Calabria Within a few monethes after this Prince also died the Queene causing him to loose his head for that as some say he was somewhat too amorous with another woman besides the Queene Yet there be some who affirme that she did only diuorse her selfe from him ioyning her selfe in the fourth mariage with Otho Duke of Brunswicke descended of the noble family of Saxonie who at that time warring in Italy was in the pay of the Church in the yeare 1376. and with him shee liued in solace and great pleasure during which time it happened that Pope Gregorie the second dyed in the yeare 1378. This Pope brought backe the Court and siege of the Papacie vnto Rome after seuenty foure yeares that Clement the fifth had transported it to Auignyon to the great griefe and preiudice of the Romaines whereof immediatly proceeded that great Schisme in the Church vpon the which our historie doth in some sort depend And to the intent the matter may be the more apparant it shall be necessarie that I set downe the motiue and first occasion of that Schisme The chiefe and principall men of Rome did secretly desire and entreate the Cardinals which were assembled in the Conclaue for the election of the Pope that they would at their request choose one that was a Romaine or at the least an Italian to the intent the Court might be stayed not remoued from Rome The people with high voices and mightie clamors cryed out in all the streetes and places of the citie that they would haue one of their owne nation by meanes whereof those reuerent Prelates fearing the tumult or the violence of some sudden outrage did agree with one minde and consent to elect an Italian with an intent afterwardes when time and place should serue and that the stirres of the popular sort were appeased to proceede to a free election of some other who should be taken acknowledged for true Pope indeede They therefore being entred into the Conclaue and the commotion and insolent demeanor of the common people continuing and increasing and being readie to breake open the doores vpon them they made choise of one Bartholomew of Naples Archbishop of Barie vpon the tenth of Aprill in the yeare aboue mentioned and they named him Vrban the sixth Some write that they chose him vpon these conditions expressely that notwithstanding that election whensoeuer he should be warned thereunto by them that he should renounce and resigne the name and dignitie of Pope and that they bound him thereunto with a streight and solemne oath which he promised and swore to performe The election being accomplished the Colledge of Cardinals wrote their letters vnto the Potentates and Catholique Princes of Christendome that the same was holily and lawfully done and themselues for a time did acknowledge it to be so Within a while after eighteene Cardinals or as some say fewer of which the most part were French men obtained leaue and license of the Pope who then lay at Tyuoly vnder pretence of the extreame heat of the moneth of Iuly that they might leaue and be absent from the Court for a season Hereupon by seuerall wayes they tooke their iourney met all together first at Anagni and from thence at Fondi to the intent they might proceede in the election of a newe Pope and this they did by the intelligence and practise of the Queene of Naples who vnder hand had offered free libertie and securitie within her dominions to conclude and go through with this election her reason was because she perceiuing her selfe not to be as yet thoroughly assured of the Hungarians did desire to haue a Frenchman made Pope and such a one as might be at her deuotion In the end when Vrban and they could not or would not be brought to any good nor friendly accorde they caused him to be cited to appeare at Fondi and there they debated and handled the matter by certaine actes and proceedings in law onely in a manner at the direction and pleasure of Master Nicholas of Naples who at that time was a most famous Lawier and one of the Queenes Counsellors and a most mortall and deadly enemie to Vrban On the other side the Pope caused them to be cited and in the end did excommunicate them for contumacie and in the end both parties caring but litle the one for the other the Cardinals pretending that the See was voide in September following at Fondi did make a new election obseruing therein all the vsuall and accustomed solemnities and they declared for Pope the Cardinall of Geneua named Clement the seuenth and immediatly they made it knowen vnto all Kings and Princes Christian that they should account Clement for the true Pope not Vrban To Vrban did cleaue and adioyne themselues all Italy Almaine Hungarie and England with many other Princes and Estates of Europe and he kept his seat at Rome Clement remoued his seat to Auignion and to him did adhere the Realmes of France and of Spaine Thus you see the first motiue and occasion of this Schisme and diuision in the Church by the which continuing aboue forty yeares both the whole estate of Christendome was greatly preiudiced and the insolencie and power of the Turkes was mightely augmented But to the intent you may both the better conceiue that which hath bene alreadie declared and be instructed of that which is yet behind I holde it expedient not to conceale the cause of the enmitie which grewe betwixt Pope Vrban and that lawyer aboue mentioned This Maister Nicholas was an excellent aduocate and in many causes and proces which Vrban had had in the Court of Rome before his aduancement to the papacie he was for the most part retained with the aduerse parties against Vrban as it often falleth out to such as exercise the office of aduocates Vrban being afterwards become Pope diuerse Kings and great Princes as the manner is sent their Ambassadors from all parts to congratulate the holines of his aduancement to the papacie and to sweare obedience vnto him The Queene of Naples was not one of the last but she sent vnto him Maister Nicholas The Pope according to the vsuall custom made a great and sumptuous banquet for all of them at the which euerie one hauing taken his place and the Ambassador of the Queene being seated in one of the most honourable and highest places as representing the person of his Queene Vrban commanded the vsher of the hall to displace him and to set him lower with some disgrace to the honour and reputation of this Ambassadour He wisely dissembling the iniurie and his discontentment tooke it verie patiently and at his departure from the feast being in the company of a certaine Cardinall his friend who was offended likewise at this disgrace offered him and vsed some speeches to comfort him willing him to attend and stay his time Maister Nicolas then made him this answer tush quoth he I haue
husband for his daughter The conditions and couenaunts of the mariage were as soone and easily agreed on and dispatched as they were thought vppon and deuised Scanderbeg referring it to the discretion of the father to determine of his daughters dowry and as it liked him to ordaine and nominate it so was it freely and voluntarily accepted Neuerthelesse it was correspondent and aunswerable to dignity both of him which gaue it and of the person also which receiued it The espousals were presently celebrated and solemnized and without any delay at all Great were the triumphes and publique reioycings of all the Prouince at this mariage and the Bride was as speedily brought home with a Princely traine and most royally accompanied by all the neighbour Princes and almost all the nobility of the countrey who did honour the feast with great pompe and incomparable magnificence Such as could not be present did honour them with their Ambassadours and most sumptuous presents All in generall did reioyce at this straight knot of affinity betweene these two the most puissaunt Princes of Albany which gaue them some appearance and probability of hope that in time to come their forces being vnited would preserue and defend the prouince against all inuasions and perils of the warre whatsoeuer The Seigniours of the estate of Venice did testifie both by an ambassade as also by rich presents sent him out of their common treasure the great good liking and contentment which that Senate receiued by this mariage And in like manner all other Princes and Potentates did largely expresse the like affection and the singular good will which they bare him in this publique cause of ioy and gladnesse as they had done before in the times of his greatest troubles and daungers for as the common saying is those are the two seasons wherein true amity and friendshippe doth make shew and triall of itselfe That which was sent from the king of Arragon was in all and euery part so singular and magnificall that Scanderbeg as the report goeth would not haue accepted it if his nearest and most familiar friends and the instant prayers and intreaties of the Spanish Ambassadours had not vehemently importuned him thereunto In lieu and recompence whereof after hee had accepted them he sent backe vnto the King other presentes of no lesse value and estimation as horses slaues and other riches and treasures which he had taken as the spoiles of his enemies the Barbarians In this manner was this great feast solemnized with no lesse pompe and magnificence then reputation and renowme For besides that already spoken of the tourneys iustes triumphes and other spectacles of diuerse sorts hauing prizes and rewards of excellent value appointed for those that should best deserue them did stir vp the courages of the young gallants on all parts who shewing themselues couetous of glory and flocking thither to those triumphs did by their presence greatly augment the beauty of that assembly Mahomet was not ignoraunt of any of these things nor of the fortifications of Croy and it is thought that he would willingly haue troubled the ioy of our Albanois but being partly retayned with his domesticall occasions as newe kingdomes commonly doe engender new infirmities and new disorders and partly also being intentiue to the heaping of great summes of money and to the enriching of his treasures he was constrained for a season to forbeare from any such enterprise Notwithstanding in the middest of his threats and menaces as he was very talkatiue and free of his speeches he called his mariage the vnhappy and short ioy of that vnfortunat couple saying that it should not be long ere he would sauce their new contentments with deadly teares and lamentations One thing there was which Scanderbeg had not yet done and which of a long time he had no leysure to put in execution by reason of his continuall lets and hinderaunces of the warres and that was to visite all the frontiers townes and passages of his Realme which at this time he accomplished hauing with him in company his new spouse and a good troupe of horsemen and he spent many daies in that recreation In all places where he passed the people by great flockes in a certaine kinde of emulation did enforce them selues euery man according to his degree to receiue him into their townes with magnificall and royall entertainment and with a thousand sortes of goodly shewes and spectacles and or rich presentes according to the vttermost of their power and abilities they did gratifie both him and his princesse There was not any one but was most gratiously accepted without any shew of dislike or any token of disdaine all of them were receiued with a chearfull countenaunce and like courtesie not onely those which came full handed but euen they also who wanting meanes to shew and testifie their good willes did present him with their good heartes and the prodigall bounty of their affections The King holding on his course in this progresse did visite euery particular place euen to the entry of Macedony and to the very farthest limits and borders of his countrey When he came into the lower Dibria he obserued one place aboue the rest by which the Barbarians had euer vsed and accustomed to make their inuasions vppon Albanie and by sodaine roades and foragings to wast and destroy at their pleasures the goods of the inhabitaunts and to surprize and oppresse them at vnawares For albeit there were many other waies and passages into the Prouince yet this same onely was as it were the most commodious and on that side more then any other did the Christians also vse to inuade and harrie the fieldes and territories of the enemies In this place therefore he determined during that litle time of rest which he enioyed and whilest the troubles of armes ceased to depriue the Turkes of this opportunity of annoying of his people and to prouide for the preseruation and safetie of his subiectes This was a mountaine which they of the countrey call Modrissa very ragged and of a great height from the which the frontiers of the Infidels may be very well discouered a great waie off On the toppe of this mountaine he resolued to build a fortresse and to fortifie it with good store of souldiours such as being prompt and vigilant should by shooting off their artillery aduertise the inhabitants at all times of the comming and arriuall of the Turkes and to the intent also that the neare neighbourhood of that Fort should serue for a place of refuge vnto his people whensoeuer they should be driuen vppon any necessity to flie from the enemy a thing which he had long before conceiued in his thoughts and many times assayed to put in execution but was alwaies compelled to leaue vndone by reason of the daily and continuall troubles of the warres For this cause without making any long delay and for that him selfe would not long dwell in delightes
which he had left with Mahomet was in great feare doubt that if he should take the benefit of his vncles liberality it might fall out euill with his wife and children For this cause after he had with great reuerence and humilitie yeelded thanks vnto the king for his great bountie and singular fauour he spake vnto him in this maner Sir it hath pleased you only in respect of your own patience clemency without any particular merits or deserts of mine to haue a regard of my safetie and to grant me my life it is reason therfore that I also haue some care to the life and welfare of others for feare least if my ouer carefull desire to maintaine my owne safety estate do make me to embrace your liberalitie it may cause me to loose them by your beneficence bountie which I haue heretofore too carelesly lost by mine owne disloyaltie My poore and guiltlesse wife is abiding with the Sultan my tender infants and innocent children are there likewise as yet are they safe and aliue and so long will Mahomet suffer them to liue as he shall thinke me to be your prisoner But if the cruell tyrant shall once perceiue that by giuing me my life libertie you haue estranged me from him and that I am retired to your obeissance the rigorous and seuere creditor will presently either teare them in peeces or will make sale of those gages of my faith and promise and their innocent bloud shall beare the paine of their fathers fault It behoueth me therefore if your Maiestie thinke it good that with some deuice I delude the Ottoman to the intent that I may preserue those my pledges and till such time as I may finde some good oportunitie to free them for altogether This night will I flie out of the towne as though without your knowledge I had broken prison and so will I returne vnto Mahomet There partly by detracting and slaundering of their actions and partly by hearing them detracted by others in the presence of that credulous Prince as I was wont to do when I was in fauour with him I will bring him into a perswasion by my dissimulation and faigning that I am as much or more deuote to his seruice now at this present then I was at anytime heretofore to the intent that all matter of mistrust being taken out of his mind if he haue conceiued any during the time of my imprisonment and by reason of my long aboad with you I may be the better able in the end to get away with all my family It is in you much to further this my inuention if you will make shew openly that you are highly discontented at my flight and doe impute the fault to them vnto whose charge and custody you had committed me In the meane time you may be fully assured and I humbly beseech and intreat you so to thinke of me that during all that time which I shall be there expecting the houre of my escape you shall haue me to be a faithfull espiall and intelligencer to aduertise you of all things which the tyraunt shall consult or determine vppon He shall not imagine any thing he shall make no preparation that shall come to my knowledge but you shall haue present and speedie notice of it Scanderbeg did easily accord to his request telling him that seeing he had graunted him his life and all other things which might serue thereunto either for an ornament or to his contentment that hee should not any way hinder him to vse it to his best profite and aduauntauge that he would in the name of God take it and employ it to the preseruation of him selfe and those also who might lawfully claime and challenge him to be their debtour both for their liues and also for their liberty Go thy waies therefore quoth he take thy time and do as thou seest cause and onec at the length correct thine owne folly whilest thou hast time and leisure so to doe We do giue credit to thy speeches and do allow of thy enterprize If thou doest giue any faith or credit to the Barbarian or doest continue soiorne any long time in his companie thou shalt neither hurt nor deceiue any body but thy selfe only for thou must thinke that thou shalt bring both thy selfe and thine into extreme danger both of bodie and of soule At what time soeuer thou returnest thou cannest not do any thing more to our liking and contentment and thou shalt be alwaies kindly and hartily welcome All things being conueyed accomplished according to the plot which they had layed Amese by the meanes of his vncle was soone shifted both out of prison and our of Croy. The next morning his flight being published and spread abroad the negligence of his keepers was reprooued with some sharpe and hard words At his comming to Constantinople he did soone and easily perswade the Sultan what he listed Notwithstanding he was not fully and wholly restored to his former estate honours and pensions which had bene at the first bestowed vpon him the default whereof was not because his faith was in any sort suspected but for that such was the iniquity and defect of his fortune As concerning his returne againe into Epire all his promises fell to be vaine and sorted to no effect were it that he tooke no care or made no account of it oâ— that he wanted the meanes and oportunitie to conuey himselfe away from thence Whatsoeuer was the cause thereof the report is that within few monethes after he died at Constantinople leauing there behind him both his wife and his children Many do hold that Mahomet caused him to be poisoned being not able to suffer and endure him in his sight whom he held to be the author of his memorable desaster and misfortune in Emathia Thus when he least suspected and mistrusted there did he finde the vengeance and punishment of his treason Such was the end of this personage worthy no doubt to haue his name made immortall if the greatnesse of his minde which was so greedy of raigne and Empire had bene by nature seasoned and tempered with some more moderation of spirite But he that would be the chiefe and aboue all others and could not endure the gracious and gentle yoke of his vncle it happened vnto him as to those of whom Plato speaketh who shunning the smoke and shadow of seruitude doe fall into the very flame and raging fire of bondage All this while did Hamur and Synam continue in quiet not being in any sort molested by Scanderbeg vnlesse that the licenciousnesse of the souldiers might sometimes perhaps without his leaue and license innouatand make some change and alteration He himselfe riding vp and downe the countrey sometimes amongst the Dibrians and somtimes in other places of the Prouince did erect many buildings and enlarged many things to the benefit and ornament of the Prouince especially in Emathia where many
Seruia and Ruscia which notwithstanding was soone after violated by the means which I will now shew you The Turkishe Ambassadour being dislodged and departed from the Court of Vladislaus beholde sodainely there arriued letters from Francis Albert a Florentine Cardinall of the holy siege the contentes whereof were That the Turke with innumerable companies was passed ouer into Asia to fight against the King of Caramania hauing left his countrey in Europe vnprouided and difurnished of defence and wholly disarmed and that he with three score and tenne Gallies well armed and appointed and many other great Vesselles of warre hauing seized on all the portes and passages hadde taken from the Infidell all meanes and hope anie more to transport his troupes and forces on this side the Sea And that such opportunity which then was offered ought not to be lost and omitted that now this cursed and wicked nation might be either rooted out in a manner without anie fight or at least wise chased and driuen so farre off that they should be no more heard nor spoken of For you must note that Iulian Caesarin Cardinall of Sainct Angell and legate of his holinesse being then neare about Vladislaus at Buda had lately procured a new league betweene the Christians for the ruine and destruction of the name of Ottoman and had caused Pope Eugenius the fourth of that name the Duke of Burgoyne the Venetians and the Genowayes to enter into the same who hauing put in readinesse and prouided this army by sea hadde now seized vppon that straight At the same instaunt as if it had beene a thing done of purpose the Messengers of the Emperour of Greece reported the like newes and in manner to the same effect If these tidings were displeasing to the legate I leaue to your opinion For hee was greatly greeued to see the accord and agreement passed betweene the King of Hungarie and the Turke to the preiudice of his practises and endeuours by meanes whereof so great and mighty forces were assembled at the sea neare * Gallipolis And he doubted least he should be taxed either of lightnesse and inconstancy or of faithlesnesse and infidelity But he knew so well both how to do and to speake vnder colour of this Maxime * That faith ought not to be kept with infidelles and miscreants that the compact and conditions of the peace were broken and violated And he absolued and freed both the king his nobles and all others who had benesworne thereunto from the oath which they had solemnly taken and made so that all of them entred chearefully and gladly into this * blessed league The Romaine legate him selfe was there present followed with a faire and goodly troope vnder the Crosse Iancus Huniades that tempest of warre with his Valachians came thither likewise and had the title to be lieuetenaunt Generall of the Army royall Vppon the preparation of so high and haughty an enterprise all were moued at the glorious renowme of Scanderbeg and at his fresh victory gotten vppon Halie Bassa and they perswaded them selues that if they could ioyne vnto this their great preparatiue and prouisions of the Hungarians the forces of the Albanois yet shining in the Vermilion colour of the Turkish bloud this would be an aide and supply vnto them of singular aduantage and a most certaine assuraunce of a good and happie successe to their desires For this cause vppon good deliberation approued by all of them and with all speed possible according as the apparaunce of mischiefe and inconuenience neare and imminent did require letters were sent away of which this was the tenour Vladislaus king of Hungarie and of Poland sendeth health to Scanderbeg Duke of the Albanois It may be that Gods will was that this our late congratulation should be deferred vntill this present to the intent that wee might at this time reioyce together with you in the double successe of your prosperitie not onely for the happy recouery of your owne estate but also for that by your vertue and prudence the same hath bene couragiously defended In this then doe we solace and reioyce our selues both with you and with all Christendome considering that the diuine clemency and your valour hath giuen such succours and comfort to the publique weale and estate Christian For to speake the trueth the losse of the nation of Albanois hath beene such a wound that wee may continually bewaile it as much as any one of our other mishappes and misfortunes at that time when Iohn Castriot your father whom God pardon a Prince as I vnderstand of excellent merite and desert being oppressed by Amurath and taken out of this world by the vngratefull destenies had neither the meanes to leaue vnto you the inheritaunce of his Crowne and Scepter as vnto his Sonne being then vnder the yoke and bondage of a stranger nor yet was able otherwise to prouide for his affaires O that it had pleased God that this Father being most happy and fortunate in such a Sonne had bene now liuing no greater blisse could haue befallen him whereby to surmount all humaine felicity then to haue seene you before his death For so doe you seeme vnto me aboue all other Princes in this world be it spoken without displeasing of any other the most accomplished in all graces and perfections both of minde and body as being diuinely endowed with a certaine fatall and wonderfull Fortune by the good encounter whereof not onely all the land of Albany may vaunt it selfe to be in surety and security but they shall also recouer their first forme and beauty the auncient glory of their kingdome the free liberty of their religion and all the rightes and priuiledges of the people which were lately dismembred from the Realm of Macedon by the vnlawfull robbery of the Ottomans For to say nothing of those things which from your infancy hauing made you continually to be enuyed haue purchased vnto you heretofore euen amongest the Barbarians an immortall name and glory what can there be more magnificent then this victory which as wee haue heard and doe beleeue you haue obtained with singular admiration in the vtter ouerthrow and discomfiture of Haly Bassa and so great and mighty troupes of the Pagans But now ô Scanderbeg there offers it selfe vnto you a subiect of farre greater glory vnder the fauour and blessing of God who by his wonderfull counsaile and decree hath reserued you in these so difficult and daungerous times for the safety and publique good of Christendome with a most faire and fitte occasion to reuenge vppon the Sultan all his wrongs and iniuries both new and old as well those done to your owne person as those against the estate and kingdome of Albanie and not onely the domesticall and ciuill miseries of your owne countrey but the publique calamities also and those opprobrious disgraces done against the Christian religion now oppressed I will not say extinguished if so be that vppon the point
and in this extremity of our affaires not yet altogether desperate and without hope you will succour vs with your victorious Forces Hereunto doe all the princes of Hungarie and of Poland and all good men inuite you Iulian the Cardinall of Sainct Angell intreateth you and so many Catholique and deuout men at armes Christians who are here with vs long since ready in armes and well appointed no other thing doe wee attend then your ensignes This will be a sure meane at this time if you refuse not this fitte opportunitie which God now so graciouslie sendeth vs to vanquishe our common and troublesome enemy and wholly to determine this warre to chase and driue away the Turkes and to dispossesse them of Europe so long time by them occupied and wrongfully vsurped I neede not then as I take it vse any kinde of perswasion vnto you in this cause and quarrell the defence whereof doth purchase vs safety light and liberty Contrariwise being abandoned I will not forehalsen that which may come of it Wee Christians haue beene too too slacke and backeward in doing our deuoyr to helpe and succour each other The flame hath now well neare consumed all of vs yet haue none in the meane time bene aduised or perswaded that this fire would passe on and come neare vnto them selues What doth the estate of the Greekes represent vnto vs and the condition of the Triballians and last of all mine owne losses What Iliade can recount vnto vs all the mischieues wee haue endured and those which doe daily menace vs So many braue and valiaunt Princes the bulwarke and defence of Hungarie which we do loose from time to time aswell in puissant armies consumed and brought to nothing and with one and the same fatall chaunce of warre almost wholly extinguished In such sort that in this Realme from hence forward there is neither family wife nor matrone exempted from bearing a part in this grieuous and lamentable calamity All this and worse by farre do Christian Princes heare of and yet the miserable estate and condition of their Allies can nothing moue any one of them but thus doe they suffer vs on all parts to be exposed to the rage and fury of the common enemies as if we were an offering to be sacrificed to all perils and daungers Onely Eugenius the chiefe Pastor of the Church and Philip Duke of Burgundie are to be excepted who haue not reiected nor refused the burthen of our afflicted and miserable Fortune The one hath sent hither his legate the Cardinall of Sainct Angell with notable and puissant succours and the Duke of Burgoyne with his Army at sea hauing aduentured as farre as Gallipoly doth valiantly hinder the passage of the Turkes into Europe One other hope there is not now farre from vs and that is the succours whereof we are so desirous the which we doe require of you being moued thereunto partly by your valour so well knowen and notorious and partly also in regard of the imminent perill and the hazard of the common affaires which presseth vs all in generall And albeit we are not ignorant of the discommodities which may befall you in this expedition we pray you notwithstanding that they may not withhold and keepe you backe assuring you that as it cannot be but to your great honour so the benefite of this your present desert shall not be bestowed on persons of an vngrate and thankelesse spirite But that which you shall at this time beginne and vndertake for our preseruation and dignity we will from henceforth and euermore continue for your glory and for the increase of your greatnesse God haue you in his keeping From Bude our Capitoll and chiefe city the fourth day of Iuly 1443. By this time had Haly Bassa brought backe the reliques of his defeated army vnto Amurath howbeit that the newes of his desaster oftentimes reiterated had made way before him Some say that he was sharply reproued by the Ottoman who obiected vnto him by way of reproach that it was not likely that so puissant an army could haue bene almost wholly ruinated without some great and notable cowardize or some counsell rash and timerous Sometimes he would exclaime and say that his army was betrayed sometimes he would alleadge that either it was surprized by the negligence of the Generall or that in comming to the encounter they had giuen the aduantage of the place vnto the enemy whereof it proceeded that so great a desaster and misfortune had fallen vpon his people Now albeit Haly Bassa could not deny but hee had bene ouerreached and preuented by our ambushments the which might haue deceiued any man were he neuer so polliticke subtill and circumspect yet did he excuse himselfe neuerthelesse calling his souldiours to witnesse that there was nothing in him to be reprehended but the variable and inconstant chaunce and lotte of Armes and that there wanted neither good order nor discipline nor the aduauntage of place nor the oportunity of charging at a fit and conuenient time Finally that neither the souldiours did faile their Captaine nor the Captaine their souldiours But if it would please his Maiesty to permit him once more to attempt and make triall of his Fortune he would make him to see that he had a deuise and stratageme by which he would bring it to passe that this prosperity of Scanderbeg should proue dolefull and lamentable The vaine promises of the Bassa did soone moue the Sultan who being now more animated then euer was willing that in any case new forces shoulde speedily be prouided if the other Bassaes and Councellours especially Caly Bassa making him to change his aduise had not shewed him That another war of greater difficulty and consequence did fall vpon his shoulders that the enterprise of Epyre might with safety either be deferred or omitted but so could not the tumults of Hungarie but that it behoued him carefully to attend and looke vnto them In the middest of these affaires the letters of King Vladislaus being brought to Scanderbeg were a speciall meane and occasion to moue and induce him to giue him aide and succours For a more honest cause and fitter occasion of warre could not haue bene found then was the same ministred at that time This notwithstanding for that he would determine nothing without the aduise of those with whoseayde he was to serue him selfe vppon all occasions hauing called together his chiefetaines he would that the kings letters should be read openly in full assembly of a generall councell And there was not any one who did disalow of that warre for that the excessiue greatnesse of the Ottoman Empire encreasing from day today did animate euery one with the spurres of wrath and indignation and did sollicite their mindes almost trembling and quaking for feare of more grieuous inconueniences and did ad mouish all the world of the vnfortunate condition of the Christians and of the former fortune sometimes inuincible of the Hungarians
goodly markes of antiquity lay defaced and ouerthrowen The Ottoman in the meane time ceased not by the hands of Hamur and Synam still to sollicit and to set forward the matter which he had so many times assaied for the idlenesse and long rest of the Christians did put him in a certaine and assured hope that he should attaine to the end of his desires but hee could neuer effect any thing touching the generall truce which he so desired how beit that Scanderbeg did obserue his priuate amity with the people of the Ottoman by meanes whereof the minds of all men being by litle and litle allured with the sweetnesse of rest and quietnesse the hatred and enmity on both partes began to grow more moderate and all the effectes of a publique and generall peace the bare name and title thereof onely excepted came to haue their full force and operation The end of the ninth Booke THE TENTH BOOKE OF THE FAMOVS ACTES OF GEORGE CASTRIOT SVRNAMED SCANDERBEG THE ARGVMENT THE warre betweene Mahomet Emperour of the Turks Vsuncassan king of Persia The originall continuance the variable accidents and successe of the warre of Naples betweene the families of Arragon and Aniow with the descent and actes of the kings of Naples to the time of Ferdinand the sonne of Alphonsus Iohn the sonne of Rene Duke of Aniow warring vpon Ferdinand king of Naples is ayded by the Count Picenin and the subiects of Ferdinand who rebell against him Ferdinand ayded by the Pope and the Duke of Milan his confederates and being ouerthrowen in two battels is besieged within Barletta An Ambassade is sent from Ferdinand and his confederates to Scanderbeg praying his ayde against the Duke of Aniow Scanderbeg making truce with Mahomet passeth with an armie by sea into Italie and raiseth the siege of Barletta The armie of the Pope and the Duke of Milan ioyne with Scanderbeg The battell of Segian betweene Picenin and Scanderbeg wherein the armie of Iohn Duke of Aniow being discomfited he flyeth out of Italie into France Ferdinand is restored to his kingdome and reconciled to his subiects by Scanderbeg who hauing bene highly honoured by the Pope and the Princes of Italie and royally feasted by Ferdinand hath certen townes in Apulia giuen vnto him and his heires and that done he returneth againe with his armie into Epyre. IT is most euident and apparant that the changes and alterations which do occasion the ruines grieuous accidents of Empires estates by seditions or warres either ciuill or forraigne do not happen in this world by any fatall kind of destiny especially if they be such as they fall together in diuers and sundry places or neere about one and the sametime For we see that such changes do neuer chance but that first some frantique humors inordinate desires in the spirits of great personages do alwaies preceed go before them and they are the ordinary meanes to stirre vp the authors of such accidents to moue or to prouoke needlesse vnnecessary wars Whereby you may see that the iudgement peruerted the furious passions of Princes are the first next punishments of their sins and offences and the originall causes of their ruine miserable end For when God being angred at their iniquities doth draw some men to the iust execution of their deserued punishment he doth depriue them of their senses he doth so bind shut vp their eies that they doe inconsideratly cast themselues headlong into the gulfe of their owne perdition which they haue drawne vpon themselues for want of good aduise counsell For the reasonable part of their mind and the naturall vnderstanding being troubled and distracted by that inueglement blindnes laid vpon them doth produce erronious counsels and their mad and outragious affections do carrie and transport them out of the bounds of reason and make them cruell vnsatiable euen without any respect of their owne liues and welfare Hence it is that rancours partialities distrusts do proceede haue their originall and then of these do arise wars both ciuill and forraigne in the which men being drowned and ouerwhelmed they find themselues plagued and afflicted with notable mischiefes and calamities or with perpetuall ruine and endlesse destruction Now seeing the forepassed ages of antiquitie haue often felt the like reuolutions of estates gouernments in the body of the Christian cōmonwealth by means wherof the Turkes and Mahumetists haue appropriated vnto themselues the Empire of Constantinople and haue gotten firme footing in their Signiorie encreasing it excessiuely only with the reliques of the estate of the Christians we ought therefore to acknowledge confesse that all those chaunges haue happened by the secret and immutable decree of God for the punishment of our sins and impieties For in stead of reforming our selues by his diuine admonitions and making profit of those examples which he from time to time hath sent vs not only the Kings and Potentates secular temporall but euen those also who were the chiefe Prelats and had the rule gouernment of the Church would neuer be drawen to consider of the same but neglecting their owne duties suffred themselues to be caried away by fond foolish desires by the vnreasonable ambition of their corrupt humors stirring vp troubles and lamentable tragedies both by Schismes dissentions amongst thēselues by mutuall hatreds diuisions amongst the peoples of all estates christian by means whereof they haue let slip out of their hands and vtterly lost which I cannot but deplore and lament the most excellent fittest occasion that could euer haue happened to tame the pride and insolencie of the Painims with ease and facility and to abolish both the law and memory of the Turkes out of Europe The order of the times and the course of this my historie do admonish me to make some mention and to discourse of this matter You haue heard how Mahomet being beaten in one yeare with a double misfortune in Hungary in Epyre was brought to this exigent necessity to demand peace or at least a long truce of one who was but a meane pettie Prince of Albany to the intent he might breath himselfe a litle from so many mischiefes grieuous losses to reestablish his estate which was sore shaken encombred On the other side you are to know that in a maner at one and the same time Vsuncassan discended of the Assumbeians of the Turkish race and king of Cappadocia Armenia other Prouinces neere adioyning hauing lately slaine in battell Malaoncre or as others will Demire king of the Persians a Prince issued from the auncient stock of Gampsa great Sultan of the Parthians hauing vsurped his Realme Seepter did ioyne himself in mariage with Despina the daughter of Iohn Comnenes Emperour of Trapezond and the cause why these two Monarches did so contract alliance together was to be the better able to preuaile against Mahomet king
him selfe to be sicke and euill at ease did continue three or foure dayes priuately in his lodging without going to court the Queene who lay in the tower Capouane The Queene thinking that he had beene sicke indeede sent her Seneschall to Castell noue to visite him on her behalfe where he detained him and all his traine and at the same instant taking his horse he went to the Capouane to haue seized vppon the person of the Queene but this his counsell proued vaine and frustrate by the intelligence which she had receiued by one of the Seneschall his seruaunts who was escaped from the surprize of the Seneschall Hereuppon the Arragonois betooke him selfe to open force and besieged the Queene battering the fortresse of Capouan with the Canon The Queene finding her selfe thus hardly bestead had recourse to Sforce who lay encamped at that time for Lewes of Aniow at the Monastery neare Mirabell Sforce hauing had the better in a great conflict against the Spaniard within Naples at Case noue neare to Formell and about the tower Capouane did deliuer the Queene thence in safety and conuaied her with all her moueables to Auersa At the time of her retrait from Naples there were more then fiue thousand Neapolitanes both men and women of all sorts who mourning and lamenting at her misfortune did accompany her a great way off with great sorrow and infinite lamentation Within a while after Sforce began to treate with her that Lewes who was continually resident at Rome might returne to the Realme of Naples whereunto she condiscended and more then that when he was come to Auersa shee receiued him with most gracious and kinde entertainement and besides hauing assembled many great and noble personages of great wisdome and iudgement by their aduise and councell shee solemnly depriued Alphonsus of the right of adoption and from the succession of the Crowne of Naples pretending that he had worthely forfeited it by the vice of his foule ingratitude and shee adopted Lewes the third to succeed her as her sonne in that her kingdome vpon the same conditions which she had earst propounded to the king of Arragon giuing to vnderstand by expresse letters vnto all the Potentates Princes of Christendome both the order tenour and causes of the depriuation of the one and the adoption of the other About that time Alphonsus being aduertised that Henry his brother was taken prisoner and spoiled of his Crowne by Iohn King of Castill he resolued to take a iourney into Spaine for his deliueraunce which hee did accordingly in the yeare one thousand foure hundred twenty three leauing Naples in the gard and custody of his brother Peter In that his voiage passing by Marseilles and finding it but ill guarded he surprised it by a sodaine assault onely in hatred and despite of Lewes and he vsed it as enemy For hauing abandonned it to the auarice and insolency of his souldiours that which he was not able to cary away he caused to be burnt and consumed with the fire onely the women were saued and preserued from the violence and outrage of the souldiours the King hauing caused them to retire into a Church whilest the towne was rifled and sacked Of the infinite treasures and riches which were found within the city he reserued nothing to himselfe as the report is but onely the body of Sainct Lewes late Archbishop of Tholouse the sonne of Charles the second king of Naples the which he caried from thence and caused it to be placed most religiously in a certaine speciall place within the city of Valentia in Spaine saying that it was not a thing either decent or conuenient in a towne which was burnt and destroied to leaue so holy and precious a relique Lewes lately made King was not idle in this meane while but he did presently put in execution the practises newly concluded on betweene Pope Martin the Queene of Naples Philip Duke of Milan and the Genowaies For by their meanes was Naples sodainely and in an instant besieged and enclosed both by Sea with the forces and fleete of the Duke of Milan and by land with the armes of Frauncis Sforce the sonne of Ssorce Cottignole lately deceased in so much that without any great violence or effusion of bloud it was recouered for the Queene in the yeare one thousand foure hundred twenty foure Now Queene Ione being so happily restored and reinuested in her estate made her entry into Naples hauing in her company the Graund Seneschall who was of late eschaunged for twelue Catalans or Spanishe Nobles by the liberality and curtesie of Sforce afore mentioned who might haue hadde foure score thousand Crownes for their raunsome and Lewes also her adopted and elected sonne whom shee had created Duke of Calabria being the title ordinarily giuen to the eldest sonne of the Kings and Princes of Naples was with her at the same time of her returne to the Citie of Naples Nowe albeit she was not altogether free and exempted from troubles but that the towne was sometimes endommaged by the artillerie of Castell noue which was still at the deuotion of the Spaniard neuerthelesse she liued sufficiently well and happily in her realme vntill the yeare a thousand foure hundred thirtie two at which time the Graund Seneshall who till that time had with most happie and prosperous fortune commaunded and in a manner absolutely ruled all the realme was then ouertaken and ensnared by the Queene as you shall perceiue by that which followeth Within a while after he had solemnized the marriage of his sonne with one of the daughters of Iames Caldore euen when he sawe him selfe as a man may say sitting aloft vpon the wheele of Fortune one Monday about midnight being lodged within the tower Capouane certaine persons by the speciall commaundement of the Queene and some other of the Nobles confederated with her went vnto his lodging knocking and calling at his chamber doore and willing him to arise speedily and to make hast to come to the Queene saying that by reason of a sudden accident which was befallen her she was in great daunger and perill of death The Seneshall rising suddenly to make him selfe readie commaunded his page to open the doore Thereupon they without being armed entred the chamber and slue him out of hand and hauing almost cut off one of his legges they caused him to be caried all naked out of Capouane without anie pompe at all as the most vile and wretched creature liuing A most miserable and vnhappie example of the inconstancie of Fortune and may serue for a notable instruction and admonition to all such persons who relying vpon the fickle loue and immoderate affections of woman kind do found the greatnesse of their fortune vpon their vaine and vnconstant fauours Lewes being sent by Commission of the Queene against Iohn Anthonie Vrsin Prince of Tarentum who taking part with Alphonsus did trouble and molest Calabria when
to armes offering to furnish him with gold siluer and men and with all other things and prouisions whatsoeuer that should be needfull and necessarie for such an expedition Scanderbeg hauing heard these reasons and perswasions of the Venetian albeit of himselfe he was not vnresolued in his owne opinion yet because he vsed not to determine vpon any matters of consequence without the aduise of the people he called a councell of all his Chieftaines and Colonels where after long debating and discoursing vpon the matter there was not so much as any one of them who had a desire to renue the warre with the Mahometist for that the Sultan himselfe seemed to the vttermost of his power to shunne and auoide it and was vnwilling to enter againe into armes and the rather because he had of late caused the most part of the bootie to be restored which as he protested his souldiers onely in sport and of a certaine militarie licentiousnesse had taken and caried away out of Epyre. Hereupon the Ambassadour hauing heard this answere and resolution of the Albanois departed from thence very sad and sorrowfull for this repulse and he tooke his way to the Archbishop of Duras whom he knew to be in wonderfull good credite with the King of Albanie and that all the people of Epyre had a maruellous good opinion of him in so much as there was not any thing were it neuer so hard and difficult but if he pleased to vndertake it he could perswade them vnto it The cause that made him to resort vnto this personage was to see if he could perswade him to take the matter in hand and to deale with the King and his Captaines to make open warre vpon the Ottoman For he was as yet in some hope that the case was not altogether desperate This Prelate being most affectionate to the seruice of the common wealth of Venice in regard of the reuerence which he bare to that Senate was content to make a iourney to Scanderbeg This Archbishop being an Epyrot borne and in the citie of Driuasta was the sonne of Andrew Angell of whom we haue heretofore made some mention he was a man of excellent conceipt and vnderstanding of incomparable cloquence perfectly well seene in al good letters both diuine and humaine not ably learned in the languages both Greeke and Latin and therewithall his grauitie integritie of life was so singular and so great was his zeale and feruentnesse in the Christian religion that it purchased him high praise commendation with all men And Scanderbeg had him in great honor reuerence and estimation in regard of his modestie sinceritie and vncorrupt life and the people of Albany did alwaies hearken vnto him and beleeue him as if he had beene some diuine Oracle Nowe this personage comming to see Scanderbeg and hauing humbly besought him that he would assemble his Captaines and the seuerall companies of his souldiers enforced himselfe by his perswasions to induce them to resume their armes and to renue the warre against the Turkes speaking vnto them in this manner The diuine Plato most worthy Prince did affirme those coÌ„monweales realmes and Empires to be most happie and fortunate which were gouerned by men of wisedome and vertue The truth whereof we our selues doe see more cleere then the day-light to be now verified in the people and estate of Albanie liuing vnder the rule and commaund of thy Maiestie a most sage and vertuous Prince and a peerelesse and inuincible Chieftaine Good reason therefore had the Kings and Potentates thy next neighbors to elect choose and nominate thee alone for their worthy Chiefe and Generall as being sent from heauen to defend and protect their crownes and estates from the rage and fury of the Ottomans and from the fiercenesse of the Barbarians as they haue bene hitherto most excellently well defended and preserued vnder the protection of thy armes and the valure of thy souldiers The which being well perceiued by Mahomet a most subtle and wilie Foxe who lies continually in waite to entrap and beguile all Christians and is the most cruell and vehement persecutor of the Christian faith farre exceeding all that euer liued he hauing a greedie desire to satisfie his brutish extreame hatred conceiued against the name and profession of Christianitie by his crafty cunning dissimulation a thingifamiliar and vsuall to the house of Ottoman hath gotten and procured thee to conclude a peace with him condescending gladly vnto such lawes and couenants as it pleased thee to prescribe vnto him onely because he would not be molested and troubled by thy armes of which he stood in doubt more then of any thing else whatsoeuer But alas most sage and prudent Prince who is there that cannot discerne and discouer how this Barbarian by a barbarous kind of craft and deceipt hath drawen thee to this treatie and hath fradulently wonne thee to this peace onely first of all to roote out the other Princes thy neighbours that afterwardes he might come vpon thee also as he hath alreadie begunne and partly put in practise where are the Rascian Princes where are the Kings of the Illirians or Sclauonians what is become of the Emperour of Trebysond See how this traytor euen now of late against his owne faith and all couenantes and rights of the lawe of Nations hath bent his forces against thee also wasting and â—acking thy Prouince and by daily inroades and continuall inuasions doth trouble and vexe thy allyes and confederates For who can expresse the immortall rancour of this tyrant against thee doest thou thinke that he will suffer the death of his father such huge slaughters of his armies so manie murthers of his Captaines and Chiefetaines to remaine vnreuenged Is it possible that thou canst repose any trust and confidence in the wordes of this infamous deceiuer or canst thou admit his excuses doest thou thinke that he will keepe his promise and faith with thee who neuer yet had anie faith in him nor euer to this day did keepe his fayth with anie man liuing Good God who can number the villanies and mischiefes of this fellonous and cruell tyrant and yet to let them passe in silence and vntouched I holde it no lesse then plaine impietie For to inueigh against one that is notoriously wicked and to make them knowen vnto the worlde which are the authors of vice and wickednesse is a thing not only delectable and delightfull but it is greatly profitable and beneficiall because that men being terrified by their examples may abstaine from mischiefe and vitious actions And therefore as vertue ought not to be suffered to goe vnrewarded or to be without commendation so ought vice likewise to be checked and reprehended For by the one and the other of those twaine do we reape like frute and benefite both by the exalting of the good and the suppressing of the wicked This then is a thing both iust and reasonable that they which are vicious
besieged by Count Pycenin and Iohn Duke of Aniow 406 Barach a Turkâ—â— and Acmah his companion promise Mahomet to kill Scanderbeg 291. â—e is slaine by Scanderbeg 299 Battatinea a Tower in Constantinople 316 Battels at sea betweene the Turkes and Christians at Constantinople 320. betweene Philippe Duke of Milan and Alphonsus king of Arragon 402 Battell of Moraua betweene Huniades and the Turkes 17 Battell of Belgrade in Hungarie betweene Huniades and Mahomet 354 Battell of Varna betweene Vladislaus King of Hungarie and Amurath king of Turkes 73 Battell of Euphrates betweene the Persians and the Turkes 387 Battell of Arsengua betweene Vsuncassan king of Persia and Mahomet Emperor of Turkes 387 Battell of Roque Siech betwene Lewes the second Duke of Aniow and Ladislaus of Duras king of Naples 396 Battell of Farney betwene Iohn Duke of Aniow and Ferdinand king of Naples 405 Battell of S. Fabian betwene the armie of Ferdinand and the Duke of Aniow 405 Battels fought by Scanderbeg Battell against Haly bassa 58 Battell of Mocrea against Ferisee 88 Battell against Mustapha 92 Battell of Drinon against the Venetians 102 Battell of S. Segian against Count Pycenin 418 Battell of Oronichea against Mustapha 123 Battell against Feribassa 171 Battell of Modrissa against Amesa a Turke 264 Battell of Pologue against Debreas 270 Battell of Belgrade in Bulgarie against Sebalias 298 Battell of Oronichea against Moses 341. 342 Battell of Pharsalia against Isaac Bassa and Amesa his Nephew 369 Battell against Synam 427 Battell of Alchria against Assambeg 427 Battell of Scopia against Iussumbeg 428 Battell of Alchria against Seremet 449 Battell of Valcala against Ballaban 454 Battell of Sfetigrade against Ballaban 458 Battell of Oronichea against Ballaban 456 Battell of Valcala the second against Ballaban 464 Battell of Cassar against Iagup 468 Beglerbey a chiefe officer vnder the great Turk one of Europe another of Asia 140 Belgrade in Hungarie once called Alba Greca or Taururum 353. besieged by Mahomet 354 Belgrade in Bulgarie besieged by Scanderbeg 283. battered 285. relieued repaired and victualed by Sebalias 303 Belgradians giue hostages to the Turkes in garrison at Belgrade for assurance of their faith 284. they demaund truce of Scanderbeg 285. they repaire the breach of their walles contrarie to promise 293. they sacke the campe of Scanderbeg 297 Bellisarius taketh Naples 403 Bishops of Varadia and Strigonium by their folly hinder the victorie of the Christians in the battell of Varna 73. they are drowned 75 Bodie of S. Lewes of France caried away from Marseilles by Alphonsus 401 Bodie of Scanderbeg adored and reuerenced by the Turkes after his death 496 Boniface the ninth made Pope 395 Boniface or Port Siracusan a castle in Corsica besieged by Alphonsus king of Arragon 399 Bosa the mother of Lech or Luke Zacharie putteth her selfe and her estate in the protection of the Venetians 94 Braccio Fort Bracciâ— of Perusa vvarreth vpon Pope Martin the fifth ouerthroweth Sforce in battell and is retayned in pay with Queene Ione of Naples 399 Brethren of Scanderdeg poysoned by Amurath 13. Bursa or Prusa in Bithinia the place of Amurath his sepulchre 246 Busegiarpeni a countrie in Epire neere Scutarie 128. C Calegarie a place in Constantinople 316 Calepin brother to Mahomet or one in his steed strangled 253 Calybassa a Turke Councellor to Mahomet friend to the Christians 316. he councelleth Mahomet to leaue the siege of Constantinople 325. he aduertiseth the Emperour of Constantinople of the councell of the Turkes 326. he is betraied by Chirlucke and put to death by Mahomet 332 Calixtus the fourth see Pope Campobasso a Neapolitan countie ioyneth with Iohn Duke of Aniow against Ferdinand 405 Campe of the Turkes before Croy victualed out of Macedonie 226. and by the Venetians 227 Campupescupi a place in Epire vvhere Scanderbeg had rich saltpits â—1 Canuazado by Scanderbeg to the Turkish camp 165. 221. 228. 241. Carambey and Scanderbeg sent vvith an armie of Turkes against the Hungarians 17 Caragusa a Turke slaine by Paul Manassey in combat 122 Carazebeg sueth to be sent against Scanderbeg 429. he is sent against him 430. he challengeth Scanderbeg to a set battell vvho setteth vpon him in his campe and he retireth to Constantinople 431 Carolobert King of Hungarie sonne of Charles Martell 388 Cassar a village in Epire. 467 Cathagusina daughter of the Despot of Misia maried to Amurath 71 Cause of the vvarre betwene Scanderbeg and the Venetians 95 Cause and ground of the treason causing the losse of Sfetigrade 180 Causes of the conquests of the Turkes vpon the Christians 248 Cause of the Schisme in the church of Rome betweene Pope Vrban and Pope Clement 391 Causes of the trecherie of the Despot of Seruia 71. Ceremonie of the Turkes in their circumcision 5 Charles Thopie first founder of Croy. 31 Charles the second king of Naples Nephew to the French king S. Lewes his marriage and issue 388 Charles Martell king of Hungarie 388 Charles the first Duke of Duras ouercome in battell by Lewes king of Hungarie is beheaded 389 Charles the second Duke of Duras caried away into Hungarie by king Lewes 389. inâ—ested vvith the crowne of Naples by Pope Vrban 392. he conquereth Naples and is crowned king of Naples 393. he is chosen and crowned king of Hungarie 394. he is slaine at Buda ibidem his issue ibidem Chaonia a countrie in Epire. 475 Chidna a place in Epire surprised by Mahomet the manner of it 475 Chieri a place in Macedonie 431 Chios an Island in the mediterran sea 319 Chirluc a Greeke of Canstantinople 319. his infidelitie notable treacherie 332. his death and execution 333 Chiurill a towne in Epire begunne to be builded by Scanderbeg and razed by Mahomet 488 Chrisoceras a Promontorie by Constantinople 315 Christian Princes their carelessenesse of the losse and daunger of Constantinople 314 Christians their voiage against the Turkes broken 449 Christians their delaies and securitie 291 Christians subiects of the great Turke their miserable estate 217 Christians slaine at Belgrade buried 307 Cimerians a people of Epire. 45 Clement the seuenth made Antipope 391 Clemencie and rare humanitie of Scanderbeg 348. and towards Assambeg 428 Colchina a citie of the Venetians in Dalmatia vpon the sea or gulfe of Venice 263 Colla Humoâ— 102 Combat betweene Scanderbeg and a Scithian 8. betwene him and two Persians 9. betweene Paul Manassey and Caragusa 120. betwene Scanderbeg and Feribassa 174. of Acmath and Barach vvith Scanderbeg 299. betwene Zacharie Groppe and Ahemaz 339 Comparison of Scanderbeg and Huniades 75 Complaints of the Turkes of Macedonie to Amurath against Scanderbeg 77. of the Despot of Seruia against Scanderbeg 78. of Aâ—esa to his souldiers 119. by Amurath at his death 243 Conditions of peace offered by the Venetians to Scanderbeg 127. by Mahomet to Scanderbeg 432. by Amurath to Scanderbeg 81 Conditions of composition offered by Amurath to the Sfetigradians 148. by the Turkes within Sfetigrade to Scanderbeg 202. by Amurath to Vranocontes
assaulted the thâ—rd time Turkes repulsed from the assalt Amurath his â— impatieÌ„cie who enraged at his ill successe exclaimeth against God Amurath consulteth vpon his proceeding in the siege of Croy. Isup sent Ambassadour from Amurath to Scanderbeg to coÌ„clude a peace with him Sentence The Red plaine Scanderbeg his great care and prouidence to preuent the sodaine surprises of his enemies Oration of Isup to ScaÌ„â—erbeg * Morea once named Peloponnesus in Greece * Caramania or Cilicia Sentence Magnanimity of the Epirots in the dayes of Scanderbeg Answere of Scanderbeg to Isup his Ambassade Sentence Amurath sickneth vppon griefe and melancholy A third canuazado by Scanderbeg to the campe of the Turkes before Croy. Turks in great perplexitie vpon the sicknesse of Amurath Sentence Crayna a mountaine ouer Croy. Amurath his last end a mirrour for great persons Complaints lamentations made by Amurath at his death Speech and admonitious of Amurath to his sonne Mahomet vpon his death bed Amurath his death Amurath his manifold exploites and famous actes Hexamile a wall so called by the Greekes which did run sixe miles in length enclosing the countrie of Peloponnesus or Morea from the sea of AEgeuum lying betweene Greece and Asia euen to the sea of Ionia or part of the Mediterran sea lying betweene that and Italy now called the gulf of Venice Amurath an example of the vanitie and inconstancie of worldly blisse and fortune Prusa or Bursa the place of Amurath his sepulcher Siege of Croy raised Amurath his age at his death 85. yeares Scanderbeg returneth to Croy where he is receiued with exceeding ioy Rewards giueÌ„ to the citizens souldiers and Gouernor of Croy by Scanderbeg Vranocontes created Duke of Emathia ChristiaÌ„ their ioy and triumph vniuersally vpon the death of Amurath Christians had litle or no benefit by the death of Amurath Conquests atchieued by the Turkes of late ages vpon Christendome Euboea Or Lesbos Causes of the conquests of the Turkes vpon the Christians Liberalitie of Christian kings pr 〈…〉 s sending presents to Scanderbeg to congratulate his good fortune vpon the death of Amurath Triumphes in Epire for the discomfiture and death of Amurath Amurath best beloued by his subiects and most vpright to his enemies of all the Ottoman Princes Sentence Custome of the Ianissaries to sacke the houses of the Iewes and Christians at the death of their Prince Mahomet crowned Emperour of the Turâ—â—s Emperours of the Turkes the maner of their succeeding to the crowne Sentence Prouerbe of Princes children Mahomet his cruelty impiety Tursines brother to Mahomet drowned Moses Bassa the murderer of Tursines murdered by the mother of the infant Calepin brother to Mahomet Caly Bassa Sponderbeg Prince of Penderacia Calepin or one in his stead strangled by Mahomet Histories how to be written Mahomet his tyranny and mischieuous manners Mahomet his notable vices and vertues Seraill a place where the Turk vseth to keepe his concubines Mahomet a notable Atheist worshippeth good Fortune only as God Iohn Maria of Vicentia slaue to Mustapha eldest sonne of Mahomet Gentill Belin a Painter of Venice Description of Mahomet Croy repaired nâ—w fortified by Scanderbeg A digression and exclamation of the author against the inuentioâ— of Ordinance 1451. Perswasions vsed by the nobles of Epire to draw Scanderbeg to mariage Ariamnites Comminat Doniqua the wife of Scanderbeg Mariage of Scanderbeg Sentence Saying of Mahomet touching the mariage of Scanderbeg The progresse of Scanderbeg with his Queen to visite all his kingdome Mountaine of Modrissa Fortresse at Modrissabuilded by Scanderbeg Ambassadours sent with conditions of peace by Mahomet to Scanderbeg Answer of Scanderbeg to the Ambassadors of Mahomet The fortresse of Modrissa finished and furnished Territories and Dominions of the Turkes inuaded spoiled by Scanderbeg OratioÌ„ of Scanderbeg to his subiects perswading theÌ„ to proceed with their conquests vpon the Turkes Two onely times to dispatch great exploites against an enemy when he is weakened or other where employed and occupied Answer of Vranocontes to the oratioÌ„ of ScaÌ„derbeg in the name of all the Epirots Winter wars most discommodious and hurtfull Sentence Time and seasen to be attended by men of valor wisdome Donique the wife of Scanderbeg passeth the Sommer at Petralba Colchina a citie of the VenetiaÌ„s vpon the sea or gulfe of Venice in Dalmatia Description of the conntrey about Petralba Mahomet prepareth an army against Scanderbeg Sentence Scanderbeg leuieth an armie to withstand the Turkes An armie of twelue thousand Turkes inuadeth Epire Amâ—sa generall of the Turkish armie against Scanderbeg Mount Mocrea Amesa the Turkes armie surprized at Modrissa by Scanderbeg Amese Generall of the Turkes taken prisoner by Amese the Nephew of Scanderbeg Victorie of Scanderbeg against Amese at Modrissa Number both of Turkes and Christians slaine in the fight at Modrissa Sentence The Turkes prisoners feasted by Scanderbeg 1452. Mahomet insensed against Amese in vnwilling to pay his ransome Sentence Perswasions vsed by Amese his friendâ— and the Turkes courâ—iâ—rs to Mahomet in his behalfe Liberalitie of Amuse the Nephew of Scanderbeg Amese and the other Turkes prisoners ransommed Debreas appointed with a new armie against Scanderbeg Debreas his ambition and glorious ostentation Sentence Ambition and enuie of the Turkes against Scanderbeg Amese coÌ„mending the vertue of Scanderbeg discourageth the Turkes Debreas marcheth into Epyre with an armie of 15000. men Scanderbeg leauteth an armie of 7000. men against Debreas The order taken by Scanderbeg for the sudden arming of his subiects and speedie raising of an armie Pologue Scanderbeg marcheth with 6000. men against Debreas The description of the countrie about Pologue Scopia a chiefe towne in Macedonie Army of Scanderbeg striken with feare by the terror of a sudden tempest Speech of Scanderbeg to his souldiers encouraging them not to be amazed at the tempest Oration of Debreas encouraging his souldiers to the battell Oration of Scanderbeg encouraging his souldiers to the battell against Debreas The battell of Pologue Moses putteth to flight the Turkes that began the flight Moses his immoderate fury in the heat of fight Speech of Scanderbeg to Moses reprehending his ouermuch hardines Moses his originall descent or pedegree Valmes a citie in Epire. Speech of Scanderbeg encouraging his souldiers to giue the charge vpon Debreas Policie of Scanderbeg in battell to ayme at the destruction of the Generall of his enemies Saying of Scanderbeg touching the cutting off of the Generall of the enemies A hardie act of Moses Debreas slaine by Scanderbeg Victorie of Scanderbeg against the armie of Debreas Sentence Number of Turkes staine in the battell of Pologue Victory not bought but giuen to the Christians Debreas his horse and armour giuen to Moses by Scanderbeg in honour of his valure vertue A pleasaunt question betweene Musache and a Turke his prisoner Speech of Scanderbeg deciding a controuersie betweene Musache the Turke his prisoner Sentence Mahomet and his Nobles greatly troubled and vexed at the discomfiture of Debreas