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B08850	A remonstrance of His Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden, unfolding the grounds and causes whereby His said Majesty was constrained to continue the war brought on by the king and Kingdom of Denmark, after the peace was ratified at Roskild, but neither pursu'd nor duly observ'd by the Danes· Anno 1658.	Coyet, Peter Julius, 1618-1667.; Karl X, Gustaf, king of Sweden, 1622-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing C6734A; ESTC R36698	82,692	99

A REMONSTRANCE OF HIS Sacred Royal Majesty OF SWEDEN Unfolding the GROUNDS and CAUSES whereby His said Majesty was constrained to continue the WAR brought on him by the King and Kingdom of DENMARK After the PEACE was ratified at Roskild But neither Pursu'd nor duly Observ'd by the DANES Anno 1658. LONDON Printed by R. Wood for D. Pakeman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Rain-bow in Fleet-street 1659. HIS MAJESTY OF SWEDENS Remonstrance Declaring the Reasons that forc'd him to continue the WAR with DENMARK after the Treaty at Roskild THere are principally two things which cannot but affect any man with wonder that shall without partiality weigh and observe the course and carriage of this War betwixt the Swedes and Danes to wit the singular moderation which his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden to his Princely Renown hath expressed and approved to the World and on the other side the extreme Ingratitude whereby the Nation of Denmark hath deservedly contracted a foul and lasting infamy For when the most Serene his Majesty of Sweden The Danish practices against Sweden was by mature and weighty Reasons drawn forth to a War against Poland and that he fail'd not of such success as usually accompany just undertakings the Danes grew streightwayes maliciously affected to our Victories deeming our Acquists to be their loss and detriment nor could they contain or forbear to publish these envious Passions but they must be practising with the the States of Holland to give some check to the progress of the Swede in Prussia with Holland at least they readily granted a free passage to the States Fleet through the Sound contrary to their Faith given to us and also joyn'd with them as many of their own men of War as they had in readiness and that to no other purpose but onely to second the cross and sinister Designs of the Dantzickers with the Dantzickers and to heighten and embitter the Pole against the Swede And though this might have serv'd for a sufficient testimony of their meaning to us yet they held it too scant unless they had also urg'd the Muscovite to make a War on the Swedes and with the Muscovites propounding the goodliest Christian Provinces as a booty to the exquisite Cruelties of barbarous Nations Nor was the Play acted under a mask as by men asham'd to own their parts but they sent a pompous Embassy to congratulate the coming of the Muscovite into Liefland solemnly exhorting him constantly to stick to and effectually to prosecute so worthy a Design His most Serene Majesty of Sweden having been duly regardful to that Amity The Swedish dealing with the Dane to prevent a breach which his Neighborhood and Confederacy with the Danes required to prevent any perverse opinion that might be raised on his preparation for War had in due season directed his Resident in the Danish Court to unfold his Majesties purpose and for what reasons he was constrain'd to take up Ams against the Poles Which Reasons appear'd so sufficient and just to the Danish King He acquaints him with his enterprize against Poland and proposeth a Treaty for the Confirmation of ancient Leagues by his Resident as Plenipotentiary that he profess'd never to impede or thwart his Design but rather he seem'd to wish the Expedition prosperous And for as much as it seem'd for the behoof of these Northern Kingdoms to joyn in a straiter bond of Friendship his Majesty hath on his part neglected nothing that might conduce to the effecting and establishing thereof which seemed also fully prepar'd and ripe when the Danes purposing nothing less then the confirmation of it objected certain Grievances first to be removed Which when the Swedish Plenipotentiary suspecting nothing desired them to propound Which the Dane disappoints after many delayes they retrive their old complaints of Injuries committed by the Subjects of Sweden to the prejudice of their Customs of the Sound But when he had easily demonstrated the groundless vanity of this and what else was alledg'd the Danes could no longer hold but laying aside the vizor plainly urg'd to be discharg'd of the Covenants made at Bromsebroe by endeavouring to make void the treaty Bromsebroe The Swedish Commissioner after so many fruitless Demonstrations and Protestations being tyr'd with their jugling and perceiving that the Danes had precluded all means of confirming the League Whereupon the Swedish Resident retires took his leave of the King and most of the Peers of the Kingdom and departed referring the Debate of those pretended Grievances to a meeting of the Senators of both Kingdoms then shortly to be held on the Borders according to the custom of those Northen People He was scarce departed Coppenhagen The Danes seize upon Swedish ships when three Swedish ships coming from Portugal were detain'd and made prize by the Danes in the Sound and presently after the Inhabitants of Breme and Pomerania are sollicited to renounce their Allegiance hood-wink'd with a specious promise of Liberty Sollicit Bremen and Pomerania to Rebellion as a reward of their impiety Immediately after War was denounced and an herald to that purpose sent into Sweden but one whose otherwise sacred administration was profan'd by a Libell And denounce War which declaring such frivolous and foul Causes of the said War in so virulent a strain as never before was known to pass betwixt Kings rendred those Causes yet more weak and contemptible Indeed he received his deserv'd censure by publique Authority and the Danes themselves some time after acknowledged the shamefulness of the thing so that in the Treaty at Roschild they condemned it but whereas it holds out the departure of the Swedish Commissioner from Coppenhagen as the occasion of the ensuing War therein they add foul Impudence to Malice Which was contrived long before the Residents departture For the Papers of Andr. Bille chief Generall to the King of Denmark which came to our hands on the possessing of Fredericks Ode and the Isle of Fuhnen are more then sufficient proof how long before his departure this War was decreed and that they were most studious to contrive meanes of hastening his departure This publique Invective against the Swedes Nation was seconded by private calumny the Peers of Denmark reckoning it great glory and merit to abound in tart Reproaches contending for a mastery in scurrility with their poor and fordid eloquence So great a matter it seems it was to unsheath a pen against the Swedes and he that was the best proficient in scoffing and detraction thereby presum'd himself to be the worthiest Patriot The were the Danish Soldiers powr'd into the Countreys of Sweden And soon after broke out discovering every where much impotent rage especially in the Dukall part of Holstein and Breme which together with the rest of Sweden they had long since swallowed in hopes but Divine Vengeance staid not long but stroak such

of a strait League between those two Northern Countreys whereof they gave them sufficient hopes Moreover some further Articles were consented to And private Articles were agreed upon Letter M. Letter M. which were privately concluded the Dane so desiring it yet were enforced with the like authority that the former had by the subsciptions of those honourable Mediatiours and the Commissioners We might observe the same candor in the Danes with the above noted about the beginning of the Treaties at Tostrup when in their Project they used for the most part ambiguous terms onely to the end that they might reserve to themselves matter sufficient to wrest them in the future to a sense injurious to us in the mean time colourably affirming that their sense was the same with what the words of the Swedes Commissioners carried But this appear'd yet more manifest at Roskild and chiefly in that the Danes at the making of their Protocoll or Registry were found guilty of that which in the Cornelian Law de falsis is under a very sharp penalty restrained For when the Swedish Commissioners in comparing the Projects of the Instrument of Peace Yet the Danes do falsifie the Articles had observed amongst other things that the Danes had not alwayes in perspicuous terms express'd the sense of the Swedish Projects they not onely desired upon that ambiguity the Danes exposition but also that no stop might be put to the behoofful Work of Peace they were content upon condition their verball explication might for the better caution be inserted in the Protocoll or Registry lest by a different interpretation some controversie might arise between these Northern Nations in succeeding times Yea to the end the certainty might be clear and manifest the Swedes in many things of chiefest moment did dictate to the Danish Pens the sense of each party Hence it was that the Swedes were the more facile and were content to conform to the expressions of the Danes in many places of their Projects Yet contrary to our hopes we afterwards found that the Danes dealt very disingenuously herein notoriously depraving the Protocoll or Registry as shall in its proper place hereafter appear But whatsoever there is of this would signifie little since by vertue of the Peace made all miscarriages befor and in the Treaty were to be buried in oblivion had they not after the Peace concluded renewed matter of jealousie and distempers And give cause of jealousie after the peace concluded stifling that mutuall confidence that should have been reviv'd and restor'd betwixt the two Kings In the mean time his S. R. M. of Sweden understanding that the Treaties at Roskild were in a manner drawn to a conclusion commands part of his Army to march to Wordinburgh part to Corsoer that they might pass over into Jutland and Fuhnen before the ice was thaw'd When the Swede had given order for a march out of Zealand Count Tot was ordered to prepare for his departure to Schonen to take possession in his Majesties name of those Towns and Castles that were to be surrendred by the Danes But the News had scarcely come to the King of Sweden being yet at Ringsted of the finall conclusion of the Peace when there posted to him Owen Juull from Coppenhagen with Letters Credentiall from the King of Denmark By reason that he refuses to deliver the Forts in Schonen according to agreement offering onely Elsingburg an inconsiderable place informing amongst other things that the King could not render his Forts up in Schonen so soon as was expected for that it was impossible by reason it began to thaw to bring the Swedish Army out of Sealand yet that he was ready to deliver up the Castle at Helsingburgh without delay for his security And that they might the more cleanly impose upon the Swedes he pretended that the King of Denmark had not means enough to maintain those Garrison Souldiers in Schonen whilest the Swedish Army remained in Sealand Nor would the said Juul desift from that pretence although the King of Sweden undertook to make provision for those Souldiers Wherefore his Majesty of Sweden dismiss'd the Agent with such Answer as suited with the present state of Affairs and was not a little moved therewith it being easie to guess what the Danes then designed For what security could he promise himself with his Army in an Island void of all defence if those Fortresses in Schonen were denied him He had been wholly at the Danes disposall and might have been brought to utmost extremities if the Danes had found aid from abroad And this was the suggestion of Beuningen then Ambassadour from the States of Holland into Denmark who made them solemn promise At the perswasion of Beuningen upon assurance of supplies from Holland that if the surrendry of those Forts could be delay'd upon that pretence they should have sufficient supplies brought into Denmark for their relief as soon as the sea was navigable Adding further if they were distress'd for money he would procure them a large supply whereof also as the report went he gave them some earnest in lending them money at the present Thereupon the King of Sweden recall'd his Army with all haste which was gone part to Wordinburgh Whereupon the Swede recalls his army Then the Dane condescends to surrender Schonen Letter N. part to Corsoer having sent his Secretary Ehrenstein to Roskild with strict Injunction to the Commissioners for preventing all occasion the Danes might use to make deniall that there should be a particular Recess appointed concerning the rendition of Schonen Letter N. To which when the Danish Commissioners had easily consented for they had proceeded so far in words before the Swedish Army made ready once more to march away But then the Frost slackned And when the Swedish Army was to march the second time the weather slackens Letter O. and the Ice was not able to bear so great a weight and the rather for that five or six dayes had elaps'd in sending and recalling the Army And now his Majesty of Sweden desir'd to return into his Countrey when Letters are brought him from the Danish King Letter O. wherein was contained not onely the confirmation of what hath been said of the Rendition at Schonen but also he himself was invited into the Castle of Fredericksburgh to a personall conference Which latter part was also seconded by two of his chief Peers sent to Roskild And the two Kings meet personally in great confidence The King mislik'd it not and therefore came with a small attendance It was remarkable what great confidence each King had of the other and hard to say which of the two was most forward to give credit to the other whether the King of Sweden were more confident who adventur'd himself with so small a guard among the Danes that were more numerous or the King of Denmark who adventur'd his Person out of his Metropolis whilest the

terror and dread into them that some of them durst not abide the approach of our men coming from the farther part of Lettow but betook themselves for shelter to adjacent Islands But were soon repulsed by the Swedes from Bremen and the Dukall Holstein others received the wages of their rash adventure being in a few dayes time utterly expelled the Dutchy of Breme excepting onely the Castle of Bremerford Soon after all Jutland submitted to the Swede save that new built Fort of Fredericks Ode which was at first stifly maintained by a considerable party of the Danes But the valiant Commander Wrangle encourag'd by his Majesties influence and his own valour after he had begirt it a few weeks won it without any great loss of his own men and having made great slaughter of the Enemy And Fredericks Ode taken carried with him two thousand Prisoners amongst whom were the chief General of Denmark and another Senator His most Serene Majesty of Sweden did not forget in the current of these Victories his regard to Peace Major General Jephson and Sir Philip Meadowes Agents for his Highness the Lord Protector of England In the mean time Sweden offers terms of accommodation by the English publique Ministers promoting it with all diligence of which the former then resided in the Swedish Court the latter in the Danish to settle a Peace betwixt them But how was this receiv'd by the Danes They vouchsaf'd an Answer indeed three several times to those things Sir Philip Meadowes had declar'd concerning this Businesse but with all they sought with such arrogancy and height to impose Laws on the Swedes Which the Dane contemns that it might thence be easily discern'd what small affection they had to Peace notwithstanding all that his most Serene Majesty of Sweden could urge in his Declarations to render them more calm and tractable And that no man may be unsatisfied in this Relation we have here subjoyn'd the whole businesse of the several Entercourses under the Letters A B A B C D E F c. C D E F. c. Wherefore the Swedes perceiving themselves to be onely born in hand with a counterfeit shew of Peace and that the Danes did at the same time vigorously labour a Confederation with the Austrian Pole and Brandenburgh and makes Leagues with Austria Poland and Brandenburgh resolved to infest them with War in their very lurking places and since reason might not take place to work them to it by force Herein they found assistance from the extreme sharpness of the Winter which was such that the whole Sea being frozen over afforded passage beyond all Record of example for the whole Army of the Swedes into Fuhnen Whereupon the Swede marching over the Sea doth possess himself of Fuhnen On that Island abode the flower and choice of the Danish Souldiery as also all the most hardy Commanders who notwithstanding being broken and put to flight came into the power of the Swede together with five Senatours of that Kingdom so that it may well be affirm'd that the Swedish Affairs were by that dayes work much secured and that the very foundations of the Danish Kingdom began to totter thus the Channell of the Sea was no sufficient Mote to fortifie him who assum'd to himself the Pride and Insolence to oppresse others who never had deser'd any such usage at his hands His Majesty of Denmark being horribly surpriz'd with this News and the more for that the Swedes had the same opportunity to passe into Zealand began to advise with such of his Peers as he had about him concerning a Peace And the Dane then desires a Treaty of Peace desiring the aforesaid English Agent Sir Philip Meadowes to mediate therein Who though he had found them deaf till then to all his Arguments of Peace was very diligent and trusty to that charge and sending one of his Retinue to the King of Sweden then residing at Odensea in Fuhnen Letter G. advised him Letter G. that the Danes were become inclinable to Peace For that cold which naturally doth harden Which is accepted of by the Swedes Letter H. had now made the stony hearts of the Danes softer and more pliable then wax To these Letters answer was made Letter H. with great moderation such as could not be expected from a Prince in the height and heat of Conquest The Messenger also return'd over the Ice into Zealand the same way he came being instructed concerning the time and place of the Treaty In the mean time his most Serene Majesty of Sweden holding it unmeet to slight his opportunity moved by the Islands Langland Who marcheth over the Sea into Zealand Laland and Falster the way which Fates had opened with his victorious Army toward Zealand and at Wordinburg Castle met with the English Envoy Extraordinary and some Danish Commissioners There his Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden And a Treaty begins at Wordinburg understanding the Danes forwardnesse to lay hold on a Peace made no delay but joyn'd Commissioners of his with them who for that it was for the behoof of each Party to use dispatch might bring the matter to a speedy issue And doubtlesse a Peace had then been concluded Monsieur Hugo Terlon the Embassadour in Ordinary from the most Christian King of France to the King of Sweden and Sir Philip Meadowes But broken off by the Danish Commissioners for default of Instructions whom we have often occasion to mention with commendation much labouring therein had not the Danish Commissioners pretended their Commission was not large enough to make a Peace in the terms then propounded by the Swedes For which cause they departed to Coppenhagen to return speedily with further Commission In the mean time his most Serene Majesty of Sweden that he might hasten the Peace goeth on with his Army and was approached even to the gates of Coppenhagen when the Danish Commissioners returning with the English Envoy extraordinary were wonderous desirous to consummate the Agreement begun at Wordinburg Whereupon those Honourable Persons who had mediated by the assent of his Majesty of Sweden And again renewed at Tostrup where the Articles were formed Letter I. gave meeting to the Commissioners of each Party at Tostrup a Village near Coppenhagen where having spent some dayes on the traverse of Affairs they resolv'd on certain Articles to be shortly after enlarg'd and polish'd at Roskild Letter I. for that it was impossible in such a huddle and speed to give caution to all emergent disputes and differences that in tract of time might arise thereon Which Articles And afterward confirmed at Rockild Letter K. being prepar'd by the subscriptions of those Mediatours and the Commissioners were finally confirm'd and ratified by both the Kings Letter K. It might be esteem'd almost miraculous that his most Serene Majesty of Sweden having been so much provok'd and so set at naught by the Danes should so govern his courage