Report and Answer to the Bavarian-Anhalt Secret Chancellery

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...nor does it please him when someone proposes a mediator or an interposer. However, he will have enough to do just to excuse the following two failures.

The first is that, according to the sincere advice and consideration of the Austrian estates the regional representative bodies of the nobility and cities in Austrian lands, a peaceful negotiation for the provinces was not permitted at the very beginning of the Bohemian unrest the 1618 revolt in Prague that sparked the Thirty Years' War. Instead, because they had their eyes on another angle ulterior motives, this was rejected under the pretext that the settlement of these matters had been entrusted to the Electoral College the group of prince-electors who chose the Holy Roman Emperor. Yet there was no appearance that this remedy could be applied or take effect in time, before the disease original Latin: morbus took the upper hand—as experience has indeed testified.

The second failure is that the intervention and interposition of the King of Denmark Christian IV—a distinguished potentate well-disposed and related to the Imperial Majesty and the Empire—was likewise "thrown to the wind." The King had, through his ambassador, von Poggewisch, made a formal offer in Vienna out of love for public peace and tranquility original Latin: amore publicæ pacis & tranquillitatis. What kind of impression this makes, and what sort of resentment original: geblüth, literally "blood," implying ill-feeling or heating of the blood it must necessarily cause, is not hard to gauge. As for other matters regarding the Frankfurt Election the election of Ferdinand II as Emperor in 1619—how it proceeded and whether or who wished to prevent the election day—that will be dealt with elsewhere, and so we proceed to the following matters original Latin: ad sequentia.

Chapter Three.

That the members of the Union are alleged to have plotted all sorts of things against the Roman Empire and its statutes.

Report and Answer.

The Charter of the Union The Protestant Union, a coalition of German Protestant states states in its text that it is in no way intended to oppose the Roman Empire, nor to introduce any innovations within it. To prove the contrary, the Compiler the author of the pro-Imperial "Chancery" text being refuted states on page 39, at the section "As for the third" etc. and following: The United Triumviri A mocking term for the three main leaders of the Union, as he calls them, have negotiated and concluded with the well-known potentate that they might offer him a third Vicariate the office of Imperial Vicar, a prince who rules parts of the Empire when there is no Emperor. To this, the answer is that it was unnecessary to offer him a third Vicariate, because he is already an Imperial Vicar original Latin: Vicarius Imperii and has inherited the Vicariate from his ancestors, as is notorious well known/public knowledge. Furthermore, one does not see how it could be such an enormous crime that orders were given to search the Heidelberg Archives for various...