
;
and
(
setting
aside
Policy
)
embrace
generously
the
Profession
of
it
.
God
Almighty
would
then
certainly
bless
him
,
and
't
is
credible
he
would
not
deny
him
the
Power
to
humble
the
Proud
,
and
those
who
by
their
enormous
.
Ambition
,
put
all
Europe
into
Combustion
.
I
beg
your
Highnesses
Pardon
for
this
Digression
;
which
the
Matter
I
treat
of
,
and
my
Zeal
for
the
Faith
and
Salvation
of
others
naturally
led
me
to
.
The
Third
Point
.
To
make
some
solid
Prognostick
,
in
a
matter
so
dilicate
,
I
say
,
as
to
what
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
is
no
expect
from
the
present
state
of
affairs
;
we
are
to
believe
his
most
Christian
Majesty
(
unless
notably
changed
in
his
dispositions
)
would
boldly
and
couragiously
carry
on
his
business
,
I
mean
his
pretension
to
make
his
Son
,
the
Dauphin
,
King
of
the
Romans
:
His
Marriage
with
the
Princess
of
Bavaria
,
the
Envoys
and
magnificent
Presents
he
sends
to
the
Electoral
Courts
of
Saxony
and
Brandenbourgh
,
and
his
arming
so
furiously
,
signifie
sufficiently
two
things
.
First
,
His
Contempt
of
the
Alliances
and
Oppositions
His
Imperial
Majesty
may
make
against
him
.
Secondly
,
That
he
will
certainly
pursue
his
pretension
.
'T
is
of
extream
importance
for
the
Empire
in
general
and
particular
to
know
,
whether
it
be
for
the
interest
of
the
Empire
to
favour
this
pretension
,
or
to
oppose
it
.
This
with
your
Highnesses
leave
,
I
intend
briefly
to
examine
;
and
to
observe
some
order
:
It
is
to
be
considered
,
1.
Whether
it
be
better
for
the
Empire
in
general
,
and
every
Member
of
it
in
particular
,
to
live
according
to
the
ancient
Customs
,
Rights
and
Priviledges
,
under
which
they
have
lived
for
many
Ages
;
or
that
the
Empire
,
without
striking
a
blow
,
submit
voluntarily
to
the
Yoke
of
a
Government
which
acknowledges
no
Law
,
but
that
of
a
Power
purely
Despotical
and
Absolute
?
2.
As
a
Dependent
on
the
former
Point
,
Whether
it
be
better
,
as
to
the
Revolutions
since
the
Wars
for
Religion
,
that
the
Empire
live
occording
to
the
Concordats
and
Agreements
in
the
Peace
of
Munster
,
or
Osnabrug
,
and
the
last
Capitulations
with
His
Imperial
Majesty
since
his
Election
:
or
without
regard
to
the
one
,
or
the
other
,
that
the
Empire
engage
anew
in
a
Civil
War
,
which
by
a
final
Victory
may
decide
the
Quarrel
in
favour
of
one
of
the
parties
,
concerning
the
Concordats
,
and
those
two
Treaties
of
Peace
,
or
the
late
Capitulations
,
as
if
never
agreed
or
capitulated
?
I
think
it
the
more
necessary
to
examine
before
hand
these
Points
,
for
that
we
may
hold
it
for
certain
.
As
to
the
first
Point
.
In
case
the
Dauphin
be
ever
Elected
King
of
the
Romans
,
that
from
the
days
of
that
Election
,
whatever
Capitulations
shall
be
signed
to
the
contrary
,
the
German
Empire
will
be
annexed
to
,
and
made
an
Hereditary
Province
of
the
Crown
of
France
.
To
justifie
this
,
you
need
only
read
several
French
Authors
,
who
have
treated
of
the
Rights
and
pretensions
of
France
,
upon
the
Empire
,
particularly
that
of
the
Advocate
Awbrey
;
for
though
he
hath
with
good
reason
been
laughed
at
for
his
Writings
,
yet
if
that
Election
take
effect
,
we
shall
find
his
discourse
solid
and
well
grounded
.
Besides
,
you
may
soberly
weigh
what
France
hath
already
practised
upon
that
part
of
the
Empire
which
hath
fallen
to
its
share
,
and
the
Neighbouring
Parts
,
both
in
Temporals
and
Spirituals
:
as
to
the
Temporal
Concerns
,
France
seizes
all
boldly
and
openly
in
the
Face
of
the
Sun
,
without
pretence
of
other
Law
,
or
Right
,
but
that
of
convenience
,
with
as
much
freedom
and
confidence
,
as
it
would
take
possession
of
any
ancient
Patrimony
of
that
Crown
:
The
Dukes
of
Lorrain
and
Deuxponts
,
Mentbeleuard
,
and
the
Ten
free
Towns
of
Alsatia
,
sufficiently
prove
this
;
as
to
Spiritual
matters
you
need
only
read
the
publick
Ordinance
of
the
Bishop
of
Metz
against
the
Lutherans
of
those
Countries
.
For
the
Clergy
in
general
,
all
the
free
Chapters
of
the
Empire
,
whether
Arch-Bishops
,
Bishops
,
Abbots
,
Deans
,
or
Priors
,
may
assure
themselves
,
if
this
Election
take
place
,
they
must
go
to
France
e're
they
come
to
those
Dignities
;
for
to
imagine
the
free
Suffrages
of
the
Chapters
shall
be
continued
,
is
sortishness
and
folly
.
The
Bishopricks
of
Metz
,
Toul
and
Verdun
,
and
(
I
doubt
not
for
the
future
)
Cambray
,
which
were
heretofore
Principalities
of
the
Empire
,
may
teach
us
that
under
a
French
Government
the
only
way
to
those
Dignities
is
by
a
Writ
of
Presentation
by
the
Kings
,
and
consequently
all
that
seek
or
depend
on
those
Bishopricks
must
be
Courtiers
and
Slaves
.
Not
but
that
I
believe
if
the
Dauphin
be
chosen
King
of
the
Romans
,
his
Council
is
too
cunning
not
to
make
him
promise
expresly
to
maintain
the
Privileges
and
Ecclesiastical
Benefices
of
the
Empire
:
And
that
till
he
be
fully
setled
they
may
be
content
to
write
Letters
to
the
Chapters
to
chuse
the
person
the
Court
shall
recommend
,
but
in
such
a
manner
there
will
be
no
fear
of
refusal
:
Yet
this
course
is
not
to
be
expected
to
hold
ten
Years
to
an
end
:
Which
I
believe
the
rather
for
that
France
pretends
(
as
hath
been
declared
at
large
by
several
politick
Treatises
)
that
most
of
the
great
Benefices
in
Germany
have
been
founded
by
Emperors
,
Kings
of
France
,
and
that
consequently
the
Court
of
France
is
the
true
Patron
of
them
.
The
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
Ecclesiastical
and
temporal
,
of
what
Rank
or
Degree
soever
,
may
from
the
day
of
that
Election
,
provide
for
three
things
which
will
certainly
follow
.
First
they
shall
be
reduced
to
the
natural
Rents
and
Revenues
of
their
ancient
Patrimonies
,
which
cannot
with
Probability
be
denied
to
depend
upon
the
ancient
Kingdom
of
Austrasia
,
(
which
the
Ministers
of
France
suppose
to
be
part
of
the
French
Monarchy
)
and
consequently
all
natural
Rights
there
being
subject
to
the
Law
Salique
,
admit
neither
of
Alienation
nor
Prescription
.
For
as
to
the
Taxes
and
Contributions
now
paid
these
Lords
by
their
Vassals
and
Subjects
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
they
will
be
obliged
to
disclaim
them
,
and
consent
with
a
very
good
Will
,
that
the
Head
of
the
Empire
shall
in
this
Case
Order
what
Taxes
and
Exactions
he
please
to
be
Levied
,
and
all
for
his
use
:
To
pretend
Capitulations
or
Reasons
to
the
contrary
,
will
be
to
insist
on
Trifles
,
or
commence
Suits
to
be
decided
only
by
Military
Execution
.
Secondly
,
They
will
be
Disarmed
,
it
being
against
the
Honour
of
the
policy
of
France
,
to
permit
any
Prince
,
or
Lord
,
under
their
Dominion
,
to
have
the
Power
to
defend
himself
by
force
,
be
his
Right
to
do
so
never
so
ancient
and
authentick
.
Thirdly
,
To
gain
the
favour
of
the
Head
of
the
Empire
,
the
Head
of
every
House
of
the
Secular
Princes
must
actually
wait
on
His
Imperial
Majesty
at
an
excessive
Expence
,
or
send
in
his
stead
his
Brothers
or
Sons
to
make
his
Court
,
or
to
receive
Orders
and
Caresses
,
and
sometimes
Repulses
and
Checks
:
And
the
Empire
being
full
of
Divisions
and
Jealousies
,
there
is
cause
enough
to
fear
the
Princes
will
strive
who
shall
be
most
Officious
,
as
the
Princes
and
other
Great
men
of
France
have
done
,
to
their
utter
Ruin
,
and
total
Consumption
of
their
Estates
.
As
for
the
Counts
,
and
Barons
,
and
all
Gentlemen
of
the
Empire
,
who
are
Vassals
to
Electors
and
particular
Princes
,
my
Heart
bleeds
to
think
how
certainly
and
strangely
their
Condition
will
be
chang'd
,
if
ever
a
French
King
be
made
Emperour
.
Is
it
probable
the
Ministers
of
France
will
have
more
pity
of
the
German
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
than
the
Dukes
,
Marquesses
,
Counts
,
Barons
and
particular
Nobility
of
their
own
Country
have
found
at
their
hands
?
There
is
no
doubt
but
the
day
they
change
their
Master
,
they
must
bid
an
Eternal
Adieu
to
all
their
Rights
of
Soveraign
Justice
and
Free-hold
:
The
Great
Men
and
private
Gentry
of
France
,
several
of
whom
have
the
Honour
to
be
descended
in
a
right
Line
from
Soveraign
Princes
,
had
no
less
Courage
,
nor
were
heretofore
less
Priviledged
,
nor
less
Jealous
of
their
Rights
,
than
many
of
the
Body
of
the
Empire
are
at
this
present
.
Yet
have
they
been
forc'd
one
after
another
to
submit
to
the
Yoke
,
and
lose
all
their
ancient
Priviledges
:
Nor
must
they
think
any
more
(
though
they
have
right
)
to
lay
any
imposition
on
their
Subjects
.
For
(
as
I
said
before
in
the
Article
of
the
Princes
;
)
This
is
a
sweet
bit
,
which
the
absolute
and
Despotical
Dominion
of
France
always
reserves
for
it's
own
Tooth
.
They
must
never
think
more
by
Offices
and
Imployments
under
particular
Princes
,
or
the
Head
of
the
Empire
,
to
render
themselves
considerable
,
make
their
Fortunes
,
or
Recover
their
spent
Estates
,
as
they
could
have
done
heretofore
:
At
least
but
few
of
them
shall
be
ever
able
to
do
it
.
For
as
to
particular
Princes
,
they
will
in
case
of
a
French
Emperour
be
absolutely
ruin'd
,
and
forc'd
to
Retrench
themselves
and
their
Families
to
a
very
low
Condition
;
and
as
to
the
Head
of
the
Empire
,
whoever
will
have
Office
or
Imployment
in
his
House
or
Courts
of
Justice
,
must
think
of
buying
it
with
ready
Money
,
there
being
not
an
Office
or
Imployment
in
the
French
Kings
House
,
from
the
Steward
of
his
House
to
the
Scullion
in
his
Kitchen
,
nor
in
his
Courts
of
Justice
,
from
that
of
Chief
President
to
the
meanest
Serjeant
,
but
is
sold
for
ready
Money
.
So
that
there
remains
not
for
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
Empire
,
any
Office
or
Employ
,
but
what
must
be
bought
,
save
only
the
Military
:
But
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
Empire
are
too
Judicious
,
(
at
least
,
unless
(
as
the
French
Proverb
is
)
They
are
willing
to
be
taken
for
Fools
,
)
not
to
know
they
have
no
reason
to
promise
themselves
in
this
particular
of
Military
Employment
,
any
greater
Priviledge
than
is
allow'd
the
ancient
Nobility
of
France
,
and
consequently
,
that
to
procure
the
favour
of
the
Prince
or
his
Principal
Ministers
,
they
must
serve
in
the
Wars
at
their
own
Charge
,
as
the
French
Nobility
have
done
.
The
necessary
Expences
of
every
Office
exceeding
yearly
,
by
three
fourths
,
the
pay
of
the
Prince
:
That
is
,
they
most
resolve
to
consume
the
Bulk
of
their
Estates
to
be
known
at
Court
,
and
frequently
spend
a
real
Patrimony
in
pursuit
of
vain
and
chimerical
hopes
,
which
will
infallibly
Ruin
their
Families
;
and
bring
most
of
those
who
take
these
Courses
to
end
their
lives
in
Languishing
Griefs
and
cruel
Repentings
:
For
thus
it
is
,
all
the
Nobility
of
France
serve
in
the
Wars
,
and
such
is
the
end
most
of
them
make
.
If
we
have
heard
of
a
Schomberg
or
a
Ransan
that
became
considerable
in
France
by
the
Wars
.
Let
the
Nobility
of
the
Empire
be
assur'd
it
was
but
a
Lure
which
the
Ministers
of
France
(
who
have
long
since
Plotted
the
Conquest
of
the
Empire
)
thought
fit
to
hold
out
to
Delude
and
Cheat
the
German
Nobility
:
They
are
like
the
Fires
in
the
Night
that
lead
them
into
Precipices
,
who
are
indiscreet
enough
to
follow
them
:
All
this
I
know
to
be
true
,
grounded
on
very
Authentick
Memoirs
,
and
certain
knowledge
of
the
matters
I
mention
.
As
for
the
Imperial
Towns
and
free
Cities
of
the
Empire
,
Colmar
,
Schlestat
,
and
Haguenau
,
and
the
rest
of
that
Rank
,
situate
in
Alsatia
,
may
teach
their
Magistrates
and
Councils
,
what
value
the
Ministers
of
France
put
upon
their
ancient
Rights
and
Priviledges
,
for
those
are
the
things
the
Ministers
there
,
or
their
Envoys
under
the
name
of
Commissaries
or
Intendants
,
call
in
Derision
Stories
to
make
one
Sleep
,
Illusions
,
and
Old
Wives
Tales
,
that
is
,
things
nothing
worth
.
If
ever
France
come
to
the
Empire
,
all
the
Cities
of
that
Order
are
with
Metz
,
Toul
,
and
Verdun
,
and
(
last
of
all
)
Bezanson
to
denounce
and
disclaim
all
Rights
of
Justice
,
Magazines
,
Garrisons
and
Impositions
,
and
to
prepare
themselves
(
at
least
all
those
that
cannot
,
will
be
kept
under
otherwise
)
to
see
built
in
the
highest
place
in
the
Town
a
strong
Citadel
at
their
Charge
,
and
a
Garrison
put
into
it
,
which
they
must
maintain
,
and
consequently
by
degrees
undergo
,
as
well
as
all
the
Subjects
of
Princes
,
Earls
,
Barons
,
and
particular
Lords
;
and
all
Counts
,
Barons
,
and
private
Lords
for
their
Estates
in
Land
and
all
Necessaries
for
Life
,
with
very
little
Exception
,
all
the
Impositions
following
.
First
upon
Estates
in
Land
,
Money
,
and
Trade
.
Ayde
,
Octroy
,
Preciput
,
Equivalent
,
Crue
,
Taille
,
Estaste
,
Subsistence
de
quartier
d'hyver
,
Garinzons
,
Mortpayes
,
Appointments
des
Governeurs
,
Debtes
&
Affaires
du
Roy
,
Gratifications
Extraordinaries
,
Den
Gratuit
,
Frais
de
Recoua
usemens
&
Contabilite
.
More
upon
Drinks
.
Aydes
sur
le
vin
,
Bieres
,
&
Cidres
,
Plus
le
huitieme
denier
,
Le
Souquet
,
Le
Patae
,
Imposts
&
Billets
.
[
Instead
of
Censuring
the
Translation
imperfect
,
in
giving
the
Names
of
these
Impositions
(
as
in
the
Original
)
in
French
,
let
the
Reader
Congratulate
his
Happiness
,
that
very
few
of
these
Most
Christian
Impositions
have
been
Christened
in
England
,
and
therefor
they
want
Names
in
our
Language
.
]
More
upon
things
Eatable
.
The
Gabelle
on
Corn
and
Meal
,
which
is
taken
in
Markets
or
at
the
Mill
,
in
several
places
,
under
the
Name
of
Mesure
Coupee
,
or
Octroy
.
The
Toll
called
Pied
Forchu
,
taken
for
all
sorts
of
Beasts
sold
in
Fairs
and
Markets
.
The
Toll
taken
by
Weight
for
every
Pound
of
Meat
sold
in
the
Shambles
.
The
Gabelle
on
Salt
,
which
will
raise
the
price
of
Salt
so
high
,
that
what
is
now
sold
for
a
Florin
,
will
then
cost
Fourteen
Crowns
.
More
upon
all
Necessaries
for
Life
.
The
Mark
of
Paper
,
The
Mark
of
Silver
,
The
Mark
of
Tin
,
The
Mark
of
Hats
,
The
Mark
on
all
Silk
Stockins
and
Woollen
,
The
Mark
of
Shoes
,
The
Gabella
on
Perukes
,
The
Gabelle
on
Tobacco
,
The
Mark
on
all
Stuffs
of
Wooll
or
Silk
,
The
Mark
on
Linnen
,
The
Gabelle
on
Ice
,
The
Control
of
Exploits
.
More
upon
Noble
Estates
,
from
five
Years
,
to
five
Years
.
The
Tax
of
free
Fifes
,
The
Tax
of
new
Purchases
,
The
Fifths
and
Refifths
,
Amortissements
.
More
upon
the
Offices
of
Judicature
and
the
Treasury
.
The
price
of
Valuation
,
The
Mark
of
Gold
,
The
two
Sols
in
the
Pound
,
The
Seal
duty
,
The
Duty
of
Control
,
The
Registers
Duty
,
The
Duty
for
Oaths
;
The
Prest
for
being
admited
to
the
Annual
,
The
Annual
or
Paulette
.
Besides
many
other
Taxes
to
be
paid
from
time
to
time
,
and
many
Retrenchments
of
Wages
to
be
yearly
undergone
;
for
the
Soveraign
Courts
have
but
three
quarters
Wages
,
the
Subordinate
but
two
,
and
the
base
or
lowest
Courts
frequently
but
one
.
Add
to
all
these
the
Reunion
to
the
King's
Demesnes
,
newly
Executed
throughout
France
on
all
Commonalties
or
Corporations
of
the
Empire
,
that
is
,
all
that
belongs
in
Common
to
any
Commonalty
,
as
Fewel
and
Pasture
in
Woods
and
Forests
,
Rivers
,
Ponds
,
and
all
other
Common
Rights
of
what
nature
soever
.
More
on
all
sorts
of
Merchandises
Imported
or
Exported
.
The
Custom
,
The
Custom
for
the
Value
,
The
Foreign
.
Besides
the
Custom
of
Lions
,
Burdeaux
and
Roan
,
which
take
their
Names
from
the
Places
,
and
are
levied
with
all
Rigour
imaginable
,
not
only
upon
Importation
into
the
Realm
,
or
Exportation
out
of
it
into
Foreign
Countries
,
but
in
most
of
the
Frontiers
of
the
Provinces
,
upon
passing
out
of
one
into
another
,
within
the
Kingdom
.
And
we
may
expect
the
like
Exactions
to
be
established
in
the
several
Provinces
of
the
Empire
,
on
several
pretences
.
All
these
Subsidies
,
and
many
others
,
(
which
,
to
avoid
Prolixity
,
I
pass
over
in
silence
)
are
one
way
or
other
punctually
paid
,
where-ever
any
Subjects
of
the
French
Monarchy
live
,
with
no
other
distinction
,
but
that
the
Lords
and
Gentlemen
have
Right
to
hold
free
from
Imposition
so
many
Acres
of
Land
,
for
their
Maintenance
,
as
may
be
Husbanded
with
two
Yoke
of
Oxen
,
(
provided
the
Owner
hold
that
Estate
in
Demean
)
for
as
to
what
is
let
out
to
Farmers
,
as
they
pay
the
King
Taxes
for
the
profit
of
the
Farms
,
they
pay
so
much
the
less
Rent
to
the
Landlord
;
so
that
in
effect
the
Nobleman
in
France
pays
Taxes
as
well
as
the
Boor
:
Which
the
Princes
,
the
Nobles
,
the
Magistrates
,
and
Subjects
of
the
Empire
,
of
what
Degree
soever
,
have
reason
seriously
to
consider
.
For
,
't
is
folly
to
fancy
they
can
make
their
Capitulations
so
advantageous
as
to
exempt
them
from
paying
these
intollerable
Subsidies
.
The
Provinces
of
Guienne
,
Languedoc
,
Provence
,
Dauphine
,
Bourgundy
,
and
Britain
,
and
most
of
the
other
Provinces
of
France
,
had
herefore
their
particular
Princes
,
as
most
of
the
Provinces
of
the
Empire
now
have
;
and
the
principal
Cities
and
Towns
in
these
Provinces
of
France
,
had
then
as
great
Priviledges
and
Immunities
as
any
Free
Towns
of
the
Empire
:
But
the
Kings
of
France
having
invaded
all
these
Principalities
,
and
seized
the
Liberties
of
the
Cities
,
have
,
since
the
taking
of
Rochel
,
reduced
them
into
so
absolute
Slavery
,
that
the
Citizens
and
Inhabitants
have
quite
lost
the
Resolution
and
Generosity
to
endeavour
a
Recovery
of
their
Liberties
,
and
are
so
bridled
with
strong
Garrisons
and
Citadels
(
and
we
may
expect
the
like
in
all
Countries
of
the
Empire
,
if
ever
under
a
French
Government
)
that
they
are
not
in
a
condition
to
stir
,
at
least
to
any
considerable
purpose
.
This
may
suffice
for
the
first
point
:
I
pass
to
the
Second
.
The
second
Point
.
This
deserves
the
more
exact
consideration
,
for
that
if
ever
the
Dauphin
be
chosen
King
of
the
Romans
,
since
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
,
by
the
important
Services
these
have
done
the
Crown
of
France
of
late
,
and
promise
to
do
for
the
future
,
and
the
Cardinalships
they
flatter
the
Nephews
and
Relations
of
the
principal
Ministers
of
France
with
the
hopes
of
,
do
what
they
please
in
the
Council
of
France
;
and
what
is
published
to
the
contrary
,
on
the
account
of
Regalities
,
now
in
controversie
,
is
but
Cheat
and
Illusion
;
the
cruel
persecution
raised
and
carried
on
some
years
last
past
against
the
Protestants
of
that
Kingdom
,
the
disgrace
of
Pompone
,
being
not
of
their
Cabal
,
and
of
Theatin
the
Princess
of
Brvaria's
Confessor
,
intimating
sufficiently
the
extraordinary
Credit
that
Society
hath
in
the
Court
of
France
:
I
say
,
if
ever
the
Dauphin
be
elected
King
of
the
Romans
,
the
Empire
is
to
expect
two
things
.
First
,
To
see
him
at
the
Head
of
the
best
Forces
of
France
,
(
upon
the
specious
pretence
of
Religion
,
and
restoring
the
Estates
belonging
to
the
Church
)
undertaking
in
the
Empire
aganst
the
Protestant
Party
what
Charles
the
Fifth
,
and
Ferdinand
the
Second
attempted
to
execute
.
Secondly
,
That
this
affair
will
be
so
obstinately
fomented
&
protected
by
the
Court
of
Rome
,
that
the
Empire
will
be
in
danger
to
be
involved
in
a
War
more
cruel
,
more
bloody
,
and
dangerous
,
than
any
the
former
Wars
raised
for
that
Cause
.
And
there
is
reason
enough
to
believe
,
that
the
late
War
,
as
well
as
the
Peace
since
made
,
were
hatched
and
carried
on
by
the
Court
of
Rome
,
in
hopes
of
being
able
,
by
the
Power
of
the
French
Forces
,
to
work
the
entire
Ruin
of
the
Protestant
Party
of
Europe
,
which
we
see
every
day
decay
by
degrees
:
And
I
am
much
mistaken
if
the
Money
sent
by
the
Pope
into
Poland
was
not
design'd
for
a
Project
of
this
nature
.
Prince
William
of
Furstenberg
might
,
if
he
pleased
,
furnish
us
with
clear
Evidence
of
authentick
Memoirs
to
this
purpose
;
but
we
are
not
to
expect
it
from
him
,
lest
by
such
a
Discovery
he
lose
the
Recompence
the
Court
of
Rome
designs
him
for
the
Pains
he
hath
taken
,
and
continues
,
to
bring
to
effect
this
Popish
Project
in
the
Empire
,
and
consequently
in
all
Europe
.
By
what
hath
been
said
,
your
Highness
may
see
the
Fortune
of
the
Empire
,
if
ever
it
fall
(
by
any
means
whatever
)
under
the
intolerable
Yoke
of
the
Despotical
Government
of
France
:
And
I
think
I
need
say
no
more
to
convince
every
Member
of
the
Empire
,
and
all
the
States
of
it
in
general
,
(
without
any
great
depth
of
Policy
,
or
knowledge
of
War
)
what
their
Duty
to
Religion
,
their
Glory
and
Interest
oblige
them
to
do
,
for
preserving
themselves
from
falling
under
a
Yoke
of
that
nature
.
But
to
preserve
themselves
effectually
from
this
Yoke
,
I
conceive
it
extremely
considerable
to
enquire
first
,
Whence
all
this
Mischief
proceeds
?
Which
known
,
will
give
us
light
what
must
further
be
done
:
And
particularly
,
from
what
Part
the
first
Attack
may
be
expected
,
and
what
Defence
is
to
be
made
.
The
Mischiefs
I
have
mentioned
unquestionably
have
their
rise
from
the
Designs
and
Fomentations
of
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
,
who
(
at
present
at
least
)
direct
and
dispose
of
the
French
Projects
and
Forces
,
and
without
any
Mercy
or
Respect
,
pretend
,
with
the
Assistance
of
those
Forces
,
and
their
own
secret
Managements
of
Affairs
,
to
sacrifice
all
to
the
Re-establishment
of
the
Papal
Grandeur
.
I
conceive
in
Right
and
Justice
two
things
are
to
be
done
;
but
I
doubt
much
whether
the
one
will
be
.
The
first
is
,
That
since
the
Publick
Good
and
Safety
of
the
Empire
consists
in
living
(
without
Innovation
)
according
to
the
Ancient
Rights
,
Immunities
,
and
Privelidges
,
and
the
Concordats
established
by
Law
,
(
which
every
Member
of
the
Empire
is
obliged
to
observe
)
and
that
the
Pretensions
of
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
,
are
as
inconsistent
as
those
of
France
,
with
the
Publick
Good
and
safety
of
the
Empire
:
Every
Member
of
the
Empire
,
without
flattering
themselves
any
longer
with
hopes
of
Favour
from
Rome
or
from
France
,
and
without
distinction
of
Religion
,
applying
themselves
seriously
to
procure
and
promote
the
Preservation
and
Publick
Good
of
the
Empire
,
should
without
delay
take
such
Measures
,
that
neither
the
Court
of
Rome
,
the
Jesuits
,
nor
France
,
may
attain
their
Ends.
And
in
order
to
this
,
That
every
Member
of
the
Empire
should
put
it self
into
a
Posture
and
Condition
,
by
uniting
their
Forces
,
to
oppose
Force
to
Force
:
And
if
the
Princes
of
the
Roman
Communion
will
Bona
fide
engage
in
this
Union
,
it
will
be
necessary
,
first
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
find
means
to
gain
the
Amity
and
Assistance
of
the
three
Northern
Princes
whom
I
have
formerly
mentioned
,
engag'd
in
War
by
his
means
,
and
afterwards
cruelly
abandon'd
to
the
Mercy
of
France
and
of
Swede
:
Which
(
by
the
small
Intelligence
I
have
of
Affairs
)
will
be
difficult
enough
to
effect
,
especially
with
the
Elector
of
Brandenbourgh
,
without
giving
him
satisfaction
in
two
Points
,
on
which
he
doth
with
much
equity
insist
.
Secondly
,
That
his
Imperial
Majesty
gain
over
to
the
Interests
of
the
Empire
the
Forces
of
the
Crown
of
Swede
;
which
will
be
no
easie
Task
.
Thirdly
,
That
the
Emperour
,
and
all
the
Princes
of
the
Roman
Communion
in
the
Empire
,
banish
and
root
out
of
their
Councils
not
only
all
Jesuits
and
Monks
,
(
who
by
themselves
or
their
Superiors
have
all
Resort
to
their
General
at
Rome
)
but
every
one
that
any
way
depends
on
,
or
hath
Society
with
these
Hypocrites
,
or
rather
Free
Spies
of
the
Empire
;
a
Capuchin
in
this
particular
being
as
bad
as
a
Jesuit
.
Though
this
be
absolutely
necessary
,
as
matters
now
stand
,
yet
(
to
speak
freely
)
I
very
much
doubt
whether
the
Princes
of
the
Roman
Communion
will
have
the
Generosity
and
Courage
to
do
it
.
The
Second
,
and
that
I
take
to
be
the
only
solid
means
,
is
,
That
the
Protestant
Party
being
now
clearly
convinc'd
that
they
are
the
sole
Persons
aim'd
at
,
and
that
all
that
hath
been
done
since
the
beginning
of
the
last
War
was
really
in
order
onely
to
work
their
Destruction
;
all
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Magistrates
of
that
persuasion
are
every
one
in
his
Sphere
to
apply
themselves
with
all
industry
and
vigour
,
first
,
To
Arm
with
all
their
Power
,
that
they
may
be
able
to
oppose
Force
to
Force
:
Secondly
,
To
enter
into
mutual
Leagues
and
Alliances
,
that
by
joynt
Strength
they
may
resist
Forces
so
considerable
as
those
of
France
,
and
others
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
may
by
their
Artifices
bring
over
to
that
party
.
To
begin
so
great
and
necessary
a
Work
,
we
will
for
a
while
leave
the
Territories
of
the
Empire
;
and
looking
abroad
,
I
am
of
opinion
that
England
and
the
United
Provinces
ought
without
further
delay
to
use
all
means
possible
to
enter
into
a
League
Offensive
and
Defensive
,
which
may
(
if
possible
)
be
indissoluble
;
That
Denmark
and
Swede
are
to
follow
that
Example
;
and
,
That
all
the
Protestant
Princes
and
States
of
the
Empire
,
with
the
Protestant
Cantons
of
the
Swisses
and
the
Grisons
,
ought
to
do
the
like
:
For
,
't
is
not
a
Concern
of
particular
Quarrels
and
Jealousies
,
but
the
Faith
,
the
Religion
and
Temporal
Estates
of
all
the
Protestant
Party
are
now
at
stake
.
This
I
conceive
will
be
more
easily
effected
in
this
Conjuncture
,
for
that
by
a
special
Providence
of
God
there
is
no
War
at
present
between
England
and
Holland
,
nor
between
Swede
and
Denmark
,
nor
between
the
Princes
of
the
Protestant
Communion
in
Germany
.
If
these
three
things
be
effected
,
and
the
particular
Leagues
incorporated
into
a
General
,
and
consequently
,
an
intire
Union
of
the
Protestants
of
Europe
,
we
need
not
fear
the
Designs
or
Attempts
of
the
Court
of
Rome
,
or
the
Jesuits
,
or
the
Council
and
Forces
of
the
French
:
for
(
these
things
effected
)
we
shall
have
power
enough
not
only
to
deliver
the
Empire
from
all
just
apprehensions
of
the
Designs
of
the
Court
of
Rome
,
the
Jesuits
,
and
of
France
,
against
its
Liberties
,
but
to
reduce
his
Most
Christian
Majesty
(
by
way
of
justice
&
right
)
to
keep
himself
modestly
within
the
Frontiers
of
his
Kingdom
,
and
(
in
case
of
Refusal
)
to
do
something
more
;
which
would
infallibly
produce
a
sure
and
general
Peace
.
I
am
the
more
induced
to
be
of
this
Opinion
,
while
England
and
Holland
on
the
one
hand
,
and
Swede
and
Denmark
on
the
other
,
are
labouring
to
put
an
end
to
all
former
Quarrels
;
and
the
Protestant
Princes
and
Magistrates
of
the
Empire
endeavour
(
as
I
suppose
)
a
League
with
the
Protestant
Cantons
and
the
Grisons
,
that
(
to
say
the
truth
)
I
see
no
other
solid
and
effectual
Means
to
defend
the
Empire
from
the
Oppression
of
France
,
and
the
Protestant
Party
in
particular
from
the
Oppression
of
the
Court
of
Rome
,
the
Jesuits
,
and
France
,
all
at
once
:
For
,
(
to
rid
our
Hands
of
all
false
Maxims
at
once
)
What
else
can
the
Empire
and
Protestant
Party
reasonably
ground
their
Safety
upon
?
Will
they
ground
it
on
His
Imperial
Majesty
,
as
they
ought
,
and
without
doubt
might
have
done
,
had
his
Council
been
guided
with
right
and
sound
Maxims
?
I
cannot
think
,
after
all
that
his
Council
have
caused
him
to
do
publickly
,
and
what
he
still
continues
to
put
in
Execution
against
the
Protestant
party
,
that
any
rational
person
of
that
party
can
expect
the
least
Favour
on
that
side
,
at
least
as
long
as
the
Jesuits
and
Court
of
Rome
have
that
Credit
,
that
Countenance
and
Support
they
have
now
in
his
Court.
And
that
we
have
little
reason
to
hope
this
Prince
will
rid
himself
of
them
,
who
have
dangerously
corrupted
his
Understanding
and
Reason
,
by
their
Education
of
him
,
and
the
prejudices
instilled
into
him
.
And
should
the
Protestants
on
this
occasion
expect
help
from
the
Court
of
Bavaria
,
as
their
Interest
in
the
Empire
obliges
them
,
we
may
very
well
imagin
the
expectation
will
be
vain
,
if
we
consider
the
late
strict
Alliance
of
that
Court
with
France
,
or
the
ridiculous
Monastick
Bigotry
reigning
in
that
Court.
If
then
you
will
rely
on
the
Ecclesiastical
Princes
,
who
knows
not
their
Disability
,
and
that
the
greater
part
of
them
will
do
nothing
but
what
the
Jesuits
shall
insinuate
into
them
?
So
that
for
the
future
(
as
well
as
the
time
past
,
at
least
,
for
the
last
Age
,
and
more
)
the
Natural
Defence
of
the
Empire
hath
(
under
God
)
no
solid
Ground
,
but
the
Forces
and
Industry
of
the
Protestant
Party
.
It
was
that
Party
saved
it
from
the
intended
Oppression
of
the
House
of
Austria
in
former
times
:
And
in
the
late
War
,
when
France
attempted
to
Master
it
by
its
Arms
and
Intrigues
,
it
was
the
same
Party
not
only
preserved
the
Empire
,
but
the
Emperor
,
from
the
Yoke
of
the
French.
And
it
will
be
the
same
Party
which
(
by
the
Grace
of
God
)
shall
easily
preserve
it
for
the
future
;
at
least
,
if
the
Potentates
of
that
Party
,
or
the
greater
part
of
them
,
apply
themselves
to
do
what
I
conceive
they
are
obliged
to
.
But
to
speak
plainly
,
and
make
appear
the
necessity
of
such
a
Protestant
League
and
Confederacy
,
we
are
to
consider
;
His
Imperial
Majesty
will
either
effectually
perform
what
he
ought
in
defence
of
the
Empire
,
by
saving
himself
from
falling
under
the
Dominion
of
France
;
or
that
he
will
do
nothing
but
in
shew
and
appearance
.
If
His
Imperial
Majesty
perform
as
he
ought
,
against
the
Enterprises
of
France
,
such
a
League
can
never
be
more
seasonably
made
to
second
the
Imperial
Forces
;
nor
can
His
Imperial
Majesty
in
that
case
rely
on
any
Forces
(
the
Nature
of
the
Quarrel
considered
)
that
will
be
more
true
to
him
than
those
of
the
Protestants
.
But
if
His
Imperial
Majesty
intend
meerly
to
look
on
,
as
unconcerned
,
and
not
to
engage
really
and
effectually
against
the
French
Designs
,
which
he
is
so
highly
concerned
to
oppose
,
there
can
be
no
doubt
,
but
the
Court
of
Rome
and
the
Jesuits
have
secretly
carried
on
a
close
Intelligence
and
private
League
between
their
Imperial
and
Most
Christian
Majesties
,
for
the
Ruin
and
Destruction
of
the
Protestant
Party
;
and
,
That
by
some
private
and
mysterious
Stipulation
,
some
Protestant
Estate
in
the
Empire
,
or
on
the
Frontiers
,
in
the
Low
Countries
,
or
Swisserland
,
is
,
according
to
their
Project
,
designed
a
Recompence
to
the
Duke
of
Lorrain
,
for
the
Dukedoms
of
Lorrain
and
Barre
,
which
France
hath
taken
from
him
,
and
hath
no
mind
to
restore
.
And
by
a
captious
Contrivance
of
this
nature
,
the
Protestant
Party
in
the
Empire
shall
find
it self
at
once
assaulted
by
the
united
Forces
of
their
Imperial
and
most
Christian
Majesties
(
who
are
both
of
a
Communion
.
)
I
leave
to
your
Highness
to
judge
,
how
much
it
concerns
the
Protestant
party
,
by
the
Industry
and
Union
I
have
mentioned
,
to
prevent
so
great
and
dangerous
an
Inconvenience
.
My
Suspicion
of
His
Imperial
Majesty
is
the
greater
,
for
that
it
is
notorious
there
are
in
the
Society
of
Jesuits
Men
of
several
sorts
;
some
of
whom
are
dispenced
with
not
onely
to
lay
aside
the
Habit
of
their
Order
,
but
to
Marry
,
and
bear
all
sorts
of
Offices
and
Dignities
:
And
that
if
his
Imperial
Majesty
was
in
his
younger
days
,
out
of
too
great
a
zeal
for
his
Religion
,
unhappily
engag'd
in
this
Order
,
under
the
Dispensations
I
suppose
,
there
is
no
cause
left
for
wonder
at
his
Proceedings
against
the
Protestants
:
For
,
though
he
had
been
but
of
the
Lower
Order
,
which
is
that
wherein
Marriage
is
permitted
,
and
a
Capacity
allowed
of
bearing
Offices
and
Dignities
;
yet
as
to
all
other
things
,
and
particularly
in
matters
of
Religion
,
he
must
have
been
under
the
Obedience
of
the
General
of
the
Jesuits
,
and
consequently
obliged
to
make
Peace
and
War
,
as
the
General
of
the
Society
should
judge
most
convenient
for
the
Interest
of
the
Pope
and
the
Society
.
The
continual
War
this
Prince
makes
against
the
Protestants
of
Vpper
Hungary
,
contrary
to
all
the
Maxims
and
Rules
of
sound
Policy
,
and
contrary
to
the
Priviledges
(
one
of
his
Ministers
told
me
,
and
I
am
otherwise
well
assured
)
he
hath
sworn
to
that
Nation
;
the
vast
Gifts
he
hath
bestowed
on
the
Society
in
Bohemia
,
Silesia
,
Hungary
,
Moravia
,
and
generally
in
all
his
Hereditary
Countries
;
with
his
shameful
signing
the
late
Peace
,
in
prejudice
,
and
contrary
to
all
his
Treaties
with
the
Protestant
Princes
,
smells
rankly
of
an
Obedience
which
acknowledges
no
Obligation
,
nor
owns
any
Rule
of
Justice
or
Piety
,
other
than
the
absolute
Command
of
his
Superior
.
And
I
see
nothing
in
this
Prince
,
as
to
his
manner
of
Living
,
and
constant
Attendance
at
Jesuitical
Comedies
,
Musick
,
and
Pilgrimages
,
sometimes
to
one
Relique
,
sometimes
to
another
,
with
all
that
may
make
out
his
natural
or
acquir'd
inclinations
,
that
may
any
way
convince
this
Opinion
of
mistake
.
So
that
if
it
be
so
,
(
as
to
speak
the
truth
)
I
very
much
suspect
it
is
;
and
I
am
not
alone
in
this
Suspicion
:
I
leave
it
to
the
Judgment
of
the
Empire
in
general
,
and
the
Protestants
in
particular
,
what
ground
they
have
to
relie
on
,
or
expectany
Succour
or
Assistance
from
the
Head
of
the
Empire
:
For
,
in
case
this
prove
true
,
should
his
Imperial
Majesty
promise
and
design
effectually
to
assist
the
Protestants
,
in
defence
of
the
Common
Liberty
;
yet
if
on
the
morrow
the
General
of
the
Society
should
order
him
,
for
some
greater
Good
,
(
which
,
according
to
their
Maxims
consists
frequently
in
a
Massacre
,
a
Poysoning
,
or
Assassination
)
to
joyn
at
a
precise
Day
and
place
his
Arms
to
those
of
France
,
for
the
entire
extirpation
of
the
Protestant
Party
in
the
Empire
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
this
Prince
would
be
obliged
to
do
it
,
either
on
the
account
of
Obedience
due
to
his
General
,
or
for
fear
the
Society
,
in
case
of
his
disobedience
,
should
dispatch
him
,
as
they
did
by
themselves
,
or
their
Emissaries
,
Henry
the
Third
and
Fourth
in
France
,
Don
Carlos
in
Spain
,
Duke
Bernard
of
Weymar
in
Germany
,
and
lately
the
Illustrious
Princess
of
Inspruck
,
second
Wife
of
that
Prince
,
the
last
Duke
of
Brieg
in
Silesia
:
or
as
they
have
newly
attempted
to
do
against
his
Majesty
of
Great
Britain
.
For
Incendiaries
,
Assassins
,
and
Murderers
are
the
faithful
Servants
and
inseparable
Instruments
of
that
blessed
Society
.
Your
Highness
will
not
be
surpriz'd
at
the
vehement
Suspicion
I
have
exprest
of
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
when
you
have
considered
,
there
have
been
two
Kings
of
Poland
of
that
Order
,
and
that
Philip
the
Second
of
Spain
did
(
out
of
Policy
)
cause
himself
to
be
enrolled
amongst
them
.
But
the
Order
of
the
Jesuits
is
compos'd
(
as
others
)
of
two
sorts
of
People
,
whom
Politicians
distinguish
by
the
Names
of
Directors
and
Directed
:
And
we
are
to
observe
,
the
two
Kings
of
Poland
were
in
this
latter
Class
.
The
former
,
by
promoting
too
zealously
the
Passions
of
the
Society
,
having
lost
the
Kingdom
of
Swede
,
to
which
he
was
Heir
;
and
the
second
having
by
the
same
means
incurred
the
irreconcileable
hatred
and
aversion
of
the
Nobility
of
Poland
,
to
so
extream
a
degree
,
that
to
avoid
the
threatning
effects
of
it
,
he
was
forced
at
last
to
quit
his
Crown
,
from
a
Sovereign
to
become
a
Subject
,
and
go
end
his
days
in
a
strange
Country
,
with
no
better
a
Character
than
that
of
Abbot
of
St.
German
in
France
.
But
as
for
Philip
the
Second
(
setting
matter
of
Conscience
aside
)
considering
him
only
in
quality
of
a
Politician
▪
I
boldly
assign
him
a
Place
in
the
Class
of
Directors
;
for
he
directed
his
Affairs
so
well
,
he
mist
but
little
of
subduing
France
,
and
effectually
seised
the
Crown
of
Portugal
,
and
the
East-Indies
as
an
Appurtenant
.
I
am
oblig'd
,
by
the
Respect
I
bear
his
Imperial
Majesty
,
to
leave
it
to
your
Highness
to
think
which
of
the
two
Classes
he
is
to
be
rank'd
in
.
But
whether
his
Imperial
Majesty
be
a
Member
of
this
Society
,
or
not
,
I
have
said
enough
to
make
appear
to
your
Highness
the
absolute
necessity
of
a
League
and
Consederacy
between
the
Protestant
Powers
of
Europe
,
to
enable
them
to
defend
themselves
against
the
pernicious
Designs
of
their
Enemies
.
I
will
conclude
with
minding
your
Highness
,
That
this
is
the
Occasion
that
calls
upon
you
,
to
shew
to
all
the
World
your
zeal
for
your
Religion
,
and
the
Good
of
the
Publick
;
And
that
since
my
longer
stay
in
this
Court
will
be
useless
,
your
Highness
will
do
me
the
Favour
to
permit
me
to
leave
it
as
soon
as
may
be
,
that
I
may
have
the
honour
to
wait
on
your
Most
Serene
Person
,
and
continue
the
performance
of
my
most
humble
Services
.
To
that
happy
time
I
respite
acquainting
you
with
many
Particulars
I
dare
not
trust
to
Paper
,
(
though
altogether
confirming
what
I
have
most
confidently
affirmed
,
as
to
the
most
Essential
Points
of
my
Letter
.
)
And
in
hopes
to
receive
speedily
the
honour
of
your
Commands
to
that
purpose
,
which
I
humbly
beg
,
I
remain
with
all
due
Respects
,
My
Lord
,
Your
Serene
Highnesses
most
humble
Servant
,
&c.
Prague
,
13
Febr.
1680.
FINIS
.