Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)

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illiusque ecclesiae capitulum Valentinum Tereck omnes decimas frugum abstulisse, conarique et decimas vinorum auferre, minitarique sese omnes illorum proventus usurpaturum ac bona occupaturum eo praetextu, quod aliquando ante indutias ea tenuerit et proventus anno superiori [!] diripuerit, quasi liceat ea, quae ante indutias male occupata bene amiserat, nunc rursum sub indutiis occupare.

[6.] Queruntur nobiles comitatus lauriensis se ad congregationem quandam per Valentinum Tereck vocatos esse, inauditaque connumeratione taxarum vexari eun- demque nobilibus in comitatu Semproniensi et vicinis locis mandasse, ut tributum una cum certis victualibus conferant. Ex multis autem plurimorum querelis intelleximus plerosque esse, in quos potestatem ante praesentes indutias serenissimus rex loannes vel Valentinus nunquam habuit.

[7.] Querantur miseri et deplorandi exsules Cassovienses se nullibi in istis indutiis refugium habere, neque a iis, qui in Cassovia sunt, tutos esse, quippe qui eos capitaliter persequi, capere divexareque non cessent, illisque ne in hunc quidem diem permitti, ut agros et bona sua circum et extra Cassoviam, sicuti serenissimus rex loannes consensit, colere possint, de qua re et antea Devotionem Vestram admonueramus, ut cum rege suo ageret.9

[8.] Lamentatur fidelis noster Hieronymus Horwath10 11 Valentinum Tereck sub generalibus indutiis bona sua et fratris depopulatum esse, in quibus plus quam trium milium florenorum damnum intulerit, insuper sex possessiones eorum occuparit occupatasque teneat, variis etiam et intolerabilibus eosdem vexationibus vexet. Deplorant et indignantur regnicolarum nostrorum status exponentes adversam partem conari fideles subditos nostros in comitatibus Castriferrei, lauriensis, Soproniensis, Trinchiniensis, Vesprimiensis, Zaladiensis et Honthensis fere in totum subiicere, dicas violenter exigere et omnem tirannidem in eisdem comitatibus exercere.

[9.] Delatum est praeterea ad nos Anthonium Lossonczy11 fratrem suum, qui sub nostra fidelitate est, ex arce Zalancz12 contra leges indutiarum violenter eiecisse detur- basseque, et multis in locis fidelium nostrorum bona ab adversa parte vexari diripique audimus, perinde ac si nullae essent indutiae.

9 Ferdinand asked for Brodarics' intervention already on 15 July. Even if he did intervene, it must have been unsuccessful, if there was a need to bring up the matter again one month later.

10 Jeromos Horváth and his brother Péter were servitors of the Bishop of Veszprém. See Bessenyei, Enyingi Töröli Bálint... 147.

11 Antal Lossonczy, Grand Cup-Bearer of Ferdinand between 1527-1533. From the complaint against him it is clear that in 1538 he already supported Szapolyai, and remained loyal to the family after Szapolyai’s death: according to Farkas Bethlen he was a prominent figure in Queen Isabella's court in the mid-1540s. (See Bethlen Farkas, Erdély története II., Budapest, 2002, 100., 121.) Lossonczy had several brothers. One of them was István, Captain of Temesvár, who was killed in action in 1552. Probably, the letter does not refer to him, because he, too, supported Szapolyai at the time. So the third brother Farkas Lossonczy might have been the one driven out from the castle of Szalánc, but there are no more data available on him. Antal Lossonczy was taken prisoner by Ferdinand’s troops in the autumn of 1538: Péter Perényi informed the Habsburg monarch on 2 September 1538 that the King’s troops, lead by Laski, captured Antal Lossonczy while crossing the Tisza (see HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 37. Konv. A, fol. 11. See Ferdinand’s response on 4 October in: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 37. Konv. B, fol. 9.).

12 Szalánc (today: Slanec, Slovakia).

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