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A55718 The present state of Hungary. Or, A geographical and historical description of that kingdom giving an account of the nature of the country, and of its inhabitants, of its government and policy; its religion and laws; of its division into counties and provinces; of its towns, castles, forts, rivers lakes, mountains, product, mines, minerals, and other rarities. Together, with the memorable battles and sieges that have happened there since the time of the Romans; but more particularly since the Turkish invasions. To which is added, a short account of Transilvania, and the lofty titles taken by those Turkish emperours, who have made war in those countries. 1687 (1687) Wing P3266; ESTC R218986 53,134 187

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with a powerful Army the Chief Commanders of the Hungarian Army perswaded the young King who being hardly Twenty years of Age was much wanting in Conduct and had not Forces sufficient to make head against the Turks to give them Battle without staying for the Succors that were to come to him from Transilvania They were puffed up with their former Victories and so swollen with a good Conceit of themselves that they ●hought none were able to stand against them and that their Reservedness might make the Hungarians enter●ain a bad opinion of the resolution of ●heir Army The Event answered ●he rashness of that Counsel for that ●ovely Army of the Hungarians consist●ng of the best part of the Nobility ●nd chief Forces of the Kingdom was ●outed and cut in pieces The King was ●ot killed in the Fight but his Horse ●hrew him into a Mire where he ●tuck and died after he had for a ●ong time fought Valiantly with the Barbarians on the other side of the Town His Body was found two Months after the Battle in the River ●f Czelepatuka and was interred in ●he Burying-place of the Kings in the City of Alba Regalis That unhappy ●efeat of the Christians and that ●ictory of the Turks occasioned in the ●equel the loss of the chief part of the ●ingdom of Hungary The Bishops ●hemselves aswell as the rest of ●he Clergy made it apparent in that Battle that they were very good Soldiers for the common Cause of Christendom for no fewer than six Bishops were killed in that fatal Overthrow and amongst them Paul Tomorie Archbishop of Colocza one of the chief who had advised the King to engage in that Battle His Head was carried to Solyman who called it a foolish Head and incapable of giving its Master good Council This is the Inscription that was made in memory of that fatal day Ludovicus solo nomine secundus Ad coronas natus non formatus Diadema Hungaricum secundo quarto aetatis Bohemicum Ut Immaturus acquisivit Ita maturè secum utrumque perdidit Foelicior si solus perire potuisset Eandem tamen cum Rege fatalis urna sortem Experire coacta Hungaria Ducenta suorum millia eodem luctu deploravit Luctuosum praevisorum malorum initium Lachrymabile futurorum dolorum argumentum THE BATTLE OF S. GODARD THis Battle was fought the first of August in the year 1664. at St. Godard betwixt Kermin and Canisa in the Lower Hungary In this place one half of the Turkish Army passed the River of Raab to attack the Imperialists but hardly were these Troops got over the River when without giving them time to entrench themselves the Imperial Forces under the Command of General Montecuculi being drawn up to receive them forced them to fight and utterly defeated the greatest part of the Turks the rest betook themselves shamefully to flight who crowding in great haste to re-pass the River threw themselves head-long into the Water and were carried away by the Stream so that the Rapidity of the River forcing along with it Men and Horses they were drowned in the deepest places it being certain that more perished in the Water than by the Sword And the Turks themselves acknowledged that they lost many more Men than the Gazets of Europe mentioned To which they added that their Histories did not speak of so great and so shameful a Disgrace happened to the Ottoman Empire since it had attained to so high a degree of Power as that Disaster was The Turks left above Eight Thousand Men upon the place and the Glory of the day to the Imperialists which was immediately followed by a Peace that the Turks proposed and greedily embraced of which these were the Conditions 1. That Transilvania should continue within its ancient Limits and with its ancient Priviledges under the Command of Prince Michael Abaffi 2. That the Emperour of Germany should have Liberty to fortifie Gutta and Nitra 3. That the Turks should make no Innovation in the Regulation made for the Frontiers as well of Hungary as of the other Territories of the Emperour 4. That Abaffi should pay six hundred Thousand Crowns to the Port for the Charges of the War. 5. That all Acts of Hostility betwixt the Emperour and Grand Signior and their Subjects should for ever cease 6. That the two Provinces of Zatmar and Zaboli given to Ragotzi for Life should again return to his Imperial Majesty and neither the Prince of Transilvania nor the Grand Signior pretend any Right to them 7. That the strong Castle of Zechelhyd which revolted from the Emperour should be demolished because neither Party would renounce their Pretentions to so important a place 8. That Waradin and Newheusel should remain in the Possession of the Turks who had carried them by their Arms. 9. That for Confirmation of the Peace the two Emperours should send Ambassadours to one another with reciprocal Presents of equal value THE BATTLE AND RELIEF OF VIENNA The 12th of September 1683. Instead of a Description of that happy day I shall here publish the Letter of the King of Poland written in Latin the Day after the Battle to the Marquess of Grana then Governour of the Netherlands with the Translation thereof nothing being more Authentick than the Contents of it JOHN III. By the Grace of God King of Poland Great Duke of Lithuania Russia Prussia Massovia Samogitia Livonia Kiovia Volhinia Podolia Poldachia Smalenscia Severia and Czernihovia ILlust me grate nobis dilecte Vocati in subsidium periclitantis Viennae lectis confestim militaribus Copiis quam angusti temporis spatio priùs viarum incommoda distantiam loci ripas Danubij demum cacumina montium saltus sylvarum Viennensium superaverimus famam distulisse non dubitamus Nobis vel id Illustritati Vestrae referre placet quòd sine injuria communis Christianorum solatij reticere non possumus Deo auspice Comite Serenissimorum Principum Ducum Electorum Fortunâ Christiani Exercitus quorum nobis cuncti detulerant Imperium die hesternâ in Campis praesentibus insignem saeculis memorandam de Turcis Tartaris reportarunt Victoriam Magnus quippe Turcarum Visirus integris Orientis Hanni Crimensium superbus viribus jam non Viennae duntaxat intra triduum ni subventum fuisset periturae sed universae Christianitatis spem deglutiens acie praelio unius diei coesus atque fugatus est Peditatus vulgò Janisseri utpote tardior militia aequalique cum Equestribus fugae insufficiens in Castris deserta Victorum relicta discretioni Castra ipsa longitudinem latitudinem duorum ferè milliarium exaequantia capta Tormenta atque integra res tormentaria cum opimis spoliis in praemium victricium cessêre armorum Vienna gravi obsidione extremis liberata periculis suaque sedes reddita Caesari Vlteriori Victoriae mox metam posuit ac turpi fugâ sese recipienti hoste terrore panico in Pannoniam monstrante viam umbra fuit beneficium
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