_Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 42. Footnote 532: _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 42. Footnote 533: 2 Kings xviii. 27. Footnote 534: ‘Pœna capitis et ablatione omnium bonorum suorum punire dignetur.’—_Hist. Diplomatica_, p. 3. Footnote 535: ‘Jam pridem ediximus ne quis in hoc regno nostro sectam illam auderet amplecti aut approbare.’ This ordinance, hitherto unpublished, may be found in the Hungarian journal _Magyar_, p. 524—_Figyelmezo_, Debreczin, 1871. Footnote 536: _Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche in Ungarn_, p. 44. Footnote 537: Haner, _Hist. eccles. Transylvaniæ_, pp. 147-178. Footnote 538: ‘Juvenis bonitate abutebatur.’—Scultetus, _Annales_, p. 62. Footnote 539: Baronius, _Annales_, anno 1525. Footnote 540: ‘Georgium quemdam bibliopolam una cum libris evangelicis exusserunt.’—Scultetus, _Annales_, p. 62. Luther, _Epistolæ_. CHAPTER II. SOLYMAN’S GREAT VICTORY. (1526). [Sidenote: Invasion Of Solyman.] Solyman the Great, the conqueror, the magnificent, the most famous of the Sultans, was marching at the head of a numerous army. His life was to be for nearly half a century a series of battles and of victories. Five years before this time the Turks had taken Belgrade and bathed their feet in the Danube. The illustrious follower of Mohammed intended to do more. He purposed to invade Hungary, Austria, Italy, and Spain. The cross should be trodden under foot, and the crescent should wave triumphantly above it. Europe was to become Mussulman. On the 23d of April, 1526, Solyman, who was preparing to leave Constantinople, visited the tombs of his ancestors and of the martyrs of Islam. Then, glorious in his youth and strength—he was now thirty-two years of age—endowed with the energy of his creed, inflamed with that passion for conquest which had distinguished his forefathers, the prince set out from Constantinople at the head of an army which was continually receiving reinforcements. Ibrahim Pacha, who set out before him, was already besieging Peterwaradin. He took this town; and at the moment of the Sultan’s entering upon the soil of Hungary, at the head of three hundred thousand soldiers, Ibrahim laid at his feet, as a token of welcome, fifty Hungarian heads. ‘Forward! To Pesth!’ was the cry raised in the camp of the son of Selim. This great army set out on its march along the Danube.