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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

stand for her Majesties safety her good and welfare as well as for that of the Kingdome even to the danger of their lives and losse of their goods Provided that her Majesty when shee should attaine to perfect years and full possession of the Government of the Kingdome did secure unto them and the whole State whatsoever might concerne the maintaining of all their Lawes Liberties and Priviledges c. as the like had been done by former Kings especially by her late Royall Father and had by the State of the Kingdome been approved Secondly that if any Suethe or other subject to the Crown therof of what degree dignity or quality soever should refuse to subscribe and submit to this establishment or dare to oppose their present Act or seek to advance any other whether native or forraigner They did esteem and declare that party to be a member separated from their body an Enemy yea Traytor to the Kingdome and upon conviction of a Crime of that nature to be punished without mercy Thirdly They confirmed and ratified the Acts formerly concluded against King Sigismundus with his Children and Discendants and declared them to have no right or interest in the Crown of Suethland or any part of the Dominions or Jurisdictions therto belonging and that all their right and pretensions were lost void forfeit and in the lapse for ever And that if any Sueth or other person under that Crown should endeavour the admittance of any of the aforesaids into the Kingdome or to yeeld them any footing within the Jurisdictions or upon the Frontiers therof They would hold that person of what quality soever he were for a pernicious and hainous Traytor to them and to the whole State And upon perseverance therin should meet with the mercilesse punishment due to such a one And that whosoever should listen unto or harbour or lodge any such person without timely discovery unto Authority should be liable to the like punishment As also that the Orobrogian Acts of February 1617. against all such should remain as inviolable as if they were here Verbatim expressed And all Lords Judges and other Officers were to see execution and performance of the same as he would otherwise answer it at his perill Fourthly That they unanimously and deliberatly confirmed and renewed what had been formerly enacted concerning the Service of God and his Church by other Assemblies and Diets and did generally oblige themselves to remaine in the same Form Truth and Discipline of Religion according to the Revealed truth of Gods holy Word and the Articles of Christian Faith contained in the Apostolical Nicene and Athanasian Creed together with the Confession of Auspurg and as formerly concluded in the Counsell of Vssall Fifthly That in regard of the Queens under age and insufficiency therby to defend and govern the Realm by her owne self and ability They did unanimously desire and ordaine that his Majesties Decree and Ordinance concerning this matter formerly committed to the Counsell and Lords of the State for their judgment and the conceiving of a right Order therupon which had been also by them tendred unto and approved of by his Majesty but by reason of his suddain ●eath and other occasions impeding had not had its full effect notwithstanding their want of sundry necessary instructions and appurtenances which through straitnesse of time could not be inserted should be put in execution and performed for the good of the Realme by the five chief States and Officers therof Viz. 1. The Lord high Steward 2. Marshall 3. Admirall 4. Chancellour 5. Treasurer And in the absence of one or other or of any the eldest of the Counsell of State to supply the place And these five to govern the Kingdome of Suethen for her Majesty untill shee should have attained perfect years And they five or as aforesaid the eldest of the Counsell of Stockholme being of the same Colledge and Assembly supplying the place of any of them absent should have the Tuition of the Queen and should bear rule during her Minority and Nonage onely in her name and stead without prejudice to the Realm or State or violation or breach of the Lawes Rights and Priviledges therof And should for her Majesty powerfully maintain the five Brotherly Offices and State Ranks That is Court-right Counsell Counsell of War Admiralty Chancery and Treasury or Exchecquer according to the institution and establishment of former Kings and especially of their late King Gustavus the second And should to their power uphold and maintain the Rights Lawes Justice and Policy of Suethen Defend and protect the Realm with all the depencies theron so as they might conscientiously answer before God the Queen and the State when therunto called as those by Oath were therunto obliged So on the other side the Lords and Peers of the Realm did promise to yeild and perform unto those persons Selected as aforesaid all due respect honour obedience and submissive Subjection in whatsoever they should require and command tending to the Glory of Almighty God the good and welfare of the Queen of the State and Common-weale And that in case any person or persons should either in word or deed thwart and oppose the present proceeding and government They would withall their powers endeavour to suppresse such Insolencies punish the parties and constrain them to better obedience Sixthly They would to their utmost prosecute the War against the Emperor and Popish League in Germany which their King had sealed with his blood untill it should please Almighty God to settle a happy and desired Peace for the good of his Church As also the Kingdomes necessity so requiring whether by reason of their present Wars or of any new Enemies against their Queen and State they would with their lives and Fortunes maintain their Rights and Liberties and with their utmost abilities oppose all such as should confront or withstand their proceedings Seventhly That forasmuch as no Kingdome could subsist without meanes or War be rightly managed without great charges They did likewise thinke good that the Tolls and Customes should be continued for the good of the Kingdome in the same manner as then raised and received c. Moreover If the Germane War should continue Or if their Kingdome and Countrey should fasten upon some other War or trouble They did promise and oblige themselves that whensoever required by the Peeres States and Lords of the Realme They would with all their power and meanes stand and fight for the Religion Queen Kingdome and Liberties That in all the particulars before specified they were resolved and had unanimously generally and particularly in their owne and in the behalfe of their brethren present and absent as well unborne as borne freely and willingly consented agreed approved and concluded and therein sufficiently accorded and did promise as faithfull religious and true sincere meaning Subjects to performe the same They the Councell State c. of Sueden did underwrite and seale

not an honest man to fit his Cap with such a Crest he returned this answer That they who so upbraided and objected were to be blackt with the same Coale of calumny untill they had really proved that his actions were dissenting from his professions And that his performances should ever be such toward his Majesty and all other men as might become an honest Prince whose words and deeds were consentaneous That whereas his Majesty charged the Declaration by him delivered to the Electorall and Ducall Ambassadors who had interposed in that transaction of containing intollerable conditions hee referred unto the Acts themselves which he was perswaded would testifie otherwise That as to the Crimi nations couched in the answer he pretermits them as not being here competently urged but when things should come to be rightly discussed he would then make such reply as every honest man should acknowledge his allegations to be just That his Protest had no other meaning then that if the meanes for peace that had been should be tendred did not take effect and that Waves of discord should arise thence he desired to be excused before God and the World as being innocent thereof and that those onely who sowed and nourished the seeds of this dissention might be reputed guilty of its effects That the fidelity and obedience tendred by him to the King and his Heires never had been nor could be violated but preserved entire provided he might securely enjoy what of right he doth and ought to possesse Lastly that nothing on his part might be wanting as if equitable conditions for Peace and Concord were by him rejected he willingly consented to the meeting of so many honest men of the Equestriall and Military Order as his Majesty required with those that his Majesty should assigne for a full decision of all matters and that he wished for nothing more then to be admitted to a personal conference with his Majesty whereby he hoped to cleer himselfe to his Majesties satisfaction Duke Charles by his Commissioners sent also the Declaration ensuing whereunto he resolved to adhere constantly THat forasmuch as the Electorall and Ducall Ambassadors were departed whose subscriptions he had desired to the Letters of Assecuration of King Sigismund he thought not meet to trust to Paper and Inke onely but as a Pledge demanded the Fort of Elfenburg and the Vastenan Castle wherein he might place not his owne but his Majesties sworne Servants not disaffected to himself the Orders of the Kingdome who should there remain unto the end of the next ensuing Parliament If this were denied he desired he might retain the Navy with the Ammunition reserved in the Castle of Gripsholme untill the conclusion of that Assembly but if this also should not be consented unto then the Ships of War onely were to be insisted on And if that proposition were likewise rejected by the King those Senatorial persons formerly by him desired or three of them at least Viz. Ericke Sparre Gustavus Baner and Turo Bielke were to be required as pledges Lastly that his Majesty might understand his Highnesse had no other intentions then were conducing to Peace and Unity he would rest contented with his Majesties particular assecuration conditionally that therein were expresly inserted That the States of the Kingdome should be obliged to oppose and resist that side who attempted ought in prejudice of the Premisses BUt to the assecuration required by the Duke the seventeenth of September the King would not consent and in lieu thereof declared That whereas his beloved Uncle Duke Charles had promised obedience to him and his Heires and was by writing bound to remit into his hands his Kingdome Castles Townes Houses c. his Navy with all the Marine Provisions and Stores and all other things to him and the Crowne of Suethland belonging and to restore to liberty his Subjects with such of his Domesticks as he detained who should be neverthelesse obliged to answer all Objections in full and free Parliament as also to disband his Forces and retire into his Dukedom there to remain quietly and be ready with his Domesticks and Subjects against whom there should be cause of complaint to appeare in Judgment when all causes and controversies should be examined and decided in free Parliament before equall and sincere Arbitrators according to the assecutoriall Letters of his Highnesse given in that behalf He also had on the other part promised and secured and did by these his Leters Patents and on his Kingly faith and truth promise and secure that he would governe his Hereditary Kingdome according to his Oath and assecuration That he would dismisse his alien forces and not permit the intromission of any other except necessity did urge and the Duke and the States of the Kingdome were thereunto consenting Finally that all his sworne Servants whom the Duke had any way preferred in his absence should enjoy their former condition with all the Goods and Possessions committed unto them untill in the said Parliament the greivances his Majesty had against them were examined That moreover he would release all the Dukes Servants or his own who in the Dukes name and behalfe were in detention either within or without the Kingdome to be forth-coming as aforesaid To which end and that all Controversies and causes of complaint might be legally and justly heard and decided he would speedily indict a Parliament to be held within the space of foure months in which all things should be examined and judged before equall Arbitrators and Electorall and Ducall Ambassadors who should be thereunto invited In the meane time he promised not to permit violence or injustice to be offered to any of the Dukes Subjects Servants or followers of what condition soever nor to impeach or sentence any one for ought which by generall advice and consent had been concluded and enacted nor to forbid the defence thereof or to reject or persecute any who had adhered to his Highnesse nor permit any hinderance or stop to be given to his Highnesse or others whom he should send into any parts of the Kingdome untill that all things were decided in Parliament and that no further proceedings should be made then was in Parliament justly and legally pronounced That for the further security of the Premisses he had with his owne hand signed and sealed the same And consented that if beyond expectation it should happen that himselfe or his said Uncle should recede from or violate this agreement in the least The States of the Kingdome were impowred to resist and oppose the party violating Dated from Stegeburg the seventeenth of September 1598. Duke Charles not satisfied with this literary assecuration wrote back unto the King to the effect that notwithstanding all waies of application made by him for Peace indignation and a sinister construction of his actions encreased daily by instigation and counsell of perverse and turbulent men who had given beginning and continuance to this Tragedy so as

from pressing the same any further he only insisted earnestly that the said point of abrogating the stample might be inserted in the Regall Mandates for the calling of the next Parliament to be with the other heads considered of in their preparatoriall conventions or Land-dayes as t 〈…〉 y call them for choice of deputies that so the result might not be longer evaded by a Plea of ignorance or want of instruction touching the matter in question a thing usual amongst them and this also was largely promised The point which came to be discussed in the next place was the restitution of the Prussian Land-Seale to the Citie of Elbing after which the deduction of the army of the Suethes was handled Neither did it cause small contention for the Suethes required that their forces might have free passage into Pomerania through the Polish territorie they promising a strict observation of Military discipline the Commissioners of Poland would have them will they will they to depart as they came by Sea all arguments being used and no meane of compounding found it was by them referred to their Kings determination from whom they might expect an answere of their letters the next day The Mediators remained in the village that night to ease themselves their servants and horses of the daily travell The next day being the eleventh Congresse the Regall resolution was expected untill ten of the forenoon and not to lose time the foresaid difficulties being set apart the other Conditions were taken into discussion by either of the parties by reason that the King being gone to Dantzig it was conceived his resolution would hardly be brought in three daies The Articles for the free return of the exiled Suethes living in Poland into their native Country as also the restitution of their Goods movable and immovable were that day transacted concerning which the Curious are referred to the Articles of the Treaty Upon the day following which made the twelfth meeting the Mediators proceeded with the parties to the examination of the Conditions remaining which caused a new scruple with the Suethes by reason of an uncertain rumour that Duke Radzivill great Generall of Lithuania had lately upon the expiration of the first Truce made entrance into Leifland and taken certain places and Townes The Suethes who had concluded the Article about the retaining of Leifland according to the form of the former Treaty That each party should possesse the same during the Truce in the same manner he then possessed it desired of the Mediators that in regard the form aforesaid was in generall and obscure termes wherby they might sustain prejudice a clause might be added that if any places in Leisland had been taken of either side during the present Treaty they should be restored This restriction seemed strange unto the Poles yet affected them rather with laughter then anger they solemnly affirming that they were ignorant of what was done in Leifland and that they did not beleive the Duke to hav emade a progresse so advantageous as was vulgarly reported but alledged withall that the Conventions ware wholly repugnant to that clause and that what had once been concluded by agreement ought not to be altered that for them in case they had been so fortunate to restore those things they had obtained by a favourable chance of War would expose them to the scorne of all men The Mediators that they might make a timely remove of this rub remonstrated that forasmuch as the first prorogation of the Truce had beeen continued from the month of July to that present of August from time to time by the consent of parties it was no lesse to be understood for a cessation of hostility in Leifland then in Prussia and that they had ever beleived according as it had been reported unto them that Couriers had been from time to time dispatched into Leifland to that effect That if nothing but the truth were affirmed the request of the Suethes seemed unto them wholly consentaneous to reason and to the publike faith given so oftentimes reiterated and that they therfore earnestly intreated them not to go upon captious advantages shewing that they had been already enough and over-much troubled about the precedent differences The Commissioners of Poland being moved with these remonstrances yet having no power of themselves to dispose of the matter they referred it also to the King whose pleasure therin they desired to receive The other Articles were afterwards from noon to night throughly discussed and therein amongst other things the Polish Lords earnestly urged that the first condition of their side concerning a Treaty for perpetuall Peace during the present Truce to be appointed at a certain time and place as hath been before expressed might be included in the Acts of this Treaty with sundry other things formerly by them exhibited Lastly a Prorogation of the cessation was agreed unto for foure daies The meeting was resumed the day following being the 13th and therein the Commissioners of Suethland vigorously opposed the inserting of the foresaid Article into those of the present Treaty for Truce chiefly for this reason that the Treaty for a perpetuall Peace having been already deserted and in lieu therof this Negotiation of Truce undertaken they could not as then say ought therto and therfore seeing that their Commission of treating about the same was expired they could not admit of any particular mention therof in the Articles of the present Treaty nor prefix any place or time but added that forasmuch as they certainly knew their Queen would never be averse to such a Treaty they consented to a generall mention therof such as had been in the former Truce for the six years now expired This distinction being intimated to the Polanders they were somewhat chafed but his Lordship propounding that either the Duke of Courland or of Pomerania might be entreated to take the matter on them as Sollicitors or Intermediators their intervention was not unacceptable to those of Poland nor the addition made by the Suethes that in case the Treaty of perpetuall Peace should not succeed according to the generall wishes either at the first or so often as it should be undertaken the present Truce should notwithstanding remain firme and unviolable untill the end of the terme prefixed by these Articles The Kings answer concerning the three forespecified points to wit the Prussian Land-seal the way of Deduction for the Army of Suethes and the restitution of places if any taken in Leifland during the present Treaty was not yet come so as the Mediators being inforced to patience betook themselves to their severall Retreats The fourteenth meeting was now come but not the Kings answer in the meane time the Mediators endeavoured to agree that point of the deduction of the Army but could not The Polanders refused the same for these two reasons cheifly First that by granting it they should seeme willing to give way to the