a happy issue he reply'd He was for Peace but upon Terms of Honour and if I had Power to treat would call for Pen. I reply'd It could not be expected I should have full Authority before his Excellency's Mind had been known and that Vienna was thought the properest Place in regard there had been some Overtures already made and Representatives of all Parties present That to arrive at an end there must be a beginning and that if his Excellency permitted I would send my Secretary to Vienna to perswade His Imperial Majesty to impower his General that so his Excellency being now upon departure for the Confines they might treat there and if his Excellency judged my Person and Presence necessary to so bless'd a Work I would wait upon his Excellency and attend his Camp He told me there was no occasion I should take so much trouble but said Send your Secretary to Vienna that the Emperor send a Person according to custom fully impowred to treat here or else that we are as we are And to this he added two or three Lines To this there 's no Reply My Lord I spoke several times that the Commission was to me and the Dutch Embassador equally which I did and now repeat to avoid all Thoughts because the Vizier when he spoke said Let the Emperor send his Commission to me not naming the Dutch and to this no Reply 'T is not an Ambition I desire nor shall I less communicate with the Dutch Embassador whose Counsel I shall always desire My Lord I am very glad I have the Opportunity of returning Count Marsigli who will supply by Parole what I may omit or what is not convenient for a Letter and that your Lordship will transmit it to my Lord Nottingham 'T is absolutely necessary that the Emperor resolves that he adjusts the Points with the Allies or treats without them which the Turks would imbrace greedily but since His Imperial Majesty will not relinquish them nor they able to defend but must disgorge and be swallowed up if alone 't is I think very reasonable that the Emperor requires them to positive and convenient Conditions The Turks Nature is to do at once and therefore considering well there must be a Power intrusted I shall be very ready to give all the possible assistance I can and if required readily pass to the Camp or Confines for obtaining so pious a Work grateful and most heartily wish'd by the poor Subjects of both Empires and I hope I shall have the better fortune for the many hearty Prayers and good Wishes I have gain'd on both sides God Almighty prosper and direct you to compleat it What you send to me pray let be clear to avoid Replies and that Count Marsigli may be perfectly instructed who knowing the posture and humour of Affairs here will I hope expedite their Counsels and resolve them The Juncture seems very favourable and the Allies I believe very pressing this Opportunity lost God knows the Consequences Senior Marsigli will tell your Lordship some things I have charged to his Memory and desire your Lordship to send to my Lord Nottingham My haste and length of Letters will not permit me to use Cypher at present I have presumed to write to His Imperial Majesty and most of the Ministers to acknowledge my Obligations and readiness in their Interests which I humbly beg of your Lordship to deliver and if the Bearer who goes directly to your Lordship be present he can supply all that is deficient God Almighty prosper your good Offices I am with all Respect My LORD Your Lordship 's Most Devoted Servant William Hussey In the last Month of July we left the two Ambassadors Sir William Hussey and the Heer Collier at Adrianople where having received the News of the total Defeat of the Turkish Army with the Death of the Grand Vizier a stop was given to their present Motion towards Belgrade with intention to proceed with the New Vizier thither and there to reassume the Mediation towards a Peace for which the present Conjuncture seemed very seasonable The New Vizier was called Ali Pasha A New Vizier Ali Pasha had been Pasha of Scio and Kahya or Deputy to Kupriogli the Grand Vizier now slain in Battle But whilst they were meditating of these Matters and preparing to accompany the New Vizier in 10 or 12 Days as was given out unto Belgrade The Death of the Lord Ambassador Sir William Hussey it pleased God that the English Ambassador Sir William Hussey fell Sick and Died the 14th of September after 13 Days of Sickness at Adrianople He was a Person much lamented by all for his excellent Qualities and Experience in the Affairs of Turkey of which he had learned much at Aleppo and there gained a good Estate with which returning for England he Married the Daughter of that Worthy Person and Citizen Sir John Buckworth after whose Death he was chosen by the Levant Company to be their Deputy-Governour in the Place of Sir John Buckworth his Father-in-Law Deceased in which Office having acquitted himself for some Years with much Honour he was afterwards sent by King William and Queen Mary to succeed Sir William Trumball in that Embassy His Excellent Lady resolving to accompany him in all his Travels and Dangers patiently bore and sustained all the Fatigues and Inconveniencies of a Journey over Land which was never performed before by any other English Ambassador designed for Turkey who were always Transported either in the Companies own Ships or the King's Men of War by Sea But now things had changed their Face and as it was dangerous whilst the French were Masters of the Mediterranean Seas to expose those rich Ships to the danger of the Enemy so it was thought most convenient to hasten the Journey of the Ambassador by Land and that taking the Imperial Court at Vienna in his way he might there receive such Instructions from the Emperor and his Allies the King of Poland and the State of Venice as were most proper at that time in order to a Peace with the Sultan of which King William of England and the States of Holland offered themselves by their Ambassadors to be the Mediators Upon this Occasion Sir William Hussey with his Lady remained some Months at Vienna before he could procure his Dispatches and then the Winter coming on when the Danube was frozen up he departed not from Vienna until the Spring and arrived as we have related before in the Month of June of this present Year And whereas the Mediation of this Peace was of high Concernment to all Europe we shall here insert the Methods Rules and Instructions which the Emperor and his Allies gave to the English Ambassador in this Matter The first Paper given to Sir William Hussey at Vienna was dated March 1691 and called Informations for the English Ambassador designed to be Mediator of the Peace at Constantinople and which may serve to obviate the Objections which the
with whom I also leave a Copy of this as I will likewise do with the Grand Vizier not designing to expose the Confidence they have in my King to the Hazards of any Accidents which might prove equally prejudicial to both Empires I took this Opportunity to shew my self equally Charitable towards the Poor Christians taken in Orsoua and made Slaves as was reported after they had Capitulated to have safe Conduct into the Emperor's Territories I was answer'd That they had Surrendred themselves with condition That if Belgrade were lost they would be Prisoners of War and that the Grand Vizier was not capable of violating the Publick Faith so shamefully I demanded concerning some other Prisoners recommended to me by their Friends but was answer'd That they were all the Grand Seignior's Captives and without his express Order they could not treat either for their Ransom or Exchange He told me That all Officers were well treated and kept without Irons in a Chamber apart with their Servants at the Expence of the Grand Seignior I left 100 Ducats of Gold to be distributed by Capt. Runkel to the Poorest of them which was all the Service I could do them and of which I intreat your Excellency to give their Friends an Account A Courier being dispatched to Constantinople I have had Permission to Write to the Grand Vizier and Sir William Trumbal giving Information of my Arrival I purpose suddenly to continue my Voyage with full intention to do all the Service I can to both Empires in execution of the Commands of my King in whose Name I continue to press as desired your Excellency that some Means may be found out to prevent the Rapines daily practised upon the Poor Country People The inclosed short Letter for my Lord Pagett I intreat your Excellency wou'd transmit to him as also this Original that his Lordship being sufficiently informed may better know what to sollicite from the Emperor and what to acquaint the King my Master I am Belgrade April 30. May 10. 1691. Sir William Hussey's Letters to the Lord Pagett at Vienna Adrianople May 25. 1691. My Lord I Sent a full Account of our Arrival at Belgrade April 30. S. N. From thence we came by Water to Rustick two Days lower than Nicopolis and thence in eight Days Land-Journey hither whence we advanced forwards two Days but met there by my Secretary and Interpreter from Constantinople with Letters and Advice from Sir William Trumbal that the Vizier was upon departure and ordered us to stay his Arrival at Adrianople We returned back two Days past I have been received and treated in all Places with singular marks of Respect and Honour equal to any in the same Character I send this upon Fortune to inform your Lordship of our Arrival As to our Negotiation I must attend the Audience before I can give you any Account still in suspence God be praised we are all well and my Secretary I brought from Vienna The Turks pretend to have a great Army and design chiefly towards Transylvania If this meets a quick conveyance I beg your Lordship to acquaint my Lord Nottingham of my Arrival I have wrote to the Dutch Ambassador for his Advice and Consideration in respect to me and his Stay or Journey hither since I cannot be permitted to attend him at Constantinople How I shall proceed to Constantinople stay here or follow the Campaign your Lordship must expect hereafter My Secretary has added a few Lines I inclose to your Lordship My humble Duty to all the Ministers Nothing shall be wanting which is in my Power I am c. Adrianople June 3 13. 1691. My Lord THE Vizier made his Entrance first with no great Train nor in the Publick Streets but past direct to his Tents half an Hours distance the Grand Seignior enter'd on the 29th with a fair shew to us but to others very short of former Splendour he was in a Litter one of his Court with him at the other end The Vizier sent his Emeen Chewse the 2d in that Office with eight more the same Afternoon he entred that he being in haste desired me to be ready to come to Audience next Day We were surprized because our Druggermen in good Manners thinking that Day due to his Repose did not design to have carried my Complement and to desire leave of Audience till next Day but I sent them immediately to perform my Duty in congratulating his Excellency's Arrival and to concert Matters for next Day also to desire it might be private in regard I was without Equipage suitable to a Publick Appearance The Chewse Bassa told the Vizier in regard I had no great Retinue his Personal Attendance might be wav'd but he commanded him to come in Person Accordingly on Monday Morning June 1 11 about nine a Clock we set forward in the best Accoutrements we could I was in my Embroider'd Scarlet Coat six English Footmen in my English Lac'd Liveries six in red Liveries al modo Turchesco 18 Chewses in Van two Druggermen after them then my self with the Chewse-Bassa on my right Hand and about 10 Gentlemen on Horseback following me some of my own Company others that came from Belgrade with me and several other Turks that we made a large Train and drew Crouds of Spectators In half an Hour we arrived at his Camp conducted into his Tents we past one very large one and through that into another his Officers were all drawn in Lines they brought me a Stool to sit on and immediately the Vizier enter'd sat down upon a Bed carpeted his People made a Prayer at his Entrance he bid me welcome and I acquainted him with my Commission delivering him the King's Letter and its Translation after this was over the Tent full of Officers and his two Sons standing on his right Hand I ask'd his Excellencies leave now or when he pleas'd to speak in private he told me after Sherbet Coffee c. the Turkish Treat the Company should retire and he being in haste desired it now when we discoursed according to the Relation I send inclosed Verbatim as nigh as we four could remember and to which we all put our Hands viz. my self Senior Marsigli Mr. Coke Secretary and Senior Antonio Perrone chief Interpreter there remained none in the Room but the Vizier as before mentioned and one Druggerman more At Departure I was Vested and 11 more all that I had of Quality and conducted back with some Respect His Excellency was very courteous and we had all the Marks possible of a very kind Reception with as much Honour as any in the Character My Lord The Point resolved was That his Excellency would not own the Turks at Vienna under any Publick Character would neither write to them or send any other When I told him the Emperor had accepted the King of England and States of Holland to assist and was well disposed to a Peace and if his Excellency did incline also I hop'd there might be
to encourage and raise his Spirit a little he sent his Kuzlir-Aga in Ceremony with a great Attendance to carry to the Grand Vizier a Prayer which he himself had composed in the time of his Solitude and Seclusion from the World which were received with profound Respect the Bearer himself had five Purses presented to him and the Chief of his Attendants was treated with several Rich Vests and the others of meaner Degree had a good number of Zaichins distributed amongst them February The Grand Seignior also would not want his own Present which was in Horses and Jewels several Young Damsels richly adorned with above 100 Purses of Money and yet for all this the Vizier thought not himself safe nor did the bitter Thoughts of Death pass from him for whilst he was trembling for himself he received a Hatte-sheriff or a Royal Command from the Hand of the Grand Seignior requiring him to command the Chiaus Pasha to Arrest the Chimacam of Adrianople the Vizier's own chief Creature and Confident and to put him between the Gates a Prison for great Personages The Fault objected to his Charge was That in the time of the late Sultan Achmet he had put to Death two of this present Sultan's Favourites for endeavouring to promote the Interest of their Master to the Prejudice of the Ruling Prince Notwithstanding all which Mortifying Commands and Accidents the Grand Vizier appeared outwardly with a chearful Countenance for the least Sadness would have been interpreted for Contumacy and a Discontented Spirit against the Commands and Pleasure of his Master for which reason he bore up bravely against all Misfortunes concealing the Agitations of his Mind from all those who had Business with him and even from his own Domesticks At this time my Lord Paget Ambassador from His Majesty King William Lord Paget at Adrianople was then at Adrianople watching an Opportunity to make Proposals for a Peace with the Emperor of which tho' about the latter time of Sultan Achmet there was a great and a fair appearance yet after his Decease this young Sultan mounting the Throne all the hopes vanished he himself being of a hot and fiery Spirit was fully resolved to try his Fortune in the War from which Design neither his Mother nor his Women nor his greatest Favourites could divert them And the Kiah-Bey himself who was Lieutenant-General of the Janisaries a Person of great Esteem and Power in the Army was disgraced and put out of Office for arguing in the Divan against the Grand Seignior's taking ths Field this Year in Person These Changes had disconcerted all the Measures which my Lord Paget had taken towards a Peace of which there now remained no hopes for this Year for the Sultan was not to be removed from his Resolution nor the Soldiery averse to it having fixed it in their Minds that this Sultan was Lucky and Fortunate and was to restore all that had been lost since the Siege of Vienna and the fatal Managements of the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha And to this purpose the Grand Seignior discoursing with the Vizier he told him how sensible he was of the evil management of Affairs in the Empire and that they were much worse than they had been in the time of his Father to restore which to a better Condition he again declared his Resolution to try his Fortune for another Year the which not succeeding well he was of an Opinion That he could at any time make a Truce with the Christians which perhaps he might be inclined to accept next Year not out of a Necessity thereof but in consideration to his People to whom after a long War of 17 or 18 Years he was glad to give Ease and Quiet for he was sensible that the Ottoman Empire was in great Disorder by reason of the Ignorance Negligence and ill Administration of some of the principal Ministers of State which he would make it his Care to remedy With these Resolutions of the Sultan all things were preparing to take the Field early with a strong Army it being divulged and published amongst the Soldiery that their first March should be towards Belgrade from whence if they could have made any Conquest on the other side of the Save the Turks might yet as low as they were have proved a troublesome and a dreadful Enemy to all Germany And indeed the Christians were more sensible hereof than formerly for the Turks had lately had many lucky Hits to encourage them and which did indeed animate the People very much seeming to them like good Omens of Change of Fortune in their favour For the Venetians had in two several Engagements at Sea been worsted by the Turks which was the cause of the Surrender of Scio to the Turks of which they possessed themselves without any great Difficulty where tho' the loss the Venetians had sustained both in Ships and Men was very considerable yet the loss of their Reputation at Sea was much more and of a more evil Consequence for the Turks animated hereby fell boldly upon the Venetians in the Morea and put them to the Rout fansying the Summer following to regain all again despising now the Enemy which lately they durst not see and were affraid to approach To these good Fortunes of the Sultan the News was added by way of Moldavia of a great Victory that the Tartars had obtained against the Poles which with the Successes the Ottoman Pasha's had obtained against the Rebels in Asia put all things at the Port into a smiling Condition no Man doubting but that the influence of these prosperous Beginnings would crown all the Actions of this New Sultan with Success and Victory The Fight between the Poles and the Tartars in the Suburbs of Leopolis happened on the 11th of February of this Year being Extracted out of a Letter of the Great General Written to the Envoy Cavalier Proski of the 16th of February from Leopolis An Extract of the Great General 's Letter Written to the Envoy Cavalier Proski WE have not only in the Season of the last Spring but during the whole Summer and Autumn lived in continual Alarms and Skirmishes with our Enemies but even in this very Winter been engaged with them in divers Bloody Fights And particularly on the 11th of this Month of February a Battle was made between 3000 of our Soldiers against 70000 Tartars within the Suburbs and under the Walls of Leopolis The Particulars of which are these Sultan Zabas Gerei A Fight between the Poles and the Tartars Son of the Tartar-Han who in the Month of October last gave up to our Hands all the Provisions belonging to the Turks which he had taken into his Care and Conduct to be Convoyed to Kaminieck of which Disgrace and Dishonour his Father being very sensible urged the Son to repair his Credit by some great Action worthy the Fame of his Valour and his Prowess in War Accordingly being assisted by all the Power of the Tartars
commodè iter suum perficiant omni favore coadjuventur XVIII Pax ista quamvis secundum propositas conditiones conclusa tum demum integrum ex omni parte robur obligationis debitae observantiae vinculum accipiet inducet cum omnia singula quae de Confiniis suprà recensito modo ultrò citróque promissa acceptata sunt tam de distinctionibus limitum quà m de evacuationibus demolitionibus plenarie in effectum executionem deducta fuerint ita ut absolutae designatione limitum in unoquoque Confinio statim subsequatur demolitio aut evacuatio quod ut quam celerrimè succedat designentur ad limites terminos Confiniorum ponendos distinguendos ex utraque parte Commissarii qui die Aequinoctii scilicet 22. mensis Martii aut 12 secundum veterem Stylum Anni Millesimi Sexcentesimi Nonagesimi noni in locis inter Commissarios consensu Gubernatorum utriusque Confinii determinandis mediocri pacifico Comitatu conveniant atque intra spatium duorum Mensium si possibile sit aut etiam citius ubi fieri poterit Confinia limitibus terminis manifestis per superiores articulos constitutis distinguant separent determinent Statuta inter legatos Plenipotentiarios utriusque imperii accuratissimè citissimè exequantur XIX Has vero conditiones articulos ad formam hic mutuò placitam à Majestatibus utriusque Imperatoris ratihabitum iri atque ut solennia ratificationis Diplomata intra spatium triginta dierum à die Subscriptionis vel citius in Confiniis per Illustrissimos Excellentissimos legatos Plenipotentiarios Mediatores reciprocè recteque commutentur legati Plenipotentiarii utriusque imperii sese infallibilitèr obligant atque praestituros compromittunt XX. Duret Armistitium hocce extendatur favente Deo ad viginti quinque Annos continuè sequentes à die qua ejusdem subscriptio facta fuerit quo Annorum numero clapso vel etiam medio tempore priusquam elabatur liberum esto utrique partium si ità placuerit Pacem hanc ad plures adhuc Annos prorogare Itaque mutuo libero consensu quaecunque stabilita sunt Pacta inter Majestatem Serenissimi Potentissimi Ramanorum Imperatoris Majestatem Serenissimi Potentissimi Ottommannorum Imperatoris Haeredes eorundem imperia quoque Regna ipsorum Terrâ item marique sitas Regiones civitates urbes subditos clientes observentur sanctè religiosè ac inviolabiliter demandetur seriò omnibus utriusque partis Gubernatoribus Praefectis Ducibus Exercituum atque Militiis quibusvis in eorundem clientela obedientiae subjectioni existentibus ut illi quoque praedeclaratis conditionibus clausulis pactis articulis sese adaequatè conformantes omnibus modis caveant ne contra Pacem amicitiam hanc sub quocunque nomine aut praetextu se invicem offendant aut damnificent sed quolibet prorsus inimicitiae genere abstinendo bonam colant vicinitatem certò scientes quod si catenus admoniti morem non gesserint severissimis in se poenis animadvertendum fore Ipse quoque Crimensis Chanus omnes Tartarorum Gentes quovis nomine vocitatae ad Pacis hujus bonae vicinitatis reconciliationis Jura ritè observanda adstricti sint nec iisdem contraveniendo hostilitates qualescunque exerceant erga quasvis Caesareas Provincias earumque Subditos aut Clientes Porro sive ex aliis Exercituum generibus sive ex Nationibus Tartarorum si quis contra Sacras Imperatorias hasce Capitulationes contra Pacta Articulos earum quidpiam ausus fuerit is poenis rigorosissimis coerceatur Incipiat verò modo dicta Pax Quies Securitas subditorum utriusque Imperii à supradata die Subscriptionis cessent exinde atque sustollantur omnes utrinque inimicitiae Subditi utriusque partis securitate tranquillitate fruantur Eoque fine quò magis per summam curam ac sedulitatem hostilitates inhiberi possint transmittantur quà m celerrimè Mandata Edicta publicandae Pacis ad omnes confiniorum Praefectos cumque spatium aliquod temporis requiratur intra quod officiales in remotioribus praesertim Confiniis istam conclusae Pacis notitiam obtinere valeant statuuntur viginti dies pro termino post quem si quis hostile quidpiam alterutra ex parte admittere praesumpserit poenis superius declaratis irremissibiliter subjaceat Ut demum Pacis Conditiones Viginti hisce articulis conclusae utrinque acceptatae debito summóque cum respectu inviolatae observentur Si quidem Domini Plenipotentiarii Ottomannici vi concessae iisdem facultatis Imperatoriae instrumentum Turcico sermone exaratum subscriptum legitimum validum nobis exhibuerint Nos quoque vi Mandati Plenipotentia nostra propriis manibus propriis Sigillis Subscriptas Signatas hasce Pactorum literas in Latino Idiomate tanquam legitimum validum vicissim Instrumentum extradidimus THE INSTRUMENT OF THE Treaty of Peace BETWIXT THE GERMAN and OTTOMAN Empires Subscrib'd January 26. 1699. FOR the perpetual Memory of the Thing Be it known to all whom it may Concern That after a cruel and pernicious War had for 17 years been carried on with the Effusion of much Blood and Desolation of many Provinces between the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Leopold Elect of the Romans and Emperor of Germany always August King of Hungaria Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia Sclavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola Marquis of Moravia Duke of Luxemburgh of the Upper and Lower Silesia of Wirtemberg and Tecka Prince of Swevia Count of Habsburgh of Tyrol Kyburgh and Goritia Marquis of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Marquisate of Sclavinia of the Port of Naon and the Salt Mines on one part And between the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Sultan Mustapha Han Emperor of the Ottomans and of Asia and Greece and his Glorious Predecessors on the other Part. These two most Potent Emperors out of a just Sense of Compassion towards their afflicted Subjects at length resolving to put an End to these Mischiefs every Day encreasing with Destruction to Mankind the Divine Goodness brought it to pass that by the Endeavours and Mediation of the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord William III. King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Belgic Provinces that Solemn Treaties of Peace were set on foot at Carlowitz in Sirmium upon the Confines of both Empires and there brought to a Conclusion There Meeting at the said place on the part of his Sacred Caesarean and Imperial Majesty of the Romans as his Plenipotentiaries the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords Wolfang Count d'Ottingen of the Sacred Roman Empire Chamberlain of his Sacred Caesarean Majesty and Privy-Counsellor and President of the
Imperial Aulic Council and the Lord Leopold Schlik Count in Passaun and Weiskirchen of the Sacred Roman Empire Chamberlain of his said Caesarean Majesty Captain General of the Guards and Colonel of the Regiment of Desvetorii Both these at these Treaties of Peace with the Ottoman Port Deputed Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries But on the part of his Imperial Ottomannick Majesty the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords Mehemet Effendi Supreme Chancellor of the Ottoman Empire and the Lord Alexander Mauro Cordato of the Noble Family of Scarlati Privy Counsellor and Secretary of the said Empire By the Intervention and Care of the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord William Paget Baron Beaudesert and the Lord Jacob Colyer Ambassadors from the most Serene King of Great Britain and the High and Mighty States General to the Ottoman Port and both of 'em Ambassadors Extraordinary for the Establishment of this Peace and both of 'em perform'd the Office of Mediator with Integrity Industry and Prudence after having Invok'd the Name of GOD and Exchanged the Powers receiv'd the Twenty following Articles of Peace which were Agreed upon to the Glory of GOD and the Safety of both Empires I. THE Region of Transylvania as it is at present in the Possession and in the Power of his Caesarean Majesty so it shall remain under his Dominion Bounded by the Confines of Podolia and with the Mountains on the side of Walachia which were its Antient Limits before the present War between Transylvania on one part and Moldavia and Walachia on the other and on the side of Walachia it is to extend to the River Merisch to be Circumscrib'd by the Mountains that were its Antient Boundaries and so the Antient Limits are to be observ'd by both Empires without extending or diminishing them on either side II. The Province subject to the Fortress of Temeswaer with all its Districts and Rivers shall remain in the Possession and under the Power of the Sublime Ottoman Empire and it shall remain Bounded by Transylvania on one side and by Walachia on the other to the River Merisch the Antient Boundaries of Transylvania mention'd in the former Article Then from the River Merisch to the nearer Banks of the Tibisch and from the Tibisch to the Danube to be Limited by the hither Banks of the Tibisch and as for Caransebes Lugos Lippa Csanad Kiscanisia Betche Betskerecke and Sablia which are comprehended within these prescrib'd Limits between the Merisch and the Tibisch and were before the present War belonging to the Territories of Temeswaer both these and any other place of the like Nature shall be slighted by the Imperialists so that by Virtue of this present Treaty they may not be Rebuilt and this foresaid Region of Temeswaer is to be left Free and Entire so that for the time to come neither in these Places nor on the Banks of Merisch or Tibisch shall it be lawful to Build any Places that shall carry the Appearance of Fortifications The use of the Rivers Tibisch and Merisch between the Province of Temeswaer and those subject to the Imperialists shall be left Free and Common to those Subjects of both Empires as well in relation to the Watering of their Cattle as to the Fishing and any other Conveniencies to both Subjects Ships of any Burden coming from Parts subject to the Imperialists whether it be from the Merisch into the Tibisch and from the Tibisch into the Danube are by no means to be hindred or stop'd whether they are going up or down the Streams so that the Naviation of German Ships or other Subjects of the Empire are neither going nor coming to be Incommoded but their Passage both going and coming is to be Free in both the said Rivers And because the common Convenience of mutual Friendship and Kindness requires that the Ottoman Subjects should likewise partake of the Benefits of these Rivers therefore they may freely make use of Fishermens Ships or other Boats But Mills built on Bottoms of Ships can be only planted there where they do not Obstruct the Navigation of the Imperialists and that to be done by Communicating with and Consent of the Governours on both sides and the Intent of this is That the Navigation of the Merisch be not rendred worse to the Imperialists whether it be by lessening the Stream for the sake of Mills or any other pretence whatsoever The Islands in both the said Rivers that are in the possession of the Imperialists are to remain so and that the Subjects on both sides may live Quietly and Peaceably is to be provided by severe Edicts forbidding all sort of Insolencies and Contraventions to the present Articles III. Considering the Region commonly call'd Batska betwixt the Tibisch and the Danube is in the sole Possession and under the Power of his Imperial Majesty it is agreed it shall for the future continue so and Titul is not to be more Fortify'd than it is at present IV. A right Line to be drawn from the Extreme Bank of the Tibisch opposite to that of Titul and to that Angle of Land made by the Conjunction of the Tibisch and Danube to the Bank on the other side the Danube and thence to be stretch'd streight to Moravitz on the hither Bank of the River Bossut and from thence to the place where the Grand Stream of the River Bossut falls into the Save and Moravitz is to remain without any Fortification and only open Villages to be built on both sides the River and the Empires shall remain separated by the foresaid Line to be mark'd out either by Ditches Stones or Pales or any other way after the following manner viz. That part of the Country within the foresaid Limits towards Belgrade shall remain Subject to the Ottoman Emperor but the Country on the other side the said Line shall continue under the Dominion and in the Possession of the most Potent Roman Emperor and accoridng to the foresaid Boundaries the adjacent Rivers are to remain in the Possession of each Party V. Reckoning from the River Bossut flowing into the Save and likewise the Entrance of the River Unna into the same River that part of the Save adjoyning to the Imperial Country is to remain to his Imperial Majesty and the other part to the Turkish Emperor The River Save flowing betwixt both Dominions and the Islands situated in it shall be common to the Subjects of both Empires as well for the Use of Navigation up and down the River as any other sort of Conveniencies who are to enjoy a peaceable and undisturb'd Commerce That Country on the side the River Unna towards Bosnia belonging to the Turkish Empire shall be terminated by the Banks of that River Novi Dubizza Jessenovitza Doboy and Brod on the side of Bosnia are to be Evacuated and ev'ry other such like place in this Tract of Land and the Imperial Garrisons to be all withdrawn and the Country to be left Free But Castanovitz and the
bonam rerum Civilium constitutionem reducendumque in meliorem conditionem statum transmutetur in Sirmio ad Confinia Carlovizii facto Congressu cum Illustrissimis Excellentissimis Selectissimo Domino Magno Cancellario Reis Mehmet Effendi cum Selectissimo Domino ab Intimis Secretis Alexandro ex Prosapia Scarlati Mauro Cordato altè memoratae suae Sultanicae Majestatis Plenipotentiariis Commissariis Extraordinariis Legatis ad Tractatum Constitutionem Negotii Pacis perfectâ Authoritate destinatis ac deputatis Mediationem inter Serenissimi Potentissimi suae Regiae Majestatis Magnae Britanniae Praepotentum Generalium Statuum Nederlandensium Hollandiorum Illustrissimorum Excellentissimorum Plenipotentiariorum Eorundem Extraordinariorum Legatorum Domini Wilhelmi Lord Pagett Baronis de Beaudesert c. Domini Jacobi Colyer c. ab utraque autem parte ad Pacem Inducias propensio inclinatio adhibita fuit attamen non facile fuit intra breve tempus sublatis difficultatibus res universas convenientes amicitiae vicinitati perfectè debitè in bonum ordinem redigere sed ne interrumperetur continuatio horum almorum Tractatuum quinimo deinceps perficiatur ad finem deducatur hac intentione utrinque per mutuum consensum id est à Die 25 Decembris anno 1698. à Nativitate Domini Dei Jesu Christi in futuros duos integros annos inter altè fatos ambos Magnos Dominos fiant Induciae in quibus almus hicce Tractatus in bonum ordinem reducatur atque inter suam Czaream Majestatem Moscoviticam Sultanicam Majestatem Turcicam Deo Altissimo secundante Pax perpetua aut in sufficientes annos Induciae concludantur vetus Amicitia restauretur Proinde in hoc constituto determinato unanimi consensu desinat omne praelium bellum pugna conflictus utrobique amoveantur tollantur hostilitates à Subditis suae Czareae Majestatis Moscovitis Cosaccis ac aliis Confiniis Musulmannicis Crimensibus atque reliquis suae Sultanicae Majestati subjectis Terris Subditis nulla incursio hostilitas fiat neque clam neque palam ullum damnum inferatur Pariter ex parte suae Majestatis Sultanicae adversus partem suae Czareae Majestatis nullius ordinis Exercitus potissimùm verò Crimensis Chanus omne genus Tartarorum Hordarum penitùs ullas incursiones faciant nec ullum damnum palam aut clam in Civitatibus Oppidis subditis Territoriis suae Czareae Majestati perpetrent Et si qui clam vel apertè motum aliquem dispositionem hostilitatem ac incursionem contra hanc constitutionem conditionem quae nos inter confecta est fecerint ex quacunque demùm parte tales contumaces reperiantur apprehendantur incarcerentur sine remissione indefensè puniantur Hâc itaque praefatâ ratione tempore colendi observandi hujus Armistitii conflictatio hostilitas absolutè amoveatur tollatur ac ab utraque parte ad concludendam Pacem perfecta propensio plena inclinatio adhibeatur Crimensis Chanus ex munere suae erga Imperialem suam Majestatem Turcicam obedientiae subjectionis huic Paci adjungatur Quae omnia ut ab utraque parte acceptentur observentur quoniam altè memoratae suae Sultanicae Majestatis Plenipotentiarii Legati Commissarii vigore suae facultatis Authoritatis Turcico Sermone scriptum legitimum firmum Instrumentum ex eoque Latino Sermone propriis manibus Sigillis firmatam Copiam dederunt pariter ego facultatis Plenipotentiae mihi datae vigore manu propriâ subscriptum Sigillo firmatum hoc Scriptum Ruthenico Latino Sermone copiatum tanquam firmum legitimum Instrumentum tradidi Scriptum in Carlowiz Ann. 1698. Mense Decem. Die 25. A COPY OF THE Turkish Treaty WITH THE MUSCOVITE It is God the most Powerful the most Just who brings all Things to pass In the Name of God the Merciful always Compassionate THE Reason of the making this Writing Refulgent in Truth and the necessity of the Description of this Instrument stamp'd with Reality is this The War betwixt the Sublime Empire of Mustapha by the Concessions of the Plenitude of the Eternal Confirmations of the Incorruptible Lord Creator and the Immortal Maker of most Freewill the Lord God whose Glory be extoll'd beyond Similitude or Equality and by the Grace of the most Honour'd Mecca and the Servant of the most Illustrious Medina Defender and Rector of the Holy Jerusalem and other Blessed Places Sultan of the two Earths and King of the two Seas Lord of Potent Egypt and the Abyssine Provinces and Arabia the Happy and the Land of Adenum and Caesarean Africk and Tripoly and Tunis and the Island of Cyprus and Rhodes and Crete and other Islands of the White Sea and Emperor of Babylon and Bosnia and Laxa and Revanum and Carsia and Erzirum and Sehresul and Mussul and Diarbekir and Rica and Damascus and Aleppo and Sultan of the Persic and Arabic Irachian Region and King of Ghiurdistania and Turchistania and Daghistania and Trapezuntum and Emperor of the Provinces of Rum and Zulchadria and Maras Emperor of the Regions of Tartary of Circassia and the Abastans and the Crimea and Desti-Capzac Emperor of the East and West and Anatolia and Rumelia Possessor of the Royal-Seat of Constantinople and Protected Prussia and Defended Adrianople and besides of so many the most large Provinces and of so many Climates and Cities and most Celebrated Governour Sultan of Sultans King of Kings most Serene most Potent most August Lord our Emperor the Refuge of Musulmen Sultan Son of Sultans Son of Sultan King Mehmet whose Empire God perpetuate and establish his Government to the Day of Judgment And the most glorious amongst the principal Christians Director of the great Affairs of the Christian Commonwealths Adorn'd with the Robes of Greatness and Majesty Conspicuous with the Power of Greatness and Glory the Czar of the Muscovite Regions and Lord of all the Ruthenic Provinces and Possessor of the Lands and Cities Subject to them the Sublime Czar of Musâ—ovy Peter Alexovic whose End let God crown with Salvation and Righteousness considering this War for some Years has been the Occasion of Calamity to the Subjects on both sides with an Intent that it might be chang'd into Friendship and Kindness that Affairs might be put into better Order and the State of the Servants of God might be reduc'd into a better Condition in the Congress of Sirmium in the Confines of Carlovitz upon Treaty with the most Illustrious and most Excellent amongst the Christian Grandees Lord Procopius Begdanoviz Vosniziri Plenipotentiary Commissionated by the Czar and Ambassador Extraordinary and Privy-Counsellor and Lieutenant of Bolchia Design'd and Deputed by the said Czar with full Powers to Treat and Conclude a Peace and the most Illustrious and most Excellent amongst the Christian Grandees William Lord Pagett Baron of Beaudesert
c. and Lord Jacob Colyer performing the part of Mediators with great good Offices and Diligence Deputed so to do by the most Glorious amongst the most Illustrious Christian Princes and the Resort of the Rulers of the Nations William III. of England Scotland and Ireland King and the States General whose Ends God crown with Salvation and Righteousness altho' both Parties show'd a Propensity and Inclination to Peace and Reconciliation but considering in so short a time it was not easie to remove all Difficulties and to settle all things Agreeable to Friendship and good Neighbourhood Therefore least the Continuance of these good Treaties should be interrupted but that they should proceed and be brought to an End with this Intent on both sides by mutual Consent the Term of Two Years is Agreed on to begin from the 25th of December Christmas-day A. Heg 1110. within which time this good Treaty may be reduced into Order and by the Grace of the most High God a Peace or Truce may be concluded betwixt the Sublime Empire and the Muscovitish Czareate by which perpetual and ancient Friendship may be Renew'd Therefore within the Term thus prefix'd by unanimous Consent all War Battles and Skirmishes shall cease and all Hostilities shall be remov'd and forbid to the Subjects of the Czar of Muscovy both Muscovites and Cossacks and all others there shall be no Excursion Hostility Damage whether privately or publickly done or committed upon the Musulman Confines subject to the Sublime Empire whether in the Crimea or any other Places or upon the Subjects of this Empire In like manner on the part of the High Empire no Army of what Condition soever especially belonging to the Crimean Cham and all sorts of Tartars or Hords shall make any sort of Excursion nor commit Damage privately or publickly upon the Cities and Towns and Subjects or Dependants upon the Czar And if contrary to this Compact and Agreement which is made betwixt us any either privately or publickly shall raise any Commotion or make Preparation for it or shall commit Hostility or make Incursion or shall be Obstinate or not Obedient let 'em be of what side they will they shall be Apprehended Imprison'd and Punish'd without Mercy Therefore after this method shall this Truce be cultivated and observ'd during the time of it all Conflicts and Hostilities shall be remov'd and extinguish'd and both Parties with full Inclination shall apply themselves to the Conclusion of a Peace and the Crimean Cham shall be included in this Place by reason of the Obedience and Subjection he owes to the Sublime Empire That it may be receiv'd and observ'd on both sides the Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Commissary of the highly foremention'd Czar by Virtue of his Powers and Authority has deliver'd an Authentick Instrument in due Form written in the Muscovite Language We likewise by Virtue of our Powers and Deputation have deliver'd this Authentick Instrument in due Form Subscrib'd with our Hands and Seal'd with our Seals God is favourable to Justice A COPY OF THE Muscovite Treaty WITH THE TURKS IN the Name of the Omnipotent Lord God One in Holy Trinity By whose Grace the most Serene and Potent Lord Czar and Great Duke Peter Alexovic Emperor of the Whole Great and Little Russia of Muscovy Kiovia Wolodimiria Novogardia Czar of Carania Czar of Astrachan Czar of Siberia Lord of Plescovia Great Duke of Smolenscum Lord of Treria Ingoria Permia Viatka Bolgaria and of other Dominions Great Duke of Novogardia of the Lower Country of Csernihovia Resania Rostovia Jarosclavia Belovroria Valoria Obdoria Condinia and Emperor of all the Northern Country and Lord of the Land af Iveria Czar of the Cartalinensians and Grunizensians and Duke of Karbardia of the Csercassians and Mountaneers and many other Dominions and Lands to the East West and North from Father and Ancestors Heir Successor Lord and Commander between his Majesty and the most Mighty Great Lord Sultan Mustapha Han Son of Sultan Mehmet Han Lord of Constantinople of the White Sea the Black Sea of Anatolia Rumia Romania of the most Honour'd Mecca and Medina and Holy Jerusalem of Egypt of the Abyssines of Babylon and Rica and Commander of Damascus Emperor of the Tartarian and Crimean Hords as also of many other Dominions Kingdoms and Cities Islands and Provinces Whereas the War for many years has been the Cause of the Misery of the Subjects and Dependants on both Parties that Friendship and Kindness might be restor'd and by that means the Civil Affairs might become better settled and all things chang'd into a more flourishing Condition with this intent a Congress was had in Sirmium on the Confines of Carlovitz with the most Illustrious and most Excellent the most Select Lord Great Chancellor Reis Mehmet Effendi and the most Select Lord of the Privy Council Mauro Cordato of the Family of Scarlati Plenipotentiary Commissioners and Ambassadors Extraordinary of the highly mention'd Sultan Majesty Deputed with full Powers to Treat of and Settle the Business of a Peace through the Mediation of his most Serene and most Royal Majesty of Great Britain and of the States General of the Netherlands by their most Excellent Plenipotentiaries Ambassadors Extraordinary the Lord William Lord Pagett Baron de Beaudesert c. and Lord Jacob Colyer c. both sides show'd an Inclination to a Peace and Truce but in so short a time it was not easie to remove all Difficulties and put all things into an Order agreeable to Friendship and Good Neighbourhood yet least the Continuance of these Treaties should be Interrupted and that they might be perfected and brought to an end with this Intent by mutual Consent on both sides a Truce betwixt the two great highly mention'd Lords is Agreed on for Two Years to Commence from Christmas-day the 25th day of December Anno Domini 1698. within which Term this Treaty may be reduc'd into good Order and by the Blessing of God a perpetual Peace or a Truce for a sufficient Number of years may be Concluded and Antient Friendship restor'd betwixt his Czarish Muscovite Majesty and Turkish Sultan Majesty Therefore within this prefix'd time all War Battles Fights and Skirmishes shall Cease and on both sides all Hostilities shall be remov'd and extinguish'd nor shall any Incursion or Hostility be done or any Damage committed either privately or publickly by the Subjects of his Czarish Majesty whether Muscovites or Cossacks or others within the Mussulman or Crimean Confines or within any other of his Sultan Majesty's Dominions or on any of his Subjects In like manner on the part of his Sultan Majesty no sort of Troops of what Condition soever shall be brought against his Czarish Majesty especially the Crimean Cham and the Tartars of what Nation or Hord soever shall be oblig'd not to make any Incursions or do any Damage publickly or privately either in the Cities Towns or Territories Subject to his Czarish Majesty And if contrary to this Constitution and Agreement made betwixt us
Vizier on the way as he was carrying the Articles of Peace to be Ratify'd by the Emperor and took from him his Horses and Money with his Dispatches which they for some time detain'd and restored not without much difficulty The Emperor being inform'd of this Affront cited the Chief Lords of Hungary to appear at Vienna Where the Prince Lukovitz President of the Imperial Council told them That the Conditions of Peace which his Master the Emperor had concluded with the Turk were not so disadvantageous as they imagin'd for that the first overture of Peace came from the Turks themselves with whom it was agreed and concluded that Transilvania was to continue in its ancient Liberty and not subjected to the Government of a Pasha in nature of a Mahometan Province That the Counties of Zatmar and Zambolish which were anciently esteem'd dependencies on Transilvania were to be transferr'd into the power of the Emperor That the better to secure the Frontiers of the upper Hungary and to prevent the Incursions of the Turks on the other side of the Danube It was provided in the Capitulations that the Emperor might Build Forts on each side of the River Waagh which would very much annoy and restrain the Turks of Waradin and Newhawsel from making Depredations or Incursions on that side of the Country Now considering that this Peace was thus advantageous as well to Hungary as to the Hereditary Dominions his Imperial Majesty judged it convenient to embrace so fair an opportunity expecting that the Hungarian Lords would likewise concur with him in Confirmation of the Treaty and restrain their Soldiers from committing farther Outrages on the Frontiers That his Imperial Majesty as to his part was resolved to withdraw all his German Regiments out of Hungary Provided That they themselves would take care to furnish and supply those Garrisons with Soldiers of their own and at their own charge repair the Fortifications of Levents Schentra Neutra Schella and Gutta which are Neighbouring places to Newhawsel and to furnish them with all sorts of Ammunition and Provisions necessary for their Maintenance and Defence The Hungarian Lords returned no present answer to this Discourse having not Authority so to do until they had first consulted with the Nobility of the Upper Hungary who had often protested that they would never agree to any thing which was concluded without their consent and revenge themselves on their Palatine in case he should engage them in matters without their Privity or Concurrence first obtain'd In fine after Consultations had with the Estates an answer was giving in Writing to this effect That to conclude a Peace without the Privity and Concurrence of the Estates was against the Statutes and Privileges of the Kingdom That in case they could flatter themselves so far as to believe that true Tranquillity and Ease would be the effect and consequence of the late Truce made with the Turk which would be the greatest blessing that could befal a Nation which above all the People in this World had been harassed with War Yet it was difficult and almost unpracticable for them to build the Fortresses intended upon the Waagh and in the mean time restrain the Turks from their Incursions and let them do what was possible for them yet still Hungary would lie open and exposed for at least 60 Leagues space to the Incursions of the Turks and to the extortions and insolences of the German Soldiers In short therefore they resolved to Ratify nothing they would neither exchange the Garrisons nor Build new Forts nor Repair old ones but leave every thing to his Majesty to provide what was necessary for the defence and conservation of that miserable and unfortunate Kingdom This memorial being given in with a kind of sad and a discontented behaviour despairing as it were of the welfare of their Country the Hungarians were retiring from the Emperor and his Council when the Prince Lubkovitz reassum'd in a calm and sober manner his former Discourse which he pressed on them with new and perswasive Instances Telling them That he could not imagin upon what Grounds or Reasons they did desire a continuance of War the Stage and Theater of which was to be their own Country That out of a sence of those Miseries which were to ensue and from a pious and gracious regard he conceived for the repose of Hungary the Emperor had concluded a Peace with the Turk which he was contriving to secure against all violences and irruptions of the Enemy And that entire satisfaction might be given to the Hungarian Lords his Imperial Majesty declar'd That he would build those Forts upon the Waagh which were design'd to restrain all Incursions from the Garrison of Newhausel The Emperor's Grant to the Hungarians at his own expence and charge That he would withdraw the German Troops from burdening the Country and quarter Hungarians in their places That whilest these Forts were in Building the Guards thereunto belonging should consist of Hussars and Heydukes That all places of Trust and Profit both Civil and Military should be put into the Hands of Hungarians And that they might at their own will and pleasure put what Forces and Commanders they pleased into the Garrisons of the Mountain Towns and other places These Concessions from the Emperor being so gracious and free as nothing could be desir'd more ample and satisfactory the Hungarian Lords acquiesced and signed the Treaty with the Turks So that all things began to put on a Face and clear aspect of Tranquillity and Repose as well in reference unto Foreign Wars as to civil and intestine differences And thereupon the Crown wherewith the Hungarian Kings were usually Crown'd and which the Lords had removed from Presburg to prevent the Emperor from taking it upon him with Right of Inheritance was again return'd by them and restor'd to its former place But these fair promises and assurances given by the Prince Lubkovitz in behalf of the Emperor proceeded no farther than to words for neither were their Churches restor'd Nor the German Forces recalled out of the Country Nor the Towns of Nitria and Levents lately taken from the Turks deliver'd into their Hands as was promised But instead thereof German Garrisons were put into Tokai Zatmar Kalo and Onod Towns which are bordering on Transilvania and were belonging to Prince Ragotski In short nothing being perform'd as was promised the Spirits of the Hungarians were so exasperated that they desponded of any good from the Imperial Court but rather beheld it as a Cabal contriving and meditating only to bring them under an Arbitrary power and an unsupportable Slavery And this general Humour of discontent so spread it self in the Minds of the People that they grew Sullen and Angry in an Instant and both the Roman Catholicks and Protestants and all sorts of Religions in that Nation became so concern'd for the Liberty and Privileges of their Country that they freely and openly declar'd That they would rather subject themselves
to the Turks than become the Slaves of the Germans The consequences of which War have been so dismal and even the Imperial Victories gain'd at the expence of so much Blood and Treasure as all Germany as well as Hungary has felt the fatal effects of it So that Men are apt to look back with Indignation on the Authors of these Troubles and to think them worthy of the extreamest Punishments that have brought their Country to such Ruin and Desolation The greatest part of which Censures will without doubt fall upon the Protestants whose Arms have wanted even Success that popular justification and whose Cause labours under two such fearful appearances as a defection from their Prince and the joyning with the Common Enemy of Christendom tho' perhaps a considering Man will be apt to reflect on that Cruel severity which forc'd them to take shelter in the Arms of an Infidel at least he will see a fatal instance of the unhappy Consequences of driving Men to Despair by subverting their Laws Liberties and Religion I shall therefore give an impartial Account of the Causes that exasperated the Protestants of Hungary to this degree and leave them to the Readers judgment either to be condemn'd or acquitted And therefore let us hear what Account the Protestant Writers give of this matter when the Protestant Religion began first to insinuate it self into Hungary under the Reign of King Lewis Anno. 1523. it met there with the same fate it did in other Countrys viz. Opposition and Persecution But this King unhappily engaging himself in a War against the Turks fell in Battle and leaving no Heir Male the Hungarian Nobility were divided in the choice of a Successor one part Electing John Zapolya Vaivode of Transilvania and the other Ferdinand the first But John dying soon after his Election Ferdinand remain'd in sole possession of that Kingdom who the better to gain the affection of his Subjects granted free exercise of Religion to Cassovia Bartphia Eperias Leuchenia and Libinia the five free Towns of upper Hungary and afterwards to several of the Towns of lower Hungary besides the same Privileges which he gave to divers of the Nobility Notwithstanding which there being several Commotions and Disturbances on account of Religion still remaining in the year 1606. at the Pacification of Vienna made between Rodolph Emperor and King of Hungary and Stephen Botscai-Kis-Maria in the first Article it was said That as to the business of Religion that notwithstanding the first Constitutions and the last Article of the year 1604. according the Resolution taken by his Imperial Majesty All the Inhabitants and Persons of what Order or Condition soever within that Kingdom as well the great Lords as the Cities and Privileg'd Towns immediately belonging to the Crown or upon the borders of that Kingdom as likewise all the Soldiers of Hungary shall have free and entire Liberty of Conscience without being troubled or molested Nevertheless without prejudice to the Roman Catholick Religion so that that Clergy the Churches and the Temples of the Catholicks may remain in the State wherein they are without Violation or Molestation And that those which had been taken by one side or other should be restor'd to their lawful owners Afterwards the Emperor Matthias himself explain'd that Clause nevertheless without prejudice to the Rom. Cath. Religion by assuring them That it was put in upon a good design and that it only meant that neither Party should be disturbed in the exercise of their Religion This liberty was afterwards often confirm'd as you may see in the Grievances presented to the Emperor which are affix'd to the end of this History The now Reigning Emperor Leopold solemnly confirm'd this Article at his Coronation Vide the sixth Condition in the Imperial Patent running thus Ordered That the exercise of Religion granted to the States of Hungary according to the Constitution of Vienna and those Articles establisht before our Coronation shall remain entirely free as well for the Barons Lords Gentlemen as free Cities and all Orders and States of the Kingdom of Hungary as likewise for the Towns Villages and Hamlets that will accept of it so that no Person of what Condition soever shall be hinder'd in the exercise of his Religion in what manner or under what pretence soever Given in the Royal Citadel of Posonium June the 25th 1655. In despight of all these Edicts made in favour of the Protestants the Clergy especially the Jesuits had so much interest in the Court of Vienna as to get a Manifest publish'd there and Entitled Truth declared to all the World or a Treatise wherein is proved by three Argument that his Caesarean Majesty is not obliged to tolerate the Lutheran or Calvinist Religion in the Kingdom of Hungary Writ by George Barzon titular Bishop of Waradin Priest of the Society and Councellor to his Sacred Majesty The first Argument was drawn from three Conditions under which the liberty of Religion was granted at the Pacification of Vienna The first That it should be with out prejudice to the Protestant Religion which Condition being impossible ought to pass for nothing The second That the Clergy and the Catholick Churches should remain in their former Condition without being toucht which was violated by Bethlem and Ragotski The third That what was taken either by one side or the other should be restor'd which the Protestants had not perform'd To this was answered That it did by no means follow that if one Condition or Clause was lookt upon as impossible and so null that the whole Treaty should be so also and besides that the Emperor Matthias himself had explain'd the Condition by declaring that it was not to be made use of for the ruining of that liberty which was granted That whatsoever Bethlem or Ragotski had done this Liberty was notwithstanding confirm'd by the Edicts and Ordinances of the Emperor That if it had been so that Protestants who being daily provok'd by the Papists had gone a little too far yet the innocent ought not to suffer That the Destruction of Temples which were made use of during the Troubles only regarded those that Botskai had taken in the War and not such as had been for a long time in their Hands The second Argument is That this liberty was not establisht by the unanimous consent of the States of the Kingdom to whom it belongs to make Laws with the Consent and Approbation of his Majesty and consequently that those Articles ought to be abolisht But it was urg'd that this was extreamly injurious to those Kings who had confirm'd and ratify'd them and who no question were not so ignorant of the rights of the Kingdom of Hungary That when this Affair was manag'd at Lintz 1645. Tho' the Arch-Bishop of Strigonium George Lippai and some seculars opposed it yet Count Palfy President of the Chamber and divers Catholick Lords consented notwithstanding that opposition so that the Affair being extreamly hindred by that Arch-Bishop
to whom he Read the very Letters which were sent to him and held no Treaty with any but what he had made known to his Imperial Majesty He highly insisted on the promises made him by the Baron Oker Lord Chancellour who assured him that the Disgrace into which he was fallen should serve to raise him to higher Dignities and that Prince Lubkovitz had in the presence of Baron Oker promised him great rewards in case he could take ofâ— Prince Ragotski his Son-in-Law from the disaffected Party Which he had accordingly done and so well succeeded therein that immediately upon the Receipt of his Letter Ragotski had set Count Staremberg at Liberty and entirely submitted himself with all his Forces to the Will and Devotion of his Majesty After all which and much more that he could alledge in justification of himself he might reasonably hope that his Majesty who was a Prince of unparallell d Clemency would deal with him after the generous Example of Julius Caesar who burnt the Letters of Pompey and Scipio without Reading tho' thereby he might have discover'd the Names and Plots of all the Conspirators against him And tho' he could not hope for or desire such an implicite manner of proceeding yet he expected so much Justice as to have his Cause try d before Wise and Impartial Judges This Leter had much availed with the Emperor had not Count Nadasti Nadasâ—i betrays Serini Brother-in-Law to Serini insinuated to the Council the Fictions and false Colours contained therein To which discovery even Prince Ragotski his Son-in-Law much contributed by resigning into the hands of the Emperor's Ministers all those original Letters written to him by his Father-in-Law by which all the methods and measures of the Design were plainly laid open and exposed And his Enemies supply'd with sufficient Crimes to lay unto his Charge and to fill an Endictment against him Such is the falsity of this World in which there is no Faith either amongst Friends or Relations In the mean time the General of the Imperial Army advanced his Forces against the Malecontents who still stood out and entertained thoughts of Retiring with their Families into the Dominions of the Turks To prevent which he march'd with 15 Regiments against Padock Mongatz and Erschet places belonging to Ragotski In the first of which the Princess Ragotski going before prepar'd a Magnificent Banket for General Sporke to whom after the Entertainment she deliver'd the Keys of the place and presented him with a Horse and Furniture rated at the value of about Eleven thousand Roman Crowns And having here placed a Garrison as also in Padock Czalos Serentz and Mongatz Lieutenant General Heister Marched to Erschet where many and the most considerable of the Malecontents were retir'd and refused to receive any Garrison either from the Emperor or the Prince Ragotski Erschet stands out until first a Pardon or act of Oblivion were given them in due form and manner and herein they so resolutely persisted that they levelled their Cannon against the Imperial Forces by which the Landtgrave of Hesse had his Horse killed under him and would have maintain'd their Post to the last extremity but that General Sporke being more willing to use Lenity than Rigour sent to the Besieged a blank Paper promising on Condition of Surrender to yield unto all the Articles that they should write therein which being accepted Surrenders on Conditions and the Capitulations drawn the Town was deliver'd The City of Cassovia following the Example of Erschet open'd their Gates to the Imperialists Cassovia yields and promised to give Free quarters to the Soldiers provided they might have and enjoy a free exercise of their Religion This City of Cassovia since the time it had acknowledged the Austrian Family for their Sovereigns had never been violated or saw entrance forcibly made thereinto For which Reason the General was pleased to make a Triumphant Entry and to pass with his Army through the midst of its Street with Trumpets Hautboys and all sorts of Warlike Musick and having left a sufficient Garrison therein he proceeded to take in other Towns and Countries which for the most part submitted to the prevailing Power tho' with much Regret and Displeasure to see themselves subjected by Foreign Forces and by Garrisons stronger than the Inhabitants especially the County of Zemplin highly contended and seemed resolved to oppose themselves against such masterless Guests Zemplin refuses to take German Garrisons until General Sporke threatned to give them no Quarter and in case of resistance to enter their Country with Fire and Sword Bassory and other Chiefs of the discontented Party being affrighted with these Menaces desired Apafi Prince of Transilvania The Malecontents fly into Moldavia to grant them Protection and Refuge within his Dominions But he being forbidden by the Turks to receive their Persons or own their Cause absolutely refused to grant them quarters or safety within his Country Upon which denial they fled into Moldavia and Valachia where they dispersed and concealed themselves until a more proper time presented to assert their Liberty Thus was all Hungary entirely subjected to the Command and Power of the Emperor excepting only Muran which was the City and Seat of the late Palatine Wessellini and which was then guarded and defended by his Widow and was as believed the place where the Consultations were held and where the Plots and Factions were carried on Muran yielded To take in this place Prince Charles of Lorrain appear'd before it with a considerable party both of Horse and Foot against which the Countess being not able to make any long resistance yielded the place upon honourable Conditions Amongst other Malecontents which were there seized Nagiferents who had been the Chief Confident of the late Palatine Wessellini Nagiserentâ— seized and Secretary of the League was there secur'd with all his Papers which made a discovery of the whole Plot and of the Names of the principal Actors therein These Papers were contain'd in five Chests consisting of Letters Instructions Treaties Acts c. which being sent to Vienna and there examined it plainly appear'd thereby what part Count Nadasti was to perform and how far he was engaged It discover'd farther all the proceedings both of Serini and Frangipani Nadasti discovered to be in the Plot. and furnished their Enemies with Articles against them And several Letters were intercepted which made the Countess of Wessellini to be one of the Complices and concerned in the Conspiracy Nadasti had all this time dissembled his Party and seemed zealous for the Emperor against the Malecontents keeping himself quiet and retired within his Castle of Puttendorf But so soon as he understood that the Secretary with his Papers was seized his Conscience smote him so that he provided for his Escape intending with 500 Horse to make his way for Venice but before he could prepare to be gone his Castle was Invested by the Lieutenant Colonel
and Vasikow which have always been Dependences thereupon And that you farther promise that your People shall not Inhabit nor hold Fairs Commerce or Markets on our side of the Nieper but that all that Country shall remain desert and waste as it is at present And that from the Towns of Tripol Staiki and Vasikow to the Isles of the Cosacks Zoporoges you renounce all your pretensions unto us This is what we demand and without these terms we shall conclude nothing with you The Vizier having resolv'd on a War against the Emperor The Vizier accepts of the Conditions offerd by the Moscovites receiv'd these Propositions with full satisfaction and immediately return'd Answer thereunto in a Letter wrote to the Czars full of their usual sublime Expressions and of high and fulsom praises of their Wisdoms and Grandeur Signifying that in the Name of the Grand Seignior he did accept and confirm all the Conditions propos'd desiring him to send an Extraordinary Ambassador to confirm the Treaty But lest the Czars should refuse to send a new Ambassador before the other then residing was return'd the Vizier about six Weeks afterwards gave License for his Departure and accompanied him with Presents of greater value than those which the Grand Seignior had formerly bestow'd upon the Czar Of all these Particulars Kaunitz who Resided at Constantinople in the Place of the Secretary Hoffman lately there Deceas'd gave Intelligence to the Emperor signifying also that after the Moscovite Ambassador was arriv'd with Ratification of the Peace the Grand Seignior would soon afterwards remove to Adrianople in Order as was most probable and in all appearance to a War against Hungary This Matter was acted in the year 1681 which we have anticipated that we might not abruptly break off the Treaty with Moscovy the nature of which may be best understood when it is carried forward in one Piece which having done we must look back again to the year 1680. and to the Actions of the Malecontents Tekeli was very active all this time in Recruiting his Army and preparing for War and having compos'd a Body of four thousand Transilvanians he march'd with them to the General Rendezvous intending as he had done the year before to take upon him the Command of the Army But when he came thither he was strangely surpriz'd to find the same refus'd to him by Count Wessellini Son of the late Paul Wessellini deceas'd Tekeli and Wessellini Fight for Command who so resolutely contended for the Chief Command that nothing could decide it but the Sword In short both Parties drew out into the Field and charg'd each other and after a long Dispute Tekeli got the Victory and put Wessellini and his Forces to the Rout and having pursu'd them with a Detachment of his Forces the Competitor Wessellini was taken and brought Prisoner to Tekeli who causing him to be tied on his Horse sent him to Prince Apafi in Transilvania after which Tekeli without a Rival took upon him the sole Command of the Army The Emperor besides a War against his Rebel Subjects was under great Mortifications and Troubles his Imperial Palace at Vienna was burnt the Plague Rag'd violently in his Hereditary Countries and in his Army of which the Baron de Kaunitz The Paisants in Bohemia rise in Arms. and other principal Officers died And at the same time nine hundred Paisants of the Circle of Braslaw in Bohemia arose in Arms against the Counts Galas and Bredaw their Lords pretending that they were treated like Slaves and refus'd to pay the Contributions which were demanded for the Emperor Howsoever to make the Justice of their Cause appear they sent four Deputies to Prague to make known unto his Imperial Majesty their many Aggrievances which were so Tyrannical and Burthensom as could not longer be sustain'd and therefore they desir'd that Council might be assign'd them to plead their Cause against their Lords at the Bar of Justice But instead of hearkning to the Petition of these distressed Paisants the Deputies were Imprison'd and to stifle this Tumult in the beginning two Regiments under the Command of Count Piccolomini were sent to reduce them upon the appearance of which the Mutineers dispers'd and fled every Man to his own home But this Combustion was not long suppress'd before it burst forth again in a more violent and outragious manner than before for four thousand of these discontented Paisants were got together in a formidable Body Conducted by several Reformed Officers with Colours flying and Drums beating and with Mottos on their Ensigns which serv'd to incite others to joyn in their Rebellion They at first attempted a Castle belonging to the Count de Thun who was Envoy about that time in England for the Emperor where they expected to find Arms but missing thereof they proceeded on other Designs but were interrupted and stop'd by Count Piccolomini who was sent with Forces to reduce them to Obedience Whereupon these Rebels made a second Experiment of sending their Deputies to represent their Aggrievances who were as before clap'd into Prison But Advices coming that some other Counties were up in Arms in like manner and for the same Cause The Emperor accommodates the Matter between the Lords and their Tenants the Deputies were set at Liberty and a General Pardon Granted to all those who would lay down their Arms and remit their Pleas to be Treated at the Tribunals of Justice Upon this Declaration five thousand submitted and return'd to their own Habitations And the Emperor himself upon hearing the Cause between the Lords and the Paisants did determine that the Paisants should be oblig'd only to Labour three days for their Lords whereas formerly they were constrain'd to the Service of five Days in the Week having but one single Day allow'd them for the Care and Support of their Family In the mean time The Poles press to have a Treaty Signed the Resident for the King of Poland at Vienna press'd very instantly to have the League between his Master and the Emperor against the Turk to be Compleated and Sign'd to which at length this Answer was given That so soon as the Poles had drawn the Moscovites into an Union with them and that the Turks had also declar'd a War that then the Treaty which was already drawn should immediately be Sign'd Tekeli on the other side offer'd New Propositions of Peace and in the mean time desir'd a Cessation of Arms. Upon which the Emperor having call'd his Council it was Resolv'd by them that all Treaties with him for the future should be absolutely deny'd in regard that by experience he had always been found false and perfidious in every Treaty having broken his Faith and Promises whensoever it serv'd his turn not to perform them Besides it was well remember'd in what manner he had formerly made use of Cessations of Arms The Emperor refuses to Treat with Tekeli to debauch the Minds of the Emperor's Soldiers and to seduce
the imperial and free Cities of Upper Hungary Cassovia and Epperies shall be appointed and establish'd places for the publick and free exercise of the Protestant Religion and that hereafter no Subject shall be disturb'd in the free exercise of his Religion under the pain expressed in the 8th Article of the 6th Decree of Uladislaus Nevertheless the Magistrate of Epperies on the very Festival Day of St. Bartholomew the Apostle in the Year 1688 last past dar'd deprive the Protestant Church of Epperies establish'd by the Articles of their Ministers and with great dishonour expel all the Protestant Ministers of the three Nations out of the said City and its Territory without letting them know any cause of so injust an usage or shewing them any Warrant of His most Sacred Majesty for it protending only an unheard of Title of Lord of the Manor which cannot be admitted among Civilians since they enjoy equaly with the Magistrate the common civil Liberty nor amongst Clergy Men who enjoy a special Liberty nor can it in any wise be taken by Magistrate whose Office is but for a year to the great diminishing of His most Sacred Majesty's Authority and the Contempt of the before mentioned Articles Wherefore they humbly beg that the innocent and unjustly Banish'd Protestant Ministers of Epperies be restor'd and may perform as before their Ecclesiastical Duties and that both the Protestant Ministers of Cassovia and those of Epperies employ'd either in Preaching or in Teaching Schools present or to come being always presented by the right Patrons may live quietly and safely in their own or hir'd dwelling places which they have or shall have within the Walls of the said Cities Seventhly No body that knows the Law will deny but in the beginning of the aforesaid 41st Article of the Diet of Sopron where the Common Liberties and Privileges of the imperial and free Cities are confirm'd and besides the there mention'd Laws and Articles of the Kingdom made in several places are renewed it is expresly ordain'd That the same Laws and Articles be strictly observed both by the Chambers and the Officers of the Army and by any other person whatsoever so that they viz. the same imperial and free Cities be no way disturbed by any one in their free right to chuse a Civil Magistrate nor in any other Privilege Nevertheless the modern Magistrate of the said Cities against the Prohibition contain'd in the 83th Article of the Illustrious Chamber of Scepusium in the year 1647 out of meer private hatred against our Religion was pleased to take upon him such a Power as to degrade and turn out of their publick Dignities and Civil Employments all the Senators of Cassovia and Epperies and several other Protestant Officers well deserving and qualified for publick Offices and Civil Dignities against the evident Constitution of the aforesaid Article and of those that are cited in it but especially of the 13th before the Coronation in the year 1608 of the 44th in the year 1609 and of the 12th in the year 1649 to the most evident prejudice of the Common Liberties and Civil Privileges and to the considerable oppression of the Protestant Citizens and in the room of the said Senators and Protestant Officers the said Magistrate has put Catholick Citizens either less fit or wholly unacquainted with the Affairs of the said Cities and more minding their private concerns to the damnifying and even undoing of the said Cities Wherefore we require with the deepest Humility First That the free right of chusing the Civil Magistrate and other Officers which hitherto has been so disturbed and wholly taken away from the Protestants against the positive Laws of the Kingdom made in the Illustrious Chamber of Scepusium belonging properly and only to the Sworn Citizens of the same Cities and as well to the Protestants as to the Catholicks be restor'd and maintain'd in its former State and in no wise any more disturbed by any one under the pain mention'd in the renewed and aforesaid Articles Secondly That in order to maintain a civil mutual Union and put out any Fewel of Division and Hatred a free Election be made of the same Magistrate and other Officers out of the well deserving and well qualified Sworn Citizens without any difference of the Catholick and Protestant Religion and that the Employments and any Civil Dignities whatsoever be indifferently and equally conferr'd and bestowed so that the Catholicks and Protestants promote mutually one another to publick civil Honours according to the intention of the aforesaid 13th Article of the year 1608 before the Coronation and of the 44th of the year 1609. Thirdly That in order to observe a just equality of Turns and procure the publick good of the Cities it be graciously granted that the Offices of Judge and Tribune be by Turns and promiscuously exercised for a year according to the intention of the aforesaid Articles and of the 12th in the year 1649. All the Protestant Citizens and Inhabitants of the three Nations of the Free and Imperial Cities Cassovia and Epperies The Grievance of the Protestants of the Free and Imperial City of Carpona IT is not without a great deal of Grief that all the Noblemen and Gentlemen all the Auxiliary Forces and hired Soldiers of both sorts and all the Protestant Inhabitants and Citizens of Carpona think it their Duty to Represent to Your most Sacred Majesty that altho' according to Your most Sacred Majesty's Resolution inserted in the 26th Article of the Diet of Sopron Anno 1681. Among the places of the Kingdom which were to be appointed for the Building of new Churches and Schools and Erecting Parishes for the conveniency of those of the Helvetian Confession and of that of Ausbourg the same City of Carpona is particularly named and established to be one of the places where the free exercise of Religion should entirely and quietly be enjoyed as it may be seen in these words In the Division before the Mountains at Leva Carpona and Tulekin Nevertheless Your Majesty's High Commissioners appointed in the year 1688 last past in the Mountain Cities being come to that of Carpona whereas according to the intention of the aforesaid Article and of Your Majesty's Gracious Resolution and Declaration contain'd in it instead of the convenient Churches and Schools and Parishes which were from the Protestants of the Confession of Ausbourg they should have appointed other convenient and fit places and left the Protestants in the quiet Possession of them according to the intention of the 19th Article in the year 1647 did on the contrary turn the Protestant Ministers and School-masters out of their Offices and with severe Threats forbid both all the Protestant Noblemen and Gentlemen all the Soldiers of the Garison as well as all the Inhabitants and Citizens to continue the Exercise of Religion which had been enjoy'd in the same place from time out of Memory and was confirm'd by the Articles as we have already said till Your Majesty's further
Demonstrations of his Resolution to maintain the War and that his former proposals and steps towards Peace were all false and feigned with design to Amuse the Minds of the Emperor and the Diet. The Turks had not as yet declar'd a War for their Forces and Troops from the remote parts of Asia were not in a readiness nor on their March till which time the Emperor was to be amused with Treaties and the appearance of that great Body of Turks near Belgrade was with pretension only to restore Tekeli to the Possession of his Lands Houses and Estate of which he had been unjustly deprived by the Emperor and his Favourites The Emperor finding it now absolutely necessary to conclude an Accommodation with the Malecontents amongst whom new difficulties daily arose returned in Person from Newstadt to the Diet at Oedemburg where the Malecontents thought it reasonable that the Tribute which they had engaged to pay unto the Turks should be charged and levied on the Estates of those who had been the causes of the Troubles and Confusions in that Kingdom This motion had so little ground and was so unlikely to succeed that it put all things backwards and induced the Emperor to limit the Session of the Diet to the 16th of August hoping within that time to agree on all Points with such who continued constant in their Loyalty and Allegiance to him and for particular Aggrievances they were to be composed by a Select Committee appointed for that purpose But all this while most of the Protestants refused to come to the Diet by reason that the Points about Religion were post-poned by the endeavours of the Archbishop of Strigonium which they in the first place and before all other Matters desir'd to have decided This Point being laid aside the Diet fell to debate on the Proposition sent by Tekeli relating to a Tribute demanded by the Turks and as an expedient and by way of Equivalent for that it was proposed to resign into the Hands of the Turks three Counties viz. Kalo Zatmar and Liptpow to which the Turks seemed with some reason to claim a Title in regard that no longer than since the year 1660 they had been disjoyn'd from the Principality of Transilvania But an end was soon put to this Controversie for both the Hungarians themselves were unwilling to have a Peace purchased from the Turk at the price of their Country by dismembring three Counties from that Kingdom at the mentioning only of which the People were so enraged that fearing lest the Emperor should privately conclude some Article with the Turk in reference thereunto they would not be satisfied until he had permitted them to joyn one of their Confidents with Caprara the Emperor 's Resident at Constantinople who might be privy to all the Treaties and Negotiations with the Turk nor would the Turks accept thereof in satisfaction for renewing the Truce but raised new and greater Demands as they found the Emperor inclinable to yield and condescend The Turks raise their Demands For now the Grand Vizier required to have Leopolstadt demolish'd on pretence that it had been Built and Fortified contrary to the Articles of the late Treaty And declar'd likewise the Grand Seignior's resolution to give aid and assistance to the Malecontents until such time as he had put them into a capacity of paying the Annual Tribute for which they were engaged New difficulties were every day started at the Diet so that the Emperor was desirous to dissolve it so soon as was possible but yet he thought not fit to do it abruptly or to break it up in discontent but that something might be done in matters of Religion The Emperor Grants several matters on which the Protestants most insisted In order unto which it was agreed to grant them a hundred Churches with Money to build others in places most convenient That all Cities and Towns should enjoy a free exercise of their Religion And that all Hungarian Soldiers in the Frontier Garrisons should do the like That all Churches which since the year 1670 had been in the Possession of either Party should so remain That Lutherans and Calvinists might build Churches in any Town or City where they were wanting and Lords and Gentlemen might build Chappels or Oratories in any of their Houses or Castles That in case any Points of Difference should arise relating to Religion or the Matters preceeding they were not to be decided by the Sword but by the Sentence of the King of Hungary And that all People of what Perswasion soever might live amicably no Person was to Revile the other on account of his or their Religion or to utter injurious or unhansome Terms thereof These particulars with some additional Regulations being at last agreed in the Diet and sign'd by the Emperor The next great work was in what manner the Malecontents might be restor'd to their Estates and to their Goods which had been confiscated And how the German Troops Aggrievances considered and stranger Soldiers might with safety and ease be removed out of their Garrisons and all parts of Hungary which next to the business of Religion was the greatest concernment of the Diet. The next Aggrievance was the Chamber of the Kingdom which Office contrary to the will and approbation of the Deputies of the States was executed by the Bishop of Newstadt whom they consider'd as the Chief Author and Fomenter of all the Troubles of that Kingdom But herein the Emperor was not willing as yet to gratify the Diet. Nor could the Deputies agree amongst themselves of the manner how to make those things practicable which they in the most erarnest manner desir'd And such were the Divisions amongst them that what the Seculars agreed upon in the Morning was disturbed and undone by the Clergy in the Afternoon which the Emperor well considering and how Men of such different interests perplex all Councils was pleased to dismiss the Archbishop of Strigonium and the Bishop of Newstadt as also the Count Capliers a great stickler for the Rights of the Church from their attendance on the Diet so that the Imperial Commissioners were reduced to three Persons namely the Prince of Swartzemburg the Count of Nostiz and Oker the Chancellour And farther The Emperor satisfies the Malecontents to satisfy the Malecontents in their pretensions the Bishop of Newstadt was put by his Office of Vice-President of the Chamber of Hungary and the same was conferr'd on Count Erdedi a Person much more acceptable to the People This gracious Clemency and Compliance of the Emperor was so satisfactory to the Protestants that they wholly submitted that point about the confiscated Goods to the favour and benign inclinations of his Imperial Majesty who not to abuse that confidence which his Subjects reposed in him did freely and of his own accord give order that the Goods and Estates of the Counts Serini Nadasti and Frangipani with those of several other Lords that had been confiscated for High Treason
of Jaszbreny and the Frontiers of Legrad although the abovemention'd Counties be named in the Article whereby the Evangelicks are left in the Possession of all those Churches which they had in the said Counties when the Article was made Against the VIII In the Town of Maromaruss and in the places round about it private Men have forbidden the whole exercise of Religion charging with Beat of Drums all the Evangelicks to go and exercise their Religion out of that Frontier under pain of Imprisonment and other severe Punishments After the same manner the King's Commissioners in Carpen and the Deputies in Tokai have forbidden the exercise of Religion and seiz'd upon the Churches although both these places be particularly named in the Articles Against the IX The said Commissioners or their Deputies have appointed places for Churches Schools and Parishes out of Trenschin Modra Cremnicz and Novizolium and none at all in the rest of the Towns of Lower Hungary now why should the Case of some be worse than that of others since all have the same Priviledge of Liberty in Upper Hungary They have likewise appointed some places for Churches Schools and Parishes not in but out of the Cities against the true meaning of the opposite part of the Article which most evidently declareth that those places must be appointed within and not without the Walls of the Cities or else they could not be such as are appointed Fig. 6. i. e. convenient and fit to be consecrated for the publiek service of God Against the X. In many Counties and particularly in that of Sachsag and the Town of Gyongyos the King's Commissioners have taken such Churches together with their Appendages as were possessed by the Evangelicks when the Article was made which we have hinted in the foregoing fifth Grievance Moreover in the aforesaid Town of Gyongyos mny private Persons have taken all the Ecclesiastical Revenues and Pious Legacies from the Evangelicks forbidding them withal to Bury their Dead in the usual places which has made many keep Corps in Cellars a long time rather than Bury them in Carfax and Cross-ways as they were appointed The Commissioners have also deprived the Evangelicks of the use of the Bells almost every where the Officials have done the like in the County of Semlin and particularly in these Towns of the aforesaid Dominion of Tokai Thalia Mod Zantho Kerethur Tarezal Liszka Benny Tolezva Patak Veyelly Borzi and Tokai seizing upon all the Churches Schools and Parishes which at the time of and after the Treaty were possessed by the Evangelicks and left to the same by the said Article together with the Revenues that have been given to them by the Evangelicks forbidding with most severe threatnings the free exercise of our Religion even in private Houses and hindering the Evangelicks from the common use of Burials and Bells though made at their own care and charge Likewise the Magistrates and Clergy Men of the Town of Cassovia and Epperies have taken by force all the pious Legacies left to our Churches and forbidden absolutely the common use of Bells and Burials Threatning with the most severe Punishments those that would make publick Burials within the Walls with the usual Singing and decent Ceremonies Against the XI Every where in the Counties the Commissioners have adjudged all the Payments to the Catholick Curates and Ordered in the Cities that they should be paid out of the common Purse wherein the Chatholicks could contribute but little they being but few in number in comparison of the Evangelicks thus they have forced us maugre our selves to be at extraordinary Charges out of our own States for the maintaining of our Ministers and School-masters not only against the right intention of the aforesaid Articles but also against the plain Sense of the Holy Scripture which allows a Salary for such as Labour and even nothing to Eat for such as Labour not After the like manner the Official of the abovementioned Dominion of Tokai in Upper Hungary do all their endeavours to make both Noble and Ignoble Evangelicks pay without distinction the Chatholick Curates Against the XII In many Counties viz. in that of Lypcz of Turocz of Zolnock of Arva c. the said Commissioners have suppressed and forbidden under pain of Military Execution the exercise of Religion which is granted to Noblemen in their places of Residence and which they had enjoy'd long since the Churches were seized accordingly in the County of Lypcze the Clergy Men have caused some such Noblemen's Houses to be assaulted and plunder'd by the Garrison of Likavia and in the County of Trenschin the Noble Family of Nosdrovisky which did keep a Minister for the Exercise of Religion in its place of Residence has been much damnified also by the Soldiers of Mersia's Regiment and the Ministers put into the Prison of the Fort of Ledniche where he is kept to this day likewise the Noblemen of Hodossia of the places round about in the Isle of Shut have been deprived of the free exercise of Religion in their places of Residence and the Ministers that lived there then have been Plunder'd of all their Goods which Injustice the Evangelick Noblemen of Lower Hungary do also complain of Would to God that this Conclusion were observed and the Punishment hinted in the Article inflicted upon the Opposers thereof then we might promise our selves to enjoy quietly and undisturbedly the free exercise of our Religion and then the fewel of Divisions would be extinguished and taken away for fear of being Punish'd which that it may be done is our Hearty Prayer and Desire Now having lay'd before Your Sacred Majesty the Articles of Sopron and the Abuses committed in the executing of them it is as clear as the Sun that we require nothing but what is granted in them We humbly beseech Your most Sacr'd Majesty through Christ's Precious Death and Glorious Resurrection that having known and laid up in Your Royal Heart our lawful Requests Your Sacred Majesty suffer no longer the same to be hinder'd by any Person whatsoever but rather since after so long time they have been Reported before Your most Sacred Majesty and before Your Privy Council together with some Treatises of the appointed Commission Nay being inform'd that a certain Point of the said Treatises that doth not concern us has been examin'd by the Lords of the Privy Council it makes us fear lest something else be taken into consideration whereby an Answer to our Requests may be occasion'd and we yet longer detain'd here under the inconveniency of Doubt of Delay and of continuance of the vast Charges we have already been at according to Your most Sacred Majesty's Gracious Consent given to the most High Prince President of the Court and intimated to us by his Highness to dispatch first the Business of Religion that Your Sacred Majesty be graciously pleased to appoint and commit our Requests which so narrowly concern the Salvation of our Souls to be consider'd again and determin'd by
way and fly privately out of the reach of his Competitor The News hereof flew with great hast to the Thieves in Anatolia who being encouraged with the Success of Yeghen His Complices on couraged under whose Government they all fancied to be made Pashas or Grandees came over in great numbers to joyn with him Amongst which one Temac Boluckbashee a leading Man with Four hundred of his Robbers passed boldly over from Asia to Constantinople and Yedic their General was not only pardoned but made a Pasha To this hard Plight and Extremity was the Ottoman Empire reduced when the Turks placing their greatest hopes in the Tartars An Aga sent to Transilvania dispatched away an Aga to Apafi Prince of Transilvania with a Patent to confirm him in his Principality and with Orders to demand of him in consideration thereof a round Sum of ready Money wherewith to Succour and pay the Garrisons on the Boristhenes and to provide for the Maintenance of Caminiec which was in want of Ammunition and all things necessary And to persuade Apafi hereunto he told Stories very improper and unfit to compass his ends for he rehersed all the Tumults of the Zorbas at Constantinople and that the Grand Seignior was forced to create Yeghen who was their Chief and Leader to be Seraskier in Hungary That in Constantinople there was want of every thing even to a Famine caused by the Seditions and Mutinies of the Soldiers and that for the appeasing these Tumults and for the Donative unto the Soldiers which is usually given by the Sultans at their Inauguration the Exchequer had been drained of Twenty Millions of Dollars wherefore he urged the States of Transilvania to grant him his Demands in failure of which he threatned them with the Incursions of the Tartars who had already passed the River Prut and were enter'd into the Neighbouring Provinces where they had left sad Marks of their cruel and miserable Devastations And that Sultan Galga and Noradin with a mighty Army were marching to oppose the Emperors designs upon Belgrade General Carafa having notice of these Practices upon Transilvania went with all hast thither and in a short time not only defeated this Aga in his Negotiations but also so well disposed Apafi and the States of Transilvania with entire Devotion to the Emperor that in despight of the Message brought by the Aga they absolutely renounced all Obedience and Duty to the Ottoman Port The which Renuntiation follows in this manner We Michael Teleky de Szek General George and Alexius de Bethlem Laodislaus Szekel of Boroszeno Valentine Frank one of the Judges Christian Zato Consul of the City of Hermanstadt Counsellors to the Illustrious Prince of Transilvania As also Nicholas of Bethlem Stephen Appor Peter Alvinzy and John Starosy Principal and publick Notaries Michael Filstrick Judge of the City of Braslavia Plenipotentiaries deputed by the Prince aforesaid and by the States of the Kingdom of Transilvania do hereby declare and make known unto all the World desiring that these Presents may remain upon Record for a lasting Testimony unto all Ages With great Reason may this present Age remain astonished and envious Eyes become dazled with the Splendor of the Divine Clemency which not suffering its beloved Christendom to Groan longer under the Yoak of Barbarous Pride nor remain in Bonds to Tyrannical Servitude nor longer to be overwhelmed and drowned after so many Wars in a Sea of Innocent Blood hath at length out of his great Compassion been pleased to exert the strong Power of his Omnipotent Arm to Rescue so many Kingdoms and Provinces from an unsupportable Slavery under the Turks who transported with senseless Fury had rendered themselves formidable to the World ruinous to their Neighbours and Despisers of all People besides their own But behold How the God of Hosts being justly displeassed with these vain Boastings hath thrown his Thunder-bolts amongst them and dispersed them making the most August Emperor Leopold the First an Instrument of his Vengeance and having showred Flouds of Blessings on his Glorious and Triumphant Arms hath encompassed his Royal Head with Wreaths of Victorious Laurel whilst the Ottoman Throne is dressed up with Mournful Cipress Such were the astonishing operations of the Divine Power made manifest to all the World For when the barbarous Tyranny was in its full Career and was in the Trail of a hot Scent after Christian Blood then was God pleased to stop them in their Course and reduce their unstable and depressed Fortune to the doubtful Terms of Hope and Fear It is now near an Age that unhappy Transilvania hath been depressed by the unsupportable Ottoman Yoak and bewailed the loss of her lawful King and Lord And after having been Turmoiled tossed with Storms of War with Fire and Sword and Civil Dissentions all things have been so confused and defaced that scarce any thing hath remained on the Registers of it's ancient Glory only since the Dominion of the Turk gained by the intestine differences of it's own Princes some Memorials are written and reserved to represent to the World a History of a most direful Tragedy But now the maligne Influence of the Stars being either abated or entirely exhausted and the Ambitious Pride and Designs of private Men defeated Transilvania embraces the Paternal and Powerful Protection of the most August Emperor of the Romans Leopold the First and Hereditary King of Hungary and of all his Successors and particularly of the most Serene Prince Joseph King of Hungary whose Life may God long continue and of his Heirs after him according as it hath been concluded and agreed in the year 1687 at the last Diet at Possonium with full Consent Approbation and Concurrence of all the States of Hungary who have for a long time poured out their Prayers and Tears and Sighs before God that at length through the Divine Mercy they might obtain the Enjoyment of this long wished Felicity Be it therefore Enacted Established and made known to this present and to future Ages That to the Glory of the Omnipotent God and for the more quiet and prosperous State of this Principality both in this and in Ages to come We the said Plenipotentiaries deputed by the Illustrious Prince and States of this Kingdom do with our free Will and Christian Zeal Renounce all Protection from the Turk declaring that for the future We will send him no Presents nor pay him Tribute Nor will we maintain any Correspondence with the Ottoman Port their Adherents or Dependants whether Turks or Christians or with any others who are Enemies to the Majesty of the Roman Emperor our gracious Lord or to his lawful Successours and Hereditary Kings of Hungary upon Penalty of High Treason to be punished according to the Laws of this Country after due Conviction of the Crime And in lieu of that Power which we have now renounced We do with all Sincerity and Purity of Heart Enter and List our selves under the Protection of the most
so to Adrianople where he arrived the 24th of November departing from Belgrade the 23d of October When he arrived first at Belgrade Marquis D'Orat who was with Teckely and the French said He was no Englishman but a German and came from the Emperor The Port had been sensible it was too great a Condescension to send their Ambassadors at Vienna which Point of Honour they thought regain'd by having one come to make Overtures to them and a particular Minister for that Business in their Hands whom perhaps they may not easily part with When Seignior Heemskirk was come to Adrianople he would have Visited the Chimacam who excus'd it the Grand Vizier not being arrived who came the 2d of December and a few Days after an Audience was desired of him which he put off as not having discoursed with the Grand Seignior A private Council was held Orders sent out to all parts for raising Men and to the Treasurer to give Money for providing Cannon Ammunition and all things necessary to be early in the Field The Stassaki-Aga was sent to the Tartar Han with Money to be distributed among them to meet the Grand Vizier with a considerable Force at Belgrade Seignior Heemskirk continued his Sollicitations all December and the beginning of January by his own Druggerman to the Vizier's Kiah and by Letters to Mauro Cordato and wrote a Complaining Letter to the Vizier of his being come hither for an Answer and after so long time and being come so far nothing was done To which he was answer'd by Word of Mouth never in Writing That my Lord Paget being come to Belgrade Lord Paget arrives at Adrianople and in his way hither it was thought fit in a Council to attend his Arrival to see if he brought no other Proposals for if they were the same one Answer would serve them both The sixth of January Seignior Colyer came to Adrianople against the Desire of Seignior Heemskirk who wrote to him not to come and at first there was great Coldness between them and Tyles was never employed by Seignior Heemskirk The last of January his Excellency my Lord Paget arrived he would have enter'd privately but the Vizier desired the contrary that it might not be thought the Port had wanted in their Respect to him and his Lordship was received with a great deal of Ceremony and Numerous Attendance of Chiauses and Janisaries His Audiences The 18th of February his Excellency had his first Audience of the Grand Vizier and gave him his Credentials one for his Residence the other for the Mediation The seventh of March his Lordship had his Audience of the Grand Seignior and was very kindly received He spoke his Complement which was Interpreted by Mauro Cordato and the Grand Seignior answered That His Majesty was a good Friend to the Port and all such should be ever kindly received by him The seventeenth of March his Excellency had a private Audience of the Vizier where was the Mufti His Lordship made the Offers of His Majesty's Mediation for a Peace or Truce between the Emperor and his Allies and the Port on the Foot of Uti possidetis only Caminieck to be restored or razed The Vizier said in a Business of so great Import he must consult the Heads of the Law and the Militia and an Answer shou'd be given The 14th ditto his Excellency Signior Heemskirk and Colyer were called to the Vizier to a Publick Audience where on the Safra sate the Vizier the Mufti and Cadelesker on his Left Hand on his Right the Chimacam Ismael Passa Janisar-Aga the Nisangi Passa and the Tefterdar and the three Ambassadors the two Generals on Stools below the Safra the Kiah-Beg and all the Heads and Ojacks of the Janisaries the two Generals chief of the Spahy's and chief of the Treasury in all near 100 Persons The Rais Effendi came into the middle of the Safra and read aloud Signior Heemskirk's Proposals which he owned This was done only to exasperate the Militia The Vizier said They must consider of them and give an Answer The 17th the Vizier was turned out and his Excellency finding the Vizier had his Design in Irritating the People by such Extravagant Demands went to the new Vizier Mufti Cadelesker and Janisar-Aga telling them these Proposals read were none of his which was only one plain Proposition on a Uti posseditis which His Majesty thinking equal was willing to interpose his Offices thereon if the Port thought fit out of real Friendship The Vizier said They would consider of it and give an Answer The Mufti said The coming of three Embassadors had rais'd great Expectations in the People and they could do no less than make known what Proposals had been made They were very well satisfied of His Majesty's Friendship The Cadelesker and Tefterdar said Without Restitution of the Morea there could be no Peace The Janisar-Aga who was come from Constantinople said he had seen the Proposals That God would humble the Pride of the Enemy and chastize it he hop'd this Year But his Excellency Lord Paget had vindicated himself clearly to all Ministers as his Proposal was but the other was sent over all the Empire to prepossess the People but Signior * * Interpreter Tyles had set all right in three Days It is observable when Signior Heemskirk had no Intimacy with Tyles he wrote to my Lord Paget in January and to the Emperor there was no hopes of Peace but when he came into a Familiarity with Tyles he was Illuminated and in March wrote His Majesty the Peace was in a fair way and he hoped to be himself the bringer of the News of it and yet now Tyles says to us in eight Months he has been here they have never done any thing and the Port will not have Peace nor were inclin'd to it Signior Heemskirk was much Embroil'd and pressed my Lord Paget much to sollicite the Vizier with Memorials but his Excellency had seen so ill Effects of his Writing that he thought it much better to seem Indifferent than Importune and to attend their Answer to his Proposal Extract of my Lord Paget's Letter to a Friend of the same Date with the preceding NOTWITHSTANDING all their seeming Reluctancies and high Words I am of Opinion the Turks may be perswaded to hearken to Peace especially if the Imperial Army do any thing to purpose this Summer The State here is shortly thus This present 7th of June N. S. the Janisar-Aga is not yet gone into the Camp nor will he go as I think this 10 Days About a Week after him the Grand Vizier goes and about a Fortnight after that the Army will begin to March It is not at present strong not of above 5 or 6000 Men but the Asiaticks and Tartars are to joyn them at Sofia How many they may be is very uncertainly reported the first however will not be Numerous they reckon upon 20000 Tartars that will be their greatest Strength
much known to the World either for Friends or Foes tho' they began now under the present Czar by the taking of Asac and some other Actions to make themselves known to the Turks and other Nations of the World It being now resolved on all sides to make the Peace the Mediators who were to manage the Treaty were nominated and appointed and the most proper Persons esteemed to be the Ambassadors from England and Holland both of which having never been Engaged in the War on any of the sides but had always been true and ancient Friends to the Port the Turks could have no Objections to alledge against either nor had the Christian Princes any cause to suspect the Faith and Friendship of two such Ambassadors whose Offices and Persons were acceptable to the Turks and not displeasing to the Christians The Names of these Ambassadors designed to this so Necessary and Most Honourable Employment were the Lord Paget Ambassador for William King of Great-Britain and the Heer Colyer Ambassador for the Lords the States of the United Provinces All Matters being now ripe for Action and a willing mind for Execution the Turks moved with their Camp on the 11th of June 1698. commanded by the Grand Vizier the Grand Seignior still remaining behind in his Tent and with them also moved the two Ambassadors with their Equipages And to put every thing into a good posture and a way of Dispatch the Lord Ambassador's Secretary was dispatched away a second time as he had been the first on the 10th of May for Vienna from whence he returned on the 5th of July to Sophia where on the same Day he there met with the Lord Ambassador Paget to whom he Communicated the good News of the Happy Inclinations of the Emperor and that Court towards the Peace But that no delay should be made therein the same Secretary was again dispatched away to hasten the Emperor's Ambassadors to the Place appointed and agreed upon for the Treaty and to procure and bring with him Passes and safe Conducts for the Turkish Plenipotentiaries who were the Reis Effendi Chief Chancellor or Secretary and Maurocordato who was the principal and first Interpreter to the Grand Seignior These two Persons together with the Lord Paget and the Dutch Ambassador set out from Sophia before the Camp on the 15th of July and on the 24th they had passed 10 Hours beyond Nissa and on the 31st they arrived happily at Belgrade The Ambassadors remained at this place for the space of two Months that is of August and September the which passed soon away in regard that the Expectations of Peace had so filled Mens Hearts that nothing was heard in all Places but the Voices of Peace and Joy in all their Quarters At length the Mouth of October being entered the Proclamation of Neutrality was first published at Peter Waradin to the great Pleasure and Satisfaction of all People both Christians and Turks and afterwards at Belgrade On the 9 19th of October the Lord Paget and the Dutch Ambassador left their Camp near the City raised on an Eminence where was a good Air and a good Prospect over the Countries round about and upon the same Day early in the Morning they passed the Save a River which runs from Bosnia and falls into the Danube at Belgrade where it loses its Name In passing this River this Order was observed First went an Allai-Bey or the Marshal of the Show with about 50 Horse Then 60 Chiauses on Horseback A Guard of Janisaries being about 330 Men all on Foot An Aga belonging to the Ambassadors with his own Servants and six Domestick Janisaries After which followed two Flags one with the English Coat of Arms and the other was a large Red Cross in a White Field Then followed the English Ambassador's 6 led Horses covered with very rich Furniture followed by the Gentleman of the Horse to my Lord Ambassador attended by a Giovane di Lingua or a young Druggerman or Interpreter Then came up the two Interpreters attending His Excellency the Lord Ambassador on each side of his Horse and they attended with two Heydukes in their own Country Habit and on both sides 10 Chiohadars or Servants who carry the Cloaks or Vests of the Great Men in White Vests with their Carbines on their Shoulders The Brother to the Lord Ambassador road afterwards with six Chiohadars Then followed the Secretary and Doctor with two English Gentlemen one from Aleppo and the other from Tripoli Also six Pages with the Lord Ambassador's Coach with a Turkish one which went before the Common Servants who marched all on Horseback two and two At their Passage over the Bridge of the Save which was lined with Janisaries three Guns were fired from the Castle and the Gallies Saicks and the Frigats as they passed fired eaâ—h a Gun About half the way to Semblin the Chiaus and others whom the Vizier had sent along with them made a Halt and having wished a good Journey to those whom they conducted returned back About an Hour after these Matters had passed the Dutch Ambassador followed and was used with the same Civility as those preceding The Emperor's Ambassadors because they sent Passports to the Turkish Ambassadors Signed by the Emperor's Hand desired to have others Signed by the Sultan But because it was considered that this exchange of Passports would take up a great deal of time the Mediators found out and agreed upon this Expedient That the Proclamation being made in both the Emperors Names no Passports should be delivered either from the Germans to the Turks or from the Turks to the Germans but that a Pleni-power should be given to the Midiators to grant Passports to People who were going up and down within the Limits of Neutrality agreed on both sides So the German Ambassadors resolved to go to Carlowitz within three Days time tho' their Wooden Houses were not arrived as yet The Mediators also agreed upon the same and to place themselves so that their Doors might be over against each other at a good distance whereby the Turks remained wholly on the Belgrade side and the Germans towards Peter Waradin The 11 21st the Venetian Ambassador arrived at Futack but the Muscovite Ambassador after their unthinking manner came directly the same Day to Peter Waradin without giving the Governour Notice of his coming by which Neglect of the Moscovite no Salutes were passed on him of which he complained to the Governour but that was easily answered by saying That he knew nothing of his coming down the River and therefore hoped to be excused In fine To Accommodate this Matter it was agreed That the Boats of the Moscovites should remove from the place where they first Landed and by a Signal given by the Ambassador's Trumpets the Guns should be fired which was done both from the Castle the Town and the Fleet. On the 15 25th of this Month of October the Turkish Ambassadors arrived at two Hours distance from the Tents of the
Envoy Resident or Agent shall at the Fulgid Port enjoy the same Privileges and Immunities which the Ambassadors or Agents of any other Princes there enjoy and to make a Distinction of the Prerogative of the Caesarean Dignity with the usual Marks of Preference They shall have liberty of Hiring their own Interpreters and their Messengers that come to the Fulgid Port or return from it to Vienna shall have free Passage going and coming with all convenient Favour and Assistance in their Journey XVIII This Peace tho' it now stands concluded upon the present Conditions yet it shall then only be esteem'd to have and to receive its full force of Obligation and Effect when all and singular Conditions stipulated and accepted on both sides as well concerning the Distinctions of the Borders as the Evacuations and Demolishments shall be fully executed in this manner after the Limits are settled then shall the Evacuations and Demolishments of Places follow and that all this may as soon as possible be put in practice Commissaries to settle these Distinctions shall on both sides be appointed who at the Equinoctial S.N. 22. S.V. 12 of March A.D. 1699. shall with a moderate and peaceable Attendance meet at Places to be determin'd by the Governors of the Confines and these Commissaries shall within two months or less if possible by manifest marks describ'd in the former Articles separate and set apart these Confines and shall with all exactness and expedition execute all other things that shall be Agreed by the Plenipotentiaries of both Empires XIX The Plenipotentiaries of both Empires do mutually Oblige themselves and Promise that these Conditions and Articles thus reduc'd into Form shall be mutually Ratify'd by the Majesty of each of the Emperors and that within 30 days or sooner from the time of Subscription the Ratifications shall in Solemn manner be mutually Exchang'd in the Confines by the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Plenipotentiary Mediators XX. This Truce shall continue and God willing extend to full 25 years to be reckon'd from the day of the Subscription after the Expiration of which Term or in the middle of it it shall be in the Power of either of the Parties that so shall think fit to prolong it to a greater number of Years Therefore what things soever are here establish'd by the mutual and free Consent of the Majesty of the most Serene and most Potent Emperor of the Romans on the one part and the Majesty of the most Serene and most Potent Ottoman Emperor on the other and their Heirs shall be Religiously and Inviolably observ'd thro' all their Empires and Kingdoms by Land and Sea through all their Cities and Towns and by all their Subjects and Dependants and it is likewise Agreed that it shall on both sides be strictly enjoyn'd to all Governours Commanders Captains Generals to all the Soldiery to all under their Protection to all in Subjection and Obedience under them that they take diligent Care to Conform themselves to all the above-mention'd Conditions Clauses Compacts and Articles that under what pretence or colour soever contrary to the Peace and Friendship thus establish'd the Subjects on either side do not offend or injure one another but abstaining from all sort of Enmity they are commanded to become good Neighbours to each other under the severest Penalties if after they are thus admonish'd they do not yield a ready Obedience The Tartar C ham likewise and all the Nations of the Tartars by whatsoever Names they are call'd stand engag'd to the Observance of this Peace Good Neighbourhood and Reconciliation nor shall it be permitted 'em in prejudice of these Agreements to commit any Hostilities in the Provinces or upon any of the Subjects or upon any under the Protection of his Caesarean Majesty Moreover if any one shall presume to Act contrary to these Sacred Imperial Capitulations Agreements or Articles whether he belongs to the Tartar Nations or to any other Forces by whatsoever Name call'd he shall be most rigorously punish'd This Peace Cessation and Security of the Subjects on both sides shall commence from the Date of this Subscription and thence all Enmities on both sides shall cease and be extinguish'd and the Subjects on both sides shall enjoy full Security and Tranquillity and for that end and in order all Hostilities may be carefully prevented Mandates and Edicts for publishing the Peace shall as soon as possible be sent to all Governours of the Confines but considering some time will be requisite that the Officers in the remoter Confines may have notice of this Peace 20 days are for this purpose appointed after which if any one on either side presume to commit any sort of Hostility he shall without Mercy suffer the Punishments before declar'd In the last place that these Conditions of Peace contain'd in 20 Articles and accepted of on both sides may with great and due respect be inviolably observ'd The Lords the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries by Virtue of an Imperial Faculty granted to 'em for that purpose have deliver'd to us an Authentick and 〈◊〉 Instrument writ and subscrib'd in the Turkish Language are likewise by Virtue of a Special Order and by our Plenipotentiary Power have on our part deliver'd these Writings of the Articles Sign'd and Subscrib'd by our proper Hands and Seals in the Latin Tongue as a True and Authentick Instrument This Treaty between the Emperor being thus finished and agreed the next thing was to appoint Commissaries to regulate the Limits between Croatia and Bosnia as was concluded by the Treaty of Peace at Carlovitz to appear upon the said Limits on the 14 24th of March following in order to which Affair his Imperial Majesty appointed Count Marsilii for his Commissary giving him Orders to depart from Vienna in a Weeks time But the Ratifications relating to the Articles of Peace concluded on both sides were sooner dispatched for the Grand Seignior's Ratification of the Treaty arrived at Belgrade the 9th of March N.S. 1699. of which Advice was given the same day to the Secretary of the Imperial Embassy who waited at Peter-Waradin with that of the Emperors that the Exchange might be made on the same Day the which was accordingly done COPIA INSTRUMENTI TURCICI CUM MOSCOVITA Hic est Deus maxime aperiens omnia Potentissimus Firmissimus In Nomine Dei misericordis semper miserentis CAusa exarationis hujus veritate praecellentis Scripti necessitas descriptionis hujus realitate insigniti Instrumenti haec est Incorruptibilis Domini Creatoris immortalis Opificis liberrimi arbitru Domini Dei cujus Gloria extollatur extra omnem similitudinem paritatem aeternarum confirmationum ubertatis concessione gratiâ honoratissimae Meccae lucidissimae Medinae Servi Sanctae Hierusalem aliorum Locorum benedictorum Defensoris Rectoris binarum Terratum Sultani Regis binorum Marium Dominatoris potentis Aegypti Abyssinarum Provinciarum ac Felicis Arabiae Adenensis Terrae Caesareae
altè memorati Poloniarum Regis Domini mei Clementissimi Successorum ejus Rempublicam Polonam ex altra parte Serenissimi Potentissimi Musulmannorum Imperatoris ejusdemque Haeredum ex voluntate Clementia Dei perpetua stabilis firma inconcussa permaneat conservata atque custodita sit ab omni turbatione mutatione confusione violatione uno eodemque tenore firmissimè perseveret constantissimè continuet ut omnes omnino hostilitates amoveantur atque sustollantur quà m citissimè notitia praebeatur in Confiniis Praefectis Gubernatoribus ut sibi caveant ne imposterum transgressiones fiant neve altera pars alteri damna inferat Verùm enimverò omnes utrinque sincerè amicè sese praestent juxta istam almam Pacem Ut autem omnibus cognita comperta sit istius almae Pacis Conclusio triginta dies pro termino ponantur post quem nullus praetextus nullaque excusatio acceptabitur sed in eos qui adversabuntur editis Edictis exactam obedientiam merentibus severissimè animadvertatur Post Subscriptionem autem Instrumentorum utriusque Partis Ablegatus priùs à Polonia missus ad Fulgidam Portam veniens juxta antiquam consuetudinem afferat Regias publicas Literas Ratificationem Pactorum Instrumentis declaratorum continentes atque Literas Imperatorias ratificatorias item accipiat deducat Postea verò ad solennem confirmationem Pactorum Pacis perfectionem reciprocae sinceritatis absolutam terminationem mutuae Amicitiae dispositionem ac digestionem reliquarum rerum juxta laudatum veterem morem adventurus Magnus Legatus quamprimùm commodè fieri poterit moveat ac proinde undecim numero Pactis conclusa juxta istas conclusiones alma Pax ab utraque Parte acceptetur atque colatur Cùm verò altè memorati Illustrissimi Excellentissimi Domini Excelsi Imperii Plenipotentiarii Commissarii existentes Legati vi suae Facultatis auctoritatis Turcico Sermone exaratum legitimum validum instrumentum tradiderint ego quoque vi Facultatis Deputationis meae propriâ manu subscriptas Sigillo sigillatas à me praesentes Pactorum Literas tanquam legitimum validum Instrumentum tradidi THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN The Most Serene and Most Potent King AND Republick of POLAND AND The Sublime OTTOMAN Empire Made at Carlovitz in Sirmium in a General Congress of the Confederate Plenipotentiaries In the Name of the most Holy and Individual Trinity TO the perpetual Memory of the Thing Be it known to all and every one whom it may Concern Whereas there has been a long War between the Kingdom of Poland and the Sublime Empire to stop the Effusion of humane Blood and with Desires of Restoring a mutual Quiet the most Serene and most Potent William III. King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the States General of the United Provinces in order to set on foot this Treaty of a happy Peace have interpos'd their Mediation all the Duties and Conditions of which Mediation have with great Study and Industry been perform'd by their Excellencies the Plenipotentiary Ambassadors to the Fulgid Port on the behalf of his Britannick Majesty by William Lord Pagett Baron de Beaudesert in the County of Stafford Lord Lieutenant of the said County and on the part of the States General by Lord Jacob Colyer which War through GOD's Blessing by Reciprocal Inclinations on both sides has been Compos'd and wholly Extinguish'd at Carlovitz on the Confines of Sirmium where according to the Designment of the Illustrious Mediation a Congress of the Plenipotentiary Ambassadors was appointed and Treaties of Articles of Peace begun with the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lord Mehmet Effendi Creat Chancellor of the Sublime Empire and the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lord Alexander Mauro Cordato of the Noble Family of Scarlati and Privy-Counsellor of the Sublime Empire Ambassadors Extraordinary for the Treaty of Peace and after some Sessions at length by the Divine Goodness this Business of a happy and desir'd Peace was Digested into Terms agreed on both sides and a most entire Friendship and Peace was Perfected and Concluded Restor'd and Renew'd between the most Serene and most Potent Emperor Sultan of the Musulmen Sultan Mustapha Son of Sultan Mehmet and the most Serene and most Potent King Augustus II. my most Noble Lord and the Republick of Poland which Peace is to be Religiously observ'd betwixt both Dominions and is Digested into Eleven Articles which follow one by one I. BY the Help and Blessing of God Hostility with the High Empire founded on Eternity having for some time ceas'd and now the Ancient Friendship Agreeable to the Nature of Reconciliation and good Neighbourhood reviving that all Acts of Hostility may be prevented and the Subjects enjoy their Ancient Security Quiet and Tranquillity the Ancient Limits shall be establish'd and restor'd to what they were before the two last Wars and the Confines of the Provinces subject to Poland shall by these Ancient Boundaries be separated and distinguish'd as well from the Imperial Confines of Moldavia as of those of all other Countries subject to the Sublime Empire nor shall there on either side be any Pretension or Extension made but the Ancient Limits without Change or Disturbance shall as Things Sacred be Religiously observ'd and maintain'd II. Whatsoever Fortifications or Places great or less which before the War before this lay within the Limits of Moldavia and have hitherto been in the Possession of Polish Masters the Polish Garrisons shall be withdrawn and they shall be Evacuated and the Province of Moldavia shall remain as free as ever and in the same peaceable State it was before the last War III. The Fortress likewise of Caminiec being before the two last Wars situated within the Ancient Limits towards Poland shall be Evacuated and the Musulman Garrison withdrawn and shall be entirely left Nor shall the Sublime Empire hereafter make any Pretensions upon the Provinces of Podolia and the Ukrain and the Deputy of the Ukrain Cossacks who goes by the Title of Hatmannus now residing in Moldavia shall be remov'd And considering the Ancient Limits of Poland and Moldavia are very plain if the Season permits the Evacuations on this side shall be begun by the beginning of the ensuing March and the Polish Troops shall be withdrawn out of Moldavia as soon as possible and the Fortifications and Places shall be Evacuated and Moldavia left free And at the same time from the beginning of March the Evacuation of Caminiec shall Commence and the Business of the Evacution shall without Hesitation Neglect or Delay be put in Execution as soon as it can be perform'd and the said Evacuation of this Fortress of Caminiec shall at farthest be compleated by the 25th of May and that the Evacuation of the said Fortress may be perform'd with Speed and Ease The Poles shall as much as possible in order to the Lading and
Sublime Empire or amongst the Tartars as long as these Men shall behave themselves peaceably they are by no means to be disturb'd either upon this very pretence that they make it their Business to deliver Captives or upon any other Account whatsoever nay those that do Disturb 'em or do 'em any Injury shall be punish'd Captives detain'd in publick Prisons shall on both sides be Releas'd by Exchange Farther the Great Embassy of Poland may present his Demands concerning Captives to the Imperial Throne X. As long as the most Serene King of Poland shall continue in this establish'd Peace with the Sublime Empire as is express'd in former Capitulations the Waywode of Moldavia shall continue to behave himself towards the Kings of Poland in the manner as was anciently us'd Let the Moldavians remain in Peace like the rest of the Subjects of the Sublime Empire and if any fly out of the Provinces of Moldavia or Walachia and take Refuge in Poland they shan't be receiv'd If any by more Subtle means slide themselves into the Polish Dominions and shall be afterwards found out to Disturb or Corrupt their own Country such sort of Men when demanded shall be surrendred up and this Agreement as it remains clearly and manifestly express'd in former Capitulations shall be observ'd The like Measures shall be us'd towards Polish Subjects whether they be Poles or Cossacks or of whatsoever Nation when they shall create any Disturbance they shall not be receiv'd nor protected on this part but shall be surrendred up And in general whosoever go about to Disturb this Peace and Friendship thus concluded shall be punish'd according to their Demerits XI All Conditions and Clauses describ'd and contain'd in former Capitulations so far as they are not opposite to the present Compacts nor contrary to the Independent and perpetual Rights of either Soveraignty shall hereafter be observ'd and maintain'd but those that are contrary shall by the Blessing of the most High God be utterly Abolish'd and Annihilated Which Peace and Agreement betwixt the Majesties of the most Serene and most Potent highly above-mention'd King of Poland my most Gracious Lord and his Successors and the Republick of Poland and on the other part of the most Serene and most Potent Emperor of the Mussulmen and of his Heirs as it stands concluded in these describ'd Articles in a more perfect and exact manner so by the Will and Goodness of God let it remain perpetual stable firm and unshaken and may it be preserv'd and kept from all Disturbance Change Confusion and Violation and so without any Interruption may it most firmly Persevere and most constantly Continue and that all Hostilities may be remov'd and taken away notice shall as soon as possible be given in the Confines to all Commanders and Governours that they take care to themselves that no Transgressions be committed and that neither side does Injury to the other but that in great Sincerity and Friendship all on each side Comport themselves as this happy Peace directs That the Conclusion of this happy Peace may become known and certain to all a term of Thirty days are appointed after which no Pretence nor Excuse shall be receiv'd but Edicts being issued requiring an exact Obedience whosoever shall do any thing contrary shall be most severely punish'd After the Subscription of the Instruments of Peace on both sides an Envoy sent from Poland and coming to the Fulgid Port according to Ancient Custom shall bring the Royal Publick Letters containing a Ratification of the Pacts declar'd in these Instruments and likewise shall receive and carry back with him the Imperial Letters of Ratification But after this in Order to a more solemn Confirmation of these Agreements and an absolute Completion of a mutual Friendship and for a more perfect Disposition and Digestion of all other Matters the great Embassy that according to Ancient Custom is to be sent shall as soon as possible set forward and therefore this happy Peace compris'd in Eleven Articles shall on each side be receiv'd and maintain'd Now in Consideration that the highly mention'd most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords Plenipotentiaries and Ambassadors Commissionated of the Sublime Empire have by Virtue of their full Powers and Authority deliver'd in due Form an Authentick Instrument of this Peace written in the Turkish Language I likewise by Virtue of full Powers and my Deputation have deliver'd the present Writing of the said Peace Subscrib'd with my proper Hand and Seal'd with my Seal as a Valid and Authentick Instrument TRATTATO DI PACE TRA L'Eccelso Imperio Ottomanno E LA Serenissima Republica di Venezia TRattato di Pace tra' l'Eccelso Imperio Ottomanno e la Serenissima Republica di Venezia conchiuso nel Congresso di Carlouiz nel Sirmio sotto le Tende alli 26 di Genaro 1699 essendovi Ambasciatori Plenipotenziarii del l'Eccelso Imperio gl'Illustrissimi Eccellentissimi Signori Mehemet Effendi Gran Cancelliere Alessandro Mauro Cordato e per la Serenissima Republica l'Illustrissimo Eccellentissimo Sig. Carlo Ruzini Cavalliere Mediatori gl'Illustrissimi Eccellentissimi Signori Gulielmo Paghet Ambasciatore di Sua Maestà Brittannica e Giacomo Colyer Ambasciatore degli Alti e Potenti Stati Generali delle Provincie Unite oltre gl'Illustrissimi Eccellentissimi Signori Ambasciatori Plenipotenziarii di Sua Maestà Cesarea e di Polonia c. I. LA Morea colle sue Citta Fortezze Castelli Terre Ville Monti Fiumi Laghi Boschi Porti ogni altra cosa che si ritrova dentro la Circonferenza della medesima ora possessa dalla Republica di Venezia resti pacificamente nel possesso e Dominio dell'istessa Republica tra'i suoi limiti del Mare e dell'Essamiglio ove sono li Vestiggi dell'antica muraglia così che nè dal canto di Morea si faccia veruna estensione nella Terra Ferma nè dal canto della Terra Ferma si faccia alcuna estensione oltre i Limiti della Morea II. La Terra ferma essendro nel possesso dell'Eccelso Imperio resta totalmente nel possesso e Dominio dell'istesso Imperio per appunto nello Stato che si trovava nel principio di questa ultima Guerra La Fortezza di Lepanto restarà evacuata dalla Republica di Venezia Il Castello detto di Rumelia nella parte di Lepanto si demolirà e si demolirà parimente la Fortezza di Prevesa e si lasciarà in quella parte la Terra ferma nel suo primiero intiero Stato III. L'Isola di Santa Maura colla sua Fortezza e Capo di Ponte detto Peracia senza veruna estensione maggiore in Terra ferma e l'Isola di Leucade attaccata à Santa Maura restaranno nel possesso e Dominio della Republica di Venezia IV. LEvacuazione di Lepanto e la Demolizione del Castello di Rumelia e di Prevesa si esseguiranno subito doppo la distinzione de'i Limiti in Dalmazia in questo
the Lords of the Privy Council so to Establish us in the Liberty of Religion to the Immortal Fame of Your Royal Government after the Example of Your Glorious Predecessors that being reliev'd We may speedily Return to our Principals and God will recompence this Imperial Royal Favour with all sort of Happines from above Deliver'd to His Sacred Majesty at Aix la Chapelle upon his going to Vienna the 24th day of April in the year 1689. Your most Sacred Majesty's most Humble and Faithful Subjects the Deputies of the Evangelicks in the Counties Cities Towns and Frontiers of Upper and Lower Hungary about the Business of their distressed Religion The First Article of the Peace of Vienna in the Year 1606. AS to the Business of Religion notwithstanding the former publick Constitutions and the last Article of the Year 1604 which was made without the Diet and the consent of the Subjects and therefore is annulled it is granted That according to his Imperial Majesty's former Resolution to which the Subjects refer themselves in their replying all and each State of the Kingdom of Hungary as well the Peers and Noblemen as the free Cities and the Privileged Towns belonging immediately to the Crown and all the Hungarian Soldiers in the Frontiers shall any where and at any time profess and exercise their Religion without any Disturbance either from His most Sacr'd Majesty or from any Person whatsoever a free exercise of Religion being hereby granted to all the said States of the Kingdom Provided always That the Roman Catholick Religion be not thereby prejudiced That the Roman Catholick Clergy Churches and Chappels remain free and unmolested and that what has been taken from them in these Troubles be restor'd The First Article made before the Coronation in the Year 1608. concerning Religion COncerning the first Article of the Treaty of Vienna it is resolv'd by the States and Orders of Hungary that the Exercises of Religion shall be left free not only to the Noblemen and to the Inhabitants of the free Cities but also to the Hungarian Soldiers in the Frontiers of the Kingdom of Hungary and to all the Farmers and Peasant that will freely accept the same nor shall any of 'em be disturbed in the free Exercise of Religion but to prevent any effect of hatr'd and dissension between Roman Catholicks and Protestants It is Order'd That each Party shall have a Superior or Surperintendant of his own Profession Although this last first Article of the Year 1608 was renew'd in 77th Article of the Year 1618 inserted in the General Constitutions of the Kingdom by Order of the Emperor Ferdinand the Second in the Year 1622 restor'd to his Force by the 22d Article of the Year 1625 by the 33d Article of the Year 1630 and by the 29th Article of the Year 1635 confirm'd in the 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14th Articles of the new Treaty of Peace made with George Ragoczy Prince of Transilvania in the Year 1648 Ratifyed both in the aforenamed Articles of 1649 and in the 10th Article of the Year 1649 and in the 18th Article of the Year 1655 made at Rakoczia and lastly confirm'd again and inserted in the Constitutions of the Kingdom by Order of Leopold the present Emperor in the Year 1659 yet notwithstanding all these the said Article remains without Force and the Exercise of the Protestant Religion is wholly exterminated against the Articles and the publick Constitutions of the Kingdom as well as against the Sacred Imperial Letters Patent And yet all this contributed little towards a Peace for the Results of this Diet concerned none but the good and quiet Men and such as were zealous for the Settlement and Peace of their Country Whilest Tekeli and others of that Spirit whose Minds were possess'd with virulent Malice and Ambition were plotting and contriving the means to set up their own Authority and give themselves into the Hands of the Turks rather than to the Power of their Sovereign Prince of whose natural Clemency thô they were well assur'd yet they suspected and fear'd his Councils which being chiefly influenced and directed by Jesuits and the Spirit of the Clergy could never be reconciled in any tollerable manner to the Protestant profession Tekeli besieges Kalo Thus whilest things were Negotiating in the Diet Tekeli besieg'd Kalo which surrendr'd at discretion with little or no resistance and Prince Apafi joyning with some Parties of the Malecontents laid Seige to Zatmar with an Army composed of Transilvanians Moldavians Turks and Malecontents of Hungary all which acted in four separate Bodies being well provided with Cannon and all sorts of Ammunition and Provisions so soon as Apafi had form'd his Siege he put forth a Manifest or Declaration which he caused to be privately stolen into the Town and there dispers'd signifying that out of Christian piety and compassion to the miserable state of that Kingdom Apafi's Declaration he had left his Country and Dwelling with no other intent than only to cause their Churches to be restor'd to them with a free Liberty of Conscience and Exercise of Religion and that their Estates which had been confiscated for the sake of their Religion and defence of their Rights and Privileges might be again restor'd to them To which he added many Solemn Protestations that he had no other end nor intention than the welfare and happiness of the Kingdom Farther also he said that he had a power sufficient for this Enterprise being well seconded by the Grand Seignior and acted by his Commission and that the Succession to the Principality was promised unto his Son to whom besides the Forces with him he had left a Guard of 20.000 Men. Having made thus much known to the Inhabitants of Zatmar he vigorously proceeded in the Siege Apafi invests Zatmar having received a Recruit of 8000 Men from the Pasha of Buda being a Detachment from 40.000 which were Encamp'd before the place whereof he was Governour And thô with these Forces the Town of Zatmar was taken yet Serini who Commanded the place retiring into the Castle or Citadel he so well defended the same that Apafi was forc'd to raise the Siege and march away burning several Towns The Siege raised and taking a Thousand Prisoners in his Retreat The raising of this Siege was variously interpreted and so ill taken by the Turks that Complaints were made thereof against Apafi at the Port. But it was no time now to make alterations or disturbances in Transilvania Towards the end of this year the Emperor being desirous to Crown the Empress at Oedembourg sent a Convoy of 500 Hussars 100 Heyduks The Empress Crowned Queen of Hungary and 500 Cuirassiers to fetch the Crown of St. Stephen from the Castle of Presburg where it is always lodg'd which being brought thither the Empress was Crown'd Queen of Hungary with great Solemnity And that this Ceremony might be performed with the more order and security a Cessation