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A08152	Newes from the Palatinate A true and comfortable relation of the wonderfull proceedings of Count Mansfield, from his forst comming into the Palatinate, vntill this present moneth. Wherein to his eternall memory he hath set out Gods glory, and enlarged his owne renowne, by being honest to the King of Bohemia, and a constant maintainer of the Gospell of Christ. Likewise relating the true and admirable manner of raising of the siege of Franckendale by Sir Horatio Vere, with the rest of his proceedings, vntill this present. Faithfully translated and extracted out of a Dutch letter sent from Franckendale, by a great commander, who hath beene an eyewitnesse of the same.		1622 (1622)	STC 18507.37; ESTC S122210	17,740	34

disheartned as resolued that Honour worketh vpon difficult attempts he obtained a halfe Moone from whence he was also fiered and repulsed with the like losse For when we perceiued that they were Masters of the same and in possession of the Trenches we presently made a Mine which prospered so well that we blew them into the ayre For the Towne hauing a passage at the back of the halfe Moon after the fashion of rauelings we did the better effect our purpose though the worke it selfe was quite defaced There was also another halfe Moone somewhat lesse made vpon the ditches which likewise the Enemy attempted but belike hearing of the failing of the former they desisted although they had made many brauadoes to assault euen the ditches themselues wherein they might haue endangered their whole Army For they were so well defended that 3000. men could not surprise them then had they the wall to come to which must haue endangered them a great deale more nay if they had obtained the wall which must be done with the like losse there were many Scafferies behind and a new wall begun to be made which also would haue much endamaged them so that by the iudgement of experienced Souldiers and the successe of that wherein they had beene engaged considering they could not bring the Cannon to batter for the out-workes this Army would questionlesse haue been consumed in obtaining this one place and yet they might haue failed to For in three weekes they lost 3000. men and diuers persons of account besides great Officers and Captaines whose bodies were embalmed and sent to Stein but God be thanked to preuent our further feare and vaine supposes of what might haue beene done on both sides the comming of Count Mansfield preuented all our accounts and the Enemy departed within foure dayes toward Wormes so that the Generall came not to Franckendale at all but presently followed the Enemy to Wormes and there encamped himselfe round about the 18. of October whether repaired Generall Vere some English Captaines hauing leasure to treat of their affaires send to Heidelberg and other places both to comfort supply them But the truth is we determined to set vpon the Enemy at his Bridge had we not found many inconueniences in the same For as he lay betweene the Rhein and a Marsh well intrenched and insconsed by Stein wee could not come at him or if you will durst not set vpon him because men were precious vnto vs and many wants came vpon vs besides the time of yeere which threatned vs with vnseasonable weather the Countrey was also forraged and the warres had looked vpon this flourishing Prouince with as angry a countenance as when she threatned to depopulate and destroy a Countrey indeed For both the Enemy and our selues must be here and now supplied Wherevpon his Excellency about the 22. of October resolued to retire and dispierce his Army and so some went to Franckendale some returned with Generall Vere to Mainhem both the Colonels Mersen Bandsh●w went to Heidelberg and his Excellency himselfe departed to Mainhem but taried not long by reason of many inconueniences so hee obscured his time and passed ouer the Bridge into the Bishoprick of Spires taking all places he came at and ransacking euery Town wherein he determined not to recide except Vdenhem from thence vnderstanding of the slender guard of other places he deuided his Army sending some forces to Benshem some to Heppenhem and some to Weinhem all which he quickly surprised taking the spoile for his Souldiers as quickly forsooke when the Enemy approched who indeede watched him very narrowly Yet Colonell Tilley passed most industriously to Badenberg there made a Bridge ouer the Necker and raised a Sconse right against Neckerhausen where he quartred himselfe as his Excellency had done in other places to the refreshing of his Souldiers and enriching his Army Till this the Bauarians were at variance with the Spaniards and some vnkindnesse arose about Precedency of places For the Spanish Generall Don Cordona would not giue place to the Bauarians which Colonell Tilley challenged as lying neerest the Enemy and skirmishing often with his Excellency whereupon they fell to blowes and that at last deuided them assunder so the Bauarians going ouer Odenwald tooke Mosbach and Ederback on the Necker and also Steinbach and Schonam which hee might doe with ease considering Count Mansfield returned once againe to Mainhem about the 13. of Nouember and so was this Bishoprick of Spieres tossed as it were betweene two Seas and ready to be swallowed of either For both the Armies were needy and the belly hauing no eares nor eyes to discerne parties called for meat and entertained all that came But what with the necessity of his affaires the stirringnes of his spirit his Excellency could not rest long in a place so the 15 of Nouem went ouer the Bridge againe taking in Dieteshen which after 8. Cannon shot yeelded without resistance wherein Duke Saxon Lowanbord stayed with his Regiment From thence the 16. of Nouember his Excellency took Keichweild Towne and a Castle standing in a marsh by composition for it should seeme both Captaine and Souldiers though for the most part Subiects of the Bishoprick of Spires were well addicted to his Excellency and so yeelded without battery making intercession to serue him and so they were entertained and remained amongst vs the rather because the Enemy was strong in these parts places as lodging the chiefe Lieutenant Colonell Lipp vnder Graue Rheinhart van Solmes with his Regiment and 2000. Horse vnder the Saxon Lowanbord who were all dispiersed for maintainance in the Countrey and lay thus vpon aduantage to set forward the seruice The 18. of Nouember we marched toward Lunterbord taking both the Castle and the Towne without resistance For the Inhabitants hearing of our approach abandoned their dwellings except 10. Burgers and the Secretary of the State who submitted themselues and admitted of our preuailing the rest of the people fled some houre before we came whereby we found much Houshold-stuffe apparell and linnen all which fell to the Souldiers by his Excellencies appointment who desiring rather money then to be encombred with such vnportable stuffe sold that for a Florine which was worth tenne for when peace and safe conduct was proclaimed to all that would returne and repossesse their houses many came backe againe and redeemed their furniture at easie rates so his Excellency made his chiefe quarter here and grew so strong that the Townes both of Wormes and Spiers desired his Protection and paid great summes of money the one was granted the other receiued by whose example other Townes condiscended likewise to contribution For Landaw and Weisenburg both rickes Townes disbursed great sums Haggenaw paid 5000. ricks dollers and hath yeelded her selfe with the tender of all seruice and the supply of his Excellencies wants especially to send him Prouant and Munition if he went to Lanterburg yea all

Newes from the PALATINATE A true and comfortable Relation of the wonderfull proceedings of Count MANSFIELD from his first comming into the PALATINATE vntill this present Moneth Wherein to his eternall memory he hath set out Gods glory and enlarged his owne renowne by being honest to the King of BOHEMIA and a constant maintainer of the Gospell of Christ Likewise relating the true and admirable manner of raising of the fiege of Fr●●ckendale by Sir HORATIO VERE with the rest of his proceedings vntill this present Faithfully Translated and extracted out of a Dutch Letter sent from Franckendale by a great Commander who hath beene an eye-witnesse of the same Printed at the Hage 1622. Repetunt proprios quaeque recursus Redituque suo singula gaudent Nec manet vlli traditus ordo Nisi quod fini iunxerit ortum Stabilemque sui fecerit orbem Boetius Metro 2. lib 3. THE VVONDERFVLL PROCEEDINGS AND progresses of Count Mansfield in the PALATINATE c. I Must needs now remember the returne of the explorators of the Land of Canaan who terrified the people with a report of Enachims and Giants yron gates and high Towers strong walles and impregnable Bulwarkes great Armies and formidable Soldiours onely Caleb and Ioshua opposed themselues with a contrary discouery of a plentifull Countrey and large inheritance for which the people had like to haue stoned them Thus haue they dealt with the King of Bohemia euer since the losse of Prague and Spinola's entring into the Palatinate geering and deriding his attempts as if it were impossible to prosecute any enterprise against the House of Austria and withstand the King of Spaines Armies with such auxiliary Princes as depend vpon his Soueraignty whereupon they haue not onely scorned his Election but taught their tongues a lesson of defamation and their hands a cunning of deciphering his weakenesse and temerity in many calumnious Pictures and scandalous reports neuer remembring Ahabs little cloude and what an inundation of raine it grew vnto nor the childrens of Israell making of Bricke in the Land of Goshen and what a glorious Nation they came vnto nor the deridings of Sanbolet and Tobias when they re-edified the Temple and how they preuayled in despight of opposition nor in a worde how the Church of God for all the watchings of the Dragon in the Wildernesse hath beene still delinered like that woman and flourished in the end for all her hard beginnings and outragious aduersaries and why may not time bring foorth the like birth for the happy deliuerance of the Palatinate and her Master for all this thicke hanging cloud ouer her head threatning a tempest of vtter destruction and desolation But my meaning is not to trouble you with repititions or vnbinde the fardell of tumor concerning former matters wherein you shall finde her garment be-painted with many tongues on the outside and as many hearts on the inside to intimate thus much that men will be talking according to the disposition of their hearts some like Papists some like Polliticians some like irreligious Neuters some like Hispaniolized instruments some like true Protestants and euery one as their fancy induceth Nay I will not speake a worde of former preparations nor how the Duke of Bauaria proued so good a Seruitour to the Emperour that vpon his comming into the Palatinate the Papists about Vdenhem in the vpper part of the Bishoprick of Spires made a Comedy of the lost King of Bohemia as they tearmed him and vsed many vnseemely speeches against him in that Interlude with such vndecencies that England it selfe escaped not their scandalous minortiues but it passed not away with that succesfull jollity as they pretended for the comming downe of Count Mansfield quickly stopped all their mouthes and quenched the heat of these burning reproches as for those vnsauory vntruths of making composition of agreement with the Emperour or Duke of Bauaria there neuer was such a thought nor motiue either of reuolt from the King of Bohemia or reconciliation to them and therefore of him onely and his proceedings according to the Poet Arma virumque vno I will now speake and shew you by Gods grace the successe of his affaires and then iudge your selues what possibility he stands in and whether fairer dayes may come in the stead of tempestuous weather yea I make no question according to another Poet Saepe premente Deo fert Deus alter opem The 14 of October 1621. his Excellency for so we must stile him or Generall with his whole Army came out of the vpper Palatinate toward H●●delberg being eight Regiments of foote containing 108. Companies and 56. Cornets of Horse somewhat weake and wearyed with long Marches yet were they 10000. strong by Pole but hearing of the siege of Franckendale they stayed not long there as resoluing to raise it and releeue the Countrey to which they were the rather animated because that Generall Vere sent Colonel Ouertrant out of Mainhem with fixe Cornets of Horse foure Demy Cannons and two Pieces of sixe pound bullets vnto him who were welcommed accordingly and so his Excellency with 2000. in his owne Regiment Colonell Mersen with 1200. Colonell Waldmans Hawsen with 2000. and part of a new Regiment vnder Colonell Bandshaw being 1000. with foure Pieces more besides those which Colonell Ouertrant brought marched presently to Franckendale but the Enemy hearing of his approach disbandied themselues and left the siege retiring toward Wormes yet first possessing the Bridge they had made right ouer against Steine But this was not so couertly done but they of Franckendale had notice of the same and made a braue Salley wherein the English whom Generall Vere had left in Garison there performed their partes like honest men and worthy Soldiers for there were forty of the Enemy slaine an Italian Captaine with ●n Ensigne taken prisoners and many others ouertaken in the flight by which occasion they were freed of the siege and deliuered from the feare of vtter destruction For although the Towne was well fortified and had many Bulwarkes and Trenches which Generall Vere before his departure had ouerseene and prepared yet were they not so perfected and warrantable but such an Army as the Spaniard had of 9000. at least might in time either batter or enforce considering the Garison decayed and prouision failed but God was their protector and as you haue heard sent this supply to put new life into their courages and relieue their distresses Now the siege of Franckendale was in this manner the Enemy taking aduantage of Generall Veres retiring to Mainhem came with 9000. before it and for foure weekes continually battered the Bulwarks but by reason he had not taken in any of the Sconses nor dismantled the principall out-works he could not endamage the Towne it selfe Nay when he had valiantly and fortunately got into the Counterscarfe he was forced out againe with the losse of 100. men and taught to know that a stronger arme putteth out the strong man yet not altogether