Letter

Sent by the

Most Serene and

Most Mighty King in Den-

mark, etc.

CHRISTIAN IV

Christian IV (1577–1648) was the King of Denmark and Norway. He was a staunch Protestant who would eventually lead a military intervention into the Thirty Years' War to support the Protestant cause and protect his interests in northern Germany.

Alongside the

Serene and High-born Prin-

ces and Lords of Brunswick, etc.

CHRISTIAN and FRED-

ERICK ULRICH,

Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (the "Mad Halberstädter"), and his brother Frederick Ulrich were significant German Protestant leaders. Christian was a particularly fervent military commander during this period.

To the

Serene Prince and Lord

AMBROSIO SPINOLA

Ambrosio Spinola was a Genoese nobleman and one of the most famous Spanish generals of the age. In 1621, he was leading the Spanish Army of Flanders in the conquest of the Palatinate.

Recently dispatched:

As also,

How and what he, Ambrosio Spinola, replied in turn

and finally resolved.

Deduction Concerning the Free Exercise of the Augsburg Confession in Silesia