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prince_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	4,461	5	11.5012	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08170	A new suruey of the affaires of Europe With other remarkable accidents, not yet published by the ordinary posts, but faithfully collected out of letters of credit and good relations.		1623 (1623)	STC 18507.96; ESTC S114598	10,831	24

of Nature to the meanes of preseruations and so by the coadiutement of the Swisse their neighbours they not onely acquainted their confederates with the miseries that had plunged them into the gulph of discontent but implored the assistance of many Princes to remember the Antiqua foedera not suffer them to be forsaken in this losse of their Liberty and troubling of their conscience amongst whom it is said that one Andrea Planta was sent to the Signiory of Venice with intimation of their Estates and imploration of their helpe who was so well entertained that his message was not onely accepted but many faire promises returned to their satisfaction his Message had these or the like passages The Grizons message to Venice HIgh and Mighty I come not to renouate your memoryes concerning the combination betweene vs and the amitv of our Countries nor to meddle with the cause of Religion which of it selfe were sufficient to moue a pitty but to plead the policies of State and vrge an ancient position by way of Caution Tum tuares agitur paries cumproximus ardet your Marchants cannot Traficke into Germany and vent the commodities of your Countrey for now all is stopt or blockt vp so that you must with a vigilant eye fore-see the danger to come and preuent the worst you see what is done already neither could the Snow of the mountaines nor the Mountaines themselues the passages of the Woods the cut out-wayes the steepy ascendings the plashing of the pines the anfractus of the Hilles the roaring of the Waters the danger of the pits hinder them but they are come thus farre already They began with the Fort Fuentes they continued with their Garrisons in many places and now they haue ended in a manner with the possession of our whole Territories so that if this inundation be not stopped iudge your selues whether it will flow if it breake down the bankes if we be not relieued in time may it not proue a rub to gall others aswell as our selues therefore I leaue it to your further consideration and so without either aggrauating the cause or exasperating the aduersary I conclude that there is no husbandry in letting these plants ouerspread the ground To this effect was the Message of the Grizons but their Answer was not published onely it was whispered that if the King of France did not send the Duke de Rohan as principall Commaunder they would inuite Count Mansfeld to vndertake the busines and be Lieutenant Generall of those Forces which should be there imployed in the meane while they fortefied all the maritine Townes of Histria and Dalmatia filled the Gulph with Gallyes and sent two Galenzes to lye betweene the point of Calabria and Candy From Geneua The great resort of Noble men and women out of Germany the Grizons and France in the time of these troubles and persecutions to Geneua as a sanctuary hath filled both the Towne so the Countrey that a great dearth and famine followed insomuch that Wheat exceeded our rates a Bushel is worth twenty shillings sterling whereupon the Magistrates feared some greater mischiefe as that the Duke of Sauoy would take aduantage on their distresse and pestring of people because they heard of diuers Mustrings and that the King of France determined to meet him at Lions But God hath the keyes of the hearts of Princes and openeth and shutteth them at his pleasure so they heard no more of hostile inuasion nor a word was whispered of any proiects against them not withstanding they stood on their guard and besides their continuall Prayers within had as continuall Garrisons and watches without so that withall care and diligence they fortified their Ports and manned their Fortifications yea such was the especiall fauour of God towards them that all other prouision bare low prices and for all this scarcity of Corne their very neighbours and aduersaries I meane the Catholike Cantons and Bazill it selfe supplyed their wants and contributed money to their reliefe From Spaine They write from Spaine that howeuer the Souldiers in their fury haue proceeded in the Valtoline yet haue the Inhabitants bin offered faire Conditions of Peace remaining in quiet possession of their estates so they will disclaime the dependancy on any other States acknowledge the King of Spaine their Lord and Protector but whereas report hath sent abroad diuers Thousands of Duckets to pay the Soldiers and discharge some Debts of importance and accompt the truth is the siluer Fleet is not yet arriued but rather is so watched by the Holanders in those parts that they cannot make that speede as is desired so that there is as great complaining for want of money as euer before notwithstanding the King not onely enlargeth his Court but hath proceeded very nobly in diuers reformations and set downe especiall ordinances for the augmentation of his owne honour and detention of the Subiect in modest rules of duty and obseruation so that neither can euery man come to the Court as they were wont nor those that come passe to such places as they accustomed From Fraunce It hath pleased God so to diuert the King from prosecuting the warre against his Subiects that heere is euery where a cheerefull face of concord and amity and we doe not heare of any man that hath opposed against the message of the Swiss and Grizons but that the King is willing to admit of their imploration for the defence or if you will regayning the Valtoline for which purpose there hath beene reciprocall Embassies betweene the Duke of Sauoy and him as farre as sending of Presents and resolution to continue a peace but they neuer met in person onely the Prince of Piemont and his wife haue beene at Lions and great ioy is made on all sides for the hopes men haue to thriue in their expectation especially considering the Archbishop of Rheimes proposeth nothing but obedience to the Church and an Vnity in Religion disclaiming the Iesuites intermedling with State matters and pestilentiall deuises to set all in an vprore againe there hath passed diuers courtesies betweene Duke Hespernon the Prince of Condy the Duke of Guise and others of that side and the Dukes Rohan and Subiss with the Duke of Bulloigne himselfe as for the mustring of Souldiers and great preparation of diuers Armies there is no such matter as yet more then a coniecture that if the King will vndertake the businesse of the Grizons it cannot be done without sufficient forces and worthy Commaunders From the Palatinate The waters haue come downe so fast this Winter that they haue remoued Tilly from Frankendale where that worthy Sergeant Maior Borregh hath not onely defended the place but made many sallyes to the endamaging the Enemy and supplying his own wants but as I beleeue neither Bauaria ●or he hath a purpose to continue there For they neither fortifie themselues nor repaire the decayed places or broken ramparts but rather demolish such holds as may be made inexpugnable

places whither he hath gone with his Empresse in person and beene entertained with triumphs inuiting as it were the Princes of the Empire to maintaine their accustomed solemnities and decide the present controuersies for the rectifying the disorders of the Common-wealth Last of all perceiuing a kind of thinnesse in these Assemblies and that neither Saxony Brandenburg Brunswicke Hess nor many other Princes graced the places with their presence he caused the Empresse to write vnto the Duke of Saxony whose Letters were to this effect My Lord The Empresse Letter to the Duke of Saxony I will neither meddle with the Emperors affaires nor your discontents nay I would not haue so much liberty giuen to a woman for feare of irregularity especially in transcendent businesse and aboue the short reaches of her sex l will onely challenge my owne rights and take vpon me to defend the honour and prerogatiue which belongs to my place I had thought then that for my sake you would haue come to the Dyet at Regenspurg and out of noble respects either welcomed me into the Country or giuen good example to others by your obseruation When I was in my Fathers house I haue heard Gonzala boast of Saxonies loue and although we had sufficient matter to talke of your greatnesse yet wee left all to thinke of your honor and affinity to the Emperor How comes then this slacknesse to visit me that am Gonzalaes sister and Ferdinandos wife Is it because you are offended or distasted with the affaires Come a Gods name and leuiate these tumors shew your griefes and iustifie your Apology and by the faith of a Princesse whose innocency warrants your safe conduct I will not leaue kneeling before his Imperiall Maiestie nay our Ladies Altar vntill a perfect reconciliation be made and your Honor acknowledged to be a great supportation of the Empire From the Valtoline It hath beene heretofore generally proclaimed that whosoeuer would obey the Church of Rome and submit to the Spanish gouernment should haue restauration of estates and quietnesse of life but many contested against it and the preuailers turned their admonitions into fury and ran ouer the Country with slaughter some they beheaded set vpon poles some they cut out their tongues some they punished in other manner and some they sent into the inquisition at Millane amongst whom as the Souldiers in their searches lighted vpon certaine Ministers and Noblemen and women there was a Gentlewoman of great yeares in the rancke of our Ladies fourescore at the least named Maddona Paola who was at the first intreated by many perswasiue reasons to forsake her Religion and come to the vnity of the Mother Church but her reply was the Story of the three Children who would not kneele to Nabuchadnezars Image and when they added the terror of the punishment shee smiled in their faces and told them they should see the Angell to protect her which answer they imputed to frenzie and the dotage of her yeares and so all enrag'd and exasperated they reuiled her and condemned her to the fire yea to bee burnt in a publike Piazza so the inquisitors went cautelously to worke and not only bound her hands but gagd her mouth and so brought her to the stake among them all but it should seeme the fire had quickly power of her cordes and her hands were as quickly at liberty so that ere shee dyed shee shewed such signes of ioy alacrity of spirit such a liuely countenance such clapping of her hands such lifting them vp to heauen such pointing to the people and then to heauen that ere she was confumed to cynders the thousands of people shed as many teares and departed a way murmurring and discontented In this estate standeth the whole Country of the Grizons at this hower and so by the aduice of the Swiffe they haue implored the Maiesty of France the Signory of Venice the King of Denmarke the Princes of Germany and the States of the vnited Prouinces to speak cheerful things to their soules and not to see them subiect to the authority of strangers From Naples AFter the arriuall of the Duke of Alua as Viceroy and that the Seas were filled with Gallies and Turkish Carmisans which Hazein Basshaw had sent abroad to watch the proceedings of Christian Princes in this time of turbulency on all sides the gouernment was so searcht and looked into and yet with that affability and insinuating care that the mutinies and seditions formerly raised were now appeased the famine preuented the Merchant welcomed diuers Noblemen discharged out of prison the factions reconciled many debts payed the money enhawnsed and a generall reformation followed which once established then beganne a muster in Calabria Brutia Apuleia yea Cicilia it selfe and at last certaine troopes of horse and Companies listed for any new emploiment as the directions of Spain should giue them notice but as yet they heare of no filuer Fleet arriued so that in truth though rumour haue beene too lauish in ouer-numbring the Souldiers yet there is a great probability that there shall an army be raised in Italy to attend the Duke of Feria in his proiects at Millane where at this houre there is a great suspition of reuolting as you shall heare in due place From Rome They write from hence that there was neuer so Wise Honourable and iudicious a Counsell about the Pope as is now nor were there Cardinals in their Conclaue so reposed and addicted to reformation before Insomuch that many enormities haue beene punished and both Priests Fryers and Curtezans restrained from that former iustifying of their impious liues in so publicke a manner yea many good decrees haue of late beene enacted and sundry Constitutions sent abroad to be practised 1 First that there was a new Bull proclaymed for auoyding all deceit and partiality in Electing their Popes 2 Secondly that those wonderfull fulminations against Heretickes should not be executed with Fire and Sword in so publique a manner as was wont insomuch that whereas the most expected the Bishop of Spalato should haue beene condemned to the Fire hee was pardoned reconciled and admitted to enioy his honours and substance 3 Thirdly Cardinall Burghesius falling out with a Iesuite called him busie body and tolde him to his face that if euer the Church suffered Diminution and decay of glory it might thanke the Iesuites who had beene the cause of all the combustions of Europe 4 Fourthly that although the rotten branches of the Vine were to be broken pruned and cut off yea cast into the Fire which is meant by obstinate Heretickes yet was it no Doctrine of the mother Church to destroy innocent soules with the refractary wicked nor slaughter ignorant Nouices before admonitory counsell and aduise for their conuersion Last of all that the Cardinals should maintaine their eminent Dignity and places how euer men except against their originals From Venice The affaires of the Grizons ouer-clouded with so many misfortunes drawe them from the line