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A True Relation of George Duke of Saxonies Mutabilitie According to his Opportunities First from the Emperour Ferdinand to the King of Bohemia, and then from him to the Emperour Againe then from the Emperour to the King of Sweveland : and from the Sweve to the Emperour: and How Hee Suffered and was Punished by Almost All.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The Relation of Sydnam Poyntz
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1908

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page 78 note 1 ‘ Voightland ’ : is a mistake for Lusatia.

page 78 note 2 Poyntz is apparently here thinking, with his customary confusion of ideas, not of the Count Palatine but of the King of Sweden. In either case the point is an absurd one.

page 79 note 1 ? Leitmeritz : or else a mere blunder.

page 80 note 1 Marradas.

page 80 note 2 Holk.

page 81 note 1 Colloredo.

page 81 note 2 Nördlingen.

page 82 note 1 Schlan.

page 82 note 2 Lausitz : Lusatia.

page 82 note 3 ? now.

page 83 note 1 Apparently the French king.

page 84 note 1 Baudissin, who is at times called Baudiss.

page 84 note 2 Zerbst, Dessau, Halle, Neuenburg.

page 84 note 3 Marazin or Marazini, Harte, vol. i, p. 260. Rudolph Freiherr von Marazin or Marzin, commander of Croats.

page 84 note 4 Nothing has so far been said of this, but see p. 122.

page 84 note 5 Uhlefeld (?).

page 84 note 6 Poyntz had apparently been with the Imperialists in Hesse.

page 86 note 1 See Introduction.

page 87 note 1 Schweidnitz.

page 87 note 2 ? cribbed.

page 88 note 1 Aldringer.

page 89 note 1 Chemnitz, quoted by Förster Wallenstein p. 215, estimates the loss in men caused by this ‘truce’ at 12000.

page 89 note 2 Schafgotsch.

page 89 note 3 Schafgotsch was really executed (Theairum Europ., iii, 184 and 507) as an adherent of Wallensteins long afterwards.

page 89 note 4 Illo : the name is variously spelt. Illow is probably the original form : he was a Poméranian or Marker. In Spanish documents of the time he appears as Lilo. Ranke, Wallenstein, App. III. 4. p. 371.

page 92 note 1 Schaffenberg or Schaffenburg.

page 93 note 1 Bavier for Bavaria. Fr : Bavière.

page 95 note 1 Francis Albert of Saxe Lauenburg.

page 95 note 1 ? ‘ viz. ’

page 98 note 1 Rogues. (?)

page 97 note 1 ? the saddles. According to Carve (Itinerarium, ed. 1, p. 107), who seems to have been in Eger the night of the murder, the whole number of conspirators was thirty : two Scots, one Spaniard and the rest Irish.

page 97 note 2 For Burke and his honourable conduct cf. Harte, ii, p. 53.

page 100 note 1 An error for (Francis) Albert.

page 100 note 2 ?they.

page 101 note 1 He is confused with the Elector of Brandenburg. See Introduction.

page 102 note 1 Breuner, Theatr. Eur., 3, p. 285 a. His regiment was known as Alt Breuner, Theatr. Eur., 3, p. 283 a.

page 103 note 1 Landshut.

page 104 note 1 This cannot be the Henderson who commanded the Scottish reserves at Lützen, but an Imperialist officer who was afterwards employed to treat with Bernhard of Weimar. Barthold, i, p. 218. Monro calls him simply John Henderson. Grant makes him ‘ Sir John ‘ (Memoirs of Hepburn, p. 256).

page 104 note 2 Lech.

page 105 note 1 Troup : ‘ William Troope killed in the Pfalz,’ Monro.

page 105 note 2 Strozzi., He can hardly have been left as governor. Barthold, i, p. 175. He was commander of Croats with Isolani.

page 106 note 1 Straubing.