the terrour of the world for the punishment of Christians and we may justly hope that when the correction is done the rod shall be burnt especially finding already their force to abate being at this day stopt with the half-kingdome of Hungary who formerly could not be stayed by the whole Empire of Greece The first step these Turks took out of their own countrey was into Turcomania a northern part of Armenia conquered and so called by them where they lived like the Scythian Nomades alwaies wandring yet alwaies in their way none claiming a propriety in the land as his all defending the common interest therein as theirs The next step was into Persia whither they were called to assist Mahomet the Saracen Sultan against his enemies where taking notice of their own strength the Saracens cowardize and the pleasure of Persia they under Tangrolipix their first King overcame that large dominion Then did the Turks take upon them the Mahometan religion and having conquered the Saracens by their valour were themselves subdued by the Saracen superstition An accident more memorable because not easily to be paralleled excepting King Amaziah who having taken Edom was took with the idolatry thereof because conquerours commonly bring their religion into the places they subdue and not take it thence Their third large stride was into Babylon the Caliph whereof they overcame And shortly after under Cutlu-muses their second King they wan Mesopotamia the greatest part of Syria and the city of Jerusalem Mean time whilest these vultures Turks and Saracens pecked out each others eyes the Christians if they had husbanded this occasion might have advantaged themselves and might have recovered their health by these contrary poysons expelling each other But the Grecian Emperours given over to pleasure and covetousnesse regarded not their own good till at last the Turks devoured them as God willing shall be shewed hereafter As for those Christians who lived in Palestine under the Turks they had no lease of their safety but were tenants at will for their lives goods to these tyrants though it rained not down-right yet the storm of persecution hung over their heads their minds were ever in torture being on the rack of continuall fear and suspense and Simon himself was no better then an honourable slave though Patriarch of Jerusalem as appeareth by his letters of complaint Chap. 8. The character of Peter the Hermite his soliciting the Holy warre the Councel at Clermont and the successe thereof IT happened there came a pilgrime to Jerusalem called Peter an Hermite born at Amiens in France one of a contemptible person His silly looks carried in them a despair of any worth and yet as commonly the richest mines lie under the basest and barrennest surface of ground he had a quick apprehension eloquent tongue and what got him the greatest repute was accounted very religious With him Simon the Patriarch of Jerusalem often treated concerning the present miseries of the Christians under the Turks what hope of amendment and how the matter might secretly be contrived that the Princes of Europe might assist and relieve them Peter moved with the Patriarchs perswasions the equity and honourablenesse of the cause and chiefly with a vision as they say from heaven wherein our Saviour himself appointed him his Legate with a commission to negotiate the Christian cause took the whole businesse upon him and travelled to Rome to consult with Pope Urbane the second about the advancing of so pious a design Now though many cry up this Hermite to have been so pretious a piece of holinesse yet some suspect him to be little better then a counterfeit and a cloke-father for a plot of the Popes begetting because the Pope alone was the gainer by this great adventure and all other Princes of Europe if they cast up their audite shall find themselves losers This with some is a presumption that this cunning merchant first secretly employed this Hermite to be his factour and to go to Jerusalem to set on foot so beneficiall a trade for the Romish Church As for the apparition of our Saviour one may wonder that the world should see most visions when it was most blind and that that age most barren in learning should be most fruitfull in revelations And surely had Peter been truly inspired by God and moved by his Spirit to begin this warre he would not have apostared from his purpose so mortified a man would not have feared death in a good cause as he did afterwards and basely ran away at Antioch For when the siege grew hot his devotion grew cold he found a difference betwixt a voluntary fast in his cell and a necessary and undispensable famine in a camp so that being well hunger-pincht this cunning companion who was the trumpet to sound a march to others secretly sounded a retreat to himself ran away from the rest of the Christians and was shamefully brought back again for a fugitive But to return to Pope Urbane who was zealous in the cause to further it and called a Council at Clermont in France where met many Princes and Prelates to whom he made a long oration Authours differ in the mould but they agree in the metall that it was to this effect First he bemoned the miseries of the Christians in Asia and the vastation of those holy places Jerusalem which was once the joy of the whole earth was now become the grief of all good men the Chapell of Christs conception at Nazareth birth at Bethlehem buriall on mount Calvarie ascension on mount Olivet once the fountains of piety were now become the sinks of all profanenesse Next he encouraged the Princes in the Council to take arms against those infidels and to break their bonds in sunder and to cast their cords farre from them and as it is written to cast out the handmaid and her children Otherwise if they would not help to quench their neighbours houses they must expect the speedy burning of their own and that these barbarous nations would quickly overrun all Europe Now to set an edge on their courage he promised to all that went this voyage a full remission of their sins and penance here and the enjoying heaven hereafter Lastly thus concluded Gird your swords to your thighs O ye men of might It is our parts to pray yours to fight ours with Moses to hold up unwearied hands to God yours to stretch forth the sword against these children of Amalek Amen It is above belief with what chearfulnesse this motion meeting with an active and religious world was generally entertained so that the whole assembly cried out God willeth it A speech which was afterwards used as a fortunate watch-word in their most dangerous designes Then took many of them a crosse of red cloth on their right shoulder as a badge of their devotion And to gain the favourable assistance of
Templars the common fame That the Holy land long since had been wonne but for the collusion of the false Templars and Hospitallers with the Infidels Here the Earle of Sarisbury interposed himself to make peace and to perswade Robert to listen to the wholesome counsel that was given him But his good will was rewarded with Coward Dastard English tail and such like contumelious terms Wherefore said our Earl Well Generall on in Gods name I believe this day you will not dare to come nigh to my horses tail And now the touchstone must tell what is gold what is brasse Marching on they assaulted the castle of Mauzar and were notably repulsed and Melechsala coming in with his whole strength hemmed them in on every side The Christians were but the third part of the armie and at the present they themselves were scarce the half of themselves being faint for want of refreshing Yet never shall one read more valour in so little a volume They played their parts most stoutly As for the French Earl who went on like thunder he went out like smoke crying to the Earl of Sarisbury Flee flee for God fighteth against us To whom our Earl God forbid my fathers sonne should flee fom the face of a Saracen The other seeking to save himself by the swiftnesse of his horse and crossing the river had there water enough to drown him but too little to wash from him the stain of rashnesse and cowardise Thus died the Earl of Artois who had in him the parts of a good Generall but inverted and in transposition bold in counsel fearfull in execution He was one of that princely quaternion of brothers which came hither at this voyage and exceeded each other in some quality Lewis the Holiest Alphonse the Subtillest Charles the Stoutest and this Robert the Proudest As for the Earl of Sarisbury he resolved to sell his life at such a rate that the buyer should little boast of his penny-worth slaying many a Turk and though unhorsed and wounded in his legs stood on his honour when he could not stand on his feet and refusing all quarter upon his knees laid about him like a desperate man The longer he fought the fewer wounds he had and there at last he breathed forth his soul in the middest of his enemies Of all the Christians there escaped no more then two Templars one Hospitaller and one common souldier the messengers of this heavy news The French writers because they can say little good say little of this battel and lessen the overthrow as much as may be which Authours of other nations have more fully reported Thus sometimes unfortunate gamestâ—rs flâ—tter themselves belie their own purses and dissemble their losses whereof the standers by take more accurate notice P. Aemylius an Italian born at Verona but by long writing the French history his penne is made free denison of France though with his hand he doth hide the orifice of the wound yet it is too narrow to cover the whole sore round about So that it plainly appeareth that a great and grievous and most mortall blow was here given to the Christians Chap. 16. King Lewis almost in the same place hath the same wofull successe conquered and taken captive by Melechsala IT is easier to be conceived then expressed what generall grief this dolefull news brought to the French who followed not farre off and who before had cause enough to sorrow for themselves For the plague began to rage furiously amongst them and daily swept away thousands Mean time good King Lewis sent many of the weakest and impotentest people down the river to Damiata there to enjoy the benefit of privacie good attendance and physick Melechsala having intelligence hereof met them by the way and setting upon them having neither arm to fight nor legs to runne away either burned or drowned them all save one English man Alexander Giffard whose ancient and famous family flourisheth to this day at Chellington in Staffordshire who wounded in five places of his bodie escaped to the French and reported what had happened to the rest And by this time Melechasala understood of the correspondency betwixt King Lewis and the governour of Cairo for the betraying of the city Whereupon he caused him suddenly to be apprehended whereby the French King lost all hopes to obtain that place of importance Yea now full willingly would the Christians have accepted the terms formerly offered them and now their hungry stomachs would make dainties of those conditions which before when full of pride they threw away as fragments But the Turks now sleighted them as not worth the treating with and as knowing that these Frenchmen who at their first landing were more then men would at last be lesse then women Then began the French Lords to perswade King Lewis to provide for the safety of his own person and to return to Damiata They told him That if he stayed with them there was no hope grounded on probability and what was any other but a wilfull self-delusion of his escaping If he were killed his death would be a living shame to their religion if taken prisoner how would Mahomet insult over Christ The captivity of the most Christian of the most Christian Kings would be foundation â—nough for the Turks thereon to build tropheys of eternall triumph But Lewis would not leave them that they might not leave him but resolved to be a commoner with them in weal and wo disdaining to be such a niggard of his life as not to spend it in a good cause in so good company Forward they march and come to the fatall place where the last battel was fought There behold the mangled headlesse handlesse feetlesse corpses of their fellow-countreymen They knew in generall they were all their friends none knew his particular friend The cause of this unwonted cruelty to the dead was a proclamation which Melechsala made assigning a great summe of money to every one who would bring the head hand or foot of a Christian And this made many of his covetous cowards who carried their valour in their purses to be couragious Whilest the French were here bemoning their fellows Melechsala came upon them with an infinite multitude and put them all being few and feeble to the sword taking King Lewis with his two brethren Alphonse and Charles prisoners Instantly the Turks went up with French ensignes to Damiata hoping so suddenly to surprise it Which projeâ—t had it took effect then farewell King Lewis for ever He must be sent a present to the Caliph of Babylon from whom never any returned alive Melechsala being but Purgatory whence there was redemption but the Babylonian Caliph Hell it self from whence no hope of release But God defeated their designe for the Turks could not French it so handsomely but that they were discovered The very language of their hands made them suspected afarre off because they could not counterfeit the French idiotismes in managing their bucklers that
torment then generous spirits who are for the enduring of honourable danger and speedie death but not provided for torment which they are not acquainted with neither is it the proper object of valour Again it is produced in their behalf that being burned at the stake they denied it at their death though formerly they had confessed it and whose charitie if not stark-blind will not be so tender-eyed as to believe that they would not breath out their soul with a lie and wilfully contract a new guilt in that very instant wherein they were to be arraigned before the Judge of heaven A Templar being to be burned at Burdeaux and seeing the Pope and King Philip looking out at a window cried unto them Clement thou cruell Tyrant seeing there is no higher amongst mortall men to whom I should appeal for my unjust death I cite thee together with King Philip to the tribunall of Christ the just Judge who redeemed me there both to appear within one yeare and a day where I will lay open my cause and justice shall be done without any by-respect In like manner James grand Master of the Templars though by piece-meal he was tortured to death craved pardon of God and those of his Order that forced by extremitie of pain on the rack and allured with hope of life he had accused them of such damnable sinnes whereof they were innocent Moreover the people with their suffrage acquitted them happie was he that could get an handfull of their ashes into his bosome as the Relique of pious martyrs to preserve Indeed little heed is to be given to peoples humours whose judgement is nothing but prejudice and passion and commonly envie all in prosperitie pitie all in adversitie though often both undeservedly And we may believe that the beholding of the Templars torments when they were burned wrought in the people first a commiserating of their persons and so by degrees a justifying of their cause However vulgus non semper errat aliquando elìgit and though it matters little for the gales of a private mans fancie yet it is something when the wind bloweth from all corners And true it is they were generally cryed up for innocents Lastly Pope Clement and King Philip were within the time prefixed summoned by death to answer to God for what they had done And though it is bad to be busie with Gods secrets yet an argment drawn from the event especially when it goeth in company with others as it is not much to be depended on so it is not wholly to be neglected Besides King Philip missed of his expectation and the morsell fell besides his mouth for the lands of the Templars which were first granted to him as a portion for his youngest sonne were afterwards by the Council of Vienne bestowed on the Knights-Hospitallers Chap. 3. A moderate way what is to be conceived of the suppression of the Templars BEtwixt the two extremities of those that count these Templars either Malefactours or Martyrs some find a middle way whose verdict we will parcell into these severall particulars 1. No doubt there were many novices and punies amongst them newly admitted into their Order which if at all were little guiltie for none can be fledge in wickednesse at their first hatching To these much mercy belonged The punishing of others might have been an admonition to them and crueltie it was where there were degrees of offenses to inflict the same punishment and to put all of them to death 2. Surely many of them were most hainous offenders Not to speak what they deserved from God who needeth not pick a quarrel with man but alwayes hath a just controversie with him they are accounted notorious transgressours of humane laws yet perchance if the same candle had been lighted to search as much dust and dirt might have been found in other Orders 3. They are conceived in generall to be guiltlesse and innocent from those damnable sinnes wherewith they were charged Which hainous offenses were laid against them either because men out of modestie and holy horrour should be ashamed and afraid to dive deep in searching the ground-work and bottome of these accusations but rather take them to be true on the credit of the accusers or that the world might the more easily be induced to believe the crimes objected to be true as conceiving otherwise none would be so devilish as to lay such devilish offenses to their charge or lastly if the crimes were not believed in the totall summe yet if credited in some competent portion the least particular should be enough to do the deed and to make them odious in the world 4. The chief cause of their ruine was their extraordinary wealth They were feared of many envied of more loved of none As Naboths vineyard was the chiefest ground for his blasphemie and as in England Sr John Cornwall Lord Fanhop said merrily That not he but his stately house at Ampthill in Bedford-shire was guiltie of high treason so certainly their welath was the principall evidence against them and cause of their overthrow It is quarrell and cause enough to bring a sheep that is fat to the shambles We may believe King Philip would never have tooke away their lives if he might have took their lands without putting them to death but the mischief was he could not get the hony unlesse he burnt the bees Some will say The Hospitallers had great yea greater revenues nineteen thousand Mannors to the Templars nine thousand yet none envied their wealth It is true but then they busied themselves in defending of Christendome maintaining the Island of Rhodes against the Turks as the Teutonick order defended Pruss-land against the Tartarian the world therefore never grudged them great wages who did good work These were accounted necessary members of Christendome the Templars esteemed but a superfluous wenne they lay at rack and manger and did nothing who had they betook themselves to any honourable employment to take the Turks to task either in Europe or Asia their happinesse had been lesse repined at and their overthrow more lamented And certain it is that this their idlenesse disposed them for other vices as standing waters are most subject to putrifie I heare one bird sing a different note from all the rest in the wood namely that what specious shews soever were pretended the true cause of their ruine was that they began to desert the Pope and adhere to the Emperour If this was true no doubt they were deeply guiltie and deserved the hard measure they suffered Sure I am how-ever at this time they might turn edge they had formerly been true blades for his Holinesse All Europe followed the copie that France had set them Here in England King Edward the second of that name suppressed the Order and put them to death So by vertue of a writ sent from him to Sir John Wogan Lord chief Justice in Ireland were they served
is not worth a comment Chap. 14. Baldwine the second chosen King Prince Eustace peaceably renounceth his right IT happened the same day King Baldwine was buried that Baldwine de Burgo his kinsman and Count of Edessa came casually into the city intending onely there to keep his Easter when behold the Christian Princes met together for the election of a new King The greater part did centre their suffrages on Prince Eustace brother to the two former Kings but then absent in France They alledged That it was not safe to break the chain of succession where the inversion of order bringeth all to confusion and That it was high ingratitude to the memories of Godfrey and Baldwine to exclude their brother from the crown especially he being fit in all points to be a King wanting nothing but that he wanted to be there That in the mean time some might be deputed to lock up all things safe and to keep the keyes of the State till he should arrive On the other side some objected the dangers of an interregnum how when a State is headlesse every malecontent would make head inconveniences in another countrey would be mischiefs here where they lived in the mouth of their enemies and therefore to stay for a King was the way to lose the Kingdome Then Joceline Prince of Tiberias a man of great authority offered himself a moderatour in this difference and councelled both sides to this effect To proceed to a present election and therein to be directed not confined by succession though they missed the next let them take one of Godfreys kindred As the case now stood he must be counted next in bloud that was next at hand and this was Baldwine Count of Edessa on whom he bestowed much superlative praises All were much affected with these his commendations for they knew that Joceline was his sworn adversary and concluded that it must needs be a mighty weight of worth in Baldwine which pressed out praise from the mouth of his enemy though indeed private ends prompted him to speak this speech who hoped himself to get the Earldome of Edessa when Baldwine should be translated to Jerusalem However his words took effect and Baldwine hereupon was chosen King and crowned on Easter-day by Arnulphus the Patriarch Mean time some secretly were sent to Prince Eustace to come and challenge the crown But he hearing that another was already in possession though he was on his journey coming quietly went back again A large alms to give away a Kingdome out of his charity to the publick cause Baldwine was of a proper personage and able body both nigh Rhemes in France sonne to Hugh Count of Rorstet and Millisent his wife He was exceedingly charitable to the poore and pious towards God witnesse the brawn on his hands and knees made with continuall praying valiant also and excellently well seen in all martiall affairs We had almost forgotten what happened in this yeare the death of Alexius the Grecian Emperour that arch-hypocrite and grand enemy of this warre On whom we may bestow this Epitaph If he of men the best doth know to live Who best knows to dissemble justly then To thee Alexius we this praise must give That thou to live didst know the best of men And this was it at last did stop thy breath Thou knew'st not how to counterfeit with death His sonne Calo-Johannes succeeded him in his Empire of whom we shall have much cause to speak hereafter Chap. 15. The Ecclesiasticall affairs of this Kings reigne ACcording to our wonted method let us first rid out of the way Church-matters in this Kings reigne that so we may have the more room to follow the affairs of the Common-wealth We left Arnulphus the last Patriarch of Jerusalem since which time the bad favour of his life came to the Popes nose who sent a Legate to depose him But Arnulphus hasted to Rome with much money and there bought himself to be innocent so that he enjoyed the place during his life Guarimund succeeded in his place a very religious man by whom God gave the Christians many victories He called a Council at Neapolis or Sichem wherein many wholesome things were concluded for reformation of manners Betwixt him and William Archbishop of Tyre an English man there arose a difference because this Archbishop would not receive his confirmation of him from whom by ancient right he should take it but from the Pope counting it the most honour to hold of the highest landlord And indeed the Pope for gain confirmed him though he should have sent him to the Patriarch But the court of Rome careth not though men steal their corn so be it they bring it to their mills to grind After Guarimunds death Stephen Abbot of S. John de Valia was chosen Patriarch once a cavallier but afterward laying down the sword he took up the Word and entred into Orders He awaked the Patriarchs title to Jerusalem which had slept during his three predecessours and challenged it very imperiously of the King for he was a man of spirit and metall And indeed he had too much life to live long For the King fearing what flame this spark might kindle and finding him to be an active man gave him as it is suspected a little more active poison which cut him off in the midst of his age and beginning of his projects The King coming to him when he lay on his death-bed asked him how he did To whom he answered My Lord for the present I am as you would have me A cruel murder if true But it is strange that he whose hands as we have said were hardened with frequent prayer should soften them again in innocent bloud Wherefore we will not condemn the memory of a King on doubtfull evidence The Patriarchs place was filled with William Prior of the Sepulchre a Fleming a man better beloved then learned Chap. 16. Knights-Templars and Teutonicks instituted ABout this time the two great orders of Templaâ—s and Teutonicks appeared in the world The former under Hugh de Paganis and Ganfred of S. Omer their first founders They agreed in profession with the Hospitallers and performed it alike vowing Poverty Chastity and Obedience and to defend Pilgrimes coming to the Sepulchre It is falsely fathered on S. Bernard that he appointed them their rule who prescribeth not what they should do but onely describeth what they did namely How they were never idle mending their old clothes when wanting other imployment never played at chesse or dice never hawked not hunted beheld no stageplayes arming themselves with faith within with steel without aiming more at strength then state to be feared not admired to strike terrour with their valour not stirre covetousnesse with their wealth in the heart of their enemies Other sweet praises of them let him who pleaseth fetch from the mouth of this mellifluous Doctour Indeed at first they were very poor in token
branded with rashnesse and cruelty as the murderer of many Christians For Saladine in revenge put as many of our captives to death On the other side the moderation of the French King was much commended who reserving his prisoners alive exchanged them to ransome so many Christians Chap. 9. The unseasonable return of the King of France MEan time the Christians were rent asunder with faction Philip the French King Odo Duke of Burgundy Leopold Duke of Austria most of the Dutch all the Genoans and Templars siding with King Conrade King Richard Henry Count of Champaigne the Hospitallers Venetians and Pisans taking part with King Guy But King Conrades side was much weakened with the sudden departure of the French King who eighteen dayes after the taking of Ptolemais returned home pretending want of necessaries indisposition of body distemper of the climate though the greatest distemper was in his own passions The true cause of his departure was partly envie because the sound of King Richards fame was of so deep a note that it drowned his partly covetousnesse to seize on the dominions of the Earl of Flanders lately dead Flanders lying fitly to make a stable for the fair palace of France If it be true what some report that Saladine bribed him to return let him for ever forfeit the surname of Augustus and the style of the most Christian Prince His own souldiers disswaded him from returning beseeching him not to stop in so glorious a race wherein he was newly started Saladine was already on his knees and would probably be brought on his face if pursued If he played the unthrift with this golden occasion let him not hope for another to play the good husband with If poverty forced his departure King Richard profered him the half of all his provisions All would not do Philip persisted in his old plea How the life of him absent would be more advantagious to the cause then the death of him present and by importunity got leave to depart solemnly swearing not to molest the King of Englands dominions Thus the King of France returned in person but remained still behind in his instructions which he left with his army to the Duke of Burgundy to whom he prescribed both his path and his pace where and how he should go And that Duke moved slowly having no desire to advance the work where King Richard would carry all the honour For in those actions wherein severall undertakers are compounded together commonly the first figure for matter of credit maketh ciphres of all the rest As for King Philip being returned home such was the itch of his ambition he must be fingering of the King of Englands territories though his hands were bound by oath to the contrary Chap. 10. Conrade King of Ierusalem slain Guy exchangeth his Kingdome for the Island of Cyprus ABout the time of the King of France his departure Conrade King of Jerusalem was murdered in the market-place of Tyre and his death is variously reported Some charged our King Richard for procuring it And though the beams of his innocency cleared his own heart yet could they not dispell the clouds of suspicions from other mens eyes Some say Humphred Prince of Thoron killed him for taking Isabella his wife away from him But the generall voice giveth it out that two Assasines stabbed him whose quarrell to him was onely this That he was a Christian. These murderers being instantly put to death gloried in the meritoriousnesse of their suffering and surely were it the punishment not the cause made martyrdome we should be best stored with Confessours from gaols and Martyrs from the gallows Conrade reigned five years and left one daughter Maria Iole on whom the Knight-Templars bestowed princely education and this may serve for his Epitaph The Crown I never did enjoy alone Of half a Kingdome I was half a King Scarce was I on when I was off the throne Slain by two slaves me basely murdering And thus the best mans life at mercy lies Of vilest varlets that their own despise His faction survived after his death affronting Guy the antient King and striving to depose him They pleaded that the Crown was tyed on Guy's head with a womans fillet which being broken by the death of his wife Queen Sibyll who deceased of the plague with her children at the siege of Ptolemais he had no longer right to the Kingdome they objected he was a worthlesse man and unfortunate On the other side it was alledged for him that to measure a mans worth by his successe is a â—quare often false alwayes uncertain Besides the courtesie of the world would allow him this favour That a King should be semel semper once and ever Whilest Guy stood on these ticklish terms King Richard made a seasonable motion which well relished to the palate of this hungry Prince To exchange his Kingdome of Jerusalem for the Island of Cyprus which he had redeemed from the Templars to whom he had pawned it And this was done accordingly to the content of both sides And King Richard with some of his succeeding English Kings wore the title of Jerusalem in their style for many years after We then dismisse King Guy hearing him thus taking his farewell I steer'd a state warre-tost against my will Blame then the storm not th' Pilots want of skill That I the Kingdome lost whose empty style I sold to Englands King for Cyprus Isle I pass'd away the land I could not hold Good ground I bought but onely air I sold. Then as a happy Merchant may I sing Though I must sigh as an unhappy King Soon after Guy made a second change of this world for another But the family of the Lusignans have enjoyed Cyprus some hundred years and since by some transactions it fell to the state of Venice and lately by conquest to the Turks Chap. 11. Henry of Champaigne chosen King The noble atchievements and victories of King Richard COnrade being killed and Guy gone away Henry Earl of Champaigne was chosen King of Jerusalem by the especiall procuring of King Richard his uncle To corroborate his election by some right of succession he married Isabella the widow of King Conrade and daughter to Almerick King of Jerusalem A Prince as writers report having a sufficient stock of valour in himself but little happy in expressing it whether for want of opportunity or shortnesse of his reign being most spent in a truce He more pleased himself in the style of Prince of Tyre then King of Jerusalem as counting it more honour to be Prince of what he had then King of what he had not And now the Christians began every where to build The Templars fortified Gaza King Richard repaired and walled Ptolemais Porphyria Joppa and Askelon But alas this short prosperity like an Autumne-spring came too late and was gone too soon to bring any fruit to maturity It was now determined they should march towards
articles contained in the Creed onely they blasphemed the Romish Church and hated it Claudius de Seissell Archbishop of Turin confesseth as touching their life and manners they were sound and unreproveable without scandall amongst men giving themselves to their power to the observation of the commandments of God King Lewis the twelfth of France being throughly informed of the faith and life of the Waldenses in his time bound it with an oath That they were better men then he or his people The same King having killed many of those poore people and having called the place where they lived Vallis meretricia for their painted and dissembled piety upon better instructions changed the name calling it from himself The vale of Lewis William de Belai Lieutenant of Piemont gave this commendation of the Merindolites a sprig which some hundred years after sprouted from the Waldenses That they were a laborious people averse from suits bountifull to the poore duly paying their Princes tributes and Lords dues serving God with daily prayers and shewing forth much innocency in manners Thuanus one that writeth truth with a steady hand jogged neither by Romanists nor Huguenots thus charactereth the Con-waldenses a stemme of that stock we speak of They used raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes the foure fect whereof served instead of buttons all equall in poverty having no beggars amongst them their diet on deer and milk yet was there scarce any amongst them but could read and write handsomely understand the Bible and sing psalms scarce a boy but could presently or by heart give an account of his faith Tribute they payed very religiously c. More might be added but I end with Gamaliels words If this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God yè cannot overthrow it It argueth the goodnesse of their cause in that all their enemies cruelty unwise to think to spoil the growth of chamomill by trampling on it could never suppresse them but they continued till the dayes of Luther when this morning-starre willingly surrendred his place to him a brighter sun But enough of their life and manners And if any condemn me for superfluity herein I guard my self with S. Austines shield Non est multiloquium quando necessaria diâ—untur quant alibet sermonum multitudine ac prolixitate dicantur Chap. 21. The Holy armie advance against the Albingenses The cities of Besier and Carcassone taken POpe Innocent the third having now gathered together an army of one hundred thousand Pilgrimes set forwards for the finall exstirpation of the poor Albingenses The best champions for his Holinesse herein were the Duke of Burgundy the Earls of Nevers St. Paul Auxerre Geneva Poictiers with Simon Earl of Montfort Oâ— the Clergie Milo the Popes Leâ—gate The Archbishops of Sens Rovan the Bishops of Clermont Nevers Lisieux Bayeux Charters with divers others every Bishop with the Pilgrimes of his jurisdiction To whom the Pope promised Paradise in heaven but not one peny on earth Their work was to destroy the Albingenses which were in great numbers in Daulphine Province Narbonne Tholouse and other parts of France Their Commission also extended to the rooting out of all their friends and favourers whether detected or onely suspected such as were Reimund Earl of Tholose Reimund Earl of Foyx the Vicecount of Besiers Gaston Lord of Berne the Earl of Bigorre the Lady of la Vaur with divers others See here a new gate to heaven never opened before for men to cut their way thither through the throats of their innocent brethren Behold the holy Ghost who once came down in the form of a Dove now counterfeited in the shape of a Vulture But we must not forget how just before the warre began the Pope pretending to reclaim them by reasons to the Church of Rome To which end he gave order for a disputation with them The parties place and time were agreed on who where when they should dispute but in fine nothing was effected Yea who ever knew conferences in so great oppositions to ripen kindly and bring any fruit to perfection For many come rather for faction then satisfaction resolving to carry home the same opinions they brought with them An upright moderatour will scarce be found who bangeth not to one side The place will be subject to suspicion and hinder liberty Boldnesse and readinesse of speech with most though not most judicious auditours will bear away the bell from solidity of arguments The passages in the disputing will pe partially reported and both sides will brag of the conquest so that the rent will be made worse and more spirits conjured up then allayed But now words ended in blows the Pope onely entertaining them in conferences that in the mean time he might prepare his great armies more suddenly to suppresse them The first peice of service his souldiers performed was in sacking the city of Besiers and burrough of Carcassone In which many Catholicks stedfast in the Romish faith did dwel and promiscuously were slain with the Albingenses yea Priests themselves were cut in pieces in their priestly ornaments and under the banner of the Crosse So that the swallowing of their foes made their friends also go down glib through their throats without danger of choking As for the city of Carcassone which was not far from the burrough to the inhabitants thereof those immodest conditions were propounded whereof formerly which they refused and God better provided for them For whilest the city was besieged they escaped out by the benefit of a vault under ground and so shifted abroad for themselves Chap. 22. Simon Earl of Montfort chosen Captain of the Holy warre He conquereth the King of Aragon prevaileth against the Albingenses and at last is killed by a woman HItherto this warre was managed by the Popes Legate but now it was concluded that a secular captain should be adjoyned to him in whose person the chief command should reside over Martiall affairs and for his pains by the Popes donation he was to enjoy all countreys that should be conquered from the Albingenses or their favourers The place was offered to the Duke of Burgundy who refused it saying He had lands and Lordships enow of his own without spoiling others of their goods It was waved also by the Earls of St. Paul and Nevers whether out of conscience or policie because though the Pope gave them the bears skin they must first kill and flay him themselves At last Simon of Montfort nigh Paris accepted of it swearing to vex the Lords enemies And for a breakfast to begin with he was seised of the Vicecounty of Besiers proceeding from hence to take many castles and cities One grand inconvenience attended on this army of Pilgrimes For when their quarantine or fourty dayes service was expited the term the Pope set them to merit Paradise in they would not stay one whit longer Like post-horses they would runne to their
short space all that part of Egypt was fenced which respecteth the sea Winter being past Robert Duke of Burgundie and Alphonse King Lewis his brother arrived in Cyprus with a new army and hereupon they concluded to set forward for Egypt and attempted to land near Damiata But the governour thereof with a band of valiant souldiers stoutly resisted them Here was a doubtfull fight The Egyptians standing on the firm ground were thereby enabled to improve and inforce their darts to the utmost whilest the French in their ticklish boats durst not make the best of their own strength Besides those on land threw their weapons downwards from the forts they had erected so that the declivity and downfall did naturally second the violent impression of their darts How-ever the Infidels at last were here beaten with what commonly was their own weapon I mean multitude so that they fled into the town leaving behind them their governour and five hundred of their best souldiers dead on the shore Damiata was a strong city the taking whereof was accounted the good task of an army for a yeare But now the Egyptians within were presented afresh with the memory of the miseries they indured in the last long siege by the Christians and fearing lest that tragedy should be acted over again set fire on their houses and in the night saved themselves by flight The French issuing in quenched the fire and rescued much corn and other rich spoil from the teeth of the flame Meladine much troubled with this losse to purchase peace offered the Christians all Jerusalem in as ample a manner as ever formerly they had enjoyed it all prisoners to be restored with a great summe of money to defray their charges and many other good conditions So that we may much wonder at his profusenesse in these profers and more at the Christians indiscretion in their refusall For though some advised to make much of so frank a chapman and not through covetousnesse to outstand their market yet the Popes Legate and Robert Earl of Artois heightened with pride that they could not see their profit and measuring their future victories by the largenesse of their first footing in Egypt would make no bargain except Alexandria the best port in Egypt were also cast in for vantage to make the conditions down-weight And King Lewis whose nature was onely bad because it was so good would in no wise crosse his brother in what he desired Whereupon the Turks seeing themselves in so desperate condition their swords being sharpened on extremity provided to defend their countrey to the utmost Chap. 14. Discords betwixt the French and English The death and disposition of Meladine King of Egypt ABout this time brake out the dissensions betwixt the French and English The cause whereof as some say was for that the Earl of Sarisbury in sacking a fort got more spoil then the French But surely the foundation of their discontents lay much lower being on old enmity betwixt the two nations and Robert Earl of Artois used Earl William and his men with much discourtesie The Robert stood much on the Royaltie of his descent being brother to King Lewis though nothing of kin in conditions being as bountifull to deal injuries and affronts as the other alms and charitable deeds The English Earl though he stood on the lower ground in point of birth yet conceived himself to even him in valour and martiall knowledge And though godly King Lewis used all his holy-water to quench these heart-burnings his successe answered not this pains much lesse his desires onely his cooling perswasions laid their enmities for the present fairly asleep Amidst these broils died Meladine the Egyptian King A worthy Prince he was though some write very coursely of him as he must rise early yea not at all go to bed who will have every ones good word Let Christians speak of him as they found whose courtesies to them when they were half-drowned in Egypt if they will not confesse they deserve to be wholly drowned for their ingratitude In the latter end of his age he quite lost the good will of his subjects and lived unloved and died unlamented though a deserving and fortunate man which oftentimes covereth a multitude of faults The chief reason whereof was because they suspected him to be unsound in his religion and offering to Christianity Besides having reigned above thirty years his government became stale and good things if of long continuance grow â—edious they being rather affected for their variety then true worth Lastly the rising sunne stole the adorers from the sunne setting and Melechsala his sonne being an active and promising Prince reigned before in mens desires over the Kingdome To him now they all applied themselves and having more wisdome in their generation then the Christians instantly ceased their private dissâ—nsions And now the Sultans of Damascus Aleppo and Babylon twisted themselves in a joint agreement with Melechsala to defend their Mahometane religion Chap. 15. Robert Earl of Artois fighting with the Egyptians contrary to the counsel of the Master of the Templars is overthrown and drowned FRom Damiata the French marched up towards Cairo the governour whereof offended with Melechsala promised to deliver that Regall citie to the French With some danger and more difficultie they passed an arm of Nilus being conducted by a fugitive Saracen to a place where it was foordable Hence Earl Robert marched forward with a third part of the army and suddenly assaulting the Turks in their tents whilest Melechsala was absent in solemnizing a feast put them to flight Hereupon this Earl proâ—laimed himself in his hopes Monarch of the world This blow made his enemies reel the next would fell them Now speed was more needfull then strength This late victory though gotten was lost if not used What though they were not many the fewer the adventurers the greater the gain Let them therefore forwards and set on the whole power of the Turks which was incamped not farre off But the Master of the Templars in whom the sap of youth was well dried up advised the Earl to stay and digest the honour he had gotten expecting the arrivall of the rest of their armie for the work was weighty they undertook and needed two shoulders the united strength of the Christians effectually to manage it His souldiers were weary and must be refreshed and it was madnesse to starve them to day in hope of a feast to morrow That they were to march through a strange countrey and their best instructours were behind let them stay for their lantern and not go in the dark He minded him that he overvalued his victory not considering the enemies strength whose harvest was not spoiled by losing an handfull of men But the Earl full of the emptinesse of self-concâ—it allowed no counsel for currant but that of his own stamp He scorned to wait the leisure of another opportunity and opprobriously objected to the
observed that the sea cannot digest the cruditie of a dead corpse being a due debt to be interred where it dieth and a ship cannot abide to be made a bier of He was Sainted after his death by Boniface the eighth and the five and twentieth day of August on which day in his first voyage to Palestine he went on shipboard is consecrated to his memorie Herein he had better luck then as good a man I mean our Henry the sixth who could not be canonized without a mightie summe of money belike Angels making Saints at Rome Chap. 28. Tunis taken The French return home whilest our Edward valiantly setteth forward for Palestine BY this time Tunis was brought to great distresse and at last on these conditions surrendred That it should pay yearly to Charles King of Sicily and Jerusalem fourtie thousand crowns That it should receive Christian Ministers freely to exercise their religion If any Saracen would be baptized he should be suffered That all Christian captives should be set free That they should pay back so much money as should defray the Christians charges in this voyage Our Edward would needs have had the town beaten down and all put to the sword thinking the foulest quarter too fair for them Their goods because got by robberie he would have sacrificed as an anathema to God and burnt to ashes His own share he execrated and caused it to be burnt forbidding the English to save any thing of it because that coals stolen out of that fire would sooner burn their houses then warm their hands It troubled not the consciences of other Princes to enrich themselves herewith but they glutted themselves with the stolen honie which they found in this hive of drones And which was worse now their bellies were full they would go to bed return home and goe no further Yea the young King of France called Philip the Bold was fearfull to prosecute his journey to Palestine whereas Prince Edward struck his breast and swore That though all his friends forsook him yet he would enter Prolemais though but onely with Fow in his horse-keeper By which speech he incensed the English to go on with him The rest pleading the distemperature of the weather went to Sicily in hope with change of aire to recover their health Where many of them found what they sought to avoid death amongst other Theobald King of Navarre and Isabell his wife and William Earl of Flanders who ended their dayes at Drepanum Besides their navie was pursuivanted after with a horrible tempest and a curse entailed either on their ill-gotten goods or deserting Gods cause or both arrested them in their return so that of this great wealth little was landed in Europe their ships being wracked and the goods therein cast into the sea with which the waves played a little and then chopped them up at a morsel Whilest the weather frowning on them smiled on the English Prince Edward no whit damnified either in his men or ships with Elenor his tender consort then young with child safely arrived at Ptolemais to the great solace and comfort of the Christians there being in great distresse Chap. 29. Prince Edwards performance in Palestine He is dangerously wounded yet recovereth and returneth home safe AT his arrivall the last stake of the Christians was on losing For Bendocdar the Mammaluke Prince of Egypt and Syria had brought Ptolemais to so low an ebbe that they therein resolved if some unexpected succour reversed not their intentions within three dayes to resigne the citie unto him Edward landing stayed this precipitation who arrived with his armie there in the very interim in opportunitie it self which is the very quintessence of time so that all concluded his coming thus hitting the mark was guided by the hand of an especiall providence And now those who before in despair would have thrown up their cards hope at least to make a saving game and the Christians taking comfort and courage both defie their enemies and their own thoughts of surrendring the citie Prince Edward having sufficiently manned and victualled Ptolemais taking six or seven thousand souldiers marched to Nazareth which he took and slew those he found there After this about midsummer understanding the Turks were gathered together at Cakhow fourtie miles off very early in the morning he set upon them slew a thousand and put the rest to flight In these skirmishes he gave evident testimonies of his personall valour Yea in cold bloud he would boldly challenge any Infidel to a duell To speak truth this his conceived perfection was his greatest imperfection For the world was abundantly satisfied in the point of his valour yet such was his confidence of his strength and eagernesse of honour that having merited the esteem of a most stout man he would still supererogate yea he would profer to fight with any mean person if cried up by the volge for a tall man this daring being a generall fault in great spirits and a great fault in a Generall who staketh a pearl against a piece of glasse The best was in that age a man fighting with sword and buckler had in a manner many lives to lose and duells were not dangerous Whilest he stayed at Ptolemais Elenor his Lady was delivered of a fair daughter called from her birth-place Joan of Acres But fear of her husbands death abated her joy at her daughters birth The Turks not matching him in valour thought to master him with treachery which was thus contrived The Admirall of Joppa a Turk pretended he would turn Christian and imployed one Anzazim an Assasine in the businesse betwixt him and Prince Edward who carried himself so cunningly that by often repairing to our Prince he got much credit and esteem with him Some write this Anzazim was before alwayes bred under ground as men keep hawks and warre-horses in the dark to make them more fierce that so coming abroad he should fear to venture on no man But sure so cunning a companion had long conversed with light and been acquainted with men yea Christians and Princes as appeareth by his complying carriage else if he had not been well read in their company he could not have been so perfect in his lesson But let him be bred any where or in hell it self For this was his religion To kill any he was commanded or on the non-performance willingly to forfeit his life The fifth time of his coming he brought Prince Edward letters from his Master which whilest he was reading alone and lying on his bed he struck him into the arm with an invenomed knife Being about to fetch another stroke the Prince with his foot gave him such a blow that he felled him to the ground and wresting the knife from him ranne the Turk into the belly and slew him yet so that in struggling he hurt himself therewith in the forehead At this noise in sprang his servants and one of them with a stool beate the braines out of
the portraiture of a dead man lying on his shroud the most artificially cut in stone saith my Authour that ever man beheld Others had rent assigned them of 200l 80l l 60l l 50l l 20l l 10l l according to their severall qualities and deserts At the same time justs and tornaments were held at Westminster wherein the challengers against all comers were Sr John Dudly Sr Thomas Seymore Sr Thomas Poinings Sr George Carew Knights Anthonie Kingstone and Richard Cromwell Esquires To each of whom for reward of their valour the King gave a hundred markes of yearely revenues and a house to dwell in to them and their heires out of the lands belonging to these Hospitallers And at this time many had Danae's happinesse to have golden showres rained into their bosomes These Abbey-lands though skittish mares to some have given good milk to others Which is produced as an argument That if they prove unsuccessefull to any it is the users default no inherencie of a curse in the things themselves But let one keep an exact Register of lands and mark their motions how they ebbe and flow betwixt buyers and sellers and surely he will say with the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this is most sure Let land be held in never so good a tenure it will never be held by an unthrift The Hospitallers Priory-church was preserved from down-pulling all the dayes of King Henry the eighth but in the third yeare of King Edward the sixth with the bell-towre a piece of curious workmanship graven gilt and enamelled it was undermined and blown up with gunpowder and the stone imployed in building the Lord Protectours house in the Strand Thus as chirurgeons in cutting off a gangrened leg alwayes cut it off above the joynt even where the flesh is whole and sound so belike for fear of further infection to banish Monkerie for ever they rased the structures and harmlesse buildings of Priories which otherwise in themselves were void of any offence They feared if Abbeys were onely left in a swound the Pope would soon get hot water to recover them To prevent which they killed them and killed them again overturning the very foundation of the houses infringing altering and transferring the lands that they might never be reduced to their own propertie Some outrages were committed in the manner of these dissolutions Many manuscripts guilty of no other superstition then red letters in the front were condemned to the fire and here a principall key of antiquitie was lost to the great prejudice of posteritie But in sudden alterations it is not to be expected that all things be done by the square and compasse Chap. 8. Queen Mary setteth up the Hospitallers again They are again deposed by Queen Elisabeth QUeen Mary a Princesse more zealous then politick attempted to restore Abbeys to their pristine estate and former glory And though certain of her counsellers objected that the state of her Kingdome and dignity thereof and her Crown imperiall could not honourably be furnished and maintained without the possession of Abbey-land yet she frankly restored resigned and confirmed by Parliament all ecclesiasticall revenues which by the authority of that high Court in the dayes of her Father were annexed to the Crown protesting she set more by her salvation then by ten Kingdomes But the Nobilitie followed not her example They had eaten up the Abbey-lands and now after twenty yeares possession digested and turned them into good bloud in their estates they were loth therefore to emptie their veins again and the forwardest Romanist was backward enough in this costly piece of devotion However out of her own liberalitie she set up two or three bankrupt Covents as Sion and Westminster and gave them stock to trade with The Knights also of S. John of Jerusalem she reseated in their place and Sr Thomas Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was the first and last Lord Prior after their restitution For their nests were plucked down before they were warm in them by the coming in of Queen Elisabeth To conclude in the founders of religious houses were some good intents mixt with superstitious ends amongst the Religious persons themselves some pietie more loosnesse and lazinesse in the confounders of those houses some detestation of the vices of Friars more desire of the wealth of Friaries in God all just all righteous in permitting the badnesse and causing the destruction of these numerous Fraternities Chap. 9. Observations on the Holy warre The horrible superstition therein WE have finished the story of the Holy warre And now I conceive my indentures are cancelled and I discharged from the strict service and ties of an Historian so that it may be lawfull for me to take more libertie and to make some observations on what hath been past Before I go further I must deplore the worlds losse of that worthy work which the Lord Verulam left unfinished concerning the Holy warre an excellent piece and alas it is but a piece so that in a pardonable discontent we may almost wish that either it had been more wholly to have satisfied our hunger or lesse not at all to have raised our appetite It was begun not in an historicall but in a politick way not reporting the Holy warre past with the Turks but advising how to manage it in the future And no doubt if he had perfected the work it would have proved worthy the Authour But since any have been deterred from finishing the same as ashamed to add mud-walls and a thatched roof to so fair a foundation of hewen and polished stone From that Authour we may borrow this distinction That three things are necessary to make an invasive warre lawfull the lawfullnesse of the jurisdiction the merit of the cause and the orderly and lawfull prosecution of the cause Let us apply it to our present purpose in this Holy warre For the first two Whether the jurisdiction the Christians pretended over the Turks dominions was lawfull or not and Whether this warre was not onely operae but vitae pretium worth the losing so many lives we referre the reader to what hath been said in the first Book Onely it will not be amisse to adde a storie or two out of an Authour of good account When Charles the sixth was King of France the Duke of Bourbon sailed over into Africa with a great armie there to fight against the Saracens The Saracen Prince sent an herald to know of him the cause of his coming The Duke answered it was to revenge the death of Christ the Sonne of God and true Prophet whom they had unjustly crucified The Saracens sent back again their messenger to demonstrate their innocencie how they were not Saracens but Jews which put Christ to death and therefore that the Christians if posteritie should be punished for their predecessours fault should rather revenge themselves on the Jews which lived amongst them Another relateth that in the yeare of our Lord 1453
report the honour thereof through the whole world A Sultan of Damascus who had but one eye chanced to lose the other and so became stark-blinde when coming devoutly to this image though he was a Pagan having faith in God and confidence therein he perfectly was restored to his sight Infinite are the sholes of miracles done by Christs Crosse in Jerusalem insomuch that my Authour blamed the Bishop of Acon who carried the Crosse in that battel wherein it was lost to the Turks for wearing a corselet and therefore saith he he was justly slain because his weak faith relied on meanes not on the miraculous protection thereof When Conrade Landt-grave of Thuringia was inrolled in the Teutonick Order to goe to the Holy warre and received his benediction as the fushion was the Holy Ghost visibly descended upon him in the shape of fire The said Conrade received of God as a boon for his valour in this service the rare facultie That by looking on any man he could tell whether or no he had committed a mortall sinne yea at first fight descrie their secret sinnes But the last miracle of our Lady in Palestine is the Lady of all miracles which was this In the yeare 1291 when the Holy land was finally subdued by the Turks the chamber at Nazareth wherein the Angel Gabriel saluted her with joyfull tydings was wonderfully transported into Sclavonia That countrey being unworthy of her divine presence it was by the Angels carried over into Italie anno 1294. That place also being infested with thieves and pirates the Angels removed it to the little village of Loretto where this Pilgrime-Chappel resteth it selfe at this day and liketh her entertainment so well it will travel no further But enough for fools meat is unsavourie to the taste of the wise I have transgressed already two instances had been sufficient as Noah preserved but two of all unclean creatures the rest might be lost without losse and safely be drowned in oblivion How-ever we may observe these millions of miracles are reducible to one of these foure ranks 1. Falsely reported never so much as seemingly done Asia the theatre whereon they were acted is at a great distance and the miracles as farre from truth as the place from us And who knoweth not when a lie is once set on foot besides the first founders it meeteth with many benefactours who contribute their charitie thereunto 2. Falsely done insomuch as at this day they are sented amongst the Romanists Who would not laugh to see the picture of a Saint weep Where one devout Catholick lifteth up his eyes ten of their wiser sort wag their heads 3. Truly done but by the strength of nature Suppose one desperately sick a piece of the Crosse is applied to him he recovereth is this a miracle Nothing lesse how many thousands have made an escape after Death in a manner hath arrested them As therefore it is sacriledge to father Gods immediate works on naturall causes so it is superstition to intitle naturall events to be miraculous 4. Many miracles were ascribed to Saints which were done by Satan I know it will non-plus his power to worke a true miracle but I take the word at large and indeed vulgar not to say humane eyes are too dimme to discern betwixt things wonderfull and truly miraculous Now Satan the master-juggler needeth no wires or ginnes to worke with being all ginnes himselfe so transcendent is the activitie of a spirit Nay may not God give the Devil leave to goe beyond himself it being just with him that those who will not have Truth their king and willingly obey it should have Falshood their tyrant to whom their judgement should be captivated and inslaved Chap. 11. The second grand errour in prosecuting the Holy warre being the Christians notorious breaking their faith with Infidels NExt unto Superstition which was deeply inlayed in the Holy warre we may make the Christians Truce-breaking with the Infidels the second cause of their ill successe Yet never but once did they breake promise with the Turks which was as I may say a constant and continued faith-breaking never keeping their word To omit severall straining of the sinewes and unjoynting the bones of many a solemne peace we will onely instance where the neck thereof was clearly broken asunder 1. When Godfrey first won Jerusalem pardon was proclaimed to all the Turks which yielded themselves yet three dayes after in cold bloud they were all without difference of age or sex put to the sword 2. Almerick the First swore effectually to assist the Saracens in driving the Turks out of Egypt and soon after invaded Egypt and warred upon the Turks against his promise I know something he pretended herein to defend himself but of no validitie and such plausible and curious wittie evasions to avoid perjurie are but the tying of a most artificiall knot in the halter therewith to strangle ones own conscience 3. There was a peace concluded for some time betwixt King Guy and Saladine which non obstante Reinold of Castile robbed Saladines own mother Whereupon followed the miserable overthrow of the Christians and taking of Jerusalem 4. Our Richard at his departure from Palestine made a firm peace for five yeares with Saladine and it stood yet in force when Henry Duke of Saxonie coming with a great armie of new adventurers invaded the Turkish dominions 5. Frederick the Second Emperour made a truce of ten yeares with the Sultan of Babylon and yet in despite thereof Theobald King of Navarre forraged the countrey of Gaza to the just overthrow of him and his armie 6. Reinold Vice-roy of Palestine in the name of Frederick the Emperour and after him our Richard Earl of Cornwall drew up a firm peace with the said Sultan which was instantly disturbed and interrupted by the turbulent Templars 7. Lastly the Venetians in the name of all Christian Princes concluded a five yeares peace with Alphir the Mammaluke Prince of Egypt yet some voluntaries in Ptolemais pillaged and robbed many Saracen merchants about the citie But pardon them this last fault we will promise they shall never do so any more in Palestine hereupon losing all they had left there And how could Safetie it selfe save this people and blesse this project so blackly blasted with perjury As it is observed of tyrants Where one goeth ten are sent to the grave so where one truce concluded with the Turks did naturally expire and determine many were violently broken off A sinne so repugnant to all moral honestie so injurious to the quiet and peace of the world so odious in it selfe so scandalous to all men To dissolve a league when confirmed by Oath the strongest bond of conscience the end of particular strife the souldier of publick peace the sole assurance of amitie betwixt divers nations made here below but inrolled in his high court whose glorious name doth sign it a sinne I say so hainous that God cannot but must severely
Angelus Emp. of Constant. 3 1 Italian service in this warre 1 13  5 22 Iudea described 1 21 K KIng for Deputie in Eastern tongues 2 2 Three faults in the Kingdome of Ierusalem which hindred the strength of it 5 18 Knights-Hospitallers their original 2 4 they degenerate through wealth into luxury  ibid. they rebell against the Patriarch about tithes  25 brawl with the Templars 4 8 flit from Cyprê° by Rhodes to Malta 5 5 the manner of their suppression in England  6 7 in vain restored by Qu. Mary  8 Knights Templars instituted 2 16 many slain through their own covetousnesse  32 they become rich and proud 4 8 their treachery hindereth the Holy warre 5 17 they are finally exsirpated out of Christendome  1 arguments for and against their innocency with a moderate way betwixt them  2 3 Knights Teutonicks their institution 2 16 they are honoured with a grand Master 3 5 they come into Prussia their service there 5 4 Knights of the Sepulchre 5 27 L LAterane Council 3 24 Length of the journey hindrance of this warre 5 13 Leopoldus Duke of Austr his valour 3 8 Leprosie 5 15 Lewis the Young K. of France his wofull journey 2 27. 28 St Lewis his voyage to Palestine 4 11 he wintereth in Cyprus  12 lands in Egypt winnes Damiata  13 is conquered and taken captive  16 dearly ransomed  18 St Lewis his second voyage 4 26 he besiegeth Tunis  27 his death and praise  ibid. M MAhometanisme the cause why it is so spreading 1 6 Mammalukes their originall 2 40 their miraculous Empire 4 19 Maronites their tenents and reconcilement to Rome 2 39 Meladine King of Egypt his bounty to the Christians 3 27 why not loved of his subjects 4 14 his death  ibid. Melechsala his son King of Egypt  ibid. Melechsaites Sultan of Egypt  32 Mercenary souldiers dangerous 2 35 yet how well qualified they may be usefull  ibid. Miracles of this warre examined and ranked into foure sorts viz. 1 not done 2 falsely done 3 done by Nature 4 done by Satan 5 10 N NIce besieged and taken by the Christians 1 16 Nilus his wonders and nature 2 13 Northern Armies may prosper in the South 5 15 Nâ—rvegian service 1 13  5 22 Numbers number lesse slain in these warres  20 What Numbers competent in an army  19 Numbers of Asian armies what we may conceive of them  ibid. O OBservation of Rog. Hoveden confuted 2 46 Offers at Palestine since the end of the warre 5 24 Office of the Virgin why instituted 1 8 Owls why honored by the Tartarians 4 2 P PAlestine in generalâ— described 1 18. Pastorells in France slain 4 21. Pelagius the Legate 3 24. Peter the Hermite his character 1 8. he proves himself but an hypocrite  ibid. Peter K. of Aragon a favourer of the Albingenses slain in battel 3 22 Philip Augustus K. of France his voyage to Palestine and unseasonable return  6 Pilgrimages proved unlawfull 5 9 The Popes private profits by the Holy warre 1 11 he the principall cause of the ill successe 5 12 Polands service in this warre 1 13  5 22 Ptolemais wonne by the Christians 2 11 regained by Saladine  45 after three yeares siege recovered by the Christians 3 8 finally taken by Sultan Serapha 4 33 Q QValitie of the adventurers in this warre 1 12 R REd sea why so called 2 13 Reformation why Rome is averse from it 4 4 Reimund Earl of Tripoli his discords with Baldwine 2 41 his apostasie to Saladine  45 his suspicious death  ibid. Relicks how to be valued 3 12 why so many before death Renounced the world 2 18 Richard K. of England his voyages to Palestine 3 6 he taketh Sicily and Cyprus in his passage  7 vanquisheth Salad in a set battel  11 in his return he is taken prisoner in Austria and ransomed  13 Richard Earl of Cornwall his voyage to Palestine 4 8 Robert D. of Normandie his valour 1 16. he refuseth the Kingdome of Ierusalem and thrâ—veth not after 2 1 Rodulphus chosen unexpectedly Emperour of Germanie 4 30 sendeth supplies to Syria  ibid. Rodulphus the unhappie Patriarch of Antioch 2 20 S SAcriledge 5 17 Saladine killeth the Caliph of Egypt 2 37 succeeds in Egypt and Damascus  ibid. conquereth Guy  45 taketh Ierusalem and all Syria  46 his commendations and death 3 14 Scholars without experience no good Generalls 3 24 Scottish service in this warre 1 13  5 23 Sea and land service compared 4 24 Simon Earl of Montfort concludeth a truce in Syria 3 16 chosen captain against the Albingenses  22 is killed by a woman  ibid. Sidon described wonne by the Christians 2 12 lost to the Sultan of Egypt 4 32 Spanish service in this warre 1 13  5 22 Stephen Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 15 Superstition tainting this whole war 5 9 Suspected souldiers in armies where to be placed 4 10 Sultans their large commissions 2 22 Sweden appeareth not in the Holy warre 1 13 T TArtaria described 1 7  4 2 Tartars their name and nature  ibid. when first known to the world  ibid. converted to Christianitie  22 their relapse to Paganisme  26 the occasion  ibid. Theobald King of Navarre his unhappie voyage 4 7 Titular Bishops their use and abuse 3 2 Pretenders of Titles to the Kingdome of Ierusalem 5 29 Tunis described besieged 4 27 taken by the Christians  28 Turks whence descended 1 7 their large strides into Asia  ibid. harder to be converted then Tartars 4 2 Turkish Empire its greatnesse strength and welfare the weaknesse and defects of it what hopes of its approching ruine 5 30 Tylo Colupp a not able cheater 4 20 Tyre described 2 12 taken by the Christians  17 valiantly defended by Conrade 3 1 wonne by Sultan Alphir 4 32 V VEnetians performance in this warre 2 17 their bloudie sea-battel with the Genoans 4 24 Viâ—iousnesse of the Pilgrimes which went to Palestine 1 12  5 16 W VVAfer-cake why wrought in the borders of all Egyptian tapestrie 4 18 Welsh service in this warre 5 23 William Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 25 William Landt-grave of Hesse his fictitious voyage to Ierusalem confuted 5 26 Women warriours 1 12  2 27 Wracks first quitted by the Kings of England to their subjects 3 7 FINIS Anno Dom. 34. 72. * Iosephus lib. 7. belli Iud. Gr. c. 45. Lat. c. 17. * Exod. 12. 13. * Adricom in Actis Apost fol. 28 2. credo ex Hegesippo * Suctonius in Tito Euseb. Eâ—cl hist. l. 3. c. 5. 132. * Hieron â—om 1. pag. 104. * Num. 24. 17. * Sand. Trav. fol. 145. * Hieron tom 6. pag. 256. Munster Cosmogr p. 457. Polyd. Virg. p. 327. Sandys Trav. pag. 146. * P. Heylin Microcos in Palestine pag. 570. * Sir E.