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A PROTESTATION Of the Moſt High and Mighty PRINCE CHARLES LODOWICKE, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Archidapifer, and Prince Elector of the ſacred Empire, Duke of Bavaria, &c.

Tranſlated out of the High-Dutch, and Printed at LONDON for RICHARD WHITAKER, M.DC.XXXVII.

THE

PROTESTATION

Is againſt

All the unlawfull, and violent proceedings and actions, intended and practiſed to his Highneſſe, his Brethren, and neare Kindreds prejudice.

Particularly, againſt

The ſecret, and invalide diſpoſitions and decrees of the Emperour, in the tranſlation of the Electorall dignity and dominions, upon the Duke of Bavaria, &c.

Secondly,

The unlawfull, and vaine Election of a King of the Romans, where his Highneſſe and the Electour of Triers were excluded.

Laſtly,

The violent and unjuſt uſurpation and poſſeſſion of the Electorall Dignity, Title, Voice, and Seſſion, by the Duke of Bavaria.

A Proteſtation, eſpecially being cleare and well expreſſed, conſerveth the right of him that maketh it. And though ſuch proteſtation be neceſſary, yet doth it no wrong, or injury to any one.

Leg. idebitor 4. § 1. D. Quibus modis pignus & ibi Bartol. l. & ſi quis, 14 §. Sed interdum 7. D. de Religioſe. & ſumptibus.

Sampſon, when the Philiſtins, tooke his wife from him, and gave her to another, maketh this Proteſtation againſt them.

Iudges cap. 15. verſ. 3.

Now ſhall I be more blameleſſe than the Philiſtins, though I doe them a diſpleaſure.

Charles Lodowicke, By the grace of God, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Archidapifer, and Prince Electour of the ſacred Empire, Duke of Bavaria, &c. To all, and every one, that ſhall ſee or reade theſe our Letters Patents, Greeting.

IT is well knowne and manifeſt, not onely in the Roman Empire, and Germany our deare Country, but alſo in all Chriſtendome, by the experience of thoſe violent actions and ſad effects of warre, which even unto this day are to bee ſeene, and by divers writings and publique monuments ſet forth every where, what manner of proceeding was uſed, all the while theſe heauy troubles, and civill warres of Germanie laſted, in the occupation, ſurreption, diviſion, diſmembring, ſale, grant, and tranſlation of Our now waſted Dominions and Territories; and well as of Our Electorall Dignity, Archidapiferſhip, Voice, Royalties, and other Rights thereunto immediately and inſeparably belonging.

Which proceedings and violences being altogether unjuſt, intolerable, contrary to all right and juſtice, and conſequently a nullity, invalide, and without power and force: We have juſt cauſe to be ſenſible of them, and to this end to publiſh Our complaints, exceptions and proteſtations againſt them, according as neceſsity and juſtice doth require.

Eſpecially, that which grieveth & moſt ſenſibly afflicteth Vs, as tending to the greateſt prejudice of Our owne, Our Brethren and neere Kindreds Perſons and Rights, is that not without great diſlike and ſorrow We doe heare and underſtand.

Firſt of all, how that in the laſt pretended treaty of peace at Prague, without Our knowledge, in the time of Our minority, not being there, nor ſent for, nor heard, amongſt the reſt was concluded and agreed upon, that thoſe diſpoſitions and pactions ſhould bee and remaine firme, ſtable aad valide, which heretofore were made and granted by his Imperiall Majeſty, to the Duke of Bavaria, and the Wilhelmian Line and Poſterity, in regard of Our Electorall Dominions and Dignities, and withall, that the ſaid invalide diſpoſgions, having beene parched & compiled together in private and ſecretly, hitherto unknowne to the world, and as yet not publiſhed in their true force and phraſe, nevertheleſſe were alledged againſt Us, under the pretence, as if they had beene allowed and confirmed in the ſayd treaty of peace, and conſequently received by a generall approbation of all the ſtates of the Sacred Empire, as it doth manifeſtly appeare in the laſt anſwer given by the Emperour to the Earle of Arundel, the Kings Majeſty of Great Brittaine His Ambaſſadour at Ratisbone.

By vertue of which diſpoſitions, Our Right, Iuriſdictions and Poſſeſsions, belonging and appertaining unto Vs, Our Brethren, and neare Kindred, ex primaevâ & ſimultaneâ Inveſtiturâ ex pacto & providentiâ majorum, were raviſhed and violently taken from Vs, and transferred from Our Houſe to a remote and farre diſtant Line and Deſcent, againſt all right, lawes, conſtitutions of the Empire, cuſtomes obſerved in Fiefs of ſuch importance and quality; nay, even againſt the Golden Bull it ſelfe, and other pactions and Imperiall priviledges, from many ages conferred and confirmed upon on Our Electorall Houſe.

Secondly, it much grieveth Vs, that at the laſt meeting of the Electours at Ratisbone, where the election of a King of the Romans was propounded and treated, and the King of Hungary, Ferdinando of Auſtria, choſen and crowned, We were not with the reſt of Our Co-electors, by vertue of the Golden Bull, called and invited, notwithſtanding that VVe onely repreſent and beare the Right, Voice, Office, and Perſon of the Elector Palatine, but VVe were purpoſely, though uniuſtly, paſt by and excluded, and the Duke of Bavaria ſuffered de facto and really to uſurpe, and to beare our Title, Place, Seſſion, Office and Voice, againſt all Law and Iuſtice.

All theſe things generally, and every one in particular being nothing, and altogether invalide, uniuſt, and violent, to paſſe by many other nullities, VVe doe eſteeme and account the Diſpoſitions above-ſaid, and the pretended concluſion of peace of no force and power, upon this ground, becauſe they were continued, framed and agreed upon, in the time of Our, and Our Brethrens minority, when We were abſent and in forraine Countries, having beene neither called nor heard, much leſſe accuſed and convicted; beſides, that in themſelves they are contrary to all Divine and humane lawes, the fundamentall Conſtitutions of the Sacred Empire, the ordinary cuſtomes of Fiefs of ſuch quality, and the manifold declarations, which His Imperiall Majeſty hath made and given under his owne hand with full aſſurance, to all the Electours, that then were preſent, the 23. of February, anno 1623. and to the King of Great Brittaine, Our honoured Grandfather of moſt bleſſed memory, few daies after, viz. the 5. of March in the ſame yeare.

And withall the nullity of this pretended Election appeareth, in that. VVe were with the Electour of Triers unjuſtly and violently excluded and kept out from it, though unto Us onely it belongeth by Nature, Divine and humane lawes, to beare the Name, Title, Voice, Office, and Function of the Electour Palatine, in all Imperiall Diets, Electorall meetings, and generally in all ſolemne actions of the Empire.

Theſe inevitable neceſsities obliged Vs, to publiſh Our exceptions and proteſtations in a ſolemne and legall manner, for the maintaining of Our unqueſtionable and undoubted Right, Iuriſdiction, Princely deſcent, State, and Name, againſt all ſuch and the like violent proceedings, intended, determined and practiſed, to the prejudice and diſgrace of Vs, Our Brethren and neere Kindred, who were never ſo much as called or heard in Our owne cauſe.

We doe therefore by vertue of theſe Letters Patents, with good adviſe and knowledge, in the beſt forme and wiſe, according to Law and Cuſtome, plainely and fully proteſt againſt, and contradict all, both in generall and particular, whatſoever hath been contrived, acted, granted, premiſed, pronounced, judged, publiſhed, diſpoſed, practiſed and agreed upon, publikely or privately, with deliberation and purpoſe, or any other way, to the prejudice, detriment and damage of Us, Our Brethren, and neare Kindred, or whatſoever ſhall or may be in time to come, ordained, judged, decreed, practiſed and acted, againſt Vs, de facto and really, without Our knowledge, conſent and approbation.

Particularly, we doe proteſt againſt thoſe vaine, impertinent, and moſt dangerous diſpoſitions, and concluſions of peace at Prague, againſt the haſty, precipitate and unlawfull election of a King of the Romans, and above all, againſt the violent, unjuſt and hainous uſurpation, detention, and privation made and continued by the Duke of Bavaria, in keeping backe, raviſhing and detaining from Vs, as much as lyeth in his power, by his uſurpation de facto, Our Electourſhip, Dominions, Subjects, Royalties, Fiefs, Office, Title, Voice and Seſsion.

Reſerving withall for Us, Our Brethren, neere Kindred, and all thoſe that have any intereſt in it, to uſe all ſuch lawfull and conducible meanes, actions, defences and remedies, as are allowed in ſuch caſes, by Divine and humane lawes, to all, that are thus oppreſſed, and ſuffer ſuch wrongs and injuries, with this expreſſe declaration and Proteſtation, that whereas We Ourſelves, and others for Vs have hitherto tryed and ſought, as much as was poſſible, to come by faire meanes to the quiet repoſſeſſion of what belongeth unto Vs, by Nature, and Lawes Divine and humane, upon honeſt and tolerable conditions, We deſire to be cleare and blameleſſe before Almighty God, the whole world, and all poſterity, of whatſoever may befall any one in the proſecution and maintaining of Our juſt and lawfull cauſe, for the obtaining of Our reſtitution.

We doe likewiſe in the end profeſſe and proteſt before God, who knoweth the hearts of man, that VVe doe not intend by this our forced lawfull Proteſtation, to derogate any thing from the Highneſſe and preheminency of his Imperiall Majeſty, whom We are willing and ready to honour and revere with moſt humble and conſtant devotion, Or to diminiſh and offend the Rights, Honours, and Iuriſdictions of any State ſoever, having no other intent and ſcope, but more and more by theſe lawfull meanes to maintaine, confirme, and publikely to manifeſt Our innocency, juſt cauſe, unqueſtionable Right, Hereditary Dignities, and lawfull poſſeſsions, leaſt by Our ſilence and forbearance of this neceſſary and juſt Proteſtation, they ſhould be neglected, endangered, or prejudiced,

And to the end, that this Our Proteſtation, drawne in the preſence of a Notary and witneſſes, might come to the publike knowledge and view of the world, and all frivolous exceptions and pretences of ignorance be cut off from thoſe whom it may concerne, We have cauſed it publikely to be ſet forth and printed, and have already ſent ſome authenticke copies of it to his Imperiall Majeſty, and the Princes Electours, under Our owne hand and Seale.

Given at Hampton-court the 27. of January, anno 1637.