Report and Answer to the Bavarian-Anhalt Secret Chancellery

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SERIES OF CHAPTERS. original Latin: Series Capitum

I. That the Union The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states formed in 1608 for mutual defense. was not intended for the United Protestant Estates' own defense original: defension and against Catholic plots, but in truth original Latin: in rei veritate was aimed at the suppression and extermination of the Roman Catholics in the Empire.
II. That the Protestant Union was aimed against His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand II. as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, and that plots were carried out against him.
III. That the Union members allegedly carried out all sorts of plots against the Roman Empire and its statutes.
IV. That the United parties, especially the Electoral Palatinate The territory of Frederick V, whose acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked the Thirty Years' War. and other leaders, took advantage of the Bohemian unrest and were never eager to establish peace, but rather were afraid that the Bohemian affair might be settled original: componieret.
V. That the United parties, but primarily their leaders, were the authors original Latin: authores, initiators, and cause of all the unrest, rebellion, and disorder in Hungary, Bohemia, the incorporated The lands traditionally associated with the Bohemian Crown, such as Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia. and Austrian lands.
VI. That the Prince-Elector Palatine, through his acceptance of the new Bohemian election, the actual occupation of the royal throne in Prague, as well as the undertaken coronation and general homage, committed the crime of high treason original Latin: crimen læsæ Majestatis, and thereby caused all the misfortune in said Crown, in the neighboring lands, and in the Roman Empire.
VII. That the United parties, after having prepared themselves for a long time, allegedly decided upon the serious attack against the Catholics at the assembly in Nuremberg in November of the year 1619.
VIII. That the Prince-Elector Palatine, along with the Bohemians and other confederates, intended to make himself a tributary to the Turk The Ottoman Sultan through the mediation of the Prince of Transylvania Gabriel Bethlen, and wanted to bring him into the Roman Empire.
IX. That it has been fundamentally proven that in Bohemia it was not about religion, but about region This is a play on words suggesting the conflict was over territory and power rather than matters of faith..
X. That the Evangelicals Protestants in the Roman Empire need not fear any foreign dominion original: Dominats or any violence from the Pope and from Spain, nor from the Roman Catholics, but that they can and should safely trust the Catholics' assurances original Latin: sincerationibus, declarations, and promises to hold fast and firm to the Land Peace and the secular original: prophan peace.
XI. That in due time the Union began to lack money, and that the Union's affairs were secretly in a state of decay, yet they were made to seem grand outwardly and were boasted about.
XII. An account of the motives and reasons by which the United Estates, each in their own place, were supposedly moved to enter into the Union.
XIII. That the Calvinist spirit can tolerate no one alongside it and wants to have preeminence original: præhaben everywhere, and that the same is supposedly a cause of all mistrust, unrest, and disruption.