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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

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The Reasons For vvhich the most Jllustrious 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 Printed according to the copie of Stralsound Anno 1630. IT is an ancient proverbe that no man is able to inioy peace any longer then it pleaseth his neighbour how true this is his Ma off Swethen hath to his great dammadg proved in these yeares and doth yet daily for hombeit it was his cheefecare and indevour in all the time of his Raigne to keepe inviolable Frindship with all his neighbours and especially with the States of Germany that peace and tranquillity might florish on every side and that trade Comerce and all oth repeaceable indevours might be exercized to the mutuall good off all Nations yet could he obtaine nothing more then that by some haters of the publick peace after that thay had wasted almost all Germany with fire and sworde greater snares were laid from yeare to yeare against his security his Ma was advertised long ago and that not of a few States of Germany to provide for himself more maturely while this flame was yet spreading it self in Germany and that he should not think thay would be more favourable or frindly to him if thay were admitted to aproach nearer but that he would then presently take Armes come into Germany and with common forces quench the common burning being assured that his owne cause was then in hand when kis neighbours howse was a burning neither was there then wanting to his Ma either excellent occasion his subiects inviting him or iust cause his oppressed friends and Allies so earnestly requiring aide and succour but still hoping that at lenth thay would prove more equitable then so impotently to insult over their harmles Neighbours measuring their manners according to his own nature he chose rather to committ his own security for a while to the goodnes of god and an innocent Conscience then rashly therin to attempt any thing But when in the yeare 1626. by reason of his own warr which passed betweene him and the King and common wealth of Pole he was marching into Prussia a Province of the Kingdom off Pole perceiving more narrowly what he might promise himself of those foresaid wasters and spoilers of Germany he found his friends admonitions to be so farr from being vaine that the nearer his enimyes approached to these Baltick provinces of Germany so manny the more and greater occasions of warre he perceived to be sowen by them dayly even against him for in the first place violating the law of Nations thay intercepted his Ma. letters sent to the Prince of Transilvania opened them and of malice against his Ma. published them with a fained interpretation casting withall his messenger into prison then also howbeit there was oftentimes no small hope of redressing and composing of the long continued cōtroversy betwixt Swethen and Polland by frindly treaties the Commissaries of both kingdomes meeting from yeare to yeare yet these enimyes of common peace caused by their reiterated messengers and letters to Polland that no peace should be made with Swethen vntill such time as thay had accomplished their determinations in the Romane Impire putting the Polonians in hope the States of Germany being once ranged in order thay should then haue them no slow aiders and assisters to subdue Swethen And to the end thay might effectuat in deede what by word thay promised and that so farr as in them lay thay might both deprive Swethen of all meanes and strengthen the Pole thay did not only prohibit all exportation of Souldiers and Armes out of Germany to the King off Swethen leaving withall the same free vnto the Polonians then his enimyes but also when this seemed a small matter and thay perceived notwithstanding hereof that abundance off souldiers did flock to the most illustrious King off Sweth not only from other parts but also and that against their wills out of Germany it Self the yeare next following 1627 thay sent the Duke off Holsatia against his Ma. with ● great Army into Prussia and that not vnder his own or vnder the Poles but vnder the Colours off the Emperour of Rome himselff Neither content with this kostility but that also thay might vtterly seclude the kingdom off Sweth from all League of society with mankinde thay did not only wrongfully spoile the innocent subiects of his Ma. arriving at the coast off Germ. for Commerce taking their goods by for●e and confiscating their schipps but also thay did mainely effectuat that at Lubick and the rest of the townes off the vandalls by their Scouts sent out in shew that thay might restraine trading to these townes only but in very deede that thay might withdraw the same from the subiects off the kingdom of Swethen and that by this occasion thay might gather together schipps and a Navie by which thay might belch out this venom conceaved in their minds upon the Baltick sea it self as in the yeare next following thay ●id manifestly schew by the monstrows titles off Generality off the sea coasts and by taking in possession as well the Land places and Fortifications as the Coasts and havēs of Mechlinburgh and Pomer with the acts ensewing theron Let any man who is able Iudg that all these things perhaps ought to haue bin tollerated and for avoyding off curiosity in other mens affaires to haue bin passed by in patience while thay kept them-selves as yet vpon the Continent opposit to Sweth yet certainly after thay were extended to the sea it selff by choosing the Haven off the Sound for a receipt of their Piracy by how much the more this was done to the great preiudice off all the States who by any necessity what soever did depend vpon this Sea so much the les ought it to haue bin tollerated by his Ma. off Sweth especially seing the iust protection off this sea was off ould peculiar to the Kings off Sweth Therfore so manny iniuries also being added to the former advertizement off Friends when his Ma. being now so much the more wary in the spring off the yeare 1628. was againe passing over to Prussia being carefull off nothing more then that he might remedy these incommodities by some honest meanes it fell out that the Ambassadors off the towne off Stralsound did come vnto his Ma. in Prussia who did heavily complaine that allthough their harmless citty had committed nothing either against the Roman Imperour or against the Impire it selff nor against any State off the Impire for which it was so farr that it was at any time Cited or Accused or convicted or condemned that even by an Emperial decree it was declared innocent and secured off withdrawing off the Army which besiedged it yet such was ye iniquity off that noisom army that vilipending their innocency neglecting the laws and constitutions