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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25682	The declaration of the Hungarian war lately set out by the most illustrious Michael Apafi, Prince of Transilvania, against the Emperour's S. Majesty : according to the Transylvanian copy, anno 1682.; Declaratio belli Hungarici. English & Latin	Transylvania (Principality). Sovereign (1661-1690 : Apafi Mihály I); Apafi Mihály I, Prince of Transylvania, 1632-1690.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3526; ESTC R16479	15,644	33

the Kingdom or that it was done because the fatal period of a flourishing Kingdom was now at hand that they who refused to obey the Lawful Prince of native blood might against their will endure a stranger for their Lord. To these Evils was added the Contempt of the Nobility and Chief Men of the Kingdom who maugre the power of Laws were by little and little excluded or removed from Dignities and Publick Offices and subjected to the Command and Insolent Domination of Foreigners thus Injuries daily increasing and Power growing strong the state of Hungary was fallen so deeply that scarce the image and footsteps of ancient Liberty could be any longer known whatsoever seemed illustrious and high was neglected and born down ruine and destruction was prepared for every formidable Courage or Virtue Petitions profited not nor Lamentations in vain were Appeals made to the King's Faith and Publick Rights will stood for reason yea whatever they listed and thought fit was done according to the measure of over-grown Power Complaints were sometime admitted but for a shew and revenge by vain and fruitless words sent back more often were they eluded by upbraiding and mockery The ambition of Governours and Officers of the King with their insatiable Covetousness and deadly exercise of Cruelty were grown to such a heighth that the having of Riches rendered Men suspected and obnoxious to the King and Publick State hence by most wicked pretences Riches were extorted Goods sequestred and taken away that either the Leaches to whom it was all one whether Hungary stood or fell might satiate their greedy Maws or the Exchequer the ruine of the miserable and infamous receptacle of horrible plunders be cram'd The true and genuine appellation of things were long since banish'd for to bestow other Mens Estates for a Reward to Traitors was called Clemency to distribute the Fortunes of others in exile and illegally banish'd among the Bastards of their Country Liberality to pardon the Innocent was coloured with a title of Mercy Laws Rights Judgments In short all both Divine and Civil Affairs were in the hands of the Germans but in the Kingdom Poverty and Oppression with a shameful and abominable face of things With these and other almost innumerable Injuries when the vigorous minds and such as were impatient of slavery were above measure oppress'd at last their too long Patience being turned into Revenge they betook themselves to just and lawful Remedies and calling to mind that by their free Suffrages they had chosen a King not an absolute Lord they endeavoured to reduce that extravagant and indirect Form of Government to its due course For remedy therefore they betook themselves to War for with sudden Conferences and by reason of common Fears and loss of Liberty an unanimating Society moreover the goodness of the Cause incourage the noble Nation to take up just and necessary Arms thereby to endeavour the restoration of their buried Liberty to the splendour of its former Integrity according to the tenor of the Decree of King Andrew the Second surnamed of Jerusalem and that without any mark of unfaithfulness or rebellion The first that attack'd Luxuriant Power was the Magnanimous Hero Stephen Botskai a Man of excellent Wit and famous for Prudence and Warlike Vertue and esteemed greater than a private man whilst yet private this Man being exasperated by great Injuries opposed himself to the raging Violence with small Forces indeed but with a great and undaunted Courage and with a valiant and heroic Mind falling upon a part of the Emperour's Army did happily overthrow it and put them to flight and following on his first Victory he filled both the Kingdom and the World with his wonderful Successes having justly deserved by the unanimous consent of the Hungarians to be declared the Prince of Hungary and Transilvania being the restorer of Liberty which to his immortal glory he not only raised from the dust but also prescribed the manner of Governing to the then King vid. Rodolph the Second and his Successors that they might no longer transgress their Power limited and bounded by Law Now Peace and Publick Tranquility seemed to be well provided for most ample Articles being establish'd by the Treaty in which by the Faith and Publick Deed of the King provision was made that both Ecclesiastic and Civil Liberty should remain safe and secure but not long after the Inhabitants found by experience their hope deceived them and that the expectations of Mortals have but a slippery foundation for the most Illustrious Botskai being snatched away a little after the Peace and so by immature death leaving Grief to the Hungarians and a new occasion to the ambitious whilst almost at the same time Funeral Solemnities were performed both to the great vindication of Liberty and relapsing Liberty it self a matter to be remembred by all Posterity that the newly recovered Liberties should have as it were new Funeral for presently the opportunity was laid hold of to annul the new made Articles as if they had been extorted by force of Arms against the Faith and Conditions of Peace whereas indeed they were voluntary and free Which unbridled License and breach of Faith and Oath the true-hearted People of the Country grievously resenting that they might obviate renewed Mischiefs with a new and efficacious Remedy look'd back upon and betook themselves to that ancient Power and Protection of my Predecessors viz. of resisting oppressing Kings The Zeal of pious Intentions was helped forward by the outrage of exquisite Oppressions and the overthrow of Divine and Humane Laws whereby my Ancestours Gabriel Betlen and George Rakocie the first Princes of Glorious Memory being provoked here I comprise in one Abridgment double Injuries and as many Acts of War to avoid the Enumeration of Particulars that they might as they say strangle a neighbouring Evil in the very birth and repel incumbent and burthensome Power and reckoning the Afflictions of a Calamitous Nation their own imployed all care to remove or mitigate them but always with that intent to restrain an insolent and extravagant Domination within legal Bounds and Priviledges lest otherwise the final destruction of Religion and Liberty should overwhelm a most flourishing Kingdom with the damage and prejudice of whole Christianity Arms being again resumed for defence of a most just Cause which the Divine Power crowned with so great blessing that the Austrian Kings being affrighted with increase of Arms and unexpected Success of their own accord offer'd Peace concluded and confirmed it by Faith and publick Royal Decree but this Peace also ratified by the vast strength of a double Treaty did neither restore the hoped for Tranquillity nor lasting Liberty the Kings took occasion rather by such Truces in a state of imaginary and faithless Peace by wonted and smooth Artifices to infect and divide the Minds of the great Men and Nobles whom by Force or War they could not break in pieces It would be too long and a needless labour to

thought would contradict their unlawful attempts Three Counts by unlawful Proceedings were condemn'd and slain by the detestable hands of Common Executioners to give a memorable Instance of Cruelty to the whole World but neither did this suffice to fill up Revenge the Injuries of this Bereaving were augmented whilest Children after their Parents kill'd or banished were afflicted with yet another Sorrow being reduced to Beggary To this Tragedy was added the seizing of the Protestants Temples wherein fury and madness raged with such fierceness that one would have thought they had waged War with the Sacred Edifices and that the Walls were Rebels on a sudden the Ministers of the Churches were thrust out of the Parishes and sent to exile from others Promises of never returning being extorted by force and threatnings that so they might Preach no more they saved their Lives and had liberty to depart out of their Countrey many as it were peculiar Sacrifices were condemned and sent away to the Galleys horrible and detestable the Example that there leading a hard and sorrowful Life they might be worn out with mourning filthiness toil and fasting Besides the Violence of Persecutions the execrable Domination over Conscience was persisted in neither were Men allowed to be married nor Infants to be baptized but by a Catholic Administrator Men were every where driven to Mass and Processions by Force and Arms and they that strove against it suffered great Punishment and Fines Neither indeed were the Women free from danger who because they could not be charged with Treason were yet accused for Weeping 't was nefarious and dangerous to mourn under their Miseries and forbidding them to bewail their Kindred condemned to dye Moneys were by various Arts and devised Names publickly and privately extorted from the miserable Common People Garrisons drawn off and others imposed Laws given from Lust every where Rapins Spoils and an innumerable number of Calamities and Oppressions By these and other unexpressable Injuries and Cruelties the banished Lords were provoked having been precipitated by extreme Violence to the utmost loss of Life Liberty and Fortunes and being destitute of all succour from Christians they saw no further hope of mitigating this Severity taking therefore resolution under so great Necessities for the relief of the Kingdom and so many Innocents exposed to ruine they fled to the Favour of the Resplendant Othoman Port imploring the Protection of the same against most unjust Violence And their Proposal was not in vain their Requests were easily admitted for those whom extreme hard Fortune and too much Austerity had expelled out of their Country to those the Othoman favourableness graciously granted refuge security and means to sustain and support Life Such oftentimes are the Works of the Divine Being that when Furies are even in the midd'st of success secure then suddain Vengeance overtakes them that Terrour may never be wanting to the wicked nor Hope to calamitous virtue I know indeed there are many that put an ill construction upon this act of extreme necessity and preposterously reproach the Hungarian Nation and blame them as degenerate from the Christian Name but these People are either ignorant of the fundamental Liberties of Hungary or too favourable to the Austrian Party For they should know and well observe that the Kings of the Austrian Family in Hungary obtain the Sceptre and Crown by Suffrages of free Election the same which in this Kingdom is both the most equal and most ancient kind of Government and are bound by Faith and Oath which under the open Canopy of Heaven they are wont to depose to preserve the Liberties From this Faith and Oath there arose a true and proper Obligation which was necessary not only for exercising Government rightly and according to the Prescript of the Law and Royal Charter but moreover gave power to the Palatine of the Kingdom as to the Keeper of the Liberties that he might together with the People contradict and resist the King when degenerating from the allowed and ordinary Power to Cruelty and an unjust License of Lording Liberty therefore was not cut off nor in case of reduction to due governance dispaired of a power of procuring the Protection of any one even the Ottaman as being a neighbour Monarch Many Years are now pass'd since this most unhappy Kingdom being placed between two Powers torn by the one and press'd by the other represented to the whole World a miserable Tragidy the former never took up Arms against Hungary or laid them down without an increase of his Empire but with the diminution of the home Borders of the latter whence it is come to pass that almost the whole is fallen under the Dominion of a most potent Neighbour wherefore since this Kingdom every where bordering upon a most mighty Monarch must of necessity sustain his first Assaults but the House of Austria in their Government hath never sought or intended any thing beside the depression of the Hungarians and the subversion of their Liberties and especially the modern Cesarian and Kingly Majesty hath forced the People of their own nature most plain an equal to a disgraceful lowness and a miserable state whilst desparation which is most mighty in great perils has armed them and since by the space of eleven years exile they neither saw nor could hope for any moderating of Oppressions it seemed more advisable to fly to the Protection of a most Potent Prince and to use his help in a Cause of the highest and inevitable Necessity in respect to the common good than either to grow old in mournful Banishment or to precipitate that small part of the Kingdom yet remaining into manifest peril Neither are the Hungarians tho first that have implored the Ottaman Protection in their own defence Henry and Frederick Brothers to the King of Castile Pope Clement the Fourth in the Chair when they had the Conrades their Associates called out the Sarazens by Sea and Land not to defend their Province but to eject the French out of Italy Maximilian of Austria that he might repel the Violence offered and which was his chief intention that he might overthrow the Venetian Common-Wealth laboured to provoke the Turk to his assistance Francis the first King of France carefully observing the Ambition and Formidable Power of Charles the fifth made no scruple to call in help from the Turks neither was it disgraceful in our times for the renowned Common-Wealth of Poland to call out the Tartars against Christians for the Defence of themselves Let the Christian World therefore judge from the Reasons and Causes aforesaid whether the Hungarian Nation being of a most free Constitution which by its Fundamental Rights and Priviledges had not only part of the Sovereign Power but also in bestowing the Crown had reserved to it self a natural Liberty exempt from Kingly Government To wit in a certain Case if it should happen to resist the King Judge I say whether they have done perversly in submitting themselves to