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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19674	A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the right honourable Thomas Lord Hovvard, Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Primer Earle, and Earle Marshall of England, ambassadour extraordinary to his sacred Majesty Ferdinando the second, emperour of Germanie, anno Domini 1636. By Wiliam Crowne Gentleman	Crowne, William.	1637 (1637)	STC 6097; ESTC S109122	38,521	77

A TRVE RELATION OF ALL THE REMARKABLE PLACES AND PASSAGES OBSERVED IN the Travels of the right honourable THOMAS Lord HOVVARD Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primer Earle and Earle Marshall of ENGLAND Ambassadour Extraordinary to his sacred Majesty Ferdinando the second Emperour of Germanie Anno Domini 1636. By William Crowne Gentleman LONDON Printed for Henry Seile and are to be sold in Fleet-street at the Signe of the Tygres-head betweene the Bridge and the Conduit 1637. TO THE TRUE NOBLE AND MY HONOURABLE MASTER MASTER THOMAS HOVVARD Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Matravers Grandchilde to the Right Honourable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Lord high Marshall of England and his Majesties late Ambassadour to the Emperour of Germany NOble Sir I know your innate goodnes is such that you cannot contemne this well intended Abstract though gathered by an infirme hand considering it reporteth the difficult Embassie of no lesse person than your most ennobled Grandfather my dred Lord from whose sage steps when our King shall please to invite you to give Caesar a second visit you may the better know the way and be secured from many imminent dangers by such a provident care pardon me deare Sir that I make your choice tendernesse my Patron since the Discourse is no more pleasing my aimes and endeavours being all bent to serve you and therefore the effects must needs be yours truly Sir your early beginnings promise such a rare proceeding that you seeme to anticipate your age by out-stripping time in your wisedome and sweet discretion And if I may obtaine your beloved smiles in this bold though honest action I shall not feare what the sharpe jerke of any malignant tongue can doe unto me but will glory in my Character Happy Servant in such a Master William Crowne A RELATION BY WAY OF IOVRNALL c. THE seventh of April being Thursday 1636. His Excellency departed from Greenwich for Germanie tooke Barge about three of the clocke in the morning and landed at Gravesend from thence by Coach to Canterbury to bed the next day to Margate where wee dined and about three of the clocke in the afternoone hee tooke shipping in one of the Kings Ships called the Happy Entrance and landed the tenth day being Sunday at Helver-sluce and from thence to the Brill there sailing over a lake into Masanssluce and so on by waggons to Delph and to the Hage but a mile before wee came thither there met us some of the Queene of Bohemia's Coaches which her Majesty sent for his Excellency and in one of them his Excellency went to her Majesty that night the time we staid there was spent in visits betweene the Prince of Orange his Excellency and the States with some other Ambassadours that were then there as the French Venetian and the Swedish heere we staid three daies and departed the fourteenth day by wagons passing through Leiden to Woerden and then entred the Bishopricke of Utrecht and so to the City it selfe where wee lay the Princes being there at schoole his Excellency went to see them that night the next day thence to Rhenem to dine where the Queene hath an house adjacent to the Rhine on the left side which wee viewed having faire roomes and gardens belonging to it after diner wee entered into Gelder-land so through Wagening to Arnheim to bed passing that afternoone through much danger by reason of Out-lyers from the Army at Schenckenschans which was not farre off the Prince of Brandeburgh being heere in Towne visited his Excellency the next day and the day after his Excellency visited him who was shewed by him the ashes of some Romanes preserved in pots that were found in a Mountaine called Zanten which wee afterward passed by heere wee lay Easter-day and the Munday following and did see the smoake and fire out of the great Peeces from the Sconee as they were in skirmish thether his Excellency sent the Steward and a Trumpeter to demand passage of the Spanyard in the Schans and Grave William for the Hollander but the Spaniard would not grant it without order from Brussels Grave William hearing their answer sent his Excellency word hee made no doubt but to give him free passage the next day for he resolved to make an assault that night upon the Sconce upon the assault the Spaniards yeelded it up on conditions and heere his Excellency published certaine orders to be generally observed amongst us one reason was the sickenesse being heere very much wee staid heere three daies and departed the nineteenth in waggons for the Schans first crossed over the Rhine just by the towne on to the right side into Cleveland and so to the Tolhouse a Castle where the Hollanders take toll at adjoyning to the Rhine on the same side then passing through all their workes and Army leaving the Schans at a distance which was miserably battered untill wee came to Grave William his Tent where some of the Spaniards were sealing of their agreements what quarter they should have who instantly left them to bring his Excellency over the Rhine on a Bridge of flat bottom'd Boates guarded with all his Troopes of Horse untill wee came at the Barke wherein his Excellency lay that night then returned and sent a Company of English Souldiers to guard it the next day earely wee weighed Anchor and sailed up the Rhine having a Guard of Souldiers along the shore by reason the Enemy went out of the Schans that morning so passing by Emmerick and Rees Townes with strong sconces adjoyning to the Rhine on the left side then in sight of the Mountaine Zanten on the other side so by Burick on the same side to Wesell a Towne on the left side of the Rhine against which wee cast Anchor and lay on ship-board all night for they died there of the sickenesse more than thirty a day neverthelesse the next morning we tooke waggons in number eighteen and displaied our English colours in three severall wagons passing over a little River in Boats call'd Lipp then by Rheinbergh on the right hand being the last Towne of the States then by Dinslacken on the same side to Dinsburgh to dinner where none of our carriage might enter in for as his Excellency entered the gate one of the watch discharged his peece neere unto the horses breast the rest being instantly commanded to the contrary but the Gates were shut up and wee kept out untill the Towne were satisfied wee were no Enemy our carriage and Company being great frightened them at the first after diner we past through a long Wood in much danger and in the view of Rogues who did not set upon us because our Company was great yet we fearing the worst had sent for a Convoy of Musketiers to the next Towne before who met us not untill we were out of the Wood. Then wee entered into Bergish-land and went by Keiserswert to Dusseldorp to bed which adjoynes to the Rhine