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A64070	Memoires of the life and actions of the most invincible and triumphant prince, Ihon the Great, third of that name, present king of Poland containing a succinct series of affairs from craddle to his present day : with a particular relation of his many great and stupendious victories obtain'd against the Turks and Tartars, from the time he was first made crown-general, and afterwards elected King of Poland / done in verse, out of H. G's historical account of the said princes life and actions, by a lover of the peace and glory of Christendome.	Tyler, Alexander.; H. G. Scanderbeg rediviuus.	1685 (1685)	Wing T3558; ESTC R14474	74,153	177

Prince of Condee who was Duke D'Engwin Design'd to Match the Niece of the said Queen Born of her Sister Princess Palatine NOr were French Pistols wanting to dispose The whole Court-Party to advance that choise Which much incensed other Noble Peers And near once more set Poland by the Ears In opposition to the Queens design Many great Persons joyntly did combine Of all whom Lubomirski was the Chief A mighty Party joyn'd to their Relief In this Rebellicus Consorts and Commates Naming themselves Polands Confederates But after sev'ral Traverses of Warr Treaties of Peace to heal this Rending Jarr 'Twixt both The Rebels to their Homes are forc'd And Lubomirski's Party's put to worst Being deserted o's Confederats To Breslaw in Silesia retreats His place Grand Mareschal was taken fro'm And SOBIETSKI ' stablish'd in that Room The Rebel Lubomirski hence was driven In Januar sixty six or sixty seven And of a Palsie shortly after 's dead Who with late Ague Pole's State shaken had SOon after this Crown-General Potoski Dying 't fell to th' share of SOBIETZKI As hath been said ere while tho most oppose Alledging two such mighty Trusts as those Of Marshal General to and by one Could not be well conferr'd nor rightly done And would have had the last of those we name To Prince Demetrius great by Worth and Fame But Casimir Poles wise and generous Prince Foreseeing's late shak't KINGDOMS Exigence Requir'd no less then Peerless SOBIETSKI In Council prompt in matchless Valour Brisk ay FOr as when Head or Heart of any Wight Affect'd with Maladie grown to some hight The Eyes look pale and dull and languishing The Pulse beats saint unev'n like slack'ned String Of Lute or Viol Hands Feet Fingers Toes And th' extream parts which from the. Body grows Refuse that Duty which of right to Head Heart allows Ev'n so the Cossacks Poles remoter parts Inhabiting when hearing Jarrs and Thwarts 'Twixt Prince and Peers resolve to take their time Of Courts Vertigo's still Rebellions prime Joyning the Tartars promised Turks Aid Poles Frontiers with great Spoils forthwith invade And in their Insurrections furious Maza They seise the strong Town known by name PODHAYS And in the Month which doth preceed September Flock'd up from all Resort the strong RUSS-LEMBER THese COSSACKS are a compound mingled Rout Of many Nations hardy fierce and stout The gross whereof are Polish Peasants who T' avoid the slav'ry of the Tyrant Po lish Noble-men forsaking Pole as Cain Did SETH withdrew so to the UKRAIN A Province near the Turks and Tartars plac'd With all things sit for Humane Life well grac'd Being all Greeks as to Religion Having a Select PATRIARCH of their own Residing at the great and strong and mighty Fenced with Art and Nature KIOFF'S City Acknowledging themselves in gross and whole Liege-men and Subjects to the KING of Pole Serving his Majesty in 's Wars they say Against the Infidels still without Pay In Arms are born bred live and die these mighty men of Prey This Armed State for their Security Partly and part for Poles Nobility They keep These Nobles they do still despite And these with mutual hatred them requite They for their Freedom ' gainst Poles Lords still Rage These would reduce them to their Vassalage So that 'twixt mutual Fears Hopes Spoils and Harms Th' one ' gainst th' other frequently take Arms. Against which Cossacks with fierce Tartars joyn'd Great Gen'ral SOBIETZKI is enjoyn'd To march Who by their dreadful num'rous swarms Reduc'd to greatest Straits this Son of Arms. For while h' hath scarce once seen descry'd and found'em They with most thick Batallions quite surround him Amidst which pinching Push and Jeopardy No Council's left save either do or dy THen like some Lyon roused from his Den With Noise of Hounds and Huntsmens voice a main Great SOBIETZKI startled once next animats his men ' ANd thus Accosts them Valiant Native Poles ' My fellow Souldiers Can your fearless Souls ' Whose glorious Arms late quell'd the Roaming Swed ' And chas'd him from our Bounds and home him sped ' Can all those Trophees num'rous as your feet ' Late trampling down the Marshie Muscovite ' Giving that proud and mighty Knez the Chase ' And bending back the VVar to Mosco's face ' Forcing him to our KING to sue for Peace ' Those dreadful Swords which did at once give Laws 'To the Great Czar and Warlike stout Gusta'us ' And Lubomirski and 's Confederates al 's ye ' Fought vanquish'd routed frighted in a Palsie ' But those you 'l say were Strangers or Piastis ' And what 's this Raff and Mungrel Race of Mastives ' But the vile Scumm of Polish Slaves a Rabble ' Of coarsest Dregs of all God drove from Babel ' Shall we who 'd well near giv'n snatch'd back Poles Crowns ' And of two crowned Heads cropt such Renowns ' Be fac'd crouded to our Beards with such Rafscalion Clowns ' Up up March on Charge Fight what needs more words ' Let 's force and cut this Vict'ry with our Swords THen as a Flash of Light'ning rends a Cloud Next killing Thunder comes which roars aloud Then plump suden Rain like that which made No's Flood Just so their Swords Shout Shot Shock rains Seas of Cossacks Blood When in a trice or twinkling of an Eye Thousands of Rebels bleed full spraul and dy By num'rous Heaps vast Swarms and hideous Shoals With little loss or none to th' Gallant Poles Thus having quit himself of pinching strait He forc'd the Rebels first to Begg then Treat A Peace most Honourable for Polands Crown Whose terms are in the following Words set down 1. ANd first as to the Tartars there should be For all in this late War an Amnestie Until that Casimir great Polands KING The Purport of this Treaty should once Sign 2. And next if after Differences arise They should not Arm in any kind of ways But strive to reconcile't by their Envoys 3. The Sultan Galga promis'd in the name Of his own Master Tartarys great Cham To be an Enemy to all and whole Such as should War against the Crown of Pole With all his Force to Aid when e're requir'd Being of Poles with yearly Pension hir'd And for so doing Hostages to give Until the States assembling them relieve By Moneys rais'd for their Redemption And Tartars present Satisfaction 4. And in the fourth place that the. Tartar Cham Nor any else of his or in his Name In Vkrain should Quarter any Forces Neither of Infantry Dragoons nor Horses Nor any other part of Poles Dominion Without the KINGS consent and full Opinion 5. If any Forraigners in this Campaign Who serv'd the Cham should pole invade again Of their own Head or others Mal-direction That Cham give them no aid nor yet Protections 6. That Prisoners on both sides be releas'd And with restored Liberty be grac'd That Sultan Galgas Force nor Spoil Kill Burn Nor least Disorders act in their Return WIth Doroskensko Gen'ral of the

MEMOIRES OF THE LIFE and ACTIONS Of the most INVINCIBLE and TRIUMPHANT PRINCE IHON THE GREAT Third of that Name PRESENT KING of POLAND CONTAINING A Succinct Series of Affairs from his Craddle to this present Day With a particular RELATION of his many Great and Stupendious VICTORIES obtain'd against the TVRKS and TARTARS from the time he was first made CROWN GENERAL and afterwards Elected KING of POLAND Done in Verse out of H. G's Historical Account of the said PRINCES LIFE and ACTIONS By a Lover of the PEACE and GLORY of CHRISTENDOME EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His IMPERIAL MAJESTY of GREAT-BRITAIN Anno DOM. 1685. TO THE MOST ANTIENT OF ALL CHRISTENDOMS and the whole WORLDS MONARCHS The most Potent the most Heroick the most August JAMES The Seventh the Ornament and Glory of all other PRINCES KINGS and EMPERORS His Imperial MAJESTY of GREAT BRITAIN France and Ireland c. GREATEST SIR AS an Essay whether or not this my obscurity dare approach the most Glorious and August Theme in the World and that is Your MAJESTIES own I have attempted the MEMOIRES of the Heroick and Victorious KING of POLAND which will become yet the more Memorable when Graced with Your PRINCELY EYE and ROYAL PROTECTION The Subject being in it self so Noble might very well have become a much greater and finer Pen than the many diss-advantages of so low an Author could well afford it However Mannag'd as it is by the unworthiest of a thousand being the Account of the Life of so great so glorious a PRINCE Comprising some of the memorablest Actions and Victories which have yet Adorn'd any other Age It could not have been offer'd withour diminution of that Glory due to Soveraign MAJESTIES to any else of whatsomever Sphere below GODS Prime MOVER of the WORLD the Royal Nay nor yet of all those Foundations or that Firmament of the Universe to any other Intelligence or power save Your MAJESTY alone For to whom else should the Heroick Atchievments of this Valiant PRINCE have been Address'd but to another KING the most Wise the most Valiant the most Enriched with all those distinguishing Marks of Excellency and transcendent WORTH which ever yet Dignify'd that highest Character And tho the alone Elective KING this day in Europe if not in all the World which is more the dissadvantage of His Subjects there being for most part a kind of Metempsychosed ROYAL GENIUS in the continued Successions of an Ancient Race of Hereditary KINGS The want of which with that wild Nemine Reclamante in their Diets being the two great Flaws in the Polish Government have no doubt been ever yet the Grand Obstacles whereby that otherwise Magnanimous Nation has not long ere now born a much greater Figure in the World But this is none of our HERO'S fault His Loss it may be in several Instances but especially in his being hereby the youngest Brother of all other KINGS To whom else then should His Polish MAJESTY repair but to the Eldest of all these and that is Your ROYAL SELF For Reckoning from KING FERGUS the First of the longest Race of an hundred and eleven KINGS Your Royal PROGENITORS in a Reign of two thousand and fifteen years The Primogeniture of the whole Worlds MONARCHS is the indisputable Right of the Sacred Imperial MAJESTY of Great BRITAIN whom that Heaven may still Protect as it hath ever yet done with Miracles and Wonders for the Glory of God and the Good of his Church in this Queen of Islands and all other Your MAJESTIES Dominions for the great lasting Ornament of the eldest ROYAL BROTHERHOOD of all other KINGS for the Ballancing the Affairs of CHRISTENDOME for the glorious Defence of the true Christian Faith and the Encouragement of all other Christian KINGS and PRINCES to a generous and just Charity and brave Resolution of uniting their joynt and firmly Combined Forces against the Common Sworn Insidel ENEMIES of our most holy RELIGION shall be ever the constant standing or kneeling Prayer of the least and unworthiest of all other Your MAJESTIES Most Humble and most Obedient Servants and Subjects ALEX. TYLER A LETTER to his GRACE WILLIAM DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY MARQUES of Drumfreis-shire EARL of Drumlanerick and Sanqubar VICE-COUNT of Nith Tortherwald and Ross LORD Dowglas of Kinmonth Middlebie and Dornock His MAJESTIES High COMMISSIONER for His Ancient KINGDOM of SCOTLAND Lord High THESAURER of the said KINGDOM one of the MEMBERS of His MAJESTIES PRIVY COUNCIL of both KINGDOMS May it please your GRACE BEside the Succession of a great many Durkes Regents KINGS I range them in the order of their own History and the entire Reigns of the two preceeding KINGS of Poland JOHN CASIMIR MICHAEL KORIBVT WIESNOWITZKI the voluntary Resignation of the Polish Crown by the former and the great Hazard of its and that fierce and undaunted Nations being well near made Tributary to the Ottoman Turbant by the timorous precipitation of the latter and a light touch of the Government Laws Politys and Customs of that great People sprinkled all along this little small Work the manner of their Diets or Parliaments the Splendid and Pompous way of Election of their KINGS where each Waywood Palatine and Castellan for these are the Titles of their Peers and Senators appear equip'd like as many EMPERORS having every one a Retinue so August so Numerous so High and yet so Orderly as tho they were all severally Triumphant CAESARS who when once assembled to the number often-times of some hundred thousands all gallantly appointed and richly and strongly Arm'd The Diet sits or rather stands in that Field for most part neer Warsaw their Capital City call'd Kolw for no House in the World could suffice to contain And I doubt if many Cities could well accommodat beside the own Inhabitants such prodigiously-vast Swarms of Men of all Ranks all at once I say beside all this your GRACE has offer'd you in these Sheets the Life and Actions from his Cradle neer to this day of one of the Greatest and Bravest KINGS except the IMPERIAL MAJESTY of Great-Britain alone whom GOD still preserve and bless second to none else that CHRISTENDOME or the whole World dare challenge this day or peradventure yet ever could own His Descent of the most Illustrious and Noble Families of his Countrey His Education the stepps of his Advancement His being made Crown-General His Exploits while in that Trust during the Reigns of two KINGS His immediat Predecessors His rare Virtues for which GOD hath Anointed him with the Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows His Election and mounting up to Polands Throne His many Battles fought with all the disadvantages of Number Strength and oftentimes Place and other Circumstances where Triumph still Pearch'd upon his victorious Ensignes and of all these the Place the year of God the day of the Moneth the very time of the day wherein he has so oftentimes made Christendome glorious brave happy while Infiaels

Apartment as last-Honour done him Soon af●er which the States in gratitude His Honourable Maintenance conclude Whereof the States of Poland and of Life land gave this full Assurance o' t for Life ' WE th' Ecclesiastick States and Civil ' Inhabitants of Poland and of Lifl ' and met in Council hereby Certify ' All the whole World and our Posterity ' That by all means could be imagined ' We have besought and much endeavoured ' For to perswade IHON CASIMIR our KING ' During his Lifetime to protract his Reign ' And not Relinquish this our Polish Crown ' Whereto himself and his of great Renown ' 's long been our mighty Kings call'd by Election ' But seeing no Inducements could perswade ' His Majesty to alter's purpose made ' And that h' hath freely rend'red to our Hand ' Poles Kingdom and great Dutchby of Lif-land ' Together with their whole Dependencies ' Crown Revenues and Royal Dignities ' The Royal Pow'r Prerogative and Name ' All which or He or Polish Kings could claim ' And we not knowing how to Lett or Stint ' Herein his Majesties most strong Intent ' His Majesty desiring we provide ' Convenient maintenance for his Life-tide ' Which Tho a Point wherein we want th' Advice ' Of our whole Brethren in their Assemblies ' Yet notwithstanding out of our Affection ' To 's Majesty before the next Election ' We have consented and do all agree ' That he have Thousands hundred and fiftie ' Liv'res of yearly Pension whereof ' One hundred thousand to be payed off ' This Kingdom and the fifty thousand more ' For to be charg'd on the great Dutchys score ' Forth of the Revenues of the Kings Table ' These Sums at next Election fix'd and stable ' And then and there these Sums fore-mentioned ' Be in their minute payments specifi'd ' And that the Lords of Treasure of both Nation ' Shall from the day o's Majesties Resignation ' Make an Allowance of the Pension said ' Without the said specification had ' And this we promise having notifi'd ' In our Provincials to gett Ratifi'd ' And make provision to secure this Thing ' By an Agreement with next following King ' Further Agreeing this Allowance from ' Dutchy of Lifland and the same Kingdom ' Shall during's Majesties whole Life Remain 'To be advanced wholly fully plain ' Freely entire without Abatements Fees ' Or whatsomever else Gratuities Chap. IV. Of the Election of Prince Michael Koribut Wicksnowiski to the Crown of Poland and the Eminent Services of General SOBIETZKI during his Reign KING CASIMIR having as hath been said The Government of Pole abandoned On sixteenth of September sixty eight Gnesna's Archbishop by his Office Right Apply'd himself during the Interreign To rule that State which now did want a KING And for a new Election did think sitting Against next May to call the General Meeting To hold at Warsaw whil'st Poles Candidate Each busy'd much to make his Party patt As namely the great Duke of Musco's Son Who had been bred in Poland and was one Who spoke that Language well as prompt as fast ay As any Noblest Polzki or Piasti One whose behalf the Duke his Father made These Offers which the others Pow'r outbad That he should Change his greek-Greek-Religion And take the Romanist Communion In 's favours to Renounce all Muscovie All Places tane from Pole restor'd should be And that four Millions free-gift this year He should advance for payment of th' Arrear O' th' Polish Army Further promise made Poland ' gainst all its Enemies to Aid With Ready Force of Fourty thousand men And enter in perpetual League with them The next was Newburgs Duke To Duke Bavar A Brother whom the Emperor did favor The third Pretender was the Prince of Lorrain The fourth Duke D' Enguien Prince of Condees son Which last Gnesna and Gen'ral SOBIETZKAY Were thought to favour more then all the Restay THen as if many CAESARS for the Nonce Had enter'd Rome Triumphant all at once That She the Worlds proud Mistris might display Her dazling Grandeurs at one Sight one Day Ev'n so Poles Grandees Princes Palatine Each striving other to out-strip out-shine In Mays beginning of the sixty nine In greatest Pomp and Splendor did Resort To Warsaw Poles chief Mistris Seat of Court In order to th' proaching Election As Pole had meant to have it said and shown The least of all her Princes worth a Crown UPon the first of May Duke Radzevil Great Litwanias General of the Field Did make his Entry with a stately Train Which in the following order marcht amain Five Companies of Heyduques first came on Consisting of an hundred in each one With flying Ensigns beating Drums each Fellow Clad in a large Blew Vest was lin'd with Yellow Next a Foot-Company of sixtie men Clad so like Janizars that none could ken Their Yellow from the hue of Musslmen Next of Dragoons two Troops whose Backs did grace Their fine blew-Coats o're-laid with Silver-lace Then came a Troop of Gallant German Horse In richest Trappings neighing in their force As many Hussars after them comes next These at some distance followed by sixt y Gentlemen of primest Quality In Cloaths so rich that richer they defy And as their Horses scorn'd that Ground they trod Their Hands grasp't Launces of the Turkish mod Then came of Litwanias Field himsel The General Duke Michael Radzevel Follow'd by greatest Lords and primest Gentrie Above two hundred of the Litwan Countrie All these equip'd in splendidest Array In richest Harness their proud Horses bray ' Mongst whom were divers of the Princes high Of the most ancient Nobility As Prince Slav'slans Lubomiriski The Lord Potoski These were followed At some good distance their Attendants made A huge vast Number of brave Gentlemen In Richest Liv'ries all their Servants then After whom marched of Tartarian Horse Two Troops whose each did count a hundreds force Then of Dragoons five Troops march'd on apace Clad in Blew Coats adorn'd with Silver Lace Of all which Train like first the last appear A Companie of Heyduques brings the Rear THis Entrie tho the most Magnificent Those of the two Lords Pazzi far out-went In Afternoon of this same very day The one Grand Chanc'lour t'other as they say Great General of Litwania Who enter'd Warsaw in most Royal wise Whose Numbers had Duke Radzevils told thrice ANd now more splendid farr then both the same The Waywod of Cracovia also came Attended with a yet more numerous Train Which like some Armies made five thousand men ANd yet the more Illustrious third of May Eclips'd those Glories of its first seen day When Gen'ral SOBIETZKIS numerous Train In goodliest Order covered all the Plain All Polands Princes Waywoods and each Peer Did him the honour long ere he came neer To meet him sev'ral Miles from Warsaws Gate Who as he Rode he seem'd to Sit in State And as he Sate his Posture seem'd to say He should ere long great Polands Scepter