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Nieuwe Tijdinghen, Antwerp (2025)

19/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 129 (19 December), the last issue of the year, with news and commentary concerning the Silver Fleet, and news from Rome. Next issue on 2 January.

THE ARRIVAL OF THE SILVER FLEET FROM THE WEST INDIES: His royal majesty of Spain, having understood that the Armada of England had set sail from Pluymuyen [Plymouth] and was coming to the coasts of Spain, commanded that about forty caravels of advise be sent to inform the fleet that was expected from the West Indies not to keep to their ordinary course, customarily coming to Calis Malis [Cadiz], but to sail for Coruna in Galicia or to Lisbon in Portugal. These caravels, sailing out and taking various courses, not to miss the West Indies fleet, nevertheless all missed the fleet, and ten of these caravels fell into the hands of the English armada, who broke open the letters and, finding that the king of Spain had given order that the West Indies fleet should come to Lisbon or to Coruna, went to the coasts of Portugal and Galicia, to lie in wait for the fleet’s arrival there. But the fleet having no knowledge at all, sailed directly as accustomed to the Bay of Cadiz, arriving fortunately with 18 million in silver as some write, besides other rich wares and merchandise. This seems in truth to be a miraculous work of our merciful God, given that he so provided that not one of the 40 caravels of advise saw the fleet, for had but one of them encountered the fleet and given them the king’s command, doubtless they would have arrived in Lisbon or Coruna, where the English fleet was lying in wait. God’s providence was so great that the misfortune that not one of these forty caravels was able to sight the fleet to announce the king’s will to them, was exceptionally good fortune, for had the same fleet encountered the English Armada, there would have been fighting, and where battles take place peril can be expected.

[EDITORIAL:] Praise and thanks be to God for all his great boons, and God grant that the enemies of the Catholic Faith and of his Catholic majesty of Spain may see that He does not bless their endeavours.
They never showed their malice more than now, whether in Italy or in Germany or in Holland or elsewhere, both on water and on land, with making new leagues and with subtle attempts, but it is clearly found that Almighty God opposes their malice, and the miraculous hand of God can also be noted in making the bell of Vilella in Spain sound of its own accord to warn all to be on guard and to resist and prevent the threatening evils.
The reader should furthermore note that our merciful God has given grace and victory to his Catholic Christians. In the West parts of Christendom he has granted his Catholic Christians victory against the Calvinist heretics. In the Eastern part of Christendom, where the pretended king of Sweden lately invaded Lyflandt [Livonia] and seized some of the king of Poland’s towns, and besieged the town of Piersen, the Prince of Poland came with great resolution and attacked him and chased away his army, in which battle the king of Sweden was in such peril of his life that the horse he was riding was shot dead beneath him.
Furthermore the Prince of Poland regained all the places that the usurper of Sweden had taken from the king of Poland.
They write from Hamburg that the Duke of Saxony had sent some conditions of peace to the king of Denmark, on the emperor’s behalf, and informed him that if he would not accept the conditions, he would come against him in the field with 30,000 men. They also write that the conditions are such that they will keep the Hollanders from laughter, may it please them well.
They write from Dunkirk by letters of 14 December that in nine days’ time 14 prizes were brought in there, some of fish, some of wine, some of wheat, and some of salt. Things are going against the Gueux everywhere.

ROME: They write from Florence that Archduke Leopold is expected there daily to travel to Mantua with Prince Don Vincenzo Gonzaga.
The Pope has again entrusted the affairs of the Palatinate concerning Cardinal Muti to the Congregation.
We are informed from Naples that there is a general muster there, the Battalion has been summoned in the same kingdom, 13,000 foot and 3,000 horse. Twenty-four new artillery pieces have been transported to the army. The extraordinary cavalry is to be given arms by the royal chamber.
Yesterday morning a courier from Genoa passed through here on his way to Naples to solicit the marching of the Prince Santriano with his troops. He brought news that the Genoese had conquered Garesio and marched on towards Ceva, whither another 800 men have been sent.
We understand that the king of Spain has appointed Don Carlo Colonna, governor of Camerijck [Cambrai], as General of Cavalry in the state of Milan for as long as the war in Italy lasts, and awarded him an intrado of 4,000 crowns.

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18/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 128 (19 December) with news from the River Weser, Amsterdam, Vienna, Sopron, and Prague.

RIVER WESER: The Count of Anholt and Colonel Gallas are quartered in Minden. Anholt’s troops have mostly left the territory of Brunswick, the troops passed through Minden, whither is yet unknown. Most of the infantry is quartered in towns in the County of Schamburgh.
The king of Denmark is still at Nieuborgh in person. We hear no more of any skirmishing. Mansfeld keeps to the ecclesiastical territory of Osnabrugh, has received more men by ship, and expects still more. Both sides are still recruiting troops.

AMSTERDAM: The Duke of Buckingham has arrived in The Hague from Rotterdam by way of Delft and is lodged in the house of the Lord of Opdam. He was received with great magnificence.

VIENNA: There is nothing to tell here except that there is a common cry that the journey to Ulm has again been postponed a little, although many things have been sent thither, and some that were already on the water have been shipped back. The cause is said to be that the Elector of Saxony dares not leave his territory due to the dangerous time of war, so has excused himself to his imperial majesty. From Oedenburgh [Sopron] we have concerning the Hungarian diet that a week ago Lord Count of Serin, Ban of Croatia, made a magnificent entry with 500 pairs of cavalrymen, hussars and hajduks, and many wagons, as well as trumpets and shawms. Last Sunday his princely grace Archduke Ferdinand Ernest, the eldest imperial prince, kept his first public table in Oedenburgh, accompanied by a throng of the foremost Hungarian lords, who escorted his princely grace to the table. He gave his hand to the Hungarian lord estates, first the Lord Palatine and then the other lords, then took the hand water and placed it on the table, where a throng of Hungarian lords waited upon him.
The next Monday the Hungarian lord estates took counsel in the town hall continually from early in the morning to 4 o’clock in the afternoon, also holding counsel on the Feast of St Martin and the following days, but not so late, only till noon. We still do not know when this diet will conclude, and it is much to be feared that the journey to Ulm will be delayed for his imperial majesty will not leave here until everything is rightly settled, so this diet could last another three weeks. Lady Budiani and her son are daily expected at Oedenburg. She seeks his imperial majesty’s pardon of her son for his fathers misdeeds.
All we hear of Bethlen Gabor is that he is at Cashow in Upper Hungary, but it is said that he has returned to Transylvania. Concerning the Turk all is very quiet.
The newly elected Palatine Lord Esterhasy daily holds free table, and more than ten Hungarian eimers of the best wine are drunk daily. The praiseworthy Upper Hungarian lord estates have again made a declaration to his imperial majesty at Oedenburgh, urging the redemption of their land, and it is said delaying all good means, hoping to achieve some benefit. We also have from Oedenburgh that it has been decreed there that good watch be taken to keep out foreign persons coming from any infected place, while the infection is still growing here and there, and lodgings are scarce.
We also hear that his imperial majesty has sent the Lord of Reckx from his court council into the Empire. For what purpose is unknown.
On St Martin’s day the old Lord of Karrack gave a midday meal for all the foremost of the court and Hungarian lords, treating them magnificently, and with some musketeers firing a salvo for a toast.

OEDENBURGH [SOPRON]: The Hungarian Diet might last another fortnight, and there is good hope his imperial majesty’s eldest son will be crowned here.
Bethlen Gabor has invited his imperial majesty and the Elector of Bavaria to his feast that is to be held in Cashaw on 22 February. He has sent his brother to Briga to welcome the bride there and accompany her hither.
After a long illness, Lord Secretary Pucher passed to God two days ago, and his exequies were held today.

PRAGUE: Concerning the peasants who killed the Lord of Wartenbergh and his wife, several cavalry companies are expected from Bavaria, to fetch the peasants and the Radelsovers to prison. Over 3,000 peasants have assembled, resolved that in so far as they are attempted by force, they will defend themselves and cleave together, with more arriving every day. Meanwhile they have secured Marckersdorff, a well situated and a good place, so that the cavalry will not be able to come at them without notable damage.

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17/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 127 (17 December) with news from Salisbury, Irun, Flanders and Brandenburg.

SALISBURY: Our English fleet put to sea at 4 o’clock in the morning on 17 October with a good wind, divided into three squadrons.
The first squadron, the Admiral’s, was four regiments in thirty ships. Firstly the Duke’s Regiment, 999 soldiers in nine ships. Secondly the Marshal’s Regiment of 1,002 soldiers in seven ships. Thirdly the Sergeant Major General’s Regiment of 1,009 soldiers in seven ships. Fourthly, Colonel Borra’s Regiment of 1,036 soldiers in seven ships. Besides the soldiers, the ships also carried 2,093 seamen or mariners.
The Admiral’s second squadron was 31 ships with three regiments. Firstly Baron Valentia’s Regiment of 1,003 soldiers in nine ships. Secondly Colence’s Regiment of 1,003 soldiers in seven ships. Thirdly, Colonel Harwod’s Regiment of 1,012 soldiers in twelve ships, with besides the soldiers 1,765 mariners.
The third squadron, the Rear Admiral’s, was thirteen regiments. Firstly Colonel Rich with 985 soldiers in seven ships. Then Colonel Conwat’s Regiment of 1,015 soldiers. Thirdly Colonel Bruce with 1,008 soldiers in seven ships. There were also nine large ships of mariners, who in this squadron were 1,833. These were some of the ships of Holland. Reinforcements are being sent after them from Plymouth. This is how the aforesaid squadrons sailed out.
These fleets made headway and came to Calis Malis [Cadiz] in Spain on All Saints’ Day, where they at once put 1,000 men ashore with 300 draft horses to draw the artillery, but the Spaniards being aware of them marched out against the English, and gave battle, and defeated them, driving many into the water to their ships, and the fleet sailed away and departed, seeing that there was no chance for them in Spain, for they found the Spanish blades so whetted that they left some of their tails behind.
Preparations are now being made in England for another fleet or armada.

IRUN, November: About midnight on 3 November an unusually large storm arose in these parts, and more than sixteen ships were lost about ten miles from here, among them four Dutch ships that had been to Norway for the fishery. Two of them washed up at S. Juan de Lus; the third sank off S. Sebastiaen with all hands, some of the wares being salvaged; the fourth put into Porto de Questariae, it is said with cargo worth 24,000 ducats. In the city of Bayona the water washed away many bridges, chains, and a bulwark. The damage is estimated at 10,000 ducats.
They write from Lisbon that a ship from Hamburg arrived thereabouts, with another found at sea with no more than one boy still aboard, laden with fish. He relates that the Turks captured this ship and another eight, likewise laden with fish, and the great wind enabled the ninth to escape the Turks.

FLANDERS: The rebel Gueux governor of Ysendyck, not being satisfied to be in rebellion against his lawful sovereign prince, attempted by treachery to bring the town of Grevelinghe [Gravelines] into the hands and command of the enemies and rebels of Holland, to which end he sought to corrupt a corporal and some soldiers who were in that town. But the corporal being faithful and loyal to his lord thought to himself that deceiving a deceiver is no dishonesty, and so made the matter known to the governor of the town, and so followed his counsel in this matter that when this governor at a set time came from Calais by night to treat with this corporal not far from Grevelinghen concerning the delivery of the town, the corporal with the aid of those he had ready captured him, and some of those with him, and brought them into the town of Grevelinghen, where they wished to be, though in another manner, and there this bird sits captive.

MARGRAVIATE OF BRANDENBURG, 18 November: It is quiet in these quarters, and since the Duke of Friedlandt took both ecclesiastical territories it is very quiet there too.
One who was at Brunswick brings news that the Circle Diet has begun there, so that those of the Elector of Saxony, Meckelburgers, Brunswickers, and two others have spent three days in counsel. Those of Brandenburg were still expected there. Those of Saxony sent a messenger homewards, but soldiers took his letters from him. The messenger returned and informed them. The envoys of Saxony urged a Brunswick Lieutenant to make restitution, but he referred them to the Duke of Wolffenbuttel.
The men who are to serve under Duke Christian are gathering around Wolffenbuttel. The city of Magdeburg has also raised troops, who are marching to the city in troops or 30 or 40 and more on this side of the Elbe.

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16/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 126 (17 December) with news from Dunkirk, Vienna, and Venice.

DUNKIRK: Two ships of the Winocxberghen Admiralty have brought some enemy ships into Dunkirk and Nieupoorten.
One ship was laden with 90 chests of sugar and 12,000 guilders, carrying the Schout of Doevre who was captured. The second contained 60 lasts of herring. The third was laden with shingles. The fourth was an English ship that was sailing from Calais to Doevres [Dover], with various passengers, among them the Antwerp mail who was carrying many thousand guilders in gold, which the seamen took from him, so praise God our ships bring in good prizes every day.
There are over 180 prisoners in our prison, and many more at Dunkirk. The prisoners all around are so full that many have had to be sent to Ypres, Veurne, Bruges, and elsewhere.

VIENNA: After as was stated in our last the grievances communicated by the praiseworthy Hungarian Lord Estates had been corrected by the Lord Palatine, they were again redrafted, and last Sunday were submitted to his imperial majesty after he had heard Holy Mass. That afternoon and the next day the Privy Council as well as the Court Chamber and Council of War consulted, and it is thought his imperial majesty deliberated and decided to return them to the praiseworthy estates, against which the praiseworthy estates of Hungary hastily took his imperial majesty’s proposition under deliberation, and his imperial majesty is daily informed of what is decided. Among other things, everything appertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, in particular the thirty offices and other dependencies of the chamber of Hungary will again be appropriated to the praiseworthy Hungarian estates and the Hungarian chamber, as formerly, will freely and alone supply the frontier places, that all German high and low officers of his imperial majesty are to depart thence, and only native Hungarians serve there. Last week the Feast of St Emerici, king of Hungary, was celebrated at Oedenburgh with two Vespers, preaching, and magnificent services of Holy Mass, their imperial majesties attending with great devotion. Today her grace the Lady Palatine was received in Oedenburgh with great triumph and pomp. Two days ago Lord Nadasti Paul hosted other considerable Hungarian lord estates and treated them magnificently, where there was great jollity. At this rate, how quickly this diet will conclude cannot yet be known, but it is hoped it will be over in a fortnight. Afterwards his imperial majesty will return here, and meanwhile as not only wood and hay and straw are not to be had in Ulm, and the lodgings are proving too small, it is said that the Deputation Diet will be transferred thence to Wirtenburg or another imperial city.
There is a common cry here that at Ofen [Buda] more than 1,000 houses have burned, as well as many Turks and Turkesses, so that there is great fear and sadness. At Oedenburgh some fire began but it was at once extinguished without notable harm. Otherwise nothing is heard of the Turk and Bethlen Gabor but that they remain and declare themselves quite quiet. His grace Lord Count Slavata of his imperial majesty’s privy council is travelling to Passauw while the cathedral chapter will hold a chapter this coming St Martin’s to apprehend the proposition of the bishopric for the young imperial prince.

VENICE, November: They write from Genoa that as the Spanish resident ambassador has seen that the couriers are obstructed by water and by land, he has had four tartanes, which are like galleys, made ready to carry the courier via Corsica and through the islands Majorca and Minorca to Spain, and has already dispatched a courier thither. The Genoese army has not yet passed over the River Pieve due to the heavy rain. The Duke of Savoy is at Mondovi with 7,000 foot and 600 horse to defend his state.
We have from France that more and more preparations are being made for internal war against the Huguenots. On 7 November they pronounced the last Declaration.
At Dieppe a conjurer was burned, who confessed that he had caused the storm and wind when Halberstadt and Mansfeld departed from France.
We are informed from Milan that the Spaniards have much damaged the houses in Verua with their bombardment, but there are nevertheless many sconces and retirades still to take. In the army mortality is getting the upper hand, so that at headquarters Don Philippo Spinola, Don Gio de Cardenas, Don Fernando de Guevares and others were much enfeebled. A bridge is being built at Pontectura to secure the navigation and victuals.
Baron Pappenheim has gone from Riva to the Governor of Milan’s camp to get new aid, and Riva is being provided with new fortifications.

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12/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 125 (10 December) with the imperial proposal to the Hungarian diet, and news from Vienna, Madrid, Rome and 's-Hertogenbosch.

THE IMPERIAL PROPOSAL TO THE HUNGARIAN DIET: A short extract from the proposition his imperial majesty presented to the diet at Oedenburg [Sopron] on 14 October.
1. The kingdom of Hungary having endured great persecution, his imperial majesty desires the advice of the estates concerning how the kingdom is to be maintained in peace, which they should not fail to provide and maintain.
2. That the mandates or orders of his imperial majesty should now be better respected than previously, and those infringing them punished in earnest.
3. The sin of polygamy being contrary to sacred matrimony and to divine and human law, how and in what manner those guilty of it should be punished that almighty God have no cause to punish the country.
4. For the repair of the fortifications against Canisa, the towns agreed to grants in 1608, as well as the payment of the garrisons, which are for the welfare of the kingdom, for which his imperial majesty has advanced great sums of money from the contribution of the hereditary lands to his chamber and table, and other money and victuals.
5. As it is very harmful to keep great acquaintance with the Turk, the articles of the year 1563 should be reinstituted and those infringing them earnestly punished.
6. As freebooters make the roads very uncertain, which might easily provoke the Turk to break the peace concluded at such trouble and expense, in what manner such freebooters and their helpers are to be prosecuted in earnest.
7. To provide the frontier posts with gunpowder at the lowest cost, saltpetre is not to be sent out of the country, but to be kept for domestic use.
8. Since the mill that has been built obstructing the River Rab, so that the moat has dried up, opens access to the enemy, deputised commissioners are to see how it might be necessary to change the mill, and the ditches are to be cleared by the subjects of the commune of Sopron, so that the river again take its former course.
9. The article against the deceivers’ thirtieth shall be erected, renewed and enforced.
10. As tardiness in the collection of the contribution has caused great harm, the articles concerning this will be renewed and observed.
11. Despite the security of highways and roads being necessary to the country, it is daily attested that highway robbers do great harm to travellers and merchants, so the articles decreed will be observed and enforced.
12. In conclusion, his imperial majesty commands that the restitution ordered by the previous diet should be fully completed.

VIENNA: They write from Upper Hungary that the Poles and Tatars have plundered far into Turkey and done great harm.
A Hessian envoy lately passed through here to his imperial majesty. His business is not yet known.
Lady Setschin has presented six very fine coach horses to her majesty the empress and a riding horse to his imperial majesty.
The co**se of Lord Budiani will be buried tomorrow with great magnificence, to which many great lords have been summoned.

MADRID: Letters from Malaga say that because of the great tempest General Don Frederico de Toledo and Don Juan Faxardo were outside the harbour there with seventy ships returning from Brazil. They were obliged to sail for their safety.

ROME: At Palermo a Feluca arrived from Malta with news that the galleys of the Republic had taken a Turkish vessel on which many slaves were found, who had been on the Maltese galleys recently overpowered by the galleys of Biserta.
There is news from Turin that Cavallier Muti, a Roman in the service of the Duke of Savoy, invaded Monferat with his cuirassiers and some infantry, encountered 500 cavalry of whom 200 were killed and 60 captured, the rest put to flight.
We have from Spain that in the Catalonian Sea a richly laden English merchantman has been captured by the Spanish galleys of the Strait of Gibraltar.

’S-HERTOGENBOSCH: On the evening of the last of November my lord of Ouwen (son of the noble Lord of Grobbendoncq etc.) went out with his company, together with 100 infantry, to Ravesteyn, where the next morning he engaged and defeated the enemy, bringing back 28 prisoners to this city, but failing to take the boat that was said to be carrying the money for a month’s pay for the Ravesteyn garrison.

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10/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 124 (10 December) with a letter from Tilly, and news from Würzburg, Kreuznach, Neuenhof, and Cologne.

TILLY’S LETTER TO THE PRINCE OF FULDA, 5 November: Particular tidings of the victorious battle given to the king of Denmark by the most illustrious lord Count Jean t’Serclaes of Tilly, Baron of Montigny, Balastre, Marbais, etc., drawn from a letter of the same Count of Tilly’s to the Prince of Fulda [Johann Bernhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg] dated from Ressing on 5 November 1625.
Gracious lord, I could not fail to add how, on All Saints’ Day [1 November], I took the castle and stronghold of Calenberg by agreement, and yesterday, 4 November, battled with the enemy who assaulted my quarter. Those killed in the battle included Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Colonel Obertrout, and several hundred cavalrymen, whose dead bodies I had brought into Calenberg with me. I captured two lieutenant colonels and three cavalry commanders. Many of the enemy drowned in the River Lohem. Many banners and ensigns have been handed over to me by my men. In so far as I can tell, nobody [else] of note died, but some were injured. At Ressing, 5 November.

WÜRZBURG, 18 November, and CREUSENACH [BAD KREUZNACH], 22 November: After a nobleman called Obertrout, born near Mainz, had been driven from the Palatinate together with the Palsgrave, Mansfeld and Duke Christian of Brunswick, he joined himself to the king of Denmark, becoming that king’s lieutenant general. He had thought, with 2,000 horse, to take hold of a certain quarter of the Lord of Tilly’s, who fighting with him very valiantly for a little time retained the victory. The said Obertrout was injured and captured, but died of his wounds, as too die the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. The lieutenant colonels, cavalry commanders, and other prisoners, say that at least 500 men died at that place, with many noblemen. Many drowned in the water. We took five standards.
After this battle the Count of Tilly marched to Hildesheim, to place a garrison there, but those within refused, so that it is not yet known what followed.
The Prince of Walsteyn or Duke of Fridlandt, having passed Bamberg and Würzburg with a most select army, and joined with General Tilly, has taken the whole bishopric of Halberstadt (where there have always been some religious and Catholics) and the whole archbishopric of Magdeburg.
His is in person in Halle in Saxony. He is most zealous for his imperial majesty and religion, having lately built a new convent for the Augustinian Friars in Bohemia, and provided means for its foundation.
By this, dear friend, the unfortunate ends can be seen of all who rise up, rebel and envy the emperor and the House of Austria, as is also apparent from the poor palsed-out Frederick, who without land or sand has become a poor refugee in Holland among the rebellious receivers of all scum and villains, as likewise the Margrave of Tourlach, with wife and children, in Geneva, having left a son at Hoochporten near Friburg in Preslauw, let alone Mansfeld and Halberstadt, both of whom seem (after the resolution of the Gommarists) to be predestined everywhere to be defeated, and in my opinion will be defeated some more, as the Catholic League was last August extended for another five years, to the great advancement of his imperial majesty and the Catholic Religion in the Palatinate, where no religion except the Roman Catholic is now admitted, and all the ministers deposed, and indeed many villages already catechised, confessed and communicated, praise God.
It were to be wished that your neighbours, the Hollanders, rebelling against their own king and the House of Austria, might open their eyes, and ripely regard how they are tyrannised over by their States, who without any lawful authority have interposed themselves into government by force and fraud. Indeed they themselves see clearly that God is against them on water and on land. May God convert them, and grant us eternal salvation. Farewell.

NEUWENHOFF CASTLE [SCHLOSS NEUENHOF], 11 November: A letter written to the illustrious Prince Philippus Adolphus [Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg], Bishop of Würzburg, Duke of Franconia, Prince of the Empire, etc.
As we do not know whether the Lord General Tilly has touched on any special circumstances in his news, we send the same to your princely grace, etc. On General Tilly’s side the dead include an infantry lieutenant, two cavalry corporals, two regimental adjutants, with another fifteen cavalry troopers and landsknechts. Among the wounded are Colonel Cortenbach and cavalry commander Schlamitzki, but we have good hope that they will keep their lives. Many of the enemy drowned.

COLOGNE: The imperialists have taken Tessa and the bridge over the Elbe. Also, the king of Denmark has sent to the emperor to reach agreement. He will presumably not renounce one heller of the companions who set him to work, as he did some years ago, when he besieged the city of Brunswick and the Beggarly Hollanders drove him thence.

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05/12/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 123 (3 December) with news of the failure of the Cadiz expedition.

MADRID, 14 November: In the night a courier arrived from Cadiz bringing news that on 6 November 6,000 infantrymen and 300 horse presented themselves to disembark, which the English Armada had put ashore on the island. Seeing this, Don Fernando Giron, who was in the city, at once sent 200 musketeers to welcome them, and wake them up, as they effectively did, but the English presenting opposition, the said Don Fernando marched out in person with another 400 musketeers, and attacked again with such resolution and courage that he disconcerted the mass, who put on hareskins, running to their ships, leaving 400 English dead at the place, and in the haste and fury of running to their ships, at least as many again drowned and become food for fishes, with loss of their reputation and honour.
At last on 8 November the armada departed from the bay or harbour, their rearguard was bravely engaged by the Duke of Fernandino, who vexed them not a little with his galleys, but tormented with a strong contrary wind, had to put in to Puerto de Santa Maria. We are also informed that on the same day, 8 November, General Larrazpuru Biscayno departed from Lisbon with his armada of 44 ships, and his majesty had ordered that Don Juan Faxardo should likewise depart from Malaga with 20 galleons returned from Brazil. His majesty showed himself so courageous in this small assault that he has resolved to march to Andalusia in person. Men are being raised and an army formed in Spain, and the Count of Olivares has been appointed Captain General of Cavalry.
Don Agostin Mexia as Captain General of Infantry has departed for Lerena, which is to be the place of arms. Don Diego de Mexia, Maestro de Campo General, has already departed for Andalusia. Juan de Pedrosso, General of Victuals, has also departed.
The Secretary Juan de Galdas, Pagador General [Paymaster General]; Sebastian de Olçaga, Contador [Comptroller]; it is said Hortuno de Hugarte will be Veedor General [Inspector General].
We are also informed that his majesty has ordered Don Pedro de Toledo to leave at once for Perpinian [Perpignan]; the Count of Lemos for Galicia, who left at once.
The Marquis of Bedmar to Alcanta, who also left at once.
The Marquis of Los Velez to Murcia y Carthagena.
Count de la Puebla to Seville, to be Superintendent of the armada being prepared there, who also left at once.
Don Diego de Toledo will raise men on the lands of the Priory of San Juan.
ANGLI caudati, praescidit ISERIA [sc. IBERIA?] caudam,
Quid DANO superest? Mors nisi & interitus.

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