AT Mylane are come bills of Exchange frō Spaine / conteyning 500000 Crownes / and foure Compagnies of Souldiors are sent to Deltlin.
The Duke of Savoye hath given over his ruling to his Prince / and onely retained to him selfe the Government of warre.
On Frydaye last is the declaration of the King in favour of the Protestants published / and they that will gaine the contents thereof / must declare whether they will hould with the King or them of Rochel / wee thinke that the Kinge will not besiege it this yeare / but onely cause some Fortresses to bee made before it / and keepe some men of warre before it. To the ende there may nothing come into it.
The Lord Helmhart Georg is brought into Lints / where more other Lords also are arrested many other Lords are likewise sent for thither / for upon the 9. of Iuly the whole Land over the Ens shall acknowledge his Highnesse in Beyeren for their Prince / as an unobligated pane / after which there is nothing to bee expected but a generall Reformation.
The whole Army of Mansvelt is inquartered here / and in the Villages heere abouts against the Borders of Bohemia. The Enimie sheweth himselfe dayly without our skonses / which doth give blynde allarmes untill it is once in earnest. Yesterdaye is the Prince of Wymeren with 1400 Footemenne and six Cornetts Horsmen come unto us. There is making a faire Schonce for us before the nose of the Enimie / upon the borders of Bohemia / and every Souldior that laboureth thereon is payd above his meat and drinke 3. batses a day / when this Fortresse is finished wee shall see whether it will be intended especially / when all the Souldiors bee together. There are also 7. Cornets of Horsemenne ordayned by the Captaine Paap at Amberg / the Enterprize is yet unknowne. The souldiors receive good comfort / but as yet no monnye / by reason whereof the tyme might fall them to long.
The Emperours Majestie (accompanied with many Nobles / is gone from hence the 18. hereof yearly in the morning to Zell / before the Emperours departure the King of Dēmarkes Ambassadours tooke there leave / and so departed homewardes / it seemes they have not effected much for the King of Bohemia.
The Generall Bucquoy lies yet before Nieuheusel / ād proceedeth dayly in making of Schonses / the Governour Diepenbach hath taken from them the milles / though the besiedged have received 8000. Men to there assistannce / they fall dayly out uppon the Enimie / and doe him great hurt.
Betlem is at Cascau / where he expecteth Turkey assistance.
The Earle Colaldo is yet by his Armie not far from Regnits / upon the Budeans goods / and the speach goeth that the same Budeany should also have some Hungerish assistannce to him / En they countred with on another / so that many are slain on both sides.
The 19. hereof is the Lord Helmsart George caried prisoner from hence to the Duke of Bavaria. In like manner 9. worthy persons of the Wenegers taken prisoners out of 16. which were Examined.
It continues / that those under the Earle of Iagersdorp have over com the Dukely Castle Neus / and taken 3. of the Chiefest Dukely Officers in apprehension.
At Neus are (as the speech goeth) openly folke levied for Betlem / and there is taken on allreddy 1000 Horsemen and 1000 Muskettiers / and the Governour Losuisen hath brought 30000 Duckets from Betlem to Neus / to conscrive more Souldiors.
The Execution at Prague over the imprisoned Lords Knights and Cittizens is accomplished upon the 21. of Iune / in manner as followeth: Diz. The 19. heereof are those of the old and new Cittie caried into the Castle / with a strong Convoy or watch / and there the Emper. Commissioners reade apart every ones Sentence / which beeinge done / they were caried againe into there Costodie / and there (through promission of the Commissioners) went too and fro unto them Dutch and Bohemish Preachers. The twenty heereof are the Prisoners which lay in the Castle caried into the Cittie house of the Olde Cittie / where they passed the whole night with singinge and praying / untill the Execution began / which was at 5 a Clocke / upon a Schaffold afore the Cittie house / and lasted till 9 a Clocke / being al fynisht by the Hangman / over these 25. specified persons / as followeth: Viz.
Lord William Poppell / is yet kept prisoner untill hes Majesties Resolution.
The same day was also in a Counsell Servant Niclaes Nailde unto the Gallos by his tongue / where he stood so an houre long / and thereafter condemned in the prison / he did the second day.
More others were whipt / and certaine banisht the Land.
Tabor remaines yet strongly against the Emperour / they fall out dayly / and Schirmidge with the besiegers / likewise the Country men in Coningreetzer Creyts doe holde them selves in Armes against the Emperour.
The Nobles of Silesia have paid all there Souldiors and casshierd them / but most of them are entertained againe of the Marckgrave of Iagersoory / who hath invaded Neus / and other Bisshoply townes / as also the Earleship Glats / and presently after he marched into Bohemia with 10000. Men / unto whom 4000 Countrymen have joyned them selves in the Shire Coningreyts / and at this present are in the Dominions of the Smirsisky / they have surprised some certaine little townes already / as Reysenberghe / Costelits and others / wherefore the Governour van Sassen hath Commission to meete the said Marckgrave / with his 7. Companies of Horsemen / and the Souldiors of Walsteyne / to incounter with him. Whose Folke doe pilladge every where / and flaye al they can lay hands on / wherefore heere is great feare that Mansvelt will joyne him with the said Iagersdorp.
The Governour Frenck is let into Tabor / because he hath highly bound himselfe to stand it out to the last man. Don Balthasar brings little to passe / but he hath lost 400. of his Men before Tabor.
Heere is great sadnes by many / conterning the Execution last / and 6. of the Executed Mens Wife are disceased for griefe of the losse of theire Husbands.
At Brin and Olmits in Morabia shall likewise 20. Lords be Executed.
To worrowe the Schaffolds shall be broake downe heere.
The Walsteynish Souldiors would this day have saccaged the Iewes / but agreement is concluded by the Generall / and the Iewes shall pay 12000. Florines.
From Comorra is written the 19. of this present / that Buequoy / Maximiliaen van Lichtensteyn / and the Lord van Dieppenbach / had given themselves out of there Camp before Nieuheusel / and the Hungarians which lay in the woods / sallied out / and so invaded and circuled thē round about / so that they very narrowly eschapped from beeing taken prisoners of the Hungarians / for 18. Chiefe persons were taken pr [...]foners / and those af Nieuheusel doe ours great hurt.
In the Hague is arrived a Gentleman from the Kinges Camp before S t. Iean d'Angely in Fraunce / he hath obtained audience the 4. hereof with the ordinarie French Ambassadour in the Hague / by the Highe and Mightie States / and as it is for certaine reported he hath sought for 4000. Souldiors and certaine Ships of warre to goe against the Protestants in Fraunce / which did seeme very strange to the States Generall / it is thought that he will not obtaine any thing.
The third heereof the said States have given the Polish Ambassadour his full expedition / and it is thought he hath obtained nothing, upon al his propositions.
We heare from Brabant / that Spinola makes him ready to mnster his souldiors / and to march into the Fields / the said Spinola hath received 3. Millions of Golde and Iewels brought upon Asses from Spaine / to pay his Folke with all / wherefore the Spaniards have received twoo Monethes wages / and the other as yet have nothing. It seemes Don Louys de Valasco, is sett of from his Generallship over Chavillrie, and the Earle Hendrick vanden Berghe is sett in his place / whereupon he is gone to Spaine. It is thought that Spinola hath wronght him this deede.
Printed at Amsterdam, By GEORGE VESELER. The 15. of IULY.