against the Sconce from their batteries, are gone and are
to joyn with the Polonian, and Brandenburgish forces, and
then to goe upon some weighty design. The six Swedish men
of Warr lye still in our Road, using no hostily, only they
search the ships coming and going, and take out goods of
Contreband.
From Franckford, August. 1.
His Imperiall Majesty having feasted, on the 25 of July,
the [unr]ctoral Princes, then he pitched upon the 1 of Saint
August of a Coronation day: the day before the Imperiall
Robes and Ornaments, with the Crown, Scepter, &c. and the
sword of Carlemaine, wherebby the Knights use to be made
at the Imperiall coronation, were brought hither by the Ambassadors
of Nurnberg: the Church of St Bartholmew, and the
Cloysters about, the Romer, and all other places were to be
trimed and adorned also in a manner fitting for the Solemnity:
at the appointed day at three of the clock in the morning,
drums were beaten in all the quarters of the City, the Citizens
assembled to their respective quarters, and also at the Romer,
( where in a Kitchin purposely raised, a whole Ox was roasted)
the Citizens armed stood to keep off the crowd of people,
from the Romer to the Church door. Secular Electoral
Princes went in great Pomp to the Romer, and from thence
to the Emperors quarter, from whence they fetcht his lmperiall
Majesty, who under a Canopie boren by eight of our
Senators, rode one horsback to the Church, where the Spirituall
Electoral Princes waited for his coming. As soon as
his Majesty came to the Church door, the said three Spiritual
Princes and the Clergy met his Majesty, in their clerical vestiments,
and led him to his place: then the Elector of Collen
( making first many reverend expressions of excuse, lest it should
prove prejudiciall to the Elector of Mentz, to whom it belongs
to officiate, performed the anointing, Crowning, and
other things depending thereupon, at the saying of Masse &c.
Then all sorts of Musick, instrumental and vocal we heard,
Trompets sounded, drums beaten, all Bells rung, and the
great guns discharged. Then his Imperiall Majesty went up