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The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638.
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on them of whose approach the King having intelligence with all the horse he could make and some 2000. Muskettiers came time enough to make one in the Battell Pappenheims Foot were almost all cut off most of the horse ran away Himselfe escaped first into Asherleben from whence hee hasted towards Magdenburg there to expect his master the Generall Tilly. It was said that some 20. Companies of the Imperialists were here defeated and some 14. Ensignes taken Tilly being come backe unto Wolmerstad few leagues from Asâ—herleben upon the 16. or 17. of Iuly he first of all dispatches away 4. Regiments of Horse for his vant Curriers to stay the King whilest himselfe with his whole Army might come up to him and to tempt the King to a pitcht Battell in the Field These gallant troopes most of them old Souldiers were Pappenheims men and very forward therefore now to revenge their followes marching towards the Kings leaguer and tooke up their quarters about Tanger The Swedish charging presently tumbles down a many of the Imperiall Curassiers Colonell Bernstin who was their leader himselfe being slaine thus were 1500. slaine all the 4. Regiments defeated This defeate was given Tilly himselfe being in the sight of it Tilly resolving now upon a revenge Iuly 21. forwards hee sets towards the King brought some 26000. men along with him and all these full of anger resolution and desire of revenge 3. severall times assaults the King in his trenches but was beaten off and with such a tempest of shot chaine-shot murthering shot and what ever was cruellest to doe execution showred in amongst the Imperialists out of the Kings campe that there was made a miserable butchery Tilly at length retyred from the King leaving five hundred starved horses behind him Some report him to have lost 6000. or 7000. men perchance in all these 3. great defeates of Pâ—ppenâ—eims Bernsteins and his own Upon the fatall seaventh of September this 1631. yeare in the bloody Battell of Leipsig Generall Tilly himselfe was twice or thrice wounded with Pistall-shot and his whole Army slaine and rowted as is already mentioned Upon the place of Battell which the enemy had left for the King of Sweden there sate a â—locke of Birds which being sprung by the Kings comming tooke their fight directly over Tillies Armie and fetching there a circle about and that also the Romanes would have accounted an happy presage they turned againe towards the Kings Army as who should say we went to fetch you victory But the King had a better presage on his side then a slight of Birds God with us which was the watch-word and that which the Romane Generall sometimes preferred before the Birds Romano milite dignus Ensis adest augur his valour namely and his sword Generall Tilly Anno 1632. received also another but more mortall shot of a Musket in the thigh a little above the knee in the conflict at Lech betwixt him and the King whereof he afterwards April the 20. dyed within the Towne of Ingolstad after the taking of 4. splinters out of his thigh Few yeares before the long cruell and bloody Battell was fought at Lutzen the water in the Towne ditch of Lutzen was turned to blood which prodigy was fullfilled upon the 6. of November Anno 1632. wherein the bloody encounter in continuall exercise lasted from 9. in the morning untill night in which the Swedes did overthrow the whole Imperiall Army with slaughter of 9000. men upon the place many a â—rave man dyed of the anguish of his wounds miserably who might otherwise have beene cured The King of Swedens Majesty himselfe as was sayd out of the greatnesse and heatâ— of his courage having made a charge upon the Imperâ—all curassiers was there over-laid with a number of men and did receive a shot in the left arme which he scarce feeling at first would needs have led on still But perceiving by and by his royall blood to gush out abundantly in his retreate was shot thorow the body Whose death indeed is never enough to bee lamented and so this dying Conquerour did seale the Religion and liberty of the Germans Nations with his blood and to whom the more ingenuous Imperialists at Prague were heard to give this honourable Testimony that he was the bravest enemy and the best Captaine that ever was in Christendome And so the Swedes and protestants Army found themselves to have gotten â—ut a dolefull and a wofull victory losnâ—g that incomparable Conquerour who was alone worth 2. Armies But he is dead and that as heartily bemoaned of the Germanes to speake of him no more as of his owne subjects who yet professe their losse to be unspeakeable And in both their Chronicles shall his Sacred memory be made famous and his Name shall live in their mouths and be honored About the death of this glorious King of Sweden some singular and miraculous Prodigies happening also had affrighted the people in Swedland amongst others in the selfe same houres and times when this Battell of Lutzen was fought appeared just over the Castle and Royall Seate of Stockholm a Virgin or Damsel at night holding in one hand a burning Candle in the other a white Handkercher which she cast about Besides it was noted and observed that all the doores in Castle although they were shut and lockt three severall times did open themselves A River not of small account in Swedland lost the same time his water insomuch that all the day long a man might goe thorow with a drie foot In Smaland a Province of that Kingdome the Bells without helpe of man began to sound with great dishartning and terror of the Inhabitants At Bushein a village betwixt the Townes of Frawenstein and Fribery in the dominion of the Sheter of Saxonie happened a strange Prodigic in the beginning of April Anno 1623. where first in the Ayrc was seene a signe of a two-fold Rain-bow the one white as Snow the other exceeding blacke besides this another signe appeared of a fiery colour The next day from eleven till two of the clock in the afternoone another aspect of a high white colour reappeared Besides all this at Frawenstein a woman having bought some Loaves of Bread and turning homewards to her dwelling place as she was dividing the Bread bloud came thereout This Frawenstein being a pretty Towne upon a Hill some 16. English miles to the South of Dresden was taken by the Imperialists by a bloody assault the 3. Of October following in the same yeare 1632. For finding some opposition the Imperialists doe carry the Towne by Scaladoe and put all both Souldiers and Inhabitants most miserably to the Sword for it October the 4. they assault Friberg a handsome Towne upon the River Mulda some 10. English miles to the West of Frawenstein The Towne also was hard laid at by the Imperialists being no way able to hold out a generall assault which was the next day threatned them and a generall destruction
the strong Castle standing upon a Rocke without the Towne was next summoned The roise of the summons is answered by the thunder of the Canons which being lowder then the sound of the Trumpet would not let the offered conditions to be hearkned unto Wallensteins Ordnance therefore are sent to reply upon Dubatals Canons who had then the command of it Wallenstein having shot a breach in the lower parts of the Castle wall he prepared all things to give a generall assault upon it Five hundred Souldiers thereupon being commanded into the dry Graft or Moate of the Castle Other from the Towne side with continued Volleys of small and great shot entertained the besieged Dubatel having with good diligence also brought downe some new peeces of Ordnance he so seowers the Imperialists that a many of the assaylants already halfe way mounted came fluttering downe headlong into the Moate Wallenstein perceiving the Castle to be strong high situated well provided and the besieged resolved for defence after that one repulse had been given him he retreated Anno 1634. At Hall in lower Saxony in the beginning of May Anno 1631. the Water was turned to blood which miracle was beheld with horrour of many of the Inhabitants Great alteration about the midle of the said moneth of May in the same yeere followed in this City First as it was taken by Tilly so was it retaken by their naturall Lord the Administrator of Hall and Magdenburg from Tilly. But presently repossessed by Tillies Forces Hither Generall Tilly thus wounded in the Battell of Leipsig made shift to flie that night and had his wounds dressed by the Town-barber of Hall This City of Hall is but 7. Dutch miles distant from the place of Battell wherein the Imperiall Army was quite defeated and beaten out of the Field being miserably slaine and trodden downe in the chase And had the King of Sweden had but 3. houres more of day-light scarcely had 1000. Enemies come off alive One of the high Dutch relations doth affirme that there were 15000. of the Imperialists slaine upon the place of Battell or in the chase the same night and the dayes following Tillys manly heart t is said could not refraine his teares when he perceived his brave old Souldiers and Army which was called invincible consisting of 44000. brave men thus going to wracke The chase and slaughter being done which continued all the next day the 10. of September the King besieged Hall which the next day was yeelded unto him The Castle he tooke in September 12. where he tooke an Imperfall Sergeant Major and a Captaine prisoners redeeming a Colonell with some others that had been taken prisoners at Magdenburg The King sending for the Duke of Saxony and other the great commanders of his Army to come to Hall unto him A councell of warre was there held which way to keepe the enemy from gathering head againe and how to pursue the victory Anno 1632. Pappâ—nheim tooke in againe this City of Hall did not omit that spoile and barbarisine upon the City as was reported Part of the Bridge he burned and blew up some of the work es Clapt a petard to the Castle gate in which then was a Swedish commander with a garrison of 200. Souldiers However the leader of Pappenheins Salliers was there shot dead and fell his men forced from the the Castle to retyre being after some skirmishing beaten into the Towne againe At which instant a messenger of Wallenstns overtooke him to returne backe with all his forces to wards Lutzen in which bloody Battell he was also strucken with a bullet of a â—â—lconet At Madenburke a Captaines wife dieing in Childbed desired to be ripte vp shee had a Child as bige as a child of 3 yeares old on his hind a head peace and a brest plate Gret bootes and a bag at his side At Frawenstein â—6 miles from Dresden a woman hauemgâ— bought bread and goeing to cut it thereout I shewed bloode 〈◊〉 In the time of the siege of Magdeburg a City Captaines wife dying in child-bed desires to be ript the child was found a boy almost as big as one of three yeeres old He had an head-peice and an iron breast-plate upon him great bootes of the french fashion and a bag by his side with two like musket-bullets This horrible prodigy hath doubtlesse portended the deplorable destruction and dire abodement unto the same City which fell out the 10. of May Anno 1631. when a generall assault by the Imperialists was made upon the Towne the walls were in a trice mounted the Towne entred and the Souldiers fell to killing Falckenberg the Swedish commander therein after valiant resistance was slaine with a shot the administrator hurt and taken Whilest all thus goes to wrack a mighty fire breakes out how none knowes it being a great windy day all was on the sudden become one great flame the whole Towne was in twelue houres space wholly turned to cinders excepting few fisher houses Six goodly Churches are burnt the Cathedrall was by the Monkes and Souldiers diligence preserved Twenty thousand people at least were herein killed burned and smothered six thousand being observed to be drowned in the River Elve Tilly Wallons and Crabats never use to give quarter or beg any So that all were killed 2. dayes after Tilly came into the Towne and finding some hundreds of women and children in the Church he gives them their lives and some bread to maintaine them How inhumane a devastation of this so ancient and goodly Hanse Towne the County of Tilly and Pappenheim had then made no Pen can expresse it The cruelty of which fury no man can discover one halfe to the world that agoodly City should be reduced to such ruines as if Hannibal had done it and not Tilly Hannibal who had the art by fire and vinegar to moulder away the Rocks and Mountaines into crumbles for the forcing of his owne passage The 18. and 19 of June Anno 1631. at Asherleben in the lower Saxony towards evening a terrible prodigy was seene and observed in the Heaven Two strong Armies met together and prepared themselves to a pitcht Battell One came forth out of the South and the other marching up out of the North. After a long fight the Northern Army obtained the victory from the other This Prodigy was seene the said two dayes for the space of an houre in the cleere heaven After the Battell was ended a Man in a long coate appeared two severall times bearing a bow shooting and prostrating the leader or commander of the Southern Army Betwixt this Towne Aschertlben and Tangermund in the moneth following July the 8. happened a sharpe conflict betwixt the Swedes and Imperialists Pappenheim then Commander of 4. Regiments of Crabats and others and the expulsed Garrisons thereabouts being sent by Tilly to hinder the King of Swedens proceedings in those places The Rhinegrave therefore with some Swedish Forces being there abroad Pappenheim falls upon