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A40104	The history of the troubles of Suethland and Poland, which occasioned the expulsion of Sigismundus the Third, king of those kingdomes, with his heires for ever from the Suethish crown with a continuation of those troubles, untill the truce, an. 1629 : as also, a particular narration of the daily passages at the last and great treaty of pacification between those two kingdomes, concluded at Stumbsdorff in Prussia, anno 1635 : concluding with a breife commemoration of the life and death of Sr. George Duglas, Knight, Lord Ambassadour extraordinary from the late King of Great Brittaine, for the treaty above mentioned / faithfully couched by J. Fowler ...	Fowler, J. (John); Sweden. Treaties, etc. Poland, 1635 Sept. 12.; Poland. Treaties, etc. Sweden, 1635 Sept. 12.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1731; ESTC R42031	226,818	260

found either in Church or Steeple nor motion or sound perceived albeit in the Town the same was heard to continue without intermission during the Search the Governour caused the Guards to be doubled kept his owne Souldiers and the Citizens all might in Armes retained the Magistrates with himselfe whom with the inhabitants he caused to take de novo an Oath of fidelity to the Crown of Suethen We of the Ambassadors Retinue hearing this story accounted it a fiction more worthy of laughter than of beleif Entring the Towne his Lordship was by the Governour entertained at Supper Colonel Robert Duglass Commander of a Regiment of Horse in the same service likewise his Lordships Kinsman arriving at the same time At Table the Governour related the foresaid accident for a most certaine truth recounting what distractions it had put them into on the Suddaine whereunto his Lordship replyed smiling you needed not to have been so much troubled it was but a ceremony to entertaine strangers your Citizens knew not so well as your Bells that great Brittaines Ambassador was to be here this night that Solemnitie was for my reception At this discourse some mirth being made and Supper ended his Lordship attended by the Governour and Colonel Duglass with the other Officers retired to the Quarter prepared for him opposite to that of the Governour Besides those forenamed there were others present now living in England who heard this related with the discourse thereupon and can attest the truth hereof viz. Generall Major Christopher Potley late in the service of Englands Parliament under Sir William Waller then Lievtenant Colonel to the honourable Sir George Fleetewood Knight Colonell of a Regiment of English Infantrie Governour under the Suethes of the Citie of Elbing and Commander of the strong Fort in an Island of the River Vistula now Lord Fleetewood Baron of Swanholme in Suethland As also Mr. Phillip Freherr forenamed Mr. John Baall likewise one of the Eastland Merchants who first divulged the same in England upon his repaire thither soone after This by way of digression may be admitted His Lordship at his rising the next Morning Complained he was not well yet went to the Governour to whom he told so much and at his instance walked about the Walls to view the new fortifications the Governour had there caused to be made thinking thereby to have cleered the dulnesse which oppressed him but could not At the houre of dinner he sat down with the Governour at Table but could not eate Upon serving of the second course he rose up saying it behoved him to take some rest but would not suffer any save his two Pages to attend him Commanding us to stay and accompany the Governour About foure in the afternoone the Governour with his other friends and servants went to see how he fared he Complained much of his head and stomacke whereupon unknown to him a Post was sent to Gripswaldt about six Leagues from Damin for Doctor John Schaener whose father had been one of the Physicians to King James at his first comming into England knowne by the name of Doctor Martin to Administer to his Lordship whose distemper being layed in bed continued all that night with various purgings His Servants entring his Chamber early the next morning the Governour with Colonell Duglass Leivtenant Colonell Potley and Mr. Baall forementioned repaired thither soon after We found him in his night Gowne sitting and leaning at the Table yet cheerfull in speech saying his former paines were eased and that his head and heart were well neither did ought he sayd trouble him save onely that his foot was benummed which he hoped would soon returne unto its self and feeling adding that after a little rest he intended to proceed on his journey that afternoone and to that end gave order his Coach and Traine should be ready Towards the recovery of his foot from its benummednesse all meanes were used that could be devised the forenamed Commander Potley having out of his affectionate desire of his Lordships recovery taken great paines therein by chasing of the part affected but in vaine His Lordship assaying to have removed to his Bed which was neer by saying hee would repose a little could not support himself but sinking was by his Servants layed in bed about eight in the morning We left him according to his desire with some of his Chamber onely to attend him and returning about two houres after found him asleep but drawing his breath so short and high as gave cause to apprehend it was worse with him then we had imagined wherupon the Governour with the other Commanders being sent for they came and found him to the grief of all strugling with Death Being awaked for awaked he was by the out-cries of his young Nephew William Lockhart then present he would willingly have spoken and declared himself but could not he grasped the Youth then kneeling by his bed side in his Armes some words he uttered but brokenly in various intermixed Language out of which the most attentive Listner could gather nothing In this labouring condition he continued about two houres the fore named Physitian arriving when he was even at the extremity of life which left him between the houres of twelve and one of the same day being Tuesday the fifteenth of March 1635 6. to give an account of his Legation here below before not his Earthly but his Heavenly King The sudden death of this great Person for so it may be termed struck all that were present but his Kindred and Servants especially into great consternation of spirits not one having for some space of time a word to utter At last necessity so inforcing the Body was left to be decently layd forth and a retreat made by all them of his Chamber excepted to the Governours Quarter there to consider what was to be done In this consultation it was by the Relator shewed that whereas a scruteny into the things he had there with him was necessary to be made whereby due Inventary might be taken for the better satisfaction of those whom as neerest interessed it should rightly concerne There were Papers relating to his publike Negotiations into which no inspection was to be made but that they were to be lockt up apart and to be delivered onely into the hands of the principall Secretary of State in England This was by all thought meet and unto him as having been entrusted with the insight of them whilest he lived and who had also brought him the conferment of that honourable employment so happily effected they alone were not committed but likewise the managing of what was there further to be done In reference hereunto the Embalming of the body was first concluded next that an Advertisement should be made into England for Orders for the dispose therof And lastly the putting of his Traine into an Equipage suitable to the sad occasion in order wherunto as also for the reasons pre-alledged

then Duke of Sudermannia c. by them Parliamentarily Constituted Governour of Suethland is demonstrated The heads of the severall Letters which passed between that King and his said Uncle in that conjuncture and even when the Armies of both sides were in the Feild and in sight of each other are touched The Kings bad successe the accord ensuing between them with his Retreat into Poland contrary thereunto set forth Contents of their subsequent as well as preceding Acts of Parliament inserted Their renouncing of Fidelity and Subjection to him and his Heirs for ever with their exaltation of the forenamed Duke Charles unto his Nephews Throne manifested The Warrs thereupon between them with advantage to the Suethes and upon other intervenient occasions a Truce mediated and concluded for six years An. 1629. hinted That Truce neer expiring a second Treaty being set on foot An. 1634. for a finall Peace or longer Truce and the latter for six and twenty years assented unto by both Parties the year following the daily passages thereof are faithfully couched Lastly A breife Commemoration of the Ambassador who from England did Mediate that Truce A touch likewise of sundry as aforesayd Emergencies in Germany relating to Englands and the Protestant Interest there in those times not unnecessary for the better understanding of Passages referring as well to the sayd Treaty as to the Ambassadors Person and Death wherein sundry occurrences not usuall may be observed with a cursory mention of the now Raigning Princes of Suethland and Poland and the present posture of affiares in those Nations conclude the Triple Narrative SUETHLAND AND POLANDS TROVBLES Preceding Causing and Ensuing the Expulsion of King SIGISMUND the Third from the Crown of SUETHLAND The Rise of the WARS between Suethland and Poland THE Crown of Poland as also that of Suethland untill of latter Ages hath ever been and still is Elective and albeit not neer so ancient as the other in the Title of a King 〈…〉 yet at present not of consideration inferiour to most in Christendom the same being the only Bulwark in those parts against the incroaching power of the insulting Turk and his Blood-hound the numerous over-running Tartar Unto the time of Boleslaus sur-named Chrobrus that Country was governed somtimes by Dukes otherwhiles by Palatines But Otho the Third the Germane Emperour who in the year 997. first instituted the Colledge of Electors for the choice of future Successors to the Imperiall Crown after an expedition by him made into Italy undertaking a Journey into Poland to visite the Tomb of S. Adelbert and being there Magnificently received and entertained by the said Boleslaus in requitall therof and to tye him in the more strickt Bonds of Amity towards himself and the Roman Empire Of Duke stiled and Crowned him King of Poland about the year of Grace 1000. After whom the said Title continued by the space of 82. years unto the time of Vladislaus the first who abandoned the same using only that of Prince or Duke in which frame the Government remained for the term of 213. years at the end wherof Lescus Niger deceasing and the State distracted into divers Factions being for some time without a Prince the supream Rule was at last electively setled upon Primislaus surnam'd Posthumus who resumed the Title of King An. 1295. That Royall Title hath been ever since retained by his Successors yet not fully established untill the Raign of Casimir the second stiled the Great after whose death his Nephew Lewis King of Hungaria son to Charles King therof by Elizabeth Sister of the said Casimir succeeding electively to the Regall Chair of Poland deceased without Heirs Males and Mary eldest Daughter of the said Lewis being chosen Queen of Hungaria Heduigis the younger was elected to the Crown of Poland and married unto Jagello great Duke of Lithuania who in contemplation of the said Match and the Crown of Poland wherunto he was therby advanced became a Christian in the year 138● by the name of Vladislaus the fifth and wrought so with his Subjects the Lithuanians as that they also embraced the Christian Profession and likewise united his said Dutchy of Lithuania with Samogitia and that part of Roxo●ania which was under his obedience unto the Crown of Poland for ever To which three conditions he was obliged by the Articles of his Marriage The first was forth with the second soon after effected albeit not without reluctancy as may be conceived where a People is rooted and therby become obstinate in Idolatrie The third point the Union was yet more hard to compasse and took more time of deliberation neither was it fully accomplished untill of latter years For the Princes of the Race of Jagello who after him succeeded to the Crown of Poland being unwilling to deprive their Posterity of their Hereditary Estates and to submit the same to the election of the Polanders least being pre-termitted therin they might remain deprived of their ancient Patrimonicall Rights and Dignities deferred the fulfilling therof from one time to another alleadging that the States and people of Lithuania would not consent therto as apprehending future prejudice by that Conjunction But at last seeing that of the one side their Princes Males began to fail as they did in the time of Sigismundus Augustus and on the other part apprehending the power of the Russians and the renewing of former pretensions the Lithuanians condescended to the Union in the Raign of the said Sigismundus who procured that the Lithuanian Bishops the Palatines and a certain number of Castellans should have Session and Vote in the Parliaments of Poland at the election of their Kins and all other Priviledges which the Native Polonians have wherby the Rights of the Lithuanian Princes to their Patrimoniall Estates might seem secured It may be generally observed that in those Elective Kingdoms regard is had to the next in right line unless known to be unfit and unworthy of so great a Power as is apparent in Hungaria Bohemia and Suethland before the same became Hereditary in Denmark also and in Russia most usually and at present is and hath been practised in Germany since the time of Charles the fifth By virtue of this regard to the Progeny of well deserving Princes the Jagellonian Posterity hath continued successively elected to the Crown of Poland ever since his death about 137. years under the Raign of six Kings Viz. Vladislans the sixth his Son Casimir Son to the said Vladislans John Albert second Son of Casimir the elder being pre-termitted by reason of his embracing the Crowns of Hungaria and Bohemia Alexander the third Brother and these two dying without Issue Sigismund fourth Son of the said Casimir succeeded and to him his Son Sigismundus the second sur-named Augustus the last Prince of the Issue Male of Jagello who deceased about the year 1573. After him was chosen Henry of Valois Duke of Anjow second Son to Henry the second King of

first heat over-passe or that his main and much of businesse for such an inch of time at his first interviews diverted him That King understanding within few daies that some of the Enemies Forces intended an On-slaught into his Quarters or bound upon some other private if not the like designe gave order for two thousand Horse to be in a readinesse the next morning a sure signe that himself would command that party which was done accordingly and himself already in Coach the Lord Ambassadour then present who had discoursed with him of other Affaires being about to take leave moved the release of our Lievtenant Colonel but the King suddainly passionate gave him an answer so lofty and trenching upon his Master as might have been better spared and shall therfore be here omitted Nor was his Lordship wanting to reply in such a manner as became his Courage and like a person of honour representing his Prince As the great Gustavus was subject to flashes of passion which were the onely Clouds in his Hemisphere and therby would not seldome give offence so had he those speedy recollections the best badge of a good disposition as permitted him not to retain them but that present acknowledgment and satisfaction ensued as indeed it did here and so fully as was not little from a Prince succesfull and great in Armes and Renown which usually elate even most equally tempered Spirits But as the expressions that were distastfull so likewise the acknowledgment shall be here forborne there being the same reason for the one as the other Only this may be said that before he left the City he commanded our Duglass to be in larged The King being gone whither the Emergencies of his Affaires called him and no expectation of his return his Lordship who had as may be conceived improved his time for the delivery of what he had in charge resolved neither to follow nor expect him back but to repaire for England as he did soon after accompanied by the Lievtenant Colonel who for some time whilest at Englands Court was by his honourable Patron made known and recommended not only to the great Ones but to the King likewise The King of Suethen returning back to Noremberg and after severall accidents incident to War by the accession of a gallant Army consisting of six and twenty thousand fresh men conducted by the Reicks Chansellor Oxienstierne the two Brothers of Saxon Weymar the Landtgrave Will of Hessen and General Banier having re-inforced his own before Coopt up in a manner by the numerous powers of the Imperiallists did now range more at large and the Forces of both sides came so neer each other as they could not part without a Battell which was soon after fought neer unto a Town called Lutzen where the Imperiall Army commanded by the most Imperious Wallesteyn Duke of Friedland had the advantage of the ground w ch the Sueths were constrained to gain from them at push of Pike and had the better The Sun befriended neither party being all the morning as unwilling to behold that daies effusion of blood obscured by a Mist when 〈…〉 omenie another of the Austrian Generals brought to the imperialists relief two thousand fresh Horse the Riders all clad in hard Iron which the Royall Sueth perceiving taking with him a strong party he called to the Duke of Saxon Lawenburg saying Cosin let us charge those black men home for those are they will otherwise ruine us which himself did in person so vigorously by leading on his owne Troopes to the hottest dispute of that whole day as he brought Victory to his own side but purchased at a sad and dear rate even the life of that great Heroe On the Imperiall side beside many others was Felt Marshall Pappenheim Slaine one of the most esteemed Commanders amongst the Imperiall Generals and of the most honourable deportment toward those whom the chance of War did cast into his hands who is also said to have been fore-told that the King of Suethen and himself should fall both in one day Thus died the Renowed Gustavus of Suethen in the bed of Honour if he may be said to die whose Fame cannot His loss was for the present prudently concealed by the Cheiftains who were neerest to his fall amongst whom was Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar who that day gave a fair encrease to the glorious repute he afterwards constantly maintained and the Kings death by the great courage and gallant conduct of himself and the other Commanders who were then next unto the King was so well revenged as that the Suethes remained not only Masters of the Feild and of the dead bodies but likewise so dissipated the Forces of the Enemy as they could not in a long time recollect such another Army This Prince being thus taken away in his flower and strength of years it was a good space of time ere the neighbour Nations would beleive he was not still in the number of the living as if so great a person could not have moved hence but that like an universall Earth-quake he must have borne a whole World before him Reports were various according to the affections and disaffections of men to his Person and Greatnesse and it is truly affirmed that at the Court of England Wagers were layed of his being alive sundry months after the first news of his death But ere long it was confirmed that his great Soul having quitted the inclosure of his body had changed his Militancy here below for a Mansion more peaceable and Glorious above and had verified that saying of the Divine Spirit by the Kingly Prophet who having recorded that the great Ones of the World are Gods hath neverthelesse pronounced that they shall dye like men and that Princes shall fall as others The King of Bohemia did not long overlive the loss of this second Alexander but deceased soon after at Mentz His eldest Son Charles Lodowicke Prince Elector Palatine being then in Minority his Uncle the Duke of Simmern was by consent constituted Administrator of his right in the Palatinate The death of King Gustavus who whilest living had been the Head and Director General of the Protestant League in Germany and so entitled notwithstanding that his losse was alleuiated by Victory caused a great alteration in the affaires of that confedracy and in the Councells of the Princes thereof so that it behoved them to call a Dyet or Generall Assembly as they did soone after at Heylbrun in the Dukedome of Wertenberg consisting of foure Principall Circles of the Empire viz. the Franconian Suevian with the upper and lower Circles of the Rhyne there were personally present the Duke and the Administrator of Wirtenberg the Marquesse of Baden the Count of Hanaw with most of the seventeen Earles of the Wetteraw Lodowich Phillip Duke of Simmern Administrator of the Palatinate for his Nephew the Prince Elector Palatine then of under years had there foure

the inventarying of what he had there about him was resolved that so it might be seen by what Hinges these motions were to be made Order for the speedy Embalming was forth with given to the Physitian then present who by a prolix discourse in writing under his hand rendred his death Apoplecticall albeit by others not so believed and the day following the fore-named Master Baall was dispatched for England with Letters of information to the State with others also to Mr. Joseph Avery then Agent for the late King at Hamburg To those likewise at the Hague to whom it was meet and lastly to his honourable Friends and Relations particularly to the Earl of Ancram to whom he was Brother by the same Venter as well to give notice of the sorrowfull accident as to obtaine the more effectually and speedily such Orders as should be thought requisite for a further proceed intimation in that dispatch being given that the body so soon as Embalmed should by easie journeys be brought down to Hamburg there to expect the same Neither was it thought least worthy of care how to provide a Convoy to secure the body with what else there in such a journey and so broken times To obtaine the same Letters were sent that great Senator the Chancellour of Suethland Axell Oxenstierne who then was at a Town called Wismar not past two or three daies journey from Damin to whom the sad relation was therby given and fit convoy desired Others were likewise dispatched to his Servants remaining behind at Dantzig and to the Agent there to inform them of his decease and to desire their care over those things left in their Custody to be transported by Sea that they might be safely forth-coming to whom they should rightly appertaine These dispatches made an Inventary was exactly taken in the view of those fore-named Commanders and others as also of his own Servants and so much of money there found as was conceived might be necessary was delivered into the hands of Mr. George Ewin Steward to his late Lordship to provide and defray the Mournings with the Domestick and other incident Charges and to render account of the whole to whom the same should belong Soon after we received Letters from the Lord Chancellour Oxenstierne wherin he condoled the death of a person whom he had loved living and from whom his Prince and Country had formerly received faithfull Service and of late fair Offices in them was likewise shewed that he had appointed two Troops of Horse of the Regiment of the fore-mentioned Colonell Duglass to safe-guard the body to Hamburg with permission for the said Colonell to accompany the same according to his desire The Body being Embalmed the Servants cloathed in Mourning the Horses Coaches and Waggons Covered all over with black we set forth from Damin a sad Solemne sight The Garrison Officers with Sundry others Severall Commanders and Colonels as well of English as of his owne Nation who came thither on purpose to doe honour to the dead attended the Body a good distance of way without the Town and then returned the Governour with Colonel Duglass still accompanying the same When we were come within a League or two of Wismar where the Chancellor of Suethen then was the Corps was left to the Care of his other Servants and the Convoy whilest the forenamed Colonels Duglass and Coningham with this Relator and the Dutch fornamed Secretarie went thither to Salute and render thanks to that great Senator for his continued respects to our late Lord and Master not onely whilest living but likewise being dead which was acknowledged he had amply testifyed by appointing such a Convoy to secure his relickes and Sorrowfull Servants who by his loss were like Sheepe without a Shepheard from the insolencies and violences those distracted times might otherwise afford wherof a faithfull Report as by gratitude obliged should not faile to be made And that as it w 〈…〉 ot to be doubted but the King his Master would make a faire acceptance of that civill respect rendered to the remaines of one who in a matter of such concernment as the late Treatie had represented his Person So from the kindred and friends of the deceased his Exellency might expect a friendly retribution of respects in all such wayes as opportunity or his Exellencies Commands should inable them unto for his great humanitie expressed to the Ashes of a Relation so neer and deere unto them It was further shewed that it had been some sadnesse to our late Lord when upon his departure from Dantzig he understood that he could not be permitted to make a journey into Suethland as having no desire more earnest nor more prevalent with him then by word of mouth to have assured her Majesty of Suethen that he still retained the same zealous intentions for her Service which he had formerly for Sundry yeares with the hazard of his life and the losse of some bloud testifyed to her late Royall Father and that he had not so layd aside his Armes but that he would alwayes have been willing and had hope to resume them one day by her Majesties command and to employ them under her Standard That not onely those Gentlemen present of his kindred but all others likewise who knew ought of him and particularly we his Servants as having had the honour to be neere unto him in the course of his late Negotiation could subscribe to this truth Concluding that if on our parts who were but meane Persons uncapable of great undertakings there were ought wherein our Services might be acceptable in acknowledgment of his great care for our safetie we should account our selves highly honoured by his Excellencies Commands which as we would receive with all due respect so to our powers they should meet with a perfect obedience This Office of no more then fitting civility was well accepted by the Lord Chancellour Oxenstierne who returned a faire commemoration of the great abilities and endowments of the deceased Ambassadour of his Courage Integrity and discreet deportment whilest he lived in the Service of their late King and of his sincere and equitable carriage in the late weighty affaire He condoled his so soon death whose life he said might have been of good use to the world and that as they had received formerly proof of his affection toward their Crown and State so they should no way have doubted its continuance if his life had been longer continued But that since it had seemed good to the supream Moderator of al things to translate him from this Vale of misery to those Mansions into which troubles nor sorrow have no admittance all persons how neerly soever concerned in him ought to make an entire submission of their Wills to that All-wise Providence upon which he exhorted us to rely for comfort in our so great losse That he honoured his Majesty of Great Brittaine and should be glad if what he had done