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Mercurius politicus, Number 330, 2nd-6th October 1656 E.499[4]

An Advertisments of Books.
TRIGONOMETRIA Hoest, [unr] Triangulorum
Latera & Angulor, ex Canons Mathematics tradition [unr]
demonstratus. Autors clarission Doming Willelmo Onghtred Ætonensi
Impensis Thomæ Johnson, [unr]nd quem vencunt sub signs Clavis
Aure? in Cameterio S. Pauls.
A Sermon preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster, before His
Highness the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, September 17. 1656.
By John Owen Dean of Christ-Church, and King chanceler of Oxford.
From Hamburgh September 23. S. Veters.
By Letters written hither from Dantzick, we are advised,
the Swedish Affairs grow worse and worse. For the Poles begin
to come on a maine, their Generall Czarnecki is advanced
as far as Warsovia, where hee endeavors to repaire the Breaches
of that City which were made by the Swedes at their
departure thence, and to re-crect the Bridge over the river
Weyssel, there being none to hinder them.
The same Letters say, that the King of of Poland is come to
the City Casimir of Cracovia, with a vast Army, where hee
is building a Bridge over the River, and threatneth with his
numerous Forces to over-run Prussia, Pomerania, and the
Marquisate of Brandenburgh.
It is certified likewise, that the said Polish King concerning
he hath now an opportunity to reinvest himself in his dominions,
hath utterly cast away all thoughts of admitting any
peace with the Swedes; and for the compassing of his revenge,
free in a servile manner complies with the Moscovite, purchasing
his assistance at a dear rate, for, the Pole is willing to quit
to him the possession of Lithuania and Prussia as soon as It can
be recoverd out of the hands of the Swede, and being grown
insolent with the confidence hee hath of the Moscovites
strength, he hath high designes, and would willingly pull out
one of his own Eyes, if so be he could put out both those of the
Swede.
But the Swedes are not quite in so forlorne a condition as
men have imagined; for, the same Letters do acknowledge,
that the Cossacks have sent their Ambassadors to the King of
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