resolved to punish This Undertaking in his Vassal as an Assront to the State of Turkey Upon the Apprehension of which Consequence Prince Ragotzi put himself into a Posture of Defence to the utmost of his Power In 1658 he was yet at Quiet The Turk falls upon Ragotzi but in 1659 the Grand Signior pour'd in a Numerous Army of Turkâ— and Tartarâ— into Transylvania who practis'd all the Insolvencies and Outrages of Burning Killing Ravishing and the like imaginable This Horrid Invasion of the Infidels was valiantly oppos'd by Ragotzi's Forces Skirmishing with them at severall times very successefully and so long as He liv'd his Forts were not Attempted Soon after the Grand Signior no longer brooking this Audacity in his Vassal dispatch'd an Embassadour to the Emperour at Vienna with Rich Presents Desiring his Imperial Majesty not to concern himself in Prince Ragotzi's Affairs the Turkish Emperour being resolv'd to prosecute the said Rogatzi to the highest point of Extremity In 1660 the Turk lost no times but sent a greater Power then before into Transylvania In the mean whise Prince Ragotzi marched with a Considerable Force before Hermanstad and it come to a Bloody Encounter wherein Ragotzi deported himself valiantly killing 17 men with his own hand The Turk worsted by Rogotzi and so the Infidels for That Bout were forced to quit the Field and leave the Victory to the Transylvanias and 6 or 7000 Turks and Tartars upon the place Ragotzi in the Persuit received 5 wounds Who dyes of his wounds and 5 dayes after This Fight June the 6th he was brought to Great-Waradin where he departed this Life The fall of this Prince ballanc'd the Advantage of the Victory and exceedingly Animated the Turks who pressing more and more eagerly upon the Transylvanians drove them every where to their strong Holds Whereupon General Souches by Order from Vienna drew toward Transylvania to make it good against the Turks and forthwith march'd thither with a considerable Body and possess'd himself of several Holds July the 14 of the same year the Turk with 100000 Men laid close Siege to Great-Waradin Great Waradin Besicged which was stoutly defended by one Marcus Claudius a Scotchman the Governour of the Town During the Siege the Turk sent abroad strong Parties to subdue smaller Towns forcing the People unto severall works as the building of Bridges and the Like putting them to the Sword at last for their Reward At one time killing 150 Christians and at another Loading 20 Wagons with Christians Heads which they carried away On the 6 of August The Governour killed and the Place yielded up that brave Souldier and Governour Marcus Claudius was slain by a short the Besieged being left without any hope of Relief This strong Place was surrendred upon the Turk upon Accord being a passage into Transylvania Hungary and Poland After the death of Ragotzi there started up One Barkay Barkay Usurps upon Transylvania a Creature of the Turks making himself Prince of Transylvania whom the Turk protected and supplyed with Forces whereby he undertook to reduce several Places siding in pretence with General Souches who wel understood this violence of the Turks to be a design not only upon Transylvania but also upon the Empire it self and making large Professions under hand that whatsoever he got by the Turkish Ayd was meant for the good of the Emperour to whom he said that he Intended a Just and an Honourable Restitution reserving only Waradin to remain under the Power of the Prince of Transylvania but the matter prov'd otherwise in the end Toward the Close of this Year a Blazing Star appear'd with the Tayle toward Dalmatia and the Head toward Transylvanta which prov'd but a forerunner of the ensuing Calamityes Soon after This the Labolizish Peasants Rebell'd against the Christians in Transylvania whom they partly put to the sword some they took Prisoners and others they sold to the Turk The Right successour of Ragotzi was Kemini Janos by many Transylvanians Kemini Janos opposes â—ar kay receiv'd and entertain'd for such who was bitterly persecuted by Barkay and the Turks Anno 1661 He fought them at Thassabat and made a great slaughter But at Last oppressed with Numbers he left Transylvania and retreated to Tokay And now it appear'd that the Turks business was not to stop there but to fall also upon Hungary Whereupon his Imperial Majesty granted Commissions for the raising of an Army which was dispatch'd part of it into Hungary and part into Transylvania In the Interim Count Nicholas Serini began to look to himself and rais'd a strong Fort on the Wall over against Canisia Naming it Serinswar The Building of Serinswar getting together a strong Body of Croats and other Nations that lay heavy upon the Quarters there about which the Turks stomach'd not a little however they carried it fair at present and for a while they talk'd of nothing but Peace but at last they brake out into high expressions that they would have Serinswar demolish'd The Pretence of the Quarrel Count Serini punish'd and Transylvania subjected to the Power of the Turk by way of Reparation None of which followed but the Christians lookt upon it as every mans Interest to do his Best to defend himself against the Ambition and Outrages of This Common Enemy and there being nothing now to be expected but a great Turkish War which was already begun by Parties The Christians enter upon Turky the Christians entred upon the Borders of Turky drawing toward Stul-Weissenburg and Offen and they subdued Zamock Warda Erzy and Hirt all these being inconsiderable Houses and Castles which with their Defenders were blown up and fired While this was doing the Turks gathered together a Mighty Army Consisting of Asicatick African and Europaean People The Turks Preparations and from this Acheron issued those Devils in the shape of men that have since tormented Christendom To this numerous Army they had likewise provided an incredible proportion of Victuals Ammunition and Artillery Nevertheless several Treaties were set a foot which the Turk so long insisted upon till he had gained his End and drawn a formidable Power into the Field to break in upon the Christians who laboured as much as in them lay to preserve the Peace but who can live longer at Peace then his Neighbour will give him leave The Army of the Christians in Hungary Consisted of 40000 German Souldiers who had the Turks for their Open and the Hungarians for their Private Enemies the animosity being so great that many times it came to Blows betwixt the Germans and the Hungarians These many Inconveniences partly from the Hungarians who denyed Victuals to the German Army and partly from diseases arising from the disagreement of the Climate were much weakned and diminished Hungary is questionless a very brave Country and abounds in Wine and certain Fruits which taken to Excesse breed dangerous Surfeits The Hungarians in their deportment are
Abafti's Ayme as we have said before was to work himself in among the Mine-Towns The two first considerable Blocks in his way were Lewents and Novigrad beside others of lesse Importance In Lewents were good Fighting men Back'd with a Castle that was well Fortifyed with Thick Walls and Firm Turrets In This Place the Enemy found Stout Opposition and Lost many Men before it Lewents Rendred upon Accord but at last pressing upon it with greater Numbers and no Relief appearing within distance they took it upon Accord Those that March'd out were in no sort Injured and Those that stay'd behind were disarm'd and did Homage After Lewents followed Novigrad that lyes deeper in the Vpper-Hungary which although a strong Place and environ'd with a Morasse yet after a stout Resistance was forc'd to Render to the Enemy Novigrad Renders to the Turk The Forces in it were Conducted to Waitzen where they betook themselves to work for their Living as the Rest of the Peasants and are enjoyn'd to be ever in Readinesse with their Armes The Governour of it by Name Ledami got leave from Abafti to go to his Country-House in Transylvania and to dwell there which soon after he did On the Christians side there was no good will wanting towards the Relief of any of these Places but all their Attempts fell short by Reason of many Faralities and Accidents Intervening These Successes Encouraged the Enemy to draw nearer to the Mine-Towns and to Endeavour the making of their Winter-Quarter thereabouts and in Vpper-Hungary A Rumour was then dispersed that the Great Vizier had Commanded the Magistrates of Frystadt and the Neighbouring Parts upon pain of Death to make a Ship-Bridge over the VVaegh with all speed and to provide Victuals and Fodder to entertain him at his comming back Thus did new Cares and Troubles come on in a Season when every man flatter'd himself with some hopes of Respit and Repose Count Serini that till now staid in the Isle of Schutt put himself Instantly into Motion and now and then met with some Parties and took good Booty from them But alass This would not serve to set the Ballance even Upon November 12. He took in a Moorish Place betwixt Raab and Comorra ten Camels and as many Mules laden with Truncks full of Gold and Silver-Plate together with the Conductours who were bound for Constantinople with this Booty In Comorra where the Officers were at that time under Question and came off well about the Surrender of Newhausel there were great Complaints of Scarcity of Provision the Country being so miserably wasted round about it Whereupon at Vienna it was taken into thought how those out-lying Garrisons might be supplyed and the Enemy disappointed of their Ayme who knew full well the State of their Necessities It is certain that the Auxiliaries and other Forces that were Quarter'd in Comorra would much rather have kept the Field if all other Circumstances would have permitted it but those Auxiliaries who by too liberall Feeding on the Austrian and Moravian Fruits had Contracted Diseases neither could nor would stir beside that their General Count Hohenlo a Prudent Expert and Judicious Commander gave many weighty Reasons against it No sooner had this Lord made an Acquaintance in Vienna But ill Fortune met with him Count Hohenlo's Chamber Robb'd his Chamber being Robb'd of Writings Moneyes and Jewels to the value of betwixt twenty and thirty thousands Rix Dollars The Swedish Auxiliaries were not yet come up but by Advice from Leipsick they were then upon their March not far from Thuringen about the midst of November and 150. horse were likewise to come from Pomerania which Forces became the Ground of great Mistakes happening to be in Motion just upon that Nick of time when the Erfordians being then Outlawed were in expectation of the Mentzish Troups Upon whom they Issued forth and in their Return left two Carpenters behind them whom they hanged upon a Waggon which did much enflame the tumult but the Swedish Troups which had so much troubled the heads of divers People proved to be a Force of another design and quality The Rumour of the Return of the Turkish Army now so late in November encreased more and more at which time Filleck some ten Mile from Cassaw was given for lost So that certain Regiments were immediately sent to make good the other Mine-Towns which the Enemy had particularly in their Eye for a Winter-Quarter Those Christians which about this time ransom'd themselves from the Turks speak much of the Stupendious Preparations which are now in hand against Christendome Affirming it for a certainty that the Grand Signior is resolv'd to take the Field next Spring with an Army of three hundred thousand Men which causes great perplexities in Poland Hungary Moravia Silesia and Bohemia but the Polanders being at peace with the Turks conceived themselves in some measure secured by virtue of that Agreement but in the Tartars Moldavians and Wallachians they have not much confidence Especially when they are upon their Excursions Many were of opinion that the Turks were forc'd upon an irregular and precipitate Retreat for want of Provisions and that their attempts so late in the year upon Moravia and the neighbouring Provinces were caused partly by the Inviting plenty of all necessaries which those Countries afford and in part by the encouragement they received from their correspondents in those Quarters beside the scarcitie which their longer continuance upon the Danube would infallibly have produced thereabouts to the great inconvenience of their Armies next Spring Hungary lay now groaning under the burden of the Turkish Power and longing for aid the Infidels over-spreading it like a dismal Cloud charged with Hail and Thunder all mens thoughts being sollicitous for deliverance and in continual expectation where the storm would fall Many were of opinion that submission was the best expedient in this extremity but betwixt the sense of their Allegiance sworn to the Emperour and the distrust they had of the Turks Justice to his word divers held off The Enemy who did nothing rashly though as is generally supposed rather acting by Instigation then choice counted it most adviseable to draw toward Cassaw the head City of Vpper-Hungary knowing full well that when ever the Christians should Vnite they would make this place the Seat of War and Settle themselves there Wherefore the Infidels went roundly to work removing whatsoever might hinder their Progresse before any succor could come up to them which succour would however at last signifie not much against so Potent an Enemy About this time the Polanders were a little Frighted with the Tartars who though returning homeward with their booty already gotten might yet be tempted by their greediness after more to break into the Cracovian Waywood-ship and from thence to advance into Silesia according to the old saying Si Turca veniet in Germaniam Ibit per Poloniam If the Turk comes into Germany he shall passe through Poland
A Brief Chronicle OF THE TURKISH WAR From July to January 166â— Turned out of High-Dutch TOGETHER With his Imperial Majesties Reasons for the undertaking of the War and a Map for the better understanding of the Story LONDON Printed by Tho. Mabb fo Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane 1664 TO THE READER THE Turkish War upon the Empire being at present the Great Action of Christendom and that whereupon all Mens Eyes and thoughts are fix'd who have any Consideration even for Christianity it self It will perchance be a work not unacceptable to give the World a brief Relation of the Rise and Progress of the Quarrel which is the Business of this little Treatise being a Narrative of the most Remarkable Passages of the last Campagnia Written in High Dutch by an Industrious and Carefull Hand and turned into English for the Satisfaction of the English Reader There is likewise Order taken for a Continuation of the Story which shall come forth in its due time being Committed to the Care of diverse Intelligent Persons where the Scene lyes to gather the Materials for it to the End that nothing Worthy of Observation may be omitted As to the Narrative in Hand to give the Reader a clearer Prospect of the Matter We shall Vsher it in with an Accompt Lately deliver'd to the States General by Count Zinzendorf his Imperial Majesties Envoyé at the Hâ—gue concerning the Reasons of the War and so proceed The Reasons whereupon was grounded the Proposal from his Sacred Imperial Majesty to their Honorable Lordships the States General which they may be pleased to Weigh and Consider 1. THat His Sacred Majesty gave no Cause for this War but that Perpetual and Irreconcilable Enemy to Christianity provoked by no Injurie without any Colour or Pretence of Justice or Honesty In the Year 1660. Seized upon Waradine a strong Castle on the very Borders of Hungary which he Garrison'd with a great party to infest the Neighbouring Provinces 2. Vpon which account his Sacred Imperial Majesty was not onely forc'd to Raise a suddain Army Himself to oppose so great an Enemy but also to call for ayd from the other Princes and States of the Empire as likewise to look out to other Christian Kings and States unlesse he would have exposed the whole Kingdom of Hungary to present danger and let those Royal Provinces of Transylvania Willachia and Moldavia be rent off from Christendom and Enslav'd to the Turkish Empire 3. When the Enemy gave some hopes of a Friendly Composing the Busines his Sacred Imperial Majesty was defective in nothing which upon hon st Conditions might conduce to Peace 4. When the last Year a Treaty was begun between his Majesties Ambassadâ—ur and Ati Bassa Plenipotentiary from the Turk which afterwards was by Common Consent perfected and in Expectation of a Ratification then began other more weighty Conditions to be required and harder â—erms with a great deal of Perfidiousness were almost imposed upon us And at last having gathered a great Number of Forces together both out of Asia and Europe violating the Faith and Religion of all former Treaties he brake into Hungary at the same Instant both Proclaiming and Waging War His Majesties Embassadour contrary to the Law of Nations detain'd by force was proudly and contumeliously used 5. 'T is clear this fraudulent Enemy hath taken his opportunity in a time when his Majesties Hereditary Dominions have been exhausted by continual Wars and other Causes as likewise almost all other Christian Princes weakned by Civil Discords amongst themselves 6. Notwithstanding which his Sacred Impeiral Majesty and his Dominions have omitted nothing whereby they might sustain the burthen of so great a War by their own strength and hinder the progress of the Enemy until the Assistance from the Princes of the Empire could be ready 7. Which neither coming in time nor with so considerable a Force as was necessarily requir'd the storms spread further Newhausel and other Cities of less Note were subdued by the Turks Moravia laid wast by the Incursions of the Tartars many Thousand Christians carried away to perpetual Captivity The Faith and Constancy of Transylvania wavered and which is most considerable the Ambitious Enemy took courage from his Success So that now he doth not onely promise himself the Kingdome of Hungary but likewise publickly boasts that he will suddainly be Head of the Western Empire 8. To which purpose as we are inform'd from good hands he intends to be in the Field the next Spring and with a greater Force then formerly set upon his Imperial Majesty and the Christian Empire resolving to carry away with him all that he meeteth with from fourteen Years of Age to Sixty 9. ' I is true indeed the danger of this War doth more immediatly hang over his Imperial Majesty and his Dominions but then it is not less a truth that all other Christian Princes both in General and Particular are concern'd 10. Not onely because all professing Christianity are by that Bond united into one Body espeicall against him who equally detests all taking his first Rise from the Ruines of Christian Kingdoms particularly the Eastern Empire it self and now desires nothing more then by propagating the Mahumetan Superstition to extinguish Christian Religion 11. But in another respect it is clear that the Event of this War doth concern All and every One although they regard nothing but their own security 12. For seeing it is manifest the Kingdome of Hungary and other his Majesties Dominions have been for a long time the sole Bulwark of Christendom and no lesse manifest that That being broke through the rest lies open to an Infinite Rabble of Barbariansâ— Germany being in the midst of Europe and joyning upon most Christian Kingdoms the Consequence muct needs be this His Sacred Majesty and the strength of the Empire being once over-thrown which God forbid that Cruel Enemy will lye heavy upon them all and be equally formidable to every one of them 13. Neither is he only so for number of Souldiers which all Christian Princes should they Muster their Forces together would scare equall but likewise for Military Discipline for in so numerous an Army there is none that drink Wine are delicate in the Dyet or in any other unnecessaries none that maintain Charriots Feuds Women or any such like Impediments of War So that the Turks can with less charge maintain Three Hundred Thousand in Armes then any Christian Prince Fifty Thousand 14. Moreover he hath this Advantage he never regardeth the losse of his Men the Effusion of whose blood he careth not for so he may gain his design upon those he Warreth against Subduing Town and Country the Common Souldiers themselves out of a strange Superstitious perswasion voluntarily devoting their Lives to his Service whilst all Christian Princes are in another Condition there being no Victory so great but may be purchased too dear by Christian Blood 15. To these we may add that at this time to the
generally Grave and Modest but being Affronted by the Germans and others of a different Religion they are prone to revenge and hard to be Reconciled Toward the Month of October the Dutch Army was exceedingly pester'd with Surfeits so that betwixt those that dyed Many that lay sick and others that were carried out of the Country it fell to a low Ebbe and moreover being then as far as Clausenburg or thereabouts they were put to some distress for Victuals and Forage the Enemy encreasing daily more and more against them for in those Parts the Turkish Power was strongest About this time the Upstart Prince Barkay fell into disgrace Barkay in disgrace Abafiv preferr'd and the Turk preferred one Abafti to that dignity in his stead Against Him Kemini Janos bore up Kemini Janos makes head Opposing him and his Promoters in the Head of 8000 men and for tune so far befriended him in the first Engagement as to deliver his great Enemy Barkay into his hands Barkay taken and Beheaded whose Head he caused to be struck off and then for a while the people flocked in to him and Augmented his Army But at last he met with a Lions Fortune when being surrounded rounded on all sides and striving to clear his passage he seemed only carefull how he might fall with Honour for his Army through many Skirmishes Diseases and great Scarcity of Provision was melted away and hope of Succour there was none left the German Army by the like Accidents being weakned and put to a Retreat Upon these Terms it was that he committed himself to places of more security and in Zathmar He with Others expected the Issue of the Treaty But the Turks as has been said already making use of a Treaty only for their own Advantage put themselves into a stronger Posture In the mean time discharging their Choler with great indignation one while against the Valiant Venetians that have held them tack so long in Candia by and by against the divided Polonians and now and then against the half-Conquered Transylvanians but not a word all this while nor so much as a look of displeasure against Hungary This Fox-play of the Treaty lafted till the Year The Warre breaks out in 1663. 1663 and then the-Fury of these Infidels brake out not only upon Transylvania and Hungaria but upon the Emperours Hereditary Countries also yea and upon the Roman Empire it self This shall serve for an Introduction to the following Narrative What further occurr'd betwixt these two Parties is expos'd and publish'd at large both at Franckfort and elsewhere so that I shall only take notice of such Passages as happen'd since July 1663. concerning the Turks Proceedings in Hungary and upon the Borders and what Opposition those Infidels have met with from the Christians UPon July the 17 1663. the Grand Vizier came in great Pomp and Magnificence to Offen The Grand Vizier comes with 100000 men to Offen encamping himself in the Pesterfield being 4. German miles in Compass His Army was upward of a hundred thousand men above one hundred great Guns and of Wagons Beasts a number not to be believed His first work was to lay two Ship-Bridges over the Danube the one near to Gran and the other not far from Parkam His Forces being quarter'd about those parts in Prodigious Multitudes it was as yet doubtfull whether he would fall upon Newhausel or Raab having his eye indifferently upon both and lying still for a good while without Action But this Blood-Thirsty brute had shew'd himself much sooner if a continual fall of Rain and the Overflow of the Danube had not hindred him However at length The Turks passe the River toward Newhausel he pass'd some thousands of his Army over the Bridge near Parkam toward the side of Newhausel when immediately a Report was spread by some of the Pesants that were turn'd to the Turk that the River had torn their Ship-Bridges and that those 4000 Turks that had passed over were now Cut off from the Main-Body This Rumour it was that in veigled the Governour of Newhausel Count Forgats into a Couragious but an unhappy Refolution which was to fall upon those 4000 Turks upon the supposition that the Miscarriage of the Bridge had cut off their Retreat It is very true that he was earnestly dissuaded from that Attempt and told that the Body was greater then he imagined but still persisting in his Resolve to fight them upon the 28th of July with his Hungarians Hussars and Heydukes and 11 Troups of Germans and 500 Musquetters in all 6000 strong he marched up to them and finding the Enemy four times more then he expected became sensible of the Abuse although alass too late for the Infidels having gotten certain Intelligence of the Christians design and of their coming caused the Bridges presently to be Repayred which they had purposely disordered and marching over with a strong Power surrounded them The Hungarians and Hussars that were appointed to stand for a Reserve seeing the Enemy come on so strong betook themselves to flight but the Germans and Heyducks that gave the Onset behaved themselves stoutly and sold a Dear Victory to the Turks Count gats defâ—ed At last by Multitudes they were overcome and those that could not get away were miserably Cut and Mangled Forgats and some few others escaped to Newhausel This Combat lasted 3 hours and about 3000 of the Germans and Heyducks were put to the Sword After this Victory the Turks being therewith encouraged and the Christians not a little dejected the Enemy made ready to lay a formal Siege unto Newhausel The 〈…〉 lay Sieâ—â—â— Newhausel with what Success will be seen in this ensuing Relation A Narrative of the Most Remarquable Occurrences at the Siege of Newhausel ON the 15th of August a Trouper of the Walterish Regiment who in an Encounter had been taken Prisoner hard by Parkam came to Newhausel and Affirmed that the Grand Vizier in his Presence caused all the Prisoners to be put to the Sword whereupon 40 of the Turkish Prisoners in Newhausel were behead in requital On the 16th dito the Enemy some Guns into the Turks Campe that did Execution among them Toward the Evening the Grand Vizier summon'd the Town giving them three dayes to consider of a Surrender but being Answered Negatively the Enemy began to play upon the Fort. On the 18th the Turk with a great Shout and a Peal of Cannon Approach'd the Vienna Gate Posted themselves there and presently fell to digging Notwithstanding the continual shot made upon them and over against Forgats Bulwork they raised a Battery from beneath On the 19th the Turks play'd their great Guns and continued till the 23 making every day at least 350. great Shot against the Wall the Balls weighing 65 48 35 and 22. pound On the 21th the Besieged made a Sally putting some of the Turks to the Sword and took one Ensign from them whereupon the Turks in their
yet no Guides but furnish'd themselves with Leaders from among the Boores of the Country whom they admitted likewise to their shares of the Booty and in particular they made use of the Treacherous Peasants of Werbouitz little VVerbte and Rutzelau to Conduct them over the Mountains Whither the People about Straswitz fled for Sanctuary but were fetch'd from thence with 120 Wagons and carried into Captivity The Count of Oppersdorff Upper Governour of Brunner Crayses Escap'd narrowly to Brin so sodain and unexpected was this Invasion on September The Enemy pass'd the Mark. 5th The Enemy pass'd the River Mark and dispers'd themselves withou Opposition but the strong Towns they declined being ill Arm'd and better fitted for a Pillage than a Combat Upon This day they took the Prince of Dietrichstin's Secretary together with his Lady One Child and his Wives Sister One Canonico and others as they were upon their flight from Nicolasburg to Bohaun Situate among the Mountains These being overtaken the Canonico with his Servant were put to the Sword the Secretary made a strange Escape through a water But the Lady her Child and her Sister they kept in their hands with whom they danc'd at Night after their Barbarous rude manner at Popitz till at last according to the Report of Eye-Witnesses Sated with Lust and Moravian Wine they layed themselves to sleep in such security as plainly signified the Intelligence they had that there were none near to revenge the Fact While they slept the Sister made her escape but the Lady her self with quieting her Child waked the Dancers who presently dash'd out the Childes Brains against the Wall My Hand trembles at the writing of it Oh! How many Christians are there that make this Horrid story their Sport as if it were but a Fiction as if the thing could not be done at all because they were not at the doing of it But I proceed At Auspitz there came Gallopping six Troupers habited after the German Fashion and in broken Language called for a Dinner in an Inn and Provender for their Horses telling the People they would pay for it Being demanded whence they came They Answered that they were pursued upon the way To which the Inn-keeper replyed as one well pleased with the Accompt that if the Masters of the Town knew it that were then met at the Councel-House they would bid him welcome for his News But before the tydings could be carryed thither there followed into the Town a great Body of Tartars after these scouting Troupers who put those that were then Assembled in Councel to the Sword with many others plunder'd the Town Auspitz plunder'd and burnt and afterward burnt it to the Ground but the Youths and Children were most of them carried away for Slaves Some of these Treacherous Scouts were after ward brought Prisoners to Olmitz and suffer'd Condigne Punishment For Ten dayes This Havock lasted in Moravia and then they pass'd over the Mark-stream into Austria at which time the Country People with their best moveables were fled to Vienna At length having laden themselves with all manner of Booty they return'd to the Camp at Newhausel where they exposed the Men and Beasts which they had taken up in several Places to Common sale in the Market While these things were doing the Turks busied themselves against the Fort Serinswar and by way of Stratagem attempted Clausenburg in Transylvania but at both Places they were repuls'd with losse and shame â—â—unt Seriâ—â— breaks inâ—â— the Turks â—â—uarters At which time Count Serini with a Considerable Body of Croattans and other Neighbouring People made a sudden Incursion into Turky to the great dammage of the Infidels The Garrison of Comorra made diverse Sallyes upon the Enemies Camp before Newhausel and spoil'd their Forage which put the Turks upon a Necessity of fetching it at a great distance wihch they might well do for they had with them 26000 Camels besides Horses Buffles Mules c. not to be numbred General Spork made diverse Attempts in Parties upon the Enemy but most commonly they were too strong for him which cost him many a brave Souldier General Souches likewise did all that was possible to way-lay the Enemy and defend the Passages Principally Those that led into Moravta but the Infidels marching alwayes in greater Numbers then was reported were too hard for him also The Hungarians were often desired to put themselves into a Body against This Common Enemy but it seems they had no mind to it till at last after great Importunity Count Nâ—cholas â—erâ—ni made Generall Count Nicholas Serina undertook the Generalship and was by Prince Genzaga presented General upon September 13. at the Head of the Army near presburg At which time he drew toget her his Croats and there joyning with the German Forces under the Command of Monteeuculi they put themselves in a Posture against the Turks but too late For the Enemy before they were ready was Master of Newhausel Some Auxiliary Forces were drawn up also from the Emprie and took up their Quarters at Crembs for Rest and Refreshment While the Grand Vizier was repeiring Newhausel where the Grosse of his Army continued for sometime the Tartars were ordered upon Excursions into Moravia Second â—tursion â—o Moraâ— and forcing through the Passages at Selin and Rosingkau they destroy'd the People thereabouts and came to Wâ—ettin in the way to Silesia Wzettin they burnt down and Globau and other Places adjacent Partly Killing and partly carrying People away into Captivity Both Invasions were Barbarous and Bloudy but having staid some few dayes there they went their way Their Aim was likewise to have broken through into Silesia by the Passe Jablunca but the Silesians kept themselves upon too good a Guard for that Bout and have never been troubled with them since In all This Action the Grand Vizier has play'd both the Fox and the Lion mingling Fair words and Threatnings and Publishing still before the Blow such promises of Liberty and Immunity to all that would range themselves under his protection as he well knew most likely to work upon the People he had to deal with It is true that these Overtures of Clemency from so barbarous an Enemy were look'd upon by the wiser sort rather as a trick of State then Good-faith yet with the Generality This way of dealing took effect The Place most in the Turks eye was Presburg The Turks eye upon Presburg being the Chief City of the Nether Hungary wherein is laid up the Hungarian Crown A Place considerable both for the Goodlinesse of the Town and for the Scituation of it to which advantage the Turk was no Stranger as appears by the frequent Alarms he gave to that City the gaining whereof would have opned him away to Vienna on the One side and to Raah Comorra and Newhausel on the Other The Danube passing sing by in Two Branches to the Island Schut at the end whereof stands the Fort Comorra and
times returning with Prisoners and good Booty The Silesians also stood ready upon the Borders with a Body of Nine or Ten Thousand Men to prevent the Turks breaking in upon them but about this time there pass'd not any Action of great Import The Enemy toward the Month of December lying close and quiet about Gran Offen and Greek-Weissenburg to which last place the Grand Vizier betook himself in Person taking along with him Baron de Goes his Imperial Majesties Resident at the Ottoman Court. On the other side Abafti with his Agents were close at work in Vpper-Hungary trying what good might be done there either by force or surprize and using their utmost endeavours to dispose the Hungarians to a general Revolt Abafti tampers with the Hungarians Abafti in the mean time chalking out the way to the Grand Vizier which he thought most conducing to his purpose telling him that the Hungarians were most likely to be wrought upon by mild and gentle means which might be so propounded and represented to them that of two Evils they might look upon submission to be the least In this Injuncture Prince Ragotzi's Widow began sensibly to perceive that Hungary would be no place for her to abide in Whereupon She and her Son addressed themselves to his Majesty of Poland making Suit that in this their distress some place of Retreat might be afforded them within that Crowns Dominions but to this Request of Hers the King of Poland demurr'd not only out of particular respects to Her Husbands demerits from that Crown but for fear also of disobliging the Turk by allowing her Entertainment Beside that the Cracovian Waywood-ship by reason of the Turks drawing that way was now in greater care and fear then ever and with all speed sent a Messenger to the Crown-Marshal to sollicite the Court to consider of it The Waywood himself refusing to go in Person to Vkrain and to attend other peoples business to the hazzard of his own Whereupon he not onely obtained leave to stay at home and look to his Charge but also to write an amicable Letter to the Grand Vizier desiring that a faire understanding might be continued and inviolably preserved betwixt him and Poland About this time in December his Imperial Majesty began his Journy towards Regensburg The Emperour begins his Journy toward Regensburg and in his Absence the direction of the Frivy-Council at Vienna was committed to the Count of Swartzenburg and now were several Rumours how unlikely soever raised at Vienna First as if the Polanders intended to conferre that Crown upon young Ragotzi to the end to Incorporate Transylvania with Poland and the young Prince was then to Marry into the House of Inspruck It was bruited in the next place that the Turkish Chiaux who came along with Baron de Goes brought with him Plenipotence to propound a new Treaty and to offer new Conditions of Peace but this was a Story that gained little credit for who could be so simple as to believe that so Crafty Powerful and so Insolent an Enemy should in the full course of his Victories entertain any thought of admitting much less of propounding an Agreement with a People whom at this time he did equally both hate and despise The Christians one would think had suffered too much by their former Credulity to trust him again And yet the late Governour of Novigrad Ledami by Name was so easie as to rely upon the Turks word and to perswade himself that by the surrendry of Novigrad he might compound for the full enjoyment of his goods in Transylvania but he found himself deceived being not onely bereaved of his Fortune but effectually of his Life too by the Barbarous usage of those perfidious Insidels The Turks it seems not having as yet forgotten the faithful services in time past which he had rendred to Prince Ragotzi and that this Ledami had had a hand in putting Barkay to Death the Grand Signiors Creature and who had formerly Usurp'd upon that Principality under the protection of the Turk The Strong-Hold Filleck was hard put to it and suffered much but has hitherto neverthelesse stood firm and defended it self to the utmost The Fort Sentshai indeed in which one Rochart commanded yielded unworthily True it is that the Ottoman Army in the Field was not now so numerous as it was said to be It was yet strong enough however to oppose the Country and to keep many Strong Hold and several Provinces in continual Apprehensions and Allarmes The Various Motions and Counter-Changes of the Turkish Army had now for a good while amused the Christians giving them occasion several times to draw to their Quarters and then back again till at last the Enemies design discovered it self to be directly upon new Serinswar In this Interim little past of Moment onely now and then the Free-Heydukes Issued out from Comorra and sometime met with a Purchase betwixt Gran and Newhausel About the Sixth of December some Thousand Turks and Tartars moved toward the River Mur The Turks designe upon Serinswar which encloses the Fort Serinswar with design to gain a Passage that way and fall upon Count Serini not much doubting by that means to make themselves Masters of the Fort. They pass the Mur. A matter of two Thousand of them had the fortune to pass the River but it proved their Ruine For Count Serini forewarned fore-armed and finding his Life and Fortune at stake with his small but Valiant Party fell upon the two Thousand Infidels with such a Prodigious Fury and Courage that they quickly turn'd Head and by their flight east the rest of the Party into such a confusion that they lost at once both the use of their Reason and Resolution And are Worsted and more of them perish'd in the Retreat then in the Combat During this Action Serini received hourly supplies without which it had not been possible for him to have maintained the fight so long A fuller view whereof may be gathered from what follows The Copy of a Letter from Count Nicholas Serini to His Imperial Majesty THe Providence of God did never more signally appear then Yesterday in the preservation not onely of my self and the Forces uner my Command but likewise of all the Neighbouring Countries hereabouts At which time the Turks and Tartars with a mighty Power and in the open day advanced toward us bringing with them an orderly well-framed Ship-Bridge with all things appertaining thereunto and two thousand Tartars were sent before to lay it and make it ready for the rest of the Forces The little strength I had I disposed here and there as I thought most for my advantage and kept Guard my self with three Hundred Horse About break of day notice was given me by a Warning-Piece of the Infidels approach Whereupon I instantly moved into sight and found that two thousand of the Enemy were already over the water our condition was now desperate it being neither possible
Raah not far off Nor was it unknown to Count Strozzi the Governour of Presburg how much the safety of the Whole Depended upon the Security of This Part which moved him to make timely provision for the Defence thereof But the neighbouring Places that lay open as St. George Posing Modern c. chose rather to submit then expose themselves to the extremities of Fire and Sword Neutra Ren dred by an unprofitable Opposition Neutra indeed a Place not far from Newhausel nor less defensible might have resisted but did not and upon the Redition the Garrison according to agreement was conducted to Presburg Tyrnaw and other Towns yielded also The Enemies next Attempt was upon Schinta The Enemy Attempts Schinta and is beaten off wherein was lodg'd a fair Artillery but the Governour deported himself valiantly and beat them off By this time October was half over and the season call'd the Turk to his Winter-Quarters who finding his time lost upon Schinta drew off to Newhausel which place is now repaired and strongly Garrison'd the River neutra being brought round about it From Thence the Turk took his March with a Considerable Body to the Ship-Bridge at Gran and caused some of his great Guns to be pass'd over there as if his purpose had been to Vinter in his own Territories Those of Newhausel laboured hard to get into the Schut The Island Schut Attempted and settle themselves betwixt the Two Forts of Raah and Comorra whereupon Montecuculi and Serini joyn'd their Forces to oppose them And now the fortune of the War seem'd a little to flatter the Christians Two defeats given to the Enemy by the Two Serini's Nicholas Serini on the 17. of Oct. defeating a Party of 300 Turks and his Brother Peter near the same time falling upon a Body of about 7000 of them near Carlstat on the Frontiers of Stiria where they designed and Inrode upon the Christians but Count Serini and Coun Ausburg from an Ambuscade brake in among them slew 1000 and took 100 Prisoners among which were diverse Persons of Note and the son of a great Bassa The rest disperst themselves and the Victorious in this Adventure got great Booty The Serinies have shew'd themselves in This their deportment the true Heirs of the Honour and Valour of that Noble Family and they bring to mind a memorable Action which was performed by their Grandfather Nicholas Serini in the year 1566 To his Eternal Glory ON the 6th of August 1566 Sigeth taken by Solyman in 1566. and the Honourable Death of Count Nicholas Sereni Solyman the Magnificent layd Siege to the Fort Sigeth wherein this great Captain Nicholas Serini was Governour who made many bold Sallyes upon the Enemy took many Prisoners and at one time caused 300 Turks to be beheaded which so far enraged Solyman that he plyed his Batteries and Attempts with greater fury then before Serini perceiving the New Town to be upon the point of being entred caused it to be set on sire and retreated into the Old A while after the Turks assaulted the Old-Town but were so bravely received that in One storm they lost 2000 men However they attempted it again and carried it whereupon Serini was forced to retire into the Castle against which the Enemy planted a Battery and gave One furious Attaque but were beaten off with great loss While this pass'd Solyman died of a Bloody-Flux Sept. 4. but Mahomet Bassa labouring as much as possible to keep his death conceal'd from the Turks caused the Corps Embalmed and Gloriously Cloathed to be expos'd in a dark place to the People as sitting on his Throne and the Bassa himself with all his usual Ceremonies and Reverence feigning some singular matter of privacy and business with him At length the Bassa went out of the Tent wiping his eyes as if he had been crying which gave the Officers occasion to enquire why he wept To whom he replyed that It grieved his heart to think how many brave Souldiers would be suddenly put to the Sword for sayes he Solyman has maded a deep and desperate Oath that if this Place be not taken in two days every Colonel that hears any Charge in the Attempt shall certainly be put to death Hereupon the Janizaryes fell into a direct Rage and gave a furious Assault but were repulsed with exceeding losse they had however set fire to the Castle and now the Noble Defender of it seeing his fate before his eyes call'd the small remainder of his men about him and exhorted them to stand by him and resolve to dye with him Whereupon he Clothed himself in a Violet-Coloured Velvet Suit took the Key of the Castle and some Gold in his Pocket caus'd the Gates to be open'd and the great Guns to be drawn thither and discharged among the Enemy and in a Cloud of smoake issued forth with his Men among the Turks and fought till he was shot in the head This was the end of the Valiant Serini It was reckoned that 20000 Turks were slain before this Fort. No sooner was Serini faln but the Infidels thronging about the Corps cut off his head and set it on a Polo for one day after which they sent it with a Scoffe to Maximilian the Emperour Now to returne to the Story IN October the Count of Hollach The Coun◠of Hollach 〈◊〉 General of the Imperia◠Auxiliaries being chosen General of the Imperiall Auxiliaryes came to Vienna his Forces amounting to 6 or 7000 men being Enquarter's betwixt That and Crembs The Emperours Army lying at that time near Presburg to recruit being much weakned by many Inconveniencies the whole Army which the Hungarians Croatians and Auxiliaryes was computed to be 40000 strong but the several heads of so many Nations who at this time were almost all in Vienna could not it seems agree so well together as not to need his Imperial Majestie 's singular Care and Circumspection to keep them from starting into Partyes and Passions There was an Intent to joyn 7 or 8000 men that were raised in Silesia to This Body but the Silesian Forces would neither march out of their native Country nor obey any Forreign Command so that They stayd at home to defend their Borders and especially the Passage by Jablunka While the Christians were laying their heads and their Forces together to put themselves into a Posture the Enemy brake up with his main Body before Newhausel the Turk breaks up from before Newhausel and about the end of October took his March toward Gran and Offen The Tartars also with their Prey marched toward Tartary carrying along with them their Chiefest Captives in Coaches and Wagons driving their ordinary Prisoners along with Whips naked and their hair flying about their eyes like so many Beasts In Vpper-Hungary they met with some opposition at which time many of the Captives were forced out of their hands and about 2000 of these Tartars put to the Sword Count Nicholas
pieces that these mad People may become yet more like unto mad Dogs Amazing and Confounding one another deliver them into our Hands according to our long and earnest desire to the end that we may every where advance thy Vncorruptible Kingdom Make thy Crown Glorious and thy Temples Famous throughout the world Adorning them with the Oblation of many Heads Blow us like a whirlwind into their Countries and let them be to us but as a small Prey Fling Fire among them to Consume them and Dust into their Eyes to make them Blind Devour them in thy Wrath Tear them with thy Teeth Let them drink their own Bloud and take thou away their Flesh from the Earth because they despise thy Offering and Circumcision Hang them on the Cross Let them be sprinkled with Water till they grow Mad because they make a Son to God without a Mother Now let their Ruine hasten and take them away from the Face of the Earth that thy Name may not fall into Contempt for their sakes It was now about the middle of December and the Enemy made great Preparations to take the Benefit of the first hard Frost Whereupon strong Guards were set upon the Rivers and Vienna was at that time much troubled with a Discourse of pulling down a good part of the Suburbs to make the place Defensible The Enemy had his Eye now upon Moravia and for Prevention the New-raised Forces in Vienna were Ordered to the River Mark to keep a constant Watch upon the Infidels Presburg was also carefully provided for a Subterranean Retreat made from the City to the Castle for an After-game in case the Town should come to be Taken About the beginning of December Three Suns there had been seen three Suns some say five with several Rain-Bows that appeared over the famous Fort of Dreisden which began now to work upon the People So that mens Minds were filled with Perplexity both from Above and Beneath Some would have it that the three Suns portended so many mighty Princes that should come to be Rulers over Germany and briefly every man had his Guess God grant Peace and Comfort to Christendom It was now daily expected that the Turkish Army should attempt something in Revenge of the Blow they had lately received near Canisia and Prince Abasty was on the other side observed to aspire more directly to the Crown of Hungary but the Vigilance of Counts Serini Hohenlo Souches c. still found means either to divert or disappoint the most dangerous part of their designes They kept however in a Body near Canisia making many proffers upon the Christians Territories although to little purpose Heaven and Earth conspiring to frustrate their Intents by a mild and open Winter and the Conjunction of so many brave Commnanders keeping a Watch and check upon their passage On the other sides those Turks which lay near to Offen and along the Danube even as far as the Save took great care to maintaine themselves in a Body and to provide before hand for the next Campagnia furnishing Newhausel and Newtra with Ammunition Provision and all other things whereof they had need and in particular with 40000. Suits of Cloths for the supply of their tattered Troops But Providence disposed otherwise of a good part of these Turkish Providings by casting them into the hands of theGarrison at Comorra which upon several Sallies had the better of the Enemy and many times brought off considerable Booty into the Castle As for instance on the 15th of December they snapt a prize of 60 Wagons drawn by 400 Oxen laden with Ammunition and comming from Gran for Newhausel which they caryed off safely to Comorra the Purchase being valued at 16000. Rix-dollars Those Carriages were committed to the Convoy of 300 men whom they surprized and Routed distributing the Oxen amnong the Garrison About this time Tidings were brought from Adrianople that 50000 of the Asiatick Forces were come thither to the Parts thereabouts to take up their Winter-Quarters and that there was a Monstrous Tax laid upon all the Turkish Dominions in order to the carrying on the War against the Christians The Turks and Tartars were now at Five-kirk and elsewhere waiting for a Frost in great Bodies having furnished themselves with many Thousands of Sleds for the furtherance of the Design but the Season was so gentle that they could make nothing on 't As on the other side of the Danube toward Croatia there passed not any thing considerable at this time So not much of Action neither by the Forces of General Souches which drew toward the Mine-Townes A Party of Christians in Turkish habits adventured into Neutra and killed some of the Turks but the Castle presently took the Alarm and put them to a Retreat wherein they saved themselves and carried away 20. considerable Prisoners but a Turkish Party from Newhausel to Schinta come not so well off who supposing that the Garrison as well as the Artillery was removed advanced so near the Place that what with he Guns from the Wall and after that a Sally out of the Town 150. of them were kill'd upon the Spot and the rest fled for their lives They were now busie in Vienna upon Mounting and fitting the Artillery that came from Schinta and casting of Granadoes and Field-Pieces keeping an eye in the mean while upon Vpper-Hungary where indeed the greatest danger lay by reason of the Practises and Insinuations of Abafti for prevention whereof the Counts of Rothal and Nadasti were employed to endeavour the upholding of the People in their Obedience To which purpose the Forces under the command of General Souches where very serviceable There was good hope likewise that the Hungarian Palatine at Newsol might have done some good upon them against the flatteries of Abafti but he excused himself in regard that he was neither in health nor if he were could he pretend to so much Interest as to prevail upon them beside that he mistrusted Cashaw and other places in Hungary would take it ill at his hand So that the Counts before mentioned were forced to return and seek their way through Poland into Vpper-Hungary Neither were the Inhabitants of the Mine Towns any kinder to the Forces that were sent to their Relief but partly by the ill usage they found among the Hungarians partly upon necessity they were forced to go back leaving many of their Companions behind them that dyed of Surfets and Hungarian Feavours In fine the Germans and Hungarians could not set their Horses together and Ahafti making use of their Divisions betwixt fear and perswasion drew a great Party to his side These heart-burnings among the Christians were of great service to the Infidels Especially being encouraged by Letters from Zekelheit giving Advice that the Garrison had already Revolted and Expel'd their Commander with all the chief Officers out of the Castle upon pretence that they had received thirteen Months Pay that was then due to them and
These Incarnat and Rapacious Devils however kept off yet and carried their prey to their Caverns there to divide it One thing is that Cham being the Head and Soveraign of these Tartars which had been in Moravia was a friend to Poland and about this time his Forces went in abundance with the King of Poland in person and the Army together with a great number of Cossacks against the Muscovite marching over the River Nieper otherwise called Boristhenes The Turks however went on in their proceeding subduing Shemniz Cremniz other Mine towns sending threatning Letters to the Magistrates thereabout who being over-aw'd by the Terrour of Menaces moved the People under them to do Homage to these Infidels The taking of the Fort Navigrad upon the strength whereof the People so much depended did not a little conduce to the Subjecting of the rest And now they made their excursions towards Tokay where their noblest Wines grow a strong Hold Moted round about and alwayes reputed as invincible Upon this place they practised both subtilty and force Tokay attempted as they had done before Novigrad but honest men had the keeping of it and so they were forc'd to pass it by About this time the Turks caused the late subdued Lewents to be demolish'd Lewents demolished as not liking the manner of the Fortification and sent a threatning Order to those of Frystadt to dispatch out of hand two Bridges over the Waegh larger then the former and to make them broad enough for whole Squadrons to pass a Breast And now they began to talk loud of another Invasion into Moravia to which end many thousands of the Tawny-Tartars throng'd into the Camp as if those of the other complexion had not yet played the Devils sufficiently in the Country Whereupon to prevent that Inrode a Counter-mand was sent to most of those forces that were now march'd or marching off to their Winter-Quarters and Order given them to bend their Course toward the Waegh Although this Countenance of the Turks design gain'd not much Credit in regard of the season of the Year it was however held for good discretion not to be too secure Near the end of November came to Vienna diverse of the servants of Baron de Goes who had been long employ'd as the Emperours Agent toward the intended treaty for Peace Affirming that the Grand Signior with the Tartar Cham have resolved with an Incredible Force to come personally into the Field next spring and joyn the utmost of their power against Christendome Upon the taking of which Resolution vast Quantities of Rice and Corn were ordered at Adrianople and Philippopoli to be carried to Greek-Weissenberg and from thence to Offen This determination and proceeding engaged the Christians to use their utmost Endeavours possible for the bringing of a considerable body into the Field next Spring and to this purpose his Imperial Majesty having first given Audience to the Report of the said Baron gives immediate Order for Preparations taking his Journy to the Diet at Regenspurg The Emperour goes to the Diet. to stir up the Princes of the Empire to a General Conjunction against the Turk In the Interim the Arch-Duke Charles Joseph being design'd to keep his Residence in Vienna put himself upon the way thither from Lintz but fell into such a weakness upon the Journy that he was enforc'd to go back The Chief Officers appointed to stay behind in Vienna applyed themselves with all diligence to the putting their Orders in Execution Schinta was now provided afresh with Ammunition and Provision and the Great Artillery removed from thence the Montecuculish Army which for a long time had been Quarter'd near the Presburg Ship-Bridg moving likewise toward Moravia The Count de Souches conceived some hopes of recovering Neutra and prepar'd accordingly the loss of that place being reputed not much inferiour to the loss of Newhausel Neutra being an Episcopal Seat New-hausel only a Quarter for Souldiers which begat a greater Zeal and Earnestness toward the Recovery of the Place This Fort in Latine Nitria lies upon the River Neutra Neutra described which encloses the Fort like an Island together with the high and low Town and from hence it takes it's denomination The River is pretty large but not Navigable although of a strong and deep stream abounding with varietie of Excellent Fish The Castle stands upon the top of a Craggy Rock and the Prospect from it is fair and large upon a spacious Level without any Mountain or high place within distance to command or endanger it The Town under it is built upon the side of the Hill declining by degrees till it comes to the River which parts the upper and the lower Town Within this Castle stands an Eminent Minster of a strong and goodly Structure overtopping all the rest of the Buildings abou it There is also a Princely Pallace which hath been formerly famous for Rich Furniture and choice curiosities of Paintings Hangings and the like From without it is encompassed with a brave wood So that in fine This Place considered within it self together with it's Situation and Prospect cannot be said to want any thing requisite to the accomplishment of a most delicious Habitation The Vpper-Town below the Castle contains a new-rais'd Franciscan Cloyster and many other fair Fabricks and Houses lately Erected In this Town were gathered together many Rarities not onely of strange Birds and Beasts but also of Mechanical and Artificial Works Now albeit that this Fort in respect of it's Site and Fortification might well enough Stile it self Impregnable as in former times it has ever been reputed nor indeed was it ever Assaulted till now yet were not all these advantages sufficient to Maintain it against the Malice and Treachery of a single Person who without any Opposition or the least colour of necessity delivered up this Episcopal Seat into the Hands of Blood-thirsty Infidels the Places of so many Religious Persons and other Christians being at present supplied by seven or eight hundred Janizaries among and with the rest which the Grand Vizier has put in for a Garrison To conclude in outward appearance it was plain enough that the taking of this Place was no Winter-Work When it was too late the Succour above mentioned drew near to the Mine-Towns and punish'd some of those that were too forward in going over and submitting to the Turk as particularly in Bugans which in truth brought great misery upon the poor Country people who amongst so many coming and going Parties were in a great straight how to behave themselves Count Peter Serini with some of the Auxiliary forces attempted a visit upon those in Bosnia and the other Turkish Troups which he had lately ruffled near to Carlstadt Count Nicholas Serini likewise did all that was possible by several ways and means to gall and weaken the Enemy Nor were the Garrisons of Raab and Comorra lesse Vigilant and Active but every day looking abroad and many