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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33864	A collection of select discourses out of the most eminent wits of France and Italy	Sarasin, Jean-François, 1614-1654. Conspiration de Walstein. English.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648. Histoire d'Alcidalis et de Zelide. English.; Mascardi, Agostino, 1591-1640. Congiura del conte Gio. Luigi de Fiéschi. English.; Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. Discours sur les oeuvres de M. Sarasin. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5191; ESTC R13475	160,025	256

in a mind that wish'd nothing more for we believe easily what we desire earnestly The Emperour with his Son came to Ratisbone the end of June 1630 where all the Electors were met except those of Saxony and Brandenburgh who excus'd themselves by their Deputies as not able to defray the charges of the Journey the great expence of Walsteins Garrisons having impoverish'd them and 't was true that fourteen compleat Regiments had Winter'd in the Territories of Brandenburgh only The present necessity and the fear of the future augmented the boldness of the Electors And besides their dependance on the King of Sweden who had begun the War in Germany they were imbolden'd by the absence of Forty thousand men who contrary to the advice of Walstein were employed in the War of Mantoua or lost in that of Polonia They were further encourag'd by the French Embassadour for upon complaint made in the Diet by the Duke of Lorain that a powerful French Army was upon the Frontier the Embassadour assur'd the Electors they were there only to sustain their Propositions in case they should be refused They first treated the Peace with the King of France it being of the Protestants interest not to be ingaged with him that he might the more freely assist them Next they resolv'd upon an Assembly at Frankfort the year following touching the Edict of the restitution several difficulties impeding the determination now the Protestants expecting that before that time the King of Sweden should render it null and the Catholicks believing that their right would be fortified by the possession which they had But when they came to speak of the affairs of the War all these parties with one common Voice demanded the deposing of Walstein and it seemed as if they had assembled for nothing else The hatred born him was general and the weakness of the Emperour astonish'd by this unthought of blow was enough to draw a consent to lay him aside and so to strip himself of his Power and his Fortunes and to abandon a man whose ruines had never been so much their study if he had been less faithful to him or had render'd him less powerful The Spaniards who often were the Arbiters of his Councils desiring one less proud and more obedient in his place seeing that the King of Sweden was descended into Pomerania were content with Tilly who the Duke of Bavaria willing to reassume his Authority offer'd them to oppose him The Emperour saw himself constrain'd to disband his Troops of the upper Germany and to consent to a reformation of the rest which lost him the greatest part the Souldier accustom'd to pillage could not or render that which they had taken or resolve to take no more Nor did the Disorders stop here the Generals Anheim and Hoftchen sought entertainment elsewhere and a great number of Officers left his Service So that from that absolute estate which made Germany tremble under Walstein the Emperour by his weakness the artifice of the Protestants and the passions of his own was reduc'd in an instant to dread the Swedish Forces which Walstein would have slighted if in his Authority he had retain'd the chief strength of the Empire His Ministers perceived as well as he but too late that they were deceived seeing that after he had forsaken all the interests of the Empire on the hopes of making his Son King of the Romans the Electours wav'd his nomination by proroguing it which in such matters holds the place of a civil Refusal In the mean time Walstein having heard of his being depos'd though the suddeness of the blow surprized him seem'd rather to regret the Misfortune of Ferdinand than his own Without speaking of himself he only said that the Emperour was betray'd and his Council corrupted That same Vertue which had gain'd him the Generals Staff serv'd him to resign it in appearance without disorder or grief His displeasure for all that was very great but very secret and only known of his Confidents Divers Colonels repair'd to him some he kept with him assign'd others upon his Lands whither he sent them to live honourably being in this careful of his Friendship and Reputation Resolving to keep such men as he guess'd by this voluntary proof could never abandon him whatever the dangers were which he might be cast into by his ambition and resentments For certainly under this profound simulation of a moderate Spirit which he affected in his Misfortunes he hid an extream desire of Revenge and cast projects to put himself into such a condition that they should not again take away his employment if the necessity of affairs would that they recall'd him to it whereof John Baptista Seni his Astrologer shews him approaching hopes and whereof he assur'd himself by the Judgment he made upon the disorder of the Empire confirming thus by his own solid reasoning the conjectures of an uncertain Art And thus he fills his mind with high and bold designs even then when he seems to think of nothing but a private life And now it may be seasonable to say somewhat of his Customes and of his Domestick life that you may see better how all his actions tended to raise him above other men and with more certainty judge of what we write to which these Remarks seem not altogether impertinent but truly I fear that in reading them there will want belief for the History and that the Truths I shall deliver will pass for the descriptions of a Romance This notwithstanding shall not forbid me to speak of them without exaggeration without envy To begin with his Houses That he liv'd in seem'd rather the Palace of a Monarch than the dwelling of a particular man for he shar'd in this weakness with other men who leave piles of Stone for the Monuments of their Greatness not dreaming of those importunate accidents of Nature or Fortune which may destroy them in a moment and at the best whatever care is taken to preserve them they ruine of themselves His House at Prague received those that came by six great Gates and in a mighty space of ground cast its foundation over the ruines of an hundred Houses that were pull'd down to make way for it The apartments were beautiful magnificent and commodious the ornaments and movables represented Luxury and Abundance and his Lodgings shew'd them in Excess I would willingly describe the retail the Gardens beautified with a great number of Statues the Fountains Grots Fish-ponds Volaries rare for their extent planted with Trees fill'd with Birds of all sorts if the History would suffer unprofitable though pleasing digressions The Model of this Palace was different from all others whether it was that he believed his fashion of Building the best or whether by this particular affection he would also in these things stand at distance from vulgar Customes Near his House at Gidzin he built a Wall about a fair Park where he kept above three hundred choice Horses For his Stables

of Land which is separated from the rest of his Dominions And though the King had tempted his Fortunes he was still worsted Walstein driving him out of Pomerania into which Province he had made a descent and progress forcing him to remount his Ships where yet perhaps he had not found his safety if Walstein had had Sea Forces insomuch as from that time to the Peace of Lubeck the Dane never enterpriz'd any thing contenting himself to succour those of the Sound who only were able to stop the torrent of the Imperial Arms which so many Nations had in vain opposed In this flourishing estate of the Empire Walstein willing that his Master should profit himself of his victories and build the greatness of his House upon the weakness of his Enemies leaves Tilly in Frise under pretext that something of the Rebellion remain'd and that there he should take up his Winter quarters but in effect it was that the Emperour might not have any longer the Duke of Bavaria for Companion and that himself might remain without Competitor sole Director of all things After this knowing well that the poverty of the Common people and the depression of the Great ones were the ways that lead to the servitude of Nations free and little affected to the Emperour instead of disbanding this multitude of Souldiers who having conquer'd all seem'd now useless he rais'd several new Troops and augmented the number of his Officers to increase by their charge the poverty of those who were to defray it His own Example taught his Commanders sumptuousness and profusion and to furnish that Rapine and Violence All Germany was overflown with these Troops they could no longer distinguish Friend and Allies from Enemies and Neuters The Insolence of the Souldier being unpunish'd was boundless as was the Oppression of the people and their hatred against Walstein who they believed the Author of these Evils Besides from the Imperial Court was issued a severe Edict declaring all those Traytors that were found to have any way participated in the Counsels of the Rebels by which they had the means to secure themselves of the Great ones and got money to satisfie the Souldiers and Courtiers It being not only easie but honest in appearance to calumniate those they meant to ruine And that the King of Sweden who so many miserable wretches look'd upon as the last refuge of their Liberty should not when he would or foment a Rebellion which without him could have no force or oppose himself to that absolute dominion of Austria which Walstein labour'd to establish after having condemn'd the Duke of Mekelburgh for holding Intelligence with the Enemy and being by the gift of Ferdinand Master of his Estate and Titles Walstein secures himself of all the Ports in the Baltick Sea except the Sound to which he laies violent Siege and put all his care to the equipping of a Fleet that might render him Master of these Seas as he was of Germany And now in spight of hatred or envy he might quietly have enjoy'd the glory of his great and faithful Services if his Pride that was always above his Fortune had not transported him But being born away with a blind presumption of himself and an insupportable despising of others made Prince of the Empire and Duke of Meckleburgh styl'd Highness eating alone stamping Money and in his Equipage Expences and solicited Audiences affecting to resemble Kings he corrupted the solidity of his Vertue and gave the World aversions for his injurious and irregular Vanities The Peace with the Danes being concluded at Lubeck the Emperour extraordinarily press'd by the Clergy on whom he depended in all things precipitates himself after their passions and resolves to give the last blow to the liberty of Germany before it was weak enough to receive it He publishes an Edict commanding the restitution of all the Ecclesiastical goods which the Protestants had usurp'd from the first Troubles of Lutheranism believing there could not happen to him any sinister accident Not from abroad whilst the King of Sweden and Bohemia were in War he of Denmark weary of his Losses and the Transylvanians divided into Factions the French busied among themselves and in Italy And at home he had Walstein ever terrible to the Factious and Armies ready to stifle any Sedition before its growth But the Protestants despoil'd of Lands which they had inherited and apprehensive that in sequence of that their liberty of Conscience might be taken from them too finding themselves in despair on these considerations of Religion and Interest and the Princes of that party perceiving well that 't was they were aim'd at amongst others the Elector of Saxony seeing the command of Magdeburgh taken from his Son which the Town had bestowed upon him the Pope having nominated for their Archbishop Leopold the Son of Ferdinand endeavour'd to find remedies for these utmost extremities and by the help of the French to oblige Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden alarm'd by what was done on the Baltick-Sea and ambition of Honour to come to their assistance under other pretences On the other side the Catholick Princes to whom the Greatness of the House of Austria render'd it terrible and generally all people opprest with that Poverty to which they were reduc'd y Contributions and Winter quarters the invention of Walstein and not any thing of publick calamity demanded of the Emperour a General Assembly for the good and quiet of his Empire Chiefly the Duke of Bavaria solicited this Diet together with the Elector of Majence who he had put into his opinion The Bavarois mortally hated Walstein whether it was that he thought him an enemy to the Peace of Germany or whether he had ambition to pretend himself to the Electorate which 't was said the Emperour had promis'd him and Walstein oppos'd He saw also that his General Tilly was remov'd and found that absolute power lessen'd which he had merited by his fidelity in the greatest peril of the Empire and by his Services in sustaining the declining Fortunes of Ferdinand and that which touch'd him nearest was that the fruit of all his Labours remain'd in the hands of Walstein apprehending that this prodigious Power to the establishing whereof he had contributed with the hazard of his life and Fortunes might be the ruine of both if his Enemy who never pardon'd any continu'd any longer the Arbiter These Considerations having cast him into fear and anger which ordinarily increase proportionably as their Subjects are just he was the man that most earnestly solicited the Assembly and the deposing of Walstein Push'd on also by Monsieur de Lem the French Embassadour and the Capuchin Joseph a man of Intrigues It was he also that to obtain this Diet and to hinder the Emperour from discovering they meant to diminish that Authority which he had usurped gave him hopes that his Son should be elected King of the Romans an insensible introduction to succession in the Empire His Arts took place