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A08154	Nevves from Turkie and Poland. Or A true and compendious declaration of the proceedings betweene the great Turke, and his Maiestie of Poland, from the beginning of the warres, vntill the latter end VVith a relation of their daily millitary actions; shewing plainly how the warre continued and ended, peace was concluded, the troubles appeased, the articles of agreement confirmed, and a full league of amity ratified. Translated out of a Latine copie, written by a gentleman of quality, who was an actor in all the businesse: and now with his consent published.		1622 (1622)	STC 18507.36; ESTC S118695	25,539	54

the purpose and the rage and fury of our Enemies nor ended it so but for his Glories sake wee preuailed with a great slaughter and little losse on our side So that it should seeme all their threatning and fury was in vaine concerning the attempting of our Trenches and the Angels of the Lord spred his winges ouer our Tents On the other side our Souldiers were so couragious and animated as infused with new Spirits from the same God that they not onely rushed out of the portes and passages of their Quarters vpon their Enemies but hurried ouer the Trenches and Ditches to forward the enterprise and so came to handiblowes and with extraordinary valour and slaughter sent them home againe In this Skirmish we did not altogether goe scot-free but saw the perishing of thousands of Turkes and Tartars whose Carkasses bespred the ground as it were and among whome there perished the great Bashaw surnamed Koraken who newly came to the Emperour and was most deare vnto him and well accepted of him the same Fate and triall had Nassan Bassaw with many Chawses and Spahies and a number vnnumbred of common Souldiers After this slaughter the Turkes attempted no more the expugnation of our Campe except that once they did inuade the quarter of the Cossacks but with the like successe yet many times they brought out their Armies to open view and as many times God of his mercy made way to our preuailings and wee returned Victors The same day the Bridge was finished which they had a while agoe begun ouer the Riuer that diuided their Campes but to what purpose is not knowne except to accommodate their passages the better now also returned the Lord Siclentius who had bin sent into the Palatinate of Moldauia with answer to a Letter which they sent before but what other newes he brought is not apparant It was also discouered that a rumour was spred into the Turkes campe that the Sacred Maiesty of Sigismond the King our Master was come into the Field with a Royall supply and generall expedition which a little affrighted the Tartars who were now to fight against fortifications and Armed men contrary to their barbarous custome of deuouring one another naked The 17. of September our great Lord Generall held a martiall Counsell with the Lord Senators Dukes Gouernors and Captaines to which were also called the Lord Sahaidace Generall of the Cossackes with all his Colonels and Officers who with one voyce and vnanimity of Spirit concluded and agreed rather to die manfully in the field then to goe backe one foot of ground to giue the Enemy cause of presumption and this was done with such generall alacrity that although both the Armies I meane the Polonians and Cossacks were in great distresse and wants yet they concluded that by Gods grace they would not be terrefied with any Enemy The 18. of September certaine troopes of horse and Companies of foot made a salley out of the Cossacks quarter in the night vpon the Turkes Army which was done so secretly and suddenly that they ouer-turned many Tents ransacked diuers Cabins and killed some hundreds of men with Iauelings Pollaxes and Launces without the report of a Peece or carrying any Artillery with them yea herein they were so fortunate that they returned with great spoile without the losse of a man The next night they performed as much and with the like stratagem set vpon the Bridge they had newly builded erected and slew Corkan Bassaw to whose custody and charge it was committed They also killed many Turks tooke nine prisoners and returned with great spoiles and a rich prey wherein were diuers garments furred with costly Furres which I thinke the Turkes vse among the Tartars who vpon many excursions made into Russia by thousand● in these dayes returned with a wonderfull spoile selling them at a price to the Turks and this was done euen as they came along to take vp their lodgings in these Prouinces At this time his Excellency the Lord Generall was subiect to a great sicknesse which so impaired his health that he feared his life wherevpon he summoned all Officers and referred his gouernment to the Lord Campe Master Generall with all Millitary priuiledges and imperiall functions inuesting vpon him as farre as he could his dignity and authority yet were the whole Army desirous to see the heroick Prince himselfe mounted on horse-backe as their Commaunder Generall though as yet very young so that by this ioy and good mindes of the Army he was much comforted and incited to thanke them all and be the more gracious vnto them when time should serue The 24. of September hauing layne quiet a great while an accident at home disquieted vs all For our great Lord Generall labouring long in his sicknesse and being wearied and spent againe with intollerable convulsions and distemperature of the ayre yeelded to the commaund of a higher Generall and so died in the Camp The 25. of September the Emperour of Turks made a great preperation to set vpon vs on all sides drawing out from their seuerall Quarters both Horse Foot and Artillery to oppresse and expugne vs with an vnresistable power and so they approached our Trenches with accustomed clamours and out-cries but the same God that kept vs from the beginning continued still our Protector and all their attempts were annihilated turning rather to the destruction of many of their owne Souldiers then to our detriment The 26. of September Baptista was dispatched who was sent vnto vs from the Palatine of Moldauia with Letters and other intelligence hee came but the Tuesday before with the Lord of Zielenskij who assured vs that the Turkes had a great desire to treat of a peace and therefore Baptista had in charge to deale with the Viceer for safe conduct of such Commissioners as might be sent to tractate about the peace and quietnesse of both Armies Within three dayes our Souldiers set vpon some part of the Tartars Quarter as being much displeased that the passages were stopped vp by them whereby the Souldiers that went a forraging and to gather fodder and litter for their Horses were much diappointed so that in reuenge they put many to the sword and set their Quarter on fire The 27. of September the Turkes hauing strongly mounted diuers great Peeces and placed their Gabbions about them as is the custome played fearefully into the Cossacks Quarter and spent all the fore-noone in the sending hundreds of Bullets among them but when they perceiued that it smally auailed they desisted and made a new attempt in their owne persons neerer vnto them which when the Cossacks perceiued either loath to be out-braued at their owne walls as I may say or encouraged by the thriuings of many out-roades and excursions they had formerly made or emboldned by their owne sufficiency or presuming on the weaknesse and nakednesse of their Aduersaries I might adde their barbarous hastinesse and bestiall howlings and out-cries they sallyed out brauely with the

most part of their Army and compulsed them backe driuing them into their Quarters with a great slaughter and a great speedinesse and the same day to the comfort of vs all our noble Prince whose long vntimely sicknesse as it were sadded our hearts recouered some strength riding round about the Army being entertained with great showts and acclamations of the Souldiers and shewing in himselfe apparant signes of recouery as hauing layne vnder the shakings of a fearefull Ague almost euer since wee encamped our selues to whom the King did daily send Physicians and Messengers and would willingly haue come himselfe in person but that all his Peeres and Counsailours would not hazard all at once considering what a formidable Enemy had threatned him and fearefull preperation in a manner circumcepted him therefore they proiected to keepe him as a second and that securely that if the Turkes should preuaile which God forbid against these Forces well ordered and marshalled within these Trenches there might yet a new Muster be made and Army trayned whom the presence of a King and worthinesse of so great a Commander might bring together and set vpon the Triumpher with fresh supplies But oh thou God! What an alteration was here He that threatned these Polonians with insulting ostentation by Ambassies Letters and an innumerable company of Mahumetans and Tartarians he that had denounced defiance against all Christendome he that had spoken presumptuous words against any force should come by way of opposition he that aduentured his person as farre as his greatnesse might descend to be a Spectator of this wofull Tragedy wherein the ministers of Warre and destruction must play their parts and he which had brought one hundred cast Peeces into the field to batter all fortifications into rubbish had now an answere returned of strange contradiction had now his threats retorted with as auaileable menaces had now his rages sent backe againe with vnexpected fury had now his presumption rebated with as noble a defiance had now his way blocked vp and intercepted that hee could not so quickly come ouer Pallisados and Trenches had now Cannon to Cannon battery to battery and though not so many as himselfe brought yet so well appointed and so efficatious in the designes that hee was not so forward in his glory as he determined nor so furious in any execution as hee promised Nay if it had beene as well knowne to vs as himselfe he repented that euer he came into the fields of Walachia and as you shall heare hereafter both retracted his first arrogancy and whispered a peace though hee durst not speake it aloud for feare of the Ianizaries But oh you sonnes of men what say you to rumour and the credulity of vncertaine reports what say you to passion and the disordered burstings out of your owne wishes What say you to affrightings that because you heare of the greater numbers will therefore presently shew the greater partiality How often within this twelue moneth hath Bogdonia beene ransacked Podolia distressed Polonia ouer-runne Sigismond slaine and the Army discomfited and yet thanks be to God the trenches were neuer cast downe the Souldiers disarmed the troopes slaughtred the King in danger For he was scarce in the field at all or any fearefull losse endured more then they that must be lost in so many conflicts and such impetuous assaults and thus much by way of transition Now to our businesse againe The same night that the Prince had shewed himselfe the day before the Cossacks being set vpon as you haue heard suddenly assaulted the Quarter of their enemies especially the Tartars who lay without any manner of discipline or strong fortifications yea this they did twice in one night and that with such successe that besides the slaughter and hauock they made they returned with great spoiles and booty yea greater then the Enemy could spare or were willing to loose this they did often and although sometimes their actions were obumbrated with some discomfiture yet did they neuer make any salley without the greater slaughter of their Enemies Now is Baptista come backe againe from the Enemies Campe bringing Letters from Vesin Bassha of safe conduct and admission as he himselfe had had experience by himselfe for such Commissioners as the King of Poland would put in trust for the dispatch of so high affaires yea he said plainly as farre as he could coniecture that neuer was any thing so pleasing to the Turke and his Souldiers as the name of peace considering the times and the manner of the Warre especially that his reputation was saued by the first seeking it by the Polonians wherein he vsed this pollicy to make the Ianizaries beleeue he was of himselfe vnwilling to darken the glory of the Othoman family by demanding peace himselfe at any inferiour Nation in the world Notwithstanding all this motiue of quietnesse which Baptistas Letters demonstrated might come to equall conclusion by orderly Commissioners The Grand Signieur proiected with all the force brauery and pollicy he could to set vpon the Cossacks againe who were his Auncestors Enemies and more obnoxious vnto him then any neighbours whatsoeuer and because he would make as it were sure worke of the matter hee acquainted Tartar Chrim who they say accompanied him to the Warre with the same and he either of necessity obeying or out of custome consenting or for his owne reuenges willing quickly accord and by breake of day brought all his Tartars to the place appointed for the expugnation whereupon they ordered the matter so that in the manner of a ring they compassed our Trenches round about first playing ouer their heads into our Camps with many great Ordnance which were mounted in three seuerall places then transported they ouer the Riuer thirty more which continually beat both vpon ours the Lissauonians and the Cossacks Tents and that for the space of diuers houres sending likewise fiery Speares burning Darts and sulphury Balls amongst vs insomuch that our Prince lying yet sicke in his Tent had the Captaine of his Guard slaine with a Bullet Among the Lissauonians three of the best men of Armes were killed outright and among the Cossacks one or two hurt After this with strange assaults and fearefull violence they pressed vpon the two speciall passages of our Camp whereat the one stood firme the Lord Campe Master Generall with a great and strong Battalion at the other the Lord Palatine Culmensis in the Market-place the Lord Doenhoff with many Germanes in a word wee were all in Armes and the Cannons played on both sides as farre as they could for hurting those in their owne Quarters at last on a suddaine with accustomed cry the Tartars gaue on and were ready to scale the Trenches enter in at the Ports Then followed the Ianizaries as their seconds and lastly the Spahies and Chawses on Horsebacke who by their brauery made themselues sure of the entrance for the truth is we gaue ground and lost many men For they pressed so

in great companies assaulted our Bulwarkes which were yet vnperfected and lay somewhat naked to opposition ascending the same and taking as it were possession but with equall losse as it appeared for the time vntill the noble Lord Steward of the Kingdome who came there by chance with his troope of Horse set vpon them most valiantly and by the assistance of the Lord Castellano Plocen and P. Radomina put them off the walls to a fore-flight as farre as the wood scited euen before the Turkes Campe whether they followed them in the slaughter as for such Turkes as at first dared to approach our Trenches and scale our Mounts they all perished vpon them we not loosing aboue twelue men of Armes in that seruice with some few other hurt except Castellanus Plocen who with many wounds returned and died the next day But the assault against the Cossacks endured from noone to night ours onely lasted from the after-noone to Sunne setting yet both continued with so fearefull effects that the multitude of the slaughtred was apparant and the Enemies carkasses lay in heapes in the fields Yea it was remarkeable how all that night the Turks made a search with lighted fire-brands and other Lamps for some person of account amongst the dead bodies which as some of their owne fugitiues affirmed was one of the Viceer Bassas who was missing and could not be found The eighth of September there escaped out of the Turkes hands a Cossack who had long laine in fetters he came to vs by night and tolde vs plainely that the Turkes had loaden many Cammels with the encumbrances of the Army and furnished the cariage Horses as if they meant to make some retreat notwithstanding the same day very inconsiderately they came vpon the Cossacks againe who by the helpe of the Germanes now amongst them both defended themselues and offended their Enemies for here were braue Commaunders partly vnder the Regiment and conduct of Captaine Drhusoff partly vnder Captaine Lermund and of the other side in the right wing there were the Cohorts of his Excellency the Lord Palatine The same day Schandactus cut off by the sword according to the manner and custome of a Military Court who adiudged him to die a principall Captaine of the Cossacks called Brondanka who the yeare before had abused his prerogatiue and most peruersly by factious deuises and apparant thefts had transcended the gouernment of a Commaunder in chiefe and falne to thefts and robberies more then necessity or the present wants enforced The same day a certaine Squire escaped out of the hands of the Turkes who was vnfortunately taken prisoner at a battaile in Cicora and came vnto vs affirming confidently that since the Turkes comming into the field there are diminished at least twelue thousand of their number some slaine out-right some dying of their woundes some surprised in the Campe and some flying away The ninth of September the great Turke after noone drew out all his Army in battaile array which Lord Magnus our Generall perceiuing detracted no time but prepared for the fight so that both Armies euen to Sunne setting stood looking vpon one another without any mans giuing the signe of the battaile not daring to approach too neere the fortifications and Bulwarkes of our Trenches but stood as remote as they could and farthest from danger In the meane while the Ianizaries fell foule vpon the quarter of the Cossacks againe and continued little lesse then foure houres in a dangerous skirmish For the Germanes playing their part on the other side as assisting the Cossacks in their Warre-like excursions quickly when they pressed them with fury and impetuosity compelled them backe to their Campe and wee returned to our Trenches But the same night another prisoner escaped and came vnto vs affirming that of the Spahies who were the forwardest in this expugnation as so commaunded by the Captaine of the Ianizaries lost two hundred of their Company and of the Ianizaries were slaine with such as perished in the flight 1500. The tenth of September the Turkes were somewhat quiet as peraduenture wearied with the former dayes mischiefe and we farre apparant the various chances of Warre and the wonderfull essects of a Battaile The eleuenth of September the Turkes made a new apparance out of their Tents with a goodly Army and wee were not behinde to Marshall our Companies to as braue a show but nothing was done that day and so wee returned on all sides to lodging yet while wee remained in this expectation the Turkes had transported their Ordnance to the other side of the Riuer from whence hee played continually into the quarters of the Cossacks all that day but when hee saw they did them no more harme hee quickly drew them backe againe and placed them more securely The same day some thousands of Tartars shewed themselues on that side of the Riuer also who with their accustomed clamours and out-cry attempted the breaking of our Bridge but onely two hundred foot whereof one was killed and two hurt with Bullet pressed vpon them with such volleyes of shot that they were quickly put to flight God graunt wee may be thankfull for these things For without controuersie Gods onely hand hath protected vs that both on the one side the Turke is more remisse then his former threatnings and this present appearance promised and we on the other side we haue had greater courages and better successe then wee could any manner of way expect The twelfth of September a little after midnight wee determined to set vpon the Campe of our Aduersaries leauing our noble Prince sufficiently guarded within the Trenches as not well at ease and so the Army deuided it selfe into parts hauing instructions to come vpon them vnawares the one to compasse the Woods and set vpon them in the reare and at their backes the other to out-face them in the front and sides that something might be done euery way But it pleased God to send so great a shower of raine that wee were diuerted from our purposes at this time but I make no question of a better opportunity and that our Aduersaries little knew of this proiect and so wee may once againe see the stratagem on foot till when wee retired to our Trenches securely The 15. of September the Turkes and Tartars with a great resolution and impetuous assault pressed both vpon vs and the Cossacks in three seuerall partes neither fearing our Artillery nor making accompt of our Trenches the great Turke himselfe being a spectator on an eminent Hill whose youth apprehended the mischiefe but as a sport For without any manner of remorce for the perishing of so many thousands they came forward like furious beasts without Discipline or order and so perished like Beasts when the Artillery played vpon them and wee rushed out as violently well armed and appointed in the smoake against them this Battaile lasted from Noone to Night and the God of Battailes for his mercy sake did frustrate and annihilate both