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A13233	The Svvedish intelligencer. The third part. VVherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along; from the Norimberg Leaguer, unto the day of his death, at the victory of Lutzen. With the election of the young Queene of Sweden: and the Diet of Heilbrun. The times and places of every action, being so sufficiently observed and described; that the reader may finde both truth and reason in it. Vnto which is added the fourth part. VVherein, the chiefest of those military actions of other Swedish generalls, be related: wherein the King himselfe, was not personally with the army; Swedish intelligencer. Part 3-4	Watts, William, 1590?-1649.	1633 (1633)	STC 23525; ESTC S118126	296,624	457

to their owne countrey and who doe helpe to ruine it You my Generals Leiftenant-Generals and all you my inferiour Officers I have ever as to your honours I here confesse it esteemed you for brave Cavaliers and I beare you witnesse that upon all occasion of service offered you have in battell given mee so sufficient a demonstration of your valours as that I have therewithall rested satisfied But when having you all here before me I am put in remembrance of your ravages robberyes and plunderings and that you your selves are guiltie of these insolencies and companions besides with them that neither observe Discipline nor doe justice upon malefactors in these kinds my haire standeth up on end at the very horrour of it Let your selves be Iudges Is it not a dolefull and a lamentable case yea most odious in the sight of Almightie God that one Christian and of the same profession in Religion should pillage one another one friend nay one brother ransacke spoyle ruine and undoe one another The very divels in hell are more loving and trusty one to another then you Christians are amongst those of your owne Countrey My heart almost fayleth mee yea and my very bowels yearne within me as oft as I here it complained of That the Swedish souldiers are more insolent then the enemies But they are not the Swedes they are the Germanes that commit all these insolencies Had I knowne that you Germanes had beene a people of this temper of a humor that had borne no more naturall affection to your owne native Countrey and that you would have done no better service for it nor shewed more fidelity towards it I would never have saddled horse for your sakes much lesse have hazzarded mine owne kingdome my life and estate in your behalfes nor with mine owne person have adventured so many a brave and valiant Gentleman as I have done for your well-fares No but since I now perceiue that your selves by these your carriages seeme to affect and desire it I would rather have suffered you to remaine in the case yee were in even plunged in that more then most miserable condition of an eternall servitude and slavery Let your owne consciences bee my witnesses that I doe not usually deny any of you a reasonable motion Yea my God knoweth besides That I never intended any other thing then by his blessed assistance to restore every man to his owne and his owne to every man and for the remainder especially what I should obtaine either in Franconia or Bavaria to distribute and part it among the Nobility and Gentry of your nation and to leave no mans good service unrewarded But this most accursed divelish robbing stealing of yours doth I must needs confesse much abate my good purposes keepe backe these my Christian intentions Have you not so much iudgement left as to consider what kinde of fame and praise that is like to proove which posteritie shall leave of you in all future Histories Remember withall I beseech you what a clogge you hereby tye upon your owne consciences and what iudgements and punishments you draw downe upon your persons and posterities Countrey and Successors by these acts of oppression and inhumanitie Oh that you cannot consider with your selves what a fearefull account you are to yeeld up to God at that great and most dreadfull Audite And for mine owne part rather would I have still remained in mine owne kingdome then have comne hither to behold these insolencies You will say perchance That you want moneyes But when I have the meanes to satisfie both you and the whole Army and you by pillaging robbing and plundering shall deprive mee of these meanes where I beseech you is the fault that you are not satisfied What share have I at any time receiued out of all these your bootyes Iust nothing I doe protest before God and it is most true that I say that I have not by all this War so much enriched my selfe as a paire of Bootes come to and I professe withall that I would rather ryde without Bootes then any wayes or in the least degree make my selfe the richer by the damage or undoing of these poore people I will make it appeare to you whosoever is desirous therein to be satisfied That since the comming out of mine owne kingdome at 32 severall returnes I have had full 40 tunnes of gold made over to mee all which I have spent for your good and for the re-establishment of such Princes as are united with mee in the same truth of Religion The eighth of this moneth he gave his Army a moneths meanes out of the moneyes then borrowed of the Norimbergers at sixe in the hundred I might I confesse have herein beene silent but the remembrance of that great losse which by the deaths of so many brave Worthies and Cavaliers whose vertues indeed were beyond all estimation I account my selfe to have sustained even constrained me to utter what I doe for truely I ever valewed them beyond all my riches And you for your parts what have you contributed towards all these Warres This is all that henceforth I shall desire at your hands That you spoile not others of their goods but leave every man unto his owne possessions The choler and manhood that you have skore it a Gods name upon the fronts of your enemies but distaine not the honour of a souldiour by insulting upon unarmed innocents Live upon your meanes like souldiours and not upon pilfering and spoyling like high-way-robbers This if you doe not you shall ever be infamous and I by such helpers never become victorious Piously spoken and like a King of Sweden like Gustavus Adolphus who had the Religion of a Bishop and the equity of a Lord Chiefe Iustice in him And this Oration was said to be delivered with that sting and life that it extracted teares of compunction from these Military hearers even from men of that profession who had rather bleed then weepe and doe it oftner But for that though words may moove compassion yet they alwayes worke not reformation this Speech was seconded with a Proclamation and that made more severe by a Penalty That his Majesty would from henceforth pardon no man were he Earle Generall Colonell or of what degree and condition soever that should in this kinde be againe complain'd of Adding withall That if to avoyd punishment any of them all or all together should conspire upon a mutiny that he with his Swedes and Finlanders would undertake so to rattle them that the very shivers of their staves should flye about the eares of them This prohibition was no sooner by sound of trumpet Proclaimed but to show how severe he meant to be in his executions he causes a Leiftenant to be hanged for committing some of these aforesaid insolencies When also a Boore having complained of a souldiour for stealing his Cowe from him there was meanes made to save the delinquent My sonne sayes the King to him it

the Kingdome The entry into his reigne was the tryall of his education his Father left him embroyled with the Dane and Muskovite and shortly after began the Polander to confront him The pretences of these Princes were indeed much different but in the ruine of a young King they all had the same intentions Poland claimed the Crowne Denmarke and the Muskovite put in to recover what bordering lands they had before claimed and which had either beene conquered from them by his Ancestors or freely for merite granted them by the others I will not write a Story where I intend but a Character Let this suffice to know that he gate the better of all 3. Nations both upon the greene grasse and upon the greene Carpet in the field I meane and upon the Treaty Two of his young schollers prizes t were pitty to passe over In his warre with the Muskovite hee would needs lay siege to Notteburg Castle Anno 1617. which among other lands the Muskovite had granted his Father for his service The place of this is upon an Iland in the middle of the mouth of the most raging swift river of Nerva and at least Culvering shot from either shoare of it His Colonells not willing their young King should receive a checke in his rising fortunes by attacking an impossibility diswade the Action himselfe onely remaining constant to pursue it See how God Almighty made our young Iosua to be honoured among his people The Muskovites proved to have such thrushes See the booke called Descriptio Regni Sueciae and warts and blisters growing in the insides of their throates and mouthes that they could neither feede nor swallow so that having abundance of Ammunition and a whole yeeres victualls by them yet came they out and yeelded up the Castle to him An inpregnable piece which could neither be battered starved nor have a bridge laid over to it That yeere tooke he another Castle almost as strong whereupon the Muskovite was glad to make King Iames his good friend to procure his peace with the young Sweden Some while after this had he a difference with the Dantzickers who man'd out 20. or 30. good Ships of Warre with the first opening of the Spring to have burnt up his Nauy in the Harbour T was about the end of winter then when his long and narrow Swedish Sea was a yeard or two deepe frozen This Ice our young King causing his Boores for 10 or 12. English miles together to cut open came with his Fleete in the night upon the Dantzickers and burnt sunke spoyled or tooke the most of them In his Warres with his Vnckle Sigismund King of Poland hee conquered so many townes from him both in Prussia and Livonia that the Pole was enforced to request the mediation of King Charles and the French King to make up a peace for 6. Sir Thomas Ro● was our Kings Ambassador yeeres betwixt them which he afterwards desired to be perpetuated This was concluded September 29. 1629. King Sigismund acknowledging Gustavus Adolphus to be King of Sweden and in his Treaty so styling him And thus wheresoever this young Mars entred the dread of his Armes and Name were as full of terror to the enemy-Country Annibal ad port●● as Annibal sometimes unto the Romanes nor ever returned he out of them but with the Olive and the Palme branches the Emblemes of Peace and Victory But these Northern Trophyes upon his next neighbours though they had much of glory yet have they much of Credit and possibility also in them but Chronicle and Beliefe must straine hard to make his Germane Conquests any thing probable with posterity and were they not written in the times of the doing and acknowledged by his enemies scarcely would the Legend be more Apocryphall For what credulity not facile to be abused could perswade it selfe that 2. third parts of Germany could and by him that entred but with 11000. men in 2. yeeres and 4. moneths space be wrested from so puissant an Emperour A mighty Empire and a Potent formidable for its greatnesse confident upon the power of its Colleagues and Vpholders vast in its extent terrible for its Armes and Captaines renowned for its Conquests beyond expectation successefull in all its enterprises and that knew no bounds but the Alpes and the Ocean And yet this Empire which either with its Armies or garrisons if not by a cheaper way the meere reputation of what it had or might doe held so many Princes at a Baye was it selfe constrained to take on the yoake which Swedens Gantlett put upon it In lesse then 2. yeers and a halfe he did all this what might He more haue atchieved had he gone on another yeere and two moneths and fil'd up the time of that malicious and false prediction which the Iesuites had cast abroad of him They comforted their credulous Novices with his being Antichrist and that he should raigne 3. yeeres and a halfe and no longer The beleefe of his conquering so much will be the more facilitated if we could but conceive once his familiar way of doing it he made but a Comedy of the warres which others are so solemne upon and make so full of Tragedy I will giue but two examples Comming before Elbing with an Army scarce so strong as their garrison he after Summons and Hostages wormes out by faire words the Burgomaster and some great ones to his Tent unto a Parlee Himselfe in the meane time with some few of his Gentlemen goes to the Ports and desires to come in as a travayler to please his sight with the rarities of their City Such pleasancy of words and conceit he used that the Citizens were as desirous to see the King of Sweden as he to take their City Being in he walkes gazing up and downe the people flocking still after him Now in truth good people saies he if I had thought you had desired to see the King of Sweden I would have put on my best cloathes to day What need you feare me my Swedes and Fins shall be your drudges cleave wood fetch water and doe you any servility and with that he calls a stubbed Finn to him and commands him to remoove some lumber or piece of rubbish This said he goes into a Stationers shop and there calls for Buchanans Poemes iust as in such a case Alexander sometimes did for Homers Iliades And thus the Burgomaster knowing that the King was in the towne and He being sure that the Burgomaster was in His Tent the composition became the easier At that very strong towne of Konigshoven in Franconia after this showed he another example of this facetious facility Having summoned the towne hee rides up along towards the Ports where when hee saw the guards blowing their matches and making ready to shoote him Sacrament saies he if you make but one shot the King shall know of it and he hath vowed that not a man of you shall have Quarter But if you will

retreate Was Crown d with victory on whose last sweate The steame whereof had fainted us a flood Waited in stead of teares of Romane blood Whose camp the Campus Martius of the North Where he sow'd soldiers brought Commanders forth Whose forward springs were differenc'd from ours By putting winter sieges forth for flowers Whose eager pursuites of adventures hard Rivers nor Rocks nor Forrests could retard Beyond whose courage no plus ultra's were And yet no soldiers wants beneath his care Whose Mausolaean monument is All That Germany shall henceforth freeborne call And must He have no more fond Griefe no more This sea that hath no bottome knowes no shore Yet thankes to Fortune this grand-sacrifice That did in him whole hecatombes comprize Was like a Romane expiation lead To death with wreathes of honour on his head Shee that sits Pilot at the sternes of States And all these casuall conquests moderates Saw that unlesse this Worthies blood were spilt The fortune of the warre would over-tilt To us and Sweden proving Conqueror Had triumph'd both 'ore Ferdinand and Her Therefore to appease his Griefe to peize our Pride And ballast Fortunes Barke Gustavus dyde Vpon the King of Swedens Death BRave Prince although thy fate seeme yet too strange To be believ'd in Paules or on the Change Though we lay wagers and doe gladly choose To take that side where wee are sure to loose Wee but deceive our griefe and faine would say Thou liv'st to give our sorrow longer day Were there no reason else this might suffice To prove thee dead that we want victories Wee heare of no townes taken and the Foe Hath beene too long without an overthrow In thee the fortune of the warre expir'd And now what can be done to be admir'd To what use serves thy Army but to weepe Whose greatest conquest now must be to keep But when thou didst command the valiant host How did thy victories out-fly the post How were they here before the saile or winde That brought the newes but still left more behind One scarce could travell so much ground so fast As thou didst overcome such warlike hast Went with thy deeds which did all letters stuffe That wee could not beleeve them fast enough With thee to conquer was the same as passe Anothers long siege but thy journey was And they which did thy sudden marches see Say 't was thy progresse to take Germany Indeed what was the citie or the place That thought it not a siege to see thy face And did not to thy single terror yeeld More then thy troopes who only mad'st the field For when at first thy Army was so small That the Foes poorest Regiment was all Who seeing with brave scorn that venturous sight Might thinke thou cam'st to Muster not to fight Yet thou mad'st both sides equall and with thee Thy few men prov'd more then thy foes to bee Who when he lost the day found that the warre Lay more in thee then in his numbers farre Which made him when his Ensigne he forsooke To fly not from the ordnance but thy looke For though the Canon plaid and bullet flew Thou mad'st the battle and from thee they slew Who could'st instruct thy Engins scarce a shott Went from thy soldiers gunne without a plot And dangers which it felt could not impart Were still increast and made more sure by Art As if it had not beene enough to kil Unlesse thou didst subdue the foe in skill Which from thy Childhood thou hadst learn'd so well That thou didst then things for the Chronicle And mad'st thy name great even when so yong Almost to use thy sword before thy tongue And farre beyond thy yeares thy face did move Feare in thy neighbours when in Ladyes love But all thou didst then in thy younger age Although enough for others did presage Only thy riper Conquests and did try By lesser warre to conquer Germany Now every march was project and to move Did Stratagem and a new conquest prove Hadst thou been then when the unpractis'd age Did know no other valour but their rage When Alexander met his Asian Foe Whose soldiers were no Army but a show Each man so sprucely drest each horse so gay And only trim'd to make the braver pray Thy deeds had then beene wonder and lesse Art Had conquer'd all the world then now a part Alas 't is easie to be victor there Where the Foe first disarmes himselfe with feare And many have been great Commanders thought For meeting with no enemies that fought But there to purchase glory and to bee A Conqueror where so much victorie Had often gone before and there to winne Where to scape fairely had a Conquest beene Shewes all the Stories that are writ of old Are but small truthes when thy exploits are told Of which this was a great one that to show Thou gav'st thy passions first an overthrow Thy fortune did not swell thee none could guesse By thy vaine triumphs at thy good successe No soldier did insult so tame the drumme Thy selfe so humble as if overcome When most victorious These were things did move Thy enemies and made them Conquest love More then their peace before who to be free Did gladly choose to be o'recome by thee And if perchance they did one charge abide They did resist as they were on thy side For thou by all with such desire wert seene As if no foe but hadst their Captaine beene And fought'st for them thou took'st who did indure No other Change but to be more secure Such wert thou to thy foe but more thy care To be such to thy Armie as they were To one another who didst use to make Each meane imp●●●ment glorious for thy sake And would'st ennoble the obscurest place And make the lowest office not seeme base By giving first example while thy hand Did more then thou to others didst command Each Captaine was thy equall but in this That still thy danger was farre more then his While with an even presence thou would'st dare To passe the Canon though thy death lay there With such a bold and fearelesse march we reade The Angel did the holy Armies lead Who free from all attempts would stand betweene Two furious Camps as much unhurt as seene And so didst thou great soule till heaven did see That thy bare rules great Conquerors would be And tooke thee hence who to requite thy fall Left thy example to be Generall On the King of Sweden I Will not weepe thy losse nor say ther 's none Can relieve bed-rid vertue thou being gone I will not curse thy victory or say Though we were Conquerors we lost the day That thou wert all of us that in thy fall Thou being its soule 't was the worlds funerall They that thus mourne and sadly mention Thee Pittie themselves and make an Elegie On their owne hopes and troubled at thy doome With crafty sorrow write on Christendome I that have read devoutly all thy Raigne And fear'd a feaver