the Church of the Carmelites to celebrate the Feast of St. TEREZA by whose Prayers and intercessions it is sayd certaine Captives were delivered out of Turkie transported out of their bondage and set free in another place not farre distant and their Irons Fetters and Pictures still preserved in this Church for a testimony of the myracle In the afternoone the King of Hungary came being sent for by the Emperor from the Army to be elected King of the Romans accompanied with divers Colonels and Commanders of Scotch and Irish but an English Mile off the Town his Majesty made a stay being in his Coach untill the Emperor Empresse and the whole Court came forth to meet him and then he and all his Followers tooke horse and met the Emperour and Empresse at a distance he lighted and hastened to doe his obedience to them they likewise embracing him then returned to his sister the Archdutchesse to salute her who was in another Coach in the meane time his Followers kist the Emperor and Empresse hands that ended the Emperor call'd him into his Coach and went a Hawking but when they came at the place where their game was they all tooke Horse but the Empresse and the Archdutchesse who were carryed in an open Litter by Mules their sport being ended returned with their three Spaniels and one Hawke to their Pallace The 7. day his Excellence was visited by Colonell Lesley a Scotch Commander and Captaine of the King of Hungaries Guard The 10. day on Sunday the King went poste to meet with his Queene who was a comming hither likewise The 12. day the Elector of Colen came in the forenoone very well attended and in the evening his Excellence had audience of the Emperor and Empresse but as we passed through the Chambers to her Majesty there were neyther lights nor men to direct us the way passing thus along in the darke untill wee stumbled on a little doore which is the doore of their Antichamber where wee found three or foure Cavalieres who had runne from the Emperours side thither a little before to informe her Majesty of his Excellence's comming who was instantly brought in to her Chamber and after returned the same way and but one attending with a light The fourteenth day being Friday the Queene of Hungarie came about five of the clocke in the afternoone for at one the Emperour Empresse and the Elector of Collen together with the whole Court went three English miles from the Towne to meet her but Hawked as hee went untill three a clock and then discovering her a comming about halfe an English mile distant left his sport and went to meet her drawing neere lighted of his Horse about foure Rod off from her Coach and made hast with his Hat in hand to imbrace her shee being but got out of her Coach and comming a little towards him did her obedience kneeling and kissed his Hand hee bowing low likewise most joyfully received her in his armes the Empresse being in a Litter and the Archdutchesse hastened out likewise to salute her their gratulation being ended betweene them and the Elector of Collen and Conde d' Oniato the Spanish Ambassador extraordinary which in all held more than a quarter of an houre the King and Queene returned home in the Emperours Coach having about thirty Coaches and one hundred Horse which brought them into the Towne The 17. day at 9. of the clocke in the morning his Excellence had audience of the King and in the afternoone was visited by Colonell Lesley againe and after him by the Agent of Poland The next day in the Evening there was a great Marriage at Court Colonell Wager a Polander who married a Maid of honour to the Empresse call'd Madam Shafcutzin whose Father was beheaded some few yeares since here in this Towne as a Conspirator against the Emperor the Ceremony of the marriage beeing contrary to our English fashion and in the Evening I will declare it First hee beeing brought from his Lodging by the Poland Ambassadour and many Cavalieres all well mounted to the Court lighted and went up to the Emperour and Empresse then to his Majesties private Chappell being brought thither by the Emperor the King and she by the Empresse and the Queen where the Bishop onely joyned their hands as the Emperor gave her and set a rich Crowne of Diamonds and Pearle on his head which was his Majesties and then returned to the Privie Chamber where the Emperor gave them a Supper and his Majesty the Empresse the King and Queene of Hungary and the Archdutchesse together with the Elector of Mentz and Colen sate at Table with them and the Bridegroome with the Crowne all the time on and the Bride cloathed very richly at the Empresses charge having no other Iewels on but her Majesties that night and after Supper put to Bed by them being an order that what Lady soever of the Court Marries they do lye there that night if she be a Maide not else The next day at two of the clocke Count Trausmistorfe Privie Councellor to the Emperor and the chiefe Ruler in all the King of Hungaries affaires visited his Excellence being sent from the King The day after Colonell Lesley dined with his Excellence and after dinner was visited by the Spanish Ambassador Conde d' Oniato And the one and twentieth day his Excellence had Audience of the King and Queene of Hungarie at Two of the clocke in the afternoone The next day his Excellence visited Count Trausmistorfe and the Bishop of Vienna and then returned home and presently after Count Schlyck President to the Councell of warre visited his Excellence and at five of the clocke came Marquis Castillado to Towne being Ambassador in ordinary from Spaine who alwayes accompanies the King of Hungary in the Army and came now from thence The 23. being Sunday the Count of Schwartzenburg his Sonne whose Father is the Ambassador from the Prince of Brandenburg and Colonell Lesley dined with his Excellence And the foure and twentieth day about eight of the clocke in the morning his Excellence visited the Elector of Colen and at two of the clock Marquis Castillado and likewise the Count Megaw And the day following hee visited the Poland Ambassador in the forenoone and the Elector of Mentz in the afternoone The 26. day young Pappenheym dyned with his Excellence whose Father was Generall for the Emperour in the King of Swedens time and slaine then And the next day his Excellence visited the Count of Schlyck againe The 28. his Excellence visited the Count of Trausmistorfe Being returned home the Poland Ambassador came to take his leave of his Excellence and returned into Poland againe and this day the Elector of Tryer past by the Town at a distance going for Lintz there to remaine a Prisoner during the Emperours pleasure being brought out of the King of Spaines dominions by a Convoy of the Emperors The 29. day in the evening the Elector of Colen visited
A TRVE RELATION OF ALL THE REMARKABLE PLACES AND PASSAGES OBSERVED IN the Travels of the right honourable THOMAS Lord HOVVARD Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primer Earle and Earle Marshall of ENGLAND Ambassadour Extraordinary to his sacred Majesty Ferdinando the second Emperour of Germanie Anno Domini 1636. By William Crowne Gentleman LONDON Printed for Henry Seile and are to be sold in Fleet-street at the Signe of the Tygres-head betweene the Bridge and the Conduit 1637. TO THE TRUE NOBLE AND MY HONOURABLE MASTER MASTER THOMAS HOVVARD Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable Henry Lord Matravers Grandchilde to the Right Honourable Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Lord high Marshall of England and his Majesties late Ambassadour to the Emperour of Germany NOble Sir I know your innate goodnes is such that you cannot contemne this well intended Abstract though gathered by an infirme hand considering it reporteth the difficult Embassie of no lesse person than your most ennobled Grandfather my dred Lord from whose sage steps when our King shall please to invite you to give Caesar a second visit you may the better know the way and be secured from many imminent dangers by such a provident care pardon me deare Sir that I make your choice tendernesse my Patron since the Discourse is no more pleasing my aimes and endeavours being all bent to serve you and therefore the effects must needs be yours truly Sir your early beginnings promise such a rare proceeding that you seeme to anticipate your age by out-stripping time in your wisedome and sweet discretion And if I may obtaine your beloved smiles in this bold though honest action I shall not feare what the sharpe jerke of any malignant tongue can doe unto me but will glory in my Character Happy Servant in such a Master William Crowne A RELATION BY WAY OF IOVRNALL c. THE seventh of April being Thursday 1636. His Excellency departed from Greenwich for Germanie tooke Barge about three of the clocke in the morning and landed at Gravesend from thence by Coach to Canterbury to bed the next day to Margate where wee dined and about three of the clocke in the afternoone hee tooke shipping in one of the Kings Ships called the Happy Entrance and landed the tenth day being Sunday at Helver-sluce and from thence to the Brill there sailing over a lake into Masanssluce and so on by waggons to Delph and to the Hage but a mile before wee came thither there met us some of the Queene of Bohemia's Coaches which her Majesty sent for his Excellency and in one of them his Excellency went to her Majesty that night the time we staid there was spent in visits betweene the Prince of Orange his Excellency and the States with some other Ambassadours that were then there as the French Venetian and the Swedish heere we staid three daies and departed the fourteenth day by wagons passing through Leiden to Woerden and then entred the Bishopricke of Utrecht and so to the City it selfe where wee lay the Princes being there at schoole his Excellency went to see them that night the next day thence to Rhenem to dine where the Queene hath an house adjacent to the Rhine on the left side which wee viewed having faire roomes and gardens belonging to it after diner wee entered into Gelder-land so through Wagening to Arnheim to bed passing that afternoone through much danger by reason of Out-lyers from the Army at Schenckenschans which was not farre off the Prince of Brandeburgh being heere in Towne visited his Excellency the next day and the day after his Excellency visited him who was shewed by him the ashes of some Romanes preserved in pots that were found in a Mountaine called Zanten which wee afterward passed by heere wee lay Easter-day and the Munday following and did see the smoake and fire out of the great Peeces from the Sconee as they were in skirmish thether his Excellency sent the Steward and a Trumpeter to demand passage of the Spanyard in the Schans and Grave William for the Hollander but the Spaniard would not grant it without order from Brussels Grave William hearing their answer sent his Excellency word hee made no doubt but to give him free passage the next day for he resolved to make an assault that night upon the Sconce upon the assault the Spaniards yeelded it up on conditions and heere his Excellency published certaine orders to be generally observed amongst us one reason was the sickenesse being heere very much wee staid heere three daies and departed the nineteenth in waggons for the Schans first crossed over the Rhine just by the towne on to the right side into Cleveland and so to the Tolhouse a Castle where the Hollanders take toll at adjoyning to the Rhine on the same side then passing through all their workes and Army leaving the Schans at a distance which was miserably battered untill wee came to Grave William his Tent where some of the Spaniards were sealing of their agreements what quarter they should have who instantly left them to bring his Excellency over the Rhine on a Bridge of flat bottom'd Boates guarded with all his Troopes of Horse untill wee came at the Barke wherein his Excellency lay that night then returned and sent a Company of English Souldiers to guard it the next day earely wee weighed Anchor and sailed up the Rhine having a Guard of Souldiers along the shore by reason the Enemy went out of the Schans that morning so passing by Emmerick and Rees Townes with strong sconces adjoyning to the Rhine on the left side then in sight of the Mountaine Zanten on the other side so by Burick on the same side to Wesell a Towne on the left side of the Rhine against which wee cast Anchor and lay on ship-board all night for they died there of the sickenesse more than thirty a day neverthelesse the next morning we tooke waggons in number eighteen and displaied our English colours in three severall wagons passing over a little River in Boats call'd Lipp then by Rheinbergh on the right hand being the last Towne of the States then by Dinslacken on the same side to Dinsburgh to dinner where none of our carriage might enter in for as his Excellency entered the gate one of the watch discharged his peece neere unto the horses breast the rest being instantly commanded to the contrary but the Gates were shut up and wee kept out untill the Towne were satisfied wee were no Enemy our carriage and Company being great frightened them at the first after diner we past through a long Wood in much danger and in the view of Rogues who did not set upon us because our Company was great yet we fearing the worst had sent for a Convoy of Musketiers to the next Towne before who met us not untill we were out of the Wood. Then wee entered into Bergish-land and went by Keiserswert to Dusseldorp to bed which adjoynes to the Rhine
secunda Astraea apud Iovem Deosque de mortalium sceleribus queritur Iupiter auditis sententiis orbem Marti Vulcanoque puniendum tradit Scena tertia Pax desolata quaerit locum ubi Martis furorem declinet Neptunus in Angliam marina choncha eam vehit Scena quarta Mars globum terrae in varias partes dividit Bellonae furori caeterisque asseclis distribuit Pars secunda Scena prima Ceres Apollo Bacchus deplorant apud Iovem illam quam a Marte patiuntur calamitatem Iupiter ad Neptunum eos destinat Scena secunda Neptunus se Carolo Britanniae Regimaris imperium commisisse nunciat illum adeant pro pace orbi reddenda Scena tertia Mercurius bene sperare Cererem Phoebum jubet Carolum Regem Pacem brevi reducturum per L egatum Howardum Arundelliae Comitem pristinis sedibus se restituendam Pax asserit gratulantur sibi omnes Howardo applaudunt Epilogus Ad Gentilicia Howardicae Familiae Symbola alludens faelicia omnia Legato apprecatur ominatur eum veneratus suo omnium nomine gratias agit Plaudite Peace is in England which having beene a long while exiled and given over as gone is now about to returne into Germany A Masque When the most Illustrious and most Excellent Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Extraordinarie Ambassadour from his Puissant Majestie of Great Britaine to the most August Emperour Ferdinand the Second and to the rest of the Princes of Germany came to visit the Iesuites College presented by the Students at Prague 1636. The Prologue Mercuries servant imployed about making ready of the Theatre fals upon little children who would faine see the Ambassadour of the King of England he tels them that they cannot see him in the Theatre unlesse they will congratulate his comming whom when by reason of their tender age they cannot salute in Latine they doe performe it in their native language in a differing Idiome The first Part. The first Scene Mercury entertaines the Gods and Goddesses with their severall attendants in a proper habit comming to Councell and appoints to every one their places The second Scene Astraea complaines to Iupiter and the rest of the Gods of the crimes of men Iupiter having heard their opinions delivers over the world to be punished by Mars and Vulcan The third Scene Peace now forlorne seeks out for a place where she may secure herselfe from the fury of Mars Neptune carries her over into England in a sea-shell The fourth Scene Mars divides the globe of the earth into divers parts and distributes them to the furie of Bellona and his other agents The second Part. The first Scene Ceres Apollo and Bacchus bewaile before Iupiter the calamitie which they suffer from Mars Iupiter sends them unto Neptune The second Scene Neptune tels them that hee hath committed the Imperiall government of the sea to Charles King of Great Britaine and that they must make suit to him to restore peace unto the world The third Scene Mercury bids Ceres and Apollo to be of good cheere and wils them not to doubt but that King Charles will shortly by his Ambassadour Howard Earle of Arundle reduce Peace Peace affirmeth that shee shall be restored to her former dwellings they doe all gratulate one another and give their acclamations to Howard The Epilogue Alluding to the Armes of the House of the Howards both wish and presage all happinesse to the Ambassadour and having made obeysance to him give him thanks for himselfe and for all the rest Here we stayed seven dayes and departed the thirteenth of Iuly for Regenspurg by waggons over the plaine where the great battell was fought betweene the Emperour and the King of Bohemia not above two English miles from the citie there wee did observe many places in the ground wherein the dead bodies were put and a great company of bones lying by on a heape where were slaine in all on both sides about thirtie thousand from thence thorow a plaine corne countrey to a little towne three Dutch miles from Frague called Beroum where wee lay which towne hath beene burnt by the Duke of Saxon his forces The next morning earely wee went thorow plaine corne-fields and meddowes untill we came to Mauth a poore village where we dined from thence thorow woods and by poore villages burnt to a prettie towne called Pilsen where we lay that night having travelled seven Dutch miles it is seated in a plaine with three little rivers running by it as Misen Glatow and Pilsen taking the name from the towne The next morning thorow a wooddie countrey and corne-fields to Swabe to dinner after dinner to Bishopsteine to bed having this day travelled but foure Dutch miles in which the Count Dorfmastaff hath a little castle pleasantly seated and the river Igree running about part of it the towne was never pillaged as yet Earely the next morning from thence passing thorow a very stony hill and a wood foure English miles in length called Bemer-waldt wherein about the middest there is a Schans in which Count Mansfelt and his Armie lay two moneths at which Schans the upper Palatinate begins Then to Waldminiken a little towne to dinner the first in the upper Palatinate and the Oast of the house did serve Count Mansfelt as Ancient at that time after dinner thorow a wooddie poore countrey to Redtz a little towne where we lay that night having travelled six Dutch miles The seventeenth day being Sunday early we departed passing thorow great woods in danger of the Crabats lying thereabouts and carried out of our way by by chance through an ignorant guide untill we came to Bruke a towne miserably ruinated seated pleasantly in a plaine where there was not above foure poore housholds remaining not long since it was in great prosperitie for when wee were a little past the towne there was a gallowes and scaffold by the way whereon the Burgers of the towne suffered and many hanging still who were Lutherans then to a towne called Nettenow to dinner and from thence after dinner to Regenspurg having travelled seven Dutch miles this day passing first thorow many pleasant places of landskips and over the river Regen which runneth into the Danuby just by the citie passing over on rafters the bridge being beaten downe then with the other former batteries between Vienna and this place are many faire built townes promising much by reason of their severall Piazzo's or Market-places and Fountaines with other such expressions but entring the houses scarse finde men lodging or people of understanding to exchange discourse with The next day after his Excellence came hither the Ambassadour of the Elector of Brandenburg visited him and the day after his Excellence visited him againe here his Excellence stayed but foure dayes because the Emperour was not come and departed for Augusta on Thursday the one and twentieth of Iuly and dined that day at Sall a small towne on the Danuby thence thorow
Curie an English Gentleman entertained his Excellence that night the Towne is very pleasantly seated upon the East side of the Rhyne and the â—â—rest thinges in it are Flowers for there was a Tulip-roote sold lately for 340. pounds as Sir Ferdinando informed his Excellence The next morning wee tooke Boate and crossed over the River though with much danger and difficulty in the wet the winde and tyde contrary being got ashorm went to Vtrecht where we lay that night which was but 2. leagues and where there then dyed of the Plague 80. a weeke but a little before 300 from the 〈◊〉 to Leydon next day to Bed travelling very late and â—â—ght leagues this day where some of the Princes the Queene of Bohemia's Sonnes were at Schoole whom his Excellence presently visited and there met with some Gentlemen which the Queene had sent to meet his Excellence and two of her Coaches to fetch him to the Hague The next day before his Excellâ— went away he viewed the chiefe things of note in the Towne as the Vniversities the Anatomie Schoole which before we had not leysure to see and from thence after dinner to the Hague which was but 3. leagues being Wednesday the 14 th day of December and their Christmas Eve Thus leaving his Excellence at the Hague I went for Amsterdam that famous Citie first by Waggon to Harlem which was five leagues where I lay that night being a very well built Towne the next day to the Citie it selfe which was three leagues passing all the way upon a Cawsey by Harlem-Meare on my right hand and the River Tey on the left and entred in at Harlem-Port and past through all the new Towne and over three large Graufts Princes Keasers and the Heares Grauft these Streets be three Quarters of an English mile in length two hundreth paces in bredth having an even row of stately beautifull Buildings and Trees planted the whole length of the Graufts side and so into the old Towne which is not of so stately a building but the whole Citie is built upon Piles in the water and a great Channell runneth through every Street for the Marchants ships to sayle to their doores their Exchange is built much like unto that in London both beneath and above but that it wants a little in breadth with water running under it there is a very large building called the Weishouse wherein all poore Children Fatherlesse or of decayed Parents are there maintained and brought up and there is now at this present time 800. all clad alike the one side of their garments Blacke and the other Red there is likewise foure Hospitals adjoyning one unto another for Men and Women to be severed each from other the East and West Indian Houses two rare Builings and curious within and many other delightfull things to please the eye heere I stayed two dayes and on Saturday the 17. day of December at 5. of the clocke at night tooke a Sâ—utz drawne by a Horse and went up a River along by the side of the Cawsey than I passed downe on before to Harlem and there at 10. of the clocke in the Evening tooke a Waggon and travailed all night to the Hague which was five leagues but ferried over the Rhyne at two in the morning and got thither by 8. of the clocke where wee stayed Eight dayes and the most part of the time was spent at the Queenes Court and the rest in visites betweene the Prince of Orange the States and three Ambassadors which were there as Monsieur Charnesse from France Seignior Carmerarius for the Swedes the Venetian Ambassador and the Count of Culenburg but hearing our Ship was come his Excellence tooke leave of the Queene at 10. of the clocke at night and came away next morning being Wednesday the one and twentieth of December and Prince Maurice along with him to Keswicke where the Prince of Orange hath a House which his Excellence viewed and then the Prince taking leave returned backe againe and his Excellence rode on forward in her Majesties Coach to Delft where he dined in which Towne there are as many Bridges as Dayes in the yeare and so many Channels and Streets where Boates doe passe up and downe and one common Passage under a Church-yard under which wee did passe from thence by a Scute to Rotterdam where we lay which is from the Hague five leagues untill that the winde served us and then on Saturday being the 24. of December and Christmas Eve by our stile at a 11. of the clocke in the night tooke Boates and went to our Ship sayling first through Magan Sluce to Helver-Sluce where our Ship called the Garland did ride at anchor and about 3. in the afternoone set sayle and sayled over the Barre having a Pilate sayling before us with a Lanthorne on the top of his Mast sounding for the depth all the way and the next day at twelue of the clocke cast Anchor in the Dounes and there rid and could not land for the roughnesse of the Sea untill Tuesday morning the 27. of December and then landed at Deale and from thence by Poast to Canterbury and so to Sittinburne to bed The next day in the morning earely to Gravesend and there tooke water for London where on the way my Right Honourable Lady met his Excellence who exchanged Barges and there she entertained him with a Banquet and so earely the next morning went to Hampton Court to his Majesty FINIS Hage Utrecht Schenâ—â—shants Wesell Dusseldorp Collen Coblentz Bacharach Mentz Francfurt Neunkirchen Wurtzburg Marckbibrach Noremberg Newmark Regenspurg Straubingen Vilshoven Lintz Aspagh Holebrum Swamb Bodewic Iglo Shasshaw Bemishbrade Pragu Bishopsteine Regensp Palermo Hemmaw Nuremburg Wirtzburg Bishopsheim Mildebarke Selgenstadt Frankfort Hannaw Coblentz Collen Mulheim Dusseldorpe Teill Amsterdam Hague