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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02406	The reasons for vvhich the most illustrious and most potent prince, and lord, Lord Gustavus Adolphus, King of the Svvethens, Gothes and Vandals, great Prince of Finland, Duke of Esthonia and Carelia, and Lord of Ingria, vvas at length forced to march vvith an army into Germany		1630 (1630)	STC 12535; ESTC S119067	8,502	16

off the Empire contemning the Contract made with those off Pomer at Arnhem and not regarding manny other Covenants made at divers times by all which it might seeme thay were sinceerely secured neither considering the great sommes off mony vniustly exacted and paid with gifts and presents violating the very sanctity both off religious and common peace it did first wast the Neighbouring villages off the Citty it did build divers fortes vpon the territories off the towne it did fortify the I le of Benholm lying neare vpon the haven to the preiudice of the towne after it had taken it by treachery without any denunciation of enmity it seased vpon all passages from the continent to the I le off Rugg and from the towne to the continent and back from the continent to the towne it did vex the Citticens with divers ridiculous treaties and having exhausted them by great tribute it chardged them also with Garrisons and so demanded the haven it self with their schipps and munition and at lenth all these being denied them by their priviledged liberty it did press the towne it selff with a strait Siedge and did persecute it most vnworthily to the very last with fire and sword Whenas therfore the Emperours decrees did here effectuat nothing the most Illustrious Duke off Pomer would not help them when thay were esteemed as left of all the society off the Hanse townes according to the Law and custom off Nations by favour off their priviledges by example off their Ancestors being compelled to implore the aide off a Forrain Power vntill that suddain tempest off warr should leave raging thay did accept for a while the Garrisons off the most Illustrious King off Denmark as most ready to repell the suddennes off the first assault yet least that schould turn to their future preiudice as if thay had associated themselves with the Emperours enimies at last thay found no more equitable and present remedy then to commit their oppressed liberty to the tuition off the most Illustrious King off Swethen as to a newtrall and friendly King The most illustrious King off Sweth therfore Considering in the first place that thay could promise thēselves no more favour from so vnsatiable attemps off an army noted with so many hostilities and next marking that the desires off this afflicted citty were grounded vpon divine and humane laws as also considering that bond off observance vicinity common religion liberty and commerce by which that Citty was allway adicted both to his Ancestors the most Illustrious Kings and Kingdom of Sweth and to himselff and lastly what danger it should breede not only to himselff and the kingdom off Sweth but also to all his neighbours if in this haven any nest of Piraticall excursion were setled by the privat ambition of any whatsoever he could no longer refuse by any either meanes or equity for the benefit off his Neighbours and friends as also off his own and off the publick and common security in the meane time to succour and releve the oppressed who so earnestly intreated his help comfort and Councell By which his intention Though this was effectuated that the Emperiall Iniunctions did keepe their own authority and the Baltick sea should be made secure for all Nations who haue any interest therin and that the towne of Stralsovnd by reason of the friendly intervention of his Ma. being freed from the Garrisons off the most illustrious King off Denmark as then hostile should be kept both to its own liberty and to the Empire of Rome as the League made with the towne cōcerning the same doth yet clearly demōstrate Notwithstanding it was never a whit the more obtayned that those perturbers of peace should yet remit any thing of their hostile attempts and purposes but by occasion theroff thay waxed more hot in seeking the destruction therof both by Lande and Sea for finding themselves to be frustrate of that haven thay sett vpon the haven of Wissmar and others neither being content with their own shipps thay called from Danswijck the Navie of the enimys of the kingdom of Sweth into their society and thay began so to annoy the sea neare adioining that his Ma. was at length forced if he would have the sea and Commerce safe to keepe them also inclosed there by his Navie and that not without great expence and dammadg vntill that that yeare should at length be expired securely in som kinde Yet notwithstanding that the most Illustrious king off Sweth might not herefore in any kinde remit his constant and perpetual care for the peace and common quietnes of these Nations but rather that he might try all waies and meanes to com to a friendly transaction when he vnderstood that a treaty of peace was instituted at Lubeck betwixt the Roman Emperour and the king of Denmark in the beginning of the yeare 1629. he thought it expedient to send his Ambassadors also thither in opportune time that thay might both accommodat this matter of the towne of Stralsound and compose all other Ielousies which were bred in these yeares and that also iff thay could help any thing therin by their mediation thay might promove the treaty it selff to the wished end for thus he made account with himself seeing that by occasion off that warr which passed between the Romane Emperour and the king off Denmark many suchlike Iealousies seemed to haue bin bredd that neither peace could be concluded with the king off Sweth Stralsound being excluded neither could that towne be bound to any Conditions it self not being comprehended in the Treaty by reason of the mutuall contracts agreed vpon with that Citie concerning that matter But howbeit the most Illustrious king off Denmark did thankfully admitt the Comming of the said Ambassage neither was the same with less courtesie and decēcie desired by letters from the other party yet such was the humanity wherwith he was requited that his solemn Ambassage was not only not admitted or at least thought worthy off any answer by letter but also with great indignity repulsed and commanded to keepe not only from the towne off Lubeck but also from the whole territory of Germany vpon hazard and threatning of extremity Which only indignity though in the Account off all Nations it be allway esteemed worthy of most iust revenge and there seemed no cause to remaine why more rough remedies should be any longer abstayned from yet seeing the Deputies of the Emperour did at Length in March after that thay of Sweth were recaled into the Kingdom againe acknowledg the letters of the kings Ambassadg by an Answer by letter by which as by way of excuse thay would seem to mollify the iniquity of the former sentence his Ma. also in the meane time esteemed the same to have proceeded rather from some evill Councellers then from publick Councell neither did he yet suffer it to be such as might seem to be sufficient yea even ioyned with the rest to Committ his mutuall States to a iust warr

especially seeing the said deputies did withall signify that thay had no power to treate with any other then the king of Denmark yet thay knew certainly that if the matter were yet referred either to the Emperour himselff or to the Duke of Fridland thay should receiue an answer which might give them content It might now seem an vnworthie thing to expose his patience any longer to such ridiculous proceedings it having alreadie bene wronged so many wayes it being also very doubtfull whither or how the matter might be related by the party offended to the imperour with whom heretofore no such like communication had bene vsuall to his Ma. all wayes being prohibited in the whole Roman Empire and the treatie of Lubec drawing so neere an end yet notwithstanding that no labour might be omitted for the desired publick tranquillitie and that no difficulty might be any hinderance thervnto all contrary considerations being laid aside when the matter could not be related to the Emperour himself his Ma. was at lenth by the illustrous counsel of the Kingdom off Swethen induced presently in the month off April not only to write to the Electorall convention as being the cheif prop off the Roman Empire to which these proceedings with forrain kings were thought to be most displeasing and to sue for opportune remedies but also to give consent that a deputie should be withall sent from the counsell to the generall of the troups himself who by his presence might try whither those controversies which seemed to be bred betwixt the mutuall armies might not be taken away by the Convention of the same whervpon his Mas. Chamberlane the Illustrious L. Steno Bielke L. Baron was presently sent to Kroker with adjoined power that if he found the mynds of the contrary partie inclinable to peace he should constitute a stilstand of armes for Stralsound while that farder preparatories of treating being made more commissioners might Follow who might refer the whole busines to a full transaction But when he in the beginning of the spring aryved at Stralsound and found the mynds of the adverse party and the whole face of the matter changed to the worse and that the former hostilities were not only not taken away but also augmented with fresh hostilities from day to day as also Stralsound again to be assaulted with divers onsets all the havens of the coast to be armed for to pray vpon the Swetian sea and which is the greatest of all iniquities that a compleat army was again privilie sent to Prussia without any denunciation of warr and that vnder the Emperours owne Marchall off the forces of Arnheimbia this change did indeed stay him from proceeding any farder as it was fit yet notwistanding that he might in some measure discharge his cōmission he wrote to the Duke of Fridlād for what causes he was dispatched and having protested against the iniquitie of that armie that was sent over he desyred that both it and all other hostilities might be stayed iff the answere off the deputies of Lubec might other wayes seem to be sincere But the Duke of Fridlād was so far aither from recalling the army or shewing any readines to treate with greater mocking he confirmed his subdeputies answers to be meerly scoffing contending that for this cause cheefly these souldiers could not be recalled because the Emperour had so many forces that off necessitie he behooved to disburden himselff off that army off arnheimbia and therfore he not without cause sent it to his frend the King of Pole against Swethen as the authentike letters doe yet shew neyther would he again answere any thing els to any purpose to the reiterated desires off the Ambassador but caused the said army to hasten its iorney which also the whole last sommer did vse such bitternes off fight in Prussia against the King and Kingdom off Swethen that vules God the Iust revenger off iniquitie had made the recompence off the attemps off their wicked intension to light vpon their owne heads no small daunger was like to have happened both to the most Illustrious King and Kingdom off Swethen and to all his Mas. Frends Can any man doubt therfore any longer whither the most Illustrious King off Swethen had sufficient cause to move him all cogitations off peace laid aside long agoe to have taken armes and prepared himself for warre for the defence off him and his But there was yet one thing restand which seemed yet a litle to hinder the speedy taking off armes to wit the expectation of an answere to the Kings letters from the Electorall convention and the intervention off the most Illustrious King off Denmarck who at the perswasion off his Royall Ma. had from the last winter even till now begun to vrge the matter to treaties for certanly so long as any sufficient reparation off dammages and iniuries and provision for the securitie off his neighbours might be wrought by treatie his Ma. was never so covetous off revenge but that for the zeale he bears to the common cause and publict quietnes he would willingly have suffered the matter to have bene ended rather by treatie then arms But seing that from the beginning of Aprill in this year 1630. when there was a day appointed for a convention at Dantsik in Prussia vnto this very month of Iune there is no signification of treatie made by the partie offender to the Commissarie of the partie offended there present and declaring by letters to Dantsik his readines and power to ●reate how sincerely the publict peace is desired it is easie hereby to be Iudged especiallie seing their scoffings not only of former times but also after they had dispatched their Commissaries to Dantsik by possessing themselvs of all fortified places and passages in Pomer and preparing themselves more eagerly to warr then heretofore doe plainly advertise with what securitie any confidence may be put in such like treaties As for the Electorall convention it might indeed have ●one much in that matter and his Royal Ma. perswaded himself it would so have done if the States of the Empire ●ad obtained the fredom of their auncient libertie and if the ●ower of evel willers had not taken such root therein that ●t seemed to reiect all internall remedie they of the convention did also in their answere which was in the late month of Aprill conveighed to Stocholme praise the peaceable intentions and proffered transaction of the most Illustrious King of Swethen offering Withall reciprocall frendschip on their part but seing they did not so much as ●n a word touch the remedies of the injuries done which the Kings letters did cheifly requires did they not leave it necessarie for his Ma. to provide opportune remedies for himself Wherfore seing so many and waightie injuries ar really done to his Royall Ma. his letters intercepted and opened his subjects servants and soudiers spoyled and caried away into sclavery trade naturally common interdicted the pole his Mas. enemy so often disswaded