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<P><HI>March</HI> 14.</P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 23.</P>
<P>The Continuation of our Weekly Newes, from the 18. of <HI>February</HI> to this 14. of <HI>March.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Containing, amongst other things, the&s;e</HI> particulars following:</P>
<P>The good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> in the Land of <HI>Meckelburgh,</HI> with the names of the Townes he hath lately taken.</P>
<P>With divers particulars concerning <HI>Mon&s;ieur Tilly</HI> his preparation and &s;trength to oppo&s;e the &s;aid King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>The French Kings Letter to the Court Parliament of <HI>Normandy,</HI> concerning the re&s;traint of the Queene Mo|ther, and other of the Nobility of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Jn French and Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Nath. Butter,</HI> and <HI>Nicholas Bourne.</HI> 1631.</P>
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<HEAD>Continuation of the weekely Newes.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Berlin,</HI> the <HI>3.</HI> of February.</HEAD>
<P>_THe la&s;t great and &s;udden Fro&s;t, hath beene cau&s;e that the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> gave over the &s;iege inten|ded again&s;t <HI>Landsberg:</HI> And having given order for the fortifying of &s;uch places as hee hath taken, and left good Garri&s;ons every where, finding no more Imperiall troops to drive out of <HI>Pomerania</HI> he went backe with his Armie, and having pa&s;t the River of <HI>Oder,</HI> entred into the Dukedome of <HI>Meckelburgh,</HI> where comming unlooked for among&s;t the Imperiali&s;ts, (that lye here and there enquartered, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ive upon the Inhabitants, as their ma&s;ters, having a better re&s;olu|tion to eat and drinke than to fight) he awakened them with his warlike Mu&s;icke of thundering Ordnance and Muskets, mo&s;t un|plea&s;ing to them, and there made him&s;elfe ma&s;ter of divers good places and Townes; as, <HI>Friedland, Brvndenberg,</HI> and <HI>Malchin</HI> all the Imperiali&s;ts that are able to e&s;cape, flying away as fa&s;t as they can leaving every where their booties and goods, which they have the&s;e many yeeres robbed, behind them, unto their victorious enemies.</P>
<P>As for <HI>Tilly,</HI> he having written to the States of <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI> requiring them to receive into their Country &s;uch Imperiall forces as hee would &s;end thither, to bee enquartered there, and entertained by contribution untill winter &s;hould be pa&s;t, (promi&s;ing the number &s;hould not exceed 7000. men) and amplifying his Letters with many kind words; and complaints of the wants and mi&s;eries of the &s;aid Imperiall forces that came out of <HI>Pomerania,</HI> and other parts thereabouts, to move the &s;aid States to compa&s;sion; hee received for all that, for all an&s;wer, a round denyall, grounded upon impo&s;|&s;ibilitie,
<PB N="2" REF="3">the people in that Country being &s;carce able to live with tho&s;e forces that are already lying upon them and whereof they did hope and expect to be freed very &s;hortly, le&s;t all might come to a ge|nerall rebellion.</P>
<P><HI>Tilly</HI> him&s;elfe hath appointed his generall <HI>Rendez-vous</HI> for the Imperiall Forces at <HI>De&s;&s;aw,</HI> and hath &s;ent &s;ome troopes to <HI>Franck|fort</HI> on the <HI>Oder:</HI> But there is &s;mall &s;tore of victuals and munition to be found for them; and therefore great di&s;contentment among&s;t them.</P>
<P>Out of the Countries of <HI>Franconia, Suevia,</HI> and tho&s;e parts, there are now marching many Imperiall troopes towards <HI>Pomerania,</HI> and from <HI>Lindaw</HI> there are &s;ent that way 60. Waggons with Munition. But tho&s;e Imperiall. Souldiers, having lived at ea&s;e, without any di&s;cipline, are very unwilling to march, where they &s;hall be no lon|ger commanders over the poore people, and therefore they runne a|way where they can e&s;cape. The Commanders and Officers them|&s;elves &s;eeme to have no great plea&s;ure to goe; where they will bee forced to u&s;e rather their Weapons again&s;t the Enemy, than hither|to they have done among&s;t tho&s;e that could not with&s;tand. I cannot expre&s;&s;e in words, how rigorou&s;ly it is proceeded again&s;t tho&s;e No|bles and Gentlemen of <HI>Franconia,</HI> who either them&s;elves or by &s;ome friends, brothers or fathers, have in time pa&s;t &s;erved again&s;t the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria:</HI> Their Lands, hou&s;es, and goods being daily ta|ken from them, by &s;uch as come eyther with Commi&s;sion or Let|ters of the Emperour, that be&s;towed the &s;ame on them. So that whole Families, their wives and children, are driven out, to &s;eeke where to live, being not &s;uffered to take the lea&s;t thing with them. The Lord comfort them, and all his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed people.</P>
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<HEAD>Extract of a Letter from <HI>Francfort,</HI> the <HI>12.</HI> of February.</HEAD>
<P>THere is as yet no certainty, whether or no the Countries of <HI>Gu|lick</HI> and <HI>Berghen</HI> &s;hall be freed from the Troopes that lye there enquartered. The Palt&s;grave of <HI>Newburgh</HI> is &s;till at <HI>Bruxels,</HI> &s;olli|citing the Archdutche&s;&s;e to give order for withdrawing the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and Imperiall forces out of tho&s;e Countries. But Count <HI>Iohn</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> who commands the Imperiali&s;ts there (the &s;ame that was &s;o long pri&s;oner at <HI>We&s;ell</HI>) continueth in his re&s;olution not to march with his forces from thence, unle&s;&s;e he receive expre&s;&s;e Command|ment from the Emperour. Meane while the Countries &s;uffer pitiful|ly, and are altogether ruinated.</P>
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<P>The thirteene Cantons of <HI>Switzerland</HI> have beene a&s;&s;embled at <HI>Baden,</HI> where they have beene a good while bu&s;ied, to advi&s;e how to make an agreement betwixt tho&s;e of <HI>Zurick</HI> and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Co&s;tance,</HI> and the Abbot of S. <HI>Gall,</HI> who both doe demand the re&s;ti|tution of &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall goods and Churches from tho&s;e of <HI>Zu|rick</HI> and <HI>Berne.</HI> But all that con&s;ultation came to nothing. The Pro|te&s;tants there have re&s;olved and united them&s;elves &s;o, that they will give no way to the pretences of tho&s;e Romani&s;ts, notwith&s;tanding the injuries and &s;cornfull words, which daily the Papi&s;ts Prie&s;ts vt|ter, both publikely and privately, and not without threatnings a|gain&s;t them.</P>
<P>The Prote&s;tant Princes and States, which remaine yet breathing in <HI>Germany,</HI> are now together at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> at which Towne the Ele|ctor of <HI>Saxen</HI> arrived on the 4. of February la&s;t, with a Trayne con|&s;i&s;ting of 700. hor&s;es. And on the &s;ame day there arrived al&s;o in per&s;on the Elector of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> accompanied with 250. hor&s;es. The Duke of <HI>Deuxponts,</HI> (a Prince Palatine that in time pa&s;t was Ad|mini&s;trator at <HI>Heydelberg</HI>) being diverted by other occa&s;ions from comming him&s;elfe, hath given his power and Commi&s;sion to the Landgrave of <HI>He&s;&s;en.</HI> All the Prote&s;tant Imperiall Cities have &s;ent their Deputies thither; and the Circle of <HI>Suevia</HI> likewi&s;e, as al&s;o the Nobility of <HI>Franconia.</HI> The two Dukes of <HI>Meckelburg,</HI> (not|with&s;tanding that they are pro&s;cribed by the Emperour, and that the Duke of <HI>Friedland</HI> hath long &s;ince taken their Countrey) having beene invited thither by the Elector of <HI>Saxen,</HI> are al&s;o there. So that now there is great expectation every where, what will be by them re&s;olved and concluded.</P>
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<HEAD>Extract out of another Letter of the <HI>15.</HI> of February.</HEAD>
<P>THe King of <HI>Sweden</HI> pa&s;t on the 4. of February, <HI>&s;tilo novo,</HI> over the Bridge at <HI>Stett<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> with an Army con&s;i&s;ting of about &s;ixteene thou&s;and men, hor&s;e and foot, and entred into the Dukedome of <HI>Meckelburg,</HI> where (as we receive good information) he hath taken many places of con&s;equence, e&s;pecially <HI>Matchin,</HI> and is come before <HI>Gu&s;trow,</HI> which was the Princely &s;eat of the Dukes of <HI>Meckelburg,</HI> and hath, &s;ince the taking of the &s;aid Country by <HI>Wal&s;tein</HI> (otherwi&s;e Duke of <HI>Friedland,</HI> to whom the Emperour gave that whole Duke|dome) beene by him, both much fortified and much adorned, by many excellent Artificers, expre&s;&s;ely &s;ent thither; as Painters,
<PB N="4" REF="4">Gardners, Architects, &amp;c. The &s;aid Duke of <HI>Friedland</HI> intending to have there his Princely Court and re&s;idence.</P>
<P>The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> hath left (be&s;ides the Garri&s;ons of &s;uch places as he hath taken in <HI>Pomerania</HI>) behinde him in the March of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> an Armie of 9000 men. And <HI>Tilly</HI> (not knowing what that King intended when he went backe from before <HI>Landsberg</HI>) gave order for the fortifying of a place called <HI>Beskou,</HI> and &s;ent many troopes towards <HI>Franckfort</HI> on the <HI>Oder;</HI> which troopes doe there, and in all tho&s;e parts where now they are, commit &s;uch in&s;olencies, that it cannot be written: They de&s;troy and &s;poile all; and although there is but &s;mall, or in &s;ome places no provi&s;ion of victuals at all; yet what&s;oever they finde, it they are not able to con&s;ume the &s;ame, or if it is not worth the carrying away, they doe &s;poile, burne, or other|wi&s;e make it u&s;ele&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The Citie of <HI>Strasburg</HI> having, upon the &s;ummons which the Im|periall Commi&s;sioners made, for the re&s;titution of &s;ome Churches and Church-lands, refu&s;ed to obey, mu&s;t now already &s;uffer the &s;aid Commi&s;sioners in three of their Villages, where the Mini&s;ters and Schoolma&s;ters are commanded to avoyd the&s;e places: their Schooles and Churches are taken, and the Imperiall Armes (the Blacke Eagle) put upon the doores. How the people, or rather the Magi&s;trate will di&s;ge&s;t this, time will teach us.</P>
<P>The Citie of <HI>Franckfort</HI> (on the Maine) is al&s;o in danger, for ha|ving refu&s;ed to receive &s;ome Ie&s;uites that came thither by the Com|mi&s;sion, they brought with them from the Duke of <HI>Baveere,</HI> and the Electors of <HI>Maints.</HI></P>
<P>We expect with great longing, what the Prote&s;tants will re&s;olve at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> where the fir&s;t propo&s;ition was ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e on the 10. of <HI>Febr.</HI> but it is &s;o &s;ecret, that I can tell you nothing more, but that we ra|ther feare their feare, than hope for any generous de&s;ignes.</P>
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<HEAD>Extract of another Letter of the <HI>25.</HI> of February.</HEAD>
<P>IT is certaine that the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> hath taken the good Towne of <HI>New-Brandenburgh,</HI> where there lay a Garri&s;on of Imper ali&s;ts, commanded by Colonell <HI>Marezan,</HI> who yeelded the &s;aid Towne by compo&s;ition, and went out (delivering the &s;ame to that brave King) with &s;ix hundred Souldiers, with promi&s;e not to &s;erve again&s;t the &s;aid King the&s;e three moneths.</P>
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<P>The nowes of this reddition being brought to <HI>Treptow,</HI> (ano|ther good Towne in the Dukedome of <HI>Meckelberg,</HI> and al&s;o kept by an Imperiall Garri&s;on) the Imperiali&s;ts therein fearing to get not &s;o good a condition, fled pre&s;ently, and &s;o left the Towne for the King, who being &s;peedily adverti&s;ed thereof, tooke the &s;ame al&s;o on the &s;ame day.</P>
<P>And we under&s;tand that be&s;ides the&s;e Townes, hee hath &s;ince ta|ken <HI>Malchin, Malchow, Dammin, Garbaw,</HI> and other places: So that he is already ma&s;ter of all the Dukedome of <HI>Meckelburg,</HI> &s;ave onely foure (but principall good) Townes; being <HI>Wi&s;mar, Ro&s;tock, Butzow,</HI> and <HI>Damitz,</HI> which is a &s;trong place, and lyeth upon the River of <HI>Elbe.</HI> What he intendeth now to doe, whether to be&s;iege one of tho&s;e Townes, or to goe towards <HI>Magdenburg,</HI> time mu&s;t teach us: for his intentions are kept in his owne bre&s;t.</P>
<P>As for <HI>Tilly,</HI> we under&s;tand that he had gathered together eight thou&s;and Imperiali&s;ts, with whom he marched towards <HI>Branden|burg,</HI> to hinder the &s;aid Kings comming towards <HI>Magdenburg.</HI></P>
<P>The A&s;&s;embly of the Prote&s;tants began at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> and the fir&s;t propo&s;ition hath beene made, but it is kept as yet &s;o &s;ecret, that we cannot heare what it con&s;i&s;ts of.</P>
<P>It is written from thence, that among&s;t other Amba&s;&s;adours and Deputies, there hath beene admitted an Amba&s;&s;adour that came from the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and another (whom they call <HI>Mon&s;ieur de L'i&s;le</HI>) from the French King. But it is much marvelled at, that the Cite of <HI>Hamburg</HI> hath not &s;ent any Deputie thither, &s;eeing <HI>Norim|berg, Franckfort,</HI> &amp; divers other &s;uch Cities (who are now in greater danger than <HI>Hamburg,</HI> and have beene warned by divers Electors, and commanded by the Imperiall Commi&s;s oners, not to &s;end any Deputy thither) have notwith&s;tanding &s;ent their Deputies with full power and Commi&s;sion.</P>
<P>Concerning the Countries of <HI>Gulick. Cleve,</HI> and <HI>Berghen,</HI> &amp;c. It is now certainely beleeved, that they &s;hall bee freed from all the troopes that lye therein, both of the Spaniards, Imperiali&s;ts, and the States: Her Highne&s;le the <HI>Infanta</HI> having publi&s;hed a Decree at <HI>Bruxels,</HI> bearing date the 19 of February la&s;t, whereby &s;hee &s;ignifi|eth, That upon their &s;tance of the Duke of <HI>Newburg,</HI> Her Highne&s;&s;e doth grant unto the Innabitants to raze and breake downe all For|tifications that of late have beene made in the &s;aid lands of <HI>Gulicke, Cleve, Bergh, Marcke, Ravenspergh</HI> and <HI>Raven&s;tein,</HI> except only the
<PB N="6" REF="5">three places that are re&s;erved. And concerning the withdrawing of all Forces and Souldiers in the &s;aid Countries, That &s;he had gi|ven order, that without &s;aile, they all &s;hould be drawne out of their Garri&s;ons on the fifth day of March, <HI>&s;tilo novo,</HI> and &s;hall bee carried quite out of the &s;aid Countries, (although the &s;aid new fortificati|ons &s;hould not yet be razed) and carry with them onely their pro|vi&s;ions and Munitions that belong unto them, leaving behind what they found when they arrived: So that the Countries &s;hall here|after remaine free and neutrall; It being under&s;tood that the States &s;hall likewi&s;e withdraw all their For|ces out of the &s;aid Countries, &amp;c. Whe|ther this hath been performed, we &s;hall &s;hortly heare.</P>
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<HEAD>LETTRE DV ROY, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>_MONSIEVR</HI> de Frainuille,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I'auois occa&s;ion d'e&s;perer apres tant depeines &amp; de travaux que i'ay &s;uppor|tez pour le bien &amp; repos de c&eacute;t E&s;tat, que i'en r'em|porterois le fruict que ie m'e&s;tois promis: Mais comme i'ay e&s;t&eacute; &s;ur le poinct de jo&uuml;ir de ces aduanta|ges, &amp; faire re&s;&s;enter &agrave; mes peuples le &s;oulagement que ie leur ay tou&s;iours voulu procurer: Aucuns factieux ennemis de la tran|quilit&eacute; publique, ayans par leurs artifices e&s;loigne d'aupres de moy mon Frere le Duc d'Orleans, &amp; en &s;uitte aigry l'e&s;prit de la Royne Madame ma Mere contre mon Cou&s;in le Cardinal de Riche|lieu, de telle &s;orte qu'aucune con&s;ideration publique ny particuliere ne la peu ramener, quelque in&s;tance ou &s;uplication que i'y aye em|ploy&eacute;e, Recognoi&s;&s;ant combien elle e&s;toit preoccup&eacute;e par de mauuais con&s;eilz, I'ay e&s;tim&eacute; &agrave; propos afin de l'e&s;loinger de ceux qui artifi|cieu&s;ement les luy pouuoient &s;uggerer, qu'elle s'arre&s;ta&s;t pour quel|que temps en ma ville de Compeigne, attendant que &s;on e&s;prit &s;e pui&s;&s;e adoucir: &amp; mettre en e&s;tat de concourir auec la &s;incerit&eacute; quelle &agrave; faict par le pa&s;&s;&eacute; au Con&s;eilz que i'auray &agrave; prendre &agrave; l'ad|uenir pour le bien de mon E&s;tat: ain&s;i que vous verrez plus parti|culierement par la Lettre que i'e&s;cris &agrave; ma Cour de Parlement, &s;ur laquelle me remettant ie n'adiouteray icy aucre cho&s;e &s;i ce n'e&s;t pour vous recommander de faire part de cette occa&s;ion &agrave; ceux de mes &s;eruiteurs que vous iugerez a propos. Sur ce ie prie Dieu qu'il vous dyt Mon&s;ieur de Frainuille en &s;a &s;aincte garde. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>E&s;crit a Com|peigne <DATE>le <HI>23.</HI> Iour de Feurier, <HI>1631.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sign&eacute;, LOVIS.</SIGNED> Et plus bas,
<SIGNED>PHELYPEAVX.</SIGNED> Et &s;eell&eacute;e d'vn cachet en cire rouge.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Et &agrave; la &s;uper&s;cription, A Mon&s;ieur de Frainuille, Con&s;eiller enmon Con|&s;eil d'e&s;tat, &amp; Premier Pre&s;ident en <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">na Cour de Parlement de Rouen.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>DE PAR LE ROY.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_NOs AMEZ &amp; feaulx,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Comme nous croyons auoir &s;ubject d'e&s;perer que tant de trauaux que nous auons depuis quelques ann&eacute;es continuelle|ment &s;uportez pour le bien de c&eacute;t E&s;tat, que Dieu &agrave; &s;oubmis a no&s;tre conduitte, &s;eroient ap|prouuez &amp; &s;econdez par tous ceux qui &s;ont aupr&eacute;s de nous, Nous auons e&s;te bien e&s;tonnez lors qu'apres auoir abbattu la rebellion de Rochelle, &amp; de toutes les Villes qui luy ad'he|roient, Re&s;tably la Religion Catholique en toutes les Pro|uinces de no&s;tre Royaume, &s;ecouru par deux fois noz alliez en Italie, &amp; r'emport&eacute; des aduantages qui nous mettent en e&s;tat de ne deuoir porter enuie a nos predece&s;&s;eurs, Quelques diui&s;ions dome&s;tiques qui ont e&s;t&eacute; medit&eacute;es par de mauuis E&s;pritz de quelques particuliers, pendant que nous e&s;tions du tout occupez aux grandes affaires dont on &agrave; veu le &s;ucces. Nous ont empe&s;ch&eacute; de jouir de la tranquilit&eacute; que nous deui|ons nous promettre auecrai&s;on; &amp; de procurer dans icell&egrave; le &s;oulagement que nous de&s;irions &agrave; nos &s;ubjetz, Recognoi&s;&s;ant ce mal, qui nous &agrave; e&s;t&eacute; d'aurant plus &s;en&s;ible qu'il nous priue pour le pre&s;ent du fruict de nos &s;oings &amp; de nos peins, qui n'ont autre fin que la de&s;charge de no&s;tre peuple que nous auons tou&s;iours eu en l'E&s;prit comme le but de toutes nos a|ctions, Nous n'auons rien cubli&eacute; de tout ce qui nous &agrave; e&s;t&eacute; po&s;&s;ible pour y apporter remede; Et par ce qu'on auoit aigry la Royne no&s;tre tres-honor&eacute;e Dame &amp; Mere, contre no&s;tre tres-cher &amp; bien am&eacute; Cou&s;in le Cardinall de Richelieu, Il ny a in&s;tance que nous n'ayons faicte, priere ny &s;uplication
<PB N="9" REF="6">que nous n'ayons employ&eacute;e, n'y con&s;ideration publique &amp; particuliere que nous n'ayons mi&s;e en auant pour a|doucir &s;on E&s;prit; No&s;tre dict Cou&s;in recognoi&s;&s;ant ce qu'il luy doit par toutes &s;ortes de con&s;iderations, &agrave; faict tont ce qu'il &agrave; peu por &s;a &s;atisfaction, &s;e &s;oubmettant auec toute l'humilit&eacute; po&s;&s;ible &amp; tous les re&s;pectz imaginables &agrave; telles loix quelle auroit agreable de luy pre&s;crire; Ce que nous luy aurions offert plu&s;ieurs fois de no&s;tre propre bouche, La reve|rence qu'il &agrave; pour elle, la me&s;me port&eacute; ju&s;ques &agrave; ce poinct, de nous &s;uplier &amp; pre&s;&s;er diuer&s;es fois de trouuer bon qu'il &s;e re|tira&s;t du manime~t de nos affaires; Ce que l'vtilit&eacute; de &s;es &s;erui|ces pa&s;&s;ez &amp; l'intere&s;t de no&s;tre auctorit&eacute; ne nous &agrave; pas &s;eule|ment permis de pen&s;er &agrave; luy accorder. Nous n'auons d'autre part rien obmis pour contenter l'E&s;prit de no&s;tre tres-cher &amp; tres-am&eacute; Frere le Duc d'Orleans, ju&s;ques &agrave; donner &agrave; ceux qui ont le principal pouuoir aupr&eacute;s de luy (&s;elon &s;on de&s;ir) plus de biens que l'e&s;tat de nos finances ne pouuoit porter, Et des honneurs au del&agrave; de ce qu'ils deuoient rai&s;onnableme~t &s;e promettre; Mais tout cela n'a pas empe&s;ch&eacute; qu'ils ne l'ay|ent faict &s;ortir de la Cour, e&s;timans qu'vne per&s;onne de &s;a nai&s;&s;ance e&s;tant e&s;loign&eacute;e de nous, au me&s;me temps que la Royne no&s;tre dicte Dame &amp; Mere y demeureroit, te&s;moigna~t du me&s;contentement, Il &s;eroit difficile que nous peu&s;&s;ions quelque adre&s;&s;e qu'on y peu&s;t apporter conduire nos affaires aux bonnes fins que nous nous propo&s;ons pour la pro&s;perit&eacute; de ce Royaume, &s;a grandeur, &amp; le bien de nos &s;ubjects, Veu principallement les affaires que nous auons encore au dehors. Pour ce&s;te rai&s;on e&s;tant apres vne longue patience venu en ce&s;te ville de Compiegne, a fin que la Royne, bien intention|n&eacute;e de &s;oy-me&s;me, e&s;loign&eacute;e par ce moyen beaucoup de mauuais E&s;pritz, con&s;pira&s;t plus facilement avec nous, aux moyens ju&s;tes &amp; rai&s;onnables pour arre&s;terle cours des facti|ons qui &s;e formoyent en no&s;tre E&s;tat, Ce dont nous l'auons faict &s;uplier par de nos principaux mini&s;tres, &s;ans quelle ayt voulu v entendre. NOVS AVONS en fin &agrave; no&s;tre grand re|gret
<PB N="10" REF="7">e&s;t&eacute; contrainct de tenter vne remede plus pui&s;&s;ant &agrave; ce mal, que nous auons ju&s;ques &agrave; pre&s;ent e&s;prouu&eacute; &s;i rebelle aux plus benigns que nous y auons apportez, Et recongnoi&s;&s;an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> qu'aucuns des autheurs de ces divi&s;ions continuoient &agrave; les en|tretenir, Nous n'auons peu &eacute;uiter d'en e&s;loigner quelques vns de no&s;tre Cour, n'y me&s;me quoy qu'auec vne indicible peine de nous &s;eparer pour quelque temps d'elle, pendant le|quel &s;on E&s;prit pui&s;&s;e s'adoucir &amp; &s;e remettre en e&s;tat de concourir auec la &s;incerit&eacute; quelle &agrave; faict par le pa&s;&s;&eacute; aux Conceilz que nous auons &agrave; prendre &agrave; l'aduenir pour garan|tirce Royaume des maux qui le menecent, lors qu'il deuoit recueillir le fruit de nos labeurs: Nous e&s;perons que la bont&eacute; de &s;on naturel ramenera &s;on e&s;prit, &amp; la reunira bien to&s;t &agrave; nous: Nous le demandons &agrave; Dieu de tout no&s;tre Coeur, &amp; qu'il beni&s;&s;e les bonnes intentions que nous auons pour c&eacute;t E&s;tat, ain&s;i qu'il &agrave; faict par le pa&s;&s;&eacute;.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Donn&eacute; a Compiegne, <DATE>le 23. jour de Feburier, 1631.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sign&eacute;, LOVIS.</SIGNED> Et plus bas,
<SIGNED>PHELYPEAVX.</SIGNED> Et &s;eell&eacute; d'vn cachet encire rouge.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER><HI>Et &agrave; la &s;uper&s;cription,</HI> Anos am&eacute;z &amp; feaulx Con&s;eillers, les Gens tenans no&s;tre Cour de Parlement de Rouen.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>The French King his Letters, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mon&s;ieur de Freinuille:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE had well hoped, that after &s;o great labours and paines which we have undergone for the good and quiet of this State, we &s;hould have received &s;uch fruit as we promi&s;ed our &s;elfe. But &s;o it is, that being up|on the point of enjoying the&s;e benefits, and ready to let our people feele the ea&s;e and comfort which wee have alwaies &s;tudied to procure them: Some factious enemies of the publike peace, having by their &s;leights e&s;tranged our Brother the Duke of <HI>Orleans</HI> from us, and con&s;equently exa&s;perated the &s;pi|rit of the Queene our Mother again&s;t our Coufin the Cardinall <HI>de Richelieu,</HI> in &s;uch &s;ort that no con&s;iderations, either publike or pri|vate, notwith&s;tanding all intreaties and &s;upplications wee have u|&s;ed, could any whit move her. And well under&s;tanding how deep|ly &s;he was prepo&s;&s;e&s;t with ill coun&s;els, we have thought it fit (to the end &s;he may bee &s;eque&s;tred from &s;uch as cunningly might &s;ugge&s;t them unto her) that &s;he abide for a while in our Towne of Com|piegne, untill &s;uch time as her &s;pirit bee lenified, and &s;o well &s;etled, that &s;he concur (with the &s;incerity which heretofore &s;he hath u&s;ed) to &s;uch Coun&s;els as we &s;hall undertake hereafter, for the good of our State. As you &s;hall &s;ee more particularly by our Letters written to our Court of Parliament, vnto which referring our &s;elfe, wee will adde nothing here further, but onely to will you that you impart this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to &s;uch of our Servants as you &s;hall thinke fitte&s;t. And &s;o we pray God have you in his keeping.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Written at <HI>Compeigne,</HI> <DATE><HI>Febr.</HI> 23. 1631.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed, <HI>LEWIS.</HI></SIGNED> And underneath,
<SIGNED>PHELYPEAVX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER><HI>The Super&s;cription,</HI> To Mon&s;ieur <HI>Freinuille,</HI> one of our Councellors of State, and Chiefe Pre|&s;ident in our Court of Parliament at <HI>Rouen.</HI></TRAILER>
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<HEAD>To the Court of Parliament, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_TRu&s;tie and welbeloved:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We &s;uppo&s;ed we had cau&s;e to hope that tho&s;e many trauels, which for certaine yeeres together we have continu|ally undergone, for the good of this State, which God hath committed to our charge, &s;hould have beene well lik'd and &s;econded by all them that are about us: Notwith&s;tanding we marvaile much, that ha|ving brought downe the Rebellion of <HI>Rochell,</HI> and all other the Townes her adherents; re-e&s;tabli&s;hed the Catholike Re|ligion in all Provinces of our Realme, as al&s;o twice holpen our Allyes in <HI>Italy,</HI> and returned with &s;uch advantages as have put us in &s;o good plight, that we need not envie any of our predece&s;&s;ors: That now certaine dome&s;ticall di&s;&s;enti|ons, plotted by the mi&s;chievous &s;pirits of &s;ome particular men, whil&s;t we were altogether bu&s;ied in tho&s;e important affaires whereof we have &s;eene the &s;ucce&s;&s;e; &s;hould hinder us from enjoying that tranquility, which with good rea&s;on we might expect, and from procuring thereby that good to our Subjects which we de&s;ire. Vnder&s;tanding well this mi&s;|chiefe, which is &s;o much the more &s;en&s;ible unto us, in that for the pre&s;ent it deprives us of the fruit of all our care and paines, which have never any other ends but the ea&s;e of our people, which we have continually in our heart, as the prin|cipall &s;cope of all our de&s;ignes. Wee have forgot nothing which hath beene po&s;&s;ible on our part to give remedy there|to.
<PB N="13" REF="8">And becau&s;e they have exa&s;perated the Queene our mo&s;t honoured Lady and Mother, again&s;t our deare and welbeloved Cou&s;in the Cardinall of <HI>Richelieu:</HI> There re|maines no intreaty which we have not made, nor prayer nor &s;upplication which we have not u&s;ed, nor any con&s;ideration publike nor private, which we have not &s;et before her, to a&s;|&s;wage her &s;pirit: Our &s;aid Cou&s;in likewi&s;e acknowledging his duty to her in all manner of re&s;pects, hath done whatever he could to &s;atisfie her, &s;ubmitting him&s;elfe with all po&s;&s;ible humility and all imaginable re&s;pects, to &s;uch Lawes as &s;hee her &s;elfe &s;hould be plea&s;ed to pre&s;cribe him; which we have likewi&s;e many times offered with our owne mouth: This re|verence which he hath ever had towards her notwith&s;tan|ding, &s;he hath divers times prayed and pre&s;&s;ed us, that wee would thinke it good to remove him from the mannaging of our affaires, which the utility of his pa&s;t &s;ervices, and the in|tere&s;t of our Authority would not &s;o much as permit us to thinke of conde&s;cending unto. On the other &s;ide, wee have omitted nothing to give content to our mo&s;t deare and wel|beloved Brother the Duke of <HI>Orleans:</HI> in&s;omuch that wee have granted unto them of principall ranke and place about him, (according to his owne de&s;ire) more meanes than the &s;tate of our Revenue could well beare: And of honours like|wi&s;e, beyond that which with rea&s;on they could expect. Notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e, they have per&s;waded him to leave the Court: Adjudging that a Per&s;onage of his birth and quality being departed from us, and at &s;uch time as the Queene our &s;aid Lady and Mother abode there not without te&s;timony of di&s;content; it would be very hard for us (doe what we can) to bring our affaires to good i&s;&s;ue, which wee propo&s;e for the pro&s;perity and honour of this Kingdome, and the good of our Subjects; e&s;pecially, con&s;idering the De|&s;ignes which we have yet abroad. For which cau&s;e, after long patience, being arrived at this our Towne of <HI>Compeigne,</HI> to the end that the Queene (who of her &s;elfe is wel-di&s;po&s;ed)
<PB N="14" REF="9">being by this meanes &s;eque&s;tred from many bad &s;pirits, may the better concur with us, by all ju&s;t and rea&s;onable meanes, to &s;top the cour&s;e of Factions which ari&s;e in our State: which thing we have often prayed her by our principall Servants: notwith&s;tanding &s;he would not hearken thereto. We have therefore, to our great griefe, at la&s;t beene con&s;trained to a&s;|&s;ay a more powerfull remedy for this mi&s;chiefe, which wee have found hitherto &s;o refractorie to the mo&s;t gentle Cures we could apply. And under&s;tanding that certaine of the Authors of the&s;e divi&s;ions doe yet continue to cheri&s;h them, we could not chu&s;e but &s;eque&s;ter &s;ome of them from our Court, and to &s;eparate our &s;elfe for a while, though with paine un&s;peakeable, from the Queene our deare Mother, un|till &s;uch time as her &s;pirit be lenified, and &s;he brought to con|cur, with &s;uch &s;incerity as &s;he hath hertofore done, to tho&s;e De&s;ignes which we are to undertake hereafter, for the &s;ecu|rity of this Kingdome from tho&s;e mi&s;chiefes that threaten it now, at &s;uch time as it ought to reape the fruits of our labors: We hope that the goodnes of her nature will &s;hortly reduce her &s;pirit, and re-unite it unto us: Which wee beg of Al|mighty God with all our heart, and that hee will ble&s;&s;e the good intentions which we have for this State, as he hitherto hath done.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated at Compeigne,</HI> <DATE><HI>Februar.</HI> 23. 1631.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed LEWIS.</SIGNED> And underneath,
<SIGNED>PHELYPEAVX.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>Super&s;cribed, <HI>To our tru&s;ty and wel-beloved Councellours, the members of our Court of Parliament at</HI> Rouen.</TRAILER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>June,</HI> 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P><HI>Numb.</HI> 31.</P>
<P>THE CONTINVATION of our weekly Nevves from Forr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ine parts. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ntay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters"> amongst divers matters the&s;e Particulars following.</HI></P>
<P>The preparation of the Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> and all the Prote&s;tant Princes, and their vnanimous ioyning with the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> for the recovery and pre&s;ervation of theyr Liberties, again&s;t the unju&s;t per&s;ecution of the Emperour.</P>
<P>The great Preparation of the King of SVVEDEN for the performance of &s;ome great De&s;igne about the River <HI>Elve.</HI></P>
<P>The Emperours denunciation of grievous Pu|ni&s;hment again&s;t the Citie <HI>Newrembergh</HI> and all that &s;hall partake with them, by rea&s;on they continue in the rai&s;ing Forces contrary to the Emperours Com|mand, to which end the Emperor hath given charge to the D. of <HI>Bavaria</HI> to oppo&s;e them with all his power.</P>
<P><HI>Two thundring Ploclamations of the Emperours, again&s;t all the Prote&s;tant Princes of the late</HI> Diet <HI>at</HI> Lyp&s;ich, <HI>and all tho&s;e which Ioyne with them.</HI></P>
<P>The Malicious inhumane Cruelty offered to the Dead bodies of tho&s;e which were Martyred at the taking of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">|denburgh,</HI> and <HI>Tillies</HI> cau&s;ing of <HI>Te Deum</HI> to be &s;ung for his Bloudy ma&s;&s;acring of the innocent Prote&s;tants.</P>
<P><HI>The late proceeding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> both &s;ides in the</HI> Low-Countries.</P>
<P>LONDON. Printed for <HI>Nath: Butter</HI> and <HI>Nicholas Bourne.</HI> 1631.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CONTINVATION OF our Weekely Newes.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Venice</HI> the <HI>24.</HI> of May. <HI>1631.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_COncerning the Peace now, there is no farther que&s;tion made, &s;ince there are no more forces leavied. And be&s;ides this, the Governour of <HI>Mylan</HI> hath faithfully promi&s;ed within the &s;pace of one Moneth, to e&s;tabli&s;h a Generall reformation.</P>
<P>The Me&s;&s;enger which is returned from his Emperial Maj. Certifie, that notwith&s;tanding his Maj. did not well like and approve of the agreement made at <HI>Chera&s;co,</HI> con|cerning the <HI>Switzers</HI> at <HI>Suza,</HI> and <HI>Avigliano.</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e, he is now willing to &s;tand to, and ratifie the &s;ame: to the end, that <HI>Jtalie</HI> might &s;ub&s;i&s;t in Peace and tranquility, and all the&s;e broyles and di&s;tractions, may be allayed and have a quiet end. And furthermore, that remainder of tho&s;e Spani&s;h forces in <HI>J|talie,</HI> may be brought together, and march toward the lower-Palatinate, there to be enquartered. For all the Forces out of tho&s;e parts are departed, and are at this pre&s;ent employed, &s;ome of them again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and the re&s;t are marched into the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> and are employed again&s;t the States.</P>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Overlandt</HI> the <HI>26.</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>The troupes of Souldiers which late came out of <HI>Italy,</HI> re|maine yet in full e&s;&s;ence, and are dayly &s;trengthened and aug|mented. It &s;eemes that whereas formerly, the re&s;olution was to bring them downe toward the <HI>Donon,</HI> the &s;ame no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> is altered; tho&s;e Forces &s;hall be employed again&s;t the League, contracted by the Prote&s;tant Princes and Peeres at <HI>Leyp&s;ich.</HI> E&s;pecially, for the defence of the &s;maller Townes, as <HI>Memming</HI> and the like. Which at this pre&s;ent are in great danger, and extreamly threat|ned, if &s;o be they would not yeeld them&s;elves to that League, and receive &s;ome of the Prote&s;tant forces, that then they &s;hall pre&s;ently be attached. Hereupon the Imperiali&s;ts doe not onely expect the re&s;t of their forces, but al&s;o certaine thou&s;ands more
<PB N="2" REF="12">of <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Italians</HI> to ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;t them. Wherefore men in the&s;e parts are much troubled and perplexed, and take great care how to di&s;po&s;e of all their troupes, and where they &s;hall become, and how they &s;hall be billetted and enquartered. His Maj. the Emperour, hath forewarned us in the&s;e parts, not one|ly to provide for the enquartering of tho&s;e <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Italian</HI> Forces, which are to come, and are now upon the march, but al&s;o to find quarter for 25000. other forces, which &s;hall bee newly rai&s;ed.</P>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Vlm</HI> the <HI>25</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>The Imperiall Forces from <HI>Jtalie</HI> being 8000. &s;trong are yet hereabouts, they enforme us that certaine thou&s;ands more <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> Forces are &s;hortly to follow them.</P>
<P>They intend to blocke up <HI>Memmimgen,</HI> and will againe re|duce the &s;ame under contribution, and bring it under the Em|perours Iuri&s;diction. And for the en&s;uring of the &s;ame, they will lay in &s;ome Troupes for Garri&s;on there. And doubtle&s;&s;e as tho&s;e of <HI>Memmimgen</HI> &s;peed, we mu&s;t look for the &s;ame, and not to fare better than our neighbours. Wherefore we of this Citie, the better to defend &amp; guard our &s;elves, we have cau&s;ed all the trees to be hewen downe, which &s;tood before the <HI>Helbergate</HI> of this Citie. The Duke of <HI>Wirtenbergh</HI> with his forces, lyes upon the frontiers.</P>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Berlyn</HI> the <HI>27.</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>The foote Forces of the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> at this pre&s;ent are at <HI>Po&s;edan.</HI> And his <HI>Cavallerie</HI> is betweene the <HI>De&s;&s;aw</HI> Sconce, and <HI>Po&s;edan.</HI> It &s;eemes as we by all circum&s;tances can gather, and conjecture, that his Maje&s;ty intends not to enquarter long in the&s;e parts. But doe rather thinke that hee will undertake &s;ome &s;iedge or other. For his Maje&s;ty to that end hath cau&s;ed many boards and other nece&s;&s;aries to be &s;hipped. And forth of every Regiment he hath taken 400. hor&s;e, for to convey the Ordnance, munition, and other Sconce provi&s;ion. The Lord Feeld-Mar&s;hall conducts an Army of 1000. men, which he doth dayly enforce and augment, and levies very &s;trongly to that end. The Forces which were in <HI>Pomerania,</HI> are now on the march.</P>
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<HEAD>From <HI>Franfort Oder</HI> the <HI>29.</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>All things here (God be prai&s;ed) are in good being, and great and vigilant care is taken for this Citie: great paines day|ly
<PB N="3" REF="12">is taken about the fortifications of the &s;ame. Within this Weeke were brought into this Citie, &s;o many hor&s;es of the Im|periali&s;ts, as made up 5. Companies compleat. The&s;e hor&s;es were taken grafing neare unto great <HI>Glogan.</HI> The Queenes Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> &s;ent hither lately two Camels richly Laden, to his Maj. with enformation, that God willing &s;hee doth intend &s;hortly to arrive at <HI>Wolga&s;t</HI> or at <HI>Straelzondt</HI> her &s;elfe in per&s;on. Ye&s;terday here marched by 3. Regiments toward <HI>Cro&s;&s;end</HI> and farther into <HI>Sile&s;ia.</HI></P>
<P>About <HI>Statyn</HI> great forces are rai&s;ed, and the King of <HI>Sweden</HI>-cau&s;es an Army to be a&s;&s;embled to a&s;&s;ault the Imperiali&s;ts which are at <HI>Melchim.</HI> There are dayly and hourely expected 2000. men from <HI>Colbergh</HI> to march hither, and al&s;o 6000. from <HI>Ru|gen.</HI> When the&s;e &s;hall be arrived, his Maj. re&s;olves with vio|lence vehemently to a&s;&s;ault <HI>Grip&s;wolde,</HI> and afterward to con|duct an Army into <HI>Mechelenbergh.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>From <HI>Leyp&s;ich</HI> the <HI>31.</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>The Prince <HI>Elector</HI> of <HI>Saxony,</HI> as al&s;o, the Marq. of <HI>Brandenbrugh,</HI> with their Dukedomes &amp; all their adherents, and Confederates, have yeelded and betaken them&s;elves freely unto the defence &amp; protection of his Maj. of <HI>Sweden.</HI> The pa&s;&s;age of <HI>Wirtenbergh</HI> is now al&s;o granted unto his Maj. At this pre&s;ent here at <HI>Leip|&s;cich</HI> are Emba&s;&s;adors of the King of <HI>England,</HI> the King of <HI>Swe|den,</HI> the Prince Elector of <HI>Saxonie,</HI> and of the Marquis of <HI>Bran|denburgh.</HI> And certaine it is that throughout the whole Duke|dome of <HI>Saxonie,</HI> the Drum beates, and forces levied openly for his Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>The Merchants here mu&s;t contribute to his Princely Excel|lence of <HI>Saxony,</HI> 6000. and the re&s;t of the Cittizens of <HI>Leip&s;ich,</HI> 2000. Florins: and be&s;ides this &s;um, a generall contribution will be rai&s;ed throughout the whole Dukedome.</P>
<P><HI>Magd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nburgh</HI> by the rea&s;on of the late mi&s;erable and hide|ous di&s;a&s;ter happened there, is reduced to an heape of &s;tones, being qiute and utterly ruinated. There are not left &s;tanding a|bove 60. or 70. hou&s;es about the Walles, and here and there an hou&s;e at the corner of a Street.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden</HI> cau&s;es a Ship-Bridge to be layd over the River of <HI>Elve,</HI> at <HI>Anger<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters">t.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="4" REF="13">
<HEAD>From <HI>Leyp&s;ich</HI> the fir&s;t of June.</HEAD>
<P>La&s;t Thur&s;day the Prince Elector of <HI>Saxony,</HI> departed hence to <HI>Torgau,</HI> to mu&s;ter, the new levied forces there, which are certaine thou&s;ands &s;trong, he will returne from thence hither a|gaine. He hath more Patents to levie other forces, both hor&s;e and foote.</P>
<P>The report here is very &s;trong, that the Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> hath &s;ent a Legate to our Prince Elector: to acquaint him, that very &s;hortly he doth intend to come him&s;elfe in per&s;on, to conferre with his Princely Excellence; declaring farther, that he had ob|tained good meanes for the contracting of a Peace; which then he would propound unto him. And that he had full authoritie and Commi&s;&s;ion from his Emp. Maj. which <HI>Tilly</HI> hath con&s;en|ted unto.</P>
<P>Within <HI>Wirtenbergh</HI> at this pre&s;ent, are 1500. Souldiers, which were levied for the Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> In their En&s;igne they bare this Motto.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ough Gods Almighty hand,</HI></L>
<L><HI>We doe defend our Land.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
<P>In other En&s;ignes which belong to the Forces of the Prote|&s;tant Princes is comprized this.</P>
<Q><HI>Not without cau&s;e, doe We maintaine this Cau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></Q>
<P>The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> cau&s;eth all the Ordnance (which he obtai|ned in <HI>Magde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">burgh</HI>) to be convayed to <HI>Groingen,</HI> and hath al&s;o given charge and &s;trickt command to two o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> three hundred Boores or Countrymen, to ca&s;t all tho&s;e Souldiers which were taken Pri&s;oners in the &s;ayd Citie <HI>Magdenburgh,</HI> with the Car|ka&s;&s;es of the poore Ma&s;&s;acred people, into the river <HI>Eive.</HI> But his owne Souldiers which were &s;laie in that expedition, hee yeelded extraordinary honourable buriall. He hath cau&s;ed the &s;aid Pri&s;oners to be &s;trictly examined, to know what is become of their trea&s;ure, and where they have hid the &s;ame The Gene|rall doth at this pre&s;ent &s;trike a bridge over the Riuer <HI>Elve,</HI> to march with an army again&s;t the King of <HI>Sweden.</HI></P>
<P>The army of the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> is pitcht about <HI>Brandenburgh, Ratenan, Nawen, Tremmen, Spandan,</HI> &amp; tho&s;e quarters. The Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> the Marq. of <HI>Brandenburgh,</HI> and more of the Vnited and Confederate Princes, have given them&s;elves under the Protecti|on of his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden,</HI> &amp; have yeelded unto him the pa&s;&s;age neare unto <HI>Wir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">bergh.</HI></P>
<PB N="5" REF="13">
<P>The report is very &s;trong here, that the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> doth intend to revenge the intollerable u&s;age of the Imperia|li&s;ts at <HI>Magdenburgh,</HI> he hath &s;ome notable exployt in hand, wherefore he hath newly layd a Bridge over the River <HI>Elve,</HI> neare unto <HI>Angermunde.</HI></P>
<P>His Emp. Maj. hath denounced Bani&s;hment, and &s;orely threatned the Citie <HI>Neurenbergh,</HI> becau&s;e they continue leavy|ing of forces his Maje&s;ty therefore hath delivered the &s;ame Ci|tie to the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> and &s;trongly charged the &s;aid Duke to per&s;ecute tho&s;e that are belonging unto <HI>Neurenburgh</HI> with fire and &s;word: as al&s;o all tho&s;e that adhere unto them. But they regard not the&s;e threatnings, but doe proceed &s;trongly with their rai&s;ing of men. And not onely at <HI>Neurenburgh,</HI> but through|out the whole Iurisdictions of all the Prote&s;tant Princes.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden</HI> hath arre&s;ted and &s;tayed certaine Mer|chants at <HI>Spancan,</HI> who were journeying toward <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> and required of them fifty thou&s;and Ryxdollers, which they were con&s;trained to pay, becau&s;e they had in their company an Emperiall Commi&s;&s;arie, who had betaken him&s;elfe into this Company, to be &s;heltered and &s;o to pa&s;&s;e for a Marchant, who otherwi&s;e in former time was run from his Maje&s;ty of <HI>Swedens</HI> &s;ervice, unto the Emperour but now is in hold.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>From <HI>Magdenburgh</HI> the <HI>28.</HI> of May.</HEAD>
<P>All the dead Carka&s;&s;es are now almo&s;t convayed out of this Citie, which have &s;orely pe&s;tered and annoyed us hitherto, and above 2500. Citizens, which were &s;laine in the fury and burnt, are ca&s;t into the River <HI>Elve.</HI> There were many of them &s;o di&s;|&s;igured with the fire, that it was impo&s;&s;ible any way to di&s;|cerne them who they were. Ye&s;terday here was &s;ung for Ioy of the taking of this Citie. <HI>To Deum Laudamus,</HI> and the Ord|nance of the Citie, three times di&s;charged. The Generall <HI>Tilly</HI> is at this pre&s;ent here, and is lodged in the 6. Shop-hou&s;es with his Concomitants.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>From <HI>Brandenburgh</HI> the fir&s;t of June.</HEAD>
<P>The whole <HI>Marck</HI> even vnto the river <HI>Elue,</HI> is now quite freed from the Imperiali&s;ts. Ye&s;terday Doctor <HI>Stollman</HI> arriued here, who was taken pri&s;oner at the loo&s;ing of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">|denburgh</HI> with his Sonne. Hee e&s;caped with his Sonne whil&s;t the fire was &s;o exceeding great in the Emperours Army neare
<PB N="6" REF="14">vnto <HI>Magdenburgh,</HI> but was con&s;trained to &s;wimme through the Riuer <HI>Elue,</HI> but now is here with his Maie&s;tie of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Into this Army come dayly &s;ome <HI>Magdenburgers</HI> or other which formerly were impri&s;oned but now are ran&s;omed. Ye|&s;terday were attached the <HI>Hamburger</HI> goods which were brought from <HI>Leyp&s;ich</HI> betweene <HI>Ferberlin</HI> and <HI>Spandon.</HI> A cer|taine Commi&s;&s;arie of the Emperour named <HI>Potau</HI> thought to haue pa&s;&s;ed along currantly with their Marchandizes, but bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h he and they were &s;tayd and brought to <HI>Spandou</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Hamb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rgers</HI> for the relea&s;ing of their Commodities haue proferred the Kings Maie&s;tie 80000 <HI>Ryxedollers.</HI> At <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t</HI> are arriued 5000. men which came out of <HI>Swede<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and more forces are thence expected dayly. Be&s;ides the&s;e, 15000 men are al&s;o expected from <HI>Mulcouia.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>From <HI>Franckfort-Oder</HI> the <HI>2.</HI> dit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HEAD>
<P>Ye&s;terday were brought in hither 5. Companies of Hor&s;e, which our forces tooke from the Imperiali&s;ts neare unto great <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ogau,</HI> having defeated the Men. Hence are gone 3. Compa|nies out of this Citie, as al&s;o divers out of other Cities to re|leeve <HI>Cro&s;&s;en,</HI> which the Imperiali&s;ts &s;eeme to ayme at. Here in this Citie are &s;till aboundance of men and among&s;t the re&s;t 800. &s;icke Soldiers. His Maie&s;tie of <HI>Sweden</HI> hath &s;hipt aboue 100. peeces of Ordnance at the <HI>Haukll.</HI> Some light peeces which may be drawne with one, and two hor&s;es. Hee intends doubtle&s;&s;e &s;ome notable enterpri&s;e. For in his march he ioynes to euery Regiment 10. Peeces of Ordnance.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>From <HI>I&s;leven,</HI> the <HI>30.</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> May.</HEAD>
<P>The 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. of this Month, the Imperiall Army neare unto <HI>Mag|denburgh,</HI> happened on fire in three &s;everall places: which fire did much harme among&s;t them. But by their lo&s;&s;e &s;ome fared the better. For Doctor <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">man</HI> the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> Chancellor, e&s;caped from his impri&s;onment who was impri&s;oned with the By&s;hop of <HI>Halver&s;tad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> This Doctor, and his &s;onne, and two Gentlemen, Servants to the Mar&s;hall <HI>Falckenburgh,</HI> and one Captaine <HI>Cre&s;&s;e,</HI> e&s;caped, and are &s;afely arrived at <HI>Brandenburgh.</HI> There were 400 Children of tender yeares within <HI>Magdenburgh;</HI> kept two dayes long in the Cathedral Church, which mi&s;&s;ed their Parents and knew not what was become of them, the&s;e poore children in two dayes &s;pace, eat no victuals, in&s;omuch that &s;ome of them were fami&s;hed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="decree">
<PB N="7" REF="14">
<HEAD>The Imperiall Mandat or Decree publi&s;hed again&s;t the conclu&s;i|on and re&s;olution lately taken by the Prote&s;tant Electors, Princes and States, a&s;&s;embled at <HI>Leip&s;ick.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>FErdinand,</HI> &amp;c. To all and every our and the holy Em|pires Electors, Princes, &s;pirituall and temporall Prelates, Earles, Barons, Lords, Knights, Mar&s;halls, Captaines, Maiors, Bailiffs, Iudges, Coun&s;ellors, Citizens, Communal|ties, and to all and every our and the Empires Subjects: But more particularly to all Commanders, Colonels, Captaines both of hor&s;e and foot, En&s;ignes, Lievtenants, and to all other Officers, and generally to all Soldiers both foot and hor&s;e, of what nation, dignity and condition &s;oever, and in what &s;cr|vice (out of our Armies) &s;oever they are or may be, unto whom the&s;e our Patents and Commandements, or a true copy thereof (which we will have beleeved and obeyed as the Ori|ginall it &s;elfe) &s;hall appeare, We hereby doe &s;ignifie, Wheras by Letters dated the fourth of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t the Elector and Duke of <HI>Saxen</HI> hath given us notice of a conclu&s;ion made by the E|lectors, States, Coun&s;ellors, Amba&s;&s;adours, Deputies, and Commi&s;sioners of &s;uch Prote&s;tants as were ab&s;ent, lately a&s;|&s;embled at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> the &s;trangene&s;&s;e whereof hath much mo|ved and filled with di&s;plea&s;ure our Imperiall heart, &s;ince that the &s;aid Electors, Princes and States have agreed and bound them&s;elves, quite contrary to our admonitions &s;ent before to the &s;aid electour of <HI>Saxen,</HI> under pretext of an order of Exe|cution of the Circles, to make a dangerous preparation of Warre; and, without any &s;ignification of their number and de|&s;ignes, make now already (as from divers parts we are adver|ti&s;ed) in &s;everall Circles, and particularly in our Imperiall Ci|ties great levies: And whereas it is ea&s;ie to pre&s;ume, that at this perillous con&s;titution of the Empire, where the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> is entered as an enemy and having already taken whole <HI>Pomerany,</HI> a part of the Mark of <HI>Brandenburg,</HI> and &s;ome places <HI>Mecke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">burg,</HI> will daily proceede, and incite other forraine forces to doe much: Where the rebellious Towne of <HI>Mag|denburg</HI> is not yet brought to obedience, and where many old dangers doe yet appeare; &s;uch a dangerous beginning and in|tent would tend to hinder (and as it were to bereave us of) all
<PB N="8" REF="15">meanes to maintaine the Warres, now &s;o requi&s;ite for the de|fence and nece&s;sity of the holy Empire and States thereof; it would further and advantage the power of the enemies; cau&s;e yet a greater confu&s;ion, troubles and evils, and withall a farre greater mi&s;tru&s;t and hatred among&s;t this Nation: Yea (un|le&s;&s;e it be with all &s;peed with&s;tood) it would bring into the whole <HI>Roman</HI> Empire of the <HI>German</HI> Nation (our deare Coun|try) a new unquenchable fire whereby the &s;ame (which the&s;e 800 yeeres hath mo&s;t &s;weetly flouri&s;hed) would now at once bee con&s;umed to a&s;hes and wholly overthrowne. Therefore we knowing that our duty requires that, as <HI>Roman</HI> Emperour we doe prevent all &s;uch threatning evills, and that &s;uch agree|ments and unions are not to be made nor &s;uffered without the knowledge, con&s;ent and plea&s;ure of the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperour, who we are, but that they are quite contrary unto the Laws, orders and con&s;titutions of the Empire, and the dehortations and admonitions made by us being prohibited under great and grievous puni&s;hments, &s;o that wee intend by no meanes to &s;uffer the &s;ame. We doe hereby admoni&s;h, will and com|mand you and every of you, and our expre&s;&s;e will, plea&s;ure and commandement is, that you doe not give nor permit any place of <HI>Rendez-vous</HI> unto my troopes or &s;ouldiers, that are, may or might be levied on the behalfe of the &s;aid agreement and conclu&s;ion made at <HI>Leip&s;ick;</HI> Neither grant any of them pa&s;&s;age or pa&s;&s;e what&s;oever, but rather where any &s;hall be met or found, that you beat, de&s;troy, di&s;per&s;e and kill them, as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your perils of the puni&s;hments expre&s;&s;ed in the con&s;titutions of the Empire. And mo&s;t ear|ne&s;tly we doe require and command you the Colonels, I is vte|nants Captaines, En&s;ignes Commanders, and all other Offi|cers both of hor&s;e and foot, and all &s;oldiers of what name, con|dition and quality &s;oever they are or may be, that already are received and entred, or &s;hall yet enter into &s;ervice of the &s;aid preparation and agreement made at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> again&s;t our knowledge, will and plea&s;ure, and again&s;t our deho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">tations, and the Lawes and Rights of the Empire; and more particu|larly all tho&s;e that in any way are &s;ubject unto us and the holy Empire upon paine and perils comprehended in the &s;aid Im|periall con&s;titutions, and upon paine to lo&s;e all the priviledges,
<PB N="9" REF="15">favours, rights, lands, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and al&s;o all rights of Com|panies, Cities and birth; And &s;uch others as are not &s;ubject to us nor the Empire, upon paine of death, when and where&s;oe|ver they &s;hall be apprehended. Wee mo&s;t earne&s;tly and ex|pre&s;ly command, to give over and for&s;ake all &s;uch &s;ervice, and in time to come never to returne or enter into the &s;ame with|out our knowledge and permi&s;sion, under what pretext or colour &s;oever they be required or may be induced: And that you make no excu&s;e of your &s;tay by rea&s;on of the oath you may or might be &s;worne and bound by, &s;ince the &s;ame in this con|&s;titution of time is without force I and we doe hereby and by vertue of our Imperiall power di&s;charge and free you of: And if there &s;hould be found &s;ome among&s;t you the &s;aid Colo|nels, Captaines, En&s;ignes, and other Officers and common &s;ol|diers of hor&s;e or foot, that have entered into any &s;ervice ei|ther at home in their owne Country, or abroad among&s;t the troopes of &s;trangers, they and every of them, that in obedi|ence to this our Imperiall commandement doe or &s;hall returne from that their &s;ervice unto our troopes, there to &s;erve us and the Empire, and bring their atte&s;tations from our Officers, &s;hall have a generall and &s;peciall pardon, and be received a|gaine into our Imperiall grace. And we will and command withall you the &s;aid Electors, Princes and States, lately thus ar|rived at <HI>Leip&s;ick,</HI> not to charge or lay upon your va&s;&s;als, te|nants inhabitants, burgers and &s;ubjects (in all and every your Countryes, Dominions, Cities, and al&s;o all Imperiall Townes and Dominions) any contribution, taxe or &s;ub&s;idy for and on the behalfe of your &s;aid levies intended and made again&s;t our will and contrary to the con&s;titutions of the Empire; Com|manding withall, if any &s;uch impo&s;ition and contribution is or &s;hould be required, all you the va&s;&s;als, tenants, burgers, in|habitants and &s;ubjects afore&s;aid upon the like and afore men|tioned paine and upon perill to lo&s;e all priviledges, rights, and freedomes above ment<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oned, not to pay or to deliver the &s;aid contribution, but rather <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o remaine con&s;tant and faithfull in tho&s;e duties you owe to us, as <HI>Roman</HI> Emperour and Su|preme head of the hol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Empire, and al&s;o to &s;hew all fa|vour and furtherance to him that bringeth this our Imperiall and expre&s;&s;e commandement, that the &s;ame may without any
<PB N="10" REF="16">let or mole&s;tation bee hung up and publi&s;hed, according to your duty and according to our re&s;olution and gracious and con&s;tant intention, that we will not &s;uffer you nor any of you, the Electors, Princes and all others, upon your obedience and duty you &s;hall &s;hew herein, to be troubled or grieved, either by us or others, again&s;t the peace of the Religion and Policy. And hereof you are not to faile, but dutifully to obey as you tender our plea&s;ure, and will avoid the puni&s;hments and reall executi|on of the fore&s;aid paine. And this is our expre&s;&s;e will and plea&s;ure.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Vienna</HI> <DATE> the fourteenth day of <HI>May,</HI> 1631.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Extract of &s;everall fre&s;h Letters written out of <HI>Germany.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe cruelty u&s;ed by the Imperiali&s;ts at the taking of <HI>Mag|denburg</HI> (the like no Hi&s;tory hath nor could ever make mention of) had indeed troubled many Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ger|many,</HI> e&s;pecially the Elector of <HI>Saxen</HI> found him&s;elfe much perplexed upon the newes thereof, when he likewi&s;e was much troubled and urged by an Imperiall Amba&s;&s;adour and many other Me&s;&s;engers and letters, both from the Emperour and other Catholike Electors and Princes. How&s;oever &s;eeing by the example of <HI>Magdenburg</HI> what he and others of his Profe&s;sion and Religion have to looke for at their enemies hands and promi&s;es, and con&s;idering the Imperiall Mandates and Proclamations, publi&s;hed (like a thunder) again&s;t the con|clu&s;ion lately taken by him and other Prote&s;tant Princes and States a&s;&s;embled at <HI>Leip&s;ick;</HI> and hearing withall of the doubt and feare divers made of his con&s;tancie in the &s;aid re&s;olution, he both gave order for the greater &s;peed in the levying of his owne forces and &s;ent al&s;o &s;everall Me&s;&s;engers to other Prote|&s;tant Princes, States and Imperiall Cities, with ample letters, whereby he doth not onely a&s;&s;ure them of his con&s;tancie and proceeding in the performance of their re&s;olution, But ex|horteth them al&s;o, to make greater ha&s;te and to take more care than &s;ome of them did hitherto to prepare and defend them&s;elves, repre&s;enting the great nece&s;sity and danger, their enemies extraordinary arming, threatnings and executions would el&s;e bring them into. The&s;e
<PB N="12" REF="16">letters of his have very much rejoyced and &s;trengthened all the good party, e&s;pecially <HI>Norimberg, Strasburg</HI> and other good Townes, the mo&s;t part whereof are already well provided and armed. But <HI>Memming</HI> lying &s;ome what a&s;ide and feeling already tho&s;e Imperiall forces as came and yet daily come out of <HI>Jtaly</HI> (which amount to &s;ome &s;ix or &s;even thou&s;and thereabouts) neere them, they feare (as being neere&s;t to the danger) the execution might beginne at their Towne, howbeit they have as yet and doe &s;till refu&s;e any fur|ther contribution and admittance of an Imperiall Garri&s;on, where formerly they were &s;ubject unto.</P>
<P>The Elector of <HI>Saxen</HI> hath laid 10. or 12. thou&s;and men up|on his frontiers and makes great preparation.</P>
<P><HI>Tilly</HI> marches with an armie of 25000. men up into <HI>Germa|ny,</HI> either into the Dukedome of <HI>Wimar,</HI> as &s;ome thinke, or el&s;e towards the Country of <HI>He&s;&s;en</HI> (as is mo&s;t likely) there to de|feat the forces of the Circle of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> who have there their <HI>Rendezvous,</HI> and part whereof have lately defeated &s;ome of tho&s;e Imperiall tsoops that <HI>Tilly</HI> had &s;ent to hinder their &s;aid <HI>Reudezvous.</HI></P>
<P>The King of <HI>Sweden</HI> (having firmed a royall Campe, &s;ince the Elector of <HI>Saxen</HI> did not grant him for his &s;urety and re|treate the Towne of <HI>Wittenberg</HI> to put his Garri&s;on into, nor pa&s;&s;age through his Country) expecteth more forces out of <HI>Pru&s;&s;ia</HI> and from other parts; meane while he hath an armie in <HI>Sile&s;ia</HI> to which he hath &s;ent &s;ome troopes for reinforcing and the better to oppo&s;e them all again&s;t the <HI>Jmperiali&s;ts</HI> that in|tend to be&s;iege <HI>Cro&s;&s;en.</HI></P>
<P>Some of his Caualrie met lately with five Companies of Crabates that came out of <HI>Magdenburg</HI> laden with very rich booty they made there, which five Companies were all defea|ted, and left all their riches (as if they had expre&s;ly fetched the &s;ame) unto the <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> troopes.</P>
<P>The like good fortune befell lately to the Garri&s;on of <HI>We&s;ell,</HI> who met with a convoy that carried much money towards the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Camp, which convoy being al&s;o beaten left all the money behinde them in their enemies hands.</P>
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<HEAD>From Arnhem the <HI>11</HI> of Iune.</HEAD>
<P>Our &s;ouldiers of <HI>We&s;ell</HI> and the neere adjoyning Garri&s;ons 160 &s;trong, have defeated a Convoy which was going from <HI>Culin</HI> to <HI>Antwerp,</HI> they were conducted by tho&s;e of <HI>Rhynberk</HI> &amp; <HI>Or&s;oy,</HI> &amp; were &s;et upon by our men neere about <HI>Deuren.</HI> In which exploit our &s;oldiers obtained great booty 150000 Rix|do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lers in &s;pecie, much Silke &amp; other rich commoditie, swhere|with divers Carts were laden. The re&s;t of the bootie be&s;ides the readie Coine doth amount to the &s;umme of 250000 Rix|dollers, this bootie they brought into <HI>We&s;ell</HI> la&s;t Sunday in the vening and 60 or 70 &s;erviceable hor&s;es, and 2 En&s;ignes. The &s;pani&s;h &s;oldiers fled all of them, onely the waggoners, and &s;ome other labouring men oppo&s;ed our men, and killed 3 or 4 of them, but there was no meanes for them to prevaile.</P>
<P>The Governour, Chancellour, &amp; Councell of the Province of <HI>Geldria,</HI> and the Earldome of <HI>Zutphen</HI> have pre&s;cribed a ge|nerall day of meeting, the 17 of <HI>Iune</HI> at <HI>Nimmegen,</HI> where the whole countrie is to appeare.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>12.</HI> of <HI>Iune</HI> from the Army of his Excellence the Prince of <HI>Orange.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Whereas his Excell the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> had pitcht Armie at the &s;ide of the River <HI>Ley</HI> before the Citie <HI>Bridges</HI> the 3 of moneth, each one thought that his Excellence was of intenti|on to approach &amp; be&s;iege the &s;aid Citie. But now it appeares probably that his Excel. was not &s;o minded, for he did not en|trench him&s;elfe there, but lay with his Army in the field onely. In the meane while certaine Committees were &s;ent out of the &s;aid Citie in the name of the 4 parts of Flanders to treat with his Excelle~ce concerning the contribution which was behind and had long time beene unpayd, in&s;omuch that they gave &s;e|curitie for entire payment of 10 yeares contribution. Where|upon his Excell with his whole Army departed, and the verie &s;ame night tooke his re&s;ting place at <HI>Maldegom,</HI> where we pa&s;|&s;ed the 5 of <HI>Iune</HI> over the river <HI>Lieve</HI> towards <HI>Walichem</HI> and from thence toward <HI>Eckelo,</HI> and <HI>Caprick,</HI> and the 7 of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">une re|turned backe with our whole armie at <HI>Watervliet,</HI> where his Excell. in&s;tantly cau&s;ed retrenchments to be ca&s;t up all along the <HI>Holland Dike,</HI> for the better en&s;uring of his armie, &s;o that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n
<PB N="13" REF="17">ca&s;e the &s;pani&s;h forces (which as wee under&s;tood had continu|ally followed us) had come upon us, then had we taken the &s;aid Dike for our defence.</P>
<P>The 8 of <HI>Iune</HI> the provi&s;ion of his Excell, was embarqued, and his hor&s;e troopes, being commanded pre&s;ently as &s;oone as they &s;hould be landed to march toward <HI>Berg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nop Zoome.</HI> Ye|&s;terday were all the Land, forces &s;hipt, and all the waggons put aboard. The &s;irelockes in the meane time &s;tood in battle array, and held the watch untill all things were &s;afely embarqued. Thus with the whole traine of our armie wee marched from <HI>Y&s;enayck</HI> to <HI>Ramm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">kens,</HI> &amp; &s;o downwards, &s;ayling many hun|dred &s;hippes together, &amp; &s;o for&s;ooke the <HI>Flemi&s;h coa&s;ts,</HI> which country in this our expedition wee have wholly brought un|der contribution untill the verie Citie <HI>Geudt.</HI> His Excellence in this expedition had a verie vigilant regard over his whole armie and a &s;peciall care that all things might be carried verie orderly in&s;omuch that hee cau&s;ed many of his &s;oldiers to bee hanged for their mi&s;demeanours and in&s;olencies committed again&s;t the inhabitants of the Countrie: But the like care was not taken on the other &s;ide, for many of our &s;oldiers which did &s;traggle &s;omewhat out of their limits had by them their No|&s;es and Eares cut off. Three &s;oldiers wives with a child of 8 yeares were taken by the Flemi&s;h and hanged.</P>
<P>The &s;ame day that we came to <HI>Watervliet,</HI> the &s;pani&s;h that night arrived at <HI>Caprick,</HI> but did not &s;hew them&s;elves any neerer unto us So that in this enterprize, wee have not met with our enemie to any purpo&s;e, and have found no re&s;i&s;tance worthy of relation. Onely wee were informed that the ene|mie brought his whole armie together, therewith intending to cut off all pa&s;&s;ages from our armie and hinder the victualls from comming to us. What &s;hall follow hereafter in time we &s;hall acquaint you.</P>
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<HEAD>From Dort <HI>13.</HI> of Iune.</HEAD>
<P>The armie of his Excellence the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> is returned againe out of Flaunders into the&s;e parts. Before this Citie are many &s;hips laden with Ordnance, Munition, provi&s;ion and all warlike nece&s;&s;aries: Mo&s;t of the h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;emen were landed at <HI>Geer|truydenbergh,</HI> &amp; pre&s;ently ha&s;ted thence to <HI>Oo&s;terh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ut, Gil&s;en</HI> &amp; other villages about <HI>Breda.</HI> The foot forces &s;ayle all of them
<PB N="14" REF="18">toward the high &amp; lower <HI>Swalwe,</HI> and <HI>Geertruydenbergh,</HI> whe|ther the&s;e al&s;o will land there the time will manife&s;t. In the meane while here and in divers other places many thou&s;ands of loaves are baked for the armie.</P>
<P>The countrie people in the countrie of <HI>Hen&s;den</HI> and <HI>Alte|na,</HI> flye with all their goods and moveables from their country habitations into the Cities. Their Excellencies the States have prohibited preaching among the Catholickes in the Villages &amp; Townes belonging to <HI>S'hertogenbo&s;ch,</HI> &s;o that all the Churches are &s;hut up continually.</P>
<P>Wee have intelligence from <HI>Antwerpe</HI> with the la&s;t letters, that in the beginning of <HI>May</HI> the fleet of 25 &s;hips at <HI>Lisbona</HI> is &s;et &s;ayle, among the&s;e are 15 Gallioons with 4000, &s;ome &s;up|po&s;e they are gone toward <HI>Calis Mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> ioyne them&s;elves to the <HI>Ca&s;tilian armado,</HI> others are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> that they are bound for <HI>Cabo-verde,</HI> there to expect <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;t, and &s;o to pa&s;&s;e forward to <HI>Bra&s;ill.</HI></P>
<P>His Maje&s;tie of <HI>France</HI> is at S. <HI>Germani,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Queene Mother is arrived at <HI>Paris</HI> with her whole family or hou&s;e|hold: But his Maje&s;tie had rather that &s;hee had remained at <HI>Moulins:</HI> Her guard is now le&s;&s;e than it hath beene neyther is &s;hee &s;o &s;trongly warded as formerly. The kings brother is &s;till a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Nancie,</HI> The Lord Pre&s;ident <HI>Legneux</HI> is much condemned, for not coun&s;elling his Maje&s;ties brother for the be&s;t in the&s;e differences, The king hath charged the Parliament to call <HI>Mar&s;hall Marilack</HI> in que&s;tion, which might ea&s;ily endanger his life, by rea&s;on that hee hath committed gro&s;&s;e faults in <HI>Champa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gne,</HI> as al&s;o in <HI>Italy,</HI> in warlike affaires.</P>
<P>The<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> goes a &s;trong report, that new warres is verie like to en&s;ue betweene th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Pope,</HI> and the great Duke of <HI>Mo&s;covy,</HI> concerning the &s;ucce&s;sion in <HI>&V;rbinaet.</HI></P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding the Commander <HI>Pin&s;en</HI> his ran&s;ome is readie, neverthele&s;&s;e he is not yet at libertie. Count <HI>Henry van|den Bergh</HI> que&s;tioning one day with him, what he thought the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> his enterprize might bee, hee an&s;wered him merrily, His Excellence is wi&s;e enough to conceale that from me, knowing that I cannot keepe coun&s;ell. The &s;aid count <HI>Hen|ry</HI> is yet at <HI>Venlo</HI> with 3 or 4 hundred Marriners, it is thought that he will attempt &s;omething or other.</P>
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