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 OF THK STATE OF Kl KOl K. UI iije ; in, strong constitution of body, ;m&amp;lt;l weakened by immoderate pleasure; no I^TI ut quickness of spirit. In fashion and apparel all Spanish, where lir had his education in his youth. Ilr traa most governed by his mother while she remained with him; and yet altogether by his steward Dyetristan, and his great chamberlain Romphe, both pensionaries of Spain, and tin n with him maintained. Of the empire he hath, by the last imperial diet, one million of dollars towards the mainte nance of the garrisons of Hungary; and, besides, his guards are paid of the empire. To the Turk he payeth yearly tribute for Hun gary forty thousand dollars, besides the charge of the presents and his ambassadors, amounting to more than the tribute; in all one hundred thou sand dollars. The ordinary garrisons in Hungary are to the number of but evil paid at this time. The revenues and subsidies of Hungary do not pass one hundred thousand florins. The last emperor affirmed solemnly that the charge of Hungary amounted to one million and a half. The revenues of Bohemia, ordinary and extra ordinary, amount to fifty thousand dollars. In the absence of the emperor, the Baron of Rosemberg is Governor of Bohemia, who possess- eth almost a fourth part of that country, and is a Papist; neither he nor his brother have children: he beareth the emperor in hand to make him his heir. Of Silesia and Moravia, the emperor yearly may have two hundred thousand florins. Out of Austriche of subsidy and tribute, one hundred thousand florins, for his domains are all sold away and engaged. Thus all his revenues make half a million of florins. To his brothers Maximilian and Ernest he alloweth yearly, by agreement made between them, forty-five thousand florins apiece, as well for Austriche, as that might hereafter fall unto them by the decease of the Archduke Ferdinand in Tyrol, the which shall come to the emperor. The emperor altogether dependeth on Spain, as well in respect of his house, as the education he received there, and the rule his mother hath over him with the chief of his council. He is utter enemy to religion, having well declared the same in banishing the ministers out of Vienna, and divers other towns, where he goeth about to plant Jesuits. Of his subjects greatly misliked, as his house is hateful to all Germany. The Archduke Charles holdeth Styria and Carinthia; his chief abode is at Gratz; his wife is sister to the Duke of Bavyre, by whom he hath children. The Arohduke Ferdinand hath Tyrol, and re- maineth the most part at llshuror. For his eldest son he h.ith biiuiiht in (J.-rmany a pretty state. not far from I lms ; the second is a cardinal. Now he is a idow.-r, and said that b marry a daughter of the Duke of Mantua. Th M- are uncles to .the emperor; 1 &amp;gt; -idi -&amp;gt; Maximilian and Ernest, he hath two brother*-. the Archduke Matthias, that hath a pension of the estates of the ^ ow Country, and a Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo. In Germany there are divers princes divi r-i ! affected. The Elector Palatine Ludovic, a Lu theran ; his chief abode is at Heidelberg. His brother, John Casimir, Calvinist, at Keiserslautern, or Nieustadt. Richard, their uncle, at Symycrs. During the life of the last elector, Ludovic dwelt at Amberg in the Higher Palatinate. Philip Ludovic dwelt at Norbourg on the Danow, and is commonly called duke of. John dwelleth at Rypont, or Sweybourgh, or in Bergesaber; the other three brethren have no certain dwelling-place. George John, son of Rupert, Count Palatine, dwelleth at Lysselsteyn. Augustus, Duke and Elector of Saxony, re- maineth the most part at Dresden on the Elbe ; sometimes at Torge on Elbe, a goodly castle for tified by John Frederick. This elector is Lu theran, and a great enemy to our profession ; of sixty years of age, half frantic, severe, governed much by his wife, greater exactor than the Ger man princes are wont to be, and retaineth in his service divers Italians ; his eldest son married of late the daughter of the Duke of Brandebourg. The sons of John Frederick, captive, and yet in prison, remain at Coburge in East Franconia, near the forest of Turinge. The sons of John William abide at Vinaria in Turingia. Joachim Frederick, son of John George, Elector of Brandebourg, at Hala, in Saxony, on the river of Sala, as administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdebourg. George Frederick, son of George, dwelleth at Orsbuche in East Franconia, or at Blassenbourge, the which was the mansion of his uncle Albert the warrior. The Elector of Brandebourg, John George, re- maineth at Berlin on the river of Sprea : his uncle John dwelleth at Castryne, beyond Odera, very strong both by the situation, and fortified. William, Duke of Bavyre, a Papist, at Munich in Bavary, married the daughter of the Duke of Lorrain. His second brother Ferdinand remaineth most at Landshutt. The third, Ernest, is Bishop of Frishinghen and Hildesheim, and late of Liege. Julius, Duke of Brunswick, at the strong castle of Wolfenbuttel on Oker. Ericke of Brunswick, son to Magnus, uncle V Julius, remaineth at Mynda, or where the rivera