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A49902	Memoirs of Emeric count Teckely in four books, wherein are related all the most considerable transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, from his birth, anno 1656, till after the Battel of Salankement, in the year 1691 / translated out of French.; Histoire d'Emeric, comte de Tekeli. English	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1693 (1693)	Wing L822; ESTC R39725	143,365	368

MEMOIRS OF EMERIC Count Teckely In Four BOOKS Wherein are related all the most considerable Transactions in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from his Birth Anno 1656 till after the Battel of Salankement in the Year 1691. Translated out of French LONDON Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Maiden-head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1693. To the Right Honourable RICHARD Earl of Bellomont Treasurer to Her Majesty My Lord IT seems not unseasonable or improper to publish these Memoires under your Lordship's Protection though Truth needs no Hero to defend her the Beauty of Vertue and generous Spirit of Liberty influenced Your glorious Ancestors and runs still in the Veins and Blood of your Self and Noble Family 'T is this sublime Character that shines so bright in most of the Greek and Latin Writers this Purity and Majesty of Thought Stile and Action elevated the Ancients far above our Level and rendred them such noble Monuments to Posterity that at this Day they carry the highest Value and the greatest Reputation Whereas in the late Ages we have so far degenerated from the Candor and Sincerity of those Learned Authors that either Sects in Religion Factions in the State or other private Interests or Rewards have made Men deviate so far from the old Rules of History that the greatest part of the Modern is more like Romance design'd to please some sorts of Readers more than to profit or teach Mankind Polybius Lucian and others foresaw the many Corruptions that were like to overspread the Writers of History therefore they thought fit to leave behind them some Rules and Methods for preserving its Native Purity My Lord These Memoires of Count Teckely seem free from the aforementioned Deseases of History Methinks there appears in them something of the ancient Air of Thucydides and Livy The Author casts no Mists to mislead his Readers puts on no Mask to deceive the common Eye all here is naked Matter of Fact without any superficial Gloss or Artifice to corrupt the plain simple Truth and therefore the most fit to be dedicated to your Lordship by My Lord Your Lordship 's Most humble Servant THE PREFACE TO THE READER WHEN I first began to read this Book I took up a strong Conceit that it was written by the Order of the French Court of purpose to make the Protestant Princes of Germany jealous of the Emperor and of the Court at Vienna by shewing them how their Brethren had been treated in Hungary both as to their Religion and their Civil Liberties which I believe were the true foundation of this long and dangerous War which brought the Imperial House within an Hair's breadth of Ruin for had the Prime-Visier in 1683 taken Vienna and the French King been called in as in appearance he must to save the rest of the Germans from the Ottoman Yoke the consequence would have been the utter ruine of this Branch of the Austrian Family of the Liberties of Germany and consequently of the Liberty of all Europe and of the Protestant Religion But by considering the Sincerity and Plainness of these Memoires one may conclude there can be no other Design in the Author than to transmit to Posterity pure Matter of Fact If any thing in this World were capable of making a zealous Roman Catholick Prince reflect on the Dangers the Jesuits expose them to for their own Interest this were enough to make all the crowned Heads that shall live hereafter suspect and avoid the precipitate foolish unjust Counsels of this sort of Men. It is true what so much threatned the ruine of the Emperor by a wonderful Turn of the Divine Providence in the event became an Occasion of wresting Hungary intirely out of the Hands of the Turks and the Imperial Forces pursuing their Advantages in the end brought the Ottoman House into the same Danger the Austrian had so happily escaped but then this is owing intirely to the Goodness of God and the Counsels that brought the Emperor into that Danger are as much to be detested as if they had succeeded It is much to be observed that the same Methods that were used in Hungary to ruine the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of that Nation were also imployed after that in France for the same End and began in England Scotland and Ireland in the last Reign and carried as far as they had Time and Means to carry them and by the same Men. So that it seems to be a formed Design intended to be acted in one Place after another throughout Europe It is hard otherwise to conceive how the same Maxims and the same Politicks should be put in execution in such distant Places The first natural Inference that will arise from hence is That we can never enough admire the Goodness of God in Delivering us so timely and so wonderfully out of a Danger which would have certainly prepared England for Ruine if it had been effected But the best Vse of this is to be made by the Non-swearers Let them consider seriously what Treatment the Hungarians have all met with as well those that stuck to the Emperor as those that joined with the Malecontents Let them consider how little the Loyalty of the Protestants of France was considered by the Present French King who had been deposed in his Minority but for them How little the Loyalty of those that had twice saved the late King was regarded either in England or Ireland when they found these Men would not abandon the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of England to them I am morally certain there is no Man in England of any Prudence doth expect any better Treatment from the late King if he should return than they met with before but rather much worse and therefore I am amazed to see so many reputed wise Men stand out against the Present Government and seem to desire nothing more than to put themselves and the Nation into such a Condition as must inevitably end in the Destruction of the late King and the whole Royal Family or the Ruine of the Protestant Religion and the Civil Liberties of England They every Day pester us with Libels against Their Majesties Persons and Government and incurable Scruples of their own but when they come to shew how the Nation should be secured in case they had what they desire never did Men in their right Wits talk more childlishly and impertinently Leaving them as incurable I wish the rest of the Nation would read this little Book and compare exactly in their Minds what was done in Hungary according to the Report of this Author with what was done or apparently intended to be done in England and then I believe the Consequence of it will be a fixed Resolution to spend the last Drop of their Bloods and the last Penny of their Money in the Defence of the Present Government Memoirs on the Life Of EMERIC Count of TEKELI The First Book Containing the History of what has passed

the Turks tho' inferiour in number In the mean while Teckely made himself Master of divers places among the Mountains These so nimble successes caus'd the Imperial Court to suspect that the Commanders held correspondence with the Male-contents and Lamb was arrested being accus'd of having ill defended Cassovie and Strasoldo for making a false report of the condition in which he had found the Towns in Hungary This is the custom of Pritces whose Arms are unfortunate for want of their making the preparations necessary to carry on the War to accuse the Commanders of neglect of their duty or else of Treachery Lamb died in Prison before he had time to justifie himself but Strasoldo easily made it appear that the account which he had given of the Towns of Hungary was very true but that they had not sent either the Troops or Provisions which he had judg'd necessary to keep them tho' he had made many instances to have them Then it was that the Grand Signior thought it time to recompence Teckely for the services he had daily rendred the Port by declaring him Prince of Vpper Hungary To that end he sent him a Vest a Cymeter and a Standard according to the custom of the Port with the Grand Signiors Patent From that time Teckely coyn'd Money which was stampt on one side with these words Partium Regni Emeric Earl Teckely Prince and Lord of the Confederates of the Kingdom of Hungary and this on the reverse For God his Countrey and Liberty About that time the Campaign ended excepting some few Incursions by the Male-contents Soon after a suspension of Arms was agreed on and during that time Teckely offer'd the Emperor the Towns of the Mountains if he would pay him a certain sum monthly and at the same time threatned to burn them all if this offer were not accepted The Emperor answered him that to treat with his Soveraign he ought before all things to lay down his Arms a condition too hard for the Head of a Party who had all sorts of reasons not in the least to trust them against whom he had made War Besides Teckely who knew the design of the Turks which was manifest soon after made these offers only to amuse the Council at Vienna and to make it believe that he would not make War otherwise than he had done the former years that is to say that he would abandon what he had taken without putting himself to pain in keeping when an Army should appear Therefore he was very little astonish'd at the haughty answer which had been made him having on the other side reason to rejoice that the Emperor seem'd to fall into the snare But soon after it was understood at the Court of Vienna that the Grand Signior came to Adrianople and that the Grand Vizier was upon coming to Belgrade which made the Emperor send Envoys to demand Assistance of the Princes of the Empire and to make an Allyance with Poland Care was taken at the same time to exaggerate among the Hungarians who had submitted to the Emperor the perfidy and impiety of the Male-contents who would draw upon Christendom all the Forces of the Ottoman Empire They on their side accus'd the Imperial Council of an inexcusable obstinacy since it would never do them justice when it well knew that they would in the end be obliged to go ask it at Constantinople and that the Turks once mov'd would not content themselves to do what was desir'd of them but would pretend to be recompenced with new Conquests In the mean while they made powerful preparations in Europe and in Asia and all the World presag'd that the following year they would enter into a cruel War Teckely continued a long while sick of a Tertian Ague at Mongats where he had divers Conferences with one sent Express from the Emperor to endeavour to gain him but as he had no greater security given him of the Execution of the Promises made him than before and nothing else was demanded of him but to break entirely with the Port to destroy him in the end the more easily nothing could be advanc'd on that side 1683. At the beginning of the year 1683. the Turks and the Imperialists march'd their Troops towards their Frontiers as speedily as was possible but as on one side one saw the whole Ottoman Empire in motion and that the German Princes were not yet resolv'd upon the Succours which they should send into Hungary there was reason to fear not only for the rest of the Realm but also for the Hereditary Provinces The Emperors Treasury which was not less drain'd in Peace than in War was less than ever in a condition to make an extraordinary Effort and the Subjects of the House of Austria who for a long time had contributed more than they could afford in hope of seeing the exactions lessened would rather have furnish'd Men than Money Besides there was not seen in the preparations either the order or activity which had been necessary by reason of the multitude of Commissaries equal in Authority and of their desire to gain at the expence of their Master to which desire it was said they were Subjects because they hop'd for no other recompence In the month of January Teckely opened a Diet which he had summoned to Cassovia about the end of the preceding year There came the Deputies not only of the Towns of Hungary which had submitted to him but also of the Neighbouring Counties which he threatned to pillage if they did not send The Emperor himself sent Hoffman Auditor of the Counsel of War if it were possible to discover and break the designs of the Male-contents Teckely said in the Assembly that there was no means to preserve any Liberty to Hungary but to stick to the Interest of the Turks who would reduce it to the same foot with Transylvania He represented their Forces and the design they had to carry on their Conquests so far that Vpper Hungary should be shut up between their Lands and Poland so that it was time to declare for them that by that means they might be the better us'd that for himself he had done what he could to retard their Enterprize but that he could not possibly Nevertheless there were none but Male-contents who concluded openly to embrace the Party of the Port others demanded time to consider and fail'd not to advertise the Emperor of what pass'd His Envoy also return'd without doing any thing and it was in vain that it was proposed at Vienna to a man whom Teckely had sent to give his Master the Soveraignty of all the Lands which he had possessed in Vpper Hungary and some others This man could not conclude on so great an affair and the Turks were advanced too far to be likely to consent to an accommodation of this nature In the mean while Teckely to shew that it was not through a spirit of revenge that he was engag'd in the War sent home without