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

47 Habsburg, Tyrol, Pfirrete, Kyburg and Gorizia, Landgrave of Alsace, Lord of the Sclavonian Mark, of Port Naon and the Salines. We make known and, by the tenure of these presents, entrust to the memory of all the people to whom this matter shall pertain. Before Us, Our loyal, beloved, venerable Arsenius Czernovich, Archbishop of the Eastern Church of Greek Rite, and Patriarch of the Rascians, along with all the States of the Illyric or Rascian Nation, have devotedly appeared before Us, and have exposed, through beseeching documents, that they have been most Mercifully bestowed by their August Lord, of most pious remembrance, and Our most Reverend Parent, 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, 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, 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: They are of the following tenure. Translation of Facsimile No.15