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

casual and not the effect of Carelesness or Cowardize in the losing party But it was some help to the Christians that a certain concealed Christian within the City by Letters unsubscribed gave them constant and faithful Intelligence of all remarkable passages among the Turks within In the mean while the Plague and Famine raged in the Christian Camp and in the compass of one year had swept away above Fifty Princes and Prelates of note who together with all the rest of the common Souldiers in the opinion of those who wrote the History of that Siege went undoubtedly to Heaven Although it were before Pope Clement the sixth had commanded the Angels who durst not disobey him to convey every Soul into Paradice which should die in their Pilgrimage Among those who survived no Prince shewed more Valour and deserved greater commendation than Leopoldus Arch-Duke of Austria who fought so long in assaulting this City that his Armour was all gore Blood save only that part of it which was covered with his Belt For which reason renouncing the six Golden Larks the Ancient Arms of his Family he had assigned him by the Emperour as a Testimony of his valour a Fess Argentin a Field Gules And King Richard being now at last arrived in the Camp before Ptolemais having taken a Dromand or Saracen Ship which he mett in his way thither wherein were Fifteen Hundred Soldiers and two hundred and fifty Scorpions designed for the poysoning of Christians the Siege was carried on by him and his English Souldiers more fiercely than ever it had been before So that the Turks despairing of relief and their provisions wholly spent offered to yield up the City which the Christians would not accept of unless Saladine would promise to deliver all the Christian Prisoners which were then in his custody and restore them the Cross again which he promising to do the City was delivered and the Turkish Soldiers guarded safely out of it The Houses which were yet left standing in the City together with the Spoil and Prisoners were by the Kings of England and France divided among themselves whereupon divers great Persons who had been sharers in the pains but were hereby excluded from the gains departed in discontent and King Richards Soldiers rudely pulled down the Arch-Duke of Austria's Ensigns which he ha●● advanced in a principal Tower in tha● City and as some write threw them in to the Jakes whereat the Duke wa● highly displeased but yet wisely dissen●bled his anger and seemed to forget th●● Injury till he might remember it to hisadvantage which he afterwards did made King Richard pay severely for this affron● When the City was taken it grieve● the Christians that they could not fin● out their Faithful Intelligencer wh● had all along by his Letters acquainted them with the State of the City b● more that the Cross did no where appear being either carelesly lost or enviou●● concealed by the Turks They demanded 〈◊〉 of Saladine with the delivery of the Christian Prisoners which he refused not but demanded a longer time for the performance in regard the Cross could not be found But King Richard supposing that it was only a pretence to gain time resolved to have all things performed according to their agreement which being not done he in the heat of his Passio● commanded Seven Thousand Turkish Prisoners to be immediately cut to pieces for which rash and cruel act he suffere● much in his reputation and was looke● upon as the Murtherer of the like number of Christians whom Saladine in revenge put to the Sword whereas on the contrary the moderation of the French King was very much commended for sparing his Prisoners and reserving them to ransom so many Christians But that which most obscured the Glory of this Victory was the Christians being tent asunder with Faction and divided among themselves King Philip the Dukes of Burgundy and Austria most of the Dutch and all the Genoans and Templars fiding with King Conrade and King Richard Henry Count of Champaigne with the Hospitallers the Venetians and Pisans taking part with Guy Conrades side was very much weakned by the sudden departure of the French King who eighteen days after the taking of Ptolemais returned home pretending want of necessaries indisposition of body through the distemper of the Climate but the true cause was his not induring to hear King Richards Fame so much transcend his own together with a desire to seize on the Dominions of the Earl of Flanders who was then lately dead His own Souldiers mightily disswaded him from returning and besought him not to stop in so glorious a work wherein he had prospered so well already telling him that Saladine being already on his Knees he might peradventure be brought on his Face if this Victory were well pursued And since one of his pretences was want of necessaries King Richard generously offered him one half of his Provisions but all this would not prevail with him to stay and therefore with great importunity he obtained leave to depart having first taken an Oath not to molest the King of Englands Dominions during his stay in the Holy Land which Oath was forgot as soon as he got home And at his departure he left his instructions together with his Army to the Duke of Burgundy ordering him to move as slowly as possible in advancing that work wherein the King of England would have all the Honour which rendred this great undertaking less advantagious to the Christians in Syria than otherwise it might have been THE HOLY VVAR BOOK II. CHAP. I. Conrade slain Guy exchanges his Kingdom for the Isle of Cyprus Henry of Champaign chosen King King Richard obtains many Victories but at last makes a dishonourable Peace and in his return home is taken Prisoner in Austria SOon after the French Kings departure Conrade King of Jerusalem was cruelly murthered in the Market-place of Tyre the cause of whose Death is variously reported some falsely charging our King Richard with having procured it and others say he was killed by Humphred Prince of Thoron for marrying Isabella who had been before espoused to him But most affirm that he was stabbed by two Assassines by command of their Master the Old man of the Mountains whose only Quarrel with him was his being a Christian and that the two Murtherers being immediately taken and put to a cruel Death Gloried in the Meritoriousness of their suffering He had Reigned about five years and left on t Daughter Maria Jole on whom the Templers bestowed Princely Education But tho' Conrade was Dead his Faction still survived and those of his party affronted King Guy and strove to have him deposed telling him that the Crown was only tyed on his Head with a Womans Fillet which being now broken by the Death of Queen Sibyl who dyed together with all her Children of the Plague at the Siege of Ptolomais he had no longer any Right to the Kingdom especially being a worthless and

Inhabitants of those Countries and many damnable Heresies being every where embraced God hastened to pour forth his threatned Judgments upon those Eastern Churches For the Saracens under the Command of Haumer Prince of Arabia possessed themselves of all Syria and Jerusalem so that those who would not be reduced to order by Christian Councils were subdued by the Pagan Sword But all things under the Sun being subject to Changes and Mutations this new Erected Empire of the Saracens though strong and powerful was of no very long continuance but was forced to make its Exit and give way to the rise of one far more memorable both for strength and continuance viz. That of the Turks whereby the Christians in Palestine changed their Masters though not their condition Those powerful and spreading people which have stretched their Dominion to so vast an extent and proved so formidable to Europe are no less wonderful for the obscurity of their Original then for the increase of their vast Dominion whence they came when first they appeared to the World is so difficult to determine that Authors only agree in disagreeing about it But most probably it was out of Scythia now called Tartaria an hungry and barren Country The first place whereon they setled at their first appearance was Turcomania a Northern part of Armenia from whence they passed into Persia being called thither by Mahomet Sultan of the Saracens to assist him against his Enemies whom they soon vanquished But having observed their ow● strength the S●racens Cowardize and the pleasant situation of Persia they set up for themselves and under Tangrolipix their first King overthrow Sultan Mahomet made themselves Masters of all that large Dominion But that which is yet much stranger than either their Original or increase is That after they had conquered the Saracens by their valour they should notwithstanding voluntarily subject themselves to their senseless superstition and imbrace the Religion of Mahomet As if his not being able to defend his former Proselytes from the slaughter of their Swords was an argument that they also ought to put themselves under his Protection whereas it was ever the custom of Conquerours to bring their Religion to the places which they subdued and not take it thence The next great step the Turks took was into Babylon the Caliph whereof they easily overcame and added his Dominion to their former Conquest And shortly after under Cutlu-Moses their Second King they wan Mesopota●●a the greatest part of Syria and the City of Jerusalem which spreading of the Turks over most part of the Eastern world is generally believed to be the letting loose of the four Angels mentioned in the Revelations which are there said to be bound in the River Euphrates and reserved for an Hour and a Day a Month and a Year for to slay the Third part of men their strength and fierceness is there likewise described the former by the number of their Horsemen which are said to be Two hundred thousand The latter by the Breast Plates of Fire and Jacinct and Brimstone wherewith they are sai● to be Armed and the terribleness of thei● Horses whose Heads are there describe to be like the Heads of Lions and Fire and Smoke and Brimstone are said t● issue out of their Mouths but it is t● be hoped that God hath now almost don● his work with them and will shortly bur● that Rod wherewith he hath been so lon● Scourging the Christian World and mak● their downfal to be as sudden and remarkable as their first appearance and increase was terrible to the World CHAP. III. Of the Original and cause of the Holy War● Peter the Hermit first Mover of the Holy Warr The Pope who is suspected to be the first Contriver of the business and to have sent the Hermite to Jerusalem as his Emissary to consult the matter with the Patriarch and thereby render himself the more capable of fathering a Plot of his own begetting joyfully embraced the Project and with all imaginable zeal endeavoured to engage all the Princes of Europe in that Holy Cause in order whereunto he immediately called a Council at Clermont i● France where to a great Assembly o● Princes and Prelates he made a long Oration wherein he greatly bemoane● the miseries of the Christians in Asia and the devastation of those holy places in Jerusalem and the parts adjacent which were once the Joy of the whole Earth but were now become the general grief of all the Professors of Christianity telling that the Chappel of Christs Conception at Nazareth his Birth at Bethlehem his Burial on Mount Calvary and his Ascension on Mount Olivet which were once the Fountains of Piety were now become the sinks of all profaneness and that it was therefore highly necessary for them to take Arms against those Infidels and endeavour to break their Bonds asunder and cast away their Cords far from them for if they would not now lend their helping hand to quench their Neighbours Houses they might speedily expect the burning of their own and that those barbarous Nations would shortly over-run all Europe And the better to whet their Courage he promised a full remission of all their sins and Penance here and the enjoyment of Heaven hereafter to all those who would undertake this Voyage Now thereforesaid he Gird your Swords to your Thighs O ye Princes and Potentates of Europe It is our parts to pray yours to fight ours with Moses to lift up our unwearied hands to Heaven and yours to stretch forth the Sword against those Children of Amalck Amen It is almost incredible to believe with what a wonderful cheerfulness this motion meeting with an active and zealous World was generally entertained The whole Assembly crying out aloud God willeth it God willeth it Then many of them wore a Cross of Red Cloth upon their shoulders as a badge of their Devotion And that the Virgin Mary might lend her favorable assistance to their warlike undertakings her Office was instituted and certain Prayers were appointed therein to be made to her at Canonical hours CHAP. IV. The first beginning of the War unfortunate ALL things being now resolved on and every one striving to contribute some way or other to the carrying on this grand Design the Turks who had no● for a long time enjoyed the quiet possession of Palestine and by taking advantage of the great stupidity of the Grecian Emperours who abandoned themselves to case and pleasure had extended their Conquest to the Lesser Asia were forced for a time to suspend the further inlarging of their Dominion and employ themselves wholly in the defence of what they had already obtained some of which was notwithstanding their strenuous opposition forcibly wrested out of their hands by the Christian Warriours The beginning of this War was checked with some bad success for Walter Sensaver a Nobleman who had more valour then skill in ● the feats of War marched with a strange contrived and ill proportioned Army