Stuart England

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World Civilizations, Ancient history, Tudor and Stuart England, Renaissance & Reformation

Entitled A relation of all matters passed, especially in France and the Low-countries... since March last to this present, 1614 was printed by William Welby in London, with the following subtitle right after the dedicatory epistle by Boothe: 'A Discourse full of Delight, containing the relation of the things in most parts of Europe that have passed worhty the remembrance, since March last, 1614, to this present' [i.e. 1615] - and, remarkably, it starts with a description of events in Transylvania after the "lamentable overthrow and death of Bathorie" when "Gabriel Bethline" was appointed Prince of Transylvania "by the Turkes".1 As far as we know, this was the first time the name of Gabriel (Gábor) Bethlen had appeared in print in England.
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Bethlen also paid more attention to England than any of his predecessors since Stephen (István) Báthori.
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He has the Archduchess's [Izabella's] pass and is coming to London,12 which shows the awareness of the Captain of Dover Castle about "Bethem Gabor", clearly a household name in Stuart England.
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Gabriel Bethlen's fame was at its zenith in England probably in 1625, for in this year we have more than one literary reference to this distant (and according to some, 'inconstant') protector of the Protestant faith.
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Paradoxically, the first creditable full account in England on the ruling Prince of Transylvania was published only some months after his death, in 1630.
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E.G. Cuhn, Lepizig 1789, 681 and 689, also Angyal Dávid, Erdély politikai érintkezése Angliával, ("Transylvania's political contacts with England) Budapest, 1902, 60.