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A20888	The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be vnknowen of them that would attaine vnto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.; Histoire du grand Tamerlan. English	Du Bec, Jean, 1540-1610.; Mildmay, Humphrey, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 7263; ESTC S109956	178,782	270

the Colonels of the footmen to performe that and that it belonged vnto him only to command Prince Axalla sent him word that this was a speciall match and that if they did win the mountaine they should also win the battell that he would this day obey him and be his souldier About this time he did see this great bodie moue which was the remainder of the enemies footmen the most part Ianizaries who at their coming performed a wonderfull act but in the end Prince Axalla comming with many of the brauest men about him he put the enemies to flight and did win the mountaine and remained Maister thereof before he departed and lodged there intrenching himselfe on the enemies side He left Sinopes to commaund there who had this day gotten great honour There died of our men fifteene thousand and aboue thirtie thousand of the enemies the fight endured from eight of the clocke euen vntill night our horsemen being lookers on not any wayes able to helpe the footmen The enemy hauing receiued this disgrace marched ten good leagues that night and forsooke his Campe as ouercome but it was not without hauing the Prince of Thanais Stucan at their taile with his light horsemen Prince Axalla continually following them encamped within two leagues of them hauing alwayes the coast of the sea and they bending towardes Caramania Now the Bassa hauing receiued againe his spirits after this disgrace would encampe himselfe but the Prince of Thanais discōtented for that he had not fought aduāced in such sort that euē as we were ready to lodge had newes that it behoued to aide him with diligence the which Prince Axalla vnderstanding caused the signe of battell to be giuen speedily and he himselfe with all the horsmen aduanced forward Now it was a litle riuer he had passed ouer not thinking the enemie had beene so neare vnto him which the enemies perceiuing they cōmanded 10000 Persian horse to giue the first charge the which they hauing valiantly performed our men being engaged without any other delay were constrained to come vnto the fight strong resolutely and defended themselues but the enemies were foorth with backed with 20000 horse after them the first charge not hauing beene but for to engage them the fight was very furious and our men were almost ouerthrowne when as behold tenne thousand Persian horse ledde by the Prince of Hallicen who set forwarde with great diligence and came for to assist the Prince of Thanais who fought valiantly and had two horses alreadie killed vnder him and did fight vpon the third Stucan was slaine and all the light-horsemen ouerthrowne Prince Axalla who perceiued the fault which the Prince of Thanais had committed did bite his lip saying that God had giuen him a goodly victorie and that he must loose the same through anothers folly and turning him selfe vnto his companions he said vnto them that this was the day wherein they must fight not for glorie but for the safetie of all the Parthian people Hauing sent forward with all diligence tenne thousand horse more for to maintaine the fight he came speedily vnto the order of fight aduanced forward with forty thousand horse the which he put into three troupes on front he followed the enemie who had knit himself together put our men to flight hauing had alwayes the better in all the former charges they had giuen The Prince of Thanais at the third charge was ouerthrowne to the ground as dead in the enemies power but the 10000. horse whereof I did speake compelled the enemie to make head against Prince Axalla who would not suffer this occasion to be lost without reuenging the ouerthrowe of his men Now hee did perceiue there was but two houres left of the day the which caused him to presse forward vnto the battaile and to constraine and force the enemie to come vnto the same Now the Bassa had not as yet fought at all who aduanced forward with fifteene thousand fresh horse strengthening this charge but Prince Axalla comming vnto the fight he could not resist so great a troup was ouerthrown The Gouernour also of Natolia called Lenauen who as yet had not fought assisted Prince Axalla and had yet ten thousand horse who gathering our men together againe they all ioyned with Axalla repulsed the horsmen within their footmen who giuing themselues ouer to flight did forsake them they could not stay our horsmen from assaulting them so as they were almost all slaine hauing fought euen vntill night notwithstanding there retired aboue twentie thousand in order of battaile the most part of them Ianizaries who passed ouer the water and hindred our horsmen from hauing so large a victorie as they otherwise should haue had Notwithstanding the next day we sent part of our horsmen vnder the Gouernour for to keepe that none of the enemies should ioyne themselues together They marched all that night led by their Captaine whom they call Ag● the Ianizaries went in verie good order speaking reproches of their horsmen who had thus forsaken them they fortified themselues being resolued all of them to die for the preseruation of their Prince After the dead were buri●d and care taken for the wounded the Prince Axalla left the Prince of Thanais sore wounded vpon one of his legges and himselfe aduanced forward more then tenne leagues the enemies horsemen being as yet knit together fourteene thousand horse strong The Prince Axalla hauing left all his carriages followed the enemies who could not ioyne thēselues with their Ianizaries for we had gotten betweene them The Ianizaries in this order wherein they marched came along by the sea the which Prince Axalla vnderstanding he sent ten thousand horse after them and commaunded that all the footmen of the armie which had not yet fought should march with diligence directly towardes them for to set vpon them but they had gone two great iournyes and embarked themselues at Gallipoli for to passe ouer into Europe and ioyne with Calepin who accused the Bassa for that hee had forsaken them and was fled away from them There were aboue fiue and fortie thousand of the enemies slaine in this last day these were two battels happily atchieued there were slaine of our men aboue twentie thousand and Prince Stucan was found amongst the dead vnderneath his horse his target being vpon his face all the whole armie made great lamentation for his death he had greatly ouershot himselfe for he had like to haue ouerthrowen all the whole armie There was great ioy made for the safetie of the Prince of Thanais so preserued amongest the dead The Prince Axalla did greatly reprehend him for his rashnesse hauing beene the occasion of the death of twentie thousand men and to make the victorie vnto vs bloudie the which had not otherwise bene so seeing we might haue had the same better cheape The Prince of Thanais excused himselfe vpon Stucan and the light

horsmen who had aduanced themselues too farre and also hee did not thinke to finde the maine forces of the enemies so neare at hand Prince Axalla sayd vnto him that hee was in great doubt least such a matter would fall out and for this cause he had aduanced the armie as neare vnto the riuer as he could But Prince Axalla notwithstanding all these great and happie victories had not that which he desired and shewing himselfe verie sad for that he knew the indisposition and sicknesse of the Emperour as incurable he purposed to returne vnto the Court to the end he might win the good fauour of the young Prince whom hee knewe the Emperour his father had sent for And hauing assembled the Counsell he caused the dispatch to be read the which he did send vnto the Emperour of the happie successe of the victorie and in the meane time he sent after the enemies to the end they should haue no more leasure but only to get the mountaines and hauing giuen this cōmandement very early in the morning he followed after with the rest of the army The greatest part of the Persians sent to sue for their pardon and did come and yeeld themselues the Prince their chiefe hauing bene slaine the head of the Bassa was brought by a souldier who had killed him in his retiring at such time as he did see the Persians forsake him This was the same Bassa who had bene taken before in the battell wherein the Emperor Baiazet was taken prisoner The prince Axalla followed continually the small remnant of the enemies Armie that remained they made foule warre vppon the Mamelues because the most part of them had falsified their faith giuē vnto the Prince of Thanais for the rest they made them faire warre In lesse then fifteene dayes this armie was wholly ouerthowne and Calepin retired into Europe all the cities vpon the sea coast yeelded themselues The winter drawing neare the Armie demanded their pay whereupon they tooke aduise and hauing considered where the same might winter it retired towardes Goualache The Prince of Thanais was desirous to withdrawe himselfe into his gouernement and leade backe his troupes as also to preuent the nouelties the which the indisposition of the Emperour might bring foorth and Prince Axalla and he hauing sworne great friendship each vnto other he went his way The Prince hauing a determination to ouerthrow the Empire of Greece the next Sommet following to the end hee might take from the Ottomans all oportunitie of waxing great seeing the Greeke Emperour did fauour them and hauing conquered againe all that which Calepin had wonne without any great resistance The Prince of Thanais was gone twentie leagues or thereabout when as behold there came a post who brought newes of the Emperours death the which did happen two dayes after he had receiued the newes of this victorie hauing done nothing after the receipt of these news but quietly end this life speaking euen vnto the last gaspe with sound and good sense taking order for the affaires of his Empire without any alteration in his accustomed manner The Prince Axalla hauing receiued these newes whereof he doubted withdrew himselfe alone and with all kinds of complaints he bewailed the death of his good maister he concealed his death certaine dayes and hauing with all diligence sent these newes vnto the Prince of Thanais he desired that it would please him they might meete for to consult of their affaires So they appointed a place to meete in about this accident This post brought his dispatch signed with the name Sautochio our Emperour by the which he was cōmaunded to leaue 40000 men with the Gouernour of the borders and himselfe to take his iourney thorough Persia with his army This post was followed by a fauorite of the new Emperor who came vnto Prince Axalla for to gratifie him to make him an affectioned seruāt vnto the Emperour as a person whom he knew very necessarie for to maintaine the greatnesse of his Empire holding in his power at this day the principall forces besides the great authority hee had of long time enioyed with the late Emperor so as the quiet of the Empire depended more vpon Prince Axalla then vpon any one especially hauing had very lately so famous a victorie This same did greatly procure him the good will both of the Captaines and souldiers but there was nothing but worthinesse in Prince Axallaes mind who assured the new Prince of his faithfulnesse and obedience vnto his commandements I will not forget to declare that during the time the armie did refresh it selfe the Prince of Thanais came to meet with Prince Axalla where interchangeably they did swere faith the one vnto the other for the preseruation of their honours and estates They thought it best to cōceale the death of the late Emperour the one of them in the armie the other in his gouernement but euen as euill newes doth disperse abrode sooner then good so did Axalla vpon his returne find these newes spread ouer all the which he perceiuing thought good to cause the armie to bee assembled together and there for to giue them vnderstanding of the losse of their Emperour You did neuer see so many cries and so much shedding of teares hee exhorted them vnto the same faithfulnesse and affection towards the young Prince his sonne for the honour of the late Emperour the which they promised euen vnto the meanest souldier Axalla caused the oath of fidelitie to be particularly taken by the chiefest of the Armie and after he had couered all the standarts with mourning weede according to our custome and had made also a muster of all his souldiers where he did againe exhort them to honour the memorie of their late Emperour towards the Prince his sonne saying vnto them that he did not die at all seeing he had a sonne who deserued to be beloued of euerie one for his vertues vnder whose good fortune they should henceforward fight who would acknowledge their seruices That it was conuenient to go vnto him for to receiue the recompence of their faithfulnesse that he was young for to exercise the young and liberall for to consider well of their trauels that hee would neuer forsake them but would be alwayes their Protector After that was done he seuered vnto the Gouernor those men as hee thought necessarie to remaine with him for to keepe this countrie in peace and to hinder the enemies from fortifying of thēselues the which Prince Axalla hauing performed he aduaunced two dayes iournies forward Now for to recite that which passed at the Emperours death this it is that feeling himselfe ill disposed hauing from all partes sought for health in the end seeing nature did decaye in him he called for Sautochio his eldest sonne vnto whom in the presence of Odmar and of all his Councell he discoursed of the course of his life euer since the death of his father

some follow some flie some kill taking of horses and men tumbling ouer and ouer they held the victorie sure on our side when as behold a maine force did come vpon vs conducted by Calix who had gathered them together and they were between fifteene and sixteene thousand horse which came set vpon the Princes maine battaile on the flank and pierced the same and ouerthrew them in a maner all Now you must vnderstand that those on Calix part retired at the verie first charge euē vnto their carriages and our men had followed the victorie too hotlie making great slaughter in somuch as they charging againe and finding our forces broken he did easily shake our Armie and gaue vs a great checke so throughly that wee were vpon the point to lose the battaile The Prince Tamerlan was throwne to the ground in the meane while his maine Battaile retired continually fighting according to our maner The Prince was not long in mounting againe on horsbacke looking continually on his Arier-guard which had not the meanes to ioine with him and earnestly viewing the countenance of the same Nowe our footmen at such time as hee went to giue the charge was open and after shut againe and had not bene as yet set vpon by anie they had bene onely breathed vpon at the charges which had bene giuen Axalla ioyning with it his troupes reserued for the Arier-ward During this space Calix did hotlie pursue the troupe of Tamerlan who retired skirmishing continually with his souldiers being almost all Parthians The enemies maine battaile did greatly diminish for his souldiers went a spoyling here and there within the campe of the Battaile and they could not discerne by reason of the great dust the Arier-ward which followed in good order after killing and ouerthrowing all that vvere opposed against them When as behold at the same instant there came a crie euen vnto Calix with Turne turne there being a thousand or twelue hundred horse which Axalla had seuered from the rest who hauing already aduanced themselues brauely were come to handigripes with Calix hauing receiued commandement to mingle amongst them for to redeeme the Princes maine Battaile which was pursued by them Then did Calix in returning perceiue that both his Empire and glorie together with the good fortune which he one houre had fully inioyed were for euer vtterly lost then began he to repent himselfe of his follie after he had commanded a charge to be giuen for the repelling of the auant-currers hee staid vniting his men for he had as yet 11000. horse but he could not descrie whether those which were with Axalla shold be footmen or horse for they all appeared vnto him horsmen a thing which did greatly amaze him On the other side he did perceiue that at the same instant he left pursuing the Emperours maine battaile in that very time it had gotten a loofe off ioyning together such of the men as had bene scattred from the same attending the successe of this charge that hee might beginne his fight againe notwithstanding he being bold and braue had his recourse vnto extremitie by his armes and hauing nothing in his face but boldnesse he exhorted his men to fight valiantly with him and pursue the good fortune which the great God had put into his handes this day that these were scattered men which sought to ioyne with their fellowes and it was necessary to hinder them from that In this meane time his Army did stronglie ioyne itselfe together the which Axalla well considering thought that the good fortune of two great Emperours was this day in his power and vnder his conduct and that his life or death could not but prooue most glorious being for the safetie of his good master who had put in him so great confidence he encouraged his souldiers valiantlie commanding the first charge to be giuen and brauely assisting his men hee charged so strongly that he passed cleane through the squadron of Calix who was hurt in his mouth with the blow of a Lance after had performed the dutie both of a souldier and Captaine In the end valiantly fighting he fell into Axallas owne handes the which with one voice he proclaimed through all his campe the which ouerthrew the courage of all his souldiers Prince Tamerlan also set vpon the flanke of one of those troupes broken already by Axalla and so was the victorie entire There were slaine of the one side and of the other more then fiftie thousand men It cost our Emperour deare who said that he neuer fought with greater danger of being ouercome He honoured greatly Axalla for his good endeuour and wise conduct who brought vnto him Calix sore hurt in the mouth with the blow of a Lance and another blow of an arrow in the body He spake vnto him but the other being fierce and bold answered him nothing at all making a signe that his mouth did hinder him he was kept vntill the next day and was iudged by all the Counsell worthie of punishmen whereupon he caused his head to be smitten off the which he sent to be presented vnto the inhabitants of Cambalu he caused the like to be done vnto all the chiefe leaders not for crueltie but for necessitie knowing very wel that the means to cut off the foot of ciuil warres is to punish the heades of the same for they be Hydras which grow vp but too fast After this the Armie marched into the kingdome of Cataio a countrie rich in grasse and in all kinds of pastures abounding with great quantitie of beasts and people which knew not what warre meant The Prince gaue commandement that these people should not be accounted as enemies but his good subiects that he would vse all the cities well as Cangi Sochgi Gonzae Tagni Togara Congu which had reuolted and were come to sue for pardon at his handes in humbling themselues before him the which he granted vnto them enioyning them only to prouide sufficient victuals for his armie and neuer to be so ill aduised as to harken vnto those who for their particular ambition would withdraw them from the obedience due vnto their true and naturall Prince and Emperour Now this mercifulnesse was presentlie spread abroad which was of no small importance for the appeasing of others who had put all their hope in extremitie which is in losing their owne liues to make others doe the like especially the inhabitāts of Cambalu had taken this resolution but being informed of the Emperours clemency changed their opinions notwithstanding some of them which were the most sedicious who thought they should run the same fortune with their leaders were in despaire doing as much as in them lay to draw with them the destruction of their citie the which this mildnesse had appeased and changed into hope of the Princes clemency In the meane while our army daily aproched and at such time as we came neerest the more did the

for to change in such sort as euery one retired into his quarter beeing resolued with the losse of their citie to lose also their liues Now you must vnderstand that the situation of the citie was of hard accesse being seated vpon a plaine the which was enuironed round about with mountaines one of them only approching the citie which ouerlooked it on front vpon the North side where was a valley by the which they passed and there did runne a riuer on this side was the suburbe situated which had beene taken so as the meanes to succour the Citie was stopped our souldiers keeping the passages of these Mountaines the which were in the old time the borders of the kingdome for Paguinfou was once gouerned by the Tartarians which kept it for a defence against the Chinois but had lost the same and these mountaines were the limits of China against the foresaid Tartarians who gouerned Paguinfou at that time so as these mountaines were of hard accesse and there remained no other way but on the side of the suburbe the which a riuer compasseth about running all along the side of a bordering mountaine vpon the which we caused many bridges to be built for to haue thereby a way for to succour our souldiers which kept the passages of the mountaines on the enemies side so as it could not be but hardly succoured or else by a battell the which the Prince did earnestly desire as all conquerors should do I will declare also that during this time Odmar Calibes and the Prince of Thanais were cōmanded often by the Prince to make warre as well for to heare certaine newes of the enemie as also for to maintaine his horsemen and to keepe the place the which he had chosen as the field for the battell to the end that he might liue there with his horsemen He gaue also commandement vnto his men to gather together great store of victuals so as they sacked many small townes out of the which they brought a great quantitie In this meane time the king of Chinaes armie approched euen like faire weather the which was very great as they brought vs word dayly the Prince determining to go in person meete with the enemy accōpanied with his principall horsemen and to leaue the greatest part of his footmen at the siege wherunto he had a great desire omitting nothing that might wearie the besieged who defended themselues couragiously So the Prince began to batter causing his engines to approch as rammes and other munitions the which he had made for to come neere vnto the walles to the end they might come to hand-blowes with the enemies insomuch as the Citie was assaulted on two sides very coragiously They within began to be more affeard then before there beeing set vp for the safegard of the munitions and of a wall which was fallen down a Caualier raised vp very high within an arrowshot which did greatly annoy them so as they were constrained to forsake the wall in the day and this caused them to begin a trench for to couer themselues the which was 22. foote in height and as much in depth and fiftie foot in bredth the which being declared vnto our men they determined to trie their fortunes and to giue thē an assault before they had ended the same or at the least to win the wall lodge there at the instant So the Prince sent for Axalla who was in his own quarter this affaire depending vpon his charge and hauing by his industrie ordered in a manner all the siege and hauing acquainted him with his pleasure commanded him to execute it The next day putting his mē in order they assalted the wall the which was valiantly defended but in the end through the valor of Axalla who gaue an assalt with 20000. of his best souldiers he won the wall lodged there the Prince hauing so cōmanded him to do to stop the heat of the soldiers frō going any further Now the Princes purpose was to cōpound for the citie not to force it for two reasons The first was for that he feared the citie being great and rich that when the souldiers should sacke it the enemie who was but thirtie leagues from thence should come vpon them and by this meanes his army should be found in disorder also rich souldiers neuer serue well The other was for that he would draw out of that citie which was rich and wealthie those commodities which were necessary for the sure accomplishing of his enterprise seeing it was necessarie to haue such a citie for to make a store-house of necessarie things for the army Thus although the wall was won the enemies wanted not courage yet to defend themselues valiantly looking for aide according to the newes they had receiued that the kings army marched forward Whilest these things were in doing one of our engines shooting a bullet and hauing ouerthrowen a peece of Anuber the same did hurt the Gouernour who at the end of three or foure houres yeelded vp the ghost the which caused the souldiers to change their resolution there being none which made them obstinate but he so as they determined before the Prince should be aduertised of the losse of their head especially of the great slaughter of men which they had lost in the fight of the wall all of them with one cōsent did resolue for to yeelde themselues vnto the Princes mercie sauing their liues and the souldiers enioying their horse and weapons Now I haue forgotten to declare how this assault had alreadie endured the space of eight dayes such delay did greatly vexe the Prince and on the other side the king of China made no great hast but at such time as he vnderstood of the Gouernour his death doubting of that which happened The Prince then who was aduertised that the enimies army marched vnto a batel was very glad of these news the which Axalla who was aduanced vpon the walles had declared vnto him and brought the Embassadors vnto the Prince who receiued them verie curteouslie assuring them on the one side of his gentlenesse and on the other of the power he had to punish their disobedience The conditions were agreed vpon and there came out of the citie eighteen thousand souldiers the inhabitants remaining in a maner all there were therin thirtie thousand soldiers at the beginning the siege cōtinued two moneths Now the king of China in his marching receiued newes of the yeelding vp thereof he caused the Lieutenant of the late Gouernor to be punished and many of the Captaines but pardoned the souldiers he stayed in that place attēding for our marching forward which could not bee before eight daies after he had taken order about this new cōquest the which was necessarie for him to settle before hee proceeded any further Our Prince caused a muster to be made of his soldiers hauing encreased their payes and contented euery one according to his desertes The honour of

wherein was the Emperors person gaue a new charge and his Auantguard was whollie knit againe vnto him he renewed another forcing and was fullie victorious Baiazet hauing retired on horsebacke out of the troupe of Ianizaries wounded fell aliue into the hands of Axalla vnto whom he yeelded himselfe supposing it had bene Tamerlan then Axalla seeing him so followed being for a time not knowne but for some great Lord of the Ottomans twentie thousand horse did not fight at all but only in pursuing the victorie and they made a great slaughter The Prince had his horse slaine vnder him with the blow of a lance but he was soone remounted againe on horsebacke This day the wisedom of the Emperor gaue the victorie vnto his souldiers for the iudgement which he had in tyring of the strong forces of the Ottomans was the safegard of his For if all had gone vnto the battaile in one front surely the mutitude had put it selfe into a confusion but this maner of aiding his men made euerie one profitable The Emperor iudging like a great Captaine of the need that euerie one of his souldiers had so that this manner of proceeding was the getting of the victory They accounted threescore thousand men slain of the Ottomans and twentie thousand of ours The Prince of Tirzis was slaine as I haue said the head of the Georgians slaine Calibes was verie sorrie hee had so easie a reckening in his Arier-ward being very couragious and a gentle knight the Despote of Seruia was taken prisonerer who did accompanie Baiazet and was a Christian they gaue him this day of battaile much reputation The Emperour gaue vnto him verie good entertainment reproouing him for that he did accompanie Baiazet against him who did come in fauour of his Emperour He answered him that it was not according to his dutie but the prosperitie of Baiazet vnto whome it seemed that all the world did bend for to subiect it selfe vnto him and that his safetie had caused him to set forward The Emperor presentlie therupon gaue him leaue to depart at his pleasure He tooke care to get into his hands Baiazet his childrē he gaue commandement that Baiazet should bee cured and after brought before him who at such time as he was there neuer made any shewe of humility The Emperour saying vnto him that it lay in him to cause him to lose his life he answered Do it that losse shall bee my happinesse And demanding of him what made him so rash for to enterprise to bring into subiection so noble a Prince as was the Emperour of the Greekes He answered him the desire of glorie and rule Wherfore doest thou said the Emperour vnto him vse so great crueltie towards men so farre foorth that neither thou nor thine do pardō either sex or age This do I answered he to giue the greater terrour to my enemies Then said the Emperour so shalt thou receiue the like reward and causing him to bee conueyed againe out of his presence he turned vnto his followers and said behold a proud and fierce countenance hee deserueth to be punished with crueltie and it is necessarie that hee bee made an exemplarie punishment to all the cruell of the world of the iust wrath of God against them I acknowledge that God hath this day deliuered into my hands a great enemy we must giue thanks vnto God for the same the which was performed being yet day for the battaile was wonne at foure of the clocke and there was as yet fiue houres of day-light The children of Baiazet were brought before him he caused them to be vsed curteouslie and as the children of an Emperour The next day he commaunded the dead to bee buried they found the Prince of Tirzis dead in the middest of the Ianizaries where he remained enclosed The Emperour did greatly lamēt this young Prince who was his kinseman and would haue bene one day worthie for to do him great seruice In that battaile there-died manie Captaines almost all the chiefe of the Ottomans This was a great Battaile the which was fought from seuen vnto foure of the clocke in such sort that they knew not vnto whom the victorie did incline Our Armie stayed vntill the next day euery one causing his friends to be buried The Prince of Tirzis was embalmed and conueyed with two thousand horse vnto Samarcand vntil the Emperour returned All the other dead bodies were buried at Sanas with all the honour that might be Axalla was much grieued for his kinsman because hee was verie well beloued of the Prince his charge was giuen vnto one of his brethren who was verie famous in fighting this same day wee might iudge the euents of the matters of the world Behold this Emperour Baiazet who was as he thought superior to fortune which in an instant found himselfe and his estate by one battaile onlie ouerthrowne euen vnto the lowest place and at such time as he thought least thereof He vsed to say that he was iustly punished for despising the multitude we had for the assurance that hee had in the valour of his horsmen and especially of his Ianizaries Hee was three dayes as they report before he could be pacified as a desperate man seeking after death and calling for it The Emperour did not vse him at all curteouslie but caused small account to bee made of him and for to manifest that he knew how to punish the proud vpon festiuall dayes when as he mounted on horseback they brought this proud man vnto him and hee serued him in steed of a foot-stoole this did hee for to manifest the follie and arrogancie of men and how iustlie God had humbled him The next day the Prince marched directlie towardes Bursia whither all the remainder of Baiazet his Armie was retired with the Bassa Mustapha All the countrie yeelded vnto vs and the Prince caused all the holdes and fortresses to be ouerthrowne and destroyed and punished all those which were so euill aduised as to stay vntill they were besieged I had forgotten to declare how hee caused the Prince of Tirzis bodie to be accompanied with diuers prisoners chained tied together whom he did send vnto Samarcand the which the Prince had determined to make great for a perpetuall memorie of his greatnesse Euen so had hee greatlie peopled it with people of China which had bene taken in the Battailes and of those likewise which were taken out of the two great Cities Paguinfou and Quantoufou Nowe this battaile did bring great astonishment vnto all the countries possessed by Baiazet and no bodie resisted vs euen vnto Bursia whither this armie was fled and therein were also two sonnes of Baiazet verie young Axalla being alwaies aduanced forward before our Armie with fortie thousand horse and an hundred thousand footmen without anie carriages who hindred the enemies from ioyning themselues againe together and he made a cruell warre vpon the Ottomans deliuering the Grecians from the tyrannie

of Tauris had chosen Thalismahar for their Prince and sworne fealty between his hands after they had perceiued the approach of the Emperours Army so as he was no longer acknowledged onely as Captaine generall but for their Prince and hauing receiued a solemne oth of them all they had euery one sworne vnto him to dye rather then obey the Tartarians or to acknowledge anie thing that commeth from them but seeing their affaires for to change they repented themselues alreadie so inconstant a thing is the election of a new Prince who tooke vpon him to fight with the Tartarians in a raunged battel and to driue thē fighting euen into their owne country But now when they did see so great an Armie draw neare vnto them being victorious ouer so manie sundrie nations and especially the experience of their force and valour by the ouerthrow of Democares it troubled them much to be shutvp especially seeing he had made them promise that the enemie should not approach within foure leagues of their walles This murmuring was spoken aloude and the most obstinate who were their Priestes and who did abhorre the chaunge of the religion they held and which would not receiue the new reformation of Guines nor his superstitions they were the first which began to stirre vp the people and to exhorte them to thinke vpon their safetie declaring vnto them how vaine their Princes promise was and that he deceiued them their destruction being a thing most manifest that they should remember them selues of Caire and so many thousands of Cities the which this Tamerlan hath brought vnder his subiection and peraduenture hee would not constraine them to obey Guines but the Emperour onely and that it was the best way to send vnto him This opinion remained three dayes to bee considered of amongst the people and euen the greatest fell into this opinion although they did see that they were able to make resistance more then three moneths but hoping for no other succour but the death of Tamerlan who was young and that euen his Captaines would not leaue his glorie imperfect before they had atchieued this glorious enterprise that all this did bring vnto them small hope of safety Axalla was aduertised of al this by the spies which went and came to and fro being most aduanced and thereof gaue intelligence vnto the Emperour But in the end feare together with the desire of change preuailed so much with them that they of Guines faction sent vnto the Emperour for to know his pleasure and to take assurance for their safetie But they were not the sixt part notwithstanding a bodie cannot haue so small an euill in anie one of his parts that it shall not greatly empaire the health of all the rest This canker although it was litle at the begining did dayly increase and went on augmenting The Prince of Tauris being aduertised of these two factions the one of Guines sent vnto the Emperour knew not how to remidie the same for the enemie being so neare and thinges so disposed he doubted a great reuolt and did wisely beare all with patience vntill some extremitie when as hee purposed to vse extreame remedies for his benefite Now within the Citie of Guines faction were some thirtie thousand men whereof they hauing assured the Emrour and hauing bene comforted to assure themselues of his assistance they returned from thence spreading ouer all the courtesie they had found there with the Emperour and they published the same aloude amongst the people and that there was no euill meant vnto anie but to the new chosen Prince and that the Emperour required nothing of them but their obedience and that notwithstanding the folly which some seditious had committed in choosing this man for Prince yet was it not fit to ouerthrow so flourishing a Citie and so manie honest men for such a light matter that the Emperour required but the life of this new elected and of his confederates and not of the inhabitants In the ende matters came vnto this passe that they of Guines faction had assembled the people and caused the same Embassadours whom they had sent vnto Tamerlan to declare aloude vnto the people being assembled what they had heard the Emperour say the which was that he directed his armes onely against the elected Prince and not against the City Presently thereupon some cried let vs arme our selues against such as will gainsay this there was neither the maiesty of the senators nor the arms of the soldiers that could stay this sedition The new Prince withdrew himselfe into his lodging where being intrenched and desirous to entermeddle his authoritie he was desired to retire vnto the Pallace into some corner about his Castell with those of his faction and seeing himselfe weake hee determined to forsake the Citie and to withdraw himselfe vnto the Mountaines The Emperor being aduertized of this happy successe by Axalla who came vnto him declared vnto him this purpose to the ende he might haue leaue to cut of the way vnto the Prince elected But the Emperour hauing meditated long thereupon wold not hazard anie thing rashly but let him go and rather take that great city through their diuision then by his armes he therefore commanded Axalla to suffer him to retire and to send none vnto the warre being vnwilling to enterprise any thing by armes to the end they shold haue a greater confidence in his mercie The night following the Prince elected departed away together with those of his faction who had bene onely fifteene dayes Prince of the common wealth whereof he had bin Captaine the space of eight and twenty yeares with all prosperity hauing stoutly resisted the supstitions of Guines and the tyrannie the which he would vnder colour of this new godlinesse bring vpon the Persians and surely if the ouer sight of Camares had not bene his affaires had not receiued so bad successe which doth teach vs that the matters of warre are so vncertaine as it is necessary to haue alwayes regard vnto the most sure way and preserue the principall matter For if those forces had not departed out of Tauris nor hazarded them there had bene worke for our Armie the space of sixe moneths And you know what chaunces and nouelties do commonly happen in the estate of so great a monarkie as is ours the which hauing so great a breadth of country it is not possible but some new alteration must daylie needs happen within the same especially seeing long sieges are oftentimes the destructiō of great armies principally in such an estate as ours was which hauing bin out of his own country the space of two years it drew neare home so as it was hard to keepe them from seuering during so long abode The Prince elected had many perfections and was surely worthy to succeed in this monarchy before Guines but the destiny had thus limited his glorie That same hauing happened all the Citie being ioyned together sent

vnto the Emperour desiring eight dayes respite for to treate with him and yeeld them selues vnder his obedience the which the Emperour graunted them willingly And this they did to the end they might haue time to prouide the meanes to keepe them selues from the gouernement of Guines his superstition or rather reformation in the Prophets law for the faction of Guines which was smal in respect of the other parties could do very litle So the time being come they sent to treate with the Emperour and the first article was that they did beseech that it would please him to cause them to be gouerned by one of his owne subiects that they might not be seuered frō his obedience that they doubted not but that Guines would remember the resistance they had made against him that they beseeched his imperiall Maiestie he might haue no commandemēt ouer them a thing verie acceptable vnto the Prince what good answer soeuer he had giuen vnto Guines to bring them subiect vnder him The other was that they shold be maintained in their priuiledges and acknowledged as subiects vnto the Tartarian Empire and not any longer vnto that of the Persians That they wished this great Monarchie that had so long time flourished should be chaunged in the time and vnder the raigne of so great and coragious an Emperour of the Tartarian nation as our Prince Tamerlan was to the end the reproch of their nation might be the lesse That they desired not to be freed frō ordinarie tributes although it might please the Emperour to consider the great warres they had lately maintained against Guines for preseruation of their libertie and that it would please him to ease them of the same The Emperor who was of a curteous nature made shew there of in good earnest towards this people and made grant vnto them that they shold liue without any constraint in their religion aswell after the reformatiō of Guines as after the law of Mahomet according vnto the interpretation of Haly and also the Christians and Iewes should be likewise free as they had alwayes vsed and accustomed All other demands being granted they submitted themselues vnder his obedience and the next day came from thence three hundred principall men of the city who performed the oth of fealtie in the name of all the people The Emperour after this determined of his entry so Prince Axalla was commanded to enter the first thereinto with fifteene thousand horse thirty thousand footmen they deliuered into his hands all the fortresses giuing commandement for honour and obedience vnto the Emperour he seised vpon the gates and caused proclamation to be made that all the Citizens should bring their weapons into his lodging the which was done So the Emperour arriued there in great magnificence being receiued with the full reioycing of all the people and he was almost worshipped of euery one thinking thēselues happie to be saued from such a shipwracke The next day the Emperour had newes of the death of the Emperour his vnkle by the Empresse who had apprehended some great men that would haue raysed vp some tumult he made great lamentation for him yet it was the lesse grieuous vnto him for that he knew his great sicknesse which did threaten him with death of long time had not the kindnesse of the Empresse his daughter bin who had such care of him as she ought for to haue old age had made an end of him long before The Emperour caused these newes to be concealed from the army bewailing the same priuatly he dispatched Prince Axalla in whom amongst all the rest of his Captains he reposed greatest trust for that he had chiefest authoritie with him to the end he might assist and aide the Empresse with counsell with full power of Lieutenāt generall vnder the Empresse he caried thirty thousand horse with him causing a rumour to be spread that the Emperour aduaunced forward Who in the meane time gaue order for the assuring of Persia and restraining Guines of whom he had discouered manie practises that tended vnto the Monarchie of the Persians Axalla being also contrarie vnto him and hauing as much as he could fauoured the contrarie faction he had set downe as a Maxime vnto the Emperour the assuring of Persia and that he should seeke the weakening of Guines faction But he Emperour hauing sent him farre from him being naturally religious suffered him selfe to be caried away with the fained holinesse of Guines which did great hurt but not during the Emperours time for he durst not during his life but yet vnto his posteritie Monarkes deseruing no lesse blame for not prouiding for the quiet of their posteritie as for seeking an assurance only during their raigne For the Emperor hauing suffered Guines to come neare vnto him he knew so cunningly to behaue him selfe winning the Chancellor and the other Princes of the Emperours counsell that they brought him neare vnto the Emperour and being there he knew so well to carry him selfe that he made the Prince for to tast his manner of seruing God as most answereable vnto the last will of the Prophet Notwithstanding the Emperour knowing how much the change of his maner of seruing God was acceptable vnto the people whō he gouerned although he allowed it he did not practise the same but very secretly he assembled together the principall men of the law to make triall for to agree this controuersie but he did see this to be impossible so stiffely euery one held his interpretation to be according to the true meaning of the Prophet wherein hauing spent some time in vaine in the meane time hee receiued the oth of all the Persians gathered together great store of money wherewith he had payed his armie and gratified his men of warre rewarding them after their desertes he established the Prince of Thanais to commaund ouer them in his absence with whom he left an hundred thousand feotemen of his armie to the end for to suffer the same to winter in all the Cities and through all the countrey to keepe all in subiection and refresh it selfe The rest did the Emperour conduct with him and all his prisoners of what qualitie soeuer except those whom he gaue vnto Guines for to instruct them in his reformation But the matter fell out much otherwise for hauing framed them well vnto the warre as soone as the Princes death happened he vsed their seruice for to assure his affaires amongst the Persians vpon the first occasion should be offered whereby he thought he might attaine vnto his purposes for the Prince hauing led him with him he made him beleeue that he had no kinde of ambition but onely religion in so much as he making profession of his religion neare vnto the Emperours person many applied thēselues vnto the same Now he perceiued well that the Prince had some iealousie of him this was the occasion he desired to follow

him assuring him selfe the Tartarians would in short time cause thēselues to be hated of the Persians The Emperour inuited all the greatest Lords of Persia to accompanie him vnto Samarcād which they did vpō the cōmandemēt of the sayd Emperour being desirous to teach them for to serue him the Persian gentlemen being so many litle kings and also that during the time he was in his Court he made them for to know his courtesie and magnificence and did win them by good deedes aduancing them also vnto the honors of his Court and vnto the charges of his kingdomes wherein he employed them so as Persia as long as he liued was much affected vnto him which greatly serued him for the keeping as well of Siria as of the Soldans Empire leauing cōtinually mē there drawing out colonies the better to settle his affaires in those places So the Emperour leauing the Prince of Thanais with his Army to attend his pleasure he marched with the rest of his forces into his owne country with all the ioyes and triumphes that might be possible the chiefest prisoners marching before the Emperour amongst the which was Baiazet Emperour of the Turkes all chained and was a spectacle vnto all the world of fortunes inconstancy he continued notwithstanding in the same fiercenesse was wont to be in him So where soeuer the Emperor passed the people assembled themselues by thousands praising singing his victories We arriued at the last at Samarcand with all our spoyles in very great magnificence where after we had bin the space of one moneth or two in feastings and magnificences the Emperor with his accustomed deuotion hauing in great solemnity vowed a Church and Hospitall vnto his God the most magnificent that might be deuised Whereuppō to perform the same he began to search out all sorts of handicratfs men for to honour this city the which he had a desire to make one of the stateliest Cities in the world And in one of the corners thereof he began and did build there his Temple and Hospitall making an accompt to increase yet this Citie as large againe as it was and to people the same with so manie seuerall kindes of people and nations as hee had brought with wim giuing libe●tie vnto them all to frame and build their houses causing money to be distributed to do the same and giuing all kinds of priuiledges and freedomes vnto the prisoners for to giue thē a greater desire to build and settle themselues there and hauing caused the streets and places to be plotted and hauing appointed a place for euerie one to build vpon he tooke no other pleasure neither had he anie other care then the preseruing the good will of his most famous souldiers whose names he hauing caused to be written in a generall muster booke the which hee commaunded to be made from day to day they not thinking thereof receiued honours and good turnes of the Prince in recompence of their so great seruices Now he declared the death of the Emperour his vnkle vnto his Counsell and forgot no ceremony due vnto the honor of the said Emperour outwardly shewing the grief he conceiued for his death where after he had rested some eight dayes he determined to go vnto Quinzai for to see the Empresse and hauing left Baiazet in the custody of the gouernor of Zachetay the Emperor set forward with his ordinarie court which was of fortie thousand horse and threescore thousand footmen I had forgotten to declare that the Emperour sent backe the Mosciuites forces with rich presents and dispatched Sinopes nephew of Prince Axalla for to conduct them out of the country of his obedience as also to the end for to confirme a new friendship with him for to leaue nothing during his voiage that might be an occasion of nouelty hauing for that time made an end of his enterprises hee was altogether bent to preserue the friendship of his allies and for the maintenance of his conquestes This was the cause that before he departed from Quinzai he dispatched towards the Prince of Thanais one of his most faithfull counsellers called Nobazes to the end he should haue an eye vnto the factions of the Persians and also for to succor all the places that should haue neede as well on the side of Caire as towards the Mediterran sea to the ende that nothing should be chaunged during his absence giuing him charge moreouer that the pollicy and discipline should in his Armie be carefully obserued and commanding him to credit Nobazes verie expert in the art of warre So the Emperour being come vnto Cambalu he receiued newes of the battell Odmar had wonne against the king of Chinas Captaine generall and how he pursued his victorie hauing taken three or foure great and rich Cities the which did yeelde themselues vnto him and that againe the Chinois did desire peace The Emperour sent the Articles he required which were that before all other things the king of China should pay the arrerages of the tribute the which he had agreed with the Emperor First he should come in person to do homage vnto his Maiesty acknowledge himselfe as vassall vnto his Empire That the Army should withwraw it selfe during his voiage and he should deliuer vp vnto him all his Cities sauing three such as the Emperour should nominate and that the things should be restored vnto the same estate they were in before the war when the Emperor made the first peace that he shold pay the army for sixe moneths and shold also satisfie all the expences of the war seeing he had begun it was author of the breach of peace Then the Emperor gratified Odmar sending vnto him for wife one of his sisters with all magnificence that might be for to make him the more affectioned vnto him I will declare how the Emperour was receiued at Cambalu by his subiects with all the magnificence possible the Emperour for to gratifie them hauing restored their priuiledges the which hee had taken from them for the rebellion they had committed with Calix so as the Emperour went ouer all gratifying his subiects for this new succession that was lately fallen vnto him all the companies coming vnto him for in these countries they haue no certaine dwellings they are alwayes wandring in troupes wheresoeuer they go thither the Empresse hauing left Prince Axalla to gouerne at Quinzai came vnto him The Prince remained there almost two moneths hauing in this place giuen order for all the affaires he had Cambalu was also neare vnto mount Althay where they vse to burie the Scithian Emperours whom we do call the great Cham. The Emperour caused the bodie of the Emperour his vnkle to be brought thither and him selfe wold conduct it with all pompe honoring not only his body but also al that he had loued in the world although it was not the custome to cause women for to assist the funerals yet

be gentle and curteous vnto his friendes and terrible vnto his enemies and if they demaund peace of you do not in any case refuse it and forgiue your particular occasions do iustice for the loue of your people This yong Prince had the tears in his eyes and the Emperour contrariwise vttering these words had a maiestie in his countenance more then accustomed and causing his sonne to go out he sent him vnto the Empresse for to comfort her And hauing againe called for Odmar he recommended vnto him the young yeares of his sonne the loue and faithfulnesse vnto his seruice willing that his yonger son should be brought vp to obey his elder brother for of the loue and agreement of the two brethren dependeth said he the quiet and preseruation of this estate and sending for them both he was desirous to giue them his last blessing And they being come before him he commanded the younger to obey his elder brother and both of them together to honour the Empresse and beginning to giue them his blessing touching the head of Sautochio he pressed it downe and touching the head of the yonger hee raised it vp lifting vp his chinne a presage that Letrochio the younger should be lifted vp vnto the Empire and should be the ouerthrowe of his elder brother as it fell out afterwards through their diuisions the which caused the destruction of the Empire Night being come he slept verie sweetly and about the breake of day according to his custome hee caused them to be called vnto him which had any businesse with him and Axallas dispatch being presented vnto him for to signe vpon this last victorie obtained hee signed it without any change of countenance after turning himselfe a slumbring tooke him againe and they perceiued he passed away vnto another life they ran for to call the Emperour his sonne who as soone as he was come shut his eyes powring out teares as also did all his seruants The Prince Sautochio his eldest sonne within two houres after was proclamed Emperour throughouut all the whole Armie and dispatches were made from all partes to aduertise the Gouernors of prouinces thereof the letters being signed with the hand of the new Emperour who hauing assembled all the Armie together he made an oration vnto the Captaines and soldiers and caused them to make a generall muster gratifying all the ancient seruantes of the Emperour his father he would not dispose of anie thing before he had seene Prince Axalla and was ioyned with the imperiall Armie This young Prince when he came vnto this Empire was nineteene yeares olde he was faire and had much of the Emperor his fathers naturall disposition They hoped that he would wiselie through the good counsell that was about him maintaine this great Empire but they feared greatlie the young Prince Letrochio his brother whom his mother loued would cause diuisions as it happened in the times of their great grandfather betweene two brethren who had bene occasion of the destruction of their estate the which was relieued and lifted vp againe vnto his height by the valour of Tamerlan FINIS The History of Tamerlan famous amongst the Turkes and Arabians Alhacen Mahomet The Franke tongue amōgst the Turkes Tamerlan his learning The Tartarians strange kind of Astrologie Italian fables written of Tamerlan Tamerlan very friendly vnto the good and furious to the bad The discemodities arising from the Histories of ciuill warres The ofspring and stocke of Tamerlan The customes and reuenues of the Tartarian kings The solitarie life of Og for to serue God Tamerlans name Odmar Aly appointed to assist Tamerlā in the gouernme●t of his kingdom by his father Og. Note Tamerlan his studies and learning The delicacies of Tartaria Tamerlans contemplation Maiestie in his eyes The custom of the Tartariās Tamerlan ●●re long ●air and why The discription of Tamerlan Tamerlan his first war a-against the Moscouite A Stratagem The armie of the Moscouite The armie of Tamerlan The order of Tamerlanes battaile The order of the Moscouits battaile Tamerlan his speech vnto his souldiers being ranged in battaile array Battaile between the Moscouite and Tamerlan The thākefulnesse of Tamerlan vnto God for his victorie A good aduertisment for Generals Great honour done to Hally after his death for good seruice performed by him in his life A notable saying of Tamerlan for making of warres Embassadors from the Moscouit to treat of peace with Tamerlan A notable saying of Tamerlan Articles of agreement concluded vpon betweene the Moscouite Tamerlan The Tartarians exercises Tamerlan his mariage with the great Chās daughter The situation of the city of Samercand Presents from the Moscouit vnto Tamerlā Tamerlan his worthie answere vnto the Polonians who desired aide of him against the Moscouite A Maxime Tamerlan a louer of iustice A notable saying of Tamerlan The commendation of Tamerlan obeying reason Tamerlan prayed for wisdom vnto God A worthy custome of Tamerlan A notable saying of Tamerlan The Author saith that this may be praised in a Pagan infidel but not in a Christian Prince Embassadors vnto the king of China from Tamerlan A wall builded by the king of China to defend his countrey from the roades of the Tartarians A proud answere of the king of China returned v●to Tamerlan by his Embassadors A kind parting betwene the father and the sonne The custome of the Parthian kings to carrie t●eir ●●●●s with them vnto the warre Samay made gouernour of Sachetay in Tamerlans absence The courteous nature of Tamerlan towards his bringers vp Tamerlan his Armie marching against the king of China Tamerlan his policie to cut off the brāches of sedition The conspiracy of Calix against Tamerlan in his absence An old pretence of all rebels Tamerlan his Oration vnto his souldiers vpon the conspiracie of Calix The wise foresight of Tamerlan Good directions from Tamerlan Cambalu r●uol●eth vnto Calix An apt comparison of report vnto the moon● Confused fear● within the city of Cambalu The nature of the common people The great Chā sent his imperiall ring vnto Tamerlan A good aduertisement for men in authoritie The proceedings of the two armies The speech of Calix vnto his companions The order of Tamerlans army ranged against Calix The order of Calix battaile against T●m●rlan The battaile between Tamerlan and Calix within the countrie of Cataio Tamerlan throwne to the ground Calix enioyed the victory one houre Calix exhortation vnto his men Calix t●●en prisoner by Axalla Tamerlan his great victory against Calix Fifty thousand men slaine in the battail bebetweene Tamerlan Calix Calix beheaded A description of Cataio The ordinary garrison at Cambalu of 30000. souldiers A terrible execution A go●d aduertisment for Princes A good aduertisment vnto P●inces Tamerlan his mildnesse won the loue and reuerence of all Tamerlan welcommed vnto his army with new and strange acclamations Odmar his wise speech as answer vnto Tamerlan his question touching the visiting of his vn●le