') The material relating to the sieges of Przemyśl is instructive. First of all, the local starosta, Marcin Madaliński, started a protest on December 4, 1655, when several Przemyśl landowners submitted obedience to the Swedish king, Charles Gustaf. At the same time, defense was undertaken, especially when the king from Lubovla informed the nobility of his return to the Crown, and the castellan of Lviv scheduled a meeting to Wiśnia for January 10 to discuss defense measures there. (C. Prem. 383 p. 23). The voivodeships declared their willingness to form a general militia, so the Wiszno Sejm of February 10, 1656 decided to provide a horseman from every five fiefs, as well as 2,000 zlotys for the fortifications of Przemyśl. to collect, but this sum was not reached due to the invasion of the Swedes.
On March 8, Duglas was already on the left bank of the San, intending to cross to the right bank and capture Przemyśl. According to Jemieszowski, he was 3.0' 0 people. There was no police station in the city. Although the September sejmik in Wisze, Stanisław Koniecpolski was appointed commander in Przemyśl, the castellan of Lubaczów was busy elsewhere at that time, so the king from Lviv, ordering the rescue of the city, entrusted the command in Przemyśl to Jerzy Godlewski (C. Pr. p. 214), adding his engineer to his side, with whom Godlewski had contacted. he was to communicate in matters of fortification (Ib. p. 280). The king called on the local citizens to provide subjects and provisions to strengthen the fortifications. When Duglas San was there, the defense had already been ordered. Godlewski staffed the castle with the crew of the hetman of Kiev, Stefan Czarnecki, he entrusted the defense of the town gate to Captain Herbiński, the castle gate to the Cyrulic guild, the tailor's tower to Captain Swola, the shoemaker, and he entrusted the defense of the Safian, locksmith's, ruler's, Lviv saddlemaker's, waterman's, and hatmaker's towers to other captains or guilds. brewing. The order of this defense dated March 13 is in the Oblate in the act of Superior. gr. bar 383 p. 225.
Just like the crossing of the San River, during which many Swedes died due to the collapse of the ice, the Swedes also failed in their assault on the city. Already on March 17, Stefan Czarnecki could have congratulated the city in a letter for driving away the enemies from under the walls (C. Prem 383. p. 220). Both he and the Crown Hetman (Ibidem p. 829) attributed the defense to Godlewski, ordering the townspeople not to look for any other threat than Godlewski >who with his bravery forced the enemy to abandon the siege in confusion> - or as the Grand Hetman says. »with considerable damage*. Similarly, the king praised the bravery of the defender (Ib. p. 240) and the defenders of the townspeople, who distinguished themselves, especially during their attacks on the besieging forces. They were famous and distinguished; townspeople Jan Parchanowicz, Abraham Krownicki, Piotr Pankiewicz, whom the king freed from all wages for 12 years as a reward for their bravery. (Ib. p. 277). Jan Elesz, a citizen and merchant of Przemyśl, also distinguished himself and as a reward he received from the king the privilege of being the current royal secretary, dated in Krakow on October 9, 1669 (C. Prem. 410 p. 1219). As a secretary, above and beyond his duties, he had to take care of the municipalities, armories, walls and gates of the city together with the judge of the mayor's bench, Jakób Wernasolari.
Godlewski remained the city commander, and he urgently sought fortification (C. Pr. 383, p. 2.38), supported in this direction by the king and Czarnecki (Ibidem p. 27!), 280, 827). There are numerous ordinances regarding fortifications in the records of the Przemyśl town, proving that the praise given to Godlewski was deserved. Still
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