Ammunition out of Marienburg, and brought the hiter.
From Breslaw, January 21.
Great tyranny is used in great Poland and about Cracovia;
for, when the Poles fall upon the Swedish Souldiers, never
were greater Butcheries acted : the children are divided and
cut a under like so many sheep, womens breasts are cut off,
and afterwards dissected in four Quarters, they take our Protestant
Ministers, and cut off their hands and feet, and afterwards;
chopp off their heads, divide the body into severall
quarters; in the mean time the Hoggs do dragg along the
bowels in the streets, and that the villainous actors may not
miss the pleasure of the Tragedy, they fling Corn upon the
slain mens slesh, and thus let the Hoggs run unto it: Such a
Tragicomedy was lately acted at Wielun, where many of my
Lord Steinbocks Regiment, being raised about Stettin, have
been destroyed in this manner, but the Men themselves have
drawn this evill upon their own necks, in keeping no good
watch. Yet the Poles were not long after requited, for during
the acting of this cr[unr]elty, Colonell Uxkell, and Forgell came
to their relief with 800 Horse, cut down above 3[unr]0 Poles,
and fired many of their Villages. After this, ours begin to
invite back the Peasants, Citizens and Gentry, being fled towards
Stlesia, treating them in the like pittifull manner.
Generall Dowglas goeth wit[unr]h the Wittenberg Army, being
recruited since with six Regiments towards the borders of
Hungary, to visit the Peasants and the Gentry, and to at end
King ( asimire his motion likewise to bring the perfidious
Quartians to punishment.
From Riga, January 25.
The last Post hath brought but little from Moscovia, onely
that at the great Dukes return, first the Imperiall Ambassadors,
and three days after ours had immediatley upon it the
second Audience, and have likewise had their first conference
with the appointed Commissioners, and affairs seem to have
a good success with the Moscovite , save that as yet we cannot
get to understand what the Proposals are which the Emperor
hath made to the grand Duke. Bedsides, we have true Intelligence