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A13222	The Swedish intelligencer. The first part. Wherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along: from his Majesties first entring into the Empire, vntill his great victory over the Generall Tilly, at the Battell of Leipsich. The times and places of every action being so sufficiently observed and described; that the reader may finde both truth and reason in it.	Watts, William, 1590?-1649.; Mountain, Gerard, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 23521; ESTC S118047	101,946	205

newes he having that winter time gathered some small company together exciteth the Swedes to vindicate their Countryes libertie In the valourous successe whereof himselfe having beene a chiefe Author is in the yeare 1523. by consent of all the States of the Country chosen King He thus elected refuseth to be Crowned contenting himselfe onely with the title of Governour By authoritie of which dignitie Anno 1527. he summons a Parliament where he propounds the Reformation of Religion in which finding much opposition and little hope he surrenders the Kingdome vnto the States againe The Land thus brought into a streight humbly beseech Gustavus once againe to accept of the Kingdome Thus was he Crowned Anno 1527. becomming the first Protestant King that ever was in the world This same yeare was Rome taken by Charles Duke of Burbon This Gustavus from the time of his Coronation reigned 33. yeares Ericus the eldest sonne of Gustavus succeeded his Father Anno 1560. who reigning eight yeares dyes without Issue Iohn the second sonne of Gustavus succeeded his Brother Anno 1568. Reigned 24. yeares His onely Issue was Sigismund chosen in his Fathers life time viz. 1587. King of Poland and is yet living Sigismund King of Poland succeeded his Father Iohn in the Kingdome of Sweden Anno 1594. He tooke an Oath to maintaine the priviledges of the Kingdome to admit no other Religion then that of the Augustane Confession and to bring in no Strangers Which Oath he palpably now violating first by going about to alter the Religion then by endevouring to enslaue Sweden by making it to be a Province of the Kingdome of Poland Anno 1599. he was in a full assembly of the States of Sweden rejected and deposed and his Sonne Ladislaus then an Infant chosen in his place But with this Condition If within six moneths he were sent into Sweden there to be brought vp in the Protestant Religion Ladislaus Sonne of Sigismund not being sent into Sweden according to the Condition of his Election lost his title vnto the Kingdome And Charles Duke of Suderman the third and youngest Sonne of Gustavus the deliverer of his Country from the oppression of the Polacks was chosen King in the yeare 1601. Gustavus Adolphus the Sonne of Charles succeeded his Father Anno 1612. being the present and hitherto the successe-full Assertor of the Germane libertie Here may it fayrely be observed 1. That all the posteritie of Gustavus which with himselfe are seaven in number were eyther Kings or elected to a Kingdome vnto the third and fourth generation The last whereof and the seaventh in order is the present Gustavus 2. Obserue That Gustavus Ericus the Grandfather of this Gustavus Adolphus obtained a Kingdome by delivering his Country from the Tyranny of the Danes Charles his Father for delivering it from the Pole In which heroicall disposition of his Ancestors Gustavus Adolphus now succeeds his Father and Grandfather in vndertaking this present warre for the asserting of Germany from the pressures of the present Emperour 3. Besides that this Prince is descended of a Family of Deliverers there seemes to be another Omen in his Stile as well as in his Pedigree he writes himselfe King of the Goths and Vandals which Nations haue once heretofore beene fatall vnto the Empire This braue Prince having in the yeare 16●9 had first a warre with the Pole and then a Peace was by the complaints invitations of the Germane Princes the next yeare brought over into the Empire You haue before heard of the miseries of Germany and yet had the Protestant Princes in their Dyet of Leipsich beene modest in their Remonstrance they had not told you all Stralesundt and Stetin Mecklenburg and Pomerland were so heavily oppressed so sorely over-layd that they had not breath enough left to be heard sigh so farre as the Emperours Court A sound we know is vsually conveighed further along the water then over-land which may perchance be one of the reasons why their complaints are sooner listned vnto in Sweden then at Vienna These Maritime people therefore finding no reliefe ashoare are forced to fetch their succours whence they vsually did their Merchandize out of the Baltick Sea The King of Sweden is allyed with Bogislaus Duke of Stetin and with Iohn Albert and his brother Dukes of Mecklenburg is confederate with Stralesundt and Pomerland and therefore likeliest to be their Friend His safetie much depended vpon theirs had the Emperour beene Maister of those Ports and Sea-coasts he would neither haue beene so fayre a Merchant to him and might withall haue proved a more dangerous and over-maisterly a neighbour Againe this King now having a good Peace had therfore the better leisure His Army being not yet cashier'd the reliefe would not altogether be so chargeable His experience in the warres being great his fame now after the beating of the Pole and two Imperiall Armies in Prussia more he was also thought to be the ablest to deliver them His Majestie therefore being by the pittifull and redoubled complaints of his Allyes his Confederates his Neighbours sollicited over and over againe to come in vnto their rescue that this bare invitation of his Friends might not be censured for a plot betwixt them or not to be cause enough for his comming loe he is even puld over by his enemies provocations But for the greater Authoritie with the Reader we will giue you the just Apologie of that Prince the pressing reasons for his moving with an Army into Germany himselfe having caused to be Printed the Arguments whereof we here abbreviate into Propositions His Majestie first protests That he had not stirr'd at all The King of Swedens Apology complaints no not though he had often beene warned to looke vnto himselfe nor would he take any notice of it vntill some affront or maine occasion of quarrell had beene actually offered by the Emperour That having beene by his oppressed neighbours and Confederates invited vnto their reliefe he for a long time rather expected the Emperours goodnesse towards the Subjects of Germany then desired to interesse himselfe against him with whom he so much desired the continuation of Amitie That the quarrell was first begunne by the Emperour who in the late warres of Prussia betwixt Sweden and Poland had prohibited the King of Sweden to make any Levies of men or provision of victualls or Ammunition in Germany apparently granting the same libertie vnto his enemy the King of Poland That the Emperour himselfe had heretofore sent two severall Armies vnder his own Ensignes into Prussia in ayde of the Pole his enemy the first in the yeare 1627. vnder the Command of the Duke of Holsteyn Walstein was sayd to haue given Arnheim his Commission in these vvords Arnheim goe take 10000 men you must beat the King of Sweden out of Prussia and if you cannot doe it tell him that Walstein vvill come and the second sent 1630. was conducted by Arnheim Marshall of the Feild vnto Walstein That his

THE SWEDISH INTELLIGENCER The first part WHEREIN OVT OF THE TRVEST And choysest Informations are the famous Actions of that warlike Prince Historically led along from his Majesties first entring into the EMPIRE vntill his great Victory over the Generall TILLY at the Battell of Leipsich The times and places of every Action being so sufficiently observed and described that the Reader may finde both Truth and Reason in it LONDON Printed for Nath Butter and Nicolas Bourne 1632. ¶ The Contents and Methode of the whole I. A Discourse vpon the Dyet of Ratisbone which Dyet bred the Discontents of the Protestants and enforced them to the Conclusions of Leipsich II. The Dyet of the Protestant Princes of Leipsich and their Resolutions and Actions vpon it Historically led along vnto the day of their joyning with the King of Sweden III. A briefe Chronicle of the King of Swedens Actions from his first landing in Germany vntill his great Victory over Tilly. IIII. The Proceedings of Monsieur Tilly Generall of the Catholike League by himselfe from his first comming against the King vntill his great defeate before Leipsich ¶ THE PREFACE TO THE READER IVdicious and favourable Reader Out of our high respect vnto that Caesar and Alexander of our times that admirably victorious King of Sweden wee haue here and for thy pleasure too adventured vpon an Essay of his Story which if liked may encourage vs to continue it Not out of any confidence that ours is a Chronicle worthy enough for such heroick performances a Polibius or a Tacitus were little enough for that but our intention chiefly is to provoke some abler Pen some better instructed Intelligencer to doe it and if such a one controll or mend vs wee will not be angry If you here demaund out of what Instructions wee haue furnisht our Intelligencer be pleased to know that nothing is willingly feigned or wilfully falsified The errors that be in it are errors of ignorance all Some part of it was received from the papers of an honourable personage a Commaunder of prime credit and activitie with that victorious King Wee haue beene made to vnderstand much of these Actions by discourse with another gallant Gentleman and he also a great Commaunder in the Army Some printed High Dutch bookes wee haue had For some things we haue had private writing and from good hands too In other things we haue made vse of Gallobelgicus especially where he deales vpon publick Record and where we thought the poore man durst speake freely Some times sure he writes but by Commission and is every where sparing in reporting the Emperours losses And yet in this to take away all exception we haue followed him too notwithstanding wee by others found greater numbers and defeates specified Very good vse haue wee made of the Weekely Currantoes too which if a man of judgement reades he shall for the most part finde especially of latter times very true and very punctuall Whosoever will be cunning in the Topography of Germany and would vnderstand these warres let him not despise Currantoes All this lastly hath passed the allowance of a Gentleman of the best judgement and intelligence for these matters in the Kingdome Wee haue every where dealt candidely not magnifying the King nor derogating from his enemies not left out or put in for favour or advantage Our methode is this to handle every Story by it selfe and then to bring all together at the day of Battell Carefull haue we beene yea no small paines haue we taken to note the times and to describe the places of the most famous actions We haue examined the dates with diligēce and still had fiue Maps before vs of the same place The Imperiall Dyet of Ratisbone which was well hoped would haue mended all leaving things farre more desperate on the Protestants partie necessitated a Resolution in the Princes of that Confession rather to dye free then to liue slaues Hence their Dyet of Leipsich And because these Leaguers were at first of an Vnion by themselues we haue briefly therefore and vpon the Bye first handled their warlike preparations vntill the day of their joyning with the King The same haue we done with the Kings Story gone along with it from his Majesties first landing The Kings having of many Armies in the field at once troubled vs not a little at the first to finde with which of all these Armyes the King in person should be but wee after a while perceived that this most industrious Chieftaine was able to serve more Cures at once then one and that he was so vigilant vpon every occasion that there were few great Actions which himselfe was not at one end of Many a brave Generall he hath The Lord Oxensterne a Sweden borne and Lord Chancellor of that Kingdome Generall all this while of a particular Army in Prussia to waite vpon the Po●e and his motions The Lord Falkenburg a Germane borne and Lord Chamberlayn of his Majesties houshold vnfortunately slaine in Magdenburg The Lord Gustavus Horne a Finlander and still Generall of a particular Army by himselfe with whom the Lord Marquesse Hamilton is associated The Lord Otho Todt for brevities sake call'd Otty-todt or Todt a Swede Generall of his Majesties Horse Sir Iohn Bannier a Germane and a braue Souldier Generall of the Foote or Infantery all these you finde frequent and honorable mention of and yet hath the King himselfe beene at the most of the businesse All particular actions it had beene impossible for vs to haue toucht vpon therefore haue we endevored to relate the famousest whether Sieges Battels Marches Encampings or Removings orderly leading all along vnto the great day of battell It would haue perplexed our methode to haue mentioned every particular supply that the King hath had those therefore wee desire the Readers to imagine For example he landed but 11. Regiments or thousands of Foote at first yet within a moneth was his Army full 20000. strong which daily increased also His numbers indeede were never great he had but 5000. men for the most part and never aboue 7000. in all his late warres of Prussia against the Pole and yet with them hath he fought severall Battels beaten out or wearied out two Imperiall Armies taken in the great and strong Citie of Elbing with others and obtained his purpose finally vpon his enemy who was able at once to haue come downe with such a power of Horse vpon him as had beene sufficient to haue carryed away himselfe and fiue such Armies That which hath made his Majestie so victorious next to the assistance of Almightie God is his most exact observing of military Discipline wherein with an admirable temper he is both strict and sweete the Majestie of a King in him commanding more willing obedience from his Army then the awfull directions of a bare Generall alone possibly could Adde to his strict Discipline his many poynts of new invented Discipline peculiar vnto himselfe too long here to describe His