Invictissimi Rudolphi II. Electi Romanor. Imperatoris, et In Hungaria Boemiaque Regis, pro libero exercitio religionis Augustanae confessionis in Silesia, clementissima confirmatio

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A decorative drop cap "N". WE, RUDOLPH II, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, Elected Roman Emperor, always August; King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, & Slavonia; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Luxembourg, and of Upper & Lower Silesia, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Würtemberg, & Teck; Prince of Swabia; Margrave of Lusatia; Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Ferrette, Kyburg, & Gorizia; Landgrave of Alsace; Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, & of Burgau; Lord of the March, Slavonia, Pordenone & of the Salt-works, etc.

We confess for ourselves, our heirs, and successors as Kings in Bohemia, openly by these letters. After our faithful and obedient Princes and Estates of the Augsburg Confession in Upper and Lower Silesia, in the time elapsed, through their legates—the generous, most honorable, learned, and honest, our beloved and faithful Weighard of Promnitz, Free Baron in Pless, Sorau, Triebel & Hoyerswerda; Johann-Georg of Zedlitz in Stroppen; Sigismund of Burghaus in Stoltz; Andreas Geisler, Doctor of Both Laws original: "V.I.D." (Utriusque Iuris Doctor); and Wenceslaus Otter—among other grievances of the Region, primarily and chiefly petitioned us, as KING of Bohemia and Supreme Prince of Silesia, most submissively, that in the free exercise of the Augsburg Confession...

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