the Horses Waggons and Carts that could be found were immediately hired and the Waggons and Carriages filled with all sorts of Persons who could take away with them only what was most valuable an took up the least room And in short nothing but Cries and Lamentations were to be heard in every Place as if the Turks had been already Masters of Vienna and this lasted all that Afternoon But while these Things were in Agitation they discovered from Vienna the Village of Vishamund where the Duke was encamp'd July 7. and another little Place hard by it all on a Fire which still doubled the Consternation of the Inhabitants so that as many as remained behind upon the Emperor's going away looked upon themselves now as quite undone However this Fear blew over again by the News that soon after came that the foresaid Places were not fired by the Enemy but by the Carlessness of the Suttlers and others that followed the Camp and at last they grew pretty secure when they saw the Duke of Lorain July 8. with Drums beating and Trumpets sounding come in good Order with his whole Cavalry by the Walls of the Town and passing the Bridge over a Branch of the Danube about half a Mile above Vienna which forms an Island there and where the Duke posted himself with his Cavalry But he was no sooner lodged there than that the very next Day a great Conflagration was seen both far and near all being in Flames especially towards the Frontiers of Hungary where not only all manner of Edifices but even the Fruits and Product of the Earth were consumed with Fire Neither did the Province of Austria it self fare better all being laid desolate as far as Newstadt beside the bloody Carnage made of the innocent Inhabitants and all this by the barbarous Tartars Things being in this Posture without and the Enemy still approaching all Hands were set on work to put the Town in a Posture of Defence by clearing the Ditches erecting Pallisadoes upon the Counterscarp and every Body appeared very active in the Matter and so much the more since Count Staremberg who had some Days before left the Foot and Artillery marching slowly towards Vienna took the Appearance of some Troops upon the Hill of St. Mark not for his own Men but for the Forlorn of the Enemy's Army sent before to make way for the main Body to form a Siege as they were in reality which put him also upon making further Preparations of Defence by setting the Suburbs on fire tho' that could not give the Inhabitants that Satisfaction as the Approach of their Foot did who July 13. and the Day following came up as did also several Bodies of the Enemy with this difference that the Turks encamped between the Town and the South-side of the Danube whereas the Imperial Foot marched on the other side of the River without Resistance and through the Island of St. Leopold entered Vienna about Midnight to the inspeakable Joy of the Inhabitants and as many of them as were necessary were distributed by Count Staremberg the Governour to their several Posts there being before not above 2000 Men in the Place The Turks posted themselves about the City on the 14th in the Form of an Half-Moon and 2 Days after when they had made their Trenches at least 2 Yards deep to secure themselves from the Shot of the Besieged they began to throw in their Bombs tho' with little Success However they continued to advance their Works and Trenches towards the Court and lebel Bastions and even by the 16th had got almost within 30 Paces of the Ditch notwithstanding the continual firing made upon them from within They raised at first 3 Batteries towards the Bastion aforementioned which in a little time they reduced into one great one from whence they played with great Fury as they did also with their Mortars So that on the 10th a great Bomb falling upon the Spanish Ambassador's Lodging destroyed all the Noblemens Stables that were built under that part of the Rampart where it fell but the Fire at length by the Governour 's Care was put out And to prevent as much as might be such a Conflagration for the future all the Roofs of Houses that were of Wood were ordered to be pulled down the Governour in his own Person giving Example of his Obedience thereunto And because they perceived the Enemy carrying on double Lines of Communication for the joyning of their Trenches the Governour ordered a Sally to be made under Count Guido of Staremberg which was executed with that Success that many of the Turkish Miners were killed or taken and amongst the rest one who gave the Governour Misinformation of many Things relating to the Enemies Camp However he was mightily concerned about giving the Duke of Lorain Intelligence of the State of Things and to that End promised publickly an 100 Ducats to any one that would undertake to carry a Letter over the Danube to him But there was none found that would adventure it at that time tho' the Duke had better Success on his part in a Thing of the same kind For on the 21st a Messenger arrived from him safe in the Town by swimming over the Branches of the Danube and escaping all the Sentinels of the Enemy that were upon the Shoar The Letters which he brought were fastned to a Bladder and hung about his Neck wherein the Duke encouraged the Besieged to be of good Cheer for that the Enemy would be shortly forced by a pitch'd Battel to raise the Siege great Succours being expected from the Empire and Hereditary Countries as also from the King of Poland who was on his March and already advanced as far as Olmutz But all this while the Turks were not idle for after they had possessed themselves of the Island of St. Leopold they terribly battered the Town from thence and did great Damage and carried on their Designs with great Caution and Secresie But on the 22d there were Letters brought to the Governour from Christopher Caunitz the Emperor 's Resident at the Port and who was now detained in the Turkish Camp that gave him some Information of Things tho' this Correspondence quickly ceased for the Thing was so generally talked of in Town that the Grand Viâ—ier came to hear it and so took care to secure the Messenger that went back with the Governour 's Answer who however cunningly dropp'd the Letters that were covered with a Ball of black Wax by the Way so that the very next Day every Family was ordered to provide a Man to watch in their Cellars and to give notice of any Noise of digging they should hear But the Enemy sprung 2 Mines that same Evening towards the outward Angle of the Counterscarp tho' without any considerable Effect On the 25th the Turks towards Evening began to keep Holy-day with an hideous Noise of Bells and Pipes their ordinary Musick which when some of the Christians heard from the Place
where they kept Guard upon the Edge of the Ditch which was not 10 Foot distant they invited the Turks to dance with them that so the Musick might not be lost but they had quickly other Sport For the Turks sprung a Mine under the Pallisadoes which blew up many of themselves as well as the Christians tho' the Enemy attempted thereupon to enter into the Ditch by the Breach their Mine had made which occasioned a smart Encounter with considerable Loss on both sides And amongst others hurt this Day the Governour himself received a Wound in the Hand But it unfortunately happened the Day following that the Messenger which the Duke of Lorain sent with Letters to the City as he was going back the same Way with an Answer in Cypher was intercepted by the Enemy of which they gave the Besieged notice by tying the said Letters to an Arrow and shooting the same into the Town with the Addition of the following Words That it was in vain for them to endeavour to send Letters to their Army the miserable State of Vienna being sufficiently known to all the World which was but a just Judgment of God Almighty in punishing the Christians for the Breach of their Faith whereby they had provoked the Emperor of the Turks to that Expedition The Turks continued their Approaches for the following Days towards the Counterscarp and the Christians still defended themselves by all proper Methods and amongst others they sprung a Mine July 30. in the Enemies Trenches with very good Success and obliged them to spend a good part of the next Day in making good their Trenches and the Remainder in carrying on their Mines which they did so far towards the Ditch that they and the Germans could not only talk together but they fell foul upon one another with pieces of Sticks and Pallifadoes till at last the Christians taking up the Iron Hooks which they made use of in their Works and hooking in the Turks drew them within their Trenches or else fixing Sythes to long Poles struck at the Enemy through the Pallisadoes and killed all they could reach with them but that did not hinder the Besiegers to ply the Town with Bombs and not only so but to carry on their Trenches with great Diligence whilst the Germans endeavoured in vain with their Bombs and Granadoes to disturb them It was their Practice as soon as they had made their Trenches to cover them immediately with great Pieces of Wood over which they laid Boards and Bags of Sand where they secured themselves so well from the Shot of the Christians that the Baâ—ha's and even the Grand Visier himself taking these Trenches for their safe Retreat ordered them to be made very large and spacious and to be divided with several Appartments which they paved with Tyles and furnished with Tapestry where nothing was wanting that was necessary for the Convenience of Living It was now Aug. 1. when the Enemy in the Night threw up the Earth from the Trenches at least 3 Yards higher than the Places where the Christians kept Guard endeavouring from thence to burn the Pallisadoes But the Men that defended them opposed the Enemy with great Courage and beat them back while others fetch'd Water from the Bottom of the Ditch and put out the Fire Tho' this was not effected without the Loss of a great many Men on both sides but of a greatter to the Turks the next Day by springing a Mine which the Christians had carried from the Lebel Bastion to their very Works and which blew up a great many of them To which was added soon after the Burning of the Boats the Turks had brought together at the Island of St. Leopold by a Party of Germans that sallied out of the Town whom the Governour generously rewarded for so fortunate an Undertaking But the Turks were so far from being discouraged herewith that on Aug. 3. at Night they attacked the Counterscarp having for that End thrown up Earth for many Days over the Pallisadoes whereby they got above the Germans and from thence fought Hand to Hand against them with Guns Scimeters and Javelins the Infidels basely shooting vast Numbers of poyson'd Arrows against the Christians However the Christians stood stoutly to it still and maintained their Posts And the Turks on the other side were also as obstinate for after the first Attack they sprung a Mine upon the outward Angle of the Counterscarp which broke the Earth thereabout near the Palisadoes from which tho' the Germans retreated a little at first yet some of them ventured presently after to fix them up anew while others drove away the Turks from the Posts they had gained They continued still firing both from their Guns and Mortars with wonderful Fury the succeeding Days by which and throwing Hand-Granadoes they were enabled notwithstanding all the Endeavours of the Christians to the Contrary to throw up so much Earth upon the Counterscarp that carrying it before them they filled the Ditch of the Ravelin in order to make their Assault the more easie But the Christians withstood them with all imaginable Courage and the Governour himself was almost every where present encouraging the Soldiers and calling them Brothers And Aug. 6. at 4 in the Morning he ordered a little Bed to be brought to the Place where the Emperor's Guards used to lodge that he might be nearer at hand on all Occasions But tho' the Duke of Lorrain was able to beat Teckely who was ravaging Moravia near the River Marow and to force him to retreat to his former Station upon the Waag he was not then in a Condition to relieve the Town and so the Siege was press'd on And Aug. 7. at Night there was a sharp Combate between the Besieged and the Enemy who keeping the high Ground were exposed on all sides to the Shot of the German Out-guards who were lodged upon a Level with them upon the Side of the Ditch Whereupon they threw up a great deal of Earth in order to secure themselves and then began to fill up the Ditch with the Earth to make it even with the Counterscarp and the Ravelin to facilitate their Attack And tho' the Germans endeavoured with all Privacy to wheel away the Earth the Turks discovered them and rushing out of their Trenches and Galleries towards the Lebel Bastion they drove away the Besieged with a considerable Slaughter and all the Day following continued their Works with great Diligence carrying on their Mine to the very Ditch of the Ravelin which the Germans observing and fearing they would attack the Ravelin they drew off their great Guns from thence and planted them upon the Walls of the Town but left some Men upon the Ravelin to annoy the Enemy with Small-shot That Night Count Daune and Count Souches by Direction from the Governour who was then sick made a vigorous Sally with 300 Men and succeeded so well that they set fire to the Enemies Galleries by which they made their Passage
were to be left to continue the Siege and they being almost finished by the 5th of August he began his March that Day We shall at present follow the Duke of Lorrain in his March and give you an Account of the Issue of it and then return to Newheusell Aug. 8 he passed the Danube near Comorra and next Day reached to Dotis otherwise called Thasa from whence his Highness with the Elector of Bavaria advanced towards the Enemy with a design to Attack them in their Camp before Gran if they came not out to fight them As they approached nearer they understood how vigorously the Turks pushed on the Siege of Gran and the brave Resistance the Garrison continued to make On the 14th a Renagado Polander who had for some time served the Turks came into the Imperial Camp and inform'd the Duke of Lorrain that the Turks believing the Imperialists not above 20000 strong had resolved to Attack them Upon which Information the Duke who was encamped with the Army near a Morass which covered the Turks resolved to retire that very Night an Hours March thereby to confirm the Enemy in their Opinion of the weakness of the Christian Forces which being effected in very good Order the Turks without losing any time passed the Morass thinking to surprize the Imperialists in their Retreat But they were strangely mistaken for they found them drawn up in very good Order Yet they fell on with their usual Shouts and charged the Right Wing commanded by the Elector of Bavaria and afterwards the Left Wing where the Duke of Lorrain was in Person and likewise endeavoured to flank them but they were beaten off with the greatest Bravery imaginable With this being somewhat discouraged but much more in that they found themselves deceived in the Account they had of the Strength of the Imperialists they began to fall into great Disorder which was very much encreased by the Discharge of 30 Pieces of Cannon laden with Small-shot with which the Imperial Troops opening they fired upon them and made a great Slaughter And at the second Discharge they fled being pursued by the first Line of the Christians and a great many illustrious Voluntiers who on this Occasion gave great Proofs of their Courage While they repassed the Defiles on the side of the Morass the Imperial Troops followed them very close and cutting in pieces all that opposed them they entred their Camp and made themselves Masters of it where they took all their Tents Baggage and Artillory the latter consisting of 23 Pieces of Cannon and 4 Mortars the Enemy at the same time fleeing towards Buda while the Hungarians and Croats with a Detachment of Cuirassiers and Dragoons commanded by the Baron de Merci the Count de Stirum and Colonel Heusler were sent in pursuit of them This Victory was so much the more signal and advantageous to the Imperialists in that tho' there were 4000 Janisaries and 2000 Spahi's of the Enemy slain yet it did not cost the former above 100 Men and among them no Person of Note But Vicegrade had unhappily fallen into the Turks Hands before this for while the Serasquier was engaged in the Siege of Gran before which he lost near 3000 Men he had sâ—nt before the Duke came up a Detachment of 12000 to Attack it having then only a Garrison of 300 Christians who yet made a very brave Defence till at length the Enemy having made a Breach with their Cannon and Mines they Capitulated to march out with their Arms and Baggage to the Danube where they Embarked and were conducted by Water to the Imperial Army 5 while the Enemy thought fit to demolish the Place But this was nothing in comparison of the aforesaid Victory or the Taking of Newheusel that followed which happened after this manner The Besiegers having made their Approaches by Galleries Cannon and Mines so far that a Breach was made at one of the Bastions which was so broad that 3 Men might enter a breast General Caprara and the Duke of Croy having called a Council of War thereupon resolved to give a general Assault the next Day being Aug. 19 and sent their Commands into all Quarters to provide accordingly So that first having sprung 3 Mines about the said Bastion and Curtain which tho' they had not the desired Effect so as to ruin some Retrenchments of the Besieged yet they so far benefited the Christians as to facilitate the Assault by opening a Gap 12 Foot wide and of a pretty easie Assent Hereupon they immediately fired upon the Town from all Quarters which put the Turks within into such a Consternation that for a Time scarce a Man durst appear so that laying hold of the Opportunity whilst they played also with their Bombs and Carcasses upon the Besieged the Count of Scherffenburg was the first that entred the Place on the Right side of the Bastion The Sieur Ronimel at the same time pushing in at the new Breacheâ— a little on the Left General Dumont who commanded the Lunemburghers vigorously backing the Assault This Vigour of the Christians brought the Besieged to set up two white Flags upon their Retrenchments but the former were now so eager that there was no bridling of them so that they immediately mounted the new Retrenchments and after a little Opposition the Imperialists rushed all into the Town putting all they found to the Sword Hassan the Basha was brought desperately wounded to General Caprara and about 10 Officers more were Saved Besides the great quantity of Ammunitition and Provisions they found there they had also 75 pieces of Cannon which Cannon they had all dismounted save 6. Of this Success the Duke of Lorrain was advertised as he was upon his March from Gran with an Intention to put the finishing Hand to it himself which made him alter his Motion and go in quest of the Enemies Army who rallied about Buda and whom he could not draw to a second Engagement during the rest of the Campaign However he had done in Hungary so much already that the Serasquier thought fit towards the latter end of August to send an Aga to his Highness who after having kissed his Hands and lifted them up to his Forehead presented to him a large Letter wrapped up in a piece of Crimson Sattin of which this is an exact Translation TO Our good Friend the Duke of Lorain present Generalissimus of the Emperor of the Germans Greeting We make known as a good Friend that Achmet Deschelebi formerly Defrerdo which is as much as to say Commissary of the Timarriotes of the Fortress of Neuheusel having represented to Vâ— your Friend in case We desire a Negotiation of â—eace We ought to send Letters to which you might give Credit For this Cause these Presents have been written and sent unto You. And as We your Friend desire hereby for the Service of the Creatures of God that means may be found to restore the Tranquility of the Subjects on
Ireland qualified by the Tests to serve sent over an Army of Irish that were not qualified to encrease the English Army who by this time were grown intolerably insolent though the King by several Orders would have had their Quarters restrained to Victualling Houses Houses of Publick Entertainment and such as had Licenses to sell Wine and other Liquors The Officers too when they pleased would be exempt from the Civil Power And tho' the King had no other War upon his Hands but against the Laws and Constitutions of the Government yet he would make an obsolete Act of Parliament that made it Felony without Benefit of Clergy for any Soldier 's taking Pay in the King's Service in his Wars beyond Sea or upon the Sea or in Scotland to desert from his Officer to extend to this new-raised Army And because the worthy Recorder of London Sir John Holt would not expound that Law according to the King's Design he was put out of his Place and so was Sir Edward Herbert from being Chief Justice of the King 's Bench to make way for Sir Robert Wright to hang a poor Soldier upon the said Statute which afterwards did the Job without any further Dispute It would be an endless Thing to enumerate the disorderly Proceedings of this Year yet I doubt you will hear of no less in the next but you must stay a little and take a View of Foreign Proceedings before we shall have leisure to enter upon them And first we shall again begin with Hungary since we have nothing considerable nearer Home where the Imperial Arms to say nothing of other Advantages had prevailed wonderfully in taking of Buda the Capital of that Kingdom which so nettled the Turks that they resolved to use their utmost Efforts to retrieve their Honour this Season while the Imperialists were not idle on their part and the Scheme of the Summer's Business seemed to have been thus designed The whole Army which amounted to 62900 fighting Men besides the Troops of the Circles of Swabia and Franconia and others was to be divided into 3 Bodies the 1st being to act in Vpper Hungary under the Command of the Elector of Baâ—â—aria the 2d in Lower Hungary under that of the Duke of Lorrain and the 3d upon the Frontiers of Croatia under General Dunewald and that they might have Communication one with another there were 2 Bridges made one over the Drave near Tarnovitz and another over the Danube near Buda in the Isle of St. Marguerite and with this Disposition all the Troops rendezyoused near Barkan where the Duke of Lorrain arrived May 13 in Person from whence he sent out several Spies to discover the Number and Posture of the Enemy These reported They were stronger than the Imperial Army and were busie in repairing the Bridge of Esseck which after divers Consultations made the Duke move towards the said Place and the Croatian Army advanced also the same Way while the Elector of Bavaria with the Army under his Command seemed to threaten Erla in Vpper Hungary But other Work was cut out for them in the Lower as you 'll hear by and by For the Duke of Lorrain being advanced towards Feutar broke up June 17 from thence and continued his March towards Esseck and because the Army left Alba Regalis behind it a Body of Light-Horse were left behind to cover the Baggage and on the 18th a Bridge of Boats was laid near Tolna over which the whole Army passed by the 20th and encamped a Mile from thence and removed afterwards to Mohatz as they did their Bridge likewise that so the 2 Armies might succour each other The Duke at the same time sent an Express to the Croatian Troops to secure the Bridge that was laid over the Drave near Syclos and there erect likewise that of Boats that they carried along with them which was punctually performed From Mohatz the Duke marched on the 24th to Darda aside of the Bridge of Esseck which as soon as the Turks who were hard at work in repairing the Bridges over the Morass had Notice of they abandoned their Works and retreated towards the Bridge of Boats they had over the Drave and which they had secured with a good Fort of Earth and Wood having left some Bodies of Horse and Foot among the Moraffes to dispute the Approach of it with the Imperialists The Duke the Night following caused the Bridge and Disposition of the Enemy to be view'd and ordered the necessary Detachments to attack them by Break of Day when Word was brought him that the Enemy had taken away 2 Boats of their Bridges and that there was no appearance of them However a Detachment from the Army crossed the Morasses on the 25th and advanced towards the Enemies Bridge of Boats in good Order who when the Christians were come within an 150 Paces of them fired very furiously upon them so as that they were forced a little to retreat but being sustained with fresh Troops they charged the Turks with so much Resolution that they quitted their Post and retreated into their Fort from whence the Imperialists also drove them whom they pursued as far as the Gare of Esseck where they had like to have entred the Town Pell-mell with them The Imperialists endeavoured to preserve the Bridge but several Mills and Boats being set on float were by the Rapidity of the Stream thrown so impetuously upon it that they broke one part of it and hindred the rest from being seized on insomuch that it was now thought most advisable to set it on fire Next Day after having viewed the Ground and a Draught taken for the Building of a new Fort they began to break Ground which yet was not done without Disturbance from the Enemy but the very same Day the Christians entirely ruined the Dykes which the Turks had made upon the Morasses in the room of the Bridges that had been burnt towards the End of the last Campaign which was difficult Work And then it was resolved that a Line of Communication should be drawn from the Entrance of the Morasses as far as the Fort that so under its cover the Troops might pass that should be needful for its Defence in case the Turks were minded to attack it Things thus passed on till the 28th when the Duke of Lorain having chose out from among the Soldiers such as could Swim best he ordered them to go and fire the Boats Mills and Barges which the Turks had posted within Musket-shot of Esseck They punctually executed their Orders but the Enemy put out the Fire before it produced any Effect which with many other Considerations made the Duke call a Council of War next Day where having judged it impossible to pass the Drave at the Place where they were encamped it was resolved to break up from thence And accordingly on the 30th the Duke having left the Cavalry to guard the Pass and to ruine the Bridges of the Morass departed with the Infantry
the 12th in the Evening the Troops began to approach towards the Castle and take their Posts to hinder which the Enemy made a vigorous Sally but they were at last repulsed with a greater Loss to them than to the Christians Insomuch that the Latter secured their Posts and opened their Trenches within Musquet-shot of the Walls and began to work on 2 Batteries On the 13th the Turks made a greater Sally with much the same Success and next Day they play furiously with their Cannon and threw a great Quantity of Granadoes and Bombs which did no great Execution no more than did another Sally they-made But a Detachment of the Garrison of Temeswaer which the same Day by the Help of Boats got into the Castle some what heighten'd their Courage but it did not at all daunt the Besiegers who carried on their Works and on the 17th by Break of Day they began to baâ—ter the Walls of the Castle with 6 Pieces of Cannon when they understood by a Deserter that the Enemy were hard at work in their Mines The Workmen of the Besiegers by the 17th carried on the Trenches within 10 Paces of the Ditch tho' not without great Loss of Men and then they began to raise 2 new Batteries The next Day they possessed themselves of a Mosque on the Brink of the Ditch And the Day following they drew 2 Parallel Lines on the Right and Left to compass a greater Space of Ground as well on the side of the Castle as the Town and made 2 Redoubts to support the Heads of them which were performed in spight of all the Opposition made by the Enemy On the 22th the Besiegers having perfected their Works the great Cannon and Mortars arrived from Buda and on the Day following they battered the Castle very furiously made divers Breaches and beat down part of the Fortifications And although the Turks made a Sally with an Intent to attack the Redoubts they were beaten back again with great Loss Now it was that the assured News was brought into the Camp that the Prince of Baden had killed 3000 of the Enemy and that the Turks had set fire to and abandoned Grandisca Debitza and Jesnewitz as also that General Veterani had taken Carensebes and the strong Castle of Salancar The Cannon still played furiously with great Slaughter on both sides when on the 24th a Letter was brought and presented to the Elector of Bavaria from Osman Basha of Aleppo the Tenure whereof together with His Electoral Highness's Answer take as follows Osman Basha's LETTER to the Elector of Bavaria HOnour of Princes believing in Jesus Chosen among the most Noble of the Christian Nation Pattern of Magnificence Possessor of all Splendor Duke of Bavaria and Chief General of the Roman Empire Maximilian whose Ways be prosperous after Salutation be it known unto you That the most Serene Great and Mighty Ottoman Emperor Monarch of the World our Lord having sent with His Serene Letter to the greatest of the Christian Kings the most Serene Emperor one of His Well-deserving Servants Sulficar Effundi Adorned with several High Degrees of Honour whose Praise be increased and the present Drugerman of the Renowned Port a Mirror of the Nobles of the Christian Worship Alexander whose Ways end happy They are arrived here and because they are going to You and according to Ancient and Laudable Custom have need for Themselves and a Hundred Persons of Pass-ports and Safeguards to be sent from Your Army this Our present Letter is Written and Dispatched unto You. After the Receipt whereof We hope that Pass-ports and some People for a Safeguard will be sent hither that the above-mentioned may as They are Commanded repair to you They will upon their coming near GOD willing send again to You to the End a Convoy may come from Your Army to meet and receive them from the Basha sent with some Troops from hence that so the Respect and Safety of Ambassadors observed by all Nations as is fit and necessary may remain in its Ancient Lustre therefore You know how careful both sides ought to be of their safe Passage For the rest Prosperity be to those that shall follow the True Direction Given in Our Army near Nissa Signed Osman Basha of Aleppo To this Letter the Elector of Bavaria after some consulting of the Matter in Council with the Chief Officers of the Army returned this following Answer Maximilian Emanuel c. To Osman Basha Greeting c. WE have received the Letter You sent Us from the Camp near Nissa where You give Us to understand That an Ambassador by Name Sulficar Effundi and the first Drugger-man have Orders from Your Emperor to come to Our Army Now although we being inclin'd to Military Actions might well refuse their coming hither or which none could take amiss in the present Juncture of Affairs might put it off till another time since We do judge their Proposals will little agree with Our present Intentions yet being moved by a Christian Compassion We do grant that They may come to Our Army and We will favourably Hear what Your Emperor has Commanded them to Propose unto Us for which Purpose We have Commanded that a Passport be prepared for their Security and delivered to the Person that brought Us your Letter We have likewise given Order to the Commandant of Semendria that in the Manner directed him and with a sufficient Number of Troops he Conduct them safely to Our Army upon which they may firmly rely Given in Our Camp near Belgrade c. Though some Paces were made on both sides towards a Treaty in pursuance of these Letters and the Passports were sent to the Turkish Ambassadors to come and negotiate the same they did not succeed But this we shall have occasion to mention hereafter and therefore we shall pursue the Siege and observe that the Besiegers on the 25th possess'd themselves of another Mosque of great use to them because of its convenient Situation near into which the Besieged sprung a Mine on the 27th as they did another next Day with a Design to ruine the Christians Works which though it blew up short yet the Blow occasioned great Disorder and this was much encreased by one of the Besieged's Bombs setting Fire to several Quintals of Powder that blew up 7 or 8 Men that were on the Battery On the 29th the Elector sent a Captain with an Interpreter who was a Greek to summon the Governour to surrender who was so enraged with it that he imprisoned the former and hanged the latter so that the Siege went on the 30th and following Days of Sept. with wonderful Vigour shewed on both sides yet so that the Besiegers by plying their Batteries and springing their Mines made such Breaches both in the City and Castle and filled the Ditch to that degree by the Second of Sept. at Night that it was concluded seeing the Besieged obstinarely declined to return an Answer to the forementioned Summons and that the
this time the German Succours to the number of 8000 good Soldiers with the Elector of Bavaria at the Head of them were come which made Catinat who before pretended no less than to besiege Turin it self to repass the Po with his Army and send Expresses to Court to send him some Re-inforcement while the Marquess de Hoquincourt in the mean time besieged and took the Town of Montmelian the Duke of Savoy thinking to relieve it in vain But the Castle required a greater Strength to master it yet of this by and by We shall now see what the Duke of Savoy did after so great a Re-inforcement from Germany They laboured all they could to engage Catinat to a Battel but he as industriously declined it So that at last the Confederates finding it would not do they passed the Po near Carde and on the 27th of Sept. Prince Eugine of Savoy invested Carmagnola and by the 3d of Oct. the Trenches were opened and 26 great Cannon and 8 Mortars arrived from Turin Three several Attacks being raised the same day between which were Lines of Communication made on the 4th from thence to the 7th the Siege was carried vigorously on when they began to throw Bombs into the Town and at the same time received Advice That Catinat after having quitted Fossano Savillana and Saluces was retreated towards Pignerol but on the 8th the Garrison beat a Parley and the Capitulation was signed the next Morning upon honourable Terms I have given an account before how the French possest themselves of this Place but I did not mention that the Articles upon which it was given up to them were not performed with the Fidelity they ought to have been for the French took from the Vaudois that were in Garrison their Cannon Arms and Baggage and threatned to detain them Prisoners if they did not give up what was demanded of them without Resistance But for this the other resolved to be now revenged upon them and therefore they way-laid the French upon the Road and assailed them with extraordinary Courage taking away their Arms and a good part of their Baggage which the Germans observing they thought it much better to be doing also than looking on and so they compleatly gleaned the poor French of what the Vaudois had left them Of this tho' Monsieur Catinat made heavy Complaint yet all the Answer given him was That they were truly sorry it should so happen but that he himself had set them the first Example however that for the future they would take care to prevent any such Disorders All this together with the Vaudois the very next day after the Surrender of Carmagnala beating 3000 of the French that were detached to do Mischief into the Vallies and killing about 500 of his Men made the French General very uneasie However this did not hinder the Council of France from resolving upon the Reduction of the Fortrâ—ss of Montmelian whether Monsieur Catinat was ordered to repair to take the Command of the Army upon him which arrived before the Place on the 16th of Nov. and after a most vigorous Siege wherein they were to Conflict as well with the Rigour of the Season as the desperate Defence of the Garrison it was at last surrendred to them upon the 22d of Dec. upon honourable Terms and by it they became now entire Masters of all the Dutchy of Savoy the French King all this while being caressing the States of Italy by his Embassador the Count of Rebenac for fear the Apprehensions of the Danger they might be in because of the success of his Arms might move them to close in with the Confederates and thereby encrease the number of his Enemies who as they stood might prove too many for him Now 't is time for us to leave Italy and see what has been doing in Hungary The 2 last Years were as different in Success to the two contending Parties as perhaps ever was known and the Turks no doubt were now big with Expectations and possibly had hopes to regain all their Losses by another Campaign for which they had made very great Preparations neither was the Emperor on his part backward therein but engaging the Prince of Baden to Command the Army he pretty late in the Summer joined the same near Peter-Waradin from whence he decamped with a Resolution to march towards the Enemy who lay about Semlin on this side the Save and whose Cavalry on the 10th of Aug. shewed themselves in the Morning drawn up in a Line a little from the Imperial Army But this was only an Amusement they having no intention to fight For tho' the Prince came very near the Turkish Camp on the 12th and did all he could to provoke them they would not stir out of it but he did not at all think it adviseable to attack them there since they were invironed with a broad deep Moat defended with good Redoubts and a 150 Pieces of Cannon mounted upon Batteries and therefore he retreated a little to tempt them to come forth and so much the rather because they were forced to go as far as Salankemen for the Provisions that were sent to the Army which could not come any further by Water because the Turks were more numerous in Saicks upon the River from that place than the Christians were And in effect the Prince was not mistaken in his Conceptions for the Turks thinking the Christians were fled sent some Troops to fall upon the Rear which they did all the while the Army march'd who still continued in motion on the 17th tho' it was so misty that they could hardly discern one another But as soon as it cleared up they heard the Turkish Drums and found their whole Army was marching towards them yet because the winding of the Danube hindered the sight of the Enemy in that part only in the flank the Christians made a motion to secure the Saicks that lay at Salankemen and to have them to that purpose in Front and tho' the Army was posted well yet upon the 18th Orders were given to retire into a more advantageous Post and to possess all the rising Ground about Salankemen But while this was doing and by that time that it was day they discovered upon the right hand a considerable Body of Turks marching in order of Battle upon the right Road to Peter-Waradin with a design to prevent the Christians from making themselves Masters of the first Hillocks near Salankemen and their Vessels and Saicks at the same time near unto those of the Christians with a design to seize them and 3 or 4000 Horse engaged with the Left Wing along the Danube skirmishing all day but still retiring when the Christians made any shew of resistance while Buquo's Regiment of Dragoons that in the mean time was detach'd to convoy 200 Wagons that came from Peter-Waradin was surrounded by a considerable Body of the Enemy and after long resistance were almost all cut in Pieces and made
Prisoners notwithstanding some small Detachments sent to their Relief who could do no good against such an unequal Number and the Loss of this Regiment was not only confirmed the same Day by an Adjutant of Caprara's Regiment who made his Escape but that the Recruits of the Regiments of Hoffkirken and Caprara had fallen under the same Misfortune and that all the Baggage Women Wagons and led Horses were lost with 200 Wagon Load of Provision and 1200 Oxen that drew them In the mean time they perceived that the Enemies Army lay posted along the Danube upon rising Grounds much more advantageous than those possest by the Christians and that they were at work to fortifie them and to cut off the Christians Communication with Peter-Waradin The Prince of Baden saw plainly he had a desperate Game to play and that he must either force the Turks in their Entrenchments or perish in a Station where there were no Provisions to be had from any other place whereupon the former was resolved on and to be the next Day which was the 19th of Aug. at what time all things were ordered in the following manner Duke Christian of Holstein who was on that part of the Right Wing next the Danube with his own Regiment and that of Neuburg was to make himself Master of the rising Ground that separated the Imperial Army from the Enemy and by that means to open a way for the Body of the Army and these were to be seconded by 20 Battalions under the Command of General Souches and Camp-Mareschal Staremburg and the Army which followed in order of Battle had orders to extend it self as much as possible from the Danube to the Plain while the Left Wing had orders to march through the Plain and attack the Enemy in Flank and Rear and this was to be the principal Attack because the Turks had posted almost all their Janizaries and planted all their Cannon upon the rising Ground against the Right Wing of the Christians having nothing to secure their Flanks but only some Wagons bound together and lying almost open in the Rear It was very difficult for the Germans to approach them because of the Hills Vallies and Miry Ways which they were to cross and tho' they had decamped very early in the Morning the Attack was not begun by the Right Wing till 3 in the Afternoon and they labour'd hard to carry the Trenches But in regard the Left Wing which was to fetch a great Compass through very bad ways required a considerable time to get near the Enemy those of the Infidels who perceived it had leasure to advance with their Horse and with the same design to fall upon the Imperialists in the Rear In the mean time the 2 Battalions of the Right Wing attack'd the Entrenchments and advanced where the greatest number of Janizaries were drawn up in very good order of Battle and very strongly entrenched having a wide Moat before them defended with good Redoubts 100 Paces one from another with which the Imperialists were strangely surprized who knew how little time the Turks had to do it But however all this could not hinder them from bravely advancing to the Trenches at what time some of the Granadiers went down into the Moat crossed it and got up to the very Trenches But all this was attended with much Loss for besides the playing of the Enemies great and small Shot continually upon them the Janizaries came also 3 times out of their Trenches with their Scymeters in their Hands and fell with extraordinary Fury upon the Imperial Foot that were almost tired and suffocated with the Fire and Smoak Holstein and Newburg's Regiments of Horse and 2 or 3 others suffered very much thro' the continual Firing of the Cannon of the Janizaries And at the same time all the Left Wing of the Enemies Cavalry fell upon the Right Wing of the Christians and very rudely handled the Regiments of Caprara Serau and Beck that were the first exposed to their Fury At that time the Prince of Baden seeing them in some disorder and perceiving his Left Wing was got at some distance from the Enemy advanced with some Troops that had not yet fought and flew with that Vigor upon the Infidels that he forced them to give Ground whereby a stop was put to the Fury of the Enemies Left Wing for a while But they resuming fresh Courage fell again upon the Regiments of Caprara and Serau whom they drave upon the Battalions of Beck and Kaunisch who were by that means utterly ruined before they had time to make their first Discharge upon their Adversaries yet the Troops of the second Line that began already to totter being supported by two Regiments more took fresh Courage and all things were well again in that Wing Now the Prince of Baden whose design was only to amuse the Enemy on that side and whose principal drift was to charge them in Flank and Rear seeing all things well restored in the Right Wing hastned with other Generals to the Left and being arrived at the Turks Camp ordered the Hungarians and Rascians to the number of 5000 to break in who presently overthrew all before them making a most dreadful Slaughter of the Infidels and this was the beginning of the Turks ruin For the Hungarians and Rascians being seconded by the Regiment of Hoffkirk and 4 or 5 more that composed the Left Wing the Spahi's and Janizaries defended themselves well for a time but at last were utterly defeated the Spahi's brake thro' the Battle of the Imperialists and the 2 Lines of their Horse received the bloody effects of all their Shot But the Janizaries who stood a little longer fled some one way some another Night only putting an end to the Slaughter However they continued the pursuit next Day and the Days following and killed a great number that hid themselves in the Bogs among the Rushes and in other by-places And the immediate consequence of this Defeat was the Imperialists possessing themselves of the Field of Battle of all the Tents Cannon and all the Baggage and of all the Enemies Ammunition and Provision The Mony also for the Payment of the Soldiers fell into the Germans Hands but that proved to be no great Purchase for they found the greatest part of the Coin they made use of was Copper But for all that the Booty must certainly be very great though at the same time it cost the Christians dear For besides the advantage of their Camp it is past all doubt that the Infidels never fought with so much Obstinacy and Courage as at this time there being not a Battalion or Squadron that was not oblig'd to Fight nor an Officer that was not in the thickest of the Action and forced to discharge his Pistols several times like the meanest private Soldier The Loss on both sides is almost incredible the Conquerors themselves owning they had about 7000 killed and wounded in all and among them a great number of
Coaequation and that his Pension be reserved to him That for the Sum which he promised to pay some Ensigns out of his own Money the same should be taken out of what should arise from the four Quarters The Artillery was to be paid out of the Revenue of Lipiuski Germoreski and Winosopski till the succeeding Dyet of which the General of the Artillery was to give an account to the succeeding Dyets at hand That the Artillery should be laid up in the Arsenal of Wilna from whence it was not to be taken out but to be employ'd against the Enemies of the Republick That Protection should be granted to the Lithuanian Tartars as well for their Estates as Persons upon Condition that they took forthwith the Oath of Fidelity to the King and the Republick Having thus dispatch'd the Affairs of the North I shall not amuse the Reader in this place with the Naval Fight that hapned between the Venetian and Ottoman Fleets in the Waters of Mitylene on the 20th of September since I cannot with any Certainty assign what Loss was sustained or the Victory to either side so various have the Reports been tho' the former laid a Claim to it but design now to resume the Negotiations of the Peace with the Turks already mentioned but because the same has spun out into the new Year before the final Conclusion of it I shall here according to my Custom briefly touch upon the Remarkables of the last Towards the beginning of February dyed Frederick Casimir Duke of Courland at Mittau the place of his Residence who was succeeded by his Son Frederick Casimir a Child of of about Six Years Old During whose Minority Prince Ferdinand his Uncle who has embrac'd the Popish Religion would have taken the Guardianship and Administration upon him But the States have interposed and the young Prince is to be bred up a Protestant The third of the same Month was also fatal to Ernestus Augustus Elector and Duke of Hanover and Bishop of Osnaburg who departed this Life at Hernhausem He was born November the 10th 1629. being third Son to George Duke of Lunemburg and Anne Eleonora Daughter of Landgrave Lewis of Hesse-Damrstadt He was married in 1659. to the Princess Palatine Sophia Daughter to Frederick Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart Daughter of King James I. and Sister to King Charles I. by whom he had several Children and whereby it appears the present Elector his Son is next in Succession after the Royal Family here by the present Constitution of the Government that no Roman Catholick shall inherit to the Crown of England By the Peace of Westphalia the deceased Elector was designed Bishop of Osnabrug which is a very considerable Country when the Alternative was settled for one time a Roman Catholick and next time a Prince of the House of Lunemburg of which he took Possession in 1668. upon the death of the Cardinal of Wirtemburg the last Roman Catholick Bishop The Emperor was no sooner informed of the Elector's death but that in pursuance to the said Treaty he dispatch'd away a Commissioner to be present at the Election of a new Bishop for which there were divers Candidates and about which the Capitulars were extreamly divided But at length April the 14th they all united in favour of Charles Joseph Ignatius of Lorrain Bishop of Olmutz the Duke of that Name 's Brother who was advanced to that Dignity And now we have mentioned the Death of two Illustrious Persons we shall take notice of as many marriages One was in the North at the Swedish Court between the Duke of Holstein Gottorp and Hedwig Sophia Princess Royal of Sweden which was Consummated at Carelsbourg on the 12th of June without any Solemnity But the other between the present Duke of Lorrain and Elizabeth Charlotte Daughter to the Duke of Orleans the French King's Brother was performed upon the 12th of October at Fontainbleau with so much Pomp and Ceremonious Observances that I have no great Stomach to relate the Particulars and as little to call to mind the death Ferdinand Joseph Electoral Prince of Bavaria who departed this Life February 16th N. S. 1699. not long after as was given out and that very probably the King of Spain had settled the Succession of that Crown upon him and the French King 's Memorial at Madrid upon that Subject was a manifest Confirmation of it And the Truth of it is if there was a Right of Succession any where it must be in the Person of this young Prince by vertue of the Seventeenth Article of the Pyrenean Treaty Which undoubtedly must have stood good in Point of Justice whatever others have said against it in favour of another Person else we must account Don Lewis de Haro one of the wisest Ministers of State that ever Spain bred a â—ool and no Treaties how solemnly soever made of any Validity But now to draw to a Closure we are to remind you that the Plenipotentiaries on either side both Christian and Turk with the Mediators met at Câ—rlâ—â—itz in order to terminate so long and expensive a War by a Peace or at least a Truce for some term of Years It was the â—th of November when the Mediators delivered to the Turkish Plenipotentiaries the Preliminary Articles which mainly in Substance contained That each Party respectively should retain what he had got and the following days till the 12th were spent in preparing Matters upon which they were to enter in Conference that day On the 13th the Imperial and Turkish Plenipotentiaries caused several fair Tents to be set up on the sides of the House appointed for the Conferences and by Nine in the Morning the first arrived at the Mediators Lodgings whither the Turks also repaired at the same time and from thence went altogether to the House of Conference where after mutual Civilities they took their Places in the midst of the Tent which had four Doors two whereof being opposite to one another served for the Entrance of the Mediators and the other two for the Imperial and Turkish Plenipotentiaries The Count of Oâ—â—inghen had the right of the former and Reis Effendi of the latter The Mediators Secretaries and those of the Imperial Embassy were placed behind and the Turkish Secretary who stood up-right before sat down upon the Floor And this was the manner of the opening of the first Conference after pronouncing of these Words God-Grant an happy Pâ—â—ce There was a Table in the midst between the Mediators and Plenipotentiaries And the Conference lasted from half an Hour after Ten till Three in the Afternoon when the Mediators and Plenipotentiaries went out in the same order as they entred But all the while they were within the Emperor's and Turkish Guards besides a great Number of Officers of both Nations environed the Tent. The Conferences were renewed in the same manner the three succeeding days with good Success And among other things they conferred about the Regulation of
the Ratifications of the Peace with Spain and Holland whether any other of the Allies on each side were included or no And the Negotiation had been managed in that manner till the very Day before the Treaty was to be Signed without any apparent Thoughts of a clear Explanation of the Points when the Marquess de les Balbases having either found or made some occasion of enquiring more particularly into the Intentions of France concerning it bethought himself of an Explanation as to the Time of the Restitution of the said Places And in order thereunto went first to the Dutch Embassadors to sound their Opinions upon that Snbject who made Answer That if the French pretended to delay the Restitution beyond the Exchange of the Ratifications it was a Thing not meant by them And thereupon going immediately to the French Embassadors to give them their Explications which they would send to the States-General by an â—xpress The latter made no Difficulty of declaring That the King their Master being obliged to see an entire Restitution made to the Swedes of all they had lost in the War could not evacuate the Towns in Flanders till those to the Swedes were likewise restored and that this Detention of Places was the only Means to induce the Princes of the North to accept of the Peace without demanding that the same Powers who only accepted the Conditions of the Peace That they might as soon as they could disingage themselves from the Misfortunes of the War should engage any other Means for procuring that Satisfaction The Dutch Embassadors having received the States Answer hereupon did June 25. declare to those of France That they could not Sign the Peace without the King did remit his Pretensions and evacuate the Towns upon the Ratifications of the Treaty But the French Embassadors on the other side were firm and said Their Orders were to insist upon the Satisfaction of the Swedes This strange Procedure of theirs made the States send to Monsieur Van Lewen at London to acquaint the King with it and to know his Resolution upon so momentous a Point who was at first hard to believe it but finding the same confirmed by the French Ambassador he was surprized and angry and thereupon sent Sir William Temple into Holland with a Commission to Sign a Treaty with the States by which they should be obliged to carry on the War and he to enter into it in case France did not consent within a certain Time limited to evacuate the Towns which Treaty after he had once fallen into the Negotiation he concluded happily in the Space of 6 Days and the Particulars whereof because I never saw them yet in English and that they may give some Light to this Affair I shall here insert HAGUE July 26. 1678. AS the States-General of the Vnited Provinces after having declared by their Letters to the most Christian King That they consented to the Conditions of Peace as far as in them lay which he had offered them and that his Catholick Majesty who was also of the same Sentiment was willing on his part so far as it regarded him to embrace the same Treaty and having upon that Head used all the Facility that could be and to that End ordered his Embassadors at Nimeguen to set their Hands to those Conditions so far as it related to them as well as the other Allies who were also willing to be comprehended therein have nevertheless understood with much Concern of Mind that the Ministers of France have opposed the same and refused the Restitution of the Places which belonged to Spain and the States without they would first and for the Satisfaction of Sweden restore also those Places which had been taken from them during the Course of the War This so unexpected a Change having obliged the States to believe That Pretensions so ill grounded were rather an Effect of the Repugnancy that might be in the Plenipotentiaries than the real Intentions of his Majesty who had otherwise explained himself and as the said States did besides inform his Majesty of Great Britain of the Essential Point that obstructed that important Negotiation praying him to support so just a Cause and to endeavour to obtain of his most Christian Majesty all that might remove the Obstacles which retarded that Work And adding withal That if his Endeavours should prove fruitless in so just a Work he would be pleased to protect and assist them with all his Forces and that his Majesty did thereupon re-assure them that the Peace was neither just nor feasible upon those Conditions and gave them his Promise That he would defend them if the most Christian King refused it under any Pretence whatsoever Upon that the States gave Orders to their Plenipotentiaries to desire those of France That without making those exorbitant Demands or insisting upon Satisfaction to Sweden they would forthwith conclude and sign the Treaty which they were also ready to do in the Name of the States if his Majesty after the Ratification and Publishing of the Peace would give up unto them all those Places without precending any Restitution to the Swedes of what they had lost since the War With this View and in order to prevent those dangerous Consequences that may arise from such Delay it is agreed between his Britannick Majesty and the States That if their Offices and Endeavours do not surmount these Remora's and if they cannot get the most Christian King to declare before the 11th of Aug. that he will really restore those Places after the Ratification and Publishing of the said Treaty without any further insisting upon these Pretensions of the Swede by a speedy Evacuation of those that ought to be restored by Virtue of that Peace It is then agreed and these Two Powers do agree to declare War against France and to compel her thereto with their joint Forces according to the Conditions stipulated underneath or such as shall be hereafter established between them or with other Princes who shall enter into this Engagement And as his most Christian Majesty hath often declared to his Britannick Majesty as a common Mediator between the Parties in Difference That he would readily embrace a Peace that could be made upon reasonable Terms yet his good Offices and Hopes have not been able to produce the Fruits wished for through the new Pretensions that have been continually raised His said Majesty and the States-General assembled July 26. 1678. believing and being perswaded that Repose cannot be given to Christendom if the Princes who are in War should accept of those Conditions and if as to what concerns Spain and France the latter do not render to the other Charleroy Aeth Audenard Courtray Tournay Conde Valenciennes St. Gistain Binch the Dutchy of Limbourg c. with their Bailywicks Chatellines Governments Provostships Appurtenances and Dependances so as to restore them and put them into the Hands of Spain And as for what concerns the Emperor the Empire and its
whatsoever over the said Countries Places Castles Forts Lands Lordships Demesnes Castellanies and Bailiffwicks and over all Places thereon depending as hath been said notwithstanding any Laws Customs and Constitutions to the contrary notwithstanding though confirm'd by Oath From all which and from the derogating Clauses of derogating Clauses it is expresly derogated by this present Treaty in order to the said Renunciations and Cessions which shall be valid and take place without that the Particular expressing or specification of any one shall derogate from the General nor the General from Particular and excluding for ever all Exceptions upon what Rights Titles Causes or Pretences whatsoever grounded And the said Most Christian King declareth consenteth willeth and intendeth That the Men Vassals and Subjects of the said Countries Towns and Lands yielded to the Crown of Spain as aforesaid shall be and remain discharg'd and absolv'd from this time forward and for ever from the Faith Homages Services and Oaths of Allegiance that they may have made to himself or the Most Christian Kings his Predecessors as also from all Obedience Subjection and Vassalage which they owe him by reason thereof it being the Intention of the said Most Christian King that the said Faith Homages and Oaths of Allegiance shall be void and of no force as fully as if they never had been made or taken VII The said Most Christian King shall also cause to be restor'd to the said Catholick King all the Towns Places Forts Castles and Posts that have or may have been seized by his Arms in whatsoever Parts of the World to the Day of the Publication of the Peace And in like manner his Catholick Majesty shall cause to be restor'd to his Most Christian Majesty whatever Places Forts Castles and Posts may have been seized by his Arms during the present War in any Parts of the World unto the Day of the Publication of the Peace VIII The Restitution of the said Places as aforesaid shall be made by the Most Christian King or his Ministers Really and Truly without any Delay or Difficulty for any Cause or upon any Occasion whatsoever to him or them that shall be deputed by the Catholick King in Time and Manner aforesaid in the Condition they now are without Demolishing Weakening Diminishing or Endammaging the â—ame in any sort and without pretending to or demanding any re-imbursement for fortifying the said Places or for paying what might be due to the Soldiers and People of War there IX It is further agreed That all Proceedings Judgments and Sentences given and made by the Judges and other the Officers of his Most Christian Majesty in such Towns and Places as his Majesty enjoy'd by Virtue of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle and quitted as above to his Catholick Majesty or by the Parliament of Tournay by reason of Controversies and Suits at Law prosecuted as well by the Inhabitants of the said Towns and their Dependances as by others during the Time they were under the Obedience of the said Most Christian King shall take place and be of as full Force and Effect as if the said King continu'd Master and actually possess'd of the said Towns and Countries Nor shall the said Judgments and Sentences be called in question or annull'd nor the Execution thereof be otherwise retarded or hindred nevertheless it shall be lawful for the Parties to seek Relief by Review of the Cause and Course of Law and Order prescrib'd by the Statutes yet so as the Judgments shall in the mean time remain in full Force and Virtue though without Prejudice to what is stipulated in that respect in the 21th Article of this present Treaty X. Whereas his Most Christian Majesty's Ministers after the Peace of Aix la Chapelle maintain'd at the Conference at Lisle That the Sluces both on the West and East-side of the Town of Newport and the Fort Vierboet at the end of the Western Sluce near the Mouth of Newport-Haven and one part of the Fort of Nieuven Dam built upon the Eastern Sluce with the Piers of the said Haven being kept in Repair by those of Furnes were within the Territory and Jurisdiction of the Castellany of Furnes and that consequently they belonged to his Most Christian Majesty And his Catholick Majesty's Ministers held the contrary that they did not and whether they did or did not that it ought to suffice that since the said Fortifications were made as well with respect to the Castellany of Furnes as to the Town of Newport his Catholick Majesty being a Sovereign Prince might Incorporate and Appropriate the said Parts thereof to the Haven and Fortifications of Newport and by that means make them inseparable from that Town It is agreed That the said Sluces and other Parts of the Fortifications of Newport above-mentioned shall remain to his Catholick Majesty as well as the Town it self without any Pretensions ever to be made to the same by his Most Christian Majesty by reason of the Town and Castellany of Furnes being his or otherwise And for the Draining of the Waters of the Castellany of Furnes it shall be continued and his Catholick Majesty shall enjoy the same in Manner and Form as hath been used till now XI The said most Christian King shall retain continue seized of and actually enjoy the whole County of Burgundy commonly called the Franche Comte and the Towns Places and Countries thereto belonging together with the Town of Bezaâ—con and the Liberties thereof and the Towns of Valenciennes and its Dependancies Bouchain and its Dependances Conde and its Dependances though heretofore pretended to be a Member of the Castellany of Aeth Cambray Cambresis Air St. Omer and their Dependances Ipre and its Castellany Warwick and Warneton upon the Lys Poperinghen Bailleul and Cassel with their Dependances Bavay and Maubeuge with their Dependances XII The said County of Burgundy the Towns Places and Countries thereto belonging together with the Town of Bezancon and the Liberties thereof as also the said Towns and Places of Valenciennes Bouchain Conde Cambray Aire St. Omer Ipres Warwik and Warneton Poperinghen Baileul Cassal Bavay and Maubeuge their Bailiffwicks Castellanies Governments Provostships and Territories Demesnes Lordships Appurtenances Dependances and all thereunto annexed by what Names soever called with all the Men Vassals Subjects Towns Boroughs Villages Hamlets Forests Rivers Plain-Countries Salt-Pits and all other Things whatsoever thereunto belonging shall remain by Virtue of the said present Treaty of Peace to his Most Christian Majesty his Heirs Successors and Assignes irrecoverably and for ever with the same Rights of Sovereignty Propriety Regality Patronage Guardianship and Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogative and Preheminence over Bishopricks Cathedral-Churches and other Abbies Priories Dignities Curacies and all other Benefices whatsoever within the Compass of the said Countries Places and Bailiffwicks so yielded up of what Abbies soever the said Priories hold Lands and have dependance upon and all other Rights that heretofore belonged to the Catholick King though not here
particularly expressed So that his Most Christian Majesty shall not in time to come be Troubled or Molested by any means whatsoever in Right or in Deed by the said Catholick King or his Successors or any the Princes of his Family or by any other or for any Cause or Pretence with Relation to the said Sovereignty Propriety and Jurisdiction Appeal Possession and Enjoyment of all the said Countries Towns and Places Castles Lands and Lordships Provostships Demesnes Castellanies and Bailiffwicks of the said Places and of all Things whatsoever thereunto belonging And to this end the said Catholick King for himself his Heirs Successors and Assignes doth renounce quit-claim yield up and transfer as his said Plenipotentiaries in his Name by this present irrevocable Treaty of Peace have renounced given up and for ever transferr'd in favour of the Most Christian King his Heirs Successors and Assignes all the Rights Actions Pretensions Rights of Royalty Patronage Guardianship Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogatives and Preheminences over Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and all other Benefices within the compass of the said Places Countries and Baliffwicks yielded up of what Abbies soever the said Priories held Lands and had dependance upon and in general without any reservation or with-holding all other Rights that the said Catholick King his Heirs and Successors have and challenge or may have and challenge for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever over the said Countries Places Castles Forts Lands Lordships Demesnes Castellanies and Bayliffwicks and over all Places thereunto belonging as aforesaid any Laws Customs or Constitutions to the contrary notwithstanding tho' confirmed by Oath From all which and all derogating Clauses of Derogatories it is expresly derogated by this present Treaty in order to the said Renunciations and Sessions which shall be valid and take place without any derogation from a general Clause by a particular Specification or from a particular by a general one and for ever excluding all Exceptions on what Rights Titles Cause or Pretence soever grounded And the said Catholick King declareth consenteth willeth and intendeth That the Men Vassals and Subjects of the said Countries Towns and Lands yielded to the Crown of France as aforesaid shall be and remain discharged and absolved henceforward and for ever from the Faith Hommage Service and Oath of Allegiance that all and every of them may have taken or made to himself or to the Catholick King 's Predecessors together with all Obedience Subjection and Vassalage that are owing to him by reason thereof it being the Intention of the said Catholick King that the said Faith Hommages and Oaths of Allegiance shall bâ— void and of no force as if they never had been taken or made XIII And whereas his Most Christian Majesty hath declared by the Conditions of Peace which he offered that he was willing to restore the Town of Charlemont or in lieu thereof that of Dinant at his Catholick Majesty's Choice upon Condition that his said Catholick Majesty would charge himself to obtain from the Bishop of Liege the Cession of Dinant and that the Emperor and Empire should consent thereunto his Catholick Majesty has chosen to retain the Town of Charlemont as heretofore and consequently doth oblige himself and promise to obtain from the Lord Bishop and Chapter of Liege an Authentick Cession of the said Town of Dinant and the Emperor and Empire's assent within a Year to be computed from the Day of the Date of the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace which shall be betwixt the Emperor and the Most Christian King And in case his said Catholick Majesty shall not be able to obtain the said Cessions of the Bishop and Chapter of Liege and Emperor and Empire's assent he obligeth himself and promiseth after the Expiration of the said Term to cause the said Town of Charlemont to be put into his Most Christian Majesty's Power for him to enjoy the same in like manner as he shall enjoy all other Places and Countries yielded to the said Most Christian King by the 11th and 12th Articles of this present Treaty XIV And for the Preventing all such Difficulties as the Borders caused in the Execution of the Treaties of Aix la Chapelle and the Re-establishing for ever a good Intelligence between the Two Crowns it is agreed That the Lands Boroughs and Villages reduced within the Provostships that are yielded or that belong to his Most Christian Majesty before this present Treaty or are on the other side of the Sambre shall be exchanged for others nearer to the Places for his Catholick Majesty's Convenience And likewise that the Villages of the Verge of Menin situated too near Courtray shall be changed for others nearer for his Most Christian Majesty's Convenience And likewise that such Villages of the Provostship of Mons as are so far up in the Country quitted to his Most Christian Majesty in Hanault that intercept Communication shall be exchanged for others belonging to the Countries quitted to his Most Christian Majesty that are nearer for the Convenience of his Catholick Majesty and generally that all Lands inclosed within Countries yielded or restored to either of the said Kings shall be exchanged for others of equal value provided that such Exchanges can be agreed upon XV. Commissioners shall be deputed on both sides 2 Months after the Publication of the present Treaty who shall assemble where it shall be respectively agreed as well to proceed to make the said Exchanges as to settle the Bounds between such Estates and Lordships as must remain to each of the said Kings in the Low-Countries by Virtue of this present Treaty as also to clear the real Debts lawfully secured by the Lands and Lordships yielded or restored to either of the Two Crowns and to settle how much each shall pay for the future and in general to make an amicable End of all Differences that may arise in the Execution of the present Treaty XVI If any such Difficulties should arise in the Exchanges aforesaid as may hinder their taking Effect no Custom-Houses shall be appointed on either side to perplex one another and to render the Communication more difficult betwixt Places under the same Dominion and such as shall be settled shall exact no Duties but of such Merchandizes as shall be conveyed from one Dominion to another to be consum'd there or to be carried to Places remote XVII The said King's giving back and restoring respectively the Places afore-mentioned may cause to be taken and carried away all manner of Artillery Powder Bullets Arms Provision and other Warlike Ammunitions that shall be found in the said Places at the time of their Restitution and such as they shall appoint for that Purpose may for 2 Months make use of the Waggons and Boats of the Country and shall have a free Passage by Water and Land to carry away the said Ammunitions And the Governours and Commanders Officers and Magistrates of the several Places and Countries shall give them all the Facilities they can
the Power of the late most Serene Infanta Catherina shall be observed without any hurt or prejudice by this particular Clause to the general Stipulation in this present Article concerning the Performance of the said Pyrenean Treaty and that of Aix la Chappelle XXVII Though their most Christian and Catholick Majesties contribute all their Cares towards the setling a General Peace and that so fair a Way towards it as that of a General Truce gives them Hopes that a Conclusion of whatever may secure the Quiet of Christendom will speedily ensue yet since the said most Christian King doth insist upon it that the Catholick King shall oblige himself not to assist any of the Princes that are now engag'd in War against France and its Allies his Catholick Majesty hath promised and doth promise to observe a perfect Neutrality during the Course of this War without being at Liberty to assist his Allies directly or indirectly against France or its Allies XXVIII And whereas their most Christian and Catholick Majesties do acknowledge the powerful Offices which the King of Great Britain has contributed without intermission by his Counsels and good Advertisements toward the Publick Safety and Repose it is agreed on both sides That his said Majesty of Great Britain and his Kingdoms shall be expresly comprehended in this present Treaty after the best Form that can be XXIX Within this Peace Alliance and Friendship on the part of his most Christian Majesty besides the King of Sweden together with the Duke of Holstein the Bishop of Strusburg and Prince William of Furstemburg as concern'd in the present War shall be comprehended if they please themselves all those that having refused to engage or declare themselves in this present War shall be nominated within 6 Months after the Exchange of the Ratifications XXX And on the one part of his Catholick Majesty shall likewise be comprehended if themselves please all such as having forborn to engage or declare themselves in the present War shall be nominated within 6 Months after the Exchange of the Ratifications and all others that after the said War ended shall likewise be nominated by his said Catholick Majesty XXXI The said most Christian and Catholick Kings do agree That all Potentates and Princes that shall be willing to enter into the like Obligation may give their Majesties their Promises and Engagements of Warranty as to the Execution of whatever is contain'd in this present Treaty XXXII And for the greater Security of this Treaty of Peace and of all the Points and Articles therein contained the said present Treaty shall be published attested and registred in the Court of the Parliament of Paris and in all other Parliaments of the Kingdom of France and in the Chamber of Accounts at Paris And also the said Treaty shall be published attested and registred as well in the Great and other Councils and Chambers of Account of the said Catholick King in the Low-Countries as in the other Councils of the Crowns of Castile and â—â—ragon according to the Form contained in the Pyrenean Treaty of the Year 1659. of which Publications and Enrollment Exemplifications shall be delivered on both sides within 3 Months after the Publication of this present Treaty All which Points and Articles above expressed and the Contents of every of them have been Treated Agreed Passed and Stipulated between the said Embassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the said most Christian and Catholick Kings which Plenipotentiaries by Virtue of their Powers the Copies whereof are inserted at the bottom of this present Treaty have promised and do promise under the Obligation of all and every the Goods and Estates present and to come of the Kings their Masters that they shall inviolably be observed and fulfilled and that they will cause them to be ratified firmly and simply without addition of any thing thereunto and to produce the Ratifications thereof by Letters Authentick and Sealed wherein all this present Treaty shall be inserted verbatim within 6 Weeks to be accompted from the Day of the Date of this present Treaty or sooner if possible And the said Plenipotentiaries have promised and do promise in their said Kings Names that after the producing the said Letters of Ratifications the said Most Christian King as soon as possibly he can shall in the Presence of such Person or Persons as the Catholick King shall be pleased to depute swear solemnly upon the Cross the Gospel and Canons of the Mass and upon his Honour fully really and truly to observe and fulfil all the Articles contained in this present Treaty And the like shall be done as soon as possible by the said Catholick King in the Presence of such Person or Persons as the said Most Christian King shall be pleased to depute In witness or all which the said Plenipotentiaries have subscribed this present Treaty with their own Names and have caused their Seals of Arms to be set thereto Nimeguen the 17th of Sept. 1678. Le M. Dâ— Estrades Colbert De Mesmes D' Avaux Pabla Spâ—nola Doria Conde de Benazuza Marquesse de la Fuente Jean Baptiste Christin Thus you see France was left in Possession of the Peace with Holland and Spain and consequently Master of that of the Empire and of the North upon her own Terms and England left to busie it self about that Popish Fire that was breaking out at home the Stream whereof the Court perhaps designed to have diverted by a Foreign War in Conjunction with the Confederates against France on which they were now as eagerly bent as they seemed at any time before indifferent thereunto however of this we shall say nothing at present but prosecute in as concise a manner as we can the remaining Paces that were made together with the interâ—ening Accidents that happened for putting an End to the rest of the War After tâ—e Peace with Spain was Signed and that with Holland Ratified tho' the Embassadors of the Emperor at Nimeguen were sullen and those of Denmark and Brandenburg enraged yet by the Application of the Dutch Embassadors the Conferences were set on foot between them and the French But how enraged soever the Northern Confederates seemed to be they were now more inclined than ever to consent to a Truce tho' to this the Swedes would not absolutely agree For Pomerania they would willingly accept it because they had reason to fear that the great Losses they had there sustained might be followed by more considerable ones but they were not for it in Schomen where their Affairs were in a better Posture by their taking of Christianstadt which at last after much Difficulty they diadâ—made themselves Masters of However the Losses they sustained in Pomerania were of far greater Concern to them than all they pretended to gain elsewhere And notwithstanding the Death of the Bishop of Munster was a Mortification to the Confederates yet Denmark and Brandenburg go on vigorously with their Preparations against the Isle of Rugen and the Elector
repulsed And yet the same Night tho' a Prisoner gave the Besieged an Account of the Confusion the Turks were in by reason of the approaching Succours they thought it convenient for all that to make another Signal to the Duke from St. Stephen's Tower and the rather since the Turks seemed still obstinate in carrying on their Attacks which they continued with no very great Advantage till the 11th of Sept. when that same Afternoon they drew all their Forces out of their Camp and marched towards the Calemburg which was a certain Sign to the Besieged that their Succours were marching that way and taking the Advantage of the Night endeavoured to get up the Hill whilst the Christian Armâ— met them in the Descent At that time the Besieged also had the Satisfaction to see the Rockets which were thrown up on the Top of the Hill as a Signal of their Approach and which they expected with so much Impatience The next Day which was the 12th of Sept. after Sun-rising the Christian Army advanced from the upper part of the Calemburg moving slowly in close Order from the Carthusian Monastery and St. Leopold's Chappel and extending it self more and more until they made their way out of the Forest when they closed their Lines and marching towards the Plain left a Space for them that followed and room for themselves to move in their Cannon playing upon the Enemy at several Intervals But the Turks were guilty of a very great Oversight in not securing the Passages of the Wood or other advantageous Posts which the Christians found difficult enough to pass tho' they met with no Opposition but perhaps the former vainly trusted to their Numbers having still an Army of an 120000 fighting Men tho' they had lost near 60000 at the Siege whereas the Christian Army without was not above 80000 and 6000 within the Town who yet did good Service upon this Occasion The Right Wing of the Army was given to the King of Poland for that he had most Horse and that the Country was open on that side the Left to the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Lorrain because they were strongest in the Foot and that the Country was inclosed on that side all along the Danube and the main Body to the Elector of Saxony and Prince Waldeck In this Disposition the Generals that Morning according to Appointment met upon the Hill to give the necessary Orders and were no sooner come together but a Body of 10000 Turks appear'd and advanced towards the Christians whereupon a Battallion was ordered to post themselves in a Vineyard that was on an Hill hard by being supported by 3 other Battallions which made the Turks stop For not enduring the Fire of those Battallions and being all Horse and in a Ground where they could not well attack the Foot they contented themselves to make one Discharge accompanied with an hideous Noise and so retired Whereupon the King of Poland and the other Princes having observed the the Disposition of the Enemy drew the Army into 3 Lines and closed without any Intervals as before mentioned and ordered them to march very slowly towards the Enemy and to stand when the Turks came to Charge them keeping themselves very close and not to fire till the Enemy had made their Discharge which was exactly performed for the Enemy advanced towards them with an horrible Cry as if they meant to break in upon them hoping thereby to make them give way or to put them into Disorder But finding the Christians stood firm and expecting them in a very close Order they durst not push any further but halted and still finding the Christians did not stir but stood expecting them they then made their Discharge and wheeled off Upon this the first Line of the Christians fired and that done the whole Army advanced slowly and so gained Ground upon the Enemy who returning came up as before the Christians thereupon made an Halt and expected them and the Turks having made their Discharge retired again which they repeated several times without adventuring to break in upon the Christians who still gained Ground driving the Turks before them like a Flock of Sheep Being come near the Enemies Camp a Body of Foot and Dragoons were detach'd to attack their Cannon which they made themselves Masters of without any great Opposition the Enemy having but a small Number of Foot to defend them and even their Horse made no great Resistance any where tho' they endeavoured on the side of the Right Wing to Charge the Christians in Flank which the King of Poland mistrusting caused part of the second Line to advance and make a Front on that side and charging the Enemy in Person with the first Line made them give way During the hottest of the Battle the Turks attackt the Town and put the Besieged so to it that Count Staremberg was forced to send to the Duke of Lorain for Assistance whereupon the Duke sent Prince Lewis of Baden with a Body of Horse Foot and Dragoons into the City with whose Help all the Turks that were in the Attack where cut to pieces In short towards Evening the Enemy began to give way and fled being pursued by the Christians beyond their Camp and there they made an Halt the Soldiers upon pain of Death being Commanded not to stir out of their Ranks and the whole Army remained all Night in Battle array as if the Enemy had been still present Next Day the Camp was Plundered half a Company going out at a time while the other half continued at their Arms and when they returned these went out in like manner All the Enemies Baggage Provision Tents 50 Pieces of Cannon 2 Horse-Tails the Grand Seignior's Standard and the Visier's own Horse were taken and most of their Foot cut in pieces being computed at about 15000 the rest having perished during the Siege and the Victory was so much the more glorious to the Christian Arms in that they lost not above a 1000 Men in all and very few Persons of Note the Duke of Croy and some others being wounded and that the Capital of the German Empire was hereby relieved which otherwise must inevitably have fallen into the Hands of the Infidels in less than 48 Hours more having already endured 9 Weeks Siege for want of Provisions and a sufficient Garrison to defend it longer their Number being diminished one half and the Turkish Mines ready to blow up the last Retrenchments they had for its Security And because it is fit the Memory of those Great Men that appeared this Day at the Head of the Christian Army and under whose Conduct this signal Victory was obtained should by all just Means be perpetnated to future Generations they were these that follow The King of Poland the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria the Duke of Lorain Prince Waldeck General of the Empire the 2. Princes of Baden the Prince of Anhalt the Duke of Croy the Prince de Salm the
Margrave of brandenburg Baâ—eith the Landtgrave of Hesse the Prince of Hanover the 2 Princes of Neuburg 4 Princes of the House of Saxony and 3 of Wirtemburg the Prince of Hoenzeller and some others The King of Poland next Day after the Battle and the Elector of Bavaria having visited all the Enemies Works and Approaches and with all Expressions of Kindness having taken leave of the Elector of Saxony and the Duke of Lorain entred the Town the King causing the Visier's Standard to be carried before him as he went attended by a small Retinue of his own Subjects to the Chappel of Loretto to sing Te Deum for this great and memorable Victory after which he was accompanied with his Son Prince Alexander who was cloathed in the German Habit to Count Staremberg's House where with the Elector of Bavaria and many of the Polish Nobility as also Count Statgottz who had been sent as Envoy from the Emperor to the King they were all sumptuously Entertained and the King in the Evening retired from thence to his Tent. The Emperor also on his part was no sooner informed of the good News by a Person sent on Purpose to him from the Duke of Lorain but he hasted to Vienna and arrived there on the 14th where after he had visited the Enemies Works and the Fortifications of the Town he enter'd at the Hungariâ—â— Gate between the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria He went to St. Stephen's Church where Te Deum was sung with a tripple Discharge of the Cannon When the Service of the Church was over Emerius Bishop of Vienna took Occasion to represent to the Emperor how that in 1529 when Solyman the Magnificent came in Person with an Army of 200000 Men to besiege Vienna that then at the Prayer of the Besieged he did forbear to shoot at St. Stephen's Tower as being a very artificial and beautiful Fabrick In acknowledgment of which Favour the Citizens had then by Agreement placed on the Pinacle of the Tower an Half Moon and a Star which are the Turkish Arms and they were yet remaining in the same Place But that the Turks having now in Violation of that Agreement continually fired upon that Tower and done it much Prejudice the Bishop for that Reason humbly prayed his Imperial Majesty to grant him Leave to pull down the Turkish Arms and to erect the Cross instead of it Which with the Emperor's Approbation was immediately effected After this the Emperor had an Interview with the King of Poland at the Head of his Army in his Camp and thanked him for the generous Assistance he had given him and all Christendom upon this great Occasion And the King having returned the Complement the Emperor returned to Vienna and shewed Marks of his Favour to all the Princes and Great Men that had signalized themselves in the Action But the Elector of Saxony after this returning soon Home with his Army occasioned various Interpretations The Polish and Imperial Armles having a little refreshed themselves they resolved to pursue the Victory and to that End passing by Presburg they advanced on the 9th of Oct. towards the Fort of Barkan which covers the Bridge of Granâ— the Imperialists having the Van-Guard Near this Fort there were about 14000 Turks encamped being the best Troops of their remaining Army who being encouraged with the Advantage they had a little before near the said Place over the Poles who were forced to retreat to the Body of the Imperialists not then come up They no sooner saw the Christian Army appear but they advanced with a full Speed and a most hideous Cry briskly charging the Imperialists and endeavouring to break in upon them But the Christians kept themselves very close and firm and vigorously repulsed the Enemy who then turned towards the Poles and made a very fierce Charge upon them they were likewise received by the Poles with great Bravery who being very well seconded by the Imperialists made a great Slaughter of the Enemy who seeing one of their Basha's slain and another taken fled towards Barkan being pursued very close by the Christians who fired upon them with their Cannon which the King of Poland and the Duke of Lorain caused to advance for that Purpose Some of the Enemy got over the Bridge of Gran which happily broke to the Advantage of the Christians others threw themselves into Barkan while several of them were drowned and many taken Prisoners so that of the whole Body there could not above 4000 escape This being done the Imperial Foot and Dragoons advanced and the Regiment of Castelli with some other commanded Troops attacked the Counterscarp of Barkan being led on by the Count de Staremberg and took it with their Swords in their Hands putting all the Turks that were there to the Sword but gave Quarter to 〈◊〉 Janizaries I that were in the place who surrender'd at Discretion They found 20 Pieces of Cannon in that Fortress great Quantities of Ammunition and Provisions with many fine Horses and very rich Furniture This place the Duke thought once to demolish but upon better Consideration he ordered it to be repaired and putta good Garrison into it and on Oct. 20 he passed the Danube with the Imperial Army moving towards Gran the King of Poland at the same time being reinforced with the Lithuanian Troops marched towards Agriâ— The Duke who had been before re-joined by the Elector of Bavarina who was forced to leave the Army after the Battel of Vienna by reason of his Illness with 7000 Foot near Barkan with so considerable a Reinforcement sat down before Gran and having understood by some Prisoners that were taken that the Turks who were posted in the Fort upon St. Thomas's Hâ—ll had Orders as soon as they perceived the Christians approach to attack them to retire into the Cittadel His Highness resolved to intercept them and to that purpose he commanded the Count de Scherffenberg being supported by 2 Regiments of Horse to invest the Hill and take the said Fort which was accordingly performed and of 380 Janizaries that defended the place 180 were killed and the rest made Prisoners Yet before 〈◊〉 the Turks had set fire to the Buildings in that Fort but the Christians saved most of them The Duke of Lorain became in this manner no sooner Master of the Hill but he caused a Battery to be raised upon it which did very much annoy the Turks who abandoned the Town and retired into the Cittadel this made the Christians re-double their Efforts and carry 〈◊〉 their Attack so vigorously thâ— on Oct. 27 which was but the third Day after opening of the Trenches the Turks desired to capitulate which the Duke considering the Season of the Year consented to The Articles being agreed on the Turks â—000 out to the number of 〈◊〉 Janizaries and â—000 of the Inhabitants and were conducted several Miles by an Imperial Convoy in their Way to 〈◊〉 The Conquest of Gran by the Imperial
and 4 Senators to the French Court to make their humble Submissions But while the French Monarch was thus triumphing over the little republick of Genoa the Campaign was not in Hungary the general Rendesvouz of the Imperial Army was upon on the 20th of May at Schlesia upon the Waag from whence they moved and Encamped the 30th of the same Month near Schenowitz and from thence by several Marches and Halts by Monday the Fifth of June they came within â—aif a Mile of Neuheusel having as 't was thought a design to Attack the place but being informed on the 10th that the Garrisons of Pest and Budae consisted only of 8000 Men and that there was no more Force besides there save 2 or 3 Thousand Tartars that Encamped near the place and that even the whole Turkish Army between Buda and Esseck consisted of no more than 17000 Men and that there was not any Discourse of a greater Number they ordered thereupon a Bridge of Boats to be made at Cran which the Army marched over and so joined General Mercy and Collonel Heusler who had several Regiments of Horse under their Command and some Foot and the Duke on the 14th after having sent 500 Men under Count Sâ—â—rum before went directly to Vicegrade which was a Turkish Pass and a strong Mountainous Fortress on the Danube where his Artillery arrived next Day he ordered the place to be Attackt at which the Enemy put out a Red Flag for a Signal of Defiance having sent all their Women and Children before with the best of their Effects to Buda However the Infantry posted themselves immediately under the Walls of the Town against whose Walls and Pallisadoes they fired 12 pieces of Canon on the 16th all the day long and in the Evening stormed it which the Enemy not enduring were forced to flee to the Castle and adjacent Mountains but they found no security there neither For the Castle was so Bombed next day that about Noon they began to Capitulate but it happened so that the Conditions could not be agreed on that day because of a flying Report that came from Gran That Baron Halliwell had been worsted by the Enemy which made the Duke with some Horse immediately move that way But upon Confusion of Reports he thought fit to send the Prince of Baden with some Squadrons thither who upon his Arrival found the Action already over which hapned briefly thus The Turks upon their approach to Graâ— about Noon appeared and sounded an Allarm Whereupon General Halliwel who was much mistaken as to their Number went and posted himself upon the left Hand betwixt the two Mountains in a straight Pass with about 500 Horse and gave at the same time Orders to the Lieutenant Collonel of Sax Lauemburg to advance through the Passage and put himself in order Things being thus effected the General from an Hill where he had posted his Men found contrary to expectation the Enemy much stronger than he had thought drawn up in the form of an half Moon and advancing with a design to inclose him which made him think of retiring but it proved too late for he was here killed though Lieutenant Collonel Rabâ—â—â— did all he could to relieve him falling upon the Enemy with great Fury whom he drove back and pursued above 5 Miles from the Place to an advantageous Post where they rallied and in this Action came off with a greater Loss than the Christians From Vicegrade the Duke of Lorain directed his March by the Way of Gran and Barkan towards Waisen sending Colonel Hâ—uster before with 500 Horse to view the Posture of the Enemy who on Monday the 26th brought Intelligence that the Turks were advancing towards Waisen in the hollow Way Whereupon the Duke continued his March and next Day arrived in the Plains of Waisen where the Enemy being about 15000 strong appeared drawn up in Battallia Their right Wing flanked with Janizaries stood upon the Mountain but their left drew towards the City which made the Duke put himself immediately into a Posture of Defence flanking the Cavalry with the Infantry This was hardly done when the Enemy discharged 5 Pieces of Cannon they had with great Fury several times upon the Imperialists right Wing but without any Damage so that they quitted that Station and fell briskly upon the left but were soon beaten back in great Disorder and Confusion towards the right where they were so warmly plied with the German Cannon that they immediately retired the Horse towards Pest and as many of the Foot as saved themselves into the City having lost in all about 1000 and among them one Basha but with very little loss to the Germans especially since the Duke of Lorain escaped so well though so narrowly for his Horse was shot through the Neck during the Engagement The Consequence of this Success was after the firing of some Cannon the Surrender of Waisen upon Discretion From hence the Army marched towards Pest after having garrisoned the other Place with 2000 Foot 500 Curassiers and 300 Dragoons On Monday the 10th of July the whole Army got over the Danube and encamped at a Place called St. Andrew their Left Wing being secured by the Danube and their Right by an unaccessible Mountain and right against them a broad and long Marsh But for all this the Enemy not only advanced towards Noon but divided themselves into 2 Wings and leaving the great Marsh in the middle fell with great Noise and Fury upon the Germans whose Cavalry thereupon a little advanced upon their Left Wing but were immediately ordered back by the Duke's Commands In the mean time the Turks had beaten back the Christians Watch but the Prince of Salm who commanded the Rear-guard stoutly opposed them and being reinforced with a Battallion of Infantry and with some Pieces of Cannon from the Duke he utterly routed and pursued them near upon 2 Miles when the Turks rallied again and fell with great Fury upon the Right Wing tho' a continued 〈◊〉 from 20 Pieces of Cannon which the Germans had planted quickly drove them back to the Tops of the Mountains where they thought to secure themselves But 〈◊〉 Bastemburg Battallion who had before hid themselves in the Bushes of those Mountains did so â—epper them with their Shot that the foremost were constrained to quit them Saddles and the hindermost to seek for shelter among the Bushes from whence they were beaten down headlong by another Battallion into the Valley where they were again extremly gauled by the Germans Cannon and being forced to retire to their Right Wing which by this time had put themselves into some Order they fell with their whole Power upon the Christians Left who bravely opposed them and upon their retreat were intercepted by Sâ—affeâ—berg's Regiment and a Party of Dragoons who had posted themselves on the Right-hand of the Marsh and divers of them slain Upon this they fled to a Mountain where their Artillery was planted and tarried
there all Night and next Day marched in all haste towards Buda after a considerable Loss while the Imperialists in the mean time pitched their Camp within a Mile of the said City in a large Plain and rested there till the 12th of the same Month and on the 12th invested the Place The Germans for the 3 following Days continued to raisâ— Batteries and make their Approaches and on the 18th the Camp was changed part of the Infantry and Cavalry being detached over the Mountains to besiege the Town on thâ— side when a strong Party of the Enemy appeared on the Eminence towards Alba Regalis which the Duke resolved to attack But they intended to assault the Germans Approacheâ— while the Besieged made 4 furious Sallies and beat the Germans on the Danube side even to the Powder-Mill but therâ— were at last every where repulsed and drove into the City The Imperialists the next Day attack'd the Lower Towâ— in 2 different places with that resolute Braverâ— that they eâ—tirely carried it and that with the Loss but of 10 Men the Enemies amounting at least to 200 but the Place having dâ—ring the Assault been fired both by the Turks and Christianâ— thoughâ— the Flame increased not much at first yet a Wind aâ—â—sing in the Night it reduced it almost to Ashes On the 20th the Besiegers begun to raise a Battery on the Right hand of the Upper City upon Gerrard's Mount and towardâ— Evening possest themselves of that Block-house which thâ— Turks had abandoned and the Day following they continue their Battery with much Application when at Night 〈◊〉 't was resolved the Duke of Lorain should go and see out the Enemy who were Encamped about Four Milâ— of concerning which and the Victory that ensued taâ— the Account from the Duke 's own LETTER to the Empâ—ror IT having pleased Almighty God to give Your Imperial Majesty Yesterday being the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen a great and signal Victory I could not omit sending this Express Count Charles de Magni Colonel of Dragoons to give your Imperial Majesty an Account of it with all the Circumstances that have accompanied this great Action Upon the Advice we received on the 21st Instant we were resolved to leave all the Infantry and what Horse was necessary before Buda and with the rest of the Cavalry and 1000 Musqueteers commanded by the Count de Aversburg and 1500 Hussars commanded by Count John Esterhasi to go and meet the Enemy who were encamped 2 German Miles beyond Buda near Hanschabets We marched all Night and by Break of Day were within half a Mile of the Enemies Camp who might easily see and observe us being very well intrenched They came out of their Camp being about 20000 strong put themselves into Battalia and made a shew for some time of attacking us in our Flank but we did our part to hinder their Design and so the Fight begun and God blessing your Majesty's Arms we put the Enemy into Confusion they fled and we followed them very close and became Masters of their whole Camp as at the Raising of the Siege of Vienna of all their Tents Baggage Artillery and all their Riches 4000 of the Turks were slain upon the Place and a great many wounded beside those that were killed wounded or taken Prisoners in the Pursuit we having sent the Hungarians and the Poles after them The Turks had with them 1000 Janizaries who were all cut off We have taken the great Standard of Mahomei which the Sultâ—n gives to the Grand Visier when he takes upon him the general Command of the Army and the Pavilion of the Turkish Officer who is known by the Title of the Serasquier and commanded in Chief this Army in the Absence of the Grand Vifier This Victory through the Almighty Hand of God may be said to be compleat and entire and gives us a Prospect of being in few Days Masters of the Town and Castle of Buda Prince Lewis of Baden Nephew to Prince Herman of Buden pursued the Enemy above 2 Hours at the Head of the Regiments of the Prince of Sâ—â—oy and of General Goiz And it was he that took the Enemies Cannon The faithful Hungarians and Prince 〈…〉 Poles followed them likewise a great way We cannot sufficiently commend the Gourage of our Cavalry and we may say to your Majesty that all the Officers have behaved themselves extreamly well and have out-done what could be expected from them We must truly own that the Count de Caprara Mareschal de Camp General Prince Louis of Baden the Prince de Salm and all the Officers of the Imperial Army have very much contributed to the Glory of this Day We have caused Te Deum to be sung for this Victory And for the rest we refer it to Count Magni to give your Imperial Majesty a more particular Account of what passed CHARLES Duke of Lorain But tho' this Success did considerably heighten the Courage of the Besiegers yet it did at not all abate the Resolution of the Garrison to defend so important a Place to the last Extremity and therefore tho' the former attacked it every way with all the Resolution imaginable yet the other obstinately persisted to repulse them by frequent Sallies and making new Intrenchments and other Defences behind the Works that were ruined by the Imperialists Cannon And this continued for the Remainder of July the whole Month of Aug. and to the 11th of Sept. when the Duke of Bavaria with his Auxiliary Forces arrived in the Camp who taking up their Post on the Left-hand of the Bridge immediately raised a Battery against the Castle and the Elector on the 13th sent a Corporal of his who understood the Turkish Language with a Summons in Turkish and in Latin in his Imperial Majesty's Name to surrender the Town giving him a Captive Turk for a Guide The Basha ordered the Messenger 15 Ducats and told him That he had no need to give up the Town being provided with all Things necessary for its Defence Whereupon the Bavarians fell furiously on and advanced the Siege very much on their side but the Germans succeeded not so well And this continued for several Days when on Monday the 25th of Sept. the Enemy made a more vigorous Sallâ— than they had done at any time before while the Serasquieâ— who had a good Army without used all his Endeavours at the same time to put some Troops into the City over the Hill on the Left of Weissemberg and notwithstanding the great Efforts made by the Christians to repulse them they succeeded so well as to get 600 Men into the Place Now the Siege began to be fainter and fainter and the Besieged appeared every Day more vigorous than other And so Things continued almost for a Month longer when the Garrison made 3 great Sallies on the 24th and 25th of Oct. with so much Resolution that they killed abundance of the Christians and ruined several of their Works the Bavarians were forced
the Town This gave the Christians an Opportunity not only to advance but to possess themselves of an Hill near the Place And this was succeeded with a Summons from the General to surrender But the Governour Saban Basha who was gone to put himself at the Head of a Body of Turks to observe the Motion of the Christians as not believing they durst undertake the Siege of Prevesa The Officer that commanded in his Absence would not receive the General 's Letter but rudely fired upon the Person that carried it Thereupon they landed 4. Pieces of Cannon and as many Mortars on the 22d and next Day shot above 300 Bombs into the Town which burnt several Houses and before Night dismounted all the Enemies Cannon but one and had all this while but one Man killed and few wounded On the 24th they made a Lodgment in the Ditch and began to Mine under the Great Tower of the Place towards the Terra Firma but they were somewhat disturbed by a Sally of the Turks who yet had no great Success So that the Besiegers the 3 following Days advanced their Works notwithstanding the Enemy plyed them very warmly with their small Shot so far that the Mine being ready by the 28th and a considerable Breach made by the Cannon Orders were given for a general Assault But next Morning the Turks prevented them by hanging out a White Flag and sending 5 Deputies to capitulate who required the same Conditions as had been granted to Sancta Maura But the General would allow them no other save that 30 of the most considerable of the Garrison should march out with their Arms and Baggage and the rest without Arms taking only along with them what they could carry which the Turks were forced to submit to And so they marched out of the Place on the 30th of Sept. leaving 44 Pieces of Cannon 14 whereof were large and would shoot a 50 Pound Ball with a considerable Quantity of Ammunition and Provisions to the Conquering Venetians who after this went to Winter at Corâ—u But their Troops in Dalmatia did not yet do so they and the Morlaques under the Dominion of the Republick had all along the War been very successful not only in several Rencounters with the Turks but in divers Incursions into their Country from whence they always returned with good Booty besides possessing themselves of some Places in those Parts But my Design will not admit me to descend to such Minute Particulars and therefore I shall only observe that before the Expiration of this Year they took in the Isle of Narenta and the Castle of Narini And were thereupon joined by a great many of the Neighbouring Greeks But the advanced Season confined them now to their Winter Quarters as I am also confined to close up the History of this Year without superadding any remarkable Adventure as I have hitherto been â—ted to do There is nothing occurs year 1685 worthy of Consideration this Year before the Death of Charles II. King of England who was seized as they gave out of a violent Fit of an Apoplexy on Monday the 2d of Feb. and on the 7th departed this Life in the 37th Year of his Reign computing it from his Father's Death after he had lived 54 Years 8 Months and 8 Days His Character I will not attempt it has been done so well already by a Learned Pen But for his Religion if we believe his Brother that succeeded him he was however otherwise he appeared outwardly in his Life Heart and Soul a true Roman Catholick not only by his Dying in the Communion of the Church of Rome and other Ceremonies of that Church But the Papers taken out of his Strong Box and which his Brother took Care to Publish to the World plainly proved him to be so in his Judgment However be this as it will he had little Regard to any Thing that favoured of Sincere Religion for he would occasionally in his ordinary Conversation ridicule most Opinions and that Religion most of all wherein it was said he died I know not whether it be to his Praise to say He was a Prince the most fit to Govern of any other and applied himself the least to it which was great pitty since he had such an Insight into Men and Things that no Monarch of his Age could pretend to compare with him besides a mild Disposition which made him at his Death be so universally lamented by all sorts of his Protestant Subjects but more by those that dissented from the Publick Church out of the Fear they had of the Religion and Temper of his Successor than any real Kindness for his Government which of latter Years especially had not been very mild towards them But for my part I think a witty Quaker made a truer Judgment of that Conjuncture than any other for appearing very merry and jovial when all about him discovered all the Marks of Sorrow imaginable for the King's Death and being asked the Reason of it he replied He had no Occasion to grieve but the Contrary for that having two to deal withal before 〈◊〉 God be thanked there was but one And now James Duke of York ascends the English 〈◊〉 and having the same Day of his Brother's Death assembled the Council he declared to them That since it had pleased God to place him in that Station to succeed so good and gracious a King as well as so kind a Brother he thought 〈◊〉 to Declare his Endeavours to follow his Brother's Example more especially in that of his great Clemency and Tenderness to his People and make it his Business to preserve the Government both in Church and State as by Law established Commended the Church of England's Principles and Members and said He knew the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King as great a Monarch as he could wish and therefore as he would never depart from the just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown so he would never invade any Man's Property It was well enough spoke of him and as well acted that he did not dissemble his Religion which was Popish and for which some in his Brother's Reign were severely used for but saying he was so for the very next Sunday after his Brother's Death he went publickly to Mass But his taking the Customs and Excise granted only for the Life of his Brother before they were given him by Parliament did ill Correspond with that part of his Speech that he would never invade any Man's Property and as little did the severe and barbarous Usage of Dr. Oates whom they endeavoured to prove Guilty of Perjury tho' the Contrary has since manifestly appeared by Ben. Hinton's Books agree with his saying He would imitate his Brother in his Clemency and Tenderness to his People But to leave these Things pass His Majesty being solemnly Crowned the 23d of April at Westminster he appointed a Parliament to meet the 22d of May to whom after having
both sides and a good Order and Regulation in this Kingdom and that our Reputation and that of those who shall have part in this Action may be spread all over the whole Earth by the Acclamations of the People seeing We desire not the Destruction of the Poor nor the Ruin of Countries What We now say as well as what We do in Pursuance of Our Word has been approved of for God would have it so by the Majesty of Our Resplendent Puissant and Formidable Emperor and King of the Superficies of the whole Earth Wherefore We have sent to You the said Achment Deschelebi to whom We have entrusted certain Things to impart to You by Word of Mouth if consequently You will send to Vs a trusty Person on Your Part to treat of a Peace and the Re-establishment of the Publick Quiet we hope to enter into Conference Whereupon salute in the Name of Your Fellows the true Direction Given in the Camp of Pâ—st IPRADIM After this the Aga prayed His Highness to contribute all he could on his part towards the putting an End to a War which had caused the Effusion of so much Blood and had been the Ruine of so many poor People and saying That he thought His Highness after so glorious a Campaign ought the more readily to consent to a Peace and offering in the Grand Seignior's Name to abandon Count Tekely and even to deliver to the Emperor the Hostages he had now at the Port. To this the Duke of Lorain answered That a victorious Army was not to be amused with Overtures of Peace and that he had no Instructions to hearken to any But that he would acquaint His Imperial Majesty with the Serasquier Proposals And so we leave this Matter at present and see what the Cermans have been doing in other Places all this time For if the Duke of Lorrain with the grand Army was thus active in Hungary General Lesley in Croatia was not idle on his side neither For having formed a Design against Esseck he left his heavy Cannon and Baggage at Virovitza and on the 9th of Aug. directed his March towards Monstarocina where he arrived on the 10th and that Evening he detached 500 Croats and some Foot to invest Michalowitz wherein were 60 Turks only who immediately surrender'd at Discretion and into which Place the General having put 200 Men he continued his March towards Caranissa while the Turks having made several Signals from the Castles they had near the Drave and sent out Parties to alarm those of Esseck made the Basha of that Place to advance with 600 Horse to charge the Count's Van-guard He bravely repulsed him and forced him to retire with considerable Loss so that the General by the 14th was got into the great Plain not far from Esseck when he discovered a Body of about 1000 Turkish Horse but their Foot whose Number the Christians could not exactly observe were posted nearer the Town This made him immediately draw up his Troops in Battalia and command the Croats of the 2 Wings to advance and charge the Enemy which they did with that Resolution that the Turks fell presently into Disorder and soon after fled the Foot at the same time making all the haste they could to get into the Town and Castle Hereupon the Count gave Orders to his Troops to attack the Town which they performed with wonderful Courage scaling the Walls which were of no great Defence and entring the Place with their Swords in their Hands the Turks all this while endeavouring to save themselves with their Wives and Children some by Water others by endeavouring to get into the Castle when of the former many were taken in little Boats The General gave the Pillage of the Town to the Soldiers and having posted Guards to secure the Avenues of the Castle he went to view the Bridge which was 80000 Paces in length on the other side of the Drave and 1100 Paces on this side and 12 broad but he found the Turks had broken down part of it on the other side of the River to hinder the Christians pursuing them and that it would be very difficult to burn it therefore he contented himself to burn that part of it which stood on this side the Drave which was quite destroyed And having thus executed his Design with the Loss of no more than 60 Men he returned to Michalowitz to refresh his Troops and to expect a further Re-inforcement in order to go upon some new Adventure But soon after he happening to fall sick and the Turks by this last Loss provoked to a greater Vigilance there was nothing further of moment performed that Way But as for Vpper Hungary what General Schultz failed in last Year he was resolved to perform this And therefore one of the first Things he did was to set down before Esperies by taking whereof he did not question but to straighten the Bounds of the Rebel-Party and enlarge those of the Imperialists very much But he found it an harder Task to reduce the Place than he was aware of For tho' after many Days Siege he gave Notice to the Burghers of the Emperor 's general Amnesty that was lately published and that it was now high time for them to think of indemnifying themselves and that such an Opportunity if let slip was not to be retrieved yet they were so far from taking the Advantage of it that they fell upon the Officer sent to them upon that Account whom they barbarously murthered which so enraged the General that he commanded the Town to be stormed But the Besieged made so desperate a Defence that the Germans after a Fight of 2 Hours and an half and the Loss of about 300 Men retired in expectation of a Re-inforcement from the main Army in order to perfect the Work But before that was done and somewhat to the Surprize of the General the Governour of the Town sent to desire a Parly it being the 10th of Sept. and a Cessation of Hostilities till next Morning that he might in the mean time call together the Inhabitants to deliberate with them concerning the Articles to Surrender The General believing his Design therein was to gain Time he would not grant it but demanded to have 2 Officers immediately sent to him for Hostages This the Besieged would not agree to and so on the Firing went on both sides But the next Day the Governour understanding the Besiegers would in a few Days be re-inforced with the afore-mentioned Detachment desired another Parley wherein after a little Contestation the Terms were agreed on and the Town actually put into the Germans Hands on the 12th Now if the Imperialists valued themselves much upon the Advantages that would accrue to them by the Taking in of Esperies the Consequences of it perhaps exceeded far their own Expectations For besides Tokay Potock Onotz and divers other Places which quickly fell into their Hands the City of Caschaw was also taken by General Caprara
blasted by both Houses of Parliament if there had been any need of it for it was very well known before that a Papist cannot have a Commission but by the Law is utterly disabled and disarmed Will you exchange your Birth-right of English Laws and Liberty for Martial or Club-Law and help to destroy one another only to be eaten last your selves If I know you well as ye are English Men you hate and scorn these Things and therefore be not unequally yoaked with Idolatrous and Bloody Papists Be valiant for the Truth and shew your selves Men. The same Considerations are likewise humbly offered to all the English Sea-men who have been the Bulwark of this Nation against Popery and Slavery ever since 1588. This Address is so plain as to need no Remark upon it and therefore I shall only tell you before I pass to Foreign Affairs that Colonel Talbot formerly mentioned was doing what he would all this time in Ireland while the King himself had settled Affairs so in Scotland when he was High Commissioner and now Argyle was cut off that he did not question but to carry on his Designs more bare-faced there than he had done in England And therefore tho' he did not call a Parliament in that Kingdom till April this Year yet in his Letter to them he took no notice at all of the Protestant Dissenters but recommended to them his innocent Roman Catholick Subjects who had with their Lives and Fortunes been always assistant to the Crown in the worst Rebellions and Usurpations though they lay under Discouragements hardly to be named These he heartily recommended to their Care to the End that as they had given good Experience of their true Loyalty and peaceable Behaviour so by their Assistance they might have the Protection of his Laws and that Security under his Government which others of his Subjects had not suffering them to lie under Obligations which their Religion could not admit of by doing whereof they would give a Demonstration of the Duty and Affection they had to him and do him most acceptable Service And this Love he expected they would shew to their Brethren as they saw he was an indulgent Father to them all This was very kind indeed on the King's part to those of his own Religion and in this kind Mood we will leave him at present and prosecute a little the mighty Affairs of the Campaigns abroad where their Armies were doing much better Feats than ours in England whose greatest Talent was Cursing and Swearing and Riding the Country as themselves pleased I shall make no Recapitulation in this Place of the Progress of the last Campaign in Hungary nor of the Siege of Buda with the ill Success of it the preceding Year viz. 1684 but come to tell you That the Duke of Lorain having joined the Imperial Army in June marched now again towards Buda and by the 21st in the Morning the Imperialists began their Approaches at about 500 Yards distance from the Walls of the Lower Buda making use upon this Occasion of their old Trenches and continued their Works all that Day and the following Night tho' with considerable Difficulty from the Badness of the Earth and the Enemies firing out of the Town from whence a Pole taken at the Siege of Vienna made his Escape with the Basha's Horse 2 Scymiters and his Commanding-Staff who reported to the General That their coming before Buda was very surprizing that the Garrison was not near so strong as when it was besieged before and that the Turks had Intelligence that the Christians had formed a Design upon Alba Regalis and Erla which was true in Fact for it was not concluded to attempt Buda till the 20th of June at a general Council of War hold at Comorra And 2 Days after the Pole came a Janizary out of the Town also and surrender'd himself upon a Dream he had had the Night before that the Christians would become Masters of the Place and put all the Sword as they had done last Year at Neuheusel and that if he fled to the Christians he might find Merty Adding withal that the Garrison was not above 6000 strong This Intelligence made the Germans re-double their Diligence so that the same Day with a Battery of 6 Pieces of Cannon which they had raised they made a Breach in the Wall of the Lower Town which was 5 Foot thick of about 15 Paces which made the Turks fear an Assault that very Night and they prepared for it accordingly but it was deferred till the Day following when after the Basha's Women and about 10000 Pounds in Money had been taken as going by Water from the Town to Belgrade there were a Party of Granadeers commanded to discover whether the Breach were accessible or not which upon their Report of its being so was stormed at Night with such Confusion that if the Turks had kept their Posts they might have cut off all the Assailants But they were so far from that that they not only retired into the Upper Town and by their Proceedings did not think themselves secure there neither for they made a Fire against the New Port that they might see if the Germans attempted any thing by Petard This the Germans did not do but only contented themselves to make a Lodgment upon the Breach From the 25th to the 29th the Besiegers were busie in raising more Batteries and making a Line of Communication between the Lodgment and the Angle of the Wall looking into St. Paul's Valley which they finished and placed 4 Mortars there notwithstanding the Turks in 2 several brisk Sallies endeavoured to hinder them and in their continual firing from the Town all manner of destructive Instruments upon them yet this did not hinder the Besiegers by the 1st of July to raise a Battery to fire upon the Angle of the Round Tower which looks towards St. Paul's Valley and to carry on their Trenches by the Help of that and another Battery so as to take in a Turkish Mosque from whence they returned with an Angle and Parallel Line with Buda till they came to the Right-hand Way leading to the North Part at which the 3 Lines met by the Favour of a Wall and a deep Road under which the Besiegers were covered who now mounted 4 Mortars more with which they continually played upon the Town Their Cannon also by this time had made a considerable Breach which by their advancing another Line from the Place where the 3 Lines met so as to flank the outermost of them and join the Wall of the old Town looking into St. Paul's Valley where they made a Place of Arms capable to hold about 300 Men they now by the 4th were got within 50 Paces of it where they covered themselves from the Enemies Fire The Brandenburghers the same Day arriving in the Camp they took up their Quarters to the Left of the Germans and advanced 2 Parallel Lines to communicate with the others
by the next Morning The Town in the mean time was set on fire the Night before and a great part of it burnt down before the Fire could be quenched which yet did not apparently discourage the Turks who on the 9th made a great Sally and did considerable Damage to the Besiegers but they were at last repulsed And tho' on the 13th the Duke commanded a Lodgment to be made on the Breach yet the Enemy stood so bravely to it that it could not be effected and the Besiegers in that Attack lost near 1000 Soldiers besides Officers and 50 Voluntiers whereof were several Noblemen and among others divers English Men of Quality However they continued the Siege obstinately and made a considerable Progress therein by the 22th when the Turks sallied out upon the Bavarian Quarter and did considerable Execution nailing up a Battery of Cannon and 2 Mortars and then retired with little Loss But about an Hour after the Enemies principal Magazine blew up which stood near the Castle that looks towards Pest by which a great part of the Wall was demolished which upon the viewing of it seemed so great to many of the Generals that they were for storming the Place without delay This the Duke of Lorain did not think yet practicable but sent next Day a threatning Summons to the Governour to surrender who answered in short That he thought His Highness would justifie him that he had hitherto done like a brave Man and that he was resolved to continue so doing and that God punisheth the Vain-glorious Hereupon the Duke ordered a general Assault to be made on the 27th and after much Bravery and obstinate fighting on each side the Germans fixed their Lodgment upon the first Wall and prepared their further Approaches On the 30th they sent another Summons to surrender which was answered the Day following in a Letter to the General wherein the Besieged let him know That the Town was in the Hands of GOD and that they could not give it up but if they would receive another Place in lieu of it they would treat thereupon The Duke not satisfied herewith ordered 2 Mines to be sprung under the second Wall but they had not the desired Success However that Evening the Enemy sent two Messengers to the Elector of Bavaria who thereupon sent them 2 Hostages and the firing ceased on both sides The Basha proposing to surrender the Town if they would conclude a Peace upon it which he said he had Power to do But the Elector answering That he had no such Commission but that he would do what Service he could towards the furthering of one the Firing was renewed On the 3d of Aug. the Besiegers made a general Assault upon the second Wall but came off with considerable Loss and they were also allarmed about this time with the Noise of the Turkish Succours that were marching up which indeed proved a Reality and that before the Christians made any considerable Progress more in the Siege tho' they attempted another general Assault on the 12th For the very next Day towards Evening the Duke of Lorain received certain Intelligence that the Enemy to the Number of 90000 Men advanced towards his Camp with a resolute Design to force one of his Quarters and to put Succours into the Town Hereupon in Concert with the Elector of Bavaria he caused all the Horse and Foot to march out of the Lines except 20000 Men that were left to continue the Attacks and guard the several Posts and Avenues of the Camp and drew up the Army in order of Battel Next Day being the 14th of Aug. he being informed that the Grand Visier had detached from his Army a Body of 6000 Janizaries and 4000 Spahi's all chosen Men who descending from the Hills to the Plain which separated his Camp from the Germans had passed it without Opposition and gained the Hills which commanded the Imperialists Lines on the Right and perceiving the Grand Visier's Design was to force a Passage into the Town that way while himself drew up his Army in the Plain to attack the Christians Left Wing or in case they failed therein to retrench themselves upon the Hills and from thence to incommode the German Camp with their Cannon He kept the main Body of his Troops to oppose those of the Grand Visier and about 7 Regiments of Horse with some few Hungarians to make head against the Detachment upon the Hills who entertained the Christians with several Vollies of their Cannon and the Janizaries made so furious a Fire upon them that the Hungarians and Croats who had the Van-guard fell into disorder Upon this the Regiment of Taffe advancing came timely to their Assistance and with the Help of the other Horse forced the Enemy-headlong down the Hill with so great Fury and Slaughter that near 3000 of the Janizaries were slain upon the Spot and the rest chose rather to retire towards the Bridge of Esseck than re-join their main Army The Germans brought back with them 8 Pieces of Cannon about 30 Colours and Standards with near 300 Prisoners and perhaps a more vigorous Action was never performed by Horse alone with those Disadvantages of Ground and Number Having thus regained their first Post and shortned their Pursuit of the Enemy for that they did not know but that the main Body were engaged the Hills separating them from the Sight of what passed on the Left They found the Grand Visier had drawn up his whole Army in the Plain to which the Duke of Lorain opposed his but that they both stood at a respectful Distance from one another However now after this victorious little Body of Horse had rejoined the Right Wing of the Christians the Turks began to make several Motions which shewed more their Uneasiness and Irresolution than any Design they had to attack the Christians and having by degrees withdrawn all their Infantry to the Foot of their own Hills the Right Wing of the Imperialists received Orders to advance towards some Bodies of Horse that approached to them But proportionably as the Germans advanced the others withdrew till finding themselves at the Foot of the Hill and seeing that the Christians Right Wing had by much out-marched the rest of the Army they charged a small Body of Hungarians on the Left who yielding before them had like to have laid open the German Flank and wrought some Disorder Yet by the Firmness of the German Troops and Conduct of their Officers who immediately fronted some Squadrons that way and covered their Flank the Turks retired the Christians at the same time it being already late having Orders to withdraw and return into their Lines which they did accordingly The Grand Visier also moved towards Alba Regalis and he ordered the Basha who brought him the News of the said Defeat to be strangled for saying That they charged the Christians like Lions but that they received them again like Devils But to return again to the Siege
his Summons to him to surrender by telling the Messenger Go tell your General I 'll meet him upon the Breach The Brandenburghers entred the Town much the same time as the Imperialists did and the Bavarians soon after so that forcing the Enemy from their several Posts and Retrenchments the Assailants advanced to the Market-place and in an Hour's time were absolute Masters of the Place But the Turks after the Christians were entred the Town sprung a Mine and by the Means of a Train laid for that Purpose set several Houses on fire which continued burning till next Morning and consumed abundance of rich Movables However the Soldiers found a great deal of Plate Jewels Money c. insomuch that many of them got 2 or 3000 l. a Man It was computed there was 5000 fighting Men in the Town at the time of the Assault and that 3000 of them were slain in the first Heat and Fury of the Soldiers but about 1500 of them retiring into a Redoubt on the side of the Castle put out a White Flag and begged for Quarter which after holding a Council of War was in Consideration of the approaching Night and the Confusion occasioned in the Town by the Fire granted them But the Vice-Basha and the Aga of the Janizaries with some others of Note were taken Prisoners before this Of the Christians there were about 500 slain and not quite so many wounded but the Number of Cannon and Mortars they found in the Town was very great there being no less than 400 Pieces of Cannon in all and of them 170 were fit for Service but most of them dismounted and there was also considerable Ammunition left still But what made the Conquest of this important Place so very glorious was That it was obtained in the Sight of the whole Turkish Army commanded by the Grand Visier in Person who lay encamped within a Mile of Buda and had possess'd himself of an Hill from whence he pretended to incommode the Christians with his Cannon yet being observ'd narrowly by the brave Prince Lewis of Baden who commanded upon this Occasion he set fire to his Camp as soon as he heard the Town was taken and retired towards Alba Regalis It was reported by a Deserter That the Basha of Buda had 2 Days before the Place fell into the Hands of the Christians written a very bold Letter to the Grand Visier telling him That for his own part he had performed his Duty by a long and vigorous Defence but that the Grand Visier could not excuse himself that he had so long been in sight of the Place without Relieving it which he could not but have done had his Men had but as much Courage as the Women in the Town had during the Siege Things were no sooner set in order at Buda but the Army moved to Paxi the Duke having sent Count Caraffa with a strong Detachment to lay Siege to Segedin and the Prince of Baden with another to take in Five Churches of whose Expedition we shall first give a short Account and then return to the other The Prince having joined some of the Croatian Forces did on the 16th of Oct. after a very difficult March arrive before Five Churches the Turks at the same time setting fire to the Town and retiring into the Castle But the Imperial Dragoons presently scaling the Walls threw themselves into the Place with their Sabres in their Hands and opened the Gates to the other Troops who immediately quenched the Fire and intrenched themselves in the principal Posts as far as the great Mosque and the Night following advanced within Musket-shot of the Castle and began to raise Batteries However the Castle being an irregular Square fortified with 4 Roundels and some other Works according to the Modern Fortification and encompassed with Hills of very difficult Access and having a Garrison of 2500 Men in it commanded by a Basha and 7 Beys made the Siege go on but slowly at first and especially in that the Imperial Troops stood in great need of Forage Yet on the 18th and 19th the Besiegers battered the Place continually with their Cannon and having made a Breach next Day began 3 Mines the Prince in the mean while sending threatning Summons to the Besieged to surrender who returned no Answer that Day but next Morning by a Letter desired that some Person might be sent to them Hereupon Hostages were exchanged and the Treaty of Surrender was set on foot which the Prince would allow upon no other Terms than at Discretion and the other wanting Ammunition were constrained to submit to so that not only the Garrison but the Inhabitants which were many in Number were made Prisoners of War As soon as ever the Prince of Baden had put a good Garrison into Five Churches he divided his Forces into 2 Bodies with one of them himself marched towards Dardâ— and the Count de Sherffenberg advanced with the other to Syclos and on the 25th of Oct. arrived before it After he had sent his Summons to the Turks who were retired into the Castle and by their Answer appeared resolute to defend it he began his Attack the next Day and continued it till the last Day of the Month with that Success that his Mines being ready to be sprung the Besieged surrender'd at Discretion the Garrison being made Prisoners of War and the Women and Children conducted to other Places After this the Count marched to rejoin the Prince of Baden marching as before towards Darda Upon whose Approach tho' there were 2 Basha's with 3000 Horse posted there to cover the Fortress yet they retired into Esseck leaving only a small Body of Horse behind to observe the Motions of the imperialists who advanced directly towards Esseck and with several Fire-works prepared for that Purpose set the Bridge on fire And notwithstanding the Enemy played upon them all the while with their Cannon from Esseck yet they quite destroyed it from Darda to the Drave as likewise the Bridge of Boats which the Turks had over that River After this the Prince marched back to Capsowar which the Turks quickly surrender'd upon Articles and were conducted to Sigeth the Prince at the same time now the Season was advanced and the Weather grown very bad putting his Troops into Winter-Quarters where we will leave them and return to Count Caraffa who on the 5th of Oct. invested Segedin This Work was afterwards left to be carried on by General Wallis or Welch and English Man in the Absence of Count Caraffa who performed his Part very gallantly and being reinforced with some Horse and Dragoons from the Duke of Lorain under the Command of Major-General Veterani he pushed on the Siege with great Vigour though the Garrison made a stout Resistance and Provisions grew scarce in his Camp To which adding the other Difficulties that arose from the Season they began to render the Enterprize after all very hazardous But the Care the
a Regiment of Curassiers and one of Dragoons and moved up the Drave towards the Fort which the Imperialists had over that River near Siclos near unto which he arrived July 1 sending at the same time some Detachments out to scowr the Fields and discover the Posture of the Enemy of whom they could get no certain Intelligence Yet the Duke failed in his Expectation of passing the River there also which was so overflown that there was no Possibility of it So that he sent Troops up along the same to try if there was no other place where he might do it and resolved that in case it was impossible to imploy his Army in the Siege of Sigeth But the Time spun out to the 5th of the Month when General Dunwald who came from the other side of the River with between 〈◊〉 and 4000 Men Horse and Foot was ordered by the Duke to post the Heydukes upon the Hills in order to facilitate the Passage of the Troops while in the mean time 9 Bridges were finished that had been ordered to be laid over Morasses So that on the 6th some Companies of Foot and Dragoons were wasted over in Boats with Orders to incamp on the other side of the Drave and there to intrench themselves which they did with great Diligence being â—assisted therein mightily with 1200 Peasants brought thither for that Purpose And notwithstanding the variety of different Reports that were spread concerning the Enemies Army the whole Army Horse and Foot together with their Artillery and Baggage passed the Drave by the 13th when the Elector of Bavaria came into the Camp having left his Troops some Leagues of which got up towards the Evening and then a Review was taken of the Army which was found to be 55000 Men. From the foresaid Place the Army marched towards the Enemy and on their Way heard divers uncertain Reports concerning their Number Strength and Design but they moved on and the Elector of Bavaria who Commanded the Van guard did on the 17th place himself at the Head of some Squadrons and 2 Battallions with some Dragoons and 2 Field-Pieces in Battel Array as well as the Ground would admit in a Plain interlain with Wood and faced on the other side with a Morass and in this Posture found 3000 of the Enemies Horse advantageously posted at the Entrance of the Defiles whom he charged with that Bravery that they quitted their Post which 2 of his Battallions took possession of The Army at the same time moving forwards through the Defiles the Duke of Lorrain lead the Van on the 18th and after very great Difficulty from the Badness of the Ways and Firings of the Enemies Detachments who killed a great many of the Christians they were by the 20th draws up in Battel Array in the Form of an Half-Moon about half a League from the Turkish Camp The Duke of Lorrain did all that was possible to draw the Turks to a Battel and sent several Detachments to skirmish to the very Head of their Retrenchments but all to no Purpose So that the Christians perceived by the Enemies Countenance they were not disposed to fight tho' they made great use of their Ordinance all the while But it was not thought at all expedient to attack them there seeing they were so strongly intrenched and that since the coming up of the Grand Visier their Number was computed to be near 80000 Men. â—esides all which the Christians beginning to want Forage Provisions and Ammunition it was resolved after 24 Hours stay in a Council of War to decamp from thence which was done on the 21st and the Retreat made in very good Order the Turks not concerning themselves much to hinder it only they contented themselves vigorously to change a Guard that had been out off if the Elector of Bavania at the Head of a Neuburg Squadron had not succoured them so that the Army on the 23d repassed the Drave but had like to have perished first For some Traytors holding Intelligence with the Grand Visier had undertaken to cut the Cables that held the Bridges but the Design was happily discovered and one of the Officers seiz'd and immediately Empaled his wicked Accomplishes having by their Flight escaped the Punishment So that in short the Army by the 29th was got near to Mahatz where they were reinforced with the Swabian Troops amounting to 8000 Men which enabled the Duke besides a Detachment sent under Veterani to reinforce the Blockade of Agâ—ia and another towards Croatia to send a strong Body of 8000 Men under General Dunwald to cover Syclos and Five Churches while himself with the main Army designed to direct his March towards Felixmarton But that Resolution was quickly changed upon his receiving Information on the 31st That the Grand Visier had the Night before passed the Bridges near Esseck with his whole Army who spent Aug. 1 in intrenching themselves which yet did not hinder the Duke to advance towards them to engage them if possible to a Battel and to give that gallant Man his due he neglected nothing on his part that might induce them to it though with little appearance of Success Till at last being vex'd with the Loss of Time he resolved to make the Army fall back as well to get at some distance from a Wood whence the Tartars disturbed his Foragers as to induce once more the Grand Visier to quit his Camp and to follow him This Retreat was done on the 8th but without Success neither which put the Imperialists upon making a shew as if they would take away the Garrisons of Syclos and Five Churches and abandon those Places and accordingly they continued a slow March that way And thus Things continued to the 12th when the Grand Visier possibly at last presuming that the Christians declined Fighting caused the greatest part of his Troops to advance and about 2 in the Afternoon 10000 Spahi's and 5000 Janizaries were seen directly to march upon the Left Wing of the Imperialists where the Duke of Bavaria with Prince Lewis of Baden Commanded They were led on by some Bodies of Horse whose Charge General Dunwald vigorously stood the Brunt of after which he retreated upon the first Line when in a Moment after a Body of Janizaries posted themselves upon a rising Ground with some Pieces of Cannon laden with Chain-shot which fired upon the Left of the Imperialists to endeavour to put them into Disorder This and the advancing of the 10000 Spahi's made the Duke of Bavaria to order the Front of the Left Wing to be enlarged according as he perceived that of the Enemy to do which yet could not hinder Time enough the Regiments of Savoy and Commercy to be attacked both in Front and Flank with extraordinary Fury who stood as firmly to it till the Elector hasted thither to assist them where he received a slight Wound by a Bullet in his Hand But while Things passed thus on the Left the Duke of Lorain had formed
to continue him at the Helm there being no other of the Imperial Line But the now Camaican suspecting the Treachery ordered the Kisâ—ar Aga to go into the Streets near the Walls of the Seraglio and admonish the Grand Signior not to make any Attempt against his own Blood and to forbear giving any Suspicion by seeking to enter into the Apartments of his Sons and Brother because that the Janizaries had surrounded the Seraglio and would surprize him if he did not continue quiet This Enterprize being thus interrupted he found himself now excluded from all Means of maintaining himself in the Sovereign Power and the next Stroak that presaged his invitable Fate was his being given to understand that his Sons were taken from him and put under a safe Guard with the greater Security to co-operate for the Brother's Safety After this he found himself coup'd up within the Confines of the Seraglio by the Caimacan's Order and all the Liberty he had left was to repair as often as he pleased to a Kiâ—soh upon the Sea-shoar under the Walls of the Seraglio which terminated also upon the 29th of Oct. for the Army was now near Thereupon the Caimacan Mufti and Caydelesker with some principal Persons of the Law meeting at St. Sophia and having performed their Devotions they sent presently the Chiaux-Pachi to the Seraglio and followed him themselves As soon as they were admitted they required Sultan Solyman who being brought forth was immediately placed upon the Throne He upon so great and unexpected Tidings was not at all ruffled or changed but with great Modesty and Humility laying his Hand upon his Breast bowed down and in a few Words render'd them Thanks after this he was Proclaimed Emperor through all the Parts of the City Yet the discontented Janizaries and others were not appeased but a few Persons of Note more being sacrificed to their Rage and a Sum of Money distributed among them brought Things at length into a tolerable State of Settlement And now its time we should inspect a little into Things on the Part of the Venetians and the Progress of the Arms of that Republick How glorious soever the Imperialists have reckon'd this Campaign to have proved unto them the Venetians have not a whit the less Esteem for what their Troops had done both in Dalâ—atia and the Mirea It s true the Turks were before hand with them in the former by taking the field for 2 of their Basha's early in the Spring laid Siege to Sign hoping to carry it before the other were in a State to give it Relief But the Governour the Marquess de Borri proved so resolute and the Garrison that consisted of about 700 Men so obstinate in the Defence of it that they withstood all the fierce Attacks of the Infidels till the 22th of April in which time General Cornaro had having drawn together near 14000 Men advanced towards the Turks who upon Information of their Resolution and Strength raised the Siege the next Day And this happened so much more to the Advantage of the Venetians in that if the latter had not come up in that Nick of Time the Turks would have been reinforced with 3000 Men that they hourly expected and then such an Additional Force would render the Enterprize very dangerous when as the Turks were already Superiour in Number to the Christians But though this Disadvantage at the first taking of the Field seemed to be ominous to the Turks and did more than a little â—aunt them yet the Basha of Erzegovina thinking to have a Reparation for this Affront resolved to attack the Portress of Opusch a small Place situated upon the River Narenta and actually invested it with near 3000 Men of which General Cornaro had no sooner Intimation but he caused some Troops to march that way and having sent Orders to Chevalier Janco to repair thither immediately with the Morlaques 3 Gallies several Galliots and some other Vessels for the Transportation of the Troops The Basha thereupon was so far from presuming to proceed on with his Attacks that he thought an hasty Retreat the best Expedient for himself and Men. Neither did the Turks come off with this Fright only for the Morlaques plundered and reduced to Ashes the Suburbs of Dumno several Villages of that Country took divers Prisoners and brought away a vast Number of great and small Cattel Hitherto the Venetians were but on the Defensive in this Country but they were resolved not to continue always so and therefore General Cornaro having Joined the Auxiliary Gallies after the necessary Preparations and some Difficulties that had been raised concerning the Supream Commands had been adjusted on the 1 of Sept. came in sight of Castlenovo the Capital City of St. Sabba situate upon the Banks of the Canal of Catarro 3 Miles from its Mouth and just opposite to the Levant Sea But the Wind proving somewhat contrary and the Enemy having made some Retrenchments he found great Difficulty in landing However through the Constancy of the Auxiliary Troops who had Orders given them to land nearer the City than where the first Attempt was all Opposition was over-come after an Onset of 5 Hours continuance wherein the Auxiliaries were seconded by Generl Paulo with 2 Battalions Insomuch that they made themselves not only Masters of the 1st Trenches but also the next Day took the 2d from the Enemy so far as to possess the Hill Vencranda that commands the Place and with 2 small Pieces of Cannon drove them out of all the Houses without the Circuit of the City But this was not done without Loss on both sides while the Bombs in the mean time did great Damage both in the Town and Castle and the Guns were continually firing in order to make a Breach as well as Mines preparing to ruine some works that obstructed the Besiegers Passage Yet what from the Attempts made from without to succour the Place though ineffectually and what with the continual Rains that fell it was the 28th of Sept. before the Mines were sprung which happned to be with good Success and made the General prepare all things for an Assault The Gallies and Galliots began to fire very hard upon the Town while the Dragoons the Troops of Maltha and Abruzzo with the Granadeers at the Head of them attack'd the Breach with great Resolutions but the Besieged being much more numerous than was expected gave them such a vigorous Reception as to repulse and put them into Disorder with the Loss of near 200 Men. However the Officers by their own Example did so well encourage the Troops that notwithstanding all the Resistance the Turks made and a Retirade fortified with Palliâ—adoes and a deep Ditch they made a Lodgment there and fortified themselves Next Day which was the the 29th the Works were pushed on by the Morlaques to the very â—oot of the Rampart against an huge Tower and a 2d Assault was made with all possible Courage though without
Place was now sanâ—table no time should be lost in carrying it on with the utmost Vigour so that the 3d 4th and 5th being spent in battering the remaining Works facilitating the Ascent and giving the necessary Orders on the 6th the General Assault was given when the Soldiers boldly mounted the Breach where the Besieged with great Resolution made an Obstinate Resistance and defended the same with so much Vigour that the Besiegers were twice heaten off But the Elector who was himself in all Places of imminent Danger did so animate the Officers and Soldiers upon the 3d Assault that the Besieged finding all their Efforts in vain began to lose Courage and by Degrees to retire and fled into the Castle yet the Besiegets now entring like a Torrent and passing on with great Fury entred Pell-mell with them and put all they met to the Sword Not could the Riches any offered prevail to the saving of their Lives which the Basha perceiving he caused 300 Christian Slaves to be brought chained together which he placed before the retiring Turks 〈◊〉 such a Manner that they must have received the Shot made at the Enemy in Compassion to whom the Soldiers stopped in the Heat of Blood and the Elect or commanded that Quarter should be given Whereupon about 500 Turks that under the Favour of this Stratagem had saved themselves together with the Basha Governour and two other Basha's submitted and were made Prisoners of War the first of whom falling prostrate before the Elector entreated he might not be made a Prisoner But he was answered That he should experience the Christians used their Prisoners better than the Turks used to do and That he should be sent to the Emperor 31 at which he seemed extreamly pleased And thus the famous City of Belgrade â—ell into the Hands of the Christians in the Space of 22 Days and by its Reduction opened a Way into all the Turkish Dominions that were considerable in Europe as was manifested in a great measure the succeeding Campaign yet this Felicity was oâ— no long Duration But before this Seige was entirely compleated the Imperial Arms under the Conduct of Prince Lewis of Baden met with another extraordinary and unexpected Piece of Success in Bosnia which was in the following Manner The Prince upon the 4th of Nov. having Notice that 4 or 5000 Turks were Encamped about 6 Miles from Brod he marched with 3000 Horse and Dragoons all Night to encounter them but in the Morning to his no small Surprize he found himself greatly misinformed as to the Number which amounted to 15000 Horse and Foot under the Command of the Basha of that Country However calling the Officers about him he told them it was to no Purpose to think of retreating as being too late by reason of their too far Engagement among the Enemy but that they must now fight for their Lives and Victory which was chearfully consented to However before they had well put themselves into a Fighting Posture the Turks had surrounded them and vigorously charged them 4 or 5 times which was sustained with so many brave and bold Returns that the Turkish Horse perceiving themselves over set fell first into Disorder and then to open Flight leaving the Foot to shift for themselves whose Ranks being forced by the Imperial Horse breaking in upon them they were miserably beaten down and slain to the Number in all of 15000 and 200 made Prisoners with 36 Colours and the Baggage taken Now we shall take our leave of Hungary and those Parts and cross over to Venice where we find the Doge Marco Antonio Goustintano departed this Life March 28 this Year after the Solemnity of whose Burial the Senate assembled in order to the Choice of a new Prince which unanimously fell upon Captain General Morosmi then in the Levant to whom they immediately sent the Ducal Cap by a Secretary with a Letter to this Purpose The Senate of Venice's LETTER to the New Doge THAT whereas the most Serene Marquess Giustiniano a Prince of good and glorious Memory is by the Disposition of the most High called away from hence to his everlasting Rest the usual Councils were thereupon called together in order to chuse a Successor according to our Laws the Four Electors being thereupon Assembled and having called upon the Name of the Holy Ghost they have cast their Eyes upon your Serenity and well weighed the special Gifts and Qualifications that adorn you from whose Courage and Conduct our Republick hath already received so great and weighty Services in several of the chiefest Employments particularly that of Captain-General of the Seas in which you have this third time so worthily acquitted your self they have thereupon unanimously chosen you this Day with general Joy and Satisfaction to be the Prince and Chief of our Republick We are extreamly satisfied to see your Serenity raised into that Employment and Dignity which was most justly due to your Worth and Vertue and do congratulate thereupon with our selves and with your Serenity under whose happy Conduct and Influence we hope to see the Affairs and Interest of our Republick grow and flourish every Day We assure ourselves that your Serenity shall be willing to continue where you are as we have judged it necessary you should during this Conjuncture till we shall otherwise order and that you through your natural Foresight Prudence and Zeal will apply your self in procuring those Advantages for our Republick as you in your High Wisdom shall think most conducible for the Common Good for your own Glory and the Honour of your Country In the mean time we shall co-operate all we can in bringing to Perfection any of your Weighty Enterprizes and Perfectly agree with you the Head of our Republick to support you as you must do it which our Secretary Luccato shall more fully unfold to your Serenity whom we have sent to bring you this with the Ducal Bonnet and to whom you may give full Credit and so praying the Divine Majesty to preserve your Serenity with long Life we take leave and are c. There were also the following Instructions given to the said Secretary First That the said Secretary should carry the Ducal Bonnet to the Army and shall have 700 Ducats for his Journey and 100 Ducats a Month for his Incidental Charges 2 dly His Serenity may use any Solemn Rejoycings upon this or any other Occasion and shall use the Leaden Seal of the Senate 3 dly That all Letters hence shall be addressed to our most Serene Prince Francisco Morosini the Seigniory of Venice c. wisheth Health 4 thly That Two Councellors shall attend the Doge and have each 900 Ducats for their Advance and 300 Ducats a Month for their Maintenance 5 thly Each shall have a Gally to attend him during the Campaign and which shall precede next that of his Serenity 6 thly Two Councellors and one Chief of the Council of 40 shall live in the Palace of the
new strength to them For on the contrary the Governor when he heard the noise of the Cannon was so surprized that he sent out to know the reason of which being well informed he could hardly believe it at first so strong was his Imagination that the Town would have held out much longer But finding it to be true and the Elector sending him word it was time to Capitulate he began to make some Overtures tho' they were so unreasonable that his Highness would not accept of them but finding Gen. Sconing now returned to the Camp he resolved to undertake the Siege vigorously and not to quit the Place till he had reduced it which now was rendred so much the more easie by a Reinforcement of 4000 Foot and 1000 Horse sent him from Mentz the Duke of Lorrain arriving also in the Camp on the 25th of Sept. Wherefore the Approaches and Batteries were hastned with all Diligence and the Trenches at length carried on to the very Foot of the Counterscarp and the Breaches being made all things were prepared ready for a general Assault And they had fallen on the 5th or 6th of Oct. had it not been for the Rains which fell two Days together Therefore Sunday the 9th was appointed for the Work To this end the Imperialists were to storm the Horn-Work while the Hollanders Brandenburgers and Munsterians attack'd the Counterscarp of the Half-Moon and Covert-Way In pursuance hereof they all fell on being resolved to vanquish or die in the Attempt and the Brandenburgers first lodged themselves upon the Counterscarp and drave the Enemy so far that had the Breach been wide enough for 4 Men abreast they had entred the City Pell-mell with the French and taken it by main force They were harder put to it on the Imperialists side but after they had been once repulsed they lodged themselves at last-upon the Horn-work tho' this Attack was not made without considerable loss However the Baron de Hasfield seeing the Out works carried with so much Bravery and fearing the Town would be taken by Storm made it his chief Business to capitulate In pursuance whereof Hostages were exchanged and after divers Disputes and Contests the Articles were agreed on and ratified the 12th of Oct. at 6 in the Afternoon whereby all the great Guns Ammunition and Provision were to remain in his Electoral Highness's disposal the Hessian Intendant Commissary of War Treasurer Commissioner and Receiver of the Contributions to continue Prisoners of War and all things that were to be found in Specie belonging to Mainard Count de Schomberg to be restored for you must know they had basely seized upon that gallant Man's Baggage some time before for the sake of the Plate and the Jewels of both which there were a considerable quantity with several other Particulars too long here to be inserted and with which we shall conclude the Campaign on the German side and see what has been doing all this while in Hungary between the Imperialists and Ottomans since the Affairs of Catalonia can give us no Interruption there being nothing memorable that passed this Season between the Armies of France and Spain on that side The Duke of Lorrain who had been all along the Emperor's General in Hungary while well being recalled to serve this Campaign in the same Quality on the Rhine of whose Actions we have already given you the Particulars his Imperial Majesty could think of no Person so fit to succeed him as Prince Lewis of Baden a worthy Choice indeed and who performed even in this first Campaign all and more than was or well could be expected from him About the 10th of June he arrived at Belgrade where he found only 13000 Germans but they were followed by a greater Number and from thence he sent Orders to Picolomini to come and join him with that Body of the Army that was under his Command designing to dispute the Passage of the Morave with the Turks or to give them Battel if they had pass'd that River already But finding the Turks were not over-hasty to meet him and understanding they were so far from any such thing that they had repass'd the Morave and were retired towards Nissa where all their Magazines lay and where they had strongly entrench'd their Camp the Prince himself pass'd that River over Bridges of Boats with his whole Army whom he ordered to take Provisions along with them for 3 Weeks and marched directly towards Nissa with a Resolution to give the Enemy Battel as being informed their Army was not above 50000 strong and that of them there was not above 10000 well disciplined Men. But two pieces of News that he received by the way caused him to suspend his March which were first That there had fallen such excessive Rains for some time that had made the Ways so bad as it would be impossible for him to march with his Army and Artillery without endangering the ruining of both And the other was That the Turks had made themselves Masters of Zwornich no strong Place in it self but was a Post that opened a Way into Sclavonia into which Country the Turks design'd to fall as the Commander in the aforesaid Place who defended it gallantly and at last surrendred it upon honourable Conditions informed the Prince who thereupon sent away to the Count de Cauriani to march forthwith towards the Save with all the Force he could draw together and hinder the Enemy from passing the River The Prince in the mean time returned with the Army to the Fort they had built near Passarowitz in order to secure the Bridges they had laid over the Morave And Aug. 27th the Foot arrived near the Bridge at Grabovez and the Horse got thither the next day And tho' the Turks were no sooner informed of these Motions and being incouraged no doubt by the Retreat of the Christians but they sent the same Day a Detachment of Horse to fall upon the Foragers they were valiantly repulsed At the same time another considerable Detachment of Cavalry was sent towards Semendria where the Imperial Magazines lay with a Design to cut off the Prince's March and hem in his Army on all sides This being discovered by the Deserters a Resolution was taken to fall first upon the first Detachment and then to turn upon the other Part of the Enemy which they had left behind and which was not above an hour and 〈◊〉 March from the Christians To this effect the Bridge being finished 500 Men under the command of two Colonels passed the River and posted themselves on the other side of the River the same Evening being followed by 500 more and in less than 3 hours had sufficiently intrench'd themselves Next Morning the Dragoons of Stirum and Serau planted themselves upon an Hill very near the Bridge and 500 Horse possess'd the 〈◊〉 between the Army and the Bridge to secure their March In the mean time the Infantry commanded by Baron Heister and the Count
de Starembergh marched also to the Bridge being followed by the Baggage and encamped in a very advantageous Post where they could not well be forced by the Enemy the Cavalry of oâ—e Left Wing advanced up an Hill and those of the Right into a Plain near Rossava And that the Enemy might think their Design only was to secure the Passage of the Infantry one part of the Horse were ordered to dismount Whereas while this was doing Colonel de St Croix with some hundreds of Horse together with the Counts of Chakey Deak and Buduani with the Hungarians Rascians and Hussars getting before the Cavalry through a Valley wherein they could not be discovered flew with full speed upon the Enemy and were seconded by the Cavalry who had opportunity during the Shock to mount again The Turks retired slowly thinking to draw the Christians into a Wood behind which they had planted 10000 Men Tho' when they found themselves charged by all the Imperial Cavalry they fell into some Disorder and were pursued by the left Wing to a narrow Place where they made an Halt But when the Prince of Baden and General Veterani came up with the Regiments of the right Wing they retreated in Confusion to another Wood where they were pursued for an Hour and an half till they came into a Plain Here it was the Christians drew themselves up in good Order of Battel and fell upon the rallied Turks with that resolute Bravery that above 400 of their best Horse were defeated upon the Place and a great number of Prisoners taken among whom was the Commander of the Janisaries together with 12 Coronets and some Kettle-Drums The Hungarians and Hussars pursued them a considerable way killed a great Number and got a very large Booty because the Fliers threw away their Baggage and their Arms that they might the readier make their Escape The Cavalry returned the same day to attack the other Party of the Turks before they could join the Fugitives To this end 500 Foot were detach'd to make themselves Masters of a narrow Lanc at the Entrance of a thick Wood about an Hour and an halfs March long into which there was but one Way to enter and beyond it the Enemies Army was encamped in a large Plain They quickly beat off 3000 Janisaries and some Horse that lay concealed to hinder the Imperialists from gaining it which however was not done without some loss on both sides There they stayed till the 30th where all their Infantry came to encamp in a Plain beyond the Wood by the Favour of a thick Mist having a Wood behind them to the Right another Wood that ran out as far as the Morave and the River it self on the Left The Prince of Baden who had rejoyn'd the Foot the Evening before ordered the Horse to re-pass the River and post themselves in the same place where the Infantry had encamped the Night before leaving on the other side no more than 7 Squadrons of Hungarians and Rascians and some Horse and Dragoons a foot to guard the Baggage As soon as the Mist cleared up the Turks appeared drawn up in Battel-array and the Prince had hardly time enough to range the second Line of his Foot behind the first before the Turks both Horse and Foot advanced upon him notwithstanding whole Peals of Cannon and Showers of small Shot poured in upon them The Conflict lasted about 2 Hours during which time both sides kept continually firing but General Castelli having got out of the Wood with his Dragoons the Enemy no sooner heard the Trumpets and Kettle-Drums of the first Squadron but they began to retreat into another Wood and thereby gave the Imperialists an opportunity to plant their Horse behind their Infantry It fortunately happened at the same time that a Bavariâ—n who had been taken at the Siege of Buda having made his Escape discovered that there was another Plain behind the Wood to which the Enemy retreated where theâ— lay entrench'd Upon this Count Staremberg having first view'd the Road within the Wood and finding it broad enough and withal that it was not above 500 Paces long and that the Turks lay in their Entrenchments that were as so many Fortresses for them the Prince commanded him thither with 300 Men a Battalion of his own and one of Staremberg's and was followed by a good body of Infantry With these he bravely drave the Enemy from their 1 st Entrenchment who thereupon retreated to their second about 100 Paces further and environed with a Moat full of Water that was not accessible on that side However they continued firing from one Entrenchment unto another for above an hour and an half so that many Soldiers were lost here by the Germans together with 4 Captains and a great many men wounded While this was in agitation the first Entrenchment was levell'd for a Post for the Cavalry and then Picolomini who had the Command of the Vanguard that day advanced both with the Horse and Foot in good Order to the second Entrenchment Count Palsi in the mean time advanced cross the Woods with his Heydukes and making an hideous Noise with his Trumpets to terrifie the Enemy as if there had been some considerable Body that was coming to attack their Rear This Stratagem took so well that as soon as they heard the Noise of the Trumpets and Kettle-Drums and saw Picolomini moving towards them notwithstanding all their Vollies of small Shot they retreated athwart another thick Wood into their Camp being pursued by the Imperialists though the ways were very narrow But when they came into open ground Colonel Zand was sent with a Regiment to fall on their Rear being followed by all the Horse Regiment by Regiment Zand with his own Regiment and that of Serau drave the Infidels from the Wood and forced them into their Camp which was upon an Hill near Patochin and then staid till other Troops came up with him But a great Shower falling at that time and the Night coming on he fell upon the Enemy now under great Consternation with those 2 Regiments only put them to the Rout and forced them to quit their Camp of which the Christians became Masters and where they sound 105 Pieces of Cannon 3 Mortars several Bombs a great quantity of Ammunition Provision Waggons Camels Oxen Bufalo's Tents and other Riches Some of the Enemy escaped to Jagodin others to Krakolovez being pursu'd still by the Hungarians who kill'd divers of them and found some Pieces of Cannon and other Arms in the Mountains Though the number of the Slain was not so considerable in these Onsets yet the Advantage therein as well as in the great Booty the Imperialists got was manifestly on their side every way which will yet farther appear by the succeeding Actions of this Campaign I am loth to make any interruption in this Place in the rest of the Successes of the Imperial Arms and the rather since it has not been my Custom upon other
occasions however as I presume it to be pardonable for once I shall observe before I proceed any further That tho' his Imperial Majesty was without doubt much pleas'd already with his Affairs on this side yet those towards France seemed mostly at this time to take up the Thoughts of this Court which was now at Ausburg whither the Electors and other Princes of the Empire were to come The outward Appearance of things was such as if there were nothing but the Coronation of the Empress aud the Election of a King of the Romans in view But the particular Design was undoubtedly to concert Measures and agree upon what Enterprizes were to be undertaken the following Spring and to find a way to defray the extraordinary Charges of such a necessary and important War as that wherein they were engaged against France wherein how well or ill they succeeded will best appear by the sequel of this History But however France might be affected with these Proceedings and Designs of which she could not be ignorant she had some sort of satisfaction about this time to get rid of one turbulent tho' inconsiderable Enemy in respect to others and that was the Algerine who now made a Peace with her upon these Terms That all Prizes that were taken on both sides till the 24th of September which was the day of the Ratification of the Treaty should be good but that all that were taken on either side since the Ratification should be restored The Algerines engaged themselves to come into the Ocean with forty Sail to Pyrate upon the English and Dutch and were to be admitted into all the Ports of France and especially Brest and should be further furnished with all things necessary for their Money but what Vessels they took upon the Ocean were to belong to the French King tho' the Lading was to be theirs And finally whereas his most Christian Majesty was unwilling they should make any Slaves they engaged to let him have the Prisoners delivered to him at so much a Head But to return from whence I have lately diâ—gressed to the Emperor's Arms in Servia The Prince of Baden understanding the Turks after the fore-mentioned Defeat were so far from having any further thoughts or indeed from being in a condition to enter Sclavonia as before they had intended that they had quitted the Enterprize of Seback and not only so but forsaken Zwornich after having first plundered and burnt it because they did not conceive it tenable and were retired towards Nissa and being willing to improve the present Consternation of the Enemy and take the opportunity of the fair Weather resolved with the Imperial Army consisting of about 16 or 17000 Men to advance towards Nissa where he happily arrived after several long Marches on the 23d of Sept. and ranged them in order of Battel that very day The Turkish Army day encamped before the place from Nissa to the top of the Hill that secured it he found them intrenched in their Camp much more regularly than the Turks were wont to do which made it to be believed that some Christian had been their Director Besides this they were invironed with a deep Moat well pallisado'd and the River that ran through the City and which was very rapid secured then on the other side so that there was no possibility of attacking them any way but behind where their Camp was only accessible Nothing passed that day save some petty Skirmishes between the Volunteers of the Imperial Camp and some Troops of the Infidels but the next day the Imperialists decamped an hour before day the left Wing followed by the Baggage took their way to the left side of a Mountain over which they were to march and where they made an Halt until the right Wing commanded by the Duke of Croy had joined them then the whole Army descended into a Valley in Battel-array at what time the Enemy showed themselves upon another little Hill over which the Christians were also to pass before they came in sight of the Infidel's Camp making a shew as if they intended to come down and to charge the Imperialists who no sooner perceived them than that they boldly advanced to meet them But the Turks not thinking it convenient to tarry the Christians advanced to the top of the Hill without any opposition where they found themselves near the Enemy's Intrenchments and perceived it was impossible to force them on that side with an Army not half so numerous as the Enemy Whereupon it was concluded they should seek out a more accessible place and to that purpose they marched along a Valley coasting the Enemy that lay on the right side with a design to fall upon them in the Rear But because they were not well acquainted with the Ways Count Cziaki was sent out with a Party of Hussars to view the Avenues on that side In the mean time several slight Skirmishes passed betvveen Parties of both Armies which however did not hinder the Imperialists from keeping on their Way expecting Count Cziaki who returned at length and assured them they might march on without any danger the which was also confirmed by a Prisoner taken at the same time who added withal that behind the Hills which the Army had in view before it there were two Villages upon the left and to the right a spacious Plain large enough to embattle the Army and where they might attack the Enemy's Rear When the Turks perceived the Christians Designs they began to intrench that part of the Camp which they had neglected before not dreaming of being attack'd that way The Flower of the Janizaries were ordered to guard the Hills which they saw the right Wing of the Christians going to possess themselves of and sent out 4000 Horse to charge the Rear of the left Wing commanded by Picolomini who sending out a Detachment of 3 Squadrons of Noirkermer's Regiment they charged the Enemy so briskly that they were repulsed and pursued above 300 Paces In the mean time the right Wing was engaged with the Janizaries who made a stout resistance and cost the life of the brave Major-General Vellon but the Christians rather animated than born down with the resistance they met with redoubled their Fury and after they had beaten off the Janizaries gained the Hill whither they brought their Cannon and played briskly upon the Enemy who were retired into a bottom from whence they also fired continually upon the Christians And now the Spahi's who had been beaten by a Detachment of the left Wing returned again to the Charge endeavouring still all they could to flank the Christians and fell on with much greater Fury than before as if the Ignominy of their flight had given life anew to their Courage This on-set was firmly sustained by Palâ—i's Regiment of Heydukes who being seconded by others put the whole Ottoman Cavalry into disorder and drove them even upon the Janizaries who seeing the Cowardize of the Spahi's fired
Season in undertaking some further considerable Enterprize and understanding that the Turks were apprehensive the Republick might now turn her Arms upon Negropont upon the Fortifications of which he found they had for that reason bestowed great Labour and Diligence and stored the same with all manner of Provisions he resolved to bend his Course another way To that purpose leaving 1200 Horse and a considerable Body of Foot near the Isthmus of Corinth to prevent the Turks that were in Achaia from entring again by Land into the Morea and 12 Men of War to obstruct their Descents by Sea he march'd directly to attack Vallona a well-fortify'd City almost over against Otranto anciently Tarentum in Italy and at one of the ends of the Gulph of Venice seated in the Kingdom of Macedon directly opposite to that City and was now the Seat of the Basha of Epirus It had a strong Fortress belonging to it and a very spacious Harbour at the Mouth whereof stood two Castles that commanded it For the putting of this Enterprize in Execution the General had with him 19 Men of War 3 Fire-ships 22 Gallies 24 Galeots and a great number of Ships of Burden and his Army consisted of 9000 Foot 800 Horse 3000 Volunteers 1200 of the Pope's Foot and 1600 of the Infantry of Maltha besides which the General of Dalmatia was ordered to send a Body of the Venetian Forces into that Province to join him But the General met with so many unexpected Interruptions and with such contrary Winds in this Expedition that he could not come before the Town before the 12th of Sept. which Delays gave the Turks so much leisure to provide for their Defence that they had got together 7000 Foot and 1500 Horse to dispute their landing one part of their Infantry being posted upon the adjacent Hills and the rest entrenched upon the Shoar to which they had also added several new Works and Entrenchments within the Suburbs of the Town But all these Difficulties hindred not the Venetians from attempting to land the day following which was the 13th to which end General Cornaro having fixed every one to his Post and now preparing to land 1500 of the Inhabitants of that Country with whom they had held Intelligence and who had in the mean time taken care to provide themselves with Arms and Ammunition appeared in good order near to a Place called Ayna Fredda and began a brisk Skirmish with the Turks which made the General make the more haste to get on Shoar tho' the Sea ran very high which was no small Obstruction to their Descent and tho' the Turks notwithstanding the continual firing made from the Ships and Gallies upon them disputed the Ground with them for 2 Hours But then the Sieur Gennelines General of the Maltese Battallion was the first with his Men that set foot on Shoar being soon followed by Signior Mohkeenchi and Seignior Bonaventura with the Pope's Forces The Turks finding they could no longer well resist betook themselves to slight and the Christians landed altogether without any Impediment with the loss only of 6 Men killed and 16 wounded but it was more considerable on the Turkish side This being done the Command of the Army was thus assign'd General Gaudagni was to lead the main Battel with the Auxilaries the Sergeant of Battalia Spaar had the Command of the Right Wing and Lieutenant General Barri commanded the Left while Reperta Sergeant of Battalia with his Detachment was appointed to command the second Line the Proveditor-General Gremani being in the mean time left at his Liberty to be up and down where 't was most necessary They set forward in this Order and General Spaar posted himself on the rising Grounds after he had repulsed the Turks and advanced on the 14th while the Cavalry who was yet on board landed Raperta being at the same time posted near the Sea for the Security of the Convoys The Turks also appear'd then but were so bravely attack'd by General Spaar that he drove them back to a great Town about a League from Vallona seated upon an Hill and defended by a Castle which they took by Storm and entrenched themselves about the Castle when General Cornaro coming up in the Evening ordered a Battery to be raised on which were planted 2 great Guns and 6 of a lesser Size from which the same Night they began to play upon the Castle Upon this a Resolution was also taken to fall upon the Turks that were encamp'd before Vallona to the number of 6000 Fot and 1500 Horse General Spaar with 4000 Foot and 400 Horse being ordered for that Service But the Turks had no sooner seen the Venetians advance than that they fled and were pursued so among the Woods that they were utterly scattered In the mean while the Christians fell upon another Town where the Turks had entrench'd themselves and quickly master'd it notwithstanding the vigorous Resistance of the Enemy who fired upon the Venetians from the Houses and Fortress without ceasing whereby they depriv'd the Town of all Communication between the Turks and them General Cornaro was present in this Action and performed all that could have been expected from a Person of Courage and an experienced Captain who had his Hat shot off with a Flight of a Cannon-bullet But Sergeant Barri was slain with a Musket-ball as he was going to view a Post as were some others of note killed and wounded The next Night they began to mine the Castle tho' the Enemy fired very desperately upon them till Morning But upon the first appearance of day they hung out a white Flag and desired to capitulate To which end they let down from their Walls two of their Officers who were brought to the General and demanded at first very ridiculous Terms but they were brought to and at length it was agreed they should march out with their Arms and Baggage which they did accordingly being about 550 Soldiers and near 5000 others who were all conducted to their Army But tho' this was happily terminated the main Work was still to do Wherefore from hence they returned before Vallona which appear'd to be a Figure with 8 Angles environed with a Moat and Couterscarp and having a Tower in the middle furnished with 20 Pieces of Cannon besides 60 more that were planted round the Town Not far from hence stood a small Wood of Olive-Trees with a small Burrough wherein were 6 Churches belonging to the Turks Greeks and Jews which they soon made themselves Masters of carrying their Approaches on at the same time before Vallona which they battered with their Cannon from the Ships and Bombs from the Polanders They summoned the Commander of the Town to surrender who demanded time till the next day which was the 18th of Sept. when a Feleuca being sent to summon the Basha a second time she found the Gates open the Turks having quitted the place in the Night and of which General Cornaro took possession
His Royal Highness for his part will contribute all in his Power thereunto who likewise flatters himself that this Treaty lately signed with his most Christian Majesty may be a Means to divide these Princes whose Vnion will infallibly oppose your Majesty's Return to your Dominions which may facilitate a general Peace the first Effects of which will undoubtedly be your Majesty's Re-establishment on your Throne This has been the Occasion Sir of his Royal Highness's withdrawing from the Allies and which he hopes will be thought fully to answer his promises to your Majesty's Ministers seâ—t to sollicite him in that behalf This he would have perform'd sooner but Your Majesty may be inform'd from the most Christian King what Reasons inclined him to the contrary These Sir are the sincere Protestations of his Royal Highness which he will endeavour to make appear by his continued Prayers for the Prosperity of your Sacred Majesty But to return the French King in Conformity to his Articles made a formal Resignation of all manner of pretentions to Savoy and the Dukes Territories whilst his Royal Highness upon the expiration of the Truce on the 15th of Sept. put himself at the head of the French and his own Troops to drive his Friends the Allies out of Italy or to accept of a Neutrality for it A strange Metamorphosis and such as I think cannot be parallel'd in any History Ancient or Modern that one and the same Prince who equals himself to Crown'd Heads should successively in one and the same Campaign Command the two Armies of two Enemies This was a pace none of his Ancestors ever made though they shewed themselves unconstant enough between the French and Spanish Crowns upon divers occasions But so it was that the Duke marched at the head of his Army and laid Siege to Valentia a Citty in the Dutchy of Milan belonging to the King of Spain which was carried on with much Vigour while the Treaty was agitated on both sides by the Prince of Fundi from the Emperor Marquess of Leganez on the part of the Spaniards the Lord Gallaway for the King of England and the Marquess de St. Thomas for the Duke of Savoy and many Conferences were held before they could be brought to any Conclusion But though the French and Savoyards were so eager to take Valentia they found an harder thing of it than was expected having lost above 3000 Men before it and the approach of the bad Weather and the Winter Season made the matter very Dubious at last and things on all hands were brought to this Crisis on both sides whether the French should run the hazzard and Dishonour that would accrue to them of raising the Siege or whether the Confederates would venture the losing of it and with that protract the War in Italy But all Parties having considered the advantages and disadvantages the Neutrality was agreed to and signed upon the 7th of October containing chiefly the following Articles I. That there shall be a Neutrality or Suspension of Arms in Italy till a General Peace II. That the Imperial and French Troops shall depart out of Italy and return into their own Countries III. That in lieu of Winter Quarters which the Princes of Italy were otherwise oblig'd to allow the Imperialists they should furnish them with 300000 Crowns that is to say One third before their Retreat and the remainder at a time prefix'd upon sufficient Security IV. That so soon as the Imperialists should begin to March off with some part of their Troops the French should proportionably do the like V. That the Treaty should be ratifyed within two Days by the Duke of Savoy by the Emperor within a Month and within two by the King of Spain Hereupon the Count of Thesse and Marquess de Vins were sent Hostages to Turin by the French is were also the Prince of Trivultio and the Marquess de Burgomaniero by the King of Spain and the Marquess of St. Thomas to Milan by the Duke of Savoy Things being thus concluded on in Italy in respect to that particular Peace there was a mighty Discourse all the while of a general One with the rest of the Confederates and Monsieur Dickvelt's going about the same time to the King's Camp when News came to him of the former made the same hotly Discoursed of People supposing he came to His Majesty to give an Account of his Negotiations about that important Affair And that which confirmed Men more in this Opinion was That Monsieur Dickvelt made this Journey more than once between the Camp and the Hague but this matter we shall pursue no further at present it being time we should proceed to see the Operations of the Campaign in Hungary this Year The Armies on each side were Commanded by the same Generals as the preceding Year the Grand Seignior pretty early in the Summer came to Belgrade at the head of very numerous Troops while the Elector of Saxony about the beginning of June joined the Imperial Forces whom he found to be so good that according to all the Intelligence at that time of the Enemies Numbers he might be able to fight them or if they refused to sit down before some considerable place Whereupon several Counsels of War were held according to Custom wherein it was resolved at length to Besiege Themeswaer but whether it were really designed for a formal Siege or that it was only a feint to draw the Mahometans to a Battle is uncertain However the Duke approached the place viewed it raised Batteries and in some measure made a formal Attack upon the Town while advice came in the mean time thick and three-fold that the Sultan was preparing to cross the Danube with his whole Army which made the Elector glad of the News rise from before Themeswaer and immediately to set forward to meet the Infidels But this proving to be a false Rumour the Elector returned to attack the place again though this was thought to have been done that the Turks might be more eager to follow him and indeed the Stratagem took For the Sultan to divert him from the Siege came on amain which made the Elector to make some small motion towards the Enemy to the end he might take his measures to observe their Countenance and the Scituation of their Ground So that the Imperialists continued their march when on the 21st of August by break of Day they found the Turkish Chavalry begin to appear in very great Numbers which made the Elector and General Capara to cause the Army to march in order of Battle But at the same time the Infidels came pouring down upon the Christians from several parts with extraordinary Fury But they met with such Vigorous resistance from every Quarter that after a sharp Recounter they were forced to retreat and the Germans pursued them close at their Heels with an intention to drive them upon their Infantry in hopes to have come up with them the same Day and
to have attacked them successfully considering the rout of their Cavalry but therein they were prevented by the approach of Night Next Day which was the 22d the Elector sent a numerous Detachment to observe the Enemies posture who gave an account of their being strongly posted between two Morasses that secured the Wings of their Army and that they had planted several Cannon before them and that the avenues of those Morasses were almost inaccessible Whereupon it was concluded in a Council of War that the Imperialists should retreat 3000 Paces towards the Mountains in hopes to draw the Turks out of their Entrenchments which was done next Day in order of Battle On the 24th the Enemies appeared with a great part of their Army but drew a new and third line so speedily that it was finished before the Germans could fall upon them so that there was no more done that Day but Cannonading one anothers Camps On the 24th the Imperialists made some little motion and fell down into a Plain having a River behind them in hopes to draw the Enemy out of their Retrenchments yet that would not do neither But upon the 25th the Imperialists had advice upon the return of their advanced Guards that the Infidels began to appear and were fetchâ—ing a compass to fall upon the right Wing being covered by a thick Wood which was in part cut through and separated the Enemy from that right Wing about a Leagues distance It was thought at first to have been only some Detachment but the Imperial Generals coming out with some Horse upon the Discovery found it to be the whole Ottoman Army marching in a full Body towards them and this was confirmed by a Prisoner that was taken immediately after Upon this the Imperial Army was ranged in Order of Battle with a Design to go and meet the Enemy but they made so much speed that before the Germans â—uld cross the Woods the Turks had posted themselves upon one Line between the Imperialists and Temeswaer having a Wood behind them a tripple Range of Cannon in Front their-Right Wing opposite to the Imperialists Left and having a Morass upon their own Left Wing which was the Reason the Imperialists could not press so close upon them as they wished However Six Battalions were commanded out who entred the Wood about Five in the Afternoon to charge the Turâ— in Flank being seconded by two Regiments of Dragoons while the Body of the Army advanced at the same time through the Wood. The Ottomans finding themselves very much annoyed drew out their Horse and detach'd againâ—â— the Body of the Imperial Army that advanced in two Columns Twelve Thousand Senderbeegli's on Horseback being a sort of People that usually run upon the hottest of the 〈◊〉 and fight like Madmen in hopes of great Rewards which the Sultans are wont to give them after the Battle is over These Men after they had forced the Calthorps of the Imperialists broke into the first Line so that two Battalions were constrained to give way to their Fury but they were sooâ— after repulsed by some sent out for that purpose and the Line was again closed by the same Battalions In the meaâ— time the six first Battalions fell upon the Janizaries behind the Barricade of Waggons and that with so much resolute Bravery that they drove them from thence But the Jaâ—â—saries fired so thick upon them besides that they were attacked in Flank with so much Fury by the Ottomon Horse thâ— they were forced to retire The two Regiments of Drâ—goons that were to second them had at the same time begun to charge those Horse with good Success But the Jâ—nisaries coming to their Succour the Encounter was so rude that several Officers on both sides were slain and some wounded and the said two Regiments of Dragoons being constrained to retire were pursued by the Ottomans with greâ—â— Slaughter But then General Heidersheim coming up with 〈◊〉 fresh Regiment of Horse drove the Enemy within their baâ—ricado'd Waggons There that gallant Commander whâ— had been engaged in this War every Campaigne from thâ— beginning of it had the Misfortune to receive a dangerouâ— Wound which forced him to leave the Battle and of whiâ—â— he died after While both Parties were thus contending on this side thâ— Enemies Cavalry poured in upon some of the Imperial Regiments on the other and having first put them to the Rout broke in upon the Second Line but they were stopped short by the Infantry till the first Line was Closed again by some Regiments of Horse that were sent for from the other side upon which the same Regiments vigorously Repressed the Enemy but were hindred as was said from pursuing them by some unknown Order However some other Regiments of Horse pursued them with extraordinary Courage even to their Barricades Upon this there was some Foot immediately detached away not only to supply the place which the Regiments of Horse had left void in the first Line but to second them and to endeavour both together to force the Enemies Waggon-Barricades But the Janisaries fired so furiously upon the Imperialists that they obliged them to Retire and being pursued by the Turks the Retreat was so hasty that another Regiment of Horse was quite put out of order But then the Regiment of Caprara's coming in seasonably to their Relief Charged the Enemy in Flank and drove them back again to their Barricades with so much loss and confusion that the Grand Seignior who Commanded a Reserve of about 3000 Men in Person at a little distance behind the Barricades had much adoe to stop the Run-a-ways and to prevent his other Troops from forsaking the said Barricade But Night coming on it was not thought convenient to Attack them in their Barricades However the Elector kept the Army upon the Field of Battle at their Arms all Night and offered the Sultan Battle next Day which the other declined and so ended this Battle than which there has not been any one Fought with more Resolution and Bravery on both sides in this Age and it seemed to have been like a drawn Battle The Loss in all appearance was not very different for the Christians did not make the Enemies loss to exceed 4000 Men and when they themselves on the other Hand have owned their's to have been about 3000 some small Deduction for Partiallity will make it very near the same But tho neither side had any great reason to boast of its Advantage this Campaign from this Battle yet the Success Count Barthiani Governour of Croatia had in the mean time by the Taking of the strong Castle of Vranogratz and the Fort of Tuderaw altered the case in favour of the Germans For the Reduction both of the one and the other freed the Emperor's Territories from several Incursions of the Infidels that way which very much annoy'd the Inhabitants of those Parts We have but little to say of the Venetians this Year there being nothing done in the
both sides and mutually and duly exchanged at the Royal Palace of Ryswick in the Province of Holland within the space of three Weeks to be reckoned from the Day of the Subscription or sooner if it may be In Testimony of all and every the things before mentioned and for their greater Force and to give them all the Vigour and full Authority they ought to have the Underwritten Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries together with the Illustirous and most Excellent the Extraordinary Ambassador Mediator have Signed and Sealed the present Instrument of Peace Done c. Signed by the English and French Ambassadors and by the Metâ—iator Separate Article Besides all that is Concluded and Stipulated by the Treaty of Peace Signed this present Day the 20th of Sptember it is moreover agreed by the present separate Article which shall have the same Force and Effect as if it was inserted word for word in the said Treaty That the most Christian King shall convenant and agree that it shall be free for the Emperor and Empire until the first Day of Novemher next to accept the Conditions of Peace lately proposed by the most Christian King according to the Declaration made on the first Day of this present Month unless in the mean time it shall be otherwise agreed between his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and his most Christian Majesty And in Case his Imperial Majesty does not within the time prefixed accept those Conditions or that it be not otherwise agreed between his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and his most Christian Majesty the said Treaty shall have its full Effect and be duly put in Execution according to its Form and Tenor And it shall not be lawful for the King of Great Britain directly or indirectly on any account or cause whatsoever to act contrary to the said Treaty Having thus premised the English Articles we shall next add those of the Dutch IN the Name of God and of the Holy Trinity Be it known to all present and to come That whereas after a long continuance of the most Bloody War that Europe time out of mind has been afflicted with it hath pleas'd Divine Providence to prepare for Christendom the end of her Miseries by cherishing a fervent Desire of Peace in the Heart of the Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent Prince Lewis XIV by the Grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navarr his Most Christian Majesty moreover not having any other Intention then to render it solid and perpetual by the Equity of the Conditions and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries being no less desirous sincerely and as much as in them lies to concur toward the Establishment of the publick Tranquility and return to the ancient Amity and Affection of his Most Christian Majesty have consented in the first place in order to it to acknowledge the Mediation of the Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent Prince Chares XI of Glorious Memory by the Grace of God King of Sweden the Goths and Vandals but a hasty Death having cross'd the Hopes that all Europe had justly conceiv'd of his Counsels and good Offices His Most Christian Majesty and the said Lords the States General persisting in their Resolution to stop as soon as may be the Effusion of so much Christian Blood thought they could not take a better Course than still to acknowledge under the same Character the Most High Most Excellent and Thrice Potent Prince Charles XII King of Sweden his Son and Successor who on his side has also continu'd the same Cares for the Advancement of the Peace between his Most Christian Majesty and the said Lords the States General in the Conferences held for this purpose in the Castle of Ryswick in the Province of Holland between the Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries appointed on both sides that is to say On the behalf of his Most Christian Majesty the Sieur Nicholas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonnueil c. the Sieur Lewis de Verjus Knight Count of Crecy c. and the Sieur Francis de Callieres Knight Lord of Callieres c. And on the behalf of the Lords the States General the Sieurs Antony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the States of Holland and West-Friese c. Everard de Weed Lord of Weede Dickvelt Rateles c. and William de Haren Grietman of Bilt c. who having implor'd the Assistance of Heaven and respectively imparted to each other their full Powers Copies of which shall be inserted at the end of this present Treaty and made Exchanges thereof in due form by the Interposition and Mediation of the Sieur Baron de Lillierooâ— Extraordinary Embassador and Plenipotentiary of the King of Sweden who acquitted himself of the Function of Mediator with all requisite Prudence Capacity and Equity agreed to the Glory of God and for the Welfare of Christendom upon the following Conditions I. There shall be for the future between his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Kings of France and Nâ—varr and his Kingdoms of the one part and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countriâ—â— on the other a good firm faithful and inviolable Peace in pursuance of which all Acts of Hostility shall cease 〈◊〉 be forborn of what Nature soever they may be betweeâ— the said Lord the King and the said States General as 〈◊〉 by Sea and other Waters as by Land in all their Kingdoms Countries Territories Provinces and Signories and between all their Subjects and Inhabitants of 〈◊〉 Quality or Condition soever they be without any Exception of Places or Persons II. There shall be a general Oblivion and Amnesty of 〈◊〉 that has been done on either side upon occasion of this 〈◊〉 War whether by those who being born Subjects of Fraâ—â—â— and engag'd in the Service of the Most Christian King 〈◊〉 their Employments and Estates which they possess'd 〈◊〉 in the Extent of France enter'd into and remain'd in 〈◊〉 Services of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces or by those who being born Subjects of the 〈◊〉 Lords the States General or engag'd in their Service by the Employments and Estates which they possess'd within the Extent of the United Provinces enter'd into and remain'd in the Service of his Most Christian Majesty and the said Persons of what Quality and Condition soever they may be without any Exception may re-enter and shall re-enter and shall be effectually re-admitted and re-establish'd in the peaceable Possession and Enjoyment of their Estates Honours Dignities Privileges Franchises Rights Exemptions Constitutions and Liberties without ever being prosecuted troubl'd or molested either in general or particular for any Cause or under any Pretence whatever by reason of whatever pass'd since the beginning of the said War and in consequence of the preseâ—â— Treaty and after it shall be ratify'd as well by his Most Christian Majesty as by the said Lords the States General it
at the time when it was taken as also the Banlieu and Provostship Appurtenances and Dependencies of the same City in all its Consistencies as the Catholick King enjoy'd it then and before the said Treaty as also the City of Aeth in the Condition it was at the time of its being last taken without breaking demolishing or weakning any thing or impairing its Works with the Artillery which was there at the same time together with the Banlieu Castlewick Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes of the said City as they were yielded by the Treaty of Nimeguen the Places following excepted viz. The Bourg of Anthoin Vaux Guarrain Ramecroix Bethune Constantin the Fief de Paradise the last being intermingled within the Limits of Tournaisis and the said Fief of Paradise so far as it contributes with the Village of Kain Havines Meles Moncourt Kain le Mont de St. Audebert call'd de la Trinitie Frontenoy Maubray Hernies Caluelle and Viers with their Parishes Appurtenances and Dependencies without reserving any thing shall remain in the Possession and Soveraignty of his Most Christian Majesty nevertheless without any prejudice to what has been granted to his Most Christian Majesty by the Preceding Treaties VIII The City of Courtrary shall be surrender'd back into the Power Demesne and Possession of his Catholick Majesty in the Condition as now it is with the Artillery which was there at the time when it was taken together with the Castlewick of the said City the Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes conformable to the Treaty of Nimeguen IX The said Most Christian King shall also cause to be restor'd to the Catholick King all the Cities Places Forts Castles and Ports which his Armies have or might have possess'd till the Day of the Peace and also since that in any place of the World where-ever situated as likewise his said Catholick Majesty shall cause to be restor'd to his Most Christian Majesty all the Places Forts Castles and Posts which his Arms may have possess'd during this War till the Day of the Publication of the Peace and in whatsoever Place situated X. All the Places Cities Burroughs strong Holds and Villages which the most Christian King has possess'd and reunited since the Treaty of Nimeghen within the Provinces of Luxemburg Namur Brabant Flanders Hainault and other Provinces of the Low-Countries according to the List of the said Reunions produc'd on the part of his Catholick Majesty in the Acts of that Negotiation a Copy of which shall be annex'd to this present Treaty shall remain to his Catholick Majesty except the Eighty two Cities Burroughs Places and Villages contain'd in the List of Exception which has been also produc'd on the Part of his Most Christian Majesty and to which he lays claim by reason of the Dependencies of the Cities of Charlemont Maubege and others surrender'd to his Majesty by the Treaties of Aix la Chapelle and Nimeghen in respect of which Eighty two Places only a List of which shall be annex'd to the present Treaty it is agreed on both sides that immediately after the Signing this present Treaty that Commissioners shall be appointed on both sides as well to regulate to which of the two Kings the said Eighty two Cities Burroughs Places or Villages or any of them shall belong as to agree upon Exchanges to be made for the Places and Villages intermix'd in the Countries under the Dominion of either Prince And in case the said Commissioners cannot agree their Most Christian and Catholick Majesties shall refer the Ultimate Decision to the Judgment of the Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces whom the said Kings have reciprocally consented to take for Arbitrators without prejudice nevertheless to the Plenipotentiary-Embassadors of the said Most Christian and Catholick Kings otherwise to agree the Matter in friendly Manner between themselves and before the Ratification of this present Treaty if it be possible so that all Difficulties as well touching the said Re-unions as Limits may be totally ended and determin'd In pursuance of which all Prosecutions Sentences Separations Incorporations Forfeitures Judgments Confiscations Re-unions Declarations Regulations Edicts and generally all Acts what-ever put forth in the Name and behalf of his Most Christian Majesty by reason of the said Re-unions whether made by the Parliament or Chamber settl'd at Metz or by any other Courts of Justice Intendants Commissioners or Delegates against his Catholick Majesty or his Subjects and shall be revok'd and annull'd for ever as if they had never been and moreover the Generality of the said Provinces shall remain to his Catholick Majesty except the Cities Towns and Places yielded to his Most Christian Majesty by the preceding Treaties with the Appurtenances and Dependencies XI All the Forts Cities Burroughs Places and Villages Circumstances Dependencies and Annexes hereabove restor'd and surrender'd back by his Most Christian Majesty without reserving or with-holding any thing shall return to the Possession of his Catholick Majesty to be by him enjoy'd with all the Prerogatives Advantages Profits and Revenues that depend upon 'em with the same Extent the same Rights of Property Demesne and Soveraignty which he enjoy'd before the last War at the time and before the Treaties of Aix la Chapelle and Nimeghen and altogether as he might or ought to enjoy them XII The Restitution of the said Places shall be perform'd on the behalf of the most Christian King cordially and sincerely without delay or scruple for any Cause or upon any Occasion whatsoever to Him or Them who shall be appointed by the said Catholick King immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty without demolishing weak'ning or diminishing any thing in any manner within the said Cities nor shall there be any Pretensions or Demands for Reimbursments for the Fortifications Publick Edifices and Buildings rais'd in the said Places nor for the Payment of what may be due to the Soldiers that shall be there at the time of the Restitution XIII The Most Christian King shall cause to be remov'd out of all the said Places which he restores to the Catholick King all the Artillery which his said Majesty caus'd to be carry'd into the said Places after they were taken all the Powder Bullets Arms Provision and Ammunition which shall be therein at the time that they shall be restor'd to his said Catholick Majesty and they who shall be entrusted by the Most Christian King for that purpose shall for Two Months make use of the Waggons and Boats of the Country they shall have free Passage as well by Water as by Land for the Transportation of the said Ammunition to the Places belonging to his Most Christian Majesty which shall be nearest adjoining The Governours Commanders Officers and Magistrates of the Places so restor'd shall afford all Accommodations in their Power to facilitate the Carriage and Transportation of the said Artillery and Ammunition Also the Officers and Soldiers who shall march out of the said Places shall have Liberty to remove and
granted pass'd and stipulated between the above-mention'd Plenipotentiary-Embassadors of the said Most Christian and Catholick Kings in the Name of their Majesties which Plenipotentiaries by virtue of their full Powers Copies of which shall be affix'd at the bottom of this present Treaty have promis'd and do promise under the Obligation of all and every the Territories and States present and to come of the Kings their Masters That they shall be inviolably observ'd and accomplish'd and that they will cause them to be sincerely and uprightly ratify'd without any Additions and to produce the Ratifications by Letters Authentick and seal'd wherein the whole present Treaty shall be inserted Word for Word within Six Weeks to commence from the Day and Date of the present Treaty or sooner if it may be Moreover the said Plenipotentiaries have promis'd and do promise in the said Names That the said Letters of Ratifications being produc'd the said Most Christian King as soon as may be in the Presâ—nce of such Person or Persons as the said Catholick King shall please to appoint shall solemnly swear upon the Cross Gospel Canons of the Mass and upon his Honour fully cordially and faithfully to observe and fulfil all the Articles contain'd in this present Treaty And the same thing shall likewise be done as soon as may be by the said Catholick King in the presence of such Person or Persons whom it shall please the Most Christian King to depute In Testimony of which Things the said Plenipotentiaries have subscrib'd the present Treaty with their Names and seal'd it with their Seals Given at Riswick in Holland September the 20 th 1697. Thus Sâ—gn'd in the Original L. S. N. I illieroot L. S. De Harlay Bonnueil L. S. Verjus de Crecy L. S. De Callieres But though the Imperialists seemed to be a little concern'd at these Proceedings of their Allies yet they thought it the most advisable way to agree to a Cessation of Arms which was done two Days after the Signing of this Treaty and Expresses were immediately Dispatched to the respective Armies upon the Rhine to cease from any further acts of Hostility Yet before advice could come hereof to Prince Lewis of Baden he had taken the Castle of Eberemburg and was going to lay Siege to Kirn also But what was perhaps more mortifying to the Imperial Ministers than all the rest was that advice had not come a few days sooner of the wonderful Success of the Emperors Arms in Hungary which would in all likelihood have a little cooled the eagerness of those powers that had already signed the Peace and made the French more complyant with the Emperor and Empire's Demands But though they failed herein yet certainly such an advantageous Battle has not been fought in the whole course of this Bloody War which had now lasted for 15 Years And before we go any further its fit we should give a few particulars of this memorable Action The Imperialis is true miscarried in the first Design they had concerted to begin the Campaign with the taking of Bihatz the more than ordinary Opposition they met with there and the Rebellion that brake forth in Vpper Hungary which was calculated to have begun about the time of the Election of Poland having occasioned them to draw their Troops that way But though the Head of this last Hydra was quickly cut off yet the Turks headed again by the Grand Seignior in Person seemed to come very formidable into the Field and threatned to give new Life to this Monster again or to push quite through Transylvania and thereby entirely despoil the Emperor of the Benefit of that Principality Though other Aspects of the Enemies Motion gave the Germans Umbrage that they designed to attack Peter Waradin But while Prince Eugenius of Savoy who commanded the Imperial Army lay at Belsche he received upon the 12th of Sept. the Confirmation of the Intelligence that he had had before That the Infidels had a Design to march directly to Segedin with this Addition That several Parties of Turks and Tartars were sent out to burn and plunder the Country A Captain of Zenta also Tokeli by Name reported That about Noon the Enemy was at Zenta and that they had detached a Body of Horse in order to destroy all before them For the better Assurance of the Truth of which two Parties of 60 Horses apiece were sent upon the Scout In the mean time the Army decamped before Day and marched in 12 Columns Six of Horse and Six of Foot the Artillery in the middle in which Order they continued their March till 9 in the Afternoon in which time some of the Parties sent to get Intelligence brought word That they met the Enemies Guards near Zenta Hereupon the Hussars were immediately sent away to succour and bring them off who having performed their Orders took a Bassa Prisoner and returned without the Loss of one Man The Bassa was examined and threatned to have his Head cut off if he did not tell the Truth He told them That the Grand Seignior had a real Design to march directly to Segedin and to try if he could make himself Master of it in his March because he was assured by Tekely and the Corussâ—s That it might be easily taken before the Imperial Army could overtake them and withal That the City was defenceless But understanding that the Imperialists who were decamped from Peter Waradin followed them close at the Heels and that there was a numerous Garrison in Segedin he had stopt at Zenta and had laid a Bridge over the Theysse which they had brought in Waggons and which had been built at Belgrade last Winter by the Direction of a Frenchman being a neat good commodious Invention That now the Grand Seignior had a Design to march into Transilvania and Vpper Hungary to which purpose he had already passed the Theysse in Person with some Thousands of Horse That the last Night when this Bassa was sent upon the Scout the Artillery and heavy Baggage began to pass the same River but that the rest of the Army was still on the other side with above an Hundred Pieces of Cannon nor could he tell whether those Troops would pass the River or no That in the mean time the Turks were already intreâ—ched and that they had begun to cast another Intrenchment at the Head of the Bridge The Bassa added That the Tartars Corusses and some Turks burnt all the Country before them though as he said they had received no such Orders from the Sultan which was not easie to be believed Upon this Information the Army continued their March receiving Advice every Moment by the Hussars and Spies That the Enemy was still crossing the River and that their Cavalry were stirred out of their Intrenchments according to Custom to skirmish with the Christians Two Hours after other Prisoners gave an Account That the greatest part of the Horse were already on the other side of the River and the
shall remain in the quiet Possession of the Ecclesiastical Estates and Rents belonging to 'em and that they shall not be molested by any Process of Law upon that Occasion as more especially to the Peace of Westphalia which ought to be look'd upon as the Basis and Foundation of this Treaty For that the express Words of that Treaty are That the sole and only Foundation of the Restitution and of the performance which ought to follow it by reason of the Ecclesiastical Affairs ought to be the Year 1624. and respectively in the Palatinate before the Commotions in Bohemia till the Controversies about Religion shall be amicably terminated II. To the Capitulations of the Emperor and the King of the Romans whereby the Conclusion of the said Peace of Religion and of the Peace of Westphalia that follow'd it are confirm'd III. To the Instruction given to the Deputies of the Empire at the present Treaty of Peace which prescribes both to the One and the Other as well Catholicks as Evangelicks after what manner they ought to Act. And for as much as the same Instruction was confirm'd by his Imperial Majesty the Tenor of that Instruction is That all things as well Ecclesiastical as Political of which any Alteration may have been made shall be restor'd to their first Condition according to the Regulation of the Peace of Westphalia IV. Moreover that Clause is contrary to the particular Instruction which the Deputies of the Confession of Ausburg have receiv'd from the Evangelick Body V. To the particular Orders of their Masters tending to the same end VI. To the Guarranty of the Peace of Westphalia with which the Most Christian King is intrusted VII To the Preliminaries of that Peace which were the Foundation of the Treaties that follow'd VIII To the Project and Declaration which their Excellencies the Embassadors of France deliver'd the 20th of July and 1st of September wherein no mention is made of any such dangerous Alteration in the Peace of Westphalia And when the said Embassie some days before the Peace was sign'd gave the Imperial Embassie their Choice to sign the Project and Declaration upon the Subject of the Peace it appear'd by those two Pieces as they are worded and the same appear'd afterwards that the Most Christian King had not then given any Order in reference to that Clause IX That Clause is also opposite to the preceding Article of the Peace of Ryswick according to which the Treaties of Westphalia and Nimeguen are look'd upon as the Basis and Foundation of the present Peace and because it is also added immediately after the Ratifications the said Treaties 〈◊〉 be duly put in Execution in respect of Spiritual and Temporal and shall be inviolably observ'd for the future For as to the Clause which is added if it shall not be expresly derogated from it by the present Treaty Certain it is that it was only to be understood of the Temporal and not of the Spiritual as may be manifestly inferr'd from the Passage already cited and by many others of the Westphalian Treaty For it was there concluded and more-especially in the Vth Article Paragraph 9. of the Treaty of the Peace of Osnabrug That they of the Confession of Ausburg should not be molested for the time to come in any manner whatever in the Possession of such Estates of the Church which they enjoy'd but that they should be for ever secure from all Prosecutions of Law and Violence till the Contests about Religion should be determin'd X. This Clause that has been already several times alledg'd is also contrary to the Separate Articles of the Treaties past with the King of Great Britain and the States-General of the United Provinces by which His Sacred Imperial Majesty and the Empire were left at liberty to conclude or not conclude the Peace by a time prefix'd in the Conditions which had been stipulated in the Project and Declaration of France XI Moreover such a Clause gives too great a Shog to the Union and Tye of Concord that reigns in all the States of the Empire XII And since his Imperial Majesty's Embassie has refus'd to take notice of the General Remonstrance of the Evangelicks concerning the Execution only of the III. Article of the Peace because the said Execution in the Empire no way concerns France but only the Emperor and the Empire XIII Seeing also that the Embassie of his Imperial Majesty has not only refus'd to take any Cognizance of the particular Remonstrances of some of the Evangelicks by which they desire to provide for the Re-establishment of their Religion in the Provinces which are to be restor'd to the Roman Empire looking upon those Remonstrances as superfluous seeing they no way concern'd the Most Christian King and as being already compriz'd under the Regulation of the III Article Besides that they rejected a General Remonstrance of the Evangelicks for the Preservation of the Evangelick Religion in the Cities of Strasburgh and Alsatia upon the Stipulations of the Peace of Westphalia there is no reason that the Embassie of France should pretend the Admittance of this Clause or that the Emperor's Embassie should admit it and make an Alteration so contrary to the said Peace in the Territories of the Empire in reference to Ecclesiastical Affairs XIV The said Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries here present cannot give their Consent to the Clause so often mention'd contrary to their Orders and their Consciences without doing some notable Prejudice both to their Masters and all the rest who uphold the Peace of Westphalia and who are oblig'd to defend it more-especially perceiving upon reading the Treaty of Ryswick after it was sign'd that certain Things were inserted not only in this Article but in several other Places without their Knowledge and at the same time omitted other things which do not slightly concern the Evangelicks and of which Report will be made to the States of the Empire XV. And tho' it was propos'd by way of Expedient that the Evangelicks should sign the Treaty of Peace in hopes the Affair would be accommodated there were but Three who did it having particular Reasons for so doing the rest of the Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries refusing their Consent as already has been said because their Instructions expresly enjoyn'd 'em the contrary the Dispute being aboâ—t a Change of State in regard of Ecclesiastick Affairs within the Territories of the Empire And they thought they might the better do it because the Embassies of France had very often excus'd themselves during the course of the Negotiation because they had not his most Christian Majesty's Orders in Things of less Importance XVI Thus after mature Deliberation another Expedient was propounded which was to defer signing the Treaty till our Sovereigns should be inform'd of all things and should declare themselves upon this Affair either at Ratisbonne or at the Time of the Pacification Now to the end that in an Affair of so much Delicacy and of so high Importance
this effect that the said City of Strasburg be quite razed out of the Matriculation or Register of the Empire XVII It shall nevertheless be lawful for all and every one of the Inhabitants of the said City and its Dependences of what condition soever they be who are willing to depart from thence to go settle themselves in any other place where they please and whither they may transport their Moveable Goods without any leâ—t hindrance diminution or exaction during a whole Year next after the Ratification of the Peace and during the space of five Years in executing the Conditions which are wont to be perform'd from all Antiquity and Time out of Mind in the said Countries in such like Cases and may sell or put off their Moveable Goods or retain and keep them and manage them themselves or cause them to be governed and managed by others the same liberty of keeping and managing their Immovable Goods themselves or of getting them managed by others shall appertain to any other Member or Subject of the Empire be they mediate or immediate who shall have any Goods Revenues Debts Actions or Rights within the said City and Dependences thereon whether it be that they have always enjoy'd them or whether they may have been confiscated during or before the War or given to others the which ought to be restor'd by the present Agreement of what nature soever they may be or in what place soever they may be situate provided also that the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction shall remain to those whereunto it did from all Antiquity belong and without any body presuming to withstand the same or hinder the exercise thereof XVIII In like manner also His Most Christian Majesty shall on his part restore within thirty days next ensuing the Ratification of the present Treaty to his Imperial Majesty and Empire the Fort of Kiel together with all and singular its Rights and Dependences which first was built by His Most Christian Majesty on the right Hand of the Rhine intire and without demolishing any thing thereof And as for the Fort of Pille and others raised in the Isles of the Rhine they shall be totally razed within a Month or sooner if possible at the sole Expence and Charges of the Most Christian King and not to be new raised or rebuilt hereafter by either Party And as to what relates to the Navigation and other Usage and Customs of the River it shall be free and open for the Subjects of both Parties and for all other that shall have a mind to pass sail or convey their Merchandize that way without any permission being allowed to either of them to undertake any thing there or else-where for to turn the said River another way and thereby any ways to render the Course of Navigation or any other Usage or Custom more difficult much less shall it be permitted to erect new Customs Rights Imposts or Tolls or to augment the ancient ones to oblige the Boats to come ashore at one Bank rather than other there to expose their Lading or Merchandize or to take in any but all that shall be wholly left to every ones Liberty XIX His Most Christian Majesty does likewise deliver up to his Imperial Majesty and to the Most Serene House of Austria the City and Fortress of Friburg as also the Fort of St. Peter and the Fort called the Fort Del ' estoile or Star and all the other Forts newly erected or repaired there or elsewhere in the Black Fonest or in any other part of Brisgow every one of them in the self-same Condition wherein it remains at present without demolishing or damnifying any thing together with the Villages of Leken Mertzhauzen and Kirchzarth with all their Rights thereunto belonging as they were yielded up to His Most Christian Majesty by the Peace of Nimeguen or possessed occupied or enjoy'd by him together with all the Archives Records and all and every the Documents or Writings found therein at the time his said Majesty was put in possession of the same whether they be still in the places or convey'd else-where always reserving without prejudice the Dioâ—esan Right with other Rights and Revenues of the Bishop of Constans XX. In like manner His Most Christian Majesty delivers and conveys to his Imperial Majesty the City of Brisac wholly in the Condition it now is with the Granaries Arsenals Fortifications Ramparts Walls Towers and other Edifiâ—es both publick and private as also the Dependences situate on the right Hand of the Rhine leaving to the Most Christian King those which are on the left and among others the Fort called the Mortar But that which is called the New City situate and being on the left Hand of the said River with the Bridge and Fort built in the Isle of the Rhine shall be totally demolished and razed never more to be rebuilt by the one party or the other More-over the same Liberty of removing from Brisac to any other place which was agreed upon as to the City of Strasburg must be considered as repeated in this place word for word XXI The foresaid Places Cities Castles and Fortresses together with all their Jurisdictions Appurtenances and Dependences made over and deliver'd to his Imperial Majesty by His Most Christian Majesty shall be surrendred and deliver'd without any reservation exception or detention whatsoever faithfully and honestly without any delay lett hindrance or pretence to such who after the Ratification of the present Treaty shall be appointed or in a more special manner deputed to that effect by his Imperial Majesty or have made it appear to the French Intendants Governours or Officers of the Places so to be delivered insomuch that the said Cities Cittadels Forts and Places with all their Priviledges Emoluments Revenues and Immunities and all other things whatsoever contained therein may return to be under the Jurisdiction actual Possession and absolute Power and Sovereignty of his Imperial Majesty and the House of Austria and may so remain for ever-more as they belonged to him in former times and have been hitherto possest by His Most Christian Majesty the Crown of France not retaining or reserving to it self any Right Claim or Pretension to the fore-mention'd Places and their Jurisdiction Neither shall they demand the Cost and Charges expended in the Fortifications or other publick or private Edifices nor shall the full and intire Restitution be put off and deferred for any Reason whatsoever from being performed within thirty days next after the Ratification of this present Treaty so that the French Garrisons may depart thence without causing any Molestation Damage or Trouble to the Citizens and Inhabitants or any other Subjects of the House of Austria whatsoever under pretence of Debts or what pretensions soever Neither shall it be permitted to the French Troops to stay any longer time in the Places that are to be restor'd or any other place not belonging to His Most Christian Majesty there to take up their Winter-Quarters or sojourn
the Prince and Bishop of Munster L. S. Ferdinand L. B. Plettenberg de Senhausen respectively Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Padorb Munster and Hildes In the Name of the Elector Palatine as Duke of Newbourg L. S. John Henry Hetterman Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Duke of Wirtemberg L. S. John George Noble de Kulpis Knight of the Roman Empire intimate Counsellour of State and Director of the Counsel L. S. Anthony Guntor de Hespen Counsellour in the Supreme Council and Plenipotentiary to the Serene Duke In the Name of the Prince of Baden L. S. Charles Ferdinand L. B. de Plettersdorff Reserve l'Ordre alternatif In the Name of the Abbatial College of Suabia L. S. Joseph Anthony Eusebius de Halden de Neidtborg L. Baron de Antenriedt Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Counts of the Bench of Weteraw L. S. Charles Otton Count de Solms L. S. F. G. de Eclesheim Counsellor of Hannaw and Plentipotentiary In the Name of the Free and Imperial City of Cologne L. S. Herman Joseph Bullingen Burgomaster and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the City of Ausbourg L. S. John Christopher de Dirheim Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Imperial City of Francford L. S. John James Muller Plenipotentiary L. S. John Melchior Lucius Lecturer of Civil and Canon Laws Burgomaster and Plenipotentiary SEPARATE ARTICLE FOR the clearer Explanation of the eighth Article of the Treaty of Peace this Day Signed which Article begins thus All the States possest by the most Christian King shall be restored to the Elector Palatine It hath been thought convenient to resolve over and above that this Order will be observed in the Proposal of the Claims and Rights of Madame the Dutchess of Orleans exhibited against the Elector Palatine at such time as the Arbitrators shall be agreed at the time appointed for the Ratification of the Peace about a Place to meet in this Place shall be notified to each Party The Deputies on the Arbitrators part shall be sent thither within the space of two Months to reckon from the very time the Elector Palatine shall be fully re-established in conformity to the Article above-mention'd In the Month following shall the said Lady Dutchess produce in the same place the whole and intire explanation of her Pretensions or Demands against the Elector which shall be communicated to him within eight Days following There shall be within the space of four Months next ensuing explain'd and delivered to the Deputies of the Lords Arbitrators who shall set down the day that the four Months shall begin the Reasons and Grounds of the two Parties wherof four Copies shall be delivered that is to say one for each Arbitrator and a third to be annext to the common Acts of the Arbitration and a fourth to be interchangeably communicated within seven Days to each Party They shall in like manner answer and four Copies of the Answer of each Party shall be given the same Day to the Envoys of the Lords Arbitrators which shall be once more communicated within seven Days to the Parties interchangeably In the four Months following the Instruction of the Business shall be terminated on each side the Parties shall declare they are willing to submit to the Verdict of the Arbitrators and this conclusion of the Instruction and Commission shall be communicated to the Parties that they may take cognisance of the same and the Deeds shall be Enrolled in presence of the Solicitors of the said Parties After that the Arbitrators and their Deputies who shall have taken an Oath having viewed and examined the Right of the Parties during the space of six Months ensuing shall pronounce their Sentence publickly in the place where the Conference is held according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire now if it be found conformable it shall be effectually put in execution but if so be the Arbitrators or their Deputies do not agree in their Verdict the common Acts of the Arbitration shall be conveyed to Rome at the joint Charges of the Parties and that within the space of two Months beginning at the Day next ensuing the Judgment given and shall be delivered to the Pope as Supreme Arbitrator to be committed by him for its Examination within six Months more to Deputies no way suspected by the Parties who shall likewise be sworn and these same upon the former Proceedings it not being allowed to the Parties to draw up a new Declaration of their Titles shall pronounce within the space of six Months next ensuing and as it hath been said conformable to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire the last Definitive Sentence which cannot be nulled or made void but the Lord Arbitrators shall cause to be executed without any delay or contradiction Now if so be one of the Parties demurr and delay to propound explain and prove his Title and Right within the time required it shall nevertheless be lawful for the other Party to explain and deduce his Title within the time prefixt which may never be prolonged and lawful also for the Arbitrators and Supreme Arbitrator to proceed according to the method just now explain'd and to pronounce and execute their Sentence according to the Acts and Deeds produced and proved Notwithstanding this procedure the Parties themselves and the Lords Arbitrators on their part shall not cease attempting some amicable way of accommodation and shall omit nothing that may any way contribute to the amicable terminating this Affair Since it is also agreed in the Article title of Peace afore cited that till this difference be terminated the Elector Palatine shall Annually pay to Madam the Dutchess of Orleans the Sum of 200000 French Livres or an 100000 Florins of the Rhine they have also agreed in particular as to the payment of the said Sum upon the time when it shall commence that it shall commence only after that according to the Contents of the said Article the States and Places therein specified shall be intirely restored to the Elector And to the end that Madam the Dutchess of Orleans may be the more assured of the payment of the said Sum the Elector shall nominate before the Ratification of the Peace a sufficient number of Renters or Receivers of the Prefectship of Germersheim and other places of the Palatinate that shall undertake to pay the said Sum to the said Lady Dutchess or to those impower'd by her and that every Year at Landaw to wit the moiety every six Months who if they do not keep time shall be lyable to be constrained to the payment by the ordinary course of Justice or if need require by Military execution from the Most Christian King Upon the whole this payment shall be made upon this condition viz. That what shall have been paid by vertue of this Annual Obligation to Madam the Dutchess of Orleans during the Canvassing of the Cause before the Arbitrators shall be in compensation and put upon the accompt of that which the said
is not to be forced in Matters of Religion and so regulate their Actions accordingly But however it may prove with these of the Popish Communion and how rigorously they may be still bent to extripate that which they mis-call by the Name of Heresie and how great soever the Demerit of our Suffering Brethren may be the general and solemn Days of Humiliation and Prayers appointed for their Deliverance by almost the Universal Authority of all the Protestant Princes and States of Europe is one good sign that their Salvation draweth nigh The INDEX A. ABstract of Peace between the Empire and France Page 58 c. between France Sweden and Brandenburgh 66. between France Sweden and Denmark 71 c. Ackmet Sultan of the Turks his Death 534. Aeth besieged and surrender'd to the French 593. Agria surrendred to the Imperialists 235. Aghrim a Relation of the Battle there 429 c. Albania ravaged by the Turks 407. Alba Regalis surrendred by the Imperialists 249. Alexander VIII Pope his Death 456. Allâ—es endeavour to keep Spain out of the Peace 38. Altercations about the Basis of the Reswick Treaty 595 and 599. Ann Princess her Letter to the Queen 289 c. Argyle E. of lands in Scotland 267. his Declaration 268 c. taken and beheaded 269. Articles of Alliance between England and Holland 23 c. of Peace between Holland and France 28 c. between France and Spain 41 c. between Strasburgh and France 113 c. between France and Savoy 565 c. Of Neutrality in Italy 575. Of Peace between England and France 603 c. between Holland and France 609 c. between France and Spain 619 c. between the Empire and France 647 c. of Alliance between France and Sweden 676 c. Assassination discovered 541. Assassins tried and executed 552 c. Association at Exeter for the Prince of Orange 285. Athens submits to the Venetians 242. Athlone besieged in vain by the English 375. besieged again 425. taken 427. Avaux Count de his Memorial at the Hague 259. Ausburg the League there 131. B. BAden P. Lewis of defeats the Turks at Brod 254. made General in Hungary 336. defeats the Turks at Patochin 337 c. At Nissa 333. reduces Transylvania and expels Tekeley 414. beats the Turks at Salankemen 453 c. Barkan the Battle there between the Christians and the Turks 147. taken by the Germans 148. Bavaria Elect. of arrives with his Troops before Buda 158. made General in Hungary 250. his Letter to Osman Basha 252. takes Belgrade by storm 254. Beaumont Lieutenant-Colonel his Speech refuses Irish Soldiers is imprisoned c. 260. Belgrade besieged by the Imperialists 250. taken by Storm 254. besieged again by the Turks 411. taken by Storm 412. besieged again by the Imperialists 489. Siege raised 490. Berghen Prince of his Letter to Villeroy 522. Beverning Dutch Plenipotentiary his Saying of the French 11. of the King of England ib. Acts the Mediator ib. complies with the French 19. Articles against him 40. Bill of Exclusion 91 c. rejected by the Lords 94. Bishops seven their Petition to King James 245 c. imprison'd and acquitted 246 c. Advice to him 261 c. Black Box the story of it 80. Bonne besieged and surrendred to the Elector of Brandenburgh 335 c. Boufflers Mareschal de seized at Namur 530. released 531. Boyle Robert Esq his Death and Character 475. Boyne the Battle there 369 c. Brandenburgh Elector of solicits Peace in France 62. Fails and endeavours to embroil the Peace of the Empire ib. his Letter to the French King 64 c. receives Money of France 67. his Demands of the States ib. his Death 305. this Letter to Elbing 684 c. Brussels bombarded by the French â—22 Buda besieged by the Imperialists 156. the Siege raised 159. besieged a second time 208 Battle there 205. the siege continued 209 taken by storm 211. C. CAlais bomb'd by the English 561. Catamata abandoned by the Turks 195. Cambray surrendred to the French 9. Caminieck relieved by the Tartars 507. Canea besieged by the Venetians in vain 475 c. Canisia surrendred to the Imperialists 408. Carignan the Action there between the French and Confederates 403. Carigfergus besieged by the English and surrendred 324. Carmagnola besieged and taken by the French 449. retaken by the Confederates 451. Casal the siege of it and taken by the Confederates 532. Castle-Nuova besieged by the Venetians 240. surrendred 239. Charlemont Castle surrendred to the English 365. Charleroy besieged by the French and surrendred 482. Charles II. King unconstant to his Engagements to the P. of Orange 13. tempted with Money from France 18. concludes an Alliance with Holland 22. his Letter to the Duke of York 75. constitutes a new Council ib. unconstant 76. disclaims any Marriage with Monmouth's Mother 80 c. his Different Demeanour to the Addressors for Parliaments and Abhorrers of Petitioning 82. his Speech to the Parliament 90 c. petitioned by several Lords for the Sitting of the Parliament at Westminster 97 c. dissolves the Oxford Parliament and his pretended Reasons for it 108. prosecutes Protest-Dissentors 115 his Methods to get Charters surrendred and his design therein 129. demolishes Tangier that cost him so much 130. contemptible abroad 149. his Death and Character 165. Charnock his Paper at his Execution 552 c. Chialafa besieged by the Turks in vain 216. Churchill Lord his Letter to King James 289. Ciclut taken by the Venetians 505. Colledge Stephen tried at Oxford and Executed 110. Congress at the Hague 421. Comet appear'd 97. Commons the House of debate King James's Speech 184. address him to turn out the Popish Officers ib. Conferences about Peace renewed at Nimeguen 55. Coni besieged by the French 449. relieved 450. Conspiracy in the Army in Ireland 328. in England 458. Conti Prince of goes from Poland and his Letter to the Republick 640. returns 641. Corinth abandoned by the Turks 241. Cork besieged and surrendred to the English 384 c. Cornish Mr. tried 181. executed 182. Coron besieged the Battle there 192 c. taken by Storm 194. Coin remedied 540. Courland Duke of his Death 689. Cross du his Message from England to Holland 25. contriv'd in Portsmouth's Lodgings 26. Czar of Muscovy his Travels 682. D. DAngerfield Thomas whipp'd and kill'd 203. Dauphine Married 87. Debates of the Lords and Commons about Abdication 307 c. Declaration for Liberty of Conscience 224. at Nottingham in favour of the Pr. of Orange 286 c. of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal at Guildhal 297. of Right in England 308 c. of Right in Scotlandâ— 312. English Declaration of War against France 320 c. of the Protestant Princes against the 4th Article of Reswick 643 c. Deynse surrendred to the French 520. Delamere Lord rises for the P. of Orange in Cheshire 284. Demands of the Allies at Nimeguen 5 c. Denmark Ambassador of enrag'd at
to abandon their Mines as being filled with Water and the chief Mines of the Imperialists being discovered by the Turks they were render'd useless These Considerations and a great Army of the Infidels being by this time got together under the Serasquier occasioned the sending of the Marquess Herman of Baden into the Camp where after several Conferences it was concluded that by reason of the bad Weather and the Cavalry wanting Forage for a long time together they should raise the Siege and march off thinking that more adviseable than to ruin the whole Army And therefore on Oct. 29 the Artillery was drawn off and shipped and two Days after the whole Army marched away in good Order But somewhat to sweeten the great Loss and Disapointment of the Germans in the Siege of Buda their Arms proved much more successful in other Parts during this Campaign And first in Sclavonia where Count Lesley having laid Siege to Vitovitza the chief City of that Country on the 11th of July and carried on the same with great Conduct till towards the 20th he then understood that the Turks after having drawn together all the Forces they could between the Save and the Drave in order to succour the Place were arrived under the Command of the Basha of Maratha who had the Guard of the Bridge of Esseck near Flatina about 4 German Miles from Virovitza making in all 2500 Men but were to join the Beg of Zerneg and the Governor of Grandischa who for that purpose were with 1400 more on their March towards him Whereupon the Count immediately commanded the Regiments of Croats making about 4000 Men to march under the Command of the Count de Trantmarsdorse with Orders to prevent the Enemy's Conjunction who therefore marched all Night and about 7 in the Morning attacked the said Basha in his Camp near Flatina whom they routed and pursued with considerable Slaughter as far as Turbinat In returning from hence they happily met with the other Party commanded by the Beg who knew nothing of the other's Defeat yet they made a very weak Resistance but many of them saved themselves in the adjacent Woods This Expedition being thus happily over the Count returned with 12 Standards and 20 of the most considerable Prisoners into the Camp besides all the Provisions he took which they had designed for the Relief of that Place In pursuance of this Defeat the Garrison of Virovitza capitulated and on the 25th the Germans took possession of the Place But Count Lesley was like to have paid very dear for this Conquest and Victory for while he was encamped at the Bridge of Turannovitz on the Drave the Serasquier being reinforced with several Troops from Bosnia decamped from Walpon with an Army of about 30000 Men and thought to have overpower'd him Yet the Count having timely Notice of his Design he posted his Troops which did not make above 14000 in all advantagiously between two Morasses and fortified his Camp and there received the Turks with such Warmth and Vigour that he repulsed them with Loss but did not think fit to pursue them he esteeming it enough to have made good his Post which upon further Informations of the Enemy's Motion he fortified yet more advantagiously and towards the latter end of Sept. he went to Vienna to give the Emperor an Account more particularly of his Affairs on that side But Sclavonia was not the only Country where the Emperor's Arms succeeded this Summer Vpper Hungary had a Share therein where General Schultz commanded and who about the beginning of Sept. having received Advice that Count Tekeley had put 150 Men and 2 Pieces of Cannon into a small Place called Zeben he decamped from Tarza and attacked the Place so seasonably that he carried it by Assault having put the Hungarian and German Deserters that he found therein to the Sword From thence he sent several Spies to Count Tekeley's Army by whom being informed of the Number of his Troops and the Situation of his Camp he resolved to attack him and accordingly leaving his Baggage at Zeben he marched on the 17th in the Evening with all his Cavalry and part of his Foot which the Horse-men carried behind them and being come about 3 in the Morning near the Enemy's Camp he drew his Troops into Battalia and fell upon them before they had time to put themselves in a Posture of Defence So that all they could do in the Confusion they were in was to think of making their Escape some one way some another insomuch that in less than an Hour's space he became Master of their Camp and Artillery consisting of 5 Pieces of Cannon and of all their Ammunition Tents and Baggage and even of Tekeley's Coach and Standard who himself had much ado to escape for he was in Bed and had hardly time to put on his Cloaths and had but 2 or 3 Persons to accompany him in his Flight But what was perhaps of worse Consequence to count Teckeley was that in his Tent were not only found his Sable Wearing Apparel Plate and Money but even his Papers also To which if you add the Loss of 4000 Men slain in this Action it may be reckoned as intire a Defeat as any that hath happened in the whole Course of the War Upon this General Schâ—â—ltz immediately laid Siege to Esperies but finding a great Garrison in it and well provided he quitted it and contented himself to take in first a Place called Barthseldt four Miles from the former and a large Town upon the Frontiers of Poland and then some other smaller Places and so retired to Winter-Quarters Having now traced through this Years War in Hungary between the Turks and Germans we are next to see what has been done on the Polish side before we enter upon the Affairs of the Venetians whose first Campaign it has been to make up the tripple Confederacy It was in the middle of Aug. before the King of Poland joined the Army at a Place called Bucksacs from whence he sent Detachments to attack the Fortress of Jaslowick which after a little Contention was surrendred to him It was expected after this that his Majesty would either have besieged Caminiec or march into Moldavia or Wallachia but neither of the two happened For as to the first he contented himself to pretend at first to block it up and then to throw a few Bombs into it And as for the other he was so far from advancing into the Enemies Country that the Turks and Tartars believing he was engaged in the Siege of the said Place marched to the Relief of it This when the King was informed of he marched to Kolenzan but then it appearing that there was no more than a Detachment of the Tartars come over the Niester to observe the Polish Army he ordered his Van-guard to charge them which they did with that Bravery and Eagerness that the Enemy immediately fled leaving a great many slain behind them
the Surrendry were these I. That the Emperor will grant a general Amnesty to the Princess Ragotzi and to all those of her Party that are actually at Mongatz II. She is to repair immediately to Vienna with the Princes Ragotzi her Children by the first Bed And she should be at Freedom there But she is not to stir thence without the Emperor's Leave III. All their Goods Moveables and Immoveables shall be restored to them saving the Fortresses of Montgatz and Miclos which should remain in his Imperial Majesty's Hands until an absolute Discussion of his Rights to those Two Places which are pretended to have been dismembred from the Crown of Hungary IV. The Princess should be restored to the Possession of her Dowry and of all the Goods that belong to her in the Succession of the late Prince Ragotzi on the Score of her Matrimonial Covenants and all the Moveable Effects should be restored to her according to the Inventory that should be taken of them and the Declaration she should confirm by her Oath as also those of the Princes her Children whose Tutelage should remain in the Emperor V. She shall be obliged to deliver into the Hands of the Imperial Commissioners the Standard Bonnet Sword and Letters of Investiture of the Principality of Hungary sent by the Grand Signior to Count Teckeley and all his Moveable Effects and those of the other Male-Contents VI. She should also deliver up all the Cannon Arms and Ammunition that should be found in the Place VII All the Goods moveable and immoveable should be restored to the Male-Contents that should be in Mongatz and should accept of the Amnesty Yet without this Article extending to those that should continue in the Rebellion whose Goods should be Conâ—iscated saving 2 or 3 who are withdrawn into Poland to whom the Emperor promises Pardon upon the Princess's Recommendation VIII All the Hungarians that are in the Place should take an Oath of Fidelity by which they shall oblige themselves not to depart the Kingdom without the Emperor's Leave And not have any Correspondence with Count Teckeley upon Pain of being declared to have forfeited the Amnesty IX His Imperial Majesty may dispose of the Garrisons of the Places belonging to the young Princes Ragotzi and change them if he thinks expedient X. The young Princes being under the Emperor's Tutelage should be put into the Hands of those he should appoint for their Education XI Neither the Princess nor any other should be permitted to send Notice to Count Teckeley of the Surrender of Mongatz he being to be reputed as civilly dead XII It should be free for all those that were in the Place to withdraw whither they should think fitting without the Imperialists being obliged to furnish Carriages save to the Princess who should have them provided for her with a Convoy and number of Servants suitable to her Quality Alba Regalis being reduced also to the same Straits the very same Fate attended it as Mongatz for on the 8th of May the Garrison being unwilling to conflict any longer with the great Necessities they had been so long exposed to and still daily multiplied upon them did in spight of the 3 Basha's their Commanders resolve to Capitulate and projected the Articles upon one of the principal Towers of that City and in pursuance of the Agreement made they marched out to the Number of 5000 Men of whom about 2000 were Soldiers and were convoyed to the Danube in Waggons and thence in Boats to Belgrade These Two important Places being put into the Emperor's Power and Things once more amicably settled with the Transylvanians Count Caraffa while the main Army was drawing together had Leisure to reduce Lippa And the more to amuse the Garrison he caused a Report to be spread abroad That the Season being now so far spent he had Orders to repair immediately to Esseck But he quickly after sent a Detachment of 1000 Horse under the Command of Count Veterani to invest the Place yet could not hinder the Aga's of Temeswaer and Jeno to enter into it with a Reinforâ—ment of 1500 Men which made the Siege so much the more difficult However the Cannon and Mortars of the Besiegers began to play on the 16th of June in the Morning in order to make Breaches and that with good Success and burnt abundance of Houses the greatest Part of the Town being Wooden Buildings and a Breach being made large enough to give an Assault it was resolved it should be immediately performed that the Turks might have no Leisure to come to themselves and use due Prevention The Detachments appointed for this Work being animated by the Presence of their Leaders fell on with much Courage and Eagerness and notwithstanding all the stubborn Opposition of the Besieged they drove them back and made themselves Masters of the Breach while the Sieur de Vaubonne who commanded the Granadeers made also a second Attack on the side of the River with the like Success So that the Imperialists entring the Town both ways they cut in pieces the greatest part of those they found in Arms while the rest made their escape into the Castle which though they at first made a Shew of Defending yet they were forced to surrender the same on the 21st at Discretion This was no sooner accomplished but Illock was thought on as fit and necessary to be reduced before the Siege of Belgrade were formed But the Turks did not think fit to stay for the coming of Count Caprara and therefore having first set fire to the Town they entirely abandoned it as they did also Peter-Waradin whereby the Imperialists found themselves Masters of the Danube as far as Belgrade and having nothing more to fear from any Garrison which they left behind them they directed their March under the Conduct of the Elector Bavaria the Duke of Lorain being sick that way On the 4th of Aug. they set forward from Salankemen and came on the 7th within sight of that part of the Danube that forms the Islands of Zingari which notwithstanding the Opposition made by the Turks they passed and on the 9th the whole Army with the Artillery and Baggage were encamped on the farther-Shoar within 4 Leagues of Belgrade where the Elector was informed that there was a Garrison of 15000 Turks and Tartars in the City but without any Certainty and that the Ottoman Army lay near to cover the Place But the Elector advancing found that the Turks had abandoned their Camp and had set the Suburbs or Lower Town on fire And about 4000 Greeks and Radziens with their Wives and Children came to implore His Electoral Highness Protection who gave very strict Orders that none should molest them Upon the Day of their Arrival before the Place the Elector caused the Trenches to be opened against the Upper Town and Castle and he dispatched an Express to Vienna to give the Emperor an Account of the State of Things The next Day being
ungenerously broke them by sending the Commander and Palfi's Battalion to Belgrade Prisoners and what was more Barbarous of the Basha at the same time he caused the Head of the Commander of the Rasciens an Officer of Worth that had signalized himself by several Encounters to be cut off before the Governor of Titull's Face In the mean time the Imperial Army finding the Turks chief Aim was against Transilvania divided it self and all the Infantry marched to Peter Waradin under the Command of the Count de Staremburg to observe the Motions of the Turks on that side while the Elector of Saxony advanced with the main Body of Horse to reinforce General Veterani and secure Transilvania But for all the haste he could make a Detachment of about 15000 Spahi's with Cannon which the Sultan who was now about Temeswaer had sent to join another of the like Force and to fall upon Veterani who had but 8000 Men with him and was advanced as far as Lugos in Order to facilitate his Conjunction with the Elector reached the said Place before him the Success whereof take in the following Letter bearing Date from Vienna Octob. 1st this Year CAptain Grismar is arriv'd in this City from Transilvania with the News That General Veterani advanced as far as Lugos with a Body of about 8000 Men to facilitate his joining with the Elector of Saxony which was to have been upon the 24th of September But before that he was Attacked in a very advantageous Post where he lay Encamp'd upon the 21st of the same Month by an Army of the Turks consisting of between 30 and 40000 Men. The Action began by break of Day with some Skirmishes After which the main Body of the Turks came thundering in upon our Men who maintain'd their Ground with extraordinary Courage from Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon till Four a Clock in the Afternoon General Veterani who shewed himself every where and enliven'd his Men by his Example made a great Slaughter of the Enemy but having received two Wounds in the Head with a Scimeter and two Musket-shot in his Body he remained in the Medley and Night coming on favour'd the Retreat of the rest of the Men towards Caransebes under the Command of General Truchses who afterwards marched to possess himself of the Iron Gate and those other Passes that defend the Inlets into Transilvania We know not as yet whether General Veterani be among the Slain or taken Prisoner Some Letters say That he was carry'd to Temeswaer together with the Prince of Litchtenstein Major General Pace General Stein and several other stout Officers and Soldiers the loss of whom which is said to amount to 3000 Men cost the Infidels very dear For we are assur'd that they lost in this Conflict above 6000 Men several Basha's and great Officers There were various Reports besides what this Letter mentions concerning that brave Man General Veteran's Death but the truest of all was that when he found all was lost and himself so desperately wounded 500 Horse carried him into a little Morass and put him into a Calash with a design to have carried him into Carensebes But being envelop'd by some Thousands of the Turks they quitted the General and cut their way through the midst of the Enemy in order to save themselves and so left him to be seized by the Turks who presently cut off his Head and carried it to the Grand Visier who caused his Body to be diligently sought for and took great care to have both Buried together But what Noise soever this Victory as they called it made in the Turkish Empire the Grand Seignior perhaps measuring the Strength and Bravery of the main Army of the Christians by the great Resistance this handful of Men had made and which cost him so very dear or else being not willing to tempt his Fortune any further in this his Virgin Campaign He thought of nothing now but retiring home to make Preparations for another Season and the Germans shewed themselves as forward to do the like as himself and in this disposition we shall at present leave them and see whether the Mahometans had as much reason to rejoyce at the Success of their Arms against the Venetian Republick We left the Venetians last Year exulting for Joy because of their Conquest of the Island of Scio but they had in the main no great reason for it For the Turks being intent ever since the loss of the Place to recover it again sailed early in the Spring to Attack it destroyed 3 out of 5 of the Republick Ships who fell in among them without the rest of the Fleets being able to double the Rocks of Spalmadori in order to come to a General Engagement and to their Assistance and when they had so done returned for the present to Phocis to compleat their Preparations while General Zeno coming into the Road of Scio ordered an Estimate to be taken of the Provision left in the Fortress and in the Fleet and finding as he gave an Account it could not last above 14 days he entirely abandoned the Island and returned with the whole Fleet to Napoli di Romania giving the Turks an Opportunity to possess that without striking a stroak which they valued so much and made such great Preparations to re-take and himself to be censured by all that ever heard of the Action as well as to be succeeded in his Command by that noble Venetian Alexander Molino But how pleasing soever this Repossession of Scio was to the Turks the News they received from the Morea was not near so well-come on which they had formed a considerable Design It 's true Ibrahim Serasquier of Negropont entred into that Country with an Army of about 20000 Men advanced to Argos and entrenched himself within two Miles of it while a Detachment was sent to make an Assault upon the Castle of the same Name to the end that he being Master thereof might penetrate farther into the Country But General Steinau who lay with a Body of Men not far off not only vigorously repulsed them but pursued them very near to their own Camp while General Molino who had for some time lain in the Gulph of Eugenea having Information of this Incursion of the Enemy returned forthwith to Napoli di Romania with the whole Fleet and landed not only what Men he had on Board his Ships but those of a Convoy newly arrived from Venice and having joined the Army under General Steinau upon the 20th of June he marched betimes in the Morning directly towards the Enemy at the Head of 10000 Foot and about 2000 Horse and posted himself within Cannon-shot of the Infidels Camp They plaid upon one another till 5 in the Evening when the Turks issued out of their Entrenchments and boldly advanced to Attack the Christians with a more than ordinary Fury and with hideous Crys according to their usual manner They had at the beginning some little Advantage
over the Christistians Left Wing But they being soon rallied and reinforced the Turks were several times beaten back and after a Fight that lasted for 3 Hours forced to yield the Field of Battle to the Victorious Christians with the loss of about 3000 Men slain upon the Spot besides Prisoners and to retire into their Retrenchments which they quitted next Night and retreated silently out of the Morea But with so much haste that they left in their Camp behind 14 Pieces of Cannon 2 Mortars a good number of Bombs great store of Ammunition and Provision 2 Standards several Tents 700 Head of Oxen and 300 Cammels and Horses as a Booty to the Conquerors whose loss amounted to about 500 Men and who by this brave Action prevented the Ravaging of the whole Morea and the Besieging of Napoli di Romania by Land while the Turkish Fleet blocked it up by Sea as the Infidels had concerted their Design But I do not find the Venetians made any Improvement of this Victory tho' it hapned timely enough in the Summer However it was exceeding brave of them and the Germans too in comparison of the Poles which Army I think hardly ever turned out of their Quarters this Season and the chief business of whose King was to endeavour though in vain to mediate a reconciliation between the Bishop of Vilna and the General of Lithuania whom the former excommunicated for quartering of some Troops within his Jurisdiction A hard Case upon a Prince to have his measures broken in relation to the Campaign as himself told the Deputies of the said Bishop thro' the feuds of a couple of humorous Subjects But thus it is to hold a precarious Crown And as for the Muscovites all that we heard of them this Summer was their march against the Tartars but nothing of Action save the blocking up of Asoph of which you will hear more next Year It remains now that we return homewards and briefly see what had been doing before the Conclusion of the Year His Majesty after so glorious a Campaign as before mentioned hasted for England and being arrived to the gladning of the Hearts of all his honest Subjects on the 11th of Oct. at his Palace at Kensington He called a Council that very Night and a Proclamation was ordered to be issued fourth for the Dissolving of the then Parliament and calling a new one to meet upon Nov. 22d following Soon after this the Great Duke of Tuscany's Envoy whose Master was grown mighty good Natur'd since our Fleet went into the Streights had his Audience of His Majesty to Congratulate his Happy Accession to the Throne but this was somewhat like to that of the Ilienses which we Read of in Suetonius who coming a Day after the Fair to Condole with the Emperor Tiberius for the Death of his Son Drusus the other made them Answer And I also Condole with you the Death of your great Countryman Hector This being over His Majesty went a short Progress and the day of the Parliaments sitting being come he spake to them to this Effect My Lords and Gentlemen IT is with great Satisfaction that I meet you here this Day being assured of a good Disposition in my Parliament when I have had such full Proofs of the Affection of My People by their Behaviour during My Absence and at My Return I was engaged in the present War by the Advice of My first Parliament who thought it necessary for the Defence of Our Religion and for the Preservation of the Liberties of Europe The last Parliament with great Chearfulness did assist Me to carry 〈◊〉 on and I cannot doubt but that your Concern for the Common Safety will oblige you to be unanimously zealous in the Prosecutio◠of it And I am glad That the Advantages which We have had this Year give Vs a Reasonable Ground of hoping for farther Success hereafter Vpon this Occasion I cannot but take Notice of the Courage and Bravery the English Troops have shewn this last Summer which I may say has answered their highest Character in any Age. And it will not be denied That without the Concurrence of the Valour and Power of England it were impossible to put a Stop to the Ambition and Greatness of France Gentlemen of the House of Commons I think it my great Misfortune That from the Beginning of My Reign I have been forced to Ask so many and such large Aids of My People And yet I am confident you will agree with Me in Opinion That there will be at least as great Supplies requisite for Carrying on the War by Sea and Land this Year as were Granted in the last Session and the rather because Our Enemies are Augmenting their Troops and the Necessity of Increasing Our Shipping does plainly appear The Funds which have been given have proved very deficient The Condition of the Civil List is such that it will not be possible for Me to subsist unless that Matter be taken into your Care And Compassion obliges Me to mention the miserable Circumstances of the French Protestants who suffer for their Religion And therefore Gentlemen I most earnestly recommend to you to prouide a Supply suitable to these several Occasions I must likewise take notice of a great Difficulty We lie under at this time by reason of the ill State of the Coin the Redress of which may perhaps prove a further Charge to the Nation But this is a Matter of so general Concern and so great Importance that I have thought fit to leave it entirely to the Consideration of My Parliament I did recommend to the last Parliament the Forming some good Bill for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen I hope you will not let this Session pass without doing something in it And that you will consider of such Laws as may be proper for the Advancement of Trade and that you will have a particular Regard to that of the East-India's lest it should be lost to the Nation And while the War makes it necessary to have an Army abroad I could wish some Way might be thought of to Raise the necessary Recruits without giving Occasion of Complaint My Desire to meet My People in a New Parliament has made the Opening of this Session very late which I hope you will have such Regard to as to make all possible Dispatch of the great Business before you And also that you will call to mind that by the long Continuance of the last Session We did not only lose Advantages which We might have had at the Beginning of the Campaign but gave the Enemy such an Opportunity as might have proved very fatal to us And I am the more concerned to press this because of the great Preparations which the French make to be early in the Field this Year My Lords and Gentlemen I have had such Experience of your good Affections and I have such an entire Satisfaction in the Choice which My People have made of you Gentlemen
therein but shall be forced immediately to repair to the Territories belonging to the Crown of France XXII There shall be likewise restored to his Imperial Majesty and the Holy Roman Empire the Town of Philipsburg in its best Condition with the Fortifications adjoining thereto that are on the right Hand of the Rhine and all the Ordinance and Artillery that was there when France seized on it the last time with this Proviso That the Right of the Bishop of Spires be altogether excepted upon the account of which the fourth Article of the Treaty of Peace at Nimeguen is to be look'd upon as repeatable in this place in express Terms But the Fort that was built on the Left side of the Rhine and the Bridge that was made by the Most Christian King's Order after the taking of it shall be utterly demolished XXIII The Most Christian King shall take care to cause the Fortifications built over against Hunningen upon the Right side in the Isle of the Rhine to be razed at his own proper Cost and Charges restoring the Grounds and Edifices to the Family of Baden The Bridge also built in this place upon the Rhine shall be demolish'd likewise XXIV They shall likewise destroy the Fort that was built on the Right side of the Rhine over against the Fort called Fort Louis the said Fort and Isle remaining in the Power of the Most Christian King and as for the Ground of the demolish'd Fort it shall be restored together with the Houses to the Marquess of Baden They shall more-over destroy that part of the Bridge that goes from the said Bridge to the Isle which shall never be repaired hereafter by either Party XXV The Most Christian King shall likewise cause to be demolish'd the Fortifications added after the Peace of Nimeguen to the Castle of Trarbach and the Fortress of Montroyal upon the Moselle without any Body's presuming to repair them for the future yet leaving the Fortress of Trarbach intire to be wholly restored with the City and its Appurtenances to its former Possessors XXVI They shall likewise demolish the Fortifications added by the Most Christian King to the Fortress of Kernburg after which demolishing the City of Kernburg being left intire and untouched as also the other Goods and Chattels belonging to the Prince of Salm and to his Cousins the Rhinegraves and Vildgraves and other things shall be restored to be possessed in the same manner and with the very same Right they did possess them before they were turn'd out of them Upon which it is agreed and consented to by the present Treaty XXVII The New Fortifications added by the Most Christian King to the Fortress of Ebernburg shall also be demolished and the Fortress to be afterwards restored to the Barons of Sickenguen with other Estates belonging to them which are to be restored to them by both Parties XXVIII The Duke of Lorrain having been united to his Imperial Majesty in this War and having a desire to be comprehended within this present Treaty he shall be accordingly re-instated for himself his Heirs and Successors into the free and full Possession of the States Possessions and Goods which Duke Charles his Uncle by the Father's Side was possest of in the Year 1670. at such time as the Most Christian King seized upon them excepting notwithstanding the Alterations and Changes explain'd in the following Articles XXIX His Most Christian Majesty shall particularly restore to the said Duke the Old and New City of Nancy with all its Appurtenances and the Artillery that was found in the Old City at the time of its being taken upon this Condition nevertheless That all the Ramparts and Bastions of the Old City remaining intire with the Gates of the New the Ramparts and Bastions of this latter as also the whole exteriour Fortifications of both shall be intirely razed at the sole Charge of the Most Christian King never to be any more re-built for time to come Except the said Duke and his Successors shall have a mind when they please to enclose the New City with a single dry Wall without a Flank XXX His Most Christian Majesty shall likewise cause the Castle of Bitsch to be evacuated with all its Appurtenances as also the Castle of Homburg by causing all the Fortifications to be razed before-hand that they may never more be repaired yet so that the foresaid Castles and Cities that are adjacent thereto may receive no Damage thereby but may remain totally untouch'd XXXI Upon the whole Whatsoever hath been ordered as above-said in the IVth Article in reference to Unions and Re-unions shall be as serviceable and advantageous to the said Duke as if it had been here repeated verbatim in what Place and after what Manner the foresaid Unions and Re-unions have been made and ordained XXXII His Most Christian Majesty reserves to himself the Fortress of Saar-Louis with half a League round about it which shall be marked out and limitted by the Commissioners of his said Majesty and by those of Lorrain by him to be possess'd Sovereignly for ever XXXIII The City and Prefectship of Longwi together with all its Appurtenances and Dependences shall also remain in the Power of the said Most Christian King his Heirs and Successors with all Superiority Sovereignty and Property without the said Duke his Heirs or Successors pretending henceforward to claim any Right therein but in exchange of the said City and Prefectship his said Most Christian Majesty will put another Prefectship into the Hands of the said Duke in one of the three Bishopricks of the same Extent and Value whereof the said Commissioners shall bona fide agree upon And the said Prefectship so made over and conveyed by the Most Christian King to the said Duke he the said Duke as well as his Heirs and Successors shall possess it to the Words end with all the Rights of Superiority Sovereignty and Property XXXIV The Passage shall be always open through the Territories of the said Duke without any Obstacle or Impeachment to the Most Christian King's Troops who shall go or come from the Frontiers upon Condition nevertheless that timely Notice of it shall be given before-hand that the Soldier that passes shall not go out of his Way but may pursue the shortest and usual Way and duly continue his Road as he ought without delay He shall not commit any Violence nor do any Damage to the Places and Subjects of the Duke and shall pay ready Money for Victuals and other Necessaries that shall be delivered to him by the Commissioners of Lorrain Mutually abolishing and causing the High-ways and Places that his Most Christian Majesty had reserved to himself by the Peace of Nimeguen to return to the Power and Jurisdiction of the Duke without any Exception XXXV The Ecclesiastical Benefices conferred by his Most Christian Majesty till the very day of the present Treaty shall remain in the Enjoyment and Possession of those who possess them at present and who have obtained
them of his Most Christian Majesty without being liable to be disturbed therein XXXVI It hath more-over been concluded That the Law-Suits Sentences and Decrees passed by the Council Judges and other his Most Christian Majesty Officers concerning the Differences and Actions that have been determined as well between the Subjects of the Dutchies of Lorrain and of Barr as others at the time when the most Christian King possest those States shall take place and obtain their full and due effect in the same manner as if his said Christian Majesty had remained in full Possession of his said Estates it not being permitted to call in question the validity of the said Sentences and Decrees or to impede or stop the Execution thereof It shall notwithstanding be permitted to the Parties to demand a Review of what shall have been enacted according to the Order and Disposition of the Laws and Constitutions the Sentences nevertheless remaining in their full Force and Vertue XXXVII There shall be restored to the said Duke after the Ratification of the present Treaty the Archives and written Documents and Presidents that was in the Treasury of the Records of Nancy and Barr and in both Chambers of Accounts or other places and that have been taken thence XXXVIII The said Duke immediately after the Ratification of the Peace shall have Power to send Commissioners to the Dutchies of Lorrain and Barr to have a watchful Eye upon his Affairs Administer Justice take care of the Imposts Taxes upon Salt and other Duties dispose of publick Treaties and perform all other necessary things so that the said Duke may within the same time enter into the full possession of his Government XXXIX As to what relates to Imposts and Customs and concerning the Exemption in the Transportation of Salt or Wood either by Land or Water the Custom settled in the Year 1670. shall be observed without permitting any Innovation XL. The ancient Custom and Liberty of Commerce between Lorrain and the Bishopricks of Meâ—z Toul and Verdâ—â— shall be still in being and shall henceforth be observed to the Benefit and Advantage of both Parties XLI The Contracts and Agreements made between the Most Christian Kings and the Dukes of Lorrain shall be 〈◊〉 in like manner observed in their ancient Force and Vigour XLII The said Duke and his Brethren shall be impowered to prosecute the Right they pretend to belong to then in divers Causes by the ordinary Course of Law notwithstanding the Sentences past in their absence without being heard XLIII In Matters not here expresly agreed to the coâ—trary shall be observed in respect of the Duke his Estates and Subjects what hath been concluded upon by the present Treaty and more especially in the Article that begins All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties In that which begins So soon as the present Treaty of Peace shall be And that which beginneth And to the end that the Subjects of both Parties may as speedily as may be enjoy Just as if they had been here particularly recited XLIV The Cardinal of Furstemburg shall be re-invested in all the Rights Estates Feudal and Allodial Benefices Honours and Prerogatives that belong to the Princes and Members of the Holy Roman Empire as well in respect of the Bishoprick of Strasburg on the Right-hand of the Rhine as of the Abby of Stevelo and others and shall enjoy with his Cousins and Relations that adhered to his Party and his Domestick Servants a full and absolute Amnesty and Security for whatsoever hath been done or said and for whatsoever hath been decreed against him or them and that neither He his Heirs Cousins Relations nor Domesticks shall ever be proceeded against in any Cause by the Lords Electors of Cologne and Bavaria their Heirs or any other Persons whatsoever upon the account of the Inheritance of the late Maximilian Henry And reciprocally the Lord Cardinal his Cousins Relations and Domesticks or any that have any Cause depending upon their Behalf shall not demand any thing upon what account soever from the Lords Electors or others from the said Inheritance Legacies that were left them or any Things that have been given them all Right Pretension or Action Personal or Real being totally extinct Such of the Canons who have adhered to the Cardinal's Party and who have been outed of their Prependaries or Canonical Benefices shall receive the same Amnesty and Security and shall make use of the same Privilege and shall be re-settled in all the Canonical Rights Benefices and Dignities and in the same Degree and Dignity in the Chapter of the Collegiate Churches and Cathedral Church as they were before their Deposition Yet so however that the Revenues remaining in the Power of those that possess them at present these same may enjoy just as the others that shall be re-settled do the Titles and common Functions of the said Dignities and Benefices the Chief Place and Rank notwithstanding is to be deferr'd and yielded to those who shall be re-settled and after Death or the voluntary Resignation of those who are in Possession those only that are re-established shall solely enjoy the said Dignities and Revenues and in the mean time each of them according to the Order they have among them shall obtain the new Prebendaries that shall become vacant And there is no question but this may be approved of by the above-said Ecclesiasticks whom this Regulation may concern The Heirs likewise of the Canons who have been deprived of their Dignity and are dead during the War whose Goods Chattels and Revenues have been sequestred or confiscated shall enjoy the intire Benefit for the Recovery of them by the Article which begins thus All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties together with this express and particular Clause That Pious Legacies bequeath'd by the Deceased shall be paid forthwith without delay according to their Disposal out of the Revenues by them assigned XLV The Landgraves of Hesse Reinfeldt shall be in a more especial manner included in the Amnesty and shall be reinstated in respect of the Fortress of Reinfeldt and all the Lower Country of Catzenelboguen with all Rights and Dependences in the same Condition and Circumstances wherein the Landgrave Ernest their Father was before the beginning of this War Excepting always and in all Cases the Rights appertaining to Monsieur the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel XLVI All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties Ecclesiasticks and Seculars Corporations Universities and Colleges shall be re-settled in their Honours Dignities and Benefices whereof they were in quiet Possession before the War as also in all their Rights Goods moveable and immoveable Rents and Revenues also those that are capable of being redeemed or which are for Life provided that the Principal thereof be not consumed and have been employed or retained during or upon the Occasion of this War with all the Rights Actions Successions and Entails that are fallen to them during the said War yet so that they
Limits between the two Empires and Republick of Venice too wherein the Christians appearing somewhat stiff the Turkish Plenipotentiaries moved That seeing they had the misfortune in the Course of that unhappy War to lose a whole Kingdom so many rich and fertile Provinces and such a Number of strong Fortresses they should not think it much to make them some few Concessions of small Consequence in reference to the Boundaries of their Empire to the end that they might be proclaimed and received so much the more acceptably therein seeing after all they must carry the News of it to Constantinople with Tears in their Eyes Some Debates arising hereupon and concerning other things as the giving up of Teckeley and the holy Sepulcre the dismantling of Caminice and the surrendring of another Place upon the 〈◊〉 Sea besides the quitting of Asoph to the Moscovites but much more concerning the Venetian and Turkish Limits besides the demolishing of some advantageous Places as Lepanto Prevesa c. occasioning them to send Expresses to their respective Principals spun out almost the new Year But at length the Imperialists Poles and Moscovites concluded their part of the Treaty and perhaps would have done it sooner but in some sort of Compliance to the Venetians But that of Moscovy being only a Truce for two Years and consequently of the least Moment they had not long agreed it but they signed it also and was in the Substance as follows An Extract of the Treaty between the Czar of Moscovy and the Sultan of the Turks I. THere shall be a Truce between the two Empires for two Years to begin from the Fifteenth of December 1698. during which time both Parties shall make it their Business to re-settle and confirm Amity and good Understanding by a perpetual Peace or at least by a Truce of several Years II. During that Term all the Acts of Hostility shall be forborn on both sides III. Orders shall be given to prevent Incursions and that no Acts of Hostility may be committed by the Subjects of the two Empires and particularly the same Orders shall be given to the Tartars of Crimea and to the other Hords of Tartars and to the Cosacques as well Moscovite as Ottoman And such as shall directly or indirectly violate this Treaty whether Turks or Moscovites shall be apprehended imprison'd and punish'd without Mercy To which effect the Cham of Crimea shall be comprehended in this Treaty Carlowitz December the 25th 1698. Procopius Pogdanowitz Vosnicin Plenipotentiary and Embassador Extraordinary from his Czarrian Majesty Mehemid Rami Grand Chancellor Alexander Mauro cordati de Scarlati The Conferences with the Venetians in the mean time went on year 1699 and in that held on the 4th of January there were great Contests between the Turks and them and the Heat grew to that height that Effendi would have broken off but that his Colleague moderated his Passion yet on the 10th all the Embassadors repaired to the Place of meeting sooner than usual when the Lord Paget began his Conference with an eloquent Speech and was seconded therein by the Imperial Embassadors after whom the first of the Turkish Plenipotentiaries spoke aggravating upon the length of time which had been already lost the inconveniency of the Place and stiffness of the Venetians for delaying the Conclusion of the Treaty at length it was concluded in the said Conference That the Treaty between the two Empires should be signed upon the 26th of the same Month That the Mediators should give their Words to the same purpose without prejudice to the Conditions of the Venetians touching of the Regulation of the Limits of Dalmatia and that the Turks should not retract their Words to facilitate the said Regulations Two or three days after this the Polish Plenipotentiaries signed yet upon Condition their Signing should not take Effect till the Imperial Plenipotentiaries should Sign their Treaty and that with the Poles was to this effect An Extract of the Treaty of Peace concluded between the King and Republick of Poland and the Grand Signior at Carlowitz January the 26th 1699. I. THE ancient Amity and good Correspondence shall be re-established and the Provinces depending upon Poland shall for the future be distinguished from those of the Ottoman Empire by their ancient Limits without any Change or Alteration of Extension or Restriction II. All the Fortresses or Cities comprehended within the ancient Limits of Moldavia before the preceding War and which were till now in the possession of the Polanders shall be evacuated and restor'd III. That the Fortress of Caminiec shall be restor'd to the King and Republick of Poland in the Condition it now is together with all Podolia and all the Vckrain IV. The Grand Signior shall publish his Royal Edicts and express Prohibitions to all his Subjects of what Nation or Condition soever particularly to the Tartars enjoining them not to commit any farther Acts of Hostility against Poland V. Seeing the Republick of Poland has always enjoy'd her Liberty she shall not be molested by any Demand or Pretension of the Ottoman Empire under any pretence whatever VI. The Tartars of Budziack having formerly committed several Rapines and Violences in Moldavia which is contrary to the former Capitulations with Poland they shall be oblig'd to quit all the places which they now possess and content themselves with the Limits of their own Country VII The Roman Catholick Monks and Fryars shall have the free Exercise of their accustom'd Functions over all the Ottoman Empire according to the Capitulations and Privileges formerly granted 'em and it shall be lawful for the Embassador of Poland to make all such Demands and Remonstrances in that respect as he shall have Orders to make from the King and Republick VIII Liberty of Trade shall be freely re-establish'd on both sides for all the Merchants of both Nations that have a desire to come and go with their Goods paying only the ancient Duties without being liable to be charg'd with new Imposts IX The Prisoners and Captives taken during the War by either side shall be set at Liberty paying their Ransom which shall be settl'd according to the Oath that shall be made of it and the Payment shall be regulated according to the Terms of the preceding Capitulations X. All the Articles of the present Treaty shall remain in their full Force and Vigour and in all such Points as shall require a farther Explication Recourse shall be had to the preceding Capitulations Moldavia and Walachia shall remain in Amity and good Understanding as formerly neither shall Poland give any Sanctuary to the Fugitives of those Provinces XI All Conditions contain'd in former Capitulations are hereby confirm'd in all things that are not contrary to the Agreement of this present Treaty and the perpetual Rights of the two Potentates Carlowitz January the 26th 1699. Stanislaus Palatine of Posnania Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Embassador from the King of Poland In the mean time the Imperialists used all their endeavours