and then he caused them to set saile and in shorte space he arriued at Ragusio and he with certaine with him landed there and was by the chiefe of that place honorably receaued And when they had a longe tyme talked together he wente to the churche to heare seruice and then toke his leaue and went aborde and set sayle hauinge a prosperouse wynde in shorte tyme approched neare to Barletta when the Duke Iohn and the countie Iames and the rest of the nobilitie sawe so manye sayles they Iudged Scanderbeg to be there for it was bruted that Scanderbeg wolde comme and ayde the kinge whervpon they raysed their campe and went to encampe at a certaine place from thence farre of In this meane tyme Scanderbeg landed and the kinge forthewith went oute of Barletta and came and embraced Scanderbeg weping for ioye gyuinge thanckes to God and then to him for so great cortesie and grace after this Scanderbeg caused to vnshippe his furniture to comforte the king and all the rest of his people and the nexte morowe he rode into the countre whiche had rebelled against the kinge aforesayde and broughte from thence and exceding great proie of cattell of all sortes and draue it to Barletta and for the space of all that daye there was made great ioye in hope of victorie and the morninge folowing he made an oration to his souldiours in forme as foloweth My deare frinds the cause of oure being here as nowe is to ayde and succour the kinge Ferrante oure frynde whom in one momente by godes helpe we haue delyuered from a perillous sege hithervnto w toute drawing oure swordes wherfore to make an ende of this enterprise it is nedefull to vse oure weapones very skylfully and to kepe very good order in suche sorte as the kinge maye recouer the countre that he hathe loste whiche thinge can not be done withoute gyuing battayle fyghtinge the same with great assurance and in maruelouse perfecte and stronge order but I thincke not that you wyll doe otherwise here in Italie then you haue done in Albania against the Turcks and other oure enemies notwithstandinge this maye not be vnaduisedly taken in hande forsomuche as these the kinges enemyes are Italianes and Frenshe men and are armed suerly euen from the hed to the fote hauinge launces of great force and stockes bothe stronge and wel piercinge wherfore yf we shoulde stande fyrmly and receaue their charge they wolde handle vs very rudely and we shoulde be able smally to anoie them for that oure armour is slender in comparyson of thers we were Iackes of mayle Targes longe and slender launces and althoughe that oure swordes and Scymytaries be heuy and that some of them wyll cut anye kynde of yron yet all thys is in maner nothinge consyderinge that their number dothe farre excede ours and they be men of greater vertue and force then are the Turckes wherfore with suche enemies it behoueth vs to deale discretly and valiantly puttinge oure truste in God to obtaine victorie acording as we are acustmed to doe wherfore it behoueth you to obserue this order thorowly that I shall nowe gyue you we wyll goe and seke these the kinges enemyes and when we shall fynde them we wyll withoute delaye offer to charge them yf they wyll offer to countrecharge vs we wyll then seme to rone awaye and after y e wyll torne suddenly vpon them for when they haue folowed vs a lytle tyme they wylbe sone wery for they can endure no great trauayle for they are loded with heuy armour and their horses are great and heuye and wylbe sone wery but we are able to endure to the ende of anye trauayle and then wyll we with oure swordes Scymytars and Mases so beate them aboute the heddes that we wyll enforce them to fall from their horses halfe dod and vsing the matter in this sorte there is no doubte but that we shall obtaine the victorie truethe it is for that they are baptized it greueth me muche but there is no remedie for euery man is bounde to defende him selfe we haue the ryghte on oure syde and the popes blessing and grace who is lord of the whole worlde both in spirituall and temporall matters for that he is Christes lieutenante wherfore I praie you and also commaunde you that euery man enforce him selfe more nowe then euer he dyd to doe well for that we are in a strange coū trey and are enforced to obtaine this victorie for the glorye of God and the welthe and cōmoditie of oure frindes and for oure owne honor and to the losse and dishonor of oure enemies The nexte morning folowinge Scanderbeg w t hys souldiours went with great assurance to se the kynges enemies and he attempted a scaramothe to se the maner of his enemyes and in what order they fought but they behaued them selues valiantly for a longe tyme and in the ende they wered werye and there were xxx of them ftayne and xx taken prisoners and of those of Scanderbeg there were only iiii hurte in this sorte Scāderbeg retorned victoriously to Barletta The nexte daye folowing in the morning Scanderbeg retorned againe to the enemyes determyninge to fyghte with them all that day and the nighte folowing he deuided his armie into thre squadrones y e one of them he wolde leave in person the other he comitted to y e conducte of Moises a notable Captaine of his and the other he gaue in charge to the countie Gintrizza his most valiante Nephewe and he presented these thre squadrones and assayled the enemye in thre sondrye places at once and the battayle continued all that daye and in the ende the enemyes wered wery wherfore that most subtile countie Iames determyned to fynde a remedie for that most eminent peryll wherin he was and therfore wente forthe of his squadrone and with a lowde voyce called sayinge most noble prince Scanderbeg maye it please the that I maye safely comme to speake with thyne excellentie of matters that shall in no wyse displease the Scanderbeg aunswered that he shoulde goe and comme safe vpon his faythe then the countie replyed requiring him that it moughte please him to comme forthe of his squadrone and he wolde doe the lyke to the ende y ◠they mighte talke together from their companies whervpō Scanderbeg withoute anye difficultie went forthe from his squadrone acompanied with a fewe souldiours and when he came neare where the countie was he caused his souldiours to staie a parte from him then Iames sayde my lorde oure talke wyll require some tyme wherfore maye it please your highnes that for this daye the battayle cease and that commaundement be so gyuen to bothe the armies Scanderbeg was well contentyd then the countie was very glade and began to talke of peace and amitie bothe to the honor of the kinge Ferrante and also to the honor of Scanderbeg And as they were thus talkinge Moyses and Gintrizza two of hys
felde were of great iudgement whose good order dyd not à litle preuaile in that behalfe Besyde this it was not only an armie of trained souldiours that discomfyted the Samnites not farre from the Citie Suessola where they slewe an exceding great number of them and toke 40. thousande sheldes which were of the men that were slaine and also 170. standardz Cornetts and Euseignes as wytnesseth Liuie in his vii Booke of his first decade but that also the Iudgement of the Consul dyd muche preuayle in that behalfe who when he sawe the great number of his enemies coÌ„maunded his souldiours to holde them within his campe whervpoÌ„ the Samnites presuming conteÌ„ned the enemie and neglicted order and dispersed them selues all the countrey ouer to prouyde them of corne and other victualles and lefte theyr campe vngarded in effecte which when the consul vndestode he exhorted the souldiours to behaue them valiantly and immediatly went forth of his campe and assayled the campe of his enemyes and in the first charge he slewe the greatest number of them as they were in their tentes and lodgings and then commaunded to set all theyr Cornetts Enseignes and standardz vpon the trenches of theyr campe which he had taken from them and then lefte for the gard of the campe two legions with commaundement that on payne of death no man shoulde take any thing of the spoyle of the campe vntyll his retorne whervpon he marched on with his armye in order towarde the enemy and sent his horsemen before him who charged the negligent and vnprouided enemyes being dispersed all ouer the felde and vtterly destitute of order so that they fled with great confusioÌ„ and feare not knowing whyther it were best to fle wheÌ„ this was done the counsul retorned to the campe with great victorie and then gaue the spoyle of the campe of the enemyes to his souldiours In lyke sort was the perfecte order of L. Scipion counsul no lesse helpfull to his armye when that he defeicted the mitghty army of Antioche kyng of Asia vp on the Ryuer Phrigio neare to the Citye Magnesia as wytnessyth Liui in his fourth decade and vii Booke And in lyke sorte dyd the indgemeÌ„t of AlexaÌ„dre the great helpe his souldiours iÌ„ the battayle that he fought with Darius in the which with a smale number of trained souldiours he defeicted 6. hundred thousand Persians as witnesseth Blondo in his x booke de La institution de La chose publique In the lyke sorte was the iudgment of T. Quintius Flaminius helpful to his trained atmie wheÌ„ he dyd ouerthrowe Philippe the Macedone prince besyde Scotusa in Gretia slewe viii thousands of his souldiours and toke fyue thousand of them prisoners as witnessyth Plutarck in his Boke called the seconde part of his lyues in the lyfe of the same Flaminius Besyde this it was not onely the continuall exercise and disciplyne of the souldiours of Scanderbeg that gaue vnto the Turckes so manye ouerthrowes as are declared in his Commentaries althoughe they were becomme throughe their continuall exercise as it were inuincible but his great iudgement in the arte of the warres was a greate parte of the cause therof for he knewe when and howe to take the aduantage of his enemye Also to coÌ„me to oure age in the battayle that Frauncys the fyrst of that name Frenshe king fought at Marignian with the Suysses where great skyll and valiantize was showed on both partes yet was not the victorie wonne alone throughe the discipline of the souldiours but also throughe the iudgement of the conductours The lyke may be sayd of the battayle that the Countie de Augimen fought at Serizoles wyth the Marques of Guasto in the yere of oure Lord. 1544 The lyke of the battayle of Pauie betwyne the aforesayd Frenshe kinge and the Duke of Burbone lieutenante of the Imperiall armie Also the lyke of the battayle betwyne Charles the fyrst and the Duke Iohn of Saxon the Lansgraue of â—esse in Almaigne What shulde I saye any more to proue this to be true the histories doe all affyrme that the vnderstandinge of the generall doth greatly helpe to the obtayning of the victorie and withoute it a trayned armie is but as a man mayned in comparison of a maÌ„ that hath all his liÌ„mes souÌ„d and perfecte and of all the victories that I haue here spoken of and also of all those that I haue red of besydes those that I haue seen I haue not founde one gyuen by vntrayned souldiours Wherfore no armie may be called perfecte that wanteth these two kindes of men in it which is the general of perfecte iudgement the souldiour brought vp in discipline Vigetius sayeth in his .28 chapiter of his fyrste Booke of arte of the warres that the Epirotes and Macedonines people of great power adorned with many victories and also the Thesalique nation who brought vnder theyr yoke the Persians euen to the confynes of India besydes these Lacedemonies Athenies Marsians and Samnites The Datianes Medes and Thratianes which were so warlike that it was sayd amonge them that Mars whom the hethen call the god of battayle was borne in theyr countre all these nations dyd the Romanes throughe their perfecte discipline bring vnder theyr rule Also Vigetius saithe in his fyrst Boke and fyrst chapter of the arte of the warres that the great number of the Frenshe shoulde haue denoured the smale number of the Romanes had not ben theyr discipline only besydes that it had not ben possyble for the Romanes to haue resysted the populouse mighty nations of the Germanes but only by theit disciplin moreouer they shulde not haue ben able to encouÌ„tte the lustie puisante nations of Spaine had not ben their discipline yea by what meanes preuailed they against the wise and welthy Affricanes but only throughe discipline by what meanes brought they vnder yoke the mighty and subtill nation of Grekes but only by their discipline The noble Emperour Frederick Barberouse being entred Italie with his armie to chastize the Millaneses for their rebellion wolde in no wise offer warre to his enemies vntill his souldiours had fworne vnto him to obserue the discipline of the warres Paulus Iouius saith that the Hungarians so longe as they dyd obserue discipline were well able to defende their owne gaue the Turcks sondrie ouerthrowes Valâ—ius Maximus in his second Boke calleth discipline not only the foundatioÌ„ of the Romane Empire but also the preseruatioÌ„ maintenance of the same for in dede it is a harde matter to ouerthrowe a worthy generall hauinge an armie of well choseÌ„ souldiours obedient well exercised in the feates afore meÌ„cioned doe knowe what the weapons are worthe that they beare being well furnished and well instructed in order knowing the coÌ„moditie therof so longe as in battayle they doe obserue it for it is an impossibilitie to gyue any great ouerthrowe we to meÌ„ that obserue their order in the which they are plased doe vse their weapons accordingly Wherfore
and vewed his Nauie which was newlye arriued there from Constantinople he appointed them what to doe and when he had furnished the Farreglion and the reste of the fortes with bands of hys souldiours and monition he then established the gouernement of the Citie and when he had put to deathe all the Mamalukes that were there in prison he retorned againe to Cairo and toke oute of it fyue hundred housholdes of the most noble and principall of the Citie with all their children and substance and sent them to Alexandria to hys Nauie who conueied them with all their riches and treasoure to Constantinople he sent thyther also in dyuerse passagers hyred shyppes a great number of the children and wyues of the Mamalukes and when he had thus appointed his departure he lefts in Cairo a great garde of Turckes and appointed Carerbeio to be his lieutenante in all Egipte ho which at the death of Camsone the Soldane was gouernour in Aleppo this ellection dyd very much displease Iunio Bassa who succeded in y ◠place of bellagarbei of Gretia Sinan Bassa who was y ◠cheife in greatest fauor w t the Emperour who had promised him y ◠place he coulde not endure to se Carerbeio a newe man to be preferred before him not being able to dissēble his wrath began to gouerue y ◠that was cōmitted to his charge ouerthwartli troublonsly chiefly such as mought seme ī any respecte to touch Carerbeto wherof whē Selim was aduertized he called to mindother displeasures also began tohate hī excedīgli wherof afterward proceded his death as shal be declared hereafter y ◠souldiours w t were leste at Cairo required their lorde that they moughte haue their paye augmented who cōmaunded Iunso Bassa to see it done and to cause the treasorer that he lefte there to doe acording to his order when the Emperour was departed frō Cairo Iunio semyd not to remember it and gaue no order at all in that behalfe wherfore it folowed that whē Selim was gone from Cairo into Iudea and that the paie came the souldiours had not their entertainement encreasyd whervpon they began to Mutyne and rebett against Carerbeio and he excused him selfe and caused them to send with all spede after the Emperour and to complaine vnto him or their wronge they sounde hym neare vnto Iberusalem declaring howe that at y e tyme of their paie they receaued nothinge but their ordinarie and that the Treasurer declared that he had no commission to augment their paie they declared vnto him also that to lyue there was very chargeable and that their ordinarie was not able to maintaine them there whervpon Selim was excedinglye wrothe for that that hys order which he lefte was not put in execution and adding to this dyuerse other complaintes which he had receaued from Cairo of the behauiour of Iunio cheifely touchinge the families that were sent to Constantinople wherupon he cōmaunded him to comme to him and as sone as he came to him he commaunded him forthe w t to be hanged and when he had established the gouernement of Palestina he wente into Soria and appointed Gazzelle to be gouernour of Damascs one of the Captaines of Campsone he appointed also a gouernour to Aleppo and to al the reste of the townes of the prouince leuinge them all well furnished with all kynde of monition and men And determyninge to prouide for the defence of Soria against y ◠Sophie he lefte Mustaffa Basria in Cilicia at the fote of the Mounte Tauro with xl M. horsemen and when he had this done he determyned to goe home into Gretia and coasted all alonge the sea syde of the lesser Asia and so passed into Bithinia to the Citie of Bursia and from thence passed on to y e Golfe and fyndinge his Nauie redie there he embarcked hys souldiours of Europe and then sayled on to Constantinople and when he was there arriued he sent his people to garnison and consumed al that winter in visiting the townes of Gretia and late in Castoria a long tyme and toke great pleasure in chasinge when the spaynge of the yere came he went from thence into Remania gaue order to make redie his Naute and caused them to take oute of the Arsenale all his Galleys fustes and Palandres willinge them to be broughte into Propontide and in shorte space he had betwene Gallipolli and Constantinople vpon the sea moe then two hundred Galleys besyde his other shyppes with all their tacle furniture and hauinge alredie sent to the foreste manye carpentres he caused to cut a great quantitie of tymber which caused manie men to thīke y ◠he made this prouision to emploie it vpon the Isle of Rhodes notwithstanding that then and afterwarde there were diuerse that thoughte it not made for Rhodes but to be emploied against Italie and in the ende when euery thinge was redie he commaūded them to roe downe to the mouthe of the straite and there to ryde and euery man thought y ◠within fewe dayes they shoulde haue ben paied commaunded to set sayle and to doe somme great enterprise vpon the sodden which fewe vnderstode after this their came commaundement soddenly that forthewith they shoulde discharge and vnrigge the Nauie and license y ◠maryners to goe home to their dwellinge places after this the cause of this greate preparation and the soodden disoluinge therof coulde neuer be vnderstande yet somme men thinke that a sycknes that then was cōme vpon Selim was the cause therof When he had vnrigged his Nauie he departed from thence to Andrinople and seminge to take some pleasure in the chase he laie in litle villages aboute it and consumed the reste of the sommer there with y ◠Automne also and the winter folowinge after this there appeared in the raines of hys backe an incancred appostume which dyd so eate hys fleshe y e a man moughte haue put into the sore his whole hande and they dyd cut awaye y ◠fleshe rounde aboute it which was so deade that he felte it not And I wyll not here omitte a notable matter which was declared vnto me in Florence of him by a Persian of y e Mahometane religiō hauing for my turciman a citizen of ours named Iohu Cerini it is this that on a tyme as his disease dyd growe and encrease vpon him restinge his head vpon the thinge of Perino one of his Bascias he sayd vnto him Perino I doe consume muste dye within shorte space withoute all remedie vpon the which wordes the Bascia toke occasion to talke furder w t him sayd vnto him my lorde yf thou knowest y ◠thou must dye whye doeste not thou gyue order for the disposinge of those goodes which at thy commaundement were arrested taken from the marchants called Aggiammi in Bursia which are subiect to the Sophie thyne enemie the goods are worthe at y ◠leaste certaine hundredes of thousands of golde
and multiplied that of all those prouinces was made one Region and gouernement and was called Albania for that it was inhabited by y ◠Albaneses who so named it other some saye that the Albaneses are descended frō Fraunce peraduenture for that they see a natural frindshippe betwene the noble men of both the coūtres which thinge is perfectly knowen by certaine of their princes as by the lordes of Durazzo surnamed Thopia whiche are discended from Charles the greate some other frō Meschino and somme from others and for a token of good wyll Charles is made in the Citie of Croia of an excellent stone engrauen with great skyll and arte and set in the chiefe place of the Citie others saye they are discended frō Griffon de Altafoglia as the house of Ducagine and the house of Spagni as y e noble men of both houses them selues saye Let all men knowe that this newe Albania which is this discribed liethe in Europa it is very fertile plentyfull of al thinges nedfull to y ◠maintenance of mānes lyfe as is possyble it bringeth forthe men naturally so stronge valiaunte of noble myndes and apte to anye thinge that they take in hande chiefely for the warres as is possyble they are constant and faythfull to their naturall lordes and wyll rather committe them selues to all kynde of daunger and peryll then to haue their displeasure the fardest part of this Albania is neare to the seas Adriatico and Ienio and liethe ouer against Puglia froō Durazzo to Brindizio is an hundred myles and from Valoua ouer to Ottranto thre score myles by sea Nowe to oure purpose After all these thinges there came aspiall from Andrinople to Scanderbeg declared vnto him y ◠Alibege one of the Turckes Bassas came against him with .xl. M horsemen then Scanderbeg withoute delaye rode to his confynes with .xv. M. Albaneses and when y ◠Turckes were comme within two myles of him he made an oration to his armie wherby he dyd so encorage his souldiours that they desyred nothinge so muche as to encoūtre with the enemye in this meane tyme the Turckes came on with suche a noise that it semed that the heauens shoulde fal but Scanderbeg with his worthy souldiours refused not to encountre them but made y e signe of the crosse vpon hym and then he cried folowe me thruste towarde them and was the fyrste that strake charged them with sucke force and vertue that in shorte tyme he disordered them and when the battayle was ended there were founde deade on the place .xxii. M. Turckes and there were taken a thousand of the Christians manye were hurte and one hundred stayne vpon y e place all the spoyle of the Turckes as money Iuelles horses and suche lyke was presented to Scanderbeg who cansed it wholly to be disstributed to his souldiours whiche were all very ioyfull The nexte daye Scanderbeg commaunded to sounde to horse and rode into the Turckes countre a great dayes iorney and cut in peces as many Turckes as he mette or coulde fynde and raysed fire in all places where he wente In this meane while Alibeg Bassa retorned to Andrinople and was greatly blamed by the Turcke for his euell gouernement Laodislao king of Hungarie who then made preparatiō to goe against Amorathe w t an armie sent to Scanderbeg vnderstādīg of y ◠great victorie y ◠he had obtained against him to desyre him that he wolde goe in his companie w t such bandes of souldiours as he should thincke good wherfore when Scanderbeg had redde his letter he called vnto him his Captaines showing them the letter and asking their aduise in y ◠behalfe who aunswered by one consent that he mought in no wyse refuse y e king in so reasonable a demaunde for y ◠it was for the distruction of the common enemye of our faithe then Scanderbeg wrote vnto the kinge Laodislao that he moughte assure him of all the ayde that he shoulde be able to gyue him and then Scanderbeg by y e helpe of Paulo Ducagino and other princes of his nation had leuied other xv M men besides those that he had alredie vnder his conducte with whom he defeicted the aforesayde Alibeg which amounted in the whole to the number of xxx M. and then he began to marche but George Vucouich dispotto of Seruia a man valiante ynoughe but of a traitorouse mynde and regarded not anye religion neither Christian nor Mahometane for that he had gyuen Amorathe to wife his daughter named Hierenia and of some Catagusina which was syster to the wyfe of Alessio Spano called Isabetta and of some others Milizza which was sister to Lazaro Stephane and Georgio Nephewes to Andrea Augelo by there mother side for certaine hatred that the Dispotto bare to the Hungarianes and chiefely to Iohn of Transyluania who had ben the cause that certaine castles and townes of his were holden frō him whervpon the Dispotto fortyfied all the passages of his countre wherby he troubled Scanderbeg in suche sorte that he coulde not passe withoute great losse of his people into Hungarie In this meane tyme Iohn with the Hungarians and Polonianes beinge ayded also by Iuliano Cesarino Cardinall S. Angelo made redie his armie to marche towarde Varna where they muste nedes fyghte and Amorathe loked for ayde oute of Asia to comme to hym and therfore auoyded by al meanes possyble the battaile and prolonged the warres as much in him was wolde not comme to the battayle whiche when the worthye Vayuoda vnderstode he procured him to the scaramoche in so skylfull sorte that in the ende he enforced hym to come to the battayle and in the ende after longe fyghte the vertue of the Hungarianes was suche that y e Turckes were disordered and put to flyghte when Laodislao vnderstode this he became excedingly wrothe by meanes of the talke of certaine folyshe and ambitious yong◠men who sayde that Iohn Vaiuoda soughte to haue al the glorie of the victorie to him selfe which was y ◠cause that he appointed the kinge alwaye to tarie within his squadrone the kinge beinge moued with these wordes marched forwarde with his troupe of ten thousand Hungarianes which was very stronge and fronted y ◠Turckes great squadrone where after longe and cruel fighte Laodislao was stayne by meanes wherof the Hungarianes which were euen redie to folowe the victorie were constrained to torue backe againe and to loose al-in such sorte that Iohn Vaiuoda their Captaine generall was enforced to flee to the house of the aforesayde Dispotto of Seruia as to a place of securitie but he being the onely cause of thys ouerthrowe for so muche as he suffred not Scanderbeg to passe thorowe his countre caused Vaiuoda to be kepte vnder good garde forthe with vntyll suche tyme as he restored him to al his townes Scāderbeg soughte contynually to passe throughe the countre of the Dispotto and hearing of this miseral le chaūse was in such
meanes of the aforesaid diuisioÌ„ he began at Viterbo which was then holden by one of the factions by his auctoritie called home againe those that for feare were fled reconciled them w t their aduersaries in this sort lefte them al in good peace vnder his protection gouernance after this he sent his legates into y e duchie into the contrey of Marca and finding these prouinces infected w t the afore saide Maladye one citie being in armes againste the other and diuerse citie beinge deuided in them selues the one part of the Citie against the other some were of the Colonese factino other of the Orsius and nowe had the one the better and then the other tyl at the laste by the great prouidence and industrie of the legates they were all pacified and lefte vnder the regiment and gouernaunce of the popes officers in perfecte tranquiletie and quietnes after this when the pope behelde y â— miserable state of his contrey the great spoyle therof that had ben made throughe the Ciuile disorder and warres y â— had ben amonge them by meanes wherof they had consumed a great numbre of their people also were brought into extreme pouerty it was a great griefe vnto him and then gaue he order that they which gouerned shoulde by common consent restore againe to their firste degres and honours the orders of gentlemen and the twelue and shoulde cal from exile certaine worthie citizens and in this sorte he enlarged his regiment and state and lefte it quiet and in peace tyll at the laste in the contre of Marca their arose the lord Sigismonde Malisti and gatherid an army and encountred with the popes Legate and gaue him a great ouerthroe by meanes wherof all the Contre of Marca was in armes and folowed this Sigismonde wherupon the pope sent thither his legate the Cardinall of Tiano apistolese borne with the Duke of Vrbine and the lorde Napoleone Orsino which gaue to Sigismondo such an ouerthroe not farre from Sinigaglia that they enforced him to leue y â— feelde and so repressed his furie y â— in a shorte tyme they toke from him Sinigaglia Fano and a good pece of the countie of Arrimino and after diuerse encouÌ„tres in the kingdome of Naples the kings Ferrante remained victoriouse and the Duke Iohn with his Angionme faction was retorned into Fraunce when Ferrante was well established in his kingdome and that the pope sawe him selfe deliuered of two great warres and had established the temporal state of his church and brought it to perfecte quietnes he then called againe to minde y â— enterprise of Asia against the Turckes and being confederate with the kinge of Hungarie the Duke of Borgonie and with the state of Venise they then consulted and determined in what sorte they woulde make these warres the pope sent forthe his letters with his messagers to al the princes of Christendome exhorting and requiring theÌ„ to coÌ„me ayde him in this iorney against thâ— infidels and appointed the tyme that in the yere of our helthe a thousand foure hundred threscore and foure the xv daye of Iune all the armie shoulde be redie in y â— contre of Marca not farre from Ancona where they shoulde fynde the Nauie reddie to receaue both y â— popes hollynes and them also who wolde in person goe to so glorious an enterprise and when the pope had thus determined he passed on for the recouerie of his helthe to Siena meaning the nexte spring folowing according to his custume to goe to the baines at Petriuolo and wheÌ„ he was there arriued newes came to him that Philippe Duke of Borgonie seing the great tumultes and emotiones that were in Fraunce betwene the king and the nobilitie wolde prouide for y â— securitie of his state wherfore he wolde not deale at all in the enterprise againste the Turckes but emploied all his force vnder the conducte of his sonne Charles against Loys king of FrauÌ„ce whereupon he changed his purposed iorney to y e baines and retorned to Rome where he was maruelously troubled with the goute and also with the feuer wherupon he was enforced to contynewe there a longe tyme contrarie to his determination which was the cause that he coulde not be at his daye appointed at Ancona according to his proclamation that he had made of the iorney in the meane tyme their came to Rome seuerally ambassadours both from Loys the frenshe king and also from Philippe Duke of Borgonie excusing ether of them for so muche as beinge troubled with domesticale warres they coulde not at that tyme gyue anye aide toward the iorney when the pope was some thing recouerid of his disease he called the Cardinales to the Consystorie there discoursed of the heresies that then were in y e kingdome of Bohemia wherupon he graunted forthe his citationes and then with his Cardinales and other Cortigianes he departed from Rome and passed throughe y â— contre of Sabina into the Duchie and from thence into the contre of Marca and beinge caried in a horse lytter in consyderation of his weakenes passed so on to Ancona and as he passed on y â— waye he mette with a great numbre of men â—â—ich came oute of Almanie Fraunce and Spaine of tâ—â—ir owne good willes to goe that iourney against the infidels of the whiche numbre the greatest parte and chiefely those that came oute of Almanie brought with them no prouision wherwith to susteine them in that iorney wherupon he gaue them his bene diction and absolued them clearely from al the offences that euer they committed vntyll that present and in this sorte licensid them to retorne into their couÌ„treys againe and being in Ancona he loked for y e Nauie which was made redie in diuers places of Italie and shoulde repare thither to vnite them selues and also he loked for the Duke of Venise with his armata to arriue there in this meane time the feuer dyd so growe and encreas vp on him that the same daye that the Duke of venise landed in y e hauen of Ancona accompanied with xii galleys and a great numbre of gentlemen he yelded vp his soulâ— to god which was the yere of our helth 1464. and the â—iiii of August immediatly vpoÌ„ his death y â— Cardinales retorned to Rome to electe a newe Byshoppe and the Duke of Venise retorned againe to Venise with his armata and in this sorte the Nauie was deuided and all the preparation that was made for the iorney into Asia was but in vaine and when the Duke was come home to Venise the Seniours thoughte it not good to losse al that which they had bestoed in furnishing their Nauie and their armie where upon they made Nicholas de Canale general of their Nauie and sent him with their Nauie to the sea who sayled alonge the coaste of Gretia landed in Romania and sacqued the Citie of Euia and toke oute of it a great
and the Duke had thus promysed the Turckes delyuered the towne and receauyd into it the Dukes souldiours and delyuered vnto them the gouernance of the towne when this was done contrarie to all promes they helde all the chiefe of y â— Turckes prisoners and put a great number of the souldiours into the galleys and helde them of force all sauing certaine of them beinge men of place and circumspect who wolde rather committe them selues to the faythe of the Hungarian Cononel then to the Italianes when Sultan Baiazithe had ouerthorowen his brother Gemma and put him to slyghte and receauid obeisance of all the state and dominiones of his ancestrous in Asia the lesse and had visited the contre of Pontho Capadotia and other prouinces and gyuen order for the gouernaunce of them he coÌ„tynued in Burfia for a certaine space to giue audience to the gouernours of those prouinces of Asia which were subiecte vnto him in those partes where he bare him selfe so modestly and determyned his causes w t such humanitie that in the ende he obtained great good wyll of the people when he had thus done be passyd the straite homeward and was receauid into Constantinople with great pompe acording to the order of the triuÌ„p hantes of y e olde worldes he then gaue order altered the recepte of his reuenewes and customes withoute any sparcke of auarice or rapine and when he had made a reuewe of hys Gianizzaries he dyd not onely encreÌ„se the number of his fotemen but also of his horsemen and caused them to be wel paide which was an occasion that they were wel furnished in good order for so much as they sawe their prince to haue a delight ni them that he was very liberall vnto them And then began they to be excellently wel mounted their horses richely furnished them selues and their wiues soÌ„ptuously aparellyd with clothe of golde syluer Iuelles and suche lyke in sorte that the countre was chaunged from rude grose furniture into somtuouse and magnifique ornamentes and deckings And wheÌ„ he had bestoed a time in visiting his prouinces of Gretia and was come neare to Epâ—rro whiche is that parte of Macedonia that is inhabited by the nation called Albaneses from whoÌ„ the contrei hath yet his name is called Albania amoÌ„g whoÌ„ at the death of SultaÌ„ Mahometh there arose certain leaders seditioussi caused a great parte of y e couÌ„trei to reuolte whoÌ„ by his presence he agreed y e rest be toke bâ— force and so brought theÌ„ to his deuotioÌ„ before y e he wolde departe oute of that contre he sent to protest to the kinge Ferrante of Naples that yf he sent him not his artillerie munitioÌ„ wholli that was left in Ottranto at the deliuerie therof with his people and all suche substance and treasure of theirs as he then deteyned contrarie to his sworne promes that then he wolde make warres vpon him and seke to redresse his owne cause throughe the which message the king beinge sore a ferde embarcked all his artillerie monition and men with all such riches as they there had and caused them to be landed safely at Valona after that he lad his armie into Romania and coÌ„tinued with his courte in Andrinople began to make preparatioÌ„ for the warres against Caromano prince of the one parte of Cilicia beinge desirous to reuenge the defeicte that he receauid of him a litle before the deathe of his father This Caromano was the seconde prince of the Turckishe nation that then possessid anye dominion in Asia and they say that when he neded he was able to come to the feelde with xl thousand armed horsemen his principall state wherin he did reside was in y e for dest parte of the lesser Asia toward Soria called Cilicia campestre in that part therof where the ancient and famous citie of Tarso standethe which is builded vpon a plaine and is deuided throughe the middest by the ryuer Cidna and is not farre from the Baie Issico whiche is at thys daye the golfe of Iaza he possessed also in the lesse Armenia and Capadotia those partes that confyne with y e mounte Tauro wheÌ„ Baiazith had prepared al things mete for the iorney he put his Nauie to the sea embarâ—ked all his souldiours both horsemen and fotemen and passed then into Asia then marched throughe Bithi nia bothe y e contreis of Frigia Dardania Ionia Mâ—sia Caria Licia Pamphilia and finally with his people in ordre he entred into Cilicia campestre forasmuch as the contre of Cilicia hathe very large confines it is by ancient writers deuided into two partes of the whiche the lesse is called Trachea and hathe his sea bancke or shore of no great largenes it hath standinge vpon the plaine therof neuer a great towne for that the greatest parte of it is of the mounte Tauro and is so barren y â— it is not well inhabited the campestre begynning at y e Citie of Tarso and at Magnopoli a Citie in tyme paste of great power and fame stretcheth oute to y t baie Issico nowe called the golfe of Iaza and towarde the northe it confineth with Capadotia vpon the syde of the mounte Tauro when Baiazith was entred with his armie into y e countre of Abraham Caromano who had w t great diligence fortified his townes looking for his enemies and also he had furnished the straites of his contre and to the ende he wolde not be enforced to fighte he encamped alwayes in places of strengthe and great securitie and dwelled with his people as neare the enemye as he moughte The Turckes being lordes of the feelde went and spoyled and proied all the contre finalli when Baiazithe had consumed a great pece of the sommer coulde by no meanes prouoke the enemie to battaile he deter myned to besege some of his townes whervpoÌ„ he went to Tarso and besegyd it rounde planted his batterys and began to batter the walles not ceasiing daye nor nighte in suche sorte that in shorte space he had made so great breache that he thoughte it sufficient wherevpon he made redye for the assaulte and put his menne in battaile which thinge when they of the citie perceaued refusinge to put them selues in daunger of the losse of both lyfe and goodes they practized appointement and agreed to delyuer him the Citie vpon condition that he shoulde suffer them to enioye both lyfe and goodes wheÌ„ Baiazithe was come into the Citie he vsed y e Citizenes very gently and wolde not suffer anye of his armye to enter into the towne but onely those that were appointed to y e garde bothe of his person and towne and when the Automne was come on the sharpnes of the wether was suche that he coulde not well holde his people in y e felde whervpon he appointed them to lye in Garnisones in the townes there aboute from whence he ouer ran
on the pointe of a launce and then sent it to be showed in euery place throughe oute his countrey in token of victorie he then beinge whollye occupied in makinge his prouisyon of men bothe on horsebacke and fote of money and other monition which he ment to vse in his enterprise that he determyned to take in hand the springe nerte folowing callinge oute of Asia and Europe all such of his subiectes as had ben wel trained in y e warres and had determyned to winter at Iconio for y e he wolde be at hand to take in hande againe the enterprise in the springe folowing the Gianizzaries beinge determined to goe home into Gretia went vnto him and when they sawe that they coulde not perswade hym to passe into Gretia for that winter they began to threaten him and declared vnto him that yf he wolde not goe with them they wolde them selues goe and when they came there they wolde swere obedience to his sōne with the which wordes Selim was marueiously troubled and began to suspecte and the nighte folowing disguised him selfe and with certaine of his familiers with him toke the poste and ran daye and nighte vntyll he came to Scuta ro and passed y e straite and discouered him selfe to none vntyl he came within his Seraglio where he continued three dayes and wolde gyue audience to noe man and in the ende beinge enforced by Pernio Bascia and y e Cadi to declare the cause of his great melancholie answered that he was no more an Emperour for so muche as the Gianizzaries wolde haue enforced him whervpon they desyred him to be of good chere and declared vnto hym that he shoulde haue good meanes to punished them and to be reuenged vpon them for their rebellion and when they vnderstode of him the cheife auctours of this disorder they wrote to all the bandes of the Gianizzaries in generall and gaue them to vnderstande the whole matter and the auctours of the disorder also whervpō they so sturred them vp that soddenly they toke their weapones and then laide hande of those whiche began this matter and broughte them in cheynes to Constantinople and presented them before the gates of the Serraglio and with lowd voice asked pardone puttinge the whole defaute in their leaders and delyuered them all in cheynes requiringe him to put them to deathe in example to those that shoulde come after them Selim accepted their exceuse and pardoned them and put to death all the chiefe of the sedition which seueritie wroughte so great terrour that Solimano his sonne fcaring leste his father shoulde haue him in any sospition by meanes of the wordes of the Gianizzaries went to kysse his fathers fete being moruelously affraied and excused hys innocentie when Selim had lefte his frontiers of Europe well garded and had prouided hoth men and money for his iorney he retorned againe to Icomo to hys garnisones In this meane time the Sophie sent his ant bassodours to y e Soldan for aide declaring vnto him the great peryll wherin he was praied him that he wolde haue regarde to their comon welthe and send his armie to vnite with him The Soldane was maruelousty moued by the perswationes of the Persianes and vnderstandinge the great confusion and disorder into y e which the Sophie was broughte with all his countre of Persia fearinge leste that he beinge thus affraied shoulde seke suche peace at the handes of Selim as he moughte obtaine and that when the Turckes had broughte the Sophie vnder fote they shoulde employe their whole force against Soria whervpon he gaue them to vnderstande that he wolde in no wyse fayle them but wolde for their welthe hazarde bothe his person and al that he had els and that they shoudle wyll their prince to be of good cheare and as sone as the springe shoulde comme on he wolde in person with all his power of Mamalukes and other souldiours that he coulde make descend into Soria to vnite his force with his to the ende that when they had had vnited their forces they mought prenente the enemye and goe to seeke him and make the warres at his owne dore and for that y e Soldane wolde detract no time he began immediatly to leuie his bands and gather his armye and to make redie for y e enterprise on the other side when Selim retorned to his garnisions he began to supplie his bandes with freshe souldiours and to see them thorowlie furnished with money and al other necessaries and as sone as the springe of the yere tame he assembled his armye and put to the feelde marthing towarde the mounte Taurs to passe into Armenia and as he approched neare the mountayne he had aduertizement that the Soldan was departed from Cai ro with all his ordinarie bandes and a great number of Arabianes and came downe into Soria to ayde the Sophie and to vnite his force with him wherupon he caused to state the marche and then called to councell hys Bascias and other Captaines declaringe vnto them y e comminge of the Soldane into Soria and when they had thorowlye discoursed of the matter what was to be done therin they allowed the opinion of Selim whiche was to preueut the enemyes and not to suffer them to vnite their forces but to goe and encountre the one of them Iudginge it more easye to ouerthrowe one then bothe their powers beinge once vnited and discoursing in him selfe which of them it were better fyrst to assayls he thoughte the enterprise againste the Soldane mostemete and easyer then it of Persia against the Sophie for that the Soldane beinge an olde man and not trayned in the warres was more weake and for that his armye had ben a longe tyme at reste and had dealed wyth no enemye of great experience in warres but that their name was feared in all y ◠easte for y e actes which thye their predecessours had done in time past being in this sort persuaded he determined the enterprise against the Soldane marched w t his armie a long by the fote of the mounte Tauro holdinge the waye of the righte hand so passed into Cilicia where he vnderstode that the Soldane had entertained in his paie a great number of Arrabianes and that he was entred into Soria wyth xv thousand Mamalukes comming towarde Aleppo wher vpon he made the greater haste and went towardes him and when he came neare to Aleppo he vnderstode that y e Soldane was encamped vpon the ryuer of Singa tenmyles from that place whervpon he put hys people in battayle and marched on toward the enemie with great furie and when he came within syghte of them he foude that the Soldane began to disiodge and to take y e feelde puttinge his people in order in the myddest of the feelde declaring him selfe redie to the battaile whervpon withoute delaie they ioyned in battayle and there began a very braue and bloudie fyghte and it contynued a