Turnaments within Rails the fifth in Dancing the sixth and seventh all sorts of persons were treated at the Kings expence and the eighth the last day of the Feast was destin'd by His Majesty for a magnificent Entertainment to the Senators and Officers of the Crown of Sweden The Guests were no sooner assembled to the number of ninety four persons but the King march'd before them to the principal Church where Thanksgiving was to be made for his Coronation Mass was solemnly Sung and at the Communion the King swore upon the Eucharist to preserve inviolably the Priviledges of the Swedish Nation to forget what was past to make no Innovations and to Govern according to the Laws of the Country Afterwards he call'd the Senators and Grandees of the Kingdom to make a Covenant with them The King and after him all the Assembly laid their hands upon the Pix and Chalice swearing to each other by all that is most Sacred in Religion to maintain a sincere and reciprocal Friendship and devoted themselves to Hell torments if their Words did not proceed from the sincerity of their Heart professing that they took the Sacrament of the Reconciliation of Men to God for a pledge of their particular agreement Each of them according to his Quality receiv'd viz. The King first and after him the five principal Officers of State which are the Drossart Constable Chancellor Admiral and Treasurer and so proceeding in order to the youngest Senator who receiv'd last The Company return'd to the Palace Royal in the same order that they march'd to the Temple and were seated at a Table where all their thoughts were employ'd in contriving new Divertisements when the King arose under pretext of some natural Necessity and past into a Closer A moment after was heard a terrible Din of Danish Soldiers who seising upon all the Avenues of the Palace entred violently into the Court and tumultuously mounting the Stairs came running furiously with their Swords drawn into the Gallery appointed for the Feast All the Guests were made prisoners in the Kings Name and in the same instant the Gates of the Town were shut by his order The Danish Souldiers began then to pillage the Houses of the Burgesses liberty of plundring being granted to animate them to the executions of the next day In the Night a great Scaffold was erected before the Palace-Gate and to begin the Tragedy the Bishops of Squargne and Stremguem were brought thither and there lost their Heads The rest of the Bishops the Grandees of the Kingdom and the Senators were put to death in the same manner all but the Grand Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem who for having serv'd his Prince with greater Fidelity than the rest was Nail'd to a St. Andrews Cross they ript up his Belly pluck'd out his Heart and struck him therewith on the face After they had rank'd the headless Trunks in order and put the Heads on Pikes planted round about the signal was given to the Souldiers to cut in pieces the multitude of common people that were flock'd together to see the Execution The astonish'd crowd found themselves as it were caught in a Net for the Danes were Masters of the Streets that abutted upon that place and the Kings Guards attack'd them in the Front while at the same time those who favour'd the Execution fell upon the Rear they made a horrible and prodigious Butchery The slaughter'd Bodies lay three days in the same places where they fell and had lain longer but that they fear'd the Air would be infected with Pestilential Vapours This consideration alone oblig'd them to burn these mangled Carkasses in heaps and the Body of King Steno was us'd with no greater respect The Guards posted round Stockholm hinder'd the Neighbouring Provinces from having speedy Intelligence of what had past and the King of Denmark took the opportunity in the mean while to get into his hands five or six Bishops by whom he fear'd to be Excommunicated upon the News of the Death of their Colleagues He wheedled them in under pretence of advising with them concerning an affair of great importance yet no sooner were they enter'd into the place appointed for the conference but by the Kings order it was set on fire and they consumed to Ashes What ever precaution the Danes could use to conceal this Action it was quickly divulg'd through all Sweden and the four Estates of the Kingdom consisting of the Clergy Nobility Citizens and Peasants rose up together in a manner that hath no parallel in History whether Ancient or Modern The two opposite Factions that had for so many Ages laid waste their Native Country join'd together in an Union so perfect that to this day there hath appeared no mark of their former Divisions All run to Arms and so vigorously pursu'd the King and his Danes that they were constrain'd to abandon Sweden into which Christian could never return again and some years after Gustavus the First was chosen King Christian continued his Barbarities and Crimes in the Kingdom of Denmark A Dutch Widow named Sigebrit was forc'd by poverty to leave her Native Country and withdrawing into Norway with her Daughter Colombin they found means to subsist there by selling Victuals to Seamen that Landed in that place Sigebrit had a Wit proper for the Intrigues of the Court tho' she was Born Educated and had still liv'd among the Dregs of the people and Colombin was a compleat Courtezan With this last a Knight call'd Valquendof fell in Love who by a youthful Imprudence inform'd his Master of his good Fortune thinking that the Prince would be as soon cur'd of his passion as himself but he was deceiv'd in his conjecture and the enjoyment of Colombin inspir'd the King with a Love that he had never before found for any Lady Not but that he had Married Isabel of Austria Sister of the Emperor Charles the Fifth one of the fairest and most virtuous Princesses of her Age but as he had Married her only for Interest of State so he liv'd with her as one Ignorant of the Treasure he possess'd Thus Colombin finding the place void and her Lovers Heart not yet preingag'd and employing to the best advantage the Charms of her Beauty and the Secrets of the Art that she profess'd made Christian love her with an extream passion After Colombins death which was suspected to have been hasten'd by Poyson the King fell in love with the Mother of her whom he had lost It was the cunning Sigebrit who not content to succeed in her Daughters room extended her power much beyond what her Predecessor had assum'd All State-affairs past through her hands and her resolutions were preferred to those of the Senate During these Amours which caus'd murmurings in all the Orders of the Kingdom the King erected a Scale of Trade at Copenhagen This contributed not a little to his Ruine for Lubeck and the other Hanse Towns finding themselves thereby prejudic'd declar'd
Grief and Passion he spoke all that a Mind over-whelmed with Sorrow could utter reproaching the Chancellor that he was more desirous to condemn than save him and raved against the King in the most horrid expressions imaginable then shaking the Chancellor by the Arm You have Judged me said he but God will Absolve me he will lay open the Iniquities of those who have shut their Eyes because they would not see mine Innocency You my Lord shall answer for this Injustice before him whither I do Summon you within a year and a day I go before by the Judgment of Men but those that are the cause of my Death shall come after by the Judgment of God All which was spoke with the utmost fury and rage with other terrible Words both against the King and Parliament but his appeal was not answered for the Chancellor lived many years after And then proceeding in his discourse I see very well that I am not the most Wicked but the most Vnfortunate those that have done worse than I ever thought are favoured the Kings Clemency is dead towards me he doth not imitate the example of Caesar nor Augustus or of other great Princes who not only pardoned those that intended ill but that acted it too they were over-sparing of Blood yea of the meanest Wherein can the King shew himself greater than in Pardoning Mercy is a Princely Virtue every one can give Death but it belongs only to Soveraigns to give Life and Cruel that he is Does he not remember that he hath already pardoned me I had a bad Design and he graciously forgave me I demand it again and so you may inform him The Queen of England told me that if the Earl of Essex would have humbled himself and asked her Pardon she would have forgiven him but he grew obdurate and would never implore her Mercy and thereby deprived her of all means to show the effects of her Goodness she like a Generous Princess desired to pardon him as she hoped that God would pardon her He was Guilty I am Innocent he Sued for no Pardon for his Offence I desire it for mine Innocence Is it possible he should forget the Services I have done him Does he not remember the Conspiracy at Mantes and his great danger if I had not prevented it There is no vein in my Body that hath not bled for his Service he shews that he never loved me any longer than he thought himself to have need of me Has he forgotten the Siege of Amiens where I was often seen covered with Fire and Bullets ready to give or receive Death My Father exposed himself to a thousand Dangers and lost his Life to set the Crown upon his Head I have received thirty five Wounds in my Body to secure the Crown to him and for my Reward he takes my Head from my Shoulders Let him beware lest the Justice of God fall upon him he will find what profit my Death will bring him it will but impair the Reputation of his Justice He will lose this day a good Servant and the King of Spain a great Enemy I am not put to Death because I Treated with him my Courage raised me up and my Courage ruins me The Chancellor desired him not to torment himself any more about his Sentence since they had done him that Justice which a Father is bound to pronounce against his Son in such a case as his At which word his rage increased What Justice says he I was never heard but once I could not deliver the fiftieth part of my Justification What Justice upon the Evidence of La Fin the most wretched and execrable Villain in the World The Chancellor to divert his discourse told him that he had brought two Divines to comfort and prepare him for Death he replied That he was already prepared and had his Soul in that Tranquillity as the Night before he had spoken with God and that his Guards had heard him laugh in his Sleep He desired the Chancellor that he might have the last consolation of dying men that is Liberty to make his Will which was granted and he gave away several things to his Servants and the Guards attending him They then desired him to kneel and hear the Sentence read Read it says he and I will be as supple as a Glove but when mention was made that he had attempted against the Kings person he fell again into a Rage so that it was concluded he should be bound and delivered instantly into the hands of the Executioner He swore he would be drawn to pieces with four Horses before he would be carried to dye at the Greve but was told That the King had done him the favour to be Executed in the Bastile By the perswasion of the Divines he began to examine his Conscience continuing therein about an hour which ought to have been done with an humble penitent and contrite Mind but he seemed more careful of the affairs of his Family than of his Soul praying to God not as a devout Christian but like a Souldier His Confession being ended he walked about often crying out of his Innocency and cursing La Fin and asking if it were not lawful for his Brethren to cause him to be Burnt He desired to see some of his Relations and Friends whom he Named but was told That there were none of them in the City whereupon he mournfully said All the World hath forsaken me in these Crimes Friendship is dangerous Friends fail and the Disease is counted Infectious to Acquaintance he is Wisest that knows no Man nor any Man him Going out of the Chappel the Executioner presented himself to him he asked Voison who he was It is said he the Executioner of the Sentence Be gone said the Duke touch me not till it be time and doubting he should be bound he added I will go freely to Death I have no hands to defend my self against it but it shall never be said that I dye bound like a Thief or a Slave and turning towards the Hang-man he swore if he came near him he would pull out his Throat He at length came to the Scaffold and kneeling upon the first step made a short Prayer with his eyes lift up to Heaven when he came up he cast a furious look upon the Executioner Voison perswaded him it was not he Nay says he You think to deceive me but I know him well enough The Executioner offered him a Cloth to put before his Eyes but he refused it saying That if he touch'd him except only to give him the stroke of Death he would strangle him He open'd his Breast to the Guards and said he should be much obliged to them if they would shoot him with a Musket What pity is it said he to dye so miserably and of so infamous a stroke He asked then Is there no pardon Well I have made my Soul ready to present it before Almighty God but I pity the Kings
time there happened a pleasant passage for without a lye he satisfy'd the curiosity of those who seeing him expect the coming of that Chest with so much Impatience ask'd the reason of his so eager earnestness There is something in it said he that I have reserv'd for my own private use This Unhappy Prince set Sail with his Wife and Children on the 20th of April 1523. He had no sooner lost sight of the shore of Copenhagen but he was assaulted by a Tempest equally extraordinary in its fury and unparallel'd in its duration It never slacken'd for the space of three Weeks and the Fleet was quite broken and dispers'd The King was Shipwrack'd on the Coast of Norway and of all his Ships he had only one Skiff left in which he was constrain'd to put to Sea again with the Queen the Prince and the two Princesses of Denmark Hunger doth not respect Crown'd Head and only spared the King of Denmark because he was reserv'd to longer and incomparably more grievous punishments than all the industry of studied malice could have inflicted upon him It is not known what became of his miserable Harlot the silence of the Danish Historians cannot be excused in this respect and seeing they speak no more of her in the History of the remaining part of Christian the Seconds Life than if she had never been in the World we may probably presume that she died in the Admirals Ship before the King sav'd himself in the Shallop A savourable Gale of Wind when he expected it least set him ashore at the Port de la Vere in Zeland We believe nothing so easily as the return of Good Fortune and the King was perswaded of it when he saw himself in the Dominions of the Emperor Charles the Seventh his Brother in-Law But all the Troops and Vessels which that potent Monarch gave him and all the efforts that he made to remount his Throne were to no purpose and never was he able to chase from thence Frederick Duke of Holstein his Unkle whom the Danes had receiv'd for their King he was even reduc'd to so forlorn a condition that he knew not where to find a Sanctuary when Canut of Guldestein Bishop of Ollion who had ever maintain'd a secret correspondence with him assur'd him that he needed only to appear in Person and that his presence alone would produce the effect that he had in vain hop'd for from the assistance of a Forreign Power He added that His Majesty might lye concealed in his Episcopal Palace till the Faction that he manag'd in his Favour was strong enough to pull off their Vizards The Prelates advice was follow'd and the King went thither Disguis'd like a Merchant but was discover'd and imprison'd in the Fort of Sundeburg whence he came not out but to change it for another in Cronenburg He liv'd thirty five years in Exile and these two Prisons and did not find till the Age of seventy seven years the Death that he had so often desired Annals of Denmark The Faithful Subjects USanguey General of the Chinois Army which Guarded the Frontiers of that vast Empire against the Irruptions of the Tartars lay Encamp d by a City upon the Confines to observe the Enemies motions Licon who had Dethron'd the Emperor Zunchin in the year 1636. and Usurp'd the Kingdom determin'd to attack this brave Captain who would not acknowledge him for his Lord with an Army of two hundred thousand men but before he had recourse to force he was willing to see the event of a Straragem Amongst the Grandees of the Empire whom the chance of War had constrain'd to submit to his Unjust Scepter there was an Old man Named Vz Vsangueys Father The Usurper going to make War upon the Son commanded the Father to follow him and there was no other remedy for a man of that Character but Obedience Vz was forc'd to comply and followed the Army not knowing what use his new Master design'd to make of him but he was better inform'd when he came before the place whither his brave Son had retir'd to put a stop to the Tyrants progress not being strong enough to keep the Field The Father was the first Engine that was made use of to batter the Sons Constancy The Barbarous Usurper brought the Old man before the Walls of the City and advertis'd his Son that he was come thither on purpose to speak with him They were no sooner in sight of one another but the General receiv'd a Message from the Tyrant that the only way to save his Fathers Life was to yield to the Conqueror Never was a Generous Soul so rudely agitated with differing passions or more furiously attack'd with violent tentations then was that of the astonish'd Vsanguer finding himself distracted between his Father and Country and in a sad necessity to Sacrifice the one or the other and to shed his Fathers Blood if he would Revenge that of his Prince His love to Glory was powerfully resisted by Natural affection but after a short struggling obtain'd the Victory for taking counsel only with his Virtue he cast himself upon his Knees and with Eyes full of Tears and an Air which was an undeniable proof of the Sincerity of his Heart that it was with an unconceiveable Sorrow that he was forc'd to see him to whom he ow'd his life lose it to save his Country but that this was his first and chief Duty and after all it was better that one of them should finish his Days by an Honourable Death than that both should live in Infamy and Reproach If the Sons Courage appear'd great on this occasion the Fathers was admirable for instead of complaining of his Son he only lamented his own ill Fortune and praising Vsangueys Fidelity he yielded himself to the Tyrants Barbarity suffering Death with a Resolution more worthy of a Roman Courage than of a Chinese Effeminacy History of the two Conquerors of China The Furious Tempest SUltan Ibrahim Emperor of the Turks order'd two Gallies to carry Peter Foscarini as far as Negropont in his return to Venice from whence he came as Ambassador Extraordinary to Congratulate with the Sultan upon his Accession to the Empire The Ambassador embark'd at the Port of Constantinople on the 10th day of May 1641. in a Galley commanded by an old Officer of the Grand Signiors Naval Army call'd Kara Kodgia in which I also was with his Children and some Gentlemen In three days we made the Dardanels and Anchor'd on the Asian side where next day our Captains spent some time in consulting whether in their intended course to Lemnos they should pass behind Tenedos or between that Island and the Coast of Troas The first course is shortest but most dangerous for Galleys because they are oblig'd to cross a Gulf which stretcheth out in length a hundred miles and is by them call'd the Gulf of Magaris and Cassander This was nevertheless the way that they resolv'd to take believing that a
Soul who hath put me to Death unjustly for I dye absolutely innocent and my Death is the Recompence he gives me for all my Services These Words drew tears as well from the Souldiers as the rest of the Spectators the Judges told him his Sentence must be read once more which he heard with great impatience After which the Preachers perswaded him to call upon God and abandon the thoughts of all earthly things he asks what he must do then takes his Handkerchief and covers his Eyes asking the Executioner where he should Seat himself There my Lord quoth the Hang-man And where 's that thou seest I am blindfold and yet speakest as if I saw And then furiously pulls his Handkerchief from his Eyes then blinds himself again commanding the Executioner to dispatch him quickly He desired to dye standing but the Hang-man told him he must kneel for he durst not do any thing but according to Order at length he kneeled down and bid the Executioner make an end but starting up suddenly again What is there no Mercy then says he looking severely upon the Spectators and the Hang-man and it was supposed he designed either to have taken his Sword from him and hewed his way through the people or that he did believe the King would only affright him with the Terrors of Death and then send his Pardon The Executioner desired leave to cut his Hair at this he grew into a rage and swore if he touch'd him he would Strangle him Voison reproved him says he He shall not meddle with me while I am living and if you put me into a passion I will Strangle half the company that is here and force the rest to kill me I will leap off the Scaffold if you throw me into despair The Preachers came again upon the Stage and endeavoured to allay his fury at length he grew calm crying out My God my God take pity upon me The Preachers assure him that his Soul is ready to see God I said he Heaven is open for my Soul he then bowed his Head saying to the Executioner Strike strike O strike The Hang-man seeing he had rose thrice before and fearing he would seize his Sword resolved to surprize him telling him he must say his last Prayer to recommend his Soul to God which by the Preachers intreaty he did when the Hang-man gave a sign to his Man to reach his Sword wherewith he cut off his Head while he was speaking The blow was so sudden that few perceived it and the Head leaped from the Scaffold to the ground and even then his Countenance seemed furious This was the end of the passionate Duke of Biron whose Courage was Invincible in War and was never tired with Labour being often fifteen days together on Horseback but his Pride and Ambition clouded all his Virtues which with his boiling Rage and intemperate Fury were the great occasion of his Ruin He was advanced from the meanest to the highest degree of Honour of a private Souldier he became a Captain then Collonel afterwards Admiral great Marshal of France and Lieutenant of the Kings Armies and in his Heart aspired to be Duke of Burgundy Son-in-Law to the Duke of Savoy and Nephew to the King of Spain He was bred a Protestant then turned Papist but was a Scoffer at all Religion It is reported that being formerly in trouble for the Murder of a Gentleman in a Duel and for which he afterward had a Pardon from the King he went disguised like a Carrier to one La Brosse a great Mathematician to whom he shewed his Nativity as one skilled therein which he had got to be taken by another pretending it was a Gentlemans whom he served that desired to know what end he should have La Brosse having consider'd it told him That the Person was of a good House and no older than himself and he supposed it his own 'T is no matter for that said he but pray tell me what his Life Estate and end shall be The Old man replied My Son I find that he whose Nativity this is shall arrive to great Honour by his Industry and great Valour and may be a King but that there is a Caput Argol will hinder it And what is that said Biron Do not ask me quoth the Old man Nay but I will know says Biron At length he told him That the Person would act those things which should cause him to lose his Head whereupon Biron beat him severely and leaving him half Dead in the little Garret where they were he Lock'd it and carried the Key with him whereof he boasted afterward to his Companions It is likewise said that he had some discourse with a Magician in Paris who told him That only one back blow of a Burgundian would hinder him from being King Which Prediction he remembred in Prison and sent one to inquire what Country-man the Hang-man was and hearing he was a Burgundian he said Then am I a Dead Man It is also said that his Father observing his Ambitious temper said thus to him Biron I would advise thee when a Peace shall be made to go and live privately at thy own House or else thou must leave thy Head upon a Scaffold which happened accordingly as we have already Related De Serres History of France Blood for Blood or the Double Revenge FLoris the first of that Name the Nineteenth Earl of Holland Zealand and Friezeland was a Valiant Prince but gave himself up to Incontinency which was the occasion of his lamentable fall His Father William the Second was Elected King of the Romans and after the Death of Conrade Emperor of Germany was declared to be his Successor and Pope Innocent by Letters gave him advice thereof desiring him to come to Rome and receive the Crown and all the other Ensigns of the Imperial Dignity King William having no great confidence in some of the Princes of Germany and Italy Travelled to Rome in the Habit of a Pilgrim accompanied with twelve of his Loyal Nobility and arriving in Italy met with the Pope at Genoa by whom he was Honourably received and having conferr'd with him he went from thence in the same Habit through Lombardy and Germany being owned and acknowledged for their lawful Soveraign in all places where he would discover himself and consulted with the Nobility about the Affairs of the Empire Whilst he was thus imployed he had Intelligence that the West Frizons were Revolted and as they formerly had done Invaded the Frontiers of Holland from whence they daily carried away great Booties without opposition or restraint he being so far distant from them The King was just ready to go from Germany into Italy with a Royal Train and Army to be Crowned at Rome but yet thought it better to defer his Journey for some time and to preserve his own Inheritance and settle peace and quietness in his own Country and among his own Subjects than to go so far off to purchase a Title
roaring and hellish noise as fill'd us all with a pannick Terror so that we verily believ'd she would have broken it down she tore the Sail that cover'd it in pieces but the darkness of the Night hindering us from seeing her we made no resistance and so at last she left us April 15. being calm seven of us went aboard the Ship and found it to be still in the same case and as we return'd homewards a great Bear came towards us we put our selves in a posture to meet her whereupon she gave back and we observing the place from whence she came went to see her Den where we found a great hole made in the Ice about two foot deep the entry thereof was narrow but it widen'd inward we thrust in our Pikes to feel if there was any thing in it but perceiving it was empty one of our Men crept in yet durst not proceed too far for it was fearful and terrible Then going along by the Sea-side we saw the Mountains of Ice piled upon one another in so wonderful a manner that they appear'd like Icy Towns and Castles fortify'd with Towers and Bulwarks The seventeenth seven of us went again to the Ship and from thence clamber'd over the Icy Hills to the open Water and when we were got thither saw a little Bird swimming which as soon as it espy'd us div'd under Water The thirtieth in the Night we saw the Sun North just above the Horizon and from that time had sight of it both Night and Day The first of May we drest our last Flesh which we had long spared and it was still very good and the last Morsel tasted as well as the first we then began to think that we had kept House long enough here and to talk of our departure and the Master considering that our best Meat began to fail us when the Labour we were to undergo required the greatest strength he shared the rest of the Bacon amongst us which was only a small Barrel of Salt Bacon and Pickle whereof every one had two Ounces a Day and so in three Weeks it was all eaten up The seventh Day we were yet once again clos'd up in our House The fourteenth we fetch'd our last Sled of Fire-wood still wearing our Rug-shooes The twenty ninth in the Morning ten of us were to bring our Scute to the House to clean it and were fain with extream pain to dig it out from under the Snow wherewith it lay cover'd but beginning to draw it we soon found our selves unable to proceed by reason of our extraordinary feebleness This quite disheartned us but our Master encourag'd us representing unto us that our Lives lay at the Stake and that if we did not draw away and fit out the Scute we must resolve to continue Burghers of Nova Zembla and make our Graves there but we were notwithstanding constrain'd to give over at this time and return home comfortless yet in the Afternoon taking heart again we determin'd to turn the Boat that lay by the House and to amend it that it might be fitter to carry us through the infinite number of dangers that threaten'd us in the performance of so long and troublesome a Voyage While we were busie at Work a huge Bear assaulted us with greater fury and boldness than ever any had done before but we got into the House where we expected her coming in our three Doors with Harquebusses and one stood with a Musket in the Chimney at lest the over-grown Beast advanc'd as far as the lowest step that entred into one of our Doors and which is dreadful to relate the Man that Watch'd there was at that instant looking towards another Door and saw not his furious Enemy till a sudden shout of these that perceiv'd her from within made him turn about yet though the horrible sight of imminent Death struck him with terror and astonishment he fir'd his Piece to so good purpose that he shot her quite through the Body whereupon she run away Thus did Divine Providence preserve us from this terrible danger for if his Piece had fail'd him it had cost us perhaps more Lives than one The wounded Beast had not run far when she fell down then we went and kill'd her out-right and ripping open her belly found a piece of a Buck therein skin hair and all which she had not long before devoured It seems they smelt that we would soon be gone and resolved to taste a piece of some of us for two days after another attack'd us and that so fiercely that we were forc'd to leave our Work and run into the House whither also she pursu'd us but we discharg'd three Pieces at her which all hit her but her Death did us more hurt than her Life for we dress'd and eat her Liver which pleas'd our taste very well but made us all sick especially three who were in great danger of their Lives yet they recover'd their Healths beyond all expectation but lost their Skins from Head to Foot At last we got our Boat ready after we had wrought six days upon it and June 4. eleven of us drew the Scute to the Ship and now our Labour seem'd lighter to us than formerly perhaps because our hopes were stronger and courage higher and we had reckon'd to meet with no greater difficulties than we found because the Snow now lay harder on the ground but especially the earnest desire and great pleasure we had to Work at that time augmented our decay'd Spirits We were forc'd before we could draw our Boats to the Sea to make the way plain with Hatchets Shovels and other Instruments for it was full of Hillocks and Mountains of Ice and while we were thus busied a great lean Bear assaulted us who we judg'd came from Tartary for we had seen of them twenty or thirty miles upon the Sea and since we had only one Musket which our Surgeon carry'd I run in great haste towards the Ship to fetch some the cruel Beast pursued me close and I expected to have been torn in pieces by her ravenous Teeth when our company seeing my danger follow'd her which made her turn towards them and leave me but in the mean time the Surgeon happily discharg'd his Piece and shot her into the Body whereupon she run away but the Ice being very uneven and full of knobs we quickly overtook her and killing her outright struck her Teeth out of her Head As we were ready to depart William Barents our Pilot left a Letter in a Musket hanging in the Chimney wherein he gave an account of our disastrous Voyage and how we had lain ten months in that desolate dark and dismal Country and at last were forc'd to commit our selves to the cruel Mercy of that Icy Sea in two small Boats under the protection of our Almighty Creator So having finish'd all things as we determin'd we drew the Boat and Scute and eleven Sleds of Goods and Victuals to the Water-side
could never compose our selves securely to sleep and notwithstanding our tottering Limbs were hardly able to sustain our sinking Bodies we were forc'd to tug hard Night and Day both at Helm and Pump being at the same time almost frozen to Death with intolerable cold which was incomparably more grievous than that which to the admiration of all Men not many years ago cover'd all the Channels at Venice with thick and impenetrable Ice And now the compassionate Reader may consider how lamentable our case was we wanted Clothes to fence us from the pinching cold our Meat and Drink fail'd us and we remain'd amidst the Horrors of an unknown and stormy Ocean destitute not only of all comforts but even of necessaries to sustain our fainting Bodies and lest any thing should be wanting to compleat our Misery the Nights were twenty one hours long and very dark The growing cold now began to produce terrible effects of its cruelty among us we were all of a sudden seized with a certain numness which began at our Feet and then gradually ascending over-run our whole Bodies causing in us a disorder'd and raging appetite which was no small addition to our Sorrow for every Man endeavoured to filch what he could from his Neighbour and Ransacking every corner greedily devour'd all he could find Then did Death Tyrannize among us and you might see here one and there another breathe out a broken sigh shake his giddy Head and fall down dead on a sudden In which extremity of forty seven Men which made up our desolate Company twenty six gave up the Ghost and this was so far from being a Wonder considering our helpless condition that it was certainly a Miracle of Divine Bounty that any of us were preserv'd alive to Celebrate the never-failing goodness of our Almighty Deliverer and exalt the Glory of his power These twenty six died between the twenty third of December to the fifth of January and found their Graves in the bottom of the merciless Ocean And now the last day of this disastrous year presented us with a dismal prospect of unavoidable Ruine for our little stock of Wine was wholly exhausted and the sad experience of our dead and dying Companions taught us that the Sea-water with which we were wont to delude the intolerable fury of our Thirst did only hasten our approaching Death so that not knowing what to do we forc'd our own Water down our Throats How deplorable and heart-breaking an object was it to see some gasping Wretches whose parcht Entrails refus'd to furnish any moisture with dying groans and rueful looks imploring the favour of a small draught of the Urine of their Companions who either unwilling to part with what they fear'd would quickly be spent or rather unable to spare any from themselves refus'd to save the Lives of their dearest Friends at the expences of a small quantity of that unsavory Liquor which was the only means left to preserve their own 'T is true some of us had the prudence to temper it with a little Sirrup of Green Ginger and Lemons which by Providence was not yet consum'd At last when there was no hopes left when Despair and Paleness were painted on our hollow Cheeks and the Grim-King of Terrors in the most frightful shape star'd us in the Face then did our pitiful Redeemer stretch forth his helping Hand and on the third of January 1431. we descry'd Land afar off being a ledge of ragged Rocks cover'd to the top with huge Mountains of Snow and lying to the weather of us But it seems Fortune still ow'd us a spite for the Winds being contrary we durst not spread our Sails and our feeble Arms were altogether unable to manage the Oars so that a strong current driving us along we lost sight of Land and all our Hopes together But magnified be the wonderful Goodness of our God we escaped safe out of a Deluge of Dangers in which we were almost over-whelmed for having been long toss'd and batter'd by the Cruelty of outragious Gusts among the Death-threatning points of lurking Rocks which by reason of the horrible darkness of the tedious Night we could not avoid at last fear of Death and desire of Life inspiring us with unwonted Vigour we enter'd into a Bay between two steep Rocks No sooner did our Pinnace touch upon the Sand but five of our men made desperate by tormenting Thirst leap'd into the Sea without knowing the depth thereof which was considerable and making haste towards the Snow thrust such great quantities down their insatiable Throats that they seem'd to delight in glutting themselves therewith at length they return'd Laden with huge quantities thereof which we also gulp'd down very greedily Now from the time that we left the Ship until January 6. being eighteen days we made account according to our best Judgments that we had run two thousand five hundred miles at least without seeing Land for Sailing all that time between the East and North-east points of the Compass we never hand less Wind than after the rate of six miles in an hour On the forementioned day being the Feast of Epiphany Nineteen of us went ashore on this desolate and barren Island called the Isle of Saints which lies on the Coast of Norway and belongs to the King of Denmark leaving only two men to look to the Boat Being Landed we retired to a place that was cover'd from the fury of the piercing Winds and kindled a Fire by means of a Tinder-Box and an Oar the sight of which was very comfortable to us But perceiving that this Island was Uninhabited we resolved to go to another which we descry'd about five miles distant But alas our Pinnace was so Leaky that despairing to be ever able to fit her out for the Sea again we drew her not without great pain to Land and determin'd to make a little Hovel of her to shelter us from the violence of the Weather To accomplish which we divided her into two parts of the first and greater of which we made a Shed for Thirteen of us and of the lesser another for the rest covering them with part of our Sails and reserving the remainder with the Cordage for Fuel to comfort our frozen Limbs And now being utterly destitute of all Sustenance to preserve our wretched Lives we wander'd along the shore to gather some small quantity of Periwinkles and Barnackles which by chance we found there and removing the Snow in some places we found certain Herbs which we boiled with Snow in our Caldron and then eat them through extream Necessity Thus did we live for thirteen days together if I may call that Life which was spent in perpetual agonies and terrors and deserveth rather the Name of a lingring Death In the middle of these extremities four of our Companions of the greater Shed unable to hold out longer under the insupportable weight of misery that overwhelm'd us gave up the Ghost notwithstanding all the pains that
fleeting resolutions were suggested to our Minds and we were perplexed with a thousand doubts Sometimes we determin'd to detain one or both of them but soon forsook that rash resolution not knowing with whom nor how many we had to do Then we advised together whether one or more of us should venture to go along with them and this determination also was not without its difficulties for we were afraid to hazard our selves among strangers whose Language we were ignorant of and they of ours At last casting off all fear and committing our selves to the gracious protection of God we went down to their Boat in the most amicable manner possible and in friendly and humble wise saluted the Old man who stood there expecting his Sons and was no less astonish'd to see us than they had been In the mean time our hunger was so pressing that we could not forbear to search in the Boat whether happily we might find any thing to relieve our necessity but to no purpose for we could meet with nothing The pitiful strangers perceiving by our actions and the signs we made that we were almost starv'd for want of sustenance were moved to compassion and chearfully agreed to carry along with them two of our Company Ghirardo di Lione a Sewer and Cola di Otrunto a Mariner who spoke French and High-Dutch leaving us in great hopes of speedy assistance As they drew near to Rusten the amazed people came running to the Sea-side gazing upon the strange Countenances and unusual Garb of our Companions and questioning one another how and from whence they were come thither To satisfie their curiosity they attempted to discourse with them in sundry Languages but at last a German Priest of the Order of the Praedicators spoke to one of them in High-Dutch by whom they were certified who we were from whence we came and how we were cast upon the Desart Island and all this the Priest published to the people next morning earnestly exhorting them to have compassion on our necessitous condition and relieve us according to their Abilities Which had so good effect and found the Spirits of the people so much dispos'd to pity that the day following being the third of February the kind Rusteners came to us that were left in Courteous manner bringing along with them plenty of Provisions to refresh our feeble bodies and very affectionately invited us to their Habitations We embraced their offer'd kindness with a thankful willingness and with glad Hearts accompanied them to their Hospitable Island where we were receiv'd with unaffected Sincerity and entertained with great plenty of Restorative Food the exceeding abundance whereof had like to have prov'd fatal to us for we could not restrain our selves from obeying our craving Appetites neither could we ever satiate our selves with seeding but neither were our weak Stomachs able to concoct nor decay'd Nature to bear so unusual a Load of Meat so that what we eat to sustain Life had almost brought us to an untimely Death There were yet remaining two of our Company in the Isle of Saints whom we had left in the greater of our Cottages and who were ignorant of our miraculous Succour wherefore we inform'd our kind Friends of their helpless condition and likewise of our eight deceased Companions who lay rotting above ground Whereupon they assembled themselves together and went with the Priest Singing Psalms and Hymns as well to Bury the Dead as to rescue the Living when they were arriv'd at the desolate Island they Interr'd the Bodies of the eight deceased persons to which number one of the two remaining was now added whom they likewise buried And you may easily imagine in how sad a plight they found the other poor Wretch who had been thus utterly depriv'd both of Humane Society and Sustenance yet he was brought to Rusten with some little remainders of Life where at the end of two days he found an end of his miseries in Death Eleven of all our numerous Company were saved and came alive into this Island among vvhom vvas our Master Piero Quirini a person of consummate prudence and discreet humility of vvhich he gave a notable instance vvhen he enter'd into the House of our affectionate and charitable Host for seeing his Wife in testimony that he acknovvledg'd her to be Mistriss of that Life vvhich her Husband had preserv'd he cast himself dovvn at her Feet but she refusing so great submission Courteously lifted him up from the ground and kindly embracing him vvith her ovvn Hand gave him somevvhat to Eat With these loving and Hospitable people vve abode three months and eleven days expecting to have passage into Sweden vvith our Host vvhither he intended to go vvith his usual Fraight of Stock-fish for every year in the month of May the people of this Island Travel to Sweden vvith mighty plenty of that Commodity vvith vvhich they furnish a great part of that Kings Dominions At last on the fourteenth of May 1432. came the happy Hour in vvhich after so tedious and lamentable an Exile vve set our Faces homevvards and began our Journey tovvards our beloved Native Country So vve took our leave of our Charitable Hostess and all our other affectionate Friends leaving vvith her for a Token of our Love not vvhat her kindness deserv'd or vvhat Justice and Gratitude oblig'd us to have given but vvhat the merciless Sea had left us which was only a few Trifles as Cups Girdles and some small Rings and express'd the grateful sense we had of so many and so signal Favours with the best and most hearty Eloquence we were Masters of to the Priest our Interpreter by Words and to the people by Signs Having thus perform'd all due Salutations we Embarked in a small Vessel of the burthen of twenty Tuns Laden with Fish in which our Host went also Master and Pilot and the Ships Crew consisted of his Sons and other Kindred We set Sail then on the fore-mentioned Day directing our course towards Bergen which was the first convenient Haven for Unlading and Vending our Fish and distant from Rusten about a thousand miles These Fisher-men conducted the Bark safely and with great ease through various Channels with which and all the Currents in them they were perfectly acquainted so that our Voyage prov'd very commodious to us When we were about two hundred miles off Rusten we found certain Relicks of the Wreck of our Skiff which certify'd us of the sad Fate of our Companions that were aboard her and we concluded they perished the first Night we lost sight of them The twenty ninth of May 1432. we arriv'd at Tronden a Town upon the Coast of Norway and the Royal Seat of the King of Denmark when he resides in those parts and the Burial place of the famous Saint and King Olaus Here we abode ten days waiting for some conveniency to continue our Voyage but finding none were unwilling to lose more time and therefore determin'd to proceed on our
and that he himself had the greatest cause to complain that his Loyalty should be suspected who had given so many and so great proofs thereof The Count of Soissons finding all his endeavours were fruitless against his obstinate temper left him and the next morning early the King sent for him into the little Garden and discours'd with him a long time he making still great protestations of his Innocency beating his Breast and casting up his Eyes to Heaven in confirmation thereof At their parting there appeared Anger in the Kings Countenance and by the Dukes carriage there seemed Fire in his Words From thence the Duke went to Dinner and had a Letter delivered him with Advice to retire himself but he laugh'd at all warnings and despised any Advertisement of his fall The King had an account of his Bravado's but took little notice of them at length upon consultation with some of the Lords of the Council it was resolved that he should be apprehended and likewise the Count of Auvergne the King would not have them taken in the Court but in their own Lodgings which the Duke of Biron was somewhat apprehensive of and therefore thought he need fear nothing in the Presence-Chamber but that his danger would be most in going forth to prevent which he had provided a short Sword wherewith to make his way by the Death of any Opposer The King was informed that if he were not seized in the Presence-Chamber it would occasion Blood-shed to prevent which it was convenient to pass by some unnecessary respects the King sent for Vitry and Pralin Captains of his Guards and ordered them in what manner to execute his commands The Duke of Biron sup'd at Montignys Lodgings where he discours'd more proudly and vainly than ever of his own Merits and his many Friends in Switzerland and proceeded highly to commend the Piety Justice and Liberality of the late King of Spain Montigny sudenly interrupted him saying The greatest commendation due to that Princes memory was That he put his own Son to Death for attempting to promote troubles and disturbances in the State This put an end to the Dukes Harangue who by his Eyes seemed to hear this sharp reply with much amazement and surprize After Supper the Duke of Biron and the Count of Auvergne waited on the King in the Garden with a greater Train of Guards than they expected The King invited the Duke to play in the Queens Lodgings they plaid at Chess and the King being perplex'd went often to and again to his Closet As they entred the Door of the Chamber the Count of Auvergne whispered the Duke in the Ear We are undone The King was much unresolved but at length he pray'd God to assist him with his Holy Spirit and to infuse such Resolutions into him as might be for his Glory and the good of his people over whom he Ruled only by his Grace His Prayer ended his doubts were satisfied and he concluded absolutely to deliver the Duke into the hands of Justice The Count of Auvergne was retir'd the King sent for him and walked about the Room while the Duke minded nothing but his Game Varennes Lieutenant of his Company pretending to take up his Cloak told him in his Ear He was undone This last word astonished him so that he neglected his Game which the Queen observing told him That he had misreckon'd himself to his own loss The King answered That they had plaid enough commanding every man to retire He took the Duke of Biron into his Cabinet and charged him once for all freely to declare what Transactions he had managed with the Duke of Savoy and the Count of Fuentes Governour for the King of Spain assuring him that his Clemency should surmount his Crimes The Duke though he was conscious to himself that he deserved Death yet had not the humility to desire his Life nor a Tongue to beg pardon but answered the King more resolutely than ever That they had contrived the overthrow of an honest Man and that he had no other design than what he had already discovered I wish to God it were so said the King but I find you will not acquaint me with it Adieu Good Night As the Duke was going out of the Cabinet and had passed the Chamber-Door he met Vitry who laid his Hand upon Birons Sword and demands the delivery of it by the Kings Order From me said the Duke What to take away my Sword who have so faithfully served the King My Sword Who have ended the War and have settled Peace in France That my Sword which my Enemies could never wrest from me should be now taken away by my Friends He intreated the Duke of Montbazon to beseech the King to give him leave to deliver it into his own hands the King ordered Vitry to do as he had commanded him The Duke was forced to suffer it to be taken from him and in delivering in cast his Eyes about to seize upon another but they prevented him When he saw all the Guard placed in the Gallery he thought they would have killed him and desired to have something in his Hand that he might have the Honour to dye in defending himself and some little time to pray to God They answered That no Man should hurt him they having Order from the King only to conduct him to his Lodgings You see said he in passing by how good Catholicks are Treated He was carried to the Closet of Arms but neither slept nor lay down Praliu was sent to the Count Auvergne to demand his Sword in the Kings Name I take it said the Count it hath never killed any but Wild Boars if thou hadst informed me of this I had been a Bed and asleep two hours ago These two Noble-men were like Torches in a Field of Corn able to inflame the Kingdom The Duke of Biron grew extreamly impatient scarce speaking a Word but it was either against God or the King and discovered all the rage and fury of a Mad-man but suddenly recollecting himself Well said he I find this is but Folly for all my passion and raving will do me no Service The King returned from Fountainbleau where the Conspiracy was discovered to Paris and was received with the Shouts and Acclamations of the people for his safe return and their Deliverance from Slavery 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from your Servant and saying this he modestly plucked him by the Garment and with a kind of commanding Authority intreated him to follow him who Interpreting this unusual freedom of the Man to proceed from an higher Power at last consented and with some others went away The Prince had hardly entred St. Maries Fort when the limited Hour for the Match to fire the Mine was come and all on a sudden this fatal Ship burst asunder with such a horrid noise as if the very Skies had rent asunder and Heaven and Earth had come together or the whole Body of the World had trembled for the Storm of Stones Chains and Bullets being thrown out with Thunder and Lightning there followed such a slaughter as cannot be imagined The Castle on which this Infernal Ship fell the Bridge next to it with the Souldiers Mariners Commanders and a great number of Cannon Armor and Arms all these this furious Whirlwind swept away together tossed in the Air and dispersed as the Wind doth Leaves of Trees the River Scheld prodigiously gaping was then first seen to discover its bottom and then swelling above the Banks over-flowed the adjacent Shores the motion of the Earth was felt nine miles off and great Grave-stones were thrown a mile from the River sunk two foot into the ground But the destruction of men was very deplorable some the Hellish violence of the fires consumed or carried into the Air whence they fell bruised on the Earth or into the River others were stifled with the poysonous Smoak others boiled to death with the Scalding Waters many slain with the shower of Stones and some the Grave stones both killed and Intombed The Viscount of Brussels was darted out of his own Ship and fell overthwart another Ship at a great distance without hurt A Captain by this Infernal Whirlwind was carried heavy Armed out of St. Maries Fort like Chaff in the Air and thrown into the midst of the River from whence by Swimming with the loss of his Armor he escaped A young man of the Princes Guard was carried over a great part of the River into Brabant a very great way only hurting his Shoulder a little when he fell on the ground and said he seemed like a Bullet shot out of a Cannon he felt such a violence forcing him forward To conclude there were â—oo slain and the Prince of Parma in great danger though a good distance off by a great Stake which struck him down where he lay for some time in a Trance And indeed the desolation occasioned by this Execrable Engine made people say That the Author of it fetcht this terrible fire which made the River boil with heat and those pestiferous mortal vapours from the Infernal Pit and that the Thunder and Lightning was procured by Magick Art Wars of the Low Countries FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside History 1. ENglands Monarchs Or A compendious Relation of the most remarkable Transactions from Julius Caesar to this present adorned with poems and the picture of every Monarch from K. William the Conqueror to the third year of K. William Q. Mary With a List of the Nobility the Knights of the Garter the number of the Lords and Commons who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament and many other useful particulars Price one Shilling 2. THE Wars in England Scotland and Ireland containing a particular and Impartial Account of all the Battels Sieges and other remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles I. 1625. to His Majesties happy Restauration The illegal Tryal of K. Charles I at large with his last speech at his suffering and the most considerable matters till 1660. with pictures of several accidents Price One Shilling 3. THE History of Oliver Cromwel being an Impartial Account of all the Battels Sieges and other Military Atchievements wherein he was ingaged in England Scotland and Ireland and particularly all the Sea Fights with the Dutch and French and likewise of his Civil Administrations while he had the Supream Government of these three Kingdoms till his Death Relating only matters of Fact without Reflection or Observation By R. B. Price One Shilling 4. HIstorical Remarks and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster shewing the Foundations Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns of Courts Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an account of the most remarkable accidents as to Wars Fires Plagues and other occurrences for above 903 years past in and about these Cities to the year 1681. Illustrated with pictures and the Arms of 65 Companies of London and the time of their Incorporating Price One Shilling 5. ADmirable Curiosities Rarities and Wonders in England Scotland and Ireland or an account of many remarkable persons and places and likewise of the Battles Sieges prodigious Earthquakes Tempests Inundations Thunders Lightnings Fires Murders and other considerable occurrences and accidents for many hundred years past Together with the natural and artificial Rarities in every County in England with several curious Sculptures Price One shilling 6. THE History of the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland containing 1. An account of the most remarkable Transactions and Revolutions in Scotland for above 1200 years past during the Reigns of 68 Kings from 424. to K. James I. in 1602. 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof to this time with the miraculous persons and places strange accidents c. 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Cavendish the E. of Cumberland Sir VValter Rawleigh and other English VVorthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and pictures of the strange Fruits Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Serpents and Monsters found in those parts of the VVorld Price One shilling 8. A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea and the East-Indies VVith an Account of the Religion Government VVars strange Customs Beasts Serpents Monsters and other observables in those Countries And among others the Life and Death of Mahomet the Grand Impostor with the principal Doctrines of the Turkish Religion as they are display'd in the Alcoran Two Letters one written by