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vor This completes the word "favor" from the previous page. or protection this Anhalt-Palatine Chancellery Anhalt Pfältzische Cantzley: A famous 1621 collection of intercepted secret diplomatic documents exposing the plans of the Protestant Union after their defeat at the Battle of White Mountain. does not seek, other than the truth and the recognition of it, as well as justice itself, and all impartial, upright, and honest hearts, of whatever status original: "conditionen" they may be, who have cause, both now and in the future, to take heed of such things.

And because the authors of this tragedy original: "Tragoedi," referring to the Bohemian Revolt and the beginning of the Thirty Years' War handled these secrets so secretly, they will not hand out the slightest thanks for their disclosure. Indeed, it is said that the most high-ranking among those privy to these secrets lamented the loss of these discovered original documents original: "Originalien" even more than the loss of the kingdom, lands, and baggage original: "bagagli," referring to the personal effects and official papers lost by Frederick V while fleeing Prague. Therefore, those pious spirits inclined toward the common welfare—and especially those who were meant to suffer, or have already suffered under these plans—will be all the more obligated to thank Almighty God that such plots ankhlåg: schemes or conspiracies initiated against them and others have been shamed and revealed at the right time and, as the saying goes, in the midst of the greatest need. Thus, everyone can and shall see from now on who is to be trusted and believed.