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A02405	The great and famous battel of Lutzen fought betweene the renowned King of Sweden, and Walstein; vvherein were left dead vpon the place between 5 and 6000. of the Swedish party, and between 10 and 12000. of the Imperialists, where the King himselfe was vnfortunatly slain ... Here is also inserted an abridgment of the Kings life, and a relation of the King of Bohemia's death. Faithfully translated out of the French coppie.		1633 (1633)	STC 12534; ESTC S103558	19,504	46

began to flie and the Swedes pressed and pursude them far within night which favour'd the retreat of the fugitiues and hinder'd the Swedes from ranging further in the chase Indeede they were so tyred that they had neither breath nor force furtherto follow them The Imperiallists giving fire to their campe and part of their baggage tooke some the way of Leipzig others that of Leutmeritz towards the Frontiers of Bohemia whither it was thought Walstein was gone having heard of the losse of the Battell to find a safe place of retreat and to gather together his dispersed Troupes The Swedes remained in possession of the Enemies campe and most of his Baggage of one and twentie exquifite Cannon besides inseriour ones and a multitude of Standards and Corners Vpon the mustering of their Armie they found wanting over and aboue the incomparable and irreparable losse of their King the Major Generall Isslet and other Coronells and Officers A Prince of Anhalt a Count of Nilis the Coronels Brandestein Wildenstein Relinguen and Winchell received that day deepe and honourable wounds The Duke Bernhard of Weymar also was hurt to whose valour and conduct the Swedian partie after God owes the glorie of that day more bloudy by far then that which was sought the yeare past in the neighbouring fields of Leipzig The Duke Ernest of Weymar also infinuated himselfe into the hearts of all men by his courage and leading that day The Regiments of these two Princes and those of the Prince of Anhalt of the Count of Lewestein of Coronell Brandestein and the two Swedish Coronells surnamed The Blew and the Yellow bore the brunt of that day The Swedes lost betweene fiue and sixe thousand men and the enemie betweene ten and twelue thousand remaining on the place and two thirds of their Armie ruin'd and dispersed besides the death or mortall wounds of divers of their remarkable Commaunders as Calas Merode Holok Piccolomini ' Isolani and divers others Pappenheim aboue all the rest was bewayled by his partie and not without just cause his courage his Conduct his Vigilancie and Experience having conspired to ranke him in the Souldiers esteeme amongst the bravest Generalls of these times But this glorious Victory of the Swedian Armie suffered an Ecclipse by the death of that truely great King who was the soule of his Friends and the terrour and scourge of his Enemies His bodie could not bee found till the next day when after a curious search it was discover'd amidst the dead heapes rifled and halfe naked and so disfigur'd with bloud and durt that hee could hardly bee knowne This at once so dolefull and glorious a spectacle of the end of so great a Monarch work'd so strongly and effectually on the hearts of his Souldiers that with teares and lamentations for a losse so irreparable they made an unanimous Vow upon the place to revenge his death and make him reviue in the rigorous pursuite of his Designes which hee had so often conjur'd them to continue especially a little before this Battell when hee seem'd to presage his ende touching which hee discoursed often and seriously with many of his familiars Amongst other passages the King marking the multitude of people that flock'd about him at his entry into Naumbourg three dayes before the Battell and hearing their shouts of Ioy and this generall acclamation Long liue the King as if now they had nothing to feare since hee was present hee made to the standers by this short but memorable speech Our Affaires answere our desires but I doubt God will punish mee for the folly of the people who attribute too much to mee and esteeme mee as it were their God and therefore hee will make them shortly see I am but a man Hee bee my witnesse it is a thing distastfull to mee What ever befall mee I shall receiue it as proceeding from his divine will In this onely I rest fully satisfied that hee will not leaue this great Enterprise of mine imperfect The seventeenth of November immediately following the day of Battaile and the Kings death Duke Bernard of Weymar retir'd to Weissenfels to take a generall review of his Army and to give rest and breath to his over wearyed Troopes By the review of his Regiments it appeared that his Army was be tweene fifteene and sixteene thousand strong The Duke imparted his present estate and all other necessary particulars to the Court of Saxon and urg'd the Electour to an uniting of their Forces to the end they might follow close their designe and pursue Walstein to the remotest parts of Austria After this all the Army as well Swedish as Germane agreed in the election of Duke Bernard for their Generall and tooke a new Oath faithfully to serve him who had deserved so well of the Swedian party by so many benefits by his vigilancy his conduct and the greatnesse of his same in Warre but above all by his resolution and incomparable valour of which he made so oportune and cleare a demonstration on that bloudy day of Battaile The Chancellour Oxesterne who lay when about Frankfort was sent for in all hast to manage the affaires of the Chancery Royall removed to Erfurt but chiefely to serve and counsell the desolate and disconsolate Queen environ'd wih griefes and crosses inexprimable yet but equall to the greatnesse of her losse The said Chancellour and the Chevalier Rache served happily to rectify sundry disorders and to raise the spirits of such as were dejected but principally to stop the floud of teares flowing from the eyes of this most vertuous Princesse and to replant in her mind generous and masculine resolutions De la Gorde was sent for in post hast who was imbarked in Swedeland with certaine Regiments of Swedes and Finlanders to bring a supply to the Campe Royall and reinforce it the dead King beeing anchor'd in this maxime to make continuall levies notwithstanding the number of his Armies that so hee might have men at will to fill up those empty Companies which the Sword mortallity and many other militarie miseries might unhappily depopulate But notwithstanding the death of this mighty Prince the astonishment and fright of the Enemy was such that hee basely forsooke diverse strong and impregnable places in the Electorate of Saxony Amongst others the City of Leipzig was forsaken and the Castle rased to the ground Chemnits was taken Zwickaw invested and forced the Duke Bernard following close his good fortune and making good use of the Enemies amazement To this hee was animated the more by the fixt decree of the consederate Princes to make all fast and more and more to knit a firme Vnion with the Swedes that so joyntly that so both of them joyntly might execute and fulfill the intentions and exhortations of the deceased King Walstein having notice betimes of his mens infortunity and the advantage of the Swedes recovered Leipsig that night and before day tooke the way of Leutmeritz where hee recollected is disbanded men and added to them

held himselfe obliged to speake for a Prince who had beene a long time the common But of all afflictions and infultations That which hath made him the more bold and earnest in his defence is the neare alliance of this Prince to mighty Monarchs I shut up all concerning this point in this Assertion that all Princes haue a common interest in the honour of their equals and should all joyne to place their Crownes and purple aboue the reach of Envie The death of these two Kings was sufficient to make the Germans approue of the calculation and prognosticks of their great Astrologer Herlicius who had noted this Moneth of November as fatall to great Princes and Commanders and foretold by the Aspects and fiery constellations the tragicall encounters of these two great Armies and the death of such eminent persons as may well compose the greatest part of the History of our time The Swedes were even wedded to sorrow for the death of their King vowing they would more willingly haue suffered the losse of many battailes then that of him if it had lyen in their power to dispose of the Arrests of Heaven and the satall lawes of the eternall Providence which with a Diamantine poynt markes all things and giues them a Character which never can bee changed or defaced Indeed all the dayes of this Moneth of November were at strife for Superioritie in evill but the sixteenth overcame to which all stories shall giue a brand in that it gaue so strange an alteration to the face of Christendome The battaile sought on that day is enobled by many memorable accidents which exalts it aboue those of former Ages Amongst others are remarkeable the small number of the victors and the multitude of the vanquist the violent and surious charges the durance of the fight the doubtfull event of the combat when victory as if the had beene the daughter of Ianus had two faces and looked two waies the piles of the dead the losse of eminent Commanders and the different effect which one and the same cause wrought in both parties the Kings death kindling indignation and desire of revenge in the bosome of the Swede and the death of Pappenheins and other great Commanders begetting an astonishment in the hearts and lookes of the Imperialists And wee may well affirme that amongst all the Accidents of that saddest of daies this particular hath bin most remarkable that the Swedes having lost their King in the first shocke this unparaleld mischance served rather to confirme then shake their courage and was one of the most apparant causes of the victory This also raised as high as Heaven the Kings renowne that in his fall hee crusht in pieces so vast a body and the hearts of his men were so inflamed with this his disaster that after his death they made the palme and the Lawrell to spring out of his blood Nor was the life of this Prince lesse famous then his death His youth was exercised in great affaires which hardened his body to endure travell and armed his mind against all finister accidents and infus'd into him a courage which might easily bee provoked never subdued The entrie of his Raigne which was the Eleventh of this age and the Seventeenth of his was thorny and sallebrous At one and the same time hee was confronted by the Danes the Polonians and the Muscovites who on all sides assaulted him And though their motives to warre were diverse yet all their intentions like so many lines met in this Center to ruine the Swede Sometimes hee shewed himselfe on the Frontiers of Denmarke sometimes on those of Muscovia somtimes againe on those of Livonia and all with that promptnesse and celerity that his Enemies believed his body to bee ubiquitary And his troubles were increased by corruption of many of his Subjects to a base revolt But his valour his dexterity and the continuall travaile of his body and mind were such that hee passed through these and greater impediments without stop or diminution of his Fame His composition with the Danes and Muscovites was honourable and to his advantage The quarrell betweene him and the Polonian was not about any small petty Territorie but the Crowne and Scepter it selfe and therefore hardly to be decided The Prowesse and agility of this King were such that the Polonians saw him in all parts like another Hanniball before their gates and after many great losses received in Livonia and Prussia they tooke counsell of the Pillow and to preserve the remainder of those Countries unviolated concluded to come to a treatry on which attended a Truce which from their soules they wish'd had beene a Peace whereby their repose might bee eternized Our youthfull Mars had not a soule so narrow as to bee contented to weare onely the Lawrell of the North. More wreathes were prepared for him and a Theater more spacious and glorious Posterity will hardly beleeve that what this Prince hath done was by a man fesible That the conquest of so many vast Provinces and the ruine of so many Armies was the worke onely of two yeares and a few moneths That a puissant Empire formidable in her greatnesse in her supports in her extension in her Armies in her conquests and successe fortifyed with so many Garrisons who hath for her bounds the Ocean and the Alps should in so short a time be forc'd to put on the yoak A man would think infinite Forces were required to manage well an Enterprise of this nature and greatnesse The personall qualities of this Prince were admirable His externall bravery consisted in a sweet yet majesticall aspect in a comely stature in a piercing eye in a commanding voyce in an agility and universall application to all such as might hinder or further him But the great guests that lodg'd within were farre more illustrious a quicke spirit a sollid judgement an incomparable wisedome an inexprimable courage an indefatigable nature and an admirable conduct which were the happy instruments of all his victories and the embellishment of this rare piece I may justly adde his Encampments his Discipline his foresight his direction and unequall'd Industrie Nor was his readinesse lesse in the disposition of his affaires in the governement of his men and his complying with their severall humours which made him as well Lord of hearts as Provinces and Cities But above all the rest his devotion was conspicuous and his frequent pious exercises which received no interruption by his most serious imployments And which draweth neere to a miracle hee himselfe projected and executed all things It suffised not him to bee onely a Generall but hee would also bee a Captaine and Engenier a Serjeant a Cannonier a common Souldier or of any Militarie calling The most dangerous occurrences dazled not his judgement but then was he most venturous when his valour was most required Hee never formed a military project in the execution whereof hee would not himselfe make one And which bred in all an amazement