Victoria victoria follow fellow follow but the old Lad their Generall quickly countermaunded that saying Let them goe wee shall overtake them time enough but let vs beate the Swedes too and then all Germany is our owne But so good was this newes that some Posts are presently dispeeded away towards the Emperour at Vienna with the most welcome tydings of Victory Some Cornets of the Saxons being there shewed and some scornefull and disgracefull words among being added against the Duke of Saxony The most of the Saxons being thus rowted Arnheym as t is sayd still made good the place With him were the best of the Dukes Horse and the best of them too the Dukes own Horse-guards that day commaunded by Leiftenant-Colonell Tauben a valiant Gentleman Eight troupes he had besides of Duke William of Saxon-Altenburg together with some of the Countrey-Gentlemens and of his owne The most of these as I sayd had Tilly slipt by with a touch onely vpon them Hereabouts fell there out a prettie encounter worthy not to be overpassed Thus A gallant Imperiall Cavalier perceiving a Saxon Rit-maister or Captaine of a troupe of Horse to behaue himselfe brauely in the head of his troupes presently putting spurres vnto his Horse and ryding vp vnto him bends his Pistoll vpon him and engages him in a single combate The Saxon would not giue it off neyther but there their Horses being shot vnder them too it on foote they goe with sword and pistoll Both to be briefe are there slaine and both as their destinies directed it fell downe dead together one vpon another and Death who having beene at so many Duells knowing himselfe now able enough to judge who had best done gaue the honour of it vnto the Saxon-Champion by laying him vppermost in the fall And there still lay he vpon his enemy as if he meant to follow him into the next world and to fight with him there too and even the pangs of death fluttering their armes about and their dying pulses punching one at another made that seeme like another combate The losse of bloud having also made their faces look pale that colour of anger made a shew as if their vnappeased spirits had beene yet at it While Tilly and Furstenberg were in action with the Saxons those Horse which he as hath beene sayd left in fight with Gustavus Horne came not so victoriously off from the Swedes as their Generall had done from the Saxons This action Gustavus Horne himselfe thus writes of All their Horse sayth he fell vpon my left wing who were soone dispersed and put to flight and contrarily the Duke of Saxonies Foote almost left the Feild Whilest yet the enemy pursued the Saxons our left wing charged into their flanck and vpon their two troupes of Reserue and in this posture we fought a long time and lost many of our Horse But finally after I had soundly charged the enemies Battell with that Regiment of the Gothish Horse which his Majestie sent me for assistance together with the commaunded Muskettiers which had beene placed by the King in the left wing the enemy beganne to grow thinne and to fall away whereupon their Battayle presently broke being all put to flight excepting foure Regiments who by reason of the smoake and dust were so shadowed from our sight that they saved themselues Thus farre this conquering penne writeth Those that Horne thus overthrew were one or two perchance of those foure great Brigades belonging to Tillyes maine Battayle So that there yet remaines the rest of them which were peiced in with Furstenbergs left wing whom we are next to enquire after The Earle of Furstenberg having sorely raked the Saxons and charged quite thorough them was with his owne Regiment thus in the heate of bloud and valour quite parted from the rest of his owne wing Supposing therefore his dayes worke to be done with the Saxons whom the rest of his men had put to flight he with his owne Regiment of foote flyes amaine vpon the Swedens againe It was the Reere of the left wing which was then next before him that he now chanced vpon There did Colonell Hall a braue Gentleman Command Hall having there a Regiment of twelue troupes of his owne Horse whose place in the Mappe is at 88. Charges sayes Chaimaries that was one of his Captaines in another Foote Regiment that Hall had into the Imperiall Foote and with not much labour cut them all in peices And here I suppose it might be that the Count of Furstenberg was wounded whence being carryed off sorely spoyled he was reported to haue beene slaine but of that we are otherwise since enformed Nor did Colonell Hall come off clearely with his victorie for by default of his brest-plate which was not of full proofe he was slaine by a Musket-Bullet vpon the place It seemes that Hall had followed Furstenberg even vnto the poynt of the left wing of the Kings Armie because that Chaimaries presently subjoynes That his Colonell Hall was seperated in this fight from the rest of the Army excepting from the braue Cavalier Colonel Collenbach with whom sayth he I was Now Collenbachs place in the Battell the Mappe shewes to be in the end of the left wing where he hath fiue troupes of Horse at the number 57. and fiue more at the number 59 So that Chaimaries place must needs be at the number 58 where he was one of those Foote-Captaines that led those 360. Muskettiers of Halls men which at that time lyned Collenbachs Horse which were 800. in number in which very place Chaimaries sets himselfe in a Mappe of the Battell drawne by his owne hand which came over with his Letter This enquirie helpes vs to know whereabouts the chiefe of the Encounter at that time was wherein you may satisfie your selfe by looking into the Mappe No sooner were Furstenbergs Foote defeated but 7000. or 8000. of those Imperialists that had discomfited the Saxons were discovered vpon the place where the Saxons had beene lately Marshalled The dust and smoake were so great that they were vpon Collenbach ere he was aware and yet as neere him as they were not being able to discerne their Colours he knew not whether they were friends or foes The same doubt possesses the Imperialists also who being so neere Collenbach never offered so much as to charge him imagining perchance that he might be some of their owne maine Battaile which Gustavus Horne had thereabouts of late defeated At last sayes Chaimaries my minde gaue me that they were enemies yea I told Collenbach that they were not our men And by this time had the enemy discâ—rned vs too whereupon turning two peices of Ordnance vpon vs which they had taken from the Duke of Saxony they let flie amongst vs. Iust at this time came the King ryding vp vnto vs crying to Collenbach Charge man a Gods name whereupon his Majesties owne selfe led vs on against the enemy saying That he must finish the worke that
their Files then but three deepe and the first ranck falling vpon their knees the second stooping forward and the third standing vpright and all giving fire together they powred so much leade in at once amongst the enemies that their rancks were much broken by it Arnheym on the other side with his Saxon-horse did much execution vpon the enemies foote who had few or no Horse at this time and in this place left to oppose against him And here by all probabilitie it was that the Generall Tilly received his wounds and was supposed though vnknowne to haue been prisoner for a while vnto the Kings Armie But this I cannot affirme Among other Commanders of the Imperialists that fought at this time in this very place these three I finde particular mention of The Earle of Schomberg that day Generall of the Ordnance the Baron of Cronenberg and the Lord of Baumgarten so that these surely were none of the meanest troupes that were led by such honourable personages Something also of what was here done by the Imperialists we may learne by the sayd valiant Baron of Cronenbergs Letter In foure houres sayth Cronenberg I charged the enemy foure times with my Regiment judge you whether we were not at hot service in so much that I verily beleeved that I had defeated my enemy and that the victory was ours I not knowing that our left wing was so miserably defeated And this mistake was by reason of the great smoake for we could not possibly see aboue foure paces before vs. The enemy had possessed themselues of the place whereon our left wing was defeated I then went vp into the very face of them even in that quarter where they brought many fresh Cornets of Horse and some Regiments of foote to charge me The whole Armie doth know yea and our Generall himselfe will witnesse it that but for me our Generall had beene lost whom I perceiving grievously hurt carryed safely off in despight of all the enemies There was a Duke of Saxony that day serving on the Emperours side who behaved himselfe like a Lyon who when all was lost came with our Generall and two or three Horsemen onely in his company into my Regiment I being then in full battell Thus much writes the Baron of himselfe modestly for from other hands wee haue also received it how that when Rodolph Maximilian Duke of Saxon-Lawenburg had by his valour and hardinesse rescued and fetcht off his Generall that the valiant Cronenberg carried them both out of the feild in the middest of his owne now flying troupes Thus by knowing of Cronenbergs place we finde where the Generall Tilly at this time was and that it was Sir Iohn Hebron that overthrew him For this valour and faithfulnesse to their Generall was the Baron Cronenberg much honored and the Duke afterwards entrusted with the keeping of the key of Bavaria the Towne of Donawaert I meane from whence the King of Sweden did of late dayes beate him The King having set on Sir Iohn Hebron vpon Tilly and returned by this time to his owne Right wing presently advances forward with that towards the wood vpon the hill which Tilly had before appoynted for the Retreate of his men because that hereabouts some Regiments had all this while stayed and others that had beene rowted in other places had hitherto resorted here to r'allee and conjoyne themselues together againe To conjoyne themselues together I say for whereas I finde foure of these Regiments now gotten about the Wood to be those of Goies Blanckhart Chesui Balderon and Diderichsteyn which last two made vp one Regiment any man may by the numbers in the Mappe perceiue that these foure were placed very farre asunder in the beginning of the Battell even as farre as the numbers 8 12 15 and 19 are one from another And this is an argument of the great confusion they had beene put vnto in the battell as others likewise had beene in the former fight which Tillies selfe had made where Baumgartens Regiment which had beene at first marshalled neere the very end of the left wing at the number 4 was now conjoyned with Schomberg and Cronenberg whose first place was in the further end of the right wing at the numbers 26 and 27 and both these from the ends of both wings conjoyned with Tilly in the middleward or mayn-battayle But to the story The King now-in person setting vpon these new revnited forces with such courage and successe charges in vpon them that at the first onset cutting in peices those troups that had the guard of the Ordnance and then turning the Canon vpon the residue he had the slaughter of a great many of them and the rowting of as many more Yet all fled not for the Goiesish Blanckhartish Chesuish and Balderonish Regiments before mentioned stood to their Armes brauely Old Lads they were and experienced Souldiers too such as feared not an enemy with an iron face and that cared not for a halfepenny chop in their owne flesh These to their great prayse as the Kings owne description of the Battell sayes made good the wood for a long time against his Majestie killd him a many of braue fellowes Nor would they budge a foote for notwithstanding they were now desperate and out of hope to be eyther seconded or fetcht off all their Armie being by this time overthrowne and they knwoing of it yet did they fight it out almost to the last man a few of them onely whom it had beene pittie to haue killed retrying themselues when no more could be done vnder the benefit of a mixed Cloud of smoake and dust and darkenesse For by this time it was neere vpon seaven a clocke at night by which houre the Imperiall Army every where was altogether in disorder flight and confusion Thus after fiue houres hard fight the victory fell vnto his Majestie of Sweden whose Horsemen so long continued the chase vntill the darknesse made it dangerous to pursue the enemy any further The Tillians fled every way some to Leipsich others to Eilenburg and the Townes thereabouts and others towards Hall every man glad to hide his head any where The joyfull retreate being sounded thereupon the Kings Armie as Maisters of the Feild kept their possession of it though but by lying vpon the bare ground and vnder the blew Skyes for that night Conquerours surely had beene worthy of a better harbourough but the vniversall joy suffered no man but the wounded to complaine of the want of a featherbed The next morning was the chace begunne againe when the over-taken enemies wanting eyther Leaders or Armes or hearts must suffer the Law of Armes to passe vpon them eyther to begge quarter or endure the slaughter And this was the end of that formidable Armie of his Imperiall Majestie and of the Catholike Leaguers which for eleven yeares together before the comming of the King of Sweden had given the Law vnto all Germany had
with much adoe gotten vp the hill something neerer towards the little wood where part of Pappenheyms men lay who in striving to keepe the winde was forced to come vnder the commaund of the Kings Ordnance The Imperialists every where had very commodiously also planted some peices of Canon vpon the hills-side which made it a desperate peice of service for the Swedes directly in the enemies faces to ascend yea the higher ground it selfe was something troublesome to mount also which they made the lesse hast to doe because they were not fully yet in order The Fight was about twelue a clock begunne with their great Ordnance Tilly on his side gaue fire to the first three peices which did little or no hurt vnto the Swedens and the King as his manner is put his Linstock to the two first peices which notwithstanding it was done at something a farre distance and therefore laught at by the enemy as if the Royall Canonier durst haue come no neerer yet as the Kings owne Printed Relation sayes they vndoubtedly hit their marke Tilly from his Battell playd hard vpon the King with three halfe Curtoes or halfe Canons especially which were againe answered with as much fury The hideous roare of the Canon on both sides made the very earth to tremble and continuing for two houres together made many a braue man to groane his last The Imperialists shot diverse artificiall fire-workes and Granadoes also whereof some being old and their touch-holes rustie did not breake in the fail so that having done no hurt they were taken vp whole afterwards Tillyes Ordnance whereof he had some very great peices did most hurt vpon the Kings left wing where Gustavus Horne commaunded The thunder of the Canon about two a clocke gaue quite over At which time the Count of Pappenheym with the Horse of his left wing giues the first charge vpon the Kings right wing The Duke Adolphus of Holsteyn was the first that seconded the Horse with his Regiment of Foote who whilest together with the Horse he wheeled too hastily about to recover the whole advantage of the wind from the King one poynt whereof the King had with much adoe gained both Horse and Foote were so farre advanced before their fellowes that they were even parted from the rest of their left wing These having too rashly engaged themselues by the eares with the Kings Horse found themselues so galled by the Muskettiers with which the Kings Horse-troupes were lyned which they there little looked for by reason the Muskettiers being our-commanded men could not at first be discerned because they had no Colours with them that they were quickly made to get them further off Traversing thereupon their ground about to the left hand and thrusting in betwixt the Kings right wing and the maine Battell they there fell fowle vpon the Reere of the Kings right wing where the Generall Bannier commaunded After them the King immediately sent some able troupes which both vtterly separated them from the rest of their fellowes and cloased them in withall so that betwixt them and Bannier they were as the Baron of Cronenberg writes vtterly cut in peices The Duke of Holsteyn receiving a shot in the knee was at that instant taken prisoner of which wound he within few dayes after dyed at Eilenburg The rest of Pappenheyms Foote being thus deprived of the most of their Horse and not succoured time enough by Tilly with his Battell was with the lesse trouble afterward defeated by the Kings Right wing Here was Pappenheyms selfe wounded made to forsake the Feild and to leaue all his Ordnance behinde him The King in the beginning of the fight perceiving the enemy to charge very hardly upon his men alighting as Dan. Heinsius in his Panegyrick affirmes from his horse prayes vpon his bended knees vnto God for the victory imitating herein the godly Emperour Theodosius who did as much in a day of Battell The Generall Tilly perceiving it to goe hard with his left wing drawes with his Battell from about the little Wood and downe the hill he comes With him was the chiefe strength of the Foote old Souldiers the most of them though never so well beaten Souldiers as that day they were Sixteen braue Regiments there were of them and those divided into foure great Spanish Brigades their Horsemen also on both sides proudly prancing vpon their flancks Right opposite vnto him was Gustavus Horne with his left wing vpon him therefore Generall Tilly instantly sets vpon him he twice or thrice charges with great bravery which charges Horne with as much resolution both endures returnes Tilly at length finding himselfe shrewdly rubbed thereabouts with the lyning of the Swedish Horse-troupes and some smaller Drakes and Feild-peices withall beginnes on the sudden to turne his whole order so that leaving a part of his Battell of Foote and the most of his Horse to hold Gustavus Horne play he converts all his fury vpon the Duke of Saxony With Tilly and his Battell did the Count of Furstenberg at the same time peice in with his left wing also so that all the Duke of Saxonies Armie excepting some few of Arnheyms in the Right wing which stood next vnto the Swedens left wing were at once engaged Two or three Charges the Saxons endured well enough but the westerly Winde carrying the smoake dust full into their eyes and Tillyes weightie bodies of his Spanish Brigades falling too heavily vpon the new-levyed Saxons and vpon the Dukes owne Guards especially amongst which himselfe fought that not able longer to endure the fury of the old Wallons Germanes and Burgundians they beginne to giue ground a little at the first and to run quite away a little after Furstenberg in like manner prest so hard vpon the Dukes left wing that they presently followed the example of their Countreymen and distrusting their Armes committed themselues as fast as could be vnto their heeles Steynau a Saxon-Colonell of a Horse-Regiment was with foure Cornets there taken prisoner by Furstenberg who at last when his keepers beganne to be overthrowne apprehending the presentnesse of the advantage brake loose and assisted those of his owne side And here was the Lord Bindauff Sergeant-Major Generall vnto the Duke of Saxony slaine before the Baron of Cronenbergs Regiment as that Baron writeth Thus the most of the Saxon Foote and many of their Horse were either slaine taken prisoners or fled the Feild leaving all their fayre Ordnance to the mercy of the enemy who presently after beganne to turne those Peices vpon the Swedens But as if it had not beene shame enough thus fowly to haue left the Feild they were no sooner out of the reach of the enemy but they fell to pillage their owne Wagons by the way that so they might at least seeme to be Conquerours in carrying home the Spoyles of the warres though not of their enemies The Imperialists now seeing the Saxons fleeing cry
wee had begunne Collenbach thereupon advancing and the King going away to looke to other places is presently encountred with ten Cornets of Horse who at the first or second Charge slew all his Officers and Cornets that commaunded before foure of his troupes upon the right hand of his Regiment yea the Colonell Collenbach himselfe was there shot dead vpon the place all his Horse of the foure troupes aforesayd fleeing thereupon The Imperialists who had the smoake in their eyes discerned them not but I sayes Chaimaries discerning the enemy commaunded all my Muskettiers to giue fire at once vpon them They thereupon wheeling about to the left hand were entertained by the other foure Cornets of Collenbachs Regiment who gaue them so couragious a Charge that they draue them even to the gates of Leipsich Thus much writes Chaimaries of the actions of that part of the Battell where himselfe served The King of Sweden having as hath beene sayd set on Collenbach goes like a noble Generall who thinkes it his office to see to all to visite his three Brigades of Reserue in the Reere of the maine Battayle where the valiant Hebron commaunded Bringing therefore some 100. or more of the better sort of prisoners which himselfe with the right wing had before taken he for the encouragement of his men makes a shew of them still crying Allegremente as he rode along vive cry the Souldiers At which cheerefulnesse of his men the King very heartily laughing led them on towards those 7. or 8000. of the enemy before mentioned not making a stand vntill he came within halfe Musket of them These were part of those men who as I sayd had defeated the Duke of Saxony Towards whom the King now ryding very neere comes backe vnto his men with newes That he saw the Burgundian Crosse Sending therefore the Baron Dyvell vnto Sir Iohn Hebron to commaund him to fall on with his three Brigades of Reserue himselfe hasts away to the neerest part of the maine Battaile where Colonell Winckle with the Blâ—w Regiment stood to send him to ayde Hebron also Scarcely had this braue Baron Dyvell delivered the Kings message but he was shot starke dead when he was gone a little to the right hand even before Hebrons eyes and feete as it were Vpon this command of the King Sir Iohn Hebron with the middlemost of the three Brigades and Colonell Vitzthimb with his other on the left hand moved forward towards the enemy But the young Count of Turne who had the third and right hand Brigade which was the furthest from the danger he as I am enformed stirred not Whether he misunderstood the message or what els should be the reason of it I know not Thus much onely can I enforme my Reader that he is not sonne to the braue old Bohemian Count of Turne nor like vnto him On the right hand of Sir Iohn Hebrons Brigade was the valourous Scottish Colonell Lumsdell who with the Lord Reayes men and his owne helpt to make up Hebrons Brigade complete the most of the other part of it of Sir Iohns owne Regiment being of the Germane Nation On the right hand of Lumsdell againe had the King caused Sir Iames Ramsey with his chosen or outcommaunded Muskettiers also to fall on The first of Lumsdells Muskettiers were led on by his Lieutenant Colonell Muschamp our daring and valiant Countryman who with much courtesie related this whole passage thus vnto mee First sayth he giving fire vnto three little Feild-peices that I had before me I suffered not my Muskettiers to giue their volleyes till I came within Pistoll-shot of the enemy at which time I gaue order to the three first rancks to discharge at once and after them the other three which done we fell pell mell into their rancks knocking them downe with the stocke of the Musket and our swords The enemy notwithstanding wee were alreadie within their ranckes gaue vs two or three Salvees with their Muskets and at our first falling on foure gallant troupes of Curiassiers advancing themselues before their owne foote and comming close vp to the head of our Pikes at one volley or two of their Pistolls shot all the Scottish Ancients dead vpon the place So that strange it was to see how so many Colours fell at one instant into the feild And our men I thinke payd theirs as welâ— home againe A braue Commaunder of theirs all in scarlet and gold-lace there was right before vs whom we might discerne to lay on vpon his owne mens pates and shoulders to cut and slash divers of them with his sword because they would not come on vpon vs. This Gentleman maintained the fight a full houre and more against vs but he being slaine wee might perceiue their Pikes and Colours to topple downe to tumble and fall crosse one over another whereupon all his men beginning to flee wee had the pursuite of them even vntill the night parted vs. Few of the Imperiall Officers and Commanders escaped either killing or spoyling as one Captaine Onyon an English-man who had the leading that day of 1000. Muskettiers on the Emperours side affirmed Onyon himselfe was thrice shot the same day taken and carried prisoner into Leipsich where he afterwards related this vnto Lieutenant Colonell Muschamp to which Lieutenant-Colonels courtesie for my vnderstanding of this part of the service of the day wherein himselfe was a principall Leader the Readers are beholding Sir Iohn Hepburn Sir Iames Ramsey Colonell Vitzthimb and Colonell Lumsdell with their foote and the Bohemian Colonells Schaffman and Cochtitsky with their horse all wheeling about in manner of an halfe moone as the second Mappe shewes you so well at the same time plyed their businesse charged with so much bravery and resolution at first and maintained the fight with so much courage and manhood to the last that in this part also though the Imperialists behaved themselues right valiantly yet were they forced to yeeld vnto the fortune of the day as in other places of the field their fellowes had done before them For at this time the Lord Arnheym with his Saxon-horse fell so resolutely on vpon their Reere and the Scottish and Germane foote vpon their Van and those other troupes which the King sent in from the left wing and maine Battayle vpon their flanck that the remainder of Tillyes great Spanish Brigades and of Furstenbergs left wing were gotten into a Toyle as it were and so jumbled and jolled together that wanting roome to fight and order themselues to their best advantage in they were miserably cut in peices put to as great a slaughter themselues as they before had made among the Saxons Nor was there a greater fell of men any wherethat day made throughout the Armie nor any peice of the service better on both sides maintained And here I suppose was that famous stratagem put in practise by the Muskettiers who all on the sudden doubling of their rancks making
made the name of Tilly so renowned All the ill-gotten wealth and fore-gotten glory of it was in poore fiue houres space such is the fortune of the warres now quite lost and confounded This I say was the end of it Nine or 10000. men were left dead in the field and chase many thousands sorely wounded whereof some shortly after dyed and others thereby vtterly made vnserviceable Diverse were taken prisoners and 6000. forsaking the side tooke oath and pay for the Kings service not a few besides running quite away and never more returning to their Colours Thus of 44000. marching men Tilly never came to Muster 16000. againe perchance not so many yea perhaps not halfe so many of the selfe same men at leastwise not halfe so many of the Foote who could not so fast followe their fleeing Generall towards the Weser The King this morning marching towards Leipsich there seased vpon the enemies whole standing Camp Here were found full 3000. Wagons with all their baggage tents and pavilions a great number of Cattle Horses Oxen Sheepe Asses Poultrie Bread Wine meate vpon the Spits with other necessary provisions much costly stuffe with some gold and silver both in vessell and readie money There were many aboue 100. Ensignes and Cornets brought vnto the King with 14. great peices of halfe Curtoes or Demicanon and 16. smaller feild-peices of 8. or 10. pound ball some whereof had the Armes of the Emperour vpon them others of the Duke of Bavaria of Wallensteyn the Palsgraue the Elector of Brandenbnrg the Duke of Brunswicke c. And thus haue we told you something of what was done in every part of the Battayle The foure great Brigades of Foote in the Van of the Kings mayn Battayle were thought too strong to be medled withall the Imperialists therefore never fell on there Nor did any part of them nor of their after-troupes those I meane betwixt the Battayle and the Reserues of it once moove onely the King commaunded some troupes to goe and ayde Hebron once Nor did the Count of Thurne stirre Nor was the further end of Banniers people medled withall els the whole Armie was in action The King of Sweden lost but 700. men as Gallobelgious reports and the Duke of Saxony 2000. The men of note slaine on the Kings side were the gallant Baron Dyvell Hall Collenbach and Corville all Colonells Slaine on the Duke of Saxonyes part Sergeant-Major-Generall Bindhauff Colonell Starschedel with diverse other Officers and Captaines both of Horse and Foote On Tillyes side these great personages slaine Adolphus Duke of Holsteyn Otho Fredericke Count of Schomberg that day Generall of the Ordnance Theodore Othmar of Erwitte Sergeant-Major-Generall of the Armie the Lord Baumgarten Baron of Grotte together with Coloredo Gallas Wallensteyn Lobell and Zabilli all Colonells with diverse other Lieutenant-Colonells Sergeant-Majors Rit-maisters and Captaines slaine eyther vpon the place or dying within a few dayes after or their wounds Taken prisoners the Generall-Adjutant Zinzindorff the two Imperiall Comissaries-Generall Walmerde and Graff with Coronino Blackhart Barcelli Kratz Hazelung Larme Klinzi and Winckleman all Colonells together with Bernard that was Secretary and Treasurer vnto Tilly diverse Captaines and some Iesuites who no doubt came thither to blesse the Armie And this was as complete a victory as possibly could be gotten Not stolen by night which Alexander scorned but without stratageme by fine force and true prowesse atchieved in the broad day-light betwixt twelue and seaven in the afternoone No advantage of place to giue it away it was vpon a fayre levell and in Campagnia No casuall advantage but was against the King the winde the wood and the higher ground all on the enemies side No advantage in numbers or reputations of men neyther Tillyes were the more the older Souldiers and their Armie by themselues accounted Invincible Nay one disadvantage the King had as great as possibly almost could be which was in sight not onely a wonderfull encouragement to the enemy but a most mayne weakning of the one halfe of his Majesties Army and an evident disheartning to the rest for seeing t is the Eye that is first overcome in any battell if the sight of the Saxons defeate would haue discouraged the Swedens that had given a sore onset to the victory So that all the advantages lay on the enemies side and the disadvantages on the Kings But yet even thus can the Lord of Hoasts giue away the victory Tillyes manly heart t is sayd could not refraine his teares when hee saw his braue old Souldiers thus going to ruine The whole fault he layd vpon the Crabats Imperiall horse who after a few hard charges cowardly ranne away and never made head againe No Generall could haue done more than the valiant Tilly that day did nor would any wise man that were no more than truely valourous haue stood one minute longer vpon the place from whence the Generall Tilly ranne away But there is no Battell against the Lord So that this old Conquerour still vsed to see the backs of his enemies is now glad to shew them his owne heeles and thus wounded as he was to flee that night towards Hall seven Dutch myles from the place of Battell Hither did the Earles of Furstenberg and Pappenheym both sorely wounded also come vnto him where having dressed their wounds the two Eaâ—les the next day fled away in a hackney Coach hyred at Hall and Tilly by himselfe in a Horse-litter all taking their way towards Ascherleben and Halberstadt first and thence onwards towards the River of Weser where the Emperour had given him some Lands and whereabouts he had formerly beene when he first advanced against the King of Sweden Tilly had in the fight received two some say three severall wounds vpon his body besides a shrewd brush or counterbuff with the stock of a Musket given him by a common Souldier which being aymed full at his head notwithstanding that the old man bare off as well as he could with his feeble arme yet so rudely for all that did it light vpon the side of his necke shoulder and arme that the poore man complained more of that blow than of any of his other wounds The Souldier that reacht it him was immediately beaten downe dead vpon the place that so meane a man might never liue to glory what he had done to the gallant Generall Tilly. Sure it is that Tilly had his wounds dressed by the Towne-Barber of Hall and a report was raysed vpon it that the fellow should haue afterwards discovered vnto the King at his comming vnto Hall that Tillyes bodie was as hard as the wall that he was hard-shot or shot-free and that the Bullets had not peirced the flesh but made bruises rather in it and that to his horrible torture he was faine to endure the cutting out of the bruised flesh vnto the very hard bone Indeede thus much haue I seene in a High-Dutch
battell or vpon the march shal be shot to death If it be done in any strength or fortified place he shall lose his hand and be turned out of the quarter 37 He who shall once presume to draw his sword vpon the place where any Court of Iustice is holden while it is holden shall lose his life for it 38 He that drawes his sword in any strength or Fort to doe mischiefe therewith after the watch is set shall lose his life for it 39 No man shall hinder the Provost Marshall Generall his Lieftenant or seruants when they are to execute any thing that is for our seruice who does the contrary shall lose his life for it 40 Leaue is giuen vnto the Provost Marshall Generall to apprehend all whatsoeuer that offends against these our Articles of warre All other offenders he may likewise apprehend by his owne Authority 41 If the Provost Marshall Generall shall apprehend any man by his owne Authority he may keepe him either in prison or in Irons but by no meanes doe execution vpon him after the Court of warre is ended without first giuing the Generall notice thereof 42 The Provost Marshals of euery Regiment haue also the same priviledge vnder their owne Regiment Company that the Provost Marshall Generall hath in the Leaguer 43 Euery Sergeant Major commanding in the whole Leaguer what appertaineth to his office shal be obeyed by euery man with his best endeavour 44 Whatsoeuer is to be published or generally made knowne shal be proclaimed by sound of Drumme and trumpet that no man may pretend ignorance in it they who after that shall be found disobedient shal be punished according to the quality of the fact 45 No soldiour shall think himselfe too good to worke vpon any peice of Fortification or other place where they shal be commanded for our service vpon paine of punishment 46 Whosoeuer shall doe his Maiesties businesse slightly or lazily shall first ride the wooden Horse and lye in prison after that with Bread and Water according as the fact shal be adjudged more or lesse heynous 47 All Officers shall diligently see that the soldiers ply their worke when they are commanded so to doe he that neglects his duty therein shal be punished according to the discretion of the Court. 48 All soldiours ought duely to honor and obey their Officers and especially being by them commanded vpon our seruice but if at any time they can on the contrary discouer that they are commanded vpon a seruice which is to our prejudice any manner of way then shall that soldiour not obey him what charge soeuer he receiues from him but presently giue notice of it 49 No Colonell nor Captaine shall command his soldiours to doe any vnlawfull thing which who so does shal be punisht according to the discretion of the Iudges Also if any Colonell or Captaine or other Officer whatsoeuer shall by rigor take any thing away from any common soldiour hee shall answer for it before the Court. 50 No man shall goe any other way in any Leaguer whatsoeuer but the same common way laid out for euery man vpon paine of punishment 51 No man shall presume to make any Alarme in the Quarter or to shoot off his Musket in the night time vpon paine of Death 52 He that when warning is giuen for the setting of the watch by sound of Drumme Fife or Trumpet shall wilfully absent himselfe without some lawfull excuse shall be punisht with the woodden Horse and be put to Bread and Water or other pennance as the matter is of importance 53 He that is taken sleeper vpon the watch either in any strength Trench or the like shall be shot to Death 54 He that comes off his watch where he is commanded to keepe his Guard or drinkes himselfe drunke vpon his watch or place of Sentinell shal be shot to Death 55 He that at the sound of Drumme or Trumpet repaires not to his Colours shal be clapt in Irons 56 When any march is to be made euery man that is sworne shall follow his Colours who euer presumes without leaue to stay behind shall bee punisht 57 And if it be vpon mutiny that they doe it be they many or be they few they shall die for it 58 Who euer runnes from his Colours be hee native or forreiner and does not defend them to the vttermost of his power so long as they be in danger shall suffer death for it 59 Euery man is to keepe his owne ranke and flie vpon the march and not to put othres from their order nor shall any Man cast himselfe behind or set himselfe vpon any waggon or horsebacke the offenders to be punisht according to the time and place 60 He that runnes from his Colours in the field shall die for it and if any of his Comrades kill him in the meane time hee shall be free 61 What euer Regiment shall first charge the Enemy and retyre afterward from them before they come to dint of sword with them shall answere it before our highest Martiall Court 62 And if the thing be occasioned by any Oâ—ficer hee shall bee publikely disgraced for it and then turnd out of the Leaguer 63 But if both Officers and Soldiers be found faulty alike then shall the Officers be punished as aforesaid If it be in the Souldiers alone then shall euery tenth man be hanged The rest shal be condeÌ„ned to carry all the filth out of the Leaguer vntill such time as they performe some exploit that is worthy to procure their pardon after which time they shall be cleere of the former disgrace But if at the first any man can by the testimonie of ten men proue himselfe not guilty of the Cowardise he shall goe free 64 When any occasion of seruice is he that first runnes away if any man kill him hee shall be free And if at that time he escape and be apprehended afterward he shall bee proclâ—â—med Traytor and then put out of the quarter after which whosoeuer killeth him shall neuer be called to account for it 65 If any occasion be to enter any Castle Towne or 〈◊〉 by assault or breach he who retyres from the place before 〈◊〉 hath beene at handy-blowes with the enemy and hath vsed 〈◊〉 sword so farre as it is possible for him to doe seruice with it 〈◊〉 before he be by maine strength beaten off by the enemy shal be so punisht as the Court shall censure him 66 Whatsoeuer Ensigne bearer shal flye out of any place of battery sconce or redoubt before he hath enduredâ— assaults receiues no reliefe shall be punâ—â—â—ed as before Whatsoeuer Regiment troope or Company is the beginner of any mutiny shal be punisht as is aforementioned The first Author to dye for it and the next consenter to be punisht according to the discretion of the Court. 68 Whatsoeuer Regiment Troope or Company refuses to aduance forward to charge the Enemie but out of feare and cowardise stayes behind their
marked with D. The vse of it is for the Officers of the Regiment coÌ„monly called the Officers of the Staffe Such be the Quartermasters of the Regiment the 2. Regiment-Schults the Preachers Clarke Surgeons Prouost-Marshals Regiment-Weble Stock-Knights Drummer Hangman with others as is to be seene in the Kings Commission for the raising of a Regiment Of the Quarters for the Common Soldiours on eyther side of this long void space these be the proportions All the little Squares be Hutts or Cabins of wood In the longer rowes marked with the letter M. on the first Hutt are the Musquettiers lodged and in the shorter rowes marked with P. be the Pikemen lodged one row of Musquettiers and one row of Pikes make up one compleat Band or Company of 126. Men. In the Musketiers row be 24. Huts and in the Pikemens but 18. The reason of which see in the King of Swedens Order for a priuate Company Each of these Hutts is 9. foot Square that is 3. yards euery way and whereas one row of Musquetiers and one row of Pickes belong to one Company these therefore are neerer set together then the rowes of Pikes belonging to seuerall Companies are for the Pikes and Musquetiers of the same Company are parted with a street but 6. foote wide whereas betwixt the Pikes of seuerall companies is a street of 18. foote wide and betwixt the Musquettiers of seuerall Companies a street of 12 foote wide And so you see the seuerall proportions marked The length of the Row of Pikes is but 162. foote as you see it marked betwixt the 2. first Rowes of their Hutts and the length of the Musquettiers Row is 216. foote as is marked in the Margent Cast now the distances of Bredth and they amount to 360. foot and so broad is the whole Quarter Below all this in the Reere or lower end of the Quarter you have avoyd space of 14. foot of ground running all the bredth of the Quarter serving againe for freedome of ayre c. This is marked with E. And last of all may you behold another allowance of ground marked with the letter F. which is for the Marcketenters that is the Market-holders Chapmen Victualers and Sutlers of the Regiment Adde now the distances of length together they come to 300. foot which is the length of the whole Quarter the allowance of ground for one entire Regiment But the chiefe point of the Discipline is in the number order of the placing of the Huts the men in them Concerning the number know that there be 3. men lodged in every Hutt aswell Pikes as Musketiers so that in the 24. Huts of Musketiers of one Company there be 72. men and in the 18. Huts of Pikemen of one Company there bee but 54. men which numbers added together come to 126 which is a compleat Band or Company in the Kings Discipline These 72. Muskettiers againe be devided into 3. Corporalships and the 54. Pikemen also into 3. Corporalships Of Muskettiers 4. Rotts or Files of marching men goe to one Corporalship And of Pikemen there goe but 3. Rotts or Files to a Corporalship So that 24. Muskettiers goe to one Corporalship and of Pikes 18. according to the number of eyther of their Cabbins Whereas againe the Kings Discipline is ever to march 6. deepe or in File therefore in every 2. Huts is there one Rot or File of men lodged which presently know how to put themselves into order Thus hath every Corporall of Muskettiers 8. Hutts to looke vnto and every Corporall of Pikes 6. Cabins under him This certainty and disposing of the numbers serves much for the private Goverment This order of lying in the second place does as much â—vaâ—le for the resisting of the Enemy Whereas you see two Rowes of Pikes and two Rowes of Musketiers still together with their Cabbindooers opening inward one towards another this is the vse of it Suppose the Enemy in the night time perchance to be falling on vpon the Leaguer or Quarâ—er the Alarme being taken and giuen in thereupon by those that haue the outter Guards a good distance before euerie Quarter out step the two Rowes of Pikes into the voyd â—â—ace betwixt them and presently marching out betweene the Captaines Hutts right before them they are instantly in â—aire order of battell The Pikes gone then the two next Rowes of Muskettiers ioyning together march also out on both sides of their Pikes where they are ready instantly to flancke them Thus one Squadron or halfe Regiment issuing out on one side of their Colonels Hutt and the other halfe on the other presently draw themselues vp into two compleat Battaglias who still finde their Colonell and Captaine in the head of the Quarter where their Huts are ready to conduct them Thus so soone as the Alarme is giuen in from the outter-Guards the Souldiers shall be in faire Battaglia euery man before his owne quarter vpon which the Enemy falls before he can possibly march he neuer so fast come neere to doe any execution If you desire to heare how in that huddle and darkenesse they can possibly find their weapons know that by the order of standing of them eueâ—y man can at first comming most readily clap his hand vpon his owne To instance in the Pikes for example The place where they all stand together is vpon a thing like a payre of Gallowes at the head of the Quarter all alongst which they â—eane So that after any seruice or exercise done abroad hee that lyes in the Reere of the quarter by comming in first sets downe his Pike inmost and he that comes in last leaues his outmost which when he againe goes first out hee findes formost and when the last man comes he findes his owne left euery man still keeping the same order that was at first appointed So that the Foreman the Right-hand man or the Bringer-vp is the same euer and his weapon therefore euer in the same place Thus lye the King of Swedens men in battle-array when they are in bed in battle-array when they rise vp and their Armes as ready as themselues So that if the Alarme be time enough giuen in how shall any enemie surprise them The following Figure for the layng of a Campe Royall with the vsuall Fortifications explayned THe former Figure concerning the enquartering of a particular Regiment being already explayned this in hand shall need the lesse labour seeing that euery Regiment or Quarter hath here the same ground order as is before described Let it now suffice to tell you what euery Space and Fortification about the whole Campe meanes and for the vnderstanding of that we desire you to looke vnto the Letters that euery of them is marked withall A Signifies the Paradâ—-ing place whither the Souldiers bee in their courses daily called to bee exercised for the handling of their Armes B The Kings Maiesties owne Quarter where himselfe lyes C The place for the Artillery and the Generall of it D The
Common market place for the whole Armie E The Felt-Marshals Quarter G The place by him for his Guards and Seruants H The Generall Major of the Army his quarter K The place for his Men and Guards L The seuerall Regiments to be devided as in the former Figure M Squadrons or halfe Regiments N The Streetes betwixt the seuerall Quarters each 50. foote voyd O The space betweene the Front of the Quarters and the Trench of the Leaguer being 200. foote wyde seruing for the drawing vp of the soldiers for the Alarme place P The space betweene the two innermost lines of the Fortification is called the Parapett or Breast-worke A Trench of earth it is cast vp for the fortifying of the Leaguer to keepe the Enemy off from the quarters being commonly fiue or sixe foot high and some two Roodes ouer or in thicknesse Q The Graffe or wet-moâ—e vnto the Parapet which you see full of little pricks and is vsually as broad as the Parapet R And whereas you see both Mote and Parapet on each side of the Campe three times led about making halfe Diamonds as it were those bee called halfe-Redoubts or Ravelins they are marked with R. S The streight line of Moate and Parapet betwixt any of these two is called the Curtayne is marked with S. T Rights against the sharpe point of any of these halfe Redoubts you see seuerall passages through the innermost Parapet which serue for passage to those that are to guard them are to fight in them which passages are perchance some 50. roods froÌ„ one another They are marked with T. V Outmost of all betwixt the halfe-Redoubts you see other like sharpe and pointed workes of Earth with their Motes also about them which properly be called Rauelins They are 2. on each side of the Campe each of them 20. Roodes distant from one another and are marked with V. W The faces or sides of them bee about 15. or 16. Roodes long are so made that a right line may on eytheriside or face be drawne to fall vpon the point where the halfe-Redoubts the Curtaines meet The vse of them is to guard the 2. Avenues or Gates which on eyther side of the Leaguer you see to be open for coÌ„mon passages both through the Parapet the Mote ouer which there must still lye little narrow bridges These Avenues be marked with W. This is the ordinary Fortification of a Leaguer besides which there be Sconces and other workes builded according to necessity as the nature of the place requireth more or lesse The Figure for the Fortification of a 〈…〉 Thus much is likewise further to be knowne That the more Points these Out-workes haue the stronger is the piece This of ours hath but 6. points and one of 8. points is stronger then this one of ten stronger then that and one of 12. points strongest of all then which no stronger figure can possibly be deuised If here you looke for the Gates and Ports to the Towne know that those are to be made thorough the Halfe-Moones as you see it marked out in one of them with little Touches or stroakes directing your eye out of one worke into another which Gates are not to goe out streight forward but Winding and with Nookes as the Workes be which shall both be easier to defend by men placed in euery Corner and shall keepe the enemy from rushing directly forward vpon the Towne FINIS THE FAMOVS VICTOrie of Leipsich now with severall particulars enlarged and repeated from the beginning of the Vnion of the K of SVVEDEN and the Duke of SAXONIE from whence all that haue written of it doe beginne it The Reader is desired to looke vpon the two Mappes of the Battell for the better vnderstanding of the storie OVI ad pauca respiciunt de facili pronuntiant said the wise Historian They that consider but a few difficulties and objections are still most readie to deliver their opinion 'T is so common to be observed that it may almost be made the Character of a bad Scholler to be most sudden and peremptorie in determining of the Question And truely the same Inditement lies against our over-hastie State-Criticks that at first dash thinke themselues wise enough to direct the actions of a Prince or to controule the Consulta'es of a Counsell-Table Let such bee pleased to know that the resolutions of a State must like those of Iustice proceede grauely and slowly and full of Majestie Hastie Counsells bring hastie ruines rarely shall he that hath once erred in the warres liue to commit such another over-sight Seldome againe is the Inside and Reason of State turn'd outward towards our vulgar Discoursers Princes know that secrecie is the shell of businesse the tendernesse whereof must not by an over-hastie or over-rough handling bee rasht open till the preciousnesse of the life within by a kindly â—â—â—uritie discloses of it selfe All this haue I beene bold to say for that I the last yeare too often me thoughts both read and over-heard the Protestant Princes of Germanie to haue beene blamed by some such judgements as are before described What does Saxony and Brandenburg all this while that they joyne not with the King of Sweden Others againe because they judge it fit were as forward on the other side to report that they were alreadie joyned and that full 10. Moneths before ever themselues resolved upon joyning Plainly the Princes of Germanie though they satisfied not these mens expectations shewd themselues neither fooles nor cowards in keeping the same distance both with the Emperor and the King of Sweden that they did Nor hath it fallen out the worse for the King No man knowes whither by their apparent making the King stronger at the first they should haue more set forward his businesse or haue endangered the putting of him backe by bringing the vnited forces of the whole Empyre at once upon him whereas he being thus single and secondlesse insensibly thrived in his designe before he was observed by the Emperour to be more then a weake and a despised enemie Perchance too their Defensiue League amongst themselues a musing of the Emperour gained more time and advancement to the King of Sweden then if they had openly at first sided in with him Besides these priuate reasons therefore which haue not come so low as to men of my Forme these me thinkes which my simplenesse could alledge for them might very fayrely excuse them 1 Their Resolutions in the Dyet of Leypsich were sincerely to continue their loyalty obedience towards their Lord the Emperour till themselues should for not ayding him be invaded by him 2. It had beene no wisedome much sooner to haue joyned with the King till either he were strong enough to relieue them or the Emperour so weake as not to annoy them neither of which they could yet discover All the Summer time were the 3. Imperiall Generalls Furstenberg Altringer and Fugger yet in their Countries
the Letters A a. The left wing marked with X was led by the braue Gustavus Horne Feild-Marshall vnto his Majestie whom you may finde out by the Letter Y. The Arrier-guard of the same wing was left vnto Colonell Hall whom you may see at the Letters D d. His troupes were those three Horse-Regiments which you see vnder him marked with the numbers 87 88 89. The Van of the maine Battell or middle-ward whose character is the Letter T was committed vnto the sober and valiant Gentleman the Baron Dyvell whose place is by the Letter V. This Van consisted of Foote altogether which being divided into foure Brigades of Pikes and Muskettiers were ordered by Acko Oxenstiern Erick Hand and Winkell all Colonells Before this part you see the Ordnance placed and immediately behinde it for the greater strength are there three Divisions of Scottish Muskettiers placed mingled among twice fiue troupes of Horse of the Kings owne Guards The Reere of the same maine Battell knowne by the Letters B b consisting of three Brigades of Foote was committed vnto the well tryed Sir Iohn Hepburne commonly called Hebron who fought in person in the middlemost of those three Brigades and is to be found at the Letters C c. The Brigade on the right hand was led by the yong Count of Turne and that on the left hand by Colonell Vitzthimb a braue Souldier These three Brigades wherein some English and many Scots were were accounted among the best and surest men of the Army and called The Reserue of the Battell Behinde these are two halfe Regiments of Horse of fiue troupes apeice commaunded by Colonell Schaffman and Col. Cochtitsky And this was the Kings admirable order of Embatteling which you shall much the better please your selfe in the reading of if you will take the paines but to looke for every thing in the Mappe as you goe along A new kinde of Marshalling was this vnto Tilly which as much helped to beate him as the valour of the men did that fought in it Every part of it consisted of severall Maniples and small Bodyes of men of which if any one were overthrowne there was nothing so much hurt done as when one of Tillyes greater Battaglions were broken and they might much easier by reason of the nimblenesse of their motion and the small space of ground which they tooke vp to moue in be supplyed by one another And if the thinnesse of the Files as being never aboue six deepe were not able t is true to beare off any great shock or impression yet by bringing by that meanes more hands to fight at once then the enemies order possibly could doe they were able on the sudden to doe the more execution Vpon the sight of it in the Mappe you will râ—â—dily make this judgement That one part so fences so backs so flancks one another is so readie to second to relieue one another so apt eyther to send out succours or to receiue into their hinder-wards or rancks any of their former fellowes that shall happen to be over-layd that the whole Army lookes like some impregnable Citie with its Bastiles its Towers its Bulwarks and severall Retreates about it So that well may the men be killd but very hardly shall the whole order be rowted And of this we haue experience in this Battle where there was not that I can finde any one Regiment put to flight but Collenbachs Horse onely The lesse marvaile then it is if God with vs and this order of Embatteling invented by this new but royall Captaine gaue so full an overthrow to the eldest best Generall of the world And yet hath the King more of these Formes of Battell invented by himselfe every one to fit the enemy the ground and the occasion The Duke of Saxonies Army consisting of 14000. men and no more as I am since enformed the two Regiments of the Count of Solmes and the Baron Hoftkirck being sent away was also divided into the Battell the two wings The Body or maine Battell was directed by his Highnesse the Duke himselfe whose place you know by the Letters K k. Before him stand his great Ordnance marked with H h. The right wing was led by the valiant Lord Iohn George Arnheym whose place you may see at the Letters M m. The left wing is to be knowne by the Letters I i but who commanded there I finde not expressed Perchance it might be eyther Bindhauff Sergeant Major Generall to the Duke or Swalbach that day Generall of the Ordnance for these two were the greatest Officers of the Feild next vnto Arnheym the Felt-Marshall And this was the Saxons order being the ancient and vsuall manner of Embatteling What the severall Numbers Letters and Arithmeticall figures in both Mappes meane wee shall anone tell you after the description of the victory The Watch-word for both these Protestant Armyes was GOT MIT VNS God with vs and their Tokens Greene Branches in their hattes or helmets with which ere night their browes were crowned as with victorious Lawrells Advancing in this equipage into the place of Battell vpon the sayd Plaine which Tilly had fayrey left for them behold an Omen which a Romane Augur would haue esteemed for a most fortunate abodement Vpon that emptie place of ground whereon the King was to fight there sate a flocke of birds which had indeede beene observed there some dayes before by the Country-men and to haue fought there too with another flock then beatten away by them which birds being sprung by the Kings Vantcurryers tooke their flight directly towards Tillyes Armie and there fetching a circle about and that also would the Romanes haue accounted for a happie presage they turned againe towards the Kings Armie as who would say we went to fetch you victory The Duke of Saxony had another good encouragement to his Army also a milke-white Doue namely hovering very lowe and almost sitting vpon a Cornet or Horsemans Ensigne which also setcht a circuite afterwards about the Dukes Army But the King had a better Augury on his side then a flight of birds His Motto or Watch-word God with vs and that which the Romane Generall sometimes preferred before the birds Romano milite dignus Ensis adest augur his valour namely and his Sword Being now readie to come vnto the shock Army to Army some strugling there was at first for the winde which then blowing from the West was full in the Imperialists backe and the Protestants faces This advantage the King being desirous to recover and the enemy as eager to keepe and both sides wheeling about for that purpose not onely the Horsemen had some Skirmishes together but the Foote also came to push of Pike In this heaving and shoving too and againe the King with some part of his right wing wheeling about from O towards A that is from the village of Podelwitz towards Breitenfeild edging still along to recover some poynt of the West had
when he that hath done the fault is to runne between the Regiment standing halfe on one side halfe on the 〈◊〉 with Wâ—ippes 〈…〉 their hands to laâ—h and cudgel thâ— offâ—nder which punishment many a shamelessâ— soldiour will be hired to vndergoe for drinke or money An excuse of the Germane Protestants for not joyning sooner with the King of Sweden The vnion betwixt the D. of Saxonie and the King A consultation wherein the King seemes to disswade the Battle Saxonies Arguments for the Battle The Battle agreed upon Tilly invites the King to fight with him The place of the battell The King of Swedens dreame The Armies in view one of another Tilly sends to disturb their passage and the stratagem vsed The Protestants divide into two Armies Tilly advances into the field His order of battell The King sends a Letter vnto Tilly. Tillyes answer The Kings order of Battell * So doe severall High-Dutch Relations name him but whether rightly or no I cannot learne I rather thinke it should be Axel Oxenstiern * Towards Bohemia as I suppose for I find them to be Governors of Prague afterwards To which place they were thought fittest to be sent as having beene there in the former warres and in the Battell of Prague also where they then served on the King of Bohemiaes side The Duke of Saxonies order A lucky Omen to the King Another to the Duke of Saxony The Battells joyne Some strugling for the winde The Fight begun with great Ordnance Pappenheym charges the King in the right wing The D. of Holstein charges Bannier in the Reere of the right vving The Duke of Holstein taken prisoner Pappenheyms left vving defeated The King alights to pray Tilly charges Gustavus Horn in the left wing Tilly and Furstenberg both together fall vpon the Saxons and rowt them Newes of the Victory carried to the Emperour A single Combate Gustavus Horn defeates those that chargd him Furstenberg charges the Reere of the Swedens left vving Is defeated wounded by Hall who is slaine himselfe also Col Collenbach slaine by the Imperialists The same Imperialists rowted by other of Collenbachs men * That is lustily valiantly Baron Dyvell slaine Sir Iohn Hebron charges Tilly. Diverse Scottish Ancients slaine at once Lieutenant Colonel Muschamp with the Scots of my Lord Reayes and Colonel Lumsdel men defeats those that they were sent against Hebron defeats Tilly. * This report made here at first by a Gentleman that was sent by the King of Sweden vnto our Kings Majestie I haue since found to be confirmed in Dan Heinsius his Panegyrick written vnto the King of Sweden who sayes that the Foote that did this service advanc't them selues before their owne Horse who it seemes charged presently in vpon it vpon the enemy Yea the King himselfe vses to exercise his Souldiers to these postures Tilly wounded and thought to be prisoner Tilly rescued and carryed out of the field The King with his right wing charges those in the Wood. overthrowes them The victory The Chace * Septingâ—ntorum Slaine on the Kings side On the Saxons * He was Feb. 29. following very honorably buryed at Torgau On Tillyes The completnesse of the Victory Tilly excused Tilly flees Tilly againe excused In the Booke called Arma Succiâ—a p. 163 t is affirmed That Perusâ— Governour of Gripswald had his body hardned with such charmes and that the first bullet did not peirce him yet the second payd him home T is so familiar a practise that Souldiers make no question of it See if you please what we haue before written in the description of this Battell in our First part of the Intelligencer * These letters were intercepted by the Pope and seut over hither vnto Cardinall Woolsey
fellowes shal be punisht as before 69 If any Regiment Troope or Company shall flye out of the Field or Battell then shall they 3. seuerall times â—6 weekes being betwixt euery time answer for it before the Court. And if there it can be proued that they haue done ill and haue broken their Oath they shal be Proclaimed Traytors and all their Goods shal be confiscated whither they be present to answer it before the Court or not If they be absent they shal be allotted so many dayes as wee shall appoint them for liberty to come in to answer it before the Court where if they cleere themselues well good if not they shall haue so many dayes to retyre themselues after which if they be apprehended then shall they be punisht according as the Court shal doome them 70 Whatsoeuer Regiment Troope or Company shall treate with the Enemie or enter into any conditions with them whatsoeuer without our leave or our Generalls or chiefe Commander in his absence whatsoeuer officer shall doe the same shal be put to death for it and all his goods shal be confiscated Of the Soldiers euery tenth man shal be hanged and the rest punished as is aforesaid 71 Whosoeuer presuming to doe the same shal be taken therewith shal be proceeded withall like those that flye out of the Field Their Goods also shal be confiscate 72 If any that then were in company of such can free theÌ„selues from being partakers in the crime and can prove that they did their best to resist it then shall they be rewarded by vs according as the matter is of importance 73 They that giue ouer any strength vnto the Enemy vnlesse it be for extremitie of hunger or want of Amunition the Gouernor with all the Officers shall dye for it all the soldiours be lodged without the Quarter without any Colours be made to carry out all the filth of the Leaguer thus to continue vntill some noble exploit by them performed shall promerite pardon for their former cowardise 74 Whatsoeuer soldiours shall compell any Gouernor to giue vp any strength shall lose their life for it Those eyther Officers or soldiours that consent vnto it to be thus punished the Officers to dye all and of the soldiours euery tenth man to be hanged But herein their estate shal be considered if they already suffered famine and want of necessaries for their life and be withall out of hope to be relieued and are so pressed by the enemie that of necessity they must within a short time giue vp the Piece endangering their liues thereby without all hope of reliefe herein shall our Generall with his Councell of Warre either cleere them or condemne them according to their merit 75 If any numbers of soldiours shall without leaue of their Captaine assemble together for the making of any convention or taking of any Councell amongst themselues so many inferiour Officers as be in company with them shall suffer death for it and the soldiours be so punisht as they that giue vp any strength Also at no time shall they haue liberty to hold any meeting amongst themselves neither shall any Captaine permit it vnto them he that presumes to suffer them shall answer it before our highest Court. 76 If any being brought in question amongst others shall call for help of his owne nation or of others with intention rather to be reuenged then to defend himselfe he shall suffer death for it and they that come in to help him shal be punished like mutiniers 77 Whosoeuer giues aducie vnto the Enemie any manner of way shall dye for it 78 Who euer vpon any strength holds discourse with the Enemie more or lesse without our leaue our Generalls or the Gouernour of the place shall dye for it 79 If it be proued that they haue giuen the Enemie any priuate Intelligence by letters or otherwise without leaue as aforesaid shall dye for it 80 And so shall they that giue any token signe or Item vnto the Enemie 81 Euery man shal be contented with that Quarter that shal be giuen him either in the towne or Leaguer the contrary doer to be reckoned for a mutinier 82 Who euer flings away his Armes either in the Field or other where shal be scourged through the Quarter and then be lodged without it be enforced to make the streets cleane vntil they redeeme themselues by some worthy exploit doing 83 He that sells or empawnes his Armes or any kind of Ammunition whatsoeuer or any hatchets spades shovells pickaxes or other the like necessary implements vsed in the Field shal be for the first and second time beaten through the quarter and for the third time punisht as for other theft He also that buyes or takes them vpon pawne be he soldiour or be he victualler he shall first loose his money and then be punished like him that sold them 84 He that wilfully breakes any of his Armes or implements aforesaid shall againe pay for the mending of them and after that be punisht with Bread and Water or otherwise according to the discretion of the Court. 85 He that after warning to the contrary shall eyther buy or sell shall first loose all the things so sold or bought and then be punished for his disobedience as is aforesaid 86 No man that hath once beene proclaimed Traytor eyther at home or in the Feild or that hath beene vnder the Hangmans hands shall euer be endured againe in any company 87 No Duell or Combate shall be permitted to be foughten eyther in the Leaguer or place of strength If any offers wrong to others it shall be decided by the Officers of the Regiment He that challenges the Feild of another shall answer it before the Martiall Court If any Captaine Leiftenant Antient or other inferiour officer shall eyther giue leaue or permission vnto any vnder theyr commaund to enter combate and doeth not rather hinder them shall bee presently cashiered from their charges serve afterward as a Reformado or Common Soldiour But if any harme be done he shall answere it as deeply as he that did it 88 He that forces any Woman to abuse her and the matter be proved he shall dye for it 89 No Whore shall be suffered in the Leaguer but if any will haue his owne wife with him he may If any vnmaried woman be found he that keepes her may haue leaue lawfully to marry her or els be forced to put her away 90 No man shall presume to set fire on any Towne or Village in our land If any does he shall be punisht according to the importancy of the matter so as the Iudges shall sentence him 91 No Soldiour shall set fire vpon any Towne or Village in the enemies land without he be commanded by his Captaine Neither shall any Captaine giue any such command vnlesse hee hath first receiued it from Vs or our Generall who so does the contrary he shall answer it in the Generals counsayle of Warre according