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A57506	The history of infamous impostors, or, The lives & actions of several notorious counterfeits who from the most abject and meanest of the people, have usurped the titles of emperours, kings, and princes / written by the Sr. J.B. de Ricoles ... ; and now done into English.; Imposteurs insignes. English	Rocoles, Jean-Baptiste de, 1620-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1766; ESTC R6847	75,558	204

burnt and the Town to be delivered to Landegesille Momol went privately to Landegesille and shewed him the places where his Men should enter provided he kept his word and promise with him and obtained him the Kings Favour Landegesille overjoyed to take so strong a place and save the effusion of more Blood confirmed all he had said with an Oath and that at least if he could not immediately gain the Kings Pardon he would in the mean time procure him a Church for his refuge till he had compassed his Mercy Things being thus agreed Momol changed his Intention of burning the Church and went to Gondoald with great deceit and artifice assuring him that his Fidelity and zeal to serve him were not in any sort diminished which obliged him to represent the deploreable Condition his affairs were reduced to from which he could conjecture no hope That this had perswaded him to sound the Inclination of Landegesille whom he found extreamly well disposed to serve him and to indeavour a good Peace between him and King Gontran his Brother That nothing shockt him more than to perceive he had not that Trust and Considence he desired in the Tenderness and Generosity of the King and that if he could have so good an Opinion without difficulty to meet Landegesille he did not doubt to give him all satisfaction Imaginable And continued he 'T is my Opinion that you should deliver your self from all these Miseries and troubles and let us go together to King Gontran Gondoald distrusted the Fraudulent Discourse of Momol yet so great was his Unhappiness he did not give himself Power to help it believing it impossible to avoid the Malice and Treason of those Persons he had so long trusted and confided in While these things were agitating Landase one of the Conspirators against the unhappy Gondoald put Fire to the Church and while the People ran to quench it went secretly out of Town where Bolo and Bolon Count of Bourges stood ready with their Men before the Gates to seize Gondoald as soon as he should be delivered to them which Momol being the stronger Man did not fail to do gave the wretched Gondoald into his Power he re-entring the Town immediately and causing the Gates to be shut The Prisoner Gondoald was abused by the Souldiers that Guarded him who carryed him to a Descent between the Town and the Camp of the Besiegers Belon one of the Generals tumbled him down the Hill and Boson barbarously knockt out his Brains as he rowled to his Feet So dyed this Unhappy Prince or this bold Impostor who persisted to mount the Throne of France in spight of those who had Power to grant him that Advantage Momol did not prosper in his Treason and Avarice for while he plundred the Equipage and Mony of Gondoald pillaged and fined the Citizens the Souldiers of the Army inraged at their losses before the Town through the long and vigorous Resistance of the Inhabitants forced the Gates and put all to Fire and Sword without distinction of Age or Sex The Walls were razed and the City intirely Burnt Momol thinking he had done great Service by his Conduct came to the General Lendegesille his Quarter who commanded him to go out of his Tent and retire some where else till the Souldiers rage against his Person was appeased He perceived if he went out he should dye the incensed Souldiers flock't about him giving him reviling Language therefore he resolved to defend himself so long as he was able and sell his Life dearly The General being throughly Informed of the Kings Pleasure who commanded that he should have no Quarter made a Signe for the Souldiers to dispatch him Momol valiantly defending himself a great while Fought like a Lyon but could not avoid falling under such a Multitude all covered with wounds so receiving the reward of his double Treasons And for the Bishop Sagittaire a Souldier perceiving him Fly cut off his Head with his Sword not knowing who he was The Riches Momol had gotten were carried to Gontran where he found a Thousand Pound weight of Gold in that Coyn which they called Besans and 250 Pound of Silver Gontran giving a good part of it to the Poor divided the rest with his Nephew Childebert Among the Spoyls of Momol there was led a Gyant three foot higher than ordinary Men as Robert Guaguin from whom I have taken great part of this Story says After this War according to Paulus Aemilius the Limosins those of Quercy and Auvergne received Earls for their Governors CHAP. VII THE Counterfeit Baldwin Earl of Flanders THis Impostor pretended to no less than the Empire of the East with the Earldoms of Flanders and Haynault Zeal for the Christian Religion and a Desire to drive the Infidels out of the Holy-Land perswaded many generous Princes of Christendom to forsake their Countrys and expose their Lives in this Enterprize Of which Number was Theobald Count Palatin of Champagne who dyed by the way Baldwyn Earl of Flanders Boniface Marquis of Mount-ferrat Lewis Earl of Blois John Earl of Brienne and Guy Earl of St. Paul with the Bishops of Soissons and Troys Pope Innocent the Third of the House of Signia show'ring his Indulgences and Incouragements on their design In the beginning of this War which was in the Year 1203. a Young Grecian Prince of 23 years of Age called Alexis Implor'd the Assistance of these Christian Argonautes while they were Besieging the City Zara in Dalmatia which the Hungarians possest and they undertook in lieu of their expences at Venice before their Departure Isaac Angelo of the House of Comnenes Emperor of Constantinople was the Father of this Prince Alexis and Father-in-Law to Philip Emperor of Germany by his Daughter Irene He was deposed from his Empire deprived of his Sight Liberty by his only though unnatural and ungrateful Brother Alexis to whom he had always shewn the Marks of a more than Brotherly kindness After the taking of Zara restor'd through the Valour of the Confederates to the Obedience of St. Mark 's Lyon the Generous Warriors embarkt on 250 Ships in which were 20000 Foot and 8000 Horse Henry Danduli the Doge or Duke of Venice though almost blinded by the cruelty of the Grecian Emperor Emanuel Commenes who caused a burning Plate of Copper to be held to his Eyes went in the Head of many Noble Venetians perswaded by the same Zeal which made them equip a Fleet for this Expedition They drove the Usurper Alexis from Constantinople taking the old Emperor Isaac out of Prison and Establishing him with his Son the young Alexis in the Throne But the old Prince died in a few Days not being able to suffer so great a change of Life and Fortune without a mortal Alteration of his Body thro' excess of Joy for so unexpected a Felicity A Villain called also Alexis Ducas sirnamed Murzuphle from his large spread eye-brows suddenly seiz'd the Person of young Alexis and after having twice

out to know their Reasons and whether they came not as Spies From Words they soon came to Blows which put the Scotch who were fewer in Number to Flight leaving several Dead on the Place At this the King of Scotland was incensed demanding the Violaters of the Peace in his Letters where he highly complain'd of them The King of England tryed to appease Him promising exemplary Punishment on the Aggressors Richard Fox Bishop of Durham being extreamly displeased that the Garrison he had placed there should give Occasion of Variance between those two Monarchs who with so great Difficulty were brought to an Accord sent his Letters to King James assuring him he might expect all possible Satisfaction This Prince who very much esteemed him honoured him with an Answer and an Invitation to come and discourse of Matters The Bishop immediately informed the King his Master who permitted him to go It was in this Visit that King James told him If He did not fear a Denyal he would ask the Princess Margaret his Master's Eldest Daughter in Marriage The Bishop encouraged his Hopes undertaking to sound the Affair without ingaging His Honour in it King Henry rejoyced at the Overture and accepted it with all His Heart It was from this Marriage of the Princess Margaret to James the Fourth King of Scotland that James the Sixth of Scotland and since King of England as next Heir Inherited the Crown of England after the Death of Queen Elizabeth in the Year 1603. Now we will declare the Catastrophe and Death of the Impostor Perkin together with that of the Unfortunate Prince Edward Earl of Warwick Warbeck's Turbulent Spirit ill brooking so strait an Imprisonment endeavoured to make his Escape and finding his Guards to abate something of their first strictness got out of Prison directing his Flight towards the Sea-side for Shipping off privately which in England after Proclamation to the contrary is very difficult He was quickly miss'd and every way pursued He carefully watching hid himself in Ditches and behind the Hedges till the Horsemen that sought him were past When despairing to get out of the Island and finding himself reduced to the utmost Distress he waited the Obscurity of the Night and got to a Monastery where asking for the Prior and throwing his Arms about his Neck he declared his Misfortune The Father touched with his Misery promised to speak to the King which accordingly he did whose Piety granted his Life without other present Punishment provided he no more attempted to escape The Counterfeit was then led in Chains to London where before Westminster-Hall he was in a pair of Stocks exposed a whole Day to the Scorn and Mockery of the People The next day enduring the same in the City where he declared his Parentage the Place of his Birth and all the Passages of his Life and by what Means he was induced to make this Attempt and from thence he was conveyed into the Tower As for Young Edward Earl of Warwick he had been a Prisoner from his Cradle bred up out of the Sight of Men or Beasts So that he could not distinguish a Goose from a Hen and incapable of doing any thing worthy of death He was nevertheless brought to it by the Crimes of Others That Age being Fruitful in Impostors an Augustine Monk called Patrick suborned a Youth whose Name we find not with Promises of Raising him to the Crown and to better Fortune than Perkin Warbeck's provided he would pass for the Earl of Warwick and but leave him alone to Act the rest Ambition had such Charms with the Young Man that he undertook it and hazarded all was desired of him So they came to Canterbury where they told their forged Adventure The Fryar declaring how dextrously he had got the Earl of Warwick out of Prison and some credulous People believing the Story But before they had time to cheat the World the King sent and apprehended the Two Sparks Hanged the Youth and Immured the Monk according to the Custom of those Times Perkin continued still the same contriving and endeavouring to break loose once more and having corrupted some of his Guards design'd to Murther the Lieutenant of the Tower and carrying the Earl of Warwick with him to get out by Force which being discovered he was by the Judges condemned for this last Action only and a few days after hanged accordingly As for the Earl of Warwick he lost his Head for listening to him and intending to Escape with him This Unhappy Prince bearing the Iniquity of his Father George Duke of Clarence who was the Barbarous Murtherer of Prince Edward only Son and design'd Successor of Henry the Sixth You may imagine the Astonishment and Affliction the Dutchess Margaret was in for the Unfortunate End of her Pretended Nephew whom she had taken such Pains to set on the English Throne by so many Impostures CHAP. IX THE COUNTERFEIT Don Sebastian KING of PORTVGAL THe first Prince that gave Beginning to the Royal Family of Portugal was Henry who Married Teresa or Taresia Alphonso King of Castile's natural Daughter in the Year 1090 having the Earldom of Portugal for her Portion The King hoping he would make as Vigorous a War against the Moors as his Brother Hugh Duke of Burgundy had done giving him that Country for a Bulwark to defend his own from those Infidels towards whom it was the Frontiers He was the Son of another Henry Duke of Burgundy Grand-son of Robert Duke of the same who was Grand-son to Robert King of France Successor to Hugh Capet I do not mind the Opinions of several Historians who are much perplext to find out of what Family and Country this Henry was Theod. Godefroy one of the most Learned and most Curious Persons of his Time first discovered this Original of the Kings of Portugal and those Famous Twins Scevola and Lewis de St. Martha have Authorized it in their Genealogical History of the House of France The Princes of this Race have held the Royal Dignity and Signaliz'd their Conduct by many Victories over the Unbelievers even beyond our Hemisphere But to give an Account of their Actions is no part of my Subject therefore I will only say They have generally held the Scepter with Great Glory and without any Interruption in the Royal Family to this very Don Pedro who now Reigns with the Title of Prince Regent no Objection being to be made except two or three suspicions of Illegitimacy so that it has always been supported by the same Blood Royal. Don Sebastian whose misfortune we treat of which gave an opportunity for an Impostor to aspire and pretend to his Diadem perswading the World he Escaped from the Unhappy Battle of Alcazer at three Years Old which was in the Year 1557. Succeeded Don John the Third his Paternal Grand-Father He was Grand-son to the Emperor Charles the Fifth by his Mother Jane In his Youth he had been under the Tutulage of Donna Catharina of Austria his

say Amissus fuit in Temiriano praelio The others escaped who were Lemir Solyman Isa Zelebis Zultan Muchemet and Casan Zelebis who was then very young I will not meddle with the Accidents Wars and Murders which happened amongst them only relate how after the Death of Lemir Solyman in the Year of Christ 1423. which is of the Hegyra 824 Amurath his Son being newly Placed on his Throne Twenty Years after Tamberlain's Famous Victory a certain Man called Dusmes Mustapha pretending to be the Son of Can Gilderum or Bajazet appeared in Romania And although Mahomet the First and Amurath the Second was assured that he was killed at Mount Stella yet the Grecian Emperor Emanuel Paleologus would never believe it but always thought him the true Mustapha and by giving him his utmost Assistance pulled many Unhappinesses on his own Head Amurath offered him great Advantages not to meddle with their Quarrel but to let them determine it among themselves with their own Arms. Carion in his Chronicle speaks not of Mustapha as an Impostor but says that the Greeks perceiving Amurath to raise the Ottoman Name and Power after that Fatal Overthrow at Mount Stella where his Grandfather lost both his Glory and Liberty and that he attacked all the little Christian Princes who had dependance on the Eastern Empire to extirminate one after another by their Spoils seeking to repair his own Losses though they most Religiously observed the Peace with his Father Wherefore the Greeks then brake it also taking out of Lemnos his Uncle Mustapha whom they had kept there under a sure Guard as a Rival capable of frustrating his Designs for which purpose they gave him all Imaginable Assistance that he might disposess Amurath and obtain the Empire for himself This Prince whither True or False is uncertain lived sometimes at Verdari a little City of Thessaly bearing the Name of a River which runs by it where severall Lords of the Family of the Eurenoses took his Party Assisted with whose Forces he Besieged the City Serra which with its Fortress he forced to a Surrender This great Success exalted his Hopes and gave him Courage to attempt Adrianople then Capital of the Ottoman Empire whose Inhabitants had a Favorable Opinion both of his Person and Title opening their Gates at his Approach and swearing Fidelity to him All Romagna followed their Example and submitted to his Government yet he still continued his Residence at Verdari Sultan Amurath thinking on little but his Pleasures at Bursa where he then kept his Court or Port heard what Progress Mustapha had made and sent against him Bassa Bajazet with a considerable Army but when he came before Adrianople this Trayterous Bassa abandoned his Conscience and his Honour joining with Mustapha's Army for Recompence of which Treason he was made Vizier which is like Chancellor or Prime Minister of State Zunaites Prince of Smyrna who had been Prisoner with the Impostor Mustapha in the strong Fortress of Monemuasia which was the antient Epidaurus armed also for him The Turks call'd this Man Chusines He raised a considerable Body of Men composed for the most part of Azapes being foot who fight with Bows and Arrows Laonicius supposes these to have been an Auxiliary of Strangers He gave great priviledges to all those who took up Arms in his Favour and that freely embraced his Party Having raised this Army he left Adrianople and Marched streight to Bursa and on the way finding his new Vizier the Bassa Bajazet was conspiring against him he caused him to be Excecuted publickly as a Traytor within one days Journey of Bursa Thus paying with an Ignominious Death his double Treason In the mean while Amurath advised with his Bassa's how he might best defend himself from the Storm that threatned him They counsell'd him to release out of Prison Mechemet Beg Chief of the Michalogli of whom Lunclavius in the Twenty Seventh Chapter of his Pandects gives this account Osman one of the Chief Heads of the Ottoman-Family the better to Establish his Greatness made a Friendship and Allyance with Three little Princes by whose Assistance he extraordinarily advanced his own Affairs and gained many great Victories over the Christians One of these Princes was called Michael another Mark both of the Eastern Imperial Family and the Third a Turk named Aurami From which Three were descended the most Considerable Persons then in the Ottoman-Empires Still retaining the Names of the Son of Michel Mark and Aurami or Michalogli Marcalogli and Auramogli the Turkish Pronounciation calls the last Eurenosogli whom Mustapha had on his side as Amurath had the Micaloglis and above all Beg Mechemet the Instrument of his Good Fortune who extirminated his Rival in this manner Amurath recalled him to the Port from Nisar the antient Nicocesaria often called also Tocat the Chief City of Capadocia where he was under Restraint kept like a Prisoner giving him with his Liberty the Command of his Army Mechemet without staying at Bursa March't to Lupadi or Vlabat a considerable Town in Natolia encamping near the Bridge Dusmes Mustapha likewise advanced with his Army on the other side of it opposite to him Mechemet apprehending the Danger of a Battle saw that Dusmes his Army was no way to be forced thought on a Stratagem more for his purpose He then in Disguise went to the Enemy's Guards and being one of the greatest Men among the Turks made himself known to them desiring to speak with the Officers that were his Friends to whom with Substantiall Evidence he represented and proved the Imposture of Dusmes Mustapha with the Interest the Greeks were able to make of their Division by indeavouring to set up a base unknown Impostor and Creature of theirs on the Ottoman Throne Telling them also what Recompences Amurath would give them Mechemet with the Sentiment of the Christian Religion had also renounced and disclaimed the Blood of the Imperial Family of Greeks of whom he was descended By this and other Arts he drew to his Master Amurath's side the most considerable Lords and Souldiers in Dusmes Army as Laonicius reports at large which over-threw all his Affairs without Hopes of any Re-establishment reducing him to the utmost Extremities Dusmes Mustapha and Amurath both sent Ambassadors to the Emperor of Constantinople Johannes Paleologus to obtain his Assistance making great Offers and solliciting his Ministers with mighty Promises This Affair was much debated in the Councel of State The Reasons of both Sides being considered the Emperor declared for Mustapha who was his Creature whom he had begun to oblige when he was in Prison And therefore promised himself more from his gratitude than Amurath would ever do This had great Reason to fright Amurath's Party and doubtless had it been known the greater part of his Captains would have declared for his Enemy But his Ambassadors foreseeing the danger of such a Report returned with speed after this denyal to give the Army an Account of their Expedition but Mechemet the