Aehmat, 5 p # Emperour of the Turfy

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1606
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Sifffiftmtd
JRagotfie
choftn
Prince of
Tranfilvavia,
afterward
yicldech
up
the fame
Principality
again.
Tfewhufe
again delivered
unto
the Emperour.
Achmat, eighth Emferour of the Twt\.
be in fuch a cafe do but as he did ? to accept
of a reafonablc Peace whilft he might have
it j efpecially againft fuch an Enemy, as whofc
whole Power being turned againft him, might
have eafily endangered his whole Eftate. For it is
not reasonably to be thought, how the Eroperour
lhould of'hirnfelf, without the great Aid of the o-
rher Chriftian Princes, his Friends and Allies, be
able to withftand the huge and dreadful Power of
the Otboman Emperour; as (without ominous
Prefage be it fpoken ) it is to be feared it will too
true appear, whenfoever his Wars and Troubles
in the Eaft being ended, he fhall again turn his
Forces this way toward the Weft.
Now Botfcaywas nofooner dead, but that fome
others of the Nobility, both of Hungary and Iranfilvania
( happily no Ie£s ambitious than was he )
began by divers means to feck after and to afpire
to that Principality. Of whom, though fome,eitner
with the weakoefs of their own means,or with
the threats of Matthias the Archduke, deterred,
ceafed farther |o feek after it $ yet were there fome
others, who better fupportcd, and nothing afraid
of the Arch-^uJcCsi great Words, laboured under
hand to have obtained it. For the crofting of
whom, and the avoiding of farmer Troubles to
be railed by thefe ambitious Competitors, certain
of the Nobility of Tranfth/ania gathered together
at Claudi.wop/e^ the Twelfth of February made
choice of Sigifnund Ragotfie for their Govetnour,
and their Prince of Tranfilvama, and the more to
affure him of their love and affection towards him,
bound themfelves unto him by the Oacfi of their
AUegeancc folemnly taken in. the chief Church
'there, ,$nd afterward fent Meftengers to the
Archduke Matthias at Vienna , to certifie him
what they had done, and to eXcufe, themfelves'
thereof; who coming to Presburg the Twelftji.pf
March, there openly protefted this Election of Ragotfte
for their Prince to have been made, not for
that,they were about to rebel, or to revolt from
theEmperour, whom they would always acknowledge
for their Sovereign Lord ; but for that their
neceffity fo required, many of the Nobility both
of Tranjilvania and of Hungary gaping after this
Principality, aricl going about for the obtaining
thereof, to,raife newftirs and troubles. Howbeit,
the fame Ragotfie, afterward doubting not to be
able, without great trouble and danger, befides
the Emperours difpleafure, to hold the fame Principality^of
his own accord, about a year after, gave
the fame up again, and got h imfclf out of the way
. to Sarentum, who was no fooner gone, but that
Gabriel Batbar was about to have ftept into his
Place; unto whom the States of 'tranfilvama fent
word by, two of the Noblemen, That the free Election
of the Prince belonged to them, and that
therefore he lhould not feck by force to intrude
himfelf into the Principality, but quietly to come
unto the Election, and not to bting with him a-
bove a thoufand Horfe-men, and five hundred
Foot.;
About-this time, the ftrong-Town of Newbufe
(othcrwife called Newheufet) the laft year fo hardly
won by the Hungarian Rebels was again delivered
to Sigefrid Colionitz % £ot the Emperour 5 who,
flionly after coming to Vienna* brought news of a
great number of the Turks to have rifen up in Rebellion
at Belgrade, to have rifled the Town, and
to have burnt another Town, called Ahfchria,
down to the ground, and fo with a great Prey to
be gone over to the Rebels; and alfo Redeius, Botfeays
Lieutenant, in going to take Poffeffion of cer-
: tain Lands given him by Botfiay, t« have been by
his own Tenants, lying in wait for him upon a
.ftraitPaflage,flain.
, Amongft the Articles of the Peace before concluded
betwixt the Emperour and the Great Sultan,
one was for the mutual fending of PreTents one
of them unto another 5, with which Prefects, when
as the Ambaflador, by the Emperour appointed
for the carriage of the fame to Constantinople, from
day to day deferred to let forward, the Turks and
Tartars began to doubt, or elfe feemed to doubt, of
the good meaning of the Chriftians, for the obferving
of the aforeiaid Peace; and thereupon began
again not only to roam abroad into the Territories
of the Chriftians, but alfo caufed the Pledges
left at Buda for the obferying of the Peace, to be
hardly bandied and clapt fait in Prifon ; whom,
whenas the Bafla of Buda flionlyafter fuffered again
a little to walk abroad, the proud Janifaries were
therewith fo much oftLndcd,that riling in a Tumult,
they had almoftflain the Bafla with Stones, heaping
upon him many reproachful Words, and unto
-his Face calling him Traytor and betrayer of his
Prince and Country, one of which Pledges they
gricvoufly wounded alfo. Which their Infolency
the Bafla in fome fort tochaflife, and to deter them
from doing the like again, caufed certain of them
the Night following to be lecrctly taken, and being
bound, to be fo call into the River otpanubU
us. And yet fhortjy after, they pur poling to make
a Road upon the Chriftians, to colour fuch harms
as they lhould therein do, and to lay all the blame
thereof upon the Chriftians, and to excufe themfelves.
they procured the Baffa to write unto the
Archduke Mattbits, of great wrongs done unto the
Turks by the Chriftians, whenas there was no fuch
thing at all; the effect ot which Letters were, That
whereas it was in the Articles of Peace (ct down
and agreed, that both Parties (hould abft&in from
Roads and Incurflons of each others CountrleSjyet
that the Chriftians for all that had above an hundred
times fince the conclufion of the Peace, made
Roads into divers Territories of the Turks, and
flain many of them; but efpecially them of Leaven
and Serf chin, who (as they laid ) had flain divers
Tnrkifh Merchants oiPefih, and taken from them
great fums of Money, as they had alfo taken
from them of Pot fen a hundred and twenty florfes,
with divers other Cat t el. Befides that, there were
(as belaid.) four Turks more by the Chriftians
flain, near unto Canifia, and eight and twenty
more taken Prifoners5 and that in the mid-way
betwixt Hainan and Buda five and twenty Turks
more were flain, and their Horfes,with all mat they
had befide carried away. Which things, for that
they tended to the breach of the Peace, he could
not (as he laid J but advertife his Highnefs of, for
that he thought the Chriftian Captains upon the
borders of their Territories to be men .that hated
Peace, and to feek by their Excurfions, as heretofore
they had done, fo now likewiic alfo, to difturb
this good Work begun, and by all means to
increafc their own private Profit. And that therefore,
feeing that he and the Turk? on their part
wifhed not to attempt or go about any thing contrary
to the Articles of the Peace, that fo likewife
the Chriftians lhould contain themfelves within
their own bounds, and with all (peed by Letters
to give him to underltand whether they would
keep the Peace or not. : i
The Great Sultan (as is aforefaid) having
made Peace with the Chriftian Emperour, ana
now purpoiing to mm all his Forces againft his
Rebels in //fa, and the Per fun King, (as we have
oftentimes faidj) and defirous to appcafe thole
his Troubles at home, before he had farther to do
with the Per fun, he fent a Meflenger unto the Baffa
of Aleppo, to lay down Arms, and to deliver
over his charge unto another, to whom he had appointed
The Janizariesia
Mutiny a-
gamft the
Bafla of
Budtu
The effect
of the Let*
ten of the'
BafliofBH-