THE
LAMENTATIONS
OF
GERMANY
.
WHEREIN
,
●s
in
a
Glasse
,
we
may
behold
her
miserable
condition
,
and
reade
the
woefull
effects
of
sinne
.
Composed
by
Dr
Vincent
Theol.
an
eye-witnesse
thereof
;
and
illustrated
by
Pictures
,
the
more
to
affect
the
Reader
.
●ereunto
are
added
three
Letters
,
one
whereof
was
sent
to
the
Dutch
Consistory
in
London
,
under
the
hand
and
seales
of
14.
distressed
Ministers
of
Swyburggen
in
Germany
.
LAMENT.
1.
12.
●●it
nothing
to
you
,
all
ye
that
passe
by
?
Behold
and
see
,
if
there
be
any
sorrow
like
unto
my
sorrow
,
which
is
done
unto
me
,
wherewith
the
Lord
hath
afflicted
me
,
in
the
day
of
his
fierce
anger
.
LONDON
,
●rinted
by
E.
G.
for
Iohn
Rothwell
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
Sunne
in
St.
Pauls
Church-yard
.
1638.
To
the
Reader
.
BEhold
here
,
as
in
a
Glasse
,
the
mournefull
face
of
a
sister
Nation
,
now
drunke
with
misery
;
according
to
what
God
threatned
by
the
Prophet
Ieremy
.
Should
I
endeavour
by
all
the
memorable
particulars
,
which
might
be
accumulated
,
to
amplifie
this
sad
theme
,
the
third
part
would
bee
sufficient
to
weary
thee
or
blinde
thy
eyes
with
reares
,
if
thy
heart
were
not
adamantine
.
I
record
but
a
small
portion
of
what
I
have
seene
,
what
I
have
had
from
sufficient
testimonies
.
Gall
and
Wormewood
are
tasted
in
a
drop
,
and
so
may
the
great
Ocean
.
Onely
the
thing
I
desire
,
is
to
move
thy
Christian
heart
to
compassionate
the
estate
of
thy
poore
brethren
,
so
lamentable
,
and
almost
desperate
,
that
thou
mayest
(
at
least
)
by
the
vials
of
thy
prayers
poured
out
in
their
behalfe
helpe
to
appeale
this
wrath
of
Heaven
which
is
upon
them
.
Remembring
withall
,
that
as
wee
know
not
what
hangeth
over
our
owne
heads
,
so
we
are
not
ignorant
of
our
owne
indeserts
.
Our
Native
Countrey
did
sometimes
suffer
in
like
manner
,
if
not
measure
,
as
in
the
civill
wars
and
other
times
.
Now
we
are
free
,
and
live
in
peace
,
every
man
under
his
owne
Vine
,
under
his
owne
big-tree
;
Let
us
not
forget
to
bee
thankfull
for
this
unto
the
God
of
peace
,
and
●ithall
to
shunne
those
provocations
,
for
which
hee
maketh
a
fertile
land
barren
,
a
populous
Land
desolate
,
even
the
iniquity
of
them
that
dwell
therein
.
Thine
P.
Vincent
.
Preface
Exhortatory
:
Touching
the
use
which
is
to
be
made
of
the
ensuing
Narration
.
Men
and
brethren
:
HEre
followes
(
according
to
the
table
)
A
true
representation
of
the
miserable
estate
of
Germany
.
A
most
grave
,
serious
,
and
weighty
subject
,
and
above
all
other
most
necessary
for
us
to
peruse
,
and
ponder
.
Wee
for
the
present
have
Halcion
dayes
.
Sitting
as
the
people
under
Salomon
,
Every
man
under
his
owne
Vine
,
and
Fig-tree
;
No
complayning
in
our
streets
,
no
carrying
into
Captivity
.
For
which
all
honour
and
praise
be
to
him
,
whose
mercy
it
is
that
wee
are
not
consumed
.
And
yet
there
may
be
a
lengthening
of
our
tranquility
,
if
wee
would
walke
worthy
of
those
mercies
which
we
doe
inioy
,
and
learne
righteousnesse
by
the
judgements
of
God
,
which
are
made
manifest
.
One
especiall
meanes
effectually
tending
hereunto
,
is
to
be
acquainted
with
the
passages
of
Gods
providence
abroad
,
and
to
make
such
use
of
his
dreadfull
judgements
as
he
himselfe
in
Scripture
directs
us
to
.
For
our
information
in
the
state
of
things
abroad
,
these
ensuing
schedules
may
helpe
such
as
have
no
better
intelligence
.
Wherein
such
passages
are
related
,
as
may
make
both
our
eares
〈◊〉
to
heare
them
.
The
heads
insisted
on
are
the
Arrowes
of
the
Almighty
;
Sword
,
Famine
,
and
Pestilence
,
together
with
their
pale
and
grisly
attendants
.
Extortion
,
Rapine
,
salvage
cruelty
,
desolations
,
deaths
of
all
kinde
.
A
sad
and
dismall
troope
.
The
subject
on
which
all
these
evils
light
,
is
Germany
:
a
neighbouring
countrey
well
knowne
.
The
Throne
of
Europes
Empire
.
This
is
now
the
Stage
whereon
most
direfull
Tragedies
are
acted
.
And
therein
as
well
the
Protestants
(
the
more
the
pity
)
as
the
Papists
:
no
difference
for
religious
sake
;
nor
any
respect
of
persons
,
ages
,
sexes
,
or
conditions
.
The
fowles
of
the
ayre
may
therein
eate
the
flesh
of
Kings
,
Captaines
,
and
mighty
men
.
The
flesh
of
horses
,
and
them
that
sit
on
them
.
Yea
,
the
flesh
of
all
men
,
both
free
and
bond
,
both
small
and
great
,
Rev.
19.
18.
The
instances
and
particulars
which
are
here
recorded
are
such
as
may
seeme
incredible
,
and
cause
wondring
unto
astonishment
,
yet
is
there
nothing
but
what
may
well
be
counted
probable
,
a
few
things
considered
.
As
first
,
what
God
threatens
in
this
kinde
for
breach
of
his
Law
.
Deut.
28.
53
,
&c.
Thou
shalt
eate
the
fruite
of
thine
owne
body
,
the
flesh
of
thy
sonnes
and
daughters
—
.
The
man
that
is
tender
among
you
,
and
very
delicate
,
his
eyes
shall
be
evill
toward
his
brother
,
and
toward
the
wife
of
his
bosome
,
and
towards
the
remnant
of
children
which
hee
shall
leave
:
so
that
he
will
not
give
to
any
of
them
the
flesh
of
his
children
,
whom
he
shall
eate
,
&c.
Then
what
particular
instances
we
have
of
like
things
upon
like
occasions
in
Scripture
,
as
in
the
siege
of
Samama
,
2
King
.
6.
28
,
29.
The
certainety
of
the
generals
is
beyond
all
exception
,
among
those
that
will
believe
any
thing
more
than
they
see
with
their
eyes
,
and
feele
with
their
hands
.
The
time
,
and
space
that
the
wars
have
endured
addes
much
to
the
probability
of
all
effects
avoucht
.
The
current
yeere
making
up
full
twenty
since
the
beginning
.
During
all
which
Germany
hath
beene
Acheldama
,
a
field
of
blood
.
Vnder
this
word
(
warre
)
more
evill
and
mischiefe
is
comprehended
than
can
be
uttered
.
Weigh
all
things
duly
,
the
severall
kinds
of
warre
,
forraigne
and
domesticke
;
by
invasions
,
by
insurrections
,
the
same
persons
,
and
places
being
to
day
Conquerours
,
and
to
morrow
conquered
,
over
and
over
againe
,
and
all
things
every
day
worse
and
worse
;
we
may
well
conclude
,
the
one
halfe
hath
not
beene
told
us
.
I
hope
none
among
us
are
so
prophane
as
to
say
what
is
this
to
us
,
be
it
all
be
true
?
and
few
so
ignorant
,
as
not
to
know
what
God
requireth
of
us
in
this
regard
.
Yet
it
's
too
manifest
,
that
most
are
so
carelesse
,
that
they
neede
a
Monitor
to
twit
them
by
the
care
.
I
have
therefore
partly
upon
intreatie
,
and
chiefly
for
affection
unto
the
thing
it selfe
,
endevoured
briefly
to
speake
something
unto
that
end
.
The
Lyon
hath
roared
,
who
will
not
feare
?
The
Lord
hath
spoken
,
who
can
but
prophecie
,
Amos
3.
8.
Salvian
in
his
time
,
tooke
great
paines
to
prove
there
was
a
provilence
,
when
the
then
supposed
barbarous
Goths
and
Vandalls
broke
in
upon
the
Empire
,
as
the
Sea
doth
sometimes
over
flow
the
banke
.
But
mee
thinkes
that
alone
were
enough
to
manifest
the
finger
of
God
,
which
bred
the
doubt
in
men
Atheisticall
.
How
exceeding
full
is
the
Scripture
for
the
proofe
of
this
?
That
God
is
Authour
of
all
Judgements
,
and
therefore
in
all
wee
ought
to
looke
up
unto
him
.
All
Captaines
and
their
armies
are
but
Sergeants
under
the
Lord
of
hosts
;
that
man
of
warre
,
and
God
of
battell
.
The
Assyrian
is
the
rod
of
Gods
anger
,
the
staffe
in
their
hand
is
Gods
indignation
,
Isay
10.
5.
There
is
no
evill
in
a
City
but
he
doth
it
.
Behold
(
saith
the
Psalmist
)
what
desolations
the
Lord
hath
made
in
the
earth
.
Psal.
46.
8.
If
a
Sparrow
fall
not
to
the
ground
,
but
according
to
the
will
of
our
heavenly
Father
,
much
lesse
are
millions
of
men
mowed
downe
with
the
sword
,
but
according
to
his
righteousnesse
in
Iudgement
.
It
is
also
cleare
out
of
Scripture
,
that
wee
ought
to
lay
to
heart
those
Iudgements
of
God
,
which
wee
are
acquainted
with
,
and
especially
his
greater
Iudgements
God
sends
one
place
to
consider
of
another
:
Goe
yee
now
unto
my
place
,
which
was
in
Shilo
,
where
I
set
my
name
at
the
beginning
,
and
see
what
I
did
to
it
for
the
wickednesse
of
my
people
Israel
,
7.
12.
saith
God
to
the
men
of
Ierusalem
.
And
who
makes
question
,
but
that
those
Churches
,
Nations
,
Persons
,
and
Places
,
which
have
speciall
relation
one
unto
another
,
sacred
or
civill
,
in
the
bonds
of
Religion
,
neighbourhood
or
commerce
are
more
especially
bound
mutually
to
consider
and
bemoane
one
anothers
conditions
.
This
likewise
is
evident
,
that
our
Church
and
State
,
and
every
member
of
the
same
,
ought
upon
speciall
consideration
to
be
cordially
affected
with
the
miseries
of
Germany
.
They
are
of
the
same
Religion
with
us
.
Christians
as
wee
are
;
our
peace
is
the
weaker
for
want
of
theirs
;
many
of
our
owne
have
suffered
with
them
.
but
above
all
is
the
affliction
of
that
Royall
Lady
our
Gracious
Soveraignes
onely
sister
,
who
hath
suffered
already
in
her
Royall
Person
,
and
may
suffer
yet
more
in
her
posterity
,
but
God
forbid
.
But
what
is
it
that
wee
must
doe
,
or
learne
from
the
state
of
things
in
Germany
?
The
particulars
are
severall
in
severall
regards
.
In
relation
to
God
,
to
them
and
to
our selves
.
In
regard
of
God
.
Wee
must
acknowledge
the
infinitenesse
of
his
Wisdome
and
unsearchablenesse
of
his
Iudgements
,
and
take
heede
of
rash
assigning
the
cause
.
Some
lay
all
the
blame
upon
the
Protestants
,
as
if
their
division
among
themselves
,
and
unnecessary
separation
(
in
their
phrase
)
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
were
the
roote
of
all
.
But
is
it
not
more
likely
,
that
Germany
drinkes
now
of
the
cup
of
wrath
,
because
shee
hath
long
drunke
of
the
cup
of
sundry
great
abominations
?
The
generall
cause
,
which
is
sinne
,
wee
all
acknowledge
:
It
were
a
happinesse
to
know
the
speciall
,
according
unto
that
,
Foelix
qui
potuit
rerum
cognoscere
causas
.
But
such
a
spirit
of
discerning
God
gives
not
unto
all
.
They
themselves
best
know
their
owne
waies
,
case
and
state
,
and
therefore
wee
may
leave
it
unto
them
to
consider
of
the
speciall
causes
,
whom
it
most
concernes
.
But
who
will
not
feare
the
Lord
,
and
glorifie
his
Name
,
who
onely
is
holy
,
and
whose
judgements
are
made
manifest
,
Rev.
15.
4.
In
respect
of
them
,
first
let
us
sympathize
:
grieve
with
them
that
grieve
.
Rom.
12.
15.
and
weepe
with
them
that
weepe
.
We
are
all
members
of
one
and
the
same
mysticall
body
,
whereof
Christ
is
head
.
Our
peace
and
security
is
in
a
great
measure
bound
up
in
theirs
:
their
troubles
may
increase
ours
;
as
they
have
already
occasioned
many
feares
,
cares
and
expences
:
Witnesse
the
great
levie
of
souldiers
at
some
times
,
and
not
a
little
chargeable
Embassages
from
our
King
and
State
.
Next
of
all
,
we
are
to
pray
for
them
,
that
God
would
restore
peace
,
and
make
up
all
breaches
.
Giving
the
Lord
no
rest
,
untill
hee
make
Ierusalem
the
praise
of
the
earth
.
Abraham
interceded
long
for
Sodome
,
how
much
more
ought
we
to
do
the
like
for
them
?
And
yet
further
,
as
we
have
ability
and
opportunity
,
we
ought
to
help
and
succour
them
,
ministring
to
their
necessities
,
receiving
of
their
profugates
,
and
intertaining
them
into
our
bosomes
,
when
they
fly
from
their
owne
to
us
.
Many
of
ours
found
among
them
a
shelter
from
the
storme
in
our
Marian
daies
,
and
doe
still
,
no
doubt
,
blesse
God
for
our
peace
,
notwithstanding
their
owne
warres
.
In
respect
of
our selves
,
there
be
many
instructions
which
we
may
learne
from
the
Lecture
of
their
calamities
.
No
privileges
can
finally
secure
a
sinfull
people
;
for
what
have
we
to
glory
in
that
they
had
not
?
The
seedes
of
all
their
evills
are
sowne
in
our
fields
.
There
be
likewise
divers
duties
that
wee
should
abound
in
the
more
:
In
repentance
,
lest
we
bring
upon
our selves
the
like
:
In
prayer
,
that
God
would
blesse
our
state
and
government
,
that
by
the
wisedome
thereof
we
may
be
led
along
in
such
waies
as
may
propagate
our
peace
unto
posterity
:
In
patience
under
those
chastisements
which
we
suffer
.
Though
the
hand
of
God
hath
long
beene
upon
many
Cities
and
Townes
,
and
his
Arme
be
stretched
out
still
upon
some
of
them
,
yet
is
our
misery
,
happinesse
,
in
comparison
of
theirs
:
If
a
gentle
plague
alone
have
affrighted
us
all
,
What
would
Sword
and
Famine
with
it
doe
?
But
what
doe
wee
?
Wee
put
farre
away
the
evill
day
,
and
cause
the
seat
of
violence
to
come
neere
:
Wee
drinke
wine
in
bowles
,
and
anoint
our selves
with
the
chiefe
ointments
,
but
are
not
grieved
for
the
afflictions
of
Ioseph
,
Amos
6.
3.
&
6.
This
is
no
small
sinne
,
and
if
once
the
day
of
our
visitation
come
,
a
small
chastisement
on
Gods
part
will
not
be
all
.
Oh
that
wee
would
consider
,
the
Vials
of
Gods
wrath
are
pouring
forth
,
as
well
on
his
owne
Churches
for
correction
,
as
on
their
adversaries
unto
destructino
.
Who
knowes
how
fast
the
cup
may
passe
round
?
Gods
arrowes
are
all
fleete
.
The
curse
of
God
goeth
forth
over
the
face
of
the
whole
earth
,
Zach.
5.
3.
If
the
sinnes
of
Sodome
be
found
in
Samaria
,
and
the
sinnes
of
Samaria
in
Ierusalem
,
they
shall
all
pledge
each
other
:
for
God
is
no
respecter
of
persons
.
Are
there
no
drunkards
but
in
Germany
?
Or
,
doth
God
hate
sinne
in
them
alone
?
What
are
wee
,
that
God
should
alwaies
spare
us
?
Many
cry
,
Peace
,
Peace
,
and
I
with
the
Prophet
Ieremy
say
Amen
.
The
Lord
doe
so
,
the
Lord
performe
the
words
of
them
which
prophesie
of
nothing
but
good
,
Iere.
28.
6.
But
it
s
good
to
remember
that
of
the
Apostle
,
when
they
cry
,
Peace
,
Peace
,
&c.
Gloss.
ordin
.
in
Ierem.
7.
12.
Quicquid
illo
populo
fecit
Deus
,
timeamus
:
cum
nos
similia
faciamus
.
Yet
no
such
clouds
(
blessed
bee
God
)
arise
over
our
heads
,
as
those
wherewith
her
horizon
is
darkned
.
But
stormes
arise
suddenly
.
God
creates
good
and
evill
,
brings
both
when
there
is
no
appearance
or
cause
of
suspicion
.
Not
to
feare
is
cause
enough
to
bee
affraid
,
if
we
could
so
reflect
upon
our selves
:
As
God
brings
light
out
of
darknesse
,
so
darknesse
out
of
light
.
How
faire
rose
the
Sunne
upon
Sodome
,
that
day
it
rained
fire
and
brimstone
?
How
poore
a
thing
was
a
cloud
like
a
mans
hand
,
to
prognosticate
abundance
of
raine
by
?
But
I
must
manum
de
tabula
.
Well
then
reade
on
,
reade
and
spare
not
,
reade
and
consider
,
reade
and
weepe
,
imagine
the
Booke
to
be
Germany
it selfe
,
their
case
ours
,
and
our
soules
in
their
soules
stead
.
Do
as
Nehemiah
did
when
he
heard
of
the
state
of
Ierusalem
,
and
the
Temple
therein
He
sate
downe
and
wept
,
mourned
and
fasted
certaine
daies
,
and
prayed
before
the
Lord
God
of
Heaven
,
Neh.
1.
4.
Would
we
but
doe
the
like
for
our selves
and
them
,
God
would
assuredly
restore
their
peace
,
and
continue
ours
,
for
which
I
shall
ever
heartily
pray
,
and
so
rest
A
well-wisher
to
all
the
Churches
of
God
.
A
Copie
of
a
Letter
sent
by
the
Ministers
of
Germany
to
the
Dutch
Church
in
LONDON
.
Snalles
and
froges
eagerly
eaten
Eatinge
dead
mens
guts
and
Interalls
A
diuines
wife
saw
6
of
her
Children
ley
starued
before
her
eyes
.
Corne
3
pounds
18
shilling
a
bushell
.
SInce
the
Imperialists
passing
the
Rhine
,
first
entred
into
our
Countrey
,
which
is
almost
two
yeeres
agoe
,
destruction
hath
come
upon
as
like
a
whirlewind
,
and
sudden
desolation
hath
depopulated
this
our
most
floutishing
country
;
our
Cities
are
turned
into
Townes
,
our
Townes
into
Villages
,
our
Villages
into
Cottages
;
where
before
were
a
thousand
,
there
now
scarce
a
hundred
,
and
where
a
hundred
,
there
the
tenth
is
hardly
left
alive
:
Those
which
the
sword
hath
spared
,
the
Pestilence
hath
consumed
,
those
which
the
Pestilence
hath
left
,
Famine
hath
destroyed
,
and
the
small
remnant
which
pale-fac'd
Famine
hath
not
devoured
,
are
so
transcendently
miserable
,
as
it
even
exceeds
the
most
hyperbolical
expresions
of
the
loftiest
Rhetorician
,
yet
that
your
thoughts
may
be
elevated
to
a
higher
pitch
,
and
more
serious
consideration
,
we●
will
give
you
some
instances
,
some
examples
.
After
that
the
Caesarian
forces
the
last
yeere
had
taken
Swybruggen
,
&
passing
with
a
numbersome
army
towards
Lotharinge
had
destroyed
all
round
about
;
there
followed
such
a
fearefull
famin
,
that
the
most
part
of
men
,
especially
of
them
that
dwelt
in
the
country
,
being
urged
by
pressing
necessity
,
was
driven
to
feed
on
Acorns
,
all
manner
of
herbs
,
roots
,
briars
,
nettles
,
grasse
,
leaves
of
trees
,
so
that
we
may
truly
take
up
the
complaint
of
the
Psalmist
(
though
there
it
's
to
be
taken
in
another
sense
)
that
man
is
become
like
the
beast
that
perisheth
,
but
further
,
the
intralls
of
beasts
,
the
skins
of
beeves
,
sheepe
,
horses
,
the
haire
being
first
burned
,
was
highly
prised
,
yea
Snailes
,
Frogs
with
their
guts
and
egs
,
the
flesh
of
dogs
and
cats
,
carrion
that
hath
been
dead
six
weeks
or
more
,
hath
beene
valued
at
a
great
rate
,
nay
,
sometimes
not
the
price
,
but
a
sword
hath
decided
who
should
have
a
young
colt
,
or
some
such
thing
,
though
not
halfe
a
yard
long
.
Two
women
did
so
long
fight
with
their
fists
for
horse-flesh
,
that
one
of
of
them
dyed
,
yea
,
in
some
Famine
made
such
a
rage
,
that
they
did
not
abstaine
from
mans
flesh
.
In
a
parish
neere
unto
Sweybruggen
,
a
brother
and
sister
surviving
their
parents
,
and
the
sister
also
dying
,
he
(
wee
tremble
in
the
very
writing
)
fed
upon
his
sister
,
and
devoured
the
thighes
of
his
mother
,
in
the
Diocesse
of
Blissoe
Capellana
the
corpses
of
men
starved
,
whose
skin
cleaved
to
their
bones
,
so
that
whilest
they
were
alive
,
we
might
truely
have
said
,
that
their
flesh
did
but
infunerall
their
buried
ghosts
,
yet
they
being
dead
,
had
their
in
wards
,
their
heart
and
lungs
taken
our
,
and
devoured
,
and
that
which
is
more
,
they
have
laine
in
waite
to
intercept
passengers
,
and
those
whom
they
have
taken
,
after
they
have
killed
them
,
they
make
their
own
bellies
then
graves
.
A
boy
of
some
three
yeeres
old
,
the
son
of
a
souldier
in
Biten
territory
,
was
stollen
and
carried
away
by
a
begger
,
as
she
was
about
to
strangle
him
with
a
haltar
,
the
mother
opportunely
comming
,
rescued
him
,
and
moved
with
wrath
and
indignation
slew
her
,
these
are
the
fearefull
effects
of
Famine
,
so
that
if
we
scape
the
being
devoured
by
others
,
yet
hunger
will
even
famish
us
:
the
widow
of
Iohn
Peters
Laëri
.
Minister
,
saw
before
she
died
(
O
dreadfull
spectacle
)
sixe
of
her
children
perish
with
Famine
.
The
widow
of
Albogastus
Rumela
perished
her selfe
,
and
foure
children
,
and
when
they
are
extinguished
by
Famine
(
if
they
escape
being
eaten
of
others
)
they
lie
unburied
,
stinking
and
torne
in
pieces
by
dogs
,
wolves
,
and
other
beasts
.
Some
having
eaten
mad
dogges
,
were
taken
with
phrensie
themselves
,
and
ragingly
dyed
.
Hence
comes
such
a
wildernesse
,
that
in
300
parishes
,
there
's
not
any
left
alive
,
those
few
that
remaine
,
hide
themselves
in
the
woods
,
and
in
the
townes
,
the
tenth
man
doth
not
survive
,
and
many
of
them
too
,
having
their
strength
dryed
up
,
totter
to
and
fro
,
nodding
and
sliding
like
carved
pictures
without
life
,
and
many
being
no
longer
able
to
stand
,
fall
downe
in
the
middest
of
the
streetes
,
groveling
on
the
ground
,
and
being
onely
able
to
aske
for
sustenance
are
ready
to
give
up
the
ghost
.
This
is
the
state
of
our
afflicted
Countrey
,
so
that
we
may
lament
,
as
Isay.
The
daughter
of
Sion
is
like
a
city
of
devastation
,
like
a
Sommer
cottage
in
a
garden
,
like
a
little
nouse
in
a
vineyard
.
It
the
Lord
of
Hosts
had
not
left
us
a
remnant
,
we
had
beene
as
Sodome
and
as
Gomorrah
.
In
the
Dukedome
of
Sweybruggen
are
left
Ministers
.
|
40.
|
Schoolemasters
.
|
16.
|
Wives
.
|
52.
|
Widowes
|
26.
|
Children
.
|
140.
|
Orphanes
.
|
18.
|
Somme
292.
Persons
.
In
the
names
of
all
the
Ministers
of
Sweybrugen
sent
forth
under
hand
and
seale
:
Iohannes
Wilthelmus
.
Rauschius
Pastor
Numbacensis
.
Exul
.
Iohannes
Christianus
.
Neuhorelius
Pastor
Ohmbacensis
.
Exul
.
This
we
have
had
from
such
good
hands
,
even
from
the
Dutch
Cō
sistory
in
London
,
where
the
Originall
is
,
that
it
must
needes
seeme
malicious
ignorance
in
any
that
will
but
faint
in
the
beliefe
hereof
.
Sweybruggen
.
14.
Novemb.
1636.
A
Copy
of
a
Letter
written
by
a
worthy
Minister
of
Meissenheim
,
upon
the
edge
of
the
Lower
Palatinate
,
the
1.
of
Feb.
1637.
Caeterum
,
quis
patriae
nostra
afflictissimae
status
fit
,
ex
aliis
procul
dubio
percepistis
,
omnia
(
ut
Poetae
verbis
utar
)
in
pejus
ruere
,
&
retro
pede
lapsareferri
,
quocunque
enim
oculos
vertimus
,
nihil
nisi
miseriam
,
&
hor.
rendam
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
cernimus
:
Militis
insolentia
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
A
devas●●tion
of
townes
&
villag●●
&
truculentia
omnem
fere
superat
fidem
,
Biponti
ipsa
Illustrissimorum
Ducum
ante
multos
annos
defunctorum
,
spe
prede
,
sepulcra
violare
,
in
eorum
cadavera
savire
,
ossa
disturbare
&
comminuere
non
veriti
sunt
:
Annonae
Caritas
tanta
,
quanta
in
his
terris
nunquam
audita
,
medimnus
siliginis
vix
octodecim
comparatur
Imperialibus
thaleris
,
&
cum
summo
vitae
periculo
bûc
portatur
,
certè
nisi
Deus
Opt.
Max.
veluti
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
manus
auxiliairices
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
from
above
ferat
,
paucisfimis
illis
incolis
,
qui
adhuc
superstites
sunt
,
&
bactenus
maximam
partem
pomis
pirisque
victitarunt
,
quoque
inedia
pereundum
erit
;
Famis
Sagunthinae
,
Samaritanae
,
Hisrosolymitanae
,
prae
atrocissimis
illis
,
quae
in
nostra
(
Proh
dolor
!
)
patriâ
evenêre
,
exemplis
ferè
ludicra
sunt
;
ante
2.
hebdomadas
in
pago
Ilvesheim
Incola
(
vir
alioquin
honesti
nominis
)
vicini
sui
absentis
aedes
intrat
,
aliquid
panis
aufert
,
exire
volentem
interpellat
puer
octo
quasi
annorum
,
&
comminatur
,
quòd
cognato
suo
,
apud
quem
vixerat
hactenus
,
redeunti
furtum
hoc
propalare
velit
,
ibi
continuò
sceleratus
ille
instinctu
mali
genii
accurrit
,
&
puero
falce
putatoria
miserè
jugulum
abscindit
:
In
pago
Steinhausen
propè
Hornbacum
foemina
quaedam
puellam
12
annorum
,
blandis
verbis
pellectam
,
puerumque
quinque
annorum
molitoris
filium
(
horresco
referens
)
trucida
vit
,
&
cum
vicinâ
devoravit
;
Milites
praesidiarii
Bipontini
excurrentes
in
pagum
hunc
irruunt
fortuitò
,
&
aedes
infanticidae
bujus
nesariae
,
nidore
allecti
,
intrant
,
omnes
angulos
rimantur
,
tandem
vas
adipe
humano
resertum
,
Caputque
prius
aquâ
fervente
maceratum
,
exinde
in
furno
tostum
reperiunt
,
ipsam
captivam
Bipontum
trabunt
,
ubi
24.
Ianuarii
poenas
infandi
hujus
infanticidii
dedit
meritas
,
sequ●
praeterito
anno
duos
insuper
liberos
prope
Landoviam
&
Annae
villam
mactasse
confessa
est
;
altera
foemina
,
quae
particeps
barum
carnium
suit
,
adbuc
in
vinculis
tenetur
,
se
enim
hujus
facinoris
affinem
fuisse
constanter
pernegat
.
Talia
(
proh
dolor
!
)
indies
audire
cogimur
,
tristissima
exempla
:
ô
vere
malesuadam
famem
!
ô
ingenia
verè
Cyclopica
!
ô
horrendam
metamorphosin
,
quâ
homines
omnem
ubmanitatem
exuentes
,
truculentissimarum
bestiarum
naturam
induunt
,
&
verè
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
wolvif●●
men
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
seu
Lycaones
fiunt
!
Fredericus
Goelerus
,
Pastor
Meissenheimensis
.
The
same
in
English
.
WHat
the
state
of
our
most
afflicted
Countrey
is
,
without
all
doubt
you
have
perceived
by
others
;
all
things
(
as
I
may
use
the
words
of
the
Poet
)
have
runne
together
for
the
worse
,
and
slid
with
a
backward
foot
,
for
wheresoere
we
cast
our
eyes
,
wee
see
nothing
but
misery
,
and
a
horrid
devastation
of
townes
and
villages
;
the
insolencie
and
cruelty
of
the
Souldiers
exceeds
all
beliefe
,
they
have
not
beene
afraid
,
sor
the
hope
of
prey
,
in
Sweibruggen
to
violate
the
tombes
of
the
illustrious
Dukes
many
yeares
agoe
deceased
,
to
exercise
cruelty
on
their
corps
,
to
disturb
and
diminish
their
bones
.
The
dearenesse
of
provision
is
such
as
never
hath
beene
heard
of
before
in
this
land
,
a
bushell
of
corne
is
scarsely
got
with
1●
Rix
Dollers
,
which
is
foure
pounds
one
shilling
English
money
;
which
is
hither
brought
with
the
extreme
danger
of
their
lives
that
bring
it
,
Surely
,
without
our
good
God
from
above
should
lend
us
his
helping
hand
,
those
few
Inhabitants
which
yet
remaine
alive
,
and
hitherto
for
the
most
part
have
lived
on
apples
and
peares
must
needs
perish
.
The
Famine
of
Saguntum
,
Samaria
,
Ierusalem
,
if
they
are
but
paralleld
with
those
most
grievous
ones
(
oh
our
griefe
!
)
that
have
befalne
us
in
our
Countrey
,
seeme
but
trifles
.
About
a
fortnight
since
,
an
Inhabitant
of
the
village
of
Ilvesbeim
(
a
manotherwise
of
a
good
report
)
comming
into
the
house
of
his
neighbour
,
when
he
was
absent
,
tooke
a
little
bread
,
intending
to
goe
out
,
a
child
of
some
eight
yeares
of
age
called
after
him
,
and
threatned
him
,
that
when
his
Cousen
came
home
,
with
whom
he
lived
,
that
he
would
make
manifest
his
theft
presently
;
that
wicked
fellow
ranne
unto
him
,
and
with
a
pruning
hooke
miserably
cut
his
throate
.
In
the
Village
of
Steinhaus
neere
Hornebach
,
a
certaine
woman
having
allured
unto
her
with
enticing
words
a
girle
of
12.
yeares
old
,
and
a
boy
of
5
,
a
Millers
son
(
I
tremble
in
the
relating
)
killed
them
both
,
and
devoured
them
with
her
neighbour
;
the
Garrison
Souldiers
of
Sweibrugen
making
an
excursion
by
chance
into
this
village
,
being
drawne
thither
by
the
smell
,
enter
the
house
of
this
infant
killer
;
they
search
every
corner
,
at
last
they
finde
a
vessell
full
of
humane
grease
,
and
a
head
that
had
beene
scalded
in
hot
water
,
and
so
baked
in
an
oven
;
they
carried
her
caprive
unto
Sweibruggen
,
where
on
the
24
of
Ianuary
shee
suffered
condigne
punishment
;
At
her
death
she
confest
,
that
neere
Landovia
and
the
Village
of
Anna
,
she
killd
two
other
children
the
last
year
.
The
other
woman
,
which
was
partaker
in
the
eating
,
is
still
kept
in
prison
,
and
constantly
denies
that
shee
was
a
partner
in
that
wicked
act
.
Such
things
(
oh
our
grief
!
)
we
are
compeld
daily
to
heare
,
most
sad
examples
.
O
ill
perswading
hunger
,
O
wits
truly
Cyclopicke
!
O
dreadful
Metamorphosis
!
by
which
men
putting
off
all
humanity
,
and
putting
on
the
nature
of
salvage
beasts
,
doe
truly
become
wolvish
!
From
Meissenbsim
.
Feb.
1.
1637.
Fredericus
Goelerus
,
Pastor
of
Meissenh
.
A
true
Copy
of
a
Letter
written
by
a
worthy
Minister
,
Andreas
Pilger
sometimes
Minister
of
Heydelberg
.
From
Wormbs
the
10th
.
of
Febr.
1637.
ALas
!
What
stormes
and
tempests
doe
now
beat
upon
the
ship
of
Jesus
Christ
in
our
Countrey
?
What
punishments
and
plagues
doe
now
oppresse
us
?
God
is
justly
angry
with
us
for
our
manifold
sinnes
,
and
seemes
in
his
indignation
utterly
to
destroy
us
,
and
all
that
is
round
about
us
.
The
heavie
curses
of
Moses
,
the
bitter
lamentations
of
Ieremy
,
and
all
the
horrible
threatnings
of
the
holy
Prophets
,
wee
see
daily
here
accomplished
.
With
this
new
Winter-quarter
,
beginnes
a
renewing
of
our
miseries
;
oppression
and
persecution
,
we
being
utterly
destitute
of
all
helpe
and
meanes
to
support
us
.
The
chiefest
of
our
Countrey
are
forced
to
leave
their
houses
and
lands
,
and
to
goe
a
wandring
in
strange
Countries
;
yea
,
many
of
them
end
their
lives
most
miserably
.
It
is
impossible
to
expresse
either
the
greatnesse
of
our
wants
,
or
the
fury
of
Famine
amongst
us
.
Mothers
forgetting
their
naturall
affections
towards
their
owne
children
become
butchers
of
them
,
and
eate
them
up
in
stead
of
food
.
Wee
do
heare
daily
children
crying
about
the
streets
,
and
lamenting
that
they
dare
not
goe
home
,
for
feare
of
being
killed
.
It
is
kept
upon
record
by
the
Magistrates
of
this
City
,
how
that
men
have
digged
out
of
the
graves
dead
bodies
,
and
have
eaten
them
.
A
woman
was
found
dead
,
having
a
mans
head
rosted
by
her
,
and
the
rib
of
a
man
in
her
mouth
,
holding
it
betweene
her
teeth
,
and
of
this
horrible
spectacle
all
sorts
of
men
can
give
testimony
.
Such
and
many
more
signes
of
Gods
heavie
wrath
wee
could
write
unto
you
of
,
but
this
shall
suffice
to
give
you
a
touch
of
the
extremities
wee
are
in
.
O
how
seasonable
are
those
almes
,
which
are
sent
hither
to
keepe
some
of
us
alive
!
That
faithfull
God
,
who
hath
made
so
many
promises
to
the
liberall
heart
,
will
undoubtedly
consider
those
,
that
consider
our
poore
Countrey-men
in
these
extremities
,
and
keep
them
from
famishing
.
Andreas
Pilger
,
Pastor
.
CHAP.
I.
EVills
of
Punishment
are
Gods
,
the
evil
of
Sinne
is
wholly
ours
.
Whatsoever
was
the
impulsive
cause
of
his
judgements
,
our
wholsomest
use
is
,
to
attribute
them
to
our
sins
:
to
greater
sins
,
greater
Judgements
,
seeing
God
seemeth
to
observe
a
proportion
to
our
deserts
;
for
,
Ezck.
14.
21.
the
Prophet
speaks
of
foure
sore
Judgements
,
that
is
,
greater
and
more
grievous
than
the
rest
;
famine
,
sword
,
pestilence
,
and
the
noisome
beast
:
with
these
hath
he
lately
visited
some
nations
;
especially
Germany
,
before
a
large
,
populous
,
fertile
and
flourishing
Countrey
.
What
shal
we
say
?
were
their
sins
greater
than
ours
?
No
,
but
except
we
repent
,
what
may
we
expect
?
the
sins
of
Sodome
were
pride
,
idlenesse
,
and
fulnesse
of
bread
;
and
such
they
acknowledge
theirs
to
have
beene
.
I
have
seene
their
peasants
served
in
plate
,
they
slept
with
downe-beds
above
and
under
them
:
their
stoves
kept
them
insensible
of
the
winters
cold
;
they
ate
no
dish
of
meat
without
his
sauce
;
their
plenty
of
corne
and
wine
,
milk
and
honey
,
fish
and
flesh
,
did
equall
that
of
any
other
nation
whatsoever
.
A
little
labour
brought
them
in
much
;
delicacie
of
living
made
them
incompassionate
of
others
sufferings
;
and
security
blinded
them
,
that
they
could
not
see
the
storm
a
comming
.
Thus
,
while
they
swim
in
fulnesse
and
pleasure
,
the
Judgement
that
slept
,
was
suddenly
awaked
,
&
the
fire
of
war
was
kindled
in
all
their
coasts
;
which
blowne
with
the
bellows
of
exasperated
spirits
,
hath
depopulated
their
Land
,
and
consumed
their
dwellings
to
the
ground
:
all
lieth
desolate
;
the
Vineyards
are
not
dressed
,
nor
the
fields
tilled
,
the
sword
is
every
where
drunke
with
bloud
.
Famine
killeth
more
than
the
sword
;
and
the
pestilence
,
with
other
Epidemicke
diseases
(
wars
attendants
)
devour
their
part
also
;
and
which
is
worst
of
all
,
there
is
yet
no
end
of
these
things
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
Extortions
and
Exactions
.
the
blazinge
starre
1617
burgers
and
ministers
.
,
releued
in
prisson
a
diuine
tortured
with
a
Catt
.
TO
beginne
with
warre
,
which
began
the
rest
,
who
knoweth
not
that
this
mercilesse
fury
hath
there
plaied
the
tyrant
,
ever
since
that
burning
Beacon
,
the
blazing
Starre
,
gave
them
the
alarme
,
1617.
which
the
best
Astrologers
expounded
the
sword
of
Germany
.
A
Prophecie
I
have
seen
,
long
since
,
written
in
a
Booke
,
which
belonged
to
a
Canonick
of
Nimegen
,
and
now
in
the
Library
at
Zutphen
;
that
a
time
should
come
,
when
one
Frederike
should
be
King
,
and
then
should
the
Princes
of
Germany
,
the
Nobility
of
Bohemia
,
and
the
people
of
both
be
oppressed
,
and
warre
rage
,
beyond
all
precedent
of
former
ages
this
,
if
ever
,
is
now
fulfilled
in
our
daies
.
And
if
in
such
disorder
it
may
be
possible
,
I
will
observe
this
order
in
speaking
thereof
:
first
,
extortions
and
exactions
:
secondly
tortures
and
torments
:
thirdly
,
rape
and
ravishing
:
fourthly
,
robbery
and
pillaging
:
fifthly
,
bloud-shed
and
killing
;
sixthly
,
burning
and
destroying
.
These
shall
be
the
Scenes
of
this
first
act
.
Famine
and
pestilence
shall
stand
for
the
other
acts
of
this
direfull
tragedy
:
in
which
,
as
no
action
or
passion
was
simple
,
or
single
,
so
can
I
not
but
with
intermixtion
,
and
confusion
rehearse
them
.
For
the
first
,
as
no
Province
or
part
of
Germany
can
boast
of
her
freedome
from
these
miseries
(
though
some
have
beene
more
free
than
others
)
so
is
there
no
Prince
,
nor
State
,
which
hath
not
suffered
herein
,
no
City
,
no
Towne
,
almost
no
person
.
Every
halfe
yeeres
,
every
moneths
,
yea
,
weekes
relation
,
telleth
us
,
of
hundreds
,
thousands
,
millions
of
rix
dollars
,
or
galdens
imposed
,
exacted
,
extorted
by
the
Conquerours
,
or
Spoylers
,
for
the
redemption
of
mens
lives
or
liberties
,
goods
or
dwellings
,
〈◊〉
Strange
and
impossible
oft-times
have
the
ransomes
beene
,
with
which
they
have
●●xed
the
Burgers
,
at
the
taking
in
of
Townes
.
And
that
they
might
have
their
wills
in
this
kinde
,
they
have
called
the
Magistrates
,
and
Burgers
into
the
State-houses
,
threatened
,
imprisoned
,
or
otherwise
abused
them
,
till
they
condescended
.
At
Griphenberg
,
they
kept
the
Senators
shut
up
in
a
chamber
of
the
Common-hall
,
macerating
and
tormenting
them
so
long
with
hunger
and
smoake
,
that
some
of
them
dyed
.
We
left
in
Heydelberg-Castle
many
Burgers
to
this
their
mercy
;
and
divers
reverend
Ministers
,
who
were
imprisoned
,
and
fed
with
bread
and
water
,
till
the
charity
of
the
reformed
Churches
could
relieve
them
.
Presently
after
,
they
at
Frankendale
surrendring
the
towne
,
upon
necessity
,
could
not
enjoy
the
articles
granted
them
by
the
enemy
;
But
were
together
with
the
grave
Counsellours
,
and
other
Electorall
Ministers
,
forced
to
endure
such
conditions
,
as
were
sitter
for
slaves
and
dogs
,
than
men
.
Some
were
cast
into
prison
,
and
there
so
handled
,
that
many
of
them
dyed
through
griefe
and
sorrow
.
Others
,
though
altogether
exhausted
,
redeemed
themselves
with
unreasonable
ransomes
.
The
goods
of
those
that
were
fled
,
were
confiscated
:
all
the
inhabitants
,
though
they
were
willing
to
leave
their
houses
,
with
all
their
furniture
,
were
detained
in
the
City
,
and
their
destruction
most
cruelly
plotted
:
after
like
manner
have
others
beene
dealt
with
,
contrary
to
all
oathes
and
promise
,
yea
,
contrary
to
the
Lawes
of
Nations
and
common
faith
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
Tortures
and
Torments
.
NOt
to
insist
on
these
,
looke
we
upon
the
cruelties
which
the
licentious
Souldier
hath
exercised
upon
the
persons
of
the
Inhabitants
,
without
respect
of
age
,
sex
,
dignity
,
calling
,
&c.
And
we
shall
rather
thinke
them
Banditos
or
Renegado's
,
than
men
of
armes
,
rather
monsters
than
mankinde
.
Nor
Turks
nor
Infidells
have
so
behaved
themselves
.
Even
Princes
(
sacred
Persons
)
though
they
never
bore
armes
,
as
the
old
Landgrave
of
Hessen
,
and
others
:
yea
,
some
of
the
female
Sex
,
as
the
old
Dutchesse
Dowager
of
Wirtenberg
,
have
beene
without
any
regard
or
pitty
,
taken
prisoners
,
reviled
,
abused
.
Aronibeus
reporteth
from
the
Letters
of
the
D.
of
Saxony
,
that
some
of
Tillies
Souldiers
caused
his
Subjects
to
be
tortured
,
by
halfe
strangling
them
,
and
pressing
their
thumbes
with
wheeles
.
His
Souldiers
,
and
those
of
Walsten
,
exercised
yet
greater
cruelties
in
Pemeren
,
and
thereabouts
.
They
made
the
people
by
force
to
eate
their
owne
excrements
:
and
if
they
would
not
,
they
thrust
them
downe
their
throates
,
and
so
choaked
some
of
them
.
twisted
out
there
eyes
Raced
offe
there
skinne
with
knifes
hanging
vp
in
the
smoke
blood
sprouted
at
fingers
end
.
plaining
there
faces
pisse
poured
downe
there
.
throates
Whom
they
thought
to
have
hidden
gold
or
other
wealth
,
they
have
assayed
,
by
exquisite
torments
to
make
them
confesse
.
Yea
Princely
personages
have
suffered
like
cruelty
in
this
kind
with
meaner
folke
.
They
have
wound
and
tied
about
the
heads
of
such
,
strong
matches
or
cords
,
and
twisted
the
same
till
the
blood
came
out
of
their
eyes
,
eares
,
and
noses
,
yea
,
till
their
eyes
started
out
of
their
heads
.
They
have
put
and
tied
burning
matches
betwixt
their
fingers
,
to
their
noses
,
tongues
,
jawes
,
cheeks
,
brests
,
legs
,
and
secret
parts
.
Yea
those
parts
which
nature
hideth
,
they
have
either
filled
with
powder
,
or
hung
satchels
of
powder
on
them
,
and
so
giving
fire
to
the
same
,
they
have
in
horrible
manner
burst
their
bellies
,
and
killed
them
.
They
have
with
bodkins
pierced
,
yea
with
knives
raced
,
and
cut
the
skin
and
flesh
of
many
,
as
some
Artificers
deale
with
leather
,
or
other
stuffe
of
like
nature
.
They
have
drawn
strings
and
cords
thorow
the
fleshy
parts
of
some
,
the
muscles
of
their
thighs
,
legs
,
armes
,
&c.
thorow
their
noses
,
eares
,
lips
,
&c.
They
have
hung
up
some
in
the
smoak
,
drying
them
with
small
fires
,
refreshing
them
sometime
with
small
drinke
,
or
cold
water
.
For
these
being
such
as
were
before
overwhelmed
with
griefe
,
they
tooke
care
lest
in
their
torment
they
should
die
too
soone
.
Some
they
have
put
into
hot
Ovens
,
and
so
smothered
or
burned
them
.
Some
they
rosted
with
straw-fires
.
Some
have
they
stifled
,
strangled
or
hanged
.
This
was
great
favour
to
be
ridde
out
of
their
paine
.
To
many
they
have
bound
so
hard
both
hands
and
feete
,
that
the
blood
hath
sprouted
out
at
the
ends
of
their
fingers
and
toes
.
Of
some
they
have
tied
both
hands
and
feet
back
ward
together
,
and
stopped
their
mouthes
with
clouts
to
hinder
them
from
praying
.
Some
have
they
hanged
up
,
with
ropes
fastned
to
their
privie
parts
,
and
hearing
their
roaring
cries
,
have
striven
to
out-roare
and
drowne
their
cries
as
in
sport
.
And
yet
more
detestable
,
where
they
have
found
poore
weake
Creatures
troubled
with
ruptures
or
burstennesse
,
they
have
enlarged
the
same
by
villanous
meanes
,
filled
them
with
gunpowder
,
and
blowne
them
up
as
a
Mine
,
by
giving
fire
thereunto
.
Many
have
they
trussed
up
on
high
,
hanging
on
their
feet
stones
and
weights
to
stretch
out
their
bodies
.
With
Jizels
or
like
Instruments
they
have
gone
about
to
plaine
the
faces
of
some
,
pretending
that
they
would
make
it
equall
&
smooth
.
Some
Housholders
have
they
openly
gelded
,
in
the
presence
of
their
wives
and
children
.
The
mouthes
of
some
have
they
opened
with
gags
,
and
then
poured
downe
their
throats
,
water
,
stinking
puddle
,
filthy
liquids
,
and
pisse
it selfe
,
saying
,
This
is
a
Swedish
draught
.
So
growing
sicke
,
and
their
bellies
swelling
like
a
Tun
,
they
have
dyed
by
leysure
with
the
greater
torment
.
Downe
the
throates
of
others
,
they
have
thrust
a
knotted
clout
,
and
then
with
a
string
pulled
it
up
againe
,
to
pull
the
bowells
out
of
their
place
,
or
shew
themselves
exquisite
in
such
divellish
devices
.
And
by
these
torments
,
they
have
made
some
deafe
,
or
dumbe
,
others
blind
,
others
lame
and
miserable
creples
,
if
they
killed
them
not
.
If
an
Husband
did
intreat
for
the
Wife
,
or
the
Wife
for
the
Husband
,
then
tooke
they
the
intercessour
,
and
he
was
tortured
by
them
,
after
the
same
manner
before
the
others
eyes
.
And
(
which
is
almost
beyond
all
credit
)
when
these
poore
prisoners
or
patients
,
were
suffering
or
dying
under
their
hands
,
and
crying
to
God
in
their
anguish
,
these
hellish
executioners
would
command
or
force
them
to
pray
unto
the
Divell
,
or
call
upon
him
.
Infinite
and
unspeakeable
are
the
cruelties
,
which
have
this
last
yeere
beene
exercised
by
the
furious
Souldiers
on
all
sides
.
And
some
devills
among
them
did
proceed
so
farre
,
that
they
consulted
and
devised
new
and
exquisite
tortures
,
which
they
exercised
upon
innocent
persons
.
They
tooke
a
Divine
,
(
some
write
a
Canon
in
those
parts
,
and
a
reverend
old
man
)
stripped
him
,
bound
him
along
upon
his
backe
on
a
Table
,
and
a
strong
bigge
Cat
upon
his
naked
belly
.
They
beat
and
pricked
the
Cat
to
make
her
fixe
her
teeth
&
claws
in
the
poore
mans
belly
.
So
the
Cat
&
the
man
,
partly
through
famin
,
partly
through
pain
and
anguish
,
both
breathed
their
last
.
Some
of
their
despicable
and
infamous
ruytery
called
Croats
or
Crabats
,
have
laboured
much
to
teach
their
horses
not
only
to
kil
men
,
but
to
eate
humane
and
Christians
flesh
,
and
have
consulted
how
to
find
out
torments
more
rare
,
cruell
,
and
exquisite
than
ever
.
What
shall
we
say
to
these
devils
?
Phalaris
,
Nero
,
Dionysius
,
all
other
tyrants
and
tyrannies
,
are
incomparable
to
these
new
stratagematists
and
engineers
.
Cancasus
bred
them
,
tygers
fed
them
,
hel
taught
them
,
and
thither
I
remit
them
.
CHAP.
IIII.
Of
Rape
and
Ravishing
.
●●●●nesse
in
Chur●●●
A
maide
Rauisched
and
after
quarterd
Maides
leapinge
into
Riuers
.
I
Have
said
much
of
the
former
Particular
,
and
yet
but
little
.
I
will
now
speake
little
of
this
ensuing
abomination
,
and
(
I
feare
)
too
much
.
Rapes
and
Ravishing
scarce
to
be
spoken
or
heard
of
,
have
they
committed
,
beyond
all
humane
modesty
.
Mayds
and
Matrons
,
Widdowes
and
Wives
,
without
distinction
have
they
violated
and
forced
,
and
that
in
the
presence
of
their
Parents
,
Husbands
,
Neighbours
,
&c.
Women
with
child
in
child-bed
,
&c.
no
pen
can
write
it
,
no
faith
believe
it
.
No
Chappell
Church
or
place
consecrated
hath
beene
free
from
the
filthiest
of
pollutions
,
or
most
sacrilegious
barbarismes
.
The
very
Hospitalls
and
Bedlame-houses
have
not
beene
spared
:
their
divellish
madnesse
hath
there
found
subjects
for
their
purpose
.
In
Hessen-land
,
a
poore
leane
Bedlam
woman
,
that
had
beene
kept
in
chaines
abóve
twenty
yeeres
,
was
by
these
hell-hounds
let
loose
.
About
her
they
brought
divers
others
,
like
her selfe
,
some
madde
,
some
dumbe
,
all
wretched
.
They
tyed
their
coates
about
their
eares
,
and
so
used
them
as
I
shame
to
expresse
.
In
Pomeren
they
tooke
the
fairest
daughters
of
the
Country-dwellers
,
and
ravished
them
in
the
sight
of
their
parents
,
making
them
and
their
friends
to
sing
Psalmes
before
them
all
the
while
.
In
Italy
,
I
have
heard
some
with
teares
recite
the
villanies
perpetrated
by
the
Germane
troopes
of
Gallas
and
Altringer
,
when
they
besieged
Mantua
.
Among
the
rest
,
a
beautiful
maid
was
by
her
Parents
hid
in
the
dung-hill
.
But
they
found
her
out
,
had
their
pleasures
of
her
,
then
cut
her
in
pieces
,
hung
her
quarters
up
in
the
Church
,
and
bid
her
friends
pray
to
the
Saints
for
her
succour
.
The
Sperenrentrish
herse-men
(
as
we
came
through
Brunswick-land
)
tooke
by
force
a
young
maide
ten
yeeres
old
,
and
carryed
her
into
a
wood
to
ravish
her
.
The
mother
with
upreard
hands
came
running
after
our
Coach
,
crying
out
to
my
Colonell
,
who
was
here
a
stranger
without
command
,
and
could
not
relieve
her
:
then
saw
wee
the
two
horse-men
come
out
of
the
wood
,
where
they
had
left
the
poore
child
dead
or
alive
I
know
not
.
Vertuous
and
chaste
women
have
they
offered
to
kill
,
or
throwne
their
children
into
the
fire
,
to
make
them
yeeld
.
They
have
not
spared
the
very
Nunnes
in
the
Cloysters
,
but
after
they
have
entred
by
force
,
broken
open
their
Trunkes
and
Coffers
,
and
taken
their
goods
,
they
have
likewise
ravished
them
,
and
killed
some
of
them
.
I
know
the
Generall
,
a
troope
of
whose
horse
having
done
the
like
,
hee
commanded
them
all
to
be
hanged
,
but
because
they
were
not
all
alike
guilty
,
they
cast
lots
for
their
lives
,
and
every
tenth
man
dyed
.
Some
have
leaped
into
rivers
,
into
wells
,
or
killed
themselves
because
they
would
not
be
subject
to
the
filthy
lusts
of
these
hell-borne
furies
.
Not
onely
sicke
and
weake
maids
,
and
women
have
beene
violated
till
they
dyed
,
but
these
wretches
have
committed
like
filthinesse
with
the
dead
bodies
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
Robbing
and
Pillaging
.
NO
man
can
now
passe
any
where
in
Dutch-land
;
but
hee
is
robbed
,
stripped
,
perhaps
killed
.
The
Merchants
of
Frankford
,
Nurenberg
Lipzig
,
Hamburg
,
&c.
have
had
too
wofull
experience
hereof
:
witnesse
of
Infinite
this
one
instance
.
The
Merchants
of
Basil
,
returning
from
the
Mart
at
Strasburg
,
and
other
Faires
,
to
goe
to
Shoffehausen
,
were
set
upon
by
the
Imperialists
in
their
lodging
,
and
though
they
offered
to
prove
themselves
Merchants
,
and
craved
their
lives
upon
their
knees
,
yet
they
killed
ten
of
them
,
saying
,
they
must
dye
,
because
they
were
heretickes
.
The
rest
leaving
their
goods
and
garments
behind
,
escaped
by
flight
starke
naked
in
the
night
.
Marchants
Robed
and
slaine
persons
priuelegdd
Rifled
Divines
cutt
in
peaces
Two
Countesles
of
great
nobility
,
with
their
faire
daughters
and
followers
in
distresse
,
were
entertained
by
us
in
the
castle
of
Heydelberg
,
the
one
immediately
before
,
the
other
in
the
time
of
the
siege
.
When
our
hope
of
subsisting
began
to
faile
,
they
went
away
with
the
enemies
pasport
.
Notwithstanding
which
they
were
by
them
robbed
and
rifled
in
their
coaches
of
all
they
had
,
not
sparing
the
very
garments
that
covered
them
.
The
priviledged
persons
of
royall
Embassadours
,
their
goods
and
followers
,
cannot
be
secured
from
them
,
witnes
this
yeare
the
shamefull
plundering
of
the
Danish
Embassadour
.
What
quarter
they
give
to
the
traveller
,
the
like
or
worse
they
afford
the
inhabitants
,
if
they
escape
with
their
lives
,
this
is
all
,
and
well
too
:
when
the
time
hath
beene
that
one
might
have
travelled
safe
from
the
one
end
of
Germany
to
the
other
with
a
white
rod
in
his
hand
and
an
hundred
pound
in
his
purse
.
Indeed
they
robbe
one
another
every
where
out
of
their
quarter
:
nor
are
they
fellow
souldiers
any
longer
,
when
they
have
opportunity
to
play
the
theeves
.
Nor
God
nor
devil
do
they
acknowledge
,
but
when
they
sweare
,
nor
is
any
thing
so
vile
but
they
will
doe
it
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
Bloodshed
and
killing
.
AS
for
killing
,
this
is
the
least
of
all
the
rest
.
Death
puts
an
end
to
all
miseries
;
onely
they
that
survive
are
oft-times
the
worse
for
want
of
them
that
are
dead
.
To
report
the
blood-shed
of
this
warre
,
would
be
incredible
:
Alsted
saith
,
that
before
the
King
of
Swedens
comming
,
it
had
consumed
no
lesse
than
100000.
If
this
be
true
,
what
hath
it
done
since
?
How
many
millions
have
miserably
perished
?
They
have
sometimes
killed
one
another
;
and
among
other
precedents
this
is
not
least
remarkable
,
that
Gourdon
and
Lesley
Scotch
Colonells
,
with
Colonell
Butler
the
Irish
man
,
who
killed
Walstein
,
the
Count
of
Tirskie
,
and
other
Imperiall
officers
then
ready
to
revolt
to
the
Swedish
party
,
are
now
,
this
yeere
after
the
same
manner
,
hurt
,
or
killed
themselves
(
as
is
written
)
by
Gallas
his
followers
,
upon
a
dispute
about
that
former
businesse
;
a
Document
for
all
strangers
,
to
take
heede
,
how
they
collogue
with
those
monsters
,
in
such
dangerous
actions
,
who
love
the
Treason
,
but
hate
the
Traytor
.
Priests
slaine
at
the
Altars
Croats
eate
Children
Noses
&
eares
Cut
of
to
make
hatbandes
At
Landshood
in
Bavier
,
the
souldiers
entring
by
force
,
killed
not
only
all
they
found
in
arms
,
but
the
innocent
inhabitants
,
yea
,
the
very
Priests
kneeling
at
the
Altars
;
and
divers
other
instances
of
like
nature
I
could
produce
.
Now
what
may
the
poore
peasant
and
countrey-dwellers
expect
?
to
kill
them
if
they
resist
or
refuse
them
any
thing
,
is
but
ordinary
in
this
warre
:
among
the
Imperiallists
is
a
base
sort
of
rascally
horse-men
which
serve
them
,
and
are
called
Croats
.
The
tenth
part
of
them
are
not
of
that
Countrey
:
for
they
are
a
miscellany
of
all
strange
nations
,
without
God
,
without
religion
,
and
have
only
the
outsides
of
men
,
and
scarse
that
too
.
They
make
no
conscience
of
murthering
men
or
women
,
old
or
young
,
yea
,
the
very
innocent
babes
;
and
like
the
beasts
among
whom
they
are
bred
,
doe
sometimes
eat
them
,
when
other
food
might
be
found
:
the
poore
people
have
by
these
beene
every
where
knocked
downe
in
the
fields
and
wayes
,
slaughtered
,
stabbed
,
tortured
barbarously
.
Their
fellow
souldiers
are
not
much
behind
them
having
some
where
left
such
foot-steps
of
their
cruelty
,
that
there
scarce
remaine
living
,
to
relate
the
sufferings
of
the
dead
.
I
have
seen
them
beat
out
the
braines
of
poore
old
decrepid
women
,
as
in
sport
,
and
commit
other
outrages
of
like
nature
,
which
my
brevity
wil
not
permit
me
to
relate
.
It
is
now
growne
so
usuall
with
the
poore
people
to
see
one
slaine
before
anothers
face
,
that
(
as
though
there
were
no
relation
,
no
affection
of
neighbourhood
,
kindred
or
friendship
among
them
)
none
compassionateth
almost
,
none
cryeth
out
,
oh
my
father
,
or
oh
my
brother
!
As
for
quarter
(
that
is
mercy
,
and
the
saving
of
the
lives
of
the
vanquished
,
when
they
beg
it
on
their
knees
)
the
vanquishers
have
been
oft
times
inhumane
.
The
Croats
,
till
of
late
,
never
gave
any
quarter
,
but
killed
whatsoever
enemy
they
had
at
their
mercy
.
The
like
did
the
Curlins
(
the
regiment
of
hell
)
receive
pay
of
them
of
Gaunt
and
Bruges
,
to
bring
the
nose
and
ears
of
their
enemies
away
to
their
Masters
.
Tilly
,
after
the
defeate
of
the
Duke
of
Brunswicke
at
Heuxt
on
the
Maine
,
drew
out
of
that
town
threescore
poor
souldiers
,
&
caused
them
all
to
bee
killed
in
the
cold
blood
,
before
the
gate
,
saying
,
that
he
sacrificed
them
to
Count
Mansfield
their
master
.
I
could
weary
my
reader
with
these
examples
.
But
I
forbeare
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
Burning
and
Destroying
.
2000.
villages
burnt
in
Bauaria
No
tillage
nor
Breding
Cattell
But
dringe
all
in
to
Citties
FOr
burning
,
pulling
down
and
ruining
of
Churches
,
Cities
,
Villages
,
the
like
hath
not
been
heard
.
The
Swedish
army
burned
above
2000
Villages
in
Bavaria
,
in
revenge
of
the
Palatine
cause
:
But
their
enemies
spare
meither
foes
nor
friends
.
What
goodly
houses
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
shall
you
,
there
,
see
fallen
down
,
or
so
defaced
,
as
is
scarce
reparable
without
building
new
?
From
what
quarter
soever
the
army
riseth
,
they
will
bee
sure
to
leave
some
dwellings
in
the
ashes
,
some
in
the
smoake
.
To
that
passe
it
is
now
come
,
that
every
one
that
is
a
man
,
betaketh
himselfe
to
arms
.
There
is
now
no
other
aboad
,
but
some
campe
,
no
other
plow
to
follow
,
no
other
imployment
but
the
warre
,
for
he
that
is
not
an
actor
with
the
rest
,
must
needes
bee
a
sufferer
among
the
miserable
patients
.
No
tilling
of
the
land
,
no
breeding
of
cattell
;
for
if
they
should
,
the
next
yeare
the
souldiers
devoure
it
.
Better
to
sit
still
,
than
to
labour
,
and
let
others
reape
the
profits
,
Hence
an
universall
desolation
.
Part
of
the
people
swarme
as
banished
in
strange
countries
,
as
I
have
observed
in
Suisse
,
at
Lausan
,
Berne
,
Basil
,
&c.
in
France
,
in
Italy
,
especially
the
Venetian
territories
.
From
Basil
to
Strasburg
,
from
Strasburg
to
Heydelberg
,
from
thence
to
Marpurg
,
I
scarse
saw
a
man
in
the
fields
,
or
Villages
.
Little
better
shall
a
man
finde
it
tha●
travelleth
from
the
Kingdome
of
France
to
the
middle
of
Bohemia
,
from
the
Alps
above
Auspurg
to
the
Baltique
sea
,
a
square
of
land
little
lesle
than
thrice
all
Great
Britaine
.
Onely
here
and
there
,
as
the
land
hath
rest
,
the
dwellers
return
.
But
alas
,
the
farre
greater
part
are
extinguished
by
war
,
misery
,
or
length
of
time
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
Famine
.
Eateing
dead
horses
Fowles
eate
the
dead
FAmine
commeth
next
in
place
,
a
thing
so
grievous
,
that
David
preferred
the
pestilence
in
his
choicy
.
To
see
men
slaine
by
the
sword
,
or
die
of
contagious
diseases
,
is
not
yet
so
grievous
,
as
to
see
them
dye
of
famine
,
or
kill
to
eate
one
another
.
In
Samaria
besieged
by
Benhadad
King
of
Syria
,
the
famine
was
so
great
,
that
an
Asses
head
was
sold
for
80.
pieces
of
silver
,
&
the
fourth
part
of
a
cab
of
Doves
dung
for
50.
pieces
of
silver
.
Two
women
covenanted
to
eate
their
children
successively
:
and
when
they
had
boyled
and
eaten
the
one
,
the
other
woman
hid
hers
.
In
the
siege
of
Ierusalem
,
Mice
,
Rats
,
and
Hides
were
good
meat
,
and
women
did
dresse
and
eate
their
owne
children
,
the
smell
whereof
drew
others
that
were
hunger-starv'd
to
come
to
share
with
them
.
But
that
Cities
not
besiged
,
and
a
Country
naturally
fertile
,
should
be
so
ruined
,
as
not
to
be
able
,
for
so
long
a
time
to
afford
bread
to
a
poore
remnant
of
people
,
but
that
they
must
be
faine
to
eate
carrion
,
yea
,
dead
men
,
yea
,
one
another
living
:
this
is
pittifull
,
this
is
unheard
of
.
Had
I
not
beene
provided
of
Viaticum
,
at
my
comming
out
of
Suisse
famine
had
arrested
me
in
Germany
,
for
there
was
not
any
where
meate
for
money
.
The
Italians
and
Spaniards
,
which
had
bee
eat
the
skirmish
at
Nortlingen
,
and
without
armes
,
wandred
among
the
Duke
of
Lorrane's
troopes
at
Nyburg
and
Brisac
,
were
so
blacke
and
feeble
through
hunger
,
that
had
I
not
given
them
part
of
m●
provision
,
I
thinke
they
had
rent
me
in
pieces
,
and
eaten
mee
.
Travelling
from
Neiustadt
towards
Frankendale
in
a
snowie
day
,
I
met
,
unexpected
,
the
army
of
Duke
Bernard
,
whose
stra
ling
fore-runners
,
came
riding
up
to
me
by
couples
,
and
when
I
looked
for
a
worse
errand
,
asked
onely
for
bread
,
which
my
guide
gave
them
,
so
long
as
we
had
any
.
From
thence
to
Manheime
and
Heydleberg
,
many
dead
men
lay
strewed
on
the
way
,
especially
on
the
fire
places
,
which
perished
through
cold
and
want
.
Before
wee
were
besieged
last
time
in
Heydleberg
Castle
,
some
of
my
patients
,
almost
recovered
of
thei
diseases
,
sent
mee
word
,
they
were
dying
of
famine
,
as
indeed
they
did
,
except
our
canon
helped
to
shorten
their
miseries
.
For
being
immediately
shut
up
,
we
shot
into
the
towne
night
and
day
,
almost
uncessantly
.
Our
souldiers
at
the
first
,
killed
more
horses
on
a
day
,
than
they
could
eate
,
lest
they
should
famish
for
want
of
hay
and
those
they
threw
out
of
the
Castle
,
downe
the
rocke
,
which
the
enemy
in
the
night
drew
into
the
towne
,
(
though
some
in
so
doing
were
slaine
by
our
shot
)
and
so
they
eat
our
horse-flesh
,
also
our
Serjeant
Major
sallied
with
50.
men
upon
the
enemy
being
300.
entrenched
on
the
hil
on
the
East
side
of
the
castle
,
and
beate
them
out
of
their
workes
.
Many
were
slaine
,
some
broke
their
necks
downe
the
rocks
:
but
which
equalized
the
victory
,
the
valiant
Major
was
shot
dead
.
Our
souldiers
being
Masters
of
the
trench
,
fell
to
ransacke
the
enemies
knapsackes
,
which
they
had
left
behinde
them
.
But
there
was
nothing
in
them
,
save
our
horse-flesh
,
which
every
day
grew
scarser
with
us
:
so
that
now
we
killed
the
horses
which
stood
fasting
and
sleeping
on
the
dung-hill
,
not
out
of
compassion
,
but
necessity
.
Another
Serjeant
Major
had
two
very
faire
horses
shut
up
our
souldiers
tooke
the
one
and
ate
him
,
he
thinking
to
make
sure
the
other
,
stapled
him
to
the
wall
with
a
strong
chaine
and
a
padlocke
,
but
they
espying
their
opportunity
,
cut
off
the
horses
necke
,
left
the
head
in
the
chaine
,
and
carried
away
the
body
and
ate
it
.
At
length
,
dogs
and
carrion
came
into
request
,
we
could
smell
our
meate
afarre
off
,
and
on
the
Table
it
was
yet
more
loathsome
,
the
taste
did
answer
the
smell
,
yet
,
we
ate
it
savourly
,
but
our
bread
at
last
failing
,
we
yeelded
to
necessity
.
CHAP.
X.
of
Famine
.
THe
armies
now
everywhere
over-ranne
the
Couutrey
,
devoured
both
Corne
&
catel
:
so
they
that
had
goods
left
,
offered
to
give
all
for
a
little
bellytimber
.
But
not
so
obtaining
it
they
were
faine
to
lie
upon
the
streets
and
high
waies
,
(
a
thing
not
usuall
with
them
)
and
to
crave
for
Gods
sake
where
with
to
refresh
their
dying
soules
.
But
no
sooner
had
they
swallowed
what
was
given
them
,
but
they
fell
downe
and
died
.
Memorable
is
that
story
which
Reinmannuste
recordeth
of
the
Famine
in
Alsatia
the
last
yeere
,
which
is
at
this
present
yet
worse
.
Valentine
of
Engelin
a
citizen
of
Rufacke
,
with
the
dead-burier
,
delivered
unto
the
Magistrate
upon
their
oathes
,
that
Anne
the
daughter
of
Iohn
Ebstein
confessed
unto
them
,
that
she
came
from
Colmar
,
where
shee
had
waited
many
daies
before
the
hangmans
doore
in
hope
to
get
a
piece
of
horse-flesh
to
satifie
her
hunger
.
But
not
prevailing
,
shee
was
now
come
to
Rufack
entreating
them
,
that
if
there
was
the
body
of
any
young
man
or
woman
unburied
,
that
they
would
give
it
her
to
eate
to
preserve
her
life
.
Carion
Sould
in
the
Market
as
Dogges
&
Rattes
Fyteinge
for
Carion
And
that
two
women
and
a
boy
did
after
the
same
manner
speak
unto
them
,
telling
them
that
they
had
for
a
long
time
lived
of
dead
mens
flesh
,
which
being
published
,
the
Cloyster
of
the
Church-yard
of
S.
Nicholas
,
where
the
dead
bodies
were
kept
,
was
locked
up
.
Lastly
,
that
foure
young
maydes
had
cut
in
pieces
the
dead
bodie
of
another
young
maid
of
eleven
yeares
of
age
,
and
eaten
every
one
their
part
.
At
this
day
it
is
yet
worse
.
Many
that
survived
the
losse
of
all
they
had
,
have
for
a
long
time
sustained
themselves
with
roots
,
acornes
,
greene
fruits
,
grasse
,
thistles
,
and
weeds
,
that
beasts
would
not
have
eaten
,
whereof
they
grew
enraged
anddyed
.
The
famished
have
beene
so
faint
,
that
they
have
not
had
strength
to
bury
one
another
,
in
so
much
,
that
the
dead
have
beene
eaten
up
of
Dogs
,
Foxes
and
Wolves
,
and
some
have
run
mad
for
hunger
.
In
some
Cities
,
the
inhabitans
by
this
famine
,
have
beene
constrained
to
kill
all
unedible
cattell
,
without
any
difference
,
and
to
sell
them
publikely
:
as
Dogs
,
Cats
,
Rats
,
Mice
&c.
A
woman
at
Hanaw
,
that
had
sold
Dogs-flesh
ordinarily
to
the
souldiers
,
was
in
the
streetes
assaulted
by
Dogs
,
all
her
garments
torne
off
her
backe
,
that
shee
was
faine
to
sit
downe
on
the
ground
to
hide
her
shame
.
And
had
she
not
beene
rescued
,
shee
had
beene
rent
in
pieces
by
the
Dogs
.
Where
any
man
had
a
beast
left
that
he
carefully
kept
for
his
necessity
,
some
or
other
of
his
acquaintance
,
if
he
could
come
by
it
,
would
kill
and
eate
it
.
They
have
snatched
one
from
another
the
very
stinking
carrion
,
which
had
lien
sixe
or
seven
weekes
dead
and
full
of
maggots
:
yea
and
have
fought
and
beaten
one
another
to
get
a
morsell
thereof
,
as
lately
happened
at
Dubach
by
Bachrack
.
It
hath
moved
the
great
ones
and
governours
of
these
quarters
unto
compassion
to
see
their
people
in
such
extreame
want
.
In
so
much
that
the
noble
Earle
of
Falkenstein
seeing
his
Subjects
crave
sustenance
of
him
,
commanded
his
man
to
give
them
his
hounds
to
satisfie
their
hunger
,
which
they
presently
killed
and
ate
.
CHAP.
X.
Of
Famine
.
3
wp
,
em
killinge
and
after
eateing
each
other
wemen
Eate
there
owne
Children
AS
the
sicknesse
spreadeth
by
the
contagion
of
infected
bodies
,
so
hath
this
famine
encreased
by
the
neglect
of
Providence
in
the
disabled
and
famished
.
When
no
more
food
was
to
be
got
,
they
were
inraged
like
beasts
one
against
another
,
and
gathering
together
by
troopes
,
have
watched
for
one
another
upon
the
high
waies
,
and
so
murthered
,
dressed
,
and
eaten
one
another
.
Thenceforth
no
man
could
passe
safe
on
the
way
,
or
in
the
streets
,
except
wellarmed
,
or
travelling
with
a
convoy
.
And
some
of
them
have
beene
taken
and
severely
punished
by
Justice
,
neverthelesse
they
haue
secretly
lurked
here
and
there
,
and
set
upon
the
passengers
,
as
by
many
instances
,
I
could
shew
.
It
is
not
good
to
be
alone
;
for
where
there
is
company
,
the
one
will
helpe
the
other
in
distresse
.
The
hardnesse
of
these
times
being
observed
,
or
rather
felt
,
three
maidens
at
Odenheim
in
Dirmbstein
by
Wormes
agreed
to
dwell
together
,
and
to
partake
of
sweet
and
sower
all
alike
.
But
the
proverbe
is
true
,
that
necessity
hath
no
law
,
and
hunger
is
a
sharpe
Thorne
.
So
pressed
they
were
with
extreame
famine
,
that
they
sought
one
anothers
lives
to
save
their
owne
.
Two
of
them
conspired
together
to
take
away
the
life
of
the
third
,
by
strangling
her
in
bed
or
otherwise
treacherously
to
kill
her
,
and
after
to
dresse
and
eate
her
up
.
All
which
they
did
accordingly
.
Then
the
second
resolved
to
strangle
her
companion
,
and
cut
off
her
head
,
which
when
shee
had
done
,
her
heart
being
hardened
,
she
went
to
a
village
called
Ridisheim
to
a
woman
of
her
acquaintance
,
called
Margaret
,
whose
husband
was
a
Farmer
,
and
kept
himselfe
a
way
for
a
time
in
the
towne
of
Leyningen
.
The
woman
entertained
her
kindly
,
rejoycing
that
shee
came
yet
once
to
see
her
.
But
in
the
night
,
lying
by
the
said
woman
,
she
cut
off
her
head
,
bound
the
dead
body
upon
a
board
and
brought
it
to
Piedessen
,
where
she
dwelt
and
drew
it
into
her
house
.
The
sharpenesse
of
hunger
pricking
her
,
she
had
not
the
patience
to
cut
the
body
in
pieces
,
but
did
cut
off
the
head
and
both
the
hands
onely
,
and
washed
and
dressed
them
.
The
husband
comming
home
missed
his
wife
,
and
enquired
for
her
at
the
neighbours
,
who
told
him
that
such
a
maide
was
seene
with
his
wife
.
He
went
to
her
house
,
knocked
at
the
doore
and
asked
her
,
if
she
had
not
seene
his
Wife
.
She
answered
him
no.
But
such
deeds
of
cruelty
are
hard
to
be
concealed
.
Murther
will
out
,
they
say
,
or
the
very
Bruits
will
discover
it
.
Hee
goes
into
her
house
,
casteth
his
eyes
round
about
,
pryeth
into
every
corner
:
at
length
hee
espieth
an
hand
to
sticke
out
of
the
pot
,
which
hung
upon
the
fire
.
Hereupon
,
as
overcome
with
griefe
,
hee
rageth
and
raileth
against
the
murtheresse
,
threateneth
her
with
sharpe
words
,
so
that
she
presently
confessed
and
revealed
it
.
Then
went
he
to
the
Justice
,
and
complained
.
So
shee
was
brought
to
Slitzey
with
three
Musketires
.
They
made
her
hold
the
sodden
hand
in
her
hand
,
while
she
was
examined
:
and
so
she
had
her
sentence
from
the
Imperiall
officers
,
Burgrave
Philip
of
Waldecke
,
and
all
the
Lords
of
Justice
,
before
the
judgement-seat
.
They
deliberated
long
about
her
punishment
,
whether
she
shoule
die
or
no
,
because
some
were
of
opinion
,
that
she
did
it
not
as
a
rationall
Creature
,
but
as
a
brute
,
because
the
appetite
of
food
is
common
to
us
with
beasts
.
But
wickednesse
,
though
necessitated
,
may
not
ever
goe
free
.
Some
must
be
made
an
example
for
the
terrour
of
others
.
She
was
led
to
the
common
place
of
justice
,
her
head
cut
off
,
and
her
body
bound
upon
a
wheele
,
there
to
remaine
as
a
spectacle
.
I
cannot
but
write
with
teares
what
followeth
.
—
Quis
talia
fando
Mysmidonum
,
Dolopumve
ant
duri
miles
Vlyssis
Temperet
à
lachrymis
?
—
What
Myrmidon
,
what
Dolop
,
who
that
beares
Armes
under
harsh
Vlysses
,
but
his
teares
Must
flow
at
this
relation
?
No
man
ever
hated
his
owne
flesh
.
But
such
are
the
children
of
our
bodies
.
It
is
even
against
nature
to
destroy
such
fruite
.
Yet
the
sharpnesse
of
hunger
brought
this
to
passe
.
Oh!
what
is
that
necessity
which
makes
us
breake
stone
walls
,
forget
the
neerest
and
dearest
relations
,
vanquish
our
naturall
and
most
powerfull
passions
,
and
destroy
that
which
we
so
dearely
loved
,
so
carefully
cherished
!
At
Oterburg
in
the
Palatinate
,
a
widow
women
dwelling
by
the
churchyard
(
her
name
well
knowne
)
had
a
daughter
of
nine
or
ten
yeares
old
.
This
child
with
hunger
was
growne
so
faint
,
that
upon
a
time
,
with
sorrowfull
eyes
,
she
stedfastly
looked
upon
her
mother
and
said
,
sweete
mother
,
I
would
willingly
die
,
so
I
were
rid
of
my
paine
.
Oh!
would
you
make
an
end
of
mee
,
then
should
I
goe
from
whence
I
came
,
or
if
I
did
kill
you
,
you
would
be
rid
of
your
paine
.
The
mother
looking
upon
her
againe
,
sighing
said
,
and
what
wouldest
thou
do
with
me
?
The
child
answered
,
very
sadly
,
I
then
would
eat
you
,
for
they
say
that
mans
flesh
is
very
sweet
.
The
mother
fell
a
weeping
,
and
broken
with
her
owne
thoughts
,
as
a
ship
tossed
and
beaten
between
two
rocks
,
desperate
necessity
&
her
motherly
affection
,
catcheth
at
her
head
,
untyeth
her
haire-lace
,
twisteth
it
about
the
necke
of
this
innocent
lambe
,
and
so
strangleth
her
;
when
it
was
dead
,
shee
having
nor
knife
nor
hatchet
to
cut
it
in
pieces
,
took
a
spade
,
and
therewith
hewed
it
into
boggets
,
&
so
dressing
the
head
,
and
part
of
the
body
devoured
it
.
Some
part
thereof
shee
sold
to
her
neighbours
for
foure
stivers
the
pound
.
Her
childe
being
long
missed
,
her
acquaintance
asked
her
where
it
was
,
and
how
she
came
by
that
flesh
.
She
answered
it
was
hogs-flesh
,
which
she
had
got
of
the
souldiers
,
who
passed
that
way
.
But
perceiving
the
truth
would
come
out
,
she
at
last
confessed
it
.
Whereupon
she
was
complained
of
to
the
justice
at
Keysars
Lauteren
,
and
put
in
prison
by
Jonker
van
Effren
,
and
adjudged
to
an
halfe
pound
of
bread
,
and
a
kanne
of
water
a
day
,
so
to
expect
her
sentence
.
But
being
sent
for
out
of
prison
,
and
examined
by
the
Lords
,
she
told
them
she
was
happy
that
she
was
in
prison
,
and
would
be
glad
to
lie
there
all
her
life
,
to
slake
her
hunger
and
refresh
her selfe
with
such
food
,
her
pricking
paine
being
thereby
abated
.
This
so
moved
the
Lords
to
pitty
,
that
they
freed
her
from
prison
,
and
let
her
goe
as
innocent
.
I
cannot
but
record
another
story
of
like
nature
,
of
the
woman
of
Horne-bach
,
where
was
sometime
the
Princely
schoole
of
Zwybruck
,
having
lately
lyen
in
childbed
and
wanting
milke
to
nourish
her
babe
,
she
kissed
and
embraced
it
with
moyst
teares
,
and
after
a
long
discourse
killed
it
with
a
knife
.
Afterwards
she
dressed
and
ate
it
.
When
it
began
to
be
knowne
,
she
was
examined
before
the
Justices
.
The
Lords
asked
her
,
wherefore
she
killed
her
childe
.
She
made
answere
that
mighty
and
intollerable
hunger
had
made
her
so
to
doe
,
and
that
it
was
her
owne
fruite
,
of
which
shee
might
better
make
use
,
than
of
any
other
.
Neverthelesse
she
was
condemned
to
die
,
and
accordingly
executed
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
Famine
.
I
Am
now
weary
of
these
lamentable
relations
.
Yet
more
miserable
(
if
more
miserable
can
be
)
have
ensued
.
They
have
traced
the
dead
bodies
to
the
place
of
their
buriall
,
digged
them
out
of
their
graves
,
dressed
and
eaten
them
.
So
that
in
divers
places
(
at
Wormes
especially
)
they
have
beene
faine
to
set
watch
at
the
Church-yards
;
and
over
the
graves
to
keepe
the
dead
from
being
stolne
and
eaten
.
In
Saxony
at
this
present
the
case
is
so
miserable
in
this
kinde
,
that
no
pen
can
expresse
it
.
The
Saxon-Austrian
Army
(
were
they
not
beaten
)
must
retreite
through
hunger
,
having
famished
both
the
inhabitants
and
themselves
.
After
the
same
manner
it
is
upon
the
Rhine
,
and
many
other
parts
,
where
the
Armies
are
or
have
lately
beene
.
To
that
extremity
it
is
come
,
that
some
constrained
by
hunger
,
have
taken
poyson
to
advance
death
.
Dead
Corpes
digd
out
of
there
Graues
to
Eate
Some
take
poyson
to
hasten
death
In
a
word
,
the
very
wild
beasts
in
the
woods
doe
starve
for
want
of
prey
.
My
Lord
the
Earle
of
Arundel
travelling
homewards
,
towards
Frankefort
on
the
Maine
,
a
Boore
or
peasant
of
the
countrey
,
being
their
guide
,
and
having
his
legs
bare
,
a
Fox
pursued
him
,
among
my
Lords
followers
,
and
would
not
forbeare
snatching
and
biting
at
his
bare
heeles
,
(
such
was
his
hunger
)
till
they
gave
him
a
blow
in
the
necke
,
and
so
tooke
him
alive
.
His
eyes
were
sunke
,
his
bones
stucke
out
,
and
hee
was
so
extreme
leane
,
that
his
sides
almost
mot
together
.
They
carried
him
alive
with
them
in
the
coach
,
and
after
a
few
daies
he
died
.
An
English
gentleman
arrived
here
the
other
day
,
who
travelling
from
Vlmes
to
Nurenburg
,
&
so
through
Germany
for
England
,
with
such
companions
as
guided
him
by-waies
for
escaping
of
the
souldiers
,
reporteth
that
Wolves
,
Foxes
and
other
wild
beasts
lie
dead
for
want
of
food
,
and
that
in
some
places
men
live
only
upon
robbery
and
spoile
of
strangers
,
or
one
another
;
Theevery
being
become
a
trade
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
sicknesse
and
diseases
.
in
Basile
1633
died
.
20000
in
Trent
.
1634
died
30000
Generall
Holcke
offred
600
Rixdollers
for
a
diuiń
to
comforte
him
.
Before
Mastreicht
,
after
the
Towne
was
taken
,
our
quarters
had
contracted
infectious
sicknesses
:
whereof
I
my selfe
had
my
share
,
being
left
sicke
in
the
Towne
of
a
purple
Feaver
.
But
the
yeere
following
both
the
Towne
and
Countrey
were
grievously
afflicted
,
with
Feavers
,
Fluxes
,
and
the
Plague
above
all
.
The
same
yeere
Elsas
or
Alsatia
and
the
lower
Palatinate
,
where
the
Armies
of
the
Duke
of
Lorraine
and
the
Rhinegrave
had
lodged
,
did
suffer
miserably
in
this
kinde
.
The
Army
of
the
Prince
of
Orange
having
taken
Rhineberg
,
and
marching
towards
Mastriche
and
Liege
,
left
such
infection
in
great
Brabant
,
about
Firkens-ward
,
that
the
inhabitants
the
yeere
after
were
afraid
of
their
owne
dwellings
.
About
the
same
time
,
Generall
Holck
being
sent
by
Wolstein
,
with
6000.
to
invade
Saxony
,
sacked
the
City
of
Leipzick
,
and
committed
as
great
outrages
as
Tillies
Army
had
done
before
.
But
such
a
pestilence
overtooke
both
him
and
his
,
that
most
of
his
souldiers
dyed
like
sheepe
of
the
rot
.
And
being
infected
himselfe
,
hee
offered
600
Rixdollers
for
a
Minister
of
the
Gospell
to
instruct
and
comfort
him
.
But
both
himselfe
and
his
Souldiers
had
so
behaved
themselves
,
that
no
Minister
was
to
be
found
.
In
the
meane
all
his
friends
&
servants
forsook
him
,
except
his
Concubine
,
who
stayed
with
him
to
the
last
.
He
had
beene
both
of
the
Religion
and
the
Protestants
party
,
but
revolted
from
both
.
So
guilty
of
his
owne
perfidiousnes
,
and
the
execrable
murders
and
rapines
that
he
had
caused
,
hee
dyed
despairing
utterly
of
all
future
blisse
.
At
length
came
a
Minister
,
but
Holcke
was
dead
before
.
The
City
of
Basile
that
winter
lost
above
20000.
of
the
plague
.
They
of
the
City
of
Trent
,
their
neighbours
rejoyced
at
their
sufferings
,
as
being
their
enemies
in
religion
.
But
it
sell
out
with
them
,
as
with
Edom
in
Obadiah
,
v.
15.
that
mocked
Jacob
in
his
distresse
.
The
winter
following
,
1634.
the
pestilence
so
raged
among
the
Tridentines
,
that
wee
were
forbidden
to
come
that
way
,
for
the
sicke
and
sound
were
mixed
together
,
and
that
City
(
not
great
)
buried
above
30000.
Besieged
in
the
Castle
of
Heidleberg
,
I
visited
every
day
divers
sicke
of
the
plague
,
and
like
diseases
.
But
in
neither
of
these
two
great
plagues
in
London
,
nor
in
any
other
,
that
I
have
beene
in
,
did
I
ever
finde
the
cause
so
virulent
,
the
symptomes
so
incorrigible
,
the
disease
so
incurable
.
Some
dyed
raging
,
others
were
killed
with
their
carbuncles
,
when
the
venome
seemed
to
be
expelled
from
the
inward
parts
,
others
were
swollen
and
discoloured
,
as
though
they
had
taken
poyson
,
and
some
that
dyed
were
so
spotted
,
as
I
never
saw
the
like
.
If
any
souldier
were
but
sleightly
wounded
,
presently
it
became
a
maligne
ulcer
,
though
all
good
inward
and
outward
meanes
,
were
used
.
If
the
infection
got
into
a
kindred
,
it
killed
parents
,
children
,
and
almost
all
the
blood
,
that
were
present
.
Whence
I
perswade
my selfe
,
that
Hippocrates
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
that
is
,
the
divine
hand
and
finger
of
God
was
more
conspicuous
in
this
,
than
in
any
other
visitation
I
had
seene
,
though
I
doubt
not
but
our
foode
with
the
aire
might
also
helpe
to
impoyson
our
bodies
extraordinarily
.
Toward
the
end
of
the
siege
,
wee
had
made
an
hospitall
in
the
roofe
of
the
house
.
But
packing
out
of
the
Castle
,
wee
left
there
our
sicke
,
some
dying
,
some
crying
out
at
the
windowes
,
not
to
be
left
to
their
sicknesse
,
famine
,
and
death
,
and
which
was
worse
than
the
enemy
,
of
whom
how
they
were
used
wee
may
imagine
.
In
the
Towne
they
were
much
visited
before
we
were
shut
up
:
which
could
not
but
be
augmented
by
the
multitudes
of
the
enemy
.
In
the
siege
of
Hanaw
were
buried
,
(
most
of
the
plague
)
above
22000
people
,
and
had
not
God
sent
that
sicknesse
to
diminish
their
numbers
,
they
had
yeelded
the
towne
through
want
of
victuals
.
In
the
same
siege
,
Souldiers
that
went
to
the
guard
seeing
and
well
,
came
off
strucken
starke
blinde
thirty
at
a
time
.
Afterwards
the
disease
falling
into
their
legges
,
the
most
of
them
recovered
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
Sickenesse
and
Diseases
.
In
Bauier
men
not
left
to
bury
the
dead
,
but
Rattes
,
and
mice
,
devoured
there
carcasses
.
Haue
pittey
vpon
me
,
haue
pittey
vpon
me
,
o
yee
my
frends
for
the
hand
of
the
Lord
hath
touched
me
.
THe
yeere
1635
,
almost
whole
Germany
felt
this
punishment
,
in
most
grievous
wise
.
In
Swaben
the
Countrey
of
Tyroll
,
all
along
the
Reine
,
and
the
Maine
,
it
was
so
furiously
hot
,
that
all
places
were
alike
safe
.
The
King
of
Hungary
was
faine
to
dissolve
his
Court
,
and
send
them
away
into
divers
Cities
,
for
their
safer
abode
.
In
Swaben
the
inhabitants
of
Memingen
,
Campden
,
and
Isnen
were
utterly
consumed
,
and
none
left
.
In
the
Countrey
thereabout
,
in
which
were
more
than
thirty
thousand
men
heretofore
,
were
not
foure
hundred
soules
to
be
found
.
In
the
confines
of
Bavier
the
living
were
nothing
neere
able
to
bury
the
dead
.
But
Rats
and
Mice
devoured
their
carcasses
,
most
horrible
to
behold
.
The
low
Countries
smarted
sore
also
.
The
Universitie
of
Leyden
buried
thirty
thousand
.
The
Countrey
Villages
and
the
Hague
,
(
where
I
was
shut
up
my selfe
)
were
miserably
afflicted
.
The
Infant
Cardinall
was
forced
to
remove
from
Bruxels
and
Antwerp
,
the
sicknesse
did
so
increase
in
those
places
.
Nimegen
,
Emericke
,
Rees
,
Guelders
,
with
other
places
neere
,
were
not
onely
visited
therewith
(
wherof
the
Marquesse
of
Aytoma
,
the
Spanish
Generall
,
&
other
Commanders
died
)
but
new
contagious
diseases
,
among
which
were
strange
Fluxes
,
and
a
kind
of
pox
unheard
of
.
The
Emperours
Army
dispersing
all
over
for
want
of
resistance
,
did
also
scatter
the
contagion
from
their
quarters
at
Haylbrun
,
through
the
Land
of
Wirtenberg
,
that
many
places
hereby
became
utterly
depopulated
.
But
since
Gallas
his
taking
in
the
Townes
upon
the
Rhine
,
such
an
infection
happened
through
the
stinch
of
the
dead
unburied
bodies
,
that
in
the
Bishopricke
of
Ments
alone
there
died
of
this
and
hunger
twenty
foure
thousand
people
.
In
Saxony
,
Brandenburg
,
Pomeren
,
Mecklenburg
,
&c.
this
yeare
the
pestilence
with
like
diseases
have
beene
so
universall
,
that
these
and
the
sword
,
seeme
to
strive
which
shall
be
the
greatest
destroyer
.
The
retraite
of
the
Swedes
,
in
which
they
did
not
onely
evade
,
but
cut
in
pieces
many
of
the
enemies
Troopes
,
is
not
so
famous
as
these
calamities
.
The
very
plague
consumed
in
Saxony
the
other
day
in
the
space
of
two
moneths
,
no
lesse
than
sixteene
thousand
that
the
King
of
Hungary
hath
given
command
that
none
shall
come
from
thence
to
Prague
,
or
the
Cities
of
Bohemia
.
As
by
the
print
of
Hercules
his
foot
you
might
guesse
at
his
stature
,
so
by
these
few
particulars
of
the
miseries
of
some
places
there
,
we
may
guesse
at
the
lamentable
estate
of
the
whole
.
The
war
having
every
where
caught
and
raged
,
hath
left
such
wounds
as
will
not
in
haste
be
recured
,
and
perhaps
posterity
for
some
generations
will
see
the
scarres
.
Thus
is
the
Virgine
daughter
of
that
people
destroyed
with
a
great
destruction
,
and
with
a
sore
and
greivous
plague
.
Goe
into
the
fieid
,
behold
the
slaine
with
the
sword
.
Enter
into
the
City
,
behold
them
that
are
sicke
for
hunger
also
.
So
are
they
smitten
,
but
are
not
healed
.
They
loke
for
peace
,
but
there
is
no
good
;
for
the
time
of
health
,
but
behold
trouble
.
FINIS
.
Imprimatur
November
.
12.
1637.
Sam.
Baker
.
G.
Rodolphus
Weckherlin
.