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

Schools, parishes, monasteries, convents, tithes, rents, incidentals, revenues, in every way, AS THEY HAVE HITHERTO POSSESSED AND USURPED THEM, must be left quietly and inviolably.

Secondly, we will and ordain: that all those rights which either party, namely both Catholics and those addicted to the Augsburg Confession, possessed anciently, just as also before and after the entry of our most laudable Empire, regarding Convents, Monasteries, Temples, Consistories, Quaestorships, Tithes, Revenues, and all other Incidentals, whether from original foundation, or from the right of Patronage, or from any other title whatsoever that can be fashioned, investigated, or produced in a PETITION, or which they still presume to have, shall be completely at rest: and each shall possess that which he possesses, specifically however Temples and Schools, without caring for anything else, AS THEY HAVE ANCIENTLY PERTAINED TO WHOM THEY PERTAINED, and whoever can therefore claim his rights of Patronage; and for that reason, neither party ought to attack, disturb, or in the least way infest the other, by right or without right.

Thirdly, we also decree this: If any of the Princes and Estates, besides those Temples and Sacred Buildings which they possess and hold at this time, or which otherwise pertain to them (in whose possession they also ought to be defended and conserved peacefully), should wish, in Cities, towns, castles, villages, or elsewhere, to erect and build MORE TEMPLES, sacred buildings, or [buildings] for the institution and education of youth; that this, just as it is for Princes and Barons and all their Subjects, so also for the HEREDITARY DUCHIES, as much in Cities as in villages, may be lawful and integral for all and individual, now and in the future, with nothing plainly opposing and no one objecting.

Fourthly, we also will to grant this peculiar mercy to the Princes and Estates acknowledging the Augsburg Confession: that those Princes, who in the time of our most honorable Lord Grandfather and Lord Father, and likewise under the entry of our Empire, had their CONSISTORIES, and have conserved them until now, must retain them for all time in the future, with no one hindering. At the same time also, that it be lawful and free for those Princes and Estates of the Augsburg Confession, who heretofore have had no Consistories, to erect NEW ones; and those being erected, in every way, just as others who had their own Consistories, it is permitted to proceed in ORDINATIONS and MATRIMONIAL matters. Where specifically we leave it integral to the Hereditary DUCHIES, that they may proceed in Ordinations, just as was done before, and take care to have pastors ordained. Concerning matrimonial matters, or those of the Princes and Estates of Silesia of the Augu...