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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17472	The continuation of the actions, passages, and occurrences, both politike and polemicall, in the upper Germanie Historically brought downe, from the period of the last relation, till Aprill. Together with a various and intermixed historie, of what hath been done in Turky, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Faithfully collected out of good and creditable originals and digested methodically, by the times, places, and actions.; Diatelesma. Part 2.	N. C.	1637 (1637)	STC 4293.2; ESTC S107079	66,740	115

entertained them with a stately Banquet during the which tenne Hogges-heads of Wine being brought one after another into a great Bay-Window were rapped and let runne into a Cisterne below for the use of the people who shared therein and in many pieces of Gold and Silver halfe Pistolets Ryals of eight and lesser Money which hee scrambled amongst the people to be divided by fortune not his owne arbitrement The former Magnificence was in expence of Money but another sort followed it by advancement of some persons of qualitie to some Titles of Honour The Kings comming to the Crowne was not in all points like the Sunnes appearing in the Horizon to eclipse the glory of the Minor Starres and burie their splendour in his owne his promotion to the height of Majestie was the exaltation of certaine Peeres to more Honour Sixteene Noblemen were created Knights of the Empire namely the Lord Maximilian Williband New Knights of the Empire made Earle of Wollfseck the Earle Adam Budiani John Jacob Earle of Zyll Peter Earle of Goetsen John Anthony Earle of Cratz Henry Erneskerpen Earle of Toringe Ladislaus Schechii William Voight Lord of Maxwein John Rudolph and George Rudolph of Haslang the Baron William Dieterick of Runen John Jacob of Startzhausen George of Seibolsdorff Stephen Esterhasi John Philip Gunter and Henry Christopher of Flaus The Duke of Newburg attending upon the King in the qualitie of a Cup-bearer and the Prince of Anhalt performing the Office of his Carver during the time of feasting at this Solemnitie THE Astrologians benigne Starre Iupiter seemed now to smile upon the Court at Ratisbone with a sweet aspect but Mars and Saturne reigned abroad Prodigies terrifying the hearts of the people while the Princes and Peeres were in this jollitie and Warre with his grim attendants Famine Pest Feare and Distraction raging abroad in the Empire What might happen by the fault of a carelesse or unskilfull Mason not well bedding or cementing the Stones Strange Prodigies at the building of a new Steeple at Vienna was by the construction of the vulgar sort counted ominous The Spire of S. Shotten lately built fell downe suddenly about the time of the Coronation and demolished the Church and that was made portentous the rather being accompanied with another of the same time at Rome where a great blazing Starre called by the Naturalists Cometa Crinitus appeared for a space and then vanished away suddenly over S. Pauls Church with a noyse And diverse Monuments placed in the Church fell downe and were defaced utterly CHAPTER II. The death of the Emperour Ferdinand the second with the siege and taking of Erford by the Swedes and other things IT would relish of over-much boldnesse to peepe into the Arke of the divine secrets nor dare I nor can I conclude any particular consequences to haue been portended by the accidentary fall of the Pyramis yet doubtlesse the Comet though caused by the meeting of secondary and naturall causes was the significator of what ensued about that time and not long after Within the space of a moneth a titular God of the world and one that claimed a superioritie aboue the rest though all absolute and undependant Princes which hold the Scepter by inheritance not election may justly vie with him for eminency of place Ferdinand the second who had long been sickly at Regenspurgh and then removed to Vienna The death of the Emperor Ferdinand the second gaue a testimonie of his mortalitie by subscribing to the lawes of Nature and exhaling his last spirit Feb. 2 15. betwixt 8. and 9. of the clock in the morning to the great griefe of the Court and City which had prepared triumphs and tournaments and in much bravery determined to receiue the new King of Romanes but by this occasion laid aside their gallantrie put on the face and weeds of sorrow and by their dejected lookes and mourning apparell shewed their anxietie for his losse who so long had steered the ship of State to their content and was then taken from them when the tottering Empire freshly assaulted and ransackt by strangers required such a Nestor as by sage directions grounded upon mature deliberations might preserue it from feare of utter ruine The same afternoone his bodie was embalmed and two dayes after he was laid in the Antecamerâ to the sight of all that came in and Feb. 8 18. his corps was carried into his own Chappell at the Palace to be kept there till the King of Hungarie who was then upon the Danubie returning with his Queene from Ratisbone by water was come thither to giue order and instructions for the manner of his interrment About the same time abroad the Swedes growne every where Masters of the field began againe to take in Townes giue Lawes to the Citizens sweare the Magistrates to alleageance to the Crowne of Sweden take Hostages for performance of Conditions plunder the Countrey where they enquartered to furnish their Armies with necessaries and force the Cities which stood in faire tearmes of agreement with Caesar the Elector of Saxony and the other Princes which either sided with the Emperour before the treatie of Prague or came in to him thereupon to renounce their alliance and take in their Swedish Garrisons Leslie the Feeldmarshall being come back from Westphalia from pursuit of the Caesarean Generall Goetz was come back to the Lantgravate of Hessē Cassell wher meeting with the Swedish Generall he received a new Commission to returne towards the Weser to haue an eye upon the mperialists and the League Bannier supposing that bodie of an Armie which himselfe commanded sufficient for performance of his own designes in the upper Saxonie there yet appearing no adverse Armie which was able to stand against him Leslie conformed him to his Generalls Command and Bannier without further stay marched with his forces towards Misnia But Ertford that goodly Citie of Thuringen againe presented it selfe to his fancy as he was upon the way somewhat he resolved to doe there yet what or how he made a pause on to leaue it behind him he concluded to be no part of policie the place being of great receit and well fortified both with a Moat good walls and the strong Castle of Ziriacksburg and so if once furnished by his enemies but with fifteene hundred presidiaries might molest his Armie to attempt it by force or a long Siege might waste his forces and consume much time These doubts stumbled him yet in fine he resolved to take it by a finenesse if it might be and if that way thrived not to worke otherwise And take it in the end he did nor was the designe any remora to his further proceedings being but a whet to sharpen the courage of his Souldiers no stop or let to his purposes Decemb. ½ 1 1. Bannier tooke up his head-quarter at Deberstead a village not farre from Ertford and the same Evening to lose no time first presented part of his Forces in a small Battalia before