Aehmat, 5 p # Emperour of the Turfy

864 Achmat, eighth Emferow of the Turfy.
1605
Great
Towns taken
and
rifled by
the Rebels
vxHungary.
The/Krf*
duel's and
Turfy o-
verthrown
at Freiburg
by the
WaBtns.
Vclprimm
yielded
time the
Rebels.
Si'rriit and
Aufiria
(boiled by
the Rebels.
But to proceed with thcfc Troubles according
to the courfe of the time of the Year, about the
twenty fourth of May the Turks and Tartars joy n-
ing their forces with the Rebels, burnt fourteen ,
Country Villages about the lake of Neuifdier, and I
as many more 10 other Places alfo towards Neuftat,
leaving behind them mod lamentable Remembrances
and Teftimonics of their barbarous and I
inhumane Cruelty, having put moft of the Women
and .Children to the Sword, and impaled divers
upon Stakes, carrying the Men away with
them as Captives, and the Beads and Cattel as a
Prey ; and fo leaving the Country as they went
almoft dcfolate, fcarcc any being therein left to
bewail the Miferies thereof. And about the end
of this fame Month the Rebels furprifed Simegai
Grotta, and Caperaacum, and a little while after,
Ginfium: all which Places they rifled and fpoifed,
as they did alfo Hogengoa, a great Town or the
Lord Licbtenjhim: and Niderfprunga, a Town of
CoUonitzes, which they firft rifled, and afterward
burnt 5 and with the terror of this their dealing inforced
all the Country thereabout, both far and
near, to yield unto tfaem^ only Altfiland Chremnicz,
who continued in their Loyalty, and Handing
fad for the Empcrour, did the Rebels much
harm.
About the beginning of June, certain Companies
oiturks and'Haiducks mingled together., came
again, as they had before done, to fresburg: of
whofe coming the Governour of the City -having
Advertifement, with three Troops of Wallon
•Horfc-mcn, and certain Companies of Harquebufiers,
breaking out of the City, caufed them forthrwith
to retire; which the Wafon Horfe-men feeing,
to prevent them in their Retreat, fetching a
Compafs about, met with them when they thought
themfelves pad all danger; and falling upomthem,
flew of them five hundred, and drave the reft into
Danubitu; (b that of all thofe Turks and Haiducks
none efcaped but only fourteen, amongft whom
three Turks and one fugitive Citizen oj Tresburg,\
were found: whom, together with a great Spoil,
the Garrifon Souldiers carried back with them into
the City-
At the felf-fame time the Citizens alVefprin'mm
favouring the Proceedings of the Haiducks, rofe
themfelves in Rebellion alfo, and taking the Capfain
of the Cattle, together with his Lieutenant and
the Keys of the Caftle, caufed them to be carried
to Redeim, Botfcafs Lieutenant ; yielding themfelves
into his Protection. Of which Revolt of
the City the Turks took exceeding Pleafurc, and
forthwith fent News thereof unto the Sultan, wi(hing
him to hafle the coming of his Army, for that
the Paflages were now laid open unto his farther
Conqueft j and farther advifing him ftill more and
more to encourage Botfcay in his Rebellion.
And now was Hungary too little, or elfe too
bare, to contain and fatisfie the {fill increafing Rebels,
who in great number breaking, into Stiria (as
tHey had before done on the other fide of Hungary
into Moravia) did therein great harm, waiting and
fpoiling all before them as they went; infomuch
that County Serin, the Lord Nadafii, and Budian,
all-right worthy men, and fuch as heretofore had
done great things againft the Turks for the Chriftian
Commonweal, feeing themfelves, and all
that they had, in danger to be fpoiled, being themfelves
not able to withftand the Rebels, nor any
other flay whereon to reft, fubmitted themfelves
unto Botfcay, as did many other Noblemen of that
Country alfo. Out of Stiria the Rebels made head
into Anuria, and there roaming up and down the
Country, did like harm.
Thus was the State of Auffri* and Hungary at
cmsume moft mifcrable, which for that it is fo well
|et down in certain Letters by a grav|lSMSS
(landing Citizen of Vienna, who was himfelf an
ye-witnefs of moft part thereof, as that it cannot
well better be exprefied; J have thought it good
to rcferr the Report thereof unto the Letters thern-
(elves.
ALL Auftria (faith be) is full of Mifery and
Calamity. Prom out of the Caftle and
Bulwarks here at Vienna, a man may foraetime
at once behold fifteen Towns and Villages all on
andAKfl.ru
fire in the Country hereabout, kindled partly by notably de»
the Rebels and Turks, and partly by our own fcribeaby
mutinous Souldiers. Odenburg is yet befieged. and *he Letter!
the Haiducks have forraged the Country as far as of a Citizen
of V\-
Hinberg\ whom bad not the Regiment of CoBo-timamite
reprefled, thefe our Suburbs of Vienna had
now been taken, ranfack'd, and burn'd. Neuftat
is on every fide befieged by the Enemy 5 all the
Villages about Vienna, as far as Drefskirc. are
with rite deftroyed; they of Newjiat went about
to have cut off loriie part of the Enemies Forces,
but with evil Succefs, having loft above fifty of
their own men. Brunna and Entsundorfe are alfo
with Fire confumed. The Wuttons lye incamped
at Miedling, moft miferably fpoiling the Country
People of all that they had: The Haiducks having
by night furprifed the t great Town of Al~
tenburg, and from thence carrying a great Prey,
have burn'd it; The Caftle had endured the like
fortune, had not an hundred Harquebufiers,that
were by chance come thither, holpen to defend
kg > Six thoufand of the Enemies lye about Vejfelbourg;
but whether the WaQons will attempt any
thing againft them or no, it is greatly doubted.
Presburg is alfo in great danger; for the Garrifon
Souldiers there do threaten the cruel Spoil of
the Citizens* and all Extremities, #by a certain
Day they receive not their Pay; who if they
(hall depart thence, there is no doubt but that the
HaiducluyriW forthwith fucceed them in their
Places. Thefe men indeed do pretend Religion;
but what Lovers they be thereof, the late Example
of a Minifter by them moft cruelly tormented,
not far from Gebbelfdorfe, doth manifeftly
(hew. The Report is^ That the Vayvod of Valachia
doth favour neither part; into which Province
a great number of Tartars are come in the
Aid of Botjcay. All the Market-Places and Streets
here in this City, lye full of poor fugitive Creatures
of all Sex and Ages; a mod mifcrable Sight
to behold* Our own mutinous Souldiers baec
all the ways to the City, and exclude us from all
manner or Victual; and not to ufe many words,
in Cruelty and Hoftility almoft exceed the very
Enemies. The Hungarian Rebels, who of late
forraged Aufiria, have carried away with them
above eight thoufand Head of Cattef, which, together
with the Prifoners by them taken, they
have fent into Turkey- The little Boys and Children,
which cannot by rcafon or their tender
Years go, they carry along with them upon Horfes,
whofe pittiful Mourning and Lamentation
might move even the very Stones ; and yet arc
they (inhumane men ) no whit moved : yea,
many of thefe poor Souls are here and there by
the way found dafhed againft the Ground, with
their Brains beaten out. And thefe Rebels in their
Behaviour (hew fuch Cruelty, as whereat the very
Turks themfelves were amazed. All things
about lfenjUd are by the Enemies taken and carried
away. They of Neuhufe, befieged by thirty
thoufand of their Enemies, have hitherto played
the Men, and of late repulfed the fecond Aflaulr,
with much (laughter of their Enemies. They
fay, That two thoufand Tartars, as many Rebels,
and thirteen thoufand Turks, are to be yet
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loby
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troubles
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