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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18686	The estate of Christians, liuing vnder the subiection of the Turke And also the warres betweene the Christians and the Turke, beginning 1592. and continuing till the end of 1593.		1595 (1595)	STC 5197; ESTC S109838	7,879	26

on thē for their insulting perfidious brauery their malitious rancor and cankred spite Well do we know O Lord that our owne pride ambition hatred ciuill discord and what not doeth crie vp vnto heauen for iust punishment and abundance of wrath and worlds of vengeance to fall vpon vs for our detestable wickednes But yet ô God whose mercie is greater than the sea is deepe or heauen high or the world wide as being in deede infinite if not for our sake yet for thine owne glories sake pardon vs and take from our shoulders the heauy burthen of thine anger and indignation we not being able to conceiue the vnmeasurable greatnes of the punishment which our sin deserueth much lesse to beare it For thy honors sake and most glorious deserts of thy sonne our Lord and the worldes true son Iesus Christ deface the enemies of his Gospell eclipse their vanting ouerthrow their proud ostentations of worldly pomp and roialtie Let them know that thou art the God of heauen and earth and art pleased with nothing but with the true worship of thy onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ that all pompe pride and glorie without him is basenes and vaine folly yea wretchednesse and miserie Defend thy Church ô Lord and let thy people most victoriously triumph ouer thy enemie plant thy truth in all parts of the world that thy mercie glory may ouershade the earth and all the inhabitants therof sing praise honor vnto thy name among all nations and countries from age to age world without end Amen FINIS THE VVARRES BETWEENE THE Christians and the Turke LONDON Printed by IOHN WOLFE 1595. THE VVARRES BETWEENE THE Christians and the Turke THe yeere 1592 Hazan Bassa of Bossena beeing Generall of the Turkes going out of Bossena into Croatia sodainly besieged within a while toke the towne and Castell of Wihitz the which had now 150. yeeres bene a strong and sure defence for the Christians in that Countrie against the Turkes who after the taking thereof in fewe dayes built a blocke-house and a bridge a litle way of vpon the riuer Calapis which being done they burned and spoiled all the Countrie ouer between Calapis and Sauus This soddaine assaulte of the Turke stroke great feare into the minds of the Austrians and Germanes But Thomas Erdeud the Ban of Sclauonia that hee might defend his owne Countrie Thuropoly from these inuasions mustering his owne forces and getting certaine aide of the Austrians and other his neighbours incamped himselfe right ouer against the forte of Patirnia which as earst I sayd the Turkes had lately builded with the bridge There he expected further supply of men and munition from the kingdomes of Sclauonia and Croatia Which things Hazan Bassa being certified of by a trechour a familiar of the Ban aforesayd retired by the neerest waie and sodainly assalted the christians who as yet knew not well what the number furniture of the enemies were He came on the rereward with a huge power the horse men being put to flight he slaughtered the infanterie and chiefly the Austrians and so became master of their ordinance Then marched he forward without impeachment thorough all Thuropoly and alonge the most populous bankes of Calapis and Sauus where hee gaue vnto death and vnto bondage worse than death about foure thousand men Hee thought also to haue beene master of the castle of Sissek scituate at the concurrent of the two riuers Calapis and Sauus because it was a fit place for passage into Austria Carinthia and Carniota a thing which had sometimes afore bene attempted but then hee was nobly repulsed by the rare worth of Nicholas Miccatius the gouernour and the singular valour of the garrison souldiers so that after a fewe idle assaultes hee was forced to giue it ouer In Summer this present yere 1593. Aazan Bassa with certaine of the Sangiacbeges whereof hee hath nine vnder his commaunde returning to the besiege of Sissek first razing Treschina a castle of the Bishop of Zagabria came before it about the beginning of Iune hauing made many breaches by continuall battery night daie there was now no hope of safetie for the beleaguered vnlesse God beyond all thought had succoured them For although Casars troupes which were now mustered of the Austrians and the borderers thereabouts were much fewer than the Turkes yet the Ban of Sclauonia and Auers Pergius and Rupertus Ekenberger diuers other nobles amongst whom was Melchior Reder Baron of Silesia a man famous both for learning and martiall affaires hauing the leading of them When they behelde and sawe the Christians besieged and brought to such distresse with heroike worth and resolute courage bringing first their armie into Sissec they sallyed out on the Turkes who had made a bridge ouer Calapis and pitched theyr Tentes both on this and that side of the Riuer they put them to flight that were on this side of the riuer making themselues masters of a parte of the bridge they cut it downe so that this part of the Turkes armie coulde not retire to the other they still perished and driue the retiring Turkes euen to the riuer who rather committed themselues to the mercie of the water than to the mercie of the victours The other that were on the other side of the water quite amazed by this slaughter of their fellowes committed their safetie to their feete There were drowned in the riuer Hazan Bassa aforesaid with his brother and Sinam Beg or president of Clista the sonne of Amurathes the Turkes sister and Memy Beg or president of Hertzegouin which was the chiefe Citie of highe Bossina sometime a Dukedome as Bagnia Luca the seate of Bassa was the Metropolis of the kingdome of base Bossina Amurath the Turke was so grieued with this ouerthrowe wherein his sisters sonne and the Bassa of Bossinas selfe with many other valiaunt men were either slaine or drowned in Calapis that partly through the wofull lamentations of his sister who at his feet desired reuenge of her slain sonne and partly by the perswasion of Sinam Bassa and partly for the disdaine and griefe of the aforesayde ouerthrowe hee presently denounced open warre vpon Rodolph the Emperor and made Mahumet Bassa of Temes warre Deputy of Bossena Croatia with authoritie to prosecute the warre and caused the Deputie of Greece to aide him with an armie and commanded the Bassa of Buda and the rest to put garrisons in the castells of the frontries and to be at the command of Sinam Basshau of Vesirian whom he sent as his lieutenant generall into Hungarie Now the Christians after the Turkes ouerthrow at Sisek taking respite for two moneths began at last though too late to besiege the castle Petrinia neere to Hrastowiz vpon Calapis which the Turks had fortified the yere before for hearing by a Turk a spie who came voluntary vnto them and so at his pleasure went a waie that the Deputie of Greece marched thether though the Turkes in the Castle