unto Saltzwedel: the 29 of July, Duke Weymer defeated Generall Getts
neer Wittenweyer, who attempted to relieve Brisack besieged by the Duke:
there died of the Imperialists 1500, among whom were 7 Colonels, not long
after Major Gen. Rosa defeated Major Gen. Hurst, killing 200 of his men.
The fourth of October, Duke Bar defeated the Lorainers, that came to relieve
Brisack, in the Oxenfield, killed 1000, the Duke of Lorain himself narrowly
escaping, creeping away to avoid the bullets that came so fast after him:
his kinsman Bassampiere and three Colonels were taken prisoners: the 14 of
October Duke Bernard defeated Gen. Getts a second time, who came to relieve
Brisack, kill'd 1000 of his men: took three Colonels and five Captains.
The 19 of December, the Duke took the great Fort Brisack or Brisack,
which originally was call'd a Fort, before the surrender whereof, the
inhabitance fed upon mans flesh: such are the miseries of warre, when Duke
Bernard entred the City, he saw some prisoners that had been taken in the
siege, from him, of whom he demanded where is such a many my deare friend,
to which answer was given that he being dead, or as food as dead; they had
made food of him and were at the instant of the surrender of the Town, refreshing
themselves with his left and last shoulder: at the hearing whereof:
the Duke turned about, weeping as a child in a bitter manner; would not this
example deter all men from war: the taking of this so strong and impregnable
a place occasioned this Chronogram.
In VIC to fort Is C æ CIDIt Br Is æ Is AChI LLI,
IV ng It Vr & tanto DI gna pVeL La VIro.
Bernard the Great, espoused for his Queen;
Such a Virgin as in Germany, was neer' seen:
The Contract so shaked the Austrian Power;
They have not recover'd it unto this hower,
Thes of March.
The Parliament having last night past an Act, inobling any to Common-councell-men
of London, to call a Court, where at if 40 be present, though
neither Lord Major not Aldermen, the act shal be good made by them, agreed
on a Fast to be this day three weeks, sate not this day, yet the Councell of
State did, when its resolved that any thing, they doe should be Printed unlesse
by their own order, in regard they are a secret Councell, liberty shall be taken
heare as other have done, the Commissioners for triall of the 4 Peers
and Sir John Owen, sate not in publike this day, in regard the Earl of HOR and
who should have come, could not by reason of his malady.
The Councell of the Army fate at White hall, to whom his Excellency produced
a Letter of some Troopers, purporting the right of the Souldiers, to petition
without the Officers, which was a mistake, as to time, it was lawfull