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A50866	The history of the holy vvar began anno 1095, by the Christian princes of Europe against the Turks, for the recovery of the Holy Land, and continued to the year 1294. In two books. To which is added, a particular account of the present war, managed by the emperour, King of Poland, and several other princes against the Turks. By Tho. Mills, gent. Illustrated with copper-plates.	Mills, Thomas, gent.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2073; ESTC R221362	83,846	225

he had slain so many Turks And having at last concluded a Peace with the Sultans for Ten Years wherein it was agreed That all Christian Captives should be released several Forts restored and things reduced to the same state they were at the first Peace made with Frederick the Emperour He returned home with abundance of Honour Having says the Historian compelled those Infidels to offer Terms of Peace without offering them any other violence than shewing his Sword in the Scabbard without ever drawing it And indeed such was the general esteem which he obtained by his Success in this Voyage that he afterwards bid fair for the Imperial Crown of Germany Not long after the Earls return died Reinoldus Frederick's Lieutenant in Syria in whose Grave was buried all the Happiness and Glory of the Christians in Palestine For now the lawless Templars would observe no other Rule than their own Will and the inundation of the rude Tartars having maugre all opposition run over all the North of Asia and forced many Nations to forsake their ancient Habitations among whom was a certain People called Corasine who being thus unkennelled had recourse to the Sultan of Babylon desiring him to give them a place to live in The Sultan who was free enough of that which was none of his own frankly gave them all the Land that the Christians held in Syria upon condition that they would conquer it which he told them was easie to do in regard the People were few and weak and the Country rich and fruitful The Corasines being thus animated by the by the Sultan came with their Wives and Children and their whole Housholds into Syria to win Houses and Land for them there And finding the City of Jerusalem unguarded and without the least suspition of an Enemy easily surprized it and entered without resistance Many of the Christians thereupon flying out of the City with their Wives and Families took their course towards Joppa but unfortunately looking back and seeing their own Ensigns advanced on the Walls were so infatuated as to go back to the City again upon a confute that their fellows had beaten the Corasines and by those Banners invited them to return whereby they were every Mother's Child of them slain Things being brought to this pass in Syria a desperate Disease must have a desperate Remedy whereupon the Christians clapt up a hasty Peace with the two Sultans of Damascus and Cracci between whom and the Sultan of Babylon there was at that time some discord And swearing them to be faithful borrowed an Army of their Forces to assist them in taking vengeance on the Corasines Robert Patriarch of Jerusalem was the chief Commander and St. Luke's day the time agreed on for this fatal Battel which was fought on a Plain near Tyberius But the two Armies were no sooner joyned but the Turks who were placed in the front of the Battel ran over to the Enemy or at least fled through cowardize so that the Christians being over-powered in number though they made a great slaughter of their Enemies were at last utterly overthrown and most of them slain there escaping no more but Three of the Teutonick Order Eighteen Templers and Nineteen Hospitallers besides the Patriarch who says of himself That God accounting him unwortby of Martyrdom permitted him to escape among the rest The Corafines improving this Victory won all from the Christians except Tyre Ptolemais and Antioch with a few Forts So that the Christians were beaten by a beaten People who shortly after falling out with the Sultan of Babylon were by him wholly routed out so as none of their Name remained And it is very observable that all Historians both before and after this time are wholly silent concerning them whereby it seems as tho' God had created this People to punish the Christian and as soon as they had done their work annihilated them again CHAP. VII The French King's Voyage into Palestine He carries the War into Egypt again Damiata taken the second time but afterwards exchanged for King Lewis ABout two years after this overthrow Lewis the Ninth of that Name King of France arrived in Palestine to assist the Christians in recovering what they had lost That which moved him to undertake this Voyage was his recovering of a desperate fit of sickness upon the application of a Piece of the Cross He was accompanied therein besides three of his own Brothers and divers of the French Nobility by William Longspath Earl of Shrewsbury with a brave company of valiant English Soldiers When he came to Cyprus he was met by an Embassadour from a great Tartarian Prince who in vited by the fame of his Piety acquainted him with his design to embrace the Christian Religion He received and entertained the Embassadours with much affability dismissed them with liberal Gifts and by them sent as a Present to their Master a curious Tent wherein the History of the Bible was very dexteriously and richly wrought in Needle-work hoping thereby to catch his Soul in his Eyes Pictures being in that Age of Ignorance accounted Lay-mens Books tho' since they have been generally condemned as full of many damnable Errata's and never published by any Authority of the King of Heaven to be either the means or workers of Faith Thither also the Templers who were afraid of being checked by this Pious King for their debauched Lives wrote to him to accept of a Peace which the King of Egypt offered to make with the Christians But he being informed by the King of Syria that it was only a trick of the Templers to prevent his intentions of going into Syria to behold their wickedness commanded the Grand Master that from thence forward upon the price of his Head he should receive no Messages nor hold any correspondence with the Enemy resolving with himself once more to invade Egypt and make that Country the Seat of the War But having once declared his intentions and making no great haste to put it into execution Ateladine had time enough to provide against the storm by fortifying the Sea-Coast which he did for an Hundred and Eighty Miles together so that their landing was now much more difficult than when King John invaded it However Lewis being re-inforced with a new Army by Robert Duke of Burgundy and Alphonse the King's Brother set forward for Egypt and intended to land near Damiata But the Governour with a Band of resolute Mammalakes opposed it between whom and the Christians there was for some hours a fierce and bloody Fight wherein the Turks were at last overthrown and forced to fly into the Town leaving the Christians Landing-place without any other Guard but their Governour and Five Hundred of their best Soldiers whom they left dead on the place Lewis the 9th King of France Damiata was a City so strong and well fortified that the taking of it was accounted a good Task if performed by an Army within the compass of a Year But those within remembring

THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY WAR Began Anno 1095. by the Christian Princes of Europe AGAINST The Turks FOR THE Recovery of the Holy Land and Continued to the Year 1294. IN TWO BOOKS To which is added A Particular ACCOUNT of the Present War managed by the Emperour King of Poland and several other Princes against the Turks By THO. MILLS Gent. Illustrated with Copper-Plates LONDON Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey 1685. To the Right Honourable Sir JAMES SMITH Kt. Lord Mayor Of the Honourable City of London My Lord HIstories in general are like so many Registers and Records of time that convey to us the knowledg of what passed in the Ages before us and thereby helps us to look back with Pleasure upon the great Actions and Noble Atcheivments of our Worthy Predecessors which renders the reading of them very Pleasant and Delightful The History of the Holy War has not only been the amusement of the Learned Pens of other Nations but of a * Dr. Fuller Celebrated Author of our own which tho' written in a less critical time than this wherein that War seems to have a new resurrection was received with the general approbation of all lovers of History But this Excellent History being now rare to be found several Persons who were extreamly delighted with its agreeable variety wherein no History in the World does excel it mightily Importuned me to revive it or else to write a more Brief and Compendious account of that Religous War that so it might be rendered the more Capable of an Vniversal Reading the latter of which I was upon their persuasions prevailed upon to undertake But having performed the Task imposed upon me I found my self at a loss for a Suitable Person to whom I might address to own and Patronise the work till at length I happily pitch'd my thoughts upon Your Lordship To Dedicate it is made necessary by Custom and to Dedicate it to Your Lordship as necessary by the nature and design of the Book it self My Lord it is a discourse of War and therefore to have offered it to any other than a Soldier and a Brave Son of Mars had been an unpardonable Folly and a Sacrilegious Robery of the God of War And among all the Brave Commanders of this Honourable City I find none whose Courage and Valiour Prudence and LOYALTY bears a better sound then Your Lordships Not only in the Opinion of Your Fellow Subjects but of the King too for it was the singular Wisdom and LOYALTY which you have Manifested upon all Occasions that Recommended You both to his Majesties Gracious Choice and the Peoples Vniversal desire for the Chief Magestrate of Englands Metropolis Wherefore I Humbly Beg You will be Pleased to Accept of the Dedication and Permit this History to pass into the World under the shelter of your Lordships Name and Approbation and Pardon the Authors Presumption in aspiring to so great an Honour Although for an Atonement of the ambition of this offering I can only urge it is the History of the Holy War wherein those of our Nation gave as large a Testimony of their Courage and Bravery against those Infidels and Enemies of our Faith as any Nation whatsoever Which Consideration may Peradventure prevail upon Your Lordship to allow it as a sufficient Expiation for the pride of this Oblation Especially in a Person who is with the most Profound Zeal and Respect My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most devoted Servant THO. MILLS By the absence of the Author from the Press several faults have escaped which the Reader is desired to mend with his Pen. ERATTA PAge 38 Read Gerard. p. 62. l. 18 r. Baldwine p. 63 l. 13 r. Pilgrims p. 69 l. 4 r. their own p. 75 l. 15 Dele prevented it p. 74 r. Ignatius Book 2 p. 49 l. 22 r. conceit p 52 l r Cyprus p 53 l 6 r Meladine p. 67. ad of Lancaster p. 71. l. 13 r. fight Directions to the Binder Place the Cut of the King of Poland page 84. and the Standard page 86. THE HISTORY OF THE Holy War BOOK I. CHAP. I. The Description of the City of Jerusalem and the Land of Judea Why it was called the Holy Land It is conquered by the Egyptians by the Galdeans and by the Romans JAcob having just before his death called all his Twelve Sons together to bless them and to tell them what should happen both to them and to their Children in succeeding Ages he preferred Judah altho' not the Eldest but the Fourth Son before the rest of his Brethren and advanced him to the Throne saying Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand shall be in the neck of thy enemies and thy Fathers children shall bow before thee Judah is a Lions whelp from the prey my son thou art gone up The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come meaning Christ the Saviour of the World to whom the gathering of the people shall be And after the return of the Israelites out of Egypt and the destroying the Canaanites and other Nations who inhabited Palestine a larger and fairer proportion thereof was alotted for the inheritance of this Royal Tribe than any of their Brethren enjoyed in which Patrimony there were several large fenced Cities the chief whereof was Hebron and great numbers of pleasant and fruitful Villages But altho' Judah had received the promise of the Kingly Dignity yet he was not till many years after the return out of Egypt invested with it but the Government was laid on the shoulders sometimes of one man and sometimes of another who were either by the special direction of Heaven or the favour of the People indifferently chosen out of any Tribe And when the Israelites grown weary of the Judges rule requested a King and God commanded Samuel to establish a Monarchical Government among them as tho' Jacob had been mistaken in his measures or the Promise to Judah had been quite forgotten that Tribe is neglected and a King chosen out of the Off-spring of Benjamen the youngest Son of Jacob. But Saal proving disobedient and rebellious against the Command of the Great and Supream Monarch of Heaven and Earth by whom alone King Reign the Royal Dignity was rent both from him and his Tribe and according to the Prediction of the Patriarch given to David the youngest Son of Jesse the Bethlehemite of the Tribe of Judah out of whose Loyns according to the flesh our Saviour came When he was first advanced to the Throne he only reigned over the Tribe of Judah and made choice of Hebron as his Royal Seat But being afterwards by the unanimous consent of all the Tribes chosen to be King of Israel he took the City of Jerusalem which is the Subject of this History from the Jebusites and made it the Royal Seat of the Kings of Isreal whereupon it was preferred by the great Jehovah