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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF THE Czaars of Mu&s;covy AGAINST THE FRENCH KING, IN <HI>Favour of the poor</HI> Prote&s;tants <HI>Di&s;tre&s;s in this pre&s;ent Per&s;ecution; obtained for them by the interce&s;&s;ion of his Electoral Highne&s;s the Marque&s;s of</HI> Brandenburg.</HEAD>
<P>WE <HI>John Alexeiwitz</HI> and <HI>Peter Alexeiwitz,</HI> by the Grace of God, mo&s;t Serene and Mighty Princes and Czaars, Sovereign Ma&s;ters of both <HI>Ru&s;&s;ias,</HI> of <HI>Moskow, Kiow, Wlodimir,</HI> and <HI>Newgarden;</HI> Czaars of <HI>Ca&s;an, A&s;tracan,</HI> and <HI>Siberia;</HI> Lords of <HI>Pleskow;</HI> Great Dukes of <HI>Smolenkow, Twer, Jugoria, Perm, Wiathka, Bulgaria,</HI> and other Principalities: Great Dukes and Lords of the Low&punc;Countries of <HI>Newgarden, Tzernigow, Re&s;an, Ro&s;thow, Jero&s;law, Berlow&s;ery, &V;dory, Obdory,</HI> and <HI>Condiny;</HI> And Sovereign Princes of the Northern-Countries: Lords of the Countries of <HI>Twer;</HI> Czaars of the Countries of <HI>Carthaline</HI> and <HI>Gru&s;&s;ene;</HI> And Princes of the Countries of <HI>Cabardine, Cirka&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Gorne,</HI> with many other Countries lying Ea&s;tward, We&s;tward, or Northwards, which belong to Us as Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors of our Fathers and Grand-Fathers, who were Lords and Princes thereof. By Order of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, let it be known by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, to all whom it may concern, That our Maje&s;ties the Czaars will and plea&s;ure is, to make &s;everal Per&s;ons of &s;everal Qualities partakers of our Favours, according to the Tenor of the&s;e Letters Patents. In the beginning of this pre&s;ent Year 7197. the mo&s;t Serene Prince and Lord <HI>Frideric</HI> III. Marque&s;s of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> and other Principalities, having deputed to our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, <HI>John Reyer Chapliez,</HI> Privy Secretary and Coun&s;ellor of his Electoral Highne&s;s, and his Envoy Extraordinary in our Court; Who being in conference with our Maje&s;ties the Czaars: Privy Boiars and their Collegues, has declared and propo&s;ed unto them by writing from his Electoral Highne&s;s, That his Maje&s;ty the <HI>French</HI> King, has begun in his Kingdom to force all that profe&s;&s;ed the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion to abjure it, and has by &s;everal Torments driven them out of his Kingdom, or forced to turn <HI>Roman Catholicks,</HI> putting &s;everal of them to Death and parting Husbands from their Wives, and Children from their Parents, by keeping them in Pri&s;on: But that tho&s;e among&s;t them who were not thus detained, have made their e&s;cape out of the &s;aid Kingdom and &s;ought for Shelter in the Neighbouring-Countries; and that great numbers of them are come into the E&s;tates of his Electoral Highne&s;s, &s;o that it is to be hoped many more will follow their example in making their e&s;cape. And as many among&s;t them, who would endeavour to find &s;ome means of getting their Sub&s;i&s;tance, are (by rea&s;on of their great numbers, and to fly from Per|&s;ecution) de&s;irous to be entertained as our Subjects, and to &s;ettle among&s;t Us, in our great Kingdom of <HI>Ru&s;&s;ia:</HI> And that his Electoral Highne&s;s has very earne&s;tly de&s;ired Us in their behalf, to receive them under our Sovereign Protection in the nature of Subjects, and to grant them free acce&s;s into our great Kingdom of <HI>Ru&s;&s;ia.</HI> We therefore upon the Advice and Reque&s;t of his Electoral Highne&s;s made unto Us by his Envoy Extraordinary, and according to the report made by the Privy Boiars of our Ma|je&s;ties the Czaars; We great Lords the Czaars have willingly entertained, and do give our con&s;ent to the Reque&s;t of his Electoral Highne&s;s: That the &s;aid <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> bani&s;hed by rea&s;on of their Religion, who de&s;ire to come and live under the Protection, and in the E&s;tates of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, may be a&s;&s;ured of the favour and protection of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, come in and &s;ettle in the great <HI>Ru&s;&s;ia</HI> of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars with full a&s;&s;urance; in order whereunto our will and plea&s;ure is, That all our Frontiers &s;hould lay open and free for them to come in. Moreover they &s;hall be favourably entertained in the Service of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, and &s;hall every one of them obtain a rea&s;onable Sallery, according to their Extraction, Condition, and Dignity. And in ca&s;e any of the &s;aid <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> &s;hould de&s;ire to return into their Country after they have &s;erved our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, they that de&s;ire to do &s;o, &s;hall no ways be hindered, but &s;hall have free liberty to go. Therefore we have cau&s;ed by the favour of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars, tho&s;e Letters Patents to be i&s;&s;ued out by the Chancery of the Envoys of our Maje&s;ties the Czaars.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at the Court of Our Kingdom, in our great Town of</HI> Moskow <DATE><HI>in the Year</HI> 7197. <HI>from the Crea|tion of the World, 21&s;t.</HI> January, <HI>and of our Reign the &s;eventh.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Licenced <HI>April</HI> 13. 1689. JAMES FRASER.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>E. Maret.</HI> and <HI>C. Lucas.</HI> 1680.</P>
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