Seres István: A Károlyi-huszárezred hadkiegészítése a Tiszántúlon Szegedinác Péró felkelése idején - Chronica Bekesiensis 3. (Békéscsaba, 2010)
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letters to the standard-bearer György Tokay (who was accordingly the leader of kurucs in Sarkad), who in the opinion of Szilassy as foot-soldier officer was able to take better care for the valuable documents. Following the battle at Erdőhegy the magistrate of Sarkad took up a chase after the insurgents who returned and hid in the town’s surroundings. At this time was captured Tokay, from the bonnet of whom the letters fell out when he was trying to run away from their pursuers. The two discovered letters was sent immediately by the magistrate of Sarkad to Nagyvárad, and the copy of the Hungarian language letter was delivered by Sándor Károlyi in Hungarian and Latin translation to the Court War Council. The other important letter was written by the insurgents besieging the fortress of Gyula to the Békés County sub-perfect Mátyás Klósz. The latter has got more editions and though its original has not come to light up till now, its contemporary copies can be found in the literature treating either the revolt or Békés County’s local history. One of the copies of the patent letter was sent to Sándor Károlyi by Lieutenant Spissits, and an authorized copy remained in the documents placed in the Harruckern Family’s domain in Gyula. The latter is interesting because it was authorized, among others, by Spissits. We now publish a third copy as well which has got the curiosity that being authorized with signature and seal by those officials of Békés County and the domain who defended the fortress of Gyula. The letters and their annexes published in our volume were dated, with the exception of three, between 28th of April and 30th of May 1735, and the two written after them were put down on 26th of June by Captain Farkas Macskásy and First Lieutenant Sándor Spissits in Vásárhely and Szarvas respectively. Though at that time they were writing mostly on the supplying problems of the hussar squadrons ordered under their hand, they mentioned as well the interrogation of the old Captain Péró detained in Arad and the public atmosphere among the Rác [Serbian] border-guards after the rebellion. The newly recruited squadrons were soon dispatched to the war- area in Rhineland. Buda commander Jörger in a Latin letter dated on 18th July gave an account of the reception of the Károlyi hussars’ three squadrons led by Captain László Kövesdy, Farkas Macskásy and First Lieutenant Sándor Spissits, the flag-consecration and the following meal in the presence of Duke Francis of Lorraine. On 29th of July the recruits 269
