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A17472	The continuation of the actions, passages, and occurrences, both politike and polemicall, in the upper Germanie Historically brought downe, from the period of the last relation, till Aprill. Together with a various and intermixed historie, of what hath been done in Turky, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Faithfully collected out of good and creditable originals and digested methodically, by the times, places, and actions.; Diatelesma. Part 2.	N. C.	1637 (1637)	STC 4293.2; ESTC S107079	66,740	115

confined there the hearts of the people were terrified by a strange Prodigie which though it admits no particular interpretation Deus omen in Hostes Convertat A strange Prodigy at Isenach was as terrible as portentous The Conduit at Isenach scituated in the midst of the Marketsted sodainly instead of Water powred out Bloud and so continued for the space of two houres before it yeelded againe that Element for which that Aqueduct was ordained A bloudy time ensued it betwixt the Imperiall Generals and Banniers Forces though they kept their Fastnesse neere Targaw yet few dayes passed without blowes The Imperialists prepared two Ship-bridges over the Elve for the transportation of their Forces one at Dresden by the South-east or Pirner-gate the other at Stralen To the last of these places Stralen burnt by the Swedes the Swedes advanced with sixe full Regiments burned downe the City and the Castle to the ground planted their Horsemen on the other side of the River to hinder the Imperialists march over the Bridges surprised one of the Caesarean quarters neere Wurtzen carryed away 300 Wagons laden with baggage and made havock of the Country Villages forcing the Imperiall Safeguards burning the Townes to the ground the Caesareans herein not being behinde the Swedes Friends and Enemies as it were both conspiring so to ruine that Country that March 11 21 44 severall fires within two Leagues compasse might have at once beene discovered to the eye The defeat at Wurtzen was given by the Colonell Slangh 2. Imperiall Regiments defeated at Wurtzen by Colonell Slangh whom Banniere had sent with 1500 Horse toward the City Leisnick Golditz and Eylenburg the Colonell returned March 23 Aprill 2 giving this accompt of his action That at Wurtzen he had defeated two Imperiall Regiments carried away their Baggage slaine 600 upon the place taken many Prisoners amongst which were two Rit-masters five Lieutenants and many other Officers Banniere in the absence of the Colonel purposely to bring a generall terror upon the Imperiall Army that by their distraction being assaulted in severall places 200. Imperial Horse defeated by Baniev at Pegaw Slangh might be more secure ranged about divers of their Quarters and first at Pegaw incountred with 2000 Imperiall horse whom he defeated and routed utterly That victory incited him to proceed further and appearing in Battell-array before the Imperiall Campe provoked them to Battell but they unwilling to leave their holds kept still in their Trenches which made him returne to his owne quarters The Caesarean Army lay then betwixt Torgaw and Meisen on the East side of the River Elve and the greater part of the Swedish horse and Dragoons on the other side just against the Caesarean Campe which they kept waking with perpetuall Alarums April 2. new stile the Caesarean Commanders had a designe to transport some Regiments of Horse from their head-quarter at Riesa to the West side of the River that there being no impediment which might stay their courses they might sometimes breake in upon the Swedes and gall them with sodaine skirmishes The Swedes who well understood their purpose 3. Regiments of Imperiall Horse ●ou●ed by the Swedes suffered three Regiments to passe the River quietly intending to requite trick for trick but then having armed themselves for the assault charged them so furiously that they were forced to retreat in such a confusion that above 200. of them were drowned in the Elve and so many slaine that the Captives whom they took in the Battell confessed that those 3. Regiments were almost totally ruined The next day following Bannier resolved to visite the Caesarean Army in their quarters and to that purpose selected two Companies out of every Regiment both of Horse and Foot and attended with those expert Soldiers and the Watch-masters Regiment he marched directly to the Imperiall head-watch which consisted of 20. Companies of the best and ablest horse in the Caesarean Campe and were commanded by the Sergeant-Major Bretta The Head-Watch of the Imperiall Arm● fo●●d to a 〈◊〉 ●●●ght The conflict betwixt them was short and sharpe the Swedes came on roundly and charged home upon the Caesareans which standing together in a close compacted body endured that shocke and prepared to entertaine the assailants again But then Bannier doubled the number of them that gave the charge and over burthening the Caesareans with the waight of that heavie body compelled them to slight in which they being stayed by the inconvenience of a small River many of them the number is uncertaine were cut off and left dead upon the place and many taken Prisoners All these severall Conflicts betwixt the two Armies were not without the effusion of much Christian bloud but the bloud so shed was not taken away by way of murther Warre justly grounded is continued lawfully the Sword is oft a just decider of controversies and though it bee accompted one of the great Plagues sent by God it is not attended with any injustice in the execution Black murthers and horrid treasons hatched in darknesse what ever the pretence thereof may be are not onely unexcusable but detestable also to God and man The Emperors Funerals The Court at Vienna was about this time clothed in blacke for the solemnization of the late Emperours Funerals which were solemnely celebrated by the Nuntius Apostolicus attended with 10. Prelates in their Miters The Herse was blacke but inlayd with silver and garnished with many burning white waxe Tapers the Imperiall Eagles were blazoned about it in the midst stood the Corpes covered with a blacke cloth intermingled with gold over his head lay the Imperiall Hungarian and Bohemian Crownes At his Feet the Golden-fleece and betwixt then both the Imperiall Ball and Scepter in the middest whereof was placed a Crucifixe of silver At his sides lay his Rapier Dagger and Spurres The Boots of the Herse were adorned with the pictures of Vertues and upon the top on a Pyramis stood a Globe and a Crowne The Church being hung with blacke and the solemnity ended his heart and bowels were lodged in three Cabinets and convayed without any pompe from Vienna to Gratz by his late Privie-Counsellours and other Officers of the Court which are since cashiered the young King his Sonne instantly reforming and by the hand of the Earle of Medaw the Major domo upon his Fathers decease having reduced his Counsell to the number of 5. which were the Bishop of Vienna the Earle of Trautmansdolff who is now the Major Palatii and the Earles of Slavata Frankenberg and Venda the care of his Chanc●ry being committed to Doctor Prickmajor under the name and title of Vice-Chancellour The difference betwixt those two great Potentates the Christian and Catholike Kings drew severall free Princes and States to their parties and caused such a combustion in the City of Liege that the City was divided against the Bishop and the Bishop against the Burghesses He labouring to advance the Caesarean and Spanish cause and

therefore ●●●ing great impositions and taxes upon the Citizens and they rather inclining to the French King though at first submitting themselves to the Bishops orders with a kinde of unwillingnesse paying their contributions yet in the end flatly opposed him and in the beginning of the yeare they sent a complaining petition to the Bishop of Rome against him the heads whereof were these That as a childe by instinct of Nature in its sufferings will have recourse to the Mother so they did now humbly prostrate themselves at the feet of his Holinesse to desire his assistance and releefe in their present necessities That their case was to be pityed The Citizens on Liege compl●ine to the P●pe against their Bishop in that notwithstanding their due obedience which they had alwayes exhibited to S. Siege their proper Bishop who reciprocally ought to protect them hee yet oppressed them greevously to the great prejudice and dishonour of the Catholike Religion the warre raysed by him having already consumed and layd waste 5000. dwelling houses in the Country not without prophanation of the Sanctuaries Churches and holy Vessels as Chalices Bells and other sacred Vtensils and Ornaments which were imployed to other uses then what they were first ordained for That the hallowed Hoste was trampled on by them who ought to honour it that the Church-men designed for Divine Service were chased from their Parishes where by that meanes the Liturgie was quite abolished in some places and in the Major part much intermitted That the Religious women and others both Wives and Virgins were ravished before the eyes of their owne husbands and Fathers Their Heards of Cattell were driven away their tillage decayed and to speake no more that the sole inhabitants of Liege were constrained to contribute above 60000. Florins to the Church to preserve the City from the Siege threatned by Charles Duke of Lorraine the Bishop of Verdun Piccolomini and Iohn de Werth upon his solicitation who had incensed one party of the Liegois against the other whose tyranny caused 5. principall Burghesses of Tongres to to be led as like slaves before his tryumphant Chariot putting two of them in the end to the Sword and bastinadoing the other three till they had promised a good ransome Much more was added and every particular expressed with such passion as might have moved a Scythian to compassion yet their onely prayer was that his Holinesse would excuse their boldnesse and send them some Cardinall for a Protectour by whose countenance they might be defended from such oppressions But the effect of this Petition and what it avayled is not yet discovered though it may bee thought fruitlesse if we may guesse upon consequents by this ensuing History The Count of Warfusee's treason at Liege Naturall respect must needes have moved teares from the eyes of Caesars Sonne at his Fathers funerall But the consideration of his care in preservation and for enlarging the honour of the House of Austria deserved a solemne mourning his decease ministred occasion to a bloody assasinate to attempt a deed of horror which for his owne credits-sake he meant to palliate with a cloake of authority forging letters to the Bishop of Cullen and thereby expressing an order and commission given him by the King of Hungary intending doubtles to mitigate his execrable action under pretence of his commission if he should hap to fayle and be discovered no sincere interpreter being able to conceive that so heroicall a spirit would consent to so foule a treason and to suppresse them if hee had happily executed his designe The story as some doe relate it is thus The Count Warfusee who some yeares past had revolted from the Catholick-King stood in displeasure during the life of the late Emperour both with his Imperiall-Majesty and the King of Spaine and now thinking to winne his Maisters fauour againe by the heads lives and states of those which entertained him in his rebel●ion plotted the death of la Ruelle prime Magistrate of Lieg some oth●r principall members of that body-politique put it thus in practice The Count being lodged in St. Iohns-Cloyster in the house of a Prebend of that Church accommodated with a backe-doore toward the water-side invited to dinner thither the said Burger-master de la Ruelle the Abbot of Mousson and divers other principle men of the Citie whom he intended to murther trayterously To that purpose he suborned the Burgundian Count de Milis and some choice Spanish-Souldiers drawne out of the Garrisons of Narrigue and Argentoy to steale privately by the Posterne into his house and to lurke there secretly till the word being given they might be prepared for execution which they ob●erved performed accordingly In the middest of the ●east as if his malice had not tended to the mine of their bodies but their Soules also when their hearts were merry with wine hee began a health to Lewis King of France surnamed the lust which had no sooner passed round but the Assasinates armed with Swords Pistolls broke into the dining-roome surprised the Burgermaister and the Abbot sent for a Priest and as soone as he was come as if they would doe them some favour at their death Ruelle the Burger-Master murthered bade them make their confession for they must dye The Priest who was sent for to take his confession was the Sub-Prior of the Covent by name Antory Evrard a Dominican who accompanied with his confrater William L●ncon both which have testified this relation under their hands went and at their comming to Warfusee the Sub-prior hearing his demand to take Ruelles confession and give him absolution like a man amazed stood agast inquiring the reason of that proposition and what his Lordship meant by requiring him to that service which he might not doe but with licence from his Ordinary except onely in some cases in which upon the appearance of imminent death it was lawfull for him so to doe if the Priest deputed thereunto by his Superiour was not to be found To this the Count replied that Ruelle must dye and that within the space of one quarter of an houre therefore commanded him to dispatch immediatly as hee would answer upon his Soule the Burger-maisters salvation being desperate if he should die unconfessed The Frier seeing the inraged countenance of the Count fearing his owne life if he should disobey answered onely that he would not doe it till the Burger-maister called him there needed no further words A servant that stood by apprehended what his Lord meant and going in and comming suddainly againe from the Chamber where Ruelle lay bound he tels the Frier that he desired him to come in The sight of the Magistrate bound like a malefactor put the Dominican into a greater passion and compassion for him and with some language expressing sorrow wished him to prepare for death the Count being resolved to murther him Ruelle much distracted with the consideration of his estate one while

THE CONTINVATION OF THE ACTIONS Passages and Occurrences both Politike and Polemicall in the upper GERMANIE HISTORICALLY BROVGHT downe from the Period of the last Relation till Aprill Together With a various and intermixed Historie of what hath been done in Turky Italy France the Netherlands and elsewhere Faithfully collected out of good and creditable originals and digested Methodically by the Times Places and Actions LONDON Printed by E. P. for Nathanael Butter and Nicholas Bourne 1637. THE PRINCIPALL HEADS of the Things contained in this Historie CHAP. I. 1 THe States of Sweden resolve to continue the Warre p. 1 2 The Saxons preparation for Warre with the Swedes p. 3 3 The Swedes counsell for managing the Warre p. 3 4 The Fort of Mansfeld besieged p. 4 5 Dehne sent to relieve it p. 5 6 Three hundred Saxons slaine and taken prisoners The Siege raised and the Fort relieved p. 5 7 Two Imperiall Regiments defeated and routed by Banniere at Helmstat p. 6 8 Banniere marcheth into Thuringen p. 6 9 Banniere sends to Ertford for reliefe for his Armie The Magistrates answer p. 8 10 The Swedish Armie removeth p. 9 11 The Imperialists march towards Franconia p. 10 12 Foure Imperiall Regiments defeated Goetz his flight Hatzfeldt plundereth the Countrey as he goeth p. 11 13 Mellerstat and Newstat in Franconia taken by Stathanse Paderborne and Wartzburg in Westphalia taken p. 12 14 The Landgrave of Darmstat molested p. 13 15 Elfeld taken and the Suburbs burned p. 13 16 A Regiment of Crabats surprized neere Wormbs and their Colonell taken prisoner by Ramsey p. 14 17 A Convoy of fortie Tunnes of Wine taken by be Hanawers p. 15 18 A foure moneths Truce concluded betwixt Darmstat and Ramsey p. 15 19 A new King of Romans elected p. 16 20 The Elector of Tryers and Land-grave of Cassell disavow the election p. 17 21 The manner and Ceremonies of the Election p. 18 22 The Syndick of Cologne murthered at Regenspurgh p. 20 23 The King of Romans Crowned 21 24 The Queenes Coronation 22 25 New Knights of the Empire made 23 26 Strange Prodigies 24 CHAP. II. 27 The death of the Emperour Ferdinand the second p. 25 28 Ertford summoned p. 27 29 Besieged by the Swedes p. 29 30 Surrendred upon composition p. 30 31 The Articles p. 30 32 Foure Imperiall Regiments defeated by Stal●ans p. 31 33 Seven hundred of them slaine and two Colonels taken prisoners p. 32 34 Leipsick summoned p. 32 35 The Governour resolved to defend it p. 33 Colonell Dehne routed 34 CHAP. III. 36 Torgaw taken by Banniere p. 35 37 The Saxon Garrison taketh pay of the Swedes p. 35 38 The Colonell Dehne beheaded p. 36 39 A Troope of Swedish Horse surprised p. 37 40 Leipsich victualled and fortified p. 37 41 Leipsich againe summoned p. 38 42 Besieged by the Swedes p. 39 43 Holdeth out for the Elector of Saxony p. 40 44 The defence made by the Garrison and the offence done by the Swedes p. 41 45 The siege raised p. 43 46 Thanksgiving for the Cities deliverance p. 44 47 The Imperiall Armie re-united and re-inforced marcheth towards Misnia p. 45 48 A Conflict betwixt Stalhanse and the Imperialists at Sala wherein foure Imperiall Regiments were ruinated p. 45 49 The Crabats under Isolani oppresse the Hassians p. 46 50 Budiani raised and his Regiment routed by the Land-grave William p. 49 51 Eleven hundred Pollacks mutinying for pay take service under Wrangle p. 50 52 Truchses arrested and sent to Vienna p. 50 CHAP. IV. 53 The death of Bodislaus Duke of Pomerania p. 51 54 The Swedish Regiment under Colonell Poye routed p. 52 55 The Vauntguard of some Imperiall Troopes defeated upon the Mulda p. 53 56 Two Caesarian Regiments surprised neere great Hahn p. 53 57 The Fort of Hermestein necessitated p. 54 58 The Landgrave attempteth to relieve it p. 55 59 Ramsey relieveth it by a Stratageme p. 55 60 Lemford taken by the Imperialists p. 57 61 The Presidiaries of Minden and Osnabrugge defeated at D●epshold p. 58 62 Surprise Hagell and put foure Companies of Caesareans to the sword p. 58 63 The miserable condition of the Dukedome of Saxony p. 58 64 Kustrin beleaguered by the Swedes p. 59 65 The siege intermitted p. 61 66 Berlin regained by the Marquesse Elector p. 62 67 Brandenburg taken from the Swedes p. 62 68 Drussen blocked up by the Swedes and the siege relinquished p. 62 69 Lantzberg surrendred to Wrangell p. 63 70 Colonell Arnheim surprised by the Swedes and prisoner to Stetin p. 63 71 Wrangell marcheth into Silesia p. 63 72 A strange prodigie at Isenach p. 64 73 Stralen burnt by the Swedes p. 64 74 Two Imperiall Regiments defeated at Weurtzen by Colonell Slangh p. 65 75 Two hundred Imperiall Horse defeated by Banniere at Pegaw p. 65 76 Three Regiments of Imperiall Horse routed by the Swede p. 66 77 The head Watch of the Imperiall Armie forced to a confused flight p. 66 78 The Emperours Funerall p. 67 79 The Citizens of Liege complaine to the Pope against their Bishops p. 68 80 The Count of Warfusee his treason at Leige p. 69 81 Ruelle the Burger-master murthered p. 71 82 The Abbot of Mousson and others strangely delivered p. 73 83 The rage of the Cittizens and the end of the Assassinates p. 73 84 Warfusee his counterfeited Letters p. 75 The Table of the Title of Historia Varia 1 The cause of the Turkes invading Transylvania p. 77 2 The King of France his order for provision for his Souldiers and ease of his subjects p. 80 3 John de Werths flight p. 81 4 Three hundred Wallon Horse defeated and surprised by Gassion neere Neuf-maison p. 82 5 The Spanish and French preparations for war p. 101 6 Crequy sent to the King of France by the Duke of Savoye p. 101 7 The French project discovered at Diettenhofen and their Forces defeated p. 102 8 The Duke of Rohan his goods arrested by the Grisons p. 103 9 Commeth to Capitulation p. 103 10 The conditions agreed upon betwixt the Grisons and the Duke of Rohan p. 104 11 Switz besieged and taken by the French p. 104 12 Honorata recovered by the French p. 105 13 Preparations for Warre by the Cardinall Infant and the Vnited States p. 105 14 A bloody fight betwixt a Partie of the Spanish and another of the States Souldiers p. 106 15 The Statists get the victory p. 106 16 The Prince of Orance his designe against Hulst prevented p. 107 17 The Bassa in Morea rebelleth against the Turke p. 107 18 The Vezier Bassa imployed lately against the Persian fleeth to the Sophie p. 107 CHAP. I. The Historie of the Actions and Passages in the upper Germanie since Novemb. 1636. Continued and brought downe to this present THE Parliamentarie Councell of the Swedish States at Stockhohne was not then dissolved when the tidings of their victorie at Witstock were confirmed by two expresses sent from the Generall Banniere to the Queene and Diet there