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religion_n	church_n	papist_n	protestant_n	3,430	5	8.0447	4	false

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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

and Peace of the Empire Thirdly How to maintaine correspōdency with the Catholike Princes And fourthly What to answer for themselues both in generall and particular as well concerning the maintenance of the reformed Religion as to the Emperours Edict concerning the Church-Lands when they should come to meete at the Dyet of Franckford The Princes thus invited and the time now come vpon the fourth of February 1631. the Elector of Saxony enters Lypsich in great state and the Elector of Brandenburg a little after him The Protestant partie in the Empire Thither in person came these Protestant Princes also Christianus another Marquesse of Brandenburg Iohn William and Bernard Dukes of Saxon Weymar William Landtgrave of Hessen Frederick Marquesse of Baden Augustus Prince of Anhalt Frederick Count of Solmes Iohn George and Ernest Lodowike Counts of Mansfeilt and the deposed Dukes of Mecklenburg These Princes sent their Ambassadors The Duke of Deuxponts Iohn Ernestus another Duke of Saxony Frederick Vlrick Duke of Brunswicke The Duke of Lunenburg The severall Princes of the Circles of Schwaben and Franckenlandt The Lady of the Abbey of Quedlinburg The Bishops Administrators of Mecklenburg and of Bremen The Counts of Stolberg The Barons of Reussen and Schonberg These Townes and States send their Agents also Norimberg Strasburg Franckford Lubeck Bremen Brunswick Hildesheim Mullhuisen and Northhuisen Duke Lodowick Frederick Administrator of the Dukedome of Wirtenberg was newly dead and Duke Iulius not yet setled and therefore being not able to come himselfe he sent the Vice-Chancelor of the Dukedome called Doctor Loester and some other Counsellors as Deputies for that Dutchie And these be the Protestant party in the Empire some whereof being Lutherans and some Calvinists they first of all agree to haue that distinction of names which had caused so much schisme and hatred heretofore to be vtterly taken away making a generall Decree that both Professions should from thence forth be called by one name of Evangeliacalls That is Professors of the Gospell No man was suffered to stay within the Towne whose businesse was not knowne the streets ends were chained vp and barricadoed guards set at the severall ports and the keyes of the gates every night brought into the Dukes chamber And all this was to prevent Spyes and surprisalls The Duke Elector of Saxony on whose greatnesse and countenance the Partie and Action very much depended makes a speech first of all Saxonyes Oration which had reference vnto his former Letters of Invitation vnto them protesting withall his owne firmenesse and forwardnesse for the peace of the Empire and the maintenance of the Religion and that he would be ready to adventure both life and goods in the Cause so desiring every man freely to giue his Counsell in such manner as they might be able to render a fayre accompt of it vnto the Emperour Vnto this meeting the King of Sweden also sends his Ambassador Doctor Chemnitius who in his Maisters name delivers them this assurance That his Majesties intentions were no other then to restore the Empire to her ancient peace the Princes to their liberties and to defend the Church in her Religion telling them moreover how that the French King was newly entred into a League with him for fiue yeares to come The Ambassador had both speedie Audience and honorable entertainement The Dyet to be briefe brake vp vpon Palme-Sunday the third of Aprill following The Conclusions agreed vpon themselues expresse in their Letters in humble and complaining manner enlarged in many sheetes of Paper sent by an expresse Curryer vnto the Emperour in which their joynt desires were thus signified Their humble Remonstrance vnto the Emperor Their Complaint and Remonstrance I reduce into these Propositions That the Golden Bull and Constitutions of the Empire had of late beene all abused That the Emperours late Edict for restitution of the Church Lands and his endevours to roote out the Protestant Religion were the maine Causes of these late troubles The first of these breeding jealousies and discontents betwixt the Protestants and the Papists and the second tending to the vtter ruine of the two Electors of Saxony and Brandenburg Then they complaine of injustice done vnto particular Princes and Cities some of which were injuried by the violent taking away of their Church Lands as the Dukes of Wirtenberg and Brunswick the Prince of Anhalt the Counts Hohenloe Stolberg Lippe Valdecht Verthimb Erpach c. the Towne of Ausburg and others Some hindered in the exercise of their Religion as Augustus and Frederike Princes Palatines and yonger brethren vnto Wolfgang William Palatine of Newburg now turnd Papist Others had their Estates confiscated as the Lady * The mother and brother of the King of Bohemia Lewis being Duke of Simmern Electresse Palatine and her Sonne Lewis Prince Palatine the Dukes of Mecklenburg c. for whom the whole Colledge of Electors had interceded in the late Dyet but not prevayled Others complaine of the violent altering of their Feods and Tenures of their Lands and Lordships as the last before named Princes and Iohn Casimire Elector of Saxony into whose Lands the Imperiall Commissaries haue with force and Armes intruded changing the tenures of the tenants and altering the Religion Ernestus Marquesse and Elector of Brandenburg complaines of the same wrongs offered vnto his Pupils the yong Marquesses * Which are of the house of Brandenburg their Lands lying by Nurenberg of Onspach Vlme Duke of Brunswick complaines first of the ravages of his Lands done by Tilly vpon pretence of moneyes owing to the King of Denmarke and made over by the said King vnto the Emperour who imployed Tilly thus to streyne for them Secondly of the seisure of his Bishopricke of Hildesheim and thirdly that the chiefe Towne of his owne residence Wolffenbuttle had beene forced to take an Imperiall Garrison Others complaine how they might not haue the benefit of the Law but were driven away by threatnings and discourtesies The Electors and Princes complaine of contempts and indignities offered vnto their persons some of them having beene threatned the Bastonado by some of the Emperors Souldiers The Cities and Circles of the Empire complaine that vndue and excessiue Impositions and Taxes haue beene layd vpon them not by the consent of themselues as the Imperiall Lawes command but at the pleasure of any of the Emperours Commissaries That vnder colour of protecting them they haue beene forced to afford Quarter and maintenance vnto the Imperiall Armies who when they should indeede haue defended them most cowardly ran away That when they would not endure the Souldiers insolencies they haue beene declared enemies of the Empire and forbidden to defend themselues That their Lands haue beene given to Souldiers as if they had beene Conquered That they haue beene forced to contribute to imaginary companies of Souldiers perchance to foure or fiue as if they had beene a compleat band That the Commissaries haue assigned Quarters and passages vnto the Souldiers

justice finally and his mercy his exemplary and his indefatigable industry his affabilitie and his easinesse of accesse the goodnesse of his cause and the common Libertie which his victories bring with them haue conquered more then his sword What now shall hinder this braue and princely Warriour to arriue vnto that height of reputation which Gonsalvo did in the warres of Naples whom the Historians of that age worthily stile the great Captaine yea so great a Conquerour hath the King hitherto beene that I dare challenge the skilfullest Historian to set for all particulars such another by him God blesse the King of Swedens Majestie and thoroughly enable him to be the glorious Assertor of the Germane Libertie Vale. If the Readers desire the continuance of our Relations our Intelligencer shall be much the better furnished to giue Content if they please to send vs in their owne Intelligence For that it seemes impossible for vs English to avoyde that observation of Philip de Commines That in all great actions wee are still harkning after Prophecies which the taking of some things in this kinde hath even now verified wee will therefore feede the humor of the times a little with a Prediction of a great Astronomer of our owne Nation vpon that great Conjunction of Saturne and Iupiter Iuly 18 1623. And the second a Prophecy of the famous Paulus Grebnerus his Booke now in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge The Astronomers judgement is this That the effect of that Conjunction would be felt in the North and Northeast parts of Europe in particular and in generall over all That it would produce Famines Plagues Warres c. Places subiect to this he nameth Italy France Bohemia Silesia and Germany Of Provinces he nameth Prussia Brandenburg Stiria Hassia and Saxony Yea he descends to Cities naming Rome Prague Magdenburg Coblents betwixt Mentz and Cullen Vlmes Brunswick Ausburg c. He sayes it is likely to goe hard with the Romane Empire Clergie and Iesuites He speakes of a King of a true Religion that should doe all this and of much happinesse that should succeede it The whole Discourse will perchance shortly be imprinted PROPHETIA IN LEONEM DOMVS SAXONIAE DIV aspectavi connivi ego huic actui fidem Domui Austriacae Philippo synceram praestiti ne in victissimum Regis Philippi Belgium jamdudum ad extraneos de veniret quod mihi Hispania acceptum referre habet I am vero diutiùs sopitum quiescere quasi micare in tenebris mihi filio meo Christiano intoleranda irrecuperabilis jactura et damnum videtur Ideo arcum intendo meum jacula mitto sagittae meae ac tela fortunae filij mei Christiani etiam directè collimant metam invadentes feriunt ac disijciunt Burgundicum illum ac Austriacum Leonem vnde meum ac filij mei regnum ac dominatio amplè dilatatur Quod ego Haerésque meus faeliciter consummavimus A Prophecy of Paulus Grebnerus vpon the Lyon of the House of Saxony I Haue long lookt on and winked at the businesse and still haue I kept my faith vntainted vnto the house of Austria and to Philip that so the vnconquered * The Low-Countries and the Wallon Countries Belgium might not long agoe haue falne into the hands of Strangers and thus much Spaine owes me But for me to lye still asleepe and to be hoodwinkt as it were any longer seemes an intollerable and an irrecoverable losse and detriment vnto my selfe and my son Christianus Now therefore bend I my bow and shoot abroad my darts whereupon the arrowes and darts of mine owne fortune and Christianus my Sonne doe directly hitte the marke and smite those that invade me yea they cast downe that Burgundian and Austrian Lyon wherupon is the Kingdome and Dominion of my selfe and Sonne very amply enlarged Thus much haue I and mine heyre most happily atchieved OF THE MEETING Given by the Emperor vnto cercertaine Electors of the Empire at the Dyet of Ratisbone 1630. Acurately and truely described in a Letter by one that very well vnderstood how matters were there carryed Faithfully translated out of the Latine Printed Copie with some Marginall Notes added for cleering of the Story The Letter COncerning the passages of the Electorall Dyet truely my noble friend N N I had according to my promise dispatcht a more early advice vnto you but that vpon my returne to Ratisbone there were more dayes spent in mutuall visits and Entertainments of friends then indeed I was willing withall But having now gotten loose of this troublesome kinde of Courtesie and that the dispatch of my businesse together with the retyrednesse of the place where I now reside had afforded me some leysure I would no longer delay the discharge of that obligatiō in which I stood engaged vnto you Now after twelue yeares of most bloudy warres and almost vtter desolation brought vpon a goodly Countrey very probable surely it was that a peace would be desired on all hands and that for the full concluding thereof this very Dyet had principally beene Convoked As for the Protestants they verily had even vnto this day vndergone the hardest of all hardship being still overlaid with most heavy impositions and with the billettings of the Souldiers of the Catholike * The Catholike Princes of the Empire who haue entred into a League for the recovery of the Church lands and for the rooting out of the Protestant Religion Leaguers Yea the Catholickes themselues having had often tryall of the insolencies of the Imperiall Souldiers and of the chargeablenesse of the warre beganne now also mightily to distast the Covetousnesse of their owne partner the Duke of Bavaria Vpon this discontentment was the Palatine of * The Duke of Newburgh a yonger house of the Palsgrave who put in for the Electorate lately before turnd Papist Newburg reported to haue fallen off from the League as for the Archbishop of Saltsburg he as having no share among the other Princes in what should be conquered or recovered by the warre had for many yeares past withdrawne his Contribution The Bishop Elector of Triers also very earnestly complained of the damages received by the Spanish namely of the pillaging of his Country and the plundering of his Subjects houses yea and the Bishop * Brother to the Duke of Bavaria Elector of Colein also gaue off among the rest In this one point notwithstanding did the counsels and desires of the Protestant party differ from the Catholickes for that They out of a well meaning simplicitie desired an vtter forgetfulnesse of things passed and a right downe peace whereas These t is true seemed to be contented to lay downe Armes but not except the Church goods withheld by the Protestants might first be restored Furthermore that the Emperour was for his part heartily desirous both of the Peace and this Dyet we are in courtesie bound to beleeue it For when it was talkt on in every mans

mouth at Vienna how that both the Peace and Agreement were but given out for a meere showe the Dyet not really intended and that the Emperour never meant to goe to Ratisbone He gaue the Count of Schwarzenburg Marshall of his house a shrewd checke for that he had not already given order to the household gotten the carriages together made provision of Wagons and * For both Vienna and Ratisbone are scituated vpō the Danubie Shipping and for that by his slacknesse and negligence matter was ministred for the people diversly to descant vpon and credible it was that Himselfe being a Prince of milde disposition vsed to liue in peace heretofore did now begin to consider vpon the variable changes of fortune and after so many yeares of prosperously atchieved warres was at length desirous of ease and quietnesse To be feared besides it was lest that these continued warres these immortall Impositions these violences iniuries and Ravages would be beleeved to be commanded for that they were not forbidden and that when people saw no other helpe for it they would seeke a remedie even out of despayre it selfe But as for those whose mindes were fully taken vp with the opinion of Caesars affecting to Rule all people being very apt to imagine the worst they mainly suspected His designe in summoning this Dyet Peoples suspitions of Caesar● intentions not to proceed out of any care of the publicke or his desire of an equall peace but that He was partly constrained vnto it by some pressing necessitie of his owne and that he might lay such a ground-worke for the house of Austria as he might build vpon hereafter Their Argumēts for their suspition taken from the opinion of the Courtiers And that because every thing now helpt forward his businesse as he could desire That whatsoever had any strength to resist him in the whole Empire what through warres tributes and accusations lay now a drawing on vpon an easie death as it were That it was the part of a wiseman to follow his fortune which had hitherto beene alwayes favourable vnto Caesar That a man must make his best vse of what ever befalls him That many things were to be brought about by putting to the venter which were accounted difficult in the beginning That by the ayde of the Catholike Leaguers the Protestant Princes first and those being made a hand with even the Catholikes themselues might very possibly be brought vnder the Dominion of the house of Austria That the Conde D'Ognate of the house of Guevaras the late Spanish Embassador with the Emperour a man not ignorant of the designes then on foote was wont to cast out a word now and then amongst his friends How that the Gownes of the Germane Bishops were with the longest and that their traynes must therefore be clipt Furthermore suppose the Peace did never so much please the Emperour yet the Dyet by which it was to be concluded ought by all meanes to be avoyded For by this course should Caesars both words and actions come vnder censure and the authoritie of Majestie be by that meanes much weakned that this is the Condition of Ruling that the Accompt be allowed vpon no other Termes then as given vp to one man onely But whereas there was an Army already now on foote the warre not onely begun but farre advanc't Contributions imposed divers Princes deposed and * They meane Walsteyn whō the Emperour made Duk● of Meckleburg new men set vp by the Court every thing to conclude passed quite contrary to the Lawes the States of the Empire yea the Electors themselues eyther vnwitting of them or vnwilling with them how could all these things be defended yea which way could they possibly be excused Furthermore how ever Caesar might be earnestly enclined to a peace yet must his power be necessarily kept vp by force and strong hand That both the Nobilitie the Commons had beene too highly exasperated with a shew of varietie of injuries yea and that they would take Courage to revenge themselues so soone as ever they should see Caesar disarme These reasons no doubt had beene throughly canvassed at Court Reasons to perswade to the Dyet and had a long time exercised both Caesar and his Courtiers with suspence against all which the necessitie of going forward with the Dyet prevayled notwithstanding for as for such spirits as having beene throughly chafed were eager vpon the warres they were to be pacified with the hopes of Peace and the mending of the times and against so many enemies the French the Sweden and the Hollanders comming all like a tempest at once vpon them the Princes of the Empire were to be brought about and to be perswaded That these being not the private enemies of the house of Austria alone but the publique adversaries of the Empire were to be beaten off at the common charges and with their vnited forces Nor was Caesar ignorant that very many there were so farre forth Maisters of themselues as fayrely to obey though not slavishly to serue that argued among themselues vpon the miseries of servitude raked vp the injuries received and that aggravated all by construing things to the worst sence and as for the defeating of the Imperialists * By the King of Sweden against whom Holsteyn first and Arnheim next had bin sent in Prussia the cutting them off in Holland their incountrings with so much hardship in Italy the taking in of St. Hertoghenbusck and of Wesel the falling of the King of Sweden into the * That is into Prussia Empire many he well knew did openly talke of all these things as not much amisse But another reason for this Dyet there was nor was there any other cause that so neerely concerned Caesars going to it to settle namely the Empire in his owne family to shew his Sonne vnto the Princes and to win the Electors vnto him Thus the Catholikes the Protestants and the Emperour for diverse respects and with equall desires all sought the Peace The Protestants desired such a one as might promise a forgetfulnesse of matters passed and securitie for all sides the Catholikes they were earnest to haue the Lands first of all restored vnto the Churches and the Churches vnto the old Religion as for Caesar that He cald a Peace to haue his Rebells curbed and all submitted to his disposing which Peace notwithstanding did no way perswade the disbanding the Armies nor the easing of the Impositions And this was the state of the Empire thus stood mens mindes disposed when as Caesar and the Electors met at the Dyet of Ratisbone Now were the heads of the Consultation proposed The summe of the Emperours Oration in six Articles in the beginning whereof Caesar in a long Oration pleaded for himselfe That He might not be thought to be eyther the Causer of so cruell a warre or the hinderer of the Peace imputing all the mischiefes that fell out vpon the warre vnto the Palsgraue