and Lot to feed on every Tenth Man till at last he with the Wrack of this miserable Army got back to Thebes in Aegypt The Third which was of Fifty Thousand Men was commanded to waste the Country round the Temple of Jupiter Hammon and to burn that famous Temple with the Statue of Jupiter When they had advanc'd as far as the City Oasis seven days Journey beyond Thebes being the mid-way to the Town of Dasis the Country they were to attack they halted in a Valley where an impetuous Wind blowing Mountains of Sand from all parts buried them together not one escaping so that Cambyses could have no other News but only the probability of this Accident The God Apis so much ador'd by the Aegyptians shew'd himself that Year which he had not done along time before These blind People when they found a Calf of extraordinary Largeness and Beauty made it their False God using all Shews of publick Joy they could express Cambyses being angry and ill humour'd with his late Disasters believed they rejoyced at his ill Fortune and took a Pretext to do it for the Apparition of their God He was then at Memphis where he commanded the Magistrates to come before him and give an Account why they took so ill a Conjuncture for their Mirth and Feasting No Excuses would serve nor no Submissions prevail but he caused them all to be put to Death He also commanded the Priests of Apis to be brought with the Calf they ador'd which was black and had a large square Spot in his Fore head another in the resemblance of an Eagle on his Back a Cross under his Jaws and at the End of his Tail a thick forked Tuff of Hair Cambyses drew his Sword and wounded him in the Ham though his intention was to have kill'd him calling the Priests contemptuous Names saying You deserve no better Gods than Flesh and Blood that can feel and smart with a Wound Then in derision caus'd them to be cruelly beaten commanding his Guards to kill whoever they found rejoycing on that Occasion This severe Order soon put an end to their Feasting The God Apis was carried into the Temple where he languish't till he died and was privately buried by his Priests Heaven as the Aegyptians believed punish'd Cambyses for these Sacriledges taking away his Reason and making him distracted One of the saddest Effects of his Frenzy was the Death of his own Brother Smerdis a very accomplish'd Prince and of so extraordinary Strength that it caused his Brother's Jealousy so far as to deny him Access to his Person by sending him into Persia while he remain'd in Aegypt His Ambassadors or rather his Spies in Aethiopia amongst other Rarities brought home with them a Bow of so large a size that no Persian had strength enough to bend it but Smerdis only who did it with two Fingers which was the first subject of his Disgrace as that which follows was the cause of his Death Cambyses dream't that a Courrier came in great haste brought him news that Smerdis sat on his Throne that his Head reacht Heaven This made him resolve his Death and gave Prexaspes one of his Officers Orders to see it done which he did near Susa as he accompany'd him a Hunting Others say It was by throwing him into the Red-Sea as he walk'd on the Cliffs I need but mention the other Cruelties of Cambyses The Murthering one of his Sisters whom he had Marry'd kicking her many times on the Belly when she was with Child of which she died The Occasion she gave him was wittily reproaching him of his Killing Smerdis He shot the Son of Prexaspes with an Arrow and then rip 't him open so paying his Father for Murthering Smerdis He put twelve of his great Lords to a cruel Death burying them alive with their Heads downwards and would have kill'd the best of his Counsellors the wise and famous Croesus who lost his Kingdom of Lydia with his immense Riches on whom Cyrus his Father had pity These were the Praeludes or rather the Causes which preceded and encourag'd this Impudent Impostor of whom we treat During the time Cambyses committed these Excesses of Cruelties and that his Frenzy made him more hated than a wild Beast there were two Brothers by Profession Magicians One of them called Patazithes was an Officer of his House These conspir'd against him Patazithes knowing the Death of Smerdis which was hid from the Persians had Insolence enough to undertake this Enterprize which follows He had a Brother of the Age and Features of Smerdis and of his Name also him he contrived to set on the Throne and instructed him in all the Arts he should use He sent Heralds into Aegypt commanding the Officers of the Army for the future to obey Smerdis the Son of Cyrus and no longer to own Allegiance to Cambyses These Heralds so well acquitted themselves of their Commission that one of them met Cambyses with his Army at Echatana in Syria to whom he boldly shewed his Order who was astonish'd at his Resoiution and turning towards Prexaspes spoke to him in these words Is it thus you have executed the Commands I gave you No Sir replyed Prexaspes it is not true that your Brother can ever Rebel or Fight more or less against your Authority for with my own Hands I obey'd your Orders And if those who are out of the World can fight you have more reason to apprehend Astyages King of the Medes but if your Majesty have no cause to think of him you have no other to fear your Brother Smerdis I beseech you Sir continued he grant me some of your Guards to pursue this Herald and bring him back that you may learn from him if he have seen or spoke to Smerdis This Advice pleased the King The Herald was brought back and ask't If he received his Orders from the Mouth of Smerdis or from some of his Ministers only He ingenuously confest he had not seen him since the War Cambyses made in Aegypt but had his Orders from the Magician whom his Majesty made Intendant of his Affairs in Persia who said in these words Smerdis the Son of Cyrus commands this to be done Cambyses was satisfied by this Answer that Prexaspes had obey'd him whom he otherwise had certainly put to Death He ask't him If he could conjecture who were the Authors of this Rebellion and Imposture I doubt said Prexaspes they were the Magicians Patazthes Governour of the Houshold and Smerdis his Brother When Cambyses heard the Name of Smerdis he seem'd Thunder-struck remembring the Truth of his Dream and knowing too late his fatal Error wept bitterly for his double Murther of his Brother and Sister In this transport of Grief hastily mounting his Horse to chastise the Rebels at Susa the Scabbard of his Sword dropt off and he found himself wounded in the same Place with the Point where he hurt the God Apis. It surpriz'd him more when they told him
He was in Echatana in Syria The Oracle of Butis having foretold he should die in Echatana he believed it the great City of that Name in Media where he kept his Treasure and commonly resided Flattering himself he should end his days there in his old Age but troubled at the Imposture of the Magician and grieved for the Excesses of his past Life his Wound having made him languish twenty days he sent for the most considerable Officers and spoke thus to them Fate will that Cambyses the Son of Cyrus die here and now I am constrain'd my dear Persians to discover what I have hid from you hitherto When I was in Aegypt I dreamt a Dream which made me fear my Brother should usurp my Crown This Fear made me act with more Precipitancy than Reason I find Man has not the Power to hinder what shall happen I too rashly sent Prexaspes to kill Smerdis at Susa After which Crime I thought my self secure not imagining when he was out of the World any mortal Creature dar'd to rise up against me But I see I am miserably abused and have been to no purpose my Brother's Murtherer For notwithstanding I am rob'd of my Empire it was this Smerdis the Magician the Doemon shew'd me in my Sleep and 't is he was to take Arms against me Think not when I am gone to have Smerdis the Son of Cyrus for your King They are two Magicians would have the Empire One I made Governour of my House the Other is Smerdis his Brother But Oh deplorable unhappiness He that should have revenged his Insolence is basely murthered by his nearest Relations Next I conjure you in the Name of the Gods in whose Protection Crown'd Heads are and which I hope to obtain of you my most dear Ackemenides since the Kings of Persia proceed from you never suffer such a Meanness of Spirit as may let the Empire and Sovereign Power return to the Medes If they obtain it by Fraud or Force use the same Methods to tear it from them and if in this you obey my Orders I beseech the Gods your Fields your Wives and your Cattle may be fruitful But if you do not as I command on the contrary may all Miseries fall on your Heads and your Ends be unhappy as mine Having ended this Discourse he wept abundantly deploring his so early Fate The Persians that were by found his griefs so moving they tore their Garments and shed many Tears crying out for sorrow His pain augmented till the Wound gangreen'd perish't the Bone Death giving a Period to his Reign which was Seven Years and Five Months without any Children The truth of the Imposture and Usurpation of the Magicians could not enter into the minds of the Persians it seem'd incredible to them They thought the Death of Smerdis of which Cambyses informed them was only a Pretext to make the Name of the Persians odious and believed firmly that Smerdis by this Rebellion had placed himself on the Throne Which opinion they continued in the longer by Prexaspes's utterly denying the Murther though if he had own'd it he had certainly been destroy'd when Cambyses was Dead who authorized and avow'd it for the Persians would have been very rigorous with him that had dar'd to shed the Blood of that Great King Cyrus The Magician after the Death of Cambyses bearing the Name of Smerdis Reign'd without trouble or contradiction Seven Months together during which time he exercised his Liberality and Munificence to the Subjects of the Empire which were so extraordinary that after his Death the People of Asia except the Persians lamented his loss extreamly He sent his Proclamations through all the Provinces to exempt the People from Taxes promising them Peace and Rest Declaring he he would List no Souldiers for the War in three Years But in Eight Months his Villany was in this manner detected Otanes Son of Pharnaspes who was one of the greatest Lords of Persia suspected the Magician not to be Smerdis the Son of Cyrus and his suspition was grounded on his recluse way of Living for he never came out of the Palace nor gave Audience or access to any Persian Lord. This just doubt made him send a faithful Servant to Phedina his Daughter who with the rest of the Wives of Cambyses was in the possession and enjoyment of the Magician to ask what kind of Man lay with her if it were Smerdis the Son of Cyrus or some other She sent him word by the Messenger she could not resolve him because she had never seen Smerdis nor could she describe what kind of Man he was that had access to her Upon this her Father desir'd she would ask Attossa the Sister and Wife of Cambyses and now in the Number of those in the Possession of the Usurper To which she reply'd She could not speak to Attossa nor any other Woman the King lay with for this Man whatever he be since he became King keeps us all in different Apartments Otanes being confirmed in his suspicion by these Answers sent his faithful Servant a third time to propose what follows That she being of a Noble Family should not fear exposing her self in a danger her Father advised her to for if this Man were not Smerdis the Son of Cyrus but he whom he suspected she ought not to be enjoy'd by him nor he possess the Soveraignty he Vsurp't over the Persians but be punished as his Insolence deserved Therefore she should endeavour to feel his Head when he was asleep and if she found his Ears he was undoubtedly Smerdis the Son of Cyrus if not he must as certainly be Smerdis the Magician Phedina could not dissemble her apprehensions of the danger for if he surpriz'd her in that curiosity she could expect nothing but Death nevertheless she promised to venture and obey her Father Cyrus had cut his Magicians Ears off for some Villany committed in his time and she feeling when he was asleep found he had none and early in the Morning gave her Father notice Otanes inform'd Aspathines and Gobrias of this affair who before extreamly suspected it therefore were easily perswaded of the Truth 'T was their opinion each of them should choose a Colleague able to Act and advise with them Otanes took Intaphernes Gobrias Mâ—gabysus and Aspathines chose Hydarnes They were six in Number when Darius arrived from Susa the Metropolis of Persia of which Hystaspes his Father was Governour They joyn'd him to their Number being now seven of the Greatest Lords in the Persian Empire They consulted and reciprocally gave their Faith to each other When it came to Darius his turn he spoke in this manner For my part I believ'd no body knew the Magician Reign'd but my self and that Smerdis the Son of Cyrus was not in the World I came hither on purpose to exterminate this Impostor but since I find you are all equally inform'd of it I think it convenient now to agree what is to be done
be of Alboin's coming into Italy and conjured him to countermand and hinder it all he could When the Pope and he were returned to Rome and considering how they might remedy this Misfortune Narses died whose body was carried to Constantinople and there magnificently buried Gondoald after this Accident crossed the Sea and made his Court to the Emperour Justin and the Empress Sophia his Wife an Ambitious and Airy Princess His good Meen and Intriguing Humour made him extreamly considered in that Court Venerationem sibi ac Majestatem conciliarunt says Paulus Aemilius He remained at Constantinople all the time of Justin the Second a pusillanimous Prince who suffered his Wife to govern the Empire contrary to his Honour and Interest During the Reign of Tiberius which was seven years he made several Campaigns in the Wars of Persia under Mauritius who was after chosen Emperour and Successor to Tiberius for Gondoald dared not to venture himself in the Court of France where he had been so ill treated having many sad Examples of his Relations Cruelty even to their own Blood Clotaire his Father without Pity or Mercy burnt Cramnus or Granus his own Son with his Wise and Children in a House where they Fled for Refuge He overcame kill'd in Battle Senabut Duke of Britain He Burnt Conobald Duke of Guienne in the Chappel of S. Martin where he ran for safety because he had assisted Granus in his Revolt to whom he Married his Daughter This Clotaire also was Guilty of that abominable parricide of dipping his hands in the Innocent Blood of his two young Nephews Theobald and Gontier Sons of Cladomir his Brother King of Orleans Gondoald considering he had little Reason to expect a better Treatment from his Fathers Brothers Sigebert and Chilperic chose rather to Live quietly in Justin's Court But when he was Informed how matters went in France he resolved to hasten thither encouraged by the Empress Constantina and the Emperour Mauritius Son-in-Law to Tiberius who promis'd him their Assistance His two Sisters-in-Law Brunechilde the Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisigoths in Spain Married to his Brother Sigebert and Fredegonde Woman of the Bed-chamber to the Queen Galsond Wife to Chilperic his other Brother King of Paris who first became Mistress and then Wife to that King These two Women disturbed all France Their Husbands having been Traitorously Murthered which was the occasion of his Return after having been Twenty Years in the East He Landed at Marseilles with a splendid Equipage where Theodore Bishop of that Diocess received him with much Honour it being reported he brought Vast Riches along with him and was able to give great Rewards having made the best Advantage of his Happiness in the Eastern Court besides the finding a mighty Treasure hid by Narses the Eunuch His Royal Qualities and Majestick Person were admired The Fame of his Actions having gain'd him the Reputation of a good Captain Scholler to the Incomparable General Narses Didier who absolutely Commanded the Countrys adjacent to Tholouse Mummol much talkt of for his Service in the Wars against the Greeks and Lombards and thought one of the best Souldiers in his time besides many Lords both Visigoths and Romans who kept the Frontiers of Spain declared for him Thus having acquir'd such powerful Friends and reduced to his Obedience a great part of the People and Cities of Guienne the Peregordins and Bourdelois those of Tholouse and Anjou followed his Fortune Childebert King of Mets the Nephew of Gondoald was then angry with his Uncle Gontran King of Orleans for refusing to deliver into his hands his Mother-in-Law Queen Fredegonde the Murtheress of King Sigebert his Father which reason perswaded him to declare for Gondoald sending him Ambassadors and stiling him King to give him the more Majesty for the obtaining the Hearts of the French advising him to take the Name of Clotaire his Father The occasion of Gontrans refusing to deliver to him the Queen Fredegonde was that young King Clotaire the Second her Son was under his Tutelage and he thought it below a Generous Prince to give up the Mother of him whom he intended to make his Successor Gontran was a Prince extreamly Good Pious and Charitable I can find no other Reason why he preferr'd Clotaire his Nephew who was but Four Months Old when his Father Chilperic was Assassinated by the Infidelity of Fredegonde his Wife Gondoald having before so much cause to doubt whether Clotaire were Lawfully begot or no his Mother being of a very scandalous Life in her Husbands time abandoning her self to the Maire or Stewards of the Pallace Londry de la Tour. Unless he thought the Decision of the Laws sufficient that Filius est quem nuptiae demonstran That Child is Legitimate who is Born of a Woman who hath a Husband He hoped to give good Impressions to the young Prince being like soft Wax capable of any he would make But Gondoald's Humour he extreamly apprehended for his fierceness and resentment of the usage he received in his younger Days That Divine Quality so Admirable in a Prince to forget Injuries received when 't is in his Power to Revenge them never having been exercised by Clotaire his Father who always prefer'd his own private Resentments This made him not acknowledge Gondoald that came from the Court of Constantinople when the Grecian Artifices Treachery and Cruelty were much in use The Affection and tenderness he had for the Innocent Child prevail'd over his aversion to the Vices and conduct of Fredegonde his Mother Raymond Bishop of Paris a Person of an Exemplary Life first spoke to the good King in Favour of this young Prince he having before saved Fredegonde from the Fury of the People inraged by the Death of their King Chilperic of which she and her Gallant Landry were shrewdly suspected he giving her with her Son and Treasure refuge in his Church The Merciful King continued his Clemency to his Death which happened the 28th of March 594. Still assisting the Queen with his Councel and Protection He perswaded her by his remonstrances with the fear and respect she had to offend him to Live a more retir'd Life He caused what the Courtiers and Domesticks of his Brother Chilperic had unjustly taken from several particular Persons to be restored He did many Favours to the Church making those dues to be paid which Chilperic had supprest or diverted and largly assisting the Poor All which he had reason to believe Gondoald would not do being greedy of Money wanting all the Treasure he could get to recompence his Creatures and support the Luxury he had Learnt at Constantinople I will not stop to relate the Encomiums which Gregory of Tours and Fredegarius in their Chronicles give this King Gontran only say it was the greatest misfortune or if you please an effect of Gods Judgment to want his protection and be rejected by him Though Gondoald did all he could to obtain his Favour He chose two
thing which concerns their Relations He came to Parma where he sent the Dutchess word that a Gentleman of Portugal had something to tell her which he could declare to none but herself The Dutchess had lately received an account by a Courrier from Lisbone of the Death of the Cardinal Don Henry who last filled that Throne which she now demanded for her Son Rainuccio she being the Daughter of Edward one of the Sons of King Don Emanuel There were also other Pretenders to this Crown of Portugal such was Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy by his Mother Beatrix a Daughter of King Don Emanuel Katharine the Sister of Mary joyned her Right with that of the Duke of Braganza a Prince of the Blood Royal of Portugal for her Son Theodosio and who indeed by the Law of Lamega which as they affirm excludes a Forreigner from the Throne of Portugal had the most just Pretence to it Catharine de Medicis Queen of France claimed it though at greater distance And Pope Paul the Fourth came in with his Title saying That Crown was a Fief of the Holy-See and therefore at his Disposal Philip the Second King of Spain was Son of Isabel Daughter of the same King Don Emanuel and Mary his Wife was yet nearer being Daughter of Don John the Third Son and Successor to Don Emanuel He was the nearest in Blood the nighest Neighbour and the most Potent so got Possession of the Crown but not without fighting for it by Sea and Land The Naval-Fight which his Admiral the Marquis de Santa Cruz obtained of Peter Strozzi a Florentine and Marshal of France who undertook by Force to dispute the Title of Catharine de Medicis his Mistress and kinswoman was no small Part of Philip's good Fortune The Three Estates of the Kingdom of Portugal were Assembled to determine this great Controversy when Don Sebastian appeared in Italy The Dutchess of Parma had also her mind filled with these things but when she perceived Him she gave a shrieck and ran to the Other end of her Closet much astonished I bring you Madam said he approaching her Extraordinary news which will much surprize you the King Don Sebastian is alive and not far from hence not much distant from you for he now speaks to you What Madam continued he without hesitating does then Don Sebastian Fright you He hoped that a better Reception would have been the reward of those pains he has endured to find you At the tone of his Voice the Dutchesses trouble was so great she could neither speak nor move out of her place Recollect your self my dear Cozen said he with a Passionate Air I am no Phantasme but the same Don Sebastian you once honoured with your Favour and now returned as full of your Idea as I was before I went to Affrica With these Discourses the Dutchess came to her self and suffer'd the False Don Sebastian to approach nearer giving him her hand and when she was assured that this pretended Monarch was a Man and no Ghost Ah my Lord said she Whence are you come where have you been so long hid And by what Miracle are you among the Living When you are in a Condition to hear me replyed Don Sebastian I will answer you all this But first be not so disturbed and believe that I am really the King of Portugal and if neither my Stature nor my Face assure it let the Passion of my Eyes convince you I have now recovered my Spirits said the Princess sitting down by him and confess your Sight did affright me above my Power of commanding my Disturbance But Sir all is now dissipated Therefore pray tell me to what Wonder we owe your Life and return to Love Madam answered Sebastian a Passion that had once made me touch your Heart must needs defend me from all Accidents Then he told her how Xerine found him among the Dead his getting into the Isle of Mucazen and his Living at Hoscore but carefully concealed how Don Sebastian had Loved Xerine before that Action and more his Marriage to her in Affrica Though that Princess used her utmost Power with Muley Boabdelin her Cozen and a Prince of the Blood Royal to oblige him to it by assuring him the Princess Mary was Married to the Duke of Parma But said that sometime after being informed she was a Widow He escaped as he pretended with difficulty out of Prison and came to lay himself at her Feet so full of Love that he had Lived on the very Thoughts of being esteemed by her Why then said the Dutchess did you not Write to me That I did many times reply'd he and doubtless Xerine who hoped that from my Misfortunes which she could not expect from my Re-establishment gave such Orders as prevented their coming to your hand My Restraint was very severe I was treated like a Valued Lover and had no Opportunity or Liberty to deliver my self from that Title The Dutchess must needs be Transported at the Recital of a Constancy so well invented She Ordered an Apartment for him whom she thought the King her Cousin together with an Equipage in all respects sutable and sent for the most Intelligent Persons to depute to the Estates of Portugal on his behalf which Deputation extreamly surprized them They sent Six of the Chief in their Assembly of whom some had been Ministers to Don Sebastian to see their Monarch Their Eyes assured them he was the same they ask't him several Questions which they thought Don Sebastian only could Answer But he was so well instructed by Xerine as convinced the Ambassadors that none but He in the World could so reply Insomuch that they assured the Estates he was really their King Those who were interested against him accused him of being a Counterfeit and Practizer of Deceit requiring this Sebastian to go and be present in Person at the General-Assembly of Estates to be Interrogated there in Form concerning his Pretentions While those who were affectionate to the Memory and Person of Don Sebastian thought there was no Security in that Demand The Kingdom was hereupon divided Those were called Royalists who adhered to the King and Those who declared for the several Princes pretending to the Crown Leaguers During these Disorders he that caused them lived at Parma expecting an Army should take the Field for his Interest At the Head of which he intended to demand what he said was his Right This supposed Prince after some time fell into disgrace with the Dutchess of Parma I know not whither or no by the Accident which Mademoiselle des Jardins relates on this manner That one Day walking with her by the side of that Canal which is one of the most Beautiful Things belonging to the Palace of Farnese she observed the Ribbon of a Letter-Case hanging out of his Pocket which she softly pulled out wherein she found Letters and Verses that discovered his Love some of them having the Greatest Liberties of his Marriage with Xerine for
in his Place the absent Voldemar whom they believed was dead They knew that Lewis bore a mighty Hatred to the House of Ascagne the two Electors of that Family Rodolph Duke of Saxony and Voldemar the First having opposed his Election declaring for Frederick of Austria his Rival in the Empire in the year 1313 at the Diet of Franckfort Voldemar the First starving Nicholaas Booch his Envoy in Prison for falsifying his Letters of Procuration razing out the Name of Frederick to insert that of Lewis contrary to his Master's Intention and Pleasure All these Considerations make me reasonably conclude they either thought him Living and had some News of him or were perswaded the Emperour Lewis only gave his Son the Administration of the Marquisate and Electorate of Brandenbourg till he returned or his Death was better confirmed It is almost impossible he should die in a strange Country and tell no Body who he was as likewise that the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria should send no Messengers to be assured of the Place and Circumstances of his Death when it would have saved him so much Trouble and secured so rich a Prize How many Examples are there of Princes who have quitted their Country thro' the same Motives that Voldemar did William Duke of Guienne and Earl of Portou whose eldest Daughter and Heiress Elenor was repudiated by Lewis the Seventh King of France called the Young and Married to Hen y the S cond King of England in the year 1152 also of the Old Blood of the Earls of Anjou which Lady became the occasion of most cruel Wars between those Martial Nations while her Father went on Pilgrimage to St. James of Galicia feigning himself Dead he in the mean time travelling like a miserable unknown Wretch about the World that he might exercise those rude Pennances for his Crimes after his Death being made a Saint to eternize his Memory Fiacre Son of Eugenius the Fourth King of Scotland lived a Hermite unknown to all near Meaux in France chusing a Spade before a Scepter Him also they made a Saint Julius Sabinus an Illustrious Gaul near Langres who boasted that he was descended from Julius Caesar and in the time of the Civil War between Vitellius Otho and Vespasian caused himself to be proclaimed Emperour by several Legions but having the worst in Fight lived Nine Years in a â—ave with his dearly beloved Wife Eponina where in the greatest Extremity to Poverty he had several Children by her but could not so conceal himself to avoyd Death by the Cruelty of the Emperour Vespasian who destroyed him with his Wife and Children The Proverb says Ill gotten Goods are soon lost Which was verisied in the Posterity of Lewis of Bavaria Marquis of Brandenbourg for neither He nor his two Brothers Lewis the Roman nor Otho ever possest it quietly but were constrain'd to abandon it to the Emperour Charles the 4th Thus as Carion concludes in the Fifth Book of his Chronicle the Bavarians were deprived of this Electorate and Marquisate of Brandenbourg by the same Deceits which they had used to frustrate the Princes of Anhalt after the Absence and Death of Voldemar who were justly the next Heirs CHAP. XI THE False Mustapha SON of BAJAZET The First of that Name Emperor of the Turks THere 's none can be so ignorant in History as not to have heard of Tamberlain Emperour of the Tartars and of the Victory he gain'd over Bajazet the First of that Name Emperor of the Turks In the Turkish Annals these two Monarchs are called the one Temir Can and the other Gilderum Can. The Title Can which signifies King or Lord being commonly used to any other Tartar Prince or Turkish Lord. But the Name of Tamberlain or Tamerland was given him because he was Lame which Land expresses in the Persian Tongue Some called him Temir Cuthlus signifying in the Tartarian Language a Fortunate Sword His Sirnames were The Terrour and Desolation of the East Terror Clades Orientis He also stiled himself the Wrath of God or the Instrument of his Indignation As for Bajazet he was Named Gilderum or as others say Hildrim which in the Language of the Tartars signifies the Terrour of Thunder and Lightning The Greeks called him Lelapa that is a Violent Torrent The Imposture of this False Mustapha who called himself the true Son of Bajazet certainly believed to have been killed in this great Battle where his Father was defeated and made a Prisoner obliges me to look backward and tell you of Bajazet with the Subject and Circumstances of the War Bajazet was a most Cruel and Bloody Parricide being the First who taught the Princes of his Family to Imbrew their Hands in the Blood of their nearest Relations he causing his Brother Jacup or Jacob to be strangled whom Paulus Jovius calls Solyman His Ambition was so great that without having any right but the sharper Scymitar he drove many Soveraign Princes out of their Countrys As Techrin Prince of Erzingue or Erzrum in the Greater Armenia whom some call Scander and make him King also of Armenia together with the Prince of Germian the Duzinon or Lord of Adem and others sadly experimented He had also much Afflicted Constantinople and made great Devastations in the Countrys of Emanuel Emperour of the East These expelled Princes being thus cruelly used went in Person to implore the Protection of Tamberlain against the Tyranny and Injustice of Bajazet The same Greek Emperour groaning under the severe Yoak of this Tyrant paying him Three Hundred Thousand Crowns Tribute every Year Tres myriadas Auriorum as Carion has it in his Chronicle was constrained to surrender up the City of Philadelphia to him which the Tyrant had so often Besieged in vain giving him also Hostages and being Obliged to furnish such number of Souldiers for his Wars this made him also send Ambassadours to represent his miserable condition Axalla the bravest of Tamberlain's Generals was a Christian of Genoese Extraction born at Copha in Taurica Chersonesus which was then a City and Collony under the Dominion of that State of Genoa This generous Man endeavoured also by his entreaties to perswade his Master to re-establish these Persecuted Princes and beat down the Pride and Insolencâ— of Bajazet Tamberlain was pleased to hear him express what Glory it would be to his Reputation if he should deliver the Emperour of Constantinople and the other Princes from so unjust a Tyranny The Tartar was so sensibly touched with their Misfortunes that he dispatched away a Herald to require Justice on their behalf from Bajazet at the same time sending a very Rich Vest which is always by them presented from a Superior to an Inferior This so enraged the Turk that a War was soon declared Bajazet bringing an Army of Eight Hundred Thousand Men into the Field Paulus Jovius says a Million where in a bloody Fight he was absolutely defeated and taken Prisoner The Turkish Annals mention not the numbers of either Army only