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<P>THE LAMENTATIONS OF GERMANY.</P>
<P>WHEREIN, As in a Gla&s;&s;e, we may behold her mi&s;erable condition, and reade the woefull effects of &s;inne.</P>
<P>Compo&s;ed by an eye-witne&s;&s;e thereof: and illu&s;trated by Pictures, the more to affect the Reader.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> D^r. VINCENT. Theol.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>LAMENT. 1.12.</HI></BIBL> Is it nothing to you, all ye that pa&s;&s;e by? Behold and &s;ee, if there be any &s;orrow like unto my &s;or|row, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>E. G.</HI> for <HI>Iohn Rothwell,</HI> and are to be &s;old, at the &s;igne of the Sunne in S^t. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard. 1638.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_BEhold here, as in a Gla&s;&s;e, the mournefull face of a &s;i&s;ter Na|tion, now drunke with mi&s;ery; according to what God threat|ned by the Prophet <HI>Ieremy.</HI> Should I en|deavour by all the memorable particulars, which might be accumulated, to amplifie this &s;ad theme, the third part would bee &s;ufficient to weary thee or blinde thy eyes with teares, if thy heart were not adaman|tine. I record but a &s;mall portion of what I have &s;eene, what I have had from &s;ufficient te&s;timonies. Gall and Wormewood are ta&s;ted in a drop, and &s;o may the great Oce|an. Onely the thing I de&s;ire, is to move thy Chri&s;tian heart to compa&s;&s;ionate the e&s;tate of thy poore brethren, &s;o lamentable, and almo&s;t de&s;perate, that thou maye&s;t (at lea&s;t)
<PB REF="3"> by the vials of thy prayers poured out in their behalfe helpe to appea&s;e this wrath of Heaven which is upon them. Remem|bring withall, that as wee know not what hangeth over our owne heads, &s;o we are not ignorant of our owne inde&s;erts. Our Na|tive Countrey did &s;ometimes &s;uffer in like manner, if not mea&s;ure, as in the civill wars, and other times. Now we are free, and live in peace, every man under his owne Vine, under his owne Fig-tree; Let us not forget to bee thankfull for this unto the God of peace, and withall to &s;hunne tho&s;e provo|cations, for which hee maketh a fertile land barren, a populous Land de&s;olate, even the iniquity of them that dwell therein.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine <HI>P. Vincent.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
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<HEAD>A Preface exhortatory: Touching the u&s;e which is to be made of the en&s;uing Narration.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Men and Brethren:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_HEre followes (according to the Title) <HI>A true repre&s;entation of the mi&s;e|rable e&s;tate of Germany.</HI> A mo&s;t grave, &s;erious, and waighty &s;ubject, And above all other mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for us to peru&s;e, and ponder. We for the pre&s;ent have <HI>Hal|cion daies.</HI> Sitting as the people under <HI>Salomon, Every man under his owne Vine, and Figge-tree; No complaining in our &s;treetes, no carry|ing into Captivity.</HI> For which all honour and prai&s;e be to him, who&s;e mercy it is that we are not con&s;umed. And yet there may bee <HI>a lengthning of our tran|quillity,</HI> if wee would walke worthy of tho&s;e mercies which wee doe enjoy and <HI>learne righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e by the judgements of God which are made manife&s;t.</HI></P>
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<P>One e&s;peciall meanes effectually tending hereunto, is to be acquainted with the pa&s;&s;ages of Gods providence abroad, and to make &s;uch u&s;e of his dreadfull judge|ments as he him&s;elfe in Scripture directs us to. For our information in the &s;tate of things abroad, the&s;e en&s;uing &s;chedules may helpe &s;uch as have no better intelligence. Wherein &s;uch pa&s;&s;ages are related <HI>as may make both our eares tingle to heare them.</HI> The heads in&s;i&s;ted on are <HI>the Arrowes of the Almighty;</HI> Sword, Famine, and Pe&s;tilence, together with their pale and gri&s;ly attendants. Extortion, Rapine, &s;alvage cruelty, de&s;olations, deaths of all kinde. A &s;ad and di&s;|mall troope.</P>
<P>The &s;ubject on which all the&s;e evils light, is <HI>Ger|many;</HI> a neighbouring countrey well knowne. The Throne of Europes Empire. This is now the Stage where|on mo&s;t direfull Tragedies are acted. And therein as well the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> (the more the pity) as the <HI>Papi&s;ts:</HI> no difference for religions &s;ake; nor any re&s;pect of per|&s;ons, ages, &s;exes or conditions. <HI>The Fowles of the ayre may therein eate the fle&s;h of Kings, Cap|taines, and mighty men. The fle&s;h of hor&s;es, and them that &s;it on them. Yea the fle&s;h of all men both free and bond, both &s;mall and great.</HI> Rev. <HI>19.18.</HI></P>
<P>The in&s;tances and particulars which are here recor|ded are &s;uch as may &s;eem incredible, and cau&s;e wondring unto a&s;toni&s;hment, yet is there nothing but what may well be counted probable, a few things con&s;idered. As fir&s;t, what God threatens in this kinde for breach of his Law.
<PB REF="4"> Deut. <HI>28.53,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Thou &s;halt eate the fruite or thine owne body, the fle&s;h of thy &s;onnes and daughters &mdash;. The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eyes &s;hall be evill to|ward his brother, and toward the wife of his bo&s;ome, and towards the remnant of children which he &s;hall leave: &s;o that he will not give to any of them the fle&s;h of his children, whom he &s;hall eate, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Then what particular in&s;tances we have of like things upon like occa&s;ions in Scripture, as in the &s;iege of <HI>Sama|ria, 2 King. 6.28, 29.</HI> The certainety of the generals is beyond all exception, among tho&s;e that will believe any thing more than they &s;ee with their eyes, and feele with their hands. The time, and &s;pace that the wars have endured addes much to the probability of all ef|fects avoucht. The current yeere making up full twen|ty &s;ince the beginning. During all which <HI>Germany</HI> hath beene <HI>Acheldama, a field of blood.</HI> Vnder this word <HI>(warre)</HI> more evill and mi&s;chiefe is com|prehended than can be uttered. Weigh all things duly, the &s;everall kinds of warre, forraigne and dome&s;ticke; by inva&s;ions, by in&s;urrections, the &s;ame per&s;ons, and pla|ces being to day Conquerours, and to morrow conquered, over and over againe, and all things every day wor&s;e and wor&s;e; we may well conclude, <HI>the one halfe hath not beene told us.</HI></P>
<P>I hope none among us are &s;o prophane as to &s;ay what is this to us, bee it all bee true? and few &s;o igno|rant as not to know what God requireth of us
<PB REF="5"> in this regard. Yet it's too manife&s;t, that mo&s;t are &s;o carele&s;&s;e, that they neede a Monitor to twit them by the eare. I have therefore partly upon intreatie, and chiefly for affection unto the thing it &s;elfe, endevoured briefly to &s;peake &s;omething unto that end. <HI>The Lyon hath roared, who will not feare? The Lord hath &s;po|ken, who can but prophecie,</HI> Amos <HI>3.8. Salvian</HI> in his time, tooke great paines to prove there was a pro|vidence, when the then &s;uppo&s;ed barbarous <HI>Goths</HI> and <HI>Vandalls</HI> broke in upon the Empire, as the Sea doth &s;ometimes over-flow the bankes. But mee thinkes that alone was enough to manife&s;t <HI>the finger of God,</HI> which bred the doubt in men Athei&s;ticall. How exceeding full is the Scripture for the proofe of this? <HI>That God is Authour of all Judgements, and therefore in all wee ought to looke up unto him.</HI> All Captaines and their armies are but Sergeants under <HI>the Lord of ho&s;ts; that man of warre, and God of battell. The A&s;&s;yrian is the rod of Gods anger, the &s;taffe in their hand is Gods indignation,</HI> I&s;ay <HI>10.5. There is no evill in a City but he doth it. Behold</HI> (&s;aith the P&s;almi&s;t) <HI>what de&s;olations the Lord hath made in the earth,</HI> P&s;al. <HI>46.8.</HI> If a Sparrow fall not to the ground, but <HI>according to the will of our hea|venly Father,</HI> much le&s;&s;e are millions of men mowed downe with the &s;word, but according to his righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e in Iudgement.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o cleare out of Scripture, that wee ought to lay to heart tho&s;e Iudgemements of God, which wee are acquainted with, and e&s;pecially his greater Iudgements.
<PB REF="5"> God &s;ends one place to con&s;ider of another: <HI>Goe yee now unto my place, which was in</HI> Shilo, <HI>where I &s;et my name at the beginning, and &s;ee what I did to it for the wickedne&s;&s;e of my people I&s;rael,</HI> Ier. <HI>7.12.</HI> &s;aith God to the men of Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P>And who makes que&s;tion, but that tho&s;e <HI>Churches, Nations, Per&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Places,</HI> which have &s;peciall relation one unto another, &s;acred or civill, in the bonds of Religion, neighbourhood or commerce, are more e&s;pe|cially bound mutually to con&s;ider and bemoane one ano|thers conditions.</P>
<P>This likewi&s;e is evident, that our Church and State, and every member of the &s;ame, ought upon &s;peciall con|&s;iderations, to be cordially affected with the mi&s;eries of <HI>Germany.</HI> They are of the &s;ame Religion with us, Chri&s;tians as wee are; our peace is the weaker for want of theirs; many of our owne have &s;uffered with them. But above all is the affliction of that <HI>Royall Lady,</HI> our Gracious Soveraignes onely &s;i&s;ter, who hath &s;uffered al|ready in her Royall Per&s;on, and may &s;uffer yet more in her po&s;terity, but God forbid. But what is it that wee mu&s;t doe, or learne from the &s;tate of things in <HI>Germa|ny?</HI> The particulars are &s;everall, in &s;everall regards. In relation to God, to them, and to our &s;elves.</P>
<P>In regard of God. Wee mu&s;t acknowledge the infinite|ne&s;&s;e of his Wi&s;dome, and un&s;earchablene&s;&s;e of his Iudge|ments, and take heede of ra&s;h a&s;signing the cau&s;e. Some lay all the blame upon the <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> as if their divi|&s;ions among them&s;elves, and unnece&s;&s;ary &s;eparation (in their phra&s;e) from the <HI>Church of Rome,</HI> were the
<PB REF="6"> roote of all. But is it not more likely, that <HI>Germany drinkes now of the cup of wrath, becau&s;e &s;hee hath long drunke of the cup of &s;undry great abo|minations?</HI> The generall cau&s;e, which is &s;inne, wee all acknowledge: It were a happine&s;&s;e to know the &s;pe|ciall, according unto that, <HI>Foelix qui potuit rerum cogno&s;cere cau&s;as.</HI> But &s;uch a &s;pirit of di&s;cerning God gives not unto all. They them&s;elves be&s;t know their owne waies, ca&s;e and &s;tate, and therefore wee may leave it unto them to con&s;ider of the &s;peciall cau&s;es, whom it mo&s;t concernes. <HI>But who will not feare the Lord, and glorifie his Name, who onely is holy, and who&s;e judgements are made manife&s;t,</HI> Rev. <HI>15.4.</HI></P>
<P>In re&s;pect of them, fir&s;t let us &s;ympathize: grieve with them that grieve. Rom. <HI>12.15. and weepe with them that weepe.</HI> We are all members of one and the &s;ame my&s;ticall body, whereof Chri&s;t is head. Our peace and &s;ecurity is in a great mea&s;ure bound up in theirs: their troubles may increa&s;e ours; as they have already occa&s;ioned many feares, cares and expences: Witne&s;&s;e the great levie of &s;ouldiers at &s;ome times, and not a little chargeable Emba&s;&s;ages from our King and State. Next of all, we are to pray for them, that God would re&s;tore peace, and make up all breaches. <HI>Giving the Lord no re&s;t, untill hee make</HI> Ieru&s;alem <HI>the prai&s;e of the earth. Abraham</HI> interceded long for <HI>Sodome,</HI> how much more ought we to do the like for them? And yet fur|ther, as we have ability and opportunity, we ought to help and &s;uccour them, mini&s;tring to their nece&s;sities, recei|ving of their profugates, and intertaining them into our
<PB REF="6"> bo&s;omes, when they fly from their owne to us. Many of ours found among them a &s;helter from the &s;torme in our <HI>Marian daies,</HI> and doe &s;till, no doubt, ble&s;&s;e God for our peace, notwith&s;tanding their owne warres.</P>
<P>In re&s;pect of our &s;elves, there be many in&s;tructions which we may learne from the <HI>Lecture</HI> of their calami|ties. No privileges can finally &s;ecure a &s;infull people; for what have wee to glory in that they had not? The &s;eedes of all their evills are &s;owne in our fields. There be like|wi&s;e divers duties that wee &s;hould abound in the more: In repentance, le&s;t we bring upon our &s;elves the like: In prayer, that God would ble&s;&s;e our &s;tate and government, that by the wi&s;dome thereof we may be led along in &s;uch waies as may propagate our peace unto po&s;terity: In pati|ence under tho&s;e cha&s;ti&s;ments which we &s;uffer. Though the hand of God hath long beene upon many Cities and Townes, and <HI>his Arme be &s;tretched out &s;till</HI> upon &s;ome of them, yet is our mi&s;ery, happine&s;&s;e, in com|pari&s;on of theirs: If a gentle plague alone have affrigh|ted us all, What would Sword and Famine with it doe?</P>
<P>There be al&s;o &s;ome &s;innes in &s;peciall which wee ought to repent of; as drunkenne&s;&s;e, prophanation of the <HI>Lords Day, and other holy fe&s;tivalls,</HI> ra&s;h oathes, quickely made, and as quickly broken, together with Sacriledge, all which are mo&s;t notorious, not among them alone, but among our &s;elves al&s;o.</P>
<P>This we &s;hould doe, but what doe wee? <HI>Wee put farre away the evill day, and cau&s;e the &s;eat of vio|lence
<PB REF="7"> to come neere: We drinke wine in bowles, and anoint our &s;elves with the chiefe ointments, but are not grieved for the afflictions of</HI> Io&s;eph, Amos <HI>6.3.</HI> &amp; <HI>6.</HI> This is no &s;mall &s;inne, and if once the day of our vi&s;itation come, a &s;mall cha&s;ti&s;ement on Gods part will not be all. Oh that wee would con&s;ider, <HI>the Vialls of Gods wrath are pouring forth, as well on his owne Churches for correction, as on their adver&s;aries unto de&s;truction.</HI> Who knows how fa&s;t the day may pa&s;&s;e round? Gods arrowes are all fleet. <HI>The cur&s;e of God goeth forth over the face of the whole earth,</HI> Zacch. <HI>5.3.</HI> If the &s;innes of <HI>So|dome</HI> be found in <HI>Samaria,</HI> and the &s;innes of <HI>Samaria</HI> in <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> they &s;hall all pledge each other: for God is no re&s;pecter of per&s;ons. Are there no drunkards but in <HI>Germany?</HI> Or, doth God hate &s;inne in them alone? What are we, that God &s;hould alwaies &s;pare us? Many cry, <HI>Peace, Peace,</HI> and I with the Prophet <HI>Ieremy</HI> &s;ay <HI>Amen. The Lord doe &s;o, the Lord performe the words of them which prophe&s;ie of nothing but good,</HI> Ier. <HI>28.6.</HI> But its good to remember that of the Apo&s;tle, when they cry, <HI>Peace, Peace,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Glo&s;&s;. ordin.</HI> in Ier. <HI>7.12. Quicquid illi populo fecit Deus, timeamus: cum nos &s;imilia facia|mus.</HI> Yet no &s;uch clouds <HI>(ble&s;&s;ed be God)</HI> ari&s;e over our heads, as tho&s;e wherewith her horizon is darkened. But &s;tormes ari&s;e &s;uddenly. <HI>God creates good and evill,</HI> brings both when there is no appearance or cau&s;e of &s;u&s;picion. Not to feare, is cau&s;e enough to be affraid, if wee could &s;o reflect upon our &s;elves: <HI>As God brings
<PB REF="7"> light out of darkne&s;&s;e, &s;o darkne&s;&s;e out of light.</HI> How faire ro&s;e the Sunne upon <HI>Sodome,</HI> that day it rained fire and brim&s;tone? How poore a thing was a cloud like a mans hand, to progno&s;ticate abundance of raine by? But I mu&s;t <HI>manum de tabula.</HI> Well then, reade on, reade and &s;pare not, reade and con&s;ider, reade and weepe, imagine the Booke to be <HI>Germany</HI> it &s;elfe, their ca&s;e ours, and <HI>our &s;oules in their &s;oules &s;tead.</HI> Do as <HI>Nehemiah</HI> did, when he heard of the &s;tate of <HI>Ie|ru&s;alem,</HI> and the Temple therein. <HI>He &s;ate downe and wept, mourned and fa&s;ted certaine daies, and prayed before the Lord God of Heaven,</HI> Neh. <HI>1.4.</HI> Would we but doe the like for our &s;elves and them, God would a&s;&s;uredly re&s;tore their peace, and continue ours, for which I &s;hall ever heartily pray, and &s;o re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A well-wi&s;her to all the Churches of God.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Imprimatur Haec Epi&s;tola.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Samuel Baker.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>London, <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 22. 1637.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>CHAP. I.</HEAD>
<P>_EVills of Puni&s;hment are Gods, the evill of Sinne is wholly ours. What&s;oever was the impul&s;ive cau&s;e of his iudgements, our whole|&s;ome&s;t u&s;e is, to attribute them to our &s;ins: to greater &s;ins, greater Iudgements, &s;eeing God &s;eemeth to ob&s;erve a proportion to our de&s;erts: for, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 14.21. the Prophet &s;peaks of foure &s;ore Iudgements, that is, greater and more grievous than the re&s;t: famine, &s;word, pe|&s;tilence, and the noy&s;ome bea&s;t. With the&s;e hath he lately vi&s;ited &s;ome nations; e&s;pecially <HI>Germany,</HI> before a large, populous, fertile and flouri&s;hing Countrey. What &s;hall we &s;ay? were their &s;innes greater than ours? No, but except we repent, what may we expect? the &s;innes of <HI>Sodome</HI> were pride, idlene&s;&s;e, and fulne&s;&s;e of bread; and &s;uch they acknowledge theirs to have beene. I have &s;eene their pea&s;ants &s;erved in plate, they &s;lept
<PB N="2" REF="9"> with downe-beds above and under them: their &s;toves kept them in&s;en&s;ible of the winters cold; they ate no di&s;h of meate without his &s;auce; their plenty of corne and wine, milke and ho|ney, fi&s;h and fle&s;h, did equall that of any other nation what&s;oever. A little labour brought them in much; delicacy of living, made them incompa&s;&s;ionate of others &s;ufferings; and &s;e|curity blinded them, that they could not &s;ee the &s;torme a comming. Thus, while they &s;wim in fulne&s;&s;e and plea&s;ure, the Iudgement that &s;lept, was &s;uddenly awaked, and the fire of war was kindled in all their coa&s;ts; which blowne with the bellowes of exa&s;perated &s;pirits, hath depopulated their Land, and con&s;umed their dwellings to the ground: all lieth de&s;olate; the vineyards are not dre&s;&s;ed, nor the fields tilled: the &s;word is every where drunke with blood. Famine killeth more than the &s;word; and the pe&s;tilence, with other Epidemicke di&s;ea&s;es (warres attendants) devoure their part al&s;o; and, which is wor&s;t of all, there is yet no end of the&s;e things.</P>
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<P><HI>the blazinge &s;tarre 1617</HI></P>
<P><HI>burgers and mini&s;ters. releued in pri&s;son.</HI></P>
<P><HI>a diuine tortured with a Catt.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>CHAP. II.</HI> Of Extortions and exactions.</HEAD>
<P>_TO beginne with warre, which beganne the re&s;t, who knoweth not that this mercile&s;&s;e fury hath there plaied the tyrant ever &s;ince that burning Bea|con, the blazing &s;tarre, gave them the alarme, 1617. which the be&s;t A&s;trologers expounded the &s;word of <HI>Germany.</HI> A prophecie I have &s;eene, long &s;ince, written in a Booke, which belonged to a canonick of <HI>Nimegon,</HI> and now in the Libra|ry at <HI>Zutphen;</HI> that a time &s;hould come, when one <HI>Frederike</HI> &s;hould be King, and then &s;hould the Princes of <HI>Germany,</HI> the Nobility of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> and the people of both be oppre&s;&s;ed, and warre rage, beyond all precedent of former ages; this, if ever, is now fulfilled in our daies. And if in &s;uch di&s;order, it may be po&s;&s;ible, I will ob&s;erve this order in &s;peaking thereof: fir&s;t, extortions and exactions: &s;econdly, tortures and torments: thirdly, rape and ravi&s;hing: fourthly, robbe|ry and pillaging: fifthly, blood-&s;hed and kil|ling: &s;ixthly, burning and de&s;troying. The&s;e &s;hall be the &s;cenes of this fir&s;t act. Famine and pe&s;tilence &s;hall &s;tand for the other acts of this direfull tragedy: in which, as no action or pa&s;|&s;ion was &s;imple, or &s;ingle, &s;o can I not but with
<PB N="6" REF="11"> intermixtion, and confu&s;ion rehear&s;e them.</P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, as no province or part of <HI>Ger|many</HI> can boa&s;t of her freedome from the&s;e mi|&s;eries (though &s;ome have beene more free than others) &s;o is there no Prince, nor State, which hath not &s;uffered herein, no City, no Towne, almo&s;t no per&s;on. Every halfe yeeres, every moneths, yea, weekes relation, telleth us, of hundreds, thou&s;ands, millions of rix dollars, or guldens, impo&s;ed, exacted, extorted by the Con|querors, or &s;poylers, for the redemption of mens lives or liberties, goods or dwellings, &amp;c. Strange and impo&s;&s;ible oft-times have the ran|&s;omes beene, with which they have taxed the Burgers, at the taking in of townes.</P>
<P>And that they might have their wills in this kinde, they have called the Magi&s;trates, and Burghers into the State-hou&s;es, threatned, im|pri&s;oned, or otherwi&s;e abu&s;ed them, till they conde&s;cended.</P>
<P>At <HI>Gryphenberg,</HI> they kept the Senators &s;hut up in a chamber of the common hall, macerating, and tormenting them &s;o long with hunger and &s;moake, that &s;ome of them dyed.</P>
<P>Wee left in <HI>Heydelberg</HI> Ca&s;tle many Burgers to this their mercy; and divers reverend Mini&s;ters, who were impri&s;oned, and fed with bread and water, till the charity of the reformed Churches could relieve them.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ently after, they at <HI>Frankendale</HI> &s;urren|dring
<PB N="7" REF="11"> the towne, upon nece&s;&s;ity, could not en|ioy the articles granted them by the enemy; But were together with the grave Coun&s;ellours, and other Electorall Mini&s;ters, forced to endure &s;uch conditions, as were fitter for &s;laves and dogges, than men. Some were ca&s;t into pri&s;on, and there &s;o handled, that many of them dyed through griefe and &s;orrow. Others, though altogether exhau&s;ted, redeemed them&s;elves with unrea|&s;onable ran&s;omes. The goods of tho&s;e that were fled, were confi&s;cated: all the inhabitants, though they were willing to leave their hou&s;es, with all their furniture, were detained in the Ci|ty, and their de&s;truction mo&s;t cruelly plotted: after like manner have others beene dealt with, contrary to all oathes and promi&s;es, yea, con|tray to the lawes of nations and common faith.</P>
<PB REF="12">
<PB REF="12" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>twi&s;ted out there eyes</HI></P>
<P><HI>Raced offe there &s;kinne with knifes</HI></P>
<P><HI>hanging vp in the &s;moke</HI></P>
<P><HI>blood &s;prouted at fingers end.</HI></P>
<P><HI>plaining there faces</HI></P>
<P><HI>pi&s;&s;e poured downe there throates</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="13">
<PB N="11" REF="13">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. III.</HI> Of Tortures and Torments.</HEAD>
<P>_NOt to in&s;i&s;t on the&s;e, looke we up|on the cruelties which the licen|tious Souldier hath exerci&s;ed up|on the per&s;ons of the inhabi|tants, without re&s;pect of age, &s;ex, dignitie, calling, &amp;c. and we &s;hall rather thinke them banditos or renegado's, than men of armes, rather mon&s;ters than mankinde. Nor Turkes nor Infidels have &s;o behaved them&s;elves. Even Princes (&s;acred per&s;ons) though they never bore armes, as the old Landgrave of <HI>He&s;&s;en,</HI> and others: yea &s;ome of the female &s;ex, as the old Dutche&s;&s;e dowager of <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> have beene without any regard or pitty, taken pri&s;onors re|viled, abu&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Aronibeus</HI> reporteth from the Letters of the D. of <HI>Saxony,</HI> that &s;ome of <HI>Tillies</HI> Souldiers cau&s;ed his Subiects to be tortured, by halfe &s;trangling them, and pre&s;&s;ing their thumbes with wheeles.</P>
<P>His Souldiers, and tho&s;e of <HI>Walsten,</HI> exerci&s;ed yet greater cruelties in <HI>Pomeren,</HI> and thereabouts. They made the people by force to eate their owne excrements: and if they would not, they thru&s;t them downe their throats and &s;o choaked &s;ome of them.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="14">
<P>Whom they thought to have hidden gold or other wealth, they have a&s;&s;yed, by exqui&s;ite torments to make them confe&s;&s;e. Yea Princely per&s;onages have &s;uffered like cruelty in this kinde with meaner folke.</P>
<P>They have wound and tied about the heads of &s;uch, &s;trong matches or cords, and twi&s;ted the &s;ame till the blood came out of their eyes, eares, and no&s;es, yea till their eyes &s;tarted out of their heads.</P>
<P>They have put and tied burning Matches betwixt their fingers, to their no&s;es, tongues, iawes, cheekes, brea&s;ts, legges, and &s;ecret parts.</P>
<P>Yea tho&s;e parts which nature hideth, they have either filled with powder, or hung &s;atchels of powder on them, and &s;o giving fire to the &s;ame, they have in horrible manner bur&s;t their bellies, and killed them.</P>
<P>They have with bodkins pierced, yea with knives raced, and cut the skinne and fle&s;h of many, as &s;ome Artificers deale with Leather, or other &s;tuffe of like nature.</P>
<P>They have drawne &s;trings and cords thorow the fle&s;hy parts of &s;ome, the mu&s;cles of their thighes, legges, armes, &amp;c. through their no&s;es, eares, lips, &amp;c.</P>
<P>They have hung up &s;ome in the &s;moake, dry|ing them with &s;mall fires, refre&s;hing them &s;ometime with &s;mall drinke, or cold water. For the&s;e being &s;uch as were before overwhel|med
<PB N="13" REF="14"> with griefe, they tooke care lea&s;t in their torment they &s;hould die too &s;oone.</P>
<P>Some they have put into hot Ovens and &s;o &s;mothered or burned them. Some they ro&s;ted with &s;traw-fires.</P>
<P>Some have they &s;tifeled, &s;trangled or han|ged. This was great favour to be ridde out of their paine.</P>
<P>To many they have bound &s;o hard both hands and feete, that the blood hath &s;prouted out at the ends of their fingers and toes.</P>
<P>Of &s;ome they have tied both hands and feete backward together, and &s;topped their mouthes with clouts to hinder them from praying.</P>
<P>Some have they hanged up, with ropes fa&s;t|ned to their privie parts, and hearing their roa|ring cries, have &s;triven to out-roare and drowne their cries as in &s;port.</P>
<P>And yet more dete&s;table, where they have found poore weake Creatures troubled with ruptures or bur&s;tne&s;&s;e, they have enlarged the &s;ame by villanous meanes, filled them with gun-powder, and blowne them up as a mine, by giving fire thereunto.</P>
<P>Many have they tru&s;&s;ed up on high, hanging on their feete &s;tones and weights to &s;tretch our their bodies.</P>
<P>With Jizels or like in&s;truments they have gone about to plaine the faces of &s;ome, preten|ding that they would make it equall &amp; &s;mooth.</P>
<PB N="14" REF="15">
<P>Some hou&s;holders have they openly gelded, in the pre&s;ence of their wives and children.</P>
<P>The mouthes of &s;ome have they opened with gags, and then poured downe their throates, water, &s;tinking puddle, filthy liquids, and pi&s;&s;e it &s;elfe, &s;aying, this is a Swedi&s;h draught. So grow|ing &s;icke, and their bellies &s;welling like a tunne they have died by lei&s;ure with the greater torment.</P>
<P>Downe the throates of others, they have thru&s;t a knotted clout, &amp; then with a &s;tring pul|led it up againe to move the bowels out of their place, or &s;hew them&s;elves exqui&s;ite in &s;uch divelli&s;h devices. And by the&s;e torments they have made &s;ome deafe, or dumbe, others blind, others lame and mi&s;erable creples, if they killed them not.</P>
<P>If an husband did intreate for the wife, or the wife for the husband, then tooke they the interce&s;&s;our and he was tortured by them, after the &s;ame manner before the others eyes.</P>
<P>And (which is almo&s;t beyond all credit) when the&s;e poore pri&s;oners or patients, were &s;uffering or dying under their hands, and crying to God in their angui&s;h, the&s;e helli&s;h executio|ners would command or force them to pray un|to the divell or call upon him.</P>
<P>Infinite and un&s;peakeable are the cruelties, which have this la&s;t yeere beene exerci&s;ed by the furious Souldiers on all &s;ides.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="15">
<P>And &s;ome divels among them did proceed &s;o farre, that they con&s;ulted and devi&s;ed new and exqui&s;ite tortures, which they exerci&s;ed upon innocent per&s;ons. They tooke a Divine, (&s;ome write a Canon in tho&s;e parts, and a reve|rend old man) &s;tripped him, bound him along upon his backe on a Table, and a &s;trong bigge Cat upon his naked belly. They beate and pric|ked the Cat to make her fixe her teeth and claws in the poore mans belly. So the Cat &amp; the man, partly through famine, partly through paine and angui&s;h, both breathed their la&s;t.</P>
<P>Some of their de&s;picable and infamous ruy|tery cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Croats or Crabats, have laboured much to teach their hor&s;es not onely to kill men, but to eate humane and Chri&s;tians fle&s;h, and have con&s;ulted how to finde out torments more rare, cruell, and exqui&s;ite then ever. What &s;hall we &s;ay to the&s;e divels? <HI>Phalaris, Nero, Dio|ny&s;ius,</HI> all other tyrants and tyrannies, are in|comparable to the&s;e new &s;tratagemati&s;ts and engineers. <HI>Cauca&s;us</HI> bred them, Tygers fed them, hell taught them, and thither I remit them.</P>
<PB REF="16">
<PB REF="16">
<P>
<PB REF="17"><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Vn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;&s;e in Churches</HI></P>
<P><HI>A maide Raui&s;ched and after quarterd</HI></P>
<P><HI>Maides l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">pinge into Riu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">s.</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="19" REF="17">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. IV.</HI> Of rape and ravi&s;hing.</HEAD>
<P>_I Have &s;aid much of the former particular, and yet but little. I will now &s;peake little of this en|&s;uing abomination, and (I feare) too much. Rapes and ravi&s;hing &s;carce to be &s;poken or heard of, have they committed, beyond all humane mo|de&s;ty. Maides, and matrons, widdowes and wives, without di&s;tinction have they violated and forced, and that in the pre&s;ence of their pa|rents, husbands, neighbours, &amp;c. women with child, in child-bed, &amp;c. no penne can write it, no faith beleeve it. No Chappell, Church, or place con&s;ecrated hath beene free from the fil|thie&s;t of pollutions or mo&s;t &s;acrilegious barba|ri&s;mes. The very Ho&s;pitals and Bedlame-hou|&s;es have not beene &s;pared: their divelli&s;h madne&s;&s;e hath there found &s;ubiects for their purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>In <HI>Ho&s;&s;en</HI>-land, a poore leane bedlam wo|man, that had beene kept in chaines above twenty yeeres, was by the&s;e hell-hounds let loo&s;e. About her they brought divers others, like her &s;elfe, &s;ome madde, &s;ome dumbe, all
<PB N="20" REF="18"> wretched. They tied their coates about their cares, and &s;o u&s;ed them as I &s;hame to ex|pre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>In <HI>Pameren</HI> they tooke the faire&s;t daughters of the Countrey-dwellers, and ravi&s;hed them in the light of their parents, making them and their friends to &s;ing P&s;almes before them all the while.</P>
<P>In <HI>Holy,</HI> I have heard &s;ome with tear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ree<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> the villanies perpetrated by the German troops of <HI>Gallas</HI> and <HI>Altringer,</HI> when they be&s;ieged <HI>Man|tua.</HI> Among the re&s;t, a beautifull maid was by her parents hid in the dunghill. But they &s;ound her out, had their plea&s;ures of her, then cut her in pieces, hung her quarters up in the Church, and bid her friends pray to the Saints for her &s;uccour.</P>
<P>The Sperenrenteri&s;h hor&s;emen (as we came through <HI>Brun&s;wick</HI>-land) tooke by force a young maide ten yeeres old, and carried her into a wood to ravi&s;h her. The mother with upreard hands came running after our Coach, crying out to my Colonell, who was here a &s;tranger without command, and could not relieve her: then &s;aw wee the two hor&s;e-men come out of the wood, where they had left the poore childe dead or alive, I know not.</P>
<P>Vertuous and cha&s;te women have they offe|red to kill, or throwne their children into the fire, to make them yeeld.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="18">
<P>They have not &s;pared the very Nunnes in the Cloy&s;ters, but after they have entred by force, broken open their Trunke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Co&s;&s;ers, and ta|ken their goods, they have likewi&s;e ravi&s;hed them, and killed &s;ome of them.</P>
<P>I know the generall, a troope of who&s;e hor&s;e having done the like, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> commanded them all to bee hanged, but becau&s;e they were not all a|like guilty, they ca&s;t lots for their lives, and eve|ry tenth man died.</P>
<P>Some have leaped into rivers, into walls, or killed them&s;elves becau&s;e they would not bee &s;ubiect to the filthy lu&s;ts of the&s;e hell-borne furies.</P>
<P>Not onely &s;icke and weake maids, and wo|men have beene violated till they died, but the&s;e wretches have committed like filthine&s;&s;e with the dead bodies.</P>
<PB REF="19">
<PB REF="19" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Marchants Rob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"></HI></P>
<P><HI>per&s;ons priuelegdd Rifled</HI></P>
<P><HI>Diuines cutt in peaces</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="20">
<PB N="25" REF="20">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. V.</HI> Of robbery and pillaging.</HEAD>
<P>_NO man can now pa&s;&s;e any where in <HI>Dutch</HI>-land, but he is robbed, &s;tripped, perhaps killed. The Merchants of <HI>Frankford, Nurenberg, Lipzig Hamburg,</HI> &amp;c. have had too woefull experience hereof: witne&s;&s;e of infinite this one in&s;tance. The Merchants of <HI>Ba&s;il,</HI> re|turning from the Mart at <HI>Strasburg,</HI> and other Faires, to goe to <HI>Shoffehau&s;en,</HI> were &s;et upon by the Imperiali&s;ts in their lodging, and though they offered to prove them&s;elves Merchants, and craved their lives upon their knees, yet they killed ten of them, &s;aying they mu&s;t die, becau&s;e they were heretickes. The re&s;t leaving their goods and garments behind, e&s;caped by flight &s;tarke naked in the night.</P>
<P>The very Convoyes which waite on tho&s;e that travell to guard them are oftentimes as bad, almo&s;t, as a &s;trange enemy. They watch all occa&s;ions to take from them what they have, their money and goods, their hor&s;es as they goe to watering, or out of the &s;tables in the night, &s;poyle their wagons when they make a &s;tand, rifle and &s;trippe and meane&s;t per&s;ons if they &s;traggle from the company, and &s;o they &s;er|ved
<PB N="26" REF="21"> us all the way from <HI>Heydelberg</HI> to <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI>-land: that wee knew not which was wor&s;e our friend with us, or our enemy behinde us.</P>
<P>Two Counte&s;&s;es of great nobility with their faire daughters and followers in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, were entertained by us in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Heydelberg,</HI> the one immediately before, the other in the time of the &s;iege. When our hope of &s;ub&s;i&s;ting be|gan to faile, they went away with the enemies pa&s;port. Notwith&s;tanding which they were by them robbed and rifled in their coaches of all they had, not &s;paring the very garments that co|vered them.</P>
<P>The priviledged per&s;ons of royall Emba&s;&s;a|dours, their goods and followers cannot be &s;e|cured from them, witne&s;&s;e this yeere the &s;hame|full plundering of the Dani&s;h Emba&s;&s;adour.</P>
<P>What quarter they give to the traveller, the like or wor&s;e they afford the inhabitants. If they e&s;cape with their lives this is all, and well too: when the time hath beene that one might have travelled &s;afe from the one end of <HI>Germany</HI> to the other with a white rodde in his hand and an hundred pound in his pur&s;e.</P>
<P>Indeed they robbe one another every where out of their quarter: nor are they fellow &s;oul|diers any longer, when they have opportunity to play the theeves. Nor God nor divell doe they acknowledge, but when they &s;weare, nor is any thing &s;o vile but they will doe it.</P>
<PB REF="21" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Prie&s;ts &s;laine at Altars Altars</HI></P>
<P><HI>Croats eate Children</HI></P>
<P><HI>No&s;es &amp; eares Cut of to make hatbandes</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="22">
<PB N="29" REF="22">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VI.</HI> Of Blood&s;hed and killing.</HEAD>
<P>_AS for killing, this is the lea&s;t of all the re&s;t. Death puts an end to all mi&s;eries; onely they that &s;urvive are oft-times the wor&s;e for want of them that are dead. To re|port the blood-&s;hed of this warre, would be incredible: <HI>Al&s;ted</HI> &s;aith, that before the King of <HI>Swedens</HI> comming, it had con&s;umed no le&s;&s;e than 100000 If this be true, what hath it done &s;ince? how many millions have mi&s;erably pe|ri&s;hed? they have &s;ometimes killed one ano|ther; and among other precedents, this is not lea&s;t remarkeable, that <HI>Gourdon</HI> and <HI>Le&s;ley,</HI> Scotch Colonels, with Colonell <HI>Butler</HI> the Iri&s;h man, who killed <HI>Wal&s;tein,</HI> the Count of <HI>Tirskie,</HI> and other Imperiall officers then readie to revolt to the Swedi&s;h partie, are now, this yeere after the &s;ame manner, hurt or killed them&s;elves (as is written) by <HI>Gallas</HI> his followers, upon a di&s;pute about that former bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; a document for all &s;trangers to take heede, how they collogue with tho&s;e mon&s;ters, in &s;uch dangerous actions, who love the trea&s;on, but hate the traitor.</P>
<P>The crueltie of the Soulder towards the in|habitants of tho&s;e Countries is inexpre&s;&s;ible.
<PB N="30" REF="23"> Per&s;ons &s;ecular and &s;acred, have had the &s;ame mea&s;ure. Neere <HI>Fryburg, Holck</HI> his Souldiers cut in pieces a reverend Mini&s;ter, a man of rare learning and piety. The dogs would not licke his blood, nor touch his fle&s;h. So his friends bu|ried his mangled members.</P>
<P>At <HI>Land&s;hood</HI> in <HI>Bavier,</HI> the Souldier entring by force, killed not onely all they found in armes, but the innocent inhabitants, yea, the ve|ry Prie&s;ts kneeling at the Altars; and divers other in&s;tances of like nature I could produce.</P>
<P>Now what may the poore pea&s;ant and coun|trey-dwellers expect? to kill them if they re|&s;i&s;t or refu&s;e them any thing, is but ordinary in this warre: among the Imperiali&s;ts is a ba&s;e &s;ort of ra&s;cally hor&s;e-men which &s;erve them, and are called Croats. The tenth part of them are not of that Countrey: for they are a mi&s;|cellanie of all &s;trange nations, without God, without religion, and have onely the out&s;ides of men, and &s;carce that too. They make no con|&s;cience of murthering men or women, old or young, yea, the very innocent babes; and like the bea&s;ts among whom they are bred, do &s;ome|times eate them, when other food might be found: the poore people have by the&s;e beene every where knocked downe in the fields and waies, &s;laughtered, &s;tabbed, tortured barba|rou&s;ly.</P>
<P>Their fellow &s;ouldiers are not much behind
<PB N="31" REF="23"> them having &s;ome where left &s;uch foot-&s;teps of their cruelty, that there &s;carce remaine living, to relate the &s;ufferings of the dead. I have &s;eene them beat out the braines of poore old decrepid women, as in &s;port, and commit other outrages of like nature, which my brevity will not per|mit me to relate.</P>
<P>It is now grown &s;o u&s;uall with the poore peo|ple to &s;ee one &s;laine before anothers face, that (as though there were no relation, no affection of neighborhood, kindred or friend&s;hip among them) none compa&s;&s;ionateth, almo&s;t none cry|eth out, oh my father, or oh my brother.</P>
<P>As for quarter (that is mercy, and the &s;aving of the lives of the vanqui&s;hed, when they begge it on their knees) the vanqui&s;hers have been oft times inhumane. The Croats, till of late, never gave any quarter, but killed what&s;oever enemy they had at their mercy. The like did the Cur|lins (the regiment of hell) receive pay of them of <HI>Gaunt</HI> and <HI>Bruges,</HI> to bring the no&s;e and eares of their enemies away to their Ma&s;ters.</P>
<P><HI>Tilly,</HI> after the defeate of the Duke of <HI>Brun&s;|wicke</HI> at <HI>Heuxt</HI> on the Maine, drew out of that towne three&s;core poore Souldiers, and cau&s;ed them all to be killed in the cold blood, before the gate, &s;aying, that he &s;acrificed them to Count <HI>Mansfield</HI> their ma&s;ter. I could weary my rea|der with the&s;e examples. But I forbeare.</P>
<PB REF="24">
<PB REF="24" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>2000 villages burnt in Bauaria</HI></P>
<P><HI>No tillange nor Breding Cattell But dringe all in to Citties</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="25">
<PB N="35" REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. VII.</HI> Of burning and de&s;troying.</HEAD>
<P>_FOr burning, pulling down and rui|ning of Churches, Cities, Villages, the like hath not been heard. The Swedi&s;h army burned above 2000 Villages in <HI>Bavaria,</HI> in revenge of the <HI>Palatine</HI> cau&s;e: But their enemies &s;pare nei|ther foes nor friends. What goodly hou&s;es of the Nobility and Gentry &s;hall you, there, &s;ee fallen downe, or &s;o defaced, as is &s;carce re|parable without building new? From what quarter &s;oever the army ri&s;eth they will be &s;ure to leave &s;ome dwellings in the a&s;hes, &s;ome in the &s;moake. To that pa&s;&s;e it is now come, that every one that is a man, betaketh him&s;elfe to armes. There is now no other aboad, but &s;ome campe, no other plow to follow, no other im|ployment but the warre: for hee that is not an actor with the re&s;t, mu&s;t needs be a &s;ufferer a|mong the mi&s;erable patients. No tilling of the land, no breeding of cattell: for if they &s;hould, the next yeere the &s;ouldiers devoure it. Better to &s;it &s;till, than to labour, and ler others reape the profits. Hence an univer&s;all de&s;olation.</P>
<P>Part of the people &s;warme as bani&s;hed in &s;trange Countries, as I have ob&s;erved in <HI>Sui&s;&s;e,</HI> at
<PB N="36" REF="26"> <HI>Lau&s;an, Berne, Ba&s;il</HI> &amp;c. in <HI>France,</HI> in <HI>Italy</HI> e&s;peci|ally the <HI>Venetian</HI> Territories. From <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> to <HI>Stra&s;|burg,</HI> from <HI>Strasburg</HI> to <HI>Heydleberg,</HI> from thence to <HI>Marpurg,</HI> I &s;carce &s;aw a man in the fields, or Villages. Little better &s;hall a man finde it that travelleth from the Kingdome of <HI>France</HI> to the middle of <HI>Bohemia,</HI> from the Alpes above <HI>Au&s;|purg</HI> to the Baltique Sea, a &s;quare of land little le&s;&s;e than thrice all Great Britaine. Onely here and there, as the land hath re&s;t, the dwellers re|turne. But alas, the farre greater part are extin|gui&s;hed by warre, mi&s;ery, or length of time.</P>
<PB REF="26" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Eateing dead horses</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fowles eate the dead</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="27">
<PB N="39" REF="27">
<HEAD>CHAP. VIII. <HI>Of Famine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_FAmine commeth next in place, a thing &s;o grievous, that <HI>David</HI> preferred the pe&s;tilence in his choice. To &s;ee men &s;laine by the &s;word, or die of conta|gious di&s;ea&s;es, is not yet &s;o grievous, as to &s;ee them die of famine, or kill to eate one another. In <HI>Samaria</HI> be&s;ieged by <HI>Benhadad</HI> K. of <HI>Syria,</HI> the famine was &s;o great that an A&s;&s;es head was &s;old for 80. pieces of &s;ilver, and the fourth part of a cab of Doves dung forfifty pieces of &s;ilver. Two women covenanted to eate their children &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ively: and when they had boyled and ea|ten the one, the other woman hid hers. In the &s;iege of <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> mice, ratts, and hides were good meate, and women did dre&s;&s;e and eate their owne children, the &s;mell whereof drew others that were hunger-&s;tarved to come to &s;hare with them. But that Cities not be&s;ieged, and a Countrey naturally fertile &s;hould bee &s;o ruined as not to bee able, for &s;o long a time to afford bread to a poore remnant of people, but that they mu&s;t be faine to eate carian, yea dead men, yea one another living: this is pity|full, this is unheard of.</P>
<P>Had I not beene provided of <HI>Viaticum,</HI> at my
<PB N="40" REF="28"> comming out of <HI>Sui&s;&s;e</HI> famine had arre&s;ted mee in <HI>Germany,</HI> for there was not any where meate for money. The <HI>Italians</HI> and <HI>Spaniards,</HI> which had been at the &s;kirmi&s;h at <HI>Nortlingen,</HI> and with|out armes, wandred among the Duke of <HI>Lor|raines</HI> troupes at <HI>Nyburg</HI> and <HI>Bri&s;ac,</HI> were &s;o black and feeble through hunger, that had I not given them part of my provi&s;ion, I thinke they had rent mee in pieces and eaten mee.</P>
<P>Travelling from <HI>Nieu&s;tadt</HI> toward <HI>Frankendale</HI> in a &s;nowie day, I met, unexpected, the army of <HI>Duke Bernard,</HI> who&s;e &s;tragling fore-runners, came riding vp to me by couples, and when I looked for a wor&s;e errand, a&s;ked only for bread, which my guide gave them, &s;o long as wee had any.</P>
<P>From thence to <HI>Manheime</HI> and <HI>Heydleberg,</HI> ma|ny dead men lay &s;trewed on the way, e&s;pecially on the fire places, which peri&s;hed through cold and want.</P>
<P>Before wee were be&s;ieged la&s;t time in <HI>Heydle|berg</HI> Ca&s;tle, &s;ome of my patients, almo&s;t recove|red of their di&s;ea&s;es, &s;ent mee word, they were dying of famine, as indeed they did, except our canon helped to &s;horten their mi&s;eries. For be|ing immediately &s;hut up, we &s;hot into the towne night and day, almo&s;t unce&s;&s;antly.</P>
<P>Our &s;ouldiers at the fir&s;t, killed more hor&s;es on a day, than they could eate, le&s;t they &s;hould fami&s;h for want of hay, and tho&s;e they threw out of the Ca&s;tle, downe the rocke, which
<PB N="41" REF="28"> the enemy in the night drew into the towne, (though &s;ome in &s;o doing were &s;laine by our &s;hot) and &s;o they ate our hor&s;e fle&s;h, al&s;o our Serieant Maior &s;allied with fifty men upon the enemy being 300. entrenched on the hill on the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the Ca&s;tle, and beate them out of their workes. Many were &s;laine, &s;ome broke their necks downe the rocks: but which equal|lized the victory, the valiant Maior was &s;hot dead. Our &s;ouldiers being ma&s;ters of the trench, fell to ran&s;acke the enemies knap&s;ackes which they had left behind them. But there was no|thing in them, &s;ave our hor&s;e fle&s;h, which every day grew &s;car&s;er with us: &s;o that now we kil|led the hor&s;es which &s;tood fa&s;ting and &s;leeping on the dung-hill, not out of compa&s;&s;ion, but ne|ce&s;&s;ity. Another Serieant Maior had two very faire hor&s;es &s;hut up, our &s;ouldiers tooke the one and ate him, hee thinking to make &s;ure the other, &s;tapled him to the wall with a &s;trong chain and a padlock, but they e&s;pying their op|portunity, cut off the hor&s;es necke, left the head in the chaine, and carried away the body and ate it.</P>
<P>At length, dogs and carian came into reque&s;t, wee could &s;mell our meat afarre off, and on the table it was yet more loath&s;ome, the ta&s;te did an&s;wer the &s;mell, yet, we ate it &s;avourly, but our bread at la&s;t failing, we yeelded to nece&s;&s;ity.</P>
<PB REF="29">
<PB REF="29" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Carion Sould in the Market As Dogges &amp; Rattes</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tyteinge for Carion</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="30">
<PB N="45" REF="30">
<HEAD>CHAP. IX. <HI>Of Famine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe armies now every where o|ver-ranne the Countrey, de|voured both Corne and Cattell: &s;o they that had goods left offe|red to give all for a little belly-timber. But not &s;o obtaining it they were faine to lie upon the &s;treets and high waies, (a thing not u&s;uall with them) and to crave for Gods &s;ake wherewith to refre&s;h their dying &s;oules. But no &s;ooner had they &s;wallowed what was given them, but they fell downe and died.</P>
<P>Memorable is that &s;tory which <HI>Reinmannus</HI> re|cordeth of the Famine in <HI>Al&s;atia</HI> the la&s;t yeere, which is at this pre&s;ent yet wor&s;e. <HI>Valentine</HI> of <HI>Engelin</HI> a Citizen of <HI>Rufack,</HI> with the dead-bu|rier, delivered unto the Magi&s;trate upon their oathes, that <HI>Anne</HI> the daughter of <HI>Iohn Eh&s;tein</HI> confe&s;&s;ed unto them, that &s;he came from <HI>Colmar,</HI> where &s;hee had waited many daies before the hangmans doore in hope to get a piece of hor&s;-fle&s;h to &s;atisfie her hunger. But not prevailing, &s;he was now come to <HI>Rufack</HI> entreating them, that if there was the body of any young man or woman unburied, that they would give it her to eate to pre&s;erve her life.</P>
<PB N="46" REF="31">
<P>And that two women &amp; a boy did after the &s;ame manner &s;peake unto them, telling them that they had for a long time lived of dead mens fle&s;h, which being publi&s;hed the Cloy&s;ter of the Church-yard of S^t. <HI>Nicholas</HI> where the dead bodies were kept was locked up.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, that foure young maides had cut in pieces the dead bodies of another young maide of eleven yeeres of age, and eaten every one their part.</P>
<P>At this day it is yet wor&s;e. Many that &s;urvived the lo&s;&s;e of all they had, have for a long time &s;u&s;tained them&s;elves with rootes, Acornes, greene fruites, gra&s;&s;e, thi&s;tles, and weeds, that bea&s;ts would not have eaten, whereof they grew enraged and died.</P>
<P>The fami&s;hed have beene &s;o faint, that they have not had &s;trength to bury one another, in &s;o much, that the dead have beene eaten up of Dogges, Foxes and Wolves, and &s;ome have run madd for hunger.</P>
<P>In &s;ome cities, the inhabitants by this famine, have beene con&s;trained to kill all unedible cat|tell, without any difference, and to &s;ell them publikely: as Dogs, Cats, Rats, Mice, &amp;c.</P>
<P>A woman at <HI>Hanaw,</HI> that had &s;old dogs-fle&s;h ordinarily to the &s;ouldiers, was in the &s;treetes a&s;&s;aulted by Dogs, all her garments torne off her backe, that &s;hee was faine to &s;it downe on the ground to hide her &s;hame. And, had &s;hee not
<PB N="47" REF="31"> beene re&s;cued, &s;hee had beene rent in pieces by the Dogs.</P>
<P>Where any man had a bea&s;t left that hee carefully kept for his nece&s;&s;ity, &s;ome or other of his acquaintance, if hee could come by it, would kill and eate it.</P>
<P>They have &s;natched one from another the very &s;tinking carrion, which had lyen &s;ixe or &s;eaven weakes dead and full of magots: yea and have fought and beaten one another to get a mor&s;ell thereof, as lately happened at <HI>Dubach</HI> by <HI>Bachrack.</HI></P>
<P>It hath moved the great ones and governours of the&s;e quarters unto compa&s;&s;ion to &s;ee their people in &s;uch extreame want. In &s;o much that the noble Earle of <HI>Falken&s;tein</HI> &s;eeing his &s;ubiects crave &s;u&s;tenance of him, commanded his man to give them his hounds to &s;atisfie their hunger which they pre&s;ently killed and ate.</P>
<PB REF="32">
<PB REF="32" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>3 women killinge and after eateing each other</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wemen Eate there owne Children</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="33">
<PB N="51" REF="33">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. X.</HI> Of Famine.</HEAD>
<P>_AS the &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;preadeth by the contagion of infected bodies, &s;o hath this famine encrea&s;ed by the neglect of Providence in the di&s;a|bled and fami&s;hed. When no more food was to bee got, they were inraged like bea&s;ts one again&s;t another, and gathering together by troopes, have watched for one ano|ther upon the high waies, and &s;o murthered, dre&s;&s;ed and eaten one another. Thenceforth no man could pa&s;&s;e &s;afe on the way or in the &s;treets, except well armed or travelling with a convoy. And &s;ome of them have beene taken and &s;everely puni&s;hed by Ju&s;tice, neverthele&s;&s;e they have &s;ecretly lurked here and there, and &s;et upon the pa&s;&s;engers, as by many in&s;tan|ces, I could &s;hew.</P>
<P>It is not good to be alone; for where there is companie, the one will helpe the other in di|&s;tre&s;&s;e. The hardne&s;&s;e of the&s;e times being ob|&s;erved or rather felt, three maidens at <HI>Odenheim</HI>
<PB N="52" REF="34"> in <HI>Dirmb&s;tein</HI> by <HI>Wormes</HI> agreed to dwell toge|ther, and to partake of &s;weet and &s;ower all alike. But the proverbe is true, that nece&s;&s;ity hath no law, and hunger is a &s;harpe thorne. So pre&s;&s;ed they were with extreame famine, that they &s;ought one anothers lives to &s;ave their owne. Two of them con&s;pired together to take away the life of the third, by &s;trangling her in bed or otherwi&s;e treacherou&s;ly to kill her, and after to dre&s;&s;e and eate her up. All which they did ac|cordingly. Then the &s;econd re&s;olved to &s;tran|gle her companion, and cut off her head, which when &s;he had done, her heart being hardened, &s;he went to a village called <HI>Ridi&s;heim</HI> to a woman of her acquaintance, called <HI>Margaret,</HI> who&s;e husband was a Farmer, and kept him&s;elfe away for a time in the towne of <HI>Leyningen.</HI> The wo|man entertained her kindly, reioycing that &s;hee came yet once to &s;ee her. But in the night, lying by the &s;aid woman, &s;he cut off her head, bound the dead body upon a board and brought it to <HI>Piede&s;&s;en,</HI> where &s;he dwelt and drew it into her hou&s;e. The &s;harpene&s;&s;e of hunger pricking her, &s;he had not the patience to cut the body in pie|ces, but did cut off the head and both the hands onely, and wa&s;hed and dre&s;&s;ed them. The hus|band comming home mi&s;&s;ed his wife, and en|quired for her at the neighbours, who told him that &s;uch a maide was &s;eene with his wife. Hee went to her hou&s;e, knocked at the doore and as|ked
<PB N="53" REF="34"> her, if &s;he had not &s;eene his wife. She an&s;we|red him no. But &s;uch deedes of cruelty are hardr to bee concealed. Murther will out, they &s;ay, or the very bruits will di&s;cover it. He goes into he hou&s;e, ca&s;teth his eyes round about, pryeth into every corner: At length hee e&s;pieth an hand to &s;ticke out of the pot, which hung upon the fire. Hereupon, as overcome with griefe hee rageth and rayleth again&s;t the murdere&s;&s;e, threatneth her with &s;harpe words, &s;o that &s;he pre&s;ently con|fe&s;&s;ed and revealed it.</P>
<P>Then went he to the Ju&s;tice and complained. So &s;hee was brought to <HI>Slitzey</HI> with three Mus|ketiers. They made her hold the &s;odden hand in her hand, while &s;hee was examined: and &s;o &s;he had her &s;entence from the imperiall officers, <HI>Burgrave Philip</HI> of <HI>Waldecke,</HI> and all the Lords of Ju&s;tice, before the iudgement &s;eat. They deli|berated long about her puni&s;hment, whether &s;he &s;hould die or no, becau&s;e &s;ome were of opi|nion, that &s;hee did it not as a rationall creature but as a brute, becau&s;e the appetite of food is common to us with bea&s;tes. But wickedne&s;&s;e, though nece&s;&s;itated, may not ever goe free. Some mu&s;t be made an example for the terrour of others. She was led to the common place of iu&s;tice, her head cut off, and her body bound upon a wheele there to remaine as a &s;pectacle.</P>
<P>I cannot but write with teares what follow|eth.</P>
<Q><PB N="54" REF="35">
<L>&mdash;<HI>Quis talia fando</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mysmidonum, Delepumve aut duri miles Vly&s;sis</HI></L>
<L><HI>Temperet &agrave; lachrymi?</HI>&mdash;</L></Q>
<Q><L>What Myrmidon, what Dolop, who that beares</L>
<L>Armes under har&s;h <HI>Vly&s;&s;es,</HI> but his teares</L>
<L>Mu&s;t flow at this relation?</L></Q>
<P>No man ever hated his owne fle&s;h. But &s;uch are the children of our bodies. It is even again&s;t nature to de&s;troy &s;uch fruite. Yet the &s;harpe|ne&s;&s;e of hunger brought this to pa&s;&s;e. Oh! what is that nece&s;&s;ity which makes us breake &s;tone walls, forget the neere&s;t and deare&s;t re|lations, vanqui&s;h our naturall and mo&s;t power|full pa&s;&s;ions and de&s;troy that which wee &s;o dearely loved, &s;o carefully cheri&s;hed! At <HI>Oter|burg</HI> in the Palatinate, a widow woman dwel|ling by the churchyard (her name well known) had a daughter of nine or tenne yeares old. This childe with hunger was growne &s;o faint, that upon a time, with &s;orrowfull eyes, &s;hee &s;tedfa&s;tly looked upon her mother and &s;aid, &s;weet mother, I would willingly dye, &s;o I were rid of my paine. Oh! would you make an end of me, then &s;hould I goe from whence I came, or if I did kill you, you would bee rid of your paine. The mother looking upon her againe, &s;ighing &s;aid, and what woulde&s;t thou doe with me? The childe an&s;wered, very &s;adly, I then would eate you, for they &s;ay that mans fle&s;h is very &s;weet. The mother fell a weeping, and
<PB N="55" REF="35"> broken with her owne thoughts, as a &s;hip to&s;&s;ed and beaten betweene two rocks, de&s;perate ne|ce&s;&s;ity &amp; her motherly affection, catcheth at her head, untyeth her haire-lace, twi&s;teth it about the necke of this innocent lambe, and &s;o &s;trang|leth her, when it was dead, &s;he having nor knife nor hatchet to cut it in pieces, tooke a &s;pade, and therewith hewed it into gobbets, and &s;o dre&s;|&s;ing the head and part of the body devoured it. Some part thereof &s;hee &s;ould to her neighbours for foure &s;tivers the pound.</P>
<P>Her childe being long mi&s;&s;ed, her acquain|tance asked her where it was, and how &s;he came by that fle&s;h. She an&s;wered it was hogs-fle&s;h, which &s;he had got of the &s;ouldiers, who pa&s;&s;ed that way. But perceiving the truth would come out, &s;he at la&s;t confe&s;&s;ed it. Whereupon &s;he was complained of to the iu&s;tice at <HI>Key&s;ars Lauteren,</HI> and put in pri&s;on by <HI>Ionker van Effren,</HI> and ad|iudged to an halfe pound of bread, and a kanne of water a day, &s;o to expect her &s;entence. But being &s;ent for out of pri&s;on and examined by the lords &s;hee told them &s;he was happy, that &s;he was in pri&s;on, and would be glad to lie there all her life, to &s;lake her hunger and refre&s;h her|&s;elfe with &s;uch food, her pricking paine being thereby abated. This &s;o moved the Lords to pitty, that they freed her from pri&s;on, and let her goe as innocent.</P>
<P>I cannot but record another &s;tory of like na|ture,
<PB N="56" REF="36"> of the woman of <HI>Hornebach,</HI> where was &s;ometime the Princely &s;choole of <HI>Zwybruck,</HI> Ha|ving lately lyen in childbed and wanting milke to nouri&s;h her babe, &s;he ki&s;&s;ed and embraced it with moy&s;t teares, and after a long di&s;cour&s;e killed it with a knife. Afterwards &s;hee dre&s;&s;ed and ate it. When it began to be knowne, &s;hee was examined before the iu&s;tices. The Lords a&s;|ked her, wherefore &s;hee killed her childe. She made an&s;wer that mighty and intollerable hun|ger had made her &s;o to doe, and that it was her owne fruite, of which &s;hee might better make u&s;e, then of any other. Neverthele&s;&s;e &s;he was condemned to dye, and accordingly executed.</P>
<PB REF="36">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Dead Corpes digd out of there Grauesto Cate</HI></P>
<P><HI>Some take poy&s;on to hasten death</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<PB REF="37">
<PB N="59" REF="37">
<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XI.</HI> Of Famine.</HEAD>
<P>_I Am now weary of the&s;e lamen|table relations. Yet more mi&s;e|rable (if more mi&s;erable can be) have en&s;ued. They have traced the dead bodies to the place of their buriall, digged them out of their graves dre&s;&s;ed and eaten them. So that in divers places (at <HI>Wormes</HI> e&s;pe|cially) they have beene faine to &s;et watch at the Church yardes, and over the graves to keepe the dead from being &s;tolne and eaten.</P>
<P>In <HI>Saxony</HI> at this pre&s;ent the ca&s;e is &s;o mi&s;era|ble in this kind, that no pen can expre&s;&s;e it. The Saxon-Au&s;trian armie (were they not beaten) mu&s;t retreite through hunger, having fami&s;hed both the inhabitants and them&s;elves.</P>
<P>After the &s;ame manner it is upon the Rhine, and many other parts, where the armies are or have lately beene.</P>
<P>To that extremity it is come, that &s;ome con|&s;trained by hunger, have taken poy&s;on to ad|vance death.</P>
<PB N="60" REF="38">
<P>In a word, the very wilde bea&s;ts in the woods doe &s;tarve for want of prey.</P>
<P>My Lord the Earle of <HI>Arundel</HI> travelling homewards towards <HI>Franckefort</HI> on the <HI>Maine,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> boore or pea&s;ant of the country, being thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> guide, and having his Legs beare, a fox pur&s;ued him, among my Lords followers, and would not forbeare &s;natching and biting at his bare heeles, (&s;uch was his hunger) till they gave him a blow in the necke, and &s;o tooke him alive. Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> eyes were &s;uncke, his bones &s;tucke out, and he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was &s;o extreme leane, that his &s;ides almo&s;t me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> together. They carried him alive with them in the coach, and after a few daies he died.</P>
<P>An Engli&s;h gentleman arrived here the othe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> day, who travelling from <HI>Vlmes</HI> to <HI>Nurenburg,</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o through <HI>Germany</HI> for <HI>England,</HI> with &s;uch com+panions as guided him by-waies for e&s;caping o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;ouldiers, reporteth that Wolves, Foxes an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other wilde bea&s;ts ly dead for want of food, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that in &s;ome places men live onely upon rob+bery and &s;poile of &s;trangers, or one another The every being become a trade.</P>
<PB REF="38" MS="y">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>in Ba&s;ile 1633 died. 20000</HI></P>
<P><HI>in Trent 1634 died 30000</HI></P>
<P><HI>Generall Holcke offred 600 Rixdollers for a diuin to comforte him.</HI></P>
</FIGURE></P>
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<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XII.</HI> Of &s;ickne&s;&s;e and di&s;ea&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>_DI&s;ea&s;es are more feared as they are more dangerous. Great di&s;ea&s;es for their difficulty of cure, acute or &s;harpe di&s;ea&s;es, becau&s;e when they kill they di&s;|patch &s;uddenly. But Epi|demick and contagious maladies have yet &s;omething more, be&s;ides their greatne&s;&s;e, be&s;ides their acutene&s;&s;e to make them terrible. And that is this, that they deprive a man of the comfort of his ac|quaintance, neighbours, friends, kinsfolkes, &amp;c. Adde hereunto that for the&s;e wee &s;el|dome know any &s;pecificall remedy, for the pe&s;tilence I am &s;ure there is none, as being Gods immediate judgement, though oft times hee u&s;eth the mini&s;tery of &s;econdary cau&s;es, for the executing of his further plea&s;ure herein, I have made tryall of all &s;orts of antidotes vegetable, minerall, animall, and that according to rationall method, yet am I almo&s;t as farre from the cure, as ever. The&s;e di&s;ea&s;es are oft times warres conco|mitants or effects. Rare it is for a great Ar|mie
<PB N="64" REF="40"> to &s;tay long in a place, and not to leave &s;ome infection behind. Beyond the Dona, after the Swedens departure from thence with their Armies, di&s;ea&s;es unheard of, and the pe&s;t withall &s;wept away a world of people. The like happened &s;hortly after, about <HI>Nurrenberg</HI> in the high Palatinate, and on the frontiers of <HI>Boheme.</HI></P>
<P>Before Ma&s;treicht, after the Towne was taken, our quarters had contracted infecti|ous &s;ickne&s;&s;es: whereof I my &s;elfe had my &s;hare, being left &s;icke in the Towne of a purple Feaver. But the yeere following both the Towne and Countrie were grievou&s;ly affli|cted, with Feavers, Fluxes, and the Plague a|bove all.</P>
<P>The &s;ame yeare <HI>El&s;as</HI> or <HI>Al&s;atia</HI> and the lower Palatinate, where the Armies of the Duke of <HI>Lorraine</HI> and the Rhinegrave had lodged, did &s;uffer mi&s;erably in this kinde.</P>
<P>The Army of the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> having ta|ken <HI>Rhineberg,</HI> and marching toward <HI>Ma&s;tricke</HI> and <HI>Liege,</HI> left &s;uch infection in great <HI>Brabant,</HI> about <HI>Firkens</HI>-ward, that the inhabitants the yeare after were afraide of their owne dwel|lings.</P>
<P>About the &s;ame time, Generall <HI>Holck</HI> being &s;ent by <HI>Wol&s;tein,</HI> with 6000 to invade <HI>Saxony,</HI> &s;acked the City of <HI>Leipzick</HI> and committed as great outrages as <HI>Tillies</HI> Army had done before.
<PB N="65" REF="40"> But &s;uch a pe&s;tilence overtooke both him and his, that mo&s;t of his Souldiers died like &s;heepe of the rot. And being infected him&s;elfe, hee offered 600 Rixdollers for a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pell to in&s;truct and comfort him. But both him&s;elfe, and his Souldiers had &s;o behaved them&s;elves, that no Mini&s;ter was to be found. In the meane all his friends &amp; &s;ervants for&s;ooke him, except his Concubine, who &s;tayed with him to the la&s;t. He had beene both of the Re|ligion and the Prote&s;tants party, but revolted from both. So guilty of his owne perfidiou&s;|ne&s;&s;e, and the execrable murders and rapines that he had cau&s;ed, he died de&s;pairing utterly of all future bli&s;&s;e. At length came a Mini&s;ter, but <HI>Holck</HI> was dead before.</P>
<P>The City of <HI>Ba&s;ile</HI> that winter, lo&s;t above 20000. of the plague. They of the City of <HI>Trent,</HI> their neighbours rejoyced at their &s;ufferings, as being their enemies in religion. But it fell out with the~, as with <HI>Edom</HI> in <HI>Obadiah, v.</HI> 15. that moc|ked <HI>Iacob</HI> in his di&s;tre&s;&s;e. The Winter following, 1634. the pe&s;tilence &s;o raged among the Tri|dentines, that we were forbidden to come that way, for the &s;icke and &s;ound were mixed toge|ther, and that City (not great) buried above 30000.</P>
<P>Be&s;ieged in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Heidleberg</HI> I vi&s;ited every day, divers &s;icke of the Plague, and like di&s;ea&s;es. But in neither of the&s;e two great
<PB N="66" REF="41"> plagues in <HI>London,</HI> nor in any other, that I have beene in did I ever finde the cau&s;e &s;o virulent, the &s;ymptomes &s;o incorrigible, the di&s;ea&s;e &s;o incurable. Some died raging, others were kil|led with their carbuncles, when the venome &s;eemed to bee expelled from the inward parts, others were &s;wollen and di&s;coloured, as though they had taken poy&s;on, and &s;ome that died were &s;o &s;potted, as I never &s;aw the like. If any &s;ouldier were but &s;leightly wounded, pre&s;ently it became a maligne ulcer, though all good in|ward and outward meanes were u&s;ed. If the infection got into a kindred, it killed parents, children, and almo&s;t all the blood, that were pre&s;ent. Whence I per&s;wade my &s;elfe that <HI>Hip|pocrates</HI> his <GAP DESC="foreign">, that is, the divine hand and fin|ger of God was more con&s;picuous in this, than in any other vi&s;itation I had &s;eene, though I doubt not but our foode with the aire might al&s;o helpe to empoy&s;on our bodies extraor|dinarily.</P>
<P>Toward the end of the &s;iege wee had made an ho&s;pitall in the roofe of the hou&s;e. But packing out of the Ca&s;tle, wee left there our &s;icke &s;ome dying, &s;ome crying out at the win|dowes not to be left to their &s;ickne&s;&s;e, famine, and death, and which was wor&s;e than the ene|my, of whom how they were u&s;ed wee may imagine:</P>
<P>In the Towne they were much vi&s;ited be|fore
<PB N="67" REF="41"> we were &s;hut up: which could not but be augmented by the multitudes of the enemie.</P>
<P>In the &s;iege of <HI>Hanaw</HI> were buried (mo&s;t of the plague) above 22000 people, and had not God &s;ent that &s;ickne&s;&s;e to dimini&s;h their num|bers, they had yeelded the towne through want of victuals.</P>
<P>In the &s;ame &s;iege, Souldiers that went to the guard &s;eeing and well, came off &s;trucken &s;tarke blind thirty at a time. Afterwards the di&s;ea&s;e falling into their legges, the mo&s;t of them reco|vered.</P>
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<P><HI>In Bauier men not left to bury the dead, but Rattes and mice devoured there carca&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Haue pittey vpon me, haue pittey vpon me, o yee my frends for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>CHAP. XIII.</HI> Of &s;ickne&s;&s;e and di&s;ea&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>_THe yeare 1635 almo&s;t whole <HI>Germany</HI> felt this puni&s;hment, in mo&s;t grie|vous wi&s;e. In <HI>Swaben</HI> the Countrey of <HI>Tyroll,</HI> all along the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and the Maine, it was &s;o furiou&s;ly hot, that all places were alike &s;afe. The King of <HI>Hun|gary</HI> was faine to di&s;&s;olve his Court and &s;end them away into divers Cities, for their &s;afer abode.</P>
<P>In <HI>Swaben</HI> the inhabitants of <HI>Memingen, Campden,</HI> and <HI>I&s;uen</HI> were utterly con&s;umed, and none left. In the Countrey thereabout, in which were more than thirty thou&s;and men heretofore, were not foure hundred &s;oules to be found.</P>
<P>In the confines of <HI>Bavier</HI> the living were no|thing neere able to bury the dead. But Rats and Mice devoured their carca&s;&s;es, mo&s;t horrible to behold.</P>
<P>The low Countries &s;marted &s;ore al&s;o. The Univer&s;ity of <HI>Leyden</HI> buried thirty thou|&s;and. The Countrey Villages and the Hague,
<PB N="72" REF="44"> (where I was &s;hut up my &s;elfe) were mi&s;erably afflicted. The Infant Cardinall was forced to remove from <HI>Bruxels</HI> and <HI>Antwerp,</HI> the &s;ickne&s;&s;e did &s;o encrea&s;e, in tho&s;e places.</P>
<P><HI>Nimegen, Emerike, Rees, Guelders,</HI> with other places neere, were not onely vi&s;ited therewith (whereof the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Aytona,</HI> the Spani&s;h Generall, and other Commanders died) but new contagious di&s;ea&s;es, among which were &s;trange Fluxes, and a kinde of pox unheard of.</P>
<P>The Emperours Army di&s;per&s;ing all over for want of re&s;i&s;tance, did al&s;o &s;catter the con|tagion from their quarters at <HI>Haylbrun,</HI> through the Land of <HI>Wirtenberg,</HI> that many places here|by became utterly depopulated. But &s;ince <HI>Gallas</HI> his taking in the Townes upon the <HI>Rhine</HI> &s;uch an infection happened through the &s;tinch of the dead unburied bodies, that in the Bi&s;hopricke of <HI>Meniz</HI> alone there died of this and hunger twenty foure thou&s;and people.</P>
<P>In <HI>Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomeren, Mecklenburg,</HI> &amp;c. this yeare the pe&s;tilence with like di&s;ea&s;es have beene &s;o univer&s;all, that the&s;e and the &s;word, &s;eeme to &s;trive which &s;hall be the grea|te&s;t de&s;troyer. The retraite of the Swedes, in which they did not onely evade, but cut in pie|ces many of the enemies troopes, is not &s;o fa|mous as the&s;e calamities. The very plague con|&s;umed in <HI>Saxony</HI> the other day in the &s;pace of two moneths, no le&s;&s;e than &s;ixteene thou&s;and
<PB N="73" REF="44"> &s;oules. In&s;omuch that the King of <HI>Hungary</HI> hath given command, that none &s;hall come from thence to <HI>Prague,</HI> or the Cities of <HI>Bohemia.</HI></P>
<P>As by the print of <HI>Hercules</HI> his foot you might gue&s;&s;e at his &s;tature, &s;o by the&s;e few particulars of the mi&s;eries of &s;ome places there wee may gue&s;&s;e at the lamentable e&s;tate of the whole. The warre having every where caught and ra|ged hath left &s;uch wounds as will not in ha&s;te be recured, and perhaps po&s;terity for &s;ome ge|nerations will &s;ee the skars.</P>
<P>Thus is the Virgine daughter of that people de&s;troyed with a great de&s;truction, and with a &s;ore and grievous plague. Goe into the field,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 14.17.</NOTE> behold the &s;laine with the &s;word. Enter into the City, behold them that are &s;icke for hunger al|&s;o. So are they &s;mitten, but are not healed. They looke for peace, but there is no good; for the time of health, but behold trouble.</P>
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<P>Relinquens Theologica &amp; quae prae|terea h&acirc;c in &s;pecul&acirc; occurrunt viris Reverendi&s;simis (penes quos ea cen|&s;endi e&s;t auctoritas) cogno&s;cenda, infandas lamentabilis Germaniae calamitates haudquaquam reticen|das, &s;ed pi&acirc; mente memorandas cen&s;eo.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Novemb. <HI>12. 1637.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>G. Rodolphus Weckherlin.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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