4th. The specification of the whole income of the church at Coserow, before and during the terrible times of the Thirty Years' War. 5th. The enumeration of the dwellings left standing, after the devastations made by the enemy in every village throughout the parish. 6th. The names of the districts to which this or that member of the congregation had emigrated. 7th. A ground plan and description of the old Manse. I have likewise here and there ventured to make a few changes in the language, as my author is not always consistent in the use of his words or in his orthography. The latter I have, however, with very few exceptions, retained And thus I lay before the gracious reader a work, glowing with the fire of heaven, as well as with that of hell. MEINHOLD. CONTENTS. How the Imperialists robbed me of all that was left, and likewise broke into the Church and stole the Vasa Sacra; item, what more How our need waxed sorer and sorer, and how I sent old Ilse with another letter to Pudgla, and how heavy a misfortune this brought Page How old Seden disappeared all on a sudden; item, how the great Gus- tavus Adolphus came to Pomerania, and took the fort at Peene- |