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A55965	The history of this iron age vvherein is set dovvn the true state of Europe as it was in the year 1500 : also, the original and causes of all the vvarres, and commotions that have happened : together with a description of the most memorable battels, sieges, actions and transactions, both in court and camp from that time till this present year 1656 : illustrated vvith the lively effigies of the most renowned persons of this present time / written originally by J. Parival and now rendred into English by B. Harris, Gent.; Abrégé de l'histoire de ce siècle de fer. English	Parival, Jean-Nicolas de, 1605-1669.; Harris, B. (Bartholomew)	1656 (1656)	Wing P361; ESTC R11155	382,320	308

prevented by the aforesaid Prince who made his Army march at one of the clock after mid-night and pitched his Camp near the said Weymarians in such sort as that Melo coming some hours too late durst not meddle with them and avowed that he had to do with one of the cunningest Captains in the world But whilest these things passed Baron John de Werdt returned out of France and shewed that he had not forgotten his Trade by the discontinuance thereof for in less then two months there were above two thousand horses sold at Colein which he had taken from the enemy Let us now pass into Catalunia and see the condition of the affaires of that Country commanded by Monsieur de la Motte Houdancour who so often beat the Castilians took so many Towns and succoured so many more that he deserved and had the Marshalls staffe The King and Cardinal went thither The great progresse of the Frénch in Catalunia and the French took Salces Perpinlan and all the County of Roussillion which had been formerly engaged to the Crown of France but was restored by Charles the eighth Monsieur le Grand had such an advantagious possession of the Kings favour at that time that the great Cardinal was alarmed by it and found himself ready to be cast out of the Saddell For he let the King know how necessary a Peace would be for his kingdom which was impoverished and exhausted by so many Taxes and Warres and had already disposed him to listen to an Accommodation with the King of Spain But he warped a Web into which he so involved himself that he was not afterwards able to put it off For they who recommended Peace were held for malefactors and worthy of death Monsieur le Grand beheaded and the Duke of Bouillon saved by whom Wherefore he was sent to Lyons with Monsieur de Thoii where they were both beheaded and the Duke of Bouillon had run the same Fortune had he not been saved by the high and sharp intercession of the Prince of Orange and the consideration of the Town of Sedan For the said Prince had newly preserved the Weymarian Army and rendred France a most remarkable service whereby he could not merit less then the safety of an innocent mans life The execution of the two young Lords aforesaid augmented the hatred which all the world bore this ambitious Cardinal yea and the King himself expressed some coldnesse to him The great Cardinals death which together with so many other inconveniences encreased his sickness and the fourth of December 1642 sent him to the other world since he had troubled this enough already Never did any man ascend to such an immense greatness and maintain himself so well in it His life was very like that of Seianus but their deaths were different this being naturall and that violent Don Alvarez de Luna rose very high but his fall was so heavy that it brake his neck Cardinal Wolsey disposed absolutely enough of his Master but his credit never passed the Sea but by sits and yet was he degraded before his death and in houtly expectation of the Hangman He was born at Paris of a noble extraction was well learned A brief relation of his life and took the Orders of Priesthood at Rome It is said that Pope Paul the fifth looking him once in the face told him That he would one day be the greatest cheat upon earth The Queen-Mother finding him a man of great wit procured him the Bishoprick of Luzon where he wrote a Book of controversie upon which she recommended him to the King her Son and afterwards to the Pope who sent him the Cardinals Cap and the taking of Rochel gave him so great an influence upon his Masters Mind that he left him almost the totall direction of his Kingdom He got himself shut of the Queen and all who favoured her cut off the Marshall of Marillacs head and destroyed all such as gave him any jealousie He never pardoned such as he had offended He was a most accomplished Politician beloved by the most zealous Protestants and hated by the most zealous Catholicks He made it his task to ruine the House of Lorrain by beginning with that of Guise as also that of Austria by labouring to conquer the Low-Countries so that he could not faile to be beloved by all such as hated the Church of Rome He is accused of having embroyled England to the end that for interest of State it might not hinder his seazing upon Flanders For an English Embassadour imputes to him the destruction of his King by most unjust and maligne practices and of setting all Europe by the eares in generall But he cannot be deprived of the praise of having done the Kingdom of France superlative services though it were with the huge oppression of the poor people A Polish Waywodt of great age and experience desired to outlive the said Cardinall to see what end he would have As he had done many people a great deale of hurt so was he alwayes in perpetuall apprehension and fear nor was there eyer Tyrant who lived in greater disquiet then he A great Volume might be made of the observations of his life which being wholly miserable was sustained but by a blast of ambition In fine whilest he was thinking to triumph over Europe his infirmities and troubles redoubled upon him till they made his soule go out of his wretched Body His death was lamented by few and such as had either feared him or fled from his persecution returned into France not to put on mourning but to give God thanks and repossesse themselves of their Charges and Estates CHAP. XIV The death of Lewis the Just The ' Battel of Rocroy The Battel of Dudling The Swedes enter into Holstein THe same Play was still acted under different names For they who had so much longed for great Gustaves death for the establishment of the Emperours Affaires were all amazed to see his Generalls accompanied by the same prosperity as if they had been destinated to consummate the begun-work Upon the other side many Princes and Townes openly favoured them in such such sort as the Emperours affaires weakened so fast to mens sight that they began to despaire of his redresse And so it was held for certain that that Great Cardinals death would cause a huge alteration in France and give the Spaniards the prize but it happened quite otherwise for the French defeated all their forces before Rocroy Let us therefore confesse that it is the Almighty who governes all changes destroyes subverts and augments States both when and how he pleases and that for the bringing of this Great All to an end he permits the Destruction to be Universall and the Confusion Generall Lewis the Just being arrived at his good City of Paris quite altered with the toyle and trouble of his long journey and extremely sad and melancholy began by little and little to lose his health and

Power and Majesty O Great God! Inexhaustible source of goodnesse and mercy guide thou my pen to the end that it say nothing but what is modestly true to the confusion of Atheists and the consolation of the Elect. Let us therefore begin at that miserable Kingdome the better part whereof which makes the extremity and bound as it were to Europe groanes at this time under the tyranny of Turks and Infidels CHAP. II Of the Warre of Hungary The Death of the Duke of Mercoeur From whence came the Inhabitants of Transylvania NOw since we must kindle our Torch in the age past which is to light us in the labyrinth of this of ours I will take notice by the way of the chief exploits and will begin from the Kingdom of Hungarie the Then●er or Stage of the Warre of the Ottomans This kingdome is most fertile in all the blessings of the earth as in Corne in most excellent Wines in Gold The fertility of Hungary Silver and all other mettals In such sori as that some Authors have presumed to prefer it before all the rest of Europe At present the greatest part of it acknowledges the Turk another is grown desert by the insolencie of the Souldiers and that which lies next to Germany obeys for their King Ferdinand the fourth Son to the Emperour Ferdinand the third This Kingdom being tormented by the Arms of the great Turk had recourse to the Emperour Rodolph and he to the Princes and States of Germany but they blinded by the prosperity of peace and plunged in the delights which the fruits thereof produces slighting the danger which most neerly concerned the house of Austria from abroad slackly promised relief which yet was retarded by the jealousie of such as could not by any meanes brook the glory of that Family and passionately wished the decline or rather the utter ruine thereof Rodolph in the Diet or Assembly at Ratisbone made a remonstrance how Amurat the Sultan had broken the Peace of the year 1991. and taken many Towns and Places of strength Peace of the year 1591. broaken by Amurat. but he reaped nothing but winde for it is in vain to preach to such as will not hear He dyed in the year 1595 and his Son Mahomer succeeded him against whom the Christians had neither good luck nor blessing For Agria was lost because the succour came too late as being delayed by the raines and the Army appeared not till some dayes after it was taken howsoever there first grew some skermishes and afterwards a Battail wherein the Turks were roured and their Canon taken But the Conquerors casting themselves too soone and too inconsiderately upon pillage made them who fled regain their courage in such sort as that they rallyed and defeated an Army of sixty thousand men however they durst not pursue them By means of this memorable enterprize the lot sell upon the impregnable Town of Raab which issued very happily for the good of Christendome to the honour of the Count de Swartsbourgh and Mons de Vanbecour a Lorraine Gentleman together with the French Lorrains Low-burgundians and Walloons The Duke of Mercoeur having taken leave of the most Christian King Mutiny of the French and recollected the fragments of the League went thither for the service of Christendome but his Troops not having an equal zeal with that of their General sell to mutinie in the Fort of Pappeneer Raab chased away their officers and indeavoured to sell the said place to the Turks The Count de Swartsbourgh offered them their pay and conjured them to forbear that treason but they being obstinate in their wickednesse delivered to the Infidels in earnest of their perfidie of men women and children above six hundred Christians and this by way of recompence for some Provisions The Place was invested and the Turks could not succour it and the brave Earle of Swartsbourgh killed These detestable Mutiners after having made many desperate sallyes and fought long against Famine the gate of favour and pardon being shut to them who had so wickedly betrayed the Christian Party were at length almost all caught and punished according to the greatnesse of their treason Canisia was taken by the Turk and Stoul-Vessembourg by the Duke of Mercoeur where he atchieved so much glory that the great Turk intreated Henry the fourth to call him away This war was finished about the end of the year 1606. The Emperours Souldiers mutined for want of pay and committed a thousand robberies which caused rebellious and great famine The Duke of Mercoeur desirous to go visit his native country began his journey full of victorious palms and passed through Vienna where he was very well received by his Imperial Majesty and the whole Court. The death of the Dake of Marcoeur But Parca envious of his happinesse cut off the thred of his life at Novemberg Transylvania is a part of the aforesaid Kingdome of Hungary and is much peopled and most fortill The Inhabitants speak a language much like to that of Low-Saxony and it is also very credible that they sprang from thence but when or how is very uncertain Some Authors recount that a certain Quack-salver or Mountebank not being fully satisfied by the Citizens of Hamelen a Town seated upon the River of Weser according to their promise made him for freeing them from the trouble of an innumerable multitude of Rats which he drew out of the said Town with the sound of his Pipe revenged himself after this manner He gathered together all the children of the Town or to say better he charmed them so well with the sound of his said instrument that he going out and they following to a certain mountain not farre off the ground cleft and swallowed them up and as soon as they were entred closed up again and sometime after it was published and believed that the said children were transported into Transylvania And even to this very day Whe●oe came the ●●thubitants of Transylvania there are some at Hamelen who write in these terms such a year since the departure of our children The Kingdom of Hungary for the most part followes the Romane Catholick Religion though yet both the Reformed party and the Lutherans especially in Transylvania have likewise their Churches But the stepping in of these latter created a great deale of distrust the inseparable companion of contradictory opinions The Soveraign authority hath lost part of her vigour and her power is so much diminished that the Hungarians could not subsist but by the Majesty of the Eagle Let us summarily and without deviating from our path speak of the glory of the ancient Hungarians of the vertues and ill habits which are found now amongst them and of the troubles which they suffer or still apprehend amongst themselves by the neerness and vicinity of the sworne enemy of Christendome Hungary anciently called Pannonia is a Kingdome most abundant in all which Nature covets for her contentment She is