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A13221	The Svvedish discipline, religious, civile, and military The first part, in the formes of prayer daily used by those of the Swedish nation, in the armie. Together with two severall prayers, uttered upon severall occasions by that pious King; which God immediately heard and granted him. The second part, in the excellent orders observed in the armie; whereof we here present you the articles, by which the souldiery is governed. The third part, in the Kings commission for levying of a regiment: his order for drawing vp of a private company; of a squadron; and of a brigade: with his manner of enquartering a private regiment; and of an army royall: vnto which is added the best manner of building and fortifying of a towne of warre. All, in fiue severall figures expressed and explained. Last of all, is the famous Battell of Leipsich, in two fayre figures also set forth: and now this second time more fully and particularly described.	Watts, William, 1590?-1649, attributed name.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644, attributed name.; Abelin, Johann Philipp. Arma Suecica. English.; Sweden. Armén.	1632 (1632)	STC 23520; ESTC S118094	72,824	144

vnto Sisera and Iabin at the brooke Kison Make their Princes like Oreb and Zeb and their Leaders like vnto Zeba and Salmana Let the mischiefe which they prepare for others fall vpon their owne heads and their wickednesse vpon their owne pates So shall wee sing of thy power and prayse thy goodnesse betimes in the morning For thou God art our Protector our refuge in all our necessities Amen A Prayer of King Asa 2 Chron. 14. 11 c. AS A cryed vnto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to helpe whether with many or with them that haue no power Helpe vs O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy name w● goe against this multitude O Lord thou art our God let not man prevaile against vs. A Prayer of Iudas Macchabaeus vnto his Souldiers 1 Macchab 4. 8 THen sayd Iudas to the men that were with him Feare yee not their multitude neyther be yee afraid of their assault Remember how our Fathers were delivered in the red Sea when Pharaoh pursued them with an Army Now therefore let vs cry vnto Heaven if peradventure the Lord will haue mercy vpon vs and remember the Covenant of our Fathers and destro● this Host before our face this day That so all the Heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel A Prayer of Luther for Souldiers found in the 3. Tome of the Edition at Iena fol. 330. HEavenly Father here am I by thy divine will in this externall calling under the Command of my Generall first to serue thee as is fitting and then for thee to obey my Captaine I giue due thanks unto thy goodnesse and mercy that thou hast called me unto this condition and set me about that worke which I assuredly know to be no sinne but a right action and a service acceptable unto thy will And for that I haue learned out of thy saving Word that our owne good workes doe not profit us for the meriting of salvation and that no man is saved for that he is a Souldier but for that he is a Christian I will not therefore put my confidence in this worke and service of mine but what ever I doe I will doe it with a good will as to doe thee a service and I out of the bottom of my heart beleeue that I am redeemed and saved onely by the innocent bloud of thy beloved Sonne my Lord Iesus Christ which according to thy will he shed for me vpon the Altar of the Crosse In this beliefe I resolue to stand in this will I liue and dye for this doe I now fight and take paines O Lord God heavenly Father preserue and encrease this faith in me through thy Holy Spirit Amen Against the Plague and other noysome Diseases A Almightie God Lord and Father of all grace and consolation haue mercy vpon vs and vpon thy Christian people Consume vs not in thy fury by this contagious pestilence but as in the time of David thou commaundedst the destroying Angell to hold his hand and giue over killing so cause O most gracious Lord this terrible rod of thine anger to cease from vs and not to destroy thine afflicted people Strengthen vs with the wholsome power of thy Word that we may be healthy both in soule body that we may laud prayse thee here on earth for a time and for ever in the Heavens O Lord Iesus Christ succour vs in this sickly time for those bitter paines that for our sakes thou sometimes enduredst make intercession for vs with thy heavenly Father defend vs against the heavie wrath of God forgiue vs our trespasses giue thine innocency vnto vs. Call to minde in this grievous plague-time how much our Redemption cost thee and suffer not that thy bloud-shed for vs to be lost or become in vaine O Holy Ghost vouchsafe thou to descend sweetly into our languishing hearts refresh thou and recreate our soules And if it so fall out that this plague strike vs also then take thou the cure of our soules in that houre in which we must depart out of this life lay vs in the most sweete bosome of Christ our Redeemer that we may be there partakers of eternall joy and quietnesse Fulfill all thy most sweete promises in us which are in thy Word made unto vs. Take from us all unbeliefe doubting and impatience make us ever readie to obey the will of God even thou who with the Father and the Sonne livest one God world without end Amen Of forgiuenesse of Sinnes and of the Lords Supper O Good Lord Iesus Christ I am no way able eyther in words or thought sufficiently to make expression of thy great loue which thou hast declared towards me at such time as thou receivedst me miserable sinner into grace and hast made me to eate and drinke of thy true body and bloud vnto euerlasting life Accept in the meane time this sacrifice of Thankesgiving of my heart and mouth which in this mortall bodie I am able to pay unto thee untill I come home unto thee where I shall for ever praise thee Giue thy Holy Spirit unto me who may teach me to know how much good thou hast alreadie wrought in me that so in faith charitie hope patience I may begin to leade a new life vnto thy prayse mine owne amendment and the good of my neighbour Grant this for the merit of thy precious bloud and the redemption which thou thereby hast made Amen And these be some of those devout prayers with which this most pious Prince teaches his Army to call vpon the Lord of Hosts and Victory Now vnto these good prayers let all religious Readers that wish well vnto this King adde this or the like for a close vnto the rest The Lord heare thee in the time of trouble and the name of the God of Iacob defend thee be vnto thee a Shield and Buckler against thine enemies arme thee with the sword of Gideon and the Lord of Hosts goe forth with thine Armies that the Victories which God shall giue thee may bring freedome and justice vnto the innocent and oppressed inlargement to Religion liberty to Germany and the benefits of a sweet and a lasting peace vnto all Christendome This grant vs for the Prince of Peace his sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ANd now that you may know that the King of Sweden doth not onely enjoyne others to pray but that in his owne person he practises these devotions by himselfe I will here subjoyne you two severall prayers conceived no doubt in his own● more private and premeditated consideration and uttered in publicke and extempore as it seemed The first was at his Majesties first landing upon the coasts of Germanie where so soone as ever he out of his long boate set his foote upon the dry Land he thus by prayer and thankesgiving in Gods Name tooke possession of the Countrey himselfe whilest his men were landing stepping a little

Tillyes are here set downe in generall and by the Regiments onely so farre forth as the Swedish Describer of these Mappes could learne from the prisoners As for the Kings they you see are set downe most exactly Which will be worth the Readers paines to examine A SOLEMNE THANKES-GIVING FOR THE VICTORY Appoynted in the Electorate of SAXONY THat worke is well gone thorough which is begunne with Prayer and concluded with Thanksgiving and so is this Swedish Discipline which even herin resembles the rest of this Princes actions This glorious Victory being so admirably thus atchieved if not beyond the hopes of the Protestants yet surely cleane besides the feares or doubts of the Catholikes who besides the confidence they had in their owne Forces which they esteemed Invincible had a Generall withall who amongst the three Boasts he was wont to make had this for one That he never lost Battayle But now hath he lost both Game and Lurch too Now hath he lost such a Battell as Leipsich hath fully made amends for Prague Saxony for Bohemia And yet so farre were our Protestant-Warriours from ascribing this vnto their own strength or swords that they decreed to haue the Thankes for all publikely returned vnto that Lord of Hoasts whom the King in answere to his former Prayers had now found so mightie in Battell No sooner therefore were the Swedish Conquerours come together againe from pursuing of the fleeing enemy but they were summoned to a Bid-day proclaymed throughout all the Saxon Dominions for a publicke and solemne Thankesgiving vnto GOD for this so glorious a Victory And that the Forme of it might not be left to every new-fangled invention but that the Devotion might be doubled by the Vniformitie the Ministers had this Forme of Thankesgiving prescribed vnto them to be in all their Churches rehearsed out of the Pulpit O Lord God all-puissant and invincible wee here giue thankes vnto thee for that by thine Annoynted the King of Sweden and the Elector of Saxony thou hast wrought so great salvation for thy people and these Provinces because thy mercy endureth for ever Thou O Lord God of Sabbaoth foughtest for thy people 't is thou that deliveredst vs from our cruell enemies because thy mercy endureth for ever The enemy had threatned vs that he would ruine and lay waste all our Countrey with fire massacre all the men with the sword and leade our yong men and maydens into Captivitie But thou O God Almightie hast with-held them thou hast put them vnto flight thou hast defeated them with thine owne Army because thy mercy endureth for ever Thou Lord hast revenged thy people because thy mercy endureth for ever From the very bottome of our hearts doe we giue thee thankes O Lord we tell forth all thy wonderfull workes in thee doe we rejoyce and prayse thy Name O thou most High for that thou hast thus repulsed our enemies They are falne and perished in thy sight thou Lord hast pleaded our cause and thou hast executed the Iudgement that thou mightest manifest thy selfe to be a just Iudge because thy mercy endureth for ever Thou remembredst vs O faithfull God that wee were sorely oppressed because thy mercy endureth for ever The waters had gone over our soules but thou O Lord God gavest vs not over for a prey vnto the teeth of the enemy because thy mercy endureth for ever Our soule is escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered because thy mercy endureth for ever Furthermore wee here invoke and from the very bottome of our hearts we beseech thee O most mercifull God that with thy temporall and eternall blessing thou wouldest reward that faithfull agreement so duely performed betweene his Majestie the King of Sweden and the Elector our Gracious Lord be present in time to come with them and with their Armyes let thy right hand potently assist them grant a long life vnto them both that their yeares may endure for ever that so they may sit vpon the Throne for ever together before thee affoord thy goodnesse and faithfulnesse vnto them which may preserue them Heape victories vpon them O mercifull God and rowse and lift vp thy selfe against the fury of our enemies refraine thou their malice cause them to fall into the pit which they haue digged for vs. Be mindfull of our bloud O Lord throw downe the wicked headlong into hell suffer not men to haue the dominion over vs manifest thy wonderfull goodnesse O thou preserver of them that trust in thee against those that are enemies vnto thy right hand Keepe vs as the apple of thine eye protect vs vnder the shadow of thy wings even against the wicked that destroy vs against our enemies that on every side lye in waite for vs. Arise O Lord and scatter them yet more and more deliver our liues from the wicked which is a sword of thine Turne moreover our enemies vnto flight scatter them like the dust put them away like the clay in the streets Remember Lord that the Enemies the Pope and his followers doe reproach thee and that the foolish people speake ill of thy Name Revenge now thine owne honour O Lord why should thine and our enemies say Where is now their God Arise vp Lord and overturne the Antichristian Papacie and maintaine on the other side thine owne Word which is the very joy of our hearts We verily O Lord of Sabbaoth are called after thy Name thou knowest that for thee alone wee suffer persecution Deliver vs therefore out of the hand of the wicked and free vs from the power of Tyrants and the more they oppose vs the vayner let their vndertakings be Be with vs and stay still with vs that thou mayst helpe vs and deliver vs. Blesse O God of peace this thy people and grant thy peace especially vnto this whole Electorate of Saxony thou hast promised O God that thou wilt giue peace vnto thy people Let righteousnesse and peace kisse each other Grant vs a good peace conceiue thoughts of peace vpon vs procure thou and preserue a sweet peace within our gates And we on the other side will giue due thankes vnto thee for the same we will laud and prayse thee for it in this world for a time and in the next vnto all eternitie Even thee we say who livest and reignest one true highly to be praysed and blessed GOD from this time forth and for evermore Amen Amen FINIS Exod. 17. Num. 10. 35 Psal 86. 17. The Queene of Swedens name is Maria Eleonora sister unto G●orge William now Marquesse Elector of Erandenburg This young Lady their Daughter being the onely childe of the King of Sweden now l●uing is named Christina who was by the States of Sweden in the Parliament of Stockholme An. 1627. received for their Queene in case the King should dye without other Issue Psal 21. Psal 20. 1. Psal 33. 15. Psal 18. 29. * Runing the Gatelope is

as much concernd the King too for that the Countrey now halfe taken by the enemie was not long able to maintaine two such armies That the Duke sourged to the battle was not I suppose because his courage was more then the Kings but because his necessities were more personall and more pressing If he sought not all were lost and if hee were overthrowne all were out lost then much more honourable besides it was to dye for his Countrey in the field in a braue battle then to liue the Emperors Bandite or Almes-man for a while and either to die without an Epitaph or haue that of a coward branded rather then engraven upon his Tomb-stone This hanging off of the Kings drew no doubt the Tyes something the straighter which he before had upon the Duke engaged him perchance into some new promises and privater obligations Thus did the wise King finely suffer himselfe to be drawne into the hazard chiefly upon the opportunity of the Duke keeping to himselfe the inward contentment that he found to see Saxony now so forward and concealing the reason of warre withall which privately cald upon him to hasten the encounter as much as it did Tilly to deferre it whom these of his owne side now the battle is lost condemne for fighting Well the Duke of Saxony that had beene thus forward in the advise would also be as forward in the enterprise For I finde him the first man in the field which the King was willing to permit also for besides that it was an honour to the Duke to be the forwardest in fighting for his owne Countrey the King who as the proverb is knew well enough how to lead his men though he droue not the Saxons before him yet was he the surer of them by having them thus before him Much about this time as the report goes did the Generall Tilly out of the fatall bravary of a confident Souldier and the inevitablenesse of his owne destinie invite his owne overthrow by a Trumpet sent unto the King with a message to this purpose That as hee was a braue Cavalier hee should come and giue him a Battle This low terme of Cavalier the Kings heroicall spirit receiving with a just disdaine as it is sayd trampled upon the Letter thus replying withall unto the Trumpet What! doth your Generall thinke mee worthy of no better a style then of a Cavalier I am a King and tell him I shall well finde him out Tilly vpon receit of this message prepares his Army as if to accept of a victory rather then to fight much for it and very welcome to his men was the tidings of a pitcht battle so confident they were of their owne strength which they counted invincible and so glad of the oportunity What sayth the Count of Pappenheym Field marshall unto Tilly when he saw the blood prodigiously dropping from the houses at Hall where hee then was must wee bleed will the King of Sweden beare us that 's impossible Proclamation hereupon is through every Quarter of the Leaguer made that vpon the hearing of certaine warning peeces every man should repaire to his colours and to his order Some of Tillyes Councell of warre were of opinion that having fortified their leaguer it were best to expect the Swedens falling on vpon it as they had done them at Sweds and Werben But the most voices and courages prevailed that it were more honour to meete the enemie in the field whom perchance they might take vnprovided Vpon the fatall 7. of September therefore being Wednesday the Generall Tilly with full 44000. braue men first advances from his Leaguer into the field The place was a goodly faire plaine field part whereof had beene ploughed about a mile from the Towne of Leipsich Part of Tillyes Leaguer was neere vnto the common burying place without the Citie walls vsually in Germany called Gods Acre Some haue affirmed it to haue beene the very same place where the Emperor Charles the 5th did heretofore over-throw Maurice then Duke of Saxonie But this conjecture of theirs seemes to be contradicted by Sleidan who assignes the place of that former victory to be ad silvam Lochanam the wood of Lochan which they of the Germane Nation affirme to be neerer vnto Hall 18. or 20. English miles from Leipsich Vpon this plaine aforesaid there is a rising ground a little hill and a wood likewise towards the West whereabouts with a fatall Omen the place of execution also is as you may perceiue described in the first Mappe Here had Tilly like a prudent Generall that was carefull for all advantages at first placed himselfe the Hill besides that it served him commodiosly to plant his Canon vpon was very easie withall for him to descend but very troublesome on the other side for the Swedes to climbe vp vnto The wood served him both to hide his men in at first and for a retreat afterwards for them if they should be put vnto it The watch word for his Army was Sancta Maria or as some High Dutch Relations say Mary the Mother of God The token to know one another by was white strings or ribbands about their armes and in their helmets as if they had beene Diademes and that that day would haue made them all Kings The vnion being thus made and the battell concluded vpon betwixt the Kings Majestie of Sweden and their Highnesses the Electors of Saxonie and Brandenburg the King having first over-viewed the Armies vpon Tuesday Sept. 6. commaunds a Bid-day or day of more solemne prayers throughout every Quarter The devotions ended the Army in faire array moved that night from Dieben 4. Dutch miles from Leipsich till they came within 2. Dutch miles some 6. or 8. English miles of the enemie where putting out good Guards and watches they for that night rested That same night had the King a strange dreame a divine one no doubt thus His Majestie thought in his sleepe that he had his enemie Tilly fast by the haire of the head which for all his strugling he would not let goe vntill Tilly seemed to bite him by the left side This vpon the successe of the battell was thus interpreted That the King should haue the vpper hand of his enemie and that Tilly should defeate the Duke of Saxonie who had the left side and hand of the King in the day of battell The next morning being the fatall day Wednesday Sept. 7. which the Germane Writers call diem Reginae they before day light were vpon their march again Being come neere to the Village called Scholcka marked in the Mappe with the letters Ee they might there discrie the Enemie vpon the advantage of the rising ground which wee before spake of Tilly was at first a little deceived by his skowtes and Espialls who vpon the first discovering of the Saxon forces in the gray morning had brought him too hastie word that the Duke of Saxonie was onely then a comming By

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 disc●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