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A57999	The history of the Turks Beginning with the year 1679. Being a full relation of the last troubles in Hungary, with the sieges of Vienna, and Buda, and all the several battles both by sea and land, between the Christians, and the Turks, until the end of the year 1698, and 1699. In which the peace between the Turks, and the confederate Christian princes and states, was happily concluded at Carlowitz in Hungary, by the mediation of His Majesty of Great Britain, and the States General of the United Provinces. With the effigies of the emperors and others of note, engraven at large upon copper, which completes the sixth and last edition of the Turks. In two vol. in folio. By Sir Paul Rycaut, kt. eighteen years consul at Smyrna, now his Majesty's resident at Hamburg, and fellow of the Royal Society.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1700 (1700)	Wing R2408; ESTC R216646	1,015,219	685

and his adherents the Protestants were upon the point of complaining to his Majesty had they not been stopt by the Declaration that was made that they voluntarily subscribed to the Articles of the Pacification of Vienna which they called the Foundation of the Kingdom So that this Edict of Lintz was ratify'd and inserted in the Articles of the year 1647 with this Clause Notwithstanding the opposition of the Clergy and other Seculars which shall have no force or vigour for the future Besides the Subscription of the Pacification of Vienna made by all the States both Ecclesiastick and Civil runs thus We underwritten do with common consent in the name of all the States and Orders of the Kingdom of Hungary and the places annex'd to it promise freely and voluntarily c. The third Argument was That if the Lutherans and Calvinists must be tolerated then those only must be tolerated which are of the Confession of Ausbourg and the Confession of the Swisses But both one and the other had abandon'd those Confessions and they instanced in several Articles from which they had deviated But this last seems only a frivolous shift and shews the Resolution the Clergy had taken to oppress the Protestants and indeed this they had always done when they thought themselves the stronger and notwithstanding that this Liberty was often confirm'd as particularly in the Treaties with Botskai Bethlem and Prince Ragotski yet the Roman Catholick Lords and Gentlemen and especially the arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops persecuted them with Fire and Sword massacr'd them in their Churches and used all manner of Cruelties towards them as far as their Power and Authority could reach so that there remain'd scarce any place of Rest or Security for the Protestants but in the free Cities and those too quickly after were involved in the same misfortune For Nadasti Serini Frangipani and other Catholick Lords taking part with Prince Ragotski against the Emperor in the year 1670. the Austrian Troops entr'd Hungary and carried all before them and with them Troops of Bishops Arch-Bishops and Jesuits whose Actions out-did the Fury of the Soldiers and took this opportunity of dispoiling the Protestants of their Goods Churches Ministers and constrain'd a great part of the People to change their Religion The Protestant Lords were tax'd at immense Sums Soldiers quarter'd upon them and by these means several forc'd to turn Catholicks In short all Upper and Lower Hungary with all the Free Towns fell into the Hands of the Catholicks whose Severities and Cruelties as they found nothing to oppose them so they suffer'd nothing to escape them And this miserable Kingdom labour'd at once under the Licence and Rapine of the German Soldiers and the Rage and Fury of the Jesuitical Converters The Protestants were hang'd up at their Church Gates and several of their Towns burnt One John Backi a Minister was burnt a live at Comarin and the Widow of Laurent le Sur who was of the same Profession had her Head cut off in the same Town And multitudes of both Sexes and all Ages and Conditions were banish'd To Authorize these Cruelties at least to give them a fair gloss they constituted a Chamber of Justices at Poson compos'd of Ecclesiasticks and Seculars all sworn Enemies to the Protestants where it was first order'd That the most considerable Persons should be cited to appear and clear themselves of the Crime of Rebellion laid to their charge They began with those of the Nobility which they thought the easiest to be wrought upon They which made their appearance were thrown into Prison without being judicially heard condemn'd to great Fines and were each minute solicited to change their Religion A Declaration was presented to those whom they found most firm and constant whereby they were required that to satisfy his Imperial Majesty of their Loyalty and Obedience they should no longer protect their Ministers and should promise not to hinder the Priests from saying Mass in their Churches or performing other Ecclesiastical Functions till they were enlightn'd from above saw their Errors and were converted to the Catholick Church But the greatest Storm fell upon the Ministers at whom they chiefly aim'd and that they might get rid of them the better they establish'd three Courts of Judicature One at Tirnavia for those of Poson and two at Poson for the rest of Hungary Nor were they all cited for fear of making too much noise but a few and those of the Ausbourg Confession to try what success they were like to expect from the Prosecution of the rest And because they chiefly design'd to ruin the Protestant Religion under pretence of Rebellion they presented those that appear'd these following Articles to sign 1st That all the Ministers of both Confessions School-Masters Readers Students c. to escape the Punishments which they had incurred for their Rebellion should promise under their Hands to renounce all their Functions both publick and private and pass the rest of their Lives peaceably and quietly upon pain of Death if they disobey'd Or 2ly That they should be banish'd for ever with promise never to return to their Country or to any of the Hereditary Lands or other dependencies on the Empire nor yet to go over to their Enemies Or 3ly That they should change their Religion which his Majesty chiefly wish'd and design'd and which would be most agreeable both to him and to the Courts of Justice The 25th of September 1673. Some Ministers to the number of 32 or 33 appear'd and being threatned to be sentenc'd to die if they sign'd not the foregoing Articles some consented others chose to be banish'd and one chang'd his Religion This lucky beginning encourag'd them to proceed and finding fear to be the strongest motive to work upon them they cited all the Ministers Regents School-Masters c. of Hungary to appear before them which caused a strange consternation amongst them and produced very different effects some of them the Nobility would not suffer to appear others fled some again abandoned themselves to the care of Providence made their appearance at Poson to justifie their Innocence from these horrible Calumnies with which they were blackn'd to testifie their obedience and submission to the Magistrate and to satisfie their Churches who earnestly begg'd of them not to forsake them in that calamitous Condition There were 250 Ministers that appear'd and by their Tryals two long to repeat it appears That their Religion was the chief Crime and tho' other things were laid to their Charge yet all was but pretence they used all means to intimidate them and to shake that great constancy which they shew'd for their Religion they sentenced them to death imprisoned them threatned them with the Gallies and employ'd all the pernicious arts of torment and vexation that a persecuting spirit could contrive to shake or surprize the Frailty of Man dragged them into their Churches forced them upon their Knees to adore the Host and their Images let loose the fury of

the Lords of the Privy Council so to Establish us in the Liberty of Religion to the Immortal Fame of Your Royal Government after the Example of Your Glorious Predecessors that being reliev'd We may speedily Return to our Principals and God will recompence this Imperial Royal Favour with all sort of Happines from above Deliver'd to His Sacred Majesty at Aix la Chapelle upon his going to Vienna the 24th day of April in the year 1689. Your most Sacred Majesty's most Humble and Faithful Subjects the Deputies of the Evangelicks in the Counties Cities Towns and Frontiers of Upper and Lower Hungary about the Business of their distressed Religion The First Article of the Peace of Vienna in the Year 1606. AS to the Business of Religion notwithstanding the former publick Constitutions and the last Article of the Year 1604 which was made without the Diet and the consent of the Subjects and therefore is annulled it is granted That according to his Imperial Majesty's former Resolution to which the Subjects refer themselves in their replying all and each State of the Kingdom of Hungary as well the Peers and Noblemen as the free Cities and the Privileged Towns belonging immediately to the Crown and all the Hungarian Soldiers in the Frontiers shall any where and at any time profess and exercise their Religion without any Disturbance either from His most Sacr'd Majesty or from any Person whatsoever a free exercise of Religion being hereby granted to all the said States of the Kingdom Provided always That the Roman Catholick Religion be not thereby prejudiced That the Roman Catholick Clergy Churches and Chappels remain free and unmolested and that what has been taken from them in these Troubles be restor'd The First Article made before the Coronation in the Year 1608. concerning Religion COncerning the first Article of the Treaty of Vienna it is resolv'd by the States and Orders of Hungary that the Exercises of Religion shall be left free not only to the Noblemen and to the Inhabitants of the free Cities but also to the Hungarian Soldiers in the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Hungary and to all the Farmers and Peasant that will freely accept the same nor shall any of 'em be disturbed in the free Exercise of Religion but to prevent any effect of hatr'd and dissension between Roman Catholicks and Protestants It is Order'd That each Party shall have a Superior or Surperintendant of his own Profession Although this last first Article of the Year 1608 was renew'd in 77th Article of the Year 1618 inserted in the General Constitutions of the Kingdom by Order of the Emperor Ferdinand the Second in the Year 1622 restor'd to his Force by the 22d Article of the Year 1625 by the 33d Article of the Year 1630 and by the 29th Article of the Year 1635 confirm'd in the 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14th Articles of the new Treaty of Peace made with George Ragoczy Prince of Transilvania in the Year 1648 Ratifyed both in the aforenamed Articles of 1649 and in the 10th Article of the Year 1649 and in the 18th Article of the Year 1655 made at Rakoczia and lastly confirm'd again and inserted in the Constitutions of the Kingdom by Order of Leopold the present Emperor in the Year 1659 yet notwithstanding all these the said Article remains without Force and the Exercise of the Protestant Religion is wholly exterminated against the Articles and the publick Constitutions of the Kingdom as well as against the Sacred Imperial Letters Patent And yet all this contributed little towards a Peace for the Results of this Diet concerned none but the good and quiet Men and such as were zealous for the Settlement and Peace of their Country Whilest Tekeli and others of that Spirit whose Minds were possess'd with virulent Malice and Ambition were plotting and contriving the means to set up their own Authority and give themselves into the Hands of the Turks rather than to the Power of their Sovereign Prince of whose natural Clemency thô they were well assur'd yet they suspected and fear'd his Councils which being chiefly influenced and directed by Jesuits and the Spirit of the Clergy could never be reconciled in any tollerable manner to the Protestant profession Tekeli besieges Kalo Thus whilest things were Negotiating in the Diet Tekeli besieg'd Kalo which surrendr'd at discretion with little or no resistance and Prince Apafi joyning with some Parties of the Malecontents laid Seige to Zatmar with an Army composed of Transilvanians Moldavians Turks and Malecontents of Hungary all which acted in four separate Bodies being well provided with Cannon and all sorts of Ammunition and Provisions so soon as Apafi had form'd his Siege he put forth a Manifest or Declaration which he caused to be privately stolen into the Town and there dispers'd signifying that out of Christian piety and compassion to the miserable state of that Kingdom Apafi's Declaration he had left his Country and Dwelling with no other intent than only to cause their Churches to be restor'd to them with a free Liberty of Conscience and Exercise of Religion and that their Estates which had been confiscated for the sake of their Religion and defence of their Rights and Privileges might be again restor'd to them To which he added many Solemn Protestations that he had no other end nor intention than the welfare and happiness of the Kingdom Farther also he said that he had a power sufficient for this Enterprise being well seconded by the Grand Seignior and acted by his Commission and that the Succession to the Principality was promised unto his Son to whom besides the Forces with him he had left a Guard of 20.000 Men. Having made thus much known to the Inhabitants of Zatmar he vigorously proceeded in the Siege Apafi invests Zatmar having received a Recruit of 8000 Men from the Pasha of Buda being a Detachment from 40.000 which were Encamp'd before the place whereof he was Governour And thô with these Forces the Town of Zatmar was taken yet Serini who Commanded the place retiring into the Castle or Citadel he so well defended the same that Apafi was forc'd to raise the Siege and march away burning several Towns The Siege raised and taking a Thousand Prisoners in his Retreat The raising of this Siege was variously interpreted and so ill taken by the Turks that Complaints were made thereof against Apafi at the Port. But it was no time now to make alterations or disturbances in Transilvania Towards the end of this year the Emperor being desirous to Crown the Empress at Oedembourg sent a Convoy of 500 Hussars 100 Heyduks The Empress Crowned Queen of Hungary and 500 Cuirassiers to fetch the Crown of St. Stephen from the Castle of Presburg where it is always lodg'd which being brought thither the Empress was Crown'd Queen of Hungary with great Solemnity And that this Ceremony might be performed with the more order and security a Cessation