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A72942	Svvethland and Poland vvarres A souldiers returne out of Sweden, and his newes from the warres: or, Sweden and Poland vp in armes. And the entertainement of English souldiers there: with the fortunes and successe of those 1200. men that lately went thither.	Nixon, Anthony.	1610 (1610)	STC 18596; ESTC S125498	19,552	37

to be called all together the very next day at which time Thomas Griffin the Welsh Iudas who had all this while lyen feasting in the house of the Lord Gouernour began to tremble and to repent him of his villanny begging most base forgiuenesse on his knées both from the Gouernour and vs his countrimen and fellow Souldiers protesting that what he did came out of his feare to saue his owne life But our Officers vpon hearing him speake thus had much adoe to kéepe the companies from pulling downe the house whore Griffin lay because they would in that rage haue hewed the villaine in péeces But leauing him and all such betrayers of mens bloud to the hell of their owne consciences let vs set forward out of this infortunate Iland not stay in any place else till in small boates we come by water to Elzinore in Denmarke where wee ioyfully got aboard once more and are hoysing vp sailes for Sweueland Yet euen in this sun-shine day a storme falles vpon vs too for our Officers not hauing sufficient money to furnish vs with victuals we were enforced to pawne our Ancient and Lieftenant Walton for the safe returne of the ship with condition that they should not be released vntill a sufficient summe of money was sent to defray all charges So that we left our Officers behinde vs but the King of Sweueland did afterwards release them and then they came to vs. But before their comming we hauing a good winde landed at a place called Newleas in Sweue and from thence were carryed to Stockholme the Kings seate and there was the King at the same time betwéene which two places it was a dayes march on horsebacke Vpon this our arriuall at Stockholme we met with the rest that had gone before vs and with diuers others of our countrymen that came out of the Low-countries as before is related In this place we lay so long and had such poore meanes that wanting money to buy soode we wanted foode to maintaine life and so a number of vs were ready to sterue till in the end our miseries making vs desperate we fell together by the eares with the Burgers of the towne in which scambling confusion and mutiny euery man got one thing or other of which he made present money to relieue his body withall yet lay we at the walles of the citty crying out continually for money money till our throates grew hoarse with balling but the stones of the walles gaue more comfort to vs then the inhabitants One day aboue all the rest we heard that the King was to ride a hunting and wée imagining that all the abuses wrongs and miseries which we endured procéeded from some vnder-hand hard dealing and packing of our Captaines and Officers resolued to gather about the King at his comming forth to cry out for mony but the King being angry as we supposed came riding amongst vs drawing his pistoll from the saddle bow as if he purposed to haue shot some of vs but seeing none of vs to shrinke from him nor to be dismaied he rode backe againe we following him desiring he would either giue vs money or else to kill vs out-right one amongst the rest whose name was William Attane spake to the King aloud thus I hold it honor to dye by the hands of a King but basely to sterue to death I will neuer suffer it Vpon these our clamors the King looking better vpon our necessities sent money the next day and immediatly after gaue vs a moneths meanes in mony and two mone ths meanes in cloath to make vs apparrell Of the cloath we receiued some part but the money being paid was by our Captaines sent into England to their wiues no part of it euer comning to the poore common Souldiers hands for presently vpon this we were commanded aboord the ships with promise that when we were aboord we should haue our money But being in the ships vnder hatches away were we carryed with prouision onely of one moneths victuals when by reason of the weather we were forced to lye eight wéekes at sea in all which time we had nothing but pickelled herrings and salt stremlings with some small quantity of hard dryed meates by which ill dyet many of our men fell sicke and dyed In the ship wherein I was wée liued fouretéene dayes without bread all our best foode being salt herrings which we were glad to eate raw the best of vs all hauing no better sustenance At the last it pleased God to send vs to a place called Vfrasound in Fynland where we landed Fynland being subiect to the King of Sweueland From Vfrasound we were to goe to Weyborough a chiefe towne in the country of Fynland where we no sooner arrriued but our Souldiers ran some one way and some another so long that the Captaines were left alone with the ships This running away of them being done onely to séeke foode so great was their hunger By this carelesse dispersing themselues they lost the command of the whole country which they might easily haue had if they had bene vnited together and not onely were depriued of that benefite but of horses also which were allowed by the King for them to ride vpon So that what by the reason of the tedious iourney which we were to trauell being fourescore leagues and what by reason of the extreme cold being a moneth before Christmas at which time the snow fell and neuer went off the ground vntill Whitsontide following but all the raine and all the the snow that fell fréezing continually diuers of our men were sterued to death with the frost Some lost their fingers some their toes some their noses many their liues insomuch that when wee all met at Weyborough we could make no make no more but 1400. able men and yet when we were landed at Vfrasound we were 2000. strong the extremity of the cold country hauing killed so many of our Souldiers in so little time At our landing at Weyborough we had good hopes to receiue better comforts both of money and victuals for the inhabitants told vs the King had allowed it vs and in that report they spake truth yet contrary to our expectation we lay there about 14. dayes and had nothing but a little Rice of which we made bread and a little butter which was our best reliefe Drinke had we none nor money our Captaines gaue vs certaine letherne pelches onely made of shéeps skinnes to kéepe vs from the cold At this place we receiued Armes to defend vs against the enemy and sixe companies that were allowed by the King for horsemen receiued horses there From thence we were to march into Russia where our enemies continued But the iourney was long and vncomfortable for we marched from Newyeares day vntill Whitsontide continually in snow hauing no rest but onely a little in the nights So that the miseries and mis-fortunes which we endured vpon the borders of Fynland were almost iusufferable by

to the number of 1200. souldiers were at seueral times shipped from England to passe into Sweden to aide the King of that Countrey in his warres against the king of Poland To which aid diuers other nations did likewise resort as Frenill High Dutch c of all whom as occasion ministreth mention shable made in their due places Of the English companies that went thither the first was commaunded by one Caluine a Scot who by appointment was made lieutenant Colonell and chiefe of the other Captaines ouer the footmen The names of which Captaines are in this following Discourse set downe After the first company was gone a second number of 300. men of which I the relater of this was one were put into one shippe belonging to Swoden and came from thence for vs. We being thus aboord sailes were presently hoisted anchors weighed and by the assistance of God wherewith the dexteritie of the mariners was furthered in a short time had we gotten into the maine sea and with a prosperous gale went forward on our voiage But mans security oft-times changeth Gods fauors into sodaine indignation for when euery one at the parting from his owne country had a mery and fearelesse heart to runne to the certaine dangers that stood ready to méet him in another forren region Behold to put vs all in minde that God was the God of Hostes and that whether we went foorth to fight or laied vs downe to sléepe whether we were on the seas or on the land our safeties and dangers lay all in his disposing behold I say in the height of all our iolity séeing so prowd a saile swelling with the winds to carry vs the heauens on a sodaine altered their lookes storines fell vpon the waters the waters threatned destruction to our ship and we that were in her stood wauering betwéene the hopes of an vncertaine life the dreadfull terrors of a most iminent death In this horror of the seas were we lossed so long that all our victualles wers almost spent the misery of which threw vs into more desperate feares now were we assaulted by double deaths Famine or Shipwracke what course to take for our reliefe no man presently knew Continue without foode it was impossible and as impossible was it for vs to recouer the land in any short time without the assured destruction of vs all At this season our commanders were these viz Lieutenant Benson Lieutenant Walton who was Prouost Martiall of the field And an Ancient of the Colonels company These our Commanders were by our rashnesse droue into worss feares than those were that laid hold vpon our selues for whereas they were resolued blow the winds how they could to continue still at sea and not to land till they set footing at their appointed shores the cemmon Souldiers had on the contrary part vowed and resolued to compell the mariners seeing the present miseries and no hopes promising better to set vs all on shore vpon the first land that could be discouered Our Commaunders did what they could by disswasion to alter this general resolution because they feared it would be the losse of the greatest part of our Companies if they came once to be scattered and besides they knew that it would redound to their dishonour and shame if they should not discharge the trust imposed vpon them by our Captaines which trust was to conduct vs land vs before whilst our Chieftaines remained a while behind in England to take vp the rest of our Companies Yet all this notwithstanding Land being discouerd there was no eloquence in the world able to kéep vs aboord our ship but euery man swore if the master of the ship would not set vs on the shore the sailes should be taken into our own hands and what was resolued vpon touching present landing should in despite of danger be effected Vpon this the master of the ship and the mariners told vs that if we put to land in that place we should all either perish for want of victualles which were not to be had in that country or else should haue our throates cut by the people But the dangers in which we were and which we felt being more certaine as we imagined than any other could be of which we had yet no sence or féeling our hopes perswading vs that we could not fall into worse than those we tasted already besides all of vs construing the words of the mariners as not spoken by them but as if they had bin set on to do so by our commanders in the ship who by all means fauored to kéep vs all aboorde At the last we resolued rather to try our bad fortunes on the land and to famish there if that kind of death must néedes attend vpon vs than to perish on the seas which we knew could affoord vs no such mercie as the land was likely to lend vs. So that in the end we got so neare the shore side as the sailes durst venter without dauger to the ship and there casting anchor our small boat was hoisted out on shore we went as fast as possibly we could When our Officers sawe that there was no remedy nor force to detaine vs aboord they then disheartned vs no longer but to our great comforts told it that the master of the ship which thing he himselfe likewise openly confessed knew both the Land and the Gonernour thereof as indéed we proued afterwards he did and therefore desired they all our companies not to missebehaue themselues toward the people for that it was an Iland called Iuthland vnder the dominion of the king of Denmarke but subtect to the command of a Lord who vnder the king as his substitute was the gouernor And that we might be the better drawne to a ciuill behauiour towards thinhabitants our officers further told vs that they would repaire to the Lord Gouernour of the country and acquaint him with the cause of our vnexpected landing there vpon which we all promised to offer no violence to the people neither was that promise violated because we found the inhabitants tractable and as quiet towards vs as we to them yet the greater numbers of them ran away with feare at the first sight of vs because as afterward they reported it could not be remembred by any of them that they euer either beheld themselues or euer heard any of their ancestorsreport that any strāge people had landed in those places and partes of the Iland for they thought it impossible as they told vs the any ship should ride so néere the shore as ours did by reason of the dangerous Sands Our officers so soone as they were at land went to the gouernor of the Iland whilst the souldiers who staid behind them ran to the houses of the Ilanders of purpose to talke with the people and at their hands to buy victualls for a present reliefe but when we came among them they could neither vnderstand vs nor we them so that the