Custom, no Levies should be made without their Joint-Consent.
The same being renewed in the Year 1636, it was proposed to the Estates, Assembled at Kiel, both in the King and Duke's Name, to raise 2000 Men.
Thus King Frederick III. and the said Duke proposed with joint-Consent to the Estates, As∣sembled at Kiel, in the Year 1653, that it would be Necessary to make some Levies, besides what they had on foot already; the same was done at the Assembly of the Estates in the same place, in the Year 1655. And in the Year 1656, the Estates Assembled at Rensburgh, having Consented to some new Levies, the same were made, both in the King and Duke's Name.
Thus in the Year 1657, just before the be∣ginning of that War between Denmark and Swe∣den, which had almost proved Fatal to the first, it was propos'd to the Estates, then Assembled at Flensburgh, both in the King and Duke's Name, that it would be very requisite to increase their Forces, and to make, (besides the Danish Troops, that were already upon the Frontiers of the two Dukedoms) some new Levies, which was done accordingly, both in the King and Duke's Name.
But there being one most remarkable instance of the acknowledgment of Duke Frederick, con∣cerning the Point in question, it ought not to be left past by in silence here.
It is to be observ'd, that in the Year 1633. Charles I. King of Great Britain, sent Mr. Robert Anstruth, as his Envoy to the said Duke of Hol∣stein Gottorp, to represent to him the dangerous Condition the Protestants were reduced to at that time, and to concert Matters with him, how to reprieve them from that Danger, that