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25/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 111 [misprinted as 1011] (25 September) with news from Vienna, Amsterdam, Schenkenschans, Prague and Madrid.

VIENNA, 4 September: Yesterday Te Deum Laudamus was sung in all the churches here to celebrate the magnificent victory against the Dane, and afterwards the artillery was fired on all the bulwarks of the city.
We hear that Behtlen is certainly out in strength, but whither he intends to go is still unknown.
As a precaution, his imperial majesty has had the castle and city of Presborgh garrisoned with several hundred men, and has had a pontoon bridge built there.
The peasants in Upper Austria are quiet. They have reached agreement, except in one quarter. The passage of Linz is open again. Some of the peasants who were captured have been put to work here in the city moat. The other half will be sent to Raab to repair the bulwarks.

AMSTERDAM, 8 September: After the failure of Prince Henry’s enterprise at Hulst, he sailed all his men up the Rhine and has summoned more to join him there.
Count Henry vanden Bergh, hearing of the prince’s coming, has crossed the Rhine back to his old quarters. Whether hostilities are to be attempted against one another, time will tell.

SCHENKENSCHANS, 10 September: The Prince of Orange is now at Emmerick, but the soldiers are along the Rhine outside Emmerick, building baracks of boughs. On 8 and 9 September, several ships of soldiers came upriver. All the barges with the artillery have been ordered to Emmerick. Everything indicates that Wesel is their target. The prince has sent more engineers to the Maas and Waal, to build sconces and redoubts, with which he means to secure the whole Betuwe. It is said here that the Spaniards are assembling in strength.

PRAGUE: Yesterday, Lord Curtz van Muncken passed through here towards Vienna. He says that the Elector of Bavaria is sending 5,000 men down the Danube to Linz, and thence to Moravia, and is assembling a great throng of soldiery.

[MADRID, August]: The Count of Montery has happily returned home from the diet in Aragon, which he concluded to the king’s satisfaction. There is good hope that with this kingdom and the kingdom of Valencia having consented to the king’s desire, all the other kingdoms and territories will follow, and within two years the king will have 0000 men [sic] to be maintained for fifteen years.
The Privy Council and the Royal Council are at odds over the abolition of the bad and small coins, so the decision has been entrusted to the Spiritual Council.
The Count of Olovares [Olivares] has suffered some blows, for first his cousin Cardinal Guzman died, then his nephew, and soon thereafter his only daughter, and what most goes to his heart is that unless he has another heir, all his goods of the House of Guzman will fall to the House of Haro, his sister’s son.
Cardinal Barberini and his full entourage departed on 8 August, well satisfied. The king gave him a jewel in which his likeness had been carved, worth 18,000 ducats, as well as awarding him a pension of 12,000 ducats on the bishoprics of Cordova and Santiago, with the presentation of the protection of Aragon and Portugal, which are worth 6,000 ducats annually, but he would not accept this without special approval and consent of his holiness. His knights and servants were given gold chains, and awarded habits and other mercedes in Italy.
The old nuncio, Cardinal Zaggetti [Sacchetti], travelled hence with the army [sic], and in his place the Patriarch of Antioch, Monsignor Pamphilio, remains here.
On 22 August his majesty appointed the Marquis of Inojosa as President [of the Council] of the Indies.

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24/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 110 [misprinted as 1010] (25 September) with news from Hamburg, Rome, Gdańsk, Olomouc, and Venice.

HAMBURG: Since the king of Denmark’s great defeat by imperial troops at Lutter, many of the troops he had left have deserted, many of them having been seen hereabouts, and it is feared that his excellency the Count of t’Serclaes de Tilly will continue to pursue the king. This is why 11 companies of Danish cavalry were put over the Elbe at Snakenborgh on 6 September, and it seems will occupy the riverbank from this side of the Tollenspicker onwards. The roads are not safe, for merchants’ goods are everywhere being seized, and many of them came here very malcontent.

ROME: On Saturday an express courier brought news that Cardinal Orino has died at Bracciano, in his thirty-fifth year, leaving vacant the eighth place in the Sacred College, and offices worth over 16,000 crowns, an abbey at Diemona of 10,000 and another in the kingdom of Naples of 1,000 ducats, as well as many others. Likewise Cardinal del Monte, dean of the Sacred College, died here yesterday, but only leaving vacant the bishopric of Ostia with an income of 6,000 crowns, for he had previously resigned some abbeys and incomes.
They write from Modena that the princess there [Isabella of Savoy] departed this world on 22 August, leaving nine children.

DANZIG, 1 September: On 27 August, 200 musketeers and 100 cavalry marched out from here and deployed in the Werder, where they were joined by 700 peasants to ensconce and defend that place, but this was discovered by the Swede, and the peasants being left there, those who had marched out from here were surrounded, made prisoners, and transported away, and twenty of them entirely unclothed sent home naked as the day they were born, unharmed, a scandal the city would have given a large sum of money to avoid.
Our king has praised our constancy, and offered to maintain 4,000 men, but this was not accepted. We await whatever the Swede will attempt against us next.

OLMITS [OLOMOUC], 2 September: Our Friedland army arrived here today. Mansfeld lost 200 men outside Leipneck, and had to depart in shame, and in his departure had to leave behind four of his best cannons at Popin because of the bad roads. He marched thence to Cremsier, thinking to cross there, but he was opposed and the bridge demolished, so two days ago he marched to Ungarischbrod, where 6,000 Hungarians awaited him, and we will march after him tomorrow.

VENICE, 4 September: Letters from Milan say that the Count of Mansfeld’s two regiments had not yet marched for Germany, for the Swiss will grant them no passage before they are paid. The governor has sent the Marquis of Oglians 30,000 crowns to be given them in payment on account. Also, 200,000 crowns have been transferred from Genoa, to pay the military commanders and the soldiers. So that the soldiery might do no further harm in the countryside, they were prohibited from running out, and the inhabitants authorised to captured miscreants and deliver them to justice.
We are informed from Turin that although the duke there had dismissed his cavalry, there was nonetheless talk of the Marquis of Baden marching to the king with 4,000 German soldiers, and that the king of France was expected at Lyon, to travel to the Dauphiné, whither Prince Victorio would go to speak with his majesty.
They write from Genoa that notwithstanding the proclamation of the peace, most of the soldiery are lodged towards Ornea and other places on the frontier of Piedmont, so that Commissary Benecael, S. Philippo Spinola, as well as some other commanders, will soon travel to Araste, to remain with their troops there until everything is cleared up.

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23/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 109 (23 September) with news from Hamburg, Butow (Bytów?), and Paris, and a smattering of editorial commentary.

EDITORIAL: Since the victory against the king of Denmark we do not know for sure what has become of him. His horse was found in a marsh, so it is presumed he might be dead, or drowned in the mud, but there is no certainty. If he is alive, he will have to show himself somewhere, and then it will soon be known.

HAMBURG: Those of Danzig made a sortie and drove off some of the troops of the so-called king of Sweden.
Also, the stirring of the Calvinists had provoked some quarrel or difficulty between the king of Poland and some of his subjects. Notwithstanding this, the king of Poland had brought an army of 18,000 men to about two days’ travel from the Swede, and was expecting 15,000 more, so the Swede has begun to retreat.
Concerning Bethlen Gabor, he still keeps very quiet, not moving at all, which means both Mansfeld and the peasants are in a bad way, and if the reader would understand the right reason and cause, the hand and disposition of God is even clearer in this than in the victory against the king of Denmark.
Bethlen Gabor, by his own means, and those sent him by foreign correspondents, had managed by great gifts and presents to corrupt the general of the Grand Turk’s Janissaries in Constantinople, who ordered the Pasha of Buda in Hungary, and others too, to furnish him with soldiers, foot and horse, with artillery and everything needed for war, so that he would be mighty enough to invade the Emperor’s lands with over 30,000 men, right in the time and conjuncture that the rebel peasants in Upper Austria were at their strongest, and Mansfeld in Silesia at his readiest, so their combined forces would have been so great as without doubt to have put the Emperor in great need and difficulty.
The Janissaries conceived such a hatred of their general that a great throng of them came to the Seraille where the Grand Turk resides, and where their general was with him, and demanded their general be delivered to them. The Grand Turk, fearing that if he did not satisfy the Janissaries they might strike him dead, had the general beheaded in the Seraille and sent his head to the Janissaries, which satisfied them.
This general was a man 80 years old, and such a great friend to Bethlen Gabor that Bethlen Gabor writing to him called him father, and the general in writing to Bethlen Gabor called him son.
In this the reader may behold the great providence of God that just in the conjuncture that Bethlen Gabor would have played his part with his utmost force and power, and that his correspondents, the enemies of the Emperor, were prepared to support him with all their forces, this fury should enter the brains of the Janissaries to cut to pieces this general who was the principal pillar on which Bethlen Gabor relied, which they would without doubt have done, had not the Grand Turk spared them the trouble by having the general beheaded and sending them the head as a present to please them.
And what is even more to be noted is that the Grand Turk has appointed a new general over the Janissaries, who by no means desires wars against the Emperor, which little pleases the Venetians, who would rather see the Emperor utterly embroiled in war.
They also write from Germany that the Duke of Bavaria was sick for about twenty days, but is getting better, praise be to God.
They write from England that they are in no hurry there to equip or send out any ships.
They write thence that three different persons have committed su***de after giving close heed and study to the point of Predestination.

BUTOW: We have news that Carl Carelsen’s troops, 300 strong, are busy despoiling Amt Benten, driving off close to 3,000 sheep and 150 cattle to their camp by Olive.
The Swede is keeping very quiet in his fort by Dirschow, which is a good mile away, except that he is demanding contributions from the territory of Danzig with threats of fire.

PARIS: The Count of Chalais has finally been executed at Nantes, which is why the other prisoners and co-conspirators of great quality are fearful that the Count’s declarations might bring to light their conspiring against his majesty .
The misunderstanding between France and England increases constantly, although his majesty has earnestly commanded the Lord Bishop [of Mende?] not to depart from England, and if need be to protest this hostile breach of the peace.

ADVERTISEMENT: Dear reader, as Christian Duke of Brunswick (alias the Mad Bishop) has lately died, we will soon declare his testament to the reader.

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22/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 108 (23 September) with news from Linz.

LINZ: The peasants in Austria not having quietened, or been willing to come to a peace with his imperial majesty, despite being offered grace, and having been paternally urged to peace by his majesty’s envoys, they strongly besieged the city of Linz, and trapped the governor, Lord Adam van Herberstorff, and attempted his life, and thought to act as tyrannically there as at Freistadt.
So his imperial majesty, by great necessity, notwithstanding his great pity for the poor folk, was obliged to take hold of them, and force the said peasants to obedience, willing or unwilling.
The peasants persisting in their rebellion, and hearing of Manfeld’s invasion of Silesia, refused to listen to any peace, unless their religion were left free, according to their own liking, and to force us to it by hunger. They have again closed the Danube, with a threefold chain and sharp sail, which they obtained from Holland, and have built two forts on either side of the Danube, occupying each with 1,000 men, to prevent anyone coming from Bavaria. They are also patrolling the whole length of the Danube from Aschs to Grain with their sentries so close together that they can speak to one another, with 1,500 on one side of the Danube and 1,300 on the other. Cavalrymen, good gentlemen whom they force to it and would otherwise burn their estates.
This city is strongly beset round about, and in Slot Holtzlein there are 6,000 digging and fortifying so that Colonel Lebbel with his cavalry can scarcely get there.
On the Feast of St Laureys, the aforesaid governor, seeing that it was needed, led his foremost officers, many soldiers and citizens in a magnificent procession from the castle to the main church in honour of St Laureys, each putting himself in a state of grace with Holy Communion.
Once the procession was over, the aforesaid governor rode across the market square thanking everyone. He explained to them why had had such a procession celebrated on that day, namely because St Laurence showed such courage and constancy during his martyrdom, that soldiers in service of a prince’s rightful cause should do the same and hold him for a patron. And if they desired to follow [the example of] St Laurence, and the Lord God held them worthy of it, that they must suffer, or even die, in the defence of their old Christian Catholic Religion, and the honour of God, and the reputation of his imperial majesty Ferdinand II, their born hereditary lord, and his electoral grace Maximilian of Bavaria, that they should not do so with small courage, or shrink from the false peasants, for by this suffering they would earn, like St Laurence, not only a perpetual name to posterity, but furthermore an everlasting crown in Heaven. At this they all cried with loud and clear voices that they would lose body, honour, goods and blood alongside his grace for the Catholic Religion, his imperial majesty, and their fatherland, and risk all to preserve their city and good name.
At this the governor thanked them, brandishing his drawn sword in the air, and swore to them that as long as God granted him the power to wield that sword, indeed as long as there was a drop of blood in his veins, he would do all to stand by them in peril, and risk his body and life to preserve the greatest and the least of them equally. He then held stately banquet and treated each of them, nd confirmed all the aforesaid, and had a double ration of w**e, meat, bread and other things issued to each soldier.
Meanwhile, Colonel Preiner, with his ten companies and Don Martin’s cavalry, had taken Freistadt by stratagem, sending in several soldiers dressed in peasant garb, and taking the town with few losses, beating over 1,000 peasants. Colonel Lebel also attacked the peasants, killing 1,500 of them.
Now when the governor of Linz had made a strong league with his soldiers, citizens and commanders, on 22 August he made a sortie and drove off the peasants, capturing fifteen artillery pieces as well as a lot of livestock, mu*****ns and baggage, and bringing it all into the city, so that there is now again free passage between Linz and Freistadt. The towns of Wels and Steyr have also taken in imperial garrisons and beaten off the peasantry, so that the peasants now hold no towns, and will have to sing grace and mercy.
When the king of Denmark was defeated by the Lord Count of Tilly, his whole army scattered, three wagons of coins and silverware were found amongst the am******on and baggage, which his excellency the Count of t’Serclaes de Tilly shared out amongst his soldiers who had obtained good b***y.
His excellency the Count of t’Serclaes de Tilly is now not far from Wolfenbuttel, blocking the passage everywhere so that the cavalry who escaped thither will be unable to come out. It is also said the king himself is there, for his life horse was found in a marsh by a Croat, and was got out with great difficulty and danger, and was given to Lord Tilly.
The letters from Vienna say there will soon be news that things will go with Mansfeld as they have with the king of Denmark, for he is encircled, with the Prince of Walsteyn on one side, and Colonel Bechman on the other, and on a third side the Count of Schlick, and on the fourth a high mountain that he cannot descend, so he will have to die there of hunger or be beaten.

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18/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 107a [misnumbered 101] (18 September) with news from Siegen about the Battle of Lutter and the conspiracies in France.

SIEGEN IN THE LAND OF NASSAU: I think people here will have heard of the Count of Tilly’s victory against the king of Denmark, but will nevertheless send your worship the particulars I have of it.
The same count had besieged the town of Northeym, where he received news that the king of Denmark was marching towards him to succour the town with 40,000 men. So the count departed from outside Northeym to about a day’s travel thence, with his army about 10,000 men strong, and soon encountered about 10,000 men, both infantry and cavalry, sent him by the imperial general the Duke of Friedlandt, and whom he had long expected. All these troops together marched with great diligence two days and two nights to the king’s army, which the Count of Tilly found in the open field near the town of Wolfenbuttel, and without allowing his men to rest he was determined to engage with the king’s army. The king, thinking quickly to cut Tilly to pieces, first charged Tilly, who at once made himself master of a moor that lay between the two armies, and also with the advantage of the wind, which was then blowing strongly, Tilly placed five field guns on either side of the foremost moor, for he had only ten with him, with which many of the king’s troops were shot down, sometimes thirty or forty at a shot. He furiously charged the king, despite having half as many men, the king also having as good cavalry as might be found. Nevertheless, the count killed more than 5,000 of his men in the span of half an hour. The king took flight, with Tilly in close pursuit, and the next day and the third day he found many troops hidden in the woods, striking them down too, so that the king’s infantry altogether was defeated in its entirety, with about 1,000 cavalrymen killed, so that at least 10,000 men were killed, and more than 3,000 captured, with thirty artillery pieces, which was all the guns the king had with him, and more than fifty colours. He had sent away his baggage the day before, which the soldiers much lamented, for they would have had that too. Tilly lost fewer than 300 men in all, and said that this victory was the greatest of any he has won. It is said they are still pursuing the cavalry, and that he will besiege the town of Wolfenbuttel, whither the king has fled. In any case, he will have to return to Denmark or reach agreement, or else all his cavalry will be killed. I have all the preceding from the mouth of various captains and soldiers who pass through here daily and serve under Tilly and fought in the battle. We fired all the guns here in token of joy. The rebel peasantry of Austria are much diminished and more run away every day. The Emperor has declared that he will grant pardon to all those who run away.
They write from France that the Dutch, seeing the various conspiracies against the king, to advance his brother to his crown, have proposed trying by means of some Calvinist gentlemen in Poland with whom they are in correspondence, and with the king of Sweden, to elect the king’s aforesaid brother as king of Poland, thinking thereby to show so much friendship to the king of France (freeing him of the fear of conspiracies) that he would be the more obliged to provide them with assistance, but France now knows the Dutch well enough, who seek only to squeeze out all their friends, and this project to help the king’s brother to the crown of Poland is as possible for them as building castles in the sky, and how well things went with him they made king of Bohemia is clear enough to France and to all the world, but it is the nature of Calvinists always to seek to set other peoples’ homes ablaze, so that they can warm themselves by the fire.

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16/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 107 (16 September) with news from Germany, Madrid, Lutter, Vienna and Cologne.

GERMANY: The latest news from Germany since the king of Denmark’s defeat is that this king fled to Hamburg to return to his own country, but not without cursing and swearing that he will return to take his revenge, although if he returns he is as likely to be beaten again.
They write from Vienna that an ambassador was sent like an ordinary traveller from the king of Sweden to Bethlen Gabor, to ask him to come forth with all his might against the Emperor. This ambassador has been captured with all the letters he had on him. He was questioned but would say nothing. It is thought he will be forced to speak by torture.
Bethlen Gabor is keeping very quiet, for he dare not move, already being in the Turk’s disfavour for bribing the Pasha of Buda to assist him against the Emperor without the consent or knowledge of the Grand Turk.
We soon expect to hear news from Mansfeld. He cannot hold out long now that the Dane is beaten, Bethlen Gabor is not coming out, and the rebel peasants are evaporating.

MADRID, 22 August: In Lisbon 21 galleons are being fitted out, and in Cadiz more than 30, as well as many other great warships which will put to sea on 10 September.
Cardinal Barbarino departed for Rome on 10 August very satisfied.

LUTTER, 29 August: Our army has departed hence and marched to Wolfenbuttel. The king arrived at Wolfenbuttel with only sixteen horse. It is said that Coenraert Nel also died there. This battle lasted at least five quarters of an hour.

VIENNA: News lately came from Rab that on 10 August in broad daylight over 4,000 mounted Turks showed themselves before the fort there. Several hundred soldiers were sent out, who skirmished with them bravely, but could not achieve much against such numbers.
Finally, when the artillery fired upon them, they retreated and turned back, taking with them uncountable livestock, and at least a hundred souls, men, women and children, as well as killing many.
One of the Turks was captured and brought into the fort. He confesses that about 200,000 Turks are outside Prest [sc. Pest?] intending to form an army.
It is also said that Bethlen and his brother have each gathered an army. Whither they would it is not yet known.
The peasants in Upper Austria have been beaten and 1,200 slain. At the first opportunity they will be attacked from different sides.

COLOGNE: Last week Count Henry vanden Bergh crossed the bridge with almost all the cavalry, a regiment of Spaniards, a regiment of Burgundians, and several companies of Italians, to relieve and provision Grol [Groenlo], which was besieged by the States. The Count of Isenbergh is lying still with the Germans and other infantry regiments at Hulst near Kempen. He has 19 artillery pieces and is awaiting Count Henry’s return.
They wrote from Sringhe on 27 August that Colonel Gallas had taken the city of Minden two miles from Hamelen by storm, and killed the soldiers garrisoned there, taking only five prisoners.
News comes that Rheinfels has surrendered by agreement, so that the Rhine is again open.
They write from France that Marshal Ornano who was imprisoned for the first conspiracy against the king has died in prison, but they do not write of what sickness.

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14/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 106 (16 September) with the articles of the surrender of Rheinfels and Katz, extracts from a letter of Tilly's about the battle of Lutter, and news from Gdańsk and Vienna.

ARTICLES: The conditions and terms of surrender of Rheinfels and Katz and their dependencies are as follows: 1. Lieutenant Colonel Jan van Uffeln will deliver both castles and forts to his princely grace the Landgrave of Darmstadt. 2. He will be allowed to leave with loaded fi****ms, burning match, bullets in mouth, flying colours, along with any clergymen and civilians who do not wish to stay. 3. They will be provided with the wagons needed to transport their sick and injured as well as their baggage. 4. The big guns to be found there will remain there. 5. Whatever baggage they have that they cannot carry away they are free to sell. 6. All captured soldiers will be released, and defectors are to be given no maintenance or service. 7. This agreement includes both officers and soldiers, and everything that passed on either side will be forgiven. 8. The Lieutenant Colonel will cede the new town and the lower gate at the outer bailey of Rheinfels to his princely grace of Darmstadt’s soldiers this evening. 9. Their withdrawal will be between noon and 1 o’clock in the afternoon tomorrow, Friday, and they will be given quarter at Nastatten for two nights and one day, so that their wives and children can join them.
The besieged marched out on Friday, 4 September.

LETTERS: Extracts from Count Tilly’s letters about the battle and victory against the king of Denmark. The main battle was on 27 August between 11 o’clock and 12 noon. Victory was doubtful, which at last by God’s grace we obtained, the enemy taking flight. At least 8,000 men were killed near Lutter, the soldiers who fled into the woods beaten, and those who climbed into the trees shot down like birds. In sum, the roads are full of the dead from Sassen to Levenberch. Over 2,500 fled into Lutter, but readily surrendered, together with thirty artillery pieces, large and small, with their appurtenances.
We obtained several wagons with chain shot that separates half an ell, and several wagons with cannonballs of a type never seen before, round with a spindle through the middle.
We captured three colonels, one, called Lohenhausen, with a wooden leg, who are still alive. Colonel Fuchs and the young Landgrave of Cassel both died, and have been embalmed here, as well as many lieutenant colonels, thirty ensigns, eighty flags, several standards, many of the king’s liveries, costly with the insignia shown.
The prisoners have been brought into Inbocklin [sc. Bockenem?], in sum we have everything that the king had, having captured all his baggage.
It is inexpressible what equipment, pikes, muskets, armour, and wagons were left lying there.

DANZIG: The marshal of Sweden received instructions on Wednesday that he was to return all taken goods here and then vacate the sconce in the Narvug [?] by Refin [Rewa?] Head and the strait as far as Oliwa, and then they will treat more broadly. Oliwa Abbey has been plundered by the Swedes, who kept evil house there, and carried off nine bells, among other things. Yesterday another 400 men arrived. The citizens here would like to make a sortie, but the magistrates will not allow it.

VIENNA: Lieutenant Colonel Henrick Treylin, who six weeks ago was sent from Bethlen to Mansfeld, was in returning arrested by Captain Rebtz on the frontiers of Hungary, and thence sent hither a prisoner, on whom many writings and secrets were found, which he willingly offered to reveal. The succour that Mansfeld expected from Bethlen has been bravely beaten, and with Colonel Bechman with 6,000 horse on this side, and the Prince of Friedlandt with the whole army on the other side, it is likely to come to a fight.
Talks continue with the Upper Austrian peasants, and it is thought certain that they will soon be subjected the imperial mercy, as they can now expect no aid from Mansfeld nor from Bethlen, for Palatine Esterhasz has not only closed all the passages of Hungary, but he is ready with 18,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry awaiting orders from his imperial majesty whither they are to be sent.

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11/09/2026

Nieuwe Tijdinghen 1626 issue 105 (11 September) with news of the Battle of Lutter and editorial commentary on events, advertising a satirical lament.

BATTLE OF LUTTER: Further particulars of Monsieur de Tilly’s great victory over the king of Denmark, written by a person who was present with Monsieur de Tilly.
The whole of the king of Denmark’s infantry has been routed and cut to pieces, and almost all his foremost commanders and officers.
The body of Landgrave Philippus of Hessen was recognised among the dead; also the body of Colonel Fris, General of Artillery; the body of Commissary General Pobitshy; the body of Colonel Marcus Pinze; and Lieutenant Colonels Barsabe and Ongevucht.
It is thought that the Count of Solmes likewise died, because some Croats brought in a ring with his signet or arms carved into it, and said they had killed the man who was wearing it on his finger.
Among those captured are Colonel and Commissary General Lauhousen; Colonel Linstorb; Colonel Frentoin; Colonel Gheest and Colonel Courville; Commissary General Rantzou; Lieutenant Colonel Krip; Major Ginterop; and the Comissary General of Provisions.
Also a very great number of captains and other junior officers, many killed and many captured, whose names cannot be listed in so short a time.
Very few simple soldiers were captured, besides about 2,000 who fled into Lutter Castle, with 29 banners, which with the 60 banners already mentioned makes 89 banners in total.
These 2,000 soldiers quickly surrendered at the discretion of Monsieur de Tilly, and some companies were made of them that were dispersed in various of Monsieur de Tilly’s regiments.
Of Monsieur de Tilly’s troops, four or five captains died, but no senior officers.
This letter was written from Monsieur de Tilly’s camp by the aforesaid Castle of Lutter on 28 August 1626.

[EDITORIAL:] God be praised for this great Victory. How it will strike the brethren in Holland, will soon be seen by the sorrowful tears of a sorrowful Bible Sister of Holland, soon to be printed.
Concerning the king of Denmark, we cannot know with certainty whether he was killed or had escaped and fled. They write that he was seen in the battle twice or thrice, some thinking his horse was shot under him, and that he made away on the horse of one of his soldiers.
They write from other places in Germany that the king of Poland has had a fine victory against the Swede, and that he he drove the Swede towards the sea. Further particulars are expected.
Mansfeld has been beaten back from the frontiers of Moravia. The Regiment of his Colonel Slick, with which Slick remained in the sludge, after which many of his soldiers ran away, leaves him to think what passage is the most inviting for his own escape, whether to take the road to the East or to the West.
Bethlen Gabor may scratch his head and wonder how best to make his excuses to the Emperor, because he had made peace with him.
The Peasants in Upper Austria will have to give up cheaply, and their General the Smith may negotiate to open his shop again and return to work as a master craftsman.
For the rest I will refer the reader to the sorrowful tears of the aforesaid Dutch Bible Sister, who laments most grievously.
The Turkish army outside Babylon has been driven away by the Persian, with great loss and damage to the Turks, so it is a bad year for Gueux and also a bad year for the Turks, so that they may comfort one another.

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