WILLIAM SEGAR. * * * * * CHAP. IX. Sigismundus _sends Ambassadours unto the Emperour. The Conditions reassured. He yieldeth up all to_ Busca, _and returneth to_ Prague. _Busca_ having all this time been raising new Forces, was commanded from the Emperour again to invade _Transilvania,_ which being one of the fruitfullest and strongest Countries in those Parts, was now rather a Desart, or the very Spectacle of Desolation; their Fruits and Fields overgrown with Weeds, their Churches and battered Palaces, and best Buildings, as for fear, hid with Moss and Ivy; being the very Bulwark and Rampire of a great part of _Europe,_ most fit by all _Christians_ to have been supplied and maintained, was thus brought to ruin by them, it most concerned to support it. But alas, what is it, when the Power of Majesty pampered in all delights of pleasant Vanity, neither knowing, nor considering the labour of the Plough-man, the hazard of the Merchant, the oppression of Statesmen, nor feeling the piercing Torments of broken Limbs, and inveterate Wounds, the toilsome Marches, the bad Lodging, the hungry Diet, and the extream misery that Soldiers endure to secure all those Estates, and yet by the spight of malicious detraction, starves for want of their Reward and Recompences, whilst the politique Courtier, that commonly aims more at his own Honours and Ends, than his Countries good, or his Princes Glory, Honour, or Security, as this worthy Prince too well could testifie. But the Emperor being certified how weak and desperate his Estate was, sent _Busca_ again with a great Army, to try his fortune once more in _Transilvania._ The Prince considering how his Country and Subjects were consumed, the small means he had any longer to defend his Estate, both against the cruelty of the _Turk,_ and the power of the Emperor, and the small care the _Polanders_ had in Supplying him, as they had promised, sent to _Busca_ to have truce, till Messengers might be sent to the Emperour for some better agreement, wherewith _Busca_ was contented. The Ambassadors so prevailed, that the Emperour re-assured unto them the conditions he had promised the Prince at their confederacy for the Lands in _Silesia,_ with 60000 Ducats presently in hand, and 50000 Ducats yearly as a Pension. When this conclusion was known to _Moyses,_ his Lieutenant then in the Field with the Army, that would do any thing, rather than come in subjection to the _Germans,_ he encouraged his Soldiers, and without any more ado, marched to encounter _Busca,_ {MN} whom he found much better provided than he expected; so that betwixt them, in six or seven hours, more than five or six thousand, on both sides, lay dead in the field. _Moyses_ thus overthrown, fled to the _Turks_ at _Temesware,_ and his Scattered Troops, some one way, some another. * * * * *