Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1537
284 Manuscript used: HHStA, Ung. Akt, Fasc. 32. Konv. A, fol. 44-45.1 /. They are writing belatedly in order to provide Wese with news as certain as possible - 2. Szapolyai does not understand why Wese wants to drive him out of the whole connin', even Transylvania. No agreement is possible under such conditions. - .!. They have been informed that Ferdinand’s troops looted around Kassa but already withdrew somewhere. - 4. Andrea Cars ini will be sent to Wese. who is supposed to see to it that Corsini gets home safe. - 5. Jázsa Farkas, a relative of their good friend Mihály Kenderessy. has been captured near Sopron. He is a former servitor of Bálint Török who now supports Ferdinand. Wese is asked In help in setting him free. - 6. Brodarics requests permission for his Italiun physician Hieronymus Adorno to come to Vác from Vienna. - 7. All the important noblemen support Szapolvai. - H. They are forwarding a letter from Szapolyai that arrived in the meantime. If more come from György Fráter, those will be forwarded too. The French occupied Asti. - 9. The Sultan said in a letter that he accepts and protects anv Hungarian King that the country elects, except for Ferdinand. Ferenc Frangepán and István Brodarics to Johann Wese Vác, 5 August 1537 Reverendissime Domine, Domine et Amice Honorandissime. Servitiorum nostrorum commendationem. [1.] Ante omnia rogamus Dominationem Vestram, ut nobis parcat, si aliquanto serius mittimus ad Vestram Dominationem, quam fortassis Vestra Dominatio a nobis exspec- 5 tabat. Quod sola hac de causa factum esse putet et credat, ut quanto certiora possemus, ad Vestram Dominationem scriberemus [!]. [2.] Nudiustertius huc Vaciam pervenimus, ubi Thomam praepositum2 repperimus, ex quo intelleximus eum maiestati regiae, domino nostro clementissimo exposuisse ea, quae suae maiestati nuntiaveramus. Affirmat Thomas maiestatem regiam multum io fuisse admiratum, quod Vestra Dominatio ita secum agat, quasi velit eum de toto regno excludere, Transsylvaniam etiam, quam ipse possideat, totam ei adimendo. Dominatio Vestra scit, quae de his rebus cum Dominatione Vestra simus locuti et quae sit nostra sententia. Videmus rem eo esse deductam, ut impossibile sit pacem fieri, nisi ad alias conditiones veniatur longe diversas ab ipsis, de quibus est actum. Maxime, quod non 15 videmus vos tales habere vires, quas nostri extimescere debeant. [3.] De exercitibus^ prope Cassoviam hic intelleximus longe contraria illis, quae 12 sit correxi ex: scit 1 Attachment to a letter by Johann Wese dated 7 August. See HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 32. Konv. A, fol. 43-46. 2 Custos of Eger Tamás Mindszenti. ■’ In order to keep Szapolyai under pressure. Ferdinand sent Leonard Vels to Upper Hungary to threaten Kassa, which Szapolyai had conquered in late 1536. 505
