by Ladislaus the Third who applying himself to the Reformation of the Government and the Lawes unhappily dyed in the 6 month after his Inauguration ANDREW the second for his vertue was next advanced to the Regal Dignity He sadly affected with the discomfitures of the Christians went himself Generalissimo into the Holy Land and passing into Asia overthrew the Sultan Abubeker sirnamed Seyseddine and the Successor of Saladine He took also Damiata and forced the Sultan to retreat to Caire where he breathed out his unhappy Soul Nor was it doubted but that his victories would entitle him to the Holy Land the Christians being both in the field and in the Seige far superiour until the Nile overcame them for the Sultan breaking down the banks on both sides the River swelling to its usual heigh overflowed into their Camp whereupon pressed with hunger also overwhelm'd with misery they capitulated for their permission of departure with the surrender of Damiata Andrew bringing thence instead of Victory the heads of St. Stephen and Margaret the right hands of benedict Thomas Bartholomew part of the rod of Aaron and one of the Water-pots wherein Christ wrought his miracle of Wine These things the Hungarian Writers with intrusive Piety mainly defend Others say that he passed no further then Iordan and having washt himself thrice therein as accounting himself disobliged from his vow returned home His Justice was very remarkable in that he justified Bancbanus his Deputy in his absence who had slain his Queen for that she had prostituted his Wife to her vitious Brother who came to visit her He forgave the Venetian injuries made excellent Lawes and vested a negative power in the Nobles to what should be enacted without their Consent By Gertrude he had three Sons Bela Coloman and Andrew and Elizabeth his Daughter not to be passed for her eminent Piety without honourable mention she was married to the Landgrave of Hesse who dying in the Holy Land she betook her self to a Monastery and was five years after her death canonized by Pope Gregory the Ninth at which Consecration was present at Marpurg Frederick the Emperour with divers other Princes vvith a Conflux of 12 nundred thousand persons BELA the 4th of that name was saluted King while his Brother Coloman having expelled Daniel seized the Government of Halicia and Lodomiria himself being wholy addicted to Peace and quiet but herein fortune failed him for the Tartars whose original described something largely by my Author but not to our present purpose we must here omit with whom joyned the Cumani expelled by the same Tartars from their seats aâ—d habitations in 1238. by humble intreaties and profession of Christian Religion after they had been denyed entrance or entertainment in Russia having been admitted into Hungary by the Kings single consent proved the first part of the ruine of that Kingdom for the Hungarians offended with their peremptory carriage and finding little redresse ar Court fell â—pon them of a sudden and killed their King Kuthenes who being thus provok'd kill slay and burn whatever they came near and at last joyned themselves to the Tartars whose Invasion being rumoured before was imputed to some design of the Kings to keep the Hungarians in peace with the Cumani Now whilest Peta one of the Tartarian Generalls ravaged Poland Moravia and Silesia as Cadon another of their Captains did Russia the Emperour Bathuy Chan overthrew the Palatine of Hungary deserted of his people at Russe-Port and utterly crushed the Arch-Bishop of Colozza in a moorish ground and laid wast all the Countrey as far as Vacia and passing fâ—rther totally defeated and vanquished Bela striving in vain with the discords negligence and hatred of his Subjects Nothing remained to him in all Hungary but Alba Regalis Strigonium and the Monastery of St. Martins nor was the multitude of the slain by weapons smoak and clouds raised by Magick Art to be computed Three years the Tartars continued this ruine searching in the Woods and Caves for the miserable Inhabitants others with feigned letters they allured from their hiding places all which they slew so that the stench of the dead Carcasses caused a Plague and mortality as a Famine was occasioned by the devastation of the Countrey By which means the Tartars were forced to abandon that Kingdome carrying away with them an inumerable Company into intollerable slavery The Pope endeavoured to Christianize this savage Nation and Bathuy Chan did grant a Truce and Protection to the Monks as Mango was converted yet the other Leaders seeing the vices of the Christians chose rather the Mahometan Infidelity The Tartars thus departed Bela by the aid of the Knights of St. Iohn of Ierusalem who from the Faction of Rome had retired themselves into Illyria where he had weathered this storm others of the Crusado who were frequent in those parts of Croatia and Dalmatia and the like assistance of the Frangipans received again his desolate Kingdome with his four Sons whom he had deposited in the Fortresse of Clissa But no sooner was he seated then a just occasion led him against Frederick the Emperour who under pretence of sheltring him had rob'd him of his Treasure but expiated that fraud by a just force which vanquished him at Nova a City of Austria whereby Bela gained all his enemies wealth began to revive the drooping spirits of the Hungarians which while he intended by other alleviaments the Bohemian War recalled him for Primislaus that King the great friend of the Emperour Otho so that he was called Ottho Caâ—rus having married the Widow of â—rederick attempted the recovery of Styria and Austria not long possessed A fierce and cruell Battel was thereupon joyned in Moravia where the Hungarians inferiour in number and exhausted with the late War were overthrown and a peace made upon these conditions that the Bohemians should enjoy Austria and the Hungarian stand seized of Styria STEPHEN the fifth swayed the Hungarian Scepter though not long yet very gloriously for he Revenged his Fathers discomfiture upon Ottocarus though at first he vvas worsted afterwards he made an expedition against the Bulgarians people of the Dacia Aureliana so called for that Emperors Transplanting them in Maesia from the new Dacia made them willing to pay that Tribute which was due to his Predecessors He reigned but 2 years leaving Hungary in a thriving condition LADISLAUS the fourth the Son of Stephen succeeded and was scarce 3 monethâ— old in the Government when a new War succeeded the former as if Fortune had so ordered it that the Bohemian having ill used the 2. Kings Bela and Stephens should satisfie for his Injuries to the third King Ladislaus Moravia was the Cause of the War wherein Ottocarus outstretched his bounds very immoderately It was long consulted hereupon by the Hungarians how they should counâ—erplot or oppose these encâ—oachments when the Fates of themselves opened a Way The Princes of the Empire vvhile they
away her Dower reputed a just judgement on her pillaged his people and murthered his Nobles whereupon ensued a Conspiracy against him which prevailed so that the Kingdome was transferred to Abas and the Counsellors and Partakers of Peters exorbitances slain by the popular rage Peter escaped to Henry the Emperour who knowing him guilty of the defection of the Bohemians forbad him his Presence and cast him into Chains but by the intercession of Albertus General of the Eastern limits and Caesar's own generous Sentiments for a person descended of a Royal Family He was soon after taken into favour ABAS was substituted in his place by whom all Peter's Acts were rescinded and the Kingdome seemed to have recovered its former dignity except that Peter claimed it as Hereditary and Abas that would command others was a Vassal to his own passions The first thing he did was by an Embassie to explore the mind of the Emperour concerning Peter but receiving dilatory answers he made 2 invasions the one into Bavaria where his Army and General were defeated the other into Styria and Carniola whence he carried away a great many Captives This gave occasion to the Princes of Germany to assemble at Colen and by unanimous Resolution there taken to invade Abas which enterprise so succeeded that Abas beaten in two Battles and having lost all his Country as far as the River Gran beyond Pre burgh was forced to a submission by which he was bound to receive Gisala the banished Queen to restore Austria and other places with the late Captives which Articles he stood not to but spighting his Nobles as the occasion of his Misfortunes under the pretence of convening them for Advice most treacherously flew them and their Children but this the more incensed others just indignation so that the remains of them escaping to the Emperor engaged him and Peter against Abas At Raab a signal Battel was commenced where by the revolt of Abas his Army by which they satisfied for their former Defection from Peter Abas was forced to fly and in the pursuit slain at Sheba as a Victime and Sacrifice to the Ghosts of his murdered Nobility PETER was again restored by the Emperour who in triumphal progresse rounded all Hungary and having received the Royal Dignity by the election of the Bishops assembled at Alba transferred it to Peter who returning to the same vitious and cruel Excesses neither mindful of his past nor provident of his future fortunes provoked the Hungarians under two Captains Visca and Brunna to another Combination and Rebellion against him but the design being timely discovered the chief Complices were most miserably tortured Yet the Sedition abated not for by another Conspiracy inflamed by a general hatred against Christian Religion scandalized by their Kings enormous lives the Hungarians privily sent for Andrew and Leventa according to the advice of King Stephen out of Poland whither they had been banished These lurking for a while at Newhausel now so called by the river Nitre and assisted by the inhabitants wreaked their revenge designed against the King upon the Religion massacring a great number of Bishops then assembled at Pesth Peter presently thereupon being forsaken of his own was drawn out of his hiding place in the Mossonian Grounds and after his eyes were put out had his privities cut off which disgraceful maims he survived three years So when prudence is wanting to the first fortune the future is alwayes most dangerous ANDREW succeeded in the year of Christ 1047 He repressed the innovated superstition and punished with the sword or banishment such as had assisted him to Victory in his irreligious Cruelty Henry the Third Emperour then engaged in a Papal War in Italy between Benedict the 9 and Sylvester the third and Clement the Second whom he placed at last in St. Peters Chair being no way at Leisure to attend Hungary but that at last by his power determined he resolved to revenge the injury done to Peter invading first the Southern parts of Hungary but was forced to retreat by the overflowings of the Lakes and Rivers the next expedition was by water where he was worsted by a Stratagem the last by water and land but with as had successe having advanced so far and streightned for provisions that he was forced to desire license and leave to return A peace ensued this kindnesse and as a pledge thereof the Emperour gave his Daughter in marriage to Solomon the Son of Andrew now confirmed in the succession to the Crown BELA the brother of Andrew by whom he was made Duke of Pomerania and had hitherto lived in great Concord with him to the aggrandizing the Hungarian Felicity and a little before appointed by him to the Kingly Government could not brook this his Nephews advancement over his head assisted therefore by many of the Hungarians and aided by the Poles as Solomon by Germany and â—ohemia by the Interest of Andrew besides his standing Legions an engagement enâ—ed at the River Tibiscus with various fortune untill the Hungarians in detestation of the Christian Religion and in revenge of the suppression of Paganisme by Andrew revolted to Bela who thereby became Master of the Field Andrew flying was trod down in the pursuit Bela used his victory with great clemency freely giving life to the Rebels and dismissing the German Prisoners Ransome free and applying himself to the Government appointed Markets and rates of things lessened the Taxes and Impositions Money being not as yet known He repaired and new built several places suppressed the Peasants and Boores tumulting against the profession of the Christian Religion by sudden force and though he gained the Kingdome by violence and injury yet he governed it with piety and justice and in the year 1065. the Third year of his Reign by a kind of Earthquake at the Town of Demes which disjointed every part and Member of him he dyed SOLOMON within a month after his Death was seated in his Throne by the power of the Emperour Geysa and Ladislaus the Sons of Bela despairing of equal resistance flying for refuge into Poland but the German Forces returning home they resumed courage prevailing with Boleslaus the King of Poland to derive the friendship contracted between their Father and himself to them his Sons Boleslaus owing so much to the merit of the Father entred Hungary with them but by the Mediation of the Archbishop of Strigonium a Peace was happily concluded between them on condition that Geysa and Ladislaus should with the Title of two Dukes enjoy a third part of the Kingdome but the Soveraignty should abide in Solomon This agreement with some grudging suspicions lasted till Solomon by the Assistance of the Dukes took Belgrade the rich spoils whereof a fourth part being only allowed the Dukes by the advice of one Vidus caused such a Rupture that both had present recourse to Arms. The first Encounter proved disastrous but the second
Turks as far as the Territories of Varadin then in division by civil broyles having endangered Belgrade by mastering two of the Bulwarks For which reasons Vladislaus was induced to make peace with Maximilian though upon very dishonourable terms by yielding Austria Carinthia Carniola and Styria seized and possessed by Matthias and delivering some Castles of Croatia and Sclavonia in lieu whereof Caesar restored him unto places taken this war in Hungary upon condition of his succession as was accorded with Matthias At the dyet held thereafter at Buda the Kings marriage with Beatrice was debated but because of her sterility and in submission to the Pontificall Authority she was put by and Ann the Daughter of the Prince of Anjou preferred to his bed In the mean while Bajazet made great preparations both by Land and upon the Ister for an Invasion of Hungary which caused double Garrisons to be put into the frontier Towns of Severinum Sabaczia and Iaycia and an Army of 60 Thousand men under the conduct and supreme command of Kinisius to be instantly levyed Bajazet came first to Sophia then to Hadrianople by leisure but dared not enter Hungary whither he dispatched Dandes Bassa to Uscopia while he diverted to Maxastinum designing upon Albania and meditating a Truce with Uladislaus which was accorded to neverthelesse respecting more the utility then the faith of the agreement he sent away two Bassa's the one into Valachia the other to beseige Severinum the former was vanquished by that Vayvod and the other by Kinisius who also horribly slaughtered those ravenous pillaging Bohemians whom he had appointed for the guard of the Confines against that Enemy Iohannes Corvinus likewise valiantly repulsed the Turk from Iaycia but wearied with the refractory pride of the Frangepanes and other Noblemen resigned his Government of Bosnia Chroatia and Dalmatia in whose place Emericus Drencenus was substituted by the King who repressed the insolence of those Grandees now seeking for protection from the Turks which occasion being welcome to Iacup Aga he presently made an Incursion into the limits of Carinthia and Carniola and carried away a great prey and spoil by the Confines of Germany when Drencenus having reconciled Frangepanes with a sufficient Army for number encountred him but Frangepanes again revolting the Hungarians were totally routed and Drencenus himself taken Prisoner This losse as is usuall in such cases was imputed to the sloth of the King by the Nobles when their base covetousnesse was the onely cause of it the Kings revennue being hardly able to maintain the expence of his Family as became the Dignity of a King which poverty proceeded meerly from his honesty and begat such a contempt of his Authority that he could not make the Palatine desist from the seige of one of Corvinus his Castles till the noble youth himself revenged the injury and he was the rather thus slighted because of his ignorance in the Hungarian tongue answering nothing but Well well to what ever story In the mean while Kinisius repaired this late losse by an expedition with 10000. men into Mysia where he took two Castles the one of them by the exemplary courage of a Chroat who alone maintained the rampire against the Enemy till his Fellows came to his assistance as by another Irruption into Servia having animated the King to a more vigorous prosecution of the War and brought him upon that account to Petri Varadin whence Kinisi with 14000 men wasted and harrassed all the Turks Country as far as the Suburbs of Synderovia with such a terrour that even Constantinople it self trembled for fear of his approach This noble person survived not long after being in reference to the present state of affairs another Huniades dying also like him of a Feaver He so abhominated and resented the Turkish barbabarities that he always retaliated upon them in a severer manner of Torture and punishment At last the King took courage by the good advice of his friends and Councellors and by force of Arms reduced and tamed those Seditious Grandees of Chroatia the chief of whom were Peter Arch-bishop of Colocza and Laurence Duke of Syrmia in whose Country the Kings Steward had been killed this last he dispossessed of all his Castles and imprisoned at Buda newly before pardoned at the dyet there by which means all those troubles were composed and a three years Truce confirmed by Selymus who had wrested the Turkish Empire from his father Bajazet which added something more to the Kingdomes Welfare About this time dyed Iohn Corvinus his Widdow intermarrying with George Marquesse of Brandenburgh followed by Peter Gereb the Palatine in whose Place came Emericus Perenyi and Stephen Vayvod of Moldavia a person famous next Matthias for his services against the Turk and Tartars in whose room succeeded Bogdanus At Buda a consult was managed by the Faction of Zapolianus or Iohn Scepusius the Vayvod and the Eloquence of Verbeczius of forbidding the Crown to be ever conferred on Forraigners as the Siculi rebelled the same time and killed the Collector of their dues to the King but the Authors were severely punished by Paulus Tomoraeus Nor ever were the Hungarians more deceived then in this Truce made with Selymus relying whereon they became defencelesse for on a sudden all the Country as far as the River Dravus where it joyns with the Danow was laid wast and desolate To second this Calamity the Countreymen and Boors rebelled against the Nobility and for the greater enforcement of their designs joyned themselves with the Forces raised by Thomas the Arch-bishop of Strigonium against Bajazet's Invasion at the instinct of the Pope to keep the War out of Italy at the charge of Hungary There being now upon the Peace again no use for these religious Souldiers they began to be burdensome to the Noblesse and admitted of the Peasants as their Associates by and of these no lesse then 70000 are reported to have been slain in the space of four moneths by which the sanctity of these Crusado men may be guessed at At last Iohn the Vayvod tamed this wicked Crew by intollerable Famine and gave them the head of their Captain one George Szekheli notable formerly for his Valour for food and victual Vladislaus to make up a stricter League with the House of Austria journyed now to Vienna where he had conference with Sigismund of Poland and Maximilian by whom Mary his Neice by Philip was betrothed to Lewis Ladislaus his Son and Mary his Daughter to Charles or Ferdinand with a Condition of succession in case of no Issue against this contract and this last clause Perinyi objected and though lame caused himself to be carried through the Streets of Presburg where he noysed his Dissent and refusal and the Invalidity of the Match as done without his principally and the Nobles Consent but being won by the grant of the Office of Crown-keeper just as he should have subscribed the Instrument he Died. In
just before solemnized the Birth-day of his onely Son Iohn Sigismund The civil War which had been laid by the intervention of Treaties now by the death of one of the Treating parties broke out again Essecius and Verbeczius the Administrators having recommended their Pupil to the Tuition and Guardianship of Solyman brought forth a Banner the Staff of Honour and Scymitar the Ensignes of his Investiture in the Kingdome when they were indeed the Badges of Slavery and so counted and derided by other men As to Ferdinand he now thought it seasonable while yet the Peace was observed by his Ambassadors and Heraulds to try the mind of the Turk and the Queen willing rather to reduce the Kingdom by fair means than by blood-shed and War But understanding that Lascus his Orator with Solyman was by him Imprisoned and nothing to be effected there and that the Count of Salms was meerly delayed by Isabel the Queen he proceeded to open Hostility Leonard Felsius his General reducing Vissegrade Vaccia and Pesth but his attempt upon Buda the discord arisen between his Germans and Hungarians and their private Conferences with their Country-men unluckily disappoynted More effectual was the Eloquence of Perenyus who being brought over to Ferdinand's side by Szegessus his Ambassador at the Wedding of King Iohn where he set forth the Power and Fortune of Charles the Emperour now carried with him Alba Regalis to the German party Nor was the Turk lesse active and stirring Mahomet Amurath and Usref coming in the depth of Winter to the Assistance of George Monaâ—hus who from the King's Fire-maker or â—eweller was advanced to the highest Dignities and Peter Petrovitius assigned Guardians by the Testament of Iohn to his Son Sigismund and presently attaqued Pesth but by the Valour of Fotiscus and Speciacassius whose vigorous Salleys the Turkish Camp could not endure they were repelled with great Losse This so encouraged Ferdinand that Rogendorf was sent to besiege Buda which Monachus and his adherents had re-fortified and made good the Walls and Bulwarks with needful reparations and now Countermined the besiegers when Thomas Bornemisza the Provost of the Town and Peter Palcianus proffered to deliver it to Revayus the time and place appointed none but Hungarians for the better concealing the Designe to be engaged in it All things thus fairly laid and the General cocksure of the Town Fortune shewed him what presumption and mistrust can do in the juncture of the greatest Military Affairs For he diffident of the Hungarians and relying upon the constancy of the Germans aâ— the hour and place agreed on clapt them into the City who being betrayed by their Tongue were fallen upon by those who would have been their friends in Peace so numbers of them slain and the rest repulsed Nor did their ill fortune stay here for Mahomet and Ulumas Bassa of â—osnia after a Naval Encounter while he loytered before Buda landed upon him and over-threw his Army when Speciaâ—acassius from Pesth fell upon the Victors and abated the dishonour of the Day by a like slaughter and terrour brought upon the Enemy but yet so that the fame of Solyman arrogated to it self the Victory for that Rogendorf wounded with a Pole and flying for fear died with grief and heartlesse his Fleet made shift to escape but his Land Forces were wholly lost Solyman was now in person again in Hungary as a token of his affection to the young King presented his Mother with a Babylonish Garment and Jewells of inestimable value as he did her Son with Horses richly Trapped desiring him to be brought into his Camp which request was observed as a Command whither being come Valentinus Tercock one of his prime Councellors a man of a various and inconstant mind was secured the Child and the rest of his retinue was returned to his Mother Verbeczius Authour of this Counsel of Solyman's Protection survived not long after but troubled in Conscience with the evil thereof gave notable proof of his hearty repentance In conclusion Solyman by an Instrument conferred Transylvania Lippa and Temeswar to the Queen and his Pupil when he swore by God Mahomet his own Head and Sword that he would render Buda to the Young Prince in which City he now placed Solyman Bassa for Governour in his own Right and Title The Queen guided by the necessity of the Times or afraid to dispute the businesse accepted of the Conditions and quitted Buda ever since remaining in the Turkish power as the Metrapolis of what they hold in Hungary where Solyman gave Audience to the Counts of Salms Herbensteyn Ferdinand's Ambassadors of whom he insolently demanded that their Master should presently yeild Hungary to him as his Benefactour and pay him a Tribute for Austria It was bootlesse to make any reply to â—uch a formidable Neighbour for that the Hungarians being deceived with this ostentation and Shew of their King and by their own means disabled from resistance were not to be considered or relyed upon The Policy of Solyman being herein agreeable to that of other Potentates who to dissolve the present State pretend the Interest of the natural and rightful Princes not that they should Govern or have any Authority but themselves having once gained the People by such Arts make not nice to retain them in subjection by the extremest rigour and Violence as having a pretended good Right by their former voluntary Complyance and addresse to their auxiliary Arms. The losse of Buda put all Germany into a Trepidation as apprehending the vicinity of the danger At Spire and Ratisbone two Aids were readily decreed Maurice the young Duke of Saxony offering his Service with some voluntier Troops at his own Charge and raising Perenyus had got together Fifteen thousand Hungarians and Paul the third sent Three thousand Men under the Command of Medigius afterward Pope Pius the fifth and Alexander Vitellius Nor were Ferdinand's Forces of his own levying fewer in number Ioachim of Brandenburg being Constituted Generalissimo This was in the Year of our Lord 1542. when Solyman by his Generals Ulumas Amurath and others timely opposed his Arms. Pesth was the first place of Encounter which Vitellius Sforza Palavicinus having besieged by a Stratagem of a sudden flight thence the Turks were brought by the ambuscadoes of Perenyus into an inclosure Here the Turks desperation show'd its victorious Effect though repressed by Maurice and the Courage of Count Nicholas Serini's Men Pesth was hereupon reattempted upon the point of Surrender when the Germans failed Vitellius and through the ill Conduct or faint-heartednesse of Ioachim were upon their retreat and departure Perenyus was at the same time secured in Neustria as well for his present ambition upon the Crown as his former designs of revolting to the Enemy This Enterprize upon Pesth Solyman vowed to revenge to gratifie which his Chief Commanders resolutely took in several Towns and among other
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 Buâ—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 Uschockâ— 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 Vâ—â—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