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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

assisted with seaven Swedish Regiments sent unto him from the Campe by Bannier under the Command of Colonell King to that purpose This true professor of the Evangelicall faith thought it unbeseeming his dignitie to recede a jot from the promise of alliance which he had made and confirmed by oath to the Crowne of Sweden and being at that time courted by the Imperialists to relinquish their partie coyned some new Rix-dollars with these German words upon them Es ist besser land vnd leut verlobren Den eyu en falchen eydt geshworen Which may be Enlished thus It 's better Life and Land forsake Then to a-null one Oath I make Not so much to nippe the Saxon for his perfidiousnesse as some have judged it as to testifie his owne integritie and loyalty and ayded by the Swedes March 1 11. visited Budiani in his Quarter at Skenkanfeldt Budiani raised his Regiments routed by the Land●grave William where after a sharpe conflict in which the Crabat saw 300 of his Souldiers put to the Sword himselfe was forced to slight and that too so full of horrour and confusion that to save his life he was faine to cast away his Coat Saddle Sable to leave his Horse gajētie for feare of being discovered and exposed to danger personally sheltring himselfe in the Woods to preserve him from the rage of the Victor who by this action gained 300 Horse and their furniture carried with him to Cassel 26 Prisoners all or most of them men of note and eminent Commanders in the Army cleared his Countrey of those Caterpillers and marched up towards the Weser and Westphalia where hee doubted not to inlarge his Victory there being then no Imperiall Army to oppose him Isolani in the interim taking his way thorow Voidlandt to attaine to the Caesareans Campe under whose protection hee promised himselfe more securitie as being joyned with Confederates and no longer building upon his owne power Wrangell who at that time was marched 10 leagues up into Silesiae to invade that Province and make head against the Forces under Maerazini and the Count of Mansfeldt both which with a new leavied Army there were putting forward towards Pegaw where Hatzfield and Goetz expected their comming received instructions from Banniere to doe his best endeavour to cut them off in their march or otherwise to hasten thence to the Swedish Campe and joyne with him against the whole Caesarean united power It was more then probable at the first that the Swedish Field-Marshall might have encountred them at least upon equall tearmes 10000 brave old Souldiers attended him when he first passed the Oder at Franck-fordt 1100. Polacks 1100 Pollacks mutinying for pay take service under Wrangell which had mutinied for want of pay and vowed to pillage Mòravia a rich Countrey annexed to the Crowne of Bohemia and abounding with Corne being generally so full of Tillage that there was scarce any place of Pasture and hitherto untouched in these present warres to make up their stipend seeing the Imperialists threatned to pay them with Swords and bullets revolted and tooke service under him The Imperialists Army was but on raising Colonell Truchses who had promised the deceased Emperour to supply him with many thousands of able men out of that Province fayled of performance and laying strange impositions upon the people grew odious only Gl●gawe and some other few places were left to withstand him and who would not hence conclude a doubtlesse happie issue The change of Councels often turneth the present state of things to see a supposed Favorite brought to disgrace infatuates the Common people with a dotage of new affection to their Commanders Truchses was arrested as an abuser of the Caesarean grace and mercy sent a Prisoner to Vienna Mansfeildt authorised to supply his charge Truchses arrest●d and sent to Vienna and he complying with the peoples humour soone raised a sufficient strength to deale with Wrangell who grown weaker by this time then hee was at his first going to the Field having left 4000 of his men in severall Garrisons and scarce confident of the Polish Cossacks discrees Commanders will hardly give credit to a revolting Fee He which alloweth the act will not easily trust the actor retreated thence towards Misnia to joyne with his associate and fellow in Armes Banniere and with their united forces to give battell to the Army of the Caesareans CHAP. IV. The Death of BODISLAUS D. of Pomerania SOme remora's there were which hindered his expedition one an act of humanity or rather piety the other an effect of necessity and though the first might seeme a Nullity to the over-curious inquisitors into each mans comportment yet the last is beyond all exception and requires no apology for it nor admits argument against it What Plow-jogger will not forbeare one day in Harvest to bury his deceased Father though the Corne be ripe and ready to shake what Merchant will not stay a little to give his friends the Foy though the wind fill his sayles and inviteth forth to sea An occasion of more consequence in Ethicks then a common farewell and of more importance in humanity then the interrement of a private-man though a parent policy attending and playing the handmaid to his piety stayed him The golden Bough of Pomerania was then cropped and isthoc avulso deficit alter Aureus et simili non frondet virga metallo Bodislaus the 14 aged 57 yeares who had sate at the Helme of Pomerania by the space of 17 yeares personally whose auncestors had governed that Province for 700 yeares March 〈◊〉 deceased childlesse and without issue to the great griese of his subjects and confederates who were the more sensible of his losse by their knowne assurance of his integrity and this Prince his Funerals together with a provident care for preservation of the Dukedome were one cause of such a stay there as might shew his affection to the memory of that good Prince but not indanger his confederates But this was not all his way was intercepted and there was no passage through the Imperiall Army to his freinds unlesse the way was cut out with the sword The Caesarcans had blocked up his way and unlesse he would fight desperately and upon extreame disadvantage it was vaine as yet to attempt it The adverse armies lay then encamped within one German league each of other both severally seeking to gaine neither willing to give occasion to the other The Caesareans Saxons surmounted the Swedes in number the Swedes had the odds of them in ammunition for warre and provisions of viands Banniere thinking to consume his adversaries by famine lay still in his fastnesse without striving and the Imperialists supposing at the length to catch him upon the hanck observed the same order nothing was done for many dayes to the prejudice of the other the Imperialists at the end impatient of idlenesse and releeved with Ordnance from Dresden and victuals out of Bohemia gave the first

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

of our last discourse The cause of the Turks invading Transilvania Transilvania the Mediterranian part of Dacia a rich Countrey and noted by Antiquity for it's fruitfulnesse was terrified with Turkish Armies the halfe Moones being there displayed in the behalfe of Istuan Bethleem against the Prince Ragotsky who then sate at the sterne of that Province The occasion was this Solimy David one of the greatest Lords of Transilvania Cosin to Estienne or Istuan Bethleem who pretended himselfe the lawfull heire of that Principality then as it was conceived usurped by Ragotsky moved with the fame of the late deceased King of Sweden sent to him in the yeare 1631. to tender him his service and unwilling to come alone resolved secretly to raise 2000. men whereof himselfe would bee the Chiefetaine His designe could not bee carried so privately from that stirring and warlike Nation as to be confined with so small a number Upon the beating of his Drumme and report of his intendment instead of 2000 alone such a number of Voluntieres came to present themselues to the List that Ragotskie who before had carried a jealous eye over him now more suspecting some designe against himselfe then formerly mustred up his forces and with them dispersed and disarmed Bethleems new raised Army This processe so inraged Solymies friends who had bin assisted in this action by some other Lords of Transilvania that they conspired to murther Ragotskie their purpose being palliated with a new forme of hunting to the which they meant to invite him For execution whereof it being thought that none could be more affectionated than Solimy David who was now compelled to breake his word with that renowned King to whom he had promised so great matters drew him also into their conjuration But Solimy more civilized and not so inclined to cruelty as others of that Province though at the first hee seemed to consent yet afterwards distasting that course the same day when as the Plot should have bin put into execution posted to the Prince discovered the Treason and with prayers and teares prevailed with him to refraine from that daies sport Ragotskie made good use of his tale and carrying for the present a face of love towards Solimy dismissed him friendly but armed withall a Squadron of Horse against the Conspirators who surprised them easily because unexpectedly and tortured them with divers kinds of punishments to death onely the Prince Istuan who was the prime Projector disguised lurked upon an adjoyning Mountaine to see the effect of the enterprise and saw how his Friends were used saving himselfe by fright into the Grand Signiors Territorie A thought of treason is treason and however a Conspirator may thinke to merit his Princes favour by revealing it yet if he defer the discovery to the last houre and then either stung with the pricks of Conscience or allured with the hope of reward reveale it his Princes clemencie may pardon his transgression his merit cannot be said to have deserved it the execution of Iustice being due to him that shall give consent to so horrid an action though hee may afterward seeme to repent Solimy not looking back to that part of the Wallet which was behind him or thinking of that speckled toad which be had lodged in his heart his treason with a kind of confidence of merit from the Prince went againe to the Court pressed the service he had done to his Lord boldly demanded recompence not thinking that hee had been discovered as a partie in that treason But the Prince who had already examined the matter throughly and found him to be a Conspirator returned him extremity of Justice in stead of Mercie bound him hand and foot cast him into a stinking loathsome and terrible Prison made more horrid by its solitude all people being forbid to come thither under paine of death to give him so much as a visit those onely excepted who were appointed to guard his person and to give him the strict allowance of bread and water to the amazement of Solimy who by this meanes being brought to a frenzie behaved himselfe so rudely that the people supposed him to have beene possessed with a Devill Newes of his strange comportment raised by reason of the rigour of his imprisonment was brought into the Empire and Caesar moved to compassion in respect of his sufferings wrote in his behalfe to Ragotskie to abate his punishing hand to admit some Iesuites to have recourse unto him for his instruction that he might not lose his Soule together with his Body Medicamentum pejus morbo and to consider that the effect of the service hee had done unto him might at least stand in an equall poise against the treason to which he had consented To all which the Prince gave no other answer but that if the Devill had got no new one Solimy might be his Secretary Istuan in the meane time ceased not to intercede by Friends for his owne reconciliation but not prevailing hee implored ayde of the Grand Signior who furnished him with an Armie and promised to invest him in the Principality of Transilvania Regotskie to oppose him sent to the Emperour and the Polonian for succours of which though hee failed neither of them being willing to provoke such an enemie with his owne forces encountred the Bassaw in the Field and by foiling the Turkes in their first onset cleared his Country of those Mahometan Invaders The Christian King who had lately given order for the billetting his Armie and supplying in with competent Provisions seeing the inconvenience which happened thereupon by a continuall accesse of men of Armes Light-horse and Carabines to the molestation and great charge of his Subjects after the old Companies were layd in Garrison put forth another Decree as the Rule of his former Ordinance the summe whereof was this That the Contribution and Provision should not bee afterwards delivered The King of France his order for Provision for his Souldiers and case of the people but for 60 Masters of every Company of men of Armes for fifty of each Company of Carabines comprehending therein their Chieftaines and other Officers provided still that there be that number in each Company effectivé forbidding expressely all the Commanders of the sayd Companies to exact or compell the Villages and places lyable to those Contributions to deliver more then as prescribed for such a number of men as is limitted by this Ordinance upon paine of suffering as Extortioners This Order both pleased the people being thereby secured from further oppression and the inrolled Souldiers such good order being taken for their subsistance and maintenance This billeting of Souldiers in the Frontiers was not unnecessary Iohn de Werth Pycolimini who were gone towards the Frontiers of Luxenburg were upon the returne to invade the Kings Dominions Decem 8 1●● they were come over the Bridge of Gyvais upon the Maase The Marquesse De la Force understanding of the enterprise made head against them