Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

impartial people—indeed, the entire honorable world—can judge original: "dijudiciren"; to evaluate or pass judgment upon.. His Royal Majesty of Spain, during the unrest that arose in Bohemia, through his then highly-esteemed Ambassador residing at the Imperial Court, Count de Ognate Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate (1566–1644), a Spanish diplomat who played a key role in Habsburg politics during the early Thirty Years' War., in the year 1619, by means of his dispatched delegates, gave this high testimony: that His Electoral Serenity John George I, Elector of Saxony. held fast to the laws and thereby earned a praiseworthy name. Now, His Electoral Serenity has not done this or anything more implying he has not exceeded his legal authority or acted out of malice, therefore he shall justly receive this praise once again.

And when finally His Electoral Serenity, upon persistent and relentless urging, met with several Evangelical and Protesting Prince-Electors and Estates These were the Protestant rulers and territories within the Holy Roman Empire who met at the Leipzig Convention of 1631 to discuss their grievances against the Emperor's policies, particularly the Edict of Restitution. in Leipzig, he considered with a faithful, careful, and open heart those things which the Divine Law, the Law of Nations original: "aller Völcker [Rechte]"; the legal principles considered universal to all civilized people., the written laws, the Imperial Constitutions, and the long-standing traditions of the Empire allow.

Furthermore, a lengthy, detailed, well-founded, and most obedient No. 3. letter was sent to His Imperial Majesty from all the Prince-Electors and Estates present, as well as the embassies and envoys of those absent. This letter, which was subsequently printed, most humbly and modestly made known the great, unbearable tribulations, distress, and misery of the burdened and oppressed Estates. It earnestly pleaded for the most gracious and mildest remedy, and with heartfelt and most humble trust, His Electoral Serenity was greatly and surely consoled by the hope of such a remedy and waited for it longingly.

However, instead of the most necessary Imperial mildness...