[379] The 'matricula' specifying the quota of each state to the imperial army could not be any longer employed.
[380] Erbfeind des heiligen Reichs.
[381] Only the envoys of the several states were present at Utrecht in 1713.
[382] Quoted by Ludwig Haüsser, Deutsche Geschichte.
[383] The distinction is well expressed by the German 'Reich' and 'Kaiserthum,' to which we have unfortunately no terms to correspond.
[384] So the Elector of Saxony proposed in 1532 that Albert II, Frederick III, and Maximilian having been all of one house, Charles V's successor should be chosen from some other.—Moser, Römische Kayser. See the various attempts of France in Moser. The coronation engagements (Wahlcapitulation) of every Emperor bound him not to attempt to make the throne hereditary in his family.
[385] In 1658 France offered to subsidize the Elector of Bavaria if he would become Emperor.
[386] Whether an Evangelical was eligible for the office of Emperor was a question often debated, but never actually raised by the candidature of any but a Roman Catholic prince. The 'exacta æqualitas' conceded by the Peace of Westphalia might appear to include so important a privilege. But when we consider that the peculiar relation in which the Emperor stood to the Holy Roman Church was one which no heretic could hold, and that the coronation oaths could not have been taken by, nor the coronation ceremonies (among which was a sort of ordination) performed upon a Protestant, the conclusion must be unfavourable to the claims of any but a Catholic.
'The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour,