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

45 LEOPOLD, Emperor of the Romans, and most Glorious King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Sclavonia, etc., on the sixth day of the month of April, and on the twenty-first day of the month of August, of the previously passed Year 1690, and even by the most Beloved Lord, of the Kindest Remembrance, Our Brother Joseph, similarly Emperor of the Romans, and King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, etc., on the seventh day of August, in the Year 1706, certain Indults, Privileges, Immunities and Prerogatives, due to the attested firmness of their own loyalty, along with several services, that were carried out as faithfully as usefully by the said Rascian Population and Nation for Our August House against the common enemy of the Christian name, 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: They are of the following tenure. WE JOSEPH, 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 Translation of Facsimile No.14