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A55965	The history of this iron age vvherein is set dovvn the true state of Europe as it was in the year 1500 : also, the original and causes of all the vvarres, and commotions that have happened : together with a description of the most memorable battels, sieges, actions and transactions, both in court and camp from that time till this present year 1656 : illustrated vvith the lively effigies of the most renowned persons of this present time / written originally by J. Parival and now rendred into English by B. Harris, Gent.; Abrégé de l'histoire de ce siècle de fer. English	Parival, Jean-Nicolas de, 1605-1669.; Harris, B. (Bartholomew)	1656 (1656)	Wing P361; ESTC R11155	382,320	308

Visigoths Daces and Vandals who came altogether to dismember the Romane Empire and the Franks and Burgundians who drove the Romanes out of Gawl For these People having expelled the old Usurpers by the successe of a battel or two leagued themselves forth with with them whom they had freed from the yoke and instantly laid the foundations of a new Kingdome But this Warr which we are now going to describe involved all Europ and there is not so much as one Province which doth not resent it yea that which is more deploreable is that we see not the end of it yet for for my part I am of opinion in this wicked age Men will sooner be wanting then Will to such as are ambitious to continue this bloody exercise The Prodigies which both went before it and happened during the continuance of it like waves of the sea have two much informed us that it would ingulf all the Provinces of Christendome one after another and such as thought to be exempted from it as well for the advantages they had upon their enemies as for the impossibility of introducing the Babes of Mars amongst them by reason of their situation feel at present the scourge with as much sharpnesse as the former That facall Torch which appeared towards the end of the year 1618 with a long and formidable tayle seemed to announce to us the wrath of God thereby to prepare us to repentance or else patiently to suffer the evils which we could not avoid Those sights which were seen in the ayre Prodigies hapned in Europe in many places those Tempests those exundations of Rivers those disruptions or shiverings of Barrs by the mercilesse Ocean those earthquakes and inundations those monstrous Productions those waters turned into blood those impetuous windes which have overthrown so many Towers and rooted up so many trees those bloody raines and so many other supernaturall accidents are the messengers of Divine indignation to such as are obstinate in their wickednesse Fools who say in their hearts there is no God have despised these advertisements and lead a life worse then that of the people of the time of Noah Germany by a Peace of so many yeers durance being grown extreamly opulent the Princes potent and the Towns much elevated The State of Germany began to withdraw herself by little and little if not wholy from servitude yet at least from duty The Courts were full of debaucheries and the excesse of drinking was recompensed with a Crown of victorie the Tables loaden with meat The debawches were sometimes overturned with brutall insolence and that which could not possibly bring any good was that the greatest part of the Grandees there left the management of their affaires to their Chancelours or their Favourites whilest themselves were plunging in delights luxurie ranting and superfluities together with the pleasures of the Court and the Chase The Emperour Matthias who was Crowned in the year 1612 made not his Authority in the Empire shine a whit brighter then his Predecessours had done in such sort as that the State wasfallen as it were into a Palsie and languishment Not withstanding all these voluptuousnesses and debauches distrusts were grown so high that it was impossible for the Banks or Damns to stop these Torrents without letting some part of them loose The children were then matching in Troops and Bands through the streets with Arms Drums and Colours and the old men sighing and crying out Prognostications of Warrs We shall quickly feel the effects of a cruell Warr. That which arrived at Donawerds brought some of the imperiall Townes to a league to which they invited the Electour of Saxonie but not receiving so good an answer as they hoped threats remained without effect and all stayed in apparent enmity the one party casting the fault upon the other till the occasions which we are going to recount But let us enter upon the War of Bohemia Bohemia is a little Kingdom but very fertill in Corn Wine Mines of Gold Silver Tinne and all which is necessary for the life of man The King is ranged in the number of the Electours and his Vote or suffrage is so necessary that when the Parties are equall he who receives it is elevated to the Imperiall Throne This said Kingdome is almost quite invironed by Germany and it stretches on the one side to Moravia The Inhabitants speak the language of Slavonia though yet the High-Dutch be as common there as the French is in the Low-Countries The Metropolitan City is Prague which is watered by the stream of Moldaw The Country is very great most populous and adorned with a most famous and most ancient University wherein for a time were numbered above thirty thousand Scholars Now because the first controversies about Religion which caused the separations and hatreds amongst Christians proceeded from thence it will not be out of our way and much for the contentment of the Reader to take notice of the source and Origin thereof About the year of Grace 1400. John Huss having found and read the Books of W●tcliff John Huss betook himself publickly to teach a doctrine much like that of the Waldenses condemned by the Church of Rome as much checking the Points and Tenets thereof received as namely the authority of the Pope Purgatory Worship of Images and the like God permitting a diversity of Doctrines during the Schismes of the Church for the disputes of the Popes gave subject to attack the Points of Faith exhibited by them and their own Authority The Councell of Constance A Councell was assembled at Constance whether Jerome of Prague and John Huss were invited under a safe conduct or passe from the Emperour Sigismond But for all that they persisted in the Doctrine of Witcliff and maintained that the Churches diffused up and down the world were deviated from the traditions of the Apostles they were both contrary to publick Faith and the Emperours Paste given them sentenced to be burned and their ashes cast into the ayre And from thence came the Axiome so often and so justly chanted and iterated by the Protestants and whereof they serve themselves to quicken their distrusts Faith must not be kept with Hereticks The Fathers of the said Councell were moved on by a too inconsiderate yea and unjust zeal which if we may have leave to deduce the consequence of the effects thereof which have followed very much displeased the Father of Truth The Romane Catholicks disprove of this Maxime and the Emperour Charles the 5 th expressed that he was no friend to it by keeping his word so truly w th Doctor Martin Luther at the Assembly at Wormes The disciples of John Huss ●ake arms Now the disciples of the aforesaid John Huss being very impatient at the death of their Masters and not content with the Churches which were granted them took arms under pretext of desiring more But I find the zeal of all them who have withdrawn themselves from the

Vessel But the windes are either appeased or gone into other Countries to make them also feel their violence and rage Great Prince Worthy Fruit of that most August Plant Rose pick't out of the thorns of confusion to Command Star of good Augure who rejoycest the Mariners and annowucest them the end of the Storme Receive amongst the Publick Acclamations of the whole Empire my vowes conceived upon the Coast of the Ocean and in the uttermost parts of Low-Germany for the prosperity of thy youthful age Long mayest thow live and revive the anthority of the Lawes borne downe by these monstrous Wars Let Christian Faith Hope and Charity reflourish under thy glorious and pacifical Empire Let the hatreds of Religion be taken away and let distrusts jeadousies and partialities be stifled to the end that by the termination of so many and so great calamities we may all render due thank to our Creatour Amen The continuation of the Iron Age. I Have spoken briefly of the misfortunes of this abhominable Age and have represented as in a picture Sacriledges Massacres Revo●s Wickednesses and all other mischiefs in gross together with their causes and deceiptfull pretexts to prove that it is the last Such as doubt hereof do infallibly expect more dreadful prodigies more universall The evils of the latter dayes and more destructive Warts more enormous changes more frequent Earthquakes more ample Embarassements more ordinary Inundations more common Scandals more absurd Ingratitudes more pernicious Penns more coldness of Charity more hatred amongst Christians more diversity in Religion and more generall contempt of the Laws both Divine and Human For such crimes as in former Ages were abhorred and not committed but in privat places and by the favour of darkness are now perpetrated in publick and with freedome and boldness Wherefore we must not wonder if disasters continue since the wickedness of man goes alwayes increasing We endeavour to cure the wounds but it is but superficially for they are inwardly festered No no there will be no end of our exorbitant Wars but with the end of that great day since the point which feeds them is too powerfull and the Almighty too much inflamed with indignation to differ his Vengeance and stop his Angels who are ready to descend and consummate all There are no more Williams of Hennawlt to do the oppressed speedy justice nor more St. Lewises inexorable to punish blasphemers and to make a Temple of devotion of a Court. The Emperour Ferdinand at Ra●thone We left the Emperour Ferdinand the third with the King of the Romans his Son at Ratisbone in a very painfull cate of putting the Empire into solid rest and quiet if it could possibly be found after so long a tempest and in an Iron Age the Princes in paine to contract new Subjects by fayre promises and the Germans in alacrity to repayre their battered Houses which they will not have so soon done but that we may have leasure to run through the other Provinces before they be in condition to call us back thither Wherefore let us hasten into France by the way of Brisack where we must give brave Count Harcourt a visit Count Harcourt at B●isack This most happy Warrier advantaged by his birth and the good success of his Arms kept himself close shut up in his Government like another Narces since he saw some Belisars in his House For neither affronts received nor the high promises of Strangers not advantagious Allyances were able to shake his fidelity or obscure the splendour of his enterprizes but that he made it appear in the Issue of the negotiation that he ought to be considered as a great Servant to the King and that he belyed not the bloud of the Guses so often shed for the glory of the Crown however the Hughenots cry him down in regard that he was head of the League directly contrary to their intention But let us turne a little to the left hand to see how dexterously the Swissers come off with their civil War There is no Province in Europe though invironed by Waters Fenus or inaccessible Mountaines but hath had a share of the evils and mischiefs of this deplorable Age as the Swissers can witnesse who covered by their Mountaines feared nothing lesse then this following Rebellion which was likely to overthrow the State A revolt in the Cantons of Swisserland This fire began about Lucerne in the moneth of March 1653. and run in a short space through all the Cantons The Pesants and Subjects of the said Town took Arms to punish as they said ill Goverments but neither that nor the pretext of some Coms cried down where able to conceale the malice of some who would needs imitate Catiline as well in his end as in his beginning The delicateness in the Ayer of Italy and the gentilenesse and gluttony of the kitchin of France had corrupted the old manners of some emptyed the purse and filled the brain with smoak which sought its center above and the destruction of such as endeavoured to hinder it and keep it below As the number of the Seditious went augmenting so did not the apprehension goe deminishings in such sort as that an Assembly of the thirteen Cantons was judged most necessary for the good of the Common-Wealth and an Army to quell thern whose resistance not being answerable to their arrogance they were cowed by some Skermishes frighted to their habitations and reduced to their duty by the proceeding of a gentle kinde of justice upon them A happy people and a Province endowed with wise counsel from whence God so soon drew off his Rod. Fare you well wise Swissors a thousand times wiser then they who contemne you for we must now return● into our way again to reach the Low-Country Army in Picardi● and view the posture thereof as also the successe of this Field The Prince of Coud● finding himself surrounded by a puissant Army longed for nothing more then a good occasion to come to action with the Marshall of Turenne who being no novice in the trade nor in the politick Maxime which forbids him to hazard any Battail in his own Country unlesse he were forced thereto satisfyed himself with hindring both the Sieges of Towns and the generous desire of this young Alexander whose true Element is more in Battails The Spanish Army in Pica●dy then the Salamanders is in the fire The poor Peasants were drawn from their harvest and the Province quickly freed from this invasion though yet however autumne must needs give fruits in regard that the Spring had made a shew of so many flowers The Prince retyres and will besiege Guise The said Prince in his retreat was advised by the counsell of War to attack Guise which was unprovided of a sufficient Garrison The Knight who beares the name thereof gave him to understand either by his own motive or by that of his master whose forces he commanded that this Siege was unseasonable