to the Emperor Ferdinand the third of glorious memory,
as Judge between both Patties, Commission was given
to divers Electors and Princes of the Circle of Westphalia, to
take such Informations as should be necessary, to examine
also the Letters that should be produced both on the one
part and the other, and to end the difference by all the fair
means possible.
That, according to this order, their whole procedure
having been ended at Colen, with a particular diligence and
Circumspection, those Electors and Princes deputed, employed
their credit to bring about the Accommodation, and
forasmuch as they could not perfect it, they remitted into
the hands of his Imperial Majesty all the Particulars, with a
verball account of what had passed. Whereupon, his said
Majesty sent them to the Council Collateral, according to
the constitutions of the Empire; and the instruction having
been pursued there for severall years, and all the titles exactly
reviewed, a definitive Sentence was given by the said
Councel, jontly with the secret and privy Council of his
Majesty, on the ninth of July last, importing, that the
Bishop, as Lord and immediate Prince ought to enjoy
all the Rights as heretofore, and that the Magistrate
and Inhabitants be obliged to let him remain in
possession, without any impediment; as your Lordships also
may see by the Copy which hath been communicated to
them, and which hath notified also to the said Magistrate,
not only by an Imperial Notary, but by a publication
made likewise in the name of the Bishop, to advertise
him, that he desired to enjoy the right accruing to him by
this Judgment, with all manner of moderation, for the defence
and conservation of the City, and for the greater good
and benefit of the Inhabitants.
That this notwithstanding, the people being stirred up by
divers turbulent and seditious spirits, instead of receiving
him with due respect and recogaisance, in acknowledgment of
the bounty and clemencie of their Prince, have been obstinately
set, not to yield obedience to his Majesties order, and