Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

...[human] eyes Completing "menschlichen" from the previous page. certainly stood in a very precarious and dangerous state; and true loyalty and love were clearly recognizable. His Electoral Serenity, with undaunted risk to his electoral body and life, highness and dignity, as well as land and people, performed what services he could. What great danger, hatred, and ill-will from many noble houses and persons His Electoral Serenity has thereby drawn upon himself and his House and "loaded upon his neck" An idiomatic expression meaning to take on a heavy or troublesome burden.—all this is not only known throughout the Empire, but is notorious original: "notori" and manifest to all of Christendom and neighboring peoples. Therefore, His Electoral Serenity deems it entirely unnecessary to touch upon this with more words at this time.

In this due obedience and devotion original: "Devotion" toward Your Imperial Majesty, as well as love and affection toward the Archducal House of Austria, His Electoral Serenity has also remained firm, constant, upright, and unchanged at all times. In turn, he has most humbly and kindly expected and felt entirely assured of nothing other than Imperial just rule, favor, and grace, as well as protection and defense from Your Imperial Majesty—as a just, most kind, and mild Emperor—as well as friendship and goodwill from the most laudable Archducal House of Austria. This is especially so because even the rational heathens A reference to ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and rulers who, despite not being Christian, were admired for their civic virtues. rewarded such constant loyalty and useful services with good; and significant promises were made to His Electoral Serenity that his actions should likewise be well remunerated original: "remunerirt"; meaning rewarded or compensated and not forgotten, for both himself and his entire House.