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<P>THE SWEDISH INTELLIGENCER.</P>
<P><HI>The Second Part.</HI></P>
<P><HI>WHEREIN,</HI> OVT OF THE TRVEST and choy&s;e&s;t Informations, are the <HI>famous Actions of that warlike Prince</HI> Hi&s;torically led along: from the <HI>Victory</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> unto the <HI>Con|que&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bavaria.</HI></P>
<P>The times and places of every Action, being &s;o &s;ufficiently ob&s;erved and de&s;cri|bed; that the Reader may finde both <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> in it.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>I. L.</HI> for <HI>Nath: Butter</HI> and <HI>Nicholas Bourne.</HI> 1632.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD><HI>The Preface.</HI> TO THE FAVOVRA|BLE AND IVDICIOVS <HI>Reader.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THen is a <HI>Booke</HI> thorowly <HI>allowed,</HI> when <HI>Seene and Allowed:</HI> when the <HI>Rea|ders</HI> have approoved it, as well as the <HI>Licencer.</HI> With this favourablene&s;&s;e (as I thankfully mu&s;t acknowledge) have my <HI>for|mer Bookes</HI> beene entertained: yea, mo&s;t <HI>fa|vourably,</HI> by the mo&s;t <HI>Iudicious.</HI> In an hum|ble hope therefore, of the like acceptance; does my <HI>Dedication</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Style,</HI> a|gaine preferre it &s;elfe to its old <HI>Patrones-ge|nerall,</HI> The <HI>Favourable and Iudicious Rea|ders.</HI> The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> (though arm'd
<PB REF="3"> but in <HI>Paper</HI>) cannot but <HI>Conquer.</HI> I meane <HI>affections.</HI> Since then I no waies could pre|&s;ume, that my <HI>Stile</HI> or &s;imple <HI>performance,</HI> &s;hould in any degree inveigle your <HI>Judge|ments;</HI> this onely became my encourage|ment, That though this <HI>Story</HI> &s;hould goe out of my hands, poorely enough and weakely endited: yet that the <HI>prevailing Fortunes</HI> of the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> would &s;o potently a&s;&s;i&s;t and goe along with it; as that by that time it came into your hands, it would &s;o prevaile with your <HI>affections;</HI> and &s;o <HI>gently</HI> in the reading, <HI>captivate</HI> the <HI>attentions</HI> of all the favourers of his actions, that their <HI>Iudgements</HI> (for the time) &s;hould become deprived of this part of their due liberties; and forbeare the <HI>power,</HI> though, not of <HI>&s;ee|ing</HI> yet of <HI>cen&s;uring,</HI> my <HI>errors.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>First Part</HI> I undertooke, to cheere up the long-exerci&s;ed expectations of &s;uch well-affected <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as de&s;ired in their dayes, to &s;ee &s;ome <HI>ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>con&s;olation,</HI> to the mi&s;erably afflicted <HI>Churches</HI> of <HI>Germany.</HI> In that poore <HI>Booke,</HI> our <HI>Nation</HI> fir&s;t read,
<PB REF="3"> <HI>That God had begun to &s;end a Deliverer vnto His people.</HI> This (me thoughts) <HI>in a time of my lea&s;ure,</HI> was a worke not alto|gether beneath me: and that to bring <HI>Glad tidings,</HI> was next unto the <HI>Preaching</HI> of the <HI>Go&s;pel.</HI> To the going on with this <HI>Second Part,</HI> hath the united and repeated de&s;ires, of well-di&s;po&s;ed people provoked me: I could not take &s;o many <HI>expectations</HI> of my <HI>Betters,</HI> for le&s;&s;e then a <HI>Command;</HI> and that it was a <HI>Duty</HI> to &s;atisfie them.</P>
<P>My <HI>Booke</HI> hath many mens <HI>Stories:</HI> but I have laboured mo&s;t upon the Kings. In penning of the <HI>whole,</HI> I had the&s;e two <HI>ambi|tions; Truth</HI> and <HI>Plainene&s;&s;e.</HI> The com|pa&s;&s;ing of the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> (be&s;ides the chargeable|ne&s;&s;e of procuring the <HI>Jntelligence,</HI> out of the Armies and el&s;e-where) hath co&s;t mee much more paines, then the bare writing: my care was, to learne out, and get acquain|ted with &s;uch under&s;tanding Gentlemen, as had beene per&s;onally pre&s;ent in the <HI>Actions.</HI> To &s;ome of the&s;e, hath my <HI>Margent</HI> beene already thankefull: and here, e&s;pecially, am
<PB REF="4"> I againe, to that Gentleman of curious ob|&s;ervation, whom you &s;hall find named <HI>Page</HI> 46, in the <HI>Margent.</HI> I will not bee much di&s;plea&s;ed, if <HI>Gallobelgicus</HI> &s;hall any|where differ from me: this by his former Bookes I perceive, that he hath made u&s;e of but few things, which I have not &s;eene before his <HI>Mart:</HI> and my <HI>diligence</HI> (I be|leeve) hath not beene behind his; and my <HI>Intelligence,</HI> I know to bee farre <HI>better. Truth</HI> is the pearle, I &s;ought for; which I have &s;till preferred before <HI>fauour:</HI> and had the <HI>Imperiali&s;ts</HI> well beaten the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> now and then; I would not have omitted it. <HI>&V;ariety,</HI> is &s;ome <HI>ornament</HI> to a <HI>Booke:</HI> part of which mine now wants; as running al|together upon the victories of the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> If then any contrarily-affected &s;hall give out, That I have omitted their victories: be&s;ides this an&s;wer to them, That they &s;hould have done well to have &s;ent me in their <HI>Intelligence:</HI> I further de|mand, What victories the&s;e were, which &s;uffered the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> to march up
<PB REF="4"> and downe &s;o many hundred miles in <HI>Ger|many:</HI> and that I never read, (in the com|pa&s;&s;e of the time of this Story) of any enter|prize he undertooke, but he prevailed in it: his fortunes never receiving any remarkeable or con&s;iderable checke, but at <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI> on|ly. This truely I beleeve; That all their &s;up|po&s;ed victories, which they have &s;o often here given out, will hardly (yet) make up a <HI>Second Part</HI> of the <HI>Laurea Au&s;triaca.</HI> Er|rors, I cannot but have: but they are <HI>ca&s;u|all,</HI> and not <HI>affected</HI> ones; they are my <HI>ig|norances,</HI> not my <HI>purpo&s;es.</HI> And if tho&s;e that know better, (and be &s;ure they doe &s;o) will adde to, or controll this; I &s;hall thanke them for &s;atisfying my <HI>Readers,</HI> in what I would have &s;erv'd them; had I either known more <HI>Truth,</HI> or more <HI>Circum&s;tances.</HI></P>
<P>As for my <HI>&s;econd Ambition, Plainne&s;se;</HI> that have I al&s;o laboured upon. I affected not to be too <HI>conci&s;e,</HI> or too <HI>&s;ententious.</HI> My care was, not to hunt for prai&s;e; by the cor|rupting of our noble Language, with fine new phra&s;es, and unhappily coyn'd words:
<PB REF="5"> the pre&s;umptions of an over-bold <HI>fancy.</HI> Some <HI>military Termes,</HI> may perchance be <HI>ob&s;cure,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>proper:</HI> which being their commendation, I would not (in this) de&s;|cend unto every capacity. In a many of the&s;e, may the Reader &s;atisfie him&s;elfe, in my <HI>Swe|di&s;h Di&s;cipline:</HI> and for under&s;tanding of the re&s;t, my Booke mu&s;t waite the improve|ment of its <HI>Readers</HI> indu&s;trie. To make all more <HI>Plaine,</HI> I have noted the <HI>places</HI> of eve|ry Action. The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> cannot flie: therefore have I &s;pecified the <HI>di&s;tances</HI> and <HI>lyings</HI> of the <HI>Townes;</HI> that you may per|ceive the <HI>orderline&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>probabilityes</HI> of the Kings <HI>Proceedings:</HI> and that there was no <HI>impo&s;sibility</HI> in his Conque&s;ts. I have beene carefull, (if not too curious) in this point: and have taught tho&s;e <HI>Readers</HI> that have <HI>Mapps,</HI> how to turne them. This commo|dity becau&s;e all have not; and that in the &s;ame <HI>Mappe</HI> there be many townes of the &s;ame names; therefore have I beene &s;o parti|cular in my <HI>De&s;criptions.</HI></P>
<P>This one addition had I purpo&s;ed to have
<PB REF="5"> made unto my <HI>Story:</HI> the <HI>Iournall,</HI> namely, or <HI>Diarye of the Actions of the Lower Saxony.</HI> And that, betweene the <HI>Armies</HI> and <HI>Generalls</HI> of the two adver&s;e <HI>Leagues,</HI> the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> and the <HI>Catholikes.</HI> That is to &s;ay; Betwixt the Lord <HI>Marque&s;&s;e</HI> of <HI>Hamil|ton,</HI> Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> the Lord <HI>Achatius Todt,</HI> Sir <HI>John Banier,</HI> and <HI>Bauditz:</HI> all Generalls for the King of <HI>Swe|den,</HI> the <HI>Head</HI> of the <HI>League.</HI> Together with the two Dukes of <HI>Mecklenburg,</HI> the Dukes of <HI>Lunenburg</HI> and <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg,</HI> the <HI>Landgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bremen;</HI> all Generalls for them&s;elues, and the <HI>Prote&s;tant-League, re&s;pectively:</HI> on the one party. And, the Earles of <HI>Pappenhaim</HI> and <HI>Mansfeld,</HI> the Barons of <HI>Gronsfelt</HI> and <HI>Vir|mont;</HI> with <HI>Reinacher, Boenickhau&s;en,</HI> and other Governours and Commanders: for the <HI>Imperiall</HI> party. But this have I beene for|ced to leave out, for want of conference with &s;uch Gentlemen, as had per&s;onally beene em|ployed in the <HI>Actions:</HI> an in&s;truction, which I much preferre, before all <HI>written Intelli|gences.</HI>
<PB REF="6"> My <HI>Preface,</HI> was onely to make the <HI>Readers</HI> under&s;tand my purpo&s;e; and I hope I have done it. The Readers mu&s;t be allow|ed the liberty of their &s;everall verdicts: and though they &s;hould differ, yet mu&s;t all pa&s;&s;e for <HI>Iudgement.</HI> The plea&s;ing of them, mu&s;t be put to the venture: but if I might not be thought partiall to mine owne; I would freely enough confe&s;&s;e, That having taken treble paines in <HI>This,</HI> more then in my <HI>For|mer;</HI> I had in <HI>This</HI> given my &s;elfe &s;o much the more &s;atisfaction, then in the <HI>Former.</HI> With this comfort doe I now part with my <HI>Booke; That I have not yet entered upon a foyld Story.</HI> God turne the warres to a happy i&s;&s;ue: I had much rather write of <HI>Peace,</HI> then <HI>Vi|ctory.</HI></P>
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<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>The Contents and Methode of the whole.</HEAD>
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<LABEL>I.</LABEL>
<ITEM>THE King of <HI>Swedens</HI> owne <HI>Story,</HI> till the time he recei|ved the Newes of <HI>Tillies</HI> put|ting <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> out of <HI>Bam|berg.</HI></ITEM>
<LABEL>II.</LABEL>
<ITEM><HI>Gu&s;tavus Horns Proceedings,</HI> apart: from the time of the Kings lea|ving him about <HI>Wurtsburg;</HI> un|till the former bu&s;ine&s;&s;e betwixt <HI>Him</HI> and <HI>Tilly.</HI></ITEM>
<LABEL><PB REF="7">III.</LABEL>
<ITEM>The <HI>Generall Tillyes Preparations</HI> and <HI>Proceedings;</HI> from his de|feate at <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> until his putting of <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> out of <HI>Bam|berg.</HI> At the end of this, have you the Duke of <HI>Bavaria's Story.</HI></ITEM>
<LABEL>IIII.</LABEL>
<ITEM>The Kings <HI>March</HI> up into <HI>Bavaria</HI> again&s;t <HI>Tilly:</HI> with his <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> of that <HI>Dukedome,</HI> and finall Overthrow and death of <HI>Tilly.</HI> To this is added, the Actions of Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> and others, about <HI>Vlm.</HI></ITEM>
<LABEL>V.</LABEL>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Bavaria's Manife&s;t</HI> in favour of the <HI>Catholike</HI> Party.</ITEM>
<LABEL>VI.</LABEL>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Saxonyes taking,</HI> and <HI>lo&s;ing</HI> againe of <HI>Bohemia.</HI></ITEM>
<LABEL><PB REF="7">VII.</LABEL>
<ITEM>The <HI>Actions</HI> of <HI>Albert Walen&s;tein,</HI> Duke of <HI>Fridland:</HI> both again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> and the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> untill his encamping before <HI>Norimberg.</HI></ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<PB REF="8" MS="y">
<HEAD>Errata.</HEAD>
<P>PAg. 43, line 23 in &s;ome copies. for, <HI>Scarcely was the King from Hebron,</HI> reade, <HI>the King gone from Hebron</HI> pag. 157. line 24. for, <HI>vpon the fourth of April,</HI> Reade, <HI>vpon the Fourteenth.</HI> In &s;tead of pag. 177, reade 167. Literall faults, we de&s;ire the Reader to beare withall. pag. 115. Line 5. for <HI>Haibron</HI> reade <HI>Hailbrun.</HI> pag. 138. line 24. for <HI>Schneidewin,</HI> reade <HI>Redwin.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="1" REF="8">
<HEAD>THE SWEDISH Intelligencer. <HI>The Second Part.</HI> From the <HI>&V;ictory</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> unto the <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bavaria.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FROM <HI>&V;ictory</HI> to <HI>Conque&s;t:</HI> the&s;e are the two <HI>Termes</HI> of <HI>Progre&s;&s;ion</HI> of the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> (hitherto) fortunate atchieve|ments. The <HI>&V;ictory</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> we haue for their &s;akes that are curious, taken paines the &s;econd time to de&s;cribe in our booke of the <HI>Swedi&s;h Di&s;cipline:</HI> where that famous action is farre more largely and punctually &s;et downe, then our <HI>Intelligence</HI> would at fir&s;t &s;erue vs to doe; at the &s;etting forth of the <HI>former part</HI> of this <HI>Story.</HI> The <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> of <HI>Bauaria</HI> is the <HI>terminating Terme;</HI> with which our purpo&s;e is to cloaze vp this <HI>&s;econd Part</HI> of our <HI>Intelligencer.</HI></P>
<PB N="2" REF="9">
<P>Wee left the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in our <HI>Former part,</HI> where even the able&s;t Generall (e&s;pecially before the beginning of a|ny great Action) mu&s;t not de&s;pi&s;e now and then to be pre&s;ent: at a <HI>Councell of warre,</HI> namely; together with his Highne&s;&s;e the Elector of <HI>Saxony.</HI> Single advice, ends in double dangers: whereas even the warres them&s;elves receive as much &s;treng|thening by an <HI>&V;nion</HI> of <HI>heads,</HI> as by an <HI>vniting</HI> of <HI>hands.</HI> What the Conclu&s;ions of that <HI>Military Con&s;ultation</HI> were; though in expre&s;&s;e termes wee know not; yet by the next Actions of warre may we collect thus much among&s;t the re&s;t, to haue beene then at <HI>Hall</HI> agreed upon.</P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gue&s;&s;e at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at was a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed upon be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xt the King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the Duke Saxon.</NOTE>1. That the fleeing enemy being &s;o farre already e&s;caped, &s;hould at that time be no further pur&s;ued.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the chiefe Army of the <HI>Catholike Leaguers</HI> being now broken, the Lands of the <HI>Leaguers</HI> them&s;elves that refu|&s;ed to make their peace, &s;hould in the order as they next lay, be al&s;o &s;et upon: that &s;o by &s;ingly di&s;abling of the <HI>Leaguers,</HI> the <HI>League</HI> it &s;elfe might vniver&s;ally at length be &s;haken.</P>
<P N="3">3. To cut out the more worke at once for the Emperor; <HI>Saxony,</HI> after he had cleared his owne <HI>Lu&s;atia,</HI> was al&s;o to fall into the Kingdome of <HI>Bohemia.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Care was al&s;o had, of the ruinated e&s;tate of the Towne and Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Magdenburg:</HI> in which <HI>Dioce&s;&s;e,</HI> together with that of <HI>Halber&s;tat,</HI> the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> even now appoin|ted <HI>Lodowicke</HI> Prince of <HI>Anhalt</HI> for his Governor; commit|ting the military command in tho&s;e parts unto Colonell <HI>Schneidewin:</HI> a man that both knew the countrey well e|nough, and that had beene faithfull and forward withall un|to his former Ma&s;ter, the unfortunate <HI>Administrator.</HI></P>
<P>Things being thus agreed upon, and the Kings Army by the middle of September come together againe; his Maje&s;ty having intelligence of <HI>Altringers</HI> and <HI>Fuggers</HI> (two of the Emperors Generals) late being about <HI>Erfurt:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es into Du|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gen.</NOTE> &s;hapes his fir&s;t cour&s;e towards that City, which was the next good towne on that &s;ide belonging unto any of the <HI>Catholike Leaguers.</HI> Di|recting his march therefore to the South-we&s;t, and cro&s;&s;ing
<PB N="3" REF="9"> the River of <HI>Sala;</HI> into the Country of <HI>Duringen</HI> or <HI>Thurin|gia</HI> he goes: leading an army of 20000 men (more &s;ome write) along with him. Keeping then the River of <HI>&V;n|&s;trut</HI> clo&s;e upon his right hand, unto the towne of <HI>Gro&s;s So|meren,</HI> (upon the Ea&s;terne banke of the &s;aid River) he comes: where for that night, (September 17.) he &s;ets downe with his Armie. From this Towne hee immediately di&s;patches his letters unto the great City of <HI>Erfurt,</HI> demanding to haue it forthwith delivered unto him. This towne,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Erfurt &s;umn+ned.</NOTE> &s;ituate upon the River <HI>Iera,</HI> is for compa&s;&s;e one of the greate&s;t of <HI>Germa|ny;</HI> being ennobled with an <HI>Vniuer&s;ity</HI> withall: both at this time belonging unto the Arch-bi&s;hop Elector of <HI>Mentz</HI> (the fir&s;t &s;pirituall per&s;on of the <HI>Catholicke Leaguers:</HI>) unto who&s;e towne of <HI>Mentz,</HI> the old Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Erfurt,</HI> and the tem|porall dominion withall, had long &s;ince beene tran&s;lated. Backe the next day come the Kings Me&s;&s;engers with this an&s;wer of the Cittizens, That they held for the Elector of <HI>Mentz,</HI> to whom they had taken the oath of fidelity. The King not taking this for &s;atisfaction, pre&s;ently with his army advances towards it: yet in the meane time were his &s;econd Summons &s;ent unto them, either forthwith to yeeld their towne, or to &s;tand to the hazzard of the wars. Out come the towne Depu|ties to treate; de&s;iring, but 3. daves re&s;pit to con&s;ider of it. This being denyed them, and they offring to returne into the town; the King &s;ends Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Wymar</HI> along with them;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fayrely take<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> who with &s;ome troopes of hor&s;e entering the outter Port, together with the Deputyes; pre&s;ently makes good the place, by &s;taying his hor&s;es and wagons betweene the two Ports. After which, having di&s;armed the &s;ouldiours of the next Courts of guard; and nine other troopes of <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> hor&s;e, having by this time po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves of the other gate al&s;o: he with his fir&s;t companyes rides immediately up into the market place. Cau&s;ing now the chiefe Burgers to come before him, hee after much arguing to and againe, wrings the towne keyes out of their hands; in &s;teade of which, he in the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> name tenders them the&s;e
<PB N="4" REF="10"> twelue Propo&s;itions, forthwith to &s;et their hands unto.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tions of it.</NOTE>1. That they &s;hould renounce their fealty unto the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Take an oath of Fidelity unto the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> the Electors, and Dukes of <HI>Saxony.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Accept of a <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> garri&s;on of at lea&s;t 1500. men.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. And procure that garri&s;on to be maintained, at the com|mon charges of the Subjects of the Countyes of <HI>Schwartzen|burg</HI> and <HI>Gleichen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Suffering their City to bee new fortified in places convenient.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. The charges of which fortifications they laying out, &s;hould be againe paide them by the Princes of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Saxony.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. That in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity, the Towne &s;hould be &s;till o|pen for the Hou&s;e of <HI>Saxony</HI> to retire into.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. That in &s;tead of the Elector of <HI>Mentz</HI> his <HI>Court of Iu|&s;tice,</HI> the Elector of <HI>Saxonyes Chancery</HI> &s;hould be received into the City: which &s;hould be maintained out of the reve|nues of the Cloy&s;ters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. That the government of the towne &s;hould &s;till be left unto their owne <HI>Senate:</HI> which might in numbers hereafter be encrea&s;ed, as nece&s;&s;ity required.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. That the <HI>Romane Catholickes</HI> &s;hould either change their Religi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n, or for&s;ake the Towne: and that leaving th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir e&s;tates, they &s;hould demand Licence for their depar|ture.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. For the better a&s;&s;uring of the Cittizens fidelity, &s;hould the Queene of <HI>Sweden</HI> come to re&s;ide among them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the charges of fitting the palace of <HI>Stotternhem</HI> for her Maje&s;ties re&s;idence, &s;hould be levyed out of the goods of the <HI>Roman Catholickes</HI> that had for&s;aken the City.</ITEM>
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<P>Thus became <HI>Erfurt</HI> accorded with the King, Septem|ber 18. 1631. without blood&s;hed. The next day came his Maje&s;ties &s;elfe into the Towne, with &s;ome 10000. of his men after him: whom he billetted in the <HI>Dom Peter&s;berg</HI> and
<PB N="5" REF="10"> the <HI>Ie&s;uits</HI> Cloy&s;ter. With the <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> did the King vouch&s;afe &s;ome conference, as tis &s;aid: to whom he both promi&s;ed nd proclaimed, that if they would acknow|ledge him for their <HI>Liege Lord,</HI> they &s;hould no wayes be mo|le&s;ted, either in goods or Con&s;cience. To the Magi&s;trates he promi&s;ed, that for their quiet and &s;olemne receiving of him, he would continue them their former priviledges, and his owne Royall protection. The Governor which he appoin|ted to leave with them, was he that &s;o hand&s;omely tooke in the Towne, and their neere neighbour, Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Wymar</HI> afore&s;aid: with whom he left for garri&s;on partly, and to begin an army; two Regiments of Foote, and one of Hor&s;e. In this Towne the King &s;taid a whole weekes &s;pace, taking a view in that time of &s;uch places, where it was mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to have the City fortified: which worke was thought likely to amount unto two Millions of Dol|lars.</P>
<P>And now is his Maje&s;ty determined for an expedition into <HI>Franconia.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King moves into <HI>Franconia.</HI></NOTE> The two chiefe &s;pirituall members of the <HI>Catho|licke League</HI> in that Countrey, are the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Wurts|burg</HI> and of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> unto whom either in the while that he &s;taid at <HI>Erfurt,</HI> or a little after: the King &s;ends his Letters of <HI>Invitation,</HI> or of <HI>Summons,</HI> to draw them off from the <HI>League,</HI> if they plea&s;ed; and to free thereby their Countreys from inva&s;ion. And this might &s;erve them as a <HI>Herald at Armes,</HI> either to de&s;ire their amity; or if that were refu&s;ed, to forewarne them of his comming. And that he did thus fayrely deale with them, I find it mentioned in his Maje&s;ties owne <HI>Declaration</HI> publi&s;hed afterwards at <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> Taking leave of <HI>Erfurt</HI> therefore, September 26. <HI>old stile:</HI> and ben|ding his cour&s;e due South from thence, and along the we&s;terne &s;hoare of the &s;aid River of <HI>Iera;</HI> towards <HI>Arn&s;tat</HI> in the little County of <HI>Schwartzenburg</HI> he marches: lodging the &s;ame night in a fayre Ca&s;tle there, belonging unto <HI>Gunther</HI> Earle of <HI>Schwartzenburg.</HI> The next day September 27. unto <HI>Ilmenau</HI> he comes; a Towne upon the River <HI>Ilm,</HI> in the
<PB N="6" REF="11"> very edge of the Fore&s;t of <HI>Duringen,</HI> or the <HI>Duringer Waldt:</HI> where he re&s;ts his army againe till the next day towards euen|ing. Hence was the valiant Field-Mar&s;hall <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn,</HI> together with <HI>Baudi&s;&s;en</HI> Leiftenant-Generall of the Hor&s;e, di&s;patched away. Eight or 10000. men they were &s;aid to leade along with them: one part of their de&s;igne being repor|ted to be, to &s;eeke out <HI>Altringer</HI> and <HI>Fugger,</HI> with whom one of the Earles of <HI>Mansvelt</HI> had now al&s;o conioyned his forces. The&s;e 3.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avus Horn <HI>abroad.</HI></NOTE> being heard of to be together beyond <HI>I&s;enach</HI> upon the frontiers of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> (betwixt the rivers of <HI>Ne&s;a</HI> and <HI>Wer|ra</HI>) in &s;earch of them doe the 2. <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Generals goe as farre as <HI>Walter&s;hau&s;en</HI> fir&s;t, and &s;o onwards unto <HI>I&s;enach,</HI> both We&s;t|ward of the city of <HI>Erfurt.</HI> But <HI>Altringer</HI> was not to be &s;poken withall; his men were afraid of the very name or &s;ha|dow of a <HI>Swede:</HI> whom they had not &s;o much mind to meete withall, as to conioyne them&s;elues with <HI>Tilly:</HI> for which pur|po&s;e they were already marched from <HI>I&s;enach</HI> unto <HI>Munden,</HI> whither &s;hortly after, <HI>Tilly</HI> had appointed them to come. But <HI>Horn</HI> and <HI>Baudi&s;&s;en,</HI> as they made no long &s;tay, &s;o lo&s;t they not all their labour; &s;eeing in their returne they tooke in the city of <HI>Gota</HI> fir&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es in <HI>Gota</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e County of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">neberg.</HI></NOTE> (&s;ome 4. leagues to the We&s;t of <HI>Erfurt:</HI>) and that part of the little County of <HI>Henneberg,</HI> (on the South-we&s;t &s;ide of the <HI>Duringer Waldt</HI>) afterwards; which the King had left untouched: conioyning their forces la&s;t of all unto the Kings army at <HI>Konig&s;hoven;</HI> which way we left the King now going.</P>
<P>September 28. towards euening he &s;ets forward from <HI>Il|menau</HI> againe, euen into the thicke&s;t of the <HI>Duringer Fore&s;t.</HI> And for the &s;ouldiers better &s;eeing of their way in the night time, were there wi&s;ps, and cre&s;&s;et lights made in pans, &amp;c. hung vpon the trees,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King pa&s;&s;es <HI>Duringer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dt,</HI> into <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nkenland, Franconia.</HI></NOTE> with other &s;uch like proui&s;ions. This Fore&s;t being in a right line pa&s;&s;ed thorow, the army arriues at <HI>Schleu&s;ing</HI> in <HI>Franconia;</HI> whence they directly marched to|wards <HI>Konig&s;hoven:</HI> before which (being 4. leagues and an halfe di&s;tant) they the next day pre&s;ented 4. Regiments, when|as they were there lea&s;t looked for. This &s;trong towne of
<PB N="7" REF="11"> <HI>Konig&s;hoven,</HI> is the chiefe Fortre&s;&s;e and Store-hou&s;e of that plentifull countrey; the Seate and Court, (for the mo&s;t part) of the great Bi&s;hop of <HI>Wurtsburg;</HI> and one of the chiefe keyes, on that &s;ide, vnto the Bi&s;hopricks of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> and of <HI>Bamberg.</HI> The <HI>Swedens</HI> giuing &s;ummons to the towne in their Kings name, were vouch&s;afed no other an&s;wer, then what was by the report of the Canon returned them: The Sum|mons being refu&s;ed, the Seige is laid.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Where he b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;eiges <HI>Konig|&s;hoven,</HI></NOTE> The King hauing runne his lynes, and rai&s;ed his batteries before the towne; beates har|de&s;t vpon a certaine &s;trong and high tower, from whence the towne Ordnance did mo&s;tly annoy him. This being &s;ore &s;haken, and ready for a&s;&s;ault, the King next of all by a trum|pet &s;ent into the City, gives them faire advice to &s;end away all their women and children: &s;eeing if he mu&s;t needes be put to take the place by a&s;&s;ault, he would giue their hou&s;es for pil|lage vnto his &s;ouldiers, put all the people to the &s;word, beate downe the towne about their cares, and afterwards turne it all into Cinders. The garri&s;on perceiving no &s;uccours ready to relieve them from their Bi&s;hop (whom it mo&s;t concerned) fall to capitulate for their lives; pre&s;ently yeelding up that &s;trong place unto his Maie&s;ty.<NOTE PLACE="marg">And takes it.</NOTE> Here were found great &s;tore of Ordnance, and a wonderfull plenty of victuals, provi&s;ions and Ammunition of all kinds.</P>
<P>Entrance being thus happily gained into <HI>Franconia</HI> in the end of September, the fame of the Kings taking &s;o principall and &s;trong a Fort, &s;trake &s;uch a terror into the Country there|abouts; that the <HI>Catholike Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> now a&s;&s;embled at the <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Frankford</HI> on the <HI>Maine,</HI> with all &s;peede for&s;ake the place; without &s;taying to di&s;patch any of the Emperors or <HI>Ca|tholike Leaguers</HI> bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, which they came thither for. This <HI>Konig&s;hoven</HI> being very &s;trong before, does the King (as his cu&s;tome is to doe, with all conquered places of importance) cau&s;e to be more fortified after his own manner: leaving a garri&s;on in it, and the Duke <HI>Erne&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Wyma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> for their Governor.</P>
<P>From this place our Conqueror moves toward <HI>Schwein|f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rt,</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="12"> a pretty Imperiall City, &s;ome 6. leagues to the South of <HI>Konig&s;hoven;</HI> and &s;eated upon the North-We&s;t banke of the river of <HI>Mayn</HI> before mentioned.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">weinfurt</HI> ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> Here (to begin the Moneth of October withall) was he admitted without re&s;i&s;tance: the garri&s;on going out thence into <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> &s;ome two dayes march (or 6. leagues) di&s;tant from this <HI>Schweinfurt.</HI> October the &s;econd, the King with &s;om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 18. troopes of Hor e comes into the towne, where he hath the <HI>Oath of fidelity</HI> made him by the Citizens. Ob&s;erving in his view of the City (where he &s;taied not above an houre in all) how commodiou&s;ly it was &s;eated for the pa&s;&s;age of the <HI>Mayn;</HI> he giues order to haue it new fortified: leaving 3. Companies of Foote, and two troopes of Dragooners in it for garri&s;on. Sending his forces now &s;everall wayes about at one in&s;tant, he hath divers places at once, upon ea&s;ie termes delivered up unto him in the Bi|&s;hoprick of <HI>Bamberg;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Bi&s;hoprick <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amberg</HI> ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in.</NOTE> as <HI>Hasfurt, Gemund, Lohr, Volcach, Kitzing, Oxenfurt, Remling</HI> and <HI>Karl&s;tadt,</HI> all &s;ituated upon the <HI>Mayn:</HI> which river his Maie&s;ty was now very de&s;irous to make him&s;elfe Ma&s;ter of. Very well did this wi&s;e King per|ceive, That the methode of <HI>Warre</HI> was the &s;ame (in this point) with the methode of <HI>Nature;</HI> and how a countrey is by the &s;ame meanes and degrees to be <HI>conquered,</HI> by which it was at fir&s;t <HI>peopled:</HI> and that was, by the great and navigable rivers. For be&s;ides that the riche&s;t and the &s;tronge&s;t Cities be ever &s;ituated vpon their banks; and that at tho&s;e Cities, be &s;till the <HI>Bridges</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;&s;es</HI> over into other countries: by their &s;treames al&s;o, up and downe, are the riches and forces of the Kingdome co~veighed; w^c^h wil quickly beate the <HI>Land-conque|ror</HI> out of the field,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kes towards <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e river of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ayn.</HI></NOTE> that is not Ma&s;ter of tho&s;e <HI>waters.</HI> The&s;e, with other con&s;iderations of the excellent advantage of ha|ving a good river to friend; as the neerene&s;&s;e of fre&s;h water, both for hor&s;e and man; the commodiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of carriages; the naturall fortification to the army on that &s;ide, whereby all &s;udden <HI>Cami&s;ado'es</HI> and fallings on of the enemy are preven|ted: are &s;ome of the maine rea&s;ons that no wi&s;e warriour ought to thinke him&s;elfe a Conqueror, untill &s;uch time as he
<PB N="9" REF="12"> hath the commaund of the water, as well as of the land. And therefore hath the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> (if you marke the order|line&s;&s;e of his proceedings) &s;till coa&s;ted it along upon the Ri|vers. Thus whereas He at his fir&s;t comming into <HI>Germanie,</HI> &s;ought to land in the mouth of the <HI>Oder;</HI> he &s;o long pur&s;ued the cour&s;e of that &s;treame, untill it brought him into the river <HI>Havel;</HI> and that, into the <HI>Elb:</HI> the banks whereof when he had lately left unto the Duke of <HI>Saxonie;</HI> then &s;eekes he to the <HI>Mayn;</HI> as he afterwards did unto the <HI>Rhine</HI> and <HI>Danubie.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ame fir&s;t of O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tober that <HI>Schweinfurt</HI> was yeelded unto the King; his Maie&s;ty (it &s;eemes) &s;ent abroad his letters of generall Summons unto the Countrey.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King &s;ummons th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> country: &amp; wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> good &s;ucce&s;&s;e The Empire devided into 10. <HI>Circles:</HI> of which this <HI>Ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cle</HI> of <HI>Francon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> is the fir&s;t.</NOTE> The <HI>Date</HI> of them is from <HI>Madenhau&s;en,</HI> a village neere unto <HI>Schweinfurt,</HI> where his Maie&s;ties head-quarter, perchance, at that time lay. The <HI>Direction</HI> is, To all the Cities of and about the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Fran|conia.</HI> The <HI>Purpo&s;e,</HI> That whereas the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> were every where oppre&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Papi&s;ts;</HI> and that his comming had principally been for their deliverance: therefore tho&s;e Pro|te&s;tant townes and others that had any <HI>Imperiall</HI> or <HI>Leagui&s;h</HI> garri&s;ons in them, &s;hould driue them out and open their gates unto the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> forces. Tho&s;e that &s;o did, he would protect; tho&s;e that refu&s;ed, or delayed, he would pur&s;ue the Law of Armes upon: prote&s;ting him&s;elfe to be innocent, of what&s;o|ever evill &s;hould betide upon their refu&s;all. Their an&s;wer he would expect by the next morning. And now became the King as victorious with his pen, as formerly he had beene with his pike: for upon promi&s;e of protection, freedome of con&s;cience, and from garri&s;ons: many townes and Cities at that time committed them&s;elves unto his mercy.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg</HI> makes his peace with the King:</NOTE> The great Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg</HI> him&s;elfe, with his <HI>Chapter</HI> of <HI>Dom-herren</HI> or <HI>Prebendaries</HI> of the Church, &s;ent with as much &s;peed as might be, their Amba&s;&s;adors unto the King, from the &s;trong towne of <HI>Forcheim</HI> whither they were retyred. The price of their peace, mu&s;t be their a&s;&s;ent unto the&s;e 4. Articles.</P>
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<ITEM>1. To pay the King 3. tunnes of gold, downe upon the nayle.</ITEM>
<PB N="10" REF="13">
<ITEM>2. And forthwith deliver him over their 2. &s;trong For|tre&s;&s;es, <HI>Forcheim</HI> and <HI>Cronach.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. And contribute &s;o much a moneth unto his warres, as they had before done unto the <HI>Catholike Leaguers.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Recalling all their forces out of the <HI>Catholike</HI> army; ut|terly renouncing that <HI>Confederation.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e conditions, though the Bi&s;hop was for his peace &s;ake contented to &s;ubmit unto at the fir&s;t; yet for all that, &s;o &s;oone as ever him&s;elfe and people had gotten in more forces together,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd breakes his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rticles.</NOTE> and made up their fortifications: they brake the&s;e Articles againe, cau&s;ing their Bi&s;hop afterwards to goe to invite <HI>Tilly</HI> into their Country. This became a great hinde|rance unto the King afterwards; enforcing him to &s;end <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> with an army into <HI>Bamberg:</HI> for whom he might otherwhere have had better employment.</P>
<P>The Kings next de&s;igne was upon <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> which <HI>Francis Hatzfeldt</HI> the new elected Bi&s;hop of the place, and Duke of <HI>Franconia</HI> (for &s;o his &s;tile is) hearing of; he being a better <HI>Orator</HI> then a <HI>Soldiour:</HI> with all &s;peede packes up his be&s;t Iewels and Trea&s;ure; &s;hifting him&s;elfe unto <HI>Franckford</HI> on the <HI>Maine</HI> fir&s;t, and &s;o into the <HI>Rhine</HI> at <HI>Mentz:</HI> and from that place downe the &s;treame towards <HI>Bon</HI> unto the Elector of <HI>Cullen;</HI> whence in the name of all the <HI>Catholicke-Spirituall-Leaguers,</HI> he was in Ianuary following, &s;ent Amba&s;&s;ador to|wards the <HI>French</HI> King.</P>
<P>The taking of this <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> would be well worth the labour of <HI>a King of Sweden;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King be|&s;ieges <HI>Wurts|burg.</HI></NOTE> to this therefore does hee now convert his Armes: his &s;trength being &s;aid to be &s;eventeene Regiments of Foote, and 8000 Hor&s;e, of which, I beleeve, he had but two third parts His power he fir&s;t pre&s;ented be|fore the City, upon Tue&s;day, October 4. 1631. by nine a clocke in the morning. The Towne it &s;elfe lyes upon the Ri|ver of <HI>Mayn;</HI> the forme of it being a ju&s;t <HI>Semicircle;</HI> the River making the <HI>Diameter</HI> unto it. Within the City is there an <HI>&V;niver&s;ity,</HI> and two <HI>Colledges.</HI> Beyond this River, towards the We&s;t, and upon a very &s;teepe hill, &s;tands there a
<PB N="11" REF="13"> goodly Ca&s;tle: &s;ome buildings and walls being at the foote of it along the Rivers &s;ide, facing the Towne as the <HI>Bankes-&s;ide</HI> doth <HI>London.</HI> The Ea&s;t &s;ide of the Towne, is for three parts of it compa&s;&s;ed about with a hand&s;ome Sub|urb: and that al&s;o walled and indifferently fortified. The middle gate of this Suburb the King finding to be &s;hut again&s;t him, makes it flye open with a powder,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Suburb</NOTE> (as they &s;ay) by clapping a Petard, in &s;tead of a Key, unto it. The Towne within the walls perceiving the King to have thus boldly knockt and come in, without bidding; &s;end out to de&s;ire re&s;pit of his Maje&s;ty, untill 8 a clocke the next morning. This was but a tricke of the Burgers to gaine time and darkene&s;&s;e withall; which they that whole day and night made u&s;e of, for the con|veighing of their be&s;t men and chiefe&s;t trea&s;ure up into the Ca&s;tle. Wedne&s;day morning being come,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and town take</NOTE> the Ports are ope|ned: and the Boores (which the City had for their defence taken in) are put out at the backe doore, as the <HI>Swedens</HI> are let in at the fore-doore. The King being thus peaceably admitted, not a &s;ouldier of his was complained of to have done wrong unto any of the Burgers; nor &s;o much as to have askt or begd any thing; all expecting the courte&s;ie of the towne&s;mens cha|rity. Heere the King tendering an oath of fidelity unto the Cittizens, is not denyed it: his owne lodging being taken up in the <HI>Duke-Bi&s;hops</HI> Palace behind the <HI>Cathedrall.</HI></P>
<P>The King thus in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Towne, could not yet thinke him&s;elfe Ma&s;ter of it, &s;o long as the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Marien|burg</HI> (for &s;o is it called) could at plea&s;ure beate it about his eares. This peece is mounted upon &s;o high a hill, as was to be commanded from no other ground: it having the Towne below at its owne feete.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle de+&s;cribed.</NOTE> And as &s;trongly was it fortified by Art, as advantageou&s;ly &s;ituated by nature. The hill is a maine rocke; whereof one &s;ide is craggy and barren, and the other covered with vines: the whole top of the little mountaine being crowned with the Ca&s;tle, and with the ditches and out-works of it. Nor wanted here any inward fortifications; 800 or 1000. fighting men, being there in garri&s;on: and as for vi|ctuals,
<PB N="12" REF="14"> money, and Ammunition, <HI>Troy</HI> it &s;elfe was not better provided for its ten yeeres &s;iege, then this Fort was. The <HI>Ca|&s;tellan</HI> or Governour, was one <HI>Keller;</HI> e&s;teemed till now a good brave fellow: and knowne generally by this brand, That he mortally hated all Prote&s;tants and their Religion. All toge|ther, finally, made the place appeare &s;o impregnable, that the Kings preparations to attempt upon it were rather &s;corned then feared, by the garri&s;on: who verily beleeved, that unle&s;&s;e the <HI>Swedes</HI> had <HI>wings,</HI> as well as <HI>Armes,</HI> they could never get up thither. Tho&s;e difficulties that &s;erve for bridles to the &s;lug|gi&s;h, become &s;purres unto the indu&s;trious: the more in&s;upe|rable therefore that the place &s;eemed to be, the more de&s;irous was the King to overcome it. Full well he knew be&s;ides, that the <HI>con&s;equence</HI> would as much availe him, as the <HI>conque&s;t:</HI> for what &s;hould hereafter become unpo&s;&s;ible, unto him, that had by fine force taken in the (&s;uppo&s;ed) impregnable Ca&s;tle of <HI>Wurtsburg?</HI></P>
<P>The King being thus re&s;olved, gives order fir&s;t to have the Ca&s;tle &s;ummoned: which is the onely <HI>Complement</HI> or <HI>Court|&s;hip,</HI> that the warres of cour&s;e admit of. That being refu&s;ed, he next prepares for the a&s;&s;ault. The garri&s;on that retyred out of the towne into the Ca&s;tle, had them&s;elues broken downe one or two arches of the bridge over the <HI>Mayn,</HI> betweene the towne and the Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he manner of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;aulting the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;tle.</NOTE> leaving a planke onely over the broken place, for their owne lei&s;urely pa&s;&s;age. All their boates, had they likewi&s;e drawne over to the other &s;hoare of the river: &s;o that this was the fir&s;t difficulty, how to get over the water, and how to come at the Ca&s;tle. The King having there a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Gentleman that &s;pake excellent good <HI>Dutch,</HI> (one Ma&s;ter <HI>Robert Ram&s;ye</HI> a Leiftenant vnder Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;yes</HI> Regiment) him the King puts upon the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: to pa&s;&s;e over (as a <HI>Dutchman</HI> and one of theirs) upon that planke, and to truck with &s;ome Boore or &s;ouldier, to conveigh over one of tho&s;e boates unto the King. The Leiftenant performes his charge to the purpo&s;e; but being afterwards di&s;covered by his long coate, was apprehended for a &s;pye, and made a pri&s;oner:
<PB N="13" REF="14"> whence at the taking of the Ca&s;tle he was redeemed. The King having thus procured one boate; &s;ends men in that to bring over more: by which at la&s;t he &s;et over as many &s;oldi|ers as he plea&s;ed. <HI>Keller</HI> the Governour was ready at the foot of the hill, to entertaine them: for faine would he haue &s;taved them off there, and have kept the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> led by Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;ye</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Hamilton,</HI> from comming neerer. Here beganne the fir&s;t skirmi&s;h, which indeed proved but a skir|mi&s;h: the defendants being after a while beaten up the hill unto a great <HI>Halfe-Moone</HI> they had before the Ca&s;tle; where the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> for that night gaue it over. Keeping that footing, therefore, which they had the fir&s;t day gotten upon the climbe of the hill; they under favour of that, brought forward their owne trenches neerer &s;till and neerer to the Bulwark. All that night and the two next dayes, did the Ordnance thunder from the Ca&s;tle; &amp; for as long a time were the garri&s;on kept in con|tinuall action and Alarmes: a <HI>be&s;ieged enemy</HI> being like an <HI>un|made hawke,</HI> to be <HI>reclaymd</HI> with <HI>watching.</HI> The <HI>Trenches</HI> or <HI>Lines</HI> being fini&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The valour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|tion, in the&s;e warres.</NOTE> the King commaunds Sir <HI>Iohn Hamilton</HI> and Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;ye</HI> to fall on with their Regiments: for if a Foit be to be <HI>&s;tormed,</HI> or any de&s;perate peice of &s;ervice to be &s;et upon; the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> have hitherto had the honour and the danger, to be the fir&s;t men that are put upon &s;uch a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. This <HI>Halfe-moone</HI> therefore upon the vineyards &s;ide, right be|fore the bridge (which was over the moate of the Ca&s;tle) doe the <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> now full re&s;olutely fall upon: the defendants like|wi&s;e for two houres together (as 'tis &s;aid) as &s;toutly fight|ing for their worke. Here was Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;ye</HI> &s;hot in the arme: and very many of his, and of Sir <HI>Iohn Hamiltons</HI> men, &s;laine and &s;poyled in the a&s;&s;ault: but they by fine force at length prevailing, drave the defendants to the retreat. The King had thought at the &s;ame time to have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe of the Ca&s;tle-bridge of &s;tone afore&s;aid; and of the Port con&s;equent|ly, that it led unto: commanding other of his men for that purpo&s;e into the very <HI>Graff</HI> or <HI>moate</HI> it &s;elfe: but from that de&s;igne were they for that time put off, by the defendants. By
<PB N="14" REF="15"> five a clocke the next morning, (Saturday, October 8.) was there a generall a&s;&s;ault attempted: at which time a certaine Lieftenant of <HI>Leifland,</HI> (borne of <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> parents) comming in the darke (with onely 7. men at that in&s;tant behind him) unto the draw-bridge that entered into the <HI>Forehoff</HI> or outter-court of the Ca&s;tle, and being over-heard by tho&s;e that had the guards on the in&s;ide (who were neere upon 200. men) was by one of them demaunded in the forme u&s;uall among &s;ouldi|ers, <HI>Was vor volcks? What are you for men? Swedes,</HI> cryes the Leiftenant. The enemies hearing this, pre&s;ently lay hold upon the chaynes to hale up the draw-bridge: which the Leifte|nant perceiving them about, with a &s;trange courage and re&s;o|lution leapes lightly upon the bridge and his 7.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">perate at|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t of a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enant.</NOTE> men after him; keeping it downe by that meanes. Tho&s;e within now verily imagining all the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> to be already at the bridge, mo&s;t ba&s;e|ly runne away into the Ca&s;tle: of which the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> by this time having notice, pre&s;ently enter into the <HI>Forehoff,</HI> even clo&s;e unto the Ca&s;tle. And here (as tis written) does the mer|cifull King once againe offer faire conditions, unto as many as would lay down armes: but this being refu&s;ed, and the Cannon all this while thundering again&s;t his men; the King cau&s;es the Ordnance which he even now found upon the conquered Bul|warks, to be turned upon the inner gate, which leades into the very Ca&s;tle it &s;elfe: which hee pre&s;ently therewithall breakes open. Sir <HI>Iohn Hamilton</HI> having done &s;o much good &s;ervice before, is now againe as ready to fall into the Ca&s;tle: but from this the King cald him off: pretending the pre&s;erva|tion of his men, which had beene &s;o &s;hattered in the former &s;ervice. But the valiant Colonell made another interpretation of the Kings meaning.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Ca&s;tle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne.</NOTE> The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> now thronging in amaine thorow the broken gate, utterly there overlay the defendants. And now began the execution; and now the conquered begin to cry for <HI>Quarter:</HI> but the enraged <HI>Swedens</HI> yet in the heate of blood, bid them looke for no other Quarter, then what the Prote&s;tants found at <HI>Magdenburg.</HI> All that re&s;i&s;ted, &s;uffe|red. Among the dead, were there &s;ome skore of lu&s;ty &s;turdy
<PB N="15" REF="15"> <HI>Fryers</HI> found armed: who had their crownes (poore men) new &s;haven with a &s;word, in &s;tead of a razor: and receiving here their <HI>ultimam ton&s;uram,</HI> had no other complement of Anointing to it, but that of their owne bloods. <HI>The &s;word de|voureth one, as well as another,</HI> &s;aid that famous Generall of old: nor had the&s;e men dyed ami&s;&s;e, had it bin in defence one|ly of their Prince and Country; and not upon an <HI>erroneous Con&s;cience</HI> of their <HI>Religion:</HI> and an over-bold conceit of <HI>Me|rit</HI> and of <HI>Martyrdome.</HI> Divers of the garri&s;on leaping over the rampiers into the vineyards, mended them&s;elues no better by it then other runne-awayes u&s;ually doe; to be kild further off from their fellowes. The Ladyes, Nunnes, and women, were &s;afely &s;ent into the towne. The Governour (as 'tis &s;aid) &s;aved his owne life, by begging it at the Kings feete: the ob|taining of which favour, might perchance make him to love a Prote&s;tant the better, ever after. A Rit-ma&s;ter (or Captaine of a troope of Hor&s;e) there was, that redeemed his owne life, with a Kings ran&s;ome: by &s;hewing, namely, an ine&s;tima|ble ma&s;&s;e of trea&s;ure, which lay hid in a Cave or cleft of the Rocke. The chiefe of the &s;laine and pri&s;oners, were rifled and &s;tripped by the conquerors: and the Ca&s;tle for one houre, permitted to the pillage: where an unvaluable booty was ob|tained by the &s;ouldiers. Here was found about 34.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The booty.</NOTE> peices of bra&s;&s;e Ordnance; &s;ome of which had the <HI>Pal&s;grave Frede|rickes</HI> Armes upon them. Many a hundred wayne-load of wine there was: with Ammunition, and &s;ome kind of victu|als for the Bi&s;hops Court, enough (if it would have kept) for 20. yeeres provi&s;ion for &s;uch a garri&s;on. Some 200. of the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> lo&s;t their lives upon the &s;ervice: all the defendants be|ing either &s;laine or taken pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> hearing of this &s;iege, was comming as farre as <HI>Fulda</HI> to have rai&s;ed it; (as it was given out:) but hearing it to be taken; he made the more ha&s;te to reenforce him&s;elfe by ioyning with the <HI>Lorrayners.</HI> And thus was this goodly, rich, &s;trong, and plea&s;ant Ca&s;tle of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> taken in, by eight a clocke on Saturday morning, being the eighth
<PB N="16" REF="16"> of October: as which, the King yet never came to &s;o rich a breakfa&s;t. A Palace it was, for any Prince in <HI>Chri&s;tendome:</HI> which having beene &s;omething defaced by the Cannon, the King cau&s;ed to be forthwith repaired; and with new fortifica|tions to be made much the &s;tronger. The towne redeemed it &s;elfe from pillaging, by the payment of 4. tunne of Gold; or of 300000.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Floren, is a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t 3. &s;hillings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gli&s;h.</NOTE> <HI>Florens,</HI> as others reckon it: So that the King and his &s;ouldiers, never went &s;o rich away from any place. Here was found a princely &s;table of goodly hor&s;es; with which the King was very much delighted. And here his Maie&s;ty &s;tayed, till the beginning of November: in which time he al|&s;o cau&s;ed him&s;elfe to be inve&s;ted Duke of <HI>Franconia;</HI> taking an oath of <HI>homage</HI> and <HI>fealty,</HI> both of towne and Countrey. In iu&s;tification of which proceedings of his, he upon Octob. 26. publi&s;hes his <HI>Declaration</HI> or <HI>Manife&s;to:</HI> which for the Readers ea&s;e we have here abbreviated.</P>
<P>That &s;eeing his owne comming la&s;t yeere into the Empire, had beene for the relieving of the oppre&s;&s;ed <HI>Protestant</HI> Prin|ces of <HI>Germany,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Kings <HI>Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;to</HI> &s;et upon Church-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">res at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtsburg.</HI></NOTE> and that God had &s;o farre already, beyond his owne power, and all humane expectation, ble&s;&s;ed him therein; as that having fir&s;t of all cleered the two Duchies of <HI>Pomeren</HI> and <HI>Mecklenburg,</HI> together with the Electorate of <HI>Branden|burg;</HI> and at the earne&s;t reque&s;t of the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> after|wards, obtained that memorable victory of <HI>Leip&s;ich:</HI> he had thought that even the enemies would have acknowledged the hand of God to have beene with him; and that the <HI>Catho|like</HI> Princes of the <HI>League</HI> would have not onely beene de&s;i|rers, but promoters too of a faire peace, for the good of their owne native Countrey. But whereas he now perceived, that notwith&s;tanding it had in the late <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Ratisbone</HI> beene ac|knowledged, how the warre made again&s;t him in <HI>Germany</HI> by the Emperor, was without the knowledge, and again&s;t the will of the Princes and Electors; yea quite again&s;t the lawes and priviledges of the Empire: yet did the <HI>Catholike Leaguers</HI> for all this, &s;till goe on in their pernicious Combinations a|gain&s;t him; yea even after they had by their owne letters,
<PB N="17" REF="16"> (oftner then once) avowed them&s;elues to become his firme friends; and that he thereupon had pa&s;&s;ed his promi&s;e vnto the <HI>French</HI> King, that would they but &s;it downe as <HI>Neuters,</HI> he would offer no iniury at all vnto them. And whereas he had pur&s;ued the victory of <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI> with no other purpo&s;e, then of bringing the di&s;turbers of the peace vnto equall tearms and Conditions; and had before the bringing of his army into <HI>Franconia,</HI> both fairely and timely &s;ignified that his purpo&s;e vnto the two Bi&s;hops of <HI>Bamberg</HI> and <HI>Wurtsburg;</HI> with de|&s;ire of a friendly treatment from them againe. Now, when|as the&s;e his offers had beene de&s;pi&s;ed, and his me&s;&s;engers an|&s;wered from the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> with the mouth of the Cannon: had he not rea&s;on to mend him&s;elfe vpon his Country, and to take his Ca&s;tle from him? Whereas, againe, he had both opportunity and power put into his hands of &s;erving their &s;ubiects as hardly, as the harmele&s;&s;e <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> had otherwhere beene u&s;ed by the <HI>Leaguers:</HI> yet, his Princely mind much de&s;pi&s;ing all de&s;ire of reuenge, had onely di&s;po&s;ed it &s;elfe to the meanes of e&s;tabli&s;hing a good peace once againe throughout the Empire. That he at this time found the grea|te&s;t part of the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> and Dukedome of <HI>Franconia,</HI> not bound by oath vnto any Ma&s;ter;<NOTE PLACE="marg">For that the Bi&s;hop was but newly elected; and not com|pletely per|chance as yet e&s;tabli&s;hed: and that the Nobility and Gentry of <HI>Franconia</HI> (very great) acknow|ledgeth no &s;u|periors, as be|ing only &s;ubiect to the Empire.</NOTE> and that tho&s;e &s;ubiects that had beene obliged, were now without cau&s;e for&s;aken by Bi&s;hop <HI>Francis;</HI> who had the meanes yet left, of fairely compounding with him. Therefore was he now ready (as nece&s;&s;ity required) to take the Country and people into his care, and to re-e&s;tate them all againe into as good a Condi|tion as he could: having for that purpo&s;e lately &s;et forth a forme of government for them, and appointed fit Officers over them. Wherefore, his Maie&s;ties expre&s;&s;e plea&s;ure at this time was, That all Officers and Burgers &s;hould, upon the fir&s;t notice given them of this <HI>Mandate</HI> of his, repaire vnto the place appointed them in it, take oath there, unto that his form of government, and dutifully hereafter to obey it. Vpon hope, therefore, that &s;o they would doe, he would graciou&s;ly from hence forward take them into his protection, permit
<PB N="18" REF="17"> liberty of Con&s;cience vnto them, and by his Iudges appointed for that end, maintaine them in all their &s;everall lawes and pri|viledges. Tho&s;e that humbly &s;ued for his help, &s;hould graci|ou&s;ly have it: and tho&s;e that neglected or de&s;pi&s;ed, he would execute the law upon.</P>
<P>While&s;t here at <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> the King &s;tayes, &s;ome forces of his newly levied for him about the Country, were come to <HI>Carl&s;tat,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illy</HI> fir&s;t ap|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es neere <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King.</NOTE> the place appointed for their meeting. <HI>Tilly</HI> then up|on the wing; feared it might be, that becau&s;e he was not able to relieve <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> yet for that he would not doe nothing, he would have a flight at the&s;e rawe &s;ouldiers: and newes was brought,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ome new for|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es rai&s;ed for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King.</NOTE> that &s;ome of his were even then come as neere <HI>Carl|&s;tat,</HI> as the <HI>Neu&s;tat</HI> and <HI>Rotenfels</HI> (in the <HI>Spe&s;hart</HI> fore&s;t on the other &s;ide of the <HI>Mayn</HI>) towards them. Of this the King having notice, towards the end of October goes from <HI>Wurts|burg</HI> thitherward, with &s;ome 33 Cornets of hor&s;e in his at|tendance. But <HI>Tilly</HI> came not.</P>
<P>Some troopes of his, had before this beene di&s;patched al&s;o towards <HI>Werthaim</HI> in the little County of the &s;ame name, be|longing vnto the Counts of <HI>Lowen&s;tein;</HI> bearing due We&s;t of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> upon another Bowte of the <HI>Mayn,</HI> where the <HI>Tauber</HI> falls into it. The towne was kept by the <HI>Italian</HI> Co|lonel <HI>Piccolomini,</HI> who had beene at the battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> He now i&s;&s;uing out of the towne, and making there the be&s;t re&s;i|&s;tance that he could; had all his men that e&s;caped not by flight, either &s;laine upon the place,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Werthaim</HI> taken</NOTE> or carryed away pri&s;oners. The King cau&s;ed 14. Companies of his owne men to be put into the towne; of whom the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> having a mind to be revenged, upon Sunday morning, October 16. &s;ends &s;ome 3000 hor&s;e and foote out of his owne head-quarter (then neere vnto <HI>Selingstat</HI> and <HI>Babenhau&s;en</HI> beyond the <HI>Mayn</HI>) to make an <HI>An&s;laught</HI> or Enterpri&s;e upon the place. The King having an <HI>Item</HI> al&s;o of this match, &s;ends again&s;t the time ap|pointed &s;ome of his men to lye in waite by the way for the&s;e <HI>Tillians.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">3000. of <HI>Tillyes</HI> men beaten.</NOTE> The <HI>Swedes</HI> comming to a valley upon the river <HI>Tauber</HI> called the <HI>Tauber-grond,</HI> dre&s;&s;e there a double Am|bu&s;cado
<PB N="19" REF="17"> for the enemy. The Governour of the towne had likewi&s;e his directions to leave the place, and to retreate in good time, if he &s;hould perceive the enemies to be too &s;trong for him. But before it came to that, the <HI>Tillians</HI> were already fallen into the ambu&s;h: whence they gate not out, but with the lo&s;&s;e of 2700 men, 800 hor&s;es, 14 En&s;ignes and Cornets, 10 Sumpter Mules, and all their baggage: which together with the armes and pillage of the dead, helpt to pay the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> for thus beating of them.</P>
<P>About October 21. <HI>old Style;</HI> others of the Kings troopes flye out as farre as <HI>Rottenburg;</HI> an Imperiall towne neere the head of the river <HI>Tauber,</HI> &s;ome 8 or 9 leagues to the South of <HI>Wurtsburg.</HI> Hither had the Imperiall <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary Ma&s;en</HI> (a great Officer) either fled or retyred from the <HI>Swedi&s;h:</HI> and yet here could he not be long &s;afe from them. The towne and he being both in danger,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Regiments more of <HI>Tilli|ans</HI> defeated,</NOTE> <HI>Tilly</HI> for their &s;akes &s;ends out 3 of his Regiments to oppo&s;e the <HI>Swedi&s;h:</HI> but the fortune of the warres now altogether unlucky for the <HI>Tillians;</HI> their 3 whole Regiments are either wholly rowted or &s;laughtered. The towne garri&s;on perceiving this defeate, fall pre&s;ently into mu|tinie again&s;t the Commi&s;&s;ary, who&s;e office was to pay them their wages: &s;o that he now being for &s;ome while behind hand with them for their meanes, <HI>Gelt, Gelt, money, money, mo|ney,</HI> they now beginne to cry;<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Rottenburg</HI> taken.</NOTE> and tearing the En&s;ignes from off the &s;taves, they immediately &s;et open the gates unto the <HI>Swedes;</HI> the mo&s;t of them al&s;o entring them&s;elues into the Kings &s;ervice. Much about this time too, &s;ome <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> for|ces in another place lighting upon a Partee of 3 troopes of <HI>Lorrayners,</HI> take away two Cornets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cornets of <HI>Lorrayners</HI> de|feated.</NOTE> and bring home a Ser|geant-Major pri&s;oner with them. How the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners</HI> came there, &s;ee the whole progre&s;&s;e of their army, which was new|ly come into <HI>Germany</HI> again&s;t the King; in our particular Story of them.</P>
<P>Now were the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> in &s;everall &s;mall running Armies, di&s;per&s;ed at once over the Countrey. Some of them for very feare drive the Imperiali&s;ts out of <HI>Nordlingen</HI> (an Imperiall
<PB N="20" REF="18"> City in <HI>Schwaben</HI> on the Ea&s;terne frontiers of <HI>Wirtenberg</HI>) in|to <HI>Donawert</HI> neere <HI>Bavaria.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me actions <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut the <HI>Da|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y.</HI></NOTE> Some report, that the Burgers ro&s;e again&s;t them for the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Tho&s;e of <HI>Schorn|dorff</HI> upon the &s;mal river of <HI>Rems</HI> in the Duchy of <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> being al&s;o frighted at the &s;ame time, remoove away 100000 dollars in ready money, which had beene rai&s;ed out of the Contributions of that Country, and belonged unto Commi&s;|&s;ary <HI>Wolf&s;tein</HI> then at <HI>Munchen</HI> in <HI>Bavaria.</HI> Now whereas the Convoy of 100 hor&s;e and as many muskettiers, were gone a little before the money; the <HI>Swedes</HI> on the &s;udden chopping in betweene, &s;eaze upon the trea&s;ure, and carry it &s;heere away with them. This was done within a <HI>Dutch</HI> mile of the City of <HI>&V;lm</HI> upon the <HI>Danuby.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e neerer home, after the taking of <HI>Rottenburg,</HI> &s;urprize <HI>Bi&s;hof&s;heim</HI> upon the <HI>Tauber,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hof&s;heir,</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ergentheim,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken.</NOTE> neere the place where it runnes into the <HI>Mayn.</HI> And <HI>Mergentheim</HI> or <HI>Mergenthall,</HI> after that: a towne about the middle of the cour&s;e of that <HI>Tauber;</HI> which belonged unto the <HI>Ma&s;ter of the Dutch Order,</HI> who is a great man in <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> is all this moneth of October in <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> for the mo&s;t part, though at <HI>Carl&s;tat</HI> now and then with the new Army. You may perceive that he &s;ent to take in the townes upon the <HI>Mayn;</HI> both tho&s;e that lye upon it Ea&s;tward towards <HI>Norimberg,</HI> and tho&s;e We&s;tward too, to|wards <HI>Franckford.</HI> Both the&s;e great Cities were Pa&s;&s;es of mighty importance: and the <HI>Catholike Leaguers</HI> had lands both wayes: the <HI>Temporall</HI> Princes lay mo&s;tly towards <HI>No|rimberg,</HI> and the three Spirituall Electors lay all beyond <HI>Franckford.</HI> So that much deliberation had the King with him&s;elfe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King in doubt whither to goe next.</NOTE> to which of the&s;e two places he &s;hould fir&s;t turne his Armies: both being (upon the point) now equally almo&s;t di&s;tant from him. The importance of the&s;e two Pa&s;&s;es very well appeares by <HI>Tilly</HI> al&s;o: who when he &s;uppo&s;ed the King likely to goe towards <HI>Norimberg,</HI> then turnes he downe to|wards <HI>Hanaw</HI> and <HI>Franckford,</HI> and &s;ollicites them to take in his garri&s;ons: but when againe he perceived the King making
<PB N="21" REF="18"> towards <HI>Franckford,</HI> then goes he with all &s;peed and blocks up <HI>Norimberg.</HI> But God now became the Kings Coun&s;ellor; He pre&s;ently helpt him out of this doubt. The <HI>Norimbergers</HI> having beene &s;ollicited by the King, now &s;end their Amba&s;&s;a|dors to accord with him: &s;o that to <HI>Norimberg</HI> now, he need not goe. But how &s;hould he get to <HI>Franckford?</HI> The mighty &s;trong City of <HI>Hanaw</HI> lay full in his way, and was the pa&s;&s;e to <HI>Franckford:</HI> yea and <HI>Tilly</HI> with his whole Army lay now al&s;o about <HI>Hanaw.</HI> There is no leauing of an enemy be|hind ones backe: &s;o that though <HI>Tilly</HI> were out of the way, yet mu&s;t <HI>Hanaw</HI> fir&s;t be had, or el&s;e no comming at <HI>Franck|ford.</HI> And to increa&s;e the difficulty of getting of <HI>Hanaw</HI> time enough to &s;erve his turne; was the great &s;trength of the place fir&s;t: upon which had the City formerly beene &s;o confident, that having had &s;ome differences with the Emperor, it would never (as the proverb is) give him a good word; yea when &s;ome 3 yeeres &s;ince one of his Leiftenants had blockt it up, he was faine after 17 weekes to ri&s;e and goe without it. The &s;e|cond difficulty was, that the enemy had a party already with|in the City: 6 companies of Imperiall &s;ouldiers (&s;ome 1200 in all) and <HI>Brandeis</HI> that commanded them in chiefe, had even already laid the plot with <HI>Tilly,</HI> for the &s;udden &s;urpri&s;ing of it. The Kings ha&s;te and manner of warfaring, is not to lye long at a &s;iege: <HI>Hanaw,</HI> therefore, which it was thus difficult to conquer by &s;trength, was by private friend&s;hip all on the &s;ud|den made his; and the &s;low enemy (now &s;tanding betwixt wooing and forcing it,) had his no&s;e wypt of it. The Duke of <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg,</HI> fir&s;t of all pre&s;&s;es the City to take in more forces of the Emperors: and <HI>Tilly</HI> is earne&s;t to haue 4. Companies (into which he would have put 1000 men) taken into the towne. This being denied, threatnings are added: and becau&s;e the way of force would of it &s;elfe be too tedious; and in the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> neerene&s;&s;e, no le&s;&s;e dangerous: <HI>Brandeis</HI> the Captaine is practi&s;ed withall, to let <HI>Tilly</HI> by night into the City. <HI>Philip Lodowick,</HI> Earle of <HI>Hanaw</HI> (a Prote&s;tant) being not ignorant of all this; and even now al&s;o angred with <HI>Tilly</HI>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">naw</HI> de&s;cri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d here I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rne my Rea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of 2 errors <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all vulgar <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ps, concer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g this river That 'tis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tten <HI>Bintz,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tead of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tz.</HI> 2. That made to fall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the Mayn <HI>Hoe&s;t:</HI> wher|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> does &s;o, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d by <HI>Stein|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></NOTE>This faire City of <HI>Hanaw</HI> being &s;eated upon a levell, (and therefore &s;trong) hath the &s;mall river of <HI>Kintz</HI> running tho|row it; and the great river <HI>Mayn</HI> within a quarter of an houres going of it; into which a little from this towne the <HI>Kintz</HI> falleth. It is devided into the <HI>Old,</HI> and <HI>New</HI> townes. In the <HI>Old,</HI> (in which was the Earles Ca&s;tle) were there two Companies of Imperiall &s;ouldiers; and foure more in the <HI>New:</HI> in all, &s;ome 1200. The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> with his whole Army, lay al&s;o about <HI>A&s;chaffenburg, Seling&s;tat,</HI> and <HI>Steinheim,</HI> on either &s;ide of the <HI>Mayn:</HI> who by the intelligence held with <HI>Brandeis,</HI> expected within 3 or 4 nights after, to be let into the towne: or if that plot failed, to have a&s;&s;aulted it without, while&s;t <HI>Brandeis</HI> &s;hould both by force and &s;tratageme, have exerci&s;ed and amuzed the Burgers within. All this was by the Earles and the Kings diligence thus defeated.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e famous <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y of the ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g of <HI>Hanaw.</HI></NOTE>Vpon Munday the la&s;t of October, is <HI>Chri&s;topher Haubald</HI> one of the Kings Colonels, (a wi&s;e and valiant Gentleman) employed upon the <HI>An&s;laught.</HI> His forces were &s;ome 600 cho&s;en hor&s;emen and dragooners, and no more; what&s;oever <HI>Gallobelgicus</HI> writes. With the&s;e, he in one day and nights continuall flying march, ha&s;tens from <HI>Carl&s;tat</HI> vnto <HI>Hanaw;</HI> the 2 townes being full 12 common <HI>Germane</HI> leagues di&s;tant; each league, here and throughout the &s;tory, meant to be foure <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles: with the&s;e was he by foure or five a clocke upon Tue&s;day morning, November 1. 1631. gotten to the gates of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> or ever his enemies dreamt of it. His way to come at the towne, was thorow the wood that is beyond the <HI>Kintz:</HI> in which wood hewing downe poa&s;ts; he by pitch|ing them on either &s;ide the narrow river, and by fa&s;tning two
<PB N="23" REF="21"> roapes to them, and laying boords and rafters over the&s;e roapes; both &s;ilently and &s;uddenly pa&s;&s;ed over the water. Comming to the Ca&s;tle gate next unto the <HI>Kintz,</HI> he hath that by the Earles direction (upon the watchword given) immediately opened vnto him, by which he enters into the <HI>Old</HI> Towne. The fir&s;t worke he did, was to clap to the gate that led out of the <HI>Old</HI> towne into the <HI>New;</HI> by which meanes tho&s;e of the <HI>New</HI> towne were barred out, from ayding their neigh|bours of the <HI>Old</HI> City. The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> foote getting up pre&s;ent|ly to the top of the wals or Bulwarks, runne immediately two &s;everall wayes at once, to make them&s;elues ma&s;ters of the o|ther two gates on either hand of the Ca&s;tle gate: tho&s;e three, being all the ports that belong to the <HI>Old</HI> Towne. The hor&s;e|men at the &s;ame time po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing them&s;elues of the market place, hinder thereby the town&s;men from gathering to a head: by which meanes was the whole towne (both within and without) in a trice a&s;&s;ured vnto them. The two Companies of Imperiall &s;ouldiers, being thus taken &s;leepers, could not &s;o &s;oone get them&s;elues armed: and &s;ome of the Burgers (that had not beene made acquainted with the plot) now taking the Alarme and offering to re&s;i&s;t, have &s;ome 8 of their company &s;laughtered. The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> upon the walles, runne every way up and downe, &s;hooting at randome in the darke; to fright thereby who&s;oever &s;hould adventure to come neere them. The Earle of <HI>Hanaw</HI> al&s;o, (who&s;e Counte&s;&s;e lay in at the &s;ame time) is pre&s;ently taken pri&s;oner, and a guard &s;et upon his Ca|&s;tle and per&s;on. This was done in a &s;eeming good earne&s;t, to put off all &s;u&s;pition of a plot, from him.</P>
<P>By that time it was towards day-light, were the 4 Com|panies in the <HI>New</HI> towne up in armes al&s;o, though they all this while had attempted nothing for the reskue of the <HI>Old</HI> City. Said it was, that <HI>Brandeis</HI> went merry to bed the night before; and that when being awakt by five in the morning, he was by one of the Burgers told of the <HI>Swedes</HI> being in the <HI>Old</HI> Towne; he was &s;o farre from beleeving it, as he forbade the Alarme to be &s;ounded. And when one of his own Officers a
<PB N="24" REF="22"> little after that, told him the &s;ame tale; They are not the <HI>Swedes,</HI> &s;aith he, they be our own friends of <HI>A&s;chaffenburg,</HI> for whom I wrote ye&s;terday: not &s;uffering the Alarme to be &s;trucke up yet. But when he by breake of day perceived his error; The <HI>Swedes</HI> be divels (quoth he,) how was it po&s;&s;ible for them &s;o &s;oone to get in hither? Starting up pre&s;ently thereupon, and all vnbuttoned as he was, out comes he into the &s;treet; running for life up and downe; and even till he &s;wet againe in that fro&s;ty morning, to &s;et on his men. Two thou&s;and armed men (what with &s;ouldiers, Boores and Bur|gers) had he by day-light gotten together: which <HI>Haubald</HI> now perceiving, drawes his <HI>Swedes</HI> along upon the wall that lookes into the New towne; whence both with Pi&s;tols and Carbines, he lets flye among&s;t them: by which, two men and one woman were &s;laine out-right, and &s;ome others wounded. By this time had the <HI>Swedes</HI> brought a &s;mall peece of Ord|nance to the place; which they al&s;o bending upon the <HI>New</HI> Towne, demanded them to yeeld immediately. The Citizens an&s;wered re&s;olutely, That they would not yeeld up the towne, till they had their Princes con&s;ent fir&s;t. <HI>Haubald</HI> at fir&s;t de|nies it, telling them that he was their Earle. They demaund it againe, telling him that till then, they had nothing but bullets for him. The Earle hereupon being brought with a guard a|bout him, upon the wall; tells them, That he being now a pri|&s;oner, could give them no better coun&s;ell, then to yeeld upon as good termes as they could get. This mov'd not Captaine <HI>Brandeis</HI> any thing: but fir&s;t would he have had the Burgers to have gone on again&s;t the <HI>Swedes:</HI> which they bidding him doe him&s;elfe fir&s;t, he dur&s;t not. Then would he have had the Ordnance brought downe thither from the walls, and di&s;char|ged upon the <HI>Swedes:</HI> but neither would the <HI>Burgers</HI> &s;uffer that, for feare of &s;poyling their friends and friends hou&s;es in the <HI>Old</HI> Towne. Then would he have &s;ent one of his own &s;ervants over the towne ditch, to have runne to <HI>Steinheim:</HI> whereabouts Colonel <HI>Eynot</HI> had &s;ome good forces: but this is al&s;o cro&s;&s;ed by the Citizens; for that it would have brought
<PB N="25" REF="22"> <HI>Tillyes</HI> whole Army upon them; which lying hard by it at that time, might have endangered the plundering of the whole City. A iu&s;t feare: &s;eeing <HI>Tilly</HI> might very lawfully have done it; as having reskued the City from his enemy. <HI>Haubald</HI> once againe demanding up the towne, and that pre&s;ently; is an&s;we|red, That the Magi&s;trates could not &s;o &s;oone come together to con&s;ult upon it. He grants them halfe an houre, thereupon: meane while his men gave over &s;hooting. Full three houres after it was, ere the town&s;men had re&s;olved: which done, (the towne continuing &s;till in armes) about 11 a clocke, is the Major of the City,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;onne o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this <HI>Daniel D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Latre,</HI> a Mer+chant now dwelling in <HI>London,</HI> was that time, wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Father in <HI>Hanaw:</HI> from who&s;e courte+ous relation, have receive the certayne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> part of this &s;tory.</NOTE> and <HI>Daniel De Latre</HI> (one of the chiefe Aldermen or Magi&s;trates) &s;ent to parlee with the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Co|lonel. <HI>Haubald</HI> now meeting them betweene the two gates of the <HI>Old</HI> Towne, tels them that he had nothing to &s;ay again&s;t the Burgers: and if they plea&s;ed to retire peaceably, let him alone with the &s;ouldiers. Here after a while is the yeelding concluded upon.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI>Brandeis</HI> &s;eeing now no remedy, de&s;ires for him|&s;elfe and for his men, that they might have &s;ouldiers conditi|ons, and goe out with full Armes, &amp;c. No (&s;aies <HI>Haubald</HI>) your &s;elfe with all your Officers and &s;ouldiers in the towne, &s;hall immediately repaire unto the gallowes before the gate betweene the two townes, trayle your Armes and En&s;ignes thither, lay them downe there, and ab&s;olutely &s;ubmit your &s;elues unto my plea&s;ure; either for life or death, favour, or not favour That which cannot be re&s;i&s;ted, &s;hould not be refu|&s;ed: they lay downe Armes, and <HI>Haubald</HI> in courte&s;ie returnes them their &s;words againe. Thus their Colours being gone, their military oath unto the Emperor was by this meanes void; which <HI>Haubald</HI> taking advantage of, invites them into his pay: of which all &s;ave thirty or forty (that were more <HI>Po|pi&s;h</HI> then the re&s;t) pre&s;ently accepted. <HI>Brandeis</HI> the Captaine refu&s;ing, is made pri&s;oner: and &s;o is <HI>Merci,</HI> Sergeant-Major unto <HI>Piccolomini;</HI> two Ritt-ma&s;ters, with divers of <HI>Tillyes</HI> Commanders more; who had retired into that Towne to be healed of their wounds received at the battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich. Bran|deis</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="23"> was kept in his own hou&s;e, vnder a guard of &s;ome 5 or 6. &s;ouldiers: the re&s;t had the liberty of the towne, but not to goe without the Ports.</P>
<P><HI>Haubald</HI> having thus ma&s;tered the Towne by his valour; provides to keepe it by his wi&s;edome. Fir&s;t &s;ends he two Companies into the Ca&s;tle: then takes he order for &s;ome new Fortifications; of which, him&s;elfe being a skilfull Enginier, drawes the Platforme. Next layes he out to have 5 or 6 new Companies rai&s;ed; which were made up of tho&s;e that had lately yeelded, and &s;ome others gotten out of the Country: Ca&s;ting about in the la&s;t place, how to have all the&s;e main|tained. For this la&s;t purpo&s;e, no &s;ooner was <HI>Tilly</HI> gone out of the Countrey (which he did pre&s;ently after he &s;aw him&s;elfe defeated of his hopes, both of this towne and <HI>Franckford</HI>) but that <HI>Haubald</HI> di&s;peedes about his letters (in a &s;tile imperious enough) vnto his amazed neighbours of the land of <HI>Darm&s;tat,</HI> and the <HI>Wetteraw;</HI> as al&s;o to the Townes of <HI>Steinheim, Seling|&s;tat, Dieburg, Hoe&s;t, Konig&s;tein, Orb, Hau&s;en</HI> and others, be|longing partly unto the Elector of <HI>Mentz,</HI> and partly unto other Lords: That without denyall or delay, they bring unto him into <HI>Hanaw,</HI> all the Contribution money, corne, hay, and oates, which they had before paid unto the <HI>Catholike Lea|guers;</HI> and that they never hereafter either pay or aide, the ene|mies of the King his Ma&s;ter. They that did otherwi&s;e, &s;hould heare from him in another kind.</P>
<P>And thus was this faire City of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> hand&s;omely &s;ur|pri&s;ed by this quick-&s;pirited Colonell: even before <HI>Tillyes</HI> owne no&s;e (as we &s;ay) who was but newly pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Mayn.</HI> His army lay at that very time, in all the neighbour Countries thereabouts. Some of them were yet in the land of <HI>Darm&s;tat;</HI> others were advanced further, even as farre into the <HI>Berg|straes,</HI> as right again&s;t <HI>Oppenheim</HI> in the <HI>Palatinate:</HI> into which Countrey verily beleeved it was, that he would now have gone; and there have &s;tayed for the defence of it. Others of his were gotten up to <HI>Franckford:</HI> which Imperiall City he mainely &s;ollicited to accept of a garri&s;on from him: which be|ing
<PB N="27" REF="23"> denyed, was one of the maine&s;t rea&s;ons, that hee &s;tayd not in the <HI>Palatinate:</HI> which indeede he could not &s;afely doe, unle&s;&s;e that City were either <HI>Friend</HI> or <HI>Neuter</HI> to him.</P>
<P>The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> now perceiving by the taking of <HI>Ha|naw,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> returns wards <HI>Fra~co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> that the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> purpo&s;e was to drive down the <HI>Mayn</HI> into tho&s;e quarters: and that, &s;eeing there were ma|ny Prote&s;tant Princes thereabouts, others were likely enough to doe as the Count of <HI>Hanaw</HI> had: he immediately turning faces about, marches directly backe into <HI>Franconia.</HI> Without ever cro&s;&s;ing of the <HI>Mayn,</HI> therefore; fir&s;t of all towards <HI>Miltenburg</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hof&s;heim</HI> he goes; whereabouts the <HI>Lorrayn</HI> army yet was.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Taking in <HI>Mergentheim</HI></NOTE> The towne of <HI>Mergentheim</HI> he takes in againe by the way; the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> being retired. From hence he goes directly on to <HI>Oxenfurt;</HI> a pretty towne upon an <HI>Elbow</HI> or <HI>Bowt</HI> of the <HI>Mayn,</HI> &s;ome three or foure leagues to the South of <HI>Wurtsburg.</HI> Of the taking of this towne by the Kings for|ces in the beginning of <HI>October,</HI> we have before told you. It was Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> that had done it; and who yet kept it, though with weake forces. The King fearing <HI>Tillies</HI> falling upon this towne (which the &s;tanding made to be a Pa&s;&s;e of &s;ome importance) comes with all &s;peed him&s;elfe in per&s;on thither.<NOTE PLACE="marg">and going to <HI>Oxenfurt</HI> whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the King then was.</NOTE> Again&s;t the Count of <HI>Tillyes</HI> comming (which was with his whole Army) had Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> laid his Out-guards about the towne. <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> men they were of Colonell <HI>Lum&s;dells</HI> Regiment; and &s;ome 6 Rotts, or 36 Muskettiers there were of them; and tho&s;e (while Leiftenant-Colonell <HI>Mu&s;champ</HI> commanded the re&s;t of the Regiment within the Towne) now led by Sergeant-Major <HI>Monipenny.</HI> The&s;e 36 giving a &s;alvee or volly of &s;hot unto that <HI>Partee,</HI> which <HI>Tilly</HI> had ordered &s;hould fir&s;t fall on upon the Towne. Hee by this perceiving their readine&s;&s;e and re&s;olution for defence; and imagining the garri&s;on to be much &s;tronger then indeed it was; immediately turnes faces about to the right,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Whence being frighted away he goes toward <HI>Norimberg.</HI></NOTE> and mar|ches directly towards <HI>Norimberg:</HI> before which we &s;hall next find him &s;itting, upon Novemb. 18. following. Of which,
<PB N="28" REF="24"> and of what el&s;e may concerne our &s;tory, we &s;hall &s;peake more, in our Relation of the Generall <HI>Tillyes</HI> particular procee|dings. Had the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> then knowne the King to have bin in <HI>Oxenfurt,</HI> and how weake the place was; he would not, I &s;uppo&s;e, have bin &s;o &s;oon frighted away. And had he falne on with his whole Army, the King was in the mind to have quit|ted the place, and to haue retired over the bridge into <HI>Wurts|burg</HI> againe. But his enemy never &s;taid to put him to it.</P>
<P>The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> being thus parted from the King, upon who&s;e motions he &s;eemed hitherto (though at a &s;afe di&s;tance) to have waited; the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> now leaving <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne</HI> with part of the army in <HI>Franconia,</HI> to looke there unto the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> and the Ge|nerall <HI>Tilly;</HI> and to &s;ettle &s;ome orders withall in the new conquered places: and the Generall <HI>Banier</HI> being before di&s;|patched with other forces towards <HI>Magdenburg;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King &s;ets <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wards to|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rds <HI>Hanaw,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the Palati|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te.</NOTE> (of all which we &s;hall tell you in their due places,) the King with the re&s;t of his Army now &s;ets forward towards <HI>Hanaw.</HI> The forces he at this time brought with him, were but five <HI>Bri|gades</HI> of Foote, be&s;ides &s;ome of Generall <HI>Baniers Regiment,</HI> which were afterward left at <HI>A&s;chaffenburg.</HI> There ought to be 1800 men in every <HI>Brigade:</HI> but the&s;e of the Kings, were not (I beleeve) &s;o compleat now.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat a Bri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de is, &s;ee in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r book of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wedi&s;h Di&s;ci|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">line. What forces <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rings along.</NOTE> Severall peeces of broken, and not yet <HI>Recruited</HI> or <HI>Reinforced</HI> Regiments with their Colonells, were put into one <HI>Brigade.</HI> The&s;e <HI>Brigades</HI> of the Kings, had their names from the chiefe&s;t <HI>Colours</HI> be|longing to the elde&s;t Colonell of the <HI>Brigade.</HI> There were but five of them now: and the&s;e they were. Fir&s;t, the <HI>Life-Regiment,</HI> or the <HI>Guards</HI> for the Kings owne body; com|manded ever &s;ince Baron <HI>Dyvels</HI> death, by Grave <HI>Neeles,</HI> a <HI>Swede.</HI> Secondly, the <HI>Greene</HI> Regiment; led by Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn</HI> (u&s;ually called <HI>Hebron</HI>) a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Gentleman, and the elde&s;t Colonell. Thirdly, The <HI>Blue</HI> Regiment, whereof <HI>Winckle</HI> is Colonell. Fourthly, the <HI>White</HI> Regiment, con|ducted by Colonell <HI>&V;itzthimb:</HI> and fiftly, the <HI>Red</HI> Regiment, whereof Colonell <HI>Hogendorff</HI> hath the leading. Among&s;t all
<PB N="29" REF="24"> the&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o weake in hor&s;e at the <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI> Batt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that he had none for the Reere of his left wing wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Hall</HI> comma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ded. See ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Figure of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Battell, in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Swedi&s;h Di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+pline, how th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that part is.</NOTE> were there but few (&s;carce any) naturall borne <HI>Swe|dens:</HI> tho&s;e were gone otherwhere with <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne</HI> and Generall <HI>Banier.</HI> His Hor&s;e (which he had well encrea|&s;ed &s;ince the Battel of <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI>) might be &s;ome 4000: or &s;omething more perchance. And that he had no greater Ar|my then this at his comming towards the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> was plainely to bee &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ene at his pa&s;&s;ing thorow <HI>Franckeford:</HI> where were told but 74 En&s;ignes of Foote, and 71 Cornets of Hor&s;e. So that allowing a full 100 to every Foote Com|pany, and 60 to every troope of Hor&s;e (which is good allow|ance to &s;o &s;hatterd an Army) you will not find above 7500 Foote, and 4000 Hor&s;e at the mo&s;t: <HI>Scanderbeg</HI> never de&s;ired above 9000 men in one Army: and the&s;e are the numbers with which <HI>Gu&s;tavus Adolphus</HI> enforced the <HI>Catholicke Lea|guers,</HI> to de&s;ire either <HI>Peace</HI> or <HI>Neutrality</HI> of him.</P>
<P>And with the&s;e few forces, but great &s;trength; his Maje|&s;ty &s;ets forward towards <HI>Hanaw:</HI> for who&s;e entertainement, <HI>Haubald</HI> was now providing of the Ca&s;tle. About &s;ome two dayes after the fir&s;t taking whereof, and while&s;t <HI>Tillyes</HI> army was yet thereabouts: two troopes of his hor&s;e &s;hew them&s;elves before the Towne: among&s;t whom <HI>Hau|bald</HI> letting flye his ordnance; they immediately retyred. Some five dayes after that (November eighth in the night time) the Imperiall garri&s;on of <HI>Steinheim</HI> Ca&s;tle,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some action betwixt <HI>Han<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>Steinheim</HI></NOTE> (which is about three quarters of an houres march from <HI>Hanaw</HI>) be|gin to ca&s;t up the earth and to erect a Skonce-worke, ju&s;t up|on the Chanells &s;ide, which was cut out of the River <HI>Mayn,</HI> to carry &s;maller ve&s;&s;els up to <HI>Hanaw.</HI> Their purpo&s;e was, to hinder the <HI>Hanaw</HI> boates, and the <HI>Swedes</HI> from comming in them, to a&s;&s;ayle their Ca&s;tle. Again&s;t this worke of theirs, <HI>Haubald</HI> the next day rai&s;es up two Bre&s;tworkes, in the two Church-yards belonging unto the <HI>Old</HI> Towne. One worke, was at the corner of the Chanel; and the other at that Angle, where the <HI>Kintz</HI> falleth into the <HI>Mayn.</HI> Into the&s;e he brings three peeces of ordnance, two into one, and one into the tother. Betweene the&s;e workes, fell there out a skirmi&s;h for
<PB N="30" REF="25"> three howers together: but <HI>Haubalds</HI> ordnance driving out the Imperiali&s;ts at the la&s;t, falls with his men into their worke, halfe demoli&s;hes it, and &s;o leaves it. The Imperi|ali&s;ts being de&s;irous to renew their worke, but loth to come under the Command of <HI>Haubalds</HI> ordnance in his two bre&s;t workes; devi&s;e to come into their owne Fort againe, under|ground and by myning. Their working might ea&s;ily be di&s;cer|ned from the walls of <HI>Hanaw:</HI> and &s;ure they would have brought it to perfection; had they not beene made to give it over by the Kings comming, within &s;ome few dayes after.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty having by this time &s;hipt his carriages downe the <HI>Mayn,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes downe <HI>Mayn;</HI></NOTE> and devided his forces on either banke of it (him|&s;elfe in per&s;on marching on the Southern &s;ide) comes all along in this manner. And that he might lo&s;e no time, and drive the Countrey withall before him; hee takes in <HI>Procelden, Miltenburg, Klingenburg,</HI> and <HI>Trenfelt</HI> by the way, &s;ome be|ing on one &s;ide of the River,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">king townes both &s;ides</NOTE> and &s;ome upon the other. At <HI>A&s;chaffenburg</HI> (or <HI>A&s;chiburg</HI>) upon the Northern banke of the River, hath the Elector of <HI>Mentz</HI> a very &s;tately Palace, where hee mo&s;tly u&s;ed to re&s;ide. The place was kept by one Regiment of <HI>Tillyans,</HI> and two of the Electors owne Regiments of Traine bands: all which by night quitting the place, the King puts in <HI>Baniers</HI> Regiment for the keep|ing of it.</P>
<P>There pa&s;&s;es he the bridge, unto his army on the other &s;ide of the River. Tho&s;e of his men that &s;till kept the Sou|thern &s;hoare, fall upon <HI>Steinhem</HI> afore&s;aid. This Towne is indeed but a Dorp; the Ca&s;tle was the &s;trength of it; and that had a garri&s;on of 850 in it, which having beene &s;oundly rattled with foure peeces of Cannon on the evening of November 14. 600 of the 850 yeeld it the next day unto the Kings Sol|diours, and them&s;elves into his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice. The o|ther 250 that refu&s;ed, were upon the agreement conducted by the <HI>Swedes</HI> unto the <HI>Franckfurder-waldt,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">einhem</HI> ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</NOTE> a league or two to the We&s;t of them. This Ca&s;tle does the King be&s;tow
<PB N="31" REF="25"> upon the Earle of <HI>Hanaws</HI> Mother: unto who&s;e family, it had formerly belonged. This Earle &s;tood alwayes firme af|ter this, unto the Kings party: levying Soldiours for his &s;er|vice afterwards, with which he tooke in <HI>Dru&s;enheim</HI> and other townes about <HI>Stra&s;burg</HI> and <HI>Hagenaw</HI> for the King, in Ianuary following; the fir&s;t of which the King al&s;o be|&s;towed upon him. He put him&s;elfe at the very fir&s;t, into the Kings protection, among the &s;eventeen Lords of the <HI>Weterau:</HI> he followed the Court at <HI>Mentz,</HI> all the Chri&s;tmas after; where in a <HI>Ma&s;querade;</HI> he was one of the <HI>Maskers</HI> together with the King. All which &s;hewes &s;ome good &s;ervice he had privately done; which obtained &s;o good a degree in his Maie|&s;ties favour and familiarity. And that the other &s;ide al&s;o un|der&s;tood the corre&s;pondency which the Count held with the King, about his giving way to the &s;urpri&s;ing of <HI>Hanaw;</HI> ap|peares by <HI>Tillyes</HI> taking the Towne of <HI>Babenhau&s;en</HI> from him.</P>
<P>November 15. after <HI>Steinheim</HI> was taken,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thorow <HI>Hana<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> the King makes his entrance into <HI>Hanaw:</HI> unto which towne he would &s;uffer his Army to be no further trouble&s;ome, then by &s;taying to &s;uppe in it. That very evening does his Maie&s;tie &s;et forward againe towards <HI>Franckford;</HI> which was to be the chiefe&s;t Pa&s;&s;e to all his future great actions, in tho&s;e quarters. About 12 at night towards <HI>Offenbach</HI> (neere <HI>Franckford</HI>) he goes, a league and a halfe from <HI>Hanaw,</HI> where his lodging was provided for him in the Ca&s;tle: which having anciently belonged unto the Counts of <HI>I&s;enburg,</HI> had beene taken from them of late by the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Mentz.</HI> Here at <HI>Offenbach</HI> he &s;taid all the day, October 16. the cau&s;e being, for that heretofore having had &s;ome parly with the Deputies of the Common-wealth of <HI>Franckford,</HI> which had before beene with him upon the way;<NOTE PLACE="marg">towards <HI>Franckford.</HI></NOTE> and that the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> had now beene &s;ome 3 dayes &s;ince &s;ent from him&s;elfe unto them; he here expected their an&s;wer. The Kings me&s;&s;age was,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His demands to tho&s;e of <HI>Franckford.</HI></NOTE> Whether the City for &s;etting forwards the cau&s;e of the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> would peaceably and &s;pee|dily &s;et open their gates unto him, accept fairely of his gar|ri&s;on;
<PB N="32" REF="26"> or &s;tand to the hazzard of a &s;iege?<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s demands tho&s;e of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anckford.</HI></NOTE> loth was the Towne to yeeld: and yet fearefull were the Townes-men to re&s;i&s;t: &s;o that their Poa&s;ts which pa&s;&s;ed to and againe, (in which were &s;ome 2 or 3 dayes &s;pent) ever bringing one and the &s;ame re&s;olution from the King; their deputies are faine, after dinner on the &s;ame 16 of Novemb. to come to <HI>Offenbach</HI> Ca&s;tle, and to con&s;ent there, unto the&s;e three propo&s;itions.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. That the King &s;hould have free pa&s;&s;age for his Army thorow their City,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich are a&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted unto by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m.</NOTE> to and againe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That for the Kings better a&s;&s;urance of the Citty, 600 of his men &s;hould be receiued for garri&s;on into <HI>Saxenhau&s;en;</HI> (which is the &s;trong Suburbs to the City, lying on the other &s;ide of the water.)</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That both Magi&s;trates and people &s;hould take an oath unto his Maje&s;ty.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And thus was this faire Imperiall City of <HI>Franckford on the Maine</HI> gained to the Kings party, by good words, and the &s;ight onely of an Army. The next day being Thur&s;day, November 17, the Kings Army pa&s;&s;ing thorow <HI>Saxenhau&s;en</HI> ouer the bridge: marches quite thorow the City, and &s;o out at the gate of <HI>Bockenheim</HI> againe. There were told fifty &s;ixe peeces of Cannon:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King pa&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thorow the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wne.</NOTE> &s;eventy foure En&s;ignes of Foote; forty five Cornets of Hor&s;e; twenty &s;ixe Cornets more, the next day likewi&s;e following after. Such fayre order was kept by the &s;oldiours in their pa&s;&s;ing along, that no man com|plained of injury: and whereas two of them onely flew out into the high-way, they had martiall law pre&s;ently, and were hanged for it. And as little complaint was there of the garri&s;on in the Suburbs, whereof Colonell <HI>&V;itzthimb</HI> (a very able Gentleman, for &s;uch a purpo&s;e) was left Gover|nour. The King him&s;elfe rode bareheaded thorow the &s;treets; who with the comeline&s;&s;e of a Maje&s;ticall per&s;onage, and the courte&s;ie of a gracious behaviour; generally attracted the beholders affections towards him. He &s;taid not long in it, but taking leave of the <HI>Nobility</HI> and <HI>Gentry</HI> of the Country, that came to &s;ee and waite upon him; he went to his lodging
<PB N="33" REF="26"> at <HI>Nidda,</HI> to be the neerer unto his Army.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Going to the &s;iege of <HI>Hoe&s;t.</HI></NOTE> His men by tenne a clocke the &s;ame night were &s;et downe to the &s;iege of <HI>Hoe&s;t:</HI> a good towne belonging unto the Elector of <HI>Mentz,</HI> and about a league from <HI>Franckford.</HI> This is the towne, where, upon Whit&s;un-Munday 1621. the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> overthrew the late Duke of <HI>Brun&s;wike.</HI> November 19 the garri&s;on of <HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> being above 400 men, deliver the place unto the King: unto which their own feares, and the town&s;mens per&s;wa&s;ions had ioyntly drawne them;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> taken.</NOTE> the&s;e being doubtfull of the plunde|ring of their hou&s;es. The King having put divers Companies there over on the other &s;ide the <HI>Mayn,</HI> (for all marcht not thorow <HI>Franckford</HI>) pre&s;ently filled the next &s;maller townes by the <HI>Rhine,</HI> with his forces.</P>
<P>The next day being Sunday, Novemb. 20. his Maie&s;tie re|turnes into <HI>Franckford</HI> againe, bringing the two Landtgraves of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> along with him: one of <HI>He&s;&s;en-Ca&s;&s;el,</HI> which is the elder family, and u&s;ually called <HI>Landtgrave of He&s;&s;en:</HI> and the other of <HI>He&s;&s;en-Darm&s;tat;</HI> commonly &s;tyled <HI>Landtgrave of Darmstat.</HI> Hither likewi&s;e came the 17 Earles of the <HI>Wette|raw</HI> to doe their duty to his Maie&s;ty; who was now fea&s;ted in <HI>Franckford</HI> in the very &s;ame roome, where the Emperors at their Coronation u&s;e to be entertained There may be a &s;igne of good lucke in that:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Landt|grave comes with an Army vnto the King.</NOTE> and perchance this may not be the la&s;t time, that he &s;hall there be fea&s;ted. The Landtgrave of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> (his country being now cleered of Generall <HI>Tilly, Fugger,</HI> and the Imperiali&s;ts) brings his Army (of 12000 men, as &s;ome &s;ay, though with the mo&s;t) to have ioyned with the Kings forces: they being in the <HI>Rhingaw</HI> at this pre&s;ent, within 3 leagues of <HI>Franckford.</HI> But the King now hearing how the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> had be&s;ieged <HI>Norimberg</HI> ever &s;ince the eigh|teenth of November; the <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> Army was immediately di|rected thitherwards: the King him&s;elfe (rather then faile) having a purpo&s;e to goe likewi&s;e to the reliefe of it. The <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> Army being already beyond <HI>Hanaw</HI> upon their march; and there hearing <HI>Tilly</HI> to be remooved; returne backe againe to their former Quarter in the Country called the <HI>Rhingaw,</HI>
<PB N="34" REF="27"> belonging for the mo&s;t part unto the <HI>Elector</HI> of <HI>Mentz,</HI> and bordering upon the land of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI></P>
<P>On Tue&s;day (which is his u&s;uall Sermon day) his Maie&s;ty went to <HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> againe;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Thanksgiving <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or the taking <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f <HI>Franckford.</HI></NOTE> where, in the Chappell of the Ca&s;tle he cau&s;es a &s;olemne <HI>Thanksgiving</HI> to be made, for that he had ob|tained the faire Towne of <HI>Franckford</HI> without blood&s;hed. And truely it was Gods worke to encline the hearts of the Magi&s;trates of that City, to hearken unto the King: e&s;pecially &s;ince they even tother day denied <HI>Tilly</HI> the &s;ame favour. When <HI>Spinola</HI> in the yeere 1620. came towards the <HI>Palatinate;</HI> he very re&s;pectfully both by letters and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;engers, wooes the Commonwealth of <HI>Franckford:</HI> &s;o that the King now prevai|led more with them, then the&s;e two great Generalls ever could. And well worthy of a Thanksgiving was the obtai|ning of this mighty Pa&s;&s;e. There runnes a Proverb in <HI>Germa|ny</HI> to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<LG>
<L>"He that lyes before Franckford a yeere and a day,</L>
<L>"Is Ma&s;ter of the Empire for ever and aye.</L>
</LG>
<P>Pre&s;ently after this did the Landtgraves forces advance out of the <HI>Rhingaw,</HI> into the neighbour Countries of the <HI>Wette|raw</HI> and <HI>We&s;terwaldt:</HI> anciently belonging unto &s;eventeene Lords, but much of late dayes encroached upon by the Ele|ctors of <HI>Mentz.</HI> The place of the&s;e Countries is on the Ea&s;t of the <HI>Rhingaw,</HI> betwixt it and the County of <HI>Hanaw.</HI> Here, in the Kings Name, does the Landtgrave take in <HI>Fal|ken&s;tein</HI> and <HI>Reiffenburg;</HI> with the two Ca&s;tles of <HI>Cronenburg</HI> and <HI>Ernfelt:</HI> the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Konig&s;tein</HI> (&s;ome two <HI>Dutch</HI> leagues from <HI>Franckford</HI>) onely holding out for the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Mentz.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>Mo&s;t of the&s;e townes from whence the&s;e <HI>Earles</HI> have their <HI>Honors;</HI> are in the&s;e two Countries.</P>
<P>There be 17 &s;mall Earldom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of them in all whereof one fa+mily hath 2 or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ometimes: lik<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as al&s;o there b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;everall Earle at once of the &s;ame Family. The Earle of <HI>Hanaw</HI> hath 5 Earldomes, and 700 villages vnder him. A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the re&s;t al&s;o have their townes and vil|lages with thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Boores vnder the~; &s;ome more &s;ome le&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The <HI>Wetteraw</HI> is that part tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lies next the water; that is, the <HI>Mayn:</HI> &amp; the <HI>We&s;ter-waldt</HI> &s;ignifies the <HI>We&s;tern wood:</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> being a wooddy country upon the We&s;t of the <HI>Wetteraw,</HI> and is a part of the Fore&s;t of <HI>Ardu|enna.</HI></P></NOTE>The Lords of the&s;e two little Countries having a long time beene oppre&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Catholikes,</HI> and therefore glad of any <HI>Deliverer:</HI> being by religion Prote&s;tants; and therefore the ea&s;ilyer drawne to accept the King for their <HI>Protector:</HI> and having, in the la&s;t place, their own di&s;ability to re&s;i&s;t, for a
<PB N="35" REF="27"> faire excu&s;e for their yeelding: at <HI>Franckford</HI> about this time, both treated and concluded a full agreement with the King. The&s;e were the Lords that made it. Fir&s;t, 3 Earles of <HI>Na&s;&s;au</HI> and <HI>Catzenelbogen</HI> with their brethren. 1 Earle of <HI>Na&s;&s;au, Warburg, Ietz&s;tein</HI> and <HI>Wisbaden.</HI> 2 Earles of <HI>Hanaw</HI> and <HI>Muntzenberg.</HI> 4 Earles of <HI>Solms,</HI> and Lords of <HI>Muntzen|berg.</HI> 2 Earles of <HI>Stolberg</HI> and <HI>Conig&s;tein.</HI> 3 Earles of <HI>I&s;en|burg</HI> and <HI>Budingen.</HI> 3 Earles of <HI>Sagen</HI> and <HI>Witgenstein.</HI> 1 Earle of <HI>Wied.</HI> 2 Earles of <HI>Lemingen</HI> and <HI>We&s;terburg.</HI> 2 Earles of <HI>Waldeck.</HI> Be&s;ides divers of the Nobility, Gentry, and Cor|porations: who all con&s;ented and &s;igned unto the&s;e follow|ing conditions.</P>
<P>The Treaty begins with a Preface, unto this purpo&s;e. That &s;eeing the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> had never de&s;erved of the Empire or Emperor to be provoked to this warre; which the King was forced to enter into for his owne defence, the Electors them&s;elues having heretofore acknowledged &s;o much for him: and that the&s;e Earles al&s;o, as members of the Empire, having ever beene regardfull of their duties unto the Em|peror their Head; never having either done or intended hi|therto, any act in preiudice of him: yet neverthele&s;&s;e the &s;aid Emperor having, without ever denouncing of warre, &s;everall wayes a&s;&s;aulted Vs the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> oppre&s;&s;ed our Cou&s;ins and Allies; vndone many Princes of ancient families (giving their lands and honors away vnto <HI>new</HI> men;) violated all the priviledges of the Empire; purpo&s;ed to introduce an ab&s;olute government into <HI>Germany</HI> fir&s;t; and by help of that, the ea&s;ily|er to enthrall the neighbour Princes afterwards: even there|fore (&s;aith the King) have We by way of prevention, and for our owne &s;ecurity, beene enforced to come thus armed in|to the Empire. Whereas, moreover, the Princes of the <HI>Ca|tholike League,</HI> have again&s;t our expectation and de&s;ert; both before the battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> and afterward<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with an armed ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d continually oppo&s;ed them&s;elues again&s;t our proceedings: even therefore have We, with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God, and by the right of warre, taken in the country of <HI>Franco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ia,</HI> and all
<PB N="36" REF="28"> the townes upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> even unto <HI>Franckford;</HI> which belonged unto tho&s;e <HI>Leaguers.</HI> And whereas, on the other &s;ide, Wee the Earles afore-&s;aid, have by wofull experience found; how that under the Emperors name, the Prote&s;tant Princes have &s;till beene abu&s;ed: and that notwith&s;tanding their own often &s;ubmi&s;&s;ions and the Emperors revocation of the proceedings; yet &s;till under &s;ome pretence of iu&s;tice, or other; their Con&s;ciences have beene oppre&s;&s;ed; their Lands and Roy|alties invaded, their &s;ubiects pillaged, and no remedy to be gotten: therefore Wee now perceive no other cour&s;e to be taken, but to oppo&s;e force by force; and being for&s;aken of all other a&s;&s;i&s;tance (the <HI>Catholikes</HI> having often broken all leagues and promi&s;es with us) then to put our &s;elues under the pro|tection of the Kings Maie&s;ty of <HI>Sweden:</HI> whom Wee <HI>cleerely</HI> perceive to be qualified with many Royall and imcomparable vertues; put into the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, meerly out of a holy zeale for the releiving of the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Princes of the Religion; and ap|parently (without doubt) a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the hand of God Al|mighty. For the honour of God, therefore, the cau&s;e of Re|ligion, the re&s;toring of the cour&s;e of Iu&s;tice; and the pre&s;er|vation of our Country; have We, upon good and mature con&s;ideration, accepted of his Royall prote<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tion; both parties freely con&s;enting unto the&s;e following Articles.</P>
<P>1. Wee the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> doe hereby receive the fore&s;aid Earles, &amp;c. (whether <HI>Lutheranes</HI> or <HI>Calvini&s;ts</HI>) into our Roy|all protection: promi&s;ing to pur&s;ue as our enemies, who&s;oe|ver &s;hall di&s;turb them for this their agreement with Vs: to maintaine them all in their due priviledges: never to make peace, but upon condition they be comprehended in it; and have fir&s;t received &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>2. Whereas the&s;e Earles have this long time &s;tood di&s;po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed of the mo&s;t part of their e&s;tates, by the Catholike Prin|ces; We promi&s;e our a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the recovery of them: both in regard of their Religion, and of the many &s;ervices they have
<PB N="37" REF="28"> heretofore done for the Go&s;pell. And if by any mi&s;pri&s;ion they &s;hould fall into &s;uits with their neighbours concerning particular intere&s;ts; We &s;hall doe our be&s;t to compound the controver&s;ie.</P>
<P>3. If during the&s;e warres, the enemy &s;hould deprive any of the&s;e Earles, or otherwi&s;e ruinate their dominions; We &s;hall right him the be&s;t We may, and force their enemies to re&s;titution.</P>
<P>4. If any of them &s;hall be taken pri&s;oners; We &s;hall doe our be&s;t for the recovery of his liberty.</P>
<P>5. We will doe our uttermo&s;t to pre&s;erve their hou&s;es and Forts: and take order to defend them.</P>
<P>6. And if We find it requi&s;ite to place any forces, in their Forts or Pa&s;&s;es; We will take care that the &s;ouldiours be not trouble&s;ome.</P>
<P>7. Whereas the u&s;uall contribution cannot forthwith be fully paid by &s;ome of them, untill &s;uch po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of theirs as be at this pre&s;ent in the enemies hands, be cleered; We will reco|ver them as &s;oone as may be; and without any other clogge or condition, re&s;tore them to the right owner.</P>
<P>8. That the &s;aid Earles may the better promote the common cau&s;e, and yet their &s;ubiects not be too much overlayed with contributions: We are content that the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall goods may be al&s;o a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to contribute: and that upon refu&s;all, &s;o much may be di&s;trained by the Earles, as &s;hall &s;atisfie the con|tribution.</P>
<P>9. Wee permit them al&s;o to take backe againe into their own hands, all &s;uch Cloy&s;ters and Mona&s;teries, as have of late daies beene wrung from them by the Catholikes.</P>
<PB N="38" REF="29">
<P> 10. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the&s;e Or|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s be, &s;ee our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oke of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">edi&s;h</HI> Di&s;ci|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</NOTE> We will forbeare, as much as may be, to make any Ren|dezvous, enquartering, or marches in or through their Coun|tries: But if nece&s;&s;ity &s;o requires, we will have our <HI>Orders of warre</HI> very &s;trictly to be ob&s;erved: and that all the time our forces are among them, a hor&s;eman of ours &s;hall receive but 2. dollars and an halfe a day, with a certaine competency of hay and &s;traw, &amp;c. and every footman two dollars a moneths pay, untill the mu&s;ter. All which &s;hall afterwards be defalked out of the Contribution.</P>
<P>11. This confederation is no waies intended for the preiudice of the &s;aid Earles or their E&s;tates: but for their protection ra|ther, again&s;t the common enemies.</P>
<P>And we the Earles, &amp;c. afore&s;aid, doe for our parts declare our &s;elues as followeth.</P>
<P>1. Fir&s;t, whereas it is as cleare as day, that God Almighty by the Armes of his Maie&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> (of who&s;e Chri&s;tian and iu&s;t intentions we nothing doubt) hath prevented the enemies of the Go&s;pell in their bloody purpo&s;es: We therefore doe here with all thankfulne&s;&s;e acknowledge, the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> to be our Deliverer and Protector, next under God; &s;ubmitting our &s;elues henceforth unto his protection, without any re|&s;pect to the common enemy, how-ever called. And we doe hereby bind our &s;elues, bodies and goods: to &s;tand for him to the uttermo&s;t of our power; never to fall off from him; to doe nothing in preiudice of him; never to have treaty, or to make peace with his Maie&s;ties enemies, (whom we acknow|ledge for our own:) but by his Royall a&s;&s;ent, and except his Crowne bee therein comprehended, and him&s;elfe fully &s;a|tisfied.</P>
<P>2. Therefore doe we henceforth promi&s;e, to hinder by all our be&s;t endevours, his hurt; and to promote his good: nei|ther by coun&s;ell nor by action, directly nor indirectly, doing
<PB N="39" REF="29"> any thing again&s;t his per&s;on, Crowne or Dignity; but faith|fully to a&s;&s;i&s;t him rather.</P>
<P>3. And whereas nothing is more requi&s;ite, then that his Maie|&s;ty have the ab&s;olute command of the warres: we therefore as his other Confederates have done, mo&s;t humbly entreat him to take that care wholly upon him; which we without contra|diction will altogether leave unto him.</P>
<P>4. Therefore have we delivered up into his Maie&s;ties hands, all our Cities, Forts, and Pa&s;&s;ages: and I the Earle of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> have freely put my City and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Hanaw</HI> into his power; to fortifie, arme, and di&s;po&s;e the &s;ame, as the rea&s;on of the warres &s;hall require.</P>
<P>5. We doe further promi&s;e, not to open our holds or pa&s;&s;ages unto the enemy; nor to receive in any of theirs; but keep them out rather unto the uttermo&s;t: opening them on the other &s;ide unto his Maie&s;ty, to lodge or enquarter his troopes in.</P>
<P>6. Wee will al&s;o &s;uffer his Rendezvous in our Countries: provided, that the charges bee defalked out of our Con|tribution.</P>
<P>7. And for all the time of the&s;e warres, we ioyntly promi&s;e to contribute 25000. Florens a moneth: beginning the next Decemb. 1. Old &s;tile 1631. to be paid at <HI>Franckford.</HI> And if any of us &s;hall be negligent in paying of his part, (according to the Rowle of each mans A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment hereunto annexed) we promi&s;e to di&s;traine for it by a military execution.</P>
<P>8. We undertake al&s;o, if neede be, to arme our &s;ubiects for his Maie&s;ties &s;ervice: to call home tho&s;e that at this time &s;erve the enemy; confi&s;cating all their goods that refu&s;e to obey us.</P>
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<P> 9. We permit all provi&s;ions and exportation of victuals, Ar|tillery, and Ammunition, for his Maie&s;ties &s;ervice.</P>
<P>10. And to keepe the &s;ame things from the enemy; whom we promi&s;e for his Maie&s;ties &s;ervice every where to pur&s;ue, as the Common adver&s;aries to Vs and to the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>11. And in ca&s;e there be any man found in our Dominions, that hath for&s;aken his Maie&s;ties Colours, or otherwi&s;e offended; wee will neither give him entertainment, nor pa&s;&s;age: but ei|ther puni&s;h him our &s;elues, or deliver him over unto the next of his Maie&s;ties garri&s;ons.</P>
<P>In te&s;timony whereof, We the King and Earles, have mu|tually &s;et to our hands and Seales. Given at <HI>Franckford,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>By this agreement was the Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> ut|terly defeated of his hopes: who a little before this, had de|manded of the&s;e <HI>Wetterawi&s;h</HI> Earles; a great quantity of pro|vi&s;ions, and many hundreds of Carts and Wagons, to be &s;ent him in unto <HI>Seling&s;tat</HI> in the County of <HI>Darm&s;tat.</HI> The Landt|grave of <HI>Darm&s;tat</HI> (their neighbour,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Landt|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve of <HI>Darm|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> agrees with King.</NOTE>) much about this time (which &s;eemes to have beene about the middle of November) made his agreement likewi&s;e with his Maie&s;ty. Hereupon did the Landtgrave con&s;igne over his chiefe&s;t Forts and Pa&s;&s;a|ges into the Kings hands: as the &s;trong Towne of <HI>Ru&s;&s;elheim</HI> upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> &s;ome 5 Engli&s;h miles from <HI>Mentz,</HI> fir&s;t; (into which the King pre&s;ently put Sir <HI>Iohn Hamiltons</HI> Regi|ment, which was commaunded by his Sergeant-M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">jor <HI>Mag|dugall</HI>) and <HI>Darm&s;tat</HI> after that, the towne of his own re&s;i|dence, he remooving his Court upon it unto the Ca&s;tle of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI></P>
<P>By this time was the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> army advanced beyond <HI>Hoe&s;t,</HI> and a &s;tanding Leaguer formed at the villages of <HI>Co&s;tum</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;&s;el</HI> right again&s;t <HI>Mentz,</HI> though on the other &s;ide of the rivers. At <HI>Walb</HI> a &s;mall Dorp upon the <HI>Rhine,</HI> (&s;ome league or le&s;&s;e from <HI>Ca&s;&s;el</HI>) was there &s;o narrow a pa&s;&s;age into the Countrey of the <HI>Rhingaw,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">trance gotte~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the <HI>Rhin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI></NOTE> that 1000 <HI>Spaniards</HI> of the Bi&s;hop
<PB N="41" REF="30"> of <HI>Mentz</HI> his men, thought them&s;elues &s;ufficient for the guard of it. Wafting them&s;elues therefore over the <HI>Rhine;</HI> and calling in the Country Boores to be their Pyoners in ca&s;ting up of &s;ome workes; they are pre&s;ently there entrenched. Again&s;t the&s;e the King now &s;ends: and the <HI>Swedens</HI> ru&s;hing in upon the <HI>Spaniards</HI> with a power too great for them; after a hard Bowte or two, drive them from their Ordnance and new made batteries: lay &s;ome 500 of them dead upon the earth; en|forcing the re&s;t into the river: where though they dyed not (like their fellowes) <HI>a bloody death;</HI> yet can they not be &s;aid to have dyed <HI>a dry death.</HI></P>
<P>The next country people pre&s;ently yeelding thereupon, are amerced by the King to pay him the &s;ame Contribution, and to &s;weare unto him the &s;ame <HI>fealty;</HI> which they before had done vnto their Lord the Elector of <HI>Mentz:</HI> and to redeeme their Country from pre&s;ent pillage, by a ran&s;ome of ready money.</P>
<P>The Pa&s;&s;age being thus gained, the Kings purpo&s;e was, to &s;end out &s;ome &s;trong <HI>Partees</HI> to keepe the Country in action and Alarme, while&s;t him&s;elfe might vndi&s;turbed lay a bridge over the <HI>Rhine</HI> at the &s;aid <HI>Walb,</HI> and goe directly unto the &s;iege of <HI>Mentz.</HI> The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> thus &s;ent abroad, range along up|on the rivers &s;ide as farre as <HI>Bingen:</HI> where lighting upon the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e which was right again&s;t the towne on the contrary &s;ide of the water, at which, &s;uch boates as pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Rhine</HI> and <HI>Nau,</HI> (here falling into the <HI>Rhine</HI>) were made to pay <HI>Toll</HI> and <HI>Cu&s;tome:</HI> they there kill 150 of the garri&s;on, and carry away &s;ome &s;toare of ready money, which they there found in <HI>Banco.</HI> And this, (though an Action of no great mo|ment) yet would I not pa&s;&s;e it over, becau&s;e it was the fur|the&s;t place that the Kings people meddled withall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King turns backe againe.</NOTE> on that &s;ide of the <HI>Rhine.</HI> For the Kings bridge at <HI>Walb</HI> not fadging accor|ding to his mind, (the Elector of <HI>Mentz</HI> with &s;uch great forces oppo&s;ing him on the other &s;ide of the river) the army is cald off from tho&s;e parts; and the Landtgrave of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> be|ing left in tho&s;e quarters, both to &s;ecure that banke of the
<PB N="42" REF="31"> <HI>Rhine;</HI> and to keepe, withall, what was already conquered in the <HI>Rhingaw</HI> and the <HI>Wetteraw:</HI> and that, la&s;tly, he might be neer vnto his own Country upon all occa&s;ions: the King de|vi&s;es upon another cour&s;e; which, though in re&s;pect of going to <HI>Mentz,</HI> it were the furthe&s;t way about, yet it at la&s;t proo|ved the neere&s;t way home.</P>
<P>And now beginnes the Army to gather together about <HI>Franckford:</HI> over who&s;e bridge of <HI>Saxenhau&s;en,</HI> December 1. they are pa&s;&s;ed: with a re&s;olution (as his Maie&s;ties owne &s;elfe affirmed to my Lord Amba&s;&s;ador Sir <HI>Henry Vane</HI>) to goe to the &s;iege of <HI>Heidleberg.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oing into the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rg&s;traes,</HI> and towards the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ege of <HI>Heidle|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erg.</HI></NOTE> His forces being directed into the <HI>Berg&s;traes;</HI> him&s;elfe fairely followes after; lodging the &s;ame night at <HI>Langen,</HI> a village belonging vnto the Landtgrave of <HI>Darm&s;tat.</HI> This <HI>Berg&s;traes</HI> is (as the word &s;ignifies) <HI>a &s;treet or way of hills:</HI> the whole Country being a continued ledge of indifferent high and even mountaines, trending along even from <HI>Franckford</HI> towne almo&s;t, quite thorow the Landtgrave of <HI>Darm&s;tats</HI> country, part of the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Mentz,</HI> and the Prince <HI>Palatines</HI> Dominions; even untill you come to the very gates of <HI>Heidleberg.</HI> Betwixt the&s;e mountaines, and the goodly river of the <HI>Rhine</HI> (which runnes along by them al|mo&s;t in a &s;treight line) is there a narrow long country, with a many of hand&s;ome townes (and &s;ome weake <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri|&s;ons in them) which were to be cleered by the way. The names of them (as they lye in order) are <HI>Ger&s;heim, Stein, Swingenberg,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Divers townes taken in the <HI>Bergstraes.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ben&s;heim, Heppenheim, Weynheim, Starkenberg,</HI> and <HI>Ladenburg:</HI> all which were in this march taken in; the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;ons ea&s;ily quitting the places, as too weake to be defended. And now was the King almo&s;t come unto <HI>Heidle|berg;</HI> when, upon con&s;ideration of a certaine &s;trong Fort he had pa&s;&s;ed by; (which lying upon the <HI>Rhine</HI> on the <HI>Berg&s;traes</HI> &s;ide, &s;erved for a Blockhou&s;e to defend <HI>Oppenheim;</HI> that was right again&s;t it on the other &s;ide of the water) he quite on the &s;udden altered his determination. Con&s;idering, therefore, that if he &s;hould engage him&s;elfe upon the &s;iege of <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> and leave this Fort enemy behind his backe: then might the <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI>
<PB N="43" REF="31"> forces under the favour of that Fort, ea&s;ily there pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Rhine:</HI> and at their owne plea&s;ures both cut off all his provi|&s;ions, and hinder his retreate be&s;ides, backe againe unto <HI>Franckford.</HI></P>
<P>This therefore (and that worthily) quite altered his re&s;olu|tion; which is now fully bent for the taking in of this Fort.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King alte+ring his dete<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+mination,</NOTE> The peece was kept by 1000 <HI>Italians</HI> and <HI>Burgundians:</HI> and tho&s;e &s;uch old blades, as the King had never yet met with the like &s;ince the Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> No Colours had they with them: tho&s;e were left with their <HI>Comrades</HI> in <HI>Oppenheim.</HI> Vp|on Sunday, Decemb. 4. Grave <HI>Neeles</HI> with the Kings <HI>Life|guards</HI> &s;ets downe before it: who being the next day relieved by Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> and Colonel <HI>Winckle</HI> with their two <HI>Bri|gades;</HI> he ri&s;es, and leaves them to pur&s;ue the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The Fort was encompa&s;&s;ed with a double <HI>Graff</HI> or <HI>Moate;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">goes and be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ges the Fort <HI>Oppenheim.</HI></NOTE> and <HI>Hebron</HI> and <HI>Winckle</HI> being &s;et downe, and immediately falling to their worke with the &s;pade, were ready by Wedne&s;|day at night, to make both their <HI>lines</HI> or <HI>rowling trenches,</HI> to meete in the outter-mo&s;t <HI>Graff.</HI> So &s;oone as this &s;hould be done, the King about 5 a clocke at night, gave command unto Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> (who being the elde&s;t Colonell, commaunded there in chiefe) to <HI>Storme,</HI> or give an a&s;&s;ault vnto the Fort, before the morning. Scarcely was the King from <HI>Hebron;</HI> but there was a letter brought him from a Gentleman of the <HI>Pala|tinate,</HI> that dwelt above upon the river, that he would &s;end the King &s;ome boates that very evening.<NOTE PLACE="marg">whither havi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ome boates &s;ent him,</NOTE> Vpon this was the <HI>Storming</HI> countermanded: and about 9 or 10 at night, the boates came indeed. One <HI>Hild</HI> a poore Fi&s;her-man of <HI>Ger|&s;heim</HI> was the man employed by the Gentleman; who not on|ly brought two great boates downe the &s;treame with him from about <HI>Wormbs;</HI> but &s;hewed the King al&s;o where the <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> had &s;unke another very great <HI>Rhine-&s;hip,</HI> in the bottome of the river. In the&s;e three boates, the King fir&s;t of all (with as much &s;ilence as might be) &s;ends over his own <HI>Guards,</HI> or his <HI>Life-Regiment.</HI> All this which had hitherto fallen out &s;o hopefully, had like to have beene quite da&s;hed by an odde ac|cident.
<PB N="44" REF="32"> A certaine &s;ouldier (a <HI>Sweden</HI> borne) having gotten into a little boate by him&s;elfe (which upon that river are one|ly made of 3 boords,) was skimming him&s;elfe at the &s;ame time al&s;o over the river. But the &s;treame carrying him about 12 or 20 &s;core too low towards the towne, he there chops upon &s;ome 500 <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> hor&s;e, which had their guards at that place. The&s;e taking the Alarme at the <HI>Swedes</HI> comming and &s;trange language;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pa&s;&s;es over <HI>Rhine</HI> in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m,</NOTE> pre&s;ently march up to the place where the <HI>Life|guards</HI> were even now newly landed. But the <HI>Swedes</HI> having there chanced upon &s;ome advantage of ground, as hedges, bu&s;hes, and the like: the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> hor&s;e were by the&s;e things &s;o long kept off, untill the other could well put them&s;elues into order. The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> charging thereupon with their pi&s;tols, are &s;aluted againe with &s;uch a volly of muskets; that they are for|ced to retreate, the better to recover their order againe. It was about midnight by this time; when as the boates being now come backe againe, the King had &s;hipt over Colonell <HI>Hogendorff</HI> with the <HI>Red</HI> Regiment in them: His Maie&s;ties &s;elfe pa&s;&s;ing over likewi&s;e with it. By the time that the King was landed, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> having gotten more forces toge|ther, renew their charge againe with more fury, yet with no better &s;ucce&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d beats off 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aults of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aniards.</HI></NOTE> being the &s;econd time beaten off againe al&s;o. By this time is Colonel <HI>&V;itzthimb</HI> come over with the <HI>white</HI> Re|giment or <HI>Brigade:</HI> and the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> now againe reenforced, give a third charge upon the King: but being now repul&s;ed with greater &s;laughter, they perceive their enemies to be too &s;trong for them, and never fall on againe. Thus the King ha|ving 3 of his <HI>Brigades</HI> &s;afely landed; and the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> being fi|nally retyred: marches immediately towards the Towne of <HI>Oppenheim:</HI> where for a while we leave him at his <HI>Thanksgi|ving,</HI> for having thus pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Rhine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hebron</HI> all this while before the Fort, (his command of <HI>Storming</HI> being contradicted) &s;uffered continuall &s;allyes and Alarmes from the valiant be&s;ieged. About 11 at night, 200 of them &s;ally out with great bravery, and fall into <HI>Hebrons</HI> Quar|ter; and a very hot &s;ervice they made of it: untill with much
<PB N="45" REF="32"> importunity, and &s;ome lo&s;&s;e, they were per&s;waded at la&s;t to retyre againe. About halfe an houre after, out upon <HI>Winckles</HI> Quarter they fall likewi&s;e; who at length al&s;o beates them in|to the Fort. The purpo&s;e of the&s;e &s;trong and frequent &s;allyes, fir&s;t upon one, and then upon another, was, to hinder the mee|ting of their lines, now ready to be perfected. But hearing a little after this, of the Kings third volly on the other &s;ide of the water; and that He had made good his ground; and how the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> comming now on no more, the King was marched vp to <HI>Oppenheim:</HI> they had no more comfort to &s;ally. Fearing therefore that their pa&s;&s;age of retreate over the <HI>Rhine</HI> would be utterly cut off,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Fort yee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ded unto Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn</HI></NOTE> they about 7 a clocke in the morning &s;end out a Drumme unto Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> to parly: with whom they at la&s;t concluded upon the&s;e Conditions.</P>
<P>On the <HI>Spaniards</HI> part.</P>
<P>1. They were at 7 a clock at night (Thur&s;day December 8.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Co~dition</NOTE>) to march out with bag and baggage, Colours flying, Drummes beating, Matches lighted, and Bandeliers filled.</P>
<P>2. To be a&s;&s;ured by the King, not to be mole&s;ted in their way, by any of his forces; nor by the <HI>Landtgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;ens</HI> men, or any others.</P>
<P>3. A Captaine &s;hould be given them for ho&s;tage, (they lea|ving another with the King for him:) and their garri&s;on to be convoyed with 1000 Muskettiers, to a village the &s;ame night halfe a league di&s;tant from thence: and the next morning, vnto the bankes of the <HI>Mayn.</HI></P>
<P>4. His Maie&s;ty to furni&s;h them all their march, with victu|alls, &amp;c.</P>
<P>On the Kings part.</P>
<P>1. All of the Fort &s;hall take their way towards <HI>Bingen.</HI></P>
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<P> 2. They &s;hall fir&s;t pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Mayn,</HI> and the <HI>Rhine</HI> afterwards.</P>
<P>3. They &s;hall not goe into <HI>Mentz:</HI> but to &s;ome other place, where there is a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;on.</P>
<P>4. They &s;hall carry away none of their Ordnance.</P>
<P>5. Nor pillage any towne or village in the way: nor offer iniury unto any &s;ouldier at that time &s;erving his Maie&s;ty.</P>
<P>Two hundred <HI>Scots</HI> of my Lord <HI>Reayes</HI> and Colonell <HI>Lum&s;dells</HI> men, (which belonged unto <HI>Hebrons Brigade</HI>) were put in the Fort, &s;o &s;oone as ever the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> were gone out of it.</P>
<P>Wee left the King lately marching towards <HI>Oppenheim:</HI> where he yet lay, within Cannon-&s;hot (almo&s;t) of the very walls of it. Summons had already beene given unto the towne: which, upon the taking of the Fort, &s;ends out their keyes, and yeelds gladly enough vnto his Maie&s;ty:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Towne of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enheim</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lded.</NOTE> and for that they knew him to be a friend vnto the Prince Elector their Lord and Ma&s;ter, they receive in a garri&s;on of 200 <HI>Scots</HI> vnto them. The&s;e 200, were all (or almo&s;t all) that were left of Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;yes</HI> Regiment: him&s;elfe lay yet at <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> to be cu|red of his wound,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">his relation <HI>Oppenheim;</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o in tho&s;e of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntz,</HI> the <HI>Lech,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d other acti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> about the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">latinate</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">varia:</HI> have receiued <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne in&s;tructi+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from Mr <HI>Ro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Mar&s;ham,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o per&s;onally <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">companied <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">olonell <HI>He|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> in all the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ctions.</NOTE> which there (as we told you) he received. Vpon an hill, a little above the edge of the towne, was there a large va&s;t Ca&s;tle with a garri&s;on of 600 or 700 men in it; which yet &s;tood out again&s;t the King. There having beene 107 boates found under the towne wall, upon the river; of the&s;e the King &s;ends over enow, to fetch <HI>Winckles</HI> Regiment fir&s;t, and <HI>Hepburnes</HI> after him: with the Cannon, baggage, and Ca|vallery la&s;t of all. The &s;treame carrying downe <HI>Hepburn</HI> and <HI>Winckle</HI> &s;omething lower then the towne; they upon their lan|ding advance up the hill, to meete the Kings forces: whom they now &s;aw &s;tanding in faire <HI>Battaglia,</HI> ready to give a ge|nerall a&s;&s;ault upon the Ca&s;tle. And now tho&s;e 200 <HI>Scots</HI> that had beene put into the towne at the yeelding of it; fall imme|diately thereupon to <HI>Storme</HI> the &s;aid Ca&s;tle at the Towne-port,
<PB N="47" REF="33"> which is betwixt the Ca&s;tle and the Towne. The <HI>Scots</HI> fell in with &s;uch a tempe&s;t and re&s;olution,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The valour o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>Scots.</HI></NOTE> that they in&s;tantly forced the garri&s;on into the inner port; they <HI>Storming</HI> in together with them: &s;o that by that time the King was ready to a&s;&s;ault on one &s;ide, and <HI>Hepburn</HI> on the other; they meete (to their great admiration,) divers of the garri&s;on that had already leapt over the wals, throwne away their Armes, and crying <HI>Quar|ter;</HI> as the re&s;t al&s;o now did, that had not yet gotten out of the Ca&s;tle.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ken by a&s;&s;ault</NOTE> In both the&s;e actions (about the Fort and Ca&s;tle) were there &s;ome 200 <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> (though few of them <HI>Spaniards</HI>) cut downe, and 8 <HI>Colours</HI> taken: which were the fir&s;t <HI>Colours</HI> that ever the King tooke from the <HI>Spaniards;</HI> this being the fir&s;t time that ever he had to deale with them.</P>
<P>Here fell there out a pretty merriment, which &s;ome Rea|ders may perchance be plea&s;ed withall. While&s;t the mo&s;t of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> were begging for Quarter, a certaine Officer with &s;ome others of his men, not daring to tru&s;t the courte&s;ie of an enemy; fairely &s;lips away from the <HI>Scots</HI> that had &s;o ferryted them: running out of the towne for life, even clo&s;e be&s;ides the Kings army. It chanced that an Hare &s;tarting out of the bu&s;hes about the ditch, ranne directly before the <HI>Spaniards:</HI> and with|in a few pa&s;es after, two other Hares al&s;o ranne as directly af|ter them. The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> laughed heartily to &s;ee what a Convoy the <HI>Spaniards</HI> had gotten. Tis ill lucke (&s;aies one of the &s;oul|diers) to have ones way cro&s;t with a Hare; and that ill lucke is now ours: for we are likely to get but little honour by them, &s;hould all their Countrimen runne away in the like manner.</P>
<P>The next day, the King was purpo&s;ed to go towards <HI>Mentz;</HI> and the Army being advanced to the top of the hill; the wea|ther fell out &s;o bitterly cold, &s;nowy, and windie, that they were even faine to turne backe againe, leaving their Ordnance behind them on the hill top On the morrow morning, they put them&s;elues upon their march againe; and the townes be|ing not above 3 Dutch miles one from another; the Army by 5 a clocke at night pre&s;ented them&s;elues before the view of
<PB N="48" REF="34"> the City.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mentz</HI> be&s;ieged</NOTE> They of <HI>Mentz</HI> out of a Fort they had, let flye their Ordnance a maine upon the Kings folke: but it now growing darke, the King with the mo&s;t of the forces making his ap|proaches along the rivers &s;ide; &s;ends <HI>Hebron</HI> to make his, clo&s;e by the gallowes Port. <HI>Hebron</HI> lodging his <HI>Brigade</HI> in a place commodious enough, within musket &s;hot of the Port; that very night (notwith&s;tanding he were extremely &s;hot at) runns his <HI>Lines</HI> even to the very <HI>Graff</HI> or towne ditch. The King, on his &s;ide, found much more fierce re&s;i&s;tance; the gar|ri&s;on &s;till &s;allying out upon him to hinder his working: who for all this, having once gotten the advantage of the Suburbs; with the lo&s;&s;e of 100 men, (or &s;uch a matter) brings his ap|proaches al&s;o clo&s;e unto the wall. The &s;econd day the towne gave hote fire upon the Kings &s;ide; and the Ordnance from the Ca&s;tle thundred as lowdly again&s;t <HI>Hebron:</HI> whom Colonell <HI>Axel Lillye</HI> comming now to vi&s;it, had his legge &s;hot away by the &s;hinne bone. The next day being Sunday, the &s;hooting continued very fiercely on both &s;ides: the King having by this time rai&s;ed &s;ome Batteries in a garden, and mounted his Ord|nance upon them. By Munday morning, the King with his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Brigades</HI> on one &s;ide; and <HI>Hebron</HI> with his upon the tother, being gotten clo&s;e under the wals; the towne de&s;ires to parly: which the King denies them, unle&s;&s;e the Cittadell will parly al&s;o. The Ca&s;tle at fir&s;t refu&s;es the motion; but con&s;idering a little better upon it, how that notwith&s;tanding they found them&s;elues &s;trong enough on that part of the Ca&s;tle towards the enemy,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">entz</HI> yeelded.</NOTE> yet being con&s;cious of their weakne&s;&s;e of the part towards the towne, (&s;hould the King fir&s;t take that) they a|greed al&s;o to parly.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the chiefe&s;t of the Conditions.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. To depart next day with flying En&s;ignes, bag and bag|gage, and 2 peeces of Cannon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Have leave, &s;ome to goe into <HI>Franckendale,</HI> &s;ome into <HI>Creutznach:</HI> and &s;ome to be conveyed towards <HI>Luxemburg.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The&s;e la&s;t not to &s;erve again&s;t the King in three moneths.</ITEM>
</LIST>
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<P>Thus the next day, Tue&s;day Decemb. 13. about 4 a clocke, the garri&s;on marched out, after they had the &s;econd time well pillaged the town&s;men and the Cloy&s;ters. Some of the <HI>Ger|manes</HI> become the Kings &s;ouldiers. They left behind them a very great &s;tore of Ordnance, and 120 la&s;ts of powder; with a wonderfull plenty of all other provi&s;ions. The City redeemed it &s;elfe from pillage, by giving the King a ran&s;ome of 80000 Dollars: 220000 more being drawne from the <HI>Spiritualty</HI> and the <HI>Iewes:</HI> which la&s;t people paid 180000 Dollars of the money, for the redemption of their hou&s;es and <HI>Synagogue.</HI></P>
<P>And thus was this faire City of <HI>Mentz</HI> conquered: which is there &s;eated upon the Southerne banke of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> where the river <HI>Mayn</HI> flowes into it. By the taking of this towne, hath the King wonne all upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> euen to the very place where the <HI>Mayn</HI> loo&s;es it &s;elfe. <HI>Mentz</HI> is honoured with an <HI>&V;niver&s;ity</HI> and an <HI>Archbi&s;hops</HI> See: and He with an <HI>Electorate</HI> and the <HI>Chancellor&s;hip</HI> of <HI>Germany.</HI> The&s;e <HI>Honours,</HI> together with the great E&s;tate belonging vnto them, had made the Bi&s;hop Elector of <HI>Mentz</HI> a very prime and a potent Prince, among the <HI>Catholike Leaguers.</HI> No friends had neither he, nor his two predece&s;&s;ors, beene all this while vnto the Prince <HI>Elector Palatine;</HI> nor to their neighbours the Earles of the <HI>Wetteraw.</HI> The&s;e had beene &s;ome of the Kings rea&s;ons to mooue again&s;t him. This pre&s;ent Elector (<HI>Wambold</HI> by name) having in October before heard of the Kings atchivements upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> had then entertained 2000 of tho&s;e <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> into his City and Country thereabouts, (though much again&s;t the minds of his &s;ubiects) which under the leading of the Count of <HI>Solms, Roverot,</HI> and <HI>Wittenhor&s;t,</HI> had brought &s;ome <HI>Wallons</HI> and <HI>Burgundians</HI> out of the <HI>Low-Countries</HI> to reen|force the <HI>Spaniards</HI> in the <HI>Palatinate. Wittenhor&s;ts</HI> Regiment being received into the City, had very ba&s;ely plundered and abu&s;ed the town&s;men. The Elector asking them whether they thought them&s;elues yet &s;trong enough to keepe his Towne a|gain&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden?</HI> You &s;hew your &s;elfe (&s;aies a <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> Commaunder) to be but a Churchman by your fearefull
<PB N="50" REF="35"> que&s;tion: &s;eeing we are &s;trong enough to beate off three &s;uch Kings as the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Spani&s;h brag.</NOTE> For all which confidence of theirs, the Elector perceiving by their getting ready their hor|&s;es, by loading their baggage upon their wagons, and by ma|king all ready to be gone, &s;o &s;oone as ever they heard of the taking of <HI>Oppenheim;</HI> that there was little tru&s;ting him&s;elfe vnto them; he with teares in his eyes prote&s;ted, <HI>That the Spa|niards had abu&s;ed him:</HI> immediately thereupon packing up his trea&s;ure and iewels; and &s;hipping him&s;elfe away downe the <HI>Rhine</HI> unto <HI>Cullen:</HI> which hath beene the common Refuge and Receptacle in the&s;e late warres for the expul&s;ed <HI>Catholicke</HI> Princes; even as the Papi&s;ts heretofore ieered that the <HI>Hage</HI> had beene, for the <HI>Prote&s;tants.</HI> To &s;ee what God can doe! Tis very wonderfull to ob&s;erve, how much the greatne&s;&s;e of the Electors of <HI>Mentz,</HI> is within the&s;e few yeeres abated! Bi&s;hop <HI>Schweichard</HI> fea&s;ted <HI>Spinola</HI> at his comming into the <HI>Palatinate:</HI> &s;ince which time, he and his two next Succe&s;&s;ors have encroached upon the Prince Elector <HI>Palatine,</HI> and other <HI>Prote&s;tants:</HI> and now Bi&s;hop <HI>Wambold</HI> is glad, for the &s;aving of his deare life, to quit all againe, at the Kings comming into the <HI>Palatinate.</HI></P>
<P>The next day, being the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> birth-day, De|cember 14. (which made him 37 yeeres compleat, and began his 38^t^h yeere:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King en|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers <HI>Mentz</HI> in Triumph.</NOTE>) would his Maie&s;ty honour his own Nativity, by entring in &s;tate into the towne; being waited upon in the triumph, by Landtgrave <HI>William</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> with very many other Lords and Princes. His lodging was provided in the goodly Ca&s;tle, the &s;ometimes Palace of the Bi&s;hop.</P>
<P>Fryday next was the day appointed for the Thanksgiving, which is a duty, that this pious King never u&s;eth to omit, after any notable atchievement. The Sermon was preached by his own Chaplain; and this <HI>P&s;alme</HI> or <HI>Hymne</HI> of <HI>Luthers</HI> was or|dered to be &s;ung after it, beginning, <HI>Pre&s;erve, &ocirc; Lord, to us thy Word.</HI> The re&s;t of it being chiefly again&s;t <HI>Popery,</HI> and <HI>Popi&s;h practices.</HI> By this may the Reader &s;ee, the Kings zeale and &s;oundne&s;&s;e in Religion. The goods of &s;uch Citizens as fled,
<PB N="51" REF="35"> were pre&s;ently confi&s;cated: tho&s;e that &s;taid under the Kings protection, received the freedome both of goods and con&s;ci|ences; having nothing at all taken from them.</P>
<P>This City did the King make choice of, for his place of re&s;idence, to keepe <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> in; &s;taying there, the mo&s;t part of the winter following. Here did his Maie&s;ty hold &s;o Royall and Magnificent a &s;tanding Court, as no Prince in Chri&s;ten|dome (perchance) had &s;uch a State and Pre&s;ence. Here have bin &s;eene at once, 6 &s;overaigne Princes (that is, chiefe Princes) of the Empire; 12 or 13. Amba&s;&s;adors of Kings, States, Electors and Princes; be&s;ides Dukes and Lords of &s;econd hou&s;es, and the martiall men of his own Army; which were none of the wor&s;t &s;howes, as being the men that procured all the re&s;t of that glory. The Kings next care was for the fortifying of the place, which as fa&s;t as could be, was in this order performed. Whereas there were &s;ome hills neere-hand that commanded the Towne,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mentz</HI> fortifi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and how.</NOTE> tho&s;e the King directs to have taken into his new workes; which were of circuite large enough to lodge an Ar|my of 20000 men in. Two bridges were al&s;o laid over the two rivers. That over the <HI>Rhine,</HI> was builded upon 61 great flat-bottomd boates; each lying the di&s;tance of an Arch one from another: many families of people living &s;ometimes in the boates under the bridge, like as in the <HI>Low-Countries.</HI> Be|yond this bridge towards the land of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> was there ano|ther great worke drawne; able to lodge 10000 men in, for the &s;ecuring of that pa&s;&s;age. The other bridge over the <HI>Main,</HI> was founded upon fifteene great flat-bottomd boates; where, namely, the current runnes &s;tronge&s;t: the re&s;t being builded upon great piles of wood. Vpon that Angle or corner of ground, where the <HI>Mayn</HI> falleth into the <HI>Rhine;</HI> was there a royall Fort to be builded, with 6 Bulwarks unto it: which &s;hould guard the pa&s;&s;age out of the land of <HI>Darm&s;tat,</HI> and give the law be&s;ides, unto both the Rivers.</P>
<P>The <HI>Lorrayners</HI> in the Imperiall City of <HI>Wormbs</HI> in the <HI>Palatinate</HI> betwixt <HI>Oppenheim</HI> and <HI>Franckendale,</HI> hearing of this newes of <HI>Oppenheim</HI> and <HI>Mentz,</HI> provide in&s;tantly to be
<PB N="52" REF="36"> packing. <HI>O&s;&s;eland</HI> their Colonel would needes &s;hake hands with the towne&s;men upon the&s;e termes: 3000 Dollars they mu&s;t pre&s;ently give him for his farewell. And that comming &s;omething ea&s;ily, he demands 10000 more. A &s;ackefull of &s;ilver plate he al&s;o layd hold of: and two Burgers would he carry along with him, till the 10000 Dollars were &s;ent after him. Into a vault behind St. <HI>Andrewes</HI> Church, were 50 bar|rels of powder &s;towed, his men being not able to carry it a|way. Vnto this the &s;ouldiers threaten to put fire, if they might not have what they plea&s;ed. Yea they did it, to the mi|&s;erable &s;poyling of the innocent neighbours and their hou&s;es. The like outrages did other of their Country-men commit, when about this time they fearefully &s;hifted away out of o|ther places of the <HI>Palatinate. Wormbs</HI> being for&s;aken, the King &s;ends,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rmbs</HI> accor|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d with the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing.</NOTE> and it accepts of his protection. Whereas we have often heretofore mentioned the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners:</HI> Let us, while&s;t the King refre&s;hes him&s;elfe in <HI>Mentz,</HI> digre&s;&s;e a little to tell you of their unfortunate Expedition a few moneths before undertaken again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden:</HI> this being the very time that they returned home againe from him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Story of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Duke of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orraynes</HI> expe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tion, from the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eginning to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e ending.</NOTE>The Duke of <HI>Lorrayne</HI> (a great Prince lying betwixt <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Germany</HI>) had beene drawne into action by the Emperor. The reward for his &s;ervice was reported to be an Electorate (of <HI>Saxon,</HI> or <HI>Brandenburg</HI>) of which, <HI>Lorrayne</HI> being a Prince of the Empire, was very capable. Another in|&s;tigation al&s;o might be, an edge which he bare again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> King; Colleague with the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and the drawer of him into <HI>Germany.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Lorrayne</HI> being appointed the Emperors Generall on that &s;ide of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> next unto him:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Lorrayne</HI> is by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">irth, Count <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &V;audemont</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n <HI>Lorrayne:</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y marriage of the old Duke of <HI>Lorraynes</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aughter and heire, Duke <HI>Lorrayne.</HI> T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prince or D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Lorraine-Pfaltzburg</HI> (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;mall countr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the Forre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> betwixt <HI>Lorr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>Al&s;atia</HI>) had married this Count o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>&V;audemonts</HI> &s;i&s;ter: and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> brother in l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto him.</NOTE> about Iuly and Augu&s;t 1631. gives out Com|mi&s;&s;ions for 4000 hor&s;e, and 14000 foote. His brother in law the Prince or Duke of <HI>Pfaltzburg</HI> accepts al&s;o of being his Lieftenant-Generall: and <HI>Harincourt</HI> is made one of the chiefe Directors of the expedition. The forces being ray&s;ed, the Duke &s;ends to <HI>Zabern</HI> in <HI>Al&s;atia,</HI> (the fir&s;t Towne of <HI>Germany</HI> beyond the forre&s;t of <HI>Pfaltzburg,</HI> and within &s;ome
<PB N="53" REF="36"> nine <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles off <HI>Strasburg</HI>) to be &s;upplied with waggons and carriages; that being his way into the <HI>Palatinate.</HI> He de|mands al&s;o to have his 4000 Hor&s;e enquartered for a moneth, in the County of <HI>Mompelgart;</HI> which belongeth unto a Duke of <HI>Wirtemberg.</HI> To prevent this, is <HI>A&s;canio,</HI> Governour of <HI>Germer&s;heim,</HI> about the beginning of September commanded thither, with &s;ufficient forces.</P>
<P>About mid September the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners</HI> put them&s;elues up|on their march: and Generall <HI>Tillyes</HI> Army being now defea|ted at <HI>Leip&s;ich; O&s;&s;a</HI> (who had to doe in <HI>Al&s;atia</HI> and tho&s;e parts) is &s;ent to be <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary-Generall</HI> unto the <HI>Lorrayners:</HI> that is, To direct the actions of warre, to appoint the Gene|rall which way to march, and what to doe; and to provide and pay the Army, by the Contributions in the Emperors name exacted from the country.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The office o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> an Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary</NOTE> This is the office of an <HI>Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary.</HI> Now whereas the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners</HI> &s;hould at fir&s;t have marched up to <HI>Tilly; O&s;&s;a'es</HI> de&s;ire (at fir&s;t) was to con|ioyne them unto <HI>Altringer</HI> and <HI>Fugger:</HI> for which rea&s;on they now marched directly thorow the <HI>Palatinate</HI> towards the land of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Lorrayn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Rh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> They were gotten to <HI>Wormbs</HI> and the <HI>Berg&s;traes,</HI> by the end of September: and about the fir&s;t of October (old Stile) the Count of <HI>Sultz,</HI> with 26 Compa|nies of Imperiall Foote, and &s;ome few hor&s;e, avoyding out of <HI>Gelnhau&s;en</HI> and <HI>Fulda</HI> (by <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI>) for feare of the <HI>Swedi&s;h;</HI> marches with great &s;peede thorow <HI>Slicter</HI> and <HI>Salmun&s;ter</HI> in the County of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> and &s;o along thorow the <HI>Spe&s;hart</HI> Forre&s;t, unto <HI>A&s;chaffenburg:</HI> intending thence to goe by <HI>Franckford</HI> into the <HI>Wetteraw,</HI> whither he hoped the <HI>Lorray|ners</HI> would within a day or two come unto him. But this iour|ney of his was &s;hortned; the <HI>Lorrayners</HI> meeting him at <HI>Ba|benhau&s;en</HI> neere the &s;aid <HI>A&s;chaffenburg;</HI> at which bridge their purpo&s;e al&s;o was, to have pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Mayn</HI> into <HI>Franconia.</HI></P>
<P>October the fourth, <HI>Harincourt</HI> pa&s;&s;es his hor&s;e over the <HI>Rhine</HI> at <HI>Wormbs,</HI> to goe towards <HI>Steyn</HI> in the <HI>Berg&s;traes,</HI> and &s;o onwards by <HI>Franckford</HI> into <HI>Franconia.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">going into <HI>Franconia.</HI></NOTE> Hither unto <HI>Wormbs</HI> the Duke of <HI>Lorrayn</HI> comes: and now he begins to devide
<PB N="54" REF="37"> his forces. Some two troopes of hor&s;e, and three Compa|nies of Foote, are &s;ent into <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> &s;ome are put into <HI>Stein,</HI> 5 others into <HI>Wormbs;</HI> 10 En&s;ignes are by <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> convay|ed into <HI>Heilbrun:</HI> 1500 were put into <HI>Creutznach</HI> and there|abouts 4000 of them were by this time runne away: and 8000 &s;ent towards <HI>Franconia. Tilly</HI> being come to <HI>A&s;chaf|fenburg,</HI> thither about October tenth goes the Duke of <HI>Lor|raine</HI> in per&s;on. Their conference was; about the Emperors taking on of the&s;e forces, and how to get pay for them. To doe the fir&s;t, is <HI>Altringer</HI> &s;ent by <HI>Tilly:</HI> who October 11 pa&s;|&s;es the <HI>Mayn</HI> towards them: but as for the &s;econd, <HI>Tilly</HI> was not &s;o flu&s;h of money; the Duke gate onely good words; and hopes of pay within 14. dayes. The <HI>Lorrayne</HI> Army follow|ed their Duke thorow the <HI>Ottenwaldt,</HI> warily and fearefully: &s;o doubtfull of the <HI>Swedi&s;h Land-lopers;</HI> that every night they cut downe the trees to barricadoe up the way again&s;t them. Being gotten up as farre into <HI>Franconia</HI> as <HI>Heibach</HI> and <HI>Mil|tenburg</HI> upon an elbow of the river <HI>Mayn,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">camping by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Mayn,</HI></NOTE> (halfe way be|twixt <HI>Wormbs</HI> and <HI>Wurtsburg</HI>) thither (about October 17) comes the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> from <HI>A&s;chaffenburg;</HI> both to requite the Dukes former vi&s;it performed to him; and to give &s;ome order withall vnto the Army. And now were the Imperiall and <HI>Lorrayne</HI> Armies &s;o neere together, that they might be &s;aid to be conioyned: betwixt which two re&s;olved it was, that while&s;t he went towards the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> they &s;hould lye in the wind, betweene the Circle of <HI>Schwaben</HI> and the <HI>Swedi&s;h:</HI> but by no meanes venture to a&s;&s;ault them.</P>
<P>This la&s;t clau&s;e, the <HI>Lorrayners</HI> liked well enough. And <HI>Tilly</HI> needed not to have put in that; for the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> &s;ought all opportunities to begin fir&s;t, and to be &s;till before-hand with them.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here they are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ften beaten by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI></NOTE> About the fir&s;t weeke in November, (<HI>Tilly</HI> being now gone, and the <HI>Lorrayners</HI> left alone) 4 Regiments of them are defeated by the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> at <HI>Gutteri&s;h,</HI> neere unto <HI>Mergen|theim</HI> and <HI>Buttell.</HI> A few dayes after that, the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> falling into their Quarters betwixt <HI>Mergentheim</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;heim;</HI> cut in pieces 26 troopes of their hor&s;e, beate up their
<PB N="55" REF="37"> whole Leaguer, put them unto a di&s;orderly retreate; and fol|lowed &s;o hard upon their reere, that the wayes &s;ide by the ri|ver <HI>Tauber</HI> was &s;trewed with their dead bodies.<NOTE PLACE="marg">and driven ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Franconia</HI> againe.</NOTE> And thus were the <HI>Lorrayners</HI> driven out of <HI>Franconia;</HI> and about the end of November forced over the <HI>Rhine</HI> into the <HI>Palatinate</HI> again: where the Duke hearing the <HI>French</HI> to be fallen into his Country, gathers the remnants of his army together, (which had been left in &s;everall garri&s;ons of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI>) and home|ward he returnes; carrying the dead body of his &s;aid brother in Law the Prince of <HI>Pfaltzburg</HI> along with him, who lately dyed at <HI>Munchen</HI> in <HI>Bavaria.</HI> Marching therefore (&s;carce with 8000 men) along the Ea&s;terne banke of the <HI>Rhine,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">They pa&s;&s;e t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Rhine,</HI></NOTE> unto <HI>Dru&s;enheim</HI> (neere <HI>Strasburg</HI> and <HI>Hagenaw</HI>) he comes: where (having fir&s;t askt leave of the <HI>Strasburgers</HI>) hee pa&s;&s;es the <HI>Rhine</HI> by the two new skonces, towards his own Country: much about Chri&s;tmas day, recovering home to his own towne of <HI>Nancy.</HI> Some of the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners</HI> behaving them|&s;elves untowardly afterwards; (for they all went not immedi|ately home with their Duke) were cut off by the <HI>Strasbur|gers:</HI> others were knockt downe by the abu&s;ed Boores of the County of <HI>Hagenaw:</HI> others, by the new forces levied for the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in <HI>Al&s;atia:</HI> for in all the&s;e quarters were &s;ome of them left behind for a time.<NOTE PLACE="marg">returning in their own Country.</NOTE> And this was the end of this Princes unfortunate expedition. The lo&s;&s;e of mo&s;t of his Ar|my abroad; and of &s;ome part of his own Country at home: and of his Brother in law into the Bargaine. Thus dearely had this Prince bought his hopes of the Emperors favour, the pro|mi&s;e of the living Lyons skinne, the <HI>Electorate:</HI> and the &s;ight of a &s;mall part of <HI>Germany. And this is the fortune of the wars, That every man cannot be fortunate in the warres.</HI></P>
<P>Returne we now to that <HI>Favorite of Mars;</HI> the ever (hi|therto) victorious King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> whom upon Fryday De|cember 16 we left in <HI>Mentz</HI> at his Devotions: which were within two dayes ble&s;&s;ed with a new victory. A &s;trong Impe|riall towne in the further parts of the <HI>Wetteraw,</HI> (fronting likewi&s;e upon <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> and <HI>Hanaw</HI>) there is, <HI>Friedberg</HI> by name;
<PB N="56" REF="38"> which had layne out till now, and beene kept by a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;on.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ridberg</HI> &s;um|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oned.</NOTE> It had beene &s;ummoned in the Kings name before; and conditions offered, That if the <HI>Spaniards</HI> would leave the City in the &s;ame e&s;tate they fir&s;t found it; they &s;hould goe out with full armes, bag and baggage, every way like &s;ouldiers, and be convoyed over the <HI>Rhine</HI> into what&s;oever place they de&s;ired. The Citizens were likewi&s;e commanded to accom|modate them with carriages and other nece&s;&s;aries for their remoovall. But <HI>Lewis de &V;erreicken</HI> the Governour, retur|ned this an&s;wer unto the Kings Trumpet; That concerning the giving up of the towne, he had received no directions from his Generall <HI>Don Philip de Sylva:</HI> who being now at <HI>Creutznach,</HI> the Trumpet might goe thither to under&s;tand his plea&s;ure; untill which were knowne, he purpo&s;ed to defend him&s;elfe, and not to goe out upon &s;uch ea&s;ie termes. A faire an&s;wer. But the Burgers knowing the &s;trength of the place, not to be an&s;werable to the high words of the <HI>Spaniards;</HI> &s;o farre prevaile with the Governour, as to promi&s;e another, and a finall an&s;wer to be &s;ent unto the King within 10 dayes after: and that &s;ome of their City &s;hould in the meane time be &s;ent unto <HI>Don Philip.</HI> The Governour con&s;ents, and the Burgers are di&s;patched unto the Generall: from whom they returne with a peremptory command unto <HI>&V;erreicken,</HI> to defend the place unto the la&s;t drop of blood. How prodigall men are of other mens lives! and how valiant, when them&s;elues are not in the danger! <HI>&V;erreicken,</HI> for all this, perceiving the place not to be tenable again&s;t &s;uch forces as had &s;o quickly taken in <HI>Oppenheim</HI> and <HI>Mentz:</HI> in the night time December 18. &s;ends his &s;ouldiers out of <HI>Fridberg</HI> into <HI>Braunsfels,</HI> (a towne and Ca&s;tle upon a hill in the <HI>Wetteraw,</HI> not farre from <HI>Fridberg,</HI> and of very much importance: him&s;elfe and family &s;till remai|ning within the towne.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">idberg</HI> taken.</NOTE> Colonell <HI>Haubald</HI> (the Conquerour and Governour of <HI>Hanaw</HI>) getting an inckling of the matter; flies in upon him the very next day, with a lu&s;ty partee of Dra|gooners; &s;eazes upon the towne for the King, chops a garri&s;on into the Ca&s;tle, arre&s;ts <HI>Verreicken,</HI> and impri&s;ons him; the Co|lour
<PB N="57" REF="38"> being, for his having broken with the King, in not &s;en|ding to him at the 10 dayes end, as he had promi&s;ed upon the former Summons. Done like <HI>Haubald.</HI></P>
<P>Three dayes after (December 21) was the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Konig&s;tein</HI> in the <HI>Wetteraw</HI> (&s;ome two Dutch miles to the North of <HI>Franckford</HI>) &s;urrendred unto <HI>William</HI> Landtgrave of <HI>He&s;&s;en:</HI> which had till now held out for the Elector of <HI>Mentz.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Konig&s;tein</HI> take<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The high and hilly &s;ituation of it, and the wonderfull &s;tore of provi&s;ions in it; had made it to be (by &s;ome) e&s;teemed im|pregnable. This procured the garri&s;on to bee wondered at; that having 30 peeces of good Ordnance in it, with provi&s;i|ons for a whole yeeres &s;iege: they &s;hould &s;o ea&s;ily yeeld up &s;uch a place, as commanded the whole country about it. But they liked not their cau&s;e perchance, now that the Elector was fled; or had rather &s;erve the King of <HI>Sweden:</HI> into who&s;e pay, 3 En&s;ignes of the 4 that were in it, pre&s;ently betooke them&s;elues. Some &s;ay, that the Landtgrave had one of his brothers here &s;laine with a &s;hot, which (if true) much abated the contentment that he might otherwi&s;e have taken, for &s;o notable a piece of &s;ervice.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Landtgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> re|turnes home.</NOTE> Thus did the Landtgrave take a good farewell of the King, of whom hee pre&s;ently after takes his leave: going with his Army into his own Country fir&s;t; and &s;o along towards the river of <HI>We&s;er,</HI> as we &s;hall here|after tell you.</P>
<P>The towne of <HI>Bingen</HI> upon the <HI>Rhine</HI> (where the river <HI>Nau</HI> falls into it:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bingen</NOTE>) was much about this time for&s;aken by the garri&s;on: the &s;trong towne of <HI>Creutznach</HI> &s;tanding upon the &s;ame <HI>Nau,</HI> being by this meanes left the nakeder. And not to take too much paines in writing the Story, where there was not very much paines taking in performing of the acti|on; the townes of <HI>Altzeim, Neu&s;tat, Kai&s;ers-lauter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and divers o|ther townes in the <HI>Palatinate</HI> for&s;aken by the <HI>Spani&s;h.</HI></NOTE> and o|thers; were much about this time voluntarily al&s;o for&s;aken by their <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;ons: whom a <HI>Panick</HI> feare almo&s;t every where now &s;urpri&s;ed.</P>
<P>Before this time, and a little after the taking of <HI>Mentz;</HI> was the Rhinegrave <HI>Otho Philip</HI> (of the family of the Princes
<PB N="58" REF="39"> <HI>Palatine</HI>) di&s;patched with 20 troopes of hor&s;e towards the river of <HI>Mo&s;el.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent towards the <HI>Mo&s;el.</HI></NOTE> The de&s;igne being, to keepe off the <HI>Spaniards</HI> that then lay in the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Triers;</HI> or that might here|after come out of the <HI>Low-Countries:</HI> whence (as the newes was) &s;ome were now about to march, under the command of Prince <HI>Barban&s;on.</HI> The&s;e <HI>Spaniards</HI> having about Chri&s;tmas time pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Mo&s;el</HI> at <HI>Triers;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>The <HI>Huntsruck</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s not a towne, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut a ledge of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ountaines, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">omething <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">notty on their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">op, like the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">idge or chine|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one of a Grey|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ounds backe, whence the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ame to the Countrey, <HI>Huntsruck,</HI> &s;ig|nifies a <HI>Dogs <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">acke.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> defeates the <HI>Spaniards,</HI></P></NOTE> tooke their way thorow the <HI>Hunt&s;ruck;</HI> fir&s;t marching unto <HI>Trarbach,</HI> and &s;o into the <HI>Pa|latinate.</HI> Here (by <HI>Trarbach</HI>) the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> encountring with them, put them to the rowte; the mo&s;t of the &s;poyle lighting upon <HI>Wittenhor&s;ts</HI> regiment: who being by agree|ment at his turning out of <HI>Mentz,</HI> to goe into <HI>Luxemburg,</HI> and not to &s;erve again&s;t the King in 3 moneths; had now been met withall by the other <HI>Spaniards,</HI> and per&s;waded to turne backe againe with them. And thus was his breach of Articles iu&s;tly now requited: he at this encounter lo&s;ing all that pil|lage, which he had &s;o uniu&s;tly &s;harked away from tho&s;e of <HI>Mentz.</HI> Three Cornets were here taken by the <HI>Rhinegrave,</HI> and at <HI>Mentz</HI> pre&s;ented unto the King.</P>
<P>The <HI>Spaniards</HI> being thus forced over the <HI>Mo&s;el</HI> againe; the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> converts his Armes towards the North-we|&s;terne part of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> into the Duchy of <HI>Simmern,</HI> namely: whence Prince <HI>Lodowick Philip</HI> brother to the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and takes &s;ome frontier townes in the Bi&s;ho|pricke of <HI>Triers.</HI></NOTE> hath his Title of <HI>Duke of Simmern.</HI> Hereabouts tooke he in the towne of <HI>Simmern</HI> fir&s;t: and of <HI>Bachrach</HI> next: (whence the good <HI>Rheni&s;h</HI> wine is named) as al&s;o <HI>Caub, Bop|part,</HI> and <HI>Over-We&s;el;</HI> all in that corner; &s;ome of them in <HI>Sim|mern,</HI> and &s;ome in the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Triers:</HI> and all till that time kept by <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;ons.<NOTE PLACE="marg">This <HI>Don Philip</HI> was Generall of all the <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> in the <HI>Pala|tinate,</HI> &amp; in the Bi&s;hopricks of <HI>Mentz</HI> &amp; <HI>Triers.</HI></NOTE> The Rhinegrave pre&s;ently upon this marching towards <HI>Franckendale,</HI> chances upon a Par|tee of 9 troopes of <HI>Don Philip de Sylva'es</HI> hor&s;e, that were going out a boote-haling: whom after a long fight, he rowtes and overthrowes, taking 5 Cornets away from them. The neighbour Boores a&s;&s;embling together at the noy&s;e of the fight; way-layd, and gave chace unto tho&s;e <HI>Spaniards</HI> that e&s;|caped: with clubbs, and flayles, and pitch-forks, and &s;ome with
<PB N="59" REF="39"> better weapons, &s;hewing their love in this &s;ort unto the&s;e their old neighbours: their quarrell to them being the &s;ame their wives had vnto the wolues and foxes, for &s;troying of their Lambs and Pullen.</P>
<P>As much Country-courte&s;ie did other Boores &s;hew like|wi&s;e unto the garri&s;on of <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> who now &s;lew out al|&s;o: of whom, the Friday before Chri&s;tmas day, they were &s;aid to have knockt downe the be&s;t part of 200.</P>
<P>Before this time had the faire Imperiall towne of <HI>Spiers</HI> (on the South edge of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> and upon the <HI>Rhine,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Spiers</HI> accorde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with the King</NOTE> where the Imperiall <HI>Chamber,</HI> and <HI>Pleadings of the Crowne</HI> are kept) accorded with the King, and accepted of his garri&s;on, as the Imperiall City of <HI>Wormbs</HI> had before done. The Citizens now rai&s;ing 3 new Companies for the Kings &s;ervice, made the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> pretty and &s;trong in the&s;e parts: whereupon, Decemb. 21. they flye out and &s;urprize <HI>Ey&s;er&s;tal,</HI> belonging unto the Prince Elector <HI>Palatine.</HI> The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;on of <HI>Germer&s;heim,</HI> (&s;ome 2 leagues to the South of <HI>Spiers,</HI> and upon the &s;ame &s;ide of the <HI>Rhine</HI>) perceiving the danger to be neere, and their friends to be farre off; voluntarily for&s;ake the town. The &s;ame doe their Countrimen (more Southerly) in <HI>Lindau, Wei&s;&s;enburg</HI> and <HI>Sultz;</HI> pretty townes all: and all neere upon the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and towards <HI>Strasburg.</HI> The garri&s;on of the &s;trong towne of <HI>&V;denheim</HI> (newly by the <HI>Spaniards</HI> called <HI>Philip&s;|burg</HI>) lying right almo&s;t again&s;t <HI>Germer&s;heim</HI> on the other &s;ide of the water, thinke pre&s;ently to repri&s;e <HI>Spiers</HI> againe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The actions about <HI>Spiers.</HI></NOTE> Two hundred of them therefore, &s;ecretly, in the la&s;t night of the yeere, wafting them&s;elues over the river at <HI>Rhinehau&s;en;</HI> lye there in clo&s;e ambu&s;h for &s;uch <HI>Partees,</HI> as &s;hould come in or out of the City. But Colonell <HI>Horneck</HI> (the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Gover|nour of <HI>Spiers</HI>) having an inckling of their forces and lodg|ing, &s;ets unawares upon them fir&s;t: kills eight; wounds ten; takes 18 pri&s;oners; drives a many into the river, and compells all to get them packing.</P>
<P>To beginne the <HI>New yeere</HI> withall, was the &s;trong towne of <HI>Manheim,</HI> (yea the &s;tronge&s;t of all the <HI>Palatinate</HI>) there
<PB N="60" REF="40"> &s;eated upon the <HI>Rhine,</HI> where the river <HI>Neckar</HI> flowes into it; by a pretty <HI>Stratageme</HI> &s;urpri&s;ed on this manner. Duke <HI>Bern|hard</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI> upon <HI>New-yeeres</HI> day at night, goes out with well-neere 500 men after him. The plot was &s;o laid, that he might come to the Ports of <HI>Manheim</HI> an houre or two before day-light the next morning. There hee pretended to come in great ha&s;te, naming him&s;elfe to be a Commander of &s;ome towne of their &s;ide; that having beene out upon a Partee that night, was thus beaten in thither by the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> who were now even ready to fall upon his Reere, as he fained. This was the tale he told to the Guards and Sentinels at the gate;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nheim</HI> &s;ur|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed.</NOTE> de&s;iring for Gods &s;ake to be let in pre&s;ently. Being be|leeved and admitted; hee cuts in pieces the next Court of guard, and to be briefe, kills well-neere 300 of the garri&s;on: layes hold upon <HI>Maravelli</HI> the Governour, and his Lieftenant-Colonell; giving quarter to none but to the <HI>Germanes. Mara|velli</HI> having (after a while) paid his ran&s;ome, mu&s;t needs pay for his folly too; which going afterwards into <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> he did: having his whole head there &s;trucken off, for the fault committed onely by his eares; which had, indeed, beene too credulous in a tru&s;t of &s;o much con&s;equence.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Heidleberg</HI> and <HI>Franckendale</HI> blockt up.</NOTE>And thus became <HI>Heidleberg</HI> and <HI>Franckendale</HI> to be blockt up: the townes were by this time taken round about them, and the Kings hor&s;e every where laid upon the pa&s;&s;ages. The gar|ri&s;ons, indeed, were very &s;trong in both of them; by rea&s;on &s;o many had thru&s;t in thither, that had beene turned out of other places. And yet this blocking up being not &s;trickt enough; the&s;e 2 garri&s;ons, together with that of <HI>Vdenheim,</HI> &s;tealing out &s;ometimes; did much mi&s;chiefe ever and anon among the neighbour villages. There was reported to have beene a di&s;&s;en|tion within <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> betwixt the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and the <HI>Bavarian</HI> &s;ouldiers. Certaine it is, that many En&s;ignes of the <HI>Bavarians</HI> &s;hortly after this for&s;ooke their garri&s;on, and went and put them&s;elues into <HI>Vdenheim.</HI> About this time al&s;o, was much of that goodly Ca&s;tle of <HI>Heidleberg</HI> &s;et on fire; either by the mi&s;|chiefe, or by the negligence of the &s;ouldiers.</P>
<PB N="61" REF="40">
<P>I mu&s;t for brevities &s;ake here omit the taking of the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Brunsfels</HI> (which is indeed &s;omething out of the way) into which I told you, that the garri&s;on of <HI>Fridberg</HI> went. The taking of the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Stein</HI> in the <HI>Berg|&s;traes</HI> mu&s;t al&s;o be pa&s;&s;ed over; as likewi&s;e &s;ome other actions about <HI>Strasburg,</HI> and <HI>Zabern:</HI> for I undertake not to relate eve|ry victory of the Kings, but the famou&s;e&s;t onely.</P>
<P>And here are we to turne the <HI>Scene:</HI> to leaue our di&s;cour&s;e of warres for a while; and to acquaint you with the treaties and overtures of a peace, de&s;ired by the <HI>Catholikes.</HI></P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty, you may ob&s;erve, had not beene per&s;onally abroad in the field (or not much) &s;ince his comming into <HI>Mentz:</HI> where his time was chiefely taken up, with giving of <HI>Audience</HI> and <HI>An&s;wers,</HI> unto tho&s;e many Amba&s;&s;adors which there waited upon him. There were the &s;everall Amba&s;&s;a|dors of <HI>France,</HI> of the 3 Spirituall <HI>Electors,</HI> (the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Mentz, Triers,</HI> and <HI>Cullen</HI>) and the Amba&s;&s;ador of him too that writes him&s;elfe Elector, the Duke of <HI>Bavaria.</HI> The chiefe bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of all the&s;e Amba&s;&s;adors, was but one and the &s;ame <HI>negotiation:</HI> to importune the King, namely, for a faire <HI>Neu|trality</HI> for the <HI>Catholike Leaguers;</HI> and if a <HI>Truce</HI> could not be obtained,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;tory o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Neutral<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> yet to procure a <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes</HI> (or <HI>Still-&s;tand</HI>) at the lea&s;t, while&s;t the conditions were a &s;ending vnto the <HI>Leaguers.</HI> The potente&s;t mediators (and indeed the earne&s;te&s;t) were the two <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;adors; one of which <HI>(Charnace)</HI> was reported to have &s;poken in &s;ome high language unto the King; and to have mentioned the greatne&s;&s;e and power of his Ma&s;ter, and the Army that he had now on foote. Vnto this, the King was &s;aid to have returned as couragious an an&s;wer: That he confe&s;&s;ed the greatne&s;&s;e of his Ma&s;ter; and yet if the <HI>French</HI> King would but give him a dayes march before him, he would meete him at <HI>Paris.</HI> It was &s;poken al&s;o, that one of the Amba&s;&s;adors &s;hould have obiected unto the King, his breach of the league betwixt his Ma&s;ter and Him; namely, by his comming over the <HI>Rhine:</HI> and that the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> &s;hould have an&s;wered that againe, with breach of Articles on
<PB N="62" REF="41"> the <HI>French</HI> &s;ide; in his failing of &s;ome payments agreed upon. But whereas (&s;ayes the King) two Armies will never agree well together in <HI>Germany;</HI> better therefore it were, that his Maie&s;ty of <HI>France</HI> would be plea&s;ed to turne his Armes again&s;t the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> &s;omewhere el&s;e: and leave the correction of what is ami&s;&s;e in the Empire unto my &s;elf. And thus (or &s;ome|what this way) became this controver&s;ie compounded: and the <HI>French</HI> King did indeed &s;end halfe his Army (which was at that time about <HI>Metz</HI> in <HI>Lorrayn</HI>) into the Elector of <HI>Triers</HI> his Country; to keepe the <HI>Spanyards</HI> from pa&s;&s;ing over the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> or encroaching upon that <HI>Electorate.</HI> And thus the former Ruffing being fairely over-&s;moothed againe; the Am|ba&s;&s;adours returned with more mildne&s;&s;e, to the &s;ollicitation of their former bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Thus the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> for his <HI>Colleague</HI> and brother of <HI>France</HI> his &s;ake, was drawne to con|&s;ent unto the <HI>Neutrality,</HI> upon the&s;e termes following: which him&s;elfe, in wi&s;edome, cau&s;ed to be publi&s;hed, for feare le&s;t &s;ome cunning adver&s;aries &s;hould for their honours and advan|tages, have &s;cattered abroad fal&s;e copies and rumors of them. Which for all that, was done notwith&s;tanding. The true Co|py whereof we here at large affoord you, as we have it out of the Latine.</P>
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<HEAD>Here followeth the true <HI>Articles</HI> of the <HI>Neutrality.</HI> With which I al&s;o forewarne my <HI>Reader,</HI> not to give cre|dit unto other Copies of the&s;e <HI>Articles,</HI> many having been di&s;per&s;ed. And in particular, tho&s;e 2 Copies in <HI>Gallobelgi|cus,</HI> pagg: 91. &amp; 92. which be both fal&s;e. As tho&s;e of his likewi&s;e pag. 105. concerning the <HI>Neutrality</HI> with <HI>Cullen.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HIS &s;acred Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden,</HI> taking &s;peciall notice of the de&s;ire which the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>Ca|tholike Leaguers</HI> have for obtaining a <HI>Neutrality;</HI> al|though by their making them&s;elues partyes with the Em|perour
<PB N="63" REF="41"> in the Warres, they had de&s;erved nothing of him but ho&s;tilitie: yet upon the earne&s;t interce&s;&s;ion of the <HI>mo&s;t Chri|&s;tian King</HI> pre&s;ented by his Amba&s;&s;adours; and to te&s;tifie withall his owne brotherly affection unto him: he is conten|ted to conclude the <HI>Neutralitie,</HI> upon the&s;e following con|ditions.</P>
<P>1. Let this <HI>Neutralitie</HI> be religiou&s;ly and inviolably kept with his &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden,</HI> his Kingdomes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The true A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">+cles of the <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+tralitie.</HI></NOTE> Dominions and Subjects, as well tho&s;e that are hereditary to him, as tho&s;e that have in <HI>Germany</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The King e&s;peciall (I&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> po&s;e) mean<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Franconia;</HI> which him&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> had incorpo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+ted and mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dukedome. Yea his Sou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+diours al&s;o c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+led <HI>Mentz, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Dukedome of Mentz,</HI> mor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> frequently th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>The Bi&s;hopri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Mentz.</HI></NOTE> beene conquered by him: as al&s;o with his Confederates, the Electors, Princes, Nobles, Cities, Com|mon-wealthes, Communalties and States, and with the Ele|ctor of <HI>Saxony</HI> in particular; by the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and his A&s;&s;ociates the Catholike Princes and States of <HI>Germany:</HI> who &s;hall al&s;o give &s;ufficient Caution unto His Maje&s;tie for the &s;ure keeping of it.</P>
<P>2. Let the &s;aid Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>Catholike</HI> Princes of <HI>Germany</HI> his Confederates, forbeare all acts of injury and ho|&s;tilitie; both towards His &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden,</HI> his Ar|my and Dominions now in his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; and towards his Confederates the <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> Electors, Princes, Earles, No|bles, Cities, Communalties, States, and all other <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> Profe&s;&s;ors of what condition &s;oever: and let them not by their Souldiours be trouble&s;ome hereafter unto them in their Dominions, upon any pretext what&s;oever; nor &s;uffer them to be di&s;turbed by any forces of the Emperours.</P>
<P>3. Let the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Catholike</HI> Princes of <HI>Germany,</HI> as many as are of the <HI>League,</HI> re&s;tore unto the <HI>E|vangeliacall</HI> Princes and States of what condition &s;oever, all and &s;ingular Strengths, Fortre&s;&s;es, Ca&s;tles, Cities, Territories and Countryes how many &s;oever, which in all the time of this Warre, begun in the yeere 1618, they have taken and kept from the <HI>Evangeliacks</HI> in the <HI>lower Saxony:</HI> and leave
<PB N="64" REF="42"> them in the &s;ame &s;tate they were in, before the beginning of the Warre.</P>
<P>4. Let the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> with the <HI>Catholike</HI> Princes of <HI>Germany</HI> his Confederates, withdraw all their Armyes out of the Countryes of the <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> Electors, Princes, and States, &s;o &s;oone as may be; &s;ending for the Souldiours into their owne Territories.</P>
<P>5. Let the Army of the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and of the Catho|like Princes of <HI>Germany</HI> his Confederates, be reduced to the number of 10000 or 12000 men: all the re&s;t being pre&s;ently ca&s;hiered. Which Army, let it be di&s;tributed and enquartered here and there among the Cities and proper Dominions of the &s;aid Princes, and not be kept together in one entire Body.</P>
<P>6. The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and his A&s;&s;ociates, the &s;aid Catho|like Princes of <HI>Germany,</HI> &s;hall not with the &s;aid Souldiours (being either ca&s;hiered or di&s;tributed among their Territories) give a&s;&s;i&s;tance either openly or under-hand, unto the Empe|rour or any other Prince, enemy unto His &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>7. Nor let the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and his Confederates the Catholike Princes of <HI>Germany,</HI> give leave unto the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> or any other what&s;oever enemy of His &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden;</HI> to rai&s;e &s;ouldiours, appoint places of Mu&s;ter or Rendezvous, buy up Armes, or make any other Mi|litary provi&s;ions within their Dominions: but let them eve|ry where ob&s;erve an inviolate and &s;incere <HI>Neutralitie.</HI></P>
<P>8. Let all their Pa&s;&s;ages be without deceit either open to ei|ther party, or &s;hut up, as it &s;hall be agreed upon: provided it be without all injury and domage unto the owner.</P>
<P>9. His &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden</HI> with his Confederates in
<PB N="65" REF="42"> like manner, &s;hall in no wayes offend the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> nor any Prince or State of the <HI>Catholike League,</HI> who&s;e Do|minions he is not yet Ma&s;ter of;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bi&s;hop o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Bamberg</HI> exce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ted out of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Treaty.</NOTE> excepting onely the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg:</HI> nor &s;hall hee lay any other kinde of Military impo&s;itions upon them: but &s;hall keepe and ob&s;erve a &s;incere <HI>Neutralitie</HI> with them.</P>
<P>10. All tho&s;e places of the <HI>Lower Palatinate</HI> what&s;oever, now taken away from the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> will His &s;acred Ma|je&s;ty re&s;tore unto the &s;aid Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> againe; untill by the mediation of the Kings of Great <HI>Britaine</HI> and of <HI>France,</HI> there be &s;ome friendly compo&s;ition made betwixt the Duke and the Prince <HI>Palatine;</HI> for which &s;ome &s;hort day &s;hall be appointed. So likewi&s;e will his Maje&s;tie re&s;tore unto the Archbi&s;hops of <HI>Triers</HI> and<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">By the Land|grave of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> in <HI>Cullens</HI> Bi|&s;hopricke of <HI>Paderborn.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cullen,</HI> what&s;oever places are ta|ken from them: the Citie of <HI>Spiers</HI> and the places now re|maining unto it, being<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Salv&acirc; civitat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spiren&s;i, &s;ibiqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> relicto.</NOTE> left entyer unto it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>11. All other countryes and places of the Catholike Princes and States (be&s;ides tho&s;e forenamed) already po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by His &s;acred Maje&s;tie: &s;hall not the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> nor the <HI>Ca|tholike</HI> Princes of <HI>Germany</HI> his Confederates, make demand of againe in any kinde; either by them&s;elves or by others: but &s;hall leave them in His Maje&s;ties hands untill &s;ome generall Treatie.</P>
<P>12. All States, Princes, Earles, Nobles, Cities and Communalties <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> who&s;oever will, may be under the protection of His &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden:</HI> nor &s;hall they to the pre|judice of the &s;aid protection be di&s;turbed any manner of way, either directly or indirectly, by the &s;aid <HI>Catholike</HI> Princes of <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
<P>13. Let all Commerce with his &s;acred Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden,</HI> his Subjects and <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> Confederates on the one party; and with the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>Catholicke</HI> Princes of
<PB N="66" REF="43"> <HI>Germany</HI> his confederates on the other party; be free and o|pen every where, and no wayes hindered.</P>
<P>14. Let all pri&s;oners on both &s;ides be delivered without ran|&s;ome, and in particular, let the Admini&s;trator of <HI>Magdenburg</HI> taken by <HI>Tilly,</HI> be forthwith &s;et at libertie, without prejudice.</P>
<P>15. For the better &s;ecuritie &s;hall the mo&s;t <HI>Christian</HI> King of <HI>France</HI> engage his Royall word, that the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and all other <HI>Catholike</HI> Princes, States, and Cities of <HI>Germa|ny</HI> his Confederates, &s;hall religiou&s;ly ob&s;erve this <HI>Neutralitie</HI> in all the Articles of it: which if they &s;hall infringe; then &s;hall hee declare him&s;elfe for his &s;acred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and fall with all his power upon the violaters, untill he hath compell'd them unto &s;atisfaction.</P>
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<P>The Articles beeing delivered unto the Amba&s;&s;adours, were with all <HI>po&s;t-ha&s;t,</HI> to be di&s;peeded away unto the &s;everall Prin|ces whom they concerned: and till &s;uch time as their an&s;wers could be brought backe againe (provided it were within 14. dayes) a Ce&s;&s;ation of armes was al&s;o a&s;&s;ented unto by the King for his partie; and undertaken for by the Amba&s;&s;adours, for the Princes and Armies on their partie. The King therefore to &s;hew his &s;incere meaning, thus &s;ignifies his plea&s;ure unto his Generals and Lieftenants where&s;oever.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Gu&s;tavus Adolphus</HI> by the Grace of God King of the <HI>Swedes,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Letters to his Lieftenants for a Truce.</NOTE>RIght tru&s;tie and wellbeloved, &amp;c. Wee will not con|ceale from you, how that the King of <HI>France</HI> hath made a kinde brotherly &s;ute unto Vs, by his Amba&s;&s;adours, for a <HI>Neutralitie</HI> betwixt Vs, and the Elector of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>Catholike League.</HI> Fora&s;much as Wee have thereupon fra|med certaine Articles, and delivered the &s;ame to the &s;aid Am|ba&s;&s;adours, who have promi&s;ed to bring Vs within the &s;pace of foureteene dayes a plaine declaration and confirmation thereupon; And in the meane while by vertue of their power to take order, That <HI>Pappenheim</HI> &s;hall forthwith withdraw
<PB N="67" REF="43"> him&s;elfe with his troopes out of <HI>We&s;tphalia</HI> and the Bi|&s;hopricke of <HI>Magdenburg:</HI> And likewi&s;e, That the forces of the Electors of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and of the <HI>Catholike League,</HI> &s;hould forthwith be called and drawne out of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> if any there &s;hould bee. For this rea&s;on, and for the furtherance of &s;uch a worke, and to gratifie withall our &s;aid good bro|ther the King of <HI>France:</HI> Wee have thought good to yeeld them &s;o &s;mall a time, and to ab&s;taine from all ho&s;tilitie, during the &s;aid foureteene dayes, again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Catholike League</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Bavaria:</HI> If &s;o bee that (according to the &s;aid promi&s;e) they doe behave them&s;elves in like manner; withdraw their forces, and u&s;e no ho&s;tilitie again&s;t Vs. Whereof Wee doe hereby give you notice: and withall doe will and command you, Forthwith to publi&s;h this &s;aid Ce&s;&s;a|tion of armes for foureteene dayes, throughout the armie which you doe command, (to which end Wee have di&s;|patched this Trumpet unto You) And thereupon to cea&s;e and ab&s;taine from all ho&s;tilitie, pillage, robbing, and other deeds of enmitie, again&s;t the &s;aid Elector of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>Catholike</HI> League, and during the &s;aid time to remaine quiet. But yet Wee have expre&s;&s;ely excepted (as the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adours doe know) and Wee doe intend, That &s;uch Townes, Places and Ca&s;tles which are now by Vs be&s;ieged and blocked up, &s;hall &s;o remaine be&s;ieged and blocked up: And that the be&s;ieged &s;hall have liberty during the &s;aid time, to treat, conclude, and compound with Vs; to deliver up the &s;aid places, and to depart from thence according to the agree|ment that &s;hall be made with them. This you are to ob&s;erve, and to governe your &s;elfe accordingly. And if &s;ome one or o|ther place be at this pre&s;ent by you be&s;ieged or blocked up; you are by no meanes to remove or depart from the &s;ame, but rather to continue &amp; fini&s;h the de&s;igne, with all your be&s;t endeavors; As being a thing no wayes contrary unto the &s;aid Ce&s;&s;ation of armes by Vs graunted, &amp;c. Given at <HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> the 10 of <HI>Ian.</HI> 1631.</P>
<P>The&s;e Letters of the Kings were (as you may perceive) da|ted at <HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> betwixt <HI>Mentz</HI> &amp; <HI>Franckford:</HI> through which His
<PB N="68" REF="44"> Maje&s;tie now went towards <HI>Hanaw,</HI> there to meete with his Royall <HI>Con&s;ort</HI> the Queene of <HI>Sweden,</HI> whom for twentie moneths before he had not &s;eene; that is, not &s;ince his com|ming out of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Of her Maje&s;ties arrivall at <HI>Wolga&s;t</HI> in <HI>Pomerland,</HI> wee told you in our <HI>Fir&s;t Part.</HI> Her Maje&s;tie therefore having in the beginning of Winter parted from that place to follow her Lord; and having &s;ince that pa&s;&s;ed away the time in <HI>Leip&s;ich, Dre&s;den</HI> and <HI>Ertfurt,</HI> (at which la&s;t place &s;hee was by agreement to have her re&s;idence:) ar|rived this very Tue&s;day night <HI>Ian.</HI> 10.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Queene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Sweden</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mes unto the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ng.</NOTE> at <HI>Hanaw</HI> afore&s;aid. The Queene (as tis reported) at fir&s;t meeting taking her Lord in her armes, <HI>Now,</HI> &s;aith Shee, <HI>you are my pri&s;oner.</HI> Which plea&s;antne&s;&s;e of hers was turned into earne&s;t, by that time it came into <HI>England:</HI> divers of tho&s;e that would have had it &s;o, confidently here giving it out, <HI>That the King of Sweden was taken pri&s;oner.</HI></P>
<P>But let us take notice how the <HI>Truce</HI> was ob&s;erved, in the&s;e 14 dayes <HI>interim,</HI> by tho&s;e that &s;o much de&s;ired it: &s;urely the King was not well u&s;ed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Neutrality</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ot ob&s;erved</NOTE> either by <HI>Bavaria, Pappenheim,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Newburg,</HI> or the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Triers</HI> his &s;ubiects.</P>
<P>As for the cunning Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> verily beleeved it is, that he meerely made u&s;e of the authority and favour of the French King in procuring of it; never purpo&s;ing to accept of &s;uch conditions as the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;adors thought conve|nient for him: the maine of his policy being to gaine time by it,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y the Duke of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avaria;</HI></NOTE> and to make the&s;e three advantages (among the re&s;t) of it.</P>
<P N="1">1. To &s;et forward his own preparations (which hee ne|ver intermitted) while&s;t the King &s;hould leave off his pro|&s;ecutions.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the <HI>Archduche&s;&s;e</HI> forces, (whom he had now in|telligence to be upon their march) might in this time get over the <HI>Mo&s;el</HI> into the <HI>Palatinate</HI> to entertaine the King there;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ho makes ad|vantages of it.</NOTE> that &s;o him&s;elfe might not as yet be lookt after. This plot tooke.</P>
<P N="3">3. That he might in the meane time get the better termes of the Emperor, for feare he &s;hould fall off, or become <HI>Neu|ter:</HI>
<PB N="69" REF="44"> unto whom at this very pre&s;ent he had di&s;patched an <HI>Am|ba&s;&s;ador.</HI> The contents of who&s;e Amba&s;&s;age we will (as we received it) communicate unto you afterwards; namely, where we relate the Dukes own Story, at the end of <HI>the Generall Tillyes Proceeding.</HI></P>
<P>The Emperor e&s;teeming (as it appeares) <HI>Bavaria</HI> more likely to &s;erue his turne, then <HI>Wallen&s;tein;</HI> gave &s;uch &s;atisfacti|on unto that Duke, as he was pre&s;ently accepted of, and <HI>Wal|len&s;teins</HI> imployment for a while went on the more &s;lowly: which affront how &s;o va&s;t and haughty a &s;pirit as <HI>Wal&s;teins</HI> would put up, let time di&s;cover. This was the u&s;e that <HI>Bava|ria</HI> made of this treaty of <HI>Neutrality.</HI></P>
<P>And as for the Earle of <HI>Pappenheim;</HI> he either had no no|tice of this <HI>Truce</HI> at all; or no purpo&s;e to take notice of any. For though he withdrew (indeed) his troopes out of <HI>Mag|denburg;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pappenheim</HI> ob&s;erues not the <HI>Truce,</HI></NOTE> yet was it not before he had &s;poyled it the &s;econd time. Nor were his forces utterly drawne out of <HI>We&s;tphalia:</HI> hee playing <HI>Rex</HI> about the latter end of the <HI>Truce</HI> in the Duchy of <HI>Lunenburg,</HI> the furthe&s;t corner of <HI>We&s;tphalia.</HI> Yea &s;o late it was ere he &s;tirred out of the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Magdenburg,</HI> that the King was upon his march as farre as <HI>Gelnhau&s;en</HI> (&s;ome 5 leagues to the North-Ea&s;t of <HI>Hanaw</HI>) to have gone again&s;t him, as it was reported.</P>
<P>Neither in the Archbi&s;hoprick of <HI>Triers</HI> was there a &s;incere <HI>Neutrality</HI> ob&s;erved:<NOTE PLACE="marg">nor tho&s;e of <HI>Triers.</HI></NOTE> &s;eeing the <HI>Spaniards</HI> in the <HI>Truce</HI> time had ready pa&s;&s;age thorow that Countrey. The Archbi&s;hop Elector him&s;elfe, &s;eemed, and was too, mo&s;t glad of this <HI>Neu|trality:</HI> and no wayes, perchance, con&s;enting for his part to this Pa&s;&s;age of the <HI>Spaniards:</HI> he having before this put him&s;elfe under the <HI>French</HI> Kings protection. Both which ob&s;ervations we may collect out of this his following letter of <HI>Declaration,</HI> written from his &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Herman&s;tein,</HI> unto the City of <HI>Triers</HI> and the re&s;t of his &s;ubiects, as here followeth.</P>
<P>I cannot conceale from your Honors,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Elector <HI>Triers</HI> letter u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the <HI>Neutr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+lity.</HI></NOTE> how graciou&s;ly it hath plea&s;ed Almighty God of late, to deliver both our &s;elues and Bi&s;hoprick, from our apparent, cruell and terrible enemy,
<PB N="70" REF="45"> the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> as in like manner al&s;o from that mo&s;t la|mentable and vn-chri&s;tian per&s;ecution, exerci&s;ed upon us by the <HI>Spaniards;</HI> which deliverance hath beene occa&s;ioned by meanes of the Duke of <HI>Bavaria:</HI> who by the well-meaning and heroicall mediation of his Maie&s;ty of <HI>France,</HI> hath not onely agreed upon a <HI>Neutrality</HI> with the &s;aid King of <HI>Sweden</HI> for the &s;aid Duke, but for others al&s;o. In which matter Our &s;elues have not beene negligent; but have by the mediation of the &s;aid King obtained, that both <HI>Wee</HI> and our <HI>Archbi&s;hopricke</HI> are now declared to be <HI>Neutrall:</HI> by which meanes, may the Princes of the Empire in generall, and your &s;elues in particular; be freed both from the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> and the <HI>Spani&s;h.</HI> To the end therefore that this <HI>Neutrality</HI> may inviolably be kept, both for Our good, and Our &s;ubiects; the &s;aid King of <HI>France</HI> (as <HI>Inter|ponent</HI>) hath offered his a&s;&s;i&s;tance royall: and for the remoove|ing of all incumbrances from us, hath promi&s;ed (if need were) to bring his Army into the Empire. Take comfort therefore, give God thanks, and pray unto him, that the promi&s;e may be &s;econded by the performance; and that this heauy puni&s;hment now lying upon us, may thereby be remooued. Your care in the meane time it mu&s;t al&s;o be, that tho&s;e daily in&s;olencies and per&s;ecutions committed upon us by the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> may for the time to come be re&s;olutely put by, and their yoke &s;haken off effectually. For this purpo&s;e &s;hall you cau&s;e this <HI>Neutrality</HI> in all places to be proclaimed: after which if any notwith&s;tan|ding &s;hall per&s;ecute us (as in the dioce&s;&s;e of <HI>Mentz</HI> it hath hapned:) or if upon occa&s;ion and pretence of <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tance, our Archbi&s;hoprick &s;hould fall into the hands of the <HI>Swe|di&s;h:</HI> Our &s;elues &s;hall remaine guiltle&s;&s;e of the matter; and the occa&s;ioners &s;hall be bound to an&s;wer for the &s;ame, unto <HI>God,</HI> the <HI>Pope,</HI> and all <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Potentates.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Herman&s;tein,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ianuary</HI> 14. 1631.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed underneath <HI>Philippus Chri&s;tofer.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<PB N="71" REF="45">
<P>Together with this <HI>Declaration,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Articles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Neutrality</HI> off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+red to tho&s;e of <HI>Triers.</HI></NOTE> were the&s;e 4 Articles fol|lowing, propounded unto the City of <HI>Triers;</HI> as being the termes upon which the <HI>Neutrality</HI> mu&s;t be obtained from the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>1. The pa&s;&s;age ouer the <HI>Rhine</HI> at the bridge of <HI>Coblents,</HI> to be granted unto the King.</P>
<P>2. The &s;trong Fort of <HI>Herman&s;tein,</HI> with all the Ordnance, &amp;c.<NOTE PLACE="marg">This Fort (which is the Archbi&s;hops Palace) &s;tan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the other &s;ide of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> right over again&s;t <HI>Coblentz,</HI> iu&s;t <HI>Lambeth</HI> hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is again&s;t <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">+min&s;ter.</HI></NOTE> to be al&s;o deliuered up unto him.</P>
<P>3. The &s;ouldiers there in garri&s;on, to take the oath of fideli|ty to his &s;aid Maie&s;ty.</P>
<P>4. A rea&s;onable competent &s;umme of money to bee contri|buted by the countrey, towards the payment of the Kings &s;ouldiers.</P>
<P>But the City of <HI>Triers</HI> would in no wi&s;e accept of the&s;e conditions; but immediately called in the <HI>Spaniards</HI> thereupon unto their a&s;&s;i&s;tance; granting pa&s;&s;age withall unto as many as would, over their bridge, to march into the <HI>Palatinate.</HI> Thus beganne the <HI>Spaniards</HI> to incorporate the chiefe townes of the Archbi&s;hoprick, the people &s;iding with them again&s;t their owne Prince the Elector. So, notwith&s;tanding that the former letter were wi&s;ely written unto them; both for ma|king of them &s;en&s;ible of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> in&s;olencies (as he termes them;) and to prepare them withall for entertaining of the <HI>French</HI> forces: yet had the <HI>Spaniards</HI> &s;o great a power and faction in the Country, and in the <HI>Archiepi&s;copall Chapter</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>Triers</HI> likewi&s;e; that they procured &s;o much bandying among&s;t the Clergy again&s;t their Archbi&s;hop; as neere they went, afterwards, of depriving him. And had not the <HI>French</HI> army (under the command of the Mar&s;hall <HI>De la Force</HI>) pre&s;ently &s;trucke in upon it; both Bi&s;hop and Bi|&s;hoprick had beene in danger, to have at once beene &s;wallow|ed up by the <HI>Spani&s;h.</HI></P>
<PB N="72" REF="46">
<P>The Elector perceiving his former letters to doe no good among his &s;ubiects; &s;ends forth his &s;econd <HI>Proclamation</HI> for the ridding of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> out of his Countrey: dated the fourteenth of <HI>February</HI> following.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Elector of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iers</HI> his Pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">mation a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">in&s;t the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">aniards,</HI></NOTE>VVHereas &s;o much is by this time apparent, as the mo&s;t Reverend and Illu&s;trious Prince <HI>Philippus Chri&s;tofer,</HI> Elector, &amp;c. hath timely enough heretofore mi&s;doubted, how that the enquarterings of the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> and the offering of their &s;ervice in his Archbi&s;hoprick, would mini&s;ter occa&s;i|on unto the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> to draw neerer and neerer unto the country, (&s;ome of them, indeed, having already very neere approached unto his towne of <HI>Coblentz</HI>) and that his Electo|rall Highne&s;&s;e was afraid thereby to be bereaved of &s;uccours convenient for his Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ehrenbreit&s;tein;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mely, when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ke <HI>Boppart:</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ich is within <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> leagues of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lentz.</HI></P>
<P><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">renbreit&s;tein</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tle, is the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ne with <HI>Her|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;tein</HI> Ca&s;tle.</P></NOTE> in regard that on the one &s;ide, the <HI>Spaniards</HI> had already made them&s;elues Ma|&s;ters of the chiefe Quarters and Pa&s;&s;ages; and that on the o|ther &s;ide, the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> had thereby beene invited into tho&s;e pla|ces: to prevent therefore all further mi&s;chiefe, it was by his &s;aid <HI>Electorall</HI> Highne&s;&s;e at this time required, That all and every <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> officers of what condition &s;oever, &s;hall imme|diately with all their troopes march foorth of his Archbi&s;hop|ricke; &s;ome rea&s;onable &s;atisfaction being by them given unto his &s;ubjects, for the domages &s;u&s;teyned by them. His High|ne&s;&s;e can &s;ee no cau&s;e or rea&s;on, why hereafter hee &s;hould ac|cept of any Orders or Commanders, (contrary unto the <HI>Con|&s;titutions</HI> of the Empire) either from the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> or <HI>Imperiall Commi&s;&s;aries:</HI> hee well tru&s;ting to bee as able now, as hereto|fore he hath beene, to keepe up and maintaine his owne Forts and pa&s;&s;ages: provided, that his meanes were no longer dreynd away, his nece&s;&s;ary &s;uccours hindered, and his pa&s;&s;ages not encumbred. If therefore after all this warning, the <HI>Swe|di&s;h</HI> party (now growing daily &s;tronger both in Hor&s;e and Foot,) &s;hould come to a&s;&s;ault the &s;aid <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> or <HI>Imperiall</HI> for|ces; or his own &s;ubiects driven into de&s;paire, &s;hould fall foule upon them: his Electorall Dignity hereby prote&s;teth him|&s;elfe
<PB N="73" REF="46"> innocent in the matter; and to &s;tand excu&s;ed for it, by this his faire and friendly admonition. And thus much hath his Highne&s;&s;e thought good to publi&s;h, for every mans direction.</P>
<P>As for the Duke of <HI>Newburg,</HI> though he as yet per&s;o|nally did nothing again&s;t this <HI>Neutrality;</HI> yet he afterwards &s;uffered <HI>Tilly</HI> to take his towne of <HI>Newburg</HI> in <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and then &s;ent his Amba&s;&s;ador to the King, to iu&s;tifie that it was not again&s;t the <HI>Neutrality.</HI></P>
<P>Thus have wee &s;eene how badly this <HI>Neutrality</HI> was ob|&s;erved: and had it not by much importunity beene wre&s;ted from the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg">What hopes the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> lo&s;t, by yeelding to this <HI>Truce.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Heidleberg</HI> and <HI>Franckendale</HI> (tis verily belee|ved) had beene his own; and <HI>Cullen</HI> too, perchance, after that: <HI>Gustavus Horn</HI> might by that time likewi&s;e, have made him|&s;elfe Ma&s;ter of <HI>Forcheim,</HI> and then might <HI>Tilly</HI> have ca&s;t his cap at him. Nor would <HI>He&s;&s;en, Lunenburg, Todt, Bremen,</HI> and <HI>Banier,</HI> have &s;uffered <HI>Pappenheim</HI> &s;o freely to have roaved up and down at his own plea&s;ure: nor had the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> finally, &s;o quietly advanced them&s;elues over the <HI>Mo&s;ell.</HI> But the <HI>French</HI> Kings honour then lay upon it; he to retaine the opinion of &s;till being a <HI>Catholike,</HI> mu&s;t needes doe &s;omething for that Religion; and the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> out of an abundant good|ne&s;&s;e of nature, knew not how to deny &s;uch his importunity. The&s;e inconveniences, doe wi&s;e men &s;uffer them&s;elues to be &s;ometimes put unto by their Friends; even after they have warned tho&s;e Friends, of their fore&s;ight of the&s;e inconveni|ences. Thus came this Treaty of <HI>Neutrality</HI> unto a meere nothing; the onely advantage which the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> made of it, was the re&s;ting and refre&s;hing of his Army: which is a duty of nature that all men owe vnto their bodies. For though the <HI>affections</HI> and <HI>motions</HI> of the <HI>Soule,</HI> be (like the Soule it &s;elfe) <HI>re&s;tle&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Spirituall:</HI> yet were it extremity of inju|&s;tice, to exact &s;o much labour and continuance of a corpulent and re&s;tive body, which is but mortall; as the Soule were wil|ling at all times to require of it, which is vntireable by being immortall. Turne we from <HI>Words</HI> now, vnto <HI>Deeds</HI> againe.</P>
<PB N="74" REF="47">
<P>Ian. 20. towards evening, his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> returnes with his Queene into <HI>Franckford:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urnes into <HI>Franckford.</HI></NOTE> which was &s;ome 4 dayes before the expiring of the <HI>Truce.</HI> No &s;ooner were they out, but the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> falls upon <HI>Kirckberg</HI> in the <HI>Huntsruck,</HI> and takes it in by a&s;&s;ault; where 147 <HI>Italians</HI> and <HI>Burgundians</HI> were put to the &s;word: 100 <HI>Germanes</HI> requited the &s;aving of their lives, by becomming the Kings &s;ouldiers. The <HI>Germanes</HI> (we are to know) are every where &s;pared: the delivery of their nation, being the thing that the King profe&s;&s;eth to come for, into <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
<P>In this time of the <HI>Truce,</HI> had 10000 <HI>Spaniards</HI> with long and continued marches gotten out of the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> up to the river of <HI>Mo&s;el;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;e the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI></NOTE> and had already pa&s;&s;ed betwixt three and 4000. men: the two Regiments, namely, of the Count of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> and <HI>Torquato.</HI> The <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> thereupon drawing all his forces out of <HI>Boppart, Overwe&s;el,</HI> and other places in the Duchy of <HI>Simmern,</HI> and country of <HI>Triers;</HI> &s;ets amaine upon the&s;e 2 Regiments:<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re defeated by the <HI>Rhinegrave.</HI></NOTE> whereof one he utterly overthrew, forcing the other to retire into the fa&s;tne&s;&s;e of a wood. Here were 7 Colours obtained, and afterwards pre&s;ented vnto the King at <HI>Mentz:</HI> and about 3 dayes after, Rit-Ma&s;ter <HI>Humes</HI> a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> man, brings in the eighth. The <HI>Spaniards</HI> re&s;olving not to put it up &s;o; &s;uddenly pa&s;&s;e over 1800 hor&s;e, and di&s;po&s;ing one Foot-Regiment in clo&s;e ambu&s;h; with the re&s;t of their &s;trength, tempt the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> unto the encounter. He ho|ping of the former fortune,<NOTE PLACE="marg">They defeate the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> againe.</NOTE> though he had but 600 hor&s;e in all with him: lo&s;t in the cloze of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;ome 300 men; him&s;elfe and all the re&s;t being put to the retreat, and the young Earle of <HI>Na&s;&s;au</HI> of <HI>Sarbrucken</HI> left behind him, wounded and taken pri&s;oner. The <HI>Spaniards</HI> after this, advanced more bold|ly thorow the <HI>Huntsruck;</HI> and &s;o onwards towards <HI>Francken|dale.</HI> But newes being Febr. 4. brought unto the King at <HI>Franckford,</HI> of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> &s;econd pa&s;&s;ing of the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> and of the <HI>Rhinegraves</HI> defeate; his Maje&s;ty with all &s;peed pa&s;&s;es unto <HI>Mentz,</HI> to goe after his Army: which upon the fir&s;t hearing of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> comming, had beene &s;ent on|wards
<PB N="75" REF="47"> towards the <HI>Mo&s;el.</HI> The Hor&s;e which lay enquartered along the <HI>Berg&s;traes,</HI> had beene &s;et over the <HI>Rhine</HI> by <HI>Oppen|heim:</HI> &s;ome Regiments of Foot having order pre&s;ently to pa&s;&s;e downe the &s;treame of the &s;ame river, towards <HI>Baccharah.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vpon the fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Kings comming a|gaine retirin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Of the neere approaching of the&s;e forces, and of the Kings com|ming after them, the <HI>Spaniards</HI> now hearing; voluntarily and of them&s;elues, retire over the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> backe againe into <HI>Lux|emberg.</HI> And here they containe them&s;elues from comming over againe, vntill <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> following: at which time they heard the King to be utterly gone out of the <HI>Palatinate.</HI></P>
<P>And now begins the valiant Duke <HI>Bernard</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Wey|mar,</HI> to imploy his time and forces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The remain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Bi&s;hop+ricke of <HI>Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> taken.</NOTE> again&s;t the remnants of the Electorate of <HI>Mentz:</HI> by taking whereof, that whole Coun|try became univer&s;ally &s;ubiect unto the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>Vpon Thur&s;day Febr. 9.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Babenhau&s;en</HI> covered, by a Count of <HI>J&s;|berg.</HI></NOTE> was the Count of <HI>I&s;enberg</HI> (as I take it) &s;ent to repri&s;e <HI>Babenhau&s;en:</HI> which Towne and Ca|&s;tle, <HI>Tilly</HI> had before taken from the Count of <HI>Hanaw.</HI> Vpon the &s;ight now of 50 <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Rutters or Hor&s;emen, and a&s;&s;u|rance of more forces that followed; the garri&s;on came to com|po&s;ition, and yeelded to the Count of <HI>I&s;enberg.</HI> The King re|&s;tores it vnto the Count of <HI>Hanaw.</HI></P>
<P>The better to keepe the Country towards the <HI>Mo&s;el</HI> here|after, the King re&s;olues upon the taking of <HI>Creutzenach,</HI> a faire towne of the <HI>Palatinate</HI> upon the river <HI>Nau;</HI> in the very Frontiers of the Duchy of <HI>Simmern,</HI> and belonging vnto Prince <HI>Lodowick Philip</HI> Duke of <HI>Simmern,</HI> brother to the E|lector <HI>Palatine.</HI> Vnto this worke while&s;t the King was a pre|paring, his Maie&s;ty of <HI>Bohemia, Fredericke</HI> Prince Elector <HI>Palatine,</HI> timely and &s;afely there arrived. His Maie&s;ty was waited upon by my Lord <HI>Craven;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnto the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></NOTE> and had beene lovingly ac|commodated by the Lords the <HI>States Generall</HI> for &s;uch a iour|ney, and honourably convoyed at their command with 2500 hor&s;e, which waited upon his Maje&s;ty out of the <HI>Low-Coun|tries,</HI> till he had pa&s;&s;ed all the danger. This Prince pa&s;&s;ing tho|row <HI>He&s;&s;en, Hanaw,</HI> and the <HI>Wetteraw;</HI> recovered into <HI>Franck|ford</HI> by Friday 10 a clocke, Febr. 10. going the next day unto
<PB N="76" REF="48"> the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> then at <HI>Hoest;</HI> betwixt whom there was a mo&s;t loving interview. The 2 Kings and Queene of <HI>Sweden,</HI> returned in all faire manner the &s;ame evening, into <HI>Franckford.</HI> Sunday next (being <HI>Shrove-Sunday</HI>) he was royally fea&s;ted by both their Maie&s;ties of <HI>Sweden;</HI> who at every word gave him the Stile of <HI>King of Bohemia:</HI> which re&s;pect the young Landt|grave of <HI>Darm&s;tat</HI> once omitting, (who&s;e Father had beene no good neighbour to this Elector) the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> ex|pre&s;&s;ed much di&s;plea&s;ure at him for it. Wonderfull welcome was this Prince unto his owne &s;ubiects of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> who every way ranne out to &s;ee his Maie&s;ty, with infinite expre&s;&s;ions of ioy and contentation;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> welcome to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> own people.</NOTE> with many a hearty pray|er, and teare, and high &s;ounding acclamation. The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> (tis &s;aid) in one of their fir&s;t di&s;cour&s;es, told the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> of the enemies great &s;trength, and the difficulty him&s;elfe had thereupon; to hold the countries which he had already overrunne: and that he was con&s;trained therefore, to keepe many and &s;trong garri&s;ons in the townes of the <HI>Palati|nate.</HI> But this he a&s;&s;ured his Maie&s;ty withall, that he de&s;ired nothing more, then to be able to re&s;tore it wholly vnto him; and to &s;ee him once againe well &s;ettled in it.</P>
<P>The&s;e entertainements being overpa&s;&s;ed; the King of <HI>Swe|den</HI> &s;trives to prevent the Spring, by bringing an earlier &s;how of <HI>Colours</HI> into the field, then <HI>Flora</HI> had yet put forth any. Vpon Thur&s;day Febr. 16. he fir&s;t &s;ets forward from <HI>Franck|ford</HI> to <HI>Mentz,</HI> and &s;o onwards towards <HI>Creutzenach:</HI> the King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> following, and lying at <HI>Oppenheim.</HI> Before the Kings arrivall at <HI>Creutzenach,</HI> had the Boores of the Country taken up all the pa&s;&s;ages upon the hills, and kept a very order|ly watch again&s;t the enemies in the towne: thus &s;hewing their love and diligence to doe &s;ome &s;ervice for their new-come Prince. On Saturday Febr. 18. the King fir&s;t pre&s;ented a &s;mall army of 1800 foot, &s;ome few troopes of hor&s;e, and 4 halfe Cannons, before the town; becau&s;e he &s;uppo&s;ed to make but an ea&s;ie worke of it. This towne is &s;ituated 5 little <HI>Dutch</HI> miles from <HI>Mentz,</HI> and 10 from <HI>Franckford;</HI> in as plea&s;ant and
<PB N="77" REF="48"> rich a &s;oyle, as any of the <HI>Palatinate.</HI> The river <HI>Nau</HI> or <HI>Nah,</HI> runnes thorow the mid&s;t of it; which beeing cro&s;&s;ed by a Bridge, betwixt two Market places, gives name unto the Towne: <HI>Creutzenach,</HI> &s;ignifying <HI>Cro&s;&s;ing the Nah.</HI> A faire Ca&s;tle it hath upon the hill, which before the&s;e Warres was a dwelling hou&s;e onely: the loftie &s;ituation giving it the com|mand over the Towne. Both Towne and Ca&s;tle had &s;ome 600 men in garri&s;on:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;iege of <HI>Creutzenach.</HI> The Story whereof wee have received partly from a Letter writte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Commander unto my Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Reay:</HI> and par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ly from the R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+lation by wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of mouth mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by Sir <HI>Jaac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> A&s;hlye,</HI> at h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> late being in <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> whereof one halfe almo&s;t were <HI>Ger|manes,</HI> and the re&s;t <HI>Wallons</HI> and <HI>Burgundians.</HI> They had a Ma|gazine of bread and wine, for twelue moneths provi&s;ion. The fir&s;t view the King tooke of the Towne, was upon the lowe&s;t &s;ide; and where he had thought to have begun: but that he found &s;o well fortified with Outworkes, Seconds, and Retreats, one worke within another, that he call'd them the <HI>Divels workes.</HI> He quickly di&s;covered, that there was no attempting that way: yea judged by the be&s;t &s;ouldiours it was, that it could not have beene a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of le&s;&s;e then a fort|night or three weekes time, to have ma&s;tered all the&s;e works, and &s;o to have come at the Towne. Altering his cour&s;e there|fore, and deviding his little Army into two parts, hee by faire day light brings them on by another &s;ide, and lodges them within Musket &s;hot, or 150 pa&s;es of the very walles: yea Lieftenant Colonell <HI>George Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> (a brave &s;ouldiour then newly come up to the King) having fir&s;t runne his lines, &s;ets him&s;elfe downe with &s;ome three hundred men, (the mo&s;t of them being the &s;ame <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> that had <HI>&s;tormed Oppenheim</HI> Ca|&s;tle) even in the very Port. Here lay <HI>Dougla&s;&s;e</HI> all the night following: notwith&s;tanding the place were &s;o hot, that the enemy kill'd him &s;ome 47 men, with their &s;hooting upon him; both from the walles, and Port aboue him.</P>
<P>On Sunday, the King tooke a full view of the Ca&s;tle on the lands &s;ide; which he found to be regularly and modernly for|tified, and &s;o well flancked with &s;mall workes one within an|other, that hee called it the <HI>Divels head.</HI> His Maje&s;tie now finding, both Towne and Ca&s;tle likely enough to di&s;pute the matter with him; immediatly &s;ends to <HI>Mentz</HI> for more ar|guments:
<PB N="78" REF="49"> whence the next day two more Regiments and all his Cannon both great and &s;mall came unto him. Two of the&s;e Cannons the King cau&s;es to be planted before the Ports: wher|with there was a breach made, thorow which the Towne was entred. Skaling ladders are immediately &s;et unto the Breach, and divers gotten in, whereof while&s;t &s;ome are ear|ne&s;t in beating away the garri&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Towne <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onne.</NOTE> others are as bu&s;ie with &s;ho|vels and pickaxes to throw away the hor&s;e-dung from the in|&s;ide of the Sally-port, with which it had beene mured and damm'd up. This Port Lieftenant Colonell <HI>Dowgla&s;&s;e</HI> imme|diately forcing open, brings in his men that way al&s;o.</P>
<P>The garri&s;on perceiving the Towne to bee wonne, runne immediately towards the Ca&s;tle: fleeing &s;o fa&s;t, that they had no time to breake downe the bridge. One thing was here ve|ry remarkeable and wondered at, by &s;uch &s;trangers as were not before acquainted with the exact ju&s;tice of the <HI>Swedi&s;h Di&s;cipline:</HI> namely, that the Kings &s;ouldiours beeing now <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> of the Towne, marched &s;o civilly thorow the &s;treets, and &s;o quietly placed them&s;elves in their order upon the Mar|ket places; that no man &s;o much as offered to &s;tirre out of his rancke, to plunder or ran&s;ack any hou&s;e or per&s;on: nor once to knocke at a doore which they found &s;hut.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The civilitie of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ouldiours.</NOTE> The Burgers ad|miring at this civilitie in the &s;ouldiours, begin to put off all feare of having their hou&s;es rifled; and after an houre and halfe (or &s;uch a matter) begin to take &s;o much courage unto them&s;elves, as to looke out at the windowes; and the &s;ight of the &s;ouldiours becomming more familiar unto them, they open their doores, and with much plentie and heartine&s;&s;e, unaskt; bring forth bread and wine unto them; making wonderfull expre&s;&s;ions of their joy, that they were &s;o well rid of their overburthen&s;ome garri&s;on; that their towne was now falne into the Kings hands; and above all, that their naturall Prince the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> was now &s;o neere at hand with them. In &s;igne of all freedome, were their doores &s;et open; and di|vers Gentlemen were even invited into their hou&s;es: Yea a Commander of our Nation going into a hou&s;e to write a Let|ter,
<PB N="79" REF="49"> found him&s;elfe even di&s;turbed with their pre&s;&s;ing of courte&s;ies upon him; with urging him to eate and drinke with them; with expre&s;&s;ing their joy; and with asking que&s;tions about their Prince.</P>
<P>The towne thus wonne, the enemy from the Ca&s;tle on the hill (which hung over the towne) &s;hot amaine into the &s;treets,<NOTE PLACE="marg">This was not Lieftenant Co+lonell <HI>Dow|gla&s;&s;e.</HI></NOTE> and there was Captaine <HI>Dowgla&s;&s;e</HI> &s;hot thorow the heart. That men might therefore goe up and downe unaym'd at, was there a Blind drawne cro&s;&s;e the &s;treete next unto the Ca&s;tle. The Ca&s;tle hill is very &s;teepe; and &s;o neere unto the Towne, that the foot of it even touches the very hou&s;es: nor is there any wall betweene. The Ca&s;tle it &s;elfe was of no &s;trength; it was the &s;ituation onely, and the continued works, (from the very top unto the bottom almo&s;t) which made it &s;o &s;trong a place. The Second view of it, was at a di&s;tance taken by the King the &s;ame Munday night; when him&s;elfe going prying up and downe at the foot of it, was the formo&s;t man; his great Commanders comming all hard behind him. All this time did the Enemy out of their next workes, &s;hoot and fling &s;tones and firebrands amayne at him:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King in &s;ome danger i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> viewing of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ca&s;tle.</NOTE> one &s;tone being &s;aid to have hit him upon the head, and mi&s;&s;ed but little of having brayned him. The Kings &s;ight being naturally none of the &s;harpe&s;t at a di&s;tance, hee looking behind him, &s;pyes a Serge|ant (whom hee very well knew) to whom hee immediately calles by his name; Come hither Thou, &s;uch a one; thou &s;halt have 100 Dollars to goe up and &s;ee what the enemy doth in the next <HI>Traver&s;e,</HI> and to bring mee a perfect view of what thou there di&s;covere&s;t. The Sergeant did &s;o, came downe &s;afe|ly, and had his money. Being downe, the King laying him|&s;elfe along the &s;loape of the hill; upon his backe almo&s;t, (that is, more upon his backe then upon his &s;ide) commands the Ser|geant to come and lye upon him, and to &s;hew him what hee had di&s;covered. The Sergeant did &s;o: laid him&s;elfe &s;o upon the King, that his backe lying upon the Kings bo&s;ome and bre&s;t, and his further arme over the Kings &s;houlder, (both their faces being towards the enemy) hee there points with
<PB N="80" REF="50"> his other hand towards the <HI>Traver&s;e,</HI> to de&s;cribe the enemies po&s;ture unto the King. But the Kings Iudgement (which is a Curious one) being not yet &s;atisfied; he commands off the Sergeant, and clambers up him&s;elfe to the very corner of that <HI>Traver&s;e:</HI> where having &s;atisfied him&s;elfe, he at his comming downe &s;peakes it aloud unto his army, Now will I have this Ca&s;tle by to morrow five a clocke.</P>
<P>In&s;tantly thereupon was there order given to begin the Ap|proaches: and that night they brake the ground about three pikes length from the ri&s;ing of the hill, under the enemies workes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Appro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes begun by Rowling Tren|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hes.</NOTE> A line being here runne, 80 Muskettyers were lod|ged in it before morning. The hill being &s;tony in many places, the &s;ouldiers were faine to breake it with pickaxes; and to climbe up that &s;teepy place with great difficultie, &s;carce able to hold their feet many times. At the end of this fir&s;t line, was there (the next morning) another line runne, even unto the point of a great <HI>Ravelin</HI> of the enemies. In this Trench, my Lord Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hamilton</HI> (out of his de&s;ire to &s;atisfie and en|forme him&s;elfe) beeing &s;omething farre advanc't alone by him&s;elfe; was friendly advi&s;ed by the King not to be &s;o haz|zardous, nor to adventure his per&s;on &s;ingly, &s;o neere unto the enemies.</P>
<P>The lines being by Tue&s;day night perfected, a myne was pre&s;ently digged; directly under the <HI>Ravelin</HI> afore&s;aid. This being the next day fini&s;hed, the King cau&s;ed about three a clocke in the afternoone to be &s;prung. The myne, tis true, &s;prung not altogether &s;o cleerely forward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A mine Sprung.</NOTE> as it might have done, but &s;omething backwards withall; whereby &s;ome of the &s;ouldiers pa&s;&s;ages were encumbred with loo&s;e earth and rubbi&s;h. And yet all con&s;idered, it wrought well enough: &s;eeing it blew open the point of the &s;aid <HI>Ravelin,</HI> huffing up many of the Defendants into the ayre, and leaving the re&s;t more naked and open within the worke. Hereupon was the a&s;&s;ault given, in this following manner:</P>
<P>Colonell <HI>Winckle</HI> commanding in Chiefe over the foot; three Captaines of his Regiment with &s;ome 350 men, and
<PB N="81" REF="50"> divers <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>French</HI> Gentlemen voluntiers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The a&s;&s;ault.</NOTE> came fir&s;t into the breach: among all which, my Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> Liefte|nant-Colonell <HI>Talbot,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Robert Mar&s;ham,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Henry Wind,</HI> marched in the fir&s;t File. The Hill was &s;o &s;teepe where they approached, that the enemy by darting downe of Parti&s;ans and Halberts, ca&s;ting downe of great &s;tones, flinging of Fire-brands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Swedes</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ing beaten <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> and rowling downe of great pieces of Timber, forced the a&s;&s;aylants unto a retreate. And whereas other &s;oldiours would roundly have come run|ning off; the&s;e onely turned a&s;ide a little under the enemies <HI>Ravelin,</HI> where they &s;tood &s;afely enough. In this fir&s;t &s;er|vice, was Lieftenant-Colonell <HI>Talbot</HI> &s;hot in the Shoulder: who being rowled downe the Hill, was fetcht off by Ma&s;ter <HI>Mar&s;ham,</HI> and led into the Towne. The King, (then at the Foote of the Hill) perceiving his men to be beaten off; call them <HI>Pultrons,</HI> and all to be-cowardied them: pre&s;ently commanding the skaling-ladders to be in another place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">fall on againe.</NOTE> &s;et unto the Rampier of the <HI>Ravelin.</HI> And heere his Maje&s;ty ha|ving taken notice of the valour of my Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> in a fa|miliar and encouraging manner claps him upon the Shoulder, bidding him to goe on againe. The young Lord did &s;o: and was the very fir&s;t man, that gained up to the top; where he valiantly came to pu&s;h of pike with the enemy: him&s;elfe receiving an honorable wound with the thru&s;t of an Halbert in his thigh; which was not found to be dangerous. Tho&s;e of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Gentlemen before named, behaved them&s;elves right couragiou&s;ly; being next unto my Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> and in the very heate of the danger. And this was the manner of the fight, for two houres together almo&s;t; the defendants bearing them&s;elves like tall Souldiours. At la&s;t, the <HI>High-Dutch</HI> being in mutiny with the <HI>Wallons</HI> and <HI>Burgundians,</HI> (who were re&s;olved to defend the place) one of the enemies began to &s;peake of Quarter, and of Termes of yeelding:<NOTE PLACE="marg">A very good &s;ervice done by the Lord <HI>Craven.</HI></NOTE> which the Lord <HI>Craven</HI> (who was &s;till the forme&s;t man) wi&s;ely apprehending; reaches out his hand unto one of the enemies Captaines, and undertooke upon his honour to bring
<PB N="82" REF="51"> him to the King. The enemies Muskets hereupon gave over playing; though the Kings ordnance (of which he had got|ten two &s;mall peeces mounted from the bridge of the Town) &s;till continued &s;hooting.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The be&s;ieged <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rly.</NOTE> The King told the Captaine to this purpo&s;e. That hee and his fellowes had made him lo&s;e his time, had kild his men, and that they de&s;erved but ill conditi|ons at his hand: yet neverthele&s;&s;e he was contented upon their &s;ubmitting to his mercy, and pre&s;ent laying downe of Armes, to let them goe out with bag and baggage, and with their &s;words; but not with their Colours: which, &s;aith the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd yeeld.</NOTE> you &s;hall leave all furled up together in one Chamber, and &s;o march forth of the Ca&s;tle. The&s;e hard conditions were con&s;ented unto: for which, the imputation mu&s;t re&s;t upon the Commanders, and not upon the &s;ouldiours; who did their duties like tall fellowes. The King hereupon calls off his men from the a&s;&s;ault, and &s;ent a guard pre&s;ently into the Ca&s;tle. The next morning being Wedne&s;day, Ianu. 22. the King entred the place; giving the enemyes leave to depart with their Armes and baggage, but not with their Colours: adding again this further condition, That they &s;hould not &s;erve again&s;t him in &s;ixe moneths, on this &s;ide the <HI>Mo&s;el:</HI> marry if they found him on the other &s;ide, let them doe their wor&s;t and &s;pare not. To convoy them over that River, the King now a&s;&s;igned them hor&s;e and carriages: where they might tell their fellowes the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> that it was now too late for them to come to the reliefe of <HI>Creutzenach;</HI> which, it was given out, they would againe have pa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Mo&s;el</HI> to have done. The <HI>Germanes</HI> tooke pre&s;ent pay for the Kings &s;ervice.</P>
<P>There were lo&s;t on the Kings &s;ide, tho&s;e three Captaines of Colonell <HI>Winckles</HI> Regiment, Lieftenant-Colonell <HI>Talbot,</HI> who was the very next man unto my Lord <HI>Craven:</HI> Captaine <HI>Dow|gla&s;&s;e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The lo&s;&s;es on the Kings &s;ide.</NOTE> a <HI>French</HI> Marque&s;&s;e, Brother to the Duke of <HI>Mam|brun,</HI> with two or three other <HI>French</HI> Gentlemen of quality: and of common &s;ouldiors 250. Hurt men: Colonell <HI>Winckle</HI> him&s;elfe, who was &s;hot in the foote; my Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> wounded in the thigh, &amp;c. Sir <HI>Francis Vane,</HI> (brother to the
<PB N="83" REF="51"> Earle of <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI>) &s;hot in the huckle bone; Ma&s;ter <HI>Ro|bert Mar&s;ham,</HI> hurt with a Firebrand, and a large &s;tone on the thigh; Ma&s;ter <HI>Wynd,</HI> &s;hot in the &s;houlder: with &s;ome others. Captaine <HI>Ram&s;ye</HI> Quarter-ma&s;ter to my Lord Mar|que&s;&s;e <HI>Hamilton,</HI> was made Governour of the Towne. The King gave order for new fortifications, leaving 300 men in it: and directions where to have 300 more, upon occa&s;ion. The Magazine or Storehou&s;e, he would not have opened nor meddled withall, but to be &s;upplied onely by exchanging new for old, either of wine or victuals. The &s;ouldiours in the meane time, he wills to be fed by the Burgers. All this being done, the King returnes againe towards <HI>Franckeford.</HI></P>
<P>By this time had Duke <HI>Bernard</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The re&s;t of Bi&s;hopricke <HI>Mentz</HI> take<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> taken in the re&s;idue of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Mentz</HI> his townes. In the Duchy of <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> bordering South of the <HI>Palatinate;</HI> all things likewi&s;e wrought &s;ucce&s;&s;iuely. <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne</HI> had taken <HI>Hailbrun</HI> with other Townes of that Duchy, the <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> before. The Imperiall garri&s;on of <HI>Shorndorff</HI> in Ianuary after, begins to tru&s;&s;e up, carrying their ordnance with them to <HI>Dien&s;burg:</HI> removing their office of <HI>Receipt</HI> or Imperiall <HI>Exchecker</HI> (which had beene there &s;ettled for the paying in of the <HI>Military Contributions,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Some action<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the <HI>Swed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> in <HI>Wirtenber<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> rai&s;ed out of that Duchy) unto <HI>Munchen</HI> in <HI>Bavaria.</HI> Many of the &s;ouldiours turned to the Kings party. <HI>Elwang</HI> is al&s;o taken, the garri|&s;on marching into <HI>Dunkel&s;piel;</HI> whither the <HI>Swedes</HI> begun pre&s;ently to follow them: as re&s;olved not to &s;uffer an Impe|riali&s;t to roo&s;t any where. Glad were the Prote&s;tants: the pre&s;|&s;ures having layne &s;ore upon their Country, ever &s;ince the Count of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg</HI> had brought then under contribution.</P>
<P>Now began there &s;ome levyes to be made for the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Palatine of <HI>Birckenfel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> makes &s;ome new levyes f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the King.</NOTE> in this Duchy, and in the lower <HI>Al&s;atia:</HI> even all the Coun|try over, from the River of <HI>Neckar</HI> in <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> unto <HI>Strasburg</HI> upon the <HI>Rhine.</HI> The Count <HI>Palatine Chri&s;tian</HI> of <HI>Birckenfeld</HI> (of the <HI>Pal&s;graves</HI> family) who&s;e <HI>Towne</HI> and <HI>Honor</HI> lyes in the little Country of the <HI>Hun&s;truck,</HI> &s;o often heretofore mentioned, was to be their Generall.</P>
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<P>The&s;e new levyed men, though they tooke in &s;ome &s;mal|ler Market Townes as they came along to their place of Ren|dezvous, (which was to be about <HI>Strasburg</HI>) yet were they rather <HI>robberies;</HI> then <HI>Warfarings.</HI> By <HI>Rotenburg,</HI> a Towne in <HI>Wirtenberg</HI> upon the <HI>Neckar;</HI> they pillaged <HI>Mule,</HI> and the Abby of <HI>Marchtall:</HI> neere <HI>Stra&s;burg,</HI> &s;ome &s;ixe troopes of hor&s;e of them, and one company of foote, pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Rhine</HI> upon Fryday, Feb. 10. where they drive the Imperiali&s;ts out of &s;ome little Townes of <HI>Ger&s;heim,</HI> and <HI>Appenwyer;</HI> and in revenge of the death of foure of their fellowes, they burne <HI>Commer&s;wyer.</HI> They offered to take <HI>Offenberg,</HI> a pretty &s;trong Towne (which was the be&s;t thing they did) but having no Ordnance to doe it withall; the Imperiall garri&s;on rather laught at them. They &s;poyled the fort of <HI>Fau&s;&s;enburg (Stauf|fenburg</HI> &s;ome write it) belonging to <HI>William</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ba|den.</HI> Their Generall hearing of the&s;e Fre&s;hmens trickes of theirs, called them off pre&s;ently; whereupon the next day after our <HI>A&s;hwedne&s;day,</HI> they pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Rhine</HI> at <HI>Stra&s;burg</HI> againe, all to be loden with their new gotten luggage. Their Generall, the Palatine <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> the next Friday, Feb. 17. going before to carry his Lady to waite upon the Queene of <HI>Sweden</HI> at <HI>Franckford;</HI> leaves his Lieftenant-Colonell to bring up the troopes after him, to be joyned with the Kings: where, no doubt, they learned better di&s;cipline. All this did but &s;tirre up the Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> to doe the more mi&s;chiefe in tho&s;e parts after they were gone. In this time, had the Count of <HI>Hanaw</HI> taken in the Towne of <HI>Dru&s;enheim;</HI> with the two new Forts (built by the Imperiali&s;ts) upon the <HI>Rhine.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;enheim</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ichtenaw</HI> ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n by the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arle of <HI>Ha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">w.</HI></NOTE> And the Towne of <HI>Leichtenaw</HI> after that: both being neere unto <HI>Stra&s;burg.</HI> This <HI>Dru&s;enheim,</HI> did the King be&s;tow upon the Count of <HI>Hanaw</HI> for his labour.</P>
<P>To draw neerer home. At <HI>Spiers,</HI> were 700 new <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Souldiors received, which were billeted both upon the Law|yers and Fryers, as well as upon the Burgers. The fir&s;t &s;er|vice they did, was the &s;aving of this faire City from burn|ning, whereunto tenne Boores of <HI>Lauterburg</HI> had beene hy|red:
<PB N="85" REF="52"> for which they were afterwards executed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The State of <HI>Spiers,</HI></NOTE> Their &s;econd &s;ervice was, the quieting of a mutiny in the City; rai&s;ed by occa&s;ion of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> garri&s;on of <HI>Franckendale;</HI> who upon confidence of &s;ome Corre&s;pondency in the Towne; had beene bold to come before it: and being &s;trengthned with their fellowes of <HI>&V;denheim</HI> or <HI>Philip&s;burg,</HI> had well hoped to have taken in this Citty. But of this purpo&s;e they were defeated: and the Monks being di&s;covered to have laid the plot with the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> have Soldiors put into their Cloy&s;ters.</P>
<P>By this it appeares, that <HI>Heidleberg, Franckendale,</HI> and <HI>Vdenheim</HI> were not hitherto &s;o &s;treightly blocked up, but that the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> would goe out with &s;trong Partees now and then. And as for <HI>Franckendale,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and of <HI>Heidle|berg, Francken|dale,</HI> and <HI>Vden+heim.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Don Philip de Sylva</HI> had by letters a&s;&s;ured the Archduche&s;&s;e, that he had both men and victualls enough to hold out a &s;iege of nine moneths; in de|&s;pight of the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Nor doe I beleeve <HI>Heidle|berg</HI> to be in wor&s;e ca&s;e. And this was the State of the <HI>Pa|latinate,</HI> and of the Kings Army, at this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>Beleeved generally it hath beene, that the King of <HI>Swe|den</HI> (now after the taking of <HI>Creutzenach</HI>) would have put <HI>Don Philip</HI> to it, to make good his word. And feared by tho&s;e of <HI>Cullen</HI> it likewi&s;e was, that he would have had a blow at them too, in the next place. But the King at this time, hearing of <HI>Tillyes</HI> being upon the wing againe; and that he had lately flowne upon <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne</HI> about <HI>Bam|berg:</HI> was enforced to let the Conque&s;t of the <HI>Palatinate</HI> a|lone for a time; to countermand his Hor&s;e, which were al|ready upon their march to be&s;iege <HI>Franckendale;</HI> and to accept of a kind of &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion from tho&s;e of <HI>Cullen.</HI> The &s;tory of which bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, is the time now to communicate unto you.</P>
<P><HI>Ferdinand</HI> the Archbi&s;hop and Elector of <HI>Cullen,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Paderborn,</HI> &amp;c. brother to the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and a prime member of the <HI>Catholike League;</HI> is a Prince of great meanes, and of very large Iuri&s;diction. He was the man that &s;et out <HI>Pappenheim:</HI> to whom when the <HI>Catholike Leaguers</HI>
<PB N="86" REF="53"> had given a Commi&s;&s;ion for a flying Army, the Elector of <HI>Cullen</HI> furni&s;ht him both with men and money, in his Domi|nions. He, while&s;t the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> tempe&s;t was yet farre off from him in <HI>Franconia;</HI> wi&s;ely begins to thinke how to keep it off, &s;hould the wind once blow it that way. In a bodily feare of his Bi&s;hoprick he was, and could have wi&s;ht that the Empe|rour had not proceeded &s;o roundly again&s;t the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> and &s;o farre provoked the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> to repay the <HI>Catho|likes</HI> in their own coyne againe for it: <HI>Was there ever &s;uch an Imperiall Decree</HI> (&s;aies <HI>Cullen) to cau&s;e all Cloy&s;ters to be re&s;to|red, for which we are now lo&s;ing whole Bi&s;hopricks?</HI> About the end of October, therefore, 1631. he agrees with the States of <HI>Cullen</HI> for the &s;ummoning of a <HI>Diet,</HI> to con&s;ult together a|bout the meanes of defence: to whom his Electorall Highne&s;&s;e made this following propo&s;ition. That &s;eeing the Empire was now brought into &s;uch a &s;trait; there was no remedy fairely to relieve it, but for the State to agree upon a good round Sub|&s;idie. They con&s;ent to levie 200000 Dollars: with Conditi|on, that the monies &s;hould be expended no otherwaies, then for the nece&s;&s;ary defence of the Bi&s;hoprick;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Diet <HI>at</HI> Cullen</NOTE> and for the pay|ing of the &s;ouldiers, which they then agreed to have rai&s;ed, over which one of the Counts of <HI>I&s;enberg</HI> was to be Generall. The money, by three even portions to be levied upon the Gentry, the Cloi&s;ters, and the &s;everall Cities of the Bi&s;hop|ricke. The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> working downe lower towards them, this Sub&s;idie now proved too little: whereupon in De|cember 14 following, the Elector &s;ets out a Briefe for the drawing of a voluntary Contribution out of the richer &s;ort: That for Gods &s;ake, his Mother, and Saints cau&s;e; they would give what they could &s;pare, towards the upholding of the <HI>Roman</HI> religion: promi&s;ing that the money &s;o given, &s;hould be to no other purpo&s;e employed: but be put into a che&s;t with 2 locks in the <HI>Carthu&s;ians</HI> Church: of which the <HI>Prior</HI> to have one key, and his Highne&s;&s;e <HI>Steward</HI> the other. The Briefe he commands to be fir&s;t read in every Church, and then the Copy to be &s;et upon the Church doores.</P>
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<P>The &s;ame day Sennight did the Towne of <HI>Cullen</HI> &s;et out another Briefe &s;omething contradictory to the former; for they would have a Che&s;t placed in the <HI>Chamber</HI> of their <HI>City,</HI> to put the Benevolence into: which was to be expended for the &s;afety of the City alone.</P>
<P>But for all this, neither Bi&s;hop nor City dur&s;t longer tru&s;t vnto their own &s;trengths: the Elector ioyning with the other <HI>Catholike Leaguers</HI> in &s;ending the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Who went from <HI>Cullen</HI> Ian. 7. 1631.</NOTE> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> their common Amba&s;&s;ador vnto the <HI>French</HI> King, to de&s;ire his pro|tection, or mediation at lea&s;t, with the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in their behalfe. At which very time, both the Elector had his Am|ba&s;&s;ador with the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> for a <HI>Neutrality;</HI> and the City their <HI>Agents,</HI> that they might not be infe&s;ted. The Ele|ctor being a member of the <HI>Catholike League;</HI> the Treaty of <HI>Neutrality</HI> with him came to nothing, but the towne of <HI>Cul|len</HI> obtained their de&s;ire of <HI>Neutrality,</HI> upon the&s;e follow|ing Conditions.</P>
<P>The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in his Preface to the Articles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ticles of Neu+trality, with t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> City of <HI>Culle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> gives them to know, That &s;eeing his own Expedition into <HI>Germa|ny,</HI> had principally beene for the deliverance of the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> from the cruell oppre&s;&s;ions which they endured from the <HI>Papists,</HI> and that He very well knew, how hardly they had beene u&s;ed, euen in this City of <HI>Cullen:</HI> upon this Condition, fir&s;t of all, would he condi&s;cend unto a <HI>Neutrality</HI> with them; namely, that tho&s;e per&s;ecutions, under what&s;oever colour or pretence inflicted; &s;hould with all &s;peed be relea&s;ed, and that,</P>
<P>1. Fir&s;t, Free exerci&s;e of Religion &s;hould be granted unto them; wherein they &s;hould no wayes be hindered: and that the ordinary Proce&s;&s;e which u&s;ed every yeere to be &s;et out by the <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall</HI> Court, for the forbidding of &s;uch Exerci|&s;es of the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> &s;hould be taken away from thence|forward.</P>
<P>2. That the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> &s;hould enioy the freedome of the Ci|ty, and of their private <HI>Wards</HI> and <HI>Companies;</HI> and be received
<PB N="88" REF="54"> into their <HI>Colledges,</HI> equally with the <HI>Catholikes:</HI> and that <HI>Act of Common-Coun&s;aile</HI> made &s;ome yeeres to the contrary, to be cancelled.</P>
<P>3. Which former Article, is likewi&s;e to be vnder&s;tood of the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> Children, that are borne free of the City.</P>
<P>4. All liberty of trade and Commerce in the &s;aid City, &s;hall be left as free for the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> as for the <HI>Catholikes.</HI></P>
<P>5. <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> &s;hall not be bound to be married by <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Prie&s;ts.</P>
<P>6. Nor &s;hall their youth be enforced to be taught or brought up, in <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Schooles.</P>
<P>7. The City &s;hall not make it &s;elfe partaker with the Kings enemies, in any coun&s;ell or act of ho&s;tility: and &s;hall give all ayde of Contributions unto him, and withdraw it from his enemies: who&s;e Bills of Exchange that City &s;hall not accept of.</P>
<P>8. The City &s;hall either grant free pa&s;&s;age and thorow-fare, both by their towne and territories vnto both parties, (the King and his enemies) or el&s;e denie it vnto both parties.</P>
<P>9. It &s;hall be free for his Maie&s;ties Officers and Servants, to pa&s;&s;e and repa&s;&s;e thorow their Towne and Territories: and have free leave of &s;taying there, for the di&s;patch of their bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>10.The City &s;hall give way to the King to &s;ettle an <HI>Agent</HI> of his in their Town; who &s;hall take care that no fraud be com|mitted in the ob&s;ervation of the&s;e Articles of <HI>Neutrality.</HI></P>
<P>11. That vnto who&s;oever hath obtained of his Maje&s;ty, free li|berty
<PB N="89" REF="54"> of trafficking in the parts neere the <HI>Rhine,</HI> now &s;ubiect unto him: as al&s;o unto tho&s;e that are &s;ubiects vnto his Maie&s;ty, or Confederates, or that doe traffick with them; the City &s;hall allow all manner of free and vndi&s;turbed liberty of trading, within their &s;aid Towne and Territories.</P>
<P>Vpon the&s;e ea&s;ie termes did the great City of <HI>Cullen</HI> di|vert their &s;o much feared inva&s;ion; which they may thanke the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> for: for had not he, at this in&s;tant, fallen on upon <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne; Gu&s;tavus Adolphus,</HI> perchance, ere long had fallen upon <HI>Cullen.</HI> But now was it beleeved all the Kings Campe over, (yea and feared by the King him&s;elfe too) That the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> had utterly defeated <HI>Gustavus Horn,</HI> and beaten him all to pieces. The <HI>&s;tory</HI> of which bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, we will here affoord you, from the hands and relations of the Generalls on both &s;ides; <HI>Horn,</HI> and <HI>Tilly.</HI></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t gracious King:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I &s;hall here rightly enforme your Maie&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> letter to the King, concer|ning the action betwixt him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Tilly</HI> at <HI>Bamber</HI></NOTE> of all the pro|ceedings at <HI>Bamberg.</HI> This City, though &s;pacious, yet &s;o o|pen on all &s;ides it lies; hath &s;uch &s;light walls about it, and &s;o to be commanded from divers hills thereby; that my &s;elfe and others made it a great que&s;tion, whether the place were to be held or no: or whether it were po&s;&s;ible to be &s;o fortified, as to be fit for us to enquarter in. But the rea&s;ons for the keep|ing of it prevailing, (e&s;pecially after we made our &s;elues &s;ure of the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He meanes Duke <HI>William</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI></NOTE> Duke of <HI>Weymars</HI> &s;uccours) we thereupon gave or|der for the making of retrenchments; ca&s;ting out to every Regiment, how much they were to make up. Herein the Co|lonels and Companies of the old Regiments, did their parts: and much better would the worke have gone on, had the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> his Regiment beene u&s;ed vnto labour,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tillies</HI> vant cur|riers appeare.</NOTE> and not have loitered it &s;o much. The enemy having fir&s;t dre&s;&s;ed an ambu&s;h, pre&s;ented &s;ome certaine hor&s;emen very neere unto the City, Febr. 28. betwixt 12 and one a clocke at noone: of which I being advi&s;ed, gave pre&s;ent order for every man to be in readine&s;&s;e; in&s;tantly di&s;patching away the Count of
<PB N="90" REF="55"> <HI>Solms</HI> unto our Hor&s;e-guards without the Towne, that they &s;hould by no meanes engage them&s;elues in fight with the ene|my. My &s;elfe in the meane time, ha&s;tned to goe the <HI>Round</HI> about the Trenches; commanding &s;uch places to be enclo&s;ed, as were yet open: and &s;ending the Lord <HI>Kochtitzky</HI> withall, unto Colonel <HI>Bauditzens</HI> Regiment, to put them&s;elues into rea|dine&s;&s;e; which Regiment was in their quarters at that time within the City.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orne</HI> prepares <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r re&s;i&s;tance.</NOTE> But <HI>Kochtitzky</HI> not meeting with any of the Officers, &s;ent the word unto Lieftenant-Colonell <HI>Bilaw</HI> by a hor&s;eman of the Regiment: who&s;e me&s;&s;age <HI>Bilaw</HI> mi&s;-under|&s;tanding, marched pre&s;ently into the field, even very neere unto the Ambu&s;h. When I comming to the Hor&s;e-guards &s;aw the Regiment &s;o farre advanced, I imagined them to be in very great danger, and that they would put us all into confu&s;ion, &s;hould they be once forced to the retreat: whereupon I gave pre&s;ent order for them to retire againe into the Suburbs. In the meane time, (&s;eeing none of the enemies to appeare, but a few loo&s;e hor&s;e onely, which had at fir&s;t &s;hewed them&s;elues before the little wood neere the towne &s;ide) my &s;elfe and the Count of <HI>Solms,</HI> went to give order to every hor&s;e-Regiment for their place of Alarme: at which in&s;tant, tho&s;e hor&s;e-troopes which I had before &s;ent over the water for di&s;cove|ry; came backe with newes of the enemies being at hand with his whole Army,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illy</HI> comes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ith his whole <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rmy,</NOTE> even very clo&s;e unto the City. Vpon this newes, I &s;ent pre&s;ent order unto Lieftenant-Colonell <HI>Bilaw</HI> by the Quarter-ma&s;ter of his Regiment, that he &s;hould retire him&s;elfe behind the Work, which Count <HI>Solms</HI> his Regiment were now labouring upon; and there to &s;tay for the &s;afeguard of the Pioners. This my Order was executed indeed; but &s;o late ere they went about it; that in their turning faces about to goe thither, two Regiments of the enemy charged them up|on their croopes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d takes part <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Horns</HI> works.</NOTE> and di&s;ordered them. At which &s;ight, the Regiment of <HI>Solms,</HI> (who were to have made good their own trenches) being much affrighted and confounded; pre&s;ently quit their &s;tation thereupon. And notwith&s;tanding that my &s;elfe, (&s;o &s;oone as I was enformed of the matter) made ha&s;te
<PB N="91" REF="55"> with the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> vnto the very place where the ene|my was already fallen in; and with &s;ome few men (whom we made to turne faces about) drove the enemy quite out againe;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horne</HI> beates them off agai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> recovered our ground, and round be&s;et it againe with &s;ome of the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> and Colonell <HI>Mufflers</HI> Regiment: for we could not po&s;&s;ibly &s;o &s;oone bring on any of the old Regi|ments, out of their Quarters within the City, and the other Suburbs. Yet was all this to no purpo&s;e, &s;eeing that no &s;ooner was my backe turned to give order for other places; but they pre&s;ently left their ground againe, running at la&s;t quite over the bridge into the City: yea doe what I and their own Co|lonell the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> could,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Henry William</HI> Count of <HI>Sol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> wounded. Which woun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> putting him into a feaver, died in Marc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> following of at <HI>Swinford.</HI></NOTE> (who was now &s;hot in the thigh) yet were we not able to make them to &s;tand their ground a little, nor give on againe upon the enemy. Hereupon, one Foote-Regiment of the enemies, (which we iudged to be <HI>Fa|renbachs</HI>) pre&s;&s;ed over the bridge into the Towne; whom I, with a few muskettiers of the Count of <HI>Thurns</HI> Regiment, (which were quickly &s;econded by the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> muskettiers) once againe drove off; and that with remarkeable lo&s;&s;e on their party. Thus recovered I the bridge againe, which pre&s;ently cau&s;ing to be broken downe; I there di&s;puted the point &s;o long with the enemy,<NOTE PLACE="marg">They get ov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the bridge; a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Horne</HI> drives the~ over again<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> untill I could &s;end away the dro&s;&s;e and baggage keepers of the Army, and had taken all our Ordnance off the Carriages, and gotten them a &s;hip-boord.</P>
<P>This done, I in good order marcht off with the Infantery, the hor&s;emen of <HI>Bauditzens</HI> Regiment, and the Dragooners: which la&s;t, mi&s;&s;ing their way in the darke, gat into <HI>Kitzing</HI> afterwards. All our Company, &s;afely recovered into <HI>Eltman:</HI> at which towne pa&s;&s;ing over the bridge,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horne</HI> retires out of <HI>Bambet</HI> over the <HI>May<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> I kept me on this &s;ide of the <HI>Mayn.</HI> The enemies Dragooners and <HI>Crabats,</HI> fol|lowed us a farre off; not much de&s;iring to engage them&s;elues with us. As for the other Regiments of our hor&s;e, who were enquartered part on this &s;ide of the <HI>Mayn,</HI> and part at <HI>Hal&s;tat</HI> and <HI>Kemeren,</HI> (who likewi&s;e marched away on the North &s;ide of the <HI>Mayn</HI>) they having according to my direction, broken and burnt downe the bridge of <HI>Hal&s;tat,</HI> retired into
<PB N="92" REF="56"> <HI>Hasfurt.</HI> For this rea&s;on, my &s;elfe having fir&s;t broken downe the bridge at <HI>Eltman,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eaking the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ridge behind <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m.</NOTE> drew al&s;o to that place with tho&s;e troopes I then had with me; where I recollected our Army together againe; tho&s;e onely excepted, which out of feare were quite runne away. But the enemy being readily furni|&s;hed by the country people with timber and other nece&s;&s;aries, he pre&s;ently cau&s;ed the bridge of <HI>Hal&s;tat</HI> to be repaired againe:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illy</HI> repaireth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e bridge, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">llowes <HI>Horn.</HI></NOTE> beyond which having lodged him&s;elfe, with divers Regi|ments of hor&s;e, he the &s;econd of March againe &s;hewed him|&s;elfe unto us at <HI>Tzeill,</HI> a mile from <HI>Hasfurt.</HI> Vpon &s;ight where|of, I immediately &s;ent forth a troope of hor&s;e to di&s;cover the place, where it was po&s;&s;ible for the enemy &s;o &s;uddenly to have pa&s;&s;ed the river, now that the bridge was broken downe. This troope brought backe 3 pri&s;oners with them; of whom I learned, how that the enemy had come over at <HI>Hal&s;tat</HI> with 4 Regiments, and the manner how they were lodged. Of them I al&s;o further enquired, which way I might come to &s;urpri&s;e them at unawares; &s;o that I &s;ifted out thus much from them; That it was not very difficult for me to march thorow the woods, and by waies, and &s;o to come upon them. Having gotten this Intelligence, I &s;et forwards with the Cavallery; and &s;ome 2 houres before day, gave a <HI>Cami&s;ado</HI> upon one of their Quarters, which was lodged by <HI>Oberheyd</HI> within a mile of <HI>Bamberg.</HI> It was the Quarter of <HI>Planckharts</HI> Regiment, and young <HI>Merodi,</HI> all which, (excepting 4 troopes which &s;ome halfe houre before were gone out upon a Convoy) I utterly ruinated with fire and &s;word,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horn</HI> &s;urpri&s;es and cuts in pie|ces 2 Regime~ts of <HI>Tillies</HI> hor&s;e.</NOTE> obtaining 2 Cornets; the re&s;t, together with the baggage, being all burned. The <HI>Crabats</HI> which lay in the head of the Quarter, &s;o &s;oone as ever they perceived the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, betooke them to their heeles; &s;ome venturing thorow the <HI>Mayn,</HI> where a many of them were drowned: others betaking them&s;elves into the mountaines; of whom divers were afterwards &s;layne, I getting one of their Cornets: the re&s;t gate up to the Dragooners Quarters, in the village of <HI>Staffelbach;</HI> where they recovered a Church|yard environed with a very high wall. The&s;e thought I to
<PB N="93" REF="56"> have de&s;troyed by fire, for that I had no muskettiers with me: but perceiving my &s;elfe unlikely that way to prevaile, and that they might ea&s;ily have beene relieved from other the enemies garri&s;ons, (which were hard at hand) I was enfor|ced to give them over, and returne againe unto our Quarters at <HI>Hasfurt.</HI></P>
<P>The fourth of the &s;ame moneth did the enemy againe &s;hew him&s;elfe, neere unto <HI>Tzeill,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> intends be revenged</NOTE> about one a clocke in the afternoone; marching pre&s;ently with his whole army towards <HI>Hasfurt:</HI> with an intent (no doubt) to revenge him&s;elfe of the late &s;laughter we made of his two Regiments. While&s;t therefore I &s;ent the Scullery and Drabblers of the army away before, with the baggage &amp; heavier luggage towards <HI>Schwein|furt;</HI> my &s;elfe retired after in good order: without the lo&s;&s;e of any one man, recovering into <HI>Schweinfurt</HI> al&s;o. Here having given order for all nece&s;&s;ary provi&s;ions, and left there in garri&s;ons the Regiments of <HI>Carl Hord,</HI> of Colonel <HI>Truch|&s;es</HI> and the Count of <HI>Solms:</HI> and lodged the Hor&s;e conve|niently in the villages about <HI>Schweinfurt;</HI> (&s;ome, halfe a mile off; &s;ome, a mile; and &s;ome, a mile and a halfe from the Town, and behind it) my &s;elfe with the re&s;t of the Infantery, tooke up our Quarter at <HI>Gelter&s;heim;</HI> attending there the enemies fur|ther purpo&s;es.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Gelter&s;heim,</HI> <DATE>March. 7. 1631.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>Having thus by <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horns</HI> relation, learned what was done on his &s;ide; we will al&s;o affoord you the other part of the action, and what was done on <HI>Tillyes</HI> &s;ide. And that out of his owne Relation too, printed afterwards at <HI>Au&s;|purg:</HI> leaving nothing out that may make for the <HI>Relaters</HI> glory.</P>
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<HEAD>General <HI>Tilly</HI> report of the &s;ame action.</HEAD>
<P>After the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> had taken <HI>Bamberg,</HI> February 11. 1631. the Lord Mar&s;hall <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn,</HI> together with <HI>George Bernard</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> &s;ettled their Quarter in the &s;ame City. But long they here &s;tayed not: for his Ex|cellency
<PB N="94" REF="57"> the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> marching with 12000 men out of <HI>Forcheim,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erve that <HI>Hornes</HI> letter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eares the old <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tile; and <HI>Til|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es</HI> the new. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illy</HI> (againe) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as deceived: it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as not Duke <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ernard</HI> of <HI>Wey|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ar,</HI> (he was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow with the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing:) but his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rother <HI>Erne&s;tus</HI></NOTE> March 8. towards <HI>Bamberg;</HI> the &s;ame night about 4 a clocke he &s;hewed him&s;elfe before the &s;ame City; as like|wi&s;e the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Cavallery did unto him, neere unto the gal|lowes. The <HI>Tillyi&s;h</HI> Hor&s;emen &s;tood not long con&s;idering up|on the matter, but the <HI>Crabats,</HI> the Dragooners, and the Re|giment of <HI>Cronenberg,</HI> fell with &s;uch fury upon the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> that they utterly di&s;per&s;ed them; forced five Regiments to runne away; tooke five hundred pri&s;oners (among&s;t which were &s;ome chiefe Officers) killing a great many. The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> retired them&s;elues into the Suburbs, but they were &s;o follow|ed with our Ordnance, that they were glad to leave both City and Suburbs: <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> with a few hor&s;emen, be|taking him&s;elfe into <HI>Schweinfurt.</HI> Here was the noble Count of <HI>Sultz</HI> &s;laine on our &s;ide, be&s;ides another Lieftenant-Co|lonell of great note. The next day being the ninth of March, the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> entered into the City with his Ordnance.</P>
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<P>By comparing the&s;e two relations together, you may ob|&s;erue, that <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> omits his lo&s;&s;e of 500 pri&s;oners; and Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> is content to pa&s;&s;e over his lo&s;&s;e of the two Regiments, which was 4 times &s;o much. One thing is defe|ctive in <HI>Tillies</HI> relation: that he &s;aies <HI>Horn</HI> immediately reti|red into <HI>Schweinfurt:</HI> which was not till 3 or 4 dayes after. <HI>Tilly</HI> had the better of it, in that he put <HI>Horn</HI> unto the retreate, and continued after it, Ma&s;ter of the field.</P>
<P>And yet was all this but a meere <HI>Cacade,</HI> a <HI>Squirt;</HI> as the King cald it: which was, for all that, the fir&s;t action of any con&s;i|derable honor or comfort, which tho&s;e of that party could cheere up their drooping hopes withall, &s;ince the going down of their &s;ide at the great Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> Much noy&s;e, was there made of this little. They that make much of little, tis a &s;ign they have not much. By <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horns</HI> letter may the Rea|der find, where the fault on the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> &s;ide was: in the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> his Regiment, namely; who had not beene long enough under the <HI>Swedi&s;h Di&s;cipline,</HI> to learne either to
<PB N="95" REF="57">
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">You may per+ceive by the 45 Article in our Booke of the <HI>Swedi&s;h Di&s;ci|pline,</HI> that eve+ry Band and Regiment wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be their ow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pyoners, to make up their own Trenches and to fortifie their owne Quarters: which <HI>Solms</HI> his men were not yet u&s;ed unto.</NOTE><HI>labour,</HI> or to fight. <HI>Horn</HI> (me thinks) was to blame too, to be &s;o carele&s;&s;e, as to have no skouts abroad. The King having heard of <HI>Horns</HI> for&s;aking of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> &s;ome 4 or 5 dayes before the receipt of his letter; re&s;olues to &s;uccour his <HI>Felt-Mar&s;hall,</HI> and to be revenged of that <HI>&V;eillard</HI> (that <HI>old man</HI>) as he called the Count of <HI>Tilly.</HI> While&s;t therefore his Maje|&s;ty is employed in drawing his old &s;ouldiers out of their gar|ri&s;ons neere unto him; in putting of new levied men into their places; and in di&s;patching away Me&s;&s;engers unto Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> and the Generall <HI>Banier,</HI> to come and meete him with their forces upon the way: it &s;hall not be ami&s;&s;e to goe backe againe, to fetch up <HI>Gu&s;tavus Hornes</HI> Story; even from the time of the Kings former leaving of him in <HI>Franconia,</HI> untill this la&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> betwixt him and the Count of <HI>Tilly.</HI> For this hath beene our Methode in the <HI>Fir&s;t part</HI> of our <HI>Intelligencer.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="96" REF="58">
<HEAD>Gustavus Hornes <HI>Story.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THERE is (at lea&s;t) a &s;how of force, as well as a reality of wi&s;e carriage &amp; gentle u&s;age; required to the <HI>&s;etling</HI> of a Country, as there hath been to the <HI>conquering.</HI> Whereas, therefore, the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in his late <HI>Declaration</HI> or <HI>Manife&s;to</HI> at <HI>Wurt&s;burg,</HI> had ende|vored to reduce the Dukedome and Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Franconia</HI> into the forme of a <HI>Province;</HI> by introducing (as the <HI>Romanes</HI> u&s;ed) a new order of Government among the &s;ubjects of his new Duchy: to &s;ee the&s;e <HI>Orders</HI> there well ob&s;erved, was one of the rea&s;ons why <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horne,</HI> the <HI>Field-mar&s;hall,</HI> or &s;econd per&s;on unto the King him&s;elfe; was at his Maje&s;ties comming away left with an army of 6000 or 7000 men about <HI>Wurtsburg.</HI> And this, I collect, by the &s;tillne&s;&s;e of actions in tho&s;e parts; to have beene the fir&s;t of his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. I find no mention of any motions of his, all that moneth of Octo|ber; in the beginning whereof the King parted from him. Another rea&s;on for which quietne&s;&s;e of his, may likewi&s;e be; that he was not to &s;tirre from tho&s;e parts, till the Gene|rall <HI>Tilly</HI> were gone out of them; and that for feare of his attempts, or the peoples de&s;ire of alterations.</P>
<P>But the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> being now in the end of November pa&s;t beyond <HI>Norimberg;</HI> his devided army gone towards <HI>Bavaria</HI> and the <HI>upper Palatinate;</HI> and the Subjects of <HI>Fran|conia</HI> withall, in an indifferent po&s;ture of quietne&s;&s;e: then begins the <HI>Swedi&s;h Mar&s;hall</HI> to looke about him. <HI>Tilly</HI> in his late march from the King towards <HI>Norimberg,</HI> had with &s;mall labour recovered the townes of <HI>Mergentheim, Win&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im</HI> and <HI>Rotenburg</HI> from the <HI>Swedi&s;h:</HI> the&s;e Townes therefore, &s;o
<PB N="97" REF="58"> &s;oone as <HI>Tillyes</HI> backe was turnd, are in the fir&s;t place &s;et up|on. The City of <HI>Kitzing</HI> (a good Towne, &s;ome twelve <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> miles to the Ea&s;t of <HI>Wurt&s;burg</HI>) is by the beginning of De|cember brought to compo&s;ition:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Kitzing</HI> takes the oath of fidelity. This Towne, anciently be|longing unto the Marque&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>On&s;pach,</HI> wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Anno 1629. taken from them by the Emperor, and given to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Wurtsburg.</HI></NOTE> upon the fourth of which month, it takes the <HI>Oath of Fidelity, unto the King and Crowne of Sweden.</HI> This (that I may tell you once for all) is the forme of Oath generally tendered by the King, unto the <HI>Germanes:</HI> and this is the clau&s;e that &s;tickes in their &s;tomakes mo&s;t, and makes a many of them to boggle at it; in that (namely) they &s;weare not unto the <HI>Roman Empire,</HI> but to the <HI>Crowne of Sweden;</HI> as if hereafter they were to be meere <HI>Provincialls</HI> of that Kingdome. Whether this were &s;olely the <HI>impul&s;ive,</HI> or but the <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;ting cau&s;e</HI> onely, I cannot tell: but this is &s;ure, that the Kings <HI>broad Seale</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> for the &s;aid <HI>Oath,</HI> was the &s;ame night privately torne downe from the doore of the <HI>Guildhall</HI> or <HI>Statehou&s;e,</HI> where it had beene affixed. This Act di&s;covering, that there were &s;ome Imperially affected in the Towne, and ca&s;ting a jealou&s;ie upon all; the Cittizens are therefore generally di&s;armed.</P>
<P><HI>Win&s;haim,</HI> in the next place,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Win&s;haim</HI> take in a garri&s;on.</NOTE> a free City upon the &s;mall River of <HI>Ai&s;ch</HI> (&s;ome tenne <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South-Ea&s;t of <HI>Kitzing</HI>) accepts of a garri&s;on of 400 <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> More We&s;terly al&s;o, and towards the head of the &s;aid River, and neere unto <HI>Rotenburg,</HI> is <HI>Geb&s;attle</HI> (as I find it written) pre|&s;ently upon that, likewi&s;e taken. The Towne of <HI>Mergen|theim,</HI> &s;eated more We&s;terly upon the River <HI>Tauber;</HI> is now about the middle of December, againe &s;et upon. Here did the <HI>Tillian</HI> garri&s;on make &s;ome re&s;i&s;tance at the fir&s;t: but the Mar&s;hall <HI>Horn</HI> fetching more men and Cannon out of <HI>Wurtsburg;</HI> fir&s;t of all defeats 800 new-come Imperiali&s;ts, who had thought to have forc't a Quarter, and to have thru&s;t them&s;elves into the Towne.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mergentheim</HI> recovered.</NOTE> The garri&s;on after this being more roundly be&s;ieged, and for two or three dayes battered; perceiving by the defeate of the former, no more &s;uccors likely to relieve them: they on Fryday, December 16. come to a compo&s;ition. The next day, having obtained Souldi|ours
<PB N="98" REF="59"> conditions, of Armes, Bag and baggage, &amp;c. they march out towards <HI>Nordlingen:</HI> whereabout their Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> then was.</P>
<P>The Imperill City of <HI>Rotenburg</HI> upon the <HI>Tauber,</HI> in which Count <HI>Tilly</HI> had al&s;o left a very good garri&s;on of <HI>Altringers</HI> people; is dayly now infe&s;ted by the neighbour <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> out of <HI>Win&s;haim</HI> and <HI>Geb&s;attle.</HI> Tho&s;e of <HI>Win&s;haim,</HI> keepe their gates open both day and night, to be the readier to goe out upon Partees again&s;t the <HI>Rotenburgers:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">enburg</HI> bloc|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> up</NOTE> and the <HI>Tillians</HI> of the Towne wanting Hor&s;emen (as it appeareth) were cut &s;hort by that meanes of tho&s;e excur&s;ions and <HI>Cavalcadoes,</HI> which they were formerly wont to make out upon the Coun|try. The Towne being thus (in a manner) blockt up by the <HI>Swedi&s;h;</HI> generall <HI>Altringer</HI> (then with <HI>Tilly</HI> at <HI>Nordlingen</HI>) prepares to relieve his &s;ouldiors within it, or el&s;e to get them out of it. For this purpo&s;e, had he already drawne &s;ome of his men together in the <HI>upper Palatinate;</HI> with whom, and with eight Peeces of Ordnance, he put him&s;elfe upon his march: threatning, that when he had done with that Towne, to goe further and fall into the Duchy of <HI>Wirtenberg</HI> al&s;o.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d yeelded.</NOTE>But his men had yeelded before he could come; and <HI>Gu&s;ta|vus Horn,</HI> to be before-hand with him, was gone to be&s;iege <HI>Hailbrun;</HI> the fir&s;t good Towne that way-ward, of all the land of <HI>Wirtenberg.</HI> Vpon this newes, <HI>Altringer</HI> in the end of the month retired backe againe over the <HI>Danuby</HI> towards <HI>Ausburg:</HI> where I find him the &s;eventeenth of Ianuary fol|lowing. He gone, the <HI>Swedes</HI> left by <HI>Horn</HI> in <HI>Franconia,</HI> flye out as farre as <HI>Guntzenhau&s;en;</HI> a good towne at the end of the fore&s;t, a little South of <HI>On&s;pach;</HI> in the way towards <HI>Norimberg</HI> and the <HI>upper Palatinate.</HI></P>
<P>This Citty of <HI>Hailbrun</HI> is an Imperiall Towne, but of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Conver&s;ion:</HI> and is the place, where the <HI>Princes</HI> of that <HI>Vnion</HI> u&s;ed heretofore to keepe their <HI>Diets.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Guntzenhau&s;en</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aken.</NOTE> It &s;tands in the Duchy of <HI>Wirtenberg</HI> upon the River <HI>Neckar;</HI> within eighteene or twenty <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Heidleberg.</HI> Into this Towne, had the Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> about the end of
<PB N="99" REF="59"> November before, thru&s;t &s;ome tenne En&s;ignes of <HI>Lorrayners:</HI> which were the Duke of <HI>Pfalzburgs</HI> owne Regiment.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hailbrun</HI> be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ged.</NOTE> For the maintenance of whom, was there a Contribution of 4000 Gilders a month, laid upon the Gentlemen of the Country: and the Town&s;men charged to find them Bread, Wine, Salt, Firing, Candles and Hou&s;e-roome. Towards freeing of this Towne, <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> now converts his forces. Vpon Tue&s;day night, <HI>Decemb.</HI> 20. he all on the &s;udden and in the darke, encompa&s;&s;es the City: to which he the next morning gives &s;ummons by a <HI>Trumpet.</HI> The <HI>Lorrayners</HI> an&s;wer was lowder then the Trumpets demaund; for they &s;et their Canno|niers to make it. <HI>Horn</HI> falling to worke with the &s;pade, and to bring forward his Approaches, he a little after dinner, di&s;patches two Trumpets more with letters unto the Burgo|ma&s;ter and the Town&s;men. The Contents were, to per|&s;wade them to get the <HI>Lorrayners</HI> out of their Towne; and to doe their be&s;t to di&s;patch them quickly too: for long he would not tarry upon it, and loth he was to u&s;e extremities to a Towne of his owne Religion; which they &s;hould doe well not to put him to. The <HI>Lorrayn</HI> Governor labours, on the other &s;ide, to hold the Cittizens in their obedience to the Emperour; and encourages then to re&s;i&s;t the <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> But they being carefull to &s;ave their hou&s;es from &s;poyling by the Cannon and Granadoes, and from being plundered by the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> if they &s;hould be taken by Scaladoe; refu&s;e to manne their walls, or to joyne with the <HI>Lorrayners. Horn</HI> by the next morning, had brought his Lines as farre as the water|mill, a little without the Walls, wherein &s;ome &s;ixty or &s;even|ty <HI>Lorrayners</HI> were lodged. The mill being blowne open with a Petard, is entred by the <HI>Swedi&s;h:</HI> and the execution begun among the <HI>Lorrayners:</HI> but by the mediation of a <HI>French</HI> Captaine of Dragooners, then &s;erving among the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> was the &s;laughter &s;tayed. Before this mill the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> ca&s;ting up a <HI>Bre&s;t-worke</HI> and a <HI>Battery:</HI> &s;orely beat upon the Fort or Cittadel of the Towne, lying right over again&s;t it. Per|ceiving after a few houres, that his Cannon would make a
<PB N="100" REF="60"> breach fit to be <HI>&s;tormed,</HI> he once againe demands up the place by a Trumpet. The garri&s;on by this time, iealous both of the Town&s;mens fidelity, and of the weakene&s;&s;e of the place (which indeed is no &s;trong piece) beginne to &s;hew a willingne&s;&s;e to capitulate:<NOTE PLACE="marg">taken.</NOTE> and their conditions being accepted, halfe of them march out, and the other halfe take oath for the King of <HI>Sweden. Horn</HI> enters to keepe his <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> in the Towne: and the fir&s;t <HI>Holy-dayes</HI> being over, and in the neerene&s;&s;e of the Kings army, no more neede of him in tho&s;e parts; leaving five hundred muskettiers in the City, and Colonell <HI>Schmidberger</HI> for their Governour: he with the re&s;t of the Army, returnes backe againe into <HI>Franconia.</HI></P>
<P>His fir&s;t worke there, was a preparation to fall into the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bambergs</HI> country:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rn</HI> prepares goe into <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nberg.</HI></NOTE> who had by this time more apparently broken his former faith unto the King, and recei|ved of <HI>Tillies</HI> garri&s;ons into his &s;tronge&s;t Townes of <HI>Bam|berg, Forcheim,</HI> and <HI>Cronach.</HI> More of the <HI>Tillians</HI> and others, beganne now to a&s;&s;emble about <HI>Hasfurt</HI> upon the <HI>Mayn;</HI> there to be mu&s;tered and entertained into the Bi&s;hops &s;ervice. <HI>Gu|&s;tavus Horn,</HI> after his comming backe from <HI>Hailbrun,</HI> goes fir&s;t unto <HI>Win&s;haim;</HI> to which place he gathers all his forces together, that had beene engarri&s;ond, betweene that and <HI>Ro|tenburg.</HI> Thence goes he to <HI>Iphoven,</HI> a &s;mall towne but one <HI>Dutch</HI> mile to the Ea&s;t of <HI>Kitzing;</HI> where he holds a generall mu&s;ter: and to which place he had brought his Cannon along with him. Here I find him, Ianuary 14: which was in the time of the 14 dayes <HI>Truce</HI> afore&s;aid. And hereabouts (as I collect) might the Kings letters for a <HI>Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes</HI> (da|ted at <HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> 4 dayes afore) come fir&s;t unto his hands. And from the&s;e parts, (having little el&s;e to doe) went he unto <HI>No|rimberg,</HI> to giue order there for the Fortifications of the City. Here was it agreed,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es to &s;ee <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">imberg.</HI></NOTE> that <HI>Henry William</HI> Count of <HI>Solms</HI> &s;hould bring his Regiment out of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> to ioyne with him a|gain&s;t <HI>Bamberg.</HI> This is the Count, that had &s;o re&s;olutely de|fended <HI>Norimberg</HI> again&s;t <HI>Tilly,</HI> in recompence of which &s;er|vice,
<PB N="101" REF="60"> the King had honoured him with the Earledome of <HI>Swartzenberg</HI> in the Fore&s;t of <HI>Duringen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Horn</HI> made no long &s;tay in <HI>Norimberg;</HI> &s;eeing that &s;ome few dayes before the end of the <HI>Truce,</HI> I find him at <HI>Schwein|furt</HI> upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> full &s;ixe leagues backe againe beyond <HI>Iphoven,</HI> and upon the edge of the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Bamberg.</HI> Hither now cald he all his Army; and hither did <HI>Erne&s;tus</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> whom the King had left Governour of <HI>Konig&s;hoven</HI> (&s;ixe leagues to the North of <HI>Schweinfurt</HI>) come to ioyne with him Duke. <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI> &s;hould likewi&s;e have come to him. That &s;ome of this Dukes forces that had beene left about <HI>Erfurt,</HI> were already &s;ent unto his brother <HI>Erne&s;tus,</HI> I beleeve: but that him&s;elfe was in the end of December pa&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Duringer-waldt,</HI> as farre as <HI>Maini|gen</HI> towards <HI>Horn;</HI> and that he had 4000 hor&s;e and 8000 foot with him, (as the &s;hort and fal&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I find the <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tinuation</HI> of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Arma Suecica</HI> to be little el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> then an abbre+viation of the <HI>Corrantoes</HI> hu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+dled together, without much iudgeme~t. Lik<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as in this plac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> where for a &s;e|cond error he puts <HI>Memmin|gen</HI> for <HI>Mainig Horn</HI> fals into <HI>Bamberg.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Arma Suecica</HI> &s;ayes) I be|leeve not: &s;eeing he had but 1500 hor&s;e to bring unto the King afterwards at <HI>Donawert.</HI> But whether it were, that Duke <HI>William</HI> were at this in&s;tant diverted upon the taking of Pa&s;&s;ages in <HI>Voitland,</HI> to keepe the <HI>Tillians</HI> from comming out of the <HI>Vpper Palatinate</HI> into <HI>Mi&s;nia,</HI> (his co&s;in the Ele|ctor of <HI>Saxonies</HI> country) as I heare it by &s;ome excu&s;ed; or that he was &s;till about <HI>Gottingen</HI> in <HI>We&s;tphalia,</HI> which I iudge rather: or what-ever el&s;e were in it: <HI>Horn,</HI> certainely, com|plaines to the King of it, That tho&s;e <HI>Saxon</HI> forces which he &s;o much relyed upon; were not time enough &s;ent unto him, be|fore that <HI>Tilly</HI> beat him out of <HI>Bamberg.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> being gone by, there was a con&s;piracy de|tected in <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> for the bringing in of <HI>Tilly</HI> againe. The intercepted letters de&s;ire <HI>Tilly</HI> to come with all &s;peed, for that now was his time to take both Towne and Ca&s;tle a|gaine very ea&s;ily; the mo&s;t of the garri&s;on being now drawne out towards <HI>Bamberg.</HI> This cau&s;ed &s;ome of the Citizens to be laid hold of, and the place to be better guarded afterwards.</P>
<P>No &s;ooner were the 14 dayes of <HI>Truce</HI> expired, but <HI>Gu&s;ta|vus Horn</HI> falls into the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Bamberg:</HI> which he
<PB N="102" REF="61"> might have &s;ooner done, for that the King had refu&s;ed to grant any <HI>Neutrality</HI> at all unto that Bi&s;hop. The countrey was much affrighted at his comming; and the Bi&s;hop &s;ends for aides unto the Count of <HI>Tilly:</HI> making meanes unto Co|lonell <HI>Slammer&s;dorff</HI> of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> to take off <HI>Horn,</HI> if it were po&s;&s;ible. <HI>Horns</HI> fir&s;t de&s;igne was upon <HI>Hoch&s;tat;</HI> a pretty Towne upon the river <HI>Ai&s;ch,</HI> betwixt <HI>Kitzing</HI> and <HI>Forcheim.</HI> Towards this, he upon Saterday, Ianuary 28. &s;ending a &s;mall Partee or forlorne Hope before; they were &s;et upon and bea|ten backe by 50 Imperiall Hor&s;e: who being come out of <HI>Bamberg</HI> to &s;eeke their adventure, had di&s;po&s;ed them&s;elues in clo&s;e ambu&s;h in a &s;mall Dorp upon the way. More of the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> now comming in to the reskue, the Imperiali&s;ts are forced to flee the next way into <HI>Forcheim. Horn</HI> bring|ing his men before the Towne, beating it a little with nine Peeces of Cannon, and by a ca&s;uall &s;hot wounding the <HI>Maior;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">och&s;tat</HI> taken.</NOTE> the garri&s;on (who were three hundred men) the next day give up the place: the mo&s;t of them al&s;o be|comming &s;ouldiers unto the <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> But before the yeel|ding up, out of <HI>Forcheim</HI> comes the Imperiall Colonell <HI>D' Espagni,</HI> with &s;ome five hundred Hor&s;e and as many Foote, hoping to relieve it. Three Cornets of the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> his Hor&s;e, being on the other &s;ide of the river on which the Towne &s;tandeth; were now re&s;olutely char|ged by <HI>D'Espagni. Solms</HI> his men &s;ending to call in the <HI>Bo|hemian</HI> Baron <HI>Kochtitzki,</HI> the Imperiali&s;ts retire upon it; not making head at all, till they came within a mile of <HI>For|cheim.</HI> Hereabouts the five hundred Imperiall Foote finding an advantage; di&s;po&s;e them&s;elues into an Ambu&s;h: part thereof being in a Dorp, and part in a Church-yard; where they waited for the <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> Hard it went with the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> at the fir&s;t Encounter; divers common &s;ouldiers, two Lief|tenants, three Cornets, two Rit-ma&s;ters, and fourty or fifty Hor&s;emen were either &s;laine or &s;poyled. The Lord <HI>Kochtitzki</HI> (their Colonell) being after a while &s;hot in one of his armes, and in &s;ome danger; was bravely reskued by his Lief|tenant-Colonell:
<PB N="103" REF="61"> and his men, now all enraged, charging more fiercely upon the Imperiali&s;ts, beate them after a while out of the village; kill divers both of Hor&s;e and Foote; and keep a great many pri&s;oners.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Imperi|ali&s;ts for&s;ake <HI>Bamberg.</HI></NOTE> This defeate of <HI>D'E&s;pagni</HI> being known to the garri&s;on of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> they immediatly fall to pillage the City and to for&s;ake it: retyring them&s;elues into <HI>Forcheim,</HI> as into a place much &s;tronger.</P>
<P>Vpon Wedne&s;day, February 1. <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> &s;ends five Cornets of Hor&s;e, and two En&s;ignes of Foote, to demand up the City of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> the chiefe Towne of the Bi&s;ho|prick, though not the &s;tronge&s;t. Tis &s;eated upon the North|ea&s;terly banke of the <HI>Main,</HI> over which it hath a bridge. The Citizens being guilty of the weakene&s;&s;e of the place, and the day before for&s;aken by their garri&s;on; begin to en|ter into capitulation with the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> ab&s;olutely agreeing to yeeld up their Towne unto them. Iu&s;t while&s;t this was a doing, five hundred Boores of the Traine-bands of <HI>Cronach</HI> and thereabouts, thru&s;ting them&s;elues on the contrary &s;ide into the Towne, fall pre&s;ently aboord with the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> laying lu&s;tily at them to beate them out againe. The Towne&s;|men perceiving this, they &s;trike in with their Boores like|wi&s;e: and whereas there were &s;ome more of the <HI>Swedi&s;h,</HI> by this time come before the wals; they &s;hut to their gates again&s;t them, with Cannon and Musket &s;hot letting fly amaine a|mong&s;t them. This continued untill midnight; by which time the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e within, beginning to prove too hard for the Boores; and tho&s;e without, now al&s;o breaking in, terribly affrighted the perfidious Town&s;men with a feare of having their throates cut, every Mothers &s;onne of them. But they now throwing downe their Armes in the Market|place, and running to hide them&s;elues where they could:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bamberg</HI> wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> by the <HI>Swedi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> being indifferently appea&s;ed by the pillage of their hou&s;es, &s;corne in cold blood to meddle with a Citizen. Thus fatall hath it beene, to tho&s;e of this City and Bi&s;hop|ricke; to breake their faiths unto the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Newes of all this is &s;ent immediately unto <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI>
<PB N="104" REF="62"> at <HI>Hoch&s;tat;</HI> who comming into the City, takes up his lodg|ing in the <HI>Geier&s;wer,</HI> and leaves the Bi&s;hops Palace for Duke <HI>Ernestus.</HI> The Country hereupon to avoid plundering, &s;end to <HI>Bamberg</HI> to make their agreement; out of whom, one or other, <HI>Gustavus Horn</HI> drew a pre&s;ent ran&s;ome of 400000 Rix dollars.</P>
<P>February-fill-dike (as if he feared to lo&s;e his good name) began now &s;o naturally to play his part; and the &s;ea&s;on here|upon proved &s;o rainy;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orn</HI> hindred <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y the raine.</NOTE> that <HI>Horn</HI> was not able, (e&s;pecially with his Cannon and Carriages) to &s;tirre any where abroad into the Country. The chiefe &s;ervice he could doe, was this, that his Hor&s;e upon a faire day now and then, fell out again&s;t tho&s;e of <HI>Forcheim.</HI> This one accident, hindered the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> of fini&s;hing the conque&s;t of the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Bamberg.</HI></P>
<P>The Bi&s;hop hearing of the taking of this Towne; flees with all &s;peed towards the <HI>upper Palatinate.</HI> February 3. he went to <HI>&V;il&s;eck;</HI> the next day to <HI>Amberg:</HI> and in the end of the moneth, unto <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> and &s;o into <HI>Bavaria.</HI> It was his chance upon the way, to meet with Lieftenant-Generall <HI>Cratz</HI> and the Count of <HI>Sultz;</HI> who with 3000 men, and &s;ome pieces of Ordnance, were come from <HI>Amberg</HI> and <HI>Weiden,</HI> to relieve <HI>Forcheim:</HI> which they had heard (but fal&s;ely) to be be&s;ieged. They were already advanc't as farre as <HI>Averbach</HI> and beyond it; within &s;ome thirty Engli&s;h miles,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atz</HI> comming <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gain&s;t <HI>Horn,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">turned backe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gaine by the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ing Bi&s;hop <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Bamberg.</HI></NOTE> or le&s;&s;e, of <HI>Forcheim.</HI> Here under&s;tanding by the Bi|&s;hop, that <HI>Gustavus Horn</HI> was too &s;trong for &s;o &s;mall a number; they retire their forces backe againe unto <HI>Aver|bach.</HI> This was upon the third of February: which very day the Bi&s;hop went forward unto <HI>&V;il&s;ech,</HI> &s;ixe <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles be|yond <HI>Averbach.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> was faine to containe him&s;elfe within <HI>Bam|berg</HI> all the rainy &s;ea&s;on: able to doe no other &s;ervice, but to fortifie the Towne a little; which was not indeed to be made &s;en&s;ible. No iniury at all did he unto the Clergy of <HI>Bamberg:</HI> except this might be mi&s;taken for an offence; To have endea|voured
<PB N="105" REF="62"> the &s;aving of their &s;oules, by cau&s;ing the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> to be publikely preached in their <HI>Cathedrall.</HI> Towards the end of the moneth, it began to freeze; &s;o that no &s;ooner were the earth and ice become hard enough to beare his Ord|nance, but he prepares for the &s;iege of <HI>Forcheim.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">While <HI>Horn</HI> provides to go again&s;t <HI>For|cheim, Tilly</HI> comes again&s;t him.</NOTE> From which de&s;igne how he was taken off by the Count of <HI>Tilly,</HI> we have before told you.</P>
<P>Since, now, that we have twice before made mention of the Generall <HI>Tilly;</HI> it &s;hall not be ami&s;&s;e, in this very place, to bring up his <HI>Story</HI> from the <HI>Battell of Leip&s;ich,</HI> unto this mee|ting of his with <HI>Horn:</HI> and then leave him a while againe, till he be ready for his &s;econd and finall overthrow. The fir&s;t part of his <HI>Story,</HI> might (tis true) have beene brought in before the fir&s;t mention of him, when in October he drew neere un|to the King: but for that it would have too much broken off the Kings Story, I thought better to put it here all together.</P>
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<PB N="106" REF="63">
<HEAD>Generall <HI>Tillyes</HI> Proceedings.</HEAD>
<P>_NO one Act of this brave Chieftaines hath made him &s;o much &s;poken of, (and with re&s;pect too) as that misfortune of his at the <HI>Battell of Leip&s;ich.</HI> Vulgar people dye, and are forgotten: but this &s;hewes how great a part of the world, and how principall a per&s;onage this man was, who &s;till gave occa&s;ion to the fir&s;t que&s;tion of Newes, <HI>Is Tilly yet alive?</HI> To &s;atisfie the Rea|ders that he was not dead, (no nor never lay by it) we will here pre&s;ent you with the <HI>Diary</HI> or <HI>Iournall</HI> of his fir&s;t &s;hif|tings up and downe. And the&s;e be the <HI>Gifts</HI> of his <HI>Progre&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>He was defeated at <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> September 7. 1631. From whence turning him&s;elfe to the We&s;tward (like the declining Sunne) and keeping along by the River <HI>Sala;</HI> he flees fir&s;t unto <HI>Hall:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The way of his flight.</NOTE> where he gat his wounds dre&s;&s;ed; and whence together with the Counts of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg</HI> and <HI>Pappenheim,</HI> away the next day hee ha&s;ted. Bending then a little to the North-We&s;t-ward; to <HI>A&s;cherleben</HI> hee hyes: where upon Fryday, September ninth, hee arryved. Hence wrote hee unto Generall <HI>Altringer:</HI> and this was the Copy of his Letter.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Letter un|to <HI>Altringer.</HI></NOTE>My Lord, I am now arryved at <HI>A&s;cherleben:</HI> where I have a purpo&s;e and re&s;olution to r'allee as many of our &s;cattered and di&s;per&s;ed troopes, as we can po&s;&s;ibly get together againe in this Dukedome<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Of <HI>Brun&s;|wicke.</HI></NOTE>. I now write this my fourth letter unto you, to acquaint you with my de&s;ires: and earne&s;tly withall to require you, that you keepe your &s;elfe in a continuall ready|ne&s;&s;e, and &s;tand upon your guard with your whole army, in the be&s;t manner that you can. We cannot yet learne, which way the enemy is likely to turne his Armes; he may perhaps
<PB N="107" REF="63"> make towards you: for which rea&s;on I could advi&s;e you, that for your better &s;afetie and &s;ecuritie, you would ha&s;ten to joyne your &s;elfe unto tho&s;e troopes of ours which are already in <HI>He&s;&s;en;</HI> and altogether to a&s;&s;ault the <HI>Landtgraves</HI> forces, as lively as po&s;&s;ibly you can. I de&s;ire you, that as time will give you leave; you acquaint me with the newes of your parts, and the order of your proceedings. Your letters may be conueighed to me by the way of <HI>Halber&s;tat:</HI> whereabouts I am as yet, and am likely for a while to continue.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>A&s;cherleben,</HI> <DATE>September 9/19. 1631.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your very well affectioned, <HI>Iohn,</HI> Count of <HI>Tilly.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>Hence goes he onwards into the Dukedome of <HI>Brun&s;|wicke,</HI> unto <HI>Halber&s;tat:</HI> which is full foure&s;core <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from the place of the late <HI>battel.</HI> Here finds he 18 troops of his owne hor&s;e, which had beene gotten thither before him. Now (in <HI>Brun&s;wick-land</HI>) was <HI>Tilly</HI> at home, (as it were:) for hereabouts had the Emperour be&s;towed divers lands and Lord&s;hips upon him, which had belonged unto <HI>Christian</HI> late Duke of <HI>Brun&s;wick</HI> and Bi&s;hop of <HI>Halber&s;tat,</HI> whom <HI>Tilly</HI> had ouerthrowne. Vpon the Church doores all herea|bouts, &s;ets he up his <HI>Si qui&s;&s;es</HI> and his <HI>Patents:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> gathe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his army a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> to give notice unto &s;uch of his Colonells and Captaines, as were yet fleeing they knew not whither: where they might find him, and &s;uch fragments of their owne troopes, as were already heard of. Perceiving him&s;elfe not yet &s;afe enough hereabouts, for that &s;ome of the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e were even now skowring the coa&s;t up and downe, even upon the frontiers of this <HI>Brun&s;|wick-land</HI> and <HI>Magdenburg;</HI> &s;o nettled he was at the newes of it; that even old and wounded though he were, yet upon Tue&s;day, Septemb. 13. (the &s;ixth day after the battell) away from <HI>Halber&s;tat</HI> he &s;peeds for life. The (new) Admini&s;trator of
<PB N="108" REF="64"> <HI>Halberstat, Iohn Reinhard Metternich,</HI> he takes away with him; and all the Souldiors of the neighbour garri&s;ons.</P>
<P>Thence &s;capes he to <HI>O&s;terwick,</HI> foure leagues further: and &s;o along in the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Hilde&s;heim.</HI> Bending here a little more &s;outherly; unto <HI>Alfeldt</HI> (tenne or eleven leagues further) he comes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e continues <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s flight.</NOTE> upon Satterday Septemb. 17, ju&s;t tenne dayes after the <HI>battell.</HI> In which time, (allowing him the neere&s;t way, and by a line too) he had gone full &s;even &s;core <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of ground. The reliques of his army had runne as fa&s;t as he too; &s;o that well might it be called a <HI>flying march.</HI> But to make it more po&s;&s;ible to beleeve; namely, that his Foote &s;hould have gotten thus farre in this &s;hort time; you are to take notice, that they had beene well lightned of their Armes and Luggage: &s;o that hither they recovered, all light and unarmed.</P>
<P>Being here out of Gun-&s;hot, he now makes his &s;econd &s;tay, for the gathering up of more remaines of his army. Hence after a while &s;loaping a little to the South-We&s;t, to <HI>Huxter</HI> he goes in the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Corbey</HI> in <HI>We&s;tphalia:</HI> whither he recovered, Septemb. 25: having fir&s;t laid a bridge over the faire River of <HI>We&s;er,</HI> for the pa&s;&s;age of his people. Here begins he to forme an Army againe; to augment which, he hath a re-enforcement of 3000 Foote, and 2000 Hor&s;e (as &s;ome write) out of the dioce&s;&s;e of <HI>Cullen:</HI> which might indeed ea&s;ily enough come up to him thorow the County of <HI>Waldeck.</HI> Here al&s;o he recruits his old &s;hatterd Regiments with &s;ome few levyes;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly</HI> formes a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Army.</NOTE> and hither from <HI>Hamelen</HI> (a Towne &s;ome &s;ixe leagues to the Northward of <HI>Huxter;</HI> and on the &s;ame &s;ide of the <HI>We&s;er</HI>) came there twelve peeces of Can|non, and &s;uch other nece&s;&s;aryes of warre, as that Magazine afforded. All the&s;e hee had before &s;ent for, to meete him there. It is a very good place for an army to be formed in; for hereabouts are abundance of pretty fine Townes, a rich Country, and which had not of late been rifled. By this time, was he &s;aid to have an Army of 10000 men together: which &s;uppo&s;ing to be true; then it plainely appeares, that he never,
<PB N="109" REF="64"> hitherto, had re-a&s;&s;embled full 5000 of his old army. This ob&s;ervation is to be made good by this argument: that the 5000 which were &s;ent him from <HI>Cullen,</HI> and the&s;e other new levyed men too; are all to be di&s;counted out of tho&s;e ten thou&s;and.</P>
<P>Perceiving a likelyhood of &s;ome &s;tirres hereabout (which did indeed breake out<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">By the ri&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Duke <HI>Lunenburg</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Bi&s;hop o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Bremen,</HI> and the <HI>Landgrav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI></NOTE> a little after that) he leaves the Count of <HI>Gronsfelt</HI> in that new made leaguer with part of the forces, to be his Lieftenant in the parts upon the <HI>We&s;er.</HI> Within two or three dayes after, him&s;elfe with the greate&s;t part of the Army, marches unto <HI>Warburg</HI> in the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Pader|born;</HI> which &s;tandeth upon the river <HI>Dimel,</HI> that parteth this Bi&s;hoprick from the land of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI> The rea&s;on of his draw|ing towards the&s;e quarters was, to meete with <HI>Altringer, Fugger</HI> and <HI>Mansvelt,</HI> whom he had written unto: as al&s;o to be neerer to the Count of <HI>Sultz;</HI> who was on the other &s;ide of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> betwixt <HI>Fulda</HI> and the <HI>Mayn.</HI> And the&s;e were the forces which <HI>Tilly</HI> mentioned in his Letters to <HI>Altringer,</HI> to be in the land of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Lorrayn</HI> al&s;o with his Army, was now upon the march thitherward; and unto all the&s;e, had <HI>Tilly</HI> written to come and meete him. Having perfecter notice at this place of the Kings being gone beyond <HI>Erfurt</HI> towards <HI>Franconia;</HI> and that he had left pur&s;uing of him: he turnes more Southerly upon it. Keeping him&s;elfe therefore upon the very edges of <HI>Waldeck,</HI> and <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> (a &s;mall River being his guide) he comes fir&s;t unto <HI>Gudersberg,</HI> two miles We&s;t of the River of <HI>Fulda:</HI> which his men plun|der and burne. Thence more Southerly &s;till,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> falls into <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI></NOTE> unto <HI>Fritzlar</HI> in <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> twenty <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Warburg:</HI> which the <HI>Landgrave</HI> had newly taken from the Elector of <HI>Mentz.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Takes <HI>Fritzlar</HI></NOTE> This was the la&s;t day of September. October the &s;econd, forward he moves againe: &s;poyling <HI>Bercken</HI> the &s;ame day, a <HI>Dutch</HI> league from <HI>Fritzlar.</HI> This he did, to fle&s;h his &s;ouldiors up|on an enemies countrey. That night, was there a Partee &s;ent to <HI>Bischehau&s;en;</HI> a &s;mall open village, a league beyond that. Hither had the countrey Boores driven their cattell; for that
<PB N="110" REF="65"> the village is on three &s;ides fenced by two &s;mall rivers, which meete at it. A troope of the <HI>Landgraves</HI> Hor&s;e, had the poore people al&s;o for their protection. The <HI>Tillians</HI> flye upon this booty, beate the Boores and their guards; and begin to drive away their cattell.</P>
<P>The garri&s;on of <HI>Zigenhaim</HI> (a good &s;trong towne of the <HI>Landgraves,</HI> &s;ome five <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of that) comming time enough in to the re&s;cue, beat off the <HI>Tillians</HI> againe. Both parties being re-inforced by their owne; &s;ome 300 are &s;laine on one &s;ide or other; and <HI>Tilly</HI> being onward on his march, tho&s;e of his were faine to leave the skirmi&s;h, and follow after the army. Thus the fray parted, the <HI>Tillians</HI> marching off, with the <HI>He&s;&s;ens</HI> cattell. The next day, Tue&s;day, October 4, going on &s;til Southerly; he effects what he &s;o much de&s;ired,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e ioynes with <HI>Altringer,</HI> &amp;c.</NOTE> the uniting of his army with <HI>Altringer</HI> and <HI>Fugger:</HI> with whom the Count of <HI>Mansvelts</HI> forces were now al&s;o conioyned. To fetch up who&s;e <HI>Story,</HI> let us now goe backe againe, and &s;o goe with them along alltogether.</P>
<P>This <HI>Henry Otho</HI> Lord <HI>Fugger,</HI> is one of the <HI>Fuggers</HI> of <HI>Au&s;purg,</HI> who are the greate&s;t Family of Merchants and Bank|ers of all <HI>Europe.</HI> As for <HI>Altringer,</HI> his good parts meerly had preferd him: a thing rare in the Empire, where Gentry is &s;o much &s;tood upon.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Story of <HI>Altringer</HI> and <HI>Fugger.</HI></NOTE> The &s;onne he was of a <HI>Towne-Clerke,</HI> or &s;uch like <HI>Pen and inckhorne-man,</HI> which kind of vocation is too much di&s;-re&s;pected in <HI>Germany.</HI> His education was fir&s;t in the <HI>&V;niver&s;ities:</HI> and after that, in the <HI>Chancery</HI> at <HI>Prague;</HI> where he was fir&s;t a <HI>Clerke,</HI> and then an <HI>Advocate.</HI> His rare learning, (for he hath one of the be&s;t penns of <HI>Ger|many</HI>) and his &s;harpe wit, preferred him quickly from that place.</P>
<P>Applying him&s;elfe unto the warres; he was (to omit the re&s;t) with Command employed into <HI>Italy,</HI> in the late warres of <HI>Mantua:</HI> which being ended, he returned with his army into <HI>Germany.</HI> How he pieced in with <HI>Fugger,</HI> and how up|on the hearing of <HI>Tillies</HI> defeate at <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> they both retyred thorow the <HI>Duringer</HI> Forre&s;t; I leave to be read in my <HI>Fir&s;t
<PB N="111" REF="65"> Part.</HI> Some 6000 men, they were both together &s;aid to have at that time: with whom they fir&s;t of all retired unto <HI>I&s;enach.</HI> About <HI>Fulda</HI> lay one of the Counts of <HI>Mansfelt</HI> (of which there be 5 Families) with whom they now conioyned. Their army they more encrea&s;ed, with &s;ome new levies of &s;uch poore and young people, as they could in that ha&s;te and feare, ramble up together. <HI>Altringer,</HI> upon the receipt of <HI>Tillies</HI> letters, beginnes to turne that way towards him. Keeping the river of <HI>Werra</HI> clo&s;e upon their right hand, they upon Tue&s;|day, September 27. arrive at <HI>Munden,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">They march ioyne with <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> in the Northern edge of <HI>He&s;&s;en-land;</HI> where the river <HI>Fulda</HI> falleth into the <HI>Werra.</HI> Thorow this Towne, they were marching from 8 to 4 the next day, and were reported to be 54 Cornets of Hor&s;e, and 82 Companies of Foote; &s;ome 10000 or 11000 men in all perchance: of which, a many were ob&s;erved to be boyes and raw &s;ouldiers.</P>
<P>About halfe a league without <HI>Munden,</HI> they the &s;ame day pitcht their Campe: expecting that <HI>Tilly</HI> &s;hould thither have comne unto them. <HI>Tilly,</HI> to the &s;ame end, was &s;ome 2 dayes &s;ince, comne as neere to them as <HI>Warburg;</HI> &s;ome 18 or 20 <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> miles to the North-Ea&s;t of <HI>Munden.</HI> The armies now hea|ring one of another, and that the <HI>Landgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> was with his forces, at that time, neere unto his owne Towne of <HI>Ca&s;&s;el</HI> upon the river of <HI>Fulda;</HI> they determine both together to fall into his Country; <HI>Tilly</HI> on the We&s;t &s;ide of the river <HI>Fulda,</HI> and <HI>Altringer</HI> upon the Ea&s;t; to &s;poyle that fir&s;t, and then to conioyne their forces. This la&s;t, they the 4 of October thorowly performed.</P>
<P>Being united, they might altogether make up &s;ome 18000 men, Hor&s;e and Foote; but ill cloath'd and arm'd, God knowes. Their fir&s;t march was to <HI>Grebenaw;</HI> a walled Towne &s;ome 4 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from the river <HI>Fulda,</HI> which runneth thorow the midde&s;t of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI> Here they pitch, and re&s;t &s;ome night or two, to con&s;ult and order their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Thence goe they to <HI>Schlicz:</HI> a good towne, &s;o named of the river it &s;tands up|on. Hence, October 6 to <HI>Fulda,</HI> a great <HI>Abby</HI> where they
<PB N="112" REF="66"> againe &s;tay and mu&s;ter. I take no notice of <HI>Gallobelgicus</HI> his nu~|bers; who as he allowes 18000 men to <HI>Altringer</HI> alone, &s;o he affoords 182 troopes of Hor&s;e unto both together, be&s;ide a very great number of Foote al&s;o. <HI>Gallobelgicus</HI> (I perceive) goes by <HI>Geometricall proportion,</HI> makes <HI>London mea&s;ure</HI> now and then, and tels &s;ixe&s;corce to the hundred: he gives too much credit (I meane) to great reports every where.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at forces <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ly</HI> now had.</NOTE> A hundred eighty two troopes of good Hor&s;e, (<HI>Tillies</HI> were very good) and a full hundred to each troope, will come to 18200 men: which (had <HI>Tilly</HI> had the leading) would have gone neere at that time, to have over-runne all <HI>Germany.</HI> The King of <HI>Swe|den</HI> was but very weake in Hor&s;e at the Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich;</HI> nor had he as yet very much encrea&s;ed them: and had <HI>Tilly</HI> now had but halfe &s;o many Hor&s;e as 182 troopes; he would never have turned his head from the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> A hun|dred eighty two Cornets and En&s;ignes of Hor&s;e and Foot to|gether, might be the li&s;t of all their Armies: and might make up 18000 men; which <HI>Gallobelgicus</HI> allowes <HI>Altringer</HI> alone. And the&s;e two numbers might confound him. But this by way of di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>Here having newes of the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> beleagring of <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> the Imperiall Generalls con&s;ult how to levy the &s;iege; but hearing againe of his taking the Ca&s;tle, and of the other Townes he had gotten upon the banks of the <HI>Mayn:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lly</HI> goes to|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rds the <HI>Mayn</HI></NOTE> they make the more ha&s;te to conioyne them&s;elues with the <HI>Lorrayn</HI> army. Marching with good &s;peede, thereupon, unto <HI>A&s;chaffenburg</HI> upon the <HI>Mayn,</HI> &s;ome three dayes march from <HI>Fulda;</HI> hither October 10 came the Duke of <HI>Lorrayn</HI> to &s;ee the Generall <HI>Tilly.</HI> The next day, is <HI>Altringer</HI> &s;ent o|ver the <HI>Mayn</HI> towards the&s;e <HI>Lorrayners:</HI> &s;o that upon Mun|day,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ynes with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c <HI>Lorrayners.</HI></NOTE> October 17, was that coniunction made al&s;o. More of this, we have before told you, in the <HI>Story</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Lor|rayners.</HI></P>
<P>Whil&s;t here (about <HI>A&s;chaffenburg</HI>) he lyes: he October 16. &s;ends 3000 towards <HI>Werthaim,</HI> which were defeated: and &s;o are three Regiments more of his about <HI>Rotenburg,</HI>
<PB N="113" REF="66"> October 21. as we have before told you. In this <HI>Interim</HI> too, he &s;ollicites <HI>Hanaw:</HI> and being denyed, he pa&s;&s;es the <HI>Main,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Takes <HI>Baben|hau&s;en.</HI></NOTE> and takes in <HI>Babenhau&s;en</HI> Towne and Ca&s;tle, belonging unto the Count of <HI>Hanaw Buxviller:</HI> but empawned unto the Elder Count of <HI>Hanaw.</HI> The <HI>Lorrayners</HI> being comne within three leagues of him (which is neere enough for vniting) part of his forces about that very day, roave up and downe as farre as <HI>Franckford</HI> on the <HI>Mayn:</HI> many of them went into the very Towne, more being without the Ports; a great part of them very poore, and as yet unarmed. They came now as friends or <HI>Neuters,</HI> or Pa&s;&s;engers to the Towne: for <HI>Tilly</HI> had not yet &s;ollicited <HI>Franckford</HI> to take in a garri&s;on:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sollicites <HI>Franckford.</HI></NOTE> nor till five or &s;ixe dayes after. At which time he reque&s;ting, and the Towne denying; he goes by <HI>Seling&s;tat</HI> towards the <HI>Berg&s;traes:</HI> which is that part of the <HI>Palatinate</HI> on the &s;ame &s;ide of the <HI>Rhine</HI> with him. All along hereabouts (namely in the land of <HI>Darm&s;tat</HI> and the <HI>Berg&s;traes</HI>) for certaine dayes he lay: and verily beleeved it was, that he would have gone along the <HI>Bergstraes</HI> to <HI>Manheim</HI> and <HI>Heidleberg,</HI> and there have &s;taid for the defence of the <HI>Palatinate.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Goes into the <HI>Berg&s;traes.</HI></NOTE> Some of his men (if not him&s;elfe) were advanc't that way as farre as right again&s;t <HI>Oppenheim,</HI> in the beginning of November: whenas judging by the taking of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> that the King would al&s;o come downe towards <HI>Franckford,</HI> and &s;o hazzard to coope him up into the <HI>Palatinate;</HI> he all on the &s;udden, about the fou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th or fifth of November, turnes backe againe towards the <HI>Lorrayn</HI> army at <HI>Miltenburg.</HI> And here,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Turnes backe into <HI>Franconia.</HI></NOTE> the <HI>Mayn</HI> croo|king away many leagues to the <HI>Northward;</HI> he leaving it up|on the left hand, goes directly unto <HI>Oxenfurt:</HI> where the <HI>Mayn</HI> comes about as low againe, as at <HI>Miltenburg.</HI> What he did in the way; and what pa&s;&s;ed at <HI>Oxenfurt,</HI> we have be|fore told you in the <HI>Kings Story.</HI></P>
<P>Here the King and the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> part againe: and <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> who had beene Commi&s;&s;ary to the <HI>Lorrayn</HI> Army be|fore, goes now along with <HI>Tilly</HI> towards <HI>Norimberg:</HI> a little before the end of November, comming backe againe
<PB N="114" REF="67"> from thence,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> goes a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ong with <HI>Til|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y.</HI></NOTE> unto his charge, the <HI>Lorrayners. O&s;&s;a</HI> by ver|tue partly of his <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> (which was Imperiall) and part|ly by vertue of &s;ome of <HI>Tillyes</HI> forces; takes in the Imperiall City of <HI>Rotenburg</HI> upon the <HI>Tauber,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd takes <HI>Ro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enburg.</HI></NOTE> which the Kings men had before taken. Twelve thou&s;and Dollars he drew from the Magi&s;trates; nor could hee hinder his &s;ouldiours after|wards from plundering of the City: which I impute not unto the Inju&s;tice of the Generalls, but unto the hunger and unrulyne&s;&s;e of the Souldiours; who having had no pay in a long time, could not here be &s;o well governed. With the &s;ame &s;awce, they &s;erved all the Dorps and &s;maller villages, thereabouts.</P>
<P>And now, it &s;eemes, was the Army devided; not mar|ching all together in one gro&s;&s;e: for part of it at the &s;ame time tooke in <HI>Win&s;haim,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd <HI>Win&s;haim.</HI></NOTE> an Imperiall City towards the North: and another Divi&s;ion, went to <HI>Guntzenhau&s;en:</HI> al|mo&s;t forty <HI>Eugli&s;h</HI> miles from that, towards the South: both Armies meeting againe about <HI>Norimberg.</HI> Tho&s;e that tooke <HI>Guntzenhau&s;en,</HI> went thence unto the Imperiall City of <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> about foure or five <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles more to the South-Ea&s;t, where <HI>Tilly</HI> left a &s;mall garri&s;on. About an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mile from which, and upon an hill on the North &s;ide;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tilly <HI>takes</HI> Wei&s;&s;enburg.</NOTE> &s;tands the &s;trong ca&s;tle of <HI>Wilsburg,</HI> belonging unto the young Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>On&s;pach,</HI> Pupill unto his Co&s;in the Elector of <HI>Brandenburg.</HI> This being the &s;tronge&s;t Pa&s;&s;e of all tho&s;e parts, the Marchione&s;&s;e Dowager (Mother unto the Yong Lord) is mainely laid at by <HI>Tilly,</HI> to cau&s;e her brother the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> (Governor of the Ca&s;tle) to deliver it up into his hands, with all the Ordnance and Ammunition in it. And this, though not pre&s;ently; yet he after a while wrung from her: into which he put the young Count of <HI>Pappenheim</HI> (Co&s;in to Generall <HI>Pappenheim</HI>) who&s;e Ca&s;tle is a neighbour unto it. Nor yet did the Lady find any whit the more favour for it: &s;eeing Her Sonnes owne Towne of <HI>On&s;pach,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and rifles the Marqui&s;ate of <HI>On&s;pach.</HI></NOTE> with the Villages of the Marqui&s;ate, were by the <HI>Tillians</HI> taken and plundered, and above 5000 head of great
<PB N="115" REF="67"> Cattell gotten away from her Country Subjects. Some vil|lages, both here, and in the County of <HI>Hohenlo,</HI> were fired al&s;o. Yet was all this, but &s;ome of the civile&s;t: mo&s;t Souldiers (if enemies) would have done as much. The next is barba|rous: for comming to the Cloy&s;ter of <HI>Haibron,</HI> (twelve <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Norimberg</HI>) where &s;ome of the Marque&s;&s;es of <HI>On&s;pach</HI> (who are of the Electorall hou&s;e of <HI>Brandenburg</HI>) lye entombed: the &s;acrilegious &s;oldiours breake open the vault, and rob the dead corp&s;es of the Marque&s;&s;es, <HI>George Frederike,</HI> and <HI>Ioachim Erne&s;t,</HI> of the Iewels, Rings, and other rich ornaments, with which they were entombed.</P>
<P>Hence went the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> unto <HI>Swabach;</HI> within &s;even or eight <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Norimberg.</HI> This goodly Ci|ty of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> was the Pa&s;&s;e that <HI>Tilly</HI> all this while aymd at; and which he hoped to enforce to a compo&s;ition with him. Making his head-quarter therefore at this <HI>Swabach,</HI> which is on the South of <HI>Norimberg;</HI> he &s;ends out other of his forces to take in <HI>Altorff, Lauff,</HI> and <HI>Hersbruck,</HI> all on the North and Ea&s;t of it.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> &s;ets do before <HI>Norim+berg.</HI></NOTE> Having thus &s;urrounded the Coun|try about it, he begins, November 18. to bring his army neerer to the walls, as if to be&s;iege it. Having thus &s;hewd them his power, he &s;ends withall his Me&s;&s;engers into the City, fir&s;t to have &s;uch a proportion of bread &amp;c. given him, and then, to have &s;ome Councellors and Doctors &s;ent out to treate with him. The Doctors went to <HI>Swabach</HI> and there dined with him: unto whom were the&s;e demands in the Em|perors name propounded.</P>
<P N="1">1.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His deman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE>That the Magi&s;trates &s;hould deliver the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> into his hands; as an officer belonging unto the Emperors ene|my, the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That they &s;hould licence all their forces, and &s;uffer their &s;oldiours to &s;erve under his Colours.</P>
<P N="3">3. That they &s;hould &s;tand to their promi&s;e lately made, and renounce the <HI>Conclu&s;ions of Leip&s;ich.</HI></P>
<P>This if they yeelded to him in, he promi&s;ed to pay them hone&s;tly, for all &s;uch provi&s;ions, as he &s;hould demand of
<PB N="116" REF="68"> them: and if not, then would he force them to it. The Do|ctors receiving the&s;e demands, promi&s;e an an&s;wer unto his Ex|cellency the day following. And indeed he had it; for the Count of <HI>Solms,</HI> (who&s;e body he &s;o much de&s;ired) made a p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r|&s;onall tender of him&s;elfe before <HI>Tillyes</HI> trenches, by a re&s;olute &s;ally the next day: where, with his Regiment of <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> hor&s;e, hee defeated that of the young Prince of <HI>Anhalt,</HI> and tooke him&s;elfe, with &s;ome thirtie of his officers, pri&s;oners. This <HI>Iohn George</HI> Count of <HI>Solms,</HI> with his brother <HI>William Henry,</HI> had each of them a Regiment in the Citie; the fir&s;t of Hor&s;e, and the &s;econd of Foot; both newly levyed for the Kings &s;ervice. Here were al&s;o two Counts of <HI>Hohenlo:</HI> and another Regiment of Colonel<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Five Regi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ents &s;ayes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hort and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">l&s;e <HI>Arma <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecica.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Slammersdorffs:</HI> &s;o that they had a garri&s;on of &s;ome 3000 Hor&s;e and Foot: which the Burgers with their &s;onnes and &s;ervants in the towne, could well make up 10000 able fighting men. Some Engineers had the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> newly &s;ent unto them; who with &s;uch ha&s;te and skill perfected up the Workes they had begun before <HI>Tillyes</HI> comming, that they now much cared not for all his threat|nings. <HI>Tillyes</HI> approaches went on but &s;lowly; as if he had in|tended to skare the Citie, rather then be&s;iege it. And indeed it was too big and &s;trong; every way too well &s;upplyed, for <HI>Tillyes</HI> rawe and ill provided army to meddle withall. Hee wanted both victuals and ammunition for &s;uch a &s;iege; be|&s;ides which, winter was too neerely a comming on, to &s;it downe to it. <HI>Tilly</HI> &s;urely was too wi&s;e to make a Worke of it. Yet &s;ome bravadoes, for his honour &s;ake, did his men make again&s;t it: which were with lo&s;&s;e daily repul&s;ed by the &s;allyes of the Counts of <HI>Solms</HI> and others. Hee lo&s;t <HI>Slabata</HI> a Colonell of the <HI>Crabats,</HI> before the towne; with many Of|ficers and Gentlemen of worth moe. Perceiving now his men to begin to runne away into the towne (which they daily did, by tens and twenties in a company:) and that there was no o|ther contribution to be expected but powder and &s;hot (if hee liked it:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> rai&s;es his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> from <HI>No|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erg.</HI></NOTE>) he &s;ends to <HI>Altringer</HI> (who then commanded be|fore the towne, to draw off the troopes, and to bee ri&s;ing.
<PB N="117" REF="68"> Leaving therefore &s;ome 2000 dead, and wounded, and &s;icke, and halfe &s;tarved men behind him, either in the trenches or neighbour villages; he upon the 22 and 23 of November, di&s;|lodges with his Army. That which made this &s;udden ri&s;ing of his &s;eeme the &s;tranger, was, That it was done in the night: and in &s;uch ha&s;te too, that his men left &s;ome of their baggage-wa|gons behind them. And if this may be excu&s;ed, as being done for <HI>want</HI> rather, then for <HI>ha&s;te</HI> or <HI>feare;</HI> for that namely they wa~ted wagon-hor&s;es: yet &s;urely his men wanted not &s;tomakes for the &s;heepe and other victuals left behind them ready dre&s;|&s;ed, (as I find from 2 &s;everall hands written) &amp; upon the tables too: which verily argued &s;ome needle&s;&s;e feare or ha&s;te in them.</P>
<P>At <HI>Rot,</HI> a Towne &s;ome &s;even <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of his Head-quarter of <HI>Swabach,</HI> lay part of his &s;tore of Gun|powder: which being charg'd upon the wagons, and ready now to march after the army, was by negligence &s;et on fire, and 12500 weight of powder blowne up; &s;ome peeces of Ordnance &s;poyled, with other mi&s;chiefe done to the am|munition. The Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> hearing of this <HI>mi&s;chance, Now</HI> &s;ayes he (with a deepe &s;igh) <HI>doe I evidently perceive all my good fortunes to begin to faile me,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tillyes</HI> heart begins to mi&s;|give him.</NOTE> <HI>and every thing (me thinkes) goes awkwardly with me.</HI> The man perchance thought of <HI>Magdenburg</HI> (or might have done) at the &s;ame time. This was reported in <HI>Norimberg</HI> by one of the officers of <HI>Tillyes</HI> Ordnance; who had very good meanes to know it.</P>
<P>Count <HI>Tilly</HI> now perceiving his Army (this deare and dead time) too great to be kept together;<NOTE PLACE="marg">He devides his Army, and puts them into gar|ri&s;on.</NOTE> which would be need|le&s;&s;e too, no enemy being neere; devides his forces thereup|on: part whereof he kept with him&s;elfe; and part he &s;ent another way, with <HI>Cratz</HI> and <HI>Altringer.</HI> The <HI>Divi&s;ion</HI> re&s;er|ved to him&s;elfe, marcht from <HI>Swabach</HI> fir&s;t of all to <HI>Rot;</HI> where the powder mi&s;carried: and where he lodged 2 nights to get all things fit againe. Thence went he in the end of the moneth to <HI>Donawert</HI> upon the <HI>Danow;</HI> where the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> met him: and &s;o to <HI>Nordlingen</HI> in <HI>Schwabland,</HI> where he &s;taied. The other halfe that went with <HI>Altringer</HI>
<PB N="118" REF="69"> and <HI>Cratz,</HI> were put into garri&s;on neerer hand: as in the towns of <HI>Lauff, Hersbruck</HI> and <HI>Altorff,</HI> hard by <HI>Norimberg;</HI> and &s;ome in <HI>Sultzbach, Amberg,</HI> and <HI>Newmarckt;</HI> all Townes of the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate.</HI> Colonel <HI>Cratz</HI> (who having beene <HI>Ge|nerall of the Ordnance,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cratz</HI> made Field-Mar&s;hall vnto <HI>Tilly.</HI></NOTE> was now made <HI>Felt-Mar&s;hall</HI>) took up his garri&s;on at <HI>Amberg,</HI> the chiefe City of the <HI>Vpper Pa|latinate;</HI> whither all the Officers were to re&s;ort for order unto him; that they neede not iourney to the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> or the Generall <HI>Tilly.</HI> The Count of <HI>Sultz,</HI> lay with his men about <HI>Weyden</HI> upon the river <HI>Nab,</HI> to the North of <HI>Amberg. Merodi</HI> and <HI>Breda,</HI> with their Regiments; were put into <HI>A|verbach, Grafenwerd,</HI> and into the Townes and Dorps be|tweene them. All the&s;e townes are on the North&s;ide of the <HI>Vpper Palatinate,</HI> and towards the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Bamberg.</HI> The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> engarri&s;ond his men in the Territory called <HI>Ries</HI> next unto <HI>Donawert:</HI> and about <HI>Giengen</HI> in the Dioce&s;&s;e of <HI>Elwang,</HI> and in the Iuri&s;diction of <HI>Haidenhaim</HI> in <HI>Schwab|land,</HI> upon the frontiers of <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> the next We&s;terne neighbours unto <HI>Nordlingen;</HI> where him&s;elfe lay.</P>
<P>In this deviding and lodging of his army, the provident <HI>Tilly</HI> had two re&s;pects e&s;pecially. The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> had 2 Armies then on foote; of which, 2 of the <HI>Catholike Lea|guers</HI> were in danger: the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg</HI> namely; who &s;tood in doubt to be every day invaded by <HI>Horn:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The rea&s;on why <HI>Tilly</HI> thus de|vides his army.</NOTE> and the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> in feare of the King him&s;elfe. To guard the Coun|tries of the&s;e 2 Princes, had <HI>Tilly</HI> to the mo&s;t advantage thus di&s;po&s;ed of his armies. Tho&s;e forces that he kept with him|&s;elfe, were for the &s;afeguard of <HI>Bavaria;</HI> and the Frontiers of <HI>Schwabland</HI> and <HI>Franconia:</HI> again&s;t whom, if the King &s;hould come the neere&s;t way, thorow the Dukedome of <HI>Wirtem|berg</HI> (in which Country he had already &s;ome townes and friends; and there at this pre&s;ent, &s;ome forces a levying for him) then lay <HI>Tilly</HI> at <HI>Nordlingen</HI> right in the Kings way to oppo&s;e him. The other troopes were laid in the <HI>Vpper Pala|tinate,</HI> &s;o neere unto <HI>Bamberg;</HI> that if <HI>Horn</HI> &s;hould fall in there, they might &s;trike in, time enough to the reskue. And the&s;e
<PB N="119" REF="69"> were the 12000 men, with whom <HI>Tilly</HI> put <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> out of <HI>Bamberg</HI> afterwards. Along with <HI>Tilly,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Saxon-Lawen|burg</HI> made Ge|nerall of the Ordnance.</NOTE> went <HI>Rodolph Maximilian</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg;</HI> now upon <HI>Cratz</HI> his preferment, made in his place Generall of the Ordnance. The Duke conveighing his Gunns into <HI>Donawert,</HI> &s;taid him|&s;elfe there as Governour of the Towne, untill the King beat him out. A thou&s;and of his Hor&s;e and 500 Foot, he would faine have thru&s;t upon the Imperiall free City of <HI>Ausburg</HI> neere to <HI>Donawert,</HI> to be billeted among them for the 3 win|ter moneths. This the City put off, by &s;ending &s;ome victuals to the &s;ouldiers.</P>
<P>This goodly <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> City of <HI>Ausburg,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Popi&s;h practi&s;es upon <HI>Ausburg.</HI></NOTE> was much pra|cti&s;ed upon, to be wholly gained to the <HI>Catholike</HI> party. The better to bring about which plot, had the chiefe Officers and Magi&s;tracies of the City, beene by the Emperors authority and private working, remooved from the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> and con|ferred upon the <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> (their next neighbour) likewi&s;e, pretending I know not what dangers, had by the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> meanes skrued in &s;ome of his new levied Boores. Thither, thereupon, comes <HI>Altringer;</HI> to take order for the <HI>Militia</HI> in that City, and Bi&s;hopricke, and in the Lord|&s;hips of the <HI>Fuggers.</HI> Hitherwards in the beginning of Ia|nuary following, he remooves all his owne Regiment out of the <HI>Vpper Palatinate,</HI> which he enquarters about <HI>Auspurg. Altringer</HI> pre&s;ently upon this, hearing that his men which he had left in <HI>Rotenburg</HI> in <HI>Franconia,</HI> were now endangered by <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horns</HI> people; prepares to relieve them. Much feared he was likewi&s;e in the Duchy of <HI>Wirtemberg,</HI> which beganne to arme again&s;t him. But <HI>Rotenburg</HI> was taken, and his expedition &s;tayed.</P>
<P>About this time of the yeere, the Count of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Count of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg</HI> re+&s;ignes his charge.</NOTE> who had not beene with <HI>Tilly</HI> &s;ince the battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> gives over following of the warres. <HI>Pappenheim</HI> had beene taken off by the <HI>Leaguers,</HI> and employed into the <HI>Lower Saxo|ny. Tillyes</HI> &s;elfe was re&s;ident for the mo&s;t part in <HI>Nordlingen:</HI> whither <HI>Altringer</HI> went now and then al&s;o. In the beginning
<PB N="120" REF="70"> of this Ianuary, <HI>Tilly</HI> goes to <HI>Donawert,</HI> there to meete his old Ma&s;ter the Duke of <HI>Bavaria.</HI> And there being a likeli|hood of &s;ome motions upon the frontiers of <HI>Bohemia</HI> and the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate: Tilly</HI> makes a iourney from <HI>Donawert</HI> un|to <HI>Amberg.</HI> Two thou&s;and hor&s;e he was to take along with him, and his Foote and Ordnance he &s;ent to <HI>Weiden,</HI> upon the very We&s;terne frontiers of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> whence they were to march onwards vnto <HI>Egra:</HI> towards which towne, the <HI>Saxon</HI> forces began now to turne them very &s;trongly. The Imperiall Colonel<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This is he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at de&s;troyed <HI>a&s;walk:</HI> as you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay &s;ee in our <HI>fir&s;t Part.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Gotze, Don Balthazar,</HI> and the Felt-Mar&s;hall <HI>Die|penbach</HI> had reque&s;ted <HI>Tilly</HI> to this: hoping to drive the <HI>Sax|ons</HI> into the mid&s;t of them. But this plot, <HI>Arnheim</HI> prevented. <HI>Tilly</HI> about Ianuary 10, returnes to <HI>Nordlingen</HI> againe. Ianuary 18, he takes 13 Peeces of Ordnance out of <HI>Wilsburg</HI> Ca&s;tle, which (as we told you) he had wrung from the Marchione&s;&s;e of <HI>On&s;pach:</HI> and the&s;e he &s;ends unto <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> for the furni&s;hing of <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> and <HI>Lindaw.</HI></P>
<P>Neither <HI>Tilly,</HI> nor his armies, &s;tirred much abroad after this, till the Fro&s;t began about February 20: about which time he goes to that part of his Army in the <HI>Vpper Palatinate.</HI> Febru|ary 22. He is at <HI>Newmarckt,</HI> one of the faire&s;t townes of all this <HI>Palatinate;</HI> and thither all his Hor&s;e out of their &s;everall Quarters a&s;&s;embled. Thence goes he to <HI>Altorff:</HI> where he lodges, Febr. 24. him&s;elfe, <HI>Altringer,</HI> the Baron of <HI>Cronen|burg</HI> and other chiefe Colonells, quartering them&s;elues in the Ca&s;tle. Here is an Vniver&s;ity: the Students whereof were courteou&s;ly enough u&s;ed by the Souldiers. Hence marches he away not farre off from <HI>Norimberg:</HI> whither he againe &s;ends in the Emperors name and his owne, to be of courte&s;ie furni|&s;hed by them with &s;ome provi&s;ions. Now was his march directly intended again&s;t <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn;</HI> towards whom he led 12000 men, and 22 Peeces of Ordnance: be&s;ides &s;ome of the <HI>Bavarian</HI> Boores, which the Duke their ma&s;ter had put into the Army to learne &s;omething. February 27. <HI>Tilly</HI> enters into <HI>Forcheim,</HI> the &s;tronge&s;t towne of the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Bamberg:</HI> whence the next day he went again&s;t <HI>Gu&s;tavus
<PB N="121" REF="70"> Horn.</HI> The &s;tory whereof having before told you; we &s;hall leave him about <HI>Hasfurt</HI> in the &s;aid Bi&s;hoprick, till he voids it of him&s;elfe, upon the Kings comming again&s;t him. So that the other part of <HI>Tillies Proceedings,</HI> you are to looke for in <HI>Our relation of the Kings march into Bavaria.</HI> Whereas, there|fore, we have heretofore mentioned the Duke of <HI>Bavariaes</HI> meeting to conferre with <HI>Tilly;</HI> his ioyning of &s;ome of his men with the <HI>Tillians:</HI> and for that both the Armies were &s;hortly after this put into one body; it &s;hall not be ami&s;&s;e, here to bring in the preparations made by this Duke al&s;o; who hath beene &s;o great an <HI>Actor</HI> and <HI>Sufferer</HI> in this <HI>Germane</HI> tragedy, e&s;pecially &s;eeing that the <HI>Scene</HI> is next to be laid in his owne <HI>Bavaria.</HI></P>
<P>This Prince hath by many beene taxed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Bavariaes</HI> &s;to<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> (and by &s;ome of his own &s;ubiects too) how iu&s;tly I di&s;pute not: to have beene, if not the <HI>plotter</HI> and <HI>Incendiary;</HI> yet the <HI>promoter</HI> and <HI>Boutefeu</HI> of a great part of the&s;e pre&s;ent troubles. A crafty wi&s;e man he is; witne&s;&s;e tho&s;e &s;ubtill conveiances of his owne ends, for 12 yeeres together: whereby he hath made him&s;elfe both <HI>rich</HI> and <HI>potent.</HI> The skill he is &s;aid to have, of impo&s;ing a <HI>Re&s;er|vedne&s;&s;e</HI> upon his owne expre&s;&s;ions; and the &s;ame art of pallia|ting his pretences, which <HI>Stati&s;ts</HI> call <HI>Policy;</HI> though in <HI>Morality</HI> it bee, but a <HI>Magnificent di&s;&s;imulation.</HI> The&s;e, with &s;ome other <HI>Cabinet Doctrines,</HI> hath he learned at the <HI>Ie&s;uites Lectures:</HI> who&s;e <HI>Di&s;ciple</HI> he is, and in the <HI>highe&s;t forme</HI> too.</P>
<P>When after the defeate of the <HI>Catholike</HI> Army at <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> and the comming downe of the Conqueror among the lands of the <HI>Leaguers;</HI> the Princes of that <HI>Confederation</HI> were put to the end of their Coun&s;els: the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> is the man, upon who&s;e greatne&s;&s;e and credit in the Empire, the hopes of that &s;ide were pitcht, for the &s;etting of all right againe. He,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He &s;ummons his people to defence.</NOTE> to give good example to the re&s;t, &s;u~mons al his &s;ubiects generally, all that were able to beare armes (tagg and ragg) to be ready to &s;tand upon the defen&s;ive. Some of his Boores he armes too; who for that, when they were <HI>Day-laborers,</HI> they had beene
<PB N="122" REF="71"> u&s;ed to <HI>&s;topping</HI> of <HI>gaps;</HI> now when they are become <HI>&s;ouldiers,</HI> he employes them (mo&s;t naturally) to the <HI>&s;topping</HI> of <HI>pa&s;&s;ages.</HI> The&s;e he layes upon his Frontiers. By the end of October, had he gotten &s;ome 10, or 12000 of them arm'd and trained: and was re&s;olved (as twas given out) to have &s;ent them to the Em|perours Army in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Saxons.</HI> This expediti|on was arre&s;ted by the newes of the <HI>Saxons</HI> taking of <HI>Prage;</HI> and He put unto new Coun&s;ayles. The danger growing neerer upon his countrey, by the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> taking of the Bi|&s;hopricks of <HI>Wurtsburg</HI> &amp; <HI>Bamberg;</HI> the Duke procures a <HI>Diet</HI> of the <HI>Catholike-Leaguers:</HI> which for the more honour unto him whom they &s;o much relyed upon, was held at <HI>Land&s;hut</HI> in <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and in November. Here doe the Princes re&s;olve, up|on the levying of a new Army at their common Charges: whereof his Highne&s;&s;e the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> was to be <HI>Ge|nerali&s;&s;imo;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s appointed <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo</HI> of the <HI>Leagui&s;h</HI> forces.</NOTE> and his Creature the Count of <HI>Tilly,</HI> Generall, as before. To this Army of the <HI>Leaguers,</HI> was his Imperiall Ma|je&s;tie plea&s;ed likewi&s;e, that &s;ome of his Forces &s;hould be conjoyned: &s;o that both <HI>Imperiall</HI> and <HI>Leagui&s;h</HI> forces, went henceforth to the making of one Army.</P>
<P>The Duke hereupon reenforces his owne levyes, for which <HI>Donawert</HI> is the Rendezvous. By this time (as it appeares) had His Highne&s;&s;e beene &s;ollicited by &s;ome of the contrary party, to come over to their &s;ide: the greatnes of the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> able to doe him wrong; the oppre&s;&s;ion of the Princes of <HI>Ger|many,</HI> whom that King &s;ought but to deliver; the ambitious ri&s;ing of the Emperour and Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> now ayming more at <HI>Monarchy,</HI> then at the propagation of the <HI>Catholike</HI> Religion; and the Dukes owne di&s;liking of divers of the Em|perours actions in that kinde; were urged for &s;ome of the ar|guments to draw him on, and to breake off both with the League and Emperour. I &s;uppo&s;e that the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador then re&s;ident with him, was one of the <HI>Orators</HI> to per&s;wade with him. It &s;eemes likewi&s;e, that &s;ome hopes of prevayling were conceived; yea and &s;ome &s;peeches too, given out to that purpo&s;e. But the Duke now taking regrett at the hearing of
<PB N="123" REF="71"> it, and &s;orry that his honour &s;hould be traduc'd, by the mi&s;ta|king of his con&s;tant purpo&s;es to the other &s;ide and cau&s;e: hee immediately thereupon &s;ets out a publike <HI>Manife&s;to</HI> or <HI>Decla|ration</HI> of his re&s;olution; which,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Set out his <HI>Manife&s;te.</HI></NOTE> (to &s;hew the earne&s;tne&s;&s;e of his intention) was penned in a high and &s;harpe &s;treine: and by the furious undi&s;creet zeale &s;howne in it to the <HI>Saints</HI> and <HI>Ro|mi&s;h</HI> religion; the &s;pightfull pen-and-inck-horne termes a|gain&s;t the <HI>Prote&s;tants:</HI> the quotations of <HI>Scriptures,</HI> and &s;ome &s;uch other Characters: the Readers will collect that the Dukes <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI> had a hand in it, as well as his <HI>Secretary.</HI> Tis well worth the reading: but being &s;omething long, I have referr'd it till the end of the <HI>Kings Story;</HI> that wee might not here make too long an interruption.</P>
<P>To goe on. About mid-December the Duke procures ano|ther <HI>Diet</HI> at <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A Diet at <HI>In|gol&s;tat.</HI></NOTE> where him&s;elfe was pre&s;ent about the twelfth of that moneth. The <HI>Dyet</HI> continued untill after <HI>Chri&s;t|mas:</HI> and in it was the <HI>Propo&s;ition</HI> made among the <HI>Leaguers,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">He &s;ends one Amba&s;&s;adour unto the King and another t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Emperour at the &s;ame time.</NOTE> upon what Termes (by meanes of the <HI>French</HI> King,) they &s;hould de&s;ire, and accept of the <HI>Neutralitie.</HI> Now are their Amba&s;&s;adors di&s;patched unto the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> then at <HI>Mentz.</HI> They treated, as a di&s;tinct party from the Emperour: and for that the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> was the chiefe per&s;on; the <HI>negotiation</HI> was in his name, or he (at lea&s;t) was the fir&s;t man named in it.</P>
<P>The craftie Duke (that hee might have two &s;trings to his bowe) privately &s;ends another Amba&s;&s;adour (his Chancellor <HI>Donnersberg</HI> namely) unto his Imperiall Maje&s;ty at the &s;ame time: of who&s;e <HI>negotiation,</HI> the&s;e were the <HI>Reque&s;ts</HI> or <HI>Pro|po&s;itions</HI> made unto the Emperour.</P>
<P N="1">1. That <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> would be plea&s;ed not to take it ill, that the Duke his Ma&s;ter had no more potently hitherto a&s;&s;i&s;ted his Maje&s;tie in the&s;e Warres; &s;eeing it lay not in his power,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His propo&s;iti|ons to the Em+perour.</NOTE> to repre&s;&s;e the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Yea, and that by the <HI>Archduche&s;&s;e</HI> he had beene advi&s;ed not to meddle with that King, without &s;ufficient preparations: but &s;o long to &s;pinne out the time, un|till the Army of the <HI>Romane Catholiks</HI> could be ready to a&s;&s;i&s;t
<PB N="124" REF="72"> him. Furthermore, his Duchy of <HI>Bavaria</HI> was &s;o weakely by nature &s;ituated; as it was no wayes &s;ufficient to hold out again&s;t &s;uch a Power, as that King had at pre&s;ent.</P>
<P N="2">2. He very well hoped, that<NOTE PLACE="marg">He meanes <HI>Vallenstein.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou &s;ee what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ood blood <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ere yet was, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etwixt the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o.</NOTE> That man, whom at the in|&s;tant reque&s;t of the <HI>Electorall Colledge</HI> in the <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Ratis|bone</HI> 1630, <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> had ca&s;hiered from his General&s;hip; hee would not now call to the place againe, without the know|ledge of the &s;ame <HI>Colledge.</HI> And notwith&s;tanding that the Duke his Ma&s;ter for his part had beene con&s;trained to winke at &s;ome things, by rea&s;on of the pre&s;ent danger; yet he hum|bly intreated in the meane time, that if a Generall mu&s;t of ne|ce&s;&s;itie be &s;ent into the Empire, the Imperiall Army might neither pa&s;&s;e thorow, nor be &s;ent into his Duchy of <HI>Bavaria.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. And becau&s;e things in the <HI>Palatinate</HI> &s;eemed to fore&s;hew an alteration, (the King being already Ma&s;ter of &s;o many pla|ces there) he humbly reque&s;ted of his Imperiall Maje&s;ty, that that part of the Archduchy of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> called<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">upra Ani&s;um.</HI> For the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">kes charges <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the late <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arres of <HI>Bo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mia:</HI> which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Emperour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ting againe, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d in Lieu of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m granted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Duke tho&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ces in the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">latinate.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ober-Ens,</HI> which had before beene * empawned to him; His Maje&s;ty would now plea&s;e to returne againe unto him.</P>
<P N="4">4 Hereupon he promi&s;ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Imperiall Maje&s;ty to the uttermo&s;t of his power; and to keepe off all mole&s;tations from the Archduchy of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI> For which purpo&s;e, he had already blockt up the pa&s;&s;ages upon the <HI>Danuby</HI> with his Boores, and made all provi&s;ions for the defence of <HI>Ober-Ens.</HI></P>
<P>The Duke being gladly entertained by the Emperour here|upon, and having made his advantages of the Treaty of <HI>Neu|trality</HI> with the King, (of which wee before told you) &s;till continues his warlike preparations. About the end of Ianuary, and beginning of February; hee &s;ends &s;ome forces towards <HI>Amberg</HI> in the <HI>Vpper Palatinate:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ends men <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the <HI>Vpper <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">latinate.</HI></NOTE> intending to keepe &s;ome 5 or 6000 men thereabouts. When <HI>Tilly</HI> was afterwards driven that way, he then mixes his new-levyed Boores, among <HI>Tillyes</HI> old <HI>Legions:</HI> of whom, when any numbers marcht in a body by them&s;elves; <HI>Tilly</HI> was faine to &s;end &s;ome of his old &s;ouldiours along to bee their Keepers,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ynes with <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lly.</HI></NOTE> and to &s;tave them off from ravaging of the Countrey. When (after this) the King
<PB N="125" REF="72"> was gotten into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> faine then would he have treated to compound the matter: but neither would the King lo&s;e more time, nor tru&s;t him that was too much governed by the <HI>Ie&s;uites.</HI> The fir&s;t overture to the <HI>Treaty,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Would treate with the King.</NOTE> was made by the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador: and the &s;econd, by the Duke of <HI>New|burgs:</HI> both times as by mediators or third partyes, to &s;ave the Dukes honour. But mo&s;t eagerly was the King pre&s;&s;ed to it, by the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador, then re&s;ident with the Duke: who angred his Maje&s;ty now and then, with his importu|nitie.</P>
<P>After his army was beaten at the <HI>Lech,</HI> his chiefe rendez|vous and retreate, was <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI> where when the King was on one &s;ide of the <HI>Danuby,</HI> the Duke and his army were upon the tother. There,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Retires to <HI>Jn|golstat</HI> and <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+gen&s;purg.</HI></NOTE> had he gotten &s;ome 14000 men to|gether againe: with whom, when the King ro&s;e from <HI>In|gol&s;tat,</HI> then went he to <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> in <HI>Dutch</HI> called <HI>Regen&s;|purg.</HI> Thereabouts he keeps for a while: and invites <HI>Wallen|&s;tein</HI> to joyne with him. Tho&s;e of <HI>Regen&s;purg</HI> complaine, of the ill di&s;ciplining of his army; whom His owne pre&s;ence and ju&s;tice, in executing divers plunderers, could not yet reduce into good order. To draw the King the &s;ooner out of his Country; he &s;ends his Lieftenant Generall <HI>Cratz,</HI> to take in <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg:</HI> him&s;elfe in the meane time continuing about <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI> and <HI>Regen&s;purg.</HI> Hither when <HI>Cratz</HI> was come againe, <HI>Bavaria</HI> marches with his whole Army into the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate;</HI> where, upon confidence of <HI>Wallen&s;teins</HI> being at his backe; hee about <HI>Schwandorff,</HI> thru&s;ts him|&s;elfe before the Kings face, ju&s;t betwixt him and <HI>Bohemia.</HI> In which po&s;ture, we for this time leave him to expect <HI>Walenstein,</HI> and turne againe unto the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Kings March up into Bavaria.</HEAD>
<P>_WE left his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> lately providing for his going again&s;t the Generall <HI>Tilly:</HI> drawing his old Regiments out of their garri&s;ons, and put|ting new levyed men into their places. Of the old troopes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat forces <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ere left in the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">latinate.</HI></NOTE> were the <HI>Rhinegraves</HI> Hor&s;e, Colonell <HI>Hogen|dorffs</HI> Brigade of Foote, and Colonell <HI>&V;itzthimb</HI> with his 600 men at <HI>Franckford;</HI> onely left for the guard of the <HI>Duke|dome of Mentz</HI> (for &s;o in the Army it began now to be called) and the Palatinate: over all which parts and forces, that wi&s;e State&s;man the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Chancellor <HI>Oxen&s;tiern</HI> was to command in chiefe: who&s;e charge moreover was, well to waite up|on and guard the Queene of <HI>Swedens</HI> per&s;on, then left in the City of <HI>Mentz.</HI></P>
<P>From which Towne the King &s;ending the Army before, March the fourth, him&s;elfe &s;et forward the next day, together with the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> Prince <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Sultzbach,</HI> &amp;c. March 6. the Army encamps a mile beyond <HI>Franckford.</HI> Thence by <HI>Steinheim,</HI> to <HI>A&s;chaffenburg,</HI> where they pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Mayn:</HI> and whence March 7. in the morning they parted.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e way that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e King tooke.</NOTE> That day went his Maje&s;ty before the Army thorow the <HI>Spe&s;hart</HI> fore&s;t, unto <HI>Lohr,</HI> thirty <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>A&s;|chaffenburg.</HI> Here he &s;taid all the next day too; going the next (Thur&s;day) morning backe againe up the <HI>Spe&s;hart</HI> Hill, to meete his Army: who that night marcht up to <HI>Lohr</HI> al&s;o.</P>
<P>Fryday, March 9, the Army before day brake up, and
<PB N="127" REF="73"> marcht to <HI>Werenfelt</HI> on the <HI>Mayn;</HI> a league to the North of <HI>Carl&s;tat.</HI> This day came in thirty &s;ixe troopes of hor&s;e of the Duke of <HI>Saxon Weymars.</HI> Within a day or two, comes the Generall <HI>Banier</HI> al&s;o; who&s;e way out of <HI>Magdenburg,</HI> was thorough <HI>Mansfelt, I&s;eleben,</HI> and <HI>Sangerhau&s;en:</HI> and &s;o by <HI>Erfurt</HI> thorough the <HI>Duringer-waldt,</HI> into <HI>Franconia.</HI> Next day, March 10, their Maje&s;ties of <HI>Sweden</HI> and <HI>Bohemia,</HI> going tenne miles further to the North-Ea&s;t; come to <HI>Arn|&s;tein</HI> to meet with <HI>Gustavus Horn:</HI> who next day comes from about <HI>Schweinfurt</HI> and <HI>Gelter&s;heim,</HI> unto them at <HI>Tettelbach,</HI> tenne miles further. Thence went the King onwards with three Brigades of the Army, unto <HI>Kitzing;</HI> and Colonell <HI>Hepburn</HI> with other two, unto <HI>Oxenfurt;</HI> foure <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Kitzing.</HI> This was upon Munday, Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch. 12^t^h.</P>
<P>March 15. <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> went before with the Vant|gard to <HI>Win&s;haim,</HI> twelve or thirteene <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles fur|ther: whom the King and Generall <HI>Banier,</HI> the next day followed. Here at <HI>Win&s;haim,</HI> all the three armyes of the King, <HI>Gustavus Horn,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Banier;</HI> together with the new levyed Regiments drawne out of <HI>Franconia,</HI> were put toge|ther and mu&s;tered: which all together made not above 14000 Foote. The Hor&s;e were thought to be &s;ome 120 Cor|nets: but they being advanced towards <HI>Norimberg</HI> before, and in &s;everall places now di&s;per&s;ed (becau&s;e of the enemy) were not at this time drawne together. The&s;e might per|chance be &s;ome 10000 or 11000 men be&s;ides, &s;o that all to|gether,<NOTE PLACE="marg">How &s;trong King march up.</NOTE> might make up an army of twentyfoure or 25000 &s;trong, and no more: which is farre &s;hort of 45000, as was given out every where. From <HI>Win&s;haim</HI> the King went directly Southward to <HI>Dunkel&s;piel,</HI> about thirty <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles further: his intent being to follow <HI>Tilly</HI> into <HI>Bavaria;</HI> whither at fir&s;t it was beleeved he would have gone. This was, March 19. But finding now that <HI>Tilly</HI> retreated from him towards the <HI>Vpper Palatinate;</HI> the King turnes faces a|bout to the right, and marches directly towards <HI>Norim|berg.</HI></P>
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<P>For the Generall <HI>Tilly,</HI> having hitherto &s;tayed him&s;elfe about <HI>Hasfurt</HI> in the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Bamberg;</HI> (all the time namely that <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> was about <HI>Schweinfurt</HI> and <HI>Gel|ter&s;haim</HI>) now under&s;tanding the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> to be com|ming again&s;t him; and finding him&s;elfe too weake to abide the encounter with him that had before beaten him;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lly</HI> retires <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m the King,</NOTE> he pre|&s;ently thereupon remooves him&s;elfe towards the other part of his army in the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate.</HI> Vpon Munday, March 12, he calls a Councell of warre at <HI>Hasfurt:</HI> the &s;ame day re|mooving with his army unto <HI>Bamberg.</HI> His Quarter-ma&s;ter-Generall being di&s;patched with directions unto <HI>Cratz,</HI> in the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate:</HI> was &s;laine by &s;ome <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Hor&s;emen be|twixt <HI>Norimberg</HI> and <HI>Lauff;</HI> and his letters &s;ent unto the King. Tue&s;day, March 13. <HI>Tilly</HI> goes forward as farre as <HI>Forcheim,</HI> (16 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Bamberg</HI>) where all his forces in tho&s;e quarters met with him. Drawing out all the &s;ouldiers, and leaving the Bi&s;hopricke to &s;hift for it &s;elfe; he upon Thur&s;day, March 15 goes to <HI>Erlang,</HI> mid-way betwixt <HI>Forcheim</HI> and <HI>Norimberg:</HI> where he that night makes &s;how of his army in full <HI>Battaglia.</HI> Thence marches he to <HI>Norim|berg,</HI> where in the Emperors name and his owne, he de&s;ires of courte&s;ie to be furni&s;ht with &s;ome provi&s;ions. Colonel <HI>Gallas,</HI> Colonel <HI>Holck;</HI> and &s;ome Hor&s;e of <HI>Don Baltha&s;ars,</HI> had he before &s;ent for out of the hether parts of <HI>Bohemia;</HI> where they as then waited upon the <HI>Saxons.</HI> The&s;e came to <HI>Cratz</HI> fir&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ching into <HI>&V;pper Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ate.</HI></NOTE> by the way of <HI>Amberg;</HI> whence they all together went by <HI>Weydhau&s;en</HI> and <HI>Averbach</HI> to meete with <HI>Tilly,</HI> at his entrance into the <HI>Vpper Palatinate:</HI> into which <HI>Tilly</HI> pier|ced farther &s;till and farther, after that <HI>Norimberg</HI> had this &s;e|cond time denied him. Tho&s;e forces of his, that had hitherto laine about <HI>Nordlingen</HI> and <HI>Donawert;</HI> came now al&s;o to|wards him as farre as <HI>Hoch&s;tat:</HI> he likewi&s;e drawing towards them, by <HI>Lauff, Altorff,</HI> and <HI>Newmarckt:</HI> whereabouts hee &s;tayed and fortified, expecting there the Kings motions. This was about March 18, or 19. And this middle part of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> was the be&s;t guard that <HI>Tilly</HI> could lie at: for &s;hould
<PB N="129" REF="74"> the King have de&s;ired to have marcht into <HI>Bohemia,</HI> then was he right in his way to &s;top him: and if into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> then could he be there before, to keepe him out.</P>
<P>The King being at <HI>Dunkel&s;piel</HI> (or <HI>Dinkel&s;puhel</HI>) was then within 30 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Donawert;</HI> and might without op|po&s;ition have marched thither, whither he made &s;o much ha&s;te within a few dayes after. It may &s;eeme &s;omething &s;trange,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Why <HI>Tilly</HI> wen into the <HI>Pala|tinate.</HI></NOTE> that <HI>Tilly</HI> marcht not thither before him. But this was <HI>Ba|variaes</HI> policy; who had newly &s;ent a command unto him, that he &s;hould by no meanes retire into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> for feare of drawing the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in thither after him: and of lay|ing the field of warre in his country, which he had rather &s;hould be in the Prince <HI>Palatines</HI> Dominions. By this device, thought <HI>Bavaria</HI> both to &s;ave his owne country, and to force the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> to &s;poyle the <HI>Palatinate;</HI> which he would be glad enough to &s;ee ruinated. Therefore did <HI>Tilly</HI> play thus like the <HI>Lapwing,</HI> to draw the King from his own ne&s;t.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty now perceiving, which way <HI>Tilly</HI> retired from him; alters his march (as hath beene &s;aid) and faces a|bout directly towards <HI>Norimberg.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King en|campes by <HI>Norimberg</HI></NOTE> From <HI>Dunkel&s;piel</HI> there|fore marches he unto <HI>Furt;</HI> a pretty towne &s;ome 3 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the We&s;t of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> where, upon Tue&s;day, March 20 he arrived, and encamped. That night was his Maie&s;ty ex|pected to have comne into <HI>Norimberg:</HI> out of which City when multitudes of people came flocking to his Leaguer, Then &s;ayes the King (laughing) I perceive I mu&s;t needes &s;ee <HI>Norimberg.</HI> This City is one of the greate&s;t and riche&s;t of <HI>Germany;</HI> and the chiefe&s;t Pa&s;&s;e of all tho&s;e countries. It had condi&s;cended unto the King, when he mo&s;t &s;tood in need of it; twice oppo&s;ed and denyed <HI>Tilly,</HI> &s;ince that: and there|fore they might well expect, the King &s;hould honour them with his pre&s;ence. He made his entrance into it, about 10 in the forenoone, March 21. The morning was ob&s;erved to be rainy and lowring; but no &s;ooner were the 2 Kings feete &s;et upon the bridge, but the Sunne began to make a faire day of
<PB N="130" REF="75"> it: which divers tooke notice of, as a cheerefull pre&s;age of more <HI>halcyon</HI> dayes a comming. I need not tell, how welcome his Maie&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> was; how &s;olemnely received, or how nobly he behaved him&s;elfe againe. The King of <HI>Bohemiaes</HI> per&s;on likewi&s;e, was as much de&s;ired to be &s;eene, by his own Subiects of the <HI>Vpper Palatinate,</HI> next neighbours unto <HI>No|rimberg:</HI> who&s;e gracious deportment unto them againe, I mu&s;t here al&s;o pa&s;&s;e over.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His entertain|ment in <HI>Norim|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erg.</HI></NOTE> The King of <HI>Swedens</HI> fir&s;t comple|ment to the Magi&s;trates was, to ackowledge their good will towards his &s;ervice; and to thanke them for their bountifull entertainement of his <HI>Field-Mar&s;hall Horn.</HI> At table, his Ma|ie&s;ty fed, (like a &s;ouldier) upon the &s;ub&s;tantialle&s;t and plaine&s;t meates onely; &s;carce touching a bit of any of the rarities, or forced di&s;hes. After dinner, gave he audience unto &s;ome <HI>Pro|te&s;tant</HI> Lords of <HI>Ausburg,</HI> comne thither to him from tho&s;e of the <HI>Religion</HI> of that City: who pre&s;ented him with 2 faire hor&s;es. After that, followed the <HI>Norimbergers</HI> pre&s;ents: which were, foure very great Peeces of bra&s;&s;e Ordnance, with their furniture. Two <HI>Globes of the world</HI> of a rea&s;onable bigne&s;&s;e, all of &s;ilver; and filled, one with new <HI>Ducates;</HI> and the other with new <HI>Gold-Gilders:</HI> together with &s;ixe wagons of <HI>Oates, Fi&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Wine:</HI> which (in le&s;&s;er quantities) is the ordinary and generall pre&s;ent of <HI>Germany</HI> unto <HI>Princes</HI> and <HI>Amba&s;&s;a|dors.</HI> With the&s;e <HI>Pre&s;ents,</HI> there is (of cour&s;e) an <HI>Oration</HI> ever pre&s;ented: unto which of the <HI>Townes,</HI> the King (who is an excellent Speaker) pre&s;ently returned this following an&s;wer.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Oration at <HI>Norimberg.</HI></NOTE>I doe graciou&s;ly accept of, and thanke you for this <HI>Pre|&s;ent,</HI> but withall I doe a&s;&s;ure you, That the mo&s;t acceptable gift you can be&s;tow upon me, is your con&s;tancy for the <HI>Evan|geliacall</HI> and <HI>common</HI> cau&s;e. From which I here pray you, that you never &s;uffer your &s;elves to be withdrawne; and that you neither yeeld unto fea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e or hope, neither to faire promi&s;es, nor fierce threatnings; neither to plea&s;ure, nor to vanities; nor yet to any other particular pa&s;&s;ion or affection, which men are u&s;ually &s;ubiect unto: or by which they are wrought upon,
<PB N="131" REF="75"> and per&s;waded: and in the&s;e dangerous times e&s;pecially, where <HI>Mammon</HI> the Prince of this World &s;o much domineereth. With-&s;tand you therefore, all avarice, and love of riches: wherein the enemy, I know, will not be wanting, but will every way attempt you: they will promi&s;e, they will threat|ten, they will doe their very uttermo&s;t, to entangle you in their &s;pringes. But for this, your &s;elues and all the world well know, what &s;ubtill and powerfull enemies we have again&s;t us; and how &s;trictly they be leagued and banded together, for the rooting out of all the <HI>Evangeliacall</HI> States and Princes. That way are all their devices, actions, and endeavours driven: to that Butt, aime all their attempts and their de&s;ignes: and to that purpo&s;e, is all their mightines and great power employed: and in a word; All they commit, and all they omit; all their thoughts, and all their wi&s;hes, tend wholly to our de&s;tructi|on. True it is, that outwardly they make &s;how of &s;uing for peace: but it &s;hould be &s;uch a peace, as that you, your State, and all other <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> what&s;oever, would be utterly and a&s;&s;u|redly ruined and undone by it.</P>
<P>God hath preferd you to be Governours, hath put into your tru&s;t, many thou&s;ands of &s;oules; and it is &s;o populous a City which you rule, that I have &s;carcely &s;eene the like of it: all which depend wholly upon you, and wholly doth obey you: and I doe not doubt but you will &s;o rule them all, as you hope to give an account of it before <HI>Gods</HI> great <HI>Tribunall,</HI> and before all <HI>Chri&s;tendome.</HI> You are of noble Families, your An|ce&s;tours have, time out of mind, beene of honourable reputa|tion in the world: walke you therefore in their worthy &s;teps, and follow you the goodne&s;&s;e of their examples. As good <HI>Patriots,</HI> doe you your duties at this time; and con&s;ider withall what <HI>God</HI> might &s;uffer to come to pa&s;&s;e, if you neg|lecting his help, &s;hould now give over your &s;elues into the hands of your enemies. How, thinke you, would they u&s;e you and yours? <HI>God</HI> hath already &s;uffered you to &s;ee many things; hath already laid &s;ome troubles upon you; &s;o that you have had your &s;hare in the&s;e mi&s;eries, by which <HI>God</HI> hath
<PB N="132" REF="76"> &s;hewed us our &s;innes and our de&s;ervings: but yet withall hath God &s;till &s;aved, defended, and mo&s;t powerfully pre&s;erved you. So that I cannot enough wonder, and mu&s;t acknowledge it to be a vi&s;ible a&s;&s;i&s;tance and worke of <HI>God;</HI> that the enemies hitherto have beene &s;o blinded, and &s;o kept backe; that they have not all this while gotten this and &s;uch other Cities, which (as the world truely thought) they have had the&s;e 2 or 3 yeeres day, fully in their own powers. Truely God hath mar|veilou&s;ly pre&s;erved you; as he hath al&s;o bin plea&s;ed to call me to this worke: for &s;ooner &s;hould I have thought the la&s;t Iudge|ment would have comne, then that I &s;hould come into <HI>No|rimberg;</HI> and (as you your &s;elues &s;ayd) leave &s;o farre behind me mine own Dominions, good &s;ubiects, and what&s;oever el&s;e is loving and deare unto me; and to bring along with me &s;o many brave <HI>Worthies</HI> to expo&s;e their lives, as I doe mine, for the re&s;titution, &s;afety, and pre&s;ervation of the <HI>common Evan|geliacall</HI> cau&s;e, and the liberttie of <HI>Germany.</HI> With this purpo&s;e I doe intend (<HI>God</HI> willing) to goe on, and to doe what&s;oe|ver &s;hall lye in my power, and as God by his &s;pecial grace &s;hall conduct and enable me, both for you and all the re&s;t of our friends: and I will, Ile a&s;&s;ure you, both keepe and performe what&s;oever I have heretofore promi&s;ed, either by my Am|ba&s;&s;adors, my Deputies, or my Letters.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider you therefore, I de&s;ire you, the con&s;equence of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and for the mercy of Gods &s;ake, remaine you con&s;tant; be not mooved at any thing what&s;oever: but rather encourage you your neighbours, and &s;uch Townes e&s;pecially as depend upon you.</P>
<P>I have not &s;aid thus much all this while, by rea&s;on of any doubt I have of your faithfulne&s;&s;e and hone&s;ty, but rather to make you, who are already quicke and willing, more willing and quicke yet, by this &s;purre as it were of my words. <HI>God</HI> will not every day &s;end you &s;uch a Preacher as I am, who am now here, with a de&s;ire to helpe and comfort you: to doe you all good, and to further your cau&s;e, &s;o farre forth as <HI>God</HI> &s;hall &s;trengthen and enable me. Have patience a while there|fore,
<PB N="133" REF="76"> and &s;uffer a little more yet, remaine con&s;tant, performe your duties at this time, and God Almightie; who hath hither|to beene with you, and &s;o marueilou&s;ly &s;hewed His helpe un|to you, will a&s;&s;uredly give you his Grace al&s;o: that your City &s;hall further flouri&s;h and encrea&s;e, your renowne &s;hall bee &s;pred all the World over: and wee all together &s;hall honour, laud, prai&s;e, and ble&s;&s;e our Lord God, both here and for ever.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty getting intelligence the &s;ame afternoone, of <HI>Tillyes</HI> &s;inking deeper &s;till and deeper into the <HI>Palatinate;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ters his purp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for followin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Tilly.</HI></NOTE> with a purpo&s;e ever as the King came neerer unto him, to hitch further &s;till and further towards <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> (who was then heard of upon the Frontiers of <HI>Bohemia</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Pala|tinate</HI>) the King upon the&s;e and &s;uch other rea&s;ons follow|ing, quite againe alters his former re&s;olution for the further pur&s;uing of him.</P>
<P>1. The fir&s;t rea&s;on was this.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Rea&s;on</NOTE> That &s;eeing <HI>Tilly</HI> would not be fought withall &s;ingle; he thought it no policy to drive him up to <HI>Wallenstein:</HI> which two if they &s;hould have joyned with <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and then all three have turnd againe upon him; they might po&s;&s;ibly have beene too hard for him: e&s;pecially in that place, which they knew and not he.</P>
<P>2. By this meanes, he &s;hould for the time, have laid the &s;eate of the warre in his friends the Prince <HI>Palatines</HI> dominions: which would utterly have ruin'd them.</P>
<P>3. <HI>Bavaria</HI> being &s;till entier and untoucht, &s;upplyed his ene|mies both with men and money: whereas were but the field of warre removed thither; him&s;elfe &s;hould get his &s;hare of that, and cut &s;o much of it off from the enemy: yea and the enemyes part of it too mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity be de&s;troyed, by cal|ling in <HI>Tilly</HI> to defend it.</P>
<P>4. This would utterly defeate the Duke of <HI>Bavariaes</HI> project,
<PB N="134" REF="77"> (which the King by intercepted letters came to under&s;tand) that he would not have <HI>Tilly</HI> for this rea&s;on come into <HI>Bava|ria;</HI> and that he had de&s;ired of the Emperour, that no army might be &s;ent into, or thorow his Country.</P>
<P>5. It would kill the very hearts of the <HI>Bavarians,</HI> to &s;ee an enemy in their owne Country. For tis commonly &s;eene, that people who are valorous enough abroad, and to keepe out the warre; are danted and amazed to &s;ee it brought home un|to them. The firing of the beacons (where any are) or the rin|ging of the Bells awck, (where that is u&s;ed) will hardly draw them together to make head: and their hearts are quite done, notwith&s;tanding all encouragements of fighting <HI>pro Aris et focis:</HI> for the people will give one halfe, to &s;ave the tother; the Cityes will yeeld; and the enemy in a &s;hort time, will be as &s;trong as the Prince him&s;elfe, in his owne Country.</P>
<P>6. Should hee not now ha&s;ten into <HI>Bavaria;</HI> hee could not have gotten in thither at all; or at lea&s;t-wi&s;e neither &s;o &s;oone, nor &s;o neere a way. There was a Fort now a building at <HI>Do|nawert;</HI> which &s;hould he &s;tay till it were fini&s;hed, hee mu&s;t then goe by <HI>&V;lm</HI> many a league about, to get over the <HI>Da|nubye.</HI></P>
<P>Vpon the&s;e rea&s;ons (among the re&s;t) His Maje&s;ty now turnes directly (almo&s;t) backe againe; and that with expedi|tion too: going the &s;ame night out of <HI>Norimberg</HI> unto <HI>Swa|bach;</HI> eight <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of it. <HI>Tillyes</HI> Forces were at the &s;ame time about <HI>Newmarckt</HI> and beyond it; be|tweene twentie and thirtie <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the Ea&s;t of <HI>Swa|bach.</HI> For the di&s;covering of who&s;e &s;trength and lodging, the King immediately &s;ends out &s;ome &s;trong Hor&s;e-Partees: who upon Fryday, March 23, defeating &s;ome of tho&s;e <HI>Tillians:</HI> re|turne pre&s;ently againe unto the Kings Army. Vpon our <HI>Lady Eve,</HI> the Kings forces come to <HI>Pleinfelt, Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> and <HI>Oetingen;</HI> three pretty townes betwixt <HI>Norimberg</HI> and <HI>Dona|wert:</HI> upon the top of an hill, &s;ome <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mile to the North
<PB N="135" REF="77"> of this <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">See for the&s;e townes, either in the South erne edge of the Map of <HI>Franconia;</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> better in the We&s;tern edge of the Map, of the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate.</HI></NOTE> &s;tands the faire and &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Wilts|burg,</HI> the chiefe Pa&s;&s;e and Command of all that Countrey: into which the Count of <HI>Tilly</HI> had put the young Count of <HI>Pap|penheim</HI> (Cou&s;in to the Generall <HI>Pappenheim</HI>) for Governour. To him the King &s;ending fir&s;t of all, requires to have it peace|ably re&s;tored againe unto the Marchione&s;&s;e of <HI>Onspach</HI> and her children; if &s;o be he expected to have his Fathers Lands and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Pappenheim,</HI> (the very next neighbours to that place) to be well u&s;ed. The me&s;&s;age being an&s;wered by the Cannon, up goes the King the &s;ame day towards the Ca&s;tle, which with eight troopes of Hor&s;e, and &s;ome &s;ixe hundred Musket|tiers, hee pre&s;ently &s;urrounded. Some of the&s;e Muskettiers are brought within Musket &s;hot of the very walles; who with their continued volleyes were to amu&s;e the enemy, untill the King had round about taken his full view, of the Fortifi|cations of the Ca&s;tle. Finding the place to be &s;trong,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King leaves <HI>Wiltz|burg</HI> Ca&s;tle.</NOTE> and <HI>Tilly</HI> to be neere, He concludes with him&s;elfe, That it more con|cern'd him to leave the de&s;igne, and to march with expedition unto <HI>Donawert;</HI> then to lo&s;e his time about the &s;trength of that Ca&s;tle; while&s;t <HI>Tilly</HI> might in the meane time have fini&s;ht his Fort, already begun upon the hill before <HI>Donawert.</HI> Lea|ving therefore three hundred men under Colonel <HI>Sperreuter</HI> in the towne; hee marches with the Army directly the &s;ame day unto <HI>Donawert:</HI> where, according to his intelligence, he finds the already begun Skonce but halfe perfected.</P>
<P>This continued expedition of his in the march, was of &s;uch con&s;equence; that had he but &s;tayed three dayes longer, while&s;t that Fort had beene made defen&s;ible; he might have beene en|forced to have marcht about as farre as <HI>Vlm</HI> for his pa&s;&s;age: where he had all this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ime imagined that he mu&s;t indeed have pa&s;&s;ed over the <HI>Danuby.</HI> And thus if any Army were ever &s;aid to have <HI>runne po&s;t,</HI> this of the Kings now did: even all the way from <HI>Mentz</HI> unto <HI>Donawert.</HI></P>
<P>March 26 in the morning, His Maje&s;ty takes in the towne and cloy&s;ter of <HI>Kai&s;haim,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Kai&s;haim</HI> take</NOTE> foure <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles &s;hort of <HI>Do|nawert:</HI> unto which Citie he the &s;ame night marched. This
<PB N="136" REF="78"> <HI>Donawert</HI> hath &s;ometimes beene an Imperiall towne, though now at the Kings comming, in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Duke of <HI>Ba|varia;</HI> to whom it came by the occa&s;ion of its having beene pro&s;cribed of late yeeres, by the Emperour <HI>Rodolphus.</HI> It is &s;eated in the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben,</HI> upon the Northern banke of the famous River of the <HI>Danuby</HI> or the <HI>Danow:</HI> which gives the name to it. This towne, and the bridge it hath over the <HI>Danuby,</HI> are the Key and Pa&s;&s;e into that part of <HI>Schwabland</HI> beyond the River, fir&s;t; and thorow that into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> by the river <HI>Lech.</HI> There were &s;ome 1200 Foot, 500 Hor&s;e, and 500 of the <HI>Bavarian</HI> trayn'd Bands, at this time within the Citie:<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onawert</HI> be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ged.</NOTE> the valiant <HI>Rodulph Maximilian</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg,</HI> (who had reskued <HI>Tilly</HI> at the Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI>) being their Governour.</P>
<P>The before-&s;poken of, now a building Fort; was upon the top of a little hill, on the Northwe&s;t &s;ide of the towne. The hill reached from the very walles of the Towne, unto the <HI>Danuby:</HI> the Fort it &s;elfe being betwixt the towne and river; and within Musket &s;hot of either. It was not as yet able to doe the Kings folke any annoyance; it had no batteries fini&s;h|ed: by it therefore did the King thinke fitte&s;t to approach. On the bottom of the hill, clo&s;e to the rivers &s;ide, was there a hand&s;ome Suburb, and thorow it, a Port into the Towne. In this Suburb, the King about nine a clocke in the morning, March 26, fir&s;t of all cau&s;es 500 good Muskettiers to be lod|ged. His next worke was, on the &s;ame &s;ide of the hill, to rai&s;e up a Battery, and to mount twenty Peeces of Ordnance upon it: from whence he &s;o flanckered the bridge, both with his Cannon and 500 Muskettiers; that the &s;ame men were able both to annoy the Towne, and to di&s;turbe all pa&s;&s;age over the &s;aid bridge, inward and outward. The Kings &s;mall and great &s;hot, continue playing all this whole day after, up|on the Port, the bridge, and a great Storehou&s;e likewi&s;e on the &s;ide towards <HI>Bavaria;</HI> in which there were two troopes of hor&s;e, and &s;ome Foote of the <HI>Tillians</HI> lodged. About nine at night the King beginning to perceive, that could he but
<PB N="137" REF="78"> flancker the bridge on the other &s;ide of the Towne al&s;o, he might utterly cut off by that meanes, both their reliefe and retreate; he in&s;tantly, to this purpo&s;e, &s;ends Colonell <HI>Hebron</HI> with his <HI>Brigade,</HI> round about the Towne over <HI>Harburg</HI> bridge, (five Engli&s;h miles from <HI>Donawert</HI> towards the North) which &s;tandeth upon a little River that runneth tho|row <HI>Donawert</HI> into the <HI>Danuby.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hebron</HI> &s;ent to be&s;iege the towne on th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other &s;ide.</NOTE> Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron</HI> having pa&s;|&s;ed this bridge, marches downe to the We&s;t &s;ide of the Towne; where having a little after midnight, &s;ilently di&s;|po&s;ed his men in covert along in the gardens and mo&s;t advan|tageous places under the Wall: he &s;o orders the matter therup|on, that no man could pa&s;&s;e either over the <HI>Danow</HI> bridge, or out at the We&s;tern Port, but he mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity fall under his advantages. Tho&s;e within the Towne, now perceiving (to their terror) that they were neither able to re&s;i&s;t the King, nor to &s;tay the expectation of reliefe; thought a little before breake of day, to have under favour of the darkene&s;&s;e marcht out of the Towne over the bridge, into that part of <HI>Schwabenland</HI> towards <HI>Bavaria.</HI> This de&s;igne of theirs, was hindered by Colonell <HI>Hebron;</HI> who now flanckering the bridge much neerer then the King on his &s;ide did, gave them &s;uch unea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age: that though <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg</HI> and &s;ome few with him got &s;afely over, yet the re&s;t that would have followed, were by tho&s;e volleyes &s;o cut downe; that their dead bodyes even covered the mo&s;t part of the bridge; and foulely encumbred the whole pa&s;&s;age of it. The re&s;t yet with|in, &s;eeing their retreate that way to be cut off; made a &s;alley out at the We&s;t Port, upon <HI>Hebron:</HI> and were to their lo&s;&s;e repul&s;ed.</P>
<P>The King thundered all this while upon the other Port with his Cannon; and they within, &s;till fearing his entrance that way; were re&s;olved once againe to venture the forcing of their pa&s;&s;age thorow <HI>Hebron;</HI> who they knew to be the weaker. Boldly &s;allying thereupon, they were by <HI>Hebrons Brigade</HI> &s;o courageou&s;ly the &s;econd time entertained: that betwixt three and 400 of them being cut downe, and 400
<PB N="138" REF="79"> taken pri&s;oners:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hebron</HI> enters the towne.</NOTE> <HI>Hebron</HI> in the height of this heate, at the &s;ame time enters that We&s;tern Port al&s;o. There were of <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> Voluntiers that waited upon Colonell <HI>Hepburn</HI> in this action (and with the forme&s;t) my Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Ni|cholas Slanning,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Robert Mar&s;ham.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn</HI> being thus gotten in, and having fir&s;t cut in pieces all re&s;i&s;tance; his &s;ouldiours fall immediately to plundering: where many a gold chaine, with much other plate and trea&s;ure of the enemyes, were made prize of: they having wanted lei&s;ure before, for the conveighing away of their riches.</P>
<P>By this time, was the King likewi&s;e entered at his Port; who immediately gives command,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King al&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nters the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owne.</NOTE> that none of the Burgers hou&s;es &s;hould any more be plundered, (which &s;ome of the Souldiors had already begun to doe) onely what they could find of the <HI>Bavarian</HI> Souldiours, &s;hould be lawfull booty. All things after a while being quieted, the King &s;endeth for Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn;</HI> unto whom, before the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> the <HI>Palatine Augu&s;t,</HI> and divers other great per&s;onages, he a&s;cribes the honour of this action: as being the man who had fir&s;t coun&s;elled him, that he might be &s;ent about by <HI>Harburg</HI> bridge; and for having had &s;o good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, with &s;o little lo&s;&s;es. The Count of <HI>Solms</HI> his Foote Regiment, was put into the Towne for garri&s;on; and Colonell <HI>Schneidewin</HI> left Governor. Order was al&s;o taken for the free exerci&s;e of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> to be re&s;tored in the Towne the <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> following.</P>
<P><HI>Donawert</HI> being thus taken upon the 27 of March; (which for all the dayes in the yeere was the Duke of <HI>Bavariaes</HI> Birth|day) about tenne a clocke, the &s;ame morning, are there 500 Dragooners fir&s;t, and twelve Cornets of Hor&s;e after them, &s;ent out with all &s;peed to pur&s;ue tho&s;e of the enemyes troopes, that betweene five and &s;ixe in the morning had e&s;caped over the Bridge, with the Duke of <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg.</HI> The&s;e Hor&s;e and 500 Dragooners being di&s;patched away, Colonell <HI>Hebron</HI> with his <HI>Brigade</HI> marches over next of all; with or|der
<PB N="139" REF="79"> to lodge him&s;elfe by the afore&s;aid Store-hou&s;e, at the South end of the bridge. Here he immediately rai&s;es up a very large <HI>Halfe-Moone,</HI> for the guard both of his men and the bridge, &s;hould the enemy now fall up|on him.</P>
<P>The Dragooners and Hor&s;e afore&s;aid, advance all along a goodly champion country, towards a Ca&s;tle of the <HI>Fuggers;</HI> which was &s;ome 3 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Donawert,</HI> and another from the Towne of <HI>Rain.</HI> Within it, were 400 &s;ouldiers and 12 Peeces of Ordnance; and about it, was a very deep <HI>Graff</HI> or moate.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Ca&s;tle of the <HI>Fuggers</HI> taken.</NOTE> The defendants now perceiving the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI>-troopes thus to approach them; and finding by the example of <HI>Dona|wert,</HI> no expectation of reliefe: they had thought at fir&s;t to have quit the Ca&s;tle, and to have made their retreat over the bridge at <HI>Rain.</HI> The&s;e the Dragooners now intercepting, kill 200 of them upon the place; the Hor&s;emen making pri&s;oners of the re&s;idue. The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e-Partee, was commanded by the <HI>Grave von Hochtuit&s;chy</HI> (as I heare his name pronounced) which I &s;uppo&s;e &s;hould be the <HI>Bohemian</HI> Baron <HI>Cochtit&s;cky,</HI> who had beene at the Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> and with <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> &s;ince that, at <HI>Bamberg.</HI></P>
<P>Vpon the <HI>Danuby,</HI> (&s;ome 15 or 16 miles to the Ea&s;t of <HI>Do|nawert</HI>) &s;tands the towne of <HI>Newburg:</HI> from whence <HI>Wolf|gang William,</HI> (one of the Princes <HI>Palatines</HI> and co&s;in to the <HI>Elector,</HI>) hath his title of Duke of <HI>Newburg.</HI> He had here|tofore beene a Prote&s;tant: but &s;ince he was turnd Papi&s;t, and becomne one of the <HI>Catholike-Leaguers;</HI> he had much hindred his Mother and 2 brethren, in the exerci&s;e of their religion: which &s;ee complaind of, in the <HI>Diet</HI> of<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See pag. 24 of our <HI>Fir&s;t Part.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> The elder of the&s;e 2 Brethren, Prince or <HI>Palatine Augu&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Sultz|bach,</HI> (often heretofore mentioned) now de&s;ires the King to &s;end him out with 1800 hor&s;e, and 2000 Foote, to the town of <HI>Hoch&s;tat</HI> and other places, in the Duchy of <HI>Newburg:</HI> which had beene pre&s;erved from Popery,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hoch&s;tat</HI> taken.</NOTE> by the courage and authority of their Mother, the old Duche&s;&s;e of <HI>Newburg.</HI> This towne of <HI>Hoch&s;tat,</HI> does Prince <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> now &s;eaze up|on:
<PB N="140" REF="80"> and full of ioy were the people, to be thus freed from their feare of the threatned <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> per&s;ecution. From this towne, <HI>&V;lm,</HI> and <HI>Lawingen,</HI> was the Kings campe &s;o long &s;upplyed with Provi&s;ions, untill their entrance into <HI>Bavaria.</HI> A little after this time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Lawingen.</HI></NOTE> was the &s;aid <HI>Lawingen</HI> taken by the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> forces, that lay about <HI>&V;lm.</HI> It is &s;eated in a mo&s;t fruitfull plaine, having the <HI>Danuby</HI> on the South, with a bridge over that: and belonged unto the &s;aid <HI>Wolfgang William,</HI> the elde&s;t Duke of <HI>Newburg.</HI> And thus was he begun withall for having &s;hewed him&s;elfe an enemy, by relieving of the Impe|riali&s;ts, after he had treated a <HI>Neutrality.</HI></P>
<P>March 30 hath the Generall <HI>Banier,</HI> a great mind to take in <HI>Newburg</HI> al&s;o: for which purpo&s;e is there a &s;trong Partee of <HI>Commanded</HI> men drawne out of the whole army:<NOTE PLACE="marg">An Aen&s;laught upon <HI>Newburg</HI> mi&s;carried.</NOTE> one <HI>Rott</HI> being taken out of every <HI>Company.</HI> They might make about 3000 Foote, and 1000 Hor&s;e; and were divided into eight troopes. All the&s;e marching away upon the North-&s;ide of the river, (the towne &s;tanding on the South,) find the place too &s;trong to be in &s;o &s;hort a time &s;urpri&s;ed. Generall <HI>Banier,</HI> upon hope of prevailing by the terror of the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> name, directs his letters into the Towne: which not taking, he was faine to turne backe againe into his Quarter. The King was &s;omething plea&s;ant with his Generall, for having lo&s;t his paines: and askt him, if he thought to take in the towne by a <HI>skurvy letter?</HI> The towne was voluntarily afterwards for&s;a|ken by the <HI>Tillians,</HI> after the Kings victory at the <HI>Lech.</HI> Had <HI>Banier</HI> at this time taken in the towne: the King by that bridge had gotten into <HI>Bavaria.</HI></P>
<P>The Generall <HI>Tilly,</HI> (whom about the 18 or 19 of March we left about <HI>Newmarckt</HI> in the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate</HI>) having notice of the Kings making towards <HI>Bavaria;</HI> was by this time come by the way of <HI>Ingolstat</HI> bridge, into the &s;aid Duchy of <HI>Bavaria.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> comes in|to <HI>Bavaria.</HI></NOTE> By the beginning of Aprill, hath the King drawn all his army al&s;o an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mile out of <HI>Donawert,</HI> unto <HI>Nor|theim,</HI> namely, &s;ome 2 miles more from the river of <HI>Lech:</HI> which divideth the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben</HI> from <HI>Bavaria. Tilly</HI>
<PB N="141" REF="80"> now perceiving the King to have the my&s;terie of getting of bridges; breakes downe that, in his power, over the <HI>Danuby</HI> betwixt <HI>Newburg</HI> and <HI>Rain;</HI> and that other over the <HI>Lech</HI> at <HI>Rain</HI> al&s;o, which is more then Musket &s;hott beyond the towne. This <HI>Rain</HI> he fortifies; and the better to keepe the King from pa&s;&s;ing any where over the <HI>Lech,</HI> he layes his army all along upon the <HI>Bavarian</HI> &s;hore of it, betwixt <HI>Rain</HI> &amp; <HI>Aus|burg.</HI> The length it reacht, was neere upon, if not altogether, &s;ixteene <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles. Not that his Army was then &s;o bigge, as in one continued body to reach out &s;ixteene miles together; but that &s;everall <HI>Companies</HI> and <HI>Regiments,</HI> were layd here and there &s;catteringly at a di&s;tance; with &s;ome Guards and Sen|tinels now and then betweene, all the way from <HI>Rain</HI> unto <HI>Ausburg.</HI></P>
<P>The King perceiving, how <HI>Tillyes</HI> maine intention was to keepe him out of <HI>Bavaria;</HI> &s;ees no better means how to get in|to it, then by forcing a bridge over the <HI>Lech</HI> afore&s;aid. To find out the mo&s;t aduantageous place for that purpo&s;e, and in the providing of nece&s;&s;aryes for the bridge, are the fir&s;t foure dayes of Aprill employed. In the meane time, comes Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI> from about <HI>Erfurt</HI> in <HI>Duringen,</HI> with tho&s;e 10000 Foote, and 1500 Hor&s;e, which hee &s;hould before have joyned with <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> in <HI>Bamberg.</HI></P>
<P>The Duke, Aprill &s;econd, marching thorow <HI>Donawert;</HI> conjoynes them the &s;ame day unto the Kings army: then en|camped about <HI>Northeim.</HI></P>
<P>The next day, Aprill third in the afternoone; was there a Trumpet brought blindfolded into the Kings pre&s;ence: his me&s;&s;age (as I find it written) was to require <HI>Letters of &s;afe-conduct</HI> for the <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador, then re&s;ident with the Duke of <HI>Bavaria.</HI> The Duke, perchance, would faine have treated: but I doe not find that the King was very forward to &s;uffer him&s;elfe to be the &s;econd time abu&s;ed with that &s;tale tricke of entertaining &s;uch a <HI>Treaty,</HI> as he might &s;u&s;pect to be intended, meerely to delude <HI>action.</HI></P>
<P>Whil&s;t &s;ome are employed about finding out this be&s;t place
<PB N="142" REF="81"> of advantage for the bridge; the King gives order unto the <HI>Swedes</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The <HI>Swedes</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nerally one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h another, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> all <HI>Carpen|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">:</HI> and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, being a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne, &s;imple <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> droyling <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of peo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> are more for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e, then for <HI>Sword:</HI> not|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">&s;tanding have here <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d &s;o much, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oyts of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Finlan|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> The <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">les</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nders,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly, are not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t &s;ouldi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tis the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and <HI>Ger|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> that have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t: and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ner, done <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arts al&s;o.</NOTE> his Carpenters, and unto the <HI>Fins,</HI> his Pioners; to breake downe the hou&s;es of the neighbour villages; and to bring &s;uch timber, plancks, and boords, as might be fit for a bridge-worke. The place appointed for the working of the bridge, was at <HI>Oberendorff;</HI> a &s;mall Dorp &s;ome halfe an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mile from the very point, where the King intended to lay it over. The place re&s;olved upon, was betwixt <HI>Rain</HI> and <HI>Thierhanbten;</HI> ju&s;t upon a point of land: made &s;o, by the crooking or bending of the River. The ground on the Kings &s;ide, was a pikes length higher banckt, and playner withall, then that on <HI>Tillyes:</HI> which was both lower, and wooddy. There was a tryall made fir&s;t of all, to lay a floate|bridge; but the River would not endure that: for notwith|&s;tanding it be not above thirty or forty paces over at the mo&s;t, yet by rea&s;on of the &s;traight cour&s;e of it, the &s;treame &s;ets very &s;wift and violent.</P>
<P>All the materials being now prepared; the King about nine at night, upon the fourth of <HI>Aprill,</HI> advances &s;ome 1000 <HI>Commanded men,</HI> unto the place afore&s;aid. Two houres af|ter, they begin to worke a <HI>running Trench</HI> round about the crooked banke of the River, that the Muskettiers out of that, might with more &s;ecurity give fire into the Wood on the other &s;ide of the River. This <HI>Line</HI> or <HI>Trench,</HI> had a great Battery at each end of it, for halfe and quarter Cannon: toge|ther with many le&s;&s;er <HI>Batteryes</HI> betweene, all along about the <HI>Point,</HI> for the &s;maller field pieces to play upon: which were every-where intermingled with Muskettiers al&s;o. While&s;t the Pioners are thus a working, the King in divers other places (both above it and below) gives fal&s;e fires and Alarms, both with Muskets and &s;maller fielding peeces, for to amu&s;e the enemy; that till the morning they could not imagine where to find him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t fa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Story, of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ings pa&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he river</NOTE>By &s;ixe on the Thur&s;day morning, Aprill 5. was this worke fini&s;hed, the Cannon mounted, the Arches or Tre&s;&s;els for the bridge, with the planckes and other materialls, all
<PB N="143" REF="81"> brought; and ready to be laide into the River. The&s;e Tre&s;|&s;els, were to have great &s;tones or weights tyed unto their legges, to &s;inke them withall; and were to be no longer, then to reach ju&s;t unto the bottome of the River, &s;o that the planckes were to lye even almo&s;t with the very Water. The longe&s;t Tre&s;&s;els were about foure yards long: which were for the channell of the River. By that time it was day-light, Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> begins to perceive the Kings de&s;igne,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> oppo&s;es the King.</NOTE> and falls to worke again&s;t him in the Wood: who&s;e Pioners when the King heard chopping downe the trees, he gave order im|mediately unto his men, to give them a <HI>Salvee</HI> or a <HI>Good mor|row</HI> (as he cald it) both with their Cannon and their Muskets. About 8 a clocke the &s;ame morning, the King in two &s;mall Boats that he had, &s;ends over the <HI>Swedes</HI> and <HI>Fins</HI> his Pioners and Carpenters, unto the other &s;ide of the River. The de|&s;igne was, to have them make up a &s;mall <HI>Halfe-moone,</HI> with a <HI>Stocket</HI> or <HI>Palli&s;adoe</HI> unto it: which &s;hould both an&s;wer that &s;mall worke that <HI>Tilly</HI> had made for his Muskettiers to lodge in, almo&s;t right before the &s;aid point of the River: and to cover the Bridge withall, from the greater &s;hot; which this <HI>Halfe-moone</HI> &s;till latched. The <HI>Fins</HI> and <HI>Swedes</HI> laboured upon the worke, and made good the place; till that about 4 a clock in the afternoone, both it was fini&s;hed, and they relieved.</P>
<P>The King all this while, is diligent in laying over his bridge, and <HI>Tilly</HI> as bu&s;ie to rai&s;e up Batteryes to beate it downe a|gaine. The King him&s;elfe &s;tird not all that night, nor the next day, from the very end of the bridge: nor the King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> from him, for the mo&s;t part. <HI>Tilly</HI> upon the edge of the thicket, clo&s;e unto the River, rai&s;es up a <HI>Trench</HI> fir&s;t, to lodge his Muskettiers in, as we told you: and about Musket &s;hot further within the wood, gives or|der for the making of a very great <HI>Worke:</HI> that if the King &s;hould put over his bridge, he might by power of that <HI>Worke,</HI> and by cutting downe of the trees about it; have beene able (at lea&s;t) to have hindred his further pa&s;&s;age. The &s;mall and great &s;hot, goe off ince&s;&s;antly on both &s;ides all this while; and
<PB N="144" REF="82"> they continue thus with extreme hot execution upon one an|other, till about eleven a clocke at noone the &s;ame day. About which time, the Generall <HI>Altringer</HI> with the &s;hot of a Field|peece (which gra&s;ed upon his temples) was &s;poyled and car|ryed off in the Duke of <HI>Bavariaes</HI> owne Coach. Whether hee dyed of the blow, &s;hortly after, was not a great while known in the&s;e parts: though now it be &s;ure he is indifferently well recovered,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ltringer</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">unded,</NOTE> and with <HI>Walen&s;tein.</HI> Some &s;ay, that hee be|came crazed in the braine upon it: for mine owne part, I would be loth it &s;hould be &s;o: for then hath that &s;hot, &s;poy|led one of the be&s;t Head-peeces of <HI>Germany,</HI> one of the nea|te&s;t Schollers of the Empire.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Tilly</HI> mortally.</NOTE>The <HI>Bavarian</HI> Captaines found this &s;o hot a &s;ervice; that <HI>Tilly</HI> him&s;elfe was enforced to come up to the point, and into the very face of the danger, to give directions: where with|in halfe an houre after <HI>Altringers</HI> mi&s;-chance; he al&s;o received a Musket &s;hot in the thigh a little above the knee, which proo|ved a mortall wound unto him. This fatall accident of this brave old Generall, did &s;o amaze, not the Common &s;ouldi|ours alone, but the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> him&s;elfe al&s;o; (who now &s;taid behind in the groave with the Infantery:) that &s;o &s;oone as ever the &s;ad newes was brought unto him, not|with&s;tanding he were <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo</HI> over the whole Forces; yet he in&s;tantly tooke hor&s;e upon it,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Duke of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">ia</HI> flees,</NOTE> po&s;ted with all &s;peed into <HI>Ingol&s;tat;</HI> not &s;taying &s;o much as to give order, either for the continuing of the begun de&s;igne, or for the marching away of the army.</P>
<P><HI>Tilly</HI> being carryed off, and the Duke gone: the after|noone is &s;pent on the Kings &s;ide, as the forenoone had beene; which was with unce&s;&s;ant thunders and volleyes of &s;mall and great &s;hot. Among the <HI>Bavarians,</HI> tho&s;e that under|&s;tood of the &s;poyling of their two Generalls, and the flight of the Duke,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">men by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> after <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> by degrees and di&s;order, they one after another retreated from their Charge: while&s;t others that knew not of it, &s;toutly maintained the encounter. Little dreamt the King of it all this while: who&s;e men &s;till continue their
<PB N="145" REF="82"> working. By foure in the afternoone, is the bridge fini&s;ht:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King fi|ni&s;hes his Bridge.</NOTE> as 2. houres after, the little <HI>Halfe-moone</HI> and <HI>Palli&s;adoe</HI> al&s;o are, on the other &s;ide of the water before the end of the bridge. This done, the Kings owne Company of his <HI>Life-guards</HI> is &s;ent over the bridge, for the manning of the <HI>Halfe-moone;</HI> for feare the enemy &s;hould have fallen upon it. In the begin|ning of the night, other of the <HI>Bavarians</HI> begin to retire, and to draw off their Ordnance; and that in &s;uch ha&s;te, that they forgot to command off their <HI>Out-guards,</HI> which lay all along upon the &s;ide of the River.</P>
<P>The next morning, the King &s;ends over a Partee of &s;ome thirty <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Muskettiers commanded by Captaine <HI>Forbes,</HI> to &s;ee what the <HI>Bavarians</HI> were doing in the Wood; for that he had lately heard no more of them. Here could <HI>Forbes</HI> find but two <HI>Hor&s;e-Sentryes</HI> upon the edge of the Wood; whom he tooke pri&s;oners: who when they were brought unto the King, prote&s;ted that they were ignorant of the re|treate of the re&s;t of their fellowes.</P>
<P>But to returne a little backe. The King not knowing of <HI>Tillyes</HI> wounding, or the Dukes fleeing; dur&s;t not adventure that evening to put his forces over the bridge: but &s;pends the re&s;t of the night in drawing up his army before it. This be|ing done, order is given unto the Infantery or foote, to march over in the fir&s;t place: and of all them Sir <HI>Iohn Hep|burn</HI> with his <HI>Brigade</HI> was to have the honor of the <HI>&V;ant|guard;</HI> The King under&s;tanding by <HI>Forbes</HI> of this great and unhoped for newes; he alters thereupon all his former inten|ded re&s;olution: commanding the next morning, Aprill &s;ixth, 500 Hor&s;e fir&s;t, and 300 more after them, to pa&s;&s;e over in|to the <HI>Bavarian</HI> for&s;aken Quarters.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King, &s;ends after <HI>Tillyes</HI></NOTE> The fir&s;t 500 being ad|vanced thorow the Wood, and into the plaine beyond it; there cut downe a many of the <HI>Bavarian</HI> &s;traglers, that had beene too &s;low in following of their fellowes. Some other <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> troopes are in&s;tantly al&s;o commanded towards <HI>Rain;</HI> which though <HI>Tilly</HI> had left rea&s;onably well fortified, yet this former feare among&s;t his party, made it nothing &s;o re|&s;i&s;table
<PB N="146" REF="83"> to the <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> They pre&s;ently entring the Towne, find &s;ome wagons, and many hor&s;es, ready laden with the ene|mies goods; which are made good booty: but the Towne pay|ing 30000 dollars to the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> taken.</NOTE> are freed from pillaging. This was the fir&s;t Towne, that the King tooke in <HI>Bavaria.</HI> There was it under&s;tood, that both the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and the two wounded Generalls, parted the night before towards <HI>Newburg;</HI> whither they fir&s;t retired: and from thence with as many of their Army as were then comne to them, unto <HI>In|gol&s;tat.</HI></P>
<P>To returne to the King and his <HI>Leaguer.</HI> The re&s;t of that Fryday, Aprile &s;ixth, is &s;pent in the marching over of more Hor&s;e, and of three <HI>Brigades</HI> of <HI>Infantery:</HI> together with mo&s;t of the Artillery. The Infantery already marcht over, en|campt that night upon the edge of the plaine, a little without the Wood: the re&s;t that were left behind, &s;itting downe ju&s;t before the bridge.</P>
<P>And now for that &s;uch as are skilled in the Arts of war, will de&s;ire to be &s;atisfied with the <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> as well as to heare the <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Action</HI> (in which oftentimes <HI>Chance</HI> may have as great a &s;hare, as <HI>Wi&s;edome:</HI>) we will therefore affoard them a briefe di&s;cour&s;e upon the Kings great <HI>Iudgement,</HI> as well as we have done the relation of his fortune.</P>
<P>The rea&s;on of the Kings putting over his bridge at this place was, that hee might have the better conveniency, both by flanckering it on either &s;ide to defend it from the annoyance of the enemy;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e Kings rea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oyce of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ce of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">dge.</NOTE> and that being as it was, ju&s;t upon the Point: it could not be touched by <HI>Tillyes</HI> batteryes, which were on each hand of the bridge, though he very often removed his Can|non to that purpo&s;e. For notwith&s;tanding <HI>Tilly</HI> had (with as much judgement and advantage as po&s;&s;ibly might be) rai&s;ed his Batteryes, not cloa&s;e unto the Rivers &s;ide, but at a di|&s;tance from the banke: yet were all his &s;hot &s;o kept off by the round and &s;udden &s;houldering away of the banke of the River at either end, that his Ordnance could not po&s;&s;ibly come to beare upon the bridge; but that either the bullets fell &s;hort and
<PB N="147" REF="83"> were latcht by the little <HI>Half-moone,</HI> or hill upon the high banke above the bridge; or el&s;e flew quite over the whole leaguer. As for the rai&s;ing of a Battery right before the face of the point; that could not <HI>Tilly</HI> on the &s;udden come to doe: for be&s;ides that he was hindered by the wood; the fury of the Kings both &s;mall and great &s;hot, would at &s;o neere a di|&s;tance have &s;poild him as many men, as had adventured upon the &s;ervice: and the Kings Batteryes being fir&s;t up, would not &s;uffer <HI>Tilly</HI> to mount any of his Cannon right before him.</P>
<P>And yet for all this, there appeares to be more then a hu|mane direction in it: &s;eeing the King was made con&s;tant a|gain&s;t all the minds and judgements of his greate&s;t Comman|ders. For when the day before, he asked the advice of his a|ble&s;t Generalls; and they, notwith&s;tanding they &s;aw him &s;o farre already engaged in the action, as he could not come off with his honor; had freely (all of them) profe&s;&s;ed their utter di&s;like of the de&s;igne: yet did the King plainely tell them, that he continued again&s;t all their rea&s;ons, con&s;tant unto his owne purpo&s;e. Yea, there appeares not onely a more then humane <HI>direction,</HI> but a <HI>benediction</HI> al&s;o, in the ea&s;ine&s;&s;e of the attaining of the pa&s;&s;age: which very much exceeded all the Kings owne hopes of it. For when the day before he percei|ved <HI>Tilly</HI> to begin to worke again&s;t him; he apprehended &s;o much danger in his owne de&s;igne, that &s;hould he loo&s;e but 2000 men in winning of his pa&s;&s;age, he &s;hould thinke (as he confe&s;&s;ed) that he had made a thrifty purcha&s;e of his en|trance into <HI>Bavaria.</HI> When the next day (in like manner) that him&s;elfe being marcht over with the Hor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings judgement of the difficulty and con&s;e|quence of the action.</NOTE> had with his owne eyes perceived how &s;ufficiently <HI>Tilly</HI> was providing to entertaine him; he ble&s;t him&s;elfe for his good &s;ucce&s;&s;e in it: &s;aying to the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> and divers of his Com|manders then about him; <HI>That this dayes action was neere of as great a con&s;equence, as that of Leip&s;ich.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o indeed it is worthy to be e&s;teemed by all &s;ouldiours. When Cardinall <HI>Pa&s;man</HI> (the Emperours Amba&s;&s;adour with
<PB N="148" REF="84"> the Pope) had the fir&s;t newes brought him of this victory, and of the manner of it: hee to his friends pronounced <HI>A|ctum e&s;t, There is an end of all:</HI> which &s;ome interpreted to be meant of the <HI>Empire,</HI> and of the <HI>Romi&s;h religion. Caiaphas</HI> (you know) did once prophecy. All this, as it gives us cau&s;e to admire Gods great providence, in creating &s;uch a place as this crooking of the <HI>Lech,</HI> (and God &s;urely had a purpo&s;e in it:) &s;o it wonderfully likewi&s;e commends the Kings judge|ment, for &s;o &s;uddenly and &s;o &s;olidely apprehending the advan|tage of it. And yet, for all this, had not the King e&s;caped &s;o cheape, as with the lives of two thou&s;and brave men; had not <HI>He</HI> that directed <HI>Davids &s;ling-&s;tone</HI> into <HI>Goliahs</HI> forehead; gui|ded one bullet unto <HI>Altringers</HI> forehead, and another into <HI>Tillyes</HI> thigh-bone: had not this brave old Count beene thus &s;poyled, the King had found but an unfriendly well-come into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> from that &s;econd and greater <HI>Worke,</HI> which <HI>Tilly</HI> had laboured upon, from &s;ixe in the morning to eleven, but not yet fini&s;hed. That worke I meane, which is before mentioned in the wood. And yet would there have falne out another diffi|cultie, which the King could never till then come to know of. Thus. Suppo&s;e he had peaceably pa&s;&s;ed the bridge; &amp; <HI>Tilly</HI> had let him doe it without di&s;turbance: yet would not the place, (hee being over) have &s;uffered him to have charged the <HI>Ba|varians,</HI> with above two <HI>Brigades</HI> in front; and that, by rea|&s;on of advancing thorow the Woods, nece&s;&s;arily in di&s;order too; neither of which two could po&s;&s;ibly have beene avoy|ded: As for the <HI>Bavarians,</HI> they could have an&s;wered him from the Plaine, with &s;ixe <HI>Brigades</HI> in front; and by advantage of the plaine ground, all in order too. They might al&s;o have had the advantage of their already planted Batteryes; e&s;peci|ally if that great one had beene perfected: when as the Kings on the other &s;ide of the River, mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily all this while have beene &s;ilent, or have &s;hot into the enemy, thorow his owne people.</P>
<P>And this is the Story of the Kings bridge over the <HI>Lech:</HI> the de&s;cription wherof we have thought worthy to be here in
<PB N="149" REF="84"> Figure imparted unto you. A Peece it is, though not of &s;o curious an <HI>Architecture</HI> as that of ten dayes worke over the <HI>Rhine,</HI> wherein <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Lib 4. de <HI>Bell Gallico:</HI> circa medium.</NOTE> &s;o much plea&s;es him&s;elfe in the large and accurate de&s;cription of it: though, doubtle&s;&s;e, it will proove as famous. Wee by this al&s;o &s;ee, what the lo&s;&s;e of a brave Generall is. <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> held out manfully again&s;t the <HI>Turkes,</HI> &s;o long as <HI>Iu&s;tinian</HI> the Generall was unwounded: but he fainting at the lo&s;&s;e of his owne blood, and going from the walles; and the Emperour after him, (as the Duke of <HI>Ba|varia</HI> now did after <HI>Tilly</HI>) that famous Citie was at that a&s;|&s;ault conquered, and the <HI>Ea&s;terne</HI> Empire too, pre&s;ently after it. And this is the Action of <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the fifth of <HI>Aprill,</HI> a day almo&s;t as famous as <HI>Wedne&s;day,</HI> the former &s;eventh of <HI>September.</HI></P>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>The Explanation of the Letters in the former Figure of the <HI>Bridge.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>A</HI> The King of <HI>Sweden:</HI> and the King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> by him.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>B</HI> The <HI>Bridge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>C</HI> A <HI>Trench</HI> or <HI>Bre&s;tworke;</HI> in which the Kings <HI>Musket|tiers</HI> were lodged: betwixt the &s;everall <HI>Batteryes</HI> of the great Ordnance. Which Muskettiers, are repre&s;ented by the &s;mall &s;troakes, made right forwards.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>D</HI> Divers little <HI>Field-peeces.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E Plat-formes</HI> or <HI>Batteryes</HI> for the Kings greater <HI>Cannon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>F</HI> The <HI>Halfe-moone</HI> with its <HI>Palli&s;adoe</HI> or <HI>Stocket,</HI> beyond the Bridge; and for the guard of it. It was &s;carcely bigge e|nough to lodge a hundred men in.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>G</HI> A little <HI>Vnderwood,</HI> or low Bu&s;hy place.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>H</HI> A place voyd of Wood: which was a <HI>Bache,</HI> &s;ometimes over-flowne.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I</HI> A <HI>Bre&s;tworke,</HI> for <HI>Tillyes</HI> Muskettiers.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>KK Tilly</HI> and <HI>Altringer:</HI> or the place where they were &s;hot.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>L</HI> The <HI>high Wood,</HI> where the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> &s;tood.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>M Tillyes</HI> great <HI>Batteryes</HI> to &s;hoote downe the <HI>Bridge.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>N</HI> A &s;mall <HI>riveret</HI> running thorow the <HI>Wood.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>O Tillyes</HI> great <HI>Bre&s;tworke;</HI> not yet fini&s;hed. Begun at &s;ixe in the morning; and left off when he was &s;hot.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>P</HI> Some <HI>Hor&s;e-guards</HI> of <HI>Tillyes:</HI> layd &s;catteringly here and there all along the river, from <HI>Rain</HI> to <HI>Ausburg.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Q</HI> The Kings <HI>Hor&s;e-guards,</HI> and <HI>Hor&s;e-Sentryes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>R</HI> A <HI>hole</HI> in the earth, or ca&s;uall advantageable place; where|in &s;ome of the Kings <HI>Foot</HI> were lodged.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>S</HI> The <HI>Hill</HI> behind <HI>Tillyes</HI> great <HI>Worke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>T.</HI> The fa&s;hion of the <HI>Tre&s;&s;els,</HI> or <HI>Arches</HI> for the Kings <HI>Bridge.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="151" REF="85">
<P>Vpon Saterday, April 7, that part of the Cavallery which had marched over the day before, advanct further into the country, under the command of <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horn</HI> &s;ent abroad.</NOTE> and the In|fantery yet on the further &s;ide, marcht over to the other troopes already in <HI>Bavaria:</HI> with whom, in the plaine be|fore the wood, they were all drawne up into <HI>Battaglia.</HI> This done,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King goes towards <HI>Aus|burg.</HI></NOTE> and the King with his whole Army now come over into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and a &s;mall garri&s;on left hehind him in the town of <HI>Rain;</HI> he marches forward towards <HI>Ausburg.</HI> Order is likewi&s;e given to the Cavallery yet left behind, to advance onwards upon the <HI>Schwabland</HI> &s;ide of the <HI>Lech</HI> (where they yet were;) and to bring the greater Cannon along with them; which the King as yet dur&s;t not adventure over his new made bridge. That &s;ame Saterday night,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Takes <HI>Thier|haubten,</HI></NOTE> the King takes and lodges in, the Towne and Cloi&s;ter of <HI>Thierhaubten,</HI> a pretty Towne on the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the &s;mall riveret <HI>Aicha:</HI> which is the &s;ame that runnes along by the <HI>Lechs</HI> &s;ide, thorow the Wood where <HI>Tillyes</HI> late Quarter was. The next day the Vantguard of his Maie&s;ties Hor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Friedberg.</HI></NOTE> tooke in the Towne of <HI>Friedberg:</HI> the Magi&s;trates bringing out the keyes to them.</P>
<P>While&s;t the King was upon his march towards <HI>Aus|burg,</HI> there came an Amba&s;&s;ador to pre&s;ent him&s;elfe unto him. His me&s;&s;age was, to excu&s;e the Duke of <HI>Newburg,</HI> con|cerning his admitting of <HI>Tilly</HI> into his Towne and Countrey; and to iu&s;tifie it to be no breach of the <HI>Neutrality.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">An Amba&s;&s;ador from the Duke of <HI>Newburg.</HI></NOTE> The King gave him a round an&s;wer. That they had deceived him, promi|&s;ing much both by letters and Amba&s;&s;ages, and keeping no promi&s;e: but giving leave rather and aide unto the enemies, to pa&s;&s;e and repa&s;&s;e; &s;ending him Ordnance and Ammunition: receiving his garri&s;ons; advancing forward, helping and fa|vouring him in all things: nothing re&s;pecting my letters, (&s;aith he) but threatning my Trumpet and &s;hooting at him. The Amba&s;&s;ador being much perplexed at this an&s;wer, with a trembling voice, and more humbled po&s;ture, replies; That he had letters from his Highne&s;&s;e his Ma&s;ter: whereunto his
<PB N="152" REF="86"> Maie&s;ty very &s;uddenly returned, Your Ma&s;ter is like you, and you are like your Ma&s;ter; you doe nothing but devi&s;e toge|ther, how to deceive us <HI>Prote&s;tants:</HI> but I hope to pay you for it. The King went onwards againe; and the Amba&s;&s;ador having letters al&s;o unto Prince <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> de&s;ires his mediation unto the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bavaria</HI> offers to treat.</NOTE> for the admittance of a <HI>Bavarian</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador one <HI>Spierinck:</HI> but no an&s;wer would the King vouch&s;afe un|to it. At length the King &s;ent him word backe, that he &s;hould cau&s;e 200000 pound of bread, and 300 tunnes of beere, to be forthwith delivered unto his army: and if for the time to come they would &s;hew them&s;elues true friends, they &s;hould then expect his Maie&s;ties further plea&s;ure and declaration to|wards them. Soone after this, the King receives tidings of the enemies finall quitting of <HI>Newburg</HI> Towne; and that they had broken downe one of the Arches of the bridge, for feare of being pur&s;ued: and carried away 6 Field-peeces, and &s;ome powder and &s;hot along with them. Hereupon is Colonell <HI>Landsberger</HI> with five hundred Hor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Newburg</HI> taken.</NOTE> di&s;patched a|way to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that City: to repaire the bridge; and to &s;uffer no body, (e&s;pecially of the Councell or chiefe Magi|&s;trates) to goe out of the gates of it.</P>
<P>Sunday, April 8 about 5 at night, the King arrived at <HI>Lech|hau&s;en,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King be&s;ie|ges <HI>Ausburg.</HI></NOTE> a &s;mall Dorp within le&s;&s;e then 2 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Ausburg.</HI></P>
<P>This famous City, 10 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles di&s;tant from <HI>Donawert,</HI> is &s;eated in <HI>Schwabland</HI> upon the river <HI>Lech,</HI> over which it hath 2 bridges into <HI>Bavaria.</HI> Tis one of the greate&s;t and rich|e&s;t of <HI>Germany:</HI> and hath this honour aboue all the re&s;t, that it gives title of di&s;tinction to the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion:</HI> which, ever &s;ince it had by learned men beene agreed upon at this towne, hath beene called the <HI>Augustane Confe&s;&s;ion.</HI> The hin|derance of the exerci&s;e of which Religion in it, had beene complained of by the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> pag. 24.</NOTE> <HI>Leaguers</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> Since which time, the priviledges had likewi&s;e beene infringed; <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Magi|&s;trates and garri&s;ons put upon them; and the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> di&s;ar|med. Thus then, the King, who profe&s;&s;es him&s;elfe mo&s;t prin|cipally,
<PB N="153" REF="86"> to be the friend and Patrone of all the wronged Im|periall Cities in generall; had more e&s;peciall rea&s;ons to deli|ver this above all the re&s;t: for if <HI>Iudea</HI> of old, were accoun|ted an <HI>holy Land;</HI> and the warres for the recovery of it, <HI>Ho|ly warres:</HI> and that principally for reverence unto the <HI>Law, which fir&s;t went out of Sion:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay</HI> 2.3.</NOTE> then was there a good degree of piety al&s;o in this endeavour of the Kings, for the deliverance of this City.</P>
<P>The King at his comming before the towne, found 4500 &s;ouldiers in it: which by the&s;e degrees came up to this num|ber. Vnto their former garri&s;on, are 1500 <HI>Bavarians</HI> thru&s;t in, March 15. The Lord <HI>Otho Henry Fugger</HI> being Governor, brings 4 Companies more of the <HI>Fuggers</HI> &s;ouldiers, into the Suburbs of S^t. <HI>Iames.</HI> March 25 are 2 other <HI>Bavarian</HI> Com|panies put in. April 3 both <HI>Tilly</HI> and <HI>Altringer</HI> come into the towne, to take order for the &s;ouldiory: and Colonell <HI>Breda,</HI> then preferred to be Generall, hath order to &s;trengthen his gar|ri&s;on with 600 Foote, and 400 Hor&s;e more. In the end of March, were the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Citizens di&s;armed: their Armes be|ing fetcht from hou&s;e to hou&s;e by 40 muskettiers. And this was the pre&s;ent &s;tate of the City.</P>
<P>The King being encamped at <HI>Lechau&s;en,</HI> fir&s;t of all beates in their <HI>Out-guards,</HI> which tho&s;e of <HI>Ausburg</HI> had laid thereabouts. They thereupon burne downe their bridge be|fore <HI>Lechau&s;en;</HI> rai&s;e up a <HI>worke</HI> to keepe the King from com|ming over there, and &s;hoote ince&s;&s;antly at his people. He &s;ending out &s;ome Dragooners to an&s;wer, and beate them off; pitches his campe immediately in the plaine <HI>Campagnia,</HI> at &s;uch a di&s;tance from the wals of the City of <HI>Ausburg,</HI> as a Can|non might even almo&s;t range her bullet at randome to it. The re&s;t of the day, and the Munday following; the King labours about the laying of 2 bridges over the <HI>Lech:</HI> one above the Towne, and another below it. This &s;ame Munday, he like|wi&s;e cau&s;es &s;ome intercepted packets of letters to be opened; by which he under&s;tood the pre&s;ent con&s;titution of the City: the double feare that the garri&s;on had; that is to &s;ay, of the
<PB N="154" REF="87"> <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> within, (&s;hould they recover their Armes) as well as of the enemy without the Citie. Some pri&s;oners af|firmed al&s;o, the hopes they had of <HI>Tillyes</HI> or <HI>Cratzes</HI> com|ming to relieve them. The King exceeding loth to deface this faire Towne, which his care of it had rather receive up|on faire delivery, writes his Letters the &s;ame day unto them. The Contents were,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Letters to the Towne.</NOTE> An admiration of His Maje&s;ty at the Townes-mens behaviours in the&s;e Warres; that whereas they needed not to have meddled, yet had they &s;undry times recei|ved in his enemies. For which, although hee had ju&s;t cau&s;e to requite them, by de&s;troying them and their Citie; yet giving way unto his naturall clemency, (which tended alwayes to pre&s;erve all he could from their owne de&s;truction) He there|fore did now make proffer unto them of his Grace, if &s;o be they did pre&s;ently di&s;charge their garri&s;on, and declare them|&s;elves for his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cities An&s;wer.</NOTE>The Citizens an&s;wer was, They were extremely perplexed that His Maje&s;ty had conceived any offence, at their receiving a garri&s;on into their Citie: which they prote&s;t to haue beene done, not to oppo&s;e him, but that they had beene enforced to it by their obedience unto the Emperour. And had His Maje|&s;tie preuented that Imperiall command, and offered them a <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> garri&s;on fir&s;t, they would neuer haue refu&s;ed it. And whereas the licencing of their garri&s;on, was a thing aboue their power: they humbly be&s;ought His Maje&s;tie to make them &s;ome gracious offer, and adui&s;e them to depart q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ietly. A faire An&s;wer.</P>
<P>Together with the Kings Letter, did <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> (now come backe unto the Kings army) &s;end this word unto the Governor of the Towne,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horns</HI> Letter to them.</NOTE> that he &s;uppo&s;ed him to be a Gen|tleman, who de&s;ired to &s;hew him&s;elfe no le&s;&s;e prudent and profitable, then re&s;olute and couragious for his Ma&s;ters &s;er|vice. And therefore he thought him farre enough from &s;o dangerous an ambition, as might induce him to hazard &s;o re|nowne a City of the Empire: whereby in&s;tead of pre&s;erving it with rea&s;on, he &s;hould lo&s;e it rather and overthrow it,
<PB N="155" REF="87"> by a too late repentance, and a cour&s;e unevitable. And if he tru&s;ted upon the numbers of the people, yet he could not be confident upon the &s;trength of his Fortifications: and as the valour of his men had as yet gained no renowne, &s;o could he no wayes expect any &s;uccours from the Duke of <HI>Bavaria;</HI> who upon the la&s;t defeate received neere <HI>Rain</HI> (where he lo&s;t both his highlye&s;t e&s;teemed Generalls <HI>Tilly</HI> and <HI>Altringer</HI>) had no greater care at that pre&s;ent, then to &s;ave his owne head. Therefore doe I (&s;aith he) offer my &s;elfe to intercede for you with the King my Ma&s;ter, to make a faire and a rea|&s;onable accord with you: wherein, (were I but once a&s;&s;u|red, that the Towne would be forthwith freed of her garri|&s;on) I doubt not to prevaile with him.</P>
<P>To the Townes-mens an&s;wer, the King thus replyed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings re|ply to their Letter.</NOTE> That he was glad to heare they were not willing to hazard their flouri&s;hing e&s;tate; nor to make conjunction with his enemyes, or oppo&s;ition again&s;t him: but yet did he once more advi&s;e them to di&s;charge their garri&s;on, which hee knew well enough were no way able to with&s;tand &s;o numerous a people as the Burgers were; much le&s;&s;e to fight again&s;t &s;uch an Army, as him&s;elfe now had. Yet neverthele&s;&s;e in favour of the City, would he not refu&s;e them &s;ome equitable agree|ment, but was willing to condi&s;cend unto &s;ome rea&s;onable conditions with the &s;aid garri&s;on.</P>
<P>This gracious an&s;wer received, the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> magi&s;tracy now calling in the <HI>Prote&s;tants;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Citizens &s;econd An&s;wer.</NOTE> cau&s;e them (which they knew would have more Credit with the King) to witne&s;&s;e with them unto his Maje&s;ty, that the garri&s;on had beene forced upon them, by the earne&s;t commandement of the Emperour; and that by threatnings mixt with promi&s;es, had the ab&s;o|lute command both over the &s;ouldiours and the Citizens, beene put into the hands of that pre&s;ent Governor. Where|fore, &s;eeing the di&s;charging of the garri&s;on was not in their power, and that they feared, the Governor would not out but upon faire termes; unle&s;&s;e which were granted, the bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e might runne to &s;uch extremities, as might tend to the
<PB N="156" REF="88"> de&s;truction of &s;o noble and flouri&s;hing a State. Therefore did they mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech his Maje&s;ty to con&s;ider, that all the <HI>Protestants</HI> being now di&s;armed, and di&s;abled thereby to a&s;&s;i&s;t the well inclined <HI>Catholikes,</HI> in any forcible attempt again&s;t the garri&s;on: he would let this be an argument unto him, to grant &s;o gracious conditions unto the &s;aid Governor, as might induce him to depart pre&s;ently. And &s;o by the boun|ty and Clemency of his Maje&s;ty, &s;hould their City be pre&s;er|ved from the threatned ruine and de&s;olation.</P>
<P>All this moved not the Governor nor his garri&s;on; there|fore had the King other arguments to per&s;wade them. All this time went his two bridges on, which were no &s;ooner fini&s;ht, and the King ready to march over, and to bring his men to approach the walls; but they who had thundered all this time with their Ordnance, as if they intended to worke wonders; &s;end out to the King to de&s;ire a calme parlee, ere ever they came to &s;hot of Musket.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The garri&s;on parlies, and yeelds.</NOTE> Tis be&s;t treating (you may perceive) with a mans &s;word in his hand: and to joyne an <HI>armed Orator</HI> in Commi&s;&s;ion with a <HI>Gowned.</HI></P>
<P>The next day, Aprile tenth, the <HI>Bavarian</HI> garri&s;on of 4500 Hor&s;e and Foote, march forth of the City; being all for the mo&s;t part, new levyed people. The King him&s;elfe now asking them whether they would for&s;ake the Emperor, and &s;erve him; 500 of the old &s;ouldiours pre&s;ently came over and tooke pay of him. The re&s;t marcht away with complete armes, and were convoyed unto <HI>Land&s;berg.</HI> Into their roomes, did the King put 24 Companies of Foote, and foure Cornets of Hor&s;e which were enquartered round about within the City, next unto the walls of it. The Count of <HI>Hohenlo</HI> or <HI>Hollock</HI> was appointed Governor, and yong <HI>Ox|en&s;tiern</HI> had the Command over the <HI>Militia.</HI></P>
<P>Wedne&s;day, Aprill eleventh, the King being yet in his Quarter at <HI>Lech-hau&s;en,</HI> commands the <HI>Catholike Councell,</HI> the <HI>Protestant Deputies,</HI> and the <HI>Guards</HI> of the City (which la&s;t were all <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI>) to appeare before him. The <HI>Romane Catholikes</HI> he di&s;placed, re&s;toring the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> to their for|mer
<PB N="157" REF="88"> offices. The priviledges were &s;till continued unto the Towne, without any diminution of their <HI>Charter.</HI></P>
<P>Whil&s;t the King was at this &s;iege,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some Boores appeare, and are di&s;per&s;ed.</NOTE> &s;ome 2000 Boores (or thereabouts) having gotten together in the Woods and Mountaines, were now comming downe towards <HI>Ausburg.</HI> The King hearing of their approach, does them the honour to goe out in per&s;on again&s;t them with a Partee of 500 Hor&s;e; before who&s;e comming the Boores were already fled, and di&s;per&s;ed: Captaine <HI>Hobb</HI> had taken fright at the &s;ight of certaine &s;mall troopes of Hor&s;e, ere ever the King could come neere him. The&s;e Countrey people being di&s;plea&s;ed with the new contributions; r'allee more of their fellowes together upon the &s;ame quarrell. All a&s;&s;embling towards the end of the month about <HI>Schrobenhau&s;en,</HI> (mid-way betwixt <HI>Ausburg</HI> and <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI>) overlay and kill &s;ome fiftty <HI>Swe|di&s;h</HI> Souldiours; and not kill them onely, but like Boores in|deed, mangle and mi&s;u&s;e them, &s;avagely cutting off their no&s;es, &amp;c. In revenge of which and other the like prankes; the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> burne 200 of the Boores Dorps and hou&s;es. The Boores having now no hou&s;es to goe to (&s;uch is the mi|&s;ery of the warres) runne with open mouth and &s;tirre up their Co&s;ins and neighbours of <HI>Schwaben</HI> and <HI>Tirole:</HI> the event whereof we &s;hall anon tell you.</P>
<P>Vpon the fourth of Aprill, betwixt eleven or twelve at noone, his Maje&s;ty made his Royall entrance into <HI>Ausburg:</HI> where the fir&s;t thing he did, was to goe into Saint <HI>Annes</HI> Church, which had formerly beene taken from the <HI>Prote|&s;tants.</HI> Being here accompanyed by his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Bohemia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King en|ters the Citie.</NOTE> and waited upon by Palatine <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar, Iohn</HI> Duke of <HI>Hol&s;tein, Chri&s;topher</HI> Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Ba|den,</HI> with many Princes, Lords, &amp;c. He was entertained into the Church with the <HI>Organs</HI> and <HI>Quire</HI> &s;inging. After which was &s;ung the 103 P&s;alme: and then followed the Sermon, preached by Doctor <HI>Fabritius</HI> the Kings owne <HI>Chaplaine,</HI> upon P&s;alme 12. ver&s;e 5. The words were fitted to the occa&s;ion. <HI>For the oppre&s;&s;ion of the poore, for the &s;ighing of the
<PB N="158" REF="89"> needy: now will I ari&s;e (&s;aith the Lord) I will &s;et him in &s;afety from him that puffeth at him.</HI> After the Sermon, followed a mo&s;t &s;olemne <HI>Thanke&s;giving</HI> for the victory.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Makes his Thank&s;giving.</NOTE> Many teares were &s;hed, and many a heart leapt for joy, at this Exerci&s;e. After the <HI>Sermon</HI> and <HI>Thanke&s;giving,</HI> was <HI>Te Deum,</HI> or <HI>We Prai&s;e thee O God,</HI> &s;ung in <HI>High Dutch;</HI> the <HI>Organs</HI> playing as before: the like being done throughout all the Churches of the City.</P>
<P>From thence, both their Maje&s;ties, &amp;c. went to the great market place, called <HI>The Wine market:</HI> where there was a guard made of &s;ome &s;ouldiours, while&s;t the Citizens tooke their Oath unto the King. It was read by <HI>Philip Sadler, Councellor</HI> of <HI>State</HI> and <HI>Secretary.</HI></P>
<P>The Contents were. 1. To remaine faithfull and loyall to his Maje&s;ty, and the Crowne of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. To further the good and wel-fare of the &s;ame; and to hinder and prevent all prejudices and domages of it.</P>
<P N="3">3. To doe all tho&s;e things, and performe all tho&s;e Duties to his Maje&s;ty: which Subjects owe unto their naturall Prince, and lawfull Magi&s;trate. So helpe them God, both in &s;oules and bodies.</P>
<P>Heereupon, the <HI>new Councell</HI> of the City being &s;ent for, and the King con&s;ulting awhile with them apart: went to his lodging at the Lord <HI>Marquard Fuggers</HI> hou&s;e, where dinner was provided for him. After dinner, followed the <HI>Pre&s;ents;</HI> which received, his Maje&s;ty went to the <HI>State-hou&s;e</HI> and the <HI>Storehou&s;e;</HI> wherein be&s;ides plenty enough of all military provi&s;ions, he found a magazine of Armes (all moderne fa&s;hioned &amp; good) &s;ufficient for 30000 men, as they of the Towne have written it. The King gives order to have the Towne new fortified; to have foureteene Skonces and Ba&s;tiles built about it: and the City to be re&s;tored to the exerci&s;e of their owne <HI>Augustane Confe&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King goes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owards <HI>Jngol <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at.</HI></NOTE><HI>Ausburg</HI> being taken order for; the King Aprill 15. leaves the City, and marches by <HI>Friedberg</HI> unto <HI>Waho:</HI> which (as I take it) the <HI>Mapps</HI> write <HI>Aicha,</HI> as one Relation al&s;o
<PB N="159" REF="89"> doth. This <HI>Aicha</HI> is a walled Towne, and 10 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles on|ward of his way to <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> whither he was now march|ing. Hereabouts was the King met by an Amba&s;&s;ador from Duke <HI>Albertus</HI> of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> &s;econd brother unto the ruling Duke <HI>Maximilian.</HI> The Amba&s;&s;ador humbly pre&s;ents unto his Maie&s;ty, that his &s;aid Ma&s;ter Duke <HI>Albertus,</HI> had alwaies hitherto behaved him&s;elfe as a quiet Prince, having never been a partaker in all the&s;e differences. For which rea&s;on his hope now was, (which favour he al&s;o craved) that his Maie&s;ty would &s;pare his poore Children, Subiects and Country; and not trouble them with any military charges or mole&s;tations. To all which the King replyed, That the King of <HI>Bohemiaes</HI> Mo|ther and Brother had not beene &s;pared, by the other party; notwith&s;tanding they had no wayes engaged them&s;elues in the&s;e warres: but on the contrary, all their e&s;tates had with|out all iu&s;tice and rea&s;on beene taken from them. The Gen|tleman perceiving the Kings re&s;olution by his an&s;wer, re|turnes with it to his Ma&s;ter: who pre&s;ently packs up, and retires with his Lady and Children into the neighbour Bi|&s;hoprick of <HI>Saltzburg:</HI> whither the Duche&s;&s;e of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> wife to the Duke now in action, was with-drawn beforehand. Duke <HI>Albertus</HI> is glad after this, to &s;end another me&s;&s;enger unto the King, to compound for the rating of the contributi|ons of his Country.</P>
<P>The next day, April 16. the King continues his march to|wards <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI> with his whole Army both Hor&s;e and Foot, now put into Battaglia; the Cannon marching upon their right hand. In this order he &s;till advances, till he comes with|in &s;ight of <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI> where by rea&s;on of a certaine Mora&s;&s;e, he is enforced to quit that forme of marching. Leading them therefore forward &s;till, (according as the place would &s;uffer him) he comes within 2 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of the towne: where for that night in plaine <HI>Campagnia</HI> he encamped. The next day he advanc't further; pa&s;&s;ing in the way by 3 or 4 bridges, over &s;ome little brookes that runne that way into the <HI>Danuby.</HI> Pa&s;&s;ing on therefore beyond <HI>Stinne,</HI> till the Vantguard were
<PB N="160" REF="90"> comne within musket-&s;hot almo&s;t of the very walls of <HI>Ingol|&s;tat:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King lies downe before <HI>Ingol&s;tat.</HI></NOTE> he clo&s;e by the gallowes bridge began to ca&s;t up a <HI>Re|doubt</HI> and a <HI>Halfe-moone,</HI> upon that &s;ide of the bridge, namely, which is neere&s;t unto the Towne. The rea&s;on of the Kings approaching &s;o neere the walls, was; becau&s;e of a hope he had upon &s;ome Corre&s;pondents in the towne, by who&s;e meanes he tru&s;ted to have it rendred. This day and the next, were &s;pent in working: not at the Gallowes bridge onely, but in ca&s;ting up a <HI>regular Trench</HI> for the &s;afeguard of the whole Army, which was now brought within Cannon &s;hot of the Towne.</P>
<P>This Towne of <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI> (which hath an <HI>&V;niver&s;ity</HI> of <HI>Ie|&s;uites</HI> in it) is one of the very &s;tronge&s;t pieces of all <HI>Germany.</HI> It belongs unto the Duke of <HI>Bavaria;</HI> notwith&s;tanding the <HI>Danuby</HI> be betwixt it and his Country. The <HI>Approaches</HI> to|wards the towne, be trouble&s;ome; and the Fortifications about it, very good. Two bridges it now had over the <HI>Danuby;</HI> one within the towne, and another without it; which la&s;t is the &s;ame we called the Gallowes bridge, right before which, the King was encamped. This was guarded with 2 great <HI>Works,</HI> on the &s;ame &s;ide the King lay on.</P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> was by this time marcht quite tho|row <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> lies en|camped be|yond the river.</NOTE> and lay now encamped with his whole Army on the other &s;ide of the <HI>Danuby:</HI> hard by the banke of it, and &s;o onwards towards <HI>Ratisbone.</HI> So neere the King, that hee might well di&s;cerne them out of his Leaguer: though he could not come at him.</P>
<P>They of the towne, &s;hot very fiercely all this while with their great Ordnance, into the Kings Trenches: with which fir&s;t and la&s;t, they kild him &s;ome three hundred &s;ouldiers. The fir&s;t night after, (which was Thur&s;day, April 19.) &s;ome of the Towne i&s;&s;uing out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;ally</NOTE> made a &s;how of them&s;elues by one of the Forts neere the Gallowes bridge. The King upon &s;ight of them giving out a wi&s;h, that he had &s;ome brave fellowes which would undertake them: divers troopes both of Hor&s;e and Foot pre&s;ently making out,<NOTE PLACE="marg">beaten in.</NOTE> beat them backe into the &s;aid
<PB N="161" REF="90"> <HI>Halfe-moone,</HI> and enter it <HI>pell mell</HI> together with them. But the piece being open behind, no &s;ooner were the &s;alliers recei|ved that way into the towne; but that the Ordnance from the walls beat the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> out againe: it being not to be holden,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> beaten off.</NOTE> by rea&s;on of that lying open behind unto the Towne Ord|nance.</P>
<P>On Friday morning, April 20, the King going out to give &s;ome directions to his Hor&s;e-guards, that lay before one of the enemies bridges a little without the towne;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings hor&s;e &s;hot un|der him.</NOTE> had his Hor&s;e &s;hot under him with a Cannon bullet of 14 pound weight. The &s;hot tooke him about the hinder skirt of the &s;addle; with the force of it turning both Hor&s;e and King over and over. The King with this tumbling up and downe, having onely hurt his legge a little; was quickly gotten upon his feete againe. The fir&s;t word he &s;pake after it to the Squire of his body that then waited upon him, was, <HI>How could they po&s;&s;ibly come to hit me? I thought I had beene in covert.</HI> Mounting forthwith upon his Squires hor&s;e, he comes riding off unto his Quarter. The &s;ame day the young Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Chri&s;tofer</HI> of <HI>Baden</HI> (otherwi&s;e called <HI>Durlach</HI>) had halfe his head &s;hot off, as he was commanding his troops clo&s;e by the &s;ame place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Baden</HI> &s;laine.</NOTE> where the Kings hor&s;e was &s;hot. Iu&s;t the &s;ame houre of the Marque&s;&s;es death, dyed the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> within the towne:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> dyes.</NOTE> and that of the wound received at the <HI>Lech,</HI> after the taking of 4 Splinters out of his thigh. There was a mortall enmity of old, betwixt <HI>Tilly</HI> and this Marque&s;&s;e: which cau&s;ed the King to make ob&s;ervation, How fatall one <HI>place</HI> and <HI>houre,</HI> proved to 2 &s;uch enemies. The Marque&s;&s;es death, made the King more apprehen&s;ive of his own danger and delivery: the meditation whereof, formed it &s;elfe into this religious Orati|on, publikely uttered by his Maie&s;ty before divers of his chiefe Commanders in the Camp before <HI>Ingol&s;tat.</HI></P>
<P>The late and unfortunate death of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Baden</HI> (who&s;e fall I am mo&s;t heartily &s;orry for,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings ora|tion upon his e&s;cape.</NOTE> becau&s;e of tho&s;e rare vertues that were eminent in him, not unfit to be pub|li&s;hed to the world) and that thundering Cannon &s;hot withall,
<PB N="162" REF="91"> doe put me in mind that I am but mortall, and &s;ubiect to the &s;ame mi&s;chances, which the meane&s;t of my &s;ubiects are liable unto. It is an univer&s;all decree, which neither my Crowne, my Birth, nor my Victories, are any wayes able to reskue or exempt me from. What therefore now remaineth, but that I wholly re&s;igne up my &s;elfe unto the providence of the Al|mighty? who though he may plea&s;e to call me out of this world, yet will he not for all that, abandon this &s;o iu&s;t a cau&s;e, as I have now undertaken for the re-e&s;tabli&s;hment of the <HI>Germane</HI> liberties. He, doubtle&s;&s;e, will rai&s;e up &s;ome o|ther more wi&s;e, more couragious and valiant then my &s;elfe; who &s;hall put a period unto this warre. I know that the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e which it hath plea&s;ed God to affoord me in my enterpri&s;es, hath made &s;ome to enuy me: who al&s;o labour to per&s;wade the &s;imple, that I endeavour nothing more then mine owne profit; by the robbing and &s;poyling of others. But I in this ca&s;e call all tho&s;e Princes to witne&s;&s;e, whom I have againe re-e&s;tabli&s;hed into their own rights and inheri|tances: and tho&s;e Creditors al&s;o, of whom I have borrowed &s;uch hugy &s;ummes of money, as at <HI>Franckford</HI> and el&s;e|where: yea and the dangers too, which I daily expo&s;e my Per&s;on unto; whether or no I have left mine own kingdome, and tho&s;e that are <HI>Deare&s;t</HI> to me in this world, for any other end, or with any other intention, but onely to pull downe the tyranny of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> and to obtaine a &s;olid and a &s;ettled peace unto all men.</P>
<P>This Oration of the Kings was here interrupted, by the ioy|full acclamations of the Auditory, and the cheerefull promi|&s;es of their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tances: all of them with teares be&s;eeching his Maie&s;ty, to be more carefull in time to come of adventu|ring his Royall Per&s;on; and to continue his fir&s;t re&s;olutions: as they for their parts there vowed, to per&s;i&s;t in their fidelities.</P>
<P>Vpon Sunday, April 22. had the <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador his Audience of the King. The <HI>French</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador <HI>Mon&s;ieur de S^t. E&s;tienne,</HI> re&s;ident with the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> was come
<PB N="163" REF="91"> from <HI>Munchen</HI> to the Kings Leaguer, to mediate the condi|tions of a peace. That night went the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> unto <HI>Newburg;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King goes to <HI>Newburg.</HI></NOTE> whither he was accompanied by the King of <HI>Bo|hemia,</HI> Prince Palatine <HI>Augu&s;t, Iohn</HI> Duke of <HI>Hol&s;tein,</HI> &amp;c. They tooke a particular view of the Fortifications of the Towne; of the Church, Colledge, and Magazine. There they lodged that night; and returned very early next morning unto their Leaguer.</P>
<P>The King having beene 4 or 5 dayes already before <HI>Ingol|&s;tat,</HI> and perceiving now his corre&s;pondency to faile him within the towne: he having at all no purpo&s;e of making a long &s;iege of it, re&s;olues to ri&s;e and goe towards <HI>Munchen.</HI> Vpon Munday therefore April 23 fir&s;t &s;ending abroad <HI>Gu&s;ta|vus Horn</HI> with &s;ixe thou&s;nad men,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horn</HI> &s;ent to &s;poyle the Country.</NOTE> to make &s;ome &s;poile up|on the Dukes Countrey; he gives order to his army to be rea|dy for their departure. The next day, Tue&s;day 24.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King ri&s;es from <HI>Ingol&s;tat.</HI></NOTE> The whole Army ri&s;es: of which, this was the order. Fir&s;t, are &s;ome Hor&s;e &s;ent away before; and after them the Baggage; and then the Cannon and Infantery. The re&s;t of the Hor&s;e, together with 600 <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Muskettiers, were left behind with the Ge|nerall <HI>Banier,</HI> to make good the Retreat.</P>
<P>The la&s;t men &s;till left behind upon the Point (that is, in the <HI>Halfe-moone</HI> and <HI>Redout</HI> by the Gallowes Port) were no &s;oo|ner drawne off; but the Towne garri&s;on, (even before the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> were gone full musket &s;hot from the place) by de|grees po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elues of the Kings <HI>Works:</HI> for now one comes &s;tealing and peeping in, to &s;ee if all the enemies were gone; and then comes another or 2; and &s;o more, one after another. With this, doe the Towne Hor&s;e &s;ally likewi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;ally repul&s;ed by <HI>Banier.</HI></NOTE> (about &s;ome 12 troopes of them) and upon an advantageable place, which was iu&s;t upon the pa&s;&s;age of the &s;econd bridge, and when the <HI>Forlorne Hope</HI> of the Kings Hor&s;e (who &s;till man'd the Reere) were to pa&s;&s;e the &s;aid bridge, doe they fiercely charge the <HI>Forlorne Hope</HI> afore&s;aid. They giving the Alarme thereupon to the next Body of the Reere; Generall <HI>Banier</HI> in&s;tantly faces about towards the Sallyers, with his
<PB N="164" REF="92"> Cavallery: bringing forward &s;ome of his Muskettiers with|all, to m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e the enemy giue &s;omething backe from the Pa&s;&s;e. <HI>Banier</HI> being thus returned backe againe ouer the Pa&s;&s;e to|wards the enemy, they retire skirmi&s;hing: till they had led the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> on to a &s;econd place of aduantage, at the Mora&s;&s;e afore mentioned. Here making Halt or a &s;tand; <HI>Banier</HI> &s;o pre&s;&s;es upon them, that hee beats them from this aduantage al&s;o. <HI>Banier</HI> hauing pa&s;&s;ed ouer beyond this place, and with three troopes of Hor&s;e onely; the <HI>Ingol&s;tadians</HI> retreat with their whole Body to a third aduantage, more then Mus|ket &s;hot from the Mora&s;&s;e: where they on both &s;ides conti|nue skirmi&s;hing betwixt the two Bodies, for the &s;pace almo&s;t of a whole houre together.</P>
<P><HI>Banier</HI> perceiuing they would no more come on, retires backe againe in order; without any more difficultie, marching after the King to <HI>Gei&s;enfelt:</HI> a walled Towne &s;ome two <HI>Dutch</HI> miles from <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> onwards of the way to <HI>Mo&s;|burg.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">odges at <HI>Gei|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nfelt.</HI></NOTE> Here the King for that night encamps with his whole Army; having &s;pent the afternoone, in doing the Funerall Rites unto the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Baden.</HI></P>
<P>The King thus retired from <HI>Ingol&s;tat;</HI> tho&s;e of the Towne make diligent &s;earch for the carka&s;&s;e of his hor&s;e, which they had &s;hot under him, and He had cau&s;ed to be buried. The Hor&s;e being found,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tho&s;e of <HI>Jn|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ol&s;tat</HI> dig up <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Kings dead hor&s;e.</NOTE> and digg'd up (which no doubt was a &s;weet finding) his hide was very curiou&s;ly taken off, &s;tuft with &s;traw, and hangd up in <HI>Ingolstat</HI> for a <HI>Trophee,</HI> they triumphing over it very gloriou&s;ly, and in&s;ulting upon the Kings Ri&s;ing. The hor&s;e was a white ambler, which the King very much delighted in: it was his <HI>Ron&s;arte,</HI> his <HI>Bucepha|lus,</HI> on which he u&s;ed to ride about his Army: and yet did he never thinke, his hor&s;e &s;hould have beene &s;o much made on. Now much good doe it my politike Ma&s;ters, the Fathers of the <HI>Ie&s;uites Colledge</HI> of <HI>Ingol&s;tat:</HI> for their deepe device no doubt it was; our <HI>Parliament Hou&s;e</HI> knowes them for old diggers. Yet they wrought but for a dead hor&s;e,) as the pro|verbe is. And this is all, which they had for their brave,
<PB N="165" REF="92"> and worthily renowned Generall, <HI>Iohn T&s;erclaes</HI> Count of <HI>Tilly:</HI> who dyed the &s;ame day in <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tilly</HI> dyes.</NOTE> that the Kings Hor&s;e was &s;hot under him. The King can allow them a <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> for a <HI>Generall,</HI> at any time. Twas a brave Palfrey indeed; but (me thinkes) they might have had a better project with his hyde, then &s;tuft it: had they but made a Drumme of it, the &s;ound of that, would (no doubt) have driven away all the hor&s;es of their enemies. But now they have &s;tuft the skinne, what will they doe with the bones? They &s;hould doe well to u&s;e them as the <HI>Turkes</HI> did <HI>Scanderbegs</HI> bones at <HI>Ly&s;&s;a:</HI> which they digd up, and &s;et in Rings and Iewels. Certainely there was vertue in that Hor&s;e, <HI>virtualis contactus</HI> (they knew) had coueighed it into him. But their &s;pight cho&s;e rather to u&s;e this hor&s;e, as tho&s;e of <HI>Breda</HI> did the <HI>Boate,</HI> by which their Towne had beene taken: they whipt the boate up and downe the &s;treets, and then hangd it up for a <HI>Trophee.</HI> But we have enough (too much will &s;ome &s;ay) made our &s;elves merry with the <HI>Ie&s;uites;</HI> who before the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> comming into <HI>Germany,</HI> laught in their &s;leeves at all the world be&s;ides.</P>
<P>The next day (which was Wedne&s;day, Aprill 25) the King marches from <HI>Gei&s;enfelt</HI> to <HI>Mosburg</HI> upon the River <HI>I&s;er;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King comes to <HI>Mo&s;burg.</HI></NOTE> which is &s;ome 20 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South-Ea&s;t of <HI>Ingol|&s;tat.</HI> Hither did <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> come againe unto the King: who in his pa&s;&s;age backe from burning part of the Country villages, that would not readily give him money; had ea&s;ily brought the two walled Townes of <HI>Hohnwart</HI> and <HI>Pfaffen|hoven,</HI> to a compo&s;ition. By this time had the <HI>Abbot</HI> of Saint <HI>Georges</HI> (in the way towards <HI>Munchen</HI>) &s;ent in his ex|cu&s;e;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Churches and Schooles re&s;to|red.</NOTE> that he was not able to build up againe the new Church of the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> which had beene lately taken from them and broken downe: but he was willing and ready to deliver them up his owne Church, &s;o that he might keepe but one Chappell for his owne u&s;e. The Abbot of Saint <HI>Maurice,</HI> he al&s;o &s;ent word, that he was willing to build up the <HI>Prote|stants</HI> Church againe, which they lately had in his <HI>Iuri&s;diction.</HI>
<PB N="166" REF="93"> Thus both <HI>Churches</HI> and <HI>Schooles</HI> were againe re&s;tored un|to the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in tho&s;e parts of <HI>Bavaria:</HI> yea and their Armes, (though much empaired) which had before beene taken from them.</P>
<P>About Aprill 27, are <HI>Gu&s;tave Horn</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn,</HI> &s;ent with 3000 Hor&s;e and 5000 Foote; to take in <HI>Land|&s;hut:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horn</HI> and <HI>He|bron</HI> take in <HI>Land&s;hut.</HI></NOTE> a very dainty little Towne upon the River <HI>I&s;er</HI> (though the glory of it be chiefely in two Streets) &s;ome eight <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the North-Ea&s;t of <HI>Mosburg.</HI> At the fir&s;t comming of the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> forces before the walls, one of their Liefte|nants of a troope of Hor&s;e, with &s;ome few others of his Cornet, were &s;hot from an Ambu&s;h in the gardens. That mor|ning, had &s;ome 1300 <HI>Bavarian</HI> Hor&s;e (after a very hard march of nine <HI>Dutch</HI> miles together) put them&s;elves into the Towne: &s;o that they &s;eemed yet to be re&s;olute upon the re|&s;i&s;tance. But &s;o &s;oone as ever they perceived the gro&s;&s;e of the 5000 Foote, to be come up, they retreated out of the Towne unto the further &s;ide of the River <HI>I&s;er;</HI> breaking the bridges downe behind them. The Towne paid 100000 Dol|lars to the King for its ran&s;ome; and gave <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> 20000 be&s;ides, for a gratuity. <HI>Land&s;hut</HI> being thus taken, and Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn</HI> (for the time) left Governour, <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> went backe againe to the King; who two dayes after the taking,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Land &s;perg</HI> ta|ken.</NOTE> comes and lodges in it. The day before this, was the hand&s;ome Towne of <HI>Land&s;perg</HI> upon the River <HI>Lech,</HI> taken by Colonell <HI>Slammer&s;dorff</HI> with 300 Dragooners: &s;ent (as I collect) from the Governour of <HI>Ausburg.</HI> After <HI>Land&s;perg,</HI> were the two good Townes of <HI>Fue&s;&s;en</HI> and <HI>Schonga;</HI> both more Southerly and higher up the <HI>Lech</HI> taken al&s;o. In <HI>Land&s;hut,</HI> the King &s;taid &s;ome five or &s;ixe dayes. Some of the rea&s;on for which (be&s;ides the refre&s;hing of the Army) may be a thought the King had towards <HI>Ratisbone</HI> or <HI>Regens|purg:</HI> whence (as tis written) divers had &s;ent to &s;ollicite him to come thither. And indeed the whole Country be|twixt <HI>Land&s;hut</HI> and <HI>Regen&s;purg,</HI> for foure <HI>Bavarian</HI> Leagues together, was all the way open. Some Partees are about this
<PB N="167" REF="93"> time &s;ent that way ward, who had divers skirmi&s;hes with the <HI>Bavarians,</HI> that had comne out of <HI>Ratisbone.</HI> For the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and <HI>Cratz</HI> (now Generall in <HI>Tillyes</HI> place) were gone by this time from <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI> into <HI>Ratisbone:</HI> which Towne, now &s;urprized by the Duke, was al&s;o foulely plundered by his &s;ouldiors; who&s;e rea&s;on for it was, As good they doe it, as the <HI>Swedi&s;h.</HI> But the King now under|&s;tanding <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> to be about <HI>Pa&s;&s;aw,</HI> upon the frontiers to|wards <HI>Bohemia,</HI> and that though upon a military emulation, he had never heartily affected <HI>Tilly;</HI> no nor the Duke of <HI>Ba|varia</HI> neither, &s;ince he had at the Dyet of <HI>Ratisbone</HI> wrought the Emperour to ca&s;hiere him: yet now for the common cau&s;es &s;ake, and upon <HI>Cratz</HI> his entreaty, (who had beene one of his Colonels la&s;t yeere in <HI>Pomerania</HI>) he might (as the King judged) be drawne to doe &s;omething for <HI>Bavaria.</HI> His Maje&s;ty thus mi&s;doubting the wor&s;t; e&s;teemes it not fit for his de&s;igne, to adventure one again&s;t two; and re&s;olves withall to pa&s;&s;e no further to the North or North-Ea&s;t at this time. Purpo&s;ing now to tickle <HI>Bavariaes</HI> Minniken &s;tring; &s;o &s;oone as ever he had received his money from <HI>Land&s;hut,</HI> Hee, May 4^t^h, turnes backe againe towards <HI>Mosburg,</HI> and thorow that unto <HI>Frei&s;ing:</HI> a City and Bi&s;hops See upon the &s;ame River, two <HI>Bavarian</HI> Leagues onwards of the way to|wards <HI>Munchen.</HI> Here lay he all night, May fifth:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King goes to <HI>Frei&s;ing,</HI></NOTE> the Towne paying 50000 Dollars for its ran&s;ome; and the whole Bi&s;hopricke quietly yeelding to a Contribution.</P>
<P>May &s;ixth, the Army removes againe towards <HI>Munchen;</HI> 18 miles South of <HI>Frei&s;ing,</HI> and upon the We&s;t of the <HI>I&s;er.</HI> This <HI>Munchen</HI> (pronounced <HI>Minniken</HI>) is one of the neate&s;t of all <HI>Germany:</HI> and the Dukes curious Palace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and &s;o to <HI>Mun|chen.</HI></NOTE> with the Ie&s;uits &s;umptuous Church: a &s;econd <HI>E&s;curiall,</HI> as &s;ome terme it. It had beene the Ne&s;t and <HI>Office of Receipt</HI> for the riche&s;t and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eate&s;t pillages, that the Duke him&s;elfe, or his Gene|rall <HI>Tilly,</HI> have for many yeeres warres together, gotten from the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Princes. The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> was &s;till about <HI>Ratisbone:</HI> and there much troubled with &s;ore eyes,
<PB N="168" REF="94"> cau&s;ed by the &s;moake of his owne Country. And yet out of a hope to &s;ee him&s;elfe once againe Ma&s;ter of this Palace, had he beene &s;o carefull to pre&s;erve it, that he had &s;ent a com|mand unto his Chancellor to deliver it over, when-ever the King &s;hould make towards it. The Deputies of the Towne likewi&s;e, had beene at <HI>Freifing</HI> with the King, May 5^t^h, and had made tender of 200000 Dollars for theyr ran&s;ome: which would not be accepted. Vpon Munday in the fore|noone, May 7^t^h, the King &s;hewed him&s;elfe in faire Battaglia before it: although by that time he were come within a <HI>Dutch</HI> mile: the Deputies had againe met him, and there pre&s;ented the towne keyes unto him, with a promi&s;e of 300000 Dol|lars. The chiefe condition which they reque&s;ted was, that their garri&s;on might march out without di&s;turbance: which was indeed in the Kings power to have hindered, his Hor&s;e lying every where up and downe in the Country. The King enters the towne the &s;ame day; accompanied by the King of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> Palatine <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and 3 of his Regiments, taking up his lodging in that &s;umptuous Palace: the re&s;t of his Army be|ing enquartered in and about the City.</P>
<P>The next day, the King went to &s;ee the Magazine and Ar|mories; where great &s;tore of armes and ammunition were found, but no Ordnance: at which the King not a little won|dering; e&s;pied by and by divers of the carriages; by which he gue&s;&s;ed, as the truth was, that the peeces were buried un|der-ground. The&s;e <HI>dead ones</HI> (as he cald them) he cau&s;ed the Boores with ropes and leavers, to rai&s;e up without a miracle. There were 140 faire Peeces of bra&s;&s;e Ordnance; and in one, 30000 pieces of gold, &s;aid to be found. Among the re&s;t, were 12 eminent ones; by the Duke called the 12 <HI>Apo&s;tles:</HI> though &s;urely the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> were never &s;uch <HI>&s;onnes of Thunder.</HI> Some peeces had the <HI>Palsgraves</HI> Armes upon them; which cau&s;ed the King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> both to &s;igh and &s;mile, at the &s;ight of them. But the <HI>Kun&s;t-Cammer,</HI> or <HI>Chamber of Rarities,</HI> was the thing that affoorded mo&s;t entertainment: where the beholders admired rather, then lookt upon, the incomparable varieties
<PB N="169" REF="94"> and curio&s;ities, both of <HI>Art</HI> and <HI>Nature.</HI> The <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> Church, was a piece of admiration al&s;o: and the Images among the re&s;t, made by <HI>Brou&s;e</HI> that famous Arti&s;t; together with the manufactures, and &s;ilver works of divers kinds. The King went into this Church, iu&s;t when the <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> were at their <HI>Ma&s;&s;e:</HI> and the Father <HI>Rector</HI> comming towards the King, his Maje&s;ty entertained a di&s;cour&s;e in <HI>Latine</HI> with him, a|bout the <HI>Lords Supper.</HI> The King after this, calling the Citti|zens together; askes them whether they would hereafter fight again&s;t him, or pay the Contribution from time to time, that &s;hould be impo&s;ed upon them? They much complaining of their Dukes avarice and former hardne&s;&s;e towards them, and e&s;pecially for his now for&s;aking of them; faintly pro|mi&s;e, what they dur&s;t not deny: wholly to &s;ubmit them|&s;elves to his Maje&s;ties good plea&s;ure, and to take oath unto him.</P>
<P>On Wedne&s;day, May 9^t^h. the King held a generall Mu|&s;ter before the City: him&s;elfe (to &s;hew &s;ome content to the <HI>Bavarians</HI>) drilling and exerci&s;ing his &s;ouldiors: teaching them e&s;pecially how to give a Charge or <HI>Salvee;</HI> &s;ome upon their knees, others behind them &s;tooping forward; and the hindmo&s;t ranke &s;tanding upright, and all to give fire at once, the hinder man over his foremans &s;houlder. The next day, May 10^t^h, was <HI>A&s;cen&s;ion</HI> day: on which the King cau&s;ed the fir&s;t <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Sermon to be preached, in the Ca&s;tle: the King him&s;elfe (as tis written) giving order for this <HI>P&s;alme</HI> of Doctor <HI>Luthers.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Rejoyce yee now O Chri&s;tians true,</L>
<L>Your hearts now leape for joy:</L>
<L>Now &s;ing without annoy,</L>
<L>What wonders God hath done for you, &amp;c.</L></Q>
<P>After dinner; the King went to Saint <HI>Maryes</HI> Church to &s;ee the Popi&s;h ceremonies, in celebrating the Fea&s;t of the A&s;cen&s;ion. That evening while&s;t the King was at &s;upper, were &s;ome twenty <HI>Bavarian</HI> hor&s;emen brought in pri&s;oners to him. The&s;e, with a thou&s;and, others, had beene &s;ent out of
<PB N="170" REF="95"> <HI>Ratisbone</HI> to fall on the &s;udden upon the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> garri&s;on of <HI>Frei&s;ing.</HI> Here having timely been di&s;covered, they were pro|vided for; and had &s;uch <HI>Wellcome</HI> and <HI>Entertainment</HI> as v&s;u|ally the <HI>Warres</HI> afford, which is, to beate their <HI>&V;i&s;itants</HI> out a doores againe. They could tell no certainty as yet, of any likelyhood of their Dukes joyning with <HI>Wallen&s;tein.</HI> And herein they &s;aid trueth: for <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> (it &s;eemes) purpo&s;ing to play<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his owne game, was now going towards <HI>Prage;</HI> which he tooke &s;hortly after. The King plea&s;antly &s;aid to the&s;e Hor&s;emen. You now &s;uffer what you would have made others to &s;uffer: thus you &s;ee, none is forbidden to &s;trike a|gaine, that is fir&s;t &s;trucken.</P>
<P>By this time hath the King word brought unto him, of Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> (lately made one of the Emperours Gene|ralls) his comming out of <HI>Al&s;atia,</HI> with 7000 men after him. Part of the&s;e, were &s;ome of <HI>O&s;&s;aes</HI> and the Arch-duke <HI>Leopolds</HI> (the Emperours brothers) old Army; part were brought by <HI>Harincourt</HI> from the Duke of <HI>Lorrayn;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oes to deliver <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">brach</HI> from <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;a.</HI></NOTE> and part were come out of <HI>Italy</HI> by the <HI>&V;al-Teline</HI> pa&s;&s;age. The Boores of <HI>Bavaria, Schwaben,</HI> &amp; <HI>Tirole,</HI> were al&s;o up in Com|motion, and <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> was now become Head unto them. <HI>O&s;&s;aes</HI> chiefe charge, was, the defence of <HI>Leopolds</HI> Country of <HI>Al&s;a|tia;</HI> of the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Lands in <HI>Tirole</HI> (of all which Archduke <HI>Leopold</HI> is <HI>Admini&s;trator</HI>) and of the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben.</HI> This <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> about this time, marches up to <HI>Bibrach;</HI> a weake Imperiall City in <HI>Schwabland</HI> towards <HI>Donawert,</HI> about five <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles South of the <HI>Danuby,</HI> and eight from <HI>Mem|mingen.</HI> Hither had he &s;ecretly beene invited by the Burgo|ma&s;ter and the <HI>Popi&s;h Clergy;</HI> and upon this Towne, two a&s;&s;aults he made: but &s;o well did the Cittizens put him off, that he both times lo&s;t his labour, and 400 men into the Bar|gaine. That which added &s;hame unto his lo&s;&s;e, was; that no &s;mall part of the &s;laughter was made by women: the&s;e <HI>&V;i|ragoes</HI> with &s;calding water, &s;tones and &s;uch feminine wea|pons, beating his men from the walls of their City, and en|couraging their husbands. The King having notice of the&s;e
<PB N="171" REF="95"> proceedings of <HI>O&s;&s;aes;</HI> gives order with all &s;peed for the marching away of 5000 Hor&s;e, and about 4000 Foote: him&s;elfe likewi&s;e immediately following to goe along with them. Leaving <HI>Munchen</HI> therefore, and Colonell <HI>Hebron</HI> Governor in it: he taking his way by <HI>Ausburg</HI> (where he was about May 20) marches directly towards <HI>Memmingen.</HI> Here he fir&s;t of all layes a bridge over the River <HI>Iler:</HI> which running from hence towards <HI>Vlm,</HI> falls thereabouts into the <HI>Danuby. O&s;&s;a</HI> hearing of the fini&s;hing of this bridge, retires with &s;o much &s;peed to the Quarters hee came la&s;t from, (which were towards <HI>Lindaw</HI> and the <HI>Boden&s;ee</HI> neere the Mountaines) that he left his Ordnance behind him. <HI>O&s;&s;aes</HI> Cor|re&s;pondents were carryed pri&s;oners into <HI>&V;lm.</HI></P>
<P>The King having thus delivered <HI>Bibrach;</HI> leaves the Army thereabouts, under the command of Duke <HI>Bernard</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> him&s;elfe with &s;ome few guards returning towards <HI>Ausburg;</HI> where he was about May 27. Here receiving the newes, that <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> had advanced towards <HI>Prage</HI> and taken it, and forced the <HI>Saxons</HI> out of <HI>Bohemia:</HI> and that <HI>Cratz</HI> withall, was gone from about <HI>Ratisbone</HI> and <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> and falne with his forces into <HI>Bavaria</HI> fir&s;t, and into the frontiers of <HI>Franconia</HI> and <HI>Schwaben</HI> after: and had there taken <HI>Wei&s;&s;en|burg:</HI> (which is the Pa&s;&s;e betwixt <HI>Ausburg</HI> and <HI>Norimberg:</HI>) He out of his care to this la&s;t named City, which &s;o much con|cernd both his honour and his de&s;ignes; re&s;olves to leave <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and to goe with his Army into tho&s;e quarters. Speeding backe therefore againe unto <HI>Munchen;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King drawes his for+ces out of <HI>Ba|varia.</HI></NOTE> he gives order to tho&s;e troopes which had till now beene left therea|bouts; to march with all &s;peed towards <HI>Donawert:</HI> where the re&s;t from about <HI>Memmingen,</HI> &s;hould meete and joyne with them.</P>
<P><HI>Cratz,</HI> indeed, with 2000 Foote, and the valiant Baron of <HI>Cronenberg</HI> with his Regiment of Hor&s;e (which was the flower of the Army:) upon the hearing of the Kings going towards <HI>Bibrach,</HI> were falne againe into <HI>Bavaria.</HI> Their de&s;igne, was to recover <HI>Munchen;</HI> and from <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> they
<PB N="172" REF="96"> were already advanced as farre as <HI>Pfaffenhoven:</HI> where getting advice of &s;ome <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> troopes that were comming to en|counter them, they faire and timely retired into <HI>Ingol&s;tat.</HI> The Kings hearing of their making towards <HI>Munchen;</HI> was the cau&s;e that he made thither, &s;o &s;oone as <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> was skared from <HI>Bibrach:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">atz <HI>takes</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;enburg,</NOTE> when <HI>Cratz</HI> and <HI>Cronenberg</HI> hearing of the Kings coming towards that way, they goe the cleane contrary, unto <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg.</HI> This Imperiall City we have before de&s;cri|bed, in the Kings march up to <HI>Donawert:</HI> but in what <HI>Pro|vince</HI> or <HI>Circle</HI> of the Empire it is placed, the <HI>Geographers</HI> and <HI>Mapp-makers</HI> them&s;elues doubt of. Some 24 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles it is to the North-We&s;t of <HI>Ingol&s;tat;</HI> and in it, had the King left &s;ome forces: and by it, was the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Wils|burg,</HI> with a <HI>Tillian</HI> garri&s;on. <HI>Cratz</HI> now layes &s;iege to <HI>Wei&s;|&s;enburg;</HI> and the <HI>Swedes</HI> &s;tand upon the re&s;i&s;tance: but more Gunns being brought out of <HI>Wilsburg</HI> Ca&s;tle, and bent again&s;t them; they parly and yeeld. What quarrell was pickt, I know not: but &s;ure it is, that the <HI>Swedes</HI> refu&s;ing to turne to the <HI>Bavarian</HI> party, had all their throates cut. The Towne is al&s;o plundered, the chiefe Citizens and Preachers carried away pri&s;oners, two Gates of the City burnt downe to the ground: and then newes being brought of the Kings com|ming;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d for&s;akes it.</NOTE> the <HI>Bavarians</HI> for&s;ake all againe, and hye them backe into <HI>Ingolstat.</HI></P>
<P>In this <HI>Interim,</HI> had Duke <HI>Bernard</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI> &s;o well behaved him&s;elfe; that in the pur&s;uite of <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> he had light upon one of his brave&s;t Regiments, (which he had put into a fortified place) con&s;i&s;ting of 2000 men, and conducted by <HI>Hannibal</HI> Count of <HI>Hohen-Ems:</HI> all which he had utterly rou|ted and defeated; taken the Count, with 400 pri&s;oners, and 8 En&s;ignes.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ernard Wey|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ars</HI> good &s;er|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ce.</NOTE> The Count was &s;ent pri&s;oner to <HI>I&s;ne</HI> fir&s;t, and to <HI>&V;lm</HI> afterwards. This feate had Duke <HI>Bernard</HI> done, time enough to meete the King at <HI>Donawert.</HI></P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty now about to leave <HI>Bavaria;</HI> takes the be&s;t or|der that he might, for the quiet of the Country behind him. Garri&s;ons he left none (except in <HI>Rain</HI> onely,) becau&s;e there is
<PB N="173" REF="96"> never a towne defen&s;ible in all the whole Duchy. To &s;upply which defect, was the Generall <HI>Banier</HI> left with &s;ome 8 Re|giments about <HI>Ausburg:</HI> and divers Waine-loades of <HI>Prie&s;ts, Ie&s;uites</HI> and other chiefe per&s;ons brought into &s;afe cu&s;tody within <HI>Ausburg,</HI> to be pledges and ho&s;tages for the fidelity of the <HI>Bavarians.</HI> Again&s;t the Boores, the <HI>Leopoldi&s;h</HI> and <HI>O&s;|&s;aes</HI> forces in <HI>Schwabland, Tirole,</HI> &amp;c. was Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar</HI> left with 12000 men, about <HI>Memmingen.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">What forces the King left behind him.</NOTE> At <HI>Vlm,</HI> was Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> Governour; who had a &s;mall Army al&s;o. And Duke <HI>Iulius, Admini&s;trator</HI> of the Duchy of <HI>Wirtemberg,</HI> having about the 20^t^h of this moneth beene at <HI>Ausburg</HI> with the King; had promi&s;ed him to levy 8000 men to &s;econd his forces, and to ob&s;erve the motions of Archduke <HI>Leopold</HI> and the Generall <HI>O&s;&s;a.</HI> To prevent (la&s;t of all) the com|ming of more forces out of <HI>Italy</HI> to the aid of <HI>O&s;&s;a;</HI> the King, much about this time, writes his letters unto the <HI>Switzers:</HI> who upon the receipt of them, going from their <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Lu|cerne,</HI> unto another at <HI>Baden;</HI> re&s;olue there to give no more pa&s;&s;age to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> thorow their country into <HI>Germany.</HI> This was the Kings letter.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>S^r^s^:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Being enformed how that the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> doth labour by all po&s;&s;ible meanes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings let|ter to the <HI>Switzers.</HI></NOTE> to per&s;wade you to grant him a free pa&s;&s;age out of <HI>Italy,</HI> into the&s;e parts of <HI>Germany</HI> again&s;t Vs; for the advancement of his pernicious and uniu&s;t de&s;ignes, and for the favour and furtherance of our enemies and their pro|ceedings: I have thought good to exhort and admoni&s;h you mo&s;t lovingly by the&s;e pre&s;ents, to remember with your &s;elues, That your Common-wealth hath ever hitherto mo&s;t gloriou&s;ly flouri&s;hed, and renownedly maintained its liberty, again&s;t all oppo&s;ers what&s;oever; and e&s;pecially again&s;t tho&s;e of the Hou&s;es of <HI>Burgundy</HI> and of <HI>Au&s;tria:</HI> which 2 Hou|&s;es, have &s;triven oftentimes to deprive and barre you of your liberties. Yea of that liberty, namely, which is the be&s;t of all the re&s;t, the freedome of your <HI>Con&s;ciences:</HI> this would they have taken away from &s;ome of you, and the liberty of Go|vernment
<PB N="174" REF="97"> from you all. I would de&s;ire you likewi&s;e to be mindfull of that good Corre&s;pondency, which I have al|waies hitherto maintained with your State: for which rea|&s;on I cannot but forewarne you, that you become carefull hence-forward, to remaine firme and con&s;tant within the termes and bounds of <HI>Neutrality,</HI> and of that good agreement and corre&s;pondency, which yet is betwixt us; no waies yeel|ding or affoording, either pa&s;&s;age, favour or a&s;&s;i&s;tance, unto the enemy. Otherwi&s;e if you doe, I &s;hall then be con&s;trained to begin before them, and to commence warre again&s;t you, which &s;hould it &s;o fall out: tis your &s;elues then, that by your owne faults have drawne it upon your owne heads; together with &s;uch ruines con&s;equently, de&s;olations and calamities, as u&s;ually doe accompany it. But I have conceived much better hopes of you: as for mine own part, I doe hereby a&s;&s;ure you all in generall, and each one in particular, of my be&s;t love and affection towards you.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Gu&s;tavus Adolphus.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This letter became a bu&s;h again&s;t the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> which help|ed the <HI>Switzers</HI> to &s;top the gappe again&s;t them, thorow the <HI>Alps</HI> out of <HI>Italy.</HI> A Secretary is al&s;o about this time &s;ent from the King,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Strasburg</HI> ac|cords with the King.</NOTE> unto the faire and Imperiall City of <HI>Strasburg</HI> upon the <HI>Rhine</HI> in <HI>Al&s;atia:</HI> neere the wals, and thorow the Iuri&s;|diction whereof, Colonel <HI>Harincourt</HI> had lately brought his <HI>Lorrayners</HI> unto <HI>O&s;&s;a.</HI> And this City now, after &s;ome delibera|tion, is drawne al&s;o to the Kings party: and that much upon the &s;ame termes, which the great Cities of <HI>Vlm</HI> and <HI>Norimberg,</HI> had heretofore accorded with him. This was &s;omething to|wards the &s;ecurity of the lower <HI>Palatinate</HI> al&s;o; on the hither|mo&s;t &s;ide whereof, this <HI>Strasburg</HI> lyeth.</P>
<P>And thus hath this victorious King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> either con|quered or drawne to his party, all the middle part of <HI>Germa|ny:</HI>
<PB N="175" REF="97"> him&s;elfe in Per&s;on having runne thorow it, from the Northerne or <HI>Baltick</HI> Sea, even to the very <HI>Alps</HI> almo&s;t and mountaines on the South, next unto <HI>Italy:</HI> a Cour&s;e of full 500 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles together. And now turnes he backe againe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The largene&s;&s;e of the Kings Conque&s;ts.</NOTE> The breadth he beares in the&s;e la&s;t mentioned parts, is halfe the <HI>Circles</HI> of <HI>Bavaria</HI> and <HI>Schwabland;</HI> even from the river <HI>I&s;er</HI> in <HI>Bavaria</HI> Ea&s;tward, all overthwart to the <HI>Danuby</HI> and beyond it, towards the We&s;t. In <HI>Bavaria,</HI> could he march 50 or 60 miles &s;quare every way. Along the <HI>Lech</HI> from <HI>Do|nawert</HI> to <HI>Fue&s;&s;en,</HI> North and South; full 80: and along the <HI>Danuby</HI> from the gates of <HI>Ingol&s;tat</HI> (to account no further) on the North-Ea&s;t, unto <HI>Vlm</HI> and beyond it, on the South-We&s;t; as much more. In <HI>Bavaria</HI> all was his own: not all that is in the <HI>Mappe</HI> of <HI>Bavaria</HI> (for that containes a tenth part of the Empire) but all the lands of the Dukes of <HI>Bava|ria,</HI> were either conquered, or under Contribution: no power or place being left, (except <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> where the Duke with his Army now was) being able to re&s;i&s;t any 2 <HI>Brigades</HI> of the Kings, &s;hould he but have &s;ent them thither. Nor was there here any con&s;iderable appearance of re&s;i&s;tance, at the Kings comming out of the Country.</P>
<P>As for that portion of the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben</HI> betwixt the <HI>Lech,</HI> the <HI>Danuby,</HI> and the line or <HI>Degree</HI> of 48 in the <HI>Mappe,</HI> (which 3 make a complete <HI>Triangle</HI>) it is wholly the Kings; and quietly now too: e&s;pecially &s;ince <HI>O&s;&s;aes</HI> late repul&s;e from <HI>Bibrach:</HI> which touches upon the out&s;ide of the <HI>Degree</HI> 48 afore&s;aid. How now all this part came to be the Kings, and in what e&s;tate he left it now behind him; we &s;hall briefely tell you. A Conqueror mu&s;t <HI>keep,</HI> as well as <HI>winne:</HI> and ei|ther leave no enemy at his backe, or a force &s;ufficient to op|po&s;e him, that he may not be able to di&s;turb the Ma&s;ter of the Field, in his future proceedings. And then may a Country be indeed &s;aid to be conquered.</P>
<P>This Portion of the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben</HI> came thus to be the Kings. Divers of the Imperiall Townes in it being <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> (as <HI>&V;lm, Memmingen, Kempten,</HI> &amp;c.) having once a&s;&s;ented
<PB N="176" REF="98"> unto the <HI>Conclu&s;ions</HI> of <HI>Leip&s;ich;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Story of the Actions about <HI>&V;lm</HI> and <HI>Schwabland.</HI></NOTE> notwith&s;tanding they had beene enforced in part to renounce them, by <HI>Eggon</HI> Count of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg,</HI> Generall for his Imperiall Maie&s;ty for this <HI>Cir|cle:</HI> yet after the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> prevailing about the&s;e parts, they eft&s;oones recovered their former re&s;olutions. Of all the&s;e Cities, <HI>&V;lm</HI> upon the <HI>Danuby</HI> being the principall, the <HI>Ad|mirall Gally</HI> as it were; &s;he carried the Lanterne unto all the re&s;t; which way &s;he led, they followed. About the end of October 1631. 12 Imperiall troopes comming that way out of <HI>Italy,</HI> de&s;ired (imperiou&s;ly enough) to have a reliefe from this City, of 10 Dollars for every Hor&s;eman, and 6 for a Footeman: and when threatnings were added, the <HI>Vlmers</HI> beat them out of their Territories into <HI>Leopolds</HI> Country, and made the Archduke keepe them. The King a little after this, &s;ollicites them unto his party: and Colonell <HI>Rhelenger</HI> is pre|&s;ently &s;ent upon it, (as <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary</HI> for the King,) to agree with them. He in his iourney thither, lighting upon a Wagon-full of Monks and Fryers; made them pay a ran&s;ome of 40000 Dollars. In Ianuary after, the Common-wealth of <HI>Vlm</HI> pub|likely declare, what they had privately before re&s;olved, to &s;tand to the Conclu&s;ions of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> and levie 450 new men upon it. The &s;ame does <HI>Memmingen</HI> al&s;o. Now doe the <HI>Pro|te&s;tants</HI> every where about this time, begin to re&s;ume more courage: and for the defence of their liberties and Religion, divers of their Cities (as <HI>Norimberg, Strasburg,</HI> with &s;ome of <HI>Wirtenberg</HI>) a&s;&s;emble in a <HI>Diet</HI> at <HI>Hailbrun,</HI> which <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> had lately taken.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vlm</HI> accordeth with the King.</NOTE> In February after, <HI>&V;lm</HI> accepts of a <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> garri&s;on; and beginnes to fortifie; towards the rivers &s;ide e&s;pecially. About the beginning of March, that Gallant old Cavalier Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven,</HI> a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Gentleman, (lately made Sergeant-Major-Generall of the Army) is &s;ent from <HI>Mentz</HI> to be their Governour.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> made Governor of <HI>Vlm.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> pre&s;ently begins to make &s;ome new levies for an Army: by little and little, getting &s;ome 6 or 7000 men together. Hee fir&s;t demands the re&s;olutions of all the chiefe Cities and Townes about him: whether they would
<PB N="177" REF="98"> be <HI>Friends, Foes,</HI> or <HI>Neuters:</HI> &s;tand either for the King, or a|gain&s;t him. One of the fir&s;t townes he began withall, was <HI>Kurchberg</HI> upon the river <HI>Iler;</HI> &s;ome 4 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of <HI>Vlm.</HI> This towne having the honour of an Earle|dome, the King (as I find writing for it) be&s;towed upon the Conquerour. But of this I can &s;ay no more. At what time the King lay betwixt <HI>Donawert</HI> and the <HI>Lech,</HI> (which is about 48 or 50 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Vlm:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">His action.</NOTE>) Sir <HI>Patrick</HI> advances up the &s;ame river <HI>Iler</HI> beyond <HI>Memmingen,</HI> unto <HI>Kempten,</HI> (neere the river <HI>Lech</HI>) where there is an <HI>Abby:</HI> the fir&s;t in order of all the&s;e of the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Schwaben. Guntzperg,</HI> a faire towne upon the River <HI>Guntz,</HI> betwixt <HI>Vlm</HI> and <HI>Lawingen,</HI> is pre&s;ent|ly likewi&s;e taken. From this towne, a little after this, are 8 troopes of Dragooners &s;ent from the Kings army over the bridge at <HI>Lawingen;</HI> to rufflle the Cloy&s;ters in the neighbour Marqui&s;ate of <HI>Burgaw;</HI> to bring them under contribution; and to lye in waite for 500 Hor&s;e of <HI>O&s;&s;aes,</HI> that were to come from <HI>Lindaw.</HI> At this <HI>Guntzperg</HI> is there a faire Palace, of right belonging unto the Marque&s;&s;es of <HI>Burgaw:</HI> though at this time the Archduke <HI>Leopold</HI> had invaded it. The lands of the Lords <HI>Fuggers,</HI> are now al&s;o brought under contribution. <HI>Erpach</HI> is likewi&s;e over-runne, belonging unto the Chancellor <HI>Von Vlm.</HI> The 500 <HI>Tillians</HI> who had beene left at <HI>Nordlingen,</HI> about 30 miles to the North-Ea&s;t of <HI>Vlm,</HI> pre&s;ently for&s;ake the Towne: upon the newes, namely, of the Kings pa&s;&s;ing of the <HI>Lech.</HI> In the beginning of April, Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> puts &s;ome of his &s;ouldiers into <HI>Memmingen:</HI> out of which, he a little after that expels the <HI>Ie&s;uites:</HI> whom he found com|plotting with the Imperiali&s;ts. About <HI>Leutkirken,</HI> others of his defeate &s;ome of <HI>O&s;&s;aes</HI> guards. <HI>Raven&s;perg</HI> and <HI>Bibrach,</HI> 2 other Imperiall Cities, declare for the King: and divers Lords and Gentlemen, daily &s;end their Deputies unto our Governour of <HI>Vlm,</HI> to compound for their contributions. This if they did not, their lands were plundered. He a little after this, di&s;armes the Citizens of <HI>Elching</HI> and <HI>Wei&s;&s;enhorn,</HI> (both neere <HI>Vlm:</HI>) and takes 14 pecces of Cannon and 2
<PB N="178" REF="99"> Murtherers, away from them. Pre&s;ently after which, he &s;ends, and defeates <HI>Schwendy</HI> (or <HI>Schweaden</HI>) and his Boores, (which, he being a Gentleman of the Country, had &s;tirr'd up) and takes him&s;elfe pri&s;oner. Having thus advanced &s;o farre to the Southward, the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> is glad to &s;end to him to make his agreement. And thus is all the Country, for the while, cleered; even to the gates of <HI>Lindaw</HI> and the <HI>Boden&s;ee,</HI> under the very <HI>Alps:</HI> which &s;o continues, untill <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> (now gone thence to the <HI>Switzers Diet</HI> of <HI>Lucerne,</HI> to procure pa&s;&s;age for the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> out of <HI>Italy,</HI> over the <HI>Gotthart Alps</HI>) returnes about the beginning of May with his 7000 men, and be&s;ieges <HI>Bibrach,</HI> as we before told you.</P>
<P>Whether Colonell <HI>Sperreuter,</HI> who tooke <HI>Dunkel&s;pach</HI> and <HI>Elwang,</HI> on the North&s;ide of the <HI>Danuby,</HI> were &s;ent by him, or immediately from the King; I know not. After <HI>Slammer&s;|dorff</HI> had taken <HI>Land&s;perg:</HI> the towne of <HI>Mindelhaim,</HI> upon the river <HI>Mindel,</HI> betwixt the <HI>Lech</HI> and the <HI>Danuby,</HI> almo&s;t right again&s;t <HI>Land&s;perg,</HI> made al&s;o her compo&s;ition. And thus (to be briefe) did all tho&s;e good Townes, which you &s;hall find in the Map of <HI>Wirtemberg,</HI> in the South-Ea&s;t corner: mo&s;t of which Country is called <HI>Overland.</HI></P>
<P>Vpon the la&s;t Munday in April, Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> de|feates &s;ome Imperiall troopes, and takes 4 En&s;ignes from them. The Boores al&s;o ri&s;ing the &s;econd time, againe incen|&s;ed by the <HI>Bavarian</HI> Boores comming among&s;t them, <HI>Schwen|dies</HI> &s;econd provocation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">See the <HI>Mapps</HI> of the <HI>Circle</HI> of <HI>Suevia,</HI> or of <HI>Wirtemberg,</HI> for the&s;e townes.</NOTE> (let loo&s;e upon his ran&s;ome) and the heartning on of <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> and <HI>Harincourt;</HI> are againe defeated. A many of the&s;e Boores, fir&s;t ri&s;e about <HI>Gensburg</HI> and the moun|taines: who &s;ending word to the re&s;t, appoint their meeting place about <HI>Weingarten,</HI> &s;ome 30 miles to the South of <HI>Vlm.</HI> The&s;e in the beginning of May, comming up; &s;urpri&s;e <HI>Wan|gen</HI> an Imperiall towne, <HI>Raven&s;perg</HI> and others, betwixt <HI>&V;lm</HI> and <HI>Lindaw.</HI> Again&s;t them, Sir <HI>Patrick</HI> &s;ends 3000 men, ma|ny of them Dragooners: who May 12 killing &s;ome of them neere unto <HI>Kempten,</HI> (25 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles Ea&s;t of <HI>Wangen</HI>) make the re&s;t &s;weare to goe home and follow their clodding againe,
<PB N="179" REF="99"> and pay their contributions quietly. Others of them being bu|&s;ie otherwhere, 400 more are &s;laine about this Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Kempten:</HI> which their neighbours perceiuing, goe and de|liver up their Armes at <HI>Kempten.</HI> At <HI>Zippersriden,</HI> are almo&s;t 800 more cut in pieces, and (which was the way to coole them) are divers of their Dorps fired: which the poore wret|ches &s;eeing, went and cut their Land-lords throates, that had fir&s;t &s;tirr'd them up, and then for&s;aken them. Colonell <HI>Rhelin|ger</HI> (who had done many other good &s;ervices in the&s;e parts) affrights and di&s;armes 300 more of them, with a &s;mall Par|tee of Hor&s;emen. <HI>Rhelinger</HI> proceedes &s;o farre, that <HI>O&s;&s;a</HI> be|ing afraid of his falling into <HI>Tirole,</HI> is faine to &s;end 2000 men thither, to en&s;ure the pa&s;&s;ages. About the end of April, Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> goes into the Duchy of <HI>Wirtemberg;</HI> where he receives an aide of 2000 new men, from Duke <HI>Iulius</HI> the <HI>Admini&s;trator.</HI> In his ab&s;ence, the Lord <HI>Druches</HI> of <HI>Wald|burg</HI> with other Gentlemen and &s;ome Abbots; began to &s;tirre againe, in the further parts towards <HI>Weingarten:</HI> who did much trouble unto the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> &s;ouldiers in the townes next to them. To repre&s;&s;e them, went the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Dragooners that lay in and about <HI>Bibrach:</HI> who fell in among the lands of the &s;aid Lord <HI>Druches</HI> plundered the Townes of <HI>Wurtbach</HI> and <HI>Wald&s;ee,</HI> neere unto <HI>Weingarten,</HI> and di&s;per&s;ed the Commoti|on. The good Towne of <HI>Ehingen</HI> al&s;o, on the contrary &s;ide of the <HI>Danuby,</HI> to <HI>Vlm,</HI> and within 6 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of it, is brought likewi&s;e to a Compo&s;ition:<NOTE PLACE="marg">That part of <HI>Schwabland,</HI> brought by Sir <HI>Patrick Ruth|ven,</HI> &amp;c. under Contribution.</NOTE> as all this part of <HI>Schwab|land</HI> by this time was. At this towne of <HI>Ehingen,</HI> while&s;t <HI>Lodowick Eberhard</HI> Count of <HI>Hohenlo,</HI> with one of the Kings Secretaries and &s;ome other Commi&s;&s;ioners were, (having beene thither employed about taking the Citizens oath for the King of <HI>Sweden</HI>) they were all &s;urpri&s;ed and carried pri|&s;oners into <HI>Tirole,</HI> by a Partee &s;ent out from <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> at the time of his being about <HI>Bibrach.</HI> To be a ran&s;ome for who&s;e liberties, the King cau&s;es &s;ome great men of the Country to be laid hands of. The Imperiali&s;ts that did this at <HI>Ehingen,</HI> and &s;taid there; fell out and troubled the Countrey now and
<PB N="180" REF="100"> then: and upon the fir&s;t of Iune following, when the King was gone towards <HI>Norimberg;</HI> they drove away divers head of Cattel even from within 2 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Vlm:</HI> there being at that time no Hor&s;emen in the towne to make out af|ter them. But the&s;e are &s;ince &s;ent packing. Thus is all that country the Kings, by conque&s;t: and for the keeping of it quiet, were the Armies of Duke <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Saxon-Weymar,</HI> and Sir <HI>Patricke Ruthven,</HI> left thereabouts: the Duke of <HI>Wirtembergs</HI> forces being at hand too; who is their very next neighbour upon the other &s;ide of the <HI>Danuby.</HI> And in this e&s;tate the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> left this Country, in the beginning of Iune; when he tooke his leave of it, and of <HI>Bavaria:</HI> whom when we have waited upon from <HI>Donawert</HI> to <HI>Norimberg;</HI> we will for this time conclude our Story of him.</P>
<P>The occa&s;ion of his Maie&s;ties &s;o &s;udden parting out of <HI>Ba|varia,</HI> we told you, was to relieve <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg.</HI> Generall <HI>Cratz</HI> had now taken it;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King in his march from <HI>Donawert,</HI></NOTE> upon a hope by that meanes to cut off the Kings retreat to <HI>Norimberg.</HI> The King in his way thither, cleeres (as his manner is) the whole Country before him. For whereas (to begin withall) the towne and Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Aich&s;tat,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">takes the Bi|&s;hopricks of <HI>Aich&s;tat</HI> and <HI>Dillingen,</HI></NOTE> 16 miles to the North of <HI>Donawert,</HI> had not all this while brought in their contribution, which Colonell <HI>Sperreu|ter</HI> had heretofore made them to &s;ubmit unto; the Kings &s;oul|diers now di&s;traine upon what&s;oever they can get for it. So is the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Dillingen</HI> likewi&s;e &s;erved: both are plundered, and di&s;armed, &amp; the be&s;t Ordnance &s;ent to <HI>Auspurg. Pappenheim</HI> Ca&s;tle likewi&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Pappenheim,</HI></NOTE> 2 leagues to the We&s;t of <HI>Aich|&s;tat,</HI> (which belongeth unto the old Count of <HI>Pappenheim,</HI> who by inheritance is <HI>Earle Mar&s;hall</HI> or <HI>&s;econd Mar&s;hall</HI> of the Empire) was be&s;ieged, battered, and taken. This is hard by <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg;</HI> to which the King &s;o much ha&s;ted: and from which <HI>Cratz</HI> had as much &s;peeded, when he knew the King to be &s;o neere him.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;ty having nothing more in his way to delay him, marches immediatly towards <HI>Norimberg:</HI> neere which, namely, in his old Quarter at <HI>Furt,</HI> about Iune 7 he arriveth. What his
<PB N="181" REF="100"> intention next was, appeares by his an&s;wer unto the <HI>Norim|bergers,</HI> now inviting him into their City: which was, <HI>That he had rather a great deale &s;ee Wallen&s;tein, then Norimberg.</HI> Again&s;t whom he immediately advancing into the <HI>Vpper Pa|latinate,</HI> was not able to goe further, thorow a de&s;troyed country: and hearing withall, both <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> and <HI>Bavaria</HI> to be comming again&s;t him; he retires backe againe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">finally encamp|ing by <HI>Norim|berg.</HI></NOTE> and entren|ches him&s;elfe by <HI>Norimberg.</HI> Since which time, though the Armies have layne long neere one another; yet for that at the fini&s;hing hereof, there had nothing beene done betwixt them; I mu&s;t leave that to a <HI>Third Part:</HI> and if you plea&s;e, to a bet|ter in&s;tructed <HI>Intelligencer.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Heere followeth the <HI>Declaration</HI> or <HI>Manife&s;to of his Highne&s;&s;e the Duke</HI> of <HI>Bavaria;</HI> which we before mentioned and promi&s;ed you. Received from a good Friend: and already tran&s;lated by an able Gentle|man.</HEAD>
<P>_FOR as much as among the multitude of fal&s;e rumours, that are promi&s;cuou&s;ly divulged, a&s;well within, as without the bounds and territories of the Empire; concerning tho&s;e affaires that are now pre&s;ented upon the &s;tage of action, in this &s;cene of Warre: tho&s;e that ring low|de&s;t, (though with lea&s;t &s;emblance of truth or credibility) are &s;uch as deepely trench upon the candor and &s;incerity of my intention. The which &s;eeme not &s;o much to have beene fir&s;t broached, by the inventers of fayned novelties; and &s;uch light &s;pirits, as are enamoured with fal&s;e curio&s;ities: as to have beene &s;et on foote, by the capitall enemies of my renowne and reputation. Such as have fixed the eye of their intention, upon a higher (though more igno|ble and malicious de&s;igne) then to amu&s;e the world, with the relation of unprofitable fables. In regard whereof I was forced to beleeve, That I could not neglect the&s;e injurious calumnies, without doing deepe wrong unto mine honour: and that I &s;tand obliged, to avow and give a manife&s;t <HI>decla|ration</HI> to all the world, of the certitude and &s;incerity of my mo&s;t private intentions. Which therefore I now re&s;olve to
<PB N="183" REF="101"> doe, by this publike Act and open Prote&s;tation: even as from the beginning of this warre I have endevoured to have done, by the cleare te&s;timony of my publike and undoubted actions; a great deale more effectually, then I po&s;&s;ibly can doe by waight of words, or by any tenor of verball pro|te&s;tations.</P>
<P>Now then, having fir&s;t invoked and called downe upon mee, the direfull wrath and ju&s;t vengeance, both of God and man; if in this &s;erious bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, I either faine or di&s;&s;emble: I doe prote&s;t, that the mo&s;t powerfull and &s;overaigne mo|tives, that have beene the cheife conductors of all my actions (a&s;well in the times of peace, as in this of warre) have beene from their fir&s;t origin and beginning, and at this pre&s;ent are, and by Gods gracious a&s;&s;i&s;tance hereafter ever &s;halbe; no o|ther, then the zeale and fidelity, which I owe and have &s;olemnely &s;worne to his &s;acred Imperiall Maje&s;ty, and the ree&s;tabli&s;hing of the Catholike, Apo&s;tolike, Roman Faith in the territories of this Empire; from many faire parts where|of, it hath beene treacherou&s;ly exiled; with no le&s;&s;e impi|ous Sacriledge, then cruell tyranny. So that in this, my de|&s;ignes have not aimed at any other end, then the glory of God, and the di&s;charge of my owne con&s;cience.</P>
<P>I put on armes, at the fir&s;t commotion of the treacherous revolt in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> and have not yet laid them downe, in the pre&s;ervation and defence of &s;o noble and ju&s;t a cau&s;e. And how I have comported my &s;elfe in them, I need not remem|ber: for all Chri&s;tendome will beare record with me, that with ju&s;t cau&s;e, this age hath given already, and all &s;ucceeding ages &s;hall give hereafter; immortall thankes to the God of armies, for the glorious atchievements with which he hath ble&s;&s;ed us. A part of which memorable exploits, his divine goodne&s;&s;e hath beene plea&s;ed to execute by my weake hands; and his &s;a|cred Imperiall Maje&s;ty hath received &s;uch &s;atisfaction in my indeavours, that he hath beene plea&s;ed to affoord me a large occa&s;ion to receive much greater from him, in the heape of ma&s;&s;y honours; wherewith he hath vouch&s;afed to recom|pen&s;e
<PB N="184" REF="102"> the weake &s;ervices I have done to the &s;tate of this Em|pire, and that of Gods Church; the advancement of both which, are linked and chayned together, in the inviolable bond of one common intere&s;t.</P>
<P>Wherefore I verily beleeve, that no rea&s;onable man (that doth not &s;uffer him&s;elfe to be wilfully coozened with malici|ous conjecture, and groundle&s;&s;e divination) can frame his judgement to conceive, that I would now change my fir&s;t re&s;olutions, and alter my de&s;ignes: at &s;uch a time e&s;pecially, as when I have &s;o important a Subject, and binding obligati|ons, to renew and reenforce them more then I could fore&s;ee, or imagine at their fir&s;t undertaking. For if that be true, which now pa&s;&s;eth for currant in a great part of the World: that the prime and chiefe&s;t ayme in this new combination and con&s;piracy, is to reinve&s;t my Co&s;in Count <HI>Frederick</HI> in the dignity of his Elector&s;hip, and e&s;tate of his territories; from which he hath beene mo&s;t ju&s;tly throwne and dejected, for hauing fal&s;ified his oath and loyalty to his Imperiall Maje|&s;ty, by the religious bond of a &s;acred oath not long before con|firmed to him; and rebelliou&s;ly &s;ought to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him of his Crowne and dominion: I &s;ay, if this be the true cau&s;e of the&s;e bloudy commotions (as they would make the world beleeve it is) then I am the man, again&s;t whom they &s;hould have di&s;charged the gall of their intemperate fury. And therefore to imagine, that I would joyne in league and con|federacy again&s;t them, that have no cau&s;e to take armes, but in defence of my right: is to pre&s;ume again&s;t the nature of things, and to frame a <HI>dictamen,</HI> contrary to the principles even of common &s;en&s;e it &s;elfe.</P>
<P>And if there be nothing but this to rectifie, what concer|neth it my Lord the Emperour, and the whole noble family of Au&s;tria; that I &s;hould rather enjoy the dignity of an Elector, then my fore&s;aid Co&s;in; or that I &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e a part of that e&s;tate, of which he hath beene &s;o ju&s;tly depri|ved? Or to what end &s;hould they endeavour to prejudice the pretended re&s;titution of them both, if I were plea&s;ed to yeeld
<PB N="185" REF="102"> my con&s;ent thereunto? Verily it would &s;eeme a plea&s;ant and &s;portfull warre, that &s;hould be undertaken to force me to be more rich and powerfull, then I my &s;elfe de&s;ired.</P>
<P>But men may &s;ay (peradventure) that the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> al&s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth a good part of the <HI>Palatinate;</HI> which I grant he doth: but this is &s;o farre from ingaging me to relinqui&s;h any part of my ju&s;t claime, that it is rather a powerfull rea|&s;on more firmely to oblige me, to uphold and maintaine mine owne claime and ju&s;t tytle; &s;eeing him borne downe with the concurrence of &s;o pui&s;&s;ant<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The <HI>French</HI> King.</NOTE> a Monarch. Where|fore, if wee re&s;t in the principles of rea&s;on and humane prudence, it can neither have likelyhood, apparance, nor colour of truth; that I &s;hould now be changed and become another man, then heretofore I have beene.</P>
<P>And if any man have fancied &s;o prodigious a change and alteration in me, for that they have knowne me le&s;&s;e plea&s;ed with &s;ome de&s;ignes &amp; proceedings of the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Family, in &s;ome ca&s;es, wherin the cau&s;e of <HI>Religion</HI> was no way <HI>intere&s;&s;ed;</HI> he might from thence have groundedly collected, that in ca&s;e the Cau&s;e debated, were onely concerning the rai&s;ing of their particular greatne&s;&s;e, and extent of their fortunes; there yet &s;ur|vived in my bre&s;t, &s;ufficient &s;parkes of freedome and generous worth, to have oppo&s;ed their wills, and contradicted their in|tendments (I not judging them ju&s;tifiable, rather then have made this &s;trained and ridiculous inference upon it, that I fra|med a re&s;olution to band it with the route of their enemyes: they e&s;pecially, being &s;uch, as with all the &s;treame of their &s;tronge&s;t endeavours, make profe&s;&s;ion to pur&s;ue and per&s;ecute the faith I profe&s;&s;e. I know very well, in what e&s;teeme and ho|nour I am obliged to hold the race of that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></NOTE> renowned Fa|mily, and I thinke al&s;o, that the higher exaltation thereof, may in time become prejudiciall to the repo&s;e<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Well confe&s;t.</NOTE> and generall free|dome of the Empire. But that which toucheth my heart with highe&s;t &s;traines of ju&s;t feare, and that whereof great and good Princes (in my opinion) ought to be mo&s;t &s;en&s;ible, and (if I might be beleeved) is, that that illu&s;trious Family (as ancient
<PB N="186" REF="103"> and noble as it is) &s;hould by the world be conceived to have a &s;traighter obligation, and greater intere&s;t in the defence of <HI>Religion,</HI> then concerneth other Princes that are truely Catho|like.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ine.</NOTE> Verily, this is all the jealou&s;ie I have of this glorious and Maje&s;tique Family. This is the onely point of honour, which I could find in my heart to debate and maintaine a|gain&s;t it. And if this Family &s;hall alledge the plenteous &s;howers of pro&s;perity and temporall ble&s;&s;ings; where|with <HI>God</HI> hath heretofore, and doth yet mo&s;t e&s;pecially oblige them to the peculiar defence and patronage of his glorious cau&s;e: his Divine goodne&s;&s;e forbid, that I &s;hould oppo&s;e my &s;elfe to the honour and happine&s;&s;e of &s;o ju&s;t and holy a fortune:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">igh.</NOTE> although there-hence &s;hould en&s;ue the di|minution, yea even the fatall ruine of me and all mine.</P>
<P>A thought it is, unworthy to be lodged in the bre&s;t of a Chri&s;tian Prince; to conceive, That the glory of <HI>Gods</HI> Church (which is inviolably linked with that of his eternall Maje&s;ty) &s;hould not likewi&s;e by him be e&s;teemed the <HI>verti|call</HI> and highe&s;t point of his honour; and that if the&s;e two could po&s;&s;ibly be &s;eparated (as by a long and approued ex|perience I find they cannot) yet the ca&s;e is &s;uch, that I hold it for a mo&s;t uncontrolled <HI>Oracle</HI> of certaine truth, yea and an approved Article of Faith, that all humane re&s;pects and con|&s;iderations ought to be even &s;acrificed, and nothing regarded by every generous mind, when the Cau&s;e of Religion and piety to God &s;halbe e&s;teemed to require it. For certainely, no &s;ubject is &s;o &s;traightly obliged, to &s;et a&s;ide and forgoe the peculiar affaires of his owne private e&s;tate, for advancement of the publike and common good of his King and Kingdome (when cau&s;e &s;hall &s;o require it) as all Soveraigne Princes are tyed in the &s;upreme bonds of highe&s;t duty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Religiou&s;ly &s;aid.</NOTE> to renounce what&s;oever may in this World be deare unto them; when the glory of Him, of whom they hold their Crownes and Soveraigntyes, &s;hall come in competition, and bee ballanced with it.</P>
<P>I &s;ay not this, to brand them with notes of impiety, that
<PB N="187" REF="103"> under pretence of humane policy and Principles of State,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He handles th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>French</HI> tender</NOTE> have entered into a league and &s;trait combination with heretikes, again&s;t the &s;ound and <HI>Orthodoxe party:</HI> Let this be accounted for an error in judgement, or &s;ome deepe misfortune, rather then an hainous crime. I will frankly leave the whole world at liberty, to direct and accommodate it &s;elfe, to &s;uch rules of Con&s;cience, as them&s;elues &s;hall like of, and value to be upright and iu&s;t. Nor will I pa&s;&s;e any ra&s;h cen&s;ure upon their procee|dings, but will force my &s;elfe to beleeve,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neatly put of</NOTE> that <HI>God</HI> hath revea|led &s;ome &s;ecret principles to them, which have hitherto beene unthought of in all ordinary Theologie. For my owne part, I will not hinder their being e&s;teemed true Catholikes; &s;eeing they them&s;elues de&s;ire to appeare and be e&s;teemed for &s;uch: onely this I will alleadge, (that the whole world may beare witne&s;&s;e, that my inclinations and motions doe not runne levell in the &s;ame line with theirs) that in the light of my &s;imple judgement, it is all one to become an <HI>Apo|&s;tata</HI> from the <HI>Religion</HI> of our holy Ance&s;tors, and to foment and nouri&s;h their rage, that endeavour to de&s;troy it. I have had no ancient Alliance with any per&s;on: who under the faire pretence of well-wi&s;hing, might &s;eeme to have allu|red me to favour this combination: and if I had, I &s;hould e&s;teeme it no le&s;&s;e lawfull to breake all bands of ancient amity with them in this ca&s;e, then I doe hold it mo&s;t unlawfull to contract any new ones.</P>
<P>I am well acquainted with the forme and tenour of anci|ent <HI>Oathes</HI> of <HI>Fidelity;</HI> which were cu&s;tomarily exhibited to Supreme and Soveraigne Princes, upon the &s;olemne dayes of Inauguration and In&s;tallment: and I well remember that al&s;o, which I my &s;elfe have taken upon like occa&s;ions. Nor doe I know any one point, which would not be directly infringed and violated, by the contrary practice in this confederacy; whereunto &s;ome would &s;eeme to induce me, and impute unto me whether I will or no.</P>
<P>To &s;ay that the warre now waged, no way concerneth<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Belike the <HI>Catholikes</HI></NOTE> <HI>The cau&s;e of Religion,</HI> but is meerely for the intere&s;t of tem|porall
<PB N="188" REF="104"> &s;tate and honour,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">em&s;elues <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ave this opi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">on of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arre: and have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ught it the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rote&s;tants.</HI></NOTE> were wilfully to hoodwincke our &s;elues, and to become voluntarily blind, in the affaires that concerne the e&s;tate of this Empire, and the univer&s;all good of Chri&s;tendome. For, to take no notice of the in&s;olent ru|mors, with which the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> parti&s;ans have filled the world, &s;ince the Battell of <HI>Leip&s;ich:</HI> to have no regard to the common Ballads and &s;ongs of ioy, which triumphant Here|&s;ie hath precipiticiou&s;ly cau&s;ed to be chanted in each corner of their publike &s;treets and private families. To omit their glori|ous boa&s;ts and vaine brags, That the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> are reduced to &s;uch tearmes, as they are become iu&s;t equall with <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> in their undutifull attempts and treacherous complots: who knoweth not, that the mo&s;t faire and plau&s;ible pretences of the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Saxonie,</HI> the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> the <HI>Landtgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> and other their confederates; have beene to hinder the re&s;titution of <HI>Eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall livings,</HI> decreed in a &s;olemne <HI>Diet</HI> to be re&s;tored to the Church? And if this be no point of Religion, I know not what is. If I beleeve (as indeed I doe with all the powers of my whole heart) that the <HI>Catholike Church</HI> is the deare <HI>Spou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t Ie&s;us;</HI> can I put any maine ob&s;tacle, yea or &s;o much as interpo&s;e the lea&s;t diver&s;ion, to the execution of &s;o ju&s;t a <HI>Decree,</HI> without incurring the note and cen&s;ure of horrible prevarication, yea even of dete&s;table Sacriledge: uniu&s;tly thereby ravi&s;hing from <HI>Her,</HI> the lawfull endowments and revenues, of her ancient patrimony, and inheritance of her Children? Can I &s;uffer, or rather can I have the heart to procure, (retaining &s;till the name and quality of a <HI>Catholike</HI>) that the goods devoted and con&s;ecrated by our pious Ance|&s;tors, for the maintenance of Gods Altar, &amp; for the ornament and due reverence of his <HI>divine wor&s;hip;</HI> &s;hould wickedly be di&s;tracted for the levying and paiment of <HI>Lutheran</HI> forces: who where&s;oever they prevaile, demoli&s;h and ruine the Altars them&s;elues, bani&s;h the <HI>holy Sacrifice,</HI> trample the <HI>ble&s;|&s;ed Sacrament</HI> under their prophane feete, ma&s;&s;acre their <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and in&s;olently triumph in the &s;hame and &s;poyle of
<PB N="189" REF="104"> this mo&s;t &s;acred and &s;potle&s;&s;e Dove? What? can this in any <HI>Catholike</HI> Language be &s;tiled, the pre&s;ervation of the liber|ties of the Empire, which is indeed the maintenance of that bloudy tyranny, which frontle&s;&s;e <HI>Heretikes</HI> de&s;ire to execute again&s;t the Church of <HI>God?</HI> And what were this, but by Communication both of Armes and Councels, to concurre to the &s;etting up of <HI>Here&s;ie:</HI> even in tho&s;e places, which the goodne&s;&s;e of God, and the wakefull vigilance of their Prin|ces, had to this houre pre&s;erved as pure and unpolluted? And to &s;peake more calmely and gently of the violent cruelties, that in the times of the&s;e warres, have beene daily practi&s;ed, by the continuall outrage of mercile&s;&s;e <HI>Heretikes;</HI> were but to mocke God, and abu&s;e the credulity and patience of men.</P>
<P>The <HI>Landtgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> hath he not demoli&s;hed the <HI>Scutcheons of Armes</HI> of the <HI>Catholike</HI> Bi&s;hops and Princes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He meanes t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Cul+lens Armes,</HI> which the <HI>Landtgrave</HI> tooke downe <HI>Nienbus,</HI> by <HI>Paderborn.</HI></NOTE> in all tho&s;e places which he hath brought under his &s;ubiection, and planted his owne in their roomes and places? practi&s;ing that boldly, which the <HI>holy Prophet David</HI> &s;o much reproo|ved in the per&s;on of his barbarous forerunners. They have, I &s;ay, advanced their <HI>Armes</HI> by their <HI>Armies,</HI> in all tho&s;e places they but &s;eeme to have &s;ubdued. Their <HI>Ministeriall</HI> Preachers, with what loud voice have they made &s;hew to give thankes to God, for the happy &s;ucce&s;&s;e of their bloody victories? What furious Alarmes, have not re&s;ounded in <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> in diminution of the honour of <HI>Gods Church?</HI> &s;ince with more then <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> and <HI>barbarous</HI> cruelty, it hath beene &s;ackt and pillaged, contrary to the law of Nations and Articles of agreement. Have not their Pulpits at all houres proclaimed, That the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> was &s;ent from Heaven, as a particular in&s;trument: to advance their new pretended Religion; and for the finall abolition and utter overthrow, of <HI>Idolatrous Papi&s;trie,</HI> as they impiou&s;ly mi&s;tearme it? A thing, which &s;uch per&s;ons as would colourably excu&s;e the intentions of great Princes; might perhaps attribute to the in|di&s;creete and pa&s;&s;ionate zeale of the common people: unle&s;&s;e
<PB N="190" REF="105"> the direfull effects, (recorded and regi&s;tred in lines of blood) did beare record, That all tho&s;e di&s;a&s;ters and publike calami|ties, were derived from no other &s;our&s;e and Fountaine. Cer|tainely, it is not the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Austria,</HI> which alone doth &s;uffer in this their de&s;perate fury; it is the <HI>Catholike Church,</HI> which they endeavour to rend and teare in pieces, by the cruell at|tempts of their inveterate malice: It is God that &s;uffereth; and how&s;oever they &s;eeke to ob&s;cure it with <HI>Pilates</HI> princi|ples; yet, in effect, it is <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> that is crucified. Wherefore, let the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and tho&s;e of his faction; delude the world no longer with pretences, that they intend onely to abate the greatne&s;&s;e of the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> and not to trample in the ruines of <HI>Religion.</HI> The battery and &s;poyle of Townes and Cities; the forage and de&s;olation of intire Pro|vinces; are not &s;ecrets that can be concealed. The barbarous Cruelties of the debauched Souldiers, with no mantle can be covered: and much le&s;&s;e, the high-voyced out-cries of the &s;wolne <HI>Mini&s;tery,</HI> will be put to &s;ilence.</P>
<P>Truely the ancient hi&s;tories of the <HI>Gothes</HI> and <HI>Vandals,</HI> of the <HI>Arrians</HI> and <HI>Saracens;</HI> who have crowned &s;o many glori|ous <HI>Martyrs</HI> with eternall <HI>Trophees,</HI> (who&s;e a&s;hes are yet re|verenced, and who&s;e memories yet flouri&s;h among&s;t us in everla&s;ting Ble&s;&s;ings) doe make no mention of greater Bar|bari&s;mes, then are daily practi&s;ed at this day, by their faith|le&s;&s;e po&s;terity. We doe not reade, that in tho&s;e dayes, there were any <HI>State-my&s;teries,</HI> or <HI>Re&s;erved</HI> Ca&s;es,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">True: for the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;uites</HI> have brought them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;ince.</NOTE> by which<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He touches <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>French</HI> King; who hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Stile of <HI>mo&s;t Chri&s;tian:</HI> and is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n league with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Swede.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Princes could be countenanced and &s;ecured, to joyn in Armes with them that were commonly &s;tiled The very <HI>Scourge of God,</HI> and chiefe Captaines of <HI>Antichrists</HI> Con|que&s;ts. Let all the world con&s;pire and unite their endeavours, as much as humane policy can contrive they &s;hould doe; yet is it certaine, That the attempts of here&s;ie &s;hall never pro|&s;per; except in the &s;trength of our &s;innes: and the Coun|&s;els of their chiefe&s;t Favourites, &s;hall neuer winne greater approbation from God, then that, which by the &s;ame inter|pretation, may bee given to the &s;ucce&s;&s;efull pro&s;perity of
<PB N="191" REF="105"> <HI>Turkes</HI> and <HI>Infidels.</HI> Mi&s;erable and unfortunate may they ever be, that ground their imaginary greatne&s;&s;e, upon the founda|tion of &s;uch un&s;table and di&s;tracted abu&s;es.</P>
<P>We have heard and read much, of the unfortunate di&s;a|&s;ters of precedent ages; but truely in this one thing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Bavarian Je&s;uites</HI> are an|gry, that other have gone be|yond them in their own trad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Statizing.</HI></NOTE> the&s;e of ours out-&s;trip and goe beyond them; that in tho&s;e, there wanted the&s;e &s;ubtill and elevated Spirits, that forge di&s;tin|ctions where none are; betweene affaires of <HI>State</HI> and <HI>Religi|on.</HI> Neither were there then found many <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Princes, that could lend an inclining eare, to &s;uch nice di&s;tinctions. Or, if perhaps, any &s;uch was then found among&s;t them, his memory is buried in ob&s;cure oblivion, or his name made o|dious and hatefull to all po&s;terity. God of his divine good|ne&s;&s;e, &s;ooner &s;trike me dead with a fearefull Thunder-bolt; and blot my name for ever out of the memory of men: then permit it to be regi&s;tred in the li&s;ts of fune&s;tious examples, of the fine niceties and &s;ubtleties of the&s;e mi&s;erable dayes of ours. If in the field, mine eyes &s;hould be ca&s;t upon mine En|&s;ignes; and behold them there bearing the reverend Image of the glorious Mother of God: and &s;hould reflect withall, that they were mixed with their Standards, that would di|&s;pitefully &s;pit<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">No good <HI>Pro|te&s;tant</HI> wil do &s;o.</NOTE> in her face: what repo&s;e and content is it po&s;&s;ible my heart &s;hould find; &s;eeing my &s;elfe ingaged in &s;uch a &s;trange kind of Alliance? With what confidence or a&s;&s;urance could I begge her &s;uccour, that is the mo&s;t au|&s;picious protectre&s;&s;e of the holy Church, and of the Prin|ces that &s;erve her, again&s;t whom I am banded? With what forehead, or with what vowes, dur&s;t I implore her inter|ce&s;&s;ion, (without which notwith&s;tanding I dare undertake nothing) when I &s;ee the victories I &s;hould atchieve, mu&s;t needes proove pernicious and prejudiciall to <HI>Her</HI> honour, and that of Her deare Sonne? Is it po&s;&s;ible I &s;hould pray for taking of Townes, into which I know the Conqueror will be no &s;ooner entred; then with extreme violence he will pull downe the Images of the glorious Saints, tread under their foule feete, the ble&s;&s;ed blood of our deare Lord <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI>
<PB N="192" REF="106"> which we beleeve to be piou&s;ly re&s;erved on our <HI>Altars?</HI> O you Catholike Princes pull off the maske of your counterfeit profe&s;&s;ion; or once for all, affoord us &s;ome &s;olid ground, to iu&s;tifie your intentions; that in outward face appeare &s;o ab|&s;urd and gracele&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>You cannot have the &s;ame de&s;ires and wi&s;hes in the Church, which you conceive in your Cabinets: for there, you cannot, without blu&s;hing, beg at the hands of <HI>God,</HI> and of his ble&s;&s;ed Mother, and of the other Saints whom you reverence and in|voke; you cannot, I &s;ay, without blu&s;hing beg at their hands the patronage and protection of &s;uch a cau&s;e, as (like the o|ther here&s;ies of our times, that have beene planted by fury and per&s;ecution of the faithfull) cannot &s;ub&s;i&s;t; but by the ruine of the Church, and finall extirpation of the religious and true wor&s;hip of God. Rid your &s;elues, if you can, from the maze of the&s;e, not onely intricate, but iu&s;t &s;cruples; and make us capable of tho&s;e other &s;ecrets, and my&s;teries, and principles, the which I ingeniou&s;ly confe&s;&s;e, I have not &s;trength of wit to conceive.</P>
<P>And on the other &s;ide; in the truth which I have beene bred in, and to which I have beene moulded: I can find no difference, betwixt tho&s;e that anciently bare armes in the &s;ervice of <HI>Attila:</HI> in that time when in <HI>Rhemes</HI> he<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He giues the <HI>French</HI> nation, an example of their owne.</NOTE> cruelly beheaded S^t. <HI>Nica&s;ius:</HI> and tho&s;e now, which by the hands of the <HI>Swede,</HI> doe ma&s;&s;acre Gods Prie&s;ts, expell his Bi&s;hops from their flock and re&s;idence, and &s;acrilegiou&s;ly &s;poyle and de&s;troy his &s;acred Temples. Certainely, what mode&s;ty &s;oever the&s;e people may &s;trive to counterfeit in their extortions; and with what di&s;gui&s;e &s;oever, they &s;eeke to colour the face of their vi|olence: being convinced by the evident te&s;timony of their owne manife&s;t tyranny, they cannot deny, but that they are of the ranke<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">They will de|ny it, &s;urely.</NOTE> of tho&s;e Princes, of whom the Royall <HI>Prophet</HI> in the&s;e expre&s;&s;e termes long agoe foretold: That all their Prin|ces concluded among them&s;elues, and by expre&s;&s;e decree re&s;ol|ved; They would po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Sanctuary of God upon earth, as goods appertaining to their owne inheritance, which is, in a
<PB N="193" REF="106"> word, nothing el&s;e, but expre&s;&s;ely to &s;ay: Let us maintaine our &s;elues in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of the patrimony of the Church: which long &s;ince we have confi&s;cated, and appropriated to our &s;elues; and which now is a part and member of our owne de|meanes. And tho&s;e that favour this wicked de&s;igne, under what pretext &s;oever; though they &s;eem to &s;hrowd them&s;elues, under never &s;o colourable rea&s;ons of faire appearances: yet can they not faile to &s;ee them&s;elues cleerely pointed at in the feare|full predictions of the Prophet <HI>Obadiah:</HI> where their preva|rication and loo&s;ene&s;&s;e is branded with the note of eternall in|famy, in the li&s;t of maledictions, which he be&s;toweth on them. <HI>What then, &s;aith our Lord?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Obadiah, ver&s;e</HI> 8. to 11.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall I not one day de&s;troy the politikes of Idumea? Shall I not utterly &s;ubvert the wi&s;edome of the mountaines of E&s;au? The &s;trong and bold &s;pirits &s;hall trem|ble with feare, that &s;hall &s;urprize them from the parts of the South; and this through the default of him, that will appeare &s;o great a per&s;on upon the mountaine of E&s;au. By rea&s;on of the mur|thers and iniu&s;tice, which thou ha&s;t committed again&s;t thy brother</HI> Iacob, <HI>thou &s;halt be &s;haken and cru&s;hed with confu&s;ion, and &s;halt peri&s;h everla&s;tingly, in revenge of that day, wherein thou liftest thy hand again&s;t him. Then when tho&s;e who profe&s;&s;ed a &s;trange law, inforced the armies to pa&s;&s;e under their yoake, and the ex|communicate did even force the gates of their Cities, and were partakers in the &s;poiles of Ieru&s;alem. And thou</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He touches the <HI>French.</HI></NOTE> <HI>al&s;o wert uni|ted to that party, and wert no whit better, but more covert and concealed then they.</HI> O repre&s;entation of our mi&s;erable times! not <HI>allegoricall,</HI> but mo&s;t expre&s;&s;e and lively! O cruell and un|naturall jealou&s;ie of Chri&s;tian Princes! O here&s;ie, more faith|full to &s;ide it with their party, then the faithfull are con&s;tant to a&s;&s;i&s;t one another! I had rather &s;ay with the holy Prophet <HI>David,</HI> the&s;e words full of holy and religious zeale: <HI>Early in the morning,</HI> (that is, in the beginning of my thoughts and acti|ons,) <HI>I had no other care, then to imploy my forces to the de&s;tru|ction of &s;inners:</HI> Which by excellence, and in a ranke aboue o|thers, all <HI>Heretikes</HI> are. Wherefore, the cour&s;e of things pa&s;&s;ing in this manner; and my affection and &s;en&s;e of them, being &s;uch
<PB N="194" REF="107"> as I have declared: it appeareth manife&s;tly, that by no con&s;ide|ration either of <HI>State</HI> or <HI>Religion;</HI> I could e&s;teeme it either expedient or lawfull, to adhere to this faction; which were but to con&s;ent to the &s;poyle and rapine of the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> party: but am rather obliged, to commi&s;erate and condole at their &s;ucce&s;&s;es; and to oppo&s;e their progre&s;&s;e. And therefore I pro|te&s;t againe and againe, before <HI>God</HI> and <HI>men:</HI> That I have now my &s;word in my hand to doe it; and that in this quarrell, I will mo&s;t cheerefully hazzard my e&s;tate, my goods, mine ho|nour, and my life.</P>
<P>After which prote&s;tation, which heretofore hath beene, and hereafter &s;hall be followed, with all &s;utable effects and actions, by which I am po&s;&s;ibly able to approove and verifie the &s;ame: if yet there be any, that re&s;t doubtfull of the inte|grity of my intentions, I &s;hall have no other e&s;teeme nor re|gard of him, then of one whom I account an ob&s;tinate calum|niator, and my profe&s;&s;ed enemy.</P>
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<HEAD>The Elector of <HI>Saxonyes</HI> Proceedings.</HEAD>
<P>_HIs Imperiall Maje&s;ty, after the <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI>-lo&s;&s;e of &s;o goodly an Army, (which was one of the faire&s;t Pillars of the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI>) &s;eemes like a wi&s;e <HI>Architect</HI> of <HI>Fortune,</HI> to haue con&s;ulted e&s;pecially upon the meanes; both how to <HI>&s;hore up</HI> the <HI>&s;ide,</HI> by <HI>repairing</HI> of his own army; and to <HI>abate</HI> the <HI>&s;tre&s;&s;e,</HI> by <HI>weakning</HI> of his adver&s;aryes. It &s;tood not either with an <HI>Imperiall</HI> or <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> greatne&s;&s;e, to <HI>goe le&s;&s;e</HI> now, then when his army had beene victorious: nor &s;o farre to &s;atisfie &s;o meane a Prince as the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> as either at his <HI>in|&s;tance,</HI> or for his <HI>Armes,</HI> to re&s;tore their owne unto the op|pre&s;&s;ed. That would have argued feare in him; had drawne an implicite confe&s;&s;ion from him, that he had hitherto beene injurious. It was more honourable (hee was advi&s;ed) to worke out his owne ends, by continuing on his old cour&s;es, and while&s;t he by <HI>force,</HI> undid the weaker Prote&s;tants; by <HI>Court&s;hip</HI> and <HI>Amba&s;&s;ages</HI> &s;o long to impo&s;e upon the cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">du|lity of the greater, till the Eagle were ready to &s;hew her pounces To make our &s;toutne&s;&s;es, yeeld and comply with our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; goes for a note of Wi&s;edome. That late af|front and &s;hrewd turne, which <HI>Iohn George</HI> the Duke and Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI> had &s;o fre&s;hly offered him; is not &s;ea&s;on|able now to be remembred: twas an unkind part indeed;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> attemp|ted to be tur|ned.</NOTE> but yet was his Imperiall Maje&s;ty full of graciou&s;ne&s;&s;e: <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> could forget, and <HI>Saxony</HI> might make all whole a|gaine
<PB N="196" REF="108"> by turning. Thats now attempted. Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Cada|raita,</HI> then <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador at <HI>Veinna,</HI> was both the <HI>Coun|cellor</HI> and the <HI>Agent</HI> in it. He in the name of the King his Ma&s;ter, &s;ends Colonell <HI>Paradis</HI> with in&s;tructions unto <HI>Dre&s;|den;</HI> to make way for the compounding of all former un|kindne&s;&s;es with the Duke of <HI>Saxony.</HI> The <HI>Minutes</HI> of who&s;e negotiation were to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>To expound unto the Elector, the great de&s;ire the King his Ma&s;ter had,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mba&s;&s;adours <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">opo&s;ition.</NOTE> and the diligence he had u&s;ed in it; to re&s;tore a happy and an univer&s;all peace, unto the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire. That his Maje&s;ty had mo&s;t expre&s;&s;ely commanded his now pre&s;ent Amba&s;&s;adour, to bee mo&s;t ob&s;ervant of all &s;uch pregnant opportunities, as might either maintaine or make up that memorable and ancient amity, which had &s;o many yeeres continued betwixt the two hou&s;es of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> and of <HI>Saxony.</HI> That the King had at this time al&s;o mo&s;t &s;traightly charged his &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador, to interpo&s;e the Authority of the Crowne of <HI>Spaine,</HI> for the &s;odering up againe of the&s;e late breaches: which might (if not lookt into) &s;eeme to make a rupture in that amity. That would but the <HI>Elector</HI> now be plea&s;ed to hearken to a friendly Treary, he (the Am|ba&s;&s;ador) came furni&s;hed with &s;uch in&s;tructions, as might with fulne&s;&s;e of content, compound all the controver&s;ies. That his Ma&s;ter, (as hee prote&s;ted) de&s;ired nothing more earne&s;tly, then that his Highne&s;&s;e (the Duke) with his whole <HI>Electorall</HI> family, might be honoured with more additions of happyne&s;&s;e, then their predece&s;&s;ors ever were: and that there might be a perpetuated corre&s;pondency of all good of|fices betweene their two Hou&s;es. That his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Spaine</HI> thought in his high wi&s;edome, this to be the be&s;t cour&s;e for all this; that the Elector would in writing deliver his greevan|ces: and that a certaine place might be appointed, for Com|mi&s;&s;ioners on both &s;ides to treate upon them. Which if his Highne&s;&s;e would for peace &s;ake be plea&s;ed to condi&s;cend un|to: then would he (the Amba&s;&s;ador) per&s;wade with his Imperiall Maje&s;ty, to &s;end two Amba&s;&s;adors about it: and
<PB N="197" REF="108"> him&s;elfe in the King of <HI>Spaines</HI> name being Interponent, would take any paines about making up the breaches.</P>
<P>Vnto this <HI>Propo&s;ition,</HI> the <HI>Elector</HI> returned this an&s;wer.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Saxonyes</HI> An|&s;wer.</NOTE> That the purpo&s;e of his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Spaine</HI> &s;eemed to have beene intended, towards the making of a peace betwixt the Hou&s;es of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> and <HI>Saxony</HI> alone; and not of <HI>Ger|many</HI> in generall. That none of that &s;ide could be &s;o ignorant, as not to have ob&s;erved how &s;incerely, faithfully, obedient|ly, di&s;creetly, peaceably, and in the highe&s;t degree patiently, he had carryed him&s;elfe, throughout all the time of this mo&s;t important and weighty bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: and how ho&s;tilely (on the contrary) both the Count of <HI>Tilly;</HI> Sergeant-Major-Ge|nerall <HI>Altringer,</HI> and Felt-mar&s;hall <HI>Diepenbach</HI> had u&s;ed him and his Countryes; which, without any de&s;ert at all, they had not invaded onely; but after a barbarous and inhumane fa&s;hion ravaged and plundered, and with fire and &s;word de|populated. That he for his owne part was not a little affli|cted, that things were now comne to &s;o trouble&s;ome, &s;o dangerous and &s;o de&s;perate an i&s;&s;ue: from being any occa|&s;ioner whereof, his hope was, that he could fairely excu&s;e him&s;elfe, before God and the whole world. That he now de&s;ired nothing more, then that &s;uch faire meanes might both be propounded and apprehended, for the &s;peedy re&s;toring of &s;o good and &s;olid a peace within the Empire; as that a ble&s;|&s;ed agreement might be made up, betwixt the <HI>Head</HI> and the <HI>Members:</HI> the State &s;urely &s;ettled: the mi&s;erably afflicted Empire, from this threatned ruine delivered; and all once againe re&s;tored, unto its former &s;trength and Maje&s;ty. That he could by no meanes conceive a rea&s;on, how things in this de&s;perate condition of the whole Empire in generall, could any wayes be bettered, by the&s;e per&s;onall and particular trea|tyes. That during the time of the&s;e troubles, it had by va|riety of examples beene manife&s;ted; that no generall con|cord could by the&s;e private Leaguings be procured: but that more dangerous con&s;equences dayly brake foorth upon it. That &s;hould he now conde&s;cend to his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Spaine</HI> in
<PB N="198" REF="109"> this; he were no wayes able to excu&s;e him&s;elfe unto the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> States of <HI>Germany.</HI> But if their Maje&s;tyes (the Emperour and of <HI>Spaine</HI>) were plea&s;ed to intend a ju&s;t and univer&s;all peace; then would he &s;hew him&s;elfe mo&s;t willing and mo&s;t ready; to doe what&s;oever lay in his power to performe in it.</P>
<P>A faire an&s;wer; reli&s;hing of a publike &s;pirit, and becom|ming a Prince and <HI>Elector</HI> of the Empire. <HI>Saxony</HI> wi&s;ely found out the drift of this <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> courte&s;ie: which pretended private friend&s;hips, while&s;t they intended him publike enmi|tyes: and as wi&s;ely con&s;idered, that he could not long bee &s;afe in his private <HI>Cabin,</HI> while&s;t the whole Ship were on fire under him. This Treaty was made, in the beginning of October 1631.</P>
<P>Nor yet while&s;t the thoughts and words of <HI>Peace</HI> were in motion, had the actions of <HI>warre</HI> on his Imperiall Maje|&s;ties &s;ide, any ce&s;&s;ation. For &s;o &s;oone as ever the terror of the pur&s;uite of the Victory of <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI> was well over, and the Imperiali&s;ts in <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> a&s;&s;ured, both of the King of <HI>Swe|dens</HI> expedition into <HI>Duringen</HI> (quite another way from them) and of the &s;tay of the Duke of <HI>Savonyes</HI> army,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Imperia|li&s;ts fall into both the <HI>Lu&s;a|tia's.</HI></NOTE> yet about <HI>Leip&s;ich:</HI> doe Feild-mar&s;hall <HI>Diepenbach</HI> and Colonell <HI>Got&s;e,</HI> prepare to fall into the Duke of <HI>Saxonyes</HI> Lands, both in the <HI>&V;pper</HI> and <HI>Lower Lu&s;atia,</HI> which in the yeere 1623, this very Emperor had be&s;towed upon this &s;ame Duke of <HI>Saxony.</HI> The Duke, indeed, &s;eemes to have con&s;umed too much time after his recovering of his City of <HI>Leip&s;ich;</HI> and to have beene &s;omething too preci&s;e and punctuall in examining and puni&s;hing &s;uch, as had either by their cowardi&s;e or affecti|ons, given occa&s;ions of the &s;udden rend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of the Towne unto the Generall <HI>Tilly.</HI> The goods of the offenders (whe|ther ab&s;ent or pre&s;ent) were condemned: and out of them, 30000 Rixe Dollars allotted, for the repairing of the Sub|urbs, which them&s;elves during the &s;iege had burned.</P>
<P><HI>Got&s;e</HI> in the meane time comming over the River <HI>Spree,</HI> out of <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> into the <HI>Lower Lu&s;atia;</HI> takes, plunders, and
<PB N="199" REF="109"> burnes the towne of <HI>Luben,</HI> clo&s;e upon the &s;aid river. So is <HI>Dam</HI> al&s;o &s;erved, &s;tanding a little more We&s;terly. <HI>Gutterbock,</HI> about a league from that, is pillaged: and 30000 Dollars and Dollars-worth, fetcht out of tho&s;e of <HI>Libenaw.</HI> His Hor&s;e al&s;o take in the little towne of <HI>Schlieben,</HI> in the Iuri&s;diction of <HI>Hertzberg:</HI> and all the townes, finally, betwixt the rivers of <HI>Spree</HI> and <HI>El&s;ter; Cotwitz,</HI> namely, <HI>Spremberg, Hoierswerd, Fin&s;terwald,</HI> &amp;c. and all this was done before <HI>Michaelmas,</HI> and in the <HI>Lower Lu&s;atia.</HI></P>
<P>In the meane time had Field-Mar&s;hall <HI>Diepenbach</HI> underta|ken the <HI>&V;pper Lu&s;atia:</HI> which lyes neerer to the Sunne, then does the <HI>Lower.</HI> This little Countrey is u&s;ually called <HI>The &s;ixe Townes;</HI> becau&s;e of &s;o many eminenter Townes in it; which are <HI>Bautzen, Gorlitz, Sittaw, Camitz, Lauben</HI> and <HI>Luben;</HI> all belonging to the Elector of <HI>Saxony.</HI> To &s;ollicite <HI>Bautzen,</HI> is Colonell <HI>Four</HI> &s;ent; and Colonell <HI>Illo,</HI> to <HI>Sittaw:</HI> which two, together with the three other on the We&s;t &s;ide of the <HI>Spree;</HI> are faine to accept of, what they could not avoyde, the taking in of the Emperours garri&s;ons. Vnto <HI>Gorlitz,</HI> (on the &s;ame &s;ide of the <HI>Spree</HI> next to <HI>Sile&s;ia) Diepenbach</HI> &s;ends an Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary fir&s;t: and he not prevailing, &s;ome of his armed troopes pre&s;enting their Ordnance before the Towne; com|pell the Citizens to di&s;charge their <HI>Saxon</HI> garri&s;on, and to take in whom he appointed them. Thus were all the &s;ixe townes by the middle of October, become Imperiall. Nor had the Duke of <HI>Saxonyes</HI> owne <HI>Home-&s;tall</HI> (as I may &s;ay) beene &s;e|cure from them. September 30. five hundred <HI>Crabats</HI> brea|king into <HI>Mei&s;&s;en</HI> or <HI>Mi&s;nia,</HI> approach unto old <HI>Dre&s;den,</HI> upon the Ea&s;terne banke of the <HI>Elb;</HI> and within le&s;&s;e then a Dutch league of New <HI>Dre&s;den;</HI> where the Electors owne Palace is. Here had they thought to have &s;urprized the old <HI>Iaggers</HI> Ca|&s;tle; but were di&s;covered, and beaten off with the Ord|nance of it: after which they were &s;cared out of the Coun|trey by the <HI>Saxon</HI> Army. For now the Elector having notice of all this, September 27. hee fir&s;t &s;ets out with his Army from <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI> towards <HI>Torgau</HI> upon the <HI>Elb;</HI> the next fron|tier
<PB N="200" REF="110"> towne towards <HI>Lu&s;atia.</HI> The fame went of 22000 men in the Army: and that the Lord Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hamiltons</HI> forces, (then about <HI>Cu&s;trine</HI> and <HI>Franckford</HI> upon the <HI>Oder</HI>) &s;hould be al&s;o joyned with them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">axonyes</HI> forces <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tive the Impe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iali&s;ts out of <HI>Lu&s;atia.</HI></NOTE>The Imperiali&s;ts, upon the newes of <HI>Arnheims,</HI> and the <HI>Saxons</HI> comming; make towards <HI>Hertzberg</HI> bridge, where the <HI>Saxons</HI> were to pa&s;&s;e over the <HI>El&s;ter</HI> to come at them. <HI>Arnheim</HI> here forces his pa&s;&s;age; beats <HI>Got&s;e</HI> backe from thence: who was faine thereupon to leave all he had gotten in the <HI>Lower Lu&s;atia,</HI> and retreat with his whole Army into the <HI>Vpper.</HI> By the &s;eventh of October, had <HI>Arnheim</HI> againe reduced all the townes of the <HI>Lower Lu&s;atia;</HI> and then fol|lowes <HI>Got&s;e</HI> into the <HI>&V;pper:</HI> who hearing of his comming, leaves <HI>Diepenbachs</HI> garri&s;ons onely in the <HI>Sixe Townes;</HI> and retires his forces into <HI>Bohemia</HI> partly; and partly againe into <HI>Sile&s;ia.</HI> Tho&s;e that went into <HI>Bohemia,</HI> doe much &s;poyle by the way in <HI>Wal&s;teins</HI> Dukedome of <HI>Fridland</HI> (which is upon the frontiers of <HI>Lu&s;atia</HI> and <HI>Bohemia</HI>) not &s;paring his owne Lands and Territories. They were afterwards enquartered in the Earledome of <HI>Glatz.</HI> Tho&s;e that made towards <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> did <HI>Arnheim</HI> give chace unto: who &s;o hardly pre&s;t upon them, that they in confu&s;ion pa&s;&s;ing the river <HI>Nei&s;s</HI> at <HI>Gorlitz,</HI> were faine for ha&s;te to leave their Ordnance in that Citie.</P>
<P>Then falles <HI>Arnheim</HI> upon the Imperiali&s;ts in the <HI>Sixe Townes:</HI> which being none of the &s;tronge&s;t, and the Towne&s;|men willing withall; are as &s;oone reduced now, as they had beene before &s;urprized. All this was done by the twentieth of October; by which, the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> him&s;elfe was come to <HI>Bautzen,</HI> with the other le&s;&s;er part of the Army: and <HI>Arnheim</HI> having thus cleered both the <HI>Lu&s;atiaes,</HI> is preparing to fall into <HI>Bohemia.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Arnheim</HI> mar|ches into <HI>Bo|hemia.</HI></NOTE>October 25. hee fir&s;t &s;ets forward: taking in <HI>Schlukenaw</HI> Towne fir&s;t of all; where the river <HI>Spree</HI> hath his originall. This is a Romane-Catholike towne upon the Northerne fron|tiers of <HI>Bohemia;</HI> which the Emperour had heretofore given to the Earle of <HI>Mansvelt.</HI> Thence marches he on to <HI>Tetschin:</HI>
<PB N="201" REF="110"> where the river <HI>Pul&s;nitz</HI> falls into the <HI>Elb.</HI> This being a wonderfull well provyded place, makes countenance of re&s;i|&s;tance: but changed their copy by and by, &s;o &s;oone as <HI>Arn|heims</HI> Ordnance, and the gro&s;&s;e of his Army, pre&s;ented them|&s;elves before it. Cro&s;&s;ing the <HI>Elb</HI> at this place, to <HI>Au&s;ich,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and takes townes all the way.</NOTE> or <HI>Au&s;ig,</HI> he comes: two <HI>Germane</HI> leagues and a halfe di&s;tant. Vpon the fir&s;t newes of the <HI>Saxons</HI> being pa&s;t the <HI>Elb,</HI> one hundred Hor&s;e-men of this <HI>Au&s;ich,</HI> pre&s;ently runne and tell tho&s;e of <HI>Tepliz;</HI> a towne ju&s;t &s;o farre al&s;o di&s;tant towards the We&s;t. Tho&s;e of <HI>Starahor,</HI> a &s;trong Ca&s;tle upon a hill kept by foure hundred Imperiali&s;ts, hearing likewi&s;e of the &s;ame newes; poorely quit the <HI>Ve&s;tung</HI> or hilly Ca&s;tle afore&s;aid. Thence, October 28, hyes hee unto <HI>Leutmeritz</HI> on the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the <HI>Elb;</HI> within 7 <HI>Dutch</HI> miles or 28 <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> of the Citie of <HI>Prage:</HI> to which the chiefe of the Citizens and the garri|&s;on of <HI>Leutmeritz,</HI> had before <HI>Arnheims</HI> comming retired. Marching more Southerly next day up the <HI>Elb.</HI> the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Baron <HI>Hoffkirck</HI> is by him &s;ent with 1000 Hor&s;e unto <HI>Raudnitz,</HI> ten or twelve <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles further, and upon the other &s;ide of the river: which he &s;urprizes. The Inhabitants being all <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> have their hou&s;es plundered: &s;ome of the chiefe Burgers being carryed away pri&s;oners, for their ran|&s;ome, and the fidelitie of their fellowes.</P>
<P><HI>Arnheim</HI> having thus farre advanced into <HI>Bohemia, Henry Mathias</HI> the old Count of <HI>Thurn,</HI> began to &s;tirre al&s;o. His towne of <HI>Thurn,</HI> is upon the very frontiers of the Duke of <HI>Saxonyes Mi&s;nia,</HI> and <HI>Bohemia:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The old Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> makes a party in <HI>Bo|hemia.</HI></NOTE> and thereabouts (I per|ceive) he began fir&s;t of all to ri&s;e. He had his Commi&s;&s;ion for Lieftenant Generall, and &s;ome forces, from the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> &s;ome aydes hee received from the Duke of <HI>Saxony:</HI> be&s;ides a party of divers bani&s;hed and di&s;contented Lords and Gentlemen with their Tenants, which he drew into the action. That there were two &s;everall Armies about the end of this October in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> and tho&s;e &s;everally led too, by <HI>Arnheim</HI> and old <HI>Thurn,</HI> I finde expre&s;&s;ely. With the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> troopes, does Count <HI>Thurn,</HI> fir&s;t of all take in <HI>Ioachim&s;dale:</HI> a
<PB N="202" REF="111"> towne with a pretty Iuri&s;diction belonging unto it, upon the We&s;t-frontiers of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> mid-way betwixt <HI>Thurn</HI> and <HI>Egra.</HI> Here the people choo&s;e the old Count for their Gover|nour: who bringing the Countrey as hee goes along, under Contribution, marches towards <HI>Prage</HI> to joyne with <HI>Arnheim.</HI></P>
<P>This great and Imperiall Citie of <HI>Prage,</HI> (which is indeed three &s;everall Cities in one) hearing of the&s;e proceedings; begins to lo&s;e the company of the Emperours great Officers and <HI>Ie&s;uites,</HI> there re&s;iding: all begin to packe away towards <HI>Budwei&s;s</HI> fir&s;t, and &s;o to <HI>Pa&s;&s;aw</HI> and <HI>&V;ienna.</HI> Nor did <HI>Walen|&s;tein</HI> Duke of <HI>Fridland, Don Baltha&s;ar,</HI> (then Generall in tho&s;e parts) the Count of <HI>Michna</HI> and Colonel <HI>Wangler,</HI> &s;tay behind: but faining to goe out of the towne, to meete with the Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> and capitulate with him; they all toge|ther &s;hifted for them&s;elves other-where. The&s;e Comman|ders being immediately followed by the &s;ouldiours (lately &s;ent for thither for the defence of the Citie, and &s;aid to bee two thou&s;and men) and the Citizens thereby left to them|&s;elves; yeeld immediately unto <HI>Arnheims</HI> fir&s;t friendly Let|ter and Summons, upon the fir&s;t of November &s;ent unto them by his Trumpet. Him&s;elfe at his comming accorded the whole matter with them, upon the&s;e conditions.</P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prage</HI> taken.</NOTE>1. Fir&s;t, That the <HI>Saxon</HI> &s;ouldiours from their very fir&s;t admi&s;&s;ion into the Citie, &s;hould behave them&s;elves peaceably and quietly; without offering violence or inju&s;tice unto any man.</P>
<P N="2">2. That none of the three Cities of <HI>Prage</HI> &s;hould any way be charged: nor any Mona&s;teryes, Colledges, or Churches pillaged. And that free leave of continuing in the towne, &s;hould be permitted unto the <HI>Monks</HI> and other <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall</HI> per&s;ons; who &s;hall no wayes be injuryed by the &s;ouldioury.</P>
<P N="3">3. As for the Gentry and Magi&s;trates of the &s;aid three Ci|ties, neither &s;hould they be burthened with any enquarterings or billeting of &s;ouldiours upon them: nor &s;hould any ran|&s;ome or other forfeiture bee wrung from them. And if in ca&s;e any of them (which is not to be &s;uppo&s;ed) &s;hould &s;o be
<PB N="203" REF="111"> u&s;ed by the &s;ouldiours: then &s;hould they be protected by the Lord <HI>Arnheim,</HI> or who-ever &s;hould be the Governour re&s;i|ding in that Citie, where they be &s;o mole&s;ted.</P>
<P N="4">4. For that the three Cities afore&s;aid have made an earne&s;t reque&s;t of it, that they may bee &s;uffered to continue in the homage, which they once tooke oath upon unto the Empe|rour: and that it may be free for any man to depart the City, without paying any ran&s;ome or Fine for it: this condition was for the pre&s;ent accepted of by the Lord <HI>Arnheim,</HI> untill his Highne&s;&s;e the Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI> &s;hould re&s;olve otherwi&s;e of it.</P>
<P N="5">5. For that the &s;everall abilities of the Citizens, were mo&s;t particularly knowne unto their owne Magi&s;trates: it &s;hould be left to their choice, in what hou&s;es to billet or not billet the <HI>Saxon</HI> &s;ouldiours.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the <HI>Iewes</HI> as well as the <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> &s;hould have freedome of religion; and all free protection both for their lives and goods.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the three Cities &s;hould &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the protection of his Highne&s;&s;e the Elector of <HI>Saxony:</HI> and that every man &s;hould make promi&s;e to live peaceably; and to give no occa&s;ion of &s;edition: but with a good and true mea|ning, to ob&s;erve what&s;oever is contained in the&s;e Articles: which were by both parties thus &s;igned.</P>
<P><HI>Iohn George Arnheim.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The <HI>old,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>new,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>little,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> Citie.</P>
<P>Within a weeke after the rendring of <HI>Prage,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> enters <HI>Prage.</HI></NOTE> came the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> into the Citie: taking up his lodging in that goodly faire Palace, lately built by the Duke of <HI>Fridland,</HI> up|on the ruines of an hundred hou&s;es. The Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> contented him&s;elfe with taking po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his owne hou&s;e againe; which the Emperour had be&s;towed upon the Count of <HI>Michna:</HI> Hee forthwith cau&s;ed the heads and limbs of &s;uch Prote&s;tant Lords and others, as had beene executed by the Emperour, to be taken downe, and honourably buryed.
<PB N="204" REF="112"> The Catholike Lords, Gentlemen, and Imperiall Officers of the neighbour Cities, make as much money of their e&s;tates as they can, and the mo&s;t of them depart the Kingdome. Tho&s;e that &s;tay'd behind, as al&s;o the inferiour people, being afraid of ill u&s;age from the &s;ouldiours; the Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> gives out a generall <HI>Protection</HI> in the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> name, for the &s;e|curitie of the Subject. Thus.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> gives a protection to the Subiects of <HI>Bohemia,</HI></NOTE>We <HI>Henry Mathias,</HI> Count of <HI>Thurn,</HI> Baron of <HI>Ballastrino</HI> and <HI>Creutz,</HI> Lieftenant-Generall to his Maie&s;ty of <HI>Sweden,</HI> &amp;c. doe in his &s;aid Maie&s;ties name, give free leave, power, and authority to the Noble Gentleman <HI>Iohn Hoost They&s;el,</HI> to pro|tect and defend you and all the &s;ubiects of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> from all iniuries, &amp;c. The Boores begin to appeare on the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Saxi&s;h</HI> party, and kill as many Imperiall &s;ouldiers as they could &s;ingly meete withall and ma&s;ter. They pillage <HI>Po&s;telberg</HI> up|on the river <HI>Egra:</HI> with <HI>Bru&s;twald,</HI> and other townes there|abouts. They murther two great Imperiall privy Councellors; the Earle of <HI>Thallenberg</HI> Lord <HI>Pre&s;ident:</HI> and the Count of <HI>Trautman&s;dorff.</HI> The trouble&s;ome e&s;tate of the Country, may be&s;t be read in the Count of <HI>Thurns</HI> Proclamation, for the re|dre&s;&s;e of it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">and &s;ets out a <HI>Pro|clamation,</HI> to re|&s;traine divers in&s;olencies.</NOTE>We <HI>Henry,</HI> &amp;c. Count of <HI>Thurn,</HI> &amp;c. under&s;tanding, how that divers Boores have begunne, not onely to rob upon the high-waies &s;ide, but al&s;o to pillage Ca&s;tles and Gentlemens hou&s;es: and that no hone&s;t man is able to goe about his bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, for feare of being robbed by them: therefore doe we hereby fairely reque&s;t fir&s;t of all, and advi&s;e them, to give over the&s;e in&s;olencies: and to pray to God rather to &s;end them a good Magi&s;trate, under whom they may enioy peace and quietne&s;&s;e: that every man may fearele&s;&s;ely returne to his vocation againe, and leave off the&s;e idle cour&s;es. For this army is not come to ruine or undoe, but to redre&s;&s;e the country rather, again&s;t &s;uch iniuries as it hath heretofore in|dured. My hope therefore is, that you will not revenge your former wrongs upon the&s;e our &s;ouldiers: and I for mine owne part will &s;till continue, as heretofore I have beene, your
<PB N="205" REF="112"> good Patrone and Protector. As for tho&s;e of the Gentry, none I hope will become partakers with the&s;e extravagant fellowes; but be a meanes and a helpe rather, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e and hinder them in their naughty purpo&s;es. My further hope is, that both one and other will apply him&s;elfe, to this our well intended admonition: which (let me tell them) will be a great deale better both for their quiet and for their profit. But who&s;oever he be, that after this, &s;hall be apprehended for the like faults againe; let him be a&s;&s;ured that I will proceed with that &s;everity again&s;t him, as his demerits &s;hall re|quire; making him an example unto the re&s;t, that none hereafter may impute their puni&s;hment, to any but their owne di&s;obedience. Thus much &s;hall the Lord <HI>A|dam</HI> of <HI>Chinitz</HI> and <HI>Tetaw,</HI> cau&s;e to bee made knowne unto you.</P>
<P>By this time had <HI>Thurns</HI> part of the Army,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The actions af+ter the taking of <HI>Prage.</HI></NOTE> taken in all the North-we&s;terne part of the Kingdome, from <HI>Ioachim&s;dale</HI> afore&s;aid; along upon the river <HI>Egra,</HI> to the County of <HI>Satz,</HI> called the <HI>Satzer krai&s;&s;;</HI> together with the townes of <HI>Satz, Commothaw, Pri&s;en</HI> and the re&s;t, upon the We&s;t of the Ci|ty <HI>Prage. Arnheim</HI> with his <HI>Saxons,</HI> did what he plea&s;ed upon the rivers <HI>Elb</HI> and <HI>Multaw,</HI> on the South and Ea&s;t &s;ide of the City: which he might ea&s;ily enough doe, for there was not an Imperiali&s;t nor &s;trong Towne, to re&s;i&s;t him. So ea&s;ie was this goodly Kingdome to be taken. Towards the middle of November, is the Imperiall Colonell <HI>Gallas</HI> &s;ent in with &s;ome troopes again&s;t him. In the end of the moneth, when <HI>Tilly</HI> after his ri&s;ing from <HI>Norimberg,</HI> had &s;ent part of his army into the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate,</HI> towards <HI>Weyden</HI> and <HI>E|gra:</HI> he is reque&s;ted to fall in with his troopes on the We|&s;terne &s;ide; whiles <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar, Diepenbach, Gallas</HI> and <HI>Got&s;e</HI> &s;hould &s;et upon them on the North-Ea&s;t &s;ide. <HI>Arnheim</HI> hearing of the comming of <HI>Diepenbach, Gallas</HI> and <HI>Got&s;e</HI> out of <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> and their being ioyned with <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar:</HI> re|&s;olues to goe again&s;t them, before the <HI>Tillians</HI> &s;hould be marcht up too farre into the Country, and he endangered to
<PB N="206" REF="113"> be hembd up into the middle of them. By the 26 of Novem|ber,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Imperia|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ts make head <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gaine in <HI>Bo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mia,</HI></NOTE> were 15000 Imperiali&s;ts, (both out of <HI>Bohemia</HI> and <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI>) met together at <HI>Limburg</HI> upon the North &s;ide of the river <HI>Elb,</HI> &s;ome 25 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from the City <HI>Prage.</HI> A|gain&s;t the&s;e, advances <HI>Arnheim,</HI> November 28: very &s;ecretly and in the night, without &s;ound of Drumme or Trumpet. Yet not &s;o &s;ecretly neither, but that the Imperiali&s;ts by their e&s;pials had notice of their approaching. <HI>Arnheim</HI> now with|in 2 or 3 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Limburg,</HI> begins to put his men in|to order; and to give directions for the a&s;&s;ailing of the enemy (as he thought) in their Quarters. This whiles he was doing, the Alarme is brought home to him; and word that the ene|my had already charged his Van, and di&s;ordered it. With that, might he perceive the Imperiali&s;ts in faire <HI>Battaglia;</HI> and his owne men beginning to take the rowte at it. Per&s;wading thereupon the Regiments next unto him, To remember the cau&s;e of religion and the publike liberty, which they came thither to fight for; the military oath taken to their Lord the Duke of <HI>Saxony;</HI> and their owne honours and former victories: he pre&s;ently leads them on again&s;t the Imperiali&s;ts. Drawing his Sword withall, upon tho&s;e which he met now fleeing, and vowing to let flye his Ordnance among&s;t them, unle&s;&s;e they return'd into the battell: he brought all in order againe, and altogether renewed the encounter. The fight was long; but the Imperiali&s;ts having brought no Ordnance with them, (their de&s;igne having beene onely to &s;urpri&s;e <HI>Arnheim</HI> upon his march) and the <HI>Saxon</HI> Ordnance doing much &s;poyle upon them on the other &s;ide:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> are over|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owne by <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nheim.</HI></NOTE> they were faine to retreate in much di&s;order towards <HI>Limburg.</HI> Many of them were cut downe by the pur&s;uing <HI>Saxons;</HI> and the mo&s;t of their Regi|ments routed.</P>
<P><HI>Arnheim</HI> &s;ummoning <HI>Limburg</HI> upon faire termes, and be|ing refu&s;ed; &s;hootes <HI>Granadoes,</HI> and Fire-workes into the Towne: whereupon the Imperiali&s;ts perceiving all like to be burnt downe, quit the City, and burne the bridge behind them, for feare of being pur&s;ued. But the <HI>Saxons</HI> finding a
<PB N="207" REF="113"> convenient foord or pa&s;&s;age neere-hand over the River, pur|&s;ue them on that &s;ide al&s;o. Some 6000 or 7000 men, were &s;aid to be &s;laine in this battaile: whereof there might per|chance be little more then halfe &s;o many. <HI>Diepenbach</HI> was at fir&s;t reported to be kild al&s;o: but he &s;aved him&s;elfe by flight, and recovered with <HI>Got&s;e</HI> into <HI>Sile&s;ia: Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> e&s;caped into <HI>Budwei&s;s,</HI> on the other &s;ide of the Country.</P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> him&s;elfe about <HI>Prage</HI> in the meane time, hath the Towne of <HI>Melnick</HI> upon the <HI>Elb,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Other townes taken.</NOTE> to the North of <HI>Prage:</HI> and the Townes of the Countyes of <HI>Pod|berder</HI> and <HI>Multaw,</HI> to the South of <HI>Prage,</HI> delivered over unto him. While&s;t <HI>Arnheim</HI> is comming backe againe, tho&s;e of the Army with the Duke, with &s;ome of <HI>Thurns</HI> forces; make We&s;tward towards <HI>Egra:</HI> there to prevent the <HI>Tilli|ans.</HI> Some few corre&s;pondents and well-wi&s;hers to his cau&s;e, the Duke then had within the City: the re&s;t generally being <HI>Popi&s;h.</HI> Vpon confidence of whom, he pre&s;ented about 900 Hor&s;e and Foote (one with another) before their City upon the Gallowes hill, on Satterday, December 3^d, old &s;tile. The Magi&s;trates perceiving this, fir&s;t cau&s;e the Alarme to be &s;trucke up, and commanded every man, that was able to beare Armes, to repaire unto their guards: but a very few there were, that would make a mu&s;ter of them&s;elves.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Egra</HI> taken.</NOTE> The Magi|&s;trates calling their Common-Councell together into the <HI>Statehou&s;e,</HI> to con&s;ult either upon the meanes of re&s;i&s;tance, or Compo&s;ition: might have better &s;aved the Towne, by putting to their helping hands, then by laying their heads together. For while&s;t they are there con&s;ulting; one of the <HI>Saxons</HI> corre&s;pondents by di&s;charging of a warning peece, both calls tho&s;e without, to pre&s;&s;e upon the bridge-Port; and his fellow-Combyners within, to breake open the &s;aid Gate for them. The <HI>Saxons</HI> marching immediately up to the market place; there make a pri&s;on, of what Ma&s;ter <HI>Mayor</HI> and his <HI>brethren</HI> had made a Parliament-hou&s;e: locking them all in, and &s;etting a guard upon them. The &s;ouldiors pre|&s;ently fall to plunder the <HI>Iury</HI> or &s;treete and hou&s;es of the
<PB N="208" REF="114"> <HI>Iewes:</HI> and tho&s;e ranker and more practicall Papi&s;ts, whom they plea&s;ed to mi&s;take for <HI>Iewes.</HI> For the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> and their Corre&s;pondents &s;ake, they forbare the re&s;t of the Cittizens: and were content to accept of &s;uch Billet and Quarterings, as the &s;till pinfolded Magi&s;trates (more for feare then love) were forced to a&s;&s;igne them. Two dayes after, the Cittizens take oath to the Duke of <HI>Saxony:</HI> that they would &s;tand firmely to the <HI>Elector,</HI> the <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion. About this City, were &s;ome 8000 <HI>Saxons</HI> for a while kept; untill they &s;aw whereabouts the <HI>Tillians</HI> would &s;ettle: who hearing after a while, how <HI>Diepenbach</HI> was defeated; betake them&s;elves into their winter garri&s;ons, <HI>Tillyes</HI> &s;elfe returning unto <HI>Nordlingen.</HI></P>
<P>The Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> now went to be&s;iege <HI>Budwei&s;s;</HI> a good &s;trong City upon the very Southermo&s;t frontiers of the Kingdome, &s;ixty <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Prage.</HI> Hither was <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> retired: and this place, he with twenty two En&s;ignes maintained.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> falls &s;icke.</NOTE> But the Count of <HI>Thurn</HI> fell &s;icke not long af|ter; and the &s;iege came to nothing. While&s;t the Duke, and <HI>Arnheim</HI> and <HI>Thurn,</HI> were abroad with the Armyes; the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Baron <HI>Hoffkirck</HI> was left Gouernor of the <HI>Greater towne</HI> of <HI>Prage,</HI> and <HI>Philip Reinhard</HI> Count of <HI>Solms</HI> of the <HI>Le&s;&s;er.</HI> The Imperiall Hor&s;e (and the <HI>Crabats</HI> e&s;pecially) made divers excur&s;ions about the Country; yea even neere unto <HI>Prage</HI> it &s;elfe, in the ab&s;ence of the armyes. For the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> was now preparing to goe keepe his <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> at home: where at <HI>Dre&s;den</HI> he arriued, December 16, and his Felt-Mar&s;hall <HI>Arnheim</HI> with him.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Divers at|tempts upon <HI>Prage,</HI> by the Imperiali&s;ts.</NOTE>December 13, (old &s;tile) divers troopes of <HI>Crabats</HI> made a &s;how of them&s;elves before the <HI>Wei&s;&s;emberger</HI> gate of the greater Towne of <HI>Prage:</HI> hoping of &s;ome Corre|&s;pondents or tumults within, who might helpe them to re|prize it. The Baron of <HI>Hoffkirck</HI> di&s;charging three peeces of Ordnance hereupon (which is the &s;igne for the &s;ouldiours to take the Alarme) and &s;ending out &s;ome troopes of Hor&s;e again&s;t them; drave them to the retreate. The next day,
<PB N="209" REF="114"> (being <HI>Chri&s;tmas Eve</HI> at <HI>Prage,</HI> according to the New &s;tile) the Imperiali&s;ts came on with greater forces: the <HI>Crabats</HI> light hor&s;e being backed with 1000 Muskettiers, and flanked with as many Dragooners. The <HI>Saxons</HI> well aware of their comming, had fir&s;t dre&s;t an ambu&s;h of Muskettiers in a low|er place of covert for them; and then &s;ent out two troopes of <HI>Arnheims</HI> owne guards and &s;ome others, to entertaine them. The&s;e feigning to flee, draw on the Imperiali&s;ts into the ambu&s;h, where a many of them were entrapped by this &s;tale &s;tratageme. By this time, more of the Imperiali&s;ts ap|peard in &s;ight; and with a rea&s;onable good army. Hereup|on, doe the <HI>Saxons</HI> retire into the City; looking that it would forthwith be a&s;&s;aulted. But the Count of <HI>Sultz</HI> and Colonell <HI>Gallas</HI> (who led the Imperiali&s;ts) perceiving the walls and bullwarkes to be already manned, and the Ordnance bu&s;ie among&s;t them: call off their men, and faces about to the right hand. The Towne-Hor&s;e perceiving this, fall (as u&s;ually they will doe) out upon the Reere of the Imperiali&s;ts: which as they were about to doe, all on the &s;udden the bells in the two <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> Colledges (one in the <HI>old</HI> towne, and the other in the <HI>Le&s;&s;er</HI>) began to ring out.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> hold a practice with the Im|periali&s;ts.</NOTE> The Imperiali&s;ts hea|ring this &s;ignall, offered pre&s;ently to returne againe towards the City: but the Ordnance now thundering upon them, no Corre&s;pondents appearing, and the &s;hort winters day be|ing farre &s;pent: they bethought them&s;elves, and marcht off againe.</P>
<P>The Governours and Magi&s;trates &s;peedily &s;ending to the <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> Colledges, to know the rea&s;on of the ringing of their bells; found divers Armes and Muskets there hidden: which were ready to be u&s;ed both by the <HI>Ie&s;uites</HI> (who would for that time have beene <HI>Ex militia</HI> too) and by the Imperial|ly-affected within the City; had but their friends without, once made them&s;elves Ma&s;ters of any gate or bullwarke. The&s;e Armes were taken away: the <HI>Military Ie&s;uites</HI> three dayes after, turnd out of the Towne; and their 2 Colledges given away to the <HI>Carmelites</HI> and <HI>Franci&s;cans;</HI> two kinds of
<PB N="210" REF="115"> le&s;&s;e <HI>pragmaticall fraternities.</HI> The <HI>Saxons</HI> perceiving how often they were likely to be a&s;&s;aulted; &s;tand better upon their guards: the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> cau&s;ing the Burgers watch, every day to breake the ice of the river <HI>Mulda;</HI> for feare of the enemies comming over it.</P>
<P>December 22. the Baron <HI>Hoffkirck</HI> had the fir&s;t <HI>Prote&s;tant Sermon</HI> and <HI>Communion,</HI> in the <HI>Dutch</HI> Church of the <HI>Old</HI> towne, that had in ten yeeres before beene publikely preached in the Citie. And by this time, were the exiled <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> (both Clergy and Laity) in mo&s;t places of the Kingdome,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Religion re&s;to|red in <HI>Bohemia.</HI></NOTE> a|gaine returned; and liberty of Religion re&s;tored.</P>
<P>December 24. the Imperiali&s;ts, and three En&s;ignes of <HI>Wal|lons</HI> among&s;t them;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Five troopes of <HI>Saxons</HI> defea|ted,</NOTE> fall upon five troopes of Colonell <HI>Stei|naw</HI> his Hor&s;e; then lying at <HI>Rakonick,</HI> thirtie <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the We&s;t of <HI>Prage</HI> Citie. The <HI>Saxons</HI> being &s;urprized, are knockt downe: &s;carce 120 of them e&s;caping with their lives, and lo&s;&s;e of two Cornets. The Imperiali&s;ts advancing neerer towards <HI>Prage,</HI> take &s;hort two other <HI>Saxonian</HI> Lieftenants (<HI>Hauguis</HI> and <HI>Wenzor</HI> as I finde them named:<NOTE PLACE="marg">and two more.</NOTE>) who being gone out upon e&s;pyall to di&s;cover the&s;e Imperiali&s;ts; found them too &s;oone, and lo&s;t their owne liberties and companions lives, for their labours. Many &s;uch excur&s;ions and attempts were made on either &s;ide this cold weather, &s;carcely worth the writing. The <HI>Saxons,</HI> (of whom there were &s;even thou&s;and now in and about <HI>Prage</HI>) being aforehand with them, &s;tirr'd little abroad: but by &s;itting &s;till and bibbing in the warme <HI>Stooves</HI> all day-long, they proov'd &s;o lazy; as that they were ever now and anon, (though in &s;mall numbers) &s;urprized by their more active enemies. <HI>Gallas</HI> and the Count of <HI>Sultz</HI> lay &s;till in the lurch for them; even as neere as <HI>Beraun</HI> upon the river <HI>Watta,</HI> within twelve or fourteene <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Prage,</HI> and on the We&s;t of it: others of them lying more We&s;terly at that time, towards the <HI>Vpper Palatinate.</HI> For this rea&s;on, was the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> con&s;trained to &s;end more new levyed forces, with &s;ome Ordnance; towards the good towne of <HI>Pil&s;en,</HI> and tho&s;e quarters: which lye &s;ome &s;ixe
<PB N="211" REF="115"> or &s;even leagues more South-We&s;terly, towards the head of the &s;ame river, and in the middle of <HI>Gallas</HI> his Quarters. This &s;trong towne of <HI>Pil&s;en</HI> (as I &s;hould have told you) was by accord rendred unto the Duke, before his going out of <HI>Bohe|mia.</HI> Colonell <HI>Swalbach</HI> Generall of the <HI>Saxons</HI> artillery, now lay in the County of <HI>Luitmertz.</HI></P>
<P>The time of the yeere being too cold to fight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Emperor &s;ends againe to draw off <HI>Saxony</HI></NOTE> the Empe|ror &s;ends to the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> to treate. <HI>Iulius Henry,</HI> one of the Dukes of <HI>Saxon-Lawenburg</HI> (who had &s;ome yeeres be|fore turned <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI>) was the man employed; and about <HI>Chri&s;t|mas</HI> was the time. His Imperiall Maie&s;ty by this Amba&s;&s;ador, prote&s;ted him&s;elfe to be very &s;orry; to have any occa&s;ion to withdraw his affection, from &s;o worthy and &s;o beloved a Prince: friendly advi&s;ing the Duke, that in ca&s;e he &s;hould &s;till continue con&s;tant to his purpo&s;es, and that if any hard|&s;hip of warre, or iudgement from God &s;hould fall upon him for it; He (the Emperour) &s;hould be altogether innocent of it. But the weather was cold, and &s;o was <HI>Saxonyes</HI> an&s;wer. The&s;e motions were &s;everall times renewed from the Empe|rour, both by this and other me&s;&s;engers.</P>
<P>About the beginning of Ianuary, doe the <HI>Saxons,</HI> under the leading of Baron <HI>Hoffkirck,</HI> defeate 900 <HI>Crabats,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">900 <HI>Crabats</HI> defeated.</NOTE> and take 11 Cornets from them: which they &s;end unto their Duke at <HI>Dre&s;den. Prage</HI> after this defeate, was held much the qui|eter.</P>
<P>About the 15^t^h of Ianuary, the Imperiali&s;ts of <HI>Mer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dies</HI> Regiment, have a de&s;igne for the plundering and burning of <HI>Slackenwald,</HI> in the County of <HI>Egra.</HI> Prince <HI>Erne&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Anhalt,</HI> (who then had &s;ome good <HI>Saxon</HI> forces therea|bouts) hearing of it; comes immediately upon them, and drives them to take Sanctuary in the &s;trong Ca&s;tle of <HI>Bet&s;cha,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Imperia|li&s;ts attempt <HI>Slackenwald,</HI></NOTE> (from whence &s;ome of them came) about 2 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of <HI>Slackenwald.</HI> Other Imperiali&s;ts at the &s;ame time, make daily excur&s;ions even to the very gates of <HI>Prage.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Prage,</HI></NOTE> Tho&s;e 3 En&s;ignes of <HI>Wallons,</HI> among the re&s;t, that had before cut off 5 Companies of Colonell <HI>Steinaw's</HI> at <HI>Rakonick;</HI> were
<PB N="212" REF="116"> almo&s;t every man of them cut in pieces,<NOTE PLACE="marg">with lo&s;&s;e.</NOTE> by tho&s;e of Colo|nell <HI>Bindthauffs</HI> Regiment, before the gates of <HI>Prage.</HI> This Regiment of <HI>Bindthauff</HI> (who was &s;laine at the Battell of <HI>Leip|&s;ich</HI>) was now be&s;towed vpon <HI>&V;lrick,</HI> Prince of <HI>Denmarke</HI> and Duke of <HI>Hol&s;tein.</HI></P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> now levying more new forces, about <HI>Torgau</HI> in his owne Countrey; Ian. 18. &s;ends &s;ome 10 pee|ces of Ordnance thither: 4 of which were Demi-Cannon, and drawne with 10 hor&s;es apiece; which <HI>Tilly</HI> had left be|hind him at <HI>Leip&s;ich.</HI> Him&s;elfe was all this while at home at <HI>Dre&s;den;</HI> and <HI>Arnheim</HI> with him: whither the Lord Chan|cellor <HI>Oxen&s;tiern</HI> likewi&s;e came, from the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> The towne of <HI>Egra</HI> about this time, de&s;ires of the Elector, to free them of his unruly garri&s;on. <HI>Prage</HI> it &s;elfe likewi&s;e was &s;o &s;orely oppre&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Saxons;</HI> that the poore <HI>Bohe|mian</HI> Prote&s;tants, lately returned to their owne homes out of exile: choo&s;e rather to for&s;ake their native Country againe, then to endure the heavine&s;&s;e of &s;uch taxations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Saxons</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ard dealing with the <HI>Bohe|mians.</HI></NOTE> as the ma|&s;terly <HI>Saxons</HI> enforced upon them. Thus by the middle of Fe|bruary, were there 1700 hou&s;es found empty in the 3 Cities: the ea&s;ing of which hard&s;hip; the keeping of the Duke and <HI>Arnheim,</HI> from hearkning to the Emperour and <HI>Walen&s;tein,</HI> (who layd hard at them:) to ha&s;ten forward the <HI>Saxon</HI> levies; and to renew the former league with the Duke, was the chiefe part of Chancellor <HI>Oxen&s;tierns</HI> Amba&s;&s;age.</P>
<P>In the beginning of February, Prince <HI>Erne&s;t</HI> of <HI>Anhalt</HI> with the 8000 <HI>Saxons</HI> he had in and about <HI>Egra;</HI> makes &s;howe of ri&s;ing thence; and of going again&s;t <HI>Cratz</HI> into the <HI>&V;pper Pa|latinate.</HI> The occa&s;ion, was a feare conceived upon the Count of <HI>Sultz</HI> his going out of <HI>Bohemia:</HI> which he thought had beene to fetch in <HI>Cratz</HI> thither. This made him bri&s;tle up. But hearing of <HI>Cratz</HI> and <HI>Sultz</HI> their going to the reliefe of <HI>For|cheim,</HI> (a cleane contrary way from him) he &s;taies his expedi|tion, and lookes to the Imperiali&s;ts neerer hand. Within <HI>E|gra,</HI> was Colonell <HI>Star&s;chedel,</HI> left Governour. February 3 <HI>(old Stile)</HI> there was a great <HI>Hubub</HI> &s;ent into <HI>Prage</HI> from
<PB N="213" REF="116"> <HI>Brandeis</HI> (a towne upon the <HI>Elb,</HI> &s;ome 10 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the North of it) that the Imperiali&s;ts were with divers pee|ces of Ordnance, comming very &s;trong again&s;t them. Here|upon does the Baron <HI>Hoffkirck</HI> make towards <HI>Brandeis,</HI> to prevent the enemy: who falling on upon the towne, Febr. 8, were put by their de&s;igne, and retyred. The next day, would a Hor&s;e-Regiment of the <HI>Crabats</HI> (with &s;ome Foot) needes make another brave before the Towne; as if they had meant pre&s;ently to have attempted it. This the Governour percei|ving,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Brandeis</HI> atte~p|ted, and reskue</NOTE> thru&s;ts &s;ome bands of &s;elected muskettiers (for an am|bu&s;h) into the Ca&s;tle, (on the &s;ame &s;ide of the towne next unto the enemies) and with &s;ome few of the re&s;idue, &s;allies (in policy) out upon the <HI>Crabats.</HI> The&s;e perceiving the &s;al|lyers to be but weake, fall in&s;tantly upon them, and beate them backe to the very wals of the Ca&s;tle: pre&s;ently whereupon the <HI>Saxon</HI> Muskettiers i&s;&s;uing out, and the &s;allyers returning upon the <HI>Crabats</HI> againe; kill 300 of them upon the place: defeate, and di&s;per&s;e the whole Regiment. Here (as they heard at <HI>Prage</HI>) was the Count of <HI>Slyck</HI> either wounded or taken pri&s;oner. The &s;ame third of February did &s;ome loo&s;e troopes of <HI>Crabats</HI> and others, put them&s;elues (for the &s;eeking of pillage) over the river <HI>Mulda,</HI> towards <HI>Pil&s;en:</HI> of which the Boores having notice, gather 600 of them to|gether, &s;inke the boates fir&s;t of all in which the <HI>Crabats</HI> had pa&s;&s;ed the river; and then &s;et upon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Boores kill the <HI>Crabats.</HI></NOTE> and cut the throates of the plunderers. Thus the Boores &s;erved the <HI>Crabats</HI> often|times; who&s;e very name was more odious unto them, then any other of the Imperiali&s;ts. The&s;e Boores undertooke the keeping the We&s;terne banke of the <HI>Mulda:</HI> which about this time, they had cleered for 40 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles together.</P>
<P>February 13,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> turnes the Skales againe in <HI>Bohemia.</HI></NOTE> was Colonel <HI>Marezan</HI> &s;ent from <HI>Don Bal|tha&s;ar di Marradas,</HI> (now lately returned from <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> with 8000 men into <HI>Bohemia</HI>) to fall upon the town of <HI>Satz,</HI> upon the North of the river <HI>Egra:</HI> and about 40 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the We&s;t of <HI>Prage. Marezan</HI> brought but 1000 mus|kettiers and 500 Hor&s;e, to doe the feate withall; his tru&s;t was
<PB N="214" REF="117"> upon his Corre&s;pondents within the towne: who indeed o|pened the gates in the night time unto him. The <HI>Saxons</HI> which were of <HI>Bindthauffs</HI> old Regiment, tooke the Alarme, and had three &s;everall charges with the Imperiali&s;ts. In which &s;ervice,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">atz</HI> recovered <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y the Impe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iali&s;ts,</NOTE> 1200 of them lo&s;t their lives, the towne was wonne, and 6 En&s;ignes &s;ent unto <HI>Prage</HI> unto the Em|perour.</P>
<P>And this returne of <HI>Don Baltha&s;ars,</HI> gave the fir&s;t jogge; which turnd round the <HI>wheele</HI> of <HI>Fortune</HI> againe in <HI>Bohe|mia.</HI> Some <HI>Saxon</HI> forces (as if they had meant to give way to their enemies and misfortunes) were gone a iolly voyage into <HI>Sile&s;ia:</HI> to pillage and triumph certainely. There, about mid February, they fall foule upon Colonell <HI>Illo</HI> and his Regi|ment: which they almo&s;t utterly defeated. They &s;urpri&s;e other Imperiali&s;ts at <HI>Politz:</HI> and with a running pull, had like to have taken in <HI>Glatz</HI> al&s;o. Some of them flye out as farre as <HI>Gorlitz.</HI> Thus while&s;t the &s;ouldiours gate &s;ome &s;light pillage in <HI>Sile&s;ia;</HI> the Duke their Ma&s;ter, lo&s;t what they had before gotten him in <HI>Bohemia.</HI> For quickly now had <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> driven other of the <HI>Saxons</HI> out of <HI>Comotha, Pri&s;en, Rade</HI> and <HI>Caden:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd divers o|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her townes.</NOTE> which la&s;t, the <HI>Mapps</HI> fal&s;ely write <HI>Lada.</HI> The Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Gran,</HI> he al&s;o expul&s;es them out of <HI>Slackenwald</HI> and <HI>Carlsbat.</HI></P>
<P>And thus through the idlene&s;&s;e, covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and deepe &s;ecurity of the <HI>Saxons,</HI> (now in the ab&s;ence of their Duke and <HI>Arnheim,</HI> and the &s;ickne&s;&s;e of the Count of <HI>Thurn;</HI>) was all that North-we&s;terne corner of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> next unto <HI>Mi&s;nia</HI> and the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate,</HI> quite recovered by the Im|periali&s;ts. The&s;e being Ma&s;ters of that wooddy frontier, cut downe the trees upon all the Pa&s;&s;es thereabouts: to hinder by that meanes the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> from &s;ending any Hor&s;emen, Ordnance or Ammunition-wagons, that way into <HI>Bohemia.</HI> Yea, and had not the &s;now now hindered the Imperiali&s;ts, they had even then marched into <HI>Mi&s;nia.</HI> The plague and famine, now increa&s;ed in <HI>Prage</HI> and other places; and all things &s;eemed to threaten an alteration. The <HI>Saxons</HI> had not u&s;ed
<PB N="215" REF="117"> their <HI>brother-Prote&s;tants,</HI> &s;o kindly as they &s;hould, or might have done: which alienated the <HI>Bohemians</HI> hearts, that &s;hould have a&s;&s;i&s;ted them.</P>
<P>His Highne&s;&s;e the <HI>Elector</HI> him&s;elfe, was at a meeting or <HI>Diet</HI> at <HI>Torgau,</HI> about the end of this February. There was his <HI>Arnheim</HI> too. There were the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Elector</HI> of <HI>Bran|denburg</HI> in per&s;on: and that wi&s;e State&s;man, the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Chancellor <HI>Axel Oxen&s;tiern.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A <HI>Diet</HI> at <HI>To<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+gau,</HI> where th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Catholikes</HI> moove for a Peace.</NOTE> The Emperor with other <HI>Lea|guers,</HI> had their Amba&s;&s;adors there al&s;o. Thus while&s;t one Imperiall Generall <HI>(Walen&s;tein)</HI> is providing; and another <HI>(Don Baltha&s;ar)</HI> is already falne again&s;t <HI>Saxony</HI> into <HI>Bohemia;</HI> is there an Imperiall Amba&s;&s;ador &s;ent towards <HI>Saxony,</HI> unto <HI>Torgau.</HI> Now while&s;t the warres are hote&s;t, the <HI>Leaguers</HI> and <HI>Imperiali&s;ts</HI> make motions for a peace (that was their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) which by <HI>Oxen&s;tierns</HI> and the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> deman|ding, to have the charges of the warre repayed; were put by for that pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>February 29. 400 Companyes of <HI>Polackes</HI> pa&s;&s;e the River of <HI>Mulda</HI> neere unto <HI>Soltzan</HI> and <HI>Pribus;</HI> (&s;ome 30 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the South of <HI>Prage</HI>) to goe towards <HI>Pil&s;en.</HI> Seven hundred more of them, are bold to venter their pa&s;&s;age over the &s;ame River at <HI>Konig&s;al,</HI> within five <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles of <HI>Prage</HI> al&s;o. Again&s;t the&s;e, are three <HI>Saxon</HI> Captaines, <HI>Stram, Liech|wies,</HI> and <HI>Toner</HI> &s;ent; with five troopes of Hor&s;e, and three Companyes of Foote, to hinder their pa&s;&s;age, if it might bee. By the beginning of March, were almo&s;t all the pa&s;&s;ages about <HI>Prage</HI> blocked up: tho&s;e onely excepted towards <HI>Dre&s;den,</HI> which the <HI>Saxons</HI> made a &s;hift to keepe open.</P>
<P>And now began they (and it was more then time) to looke better to them&s;elves at <HI>Prage.</HI> They fortifie the Hor&s;e-market; rai&s;e a skonce over the bridge there; plant &s;ome Ordnance upon all places of advantage;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Saxons</HI> at <HI>Prage</HI> grow iealous of the <HI>Catholikes.</HI></NOTE> and towards the wa|ters &s;ide e&s;pecially. Now begin the <HI>Saxons</HI> to grow jealous of the <HI>Catholike</HI> Burgers, in all the three townes of the City:
<PB N="216" REF="118"> many of them are committed, for that &s;ome letters of &s;u&s;|pition were found about them; others executed, for &s;en|ding letters to <HI>Budweis,</HI> and entertaining practices and cor|re&s;pondencyes with the Imperiali&s;ts. All <HI>Catholikes</HI> are by &s;ound of Drumme forbidden, to appeare upon any Alarme abroad in the &s;treets; yea or to be &s;eene out at their win|dowes, terra&s;&s;es, or Balconees, upon paine of great puni&s;h|ment: but all the Prote&s;tants &s;hould upon like occa&s;ion, re|&s;ort unto the &s;mall &s;ide Ring upon the &s;aid Hor&s;e-Market-place.</P>
<P>The <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Torgau</HI> being ended, the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> drawes his new levyed forces together to the frontiers; to be ready to march with the fir&s;t of the Spring, into <HI>Bohemia.</HI> This li&s;t of his Army was given abroad. Of his Hor&s;e Regi|ments were the&s;e 8 Colonels, with each 1000 hor&s;e under him. The Duke of <HI>Saxon-Altenburg. Vlrick,</HI> Duke of <HI>Hol|&s;tein</HI> and Prince of <HI>Denmarke. Erne&s;tus</HI> Prince of <HI>Anhalt.</HI> Baron <HI>Hoffkirck.</HI> Colonell <HI>Tauben.</HI> Colonell <HI>Steinau.</HI> Colonell <HI>Kalk&s;tein,</HI> and Colonell <HI>Vitzthimb.</HI> be&s;ides 2000 Hor&s;e of the Country Gentlemens; and two troopes more of 150 a|peece, under <HI>Vitzthimb</HI> and <HI>Truck&s;es.</HI> In all 10300. Of the Foot Companyes, were there 9 Regiments under the&s;e Colo|nels: whereof eight had 3000 apeece, and the la&s;t 2500. The <HI>Life-Regiment,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The li&s;t of <HI>Saxonyes</HI> new <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">evyes.</NOTE> <HI>Arnheim, Swalbach, Star&s;chedel, Lo&s;er, Klitzing, Wilber&s;dorff, Vitzthimb,</HI> and <HI>Ma&s;chnitz.</HI> To the&s;e were added 500 Voluntiers under Colonell <HI>Appelman,</HI> and 600 more, under three other Captaines. In all 27600. Hor&s;e and Foote in all, 37900.</P>
<P>This Li&s;t, if ever it were filled up; and had the Forces been mu&s;tered and brought together; hardly could the <HI>Saxons</HI> have beene excu&s;ed from the imputation of errant <HI>Pultrones,</HI> and <HI>Cullions,</HI> &s;o quickely to lo&s;e &s;o brave a Kingdome as <HI>Bohemia:</HI> and to &s;uffer the warres &s;o &s;uddenly to be brought home to them, into their owne <HI>Mi&s;nia</HI> and <HI>Lu&s;atia.</HI> But <HI>Wa|len&s;tein</HI> came &s;ooner upon them, then was expected. The
<PB N="217" REF="118"> Elector of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> had &s;ome 8000 men, now al&s;o in a readine&s;&s;e; unto whom the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Colonell <HI>Dubalt</HI> be|ing afterwards conjoyned, tho&s;e few made better worke of it in <HI>Sile&s;ia;</HI> then all the&s;e <HI>Saxons</HI> did in <HI>Bohemia.</HI> This cau|&s;ed both the Duke and his Felt-mar&s;hall <HI>Arnheim</HI> to be &s;u&s;|pected, of what they were no way guilty.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some a&s;per&s;i|ons wypt off, from the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> and <HI>Arnheim.</HI></NOTE> The &s;u&s;pition was partly occa&s;ioned, by <HI>Arnheims</HI> going from the Duke to treate with <HI>Walenstein:</HI> but the Duke an&s;wered honorably; and <HI>Arnheim</HI> hath prooved him&s;elfe an hone&s;t man; refu|&s;ing &s;uch termes as <HI>Waeln&s;tein</HI> (tis &s;aid) offered him.</P>
<P>While&s;t <HI>Saxony</HI> was a pruning his feathers, the Imperia|li&s;ts were againe upon the wing.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;iege of <HI>Elnbogen</HI> rai&s;ed by the <HI>Saxons.</HI></NOTE> Aprill 3^d. they a&s;&s;ault <HI>Eln|bogen</HI> upon the River <HI>Eger;</HI> a little to the North of <HI>Slacken|wald</HI> and <HI>Falkenaw</HI> aforementioned. Twelve hundred men they brought again&s;t it; and two dayes and nights together, they batterd it. All which time, <HI>&V;itzthimb</HI> with his garri|&s;on, and the Cittizens helpe, defended the Towne, and put off one or two a&s;&s;aults, very manfully. Aprill 5^t^h, the Imperiali&s;ts fell very furiou&s;ly on againe; and were againe as bravely repul&s;ed. By this time the neighbour Regiments of <HI>Saxon-Altenburg</HI> and <HI>Anhalt,</HI> re&s;olve either to remoove the &s;iege; or el&s;e to beate up a Quarter, and to thru&s;t &s;ome &s;uccors into the Towne: upon who&s;e comming, the Impe|riali&s;ts gave it over, and retired.</P>
<P>The re&s;t of Aprill, was &s;pent with lo&s;&s;e unto the <HI>Saxons.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Falkenaw</HI> taken by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> and for&s;aken.</NOTE> By the end of it, the Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI> advances with part of the Army into <HI>Bohemia:</HI> and May 3, <HI>Arnheim</HI> and <HI>Philip Reinhard</HI> of <HI>Solms,</HI> march up after him with the re&s;idue. <HI>Arnheims</HI> employment was, to goe for <HI>Pil&s;en:</HI> and the Count of <HI>Solms</HI> was to returne into <HI>Prage</HI> againe. May 7^t^h,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some Actions betwixt the <HI>Saxons</HI> and the <HI>Wal&s;teiners.</HI></NOTE> the <HI>Saxons</HI> &s;et up|on <HI>Falkenaw,</HI> on the Ea&s;tern banke of the River <HI>Eger,</HI> and betwixt <HI>Egra</HI> and <HI>Elnbogen.</HI> The Towne they take in by <HI>Sca|ladoe;</HI> and prepare likewi&s;e to &s;torme the Ca&s;tle: which while&s;t they were about to doe, the Imperiali&s;ts from thence &s;etting fire upon the Towne (with fireworkes which they flung downe) enforced the <HI>Saxons</HI> to leave it al&s;o.</P>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> ad|vances into <HI>Bohemia.</HI></NOTE>About the fourth of May, had the <HI>Saxon</HI> Regiments of the Duke of <HI>Hol&s;tein</HI> and <HI>Klitzing,</HI> with other their A&s;&s;oci|ates: defeated three of <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> new Regiments neere unto <HI>Commotha.</HI> The <HI>Saxons</HI> of <HI>Swalbachs</HI> Regiment that lay at <HI>Leutmeritz</HI> upon the <HI>Elb,</HI> now burne downe their bridge there, to prevent the <HI>Wal&s;teiners</HI> comming at them: who then lay at <HI>Budin</HI> &s;ome two leagues from them to <HI>Prage</HI>-ward.</P>
<P><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> with his whole great Army, was by the begin|ning of Aprill 1632, upon his march towards <HI>Bohemia:</HI> who quickly recovered <HI>Prage,</HI> and forced the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> and <HI>Arnheim</HI> home into <HI>Mi&s;nia:</HI> as in <HI>His Proceedings</HI> we &s;hall tell you.</P>
<P>And thus being able for this time to doe the <HI>Saxons</HI> no greater honour, then to &s;ay no more of them: we leave the re&s;t of their lo&s;&s;es, to be pur&s;ued in <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> Story: and the recovery of their honours in <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> and el&s;e-where, we cave unto the <HI>Third Part.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Military Preparations of the Lord <HI>Albert Wal&s;tein</HI> Duke of <HI>Fridland, &amp;c.</HI> again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> and King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HIs Imperiall Maje&s;ty by the middle of October 1631: perceiving the &s;mall hopes he had of drawing the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> unto his party againe, by the Comple|ments of an Emba&s;&s;age; and that the &s;aid Dukes forces had by this time driven the Imperiall army under <HI>Got&s;e,</HI> out of <HI>Lu&s;a|tia;</HI> were too hard for <HI>Diepenbachs</HI> in <HI>Sile&s;ia;</HI> and becomne a terror now unto <HI>Don Baltha&s;ars</HI> in <HI>Bohemia:</HI> begins to con&s;ult (as it was high time) upon the &s;etting forth of ano|ther Army to oppo&s;e him. Tho&s;e that were the advi&s;ers, be|came al&s;o the advancers of his Coun&s;ailes. His Maje&s;ty the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> contributed 300000 double Pi&s;tolets.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Divers volun|tary Contribu|tions, towards a new Army.</NOTE> His Maje&s;ty King <HI>Ferdinand</HI> of <HI>Hungary,</HI> laid downe &s;o many Rixe Dollars. Prince <HI>Eggenberg</HI> Duke of <HI>Crumau</HI> (the Empe|rours chiefe&s;t Councellour) underwrit for 100000 Dollars. The Cardinall and Prince of <HI>Diederick&s;tein,</HI> for &s;o many Gil|ders. The <HI>Bohemian</HI> Count of <HI>Michna,</HI> for 100000 of his Country Dollars. The new Bi&s;hop of <HI>Vienna,</HI> (late Abbot of <HI>Crem&s;mun&s;ter</HI>) for 80000 Rixe Dollars: and the Lord <HI>Stra|lendorff,</HI> Vice-Chancellor of the Empire, undertooke for 18000 Duckats. Other Gentlemen likewi&s;e, that either had received, or that now expected any Court favours or prefer|ments; might not be behind-hand with their Large&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P>To &s;ollicite the <HI>Popes bounty</HI> (rather then his <HI>benediction</HI>) is the <HI>Hungarian</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Of <HI>Strigoni|um,</HI> or <HI>Gran</HI> in <HI>Hungaria.</HI></NOTE> Cardinall <HI>Pa&s;man</HI> employed: who for being a Cardinall, the Court of <HI>Rome</HI> would not acknow|ledge for an Amba&s;&s;ador: nor that the warre he came about, was <HI>a warre of Religion.</HI> So that Saint <HI>Peters</HI> Succe&s;&s;or having no favourable inclination towards <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> &s;aved his pur&s;e by this tricke and avoyded (very <HI>Romanly</HI>) the treating with the Cardinall upon that chargeable argument. The Lord <HI>Rabata,</HI> Governour of <HI>Gradi&s;cia</HI> in <HI>Hungaria,</HI> goes at the &s;ame time, with <HI>Pa&s;man,</HI> unto the Princes &amp; Gentlemen of <HI>Italy:</HI> carrying blanke Commi&s;&s;ions along with him, to give out to &s;uch as would levy for the Emperour: and an empty pur&s;e, for &s;uch as would contribute towards it. After them in May follow|ing, goes the yong Duke of <HI>Eggenberg</HI> unto <HI>Florence</HI> to mu|&s;ter, and to bring the <HI>Italian</HI> forces into <HI>Germany.</HI> And thus was the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> of the three <HI>Principles</HI> of <HI>Warre</HI> (the <HI>Matter</HI> of money) taken order for: which is worthily called the <HI>Sinewes</HI> of <HI>it:</HI> for that by the Languidene&s;&s;e or vigorous activity of this &s;ame <HI>money,</HI> the <HI>warre</HI> becomes either a <HI>Giant</HI> or a <HI>Lame &s;ouldiour.</HI></P>
<P>There had no meaner Generall all this while be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> then the Emperours owne &s;onne, <HI>Ferdinand</HI> King of <HI>Hun|gary. Eggon</HI> Count of <HI>Fur&s;tenberg</HI> having a good friend of his Kin&s;man <HI>Pre&s;ident Fer&s;tenberg</HI> at Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> for the Preferment: or to be <HI>Adjutant</HI> or <HI>Director</HI> at lea&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto King <HI>Ferdinand.</HI> He had left his troopes with <HI>Tilly,</HI> pre&s;ent|ly after their joynt over-throw; and hearing of another mans calling to the place a little after this, he leaves the warres, and retires unto a privacy.</P>
<P>For the Lord <HI>Albert Walen&s;tein</HI> Duke of <HI>Fridland</HI> was the man, that had the voyces of the Courtiers for it: &s;uch Councellors e&s;pecially, as being lovers of his va&s;t bounties; knew by experience, that if <HI>Fridland</HI> chanc't upon a good <HI>Mayn,</HI> &s;trucke a lucky hand of it, he would pay the boxe well for it. <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> (they knew) was no &s;uch &s;light Captaine, as tho&s;e that had &s;carce heard of him, &s;uppo&s;ed. Hee had
<PB N="221" REF="120"> heretofore done good &s;ervice again&s;t the <HI>Turkes;</HI> beaten the Count of <HI>Mansfeld</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Brun&s;wicke,</HI> &s;everally, in the yeere 1626; and borne downe, &s;ince that, all before him in <HI>Mecklenburg</HI> and <HI>Pomerania. Cae&s;ars</HI> memory needed not to be refre&s;ht, with any new mention of <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> old &s;er|vices (the Emperour knew him to be for his turne:) but the di&s;contents, that <HI>Bavaria</HI> and other Princes (whom his Maje&s;ty had pre&s;ent need of) would take, at his calling in a|gaine; became the difficulty. But the&s;e being by the art of others, either quickely made le&s;&s;e; or argued downe; as if priuate re&s;pects, mu&s;t of duty give way unto publike nece&s;|&s;ities: the &s;ame Lord <HI>Que&s;tenberg,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walenstein</HI> in|vited to the Generall&s;hip.</NOTE> who had beene &s;ent from the <HI>Diet</HI> of <HI>Ratisbone</HI> to di&s;charge him; is now di&s;patcht a|gaine to invite him. It was in the beginning of November, a time of <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> good lei&s;ure; he then living at his owne faire Ca&s;tle of <HI>Znaim</HI> in <HI>Moravia:</HI> as being by the <HI>Saxons</HI> tother day, cha&s;ed out of <HI>Bohemia.</HI></P>
<P>His old friend <HI>Que&s;tenberg</HI> could not (it &s;eemes) prevaile with him at the fir&s;t; it was the month of December ere <HI>Wa|len&s;tein</HI> would accept it: and then (as him&s;elfe profe&s;&s;ed) at the per&s;wa&s;ions of Prince <HI>Eggenberg.</HI> And herein (me thinkes) appeares a &s;trange mixture of &s;pirit, in this <HI>Walen&s;tein;</HI> that be|ing &s;uppo&s;ed as haughty and ambitious of Command, as any man in the world; yet was he &s;o farre foorth ma&s;ter of the greatne&s;&s;e of his owne de&s;ires; as that he could with as much moderation now refu&s;e the Generall&s;hip, as he had before re|&s;ignd it: he would not have authority, but with <HI>freedome,</HI> and his owne <HI>Conditions.</HI> Others have cen&s;ured this for <HI>Pride</HI> in him: though nothing (me thinkes) lookes liker <HI>Honour. Wa|len&s;tein</HI> (&s;ure) would have proved an excellent <HI>Scholler,</HI> he keepes him&s;elfe to his <HI>Termes</HI> &s;o well. In the Letter of his ac|ceptance, he was thus free with the Emperor. That his de&s;erts, had bin fuller of merit; then his u&s;age had bin either of reward or acknowledgement. That &s;mall encouragement had he there|fore to hazard his quiet, his &s;tate, his honor, or his per&s;on a|gaine, for any &s;ervice of the Emperors. But yet had Prince <HI>Eg|genberg</HI>
<PB N="222" REF="121"> &s;uch an obligation upon him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ccepts of it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r a time.</NOTE> that at his reque&s;t he was contented to be brought on againe. Yet not &s;o, as ab&s;o|lutely to accept of the Generall&s;hip; otherwi&s;e then upon certaine conditions onely: and tho&s;e would him&s;elfe have the liberty of propounding.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t, he would entertaine the place, but for three moneths onely: nor would hee take his Commi&s;&s;ion, for longer then the fir&s;t of March following.</P>
<P N="2">2. Hee would not have it expected, that hee &s;hould wage battell in that time with the enemy.</P>
<P N="3">3. The &s;ervice hee would doe the Emperour, was, to levy as many &s;ouldiours for him, as would repayre unto his En|&s;ignes.</P>
<P N="4">4. After all which, hee would bee contented that another man &s;hould bee appointed Generall over them: or rather (which was his private wi&s;h) that a good peace might bee treated upon.</P>
<P>The Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ion being &s;ent him unto <HI>Znaim</HI> in <HI>Moravia;</HI> he there began to hang out his En&s;ignes, to beate up his Drums, and to give out his Patents for a levy. Not yet as Generall; for King <HI>Ferdinand</HI> (for the more credit to the action) &s;till kept the Title of <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo</HI> to him&s;elfe. To lay the ground-worke for the new Army, was <HI>Diepenbach</HI> (either voluntarily or by command) brought to re&s;igne up his <HI>Sile&s;ian</HI> troopes unto <HI>Walen&s;tein.</HI></P>
<P>The levyes went on; and the intention was knowne to be for the recovery of <HI>Bohemia;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">His fir&s;t levyes.</NOTE> for which exploit, <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> had golden mountaines promi&s;ed him. But for &s;uch a worke, all things went not on, as he de&s;ired: he would come into the field like him&s;elfe, or not at all. The moneyes already rai&s;ed, were too &s;mall a &s;umme for him: and he would have his men in the be&s;t manner accommodated. He demands three milli|ons of gold, for the rai&s;ing of 70000 men: propounds to have 5 000 Curia&s;&s;iers or men at armes, rai&s;ed in the <HI>Low Countries:</HI> and that Baron <HI>Dhona</HI> &s;hould bring him 10000 <HI>Co&s;acks:</HI> He de&s;ires Quarter for twelve Regiments in <HI>Mo|ravia;</HI>
<PB N="223" REF="121"> for foureteene in <HI>Sile&s;ia:</HI> for &s;ixe in the <HI>Vpper</HI> and <HI>Lower Au&s;tria:</HI> and for the re&s;t in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> till the Army were ready to goe into the Field. In the end of Ianuary, hee gives out a Command unto all his Colonels and Captaines, to have their Regiments and Companies complete, by the fir&s;t of March following. Vpon the fir&s;t of February, hee &s;ets out a Proclamation to call in all &s;uch &s;ouldiours, as were then in &s;ervice of the enemy. This was the Briefe of it.</P>
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<P>Wee<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Albert.</NOTE> <HI>Albrecht</HI> by the Grace of God, Duke of <HI>Mechlen|burg, Fridland</HI> and <HI>Sagan:</HI> Prince of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">That is, of <HI>Rugen, V&s;e|dome</HI> and <HI>Wo+lin;</HI> three I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in <HI>Pomerani<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> called <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Vand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></NOTE> <HI>Wenden</HI> or of the <HI>Van|dals;</HI> Count of <HI>Schwerin,</HI> and of the Countries of <HI>Ro&s;tock</HI> and <HI>Stargard,</HI> &amp;c. Whereas we heare of divers Officers and common &s;ouldiers belonging heretofore unto the Armies of his Imperiall Maie&s;ty, to be at this pre&s;ent in &s;ervice with the enemy: we therefore give notice unto them by the&s;e pre&s;ents, That who&s;oever of them will come backe within 6 moneths,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He calles t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Germanes</HI> fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Kings &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+vice.</NOTE> &s;hall be pardoned and entertained. And we command all our Officers of warre to entertaine them, and never to reproach them with their former offences; but the kindlier rather to entreate them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Znaim,</HI> <DATE>Febr. 1. 1632. Stylo novo.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>In the end of December, and beginning of Ianuary, had there beene a meeting of the States at <HI>&V;ienna:</HI> where there was an enlargement of contributions agreed upon for the ar|my: For money was &s;carce as yet, nor were the &s;ouldiers halfe armed. Vpon the 11^t^h and 12^t^h of Ianuary (old Style) the Regiments already levied in <HI>Moravia;</HI> were drawne to|gether from about <HI>Brin,</HI> and <HI>Olmuntz,</HI> unto <HI>Znaim:</HI> where being mu&s;tered, they were &s;ent among the Emperors Tenants of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> to be enquartered. This they complayning to his Imperiall Maie&s;ty of, are referd for their redre&s;&s;e unto <HI>Walen|&s;tein.</HI> There &s;eemes to have beene &s;ome rub in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that di&s;contented our Duke of <HI>Fridland,</HI> about this middle of Ianuary: whereupon he boldly gave it out, that he would
<PB N="224" REF="122"> continue Generall but till May-day following. Monies (it &s;eemes) came not in currantly; nor the aides that he expected out of <HI>Hungarie:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">: <HI>Hungari|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> refu&s;e to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the Em|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our.</NOTE> for the <HI>Hungarians</HI> had broken up their <HI>Diet</HI> or <HI>Land-day</HI> at <HI>Thirnau,</HI> without one Sub&s;idie towards the Emperor. <HI>E&s;terha&s;y</HI> the <HI>Hungarian Palatine</HI> was an&s;we|red by the States,</P>
<P N="1">1. That they had evident and pre&s;ent employment for their owne monies and forces: the <HI>Turkes</HI> being ready to fall into their Country.</P>
<P N="2">2. That they were not bound to &s;end any forces out of the Kingdome unto their King; for that they knew no enemy he had: and it more concerned them, to &s;trengthen their own Frontiers.</P>
<P N="3">3. That they knew no other enemy, either within or with|out the Kingdome, but the <HI>Turke</HI> onely.</P>
<P>But <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> by the end of Ianuary had better content (it &s;eemes) his name was &s;aid to be &s;et into the Commi&s;&s;ion be|fore the Duke of <HI>Bavariaes;</HI> and <HI>Arnold</HI> Secretary of State is &s;ent from <HI>&V;ienna</HI> to <HI>Znaim</HI> unto him: whence he went to &s;olicite the old King of <HI>Poland.</HI> The Imperiall levies went on afterwards &s;omething cheerfullier; both in <HI>Moravia, Au|&s;tria,</HI> and <HI>Bohemia:</HI> the Archduke <HI>Leopold</HI> rai&s;es one Regi|ment of Hor&s;e towards it; and the Count of <HI>Michna</HI> ano|ther: which la&s;t man knew how to make him&s;elfe a &s;aver well enough, for that he was now appointed Commi&s;&s;ary-Generall unto the Army. Towards the end of February, <HI>Wa|len&s;tein</HI> &s;ets out his Proclamation for provi&s;ions for the army: by which every Free-holder is commanded to furni&s;h him daily with 2 pounds of bread, one of fle&s;h, 2 pints of wine, and 2 Crowns a moneth contribution; together with lodging for the &s;ouldiers: be&s;ides 2 bottles of hay, and as much &s;traw a day, with 2 bu&s;hels of oates weekely, and five Crownes a moneth be&s;ides, for every Hor&s;eman. This went hard with a many of the poore Farmers of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI> The States of <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> &s;end in their monies, for the maintenance of the Regiments impo&s;ed upon them; that they might &s;o bee
<PB N="225" REF="122"> free from their unruly companie.</P>
<P>By the beginning of March, had <HI>Fridland</HI> gotten 20000 men together: and the fir&s;t weeke of that moneth, he com|mands all his military Officers to wait on him at <HI>Znaim</HI> for their directions.</P>
<P>The army pre&s;ently after this, beganne to congregate and come together: and <HI>Brin</HI> the chiefe towne in <HI>Moravia,</HI> is their fir&s;t Rendezvous: where being mu&s;tered, they were &s;ent to be otherwhere enquartered. The King of <HI>Hungaria</HI> had not all this while given over the title of <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo:</HI> but &s;till the voice went, of his going into the field. By April, is there another Coun&s;ell taken; and the Duke of <HI>Fridlands</HI> Commi&s;&s;ion being renewed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Walen&s;tein <HI>mad</HI> Generali&s;&s;imo.</NOTE> he hath the title of <HI>Generali&s;&s;i|mo,</HI> or <HI>Generall of Generalls,</HI> conferred upon him. Of his entertainment of the <HI>Generall&s;hip,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Conditions</HI> went abroad. Which for that the &s;trangene&s;&s;e of them, may make &s;ome wi&s;e men to mi&s;doubt them: therefore, as I would be loth to be taxed for concealing any &s;afe part of my Intelligence from my Readers; &s;o will I not by arguments oppre&s;&s;e any mans credulity. Here they are barely propounded, as they were word for word tran&s;lated out of the printed <HI>High Dutch</HI> co|py: which I doubt not but I &s;hall find, in &s;ome after <HI>Stories.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Contents of the <HI>Conditions,</HI> wherupon the Duke of <HI>Fridland</HI> hath re-accepted of the <HI>Generall&s;hip:</HI> which in the name of his <HI>Imperiall</HI> Maie&s;ty, hath by divers <HI>Privy Councellors</HI> (both of <HI>Warre</HI> and <HI>State</HI>) beene offered unto him. But e&s;pecially and in mo&s;t &s;olemne manner, by the Duke of <HI>Crumau</HI> and <HI>Eggenberg.</HI></HEAD>
<P>1. THE Duke of <HI>Fridland</HI> &s;hall be <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The condition upon which, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> accepteth of the <HI>General&s;hi</HI></NOTE> not onely for the Emperor, but al&s;o for the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> and the whole hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria:</HI> and for ever &s;o continue.</P>
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<P> 2. The General&s;hip &s;hall be wholly and plenarily conferred upon the Duke of <HI>Fridland,</HI> in the mo&s;t ab&s;olute forme that may be.</P>
<P>3. His Royall Maie&s;tie <HI>Ferdinand</HI> the third, &s;hall not be per|&s;onally pre&s;ent in the army: much le&s;&s;e have any command ever it. But when the Kingdome of <HI>Bohemia</HI> &s;hall be againe recovered, his Maie&s;ty &s;hall per&s;onally keepe Court at <HI>Prage;</HI> and <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar di Marradas</HI> for his better &s;ecurity, &s;hall waite upon him with 12000 men in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> untill there be an univer&s;all peace e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>Germany.</HI> For the Duke of <HI>Fridland</HI> well perceiveth, that the <HI>Bohemians</HI> both mu&s;t and will have their King to be per&s;onally re&s;ident among them. By this meanes al&s;o, &s;hall both the Emperor and his Ge|nerall re&s;t the better a&s;&s;ured, that no rebellion &s;hall there be attempted.</P>
<P>4. His Imperiall Maje&s;ty &s;hall give him &s;ecurity in the be&s;t manner, that he &s;hall have &s;ome Lord&s;hip given him in in|heritance in <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> for his ordinary recompence.</P>
<P>5. Hee &s;hall for his extraordinary recompence, have the highe&s;t Royalty, in any of the recovered Countries of <HI>Ger|many.</HI></P>
<P>6. Hee &s;hall have the di&s;po&s;all of all the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He meanes it, the lands <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d goods of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h onely as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m&s;elfe &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nquer.</NOTE> Confi&s;cations in the Empire, after the mo&s;t ab&s;olute manner. So that nei|ther the Imperiall <HI>Councell,</HI> nor <HI>Exchequer,</HI> nor the <HI>Cham|ber</HI> at <HI>Spiers,</HI> &s;hall pretend any <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> in them, either in part or in whole: nor have any thing to doe with the deci&s;i|on of them.</P>
<P>7. The Duke of <HI>Fridland</HI> &s;hall have ab&s;olute power to di&s;|po&s;e, not onely in matters of <HI>Confi&s;cation,</HI> but of <HI>Pardons</HI> al&s;o. And notwith&s;tanding there &s;hould from the Emperors
<PB N="227" REF="123"> Court, be granted any letters of <HI>Safe-Conduct</HI> or of <HI>Pardon:</HI> yet that without the Duke of <HI>Fridlands</HI> confirmation, they &s;hall be of no value: and extend no further then unto <HI>Life</HI> and <HI>Honour,</HI> and not unto <HI>Goods</HI> or <HI>E&s;tate:</HI> the reall and ab|&s;olute pardoning whereof, &s;hall be granted by him alone. For his Imperiall Maie&s;ty is too gracious and too good: and pardoneth every one, that &s;ues to his Court for it. Which if it &s;hould be &s;o &s;till, then &s;hould the higher and lower Co|lonells and Officers of the Army, have their rewards ta|ken away; and the &s;ouldiery, that which &s;hould give them content.</P>
<P>8. And if there &s;hould ere long happen to be a peace treated upon in the Empire; that then the Duke of <HI>Fridlands</HI> owne <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> to the Dukedome of <HI>Mecklenburg,</HI> &s;hould be con|tained in the capitulation.</P>
<P>9. All the charges and expences for the continuation of the warre, &s;hall be given unto him.</P>
<P>10. All the hereditary Dominions of his Imperiall Maie&s;ty, &s;hall at any time be open unto him, and his Army; to retreat into upon occa&s;ion.</P>
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<P>If any thing may &s;eeme to make the&s;e Articles le&s;&s;e credi|ble, it is that a many will hardly be brought to &s;u&s;pect, that the Emperour &s;hould ever condi&s;cend to the creating of &s;uch a <HI>military Dictator;</HI> for &s;o he is upon the point. But let the Duke of <HI>Fridlands</HI> mighty va&s;t &s;pirit bee con&s;idered; the Emperors pre&s;ent and pre&s;&s;ing nece&s;&s;ities weighed; the King of <HI>Hungariaes</HI> giving over remembred, the ab&s;olute autho|rity exerci&s;ed by the Generall ob&s;erved; and other accidents and circum&s;tances con&s;idered: and then will not the beliefe of it come &s;o impo&s;&s;ibly: as at fir&s;t &s;ight it appeareth. It might be judged to be as beneficiall for the Empire at this time, to have a <HI>Dictator</HI> created; as it hath often beene for the State of <HI>Old Rome;</HI> who did thus, in all their extremi|ties.
<PB N="228" REF="124"> But I heere leave every man to his owne ingenuity: for mine owne part I conceive, that his Imperiall Maje&s;ty did not <HI>weakely,</HI> but <HI>wi&s;ely,</HI> yea <HI>very wi&s;ely</HI> in it. This both made the Generall the more awfull to the Country, and his owne &s;ouldiors; and provided again&s;t the lo&s;&s;e of many a faire op|portunity, while&s;t new orders upon every occa&s;ion, mu&s;t otherwi&s;e be &s;ent for to <HI>Vienna.</HI> Pre&s;ently after this, and about the beginning of Aprill, hee appointed &s;ome of his to enter <HI>Bohemia:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">He advances <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto <HI>Bohemia.</HI></NOTE> their fir&s;t Rendezvous being at <HI>Konig&s;gratz</HI> upon the <HI>Elb;</HI> directly Ea&s;t almo&s;t of <HI>Prage.</HI> Him&s;elfe met with the re&s;t of his army, at <HI>Sweinitz</HI> in <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> about the &s;ame time: for whom victuals had beene bought at <HI>Bre&s;law.</HI></P>
<P>Hee was reported, all together, to have had an Army of 50000 men: and to be &s;ure, <HI>Wallen&s;tein</HI> would not come into the field without as good provi&s;ions for them, as the Em|pire could at that time affoord them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">His numbers.</NOTE> There went Li&s;ts abroad of 99600 men, in 42 Regiments, that he &s;hould have in his Army. But the&s;e perchance, were given out but for terror: nor doe I thinke, he had full 40000 together in one Army. To omit &s;maller Rencounters of his. He towards the end of Aprill, &s;weeping along upon the Northern parts of the King|dome, betwixt the Duke of <HI>Saxonyes</HI> new Conque&s;ts in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> and his owne hereditary Country of <HI>Mi&s;nia;</HI> pa&s;&s;es his men over the <HI>Elb,</HI> about <HI>Budin,</HI> &s;ome twenty <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> miles to the North of <HI>Prage</HI> City, and neere the place where the River <HI>Egra</HI> falls into the <HI>Elb.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">He takes and burnes <HI>Budin.</HI></NOTE> This <HI>Budin</HI> had either made re&s;i&s;tance, or given &s;ome di&s;ta&s;te or other unto him: and therefore to &s;hew other places, how ill he meant to take the like u&s;age, he turnes <HI>Budin</HI> into a&s;hes. Thence advances he Southward unto <HI>Schlani,</HI> a Shire-Towne almo&s;t right again&s;t <HI>Prage:</HI> which he takes, and encamps at. Hence &s;ends he a Trumpet with his Letters unto the Duke of <HI>Saxony;</HI> To enforme him of the Commi&s;&s;ion he had from his Imperiall Maje&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">He propounds a Peace unto <HI>Saxony.</HI></NOTE> fully to treate upon and conclude a faire peace with him: wherefore his advice was, that there might be &s;ome Commi&s;&s;ioners deputed on both &s;ides, to meete and treate
<PB N="229" REF="124"> upon the termes of it. The Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI> &s;ends his Felt-Mar&s;hall <HI>Arnheim</HI> (who is an excellent Speaker) unto <HI>Walen|&s;tein,</HI> then at <HI>Schlani:</HI> and <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> &s;ends Colonell <HI>Sparr</HI> backe with <HI>Arnheim,</HI> unto the Elector. The conditions that <HI>Sparr</HI> brought, were much to the &s;ame purpo&s;e, with tho&s;e the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador had before propounded: namely, For a private league betwixt the Hou&s;es of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> and <HI>Saxo|ny;</HI> and no way towards an Vniver&s;all peace of the Empire; or mention of any other <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Princes. The Dukes an|&s;wer was, That he very lately had renewed his former league with the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> and had bound him&s;elfe to con|clude nothing without the privity and con&s;ent of his &s;aid Maje&s;ty. <HI>Sparr</HI> returning with this An&s;wer, is &s;ent backe a|gaine for a better: but <HI>Saxony</HI> de&s;ired his Excellency the Duke of <HI>Fridland,</HI> to re&s;t &s;atisfied with the former: &s;eeing,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Saxony</HI> refu&s;es the condition</NOTE> that unle&s;&s;e there might be a Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes, untill the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> plea&s;ure might be knowne; he was able to give no other.</P>
<P><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> all this time refre&s;hed his Army; and percei|ving the Dukes re&s;olution, advances in one of the fir&s;t dayes of May, towards <HI>Prage</HI> City. He fir&s;t pre&s;ents him&s;elfe on the &s;ide which was ea&s;ie&s;t to be approached; upon the <HI>Starre-Parke,</HI> right before the <HI>Le&s;&s;er</HI> City. Some 7000 <HI>Saxons</HI> (or neere-upon) there were in all the three Cities: whereof 2000 now were in this <HI>Le&s;&s;er.</HI> Summons being given and denyed, <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> brings forward his Approches.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> be|&s;ieging <HI>Prage,</HI></NOTE> Some Sallies and Rencounters there pa&s;&s;ed: for all which, <HI>Walen|&s;tein</HI> gat up a very large Battery, and mounted twenty pee|ces of good Ordnance upon it. A va&s;t breach and a &s;aulta|ble, he made, and commands it to be &s;tormed. The <HI>Saxons</HI> maintained it very &s;toutly: and beat off the A&s;&s;ailants many times (tenne times, &s;ome &s;ay) from their walls. But <HI>Walen|&s;tein</HI> re&s;olving to &s;pare for no mans-fle&s;h; makes his Hor&s;e|men drive on, and keepe up the Footemen, and &s;o overlayes the defendants with numbers &amp; repeated attempts,<NOTE PLACE="marg">takes the le&s;&s;er City by a&s;&s;ault</NOTE> that he by fine force enters this <HI>Le&s;&s;er</HI> City. Tho&s;e in the <HI>New</HI> and <HI>Old</HI>
<PB N="230" REF="125"> Townes perceiving this, fall upon the fir&s;t Summons to capi|tulate: but could obtaine no other conditions of him, that knew the weakene&s;&s;e of the Cities as well as them&s;elves: then,<NOTE PLACE="marg">and the other two by compo|&s;ition.</NOTE> That they &s;hould goe out with their lives, and baggage, onely with &s;words by their &s;ides, and leaving their Colours, and other Armes, and Ordnance, behind them. The <HI>Saxons</HI> being forced to a&s;&s;ent, leave twentyone, &s;ay &s;ome; twenty foure En&s;ignes, &s;ay others; unto the Conquerour: who pre|&s;ently &s;ent them to <HI>&V;ienna</HI> unto the Emperour. Who, to re|ward his Generall for this, and to encourage him to future Services; &s;ends him the Title of Duke of great <HI>Glogau</HI> in <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> for it. The <HI>Saxon</HI>-garri&s;ons were convoyed out of <HI>Prage,</HI> unto <HI>Leutmeritz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Prage</HI> thus taken about the fourth of May, old &s;tile: the Conquerour &s;ends another me&s;&s;enger unto the Duke of <HI>Saxo|ny,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alen&s;tein</HI> re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ewing the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reaty with <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">axony,</HI></NOTE> to renew the former treaty: his forces in the meanetime, fairely putting other of the <HI>Saxons,</HI> out of the next townes of <HI>Bohemia.</HI> The Curriers pa&s;&s;ing to and againe, betwixt <HI>Prage</HI> and <HI>Dre&s;den, Saxony</HI> (at la&s;t) con&s;ents to take a view of the Imperiall <HI>Propo&s;itions:</HI> which the ea&s;ie taking of <HI>Prage,</HI> hee perceives, to have made much the harder. The&s;e foure they were &s;aid to be: and <HI>Sparr</HI> carryed them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ends him the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ard conditi|ons.</NOTE>1. That whereas the Elector had demanded re&s;titution of the domages, done by the <HI>Tillyans</HI> in his towne of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> and otherwhere in his Countrey: he &s;hould ca&s;t up tho&s;e &s;poyles too, which his <HI>Saxon</HI> Armies had done the Emperour in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> and &s;et the tone again&s;t the tother.</P>
<P>2. That hee &s;hould make downe-pay, of two moneths meanes unto the Imperiall Army.</P>
<P>3. And freely and &s;peedily give over the Bi&s;hopricks, Church|lands, and Cloy&s;ters; which he yet held impropriated.</P>
<P>4. And endeavour to get the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> out of <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
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<P>The&s;e foure demands if hee &s;atisfied him in; then would his Imperiall Maje&s;ty bee plea&s;ed, To condi&s;cend unto the granting of free exerci&s;e of the <HI>Evangeliacall Religion,</HI> thorowout the Kingdome of <HI>Bohemia.</HI></P>
<P>But the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> not holding him&s;elfe yet brought &s;o low, by the taking of one Citie;<NOTE PLACE="marg">which <HI>Saxony</HI> refu&s;es.</NOTE> as to &s;toope to &s;uch di&s;advantageous conditions: utterly refu&s;es to treat upon them. Tis an old tricke of State, That when a &s;tronger ene|my purpo&s;es either to picke a quarrell with a weaker, or o|therwi&s;e to gaine upon him; to propound <HI>impo&s;&s;ible</HI> conditi|ons, or extremely <HI>di&s;honorable,</HI> unto him.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> plot in it,</NOTE> And thus did the Duke of <HI>Fridland,</HI> now &s;erve the Duke of <HI>Saxony:</HI> offer him &s;uch Termes, as he had &s;mall hopes, that the other would ever yeeld unto.</P>
<P>The u&s;e that <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> would have made of the time, that the Treaty &s;hould have taken up; was a very hand&s;ome one. The <HI>Saxon</HI> &s;ouldiours, being now over-ma&s;tered in <HI>Bohemia;</HI> began to judge of their Cau&s;e, by the &s;peeding of it; and a little entreaty, would have made a many of them, turne to the &s;tronger. This was one of the plots, that <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> had upon <HI>Saxony;</HI> to take advantage of the mutinies or di&s;con|tents of his &s;ouldiours, and to inveigle them away from him. But his &s;econd de&s;igne was yet better. The <HI>Saxons</HI> having for&s;aken by this time, mo&s;t of the further townes of <HI>Bohemia:</HI> and drawne their forces unto <HI>Leutmeritz</HI> upon the <HI>Elb,</HI> iu&s;t betwixt their owne Country and <HI>Prage</HI> City: <HI>Wa|len&s;tein</HI> had now almo&s;t gotten betwixt them and home, ere they were aware of him. This had he done, he would either have cut all their throates; or have forced the Duke and them, unto any conditions. To this la&s;t purpo&s;e, had he privately &s;ent out &s;ome Regiments, to fetch a compa&s;&s;e about towards the North, to pa&s;&s;e over the river <HI>Pul&s;nitz,</HI> and to take <HI>Bri|&s;en:</HI> and all on the &s;udden in the next place, to have chopt into <HI>Aufig</HI> upon the <HI>Elb,</HI> betwixt <HI>Leutmeritz</HI> (where the <HI>Saxons</HI> yet were,) and <HI>Dre&s;den.</HI> Then had hee beene Ma&s;ter of both banks of the <HI>Elb;</HI> and they had beene in a coope.
<PB N="232" REF="126"> But <HI>Arnheim,</HI> by the mooving of the&s;e Imperiali&s;ts, begin|ning to &s;moake <HI>Fridlands</HI> drift; out did him at la&s;t, in his own finene&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">which is preve~|ted by <HI>Arnheim.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Arnheim</HI> &s;eemes very forward to have the treaty goe on; plyes <HI>Fridland</HI> with Curriers daily: &s;uffers people to beleeve, that he was in earne&s;t. But yet in the meane time, he privately &s;ends &s;ome troopes before, to a&s;&s;ure <HI>Au&s;ig</HI> and the <HI>Elb;</HI> gets up his Baggage and Cannon: and all on the &s;udden, Satterday, May 26. in the night, &s;ends the&s;e away before unto <HI>Au&s;ig,</HI> and &s;o onwards unto <HI>Pirnau</HI> upon the <HI>Elb</HI> in <HI>Mi&s;nia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Saxons</HI> for|&s;ake <HI>Bohemia.</HI></NOTE> neere unto <HI>Dre&s;den.</HI> The next morning, <HI>Arn|heims</HI> &s;elfe marches away with his whole Army: there, (at <HI>Pirnau</HI>) layes he a bridge ouer the <HI>Elb,</HI> and entrenches &s;trongly.</P>
<P><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> &s;ware by no beggers (he u&s;es not to &s;ticke for that) to &s;ee him&s;elfe thus over-reacht: and re&s;olves to be re|venged upon the re&s;t of the <HI>Saxon</HI> garri&s;ons, yet in the coun|try. The fir&s;t weeke of Iune, therefore; part of his Army he &s;ends out under Colonell <HI>Holck,</HI> to take in <HI>Egra;</HI> and &s;o to beate out his way into the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate,</HI> to ioyne with the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> The <HI>Sax|on</HI> Colonel <HI>Star&s;chedel,</HI> as yet kept <HI>Egra:</HI> where he had once before held out a &s;iege; as hath in the <HI>Saxon Proceedings,</HI> been told you. <HI>Holck,</HI> having laid his &s;iege, lo&s;es 200 men in the Approaches.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Wal&s;teiners</HI> take <HI>Egra.</HI></NOTE> But nine whole Imperiall Regiments, now en|compa&s;&s;ing the City; <HI>Star&s;chedel</HI> being fir&s;t con&s;cious, of the un&s;en&s;iblene&s;&s;e of the place; and out of all hopes of being re|lieved; parlies and yeelds, upon <HI>Barnabe the brights</HI> day, marching out upon &s;ouldiers conditions, and being convoyed into <HI>Saxony.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Elnbogen,</NOTE><HI>Holck,</HI> after this turnes to the Northwards; and be|&s;ieges <HI>Elnbogen.</HI> The towne was kept by the <HI>Saxon</HI> Colonel <HI>&V;itzthimb,</HI> with part of tho&s;e raw and new-levied forces: and altogether unprovided be&s;ides of Ammunition, and what was nece&s;&s;ary for a &s;iege. Yet &s;ome &s;hew of re&s;i&s;tance he made, though not with a purpo&s;e to keepe the Towne, but to obtaine the better conditions. A <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion-Dormant</HI> he
<PB N="233" REF="126"> had al&s;o in his pocket to give up the towne, if he were pre&s;t to it. Thus is that towne al&s;o rendred unto <HI>Holck,</HI> upon Thur&s;day Iune 14: <HI>&V;itzthimb</HI> being conducted home into <HI>Saxony.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fridland</HI> in the meane time with the other part of the Ar|my, marches up from <HI>Prage,</HI> and takes <HI>Leutmeritz,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and <HI>Leutmeritz.</HI></NOTE> which the <HI>Saxons</HI> (as we told you) had voluntarily for&s;aken. This cau|&s;ed &s;uch a terror in <HI>Mi&s;nia,</HI> for feare he &s;hould fall into tho&s;e parts; that tho&s;e of <HI>Leip&s;ich</HI> and other townes of trading, conveighed their goods into the <HI>Elb,</HI> and &s;o away for <HI>Ham|borow.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> him&s;elf came to <HI>Birnau</HI> afore&s;aid, making all &s;trong there, to keep out <HI>Walen&s;tein.</HI> But He had other irons, now upon the anvile: his thoughts were now turnd again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden;</HI> who, as he by this time heard, was farre already advanced into the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> goe towards <HI>Egra,</HI></NOTE> in pur&s;uite there, of the Duke of <HI>Bavaria.</HI> This Duke, had earne&s;tly now againe &s;ollicited his &s;peedy a&s;&s;i&s;tance: who, (to the wonder of the world) having made &s;uch quicke di&s;patch in <HI>Bohemia:</HI> now leaving &s;ome Regiments at <HI>Leutmeritz,</HI> turnes with the re&s;t towards the Frontiers, unto <HI>Egra;</HI> much neerer to <HI>Bavaria.</HI></P>
<P>This was much about the 16^t^h or 17^t^h of Iune.<NOTE PLACE="marg">to ioyne with <HI>Bavaria</HI> again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></NOTE> The Army he now led with him, &s;eemes to be about 110, or 112 Cornets of Hor&s;e, be&s;ides &s;ome troopes of <HI>Crabats</HI> light-Hor&s;emen; and about 140 En&s;ignes of Foot: in halfe of which, (if the li&s;t of his Army, that I have &s;eene, be true) there were to be 300 in a Company. The&s;e numbers I collect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">His forces.</NOTE> by the generall view both of his Army and <HI>Bavariaes</HI> together, at their fir&s;t com|ming before <HI>Norimberg:</HI> where were told 246 troopes of hor&s;e (be&s;ides <HI>Crabats,</HI>) and 197 Foot-Companies. Of the&s;e, the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> at his ioyning with <HI>Walen&s;tein,</HI> had 134 Troopes of hor&s;e, and 58 Foot-Companies, onely: &s;o that the re&s;t, were <HI>Wal&s;teiners. Saxony</HI> thus freed of the feared inva&s;i|on; &s;ends <HI>Arnheim</HI> into <HI>Lu&s;atia</HI> fir&s;t; and &s;o into <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> after <HI>that</HI> was cleared: where he recover<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d the <HI>Saxons</HI> honor lo&s;t in <HI>Bohemia:</HI> and within 2 moneths, overthrew <HI>Diepenbach</HI> and <HI>Got&s;e,</HI> with the whole Imperiall Army.</P>
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<P>The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> having &s;urpri&s;ed <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> un|der a pretence of exerci&s;ing his &s;ouldiors hard by it:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Duke <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f <HI>Bavaria</HI> goes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> meete him.</NOTE> &s;o &s;oone as <HI>Cratz</HI> was returned from <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> advances into the <HI>Vpper Palatinate</HI> towards <HI>Egra,</HI> to conjoyne with <HI>Walen|&s;tein.</HI> He in the beginning of Iune, marching full Northward from <HI>Ratisbone,</HI> quite thorow the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate:</HI> goes to <HI>Amberg</HI> fir&s;t, the chiefe City of this <HI>Palatinate.</HI> Some five <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the left hand of this <HI>Amberg,</HI> is the Towne of <HI>Sultzbach;</HI> belonging unto the Palatine <HI>Augu|&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Sultzbach;</HI> &s;o often heretofore mentioned. To this Towne, the Duke &s;ends a &s;ufficient part of his Army: and <HI>Iohn Eberhard</HI> Count of <HI>Schomburg</HI> led them.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avaria <HI>takes</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ltzbach,</NOTE> He be&s;ie|ging the place, hath it, after &s;ome dayes of oppo&s;ition, de|livered up to him on the&s;e conditions.</P>
<P N="1">1. That two Captaines of Foote, with their Captaines, &s;hould be admitted into their Towne for garri&s;on.</P>
<P N="2">2. This <HI>Bavarian</HI> &s;ouldiery, was to be governed by &s;uch ju&s;tice and military Di&s;cipline; as that they &s;hould no wayes mole&s;t or doe injury to any Burger.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Councellors, Officers, and Servants of the Prince, &s;hould have free leave to depart the Towne, with all their goods, wives, and children.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Princes Ca&s;tle &s;hould be free from being plundered.</P>
<P N="5">5. Billets and lodging &s;hould be a&s;&s;igned to the garri&s;on, according as the Cittizens could among them&s;elves agree up|on it.</P>
<P>The <HI>Bavarians</HI> thus becomming ma&s;ters of the Towne; were not &s;o of their owne words. For, fir&s;t, in &s;tead of two Companies, they thru&s;t 700 Foote, and 400 Hor&s;e, into the City. 2. The hou&s;es of the Princes Councellors, and of the riche&s;t Cittizens, were not plundered and rifled onely, but &s;poiled too: what&s;oever was worth carrying, being de&s;ti|nated to be &s;ent thence into <HI>Amberg.</HI> 3. The Princes Ca&s;tle was foulely plundered and mi&s;u&s;ed. 4. And 6000 Florens, with much terror and threatnings; wrung out of the Princes Servants and the Cittizens. This was not <HI>Grecian</HI> faith, but <HI>Bavarian:</HI> and it may well be beleeued of them; for &s;o had they lately before, &s;erved <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg.</HI> This was done, about
<PB N="235" REF="127"> the 6^t^h or 7^t^h of Iune. The Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> with the other part of the Army, went and tooke in <HI>Amberg:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">and advance towards <HI>Wal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;tein.</HI></NOTE> where was not much re&s;i&s;tance. Hence after &s;ome few dayes, he advan|ces over the River <HI>Nab,</HI> towards <HI>Dur&s;chenreyt</HI> in the way to <HI>Egra</HI> and <HI>Bohemia.</HI> The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> (he heard) was by this time comming again&s;t him, from about <HI>Norimberg:</HI> and he thought it not be&s;t to abide his comming. Some 36 Cornets of <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> Hor&s;e were likewi&s;e neere at hand to joyne with him, and tho&s;e he now went to meete withall.</P>
<P>And indeed the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> was now comming again&s;t him: who&s;e <HI>March</HI> up, and <HI>Retreate</HI> backe againe;<NOTE PLACE="marg">A touch (by the way) of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King of <HI>Swe|dens</HI> pur&s;uin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Bavaria.</HI></NOTE> we will now in <HI>Walen&s;teins Story</HI> briefely touch upon; becau&s;e <HI>Walen|&s;teins</HI> comming, now put him to it. The King arrived at <HI>Furt,</HI> 3 or 4 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles from <HI>Norimberg,</HI> on Thur&s;day Iune 7^t^h. Friday and Satterday, he there held a generall mu&s;ter: the num|bers then found, we &s;hall by and by tell you. Satterday night, into <HI>Norimberg</HI> he went: where the King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> had beene a weeke before him. The next day, the two Kings, to|gether with the Lord Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Hamilton,</HI> Iohn Duke of <HI>Hol|&s;tein,</HI> &amp;c, there re&s;ted, and heard a Sermon in Saint <HI>Laurences.</HI> Iune 11^t^h Saint <HI>Barnabees</HI> day, about one in the morning, out went the King to his Army at <HI>Furt</HI> againe; &amp; there propounds his going to pur&s;ue the <HI>Bavarian.</HI> The Army advances; and that Munday pa&s;&s;es by the <HI>Louvergate</HI> of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> in this or|der. Fir&s;t, marched 10 Regiments of Foote: then,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ces, and ord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of marching.</NOTE> 20 peeces of great Ordnance, Cannons, Demicannons, and peeces of Bat|tery: and 20 le&s;&s;er Field-peeces after them. The greate&s;t, were drawne with 20 or 22 hor&s;es a peece: and the Le&s;&s;er, with 6 or 8. Next marched 100 brave Cornets of Hor&s;e: and the Baggage and Ammunition-wagons la&s;t of all. By the <HI>Ho&s;pi|tall-Gate</HI> on the other &s;ide the City, marcht 50 Cornets of Hor&s;e more, 60 En&s;ignes of Foote, and 30 &s;maller Fielding-peeces. They were marching by, all that Munday. That night, lay the Kings at <HI>Lauff</HI> upon the River <HI>Pegnitz;</HI> &s;ome 9 <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> miles to the North-ea&s;t of <HI>Norimberg.</HI> Iune 12^t^h, the Ar|my arrives at <HI>Her&s;chpruck,</HI> due Ea&s;t up the &s;ame River, and as
<PB N="236" REF="128"> much further. All this, was in his way to <HI>Amberg.</HI> This day the King &s;ent the <HI>Palatine Augu&s;tus</HI> of <HI>Sultzbach</HI> his Lieftenant, (<HI>Prince Augu&s;tus</HI> him&s;elfe, being before this, &s;ent to quicken the Elector of <HI>Saxony</HI>) to recouer his Lords Towne of <HI>Sultz|bach</HI> againe. Foure hundred Hor&s;e, had he with him: who pre|&s;enting them&s;elves towards Evening upon a hill before the Towne, and demaunding to have it rendred: the <HI>Bavarians</HI> an&s;wer them with their Ordnance. But perceiving after a while, &s;ome Foote-Companies to bee comne up to &s;econd the Hor&s;e:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tzbach</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">overed.</NOTE> they parly, yeeld, and goe out next day. The <HI>Ba|varian</HI> Governor, was &s;hot dead at his comming out, and that in revenge of the <HI>Bavarians</HI> former u&s;age, of this Towne and <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg.</HI> His guilty &s;ouldiors fearing the like ju&s;tice, &s;ting away their Armes, fall downe upon their knees; and offer to become the Kings &s;ouldiours. Iune 13, the King &s;ets forward towards <HI>Sultzbach:</HI> 15 miles from <HI>Her&s;chpruck.</HI> Midway be|twixt the&s;e 2, is the Towne of <HI>Hartman&s;hoven:</HI> not great, but very advantageou&s;ly &s;ituated for a Pa&s;&s;e of &s;trength; as &s;tanding where 2 &s;mall riverets fall into the <HI>Pegnitz;</HI> and having a wood and hill, right before it. The King much wondred, that <HI>Bava|ria</HI> had neglected this Pa&s;&s;age: who had, indeed, but forgotten it, and was even this day &s;ending &s;ome troopes to hinder the King at it. But they came an houre or 2, too late.</P>
<P>That night, was the King purpo&s;ed to lodge in <HI>Sultz|bach</HI> Ca&s;tle:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e King hea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">g newes of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> enemy,</NOTE> but was put be&s;ides the pillow, by the newes of the enemies being &s;eene about <HI>Hambach,</HI> foure miles to the North ward. This made him &s;end out &s;ome light-hor&s;emen, to di&s;cover the faces and motions of the enemy; and to draw with his whole army in Battaglia, towards that Quarter. The&s;e were the <HI>Bavarian</HI> Vant-curriers; of &s;ome of whom, there ta|ken pri&s;oners, the King learnd; that their Duke had already received 16000 <HI>Wal&s;teiners;</HI> and that <HI>Fridland</HI> him&s;elfe, was already in the <HI>Vpper-Palatinate.</HI> This newes, cau&s;es the King to re&s;olve upon the retiring backe to <HI>Norimberg.</HI> Some light skirmi&s;hes,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tires</NOTE> betwixt his men and the <HI>Crabats,</HI> I omit: for all this of the Kings, is not upon the <HI>Main,</HI> but upon the <HI>By</HI> onely:
<PB N="237" REF="128"> and brought in, to bring downe <HI>Walen&s;tein,</HI> the more metho|dically.</P>
<P>The King now counter-marching; recovers to <HI>Norimberg</HI> againe, upon Tue&s;day, Iune 19^t^h. There he now re&s;olves, to expect his enemy; whom he was (for number) farre too weake to meete withall in a pitcht battell. From hence he &s;ends about, to ha&s;ten his Generalls to him.<NOTE PLACE="marg">to <HI>Norimberg.</HI></NOTE> Should not the King have &s;ate downe by &s;ome friend-City; <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> would have follow|ed him ever. And of all Cityes, this of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> was the be&s;t for the Kings purpo&s;e. Twas neere&s;t: the Kings royall word was engaged to defend it: twas &s;trong; and exceeding well victualled; both for their owne u&s;e, and &s;upply of his Army. Round about this City he rides, both to view the Fortifications of the Towne, and to lay out the ground for his owne Retrenchments. The&s;e began at the River, and were a mile compa&s;&s;e round about the towne, with skon|ces and Redoubts, where-ever need was. His Workes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King en|camps about <HI>Norimberg.</HI></NOTE> were &s;tronge&s;t upon the South &s;ide: becau&s;e he judged, the Enemy would encampe on that &s;ide, as indeed he did. The Graff or Moate about his head-workes, was 12 Foote wide, and 8 deep. Eight thou&s;and men, laboured dayly upon the Fortifications: and yet was not all compleate, when <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> came again&s;t him. But of this &s;lightly, becau&s;e beyond my <HI>Title.</HI></P>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> after that <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> was comne with the Aides from <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> unto him, returnes boldly o|ver the River <HI>Nab,</HI> unto <HI>Nabpurck:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bavaria</HI> turnes backe, again&s;t the King.</NOTE> and there confronts the Kings Army. Some al&s;o he &s;ent more Southerly, as farre as <HI>Schwandorff,</HI> upon the &s;ame River. Tho&s;e forces of his which the King heard of about <HI>Hampach,</HI> were &s;ent from that divi|&s;ion of his Army at <HI>Nabpurck.</HI> The&s;e having &s;ome skirmi|&s;hes, with 2 or 3 troopes which the King &s;ent to di&s;cover them: were after 2 or 3 charges, driven backe upon their fellowes. But the <HI>Swedes</HI> too farre pur&s;uing,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Some <HI>Swedes</HI> defeated.</NOTE> fell into an am|bu&s;h: and were to a man almo&s;t, there cut in pieces.</P>
<P>By the middle of Iune, was <HI>Fridland</HI> him&s;elfe falne into the <HI>Palatinate:</HI> and to &s;hew who it was, that was now a com|ming.
<PB N="238" REF="129"> He came like <HI>Iupiter</HI> in the <HI>Poet;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> comes into the <HI>&V;pper Palati|nate,</HI></NOTE> all in thunder and light|ning. <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> mu&s;t be dreaded. All in fire &amp; tempe&s;t he takes and de&s;troies the Prince <HI>Palatines</HI> Dominions, and other the poore <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> townes, before him. The &s;ame &s;poile, had <HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> committed in the Vpper Marqui&s;ate of <HI>Parent;</HI> which belongeth unto a Prince of the <HI>Electorall</HI> hou&s;e of <HI>Bran|denburg.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">which he de|&s;troyes before him.</NOTE> There, is <HI>Kemnath</HI> taken againe; which the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> bani&s;hed Baron <HI>Keffenhullo,</HI> had a little before taken, with the Kings forces. <HI>Bonde&s;ilia</HI> and <HI>Tir&s;chein</HI> are over-runne: and this la&s;t, burnt to a&s;hes. There were prayers in all Churches and Cloy&s;ters now made, in <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> and other <HI>Catholike</HI> countries, for the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the Armies: the zeale of which, (it &s;eemes) was &s;o hote, that (like a <HI>Burning-gla&s;&s;e</HI> at a di&s;tance) it &s;et fire upon the <HI>&V;pper Palatinate.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e 2 Armies being conioyned; &s;ate downe a while about <HI>Amberg;</HI> and <HI>Sultzbach.</HI> There they mu&s;tered, and contrived their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> and <HI>Bavaria</HI> ioyne.</NOTE> Vpon Tue&s;day Iune 26, by one in the morning the Armies ri&s;e: marching with much &s;ilence towards <HI>New|markt,</HI> full South-we&s;t from thence, and about 18 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles di&s;tant. At <HI>Sindlebach</HI> in the way, 6 miles &s;hort of <HI>Newmarckt;</HI> 7 of their Regiments about 6 a clocke in the morning; fell up|on a <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Regiment of Dragooners under 7 Cornets, which were Colonell <HI>Dubalts;</HI> and 4 troopes of Hor&s;e, of Colonell <HI>Sperreuters.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Re|giment of Dra|gooners defea|ted.</NOTE> The <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> at fir&s;t, made indifferent good worke with them; and laid &s;ome 40 <HI>Crabats</HI> upon the earth, that made the fir&s;t <HI>Cavalcado,</HI> and fell into their Quarters. But being by &s;uch a multitude &s;urrownded; they were alom&s;t all &s;laine, and the gallant <HI>Dubalt</HI> taken pri&s;oner: whom <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> very ho|nourably,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A noble Cour|te&s;y of <HI>Walen|&s;teins.</HI></NOTE> &s;et pre&s;ently free again without ran&s;ome. This fight was almo&s;t 20 miles from <HI>Norimberg:</HI> whither word by noone, being carried unto the King; he with all &s;peede drew out his be&s;t Hor&s;e, advancing that very evening, to make the reskue. But the newes of the defeate, turnd him backe againe. Divers &s;uch like Rencounters pa&s;&s;ed betwixt the Hor&s;e of ei|ther &s;ide, with enterchanged fortunes; before <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> came to &s;ettle.</P>
<PB N="239" REF="129">
<P>Thus came the Armies along: and their purpo&s;e was, to be|&s;iege and &s;tarve up the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> His other Generalls with their Forces, were not yet come up to him; and they knew them&s;elues too &s;trong for him. Part of their Army, skowres all along the river <HI>Pegnitz;</HI> which runs thorow <HI>No|rimberg.</HI> The&s;e going due We&s;t from <HI>Sultzbach;</HI> take <HI>Her&s;ch|pruck, Lauff,</HI> and <HI>Altorff:</HI> to hemb in the King on that &s;ide, and to keepe his victuals and aides from him. Vpon the Southerne &s;ide of <HI>Norimberg,</HI> came the other part of the Army: and both the Dukes with it. About Iune 27 or 28, they from <HI>New|marckt,</HI> fir&s;t &s;end to <HI>Freyen&s;tat;</HI> a towne in a mora&s;&s;e &s;ome 10 miles to the South-We&s;t; where they appoint their chiefe&s;t <HI>Magazine.</HI> The Army advances unto <HI>Rott,</HI> due South from <HI>Newmarckt,</HI> and 15 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the North of <HI>Norimberg:</HI> Here <HI>Tillyes</HI> Magazine &s;ometimes was, when he be&s;ieged <HI>No|rimberg;</HI> and where his powder mi&s;carried. Some Regiments are here left: &s;o that this was <HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> fir&s;t Quarter.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> &s;e|verall Quar|ters.</NOTE> Here pa&s;&s;es he the <HI>Rednitz;</HI> which runnes thence within 4 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles to the We&s;t of <HI>Norimberg;</HI> and &s;o due North to <HI>For|cheim,</HI> and into the <HI>Mayn</HI> at <HI>Bamberg.</HI> This river, would <HI>Wa|len&s;tein</HI> now po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elfe of. Downe along therefore up|on the We&s;terne &s;hore of it he goes, unto <HI>Swabach;</HI> 7 miles from <HI>Rott,</HI> and 8 or 9 from <HI>Norimberg.</HI> Here had <HI>Tilly</HI> al&s;o &s;ometimes enquartered; and here, the Dukes now made their &s;econd Quarter. Betwixt this and <HI>Furt,</HI> (almo&s;t 10 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles further, beyond <HI>Norimberg,</HI> and wide of it) lay his Hor&s;e|guards all the way, with &s;ome Foote-Regiments here and there. Their &s;afety, was the river <HI>Rednitz:</HI> which parted them from the Kings Army. To this <HI>Swabach,</HI> they came Iune 30^t^h: where they put 17 goodly Foot-Regiments, into <HI>Battaglia.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Armies confront one another.</NOTE> To confront the&s;e, the King brings out his Hor&s;e: but the ri|vers being betweene, forbade all comming at one another.</P>
<P><HI>Walen&s;teins</HI> chiefe Quarter was at <HI>Furt:</HI> where Iuly 4^t^h he &s;ate downe; and entrenches; where, the fa&s;tne&s;&s;e of the woods; the tops of the hills; and the advantage of being betweene the 2 rivers <HI>Rednitz,</HI> and <HI>Pegnitz,</HI> (which a little from thence
<PB N="240" REF="130"> make an alliance betwixt their I&s;&s;ues) made his Leaguer very much the &s;tronger. Thus did the Dukes put them&s;elues, be|twixt the Kings campe, and the Country of <HI>Franconia:</HI> whence his forces and victuals were to come. All the townes on the other &s;ide, had they taken: and left him a breathing-place of &s;ome 4 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles onely, round about his Quarters. He mu&s;t now tru&s;t to be victuald out of <HI>Norimberg:</HI> &amp; it comes not far &s;hort of a miracle, that one town &s;hould be &s;o wel provided, as to doe it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">What forces the King now had in his Trenches</NOTE> The King now had 132 En&s;ignes of Foot: which made up 10767, in the Mu&s;ter-booke: and 152 troopes of Hor&s;e: which came to 7676. In all, 18443 men, as I have &s;eene it written out of the Army. The&s;e were too many, for one towne to maintaine: and yet too few, not to be bidden battell by 2 &s;uch Armies. But their purpo&s;e being to <HI>Diet Him,</HI> and to avoide <HI>blood-letting</HI> in <HI>them&s;elues:</HI> forbare to a&s;|&s;ault him. Not perchance, becau&s;e <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> dur&s;t not, but for that he would not: he dur&s;t not put all <HI>Germany</HI> and <HI>Italy,</HI> up|on the fortune of one Battell. But the King to give them their <HI>wellcome</HI> into the field, the very fir&s;t night, and next day, Iuly 5^t^h cut in pieces 3 troopes of their Hor&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King cuts off 3 Cornets.</NOTE> and brought off 3 of their Cornets. And here I leave them.</P>
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<HEAD>A Table drawne by way of a Iournall or Dia to &s;hew where the King, <HI>Horn, Tilly, Bavaria,</HI> and <HI>Walen&s;tein</HI> were, and what they did upon tho&s;e dayes, that are men|tioned in the Margent.</HEAD>
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<CELL>September. <HI>The King</HI></CELL>
<CELL>September. Tilly</CELL>
<CELL>September. Gu&s;tavus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16 <HI>Sets forward.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>8 <HI>Flees to</HI> Hall.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
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<CELL>18 <HI>Takes Erfurt in</HI> Durin|gen.</CELL>
<CELL>9 <HI>To</HI> A&s;cherleben.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>13 <HI>Moues from</HI> Halber&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Sent again&s;t</HI> Altri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>26 <HI>Lies at</HI> Arn&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>17 <HI>Comes to</HI> Alfelt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>27 <HI>Comes to</HI> Ilmenau.</CELL>
<CELL>25 <HI>Pa&s;&s;es the</HI> We&s;er.</CELL>
<CELL>29 <HI>Takes</HI> Gotha.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>28 <HI>Pa&s;&s;es the</HI> Duringer|waldt.</CELL>
<CELL>26 <HI>Goes to</HI> Warburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>Comes to the King.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>29 <HI>Comes to</HI> Schleu&s;ing.</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>Comes to</HI> Fritzlar <HI>in</HI> He&s;&s;en.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>30 <HI>Be&s;ieges</HI> Konig&s;hoven <HI>in</HI> Franconia.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>October.</CELL>
<CELL>October.</CELL>
<CELL>October.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1 <HI>Takes</HI> Schweinfurt.</CELL>
<CELL>2 <HI>Goes from</HI> Fritzlar.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2 <HI>Enters it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>3 <HI>Spoiles townes in</HI> He&s;&s;en.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 <HI>Writes letters to</HI> Bamberg.</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Ioynes with</HI> Altringer.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 <HI>Comes before</HI> Wurtsburg.</CELL>
<CELL>6 <HI>Mu&s;ters at</HI> Fulda.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8 <HI>Takes it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>10 <HI>Is at</HI> A&s;chaffenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>10 <HI>Levies forces about</HI> Wurtsburg. <HI>Sends troopes abroad to take townes in</HI> Wurts|burg <HI>and</HI> Bamberg <HI>Di|oce&s;&s;es.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>11 <HI>Sends</HI> Altringer <HI>to the</HI> Lorrayners.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>With the King a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> moneth.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>11 <HI>Levies forces about</HI> Wurtsburg. <HI>Sends troopes abroad to take townes in</HI> Wurts|burg <HI>and</HI> Bamberg <HI>Di|oce&s;&s;es.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>Sends</HI> 3000 <HI>towards</HI> Werthaim.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12 &amp;c <HI>Levies forces about</HI> Wurtsburg. <HI>Sends troopes abroad to take townes in</HI> Wurts|burg <HI>and</HI> Bamberg <HI>Di|oce&s;&s;es.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>17 <HI>The</HI> Lorrayners <HI>ioyne with him.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>18 <HI>Goes towards the</HI> Palati|nate.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16 <HI>Defeates</HI> Tillians, <HI>and takes</HI> Werthaim.</CELL>
<CELL>20 <HI>Is about</HI> Darm&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>17 <HI>His forces &s;till about the Country.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>21 <HI>Some of his defeated at</HI> Rotenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>18 &amp;c <HI>His forces &s;till about the Country.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>22 <HI>Takes</HI> Babenhau&s;en.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>21 <HI>Defeates more</HI> Tillians <HI>and takes</HI> Rotenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>23 <HI>Sollicites</HI> Franckford: <HI>And goes into the</HI> Berg|&s;traes.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>22 <HI>Defeates &s;ome few</HI> Lor|rayners.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
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<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Duke of</HI> Bavaria <HI>levies.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hof&s;heim, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ergentheim <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d other towns taken</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>Tilly &s;till about the</HI> Pa|nate.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>With the King all this while.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Declaration at</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>November.</CELL>
<CELL>November.</CELL>
<CELL>November.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w <HI>taken.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>5 <HI>Turnes backe from the</HI> Palatinate.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g about</HI> Oxenfurt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6 <HI>Is at</HI> Oxenfurt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es towards</HI> Franck|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>7 <HI>Takes townes in the way to</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ons about</HI> Steinheim.</CELL>
<CELL>8 <HI>Takes townes in the way to</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>5 <HI>Left about</HI> Wurts|burg.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng comes downe the</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yn, <HI>taking</HI> Procel|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, Miltenburg, Klin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">berg, Trenfelt, <HI>and</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">chaffenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>9 <HI>Takes townes in the way to</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>6 <HI>Left about</HI> Wurts|burg.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>13 <HI>Takes</HI> Rottenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>14 <HI>Takes</HI> Win&s;haim, <HI>and</HI> Guntzenhau&s;en, and Wei&s;&s;enburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>15 <HI>Takes</HI> Win&s;haim, <HI>and</HI> Guntzenhau&s;en, and Wei&s;&s;enburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs</HI> Hanaw.</CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>Is about</HI> On&s;pach.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es at</HI> Offenbach.</CELL>
<CELL>17 <HI>Comes to</HI> Swabach.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers</HI> Franckford.</CELL>
<CELL>18 <HI>Before</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es</HI> Hoe&s;t.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rnes to</HI> Franckford.</CELL>
<CELL>22 <HI>Ri&s;es from</HI> Norim|berg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Thanksgiving at</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></CELL>
<CELL>23 <HI>Ri&s;es from</HI> Norim|berg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s league with the</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etterawi&s;h <HI>Earles.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>24 <HI>Lyes two nights at</HI> Rott.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>25 <HI>Lyes two nights at</HI> Rott.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e leaguer at</HI> Co&s;tum <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th the Actions about <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> Ringaw <HI>&amp;</HI> Bingen <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Army returnes to</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ford.</CELL>
<CELL>26 <HI>Puts his men into gar|ri&s;on, and goes to</HI> Do|nawert.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Puts his men into gar|ri&s;on, and goes to</HI> Do|nawert.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>28 &amp;c <HI>Puts his men into gar|ri&s;on, and goes to</HI> Do|nawert.</CELL>
<CELL>29 <HI>Is &s;till in</HI> Franconia.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>December.</CELL>
<CELL>December.</CELL>
<CELL>December.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es thorow</HI> Franck|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>to be&s;iege</HI> Heidle|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
<CELL>2 <HI>Meetes Duke of</HI> Bava|ria.</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Takes</HI> Kitzing.</CELL>
</ROW>
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<ROW>
<CELL>2 <HI>Takes Townes in the</HI> Berg&s;traes.</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Goes to</HI> Nordlingen, <HI>where he &s;tayes.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>10 <HI>And</HI> Win&s;haim <HI>this time.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 <HI>Takes Townes in the</HI> Berg&s;traes.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 <HI>Be&s;ieges</HI> Oppenheim <HI>Fort</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>12 <HI>And</HI> Geb&s;attle.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7 <HI>Pa&s;&s;es the</HI> Rhine.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8 <HI>Takes</HI> Oppenheim.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>And</HI> Mergenth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Rotenburg, <HI>ab time.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>13 <HI>Takes</HI> Mentz.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>14 <HI>Enters</HI> Mentz <HI>in Tri|umph.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>12 <HI>Duke of</HI> Bavaria <HI>at</HI> In|gol&s;tat <HI>Diet.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16 <HI>His thanksgiving.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>18 Fridberg <HI>taken.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>20 <HI>Takes</HI> Hailbrun.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>21 Konig&s;tein <HI>taken.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>22 <HI>Spaniards for&s;ake &s;ome Townes in the</HI> Palati|nate.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>26 <HI>Returnes into</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nia.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>23 <HI>Spaniards for&s;ake &s;ome Townes in the</HI> Palati|nate.</CELL>
<CELL>Bavaria <HI>&s;ends one Am|ba&s;&s;ador to the Emperor, and another to the King of</HI> Swe|den.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>24 <HI>Spaniards for&s;ake &s;ome Townes in the</HI> Palati|nate.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>26 &amp;c Rhinegrave <HI>defeates the</HI> Spani&s;h <HI>about the</HI> Mo&s;el.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>Takes</HI> Guntzen.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Spiers <HI>City accords with the King.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ianuary.</CELL>
<CELL>Ianuary.</CELL>
<CELL>Ianuary.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1 Manheim <HI>&s;urpri&s;ed.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1 Altringer <HI>prepares to re|lieve</HI> Rotenburg.</CELL>
<CELL>1 <HI>About</HI> Win&s;hai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 Heidleberg <HI>and</HI> Franc|kendale <HI>&s;lightly blockt up.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2 <HI>Bu&s;ie about his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ters.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 Heidleberg <HI>and</HI> Franc|kendale <HI>&s;lightly blockt up.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>3 Tilly <HI>goes to</HI> Donawert <HI>and to</HI> Amberg, <HI>purpo|&s;ing to &s;end again&s;t the</HI> Saxons.</CELL>
<CELL>3 <HI>Bu&s;ie about his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ters.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5 Heidleberg <HI>and</HI> Franc|kendale <HI>&s;lightly blockt up.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>4 &amp;c Tilly <HI>goes to</HI> Donawert <HI>and to</HI> Amberg, <HI>purpo|&s;ing to &s;end again&s;t the</HI> Saxons.</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Bu&s;ie about his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+&s;ters.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>10 <HI>The</HI> 14 <HI>dayes Truice be|gin.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10 <HI>The Truice beg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>14 <HI>At</HI> Iphoven.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12 <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> goes to</HI> Gelnhau&s;en. <HI>In Truice time,</HI> Spaniards <HI>pa&s;&s;e the</HI> Mo&s;el.</CELL>
<CELL>9 Cratz <HI>made Felt-Mar|&s;hall in the Vpper</HI> Palati|nate.</CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>Goes to</HI> Noriml<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>21 <HI>Returnes to</HI> So+furt.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>20 <HI>King returnes to</HI> Franck|ford.</CELL>
<CELL>10 Tilly <HI>returnes to</HI> Nord|lingen.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>11 Tilly <HI>returnes to</HI> Nord|lingen.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>22 <HI>Actions betwixt the</HI> Rhinegrave <HI>and the</HI> Spaniards.</CELL>
<CELL>18 <HI>Sends &s;ome Ordnance out of</HI> Wilsburg <HI>Ca&s;tle,</HI> to O&s;&s;a.</CELL>
<CELL>25 <HI>Prepares to goe</HI> Bamberg.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>23 <HI>Actions betwixt the</HI> Rhinegrave <HI>and the</HI> Spaniards.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>24 &amp;c <HI>Actions betwixt the</HI> Rhinegrave <HI>and the</HI> Spaniards.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Duke</HI> Bernard <HI>takes townes about</HI> Mentz.</CELL>
<CELL>Bavaria <HI>&s;ends forces to</HI> Am|berg.</CELL>
<CELL>29 <HI>Takes</HI> Hoch&s;tat</CELL>
</ROW>
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<CELL>February.</CELL>
<CELL>February.</CELL>
<CELL>February.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">epares to goe again&s;t</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">niards.</CELL>
<CELL>2 Cratz <HI>goes to &s;uccor</HI> For|cheim.</CELL>
<CELL>1 <HI>Takes</HI> Bamberg.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ing of</HI> Bohemia <HI>ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>4 Tilly <HI>bu&s;ie in fortify|ing on the</HI> Danuby.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5 Tilly <HI>bu&s;ie in fortify|ing on the</HI> Danuby.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Rainy weather, that he can doe nothing.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;ted.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>6 &amp;c Tilly <HI>bu&s;ie in fortify|ing on the</HI> Danuby.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es to be&s;iege</HI> Creutz|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Palatine Birckenfields <HI>levyes.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>20 <HI>Goes into the</HI> Vpper Pa|latinate.</CELL>
<CELL>20 <HI>Provides to be&s;iege</HI> For|cheim.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reutznach <HI>taken.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>22 <HI>At</HI> Newmarckt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing returns to</HI> Franck|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</CELL>
<CELL>23 <HI>Provides to goe again&s;t</HI> Horn.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>24 <HI>Marches to</HI> Alto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ff.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Actions about</HI> Spiers.</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Enters</HI> Forch im.</CELL>
<CELL>28 Tilly <HI>comes again&s;t him.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>28 <HI>Comes before</HI> Bamberg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>March.</CELL>
<CELL>March.</CELL>
<CELL>March.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eiues newes of</HI> Horns <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ne&s;&s;e.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1 <HI>Enters</HI> Bamberg.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>For&s;akes</HI> Bamberg: <HI>and pa&s;|&s;es the</HI> Mayn.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><LIST>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es his Army together.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s them on before a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t</HI> Tilly.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;elfe &s;ets out from</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ckford.</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>at</HI> A&s;chaffenburg. Lohr.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Werenfelt.</ITEM>
</LIST></CELL>
<CELL><LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Stayes about</HI> Hasfurt <HI>in the Bi&s;hoprick of</HI> Bamberg.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 <HI>Calls a Councell of War at</HI> Forcheim.</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 <HI>Mu&s;ters at</HI> Forcheim, <HI>and marches towards the</HI> Vpper Palatinate.</ITEM>
</LIST></CELL>
<CELL>2 <HI>In &s;ight of the enemies.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3 <HI>Hee defeats two Regi|ments.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Againe in &s;ight of the enemy.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>5 <HI>Goes to</HI> Schweinfurt.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>6 <HI>Bu&s;ie in di&s;po&s;ing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> my.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mes to</HI> Arn&s;tein.</CELL>
<CELL>15 <HI>At</HI> Erlang.</CELL>
<CELL>7 <HI>Writes to the King.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tettelbach.</CELL>
<CELL>16 <HI>At</HI> Newmarckt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Kitzing: <HI>and</HI> Hep|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>to</HI> Oxenfurt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>18 <HI>Still at</HI> Newmarckt.</CELL>
<CELL>11 <HI>Comes to the King.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Win&s;haim.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Dunkel&s;piel.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">camps at</HI> Furt. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es into</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>20 <HI>Drawes towards the</HI> Da|nuby.</CELL>
<CELL>15 <HI>Goes with the Vantgard to</HI> Win&s;haim.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne skirmi&s;hes with</HI> Tillians.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
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<ROW>
<CELL>24 <HI>Comes to</HI> Oetingen <HI>and</HI> Pleinfelt.</CELL>
<CELL>26 <HI>About Ingol&s;tat.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Stayes with the King.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>26 <HI>Takes</HI> Kai&s;ham.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>27 <HI>Takes</HI> Donawert.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>28 Hebron <HI>&s;ent out: and</HI> Fuggers <HI>Ca&s;tle taken.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>29 <HI>Prince Augu&s;t &s;ent out.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
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</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>30 Banier <HI>&s;ent to</HI> Newburg.</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>Goes into</HI> Bavaria.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>31 <HI>King pa&s;&s;es thorow</HI> Do|nawert.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Aprill.</CELL>
<CELL>Aprill.</CELL>
<CELL>Aprill.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1 <HI>Army drawne to</HI> Nor|theim.</CELL>
<CELL>1 <HI>About</HI> Rain.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>2 <HI>About</HI> Rain.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2 <HI>Duke</HI> William Weymar <HI>comes.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>3 <HI>Encampt along the</HI> Lech.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 <HI>Place for the Bridge o|uer the</HI> Lech <HI>&s;ought and found.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Encampt along the</HI> Lech.</CELL>
<CELL>7 <HI>Sent to pur&s;ue</HI> Til<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 <HI>Place for the Bridge o|uer the</HI> Lech <HI>&s;ought and found.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>5 <HI>Defeated at the</HI> Lech; <HI>and Carryed away wounded to</HI> Newburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5 <HI>The day of the great fight.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6 <HI>King pa&s;&s;es into</HI> Bavaria.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7 <HI>Goes towards</HI> Ausburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8 <HI>Encamps at</HI> Lechau&s;en.</CELL>
<CELL>6 Bavaria <HI>with his Army flees towards</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9 <HI>Summons</HI> Ausburg.</CELL>
<CELL>7 Bavaria <HI>with his Army flees towards</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>10 <HI>Takes it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>8 Bavaria <HI>with his Army flees towards</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>14 <HI>Goes into it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>15 <HI>Goes to</HI> Waho, <HI>towards</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16 <HI>Comes before it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>17 <HI>Spent in working.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>18 Bavaria <HI>&s;urprizes</HI> Ra|tisbone.</CELL>
<CELL>23 <HI>Sent from before</HI> &s;tat to <HI>&s;poyle</HI> Bava<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>18 <HI>Spent in working.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>19 <HI>A Sally.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>20 <HI>The Kings Hor&s;e &s;hot: &amp; Marque&s;&s;e of</HI> Baden <HI>&s;laine.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>20 Tilly <HI>dyes in</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>25 <HI>Comes againe King.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>22 <HI>Goes to</HI> Newburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>24 <HI>Ri&s;es from</HI> Ingol&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Hee and</HI> Hebr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Land&s;hutt.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>25 <HI>Takes</HI> Mosburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>29 <HI>King goes to</HI> Land&s;hutt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
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<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes backe to</HI> Mos|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">g.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es</HI> Frei&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">g.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ances <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">rds</HI> Mun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rs it.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ters there.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI> Ausburg, <HI>to goe a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t</HI> O&s;&s;a.</CELL>
<CELL>20 Crats <HI>falls into</HI> Bavaria.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">livers</HI> Bibrach.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne backe to</HI> Ausburg.</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Takes</HI> Wei&s;&s;enburg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Iune.</CELL>
<CELL>Iune.</CELL>
<CELL>Iune.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng advances towards</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mberg.</CELL>
<CELL>Bavaria <HI>goes into</HI> Vpper Palatinate.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Sent towards the</HI> Palatinate.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kes</HI> Aich&s;tat</CELL>
<CELL>5 <HI>Takes</HI> Sultzbach <HI>and</HI> Amberg,</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> Pappenhaim.</CELL>
<CELL>6 <HI>Takes</HI> Sultzbach <HI>and</HI> Amberg,</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>10 <HI>Goes towards</HI> Wal&s;tein.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ives at</HI> Furt.</CELL>
<CELL>13 <HI>Returnes upon the King.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mu&s;ters.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>14 <HI>Returnes upon the King.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>15 Wal&s;tein <HI>comes.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Norimberg. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Lauff,</CELL>
<CELL>26 <HI>Goes from about</HI> Am|berg.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Her&s;chpruck.</CELL>
<CELL>27 <HI>Defeats</HI> Dubalt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">zbach <HI>recovered.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>28 <HI>At</HI> Freyen&s;tat.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">res to</HI> Norimberg.</CELL>
<CELL>30 <HI>At</HI> Swabach.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mps at</HI> Norimberg,</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Iuly.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>4 <HI>Encamps at</HI> Furt.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="index">
<PB REF="133">
<HEAD>A TABLE OF THE PRIN|CIPALL MATTERS.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>_AGreements, &s;ee Articles.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Altringer,</HI> his Breeding and good parts, 110
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ioynes with <HI>Tilly,</HI> 111</ITEM>
<ITEM>troubles <HI>He&s;&s;en, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Re&s;olves to releeve <HI>Rotenburg,</HI> 119</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;poyled at the <HI>Lech,</HI> 144</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arnheim</HI> beats the Imperiali&s;ts out of both Lu&s;atiaes. 200. Marches into <HI>Bohemia,</HI> 200. Takes <HI>Prage,</HI> 202. the townes he takes after it, 205. overthrowes the Imperiali&s;ts at <HI>Limburg,</HI> 206. A good Speaker, 229. over-reaches <HI>Walen&s;tein,</HI> 232. Excu&s;ed, 217</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arn&s;tat,</HI> the King comes to it, 5</ITEM>
<ITEM>Articles</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agreed upon by the King and <HI>Saxony</HI> at Hall, for the pur&s;uing of the Warre, 2
<LIST>
<ITEM>with <HI>Erfurt</HI> Citie, 4</ITEM>
<ITEM>with the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> 9</ITEM>
<ITEM>with Imperiali&s;ts of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> 25</ITEM>
<ITEM>of the King with <HI>Franckford,</HI> 32</ITEM>
<ITEM>betwixt the Earles of the <HI>Weteraw</HI> and the King, 36</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hepburns</HI> with <HI>Oppenheim</HI> Fort, 45</ITEM>
<ITEM>with the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> at <HI>Mentz,</HI> 48</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Articles of the Neutrality, 63
<LIST>
<ITEM>offered by the King to <HI>Triers,</HI> 71</ITEM>
<ITEM>and to <HI>Cullen,</HI> 87</ITEM>
<ITEM>with the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> at <HI>Creutznach,</HI> 82</ITEM>
<ITEM>offered by <HI>Tilly</HI> to <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 115</ITEM>
<ITEM>propounded by <HI>Bavaria</HI> to the Emperour, 124</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings with <HI>Ausburg</HI> city, 158</ITEM>
<ITEM>and with <HI>Munchen,</HI> 168</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arnheims</HI> with <HI>Prage</HI> Citie, 202</ITEM>
<ITEM>Articles on which <HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> would ac|cept the General&s;hip, 222
<LIST>
<ITEM>tho&s;e, on which he did, 225</ITEM>
<ITEM>propounded by him to <HI>Saxony,</HI> 230</ITEM>
<ITEM>by <HI>Bavaria</HI> to <HI>Sultzbach,</HI> 234</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;chaffenburg</HI> taken by the King, 30</ITEM>
<ITEM>Attempt, a de&s;perate one of a <HI>Leif|lander,</HI> 14</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ausburg,</HI> Popi&s;h practices upon it, 119
<LIST>
<ITEM>The King goes toward it, 151</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;its downe before it, 152</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>the King comes thither, 171</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
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<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>BAmberg</HI> Bi&s;hop, the King &s;ends to warne him of his comming, 5, 17
<LIST>
<ITEM>he makes his peace with the King: and the Termes, 9</ITEM>
<ITEM>he breakes it, 10</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bamberg</HI> Bi&s;hoprick, divers townes taken in it, 8</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bamberg</HI> towne, <HI>Horn</HI> takes it, 103
<LIST>
<ITEM>recovered by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 91</ITEM>
<ITEM>the Bi&s;hop flees, 104</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bamberg,</HI> the Actions there, betwixt <HI>Horn</HI> and <HI>Tilly,</HI> 89, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Banier,</HI> Generall, &s;ent to <HI>Magden|burg,</HI> 28
<LIST>
<ITEM>his Regiment put into <HI>Aschaffen|burg,</HI> 28</ITEM>
<ITEM>his &s;ervice at <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> 163</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bavarians</HI> deale treacherou&s;ly with tho&s;e of <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> 172
<LIST>
<ITEM>and with <HI>Sultzbach,</HI> 234</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bavaria</HI> Duke; his Story, 121
<LIST>
<ITEM>&s;ummons his people, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Appointed <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo</HI> over the Catholikes, 122</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sets out his <HI>Manife&s;to,</HI> 123</ITEM>
<ITEM>calles a <HI>Diet:</HI> and &s;ends Amba&s;&s;a|dours to the Emperour, and King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> 123</ITEM>
<ITEM>his Propo&s;itions to the Emperour, 124</ITEM>
<ITEM>joynes with <HI>Tilly,</HI> 124</ITEM>
<ITEM>overthrowne at the <HI>Lech,</HI> 125</ITEM>
<ITEM>would treat with the King: and retires into <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> 125</ITEM>
<ITEM>what advantages hee made of the treaty of <HI>Neutrality,</HI> 68</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bavaria</HI> goes to joyne with <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 234
<LIST>
<ITEM>his forces then, 233</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes <HI>Amberg</HI> and <HI>Sultzbach,</HI> 234</ITEM>
<ITEM>Receives aydes from <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 235</ITEM>
<ITEM>returnes again&s;t the King, 237</ITEM>
<ITEM>joynes with <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 237</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bavaria,</HI> the Kings march up to it, 126
<LIST>
<ITEM>the King drawes out of it, 171</ITEM>
<ITEM>what forces he left in it, 173</ITEM>
<ITEM>the largene&s;&s;e of the Kings con|que&s;ts in it, 175</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Berg&s;traes</HI> taken by the King, 42</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bernhard</HI> of <HI>Saxon Weymar,</HI> how he &s;urprized <HI>Manheim,</HI> 60
<LIST>
<ITEM>takes the Count of <HI>Ems</HI> pri&s;oner, 172</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bibrach,</HI> be&s;ieged by <HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> 170
<LIST>
<ITEM>delivered by the King, 170</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bingen</HI> for&s;aken by the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> 57</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Birckenvelt</HI> levyes for the King, 83</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;hofsheim</HI> taken by the King, 20</ITEM>
<ITEM>Boats &s;ent the King to pa&s;&s;e the <HI>Rhine,</HI> 43</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bohemia,</HI> entred by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> 200
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Story of the Actions there, 201, &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Religion re&s;tored in it, 210</ITEM>
<ITEM>for&s;aken by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> 232</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Skales there turnd by <HI>Don Bal|tha&s;ar,</HI> 213</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Boores ri&s;e in <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 157
<LIST>
<ITEM>they abu&s;e the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> &s;ouldiers, <HI>ib.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>defeated in <HI>Schwabland,</HI> 179</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Brandeis</HI> an Imperiall Captaine, de|ceives him&s;elfe, 24</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Bridge over the <HI>Lech,</HI> the figure, 150</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brigade, what it is, 28
<LIST>
<ITEM>How many the King brought with him into the <HI>Palatinate.</HI> 28</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<ITEM>CArdinall <HI>Pa&s;man</HI> &s;ent from the Emperour to the Pope: but not acknowledged for an Amba&s;&s;a|dour, 220</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Carl&s;tat,</HI> the King levyes about it, 18</ITEM>
<ITEM>Catholikes de&s;ire a Peace, 215</ITEM>
<ITEM>Commi&s;&s;ary-generall, his office, 33</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conditions, &s;ee Articles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conque&s;ts of the Kings, how large, 175</ITEM>
<ITEM>Contributions of the Imperiall Cour|tiers towards a new Army, 219</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cratz,</HI> goes to relieve <HI>Forcheim,</HI> 104
<LIST>
<ITEM>made Felt-Mar&s;hall unto <HI>Tilly,</HI> 118</ITEM>
<ITEM>falls againe into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 171</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes and &s;poyles <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> 172</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Creutznach</HI> be&s;ieged, 77
<LIST>
<ITEM>the towne wonne, 78</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Ca&s;tle be&s;ieged, 79</ITEM>
<ITEM>taken, 82</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cullen,</HI> a <HI>Diet</HI> there, 86
<LIST>
<ITEM>they de&s;ire <HI>Neutrality,</HI> 87</ITEM>
<ITEM>the Elector afrayd of the King&mdash;his Iudgement of the Imperiall decree, 86</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>DE Latre,</HI> befriends the Author, 25</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Diepenbach</HI> takes the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pper Lu&s;atia,</HI> 199
<LIST>
<ITEM>Beaten out by <HI>Arnheim,</HI> 200</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Donawert</HI> be&s;ieged, 136</ITEM>
<ITEM>taken by Sir <HI>Iohn Hebron,</HI> 138</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Don Baltha&s;ar</HI> flees out of <HI>Prage,</HI> 202
<LIST>
<ITEM>Turnes the Skales againe in <HI>Bohe|mia,</HI> 213</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spoyles the <HI>Vpper Palatinate.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dru&s;enheim</HI> be&s;towed on the Earle of <HI>Hanaw,</HI> 84</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Duringen,</HI> the King marches into it, 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Duringer-waldt,</HI> the King pa&s;&s;es it, 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>EGra</HI> taken by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> 207
<LIST>
<ITEM>recovered by <HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>he comes thither, 233</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elnbogen</HI> be&s;ieged by the Imperiali&s;ts and relieved, 21<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>Taken by <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 23<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Engli&s;h Gentlemen their forward+ne&s;&s;e at the &s;iege of <HI>Creutznach,</HI> 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>and at <HI>Donawert,</HI> 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Erfurt,</HI> taken,
<LIST>
<ITEM>upon what termes, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Erne&s;tus Saxon-Weymar,</HI> left Gover+nour at <HI>Konig&s;hoven,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>joynes with <HI>Horn,</HI> 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>FAlkenaw</HI> taken by the <HI>Saxons;</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they beaten out againe, 21<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Forcheim,</HI> the Imperiali&s;ts retire th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ther out of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Tilly</HI> comes into it, 12<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franckendale</HI> blockt up, 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>the State of it after, 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franckford,</HI> the Kings demands to i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>it a&s;&s;ents to the King, 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>the Kings Thank&s;giving for it, 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>King returnes out of the <HI>Ring a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>
<PB REF="135"> thorow it with his Army, 42</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franconia,</HI> the King mooves towards it, 5
<LIST>
<ITEM>writes to the Gentry and Cities of it, 9</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frei&s;ing</HI> taken by the King, 167</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fridberg</HI> taken by <HI>Haubald,</HI> 56</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Friedberg</HI> taken by the King, 151</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fugger</HI> an Imperiall Generall, 110
<LIST>
<ITEM>puts a garri&s;on into <HI>Ausburg,</HI> 153</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur&s;tenberg</HI> re&s;ignes his Generall&s;hip, 119
<LIST>
<ITEM>His hopes to be Generall in &s;tead of <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 220</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urt,</HI> the King encamps at it, 129</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>GVntzenhau&s;en</HI> taken by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 114
<LIST>
<ITEM>recovered by <HI>Horn,</HI> 98</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tavus Horn</HI> &s;ent abroad, 6
<LIST>
<ITEM>takes in <HI>Gota,</HI> 6</ITEM>
<ITEM>See <HI>Horn.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>HAilbrun</HI> taken by <HI>Horn,</HI> 100</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hall,</HI> what was concluded there, betwixt the King, and Duke of <HI>Saxe,</HI> 2</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hanaw,</HI> &s;ollicited by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 21 <LIST>
<ITEM>the Earle befriends the King, 22</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes townes for him, 84</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Haubald</HI> &s;urprizes <HI>Hanaw,</HI> 22
<LIST>
<ITEM>&s;ummons the Countrey, 26</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes <HI>Frydberg,</HI> 56</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eidleberg</HI> &s;lightly blockt up, 60
<LIST>
<ITEM>the State of it after, 85</ITEM>
<ITEM>the Kings purpo&s;e of be&s;ieging of it diverted, 43</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">epburn</HI> or <HI>Hebron,</HI> Sir <HI>Iohn,</HI> takes <HI>Oxenfurt,</HI> 8
<LIST>
<ITEM>Keepes it again&s;t <HI>Tilly,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM>Takes <HI>Oppenheim</HI> Fort, 45</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hoch&s;tat,</HI> taken by <HI>Horn,</HI> 102</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hoe&s;t</HI> taken, 33</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hoffkirck,</HI> Governour of <HI>Prage,</HI> 208</ITEM>
<ITEM>Defeats the <HI>Crabats,</HI> 211
<LIST>
<ITEM>relieves <HI>Brandeis,</HI> 213</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Holck</HI> takes <HI>Egra</HI> and <HI>Elnbogen,</HI> 232</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Horn</HI> put out of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> 91
<LIST>
<ITEM>his Letter of it to the King, 89</ITEM>
<ITEM>defeats two <HI>Tillian</HI> Regiments, 92</ITEM>
<ITEM>retires to <HI>Gelter&s;heim</HI> 93</ITEM>
<ITEM>recovers townes in <HI>Franconia,</HI> 97</ITEM>
<ITEM>goes to &s;ee <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 100</ITEM>
<ITEM>prepares to fall into <HI>Bamberg,</HI> 101</ITEM>
<ITEM>the Rayne hinders him, 104</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;ent to pur&s;ue <HI>Tilly,</HI> 151</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes <HI>Land&s;hutt,</HI> 160</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hor&s;e &s;hot under the King, 161
<LIST>
<ITEM>dig'd up by tho&s;e of <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> 164</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hungarians</HI> refu&s;e to ayde their King, 224</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hunt&s;ruck</HI> what it is, 58</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<ITEM>IE&s;uites turn'd out of <HI>Memmingen,</HI> for their practices, 177
<LIST>
<ITEM>And out of <HI>Prage,</HI> 209</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ilmenau,</HI> the King comes to it, 5</ITEM>
<ITEM>Imperiali&s;ts, overthrowne at <HI>Limburg</HI> by <HI>Arnheim,</HI> 206
<LIST>
<ITEM>Attempt <HI>Prage,</HI> with lo&s;&s;e, 208, and 211</ITEM>
<ITEM>They recover <HI>Satz,</HI> 214</ITEM>
<ITEM>and other townes in <HI>Bohemia, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>They be&s;iege <HI>Elnbogen,</HI> and leave it, 217</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<PB REF="135">
<ITEM><HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> the King goes towards it, 158
<LIST>
<ITEM>his Hor&s;e &s;hot there, 161</ITEM>
<ITEM>the King ri&s;es from it, 163</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Italians,</HI> invited to ayde the Emperor, 220</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>K</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>KAi&s;ham</HI> Cloy&s;ter taken, 135</ITEM>
<ITEM>King of <HI>Sweden</HI> doubtfull whi|ther to goe, 20
<LIST>
<ITEM>&s;ets forwards towards <HI>Hanaw,</HI> 28</ITEM>
<ITEM>his Birth-day and Age, 50</ITEM>
<ITEM>advances again&s;t the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> 74</ITEM>
<ITEM>in danger at <HI>Creutznach,</HI> 79</ITEM>
<ITEM>marches up towards <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 126</ITEM>
<ITEM>how &s;trong, 127</ITEM>
<ITEM>encamps at <HI>Furt,</HI> 129</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goes into <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 129</ITEM>
<ITEM>his Oration there, 130</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pur&s;ues <HI>Tilly</HI> no longer. His rea|&s;ons, 133</ITEM>
<ITEM>overthrowes him at the <HI>Lech,</HI> 144</ITEM>
<ITEM>rea&s;ons for laying his bridge, 146</ITEM>
<ITEM>his judgement upo~ the action, 147</ITEM>
<ITEM>mu&s;ters at <HI>Furt,</HI> 235</ITEM>
<ITEM>advances again&s;t <HI>Wal&s;tein:</HI> his for|ces, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>takes <HI>Herspruck.</HI> Retires, 236</ITEM>
<ITEM>encamps at <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 237</ITEM>
<ITEM>what forces he then had, 240</ITEM>
<ITEM>the wellcome he gave <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 240</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>King of <HI>Bohemia</HI> comes to the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI> 75
<LIST>
<ITEM>His welcome to his people, 76</ITEM>
<ITEM>and to <HI>Sweden, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>goes towards <HI>Bavaria</HI> with the King, 126</ITEM>
<ITEM>with the King at the Battell of <HI>Lech,</HI> 143</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>King of <HI>Hungaria</HI> voiced to be <HI>Gene|rali&s;&s;imo</HI> for his Father, 220</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kitzing</HI> recovered by <HI>Horn,</HI> 97</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Konig&s;hoven,</HI> taken by the King, 7</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Konig&s;tein</HI> taken for the King. 57</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Landgrave</HI> of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> brings an Army to the King, 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>lies in the <HI>Ringaw,</HI> 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>goes home, 5<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Landgrave</HI> of <HI>Darm&s;tat</HI> accords with the King, 40</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Land&s;hut</HI> taken by the King, 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Landsperg</HI> taken for the King, 16<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lech</HI> river, <HI>Tilly</HI> guards it, 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>the King &s;eekes a fit place to lay bridge over it, 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>The place found, and de&s;cribed, 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>The famous &s;tory of the Kings pa&s;+&s;age over it, 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<HEAD>Letters.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Of the King to <HI>Franconia,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>of the King to his Generalls co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cerning the Neutrality, 67</ITEM>
<ITEM>of the Elector of <HI>Triers</HI> to his Sub+iects, 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>of <HI>Gu&s;tavus Horn</HI> to the King, 89</ITEM>
<ITEM>of <HI>Tilly</HI> to <HI>Altringer,</HI> 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>of the King to the towne of <HI>Au&s;+burg,</HI> 15<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Horns</HI> letters to them, and thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> an&s;wers, 155</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Kings letters to the <HI>Switzers</HI> 17<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Leutmeritz</HI> taken by <HI>Fridland,</HI> 23<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<PB REF="136">
<ITEM>Lord <HI>Craven,</HI> his valour and &s;ervice, 81 and 138</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lorrayners,</HI> 3 Cornets defeated, 19
<LIST>
<ITEM>their Story, 52</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lu&s;atia,</HI> taken by the Imperiali&s;ts, 198
<LIST>
<ITEM>cleered againe by <HI>Arnheim</HI> 200</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>M</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>MAnheim</HI> finely &s;urpri&s;ed, 60</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Manife&s;to,</HI> of the King at <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> 16
<LIST>
<ITEM>of the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 182</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mayn</HI> river, the King makes towards it, 8
<LIST>
<ITEM>and why, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>takes townes by it, 30</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Memmingen</HI> declares for the King, 176
<LIST>
<ITEM>the Ie&s;uites expell'd out of it, 177</ITEM>
<ITEM>the King makes a bridge there, 171</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mentz</HI> yeelded to the King, 48
<LIST>
<ITEM>fortified, and 2 bridges made at it, 51</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mergentheim</HI> taken by the King, 20
<LIST>
<ITEM>recovered by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM>repri&s;ed by <HI>Horn,</HI> 119</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mosburg</HI> taken by the King, 165</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Munchen</HI> taken by the King, 168</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>NEutrality,</HI> the Story of it, 61
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Kings letters about it, 66</ITEM>
<ITEM>not ob&s;erved by the <HI>Catholikes,</HI> 68</ITEM>
<ITEM>what the King lo&s;t by it, 73</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Neutrality</HI> de&s;ired by the Elector and City of <HI>Cullen,</HI> 87</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Newburg</HI> Duke, ob&s;erves not the Neutrality, 73
<LIST>
<ITEM>&s;ends to excu&s;e it, 151</ITEM>
<ITEM>his towne taken, 152</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Newburg</HI> towne, an Aen&s;laught upon it mi&s;carried, 140
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Duke &s;ends an Amba&s;&s;ador to the King, 151</ITEM>
<ITEM>The towne taken by the King, 152</ITEM>
<ITEM>The King goes to &s;ee it, 163</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nordlingen</HI> for&s;aken by the Imperia|li&s;ts, 19</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norimberg,</HI> a&s;&s;ents to the King, 21
<LIST>
<ITEM>the Kings care to rai&s;e <HI>Tillies</HI> &s;iege, from it, 33</ITEM>
<ITEM>the King goes to it, 129</ITEM>
<ITEM>the King encamps by it, 181, &amp; 237</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<ITEM>OAth offered by the King to the <HI>Germanes,</HI> the Forme of it, 97 and 158</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oppenheim</HI> Fort be&s;ieged, 43
<LIST>
<ITEM>taken, 45</ITEM>
<ITEM>the towne taken, 46</ITEM>
<ITEM>and the Ca&s;tle too. 47</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Oration of the Kings at <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 130
<LIST>
<ITEM>at <HI>Ingol&s;tat,</HI> 161</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>O&s;&s;a,</HI> an Imperiall Commi&s;&s;ary, 53
<LIST>
<ITEM>takes on the <HI>Lorrayners, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>goes with <HI>Tilly</HI> towards <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 113</ITEM>
<ITEM>his charge, 170</ITEM>
<ITEM>be&s;ieges <HI>Bibrach, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oxenfurt</HI> taken by <HI>Hebron,</HI> 8
<LIST>
<ITEM>the King goes thither, 27</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tilly</HI> comes thither then, 27</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oxen&s;teirn</HI> Chancellor, left Governor at <HI>Mentz,</HI> 126
<LIST>
<PB REF="136">
<ITEM>&s;ent Amba&s;&s;adour to the Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> 212</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>POpe</HI> &s;hifts off aiding the Emperor, 220</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prage</HI> taken by <HI>Arnheim,</HI> 202
<LIST>
<ITEM>divers attempts upon it, 208</ITEM>
<ITEM>repri&s;ed by <HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> 229</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Churches and Schooles re|&s;tored in <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 165</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Q</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Q&V;e&s;tenberg</HI> &s;ent to <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 221</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>RAin</HI> taken by the King, 146</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rhine,</HI> the King pa&s;&s;es it, 44</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rhinegrave</HI> &s;ent towards the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> 58
<LIST>
<ITEM>beates <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> over the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> 58</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes townes in <HI>Simmern</HI> and <HI>Tri|ers</HI> country, 58</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ringaw,</HI> entrance gotten into it, 40</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>River,</HI> the benefits of it in warre, 8</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rotenburg,</HI> taken by the King, 19
<LIST>
<ITEM>repri&s;ed by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 114</ITEM>
<ITEM>recovered by <HI>Horn,</HI> 119</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>SAxony</HI> recovers <HI>Lu&s;atia</HI> and <HI>Sile|&s;ia:</HI> and overthrowes <HI>Diepen|bachs</HI> army, 233
<LIST>
<ITEM>his proceedings, 195</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Duke attempted to be turned, 195</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adors Propo|&s;ition to him, 196</ITEM>
<ITEM>his an&s;wer, 197</ITEM>
<ITEM>he recovers both <HI>Lu&s;atiaes,</HI> 200</ITEM>
<ITEM>he enters <HI>Prage,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>he refu&s;es to treat with <HI>Wal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>and with the Emperour, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>a Li&s;t of his forces, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>excu&s;ed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Saxon-Lawenburg,</HI> &s;ollicites <HI>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>made Generall of the Ordnan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Tilly,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>Governour of <HI>Donawert,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>beaten out by the King, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Scotti&s;hmen,</HI> their valour in warres, 13.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Schwabenland,</HI> how much of i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Kings, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">
<LIST>
<ITEM>the Story of the actions abo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> 176</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Schweinfurt,</HI> taken by the King, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Iohn Hepburn</HI> takes <HI>Donawert</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">
<LIST>
<ITEM>The King acknowledges it, t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nour him, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>helps to take <HI>Land&s;hut,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>left Governour at <HI>Munchen,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Patrick Buthven</HI> his actions a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Vlm,</HI> and in <HI>Schwaben,</HI> 177</ITEM>
<ITEM>defeates the Imperiali&s;ts Boores, often, 177</ITEM>
<ITEM>brings <HI>Schwabland</HI> under cont<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Iames Ram&s;ey</HI> wounded, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Iohn Hamilton</HI> his valour, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spani&s;h</HI> beaten by the <HI>Swedes,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>the Kings fight with them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>pa&s;&s;ing the <HI>Rhine,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>for&s;ake towns in the <HI>Palatinat</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM>commanded out of <HI>Triers,</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<PB REF="137">
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aine defeated by the <HI>Rhinegrave,</HI> 74</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ey defeate him, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ire over the <HI>Mo&s;el,</HI> 75</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> accords with the King: the acti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s about it, 59</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ore actions about it, 85</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heim,</HI> &s;ome actions about it, 29</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken by the King, 30</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">burg</HI> accorded with the King, 174</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bach</HI> taken by <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 234</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> covered by the King, 236</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">campt at by <HI>Wal&s;tein, ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;h</HI> &s;ouldiers their civility, 78</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">les</HI> defeated by <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> 238</ITEM>
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<LIST>
<HEAD>T</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Hierhaupten</HI> taken by the King, 151</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> the old Count ri&s;es in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> 202</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s acts there, 202: &amp; 205</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Proclamation in <HI>Bohemia,</HI> 204</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s letters of Protection to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ountry, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lls &s;icke, 208</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ans,</HI> 3000 &s;laine, 18</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Regiments defeated, 19</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, would relieve <HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> 15</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ppeares neere the King, 18</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;es the <HI>Mayn,</HI> 26</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ollicites <HI>Franckford,</HI> 26</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">pes into the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> turnes into <HI>Franconia,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">kes <HI>Mergentheim,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arches to <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 27</ITEM>
<ITEM>The way of his flight from <HI>Leip|&s;ich,</HI> 106</ITEM>
<ITEM>his letters to <HI>Altringer,</HI> 107</ITEM>
<ITEM>recollects his Army, 107</ITEM>
<ITEM>continues his flight: and formes a new Army, 108</ITEM>
<ITEM>Falles into <HI>Ha&s;&s;ia,</HI> 109</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ioynes with <HI>Altringer,</HI> 110</ITEM>
<ITEM>number of his Army then, 111</ITEM>
<ITEM>goes towards the <HI>Mayn:</HI> and joynes with the <HI>Lorrayners,</HI> 112</ITEM>
<ITEM>goes into the <HI>Berg&s;traes,</HI> and turnes backe into <HI>Franconia,</HI> 113</ITEM>
<ITEM>joynes with the <HI>Lorrayners,</HI> 112</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;ollicites <HI>Franckford,</HI> 113</ITEM>
<ITEM>takes <HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg,</HI> and rifles <HI>On|&s;pach,</HI> 114</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;ets downe before <HI>Norimberg,</HI> 115</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ri&s;es from thence, 116</ITEM>
<ITEM>his heart mi&s;-gives him, 117</ITEM>
<ITEM>devides his Army, and puts into garri&s;on, 117</ITEM>
<ITEM>his rea&s;ons, 118</ITEM>
<ITEM>Retires into <HI>Nordlingen,</HI> 118, 120</ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;ets out again&s;t <HI>Horn,</HI> 120</ITEM>
<ITEM>Puts him out of <HI>Bamberg,</HI> 91</ITEM>
<ITEM>his owne Report of the manner, 93</ITEM>
<ITEM>retires from the King, 127</ITEM>
<ITEM>why he goes into the <HI>Vpper Palati|nate,</HI> 129</ITEM>
<ITEM>comes into <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 140</ITEM>
<ITEM>fortifies <HI>Rain,</HI> 141</ITEM>
<ITEM>His fight with the King at the <HI>Lech,</HI> 143</ITEM>
<ITEM>mortally wounded there, 144</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dyes,</HI> 161</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Treaty of <HI>Wetteraw</HI> Earles with the King, 35</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Triers</HI> Elector, accepts the <HI>Neutrali|tie,</HI> 69
<LIST>
<ITEM>his Proclamation again&s;t the <HI>Spani|ards,</HI> 72</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>V</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>VLm</HI> accorded with the King, 176</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Patrick Ruthven</HI> made Go|vernour, 176</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Story of the Actions about it, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>W</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>WAlb,</HI> the Kings attempt to lay a Bridge over the <HI>Rhine</HI> at it, 41</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> refu&s;es the Generall&s;hip, 221
<LIST>
<ITEM>Accepts it upon conditions, 222</ITEM>
<ITEM>Begins his levyes, <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>his many Titles, 223</ITEM>
<ITEM>prote&s;ts to hold the Generall&s;hip no longer: but is contented, 224</ITEM>
<ITEM>Made <HI>Generali&s;&s;imo:</HI> and on what &s;trange conditions, 225</ITEM>
<ITEM>He advances into <HI>Bohemia,</HI> 228</ITEM>
<ITEM>Propounds a treaty to <HI>Saxony,</HI> 229</ITEM>
<ITEM>and 230</ITEM>
<ITEM>Takes <HI>Prage,</HI> 229</ITEM>
<ITEM>His plot upon the <HI>Saxons:</HI> over|reacht in it by <HI>Arnheim,</HI> 231</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> goes to <HI>Egra,</HI> 233
<LIST>
<ITEM>His forces then, 233</ITEM>
<ITEM>falls into the <HI>Vpper Palatinate,</HI> 237</ITEM>
<ITEM>joynes with <HI>Bavaria,</HI> 238</ITEM>
<ITEM>nobly relea&s;es <HI>Dubalt,</HI> 238</ITEM>
<ITEM>comes along the <HI>Rednitz,</HI> 239</ITEM>
<ITEM>his &s;everall Quarters, <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>encamps at <HI>Furt,</HI> 24<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>forbeares to fight, 24<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wal&s;teiners,</HI> three Regiments of them defeated by the <HI>Saxons,</HI> 217, 218</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wei&s;&s;enburg</HI> taken by <HI>Tilly,</HI> 11<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>and by the King, 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>taken and plundered by <HI>Cratz,</HI> 17<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>and recovered by the King. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Werthaim</HI> taken, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wetteraw</HI> Earles Treaty with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King, 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxon-Weimar</HI> take <HI>Erfurt</HI> fairely,
<LIST>
<ITEM>left Governour there,</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wilsburg</HI> Ca&s;tle wrung by <HI>Tilly</HI> fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Marchione&s;&s;e of <HI>On&s;pach,</HI> 11<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<LIST>
<ITEM>viewed by the King, 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wirtenberg</HI> Dukedome, &s;ome action in it, 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wormbs,</HI> accorded with the King, 5<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wurtsburg</HI> Bi&s;hop, the King &s;ends t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> warne him of his comming, 5, 1</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wurtsburg,</HI> the towne wonne, 1
<LIST>
<ITEM>the Ca&s;tle be&s;ieged, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>the manner of the taking, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
<ITEM>a con&s;piracy again&s;t the King, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tected in it, 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="138">
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