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<P>A DECLARATION OR MANIFESTO, VVherein the Roman Imperiall Maje&s;ty makes known to the States &amp; Peers of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> what rea&s;ons and motives have compelled him to proceed in open Warre again&s;t the Prince of TRANSYLVANIA.</P>
<P>VVhereby al&s;o His Imperiall Maje&s;ty admoni&s;heth them to a due con&s;ideration of their Loyaltie and Obedience, as al&s;o to a zea|lous and joynt oppo&s;ition again&s;t the &s;aid Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania,</HI> bearing date the 23. of <HI>February,</HI> 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Manife&s;to</HI> or <HI>Declaration,</HI> wherein the Roman Imperial Maje&s;tie makes known to the States and Peeres of Hunga|rie, what rea&s;ons and motives have compelled him to proceed in open Warre again&s;t the Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_FERDINAND the third by the grace of God Elected Roman Em|perour of <HI>Germanie, Hungary, Bo|hemia, Dalmatia, Croatia</HI> and <HI>Sclavonia,</HI> King, Arch-Duke of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> Duke of <HI>Burgundie, Sly|ria, Karndten</HI> and <HI>Craine,</HI> Marquis of <HI>Moravia,</HI> Count of <HI>Tyroll</HI> and <HI>Gortz, &amp;c.</HI> To all and every one of our wel beloved and loyal Prelats, Nobles, Barons, Knights, Gentle|men, and all other States and Peeres of our Kingdome of Hun|gary and other Provinces belonging thereunto, Greeting.</P>
<P>With what fatherly care ever &s;ince wee begun to enter in|to our Royall Government, we have continually &s;trived, that this our here before much afflicted Kingdome of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> as a wall and Bullwark to Chri&s;tendome in the&s;e moderne heavy troubles and di&s;tractions, might be pre&s;erved in a good conditi|on, peace and tranquillity, is not unknown to any of our loyall Subjects of the &s;aid Kingdome: to which end al&s;o in the&s;e lat|ter
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yeares we have of &s;et purpo&s;e entred into peaceable treaties with the Turke, and admitted nothing that hath been advanta|geous and &s;erviceable to the pre&s;ervation of a firm peace, &s;afety or tranquility of the Kingdome. But in the meane time the Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania, George Ragoczii,</HI> unknowne to Us, what hath cau&s;ed and moved Him hereunto, hath &s;uffered Him|&s;elfe to be &s;educed, that, though We for our part have given un|to Him not any cau&s;e or occa&s;ion hereunto, He notwith&s;tanding hath entred into a mo&s;t dangerous and mo&s;t pernitious league with Our enemies the Swedes and French, that He thereby al&s;o might highly endanger this Our Kingdom of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> which hitherto through Gods mercy hath &s;ate in peace and quietne&s;&s;e, and draw, and involve the &s;ame in this heavy warre, wherewith diver&s;e Countries in Chri&s;tendome are now overwhelmed, yea &s;o farre al&s;o, that pre&s;ently in the beginning of the afore&s;aid league He did not &s;tick upon it to pawne by way of promi&s;e His two &s;onnes, that all the dayes of His life He would further and advance with all his &s;trength and power the profit, wellfare and benefit of the Confederates; whereof the letters and trea|ties, that pa&s;&s;ed betwixt Them by Gods &s;peciall mercy and providence are come to Our hands and are &s;till with Us in originall: By which principally and mo&s;t clearly appeareth, with what earne&s;tne&s;&s;e, as al&s;o with what high promi&s;es, and pre&s;ents, as well al&s;o through per&s;wa|&s;ion of the Amba&s;&s;adours of Our publick enemies and Rebells, He hath &s;ollicited the Turke for His a&s;&s;ent and approbation, that He fir&s;t of all might invade <HI>Hungarie,</HI> and then afterwards &s;ome other of Our Countries, &s;ubdue Our loyall Subjects in a War|like manner, extreamely afflict them, and thereby di&s;turbe and de&s;troy the common peace and tranquillity: He hath tied and bound Him&s;elf al&s;o &s;o fa&s;t to His Fellow Confederates, that neither He, nor His Succe&s;&s;ours, neither the States and Peeres of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania,</HI> nor al&s;o the Inhabitants of <HI>Hungary,</HI> that take His part, &s;hall have any power to enter into any treaty with Us or conclude any Peace or ce&s;&s;ation of Armes without the knowledge and con&s;ent of all the Confederates, promi&s;ing withall, not onely to introduce into <HI>Hungary</HI> the Swedes, and their ho&s;tile Army, but al&s;o to deliver over into their hands cer|taine
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places, e&s;pecially our Cities of <HI>Tirna</HI> and <HI>Presburg,</HI> which places are ordained for the pre&s;ervation of the Crown of the Kingdom, in&s;omuch that highly is to be feared, that thereby the glorious and precious trea&s;ure of that Crowne, which hitherto hath been pre&s;erved and protected with &s;o much blood of the Hungarians may fall into &s;trangers hands and be tran&s;ported o|ver &s;ea into a &s;trange Country. That He al&s;o may involve this Kingdome, and Him&s;elf yet deeper into this heavy fire of war, He did not &s;tick al&s;o upon it to promi&s;e, that as often as Our enemies &s;hould be invaded in a warlike manner, as often He together with His Confederates &s;hould be bound to take up armes, and faithfully to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, as nece&s;&s;ity &s;hould require: He declares Him&s;elfe thereby further, that His principall de&s;ire is to fall upon Us and Our loyall Subjects in a warlike manner, and to joyne with His forces to the enemies forces in the King|dome it &s;elf. All which and yet much more largely appeareth, as well by the Articles of the league, (the acceptation and con|firmation whereof the &s;aid Prince with much opportunity de|&s;ires of both the Crownes <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Sweden</HI>) as by the Princes, Ma&s;ter <HI>Bi&s;terfields,</HI> and other our enemies letters. Whereby the mo&s;t pernitious de&s;igne of the &s;aid Prince is come to light how He namely forgetting all duty to the Native Country intends to kindle a fire to the ruine of the Country, to di&s;turbe the Common peace and tranquillity of Our loyall Subjects, to &s;et the Tran&s;ylvanians and Hungarians by the eares together for to de&s;troy one another them&s;elves with their own &s;words, and thus to draw the Hungarian Nation, which in former overthrowes hath already been weakened very much, in|to a Civill Warre, and to the &s;hedding of their own blood and of their own kindred. Hereby appeareth al&s;o the great ingra|titude of the afore&s;aid Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania</HI> to Us and Our Illu&s;trious Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> from which His Predece&s;&s;ours have received great benefits and priviledges, whereas they were not onely rai&s;ed from a low condition to Honour and Dignity, but al&s;o his Father <HI>Sigismund Ragoczii</HI> was richly rewarded, and had be&s;towed upon him large dominions and lands, yea this Prince him&s;elf had be&s;towed upon him the mo&s;t rich and faire Dominion of <HI>Monchatz,</HI> and other pre&s;ents: But to pa&s;&s;e by
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all the&s;e things, yet contrary to all Divine and Humane right, his faith, troth, corporall oath, and his own bonds and obligations (wherein He more then once bound Him&s;elfe to Us and Our Crowne) He hath entred with others in an agreement and league, as well to the great prejudice and dammage to His own Countrymen and Hungarian Nation, as to Our and the King|domes, yea al&s;o the Countries of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania:</HI> And fir&s;t again&s;t Our &s;elves, whereas He hath promi&s;ed to invade in a ho&s;tile manner not onely Our Kingdome of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> but al&s;o others of Our hereditary Countries and Kingdomes, and to conquer them: And then al&s;o again&s;t the Hungarian Nation it &s;elf, be|cau&s;e the ri&s;ing of an Inlandi&s;h Prince and the taking up of armes will produce nothing el&s;e but their utter ruine and de|&s;truction: Further al&s;o again&s;t the Kingdomes Rights, and Priviledges, whereas He hath &s;ought to include the inhabitants without their knowledge and con&s;ent in his &s;ecret league and confederacy, and under a preten&s;e of their names to make agree|ments: No le&s;&s;e al&s;o to the prejudice of the Country of <HI>Tran|&s;ylvania</HI> it &s;elf, which by the&s;e &s;ecret treaties and agreements with Our and the Crownes enemies He purpo&s;eth to make it wholy &s;ubject and hereditary unto Him&s;elf. For He hath brought the two Crownes <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Sweden</HI> &s;o farre, that they have promi&s;ed to protect by force all his Heires and Succe&s;&s;ours in the Principality of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania,</HI> albeit long agoe a free ele|ction was promi&s;ed to the <HI>Tran&s;ylvanians.</HI></P>
<P>Herewith not yet being &s;atisfied, the &s;aid Prince hath labour|ed with all his &s;trength, and con&s;iderable pre&s;ents and &s;ummes of mony to annull and to make void the peace with the Em|perour of <HI>Turkie,</HI> (which hath been hitherto obtained with &s;o great charges, paines and &s;o much blood, and hitherto al&s;o with much adoe pre&s;erved) and to move the Turkes to the breaking thereof to the hazard and great dammage of the Kingdome of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> and his own Nation. Of all which calamitie, as al&s;o &s;hedding of Chri&s;tian blood, ruine of the Countrie, hazard of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> and other inconveniences, which u&s;e to ri&s;e and &s;pring out of the like in&s;urrections, there is no other cau&s;e but the pri|vate affections and the Princes untimely pride and haughtine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="4">As for Us, We prote&s;t before God and the whole world, that to the&s;e troubles We have given no cau&s;e to the Prince, but that We &s;eek and de&s;ire nothing el&s;e, but the pre&s;ervation and up|holding of Our Royall Right, (which We have received from God) and protection of Our loyall Subjects, which God hath put to Our tru&s;t, and that to all the&s;e things We are provoked and forced. Declaring further, and withall a&s;&s;uring all Our loving and loyall Subjects and Inhabitants of the Kingdome, that by this taking up of armes, and introduction of a &s;uccour of German forces We aime at nothing el&s;e, but that after dri|ving out of all Our enemies, and laying down of armes, yee be reduced, your former peace and tranquillity, and thereby all States and Peeres of the Kingdome may continue without di|minution in the enjoying of the Rights and Priviledges.</P>
<P>And hereupon We graciou&s;ly admoni&s;h and exhort all our &s;aid Kingdomes, Prelates, Earles, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Cities, Provinces and Frontier Townes, as al&s;o the Heyducks and Souldiers, that they will continue firme and &s;tedfa&s;t in the loyalty and obedience which next unto God they owe unto Us and the Kingdome of <HI>Hungarie,</HI> and not take part under any title or preten&s;e with the &s;aid Prince, much le&s;&s;e yeeld to his obey&s;ance, but rather valiantly take armes in hand, oppo&s;e Him in all places and times, beate Him back, and thereby &s;hew unto Us with unwearyed care and with undaunted courage all due obedience. But if there be &s;ome, that hitherto being compel|led by force or feare have been fickle in their loyalty, and adhe|red the &s;aid Prince, tho&s;e we will receive in favour again, and ac|cu&s;e them of no di&s;loyalty, if they do turne but in time, come a|way from the adver&s;ary party, yeeld again to Our due obedi|ence, &s;ervice, and loyalty, and pre&s;ent them&s;elves to our tru&s;ty and well beloved the Right Honourable Count <HI>Nicalao, E&s;terha&s;i</HI> of <HI>Galantha</HI> Palatine of our above named Kingdome of <HI>Hun|gary,</HI> or to our Military Generalls. But tho&s;e that will not ob|&s;erve neither the Divine Ju&s;tice nor the due obedience towards their King, but go on in their ob&s;tinacy, and boldne&s;&s;e, adhere yet further to the Prince not depart from Him, and thus neglect their obedience towards Us, tho&s;e &s;hall be Proclaimed publick
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enemies to their native Country, and that they &s;hall fall into our Imperiall di&s;grace, and by force of our armes be &s;everely puni&s;hed according to their demerits. But the States and Fel|low Members of the Country of <HI>Tran&s;ylvania,</HI> with whom We and Our Kingdome of <HI>Hungary</HI> by many treaties of peace and firme leagues are tied fa&s;t one to another, We admoni&s;h of their faith and troth, and obligations in writing mo&s;t graciou&s;ly, that they will wholly ab&s;taine from all ho&s;tility again&s;t the Kingdome and our loyall &s;ubjects, and in no way undertake to invade our Countries, but rather keep firme the agreements, and thus not draw upon them&s;elves a ruinous war, and involve them&s;elves perhaps meerely in regard of their privat profit, fa|vour or hate into the mo&s;t dangerous tempe&s;t of war, which &s;tormes as yet heavily at Chri&s;tendome. For we perceive, that principally in regard of force and feare of their Prince they are fallen into the&s;e troubles out of which they may ea&s;ily e&s;cape a|gain, if they do turne but without delay, and by laying down of armes returne home to their own and betake them&s;elves to peace and quietne&s;&s;e, and then all their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion and fault &s;hall rather be a&s;cribed to the oppre&s;&s;ion of their Prince, then to their &s;everall contrary opinions and inclinations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given in our</HI> Au&s;trian <HI>City of</HI> Vienna <DATE><HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>day of</HI> February <HI>in the yeare of Our Lord God</HI> 1644.</DATE> <HI>Of Our Raigne of the Ro|man Empire the eight, of the</HI> Hungarian <HI>and the re&s;t the</HI> 19. <HI>But of Our</HI> Bohemian <HI>the</HI> 18. <HI>yeare.</HI></DATELINE>
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