the next plaine he pitched his Campe and from thence gaue aduertisement to all the neighbour Prouinces which were subiect to the Turke that they should not faile but presently send him men and horses such as they are bound to send in the like affayres Whilest the Belerbey busied himselfe to gather the rest of his Campe Castalde commaunded Aldene the Master of the Campe who then was in the low countries for the defence and assurance thereof that Stephen Lozonse a famous Knight among the Hungars should with George Sotede enter into Themesuar with 600. horse for the guard and defence thereof And further for the better assurance of the same he commaunded that Aldene himselfe should enter thereinto with all the Spanyards which he had making Lozonse Gouernour of those countries and Generall ouer all the warlike affayres He with Aldene caused Themesuar and other places to be fortified with the best defences they could and knowing that the enemie was alreadie in the field they daily laboured to fortifie the towne with Rampiers and Bulwarkes of good sufficient strength giuing aduertisement of all things which he heard or they did to Andrew Battor who was then at Lippa Battor seeing the necessitie of the time that vrgently pressed euery one began to leauie as many men as he could instantly soliciting all the people of his Prouince and admonishing them that euery one should ayde him against the common enemie He also drew to him the principall Lords of the Rhatians not in respect to assist him with their powers but for that they should not bee inuited to the seruice of the Belerbey knowing their inconstancie to bee such that they would affect and take part with the strongest And hauing thus by all good meanes drawne them to him and causing them to sweare fealtie to Ferdinand that he might yet winne their good likings the more he entertained 4000. of them into pay with many Captaines who voluntarily offered to be also entertained into Ferdināds seruice as the others were And hauing with great diligence leauied 15000. men who were most horsemen he presently with these troupes put himselfe into the field and went and lodged beneath Lippa expecting there what the enemie was determined to doe who also was incamped betweene the two aforesaid riuers Castalde at the same time diligently suruaied and munitioned the fortifications and specially the frontier townes of Transiluania as he saw was most needfull And being acertained that the Belerbey would come to Themesuar he sent another companie of Spanyards thither and money to pay the Rhatians whom hee knew were variable and inconstant and such as were needfull to be entertained with many and often payes which happely would procure them from reuolting On the other side he vsed his best labour to prouoke Frier George that instantly as being Vayuode hee should assemble all the souldiours of the kingdome to march with them and relieue Themesuar commaunding Andrew Battor that he should send to Lozonse as many men as he could wherby he might hinder and withstand the Belerbey from the passage of Tibiscus The Frier was very slow and fearefull to leauie the inhabitants of the countrie hauing before commaunded that none should stirre without his appointment expresse command assuring them that the Belerbey would not passe Tibiscus and that it was not needful of such an assemblie which he the rather assured himselfe of in regard of the letters which he had alreadie sent to the Turk and Bashaes But after hauing certaine notice that hee prepared two bridges vpon Tibiscus hee went presently to Deua leauying thereabouts 3000. horse and with those hee incamped in the field and presently writ to all the townes that they should with all expedition send such men as they were bound by their custome to furnish which was willingly executed with great celeritie Now when they would by the authoritie of the superiour Lords raise amongst them such Infantrie and Caualarie as euery towne is bound to furnish and that specially for generall defence the custome of this Prouince is to send one Launce and a Sword stained with blood and borne on horsebacke by one of the principallest officers of euery towne or place and carrying them on high in token of great and present necessitie sheweth them to all thereabout with another man on foote who goeth crying The common enemie commeth against vs all let euery house prepare a man for generall good and send him speedily to that place which is appointed you At this crie euery one causeth speedily to depart all those who are apt and able to beare armes and sendeth them to the rende vous And thus within a short time they assembled a great number of men as well foote as horse the care that Castalde had thereof greatly assisting them in that busines who specially hastened the men which hee caused to bee leauied through the kingdome and so much the rather because hee had vehement suspition of the Frier who continually ceased not to his vttermost to driue him out of those countries whereof he was well aduertised by meanes of one who was very familiar with the Frier and acquainted him with all such occurrants Yet Castalde dissembling the matter vsed Frier George in the greatest kindnes as was possible and indeuoured himselfe by al meanes to gaine his good liking and the rather for that hee knew him to bee fickle and inconstant and stood in much awe of the Turke hauing continuall distrust that for his inconstancie he would exchaunge the fauour of his friends to follow the ambitious wiles of his enemies In respect whereof he confirmed him generall Treasurer with 4000. Florins by the yeere and also Vaynode of the kingdome with 15000. Florins by the yeere as he had requested and with authoritie in time of necessitie to haue 800. horse and 500. foote for his guard and besides 200. other horse which he should maintaine at Deua and at Gherghe two strong Castles and places which was giuen him to keepe Being by such bountifulnes wonne to a dissembled fidelitie he came to the Diet at Sibinio which a little before was appointed where euery one being arriued they required all the Prouinces of the kingdome to wit the Sicilians Saxons and Transalpinians to contribute some money to maintaine the charges of the warre which was agreed vnto by the most And whilest the Frier by all good outward offices shewed himselfe seruiceable to Ferdinand yet hee omitted not secretly to practise with the Turke to accord with him and in recompence of the good which was done him he still caused such souldiours whom hee most trusted to resort to him with whom vnder the colour to chase and expell the Turke hee endeuoured to thrust out of the kingdome Ferdinands people About that time came newes how Maximilian King of Bohemia was returned out of Spaine with Mary daughter of Charles the Emperour that hauing passed through Italie he arriued at Vienna where
and that there is diuers opinions amongst the Doctors of it And although that in Spaine there is great seueritie vsed for the preseruation of the ancient faith yet neuerthelesse so it is that about this time in this Prouince certaine were apprehended who were conuicted by their Confession to hold and follow this new doctrine of Zwinglius and the punishment which was inflicted vpon them being accompanied with great ceremonies that they adde therevnto for a greater terror to the assistances I am willing to write the order thereof although it be from the discourse of this historie but seeing it falleth out so fit to our purpose and that in another place it may be I shall not haue the like commoditie nor occasion to set it downe in writing I desire the reader to take this in good part and to thinke that I adde and sometimes entermixe strange discourses the rather to recreate his minde then to content my selfe euen as the eye doth more delight it selfe to see in a fayre medow diuersitie of flowers then one onely kinde of colour in a corne field This exemplar punishment was performed in the towne of Valladolid in which for it there is appointed a great Scaffold by the Councell house and another adioyning thereto wherein the Princes must be About this place were also raised other Scaffolds vpon which must bee present the Councellors and persons of qualitie officers of iustice and Gentlemen not onely of the towne but almost of all the realme The abundance of people that was there was so great that in mans memorie the like was not heard of About ten of the clocke the 21. day of May the Princesse Ioane Gouernesse of Spaine and the Prince Don Charles went forth of the Palace accompanied with the Archbishop of S. Iames the great Constable and Admirall of Castile the Marquesse of Astorgne of Denigne and of Sarmia Comptroller of the Princesses house and the Counts of Miranda of Orsen of Nieua of Modecgne of Sardeigne of Zibadea of Andrade of Don Garzia of Toledo Gouernour of the Prince and of many other great persons Before them marched two Vshers with their Maces two Heraulds with the armes of Spaine the Count of Bondie carrying the Sword in his hand and all this companie conducted the Princes to the lodging which was prepared adioyning to the said great Scaffold Vpon the Scaffolds were alreadie the Archbishop of Siuill generall Inquisitor with those who were of the Councell of the Inquisition Roderic Bishop of Ciuidad the royall Councell the Inquisitors the Bishop of Oran and the Bishop of Palence The Princes being present at the windowes of their lodgings they began to carrie a Crosse couered with blacke with the Ensigne of the Office of the Inquisition and after marched the Clergie and prisoners who had bin receiued to penance and after them those who were condemned to death This procession departed from the Inquisition house by a high raised way made of purpose going vnto the said Scaffold where being all arriued and euery one set therevpon Frier Melchior who afterward was Bishop of Canaria being of the Iacobins Order began a Sermon and that ended the Archbishop of Siuill rising vp went to the Princesse and Prince and caused them to make vpon a Crosse such an oth as followeth It being ordained by the Apostolicall decrees and by the holy Canons that the Kings ought to sweare to carrie all fauour to the Catholike faith and Christian religion you conforming your selues to this holy ordinance your Highnesses sweare in the name God in the name of S. Marie and by the holy Euangelists by the signe of the Crosse vpon which you haue put your hands to yeeld all fauour and giue all necessarie helpe to the holy office of the Inquisition and ministers of the same against Heretikes and Apostataes and against all those who fauour and defend them and against all manner of persons who directly or indirectly hinder the progresse of this holy office and to constraine all your subiects to obey and obserue the constitutions and Apostolike letters giuen and published for the safetie and defence of our holy Catholike faith against Heretikes and against those who beleeue them receiue or defend them Vpon these speeches the two Princes made answer that so they would sweare And the Archbishop added these words Because of your holy oth our Lord prosper your royall persons and the Estates of your Highnesses for many and long yeeres By and by after one of the Registers who is there present demaunded of the companie whether they did not sweare the like oth They all made answere I. Then they began to reade the condemnations and iudgements giuen against them all and especially against those who were condemned to the fire And these were Doctor Augustine Cazagia his Maiesties Chaplaine and Preacher Francis d'Viuero Dame Betrix d' Viuero Dame Elenor de Viuero Alonso Perez a Priest Antonio Herrezuolo a bachelor Christopher de Occampo a Licentiate Francis de Herrera a Licentiate Iohn Garzia Christopher de Padillia Izabella de Straba Ioane Velasques Gonzala Vaes a Portugall Catherin Roman and Dame Catherin d'Ortegua These assoone as their iudgement was read were throwne into the fire But it being not possible but that some would desire to know what manner of proceeding this Inquisition is I minding therein to satisfie euery one principally in that which may bring some vtilitie with delight to the reader will here write of it as it is practised in Spaine seeing it is lesse knowne then the name thereof in other kingdomes This office was first inuented by Ferdinand King of Aragon who after he had chased or at least subdued the kingdome of Granado which as almost all the rest of the kingdomes of Spaine was for many yeeres in the hands of the Mores or Sarazins who had tamed Spaine from the time that Count Iulian called them thither to reuenge himself of the rape and forcement wherof K. Roderic of Spaine of the Gothish religion had vsed against his daughter Cana. Ferdinand hauing by ten yeeres warre reduced this kingdome vnder his puissance and permitting the inhabitants thereof to liue in their Mahometane religion afterward fearing following the aduice of his wisest Councell that this permission would bring some annoyance to the Christian religion by the frequent fellowship that these inhabitants should haue with his other subiects resolued himselfe intirely to purge this kingdome either by preachings or force Some of them chused rather to passe the sea and retire into Africke then to chaunge their religion Others by effectuall reasons or else preferring their safetie before their religion were baptized This charge to conuert them was giuen to the Iacobins These imployed their time therein with great care But seeing that their paines seemed vnprofitable to many they found a way to search out the meanes hoping that by feare they should keep them in the obseruation of the Christian faith which otherwise they
himselfe with them and that the Emperour should not be so much offended against them For this consideration they chose for their King Stephen Battor the principall Baron amongst them About this time the Emperour published the resignation which he made of the kingdome of Hungarie to the profit of his eldest sonne Rodolph who the yeere before he caused to come out of Spaine where he had soiourned a certaine time with the Catholike King his vncle The crowning of him with many magnificent and sumptuous ceremonies was made in the towne of Poson And for that such things are notable and worthie to bee knowne for those who desire to please themselues in the knowledge of that which is strange to them I purpose to recite and write them in this historie The place of Poson which anciently was called Pisonium because it was built by Piso a Romane being appointed for this pompe all the States of the countrie were called thither These being assembled the day before their enterie into the towne the Emperour and Empresse entered by night into the towne in their Coaches with many lights and torches accompanied with the Prince Mathias and Maximilian their yonger sonnes the 20. of September not minding no more then did the other Lords of their Court to enter therein publikely in the day time The day following departed from Ambourg otherwise called Sopron Rodolph accompanied with his brother Ernestus and many other Princes and Lords Before him departed out of the towne a league off his two other brothers Mathias and Maximilian in whose companie was the Archbishop of Strigonium Primate of the kingdome who had with him sixe Bishops followed of other Lords of the Nobilitie and Caualarie of Hungarie At the meeting the Archbishop to whom belonged this charge with a briefe and elegant oration in Latin after he had prayed to God that it would please him to make this his entrance and comming prosperous and fortunate for the peace and comfort of his subiects he promised to him in the name of all the kingdome obedience and fidelitie The Prince answered him with a modestie mixt with a sweet kind of grauitie that he thanked the kingdome for so good an affection in his behalfe and that he prayed God that he would giue him that grace in such sort to beare this charge that his diuine Maiestie might be well serued therein that it would please him to make him such an one that all the Prouinces and people of the kingdome might neuer haue occasion to repent themselues to haue obeyed him but rather that they would bee very well content with his election promising to employ all his forces to the good preseruation and augmentation of all the kingdome as well in generall as particular This said they began to proceede on towards Poson with this pompe the Hungarish Caualarie marching before to the number of 3000. horse diuided vnder 42. Ensignes with so goodly an order and so well guarded that it was a marueilous thing to see because that these souldiours did weare vpon their heads most goodly and glistering head-peeces inriched with gold and fayre workes ingrauen vpon them and vpon the front they had great plumes made of white Peacocks feathers that couered all the bodie which they had armed with bright Curasses or Shirts of maile Vpon the left arme they carried Targets after their manner certaine whereof had about them three hemmes or borders of the same feathers and in their hands and at the saddle bow they held Launces Sables Clubbes and Maces of iron They were all mounted vpon very good horses which made them the more worthie to bee regarded for so much as their harnesses was inriched with gold and their head-peeces furnished with great plumes with many precious stones and pearles of great value in such sort that it seemed that this people carried with them all their worth which is a meanes to incourage and defend themselues more couragiously against the enemie That which made this Caualarie seeme yet more proud and gallant were the skinnes of Beares and Tygers which the horsemen did weare vpon their shoulders and mane of their horses After this ordinance marched all the gentlemen of the traine of the Princes of Bauier of the Archduke of Austria of the two yonger sons of the Emperour and many other of his Maiesties house so nobly apparelled and their horses so trimly decked that they made this pompe very magnificent they all hauing chaines of gold about their neckes The Prince Maximilian marched after these hauing on his left hand the Prince of Cleueland After him marched Prince Ernestus who had his brother Mathias on his left hand and Prince Ferdinand of Bauier on his right Behinde came Prince Rodolph in the middest of the Archduke of Austria his vncle and of Prince William of Bauier After these Princes was to be seene the aforesayd Archbishop with his Prelates in the middest of the Emperours guard This new King with this pompe was receiued without the bridge by the Germane Infantrie which was ranged in battaile to the number of 5000. and of others 500. souldiours who were for the guard of the Port and in like sort of all the people who of all sorts of age and condition were gathered together to see and receiue this new King with great applause and to conduct him to the Archiepiscopall palace which was prepared for him He went about euening to kisse the hands of the Emperour and Empresse who imbraced him very louingly The 25. of September the necessarie things for his coronation being prepared the Emperour went to the Cathedrall Church in great pompe with his Emperiall habit accompanied with his Heraulds being carried in a chaire by reason that then he was troubled with the gowte which did daily molest him Before him marched the great Marshall of the Empire hauing in his hand the naked sword After followed the Ambassadours of Princes and the gentlemen of his Court His Maiestie being placed on the top of the quire where his siege was prepared vnder a Canapie and that of the Empresse on his right hand sat the Archduke Charles Prince William of Bauier Prince Ernestus Ferdinand of Bauier Maximilian Mathias and the Prince of Cleue On the left hand was placed Iohn Dolfin the Popes Nuncio the Ambassadour of the Catholike King and he of Venice After arriued the new King accompanied with the Princes which wee haue named and of all the Nobilitie of Bohemia and Hungarie These Princes being entered into the Church and hauing made reuerence to the Emperour tooke their places appointed for them But Rodolph entered into the Vestarie from whence he presently after came out bare headed being apparelled with a white robe which they said sometime was belonging to S. Stephen the first King of Hungarie and before him went tenne Hungarian Barons sumptuously apparelled each one carrying a Standard in his hand wherein were represented the tenne Prouinces subiect to this kingdome although the most
part of them are possessed at this day by the Turke These are they Hungarie Dalmatia Croatia Sclauonia Seruia Galisia Rascia Bulgaria Bosnia and Lodomiria After these tenne followed fiue other Barons the one of which carried a Relique in token of peace set in a round forme of gold The second carried a Sword vndrawne in a crimosin veluet scabbard trimmed with siluer The third had the Scepter in his hand The fourth held a little Globe of gold And the last carried the Crowne All these Iewels as it is said belonged to the said S. Stephen and are among the Hungars held in such regard that they esteeme him not for lawfull King who enioyeth them not These fiue Barons were followed by the new King who had vpon his right hand the Marshall of the kingdome who held in his hand the naked Sword With this traine and companie the King comming to the quire two Bishops came before him into the middest of the Church to wit he of Agria and Zagrabia who after a few words conducted him being in the middest of these two before the Archbishop who was solemnely apparelled At the feete of him Rodolph kneeling the Archbishop gaue him his blessing and annoynted him with the accustomed ceremonies There the Epistle being ended the Archbishop girded his Sword about him causing him to draw it out of the scabbard and to lift it vp on high three times demonstrating thereby that he should be bound by armes to defend the faith of Iesus Christ against Infidels and Heretikes Then the Archbishop demaunded with a lowd voyce of the people who are present at the ceremonies if they would accept this Prince for their King Then euery one with infinit acclamations cried that they desired and would haue him for their King Vpon this the Archbishop taketh his oth and putteth the Crowne vpon his head and the Scepter in his hand The King raising himselfe they take the Sword from his side which they giue to the Marshall of the kingdome to carrie it alwaies before his Maiestie Then the Archbishop leadeth the King wearing his Crowne on his head and holding the Scepter in his hand into his Throne At all these ceremonies the Archbishop vseth certaine prayers and admonitions appointed for that purpose After that the Archbishop sitteth downe by the King while they sing Te Deum which ended the Archbishop returneth to the Aulter to end the Masse That done the King in the same habit goeth out of the Church causing peeces of gold and siluer to be throwne to the people and newly coyned vnder his name and from this Church with the same companie he went to the Cordiliers in which he made many Knights as well Hungars as strangers and from thence he went mounted on horsebacke richly decked although he did earnestly lament two miles from the towne to accomplish certain ceremonies depending vpon the oth which the Kings ought to make in such sacred things In the meane time the Emperour after he had most affectionatly thanked the Ambassadours for their assistance and had permitted them to depart he was brought backe to the Castle The Saterday following they made many feasts and vpon the Sunday 100. braue gentlemen performed an excellent Tourney Amongst these according to the iudgement of the assistance the two princes Maximilian and Mathias behaued themselues valiantly the one of them fought against a Spaniard the sonne of the Spanish Ambassadour and the other against a Duke of Poland At night the Emperour made a most rich and sumptuous supper for all the Princes who all for reuerence of the Emperour were bare headed except the King and Archduke Charles who went before the King being placed by the Emperesse Two dayes after they presented an assault giuen against a towne made of wood for defence of which were certaine Knights greatly esteemed This same yeare ended the truce betweene Selim and Maximilian The Emperour perceiuing no more strength to bee in him such as before it was and knowing his small forces or else for some other consideration Selim sought to obtayne of him a prolonging of the truce But Selim not so readily condiscending as Maximilian desired the truce in that time expired and presently the Turkes of the next garrisons fayled not to put themselues into the field and to harrie and assaile the frontiers carying away with them great store of bootie Rodolph with Maximilian his Father determined to erect a Fort betweene Poson and Alberegalis to restraine such incursions The Turkes well foreseeing that which might happen by such a building resolued not to suffer to bee finished before their eyes a place which should be to them of too great importance and by the same meanes to hinder the deseignes of Rodolph For this end hauing amassed together their forces which might amount vnto 20000. men they suddenly assayled this Fort in a maner finished entering in by force they killed the garrison and all the labourers who worked there and after they had reuersed all that edifice they lead with them from thence store of artillerie and other munition of warre Rodolph sent to Constantinople to complaine to Selim for such an enterprise made by his people daring the time of the treaty of peace and without there being of either partie any other former declaration of warre redemaunding that which was taken from him at this Fort. But the aunswere was a deniall of all that which his Maiestie demaunded and to which they added threats if he persisted in such demaunds The Emperour notwithstanding his voluntarie yeelding which he had made to his sonne Rodolph of the Crowne of Hungarie hauing no lesse care of this kingdome then he had before considering how greatly the losses which the people receiued by these incursions were damageable and that by this occasion necessitie constrayned him to take armes to defend it from the violence of his enemies and to recouer that which they tooke from him caused to be published a Diet at Ispurch calling thither all the Princes of Germanie and there proposing to them the perill imminent to all their nation and how little they ought to trust the promises of Infidels exhorted them to take armes with him for the defence of the whole nation The Princes moued by his perswasions concluded to vndertake this warre with him they all iudging that it was more expedient to make open warre then to remaine alwaies in suspence and doubt And vpon this conclusion they gaue order for necessaries thereto In the meane time Charles King of France a long time vexed with such continuall troubles in his kingdome or else because he had vsed too much excesse in his ordinarie exercises in which too violently he passed the time or else by reason of some poyson as some said dyed within a few daies euen then when his life was most necesarie for France not leauing after him but one legitimate daughter of him and his wife named Elizabeth daughter of the Emperour Maximilian Henry his
brother King of Polonia being aduertised of his death made present instance to the Lords of Poland to permit him to goe into France to take possession of so great a kingdome and to set things in order there promising them to returne againe within few moneths The Pollacques would not willingly graunt to him that which he demaunded neuerthelesse they aunswered him that they would consent thereunto if so be that for that effect a Diet should be assembled without which they could graunt him nothing In the meane time his Maiestie gaue order to locke vp his best implements and Iewels and to depart secretly with all speed and after he had sent away before the Ambassadour of France vnder coulour that his authoritie was expired by the decease of his Master and seeing that to attend any longer the resolution of this Diet which the Pollacques delayed from day to day of purpose to detaine him and being resolued to depart he caused to be written in his name by the Lord of Pibrac a letter in Latin to the Senat of Poland by which his Maiestie aduertised them that the occasion more then apparant and the neede of France forced him to depart from their kingdome sooner then hee thought for without further expecting the issue of the Diet he being solicited by messengers vpon messengers to doe it by the Princes and Lords of France and especially by the Queene his Mother without further expecting the issue of the Diet. Hauing left these letters vpon his table and as the said Lord of Pibrac had ended them his Maiestie departed in the night from Cracouia out at a secret posterne of which he vsually had the keyes to goe on hunting and being mounted on horsebacke he made so good speed that within a short time he was out of the limits of the kingdome of Poland and being come to the confines of the Emperours territories he was receiued by his Emperiall Maiestie and by his children with all demonstration of great amitie and by them conducted to Vienna where he was honored and vsed with all manner of honorable respects From thence hee went to Venice where the Seigniorie prouided for him a magnificent enterie After that he passed by Ferrara Mantua and Turin being greatly entertayned by the Princes of Italie An Ambassadour of Poland met him at Ferrara who greatly complayned himselfe of his Maiestie and protested that if hee returned not within a short time the Polonians were resolued to make choise of a new King for that this kingdome could not remaine without the presence of a King His Maiestie desired him to stay this resolution promising him to returne within a short time From Turin within few daies he arriued in France at the same time that the Hungars giuing order to their affayres and fortifying their frontier places against the Turkes prepared for the warre and this they did so much the more willingly for that they already saw amongst them many disorders and that in Transiluania there was declared King by the commaund of the Turke Stephen Battor a man of great experience of whom they had some feare and not without cause Vpon such distrusts and with such preparations they began both of the one part other greatly to be indamaged But during such feares as the Hungars had by reason of the Turke he alreadie preparing to destroy all Christians and feeling himselfe marueilously puffed vp with glorie by reason of the happie successes which betided him in Africa and thinking to take away from the Venecians the I le of Candie as he had done that of Cypresse he dyed within few daies after He was a Prince aboue all other of his time greatly periurious barbarous and wholly fraughted with treacherie he being not come to this Empire but by deceits and falsehoods hauing induced his father to cause all his brethren to be massacred as it was afterwards auerred and hauing thus filled his house with homicides and murthers he obserued not any law or religion but was drowned in all filthie and vilanous vices whatsoeuer This death happened then when the Polonians seeing that their King Henry was peaceably possessed of the Crowne of France and that the time by him prefixed was expired many moneths alreadie past began to treate of the election of another King Henry being aduertised of their intention desired the Electors and Barons of the kingdome that they would attend vntill a certaine time in which space he promised to returne to them or else that hee would send them full commission to chuse another such as they would think to be more commodious for them To this request being ioyned the threats of Amurath the Turke the Polonians contented themselues to stay vntill the prefixed time This passed and at the last expired the Diet was appointed at Cracouia The Emperour Maximilian after that he was aduertised that the intention of the Polonians was not to remaine without the presence of a King began to negotiate with them to cause himselfe to bee chosen King amongst them On the other side Amurath who succeeded Selim hauing vnderstood the suites which the Emperour made sent to the Pollacques and aduised them to doe nothing in that affayre which was disliking to him and that he would they should chuse for their King one amongst them or else Stephen Battor King of Transiluania And the more to astonish this negotiation of Maximilian he writ vnto him by a Chiauss that he and his brothers the Archdukes should pay him tribute of all whatsoeuer they possessed otherwise that he would march into Hungarie and Austria with a puissant armie to put all to fire sword threatning him in the end that if for him or any of his he shuld practise the getting of the kingdom of Polonia he would make him repent it Notwithstanding these threats the Emperour by meanes of those who were of his partie was chosen K. of Poland against the King of Transiluania and Duke of Muscouia which two perceiuing themselues greatly disdained determined to endamage with all their forces that kingdome Maximilian being aduertised thereof and foreseeing that he should draw vpon himselfe so many and so puissant enemies and considering that he had not sufficient forces to oppose himselfe against them and especially against the Turk who prepared to thrust himselfe into Poland being offended with this that the Polonians had so slightly regarded his aduertisements and messengers fearing to trouble himselfe in a warre too daungerous for him and his from whence very hardly he could vntangle himselfe made no great shew of reioycing at this election but laying aside the care which he ought to haue had of it fained as though he knew nothing thereof prolonging by that meanes the taking possession of that kingdom vnder a hope that after the first assaults of these Princes there would not thereby happen to him in the end any other thing Neuerthelesse the Polonians fearing the puissance of the Turke who prepared himselfe to armes
certaine precedent causes and to haue bin practised before in certaine worldly matters These reuolutions sometimes fall out sooner then the naturall course of the starres because that Gods iustice whereof they do depend doth hasten and addresse it selfe to punishment euen as the waight of the misdeedes requireth The two first kindes of these reuolutions may be noted to happen many times naturally in those who are altogether abandoned and forsaken of God and are by him left to the course of their owne lust as we see amongst the Barbarians and in the person of Pharaoh The third kind was inflicted vpon the children of Israell who haue often felt one selfe same iustice and diuine punishment for that their fault was the same equall to the former such being the will pleasure of God to chasten those whō he loueth The calamitie happening to the kingdome of Hungarie whereof I vndertake to write the historie may well bee referred to one of these three punishments For when this countrie at an instant was ouerthrowne there was not in Europe yea it may be not in all the world any place where the people was more proude effeminate cold of courage then in this they giuing themselues ouer to such infamous vices through the great riches and maruelous abundance and wealth of the countrie which is the cause of all wickednes and because they did to say the trueth often make head against the Turks and many times repulsed them from whence proceeded their pride and from the same the despising and contemning of their enemie The seruice of God was not then obserued but in pompe and sumptuous riches The Pastors Prelates of the Church behaued themselues like souldiours vnder colour that it was for defence of it against their enemies Iustice was made an ordinarie sale The Nobilitie peremptorie and vntolerable And the simple people no more simple but hollow perfidious and wicked For these and such like enormous vices it is likely considering that which ensued that God to commence and begin his chasticement sent to this people a yong King according to that wise saying of Salomon who assureth vs That cursed is that countrie whose King is an infant Notwithstanding as yong as he was yet was he soone taken out of the world leauing no certaine heires behinde him but vnfortunate and cankered hatred yea a desire in the hearts of certaine Princes to raigne which continued and perfected the vtter subuersion of this miserable Prouince But discoursing thus freely vpon the euil of another it may be obiected that I haue matter enough at home without borrowing from elsewhere to make the like discourse There is truly enough and more then we should desire but I willingly answer as the wiseman who saith That it is unseemely for a man to be iudge in his owne causes or make his owne accounts For to write and discouer our vices is a vaine foolishnes and to magnifie and extoll our praises is no other but meere flatterie I had rather imitate those who vse the good examples of others to inrich their narration and know so wel to accommodate them to the subiect or matter which is propounded that the auditors are more drawne by them then by their principall and chiefe arguments Nay I will speake boldly as similitudes are not in all respects alike so it seemeth that we are in worse condition then was Hungarie for that the miserie thereof did not happen but by one of these reuolutions and the euill fortune which doth enuiron vs doth depend vpon all the three because it seemeth rather to ouerthrow vs then to correct vs so that we know not which is more true whether we are chasticed for our faults by the pleasure and will of God as if he loued vs or whether he doth vtterly abandon and forsake vs as he did the Barbarians of Peru leauing vs to our owne motiues of lust and by consequence to the naturall course of the starres the great Coniunction of which as hath been obserued by the Astronomers should happen in this miserable time bringing with it nothing but a great alteration of kingdomes and estates with a consequence of a thousand and a thousand miseries At the falling out of such Coniunctions wee reade that the Romane common-weale hath changed the estate vnder Iulius and Augustus as afterward this French Monarchie did vnder Pepin and Charlemaigne and as before that Italie did vnder Romulus and Assyria vnder Merodach and before them the like mutations happened vnder Ianus and vnder Moses The miseries that accompanied the alteration of the Romane state are sufficiently knowne The cruelties were not such vnder Pepin as they were vnder Hugh Capet The reuolution of diuine Iustice did not extend it selfe but vpon the three sonnes of Philip the faire for the punishment of their wicked liues who successiuely were kings of France and dying without issue the kingdome was transferred to those of the house of Valoys Also it is a necessary and vsuall thing that when a good or bad State is come to his complete perfection it presently declineth and reuolueth by reason of this circumuolution commonly called in all ages the wheele of Fortune to which reuolution God hath fastned all humane actions as well actiue as passiue as to a fashion or forme the certainest of all others so that we neither see nor reade of any thing but a continuall returning of good and euill hauing his course or period more short or long according to the varietie of things or disposition of Gods will When we see Religion Iustice or Policie to be in his full force of vertue we may assure our selues to rest in good estate and great content But of the contrarie when superstition and Atheisme when oppression and denying of Iustice when tyrannie and disorder are come to their full points wee ought to expect for no other but great ruine and miserie and yet the same decaying and declining by little and little I will not in particular here recite deuotion turned to hypocrisie the sacred Ministerie and the goods therof committed to Captaines and men of warre and conuerted to the dowries of women vnlawfull bargaines and fowle enormities couered with the vaile of Iustice the execution thereof committed to the ignorant in that the same is valued rather at the price of money then of knowledge the gouernments of Prouinces and Captainships of fiftie men of armes brought to a set price in fine that the royall seate is the onely shop of all ruinous inuentions and the charges and exactions of the simple people without limite or reason The euill which infallibly followeth such like infortunate operations proceedeth not but by diuine prouidence who minding afterward to introduce good must first cast out and purge the euill by punishment and chasticement which bringeth with it such miserie Notwithstanding all these naturall violences and iust chasticements may bee mitigated and asswaged by some other gentle and discreete meanes The first
time after durst not come to doe iniurie to the Transiluanians for that they still distrusted themselues of some intended stratagems By this defeate which was all the good that happened this yeere 1552. the arrogancie and rashnes of the enemy was bridled but not that of Ferdinands souldiours which daily increased hauing no respect neither to Generall Colonels Captaines nor any diuine or humane thing minding by their disloyaltie to make themselues masters of their phantasies and to goe euery where without expecting the appointment and commaund of his Maiestie or the leaue of Castalde as more amply we shall treate of in the successes which happened in the yeere 1553. The end of the sixth Booke THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF HVNGARIE THE ARGVMENT OF THE SEVENTH BOOKE THe Transiluanians solicite Queene Izabella to returne into Transiluania and Castalde for the remedie thereof appointeth a Diet at Colosuar The Spaniards mutinie and seeke to depart Transiluania Aldene is brought to Vienna whither Castalde by Ferdinands appointment also commeth vpon whose departure out of Transiluania the Transiluantans rise in armes in the behalfe of the Queene Aldene condemned but is saued by fauour Castalde leaueth the seruice of Ferdinand and returneth againe to the Emperour Charles The historie of the death of Mustapha eldest sonne of Solyman Albe-iula and all Transiluania yeeld to the Queene Charles the 5. renounceth the Empire to his brother Ferdinand and his letter to the Cardinall of Mentz his arriuall in Spaine and the place where he retired himselfe to end his daies Ferdinand crowned Emperour The Turke commandeth Izabella to expell all new sects out of her kingdome The death of the Emperour Charles for whose death Philip his sonne King of Spaine made sumptuous funerals at Bruxels THe winter was now alreadie in a manner at the extreamest towards the end of Februarie in the yeere 1553. when the Peeres and Lords of Transiluania not minding any longer to suffer the Germanes and Spaniards amongst them nor hauing now no more meanes to victuall them as vsually they had done they began secretly to send Ambassadours to Queene Izabella to negotiate with her concerning her returne into this Prouince whereunto Peter Vicchy Chendy and others were greatly assisting Castalde hauing notice of all this and being thereof well assured gaue present aduertisement thereof to Ferdinand who also presently did not forget on his part to vse all diligence to withstand and preuent these practises sending Alphonse nephew to Castalde to the King of Polonia and to Queene Bonna her mother and to Queene Ioane to intreate them to vse speedie meanes to diuert these clowdes which were thundring in the ayre Ferdinand also sent letters from Vienna to Queene Izabella by which he offered her to performe all that which was accorded betweene them and specially certaine other articles or demaunds made by her to which his Maiestie before would not accord And the better to effect this busines he writ againe to Francis Chendy and to Thomas Varcocchy desiring them to importune the Queene so much that she would content her selfe with that which was agreed vpon since that whatsoeuer was done was not but to the profit of her and her sonne Iohn and to the increasing of both their commodities These two Lords made semblance as though they allowed it and faining to shew their vttermost abilitie for Ferdinand did altogether to the contrarie And the Queene on the one side gaue good words and on the other she hastened her affayres as well as she could the Turke hauing alreadie commaunded the Vayuode of Moldauia that he should prepare himselfe with all his best meanes to enter into Transiluania and to Cassombech to doe the like leauing as many men as he could in the low countries and to fauour and assist the Queenes affayres and to vse their vttermost abilitie to reinstall King Iohn into his kingdome adding to his commaund that if he could not compasse the effect of this enterprise yet at the least he should vse the meanes to increase in this Prouince his Sangiacship promising him succours from Buda Castalde being aduertised of all these deuises that he might the better remedie them and not suffer them to take further footing appointed that the principall Lords of the kingdome should vpon the 15. of March next bee at the Diet of Colosuar to acquaint them with that which Ferdinand had commaunded them Before the meeting of this Diet Andrew Battor who againe was confirmed in the estate of Vayuod and withall was made Counte of Zalmar and Zalboc hauing assembled a good troupe of men among the neighbour townes and Castles and hauing vnderstood that certaine companies of Turkish Caualarie made some incurtions pilling and burning all the villages and minding to expulse them hee caused his people to goe into the field and to march towards the enemie But in the end comming to handie strokes not farre from Agria he was so hotly charged that some of his people quitted the place and others remained there either slaine or taken prisoners and amongst others some of his household seruants and familiar fauourits were taken to redeeme whom Castalde was forced to giue to the Basha of Buda a Chiauss a Mahometaine Priest who were taken at the death of Frier George and detained prisoners in the Castle of Wiuar and to exchange them by Ferdinands commaund with the said fauourits who by this meanes recouered their libertie By reason of this disorder the Vayuod intreated Ferdinand that he would giue him the meanes and inable him to entertaine 1000. light horse of the number of those which he payed in Transiluania which was wholly granted to him and besides 1000. foote that so he might be the better able to affront the Turkes forces in those quarters Ferdinand also gaue him charge to conclude an end of a discord among the people called Cumans who hauing been vnder the iurisdiction of Zaluoch would not seeing that this Fortresse was reduced vnder the Turkes puissance be vnder that of Agria but rather vnder that of Varadin In the end by the diligence of Castalde and the Vayuode they were content to be obedient to Agria Now whilest that the Turke was greatly busied by the Sophy and that he conuerted his forces for the defence of Amasia into which the Persians were entered they began againe by the meanes and interposing of Haly Chlauss to negotiate the truce betweene Ferdinand and Solyman there being safe conduct graunted both from the one and other to send Ambassadours to either partie There being for this purpose some appointed on both sides it was in the end perceiued that nothing else was done but to entertaine the Transiluanians in some hope whilest that the Turkes should dispatch their other intangled affayres that afterwards they might assaile them according to their accustomed manner For they had aduertisement how Cassombech at the instance of the Queene had assembled about him many Sangiacchs and that with the troupes which
bitter teares and their friendly affectionated mournings constrained the Grand Seigniour who for the feare which he had receiued and for the horrour of the deede was almost besides himselfe to promise them with sweet and inticing speeches that he was readie to satisfie whatsoeuer they would demaund and by that meanes appeased a great part of this tumult neuerthelesse all the armie with weapons in their hands omitted not to keepe carefull watch for feare he should steale out of the Campe and that they should bee deceiued of his promise which he had made them of a desired iudgement Rostan after he had by the commaund of the great Turk committed the seale into the hands of Achmeth and that himselfe was depriued of the office and state of Visir wholly possessed with feare for these tumults fled to the Pauilion of Achmeth desiring him as his inward friend and with great instance that it would please him to aduise him what he thought fitting to doe in so sudden a daunger Achmeth answered him that he should take counsell of the Grand Seigniour and follow his pleasure and not of any other This pleased Rostan and suddenly by a sufficient message he executed the counsel of his faithfull friend and receiuing answer from the Seigniour who commaunded that presently he should retire himselfe from him he againe caused to bee told him that he could not depart nor retire without his Pauilions without commission and without money The Turke caused to be replied that the necessitie required neither Pauilions nor money Vpon this resolution hee mounted on horsebacke with eight of his faithfullest friends and in three daies he iournied so farre as if in eight he could haue done by post and retired to Constantinople where he remained in great trouble and feare for these misaduentures The Grand Seigniour afterward endeuoured wisely to appease the cholor of his souldiours and not being able to achieue the same by reason of their obstinacie and perceiuing himselfe depriued of hope and in doubt of his person sought three times with a few of his people to saue himselfe from their hands But it was not possible for him but on the contrary with very great instance and insolencie they demaunded that their Lord should shew himselfe in this field and that iudgement should be giuen and iustice not delayed and that they would not permit to saue himselfe either in townes or Fortresses they not minding at any hand to endure that without cause they should thus falsely massacre the innocent imputing to them slanders vniustly charging them with treason whereof neither Mustapha nor they did euer so much as thinke furthermore obstinately perseuering in this that they would not by any meanes depart from thence except they were reuenged for the innocent blood and that they might haue iustice The Grand Seigniour seeing that after he had publikly and secretly practised with them all kinde of experiments yet could he not for all that content them and that there were alreadie many dayes past and knowing their mindes to be more kindled to reuenge then before and seeing that by his authoritie he could doe no more meant yet further to make triall of the graue wisedome of Achmeth who knew so aptly to handle them that he so farre preuailed in paying daily 1000. Aspres to euery souldiour for three dayes to 4000. souldiours of the Port they were agreed to accompanie their Lord to Aleppo which was three daies iourney from thence the Turke notwithstanding hauing giuen them his inuiolable promise and faith to chastise the false accuser and to reuenge the innocent blood of Mustapha With these conditions he retired to Aleppo cleering himselfe from the hands of his souldiours hauing before hee departed from his Campe taken order for the bodies of his children and commaunded they should be carried to Bursia where are the ancient Tombes of the Ottomans Those who had the charge thereof vncloathing this miserable Mustapha found the letters which as wee haue said he had put into his bosome when he went from his Pauilion to go kisse his fathers hands and presenting them to the Grand Seigniour he would not then open them But after these tumults were a little appeased he caused them to bee brought vnto him and read them and found that from point to point were discouered therein the deseignes and wicked practises of Rostan and Rossa against Mustapha wherevpon he was so stroken at the heart that for many daies he was so surprised with griefe that he would not speake to any man and if he had not had a respect to the state and ordering of things as then they stood he would not thē haue put Rostan to death as he deserued but would haue giuen him aliue to bee deuoured of the dogges But that which he did not then he reserued vntill another time and since the fact was remedilesse he altered his minde to fauour and aduance Mahomet the sonne of Mustapha which he had by a Ladie of Bosnia of the age of 14. yeeres who during this tumult was brought vp by the mother of Mustapha in another countrie fearing that the furie of the Grand Seigniour should also fall vpon him And he presently recalled a certaine Captaine whom he had alreadie dispatched to goe and kill him and he hauing found this childe caused him to bee brought vnto him he gaue him for his entertainment the Sangiachship of Bursia After that he departed from thence and marched towards Hierusalem and being but foure daies iournie from thence for some other accidents happened he was constrained to returne to Aleppo that he might prouide for the affayres of Syria and euen then it was that he was alreadie freed from the mariage of Rossa There was there a Chiauss who with all diligence departed from the Campe thinking by the death of Mustapha to bring good newes to Selim who then was in Carmania But Selim was so sad for this death that he meant to leaue to the world a perpetuall witnesse thereof causing the head of this messenger to be cut off in stead of the good recompence that he expected which truly was a famous act worthie to be recorded and not worthy of this man who is enemie of our faith whom if it had pleased God to haue conuerted him to his holy faith assuredly he might haue been compared with any other as well ancient as moderne About this time Peter Chendy was found culpable concerning the insurrection of the kingdome of Transiluania as hauing put his hand thereto and minding to discharge himselfe thereof he writ to Ferdinand about it excusing himselfe and assuring him that he neuer meant any such matter His excuses according to the necessitie of the time were receiued But within a while after the Queene desirous to recouer that which of her owne will she had left effected her purposes so well that causing a tumult among the people of the kingdome within a short time she saw her selfe Ladie
thereof and chased from thence Ferdinands people there increasing at the same time so horrible a plague in this Prouince that it continued vntill the yeere 1555. whereof died so many men horses and other beasts that it was an incredible thing Vpon the occasion of this losse the Turks being incouraged tooke armes against Ferdinand and entring into that countrie besieged Albe-iula against which they built a Fort and the assieged being at the end of their victuals were constrained to yeeld to the Queene who in sauing them she was by that meanes made Ladie of that towne and within a while after in her sons name of all the rest of Transiluania and there rested no more for her to conquer but certaine Castles situated in the confines of the Bishopricke of Varadin and that of Tocchay which is very strong And expecting a commodious time to goe and besiege them she did no other thing in the meane while but assure the minds of the principals of the kingdome in the deuotion of her selfe and her sonne causing for this purpose to be published a generall Diet at Sibinio for all the nations of the countrie wherein she shewed the wrong which she had receiued by the officers of the Emperour because they had not kept with her the conditions and capitulations accorded betweene them and the losse and ruine which had happened vnto them because they would take part with him and on the contrarie the good and profit which they should receiue in being retired to her she assured in such sort her forces in this Prouince that all wholly refusing the amitie of Ferdinand and imbracing that of Iohns as of their naturall Lord all neuer ceased vntill they had cleansed Transiluania of the remainders of the Emperials the Queene being for this purpose fauoured of the King of Polonia and of the Queene Bonna her mother who secretly besides the Turke who feared that Ferdinand should set footing in this countrie and that in time he might greatly annoy him in that quarter would not faile to assist her with all counsels and succours which they should thinke necessarie and profitable for her according to the condition of the time She recompenced those who had not abandoned her part and as a sage and prudent woman she reserued to another time the commoditie to reuenge her selfe of the iniuries which she had receiued of those who so many times rebelled against her and had been the occasion of all these inconueniences And being confederate with the Vayuodes of Moldauia and Valachia and by the expresse commaund of the Turke hauing made a perfect alliance and friendship with the Basha of Buda the Sangiach of Bossina and Belgrade she began to giue order to the affayres of the kingdome and to receiue the accounts of the reuenew thereof to acquit her selfe and pay those who had assisted her to enter thereinto and also to giue presents to those who for diuers causes did merit recompence making her selfe by this meanes delightfull to euery one About this time her brother Sigismond King of Polonia hauing refused for wife one of the daughters of the King of the Romanes being inamoured of a gentlewoman his subiect who was yong and indowed with singular beautie he tooke her to wife and spouse and married her against the will of the Queene his mother and of all the principals of his kingdome for which occasion it happened that the mother was long time incensed against him vntill the death of this new Queene who suddenly died not without suspition of being poysoned and by her death all the dissentions of the kingdome were appeased and the King was reconciled to Queene Bonna his mother who hauing before greatly laboured to haue leaue to retire out of Polonia and goe and repose her selfe in Italie and to finish the remainder of her daies in her Dutchie of Barry situated in the kingdome of Naples she was in the end by meanes of the Emperour Charles and of Ferdinand King of the Romanes licensed by her sonne and in iourneying into Italie she passed by Venice where by this Common-weale she was receiued within the Bucentaure with great pompe and honoured by all the gentlewomen of the towne who gorgiously attired and dressed with stones and Iewels presented themselues to her and conducted her to the Palace of the Duke of Ferrara vsing to her the greatest curtesies which could be imagined she being further continually visited by euery one And after being accompanied with certaine armed Gallies which were giuen to her by the State of Venice to conduct her in suretie for feare of Saala Rays the Pyrat who then skoured those seas and with a good winde she arriued at the Port of Barry where she liued not long not being held in any good reputation nor gaining a good name by reason of one Pappacoda to whom forgetting her sonne and daughter so great is the fleshly desire of this world she left all the good things that she had remaining infinitly blamed for this act and little commended among the liuing This happened then when betweene the Emperour Charles and Henry King of France there was accorded after many disputes and controuersies betweene the Commissioners a truce for fiue yeeres which was published in France in Italie and Flanders And that they might the better reioyce and congratulate vpon the occasion thereof with these two great Princes the Pope sent to the one of them for Legate the Cardinall Mottola and to the other the Cardinall Caraffa The Emperour laying aside armes by occasion of this truce with hope that it in the end would ingender a good peace was resolued wholly to renounce all the affayres and pompes of this world insomuch that according to this resolution whilest he was at Gaunt he dispatched certaine Lords to the Electors of the Empire and to Ferdinand his brother by whom he declared to them his determination sending by them to Ferdinand the Crowne Scepter and the other Emperiall ornaments By these he writ to the Cardinall of Mentz an Elector the letter which followeth My Lord Cardinall seeing it hath pleased God to shew me so much grace at the end of my daies as to graunt me rest by the truce which I haue made with the King of France the fruite whereof I hope for a good peace betweene the subiects both of the one part and other I am resolute to end the remainder of my yeeres with a life more sweete and fuller of tranquilitie by meane of which I may applie my self to the contemplation of diuine things from which to my great sorrow I haue been more distracted then I would haue bin by the affayres which I haue had vpon me euen from my youth in so great abundance that if diuine clemencie had not assisted and comforted me I know it had been impossible for me to vnfold my selfe therefrom The acknowledgement which I haue thereof besides other benefits receiued frōaboue hath more excited me to
was payed to the Turke by the Hungars The Popes absolution in fauour of Ferdinand for the murther of George Raoul expulsed from his Vayuodship of Transalpinia by Mirce he recouereth it and discomfiteth Mirce The battaile betweene Raoul and Mirce Mirce ouerthrowne Tergouista the capitall towne of the Transalpinians The answer of Solyman to the request that the Hungars made for peace Letters of Solyman to Battor Vayuode of Transiluania Solyman for Queene Izabella The Transiluanians astonished at the letters of Solyman The oratiō of Castalde to those of the Diet of Wasrael The Transiluanians reanimated against the Turkes The pursuice against Aldene Queene Izabella practiseth her returne into Transiluania Peter Vicchy and Chendy for Izabella Euill intreatie caused the rebellion of the Transiluaniās against Ferdinand Duke Mauris dismissed The garrison of Deua put in route some Turkish companies Anno 1553. The Transiluanians solicite Queene Izabella to returne into Transiluania The renewing of the procuring of peace A Diet at Colosuar The Spaniards mutinie Aldene brought to Vienna Castalde retired out of Transiluania and returned to Ferdinand Castalde wrongfully accused Tocchay The Transiluanians rise in the behalfe of Queene Izabella Aldene condemned to death saued by fauour Hedin taken by the Emperour Charles from the French Castalde returned to the Emperour in Flanders The historie of the death of Mustapha Solymans eldest sonne Mustapha the eldest sonne of Solyman Rossa beloued of Solyman Mahomet Baiazet Selim Zeangir children of Solyman by Rossa Chameria daughter of Solyman maried Rostan Basha Muplety an arch Presbiter of the Mahometanes Gods reward for charitable workes done by Slaues appertaine to their masters Rossa made free To vse a free woman is sin Rossa made the spouse of Solyman The Turkish Emperours neuer marrie Rossa practiseth the death of Mustapha Rostan Basha conspireth with Rossa the death of Mustapha The eldest sonnes of the Turkish Emperours remaine not at the Court. The instructiō of the Turkish Emperours sonnes Anno 1553. The diuine resolution of Mustapha The Ianisaries obeying the signes of then Commaunders The vision of Mustapha prognosticated his death Seuen Muets executors of the Grand Seigniours pleasure The cruell words of a Tyrant Mustapha strangled Zeangir killed himselfe seeing his brother dead A great tumult in Solymans armie Solyman in danger of his person Solyman escapeth from his mutinous souldiours Bursia a towne where is the sepulture of the Turkish Emperours The innocencie of Mustapha discouered Selim killeth him who brought the newes of his brothers death Chendy excuseth himselfe to Ferdinand concerning the insurrection of Transiluania Albe-iula yeelded to Queene Izabella and all Transiluania Sigismond the 2. King of Polonia in disgrace with his mother and Polanders for his wife The Queene of Polonia retireth into Italie * A rich Barge wherein the Venetian Seigniorie expatiat themselues in the Adriatike sea neere to their citie Pappacoda entertained Bonna the Queene of Polonia A truce betweene the Emperour Charles and the King of France Charles the Emperour renounceth the Empire to the end that Ferdinand might haue it Philip came to seeke his father the Emperour Charles arriued in Spaine Valladolid The Emperor Charles instructed his little sonne Charles The place where the Emperour Charles retired himselfe to end his dates Ferdinand crowned Emperour The truce broken betweene King Henry of France and Philip King of Spaine Commaund from the Turk to Queene Izabella to chase out of her kingdome the new sects The death of the Emperour Charles Sumptuous funerals made at Bruxels by Philip King of Spaine for the Emperour his father Ambassadours of France at the Diet of Ausbourg The seate of the Emperour and Princes of the Empire in the Diets Succours graunted to Ferdinand against the Turke Tocchay taken by K. Iohn from Ferdinand Debatement of peace betweene King Iohn and the Emperour Ferdinand Albert Lasky Solyman in trouble and doubt by Baiazet his son Maximillian sonne of Ferdinand chosen King of the Romanes Solyman seeketh peace with Ferdinand Maximilian made King of Hungarie The death of Ferdinand Maximilian made Emperour Maximilian made warre vpon K. Iohn Sachmar taken by Iohn Debrezen burned by the Emperials Hadao and Atauiar taken by Iohn Lazare Schuendy Lieutenant generall in Hungarie for Maximilian Nemethy a Tutor spoileth his pupil of Tocchay The siege of Tocchay by the Emperials Nemethy slaine Tocchay yeelded Sachmar burned Eiden yeelded to the Emperials A great winter Debatement of peace betweene Maximilian Solyman Iohn Sigismond Nicholas Esdrim Counte of Serin Sachmar re-established A complot against the cōductors of the Artillerie Erdeu besieged by the Turkes Erdeu yeelded to the Turkes by composition Debrezen burned by the Emperials Newstat inriched with mynes of diuers mettals Bullets annoynted with fat cause death A continuation of the treatie of peace Paul Veidner a Phisition of a Iew became a Christian Ambassadours are not to be retained for and in place of prisoners taken in the warre Counte Salm enterpriseth vpon Alberegalis George Hossute Ambassadour for Maxilian to the Turke Newstat taken by the Turks Peasants paying custome to both parts The Estate of Germanie touching the Diets Ecclesiasticall Electors The Bishop of Salzburg rich The Bishop of Magdebourg Primate of Germanie Secular Electors The Elector of Saxonie and the Duke of Bauier the richest of them all Emperiall townes Little tribute due by the Emperiall townes to the Emperour Magdebourg puissant Lubec wealthie Ausbourg rich Danzie The policie which is held at the Diets Warre betweene the Kings of Sweden and Denmarke The King of Sweden referreth himselfe to the Emperour Maximilian Protestant Princes in rumour against Count Palatin for that he had changed his religion A negotiation for the mariage of Charles the 9. King of France Sigismond King of Polonia hindered by the Duke of Muscouia from making peace betweene the Emperour and King Iohn The Princes of the Empire arriued at the Diet. The Emperor went to meete the Elector of Mentz Succours frō the Pope to the Emperor The manner of Protestant Princes accompanying the Emperour to the Church The place and office of the Electors in publike acts The Duke of Sauoy and the Duke of Mantoa came to the ayde of the Emperor Demaunds of the Emperour in the Diet. Offers of succours made to the Emperour by the Princes of the Empire Commaundement from the Emperour to the Kings of Sweden and Denmarke The Switzes send to the Diet of Ausbourg Inuestiture is giuen by the Emperour and of that which is due for it Ordinances made in Austria to draw succours against the Turkes Occasion which might cause Count Palatin to distrust so great a preparation for warre Ordinance made in Germanie vpon the diuersitie of religion The opinion of Zwinglius or Caluin diuulged in Spaine and the punishmēt of some Sectaries thereof The notable ceremonie touching the execution which is done in Spaine against Heretikes The forme of the Spanish Inquisition King Iohn drew the Hungers to him Ainathschen taken by the Turkes
Solyman marcheth into Hungarie Pallotta well defended by Tury against the Turkes Succours come to the Emperour from forraine Princes Succours of Italie Englishmen Polonians Germanes Sauonians Frenchmen A nauall armie vpon Danubius Vesprimia taken by Count Salm from the Turkes Tata taken by Count Salm from the Turkes Ghestez and Vithain taken from the Turkes Martelots wicked peasants Ferdinand Lieutenant General in the armie of the Emperour Maximilian his brother Bohemians Morauians and Slesians in the Emperours ayde Solyman arriued in Hunagrie Solymans siege before Sighet Nicholas Esdrin Count of Se-rin commaunded at Sighet The death of Solyman The prognostication of the death of Solyman The marueilous prudencie of Mehemet Basha The death of Count Serin Sighet taken by the Turks Sopron called Odemburg Ladislas Cheretsken Gouernour of Iula Giusa taken by the Turks Selim the sonne and successour of Solyman Ceremonies at the receiuing of the Grand Seigniour into Constantinople Ceremonie for the funerall mourning of the Turkish Emperours Cadilischiers Larges dew to the Ianisaries by the new Emperour The Sepulcher of Solyman The entrance of Solymans bodie into Constantinople Iauerin burned by chāce Maximilian dismisseth his armie The barbarousnes of the Tartars Tocchay taken by Schuendy from the Transiluaniās and besieged by King Iohn A mutinie betweene the Tartars and King Iohn Tartars defeated by King Iohn Comar Calambach Ghestez and Vitan taken by the Turks Tartars defeated in Polonia A Diet in Austria in which was granted succours to Maximilian The exercise of the Confession of Ausbourg denied to the Austrians The Pope and Turkes of Florence Ferrara and Mantua sent succours to the Emp. George Hossute Ambassadour of the Emperour saw Selim Excuses by writing of Cheretsken for the yeelding and losse of Iula The cruell death of Cheretsken Zarmar taken by Schuendy The Bohemians Slesians and Morauians doe graunt succours to the Emperour 15. Dukedomes in Bohemia Mourach taken by Schuendy Ambassadours of the Emperour to Selim for peace Succours graunted by the Hungars to the Emperour Peace betweene Maximilian and Selim. The Arch Bishop of Strigonia Primate of Hungarie Hust yeelded to King Iohn * This cutting was of this riuer Volga within it of Don called Tanais the better to bring the commodities which come by that riuer by the said riuer of Don euen vnto Constantinople by the great Sea Maximilian complaineth to Selim of King Iohn Selim threatneth K. Iohn Maximilian solicited by the Pope and Venecians to make warre vpon the Turke Maximilian resigneth the kingdomes of Hungarie and Bohemia to his sonne Rodolph The death of Sigismond King of Polonia The manner of the election of a King of Polonia Ambassadours from the King of France pursuing in Polonia the election of Henry D. of Aniou The siege of Rochell Henry trauaileth into Poland The indiscretion of Count Palatin of Rhein Henry receiued King of Polonia The death of Iohn King of Transiluania Pretences of Maximilian to the kingdome of Transiluania Stephen Battor chosen King of Transiluania The crowning of a King of Hungarie Poson called Pisonium Ambourg called Sopron The truce betweene Selim and Maximilian expired Succours granted to the Emperour by the Germanes The death of Charles King of France Henry King of Polonia stealeth away and commeth into France The death of Selim. Amurath the sonne of Selim soliciteth the Polonians to chuse Battor for their King Maximilian chosen King of Polonia Battor chosen King of Polonia Battor receiued into Poland The King of Denmark and the Mulcouit make warre in Polonia Maximilian demaundeth aide of the Germanes to make warre vpon the Polonians Succours granted to Maximilian A league against the Polonians Maximilian sent to solicit the Sophy against Amurath Rodolph the sonne of Maximilian declared King of the Romans The death of Maximilian Rodolph receiued Emperour Truce betweene Amurath and Rodolph Danzit besieged by Battor Battor sent to acknowledge the Pope and to seeke for learned men in Italie Battor bringeth the Muscouits and Tartars to require peace Truce confirmed betweene the Emperour and Amurath