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A49902	Memoirs of Emeric count Teckely in four books, wherein are related all the most considerable transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, from his birth, anno 1656, till after the Battel of Salankement, in the year 1691 / translated out of French.; Histoire d'Emeric, comte de Tekeli. English	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1693 (1693)	Wing L822; ESTC R39725	143,365	368

MEMOIRS OF EMERIC Count Teckely In Four BOOKS Wherein are related all the most considerable Transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from his Birth Anno 1656 till after the Battel of Salankement in the Year 1691. Translated out of French LONDON Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Maiden-head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1693. To the Right Honourable RICHARD Earl of Bellomont Treasurer to Her Majesty My Lord IT seems not unseasonable or improper to publish these Memoires under your Lordship's Protection though Truth needs no Hero to defend her the Beauty of Vertue and generous Spirit of Liberty influenced Your glorious Ancestors and runs still in the Veins and Blood of your Self and Noble Family 'T is this sublime Character that shines so bright in most of the Greek and Latin Writers this Purity and Majesty of Thought Stile and Action elevated the Ancients far above our Level and rendred them such noble Monuments to Posterity that at this Day they carry the highest Value and the greatest Reputation Whereas in the late Ages we have so far degenerated from the Candor and Sincerity of those Learned Authors that either Sects in Religion Factions in the State or other private Interests or Rewards have made Men deviate so far from the old Rules of History that the greatest part of the Modern is more like Romance design'd to please some sorts of Readers more than to profit or teach Mankind Polybius Lucian and others foresaw the many Corruptions that were like to overspread the Writers of History therefore they thought fit to leave behind them some Rules and Methods for preserving its Native Purity My Lord These Memoires of Count Teckely seem free from the aforementioned Deseases of History Methinks there appears in them something of the ancient Air of Thucydides and Livy The Author casts no Mists to mislead his Readers puts on no Mask to deceive the common Eye all here is naked Matter of Fact without any superficial Gloss or Artifice to corrupt the plain simple Truth and therefore the most fit to be dedicated to your Lordship by My Lord Your Lordship 's Most humble Servant THE PREFACE TO THE READER WHEN I first began to read this Book I took up a strong Conceit that it was written by the Order of the French Court of purpose to make the Protestant Princes of Germany jealous of the Emperor and of the Court at Vienna by shewing them how their Brethren had been treated in Hungary both as to their Religion and their Civil Liberties which I believe were the true foundation of this long and dangerous War which brought the Imperial House within an Hair's breadth of Ruin for had the Prime-Visier in 1683 taken Vienna and the French King been called in as in appearance he must to save the rest of the Germans from the Ottoman Yoke the consequence would have been the utter ruine of this Branch of the Austrian Family of the Liberties of Germany and consequently of the Liberty of all Europe and of the Protestant Religion But by considering the Sincerity and Plainness of these Memoires one may conclude there can be no other Design in the Author than to transmit to Posterity pure Matter of Fact If any thing in this World were capable of making a zealous Roman Catholick Prince reflect on the Dangers the Jesuits expose them to for their own Interest this were enough to make all the crowned Heads that shall live hereafter suspect and avoid the precipitate foolish unjust Counsels of this sort of Men. It is true what so much threatned the ruine of the Emperor by a wonderful Turn of the Divine Providence in the event became an Occasion of wresting Hungary intirely out of the Hands of the Turks and the Imperial Forces pursuing their Advantages in the end brought the Ottoman House into the same Danger the Austrian had so happily escaped but then this is owing intirely to the Goodness of God and the Counsels that brought the Emperor into that Danger are as much to be detested as if they had succeeded It is much to be observed that the same Methods that were used in Hungary to ruine the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of that Nation were also imployed after that in France for the same End and began in England Scotland and Ireland in the last Reign and carried as far as they had Time and Means to carry them and by the same Men. So that it seems to be a formed Design intended to be acted in one Place after another throughout Europe It is hard otherwise to conceive how the same Maxims and the same Politicks should be put in execution in such distant Places The first natural Inference that will arise from hence is That we can never enough admire the Goodness of God in Delivering us so timely and so wonderfully out of a Danger which would have certainly prepared England for Ruine if it had been effected But the best Vse of this is to be made by the Non-swearers Let them consider seriously what Treatment the Hungarians have all met with as well those that stuck to the Emperor as those that joined with the Malecontents Let them consider how little the Loyalty of the Protestants of France was considered by the Present French King who had been deposed in his Minority but for them How little the Loyalty of those that had twice saved the late King was regarded either in England or Ireland when they found these Men would not abandon the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of England to them I am morally certain there is no Man in England of any Prudence doth expect any better Treatment from the late King if he should return than they met with before but rather much worse and therefore I am amazed to see so many reputed wise Men stand out against the Present Government and seem to desire nothing more than to put themselves and the Nation into such a Condition as must inevitably end in the Destruction of the late King and the whole Royal Family or the Ruine of the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of England They every Day pester us with Libels against Their Majesties Persons and Government and incurable Scruples of their own but when they come to shew how the Nation should be secured in case they had what they desire never did Men in their right Wits talk more childlishly and impertinently Leaving them as incurable I wish the rest of the Nation would read this little Book and compare exactly in their Minds what was done in Hungary according to the Report of this Author with what was done or apparently intended to be done in England and then I believe the Consequence of it will be a fixed Resolution to spend the last Drop of their Bloods and the last Penny of their Money in the Defence of the Present Government Memoirs on the Life Of EMERIC Count of TEKELI The First Book Containing the History of what has passed

informed by this Declaration that the Turks had not put him to death but they were not in a capacity to help him otherways than with their Wishes and Prayers Thus he tarried a long while about Giula without undertaking any thing It is reported that the Turks fearing that he being weary at last of so many Crosses of Fortune he would reconcile himself to the Emperour got him to be watched so near that he could do nothing but they were acquainted with it Some great Disorders happened a little while after at the Port where the Chiaoux made a new Vizier who had brought up Soliman upon the Throne was treacherously murthered by the Seditious and the Grand Seignior himself was in a eminent danger of being Deposed He could not get off but by appeasing the mutiny'd Troops with a great deal of Money and causing some of the hottest to be strangled He created Vizier Ismal Bacha in the room of the Chiaoux and published every-where that he would go into Hungary at the head of the Armies or at least to Adrianople to be nearer to them and readier to send them the necessary Orders It was ordered in the mean while that all the Preparations should be got ready against the next Campaigne The first thing they did to the Princess Ragotski after her arrival at Vienna was to take away her Children from her and to get them to be brought up in the Romish Religion instead of the Lutheran wherein they had been instructed since their Mother was married to Count Teckely This last having had notice they had carried his Wife to Vienna petitioned for to have leave to write to her which was denied him by the Emperour's Officers Notwithstanding because it was a hard matter to surprize him what measures soever they could take they thought to have found out the means to make him away in corrupting two of his Troops Officers who engaged some Souldiers in their Conspiracy and who had executed it had it not been discovered But they having been betrayed by some amongst them they were all hanged with a Bill wherein one could read these words Traytor to his Prince to his Religion and Country The Army expressed a great Joy that that Plot had been discovered and abused the very dead Bodies of those unfortunate Men. A little while after the Hungarians of St. Job's Garison and many of those that had been at Mongatz came to surrender themselves to him because notwithstanding the Amnisty they were used very ill at all times and that the least Fault in them was punished by Death they perceived there was no trusting upon the Imperialists Promises after having been in Arms against them and that they had forgiven them what was past only till they could find an opportunity to destroy them That Conduct of the Imperialists is the cause that Teckely has not been seen yet without a little Body of Hungarians become irreconcileable to the Germans He was then upon the Frontiers of Transilvania with eight thousand Men and raised some considerable Contributions out of the Neighbourhood in spite of the Imperialists These last would leave wholly Transilvania where Count Caraffa left four thousand Men to hinder Abafti from making a new Treaty with the Port that sollicited him to it a long while In the mean time he drew towards Esseck and a little while after the Garrison of Alba-Regalis destitute of Provisions and Succours and without hope of getting any perswaded the Bassa to surrender himself to some German Troops that intercepted the Victuals coming to them many Months Teckely received this news with Sorrow and the Turks fearing lest he should retire into Poland obliged him to take a new Oath of Fidelity and gave him new Assurances that they would not forsake him In the Month of June he attempted to surprize Chonod without any success On the contrary every thing seem'd to favour the Imperialists and the Elector of Bavaria being the only Commander of the Army during the Sickness of the Duke of Lorrain passed the Save in August and took Belgrade the seventh of the next Month altho' they had got some Succours into it in the beginning of the Siege True it is that that place was not very strong but there were in it almost all that remained of the good Troops the Turks had in Hungary and the Port was very much concerned in the keeping of it The Imperialists having got that Town were in a condition of plundering every where to the very Gates of Adrianople and to render themselves Masters of Servia Bosnia and Bulgaria because there is no other considerable place in those Provinces The Bassa of Bosnia who was a marching with some Troops to come to the Relief of Belgrade not only began his march too late but besides he was defeated by Prince Lewis of Baden who went to encounter him The Grand Seignior whom the Seditions had detained at Constantinople and who was not able to send a considerable Army into the Field had sent before he had the News of the Siege of Belgrade some Envoys to speak of Peace with the Emperor They arrived immediately after the taking of that place and understood by that it was still more necessary to come to some Agreement which they did not think at Constantinople It is very probable it had been soon concluded if the Emperor had not made excessive Demands of the Turks and if these last had not been so much the more incouraged as soon as they knew that Lewis the 14th King of France was at the end of September entered into the Territories of the Empire and had declared a War against the Emperour That made the next Year a great Diversion but because that is a thing that belongs to the general History of the Empire we shall not stick to it We shall say nothing neither of the Enterprize which William Henry of Nassan Prince of Orange performed at the end of that Year in England where after he had re-established the Laws he was made King of Great Britain Yet we must own that made not a little to hinder the Diversion the King of France would have made in favour of the Turks and the Malecontents of Hungary from being so considerable So that tho' the King of France had designed to make an happy Use of the Pretexts which the Rules of good Politicks suggested to him Terms taken out of the Declaration of War of France dated the 24th of September 1688. to prevent the excessive Greatness of the Emperor yet he was obliged to turn the best part of his Troops against England and Holland which hindered him from acting along while against the Emperor with the Forces necessary to make him abandon Hungary Count Teckely having had notice betimes that the French Army had attacked the Empire did not fail to make it known every-where and let the People understand how the King of France was a going to put the Emperour and the Empress into such a Confusion that the