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A47710	Memorable accidents, and unheard of transactions containing an accout of several strange events: as the deposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, dismal misfortunes, stratagems of war, perilous adventures, happy deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences, and select historical events, which have happened in several countries in this last age. Translated from the French, printed at Brussels in 1691. and dedicated to his present Majesty William King of England, &c. Published in English by B.B.	B. B.; Léonard, T.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1100A; ESTC R217274	108,650	193

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

safety in that of the Army The Poles by these losses and the escape of nine hundred Cossacks who by a more lucky Fate than that of their Fellows had broke through a neglected Quarter without opposition being much weakned and far unequal in strength to the Enemy and not daring to attempt another Fight without manifest danger of losing all they resolved upon a Retreat They had lost many of their Horses and more died daily for want of Forrage they were harassed with Duty and had no hope of Relief from Poland being Besieged by a Barbarous Enemy ready in their apprehensions to Storm their Camp every moment Their Provisions were short and no possibility of Supplies from without all the sides of their Camp being Invested so that it was impossible for them to subsist for want of Food in expectation of Succour from their own Country neither had the King by reason of the Interruption of the Passages received but one Letter from Zolkievius when it was too late wherein he gave him an account of his condition and how he had been unseasonably abandoned by some of the Army This was the State of Affairs in the Camp while the Enemy without lay close upon them and computing the distresses and disorders within by the Desertion of those that had left them they were much raised in their hopes despising all Proposals of quitting the place so that Sept. 22. the whole Turkish Army was drawn up before the Camp threatning a general Assault unless they instantly surrendred at discretion Next day they did the like and on the 26th the Galga or Prince of Tartary approaching near the Trenches was met by Duke Corecki upon Parole who proposed an excessive Ransom for himself and some few with him and descending to some particulars for Rendition of the Camp desiring only that the Souldiers might March away with their Swords the Tartarian left them with Scorn and Anger and clapping his Hand to his Scimiter bid them expect no other conditions than what the sharpness of that would afford them Zolkierius having throughly computed the State of his Affairs resolved to quit the Camp and having ordered all things accordingly which took up three days time being assisted in the Method of his Design by Martin Kasanowski an old Experienced Collonel Sept. 29. that part of the Wall through which the Camp was to pass being opened the Army about Sun-set began its March in the following Order On both sides a row of Waggons as it were chained together five hundred paces in length drawn by their Horses closed the Wings the Front consisting likewise of linked Waggons took up three hundred paces and the Rear being fenced with the like Barricado together with the outside of the Camp was fortified with Cannon The Wounded Sick Baggage and all the best Horses of the Army were placed in the midst while the Officers and Souldiers marched on the outside of the Camp with Colours flying and their Arms ready fixt to resist any Assault The Tartars observing this order of the Poles at first imagined they had drawn out to Fight but when they discerned the whole Camp to move and that no Man stirred out of his Rank they stood amazed at the Novelty and the Night approaching they durst only send out small parties to observe their motion and so they marched two Moldavish miles that Night without any disorder but what they received at the passage of a Lake which yet did not much incommode them since they were not eagerly pressed upon by the Enemy Sept. 30. Skinder Bassa assaulted the Camp on all sides with his united Forces but being repulsed with great loss they marched yet two Moldavish miles more that Night which is about Ten English miles Oct. 1. The Camp being Lodged near a great Pool continued there that whole Day and the Night following The Infidels galled them extreamly from the other side of the Water with their Shot and from the open side by their Skirmishing but were bravely repulsed with great slaughter of their Men. About Noon that Day they prepared for a fresh Assault but instead thereof sent a Trumpet to the Camp to demand their Turkish Interpreter that they might speak with him which being granted they only detained him making no attempt that Day Oct. 2. The Turks having viewed the Camp Stormed it with greater fury than ever and being repulsed returned fifteen times to the Assault The Courage of the Defendants increasing by their being able to resist it did not suffice them at length to make good their Station but they followed the flying Enemy a good distance from it taking in the pursuit two Colours and a piece of Cannon having killed multitudes of their Men. Towards Sun-set they began their March with their Shot 〈…〉 which must needs hinder their pace and yet they had advanced fifteen English miles before Morning The next day having gained the advantage of a Rivolet and heights of Ground they easily repressed the violence of the Enemy and took a Tartars Colours they also eluded an Ambuscade and continued their Journey that Night strengthning their Camp by the Neighbourhood of a River Skinder Bassa considering that by these Night Marches the Prey might slip out of his Hands and being sensible of the disgrace that would attend him to suffer it resolved to make an attempt with the hazard of his whole Army and consequently gave order for a general Assault But the Tartars not seeming so forward as he expected having already been so often rudely handled and pretending the great difficulty of the Design by reason of the posture of the Camp seated upon the advantage of a River whereby they would be able to bring more hands to the defence of those parts that were Assaultable The Inraged Bassa impatient of Arguments turned hastily to his Janisaries And are you also affrighted with the greatness of the danger said he And will you suffer this handful of Men to slip out of your hands for want of a vigorous attempt upon them But they cried out He should not reproach but Command them for nothing was terrible to them but the Anger of their General The rest of the Turks swayed by his example would be of the party prompted by an Ambition to do the Service with their own hands without the Assistance of the Tartars Armed with these Resolutions they Assaulted the Camp from all their Quarters and incited by a mixture of Shame and Fury broke in upon it in one place carrying Terror into the Bowels of the Christians notwithstanding all the resistance made against them all their former Disputes and Conflicts seemed but Sport to this The Turks hurried on by their Principle of Predestination added to a Zeal of Gratifying their General exposed their Lives without Discretion to preserve the Footing they had gained in the Camp doing more than Men in prosecuting the Advantage The Christians Armed with a Native Courage and more Inflamed by their Despair exceeded their Enemies for despising

Morning and ranging them in Battel strengthned both Wings with Forts made of his Waggons and Carriages closed together on all sides and filled with Foot and Cannon so that the Enemy could make no advantage of their numbers to infest their Flanks Skinder Bassa on the other side seeing the Order of the Christians drew his Army into a Line of Battel placing only the Turks Revolted Walachians and Transylvanians in view the Auxiliary Tartars being placed out of sight and commanded not to stir till a Signal was given them to move which should be when the Christians were Ingaged The Poles had indeed ordered their Reserves but by an over confidence advanced upon the Enemy without the Protection of their Forts contrary to the Generals Orders which the Turks observing the Tartars shewed themselves on the Right Wing and extending that way endeavoured to get between the Christians Camp and the Rear of their Army which obliged Zolkievius to oppose against them his Reserves The Fight was bloody and doubtful for two hours together but the main Battel of the Poles having no seconds by reason of the diversion of their Reserves to defend the Rear oppressed by the often repeated charges of the Enemies fresh Troops though keeping themselves on the Left Wing within the protection of their Forts yet were no longer able to sustain the force of those multitudes that swarmed around them they therefore faced about and breaking through those Squadrons of Tartars who had got between them and the Camp made their Retreat in reasonable good order the Barbarians being checked in their pursuit by the Forts above-mentioned which were still defended by the Poles That on the Right Wing was violently assaulted by the Enemy who killed three hundred of the Defendants and took four of their Field-pieces Neither had their success rested there but that the Christians valiantly advanced in this extremity with their best Troops to their relief obliging the Infidels after a hot dispute to a confused Retreat The Fort or Castle on the other Wing was left unattempted and Night coming on the Enemy after a kind of drawn Battel wherein there fell one thousand of theirs and about six hundred Christians retreated to their Tents That Night and the next day passed without any Action the Poles in the mean time consulted what to do in this Exigency but could not readily come to any determination during which a Report was spread about the Camp that the chief Officers designed to steal away from the Army which caused much disturbance till the generous assurances of their Leaders had composed their Spirits who vowed to live and dye with them Zolkierius proposed in Council that they should next day try the Fortune of another Battel wherein they might easily correct the Errors of the former Day and being now informed of their own and the Enemies strength they could better understand their advantages having hitherto failed more in Conduct than in Courage and if the Success should answer the Attempt they might then think of retiring towards the Confines of their own Country where they would be sure to meet with new Supplies for the further prosecution of the War The very mention of another Battel surprized many of the great Persons especially Alexander Kalinowski Duké Corecki and Nicholas Struse three of the most Eminent Lords in the Army who envying the Command of Zolkierius were the more apt to oppose his Advice especially in this juncture when they must bring their Lives to an apparent hazard They therefore absolutely declared against it and that there was no safety but in a sudden flight by vvhich means they might avoid Death or a Turkish Bondage vvhich vvas yet more Terrible And being resolved to put the Councils they had given in Execution that Night they took the first opportunity after the Watch vvas set to quit the Camp proposing to themselves that by the favour of the darkness they might get over the River Prut which covered the Rear of the Camp before the Enemy could take the alarm of their departure Gratian the Vayvod for whose preservation the War was undertaken went away with them and having by the number of their Train and Dependants made a considerable party they concluded themselves of Strength able by the advantage of the Night to break through all opposition There was a second Report spread in the Army that the General himself was gone likewise which carrying Terror with it the inferior Officers and Souldiers were upon preparation for the flight also whereof Zolkierius having speedy notice mounted on Horseback and caused many lighted Torches to be carried before him shewed himself to his Souldiers surrounded their Quarters spoke to every one he met and incouraged all with his presence and chearfulness He added That he could not be guilty of so nefarious a Treason as to desert fo many brave Men his fellow Souldiers that they had served too long under his Command to conceive their General capable of so wicked an Act as to sully all his Honour by so sordid a Retreat That for his part he had no other consideration for his Life but in order to their preservation and since some he must confess Eminent Persons had preferred their own Safety above all sense of Honour he was glad they were gone hoping they had carried away with them that Contagion of Cowardice which might have infected the whole Army He also would wish them a good Journey provided they would tell the King and such of their Friends as should inquire after them That they had Abandoned the Army and their General in the Plains of Cicora engaged against theirs and the Common Enemy of Christendom Though Zolkierius had harangued his Souldiers in such Terms as these and with a serene Countenance yet he could scarce compose the Minds of those who were disturbed with Terror and Fear and could not be obliged to return to their Duty till a sence of the danger of their Disobedience obliged them to it But they were wholly confirmed by the ill success of those Lords and others that had Deserted them who by their Ungenerous flight had hastened and not prevented their own Ruine for in passing the River which was rather rapid than deep many of them missing the Ford were overwhelmed in it Kalinowski himself perished in the Stream and such as got over were most of them knocked on the Head by the Tartars who Guarded that Post Gratian and his Moldavians being skilled in the passage and ways got clear off but being pursued by his ill Fate had the recompence of his Infamous flight rewarded upon him by the Treachery of his own Servants who murdered their Lord to possess themselves of what Treasure he had brought away with him The rest of the party after a vain attempt to pass the River not daring to Land on the other side wet weary and confounded with shame came back to the Camp which awhile before they had forsaken as desperate reposing now all their

their multitudes and resolving to Conquer or Dye they made a Charge upon those that had entred with a fury suitable to the circumstance of their Affairs and forcing the foremost back on their Fellows made them contribute to their own Disorders so that not being able to Rally they were repelled with a great Slaughter and having cleared themselves from this Storm they continued their March that Evening along the Banks of the River for three miles the Enemy Coasting them on the other side with an equal pace The Tartars having got before them Oct. 5. lay directly in their way but they having taken up a Resolution to surmount every difficulty and being grown Skilful in this kind of March broke through all the Resistance made against them though with some disorder in the Rear occasioned by the Fears of the Waggon-men which rendred them less exact and faithful i● their Charge but by the Valour and Conduct of Zemberg who commanded in that part the Enemy was Repulsed and the Disorder being Regulated they Marched two Miles that Day They still continued to advance and like a Wedge of Iron divided their passage through the numerous Squadrons of the Turks who clouded their very sight with their showers of Shot and Arrows but since they could make no Impression upon them they burnt up and destroyed all their Grass and Forrage in the way whereby they were extreamly incommodated and by reason whereof and their often Skirmishing they were able to March but one Moldavish Mile a Day The Poles still followed the Banks of the River Tire with a design to gain Mokilow a safe Retreat after their tedious March They were constrained to avoid the nearest way thither as Mountainous and Boggy besides great Woods in it which would obstruct them in the manner of their motion chusing for the sake of a more even passage to go about by such a way as brought them within a mile of their desired Harbour The Camp was in perfect order and the Enemy tired with the repetition of their fruitless Attempts and Labours had forborn to press upon them being content to wait their motion with a few Scouts only The Poles about the Evening of this seventh Day of their March continued their Journey according to their former Method and meeting in their way some Barns Stored with great quantities of Hay and Corn many of them but without Order run to the Bait to supply themselves with Provisions for their well nigh starved Horses In the mean time the Van of the Camp began to March without calling in their Forragers or giving notice as they ought and used to the Rear of their motion The Rear for want of the accustomed Sign being thus separated from the Main Body was seized on by a sudden Horror and Pannick Fear which having affected some was like Wild-fire spread through all Their apprehensions were various but all upon the account of fear heightned by the darkness and imaginary noises concluding the Van was cut off and that the Sword was at their Throats The same Plague being carried over the rest of the Army infected the whole in a moment with its Contagion whereupon the Carters Waggon-men Paddees and Servants imployed about the Carriages unlosed the Horses to save themselves by flight upon them so that the whole Fabrick and Machine of the Camp being dissolved they could move no further There was yet another cause that contributed to this Evil Upon the departure of Gratian and other Fugitives from the Camp of Cicora the Rascality of the Army with a mixture of Souldiers Robbed and Plundered their Tents and Lodgings but being got on the Banks of the River Tire they began to speak of it and Koninkspolski the Lieutenant-General had that very Evening very Imprudently uttered some threatning expressions about it The number of the Guilty being many they began to think of their proper safety and the avoiding that punishment which if they stood to it would fall upon them they therefore in great numbers fled away from their Friends as well as from their Foes These Wretches having begun a Tumult upon this occasion it was seconded by the dividing of the Camp as is before declared The confusion was so great that Zolkievius and the chief Officers about him could not be heard the variety of noises with the apprehension of the danger and the darkness of the Night rendring the Army deaf to all his Commands and Orders The Tartars being advertised by their Scouts of these Disorders and Tumults failed not to hasten thither and catching hold of the advantage given them by the Poles prepared to it by their own fears fell in among them with Shouts and Terrors Zolkievius had commanded that for the better safety of the Quarters and incouraging of the Souldiers That all Men should quit their Horses and March on Foot wherein himself was the first Example which was the Reason that so many of the chief Commanders fell and were taken in that Encounter for when the Rout was become so Universal that all Resistance was to no purpose they perished upon the place for want of Horses to carry them off except such as escaped by swimming and so got away Zolkievius's Son with his Nephew and Strusius the two former being weak of their Wounds and forsaken by their Coachman were made Prisoners and presented to the Tartarian Galga Zolkievius had before taken an eternal farewel of his Son and then having made a short confession of his Sins was lost in the confusion and found dead next morning upon the Skirts of the Camp Some say he caused himself to be killed by one of his Followers a Cossack chusing rather to perish with his Army than fall into the Enemies hands or survive his own Glory but the Wounds in his Sword-hand on his Face and Breast and a Tartarian laid Dead along by him seem to declare that he dyed Fighting Skinder Bassa caused his Head to be cut off and fixed upon a Pike exposing it for that day to the view of the whole Army and afterward to be sent to the Signior his Master as a Testimony of his Victory The Lieutenant General Corecki the young Zolkievius with the other Prisoners of Quality were sent to Constantinople where after three years Imprisonment they were Ransomed and returned to their own Country and thus like a Ship after a long Voyage sunk in the Harbour Zolkievius having through all the accidents of his Life proceeded regularly from the Quality of a private Souldier to the Supream command of an Army was raised by his own Virtue to those Honours which rendred him eminent in those parts of the World neither was there any thing wanting to compleat his Glory besides the success of this Unfortunate Retreat which was reduced to that point that there wanted but one hour to render him eminent among the most Illustrious Captains of Antiquity It is held on all hands that the most difficult part of Military Service is a Retreat and it