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A10589	A relation of all matters passed especially in France and the Low-Countries, touching the causes of the warre now in Cleueland. Together with such occurrences of note as have happened in Spaine, Italie, England, Germany, Hungarie and Transyluania, since March last to this present, 1614. Translated according to the originall of Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus.	Isselt, Michael von, d. 1597.; Booth, Robert, d. 1657.	1614 (1614)	STC 20862; ESTC S104590	34,365	50

A RELATION OF ALL MATTERS PASSED ESPECIALLY IN France and the Low-Countries touching the causes of the warre now in Cleueland TOGETHER WITH SVCH OCCVRRENCES OF NOTE AS HAVE happened in Spaine Italie England Germany Hungarie and Transyluania since March last to this present 1614. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE Originall of Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus LONDON Imprinted for William Welby and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Swan 1614. TO THE WORTHIE AND HOPEFVLL GENTLEMAN MASTER WILLIAM BOOTHE Esquire Sonne and Heire to Sir GEORGE BOOTHE Knight SJr this Discourse was brought to me in Latine by some of my good friends who for that they could not pearce through the harsh and vncouth stile into the meaning of the Author they prayed me to make the same more transparent by a version thereof into English which J haue here done in a more explicate manner and haue aduentured to recommend the same to your patronage as a pledge of that affection wherewith J doe much respect you Only J beseech you vt facias quod iam facis that is that you would aduance that foundation of learning and vertue which you haue already laid and that you would endeuour to couple together that rare society of Estate and worthines which so seldome concurre in one person emulating the riches of your fortune with the riches of your mind by which meane you shall returne a noble retribution to that house from which by your Match you haue receiued so much honour And if you shall please to accept this poore Peece in good part you shall bind my care hereafter to present you with an argument both worthier for the straine and better suting with your qualitie Jn the meane time I shall euer studie to doe you seruice and in your thoughts to deserue the estimation Of your very louing Kinsman ROB. BOOTHE A DISCOVRSE FVLL OF DELIGHT CONTAINING THE RELATION OF THE things which in most parts of Europe haue passed worthy the remembrance since March last 1614. to this present WWhen after the lamentable ouerthrow and death of Bathorie Gabriel Bethline had bin appointed Prince of Transyluania by the Turkes the Country was diuided into diuers factions some especially these who were next of blood to Bathorie being desirous to reuenge his death of whom many perished about Medisa being throwne headlong from the tower many followed the Emperours parts taking Husta and other places in his name but the greatest part stuck to Bethline and submitted themselues to his obedience The Turke vnderstanding the state of the countrey writ his letters to the Nobilitie and Councell of Transyluania to this effect that they could not bee ignorant that from the time that Transyluania liued vnder the gouernment of his ancestors and himselfe that the country continued in great peace aed quietnesse vnder their protection for that they had sundry times both desired and obtained aide from his Court against their enemies especially that Botteskay when the Transyluanians were but the other day molested by the Germanes being assisted with his forces ouerthrew the power of the Germanes and shaked their yoak from their neckes After his death when they saw that Bathora his successor carried things according to his pleasure and fell from his obedience that Bethline with the generall consent of the Nobility complained in that behalfe of him at his Court and that hee easily obtained meanes to oppresse him and to free the Prouince from his tyranny After whose ouerthrow and death the wished sunne-shine of peace and liberty began to appeare after that the clouds of troubles had by his meane been dispersed And now since the said Bethline hath addressed himselfe to his Court and submitted himselfe to his order that he hath iudged him worthy to succeed Bathorius and to obtaine this Principality and therefore that hee hath commanded that all the Nobles of the countrie should submit themselues vnto him and obey his commandements since by this meanes they are like to enioy their wished peace and rest Furthermore that the same Bethline hath by letters aduertised him of certaine attempts of the Germanes and in that regard knowing assuredly that this Prouince is setled vnder his protection that hee had forthwith giuen order to the Commanders of Themsuard and Agrium and others as also to the Prince of Walachia that they should haue forces in readinesse and should bee very watchfull at all times to repell all iniuries that should be offered yea that hee did aduise the Nobles themselues that they should at all times yeeld all ready obedience to Bethline so as they swarue not in the least point from his commandement And that he sent these letters to this end that they should take notice of his pleasure and that they should giue no assistance to any attempts of the Germanes in this Prouince whether they be secret or open but withstand them to their power vntill the aides of Themesuard and Agrium did come and that in all things they should follow Bethline esteeming him as their true and lawfull Prince and continue constantly in his obedience lest they prouoke his displeasure against them and procure their owne great misery Therefore that they should agree together and bee true to their Prince nor suffer any strangers to shuffle in amongst them but that they should aduise with Bethline in all matters of importance and entreate his pleasure for assurance taking heed that they doe not rashly encline to one side or other Therefore in as much as they haue continued in obedience to him that they ought not to doubt of his most mighty patronage who meant alwaies to prouide that they might liue quietly and peaceably vnder the wings of his clemencie But if they should fall from their alleageance and shal not be obedient to these his admonitions that the end will be that they shall bee forced to melt by his grieuous displeasure as the wax doth by the fire and so bee consumed for that he will neuer endure that any should at his pleasure waste and spoile Transyluania a Prouince so nearely bordering vpon his kingdome After the publication of these letters hee gaue order that certaine pikes should bee sticked in the ground before the gates of sundry the principall Noble men and officers cleane through Transyluania in token that they should die that fell from Bethline his obedience to the partie of the Germans hauing placed in ambush certain companies about Lippa and Geneum which places held still for the Emperor by whom some of the Garrison souldiers that sallied out to try a fortune were surprised and slaine euery man For which cause some of them being sent by their commander came to Vienna to sue for succour About the same time a Turkish Embassador came to Lints with letters from the great Turke to the Emperour to this effect that whereas he had concluded a Peace with the Emperour for twentie yeeres that hee had for his part been very carefull that nothing should

madnesse being conuerted into the Iewes street they spoiled and ransacked the same The Iewes at the first withstood them and with barrecadoes of all manner of stuffe defended their houses being assisted by some of the Citizens themselues But the numbers of the raging multitude encreasing more and more and the rascals and loose people flocking out of all quarters and corners of the towne and mixing themselues with the seruants and prentises gathered such a head that they were past resistance the Consuls themselues and other good Citizens being vnable to preuaile against their furie either by force or by perswasion for the rage the more encreased the more it fell out that any were wounded in the tumult For one was wounded in the arme another in the eare another in the eye some being wounded to death fell to the ground The next day the Citizens armed themselues and came vp with a competent number of horse and foote into the street and taking the goods from those loose fellowes whom they could light on in the streets caused them to be laid vp for the owners So there was an end made of this robbing and mutiny The Iewes moued with the feare of this vprore to the number of 1500. forsooke the City resoluing to dwell somewhere else Marquesse Spinola in the meane time comming to Rhinberke resolued to besiege Wesell accompanied with 12000. horse and foote The Vesalians vnderstanding this determination of Spinola presently dispatched messengers to Rhinberke to gratulate his comming and to present him with certaine cartlodes of wine and to desire of him the cause of his comming that they might giue him satisfaction who answered them that they must restore the City into the same condition and state of gouernment wherein it stood in the time of Charles the fifth and receiue his Garrison into the towne When this answere was deliuered to the Citizens assembled in the Parish Church they bound thēselues instantly by mutual othes that they would fight to the last gaspe for their Countrey and die and liue together in the quarrell But Spinola the 23. of August approching with all his Camp neerer to the towne sent certaine Companies aforehand to make an assault vpon the walles which the townes-men issuing out of the towne receiued in such manner that they slew very many of them especially with the great Ordinance which played from the towne but Spinola marching neere with the the rest of the armie they retired into the towne But he caused 18. Murall engins to be set against one place of the wall threw downe one of the gates of the towne which with the fall oppressed diuers and stroke such a terrour into the minds of the Citizens that the women in all places came with their children running to the walles and with weeping and wringing of hands entreated Spinola to spare them A treaty hereupon appointed an agreement was made that one thousand souldiers should bee receiued into the City and should be billeted by the Magistrate vpon diuers houses who notwithstanding liuing vnder military Discipline should bee no burthen to the townes-men nor receiue either meate or money of them 2. That Gulicke being once restored to the former estate by the Estates of the Vnited Prouinces the City should be againe discharged of these Companies of souldiers 3. That no change should be made either in ciuil matters or Ecclesiasticall and those which concerne religion 4. That the City should retaine all her priuiledges without impeachment 5. That by this occasion no preiudice should be offered to the Prince of Brandenburge 6. That his Officers and Ministers with all their armes and prouisions might remaine in the City so long as please them 7. That the City should keepe still their Ordinances and all Prouision for war in their possession 8. That the Garrison souldiers of the City should depart with al their armes 9. That it should bee free for any Citizen to depart out of the City whensoeuer hee would These conditions being subscribed by Spinola and after to be confirmed by the Prince of Newburge the City was deliuered into Spinola his hands While these matters passed in this manner Graue Maurice Count of Nassau drew out his forces to the number of eighteene thousand horse and foot appointing his rendeuous at Schencke Sconce and taking to him William Henry Fredericke and Iohn Ernest Count Chastilion also and Sir Horace Vere and many other braue Commanders marching with his whole armie by water and land hee came before Emericke and suddenly surprised the towne and put a guard in it Next he marched to Rese Now the townes-men a little before had sent their Consul to Spinola promising him that they would receiue a guard from him But whē his Excellency had pitched his Campe and summoned the towne to yeeld themselues they refused discharged their Ordinance against the Spaniards which Spinola sent with their consent professing that they would bee neutrall and would receiue no guard from one side or other The Spaniards being thus sent away and deluded his Excellency commanded that the Artillary and all prouision should bee made ready to batter the towne which he intended to do very strongly but the Burgers when they saw there was no remedy yeelded the towne and receiued a guard from his Excellency who from thence marching further tooke in Gocha Calcar Gunep and other townes situate in those quarters In the meane time Spinola neglecting the conditions of the treaty made with them of Wesell encreased his guard against his promise and faith giuen for he brought in three thousand souldiers to the great hurt of the City and so terrified the Burgers as he had done before at Duisburge that not one Preacher durst dare to preach in publike in so much as their Churches seemed to be desolate But further making a bridge of boates ouer the Rhine betweene Wesell and Buricke part of his armie he sent to take Sante part he employed to raise a bulwarke vpon the Rhine anenst Wesel by that meanes to keepe both the passage of the Riuer and the City it selfe in his power There had been carried from the siege of Gulicke into the towne of Wesell 22. peeces of great Ordinance with exceeding store of powder and shot All which hee permitted to bee taken away and to bee restored to the Prince of Brandenburge But his Excellency marching on still drew so neere to Spinola that he ioyned Tents with Spinolaes Tents in so much as the P●rdues and Sentinels might not onely talke but also eate and drinke together And when hee desired to see the letters of his commission that he might know in whose name he entred into this expedition Spinola desired his Excellency that hee would in like sort satisfie him who caused so many Trumpeters to sound the trumpet as he had noble personages in his Campe. But to the declaration of the Estates of the vnited Prouinces that they would deliuer the Castle of Gulicke by way of sequestration to the two Embassadors of the Kings of Britanny and France the Elector of Cullen answered That he knew not the minds of both the Princes whether they will assent to this motion or no and that hee knew as little whether these Embassadours haue sufficient warrant from the Kings their Masters to doe the same that as hee conceiued it was a businesse rather of priuate honour then the good of the Countrey which was stood vpon That it cannot be denied but that hee loseth nothing of his honour who restores that which is not his owne therefore it should bee fit for the common good that on both sides restitution should bee made of all places and all questions which haue risen from hence should bee clearely taken away After hee exhorted his Excellency that he would please to spare neither time nor paines to compose these differences but that hee would bee willing to stay armes that the matter may be drawne to a treaty That hee also hath dealt earnestly with Spinola that would stay here but that he would not hearken to the motion vnlesse he were assured that the Estates and the Marquesse of Brandenburge would also sit still and attend the issue of a treaty Therefore that the matter might with more conueniency be brought to a treaty that hee would wish his Excellency and the Estates to be effectually dealt withall We spake somewhat before of the preparations of the Gouernour of Millaine and other Princes of Italy to armes Now about the beginning of September the armies of the Gouernour of Millain and of the Duke of Sauoy which are reported to exceed the number of 40000. haue met in the field and fought a very bloody battell Albeit they of Berne and Geneua and others suspecting that some trechery lyeth hidden vnder this pretence of quarrell are vpon their guard and prouide circumspectly against the worst being also aduised diligently by the Protestant Princes and Estates that they suffer not themselues to be abused by any false pretences Therefore certaine Imperiall Cities as Strawsburge Norimberge Collen Wormes Ratisbone Bibracke Memming Vinshem Rotenburge Veissenburge Offenburge Noerdling Hailbrun Essing Reutling Suinfurt Colmar Halle in Sueueland and others haue with great speed sent their Embassadors for a meeting to be held the 6. of Septemb. in this cause of Vlme by reason of these tumultuous businesses and rumours of warres the illustrious Princes of W●ttemberge and Anhalte ioyning with them in this busines FINIS