https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1enjGXXWNhCTzbDBtcucOTpeo4vbq_pFI&usp=sharing

Nieuwe Tijdinghen, Antwerp (2025)

25/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 72 (30 July) with news from Italy (x2), Germany, Prague, Cologne, France, England, the Low Countries and Brabant.

ITALY: The French have left a small force at their camp near Savona while most of their army has returned to Piedmont with Prince Victorio.
Meanwhile, the Genoese have 15,000 men by Savona, on top of all the regiments that the Duke of Feria is sending them. The Genoese have retaken Enghala and some other little towns thereabouts.
Don Gonçales de Cordua marched thither and must now have arrived there. He will not fail to achieve something.
The French have had to abandon Ottaglia. Thereabouts several hundred Frenchies have been found dead.

GERMANY: There were great celebrations and signs of joy in Vienna for the conquest of Breda.

PRAGUE, 2 July: The Prince of Walsteyn has many thousands of men with him, as well as Don Balthazar de Maradez. Whither they will go is yet unknown.
Colonel Cratz and his men have been sent to Nuremberg on behalf of the emperor. It appears they may keep house there.

COLOGNE: Monsieur de Tilly is at Paderborn, keeping an eye on the king of Denmark. Meanwhile, he has relieved Sparenburch, liberating it from a lengthy siege.

FRANCE: Ambassador Gondomar is still in Paris, seeking all means to prevent war, as is Cardinal Barberini.
The Marquis of Couvre has been recalled from the Valtelline, and the eldest son of the Duke of Espernon sent to replace him. The youngest against Monsieur de Soubise.

ENGLAND: Since the coronation and the wedding have been held in England, the king has been preparing for war. By Lord Anstruther, Scotsman, he has sent 40,000 guilders to the king of Denmark to pay the soldiers raised for him to be sent to the Palatinate.
The king of England continues arming his fleet, although the meat has spoiled, as have much of the munitions.
The Hollanders would gladly get a large sum of money out of the king of England’s hands, promising to place several towns, Berghen op Zoom, Vlissinghen, Den Briel, and other places, in his power as surety.
The pestilence much increases in London, so that they write thence that over 900 have died in a few days.
The king of England having written to the States of Holland to send Mansfeld to him to give account of the men and money that he had from England, they summoned Mansfeld to The Hague, and he has now arrived there. Most of his men have run away, or died of poverty and misery.

THE LOW COUNTRIES: After the most serene Infanta had rested at Antwerp for eleven days after her return from Breda, she and her whole court returned to Brussels on 18 July.
The Prince of Orange has put many of his men into garrisons, but is keeping some in the field at Walwyck, to see what the Victorious Marquis Spinola will do.
There are 2,000 new English arrived in Holland to replace the veteran musketeers that have been sent from Holland to England.

ITALY: Certain news comes from Genoa and Milan that the Genoese have retaken Nova and some other small towns, and are marching to Gavi.
The Duke of Feria has also taken the town of Aqua in Monferraet, where all the Duke of Savoy’s ammunition was being kept. He [sc. Feria] has found many treasures, including a costly chair in which he [sc. Savoy] had thought to sit for his triumphal entry into Genoa, once he was master of the city.
The Duke of Feria has disarmed all the French in the town, who were 2,800 strong, and had them depart with white reeds.

BRABANT: Those of ’s-Hertogenbosch are doing great harm to the enemy. Lately, six soldiers again brought in 14 horses, and since the siege of Breda they have taken over 2,000 horses from the enemy.
The governor of Heusden died as he lived.
On 20 July Marquis Spinola travelled from Antwerp to Lier, and his excellency arrived at Brussels at 8 o’clock in the morning on 22 July.
On 24 July, 18 companies of Spaniards crossed the bridge at Antwerp into Flanders.
Those of Brussels write that the most serene Infanta is soon to travel to Flanders, to put all in good order.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079750

23/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 71 (30 July) with news from Madrid about Bahia.

MADRID, 8 July: Very dear friend, thanks be to God that after we had received the good news of the surrender of Breda, it pleased God to increase the tidings with a good victory that his majesty attained in Brazil on 13 April. This news was brought by Don Henrique de Arragon, Brother of the Count of Saastago, who arrived here on 6 July.
After having defeated the enemy at sea, our armada at once put the men ashore and recaptured the forts and castles that the enemy had taken.
The enemy retreated to the house of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, which is in the middle of the city of San Salvator. They filled the house with earth and placed much artillery on it, with other munitions, to protect themselves for many days.
General Don Frederico de Toledo received news that within four or five dys the Dutch would come to their assistance with 27 ships. Having understood they were so close, the general decided to take the enemy into mercy on the eve of St Philip and St James, when about 2,000 of them marched out.
The general promised against payment to deliver them to Holland with some ships, carrying nothing with them but a robe and three or four shirts.
A coffer containing 200,000 ducats was found there, and another with as much; 600 pipes of wine; 200 artillery pieces; with other great riches, the total value being over a million.
Eight of the enemy’s ships had put out to raid the coasts, and Don Frederico had sent twelve of our ships in search of them. He remained in expectation of the succour to resist them. Once that has been done he will return to Cadiz, where he is expected at the end of the month.
His majesty has awarded Marquis Spinola the Encomienda Mayor of Castile, vacated by the death of the Duke of Lerma, which is worth 18,000 ducats, and his son has been awarded the Golden Fleece.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079748

18/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 70 (18 July) with four satirical poems and a chronogram on the theme of the surrender of Breda.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079746

17/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 69 (18 July) with news from Holland and a proclamation against Dunkirkers.

HOLLAND: Letters complain greatly of great taxes and small trade, with very little hope of betterment. The States would gladly impose new taxes, while the commonalty would gladly be free of many old taxes.
Further, that the Marquis Spinola dealt so politely with the garrison of Breda, both in granting conditions, and in providing good es**rts for their departure, so that their goods and baggage were preserved, is not to the liking of the States, and even less of the Preachers, who would rather have something they can make out as Tyranny, to maintain the commonalty in bitterness, as they have long and deceitfully done, but priase God, the eyes of the common people are more open every day, so that they see how they have been misled with lies.
Certain pasquils and infamous libels have recently been strewn in Holland, against the current Prince of Orange, and some against some new Barnevelts that they say should again come to state and office.
A strict proclamation has been issued here against those of Dunkirk and the harbours of Flanders or of the king of Spain, which your worship can here read word for word. This proclamation by order of the States of Holland and Zeeland has come out in print, by which they think to achieve wonders, but it is to be feared it will be much worse than before, so Dunkirkers be wary and look out.
The proclamation runs as follows.
The States General of the United Netherlands declare: That to the detriment of the enemy at sea we have found good that all who wish privately to fit out to put to the sea with appropriate commission to do harm to our common enemy, will, for each enemy warship putting to sea from the harbours of Flanders or elsewhere that they capture or destroy, so that the men on board are brought or are killed, be awarded in addition to any b***y taken of the ship and its wares, with the following sums:
For a ship over 100 lasts, 30,000 guilders; from 70 to 100 lasts, 20,000 guilders; from 50 to 70 lasts, 15,000 guilders; from 30 to 50, 10,000 guilders; from 20 to 30, 8,000 guilders; for a yacht under 20 lasts armed with at least four cast-iron guns, 4,000 guilders; for a frigate with twelve oars on either side, 8,000 guilders; for a shallop with eight thwarts, 2,000 guilders; for a shallop with six thwarts, 1,200 guilders; for a shallop with four thwarts, 600 guilders.
And should the ship, frigate or shallop only be run aground on a sandbank or beach, so that the hull was destroyed but the mariners or soldiers aboard could be saved, the victors would receive half the promised sum, to be paid by the admiralty college under which they sailed out.
Concerning ships of our denizens taken by the enemy, and recaptured or liberated, they shall be awarded a full third of the rightful valuation of the liberated ship and cargo, should it have been in the power of our enemy twice 24 hours.
And if it had been in the enemy’s power for only 24 hours, then a fifth part. And for less time, an eighth.
Concerning the smugglers they capture sailing into or out of Flemish harbours, the captured ship is to be delivered to the college of the admiralty, to be sequestered and confiscated, which once done those who captured it will receive a full half of the pure profit made by selling the ship and its cargo.
The merchantmen who effectuate something against the enemy will also enjoy the premium listed above.
Those who wish to put to sea on these conditions are to declare themselves within the term of fourteen days to the admiralty college under which they wish to sail out, and before their departure provide sufficient caution to cause no harm to the inhabitants of these lands, or the allies and friends of the same. Given in the assembly of the aforesaid Lord States General in The Hague, 4 July 1625. Signed A. Kelffken. Below that, By order of the same, I. van Goch.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079744

16/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 68 (16 July) with news from Milan, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Rees, Italy, Germany, and 's-Hertogenbosch.

MILAN: The governor is arming himself to take the field. His men are in Figarolo, Castellario, Bosco, the frontiers of Monferrat, Genoa and Astereggiano, because Prince Victorio and Thomaso are coming to Aqui in Monferaet, and there is also a large force in Bressa under the command of the Duke of Vendosmo, so Spain is ready to attempt France or her allies should the state of Milan be assaulted.
They write from Constantinople that the Pasha of Smyrna has rebelled and taken the field with 30,000 men, doing great harm with plundering and fire. The merchants in great fear are embarking their things. The Ottoman army has left Babylon and marched into Persia, doing great harm in those quarters. The king is equipping himself strongly to resist.

PARIS: The agreement with Soubiese and Rochelle is not concluded. The deputies are expected. Meanwhile, many are being recruited to establish the army of Picardy and to send more men to the Constable [Lesdiguières] in Italy. The king and the whole council are at Fontainebleau, as is the Lord Legate.

VIENNA: His imperial majesty has returned here, and it is said for certain will soon go to Nieustadt, then Ulm, for the day appointed, furthermore desiring that all princes shall appear in person. All commissioners have been despatched to pursue their orders and commissions touching the treaty of peave with the Turk.

PRAGUE: The Prince of Walsteyn is still determined to take the field in the District of Eger [Cheb] and march to the District of Ellenbogen [Loket] on 6 July even if not all the men are assembled, armed and mustered. Some are already on their way. The three regiments of Tieffenbach, Schlick and Saxony that were on the march are said to have been recalled, because Bethlen Gabor is moving this way, but there is no certainty of this.

REES, 26 June: Last Sunday the doors were closed all day here and in Emmerick, so that none could go in or out and nobody let in, because some of Mansfeld’s men, with whom the General Duke Christian was personally present, were here with two field guns thinking to overpower House Ringenbergh because the soldiers there daily do detriment to their men. On the march one gun sank in the rising water and they could make no progress with the other, so they turned back again. Those of the house were sent 20 men from Wesel as reinforcements, and are lodged in the said court. Mansfeld’s men approaching, some died and the rest returned to their army without achieving anything, fetching up the sunken gun the next day.

ITALY: Those of Genoa become stronger and stronger every day, and have 18,000 men in the field, beyond those they have in garrison.
It is also apparent that the French, through lack of victuals and of money, will soon have to depart, so the Duke of Savoy will have to put some water in his wine, and leave those of Genoa in peace.

GERMANY: The king of Denmark having brought his men across the Elbe has mustered them, and foot and horse they total 16,000 men.
This king had written to the cities of Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen to raise 20,000 men for him, and to pay them continually, but they refused, and those of Lubeck fell into dissension with him.
It seems that his intention would be to attempt to recover the Palatinate for the Palsgrave, but Monsieur de Tilly is so well provided by the emperor that he thinks to come to meet him, so there is appearance that in a few days they may be a battle between him and the Danes. May it please Almighty God in His mercy to grant victory to the rightful cause.

’S-HERTOGENBOSCH: The Lord of Kessel, governor of Heusden, being at Bommel, the soldiers fired off their muskets in his honour, by which he received a shot in his body, and it is understood that he died immediately. It should be noted that this can only be a great punishment of God, and principally because he delated the Reverend Father Ophoven to be put to death. He could have expected no otherwise had Almighty God not prevented it, for even were it true that this Father had proposed some action tending to the service of the king of Spain, to which the Lord of Kessel in right and reason was obliged, the king being his rightful sovereign lord, had he not wished to do it he could simply have replied so, but to betray him to bring him to the chopping block was a very evil and vilainous deed.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079742

15/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 67 [misnumbered?] (16 July) with news from Rees, Wesel, Amsterdam, Rome, Wroclaw and Venice.

REES, 29 June: It is understood that four regiments of Count Tilly and the Count of Anholt’s men had arrived in the Principality of Berg and taken their quarters in the County of Mark to prevent Mansfeld from marching higher, so Mansfeld has begun to dig in, building a sconce on either side of Rees and lodging six infantry companies there, so that he can cross the Rhine when he wishes.
The Duke of Sachsen Lawenburg joined him in his army a few days ago, and late this evening two deputies of the Lord States came here, and are to continue to Mansfeld tomorrow. This very moment, orders came from Prince [Frederick] Henry that a bridge be built between here and the sconce tomorrow, the pontoons for which are at Emmerick and will come here with 6,000 men of the Lord States coming upwards to occupy those works.

WESEL, 30 June: Mansfeld is ensconcing himself greatly. Most of his men have deserted, the French came over by two and three companies at a time, mounted or unmounted, the English who had been 60 companies are now 350 men strong. His German infantry are now also beginning to split off, not being well able to abide hunger. Thy get a pound of bread every three or four days, and that is provided by the peasantry.
Mansfeld is having much work done on his sconce on either side of the Rhine, where he will lay a pontoon bridge, the better to fetch forage for his horses. He has so far received no money, which he nevertheless much needs, as the French and English are running away from him in droves. Conversely, many men are coming to him from Lower Saxony and recruited by the States. No provision has been sent him from the States either. By the governors of Emmerick he has requested the Elector of Brandenburg provide a house there to store his arms, and take his sick into the town to cure them, which was roundly rejected. In sum, the whole territory of Cleves is being despoiled to the ground.

AMSTERDAM: Our army is still quietly at Walwyck, and as the king’s men have carried away some of ours from Geertruidenberg, seven more redoubts are being built between Cappel and Spranghe. Outside Heusden a large sconce is being built by House Hemert, and two more, one towards Den Bos and the other towards Gorchum. A week ago four Frenchmen were hanged, a corporal, a trumpeter, and two other officers, for intending to defect to the king’s side. One offered 5,000 guilders for his life, but in vain.

ROME, 14 June: Over 30 companies of soldiers have been established that are lodged in the city and not only the fortifications of Castel Sant’ Angelo are being fitted out, but also of other fortifications.
The Duke of Parma is having 3,000 Germans recruited to preserve his state, and above that has established two more infantry regiments, and furthermore is so strengthening Piacenza that it is held to be invincible.
From Civita Vecchia eight Neapolitan galleys have set sail for Genoa with 3,500 Neapolitan soldiers, and another 6,000 men are being recruited in the same kingdom.
The Duke of Urbino has agreed to recruit 2,500 soldiers in his state to serve the king of Spain.
There is information that two Sicilian galleys have taken a French ship and put the mariners to the oars. We are also informed from Sicily that 25 corsairs have been sighted in the same sea.

PRESLAU, 25 June: The princely diet has ended, praise God, and the conclusion is nothing special. His majesty requested 600,000 in gold in two instalments, to pay down the country’s debts, which is still in being [sic], but due to the interest 1,120 thalers was agreed. Tomorrow and the day after, two companies of the Colonel Pechman’s new regiment will pass through here. Many fine recruits, horse and foot, are marching to Bohemia.
Lord Hendrick and Lord Herman of Chona are publicly having drums beaten here to raise infantry. Tomorrow money will arrive to recruit cavalry.

VENICE, 20 June: We are informed from Genoa that they have taken cattle, provisions and ammunition belonging to Ladighera, capturing many Frenchmen, among them some captains. They furthermore sent 3,000 men to Albenga to conquer that place, and the Bandit Battista Maregghiano had a skirmish towards Ovado, a small territory which the French had first taken, killing 250 and taking great b***y. The French have occupied the castle and territory of Gavio with 4,000 foot and some cavalry companies, and marched the whole army towards Piedmont, it is thought to attempt Savona. In the lordship of Zuccarello the French and the Savoyards have taken one castle by agreement after repeatedly storming it, but the other is still resisting strongly. Monsieur de Crichi has had the inhabitants of Novi swear to the king of France, and garrisoned it with 300 men. Signor Lelio Brancaccio has arrived at Genoa from Naples. He is to be General Field Marshal.
We are informed from the Valtelline that the last encounter near Riva lasted a night and a day, with over 100 killed on either side. The French were forced to abandon a fort on a mountain. Colonel Pappenheim finally occupied it and with 6,000 men has marched to Riva.

Royal Library of belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079740

11/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 67 (11 July) with an account of naval operations on the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Morocco.

SEVILLE: An account of the success of the ships of the royal admiralty since setting sail from San Lucar, drawn from a letter the commanders of the said ships wrote to the administrators of the aforesaid admiralty. Our lord the king, to prevent the harm to trade his subjects daily suffered from the Dutch wishing to make themselves the masters of the sea, has established a Royal Admiralty, naming as superior of the same Jean Vermeulen, a very bold man, and as captains all chosen men.
On the morning of 6 May the ships of the Royal Admiralty of Seville set sail under the command of the aforesaid officers. The flagship, St Peter, was commanded by Captain Geerardt Dobler; the St Nicholas by Captain Christiaen de Cleret; the Santa Maria de Buen Successo by Captain Niclaes Artman; and the light ship SS Peter and James by Captain Diego de Lecadena; and the tartana St Michiel by Captain Daniel Duhes. The said ships sailed out with a favourable wind, and at 4 o’clock in the afternoon the said superior also went aboard, taking his orders and commission.
The next day he discovered and captured a Dutch ship laden with salt, master of which was Berent Coninck, and he sent that ship and the crew to San Lucar. They raised anchor at once, taking the route to Cardin, there to fetch the ships with munitions, that were ready there to sail to La Mamora [Mehdya]. A little later they espied four ships, and drew into fighting order, but became aware that they were the ships of the Levant, which had departed from the Bay of Cadiz under the command of Don Nicolo Indizo Fazo, to join with the aforesaid ships of his majesty’s, but because the wind was contrary for sailing to La Mamora and to convoy eighteen ships with victuals and munitions, 140 men and 10,000 ducats in cash to provision La Mamora. So our ships put down anchor before the roadstead of San Lucar, and the next day took a ship laden with planks, and having taken declaration from the master of the same, Adriaen Adriaensen, they found that the said ship was built in Holland, and had sailed thence, so the superior sent it to the harbour of San Lucar with Captain Joannes, Sergeant Don Pedro Manso, and some soldiers.
On the morning of 9 May they weighed anchor and sailed to the Bay of Cadiz, where they arrived at 5 in the afternoon. The superior was visited by S. Juan Pedrosa and the Veedor General Don Tomas de Ybio Calderon, who told him that he should es**rt the ships with victuals then lying ready there.
At noon the next day, Saturday, the said superior took ship together with the Govenor of La Mamora’s son and his men, arriving off La Mamora on 14 May. There they saw a ship coming with a favourable wind, which ours approached and recognised as a corsair, which they at last also captured, finding it well provided with guns, and 150 renegade Moors and Christian captives on board, fourteen of whom remained in the ship, our men saving their lives, while the Moors jumped ashore with all they could carry. Making a squadron they fired tremendously at our men, who were busy plundering their ship. After that our said superior had the captain lie closer to land, to use the guns to drive away the thronging pack of Moors that had come to harm our men. Then they sent soldiers aboard the aforesaid ship to set it afire, burning it down to the keel, without being able to salvage the artillery and munitions, which were numerous. The ship was from Arghel [Algiers].
And as our patache or lighter Saints Peter and James had remained behind, it sighted a ship in the distance, and pursued it, the superior meanwhile ordering the ship Santa Maria to sail thither too. Once the Moors of the said ship became aware of them, they sailed close to land, where twelve or fourteen of them jumped ashore. It is thought they had captured that ship on the Algarve coast, for it was laden with oil, limes, oranges and figs. That ship was also fired, after a few pipes of oil had been salvaged.
Then we saw two ships coming that had set sail the same day from La Mamora for the harbour of Santa Maria. We pursued them despite being impeded by the darkness of night, setting course for Salé, and having come within sight of that place we waited all day to see if those ships would come to the harbour.
That evening, about an hour before sunset, we sighted two sails, one northwards and one southwards, so we divided ourselves, the St Nicholas and the tartana heading northwards and the flagship southwards.
The ship sighted northwards ran out to sea, and the other, being from Algiers, thought to sail to Fadala, but our flagship approached and greeted the same with five or six cannon shots and took it.
In that ship 32 Turks were found alive, some dead, two injured, and some had jumped overboard. There were also sixteen Christians of various nations, seven sacks of peppers, a sack of cinnamon, and fifteen guns.
Tuesday, 20 May, we sailed towards Fadala all day, for one of the Turks had told us we would find some ships there, and the morning of the following day we sighted a sail, and all chased it, but seeing this the Moors sailed the ship landwards, and all but four fled. Our tartana fired two shots, but got no reply. Our men robbed what was there, and in the same ship we found thirteen Christians, English, who three weeks before had sailed from Vigo Galicia in a different ship laden with limes and oranges, the Moors burning one and setting another adrift on the open sea. They said that the day before they had lain off Salé and thought that there must be ships of the admiralty there, which was the ship we had sighted northewards. The previous night they had parted with a ship of Salé, which had captured another, and these were the two sails we had pursued on Sunday night.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079738

10/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 66 (11 July) with news from Ostend, Prague, Vienna, the River Weser, Stettin and London.

OSTEND: The two Ostend warships that put to sea in recent days have brought two large ships laden with merchandise into Dunkirk, and sank the convoyer of these ships, which was a fine Dutch warship, with another laden with salt.
A ship of the Admiralty of Berghen [Bergues] has also brought a ship from Holland into Nieuwpoort, estimated over 20,000 guilders.
They write from Vienna that the Prince of Walsteyn has enrolled 25,000 soldiers for the emperor.
Also that the Persian has won a fine victory against the Turk, with more than 80,000 Turks killed.

PRAGUE, 21 June: The Prince of Walsteyn returned here two days ago. He is making ready for war. All sorts of military equipment is being prepared in haste, to march on 6 July for the Eger [Ohře] and the district of Elenbogen [Loket]. All the old and newly raised men are to march to Dort and depart together thence. All the men will be assembled within six weeks, and the army will be 37,000 strong.

VIENNA, 18 June: His imperial majesty has arrived back at Oeberstorff from Moravia and is expected here on Friday or Saturday. Her majesty the empress was unwell but is now, praise God, better.
The Lord Count of Altheim has again departed for Hungary to pursue his assigned commission (concerning the treaty with the Turk) and complete it, as the others will likewise.

RIVER WESER, 19 June: Sparenbergh is still holding out. In the church at Billefelt during the sermon a girl was killed and a man’s leg shot off. Those besieging it have fetched four more artillery pieces from Vlothe, so it is now thought on both sides [sic], but it is hoped the castle will soon be relieved.
The Danish infantry have already been shipped across the Elbe, and are three and a half miles from Buxstehude. The cavalry will cross in a few more days. How it will thrive is unknown. As General Monsieur de Tilly is also on the march, these parts are in great fear.

STETTIN, 3 and 13 June: We have information that Lord Staros Solinsky has come through Silesia to Neustadt with 1,600 Cossacks. Provisions, beer, malmsey, wine and brandywine were sent them, which pleased them well, but when they set down and set to drinking, 200 hajduks with their servants and subjects overpowered and murdered the five cavalrymen on guard as sentinels, and so entered the town, as some captains declare, cutting down any who did not hide themselves in straw, dung or tile ovens. Among them was one who offered two caskets of treasure for his life. There were 600 killed, and 300 thrown into the ditches, 30 at a time, but when those outside the town heard the tumult and wanted to come to their aid or assistance, Lord Solinsky received them with guns and they had to turn back. In the defeat he acquired 200,000 in cash and 500 fine horses. The Weywoda Stanislaus Konartski wrote to the uppermost headman, Duke Christoff, Razikily Staraftey, at Tucha, that they should keep themselves in good order. Their other Cossacks, 14 or 15,000, are to march through Brombergh and Fordan to avenge their brethren’s suffering. His royal majesty in Poland and Proceres Regni will recruit men to exterminate them.

LONDON, 13 June: There is little special news here at present except that they are still pressing strongly to man the ships. Those pressed must march to the port of Plymouth where all the ships are to assemble. Last Tuesday our king left for Canterbury with his knights, to meet the queen (who will be at Dover on 7 or 17 June). The English ladies have already departed to accompany the queen home.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079736

09/07/2025

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1625 issue 65 (9 July) with news from Milan and Antwerp.

MILAN, 16 June: Here we have skirmishes with the French every day. On the Feast of St Anthony of Padua, which is 13 June, they came with 4,000 infantry and 2,000 horse to rob certain viallages of Castellat, and our men marched from Alessandria and other places and killed more than 300 French cavalrymen and captured many men. Some of ours died and our men took great b***y.
The Duke of Feria has no orders to march out of the land of Milan or else he would have achieved great things with the number of men we have now.
The Venetians left for Palma which is besieged by the Emperor and the Scocchi. Some say they have taken it.
In the Valtelline things are going well for we go conquering every day with great loss to the enemy.
The Genoans are resisting bravely and are clearing the Riviera of the sea. Not a day passes without some action performed there.
The Duke of Savoy has had all the artillery from the fortresses he had taken transported to his country and Spain has the government of Genoa and Savona. All Italy is full of soldiers and this week 52,000 crowns were accompanied to Naples to equip soldiers. May God turn all things to the best.

ANTWERP: At 6 in the morning on 12 June 1625 the illustrious Duchess rode from Antwerp to the army at Breda, and entered Breda with all the court that same evening, and before she entered the town the whole army stood in battle order in open field, the first she passed being eight regiments of foot, who fired three salutes.
Next stood 140 companies of horse, who also fired three salutes, and the town fired three salutes with all the batteries and the field guns, so that the earth shook. Marquis Spinola came to meet the most serene Infanta with many lords and princes, which was a sight to see. That night there were triumphal celebrations in Breda, and they lasted for three days.
The next day when the Duchess went to church and throughout the Mass a Croat soldier, who climbed up the great steeple of the church, waved around his head a great white flag with a red cross of Burgundy, which to the delight of many he affixed to the steeple, so that the army of the enemy lying towards Geertruidenberg could easily see it, so that all may think what sorrow the other side must have felt to see the banner of Burgundy flying on the steeple of such a fair town in which they had commanded for 35 years, and now at last, having sought all the means and succour in the world and involved many potentates to relieve the town, could not keep it.
Further, very early in the morning on 7 July 1625 the illustrious Duchess left Breda again with all the court, accompanied by many princes and lords, dining at noon at Hoogstraten, where she viewed the castle, and praise God arrived back in Antwerp hearty and healthy the same evening at 9 o’clock with a great train of nobility, with Don Luis, Count of Salazar, riding in half an hour beforehand with five companies of horse.
Then followed the most serene Infanta, along the Dam where thousands of citizens had assembled, and so arrived in the city by the Rode Poort, over the Paardenmarkt, seated in a coach pulled by six white horses.
The Duke of Neuburg rode on horseback ahead of the Infanta’s coach with his excellency Spinola.
And because night was falling, the deans of the six guilds of Antwerp stood awaiting the Infanta at the gate, each with a white torch burning, and they walked alongside the Infanta’s coach with bare heads and accompanied her to the court of St Michael’s. The deans numbered 36, wearing their tabards, with bandoleers over them.
The six guilds stood on the the Grote Markt in battle order with the six banners flying, and when the Duchess rode by they thrice dipped all the six banners earthwards as a mark of respect, and all the muskets fired, in which she took great pleasure.
Marquis Spinola rode bare-headed most of the way through the city, for the honour done by the citizenry, and the many people who were out, and everybody was joyful, seeing the Infanta and the Marquis so well, and having brought such a jewel as the town of Breda into the king’s hands, the laborious siege of which is spoken of throughout the world.
Further the Infanta coming to the riverbank by the court, several companies of citizens stood there in arms, who also paid their respects by firing off a volley, the horses there jumping and whinnying that it was a delight to see, and so the Infanta rode with all the lords into the court, and the deans took their leave.
And at once a company of Spaniards came from the citadel into the court to keep watch there.
On 8 July the Duchess and his excellency Marquis Spinola, with many princes and lords, heard Mass in the new church of the Jesuit fathers, where there was delightful music.
The earthworks around Breda have for the most part already been slighted, and the king’s garrison marched into the town on 5 June.

Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)
Scans of original: https://uurl.kbr.be/2079734

Nieuwe Tijdinghen

25/07/2025

23/07/2025

18/07/2025

17/07/2025

16/07/2025

15/07/2025

11/07/2025

10/07/2025

09/07/2025

Adres

Website

Meldingen

Snelkoppelingen

Delen

Type