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A01618	The ofspring of the house of Ottomanno and officers pertaining to the greate Turkes court. Whereunto is added Bartholomeus Georgieuiz Epitome, of the customes rytes, ceremonies, and religion of the Turkes: with the miserbale affliction of those Christians, whiche liue vnder their captiuitie and bondage. In the ende also is adioyned the maner hovv Mustapha, oldest sonne of Soltan Soliman, twelfth Emperour of the Turkes, was murthered by his father, in the yere of our Lorde 1553. al Englished by Hugh Goughe.	Georgijević, Bartolomej, d. ca. 1566.; Gough, Hugh, fl. 1569.	1569 (1569)	STC 11746; ESTC S108633	51,654	186

present was king of Hungarye ouercam and put him to flight in the felde called Salumbetus He dyed beinge yet of youthely yeares rained about sixe yeares Moises MOises was sixt Emperour of y e Turkes After y t he had slaine Oreanes his brothers sōne he obteined y e turkish Empire but not lōg gouerned the same For he was also murthered by Mahometus brother vnto Oreanes slaine of him before which after the death of Moises brought vnder his subiection the Empire of Turkey Mahometus MAhometus the first of that name seuenth Emperour of Turks was notable throughe his cruelty He weakened in many battells the strenght of the Walachians oppressed them He raigned fouretene yeares and dyed in the yeare from Christes incarnation a thousande foure hundred and nintene Amurathes AMurathes the seconde of this name eight Emperour of the Turkes was full of guile and cruel He first inuented and established the order of Ianitzaries of whome it shalbe spoken hereafter He raigned yeares thirty one and died in the yeare of christian health a thousand four hundred and fiftye Mahometus MAhometus of that name the second ninth Emperour of y e Turkes was bolde of great audacitye stubborne and rash He toke Constantinople in the yere from Christes incarnation a thousande four hundred fifty and thre the nine and twenty day of may and was Emperour thirty and two yeares Baiazetus BAiazetus called the second of that name tenth Emperour of y e Turkes by force of warre subdewed all Moldauia and brought it in subiection to his Empire Besides that he fought many gret and perilous battels at the whiche he was present in his owne person among his souldiers He raigned thirty and one yeares Selimus SElimus eleuenth Emperour of y e Turkes was marueilous cruel He poisoned his Father and by that meanes obteined the turkishe Empire in the yeare of our Lorde God a thousande fiue hundred and twelue Afterwarde when he had subdewed the great Sultan he sacked the most populons citye Alkairum and raigned but eight yeares at what tyme he was iustly punished for his crueltye Solymannus SOlymannus the sonne of Selimus and twelueth Emperour of the Turkes whiche reigned in our time but now is saide to be dead was for our sinnes and offences fortunate and victorious By him wer subdewed y e Grecian city Alba with Rhodes And after that he had vanquished kyng Ludouicus he adioyned also to his Empire Buda Strigonium Alba Regalis and many other cityes of Hungarye He also in the yeare of our Lorde a thousand fiuehundred twentye and nyne beseged Vienna wher from by helpe of the sone of God whom he hathe as his enemye he was driuen away In what maner the Turkes do vse to make vvarres AFter that the Turkes had vanquished the strenght powre of the Macedonians thei kept and imitated ther traininge vp of souldiers warrelike discipline and maner in gouerning althoughe in euery particuler point they agre not Wherfore ther harneis being coates of maile they ar accustomed to fight with spere shilde and swordes croked in the backe lyke our woode kniues and often times proue conquerours It is most certain that the Ianitzaries do nothing at all differ from the most picked souldiers of Macedonia by whose martiall prowes Alexander the great vanquished the inhabitantes of the Easterne partes and brought thē in subiection to his Empire They bring vp exercise and instructe them euen frō their infancye in fighting and the warres Not one amonge them doth knowe either his parentes or knisefolke They ar to saye the truth the children of christians rauished and taken awaye at sondrye robberies and spoiling conquestes whiche beyng brought into the orcharde of the turkishe Prince they practise and traine vp in warrelike feates and exercises wherby in time to come they may be haue and defend thē selues more māfully in the forefront of their battelles If any of them chaunce to dye or to bée slaine in the felde eyther at the assaute of any citie strong castell or other mightye places of defence incontinent they ordaine and substitute in ther places certaine of those so exactly exercised and instructed yong menne and by that meanes fil vp the member By reason wher of the bande of Ianitzaries whiche is is it were the fortresse and harte of all the powre and strength of the Turkes doth alwaies confinew vndeminished They haue not equal stipendes but euery one hath a pension according to his propre manlines and puisant dedes atchiued And this is the onelye cause why they proue so desperate prompt and ready to attempt all kynde of valiant actes and aduentures as of late yeares wée haue of them bene taught and certifyed not withe out oure greate grefe domage and discommodytie For euen sithens the time of Amurathes the second which first constituted the Ianitzaries and disposed them in this order we neuer reade that they loste the vniuersall and hole strenght of any generall armye but by experience haue rather knowen them to be the victours and conquerours The Turkes do mainteine kepe with suche iustice and seueritie the discipline of war the lawes and customes in battell that in this behalfe they maye seme farre to passe y e Gretiās Romains Ther neuer chaunceth amonge them eyther diuisions mutual slaughters seditions or treason For they ar fourthe with beheaded being but for a trifeling offence conuicted The turkish souldiers in many respectes do surmount the warriours of other nations First of all they readily obeye with out grudging or disdaine their Prince Captaines which is not obserued among vs. Secōdly al thoughe they be enforced with moste vrgent necessitie yet they neuer take flight but rather assaile and fight more desperatly For they fully beleue that by celestiall prouidēce it is determined at what time and after what sorte euerye mane shall ende his lyfe and dye and therfore they thinke that no misfortune may chaunce vnto them before the prefixed houre Finally in as muche as they ar endurable most patiēt a lōg space of time they can susteine thē selues with out bred or wine with only water and rice ❀ The Officers perteinning to the greate Turkes Courte and vvarres vvith the disposition of the same and diuersities of his souldiers Visier Bassae VIsier Bassae are Councellours to the turkishe Emperour For with these he accustometh to deliberate consulte of all his busines and affaires They ar in number foure and are chosen by the Emperour him selfe of the multitude of those whiche haue forsaken Christ and of Christians ar bée come Turkes yea ther haue bene founde to proue of them more worse then the Turkes thē selues Their authorytye and powre is of great estimation and they are of marueilous riches and substance Lesker Kadie LEsker Kadie are y e chefe Judges whiche determine discide be they neuer so many all contentions and controuersies of warre The one hath his seat in in Romania the other in Natolia Theire office is to declare the lawe

deadly enemies to the of springe of Ottomanno and therefore he ought narowely to sée vnto hym selfe lest to persian strenght ioyned to the Sangiaches and Ianischaries whose fauoux Mustapha longe sence had wonne by his liberalitie in short space he shoulde bereue his father both of lyfe and kingedome with these and such like accusations they brought the troubled minde of the olde manne to suche passe that he fullye purposed to prouide for safegarde of his owne estate by death of his sonne after this maner In the yeare of our lorde God a thousande fiue hundred fiftye and twoe he caused with all diligence and celerytie throughe out for the moste parte all his prouinces to bée proclaimed the Persians departed out of their coastes to haue inuaded Siria w t a great Oste of armed men ouerthrowē cityes lead awaye the people captiue and no mane resistyng them spoiled all the countrye with fire and swoorde whiche so bolde an enterprisse and desperat acte to repell that he was constrained to sende thither Rustanus with an army Certaine bandes of souldiers therefore beynge gathered together he priuelye committed thē to Rustanus that as secretlye as it might be and without all tumulte he shoulde laye handes or Mustapha and bringe him bounde vnto Constantinople but if he coulde not commodiouslye bringe it to passe that then by one meanes or other he shoulde cause him to be murthered This vnnaturall and beastelye commaundement of a father being receiued Rustanus guarded w t a mightye Oste of souldiers marchethe towarde Ciria Whither when he was come Mustapha certified of his ariual all lingrirg set a part iorneyed towardes Siria accompained with seuen thousand of the most valiant and best apointed souldiers throughe out all Turkeye Wherof Rustanus hauing intelligence and seyng that he could not according to his intēt accomplish the wicked cōmaūdement of his most cruell vnkinde father with out longer tarying begane to flye and retiring made hast with his army to Constantinople again with such spede that he dared not to sée the duste raysed in the aire by the horsemene of Mustapha muche léesse too abyde hys commynge Beynge retorned therfore wythe hys companye of souldiers he perswaded all menne to haue founde the prouince quiet and in safegarde But at lenght opened vnto the kynge in secret the cause of hys retorne addynge that he had senne by moste manifest signes and coniectures the mindes of all the whole armye to be meruellouslye enclined to the fauour of Mustapha and y t he thought it not good in so daungerous a busines to attempt the matter by open warre for whiche cause he referred the decydynge therof vnto the wisdome of hys maiestye This relation encreased newe and no small suspicion in hys vncurteouse and bloudshedynge father and in no pointe degenerating from the engraffed crueltye of his auncestours from whiche too deliuer him selfe in his wicked thought he throughely determined wherefore in the yeare next folowyng he commaunded a mightye oste to be gathered to gether signifying that the Persians hadde inuaded Siria with a more huger armye then before and that he forced for a publike safegard hadde determined thither to leade the Oste in his propre person and resiste the intētes of their enemies The souldiers therfore gathered to gether all most at a beckning and necessarye prouision generally ordeined for the warre commaundement beynge geuen to sette forwarde after fewe dayes the bloud suckyng father dothe folowe hys armye Whiche when he was ariued in Siria fourthe with charged Mustapha to repaire vnto him at Alepes for ther he had pitched his tētes But in the meane space Solimam was not so able to conceale by outwarde aparance althoughe diligent regarde was applied thervnto the detestable and deadlye hatred which in his harte he had conceiued towardes his sonne but that it came to the euident perseuerance of the Paschans and other men of greater dignitye about him Throughe the whych one Acmat a pascha secretly warned Mustapha by a messenger that he shoulde haue a more carefull regarde vnto his lyfe and saflye And in deede Mustapha thought it not vnworthy to be marueled at y e hys Father with out any probable reason shold thither resort with so great an armye of souldiers howbeit trustynge to his innocencye extremely vexed with anguish and perturbation of minde he fully purposed to satiffye and obeye althoughe with no small perill of his lyfe hys fathers cōmaundementes For he thought it to be more honest and laudable by obeyinge his father to incurre death then by liuynge to fall into the crime of disobedience But weyinge in this so great sorowe and heauines many cogitations in his minde at lenght constantlye and with out tremblinge he demaunded of his teacher whome as before wée haue mencioned he had alwayes with hym in his courte whether on empire of the whole worlde or a blissed lyfe were rather to be wished for by a man vnto whō the doctor frely aunswered that y e Empire of this worlde vnto a man throughlye considerynge it doth brynge no felicitye but vnder a vaine and colored apearence of the trewe goodnes for then that their is nothynge more vnstable and lesse assured in as muche as it is wont to brynge with it selfe méere sorowe perplexitye of minde tribulation suspicions manslaughter feare ▪ vngodlines vniuste dealinges ruine captiuitye spoilinge with diuers other kindes of mischefe neuer too bée wished by such a one as is desirons to attayne vnto the trewe blissednes by the whyche doutles a happye lyfe shoulde bée loste and not wonne but vnto whome bée geuen depelye to weye and consider the vnstabilitye and shortnes of this our fragile estate whyche the common sorte estemeth to be the trewe felicite and striue againste the vanityes of this worlde and imbrace honestye that no doubte for them ther was a place assygned and prepared in heauen by the highe God wher they ●shoulde geue the fruition of perpetuall ioye and a blessed lyfe With thys aunswere of the Doctor the young mans minde beynge marueilously troubled as it were after a sorte by a presagement of hys deathe it is throughelye purposed he sayde and abidyng no long communication incontinent directed his iorneye towardes hys bloude thirstynge Father and not farre from hym pitched his tentes in the plaine felde But this soo hastye commynge of Mustapha kyn●led a greater suspicion in hys wicked Father and in the meane time Rustanus ceased not in that behalfe to augment and encrease thys suspicion with hys moste leude lyes and dissemblynge deuises for geuynge a sygne he encoraged the Janischaries and other the chefest souldiers of the armye to goe fourth and mete Mustapha And farther prolonging sette a syde euerye one moste spede●ye executed hys commandementes prouided and furnished hym selfe for the iorneye After that the moste disceitfull villaine shewinge fourthe as he knewe exceadyngelye to faine a disdainefulnes in hys countenance conueyed streyght waye hym selfe into the kynges tente moste impudentlye affirming● that