THE
TRVE
COPIES
OF
TWO
ESPECIALL
LETTERS
VERBATIM
SENT
FROM
THE
PALATINATE
BY
SIR
.
F.
N.
Relating
the
dangerous
incounter
which
hapened
betwixt
the
Duke
Christian
of
Brunswicke
,
and
Monsieur
Tillies
passing
ouer
the
bridge
lying
vpon
the
riuer
Mayne
about
Ausbourge
.
With
the
vniting
of
his
forces
with
the
King
of
Bohemias
,
as
also
the
fearefull
expectation
of
the
great
Turkes
comming
downe
into
Germanie
.
With
the
late
proceedings
in
the
Low
Countries
,
in
their
Proclamations
set
forth
by
the
States
of
Holland
,
the
first
shewing
the
last
appointed
time
,
as
well
for
forrayners
as
inhabitants
of
this
Countrey
to
come
into
the
West
India
Company
of
the
Nether-lands
:
the
second
a
letter
of
Marte
,
the
last
prohibiting
the
inhabitants
not
to
assuer
any
goods
of
the
Spaniards
.
Printed
this
21.
of
Iune
.
LONDON
Printed
by
William
Iones
for
Nicholas
Bourne
and
Thomas
Archer
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
Royall
Exchange
,
and
in
Popes-head
Alley
.
1622.
A
COPIE
OF
THE
FIRST
LETTER
.
SIR
,
I
wrote
to
you
at
large
on
Sunday
last
and
haue
little
to
adde
since
,
but
am
like
to
haue
enough
very
shortly
,
I
pray
God
it
proue
good
.
The
Duke
of
Brunswick
was
foure
dayes
since
at
Nidda
in
the
land
of
Hessen
,
about
fiue
leagues
from
Francfort
.
Mounsuor
Tilly
&c.
are
gone
towards
him
,
and
if
they
be
once
on
the
same
side
of
the
Mayne
,
there
will
in
all
likely
hood
be
blowes
between
them
.
Arch-Duke
Leopold
is
not
gone
to
the
Grissons
,
but
doth
now
assemble
his
forces
againe
,
with
desseigne
as
we
iudge
to
besiege
Hagenaw
againe
,
or
else
to
fall
downe
to
ioyne
with
his
party
,
neither
of
which
must
be
suffered
by
the
Count
Mansfield
,
and
he
is
likely
therfore
to
go
to
the
Archduke
we
hope
to
morrow
,
for
as
yet
he
lyeth
betweene
the
two
riuers
by
the
towne
,
and
is
not
himselfe
well
able
to
stand
.
This
is
all
we
haue
here
.
From
Vienna
we
haue
that
the
Diot
of
Hungarie
goeth
not
on
the
Emperours
mind
,
and
that
the
Turk
is
like
to
giue'vs
peace
here
,
we
haue
small
signes
of
one
else
,
and
that
is
a
bad
one
.
The
King
of
Bohemia
to
obey
his
father
,
is
minded
against
his
mind
to
stay
here
or
at
Heydelberg
,
in
expectation
of
the
issue
of
the
treatie
at
Brussels
.
Manheim
the
6.
of
Iune
.
A
Copie
of
the
second
Letter
.
IN
my
last
Letter
you
know
that
Monsieur
Tilly
was
then
marching
towards
the
Duke
Christian
of
Brunswick
then
in
the
land
of
Hessen
,
not
farre
from
Frankford
.
The
Duke
soone
after
tooke
Hoest
a
towne
and
castle
of
the
Elector
of
Ments
,
standing
vpon
the
Mayne
before
Frankford
,
where
he
had
newes
that
Tilly
and
Gonsales
ioyned
and
marched
to
him
ouer
the
Mayne
at
Aschburg
with
an
army
of
40.
m.
as
was
giuen
out
,
I
thinke
not
much
lesse
then
30.
m.
yet
he
resolued
to
abide
it
rather
then
the
hazard
of
a
retrait
.
And
they
thereupon
marched
on
furiously
by
Hanaw
and
Frankford
.
The
Duke
in
the
meane
time
prouided
himselfe
the
best
he
could
to
receiue
them
,
seeing
on
the
aduantage
of
the
ground
,
intrenching
himselfe
,
and
burning
the
villages
by
which
the
enemy
were
to
march
to
him
.
This
done
,
he
sent
hether
to
the
Count
of
Mansfeld
,
to
let
him
know
in
what
poshire
he
stood
,
and
that
he
would
doe
the
best
he
could
to
hold
himselfe
so
,
till
the
Count
might
march
to
him
,
for
whose
passage
,
or
his
owne
retreate
if
he
were
forced
to
it
,
prepared
to
make
a
Bridge
ouer
the
Mayne
,
This
newes
came
to
the
Counte
Mansfield
as
Hee
was
Marching
ouer
the
Rhyne
,
with
desseigne
to
haue
gone
to
breake
the
bridge
at
Oppenheim
,
or
that
fayling
,
to
haue
made
some
other
diuersion
on
that
side
,
thereby
to
haue
eased
the
Duke
of
Brunswyck
,
by
giuing
Gonzales
occasion
to
looke
backward
.
But
herevpon
Hee
the
same
instant
commaunded
sixtie
troupes
of
horse
to
march
ouer
the
Neccar
towards
the
Duke
intending
to
haue
followed
himselfe
with
the
rest
of
his
army
this
day
.
But
we
haue
this
morning
newes
,
that
the
Duke
was
beaten
yesterday
.
The
maner
and
measure
of
it
.
is
yet
variously
related
,
but
I
hope
to
adde
it
to
this
before
I
close
it
.
In
the
meane
to
doe
all
I
may
,
against
the
suddayne
dispatch
of
the
post
,
I
heartely
take
leaue
rest
.
I
must
close
this
Letter
and
yet
haue
no
more
certaintie
of
the
defeat
of
the
Duke
of
Brunswick
,
but
that
hee
never
gaue
Battle
,
but
having
beene
extreamly
molested
by
the
Enemies
Cannon
,
who
had
twelue
peeces
at
least
,
whereas
the
Duke
had
but
two
:
through
some
confusion
among
his
men
hee
was
forced
to
retire
ouer
the
Bridge
he
had
made
over
the
Maine
,
by
the
breaking
whereof
,
many
of
his
foote
were
drowned
,
others
cut
off
being
hindred
by
carriages
,
they
all
are
lost
as
well
of
baggage
as
munition
,
saving
the
Dukes
owne
wagons
,
wherein
his
money
was
,
His
Horse
escaped
well
,
some
ouer
the
Bridge
,
other
are
forced
ouer
the
deepe
that
they
were
put
to
Swimme
,
by
which
meanes
some
number
of
them
also
are
lost
,
and
among
them
the
Count
Lenestlin
who
married
Mistresse
Dudly
,
thought
to
bee
one
,
the
number
can
not
yet
be
estimated
,
but
divers
came
hither
will
not
beleeue
there
were
aboue
one
thousand
men
lost
,
yet
I
doubt
more
,
The
rest
are
retyring
through
the
Bergstrate
hither
in
great
confusion
,
and
I
doubt
most
of
the
foote
will
haue
cast
away
their
Armes
,
which
is
a
great
vnreparable
losse
,
whether
the
Enemie
doe
pursue
them
on
this
side
the
Mayne
or
no
,
is
not
yet
knowne
here
,
But
to
be
sure
the
Count
Mansfeild
hath
drawne
out
his
whole
Armie
into
the
Bergestrate
,
who
being
fresh
we
may
redeeme
losse
if
the
Enemie
do
follow
,
the
Duke
of
Brunswicke
is
for
himselfe
safe
for
certaine
,
and
extreamely
discontented
that
he
fought
not
.
Mainheim
the
11.
of
Iune
1622.
A
PROCLAMATION
OF
THE
HIGH
AND
MIGHTY
LORDS
,
THE
STATES
GENERALL
of
the
vnited
Provinces
,
whereby
is
prohibited
vnto
the
Merchants
,
and
Inhabitants
of
those
Countries
,
not
to
make
any
assurances
of
goods
,
Merchandises
,
or
ships
belonging
to
any
Subiects
of
the
King
of
Spaine
,
or
Enemies
of
these
Lands
.
THe
States
Generall
of
the
vnited
Provinces
to
all
them
that
see
or
heare
these
read
greeting
.
Whereas
Wee
haue
beene
certainly
informed
,
that
divers
.
Merchants
and
inhabitants
of
these
Countries
,
(
notwithstanding
We
after
the
expiration
of
the
Truce
,
are
compelled
to
incounter
the
King
of
Spaine
,
and
his
adherents
,
in
all
hostile
manner
)
to
assure
the
goods
,
Merchandises
,
and
ships
,
belonging
vnto
the
Subiects
and
Inhabitants
of
the
King
of
Spaine
,
and
other
enemies
of
these
Landes
:
Whereby
it
happens
,
that
the
sayd
goods
and
ships
being
taken
by
Our
men
of
Warre
,
or
those
that
haue
Commission
of
Vs
to
endammage
the
King
of
Spaine
,
or
his
Subiects
,
the
sayd
Assurances
and
Securities
,
claime
and
follow
them
as
if
they
were
their
owne
,
to
haue
them
released
:
And
besides
,
the
sayd
being
declared
good
Prises
and
forfeited
,
the
dammage
doth
not
light
vpon
the
Enenemies
aforesayd
,
but
vpon
the
Inhabitantes
of
these
Countries
,
by
the
meanes
of
the
aforesayd
assurance
and
securitie
,
who
enioy
but
a
small
reward
or
profit
for
the
same
,
In
such
manner
that
the
Inhabitantes
of
these
Countreys
,
and
not
Our
Enemies
heereby
are
impoverished
,
being
the
fame
likewise
very
hurtfull
to
the
equipations
and
setting
foorth
of
Ships
,
which
many
Inhabitants
of
those
Countries
with
more
minde
and
zeale
would
make
otherwise
against
Our
Enemies
,
which
now
are
kept
backe
in
regard
of
the
reclamations
and
pursuings
of
such
assured
goods
.
Now
to
prevent
the
same
and
to
order
this
conveniently
,
We
haue
directly
forbidden
and
interdicted
,
forbid
and
interdict
by
these
Presents
,
all
Merchants
,
and
other
Inhabitants
of
these
Provinces
,
neyther
directly
nor
indirectly
to
assure
any
goods
,
Merchandises
,
or
Ships
,
of
whatsoever
Fort
or
kinde
the
sayd
may
be
appertaining
to
any
Subjects
of
the
King
of
Spaine
,
or
his
adherents
,
in
any
manner
whatsoever
:
Declaring
all
and
euery
one
of
such
Assurances
made
,
or
here
after
to
be
made
for
nought
,
and
of
no
value
.
Prohibiting
likewise
all
Iustices
,
Courts
,
Commissioners
of
the
Courts
of
Assurance
,
or
other
whom
this
may
concerne
,
to
giue
iudgement
of
such
Assurances
:
And
here
besides
the
Assurances
,
that
shall
be
found
to
haue
made
such
Assurances
since
this
day
,
shall
forfeit
vpon
euery
summe
small
or
bigge
,
that
they
shall
haue
signed
,
hundreth
pounds
Flemmish
,
one
halfe
to
the
Informer
,
and
the
other
halfe
to
the
officer
to
be
payd
that
shall
doe
the
execution
.
And
because
none
here
after
shall
pretend
ignorance
,
We
require
,
and
intreat
the
States
,
the
Governours
,
the
committed
Counsells
,
and
the
States
of
the
respectiue
Provinces
of
Gelderland
,
Zutphen
,
Holland
,
and
Westvriesland
,
Sealand
,
Vtrecht
,
Vriesland
,
Overyssell
,
the
Cittie
Groeringen
,
and
the
Lands
about
it
,
and
all
other
Iustices
and
Officers
,
whom
this
may
touch
,
that
they
Commannd
this
Our
Order
presently
to
bee
Proclaimed
and
Published
where
it
is
vsuall
,
Proceeding
and
causing
to
bee
proceeded
against
the
Transgressors
and
offenders
of
the
same
,
without
any
favour
dissimulation
or
composition
,
seeing
wee
finde
it
convenient
for
the
good
of
these
Lands
.
This
concluded
in
the
meeting
of
the
High
and
mighty
the
Lords
States
Generall
aforesayd
,
at
the
Hage
the
first
of
Aprill
,
Anno
1622.
Was
subscribed
A
Ploos
.
And
lower
was
written
,
at
the
Order
of
High
and
Mighty
Lords
the
States
Generall
,
signed
C.
Aerssens
.
WARNING
CONCERNING
THE
WEST
INDIA
Companie
of
the
Netherlands
.
THE
Committees
appointed
to
collect
a
stock
for
the
West
India
Company
,
in
Poland
and
Sealand
,
being
authorized
thereunto
by
the
States
of
the
said
Countries
,
make
knowne
by
these
:
That
besides
other
aduantages
,
it
is
graunted
vnto
the
said
Company
by
the
High
and
mighty
Lords
,
the
States
Generall
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
,
to
trafficke
onely
for
Salt
at
Punto
del
Key
.
And
that
the
last
time
prefixed
for
the
Inhabitants
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
,
to
come
in
the
said
Company
,
is
the
last
of
Iuly
stile
now
,
and
for
Forraigners
the
last
of
September
following
,
both
inclusiue
,
and
according
to
the
new
stile
.
Wherefore
if
there
bee
any
that
will
participate
in
the
said
Company
,
let
them
direct
themselues
vnto
the
Committees
,
appointed
into
the
Cities
,
and
deliuer
there
their
Signatures
and
subscriptions
of
such
summes
,
as
they
shall
be
desirous
to
participate
in
the
said
Companies
,
which
are
to
be
payed
in
three
payments
:
viz.
a
third
part
at
the
expiration
of
the
aforesaid
time
:
and
the
other
two
third
parts
in
three
next
following
yeares
,
vnlesse
afterwards
at
the
generall
meeting
of
the
Assistants
or
Committees
,
it
be
thought
fit
to
prolong
the
said
Payments
for
any
longer
time
,
in
which
case
the
Participants
shall
be
warned
by
bils
affixed
.
And
after
the
expiration
of
the
time
aforesaid
,
shall
none
be
admitted
into
the
said
Company
.
Giuing
notice
besides
,
that
according
to
the
resolution
of
the
Lords
,
the
States
of
Holland
,
and
West
Freesland
,
the
chiefe
Participants
of
the
Company
,
shall
be
qualified
to
be
Assistants
,
in
this
manner
,
that
those
who
in
the
Chamber
of
Amsterdam
,
shall
for
themselues
bring
in
the
summe
of
sixe
thousand
,
and
in
the
respectiue
Chambers
about
the
Mase
,
and
in
the
Northerne
parts
foure
thousand
Karelies
Gilders
,
shall
haue
power
to
nominate
three
,
for
to
choose
out
of
them
(
according
to
the
Patent
)
the
Assistants
.
Item
that
the
Cities
in
Holland
where
are
no
Chambers
,
and
shall
be
brought
in
vpon
one
name
,
an
hundreth
thousand
Gilders
,
shall
haue
power
to
appoint
an
assistant
after
precedent
denomination
,
and
to
put
him
in
any
of
the
other
Chambers
.
And
after
the
expiration
of
the
aforesaid
last
of
Iuly
(
agree
.
to
the
Patent
)
shall
be
presently
proceeded
to
the
election
of
the
Assistants
,
to
goe
immediatly
in
hand
with
the
equipation
and
octroyed
Nauigation
.
This
done
,
the
tenth
of
Iune
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
,
1622.
A
Letter
of
Mart
,
Graunted
by
the
Lords
States
Generall
,
to
them
of
the
Vnited
Prouinces
.
BY
these
presents
is
Giuen
notice
,
and
made
knowne
vnto
euery
one
out
of
the
Name
of
the
High
and
Mighty
Lords
,
the
States
Generall
of
the
Vnited
Prouinces
,
That
whosoeuer
(
to
endamage
the
King
of
Spaine
his
Adherents
and
Subiects
,
aswell
of
Spaine
,
Portingall
,
Brabant
,
Flaunders
,
as
also
other
places
being
in
his
Dominions
)
shall
be
desirous
vpon
a
due
and
fit
Commission
to
set
any
Ship
or
Ships
at
Sea
to
goe
vpon
free
Booty
,
that
they
shall
henceforth
pay
no
more
,
except
otherwise
be
ordered
,
then
Eighteene
in
the
Hundred
,
whereas
they
did
pay
heere
before
Thirty
in
hundred
,
which
the
Country
and
the
Prince
of
Orange
as
Admirall
of
the
Sea
out
of
the
Prizes
were
vsed
to
Inioy
as
their
right
,
whereof
Twelue
shall
bee
for
the
Countrey
,
and
Sixe
for
the
Prince
aboue
mentioned
.
And
because
an
equall
order
may
be
kept
concerning
the
putting
in
of
Security
,
euery
one
that
shall
be
vnwilling
to
goe
vpon
Conditions
aforesaid
,
shall
bee
bound
to
put
in
Security
in
the
Court
of
the
Admiralty
of
the
place
from
whence
they
intend
to
depart
,
for
Ten
Thousand
Gilders
,
which
is
1000.
pounds
Sterling
,
and
that
aboue
the
Ship
and
what
therein
,
with
action
shall
serue
onely
to
giue
security
that
the
Court
prizes
to
be
gotten
by
such
a
Ship
shall
be
brought
in
to
be
censured
in
the
Colledge
of
the
Admiralty
,
where
the
security
hath
beene
giuen
,
which
being
done
,
the
Securities
shall
be
Discharged
,
Prouided
alwayes
,
that
if
the
said
Ship
goes
afterwards
with
like
Commission
,
there
must
be
put
in
new
Securitie
,
And
if
any
body
shall
pretend
that
hee
is
wrongfully
Damnified
,
hee
may
enter
his
Action
against
the
Captaine
,
and
those
that
haue
Indamaged
him
.
FINIS
.