Copy of the Resolution of the Elector of Saxony (1631) - Page 24

...to be left burdened with the assigned contributions original: Contributionibus; these were mandatory financial levies or taxes imposed on a territory to fund the occupying or passing army / but also to keep his fellow Electors and Estates away from all complexities / to observe the Imperial mandates original: Mandata; official decrees issued by the Holy Roman Emperor / and to ensure that matters did not reach extremes original: ad extrema / even though His Electoral Serenity had already suffered significant damage and insult from the Tillyist Army in his own lands / indeed, even on his own private estates original: Taffelgütern; lands specifically designated to provide for the prince's own household and "table" / yet he gave such a mild response and this most humble explanation / and declared original: contestiret / that His Electoral Serenity would continue to persevere in his dutiful devotion to His Roman Imperial Majesty / and would also exhort the other Evangelical and Protesting Estates toward the same / both to further demonstrate how greatly he wished and desired for everything to be brought to peace and quiet / and that he intended, as occasion allowed / to promptly send an embassy original: Legation to His Imperial Majesty / and make a most humble petition / with the attached earnest request / that he, the Lord General, for the promotion of general peace and quiet / and to avert the shedding of innocent blood (for which one is highly accountable before God) / would not undertake any hostile actions against His Electoral Serenity and his faithful land and people / nor violate them / nor damage them further / and would not hinder or disturb original: conturbiren his good intention. It was further pointed out that it would create a strange appearance before the entire honorable world / since they were currently engaged in amicable negotiations original: Tractaten in Frankfurt with the Catholic Lords, Electors, and Estates / and that the Lord Elector of Mainz had also, in his [letter]...