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A13222	The Swedish intelligencer. The first part. Wherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along: from his Majesties first entring into the Empire, vntill his great victory over the Generall Tilly, at the Battell of Leipsich. The times and places of every action being so sufficiently observed and described; that the reader may finde both truth and reason in it.	Watts, William, 1590?-1649.; Mountain, Gerard, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 23521; ESTC S118047	101,946	205

some 18. Regiments of Foote and 86. Cornets of Horse and now by mid Ianuary was Generall Tilly come vp to Franckford Tillyes comming there to succour and take on those troupes which the King had before scattered which as we sayd began now to gather head againe about this Franckford Of his comming the King now hearing sends Gustavus Horne with a reasonable Army towards the Frontiers of Silesia to staue off Tilly from comming downe that way vnto any of the new conquered places himselfe instantly marching into the Land of Mecklenburg The whole story of which and his Majesties proceedings in that Country we will now present you with altogether beginning with his former expedition thither This Country of Mecklenburg lyes Westward of Pomerland along the coast betwixt Brandenburg and the Sea Two Dukedomes it hath Schwerin and Gustrow lately possessed by two brothers Iohn Albert the elder brother and Adolph Frederike the younger both the right heires and both stiled Dukes of Mecklenburg These Princes had the Emperour of late very injuriously devested of their Estates and given them vnto Walensteyn his great Generall with the Title of Duke of Mecklenburg The disseized Dukes complaine vnto th●ir Cosin the King of Sweden their reliefe was another mayne cause of his comming in Germany His Majestie therefore having made so victorious an entrance into Pomeren and cleered all those parts vpon the confines of Pomerland except Gripswald next vnto Mecklenburg resolues vpon an expedition thither in person About August 6. 1630. he prepares his owne way by taking the passage of Stolp neere Ancklam some fiue leagues below Stetin towards the Sea whereby he hath a full passage into Mecklenburg The Kings first expedition into Mecklenburg Towards the end of September his Majesty makes stay of all great boats and ships vpon the Oder and the mouth of it wherein having shipt some 12000 men and their Ammunition he sayles by Wolgast taken some moneth before and Stralesundt He takes Bart Damgarden Rubenitz passing vnto Bart a Towne in Mecklenburg standing vpon an arme of the Sea a little within the shoare That takes he in first Then hasts he to Damgarden the next Towne on the East side of that arme of the Sea which Towne the Sconce to it he presently takes in by assault many of the Souldiers being flung out at the windowes and some others by mischance burnt Three dayes after this to Rubenitz he comes a Towne in the very bottome of that Indraught or arme of the Sea and that he by force takes also Mescord the Governour is taken prisoner and his Lieutenant Iers slaine with a Musket shot Here pitches he his Camp giving order for the fortifying of this and Damgarden and Trubbesees another late taken passage towards Pomeren Being here setled He summons the Country he first of all by a Proclamation dated from Rubenitz Sept. 28. summons the Gentry and people of the Country to remember their oath once taken to their naturall Princes to forsake Walensteyns title and service to come armed into his Camp or other his troupes to prosecute and kill all the Walsteyners and to fight with him for the libertie of their Countrey Those which doe not he threatens to pursue as traytors and enemies those which did to affoord his royall protection vnto A second mandate he then sends to the Towne of Rostock of which more when we come to speake of that City Sir Iohn Bannier his Majesties Lieutenant for those parts being about that time also vpon the frontiers of Mecklenburg towards Pomeren directs his Letters vnto these borderers to this purpose That seeing the Imperialists thereabouts did nothing but pillage and plunder them of their Cattell and goods and that the King his Maisters intention was onely to defend them therefore they should send their Corne and Cattle towards Rubenitz or Stralesundt Which if they refused the King would thinke those pillages wilfully endured by them to relieue his enemies and that they meant to fall away from their owne Princes and must therefore take their goods where ever he found them persecuting them as traytors and enemies Whilest here at Rubenitz the King lyes encamped and his forces in the meane time busie about the Country there arriues an Imperiall Curryer in his Camp The Emperours Letters vnto him His Letters contained an admiration of the Emperours why the King should come armed into the Empire offering him a treatie of peace if so be he would first lay downe Armes These seeme written from Ratisbone The Kings answere To this he answers That his Imperiall Majestie would cease to wonder if he pleased to remember the two Armies sent against him into Prussia the wronging of his Friends and the endangering of his owne Sweden As for the offer of peace he desires pardon if he thinkes it not sincerely meant seeing it had beene before scorned and that now the Emperour while he spake of peace did still continue his Levies As for laying downe of Armes he vtterly refuses that or to trust any more vnto verball promises and for treatie of peace he would be most glad to entertaine it which vpon these termes he will agree vnto namely That all Germany be so setled and re-estated as it was before the beginning of these warres This was written after the Kings returne to Stralesundt the same moneth of October in which it was received The Emperour perceiving that words and papers would not beate Swedens sword out of his hand at the breaking vp of the Dyet of Ratisbone in the beginning of November sets out his Imperiall mandate for the continuing of the warres and against the King of Sweden by name procuring the Electors also to decree the same and to agree to ayde him in it And by this time was the King come from Stralesundt againe vnto his Army at Rubenitz where he for a while held the head quarter of his Camp the rest of the Army being partly neerer advanc't vnto Rostock and part employed with Bannier in other places And now it seemes some of his * These I suppose were some of those forces which the King had sent towardes Magdenburg which had landed at Dassow within a lea●ue or two of Lubeck about Sept. 25. having beene as farre as Lubeck one of the Hanse Townes vpon the Frontiers of Mecklenburg and Holsatia and there imprisoned and vncourteously vsed the King writes his Letters vnto the Towne to this purpose That seeing such discourtesie had beene offered he could not but admonish them to forbeare as they would looke for the like vsage where he had to doe And now had not the King an Army alone hereabouts but a navy too vpon those coasts to confront the Imperiall Navy gathered amongst the Hanse Townes thereabouts For in the beginning of December I finde a Sea-fight betwixt Gabriel de Roy the Emperous Admirall with 15. shippes and 9. Swedish men of warre neere vnto Wismar another Hanse Towne betwixt Rost●ck and

newes he having that winter time gathered some small company together exciteth the Swedes to vindicate their Countryes libertie In the valourous successe whereof himselfe having beene a chiefe Author is in the yeare 1523. by consent of all the States of the Country chosen King He thus elected refuseth to be Crowned contenting himselfe onely with the title of Governour By authoritie of which dignitie Anno 1527. he summons a Parliament where he propounds the Reformation of Religion in which finding much opposition and little hope he surrenders the Kingdome vnto the States againe The Land thus brought into a streight humbly beseech Gustavus once againe to accept of the Kingdome Thus was he Crowned Anno 1527. becomming the first Protestant King that ever was in the world This same yeare was Rome taken by Charles Duke of Burbon This Gustavus from the time of his Coronation reigned 33. yeares Ericus the eldest sonne of Gustavus succeeded his Father Anno 1560. who reigning eight yeares dyes without Issue Iohn the second sonne of Gustavus succeeded his Brother Anno 1568. Reigned 24. yeares His onely Issue was Sigismund chosen in his Fathers life time viz. 1587. King of Poland and is yet living Sigismund King of Poland succeeded his Father Iohn in the Kingdome of Sweden Anno 1594. He tooke an Oath to maintaine the priviledges of the Kingdome to admit no other Religion then that of the Augustane Confession and to bring in no Strangers Which Oath he palpably now violating first by going about to alter the Religion then by endevouring to enslaue Sweden by making it to be a Province of the Kingdome of Poland Anno 1599. he was in a full assembly of the States of Sweden rejected and deposed and his Sonne Ladislaus then an Infant chosen in his place But with this Condition If within six moneths he were sent into Sweden there to be brought vp in the Protestant Religion Ladislaus Sonne of Sigismund not being sent into Sweden according to the Condition of his Election lost his title vnto the Kingdome And Charles Duke of Suderman the third and youngest Sonne of Gustavus the deliverer of his Country from the oppression of the Polacks was chosen King in the yeare 1601. Gustavus Adolphus the Sonne of Charles succeeded his Father Anno 1612. being the present and hitherto the successe-full Assertor of the Germane libertie Here may it fayrely be observed 1. That all the posteritie of Gustavus which with himselfe are seaven in number were eyther Kings or elected to a Kingdome vnto the third and fourth generation The last whereof and the seaventh in order is the present Gustavus 2. Obserue That Gustavus Ericus the Grandfather of this Gustavus Adolphus obtained a Kingdome by delivering his Country from the Tyranny of the Danes Charles his Father for delivering it from the Pole In which heroicall disposition of his Ancestors Gustavus Adolphus now succeeds his Father and Grandfather in vndertaking this present warre for the asserting of Germany from the pressures of the present Emperour 3. Besides that this Prince is descended of a Family of Deliverers there seemes to be another Omen in his Stile as well as in his Pedigree he writes himselfe King of the Goths and Vandals which Nations haue once heretofore beene fatall vnto the Empire This braue Prince having in the yeare 16●9 had first a warre with the Pole and then a Peace was by the complaints invitations of the Germane Princes the next yeare brought over into the Empire You haue before heard of the miseries of Germany and yet had the Protestant Princes in their Dyet of Leipsich beene modest in their Remonstrance they had not told you all Stralesundt and Stetin Mecklenburg and Pomerland were so heavily oppressed so sorely over-layd that they had not breath enough left to be heard sigh so farre as the Emperours Court A sound we know is vsually conveighed further along the water then over-land which may perchance be one of the reasons why their complaints are sooner listned vnto in Sweden then at Vienna These Maritime people therefore finding no reliefe ashoare are forced to fetch their succours whence they vsually did their Merchandize out of the Baltick Sea The King of Sweden is allyed with Bogislaus Duke of Stetin and with Iohn Albert and his brother Dukes of Mecklenburg is confederate with Stralesundt and Pomerland and therefore likeliest to be their Friend His safetie much depended vpon theirs had the Emperour beene Maister of those Ports and Sea-coasts he would neither haue beene so fayre a Merchant to him and might withall haue proved a more dangerous and over-maisterly a neighbour Againe this King now having a good Peace had therfore the better leisure His Army being not yet cashier'd the reliefe would not altogether be so chargeable His experience in the warres being great his fame now after the beating of the Pole and two Imperiall Armies in Prussia more he was also thought to be the ablest to deliver them His Majestie therefore being by the pittifull and redoubled complaints of his Allyes his Confederates his Neighbours sollicited over and over againe to come in vnto their rescue that this bare invitation of his Friends might not be censured for a plot betwixt them or not to be cause enough for his comming loe he is even puld over by his enemies provocations But for the greater Authoritie with the Reader we will giue you the just Apologie of that Prince the pressing reasons for his moving with an Army into Germany himselfe having caused to be Printed the Arguments whereof we here abbreviate into Propositions His Majestie first protests That he had not stirr'd at all The King of Swedens Apology complaints no not though he had often beene warned to looke vnto himselfe nor would he take any notice of it vntill some affront or maine occasion of quarrell had beene actually offered by the Emperour That having beene by his oppressed neighbours and Confederates invited vnto their reliefe he for a long time rather expected the Emperours goodnesse towards the Subjects of Germany then desired to interesse himselfe against him with whom he so much desired the continuation of Amitie That the quarrell was first begunne by the Emperour who in the late warres of Prussia betwixt Sweden and Poland had prohibited the King of Sweden to make any Levies of men or provision of victualls or Ammunition in Germany apparently granting the same libertie vnto his enemy the King of Poland That the Emperour himselfe had heretofore sent two severall Armies vnder his own Ensignes into Prussia in ayde of the Pole his enemy the first in the yeare 1627. vnder the Command of the Duke of Holsteyn Walstein was sayd to haue given Arnheim his Commission in these vvords Arnheim goe take 10000 men you must beat the King of Sweden out of Prussia and if you cannot doe it tell him that Walstein vvill come and the second sent 1630. was conducted by Arnheim Marshall of the Feild vnto Walstein That his