"a plausible Reason of not exerting themselves, be"cause they were afraid his Inconftancy would ren"der all their Endeavours ineffectual. "The Emperor on his Part was no less embar"raffed, as he had but very little Money, a vigorous "War muft have annoyed him very much; and "therefore, finding the King of France made no ve ry great Efforts, he did not haften the fresh Supplies into Italy, for fear of raising the Attention of his Enemies. Befides, fince Fronfperg's Arrival "with By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq; faid Chapel. By this Time it ⚫ was fix of the Clock, being St. • Andrew's Day. Then we prepared for our Journey to the Court, where we attended his Majefty; the ⚫ next Day I was fent for to the King, conducted by Mafter Norris, where the King was in ⚫ his Knight-gown of Rochet• velvet furred with Sables, be-⚫fore whom I kneeled the Space of an Hour, during which Time his Majefty examined me of divers Particulars con" cerning my Lord Cardinal, wishing rather than 20,000l. that he had lived.* dy thereof, leaving it with my 'Lord in divers Bags, he delivered it to a certain Prieft fafely to be kept to his Ufe.Is this true? quoth the King. -Yea, quoth I, without doubt, the Priest will not deny it before me, for I was at the Delivery thereof, who hath gotten divers other rich Ornaments, which are not registered in the Book of my Lord's Inventory or other Writings, whereby any Man is able to charge him therewith but myself. Then faid the King, Let me alone for keeping this fecret between me and you'; howbeit, three can keep Counsel if two be away; and, if I knew my Cap was privy to my Counfel, I would caft it into the Fire, and burn it: And, for your Honefty and Truth, you shall be our • Sevant in our Chamber, as you • were with your Mafter. Therefore go your Ways to Sir John Gage, our Vice-chamberlain ; to whom we have spoken already, to admit you our Servant • in A poor Speech to make after fo great a Lofs: But you fee he is Soon busy after the 1500!. "with the German Troops, he thought himself "ftrong enough to keep the Dutchy of Milan, "which was then his chief Aim." This was the Difpofition of thefe Potentates at the Clofe of this Year. During the Courfe of thefe Affairs à Affairs of bloody War, between the Turkish Emperor Hungary. 1526. and Lewis, King of Hungary,t was carried on, whose Armies, on the 18th of August, engaged. The Ottomans confifted of 300,000 Men, The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL. in our Chamber; and then go to the Lord of Norfolk, and he fhall pay you your whole Year's Wages, which is 101.-Is it not fo? quoth the King. Yes, forfooth, and if it pleafe your Grace, quoth I. And withal faid the King, You shall receive a Reward of the Duke of but Norfolk. So I received 101. of the Duke for my Wages, and zol. for my Reward,and his Majefty gave me a Cart and fix Horfes, the beft that I could chufe out of my Lord's Horfes to carry my Goods, ⚫ and five Marks for my Charges homewards.* The END of CAVENDISH's Hiftory. *We think, if Cavendish had helped his Mafter's Creditors to the Money, pursuant to his Defire, it would have been rather more bonourable. + Hungary is one of the nobleft but most unfortunate Kingdoms next to Greece in Europe. On the North it is bounded by the Upper Poland and Red Ruffia, the Carpathian Mountains interpofing between them; on the Ealt by Tranfilvania, and Moldavia; on the Weft by Stiria, Auftria, and Moravia; and on the South by Sclavonia and Servia. Baudrand, including Sclavonia, bounds it on the South with Croatia, Bofnia, and Servia. It extends in Length, from Prefbourgh, along the Danube, to the Borders of Tranfilvania, for the Space of 300 English Miles, 190 in Breadth: It takes in all that Tract of Land that was heretofore poffeffed by the Jazyges Metanafta, a Samaritan People; and Part of Panonia Superior and Inferior. It is exceeding fruitful, yielding Corn and Grafs in abundance; and abounds fo with Cattle, that it is thought they have fufficient alone to ferve all Europe with Flefh, and they certainly fend yearly into Germany 80,000 Oxen. They have Deer, Partridges and Pheasants in fuch Plenty, that any Body that can maykill them. They have Mines of Gold, Silver, Tin, Lead but the Hungarians did not exceed 20,000. The Action was fatal to Lewis, who not only loft the Day, but was himself, in endeavouring to fave his Life, drowned in a Morafs. By his Defeat and Death most Part of Hungary was loft, with the Lives of 200,000 of the Natives, who were cut off by the Turks in many Engagements afterwards. Lewis was born Lead, Iron, and Copper; Store of River or Fresh-water Fish; and Wines equal in Goodness to thofe of Candia: The principal Cities are Buda or Offen, Prefbugrh, Aleba Regalis, and Cafchar.. The Hungarians are a Tribe of the Scythians, or Tartars, who in the Times of Arnulphus, Emperor of Germany, poffeffed themfelves of Tranfilvania, and the Upper Hungary, under Lewis the IVth, Succeffor to Arnulphus; having paffed the Danube, wafted all Germany, Italy, Greece, Sclavonia, and Dacia; till, broken by the Forces of Germany, and their Savageness taken off by the Chriftian Religion, they were first taught, under King Stephen, about the Year 1016, by Albert, Archbishop of Prague, to be more quiet and civilized. This Stephen began his Reign in the Year 1000, and, in 23 Defcents, this Race continued to 1302; when Charles Martel, Son of Charles, King of Naples, and Mary, Daughter of Stephen the IVth King of Hungary, partly by Election, and partly by Inheritance and Conqueft, fucceeded to this Crown. To him fucceeded Lewis, his Nephew, in 1343: Charles the IId, another of his Defcendants, in 1383; Sigifmund, Emperor, and K of Bobemia, in the Right of Mary his Wife, eldest Daughter of Lewis, in 1387: Albert of Auftria, in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of Sigifmund, in 1438: Uladiflaus, Son of Albert and Elizabeth, in 1444; Mathias Corvinus, Son of Johannes Huniades, by Election, in 1458; Uladislaus the IId, Son of Cafimir the IVth, King of Poland, and Elizabeth, Daughter of Albert, in 1491; Lewis the IId, flain in the Battle of Mohatz, fucceeded in 1517; and in the Year 1526, Lewis John Sepufin, Waywood of Tranfilvania, was chofen: This Prince was ousted for a Time by Ferdinand, Brother to the Emperor Charles the Vth, but was restored by Solyman the Turk, who died in 1540. The People thereupon crowned Stephen, his Son, an Infant in the Cradle; but Salyman feized no less than 23 Counties at once, under Pretence of defending them against Ferdinand of Auftria, who took remaining 32: So that they fhared his whole Kingdom between them, which ever fince has been wretched enough, being moftly the Seat of War between the Auftrian and Ottoman Empires. It has two Archbishops Sees, Gran (Strigonium) and Golocza, and 13 Bishopricks; fix under the firit, and feven under the latter. born without a Skin, had a Beard at fifteen Years of Age, at eighteen his Hair was grey, and was drowned in his twentieth. The Death of this Prince was a fresh Source of Calamities for Hungary: Ferdinand of Auftria, the Emperor's Brother, who had married Lewis's Sifter Ann, made Pretenfions to the Crown of that Kingdom, and had for his Competitor John de Zapol Waywood, of Tranfilvania; and they were both elected by two different Parties: But John put himself under the Protection of the Turks, who caufed him to be crowned at Buda; while Ferdinand, fupported by his Brother, Charles the Vth, was taking Measures to profecute his Pretenfions; and fuch was the Situation of Affairs in that Part of the World at this Period of Time. Affairs of Scotland. 1526. In the Course of this Year the Faction, that had efpoufed the Queen's Intereft with the Earls of Arran and Hamilton, at tempted to take away the King's Perfon from the Earl of Angus; but, they mifcarrying, the Earl refolved to be revenged on thofe concerned, and as Sir Walter Scot was at this Time at the Head of a large Body of Forces, which he had raised, the Earl fent an Herald with Threats, "That, if he "did not retire, he fhould delare him a Traitor." Sir Walter,* (who was Laird of Buccleugh) nothing daunted *This Gentleman's Family was both antient and noble, having highly diftinguifhed themfelves in the Cause of their Country for many Generations; and in Procefs of Time Sir Walter Scot, one of his Defcendents, was advanced to the Title of Lord Scot, of Buccleugh, on the 16th of March, 1619; afterwards Walter, his Son, was created Earl of Buccleugh; and, on the 20th of April, 1673, upon Failure of Iffue Male the Lady Ann Scot became the Heirefs of the Family, who was by King Charles the IId created Dutchess of Buccleugh; and the married the then Duke of Monmouth. This Dutchefs was esteemed not only the greatest Fortune in Scotland, but the most accomplished Lady in the |
