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Unknown · 1632

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Duderstadt.
On the 13th of February, His Princely Grace refers to Duke William dispatched a trumpeter, Hans Valen, to Duderstadt to the Chief Magistrate original: "Oberamptman", the Captain, the assembled estates of the Eichsfeld region, and the council there. He requested that they accommodate themselves in kindness and submit to His Royal Majesty in Sweden. Thereupon, they gave an explanation in writing that they would certainly obey. Therefore, His Princely Grace on the 15th the day on which the Brunswick fortress of Erichsburg. Erichsburg was taken through surrender by the Colonel of Landgrave William of Hesse, Mr. Johann Riesen once again dispatched the previously mentioned trumpeter, alongside the Princely Lieutenant Colonel Georg Friedrich von Brandstein, with very fair conditions back to Duderstadt. Whereupon the city accommodated itself for surrender on the 17th. When His Princely Grace entered around three o'clock in the afternoon, they not only presented him with a banner, and the 250 recruited soldiers stationed there mostly joined his service and soon took their oath, but the citizens also fell to their knees, handed over the keys, and thus the city, along with the entire Eichsfeld region and its interior fortresses, castles, towns, and villages, with nothing excluded, was brought under the jurisdiction of the aforementioned His Royal Majesty.
On the 19th, on the Sunday of Invocavit the first Sunday of Lent, the often-mentioned court and field chaplain, Mr. David Lippach, Master of Arts, delivered a sermon in the main Church of Saint Cyriacus, before which... The text cuts off here, likely continuing with the name of a hymn.