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A37401	A Declaration, or, Letters patents of the election of this present King of Poland, John the Third, elected on the 22d of May last past, Anno Dom. 1674 containing the reasons of this election, the great vertues and merits of the said serene elect, his eminent services in war, especially in his last great victory against the Turks and Tartars, whereof many particulars are here related, not published before / now faithfully translated from the Latin copy by John Milton.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing D779; ESTC R29345	7,420	15

example which being arrived to the recovery of Ierusalem under the conduct of Godfrey of Bullion on their own accord gave him that Kingdom for that he first scaled the walls of that City Our most serene Elect is not inferior for he first also Ascended two main Fortresses of the Enemy The moment of time adorns this Victory unheard-of in many ages the most serene King Michael dying the day before as it were signifying thereby that he gave way to so great valour as if it were by his command and favour that this Conqueror might so much the more gloriously suceed from the Helmet to the Crown from the Commanders Staff to the Scepter from his lying in the Field to the Regal Throne The Commonwealth recalled the grateful and never to be forgotten memory of his Renowned Father the most Illustrious and Excellent Iames Sobietski Castellion of Cracovia a Man to be written of with sedulous care who by his Golden Eloquence in the publick Counsels and by his Hand in the Scene of War had so often amplified the State of the Commonwealth and defended it with the Arms of his Family Neither can we believe it happened without Divine Providence that in the same place wherein forty years ago his Renowned Father Embassador of the Polonian-Common wealth had made Peace and Covenants with Cimanus the Turkish General his great Son should Revenge with his Sword the Peace broke Heaven it self upbraiding the perfidious Enemy The rest of his Grandsires and Great-Grandsires and innumerable Names of Famous Senators and great Officers have as it were brought forth light to the serene Elect by the emolous Greatness and Glory of his Mothers descent especially Stanislaus Zelkievius High Chancellor of the Kingdom and General of the Army at whose Grave in the Neighbouring fields in which by the Turkish rage in the year 1620 he died his victorious Nephew took full revenge by so remarkable an overthrow of the Enemy The immortal valour and fatal fall of his most noble Uncle Stanislaus Danilovitius in the year 1635 Palatine of Russia doubled the Glory of his Ancestors whom desirous of honour and not induring that sluggish Peace wherein Poland then slept secure valour and youthful heat accited at his own expence and private forces into the Taurick fields that by his footing and the ancient Warlike Polonian discipline he might lead and point the way to these merits of Sobietski and being slain by Cantimiz the Tartarian Cham in revenge of his Son by him flain he might by his Noble blood give lustre to this Regal Purple neither hath the people of Poland forgot the most illustrious Marcus Sobietski elder Brother of our most serene Elect who when the Polonian Army at Batto was routed by the Barbarians although occasion was offer'd him of escape yet chose rather to die in the overthrow of such valiant men a Sacrifice for his Countrey than to buy his life with a dishonourable retreat perhaps the divine Judgment so disposing whose order is that persons pass away and fail and causes and events happen again the same that by the repeated fate of the Huniades the elder Brother of great hopes removed by a lamented slaughter might leave to his younger Brother surviving the readier passage to the Throne That therefore which we pray may be happy Auspicious and fortunate to our Orthodox Commonwealth and to all Christendome with free and unanimous Votes none opposing all consenting and applauding by the right of our free Election notwithstanding the Absence of those which have been called and not Appeared We being led by no private respect but having only before our eyes the Glory of God the increase of the ancient Catholick Church the safety of the Commonwealth and the dignity of the Polish Nation and Name have thought fit to elect create and name IOHN in Zolkiew and Zloczew Sobietski Supreme Marshal General of the Kingdom General of the Armies Governour of Neva Bara Strya Loporovient and Kalussien most eminently adorned with so high endowments merits and splendor to be KING of Poland Grand-Duke of Lituania Russia Prussia Mazovia Samogitia Kyovia Volhinnia Padlachita Podolia Livonia Smolensko Severia and Czerniechovia as we have Elected Created Declared and Named Him I the afore said Bishop of Cracovia the Archiepiscopal See being vacant exercising the Office and Authority of Primate and by consent of all the States thrice demanded opposed by none by all and every one approved conclude the Election Promising faithfully that we will always perform to the same most serene and potent Elect Prince Lord Iohn the third our King the same Faith Subjection Obedience and Loyalty according to our Rights and Liberties as we have performed to his blessed Ancestor as also that we will crown the same most serene Elect in the next Assembly at Cracovia to that end ordained as our true King and Lord with the Regal Diadem with which the Kings of Poland were wont to be crown'd and after the manner which the Roman Catholick Church before-time hath observed in Anointing and Inaugurating Kings We will anoint and inaugurate him Yet so as he shall hold fast and observe first of all the Rights Immunities both Ecclesiastical and Secular granted and given to us by his Ancestor of Blessed memory as also these Law 's which we our Selves in the time of this present and former Inter-reign according to the Right of our Liberty and better preservation of the Commonwealth have established And if moreover the most Serene Elect will bind himself by an Oath to perform the conditions concluded with those persons sent by his Majesty before the exhibition of this present Decree of Election and will provide in best manner for the performance of them by his authenick Letters which Decree of Election we by Divine aid desirous to put in execution do send by common consent to deliver it into the hands of the most Serene Elect the most illustrious and reverend Lord Bishop of Cracovia together with some Senators and chief Officers and the illustrious and magnificent benedictus Sapieha Treasurer of the Court of the Great Dukedom of Lituania Marshal of the Equestrian Order commiting to them the same Decree of intimating an Oath upon the aforesaid premises and receiving his Subscription and at length to give and deliver the same Decree into the hands of the said Elect and to act and perform all other things which this affair requires in assurance whereof the Seals of the Lords Senators and those of the Equestrian Order deputed to sign are here affixed Given by the hands of the most illustrious and reverend Father in Christ the Lord Andrew Olzonski Bishop of Culma and Pomisania High Chancellor of the Kingdom in the general ordinary Assembly of the Kingdom and great Dukedom of Lituania for the Election of the new King Warsaw the 22th day of May in the year of our Lord 1674. In the presence of Franciscus Praszmouski provost of Guesna Abbot of Sieciethovia chief Secretary of the Kingdom Ioannes Malachowski Abbot of Mogila Referendary of the Kingdom c. with other great Officers of the Kingdom and Clergy to the number of fourescore and two And the rest very many great Officers Captains Secretaries Courtiers and Inhabitants of the Kingdom and great Dukedom of Lituania gathered together at Warsaw to the present Assembly of the Election of the Kingdom and great Dukedom of Lituania Assistants at the solemn Oath taken of his sacred Majesty on the 5th day of the Month of Iune in the Palace at Warsaw after the Letters Patents delivered upon the Covenants and Agreements or Capitulations the most Reverend and Excellent Lord Francisco Bonvisi Archbishop of Thessalonica Apostolick Nuntio Count Christopherus a scaffgotsch Caecareus Tussanus de Forbin de Iason Bishop of Marseilles in France Ioannes free-barron Hoverbeck from the Marquess of Brandenburg Embassadors and other Envoyes and Ministers of State FINIS

POLONIAN LIBERTY THE FIRST ENGLISH RECOGNITION OF JOHN SOBIESKI WRITTEN BY JOHN MILTON THE RAREST OF ALL HIS FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH 50 MILTON John A Declaration or Letters Patents of the Election of this present King of Poland John the Third ... containing ... his eminent Services in War especially in his last great Victory against the Turks and Tartars whereof many Particulars are here related not published before Now faithfully translated from the Latin Copy London Printed by Brabazon Aylmer ... 1673. Sm. 4to full crimson morocco First editon of Milton's last publication which like his first appeared anonymously ... a final reminder that its translator was a man of broadly European culture interested to the end in international affairs Parker I 638 This version in the English language of the Latin document newly arrived from Poland describing the election and accession of John Sobieski to the independent throne of Poland would seem to be the rarest of all Milton first editions ... except for the privately printed Epitaphium Damonis in Latin c. 1640 British Library unique Parker II 1151 Only five other copies are known the British Library Christ's College Cambridge in U.K. and in America Texas Yale Indiana Harmsworth New Wing adds Library of Congress perhaps Harmsworth and Harvard which Parker indicates has been missing since 1947 it has since been found we are pretty happy to say Parker's note at II 1212 remarks that the exhibition catalogue of the Illinois Collection of First Editions ... claims to include `every first edition of Milton's works ' but omits this one New Wing D 779 Parker II 1151 1212 App. 2 no. 80. Masson Life of Milton VI 725-7 72. LR v. 83-84 Phillips 1694 p. liii not in Darbishire Masson VI. 725-7 The collation of A Declaration 4 0 A-B 4 pp. ii 12 2 The contents pp. i-ii blank p. 1 title p. 2 blank pp. 3-12 text pp. 13-14 blank It is through Phillips that we know of Milton's translation of this work Wood and Aubrey omitted the Declaration in their bibliographies but Toland noticed Phillips's entry and the translation was reprinted in 1698. There is no reason to doubt Phillips's attribution the publisher Brabazon Aylmer also published Milton's Epistoloe in 1674 and later his Brief History of Moscovia French wrote that ` No satisfactory explanation for his Milton's having performed this unusual task at this period in his age has been offered ' but surely none is needed beyond the business acumen of Aylmer who if he did not request the translation readily saw the need of it Milton's name does not appear This may be a reason for the great scarcity of surviving copies Wing D779 lists only three but the following five or six libraries perhaps with some others have copies of the first edition British Museum Christ's College Harvard missing since 1947 Indiana Harmsworth Texas and Yale Except for the privately printed Epitaphium Damonis 1640 this would seem to be the rarest of all Milton first editions though some additional libraries may have copies catalogued solely under ` Declaration ' or ` John III ' or ` Poland ' or ` Sobieski ' Articles of Peace 1649 containing Milton's anonymous ' Observations ' is a close third in scarcity with only ten copies known to me A DECLARATION OR Letters Patents of the Election of this present King of POLAND IOHN the Third Elected on the 22 d of May last past Anno Dom. 1674. Containing the Reasons of this Election the great Vertues and Merits of the said Serene Elect His eminent Services in War especially in his last great Victory against the Turks and Tartars whereof many Particulars are here related not published before Now faithfully translated from the Latin Copy by Iohn Milton LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil 1674. Letters Patents of the Election of the most serene King of POLAND In the name of the most holy and Individual Trinity the Father Son and Holy Spirit VVE ANDREW TREZEBICKI Bishop of Cracovia Duke of Severia JOHN GEMBICKI of Uladislau and Pomerania c. Bishops to the number of Ten. STANISLAUS WARSZYCKI Castellon of Cracovia ALEXANDER MICHAEL LUBOMIRSKI of Cracovia c. Palatines to the number of Twenty Three CHRISTOPHERUS GRZYMALTOUSKI of Posnania ALEXANDER GRATUS de Tarnow of Sandimer Castellons to the number of Twenty Four HILAREUS POLUBINSKI High Marshal of the great Dukedom of Lituania CHRISTOPHERUS PAC High-Chancelor of the great Dukedom of Lituania Senators and Great Officers to the number of Seventy five WE Declare by these our present Letters unto all and single Persons whom it may concern Our Commonwealth being again left Widowed by the unseasonable death of that famous MICHAEL late King of Poland who having scarce reigned full five years on the tenth day of November of the year last past at Leopolis changed his fading Crown for one Immortal in the sence of so mournful a Funeral and fresh Calamity yet with an undaunted Courage mindful of her self in the midst of Dangers forbore not to seek Remedies that the World may understand she grows in the midst of her losses it pleased her to begin her Counsels of preserving her Country and delivering it from the utmost chances of an Interreign from the Divine Deity as it were by the only motion of whose finger it is easie that Kingdoms be transferred from Nation to Nation and Kings from the lowest state to Thrones And therefore the business was begun according to our Countrey-Laws and Ancestors Institutions After the Convocation of all the States of the Kingdom ended in the month of February at Warsaw by the common consent of all those States on the day decreed for the Election the 20th of April At the report of this famous Act as though a Trumpet had been sounded and a Trophy of Vertue erected the wishes and desires of Forreign Princes came forth of their own accord into the Field of the Polonian Liberty in a famous strife of Merits and good-will towards the Commonwealth every one bringing their Ornaments advantages and Gifts to the Commonwealth But the Commonwealth becoming more diligent by the prodigal ambition used in the last Interreign and Factions and disagreeings of minds nor careless of the future considered with her self whether firm or doubtful things were promised and whether she should seem from the present state to transfer both the old and new honours of Poland into the possession of strangers or the military glory and their late unheard of Victory over the Turks and blood spilt in the war upon the purple of some unwarlike Prince as if any one could so soon put on the love of the Country and that Poland was not so much an enemy to her own Nation and Fame as to favour strangers more than her own and valour being found in her should suffer a Guest of new Power to wax proud in her therefore she thenceforth turned her thoughts upon some one in her own Nation and at length abolished as she