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10/10/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 102 (10 October) with news from Holland, Verden, Nienburg, Franconia,

HOLLAND: Lord Gelrijck, the Count of Emden’s eldest son, has taken the town of Aurick near Emden in East Frisia from the Gueux, with all the castles and manor houses thereabouts.
This eldest son [Rudolf Christian?] is more inclined to the Emperor, but the youngest son, his brother [Ulrich?], is more inclined to the Dutch.

VERDEN: The Spanish ambassador, Freiherr Schoonbergh, a week ago left again for the Bavarian army. Before his departure, the king of Denmark received him in private audience for two hours. It seems he is willing to agree a treaty, the trumpeters still travelling here and there daily. The aforesaid ambassador has suggested a means to bring the town of Nienburg into neutrality, and the governor of Luneburg, Lord Julius von Bulouw, has arrived here to agree the conditions on either side.
On 3 September the town was besieged but not yet encircled, so they were still able to bring in as many victuals and men as they wished over the Weser bridge and by land. The besieged make strong sorties, having killed over 100 Bavarians on 10 September.
On 12 September the Duke of Weymar and his cavalry entered the town with money and provisions, but being attacked by the Bavarians lost over 120 horses, entering the town without further losses. Colonel Obertraudt is now his princely grace’s Lieutenant General. Lord Conrad Plats had this appointment and resigned at the prompting of his lord the Duke of Lunenburgh. He departed together with the Spanish ambassador.

REPORT OF EVENTS OUTSIDE NIENBURG: On 7 September the peasants of Brunswick as well as several Danish officials assaulted House Pfaffenbrag, where Schampier and Surach had been lodged with 100 musketeers, capturing sixty. Surach would not surrender. In this encounter another 100 musketeers from the Count of Anholt’s regiment were sent thither by the Oberwachtmeister the Lord of Gley, but most were killed and the Oberwachtmeister and officials were sent to Verden.
On 10 September the lord general crossed the Weser with 10 cavalry companies, to take the field towards Nienburg, and was faced with about 400 Danish horse. Advancing towards them, the Danes acknowledged their weakness and retreated, but notwithstanding thirty of their rearguard were killed, and several captured, among them Lieutenant Pfluge. Of Tilly’s only two were killed and a few injured.
On 13 September those of the town sallied out to the trrenches, disarming some.
On 14 September another sortie was made but was driven back into the town with losses.
On 15 September news came that the Brunswickers with some Danish officials had overrun the little town of Pomwer, in which a company of Anholt’s men had been stationed, killing all and as the citizens helped them the lord general is much disturbed.
On 17 September another 11 infantry companies entered the town, and on 18 September very early they made a strong sortie, but were so damagingly driven back that it is astonishing, and no more than two of ours died.
The town stands as it did, the soldiers inside bravely showing their diligence. So far our side has made little diligence or great efforts, except completing the trenches to under the walls, diverting the water from walls, and planting the guns, so now it will be in earnest. So far the besieged have had an open passage from one side of the Weser, by which they had all provision and succour.

FRANCONIA: Lately 3,000 horse and 2,000 foot had thought to cross the River Main at Miltenburgh, but were diverted, 2,000 foot and 1,000 horse from Rotenburgh to Kitsinghen, the other 13 companies of horse came hither from Paly, marching over the Odenwal through the County of Erbach. Some crossed the Main by Frankfurt, to march to the Duke of Friedlandt’s army. Some have already passed through Hessen, some are still in it. So a mighty force will gather in Lower Saxony for his imperial majesty. May almighty God grant them good success.
The famous merchant city of Jarislauw [Jarosław] in Podolia is said to have burned down on St Bartholomew’s Day in the payment weeks for the annual fair, to the loss of many millions of gold. The Jews, Armenians and Muscovites, who trade in Turkish wares, have suffered particualrly great losses, and as the fire began at night, little could be saved. The infection, praise God, lessen somewhat.

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08/10/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 101 (10 October) with news of a naval defeat of the Huguenots, and news from England.

DEFEAT OF THE HUGUENOTS AT SEA: As the Lord of Soubise, one of the heads of the Huguenots in France, had gathered together about thiry ships to rob and steal th egoods of the loyal subjects of the king on the sea coasts of France, in the manner of Huguenots and Beggars, the king brought together as many ships as he could, some his own, some sent to him from England and Holland, and with them forced Soubise to fight, not far from Rochelle, so that there was a naval battle in which thirteen of the Huguenot ships were sunk, some writing eleven, and the rest were captured or scattered, but not without harm to the king’s ships and men.
There were eight English ships, but no Englishmen aboard, for when they saw that they would have to fight the Brethren of their own Reformed Religion, they parted thence, delivering the ships and their guns into the hands of the French, who manned them with Frenchmen.
But the Hollanders did not scruple to fight against their Huguenot brethren, which gave no little scandal, nor will it be forgotten to mention it in books and sermons.
It is true enough that the brethren of Holland have lies ready for all occasions, and have now given out (to excuse this scandal) that God has granted them a fine victory, for Subise had thought to bring his ships to join with the Dunkirkers, which is a foolish ruse that will increase the scandal among their French brethen, not only being beaten by the Dutch brethren but also being lied about. We will see how they avenge themselves on their Dutch brethren.
Soubiese having been beaten had to flee to the little island of Oleron, and it is thought from there to Rochelle.
Letters that arrived in Antwerp from Holland on 5 of the current month of September [sc. October?] about the return of the Dutch from the West Indies give us to understand that some Portuguese ships have arrived in Holland from the West Indies, bringing several hundred of the Hollanders who had taken the Baya de Todos los Santos in the West Indies, so the Dutch now believe that they have left, being beter reformed than they were before, and so will better preserve their money from loss on wagers than they did before.
Some of the foremost Dutch captains have been kept hostage in the Baya until such time as the Portuguese ships are returned, with the agreed payment of the freight of bringing these Hollanders thence to Holland.
It is to be noted that Don Frederico, commander of the king’s armada in the Baya, had it proclaimed with trumpets that all who desired to enter the service of his Catholic majesty should be enlisted with conditions and pay as good as any others in his majesty’s service.
At this 200 or 300 decided to enter into his majesty’s service, and these not of the worst but of the best, an action to their honour and praise, having shown themselves so wise as to accept the service and grace of their own natural and lawful lord when the opportunity was offered, having left and quit the filthy and despicable name of rebels. They will be rewarded and promoted, each as they show merit.

ENGLAND: The armada has been made ready to sail, and the king had raised 20,000 pounds sterling from the city of London for it.
They also write that the Calvinists are very bitter against the Catholics, not letting them pass through the streets in peace, but calling after them, saying there go the papist dogs, and some throwing filth and stones at them. Some of the Calvinists who were put out of Antwerp are there doing their best to seduce Catholic Netherlanders that they find there to their Calvinist heresy, having already brought some so far as not only to be persuaded but to be brought to the heretical preachers of the Dutch Church, as they call it, in London, to become so reformed as to believe that Christ did not speak truth at his Last Supper, and that God would take innocent babes from their mother’s breast and cast them into hell. A fine reformation this, the devil himself could not have made a better.
We have from Naples that a lot more men, horse and foot, are being raised for Milan and Genoa, as also in Spain.
In Genoa it has been proclaimed that all born Frenchmen and Piedmontese are to leave the country.

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03/10/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 100 (3 October) with news from Amsterdam, Franconia, Achim, Cologne, Vienna, Prague and Thuringia, and an advert for a new poster.

AMSTERDAM: The late Prince of Orange left 32 bastard children, besides those he had with his concubine Miss V.M., whom he esteemed somewhat more.
To his acknowledged and subscribed bastards, he instructed in his will that each of the male persons receive 2,000 guilders annually, and each of the daughters 1,500 guilders annually, but to the children of his steadfast concubine he left more, them being predestined for more, having such a predestined mother.
Those of Holland and their friends of the League of Holland sought every means they could to incite the Turk against Christendom, and seeing they were unable to do it, as the Turk does not desire war with the Emperor, they have incited the so-called king of Sweden to make war upon the king of Poland. He has already invaded Livonia and taken three of the king of Poland’s towns there, to wit Rackenhuysen, Zelback and Duna.
They also brought Bethlen Gabor so far as to put another 28,000 men into the field, but he has sent to the Emperor to give him to understand that he does not desire to make war on him. It is presumed this too is intended against the king of Poland, and that those of the League of Holland have cooked it up to prevent the king of Poland from giving support to the Emperor.
The king of Poland is preparing two large armies, one of which he will command himself, the other to be commanded by the Prince of Poland.

FRANCONIA: The day before yesterday the Lord General Duke of Friedland was expected at Schweynfurt, and his men will break camp here this coming Monday and march against Lower Saxony. They are to take provisions for twelve days with them.

ACHIM NEAR BREMEN: The king of Denmark has garrisoned the town of Nieuborg with five infantry companies, and dug in strongly, and provided with guns. Three regiments are encamped outside the town. Every evening three or four cavalry companies patrol to keep watch against the Emperor’s men. Obertrout has also arrived with the king.
Lord General Tilly demanded the surrender of Reberg in the territory of Brunswick, and marched some men up to it, but as it is surrounded by marshes he had to leave it be.
Stolzenaw has been rendered to General Tilly by two captains, and now has an imperial garrison. At Peeters Haeghen, which is the headquarters in Wartem, there are 300 men. They are marching after the king of Denmark with such alacrity that they are only half a mile apart. The new fortifications of Bremen are being worked on vigorously.

COLOGNE: Anholt’s army is still in quiet in its former quarters, as are Mansfeld’s men, but their intentions are unknowable. The territory on either side of the Rhine is being to despoiled to the ground, and the closing of the licences is causing great dearth. The Croats and the Emperor’s men are still around Essen and Ampt Recklinghausen, awaiting their full pay.
The pontoon bridge at Rheinberg has been dismantled and the king’s men, as well as the States’ men, put into garrisons.

VIENNA: One of the envoys of the Lower Saxon Circle, Lord Levini Haeim, has arrived here. It is given out he has come on behalf of the king of Denmark to submit to his imperial majesty. Another envoy from the king himself is said to be on his way.

PRAGUE: We have from the Eger that General Friedland on 2 September broke camp from there to Schweynfurt with all his forces towards Schmalkaden and Hessen, thence to march to Monsieur de Tilly.
The infection is breaking in everywhere, 100 or 150 people dying daily, all one great misery to behold. The lords of the Bohemian Presidential Chamber are still at Pradicx, where affairs are being treated. The lord governors are still here, not having been replaced at their term because nowhere is free of infection, which is breaking out throughout the land.

THURINGIA, 8 September: At Neumark in Pomerania and Magdenburg the sickness is growing strongly, with breakouts in many places in the Electorate of Saxony. There is at present no news from Sweden.
Every day many newly recruited Holstein cavalrymen march from these countries towards Nuremberg.
His Grace Johan Freyherr of Reck recently arrived here from the Empire, and was at once summoned to Neustadt to appear before his imperial majesty in person. He departed thither in post this morning.

EDITORIAL: Dear reader, know that a new chart of Dunkirk with the Schuerken and Calais and the Gueux ships outside them is coming out.

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01/10/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 99 (3 October) with news from Dunkirk, Calais, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Turkey, Poland and Austria.

DUNKIRK: There are thirty-five enemy ships outside Dunkirk, and whenever any ships come out of Dunkirk harbour into the Schuerken, the enemy always shoot a gun, not to hit them, as the ball generally falls a quarter of a mile short, but perhaps to tell the Dunkirkers that they see them, and are not blind, and they are answered in the same tongue, to wit with a shot from ours.
Four more tremendously large royal ships are being built in Dunkirk, but these will not be ready to sail out with the twenty-three.
Her highness, praise God, is at Dunkirk in very good health, with no talk of her leaving.

CALAIS: When peace was in effect almost made with the Huguenots, they at the last drew back and asked that the king raze the fort of Saint Louis that he had built near Rochelle, so the king should not build forts wherever it pleases him in his kingdom without the permission of his Huguenots.
They also desired that the king restore to them some of the towns he had won from them by force, and now that they understand that the king is raising ten more regiments to assist the Duke of Savoy against the Genoese (of which he will pay six, and the queen mother four) they think they have better advantage to harm the king by water and by land.
They also write from paris that Cardinal Barbarini, the pope’s nephew, was about to depart again for Rome, without have brought anything for which he had come to France into effect, to his disgust, and it seemed he would depart malcontented.

ITALY: Those of Genoa took two French ships sailing from the Levant to Marseille with silk and spices worth 300,000 crowns, and five small ships with grain and wine going to the Duke of Savoy for provision for his soldiers.

ENGLAND: The king was ready to depart westwards to Plymouth harbour to view his great armada there. They write that the plague had entered ten of the ships, and the soldiers raised for them and lodged in the villages thereabouts also had the plague amongst them.
Further, that the king had forbidden that any sermons be preached in the city of London before the plague had ended, because the infected brethren would mingle at the sermons among the uninfected, because their preachers had taught them that people are always predestined to their ends, and any who are not predestined to die of the plague, can freely go where there is infection, however great it be.
The king further ordered that no more than three persons should attend the burial of any co**se.
Concerning the plague in the city of London, about 80 short of 4,000 people died in the city last week, but relative to the great reduction in people, both by the plague and by flight, the death rate is as great as it was before.

HOLLAND: Prince Maurice has been solemnly buried in Delft, alongside his father, and Prince [Frederick] Henry has made his oath to the States, some say with less authority granted him than his late brother.
They also write that the States have made a half-brother o fthis prince Marquis of Bergen op Zoom, but seeing how these companions can think to make marquises when they are themselves no noblemen, one wonders what the mussel would do if it were out of its shell and thought itself a fish.
The Arminians still live in hope of not always being plagued with predestination.

GERMANY: News has come to the Emperor’s Court that the Turk had willingly accepted the peace conditions the Emperor had sent him.
The Venetians had thought to have Bethlen Gabor take the field again, against the Emperor, and were to provide him with a great sum of cash for that purpose, but the question arose of where this cash should be paid out, the Venetians wanting to do it in Constantinople, but Bethlen Gabor wanting it in his own country of Transylvania. Bethlen Gabor seeks not to have the Turk lay his hand upon it, and the Venetians seek not to have Bethlen Gabor get the money in his fist and leave them whistling.

TURKEY: In six weeks 80,000 people have died in Constantinople.
The Cossacks had crossed the Black Sea and obtained a great victory against the Turks.

POLAND: In some little coastal towns so many have died of the plague that the towns have been abandoned, as not enough people remained to bury the dead, and the dogs ate the bodies of the dead.

AUSTRIA: There have several times been skirmishes between Monsieur Tilly and the king of Denmark’s men, about which more particulars are soon expected.

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25/09/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 98 (26 September) with news from Tilly's army and Neustadt.

TILLY’S ARMY: Monsieur mon bon Amy, For lack of commodity I have not written to your worship [sooner], after my return to the army with the Duke of Schomberghe, we came direct to Minden, just as those within [the town] were about to receive our garrison, which was a single company, which now having entered, and standing on the market square in battle order awaiting the designation of the quarters, those of the town made another squadron right in front of ours. This so irritated the Count of Anholt (from whose regiment the said company was drawn, under Captain Holsteyn) that the following day he obliged the town to accept two more companies, as also those of Hamelen were obliged to do, for our assurance, given that they altogether bear an especially ill heart towards us. A garrison was also lodged in Sluselburch, and the Danes were obliged to withdraw from Stoltzenauw, a fortified place with more than 26 artillery pieces in the castle, belonging to the Duke of Lunenborg, but occupied by the Danes, who showed small courage there. They also abandoned a place called Reeburg, which is a passage of great importance, and naturally strong because of the marshes and waters around it. We are now outside Nieuburg (a strong town on the Weser) and are almost under the town walls. A mile upstream of the town we yesterday made a pontoon bridge. At dawn today the enemy sought to show their power against it, coming almost to beginning of it, but when the alarm was raised in my quarter (which was the quarter of the foremost of the court, about a pistol shot’s distance from the bridge) two cavalry companies who were patrolling about quarter of an hour’s distance away were immediately ordered thither, and soon after that some regiments of cavalry whose quarters were not far from there, who showing themselves on this side of the Weser, the enemy dared not follow their companions who had passed the aforesaid bridge and driven our sentries from it. Meantime, our infantry had also arrived there, making the enemy depart, and extinguished the fire that had burned part of the bridge. The same immediately being repaired, quarter of an hour later our troops passed over, hoping to have their revenge the same day, to which the lord general is well inclined.
The guarding of the bridge had been entrusted to two new companies, who were also to work on a fort that still lay open when the enemy came to storm it. And the dishonourable villains abandoned it all and ran away without firing a shot. I do not know how the officers will answer for it. I escaped it as I have ever escaped any peril in my life, thank God. I thought my baggage would be lost, but my men bore themselves so boldly that they murdered two of the enemy who were already in the lodging. Our enemies of Holland will make matter and croak of this enterprise, but you will be able to refute their tidings and check them against the pure truth that I have recounted to you. In my quarter they murdered his excellency’s apothecary in a barn, and a trumpetter with five or six German cavalrymen, but all the enemy who crossed the bridge were killed, except some that were captured. Ambassador Schomberg left to go to the king of Denmark six days since, and has not yet returned, it being unknown whether he will achieve anything. Meanwhile, we will not cease encircling the town of Nieuborg and assaulting it by force, although the rumour runs that the Dane will come to relieve it, and Mansfeld is hurrying to join him.
With this, farewell, and pray the Lord God that he prosper and advance our affairs. In haste, from the army, 4 September 1625.
Letters from Hamburg of 10 September say that there was certain news there that the two armies, of Tilly and the Dane, had encountered one another, and 2,000 of the Dane’s were slain and most of the Danish cavalry fled to Nieuborg, where Tilly is still outside.

NEUSTADT: There is no news here except that Archduke Leopold is here, and his imperial majesty with him, to reach a settlement with the overlanders. The Hungarian diet at Odenburg will open on 8 September.
Yesterday his imperial majesty travelled to Ebersdorf, and in the afternoon Bethlen’s envoys travelled to Verlin to fetch a wife for Bethlen. His majesty is having them escorted to the frontiers of the margraviate. Bethlen requested leave to go to meet her with 12,000 men, but this was refused him.

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23/09/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 97 (26 September) with news from Neustadt, the Weser, Cologne, Rome and Venice.

NEUSTADT: His high princely grace Archduke Leopold is daily expected here in Nieustadt, where many fine stately affairs are being prepared.
The Prince of Eggenberg will also come to lodge at the imperial court within the week.
Bethlen’s envoys are still in Nieustadt, invited to banquets here and there and most magnificently entertained by the foremost lords of his imperial majesty’s Council.
The common cry goes that they come to renew and confirm the peace, and also to request free passage through the Roman Empire while he intends to send his envoys through it to seek a princess in the Empire to be his spouse. Whether this will happen, time will show.
Last Tuesday one of the foremost Hungarian great lords arrived with great commission, said to have been sent to his imperial majesty by the Upper Hungarian estates, but nothing is yet known of his instructions.
There is also an envoy here from the Elector of Bavaria, whose commission has likewise not yet come to light.
The king of Denmark had himself treated at Verden some days, but it is now said that his army is on the march, but it is unknown whether upwards or downwards.

RIVER WESER: The Lord General the Count of Tilly has occupied the whole River Weser from Hoxer to Peeters Haeghe. He was some time at Hammeln, then marched to Munden, where the magistracy admitted 300 Hungarians for the Emperor, but once the Lord General had moved further down the Weser, the inhabitants began to mutiny and disarmed the 300 men so that they could not stand guard, and would not give them accommodations. When this came to General Tilly’s notice, he sent more men thither, so there are now 2,000 men there, and more to follow. Imperial garrisons have also been lodged at Peeters Haghen.
The king of Denmark is still at Verden and his men thereabouts are a mile or two apart, but as none dare travel we cannot really know anything of the skirmishes.

COLOGNE: The Count of Mansfeld has travelled from Emmerick to The Hague. It is said that Prince Christian, a Prince of Saxe-Lauenburg, and the Count of Solms, whose sister is married to Prince [Frederick] Henry, will gather a whole army, to rob and plunder in the ecclesiastical territories. The Count of Anholt is returning from Monsieur de Tilly.
The territorial diet at Dusseldorp continues, neither the estates nor the knighthood able to reach agreement on the provision demanded.

ROME, 23 August: His holiness the Pope has again had 400 men mustered, is recruiting more daily, and has granted that the other born prince of the king of Poland shall be allowed to accept Preslauw.
In Spain the Council of War has decided not only to continue the war in Italy, but if necessary to invade France. Patents to raise men have been issued to another 80 captains, with 6,000 foot and 1,000 horse already mustered at Panibola. Don Piemontelli is awaited from Italy to have the general command of the Spanish army.

VENICE: We have from Milan of 20 August that the governor there has strongly besieged Verua, burned everything around there, and cast up three batteries, bombarding [the town] with nine artillery pieces.
The Duke of Savoy is thereabouts with 6,000 foot and 1,500 horse. He has twice been in the town and provisioned it well. The besieged have burned down half the town, the better to defend themselves from the two forts, and they cannot be prevented from transporting victuals by the River Po. Those of Verua shot Don Ferdinando Diurdado dead, and injured Don Gonzalo de Cordua in his hand.
Another 6,000 Frenchmen and six companies of horse have arrived in Piedmont while Ladigiera, no longer able to advance the war due to his age, has passed his office of general to the Duke of Soisson.
The Genoese sent Freiherr Di Vateuille to Ventimiglia with 8,000 soldiers, to take it and likewise other places from the Savoyard. Colonel Pappenheym is still at Como, very ill.
This very moment a letter written from Novarra on 26 August says that the king’s men took the town and castle of Verua last Saturday, and as the Duke of Savoy is repairing the bridge over the Po, it will now grow on this side to enclose Vercelli, which will soon have to surrender.

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18/09/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 95 [misnumbered as 93] (17 September) with news from Prague, Cologne, Rees, the River Weser, and the Palatinate.

PRAGUE: The Prince of Walsteyn is still on the Eger with most of the men, having given order that all regiments, complete or not, are to arrive by a certain date or be cashiered. He is expecting the three veteran regiments that were lodged in Moravia, as well as Colonel Bechman’s 1,000 horse, once the Coburg Regiment has broken camp and marched against the Dane.
The general has sent five couriers with messages for the Bishop of Bamberg, Wurzburg, Fulda, Eichstadt, and Prince Coburg.

COLOGNE: After Mansfeld had recently mustered, finding them 500 [sc 5,000?] strong, he gave each money. His foremost officers have been summoned to The Hague, but he has arrived at Emmerick with Duke Christian and those of Saxe Weimar. Three ships of new Scots have arrived, with some States companies, so he will be 13,000 strong. Monsieur Tilly has captured various places that the Dane formerly held, and has marched to Minden.
Count Henry of Bergh spent a few days with the Duke of Nieuburgh at Dusseldorp, where the territorial diet continues strongly. Not one of the lords of the knighthood has let anything out. Time will tell what is being discussed.
We have from Dresden that the Elector of Saxony has declared at the request of the new League that he will remain a friend to the Emperor, in life and death.

REES: Mansfeld returned here this evening, bringing 600,000 florins to pay his men. He will not remain here long, but immediately leave for The Hague. It is said his men will soon march out and join with the Dutch troops. There are also 6,000 Scotsmen arrived in Holland. Whither this army will march is unknown. Some think they will join with the Dane, others that they will make their wat the ecclesiastical territory of Münster. Time will tell. The Croats did not leave much in the County of Meurs.
We have confirmation from Hungary that Bethlen Gabor is making preparations, but to what end cannot rightly be known. Many suspect it is to garrison his own territory in Transylvania, while he travels to Kascha to dispose over the communes that belong to him there, so that those of Transylvania (who are also recruiting from the Saxon states to their defence, who are thought to be his enemies) should not conspire together to deprive him by force.

RIVER WESER: Having garrisoned Holtzmunden and Hammelen, General Tilly is now marching for Klein Bremen, also sending men to Rintlen, Hansbergh and Munden in pursuit of the king of Denmark, who is falling back. He is in person at Verden, healthy but still with some trouble in his left arm, and a blue jaw. He is ensconcing in the ecclesiastical territory of Bremen and Verden, and five days ago received another 11,000 men. How the game will end, time will tell.

PALATINATE, 18 August: Praise be to God, the emperor’s power is fully confirmed, for none here now challenge it, having seen what became of the rebellious princes. Frederick, former Palsgrave, is now in Holland, without hope of any restitution; the Margrave of Anspach got out of the mutinous war in time and lately died of the plague; the Marquis of Tourlach, having left the castle of Hoochporten near Fryburgh in Presgauw, is a banished fugitive, now in the city of Geneva with wife and children, while the two Bavarian regiments of Smidt and Cortenbach last winter ate his whole territory down to the stubble, almost as far as Basel; the whole marquisate of Baden has become Catholic through the children’s zeal and valour; the Duke of Wurttemberg is keeping quiet, for his land is open, and would be a three-day breakfast for the Spanish, Bavarian and Croat troops. He lately sent an ambassador to Don Guillermo Verdugo at Cruytzenach, but his commission is unknown.
The Catholic religion will henceforth make better progress for the Calvinist ministers have boldly been chased away, while those in the Palatinate who were instituted by the civilian magistracy or who intruded themselves by rebellion after Frederick the late Palsgrave’s rebellion or revolt are still being chased away, some still tolerated for a time, Bachrach and Caub have Catholic pastors, at Cruytzenach we have taken the parish church and erected a new stone altar, and settle everything according to ancient Catholic custom. At Heidelberg a doctor and professor of laws called Doctor Junitius has publicly received communion and renounced Calvinistry, and another doctor is to follow, for they have clearly found that the ministers of Calvin’s and Zwinglis school have produced nothing but deceit and falseness. Some whole villages have confessed and received communion. May God increase his grace. Amen.

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