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A75487	The declaration of the Hungarian War newly published by the most illustrious Michael Apafi, Prince of Transilvania, against His Imperial Majesty, 1682.; Declaratio belli Hungarici. English	Transylvania (Principality). Sovereign (1661-1690 : Apafi Mihály I); Apafi Mihály I, Prince of Transylvania, 1632-1690.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3526A; ESTC R42700	9,268	15

especially that he might destroy the Venecian Common-wealth was active to procure the Turks assistance Francis the first of France when he perceived the ambition and dangerous Power of Charles the fifth did not question the accepting help from the Turk neither was it unglorious in our time for the famous State of Polonia to call the Tartars to their defence against Christians Let therefore the Christian World judge by the foresaid Reasons whether the Hungarian Nation of a most free constitution priviledged by their fundamental Laws with a share of Supream Power reserving in conferring Government natural Liberty exempt from Regal Authority viz. to resist the King in a case hath acted iniquiously in submitting themselves to the illustrious Ottoman Soveraignty engadging by Imperial Faith the restoration of Liberty the security of Religion Life and Honour and maintenance of all Priviledges As for my self who am by off-spring and descent a Hungarian originally the same with that Nation and do acknowledge my self to be erected to a Princely Throne of an Hungarian Dominion by God the founder of Kingdoms and placed as it were on a Watch-Tower to manage the defence of Civil and Religious Priviviledges and repell according to my Power Injuries inferred against a most free people without evidence of any just Cause These causes and respects prompted me to lay hold on Righteous and Necessary Arms to restore Liberty and reduce oppressed exiles Therefore let no discreet and sober person admire my undertaking the Righteous cause of a most renowned Nation especially of my own Blood My scope is that an once most Flourishing Kingdom may be by the help of divine Benignity restored to desired Tranquillity and a most free Nation to the immortal Liberty of their Ancestors it is most Righteous and Conform to Reason to defend Liberty violate against Faith right being granted by express Laws It is just to undertake a defensive War for Friends and Relations violently afflicted the Universal relation of Mankind were a reason of it self sufficient for granting assistance neither is the right of Humane Society suffocate when Kings exerce injuries approveable by no Righteous and Discreet person against free Subjects Moreover I admonish and exhort yea I beseech and obtest all Ranks in Hungary to joyn with me in Righteous and Pious Arms for endeavouring the reduction of Liberties Glory to former splendor by Glorious Achievements and concording Unity Let the vertue of our Predecessors possess our Souls who with their Blood who with their Lives did defend their Liberties There is need of constant and vigorous resolution in affairs of such consequence and what is remaining must be committed to Divine disposal which hath Crowned by-past undertakings and exploits for recovering Liberty with most Blessed events Here is no private controversy nor question about Romish Religion which hath the advantage of the same Priviledge with the Evangelick or reformed our dispute is for our Country our Lives our Fortunes our Honours and the whole Nations Glory They are Hunting unjust Dominion your Blood and Fortunes persue your Liberty which no good man no vertuous man no noble or generous man will lose but with his Life For my part I am conscious of Human frailty nor am I without consideration of Fortunes force I acknowledge all my undertakings subject to a Thousand various incidents but having satisfaction and security of Conscience in serenity and composure of Spirit by Gods assistance I undertake your defence proposing nothing to my self but intrest of publick safety without hesitation I expect prosperous progress and a Blessed period But if any shall betake themselves to the adverse party to advance their Countries overthrow their own temerity trespass and error shall be liable not I to any censure if deserved punishment shall accompany their contumacy But I hope and am confident all ranks and conditions shall direct their counsels thoughts and undertakings to the safety enlargement and intrest of their Country By Blood our Ancestors at first did come to peaceable possession of their Liberties which since by blood hath been secured and maintained and now remains its vindication and recovery from oppression and eversion to be attained and effectuated by Blood I shall be sufficiently remunerate aboundantly honoured if in injoying Liberty I shall see my Countries relief or in case of overthrow my right hand patronizing Liberty shall fall among the Carcasses of my Country-men and my Soul freed from guilt be removed to a better Country The Lord God of Hosts the Just and Omnipotent God Bless from the Highest our sincere and lawful endeavours be the orderer of all our actings and counsels dispose and engadge minds alienate and dissentient to sincere concord confirm the strong encourage the faint-hearted effectuate the undertaking and terminating of all may tend to the everlasting Glory of his Name the restitution of overturned Liberties the peace and tranquility of an afflicted People to the private and publick felicity of all and every one Amen A true Coppy of the Compact and Conditions betwixt the Emperor of the Turks and the Hungarian Male-coontents THe great Emperor of the Turks upon the following conditions constitute and to be performed on both Parts hath received in protection the Hungarians who have suffered extream violence If the Kingdom of Hungary rent from the House of Austria shall become Tributary shall yearly pay the same too and ever continue in Faith and Obedience towards the Ottoman Port or Court which the Hungarians oblidge themselves to perform Hostages being yearly to be sent to the foresaid Port for the ratification of the same The Emperor of the Turks hath bound himself by Oath to restore the Hungarians to former Liberty by strong Hands to repell all violence which may be carried on against them by others and to protect them Above all that he shall exact no tribute from the Hungarians until the affairs of Hungary be reduced to good condition all Tumults being appeased That he shall draw to himself no Town or Fortress of the Hungarians that he shall disturb none in their Liberty Ecclesiastick nor Pollitick that he shall allow unto all the free Exercise of their Religion that he shall give Power to erect and repair Churches Schools and Parioches and to choose a Prince of their own Nation whom they shall judge sufficient the suffrages of the Nations Inhabitants agreeing thereto no Forrain beings to be forcibly obtruded All this is contain'd in the Ach-nam of the great Emperor of the Turks that is in the Obligatory Letters given to the Hungarians corroborate by his own Hand and the Authentick Seal Imperial which the present Prince of Transilvania hath with himself as to whom the whole affair of the Kingdom of Hungary is committed to be decided by open War or pacification with the Emperor of the Romans FINIS LONDON Printed by J. Grantham 1682.

THE DECLARATION OF THE Hungarians War Newly published by the Most Illustrious Michael Apafi Prince of Transilvania against his Imperial Majesty 1682. To the Kings Princes Common-wealths of Christendom to all States and Ranks of the Sacred Roman Empire and lastly to the People of the unfortunate Pononian or Hungarian Nation groaning under the burthen of oppression to everlasting memory Michael Apafi by the Grace of God Prince of Transilvania Lord of part of the Kingdom of Hungary Count of Sic do manifest and bear testimony in simplicity and purity of Faith and Truth AFter that by frowning destinies and destructive idleness of Nobles discording among themselves the ensigns of regal dignity were devolved from Princes of Hungarion Blood to persons of the Austriack Family whence sprang the Fountain of our wounds and miseries they did endeavour by counsels connected and circling in themselves to procure and establish to themselves absolute and hereditary dominion over Hungary destroying and trampling liberty continued inviolate for several Ages before Who though they were oblidged by the sanctity and Religion of a solemn Oath according to the Foundation of free Election which from the very rise of the Kingdom was the first and fundamental Law amongst the Hungarians to presume nothing in prejudice of the Nations Laws and priviledges did notwithstanding seek out various Pretexts that by Liberties distruction the Spirits of the Nations Inhabitants should be made bitter they did esteem sowing and fomenting matter of Dissention for engaging more capacious Souls inclined to Liberty dissatisfactory and repugnant to them against each other to facilitate their overthrow and suppression a mistery of domineering effectual and suitable to their purpose Nor did the preposterous Lust of Dominion contain it self in those Limits but persons of all Ranks were Vehemently pillaged and oppressed by excessive Calamities and intolerable rigour the Barrs of Faith and Solemn Oaths being broak asunder The design and determinate purpose of their intentions was to evert the Fortresses of the Nations Laws and priviledges by gradual and ingeneous machinations and those not succeeding by open force the secret Providence of a displeased God permitting the same Whither because a fatal period was approaching a most Flourishing Kingdom or because the refusers of due obedience to a Lawful Prince of their own Blood were to feel the weight of a Strangers Domineering These miseries received increment by the contempt and dishonour of the Nations Peers and Nobles who contrary to the strength of Law were gradually excluded or removed from Dignities and publick Functions and subjected to insolent Government and Dominion of Strangers so by daily growth of injuries and prevalancy of force the state of Hungary was so far precipatate that scarce a shaddow or vestage of Antient Liberty could be perceived whatsomever once appeared high and glorious was now neglected and trod under Foot ruine and overthrow was prepared for all suspect Vertue Petitions and Complaints were no way prevailent Appeals to Regal fidelity were in vain will Occupied the Chair of Reason whatsomever they pleased or seemed to them expedient was practiced Complaints were sometimes received in show and appearance but in Conformity to the rule of extravagant Authority and for further Torment returned with vain and irrit Words and often eluded by Ludibri and upbrading reproach The Ambition of Governours and Kings Officials their insatiable avarice and Bloody practices of Cruelty did accrew to such a hight that Men were rendred suspect against the King and Noxious to the publick because of their Riches hence were they Robbed by most wicked pretexts their Goods divided and dragged from them either that the Blood-suckers might satiate their voracious Appetites or the Exchequer a place for pillaging the Poor and most infamous receptickle of Horrid Rapines might be cram'd Now the congruous and true names of things were banished to conferr other mens Goods in reward of Treachery was called Clemency to destribute the fortunes of the wandring and illegally exiled amongst Bastards Liberalitie pardoning of Innocents coloured with the name of Mercy in short all things Divine and human was at the disposal of the Germans In the Kingdom was Want Dammage Dishonour and a most Abominable Scheme of affairs When Souls vigorous and impatient of Servitude were burthened above measure with those and innumerable injuries at length the excess of Patience inclining to revenge did betake them selves to just and allowed Remedies calling to mind they had chosen a King by free suffrages not a Master they endeavoured to reduce the extravagent and indirect manner of Governing to its ordinary Channel A Remedy by War is concluded upon immediately sudden meetings a Soul uniting society arising from common hazzard and loss of Liberty together with the justness of their Cause did animate that most Noble Nation to lay hold on necessary and just Arms and endeavour restitution of now buried Liberty to former splendor and integrity without the stain of Rebellion or infidelity according to the tenour of the Decree of King Andrew the 2d surnamed of Jerusalem The magnanimous Hero Stephen Bocskai a man of excellent Ingene famous for War-like Vertue and sagacity repute more than a private person while private did first assault this luxureant force who iritate with excessive injuries with a small number of Assistants but great and undaunted resolution of Soul opposed himself to rageing violence with a high and Heroick spirit assaulted a part of the Emperial Army with happy success did rout and chase the same and persuing his first victory did fill the Kingdom and the World with admirable progress having gained the Honour to be by common consent of the people of Hungary declared Prince of Transilvania and Hungaria and Patron of Liberty which he did not only revive from the dust of Death but did also prescribe due measures to the King then Reigning viz. Rodulphus the second and his successors Circumscribing their Power according to the Laws Limitations Now there appeared most excellent and conducible provision for peace and publick tranquility most ample conditions were ratified in a Treatise by which safety integrity and security of Liberty Civil and Ecclesiastick were assured to the Subjects by Regal Faith and Letters Patents But not long after the Inhabitants experienced Hope to be salacious and humane expectation to be founded upon an unstable bottom for not long after the Peace the most illustrious Bocskai paying his last debt by his untimely death did afford sorrow to the Hungarians and a new occasion for ambition while almost they by the same Burial performed Funeral Solemnity to the Memory of the great Patron of their Liberties and their decaying Liberty a passage to be memorate to all posterity that as it were by a new Funeral their lately regenit Liberties were overwhelmed immediately contrary to Faith and conditions of Peace occasions were catched for breaking the late compacts as if they they had been extorted by force of Arms which were notwithstanding of free choice and