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A19674	A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the right honourable Thomas Lord Hovvard, Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Primer Earle, and Earle Marshall of England, ambassadour extraordinary to his sacred Majesty Ferdinando the second, emperour of Germanie, anno Domini 1636. By Wiliam Crowne Gentleman	Crowne, William.	1637 (1637)	STC 6097; ESTC S109122	38,521	77

troubled with Mice built this and lived in it thinking there to be secure but even thither they pursued him also and eate him up then by Bingen a faire Towne on the right side and by Ehrenfels Castle on the other side to Rudeshein a Towne on the left side of the Rhine into which I entered and did see poore people praying where dead bones were in a little old house and here his Excellencie gave some reliefe to the poore which were almost starved as it appeared by the violence they used to get it from one another from hence by Geisenhem Elfeld and Wallaff three Townes on the left side of the River and then we crossed over the Rhine unto the other side Then to Mentz a great City seated close by the Rhine on the right side against which wee cast Anchor and lay on ship-board for there was nothing in the Towne to relieve us since it was taken by the King of Sweden and miserably battered there the King of Bohemia dyed in a faire corner house towards the Rivers side heere likewise the poore people were almost starved and those that could relieve others before now humbly begged to bee relieved and after supper all had reliefe sent from the Ship ashore at the sight of which they strove so violently that some of them fell into the Rhine and were like to have bin drowned The next day being the third of May from hence wee departed leaving the Rhine halfe a league above the City on our right hand and entered into a shallow River called the Maine passing by a place which the King of Sweden was building for a Fort but could not finish it then by Cassell on the left side thence by Flersheim on the left side to Russelsheim on the right of the Maine and then to the stately City of Francfurt adjacent to the Maine on the left side where we landed and lay from Collein hither all the Townes Villages and Castles bee battered pillaged or burnt and every place wee lay at on the Rhine on ship-board we watched taking every man his turne heere wee staid foure daies untill our carriages were made ready where we saw the place wherein they keepe the Dyet afterward entered into the Church called Saint Bartholmews where the Emperours use to bee crowned and take their oath the City is inhabited with Lutherans and Iewes for in the Iewes Synagogue I entered in to see the manner of their service which is an undecent way making a hideous noise having on their heads and about their neckes things called Capouchins the women are not admitted into their Synagogue but in places about And on Sunday the seventh of May by waggons through the City over two Bridges which are alwaies guarded with Souldiers leaving the Maine on our left hand from hence we tooke a Convoy of Musketiers along being wee went through much danger by Offenbach Selgenstat seated betweene us and the Maine passing thus along through a great Forest in much danger hearing the great Peeces so swiftly discharge off at Hannaw which the Swedes subdu'd and now besieged by the Emperors Forces being not above three English miles off then by a very great Mountaine two English miles long all beset with Vines untill we came at a poore little Village where wee staid and dined with provision of our owne and after dinner departed passing through Plaines untill wee came at the Maine and there ferried over into a towne called Klingenberg passing through this we came to a very high hill the way up being all stone 2. English miles up to the top and then through a Wood after we were past this we came to a poore little Village called Neunkirchen where we found one house a burning when we came and not any body in the Village heere we were constrained to tarry all night for it grew very late and no Towne neere by 4. English miles spending the night in walking up and downe in feare with Carrabines in our hands because we heard Peeces discharg'd off in Woods about us and with part of the coles of the consumed house his Excellency had his meat rosted for supper the next morning earely his Excellency went to view the Church which we found rifled with the pictures and Altars abused in the Church-yard we saw a dead body scraped out of the grave in another place out of the Church-yard there lay another dead body into many of the houses wee entered and found them all empty From this miserable place we departed and heard after that they in the Village fled by reason of the sicknesse and set that house on fire at their departure that Passengers might not be infected Then came we into wijrtzburg-Wijrtzburg-land and descended downe another steep hill and there crossed over a little River call'd Tauber and through Keichelsheim to Neubruim a poore Village where wee dined after dinner passing by the side of the Maine and through Woods and Plaines untill we came to Wijrtzburg a faire City passing over a bridge first standing over the Maine into the Towne seated on the left side of the River and a faire Castle opposite to the Towne on the other side in which the Towne put all their riches when they heard the king of Sweden was comming thinking there it would not be gain'd but they hearing of it surprised and pillaged it in 3. daies and it was 3. or 4. moneths before the Emperors forces could regaine it the next day earely departed being the 10. of May and entered Marggrafen-land and to Kiteingen to diner after diner thence through Ipza a City and so to Marckbibrach where we lay all night on the plancher for the Village was pillaged but the day before earely the next morning wee went away and passed through Neustadt which hath beene a faire City though now pillaged and burnt miserably heere we saw poore children sitting at their doores almost strav'd to death to whom his Excellency gave order for to relieve them with meat and money to their Parents from hence we went to Eilfkirchen a poore Village where wee dined with some reserv'd meat of our owne for there was not any thing to be found after diner thence we passed by many Villages pillag'd and burnt down and so into nurnberger-Nurnberger-land passing through the place where the King of Swedens Leaguer lay when the King of Bohemia was with him and my Lord Craven and in sight of the place the Emperors Army had intrenched themselves by the side of a great wood here the King of Sweden set upon poles alive three of his souldiers for killing 2. of their Commanders and flying presently to his Enemy and at the end of a Battaile that was then fought he tooke them prisoners and so executed them then drawing neere Nurnburg a great City seated in a Plaine which the King of Sweden relieved at that time against the Emperor being not above two English miles off heere we passed by some of

their workes before the Towne and then entered the Gate into the City being very stately built and one of the strongest in Germany and so to his Excellencies lodging the next day the Lords of the City came and visited his Excellency here we staid II daies untill his Excellency had word for certain where the Emperor was the most part of our time was spent in seeing of the rare things in the Towne as a very brave Magazine wherein all their munition lieth which the Governours of the towne shewed his Excellency at our first entrance wee passed through a large Court where there lay on our left hand 4. great Cannons by the walles side which were 6. paces long and 2. foote broad and worke-houses there likewise then entered we into a long roome where there hung on both sides armour for foot and horse and then into the place it selfe where there were 6. partitions each 28. paces long and 6. broad all full of brasse Peeces and other small ones of severall rare inventions from hence we went to see a very rare water-worke which supplieth all the City adjoyning close to the wall of the Towne returning homewards we entered into their great Church call'd the Dome there his Excellency was shewed a very stately picture of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary which hung in the middle of the Quire drawne up which had not bin shewed to any in 18. yeeres before and then return'd home and the Lords with him who supped with his Excellency the next day they dined with him likewise and after diner desired his Excellency to goe and take the aire in some of their Gardens without the City which he did the City is very strong being encompassed without the wals with bulwarkes and a mighty deepe and wide ditch and within are many curiosities and stately buildings the ancient men called Lords governe by turnes not acknowledging any particular Prince their Soveraigne but hold correspondency with all for in the time of those great wars between the Emperor and the King of Sweden they would resigne to the Emperor one while and to the K. another paying great taxes impositions to their halfe undoing Frō hence we departed May 22. being Sunday for Regenspurgh thinking there to meete with the Emperor first p●ssing through a part of the upper Palatinate to Newmark where we lay seated in a plaine where the king of Bohemia had a house which his Excellency viewed adjoyning to the wall within the Towne fortified with bulwarkes and pallizadoes having spacious roomes and a faire Armory early the next morning from hence by Churches demolished to the ground and through Woods in danger understanding that Crabbats were lying heere about untill we came at a poore little Village called Hemmaw where we staied and dined which hath beene pillaged eight and twenty times in two yeeres and twice in one day and they have there no water but that which they save when it raineth after dinner to Ettershansen a poore Village where we crossed over a little River in Boates the Bridge being burnt downe by the Swedes forces from hence wee ascended up a high hill being descended downe wee passed a long on an high banke having the River Danubius on our right hand and high Mountaines with Vines on our left passing thus through severall Villages beaten downe or burnt untill we came at a round Fort before the Bridge which a guard kept and so over it through a Tower in the middle standing over the Danuby which runneth with as swift a current as at London Bridge dividing it selfe into severall Ilands which have had howses on them but now burnt and also houses on the Arches which were demolished likewise then into the Citie Regenspurg to his Excellencies lodging the Citie hath bin taken by the Swedish forces and regained by the King of Hungary The 25. day his Excellency went to take the ayre on the other side of the Towne and as we went did see the ruines of many houses and Churches and one Carthusian Monastery not so much ruinated as the rest into which his Excellency entered to see the roomes wherein the King of Hungary did lie all the time hee was regaining of the Citie being not above two English miles off it and heere likewise the old Duke of Bavaria this Dukes Father lived in a Cell for many yeers together againe his Excellency went to take the ayre the 28. day and entered into a Jesuites Monastery in which there is one Altar dedicated to S. George here his Excellency staied a weeke and departed thence for Liniz where the Emperour was taking foure Boates and went downe the Danow thorough Bavaria passing by a Castle called Donastauff seated on a high Mountaine with a Dorpe at the foote of it adjoyning to the Danubij on the left side and by Werth Castle on the same side to Straubingen on the same side where we landed about eleuen at night and lay that night the next morning from thence still by many ruines to Pogen on the right side at the foote of a very high Mountaine and on the top of it a Church with a few houses about it then by Nuternberg Castle seated on a high Mountaine on the right side of the River and by Deckendorff on the other side against which wee met with thirty horses fastened all to one rope drawing of sixe great boats which were going to Regenspurg then by a Castle called Tawrin● seated on a high Mountaine and below at the bottome is a Towne walled round called Overwinter on the left side and so to Vilshoven a towne on the right of the Danuby where wee landed and lay that night The next morning as his Excellency was taking Boate he spied a poore Boy standing among other poore people begging for reliefe who looked very strangely and could neither speake nor heare but a little at his mouth and nose having neither eares nor passage to heare with and his face very thin drawne aside yet when one hallowed hee heard and answered againe with a noise there was with him his sister a pretty girle who when one spake to him made him understand by signes these two his Excellency tooke along with him in his Boate to a City called Passaw seated on the right side of the Danuby where we landed lay and there common ded to have new clothes made for them gave them monie and sent them home to their freinds and a little before we came thither endeth Bavaria this Citie is seated very sweetly having 3. rivers running neere it the Danuby which is of a green color incompasseth it of one side and a swift river called Inn on the other side which commeth out of Italy and is of a white color the third is Ilze which is very blacke and commeth out of Bohemia and both runne into the Danuby at the end of the towne the next day his Excellency went to view a Capuchine Monastery seated very pleasantly