rians and Vladislaus the Duke,MarginaliaElizabeth Queene of Hungarie, brought to bedde of a man childe. in the meane space Elizabeth brought forth a sonne called Ladislaus,MarginaliaLadislaus prince of Hungarie borne. who beyng the lawfull heyre of the kingdome, the Queene calleth backe agayne her former word, myndyng to reserue the kyngdome for her sonne, beyng the true heyre therof, and therfore refuseth mariage with the sayd Vladislaus, which she had before pretended.MarginaliaDiuision & discorde in Hungarie. But Vladislaus ioynyng with a great part of the Hungarians, persistyng still in the condition before graunted, would not geue ouer: by reason wherof, great cōtention and diuision kindlyng among the people of Hungary,MarginaliaThe Turke warreth agaynst Hungarie. Amurathes the great Turke, takyng his aduauntage of their discorde, and partly surpressed with pride of his former successe agaynst Sigismund aforesayd, w^t his whole maine and force, inuaded the Realme of Hungary:MarginaliaHuniades Vaiuoda. Where Huniades surnamed Vaiuoda, Prince of Transiluania, ioynyng with the new K. Vladislaus, did both together set agaynst the Turke. an. 1444.MarginaliaVladislaus K. of Hungary, slayne in warre. and there Vladislaus the new king of Hungary, the. iiij. yeare of his kyngdome, was slayne. Elizabeth with her sonne, was fled in the meane while, to Fridericke the Emperour. Of Huniades Vaiuoda the noble Captaine, & of his Actes and also of Ladislaus (Christ willyng) more shalbe sayd hereafter, in his tyme and place.

MarginaliaFridericus 3. Emperor.AFter the deceasse of Albert, succeded in þ^e Empire Fridericus iij. Duke of Austria. an. 1440. By whom it was procured (as we haue before signified) that Pope Fœlix elected by the Councell of Basill, did resigne his Popedome, to Pope Nicolas v. vpon this condition, that the sayd Pope Nicolas should ratifie the Actes decreed in the sayd Councell of Basill. In the dayes of this Emperour, much warre and dissension raged almost through all Christen Realmes, in Austria, Hūngaria, Polonia, in Fraunce, in Burgoyne, & also here in Englād, betwene kyng Henry 6. and kyng Edward the 4. as ye haue already heard: Whereby it had bene easie for the Turke, with litle maistry, to haue ouerrunne all the Christen Realmes in Europe, had not the prouidēce of our mercyfull Lord otherwise prouided to keepe Amurates the Turke occupyed in other ciuill warres at home in the meane while. Vnto this Fridericke came Elizabeth (as is aforesayd) w^t Ladislaus her sonne: by whom he was nourished & enterteined a certaine space, till at lēgth,MarginaliaVladislaus K. of Hungary slayne in battaile by the Turke. after þ^e death of Vladislaus aforesayd, kyng of Vngarie (whiche was slayne in battayle by the Turkes) the mē of Austria, through the instigation of Vlricus Eizingerus, and of Vlricus earle of Cilicia rising vp in armour, required of Fridericke the Emperour, either to geue thē their young king, or els to stand to his owne defence.

When Fridericke heard this, neither would hee render to them a sodayne answear, neither would they abyde any longer delay: and so the matter growyng to warre, the new Citie was besieged, where many were slayne, and much harme done. At length the Emperours part beyng the weaker, the Emperour through the interuention of certaine Nobles of Germanie, restored Ladislaus vnto their handes. Who beyng yet vnder age, committed his iij. kyngdomes to three gouernours.MarginaliaIoh. Huniades, gouernour of Hūgarye vnder the kyng. Whereof Iohn Huniades the worthy Captaine, aboue mentioned, had the rulyng of Vngarie:MarginaliaGeorge Pogiebracius gouernour of Boheme. George Pogiebracius had Boheme: andMarginaliaVlricus gouernour of Austria. Vlricus the Earle of Cilicia had Austria. Which Vlrice hauyng the chief custody of the kyng, bare the greatest authoritie aboue the rest, a man as much full of ambition and tyranny, as he was hated almost of all the Austrians, and shortly after by the meanes of Eizingerus was excluded also from the king and the Court, but afterward restored agayne, and Eizingerus thrust out. Such is the vnstable condition of them which be next in place about Princes. But this contention betwene them, I ouerpasse.

MarginaliaLadislaus a young popishe king. Not long after, Ladislaus the young kyng went to Boheme, there to be crowned) where George Pogiebracius, (as is sayd) had the goueruaunce.MarginaliaLadislaus could not abide the doctrine of Hus But Ladislaus duryng all the tyme of his beyng there, though beyng much requested, yet would neither enter into the Churches, nor heare the seruice of them, which dyd draw after the doctrine of Hus. In somuch that when a certaine Priest in the hygh tower of Prage, was appointed & addressed, after the maner of Priestes, to say seruice before the kyng, beyng knowē to hold with Iohn Hus and Rochezana, the kyng disdaynyng at him, commaunded hym to geue place and depart, or elles he would send hym downe headlong from the rocke of the Tower: and so the good minister repulsed by the kyng, departed. Also an other tyme the sayd Ladislaus, seyng the Sacrament caryed by a minister of that side, whom they called then Hussites, would do thereunto no reuerence. Ex Æne. Syluio.

At length the long abode of the kyng, although it was not very long, yet seemed to the godly disposed to be longer then they wished: and that was not to the kyng vnknowē, which made hym to make the more hast away. But before he departed, he thought first to visite the noble Citie Vratislauia in Schlesia. In the which Citie, the foresayd king Ladislaus beyng there in the high Church, at seruice many great princes were about hym: Among whom was also George Pogiebracius, who then stoode nearest to the king,MarginaliaChilianus a Parasite about king Ladislaus. vnto whom one Chilianus, playing the Parasite about the kyng (as the fashion is of such as fayne themselues fooles, to make other men as very fooles as they) spake in thys wise as foloweth:MarginaliaThe wordes of a Popishe parasite to Pogiebracius With what countenaunce you do beholde this our seruice, I see right well, but your hart I do not see. Say then, doth not the order of this our religion seeme vnto you decent and comely? Do you not see how many and how great princes, yea the kyng hymselfe, do folow one order and vniformitie? And why doe you then folow rather your preacher Rochezana then these? Do you thinke a fewe Bohemians to be more wise then all the Church of Christ besides? Why then do you not forsake that rude and rusticall people, and ioyne to these nobles, as you are a noble man your selfe,

Vnto whom, thus Pogiebracius sagely agayne doth aunswere.MarginaliaAn answere proceeding of a heauenly wisedome. If you spake these wordes of your selfe, sayth he, you are not the man whom you fayne your selfe to be: and so to you I aunswere, as not to a foole. But if you speake this by the suggestion of others, then must I satisfie them. Heare therefore. As touching the ceremonies of the Church, euery man hath a conscience of his owne to folow. As for vs, we vse such ceremonies, as we trust doe please God: Neither is it in our arbitremēt to beleue what we will our selues. The mynde of man being perswaded wyth great reasons, is captiued, will he, nill he: and as nature is instructed and taught, so is she drawne, in some one way, and in some an other. As for me selfe, I am fully perswaded in the religion of my preachers. If I should folow thy religion, I might perchaunce deceiue men, goyng contrary to myne owne conscience, but I can not deceiue God, who seeth the hartes of all: Neither shall it become me to frame my selfe lyke to thy disposition. That which is meete for a Iester, is not likewise conuenient for a noble mā. And these words either take to thy selfe, as spokē to thee, if thou be a wise man, or els I referre them to those which set thee a worke. Ex Æn. Sylu. in. Hist. Bohem.

After the kyng was returned from the Bohemians agayne to Austria, the Hūgarians likewise made their petitions to the kyng, that he would also come vnto them. The gouernour of Hūgarie (as ye before haue heard) was Ioannes Huniades, whose victorious Actes against þ^e Turkes, are famous.MarginaliaVlricus seeketh the death of Huniades. Agaynst this Hnniades, wicked Vlricus Earle of Cilicia, did all he could wyth the kyng, to bryng hym to destruction, and therfore caused the kyng to send for hym vp to Vienna, and there priuely to worke hys death. But Huniades hauing thereof intelligence, offereth himselfe within Hungary to serue hys Prince, to all affayres: Out of the land where he was, it was neither best (sayd he) for the Kyng, nor safest for hym selfe, to come. The Earle beyng so disapointed, came downe with certeine nobles of the court, to the borders of Hūgary, thinking either to apprehend hym and to bring him to Vienna, or there to dispatch him. Huniades, without in the fieldes, sayd he would common with hym, within the towne he would not be brought. After that, an other trayne also was layde for hym, that vnder pretence of the kinges safe conduicte, he should meete the kyng in the broad fieldes of Vienna.MarginaliaHuniades spareth his enemie. But Huniades suspecting deceite, came in deede to the place appointed, where he neither seeing the kyng to come, nor the Earle to haue any safe conduicte for hym, was moued (and not wythout cause) agaynst the Earle, declaring how it was in hys power there to slay him, which went about to seeke hys bloud, but for the reuerence of the king, he would spare hym and let him goe.

MarginaliaAlba besieged of the Turke. Not long after this, the Turke with a great power of fighting mē, to the number of an hūdreth and fiftene thousand, ariued in Hūgarie, where he layde siege to the Citie Alba.MarginaliaThe power of God by the meanes of Huniades & Capistranus agaynst the Turke. But through the mercifull hand of God, Iohn Huniades, and Capistranus a certeine minorite, wyth a small garrison of Christian souldiours, gaue hym the repulse and put hym to flight, wyth all hys mightie hoste: Wherof more (Christ willyng) hereafter. Ex hist. Bohemic. Æn. Siluij. Huiandes shortly after this victory, deceased.MarginaliaKing Ladislaus commeth into Hungary. Of whose death when the kyng and the Earle did vnderstand, they came the more boldly into Hūgary, where he being receaued by Ladislaus Huniades sonne, into the town of Alba, there vewed the places where þ^e Turkes before had pitched their tentes. When this Ladislaus heard that the kyng was cō-