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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08152	Newes from the Palatinate A true and comfortable relation of the wonderfull proceedings of Count Mansfield, from his forst comming into the Palatinate, vntill this present moneth. Wherein to his eternall memory he hath set out Gods glory, and enlarged his owne renowne, by being honest to the King of Bohemia, and a constant maintainer of the Gospell of Christ. Likewise relating the true and admirable manner of raising of the siege of Franckendale by Sir Horatio Vere, with the rest of his proceedings, vntill this present. Faithfully translated and extracted out of a Dutch letter sent from Franckendale, by a great commander, who hath beene an eyewitnesse of the same.		1622 (1622)	STC 18507.37; ESTC S122210	17,740	34

must acknowledge his authority These thinges I thought good to certifie you of by way of transition that you bee not altogether transported with Dutch newes and partiality nor confounded with transmutation of time and names nor affrighted with any relation which shall seeme to darken the glory of these affaires or the hope of better successe in the Palatinate busines But to auoyde all doubts questions and oppositions I haue gentle Reader for your sake composed this discourse and in a plaine phrase that you may rely vpon one truth and teach your hearts a song of thankesgiuing to the God of truth and battailes that hath thus begun to bring matters about against all expectation and so to our businesse againe In Lotringhem the Spaniards Commissaries as well as Earle Mansfields met to take vp men and muster Souldiers and were very iealous one of another who should preuaile in their greater numbers how they sped I cannot tell but we were pleased in our accounts For although diuers went to Elnshisem to serue Duke Leopoldus with assurance that more would follow yet we made a strong party and marched forward with 16. peeces of Ordinance leauing 300. men in Germersheim tooke our way to Lanterbergh where wee had a great skirmish and lost some men not without reciprocall damage to the Enemy but before we passed from hence newes came of the Spaniards comming to Germersheim with resolution to make a ship Bridge there and that 600. Bauarian Souldiers were gone out vpon booty whom we watched narrowly to catch in their returne but we failed at this time and were crossed againe with a new report that the Towne of Spiers had entertained 1000. Souldiers to defend the same as suspecting we might come thither and take them at some aduantage and thus were the Catholike Bishops likewise standing on their guards and neither went abroad without a conuoy nor slept in their Pallaces without Courts of guard nay the alarum went as farre as Cullein and all places prepared to delend themselues for the Papists perceiued that Count Mansfield resolued to draw the warre from the Palatinate into the Bishops Countries and were in great feare that the young Duke of Brunswick with diuers Lords in the behalfe of the King of Bohemia would make a strong party on the other side of the Rhine as well as Count Mansfield had done on this side toward Loraine and the borders of France The 20. of Ianuary wee tooke in the Towne and freedome of Hagenaw resoluing to quarter our selues there and so remained quiet a while till his Excellency resolued to prosecute the fiege of Elsas Saberen more throughly supposing that as the Archduke Deopoldus kept there his Court of Chancery he had also beene there in person but the truth was he had not long since retired himselfe into the Valtolina In briefe after we had disarmed all the Souldiers that were in the Townes we tooke spoiled the lewes and forraged the Countries as turning our selues round about without any certaine passage forward or backward Count Mansfield sent Colonell Ouertrant as Generall of this new Army with 3000. foot and 1000. Horse seauen peeces of Cannon some Petards and many Pyoners and Workmen who seated themselues before the Towne making large quarters and yet fortifying themselues after the custome of trenched Camps the first thing they doe was the summoning the place to the vse of Count Mansfield the next thing they attempted was the threatning of the same as farre as demolition if they did not orderly surrender and compound for their quietnesse They of the Towne demaunded three dayes respite they of the Campe murmured at the delay whereupon Onertrant sent a messenger to his Excellency to know his resolution who remembring former grieuances and exasperated for their first reuolt sent 1000. men more with a seuere imposition not to allow them three houres by way of disputing except they determined at the time prefixed to yeeld indeed for haue it he would whatsoeuer it cost him In the meane while all the Bishopricks were spoiled and the Papists had not now so great a cause of ioy and triumph as at the beginning their ostentation shewed So that I will be bolde to say neuer was such an alteration For though Prague is in possession of the Emperour who hath wracked his rage vpon such he named Traytors and the Palatinate is thus sorraged by the Bauarians and our Souldiers Yet marke what followed euen in a manner the deuastation of all Germany and the Papists euery where are set vpon by the Protestants our Enemies opposed with as great Armies and forces For how the Duke of Saxony is turmoiled in Silesia and his owne Countrey is apparant so that in my conscience he wisheth an end of the Warre The Hungarians forrage euen Silesia it selfe and spare none who haue beene opposite to the King of Bohemia Bethelem Gabor takes it ill that the Emperour will raise Souldiers out of Poland to disturbe his friends and so procured the Turke to send a Chause vnto him to certifie his pleasure of misliking the same and withall watcheth Morauis and those parts Generall Ieggendorff followeth Don Baltaser at the heeles and sent word to Count Mrnsfield that if he would returne into Austria now the Emperour was gone to Inspurg they would order the matter so to intercept his returning to Vienna The young Duke of Brunswick hath plaid also his Masters prise against the Bishop of Haluerstat who hath forsaken his Countrey to looke for shelter in other places so that the Elector of Montz was compelled to fortifie Amenburg and put a Bauarian Garison in the same yea such is the turmoile of these Countries that no place is free of of disturbance nor person assured of his estate For the Prince ELectors are so iealous of these affaires that as farre as they durst they called the 〈◊〉 of Hess in question for permitting the Duke of Brunswick to come so farre and peaceably into his Countrey vnrefisted and sought withall but he neither denied it nor they durst prosecute the matter To conclude Prague it selfe the Emperour hauing banished all the Procostant Ministers and proclaimed them Traytors who shall any way affist them is ready to muteny and the Garisons that keepe them in awe suspect one another and the reuolt of the place if euer there come an Army before it While these things haue their seuerall passages in the remoter places Count Mansfield prosecuteth his determination against Elsas Saueren and the whole Countrey of the Archduke Leopaldus so that diuers Swiss haue offered him their seruice and the Archduke is much molested to see such a fire raised against him whereupon by the Bishop of Strasburgs inticement he sent three persons of reputation by the way of an Ambassie that if he would leaue the Diocesse of Strasburg and his Countrey vnmolested he would restore the Veltolina againe and make a perfect peace with the Hesuetians Count Mansfield replied he must haue other composition ere