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A57997	The history of the Turkish Empire, from the year 1623, to the year 1677 Containing the reigns of the three last emperors, viz. Sultan Morat, or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the thirteenth emperor, now reigning. By Sir Paul Rycaut, late consul of Smyrna.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610. Generall historie of the Turkes. aut; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688. History of the Turkish Empire continued. aut; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Memoirs. aut; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1687 (1687)	Wing R2407; ESTC R8667	720,857	331

for nothing unless Succours were great and quick The Duke who was careful in informing the Emperour the King of Poland and the Elector of Saxony of all he could learn of the state of the besieged failed not to quicken the Auxiliaries to communicate his Intelligence and Letters to them He dispatch'd Count Caraffa to the King of Poland with them and hasten'd the march of General Sinariski who was come into Silesia six days since This Count had also in charge to pray his Majesty of Poland to come with the first Troops as well for the esteem he had of his Merits as because he believed that upon the Kings advance the gross of his Army would follow with more diligence After he had dispatched C. Caraffa he sent the Count Schaffenberg to the Elector of Saxony to provide Waggons and Carriages for the Auxiliary Troops by the way as they should pass As he did not doubt but that these pressing Letters would quicken th advance of the Troops he thought he was obliged to provide also for the passage of the Danube and in order to it resolved to go to Krembs whereof he advertised the Emperour by an Express About the same time C. Starenberg had News from his Highness of the defeat of C. Tekely near Presburg as also of the taking of a great Convoy that was going to the Ottoman Army and that the King of Poland was upon his march to succour the Place This good News infused Joy into the whole City and was welcomed with all the Artillery and the ringing of all their Bells As every little Success encourages Souldiers at least to hope so it far'd here A Scholar having killed a Janizary and ripped open his Stomach found ten Duckats in Gold in it and a Souldier having after a stiff Combat disarmed a Janizary cut off his Head with his own Sable Searching him afterwards he found a Girdle about him full of Moneys which he hid so well that his Comrades did not discover it Being returned into the City having unstitch'd his purchase he found an 100 Sequins of Gold. He was so transported at the sight with Joy that he ran like a Mad-man through the Strees clapping his Hands and shewing his Gold to every body making it appear by his Extravagancies that he thought himself happier than the Emperour His good Fortune gave Courage to his Companions upon hopes of the like Adventure making them good Anatomists and diligent Waiters The Duke of Lorrain left Anneren encampt at Volgerdorp He there received Letters from the Count Caplier and Starenberg The first pressed strongly for Relief by reason of the Diminution of the Garrison and the Ammunitions of War. The Style of the second Letter was upon the brave and seemed of a Person not greatly concerned but in the three last Lines being in Cypher he besought the Duke for speedy Succours because the Retrenchments and cuttings off in the Lebel Bastion were very slight that his Ammunitions and Officers failed him and that he every day lost many of his Men. His Highness return'd him answers full of comfort advertising him of the state of the advance of the Auxiliaries and the certitude of his Relief In order to it be quits Volgerdorp and marched to Stokerau the better from thence to discover the Isles of the Danube and chuse a place for making a Bridge for his Passage Some of the great ones were of Opinion that Vienna ought to be relieved by the Plain passing the Danube at Presburg this Opinion found many partisans their reason was that the Army posting it self above the City would cut off the Communication of the Besiegers with those Countries from whence they drew their Provisions which being done they judged the Turks would retire without the Christians hazarding of a Battel This reasoning did not want appearance if it could be done before the Besieged were too much pressed but the Enemies main force consisting in Horse that of the Imperialists in Foot the Duke thought Inclosures preferrable to the Plains besides the Allies not being able to meet at Krembs before the Month of September many days would be spent in marching thence to Presburg and laying a Bridge over the River there in a time when the condition of the Siege demanded all their haste Moreover the Construction of a Bridge in that place was difficult especially if the Enemy detached any strong Parties to oppose them as they might easily do insomuch that the Duke who had in the beginning of the Siege looked upon the Mountains of Kalemberg as the surest way for the Relief of Vienna without any farther amusing himself resolved to pass the Army at Tuln and Krembs disposing all things accordingly for the Execution of this Design He did not believe the Enemy would come thither to oppose him not only because part of his Army and of that of the Bavarians was already on the other side of the Danube and maintained themselves there without attempts of the Turks to dislodge them but also because it would be dangerous for these Infidels to engage themselves with a great Body of Horse beyond the Streights or narrow Passages of the Forest of Vienna Many were the Messengers and Spies which past betwixt the Duke and Besieged his Highness being careful to encourage and inform them He now again assures them that the Army composed of Bavarians Saxons Poles and the Imperial Troops approach'd Krembs That the King of Poland Commanded it in Person and that he was accompanied by the Electors of Bavaria and Saxony That the Emperour was removed from Passaw to Lintz to be nearer Vienna so that now there was nothing more required for the saving of Christendom but a little more resistance being all the Troops were ready to march He added that he himself was going to Krembs to prepare the Bridges and every other necessary thing to the end that nothing should retard the Succour of the Place assuring moreover the Governour that he would expose himself to all dangers to force the Enemy from the Siege Fortune did begin now to favour them being Tekely had been defeated at Presburg and by the River of Marcka with great loss This News caused a sensible Joy in all the Inhabitants and particularly the Ecclesiasticks whereof many were troubled with bloody Fluxes and very many considerable Persons had been dead of it The cause of this Disease may well be attributed to the ill Diet the richest sort being forced to eat salt meats differing from the Delicacies of their former feeding besides the Meal they made their Bread of was neither clean nor well ground The Duke in the mean time caused some Troops of the Regiments of Grana and Baden to secure Tuln Aug. 22. where there was a stone Wall and a Ditch for he designed to preserve that Town and make it one of the heads of his Bridge the next day he went to discover the Ilets of the Danube and having found them useful for his Design he commanded ways to

by a common and unanimous Suffrage elected Francesco Erizzo then Doge General of the Sea judging that their Arms would prosper under his Command which had formerly been successful under the auspicious Conduct of his Ancestors and he though a Person of seventy four Years worn out with Age and Cares of the Publick did yet chearfully consecrate the remainder of his days to the Service of his Country But whilst he prepared to crown the end of his Life with the Glory of this important and generous Enterprize Death terminated all his Intentions leaving him with the honourable memory of his past Actions and with a Lawrel hanging over his Head which had his Life continued had been planted on his Brows But that this Accident might not give interruption to the weighty Affairs now in had Molino took his place and proceeded in his Voyage and Designs and arrived with the Venetian Fleet at the Island of Corfu In the mean time the Turkish Fleet careened and fitted themselves at Navarine with all Necessaries to assault Candia in which interim advice came to Canea that the the Bailo was imprisoned at Constantinople by a Letter from Soranço himself which he had dropped from the Window of his close restraint and dispatched by one of his Confidents with a Vessel express which was not sooner arrived than it was that Night confirmed by all the Beacons or Watch-Towers of the Country who having discoverd the Turkish Fleet far distant as Sea gave a general Alarm by the Fires they made The next Morning being the 23 / 13 of June they discovered the whole Fleet near Cape Spada which being drawn up in the form of an half Moon took up a vast tract of Sea and sailing slowly with fair Weather and a smooth Sea displayed themselves with the greatest terrour imaginable to the Islanders At length the lighter Vessels began to edge in with the Bank of Gogna which is a place distant about eighteen miles from Canea and were followed by the grosser and heavier part of the Armata And now before I proceed farther I should make a pause and describe the Antiquity the Geography and the present State of this famous and renowned Island but that is already performed so distinctly and elegantly by other Pens that it shall be sufficient for me to declare here in brief terms how this Kingdom became the Patrimony or Possession of Venice In the Year 1204 a Sale thereof was made to this Republick by the Marquess Bonifaccio of Montferratto by an Instrument sealed the 12th of August at Adrianople and signed and delivered in the presence of Marco Sanudo and Ravano du Verona Ambassadours in the time of Enrigo Dandola Doge but the People of this Island not consenting unto the sale opposed themselves against it until the Venetians by force of Arms procured their Obedience and confirmed their purchase by a double Title Hereupon such noble Citizens as adventured their Lives in his acquisition obtained the Estates of the Rebellious Greeks being obliged in proportion to the Lands they held to maintain Men and Horse at their own Charge and are therefore called the Feudatary Cavalry So that the whole Country is divided into three parts viz. the noble Venetians or Cavalry secondly the noble Candiots or Colony which were Infantry that came to inhabit from Venice and thirdly the Greeks or Natives of the Country which never rebelled but took part with the Venetian State the first two speak Italian and are of the Roman Church the others speak Greek and conserve the Right of that Religion The Ottoman Fleet now touching the Shoar at Gogna took Livery and Seizin quietly of that flourishing Isle of Candia where they Encamped a while to refresh their Forces and prepare all things in order to their Conquest In the mean time the news hereof alarmed all Venice and not only hastened them in the expedition of their Fleet but warmed their applications to all Christian Princes from whom they craved help in the general defence of Christendom which some at first imagined would have been granted as it was once in the time of the Holy War or that those whom the Declaration of a common Crusada or Devotion or sense of Religion could not move yet at least the consideration of their Countries Defence or the maintenance of a Bulwark of Christendom might perswade to wage Arms against the Turk as a Common Enemy but what cold Apprehensions the Christian Princes entertained hereof both the faint Supplies and Assistances they administred and their bloody and vigorous Wars one against another have abundantly testified to the fatal loss and ruin of that Country And though in the beginning there were better hopes by means of the Pope's earnest intercession with all the Princes of Italy to whom he shewed a fair Example by uniting his own Gallies with the Venetian Fleet and amongst the rest prevailed also with the Republick of Genoua to employ their Gallies in this Noble Enterprize which tended to the Glory of God and the common Safety and Preservation of Italy yet that Leaven of vain Punctilio's which hath so often betrayed the Christian Cause to the advantage of the Turk gave a stop for some time to these Proceedings For before they would enter into Arms they desired the Genoeses that the right of bearing the Flag should first be determined in favour of their Admiral before that of Toscany or Malta And though the Pope to take away this occasion of dispute proposed to have no other Flag worn besides his own under which all Italian Princes without impeachment of their Honour as Auxiliaries and Military Adventurers might promiscuously wage War yet this could not appear satisfactory to the Genoeses who not only took this occasion to demand the precedency before Toscany and Malta to which the G. Duke who was not inferiour in State and superiour in Title and the Malteses who time out of mind and by Decree of Charles the Fifth claimed Precedency on the Seas before them would never assent but also thought fit to avail themselves in this Conjuncture to obtain from the Pope the Grant of a Royal Court and that Treatment which is given to Kings or Crowned Heads But because these Demands seemed to contain those Difficulties in them which could not be granted without the manifest displeasure of other Princes the Pope resolved to afford what assistance he could from himself and therefore granted a Levy of a thousand Foot out of his own Dominions with free liberty to buy what Ammunition and Provisions were to be found in the Ecclesiastical State with imposition of a double Tithe or Tenth on the Goods and Dominions of the Clergy so that these Succours of the Pope and the Auxiliary Forces of Naples Toscany and Malta under the Command of Prince Ludovisio General of the Church being united to the Venetian Fleet did speedily compose a most puissant and formidable Force however by reason of Dissentions amongst the Commanders and other Misfortunes derived

Recruits of Men and Provisions to land and hearing that the Venetians lay before Canea having fortified a Rock called St. Todoro at the mouth of that Port he resolved for Retimo but pursuits or intelligence of the Enemies being in the way or his own fears still prevented him until at length he was forced to Gira-Petra a small and obscure place far distant from the City of Candia and the way thither by land rocky and almost unpassable for Beasts of Burden howsoever the Men and Ammunition were there landed with that haste and expedition that in less than thirty hours time the Captain Pasha was again upon his return for Scio leaving the Souldiery and the Ammunition he had disbarked to find a passage through the Rocks and Mountains At which the Vizier was so displeased that he sent the Captain Pasha this Message That the next time he should forbear to bring farther supplies until he could find a more commodious Port wherein to land them In this manner the Marine Affairs passed this year at Sea the Turkish Fleet having besides other succours transported Ibrahim Pasha of Damascus with eight hundred Spahees unto Candia whom we mentioned formerly to have been Pasha of Grand Cairo and married to the Grand Signior's Sister and being one with whom I had a former acquaintance and who was a great friend to the English Nation I made him a visit as he passed through Smyrna Whilst these matters were transacting at Sea on the 7th of January arrived the new Proveditor General Bernardo Nani and Sergeant General Muteo Matei with five hundred Foot sent by the Pope who gave Licence for destruction of some Monasteries whose Orders were judged less necessary in the Venetian State that their Revenue might be applied to the service of this War after Arrival of which succours a general Muster was made of the whole Garrison and the number thereof reckoned to amount unto eight thousand fighting Men though soon afterwards continual action and exploits of War decimated the number and many of the brave Commanders being taken off every tenth man perished and rendred the place in a condition which required continual supplies For many and various were the attempts and actions performed on both sides under the Walls of Candia and first the Turks began to make appear a Battery which they had raised on the side of the Lazaretto which so offended tho Port that there was no harbour or access for Vessels On the contrary to which by the Fort of St. Andrea another Battery was raised which offended Tramata very much which was another small harbour capable only to receive Boats or Barks the passage to which was so annoyed now by the Enemies Cannon that no Vessel could go in or out unless in the Night and that too with some difficulty and danger The Turks gaining advantage on the side of St. Andrea The Turks resolve to make their passage by St Andrea applied their whole strength and diligence to that part and one dark Night passing undiscovered along the Seas they silently fixed a Cord to the Palisade of St. Andrea and with an Engine strained it so violently that they tore away several of the main Stakes of the Work without being perceived by the Centinels who paid for that neglect with the price of their lives upon which success they continued to advance their lines on that side which Marquess Villa perceiving resolved to hinder by some valiant sallies And first two hundred brave men selected out of several Regiments conducted by Sergeant Major Motta issued out from Panigra and taking their way along the Sea bravely mixed with the Turks and put them to flight A Sally made by the Christians and though the Alarm thereof brought a Concourse of Turks from all parts of the Camp yet the Christians stood so stoutly to it that they struck a terror to their Enemies and once forced them to a Retreat within their Trenches and at length after they had overthrown certain Redoubts and Traverses they gave back with good order returning with Victory and Glory which bravery the Captain General-acknowledged to all and encouraged in the common Souldiery with a Present of fifty Zechins This success gave the besieged opportunity to finish their Platforms which they had raised on the side of the Ditch adjoining to the Bulwark of St. Andrea on which they planted two pieces of Cannon which carried fifty pound Bullet a piece which much disturbed the Enemies Traverses Howsoever the Turks with indefatigable pains and invincible patience battered the little Tower of Priuli the Curtain and Revelin of St. Andrea and employed all their power and attention to fill the Ditch with Faggots Earth and other Rubbish On the 29th of February after the Christians had first made a Breach on the Enemies Redoubt which confronted the Revelin of St. Andrea and sprang five Mines one after the other a second Sally was made by a considerable Body of the besieged consisting of two hundred French and Savoyards three hundred Italians two hundred Germans and a hundred and twenty horsemen Another Sally who issued forth with that Gallantry that driving the Turks under Covert advanced far within their Works with which Demonstration of honour the Captain-General being satisfied they made the smoke which was a Signal for their Retreat so that returning victorious without much loss that day was remarkable and numbred amongst the other days which were esteemed successful and fortunate in that Siege Howsoever the Turks with admirable patience and assiduity crept forward by their Traverses and help of their great shot on the Bastion of St. Andrea which whilst Augustine Rostayne Adjutant of Marquess Villa considered he was taken off by a Cannon Bullet and yet the Turks could not advance so fast but that the Engineer Maupassan gave some retardment to their progress by firing a Mine which overthrew two of their Redoubts and afforded them new work to repair them and the adjoining Traverses This was the present state of the miserable Candia when the Duke of Savoy recalled his Subject Marquess Villa from his honourable employment Marquess Villa returns into Italy and a Ship called Alexander the Great by appointment of the Venetian Senate arrived at Standia to transport him and his Family to Venice so that on the 22 / 12 of April accompanied to Tramata by all the principal Officers of the Garrison he embarked in order to his Voyage whose place was about two Months after supplied by the Marquess St. Andrea Monthrun a Nobleman of France with whom the Venetian Ambassadour at Paris by order of that Republick had prevailed to take upon him the defence and protection of that deplorable City reduced now almost to its ulti●●●● Crisis I cannot adventure to assign the reasons that might induce the Duke of Savoy to recal the worthy Governour from this glorious action Some say that those who were emulous of his glory procured his revocation Others that the Marquess himself desired

Grand Signior and his Officers had greatly resented the sufferings of Hoffse-bey and that they owned his cause having stopt the four Ships of Tunis at Constantinople and had promised to furnish him with a whole Chamber of Janisaries with a Licence to raise such Voluntiers on the Sea-coast of Asia as would willingly and of their own accord follow his Colours I had not many days given them this intelligence which others confirmed in like manner before Hoffse-bey himself with his four men of War and two other hired Ships arrived in the Port of Smyrna where having stayed some days to taken in provisions and embark those who had listed themselves for his service in those Parts they departed for Tunis touching at Scio Navarine and Tripoly in their Way reinforcing themselves with such as voluntarily followed their Standard The Messengers posted back with all speed on a Vessel hired at Smyrna and arriving some time before Hoffse-bey rendered an account of the treatment which he had found at Constantinople with the particulars of the forces he brought with him The Tunesines being prepared with this intelligence took courage to oppose a handful of men to whom they refused License so much as to one man of them to land only out of respect to the Grand Signior's Commands they were willing to admit Hoffse-bey to a treaty and to receive him ashoar with three or four Servants and COmpanions They sleightly perused his Papers rather to discover his strength and the porgress of his negotiations then with intentions to condescend in the least to his desires which having done and given permission to see his house and visit his wife and children they hastned him again aboard and all the Country being in Arms they threatned to treat him and his People as Enemies if they adventured to make a descent Hoffse-bey being discouraged with this rude Treatment and with the Union and general Confederacy of the people against him contrary to his expectations returned to Navarine where he landed discharged his Ships and Souldiers which lay too heavy upon a Private Purse and retired himself for some time with much melancholy and discontent at length he travelled again to Constantinople where the Turkish Officers attended his coming with open mouths expecting to share once more in the recruits he had brought with him from Tunis But his stock being low he was not able to dispense his mony and presents so generously and plentifully as before which the Turks perceiving fell much in their respects for him and strangly on a suddain lost wholly the zeal and compassion for his cause suffering him to live at Constantinople in the Condition of a private Aga. In the mean time the disturbances and civil dissentions ran high at Tunis the two Brothers waging War with various and interchangeable success caused such agitions in the State that in three months time four Deys were cut off At length the younger Brother Ciddi Ali gaining the Victory and always inclining towards his Uncle consented that he should be recalled from Constantinople whereupon four Ships were fitted at Porto Farina to carry presents of atonement to Constantinople and to bring Hoffse-bey from thence with Title of Pasha whom the people now expected with great impatience as the only Person whose Presence and Authority was able to settle and restore them to their former quietness and union This happened in the year 1677 when the Country was so harrassed with Civil Wars that a miserable Famine ensued so that a Cafficé of Wheat which was ten Bushels was sold for twenty eight Dollars and of Barly for fourteen and the scarcity of this Country which is commonly the Granary of Italy had such influence on those parts and Spain in the years 1677 and 1678 that the Sate of the Grand Duke of Tuscany suffered much thereby and had more had not the State of Luca out of Friendship and on the score of Neighbourhood relieved their necessities Anno 1675. Hegeira 1086. PRopositions of peace not being so earnestly pressed nor so advantageously proffered by the Poles as the pride of the Turks did expect the War still continued but not prosecuted either on the one side or on the other with the same violence with which it began For the Sultan designing this year to circumcise his Son the young Prince now about twelve years of Age and to marry his Daughter of seven to his Mosayp or Favourite Pasha of Magnasia commonly called by the Name of Kul-ogli which signifies the Son of a Slave he resolved todedicate this whole Year to quiet repose mirth and jollity at home only two thousand Janisaries were sent to Ibrahim Pasha to recruit the Souldiers on the Frontiers of Poland and the Tartars were reinforced with some Turkish Troops under Vsuff Pasha to assist Dorosensko against the Poles who were with a considerable Army fallen into Vkrania And the Captain Pasha with twenty eight Sail of Gallies was dispeeded into the Black Sea for carrying of such Provisions and Ammunition for War as was necessary for supply of the Army Besides which no preparations of War were designed these being judged sufficient though not to conquer yet at least to repress the Incursions and amuse or keep the Armes of the Enemy employed For at the Cttoman Court the sace of all things was become serene and calm no Seditinos of great men nor discontents of the people nor balck and cruel designs of State disturbed or clouded the splendour of the Solemnities The happy state of the Ottoman Court. or the brows of the great Statists but all matters ran in an uninterrupted course of Joy and Festivity The Sultan who in his action shewed himself a most benign Prince sparing and compassionate of the blood and misery of his Subjects hath since his arrival to a mature Age exercised a wise manner of Government severe and just and yet void of the cruelty and tyranny of his Ancestors under whom the trading Christian enjoyed the privilege of their Capitulations with more justice and less frequent Avanias The Vizier also and other great Officers being sensible of the benefit which Trade begat treated Merchants with more gentleness and respect than in former times their Ships not being forced on every occasion into the Grand Signior's service but rather perswaded to it by rewards and fair promises otherwise than in the times of former Viziers and it is to be wished also that the like might be said under the Government of those which are to succeed though if we look forward to the years 1678 and 1679 we shall find the Scene of things altered and not only Merchants but even Ambassadors and the Representatives themselves remain under sad discouragements Amongst these joys and gentle ways of Government the manner of this Court was much altered the Divan had not for two months space been opened for business to the great prejudice and interruption of Justice Wine that great abomination to the Turkish Law which four years past was

Cracovia till the 16th Instant that the Troops of Saxony would have their Rendezvous at Dresden the 4th and that those of Frankonia would not begin to march before the 11th These Succours appearing remote and the duration of the Defence of Vienna incertain his Highness resolved to approach the Enemies Quarters He thought that he should be able by the Twentieth of August with his Forces as well Imperialists as Bavarians and the Troops of Polanders which should enter into Silesia to pass the Daunbe at Krembs and advance with that Body towards the Heights near the Camp of the Enemies with design to maintain himself there till the arrival of the Allies During this he might weary out the Infidels animate the Besieged in their Defence and hold himself in a Condition to force a Post for the relief of the Place according to the necessity of Affairs He sent Count Palfi to Court to acquaint his Imperial Majesty with the Design and press the march of the Troops which might be got together by that time and some other disposal of Boats and Provisions necessary for that Expedition After he had dispatch'd the Count he was informed that Count Tekely had sent Boats to the Turks that he had passed the Danube and that they were seen from Entserdorff a little Town seated upon that River where the Imperialists had some Magazins The Duke marched thither with four Regiments and thence to the Bridge of Vienna where having learned that the Enemy had possessed themselves of a small Island and that they had taken Boats from the Peasants who had retired into the said Isle he ordered the Baron of Mercy to dislodge them thence and returned to Entserdorff Mercy caused his Cannon to advance upon the opposite shoar to the Isle with the Dragoons of Savoy which guarded the Bridge and having broken these Boats with his great Shot he reduced the Turks to an Inability of being able to get out of the Tabor or Leopold's Isle As soon as Tekely understood that the Imperialists were returned towards Vienna he summoned Moravia to pay him Contribution The Duke being advertised of it returned to Ancren upon the Mark to defend that Province against the Malecontents He was informed upon his arrival there that a party of them had repassed that River that day and burnt some Villages He detached presently 500 Polanders to pursue them seconding them with some Horse and Dragoons who encountering them two Leagues from Ancren loaden with Spoyl they attack'd them so briskly though far inferior in number that they killed 500 released the Prisoners recovered all the Booty and took ten or twelve of their Standards The Siege was carried on with no less bravery than it was sustained and being several who were out of Employment were necessitous an Ordinance was published intimating that Monies and Provisions should be given to all such who would inroll themselves with assurance they should not be obliged to serve after the Siege Many accepted of the Condition received three Patacoons each advance Moneys and were regalled with Bread and Wine by the care of the Prince of Swartzenberg and by the Liberality of the Religious and the Citizens Wine never failed nor indeed fresh Meat for the sick store of Cattel having been twice brought in by sally during the Siege The Magistrates had by the Governours Order taxed the Ecclesiasticks the Cloysters the Citizens and the Peasants who were refuged in the City to furnish for the use of the Souldiers the hundredth Pint which was punctually executed there being none that refused to pay this Imposition the greatest Lords and the Emperours Officers not exempting themselves upon this Occasion St. Stephens Steeple being very obnoxious to the Turks by reason of its height and the great extent of its Discoveries was much shot at by them though Solyman when he besieged Vienna had declined ruining so noble a Fabrick upon no other Terms but that they should put a a Half Moon the Arms of that Empire upon the Spire of it which was still up The Centinel that was there the 7th perceived betwixt the River Mark and Moravia on the other side the Danube Fire and Smoke which lasted till eight a Clock C. Starenberg judg'd they were C. Tekely's Troops who in passing the Waagh had skirmished with the Imperialists and it proved so as he found by the return of one of his Spyes which he had sent to the Duke The account he gave was that the Turks having detatched 3000 Horse to discover the Succors which were arrived in the Princes Army out of Saxony Bavaria and the Circles these Infidels fell into an Ambuscade which was laid for them and where most of them were cut in pieces that an Aga Count Tekely's Secretary and an Hungarian Count since dead of his Wounds were taken Prisoners that the Imperialists had taken a great number of the Enemies Waggons with Baggage and that since this Advantage many of the chief of the Malecontents were come in to the Duke Collonel Heister having passed the Danube at Closternemburg took four hundred of the Enemies Horse On the other side the Malecontents continued to send small parties into Moravia who set fire by Night on the Houses and Villages and as it was a hard matter to remedy these Disorders by force of Arms the Duke judged that the best way to repress them was by that of Reprizals He caused Tekely to be advertised that he would send Orders to Zatmar and to all the Emperours Garrisons to burn the Palaces and Houses of all them of his party This threatning put a stop to these Incendiaries for he thereupon sent a Person to Chevalier Labormiski under pretext of an Envoy to the King of Poland to the end he might inform the Duke of Lorrain that he had not commanded those burnings and that they should hear no more of them About this time Count Albret Caprara the Emperours Envoy at Constantinople had Permission given him by the Grand Visier to return to his Master and having passed by Tuln he had in charge to propose to his Imperial Majesty that upon the Cession of Raab he would abandon the Siege of Vienna Kotlinski a Lieutenant upon promise of the first vacant Company had been dispatched from Vienna to the Duke one from the Deputies of the Council of State and the rest from the County Caplier and Starenberg The first for they were of several dates marked the danger the Counterscharp was in others gave an account of the state of the Siege minding him of the Necessities of the place and the Accidents that might happen and praying him to hasten the Succours and these were writ by the Governour Caplier's Letters particulariz'd the slain and wounded finishing with earnestness for Relief praying him to consider the Officers their want of Granados their stock being near spent and the Disposition of the Citizens not to be relied upon The last Letter marked that C. Starenberg was sick of a bloody Flux and could answer