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[s.n.] · 1559

and liberties and rights which all other noble armigeri esquires or shield-bearers, or those decorated with such ornaments of arms and nobility, use, enjoy, and possess, by custom or by Law. AND that you be fit and suitable to enter upon and receive all prerogatives, graces, liberties, exemptions, fiefs, privileges, and vacations from any duties and burdens whatsoever, real, personal, or mixed, to also use the rights and customs which others decorated by us and the Holy Roman Empire with such ornaments use and enjoy, and to which they are admitted by custom or by Law, with all impediment and contradiction ceasing. Wherefore, to all and singular Ecclesiastical and secular Electors, Princes, Archbishops, Bishops, Dukes, Margraves, Counts, Barons, Knights, Nobles, Clients, Captains, Vicedomins deputy lords or vicars, Advocates, Procurators, Officials, Quaestors, Mayors of cities, Judges, Consuls, Heralds, and Caduceators heraldic messengers, and finally to all our and the Holy Empire’s beloved subjects and faithful, of whatever status, rank, order, condition, and preeminence they may be, or whatever dignity they may shine with, we firmly command and order, that you permit the aforementioned BASILIUS JOHANNES HEROLDUS