9 instant, assing therein according to their won[unr]d cruelty,
putting man woman and child to the Sword in a most barbarous
manner, not sparing the Governer himself, because of the
great loss they sustained before the Place.
From thence they transported their Forces by a great number
of Boats to Newhausen, and became Masters of it by
stratagem. Next they laid siege before Dop[unr]tl, and with another
body of their Army they marched to Revel, a principall
City, which they are now endeavoring to win, and [unr]
also come before this City with the greate [unr] Forces,
threatning us with utter destruction, if wee would not yield
by composition.
This hath caused us to send away by shipping many useless
mouths of women and Children to Lubeek that we might be
the better enabled and sitted to [unr], which wee
are resolved to maintaine, and doubt not but we shall be able
to hold in play this prodigious Army. Count, Magnus De la
Gardie our Governor is very vigilant and active, and the Soldiery
full of alacrity, with whom the Citisons joy in Arms,
and submit equally to Command and duty.
From Thoren August 27
Wee have Letters here from Cracovia which say, that the
City bein wel strengthned by the succors lately put in there
by his Majesty of Sweden. And immediately after, the
Polanders gathering in gre[unr] numbers about it, Major-generall
Wiwitz the Governor drew out with a Party, and advanced
3. leagues off, and surprized a Body of them at a Village called
Lostin, and with so favorable Success, that after a long
Fight, many of the Enemy were slain in the place, and the
residue put to flight.
It is written likewise, that presently hereupon, the King of
Po[unr] being assured that his Majesty of Sweden was retreating,
mustered his Troops again, with intent to trie his
Fortune upon Cracovia. The Tartars were so soundly paid in
the late Battell, that having no new stomak to any new Action
the Remainder of them went home; but its said the Swedes
being gone, they will come on again with new succours to