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Diatelesma. Nu. 3 The moderne history of the vvorld, expressing the principall passages of the Christian countries in these last six moneths, whether politicall, or polemicall brought downe from Aprill last to this present. VVherein is comprised much varietie. The contents whereof you shall finde in the ensuing table.; Diatelesma. Part 3.
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with their lives and the rest finding a frown from their Generall for leaving a fortified City to seeke safety in his Army The Captaine which remayned with so small an handfull of men to keep the City withdrew into the Castle A noble act of a Swâ—thsh Captain whence though once summoned he would not out till he had given the Eylenburgers and Hatzfieldt good testimony of his loyalty to the Crown of Sweden and enmity with the Saxon by casting severall fire-balls into the City and then unable to hold out longer yielded to the Victors mercy or fury who being thus possessed of this City consulted for the recovery of Hall and the Sconce at Wittenberge first and then for conquest of the Swedish Army Ghleen who was called out of Westphalia and Hessen purposely to assist Hatzfieldt and his Colleagues against the Swedes by the way had an eye at Ertford the greatest City in Thuringen taken by Banniere the year last past Ertford besieged by Ghlein and determined to besiege it The Imperiall Councell of Warre had decreed to recover it the Elector of Saxony ceased not to incite them to it and though all the Princes and neighbour-states of that great Citie foreseeing the inevitable ruine which attended their own Estates though they were of the Imperiall party if that City should be besieged were earnest suitors to the Elector that it might not be beleaguered they could not divert him from that resolution no not to forbeare it for a season till harvest was over and they had gotten in the fruits of the ground upon which the hopes of that Province almost made desolate by famine then consisted Ghleen therefore authorized by him and the Imperiall Councell of Warre being come within a league and half of the City in a Bailiwick properly belonging to Duke Bernhard of Weymar neere the Cloyster of Icterhausen measured out severall quarters to lodge his Army fortified his Campe with Retrenchments and lines of communication able to receive 15000 men made hutes for his souldiers and had prepared for the siege when sodainly a Courier came unto him posting from the Electo of Saxony who had changed his mind not upon the entreaty of his neighbour Princes but a designe upon the Swedes in Misnia with order to the Baron to rise from thence The siege suddenly rayâ—ed and with a speedy march to haâ—â—e to Eylenburg Banniere whose provident eye was not fixt only upon his own Campe at Torgaw but looked after his Confederates in all places had notice of Ghleens designe and to relieve the City drew out of his Army five Regiments of Horse and a 1000 Dragoons committed them and the busines to the care of the Generall Lesle who brought them as farre as Eisleben but there being certified that Ghleen had raised his siege and was gone towards Saxony stayed his journey and marched after them to observe their posture and intention The Baron being joyned with the other Imperiall Commanders the desigue against the great Fort at Wittemberge was first put into execution The Sconce at Wittenberg The Fort was guarded by 400 men who for a time defended themselves bravely spent divers shot upon the Campe made out sundry sallies omitted nothing that could be expected from besieged resolute men But the Imperiall Army which was before it with its ful strength and the Saxon-vitzdumb who commanded in the City returturning 20 Canonadoes upon the Fortfor one so battered it that May 1â— 301 the Garrison was brought to capitulateâ— and upon condition to depart with baggage and armes about 10 in the Evening they marched out yet the common men were constrained to take service under Hatzfield and the Officers only were dismissed Colonell Osterling who commanded there for the Swede and was a native of Hall being carried as a prisoner to Dresden The Sconce was no sooner surrendred but a Swedish Musquetier came with tydings of succours from his Generall to the late Governour the purport wherof was that 10 Squadrons of horse by Land and five ships loaden with Musquetiers by water were come to relieve him and come indeed they did though too late to that service yet time enough to embroyle the Imperialists in a new adventure The Imperiall Generall had notice of theiâ— comming and prepared to receive them he knew they were come to the black Elster planted eight Ordnances against them upon the Elue kindled great fires along the way which they were to passe the better to discover them commanded Lieutenant Colonell Wache to expect them in the field and sent out strong parties to succour him yet fayling in one particular circumstance either of intelligence or direction Besieged and taken by the Imper. this Avantguard thus sent out was no better then a foâ—lorn hope though they escaped with out that losse to which their Generall confessed afterwards they had been exposed upon his better information The Swedes march was not like that of an Enemy but a Friend they met the Imperialists and saluted them by the names of fellows in Armes Friends Comeradoes profest themselves to be Saxons that they came to tender their respects to the Imperiall Generall to congratulate his good fortune at Eylenburg and to assist him against the Swedes the Enemies of their Prince and Country at Wittemberge and with these oily words having deluded the first watch surprized them suddainly and went on in confidence of this auspicious beginning But Omnia in se redeunt fictam personam nemo potest ferre diu though this fucus served them as a Gyges ring to make them invisible to the first the second watch discovered them but they giving notice to Wache by discharging their Musquets of the Swedes approching advertized the Swedes also to make a fair retreat as they did and so escaped the trap which was laid for them Wittemberge Sconce was lost yet Banniere neither lost his judgment credit or fortunes therby He accounted it but as a piece of Copper for besides the place which he had made use enough of for impoverishing the Saxons subjects about it he lost there but eight Ensignes and three peeces of Ordnance and got a piece of Gold for it a convoy of wine A convoy of provision surprized by Banniere and other provision was sent from Dresden to Hatzfields Army that hee surprized put the Guard to the sword and retained the store It had been a good purchase if hee had wanted it but his wants were supplyed otherwise and that more abundantly and more gloriously Lucka a Citie of note in the lower Lusatia Lucka sutendred to Lesle the Magazine of that Province was about the same time surrendred to the Field-marshall Lesle and the Generall Pfal whom his Excellency had sent thither to make provision for his Army and there they being furnished with more then the whole Swedish Campe could well spend in three moneths besides what they got in the Villages and divers other Market Townes which they pillaged and spoyled
them in the Frontiers towards the Spanish Provinces in the Netherlands and Hennegow some places in Picardy being still in the Cardinall Infants hands and those to be reduced to the Kings obedience About the end of May the French Cardinall and the Duke his brother set forward towards Amiens and blocking up la Capelle marched on to invade Hainaut and sate down before Landrecy whither the grand Master of the Artillery The Cardinal de Valette marcheth towards the Netherlands brought up his forces also to hasten their proceedings The Card. Infant was not so soon in the field nor had strength then to oppose them yethe omitted nothing that was requisite for preservation of his Country He sent divers expresses to Piccolomini to make haste and come down with his Regiments fortified his Frontiers and brought down all the strength he had of horse and foot to Mons in Hainaut and Mabenge to oppose them but wanting strength he thought it fitter to let them spend some time before the City the siege giving him liberty to re-enforce himself then by encountring them with that handfull of men to endanger his Army and so expose the Provinces under him to further ruine Iune 9 13 the French Cardinall tooke up his head-quarter at Faveri a Village halfe a league from the City Sits down before Landrecay before which though he lay till Iuly 3 13 he lost not his time a flying Army under the command of Colonel Gassion and Rambures Governour of Dowlens doing good service to the Christian King and giving much offence to the Enemy and other his Confederates emulating their associates atchievements in a laudable ambition affecting and deserving an equall wreath of Ho. Monsieur the Marquesse of Melleray Kinsman to the Cardinall Richilieu and great Master of the French Artillery marching up to the Cardinall de la Valette as hee was upon his way cast his eye upon the Castle and Towne of Bohain situate upon the high-way betwixt Saint Quintin and Chastean Cambresie He saw it and divers perswading arguments induced him upon the view and site therof to assault it The King his Master lost it the yeere and it stood with his honour not to leave it in the possession of an Enemy The Castle of Iohain taken by the Marq of Milleray it blocked up the way betwixt Saint Quintin and the French Armies it was a mote in his eye and hee would assay to remove it In a word it was lost before miserably through want of men to hold it and fortifications to preserve the small number within it and hee meant to regain it honourably encountring with difficulties neither disheartned with sight of the new works made by the Spaniards to defend it nor the proportionable number of presidiaries which were left to maintain it His conceit was actuated without further dispute First to observe the military method he summoned it when his oratory was not so powerfully perswasive and effectuall as to make the Garrison yield without delay he planted and levelled 16 peeces of full Canon against it and that sight being terrible to the Spanish Garrison they which to avoid the dishonorable title of Cowards before would not hearken to a treaty began to crave it and procured it and in conclusion surrendred the Towne and Castle upon condition meerly to depart with their lives and to leave behind them whatever they had gotten by pillage from the poore neighbouring Villages and so saved themselves from the fury of the Army though they escaped not the rage of the Peasants who having been spoyled by them formerly hearing of their departure and the manner of it without convoy or offensive weapons assembled together to the number of 400 men way-layed them as they were on their march to Cambray sel upon them with all their strength which was then doubled by their spleen slue most of them upon the place some few only escaping into the Woods which saved them from the peasants fury it was a purchase of good value of use both for the souldiers and the country people the first finding there good store of victuals and Amunition and the last by this prize recovering their moveable goods beds linnen pewter brasse and other utensils for house-keeping which had been taken from them by the plundering Garrison and were now restored unto them by the Conquerour The flying Army under Gassion and Rambure designed to scoure the Country and prevent the Enemy if he should any thing privatly either against the Camp at Landrecey or the places in the Kings obeysance in Picardy according to order given by the Generall went abroad with six foot Companies and eight of horse and ranged over that Territory till within a league of Mons the chiefe City of that Province without any adventure there they heard of one worth their care A rich convoy surprized by Gâ—ssion a Convoy of foure Companies of Infantry and as many of Cavallary attending some number of Waggons loaden with the best things of Cambray and Valenciens the inhabitants there feaâ—ing that the French after the prize of Landrecey would besiege those Cities transporting the best of their baggage into Flanders for its preservation It was needlesse to bid the Commanders or common men to stirre they were acquainted with each particular both the way which the Convoy should passe the houre of its comming and the strength which attended it and seeing what a booty was offered them addressed themselves to receive it Rambure with the one moiety of the troops with as much privacy as he could retires backward to a Wood called by the inhabitants Bois de la Fournilhire three leagues from Mons South-ward there he layes an Ambuscadoe concealing the greatest part of his forces but shewing the fag-end of his men to the Convoy which encouraged by perceiving the smalnesse of their number made up to them and prepared to assault them when sodainly Gassion who lurked behind an Hill to conceal himself till convenient time upon the first Musquetado spurred up to his Friends succour and Rambure appeared on the other side with his men then risen from the Ambush and both together charged the Convoy so furiously that they slue 500 upon the place and sorely wounded divers others the rest which were best mounted saying their lives by their horses legs and leaving 24 waggons as a prize to the French who for all their Ambuscado advantage they had in the fight came not off shot-free but left 17 dead behinde them and had 40 desperatly wounded The waggons were driven to the Campe at Landrecey and there the Cardinall de Valette to incourage his Souldiers for the like adventure if occasion should so happen and sweeten the peasants which gave notice of the Convoy to his Campe volant divided the spoile to the common men whose valours their leaders had commended and some the peasants widows whose husbands were slain or wounded in the conflict A like accident and more glorious though not