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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

be done against it and that he had giuen strict charge to his officers whom hee had placed vpon the frontiers of his territories that they should giue no offence to the Emperours subiects and that it was iust and necessarie that the Emperour should doe the like if he wished that the Peace might continue without violation but that now he vnderstoode that the Emperour was raising forces especially against Transyluania which was a Prouince alwaies subiect to his Ancestors and him hath receiued their Princes designed out of his Court and being maintained vnder his protection from all enemies hath liued in peace in manner as other Prouinces haue done that be subiect to him That where hee vnderstoode that Battory did command in that Prouince with tyrannie hee sent an army lately to depresse him and to free his subiects from his crueltie and now more that Battory being defeated he had designed Gabriel Bethline a Prince of great wisdome and valour to gouerne the Countrey and haue ordered that hee should vndertake the same with assurance of his helpe and assistance but while he by all meanes endeuoured to doe his commandement that sundry waies this Peace hath been broken on the Emperours part by the taking of the skonces of Husta and Viuaria and the townes of Nagipania and Tosnacum Therefore that he desires the Emperour that as himselfe is carefull by all meanes to conserue the Peace so if he be so affected for his part that he would giue order to make restitution of the said places to the Prince of Transyluania or at the least that he would please by this messenger to let him vnderstand his disposition who by these letters of his may conceiue how he stands affected to the keeping of the said Peace That the Peace was not at the first desired by him but the Emperour was the cause of making the same which he doth worthily ascribe to his owne most iust victories that now he hath signified to the Emperor what befitted his greatnes to haue done and doth desire that he would forbeare these attempts make restitution of the places which he hath seazed vpon for by so doing the Peace is like to continue firme But if the Emperor be otherwaies disposed it shall hereby manifestly appeare to the world whether of them hath broken promise and violated the Peace and that God will bring to passe that which he hath decreed To conclude that hee desires the Emperour that hee doe not long detaine his messenger with him but with his letters giue him a speedie dispatch lest this long absence of his should breede iealousie in him that he stand not so carefully affected to the conseruation of the Peace This Messenger being honourably intertained was dismissed with expedition with letters wrapped in cloath of golde to this purpose that the Emperour hauing with the aduice of the Electors and Princes and other Estates of the Empire resolued touching the busines was ready to returne an answere by another Messenger who was already aduaunced on his way to the Turkes Court Therfore that the Turke should expect but a while and in the meane time he should tempt nothing against the Peace Before this time there had passed diuers leagues and confederacies betweene the States of the Vnited Prouinces and certaine of the Hanse townes Which example the towne of Magdeburge being willing to follow had determined to enter into a league with them The which the Elector of Saxonie misliking writ his letters to the Towne that hee vnderstoode from diuers places that they determined to enter into a league with forraine states especially with the states of the Low-Countries and although he conclude nothing of that businesse neither doe much busie himselfe to vnderstand the reasons which moued them to do this yet this he took notice therof for this cause because he knew not whether they entred into this matter with the priuitie and allowance of the Emperour for if it were otherwise they might easilie conceiue how ill the Emperour would take it And yet that he by no means could allow this Confederacy so needlesse and euery way vnnecessarie but seeing he bare no lesse good will to this Common-weale then his Ancestors had done and would bee carefull by all meanes to keepe and defend all harme from the same that hee thought it necessarie with all speede to disswade them from this league from which nothing could arise but exceeding displeasure in the minde of the Archbishop of Magdeburge and many other inconueniences beside For if they had this purpose in contracting this league to vndertake any hostilitie against the Archbishop and his Diocesse by reason of the difference lately growne betweene them that they may easilie thinke that both himselfe and other Princes and Electors will not bee wanting to assist him as one that is neerely linked to them in alliance Seeing therefore he knowes very well that the Electors and Princes will very shortly take paines to compound this difference that he hopes they will so carrie themselues that the Princes shall haue no cause to complaine of them and that the Archbishop will proue himselfe such a one as desires not to presse them with any new burthen but will condescend that these dissentions and quarrels shall bee determined according to lawe and equitie Besides these letters sent to the State of Magdeburge hee wrote other letters to the same purpose vnto the Emperour that he vnderstood not long since from Christianus Gulielmus Archbishop of Magdeburge Primate of Germanie the Marques of Brandenburge and others that the citizens of Magdeburge decreed to make a league with the vnited States of the Belgicke Prouinces and that the foresaid Archbishop hath signified that the same if it should come to passe would both be displeasing to him and would proue heauie and dangerous to his Diocesse and withall by their ioynt letters to the Emperour entreated that hee would stop this intended league and admonish the Senate and Citizens to yeeld obedience and respect to his pleasure That this message was very displeasing to him and that they could not see what reason the Magdeburgers had without the Emperours knowledge to affect this league and to giue occasion to the Archbishop suspiciously to gather matter of feare iealousie Seeing therfore he holds this request of the Archbishop very iust and reasonable and that in these places it is not fit to giue occasion to draw on new dangers and troubles but rather maturely to meet with them especially in this dangerous and hard estate wherein Germany stands that by all meanes hee doth humbly beseech the Emperour that he considering the equity of the Archbishops request would interpose his authority to dehort the Magdeburgers from their purpose and gratiously to draw them to yeeld obedience to their Archbishop The Emperour hauing receiued these letters disswaded the Magdeburgers from this intended confederacy by which meane the Citizens also of Brunswicke who had ioyned with them in this negotiation returned out of

of the holy Supper to be vnderstoode and expounded in the true and right sense with some other Articles as it was reported Some yeeres past and before the Peace made with the confederate States of Holland a Seafaring man of Holland had been taken by the Masters of the Spanish Inquisition and had been condemned to the fire for a Psalme booke onely which was found in his custodie but by some strange deuice hee escaped that danger but afterward returning into the same place againe as being secure from feare by reason of the League hee was againe taken by the Inquisitors and notwithstanding the intercession of the States to the Archduke who writ to the King in the prisoners behalfe hee was condemned and burnt aliue His kinsfolkes haue made many complaints to the States for this crueltie and to reuenge the same haue intreated earnestly that they may haue leaue to saile into the West Indies About the beginning of Aprill was an honourable meeting of the Electors and Princes at Naumburge in Thuring the Elector of Saxony with his brother Augustus the Elector Brandenburge and many other Princes to conclude and aduise of the hereditarie league betweene the noble families of Saxony Brandenburge and Hassia of the precedencie of the houses of Vinaria and Alkenburge and of the doubtfull and controuersed busines touching Gulicke and Iuliers In the meane time ielousies and vnkindnes euery day increasing betweene the Princes of Brandenburge and Newburge many of the Electors and Princes laboured to bring them to accorde But the States of Cleueland assembling together agreed to incline to neither side of the foresaid Princes nor to allow any contribution to them vntill they were assured of their true successor and Master and at once sending their letters to the Archduke Albert to the Elector of Collen to the Estates of the vnited Prouinces of Belgium requested them that they would haue no hand in this busines but that they would leaue it to be determined betweene the Princes themselues to whom the Elector of Collen answered that for the great desire he had of peace hee would be very vnwilling that any warre should arise especially in the Empire and Countries neighbouring vpon him and yet if the Prince of Newburge should haue any wrong done him in his right pretence that by no meanes he might forsake him and sending to Dusseldorpe Reckius his Embassadour exhorted the Princes who were seased of some places to lessen their traine And although they fell to the number of twentie fiue attendants yet the Brandenburgian presently changing his purpose after that the Newburgians laying aside their armes which they carried closely that is Pistols and other weapons which might bee tied vnder their cloakes and walking onely with their swords by their sides answered that he also would willingly condescend to all reason and equity especially in the determining of the question of succession betweene them and forthwith departing to Gocha within the Principality of Cleue hee sent his Embassadours to the Estates of the vnited Prouinces who by all meanes exhorted both the Princes to auoide trouble and to conserue peace But when the Estates vnderstood that the King of Spaine had commanded his souldiers to be in a readinesse they also gaue order to haue Waggons prouided that if necessity required they might carrie their souldiers thither where the Spanish forces should bend Which prouision gaue the Archduke occasion to write to them to this effect That he lately was aduertised by the Estates and Councellors of the Dukedome of Cleue of differences growing betweene the Illustrious Princes George William of Brandenburge and Wolfangus William of Newburge and of the dangers which therby hang ouer the whole Countrey with a request also from them that to his power he would for the conseruation of the common peace meet with these difficulties Therefore that he being moued with the request of them of Cleue and also for that it imported him very much that his neighbours should liue in peace had by his letters aduised the Princes that as louers of peace they would entertaine loue and concord and with all diligence auoide troubles adding withall a protestation that hee in regard of the peace and right hee hath to maintaine ouer those places that he of necessity must bee an enemy to him who is the first author to moue any stirre And although hee doubt not but that they are of the same mind with him and will not suffer that any dore should bee open to so great dangers and troubles yet that hee was willing to desire them that if they thought good themselues would bestow some paines to conserue the publike peace which wil very soone be violated and disturbed in these parts if these Princes should fall together by the eares There was offered to the Emperour about the beginning of Aprill the declaration of Wolfangus William Prince of Newburge his submission in the Mulheme businesse But the Elector of Brandenburge would in no sort submit the businesse to be desided by the Emperours Councell of Court but endeuoured by all meanes that it might bee remitted to the Imperiall Chamber in which behalfe he wrote to the Emperour to this effect In that he had not to this time returned an answere to the Emperours letters touching a new hearing of the busines of Iuliers that he did it not of purpose nor of any intent to delay the matter but for waighty considerations which hindred him But that indeed there are many reasons which hinder that hee may not condescend to yeeld to this treatie of the businesse for that it is euident by the relation of the Count Hoelsoller sent from Erford to the Emperour the last yeere how deceitfully he was dealt withall who hauing nothing but hony vpon their tongue did by all meanes studie to besmeare his face And since this happened by the foresaid Earle who professeth himselfe a kinsman of his house and is by oth obliged to him for his hereditarie Office of the Chamber which hee holds of him that he may easily imagine how farre hee is to trust others in this cause who are not in that place of relation to him And surely that his feare and iealousie is not a little encreased by that same dangerous and most pernicious decree in the businesse of Mulheme which a few daies ago Iohn Ludouike of Vlmes bearing the Chancellors person in the Emperours Court procured to bee intimated to him although in the whole yeere nothing was done to his knowledge in that cause in the Court not so much as by way of ordinary talke Whereby it may easily appeare what affection the Emperours officers carrie towards him Although therefore he hath good reason to looke to himselfe being admonished by these former steps nor to commit any thing that may concerne him to such kind of men notwithstanding passing by all these things to shew his care to yeeld to the Emperour his due respect that hee submits his cause to this treaty

mention made in our former bookes of the affaires of Aken and for them wee are now come to the Commination of the proscription Therefore the Elector of Heidelberge writing his letters to the King of France desired him that he would in time interpose his authoritie who without delay dispatched his letters to the Elector of Collen to dehort him from the execution of the sentence that the decree of the Emperor against the city of Aken to strike it with the thunderbolt of Proscription for those things which there fell out in the time of the vacancy in the name of his kinsman the Palatine Administrator and vnder the title of his Vicariat in the Empire was very displeasing to him therefore waighing the danger which by the execution of this sentence seemeth to threaten the Peace of Germany which it concerneth neerely that this citie should be preserued that hee as a Christian Prince whose part it is by all meanes to maintaine the publike Peace among the Confederate Princes of the kingdome that hee could not forbeare to put him in mind of the mischieuous and dangerous issue which peraduenture this execution may haue therefore that he desires that he would please to take notice from Praeaustie his Embassadour residing in Flanders of those things which he hath giuen him in charge especially on the behalfe of his kinsman the Palatine Elector These letters were sent to the Kings Embassadour Mounsier de Preux with other letters besides to him to this purpose That he hath sent to him the copies of those letters which he had receiued from the Elector Palatine in the matter of the Aken-busines which passed during the vacancie and when the Vicariate of the Empire fell to him that by them vnderstanding what he challengeth to belong to him touching the execution of the Proscription decreed against this citie and committed to the Archduke Albert and Elector of Collen and of the right which the Palatine Elector in this cause pretends to belong to him hee may obserue and discerne how much the Palatine doth promise to himselfe for the conseruation of the peace in Germany by the interseding of his authoritie with these Commissioners Seeing therefore there hangeth no small danger ouer whole Germany by this execution especially if the Princes ioyning together shall earnestly oppose themselues against it that he hath sent him letters written to the Elector of Collen chargeth him to deliuer them to him and that he would propound to his consideration the waight of the whole businesse as also the declaration of the right which he hath in hindring this endeuour of his against the Palatine Elector and the dangerous accidents tending to the mischiefe not onely of the citie of Aken but also of the whole Empire together with the demimution of the authoritie and honour of the Emperour and that hee write backe withall speed to aduertise him how farre hee hath preuailed with him In the former bookes we spake of the broiles which were raised in France with a commemoration of the grieuances exhibited to the Queene by certaine principall personages and the answere to the same And seeing it concerned the Common-wealth very much that the seedes of troubles should bee choaked in the very bud and the sparkles of fire quenched in the very kindling before they bee able to take flame Lewes the most Christian King when he vnderstood that a meeting was appointed by the Princes at Soissons the 7. of April incontinently sent certaine of his Councellors thither who should giue remedy to their grieuances and friendly compose all differences furnished with letters of credence to this effect that as before he had sent them to Soisson that they might treat with the Prince of Condie and others there assembled so at this time especially He the Queene Mother and the rest of the Counsellors and Princes consenting doth will and giue them full power that looke what conditions they shall thinke honest and indifferent for the mature composing of their troubles they should accept and assure in his name that they shall be faithfully obserued in Court and that they do all things which hee himselfe would doe if hee were there present And if so be that this Treatie shall require any more speciall commission that hee doth promise in the faith and word of a King that whatsoeuer shall in this businesse be done transacted concluded decreed and promised that hee will hold it ratum gratum that is it should bee as strong and as well pleasing to him as if he had done it himselfe and that he will by speciall edicts giue commandement that it be executed and this power shall euery one haue although they shall be hindred either through sicknesse or any busines that they could not bee there This Treatie failed not of his wished profit for they agreed vpon certaine articles of Peace which were afterward ratified at San-Manehold to wit that vpon the summons of a generall Parliament all the States of the kingdome should assemble at Sene the 25. of August and there it should bee lawfull for the deputies of the three Orders to propound those things which in their conscience they shall find to be profitable for the good of the Common-weale and ease of the subiects that so the King vpon aduice with his kinsfolke and other Princes may in conuenient maner publish wholsome constitutions renue ancient decrees and annull and abrogate Orders made to the destruction of the subiect That the marriages vndertaken with the Spaniard should remaine in their full force seeing the Queene Mother hath by her letters giuen sufficient reason for them to the Prince of Condie that the bulwarkes of the Castle of Messeron should be throwne downe and that the request of the Duke of Niuerne should bee satisfied touching a certaine summe of money which hee demands of the King for building of a house in liew of that which he had at Massera which was throwne downe when the castle was builded That the Castle of Blauet which in the time of these troubles was seased and began to bee fortified should bee razed to the ground and the place to be left in the same state as it was before the troubles the Captaine and guard remoued out of it which Order must be conceiued generally to extend to the rest of the castles and forts which were euery where raised in the Prouince during the troubles That for auoyding and discharging the charges and inconueniences which the subiects endured by the souldiers as well French as strangers which were hitherto leuied diuerfly scattered in the kingdome in the name of the King and Prince of Condie from the Kalends of Ianuary al souldiers on both sides should be dismissed and the strangers should within twelue dayes from the ratification of these Articles bee conueyed out of the kingdome by Commissioners deputed by the King and Prince and the French souldiers should within the said time withdraw themselues to their owne houses vnder