of Batory's candidacy, would raise to even greater fame and wealth after the new monarch arrived. However, most of the important offices were taken by the supporters of Jan Zamoyski and the Zborowski brothers gradually lost importance. This made them enemies of the new king and two of them, namely Andrzej and Krzysztof, started to plot with the courts of Moscow and Vienna against the life of the monarch. Samuel tried to rehabilitate himself by raising a Cossack regiment and taking part in the war against Muscovy and the Velikiye Luki (Wielkie Łuki) Campaign of 1580, where he proved to be a courageous warrior. However, the sentence was not changed and the Zborowskis received no reward or recognition for their efforts. Samuel then moved to Dzikie Pola region where he was a celebrity among the Cossacks; together they carried several raids against the Ottoman Empire, angering king Batory, who wanted to pursue a policy of appeasement with Ottomans. In 1584 Wojciech Długoraj, a notable composer and virtuoso lutenist in Zborowski's service who was maltreated by him, turned several incriminating letters written between the Zborowski brothers (Krzysztof and Samuel) to their enemy Jan Zamoyski. In these letters they described their preparations for the assassination of the king. Batory told Zamoyski that Zborowski should be executed; however as he had no power to issue such an order, Zamoyski would act on the basis of the 1574 banishment sentence. In May 1584 Zborowski entered the area of Lesser Poland (Małopolska), which was then under jurisdiction of Jan Zamoyski. He was arrested in Piekary and executed on 26 May 1584 at the Wawel hill by beheading. Długoraj was forced to flee to Germany for fear of Zborowski's heirs, who swore revenge. Despite the fact that the execution was fully lawful, it was seen by many of the szlachta, most notably by the Protestants, as an act of vengeance or abuse of monarch power, a warning to the dangers of absolutism (especially pronounced given the power of Poland's nobility, amounting to a quasi-democracy). Zborowski would be remembered by many as a martyr. His brothers moved to avenge him and tried to gain support from other nobles. At the November 1585 local sejmik, Krzysztof Zborowski and his men filled the church where the meeting was to take place (and where Zamoyski was to appear) and disrupted the proceedings with brandished weapons, openly calling for the other