Report and Answer to the Bavarian-Anhalt Secret Chancellery

Report and Answer.

The Union The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German princes and cities formed in 1608 for self-defense was by no means directed against his Roman Imperial Majesty; rather, his Imperial Majesty was expressly original: expreſsè excluded from its provisions, as is shown by the memorandum original: Notul which may be found among other records in Munich.

The Compiler The author of the pro-Imperial/Bavarian text being refuted here, however, intends to prove his claim through the treaty with the aforementioned foreign Potentate, because the matter of the Bohemian Crown is included (page 32), and because the Electoral Palatinate is said to have actually sent 2,000 of Mansfeld’s soldiers Mercenaries under Ernst von Mansfeld, a key commander for the Protestant cause against Emperor Matthias in Bohemia (page 33 and following).

But regarding this, it must be known that whatever is cited concerning the Crown of Bohemia was expressly intended and referred to only in the event of Emperor Matthias's death original: in casum mortis, who at that time was already very frail original: baufällig and passed away a few months later—namely in March of the following year. Therefore, the inference original: consequentia made here by the Compiler is completely invalid—as if something had been conspired original: practisiret against Caesar Matthias regarding the aforementioned Crown. As for the troops led by Mansfeld into Bohemia, a sufficient explanation of the intentions behind that can be found above in the first chapter.

To further support his claim on this point, the Compiler cites on page 34 a letter from Volrad von Plessen, Privy Councilor to the Elector Palatine, dated September 11, 1618. In it, he is said to state at the very beginning: that the claims original: prætensiones of the Bohemian Estates, the united Protestants in Germany, and the United States in the Netherlands are all dedicated to one foundation, etc. From this, the Compiler draws the conclusion that the Union must have been—and indeed was—directed against your Imperial Majesty as well as against all obedient Estates of the Empire. But this long, convoluted original: geschrenckte conclusion—extending from the section "Is then the States, etc." (page 35) to the section "To the current, etc."—has no force, since the premises original: præmissæ and the antecedents original: antecedentia are incorrect.

For firstly, it is not admitted that at the time the aforementioned letter was sent, the Bohemians had risen up against their King, because it was sufficiently demonstrated back in the first chapter that the Bohemians never acknowledged any uprising or defection from Emperor Matthias, but always protested against such claims. In the same way, it is not admitted that the Union with