A Sincere Warning.

Or surely, their own conscience now tells them how badly they were misled, as well as what damage, disadvantage, danger, and misery they have endured; what massive sums of money—which many a city and its citizens had saved and collected over long years with great diligence, effort, and labor—have now, within a few short years, been spent, or rather, as if thrown into the water. How various rich storehouses original: Magazini, filled with artillery, ammunition, provisions, and all the equipment necessary for open war, were established. What troubles these very estates, incorporated into and corresponding with the Protestant Union Protestant Union: A coalition of Protestant German states formed in 1608 for mutual defense, which played a central role in the lead-up to the Thirty Years' War., have brought upon themselves—through the equipping, arming, and maintenance of their own local militias and citizens. No less through the assembly points original: randeuous, muster grounds, quarters, marches, robberies, plundering, outrages, and other hostilities committed by the Union’s own hired troops, or by the soldiers of various nations who were sent to or arriving for the Bohemians.

Likewise, because of this, the military forces of His Roman Imperial Majesty Referring to the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II. and his House have entered deep into the Roman Empire (where those and the [those]—