His laudable beginnings by dessention and mutuall supplantings changing to worse he prepared by craft to have surprised Lubecke but in vain for suffering Shipwrack on the Suethish shoar he was necessitated to quit the design of attempting upon the Vandalian Cities His libidinous desires were by divine Justice punished with Famine and a Plague through the Kingdom himself having lost by Sea the treasure he exported from Suethen deceased in Denmark without Issue An. 1448. Carolus Canutus the Governor forenamed after a vacancy of some years albeit not of the chiefest of the Nobility was by the great Ones who disdained an extraneous Yoak Crowned King An. 1458. He subdued the Norwegians and sorely vexed the Danes then waging War The people moved by the insolency of his Commanders the Arch-bishop of Vbsall sounding the All-arme make insurrection and whilest Charls retired to Dantzig to crave aid of the Polish King they call in and Crown Christierne of Denmark In the mean time Catillus Nephew to the Arch-bishop Prelate of Lincopia turning Souldier gathers Forces from severall parts of the Countrey and expels all that favoured Christierne and having defeated himself in a memorable Battell given upon the Ice he recalled Charles out of Prussia who recovered the favour of the people and placed over them more mild Governors and finally full of Honour both for his Vertues and his Raign deceased An. 1470. After Charls some place the fore-mentioned Christierne called in by a Faction of the Suethes but soon again ejected and the Kingdom governed for a time by Marshals yet he by promises drew the Norwegians to his subjection After him his Son John King of Denmark and Norway in An. 1458. was received say they by the Suethes whom the Russians then overpowred but their turn served they forthwith expelled him returning to their former Government by Marshals And lastly they name Christierne the second the Son of John But Johannes Magnus omitting the three last named whom he esteems but as Usurpers or Kings of a factious Party accounts of none but of the three following who ruled under the notion of Princes only Steno Sture Sisters Son to the forenamed Charles having totally routed Christierne the first who had brought a Navy and an Army to the Gate of Stockholme compelled him to desist from attempting upon Suethen all his time He likewise repressed his Son John who had entred the Kingdom and was Crowned by faction at such a time when as Suethland was infested by the Russians and that Emulation had sprung up between Steno and Suanto Afterwards conducting the Queen of Denmark whom he had taken into Smaland to her Husband King John at a Feast he contracted sickness wherof he died in the year 1503. and of his Government the thirtieth A man of most eminent Vertues yet by this the more eminent in that he refused the Diadem when offered unto him Suanto Prince of the Ostro-gothes a Counsellour of the Kingdom was constituted Prince or Governor of Suethland He confederating with the Lubeckers waged War with Christierne the second the Son of John who seemed to be now desired by many against whom whilst he made greater preparations he departed this life An. 1512. and of his rule the eight A man endowed with most choice Vertues liberall and free from praevious severity Steno Sture the younger the Son of Suanto prudently evaded the Traps and Snares of Christierne the second by sending Gaddus Bishop of Lincopia and Gustavus Erickson to the Parly desired by the Dane But whilst he valiantly opposed Christierne who had invaded Suethen with a new Army he was in a most violent conflict slain with a great shot and the Suethes being by his fall discomfited Christierne was received by the Nobles of the Danish Faction and Crowned and on his very Coronation day and Feast beheaded the chief of the Nobility whom he conceived to be averse unto him for which outrageous cruelty he was expelled the Kingdom the first month of his Raign being in the year 1520. But let it not seem tedious that here be inserted what that excellent Historiographer Thuanus hath written more fully concerning these three forementioned Danish Kings Christierne the first John his Son Christierne the second the Son of John who had each by faction or otherwise been Crowned over Suethland Christierne the first the Stock of the ancient Regall Race of Denmark being extinct was from the Earldom of Oldenburg advanced to the Scepter of Denmark by the Suffrages of that Kingdoms Senators but chiefly by the recommendation of his Uncle Adolphus Duke of Holstein Sedition arising in Suethland and Carolus Canutus their King being forced to withdraw himself Christierne was called in by the faction of John Benedict Arch-bishop of Vbsall and constituted King from thence came the Danish pretensions to the Crown of Suethland John his Father being dead held the Kingdom of Denmark thirty and two years and he also Steno the elder who had succeeded his Uncle Canutus being rejected was by the tumultuous Gothes elected King but soon after driven out and being in many Battels defeated by Suanto who through the favour of Heningius Gaddus the stout Lincopian Prelate was substituted to Steno he betook himself into Denmark Suanto dying in the City of Arosia a Prince of so eminent Vertues as not to be equalised by many his Son Steno Sture the younger after many contentions as being opposed by Ericus Trollus of the Danish faction was by the Senators of the Kingdom the fresh memory of his Fathers merits prevailing ordained King Two years after the death of Suanto Christierne the second succeeding his Father John in Denmark resolved to pursue by Armes the revenge of those great defeats his Father had sustained and the pretensions of right to the Crown of Suethland which he derived by succession from his Father and Grand-father Steno being as he thought confirmed in the Kingdom became corrupted by the counsel of flatterers doing many things amiss and the minds of the Peers being alienated from him he lost liewise the love of many of the people The Dane observing this and conceiving it to be very advantageous to his pretences raiseth a great Army and therwith begirt Stocholme the Regall City yet upon the approach of Steno he raised the Siege But when by reason of contrary winds he could not in three moneths time transport his Forces back being oppressed with extream want of all things from Steno who endeavoured to merit and obtain his friendship he received supply and permission to retire securely with his Army into Denmark This exceeding humanity the Dane recompenced four years after with as great and detestable ingratitude and treachery For pretending to a Parly with Steno when but little wanted that he unwarily had adventured his person into his Enemies Ship he finding himself frustrate of that hope carried away Gaddus and Gustavus Erickson sent by Steno to treat with him Prisoners into Denmark contrary to
should be translated from this Vale of misery to the Mansions of Eternity his eldest Son should sway the Scepter and after him his first-born and so that whole Line successively And that if it should so happen that the eldest Son should depart this life without heirs Males then the second Son of this great and good Gustavus should ascend the Royall Chair wherin also his lawfull Male Issue was to succeed so long as any of them should survive but the Male Posterity of the second likewise failing the third and in the like case the fourth of the Gustavian Virill Race were in the same manner to inherit according to the Prescript tenour of that Act wherunto the curious are referred There have been the more particularities used in setting down the last Will and Testament of this deserving Prince because we are now entring as it were upon the Threshold of those differences that for so many years caused a vast expence of blood and Inundations of other Miseries between the two flourishing Kingdoms of Suethen and Poland and the rather because as the Suethes affirm the breach of most if not of all the heads of this Testament gave begining to those differences by causing the expulsion of his Grand child Sigismundus King of Poland with his whole Posterity for ever from the Crown of Suethland which also gave birth to the promised Treaty of Pacification This Royall Gustavus Erickson of whom it may be said that to his Subjects he was like a second Titus the delight of man-kind after thirty eight years of a most laudable Raign changed the same for one more glorious upon the third of the Calends of October 1560. By Catharine Daughter of Magnus Duke of Saxony he had Ericke who succeeded him in the Kingdom His next Consort was Margaret the Daughter of Ericke Abraham of Loholme Knight Governour of the Westro-gothes who brought unto him John Duke of Finland afterwards King of Suethland Katherine whom he married to Echardus Earl of Frizeland Cecilia who espoused Christopher Marquess of Baden Magnus Duke of the Ostro-gothes Steno who died a Child Anna wedded to George Joannes Count Palatine of Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria Charles who forthwith deceased Sophia married to Magnus Duke of Saxony Elizabeth Wife unto Christopher Duke of Meckleburg and Charles Duke of Sudermannia Nericia Wermelandia his last Wife was Catharina daughter to Gustavus Olaus of Torpa Gouernour of Westro-gothia by whom he had no Issue Ericke his eldest succeeded and was Crowned An. 1561. He for somtime waged strong War with the Danes and Lubeckers and not only incurred the hatred of his Neighbours but provoked also the dislike of his own Subjects He married so meanly say the Suethes as was not only to the dishonour of his Crown and Race but likewise to the contempt of his Nobility whose extirpation he endeavoured and the perpetration of that horrible Tyranny at Vbsall by the wicked counsell of others and his own naturally malicious disposition John Duke of Finland to whom the waies of Ericke were little pleasing having as hath been said married the Princess Catherina younger Sister to Sigismundus Augustus King of Poland and was therby allied unto the Jagellonian Family whose merits towards that Crown have been already mentioned had lent unto his Polonian Brother the sum of an hundred thousand Rix-dollars for which he received in pledge certain Forts and Governments in Leifland and so returned to Revalia in Finland where he was by his Brother King Ericke who out of a suspitious nature made a sinister construction of Duke Johns actions as intended for a Confederacy with the Polander and the Dane against him oppressed with cruell War and himself with his Wife and Family taken at Abo a Town in Finland and brought to Stocholme where he was publikely accused many of his Familiars executed four whole years he was under restraint but afterwards set at liberty and the year ensuing the chance of War being turned he seised upon his Brother Ericke whom he kept incarcerated untill his death This hapned in the year 1568. Duke John having thus disthroned his elder Brother was with great applause and the unanimous consent of the Peers and all the Orders of Suethland declared King and Crowned An. 1569. He likewise waged War with the Dane but with the Muscovite both cruell and long Toward the end of his Raign his Son Sigismundus descended by his Mother as hath been shewed from the Jagellonian Race was elected King of Poland and there Crowned An. 1588. Not long after viz. An. 1590. The former Orobrogian and Arosian constitutions for hereditary Union were renewed in favour of Sigismundus and his lawfull Heirs Males and they failing in the like to his Brother Prince John which also failing Charles Duke of Sudermannia Nenicia and Wermelandia was with his Male Posterity to succeed At this Convention there passed also an absolute exhereditation of the Children of the late King Ericke and all his Posterity for the reasons before expressed John followed the same Profession in point of Religion as did Gustavus his Father which was that of the Evangelicall or Augustane Confession And albeit his Son Sigismundus instructed by his Mother had secretly embraced that of Rome yet did not the Father decline from the Augustane but constituted his Brother Duke Charles who was strongly Lutheran as a pledge to the people that therin no innovation should be made having by Testament appointed him for Governour over them untill the return of Sigismundus from Poland King John as he observed his Fathers Testament in matter of Religion so he was no less sollicitous that the Suethâ—sh Dominion should receive no diminution by his Sons accession to the Polish Crown and to that end he strickly enjoyned Earl Brake and Ericus Sparre whom at the instance of the Polanders he had sent as Ambassadours to treat and conclude about his Sons Inauguration to that Kingdom not to consent to ought that might tend to the prejudice or impairing of Suethland as by their instructions dated at Vastena the fourth of May 1587. may appear wherunto the Curious are referred This Prince having Raigned three and twenty years or therabouts changed his mortall life in November or December An. 1592. His memory is celebrated by the Suethes for many benefits conferred upon their Nobility and the people in generall and for freeing them from the rigid and cruell government of his Brother Ericke with the tyranny which other persons under him did exercise over them for which in the fore-cited convention at Stocholme 1590 they not only confirmed the former hereditary Unions in favour of his and the forementioned Princes Heirs Males as hath been shewed but further also enacted that if the Nobler Gender of the Royall and Ducall Line should totally fail the eldest of the unmarried Females of the same should succeed unto the Crown each in order according to their birth And that they would not
CAROLVS GVSTAVVS King of Swethens Goths Vandalls greate prince of Finland Duke of Esthonia Carelia Lor d of Ingria Crowned An o Dom̄ 1654. P S excudit 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 S r. GEORGE DVGLAS Knight Lord Ambassadour Extraordinary from the late King of Great BRITTAINE for the Treaty above mentioned Faithfully couched by J. FOVVLER Secretary to his Lordship for that Embassy LONDON Printed by Thomas Roycroft for Thomas Dring and are to be sold at the George neer Cliffords Inne in Fleetstreet 1656. Collegium S. S. et Individuae Trinatatis in Academiá Cantabrigiensi TO HIS HIGHNESSE THE LORD PROTECTOR MY LORD THE remembrance of having read that a Great Emperor was once graciously pleased to accept of an Apple from the hand of a poor Peasant hath encouraged me to the presenting of the ensuing Discourse unto your Highnesse As that Prince was doubtless induced to daign the reception of so slight a Gift from 〈◊〉 mean a Giver not for any merit either in the Person or Present but by the conjecture he made of the dutifull affection wherwith it was Offered so I am willing to hope that the boldness of this address may be the more excusable in regard the like affectionate duty is in the most of submissiveness herewith tendred Your Highness hath moreover I humbly conceive a Peculiar right hereunto as being the sole adaequate Paralell to the famous Princes of the Gustavian Line mentioned in the following Narrative for if they were great in Armes which none can deny and that their Heroick Actions have rendred their Memories renowned to Perpetuity Your Highness Name is certainly engraven in Characters indeleble upon the never decaying Pillars of immortall Fame whose Trumpet hath sounded your more then Admirable Successes unto the most Remote Regions Nor is Caesar's Veni Vidi Vici lesse illustrated by your Highnesse Pourtraict than it was by his Statua As Victory did constantly accompany the Second and great Gustavus whilest living and attend him even in death contrary to that observation of the famous Marquesse of Malvezzi That the death of valiant Leaders is the losse of Battells So it is truely affirmed that whensoever your Highness hath led on your Forces your Foes have as often fallen before you and the most Numerous Enemies that have ever hitherto dared to look you in the Face have been alwaies constrained to turn their backs Neither can the most black-mouthed Detraction gaine-say this Truth Your Highnesse hath one Advantage more which was not by Providence permitted unto that Great Monarch in that by the Protection of the All-mighty you live to reap the Fruit of your Labours in Praising the God of your Salvation May your Highnesse Religiously and Magnanimously still goe on to doe worthily in this our Judah and to be famous in our Israel and after a continued Series of Glorious Tryumphs here below remain Tryumphantly Glorious above in the Mansions of Eternity So craving Pardon for this Presumption I rest In all humble Obedience At your HIGHNESS Command J. FOWLER THE PREFACE OR ARGUMENT To the ensuing DISCOURSE THERE is nothing new under the Sun saith the wisest of Kings This as it is in it selfe a certaine truth so it is not more evident in any thing then in the Stupendious alterations which History in generall doth manifest to have happened in Kingdomes and Common-wealths even from the Flood the recapitulation whereof would not onely outswell this bulke but likewise tire the Reader whose curiosity therein may be elsewhere abundantly satisfied Many in England may perhaps thinke that the Changes we have seen of late years among our selves admit of no President The Pages ensuing will shew otherwise and that what hath been done of late times in this Nation hath been in great part formerly presented upon Forraigne Stages yea within the memory of Men yet living if diligent Scruteny were made into the Actings in other Regions and wherein they have come short of Ours it may seem by their published expressions that they regretted the overslipping of oppertunity The subsequent Discourse is a Narrative truely Epitomized out of the Publike Acts of the Suethes The passages of the Pacification ensuing with other Germane Occurrences of those times are no lesse faithfully annexed The Method used is First A breife mention of Polands exaltation from a Ducall to a Regall Government An. 1000. with a particular deduction of their Kings from the time that Jagello great Duke of Lithuania in the right of his Wife was there Crowned whose merits toward that Kingdome are still celebrated by the Polanders and whose Descendants have constantly swayed that Scepter untill this present for the space of two hundred sixty nine years The interposition of Henry Duke of Anjow afterwards King of France the third of that Name usually stiled Henry of Valois onely excepted The next thing presented is a like deduction of the Kings of Suethland much more ancient then the other in the Title of a Kingdome from the time of Magnus Erickson surnamed Smeeke in favour of whom and of his Posterity the Suethish Crowne alwayes formerly Elective was rendred Hereditary by a generall Act of Union at Varburg An. 1343. A more strict Hereditary Union is next exhibited in the Raigne of Gustavus Erickson the Deliverer of his Countrey from the slavery of Strangers and the same confirmed and corroborated by the whole States of Suethland An. 1544. in whose Race that Scepter hath ever since remained and doth still continue Nine Crowned Kings have within the third degree descended from his loynes Viz. Erick John and harles his three Sons Sigismund the son of John King of Poland and Suethland Gustavus Adolphus the son of Charles the late Queen Christina of Suethland Vladislaus and Casimir the sons of Sigismuna consecutively Kings of Poland and the present King of Suethen Carolus Gustavus great Grand-childe to the fore-named Gustavus Erickson as being the son of the Princess Catherine Daughter to the foresayd Charles who All act their parts in the Scenes of the ensuing Narrative The Marriage of John forenamed then Duke of Finland afterwards King of Suethland with a Royall Virgin of the Polish Jagellonian Race and the Election by vertue of that Allyance of Sigismund their Eldest to the Regall Chaire of Poland with his Coronation in Suethland after his Fathers decease follows next in order The dissensions afterwards arising between King Sigismundus and his subjects of Suethland are mentioned His taking up Armes Their opposition and raising of Forces under the Conduct of his Uncle Charles
extraneous Gothes for if the Kings of that people who warred abroad had retained a power over them that remained in the Ancient and Paternall Soil they would not probably have permitted that they who marched under their Standarts and with them underwent the dangers and uncertainties of forraign Warfare should have been dispossessed of their Inheritance at home But leaving these things it is evident from their Authors that the Suethes have anciently been an elective Kingdom and free to choose either a Native or Stranger to possess the Regal Chair with this Obligation enjoyned that the King who ere he were should defend the Multitude committed unto him from injury and violence and should endeavour the enforcement and observation of their Laws ancient Customs rightfull Constitutions and Priviledges according to the received custom in all well regulated Nations Notwithstanding which freedom of Election they alwaies made choice of the Son to succeed the Father where they found the Rayes of Vertue corresponding to the Royall Dignity as being conformable to the Laws of Suethen and the continued Annals of that Regions History The truth hereof may appear by the Royall Progeny of Ericus Sanctus whose Son Canutus obtained the Regall Wreath of King Suercherus also to whom his Sons Charles and John succeeded after them Ericus Balbus the Nephew of Ericus Sanctus by election ascended the Royall Chair next whom Valdemarus Nephew to Ericke last named by his Sister and Birgerus that Illustrious Prince of the Ostro-gothes obtained the Scepter which was afterwards swayed by his Brother Magnus sur-named Ladulas Birgerus the Son of Magnus was next elected and he ejected for Cruelty and Fratricide was succeeded by Magnus Erickson his Nephew surnamed Smeek The Suethes as themselves assert have alwaies esteemed that beyond the Proximity of blood pretence of hereditary right or utilitie of friendship Vertue only and Heroick Actions were worthy of a Crown This freedom of Sufferages or Votes in the election of their Kings flourished amongst them many Ages even untill latter times wherin they not moved with the wind of Levity to use their own words but induced by the strickt Law of necessity having first at Strengnesia upon the sixth of June 1523. proclaimed and afterwards at Vpsall on the eighth day of January 1528. Crowned Gustavus Ericke Son sprung from Illustrious Ancestors and worthy of the Regall Charge as having freed them from the Tyranny of Christierne the second King of Denmark did at Orobrogia the fourth of January 1540. by an Act of hereditary Union of their whole Senatoriall Colledge with a numerous Circle of the Equestriall Order assume his Heirs Males from the first to the last into a right of Succession which Act was by the universall States of Suethland assembled in Parliament confirmed and established at Arosia the 13. of January 1544. Thus of Elective the Crown of Suethland became hereditary Neither did their Rulers therby obtrude ought of new or never before practised upon that Nation but followed the stepts and examples of their Ancestors For about 200 years before the whole Orders of that State had bound and obliged themselves almost in the same manner to the forenamed Magnus Smeeke and to his Sons Ericus and Haquinus under such limitations and conditions as are contained in the heredirary Union made at Varburg in Holand An. 1343 wherunto the Curious are referred Yet for the better comprehending of what hath been said we will deduce the Succession of their Kings from the said Magnus the fourth sur-named Smeeke who having in his own time conferred Norway upon his second Son Haquinus was after the death of Ericke his eldest to whom he had designed the Crown of Suethen ejected by the practises of his Nephew Albert Duke of Meckleburg But by the fore-named Bureus this Magnus is taxed of contempt of things sacred of libidenous lust and inhumane cruelty deserving the name of a Spoyler of the Publike And that he not brooking the co-partnership of his Sons which he had seemed to desire had caused to attempt the murther of his Son Ericke who the Traytor being suppressed before he could perpretrate the Fact was soon after poysoned by his Mother Blanca or Blanche a French-woman Magnus being not long after taken in Battell by his second Son Haquin King of Norway yet soon freed fled into Denmark He intercepted the Dutchess of Holstein his Sons betroathed and obtruded upon him Margaret of Denmark whilst he prepared greater Forces he thundred out Proscriptions against the Suethish Nobility Albert Duke of Mâ—ckleburg Son of Euphemia Sister of the said Magnus was by the proscribed Peers in prejudice of Haquin King of Norway elected to the Crown of Suethland in the year 1363. but being afterwards vanquished An. 1387. by Margaret Queen of Denmark and Norway the Widow of Haquin fore-named after seven years detention desirous to regain his liberty to her he resigned the Kingdome Margaret Queen of Denmark Suethland and Norway by some stiled the Semiramis of Germany having united the three Kindoms under her Soveraignty caused an Act of State to be passed in Calmar for a perpetuation of the said Union to her Successors the Laws Privliedges of each Kingdom reserved entire She is by the Suethes taxed of extream covetousness and of breach of promise hated of them she departed into Denmark having by threats and terrours obtained the Kingdom for her Nephew Ericke a youth of fourteen years of age It was she who being admonished not to commit the Forts of the Kingdom unto Strangers contrary to her agreement replyed Keep you those Our Covenants the best you can We will take care for the securing of the Castles She being dead was succeeded by Ericke Duke of Pomerania in the year 1411. by vertue of the said Union and of his Adoption by the fore-named Margaret being the Son of her Sister Ingelburgis He Raigned over the three Kingdoms but was expelled from them all by a strong faction as some say Others as the fore-named Suethish Author that enleavened by his Aunt he was a Violater of promises an Extirpator of the Nobility by extraneous Wars and unseasonable tempestuous Navigations a Spoyler at home He had for Antagonist Engitbert a Prince elected out of the Nobility of the Dalicartes and he being bereaved of life by Danish treachery Carolus Canutus was appointed Governor of the Kingdom He fled into Denmark and there also hated attempting a return into Suethen seised on Gothland from thence infesting the Aquilonian Navigators with Piracies At last besieged by Carolus Canutus and distrusting the Danes he retired to his ancient Inheritance and rest when he had Raigned from his Coronation fourteen years this hapned An. 1433. Christopher Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria in title only Son of another Lady Margaret Sister of Ericke forenamed promoted by the endeavours of the Danes and their exceeding commendation was not without much reluctancy consented unto by the Suethes in the year 1442.
goodness by withholding the Event did frustrate their Machination They likewise assert for clearing the Duke from suspition of ambitious affectation of the Crown that even at Vbsall before the Coronation his Highness was by many of the States not once but often urged and invited to take the Diadem and this ingemination frequently used Your Highness is the only remaining Son of King Gustavus and as your Predecessor of happy memory appeared a Father and Defender of his Country so We doubt not but that your Highness will advance the Common-Weal of Suethen but from this King Sigismundus We cannot hope for ought of good Which desire of theirs Duke Charles not only rejected but like wise frustrated the purpose of certain of the severall Orders who would have committed the Raynes of the Soveraign Rule unto Duke John as then of tender years who should have been Crowned at the age wherin he might have Legally secured the Liberties of the Suethish Nation Whence say they all people of what Condition soever may easily collect from what Root these Seeds of discord first sprung but let us now with them turn our Pen and Sickle to the remainder of these growing Weeds They alledge also that it was apparent wherat Sigismundus aimed in bringing such a troop of Popish Priests into the Kingdom the chief of whom was the before-named Malespina who in the Metropolitan Arch-Episcopall Seat of the Suethes Gothes and Vandals did dare to attempt the Crowning of their King wherin he was withstood by all the Orders of the Kingdom but mainly by Adamus Adracanus Arch-bishop Elect of Vbsall who stoutly shewed that it was contrary to their Statutes and the Laws of Suethland that any but the Vbsalian Prelate should perform that Office and that before the consummation therof it behoved the King to bind himself by Oath to observe those things which in the Augustane Confession were exhibited to the Emperor Charles the fifth above sixty four years then past and likewise had been decreed by Gustavus and King John his Grand-father and Father as also ordered by a late Synod at Vbsall to be observed in Suethland where into no Church other then of that Profession was to be admitted But that the King whilest there might have a private Chappell in his Palace Wherupon the Legate interceded that at least with the Evangelicall Religion the Romish erroneous and idolatrous Superstition might be tollerated In prejudice of the Gustavian admonition and testament which was not granted SIGISMVNDVS III. D G REX POL. M DVX LIT RVSS PRVS MAS SAMO LIVO NEC NON SVECOR GOT VAD HAEREDI REX The Most Excellent Prince Sigismundus 3 d King of Poland etc. 〈…〉 He gave likewise Letters Assecutoriall to the like effect to all the States under his hand and Seal at Vbsall the ninteenth of February 1594. wherinto the Curious may make inspection It being intended here to mention only the heads of things most necessary to be inserted in reference to the ends before proposed Contrary to this Oath King Sigismundus is by them charged to have erected a Popish Church in the Regall City to which end he purchased a Stately Structure of Stone from a stranger there inhabiting He is likewise taxed for placing Count Ericke of Visingsborg a most zealous Adherer to the Romish Sect Governour of Stocholme Castle in which the Regall Ornaments with the Records of their Cancellariae are usually deposited as also the Armes Ammunition and the great Ordinance of the Kingdom And in the Port wherof the main body of their Navy was reserved contrary to his fore-mentioned Letters of Assecuration To a certain Jesuite Adam Steinhall by name he committed the Arcensian Temple placing also his Romish Priests in the Queens Island and in the Vastenan Monastery contrary to what he had given under his hand and Seal to this effect That neither in the Ecclesiasticall or Politicall Affairs of that Kingdom he would use the help of any person who did not profess the Religion then generally received in Suethen They further argue that he no sooner returned from his Coronation to Stocholme but that he gave the Raynes unto his Polish and other Romish affected followers to enter their Churches and disturb their Service and Devotions by tumultuous perambulations in all parts of their Temples with loud voices and scandalous Gestures during their Sermons and other Religious Exercises to the great oppression and scandall of minds yea to the hazard of mens lives branding and reviling them with the name of Hereticks and other infamous and scurrilous Appellations insomuch as they were constrained to set Guards about their Ministers ascending their Pulpits and complaint being made unto the King of these abuses the Plaintiffs were dismist with reproaches and contumelious words no redress at all afforded It is moreover objected that besides extraneous Forces introduced at his Arrival he ordered others to be brought from Dantzig by Ernest Wejerus and other Commanders furnished as to a declared War wherby Flouds of blood might have over-flowed if by other weighty Affairs he had not been recalled and induced to return into Poland but what he could not then say they effect he afterwards endeavoured at the Papall Legatorian instance when with a numerous Army he re-entred Suethen in the year 1598. In this manner do they charge King Sigismundus that he no way observed his Regall Oath and Assecuration in point of Religion after which he departed the Kingdom as at first he had done without the consent and approbation of the States therof leaving behind a Romish affected Governour in his chief Fort and City besides severall Churches with the Vastenan Monestary filled with Jesuites and others of that Erroneous Sect wherby much dissention a rose within the Land soon after his departure Hereupon certain Senators of the Kingdom thought it expedient to write unto the Duke signifying the Kings departure and that they had endeavoured to their utmost that the weighty Affairs of the Realm might have been settled before his Exit severall wherof remained yet unperfected That therfore they besought his Highness to afford a helping hand with his wonted Patriotall affection for the dispatch of things as necessity required That touching the form of Government which his Highness had by Copy communicated unto them to be desired of his Majesty no proceed had been made as he might happily have understood by Ericke Gustavus one of their number That the Regall Ensigns were deposited in the Stocholmian Castle wherof Count Ericke was appointed Governour against whom they had protested in his own presence and had entreated his Majesty to ponder the same more maturely Other things also were in the said Letter contained as their most earnest desire for his Highness speedy repair to Stocholme These were dated the fifteenth of July 1594. and their requests reiterated by a second invitation of the twentieth ejusdem The Duke returned answer to their first the eighteenth of the
capable of the government and so manage the same as might tend chiefly to the honour of God and the good and welfare of their most deare Countrey Promising that if he would so do they would continue even to the death his Majesties most faithfull and obedient Subjects And as their dutie did in like manner oblige to the young Prince as to their hereditary King And that as they hoped his Majesty would grant this their just and sincere Petition so they with equall humility and observancie entreated that his Majesty would release and send back certain innocent persons viz. George Claudius Olaus Hard Andreas Sweno and others who contrary to his Regall Oath right and Justice had been imprisoned and conveighed out of the Countrey But that if his Majesty contrary to their expectation should refuse to grant these desires which contained nothing but what was consentaneous to Christianity to the Lawes to Concord and the Regal Oath they w th all the Orders of the Kingdom would then protest before God claer their innocency towards all Christian Monarchs and the whole world that they were compelled to renounce their former obedience to his Majesty as seeing evidently that their longer continuance under his Soveraignty tended to the rejecting of the Divine word To the persecution of Subjects the abolition of legally acquired priviledges and prerogatives and the bringing of them under the yoake and Servitude of strange Lords Thus farr omitting the Criminations at the beginning out of the letter it selfe Hereunto King Sigismundus returned no answer but more then ever say they by open force and secret practices stirred up discord and dissention within the Kingdome For w ch cause with unanimous consent a Parliament was appointed to be held at Stocholme the moneth of July next following to consult upon these and other important affaires of State In that assembly the Senators and Orders of the Kingdome of Suethland the Earles Barons Bishops Gentrie Clergie Burgesses and Corporations there convened declared that forasmuch as their Ancestors the Orders of Suethland had at Arosia An. 1544. Framed certain constitutions for that Common Weales future government which were afterwards confirmed by each particular condition of the inhabitants importing that whereas in former times many discords mischeifes and inconveniences had sprung up in the Land partly because stranger Princes had been preferred to the Crowne of Suethland who exercised much violence and tyranny toward the Suethes partly also because concord could seldome flourish among the Kingdomes native Colonies whilst the choice and election of Kings rested in the Swethish Patriall Families according to the customary Lawes of the Kingdom and that the Royall Diadem did not discend to any certaine race wherefore it had been thought necessary to pitch upon the linage of some certaine Family whereon the Regall Dignity might be setled for ever so long as it should please God that any one of the Male issue thereof should remaine whereby the entrance into such dissensions in Suethland might be for ever closed and that they had not found any more worthy of that Regall eminency nor who had better deserved the Diadem both for himself and his Successors then their then present King Gustavus Erikson as who through Divine assistance had with exceeding diligence toyle and care and many hazards of his Person freed their Countrey from the servitude it groaned under of forraine Kings and had restored all the Orders of the Kingdome from the highest to the lowest to their ancient condition and liberty and not that alone but had likewise delivered the same from the unsupportable yoak of Romish Superstition and in stead of that false worship had restored the true Evangelicall Doctrine conforme to the Divine Word whereunto he had also commanded his Successors to adhere as they would avoyd the eternall losse of their Soules The present Parliament did confesse themselves obliged to observe the same as they had hitherto done by the Crowning of Ericke his eldest Son after his decease and he for most cruell tyranny and unworthy Government being with his Successors worthily deprived of the Scepter the same had been conferred upon Duke John the second Son of King Gustavus with his Male issue and he deceasing upon the present King Sigismundus notwithstanding the just objections they had for his imbracing the Romish Superstition contrary to the Godly admonitions left by his Grand-father as also for his accepting a forraine Crowne without the knowledge and consent of the Orders of Suethland with conditions so prejudicall to his native Conntrey as the same would never have admitted and his departure therfrom without their privity But not to insist here upon all their criminations consisting mostly of things formerly mentioned that Parliament further declared that for the sayd reasons and for that King Sigismundus had not daigned to returne any answer to their desires signified unto him from Jenecopia the preceding Winter they had unanimously and with one consent concluded not to acknowledge him any longer for their King or to be thenceforward obedient or subject to his government but renounced him and resumed and dissolved their Oath of fidelity and obedience wherein they had been hitherto bound by Law and the Acts of Hereditary union That albeit they had just cause to remove in like manner his Heirs Males from the Crown yet would not they impute the faults of the Father to the Son but had and did thereby decree to accept and receive Prince Vladislaus his Majesties Son for their Lord and King conditionally that within the space of one half year his Majesty would declare whether or not he would send his said Son into the Kingdome and commit him to the tutory of Duke Charles as his nearest in blood with other honest faithfull Men to the end he might be educated in the true Evangelicall Profession whereunto they in that Kingdome had bound themselves as also in the language and custome of the Countrey and would accordingly transmit him thither within six months next ensuing the half year fore-specified That this being thus done they would admit of and receive the said Prince before all others for their lawfull Lord and King when he should have attained those years wherein according to Law the ancient Jurisdiction and laudable custome of the Kingdome he might secure and govern them and it and that in the mean time they would acknowledge Duke Charles for their Hereditary Governour untill the Prince should attain to lawfull age But that if his Majesty should not do what before expressed within the prefixed times they would then also reject him so as neither he nor his Heirs should ever be admitted to sway the Scepter of Suethland but as the Father so the Son to be forever deprived thereof themselves being the causers of their prescription from the Royall Throne and their own dispoylers of all Authority and Dignity in Suethland wherof the said Orders were innocent before God and the World as not
unto him the pernicious change of religion which was mostly intended during his raigne had been vigilant toward those things that were consentaneous to Christianity and right and intended a just Government so long as his thred of life remained To which change of Religion as also sundry other things were to be imputed to the suggestions of evill Counsellors as the primary causers of that want of brotherly confidence which of right ought to have been between him and his Brother Duke Charles They also affirme that contrary to his Fathers sayd Testament and his owne Oath for true observation thereof Sigismundus his Son afterwards King of Poland had been by him permitted to be educated in the Pontificiall Religion and that by the fore-specified impulsions and perswasions of perverse Counsellours he had sent his sayd Son out of the Kingdome to receive the Crowne of Poland from whence as from an overflowing stream all those innundations of evills which had covered their Country proceeded It would be over long here to repeat their formerly so often reiterated Criminations against King Sigismundus nor the fore-mentioned Resignation by Duke John of his Hereditary right to the Kingdome They therfore proceed to pronounce Duke Charles by them formerly designed for their present absolute and lawfull Soveraigne with whom and for whose safety they would live and dye and that after him they would receive his eldest Son the Prince Gustavus Adolphus for their immediate and confirmed King Upon the younger Prince Carolus Philippus they thereby setled the Paternall Dukedomes of Sudermannia Nericia and Wermelandia Vosbogia and the Valensian Territory with the other Jurisdictions then possessed by his Father But that Duke John should enjoy the Dukedome formerly granted unto Duke Magnus with other large emoluments conceded unto him by the present Parliament as the Letters of Donation did testifie That if their designed King the present Prince Gustavus Adolphus should leave behind him any lawfull Regall or Ducall Heirs Males the eldest should succeed and he deceasing sonlesse the one after the other from Line to Line should sway the Scepter and so his Highnesse Sons that should be borne unto him should be by them and their Successors designed and accepted for lawfull and Hereditary Kings of Suethland But if the Prince Gustavus Adolphus should depart this life not leaving any lawfull Heirs Males the second Son Prince Carolus Philippus should obtaine the Crowne as their designed elected and confirmed King of Suethland and after him his lawfull Heirs Males in like manner should succeed as hath been expressed toward the Line of Prince Gustavus Lastly That if Prince Carolus Philippus should change this mortall State without any lawfull Male Issue to rule the rains of the Kingdome the Royall dignity should then devolve unto the illustrious Duke John in the same manner word for word as it had been decreed and confirmed unto the forenamed Princes Gustavus Adolphus and Carolus Philippus He also dying his eldest lawfull Son should obtaine the Regall Wreath and so each from Line to Line as had been designed and concluded unto the Heirs of the two Princes before named in the foregoing Articles And that forasmuch as Histories give ample testimony of tumults dissentions and multiferous detriments which over-fruitfully flock into a Common-wealth when the Line of a lawfull Family is not regarded the Kingdome and the Government thereof being in jeopardy by a perillous election of Governours this Inhabitant voting for one Candidate or pretender that man for another And that on the other side it may be collected out of Histories that much Concord and Tranquility hath ever flourished in a Common-wealth when according to Divine providence the States or Orders of a Kingdome have not swarved from the right and lawfull Line of a Regall Family If therefore which they besought God gracionsly to divert the like inconvenient should befall the Kingdome of Suethland that the whole Masculine Gustavian Progeny should be taken away and none remaining of that Regall and Ducall Family but Female Heirs they did bind themselves by promise and voluntarily and by mature Counsell did thereby unanimously and concordially universally and singularly for themselves in generall and particular and for all their Successors ingage and sweare that they would accept that Princesse and Regall Daughter if such should be living or of the Ducall Line for Queen of Suethland and that they would not obtrude any Husband upon her without her will and consent and especially that they would not permit or procure her a Husband of any People enemy to the Suethish Nation or that had any way sought after their ruine or hurt nor yet any of a perverse Religion or adhering to a Doctrine differing from their Christian profession That withall the Queen should be and thereby was prohibited from any manner of Matrimoniall contract with any person of such a Nation or Religion under the penalty of deprivation of Rule and Dignity but that she should rather wed some one of the Suethish Nation whom she could affect and who might be usefull to the Kingdome or some Prince of the Ducall Families in Germany descended from the illustrious Gustavian Progeny of Suethland and of the same Religion with them except such marriage were forbidden by propinquity of blood That the other Regall and Ducall Daughters of that Family then remaining should be provided of Dowries and other necessaries befitting their condition and dignity according to the Gustavian Testament and the conclusions of the present Parliament Yet with these conditions and cautions that not any of the Regal or Ducal Daughters should contract Matrimonie with any person without the free consent and approbation of the Orders of the Kingdome But not intentending hereby that the daughters of the King Sigismundus if any were or his Sister should be comprehended they being rejected from ever obtaining any jurisdiction in Suethland And forasmuch as all the tumult warr and dissention which of late times had molested them had their maine Originall from the difference of religion between his Majesty of Poland and the Orders of Suethland he having contrary to his Grand-fathers last Wil and Testament deserted their Christian profession and embraced the Papall erroneous doctrine they therefore unanimously constituted and decreed that they would never prefer any person unto the Royall Chaire who should not be of the same Religion with them And that if any of their Hereditary Princes should decline the pure word of God comprehended in the Propheticall and Apostolicall Books and depart from the Augustane Confession presented to the Emperour Charles An. 1530. grounded upon the Word of God as also from other former transactions and laudable Constitutions partly framed in the time of King Gustavus partly since tending chiefly and above all things to the advancement of Christs Church and the propagation of Religion and to the preservation of the best policy both in Spiritualls and Temporalls or whosoever should not do
Not consented unto The Regall Declaration Unsatisfactory to the Duke Regall assecuration Propositions made by Duke Chalres King Sigismund retires to Lincopia Letter of Duke Charles Answer Reply Another Letter from the Duke Safe conduct interchangable granted Assertions of the Suethes Further assertions Vide Exegis Historiaca Sueciae page 233 234. Treaty of Pacification at Lincopia between the King and Duke Shipping restored The King steers to Calmar in stead of Stocholme Friendly Letter from King Sigismundus to Duke Charles The Dukes answer Second Letter Ducall reply King Sigismundus requires more Ships for the transporting of his Army and sundry things to be restored The Prince was born in England An. 1565 whose Mother the Lady Cecily Daughter to King Gustavus Erickson and Sister to Erick Iohn and Charles all Kings of Suethland Wife to Christ Marquesse of Baden came then into England to visite Queen Elizabeth and by the Queen his God-mother named Edvardus Fortunatus The Duke complains of the Kings going to Calmar King Sigism excuseth his going to Calmar Promiseth a repair to Stocholme Promise not kept the King returned to Dantzig Parliament at Ienecopis The Dukes Letter and Objections to King Sigismund Letter to King Sigismundus from the Parliament of Suethland The Prince his Son invited to be there educated and to receive the Crown No answer returned Parliament at Stocholme Rejection of King Sigism His Son Uladislaus accepted of conditionally Parliamentary Letters to King Sigismundus not answered Parliament at Lincopia Dnke John declined Dukedome of Ostrogothes conferred on Duke John King Sigism with his Heirs rejected Duke Charles designed King of Suethland Gustavus Adolphus to succeed After him Duke Iohn conditionally Triall of Captivated Senators Sentence of execution Others pardoned Some but repreived Sentence in Finland against Arvidus Gustavus and Axell Kurck confirmed by Parliament Other offendors for smaller Offences gradually punished by losse of goods or Fine Second Parliament at Stocholme Duke Charles again solicites King Sigism to send his Son into Suethen No answer returned but new broiles raised Further Objections The same continued Parliament at Norcopia Heads of what therein transacted Duke John renounceth his pretence to the Crown of Suethland Duke Charles contented to accept of the Crown Hereditary union renewed reformed Duke Charles pronounced King and his eldest to succed The younger to enjoy his Fathers Dukedomes Male issue of the eldest failing the second to succeed That also failing in him Duke Iohn to inherite the Crowne The Female Regall and Ducall issue adopted into the succession This hath reference to the fore-cited Parliamentary conclusions at Stocholme the seventh of March 1590. but is here imperfect in the Original as wanting the words Eldest unmarried as is there expressed Provision for younger Regall and Ducall daughters conditionall The daughters and sister of King Sigismund rejected No Prince of a contrary religion to inherit Such or Apostates to be deprived Hereditary Princes prohibited marriage with an wife of contrary religigion All seduceâ—s of Princeâ— to a contrary religion to be punished as 〈…〉 s. No hereditary Prince to accept of another Kingdome unlesse to live in the Patriall Soile Oration of Duke John in Resignation of his right Warrs between King Sigismundus and King Charles Continued by his Son Gustavus Adolphus Death of Sigismundus Uladislaus his Eldest Elected and Crowned A second treatie instituted Preface to the treaty The Mediators Englands Ambassador arrives at Dantzig Writes to the Commissioners of the Crownes interessed Answer of the Polanders The Suethes complained of The Suethes answer with reciprocall complaints The Treaties commencement Elector of Brandenburgs Ambassadors Commissioners of Poland Commissioners of Suethland Meet at Holland town in Prussia Interchangably exhibite their respective Plenipotentiaries and agree upon a second meeting His Lordship came to Holland Desects in the Suethish Procuratories The like in those of Poland Rupture appearing the parties depart The Mediators repair to the Suethes at Elbing Condescention of the Suethes conditionall Commissioners of Poland return to Warsaw His Lordships receives invitation to come to Warsaw There was but one and that for his Lordship He contracts sickness Difficulties about the place of treaty Mariemburg appointed to be the Mediators residence The Mediators meet and consult Repaire to the Suethes The conclusion certified to the Polanders The Subdelegates meet Difficulties about the place for the generall meeting The Mediators return to the Suethes Their propositions Not admitted Objections His Lordship repaires to the Polanders Their conditional conclusions Englands Agent sent to the Suethes Their finall resolution Intimated to the Polanders who promise complyance Instrument oâ— Security renewed The Ambassadors of France and Holland come to Mariemburg The Mediators intervisite and joyntly repaire to Stumbsdorff the place of Treatie The parties arrive Meane used for avoyding competitions Proposition Not consented unto Demand made by the Suethes Answer and demand of the Polanders Result of the Mediators Accepted by all That dayes conclusion The Mediators meete His Lordships proposition in Order to the whole matter The other Mediators deliver theirs The result The new Procuratories interchangably communicated new difficulty about the Title Reconciled Scope of the Procuratories Polish Protest The Suethes Protest Procuratoriall difficulties removed Former result communicated to the parties Suethes answer Negatively The like given by the Polanders Offer made by the Suethes The Poles desire respite The same granted The Suethes therwith offended The former offer waved by the Poles as insufficient Five other mediate means propounded Taken by the Poles into deliberation Rejected by the Suethes Reply of the Poles in point of resignation The Suethes refuse to meete His Lordship goes to the Suethes They consent to meete Certaine greivances complained of by his Lordship and the Hollanders to the Suethes Their answer The Polanders persist as before The Parties willed to propound The Suethes enter into passion Those of Poland add ten other Articles for a supplement to the former Things tending to a breach the Mediators desire respite Finall declarations demanded by the Mediators from the Parties The Suethes decline to declare further The Polanders likewise and give their reasons The Suethes againe incensed At end the finall resolution at their quarters A meeting with the Mediators desired by the Poles Prolongation of the Truce desired Result of the Polanders conditionall Prorogation of the Truce assented unto Purport of the Prorogation Continuation of Sequestrations insisted on by the Poles but refused by the Suethes The Prorogation signed The Mediators vepair to the King Their overtures uneffectuall The Poles desire a meeting with the Mediators Declaration ur 〈…〉 Ultimate result of the Polanders Treaty for finall Peace in termes desperate Complaints of the Poles D. Radzivils departure for Littaw A longer Truce insisted on The Suethes Declaration in point of longer Truce The Poles re 〈…〉 to the King Argument â—â—â—d by his Lordship Misconstrued The Suethes again in heat Yet ca 〈…〉 ed and contented to meet The Kings conde scention
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