The same day, their said Majesties were present at the Solemne Procession made be
in this Manner. First, their issued out of the Church of S. Cornille, about an [unr]
men of ts Town, bearing, each of them, a burning torch with a great Scotched
followed by an hundred Sursses of the Guard: Then came, by two and two the Capuc[unr]
the Minutes, the Cordelyers, the White Priers, the Parish Priests, the Canons of S[unr]
Clement and the Benedictine of Friers, who went before the Holy Sacrament, carried un[unr]
a Canop[unr]e by the Bishops of Soissons, Abbot of S. Cornille, when the King immediately
followed, with Monsieur his Majesties only Brother, his Eminency in his Pontifre[unr]
bus, the Marshals of Villeroy, and Press[unr]is Praslin, the Bishops of Rhodes, Comings, [unr]
and Aire, (in their pontificiall Attire also) the Marquis de Humieres out Governor
and many other Lords. The Queen was led by th' Earl of Orval; and after her we[unr]
Mademois[unr]ile (the Duke of Orleans daughter) the Princesse of Conde, the Dutchesse
Montbazon, and other great Ladies. The Procession being re-entered in to the sa[unr]
Church of S. Cornille, their Majesties there heard Masse celebrated by the Bishop
Su[unr]ssons; and after dinner, th' Even-song, with a Sermon made by Father Faure, in the
Gray. Friers Church.
Obe[unr]land the 18th. of May.
The Imperiall Sub-Committee, having setled all things, according to the Inst[unr]
me[unr] Pacis, are gone to Lindau, where they have done the like, onely some Cou[unr]
Offices, and Villages, taken from it, are restored thing, which are intricate, they labo[unr]
to clear: the like they do for the City of Rervensburge.
Hunt borough, the 5th of May.
Some Swedish Troops of Horse, having received pay, were disbanded at Strad[unr]
Civill Officers, which are under the Jurisdiction of this City, were summoned to come
to the Councell House, to bring in an accompt, what charges the Swedish have put the
Countrey unto in their Quarters, and so the Regiment of Horse under Colonell Per[unr]
is either to march, or be disbanded: Here was published an Edict, that no Corn, a
any other Provision, (as it hath been of late very much) be transported for England
At Riga in Liss-land, there was so high a Floud, three dayes together, the like in man
remembrance hath not been, almost the whole Suburbs stood in water: many Houses,
Gardens, Banks, Bridges and Dams, on the Duant, spoiled, three Ships sunk, and
great many more much spoiled, a great number of people drowned. The Treaty about
the Custome on the wesar, betwixt the County of Oldenburg, and the City of Lubeck
is broken off, and the City Lubbock's Deputies returned reinfecta.
S[unr]tin, the 4th. of May.
The Polonian Letters ascertain, that Generall Chmielnisky, is with his Cossacks retired
toward Saporesk, for want of provision, and is like to continue there abouts, till there
be more grasse in the fields. In the mean while, he hath made known his resolution,
that the intends to revenge the surprizall, done unto the rebellious Peasants, & is resolved
to fight for his Græcian Religion to the utmost: Chmielnisky consideth in some other
help, besides that of the Tartarians, the King of Poland (to whom the City of Danizick,
before the Vice-Chancellor, and Bishop of Collin, as his Embassadours hath done
hourage with their usuall Solemnity,) hath appointed his Armies Randezvous, to be at
Reussish Lemberg, and hath declared Major Generall Huball to command all the German
Regiments. The Great Duke of Muscovia hath commanded some thousand men
through Novigvade, towards the Swedish Frontiers; to what end, time will shew.
From tockholine is certified, that Commissioners are dispatched into all the Provinces
of the Kingdom, to bring to a Randezvous these Forces in the respective Provinces, agreed
on, at the last Dyet at Stockholme: whether these are to go, by Sea, or Land,
or by Sea, to Land; time must tell.