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A10589	A relation of all matters passed especially in France and the Low-Countries, touching the causes of the warre now in Cleueland. Together with such occurrences of note as have happened in Spaine, Italie, England, Germany, Hungarie and Transyluania, since March last to this present, 1614. Translated according to the originall of Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus.	Isselt, Michael von, d. 1597.; Booth, Robert, d. 1657.	1614 (1614)	STC 20862; ESTC S104590	34,365	50

the paine appointed for vagabonds and rogues That the Prince of Condie by the Kings permission shall keepe the towne and castle of Amboyse with 100. garrison souldiers for his securitie vntill the time of the general Parliament That the Duke of Vendosme if he returne to his house and rest contented with these Articles should be restored to his place and enioy his former honour as before all manner of inhibitions being taken away and abolished by the publike Edicts that they may preiudice nor hurt him any more That hee receiued money of the chiefe of the Prouince to maintaine his armie the King should allow Likewise for one whole yeere complete the King should maintaine the forces appointed for Machen and Bell Isle if the Captaine of Retse shall require the same That the damage which was done to Monsieur de Camore at Hennebon where he is Commander should be recompensed and he restored to his former office and dignitie That all companies of souldiers brought into the cities and townes of this Kingdome during this commotion from the Kalends of Ianuarie vntill this time should be dissolued except 100. souldiers at Massire and 200. at Soisson vnder the command of the Duke de Maine which are to continue vntill the Parliament be finished seeing that other Cities and Townes should be restored to their former estate That the King by his letters sent to all the Parliament should signifie and make knowne that he is sufficiently perswaded that the Prince of Condee and other officers of the kingdome of what estate and condition soeuer who followed them in this commotion attempted nothing of any euill purpose neither did fall from their obedience due to the King adding a necessary both excuse and assurance that they need not be called into question for them but that they should bee againe restored to their former Dignities and Offices and enioy the profits of them as before And that letters should be dispatched to the confederate Princes and Estates and that they should truly vnderstand with all speed by certaine fit Messengers for that purpose what the King doth assuredly know touching the innocency and loyall affection of the Prince of Condee and other officers That the King shall pay to the Prince of Condee for the charges of him and other officers during these troubles the summe of foure hundred and fiftie thousand pounds to bee diuided by him among the Princes and other Officers These matters thus being ordered and allowed and confirmed by the King the Prince of Condee and other Princes and Officers of the kingdome disclaimed and renounced all confederacies vndertaken either within the kingdome or without and promised neuer to enter into any league any more On the other side the King granted to the Duke of Niuerne his letters Patents to him and his eldest sonne of the gouernment of Champaine These businesses in this manner being passed and all agreement signed and sealed by the King himselfe the Queene Mother being President and also by the Prince of Condee and Ventadurius the Duke of Bullion and other Princes the Prince of Condie wrote his letters to the Queene Mother wherein he professed that both in regard of her great good will before time declared vnto him and also for the great fauour shee had done him in this present treaty that hee acknowledged himselfe so much obliged to her that hee could not forbeare to giue her great thankes for this royall affection of hers towards him but hee did beseech her that shee would waigh courteously and equally with her selfe by what freenes of mind hee was impelled to vndertake these businesses who if he might haue liued without the malice of aduersaries that lay in waite to surprise his honour and estate had neuer proceeded so far neither had any stir beene made in the kingdome But now all matters being stilled and quieted by the grace of God and the wisdome of the Queene that he did earnestly beseech her that shee would so order and gouerne all things hereafter that no occasion may bee offered to the renewing of the like Commotions for that hee for his part would alwaies be most ready in his place to performe all manner of seruice to the King his master While these things passed in France there appeared at Prage and thorow all Bohemia a Sunne Circle called Paralia and two Sunnes seemed to appeare in heauen At Nemeth in Hungarie a fountaine neare to the walles of the City brake forth with great force into streames of blood almost by the space of an houre At Butoarium a woman brought forth a monster resembling a Seafish And another womā in a village not aboue a mile from Prage brought forth a child with one body but fearefully shaped with foure hands and foure feet which liued vntill the next day A little before in Carinthia it rained a kind of red graine whereof there was baked good bread which was brought ouer by certaine Merchants from Villacum And euen at this time was seene in the aire a red Crosse not without great wonder and terrour to the beholders Almost about the same time being the fifteenth of May Wolfangus William neglecting the Augustane Confession fell to the Pope and embraced the Romane Religion and at a Masse which was celebrated in the parish Church of Dusseldorpe with great solemnity and all manner of musicke hee with his wife receiued the Sacrament after the Popish manner Afterwards a Sermon was made by the Deane of the Church out of the third Chapter of Iohn wherein also the reasons were deliuered for which the Prince had withdrawne himselfe into the bosome of the Romane-Catholicke Church After a few daies a Nuncio came from the Pope accompanied with certaine Capuchine Monkes to Dusseldorpe to conferre plenarie absolution and benediction vpon the Prince and to exhort him to constancy This reuolt and change of Wolfangus bred great sorrow and griefe in the mind of Philip Ludouicke Prince of Newburge the father and since that which was done could not be vndone being sollicitors in the behalfe of his subiects exhorted them to fall to prayer for the conseruing of the sincere and wholesome doctrine of the Gospell and to that end published an Edict to be obserued by all the Pastors of the Churches to this effect For as much as he hath ordained and commanded all the Pastors and Ministers which is in the Principality of Newburge that they carefully prouiding against this present necessity and the eminent fearefull change of Religion that not only they themselues doe meete in the Churches euery Monday at twelue of the clocke to powre forth prayers to God with their hearers but also that they be carefull that the same be done by the Ministers and Preachers vnder their Iurisdiction that he doth straightly command and enioyne them all that they giue good example to their hearers and that they the time and place aforesaid and together with their Auditors men women and children and their whole families they doe beseech

the Lord to turne away the danger which now is at hand and that in the solemnizing of publike prayers they doe premise a generall admoninion in this manner Besides the calamities and manifold punishments wherewith the Lord hath chastised these Countries for their manifold transgressions that now it is greatly to bee feared lest they be depriued of the greatest treasure which they haue in this world that is the puritie of the word of God and that the famine which the Prophet speakes of doe fall vpon these Countries That they all had deserued this punishment thorow their vnthankfulnesse security contempt of the word of God yet is to be hoped that if turning to God with their whole hearts they shall repeate and implore the goodnesse of God and doe present their supplications to him against the dismission of the sincere Preachers of the word of God and the change of religion which wil in time proue hurtful to them and their posteritie it may come to passe that God for the merit and intercession of his sonne and for the glory of his most holy name may repent him of his purpose and may leaue his blessing amongst them that they may yet longer enioy the great Supper of his to which they haue been inuited Therfore to this end that God is to be inuocated with ardent prayers and true groues in this manner O etérnall God c. But when this vnexpected change of Prince Wolfangus Guilielmus bred diuers thoughts in the minds not only of the Courtiers and Councellors but also of the commons of those countries who professed the Augustane and reformed religion the Prince to pacifie them and to hold them within the compasse of their obedience published an Edict wherein he declared that he had no intention to make any disturbance among his subiects in the point of religion that he did not only heare by relation but obserued it himselfe that many of his Officers Councellors and other Ministers as also of his subiects dwelling in cities villages are much troubled and perplexed in regard of his Christian conuersion and publike confession and this his transition to the ancient Roman Church as if by reason of the euident and knowne difference of religions he meant not to maintaine them in the exercise of the religion but in the point of religion would make innouation and force them to embrace the confession of a contrary religion Therefore that no occasion may be taken of alteration and of change of allegeance and dutie due vnto him especially in these touchy and dangerous times And for as much hee neuer intended any such thing that hee thought good by these letters to testifie that he hath resolued not only to depart from the couenants and mutual obligations passed but also with all his power to withstand them who shall depart from the same and to direct all his actions to the glory of God the safetie of his countrie and to the preseruation of iustice which is equally to bee administred to all without any respect of religion And that he hopeth well that all and euery of his Councellors Officers Commanders and subiects wil constantly continue in their due obedience For they who shall doe the contrary and fall away from their dutie and alleagance shall no longer enioy their commodities and priuiledges which either they receiued of their ancestors or haue obtained by couenant and mutuall obligation These letters being published the 14. of Iune when it was giuen out that the Prince of Brandenburge went about to bring in the reformed religion he also by his Proclamation professed that euery man shall enioy his religion and that none vnder his gouernment shall suffer any trouble for his conscience sake Now for the extinguishing of the vnkindnesse growne betweene the Princes of Brandenburge and Newburg and to compose all controuersie in a friendly manner there was a meeting appointed the 10. of Iune at Wesel whether the Elector of Collen and the vnited Estates sent their Embassadors Who when they perswaded the Newburgians that they should within three daies dismisse their souldiers at Dusseldorpe both the garison souldiers and the mustered also and that they should forbeare to fortifie the towne The Newburgians wondring at this their Order answered that if Gulick were restored into her former estate that they would bee readie to doe what lay in them but rather then they would yeeld consent to the diuision of the countrie they would first trie all manner of extremitie Therefore when neither part would yeeld from their right that meeting was frustrated The Newburgians returning home when the Prince vnderstood the demands of the vnited Estates to shew himselfe inclinable for his part conceiued in writing certaine Articles by which hee supposed a composition might be made and caused it to be presented to the Estates That the whole treatie at Wesel consisted in this that the Vnited Estates did hold that the army mustered by the Duke of Newburge should be dismissed on the contrary in the behalfe of the Prince it was declared not onely for what reasons that army was leuied but also how necessarie it was that the army should be withdrawne from Gulick and that towne to be reduced to his former estate Therefore when as the Estates themselues haue by their letters declared that they gaue warrant to their Commissioners to compose by way of prouision at the least al controuersies betweene the Princes and to prouide that as well their subiects as neighbours should be preserued from al danger and trouble Notwithstanding that ielousies and distrust haue not a little growne by this that against his priuitie and consent and otherwise then he had deserued of them he was dispossessed of the Castle of Gulicke and his garrison souldiers put out of it which possession and detention hath been hitherto continued vnder a pretence of a common benefit to both the Princes whereby it is no hard matter to conceiue what suspitions are like to arise thereby in the Empire especially with the Emperour himselfe who is chiefe Lord of the Fee and other Electors and Princes pretending any title to those countries that he should be so disturbed in a possession purchased with such danger charge and trauell and the sequestration before time so much misliked by the Estates of the low Countries and with many reasons oppugned against the Arch-duke Leopalde should there so easily be allowed Seeing therefore there is danger lest those that loue not the Prince should draw this innouation into suspition and make that construction that it should be thought that more respect was giuen to the Estates of the Vnited Prouinces then to the Emperour himselfe whom the Prince doth acknowledge the chiefe Magistrate and Lord of the Fee but also would offend the Emperour and prouoke him to enter into a new Processe against the posseding Princes and so would draw into danger a possession hitherto procured with great trauell and charge to the great preiudice of the

certaine contentions betweene the Citizens and Senate of Frankford about the publication of priuiledges which had been decreed and promised them by the Emperour for the appeasing and reconciling of which differēces were deputed Commissioners by the Emperour Iohn Schuichardus Elector of Mentz and Lewes the Lantgraue of Hassia who after long and painefull examination of the businesse brought the matter to that passe that they accorded vpon certaine articles of which we will onely mention the chiefest First that the Senate should faithfully deliuer and open all the priuiledges of the citie 7. persons being selected for the executing of the businesse an oath being first taken of them in whole custodie the Records are kept that nothing shall be carried out of the Office and next of the persons selected or deputed for the reuiew of the priuiledges that if they find any which may be preiudiciall to the citie they shall conceale them and other if they shall seeme profitable for the citizens that they shall faithfully reueale and discouer them to the Commons Many other articles were agreed vpon which rather concerned priuate commoditie then the publick administration of the commō weale But the differences between the citizens and the Senat were composed and that the Peace and friendship might the better be preserued betweene them hereafter and that both obedience and respect might be yeelded to the Senate and the Citizens without impeach enioy their liberties and priuiledges there was decreed solemnly a publike release and obiteration of all those things which during these troubles haue been done or said vrgently betweene them that none of those things should be preiudiciall to any Furthermore that they should forbeare all secret conuenticles and factions and especially that none either Senator or Citizen should vndertake or attempt any thing against this transaction the which since the Emperor at the earnest request of the foresaid Commissioners the Senat and the Citizens hath ratified and confirmed by his speciall rescript The Companies of Smolensco who returned home 〈◊〉 of the warre of Mosco did with great importunity chalenge their pay and made great vprores in Polonia and the Countries thereabout killing of the Countrie men with no lesse cruelty and furie then if they had been in the enemies Countrey spoiling and burning all where they came Therefore the Elector of Brandenburge to remoue such a mischiefe from the borders of his Countrey put his subiects into armes and sent to the Bishop of Halles many waggons laden with prouisions for warre The Elector of Saxonie following his example mustered vp his souldiers also and taking great quantities of armes out of his storehouses of Dresda and Witemberge and his other armories caused them to bee carried to diuers Castles and Townes When the rumor was spread of the Gouernour of Millaine the Dukes of Mantua Sauoy and Lorraine and others that they had a mighty armie in readinesse the vnited Electors and Princes were from diuers places admonished that they should take circumspect heed of a sudden irruption in the meane time the Moscouites making a sudden incursion into Lithuania infested and annoyed all the Countrey about with burning and spoyling The Tartars in like manner wasting and making hauocke in the confines of Polonia The 12. of August died the illustrious Prince Philip Ludouicke the old Duke of Newburge who by his last Testament made the Duke of Wittemberge and the Marquesse of Durlace his Executors At this time the Prouinciall Diet was held at Lints wherein all the hereditarie Prouinces of the Emperour the Bohemians Austriacks Styrians Carinthians Carniolanes Silesians Lusatians Morauians and Hungarians were assembled It was propounded in that assembly that of the Turkes part the peace was broken by reason of many excursions and direptions of men and cattell and other hostile attempts of that kind and that so much more certainely that besides Valachia and Moldauia hee hath made challenge to Transyluania as his proper inheritance and hath fortified it with Garrison souldiers vnder the gouernment of Gabriel Bethline hath assembled the States of the Countrey and hath denounced by his letters to the Emperour that he should forbeare to intermeddle in the Countrie There was mention made of Gabriel Bethline that he hath made him Gouernour and the Turkes Vassall that this Prouince might be vnited to the Turkes Empire since then it brings more hurt then profit to the Christian world it seemeth no part of wisedome to abandon the Countrey to the Turkes especially considering the benefit which it bringeth to the Turke and the mischiefe it bringeth to the Christians seeing it is so opportune for each party to make warre against the other That it is no expecting the ratification of the peace seeing the Sultan will by no meanes suffer that the Prouince should sweare to them both Furthermore it was in the Parliament demanded since things hold no longer currant but the Sultan laies claime to the Prouince nor will suffer that hereafter the Germanes should giue lawes to the Transyluanians what should be answered to the Turke touching all these things and since the Turkish Embassadour hath come without any commission against the expresse conditions of peace the Sultan hath no wil to ratifie the sixth Article of the transaction if his Embassadour is to be admitted and his letters to be receiued by the Emperour to whom onely it is fit they should bee deliuered The last question was this whether a new transaction bee to bee made with the Sultan since hee refused to ratifie the former and whether the Sultan stand to his promises or not as hee hath done about Moldauia Valachia and Transyluania if hee should inuade Hungary before this Parliament bee finished what is to bee done should the Emperour descend to a meane of pasification which by him hath not hitherto been violated In the meane time came the Turkes Embassadour to Lints by sea Therefore those Delegates which were there present in the behalfe of the hereditarie Prouinces and kingdomes without delay deliuered to the Emperour their answeres to al the propounded articles of the present consultation whose opinion was that it behoued the Hungars to deuise a meane how this transaction made with the Sultan might be kept on foot and yet without preiudice to the Emperours authority and in regard of the future and imminent necessity that necessary meanes might bee prouided for the defence of the Countrie The Transyluanians by all meanes labouring and deprecating that no army may set foot within their Prouince During this Parliament the Mandate Declaratorie of the proscription in the businesse of Aken was published in Frankford the 23. of August by the Subdelegates of the Emperour to this effect That after his happy accesse to the Empire hee vsed all speciall diligence immediately that in all places iustice might bee restored to her brightnesse and by this as by a meane the peace and concord of all estates and members of the Empire might be conserued Therefore after that hee vnderstood

madnesse being conuerted into the Iewes street they spoiled and ransacked the same The Iewes at the first withstood them and with barrecadoes of all manner of stuffe defended their houses being assisted by some of the Citizens themselues But the numbers of the raging multitude encreasing more and more and the rascals and loose people flocking out of all quarters and corners of the towne and mixing themselues with the seruants and prentises gathered such a head that they were past resistance the Consuls themselues and other good Citizens being vnable to preuaile against their furie either by force or by perswasion for the rage the more encreased the more it fell out that any were wounded in the tumult For one was wounded in the arme another in the eare another in the eye some being wounded to death fell to the ground The next day the Citizens armed themselues and came vp with a competent number of horse and foote into the street and taking the goods from those loose fellowes whom they could light on in the streets caused them to be laid vp for the owners So there was an end made of this robbing and mutiny The Iewes moued with the feare of this vprore to the number of 1500. forsooke the City resoluing to dwell somewhere else Marquesse Spinola in the meane time comming to Rhinberke resolued to besiege Wesell accompanied with 12000. horse and foote The Vesalians vnderstanding this determination of Spinola presently dispatched messengers to Rhinberke to gratulate his comming and to present him with certaine cartlodes of wine and to desire of him the cause of his comming that they might giue him satisfaction who answered them that they must restore the City into the same condition and state of gouernment wherein it stood in the time of Charles the fifth and receiue his Garrison into the towne When this answere was deliuered to the Citizens assembled in the Parish Church they bound thēselues instantly by mutual othes that they would fight to the last gaspe for their Countrey and die and liue together in the quarrell But Spinola the 23. of August approching with all his Camp neerer to the towne sent certaine Companies aforehand to make an assault vpon the walles which the townes-men issuing out of the towne receiued in such manner that they slew very many of them especially with the great Ordinance which played from the towne but Spinola marching neere with the the rest of the armie they retired into the towne But he caused 18. Murall engins to be set against one place of the wall threw downe one of the gates of the towne which with the fall oppressed diuers and stroke such a terrour into the minds of the Citizens that the women in all places came with their children running to the walles and with weeping and wringing of hands entreated Spinola to spare them A treaty hereupon appointed an agreement was made that one thousand souldiers should bee receiued into the City and should be billeted by the Magistrate vpon diuers houses who notwithstanding liuing vnder military Discipline should bee no burthen to the townes-men nor receiue either meate or money of them 2. That Gulicke being once restored to the former estate by the Estates of the Vnited Prouinces the City should be againe discharged of these Companies of souldiers 3. That no change should be made either in ciuil matters or Ecclesiasticall and those which concerne religion 4. That the City should retaine all her priuiledges without impeachment 5. That by this occasion no preiudice should be offered to the Prince of Brandenburge 6. That his Officers and Ministers with all their armes and prouisions might remaine in the City so long as please them 7. That the City should keepe still their Ordinances and all Prouision for war in their possession 8. That the Garrison souldiers of the City should depart with al their armes 9. That it should bee free for any Citizen to depart out of the City whensoeuer hee would These conditions being subscribed by Spinola and after to be confirmed by the Prince of Newburge the City was deliuered into Spinola his hands While these matters passed in this manner Graue Maurice Count of Nassau drew out his forces to the number of eighteene thousand horse and foot appointing his rendeuous at Schencke Sconce and taking to him William Henry Fredericke and Iohn Ernest Count Chastilion also and Sir Horace Vere and many other braue Commanders marching with his whole armie by water and land hee came before Emericke and suddenly surprised the towne and put a guard in it Next he marched to Rese Now the townes-men a little before had sent their Consul to Spinola promising him that they would receiue a guard from him But whē his Excellency had pitched his Campe and summoned the towne to yeeld themselues they refused discharged their Ordinance against the Spaniards which Spinola sent with their consent professing that they would bee neutrall and would receiue no guard from one side or other The Spaniards being thus sent away and deluded his Excellency commanded that the Artillary and all prouision should bee made ready to batter the towne which he intended to do very strongly but the Burgers when they saw there was no remedy yeelded the towne and receiued a guard from his Excellency who from thence marching further tooke in Gocha Calcar Gunep and other townes situate in those quarters In the meane time Spinola neglecting the conditions of the treaty made with them of Wesell encreased his guard against his promise and faith giuen for he brought in three thousand souldiers to the great hurt of the City and so terrified the Burgers as he had done before at Duisburge that not one Preacher durst dare to preach in publike in so much as their Churches seemed to be desolate But further making a bridge of boates ouer the Rhine betweene Wesell and Buricke part of his armie he sent to take Sante part he employed to raise a bulwarke vpon the Rhine anenst Wesel by that meanes to keepe both the passage of the Riuer and the City it selfe in his power There had been carried from the siege of Gulicke into the towne of Wesell 22. peeces of great Ordinance with exceeding store of powder and shot All which hee permitted to bee taken away and to bee restored to the Prince of Brandenburge But his Excellency marching on still drew so neere to Spinola that he ioyned Tents with Spinolaes Tents in so much as the P●rdues and Sentinels might not onely talke but also eate and drinke together And when hee desired to see the letters of his commission that he might know in whose name he entred into this expedition Spinola desired his Excellency that hee would in like sort satisfie him who caused so many Trumpeters to sound the trumpet as he had noble personages in his Campe. But to the declaration of the Estates of the vnited Prouinces that they would deliuer the Castle of Gulicke by way of sequestration to the two Embassadors of the Kings of Britanny and France the Elector of Cullen answered That he knew not the minds of both the Princes whether they will assent to this motion or no and that hee knew as little whether these Embassadours haue sufficient warrant from the Kings their Masters to doe the same that as hee conceiued it was a businesse rather of priuate honour then the good of the Countrey which was stood vpon That it cannot be denied but that hee loseth nothing of his honour who restores that which is not his owne therefore it should bee fit for the common good that on both sides restitution should bee made of all places and all questions which haue risen from hence should bee clearely taken away After hee exhorted his Excellency that he would please to spare neither time nor paines to compose these differences but that hee would bee willing to stay armes that the matter may be drawne to a treaty That hee also hath dealt earnestly with Spinola that would stay here but that he would not hearken to the motion vnlesse he were assured that the Estates and the Marquesse of Brandenburge would also sit still and attend the issue of a treaty Therefore that the matter might with more conueniency be brought to a treaty that hee would wish his Excellency and the Estates to be effectually dealt withall We spake somewhat before of the preparations of the Gouernour of Millaine and other Princes of Italy to armes Now about the beginning of September the armies of the Gouernour of Millain and of the Duke of Sauoy which are reported to exceed the number of 40000. haue met in the field and fought a very bloody battell Albeit they of Berne and Geneua and others suspecting that some trechery lyeth hidden vnder this pretence of quarrell are vpon their guard and prouide circumspectly against the worst being also aduised diligently by the Protestant Princes and Estates that they suffer not themselues to be abused by any false pretences Therefore certaine Imperiall Cities as Strawsburge Norimberge Collen Wormes Ratisbone Bibracke Memming Vinshem Rotenburge Veissenburge Offenburge Noerdling Hailbrun Essing Reutling Suinfurt Colmar Halle in Sueueland and others haue with great speed sent their Embassadors for a meeting to be held the 6. of Septemb. in this cause of Vlme by reason of these tumultuous businesses and rumours of warres the illustrious Princes of W●ttemberge and Anhalte ioyning with them in this busines FINIS