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The General Description os Hungary.
come into the Castle3 asked the Governor ( as we were informed by a
Turk, that came unto us) what he meaned to have so little care of his
head, to deal with us after this manner ? who were not sent to him,
or to a Bass'a, or a Visier, but to the Sultan, and no doubt had a Pre-
sent sor him : whereupon we were soon dispatched.
This City os Gran, Strigonium or Oftrogon, is seated on the South-
side of the Danube near the Conssuence with the River Gran, divided
into the upper and lower, and both walled ; the lower Wall doth well
command the Danube. St. Thomas HillfwMi by the Town,is also walled,
because it commandeth the Town : There are in this place Natural
Baths of a moderate heat. This hath been the Metropolitan City of
Hungary, where St. Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungary,
was born; and King Stephen the third buried.
Scarce any place has sussered more strong and notable Sieges; be-
sieged in vain by John, King of Hungary, taken by Solyman, recover-
ed by Count Mans felt for Matthias, the Arch-Duke ; besieged again in
vain, but taken in the time os Sultan Achmet, by the mutinous bafe-
ness of the Christian Defendants, who (hutting up Count Dampier, the
Governor, delivered the place unto Aly-Beg the Turkijh General; but
after many years it was taken again by the Christians under the Duke
of Lorraine, in the year 1683. Over again sl Strigonium lieth Barchan ;
between these two places there is a Bridge of Boats.
From Strigonium we palled to Vicegrade or Fizzegrade.- The upper
Cattle of this place is seated upon a very high Rock, where the Crown
of Hungary hath been formerly kept: the lower Cattle hath been fair;
there is also a handsome Fabrick of square Stones, and Arches, the ruines
whereof do still remain : this place was retaken from the Turks by the
Forces of the Arch-Duke Matthias, in the time of Mahomet the Third,
but betrayed, and delivered up by the Treachery of the Heyducks in
the Reign of Sultan Achmet. Charles King of Naples, and sworn King
of Hungary, was wounded on the head by Forchatz; and being carried
into the Cattle, under pretence of laying a Platter on his head, was
strangled. This place yielded to the Duke of Lorraine, 1684. /
Over against Fizzegrade lieth Maroz, where there is a large Church;
and the place having voluntarily submitted unto the Turks, the Chri-
stians paying a small Tribute, lived under no great opprettlon. Be-
low this Town, the Danube divides, and makes a fair large Illand,
called St. Andrews Illand, still rowing down, by which we patted by
Virovichitz, a noted place for pleasant Vineyards and good Grapes, and
an old ruine of Stone,upon the (hoar os St. Andrews Isse,where the Turks
told us, there was formerly a Stone Bridge, we came to Facia, infor-
mer times a Bifhop See,which hath now two Mofches,^^. one Christian
Church without the Wall. This place was seized upon, sacked and
burnt by the Turks, 1541. but taken by the Emperors Forces, under
the Command of the Duke of Lorraine, in the Year 1684. after he
had overthrown the Turks in Battel near the Town, but was quitted
again at the latter end of the Autumn, there being a ridge of Hills near
it which over-look the Town, and render it not easie to be defended.
Here we changed our Convoy again, and patted unto Buda, the
Capital City, and Royal Seat of the Kings of Hungaria, and the rest-
dence of a Turkish Visier, who hath divers Bassas under him. It is a
large City, and of a pleasant situation; divided into the upper and
lower
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The General Description os Hungary.
come into the Castle3 asked the Governor ( as we were informed by a
Turk, that came unto us) what he meaned to have so little care of his
head, to deal with us after this manner ? who were not sent to him,
or to a Bass'a, or a Visier, but to the Sultan, and no doubt had a Pre-
sent sor him : whereupon we were soon dispatched.
This City os Gran, Strigonium or Oftrogon, is seated on the South-
side of the Danube near the Conssuence with the River Gran, divided
into the upper and lower, and both walled ; the lower Wall doth well
command the Danube. St. Thomas HillfwMi by the Town,is also walled,
because it commandeth the Town : There are in this place Natural
Baths of a moderate heat. This hath been the Metropolitan City of
Hungary, where St. Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungary,
was born; and King Stephen the third buried.
Scarce any place has sussered more strong and notable Sieges; be-
sieged in vain by John, King of Hungary, taken by Solyman, recover-
ed by Count Mans felt for Matthias, the Arch-Duke ; besieged again in
vain, but taken in the time os Sultan Achmet, by the mutinous bafe-
ness of the Christian Defendants, who (hutting up Count Dampier, the
Governor, delivered the place unto Aly-Beg the Turkijh General; but
after many years it was taken again by the Christians under the Duke
of Lorraine, in the year 1683. Over again sl Strigonium lieth Barchan ;
between these two places there is a Bridge of Boats.
From Strigonium we palled to Vicegrade or Fizzegrade.- The upper
Cattle of this place is seated upon a very high Rock, where the Crown
of Hungary hath been formerly kept: the lower Cattle hath been fair;
there is also a handsome Fabrick of square Stones, and Arches, the ruines
whereof do still remain : this place was retaken from the Turks by the
Forces of the Arch-Duke Matthias, in the time of Mahomet the Third,
but betrayed, and delivered up by the Treachery of the Heyducks in
the Reign of Sultan Achmet. Charles King of Naples, and sworn King
of Hungary, was wounded on the head by Forchatz; and being carried
into the Cattle, under pretence of laying a Platter on his head, was
strangled. This place yielded to the Duke of Lorraine, 1684. /
Over against Fizzegrade lieth Maroz, where there is a large Church;
and the place having voluntarily submitted unto the Turks, the Chri-
stians paying a small Tribute, lived under no great opprettlon. Be-
low this Town, the Danube divides, and makes a fair large Illand,
called St. Andrews Illand, still rowing down, by which we patted by
Virovichitz, a noted place for pleasant Vineyards and good Grapes, and
an old ruine of Stone,upon the (hoar os St. Andrews Isse,where the Turks
told us, there was formerly a Stone Bridge, we came to Facia, infor-
mer times a Bifhop See,which hath now two Mofches,^^. one Christian
Church without the Wall. This place was seized upon, sacked and
burnt by the Turks, 1541. but taken by the Emperors Forces, under
the Command of the Duke of Lorraine, in the Year 1684. after he
had overthrown the Turks in Battel near the Town, but was quitted
again at the latter end of the Autumn, there being a ridge of Hills near
it which over-look the Town, and render it not easie to be defended.
Here we changed our Convoy again, and patted unto Buda, the
Capital City, and Royal Seat of the Kings of Hungaria, and the rest-
dence of a Turkish Visier, who hath divers Bassas under him. It is a
large City, and of a pleasant situation; divided into the upper and
lower