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

...stana Confession [they may] usurp the Consistories: or through Captains and Seniors of the Region of the Augsburg Confession, they may erect a General Consistory in a certain place: although this is subject to our most merciful Ratification, which we will ratify within the space of a month after their most submissive insinuation is made: or, if this be not done as constituted, [the matters] must be administered and directed by persons deputed for that matter without any impediment.

To which indeed it is permitted to them to remit all matrimonial business: this however being expressly reserved, that in the aforementioned matrimonial and conjugal matters, just as in this, so in all other Consistories, care and industry should be applied so that no one may mingle with those joined by blood affinity. If that should happen, then the mode of coercing and punishing must be observed entirely as has been received by usage in the Holy Roman Empire among the associates of the Augsburg Confession.

Fifthly, the burial of the deceased in Temples and Cemeteries, as also the ringing of bells, must not be denied to those who are of the same Parish; but indeed in Catholic Temples and Parishes, [it shall be granted] to those addicted to the Augsburg Confession no otherwise than the ceremonies used in that place allow: Again also, it must be granted and permitted to Catholics, at the parishes of the other party, in the same way. If this should not be done, then those pertaining to that same Parish, at the time of such a denial, shall not be held to give the customary REVENUES AND TITHES to the Temple and Parish: and it shall be integral to their Magistrate to convert those revenues to the parish, whichever he pleases, and to take care that they be buried there. As far as foreign persons and funerals are concerned, all that must be carried out with the knowledge and will of the Collator and Pastor of that place.

In whatever places and Cities, however, those embracing the Augsburg Confession do not have their own Temples and Cemeteries, or jointly with Catholics; they, by the force of this Our Concession, shall have the power, just as to build TEMPLES AND SACRED BUILDINGS, SO ALSO BURIALS AND CEMETERIES, and to choose and depute places suitable for them.

And so that, sixthly, in this matter, nothing may be an impediment to our often-mentioned faithful Princes and Estates, and others of Ours in the Duchy of Silesia, and the subjects and inhabitants of our hereditary Duchies therein: Therefore, by these presents, we entirely remove and expunge ALL MANDATES which heretofore [have gone forth] against the associates of the Augsburg Confession; in particular, however, those which went forth concerning prohibited degrees in Matrimonial contracts, and others in the point of Religion.

Finally, we also will this: that for the sake of preserving Charity and Unity,