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         Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.
      
       
         
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             The lamentations of Germany Wherein, as in a glasse, we may behold her miserable condition, and reade the woefull effects of sinne. Composed by Dr Vincent Theol. an eye-witnesse thereof; and illustrated by pictures, the more to affect the reader. Hereunto are added three letters, one whereof was sent to the Dutch consistory in London, under the hand and seales of 14. distressed ministers of Swyburggen in Germany.
             Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.
          
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           THE
           LAMENTATIONS
           OF
           GERMANY
           .
        
         
           WHEREIN
           ,
           ●s
           in
           a
           Glasse
           ,
           we
           may
           behold
           her
           miserable
           condition
           ,
           and
           reade
           the
           woefull
           effects
           of
           sinne
           .
        
         
           Composed
           by
           Dr
           Vincent
           Theol.
           an
           eye-witnesse
           thereof
           ;
           and
           illustrated
           by
           Pictures
           ,
           the
           more
           to
           affect
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           ●ereunto
           are
           added
           three
           Letters
           ,
           one
           whereof
           was
           sent
           to
           the
           Dutch
           Consistory
           in
           London
           ,
           under
           the
           hand
           and
           seales
           of
           14.
           distressed
           Ministers
           of
           Swyburggen
           in
           Germany
           .
        
         
           LAMENT
           .
           1.
           12.
           
        
         
           
             ●●it
             nothing
             to
             you
             ,
             all
             ye
             that
             passe
             by
             ?
             Behold
             and
             see
             ,
             if
             there
             be
             any
             sorrow
             like
             unto
             my
             sorrow
             ,
             which
             is
             done
             unto
             me
             ,
             wherewith
             the
             Lord
             hath
             afflicted
             me
             ,
             in
             the
             day
             of
             his
             fierce
             anger
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           ●rinted
           by
           
             E.
             G.
          
           for
           
             Iohn
             Rothwell
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           the
           signe
           of
           the
           Sunne
           in
           St.
           Pauls
           Church-yard
           .
           1638.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           BEhold
           here
           ,
           as
           in
           a
           Glasse
           ,
           the
           mournefull
           face
           of
           a
           sister
           Nation
           ,
           now
           drunke
           with
           misery
           ;
           according
           to
           what
           God
           threatned
           by
           the
           Prophet
           Ieremy
           .
           Should
           I
           endeavour
           by
           all
           the
           memorable
           particulars
           ,
           which
           might
           be
           accumulated
           ,
           to
           amplifie
           this
           sad
           theme
           ,
           the
           third
           part
           would
           bee
           sufficient
           to
           weary
           thee
           or
           blinde
           thy
           eyes
           with
           reares
           ,
           if
           thy
           heart
           were
           not
           adamantine
           .
           I
           record
           but
           a
           small
           portion
           of
           what
           I
           have
           seene
           ,
           what
           I
           have
           had
           from
           sufficient
           testimonies
           .
           Gall
           and
           Wormewood
           are
           tasted
           in
           a
           drop
           ,
           and
           so
           may
           the
           great
           Ocean
           .
           Onely
           the
           thing
           I
           desire
           ,
           is
           to
           move
           thy
           Christian
           heart
           to
           compassionate
           the
           estate
           of
           thy
           poore
           brethren
           ,
           so
           lamentable
           ,
           and
           almost
           desperate
           ,
           that
           thou
           mayest
           (
           at
           least
           )
           
           by
           the
           vials
           of
           thy
           prayers
           poured
           out
           in
           their
           behalfe
           helpe
           to
           appeale
           this
           wrath
           of
           Heaven
           which
           is
           upon
           them
           .
           Remembring
           withall
           ,
           that
           as
           wee
           know
           not
           what
           hangeth
           over
           our
           owne
           heads
           ,
           so
           we
           are
           not
           ignorant
           of
           our
           owne
           indeserts
           .
           Our
           Native
           Countrey
           did
           sometimes
           suffer
           in
           like
           manner
           ,
           if
           not
           measure
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           civill
           wars
           and
           other
           times
           .
           Now
           we
           are
           free
           ,
           and
           live
           in
           peace
           ,
           every
           man
           under
           his
           owne
           Vine
           ,
           under
           his
           owne
           big-tree
           ;
           Let
           us
           not
           forget
           to
           bee
           thankfull
           for
           this
           unto
           the
           God
           of
           peace
           ,
           and
           ●ithall
           to
           shunne
           those
           provocations
           ,
           for
           which
           hee
           maketh
           a
           fertile
           land
           barren
           ,
           a
           populous
           Land
           desolate
           ,
           even
           the
           iniquity
           of
           them
           that
           dwell
           therein
           .
        
         
           
             Thine
             
               P.
               Vincent
            
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           Preface
           Exhortatory
           :
           Touching
           the
           use
           which
           is
           to
           be
           made
           of
           the
           ensuing
           Narration
           .
        
         
           
             Men
             and
             brethren
             :
          
        
         
           HEre
           followes
           (
           according
           to
           the
           table
           )
           
             A
             true
             representation
             of
             the
             miserable
             estate
             of
             Germany
             .
          
           A
           most
           grave
           ,
           serious
           ,
           and
           weighty
           subject
           ,
           and
           above
           all
           other
           most
           necessary
           for
           us
           to
           peruse
           ,
           and
           ponder
           .
           Wee
           for
           the
           present
           have
           
             Halcion
             dayes
          
           .
           Sitting
           as
           the
           people
           under
           
             Salomon
             ,
             Every
             man
             under
             his
             owne
             Vine
             ,
             and
             Fig-tree
             ;
             No
             complayning
             in
             our
             streets
             ,
             no
             carrying
             into
             Captivity
             .
          
           For
           which
           all
           honour
           and
           praise
           be
           to
           him
           ,
           whose
           mercy
           it
           is
           that
           wee
           are
           not
           consumed
           .
           And
           yet
           there
           may
           be
           
             a
             lengthening
             of
             our
             tranquility
          
           ,
           if
           wee
           would
           walke
           worthy
           of
           those
           mercies
           which
           we
           doe
           inioy
           ,
           and
           
             learne
             righteousnesse
             by
             the
             judgements
             of
             God
             ,
             which
             are
             made
             manifest
             .
          
        
         
         
           One
           especiall
           meanes
           effectually
           tending
           hereunto
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           acquainted
           with
           the
           passages
           of
           Gods
           providence
           abroad
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           such
           use
           of
           his
           dreadfull
           judgements
           as
           he
           himselfe
           in
           Scripture
           directs
           us
           to
           .
           For
           our
           information
           in
           the
           state
           of
           things
           abroad
           ,
           these
           ensuing
           schedules
           may
           helpe
           such
           as
           have
           no
           better
           intelligence
           .
           Wherein
           such
           passages
           are
           related
           ,
           
             as
             may
             make
             both
             our
             eares
             〈◊〉
             to
             heare
             them
             .
          
           The
           heads
           insisted
           on
           are
           
             the
             Arrowes
             of
             the
             Almighty
          
           ;
           Sword
           ,
           Famine
           ,
           and
           Pestilence
           ,
           together
           with
           their
           pale
           and
           grisly
           attendants
           .
           Extortion
           ,
           Rapine
           ,
           salvage
           cruelty
           ,
           desolations
           ,
           deaths
           of
           all
           kinde
           .
           A
           sad
           and
           dismall
           troope
           .
        
         
           The
           subject
           on
           which
           all
           these
           evils
           light
           ,
           is
           Germany
           :
           a
           neighbouring
           countrey
           well
           knowne
           .
           The
           Throne
           of
           Europes
           Empire
           .
           This
           is
           now
           the
           Stage
           whereon
           most
           direfull
           Tragedies
           are
           acted
           .
           And
           therein
           as
           well
           the
           Protestants
           (
           the
           more
           the
           pity
           )
           as
           the
           Papists
           :
           no
           difference
           for
           religious
           sake
           ;
           nor
           any
           respect
           of
           persons
           ,
           ages
           ,
           sexes
           ,
           or
           conditions
           .
           
             The
             fowles
             of
             the
             ayre
             may
             therein
             eate
             the
             flesh
             of
             Kings
             ,
             Captaines
             ,
             and
             mighty
             men
             .
             The
             flesh
             of
             horses
             ,
             and
             them
             that
             sit
             on
             them
             .
             Yea
             ,
             the
             flesh
             of
             all
             men
             ,
             both
             free
             and
             bond
             ,
             both
             small
             and
             great
             ,
          
           Rev.
           19.
           18.
           
        
         
           The
           instances
           and
           particulars
           which
           are
           here
           recorded
           are
           such
           as
           may
           seeme
           incredible
           ,
           and
           cause
           wondring
           unto
           astonishment
           ,
           yet
           is
           there
           nothing
           but
           what
           may
           well
           be
           counted
           probable
           ,
           a
           few
           things
           considered
           .
           As
           first
           ,
           what
           God
           threatens
           in
           this
           kinde
           for
           breach
           of
           his
           Law.
           
           Deut.
           28.
           53
           ,
           &c.
           
           Thou
           shalt
           eate
           the
           fruite
           of
           thine
           owne
           body
           ,
           the
           flesh
           of
           thy
           sonnes
           and
           daughters
           —
           .
           The
           man
           that
           is
           tender
           among
           you
           ,
           and
           very
           delicate
           ,
           his
           eyes
           shall
           be
           evill
           toward
           his
           brother
           ,
           and
           toward
           the
           wife
           of
           his
           bosome
           ,
           and
           towards
           the
           remnant
           of
           children
           which
           hee
           shall
           leave
           :
           so
           that
           he
           will
           not
           give
           to
           any
           of
           them
           the
           flesh
           of
           his
           children
           ,
           whom
           he
           shall
           eate
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Then
           what
           particular
           instances
           we
           have
           of
           like
           things
           upon
           like
           occasions
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           siege
           of
           
             Samama
             ,
             2
             King.
             6.
             28
             ,
             29.
             
          
           The
           certainety
           of
           the
           generals
           is
           beyond
           all
           exception
           ,
           among
           those
           that
           will
           believe
           any
           thing
           more
           than
           they
           see
           with
           their
           eyes
           ,
           and
           feele
           with
           their
           hands
           .
           The
           time
           ,
           and
           space
           that
           the
           wars
           have
           endured
           addes
           much
           to
           the
           probability
           of
           all
           effects
           avoucht
           .
           The
           current
           yeere
           making
           up
           full
           twenty
           since
           the
           beginning
           .
           During
           all
           which
           Germany
           hath
           beene
           
             Acheldama
             ,
             a
             field
             of
             blood
             .
          
           Vnder
           this
           word
           
             (
             warre
          
           )
           more
           evill
           and
           mischiefe
           is
           comprehended
           than
           can
           be
           uttered
           .
           Weigh
           all
           things
           duly
           ,
           the
           severall
           kinds
           of
           warre
           ,
           forraigne
           and
           domesticke
           ;
           by
           invasions
           ,
           by
           insurrections
           ,
           the
           same
           persons
           ,
           and
           places
           being
           to
           day
           Conquerours
           ,
           and
           to
           morrow
           conquered
           ,
           over
           and
           over
           againe
           ,
           and
           all
           things
           every
           day
           worse
           and
           worse
           ;
           we
           may
           well
           conclude
           ,
           
             the
             one
             halfe
             hath
             not
             beene
             told
             us
             .
          
        
         
           I
           hope
           none
           among
           us
           are
           so
           prophane
           as
           to
           say
           what
           is
           this
           to
           us
           ,
           be
           it
           all
           be
           true
           ?
           and
           few
           so
           ignorant
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           know
           what
           God
           requireth
           of
           us
           
           in
           this
           regard
           .
           Yet
           it
           's
           too
           manifest
           ,
           that
           most
           are
           so
           carelesse
           ,
           that
           they
           neede
           a
           Monitor
           to
           twit
           them
           by
           the
           care
           .
           I
           have
           therefore
           partly
           upon
           intreatie
           ,
           and
           chiefly
           for
           affection
           unto
           the
           thing
           it selfe
           ,
           endevoured
           briefly
           to
           speake
           something
           unto
           that
           end
           .
           
             The
             Lyon
             hath
             roared
             ,
             who
             will
             not
             feare
             ?
             The
             Lord
             hath
             spoken
             ,
             who
             can
             but
             prophecie
             ,
          
           Amos
           
             3.
             8.
             
             Salvian
          
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           tooke
           great
           paines
           to
           prove
           there
           was
           a
           provilence
           ,
           when
           the
           then
           supposed
           barbarous
           Goths
           and
           Vandalls
           broke
           in
           upon
           the
           Empire
           ,
           as
           the
           Sea
           doth
           sometimes
           over
           flow
           the
           banke
           .
           But
           mee
           thinkes
           that
           alone
           were
           enough
           to
           manifest
           the
           finger
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           bred
           the
           doubt
           in
           men
           Atheisticall
           .
           How
           exceeding
           full
           is
           the
           Scripture
           for
           the
           proofe
           of
           this
           ?
           
             That
             God
             is
             Authour
             of
             all
             Judgements
             ,
             and
             therefore
             in
             all
             wee
             ought
             to
             looke
             up
             unto
             him
             .
          
           All
           Captaines
           and
           their
           armies
           are
           but
           Sergeants
           under
           
             the
             Lord
             of
             hosts
             ;
             that
             man
             of
             warre
             ,
             and
             God
             of
             battell
             .
             The
             Assyrian
             is
             the
             rod
             of
             Gods
             anger
             ,
             the
             staffe
             in
             their
             hand
             is
             Gods
             indignation
             ,
          
           Isay
           
             10.
             5.
             
             There
             is
             no
             evill
             in
             a
             City
             but
             he
             doth
             it
             .
             Behold
          
           (
           saith
           the
           Psalmist
           )
           
             what
             desolations
             the
             Lord
             hath
             made
             in
             the
             earth
             .
          
           Psal.
           46.
           8.
           
           If
           a
           Sparrow
           fall
           not
           to
           the
           ground
           ,
           but
           
             according
             to
             the
             will
             of
             our
             heavenly
             Father
             ,
          
           much
           lesse
           are
           millions
           of
           men
           mowed
           downe
           with
           the
           sword
           ,
           but
           according
           to
           his
           righteousnesse
           in
           Iudgement
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           also
           cleare
           out
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           that
           wee
           ought
           to
           lay
           to
           heart
           those
           Iudgements
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           wee
           are
           acquainted
           with
           ,
           and
           especially
           his
           greater
           Iudgements
           
           God
           sends
           one
           place
           to
           consider
           of
           another
           :
           
             Goe
             yee
             now
             unto
             my
             place
             ,
             which
             was
             in
          
           Shilo
           ,
           
             where
             I
             set
             my
             name
             at
             the
             beginning
             ,
             and
             see
             what
             I
             did
             to
             it
             for
             the
             wickednesse
             of
             my
             people
             Israel
             ,
          
           7.
           12.
           saith
           God
           to
           the
           men
           of
           Ierusalem
           .
        
         
           And
           who
           makes
           question
           ,
           but
           that
           those
           
             Churches
             ,
             Nations
             ,
             Persons
          
           ,
           and
           Places
           ,
           which
           have
           speciall
           relation
           one
           unto
           another
           ,
           sacred
           or
           civill
           ,
           in
           the
           bonds
           of
           Religion
           ,
           neighbourhood
           or
           commerce
           are
           more
           especially
           bound
           mutually
           to
           consider
           and
           bemoane
           one
           anothers
           conditions
           .
        
         
           This
           likewise
           is
           evident
           ,
           that
           our
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           and
           every
           member
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           ought
           upon
           speciall
           consideration
           to
           be
           cordially
           affected
           with
           the
           miseries
           of
           Germany
           .
           They
           are
           of
           the
           same
           Religion
           with
           us
           .
           Christians
           as
           wee
           are
           ;
           our
           peace
           is
           the
           weaker
           for
           want
           of
           theirs
           ;
           many
           of
           our
           owne
           have
           suffered
           with
           them
           .
           but
           above
           all
           is
           the
           affliction
           of
           that
           
             Royall
             Lady
          
           our
           Gracious
           Soveraignes
           onely
           sister
           ,
           who
           hath
           suffered
           already
           in
           her
           Royall
           Person
           ,
           and
           may
           suffer
           yet
           more
           in
           her
           posterity
           ,
           but
           God
           forbid
           .
           But
           what
           is
           it
           that
           wee
           must
           doe
           ,
           or
           learne
           from
           the
           state
           of
           things
           in
           Germany
           ?
           The
           particulars
           are
           severall
           in
           severall
           regards
           .
           In
           relation
           to
           God
           ,
           to
           them
           and
           to
           our selves
           .
        
         
           In
           regard
           of
           God.
           Wee
           must
           acknowledge
           the
           infinitenesse
           of
           his
           Wisdome
           and
           unsearchablenesse
           of
           his
           Iudgements
           ,
           and
           take
           heede
           of
           rash
           assigning
           the
           cause
           .
           Some
           lay
           all
           the
           blame
           upon
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           as
           if
           their
           division
           among
           themselves
           ,
           and
           unnecessary
           separation
           (
           in
           their
           phrase
           )
           from
           the
           
             Church
             of
             Rome
          
           ,
           were
           the
           
           roote
           of
           all
           .
           But
           is
           it
           not
           more
           likely
           ,
           that
           
             Germany
             drinkes
             now
             of
             the
             cup
             of
             wrath
             ,
             because
             shee
             hath
             long
             drunke
             of
             the
             cup
             of
             sundry
             great
             abominations
             ?
          
           The
           generall
           cause
           ,
           which
           is
           sinne
           ,
           wee
           all
           acknowledge
           :
           It
           were
           a
           happinesse
           to
           know
           the
           speciall
           ,
           according
           unto
           that
           ,
           
             Foelix
             qui
             potuit
             rerum
             cognoscere
             causas
             .
          
           But
           such
           a
           spirit
           of
           discerning
           God
           gives
           not
           unto
           all
           .
           They
           themselves
           best
           know
           their
           owne
           waies
           ,
           case
           and
           state
           ,
           and
           therefore
           wee
           may
           leave
           it
           unto
           them
           to
           consider
           of
           the
           speciall
           causes
           ,
           whom
           it
           most
           concernes
           .
           
             But
             who
             will
             not
             feare
             the
             Lord
             ,
             and
             glorifie
             his
             Name
             ,
             who
             onely
             is
             holy
             ,
             and
             whose
             judgements
             are
             made
             manifest
             ,
          
           Rev.
           15.
           4.
           
        
         
           In
           respect
           of
           them
           ,
           first
           let
           us
           sympathize
           :
           grieve
           with
           them
           that
           grieve
           .
           Rom.
           
             12.
             15.
             and
             weepe
             with
             them
             that
             weepe
             .
          
           We
           are
           all
           members
           of
           one
           and
           the
           same
           mysticall
           body
           ,
           whereof
           Christ
           is
           head
           .
           Our
           peace
           and
           security
           is
           in
           a
           great
           measure
           bound
           up
           in
           theirs
           :
           their
           troubles
           may
           increase
           ours
           ;
           as
           they
           have
           already
           occasioned
           many
           feares
           ,
           cares
           and
           expences
           :
           Witnesse
           the
           great
           levie
           of
           souldiers
           at
           some
           times
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           little
           chargeable
           Embassages
           from
           our
           King
           and
           State.
           Next
           of
           all
           ,
           we
           are
           to
           pray
           for
           them
           ,
           that
           God
           would
           restore
           peace
           ,
           and
           make
           up
           all
           breaches
           .
           
             Giving
             the
             Lord
             no
             rest
             ,
             untill
             hee
             make
          
           Ierusalem
           
             the
             praise
             of
             the
             earth
             .
             Abraham
          
           interceded
           long
           for
           Sodome
           ,
           how
           much
           more
           ought
           we
           to
           do
           the
           like
           for
           them
           ?
           And
           yet
           further
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           ability
           and
           opportunity
           ,
           we
           ought
           to
           help
           and
           succour
           them
           ,
           ministring
           to
           their
           necessities
           ,
           receiving
           of
           their
           profugates
           ,
           and
           intertaining
           them
           into
           our
           
           bosomes
           ,
           when
           they
           fly
           from
           their
           owne
           to
           us
           .
           Many
           of
           ours
           found
           among
           them
           a
           shelter
           from
           the
           storme
           in
           our
           
             Marian
             daies
          
           ,
           and
           doe
           still
           ,
           no
           doubt
           ,
           blesse
           God
           for
           our
           peace
           ,
           notwithstanding
           their
           owne
           warres
           .
        
         
           In
           respect
           of
           our selves
           ,
           there
           be
           many
           instructions
           which
           we
           may
           learne
           from
           the
           Lecture
           of
           their
           calamities
           .
           No
           privileges
           can
           finally
           secure
           a
           sinfull
           people
           ;
           for
           what
           have
           we
           to
           glory
           in
           that
           they
           had
           not
           ?
           The
           seedes
           of
           all
           their
           evills
           are
           sowne
           in
           our
           fields
           .
           There
           be
           likewise
           divers
           duties
           that
           wee
           should
           abound
           in
           the
           more
           :
           In
           repentance
           ,
           lest
           we
           bring
           upon
           our selves
           the
           like
           :
           In
           prayer
           ,
           that
           God
           would
           blesse
           our
           state
           and
           government
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           wisedome
           thereof
           we
           may
           be
           led
           along
           in
           such
           waies
           as
           may
           propagate
           our
           peace
           unto
           posterity
           :
           In
           patience
           under
           those
           chastisements
           which
           we
           suffer
           .
           Though
           the
           hand
           of
           God
           hath
           long
           beene
           upon
           many
           Cities
           and
           Townes
           ,
           and
           
             his
             Arme
             be
             stretched
             out
             still
          
           upon
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           yet
           is
           our
           misery
           ,
           happinesse
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           theirs
           :
           If
           a
           gentle
           plague
           alone
           have
           affrighted
           us
           all
           ,
           What
           would
           Sword
           and
           Famine
           with
           it
           doe
           ?
        
         
           But
           what
           doe
           wee
           ?
           
             Wee
             put
             farre
             away
             the
             evill
             day
             ,
             and
             cause
             the
             seat
             of
             violence
             to
             come
             neere
             :
             Wee
             drinke
             wine
             in
             bowles
             ,
             and
             anoint
             our selves
             with
             the
             chiefe
             ointments
             ,
             but
             are
             not
             grieved
             for
             the
             afflictions
             of
          
           Ioseph
           ,
           Amos
           
             6.
             3.
             
             &
             6.
          
           
           This
           
           is
           no
           small
           sinne
           ,
           and
           if
           once
           the
           day
           of
           our
           visitation
           come
           ,
           a
           small
           chastisement
           on
           Gods
           part
           will
           not
           be
           all
           .
           Oh
           that
           wee
           would
           consider
           ,
           
             the
             Vials
             of
             Gods
             wrath
             are
             pouring
             forth
             ,
             as
             well
             on
             his
             owne
             Churches
             for
             correction
             ,
             as
             on
             their
             adversaries
             unto
             destructino
             .
          
           Who
           knowes
           how
           fast
           the
           cup
           may
           passe
           round
           ?
           Gods
           arrowes
           are
           all
           fleete
           .
           
             The
             curse
             of
             God
             goeth
             forth
             over
             the
             face
             of
             the
             whole
             earth
             ,
          
           Zach.
           
             5.
             3.
          
           
           If
           the
           sinnes
           of
           Sodome
           be
           found
           in
           Samaria
           ,
           and
           the
           sinnes
           of
           Samaria
           in
           Ierusalem
           ,
           they
           shall
           all
           pledge
           each
           other
           :
           for
           God
           is
           no
           respecter
           of
           persons
           .
           Are
           there
           no
           drunkards
           but
           in
           Germany
           ?
           Or
           ,
           doth
           God
           hate
           sinne
           in
           them
           alone
           ?
           What
           are
           wee
           ,
           that
           God
           should
           alwaies
           spare
           us
           ?
           Many
           cry
           ,
           
             Peace
             ,
             Peace
          
           ,
           and
           I
           with
           the
           Prophet
           Ieremy
           say
           
             Amen
             .
             The
             Lord
             doe
             so
             ,
             the
             Lord
             performe
             the
             words
             of
             them
             which
             prophesie
             of
             nothing
             but
             good
             ,
          
           Iere.
           
             28.
             6.
          
           
           But
           it
           s
           good
           to
           remember
           that
           of
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           when
           they
           cry
           ,
           
             Peace
             ,
             Peace
          
           ,
           &c.
           
             Gloss.
             ordin
          
           .
           in
           Ierem.
           
             7.
             12.
             
             Quicquid
             illo
             populo
             fecit
             Deus
             ,
             timeamus
             :
             cum
             nos
             similia
             faciamus
             .
          
           Yet
           no
           such
           clouds
           
             (
             blessed
             bee
             God
          
           )
           arise
           over
           our
           heads
           ,
           as
           those
           wherewith
           her
           horizon
           is
           darkned
           .
           But
           stormes
           arise
           suddenly
           .
           
             God
             creates
             good
             and
             evill
          
           ,
           brings
           both
           when
           there
           is
           no
           appearance
           or
           cause
           of
           suspicion
           .
           Not
           to
           feare
           is
           cause
           enough
           to
           bee
           affraid
           ,
           if
           we
           could
           so
           reflect
           upon
           our selves
           :
           
             As
             God
             brings
             
             light
             out
             of
             darknesse
             ,
             so
             darknesse
             out
             of
             light
             .
          
           How
           faire
           rose
           the
           Sunne
           upon
           Sodome
           ,
           that
           day
           it
           rained
           fire
           and
           brimstone
           ?
           How
           poore
           a
           thing
           was
           a
           cloud
           like
           a
           mans
           hand
           ,
           to
           prognosticate
           abundance
           of
           raine
           by
           ?
           But
           I
           must
           
             manum
             de
             tabula
          
           .
           Well
           then
           reade
           on
           ,
           reade
           and
           spare
           not
           ,
           reade
           and
           consider
           ,
           reade
           and
           weepe
           ,
           imagine
           the
           Booke
           to
           be
           Germany
           it selfe
           ,
           their
           case
           ours
           ,
           and
           
             our
             soules
             in
             their
             soules
             stead
             .
          
           Do
           as
           Nehemiah
           did
           when
           he
           heard
           of
           the
           state
           of
           Ierusalem
           ,
           and
           the
           Temple
           therein
           
             He
             sate
             downe
             and
             wept
             ,
             mourned
             and
             fasted
             certaine
             daies
             ,
             and
             prayed
             before
             the
             Lord
             God
             of
             Heaven
             ,
          
           Neh.
           
             1.
             4.
          
           
           Would
           we
           but
           doe
           the
           like
           for
           our selves
           and
           them
           ,
           God
           would
           assuredly
           restore
           their
           peace
           ,
           and
           continue
           ours
           ,
           for
           which
           I
           shall
           ever
           heartily
           pray
           ,
           and
           so
           rest
        
         
           A
           well-wisher
           to
           all
           the
           Churches
           of
           God.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           Copie
           of
           a
           Letter
           sent
           by
           the
           Ministers
           of
           Germany
           to
           the
           
             Dutch
             Church
             in
          
           LONDON
           .
        
         
           
             Snalles
             and
             froges
             eagerly
             eaten
          
        
         
           
             Eatinge
             dead
             mens
             guts
             and
             Interalls
          
        
         
           
             A
             diuines
             wife
             saw
             6
             of
             her
             Children
             ley
             starued
             before
             her
             eyes
             .
             Corne
             3
             pounds
             18
             shilling
             a
             bushell
             .
          
        
         
         
           SInce
           the
           Imperialists
           passing
           the
           Rhine
           ,
           first
           entred
           into
           our
           Countrey
           ,
           which
           is
           almost
           two
           yeeres
           agoe
           ,
           destruction
           hath
           come
           upon
           as
           like
           a
           whirlewind
           ,
           and
           sudden
           desolation
           hath
           depopulated
           this
           our
           most
           floutishing
           country
           ;
           our
           Cities
           are
           turned
           into
           Townes
           ,
           our
           Townes
           into
           Villages
           ,
           our
           Villages
           into
           Cottages
           ;
           where
           before
           were
           a
           thousand
           ,
           there
           now
           scarce
           a
           hundred
           ,
           and
           where
           a
           hundred
           ,
           there
           the
           tenth
           is
           hardly
           left
           alive
           :
           Those
           which
           the
           sword
           hath
           spared
           ,
           the
           Pestilence
           hath
           consumed
           ,
           those
           which
           the
           Pestilence
           hath
           left
           ,
           Famine
           hath
           destroyed
           ,
           and
           the
           small
           remnant
           which
           pale-fac'd
           Famine
           hath
           not
           devoured
           ,
           are
           so
           transcēdently
           miserable
           ,
           as
           it
           
           even
           exceeds
           the
           most
           hyperbolical
           expresions
           of
           the
           loftiest
           Rhetorician
           ,
           yet
           that
           your
           thoughts
           may
           be
           elevated
           to
           a
           higher
           pitch
           ,
           and
           more
           serious
           consideration
           ,
           we●
           will
           give
           you
           some
           instances
           ,
           some
           examples
           .
           After
           that
           the
           Caesarian
           forces
           the
           last
           yeere
           had
           taken
           Swybruggen
           ,
           &
           passing
           with
           a
           numbersome
           army
           towards
           Lotharinge
           had
           destroyed
           all
           round
           about
           ;
           there
           followed
           such
           a
           fearefull
           famin
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           part
           of
           men
           ,
           especially
           of
           thē
           that
           dwelt
           in
           the
           country
           ,
           being
           urged
           by
           pressing
           necessity
           ,
           was
           driven
           to
           feed
           on
           Acorns
           ,
           all
           manner
           of
           herbs
           ,
           roots
           ,
           briars
           ,
           nettles
           ,
           grasse
           ,
           leaves
           of
           trees
           ,
           so
           that
           we
           may
           truly
           take
           up
           the
           complaint
           of
           the
           Psalmist
           (
           though
           there
           it
           's
           to
           be
           taken
           in
           another
           sense
           )
           that
           man
           is
           become
           like
           the
           beast
           that
           perisheth
           ,
           but
           further
           ,
           the
           intralls
           of
           beasts
           ,
           the
           skins
           of
           beeves
           ,
           sheepe
           ,
           horses
           ,
           the
           haire
           being
           first
           burned
           ,
           was
           highly
           prised
           ,
           yea
           Snailes
           ,
           Frogs
           with
           their
           guts
           and
           egs
           ,
           the
           flesh
           of
           dogs
           and
           cats
           ,
           carrion
           that
           hath
           been
           dead
           six
           weeks
           or
           more
           ,
           hath
           beene
           valued
           at
           a
           great
           rate
           ,
           
           nay
           ,
           sometimes
           not
           the
           price
           ,
           but
           a
           sword
           hath
           decided
           who
           should
           have
           a
           young
           colt
           ,
           or
           some
           such
           thing
           ,
           though
           not
           halfe
           a
           yard
           long
           .
           Two
           women
           did
           so
           long
           fight
           with
           their
           fists
           for
           horse-flesh
           ,
           that
           one
           of
           of
           them
           dyed
           ,
           yea
           ,
           in
           some
           Famine
           made
           such
           a
           rage
           ,
           that
           they
           did
           not
           abstaine
           from
           mans
           flesh
           .
           In
           a
           parish
           neere
           unto
           Sweybruggen
           ,
           a
           brother
           and
           sister
           surviving
           their
           parents
           ,
           and
           the
           sister
           also
           dying
           ,
           he
           (
           wee
           tremble
           in
           the
           very
           writing
           )
           fed
           upon
           his
           sister
           ,
           and
           devoured
           the
           thighes
           of
           his
           mother
           ,
           in
           the
           Diocesse
           of
           
             Blissoe
             Capellana
          
           the
           corpses
           of
           men
           starved
           ,
           whose
           skin
           cleaved
           to
           their
           bones
           ,
           so
           that
           whilest
           they
           were
           alive
           ,
           we
           might
           truely
           have
           said
           ,
           that
           their
           flesh
           did
           but
           infunerall
           their
           buried
           ghosts
           ,
           yet
           they
           being
           dead
           ,
           had
           their
           in
           wards
           ,
           their
           heart
           and
           lungs
           taken
           our
           ,
           and
           devoured
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           more
           ,
           they
           have
           laine
           in
           waite
           to
           intercept
           passengers
           ,
           and
           those
           whom
           they
           have
           taken
           ,
           after
           they
           have
           killed
           them
           ,
           they
           make
           their
           own
           bellies
           then
           graves
           .
           A
           boy
           of
           some
           three
           yeeres
           old
           ,
           the
           
           son
           of
           a
           souldier
           in
           Biten
           territory
           ,
           was
           stollen
           and
           carried
           away
           by
           a
           begger
           ,
           as
           she
           was
           about
           to
           strangle
           him
           with
           a
           haltar
           ,
           the
           mother
           opportunely
           comming
           ,
           rescued
           him
           ,
           and
           moved
           with
           wrath
           and
           indignation
           slew
           her
           ,
           these
           are
           the
           fearefull
           effects
           of
           Famine
           ,
           so
           that
           if
           we
           scape
           the
           being
           devoured
           by
           others
           ,
           yet
           hunger
           will
           even
           famish
           us
           :
           the
           widow
           of
           
             Iohn
             Peters
             Laëri
          
           .
           Minister
           ,
           saw
           before
           she
           died
           (
           O
           dreadfull
           spectacle
           )
           sixe
           of
           her
           children
           perish
           with
           Famine
           .
           The
           widow
           of
           
             Albogastus
             Rumela
          
           perished
           her selfe
           ,
           and
           foure
           children
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           are
           extinguished
           by
           Famine
           (
           if
           they
           escape
           being
           eaten
           of
           others
           )
           they
           lie
           unburied
           ,
           stinking
           and
           torne
           in
           pieces
           by
           dogs
           ,
           wolves
           ,
           and
           other
           beasts
           .
           Some
           having
           eaten
           mad
           dogges
           ,
           were
           taken
           with
           phrensie
           themselves
           ,
           and
           ragingly
           dyed
           .
           Hence
           comes
           such
           a
           wildernesse
           ,
           that
           in
           300
           parishes
           ,
           there
           's
           not
           any
           left
           alive
           ,
           those
           few
           that
           remaine
           ,
           hide
           themselves
           in
           the
           woods
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           townes
           ,
           the
           tenth
           man
           doth
           not
           survive
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           them
           too
           ,
           
           having
           their
           strength
           dryed
           up
           ,
           totter
           to
           and
           fro
           ,
           nodding
           and
           sliding
           like
           carved
           pictures
           without
           life
           ,
           and
           many
           being
           no
           longer
           able
           to
           stand
           ,
           fall
           downe
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           the
           streetes
           ,
           groveling
           on
           the
           ground
           ,
           and
           being
           onely
           able
           to
           aske
           for
           sustenance
           are
           ready
           to
           give
           up
           the
           ghost
           .
           This
           is
           the
           state
           of
           our
           afflicted
           Countrey
           ,
           so
           that
           we
           may
           lament
           ,
           as
           Isay.
           The
           daughter
           of
           Sion
           is
           like
           a
           city
           of
           devastation
           ,
           like
           a
           Sommer
           cottage
           in
           a
           garden
           ,
           like
           a
           little
           nouse
           in
           a
           vineyard
           .
           It
           the
           Lord
           of
           Hosts
           had
           not
           left
           us
           a
           remnant
           ,
           we
           had
           beene
           as
           Sodome
           and
           as
           Gomorrah
           .
        
         
           
             
               In
               the
               Dukedome
               of
               Sweybruggen
               are
               left
            
             
               
                 Ministers
                 .
              
               
                 40.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Schoolemasters
                 .
              
               
                 16.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Wives
                 .
              
               
                 52.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Widowes
              
               
                 26.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Children
                 .
              
               
                 140.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Orphanes
                 .
              
               
                 18.
                 
              
            
          
        
         
           Somme
           292.
           
           Persons
           .
        
         
         
           In
           the
           names
           of
           all
           the
           Ministers
           of
           Sweybrugen
           sent
           forth
           under
           hand
           and
           seale
           :
        
         
           Iohannes
           Wilthelmus
           .
           Rauschius
           Pastor
           Numbacensis
           .
           Exul
           .
        
         
           Iohannes
           Christianus
           .
           Neuhorelius
           Pastor
           Ohmbacensis
           .
           Exul
           .
        
         
           This
           we
           have
           had
           from
           such
           good
           hands
           ,
           even
           from
           the
           Dutch
           Cō
           sistory
           in
           London
           ,
           where
           the
           Originall
           is
           ,
           that
           it
           must
           needes
           seeme
           malicious
           ignorance
           in
           any
           that
           will
           but
           faint
           in
           the
           beliefe
           hereof
           .
        
         
           
             Sweybruggen
             .
          
           
             14.
             
             Novemb.
             1636.
             
          
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           Copy
           of
           a
           Letter
           written
           by
           a
           worthy
           Minister
           of
           Meissenheim
           ,
           upon
           the
           edge
           of
           the
           Lower
           Palatinate
           ,
           the
           1.
           of
           Feb.
           1637.
           
        
         
           Caeterum
           ,
           
             quis
             patriae
             nostra
             afflictissimae
             status
             fit
             ,
             ex
             aliis
             procul
             dubio
             percepistis
             ,
             omnia
             (
             ut
             Poetae
             verbis
             utar
             )
             in
             pejus
             ruere
             ,
             &
             retro
             pede
             lapsareferri
             ,
             quocunque
             enim
             oculos
             vertimus
             ,
             nihil
             nisi
             miseriam
             ,
             &
             hor.
             rendam
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             cernimus
             :
             Militis
             insolentia
          
           
           
             &
             truculentia
             omnem
             fere
             superat
             fidem
             ,
             Biponti
             ipsa
             Illustrissimorum
             Ducum
             ante
             multos
             annos
             defunctorum
             ,
             spe
             prede
             ,
             sepulcra
             violare
             ,
             in
             eorum
             cadavera
             savire
             ,
             ossa
             disturbare
             &
             comminuere
             non
             veriti
             sunt
             :
             Annonae
             Caritas
             tanta
             ,
             quanta
             in
             his
             terris
             nunquam
             audita
             ,
             medimnus
             siliginis
             vix
             octodecim
             comparatur
             Imperialibus
             thaleris
             ,
             &
             cum
             summo
             vitae
             periculo
             bûc
             portatur
             ,
             certè
             nisi
             Deus
             Opt.
             Max.
             veluti
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             manus
             auxiliairices
          
           
           
             ferat
             ,
             paucisfimis
             illis
             incolis
             ,
             qui
             adhuc
          
           
           superstites
           sunt
           ,
           &
           bactenus
           maximā
           partem
           pomis
           pirisque
           victitarunt
           ,
           quoque
           inedia
           pereundum
           erit
           ;
           Famis
           Sagunthinae
           ,
           Samaritanae
           ,
           Hisrosolymitanae
           ,
           prae
           atrocissimis
           illis
           ,
           quae
           in
           nostra
           (
           Proh
           dolor
           !
           )
           patriâ
           evenêre
           ,
           exemplis
           ferè
           ludicra
           sunt
           ;
           ante
           2.
           hebdomadas
           in
           pago
           Ilvesheim
           Incola
           (
           vir
           alioquin
           honesti
           nominis
           )
           vicini
           sui
           absentis
           aedes
           intrat
           ,
           aliquid
           panis
           aufert
           ,
           exire
           volentem
           interpellat
           puer
           octo
           quasi
           annorum
           ,
           &
           comminatur
           ,
           quòd
           cognato
           suo
           ,
           apud
           quem
           vixerat
           hactenus
           ,
           redeunti
           furtum
           hoc
           propalare
           velit
           ,
           ibi
           continuò
           sceleratus
           ille
           instinctu
           mali
           genii
           accurrit
           ,
           &
           puero
           falce
           putatoria
           miserè
           jugulum
           abscindit
           :
           In
           pago
           Steinhausen
           propè
           Hornbacum
           foemina
           quaedam
           puellam
           12
           
             annorum
             ,
             blandis
             verbis
             pellectam
             ,
             puerumque
             quinque
             annorum
             molitoris
             filium
             (
             horresco
             referens
             )
             trucida
             vit
             ,
             &
             cum
             vicinâ
             devoravit
             ;
             Milites
             praesidiarii
             Bipontini
             excurrentes
             in
             pagum
             hunc
             irruunt
             fortuitò
             ,
             &
             aedes
             infanticidae
             bujus
             nesariae
             ,
             nidore
             allecti
             ,
             intrant
             ,
             omnes
             angulos
             rimantur
             ,
             tandem
             vas
             adipe
             humano
             resertum
             ,
             Caputque
             prius
             aquâ
             fervente
             maceratum
             ,
             
             exinde
             in
             furno
             tostum
             reperiunt
             ,
             ipsam
             captivam
             Bipontum
             trabunt
             ,
             ubi
          
           24.
           
           Ianuarii
           poenas
           infandi
           hujus
           infanticidii
           dedit
           meritas
           ,
           sequ●
           praeterito
           anno
           duos
           insuper
           liberos
           prope
           Landoviam
           &
           Annae
           villam
           mactasse
           confessa
           est
           ;
           altera
           foemina
           ,
           quae
           particeps
           barum
           carnium
           suit
           ,
           adbuc
           in
           vinculis
           tenetur
           ,
           se
           enim
           hujus
           facinoris
           affinem
           fuisse
           constanter
           pernegat
           .
           Talia
           (
           proh
           dolor
           !
           )
           indies
           audire
           cogimur
           ,
           tristissima
           exempla
           :
           ô
           vere
           malesuadam
           famem
           !
           ô
           ingenia
           verè
           Cyclopica
           !
           ô
           horrendam
           metamorphosin
           ,
           quâ
           homines
           omnem
           ubmanitatem
           exuentes
           ,
           truculentissimarum
           bestiarum
           naturam
           induunt
           ,
           &
           verè
           
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           seu
           Lycaones
           fiunt
           !
        
         
           
             Fredericus
             Goelerus
             ,
          
           
             Pastor
             Meissenheimensis
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           same
           in
           English.
           
        
         
           VVHat
           the
           state
           of
           our
           most
           afflicted
           Countrey
           is
           ,
           without
           all
           doubt
           you
           have
           perceived
           by
           others
           ;
           all
           things
           (
           as
           I
           may
           use
           the
           words
           of
           the
           Poet
           )
           have
           runne
           together
           for
           the
           worse
           ,
           and
           slid
           with
           a
           backward
           foot
           ,
           for
           wheresoere
           we
           cast
           our
           eyes
           ,
           wee
           see
           nothing
           but
           misery
           ,
           and
           a
           horrid
           devastation
           of
           townes
           and
           villages
           ;
           the
           insolencie
           and
           cruelty
           of
           the
           Souldiers
           exceeds
           all
           beliefe
           ,
           they
           have
           not
           beene
           afraid
           ,
           sor
           the
           hope
           of
           prey
           ,
           in
           Sweibruggen
           to
           violate
           the
           tombes
           of
           the
           illustrious
           Dukes
           many
           yeares
           agoe
           deceased
           ,
           to
           exercise
           cruelty
           on
           their
           corps
           ,
           to
           disturb
           and
           diminish
           their
           bones
           .
           The
           dearenesse
           of
           provision
           is
           such
           as
           never
           hath
           beene
           heard
           of
           before
           in
           this
           land
           ,
           a
           bushell
           of
           corne
           is
           scarsely
           got
           with
           1●
           
             Rix
             Dollers
          
           ,
           which
           is
           foure
           pounds
           one
           shilling
           English
           money
           ;
           which
           is
           hither
           brought
           with
           the
           extreme
           danger
           of
           their
           lives
           that
           bring
           it
           ,
           Surely
           ,
           without
           our
           good
           God
           from
           above
           
           should
           lend
           us
           his
           helping
           hand
           ,
           those
           few
           Inhabitants
           which
           yet
           remaine
           alive
           ,
           and
           hitherto
           for
           the
           most
           part
           have
           lived
           on
           apples
           and
           peares
           must
           needs
           perish
           .
           The
           Famine
           of
           
             Saguntum
             ,
             Samaria
             ,
             Ierusalem
          
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           but
           paralleld
           with
           those
           most
           grievous
           ones
           (
           oh
           our
           griefe
           !
           )
           that
           have
           befalne
           us
           in
           our
           Countrey
           ,
           seeme
           but
           trifles
           .
           About
           a
           fortnight
           since
           ,
           an
           Inhabitant
           of
           the
           village
           of
           Ilvesbeim
           (
           a
           manotherwise
           of
           a
           good
           report
           )
           comming
           into
           the
           house
           of
           his
           neighbour
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           absent
           ,
           tooke
           a
           little
           bread
           ,
           intending
           to
           goe
           out
           ,
           a
           child
           of
           some
           eight
           yeares
           of
           age
           called
           after
           him
           ,
           and
           threatned
           him
           ,
           that
           when
           his
           Cousen
           came
           home
           ,
           with
           whom
           he
           lived
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           make
           manifest
           his
           theft
           presently
           ;
           that
           wicked
           fellow
           ranne
           unto
           him
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           pruning
           hooke
           miserably
           cut
           his
           throate
           .
           In
           the
           Village
           of
           Steinhaus
           neere
           Hornebach
           ,
           a
           certaine
           woman
           having
           allured
           unto
           her
           with
           enticing
           words
           a
           girle
           of
           12.
           yeares
           old
           ,
           and
           a
           boy
           of
           5
           ,
           a
           Millers
           son
           (
           I
           tremble
           in
           the
           relating
           )
           
           killed
           them
           both
           ,
           and
           devoured
           them
           with
           her
           neighbour
           ;
           the
           Garrison
           Souldiers
           of
           Sweibrugen
           making
           an
           excursion
           by
           chance
           into
           this
           village
           ,
           being
           drawne
           thither
           by
           the
           smell
           ,
           enter
           the
           house
           of
           this
           infant
           killer
           ;
           they
           search
           every
           corner
           ,
           at
           last
           they
           finde
           a
           vessell
           full
           of
           humane
           grease
           ,
           and
           a
           head
           that
           had
           beene
           scalded
           in
           hot
           water
           ,
           and
           so
           baked
           in
           an
           oven
           ;
           they
           carried
           her
           caprive
           unto
           Sweibruggen
           ,
           where
           on
           the
           24
           of
           Ianuary
           shee
           suffered
           condigne
           punishment
           ;
           At
           her
           death
           she
           confest
           ,
           that
           neere
           Landovia
           and
           the
           Village
           of
           Anna
           ,
           she
           killd
           two
           other
           children
           the
           last
           year
           .
           The
           other
           woman
           ,
           which
           was
           partaker
           in
           the
           eating
           ,
           is
           still
           kept
           in
           prison
           ,
           and
           constantly
           denies
           that
           shee
           was
           a
           partner
           in
           that
           wicked
           act
           .
           Such
           things
           (
           oh
           our
           grief
           !
           )
           we
           are
           compeld
           daily
           to
           heare
           ,
           most
           sad
           examples
           .
           O
           ill
           perswading
           hunger
           ,
           O
           wits
           truly
           Cyclopicke
           !
           O
           dreadful
           Metamorphosis
           !
           by
           which
           men
           putting
           off
           all
           humanity
           ,
           and
           putting
           on
           the
           nature
           of
           salvage
           beasts
           ,
           doe
           truly
           become
           wolvish
           !
        
         
           
             From
             Meissenbsim
             .
          
           
             Feb.
             1.
             1637.
             
          
           
             Fredericus
             Goelerus
             ,
          
           
             Pastor
             of
             Meissenh
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           true
           Copy
           of
           a
           Letter
           written
           by
           a
           worthy
           Minister
           ,
           
             Andreas
             Pilger
          
           sometimes
           Minister
           of
           Heydelberg
           .
           From
           Wormbs
           the
           10th
           .
           of
           Febr.
           1637.
           
        
         
           ALas
           !
           What
           stormes
           and
           tempests
           doe
           now
           beat
           upon
           the
           ship
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           in
           our
           Countrey
           ?
           What
           punishments
           and
           plagues
           doe
           now
           oppresse
           us
           ?
           God
           is
           justly
           angry
           with
           us
           for
           our
           manifold
           sinnes
           ,
           and
           seemes
           in
           his
           indignation
           utterly
           to
           destroy
           us
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           is
           round
           about
           us
           .
           The
           heavie
           curses
           of
           Moses
           ,
           the
           bitter
           lamentations
           of
           Ieremy
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           horrible
           threatnings
           of
           the
           holy
           Prophets
           ,
           wee
           see
           daily
           here
           accomplished
           .
           With
           this
           new
           Winter-quarter
           ,
           beginnes
           a
           renewing
           of
           our
           miseries
           ;
           oppression
           and
           persecution
           ,
           we
           being
           utterly
           destitute
           of
           all
           helpe
           and
           meanes
           to
           support
           us
           .
           The
           chiefest
           of
           our
           Countrey
           are
           forced
           to
           leave
           their
           houses
           and
           lands
           ,
           and
           to
           goe
           a
           wandring
           in
           strange
           Countries
           ;
           yea
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           end
           their
           lives
           most
           miserably
           .
           It
           is
           impossible
           to
           expresse
           either
           the
           greatnesse
           of
           our
           wants
           ,
           or
           the
           fury
           of
           Famine
           amongst
           us
           .
           Mothers
           forgetting
           
           their
           naturall
           affections
           towards
           their
           owne
           children
           become
           butchers
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           eate
           them
           up
           in
           stead
           of
           food
           .
           Wee
           do
           heare
           daily
           children
           crying
           about
           the
           streets
           ,
           and
           lamenting
           that
           they
           dare
           not
           goe
           home
           ,
           for
           feare
           of
           being
           killed
           .
           It
           is
           kept
           upon
           record
           by
           the
           Magistrates
           of
           this
           City
           ,
           how
           that
           men
           have
           digged
           out
           of
           the
           graves
           dead
           bodies
           ,
           and
           have
           eaten
           them
           .
           A
           woman
           was
           found
           dead
           ,
           having
           a
           mans
           head
           rosted
           by
           her
           ,
           and
           the
           rib
           of
           a
           man
           in
           her
           mouth
           ,
           holding
           it
           betweene
           her
           teeth
           ,
           and
           of
           this
           horrible
           spectacle
           all
           sorts
           of
           men
           can
           give
           testimony
           .
           Such
           and
           many
           more
           signes
           of
           Gods
           heavie
           wrath
           wee
           could
           write
           unto
           you
           of
           ,
           but
           this
           shall
           suffice
           to
           give
           you
           a
           touch
           of
           the
           extremities
           wee
           are
           in
           .
           O
           how
           seasonable
           are
           those
           almes
           ,
           which
           are
           sent
           hither
           to
           keepe
           some
           of
           us
           alive
           !
           That
           faithfull
           God
           ,
           who
           hath
           made
           so
           many
           promises
           to
           the
           liberall
           heart
           ,
           will
           undoubtedly
           consider
           those
           ,
           that
           consider
           our
           poore
           Countrey-men
           in
           these
           extremities
           ,
           and
           keep
           them
           from
           famishing
           .
        
         
           
             Andreas
             Pilger
             ,
             Pastor
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             I.
             
          
           
             EVills
             of
             Punishment
             are
             Gods
             ,
             the
             evil
             of
             Sinne
             is
             wholly
             ours
             .
             Whatsoever
             was
             the
             impulsive
             cause
             of
             his
             judgements
             ,
             our
             wholsomest
             use
             is
             ,
             to
             attribute
             them
             to
             our
             sins
             :
             to
             greater
             sins
             ,
             greater
             Judgements
             ,
             seeing
             God
             seemeth
             to
             observe
             a
             proportion
             to
             our
             deserts
             ;
             for
             ,
             Ezck.
             14.
             21.
             the
             Prophet
             speaks
             of
             foure
             sore
             Judgements
             ,
             that
             is
             ,
             greater
             and
             more
             grievous
             than
             the
             rest
             ;
             famine
             ,
             sword
             ,
             pestilence
             ,
             and
             the
             noisome
             beast
             :
             with
             these
             hath
             he
             lately
             visited
             some
             nations
             ;
             especially
             Germany
             ,
             before
             a
             large
             ,
             populous
             ,
             fertile
             and
             flourishing
             Countrey
             .
             What
             shal
             we
             say
             ?
             were
             their
             sins
             greater
             than
             ours
             ?
             No
             ,
             but
             except
             we
             repent
             ,
             what
             may
             we
             expect
             ?
             the
             sins
             of
             Sodome
             were
             pride
             ,
             idlenesse
             ,
             and
             fulnesse
             of
             bread
             ;
             and
             such
             they
             acknowledge
             theirs
             to
             have
             beene
             .
             I
             have
             seene
             their
             peasants
             served
             in
             plate
             ,
             they
             slept
             
             with
             downe-beds
             above
             and
             under
             them
             :
             their
             stoves
             kept
             them
             insensible
             of
             the
             winters
             cold
             ;
             they
             ate
             no
             dish
             of
             meat
             without
             his
             sauce
             ;
             their
             plenty
             of
             corne
             and
             wine
             ,
             milk
             and
             honey
             ,
             fish
             and
             flesh
             ,
             did
             equall
             that
             of
             any
             other
             nation
             whatsoever
             .
             A
             little
             labour
             brought
             them
             in
             much
             ;
             delicacie
             of
             living
             made
             them
             incompassionate
             of
             others
             sufferings
             ;
             and
             security
             blinded
             them
             ,
             that
             they
             could
             not
             see
             the
             storm
             a
             comming
             .
             Thus
             ,
             while
             they
             swim
             in
             fulnesse
             and
             pleasure
             ,
             the
             Judgement
             that
             slept
             ,
             was
             suddenly
             awaked
             ,
             &
             the
             fire
             of
             war
             was
             kindled
             in
             all
             their
             coasts
             ;
             which
             blowne
             with
             the
             bellows
             of
             exasperated
             spirits
             ,
             hath
             depopulated
             their
             Land
             ,
             and
             consumed
             their
             dwellings
             to
             the
             ground
             :
             all
             lieth
             desolate
             ;
             the
             Vineyards
             are
             not
             dressed
             ,
             nor
             the
             fields
             tilled
             ,
             the
             sword
             is
             every
             where
             drunke
             with
             bloud
             .
             Famine
             killeth
             more
             than
             the
             sword
             ;
             and
             the
             pestilence
             ,
             with
             other
             Epidemicke
             diseases
             (
             wars
             attendants
             )
             devour
             their
             part
             also
             ;
             and
             which
             is
             worst
             of
             all
             ,
             there
             is
             yet
             no
             end
             of
             these
             things
             .
          
        
         
           
           
           
             CHAP.
             II.
             
               Of
               Extortions
               and
               Exactions
            
             .
          
           
             
               the
               blazinge
               starre
               1617
            
          
           
             
               burgers
               and
               ministers
               .
               ,
               releued
               in
               prisson
            
          
           
             
               a
               diuine
               tortured
               with
               a
               Catt
               .
            
          
           
           
             TO
             beginne
             with
             warre
             ,
             which
             began
             the
             rest
             ,
             who
             knoweth
             not
             that
             this
             mercilesse
             fury
             hath
             there
             plaied
             the
             tyrant
             ,
             ever
             since
             that
             burning
             Beacon
             ,
             the
             blazing
             Starre
             ,
             gave
             them
             the
             alarme
             ,
             1617.
             which
             the
             best
             Astrologers
             expounded
             the
             sword
             of
             Germany
             .
             A
             Prophecie
             I
             have
             seen
             ,
             long
             since
             ,
             written
             in
             a
             Booke
             ,
             which
             belonged
             to
             a
             Canonick
             of
             Nimegen
             ,
             and
             now
             in
             the
             Library
             at
             Zutphen
             ;
             that
             a
             time
             should
             come
             ,
             when
             one
             Frederike
             should
             be
             King
             ,
             and
             then
             should
             the
             Princes
             of
             Germany
             ,
             the
             Nobility
             of
             Bohemia
             ,
             and
             the
             people
             of
             both
             be
             oppressed
             ,
             and
             warre
             rage
             ,
             beyond
             all
             precedent
             of
             former
             ages
             this
             ,
             if
             ever
             ,
             is
             now
             fulfilled
             in
             our
             daies
             .
             And
             if
             in
             such
             disorder
             it
             may
             be
             possible
             ,
             I
             will
             observe
             this
             order
             in
             speaking
             thereof
             :
             first
             ,
             extortions
             and
             exactions
             :
             secondly
             tortures
             and
             torments
             :
             thirdly
             ,
             rape
             and
             ravishing
             :
             fourthly
             ,
             robbery
             and
             pillaging
             :
             fifthly
             ,
             bloud-shed
             and
             killing
             ;
             sixthly
             ,
             burning
             and
             destroying
             .
             These
             shall
             be
             the
             Scenes
             of
             this
             first
             act
             .
             Famine
             and
             pestilence
             shall
             stand
             for
             the
             other
             acts
             of
             this
             direfull
             tragedy
             :
             in
             which
             ,
             as
             no
             action
             or
             passion
             
             was
             simple
             ,
             or
             single
             ,
             so
             can
             I
             not
             but
             with
             intermixtion
             ,
             and
             confusion
             rehearse
             them
             .
          
           
             For
             the
             first
             ,
             as
             no
             Province
             or
             part
             of
             Germany
             can
             boast
             of
             her
             freedome
             from
             these
             miseries
             (
             though
             some
             have
             beene
             more
             free
             than
             others
             )
             so
             is
             there
             no
             Prince
             ,
             nor
             State
             ,
             which
             hath
             not
             suffered
             herein
             ,
             no
             City
             ,
             no
             Towne
             ,
             almost
             no
             person
             .
             Every
             halfe
             yeeres
             ,
             every
             moneths
             ,
             yea
             ,
             weekes
             relation
             ,
             telleth
             us
             ,
             of
             hundreds
             ,
             thousands
             ,
             millions
             of
             rix
             dollars
             ,
             or
             galdens
             imposed
             ,
             exacted
             ,
             extorted
             by
             the
             Conquerours
             ,
             or
             Spoylers
             ,
             for
             the
             redemption
             of
             mens
             lives
             or
             liberties
             ,
             goods
             or
             dwellings
             ,
             〈◊〉
             Strange
             and
             impossible
             oft-times
             have
             the
             ransomes
             beene
             ,
             with
             which
             they
             have
             ●●xed
             the
             Burgers
             ,
             at
             the
             taking
             in
             of
             Townes
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             they
             might
             have
             their
             wills
             in
             this
             kinde
             ,
             they
             have
             called
             the
             Magistrates
             ,
             and
             Burgers
             into
             the
             State-houses
             ,
             threatened
             ,
             imprisoned
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             abused
             them
             ,
             till
             they
             condescended
             .
          
           
             At
             Griphenberg
             ,
             they
             kept
             the
             Senators
             shut
             up
             in
             a
             chamber
             of
             the
             Common-hall
             ,
             macerating
             and
             tormenting
             them
             so
             long
             with
             hunger
             and
             smoake
             ,
             that
             some
             of
             them
             dyed
             .
          
           
             We
             left
             in
             Heydelberg-Castle
             many
             Burgers
             to
             this
             their
             mercy
             ;
             and
             divers
             reverend
             Ministers
             ,
             who
             were
             imprisoned
             ,
             and
             fed
             with
             bread
             and
             water
             ,
             till
             the
             charity
             of
             the
             reformed
             Churches
             could
             relieve
             them
             .
          
           
           
             Presently
             after
             ,
             they
             at
             Frankendale
             surrendring
             the
             towne
             ,
             upon
             necessity
             ,
             could
             not
             enjoy
             the
             articles
             granted
             them
             by
             the
             enemy
             ;
             But
             were
             together
             with
             the
             grave
             Counsellours
             ,
             and
             other
             Electorall
             Ministers
             ,
             forced
             to
             endure
             such
             conditions
             ,
             as
             were
             sitter
             for
             slaves
             and
             dogs
             ,
             than
             men
             .
             Some
             were
             cast
             into
             prison
             ,
             and
             there
             so
             handled
             ,
             that
             many
             of
             them
             dyed
             through
             griefe
             and
             sorrow
             .
             Others
             ,
             though
             altogether
             exhausted
             ,
             redeemed
             themselves
             with
             unreasonable
             ransomes
             .
             The
             goods
             of
             those
             that
             were
             fled
             ,
             were
             confiscated
             :
             all
             the
             inhabitants
             ,
             though
             they
             were
             willing
             to
             leave
             their
             houses
             ,
             with
             all
             their
             furniture
             ,
             were
             detained
             in
             the
             City
             ,
             and
             their
             destruction
             most
             cruelly
             plotted
             :
             after
             like
             manner
             have
             others
             beene
             dealt
             with
             ,
             contrary
             to
             all
             oathes
             and
             promise
             ,
             yea
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             Lawes
             of
             Nations
             and
             common
             faith
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             III.
             
               Of
               Tortures
               and
               Torments
            
             .
          
           
             NOt
             to
             insist
             on
             these
             ,
             looke
             we
             upon
             the
             cruelties
             which
             the
             licentious
             Souldier
             hath
             exercised
             upon
             the
             persons
             of
             the
             Inhabitants
             ,
             without
             respect
             of
             age
             ,
             sex
             ,
             dignity
             ,
             calling
             ,
             &c.
             
             And
             we
             shall
             rather
             thinke
             them
             Banditos
             or
             Renegado's
             ,
             than
             men
             of
             armes
             ,
             rather
             monsters
             than
             mankinde
             .
             Nor
             Turks
             nor
             Infidells
             have
             so
             behaved
             themselves
             .
             Even
             Princes
             (
             sacred
             Persons
             )
             though
             they
             never
             bore
             armes
             ,
             as
             the
             old
             Landgrave
             of
             Hessen
             ,
             and
             others
             :
             yea
             ,
             some
             of
             the
             female
             Sex
             ,
             as
             the
             old
             Dutchesse
             Dowager
             of
             Wirtenberg
             ,
             have
             beene
             without
             any
             regard
             or
             pitty
             ,
             taken
             prisoners
             ,
             reviled
             ,
             abused
             .
          
           
             Aronibeus
             reporteth
             from
             the
             Letters
             of
             the
             D.
             of
             Saxony
             ,
             that
             some
             of
             Tillies
             Souldiers
             caused
             his
             Subjects
             to
             be
             tortured
             ,
             by
             halfe
             strangling
             them
             ,
             and
             pressing
             their
             thumbes
             with
             wheeles
             .
          
           
             His
             Souldiers
             ,
             and
             those
             of
             Walsten
             ,
             exercised
             yet
             greater
             cruelties
             in
             Pemeren
             ,
             and
             thereabouts
             .
             They
             made
             the
             people
             by
             force
             to
             eate
             their
             owne
             excrements
             :
             and
             if
             they
             would
             not
             ,
             they
             thrust
             them
             downe
             their
             throates
             ,
             and
             so
             choaked
             some
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             
               twisted
               out
               there
               eyes
            
          
           
             
               Raced
               offe
               there
               skinne
               with
               knifes
            
          
           
             
               hanging
               vp
               in
               the
               smoke
            
          
           
             
               blood
               sprouted
               at
               fingers
               end
               .
            
          
           
             
               plaining
               there
               faces
            
          
           
             
               pisse
               poured
               downe
               there
               .
               throates
            
          
           
           
           
             Whom
             they
             thought
             to
             have
             hidden
             gold
             or
             other
             wealth
             ,
             they
             have
             assayed
             ,
             by
             exquisite
             torments
             to
             make
             them
             confesse
             .
             Yea
             Princely
             personages
             have
             suffered
             like
             cruelty
             in
             this
             kind
             with
             meaner
             folke
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             wound
             and
             tied
             about
             the
             heads
             of
             such
             ,
             strong
             matches
             or
             cords
             ,
             and
             twisted
             the
             same
             till
             the
             blood
             came
             out
             of
             their
             eyes
             ,
             eares
             ,
             and
             noses
             ,
             yea
             ,
             till
             their
             eyes
             started
             out
             of
             their
             heads
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             put
             and
             tied
             burning
             matches
             betwixt
             their
             fingers
             ,
             to
             their
             noses
             ,
             tongues
             ,
             jawes
             ,
             cheeks
             ,
             brests
             ,
             legs
             ,
             and
             secret
             parts
             .
          
           
             Yea
             those
             parts
             which
             nature
             hideth
             ,
             they
             have
             either
             filled
             with
             powder
             ,
             or
             hung
             satchels
             of
             powder
             on
             them
             ,
             and
             so
             giving
             fire
             to
             the
             same
             ,
             they
             have
             in
             horrible
             manner
             burst
             their
             bellies
             ,
             and
             killed
             them
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             with
             bodkins
             pierced
             ,
             yea
             with
             knives
             raced
             ,
             and
             cut
             the
             skin
             and
             flesh
             of
             many
             ,
             as
             some
             Artificers
             deale
             with
             leather
             ,
             or
             other
             stuffe
             of
             like
             nature
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             drawn
             strings
             and
             cords
             thorow
             the
             fleshy
             parts
             of
             some
             ,
             the
             muscles
             of
             their
             thighs
             ,
             legs
             ,
             armes
             ,
             &c.
             thorow
             their
             noses
             ,
             eares
             ,
             lips
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             They
             have
             hung
             up
             some
             in
             the
             smoak
             ,
             drying
             them
             with
             small
             fires
             ,
             refreshing
             them
             sometime
             with
             small
             drinke
             ,
             or
             cold
             water
             .
             For
             these
             being
             such
             as
             were
             before
             overwhelmed
             
             with
             griefe
             ,
             they
             tooke
             care
             lest
             in
             their
             torment
             they
             should
             die
             too
             soone
             .
          
           
             Some
             they
             have
             put
             into
             hot
             Ovens
             ,
             and
             so
             smothered
             or
             burned
             them
             .
             Some
             they
             rosted
             with
             straw-fires
             .
          
           
             Some
             have
             they
             stifled
             ,
             strangled
             or
             hanged
             .
             This
             was
             great
             favour
             to
             be
             ridde
             out
             of
             their
             paine
             .
          
           
             To
             many
             they
             have
             bound
             so
             hard
             both
             hands
             and
             feete
             ,
             that
             the
             blood
             hath
             sprouted
             out
             at
             the
             ends
             of
             their
             fingers
             and
             toes
             .
          
           
             Of
             some
             they
             have
             tied
             both
             hands
             and
             feet
             back
             ward
             together
             ,
             and
             stopped
             their
             mouthes
             with
             clouts
             to
             hinder
             them
             from
             praying
             .
          
           
             Some
             have
             they
             hanged
             up
             ,
             with
             ropes
             fastned
             to
             their
             privie
             parts
             ,
             and
             hearing
             their
             roaring
             cries
             ,
             have
             striven
             to
             out-roare
             and
             drowne
             their
             cries
             as
             in
             sport
             .
          
           
             And
             yet
             more
             detestable
             ,
             where
             they
             have
             found
             poore
             weake
             Creatures
             troubled
             with
             ruptures
             or
             burstennesse
             ,
             they
             have
             enlarged
             the
             same
             by
             villanous
             meanes
             ,
             filled
             them
             with
             gunpowder
             ,
             and
             blowne
             them
             up
             as
             a
             Mine
             ,
             by
             giving
             fire
             thereunto
             .
          
           
             Many
             have
             they
             trussed
             up
             on
             high
             ,
             hanging
             on
             their
             feet
             stones
             and
             weights
             to
             stretch
             out
             their
             bodies
             .
          
           
             With
             Jizels
             or
             like
             Instruments
             they
             have
             gone
             about
             to
             plaine
             the
             faces
             of
             some
             ,
             pretending
             that
             they
             would
             make
             it
             equall
             &
             smooth
             .
          
           
           
             Some
             Housholders
             have
             they
             openly
             gelded
             ,
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             their
             wives
             and
             children
             .
          
           
             The
             mouthes
             of
             some
             have
             they
             opened
             with
             gags
             ,
             and
             then
             poured
             downe
             their
             throats
             ,
             water
             ,
             stinking
             puddle
             ,
             filthy
             liquids
             ,
             and
             pisse
             it selfe
             ,
             saying
             ,
             This
             is
             a
             Swedish
             draught
             .
             So
             growing
             sicke
             ,
             and
             their
             bellies
             swelling
             like
             a
             Tun
             ,
             they
             have
             dyed
             by
             leysure
             with
             the
             greater
             torment
             .
          
           
             Downe
             the
             throates
             of
             others
             ,
             they
             have
             thrust
             a
             knotted
             clout
             ,
             and
             then
             with
             a
             string
             pulled
             it
             up
             againe
             ,
             to
             pull
             the
             bowells
             out
             of
             their
             place
             ,
             or
             shew
             themselves
             exquisite
             in
             such
             divellish
             devices
             .
             And
             by
             these
             torments
             ,
             they
             have
             made
             some
             deafe
             ,
             or
             dumbe
             ,
             others
             blind
             ,
             others
             lame
             and
             miserable
             creples
             ,
             if
             they
             killed
             them
             not
             .
          
           
             If
             an
             Husband
             did
             intreat
             for
             the
             Wife
             ,
             or
             the
             Wife
             for
             the
             Husband
             ,
             then
             tooke
             they
             the
             intercessour
             ,
             and
             he
             was
             tortured
             by
             them
             ,
             after
             the
             same
             manner
             before
             the
             others
             eyes
             .
          
           
             And
             (
             which
             is
             almost
             beyond
             all
             credit
             )
             when
             these
             poore
             prisoners
             or
             patients
             ,
             were
             suffering
             or
             dying
             under
             their
             hands
             ,
             and
             crying
             to
             God
             in
             their
             anguish
             ,
             these
             hellish
             executioners
             would
             command
             or
             force
             them
             to
             pray
             unto
             the
             Divell
             ,
             or
             call
             upon
             him
             .
          
           
             Infinite
             and
             unspeakeable
             are
             the
             cruelties
             ,
             which
             have
             this
             last
             yeere
             beene
             exercised
             by
             the
             furious
             Souldiers
             on
             all
             sides
             .
          
           
           
             And
             some
             devills
             among
             them
             did
             proceed
             so
             farre
             ,
             that
             they
             consulted
             and
             devised
             new
             and
             exquisite
             tortures
             ,
             which
             they
             exercised
             upon
             innocent
             persons
             .
             They
             tooke
             a
             Divine
             ,
             (
             some
             write
             a
             Canon
             in
             those
             parts
             ,
             and
             a
             reverend
             old
             man
             )
             stripped
             him
             ,
             bound
             him
             along
             upon
             his
             backe
             on
             a
             Table
             ,
             and
             a
             strong
             bigge
             Cat
             upon
             his
             naked
             belly
             .
             They
             beat
             and
             pricked
             the
             Cat
             to
             make
             her
             fixe
             her
             teeth
             &
             claws
             in
             the
             poore
             mans
             belly
             .
             So
             the
             Cat
             &
             the
             man
             ,
             partly
             through
             famin
             ,
             partly
             through
             pain
             and
             anguish
             ,
             both
             breathed
             their
             last
             .
          
           
             Some
             of
             their
             despicable
             and
             infamous
             ruytery
             called
             Croats
             or
             Crabats
             ,
             have
             laboured
             much
             to
             teach
             their
             horses
             not
             only
             to
             kil
             men
             ,
             but
             to
             eate
             humane
             and
             Christians
             flesh
             ,
             and
             have
             consulted
             how
             to
             find
             out
             torments
             more
             rare
             ,
             cruell
             ,
             and
             exquisite
             than
             ever
             .
             What
             shall
             we
             say
             to
             these
             devils
             ?
             
               Phalaris
               ,
               Nero
               ,
               Dionysius
            
             ,
             all
             other
             tyrants
             and
             tyrannies
             ,
             are
             incomparable
             to
             these
             new
             stratagematists
             and
             engineers
             .
             Cancasus
             bred
             them
             ,
             tygers
             fed
             them
             ,
             hel
             taught
             them
             ,
             and
             thither
             I
             remit
             them
             .
          
        
         
           
           
           
             CHAP.
             IIII.
             
               Of
               Rape
               and
               Ravishing
            
             .
          
           
             
               ●●●●nesse
               in
               Chur●●●
            
          
           
             
               A
               maide
               Rauisched
               and
               after
               quarterd
            
          
           
             
               Maides
               leapinge
               into
               Riuers
               .
            
          
           
           
             I
             Have
             said
             much
             of
             the
             former
             Particular
             ,
             and
             yet
             but
             little
             .
             I
             will
             now
             speake
             little
             of
             this
             ensuing
             abomination
             ,
             and
             (
             I
             feare
             )
             too
             much
             .
             Rapes
             and
             Ravishing
             scarce
             to
             be
             spoken
             or
             heard
             of
             ,
             have
             they
             committed
             ,
             beyond
             all
             humane
             modesty
             .
             Mayds
             and
             Matrons
             ,
             Widdowes
             and
             Wives
             ,
             without
             distinction
             have
             they
             violated
             and
             forced
             ,
             and
             that
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             their
             Parents
             ,
             Husbands
             ,
             Neighbours
             ,
             &c.
             
             Women
             with
             child
             in
             child-bed
             ,
             &c.
             no
             pen
             can
             write
             it
             ,
             no
             faith
             believe
             it
             .
             No
             Chappell
             Church
             or
             place
             consecrated
             hath
             beene
             free
             from
             the
             filthiest
             of
             pollutions
             ,
             or
             most
             sacrilegious
             barbarismes
             .
             The
             very
             Hospitalls
             and
             Bedlame-houses
             have
             not
             beene
             spared
             :
             their
             divellish
             madnesse
             hath
             there
             found
             subjects
             for
             their
             purpose
             .
          
           
             In
             Hessen-land
             ,
             a
             poore
             leane
             Bedlam
             woman
             ,
             that
             had
             beene
             kept
             in
             chaines
             abóve
             twenty
             yeeres
             ,
             was
             by
             these
             hell-hounds
             let
             loose
             .
             About
             her
             they
             brought
             divers
             others
             ,
             like
             her selfe
             ,
             some
             madde
             ,
             some
             dumbe
             ,
             all
             
             wretched
             .
             They
             tyed
             their
             coates
             about
             their
             eares
             ,
             and
             so
             used
             them
             as
             I
             shame
             to
             expresse
             .
          
           
             In
             Pomeren
             they
             tooke
             the
             fairest
             daughters
             of
             the
             Country-dwellers
             ,
             and
             ravished
             them
             in
             the
             sight
             of
             their
             parents
             ,
             making
             them
             and
             their
             friends
             to
             sing
             Psalmes
             before
             them
             all
             the
             while
             .
          
           
             In
             Italy
             ,
             I
             have
             heard
             some
             with
             teares
             recite
             the
             villanies
             perpetrated
             by
             the
             Germane
             troopes
             of
             Gallas
             and
             Altringer
             ,
             when
             they
             besieged
             Mantua
             .
             Among
             the
             rest
             ,
             a
             beautiful
             maid
             was
             by
             her
             Parents
             hid
             in
             the
             dung-hill
             .
             But
             they
             found
             her
             out
             ,
             had
             their
             pleasures
             of
             her
             ,
             then
             cut
             her
             in
             pieces
             ,
             hung
             her
             quarters
             up
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             bid
             her
             friends
             pray
             to
             the
             Saints
             for
             her
             succour
             .
          
           
             The
             Sperenrentrish
             herse-men
             (
             as
             we
             came
             through
             Brunswick-land
             )
             tooke
             by
             force
             a
             young
             maide
             ten
             yeeres
             old
             ,
             and
             carryed
             her
             into
             a
             wood
             to
             ravish
             her
             .
             The
             mother
             with
             upreard
             hands
             came
             running
             after
             our
             Coach
             ,
             crying
             out
             to
             my
             Colonell
             ,
             who
             was
             here
             a
             stranger
             without
             command
             ,
             and
             could
             not
             relieve
             her
             :
             then
             saw
             wee
             the
             two
             horse-men
             come
             out
             of
             the
             wood
             ,
             where
             they
             had
             left
             the
             poore
             child
             dead
             or
             alive
             I
             know
             not
             .
          
           
             Vertuous
             and
             chaste
             women
             have
             they
             offered
             to
             kill
             ,
             or
             throwne
             their
             children
             into
             the
             fire
             ,
             to
             make
             them
             yeeld
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             not
             spared
             the
             very
             Nunnes
             in
             
             the
             Cloysters
             ,
             but
             after
             they
             have
             entred
             by
             force
             ,
             broken
             open
             their
             Trunkes
             and
             Coffers
             ,
             and
             taken
             their
             goods
             ,
             they
             have
             likewise
             ravished
             them
             ,
             and
             killed
             some
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             I
             know
             the
             Generall
             ,
             a
             troope
             of
             whose
             horse
             having
             done
             the
             like
             ,
             hee
             commanded
             them
             all
             to
             be
             hanged
             ,
             but
             because
             they
             were
             not
             all
             alike
             guilty
             ,
             they
             cast
             lots
             for
             their
             lives
             ,
             and
             every
             tenth
             man
             dyed
             .
          
           
             Some
             have
             leaped
             into
             rivers
             ,
             into
             wells
             ,
             or
             killed
             themselves
             because
             they
             would
             not
             be
             subject
             to
             the
             filthy
             lusts
             of
             these
             hell-borne
             furies
             .
          
           
             Not
             onely
             sicke
             and
             weake
             maids
             ,
             and
             women
             have
             beene
             violated
             till
             they
             dyed
             ,
             but
             these
             wretches
             have
             committed
             like
             filthinesse
             with
             the
             dead
             bodies
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             V.
             
               Of
               Robbing
               and
               Pillaging
            
             .
          
           
             NO
             man
             can
             now
             passe
             any
             where
             in
             Dutch-land
             ;
             but
             hee
             is
             robbed
             ,
             stripped
             ,
             perhaps
             killed
             .
             The
             Merchants
             of
             
               Frankford
               ,
               Nurenberg
               Lipzig
               ,
               Hamburg
               ,
            
             &c.
             have
             had
             too
             wofull
             experience
             hereof
             :
             witnesse
             of
             Infinite
             this
             one
             instance
             .
             The
             Merchants
             of
             Basil
             ,
             returning
             from
             the
             Mart
             at
             Strasburg
             ,
             and
             other
             Faires
             ,
             to
             goe
             to
             Shoffehausen
             ,
             were
             set
             upon
             by
             the
             Imperialists
             in
             their
             lodging
             ,
             and
             though
             they
             offered
             to
             prove
             themselves
             Merchants
             ,
             and
             craved
             their
             lives
             upon
             their
             knees
             ,
             yet
             they
             killed
             ten
             of
             them
             ,
             saying
             ,
             they
             must
             dye
             ,
             because
             they
             were
             heretickes
             .
             The
             rest
             leaving
             their
             goods
             and
             garments
             behind
             ,
             escaped
             by
             flight
             starke
             naked
             in
             the
             night
             .
          
           
             
               Marchants
               Robed
               and
               slaine
            
          
           
             
               persons
               priuelegdd
               Rifled
            
          
           
             
               Divines
               cutt
               in
               peaces
            
          
           
             Two
             Countesles
             of
             great
             nobility
             ,
             with
             their
             faire
             daughters
             and
             followers
             in
             distresse
             ,
             were
             entertained
             by
             us
             in
             the
             castle
             of
             Heydelberg
             ,
             the
             one
             immediately
             before
             ,
             the
             other
             in
             the
             time
             of
             the
             siege
             .
             When
             our
             hope
             of
             subsisting
             began
             to
             faile
             ,
             they
             went
             away
             with
             the
             enemies
             pasport
             .
             Notwithstanding
             which
             they
             were
             by
             them
             robbed
             and
             rifled
             in
             their
             coaches
             of
             all
             they
             had
             ,
             not
             sparing
             the
             very
             garments
             that
             covered
             them
             .
          
           
             The
             priviledged
             persons
             of
             royall
             Embassadours
             ,
             their
             goods
             and
             followers
             ,
             cannot
             be
             secured
             from
             them
             ,
             witnes
             this
             yeare
             the
             shamefull
             plundering
             of
             the
             Danish
             Embassadour
             .
          
           
             What
             quarter
             they
             give
             to
             the
             traveller
             ,
             the
             like
             or
             worse
             they
             afford
             the
             inhabitants
             ,
             if
             they
             escape
             with
             their
             lives
             ,
             this
             is
             all
             ,
             and
             well
             too
             :
             when
             the
             time
             hath
             beene
             that
             one
             might
             have
             travelled
             safe
             from
             the
             one
             end
             of
             Germany
             to
             the
             other
             with
             a
             white
             rod
             in
             his
             hand
             and
             an
             hundred
             pound
             in
             his
             purse
             .
          
           
             Indeed
             they
             robbe
             one
             another
             every
             where
             out
             of
             their
             quarter
             :
             nor
             are
             they
             fellow
             souldiers
             any
             longer
             ,
             when
             they
             have
             opportunity
             to
             play
             the
             theeves
             .
             Nor
             God
             nor
             devil
             do
             they
             acknowledge
             ,
             but
             when
             they
             sweare
             ,
             nor
             is
             any
             thing
             so
             vile
             but
             they
             will
             doe
             it
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             VI.
             
               Of
               Bloodshed
               and
               killing
            
             .
          
           
             AS
             for
             killing
             ,
             this
             is
             the
             least
             of
             all
             the
             rest
             .
             Death
             puts
             an
             end
             to
             all
             miseries
             ;
             onely
             they
             that
             survive
             are
             oft-times
             the
             worse
             for
             want
             of
             them
             that
             are
             dead
             .
             To
             report
             the
             blood-shed
             of
             this
             warre
             ,
             would
             be
             incredible
             :
             Alsted
             saith
             ,
             that
             before
             the
             King
             of
             Swedens
             comming
             ,
             it
             had
             consumed
             no
             lesse
             than
             100000.
             
             If
             this
             be
             true
             ,
             what
             hath
             it
             done
             since
             ?
             How
             many
             millions
             have
             miserably
             perished
             ?
             They
             have
             sometimes
             killed
             one
             another
             ;
             and
             among
             other
             precedents
             this
             is
             not
             least
             remarkable
             ,
             that
             Gourdon
             and
             Lesley
             Scotch
             Colonells
             ,
             with
             Colonell
             Butler
             the
             Irish
             man
             ,
             who
             killed
             Walstein
             ,
             the
             Count
             of
             Tirskie
             ,
             and
             other
             Imperiall
             officers
             then
             ready
             to
             revolt
             to
             the
             Swedish
             party
             ,
             are
             now
             ,
             this
             yeere
             after
             the
             same
             manner
             ,
             hurt
             ,
             or
             killed
             themselves
             (
             as
             is
             written
             )
             by
             Gallas
             his
             followers
             ,
             upon
             a
             dispute
             about
             that
             former
             businesse
             ;
             a
             Document
             for
             all
             strangers
             ,
             to
             take
             heede
             ,
             how
             they
             collogue
             with
             those
             monsters
             ,
             in
             such
             dangerous
             actions
             ,
             who
             love
             the
             Treason
             ,
             but
             hate
             the
             Traytor
             .
          
           
             
               Priests
               slaine
               at
               the
               Altars
            
          
           
             
               Croats
               eate
               Children
            
          
           
             
               Noses
               &
               eares
               Cut
               of
               to
               make
               hatbandes
            
          
           
             At
             Landshood
             in
             Bavier
             ,
             the
             souldiers
             entring
             by
             force
             ,
             killed
             not
             only
             all
             they
             found
             in
             arms
             ,
             but
             the
             innocent
             inhabitants
             ,
             yea
             ,
             the
             very
             Priests
             kneeling
             at
             the
             Altars
             ;
             and
             divers
             other
             instances
             of
             like
             nature
             I
             could
             produce
             .
          
           
             Now
             what
             may
             the
             poore
             peasant
             and
             countrey-dwellers
             expect
             ?
             to
             kill
             them
             if
             they
             resist
             or
             refuse
             them
             any
             thing
             ,
             is
             but
             ordinary
             in
             this
             warre
             :
             among
             the
             Imperiallists
             is
             a
             base
             sort
             of
             rascally
             horse-men
             which
             serve
             them
             ,
             and
             are
             called
             Croats
             .
             The
             tenth
             part
             of
             them
             are
             not
             of
             that
             Countrey
             :
             for
             they
             are
             a
             miscellany
             of
             all
             strange
             nations
             ,
             without
             God
             ,
             without
             religion
             ,
             and
             have
             only
             the
             outsides
             of
             men
             ,
             and
             scarse
             that
             too
             .
             They
             make
             no
             conscience
             of
             murthering
             men
             or
             women
             ,
             old
             or
             young
             ,
             yea
             ,
             the
             very
             innocent
             babes
             ;
             and
             like
             the
             beasts
             among
             whom
             they
             are
             bred
             ,
             doe
             sometimes
             eat
             them
             ,
             when
             other
             food
             might
             be
             found
             :
             the
             poore
             people
             have
             by
             these
             beene
             every
             where
             knocked
             downe
             in
             the
             fields
             and
             wayes
             ,
             slaughtered
             ,
             stabbed
             ,
             tortured
             barbarously
             .
          
           
             Their
             fellow
             souldiers
             are
             not
             much
             behind
             
             them
             having
             some
             where
             left
             such
             foot-steps
             of
             their
             cruelty
             ,
             that
             there
             scarce
             remaine
             living
             ,
             to
             relate
             the
             sufferings
             of
             the
             dead
             .
             I
             have
             seen
             them
             beat
             out
             the
             braines
             of
             poore
             old
             decrepid
             women
             ,
             as
             in
             sport
             ,
             and
             commit
             other
             outrages
             of
             like
             nature
             ,
             which
             my
             brevity
             wil
             not
             permit
             me
             to
             relate
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             now
             growne
             so
             usuall
             with
             the
             poore
             people
             to
             see
             one
             slaine
             before
             anothers
             face
             ,
             that
             (
             as
             though
             there
             were
             no
             relation
             ,
             no
             affection
             of
             neighbourhood
             ,
             kindred
             or
             friendship
             among
             them
             )
             none
             compassionateth
             almost
             ,
             none
             cryeth
             out
             ,
             oh
             my
             father
             ,
             or
             oh
             my
             brother
             !
          
           
             As
             for
             quarter
             (
             that
             is
             mercy
             ,
             and
             the
             saving
             of
             the
             lives
             of
             the
             vanquished
             ,
             when
             they
             beg
             it
             on
             their
             knees
             )
             the
             vanquishers
             have
             been
             oft
             times
             inhumane
             .
             The
             Croats
             ,
             till
             of
             late
             ,
             never
             gave
             any
             quarter
             ,
             but
             killed
             whatsoever
             enemy
             they
             had
             at
             their
             mercy
             .
             The
             like
             did
             the
             Curlins
             (
             the
             regiment
             of
             hell
             )
             receive
             pay
             of
             them
             of
             Gaunt
             and
             Bruges
             ,
             to
             bring
             the
             nose
             and
             ears
             of
             their
             enemies
             away
             to
             their
             Masters
             .
          
           
             Tilly
             ,
             after
             the
             defeate
             of
             the
             Duke
             of
             Brunswicke
             at
             Heuxt
             on
             the
             Maine
             ,
             drew
             out
             of
             that
             town
             threescore
             poor
             souldiers
             ,
             &
             caused
             them
             all
             to
             bee
             killed
             in
             the
             cold
             blood
             ,
             before
             the
             gate
             ,
             saying
             ,
             that
             he
             sacrificed
             them
             to
             Count
             Mansfield
             their
             master
             .
             I
             could
             weary
             my
             reader
             with
             these
             examples
             .
             But
             I
             forbeare
             .
          
        
         
           
           
           
             CHAP.
             VII
             .
             
               Of
               Burning
               and
               Destroying
            
             .
          
           
             
               2000.
               
                 villages
                 burnt
                 in
                 Bauaria
              
            
          
           
             
               No
               tillage
               nor
               Breding
               Cattell
               But
               dringe
               all
               in
               to
               Citties
            
          
           
           
             FOr
             burning
             ,
             pulling
             down
             and
             ruining
             of
             Churches
             ,
             Cities
             ,
             Villages
             ,
             the
             like
             hath
             not
             been
             heard
             .
             The
             Swedish
             army
             burned
             above
             2000
             Villages
             in
             Bavaria
             ,
             in
             revenge
             of
             the
             Palatine
             cause
             :
             But
             their
             enemies
             spare
             meither
             foes
             nor
             friends
             .
             What
             goodly
             houses
             of
             the
             Nobility
             and
             Gentry
             shall
             you
             ,
             there
             ,
             see
             fallen
             down
             ,
             or
             so
             defaced
             ,
             as
             is
             scarce
             reparable
             without
             building
             new
             ?
             From
             what
             quarter
             soever
             the
             army
             riseth
             ,
             they
             will
             bee
             sure
             to
             leave
             some
             dwellings
             in
             the
             ashes
             ,
             some
             in
             the
             smoake
             .
             To
             that
             passe
             it
             is
             now
             come
             ,
             that
             every
             one
             that
             is
             a
             man
             ,
             betaketh
             himselfe
             to
             arms
             .
             There
             is
             now
             no
             other
             aboad
             ,
             but
             some
             campe
             ,
             no
             other
             plow
             to
             follow
             ,
             no
             other
             imployment
             but
             the
             warre
             ,
             for
             he
             that
             is
             not
             an
             actor
             with
             the
             rest
             ,
             must
             needes
             bee
             a
             sufferer
             among
             the
             miserable
             patients
             .
             No
             tilling
             of
             the
             land
             ,
             no
             breeding
             of
             cattell
             ;
             for
             if
             they
             should
             ,
             the
             next
             yeare
             the
             souldiers
             devoure
             it
             .
             Better
             to
             sit
             still
             ,
             than
             to
             labour
             ,
             and
             let
             others
             reape
             the
             profits
             ,
             Hence
             an
             universall
             desolation
             .
          
           
             Part
             of
             the
             people
             swarme
             as
             banished
             in
             strange
             countries
             ,
             as
             I
             have
             observed
             in
             Suisse
             ,
             at
             
             
               Lausan
               ,
               Berne
               ,
               Basil
            
             ,
             &c.
             in
             France
             ,
             in
             Italy
             ,
             especially
             the
             Venetian
             territories
             .
             From
             Basil
             to
             Strasburg
             ,
             from
             Strasburg
             to
             Heydelberg
             ,
             from
             thence
             to
             Marpurg
             ,
             I
             scarse
             saw
             a
             man
             in
             the
             fields
             ,
             or
             Villages
             .
             Little
             better
             shall
             a
             man
             finde
             it
             tha●
             travelleth
             from
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             France
             to
             the
             middle
             of
             Bohemia
             ,
             from
             the
             Alps
             above
             Auspurg
             to
             the
             Baltique
             sea
             ,
             a
             square
             of
             land
             little
             lesle
             than
             thrice
             all
             Great
             Britaine
             .
             Onely
             here
             and
             there
             ,
             as
             the
             land
             hath
             rest
             ,
             the
             dwellers
             return
             .
             But
             alas
             ,
             the
             farre
             greater
             part
             are
             extinguished
             by
             war
             ,
             misery
             ,
             or
             length
             of
             time
             .
          
        
         
           
           
           
             CHAP.
             VIII
             .
             
               Of
               Famine
            
             .
          
           
             
               Eateing
               dead
               horses
            
          
           
             
               Fowles
               eate
               the
               dead
            
          
           
           
             FAmine
             commeth
             next
             in
             place
             ,
             a
             thing
             so
             grievous
             ,
             that
             David
             preferred
             the
             pestilence
             in
             his
             choicy
             .
             To
             see
             men
             slaine
             by
             the
             sword
             ,
             or
             die
             of
             contagious
             diseases
             ,
             is
             not
             yet
             so
             grievous
             ,
             as
             to
             see
             them
             dye
             of
             famine
             ,
             or
             kill
             to
             eate
             one
             another
             .
             In
             Samaria
             besieged
             by
             Benhadad
             King
             of
             Syria
             ,
             the
             famine
             was
             so
             great
             ,
             that
             an
             Asses
             head
             was
             sold
             for
             80.
             pieces
             of
             silver
             ,
             &
             the
             fourth
             part
             of
             a
             cab
             of
             Doves
             dung
             for
             50.
             pieces
             of
             silver
             .
             Two
             women
             covenanted
             to
             eate
             their
             children
             successively
             :
             and
             when
             they
             had
             boyled
             and
             eaten
             the
             one
             ,
             the
             other
             woman
             hid
             hers
             .
             In
             the
             siege
             of
             Ierusalem
             ,
             Mice
             ,
             Rats
             ,
             and
             Hides
             were
             good
             meat
             ,
             and
             women
             did
             dresse
             and
             eate
             their
             owne
             children
             ,
             the
             smell
             whereof
             drew
             others
             that
             were
             hunger-starv'd
             to
             come
             to
             share
             with
             them
             .
             But
             that
             Cities
             not
             besiged
             ,
             and
             a
             Country
             naturally
             fertile
             ,
             should
             be
             so
             ruined
             ,
             as
             not
             to
             be
             able
             ,
             for
             so
             long
             a
             time
             to
             afford
             bread
             to
             a
             poore
             remnant
             of
             people
             ,
             but
             that
             they
             must
             be
             faine
             to
             eate
             carrion
             ,
             yea
             ,
             dead
             men
             ,
             yea
             ,
             one
             another
             living
             :
             this
             is
             pittifull
             ,
             this
             is
             unheard
             of
             .
          
           
             Had
             I
             not
             beene
             provided
             of
             Viaticum
             ,
             at
             my
             
             comming
             out
             of
             Suisse
             famine
             had
             arrested
             me
             in
             Germany
             ,
             for
             there
             was
             not
             any
             where
             meate
             for
             money
             .
             The
             Italians
             and
             Spaniards
             ,
             which
             had
             bee
             eat
             the
             skirmish
             at
             Nortlingen
             ,
             and
             without
             armes
             ,
             wandred
             among
             the
             Duke
             of
             Lorrane's
             troopes
             at
             Nyburg
             and
             Brisac
             ,
             were
             so
             blacke
             and
             feeble
             through
             hunger
             ,
             that
             had
             I
             not
             given
             them
             part
             of
             m●
             provision
             ,
             I
             thinke
             they
             had
             rent
             me
             in
             pieces
             ,
             and
             eaten
             mee
             .
          
           
             Travelling
             from
             Neiustadt
             towards
             Frankendale
             in
             a
             snowie
             day
             ,
             I
             met
             ,
             unexpected
             ,
             the
             army
             of
             
               Duke
               Bernard
            
             ,
             whose
             stra
             ling
             fore-runners
             ,
             came
             riding
             up
             to
             me
             by
             couples
             ,
             and
             when
             I
             looked
             for
             a
             worse
             errand
             ,
             asked
             onely
             for
             bread
             ,
             which
             my
             guide
             gave
             them
             ,
             so
             long
             as
             we
             had
             any
             .
          
           
             From
             thence
             to
             Manheime
             and
             Heydleberg
             ,
             many
             dead
             men
             lay
             strewed
             on
             the
             way
             ,
             especially
             on
             the
             fire
             places
             ,
             which
             perished
             through
             cold
             and
             want
             .
          
           
             Before
             wee
             were
             besieged
             last
             time
             in
             Heydleberg
             Castle
             ,
             some
             of
             my
             patients
             ,
             almost
             recovered
             of
             thei
             diseases
             ,
             sent
             mee
             word
             ,
             they
             were
             dying
             of
             famine
             ,
             as
             indeed
             they
             did
             ,
             except
             our
             canon
             helped
             to
             shorten
             their
             miseries
             .
             For
             being
             immediately
             shut
             up
             ,
             we
             shot
             into
             the
             towne
             night
             and
             day
             ,
             almost
             uncessantly
             .
          
           
             Our
             souldiers
             at
             the
             first
             ,
             killed
             more
             horses
             on
             a
             day
             ,
             than
             they
             could
             eate
             ,
             lest
             they
             should
             famish
             for
             want
             of
             hay
             and
             those
             they
             threw
             out
             of
             the
             Castle
             ,
             downe
             the
             rocke
             ,
             which
             the
             enemy
             
             in
             the
             night
             drew
             into
             the
             towne
             ,
             (
             though
             some
             in
             so
             doing
             were
             slaine
             by
             our
             shot
             )
             and
             so
             they
             eat
             our
             horse-flesh
             ,
             also
             our
             Serjeant
             Major
             sallied
             with
             50.
             men
             upon
             the
             enemy
             being
             300.
             entrenched
             on
             the
             hil
             on
             the
             East
             side
             of
             the
             castle
             ,
             and
             beate
             them
             out
             of
             their
             workes
             .
             Many
             were
             slaine
             ,
             some
             broke
             their
             necks
             downe
             the
             rocks
             :
             but
             which
             equalized
             the
             victory
             ,
             the
             valiant
             Major
             was
             shot
             dead
             .
             Our
             souldiers
             being
             Masters
             of
             the
             trench
             ,
             fell
             to
             ransacke
             the
             enemies
             knapsackes
             ,
             which
             they
             had
             left
             behinde
             them
             .
             But
             there
             was
             nothing
             in
             them
             ,
             save
             our
             horse-flesh
             ,
             which
             every
             day
             grew
             scarser
             with
             us
             :
             so
             that
             now
             we
             killed
             the
             horses
             which
             stood
             fasting
             and
             sleeping
             on
             the
             dung-hill
             ,
             not
             out
             of
             compassion
             ,
             but
             necessity
             .
             Another
             Serjeant
             Major
             had
             two
             very
             faire
             horses
             shut
             up
             our
             souldiers
             tooke
             the
             one
             and
             ate
             him
             ,
             he
             thinking
             to
             make
             sure
             the
             other
             ,
             stapled
             him
             to
             the
             wall
             with
             a
             strong
             chaine
             and
             a
             padlocke
             ,
             but
             they
             espying
             their
             opportunity
             ,
             cut
             off
             the
             horses
             necke
             ,
             left
             the
             head
             in
             the
             chaine
             ,
             and
             carried
             away
             the
             body
             and
             ate
             it
             .
          
           
             At
             length
             ,
             dogs
             and
             carrion
             came
             into
             request
             ,
             we
             could
             smell
             our
             meate
             afarre
             off
             ,
             and
             on
             the
             Table
             it
             was
             yet
             more
             loathsome
             ,
             the
             taste
             did
             answer
             the
             smell
             ,
             yet
             ,
             we
             ate
             it
             savourly
             ,
             but
             our
             bread
             at
             last
             failing
             ,
             we
             yeelded
             to
             necessity
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             X.
             
               of
               Famine
            
             .
          
           
             THe
             armies
             now
             everywhere
             over-ranne
             the
             Couutrey
             ,
             devoured
             both
             Corne
             &
             catel
             :
             so
             they
             that
             had
             goods
             left
             ,
             offered
             to
             give
             all
             for
             a
             little
             bellytimber
             .
             But
             not
             so
             obtaining
             it
             they
             were
             faine
             to
             lie
             upon
             the
             streets
             and
             high
             waies
             ,
             (
             a
             thing
             not
             usuall
             with
             them
             )
             and
             to
             crave
             for
             Gods
             sake
             where
             with
             to
             refresh
             their
             dying
             soules
             .
             But
             no
             sooner
             had
             they
             swallowed
             what
             was
             given
             them
             ,
             but
             they
             fell
             downe
             and
             died
             .
          
           
             Memorable
             is
             that
             story
             which
             Reinmannuste
             recordeth
             of
             the
             Famine
             in
             Alsatia
             the
             last
             yeere
             ,
             which
             is
             at
             this
             present
             yet
             worse
             .
             Valentine
             of
             Engelin
             a
             citizen
             of
             Rufacke
             ,
             with
             the
             dead-burier
             ,
             delivered
             unto
             the
             Magistrate
             upon
             their
             oathes
             ,
             that
             Anne
             the
             daughter
             of
             
               Iohn
               Ebstein
            
             confessed
             unto
             them
             ,
             that
             she
             came
             from
             Colmar
             ,
             where
             shee
             had
             waited
             many
             daies
             before
             the
             hangmans
             doore
             in
             hope
             to
             get
             a
             piece
             of
             horse-flesh
             to
             satifie
             her
             hunger
             .
             But
             not
             prevailing
             ,
             shee
             was
             now
             come
             to
             Rufack
             entreating
             them
             ,
             that
             if
             there
             was
             the
             body
             of
             any
             young
             man
             or
             woman
             unburied
             ,
             that
             they
             would
             give
             it
             her
             to
             eate
             to
             preserve
             her
             life
             .
          
           
             
               Carion
               Sould
               in
               the
               Market
               as
               Dogges
               &
               Rattes
            
          
           
             
               Fyteinge
               for
               Carion
            
          
           
           
           
             And
             that
             two
             women
             and
             a
             boy
             did
             after
             the
             same
             manner
             speak
             unto
             them
             ,
             telling
             them
             that
             they
             had
             for
             a
             long
             time
             lived
             of
             dead
             mens
             flesh
             ,
             which
             being
             published
             ,
             the
             Cloyster
             of
             the
             Church-yard
             of
             S.
             Nicholas
             ,
             where
             the
             dead
             bodies
             were
             kept
             ,
             was
             locked
             up
             .
          
           
             Lastly
             ,
             that
             foure
             young
             maydes
             had
             cut
             in
             pieces
             the
             dead
             bodie
             of
             another
             young
             maid
             of
             eleven
             yeares
             of
             age
             ,
             and
             eaten
             every
             one
             their
             part
             .
          
           
             At
             this
             day
             it
             is
             yet
             worse
             .
             Many
             that
             survived
             the
             losse
             of
             all
             they
             had
             ,
             have
             for
             a
             long
             time
             sustained
             themselves
             with
             roots
             ,
             acornes
             ,
             greene
             fruits
             ,
             grasse
             ,
             thistles
             ,
             and
             weeds
             ,
             that
             beasts
             would
             not
             have
             eaten
             ,
             whereof
             they
             grew
             enraged
             anddyed
             .
          
           
             The
             famished
             have
             beene
             so
             faint
             ,
             that
             they
             have
             not
             had
             strength
             to
             bury
             one
             another
             ,
             in
             so
             much
             ,
             that
             the
             dead
             have
             beene
             eaten
             up
             of
             Dogs
             ,
             Foxes
             and
             Wolves
             ,
             and
             some
             have
             run
             mad
             for
             hunger
             .
          
           
             In
             some
             Cities
             ,
             the
             inhabitans
             by
             this
             famine
             ,
             have
             beene
             constrained
             to
             kill
             all
             unedible
             cattell
             ,
             without
             any
             difference
             ,
             and
             to
             sell
             them
             publikely
             :
             as
             Dogs
             ,
             Cats
             ,
             Rats
             ,
             Mice
             &c.
             
          
           
             A
             woman
             at
             Hanaw
             ,
             that
             had
             sold
             Dogs-flesh
             ordinarily
             to
             the
             souldiers
             ,
             was
             in
             the
             streetes
             assaulted
             by
             Dogs
             ,
             all
             her
             garments
             torne
             off
             her
             backe
             ,
             that
             shee
             was
             faine
             to
             sit
             downe
             on
             the
             ground
             to
             hide
             her
             shame
             .
             And
             had
             she
             not
             
             beene
             rescued
             ,
             shee
             had
             beene
             rent
             in
             pieces
             by
             the
             Dogs
             .
          
           
             Where
             any
             man
             had
             a
             beast
             left
             that
             he
             carefully
             kept
             for
             his
             necessity
             ,
             some
             or
             other
             of
             his
             acquaintance
             ,
             if
             he
             could
             come
             by
             it
             ,
             would
             kill
             and
             eate
             it
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             snatched
             one
             from
             another
             the
             very
             stinking
             carrion
             ,
             which
             had
             lien
             sixe
             or
             seven
             weekes
             dead
             and
             full
             of
             maggots
             :
             yea
             and
             have
             fought
             and
             beaten
             one
             another
             to
             get
             a
             morsell
             thereof
             ,
             as
             lately
             happened
             at
             Dubach
             by
             Bachrack
             .
          
           
             It
             hath
             moved
             the
             great
             ones
             and
             governours
             of
             these
             quarters
             unto
             compassion
             to
             see
             their
             people
             in
             such
             extreame
             want
             .
             In
             so
             much
             that
             the
             noble
             Earle
             of
             Falkenstein
             seeing
             his
             Subjects
             crave
             sustenance
             of
             him
             ,
             commanded
             his
             man
             to
             give
             them
             his
             hounds
             to
             satisfie
             their
             hunger
             ,
             which
             they
             presently
             killed
             and
             ate
             .
          
        
         
           
           
           
             CHAP.
             X.
             
               Of
               Famine
            
             .
          
           
             
               3
               wp
               ,
               em
               killinge
               and
               after
               eateing
               each
               other
            
          
           
             
               wemen
               Eate
               there
               owne
               Children
            
          
           
           
             AS
             the
             sicknesse
             spreadeth
             by
             the
             contagion
             of
             infected
             bodies
             ,
             so
             hath
             this
             famine
             encreased
             by
             the
             neglect
             of
             Providence
             in
             the
             disabled
             and
             famished
             .
             When
             no
             more
             food
             was
             to
             be
             got
             ,
             they
             were
             inraged
             like
             beasts
             one
             against
             another
             ,
             and
             gathering
             together
             by
             troopes
             ,
             have
             watched
             for
             one
             another
             upon
             the
             high
             waies
             ,
             and
             so
             murthered
             ,
             dressed
             ,
             and
             eaten
             one
             another
             .
             Thenceforth
             no
             man
             could
             passe
             safe
             on
             the
             way
             ,
             or
             in
             the
             streets
             ,
             except
             wellarmed
             ,
             or
             travelling
             with
             a
             convoy
             .
             And
             some
             of
             them
             have
             beene
             taken
             and
             severely
             punished
             by
             Justice
             ,
             neverthelesse
             they
             haue
             secretly
             lurked
             here
             and
             there
             ,
             and
             set
             upon
             the
             passengers
             ,
             as
             by
             many
             instances
             ,
             I
             could
             shew
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             not
             good
             to
             be
             alone
             ;
             for
             where
             there
             is
             company
             ,
             the
             one
             will
             helpe
             the
             other
             in
             distresse
             .
             The
             hardnesse
             of
             these
             times
             being
             observed
             ,
             or
             rather
             felt
             ,
             three
             maidens
             at
             Odenheim
             
             in
             Dirmbstein
             by
             Wormes
             agreed
             to
             dwell
             together
             ,
             and
             to
             partake
             of
             sweet
             and
             sower
             all
             alike
             .
             But
             the
             proverbe
             is
             true
             ,
             that
             necessity
             hath
             no
             law
             ,
             and
             hunger
             is
             a
             sharpe
             Thorne
             .
             So
             pressed
             they
             were
             with
             extreame
             famine
             ,
             that
             they
             sought
             one
             anothers
             lives
             to
             save
             their
             owne
             .
             Two
             of
             them
             conspired
             together
             to
             take
             away
             the
             life
             of
             the
             third
             ,
             by
             strangling
             her
             in
             bed
             or
             otherwise
             treacherously
             to
             kill
             her
             ,
             and
             after
             to
             dresse
             and
             eate
             her
             up
             .
             All
             which
             they
             did
             accordingly
             .
             Then
             the
             second
             resolved
             to
             strangle
             her
             companion
             ,
             and
             cut
             off
             her
             head
             ,
             which
             when
             shee
             had
             done
             ,
             her
             heart
             being
             hardened
             ,
             she
             went
             to
             a
             village
             called
             Ridisheim
             to
             a
             woman
             of
             her
             acquaintance
             ,
             called
             Margaret
             ,
             whose
             husband
             was
             a
             Farmer
             ,
             and
             kept
             himselfe
             a
             way
             for
             a
             time
             in
             the
             towne
             of
             Leyningen
             .
             The
             woman
             entertained
             her
             kindly
             ,
             rejoycing
             that
             shee
             came
             yet
             once
             to
             see
             her
             .
             But
             in
             the
             night
             ,
             lying
             by
             the
             said
             woman
             ,
             she
             cut
             off
             her
             head
             ,
             bound
             the
             dead
             body
             upon
             a
             board
             and
             brought
             it
             to
             Piedessen
             ,
             where
             she
             dwelt
             and
             drew
             it
             into
             her
             house
             .
             The
             sharpenesse
             of
             hunger
             pricking
             her
             ,
             she
             had
             not
             the
             patience
             to
             cut
             the
             body
             in
             pieces
             ,
             but
             did
             cut
             off
             the
             head
             and
             both
             the
             hands
             onely
             ,
             and
             washed
             and
             dressed
             them
             .
             The
             husband
             comming
             home
             missed
             his
             wife
             ,
             and
             enquired
             for
             her
             at
             the
             neighbours
             ,
             who
             told
             him
             that
             such
             a
             maide
             was
             seene
             with
             his
             wife
             .
             He
             went
             to
             her
             house
             ,
             knocked
             at
             the
             doore
             and
             asked
             
             her
             ,
             if
             she
             had
             not
             seene
             his
             Wife
             .
             She
             answered
             him
             no.
             But
             such
             deeds
             of
             cruelty
             are
             hard
             to
             be
             concealed
             .
             Murther
             will
             out
             ,
             they
             say
             ,
             or
             the
             very
             Bruits
             will
             discover
             it
             .
             Hee
             goes
             into
             her
             house
             ,
             casteth
             his
             eyes
             round
             about
             ,
             pryeth
             into
             every
             corner
             :
             at
             length
             hee
             espieth
             an
             hand
             to
             sticke
             out
             of
             the
             pot
             ,
             which
             hung
             upon
             the
             fire
             .
             Hereupon
             ,
             as
             overcome
             with
             griefe
             ,
             hee
             rageth
             and
             raileth
             against
             the
             murtheresse
             ,
             threateneth
             her
             with
             sharpe
             words
             ,
             so
             that
             she
             presently
             confessed
             and
             revealed
             it
             .
          
           
             Then
             went
             he
             to
             the
             Justice
             ,
             and
             complained
             .
             So
             shee
             was
             brought
             to
             Slitzey
             with
             three
             Musketires
             .
             They
             made
             her
             hold
             the
             sodden
             hand
             in
             her
             hand
             ,
             while
             she
             was
             examined
             :
             and
             so
             she
             had
             her
             sentence
             from
             the
             Imperiall
             officers
             ,
             
               Burgrave
               Philip
            
             of
             Waldecke
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             Lords
             of
             Justice
             ,
             before
             the
             judgement-seat
             .
             They
             deliberated
             long
             about
             her
             punishment
             ,
             whether
             she
             shoule
             die
             or
             no
             ,
             because
             some
             were
             of
             opinion
             ,
             that
             she
             did
             it
             not
             as
             a
             rationall
             Creature
             ,
             but
             as
             a
             brute
             ,
             because
             the
             appetite
             of
             food
             is
             common
             to
             us
             with
             beasts
             .
             But
             wickednesse
             ,
             though
             necessitated
             ,
             may
             not
             ever
             goe
             free
             .
             Some
             must
             be
             made
             an
             example
             for
             the
             terrour
             of
             others
             .
             She
             was
             led
             to
             the
             common
             place
             of
             justice
             ,
             her
             head
             cut
             off
             ,
             and
             her
             body
             bound
             upon
             a
             wheele
             ,
             there
             to
             remaine
             as
             a
             spectacle
             .
          
           
             I
             cannot
             but
             write
             with
             teares
             what
             followeth
             .
             
               
               —
               Quis
               talia
               fando
               Mysmidonum
               ,
               Dolopumve
               ant
               duri
               miles
               Vlyssis
               Temperet
               à
               lachrymis
               ?
               —
            
             What
             Myrmidon
             ,
             what
             Dolop
             ,
             who
             that
             beares
             Armes
             under
             harsh
             Vlysses
             ,
             but
             his
             teares
             Must
             flow
             at
             this
             relation
             ?
          
           
             No
             man
             ever
             hated
             his
             owne
             flesh
             .
             But
             such
             are
             the
             children
             of
             our
             bodies
             .
             It
             is
             even
             against
             nature
             to
             destroy
             such
             fruite
             .
             Yet
             the
             sharpnesse
             of
             hunger
             brought
             this
             to
             passe
             .
             Oh!
             what
             is
             that
             necessity
             which
             makes
             us
             breake
             stone
             walls
             ,
             forget
             the
             neerest
             and
             dearest
             relations
             ,
             vanquish
             our
             naturall
             and
             most
             powerfull
             passions
             ,
             and
             destroy
             that
             which
             we
             so
             dearely
             loved
             ,
             so
             carefully
             cherished
             !
             At
             Oterburg
             in
             the
             Palatinate
             ,
             a
             widow
             women
             dwelling
             by
             the
             churchyard
             (
             her
             name
             well
             knowne
             )
             had
             a
             daughter
             of
             nine
             or
             ten
             yeares
             old
             .
             This
             child
             with
             hunger
             was
             growne
             so
             faint
             ,
             that
             upon
             a
             time
             ,
             with
             sorrowfull
             eyes
             ,
             she
             stedfastly
             looked
             upon
             her
             mother
             and
             said
             ,
             sweete
             mother
             ,
             I
             would
             willingly
             die
             ,
             so
             I
             were
             rid
             of
             my
             paine
             .
             Oh!
             would
             you
             make
             an
             end
             of
             mee
             ,
             then
             should
             I
             goe
             from
             whence
             I
             came
             ,
             or
             if
             I
             did
             kill
             you
             ,
             you
             would
             be
             rid
             of
             your
             paine
             .
             The
             mother
             looking
             upon
             her
             againe
             ,
             sighing
             said
             ,
             and
             what
             wouldest
             thou
             do
             with
             me
             ?
             The
             child
             answered
             ,
             very
             sadly
             ,
             I
             then
             would
             eat
             you
             ,
             for
             they
             say
             that
             mans
             flesh
             is
             very
             sweet
             .
             The
             mother
             fell
             a
             weeping
             ,
             and
             broken
             with
             her
             owne
             thoughts
             ,
             as
             a
             ship
             tossed
             and
             
             beaten
             between
             two
             rocks
             ,
             desperate
             necessity
             &
             her
             motherly
             affection
             ,
             catcheth
             at
             her
             head
             ,
             untyeth
             her
             haire-lace
             ,
             twisteth
             it
             about
             the
             necke
             of
             this
             innocent
             lambe
             ,
             and
             so
             strangleth
             her
             ;
             when
             it
             was
             dead
             ,
             shee
             having
             nor
             knife
             nor
             hatchet
             to
             cut
             it
             in
             pieces
             ,
             took
             a
             spade
             ,
             and
             therewith
             hewed
             it
             into
             boggets
             ,
             &
             so
             dressing
             the
             head
             ,
             and
             part
             of
             the
             body
             devoured
             it
             .
             Some
             part
             thereof
             shee
             sold
             to
             her
             neighbours
             for
             foure
             stivers
             the
             pound
             .
          
           
             Her
             childe
             being
             long
             missed
             ,
             her
             acquaintance
             asked
             her
             where
             it
             was
             ,
             and
             how
             she
             came
             by
             that
             flesh
             .
             She
             answered
             it
             was
             hogs-flesh
             ,
             which
             she
             had
             got
             of
             the
             souldiers
             ,
             who
             passed
             that
             way
             .
             But
             perceiving
             the
             truth
             would
             come
             out
             ,
             she
             at
             last
             confessed
             it
             .
             Whereupon
             she
             was
             complained
             of
             to
             the
             justice
             at
             
               Keysars
               Lauteren
            
             ,
             and
             put
             in
             prison
             by
             
               Jonker
               van
               Effren
            
             ,
             and
             adjudged
             to
             an
             halfe
             pound
             of
             bread
             ,
             and
             a
             kanne
             of
             water
             a
             day
             ,
             so
             to
             expect
             her
             sentence
             .
             But
             being
             sent
             for
             out
             of
             prison
             ,
             and
             examined
             by
             the
             Lords
             ,
             she
             told
             them
             she
             was
             happy
             that
             she
             was
             in
             prison
             ,
             and
             would
             be
             glad
             to
             lie
             there
             all
             her
             life
             ,
             to
             slake
             her
             hunger
             and
             refresh
             her selfe
             with
             such
             food
             ,
             her
             pricking
             paine
             being
             thereby
             abated
             .
             This
             so
             moved
             the
             Lords
             to
             pitty
             ,
             that
             they
             freed
             her
             from
             prison
             ,
             and
             let
             her
             goe
             as
             innocent
             .
          
           
             I
             cannot
             but
             record
             another
             story
             of
             like
             nature
             ,
             of
             the
             woman
             of
             Horne-bach
             ,
             where
             was
             
             sometime
             the
             Princely
             schoole
             of
             Zwybruck
             ,
             having
             lately
             lyen
             in
             childbed
             and
             wanting
             milke
             to
             nourish
             her
             babe
             ,
             she
             kissed
             and
             embraced
             it
             with
             moyst
             teares
             ,
             and
             after
             a
             long
             discourse
             killed
             it
             with
             a
             knife
             .
             Afterwards
             she
             dressed
             and
             ate
             it
             .
             When
             it
             began
             to
             be
             knowne
             ,
             she
             was
             examined
             before
             the
             Justices
             .
             The
             Lords
             asked
             her
             ,
             wherefore
             she
             killed
             her
             childe
             .
             She
             made
             answere
             that
             mighty
             and
             intollerable
             hunger
             had
             made
             her
             so
             to
             doe
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             was
             her
             owne
             fruite
             ,
             of
             which
             shee
             might
             better
             make
             use
             ,
             than
             of
             any
             other
             .
             Neverthelesse
             she
             was
             condemned
             to
             die
             ,
             and
             accordingly
             executed
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             XI
             .
             
               Of
               Famine
            
             .
          
           
             I
             Am
             now
             weary
             of
             these
             lamentable
             relations
             .
             Yet
             more
             miserable
             (
             if
             more
             miserable
             can
             be
             )
             have
             ensued
             .
             They
             have
             traced
             the
             dead
             bodies
             to
             the
             place
             of
             their
             buriall
             ,
             digged
             them
             out
             of
             their
             graves
             ,
             dressed
             and
             eaten
             them
             .
             So
             that
             in
             divers
             places
             (
             at
             Wormes
             especially
             )
             they
             have
             beene
             faine
             to
             set
             watch
             at
             the
             Church-yards
             ;
             and
             over
             the
             graves
             to
             keepe
             the
             dead
             from
             being
             stolne
             and
             eaten
             .
          
           
             In
             Saxony
             at
             this
             present
             the
             case
             is
             so
             miserable
             in
             this
             kinde
             ,
             that
             no
             pen
             can
             expresse
             it
             .
             The
             Saxon-Austrian
             Army
             (
             were
             they
             not
             beaten
             )
             must
             retreite
             through
             hunger
             ,
             having
             famished
             both
             the
             inhabitants
             and
             themselves
             .
          
           
             After
             the
             same
             manner
             it
             is
             upon
             the
             Rhine
             ,
             and
             many
             other
             parts
             ,
             where
             the
             Armies
             are
             or
             have
             lately
             beene
             .
          
           
             To
             that
             extremity
             it
             is
             come
             ,
             that
             some
             constrained
             by
             hunger
             ,
             have
             taken
             poyson
             to
             advance
             death
             .
          
           
             
               Dead
               Corpes
               digd
               out
               of
               there
               Graues
               to
               Eate
            
          
           
             
               Some
               take
               poyson
               to
               hastē
               death
            
          
           
           
             In
             a
             word
             ,
             the
             very
             wild
             beasts
             in
             the
             woods
             doe
             starve
             for
             want
             of
             prey
             .
          
           
             My
             Lord
             the
             Earle
             of
             Arundel
             travelling
             homewards
             ,
             towards
             Frankefort
             on
             the
             Maine
             ,
             a
             Boore
             or
             peasant
             of
             the
             countrey
             ,
             being
             their
             guide
             ,
             and
             having
             his
             legs
             bare
             ,
             a
             Fox
             pursued
             him
             ,
             among
             my
             Lords
             followers
             ,
             and
             would
             not
             forbeare
             snatching
             and
             biting
             at
             his
             bare
             heeles
             ,
             (
             such
             was
             his
             hunger
             )
             till
             they
             gave
             him
             a
             blow
             in
             the
             necke
             ,
             and
             so
             tooke
             him
             alive
             .
             His
             eyes
             were
             sunke
             ,
             his
             bones
             stucke
             out
             ,
             and
             hee
             was
             so
             extreme
             leane
             ,
             that
             his
             sides
             almost
             mot
             together
             .
             They
             carried
             him
             alive
             with
             them
             in
             the
             coach
             ,
             and
             after
             a
             few
             daies
             he
             died
             .
          
           
             An
             English
             gentleman
             arrived
             here
             the
             other
             day
             ,
             who
             travelling
             from
             Vlmes
             to
             Nurenburg
             ,
             &
             so
             through
             Germany
             for
             England
             ,
             with
             such
             companions
             as
             guided
             him
             by-waies
             for
             escaping
             of
             the
             souldiers
             ,
             reporteth
             that
             Wolves
             ,
             Foxes
             and
             other
             wild
             beasts
             lie
             dead
             for
             want
             of
             food
             ,
             and
             that
             in
             some
             places
             men
             live
             only
             upon
             robbery
             and
             spoile
             of
             strangers
             ,
             or
             one
             another
             ;
             Theevery
             being
             become
             a
             trade
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             XII
             .
             
               Of
               sicknesse
               and
               diseases
            
             .
          
           
             
               in
               Basile
               1633
               died
               .
               20000
               in
               Trent
               .
               1634
               died
               30000
            
          
           
             
               Generall
               Holcke
               offred
               600
               Rixdollers
               for
               a
               diuiń
               to
               comforte
               him
               .
            
          
           
             Before
             Mastreicht
             ,
             after
             the
             Towne
             was
             taken
             ,
             our
             quarters
             had
             contracted
             infectious
             sicknesses
             :
             whereof
             I
             my selfe
             had
             my
             share
             ,
             being
             left
             sicke
             in
             the
             Towne
             of
             a
             purple
             Feaver
             .
             But
             the
             yeere
             following
             both
             the
             Towne
             and
             Countrey
             were
             grievously
             afflicted
             ,
             with
             Feavers
             ,
             Fluxes
             ,
             and
             the
             Plague
             above
             all
             .
          
           
             The
             same
             yeere
             Elsas
             or
             Alsatia
             and
             the
             lower
             Palatinate
             ,
             where
             the
             Armies
             of
             the
             Duke
             of
             Lorraine
             and
             the
             Rhinegrave
             had
             lodged
             ,
             did
             suffer
             miserably
             in
             this
             kinde
             .
          
           
             The
             Army
             of
             the
             Prince
             of
             Orange
             having
             taken
             Rhineberg
             ,
             and
             marching
             towards
             Mastriche
             and
             Liege
             ,
             left
             such
             infection
             in
             great
             Brabant
             ,
             about
             Firkens-ward
             ,
             that
             the
             inhabitants
             the
             yeere
             after
             were
             afraid
             of
             their
             owne
             dwellings
             .
          
           
             About
             the
             same
             time
             ,
             Generall
             Holck
             being
             sent
             by
             Wolstein
             ,
             with
             6000.
             to
             invade
             Saxony
             ,
             sacked
             the
             City
             of
             Leipzick
             ,
             and
             committed
             as
             great
             outrages
             as
             Tillies
             Army
             had
             done
             before
             .
             
             But
             such
             a
             pestilence
             overtooke
             both
             him
             and
             his
             ,
             that
             most
             of
             his
             souldiers
             dyed
             like
             sheepe
             of
             the
             rot
             .
             And
             being
             infected
             himselfe
             ,
             hee
             offered
             600
             Rixdollers
             for
             a
             Minister
             of
             the
             Gospell
             to
             instruct
             and
             comfort
             him
             .
             But
             both
             himselfe
             and
             his
             Souldiers
             had
             so
             behaved
             themselves
             ,
             that
             no
             Minister
             was
             to
             be
             found
             .
             In
             the
             meane
             all
             his
             friends
             &
             servants
             forsook
             him
             ,
             except
             his
             Concubine
             ,
             who
             stayed
             with
             him
             to
             the
             last
             .
             He
             had
             beene
             both
             of
             the
             Religion
             and
             the
             Protestants
             party
             ,
             but
             revolted
             from
             both
             .
             So
             guilty
             of
             his
             owne
             perfidiousnes
             ,
             and
             the
             execrable
             murders
             and
             rapines
             that
             he
             had
             caused
             ,
             hee
             dyed
             despairing
             utterly
             of
             all
             future
             blisse
             .
             At
             length
             came
             a
             Minister
             ,
             but
             Holcke
             was
             dead
             before
             .
          
           
             The
             City
             of
             Basile
             that
             winter
             lost
             above
             20000.
             of
             the
             plague
             .
             They
             of
             the
             City
             of
             Trent
             ,
             their
             neighbours
             rejoyced
             at
             their
             sufferings
             ,
             as
             being
             their
             enemies
             in
             religion
             .
             But
             it
             sell
             out
             with
             them
             ,
             as
             with
             Edom
             in
             
               Obadiah
               ,
               v.
            
             15.
             that
             mocked
             Jacob
             in
             his
             distresse
             .
             The
             winter
             following
             ,
             1634.
             the
             pestilence
             so
             raged
             among
             the
             Tridentines
             ,
             that
             wee
             were
             forbidden
             to
             come
             that
             way
             ,
             for
             the
             sicke
             and
             sound
             were
             mixed
             together
             ,
             and
             that
             City
             (
             not
             great
             )
             buried
             above
             30000.
             
          
           
             Besieged
             in
             the
             Castle
             of
             Heidleberg
             ,
             I
             visited
             every
             day
             divers
             sicke
             of
             the
             plague
             ,
             and
             like
             diseases
             .
             But
             in
             neither
             of
             these
             two
             great
             
             plagues
             in
             London
             ,
             nor
             in
             any
             other
             ,
             that
             I
             have
             beene
             in
             ,
             did
             I
             ever
             finde
             the
             cause
             so
             virulent
             ,
             the
             symptomes
             so
             incorrigible
             ,
             the
             disease
             so
             incurable
             .
             Some
             dyed
             raging
             ,
             others
             were
             killed
             with
             their
             carbuncles
             ,
             when
             the
             venome
             seemed
             to
             be
             expelled
             from
             the
             inward
             parts
             ,
             others
             were
             swollen
             and
             discoloured
             ,
             as
             though
             they
             had
             taken
             poyson
             ,
             and
             some
             that
             dyed
             were
             so
             spotted
             ,
             as
             I
             never
             saw
             the
             like
             .
             If
             any
             souldier
             were
             but
             sleightly
             wounded
             ,
             presently
             it
             became
             a
             maligne
             ulcer
             ,
             though
             all
             good
             inward
             and
             outward
             meanes
             ,
             were
             used
             .
             If
             the
             infection
             got
             into
             a
             kindred
             ,
             it
             killed
             parents
             ,
             children
             ,
             and
             almost
             all
             the
             blood
             ,
             that
             were
             present
             .
             Whence
             I
             perswade
             my selfe
             ,
             that
             Hippocrates
             his
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             that
             is
             ,
             the
             divine
             hand
             and
             finger
             of
             God
             was
             more
             conspicuous
             in
             this
             ,
             than
             in
             any
             other
             visitation
             I
             had
             seene
             ,
             though
             I
             doubt
             not
             but
             our
             foode
             with
             the
             aire
             might
             also
             helpe
             to
             impoyson
             our
             bodies
             extraordinarily
             .
          
           
             Toward
             the
             end
             of
             the
             siege
             ,
             wee
             had
             made
             an
             hospitall
             in
             the
             roofe
             of
             the
             house
             .
             But
             packing
             out
             of
             the
             Castle
             ,
             wee
             left
             there
             our
             sicke
             ,
             some
             dying
             ,
             some
             crying
             out
             at
             the
             windowes
             ,
             not
             to
             be
             left
             to
             their
             sicknesse
             ,
             famine
             ,
             and
             death
             ,
             and
             which
             was
             worse
             than
             the
             enemy
             ,
             of
             whom
             how
             they
             were
             used
             wee
             may
             imagine
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             Towne
             they
             were
             much
             visited
             before
             
             we
             were
             shut
             up
             :
             which
             could
             not
             but
             be
             augmented
             by
             the
             multitudes
             of
             the
             enemy
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             siege
             of
             Hanaw
             were
             buried
             ,
             (
             most
             of
             the
             plague
             )
             above
             22000
             people
             ,
             and
             had
             not
             God
             sent
             that
             sicknesse
             to
             diminish
             their
             numbers
             ,
             they
             had
             yeelded
             the
             towne
             through
             want
             of
             victuals
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             same
             siege
             ,
             Souldiers
             that
             went
             to
             the
             guard
             seeing
             and
             well
             ,
             came
             off
             strucken
             starke
             blinde
             thirty
             at
             a
             time
             .
             Afterwards
             the
             disease
             falling
             into
             their
             legges
             ,
             the
             most
             of
             them
             recovered
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             CHAP.
             XIII
             .
             
               Of
               Sickenesse
               and
               Diseases
            
             .
          
           
             
               In
               Bauier
               men
               not
               left
               to
               bury
               the
               dead
               ,
               but
               Rattes
               ,
               and
               mice
               ,
               devoured
               there
               carcasses
               .
            
          
           
             
               Haue
               pittey
               vpon
               me
               ,
               haue
               pittey
               vpon
               me
               ,
               o
               yee
               my
               frends
               for
               the
               hand
               of
               the
               Lord
               hath
               touched
               me
               .
            
          
           
           
             THe
             yeere
             1635
             ,
             almost
             whole
             Germany
             felt
             this
             punishment
             ,
             in
             most
             grievous
             wise
             .
             In
             Swaben
             the
             Countrey
             of
             Tyroll
             ,
             all
             along
             the
             Reine
             ,
             and
             the
             Maine
             ,
             it
             was
             so
             furiously
             hot
             ,
             that
             all
             places
             were
             alike
             safe
             .
             The
             King
             of
             Hungary
             was
             faine
             to
             dissolve
             his
             Court
             ,
             and
             send
             them
             away
             into
             divers
             Cities
             ,
             for
             their
             safer
             abode
             .
          
           
             In
             Swaben
             the
             inhabitants
             of
             
               Memingen
               ,
               Campden
            
             ,
             and
             Isnen
             were
             utterly
             consumed
             ,
             and
             none
             left
             .
             In
             the
             Countrey
             thereabout
             ,
             in
             which
             were
             more
             than
             thirty
             thousand
             men
             heretofore
             ,
             were
             not
             foure
             hundred
             soules
             to
             be
             found
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             confines
             of
             Bavier
             the
             living
             were
             nothing
             neere
             able
             to
             bury
             the
             dead
             .
             But
             Rats
             and
             Mice
             devoured
             their
             carcasses
             ,
             most
             horrible
             to
             behold
             .
          
           
             The
             low
             Countries
             smarted
             sore
             also
             .
             The
             Universitie
             of
             Leyden
             buried
             thirty
             thousand
             .
             The
             Countrey
             Villages
             and
             the
             Hague
             ,
             
             (
             where
             I
             was
             shut
             up
             my selfe
             )
             were
             miserably
             afflicted
             .
             The
             Infant
             Cardinall
             was
             forced
             to
             remove
             from
             Bruxels
             and
             Antwerp
             ,
             the
             sicknesse
             did
             so
             increase
             in
             those
             places
             .
          
           
             
               Nimegen
               ,
               Emericke
               ,
               Rees
               ,
               Guelders
               ,
            
             with
             other
             places
             neere
             ,
             were
             not
             onely
             visited
             therewith
             (
             wherof
             the
             Marquesse
             of
             Aytoma
             ,
             the
             Spanish
             Generall
             ,
             &
             other
             Commanders
             died
             )
             but
             new
             contagious
             diseases
             ,
             among
             which
             were
             strange
             Fluxes
             ,
             and
             a
             kind
             of
             pox
             unheard
             of
             .
          
           
             The
             Emperours
             Army
             dispersing
             all
             over
             for
             want
             of
             resistance
             ,
             did
             also
             scatter
             the
             contagion
             from
             their
             quarters
             at
             Haylbrun
             ,
             through
             the
             Land
             of
             Wirtenberg
             ,
             that
             many
             places
             hereby
             became
             utterly
             depopulated
             .
             But
             since
             Gallas
             his
             taking
             in
             the
             Townes
             upon
             the
             Rhine
             ,
             such
             an
             infection
             happened
             through
             the
             stinch
             of
             the
             dead
             unburied
             bodies
             ,
             that
             in
             the
             Bishopricke
             of
             Ments
             alone
             there
             died
             of
             this
             and
             hunger
             twenty
             foure
             thousand
             people
             .
          
           
             In
             
               Saxony
               ,
               Brandenburg
               ,
               Pomeren
               ,
               Mecklenburg
               ,
            
             &c.
             this
             yeare
             the
             pestilence
             with
             like
             diseases
             have
             beene
             so
             universall
             ,
             that
             these
             and
             the
             sword
             ,
             seeme
             to
             strive
             which
             shall
             be
             the
             greatest
             destroyer
             .
             The
             retraite
             of
             the
             Swedes
             ,
             in
             which
             they
             did
             not
             onely
             evade
             ,
             but
             cut
             in
             pieces
             many
             of
             the
             enemies
             Troopes
             ,
             is
             not
             so
             famous
             as
             these
             calamities
             .
             The
             very
             plague
             consumed
             in
             Saxony
             the
             other
             day
             in
             the
             space
             of
             two
             moneths
             ,
             no
             lesse
             than
             sixteene
             thousand
             
             that
             the
             King
             of
             Hungary
             hath
             given
             command
             that
             none
             shall
             come
             from
             thence
             to
             Prague
             ,
             or
             the
             Cities
             of
             Bohemia
             .
          
           
             As
             by
             the
             print
             of
             Hercules
             his
             foot
             you
             might
             guesse
             at
             his
             stature
             ,
             so
             by
             these
             few
             particulars
             of
             the
             miseries
             of
             some
             places
             there
             ,
             we
             may
             guesse
             at
             the
             lamentable
             estate
             of
             the
             whole
             .
             The
             war
             having
             every
             where
             caught
             and
             raged
             ,
             hath
             left
             such
             wounds
             as
             will
             not
             in
             haste
             be
             recured
             ,
             and
             perhaps
             posterity
             for
             some
             generations
             will
             see
             the
             scarres
             .
          
           
             Thus
             is
             the
             Virgine
             daughter
             of
             that
             people
             destroyed
             with
             a
             great
             destruction
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             sore
             and
             greivous
             plague
             .
             Goe
             into
             the
             fieid
             ,
             behold
             the
             slaine
             with
             the
             sword
             .
             Enter
             into
             the
             City
             ,
             behold
             them
             that
             are
             sicke
             for
             hunger
             also
             .
             So
             are
             they
             smitten
             ,
             but
             are
             not
             healed
             .
             They
             loke
             for
             peace
             ,
             but
             there
             is
             no
             good
             ;
             for
             the
             time
             of
             health
             ,
             but
             behold
             trouble
             .
          
           
             FINIS
             .
          
           
             
               Imprimatur
            
             
               November
               .
               12.
               1637.
               
            
             
               Sam.
               Baker
               .
            
             
               G.
               Rodolphus
               Weckherlin
               .
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
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