RODOLPHUS

SECONDUS

By the favoring grace of God, elected Emperor of the Romans, forever August, and King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, etc.; Margrave of Moravia, etc.; Duke of Luxembourg, Upper and Lower Silesia, Württemberg, and Teck; Prince of Swabia; Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Ferrette, Kyburg, and Gorizia; Landgrave of Alsace; Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, and Upper and Lower Lusatia; Lord of the March and Slavonia, Port Naon, and the Saltworks, etc. To our noble and faithful beloved Rodolph Salis de Salis, our Baron, War Councilor, and Colonel of one regiment of German infantry, our Imperial grace and every good thing. Since there is nothing among mortals more sublime than the Imperial Majesty and highness, which the All-Good and Greatest God willed to stand out from other human dignities, so that it may illuminate the circle of the earth and the entrusted Empire with its most shining rays: it is indeed fitting that he whom God has raised to this pinnacle should also manage the dignity and office entrusted to him in such a way that, as much as possible in this life, he comes as close as possible to the example of the Divine Majesty, upon whose nod the entire machinery of this world depends, holding his clemency and liberality circumscribed by no boundaries, but exercising them toward all, especially those whom, beyond the ancient nobility of family and the illustrious merits of ancestors toward the Christian Republic and our renowned House of Austria, their own virtue, prudence, integrity, and other deeds bravely performed with praise in times of both war and peace, and other notable gifts of spirit, have rendered clear above others: applying every effort in this, and