Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

His Princely Grace Referring to Duke Augustus of Saxony, mentioned on the previous page. had been requested and called to the office of Archbishop, yet he was to be pushed aside and deposed from it entirely unheard. Furthermore, great and heavy religious hardships original: "Religions-beschwernüssen" were brought upon the Protestant Estates, and especially upon the Protestant citizens of the city of Augsburg. Alongside this, His Electoral Serenity The Elector of Saxony, John George I. was incessantly petitioned by the Protestant and Protesting Estates and most strongly reminded and exhorted of his Electoral Word, which he had given in the year 1620 and often thereafter. Therefore, His Electoral Serenity once again at length remonstrated original: "remonstriret"; to formally present a list of grievances. these matters to His Imperial Majesty in a most humble, obedient, and detailed letter—which was likewise later published in print—dated the 24th of August in the aforementioned year 1630. He repeated original: "repetiret" his faithful and most obedient plea for the Emperor to most graciously provide counsel and a remedy for these affairs, adding that he would ultimately be unable to avoid meeting with the suffering Estates to prevent greater disaster and holding peaceful consultations original: "Consultationen" regarding these issues.

In all of this, as he can well testify before GOD and men, His Electoral Serenity was moved by no improper thoughts to be in any way vexing to His Imperial Majesty, and least of all to infringe upon that high Imperial Respect The honor and authority due to the Emperor. which he has always regarded so obediently and helped to protect so faithfully. Rather, he was driven and compelled to this by the heavy duty with which