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EXAMPLE OF THE LETTERS OF THE IMP. original: "IMP." for Imperator FERDINAND AVG. P. F. MOST DESIRED, in which BASILIUS IOHANNES HEROLD is received and confirmed among the members of his court.

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FERDINAND, by divine favoring clemency, elected Emperor of the Romans, ever Augustus, and King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, etc. Infant of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, etc., Margrave of Moravia, etc., Count of Tyrol, etc. To the honest, learned, our faithful and beloved of the sacred Empire, BASILIUS IOHANNES HEROLD, our Imperial grace and every good. Your singular faith and observance toward us and the sacred Empire, and your varied and manifold erudition, and excellent knowledge of histories, induce us to adorn you with some ornament and title, so that your virtue, confirmed by our testimony, may raise itself higher hereafter. Therefore, we have assumed, received, and appointed you, the aforementioned BASILIUS IOHANNES HEROLD, as our Familiar and Courtier, just as by the tenor of these presents we assume,