Catalogue description NEWSLETTER.

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Details of 8ANC8/21
Reference: 8ANC8/21
Title: NEWSLETTER.
Description:

--Letters from Vienna state that the Hungarians had occupied Guntz, Isenstat and other places in Austria, whereupon the Emperor ordered Count Dampier to leave Count Bucquoy and go against them with some thousand men.

 

The new King of Hungary was in the field with 70,000 men. He had sent 20,000 into Stiria (where they sacked and burned divers places and ordered the States to join the Confederation), and another 20,000 into Bohemia and Moravia. He himself was going with 30,000 into Austria, having left strong garrisons in Hungary.

 

At Prague the Papist burghers have been notified that they must take oath to annul the point quod turn sit servanda fides hoereticis, but had refused ; in consequence of which their churches were to be closed and their houses had been visited and all arms seized.

 

On the 28th ult. the King [Frederick] left Prague accompanied by the Bohemian nobles, with two companies of guards and a thousand Silesian horse, to go with the new King of Hungary into Moravia. The army of the Emperor had again entered Bohemia, and besieged Wittinga, but the Bohemian army, having heard of Bucquoy's y designs from the prisoners, followed them and forced them to retire.

 

From Switzerland we hear that the troops of Zurich, Berne and the Grysons, having regained the country of Wormes [Bormio], the principal passage into the Voltaline, had gone on to attempt Tiran, but fell into an ambuscade of the enemy, and a great part of the Bernois, who were in front, were surrounded and killed, with their chief and many officers. The rest however chased the enemy to Tiran and finding they could not attempt it, retired to the Upper Engadine. It is said that the Venetians have sent them men and munition.

 

There is no news from our army at Wesel except that his Excellency [the Prince of Orange] had sent provision of munitions of war to the new fort above Couloigne, which is now called Papenmutze.

 

The 5,000 Spanish troops collected by Don Louys de Velasco were proceeding upwards, either against the said fort or to succour Spinola in Germany. Our ships of war are ready and provisioned, and will sail with the first fair wind. Six new ones are being equipped at Amsterdam for the East Indies. The Prince of Orange, seeing that the winter approaches, is about to come home with his men.

Date: 1620. October 21. The Hague
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: French
Physical description: 4 pages.

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