Nieuwe Tijdinghen

Nieuwe Tijdinghen The newspaper published in Antwerp 400 years ago by Abraham Verhoeven

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 64 (8 June) with news of Tilly's success in Hesse.HESSE: News of how his excellency the Gen...
12/06/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 64 (8 June) with news of Tilly's success in Hesse.

HESSE: News of how his excellency the General Count Tilly retook the foremost places there, and cut off the passage of Duke Christian of Brunswick, drawn from a creditworthy account of which the copy is here printed, translated from High German into our Dutch speech. The daily tidings before this brought, and continue to bring, how the peasants of Hesse opposed the imperial soldiery, and many were defeated, which may be the cause that Duke Christian of Brunswick marched into Hessian territory, to disturb and prevent the contentment and enjoyment of the imperial troops.
The consequences will be seen from the following account:
We would not keep from your worship how as soon as his messenger to us had again departed, Adjutant Boromer came here, sent by his excellency from Hessian territory to the Lord Count of Anholt, promising as soon as he returned to bring news that was still being kept secret. Among other things he says that in Hesse Aldendorff, Rottenburch, Eszwech, Hirsvelt and a town between Rotenburch and Hiersfeldt have been won, and all the peasantry, Reformed and soldiers found there struck down, and the mayor of Rotenborch taken prisoner. Several others will be hanged. His excellency’s quarter is currently lodged in Hessian territory, near Esbeg under Hirszvelt, and will remain there until the adjutant returns. His excellency intends to lodge between Munden and Cassel.
In this skirmish, the young Count Hoffmeester was captured. Also a captain, and a doctor from Cassel. And a captain and a lieutenant are to be hanged. The peasantry of the four towns, with the Reformed and the Officers who have been captured, were disarmed together with the citizenry, not allowing them even to keep a knife. We yesterday got 2,000 rapiers, as well as the banner of Duke Christian or Halberstadt’s commissary.
Lieutenant Colonel Waldt lies at Eswegh, and it is said his excellency and Walsteyn have cut off the passage of Duke Christian or Halberstadt.
The provisions of corn, wine, meal and suchlike that the Landgrave of Hesse had at Roodenburch, Aldenburch, and Hirszvelt, have now come into his excellency’s hands.
Yesterday 30,000 loaves were sent to the army from Fulda. Great oxen and cows can be bought a thaler apiece, there was so much b***y.
Likewise one can by six sheep for a thaler, and furthermore gained even greater b***y, and the said adjutant showed his bloodied sword, with which he had cut off a captain’s head.
The mayor of Hirszveldt was stabbed, but the apothecary, who was rich, has been captured.
And he related it for certain that as the enemy is lodged at Wolfshaghen, which is too close to us although it is three miles away, the Lord Lieutenant Colonel Count Spor, who currently has his quarters at Corbach, is day and night sending about a hundred cavalrymen to Wolfshaghen to see whither that enemy, and the Count of Solms, intend to go.
New cavalrymen are constantly being sent thither, and within a week we will have news.

MARSBURG, 20 May: There is currently fresh news that the aforesaid count’s regiment has been wholly dispersed.

ANOTHER: Colonels Erwite and Lindtlo have routed five companies of Danish soldiers by the River Weser and taken four banners. This is what has happened here.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 63 (8 June) with news from Thuringia (x3), Cologne, Rome, Wroclaw, Venice, Aschersleben, Br...
10/06/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 63 (8 June) with news from Thuringia (x3), Cologne, Rome, Wroclaw, Venice, Aschersleben, Brandenburg, Alte Markt, Stolberg, and Upper Hesse.

THURINGIA, 18 May: The Count of Merode and his men are still lodged in the villages subject to Gleich and Weimar. He is asking Erfurt for 100,000 guilders, or quarters, even though the Duke of Friedlant had granted the town of Erfurt safeguard for a sum of money, which was distributed to the imperial soldiery by grant of the council.

THURINGIA, 19 May: The head or Amtman of Friedenwalt came from Hirschveldt to read agreement with his excellency Tilly and deliver the town to him, and agreement was reached towards the evening of the same day, 18 May. When the imperial troops entered there had bot been time enough for the Landgrave’s troops to evacuate the town, so many of the Landgrave’s men were cut down. Tilly’s men began to plunder the town, but a prohibition was immediately issued and proclaimed, on bodily punishment, of harming any. But hereabouts outside the town, many villages and lordly houses were robbed and plundered, and the soldiers took many horses, oxen, cows, and sheep, sending them away by night, and making their way to Fulda. Where they will march next, time will tell.
Mad Halberstadt and his men have marched back to their old quarters at Nordheym, Gottingen, and Munden. It is said the king of Denmark has marched with his army.

COLOGNE: Recently, near Lippstadt, a Duke of Weimar was captured who had been lieutenant colonel in the Danish army. He had come from Soest, but with what intention is unknown.

ROME: His holiness has travelled to Castel Gandolfo, where he is to remain some days. Cardinal S. Susanna and Constable Colonna have departed for Loreto.
They write from Spain that three weeks ago there was another great flood, due to the rain, that has done great damage.

BRESLAU: On 11 May the imperial proposition was made here.
His imperial majesty firstly requests the princes and estates of the territory for 150,000 Reichsthalers as travelling money or expenses for his journey to the imperial diet in Nuremberg.
Secondly, 150,000 thalers to maintain and preserve the Hungarian frontier places or towns.
Thirdly, 150,000 Reichsthalers to pay the imperial army in the Lower Saxon Circle.
Fourthly, that the newly recruited troops that the territorial estates have raised be given to imperial service for three months, and maintained and paid.

VENICE, 15 May: On Sunday the soldiery of his holiness arrived at Lake Como, to sail to Riva.
The Republic of Genoa has sent many soliders to the Riviera of Ponentte, because the Duke of Savoy has 2,000 men, with some artillery pieces, around Mondovi, Ceva, and other places, who had been at S. Remo and robbed and drove away 500 head of livestock there.
They write from Spain that Don Piedre de Toledo has been appointed General of the Fleet, and Don Diego de Massia General of Cavalry in the Low Countries.

ASCHERSLEBEN, 15 May: News has come here from Colonel Altringer that Colonel Fuchs with most of the king of Denmark’s army and Mansfeld’s remaining men wish to besiege the town of Zerbst and our sconce at Dessau, and we understand that the king of Denmark intends to attempt the imperial city of Goszlaer, so we have to watch on two sides to resist them, but praise God it is good that Colonel Gall Pieter’s Croats and Colonel Merode’s 6,000 Walloons are at work here, while the Duke of Holsteyn is mustering his half regiment in the territory of Hesse, and the other half will also be mustered there within the fortnight.
Duke George of Lunenborgh and Frants Albrecht of Saxony have also travelled to the regiment to muster in the Wesserau.
His excellency the Count of t’Serclaes Tilly and Mad Halberstadt pursue one another near Gottinghen and Northeimb. They cannot well meet, Mad Halberstadt retreating hither and thither, and it being hard to bring together sufficient victuals to feed such large armies, for the land is everywhere consumed and despoilted.
Further, there was such a great storm, that lightning hit a powder tower in Gottinghen, which did great harm.

MARGRAVIATE OF BRANDENBURG, 18 May: Mansfeld still lies at Havelbergh, his remaining infantry doing great damage thereabouts. His cavalry and infantry were mustered, and are daily led to frontier places, to occupy the passages.
The Bishop of Halle was at Wolfenbüttel, and is again at Tangermundt, which is being strongly fortified.
They write from Amsterdam that two West Indies Company ships had arrived from Guinea, bringing news that both the Admirals Lamb and Vrom had besieged the Castle de Mina in Guinea, but had been surprised by the Blacks there and driven off with great losses to the Hollanders, and that Admiral From was among those killed.

ALTE MARKT: Things are not going well, as the land is being much despoiled by the soldiers. They write from Brandenburg that Mansfeld’s troops desire to depart thence, while the electoral troops are coming to the territory of Havelbergh. It is said Mansfeld wishes to march his troops to Meckelenborgh and Pomerania.

STOLBERG: There is news that the king of Denmark’s troops are gathering around Wolfenbüttel, and Colonel Fuchs has established a camp near Tangermunde, where he is strongly ensconcing himself, so it seems that the enemy will not quit the River Elbe. There is also news that Mansfeld’s troops intend to mutiny, and march to Meckelenburgh.

THURINGIA: Now as the town of Erfurt had given Merode’s troops 50,000 Reichsthalers, they have left there and marched to Donua and Ghleichsich. They have arrived in at Franckenhausen in Schwartzenburg territory, and established their muster place there.

UPPER HESSE: His excellency the Lord General Tilly is lodged with his army in Amt Rodenbergh and thereabouts, at Bebern, Breydenbach, between Hirschfelt and Rodenburg. He has already taken back the towns of Fulda and the River Weser, plundering some of them.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 62 (8 June) with news from England, France, Rome, Brandenburg (x2), Venice, Hirschfeld, Hes...
08/06/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 62 (8 June) with news from England, France, Rome, Brandenburg (x2), Venice, Hirschfeld, Hesse, Fulda, Franconia, Meissen and Prague.

ENGLAND: The parliament does not desire to grant the king any subsidy until he consents that they call his favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, to justice.
In the parliament they have learned of a booklet that a doctor of medicine of the late King James has put out in print, in which he declares that this Duke of Buckingham poisoned the present king’s father, and they have taken information and find other indications so they are very diligent to call this duke to account, and are much amazed and also very malcontent that the king should so defend his favourite and not allow him to answer the points that the parliament has against him.
In the parliament they are busy with the examination of one of their Calvinist bishops, called the Bishop of Bangor, for the many abuses and villainies that he has committed, to wit, amongst other things, that for money he promoted stableboys, tapsmen, and suchlike learned men to the service of the church.
That he would not let some marry until they had given him money for it, even making some pay a hundred guilders.
That having called certain persons into his presence to examine them, with his fists he boxed their ears to instruct them in what they should say.
The world may take this as a mirror to follow the example of these Reformed Calvinist bishops, besides a Lutheran Reformed Mad Bishop.

FRANCE: Marshal D’urnano has been imprisoned with his two brothers and certain others.

ROME: A courier has come here from Barcelona bringing news that the Lord Cardinal Legate had lain sick with a fever for a fortnight and that of the 190 persons he took with him, only 40 are healthy, the rest all having died.
Don Emanuel of Portugal’s son arrived here, making his way to Malta to be received into the Order.
At Naples there were 6,000 soldiers ready to be sent to Spain to serve with the fleet.

MARGRAVIATE OF BRANDENBURG: Colonel Fuchs is still at Tangermundt, and Mansfeld at Brandenburg. It is said they will soon march onwards. The nobility of the territory, and the citizens and peasants, are dissatisfied with them, for they are completely despoiling the land.

VENICE: They write from Milan the Duca di Feria was still at Alessandria, where he had visited the Lord Conte Gio.Serbellone Duc de Alviso, the Prince of Ascoli, and other gentlemen. It is understood that the Duke of Alcala had travelled to Savoy, to treat of weighty affairs with the duke of the same.

HIRSCHFELD: Yesterday six troops of Merode’s cavalry showed themselves outside the town, sending envoys to ask for lodging, but they were refused. While Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse had previously made provision from the villages, th lieutenant colonel for his security took the House Eichen, and for three days demanded 1,000 pounds of bread, 7 voyers of beer, and several hundred pounds of meat, every day, which was agreed to.
We still expect two regiments of musketeers, also four companies of dragoons and three companies of cuirassiers.

HESSE: Yesterday the provisions Landgrave Wilhelm demanded were transported from Hirschfeld to Aula, and delivered there, and about midnight that night they marched thence to Grebenauw. What they intend is still unknown.
Yesterday at 8 o’clock, Mad Halberstadt’s 1,000 cavalrymen and 1,000 dragoons marched over Cassel. Anither 2,000 of Halberstadt’s men arrived by Fritzelar, determined to plunder and burn the town, at which the mayor and lords of the town begged mercy of Landgrave Maurice to prevent it, which was granted them, but within two days they had to produce enough money to recruit a regiment.

FULDA, 9 May: The Count of Merode’s Walloons, 8000 strong, have returned again, and are making their way and quarters through the territory, at Gist, Vacha, and Schmalkalden, and several hundred horse are lodged around Embteren Marckenzel, and Haselsteyn, and some at Schwantz, Buckhaun, Rodenkirchen, and other places. Those of Fulda have sent eleven wagons with provisions. It is understood that Halberstadt intends to come to the ecclesiastical territory of Fulda, so the Duke of Holsteyn intends to join with the Walloons.

BRANDENBURG, 10 May: Mansfeld has departed hence and lodged all his men in other quarters. He is returning to Havelbergh. The citizens of this city are now mounting guard themselves.
Naven, a town four miles from here, has burned down. It is said the garrison of cavalry lodged there set the town on fire, but much baggage burned too, so it is hard to believe the cavalry did it. They say the enemy did it.

FRANCONIA, 15 May: There is great perturbation concerning the assembly in the County of Wertheym, for on Monday a company of 150 horse and 50 foot raided Haybach, taking the Erbach castle and the place. Some were killed, and another company raided the lordship of Brenberghe, which it is said will be transported to Monsieur Tilly’s army.

MEISSEN, 17 May: Mansfeld is reinforcing himself again. He has joined with Colonel Fuchs and is again marching towards Zerbst.
The day before yesterday, the imperial soldiery burned down the little town of Roslouw, which belongs to the Countess of Zerbst, so that Mansfeld should not be able to ensconce himself there.

PRAGUE, 16 May: They write from Vienna that their imperial majesties will depart for Nuremberg after Corpus Christi, where the imperial diet is to take place.
Yesterday the imperial quartermaster and two foragers arrived here, to arrange places and lodgings for the court. The Bohemian Estates are gathering a lot of money for when his imperial majesty comes here.
Serini’s [Zrinski's] 1,000 Croats have arrived at Eger and the previous 500 horse under Lord Peter Gall are with Friedland’s army.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 61 [misnumbered 51] (5 June) with details about the prisoners and munitions captured at Des...
05/06/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 61 [misnumbered 51] (5 June) with details about the prisoners and munitions captured at Dessau Bridge.

ACCOUNT OF MANSFELD’S OFFICERS DEFEATED AND CAPTURED: Colonel Kniphausen, captured by Colonel Strozzi’s cavalry. Wolf Caspar Gerart of Creutzenach, reformed lieutenant colonel, captured by Monsieur Belano under Colonel Isolano. Watch commander Christoffel of Drauendorff under Duke Christoffel of Aldenburg’s regiment. Captain Johan Daniel of Waltmanshausen under the Delbisch Regiment. Captain Andreas Großmeyer under the Olbisch Regiment. Captain Hans Wincler under the Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg’s. Captain Johan Glickherfing under the Lord Administrator, captured under Iselano. Captain Fredrick of Heyden under the Holland Regiment. Captain Abram de Mere under Colonel Ebeldes, commissary general. Captain Georg Otto Bettrung under the Lord Administrator. Captain Voet under the Red Regiment, captured under Colonel Strotzy. Captain Vespasianus Scholbe of Walby, under Colonel Habrom. Captain Michiel Stanhel under the Lord Administrator, captured by Lord Gelb’s Regiment. Lieutenant Captain Claes Caerle of Lautz, captured by Lord Gelb’s Regiment. Lieutenant Captain Georg Sparwaldt, captured under Colonel Hebrom. Lieutenant Captain Peeter of Dilli. Captain Hans Georg Ranthe, captured under Colonel Isolano. Lieutenant Herlach of Bonhorsten, of the Holland Regiment of foot, captured under Colonel Isolano. Lieutenant Adam of Isendorff under Colonel Storling and Colonel Seratzo. Lieutenant Johan Rehmstet of Sanderhausen under the Duke of Saxony captured by Colonel Pechman. Lieutenant Jacob Munsz of Colonel Formitz. Lieutenant Michel Kler of Lord Frantz of Carel of Saxony. Lieutenant Gerart Flanck of Colonel Nieuhoff, captured by Colonel Schnesenberg. Lieutenant N. Scheffer, captured by Colonel Hebrom. Lieutenant Elias of the Holland Regiment captured by Nassau’s Regiment. Lieutenant Daniel Seneth from Ireland under the English Regiment, captured by the Coronisch Regiment. Henrick of Wiethen, Ensign of Captain Rudolff of Ausman under the Holland Regiment. Gerart, Ensign of Captain Hogrinch under the Holland Regiment. Ensign Vitti of Sienhoff under Captain Fredrick of Heyden under the Holland Regiment. Ensign Ernst Veit Thaler under Colonel Faren’s Regiment. Ensign Hendrick Gensz of Cassel, under the Duke of Saxony’s Regiment. Christoffel Fredrick and Ulrich Stat-tlandts of Oldenburch, both ensigns under Colonel Ferenci’s Regiment, captured by Colonel Corona. Ensign Jacob of Luthen under Duke Carel. Ensign Janhausen of Laudenburg under Colonel Kniphausen, captured by Colonel Geilb’s Regiment. Ensign Eberwein Henrinck of Hebull under the Holland Regiment, captured under Colonel Coenraert. Georg Albrecht of Hoff, Sebastiaen of Lutz of Kebrich, standard bearers of the Saxon Regiment, captured by Vesano’s Regiment. Ensign Jacob Heneckel captured under Colonel Hebron. Ensign Ernst Broedel of Scholler under Colonel Ferentz. Ensign Melchior of Hebelt under Captain Arnold Adriaen of Schellendorff, Freiherr, captured under Colonel Pechman. Ensign Carel of Buno of Captain Albrecht’s Regiment. Ensign Richard of Urman under the Holland Regiment. Ensign Adam Bernardt Bolluck of Buhna under Colonel Farnits. Ensign Jan Georg under the Holland Regiment, captured under Colonel Isolano. A young Lord of Dore, ensign under the Holland Regiment. Two ensigns captured by Cavalry Captain Meylant. A quartermaster of the Duke of Fritzen Aldenburg’s, captured by Colonel Isolano. Robert Grieff, a Scot, quartermaster to the lifeguard, captured by Colonel Caroni. Mathias Pfanner, forager of the German Life Company captured under Colonel Strozzi.
Furthermore, thirty-seven banners and four cornets were taken in this battle. Of the common soldiers there were three and a half thousand killed, and a thousand and a half captured, a total of 5,000 men besides the officers and commanders listed.

ACCOUNT OF THE MUNITIONS CAPTURED: 3 six-pounder fieldguns or quarter-culverins; 4 falconets; 4 mortars for explosives; 2 large petards; 32 barrels of powder; 5 large vats of powder; 75 hundredweight of match cord; 7 rows of all kinds of fireworks, seven hundredweight apiece; a hundredweight of ?herst; a kettle for dipping fireworks; 11 [‘aren/axen tot groeve stucken’]; 2 gun carriages; 4 wagons; 14 munition wagons of leather; 4 pairs of wheels for big guns; 15 wheels for other artillery; 2 anvils; 11 iron bars; 600 whistling balls, or hollow iron balls; 150 balls for quarter-culverins; 250 balls for falconets; 30 hundredweight of musket balls; 2 sails; 50 pairs of horse harness; 2 windlasses.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 60 (5 June) with news from Spain, Italy, Amsterdam, Prague and Germany.SPAIN: The declarati...
03/06/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 60 (5 June) with news from Spain, Italy, Amsterdam, Prague and Germany.

SPAIN: The declaration of war against England. The present king of England, while still a prince when his father was still alive, travelled to Spain, where the king showed him as great honour and care as has ever at any time been shown any foreign prince, and he departed with all friendship and promise to maintain friendship. Notwithstanding this, this prince, having returned to England, and becoming king there after his father’s death, equipped a great armada to the sea, as all the world knows, and without giving any knowledge or notice to the king of Spain of any cause why, sent this great fleet, provided with soldiers and warlike provisions, to Spain, and at Cadiz invaded the lands of the king of Spain as a public enemy. There, God be praised, this Armada’s success was proportionate to the justice of the enterprise, and the English were driven thence with harm and shame.
His Catholic majesty, seeing the great ingratitude, unprincely proceeding, and public injustice done him by the king of England (by the sole counsel of an evil Favourite), at Madrid in Spain on 6 May last past had war proclaimed against England, prohibiting all commerce between Spain and England, either directly or indirectly.
The king himself was not then in Madrid, but was due to arrive there a few days later and sent this order thither to be published.
They furthermore write from Spain that the king had commanded that no quartos or copper coin be minted for twenty years.
They also write thence that twelve great galleons were sent to the West Indies to help convoy the silver to Spain.

ITALY: Although there was some appearance of an agreement between the Duke of Savoy and those of Genoa, it seems that the Duke of Savoy will not bend to agreement, but besieged a little town, where the Genoese boldly beat him off, and he had to withdraw his troops.
Concerning the Valtelline, things are not as clear as was thought, for it seems another stick has been stuck in the spokes, and that the Venetians are not keen on the Agreement of the Valtelline, and meanwhile those who are there still continue to fortify.

AMSTERDAM: There is news here by a small ship or yacht from England that arrived from Surata in four and a half months that the English had a sea fight with the Portuguese, and that three English were lost. Furthermore that the fleet of twelve ships arrived in Amboyna badly damaged, with great want and many dead.
This yacht had been with two ships coming from Batavia, laden with pepper. It is presumed that Hormuz is again Portuguese.
Two ships from Guinea bring news that fifteen West Indies Company ships thought to seize La Mina [Elmina] Castle. Before getting there they were defeated and scattered on their voyage, with about 450 dead. These are the ships that left Puerto Rico in shame, losing one of the best ships of their armada, 250 lasts large with 38 guns and much ammunition.

PRAGUE: Five days ago the Lord Secretary from Friedland’s army arrived here, bringing the thirty-seven banners and two cornets recently captured, Mansfeld’s personal standard among them. He was at court yesterday, to present the banners to the Emperor on the General’s behalf. He made his way here via Dresden, and displayed the banners to the Elector, who hosted him and gave him a large cup.
Last Sunday Te Deum laudamus was sung in the churches for Mansfeld’s defeat.

GERMANY: The king of Denmark has sent some of his infantry to Mansfeld, so that Mansfeld can again enter the field, and it is to be thought he is very wise to do so, for he has reduced his own force and sent his men to the unfortunate Mansfeld, the quicker to be rid of them and avoid their mutinies for lack of money, for when they are dead they will not need paying.
Those of Hamburg having prepared a number of ships to sail to Spain with all sorts of provision, some warships from England, Holland and Denmark came to anchor in the mouth of the River Elbe so that neither cat nor dog can come out.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 59 (29 May) with news from Rome, Venice, Vienna (x2), Brandenburg and Thuringia.ROME: We ar...
29/05/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 59 (29 May) with news from Rome, Venice, Vienna (x2), Brandenburg and Thuringia.

ROME: We are informed from Spain that the king is at Barcelona, and has obtained all that he desired in the kingdom of Aragon. That kingdom alone will maintain 32,000 men, and the kingdoms together 140,000, besides the alliance they will conclude that in time of need the one kingdom will provide and pay 20,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry to assist the other. His majesty has appointed Don Diego de Messia, uncle to the Count of Olivares, as General of Cavalry in the Low Countries, the Prince Doria to command the new fleet of eight galleys to patrol the sea of Sardinia, and the Count of Monterrey as the Duke Alva’s successor in the kingdom of Naples.
We are informed from Naples that the captains there were busy filling their companies when news came from Calabria that about 8 o’clock in the evening on Palm Saturday there was a very big earthquake in that province, which did great damage not only in the town and bishopric of Catanzaro to the convents of St Dominic, St Augustine, and the Jesuits, but also in the town Nicastro to Castle Migliarina, with many houses, persons and cattle swallowed up. In Castle Gonsalco [sc. Girifalco?] only thirty houses remaine standing out of three hundred.
This week the meeting was held regarding the propagation of the faith, and it was decided that several ecclesiastical persons should be sent into the lands of the infidels to preach the Holy Gospel.

VENICE: Letters from Genoa say that five more infantry companies are being sent to Movi [Mondovi?], and others to other garrisons.
We are informed from Constantinople that the Bey of Negroponte had suffered great harm by several corsairs in the Archipelago. The French and English ambassadors urge that the harm done in the Mediterranean and other seas by the corsairs should be provided for. The Turkish defeat by the Persians is confirmed, and that the Pasha of Jerusalem advances.
At Aleppo several caravans laden with rich merchandise had arrived when a bid earthquake happened, sinking many houses and smothering many people.

VIENNA: At the moment there is nothing to report here except that his grace the Lord Count of Trautmansdorff has again returned here from the business of the Upper Palatinate.
His imperial majesty is mostly at Laxenborch, where he holds council and gives audiences, but her majesty the empress is at Baden. Yesterday morning five strong companies of Serini’s [Zrinyi’s] Croats, choice fine men, marched close by this city, with five more companies following them soon after.A young Lord Tilly is here, but nothing can be learned of his purpose.

MARGRAVIATE OF BRANDENBURG: Mansfeld is still at Brandenburg, his cavalry that took flight forcing their way into the villages of the margraviate for fear of their enemy. They go easy on them, for these cavalrymen prefer taking b***y to fighting. They left the infantry in the lurch, who will not soon recover.

VIENNA: On the Feast of Saints Philip and James just past the 1,100 Croats under the Count of Serin’s command broke camp from Inzerdorff and surrounding quarters and took their way to Moravia, with orders to hasten to join with Friedland’s army. There is a strong cry here that several thousand Turks are lately causing great fear, and whither they are aiming is not yet known. For this reason all the colonels of Cornori were lately here, to warn the court and to solicit the means needed for defence of the said places, to provide them with coin and victuals. A week and two days ago, while his imperial majesty’s lord constable, the Count of Mansfeld, was bringing a horse to try out in his imperial majesty’s presence, the horse shied and to avoid peril he had to dismount, but in doing so was thrown, trampled, and terribly wounded in the head, so there is slender hope of his recovery. His imperial majesty has decided to travel to Prague and then to Nuremberg on the sixth and fifteenth of the coming month of June. All the ambassadors, legates and petitioners will have to follow.

THURINGIA: It is given out as certain that it was Mansfeld’s aim, had he succeeded at Dessau Bridge, to surprise and plunder the city of Leipzig, as several of the captured colonels have declared. At present Mansfeld is reinforcing himself, and [intends] to join with the 3,000 Scots that have arrived at Hornborch and Colonel Fuchs. May God grant us peace.

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Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 58 (29 May) with news from Genoa and Upper Hesse.GENOA, 2 May: The two and a half million i...
27/05/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 58 (29 May) with news from Genoa and Upper Hesse.

GENOA, 2 May: The two and a half million in gold that lately arrived from Spain, not without peril on the sea, came in handy to pay the sodliery that this Republic has to maintain.
The Duke of Alcala has arrived here and is to travel to Spain by galley, as likewise Don Ieronymo Piementelli, Viceroy of Sardinia, to his government.
Don Gonzalo de Cordua has been left in Milan as Governor, replacing the Duke of Feria, who has been summoned to Spain.
A courier has arrived here from the king of Spain to the Republic and to his resident ambassador there, with orders that the alliance agreed between Spain and the Genoese be put into effect. But the Genoese are unwilling to trust the French, seeing that the restitution of the Valtelline is not being put into effect, and also that Prince Victorio has returned from Paris and been declared General in Italy for France, and is putting all his artillery, and troops, and ammunition in Mondovi, which gives rise to the Republic’s suspicion. Although there is little appearance they will achieve more than vaunts, lacking nothing but money, which the Venetians send them very slowly, despite having promised much money to the Savoyard, so the Genoese have little to fear. But not to be surprised, the Genoese are arming strongly, and have provided men and ammunition to all their towns of greater importance, and appointed governors who are noblemen of quality and experience, in whom they place their trust.
The town of Savona has been very well fortified, inside and out, and is under the governorship of Captain Ieronimo Spinola, as has Arbengar, where the commandant of the soldiery is Signor Rinaldo Spinola, who has served as a captain in the Low Countries.
In Vintimiglia, one of the enemy’s frontier towns, there is a very good garrison, and for six months there has been a commissary of the fortifications of the town and the castle, and the surrounding places, command over the soldiery being with Captain Signor Alexandri Sivori, who have sent out two Captains Corsi, with 200 musketeers, who by Mondovi took 150 livestock, large and small, and various prisoners, to the great harm of the land of Piedmont, which has suffered much damage throughout the winter from the troops of Colonel Benedicto Spinola.
Signor Remo, Noli and Vay, where Giovanni Bava Cattaneo is commissary, are also well provisioned.
The Maestro de Campo General Fra Lelio Pancratio has marched to Pieve, where the Republic’s soldiery are to rendezvous, with 14,000 soldiers, Italian veterans, besides the Trentines and High Germans of the Count of Loderen, and the regiments of the two princes of Gazzolo, of the House of Gonzaga, and Prince Ravastiero and Filippo Spinola, who have orders once they arrive to march to Ormea, a place that the Republic has taken from Savoy, where there are 1,500 troops lodged as garrison.
The Republic hs well provisioned all the towns and places they hold in the Riviera de Levante, and strengthened them with new fortifications. Towards the State of Monferat, the side on which the French first entered the country, the Republic is fortifying the strong Castle of Gavi with double fortifications, and consented 300,000 guilders for the purpose. Signor Andrea Sivori has been appointed as commissary general over the militia with authority over all the soldiery. They have a strong army in the field to subdue the enemy, should affairs not be accommodated to contentment and satisfaction.
They also expect the cavalry that Colonel Prince Gazolovis raised for the Republic, as well as the 7,000 men that his majesty of Spain undertook to send to the Genoese army for the invasion of Piedmont, whom the Republic are obliged to pay 50,000 crowns per month to maintain the 20,000 soldiers that his majesty must keep in the Duchy of Milan, with declaration that half of all the conquests that the Genoese make from Savoy will be shared with Spain.
By a courier coming from Spain we understand that the Pope’s troops are to be lodged in the Valtelline, and the Pope and the Emperor will mediate the difference between the Genoese and the Savoyards, so it is hoped agreement will be reached, and that the great forces of Spain and the Genoese will be employed to assist the Emperor in High Germany and [against] the rebels of the Crown of Spain. God grant that all be for the best.

UPPER HESSE: Now that the Count of Tilly’s army has returned to the ecclesiastical territory of Paderborn, the only news here is that Duke Christian [of Brunswick] is again to march to the ecclesiastical territory of Fulda. Two days ago, Merode’s men received orders out of Schmalkanden from the Duke of Holsteyn, that they should march out of the princely Hessian territory of Darmstadt and towards Herschfeldt, with the aim of overpowering the town of Pliforla (where the new Danish troops are lodged). How it will end, time will tell.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079962

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