Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

...could let the dispassionate—indeed, the whole honorable world—judge. His Royal Majesty of Spain, during the unrest that arose in Bohemia The Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620), which triggered the Thirty Years' War., through his then highly distinguished Ambassador residing at the Imperial Court, Count of Oñate, in the year 1619, by means of his sent sub-delegates, gave this high testimony: that His Electoral Serenity held fast to the laws, and thereby earned a praiseworthy name.

His Electoral Serenity has done no more than this; therefore, he shall rightly receive this praise once again. And when finally, upon urgent and persistent requests, His Electoral Serenity met in Leipzig with several Evangelical Protestant and Protesting Electors and Estates, and considered with a faithful, careful, and open heart those things permitted by Divine law, the law of all nations, as well as the written laws and Imperial Constitutions, and the manifold traditions of the Empire;

And also most humbly and submissively made known to His Imperial Majesty—on behalf of all the Electors and Estates present, as well as the embassies and envoys of those absent—in a lengthy, detailed, and well-founded, most obedient No. 3. letter (which was likewise printed afterward), the great and unbearable tribulations, distress, and misery of the distressed and oppressed Estates, and imploringly begged for the most gracious and mildest remedy original: "remedirung"; referring to legal or political relief from the hardships of war., and with heartfelt and most humble trust, looked forward to and surely expected such relief.

But after, instead of the most necessary Imperial mildest...