season were farr spent that in the mean time they might beseege and take Canisia which already they had blocked by the taking of Buzats Ziguet and by the garrison they had in Serinswar They demanded all these things that were necessare for the siege of so important a place and undoubtedly believing they should be sent to them they vigorously begun it at the opening of the spring This siege proved a Murtherer for it hugely diminished the number of the beseegers and endured longer then they at first did imagine the enemy approaching for Canisias relief the siege is raised and before the Christian forces could draw together the Turk takes Serinswar and little Comorre These successes were followed with greater For after our Army was assembled he continued his victories by the taking of Vesprin But fortune weary of following the wrong party turned on our side after which time the Visier and his Turks were not so successful Lewis Count of Souches Governorof Comorre defeats the Infidels at Sernevits and pursues them so vigorously that he made them abandon Barcan and ruined a bridge of boats which they had upon the Danube Raimund Count of Montecuculi made them repent that they offered to pass the river of Raab and the Earls of Coligni and Fueillade cut in pieces all those that had passed the same river near to Saint Godard P. They say indeed that the Count of Coligni and Fueillade did great things and therefore I should be glad before this discourse be at an end to know something of the assistance the Emperor desired of forreign Potentates for I suppose it hath been one of the great members of our Armies and one of the great motives that obliged the Grand Visier to hearken so soon to a peace G. There is no doubt to be made of that for the Emperor being very careful to make himself strong against so powerful an enemy sent his Embassadors to implore assistance from all these who were able to give it These he sent found good words in all places and in some good deeds all Germany was alarmed Italy Sweden Lorrain Spain and France took the preservation of Hungary to heart Spain and Italy promised to furnish great sums of money Sweden Lorrain and France offered to send troops entertained at their own charges I cannot tell precisely what the rest did But it may be said truly that the zeal of the French surpassed that of all other Christians The King who hath as much piety as Saint Lewis as much valor as Philip August as must wisdom as Charles the fifth and as much courage as Henry the Great and more zeal for Religion then all his Predecessors did hear with much grief that the Turk had begun the war and with much joy that the Emperor sought his help The mischiefs the Tartars had done upon our frontiers and the numbers of poor Christians that were every day brought in slavery and put in fetters moved him to so much compassion that when Count Strozzi limited the succours which he sought in name of his Imperial Majesty to four thousand foot and two thousand horse he wished they had not offered to set bounds to his liberality Then the words Christian Royal which came from his mouth did make it appear that all that can be said of his piety towards God and his pitty towards Hungary is far below his merite He exhorted his Nobility to this glorious Voyage and told even those whom he loved best that they would make their Court as advantageously in Hungary as at the Louver He protested in presence of many Princes and Lords That if his son the Daulphin were ten years of age he would send him in this expedition And which is more strange he assured his Audience that if it should be Gods pleasure to afflict Christendom so much as to suffer the Emperor to be worsted in this Campagn he would go in person the next to repair his losses repulse his enemy These Discourses full of martial heat and Christian zeal did put such an edge upon the French Nobility that instantly hundreths were seen who preferred the satisfaction of their consciences and generosities to all the pleasures and contents they could expect either in the Court or in this life Prince Philip Knight of Lorrain knowing his Predecessors had reigned in Jerusalem after they had expelled the Sarasens and that the Count of Harcourt his father was grieved that his age would not suffer him to put on armor nobly supplyed his place and gave in this occasion so many proofs of his courage that it may be said he hath revived the memory of these Princes of Lorrain who in former times conquered the East and of the Duke of Mercoeur who in the beginning of this last age made himself be admired at the retreat of Canisia and the taking of Alba Royal. The Princes of Rohan and Soubize having a thousand of their Predecessors to imitate did make it appear at this time that if the Dukes of whom they carry the tittle knew how to defend these of the Reformed Religion they knew as well to expose their lives for the defence of Christians The Duke of Brisac remembring the reputation which the Mareshalls of Cossé and Brisac his Ancesters acquired did neither spare his body nor his spirit to follow their trace and to win glory to himself The Count of Sault and the Marquess of Ragny and Canaples shew a burning desire they had to equalize the merit of the Constable of France the Duke of Lesdiguieres the Mareshalls of Crequi the Lords of Pontdormi and an infinit number more of their illustrious Predecessors who went before them in the road of Military vertue The Duke of Boüillon and the Count of Auvergn his brother led by the example of their brother and their Uncle and by that of the glorious Godfrey who filled all Europe with admiration in the year 1096. did so signalize themselves that if they did not reign in Jerusalem as their Ancestors did at least they will reign in the hearts of those who were spectators of their valors and who knows the laudable ambition they have to equalize the ancient Earles of Bologne of Nassaw of Berg and the Princes of Orange The Count of Selle the Knight of Saint Aignan the Marquess of Castelnaw and all the other French Lords Gentle-men who were about two thousand horse remembring they had Lewis the Victorious both for their King and their Pattern made the world see some by their glorious deaths and the rest by their heroical exploits that they were resolved either to pluck the palm out of the Visiers hand or die honorably in the quarrel In a word the Auxiliaries which the King sent us under the conduct of the Count of Coligni and the Lieutenant Generals Bodewels and Gassion did contribute much to the Victories which we gained and we may say that there was not amongst them a simple soldier who had not been an Officer nor Captain
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
from slavery Mean time Queen Isabel seeing she could not obtain the performance of the promises were made to her prayed the Grand Seigneur once more to have pitty of her son Soliman either moved with compassion of the widow Queen or touched with his own interests assists her powerfully and reduceth the Transilvanians to that necessity that they implored Ferdinand to permit them to treat with Soliman in favor of John Sigismund Ferdinand though much against his will gave his consent And they obtained for their Prince that same favor that was granted to John Zapoliha his father for these submissions duties and tribute that it should please Soliman to impose on him This fell out in the year 1551. The Queen having entred in repossession of her Estates her brother Sigismund August mediated another treaty between Ferdinand and her By it she obtained more advantagious conditions then by the former one Her son should espouse Joanne the daughter of Ferdinand and enjoy for ever in Soveraignty for himself and his heirs Transilvany the County of Abavivar Muran Huzth Marmet and a part of the revenue of the territories of Ceregh and of Ugocha P. I am of the opinion few Countreys are to be found which have changed their Masters so oft as Transilvany And I know not if I be obliged to believe that a King of the Romans brother to one of the puissantest Emperors that ever reigned in Germany and father of so many children should put on a resolution to part with a Principality which he had acquired partly by consent partly by right and partly by force G. I know that Potentats do not give away willingly that which they have gained It is notwithstanding true that Ferdinand gave up that Soveraignty whereof we speak and that he permitted John Sigismund to do what he pleased in Transilvany except the assuming the tittle of King Yea the business was carried on a greater length for this Transilvanian supported by the Turks forces demanded that the Danube should divide Hungary and Transilvany and that the Kingdom of Hungary should be entailled to him and his successors in case the masculine line of the Austrain family should chance to be extinct This insolent demand vexed Ferdinand he takes armes and constrained the Transilvanian Prince to be contented that the river Tebiscus should be the utmost bound of his Estates This agreement displeased either Sigismund or the Great Turk who prompted him to act because he might not enter publickly on the stage himself in regard of a truce he had made with Ferdinand for eight years Hereupon John Sigismund denounceth war against Maximilian the second who succeeded his father Ferdinand and took Zackwar Hudad and Corazzo and had taken Cassovia also if the rigor of the Winter season had not hindered him But these victories were short lived Maximilian grievously offended with these insolencies takes armes and attacks him vigorously regains what he had lost and forces his enemy to a Peace Soliman being returned from Malta where fortune had not favored him begins a new war in Hungary where he dies at the siege of Zigeth which was surrendered to Basha Mustafa his Lieutenant General the 7 of September 1566. Selimus who succeeded to his father made a truce with the Hungarians for eight years and in it comprehended the Transilvanian who by the recommendation of his Uncle Sigismund August King of Pole got an addition to his Dominions of some Territories which the Emperor yeelded to him and the town of Guila which he bought from the Turk in the year 1568. John Sigismund perceiving the dy of war run favorably for him offered to corrupt some Hungarians to carry on his designs with more advantage in that Kingdom But his endeavors and practises dyed with himself in the year 1570. and in the thirty and third year of his age And in him and with him ended the race of Zapoliha He had chosen Gaspar Bekez for his successor but he was rejected by the Grandees who put in his place Stephen Battori on the 14. of May 1571. This Prince acknowledged the Grand Seigneur for his Soveraign as his Predecessor had done And being elected King of Pole after the retreat of Henry of Valois he made it appear that vertue and fortune are not incompatible in one and the same subject This brave Gentle-man was within a very few years a Baron a Prince and a King and eminently worthy of the highest of these degrees Being chosen King of Polen he delivered up Transilvany to his brother Christopher Battori who not finding the House of Austria favorable to him because his brother Stephen in the election of Pole was preferred to Maximilian the second was forced to seek support at Constantinople This was a most vertuous Prince who having suppressed the boldness of Bekez who endeavored to supplant him reigned gloriously till his death which put him in his grave 1581. To him succeeded his son Sigismund being yet a child Stephen Battori his Uncle King of Pole having appointed him three Tutors sowed jealousie amongst them which gave him shortly occasion to thrust them all three out and to put the person and affairs of his Nephew in the hands of John Geczi Governor of Varadin This was a gallant and an orderly Gentle man who quickly made himself known to be a man of courage as well as conduct Scarce had he laid his hands on the reins of the Government of his pupils Estate when King Stephen dyes in the year 1586. The powerful factions which bandied one against another in Pole for the election of a new King gave Geczi an opportunity to show what worth was in him He joyned his forces with these of Samoisky who favoured Sigismund of Sweden against Maximilian of Austria his Competitor who was beaten taken and forced to quite his pretensions to the Swed In the mean time the Turk made a fierce war in Hungary against the Emperor Rodolp the second And though the Officers and Commanders of his Imperial Majesties forces were men of sufficient worth and gallantery who sold to the Sultan all the victories he obtained at a very dear rate yet in the year 1595. Sinan Basha Lieutenant General to Selimus reduced to his obedience the admirable fort of Javarin at that time deemed impregnable P. I have heard say that Sinan vaunted that he had brought the Emperor Rodolph to the necessity to beg Peace by the loss of that wonderful strength But Sansovia saith that Sinan lost there fifty thousand men and that a little after the war began again hotter then ever G. The Emperor had too much courage to seek Peace after so considerable a loss He knew he could obtain none but that which would have been exceeding disadvantageous and for that reason he resolved to continue the war and so sought the help of all those who were able to give it and got Sigismund Battori Prince of Transilvany to be of his party This Prince was easily moved to be pertaker of so
great part perished without any stroke of sword and without hindering either the loss of Remin Janos or the establishment of Abafi The Grand Seigneur then seeing Transilvany in his power and that Abafi was firmly enough set in his saddle and obliged to serve him demanded the demolition of Serini's Fort with greater instance then before as also a reparation of the wrong which he alledged was done unto him But the Court could not resolve to grant his desires and therefore without further tergiversation he resolves to do himself reason and make a tryal if his first arms would prove as fortunate as he hoped they should Then he began that war which he prosecutes yet with great vigor and in which all Christendom seems to concern it self I adjure you to consider well all I have hitherto said and then I doubt not but you will be able to judge of the equity of the cause of both parties We must now see in what manner the Turk attacked us in the year 1663. what forces we opposed to his and that which both parties hath done since the beginning of the war that so you may see what grounds we have either for our hopes or our fears P. I should think that his Imperial Majesties interest should have obliged him rather to have demolished the Fort of Serini and to have given the Sultan that satisfaction he demanded then to have entered in a war against him for both Hungary and the Empire stand much in need of Peace and we see but little probability to wrest Transilvany out of the Turks hands which he hath seased upon with some appearance of Justice G If it were permitted us to measure Counsels by their successes we should have just reason to blame the resolution was taken at Vienne But I suppose the Court did believe that these who sate quyet with crost armes all the time that our intestine bloody wars gave them a fair opportunity to attack the Empire would not have the boldness to measure the length of their scimiters with our swords now that we enjoy a wished-for Peace But we have seen the contrare for Mahomet the fourth resolved to begin the war by that rupture which he made after he had kept us long in suspence For to speak truth I doubt not but all his Embassies and the great show he made of moderation was done for nothing else but to amufe us These who were sagacious and pierced deeper then the outside of affaires thought it hie time to make leavies The stupidest could say we ought not to trust these who had no faith The Emperor seeing he would stand in need of help sought it and the manner it was given and received was the only cause that he was not ready when the war was at his doors The Confederates offered considerable troops which they had already on foot but they would continue Masters of them His Majesty thought it an affront to his Imperial dignity to receive them upon that condition The Empire making these same offers and these same demands rencountred with these same difficulties Hence it came that the Grand Visier having advanced to the higher Hungary attaked Newheusel which the Hungarians call Vivar defeated three thousand men who sallied with intention to surprise some of his army sent the prisoners to Constantinople as marks of his victory and at length forced the guarrison to render the Town upon articles and triumphed not a little for the acquisition of this strong place which gave him means to make his courses to the ports of Vienne and to waste and harrass the frontiers of Germany P. I have heard already of the loss of Newheusel and of the Incursions the Tartars made in Moravia But I know not what you mean by the Confederates or what difference you put between them and the Empire Do me the favor to clear me in that and then ye may speak of our forces and the exploits they did after the retreat of the Grand Visier G. The Treaty of Munster which was concluded the 24. of October 1648. having given some Territories to the French some to the Swedes and others to some German Princes All of these were afraid the House of Austria and the Princes thereof might repent that they had bought peace that they might attempt the recovery of these limbs of the Empire which the Treaty had cut from it and that some others might redemand that which they had lost To obviate which considerable inconvenience Cardinal Mazarin perswaded those who had any cause of fear or who loved the quiet and peace of the Empire to make a strict union whereby all of them should be obliged to defend one another mutually in case any of them should chance to be molested in the possession of that which the Treaty had adjudged to belong to him Ten or twelve Princes Ecclesiastical and Temporal and of all these Religions that are permitted within the Empire entered in this League twenty thousand men or thereby being to be intertained by this League for their mutual defence under the command of the Counts of Solms and Hollach each of the Confederates were to contribute for their intertainmēt according to their several proportions The Emperor extreamly displeased with this Confederacy endeavored to dissolve it but not being able to do that he resolved to make his profit by it For this effect seeing himself threatned with a war from the Turk he remonstrates the danger and desires that these forces already on foot should be employed for the defence of the Empire The Confederates consents provided their Army should not be obliged to take any oath but to them and be employed only against the common enemy In the contrare the Emperor desired that these forces should absolutely obey him and that they should be sent to him without any condition at all The business was so long debated that these troops came very late to Hungary whence you may easily judge that though the greatest part of this League be composed of German Princes yet it is accounted to be a thing different from the body of Germany either because some strangers have signed it and contributes to the maintenance of its Army or because the two Kings of France and Sweden who are members of it are more powerful then all the rest of the Confederates together For the present their Army is under the command of Wolfgang Julius Count of Hollach and make a body a part separated from the forces of the Emperor and these of the Empire P. Speak now of these forces which the Visier imployed against us last year and whence it came that the storm was not diverted by a quick conclusion of the Treaty which was then on foot G. That I may satisfie you in order to your demand you may be pleased to know that the Sultan having resolved to cut out work for us sent into Hungary his Great Visier who arrived at Belgrade the eigth of June The Baron of Goes Embassador
appointed to hold at Ratisbone some Princes appeared in person and the rest by their Embassadors There might a man behold the magnificence of our Germany for though the Emperor had intreated the Princes to come without pomp yet nothing was to be seen but that which was glorious and splendid Many old Officers came and presented their swords to the Emperor and these Princes who had been accustomed to smell powder offered themselves to be disposed of as his Majesty thought fit The number and known deservings of these who pretended to be Commanders took away the liberty of choyce from the Emperor as the variety of flowrs doth with Ladies when they walk in a garden in the month of May. But there was a necessity to choose some for the new levies that were to be made His Imperial Majesty having already three Armies under the Command of the Earls of Serini Montecuculi and Souches thought it expedient by the addition of some more Officers to render them more able to act To this end without making any change of the inferior Officers and leaving the supreme Command of the three Armies to these three Earls he adjoyned Philip Prince Palatine of the branch of Sultsback and Count Spar who are persons of great merite and high reputation The first was to command his Majesties Cavallery in the quality of Captain General and the second was to conduct his Infantery and his Canon Leopold William Marquess of Baden was to be Captain General in Chief of the Army of the Empire Under him Count Fugger Governor of Jngolstadt commanded the Infanetry and Ulrich Duke of Wirtemberg was General of the Cavallery John Adolph Duke of Holstein and Gustave Adolph Marqucss of Baden served in that same Army in quality of Mareshals of the field the one for the horse the other for the foot The Army of the Confederates having lost the Prince of Solms a little before the beginning of this war was ever since under the command of Wolfgang Julius Count of Holach or Hohenlo who had under him Officers and Sojors of good account and reputation Count Serini commanded an Army of Hungarians and Cravats who were very numerous Count Souches had a flying Army with which he made incursions in the enemies Countrey and defended our Frontiers and obtained with it frequent victories He took Neutra and Levens in the beginning of the Campagn and fell upon the camp of these Turks who were endeavoring to regain these two places that they might the more easily come into Germany By this action he layd six thousand Turke in the dust and put five and twenty thousand to flight whereby he much encouraged all the rest of the Christian forces P. I would gladly know the number of the sojors of whom these Armies were composed by whom they were leavied by whom they were intertained and by whom they were furnished with provisions and amunitons without which they could not subsist G. Armies are ever more numerous in paper then in the field so that I cannot certainly tell you the strength of ours but they say the Army of the Empire consisted of four and twenty thousand and that of the Confederates of twenty thousand The Emperor was said to have in Montecuculies Army twelve thousand light horse seven thousand Curassiers and eighteen thousand foot In that of Count Serinis there were between five and twenty and thirty thousand Cravats and Hungarians In the Count of Souches Army were ten or twelve thousand men of several Nations If ye adde to all these the Voluntaries and French Auxiliaries which amounted to four thousand horse and as many foot you will find that the number of all our forces far exceeded one hundred thousand men so many the Christians have not had in the field in a long time and which might seem to be of sufficient strength to chace the Turk out of Hungary And it is probable they would have proved able enough for it if all these several bodies had acted with one Spirit or that there had been one Generalissimo of such a quality that all the rest of the Generals should have been obliged to pay him respect because of his birth and to give him obedience because of his charge If then our misfortune was such as that our Armies suffered our strong places to be taken by the enemy we must attribute it to the want of order and to the hatred that was amongst the several Nations whereof our Armies were composed As to the rest of your demand the Princes then at Ratisbone when it was resolved to assist the Emperor every one promised to do according to the proportion of his Revenue and Estate And in the mean time every one levied sojors who were entertained at the charges of those who raised and sent them But it was necessare notwithstanding that the Emperor should make Magazines from which all the Armies might be furnished with munitions both for the belly and the war And certainly if the orders of his Imperial Majesty had been well observed the forces had wanted for nothing For every Prince Lord and Commonwealth being careful to send that pay each to his own as was promised it is more then probable the souldiers had been well enough entertained and so nothing to have been wanting but the spirit of union to have made them act with success It is true that as the great body of the Empire moves but slowly so the troops came too late to the Rendezvous and Canisia was relieved by the enemy before our forces were together P. The Gazets assured us that the Forts of Serini Little Comorra Vesprin and Papa were taken in the very sight of our armies and that these who were stoutest were apprehensive the Visier would have followed his good fortune further G. Ordinarily victories and losses are followed by others of that nature and the one increaseth the other abates the courages of men The Grand Visier having retired to Constantinople after the taking of Newhausel caused attack the Earls of Serini and Hollach They having repulsed the enemy with a notable loss breathed after nothing but conflicts and victories In effect these brave men taking the advantage of the Bashas retreate run over a part of Hungary which belonged to the Turk took and plundered Raboska Segues and five Churches burnt the Bridge of Ezek carried the terror of their name throughout all the Countrey and burnt to ashes all the corns hay and straw which the enemy had on the border of the river Drave The fame of these victories spred it self over all the Empire gave great reputation to the Generals inflamed the courage of their soldiers filled their purses with money and furnished them with abundance of proviant whereof they stood in need These two Earls seeing affairs look with so favorable an aspect sought the means to lead them to victory they went to Ratisbone and proponed some military exploits made it known that the Bridge of Ezek could not be rebuilded till the