Deduction Concerning the Free Exercise of the Augsburg Confession in Silesia

most cities in the Hereditary Principalities territories in Silesia directly ruled by the Bohemian King (the Emperor) rather than by semi-independent dukes voluntarily original: ultrò and quite of their own accord, unforced?
and uncompelled, returned to the Catholic Religion; and thus Your Imperial and Royal?
Majesty had all the more reason and right to expressly except and exclude the Hereditary Principalities from the Prague?
Accord The Peace of Prague (1635), which attempted to settle the religious conflicts of the Thirty Years' War but left many Silesian Protestants without legal protection; yet it is not desired
that the highly noble Electors and Princes should thereby be misled or turned away from the protection?
and defense of the Hereditary Principalities.

For as far as the Mansfeld affair Refers to the military campaigns of Count Ernst von Mansfeld, a Protestant mercenary general is concerned, the Hereditary Principalities?
for their part could not prevent the Danish army—commanded by the Duke of Weimar and under?
Mansfeld—from marching into Upper Silesia and occupying?
certain places; it would also hopefully not be?
said that at that time any Hereditary Principality as a whole original: in universo had offended Your Imperial?
and Royal Majesty or corresponded with your adversaries.

Even assuming that several private individuals original: privati offended Your Majesty, what could the?
entire community original: Universitet and those loyal and obedient subjects—who remained?
unmoved in their promised and obligated devotion and fidelity original: devotion and fidelitet—be [blamed for]?
The criminals, insofar as they are either confessed or convicted original: vel confessi, vel convicti, are justly to be punished, and?
Majesty was not to be given any limit as to how they should proceed with them individually original: in particulari according?
to the law.

But that the enemies of the Protestant religion original: Evangelischen Religion have brought it so far, that?
not only is the same [religion] openly persecuted for this very reason original: ex hoc capite, but also their free-
and peacefully-held Practice original: Exercitium; refers to the right to hold public religious services [is taken] from entire Principalities, Lordships?
and the many thousands of innocent inhabitants? therein:
the Oppeln, Ratibor, Troppau, Teschen, and Jägerndorf districts?,
the Pless, Freystadt, Oderberg, and Beuthen [lands], not to?
mention what occurred at that same time in the Neisse and Grottkau [territories], whereby?
it was taken away, their church and school servants banished, the churches?
partly filled with Roman Catholic priests, or at least driven so far that?
even in the two prominent Principalities of Oppeln and Ratibor the?
[members] of the Estate of Lords and Knights who adhere to the Augsburg Confession The primary confession of faith for Lutherans have no church?
remaining where they could observe their worship; indeed, the same [subjects] are commanded by effective?
published patents—under penalty of [a certain number of]
Ducats—to take their children out of the Protestant schools and away from their teachers original: præceptoribus and to place them in Catholic schools; and beyond this, even in those places where they have had their Christian burial from time immemorial, [they are forbidden]
to inter their dead (so that Barons and ancient noble personages?
must be buried original: sepeliret in fields and other places), not lesser?
than what commonly happens elsewhere; this is indeed [known to] God in Heaven?.

And what did the Hereditary Principalities in Lower Silesia have to do with the?
Mansfeld affair? Nonetheless, one has [seen] the sharp?
religious persecution in the Principalities of Glogau, Schweidnitz?