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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...Tendency of what your Majesty mentions at the End of your Letter, of Subjects thaf are ours and your Majesty's at the fame Tinte. That we should have Subjects wnb are also your Majesty's Subjects, os over whom any Person, besides Us, has any Pwer, is F f indeed indeed a Thing we absolutely know nothing of: Nor can we believe, that in this Cafe our Pniffig is meant, unless it be that your Majesty does not sufficiently remember the Tenor of the Treaties between Polandznd. the House or Brandenhirg about it. By Vinue of those Treaties all the Inhabitants of the Brandenburgifi Pmffitt are fully and intirely absolv'd and free'd from the Oath, by which, according to the ancient Form, they were bound to the King and the Republick of Poland: And the new Oath prescrib'd to them by the said Treaties, which is used in Pruffii as often as Homage is solemnly; sworn, contains nothing that might impose on the Subjects of the Bran-Jenbvrgijh Pnijsia a joint Subjection to the King and Republick of Poland it implies no other Obligation, than that in Cafe the House of Brandcnlwrg hy the Order of Providence, lhou'd fail, then, and by no Means before that Time, they ihall belong to the Kingdom of Poland, and return to their ancient Allegiance. Consequently, by Virtue of the Disposition made, in express Terms, in the said Treaties, we assert, with the greatest Right, the sole and supreme Dominion over Pv ia for the present, and as long as we and our Posterity ihall live, and we da claim and hold the Possession and Government of the Territories of Pruffia with supreme and absolute Power, free of all Manner of Ties and Obligations, by which pur Pniffia was, in former Times, bound to the King' dpm of Poland; nor do we acknowledge, besides God alone, any...