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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13230	The German history continued. The seventh part. Wherein is conteyned the principall passages of the last summer. ... With the siege and taking of Regenspurg, as also the siege and battell of Norlingen, with an exact mappe thereof. Lastly is added certaine misselanies of stories of most parts of Christendome. All which is done not by the former, but another author	N. C.; Watts, William, 1590?-1649. Swedish intelligencer.	1634 (1634)	STC 23525.7; ESTC S103047	125,601	220

It is usuall in the state of Warre to suspect all men and oft-times a misprision surpriseth friends in stead of foes either by accident or providence of the all directing power I shall conclude with the Spanish proceedings against some Noble personages formerly trusted in the managing of the affaires of State and now suspected of disloyalty and either mercifully pardoned or meritoriously punished The first is the Duke of Arschot a Brahantine for so his title speakes him who was imprisoned at Pinto kept under a strict watch accused of speaking lavishly convicted upon his owne Examination and condemned by the Commissaries appointed thereunto which were in number twelue amongst whom was the President of Castile Italy and Arragon the Secretarie Rocas and the Father Confessour to his Catholike Majestie yet afterward mercifully pardoned by the King and so had not the sentence of condemnation brought to execution The next is Don Bona-fides which lost the Plate fleet about foure years since and is now condemned and executed The third the Marquesse De Catarita who as some say being Admirall of the Indian Fleete is imprisoned because hee fought with the Hollanders men of Warre without order notwithstanding that hee had the victory but as others more probably for imbeaz●lling or concealing the Kings part there being found in his Navie foure hundred thousand Crownes worth of uncustomed goods which were thereupon confiscated And now in this Story I am come to the Pillars of Hercules where I finde a Nil ultrà Hereafter wee may perhaps adventure upon a further discovery and eraze that inscription which now forewarnes us to passe no further CHAP. XII The Magnificent Interment of the King of Sweden IF the death of Gustavusses were frequent to wit the triumphant Angustusses of the North their foot in the stirrop their Sword in their hand and in gaining of Battells I might then expect some other occasion might present it selfe to demonstrate unto the world the manner of their Interment and from the vanity wherewith the greatest part in these times are infected who affect not to heare one thing twice easily furnish my selfe with an execuse But intruth all that hath yet been written concerning the Interment of this great King of Sweden were but the preparatives to the true Pompe the Reader therefore that desireth an exact Relation of the affaires of these times may one day justly accuse me of negligence if by forgetting the last act of his tragedy I rather apply my selfe to please some particular persons then by the recitall thereof satisfie the just curiosity of all others The 34. Provinces of the State of Sweden not thinking it enough to have undergone the extremity of griefe for this yeare and an halfe since the dolefull newes of their Kings death having decreed by the common consent of their three Estates to render unto him their last devotions assembled for that purpose the 15. of Iune last at Meoping either in person or by their Deputies that great Citie being farre too small to receive the multitude which from all parts flocked thither The Ceremony was first disclosed in the great Regall Hall of the Pallace where the Lord Iohn Skite Governour generall of Livonia with a masculine eloquence opened againe the wounds which time seemed to have salved up whose powerfull Oration was seconded by the Exposition of the History of King Iosias made by the Bishop of Westeras the people often with their heavie sighes making dolefull periods But all this was nothing in comparison of the mournfull and not studied accents which the whole multitude made when they heard the pitifull rumbling of the Coffin being shooke as they conveyed it down the staires of the Hall into the great street The Coffin was made of Silver and covered with blacke Velvet which trayled on the ground with a great Crosse of white Satin charged with Scutchions of all the Provinces richly imbrodered in gold silver and silke from the Hall it was carried to the Gate of the Citie tending towards Stockholme by 24. Gentlemen and there put into a Chariot a 100. other Gentlemen marching before each one bearing in his hand a Table wherein all the Victories of this Prince were most accurately represented as well those by him obtained against the Danes Polanders and Muscovite as his other great Feats of Armes in Germany the Forts Cities and Castles by him conquered and the Battailes by him gained two Regiments of Foote and as many of Horse made the Van and Reare-gard and in the front of the traine were 8. great Cannons taken from the Enemy each being drawne by 20. Horses Before and on each side of the Chariot wherein the Corpes lay being drawne by sixe white horses covered with blacke cloth hanging to the ground then marched a 100. Gentlemen in mourning and mounted on Horse-back next followed the Counsellours of Estate and company of the Guards and last of all the Count Palatine with the two Queenes both Mother and Daughter bathing their cheekes in unfained teares From Meoping this Convoy went to Sitrosta distant but two Leagues from thence and in the Church thereof was the Corps layd and guarded by the Souldiers and a 100. Gentlemen The next day about noone they parted from thence and lodged two leagues further continuing this order and time in their daily marches Vntill the 20. of Iune when they arrived at the Towne of Brewkyekya distant but halfe a mile from Stock-holme then began the great preparation for the Funerall show which on the two and twentieth day of the said moneth entered in this manner into Stockholme The Colonell Claz Horn marched in the head of a Regiment of Swedish Horse and two Regiments Nobility and Gentry all in Armour and their horses in mourning being followed by two Regiments of foot lead by the Lords Axel Lillie and Otho Sparling likewise in blacke their armes and trayling their Pikes Next followed two hundred Gentlemen which were Officers of Warre and had assisted the defunct King in his Battailes every one bearing an Ensigne gained in Germany After them came the eight Cannons And next came Gabriell Gabrielson Oxensterne Rector and eight hundred Schollers of the Vniuersitie of Vpsall with all the Officers of the Citie both Bishops Doctors Iudges Ministers and then came the great red Ensigne borne by Frederick Stenbock Colonell of the Cavalry Then 34. Ensignes of the severall Provinces borne by as many Gentlemen Next followed a Horse led by two Pages and covered with blacke Taffaty hanging to the ground each of them trayling after them an Ensigne then came the Barron Charles Horne clad in the gilt Armes of the dead King mounted upon a lame Horse covered with blacke Velvet holding in his hand the Kings Sword as yet all bloody since the Battell of Lutzen attended by his Pages and Lackies Next followed the Generall Tortenson trayling along the streets the great mourning Ensigne Then came the Kings horse for battel covered with black Velvet and crossed with white Sattin and the