Heg. 933 year. Solyman was yet in Hungary. The dif- J.C. 1527. tance of the mafter and the principal forces of the ftate favored the revolt; in less than two months the novator had affembled more than fifty thousand fighting-men, to whom pillage fupplied the place of pay, and perfuafion of discipline, Peri bafhaw, beglerbeg of Afia, vainly endeavoured to oppose these proceedings, with what afaps, or foldiers armed with arrows, he could gather together; these are the troops most numerous but leaft esteemed among the Turks. These enthusiasts, who beheld at the point of their fwords crowns for this life and for that which is to come, overthrew every thing that came in their way; they put to death all the cadis, imans, and ministers both of religion and justice. Peri ba fhaw, having been vanquished in a pitched battle, wrote to the emperor, that, if he did not put a stop. to this rebellion, he would not be answerable for the confequences. Ibrahim immediately paffed the ftraits with most of the forces that Solyman had brought back from Hungary; he marched as far as Cefarea, where the novator having had the affurance to wait for him, he was vanquished,. taken, and put to the cruelest tortures. As foon as he was dead, this fect was presently dispersed, all the towns returned to their obedience, and not one of those, who had fought under his standard, doubted of his being an impoftor when they had J.C. 1527. feen him overthrown contrary to the express prediction that he had made. Heg. $933. Quarrel between leppo. minated, Another religious quarrel having arifen at Atwo effen- leppo the fame year, the molla and the caliser his dis of A- vicar, exafperated against each other, formed How ter-, cabals in the town, and endeavoured each to procure partifans. The difference arofe from the interpretation of a verfe in the Alcoran, which the two parties explained differently, and probably neither understood. The principal inhabitants, fatigued with thefe difputes which threatened to become bloody, turned their arms against thofe who wanted to perfuade them to maffacre each other. Inftead of fighting family against family, as they wanted them to do, they furrounded the mofque, the theatre of the diffenfion, and murdered the molla and califer. Solyman, informed of this outrage, immediately ordered the neighbouring bafhaws to affemble their troops, and put all the inhabitants of Aleppo to the fword; but the grand vizier Ibrahim, just returned from his Afiatic expedition, reprefented to his master, how unjust it would be to punish one cruelty by another ftill greater, and to involve a multitude of innocent people in the chastisement of fome culpable ones: the fultan, naturally fanguinary, liftened however to thefe fage counfels. He revoked the order fo rafhly given, and had only the murderers punished. After this, the favor of Ibrahim increased to fuch a degree, 339 Heg. 933 a degree, that Solyman, who was no longer able J.C 1527to do without him, gave this minifter an apartment in the feraglio. Though all affairs paffed under the eyes of the emperor, this prince no longer faw any thing but by those of his grand vizier. J.C. 1528. gary. poli, way Tranfyl lected king party. Ibrahim foon prevailed on his mafter to re Heg. 934. commence the Hungarian war. The following Troubles was the occafion of it. After the defeat of Mo- in Hunhatz and the pillage exercised by the Turks in John Zathat kingdom, John Zapoli, waywode of Tranfyl- wode of vania, the fecret enemy of the unfortunate Lewis vania, is eII. and who had chofen rather to see him perifh, by one than to come to defend his country, appeared at the head of thirty thousand men, when the Turks had retired from thefe dominions in which there remained nothing more to pillage. John Zapoli, befides great poffeffions in Tranfylvania, had likewise many confiderable estates throughout the kingdom. For a long time paft, his anceftors and he had been heaping up treasures, and the fervices which he had had in his power to render all the nobility and gentry, had procured him a party in Hungary. Zapoli was at that time the only one who poffeffed riches in this unfortunare monarchy, and he knew how to employ them for his intereft.. The waywode of Tranfylvania fummoned in the plains of Racos, near Peft, all the nobility and gentry that had efcaped from the defeat of Mohatz; and, fcattering X x 2 J.C.1528. tering gold plentifully among thefe men, reduced Heg. 934. 1 to the most wretched indigence, he got himself Heg. 934. joined to all these rights his marriage with the J.C.1528. princefs Anne, fifter of the unfortunate king Lewis II.; that this prince, the brother of the powerful emperor Charles V. was alone capable of protecting Hungary and repairing its misfortunes. These complaints did not hinder Zapoli from being crowned at Albaregalis by the archbishop of Strigonia; but Battori, always Ferdinand pretending that the diet was illegal, protested is likewife a fecond time in quality of palatine of the king by kingdom, and fummoned another diet at Pref-another burg, where he affembled fome nobles, unanimously elected, for king of Hungary, dinand archduke of Auftria. * of Austria elected party. who The Turks Fer-gainst him declare a in favor of - Zapoli. Zapoli, who had had fufficient credit, courage, and money, to mount the throne, wanted all of them when they were requifite to maintain him thereon. He had never dreamed of fuch a powerful rival as the archduke of Austria. As foon as this prince was proclaimed, a great many of those who had elected Zapoli, and who ferved in his army, haftened to join the party of his adversary. On the news of Ferdinand's entering Hungary, at the head of a powerful army, John Zapoli, who already refided at Buda, not having been able to provifion that place, was obliged to abandon it. The chiefs of his party preffed him to march against his enemy, but he betook himself to flight 'till Ferdinand came up with him in the plains of Tockay; this prince defeated what remained of the |