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A11825	A sermon, preached before the two high borne and illustrious princes, Fredericke the 5. Prince Elector Palatine, Duke of Bauaria, &c. and the Princesse Lady Elizabeth, &c. Preached in the castle-chappell at Heidelberg the 8. of Iune 1613. being the next day after her Highnesse happy arriuall there: by that reuerend and iudicious diuine, Mr. Abraham Scultetus, his Highnesse chaplaine. Together with a short narration of the Prince Electors greatnes, his country, his receiuing of her Highnesse, accompanied with twe u [sic] other princes, thirty earles, besides an exceeding great number of barons and gentlemen, and eight daies ent rtainement [sic]. Translated out of High Dutch by Ia Meddus D. and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.; Meddus, James, d. 1632.	1613 (1613)	STC 22125; ESTC S117026	16,930	78

them as thou didst blesse thy best friends Abraham Isaac and Iacob that so their whole countrey may bee glad of them and that in time vnder their gouernment iudgement and righteousnesse may meet together in all parts of the Palatinate and loue kindnesse and faithfulnesse may kisse one each other in all houses Receiue likewise into thy protection and defence the Romane Emperours Maiestie the King and Queenes Maiesties of Great Britaine as also the Prince their Son all other Christian Potentates Princes Electors and other Princes of the Empire especially in our right gracious ioynt gouernment together with their beloued Ladies all that belong vnto them and so likewise all the whole Electorall and Princely family of the Count Palatines by Rheine blesse them all in bodie in soule in honour in goods Looke downe from heauen vpon the fruits of the earth and speake and spread out thy blessing ouer them that we may also therby acknowledge thee the Father and fountaine of all mercie and goodnesse Haue mercie vpon all persecuted afflicted and sorrowfull Christians cure that which sicke is binde vp that which is wounded strengthen that which is weake Lastly receiue vs and giue vs vnto thee so shall we be a blessed people here temporally and there eternally Amen TO THE INDIFFERENT Reader Considering indifferēt Reader how sinisterly some of ignorance and others of malice conceaue of the state dignity of the High and Mightie Prince Elector Palatine Duke of Bauaria c. of his Coūtry of his receauing his most honored Ladie the Princesse Elizabeth and entertainement of my Lords the Commissioners and accordingly make report thereof as also how desirous others are to be rightly informed of the truth I could not in my dutie knowing the place and hauing certaine aduertisements thence from honorable personages and others of great worth credit but add this short plaine yet true narration thereof as well for the easier stopping of intemperate mouthes as for the better satisfying of all honest mindes that bee desirous of the truth First therefore concerning the Prince Elector Palatines originall and state though those many pedegrees published here already of his Highnesse discent sufficiently shew his ancient and high blood rising from many great Emperors and Kings yet giue mee leaue to fetch it from the very beginning The Palatinate and Bauaria were once a kingdome yet subiect as other States vnto alteration and change Chron Charian lib. 4. Chronolog Func The Kingdome continued from Adelgerius the first King vntill Tassilo the last all in lineall discent 332. yeeres from the yeere of Christ his incarnation 556. vntill the yeere 788. This Tassilo the last King for that he would neither be subiect nor friend vnto Charlemaine was at length after much warre subdued by him taken prisoner and both he and his sonne Dedon depriued of their Kingdome and kept prisoners in the Monasterie of Lanceack neere vnto Heidelberg where they both ended their daies in miserie After this the posterity of Charles the great held those Countries vntill the seuenteenth yeere full or meane as is by some supposed It is in length about 200. english miles the lower and vpper Countrey In the lower the Prince hath 26. walled Townes besides an infinite number of good and faire Villages 22. houses and the land is very fruitfull of wine corne and other comfortable fruites for mans vse hauing the Rheine Neckar running throgh it The vpper Countrey hath not so many walled townes and princely houses but those that are be generally fairer then in the lower especially Amberg and New-market For her Highnesse receauing After that she had passed the low Countries the Dukedomes of Gulick Cleue and Mont the Bishoprickes of Collen and Trier with a part of the Landgraue of Hessens countrey in all which places she had so great welcome entertainement and honorable presents as truely expressed the loue and applause of the people the affection of friends and greatnes of those Princes through whose territories shee passed Shee came at last happily to Cowlsome where the Prince Elector Palatine met her highnesse post with a few horse and went together to Gauelshemi another very smale village of his the 1. of Iune 1613. inconuenient for the prouiding for and lodging and prouisions for such a traine which was occasioned by reason Coub Bachrahe and all other good townes of his thereabouts were infected Here the Prince Elector and Princesse earnestly inuited my Lords the commissioners and others his Maiesties officers who had attended in the voiage to goe along with them vnto Heidelberg whereby they might not only haue a better view of some part of the countrey but also finde entertainement to their more content The commissioners condiscended vnto so gracious a ioint request and the rather to see her highnesse well arriue at her owne home But the other officers could not by any intreaty be perswaded to goe further desirous perhaps to make speedy report vnto their Maiesties and the state of her Highnesses safe arriuall in the Palatinate and soe re●●ued the next day for England And this is the cause they saw not any memorable thing worthy of praise in the Palatinate as my Lordes the commissioners did and will not forbeare to speake honorably thereof thogh some haue done otherwise for answering of whom and satisfying of others I haue thought good to touch this much by the way and noe more I am informed of Thence they rid the next day the 2. of Iune vnto the City of Mentz whither the Archbishoppe and Prince Elector thereof Chancelor of Germany had inuited their highnesses where they stayed two nights and were of him roially entertained with great and bounteous feasting sundry excellent Fireworkes the better to expresse their welcome and passe out the time in princely manner The 4. of Iune they rodd to Oppenheim an ancient City with a Castle therein of the Prince Electors and there lodged all night which the Troianes drew into the Citie in the night the Alarum was giuen Troy fired and the Greekes in triumph marched away Conquerours The next day the 7. of Iune the Princesse remoued towardes Heidelberg after shee had Passed the walled town of Ladeberg was met 3. miles from Heidelberg with the Prince Elector accompanied with 12. other Princes the rich coach 30. Earles one thousand gentlemen of the countrey richly attired and brauely set out with gallant horse armour and other habiliaments of war The horsemen attending the Princes were besides these two thousand more So that all the horse were three thousand and all great horse The Princes alighted and welcomed her Highnesse who ascended into her rich coach After a while shee was again encountered in three seuerall places with three regiments of foot 2000. in regimēt who first welcomed their Princesse with vollies of smal shot had after the thunder seconded with 20 peeces of great ordnāce Then they marched altogether orderly in good aray conducting her to Heidelberg where the Citizens

wanted no expressions of ioy loue and duty in hearty welcoming of her praying for her all windows being replenished with people of all ages and degrees and the streetes thronged with multitudes of people drawne thither from all parts not so much to see the Pageants that were erected to further this honorable entertainement as to haue their eies filled in beholding of her Highnesse whom all honoured and admired And thus hauing passed in magnificent great state through the Citie shee was in like pompe conueied into the Castle where the Prince Electors mother with many other great Princesses Ladies Gentle women receiued her with all fitting honor due to so great a Princesse The morning of the day following being the 8. of Iune was dedicated vnto God with singing of Psalmes prayer thankesgiuing and this annexed Sermon as was meere for so great mercies receiued from God The next daies the 9. 10. and 11. were appointed for Tilting Tourney and running at the Ring the nights for fire-workes and dancings two nights after the Germane manner the other times according to the English and French custome Where let mee not omit to shew that my Lords the Commissioners and all the Princes were lodged within the Castle in lodgings well accommodated and richly furnished with bedding hangings and all other necessaries The Princesse and other great Ladies with the Commissioners being fitly placed at the Tilt-yard in the Princes garden The first that entered the Tilt-yard the 9. day was the Prince Elector himselfe accompanied with other Princes of the Empyre gallently mounted but were interrupted for that time from their matiall sports by night But the next day being the 10. recompenced the same for there came before the Prince Elector in a very stately manner this shew which gaue exceeding content vnto her Highnesse and all other great personages the beholders Iupiter came first sitting in a very rich Chariot drawne by two Griffins guarded by Mercury who was coachman Iuno followed next in another Chariot drawne by Peacockes and driuen by Iris. The God of Husbandry followed close with 3. Ploughes And after him Neptune the God of the sea entred in a Chariot wel-befitting such a Marine God drawne by 3. Sea-horses Neptune had to attend him a Merman who sate behind him on a rocke with a looking glasse in his hand and 3. Mermaides on an other Rocke singing and playing on musicall Instruments The next presentation that entered was a Centaure halfe a man halfe a horse holding a Booke in the one hand and a Mace in the other Arion followed him riding on a Sea-Vnicorne and playing on a Lute After whome followed the seauen deadly sinnes all chained and driuen forward by a Dragon which did euer spit fire Immediatly followed the Prince Elector with two others in a ship himselfe resembling Iason attended on by six Squires bearing shields and launces The golden Fleece which Iason brought from Greece was to be seene in the Ship at the sterne whereof was Enuy dragged eating her owne heart Mars followed in a chariot garnished with all warlike Ensignes hauing three Knights six Squires for his attendants bearing launces Then came Venus and Cupid drawne by Swannes in a chariot six virgines going before Hercules following after and three Knights following him the Sunne artificially gazing on the chariot Next hereunto was Victorie mounted on high in an Imperiall Chariot signifying Soueraigntie on whose top aboue there stood a displayed Eagle on which likewise attended three Knights and six Squires In the last Chariot of Forrest-worke garnished with liuing birds and beasts was Diana attended by six Satyres playing wildly on musicke six other Satyres leaping and dauncing Antick-like twelue Satyres more leading Dogges and Deere the Wood-men followed then came the Nymphes with bowes and arrowes and last the chariot of other Nymphes playing singing whō three Knights followed These were the shewes and then began the Til●ing Thus this dayes sports and the night being passed with much delight and they come the next day againe une the eleuenth into the Ti●●-yard the Prince Elector with those other two that sate with him before in the Ship himselfe still representing Iason attended vpon by six Squires eight Trumpeters seuen footmen and seuen horses of State lead single Two others followed him resembling Apollo and Bacchus who were accompanied with three Wild-men playing on strange musicke Satyres rustically dancing three Nymphs on horsebacke crowned with garlands Next came Musoeus Orheus and Eumolpus with musicke on horsebacke Mydas followed with Asses eares riding on an Asse for compating Pan to Apollo and after him miserable Marsyas and a Satyre fleaing off his skinne for daring to contest with skilfull Apollo in musicke A prettie space after followed the nine Muses seated seuerally vpon Parnassus hill and playing sweetly vpon diuers instruments of Musicke then came the three Graces with Hercules and Mercury accompanying them and Silenus Bacchus his steward with a too and a glasse which as fast as hee could fill with wine hee presently dranke off which representation was finished with Bacchus himselfe drawne by Dogges in a Chariot and waited on by Iunius Pamona Hymenaeus Zephinus Flora and Vertumnus The last representation was a man wearing an Imperiall Crown foure prisoners bounde with Skarfes going before him three following him with drawne Swordes and foure Squiers with Lances Next came three clothed like Turkes attended vpon by sixe Squiers carrying Lances And last of alone cameriding in armed at all points followed with three persons leading barbed horses single which sights being passed they tilted And so the 11. dayes Glory and Triumph ended with exceeding great State and Honour and noble performance of all Courtly Ceremonies and feats of Armes The next day after being the 12. of Iune the better to recreate their mindes with taking of the aire abroade and vsing other sports the Princesse Electoresse greatly attended rid on hunting informe the Reader of one thing not mentioned and which setteth out the Princes Electors greatnesse not a little That besides this 6000. trained footemen who staied there all the solemnitie and were fed by the Prance abroade in the fields there were euery mea●e during the abode of the Commissioners and the German Princes there aboue ●500 Tables furnished and about 6000. persons guests and seruants fed at them Wherefore let enuy malice and ignorance cease euer thence forth to carp at that they cānot paralel now they may know it and all honest mindes rest satisfied herewith Thus hauing briefly related indifferent Reader that I promised concerning the Prince Electon Palatines ancient State his Countrey the receauing of his most honored Princesse roial entertainment which all degrees found at his Highnesse Court to their full content during the whole time of these solemnities I betake their Highnesses and our selues and all the Israell of God euery where vnto the Almighties euer safe protection who preserue his and conuert or confound all his aduersaries thā wish euill vnto Zion FINIS