The Theatre of Agriculture and Field Husbandry

...and we prohibit anyone from daring to reprint the aforementioned book original: "memoratū librum" within the space of ten years, to be counted from the first day of publication, within the borders of the Holy Roman Empire and our hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions, in similar or any other type or form of character This refers to the typeface or printing style, ensuring no one could circumvent the law by simply changing the font., whether in whole or in part. Nor shall anyone bring in, sell, or distribute it if printed elsewhere, secretly or covertly, without the will and consent of the aforesaid Olivier de Serres or his heirs.

If anyone, by doing otherwise, should attempt to scorn, neglect, or transgress this our Imperial privilege and interdict, or violate it by any rash daring, we decree that he shall not only be deprived of all those copies thus reprinted and brought in—which the aforesaid Olivier de Serres, his heirs, or their agents may claim for themselves wherever discovered, using either the power and authority we grant them in this regard or the help and assistance of the local Magistrate—but he shall also be punished by a fine of ten marks of pure gold. This fine shall be paid without fail, half to our Imperial Treasury original: "Fisco nostro Cæsareo," the emperor's private purse as the punisher of fraud, and the other half to the said Olivier or his heirs.

This is granted provided that this book contains nothing contrary to our Orthodox Catholic Religion, and that Olivier de Serres sends at least three copies, at his own expense, to our Imperial Court Chancery if he wishes to make use of this Imperial Privilege. Should he neglect to do so, he shall be considered entirely deprived and stripped of these rights.

We therefore command all our subjects and those of the Holy Roman Empire, and of our hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions, of whatever status, order, condition, dignity, or preeminence they may be—both Ecclesiastical and secular—and especially those who exercise the administration of Law and Justice, that they do not allow anyone to rashly or with impunity transgress or violate this our Imperial Privilege. Rather, if they should find any defiant persons or violators, they should see to it that they are punished with the prescribed penalty and coerced by other suitable means, lest they themselves wish to incur the same fine.

In testimony of these letters, signed with our own hand and fortified by the impression of our Imperial seal. Given in our Royal Castle at Prague, on the twenty-eighth day of the month of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and one. Of our reigns, the twenty-sixth of the Roman, the twenty-ninth of the Hungarian, and likewise the twenty-sixth of the Bohemian.

RUDOLPH.

Rudolph Coraduz. Rudolph Coraduz was the Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire.