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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02407	A relation of the funerall pompe, in which the body of Gustauus the Great, late King of Sweden, was carryed from the castle of Vbolgast, to the sea-side, to be transported into Swethland Together, vvith a strange apparition of the moone the night before.		1633 (1633)	STC 12537; ESTC S103561	4,962	16

A RELATION of the Funerall Pompe in which the Body of GVSTAVVS the Great Late King of Sweden was carryed from the Castle of Vbolgast to the Sea-side to be transported into Swethland TOGETHER With a strange apparition of the Moone the Night before LONDON Printed by B.A. T F. for Thom Walkley and are to be sold at his Shop neare White-Hall 1633. THE FVNERALL Pompe of GVSTAVUS ADOLPHUS THe fifteenth of Iuly last being the day immediately foregoing that Funerall Pompe in which the Hearse of GVSTAVUS ADOLPHVS the late glorious King of Sweden was remooved from Vbolgast to the Sea side to bee so transported into his owne Kingdome by the Queene his Widow a prodigious apparition of the Moone happened The Carryer or Post of Argentine was travelling by Night with three more in his company of whom one was a man of quality a Doctor of Physicke and Mathematician about nine of the clocke they were neere to a Village called Eintritt The Moone was then in her Wane and grew horned for it was foure dayes after the full at which as they were looking they perfectly discerned another little Moone mooving up and down with various motions about the upper horne of the true Moone At last they joyned together from which conjunction a cleere and perfect circular figure was made as if the Moone had then shined in her full But long it continued not in that forme but changed into the shape of a mans head At which whilest they gazed with wonder they began to know the face of the late King GVSTAVUS ADOLPHVS In that forme the Moone continued about a quarter of an houre before shee tooke her owne shape againe that they might perfectly discover not without feare and astonishment the Kings head with all the true lineaments of his face and figure of his beard and hayre From this portentuous apparition of the Moone were divers opinions and discourses raysed among the people Some remembred a propheticke speech which the K of Swethlād whilest living was heard to make that after he was dead his Armies would continue victorious and from thence a fame would be raysed that he himselfe was living and his death for a long time not bee generally believed Others began to make a Religious praediction of it and comparing the Christian Church to the true Moone because the Church in all ages like the Moones has had increases decreases and knowing that the Turkish Empire has borne for theyr Armes the Moone they compared that to the false Moone which they had seene to move about the horne of the true Moone and from that conjunction of them they prophesied That God would in mercy cal the Turks and joyne them shortly to his owne true Christian Church The day following being the sixteenth of Iuly the King of Swethlands Funerall whose Hearse had long remayned in the Castle of Vbolgast was removed to be transported into Swethland The Solemnity was in manner following In the afternoone Doctor IACOBVS FABRITIVS the King his Chapleyne made a Funerall Sermon in the Chappell of the Castle of Vbolgast where the Hearse stood His Text was taken out of the fift Chapter of the Lamentations of IEREMY the words these The Crowne of our head is falne off Woe bee to vs now because we have sinned Sermon being ended the Funerall Pompe began to moove forward about five a clocke to the Sea-side where the Swedish fleet lay to receive his body Colonell AXELIVS LILE marched foremost followed by fourescore and twelve rankes of Musketiers eight in a ranke in mourning habit and covered with hoods after them in like habit sixe and thirty rankes of Divines two in a ranke singing a mournfull Ditty as they past along After whom came fifty Students of the Waldenses and an hundred and foureteene more partly Germans and partly Swedes in long mourning Cloakes Two great brazen Drummes were carryed in the next place after which came sixe Trumpeters their Trumpets covered with blacke cloth and each of them bearing a blacke Damaske Banner in which the Armes of Swethland were richly wrought with gold After whom againe came two brazen Drummes like the former by men in the like habit and sixe Trumpeters in the same fashion following Immediatly after came two Heralds cloathed in blacke silken robes on which before and behind were the Armes of Swethland with great cost and curiosity wrought in Needleworke of Gold these two Heralds carryed either of them a Royall Scepter of exceeding great value Then followed the Marshall Ericas Guldenslernius with a wonderfull great number of the chiefe Counsellors and Officers belonging to the Elector of Brandenburgh and the Megapolitan Dukes Next followed the Master of the Ordnance Leonard Torstonson carying a red Damaske banner with him were three and thirty Barons and Noblemen euery one carrying a banner of seuerall colours in which the Armes of those seuerall Prouinces which had beene joyned by conquest to the Crowne of Sweden were most richly wrought in needleworke of gold After euery one of these Barons a Horse was led couered with blacke cloath vpon which the same worke and armes were displayed in those Banners which the Lords carried Then followed Benedict Oxensterne Master of the Horse to the King of Swethland bearing a blacke Banner of exceeding largenesse and so heauy that three other were faine to helpe him in the carriage of it upon this banner were curiously and richly wrought in gold not onely the Armes of the Crowne of Swethland but of all those other seuerall Provinces which had bin displayed in the thirty three Banners going before and heere ioyned into one After this great Banner came a stately Horse which King Gustavus had us'd to ride on his maine was exceeding large and long A rich couering of blacke hemmed with gold hee had vpon him and was adorned with feathers blacke white and yellow Vpon his backe in a wrought golden saddle sate Charles Horne Lord Chamberlaine of Swethland clad in the Armor of the dead King and wearing a chaine of gold of exceeding great value In his hand hee carryed that sword drawne which King Gustavus most used to weare and at his saddle hung the Kings pistoll yet stained with blood as it came out of the battell of Lutzen After him came another Horse couered with blacke on which a white Crosse was wouen Then went two Heralds cloathed in like manner as the former were carrying two siluer Scepters with others that carryed money which they threw among the people all the way as the pompe passed along After this followed the Herse it selfe before which Crailshem the Master of the Houshold marched alone The Hearse was smooth at the top and round about it hung those Armes of the severall Provinces which had beene before displayed in those three and thirty Banners which the Barons carryed and immediately after it the great Armes of the Kingdome of Swethland with the Crowne Royall and Imperiall Globe about which was the Title written in great Letters