IV. 
340 FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE BANNAT, 
CHAP, who afterwards laid siege to Vienna. It re-^ 
mained in possession of the Turks until 
the famous siege of Buda in 1686, when it 
was again taken, {Sein. 2,) after a terrible 
conflict, in which several young noblemen of 
England acted as volunteers. Lord George 
Saville, second son of the Marquis of Halifax, 
signalized himself at this siege, and died of 
the wounds he received. The young Filz-James, 
the celebrated Duke of Berwick, natural son 
of James the Second, was also wounded upon 
the occasion'. Among the artillery that fell 
into the hands of the victors, were four pieces 
of cannon, of enormous calibre, called the 
Four Evangelists'^. In the citadel were found 
a great quantity of valuable manuscripts and 
(1) The autlior finds this recordetl by a French writer, and, as a 
curious circunistatice, has inserted it. {Hisloire de Hongrie, ^-c. Liv. 
Troisihne, ;». 159. a /•«>"«, 1688.) But the contrary is decidedly affirmed 
by Bishop Burnet, in the ^'History of his own Times;" for, speaking 
of Fitz-James, the Bishop says, " He made two campaigns in 
Hungary, th^t were little to his honour : for as his Governor diverted 
the allowance that was given for keeping a table, and sent him always 
to eat at other tables; so, though in the siege of liuda there were 
many occasions given him to have distinguished himself, yet be had 
appeared in none of tliem." See Jimnct's Hist. vol. f. p. 748. also 
Rapin^ vol. II. p. 764. Loud. 1733. 
(2) " II y avoit entr'autres quatre canons d'une grosseur extraordi- 
naire qu'on appellait les Quatre Evangilistes, qui portoient 150 livres 
de bale." Histoire du Royaume de Hongrie, liv. iii. p. 169. Paris, 1688. 
