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A56069	A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross.		1664 (1664)	Wing P3808; ESTC R222509	39,973	58

his Realm chiefly by two Magistrates yet in the Upper Hungary there used to be three Magistrates The first Governs the Realm in the Kings Name The chief Magistrate is the Palatine of the Realm who is next unto the King and Judges the King himself if he be accused He is chosen by the People and his Office is not Hereditary There is also the Judge of the Court who is one of the ordinary Judges of the Realm Then the perpetual Chancellor who is the Archbishop of Strigonium the Primate of the Kingdom and the Chief Secretary His Office is to Annoint the King when he is chosen and to Seal all Patents and Priviledges There is also the Master of the Court who must of necessity follow the King and is his neerest Counsellor There is also the Master of the Royal Tavernies who hath the charge of Mines and Saltpits and doth Judge of causes which concern the Kings revenues in Towns Burroughs and Castles The second Magistrate is appointed for matters of Justice and this Magistracy comprehends three Officers of very great authority that is the Vice Palatine of the Realm the Personal Judge of the Presence who holds the Kings place in Judgements and is above all other Judges and the Vice-Judge of the Court The Inferior Officers are those who are rather Executioners of Judgement than Magistrates and there are two Protonotaries of the Personal Judge one of the Vice-Palatine and one of the Vice-Judge of the Court. All these are called Masters and have joyned to them the Archbishop of Strigoniums Secretary who is called Fiscall besides twelve Assistants and certain sworn Notaries Besides all these there are the Kings Officers as the Treasurer the High Chamberlain and other Chamberlains the Lord Steward of the Kings House and other Masters of the Houshold the Chief Cup-Bearer Gentlemen Servants Ushers and many other Inferior Officers This Kingdom of Hungary hath ever been Elective Their Kingdom is Elective and hath had special Priviledges indulged them by their former Kings King Andrew gave Authority to his Prelates Peers and People that without any imputation of disloyalty they might contradict oppose and resist their King if he did any thing in Violation of their Laws and Sanctions as Dr Heylin saith in his Geography p. 189. But since the house of Austria came to possess this Crown of Hungary they have made their Government more absolute and the People more servile having lost much of their former Liberty and Priviledges For in their ancient Government when as their Kings meant to undertake War to conclude a Peace or to alter any thing in the Government of the Commonwealth their manner was to assemble the Barons Bishops and Gentlemen at a certain place where by the consent of the greater part their Kings had power to confirm abrogate or make Laws To denounce War to conclude Peace and to charge their Lands with Impositions and Taxes according as necessity required Which Assemblies are still in use but the freedom thereof is much retrenched and impaired there being now nothing propounded to these Assemblies by their new Governors but to raise a Contribution of Mony to resist the Turk when he threatens any Invasion to which demand the Estates give their resolution by a certain Day They Judge according to Written Laws but they have another kind of deciding controversies which happen amongst them For if the matter be difficult to end Trial by Combate they ordain that it shall be tryed by Combate betwixt the Parties the which is performed in the presence of the King or his Lieutenant and the victory is adjudged to the stronger and he is judged Victorious that doth so amase his enemy at his first approach as that he retires out of the Field or being in combate is so pursued as that he is forced to abandon the place that is limited to them They that fight on Horseback charge first with their Lances and then they fall to it with their Swords and for such as fight on foot they have their privy parts covered and all the rest of their body is naked Only the males as was said before inherit and if they die without Sons the Daughters do not succeed but the Lands of the deceased fall by Escheat to the King Their strength The forces of this Kingdom whilst it was entire may best be Judged of by those great Armies which they have brought into the Field against the Turk But now two parts of three of Hungary being subdued by the Turks that which remains is not able to answer the proportion of former times The foot Souldiers are commonly but meanly armed the defect whereof is rather to be imputed to Prince than to the People who can but bring their Bodies which is all they have for the defence of their Country Their Horsemen which are called Heiducks are maintained in a continual readiness at the charge of the Nobility and principal Gentry These are Cousin-Germans to the Cossacques almost as cruel and mischievous as they Their Revenues The chief Revenues of this Kingdom come from the Silver Mines out of which is yearly raised about a Million and an half of Guilders But Maximilian the second made it up two Millions by seizing on the Lands of the Cathedrall and Collegiat Churches and assigning annual Pensions to the Bishops Canons and other Religious Persons Most of which summes come cleerly to the Emperors Coffers the Presidiary Souldiers being paid with Contribution Money raised out of the Peoples purses and the Lieutenant Generals Salary which comes to thirty thousand Dollars by the year is defrayed out of their purses also Not to speak any thing of the first Inhabitants of this Kingdom of Hungary so many ages since extinct we will come to the Hungarians the last and Principal Actors upon the Stage of this Kingdom and the givers of the present Name to it before whose coming into it Called formerly Pannonia it was called Pannonia These Hungari were a Scythian People first known in Europe by their acts in the time of the Emperor Arnulphus when wandring in Sarmatia Europaea they were by him called into this Country to assist him against Suantobogius King of the Moravians from whom they took Transylvania and so much of Hungary as lies on both sides of the River Tisse inhabited at that time by the Sclaves and some scattered remnants of the Avares whom they killed or forced to seek new habitations planting themselves in those places which they took from them which is now the Upper Hungary after which they passed the Danow and subdued Pannonia Their Goverment at first was under Dukes The first King But Stephen the fourth upon his embracing the Gospel was honored with the title of a King enjoyed by his successors to this very day In the time of Ladislaus surnamed the Saint Dalmatia and Croatia were added to the Crown of Hungary as bequeathed to the King by his Sister Zelomira the Widow of the

that time it was the seat Royal of the Kings of Hungary and the chief City of the Kingdom As now it is the seat of the chief Bassa or Lord Lieutenant for the Grand Signior 2. Abba Regalis by the Dutch called Stul-Weisenburg situated between the Danow and the Dravus strongly but unwholsomly seated in the midst of an inaccessibile Marish which is joyned to the firm land by three broad Causeys blocked up at the ends with three great Bulworks But notwithstanding its strong situation it was taken by the Turks Anno Christi 1543. Before which time it was the usual place both for the Coronation and Interment of the Kings of Hungary 3. Volue on the Danow taken in the same year also 4. Fiese-kirken called in Latine Quinque Ecclesiae from five Churches in it A Bishops See It was this last year burned down by Count Serini which was taken by the Turks Anno Christi 1566. and gave them a great command upon the River Dravus upon which it is seated 5 Sirmisch situated between the Danow and Savus noted for yielding the best Wines but it is a City otherwise of no estimation for the present though formerly of the most account in all this Province the Metropolis of Pannonia inferior honoured with the presence and personal residence of many of the Emperors and in those respects made the Stage of many great and memorable Actions Here was held a Council against the Heretick Photinus Bishop of this City who held that Christ had no existence of God the Father till he was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary Anno Christi 356. 6. Zigeth a strong Town situate on a Marish ground on the North side of the River Dravus which was taken by Solyman the Magnificent Anno Christi 1566 who there ended his Days 7. Keresture nigh unto which in the year 1596 Mahomet the third gave unto the Christians so great an overthrow that probably if he had pursued his Victory he had made a full Conquest of all Hungary 8. Mursa upon the confluence of the Dravus and the Danow 9. Belgrade on the confluence of the Savus and the Danow called by the Dutch Greek Wessenburg It s called Belgrad from the beautiful situation of it It s hemmed in on the North with the Danow on the East with the Savus on the other sides its defended with very strong Walls deep Ditches and impregnable Ramparts It belonged anciently to the Despots of Servia by whom it was consigned over to Sigismund King of Hungary as best able to keep it the Despot being satisfied with Lands and other Territories of a better value Heretofore it was the Bulwork of Christendom against the Turks who received before it many great and notable repulses of which the most memorable were those of Amurath the second and Mahomet the Great It was taken at last to the great loss and shame of the Christian world who relieved not the besieged in due time by Solyman the Magnificent Anno Christi 1520. On the North side of the Upper Hungary there is 10 Pesth over against Buda on the River Danow 11. Vaccia on the same River a Bishops See 12. Colocza an Archb shops See on the same River also 13. Zegedin on the West side of the River Tibiscus 14. Temeswar on the East of that River towards Transylvania which is the ordinary residence of a Turkish Bassa 15. Gyula a strong Town on the Borders of Transylavania which was betrayed by Nicholas Keresken the Governor thereof in the last year of Solyman upon promise of a great reward But Selimus the Son of Solyman caused him to be shut up in a Barrel knocked full of nails with the points inwards and so to be tumbled up and down till he dyed most miserably On the Barrel there was this Inscription written Here receive the reward of thy Covetousness and Treason Gyula thou soldest for Gold If thou best not faithful to Maximilian thy Natural Lord neither wilt thou be true to me 16. Singidon on the South side of Gyula betwixt which and Belgrade are the Fields of Maxon famous for the slaughter of fifty thousand Turks slain here in Battel under the prudent conduct of John Huniades Anno 1456. The People of Hungary are strong of Body The quality of the People but somewhat rude of behaviour respecting neither the Liberall Arts nor Mechanick Trades The greatest aspersion is the name of a Coward which cannot be wiped off without the killing of a Turk after which they are priviledged to wear a Feather and by the number of their Feathers to shew how many Turks they have slain in Battel They delight in Wars like no Trade better desiring rather to live upon other mens labors then upon their own They are extream covetous yet they have rather a desire then any Art to enrich themselves permiting the Dutch to ingross all their Trading and to mannage such Commodities as their Country yields which is the cause seconded by the oppressions of the Turks and Austrian Family under whom they are that none of them rise to any considerable Wealth And for such as have lands they grow poorer every Day then other For though the Females be excluded from inheriting their Fathers Possessions to whom they give no Portion but new clothes on their Wedding day yet seeing the Sons do equally share their Fathers estate amongst them as such who hold in Gavelkind do here in England it must needs be that by so many Divisions and Subdivisions the greatest Patrimony that is will be brought to little Both Sexes in their education are inured to hardship being not suffered to lie in Beds till the night of their marriage The Hungarians at this day contemn ease and pleasure and live not in Towns but as strangers with a design to be soon gone Great men lodge their delights in their Gardens and Baths and care not for their Buildings but desire to live at large The Common People live in Cabins and little lodgings ill made Their Habit. Their Garments are long and stately their Womens Garments are straight and cover them unto the neck they wear upon their Gowns long Cloaks and they cover their Heads with Vails or Linnen Cloth and hide all but their eyes and nose and most of them wear Pearls and precious stones Also both men and women wear Buskins up to the calf of the Leg they mourn a whole year for their Friends and Kinsfolks when they die and sometimes two years they shave their Beards and leave nothing but their Must●ches which are sometimes very long They have a particular Language which differs not much from the Bohemians and they have also a perticular form of Letters The Sclavonian Language yet most commonly they use the Roman Characters they are very proud and haughty strong in War and are better Souldiers on Horseback th●n on Foot they are very obedient to the Prince and his Leiutenants In the parts adjoyning to Germany the Dutch