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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17500	The Dutch suruay VVherein are related and truly discoursed, the chiefest losses and acquirements, which haue past betweene the Dutch and the Spaniards, in these last foure yeares warres of the Netherlands, with a comparatiue ballancing and estimation of that which the Spaniards haue got in the Dutchies of Cleeue and Iuliers, with that which they haue lost vnto the Dutch and Persians, in Brasilia, Lima, and Ormus. VVhereunto are annext the Mansfeldian motiues, directed vnto all colonels, lieuzanant-colonels, sergeant majors, priuate captaines, inferiour officers, and souldiers, whose seruice is engag'd in this present expedition, vnder the conduct and commaund of the most illustrious Prince Ernestus, Earle of Mansfield.	W. C.; Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90, attributed name.	1625 (1625)	STC 4318; ESTC S107365	20,410	46

English giue the checke to that Kingdome which so long hath stroue for the Monarchie Supreame Paramount of all Christendome Let this President serue for our present encouragement and withall let vs consider that if those 7. Prouinces thought to be but a morsell for the Spaniards mouth they being not as bigge as that part of England whch lyes Northward beyond the Trent could make their partie good for so many yeares together against the Catholique King and his Pack-horse the Catholique Bishop of Rome What shall not the vnited forces of England France Denmarke and the Netherlands doe against Pope or Emperour Austrian or Bauarian or any other Christian Potentate whatsoeuer The expected blessings of God continuall supplies of meanes and the vndoubted Iustice of a good cause concurring therewithall In the prosecution whereof let not the Papall curses and fulminations the vncharitable censures of your Iesuitized English nor the foolish presages of the Speedewels ill speed any thing deterre vs For that Royall Ship which should haue transported ouer the Count was cast away by the default of the Pilot a man not well aquainted with those Seas a stranger vnto Flushing and possest as it is thought with a malicious resolution against the person of Count Mansfield So that leauing any coniecture vpon this euent befitting aswell a Colledge of Romane Augurs as it doth a Conclaue of Ignatius Disciples let vs discend nearer to the purpose and accommodate our selues to the expression of these Motiues which may confirme the stronger and strengthen the more doubtfull and weaker spirits if there be any such who are vndertakers in this new designed Mansfeldian Expedition And first concerning those Motiues your worthinesse may vnderstand that they may fitly be reduced vnto the number of three The first whereof is the sufficiency and conduct of that Generall vnder whom you are to vndertake The second is the meanes of prouision and preparation made for the vndertakers The third motiue is the cause conceaued though not expressed for which you are to vndertake and vndergoe this action And first concerning the Generall you are to fight vnder one whom neuer aduersity could deiect nor euer prosperity could once erect beyond the temper of true command You are to fight vnder such a Commander whom Pistolets promises nor proscriptions the powerfull Instruments to subiect staggering resolutions could once diuert from the tenour of his intendments You are to serue vnder his Banners of whom we may boldly say thus Qui cum ab omnibus desertus erat seipsum tamen non deserit When he was forsaken by the two Anhalts Ausberge and other Princes of the Vnion neuer forsooke himselfe nor left the cause of the King of Bohemia in the suds Are you to encounter with your Enemies in Campania vnder whose Colours can you sustaine the shock of Hostile opposition better then vnder his who beate Leopoldus men in their owne Quarters at Hagenawe killed Bawer the Duke of Bauariaes General in his lodging at Heseldorff fought that memorable battell of Fleury neere Namurs wherein fifteene thousand of his men vanquisht sixteene thousand of Gonsaluo de Cordabaes troupes 20000. Boores of their party besides Are you to make a retrait from the pursuing enemie Is not this that braue Conductor who made that famous retraite from Bohemia into the Palatinate and from thence vnto Breda a tract of sixe hundred English miles at least which considering the valour and aduantage of the pursuers was not inferiour vnto that retraite of Zenophons from out of Persia nor that of Conons from Aquilia into Britannie Are you to besiege Towne or Fortresse Consider then how the Count forced Pilsen a principall towne in Bohemia which Zischa anuo 1470. could not subdue nor the Hussites in their ten moneths siege anno 1434. could not conquer and this he did being weakely accompanied and beyond the expectation of humane reason Consider this besides how that after the defeate of Zablatti he rallied his troupes in the Winter season wonne Vodian Prachalis and Wintenberg one after another and though detained by Christian of Anhaults letters he besieged Pisack a strong place of importance wonne this Towne the sixth of December inforcing nature as the said Christian wrote vnto him Are you distressed for want of meanes and victuals so that you haue nothing but the ayre and your swords to liue by remember how yee shall martch vnder that Generall who maintained an Armie consisting of diuers Nations and different humours like another Hanniball without mutinie yet without pay for three yeares together filling their panches their purses with the plentifull spoiles of Alsatia Metz and Triers and with the abundant prouisions of Emden Munster and Westphalia To be briefe are you to actuate or endure any thing remember this that you doe it vnder the fortune valour and good conduct of Count Mansfield The second motiue which may serue to encourage vs is the sufficient prouision of meanes prouided for this iourney as men munition victuals and money the sinewes by which Warre is supported and all Martial enterprises are brought to a happy accomplishment Our men are those Laconian walls of bones which must make good this attempt against all opposition and these are the chiefest Nations and flower of all Christendome The French haue beene held the best Cauallerie of the world seldome or neuer beaten except it were by our English Bils and Bowes of these we shall haue sixe thousand Carbins and armed Curaiciers The Germanes were held in the time of Guichardine the best foote of the world and so much redoubted by the Italians that they durst not encounter with them except they had foote companies of the same Nation and of these we shall muster eight or ten thousand Our English in these latter times haue bin reputed the best Battalions of Pikes in all Christendome and whom the Spaniards in their ouer-valuing humor will acknowledge onely to be seconds vnto themselues and of men fit to handle these Armes England sends forth twelue thousand The vnexhausted Mines of Britanie will furnish these braue Troupes with Lead and Iron for their Ammunition our Magazins will supply their wants with Serpentine and Corn-pouder for Shot and Batterie and our friends of the Continent will prouide Waggons Horses and other necessaries fit for the conuoy of such a Royall Army Money will not be wanting nor I hope the mutinous sound of Gelt will neuer be heard in our Quarters nor an Electo chosē to reforme the same for besides the liberall Contribution of diuers noblemen of England forwarder of this enterprise and the plentifull prouision of our Parliament in that behalfe Fraunce and Sauoy Germanie and Venice contribute towards the charges of this intended iourney But is there any man who doubts the want of victuals whose courage depends vpon his Colon and who neuer fights well but when his paunch is full Let this man whose thoughts are so vnsouldierlike knowe that besides our owne prouisions which I