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A55689 The Present and future condition of Germany giving a full account ... 1683 (1683) Wing P3234; ESTC R10214 4,517 12

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THE PRESENT and FUTURE CONDITION OF GERMANY Giving a full ACCOUNT 1. Of the Turks Advance into Christendom and the Grounds of those Disturbances in Hungary which occasion'd it 2. A Description of the City VIENNA and the Siege thereof 3. The Grand Seigniors Nativity Calculated and the Success of this Expedition probably conjectured 4. Several Predictions relating to the present Posture of Affairs in Europe LONDON Printed for J. A. and Entred according to Order 1683. THE PRESENT and FUTURE CONDITION OF GERMANY AT this time when Christendome is alarm'd with a dreadful Invasion from its Common Enemy and the Imperial Eagle trembles under the Gripes of the Ottoman Fury who is not curious to inquire both into the occasion of this Incursion and what may rationally be expected as the Consequence and Issue thereof The disturbances of Hungary have a long time made a considerable Figure in the Gazetts of Europe A great part of that Kingdom hath been subject to the Turk ever since its Metropolis Buda yielded to the victorious Arms of Solyman the Magnificent in the year 1536. the rest with the Title of King of Hungary was claimed by the House of Austria and so became annext to the Empire of Germany under Ferdinand II. Anno 1624. But having formerly been an Elective Kingdom the Inhabitants still challeng'd certain Priviledges and Immunities and the same were from time to time promised and confirmed to them by the Emperors which being much infringed and violated as they alleadg'd some years since they being a Warlike People betook themselves to Arms. But thô the greatest part of them are Protestants yet it was not upon the Account or pretence of Religion that the first Insurrection there began but for their Civil Liberties and the most eminent Conspirators were of the Roman Communion however the same being pretty well crusht and suppress'd the Jesuites too prevalent in the Imperial Councils contriv'd to take an advantage from the Vmbrage of this Rebellion to destroy and root out all those of the Reformed Religion in that Kingdom and stimulated the Ministers of State to practise divers intolerable Rigors and Pressures upon them the Nature of which may partly appear from the Memorial of Count Oxenstierne the King of Swedens Ambassador presented to his Imperial Majesty in the year 1674. wherein are these words The Protestant Ministers especially in the Cities of Leopoldople Capuarina Camara and others have been most violently seized on pillag'd and insolently abused flea'd with stripes starved with hunger and nakedness thrust down into most loathsome and horrible Prisons amongst Snakes and Toads and so bound and manacled that they want all means of defence to help themselves against the Venomous Creatures And where they are most favourably dealt with and suffered to live above ground they are compelled to Imployments not only servile and laborious but the most filthy and noysom that can be invented loaded perpetually with Chains more cruelly than those that are guilty of the most grievous Parricides or Treasons without out all Commiseration without any satiety or end of mocking and abusing them so that they lead a life than which Hell it self may seem more tolerable Thus was their Condition remonstrated by that great Minister of State but little amended or alleviated for his solicitations for the persecution was still carryed on fiercely and a great number of those Protestant Ministers sold for Gally-slaves were in Chains divers of them perished and some that surviv'd were at last released by the Mediation of the Dutch Admiral To preserve themselves from these Outrages finding nothing less than the destruction of them and their Religion were designed several of these Hungarians gathered together and stood upon their own defence and have some years been headed by Count Teckely a Nobleman of that Kingdom And thô several Overtures have been made for accommodation yet all being frustrated and finding that their Brethren enjoyed under the Turk fairer Quarter than they could hope for under the Papists they made their Complaints to the Port submitting themselves to that power from whence they might expect protection And as their Disloyalty and joyning with the Infidels is justly to be condemn'd so neither can those Councils be justified for Prudence or Piety which by unnecessary Severities reduced them to that despair and the extremity of such a Choice But the Grand Seignior regarding them now as his Vassals begins a Quarrel on their behalf with the Emperor and taking the advantage of these distractions to inla●ge his Dominions for amongst Heathen Princies whatever are their pretences Ambition and Glory are the Grounds of their Wars employs his Vizier with a mighty Army of above an hundred thousand men to enter Christendome which like an irresistable Torrent carrying death and desolation before it has lately advanced to the Walls of Vienna the chief City of Germany and residence of the Imperial Court which he invested on the fourteenth of July last and continues to Besiege the Emperor being forced to abandon the same for his safety This City is seated on the Banks of the Danubius one of the greatest Rivers in the World in the Arch-Dukedom of Austria it contains in Circuit about 5000 Geometrical Paces and is famous for its Vniversity and for its Cathedral dedicated to St. Stephen the Steeple whereof is 465 Foot high of hewen Stone curiously carved into various Figures but especially 't is renowned for the Repulse given to the Turks Ann. 1526. of whom two hundred thousand under the conduct of Solyman the Magnificent beleaguer'd it for a long time but by the valour of Frederick the 2d Elector Palatine and other Princes they were forced to raise their Siege and retire with the loss of fourscore thousand men And whether the Turk at this time may have any better successe against it is a question the Fortifications being much improved a discreet and valiant Governour placed in it and 18 thousand Souldiers in Garrison besides the Scholars and Burghers and good store of Provision and Ammunition laid in yet the Vizier attacques it with all imaginable fury and is prodigal of the lives of his Souldiers it being affirmed that he hath already lost 20 thousand of his men before it Nor are the Christian Princes wanting to gather together a strength to repell these Mahumetans The Duke of Lorrain has a considerable Force not above a day or two's March off and only waits the coming up of the Auxiliary Troops and especially of the valiant King of Poland who is resolved in person to endeavour the relief of this Imperial City and is now upon his March and when once they are joyned 't is not doubted but we shall soon hear of a Battle the fate of which will be of a vast importance to Europe And for a good Omen we have already tydings that the Duke of Lorrain and part of the Polish Army have defeated some of the Turks and Teckley's Troops and forced them to retire with considerable loss For