Copy and Print of the

Mandate

Of the Most Serene / Most Mighty

Prince and Lord / Lord

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS,

King of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals /

Grand Prince in Finland / Duke of Estonia

and Karelia / Lord over Ingria original: "Ingermanlandt" / etc.

Concerning the protection and safety of

traveling and trading persons / wares and

goods / of agriculture / farmers and post-keepers / that the same,

under penalty of unrelenting punishment of life and limb,

shall not be harmed / or attacked.

Given at Kitzingen / the 16th of March, Old StyleLatin: "S. V." (Stilo Veteri). The Protestant states and Sweden still used the Julian calendar, while Catholic states had adopted the Gregorian calendar.

In the year 1632.

Reprinted from the original.

Frankfurt /

To be found at Johann Friederich Weiss's.

1632.