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A17733	Tvvo very notable commentaries the one of the originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno, written by Andrewe Cambine, and thother of the warres of the Turcke against George Scanderbeg, prince of Epiro, and of the great victories obteyned by the sayd George, aswell against the Emperour of Turkie, as other princes, and of his other rare force and vertues, worthye of memorye, translated oute of Italian into Englishe by Iohn Shute.; Della origine de Turchi et imperio delli Ottomani. English	Cambini, Andrea, d. 1527.; Shute, John, fl. 1562-1573.	1562 (1562)	STC 4470; ESTC S107293	198,882	250

TVVO very notable Commentaries THE ONE OF THE ORIGINALL OF THE TVRCks ks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno written by Andrewe Cambine and thother of the warres of the Turcke against George Scanderbeg prince of Epiro and of the great victories obteyned by the sayd George aswell against the Emperour of Turkie as other princes and of his other rare force and vertues worthye of memorye translated oute of Italian into Englishe by Iohn Shute PROVERBE .xxi. The horse is prepaired against the daye of battayle but the lord giueth the victorie PRINTED AT LONDON by Rouland Hall for Humfrey Toye dwelling in paules Churche yearde at the signe of the Helmette 1562 To the right honorable and HIS SINGVLER GOOD LORDE AND MAISTER syr Edwarde Fynes lorde Clynton and Say Knight of the order and highe Admirall of England and Ireland Iohn Shute wisheth longe life with increaceof godly honor FOR AS MVCHE RIGHTE HONORAble as the office of man standethe chyefely in two poyntes the one to serue God as he him selfe hathe appointed the other truely to serue his countrey and to wishe wel to the same in al that he mai I thought it good to turne into oure Englishe tonge these two Bokes folowing therby to proffyte suche as are not of seruile spiryte and when I had endyd the same I beth oughte me of some worthye patrone to whom I moughte dedicate the effecte of my smale trauayle in that behalfe and discoursynge in my selfe of dyuerse men I thoughte your honor a very meete man to accepte my symple present not for that I am your man and you my very good lorde and Maister but in respecte of those rare vertues whyche in your honour I knowe to reste Wherfore my humble request is that your lordshyppe wyll take this my poore trauaile in good parte which beinge graunted maye be an occasyon to styrre me vp to take in hande here after some greatter matter The one of these Bokes is writen in the Italian by Maister Andre Cambine a Citizen of Florence which declareth frō whence the Turckes came when they fyrste came into the lesse Asia of what condition they were the warres that they made and vpō what nations they made them the victories that they obtayned and howe they vsed them the whole meanes wherby they attained to that mightie seate in the whiche they nowe sytte and commaunde to the great dishonor of the Christian princes The other is a Commentarie wrytē also in the Italian by whom I knowe not for that the name of the auctor is suppressed but whatsoeuer he be that dyd it he hathe deserued to be well thoughte of for his trauayle for it is well worthe the redding It intreatethe of the warres betwene Amorathe the seconde Mahomethe the second his sonne Emperours of Turckye and the moste worthye prince George Castrioth otherwvse named Scanderbeg prince of Albania in the which Boke is euidently seen to howe great purpose and effecte it is to haue a Captaine of perfect iudgement and a ●ouldiour of tryid disciplyne And for so much as I haue here occasion to speke of such knowledge as makes a souldiour I terme discipline I thincke it not encouuenient some thinge to saye therof not at large for that it wyll sufficiently fyll a great volume but briefely as I maye of so weightie matter This disciplyne conteyneth in it the whole force of the warres the roote therof is the perfecte iudgement of the Captaine the braunches are these the good choise of the newe souldiours obedience of the souldiour the contynuall exercise of the souldiour order wherin the souldiour must be instructed furniture wherwith the souldiour must both defend and offend and then the seueritie of the Captaine in seinge this discipline truely obserued and kept A. worthye generall is of that perfection that he cā vse any of these in his kinde and I desyre of god that this disciplyne maye be better knowen in oure countre then it is so shall we not haue so manye as we haue that shall saye giue me the vntrayned souldiour and take the trayned that lyste of whose opinion I for my parte nether am ne wylbe for so muche as I thincke I shalbe able to proue both in these oure daies and also in the olde worldes that the disciplined souldiour hath alwaye acheuid the great enterprise the vntrained hath often ben ouerthrowen but seldome or neuer hath gyuen ouerthrowe And to proue this true these men are redie whose names doe here folowe besyde the whole troupe of historiens els Liuie Plutarcke Cesar Appian Alexandrine Valerius Maximus Vigetius Blondus Herodian Paulus Iouius the Cōmentarie of George Castrioth as here after more playnely shall appeare I thincke these sufficient to perswade anye man that is of a modest spirite in that behalfe And for so muche as this disciplyne is of so greate valewe I thincke it not vn●itting or vnfrutfull to touche euery braunche briefely in particular and fyrst I wyl begynne with the electiō choise of the newe souldiour Sertorius a worthy Romane who being the chiefe gouernour in Spaine after the death or Silla and beinge a man of a noble corage and of great iudgment in Martiall affares as Appian Alexandrine witnesseth of hym in his fyrste Booke of the Ciuil warres of the Romanes was not more honored for anye of the rare vertues that were in hym t●en for his greate iudgement in the choyse of newe souldiours his opinion was that the youthe which shoulde be chosen to defend theyr countre shoulde discend of honest parentes they shoulde be honestly broughte vp they shoulde be modest they shoulde also feare shame as wytnessyth Vigetius in his fyrst Booke of the arte of the warres the 7. Chapter Plato that noble Philosopher is of opinion that the newe souldiour must be chosen of the age of xx yeres Seruius Tullius kynge of the Romanes wolde haue them chosen of the age of xvii yeres blando sayethe that others are of opinion to chose them at xvi yeres of age Vigetius in his fyrste Booke and iiii Chapiter of the arte of the warres is of opinion to chose them whē their berde dothe fyrste showe Saluste is of opiniō to chose them yonge for as muche as in their youthe they are apte to be taught anye kynde of exercyse and beinge acustumed in their youthe to great trauayle they shall the better when they comme to greater age endure the trauaile and miserie of the warres he saieth also that it is better that the souldiours wante yeres then exercyse moreouer Vigetius saieth that whatsoeuer they lerne in theyr youth dothe contynue longe in theyr memorie perfectely All these worthye men are of opinion that yf he be vntrayned and passe the age of thirtie yeres he is not to be accepted into a bande for sondrie respects This weighty charge to chose newe souldiours was not committed to any Captaine but to those that were of greatest iudgement and best seen in the disciplyne of the

warres as witnesseth Vigetius in his first Boke and vii chapter NOwe as touching the obedience of the souldiour the histories are full howe greate skyll is in it for what was the cause of the deathe of Pompey and defeicte or ouerthrowe of his Populous armie in Thesaly was it not onelye disobedience loke Cesare in his third Booke and Appian in his seconde Booke of the Gyuyll warres of the Romanes Hathe not disobedience ben also the deathe of dyuerse Romane Emperours and almost the distruction of the whole Empire loke Herodian and there you shall see the profe hereof This obedience is a bande that byndeth the rest of the braunches of disciplyne so firmely togyther that it maketh them to worcke theyr effecte and gyueth vertue power to euery of them Wherfore Andre Cambine iustly doth saye that a disobedient armie is lesse to be feared them a worthy Captayne withoute an armie THe worthye men of the olde worlde and chiefely the Romanes broughte vp their souldiours in sondrie exercyses as to runne lepe throwe the bare swyme to vse their weapons to marche the march called Passo militare which was to goe armed in the hotest of the sommer xx myles in fyue houres and vpon great occasion xxiiii myles in foure houres they had a feelde which laye vpon the syde of the Ryuer Tibre which once was of the possessiō of Tarquinus surnamed the proud and when he was banished Rome the Senate appointed that feelde for the exercyse of theyr souldiours there were in that feelde a number of greate stakes depely set into the grounde against whom the souldiours hauing their roundels made of wicker of the double weighte of those whiche they shoulde were in battayle and a staffe of the lengthe of a sworde and of the double weyghte of the sworde whiche commonly they dyd weare and beinge thus furnished they shoulde dayly fyghte against those stakes as against their enemyes In this feelde dyd they vse all theyr exercyses wherof I spake before and when they were wery they went into the Riuer and washed them and refreshed theyr weried bodies and lerned to swime as wytnesseth Vigetius in his fyrst Boke and x. Chapter To swymme wel is and exercise very commodiouse for a souldiour as for example Liure in his fyrst Decade and seconde Boke declareth that Oratius Cocleus a worthy Romane defended the ende of the brydge that putteth ouer Tiber against the whole power of the kinge Porsena whilest that they of the Citie brake the bridge behinde him and then armed as he was he leapte into the Ryuer from the brydge and dyd swymme to the lande and saued both him selfe the Citie for that tyme. Also the noble Emperour Iulius Cesare beinge in Alexandrie and assayled vpon the sudden by the Alexandrines and hauing but fewe of his people with him was enforced to flee their furie whervpon he lepte into the Ryuer and dyd swyme ouer to the other side by the which meanes he saued his life at that present as witnesseth Appian Alexandre in his seconde Booke of the cyuyll warres of the Romanes and also Aulus Hirtius in his fourthe Booke of the Commentaries of Cesar intitled de Bello Alexandrino the lyke dothe the same Aulus Hirtius declare in the aforesayde Booke of the Ph●ritanes whiche dwelled in an Isle that standeth in the Ryuer Nilo eyghte hūdred pases from Alexandrie which beinge assailed by the souldiours of Cesare and put to flyghte toke the Ryuer and did swyme to Alexandrie and saued a great number of theyr lyues The exercise of the souldiour and chiefely of the vse of the weapon that he shall vse in the feelde is a thinge of great valewe whiche the Romanes dyd so muche esteme that they appointed a number of Maisters to instructe theyr souldiours in the vse therof and euery Maister had double the entertaynement that a souldiour had as witnesseth Vigetius in his firste Booke and xii chapter and in my iudgement not withoute great reason for the felde is not the onlye place to traine souldiours in but they must also be made perfecte in the vse of theyr weapon in marching in theyr armour acustumed to order and such lyke exercyses before they cōme to the felde otherwyse they be but an encoraging to the enemy and a people led to the slaughter wherfore the Romanes had their newe souldiours as perfecte in altheyr exercyses as were theyr olde souldiours before they wolde send them to the felde sauing in that that they had not seen the enemy nor felte of his force An other braunche therof is of importance which is furniture with oute the which no army is perfecte for yf a man be neuer so valiante well trayned yf he wante furniture he wyll not put him selfe in that peryll that he wyll doe beinge well armed and furnished As longe as the Romanes went wel armed and furnished to the felde their Empire dyd alwaye florishe as witnesseth Vigetius in his first Boke and xx chapter but whē they became slouthfull and neglected discipline they then obtayned of their Emperours within shorte space license to goe to the felde first withoute their body Armour then withoute their sheldes and hedpeces and when they had obtained at theyr Emperours handes these noble demaundes within shor●e space after they payd well for their case the Gothes Vandales and also the Lombardes made warres vpō them gaue them sondrie ouerthrowes Then was the difference seen betwyne the armie broughte vp in disciplyne and that wherein disciplyne was not knowen betwine the exercised souldiour and the vnexercised betwine the instructed souldiour and the ignorant betwine the armed souldiour the vnarmed betwyne the Captaine of iudgment and the vnskylfull Captaine for where as in tyme before the Romanes dwelling vnder discipline were not onely able to defend their owne most ample dominions but also that of their fryndes which laie fardest from them nowe when they had reiected discipline hauinge warres with these nationes afore named they were not onely vnable to defend their owne dominions but also to defend their Citie Rome which was twyse or thriese sacked by the aforesayd enemies as wytnesseth Carian in his historie There is also order which is of great value and withoute it an armie is but a confused multitude nether any battayle is worthily fought no towne perfectly besegyd nor any thing well done This the auncient Romanes had in suche estimation that whosoeuer dyd violate it was pūnished withoute remissiō as for example Valerius Maximus in his second Boke declareth that Posthumius Tibutius being dictator hauing with him in the warres his onely sōne the only successiō that he had whō he had very tenderly carefully brought vp yet forasmuch as he being in the warres did of him selfe not by his cōmaūdemēt take those bands which the Romāes called aides or helppes encoūtred the enemies gaue them a great ouerthrowe thē retorned to the campe with the