Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony

relief. His Imperial Majesty, moved by biased information, was prompted to hastily issue—without a hearing—extremely sharp and harsh mandates of prohibition and recall original: "Inhibitori" and "Avocatori-Mandata"; these were legal decrees ordering the cessation of activities and the summoning of individuals to court against the loyal Electors and Estates. Out of a most humble and loyal spirit, His Electoral Serenity—while His Imperial Majesty maintained a highly distinguished ambassador at his court—submitted a most humble, obedient, and very mild No. 4. and hopefully well-founded Written Justification original: "Iustificationschrifft", which is likewise available in public print.

At the same time, No. 5. No. 6. His Electoral Serenity also sent moving personal letters to His Imperial Majesty, as well as to his dearly beloved son, His Royal Majesty of Hungary and Bohemia Ferdinand III, who was King of Hungary and Bohemia before becoming Emperor, in the most humble and friendly manner. This was done with the most submissive and comforting certainty that through this, the matter would be correctly presented to His Imperial Majesty, moving him to kinder and milder Imperial thoughts.

However, the Swabian Circle The "Kreis" or Circle was a regional administrative group of states within the Holy Roman Empire—and subsequently the Franconian Circle—were immediately pressured and coerced by the Italian Imperial troops and through cruel military force and harsh threats. They were forced not only to disband the troops they had raised for their responsible defense original: "Defension"—a defense permitted by God, Nature, and the Law—but also to renounce the Leipzig Resolution The "Leipzigischen Schluß" of 1631, where Protestant estates agreed to raise an army to defend their religious rights. This was done as if the Resolution, which was actually based on the General Imperial Recess of the year 1555 The Peace of Augsburg, which established the legal principle of religious peace in the Empire, had been a grave, forbidden, and unjustifiable undertaking involving His Electoral Serenity of Saxony and Brandenburg