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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14960	Iune 23. 1632. Numb. 29. The continuation of our forraine avisoes, since the 16. of this present The continuance of the troubles at Constantinople. The differences in Polonia, about the choyce of a new King. The articles between the King of Sweden and the Duke of Bavaria. A letter of the French kings, relating the troubles betwixt his majestie and the Duke of Loraine. Some Low-Country passages about the present state of the warres there. The rendition of Prague to the Emperour vpon conditions. Some late passages of the King of Sweden in Bavaria. Also, the pursuite of the Spanish by the Swedish in the Palatinate.	Butter, Nathaniel, d. 1664, publisher.; Bourne, Nicholas, publisher.; Dawson, John, printer.	1632 (1632)	STC 18507.256; ESTC S118672	10,247	16

neutrall that at the last they may be swallowed vp by him that shall be victorious From Lipsich the 27. of Iune stil vet Another Letter from Lypsich write thus Our Duke of Saxonyes Garrison in Prague vpon the approach of the Jmperiall Army capitulated and vpon termes rendred the City The sayd Garrison went to the Dukes Army at L●●t-meritz Loutmeritz wee goe on sleepily I dare write no more The Copie of a Letter written by the French King to the Duke of Montbazon Peere and great Hunter of France Governour and Lieutenant Generall for the the I le of France translated out of the French printed Copie Cousin AS my care and scope hath e●e● been to procure rest and safety to my Subiects never having ●eglected as ●ll men know any occasion nor spared any paines but exposed mine owne person in ●ll parts where I could any way advance and promote the publike Pe●ce and tranq●ility and direct all things to the e●se and comfort of my people So on the other side I cannot receive any greater or more sensible displeasure than to find that that which I have hitherto done with so good an intention hath not beene able to produce the effect which I so earnestly desire And that which vexeth me yet more is that this mischiefe is occasioned even from those who are obliged unto me for many considerations to contribute by all meanes possible unto my contentons to contribute by all meanes possible unto my contentment and the good of my Estate There is no man ignorant of the faire and loving carriage which I have shewed unto my Brother the Duke of Orleans and his followers and that knowes not likewise how ill they have requited it and the ill designes which my sayd Brother by theyr pernicious advice hath made appeare these last five or sixe yeares upon all occasions and then when he hath seene me imployed in affaires as important as necessary as well within as without my Kingdome Against which being desirous to provide by those courses that are most fit to impeach them I thought I had the last yeare taken from him one of the most powerfull meanes of troubling the state in separating from his interest the Duke of Loraine who divers times before had furthered his departure out of my Kingdome at which time I did shew an extraordinary favour to the said Duke in contenting my selfe with his faithfull promises and the consignement of one of his places Whereas being as I was in his Country and having there a powerfull Army I could then have easily deprived him of all the places he had seeing that then he wanted forces to defend them and this I was not onely unwilling to doe my selfe but I can boldly affirme that I hindred others that had th●n the power and will to have done it In consequence of this favour having understood that the sayd Duke instead of a religious performance of his faith and word whereto I had sufficiently obliged him continued his first Intelligences I have omitted no course within my power that might divert him from them but have beene so farre from gayning ought thereby but on the contrary the sayd Duke not content to hold on his former practises against my Estate but hath sollicited and incouraged all those whom he held capable of his ill resolutions even to the sending of divers Messages unto the Emperour for the altering of his good intentions and soliciting the Spaniard to furnish my Brother to bandy against me who am his King and Soveraigne as he himselfe meant to have done on his part To this effect he hath increased the number of his souldiers and made divers extraordinary levyes seducing even those of mine owne Army without giving me any satisfaction for the same And the better to attaine his ends he hath fortified and furnished his Places without any other cause than the ill will he hath borne unto this Estate And moreoouer hath redoubled his cunning plots and practises I avow that I could hardly have beleeved that the Duke had borne me so much ill will had not divers Letters written by his Father and Sister alighted into my hands which Letters not onely import that he was ready to assist my Brother with his Armes but moreover invited him seriously to consider how he may gaine my Crowne which they say in expresse termes cannot chuse but quickly fall into his hands The which being joyned with divers other particular Int●lligences which I have among others some which I have gotten out of divers Letters written by the Lord Pay-Laurens unto the Princesse Pfaltsburg wherby he doth assure her of certaine dessignes of very great importance which he sayes will prove infallable I could doe no lesse than set my selfe in a course of defence against so much ill will whereof to my great griefe I am most certainly informed I did beleeve that having provided for the safety of some places where mine enemies might have layd theyr foundation as you have understood by my former Letters and that I being so powerfully armed and consequently in such a State as they might very well judge that all their enterprises would not possibly take effect they would have left theyr ill affectioned intentions and particularly above the rest the sayd Duke of Loraine unto whom I did m●ke knowne that my forces were in Germany to prevent the ruine of the Elector of Triers and to protect the Catholike Religion and Electors Catholike as indeed I would have done the yeare before had not these wicked devices and evill practices hindred and prevented me But when I see my selfe thus quite frustrated of all my hopes and seeing that it is so farre unlikely that I am able to divert the sayd Duke from all his unjust designes that to the contrary which was a maine meanes to draw me from that good intention which I had to prevent the ruine of mine Allye the sayd Elector and so likewise the ruine of all other Catholike Electors by the same way which I had proposed for the former to the breach of the Treaty of Vic. which did oblige him to have no correspondencie with my Brother he did entice him to come with armes forces into my Dominions where he was no sooner entred but he began to make open warre and hostility cutting in peeces and defeating a whole Company of Carabins which the Marshall Deffiat caused to passe thorough without any suspicion notwithstanding the sayd Duke was obliged to yeeld free passage to my troupes and forces Whence you see it followed that my Brother entred with a strong armed hand into my Kingdome All these reasons afore mentioned have constrained me to fall into his Dominions and jurisdiction to make him sensible of my indignation and feele the punishment of his wicked infidelity and to support the welfare of my Realme and by these troubles of his Dominions to present the euill intended against mine I haue beene very willing to acquaint you with all the aforesayd passages to the end that you might make all my loving and faithfull Subjects of France within the bounds and limits of your charge partakers thereof I am perswaded they will have the same hope which I have concerning the successe of our Army that by the Grace and assistance of the Almighty the same shall be no lesse happie than in these former yeares since the cause is so just and necessary Iust in as much as this warre of mine is caused not onely by a Prince who hath neglected no meanes for the troubling of State with the breach of his faith and word but moreover a Prince who being my Vassall by reason of some part of his estate hath voluntarily plunged himselfe into a notorious Felony Againe I say necessary because if I should not prevent by force of Armes the evils plotted against my State I should at last find a heape of troubles overwhelming the same Of which State and Kingdome of mine I doe so desire the rest and tranquillity and entire conservation that I protest the greatest displeasure which I feele in this world is that I am not able to effect that designe which I have ever intended for the tranquillity of the same and to comfort and make my Subjects happie with a long and durable Peace which by Gods assistance I doe promise to bring to passe I beseech him my Cousin to have you into his Sacred protection Written at Sancte Menehoud the 17. day of Iune 1632. LOWIS De Lomenie This Copie was printed in the French Tongue with permission and signed MOREAV Le Telli●r FINIS