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A69796	An historical and geographical account of the Morea, Negropont, and the maritime places, as far as Thessalonica illustrated with 42 maps of the countries, plains, and draughts of the cities, towns and fortifications / written in Italian by P.M. Coronelli .... ; Englished by R. W., Gent.; Memorie istoriografiche del regno di Morea e Negroponte. English	Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.; R. W., Gent.	1687 (1687)	Wing C6342; ESTC R21598	73,597	239

which in the end produced the intire destruction of that Empire The Princes that had the Government of this Province were stiled Despotes and though there happened a frequent alteration of Governours and those of different Extractions yet the Despotate was still continued in its Prosperity for the Election depending on the Emperours pleasure he seldom promoted any to this Eminent Employment but his Brothers or his own Sons or some other of his Relations or great Favorites who by their good Services merited so high a Recompence Constantine Sirnamed Dragares Brother to Theodore the Second was Despot when Amurath the First made an irruption into the Morea and began to exercise Acts of Hostility a stop was for some time put to the proceedings of this terrible Enemy but 't was upon this Condition which the prudent Emperour proposed of paying an annual Tribute and with that price bought his Peace a while after this having taken the Imperial Crown in the City of Constantinople he divided the Morea between his two Brothers Demetrius and Thomas Thomas had for his share the Despotate of Carinth and Demetrius that of Sparta there arose between these two Brethren an irreconcileable Enmity and Division possibly being both equally swayed with a secret wicked design that by embroiling the Affairs of the Empire they might lessen its Glory and thereby encrease their own and obtain by its Ruine the independence of their Government Thomas had gained to his Party the Albanians and Latins who were equally at his devotion Demetrius was assisted by the Turks and Turchan Beglerbey of Romania defired nothing more than to procure and forward the Ruine of this Empire These unfortunate Princes went one after another to make their complaints to Mahomet the Second whose aid they implored and did him Homage never considering that thereby they lost so much of their Power and gave it up as a Sacrifice to him who wisht but to devour them both At last they came to be sensible of their Error but too late for Thomas perceiving that the Turks made Inroads even to his Borders and justly suspecting a design to surprize him was forced to provide for his safety by flight and Demetrius was made an example of the Turks cruel perfidiousness and would have thought it a great Felicity if he could have prevented a miserable Captivity by a glorious Death The first fled for refuge to Rome where in consideration of his Royal Extraction and the Present which he brought of the Head of the famous Apostle St. Andrew he received an honourable and advantagious Entertainment The other transported to Adrianople by a malicious surprize of the Ottomans was forced not to think it his greatest Misfortune to Espouse his own Daughter so to free her from the danger of losing her Honour with her Liberty The Virtues which have rendered Greece so famous have indeed had ●heir Birth there but they could never have grown to that height if the Republick of Venice had not assisted and sustained them for she has al●ays been a good Mother and signa●z'd her tenderness by that strict al●ance she has always had with Greece T is an unquestionable Truth as apears by the Historys of Venice and which any one may be easily satisfied ●n that there is no Empire Realm or ●rovince in all Greece where the Vene●ans have not left some marks of ●heir Dominion In the declining of ●he Greecian Empire when it suffered ●everal dismembrings the greatest ●arcels thereof submitted to the Ve●etians for under their dependance ●ere Arcadiopolis Rodesto Adriano●e Gallipoli in Thrace and therewith all the County about Prevesa and Arta part of Macedonia the Province of Lacedaemon and a great deal of the Morea besides they were acknowledged Soveraigns of most of the Isle● of the Archipelago In fine these were the Titles of the Venetian Empire born by the sole Person of the Doge Dux Venetiarum Dalmatiae Croatiae Dominus quartae partis dimidiae toti● Imperii Romaniae and if these Testimonies were not sufficient to evinc● the vast extent of the Venetian Empire in Greece we need only bring an Epitome of what Historian● have related in several great Volumes The designing Turks having go● footing in the Possessions of the Provinces of these two Princes desire● nothing more than to invade the rest of the Country so to become sol● Masters of the Peninsula The Venetians only could put a check to the height of Ambition which was altogether unjust especially since they went about to violate the Faith o● Treaties and break the Peace concluded But 't is a Maxime of the Barbarous Nations to count nothing inviolable but the advancement of their Interests by any means whatsoever and take occasion then to make War when their Enemies think themselves most secured by Peace Thus the Turks never making themselves Slaves to the Religious observance of the Peace surprised Argos and then behaved themselves as declared Enemies The Republick found by this first Attempt of the Enemy that it was full time to provide for their defence and it being an Enterprize of great Importance and that from Heaven only we expect the most powerful Aids and an happy Success it was above all things resolved that the Standards should bear the Ensigns of our Redemption Then Troops were raised and the General Command given to Bertoldo d' Este This great Captain armed with his utmost Courage for so great an Attempt set sail for the Morea and landed with his whole Army between the Gulfs of Engia and Lepanto He at first applyed himself to get a perfect knowledg of the place and to find means of putting a stop to the frequent irruptions of the Enemy to which end he began that memorable Work and in few days finished it the famous Wall called Eximile after which he employed his whole Forces in the defence thereof and in a thousand glorious Actions gave Proof of his great Courage and perfect Experience in the Art of War Neither his Head nor his Hands were idle he was the first in all perilous Encounters undervaluing his Life so he might Sacrifice it to the Service of his Country and at the same time forward the loss of his natural and sworn Enemy He was arrived to the height of his hopes and his Troops animated by his Example had already gained several advantages promising a glorious Victory and entire defeat of his Enemies when God whose Thoughts are not as our Thoughts are and who when he pleases can give the greatest Conquerors their defeat and Death in the Field where they expected to be Crowned with Victory and ride Triumphant permitted by the secret orders of his Providence or Effects of his Justice upon us that our General sunk and dyed of several Glorious Wounds The Head being thus cut off the Members soon languisht and the Enemy becoming more sierce through the weak resistance they found renewed the Combat with greater Fury and gained the Victory after which setting no Bounds to

Giov. Baptista Cornaro Piscopia Proveditor of St. Mark the worthy Descendent of Peter and the Father of that Illustrious Helena the Beauties of whose Mind were much more surprising and admirable than those of the Body of the fair Grecian Helen who though cut off in the * She died in the 31. year of her age on the 26. of July 1684. at Badova and is there buried in the Church of St. Justin Flower of her Age yet shewed the World prodigious Effects of her Knowledge and Parts In the Year 1463. the Republick sent to make its Complaints against Mahomet the Second then reigning for that contrary to the Faith of their Treaties he shewed himself as an Enemy by putting Argos under the Government of the Flambular or Sanza●hei of Corinth These Complaints produced no good effect with that barbarous Prince wherefore deliberating on the Means to obtain Justice upon this his infringement of the Peace War was concluded upon and Bertoldo d' Estée who commanded the Army of the Republick was sent before the Place with fifteen thousand men who soon won the Fort The Cittadel made some resistance but that likewise in a short time delivered up it self It happ'ned afterwards that this General dying Dauch Passa soon put to rout the Venetian Army his own consisting of twenty four thousand men Thus Argos was presently retaken again by him and threescore Cross-bow-men of Candia made Prisoners and cruelly put to death The Copy of the Writing before mentioned taken from the Original of the Act contained in the Manuscript History of Raphael Caresini Great Chancellor of Venice added as a Continuation of the Chronicle of the Doge Andreas Dandola NObilis vir Petrus Cornario quondam domini Federici dominabatur Terris Castris Fortiliciis Argos Neapolis vigore dotis uxoris suae egregiae dominae Mariae siliae quondam egregii viri domini Guidonis de Engino quo quidem Petro Cornario florida aetate absque liberis defuncto ipsa loca manifesto discrimini subjacebant ne ad manus Turcarum seu Graecorum pervenirent in evidens damnum praefactae dominae Mariae ad quam de jure spectabunt Quare Ducalis excellentia 1388. indictione XII die Sabbathi 12. Decembris ad instantem supplicationem ejusdem dominae ipsa loca terras emit ab ea jure proprio ducatorum boni auri justi ponderis quingentorum solvendorum omni anno in perpetu●m ipsi dominae Mariae de Engino suis ●aeredibus descendentibus Ipsa potest te●tari per testes dimittere singulis ●uibus sibi placuerit de pecunia Commu●is Venetiarum ducatorum 200. auri in ipso casu illustrissimus dominus Dux Commune Venetiarum sint abso●uti ab omni debito prestatione alicui ●acienda de pecunia vel alia re pro dictis ●uae remaneant sint perpetuò liberè absolutè praefacti domini Ducis Communis Venetiarum Insupèr praeliba●us dominus Dux Commune Venetia●um promisit ipsi dominae Mariae dare solvere omni anno in vita sua tantùm du●atos 200 auri de provisione ultrà suprascript duc 500 auri Si verò ipsa loca ●erderentur illustrissimus dominus Dux Commune Venetiarum non teneatur in ●liquo haeredibus ipsius dominae Mariae do●ec ipse dominus Dux Commune Ve●etiarum reacquisiverint iterum possederint ipsa loca utrúmque eorum Insupèr ipsi dominae Mariae non potest impo●i per excellentissimum dominum Ducem dominum Venetiarum aliquod gravamen sive onus faciendi imprestita aut alias impositiones occasione istarum pecuniarum quantitatum Veruntamen remane● in libertate Ducalis dominii providendi disponendo tantam pecuniam Commu●● Venetiarum ad officium Imprestitorum a●alibi ex qua habeatur de proprio suo redi●● annuatim summa septingentorum ducat●rum auri scribendo ipsum capitale cùm ge●tibus suprascriptis Caeterum praefata domina Maria de Engino motu proprio spontè certa ani●i scientia considerans salutem conservationem personae status sui post dictum consistere in benignitate illustrissimi Dutalis dominii Venetiarum à quo velut Fili● benignissimè tractata est tractari dignoscitur promisit juravit absquè requisitione alicujus provido viro Marco de Raphaelis Notario velut publicae Personae per eorumdem fieri fecit publicum instrumèntum 1388 die 17. Decembris se toto tempore vitae suae non accipere maritum sive conjugem nisi nobilem civem originarium Venetiarum sub poena perdendi statim ipso facto totaliter praetium provisionem praedictam ducatorum 500 annumeratim pro praetio dictorum locorum supra scriptos ducatorum 200 auri de provisione suprascripta 200 ducatos quos per testamentum legare potest in casu quo ipsa moreretur absque haeredibus ab ea descendentibus Exemplum Mixtorum num 38. ad Cartas 14. 1383 Die 16. Martii in Rogatis CAPTA Cùm loca nobilis viri Ser. Petri Cornario quondam Ser. Phaederici scilicet Argos Neapolis fuerint sint ad honorem nostri dominii pro omni bono respectu pro statu nostro faciat quod dicta loc● conserventur in manibus dicti Ser. Petri ad honorem nostri dominii sicut sentitur ad conservandum dicta loca expedit ut Persona dicti Ser. Petri vadat ad dicta loca propter pericula quae possent occurrere Vadit pars quod concedatur dicto Ser. Petro Cornario quod ipse cùm illo numero Personarum familiae quae videbuntur Dominis Consiliaris Capitibus Sapientibus Ordimon vel majori parti dicti Collegii possit ire conduci super Galeis Culphi in proximo exituris ad loca sua praedicta Etiam quia in numero istarum Galearu● Culphi quae armantur erit una Gal● grossa potest ei optimè de nostra grati● complaceri Of the Confines of the MOREA The Confines of this Peninsula are as we have said the Ionian Sea that of Sapienza and the Aegean To this we will add the Descriptions of the Gulfs of these Seas The Gulfs of the Ionian Sea. AMongst the Gulfs of the Ionian Sea that of Lepanto shall have the first place which the Ancients called Crisaeus Strabo Halcyonius others Corinthiacus Sinus and Sophianus the Gulf of Pedras It is an hundred miles long and reaches on the North ●o the very Borders of Achaia and on the South to those of the Morea The Gulf called that of Patras from the name of a Maritime Town of the Morea situated within the Dutchy of Chiarenza being in part invironed by the firm Land and in part by the Isles that are opposite thereto resembles a great Lake Taking its length Northwards it is 24 miles long from the Isle of Santa Maura to the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth On the East it extends it self almost as much from one side