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A77408 A Brief chronicle of the Turkish War, from July to January, 1664 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. 1664 (1664) Wing B4552; ESTC R43608 33,953 132

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A Brief Chronicle OF THE TURKISH WAR From July to January 166● 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 H●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 Ambassad●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 ●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 Barbarians● 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