THE LAMENTABLE DEATH OF THE EARL OF BUCQVOY, General of the Emperor's Army. HAPPENED UNTO HIM IN AN HONOURABLE exploit, before the Town of Newheusel.  
AT PARIS, Printed by Peter Rocolet. M.DCXXI.   

THE LAMENTABLE DEATH OF THE EARL of BUCQVOY, General of the Emperor's Army. HAPPENED UNTO HIM IN AN Honourable exploit before the Town of Newheusel.  
AFter that the Emperor had reduced the Kingdom of Bohemia with the three Provinces thereunto belonging under his obedience, and that both High and lower Austria were pacified, & made to acknowledge his Majesty's Sovereignty, and that nothing rested to be subdued but Hungaria. The said Emperor sent the Earl of Bucquoy, his Lieutenant General, with an Army of Fifteen Thousand men, to drive Bethlem Gabor out of Hungaria, who having taken from him the Town Edemberg, Presburgh, and the Castle, Ostia, Filech, and other places. At the last he planted his Camp before Newheusel, upon the seaventh of june. This place is one of the Forts of most importance in higher Hungaria, well fortified with Soldiers, and of all things else that belongeth to withstand a Siege. In the mean time Bethlem (that known that the siege before Newheusel would continue long) went to Buda, there to advance (as it is thought) the great Turk's aid, (whose designs he hath promised to execute in Hungaria) and to send 3000. Hungarians and Ttansiluanians to relieve Newheusel, which by the way were overthrown by the Baron de Setchi, & their Ensigns sent to Vianna, The River of Tarose was a great hindrance unto the Earl of Bucquoy to prepare his battery before the Town, for that thereon he was forced to erect his mounts to place his Cannon upon them. But Bethlem that slept not in his designs knew well that the loss of that place, (wherein a part of bethlem's riches and the treasures of the Lords of Hungary are) would drive him out of the Country; having received a great aid of Turks & Tartarians, being part of the Turks great Army sent towards Poland, resolved by all the means that he could use to enforce Bucquoy to raise his siege, and if it were possible, suddenly to surprise him, before he could receive any aid from the Emperor or any other of his friends? and to that end caused the Tartarians to march forward, (being a kind of the most inhuman people living upon the face of the earth, men whom no pains nor labour can weary, and most ready and prompt in their designs, and much more in their retraicts) who being 6000. men, and Bethlem himself following with as many Turks, Transylvanians, and Hungarians, they suddenly set upon the Emperor's army, that besieged Newheusel on all sides. At which time the Earl of Bucquoy that forsook not the Camp for fear of the Enemy, (but leaving the signs of an incomparable valour behind him) perceiving himself to be surprised, aswell as he could, ranged his men in order of Battle, being resolved in that extremity not to fly nor yet to be surprised for want of dexterity, but rather to Fight till he died, for the honour of God against his enemies, and in the Emperor's cause against his usurpators. The courage of this brave Soldier was not abashed at the sight of the Turbans and Turkish falchions, neither yet at bethlem's forces, but resolutely determined to sell his life dear unto them, and that if they took it from him, it should not be so good cheap as they made account of, for to fly he saw it was a thing unworthy and not fit for the courage of such a great Commander, (whose heart was seated in a higher place) but resolved rather not to live, after he should see the overthrow and dispersing of his Army, and so to become a prey unto his enemies, as also that he could not otherwise choose, having the enemy both before and behind him: having in comparison but a handful of men, in regard of the puissant aid that came with Bethlem Gabor, he defended himself with so great valour, that it was not possible to see a more furious combat, nor a more forcible resistance then then was made on both sides, wherein that valiant Captain almost covered with Arrows, in the middle of his Soldiers was slain, being thrice shot, and so fell down to the ground. To the great grief and sorrow of all his Company, who will never forget the great courage which that valiant Captain showed in Flaunders in the face of the Hollanders, In Bohemia to the great damage of the Bohemians, and before Prague, at the overthrow of the battle there fought against the Prince Palatine. And lastly in Hungaria, before the Hungarian faces.  
And although this was a great loss unto the Emperor, as also the rest of his Army by his Death was overthrown, and put to flight, the Siege before Newheusel raised, and Bethlem Gabor thereby triumphed against them, to the great contentment of the Emperor's enemies; Nevertheless, the said Lords place is already supplied by three other great Captains, the Marquis of Tieffembach, the Earl de Fugger, and the Baron de Prenner, who with great aid from the Emperor and other Christian Princes, hope well to revenge the death of their General.  
FINIS.