?18 Gesamtsitzung vom 21. Okt. 1915. — Mitt. d. phil.-liist. Kl. vom 29. .liili 



ilocumeiita in laudalci saepius apud tuifim Lundinensem Arcliivo. in qvo. ueglectis 

 tamdiii reliquis, siidare conslitui, donec pensum, mihi dictum, prius absolverim. Cum 

 non omnes potuerim, saltem illas regias exscribere volui literas, i|uibus Privilegium, 

 (juod dictus Princeps Lubecensibus impetravit, continetur. 



Hoc primum est: nunc de altere adhuc paucis habeas. Edidisti, Vir illiistris, 

 tria. ui fallor, Volumina Codicis Tui Diplomatici. Primum legi: duo posteriora non- 

 dum vidi, doctis etiam meis Anglis ignota. Quod si ea cum Rege, qui nunc apud 

 Vos moratur, mitti possent: ego et isti valde laetaremur. Viderem qvoque rectius, 

 (|vae Tibi inprimis sint mittenda, hactenus nondum edita. Petis autem in literis Tuis 

 non multa: sed tantum exquisita pauca. An talia sint, qvae hactenus notarim, judicabis. 

 Sunt tantüm seqventia: 



Literae aureae regis lohannis, Angliae subjicientis regnum Romano Pontifici: 

 Literae confoederationis Regum Franciae et Scotiae: Literae Regis Richardi de re.si- 

 gnatione sui regni: Hadriani Papae Bulla aurea, Henrico II. Angliae Regi data pro 

 Hibernia. 



Plura vero et satis egregia vidi, qvae apta simt ad illustrandas Imperatorum 

 Germanorum, Electorum Principumque Imperij, inprimis Richardi, Cornubiae Comitis, 

 Electi Romanorum Regis, vitas: qvae omnia Domini Petiti ministri, aurum amantes, 

 esscribent. Ego operam impendam omnem, ut recte ista et accurate fiant. De Bruns- 

 vicensibus Anti(]uitatibiis, qvae modo indagari et exscribi jsossint, solus video et cogito. 



Caeterum, Vir ilhistris, ea qva par est observantiä peto, ut, quem Domino 

 Schradero transmisi, librum Serenissimae D"''"' Electrici viduae, cui destinavit Autor 

 nobilis, cum hmnillima ipsius coniinendatione, data occasione off'eras. Pater est ejus 

 elegantis Angli, qui una cum Anglico Legato Colt in nostras venit Aulas, et ä nobilissima 

 foemina Ci'aven Serenitali suae diligenter et humiliter fuit commendatus. Idem Autor 

 propediem editurus est alterum Tomum, in quo prolixe admodum tractabit de Henrico 

 Leone et ejus posteris. Vale, et si Tuo me non indignum aestimas iavore, indica, 

 qvae in rem Tuam ex Archivis et Bibliothecis Anglicis debeam colligere. 



Hackmann an Leibniz, London 10./20. Dezember 1698. 



After having given my seif the honour to write to you, I am now so bold as 

 to send you an English letter, because Mylord Bisiiop of Salisbury has told me, that 

 you understand this language very well. The English, wlio doe not mvich afifect the 

 latin tongue, have forced me, to explain my seif in my discourse and conversation in 

 their own idiome, and have brouglit me so far, that they can discover my meaning. 

 wheu I talke and write in it. 



M'' Tyrrel, who has a great deal contributed to this my small pi'ogress, will be 

 very much obliged to you, if you will teil me in a line or two, how tlie Electress 

 Dowager has received his book. He is now very busy about publishing the .secoud 

 volume of his History, in which he makes a very honourable mention of the Electoral 

 famil}', having given a fine description of Henry the Lion in the reign of King Henry 

 the second. I can't forbear quoting this passage of this Englisli Historian: I shall, 

 says he, speak no more of this Duke Henry, who for the greatness of his spirit was 

 •surnamed the Lion ; but that being thus deprived of his Dominions, he would never 

 obtaiu an entire restitution of tiiem. Onely some years after the l''mperor restored 

 uutü bim that part of his territorios, containing the Dntchies of Hannover, Zell and 

 Wolffenbuttel, the present Dukes of which are linealy descended from that Duke 

 Henry by Mathilda, Daugther of Henry the second, lüng of England. Thus much I 

 thought fit to insert out of a particular honor to that ancient house, which has ofFered 

 the World great Emperors besides so many gallant Princes, and particularly the present 

 George Lodovic, Elector of Bnmswik, who being the Son of that most aceomplish'd 

 Princess Sophia, Electress Dowager, who by her near relation to the Royal blood of 

 England hath again renewed the ancient Alliance between that and this most illustrious 



