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

49 WE 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 TurkishWar, to which we have been treacherously and unjustly provoked, just to this end, so that we shall restore the People, subjected to Us by Law, and depending, by the Law, on Our mentioned Reign of Hungary, and all the other Christians, taken out from the cruel servitude of the Turks, to the former Freedom, the former Privileges, and to the former Union with the body, on which they depend, every abuse having been removed, every flaw, introduced through the Turkish tyranny, having been corrected, and each Law having been given back to anyone; therefore, we Beningly incite the People, formed through the entireAlbania, Serbia, Missia, Bulgaria, Silistra, Illyria, Macedonia and Rascia, and the other Provinces, depending on Our aforementioned Reign of Hungary, and all the other People, wailing under the Turkish yoke, so that, corresponding to Our Pious and Fatherly desire, in such a favourable occasion, the Turkish forces having been destroyed by so many losses through Our victorious Army, for their own Safety and Liberation, and for the promotion of the Christian Religion, they all shall join Our side, take up Arms against the Turks, join Our Troops, according to the opportunity and necessity, by the Orders of Our War Generals and Commanders, who will soon appear in the battlefield with a proper and plentiful army, Translation of Facsimile No.16