Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

...to achieve and maintain a wholesome and lasting peace. Especially, however, the Lord Ambassadors were commanded to take great care that the old love and friendship—which has always been maintained between His Royal Majesty and his most honored House of Austria The Habsburg dynasty, which ruled both Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. and His Electoral Grace—is still steadily preserved.

And because, beyond all expectation, great alterations original: "Alterationes" — referring to the shifting political and military alliances in the 1630s have appeared, from which a separation of the old friendship is to be feared rather than the preservation of the old intimacy, love, peace, and unity; therefore His Royal Majesty's intentions, opinions, and thoughts are directed solely toward this: to do his utmost so that through his interposition interposition: diplomatic mediation or intervention by a third party to settle a dispute this misfortune might be remedied, provided that such a thing were acceptable to His Electoral Grace.

For His Royal Majesty desired nothing more than the prosperous advancement of His Electoral Grace and his entire posterity future generations and heirs, as well as that of his laudable Electoral House, just as with his ancestors; he likewise desired to show him all love, loyalty, and friendship. For this reason, His Royal Majesty deemed it advisable that His Electoral Grace should disclose his grievances original: "Gravamina" — formal legal and political complaints and claims original: "pratensiones" — demands for rights or territories confidentially in writing, and thereafter deputize appoint as representatives two qualified persons to a certain location.

At that point, the aforementioned embassy would see to it that His Roman Imperial Majesty—who is also King of Hungary and Bohemia—likewise appointed two suitable persons for this purpose. Whereupon the named Lord Ambassador, as an intermediary original: "Interponent" in the name of His Royal Majesty, intended to apply all diligence so that all differences, which...