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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69464	An Ancient and present state of Poland giving a short, but exact, account of the scituation [sic] of that country, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, the several successions of their kings, their religion, &c., drawn out of their best historians : to which is added an impartial account of the death of the late king and the present election as it now stands.	Savage, John, 1673-1747.	1697 (1697)	Wing A3066; ESTC R16140	15,778	28

Lignitz and Brieg in Silesia 'T is said this Duke was One Hundred and Twenty Years old when he died His Son Zigmovitus was a brave and Warlike Prince to whom succeeded his Son Lescus the Fourth of a peaceable Temper Of much the same was his Son Zickmovistus who succeeded him This Prince had but one Son who being born blind was in the Seventh Year of his Age in which Year according to the Custom of those Times his Head was to be shav'd and he to receive his Name restor'd to his Sight which was then taken for an Omen that he should be enlighten'd with the Christian Faith His Name was Micislaus or Mischo who began his Reign in 964. and was the first Christian Duke of Poland Boleslaus Chrobry his Son succeeded him in 999 and was created King by the Emperor Otho the Third who visited the Tomb of Sr. Adelbert kill'd in Prussia He left the Crown to Micislaus the Second Who likewise left it to Casimir who being an Infant his Mother Rixa took upon her the Administration of the Government but the Poles being dis-satisfied with her she was fore'd to flee with her Son into Germany who in his Journey afterwards to France assum'd the Order and Habit of a Monk During his Absence there were great Disturbances in Poland whereupon by the Mediation of the Pope the Poles prevail'd upon Casimir to leave his Monastery and to accept of the Crown but upon this Condition That they were yearly to contribute a Farthing for each Head except those of the Nobility and Clergy towards the maintaining a perpetual Burning Lamp in the Church of St. Peter's at Rome and moreover cause their Heads to be shaved about their Ears like Monks His Son Boleslaus the Second succeeded him This Prince surnam'd The Cruel put to death Stanislaus Bishop of Cracow and as a Punishment for his Crimes Poland lost the Title of King for a considerable Time The next King was Uladislaus the First Brother to the fore-going Boleslaus He was succeeded by his Son Boleslaus the Third a brave Soldier who obrain'd a signal Victory over the Emperor Henry the Fifth in the Dogs Field near Breslau There never was a Prince in Poland more famous than this he fought 45 Battels with Success except the last with the Red Russians which was lost through the Cowardice of the Vayvod of Cracovia to whom the King for Recompence sent a Hare's Skin and a Spinning-Wheel which so troubl'd him that he hang'd himself And the King likewise was so concern'd at his Defeat that he not long after died with Grief His Son Uladislaus the Second succeeded him After whom came Boleslaus Crispus his Brother who receiv'd a great Overthrow from the Prussians his Army having been mis-lead into Moors and Bogs through the Treachery of a Guide Next succeeded his Brother Micislaus Senier but he was soon deposed for Male-Administration Then came his Brother Casimir the Second to be elected who was only famous for chastising die Prussians His Son Lescus the Fifth Sur-nam'd The White was fain to contend with the banish'd Micislaus for the Kingdom Next him came his Son Boleslaus the Fifth Sur-nam'd The Chaste in whose Reign the Tartars committed prodigious Barbarities in Poland and from thence made an Inroad into Silesia where in a Battel fought near Lignitz they slew so many of the Inhabitants that they fill'd nine great Sacks with their Ears though they did cut off but one from each Head To him succeeded his Cousin Lescus Sur-nam'd The Black who was very fortunate in his Wars though the Civil Commotions and frequent Incursions of the Tartars occasion'd great Disturbances in his Kingdom After his Death there were great Contests about the Regency till at last Premis●aus Lord of Great Poland got the Upper Hand assuming the Title of King which had not been used for near Two Hundred Years before This Prince was murther'd by some Brand●nburgh Emissaries after he had reign'd but Seven Months Next to him was elected Uladislaus Lecticus who was depos'd for Male-Administration Then came Wenceslaus King of Bohemia to be chosen but after his Death Lacticus was restor'd After him his Son Casimir the Great succeeded who subdu'd all Russia and united it to the Kingdom of Poland He dying the Male Race of Piastus lost the Crown of Poland which after this Casimir devolv'd to Lewis King of Hungary who left two Daughters Hedwigis the youngest of which was declared Queen and married Jagello Duke of Lithuania who was then Baptized and made a Christian Upon this Marriage he was Acknowledged and his Countries joined to Poland about the year 1386. Jagello who took at his Baptism the Name of Uladislaus the 4th had for his Successor Uladislaus the 5th This King was killed in a Battle against the Turks in his stead Casimir the 4th was made King of Poland to whom Succeeded his Son John Albert● after whom came his Brother Alexander who Reigned only five Years when came Sigismund the First one of the most famous Princes in his time his Son Sigismund the 2d was next Elected who died without Issue and thereby the Male Race of the Jagellonick Family was Extinct Then the Polanders chose Henry Duke of Anjou Son of Henry the 2d of France King and he was Crowned the 15th of Feb. 1574. But this Prince having Notice of the Death of his Brother Charles the Ninth King of France he went to receive that Crown in 1576. Then one Party of the Electors set up Stephen Batori Prince of Transilvania and the other Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria which brought a War upon the Country The First carried it and died without Childrin in 1580. Next Sigismund the Third Son to John King of Sweden was set upon the Throne in 1587 but the King his Father dying soon after he went to take possession of the Crown of Sweden Some time afterwards the Swedes revolted and chose Charles Prince of Sudermania his Uncle for their King They went to War with Sigismund took Riga from him in 1625 and he died in 1632. Uladislaus his Son succeeded him who dying in 1648 they chose in his place John Casimir he made a voluntary Abdication of the Crown and had for his Successor Michael VVitznowizki that died in 1672 and John Sobieski succeeded him and died in 1696. This Prince was the Third of that Name he was the youngest Son of Sobieski Palatin of Cracovia c. and of a Daughter of Stanislaus Zolkiewski Grand Chancellor and Grand General of the Crown He was made Grand Marshal of the Crown August 24th 1665 and Grand Master of the King's Houshold Palatin of Cracovia c. He recovered 60 Towns from the rebellious Cosacks in the Ukrain in 1667 he held out Podhois against the Tartars and two years after he took from them and the Cossacks all the Palatinate of Bracklaw in the Lower Podolia He defeated the Turks in 1671 during the siege of Leopold upon the Peltaw in the Black Russia and in 1673