. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ncholy gleaming of asetting sun. I never think of this place but as MScburg the Picturesque. When, after the disastrous battle of Mohatsch, theEmperor Ferdinand was fighting with Z&poyla for hiscrown, the latter having suffered defeat, took w\\._Transylvania. A great part of the nob; D his side. The real strength of the country however lay in theSaxons: it was they who had the fortified towns; theyhad arms and money. The question was, \swould they take?* Zapoyla now summoned them to as-semble and meet
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. ncholy gleaming of asetting sun. I never think of this place but as MScburg the Picturesque. When, after the disastrous battle of Mohatsch, theEmperor Ferdinand was fighting with Z&poyla for hiscrown, the latter having suffered defeat, took w\\._Transylvania. A great part of the nob; D his side. The real strength of the country however lay in theSaxons: it was they who had the fortified towns; theyhad arms and money. The question was, \swould they take?* Zapoyla now summoned them to as-semble and meet him on the Sunday after Reminiscence,1527, with bows and arrows, accoutrements for 1horsemen, and the tithes which his Diet had levied. Butthey refused to stir. ZapoyWs rage was great. Butnotwithstanding they remained unshaken in their fealtyto the Emperor. The whole of the Burzenland, Her-mannstadt, and all that was Saxon ground, with theexception of Klausenburg, acknowledged him. So theYaiwode, Stephen Bathori, laid siege to Schassbnrg. The* Teutsch, Geschiehte der Sachsen, p. TO SCHASSBURG. 219 suburbs and a great part of the lower town were burnt,but the upper fortress could not be taken, and for manyyears it remained faithfully a stronghold for the before this, the citadel was on the point of going toruin, from being deserted by the inhabitants. Many leftit altogether, on account of the burdens which residencethere entailed, and settled in the lower town. The placewas already a solitude, and King Ladislaus began tofear that the land would lose one of the firmest bulwarksagainst the invasions of Turks and Tartars. With wis-dom and forethought, he ordered that all those tradeswhich, according to olden custom, had till now been car-ried on in the Burgh, were henceforth to return and notsettle elsewhere; and moreover, that all wares were tobe exposed for sale there, and there only. Whoever built anew house in the Burgh was to be tax-free for seven l
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