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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08168	The 4. of Octob: 1622. A true relation of the affaires of Europe, especially, France, Flanders, and the Palatinate Whereby you may see the present estate of her prouinces, and coniecture what these troubles and wars may produce. Together with a second ouerthrow giuen the French Kings forces at Mompelier, by those of the Protestant League, wherein were slaine a great number of the Kings armie. Last of all. the remoue of the famous siedge before Bergen, vpon the 22. of September last, with the retreat of Spinola to Antwerp, as taking aduantage of the time, and not able to continue, for feare of vtter dissipation.		1622 (1622)	STC 18507.81; ESTC S101763	18,104	40

de Rohan with the Garrison of Pismes Montalbon and other Townes of the Religion having vnited themselues marched a whole night and came with such speedinesse and courage to Mompelier that early in the morning they assaulted the Kings Armie and so continued fighting till noone which when they of the Towne perceiued they made three severall Sallies at the seuerall ports of the same so that the Kings Armie was set vpon both behind and before and the successe thriued so well that a great slaughter followed and the whole Army was routed so that if you would haue particulars they say there perished foure thousand at the least some Ordnance surprised sixe peeces of Cannon clogged the Popes Nuncio and his letters intercepted and in a word the whole Armie much dissipated From Sedan the Letters certifie thus much that it is true that Mansfeild left most of his Carriages behind and sixe Peeces of Cannon yea the Duke of Bulloigne did also cast downe the mount before the Towne but with no intent eyther to oppose his Maiestie maintaine any rebellion or support the Protestants themselues in any violence against their King but meerely to stand vpon his guard least such as durst enforme against him might also procure his destruction by violent courses and force of armes Besides a Prince in distresse his kinsman and a maintainer of the Gospell of Iesus Christ was come as it were vnder his roofe and therefore the Law of Hospitalitie Religion and honestie tyed him to observation and tooke him out a lesson of care and regard both to see himselfe and defend him if need were against his enemies In this manner as they will haue it the Duke of Bulloigne iustified himselfe and the King was contented to be pacified and admitte of the attonement so that like a Noble Prince indeed this effect followed that the Duke was receiued into fauour that the King of Bohemia might passe and repasse at his pleasure that the Duke de Nauers made a Retreat with his Armie commanding the chiefest to retyre to their owne houses and sending the rest to attend the King where he should appoint From Provence Delphinate and those parts they assure vs that the Congregations of the Protestants mett daily with the reformed Ministers and continued the exercises of fasting and prayer for the good successe of their brethren and sent one another reciprocall comforts and gratifications as farre as they could or durst yea when they found dispersed Libells and inuectiues as though their ruine were threatned by Massacres or other waies of circumventing they sent them to the new Constable intreated him for preuentiō that although his honour was engaged to the Kings seruice yet his soule was in the hands of God who would limit his actions to the sparing of blood and destroying of innocents To this they added certaine points of iustification and discoueries of the Iesuites doctrine and cruell intents to keepe France in an vprore and combustion not for the loue of Religion which was none at all but for political purposes which time would bring to light All which Lesdesquiers shewed to the King and in such humble manner that he tooke pleasure in his conference so that there is some hope he will be more tractable and looke vpon dilacerated France with the eyes of iudgement and compassion From the Low-Countries There are so many Letters from the seuerall parts of the Low-Countries and so much contradiction as men on either side fauour the cause that I know not how to satisfie the Reader yet considering there is but one truth and to be honest in a plaine enarration of the same is allowable therefore as neere as I can I will relate what is most probable and worthy of your acceptation Know then that the East India Company of Amsterdam haue taken a great Caricke from the Portingalls supposed worth a million of Crownes for therein is much gold and rich Commodities but neither the honour nor profit of this exployt doth belong to them alone for they had the helpe of the English with whom they seeme now better to agree then in times past They are also building diuers men of Warre and almost in euery Maritime Towne of Holland the Ship-wrights are at worke For the States are resolued to man and set out sundry Vessels as well to watch Dunkirke as defend Sluice but of late Sluice hath better confidence that the enemy will not attempt her expugnation From Brussels the Letters certifie that the Marquis Spinola lying before Bergen resolued vpon some Stratagem as disappointed in the attempts which he had made by force and seuerall assaults therefore hee gathered together diuers thousand loades of Casshes or long Fagotts eyther to dam vp the Riuer or to make some Mounts whereby he might neighbour their Trenches and so annoy their Courts of guard but as you shall heare hee fayled in this likewise From the Hage the last letters assure vs of a Dutch man of Warre to encounter with a well loaden vessell of Spaine going to Dunkirke with much prouision for the Armie but after a long fight shee was taken and brought to Amsterdam from whence by turnes and in their seuerall watches divers shippes tooke the narrow Seas to attend their enemies especially the Dunkirkers amongst whom some three or foure lighted vpon a great ship called one of the twelue Apostles and built in Dunkircke who being now at sea and lying at aduantage to catch the Hollanders as they for them was at last set vpon by them and chased some fiue or sixe houres euen to the Coast of England but when she saw that her vnder-greatnesse as being fiue hundred tunne hindred her from sayling and that to fight it out would returne to her dammage and to bee taken to her great dishonour she first blew vp her deckes and so thought to set her selfe on fire which when the Hollanders perceiued they made hast to boord her and she made as much hast to bee deliuered from them but such was the fortune of either that she presently sunke before their faces and so that fight ended But concerning the Land-businesse after his Excellency was resolued to do something he mustred his whole Army that is to say his owne Count Mansfields and the Duke of Brunswicke who was returned for all his wound vnto them againe By whom and a Councell of warre it was thus determined that if they did rise at all that they would order the busines in this maner To diuide each Nation by themselues and so the Germans English Scots French Dutch and Wallons might march with their seuerall colours to be distinguished apart the grosse summe or if you will the whole body of the Army consisting of eighteene thousand foote and eight thousand horse which were also to be diuided into two parts fiue thousand horse and eight thousand foote to bee left with Mansfield and Brunswicke to remaine on the North-side of Bergen where Spinola lay about Steen Bergen the other

weake and vnable to resist the forces or was not well informed of the strength and situation of the place Thirdly that the slaughters were so great of his armies and decay of his souldiers that although it might be passed ouer with the chance of warre and malignity of circumstances yet time would consume them more and more and which way could the wit of man inuent how other Souldiers should come forward as their enemies lay to affront them Fourthly that the wants of the Campe were intolerable as enduring famine and cold euen to the eating of horses yea many other inconueniences which must needs be aggrauated and increased both with the time and diuers other circumstances wherein they saw no prevension as the case now stood Last of all that if the States armies were raysed then would the Prince of Orenge lye on one side and Count Mansfield on the other who meant not to fight with them but when they list and then vpon great aduantage but were sure to consume them and weary them out or torment them with daily eruptions and encombrances and that without any manner of preuention All which considered the Councell thought it meet by one meanes or other to raise the siege and rather saue the liues of so many braue men who might in some other proiect and at some other time recouer this losse and reintegrate their fortunes then to endure a certaine destruction and irrecouerable wretchednesse and although the Marquesse Spinola obiected that his honour was so farre ingaged that he had rather perish in the misfortune then endure the indignity of being thus disappointed yet they answered necessity was a commanding mistresse and there was no withstanding of Fate and Destiny yea there was iudgement and reason in enduring some inconueniences rather then a mischiefe or assured destruction As for the honour hee enterposed what was it more to him then to the former Duke of Parma who had raised his siege in the same place after hee had layen there with 32000. men almost halfe a yeare yea the great Turke went from Vienna and Malta disappointed and diuers other Princes haue beene enforced to cast vp another accompt with the disposing of a higher power then their owne presumptions at the beginning whereupon when hee saw there vvas no remedie hee vvith much adoe condiscended to their importunities and so taking the aduantage of a darke night raised his campe indeed very couertly the particulars you shall now knovv more at large THE MANNER OF The raising of the Siege of BERGEN WHereas a little before the Letters make mention that his Excellency the Prince of Orenge with Count Mansfield the Duke of Brunswick and their Forces had a purpose to diuide themselues and blocke vp Spinola in his Trenches and as it were set downe the manner of their marches if they should ●ise indeed and how they would quarter themselues the truth is they did onely capitulate the matter but not put it in execution as eyther preuented by Spinola's couert escape or the aduise of the States who they say came to Dort for the same purpose and to whom his Excellencie with some speciall Commanders resorted But this was not so effectually done but that Her Highnesse at Brussels had notice of the same iust in a manner at the same time as Letters came from Bauaria that Mounseur Tilly could not be spared out of the Palatinate Whereupon when she considered the danger eminent and imminent and in what perill her whole Army stood besides the infinite inconueniences it was subiect vnto as you haue heard if the Prince of Orenge should come one way with his Forces and Count Mansfield the Duke of Brunswicke another way with their Armies she very considerately aduised the Marquisse Spinola by speedy messengers and seuerall Letters to raise his siege and follow the Law of Nature which teacheth all her Creatures the meanes of preseruation Whereupon both this Imposition and the necessity of the businesse with other malignant circumstances led him out of the wilde fields of peremptorinesse and presumption into the orderly bounds of safety and securitie so that hee lay in waite for an opportunitie to passe quietly without interception which as it should seeme he effected in this manner When he perceiued that his Excellency did not rise or was not ready on Sunday our 22 of September he made a fayre shew of his Army before the out-workes of the Towne both Horse and Foot yet somewhat more remote then hee was accustomed when hee determined any On-set whereby as it appeared afterward his whole campe was blinded from the discouery of the Courts of Guard and the Town who prepared to defend themselues and thought vpon nothing lesse then an escape This done by twy-light his Cariages were ready which still kept the left hand of the march within them went the Ordnance which hee meant to conuey with the Army and here attended the Pioners the Camp-followers and all such vnnecessary people as belongs to such a businesse When they were ready and the scoutes brought word the coast was cleere for all it seemed a windy and duskish night he seemed to welcome the opportunity and set forward the munition with great silence and taciturnity allowing them a sufficient conuoy of horse and the pioners conuenient armes for their purpose they marched very neere six houres before hee stird comming close by the wet ground and drownd land on the east side of Bergen where as they say they met with Gonzales de Cordua and that other part of his Armie which lay betweene Antwerp and Bergen Thus they goe on and before noone the next day came within sixe English mile of Antwerp having spent aboue eighteene houres in the trauell By that time the Armie was thus rid of her encumbrances and all this while heard not of an enemie and that the great Generall conceiued they had overgone their affrightings betweene midnight and one a clocke in the morning the horseboies and certaine men appointed of purpose set fire on all their quarters and burned those things which were left which made so great a smoake and smother for the time that nothing was perceiued till the Army was very forward and then the fire had ouergone the moisture making all things combustible so that the flame shewed the glory of her brightnesse and the neighbour places said apparantly he was departed this was the light that appeared in Zealand so that the pinckes and passengers in the sea without searching further after particulars only coniectured the siege was raised and so gaue it forth accordingly To this may be added that of a hundred peeces of ordnance he caried away but 30 and what is become of the rest time will discouer those which he saued are now brought to Antwerp besides they say that having many wounded and diseased people he prouided for all manner of nations but Scots and English whom he left to the furie of the fire and terror of extremitie but that

That the Emperours Soldiers returning from Hungary Morauia and Silesia were so tatter'd torne and in a manner out of countenance when they came to ciuill places that hee was compelled to take order for their new Arming and apparelling disbursing great summes amongst them for their further satisfaction 3 That the Emperour had new preferred Il Signeur Sluuato to the Gouernment of Morauia who presently aduertised his Maiesty of the resolution of Glatz which was to holde it out to see the vttermost though no succour came to them at all 4 That hither came certaine Letters out of Poland whose originals belike were sent to his Imperiall Maiesty containing thus much that by the wisedome of the Bashaw of Aleppo a man of great yeares and greater wealth now the principall Viceer the Gouernment of the Turkish Empire was cast as it were in a new molde For hauing wisely setled a generall Peace with forraigne Princes and iudiciously confirmed the gouernment of the seuerall Bashawes he by little and little got the vpperhand of the Ianizaries and did so tractate with the Chawse and Spahies that in one place or other hee put 2000. Ianizaries to Death For after he had pollitickly proclaimed them all Trators that were consenting to the Death of Osman and as pollitickly promised great rewards to the discouerers of these mutinous Souldiers many were detected and as many Executed yea such was the mischiefe that euen powred downe a tempest of destruction vpon their heads that their very Wiues a custome newly begun amongst them to marry did detect them to the Magistrate wherein sure the Iudgement of God was seene to punish such audacious impiety in any one that durst boast they had layde violent hands on a Prince 5 That there is newly come from Tabor 6. pieces of Ordnance and 200. Souldiers from Morauia 800. from Silesia 800. from Saxony 1000. with 12. pieces of Cannon more who are presently to bee sent to the siedge and battery of Glatz which is now the onely Towne of same that holdeth out against this Imperiall Maiesty 6 That in the Towne of Glatz is the Count de Thorne and in the Fieldes abroad the Marquise Ieggensdorp and the olde Count Thorne who keepes as it were a running Army whereupon the Father vnderstanding what danger his Sonne must needes bee in if the Emperour proceeded so violently against the Towne caused 2000. Foot and 500. Horse of Crabuts to bee put into the same for the better defending the place and opposing their Enemies 7 That the said Forces as they were Marching encountred with many of the Emperours Souldiers who were comming to the Siedge and not onely defeated them but rifled their Carriages which when the young Count Thorne vnderstood hee presently made a Salley with 200. Horse and 1500. Foote onely wherein hee so preuailed that that Quarter of the Emperours Army was dispersed and the Cannon clogged and so they returned with some booty and a great deale of honour From the Palatinate These Letters come from Franckfort and certifie thus much that the rumour after the taking of Heidelburgh of putting all to the Sword is not true For the 300. English and Scots that were in the Towne had safe conduct to passe to Franckfort where my Lord of Belfast was and so by his directions either to goe into England or disperce themselues as they could to other places onely they might not returne to Mainhem nor Franckendale for feare of further trouble or resistance if these places were so supplyed That since the taking of Heidelburgh Leopoldus and Tilley haue by a Counsell of Warre resolued to make an end of the troubles in this Prouince by surprising or enforcing the rest of the Townes yet for a time they desisted from the siedge of Franckendale and set themselues downe before Mainhem as casting vp this account that if they could any way preuaile heere the lesser would be more easily obtained either by surrender or composition When they were thus resolued they marched forward with 12000. foot and 500. horse which when General Vere vnderstood saw plainly that mischiefes now followed one another as the waues of the Sea seeing hee had endured so much to his eternall fame and memory he would sure put vp the rest in the account of his Honour and beare all with patience whatsoeuer might chance whereupon he sends for two Companies from Frankendale to adde some little strength to the businesse which made vp 8. Companies of English besides 4000. Dutch and other Strangers with whom hee is determined to preserue the place to the last man as long as any prouision or supply will last vnlesse he shal receiue further directions to the contrary form England But before Mainhem was thus affrighted Leopoldus and Tilly put in stronger Garisons into Wormes and Spiers for feare of new reuolts and hurliburlies for they saw plainly that the people bare a great good will to the Palatine and would with all conueniency attend the restitution and returne of their first Lord. Bauaria on the other side was not so confident of his security but that he fortified his owne Townes putting certaine Cannons into Mriken which he had taken from Amberg and were once the Switzers called the man and the woman being Peeces of principall account but when hee had salued this sore of the diffidence of his owne Countrey and people hee sent the rest of his forces to Tilly and Leopoldus who were now marched from Heidelberg by Spiers to take in the Castle of Magdenburg which yet held out with diuers other against them which when they perceiued and that they should be as much troubled with matters of lesse importance as the greater they left that course and returned as you haue heard toward Mainhem where they resolue to continue vntill the affaires in the Palatinate be cast in a new molde or the Countrey setled to quiet but here I cannot but remember a saying of Stephens King of Poland Kings may commanud bodies and liues but not hearts and consciences so may some other Prince presume on the Emperours Donation of this Prouince but the Inhabitants will euer loue their owne Prince and burst out no question vpon any occasion of reuolt or alteration which the Archduke Leopoldus and Bauaria knowes too well and therefore whereas report hath beene lauish concerning Tillies descending into Brabant beleeue it he cannot second their expectation For Bauaria will not spare him nor Leopoldus consent to his dimission considering the Countries are still grudging and repining and they must detaine them within obedience by strong hand Besides the Winter approacheth and the Germanes expect some rest after their great toyle being euer as much encumbred with a long march as with a furious skirmish Therefore I conclude this point there is no feare of Tillies comming into Brabant or ioyning with Spinola From Spaine The Letters from Spaine haue great variety in them and haue written into Italy concerning some things done in England but because I will