The original manuscript of the proclaimation and other printed proclaimations of Emperor Leopold the first from 1690 with which he takes the Macedonian people under his protection

35 as truly the tenor following here of such things would explain more copious and clearly; requesting, most humbly and faithfully at the same time, that We, having obtained the Dominion of Our Reigns and Provinces by the Grace of GOD and the Hereditary Right of Succession, would deign to Most mercifully, such as Benevolently, approve and confirm these very Letters of Privilege, Rights, Immunities and Prerogatives, by our Authority and our Cesarean-Royal Grace. LEOPOLD, Appointed Emperor of the Romans by the favourable Divine Mercy, ever August, and King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria etc., Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Luxembourg, and of Upper and Lower Silesia, Württemberg and Tecka, Prince of Swabia, Marquis of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgovia, Moravia, Upper and Lower Lusatia, Count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Pfirrete, Kyburg and Gorizia, Landgrave of Alsace, Lord of the Sclavonian Mark, of Port Naon and the Salines. To all People and Provinces, depending on Our Hereditary Reign of Hungary, and to everyone else, who shall read or listen to these present letters, and in particular to the Albanian People, Our Cesarean and Royal Grace and all Good. Shall it be known to you that, trusting in the Divine Protection and the Justice of Our cause, because of Our Cesarean and Royal Duty, we continue this Turkish War, to which we have been treacherously and unjustly provoked, Translation of Facsimile No. 9