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A14604	The appollogie of the illustrious Prince Ernestus, Earle of Mansfield, &c. Wherein from his first entertainment, are layd open the occasions of his warres in Bohemia, Austria, and the Palatinate, with his faithfull seruice to the King of Bohemia. Translated out of the originall French coppie.; Apologie pour le tres-illustre seigneur, Ernéste conte de Mansfeld. English	S. W., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 24915; ESTC S119323	47,601	78

THE APPOLLOGIE OF THE ILLVSTRIOVS Prince ERNESTVS Earle of Mansfield c. WHEREIN FROM HIS FIRST Entertainment are layd open the Occasions of his Warres in Bohemia Austria and the Palatinate with his faithfull Seruice to the King of Bohemia Translated out of the Originall French Coppie Printed at Heidelbergh 1622. TO THE READERS REaders you must giue me leaue to present my Booke to you without the Epithite of Gentle Courteous or Impartiall Readers for mine is an Apologie which hee that is sure of such Readers needs not make And if the glory of this most loyall and victorious Count hath still at home bin confronted with envious censures how should a story of his Actions euery where meet with such Readers This therefore rather hopes to make then find you so And readers I call you plurally for it lookes to fall into diuers hands and all not alike minded some may light vpon this Apologie who by their enuious detractions from his Acts haue bin the causers that some such as this were sit to bee made for his iustification But I hope that they being now out of action and so no longer corriuals in his honour the proofe of his victorious fidelity hath by this time either made them ashamed or silent A second sort are those whom these scandalous reports haue suspended in their goood opinions of his fidelity to the King and to them is this Apology chiefly intended for it well hopes that by relating the treacheries who by his martiall sentence suffered for it and withall truely representing his diligence and letters to the traytors and the wants which disabled him from hindring their plots when his wisdome had discouered them will throughly enforme such a Reader turne him now to an impartial Reader A third sort may light vpon this who haue liued so farre off from newes that they neuer heard him so much as suspected for thankes be to God his glory is further trauelled then their enuy which hath either bin lost by the way or turned backe againe and I hope these men will thinke their money well bestowed in that an Apology must of necessity discouer more priuate and particular passages whence this enuy sprang then any generall History of these Bohemian warres need produce for such a story rather relates then proues and besides here are diuers letters coppyed out and letters be the very linings and insides of Stories and this way too this Apology giues these Readers best satisfaction Yet for one fauour I must appeale to thee Gentle and Courteous Reader for so I hope euen in this point to finde the first sort of these Readers because what I entreate although it goes with the history yet it is besides the scope of it which is the thing they onely maligne I meane to craue your fauourable censures for the rudenesse of the Style For wee Bohemians next our vulgar more frequently vse the neighbour Italian speech but because the campe whither this is chiefely sent compoūded of diuers Nations best vnderstand one another in the French I haue therefore wrote it in that language wherein I was lesse perfect But maruell not if wee Swordmen who vse to hew out our way now and then hacke at a word a souldiers writing stile is his stilletto and when wee parlee wee send summons not orations and their owne necessity perswades the vanquished to yeeld and not the victors Rhetoricke but if it be plaine plainnesse best sets forth truth as this is And peraduenture it will be the better thought to be so for the Author profession for a souldier as much scornes to giue the lye as to take it Seeing then this braue mans Fame hath bin put to his compurgators I who haue bin a witnesse of all I write come in here as one of the Iurors and vpon mine owne knowledge deliuer the truth and willingly nothing but the truth and to this I sweare and you here see I lay my hand vpon the booke Farewell and listen after him his owne Actions shall next make their owne Apology or need none S. W. AN APPOLLOGIE MADE IN DEFENCE OF THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE ERNESTVS Earle of MANSFIELD Marquisse of CASTEL NOVO and BONTIGLIERE Baron of HELDRVNGEN Marshall of the Army of BOHEMIA and the Prouinces Incorporated thereunto c. PAssion is a most strange and wonderfull thing it is a malady and sore disease of the soule which hindreth the functions of Iudgement and a mist darkning the eyes of the Spirit making thinges to seeme otherwise and contrary vnto that which in effect they are Loue the most violent passion of all others thinketh that which is euill fauored to be faire and that which is wicked to be good Scilicet insano nemo in amore videt hatred Enuy and euill will contrary passions produce contrary effects and cause that which is good vertuous and commendable to appeare and shew to be euill vicious and worthy of blame From thence Ingratitude bad speeches and slaunder accursed Daughters of such wicked Mothers which satisfie and feede themselues with euill as the Spider doth with the poyson which shee sucketh out of all sorts of Flowers and that from the best like these who blame and dispraise all sortes of actions yea and those that are most commendable Lycurgus so excellent a person that the Oracle of Apollo was in doubt and made question whether it should place him among the rancke of the Gods or of Men what did not hee doe for the good and benefit of his natiue Countrey and for the welfare of his fellow Cittizens but in the meane time they being led and carryed away by this disease in stead of acknowledging his benefits imparted vnto them sought to doe some mischiefe vnto him charged him with many Iniuries and blowes and finally banished him out of his Countrey The like in a manner happened vnto Scipio hee I say who by the ruyne of the Carthagian Empire strengthened the foundation of the Romane Common-wealth his bones could finde no rest in that place whereunto hee had procured the same Charles Duke of Burbon one of the most braue and valiant Princes that France euer brought forth worthy in truth to haue Descended out of that most Illustrious house and of a better Fortune if it had pleased God to haue graunted him that fauour as well as he had indowed him with great and rare Vertues by diuers and good effects witnessed and set forth the greatnes of his Courage and the affection that he bare vnto the King his Master He deliuered Dision from the siege that the Switzers layde about it tooke Millaine out of their handes And which is more aduanced the Victory which the King had against them in the Battaile of Marignan For all which his Noble actions and many other eminent Seruices which he did for him yet he could not obtaine his fauour But to the contrary the further that he proceeded still hee found himselfe to be further from it Passion hauing in such manner

Franke in stead of obeying the L. Marshals Commaunds which expresly forbad any suspected person but especially of the Enemies to come within Pilsen did all the quite contrary All sortes of people of the aduerse party had free accesse thither Messingers Souldiers Officers Captaines yea and their Colonels too who all went and came freely He himselfe went to visite Colonell Lindlaw in his Quarters without leaue of the L. Marshall The said Colonell Lindlaw comming also diuerse times to Pilsen was there feasted and entertained by the said Colonell Franke and the Captaines of the Garrison with asmuch familiarity as could be deuised amongst friends of the same party The L. Marshall who neuer mistrusted the said Colonell Franke as indeed he was not yet sented out of any being now aduertised what quarter he kept with his Enemies wrote to him but kindly exhorting him to abstaine hereafter from such vagaries as might bring all his Actions into suspition As the L. Marshall was on his way towards Heilbrun he receiued Letters from his Matie wherein was confirmed vnto him the charge of Marshall generall of the field for the Kingdome of Bohemia and the Vnited Countries with full power to do all that he thought would best aduance the seruice of his Matie and the profit of the Estates At his returne from Heilbrun to Amberg he got the wind of those plots practises still on foot in Pilsen whereupon he wrote first to one and then to another to continue constant assuring them he would not forsake them and that he would find the meanes to get thē their Pay as also to relieue their necessities Things going thus came his Auditor of the Camp who had bin at Prague about the busines afore mentioned who tolde the L. Marshall that to continue the Treaty hee must haue a larger Warrant from him then that he had receiued at Ellenbogen So that the L. Marshall caused one to be drawne for him in the amplest manner that could be deuised and renued his Instructions adding to the rest of the Articles that the Vpper Palatinate should be comprised within the said Treaty And with this Commission sent the said Auditor to Prague giuing him in charge to sound the depth of the enemies Designes in regard of a speciall Treaty they intended to haue with the Captaines And that he should perswade the said Captaines to be constant in his Maiesties seruice And finally to aduertise him carefully of all that passed This was to make the Wolfe the Shepheard The L. Marshall hauing had experience of his faithfull Seruice some yeares thought he had dealt vprightly in his imployment but hee had already supt the poyson of infidelity out of Portaes Cup. This was verily the same Auditor but chang'd within and quite another man from what he was before Momus had good reason in my opinion when hee had considered the stature of Mans body to finde fault that Nature had not made a wicket before the Heart of man that his thoughts might be discouered The want of this if I may call it a want hath beene the cause that a 1000. men haue beene deceiued by these Two men in whose sincerity they had good confidence not being able to see into their inward partes which God hath reserued to himselfe In briefe the Enemy forwarned by the treacheries of these two perfidious persons husbanded this occasion so well that they conditioned secretly with the Captaines for the yeelding vp of Pilsen while in outward shew they seemed to desire a Treaty with the L. Marshall So as the Captaines hauing already left the party and gone beyond the bounds of their Duty began now to speake more openly then before They wrote and causde it to be tolde by word of mouth to the Marshall that they purposed to expect no longer but would either be presently payde or at least be assured of their Pay and that if shortly they had not a resolution to their mindes and deedes accordingly they would prouide for themselues The said Auditor after Conference with Monsieur Tilly about his last Commission returned to the Lord Marshall without effecting any thing excusing it that hee was sent backe with threats and denyed Audience For that as he alledged the Enemy tooke it ill that the L. Marshall changing the contents of his first Commission had inserted this last Article concerning the Vpper Palatinate which had no depency vpon Bohemia But the troath is that they being then assured of the mindes of the Captaines cared no more to holde on the treaty with the Lord Marshall hauing held it with him all this while to no other end then to stay him from going forward And surely to confesse the truth both parties although they differed in their desires yet were they well agreed in this that one sought to entrap the other The Imperialists had two aduantages aboue vs that is to say Meanes which wee wholly wanted and the absence of the L. Marshall not to speake of the perfidiousnes of Porta And thus they got the game Now the Auditor by priuate Intelligence assured the L. Marshall of the secret Treaty and that his Captaines inclined wholly to the Emperours side making more of euery thing then it was The L. Marshall vpon these tidings dispatcht Letters into all quarters and did all he could to procure money in some sort to satisfie the couetous desire of these Traytors But all in vaine For that little which he could get could not staunch their hunger Meane time he omitted no oportunity which might make for the breaking off of these treacherous practises which he thought yet had floated vpon the waues of vncertainties and not landed at any Port hee imployes all the pollicies which his wisedome or dexterity could furnish him with And no doubt it had succeeded well had not so vnfortunately these very agents whome he vsed being before hand corrupted and made the Enemies as amongst others the Colonell Franke and the Auditor whom he sent againe to Pilsen aswell to obserue more narrowly the actions of the said Colonell Franke as to hinder the finall Conclusion of the treaty The L. Marshall assuring himselfe that he being a man knowne to all the Officers and Souldiers and of good dexterity would doe him able seruice as indeed he might haue done had he regarded Honour asmuch as profit But his ill meaning was to worke cleane contrary effects Moreouer the L. Marshall sent a Corporall of Captaine Becke Baslois Company with a packet of Letters directed to diuers Officers which Packet had verily strucke the stroke had it beene deliuered But this honest Messinger was betrayed going out of Amberg by one of Nuremberg so that entring into Bohemia he was taken by the Enemies The Colonell Lindlaw sent the Originals to Colonell Franke who read them and sent them backe without deliuering them to whom they were directed To conclude all thinges went backwards So that doe what the L. Marshall could the Impostume burst This fire that had long been raked