Conditions understanding at Malevill what had happened to his fellows flew presently to his Arms and breaking open the Gates of the City entred and slew 4000. Hungarians but being pursued by Coloman to avoyd him fell into the hands of the Soldan of Nicia who had an Army of Forty thousand men and lost more by his rashnesse and incogitance than ever he could have gained with his greatest moderation Nor did Godschalk the Preist fare any better for entring Hungary upon the former terms his Souldiers from the affluence of provisions began to riot forgetting the Lawes of Hospitality to abuse their Entertainers To represse this Insolence Coloman made after them to Belgrade with a great Army where ensued a Battel but with such equal Fortune that Coloman having recourse to Policy prevailed upon them under pretences of civility and reconciliation desiring onely the Plunderers to be punished that they confiding in his words disarmed themselves and were instantly when they no way suspected such usage horribly destroyed not one of them being left alive to carry the news of this Massacre The Rear of those Forces arriving at Meersburgh a place encamped with the Danow Lynx and Morasses and ignorant of what had happned to their followes and knowing the agreement made for their passage did wonder to see the Straights shut to them which the King dreading the punishment of his perfidy had so commanded whereupon after a vain message to Coloman they besiged Mâ—ersburgh slew 700. of the Hungarians but just as the Town was brought to the utmost Extremity a Panick-fear seiâ—ed on them whereafter ensued a great slaughter of them the rest saved themselves by â—light But Godfrey of Boâ—â—ign anxious of the losse of those Legions succeeded better for having debated the businesse and received an account of the late slaughter by Godfrey of Ascha he easily perswaded the Hungarians to consent to another passage at an enterview between them to such a firm understanding that Coloman while yet Godfrey was at the said Malevill on the Banks of Saviâ—â— having furnished him also with all manner of Provisions delivered to him his Brother Baldwin whom he had left as Hostage for the performance of the Agreement though Bonfinus reports that the Duke having taken Zemlin opened his way by the Sword and compelled Coloman being too weak to oppose him to consent at last to Passage through his Dominions There followed this Feud a Quarrel between Coloman and his Brother Almus One part of the Kingdome adhered to the King the other to Almus both Armies met at the River Tybiscus by a Town called Varkon where a Truce being concluded on it was further proposed that the two Princes to save the lives of others should determine their own Quarrel by Duel â— Custome then much in use in that Warlike Nation which Coloman refusing the difference was for a while respited and both parties laid down Armes which presently were employed against the Russes but with ill Successe He makes Peace thereupon with the Venetians and in the mean time debaucheth the Fidelity of the Iadrenses their Subjects whom to reduce Ordephalus was Commissioned who recovered Iadra with a bloody slaughter and advanced his Successful Armes as far as Croatia but was at last by Coloman assisted by the Styrians in the saccage of the Coast of Dalmatia engaged and overcome and so all the places returned with Iadra again to his obedience Hungary was now again divided by the Factions of the Brethren Almas twice suspected and twice assisted by Forrainers was once more restored by the Armes of Hen. 5. Emp. but such was the arrogance of Colomans fortune that seizing upon him he caused his and his Son Bela's Eyes to be put out without any tryal or compearance afore Judges whence several grudges and Conspiracies of the Nobles secret seditious practises were occasioned somented against him the effect whereof he prevented by sudden Death which happened in the twenty fifth year of his Raign STEPHEN for his Sanguinous nature as delighted in often seeing the punishments of the Condemned by his Father Nick-named Thunder was therefore placed under the Government and Tuition of the most Eminent Persons for Nobility and Vertue under whom what he gained in Fame and Estimation so freed from them he lost it as fast notwithstanding the first and longest part of his Raign was very prosperous His first Enterprize was against the Russes to restore Iarislaus to that Government who fearing his Uncle Uladomirs designs against him had fled into Poland but he dying the war ended as soon as it was begun The next Expedition was against the Bohemians where worsted at the first Encounter he recruited his Army and overthrew them Thrice he turned his Arms upon Bulgaria Macedonia and Greece and taking Belgrade razed Zengminum afterwards he fought with various successes against Calo Iohannes Emperour of Constantinople but finally had the better of it forcing him to sneak home by by wayes from his progression as far as Ister and that not without a signal defeat given him in his retreat at a Town called Mala Scala though Bonfinius reports Stephen to have been beaten at the River of Carassus and to have besought his peace A Polish War ensued this in favour of the Russes against another Iarislaus Duke of Halicia whom Boleslaus King of Poland had resettled in his Estate wherein the Pole otherwise a very Fortunate Prince was Defeated by a Stratagem of Stephens joyning himself to the Rear of the Polish Army upon pretence of Friendship And so when he had wearied his Cruelty abroad he began to exercise it at home vailing his sloth with severity murdering his Nobles and ravishing their Ladies but in the twenty second year of his Raign troubled in Conscience with the flagitiousnesse of his Facts he put himself into a Monastery though others write he onely designed such a retirement BELA his Cousin German who had his Eyes put out as before and flying was entertained at Constantinople which was the cause of the Quarrel between Stephen and Calo Iohannes was by the wonderful inconstance of Fortune called to a Crown from his banishment he had gained to his Wife Helena Daughter of Vrâ—â— Count of Augusta by whom he had four Sons Geysa Ladislaus Stephen and Almus His adverse Condition had so sweetned his Felicity to him that he wholly intended his Repose wherein he gave many signs of great abstinence and Equity notwithstanding he was not altogether faultlesse for at an Assembly or Convention of the Estates at Arad though he seemed to be averse to any Execution yet he so wrought upon the affections of others that most cruel punishments were inflicted on the Authours of his Fathers occaecation Hereupon the Sons of the oppressed solicite Borichus the Bastard Son of Coloman to assume the Government who with the assistance of some Poles and Russes came as far as Sajus a River dividing both the Armies
Christ 1305. He received the Crown gratis from Wenceslaus for which great sums had been offered by the Hungarians and was inaugured at Alba Reâ—alis and the better to win and insinuate himself into the favour of the Nobles and People he wore the Crown which is had as before in the greatest veneration constantly in his Progresses and publique appearances Once as he entered Transylvania he lost the Crown being put up in a Case and tied to his Horses Saddle which was not found till next day and this was taken for an unlucky Omen of his Expulsion first into Russia by which people he was for a while again restored and his last final deprivation by Ladislaus Vaivod of the Kingdome who sided with Charles and the Papal pretences though he had been one of the advancers of Otho before By this means much Blood was spilt by those intestine Divisions the Cardinal Gentilis being sent again with new Curses and Bans against the Adversaries of Charles which brought innumerable mischiefâ— both upon Clergy Nobility and People most unnaturally divided one against another These Factions having so long opprest this Nation it was unanimously agreed to confer the Supreme Power upon a single person they chose thereupon in the Feilds of 〈◊〉 Charles the Nephew of 〈◊〉 â—laudus King of Sicily by Mary the Daughter of Stephen the fourth and Son of Charles Martell in whom the Discords and Feuds of the Nobility were by his Vertues reconciled He was encircled in the presence of his Father with that Crown which Ladistâ—us had surrendred His first Exploit and Enterprise was against Matthew Trinesiniensis who had refused Allegiance whom he overcame in a bloody Battel at Cassovia but with great hazzard and dubious Event his numerous Troops of Horse among whom was a veterane tryed Band of the Knights of the Order of St. Iohn turning their backs to a Brigade of 1700 Curassiers Nor did the Conspiration cease here for a bloody and â—nefarious Design was laid at Visigrade where Felicianus Sakanus a special Servant of the Kings with a drawn Sword struck at him who inclining his body the blow cut off the Fingers of the Queen nor had the King escaped had not the Souldiers of the Guard freed him being mounted from imminent Death The Assassinate for terrour was quartered and his four quarters sent as a spectacle through the Kingdome and his Family and Posterity utterly extinguished Intending now an Expedition against the Sarazens a revolt of the Valachians withheld him he advanced therefore against Boâ—aradine the Vayvod thereof and Compelled him with the Expence of the War to pay the yearly Tribute but returning he was set upon by that perfidious Nation in the abrupt and least passable places and Defeated he himself changing his Habit for his easier Escape Others say he undertook this War upon no ground and therefore they ascribe the Event to his wickednesse Burying the Noble memorable Acts of this man in this Overthrow who was so Potent and Prudent a Prince that most of the Kings of his Time were by his Force or Prudence obliged to him He had to his Wives Mary the Daughter of Casimir Duke of Poland Beatrice Daughter of the Emperour and Elizabeth the Daughter of Uladislaus of Poland by the last he had Issue Charles who died at the years as Ladislaus at four months end His surviving Son Andrew had Apulia Lewis Hungaria for his Patrimony Under this Charles the Realm recovered its former Puissance for he Ruled over Rama Servia Gallicia Salerâ—a Lâ—dâ—miria Cumania and Naples far Famed had he not begotten his Son Lewis although that also be attributed to his Glory The Third BOOK LEWIS not inferiour to so great a Father and skilled in martial Affairs exercised his first Arms against the insolence of the Valachians and Servians who contemning his youth recoyled from the obedience they owed and performed to his Father but were reduced to the same Conditions Those being subjugated he solemnly dismiss'd his mother whose Sanctity had procured her a veneration even unto Superstition to Apulia and thence to Rome requesting of his brother Andrew the Loane of 44 thousand Marks of gold as the Covetousnesse of the Times then required for the price of his Confirmation in the Kingdom of Naples which Affair concluded he aided his adoptive Father Casimir who before had designed Charls his Natural Son but he survived not long after against Iohn of Bohemia and the Lithuanians whom he attempted to force to the belief of the Christian Religion but found the difference betwixt Words and Swords The Bohemian advanced as far as Cracovia he again expelled out of that Dominion from whence he was not yet retired but the Tartars made another invasion into Hungary but neverthelesse were so well received by Andrew the Vaivod Son of Ladislaus aforesaid who avoiding their Arrowes came to handy blows with them and the dint of Sword that they were utterly overthrown and their General Atlamus taken prisoner and the name of the Tartar after this defeat not heard of in Hungary for many years With the same fortune he prevailed against the Croats in which expedition he was personally present accompanyed with Stephen Neman Prince of Bosnia whose Daughter he had married for while as yet he stayed in the Confines of Croatia they submitted themselves and took the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance but the Venetian War was bloody who in spight of Lewis reduced Schodra to their subjection after he had lost many men in the attempt of relieving it While these things were doing Ioan the Wife of Andrew new-invested in Apulia for the love and lust of her Adulterer the Prince of Tarentum designed to transfer that Kingdom with her self to his Embraces by the death of her husband whom she hung with a silken halter This Fact obliged Lewis to a just revenge which to prosecute having in vain received Letters from Ioan in Excuse thereof and by his answer declared her guilty of that and other precedent and subsequent Crimes he marched into Italy where he was assisted by Phillip of Mâ—ntua Malatesta of Ariminum and other Princes whose Governments by the sloth of Charles the Emperour were becoâ—e absolute Tyrannies By these Arms he drove Lewis Prince of Tarente the Adulterer and Ioane his Wife out of Italy to Marseilles and Avignion and possessed himself of all the Dominion of Apulia on that side the Sea taking the Duke of Dyrrachium beheaded him by the common Executioner as he sent the brothers of the said Lewis with the Son of Andrew as his Ward bound in Chains into Hungary whether the Pest raging in Italy and depopulating many places and whole Provinces he soon after followed and placed Stephen Laskus his Vaivod in Transylvania But the Neapolitans rebelling as not enduring a forraign Government the Hungarians left in that Kingdome twice defeated them once by a Salley made by Stephen the Governour of Naples whom they had blocked
up and the next time by Volphordus in plain Battel though he lost his life as the price of the victory when Ioane having sollicited and obtained new Supplies at the instances of the Pope to whom as a Gratuity she consigned Avignion and to whose Arbitrement she submitted her Cause attempted again the recovery of the Kingdome whereupon Lewis returning with wonderful fortune took Barletum Carnesium where his life was neer endangered Luceria and Salernum with most of all the Towns and placing Garrisons therein in the year of Jubile came to Rome The Papal seat was then at Avignion wherefore the Prefect of Rome Nicolaus Rentius a man of eminent worth and virtue meeting the King with the Estates of the City proffered him the absolute supreme power thereof but he refusing it was tendred to Charles the fourth out of fear of Clement the Pope to whom Charles being of an abject spirit delivered the said Rentius Captive Ioan in the mean while never left urging of Clement to take her part promising great advantages to satisfie his Covetousnesse if he would effect her Restitution which in fine by much intreaty to Lewis who was religiously given and could not be wrought upon any other way was obtained at his hands The Venetians fell by his next Arms for Lewis confederated with Leopold of Austria and the Crâ—atians invaded the Maritine part of Dalmatia in two inroads by Friuli and Istria Tarvisia frustrated his Conquest but Spalatra and other places opened their gates to the experience and Courage of his veterane Army securing and confirming some places and reducing others among whom were the inconstant Schodrians The Total of this expedition amounted to the Acquists of that part of the Venetian Territory which extends it self from the Bay of Phanaticia to Dyrrachium and all Dalmatia in lieu of those places taken in this War which by an agreement he surrendred But this agreement lasted not long both parties taxing each other as the manner is for the breach of it though the fault was in the Venetians who engaging Charles the Emperour invaded the Dalmatians and Croats put by this Treaty under the protection of Lewis These Invaders were encountred first successefully by Paul the Son of Ladislaus the Vaivod but unprosperously by Stephen of Transylvania whose rashnesse and fury overthrew him and made him a Prisoner to the Victor Thereafter many were the vicissitudes of fortune Lewis by this Defeat was perswaded by the Croats to a two years truce which expired Leopold growing insolent was beaten by the Venetians and recruiting himself for another Encounter was induced by Lewis to another two years Cessation but he having underhand held intelligence with the Genoese privily prepared for a War by the dread whereof the Venetians with Restitution of what they had got were glad to descend and Consent to a Peace The Genoese nevertheless proceeding in their Enterprize reduced the Venetians under the Conduct of Peter Auria to Extremity but themselves afterwards puft up with successe were subjected to the wheel of Fortune by the invention of Guns and Engine found out then by Bertholdus Niger in fine Lewis by Land and the Genoese by Sea besieged and took Clodia when all parties wearied with the many miseries of the War referred themselves to the arbitrement of the Duke of Savoy who first of all ordered the razing of the Castle of Tened as the occasion and continual foment of the quarrel awarding also the Decennial payment of 7 thousand Crowns by the Venetians to Lewis who content with the glory of his Actions and this incompetent sum in respect of his Expences ceased the War While these things were acting in Venice Pope Urban excited Lewis against Ioane because she took part with Clement the seventh the Antipope who forthwith dispatcht away Charles his Son as some say others his Nephew by Andrew who with 8000 men passed into Italy and was welcomed there with the Acclamations of Victory He subdued severâ—l Towns and mulcted the Florentines in the sum of 40. thousand Crowns At Rome he was adorned with all the Regal Habiliments Ioane placing her sole hope in the Duke of Anjou She had intermarried for her fourth husband Otho of Brundusium the Tarentine during in Custody and the King of Sardinia her next husband dead in Spain Otho though he took part with Urban against the inclination of Ioane yet vvas constant to her against the Hungarians vvho took in several other Tovvns Charles being arrived and introduced into Naples besieged Ioan vvho had shut up her self in Castel Novo Otho comes and besieges the City and the Besiegers till Charles sallying out he vvas after a gallant opposition by reason of a fall off his Horse taken Prisoner and Ioane hereupon despairing of any relief forced to surrender But Lewis of Anjou Uncle and Regent of Charles the sixth of France whom Clement had invested and â—eoffed in the Realms of Apulia and Sicilia as purchased from Ioane with 30 thousand Horse the number of the Foot uncertain passed into Italy whom Charles inferiour in Strength so bafled with delayes that his great numbers proving burdensome to him and Lewis dying thereupon either by disease or poyson the Frenchmen two or three in Company were glad to beg their way and departure home Lewis in his return out of Italy to Hungary enterprized by Nicholas the Palatine upon Bosnia which had revolted from him but he wearied out with the Siege of Sebenico was easily overcome Better Fortune attended him in his Expedition against Stratomirius the Prince of the Bulgarians who vanquished was taken Captive at Gemleick but soon after by the good will of the King and the liking of the Kingdome restored to his Principality The Family of the Piasti failing in Casimir Lewis was now crowned King of Poland the first of foraign Princes that was chosen by them the Administration of this Government he committed to his mother Elizabeth the Customary delights of his native Countrey inviting his return Nor did she continue long there having by her levity and flexibility gained the love of some but not the reverence of all persons wearied therefore with new Commotions she departed rather frighted then feared into Hungary but prefering the priviledge of absoluteness before the humours of another she was soon induced to retire back again In the mean while the Nobles of the greater Polonia created Vladislaus the Duke of Cusavia of a Monk to their King whom Sabinius though chief of the same Counsel and Combination with other of the Nobility on the part of Lewis overcame and sent him Captive to Lewis who by his extraordinary Clemency in which he was not superable gave him an Abby as satisfied in having reduced him to his former Condition the same Fate pursued the Rebellious Russes who were now annexed to the Crown of Hungary and several Lords or Vaivods set over them Hence Jealousies and suspicions and ill rumours among the Polanders which
pompous Train several Theatres and other august Temporary Edifices being Erected for the Solemnity where they treated one another most Magnificently and gave great Largesses to the People Matthias not willing to be behind hand in State and Grandeur upon such an Illustrious occasion But whilest he diverted himself here Solyman the Beglerbeg of Greece being advantaged by a dry Summer passed his Army over the Fords of the Rivers Savus and Dravus and coming as far as Castle-Iron laid wast the whole Countrey The news of this made Matthias quit his Court-ship and with all Expedition to follow the Enemy who making hast away he gave order to 16000. of his readiest Troops to pursue him the which Forces over-took him laden with Thirty thousand Captives at Verbos in Illyria and so routed him that the remains of his flying Army durst not face about to Three hundred Croats who alone pursued them by which Victory Illyria was in a fair way to have been wholly assigned to this Triumph had not the Emperour by an Inroad towards Raab recall'd him which Injury so incensed Matthias that he presently laid Seige to Mariaburg and would hardly desist from the Enterprize at the earnest entreaties of the Pope and Frederick's Ambassadors Mahomet the Great having taken Scodra as aforesaid was now returned to Constantinople and vext with the disgrace of Solyman's Defeat had Commissioned Ali Beg Isa Beg and Balam Beg with Sixty thousand Men for Transylvania who proceeded with Fire and Sword as far as Alba Iulia within five miles whereof Stephen Bathori the Vayvod of Transylvania and Paul Kinisi Count of Temeswar wtth a new levyed Army of Hungarians Valachians c. encountered them and after a long dispute in which the River Marusus was filled with Blood of both parties by the Valour and encouragement of Kinisi totally overthrew them Thirty thousand Turks being slain upon the place The fame of this Atchievement made the Pope Apulia in Italy being sorely infested by the Turks to intreat Matthias as the onely competent Help against those Infidels to undertake the Defence of those parts when at the same time he ungratefully inter-medled beyond his Authority in the placing and preferring Bishops in Hungaria Matthias having substituted Iohn the Cardinal of Arragon to be Arch-Bishop of Strigonium in place of Iohn of Alemannia his Enemy and Rebel About this time Died Mahomet leaving his two Sons Bajazet and Zemes to strive for the Empire the latter being discomfited in two Battels wherein he was assisted by the Sultan of Aegypt fled to the Grand Master of the Rhodes who sent him to Rome where at the instance and great Bribes of Bajazet he was most unworthily poysoned by Pope Alexander the sixt Matthias purposing to make good use of this occasion had solicited Caesar for a Confirmation and security of the late Peace which being delayed till the opportunity was lost and the Turks in motion this way he Invaded Austria and possessed himself of many Towns again while Bajazet had terribly ruined and wasted Moldavia and in requital thereof was Defeated by Lupus the Noble and valiant Despot of what remained in those parts in two Battels and after a six months regular Seige took in Vienna the Capital City thereof as Iohn Scepuusis his Leiutenant mastered Neustria and other Fortresses The five years that Matthias lived afterwards he wholly employed in Reforming the manners of his Subjects now addicted to Luxury and prone to all other Vices and in providing for the future Glory and Magnificence of the Succeeding Kings converting his Iron into a Golden Palace and Designing to Build the City of Buda after the Italian way He also highly faâ—oured Learned Men and resolved upon the settlement of Austria by a lasting Peace to employ all his power against the Turks whereto he was encouraged by many Princes more especially by the Snltan's of Aegypt who had lately Vanquished Ferhates Bassa the Beglerbeg of Caramania afterwards Cheser Beg and Achmet the Mahumetanized Son of Stephen of Bosnia aforesaid with such a slaughter that it was credited to have exceeded that of Tamerlane But while he prepared for those things Death prevented him by the increasing pains of the Gout A person of great Authority with all Princes and worthy to be extolled for his Military Experience and his Acts of Peace and so much the more Famed and desired by Posterity by how much his Successors were inferiour to him in point of Courage and vigilant Prudence Upon the Death of the King Corvinus the Bastard Son of Matthias having been fed with hopes of his Succession to the Crown endevoured to effect it while 3 great Competitors were transacting their interest with the States of Hungary viz. Ladislaus King of Bohemia Albert Prince of Poland both Brothers and Sons of Cassimir and and Maximilian King of the Romans but in conclusion Ladislaus carried it by the major voyces and by the instance and interest of Beatrice the Dowager Queen who had loved him in her Husbands Life time and hoped now to be Married to him although she was by the Judgement of God disapointed of her Expectation Corvinus not brooking this although he had articled upon the Cession of his claim and delivery of the Crown which he had got into his custody for an investiture as Lord of Bosnia Chroatia and Sclavonia raised an Army by the help of the Governours of those Provinces but opposed at Sarviza by Stephen Bathori and Kinisi commissioned by the States then assembled in great fear at Pesth he was worsted after a dismall encounter wherein brother engaged against brother and fled to Quinque Ecclesiae where his Souldiers broke open his Treasure and carried it away By this means the Kingdome was setled in those parts and Corvinus submitting upon indempnity to his partakers and the restoring of what had been taken from him Uladislaus was Crowned at Alba Regalis but presently engaged in a War against his Competitor and brother Albert who had seized Cassovia Cibinium and other places and in fine joyned battel wherein by the prowesse of Vladislaus and the defection of the Cassovians he was overcome and striving to renew the War was thrice afterwards beaten out of the field Maximilian's Enterprize was more powerfull and fortunate auspicated also by the Viennians who weary of a Forraigners Yoak admitted his forces into the City which Scepusius the Governour perceiving he thought it most advisable to depart secretly out of the Castle and thereupon the other places of Austria returned to their former Lord who proceeded and reduced Vesprinium and Alba Regalis in Hungary and had finished the conquest but that his Germans not enduring the Climate and other discommodities of the Country mutined for their pay in the interim Uladislaus had collected his Army and was upon his march after Maximilian recovering the Towns he had lost and being bent upon a further revenge was diverted by a horrid Invasion of the
night as he was fast asleep in his Tent had his Head severed from his Body aud carried to Griti to feed and satisfie his most Bloody and scelerate Revenge But Divine Justice was not far behind for Stephen Maylat and other Noblemen within eight dayes raising an Army of Sixty thousand Men pursued Griti who conscious of his Vilanies and his Usurped rackt Authority was upon the first news of their Arming fled to Meggyesium where by the defection of the Townsmen the Turks that were with him were all put to the Sword his Agent Docius Executed by the Axe and Griti in his intended Escape taken by the Valachians and offered by them as a Victime to the Ghost of Cibacus King Iohn being required by Solyman to Aid Griti was nothing troubled when he heard of the news of this his Rivals Death for Griti's Design and last intendment was his Substitution to the Crown of Hungary He likewise for better security of the Peace Imprisoned Lascus but put in mind of his former good Offices converted his restraint into Banishment And here followed a Rupture between Iohn and Ferdinand Leonard Cackei delivering Cassovia in the Upper Hungary which was assigned to Ferdinand to King Iohn to requite which losse the German attempted Transylvania the Szekelii the reliques of the old Huns and the Szaszii a Colony of the Saxons Seated in a Province of that Principality being prone to Revolt from the Hâ—ngarian But when the Governours Nyari and Bamfi by their plundering of Sacmar had discovered the Conspiracy the Design came to nothing and Iohn soon recovered that Town with the losse oâ— Gothard Kunus his fast Friend and a Tame white Hart which like Sertorius he had alwayes in his Company the Death of whom made him so furiously revengeful that he put all the Prisoners to the Sword while Felsius Ferdinand's General successfully proceeded and threatned Cassovia to secure which Iohn dispatcht away George Monachus Peter Perenes and Francis Debecus with equal power and Commission whom Felsius by Delayes which begat a Discord between the Captains as is natural in Competitions so necessitated that forced to retire he advantagiously set upon them killing some and driving other some into the River Tybiscus aad together surprized Tokay That he gained not Cassovia the Peace struck up at Vaccia was the onely hinderance whereby both Kings were to hold what they then had in possession the Issue of Iohn to enjoy Transylvania Opulia and Ratibor the League to be Offensive and Defensive the one's Enemies to be the others and so contrarily and to be obliged in the prosecution of one anothers Designs so that the Peace with the Turk was as good as broken or not at all regarded Hereupon Ferdinand to represse the incursions of Mahomet Bassa of Belgrade who had taken Posegum Boczo and Beriszlone in Sclavonia and designing the Siege of Clissia had erected two Castles at Salonas for obstruction of relief sent away Peter Crusitius into Dalmatia and Cackzianerus to Posega Peter was so fear stricken with Amurath Verbosanus that many of his men dyed with meer apprehension of the danger nor did Cackzianerus come off much more gloriously being accompanied with Lodowick Pecri Lodronius Albert Sliccus Lodowick Rhaetus Iohn Ungnadius Bakitius and other Commanders with 8000 Horse and 16000 Foot all which he led to Destruction He was come as far as Valpone and had laid Seige to Essecum not aware that he was included betwixt Posega the Enemies Garrison and the Danow when Mahomet Amurath and Cassonus guessing rightly that they were distressed for Victual invented a new way of Victory without fighting For when Cackzianerus perceived that neither the Governour of Zagrabia noâ— the spoil of Herman Castle could afford a competence of victual he resolved to retreat to Valpone in which march the way being before laid and passes made good against him he was set upon by the Turks Bakitius was killed in the Streights others pined with hunger were wholly consternated Cackzianerus Pecri and Vnguadius as a most shameful example first flying away Lodronius onely stood bravely to it and fought to the last man the rest having no Commanders either confused or pent up in narrow places were slain or taken Prisoners the Camp and the Kings great Guns falling likewise into the possession of the Enemy This unhappy Encounter and a designed Revolt thereupon stood Cackzianerus at the price of his Head for with the same successe Mahomet and Amurath took in Dubicia Iassenocium and Soboczia and brought a great dread upon both Kings besides that Solyman exasperated against Peter the cruel and feral Vaivod of Moldavia had at the same time by his arms substituted his Brother Stephen in his place Peter being fled to Csikium in Transylvaniâ— Hereupon Ferdinand and Iohn joyned â—orces the Germans amounting to 50 and the Hungarians to 30 thousand men at the news whereof Solyman by Letters upbraided Iohn with his perfidie and Arms taken against him his Father and so known a Benefactor that he had aggravated his Defection by a War and multiplied one wickednesse by another on the other side Iohn partly by words and partly by gifts endevoured to excuse the fact conscious to himself also of the slaughter of Griti although not yet charged to him He pretended that he took Arms only to assist him his patron against Peter whoâ— he had besieged in Csikium and to make good this particular dâ—d upon the surrender send him Prisoner to pacifie Solyman to Constantinople Yet was not Moldavia thus setled for Stephen being a like Tyrannical was destroyed by a Conspiracy and one Alexius the Son of Elias formerly Prince was inducted in his place but he out of Fear of the Turks intending a revolt to Ferdinand was driven out by Peter now restored again by Solyman to his former Dignity who being more sanguinous then before punishing and torturing his innocent Subjects preventionally by the direction of this Politique that no wise Prince afflicts his People because they have but because they should not offend His savage Government lasted not long being succeeded therein by Alexander About the same time King Iohn married Isabel Daughter of the King of Poland but while he mancipated himself to the pleasures of her bed Stephen Maylat and Balassi Governours of Dacia quitted their Allegiance and revolted to Ferdinand whom notwithstanding by the sudden assistance of Valentinus Tercock he so quickly reduced that they seemed to be engaged in the Plot and the defeat of it at the same instant He dispossessed Balassius of several Castles but at this supplication gave him his Life for either revenge or oblivion follow punishment and he that spares and is merciful shews not only his Clemency but confirms His Dominion He besieged also Forgarasse a Castle of Maylats but being taken with a pain in his head and gtown frantick therewith at a Town called Szar Sebessum he died suddenly having
storm Sigismund dealt with him by Ambassadors but words not availing he prepared with force to Encounter this Enemy levying to that end a very select Army of Hungarians Germans and French resolving to crush and suppresse the rising greatnesse of the Turk before he grew too potent with so many additions which his successful Scymitar had annexed to his first mean and inconsiderable Patrimony In this Expedition he was accompanied with Iohn the Hardy Son of Philip Duke of Burgundy who joyntly retook in many Towns seized by the Turks in Bulgaria and in one great Battel carried away the Victory when the French-men according to the light humour of their Nation were so dissolved by Lust and Luxury and became so arrogant withal that they boasted they could sustain and support the falling Heaven with their Spears Bajazet having failed of his design upon Constantinople and risen from the Seige thereof was now in person before Nicopolis whither Sigismund being also come he put his Army into Battalia giving the Van to his Hungarians as best skilled in the Turkish manner of fighting and placing the French as his Rear-guard who taking this for a disgrace before Sigismund had opened his Battel fell suriously open the Turk whose Arrowes so galled and terrified their Horses that their Riders being forced to alight they ran soul upon the Hungarians who misgiving this for a rout fell into a present dismay thence to flight wherein numbers of them perished in the Danow Iohn of Burgundy with abundance of other Nobles was taken Prisoner and was ransomed with the sum of 200 thousand Crowns Sigismund doubtful of his life in a light Galley escaped to Constantinople whence by Rhodes and so to Daimatia and by the help of the Archbishop of Serigonium he recovered his Kingdome Bajazet fortunated with this Victory not long after became far more miserable then the vanquished so deceitful is the greatest assurance of humane things being overcome by Tamerlane by my Author called Temir the great Cham of Tartary and enclosed in an Iron Cage made his Footstool when he took Horse and wherein betwixt rage and impatient indignation he brained himself against the Grates The misfortune of this Field opened a way to the revenge of those persons who were related to the 30. Noblemen put to death by him at Quinque Ecclesiae for by a potent Conspiracy in which Ladislaus the King of Poland was concerned by their invitation of him to assume the Scepter Sigismund was seized on a sudden and put into the Custody of the sons of Nicholas the late Palatine in the Castle of Soklos Buda and the places confining with Germany adhering to him notwithstanding which gave opportunity to Ladislaus to persue his design upon the Kingdome of Naples newly transferred by Pope Alexander from Lewis the Son of Charles aforesaid for his encroachment upon the Church Territory to Lewis of Anjou which he reovered in his own right He was now besieging the often mentioned Iadra and had forced it from the Venetians when news was brought him that Sigismund having over-perswaded and by promises prevailed on the Mother of the Sons of Nicholas the Palatine had obtained his liberty and having privily passed into Moravia and Bohemia had openly resumed His Title and the Government and had put to Death Stephen the Vaivod of Transylvania with some few others as the Authors of the late Treason against him Hereupon Ladislaus thought best for the preservation of his own for another defection of the Neapolitans was likewise suspected to part with Iadra and his pretences upon the Venetians for a sum of money and to return But Sigismund had setled himself sure in the Government and was now engaged in a War against the people of Bosnia who had during these late Troubles renounced their Allegiance to the Crown of Hungary Nor did he engage with better fortune against the Turks although weakned by a civil War between the Five Sons of Bajazet his Lieutenant Stephenâ— Lossontius aiding Mark the Vaivod of Moldâ—via who had shook off the Turkish yoak being discomfited and the said Vaivod deposed by Mahomet the fift King of Turky Who to prosecute this quarrel commanded Isaac the Bassa of Bosnia to invade Hungary where notwithstanding he was defeated twice by Nicholas Peâ—ri yet by the negligence and divisions among the Hungarians he had at last the better of it destroying by fire many Towns and Villages Rupert the Emperour being deceased Pope Iohn the 22. dealt with the German Princes to elect Sigismund in his place as a person whose regal Majesty Magnificence and Virtue the skill and readinesse of many Languages did excellently adorn and prefer before all the Princes his Cotemporaries as inferiour likewise to none of his Predecessors if successe in Battel and chastity in Bed had not been wanting Soon after his Assumption to this Dignity he threatned a War against Uladislaus of Poland but it was superseded by a Truce which a Peace ensued The Turks busie encroachments disturbing and disseising his Neighbours he had Belgrade consigned him by George Bulchus the Despot of Servia who had other places in Hungary in exchange thereof by which means the Turks being put to a stand he had leisure to employ his Army against the Venetians aided by the Florentines who had seized several places but after some bickerings this difference was also composed for that Sigismund was now engaged in a Bohemian War in maintenance of his new Title to that Crown About this time the Councel of Constance was held and Pope Iohn convicted of 40. Crimes committed to the Custody of Lewis Count Palatine of the Rhine and Otho Colonnâ— by the name of Martin the Fifth placed in the Papal Chair At this same Councel Iohn Hus and Hierome of Prague were Condemned and Burnt for Heretiques whose death was revenged by Iohn Zisca and Procopius to the great losse and detriment of Sigismund the great and professed Enemy of the Reformation And that it might appear there was more than humane direction in the infliction of the Defeats given him by Zisca 15000. Hungarians that followed Sigismund perished by the breaking of the Ice in one Expedition His Raign was concluded with a rebellious Insurrection of the Boors and Peasants resolving to assert their Liberty or perish rather than endure slavery and in this mood they raged with Fire and Sword but their ungoverned and undisciplined Multitude rendred them an easie Conquest to a small Party of Experienced Soldiers Sigismund departing from Prague commended his Son in law Albertus to the Nobles and at his arrival at Znoyma in Moravia departed this life aged 70. years He was a very active person but little beholding to Fortune and by her means deceived in the Constancy of his Friends He was a great favourer of Learned men affirming that Precedency was justly due to them for that Riches and Regal Pompe happen meerly by Fate He connived at and forgave
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Which for want of Issue shall revert to Caesar if the Peace be not concluded with the Turk they shall joyn Arms Bishops descended of the Nobility to have Voyce and place in Counsel others not This was ratified by the Depâ—ties of all the upper Hereditary Provinces of the Emperour and firmed by the eminentest Nobility of both sides Varadin was herewith yeilded to Bocskay having all along been stoutly defended against him by Baptista Pecsius as St. George and Bâ—zinium were rendred to Illyeshazi The Peace was also concluded with the Turk for 20. years Achmet the Sultan to call Caesar Father he Achmet Son both to be saluted by the name of Caesars all differences arising to be composed by the Governours of Raaâ— and Buda The Castles and Fortresses to stand but no new ones to be built only the Hungarians may repair Vaccia Caesar shall pay this year 200 thousand Imperials but nothing afterwards every three years the Emperours shall interchange Presents and a faithful friendship shall be consolidated between them This Transaction was followed by the Death of Boczkay who professed himself willing to dye so that he had had the opportunity of purging himself before the World and the Empire of Sedition He declared Valentine Homonnai by his last Will for Prince of Transylvania which Homonnai gaped after but the Transylvanians chose Sigismund Rakoczi and although he made great reluctancy pretending several Excuses yet at last they compelled him to Clausenburgh and made him assume the Principality while Homonai mad with rage having plundered Boczkay's treasures committed to him retired to Ungnade by whose Example Szecfi and Paul Nyari shared the like entrustments among themselves the deserved and desired End of Goods got by Violence and Oppression Just before the Confirmation of this Turkish Peace an Embassador from Persia came to Prague and there by extolling his Masters power and his resolution of destroying the Oâ—toman Name and Nation put a demur to the ratification which passed not till somewhat after when Matthias the Brother of the Emperour was possessed of the Crown of Hungary The Turk was instant to have it finished and stormed exceedingly at the delay for that Serdar Bassa who had possessed himself of Aleppo Damascus and Tripoli with a formidable power under smooth dutiful pretences threatned Constantinople In the mean while and the licentious rapines of the Heyducks upon all such Intervalls Matthias his Brothers Viceroy prepared his way to the Crown of Hungary urged thereunto by Illyeshazi whose interest Rudolphus had used at the Diet at Ratisbone to prefer Ferdinand the Nephew of Charles his Brother Hereupon Souldiers were listed by Matthias to obviate the designs of the Spaniards who would advance Ferdinand as more Catholick then himself with these under pretence of repressing the Heyducks he came suddenly to Presburgh and was received into the Castle by the Archbishop and Cardinal Pazman and Illyezhazi at whose instances he possessed himself of the Crown By him the late Articles of Vienna were confirmed the Hungarians being obstinate to those terms and upon that score Austria and Moravia also joyned with him and vowed to live and dye in his Cause Having from hence raised an Army of 20. thousand men he marched to Prague where the Emperour delaying of his Grants to the Bohemians who had armed themselves in vindication of their Religion and the same Priviledges with the Papists found himself so disappointed that he condiscended to the Inauguration of Matthias in the kingdome of Hungary He arrived at Presburgh the 22. of October where he allowed the priviledges aforesaid the Election of a Palatine within a year after the others Decease which Dignity had been vacant 46. years ever since Nadasdi together with the expulsion of the Jesuits From thence he went to Cassovia at which Diet held there Sigismund Racockzi as Prince of Transylvania did him Fealty and soon after resigned the Principality to Gabriel Bathori having gained the Confirmation from Achmet and an uninteressednesse from Matthias In all things he shewed himself a person of great Justice and Modesty in declining his assistance of the Rebels in Poland and transferring this Soveraignty to another when he was so beloved and courted by the people To passe by new commotions and discontents of the Hungarians about their Religion now invaded and infringed but vindicated by the Elector of Saxony and other Protestant Princes who by arming themselves over-ruled Matthias we return to matters of State Illyezhazi the new Palatine built a new Fabrick in the Castle of Presburgh for the Conservation of the CROWN and Collonicsius was advanced to a higher Dignity in that Kingdome which had hitherto been in no condition to respect his merit As to war it had its divertisement in Transylvania Radulo the noble Vayvod of Valachiae refused Homage to Bathori who incensed thereat and designing the Seizure of all Dacia which the Turks had promised to Boczkay raised a puissant Army such as was hardly seen there before and gave him Battle at Brassovia where he was totally routed by the valour of the said Vayvod which opportunity Matthias in Confederacy with that gallant person so improved that he possessed himself of Clausenburgh and other chief Holds by his General Forgacz while Bathori betook himself to the Mountains This Enterprize was the more easily carried on against him for that his prodigious Lust made him odious to his Subjects whose beautifullest Wives and Daughters he frequently and most openly vitiated Notwithstanding such was his Fortune that he beat Forgacz out of his Dominions and forced him to hide himself in the Woods of Bohemia after he had suffered very great Extremities Yet the same Vicissitudinary fortune undid Bathori betrayed by his Embassador Andrew Geczi to the Grand Seigniour who designed the Principality to himself and whom the Bassa of Buda would have confirmed but that Bathori betook himself such the Reciprocation of these Interests to the Protection Friendship of Matthias now elected Emperour of Germany by whose assistance the at instance of Thurzo the Palatine in the room of Illyeshaeci Geczi was overthrown at the same time Bethlen Gabor substituted by the Turks to the same Dignity at the price which Bathori had payed for it He enraged with this affront besides that he was a man of a most incredible strength ravagely fell upon his poor Subjects who yet again bore with him while he renewed his debaucheries whose vengeance every one of the Nobles incited At this Juncture Bethlen made use of the Turks power and subdued Lippa Aradum and other places whose rendition made Bathori suspectfull of all people to betake himself by a speedy flight from Clausenburg to Varadin where admitted into the Castle consultation was held concerning him by the Nobles who advised Gregory Nadanyj and George Szylasi to assassinate him and they after some reluctancies of Conscience animated by the mortall jealousie of Decsius a
him but in this he onely trifled away time while Rakoczi most of the strong places being possessed by the Catholick party besieged Tyrnaw which at last opened its Gates to General Douglasse and his Son Sigismund where the Bishops and Noblemen now Crest-fallen humbly intreated Canysius the Protestant Preacher of the place to mediate with the Victor that he would take them into his Clemency which was granted at his intercession And now Rakoczi distrusting this eager favour of Fortune inclined to a Composure which Caesar more desirous of both for that the Climate agreed not with his forrain Souldiery and the huge price of grain the unsuccessful siege of Cassovia with the forced retreat of Bouchain to Presburgh readily consented to and hastily concluded to the great vexation and anger of the Swede This Peace was Proclaimed on St. Bartholomew's Day by which seven Lordships in Hungary were confirmed to the Transylvanian 90 Churches restored to the Protestants and the rest of their Priviledges confirmed to them Torstenson thus forsaken of his Confederate was abandoned by his Fortune and forced to rise from the siege of Prunna In the mean while died the Palatine to whom Drascovitius was substituted and the Instrument of the Transylvanian Pacification was made publick notwithstanding both parties in Hungary were as imbittered as ever about the Extermination of the Jesuits and ready to draw one upon another The next year Ferdinand the fourth was Crowned King of Hungary the Peace continuing with the Turks but so fallaciously that three hundred of them were got privily into Raab where being discovered by a Woman they were all of them slain and the City preserved by the Divine favour and protection In the Year 1648 died Prince Rakoczi to whom Succeeded his Son George as Ferdinand the fourth Crowned King of the Romans a Prince of more Hopes then Glory after he had lived to the age of 22 years Deceased in the Year 1653. and Leopold Ignatius his Brother succeeded him in all his Dignities Kingdomes and Dominions In the Year 1656 the Swede having Invaded Poland and almost Conquered the hither part so that the many Garrisons he was forced to Man had almost drayned his Army by his Ambassadors invited Prince Rakoczi to the Spoyl and his Assistance and such was the evil Fate of Transylvania and Rakoczi in particular that allured by the great advantages the Ruin of that Kingdom promised him he Confederated himself with the Swede maintaining Correspondencies and intrigues with all his Allyes particularly with the pretended Protector of England to whom he sent an Envoy to transact his Concerns of Money to the payment whereof the King of Sweden had by pact obliged the said Usurper the consideration and satisfaction whereof are of no great moment to this discourse The Transylvanians betaking themselves to their Arms from which they had been longer disused than throughout the whole series of their History the Turks having been sometime before engaged against the Persians and lately against the Venetians and labouring with their own mis-carriages and errours of Government little imagined they should wear them so long if ever it be their hap to put them off without parting with their Liberty and Religion and to such a Calamitous Defence of their own Countrey In fine an Army of 16000 men was presently raised and put under the Command of Backos Gabor which were the Van of those Forces that Rakoczi intended for this Expedition himself following in person with another Army who as soon as they were entered Poland in most horrible manner fell a ravaging and Sacking the Towns and pillaging the Churches and defacing the beauties thereof in hatred of the Roman Catholick Religion so that a fearful Desolation was made as they passed To passe by other occurrents of his proceedings in this Kingdome after he had joyned with the Swedes the Enterprize of Cracovia may suffice for instance of his Hostility in this Kingdome which he besieged and after a short Defence had it surrendred to him the Swedes and he demolishing almost the City of Casimir built on the other side the Weysel it being one of those places which was to be assigned him with the Palatinate thereof for his share in recompense of his Service This place in the ballance of the Swedish Fortune being besieged by Feild Marshal Lubomirsky Rakoczi came to its relief and gave a notable Defeat to the Pole who raised his siege and fled before him The said Prince afterwards embodying with the Swedes in Lithuania took in the strong City of Biscia Litinsky being there personally present with the King of Sweden and where he took his last leave of him returning to Samoysch to secure his footing and maintain what he had gotten but the Danish War interveening and calling the King of Sweden away to the Defence of his own Kingdome and the Duke of Brandenburgh falling off likewise and renouncing that Kings Interest besides that the Pole had newly made a League with the House of Austria who upon Caution and Articles were to supply him with an Army of 16000 men then upon their March out of Silesia Rakoczi perceived that the whole brunt of the War was like to fall upon him now deserted and abandoned by all his Partakers And therefore he thought it high time to apply himself to the wayes of Peace the Turk having also countermanded him sometime before at the instance of the Polish Ambassador at Constantinople who it was thought had bribed Rakoczi into that disfavour and hatred with the Grand Seignior who now peremptorily Commanded him he having delayed to comply with his first Orders of return so surrender his Principality to his Cousin Reada or Radus and in tendency thereunto made offer of a surrender of all those places he had taken during this War thinking thereby also to have satisfied the Tukish Emperour provided he might have safe egresse out of that Kingdome which was now very hazzardous for that the Poles and Austrians had way-laid him in the mountainous passages by which he must needs return But the Poles so stomached the loss prejudice they received from him causelesly especially his Church-robberies that they delayed him with an answer to this effect That being tied to such Articles with the House of Austria and the King of Hungary they could make no Agreement without them which artifice being understood by Rakoczi more Forces drawing likewise against him besides that another party of 12000. of them had Invaded his Dominions in Hungary and in Revenge burnt down thirty six Villages he resolved to make his way with his Sword while there was a possibility of effecting it which with much difficulty and hazard being several times set upon and forced to fight his way by good Guides and happy Conduct he atchieved but brought a sorry Army home in Comparison of what he marched out with This same year Died the Emperour Ferdinand
her right and Interest Solyman's resentment of these proceedings The fatal End of George George Monachus assassinated The attempt of the Hungarians upon Segedine 1553. Vesprinium yeilded to the Tuâ—ks Their further successes Theuffelus and Pallavicinus defeated Agria nobly defended by Dobo and Neskeyus 1555. Count Serini his Successes Aly the Bassa of Buda Defeated 1556. Dissentions â—n Tranâ—ylvania between the Governours The Emperours â—osses in Transylvania 1560. The Queens administration in Transylvania She puts sundry Noblemen of her party to death The Death of Q. Isabel John Sigismund worsted in Transylvania Arslanes defeated by Count Serini The calamitous condition of Transylvania and Hungary 1562. The death of Ferdinand Maximilian succeeds in the Kingdome to his Father Ferdinand 1564. Maximilian's Successes in Transylvania 1565. A Peace concluded between John and Maximilian New troubles in Transylvania by the Turks Composed again Solymans last Expedition into Hungary 1566. His enterview with John Sigismund John requests Buda to be delivered to him but in vain Gyula betrayed to the Turks by the Governour Kerecsenius Count Nicholas Serini besieged in Sigeth 1566. Solyman in the 47. year of his Reign dieth at Quinque Ecclesiae three dayes before the surrender of Sigeth Zigeth taken The Death of the Noble Count Serini John Sigismund aided with an Army of Tartars Their cruel rapine makes him engage and vanquish them Various successâ—s in Tranâ—ylvania Sigâ—smunds soul Practises 1567. 1570. The Peace betwixt Maximilian and Sigismund The death of Sigismund 1571. Bekessius his ambitious designes upon the succession but conferred on Stephen Bathori 1572. A Phanatick story in Hungary 1574. The same acted in Illyria The seeds of new troubles in Hungary As also in Transylvania Bekessius ruined Affairs of Poland relating to Hungary Bathorâ—'s Successes 1575. Elected K. of Poland His Generosity to Bekessius A new Rupture with the Turks The Death of Maximilian Rudolphus the second succeeds his Father Maximilian 1579. The Turks vanquished 1583. 1584. 1585. Prodigies in Hungary 1586. Frequent Military actions in Hungary 1586. Affairs in Poland Decemb. 2. Anno Regni 10. Maximilian Rudolph's Brother taken prisoner and civilly treated by Samoyscius the Chancellour of Poland 1587. Sâ—svares defeated poysons himself Feâ—hates Bassa Defeated by Racockzi 1590. Military Actions in Illyria by the rupture begun by Bassa Hasanes * The place where the Prodigy of the Ducks and Geese lately happened The Exploits of Hasanes 1592. Hasanes rowed and drowned 12000 Turâ—s slain Sinan Bassa arrives in Hungary Hasâ—nes Mehemet Bassa defeated at Alba Regalis 1594. Novigrad and other places reduced by the Hungarians the Turks defeated Strigonium in vain besieged by Matthias Raab besieged and taken by Sinan Bassa The boldnesse and Courage of the Tartars Coâ—nt Hardeck the Governour Perlini beheaded at Vienna 1595. 1594. Novemb. Young Sigismund the Prince of Transylvania headily engages against the Turks His Declaration thereof to the estates their disallowance His cruel proceedings with the refractory Nobility Strangles his own Uncle Balthasor with others His League with the Emperour Mahomet the 3d. succeeds his Father Amurath The large supplies given the Emperour Count Mansfield Geneâ—all 1584. Strigonium besieged by Count Manfeld The Courage of the Walloons The Turks attempting the releif of the Town defeated 14000. slain Mansfeld dies of a Surfeit Turks again defeated Strigonium yeilded Sigismund's Enterprises and Successes conjoyned with the two Vayvods of Valachia and Moldavia Sinan Invades Hungary Michael the Vayvod distressed Sinan Bassa defeated as he in flight passed over the Danow Sinan's Death Revolutions in Moldavia 1594. Oâ—â—ob 1596. The Christians unsuccessful attempt on Clissia * Clausenburg The Turks defeated before Petrinâ—â— in Illyria The Affairs oâ— Hungary The Siege of Harvanum taken by Mâ—ximilian Agria yeilded to Sultan Mahomet in person The Battel of Keresture betwixt Mahomet and Maximilian 1596. 26. Oct. Mahomet returns to Constantinople Sigismunds despondencies and fluctuations Vascia's suuccesses in Hungary Palfi's Swarzemburgh's Successful Enterprize upon Raab Raab surprized taken after a sharp bloody Dispute Sigismund resumes â—be Principolity of Transylvania by means of Bâ—â—zkay Sigismund's Excuses The Turks intermeddle and besiege Varadin but repulsed Sigismunds new practises Alba Regalis attempted by Petards in vain Ibrahim the cheif Viziers Expedition into Hnngary His ravaging Crueltys The end of Michael the valiant Vayvod of Valachia Samoyscius his revenge against him Michael defeated flyes to Prague Csaki ' s Intrigues The French mutiny at Papa Their punishment Sigismund resumes his Principality Sigismund Defeated The Vayvods assassinated Sigismund's the Transylvanians Breach of League with the Turks severely punished Affairs in Illyria Canysa yeilded to the Turks by Paradyser for which he lost his head at Vienna Ferdinands outrages against the Protestants Canysa besieged by Ferdinand The siege broken up Alba Regalis taken by the D. 〈◊〉 Mercâ—ur 〈◊〉 regained by the Turks The Sieges of Buda Pesth Buda's Seige broke up 1603. * Hermanstad Radulo the Vayvods Successes against the Rebels in Transylvania Sultan Mahomet dies 1603 Persecution against the Protestanes in Transylvania Bocskay appears in Transylvania The Imperiallists worsted by Bocskay Bocskay's appearance in Transylvaniaâ— assisted by the Nobility Basta deserted by his Souldiery for want of Pay Bockskays â—nswer to the Emperours Ambassadours His successâ—s Presburgh attempted and Austria invaded by Bockskayâ— Partys The like ravage made in Styria by Nemethus and others Sâ—rigonium 〈◊〉 again to thâ— Tuâ—ks 1605. in the thâ—â—d year of the reign of 〈◊〉 Boczkay doth Homage to the great Vizier at Buda for Transylvania The Emperor makes Peace with Bocskay the reason thereof The Articles of the Peace Peace with the Turk also The Conditions of it Bocskay dyeth and appointeth Homonnai for his successor but the people chuse Rakoczi Matthias gains to himself the Crown of Hungary Matthias allows the Hungarians their Privileges Rakoczi ' s Modesty Prince Bathori defeated by Radulo Vayvod of Valachia He recovers his Losses again His infamous lust * Which he rode in one day being distant 150 English miles Prince Bathori assassinated by some of the Nobles Achmet in preparation for War in Hungary dies 1617. Sultan Oâ—man strangled The Emperors Matthias dieth Ferdinand the 2d K. of Hungary The Bohemian War in Brief Bethlen Gobor takes part with Frederick K. of Bohemia Bethlen ' s successes in Hungary Rakoczi his Vice Roy defeated by Homonnai The Marquesse of Anspach his Treachery The Treachery of the Marquiss of Anspuch The King of Bohemia defeated at Prague Bethlen stiled King of Hungary Tampiri slaiâ— Bohemia lost 1621. Newhausel besieged by Bucqâ—oy Bucquoy slain 1621. Gabâ—iel's new Laterâ— prises in Hungary A Peace betwixt Gabor the Emperour 1622. A new Rupture on the part of Bethlen Gâ—bâ—r Gabor deserted by the Turk renews the Peace with disadvantage 1624. Ferdinand the 3d. K. of Hungary 1626. The Coronation of Ferdinand the third New stirs and an Invasion into Hungary by Bethlen 1627. The Death of Count Mansfeld And of the Duke of Weymar Sacer Ignis And of Bethlen Gabor Anno 1628. Divisions in Transylvania about Election of a new Prince 1631. Rakoczi established Prince of Transylvania Unnatural Disloyalty punished Rakoczi incensed against the Emperour Csakius forceth his peace from Rakoczi Turks assist against Râ—koczi and are defeated The vengeance that pursued David Zolyomi 1633. Bethlen raiseth a new war against Rakoczi 1637. Troubles about Religion in Hungary Maintained and abetted by Rakoczi 1639. 1642. Rakoczi slâ—ghted by the Emperour 1644. War proclaimed by Rakoczi against Ferdinand His manifest and successes Rakoczi yeilds to a Peace with the Emperour 1645. General Torstenson abandoned by Rakoczi Ferdinand the 4th K. of Hungary 1646. Raab designed upon by the Turks Rakoczi's and Ferdinands Death The Swedes invade Poland Rakoczi joyns with him The Transylvanians ravage Poland Cracovia taken by the Swedes and Rakoczi Rakoczi's actions in Poland Deserted by the Swede Rakoczi commanded by the Grand Seigniour to retire out of Poland And to surrender his Principality Fights his way out of Poland 1657. The death of Eerdinand the 3d. Emperourâ— The Vayvod of Valachia worsted in his Quarrel Turks Defeated at Arad The Turks again defeated at Hermanstadr The death of Rakoczi Varadin yeilded Remini Janos the successor of Rakoczi oppressed with numbers A Warbegun in Hungary The German Army moulders away Jâ—mes forced to desist from his Claime The Turks appear with a formidable Army in Hungary Count Forgatz defeated The Siege of Newhausel An Invasion into Moravia Count Serini made Generalissimo The Grond Vizier's aspect upon Presburgh Niutra taken by the Vizier Tyrnaw likewise and other places Comes before Schinta in vain The Vizier departs out of Hungary His rear attaqued Apaffi appears for the Turks 〈◊〉 Actions He Attempts the Mine Towns Novigrad and Leventz yeilded to Apaffi Apaffi seizeth some of the Mine Towns Count Serini moves from his Quarters The Emperour to the diet at Regensburg The Death of the Arch-Duke Charles Joseph The Turks defeated in their passage over the Mur by Count Serini The force of the Empire sumâ—ed up Severall places revolt in Transylvania to Apâ—ffi Count Serini's expedition into the Turks Country The Bridge of Esseck burnt by him Count Serini layes waste the Country round about The Town of Quinque Ecclesiae stormed and sacked by him Sâ—gess taken and Garrisoned by him Count Strini's honourable Return