These and such like reasons pronounced with the authority of a Legat and by a person extreamly eloquent prevailed so far with the Hungarians that they agreed unanimously not to disert their Christian brethren in this fair occasion And for this effect their forces are rendevouzed and Huniades marching with the Vanguard is followed by King Vladislaus with the gross of the army On his march Dracula Vayvod of Valachia came to him who told him he wondered of his confidence that would with so inconsiderable troopes hazard to seek and provoke so mighty an enemy who used to go a hunting accompanied with as great number as those the King then had with him and counselled him to return His advice was rejected and so the Vayvod leaving four thousand horse under the conduct of his own son with the King retired himself Amurath being informed that Hungary armed against him left Asia and came to Europe drew his forces together as speedily as he could met Vladislaus at Varna a town in Bulgary and gave him a total overthrow The loss of this day so dismal to the Christians and so joyful to the Infidels did let us see by the death of Vladislaus of Julian the Legat a world of brave Gentle-men that faith should be punctually kept that God punisheth the perjured though they cover their perfidy with cloaks of specoius colors They say that Amurath seeing his men worsted at the beginning of the battel pulled out of his bosome the Treaty that was concluded between him and the Hungarians and looking towards heaven spake these words with much zeal and passion JESUS CHRIST Behold the agreement which the Christians made with me and swore to me by thy Godhead and by breaking it hath mocked thee and me Now O CHRIST if thou be a God as they say thou art revenge the injury they have done to both thee and me And make it appear to these who yet know not thy Name that thou knows how to punish such as violate the Religion of faithful promises confirmed and sworn by thy Divinity This prayer was seconded by the entire defeat of the Christians The head of the King was carried on a lance through many places of Greece and Asia as an assured testimony of a compleat victory The body of Cardinal Julian the detestable Author of the perfidy was found stark naked pierced and hacked with many wounds The Epitaph of this King both valiant and fortunate so long as he was careful to keep his promises is worthy your knowledge and it is this Romulidae Cannas ego Varnam clade notavi Discite mortales non temerare fidem Me nisi Pontifices jussissent rumpere foedus Non ferret Sciticum Pannonis ora jugum As Varo Cannaes fatal fields did dy With noble Roman blood so Varna I Stain'd with Hungarian gore Learn mortals then To keep your faith and promise made to men The Pope importun'd me the Truce to break Which I with Osmans faithless race did make Hence the brave men of fair Pannonias lands Must now obey the barbarous Turks commands This misfortune fell on Hungary the 11. of November S. Martins day 1444. P. You have often told me that the promises of men ought to be inviolable and I was ever of that same opinion and this sad example confirmeth me fully in it But did this mischance spread it self over the whole army G. It was then the Almighties pleasure only to chastise this unfortunate Kingdom but not wholly to ruine it and so preserved John Huniades Corvin who seeing all things in a desperate condition after the death of the King saved himself by flight The year following the Hungarians who till then had rejected Ladislaus the posthume son of the Emperor Albert of Austria unanimously acknowledged him for King though he was but five years old and because of his tender age they committed the management of affaires to John Hunniades who two years after increased Amuraths trophies with the loss of 22000 Hungarians which he had brought in the field against him Not long after Sultan Amurath died at Adrianople and left his son Mahomet to succeed him who surpassed all his Predecessors in greatness of courage and subtilty of spirit This daring Prince in the third year his reign beseegeth Constantinople and taketh it within the space of fifty days on the 29. of May 1453. As this loss discouraged the Christians so it raised Mahomets thoughts to a hie pitch and furnished him with hopes to add Hungary to his conquests of Greece To effect which he laid Mysia waste and laid siege with two hundred thousand men to Belgrade which in ancient times was called Alba Graeca But the place being notably defended by Hunniades who for that purpose had cast himself into it the proud Turk lost almost his whole army with an hundred great pieces of Canon Hunniades did not long survive this gallant action but died the 8. of September 1456. Mahomet carrying his hie designs to Persia and Italy gave liberty to Hungary to breath a while hoping the ambition of the Nobles and the non-age of the King would raise intestine troubles in time of Peace which would give him some fair opportunity to subdue the Kingdom sparing it for some smal time P. But it was no smal good fortune to King Ladislaus that the Tyrant did not molest him in his younger years after the death of Hunniades But tell me what did he when he came to age G. The History tells us that when Ladislaus was 19. years old he married Magdelene of France the daughter of King Charles the seventh and that he dyed of poison at Prague in the time of the solemnity of his marriage so that he had but little time to make either his vertues or his vices appear yet there passed some considerable contingencies between the death of Hunniades and that of his Master the King Hunniades having left two sons who were perfect imitators of the vertue of their noble father gave some occasion of jealousie to Ladislaus and of an earnest desire to his favorites to be rid of them both These being envyous of Hunniades his glory wrought the matter so with the King that he caused Ladislaus the eldest sons head to be struck off for killing the Count of Cilie in a combat to which the Count had appealed him About the same time they clapped Matthias the second son of Huniades in prison and not being able to suffer the children of that famous worthy who had saved the State they had assuredly made his process if the death of the King and the Almighty Providence which had ordained him to wear the Hungarian Crown had not put a stop to their malice The Kings death which fell out in the year 1457. occasioned a wonderful alteration Matthias Corvin the son of John Hunniades is brought out of prison where he expected a sentence of death and placed in the throne And all these who envyed both his fathers glory and his own could
these parts during the reign of Ferdinand This Arch Duke was the most zealous Catholick in the World and one who could least suffer the diversity of Religions which his predecessors had permitted in their Territories His zeal and good fortune moved his Cousine Matthias to prefer him to all the other Princes of his family And intending the succession of the Empire for him he caused him to be acknowledged King of Hungary and Bohemia before he died Ferdinand begins his reign with the oppression of the Protestants he caused shut up some of their Churches and demolished others in Bohemia He recalled the Jesuits to Hungary and rejected all these articles which favored any other Religion then the Roman Catholick in all the Treaties that had been made by the former Emperors with the Hungarians and Bohemians This action which bred much evil blood in a Body formidable at that time gave occasion to the Bohemians to reject Ferdinand and to elect Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine to be their King And Ferdinand was forced to see in a short time the Bohemians and Hungarians before the wals of his capital City of Vienne At the same time Gabor cloaths himself as all rebels do with the pretext of Religion and for the maintenance thereof enters in a League with the Bohemians and sets an Army a foot of eighteen thousand men and eighteen pieces of canon and with it enters Hungary where finding mens spirits prepared for rebellion his progress proved successful which furnished him with the confidence to proclaim himself King At this time Ferdinand was at Franckfurt where he was elected Emperor This high dignity administred to him both authority and forces neither did he think of any thing else then shortly to recover the Kingdoms which he had well near lost and to humble those who durst so insolently attack him He spoke loud of the wrong dishonor and injustice was done him he remonstrated to the Electors of the Empire to the Kings of Great Britain and France the just right he had on his side to look for his own He drew to his party all the Roman Catholicks of Germany and the Elector of Saxe also who was one of the great Pillars of the Protestants and endeavored withal to keep the swords of strangers within their sheaths Not long after the Elector Palatine whose forces were very considerable was put to flight Gabor made more resistance and had put the Emperors affairs in a bad enough condition if his associats had done their duty better at Prague Count Dampiere General of the Imperialists lost his life viewing the Castle of Presburg in which Gabor had put a garrison And Charles of Longueval Count of Buckoy having reduced Moravia to the Emperors obedience and made a great progress in Hungary died there after he had received sixteen wounds The death of this great person gave means to Gabor to recover many places to dissipate those who opposed his designs and to over-run all the Countrey But at length seeing his Confederates beaten and his own forces scattered he desired peace and obtained it in the year 1622 upon these conditions That he should retain all Transilvany Tokai Cassovia and seven other Lordships of Hungary That he should deliver up the Hungarian Crown and all the other Towns that he keeped in that Kingdom That he should absolutly quite the name of King and content himself with the tittle of Prince of the Empire with the Dutchies of Opeln and Ratibore and that he should re-possess the Jesuites of these places they enjoyed before the war This peace lasted not long Gabor gives Vaczia to the Turk who sends him fourscore thousand men which the Count of Torne had obtained for him With these he once more invades Hungary alledging the conditions of the Treaty of Odinburg were not keeped to him That his Religion was oppressed and that the money they owed him was not payed him The Emperor desirous to be at an end of this business caused remonstrate to the Grand Seigneur that Gabor did but abuse his authority and his forces and that he was invaded by him without any reason To his words Ferdinand added the powerful arguments of arms and by them constraineth his enemy to an accommodation less advantageous then the first By this Treaty in the year 1624 Gabor lost the tittle of Prince of the Empire and some of these Territories in Hungary which had been granted him by the former Treaty Shortly after this restless spirit joyned his forces with these of Charles Ernest Earl of Mansfield But forty thousand Tartars who were coming to him being defeated by the Polonians he left him to go and take care of his own Estates And having only for the space of four years enjoyed the company of Catharine Daughter of John Sigismund Elector of Brandeburg he died in the year 1628. having suffered incredible torment in his feet and at his death he made it known that he honored the Emperor and the Turk equally for he left to every one of them a horse whose Caparison was garnished with rich stones and forty thousand ducats in speces He left to the Princess his wife one hundred thousand pieces of Gold every piece of the value of ten shillings sterlin one hundred thousand dollars in silver and one hundred thousand Florins and three Lordships which she was to enjoy during her life P. This Princess having above four score thousand pound sterlin in coyned money and Jewels sutable to a personage of her quality had enough to help a younger brother of a noble family and it is probable it was for that that Francis Charles Duke of Saxon Lauemburg married her some years after the death of her first husband But I would gladly know who succeeded to Bethlem Gabor and what fell out in that Countrey after his death G. When the heir of a Principality is not certainly known the death of the last Prince is ever followed with trouble Princess Catharine the widow of Gabor not having learned the Art to reign nominated Stephen Czac to be her husbands successor and intreated the Turk to confirm him But this Election displeased all the Transilvanians who divided in two factions the one favoring Stephen Bethlem the brother of their late Prince and the other inclining to George Ragoski The first was so misfortunate that his own children rose up against him the second having overcome all opposition made an agreement with the Emperor and gained the favor of the Turk and so enjoyed Transilvany peaceably yet his good fortune was not constant Stephen Bethlem who had yeelded all his pretentions to him chanced to kill one of his kinsmen and fearing the punishment he deserved endeavored to shun it by a greater crime He demanded assistance from the Port from whence he received an army of Turks and Tartars with which he beseeged Giula Ragoski detesting the infidelity of the faithless Turk submits himself to the House of Austria who assisted him with three Regiments of
not hinder a man but of an indifferent quality to be preferred to the whole family of Austria in the year 1458. P. These effects of the Divine Providence are admirable But reigned he gloriously G. Hungary hath had but few Kings like to Matthias He was ignorant of nothing that belonged to the knowledge of a great Prince his reign was glorious both in the time of peace and war Many great Hungarian Lords opposed his election and after it they importuned the Emperor Frederick the third to set the Crown which he had a keeping on his own head which some say he did Once certain it is he did not restore it till six years after he got in exchange of it three score thousand dukats at Newstadt a town in Austria A little before its restoration some of the factious offered the Kingdom to Casimir the son of another Casimir King of Polen who sent his son to receive it with a powerful army but Matthias made haste to the frontiers from which he forced the Polonian to return These intestine broils gave both the courage and the opportunity to the Turk to make himself Master of Bosnia Rascia and a part of Servia But King Matthias after his Coronation valiantly regained all was lost and reduced Transilvania and Valachia to their duty This happy progress prompted Matthias to undertake an irreconciliable war with the Grand Seigneur and without all peradventure he had given him work enough if his heroical design had not been obstructed by the Emperor and the Pope And this doth evidently appear by the letters which he wrote on that subject to the Electors of the Empire and to the Cardinal of Arragon To the first he remonstrats that when he was on the river of Savus going to fight with the Infidels he received certain intelligence that in a Dyet at Vienne they had resolved to invade him To the second he wrote that the Pope favored the Venetians who had taken from him the I le of Valga without any occasion given by him and not satisfied with that his Holiness endeavored to take from him the power to confer Ecclesiastical Benefices within his own Kingdom of purpose to disgrace him with his own subjects P. But I think there is little appearance that these two Princes whom it most concerns to chase the Turk out of Europe should endeavor to keep the swords of those in their sheaths who would gladly draw them against that common enemy G. I should also be of your opinion if Peter de Reva had not told us that he copied these things out of the original and adds that which seems more incredible In his fifth Century of his Monarchy of Hungary he tells us that the Emperor seased on all the moneys which the Spiritual and Temporal Lords of Hungary had contributed for the war which Matthias intended against the Turk and that the Pope helped to drain the Kingdom of moneys by ordering Collections to be made for the Knights of the Rhodes Yet all these blocks that were laid in his way did not hinder Matthias by his Generals Paul Canisi and Steven Battori to defeat and chase Ali Beg out of the field with the loss of threescore thousand Turks and thereafter in person to regain Jaitsa and reduce Bosnia to his obedience Yet these traverses at home necessitated him to make a truce with Mahomet And the Tyrant dying in the year 1481. Matthias with all his force resolves to renew the war and for that purpose desired a Safe-conduct from the Emperor for his Embassadors to come and treat of an accommodation but could not obtain it He intreated also the Pope to give him Zemini the son of Mahomet that he might make use of him against his brother Bajazet who a little before had taken upon him the government of the Turkish Empire But this was refused him by his Holiness which spited Matthias the more that it was done not to loose a piece of money which was yearly payed to the Pope by Bajazet for the detention or as it was called the maintenance of his brother Zemini Besides this Pope by his Spiritual Authority obliged Matthias to confirm the Truce with Bajazet which he had made with his father Mahomet Shortly after this brave King looking upon all the indignities he had received from the Emperor as insupportable for any generous soul declared open war against him which proved so fortunate on his side as having brought the greatest part of Austria under his obedience at length he over-masters Vienne and Newstadt the two great bulwarks of that Arch-Dukedom From thence he marched to the Kingdom of Bohemia and made himself Master of Silesia and Moravia But Casimir King of Polen would have a share of the booty and therefore entered Silesia with a mighty army but by the mediation of the Princes of the Empire these two Kings agreed that both Matthias and Vladislaus the son of Casimir should bear the tittle of Kings of Bohemia but Vladislaus should alone enjoy the Electoral dignity and the Kingdom Matthias keeping in his possession the Provinces of Silesia Moravia and Lusatia redeemable after his death for four hundred thousand Crowns While Matthias was busied in these wars the Turk breaks the Truce and seaseth on Killen and Nester-Alba which at that time were accounted strong holds on the river Danube At length this valiant King having reigned five years at Vienne and while there was a Treaty on foot for the restoration of it to the Emperor he dieth on the tuesday before Easter in the moneth of March 1490. His corps was carried to Alba Royal and interred with his Predecessors the Kings of Hungary P. It was fitting this martial Prince should die on Mars his day and in the moneth which hath its name from Mars But it is pitty his valor was not still employed against the common enemy and I am sory that these who should have exhorted him to it should have diverted him from so glorious an undertaking But I pray who succeeded him G. Matthias Corvin having no lawful issue wished that his natural son John Hunniades might have been elected to be his successor But after his death the spirit of division possessed the Hungarians Four Princes pretended to this divided Kingdom and the Nobility being divided in four Cabales favored him with their votes whom they conceived most worthy of so great an honor John the son of the late King had the suffrages of these who reverenced the vertues of his Grand father and father which eminently appeared in him and of such also who would more gladly obey a born Hungarian then a stranger The second party stood for Albert Jagellon the second son of Casimir King of Polen whom his father furnished with forces to fight against Vladislaus his elder brother who made the third party Casimir thinking his son Vladislaus might well enough be satisfied with the Crown of Bohemia The fourth Cabale inclined to elect Maximilian son of the Emperor
Frederick but he was excluded because Vladislaus his party prevailed During this interraign the Emperor recovered all that Matthias had taken from him in Austria and at length Vladislaus maugre all the Competitors mounts the throne The beginning of his reign was troublesom for his brother Albert assisted with his Uncles the brothers of Casimir King of Polen beseegeth Cassovia the capital City of the higher Hungary and so gave him work on that side Blaise Magger a dependent of John Corvin being offended that his Master was rejected refused to deliver the Crown which was in his keeping to the new King upon which he was beseeged at Vissegrad which he held bravely out and would neither deliver Town nor Crown till he had command so to do from his Master Maximilian having recovered his losses in Austria advanced towards Hungary and being assisted by these who had favored his election in the interreign made a successful progress Vladislaus fainting under the burden of so many troubles came to an agreement with Maximilian the tenor whereof was so hateful to the Hungarians that the Palatine Emeric Prini caused proclaim through all the streets of Presburg that he neither did nor ever would consent to it But this generosity of his lasted not long for being gained by presents he signed the articles of Peace by which the Crown and Kingdom of Hungary is entailed to the House of Austria if Vladislaus died without issue You may see here a disease cured by the application of a remedy odious to the whole Nation This tempest not yet well allaid ushered in another conjured up by Albert another Polonian pretender whose heart could not brook it to see his brother King of Hungary he takes armes and beseegeth Cassovia the second time But while he endeavors to take it he is taken himself and forced to give surety to suffer Vladislaus to live in quyet Shortly after Vladislaus married and within three or four years had a son and a daughter Anne and Lewis both of them famous in the Hungarian History Anne was married to Ferdinand of Austria Grand-child to the Emperor Maximilian who by her had a numerous issue whose posterity reigns yet in Germany and Hungary The accidents of the birth life and death of Lewis were extraordinare He was born without a skin which made his subjects fear he should be spoiled of his Kingdom He wore a beard when he was but fifteen years old and was gray haird of eighteen which made most men conclud his life to be short He died in a marish at Mohats when he was but twenty years of age at which time the greatest part of his Kingdom fell in the hands of the Mahometans Which makes us see that these preter-natural accidents proved truly ominous as we shal find hereafter Vladislaus making no more account of what had passed between him Maximilian of Austria caused crown his son Lewis at Alba Royal by the hands of Thomas Cardinal of Strigonium in the year 1508. And the year after he got him to be crowned King of Bohemia at Prague when he was but three years old The Emperor Maximilian was hugely dissatisfied with these things but Vladislaus entertaining peace with the Turk on the one side and supported by Polen on the other he was forced to dissemble his ressentment P. Ordinarly a great calm is followed by a great tempest and if it fell not out so with Vladislaus he hath been fortunate beyond his merite G. Towards the end of his life and after the death of Bajazeth a civil war began in Hungary which was like to ruine it entirely upon this occasion The King had a great desire to invade Selim Emperor of Turky who was kept busie at home disputing the Crown with his brother Achmet which design he communicates to Pope Julius the first The Pope approves of it and promiseth his assistance but prevēted by death left the management of it to his Successors Mean while Vladislaus bethinks himself better and renews with Selim the Peace he had made with his father Bajazet This Peace exceedingly displeased those who loved war and a little after Cardinal Thomas Legat for the Holy See came to Hungary with a Croisade to joyn the Nobility and Commons in a vigorus pursuit of a war against the Infidels The common people who had been ever till then used with much rigor thinking the time to recover their liberty was now come turned their armes against the Nobles Their numbers made them insolent and they elect one George Sekell first for their General and then for their King He and his rable having cōmitted a world of mischiefs laid siege to Themisware where his army is defeated and himself and brother Lucatius taken prisoners by John Zapoliha Vayvod of Transilvany This action put Zapoliha in so high credit with the better sort that Vladislaus was contemned and nothing more spoken of then degrading the King and mounting the Vayvod in the throne But Vladislaus prevented the disgrace by his death which fell out in the year 1516. P. By what you tell me I am perswaded the Hungarians are hugely loyal and affectionate unto their King when they are gallant and that they are easily moved to change him for another when he is not so G. A warlike people desires ever to see their King a horse-back when the preservation of his Estate requires him so to be And though experience ofteu teach us that the preservations of the persons of Kings preserves Kingdoms yet a people is ever desirous to see their King on the head of their army But for all that the Hungarians have reason to be of another opinion and their History will let them see what a misfortune it is to loose a King with loosing a battel Lewis in his tender years succeeding his father Vladislaus was vilipended by Sultan Soliman who knowing his weakness and the divisions that then were amongst Christian Princes thought this time convenient to bring Hungary under his subjection To this effect he makes peace with the Persian and rusheth upon Lewis with all his forces This young King knowing how unable he was alone to grapple with so mighty an enemy prayed other Christian Potentats to send him succours and not to permit the Bulwark of Christendom to fall into the hands of the common enemy of believers His prayers prevailed not for Christendom then was tearing it self in pieces so Lewis was forced to take the field yea even before these troopes were brought together of which his army was to be composed The Turk had already passed the Save and the Drave and meeting with the Hungarians both few in number and evil provided of a General did without any difficulty obtain the victory and that so compleatly that the King and the most part of these that followed him were lost one way or other either in battel or the flight P. I have heard say that two and twenty thousand Christians died at this fatal field and that besides horses
the Turks great numbers gave him battel which had in all appearance bettered the condition of Christendom if the infamous desire of spoil and booty had not made victory which hovered over the Christian Army take wings and fly to the Infidels We lost twenty thousand men and the Turk a great many more but after that time it seemed that fortune which had gone hand in hand with Prince Sigismund turned her back upon him for forgetting his former valor and magnanimity he resolved to make an exchange of his Transilvanian Principality with some Territories in Silesia And to come the better to his purpose he brought as many of his forces together as possibly he could to make his last attempt He layes siege to Themiswar and was forced to raise it as he had done before Not long after Ibrahim Basha beseegeth Varadin Basta the Emperors Lieutenant General intreats Sigismund for the relief of it to joyn his forces with these over which he commanded which he promised to do but proved not a man of his word After that there was nothing to be seen in him but irresolution and unconstancy He caused proclaim his Cousine Cardinal Battori Prince of Transilvany but not being able to maintain him in it he resigned to the Emperor Rodolph all his Estates who gave him the Dutchies of Ratibore and Opeln for his life time with a yearly pension of fifty thousand Crowns and a Cardinals Hat which the Emperor promised to procure to him from the Pope P. I thought the Transilvanian Prince had been married and you say he sought to be a Cardinal G. I told you before that Sigismund Battori Prince of Transilvany was married to Mary Christine of Austria but being as great a coward in the rencounters of Venus as he was brave in those of Mars he declared himself to be impotent and so his marriage was declared null But I have not yet told you that after infinite miseries which his change procured to Transilvania Valachia and Moldavia resigned by him to Rodolph and after that he had repented himself of that folly and given sufficient testimonies of his unconstancy he died at Prague the 17. of March 1603. His death did not at all confirm the possession of his Estates to the Emperor for the Turk never wanted these who practised for him in the Countrey and the people believing that their liberty was infringed by the agreement made between the Emperor Rodolp and their late Prince there was not any content with his present condition George Basta the Emperors Lieutenant General tyrannized over the Countrey The Turks the Tartars the Polonians had made Transilvany the theatre of a long and bloody tragedy so that the people longed and breathed for nothing so much as for their former condition In end Stephen Boskay having chaced away the Decemvirate which the Emperor had entrusted with the Government established himself into it more by the good will of the people and by these faults and disorders which the Emperors Generals committed then by his own proper forces The commonalities complained grievously of the Inquisition of the insolence of strangers and of the abrogation of their ancient priviledges and immunities Boskay fomented the discontents and by aggravating the faults of the Government he took a powerful and deep footing in the possession of the Principality For this cause Gabriel Bethlem to whom the Turk had given hopes of the province seing it was not time for him to have such thoughts submitted himself to Boskay But in the mean time joyning himself with Bechtes Basha of Themiswar endeavored to surprise Lippa but was near surprised himself and forced to fly in his shirt fear made him forget his breeches behind him and in them the treaty of his conspiracy This paper coming to the hands of Count Belljoyoso put a flea in his ear and seeking for a remedy for this disease he found it to be incurable In fine Boskay lost no time he beats Beljoyoso and reduceth him to a great extreamity and puts himself in possessiou of many places And having the favor of the Nobility the Towns and the Commons he found himself in a condition to speak like a Master But fortune who delights to make her self to be admired turned suddenly on Basta's side who having obtained some victories exhorted Boskay to lay down Arms and submit himself to the Imperial yoak But he who pretended to no less then the whole Principality made answer That if they suffered him not to enjoy Transilvany if they did not place Hungarians to be Governors of the Provinces and Towns if they did not send their militia of strangers sume where else if they did not permit the free exercise of his Religion He was resolved to prefer war to peace Fortune who is frequently a friend to rashness takes Boskays part and made him surmount all the difficulties he rencountered with in this war Basta who most opposed him saw his victories followed with an intire disobedience his sojors mutines and tells him he payed them with nothing but words They set upon him in his lodging and these who were appointed to be a guard to nine and twenty waggons loaden with money cloath and other things robbed them and went away some to Pole and others to the Enemy Transilvany being delivered of the fear of Bastas Army many of the hundred towns of it were taken by Boskays friends the rest rendered themselves to him before they were summoned This progress of Boskay forced the Emperor to send Demetrius Nabradi Bishop of Vesprin and Sigismund Forgas to treat with him These Deputies found that prosperity had made him insolent all the answer they got from him was That if they had come from the Nobility of Hungary they should have been very welcome but if they came from the Emperor they might return for he was so far advanced that he could not retire This language was so well understood by the Emperors deputies that they knew they had no more to do there and that Transilvany had changed its Master And in effect the Estates of the Province being assembled at Kerene Boskay was confirmed in the usurpation he made of the Principality upon condition that he granted a tolleration of the exercise of the Roman Lutheran and Swisse Religions Then under him Sigismund Ragoski was made Governor of the Countrey and Valentin Homanay General of the troops The Grand Seigneur who had keeped a watchful eye upon all these commotions sent a Chiaux to Boskay who presented him with a Mace a Shable and a Cloath of State to confirm him in the possession of his new Principality In acknowledgement of which favor Boskay sent to the Port Stephen Corlat and George Kikedi to assure the Turk of his fidelity and to present him with the marks of his homage and obedience P. They say this Embassie of Boskay was infamous because of the present his Deputies made to the Great Turk of some Germane boys and girles G. These who dare invade the