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england_n	france_n	king_n	truce_n	4,090	5	11.7228	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44720	Florus Hungaricus, or, The history of Hungaria and Transylvania deduced from the original of that nation, and their setling in Europe in the year of our Lord 461, to this dangerous and suspectful period of that kingdome by the present Turkish invasion, anno 1664.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1664 (1664)	Wing H3077A; ESTC R32355	145,417	336

Preacher of the Calvinist Faction whose Wife Bathori most leudly loved at the second resolution assaulted slew him in the street of Varadin called Velenze as he was going to the Baths Bethlen was immediately acknowledged by the Transylvanians and confirmed for his presents acknowledgments both by the Turk and Emperour His first Act was the vindication of Bathori's death by the popular fury permitted upon his Assassinates whom he summoned to the dyer with a salvo statu then held at Medgysium At the same time Achmet was ready at Adrianople with an Army to invade Hungary but the Emir of Sidon who derives himself from Godfrey of Bu●loyn gave him a diversion as did the Cossacks plague him in the Euxine Sea by burning 24 of his Galleys and infesting Thracia also by Land but the chief remora of all was His death in the year 1617. Mustapha his brother succeeded him but was presently deposed and Osman Achmets Son aged 16 years was saluted Emperour who survived not long after being strangled by Daout Bassa Not to mention the War now commenced between the Emperour and the Venetians about Pyracies committed by the Uschock● and Chroats upon their Maritine Territories as publick in a discourse by it self which war was managed with great resolution by both parties in Dalmatia and Friuli The event of this unkind war redounded to a good and amicable understanding between Matthias and Ferdinand who was now adopted to the Crown provided that he intermedled not during the life of the Emperour and the next year he was Crowned King of Hungary at which time three Suns appeared denoting the mischeifs if they may be so construed that befell his Dominions in the ensuing War of Bohemia first managed by Ernest Count Mansfeld for the reformed and Count Bucquoy for the Emperour Matthias who wearied with a lingring and continual distemper having lived 62 years and governed Hungary 12 as Germany 7 years deceased with the blessings of a Peace to his Subjects FERDINAN the 2d by the endevours of Matthias being elected King administred the Government Government by many alterations the cause of which changes was the same with the usuall excesses of arbitrary Innovation for he recalled the Jesuits in hatred of the Protestants and very much infringed the Articles of Bocskay which made them have recourse to the Count of Thurn then in Arms near Vienna At the same time the Bohemian Estates prevailing no more as to Liberty of Conscience conferred the Kingdome on Frederick Count Elector Palatine who animated by his Wife the only Daughter of Iames King of England of whose assistance together with the Dutch he was made confident as assured of a nearer help from Bethlen Gabor upon the same account of Religion accepted thereof The Hungarians raised hereupon by Teiffenback thrust themselves into Silesia more intent upon the prey then studious of the cause while Bethlen having repulsed Homonnai who had introduced the Jesuits into Claudiopolis either hung or banished them publishing a Proclamation against the entertainment or reception of any of that Society And now in pursuance of his Confederacy with Frederick the Count Palatine he rushed into Hungary with an Army of 18000 men and 18 great Guns where meeting with a discontented part of the Nobles by the infringment of the abovesaid Articles and strengthned by them he took in Cassovia by his Lieutenants Redei and Szecsi and by fair words cajoled Andrew Docrius the Generall of Upper Hungary by pretence of peace-making into a Captivity in Transylvania wherein he dyed This proceeding so frighted the Jesuits and Friers that they made what hast they could out of his way so many places rendring themselves led by the examples of the Mine Towns of which Rosnoboyana was the first as Fileck V●●zia Tyrnaw Nitria Posing c. that they knew not where to be secure only Comorra and Raab firmly Garrisoned by Austrians withstood his Fortune Part of the Army therefore was employedin an irruption into Moravia the other being joyned with Thurn beseiged Presburgh wherein was the Palatine of Hungary with a small Garrison and some Troops of Bucquoy in the Suburbs the which he presently cut off and thereupon the City yeilded it self with the Crown other regal Ornaments and gave him liberty by the seizure of some interjacent places as Viscetus and Eberstorph to carry the terrour with the sight of his Arms to Vienna But here the misfortune that befell George Rakoczi whom he had left his Vicegerent in Transylvania impeded his further Progresse George Honnonnai a firm adherer to the House of Austria having fled from his late defeat into Poland with a fresh supply thence returned and encountred Rakoczi by whom he was worsted but recruited with present supplies engaged him again which fight had lasted two dayes when Homonnai by the counterfeit of a flight drew him into his ambushes and there discomfited him the foot were all of them slain Rakoczi and the Horse escaped by flight This emergency recalled Gabor from Vienna after he had caused himself to be proclaimed King of Hungary in defyance of Ferdinand and contracted a firmer league with the Bohemians to the designation of higher matters Ferdinand was absent at the diet at Franckfurt when the Bohemians revolted where having complained as also to the Kings of France and England of their insolence he appointed Maximilian of Bavaria his Generall the Duke of Saxony and the Catholick Elector being also made sure to his Interest and besides a truce was concluded on with Gabor to Michaelmasse And now ready for a war in Germany the French suspended it by their interposition at Ulms. That not proving durable Ioachim Ernestus the Marquesse of Anspach was entrusted by Frederick with the charge of the Palatinate and the Government of Heydelberg who being ready to engage with Maximilian was not only diverted and recalled by Spinola's arrivall who took in Oppenheim Baccharach and other places but corrupted also by his Gold although the Prince of Aurange had engaged to his assistance Maximilian freed of this Enemy marched to Prague with an Army of 25 Thousand men attended with Count Bucquoy whose Troops in the night surprized the Hungarians sent to aid the Palatine by Bethlen that were quartered upon the White-hill and carried away 1500 Horses after a great slaughter committed on the Riders This ominous defeat so heightned Maximilian that he dared the Enemy to an engagement against the advise of Bethlen who would have had the Bohemians temporize till he could personally assist them but such was the Palatines fate that a battel ensued wherein at first by the rout of the young Prince of Anhalt the Bohemians seemed to be fortunate but the sudden flight of 8000. Hungarians altered the Case and gave the Imperiallists a compleat victory Frederick with his Princesse fled to Vratislavia and Bohemia as not long after Moravia and Silesia accepted of the Emperours Conditions Bethlen