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A57506	The history of infamous impostors, or, The lives & actions of several notorious counterfeits who from the most abject and meanest of the people, have usurped the titles of emperours, kings, and princes / written by the Sr. J.B. de Ricoles ... ; and now done into English.; Imposteurs insignes. English	Rocoles, Jean-Baptiste de, 1620-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1766; ESTC R6847	75,558	204

that Bajazet's was as numerous as Tamberlain's And that the Occasion of Bajazet's defeat proceeded from the generosity of the Tartars in freeing of Diest and other Nations as Germian Mentez c. which Bajazet had subjugated whose Princes were in Tamberlains Army There was none but Bulcis or Bulcogli for so they called George Son of the Despot of Servia who followed not the good Example endeavouring to exterminate the Tyrant by abandoning him as the rest did His Men behaved themselves so well to the Glory of the Christians that Tamberlain cry'd to those about him See how valiant and resolute those Dervices are Proh quam feroces truculenti sunt isti Dervisii till some of his Great Officers told him They were Christians and not that sort of Religious Turks called Dervices Turlacks The Victory fell on Tamberlain's side One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men being Killed upon the Place This Battle was Fought in the Year 1399 and according to the most probable Opinion in the great Plain called Cassobe or Descanards near Mount Stella Memorable for the Famous Defeat that Pompey the Great gave there to Mithridates King of Pontus I find very different Accounts of this Action but follow the Turkish Annals which say that Zelebis or the Noble Mustapha the Name of Zelebis being given to all the Children of the Turkish Emperor was killed in this Fight And he being the Subject of this Discourse who must appear and pretend to the Ottoman Empire and dispute it with his Brothers and with Amurath the Second his Nephew It seemed necessary to dispose the Reader for the History and Adventures of this Impostor by the recital of what preceded it to give him a more full Idea and clear knowledge thereof The Disasters of his Father Bajazet being so annexed to his Death I will say something farther concerning them without resting on what several Authors report of Tamberlains being the most Inhumane and Bloody of Mankind and of his Extraction from the meanest of the People having been very well informed by that Excellent Book of this Conqueror's Life Written by Monsieur Sainctyon which was taken from an Arabian Historian called Alhacent who was an Occular Witness of his Actions and Military Expeditions and familiar with him which Life is very different from that Written by one Acamed Son of Gueraspes a Creature of the Ottoman Family and by consequence an Enemy to Tamberlain He was the Son of the Potent Monarch Og King of Saketay or the antient P●●shia nearly related and Successor to the Great Cham of Tartary He had two Sons Cham Sentrokius which signifies the Love of Mankind and Letrokius whose Variance occasioned the Desolation of their Country But he for the Goodness of his Life his Royal Vertues and above all his Justice and Victories might be equal'd with Alexander the Great So far was he from those Vices of Cruelty Barbarity and Rage which Paulus Jovius accuses him of Feritatem truculentiam ore truculento recedentibusque Occulis semper minaci And the Turkish Annals call him Inhumane for this reason that when Gilderum or Bajazet was taken and brought to him he conducted him to his Tent receiving him on foot with great Honour Gilderum was on Horse-back because of his Wounds supported by Tamberlain's People and being brought in they both sate down and eat together Tamberlain saying thus to him Prince we ought to give God infinite thanks and to sing Hymns of Praise to him that he has given me who am a poor Lame Man so vast an Empire extending from the furthest Parts of India to the Gates of Sivas which is Sebaste And to Thee from the Walls of this same City to the Confines of Hungary God having thus disposed so great a Part of the World between us what can such a Cripple as I desire of him more 'T is for this his great Goodness that we ought to make him our Acknowledgments It may be thou hast not done this heretofore as thou oughtest but hast been ungrateful to his Bounty for which Reason this misfortune is come upon thee Philip Camerarius in the 54th Chapter of his Historical Meditations makes him continue it further as follows Can we think the Soveraign Disposer of the World thought us the most worthy to Command so many Millions who are wiser and stronger than we That it should please Him that Thou who art almost blind shouldest be Emperor of the Turks And I who am a Tartar and Lame be the Soveraign of so many People No certainly it was not our Merit but a pure Effect of his Grace and Bounty Tamberlain sent him Doggs and Hawks either to divert him in his Trouble or reproach his extraordinary Delight in those Creatures The Turkish History saying that Gilderum kept Seven Thousand Faulconers and Six Thousand Dogs He talked so insolently to Temir on this Occasion that he exposed him to the Contempt of his Army setting him on a Mule and commanding him to be led through it Thus enduring the Mocks of the Souldiers and causing his Wife the Daughter of Eliazar the Despot of Servia whom he passionately Loved to wait half naked at his Table One Day Temir or Tamberlain asked him and desired him to Answer ingenuously If he had fallen into his Power how he would have used him Gilderum or Bajazet who was a Man of a terrible and cruel Temper answered him in a Rage thus To say the Truth if Fortune had given me the Victory and made me thy Master I would have shut thee up in an Iron Cage and so carried thee about with me Tamberlain was not ignorant of the Lex Talionis nor of that natural Law which the Emperor Alex. Severus as saith Lampridius so often repeated Do to another what you would have done to you Following the Law of the Twelve Tables of the Romans and of that famous Edict mentioned by Aulus Gellius in the First Chapt. of his Noctes Atticae where the Curious Discourse is between Sextus Cecilius the Lawyer and Phavorinus the Philosopher And therefore accordingly he shut him up in an Iron Cage Yet the Turkish Annals say He still continued his Humanity always before he decamped going to see and civilly saluting his Prisoner He assured him he would ●ere long grant what he should desire But telling him he would first carry him to Samarcand where he kept his Court and from thence send him to his own Country Bajazet was so afflicted with this that he killed himself in the Fourteenth Year of His Reign and the Fourth of his dreadful Imprisonment in the Year 1403. and of the Hegira or Flight of Mahomet 804. Theod Spandugin relates these Circumstances of it That having no other way to end his Life filled with Rage and Despair he frequently and with such violence beat his Head against the Bars of his Cage that he broke his Skull and died distracted This Emperor left Five Sons of whom Mustapha Zelebis the Eldest was lost at the Battle The Annals

Paternal Grand-mother Sister to the same Emperor and of the Cardinal Henry his Great Uncle A Desire to Augment his Glory by setting a Moorish Prince on the Throne of Fez in Africa imitating Alexander the Great who at his Age passed the Hellespont for the Conquest of Asia Perswaded him to do the same over the Straights of Gibraltar for the Subjugating Africk his Ancestors having shewed the way especially King Don Emanuel whose Heroick Vertues frequent Prosperities and Signal Victorys had vanquish't and made Tributary several Kings in those Extream Parts of the World Chiefly by the Conduct of the Famous Don Alphonso Albuquerque and also through his Care to plant the Christian Faith which Justly made him esteemed one of the Greatest and most Happy Princes in the World The same Motives of Religion and Glory with the Hopes that Muley Mahomet or Muley Hamet King of Fez whom he undertook to re-establish in the Throne would according to his Promise embrace the Christian Religion perswaded him to this most Unhappy Enterprize and as the Marquis of Pisani then Ambassador for the Crown of France in the Spanish Court declares That he was also push't on to this Engagement by the Vnsound and Pernicious Counsels of the Jesuites I have Read in their Catechism That this Prince being a Jesuite in his Heart would not Marry they having often sollicited him to make a Law That for the future none should be King of Portugal but a Jesuite and Elected by their Order as the Pope is by the Cardinals And because this young Prince could not or to say truely durst not condescend to it though Superstitious enough they assured him that God had so ordained it as he should understand by a Voice from Heaven when he came to the Sea-side so that he several times expected it but these good Apostles for so they called them in Portugal could not so well carry on their Mummery to procure the Voice However they so followed these Impressions as carryed him into this unhappy War in the Flower of his Age being about Twenty Two Years Old This Disaster one of the most terrible that ever the Sun beheld was presaged the Year before it happened that is in 1577. by the Appearance of a Prodigious Comet seen in the Ayr when all Portugal was in Armes Nunquam visus Terris impune Cometes if you believe the Poet. I will not leave my Subject to seek further any Reasons of the War That having been at large declared by Giovanni Botero Benese Abbot of St. Michael de la Chiusa in his first Volume of his General Description of the World which was augmented by Pierre Daviti of Tournay and continued by Me in the Year 1660. Cherif Xeque King of F●z and Morocco gave his Kingdoms to his Sons Successively excluding his Grand-sons Abdalla Successor of Xeque to Frustrate his Fathers Will put all his Brothers to Death who were very Numerous being born of many Wives after the Mahumetan Fashion Only Muley Moluc or Abdelmeleck and Hamet sled to Constantinople for the saving their Lives and for a better Expectation of the Crown to exclude their Nephews the Sons of Abdalla according to their Father's Establishment Muley Mahomet the Son of Abdalla tryed to secure his Fathers Scepter to the Prejudice of the Substitution made in his Uncles Favour And in truth Justice was on his side it being the Natural Order of Succession However his Uncle Muley Moluc or Abdelmeleck assisted by the Turks beat him three several times This made him Cross the Sea to Implore the Assistance of King Don Sebastian who moved with hopes of converting the Moores through more Zeal than Prudence and heightned by his Desire of Glory heard the Affrican Kings Protestations from whom he promised himself great Advantages for the Christian Religion for the Reputation of his Name and the Utility and Profit of his Subjects With these Notions he passed the Seas at the Head of a very Powerful Army and joyning with Muley Mahomet he gave Battle to Muley Abdelmeleck near the City Alcazer on the Plains of Tamista in the Year 1578. where to his great Unhappiness his Army was defeated with an extream Slaughter and he doing the Office of a Valiant Captain was there kill'd Though the Portuguezes have always believed and yet affirm his Escape from the Fight into Italy where many saw him as we shall after declare Muley Moluc or Abdelmeleck in the Beginning of this Action was taken with an Appoplexy and carryed to his Tent where he dyed just when his Enemies were upon the Point of Flying Hamet his Brother Reaping the Sole Fruit of this Victory Mahomets Body was carefully sought for by his Order and being found his Skin was slayed off and stufft with Straw to be carryed before him at his triumphant Entry into the City of Fez. This Mahomet left a Son called Chirissi whom his Uncle Albequerin brought into Spain where turning Christian by the Munificence of Philip the Second he was made Commendator of the Order of S. James though commonly called the Prince of Morocco Some years after this King Don Sebastian came back out of Affrica But whether he were the True or an Impostor the World seems yet divided in their Opinions Daniel Hawley an Irish Man of the Order of St. Dominick called Arch-bishop of Goa when he was Ambassador in France from Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal told me in Paris That he was fain to refuse the Licensing a Book which said This King Don Sebastian had lost his Life in that Battle of Alcazer till he had Obliged the Author to change his Language and Opinion And at this present to say That he was an Impostor and not the true Don Sebastian that returned from Affrica is forbidden and Criminal in Portugal Peter Math●●a in his History of Henry the Great in the Third Book and Mademoiselle des J●●●●as in the Seventh Part of her A●nales Gallantes in the Eighth History tells by what good Fortune this young Prince got from among the Dead and how he wandred from the Field of Battle I will not determ●ne any thing on the likelyhood or real Truth of the Action She says That this King though he were promised and engaged to Many the Princess Mary his near Kinswoman Daughter of Edw. Duke of Braganza and Isabel one of the Daughters of King Don Eman●eb fell so much in Love with Xerine Daughter of Muley Moluc who being born of a Greek was much whiter than Affricans commonly are that he promised to Marry her and underhand bring what Obstacles he could against the Dispensation to Marry his Cousin German This Moorish Princess understanding Don Sebastians Defeat whom she dearly Loved despiseing the Crowns of Fez and Morocco for the Hopes of that of Portugal and Transported with a Grief even to Despair Rann ere the Day-brake to the Plains of Tamista only accompanyed with Laura a Christian Slave her Confident resolving to Sacrifice her self with her own Hand on the Body of