to oppose themselves against the execution of the sentence,
against the advice, and to the great dislike of the more considerable
Citizens, without any other Reason or Pretext, then
the hope wherewith they have been puffed up, that they shall
be able to obtain of your Lordships a supplie of men and
monies, to render them capable to maintain themselves in
their contumacies.
Nevertheless, his Majesty is very, far from beleaving, that
you have any intention to employ your Arms or your
Councels, for fomenting the disobedience of that popular
party, against the Law of Nations, natural Equity, and the
good correspondence which ought to be betwixt Neighbor
States. But, to the end that he may be the more certain concerning
the intent of your Lordships, in an occasion of such
importance, he hath ordered me to request you not to meddle
further with an Affair, which in no wise concerns you,
and not to give any interruption to the Imperial Justice, by
an action which will occasion ill Impressions in the Subjects
and Inhabitants of the Imperial Cities, as well as in that of
Munster, and will in the end, prove of very dangerous consequence
for all Princes, who have one common Interest with
the said Bishop.
This is it which I am obliged to Remonstrate to you in
pursuance of the Commands I have received: and forasmuch
as I understand, that your Lordships have given publick
Audience to the Syndic and another Inhabitant of the said
City of Munster, who have had the boldness to demand Succour
from you, to the great prejudice of the Empire, Ientreat
your Lordships, to consider seriously this Busines, and
to give his Majesty an answer agreeable to your wonted prudence,
and to the Justice whereof you make profession, and
to that good undemanding which hath alwaies been betwixt
the Empire and this State.
Signed,
J. Friquet.