the Lord, his people, and these Nations; that you may meet
with ingenuity, and sincerity, in all that profess love; and
that your Bow may abide in strength, and your Arms and
Hands may be made strong by the hands of the mighty God
of Jacob, against all that oppose, shall be the earnest Prayer
of
Your Highness
most affectionate
humble Servants.
From Elbing, 17 Febr.
The Swedish Generalissimo breaking up with his forces,
with an intent to pass with the most of them over the Weyssel,
the Polanders imagined, as it his Princely Highness. Adolph
intended to march into safer places in Pomerania; to
hinder which, they gave alarums to all places of passage, and
the Brandenburgish drew together also, and sate down joyntly
about Mewa 2500 strong hoping to lie in wait for our
Convoy in their returns, which they counted to be about
1500 strong. But they found themselves deceived, when
they heard that the body under his, Princely Highness consisted
of 4000 men, which went over the Weyssel onely to
draw unto him the forces commanded by the Lord Baron,
and General Lieutenant Wurtz coming from Pomerania,
which consisted of five or six thousand men, who in their
way tried their fortune upon divers places. His Highnesses
forces had this good success, that they unexpectedly met
with 100 Waggons great and small, coming from Duntzick,
laden with several commodities, and made prize of them,
And to make mention onely of some few places, they took
Conitz by force, putting the soldiers and those that were in
arms to the sword. Tauchel also was hard put to it. In like
manner Slochaw, in which Town the Swedish got above
400 brave Polnish horse. The Castle in it surrendredrals,
but the Polonian Vice-Chancellor Lessinski, upon timely
intelligence, got away. There comes news, that the Polanders
encountred some of ours in Pomerellen, but were fo[unr]ced