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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58415	A relation concerning the particulars of the rebellion lately raised in Muscovy by Stenko Razin its rise, progress, and stop : together with the manner of taking that rebel, the sentence of death passed upon him, and the execution of the same.		1672 (1672)	Wing R774; ESTC R3393	13,376	34

he that was so perfidious to his Prince deserved no better recompence He was laid hold on about Tzarietza and carried that long way of Two hundred Miles to Mosco entertained all along with the hopes that he should speak with the Great Czar himself and before him by word of Mouth plead his own cause he always imagining that he had many things to say very important for the Czar to know His Brother Frolko was extreamly sad on the way and it seems of a better nature than Stenko whom he charged with all he had done And Stenko seeing his Brother at a certain time more than usually troubled comforted him by representing that coming into the City of Mosco they should receive great honor thousands of people and the greatest of the Land being doubtless ready to meet and to see them Stenko coming within a mile of Mosco the Waggon met him that had been made to bring him into the City according to his deserts In the hind-part of it was erected the Gallows himself was stripped of his Silken habit which he had worn hitherto and an old ragged Sute put upon him and so he was placed in the Waggon under the Gallows with an Iron-Chain about his Neck fastned to the top of the same Both his hands were locked fast to the Side-beams of the Gallows and his Legs divaricated His Brother Frolko was with an Iron-Chain fastned to the Waggon and went a foot on the side of it Thus entred Stenko with his Brother into the City of Mosco Thousands of People of great and mean condition beholding them and so fulfilling his Prophesie of the honor he should have in entring this Town And though he comforted his Brother with this honor yet himself standing in the Waggon looked on no body but held his Face continually downward They were both put to the torture but what they there confessed is not well known onely that Stenko did very much lament the death of his Brother who by the command of Kneas Jurge Dolgeroek had formerly been hanged His Brother Frolko behaving himself most pittifully under the torture Stenko went about to comfort him again and said That he must remember the good things he had enjoyed that he had lived so long among his Friends with great credit and reputation and had commanded thousands and therefore he was now to bear this hard fortune with patience The Russes use this manner of Torture they shave the Crown of the Head of a Malefactor and drop cold Water upon it which they say causeth very great pain It is related That when the Crown of Stenko and his Brother was shaved Stenko said to his Brother I have often heard that none is shaved for a Priest but he must be Learned we are both unlearned and yet they do us the honor of shaving our Crown Four days after that he was brought in he was with his Brother carried to the place of Execution in the Cittadel The Sentence of Death was read before him wherein were expressed the Principal Villanies he had committed He seemed not at all concerned and spoke not a word but stooped And when the Executioner was going to do his office he crossed himself several times directing his face towards a certain Church called Pretsietse Bogorodietse Casaneche that is The most Holy Mother of God of Casan And thereupon he bowed his head thrice towards three several places of the people assembled saying Prostie that is Forgive me And presently he was laid down between two Beams and his Right Arm cut off to the Elbow and his Left Leg to the Knee After this his Head was cut off with an Hatchet All which was done with great speed in a very short time and Stenko gave not the least sigh nor shewed any sign of sense His Brother coming to the place of Execution cryed out That he had the Czar's word a manner of expression when a person hath any secret to reveal which is to be manifested to none but to the great Czar alone Being asked what it was he said It was to be told to none but to the Czar Whereupon he was reprieved and they say That he hath discovered the place of the Treasure digged under Ground by his Brother Stenko This was the end of Stenko Razin his Deputy Sjorte-Ous whom he had left to command in Astracan is said to have raised new commotions putting to Death the Metropolite and others that are contrary to his design God Almighty give to the great Czar Alexis Michaelewitz the Victory over all his Enemies Arch. Angel Sept. 23 23. 1671. on Board of the Ship the Queen Esther The Sentence of Death read before STENKO RAZIN on the Place of Execution June 6. 1671. THou Villain and Renegado Rebel Donsky-Cosack Stenko Razin in the year 7175 alias 1667. abandoning the fear of God and forgetting thy Duty and Oath whereby thou art bound to His Majesty the great Czar Alexis Michaelowitz Emperor and Defendor of the Greater and Lesser and the White Russia hast Rebelled against His said Majesty and having raised other Cosacks hast marched with them to the River Volga there to act thy Villainous Designs And coming there thou hast done great mischief to much people taking the Nasaisky great Boats laden with Salt-fish and Salt belonging to the Patriarch Cloysters and others As also the Boats of many Merchants Which Violence and Robbery thou hast acted as far as to the very Walls of Astracan Again Thou Villain hast betwixt Astracan and the Sorneiner Robbed Killed and Thrown into the Water the Waywood of the great Czar Simon Bellemisch who was sent to speak with thee The like villainy thou hast committed upon the Muscovian Officer Susover that was likewise dispatched to thee for the same end When out of Astracan to the Town Jayck were sent a Waywood and two Russian Colonels with some Soldiers to confer with you in an amicable way and to perswade you to desist from your Villainous attempts and to beg his Majesties pardon thou didst hang both the Colonels and betake thy self with thy Cosacks to Sea from Jayck and return from Sea into the Volga ruining all places of Fishery and burning the habitations of the Tartars Thou Villain hast also been under the Town Tarchi and hast exceedingly endamaged the adjacent places as also part of the Dominions of the King of Persia Being upon the Caspian Sea thou didst rob the Subjects of Persia and take away the Goods of Merchants and their lives also Thou hast also ruined several Towns in Persia and thereby caused great difference between the Two Empires Besides the Soldiers of Astracan upon thy orders have killed their Colonel and joyned themselves to thee doing great mischief in many places An. 7177 alias 1669. The Governor of Astracan Kneas Jwan Simonewitz Prosorofsky sent against you the Waywood Kneas Simon Leibof with His Majesties Army who had girt you all about which thou Villain seeing didst dispatch to that Waywood two of thy chief