removed to Bethlem a Town about the mid way betwixt Ioppa and Ierusalem But winter now coming fast on and want of Victuals like enough to increase the King changing his mind for the Siege returned with the greatest part of the Army to Ascalon which he that Winter new fortified the Walls thereof being before by Saladin in his dispair demolished the Duke of Burgundy with his Frenchmen all that while quietly wintring at Tyre In the mean time the power of the Christians was thus greatly diminished some one way departing from the Camp and some another The Italians for the most part with them of Pisa who in these three years Wars had striven with the Venetians for the Honour of their Service were now returned home as were the Venetians themselves also Nevertheless Winter now past and the Spring time come King Richard took the Field again and came to Bethlem where by the way he met with an exceeding great number of Camels charged with great store of Victuals and Munition sent by Saladin out of Egypt to Ierusalem all which he took but purposing to have gone on to the Siege of Ierusalem he was by the backwardness of the French glad to change his purpose and to return to Ptolemais for the Frenchmen perswaded by the Duke their General who well knew the French Kings mind that if any thing worth remembrance were done it was to be done by them and that the glory thereof should wholly redound unto the King of England as there in person present and to his Englishmen shewed themselves so unwilling to the Siege as that therein was nothing done to the great grief of that worthy Prince At which time also news was brought unto King Richard how that Philip the French King forgetful of his solemn promise made before his departure out of Syria had now invaded the Country of Normandy and excited Earl Iohn the Kings Brother a man of an haughty and aspiring nature to take upon him the Kingdom of England in his absence as had before in like case William the younger Brother served Duke Robert his eldest Brother then absent at his Father the Conquerors death in the first sacred expedition under Godfrey of Bulloin Wherefore King Richard beside the present difficulties fearing lest while he was so far off in Wars for defence of the Christian Common-weal he might lose his Kingdom at home thought it best to grow to some good end with Saladin and so to make his return but the politick and wary Sultan not ignorant of the discord of the Christians and that their Forces daily decayed in Syria either of the troubled Estate of the Kings affairs at home in his Kingdom or of his desire to return would not hearken to any other conditions of Peace but such as might both for the present weaken the Forces of the Christians in Syria and discourage others that had a mind to come thither afterward when they should see that for nought they should travel to conquer that which they must of necessity restore again The conditions he offered were That the Christians should forthwith restore whatsoever they had won in those three years Wars Ptolemais only excepted and from thenceforth for the space of five years the Turks should not in any thing molest the Christians but to suffer them in peace to live by them which hard conditions for that no better could be had the King was glad to accept and so concluded a Peace Whereby the labour and travel of the two great Kings and so many Nations with them were all become frustrate and vain having now to no purpose lost their Men their Mony their Time their Hope their Blood their long Travel to gain that they must now in one hour forego nothing more left unto the poor Christians in Syria than the Cities of Antioch Tyre and Ptolemais This done King Richard leaving the affairs of Asia unto the charge of Henry Count of Champagne his Nephew shipping the greatest part of his People with his Wife Berengaria first for Cicilia and from thence for England where they in safety at length arrived followed shortly after with some few himself where by the way by extremity of Weather he was in the Adriatique driven to land upon the Coast of Histria where travelling with a small retinue homewards in the Habit of a Templar he was discovered and taken Prisoner by Leopold Duke of Austria whom he had before disgraced at the winning of Ptolemais as is before declared who now glad to have him in his power made prise of him and sold him to Henry the Emperor for forty thousand pounds by whom he was kept Prisoner by the space of a year and three months and then ransomed for the Sum of an hundred and fifty thousand pounds About this time died the great Sultan Saladin the greatest terror of the Christians who mindfull of mans fragility and the vanity of worldly honours commanded at the time of his death no Solemnity to be used at his burial but only his Shirt in manner of an Ensign made fast unto the point of a Lance to be carried before his dead body as an Ensign a plain Priest going before and crying aloud to the People in this sort Saladin Conqueror of the East of all the greatness and riches he had in his life carrieth not with him after his death any thing more than his shirt A sight worthy so great a King which wanted nothing to his eternal commendation more than the true knowledge of his Salvation in Christ Jesus He reigned about sixteen years with great honour and dying left nine Sons which were all murthered by Sephradin their Uncle excepting one called also Sephradin Sultan of Alâ—ppo who by the Favour and Support of his Fathers good Friends saved himself from the treacherous practises of his Uncle Of this Sephradin the Uncle descended Meludin Sultan of Egypt and Coradin Sultan of Damasco and Ierusalem Saladin his great Kingdom being by them now again rent in pieces The death of Saladin in short time bruited abroad with the discord among the Turks and Sarafins about his Dominions put Celestinus then Pope in good hope that the City of Ierusalem might in that change and hurly be easily again recovered and that Kingdom established But when he had in vain dealt to that purpose with the Kings of France and England then altogether busied in their Wars the one against the other he perswaded Henry the Sixth then Emperor to take the matter in hand who for that he well could not or else would not himself in person undertake that long expedition sent Henry Duke of Saxony his Lieutenant with a great Army into Asia unto whom were joyned two Legats Conradus Archbishop of Mogunsia another of the Electors and Conradus the Bishop of Herbipolis At which time also may other great Princes took upon them that holy War namely Herman Lantgrave of Thurin Henry Palatine of Rhine Henry Duke of Brabant Conrade
and Henry the Third then reigning in England that they both promised them aid Whereupon Lewis a man of a great devotion and always forward in that service against the Infidels took upon him the Cross the cognisance of the sacred War causing his three Sons Philip that succeeded him in the Kingdom sirnamed the Fair Peter Count of Alangon and Iohn Count of Nevers sirnamed Tristan for that his Mother was in her greatest heaviness for the taking of her Husband delivered of him in Egypt and most of the Nobility of France to do the like unto whom also Theobald King of Navar his Son-in-Law Alphonsus his Brother and Guydo Earl of Flanders joyned themselves And so having put all things in readiness took his way to Marselleis and from thence embarking himself with his Army in the Genoway Ships hired for that purpose set forward the first of March in the year 1270. But being at Sea he was by force of Weather constrained to land in Sardinia year 1270. and there to stay a while departing thence he at length arrived at Carthage the place by him desired where in the entrance of the Haven he surprised certain of the Enemies Ships but landing his men and assaulting the Town he was there notably repulsed This is not that antient great and famous City which sometime mightily strove with the proud Mistress of the World for Soveraignty but another built long after in the ruins or at least not far from the ruins of the same In the besieging whereof the Frenchmen found such resistance as well put them in remembrance of the antient glory of the Carthaginians One day it fortuned as the King thus lay at the Siege that the Defendants made a great and fierce Sally out upon the Frenchmen who before commanded so to do by little and little retired to draw their Enemies further on betwixt whom and the City the Constable with a great power coming in and charging them behind and they which before retired now standing close unto them they were on both sides hardly beset who for all that as became valiant men worthily defended themselves and made there a great fight though not without extreme peril which they in the City beholding gave out a most hideous and piteous cry a certain sign of their hard estate within astonying with the suddenness thereof both their Friends and Enemies But whilst they of the Town betwixt hope and despair stood thus beholding the fight at Land the Frenchmen by Sea approaching a Bulwark on that side of the Town took it without resistance which so dismaied them without that they began forthwith to flie of whom the greatest part casting away their Weapons were by the Kings commandment taken to mercy and they likewise of the Town upon promise of their lives yielded the same unto the King. Carthage thus won the King laid Siege to Tunes the chief City of that Kingdom being not far off where by the way he was encountred by the King of the Countrey who having there lost ten thousand of his Moors betook himself to flight with the rest Who thus overthrown resolved no more to tempt Fortune but to keep himself safe within the Walls of the City if happily so he might as it oftentimes falleth out more weaken his Enemies by lying still and protracting the time than by open Force and Valour Which their purpose King Lewis perceiving resolved not to stir from thence until that he were become Master of the City which as it seemed could not hold out for want of Victuals considering the multitude of People that were got into it Nevertheless thus besieged both by Sea and Land and so straightly hemmed in on every side as that no relief could possibly be brought unto it yet held it out by the space of six Months After which time Wants daily more and more increasing amongst the besieged Embassadors were sent out to the King to intreat with him of peace But whilst these Embassadors go to and fro and reason upon the capitulations of the desired peace behold a great and furious Plague arose in the French Camp which began to cut them down by heaps there dyed Iohn Tristan Count of Nevers the Kings youngest Son born in the first expedition that the said King his Father made into the Holy Land even at such time as he was taken Prisoner which Tristan died the five and twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord 1270. The good King having yet scarcely performed the Obsequies of his Son fell sick of the bloody Flix whereof he there shortly after died also About which time arrived there Charles King of Sicily the French Kings Brother with a great number of fresh Souldiers whose coming lightned somewhat the Frenchmens hearts heavy for the death of their King and daunted the Moors before brag of the same Shortly after whom arrived there also Prince Edward King Henry the Third his Eldest Son who travelling through France and taking shipping at Aquesmort not far from Marseilles was now in ten days with a brave Company of Englishmen come to Tunes and thereof the other Christian Princes namely of Philip the French King his Father Lewis being now dead of Charles King of Sicily and of the two Kings of Navar and Aragon joyfully received But these Princes had a little before his arrival concluded a Peace with the Moors King and the Infidels upon condition that he should pay a yearly Tribute of forty thousand Crowns unto the King of Sicilia and to suffer the Christian Religion to be freely preached in his Dominions by such devout persons as should be there left for that purpose and that unto such as should by their preaching be converted unto the Faith in Christ Jesus it should be lawful for them to be baptized and to profess the Christian Religion Of which Peace Prince Edward understanding did what he might to have disswaded them from the same saying that the War was by them all taken in hand against the Infidels as Enemies to the Cross of Christ with whom they were not to have Peace and for the recovery of the Holy City But say what he would and do what he could the Peace to his great discontentment was now concluded which they might not as they said again break and thereupon with the first fair Wind hoised sail and returned towards Sicilia with purpose the next Spring to have gone into Syria which their determination was shortly after by the hand of God disappointed For being come upon the Coast of the Island not far from Drepanum most of the great Princes and other Nobility in their long Boats went on Land the rest of the Fleet lying at Anker about a League off for that being for the most part Ships of great burthen they were not able to put into the Harbor But as they so lay by force of a sudden and violent Tempest then arising some were eaten up with the rough Sea some falling foul one on
but indeed fearing the Citizens of Alba and the Men of War who exceedingly favoured the Sons of Huniades for their Fathers sake For all that Ladislaus returning into Bohemia caused both the Sons of Huniades upon the suddain to be apprehended and most cruelly executed Uladislaus being then about six and twenty years old Mathias the younger Brother was kept in Prison expecting nothing else but to be partaker of his Brothers hard Fortune as undoubtedly he had had not Ladislaus the young King upon the suddain as he was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalain the French Kings Daughter by untimely death been taken away After whose death the Hungarians for the love they bare unto the remembrance of Huniades by a military Election chose this Mathias his youngest Son then in prison at Prague to be their King. Whereof Pogebrach who after the death of Ladislaus of an old Governor had made himself the young King of Bohemia having speedy intelligence as he was sitting at Supper sent for Mathias his Prisoner and when he was come commanded him to sit down at the upper end of the Table whereat the young Gentleman being then but about eighteen years of age and sore abashed began to crave pardon But when the King would needs have it so and that he was set the King to quiet his troubled thoughts willed him to be of good chear for that he had good news to tell him Good news said he if it would please your Majesty to grant me liberty Yea that said the King and more too and then saluting him by the name of the King of Hungary brake unto him the whole matter how that he was by the general consent of the Hungarians chosen their King. And so in few daies after married to him his Daughter which done he furnished him with all things fit for his Estate and Royally accompanied him into Hungary where he was with great joy and triumph received of the Hungarians over whom he afterwards gloriously reigned for the space of eight and thirty years In which time he notably enlarged the Kingdom of Hungary and became a far greater terror unto the Turks than ever was his Father Huniades And therewithal which is not to be accounted in the least part of his praises was alwaies a great favourer and furtherer of good Letters and ingenious Devices But to return again unto our purpose Mathias having well considered of that the Venetians had requested answered them that they had many times before in like case refused to give aid unto the Hungarian Kings his Predecessors yea and that more was thought it a thing not reasonable that any such thing should be requested at their hands forasmuch as they then received no harm from the Turk but were in League and Amity with him so that the Hungarian Kings wanting their help had many times received greater loss from the Turks than otherwise they should have done if they had been by them aided Yet for all that he was content to forget all such unkindness and to grant them what they had requested promising the next Spring to invade the Turks Dominion and according to their request to take into his protection all their Territory betwixt the Rhetian Alpes and the Adriatique which thing he most honourably performed For with the first of the Spring he passed over Danubius at Belgrade with a puissant Army and rased the Forts which the Turks had built thereabouts and so entring into Servia laid all the Country wast before him and afterwards laden with Spoil returned home carrying away with him twenty thousand Captives Neither so rested but with great good Fortune maintained great Wars against Mahomet during all the time of his reign and afterwards against Bajazet his Son also wherein he most commonly returned with Victory so that it is of him as truly as briefly written That no Christian King or Chieftain did more often or with greater fortune fight against the Turkish Nation or had of them greater Victories Mahomet delivered of the great fear he had before conceived of the general preparation of the Christian Princes against him determined now to work his Will upon such as were nearest unto him and afterward not to forget them that were farther off The proceeding of Scanderbeg with the late overthrow of Seremet with his Army in Epirus stuck in his Stomach in revenge whereof he now sent unto Balabanus Badera a most valiant Captain with fifteen thousand Horsemen and three thousand Foot to invade Epirus This Balabanus was an Epirot born a Churles Son of that Country and being of a Boy taken Captive of the Turks as he was keeping of his Fathers Cattel and of long time brought up in servitude amongst them framing himself both to their Religion and Manners after long service got the credit of a good common Souldier But when as at the taking of Constantinople it was his fortune to be the first man of the Turks Army that gained the Top of the Walls and entred the City he was for that piece of Service ever afterwards of Mahomet greatly esteemed and beside his other great Preferment now sent General of his Army into Epirus Who as soon as he was come to Alchria a City upon the Frontiers of that Country sent many rich Presents to Scanderbeg making shew as if he had been desirous peaceably to lie upon the Borders committed to his Charge without farther purpose to trouble his Country yet indeed waiting nothing more than some notable opportunity suddainly to do him the greatest mischief he could But Scanderbeg well seeing into the malice of the man rejected his feigned Friendship and Gifts and in derision sent him a Spade a Mattock a Flail with other such Instruments belonging to Husbandry willing him to take in hand those Tools and to follow his Fathers trade of life and to leave the conducting of Armies unto men of greater skill and better place Which disgrace Balabanus took in exceeding evil part purposing in himself if ever it lay in his power to be thereof revenged Wherefore knowing that Scanderbeg with a small power lay not far off upon the frontiers of his Kingdom he determined suddainly in the night to set upon him before he were a ware of his coming and so if it were possible to overthrow him but Scanderbeg having knowledge thereof by his Scouts set forward in good order to have met him When Balabanus perceiving that he was discovered staid upon the way and encamped within two miles of Scanderbeg who had then in his Army but four thousand Horsemen and one thousand and five hundred Foot but all choice men and most expert Souldiers and then lay in a large pleasant Valley called Valchal At the farther end whereof Balabanus lay also encamped near unto a rough and woody Hill which enclosed that part of the Valley Whilst both Armies thus lay within view one of another Scanderbeg well considering the ground the Enemy had taken and that it
commandment honourably buried at Pamphilona But to return again from whence we have something too long with this troublesome Body gone astray The French King having thus lost both his great Hostages Zemes the Turk by death and the Cardinal Borgia by escape held on his journey towards Naples and with wonderful success prevailed as he went all places yielding unto him without any great resistance Alphonsus seeing himself destitute of such aid as he had in vain requested both of the Turkish Emperor and of the Venetians and now almost beset with his mighty Enemy to whom so many strong places had in shorter time been delivered than any man had before imagined and withal considering with himself how that he had lost the hearts of his Subjects the strongest defence of Princes for that most of the Nobility and especially the Neapolitans hated him for his too much severity in punishing the Offenders in the late Rebellion wherein the Princes of Sarne and Salerne were chief and the common People were no less offended with the grievous and heavy exactions required of them for the maintenance of these Wars insomuch that their murmuring Speeches came oftentimes to his own hearing as oftentimes it falleth out That the hatred of the Subjects against their Princes which hath for fear of long time been dissembled during their prosperity more frankly and fiercely breaketh out in their declining estate for these causes Alphonsus fearing to be forsaken of his People as a man in despair with abundance of tears openly in the sight of all the Neapolitans resigned his Kingdom of Naples to his son Ferdinand when as he had as yet scarcely reigned one whole year after the death of Ferdinand his Father and with four Gallies passed over to Mazerea a City of Cicilia His Son Ferdinand a Prince of rare perfection and singularly graced with all the vertues of true Nobility and thereto dearly beloved of all the People was to the wonderful contentment of the Neapolitans with great joy and acclamations saluted King and so having performed all the Ceremonies belonging to his Coronation returned presently to his Army By this time the French King with all his Forces was entred far into the Kingdom of Naples and having taken by Assault certain Cities which trusted too much to their own strength struck such a general terror into the minds of the Neapolitans that they thought no place now strong enough to abide his batteries or power sufficient to abide his Forces Ferdinand the young King with his Army had taken the Straits of the Forrest of S. Germane thereby to impeach the further passage of the French King. But whilst he was there busied he was suddainly advertised that Fabritius Columna with a great power of Frenchmen had by the Appenines broken into Campania and so was marching towards him wherefore doubting to be shut up betwixt two strong Armies of the Enemies he retired speedily to Capua a strong City situate upon the River Vulturnus purposing there by means of that deep River to stay the French from passing farther But whilst he lay there news was brought unto him That all the City of Naples was in an uprore and that the Citizens were all up in Arms as men in doubt which way to turn themselves Ferdinand not a little troubled with these bad news commended the charge of his Army and the defence of the City of Capua to his chief Captains and rid himself in post back again to Naples It is a strange thing to tell what a suddain alteration ensued upon his arrival there for suddainly all the tumult was appeased every man laid down his Arms and welcomed him with a general gratulation for he was a man of a great and invincible Courage and of so comely a Personage as might easily with the hearts of his Subjects insomuch that when he earnestly requested them that they would not traiterously betray him to his barbarous and cruel Enemies being their natural King or rather their Brother born and brought up amongst them they all with one consent answered That they would spend their Lives and Goods in his quarrel so long as he should keep his Army whole and defend the City of Capua but if it should so chance that the Aragonians should be overthrown or else for fear abandon that City and the French King as Victor to approach the City of Naples he should do both against reason and equity if by exacting Fidelity and Allegiance of his Subjects apprehended with so just a fear he should so expose that noble City with the fruitful Country thereabout to be spoiled and destroyed by a merciless and cruel Enemy Whilst Ferdinand was thus busied in appeasing and confirming his wavering Subjects at Naples the French King had taken divers Cities and was come before Capua The Citizens of Capua although they were alwaies well affected to the Aragonian Kings yet seeing the French King as a most violent Tempest to bear down all before him began now to consult amongst themselves of yielding up the City whereunto they were the more prickt forward by the suddain revolt of the great Captain Trivultius with his Followers as also by the departure of Verginius and Petilianus two great and famous Commanders who seeing themselves forsaken of Trivultius fled with their Companies unto the City of Nola. In this discomfiture of King Ferdinands Army the Frenchmen had entred into the Suburbs of the City which thing Gothfredus and Gaspar two valiant German Captains beholding sallied with their Companies out of the City of purpose to abate the pride of the French and to confirm the doubtful Citizens These worthy Captains when they had with exceeding Valour repulsed the French and thought to have again returned into the City could not be suffered to enter but were by the Citizens shut out of the Gate in danger to have had their Throats cut by the Eenmy In which perplexity they were glad upon their knees to intreat the cowardly Citizens standing upon the Walls not in such traiterous manner to betray their Friends ready in their defence to bestow their lives and with much intreating at length obtained of those heartless men that they they might by ten and ten in a Company be received in at one Gate of the City and so put out at another farthest from the danger of the Enemy in which sort when they had passed through the City they took the way towards Naples and upon the way met with the King at Aversa unto whom they declared all that had hapned in his absence at Capua who although he saw his Army dispersed and all things now desperate yet went he on forward and came to the very Gates of Capua and there called upon divers of the chief men of the City requiring to be let in But when he saw there was none to give him answer and an Ensign of the French King displaied upon the Wall in token that the City was become French he returned to
insolent Speech of purpose ministred by the Moldavian Ghests put into such a fret that laying his hand upon his Sword he in a rage flung from the Table at which time all the other Ghests starting up also laid hands upon him and took him fuming and in vain crying out that he was shamefully betrayed His Followers were all forthwith stript of all their bravery by the needy Moldavians and their Horses and Armor taken from them Whilst Maylat was yet furiously exclaiming of this Treason in came Achomates who to seem guiltless of the matter with deep dissimulation sharply reproved the false Moldavian that he had in doing so foul a Fact shamefully violated the Laws of Hospitality reverenced of all Nations falsified the Faith which he had given him for his safety and betraied the lives of such notable Captains as lay in hostage for him Whereunto the Moldavian as if it had been in contempt scornfully answered that he had upon good cause taken Maylat Prisoner and so would in safety keep him for Solyman unto whom it only belonged to judge whether he had justly or unjustly kept him Not long after the strong Town of Fogaras was delivered with the Hostages but whether by fear or corruption of Maylats Lieutenant is uncertain So Valentinus Turaccus and Maylat two of the greatest Noblemen of Hungary sufficient of themselves to have restored the Hungarian Kingdom first rent in sunder with civil Discord and afterward with the invasion of the Turks fell into the hands of the Enemy not vanquished in Battel but deceived by Treason The Town being thus surrendred almost all the Country of Transylvania was by Solymans consent delivered to the young King unto whom all the People most willingly submitted themselves and took the Oath of Obedience remembring that his Father had almost for thirty years space with great Justice and quietness governed that Province and with many Presents honoured the young King lying in Lippa with the Queen his Mother and his two Tutors the Bishop and Vicche At the same time Charles the Emperor at the importunate suit of his Subjects of Spain had prepared a great force both by Sea and Land for the conquering of Algiers from whence the Turkish Pyrats did so infest all that Coast of the Country from Gades to the Mountains Pyrenei that the Spaniards all Trade of Merchandise being set apart were glad to keep a continul Watch and Ward all alongst that Coast for defence of the Country Wherefore although he well knew of the coming of the Turks to Buda and how hardly he was by the Lantgrave and others spoken of for leaving his Brother so hardly bestead to go against a sort of Pirats in Africk yet persisting in his former determination he departed out of Germany into Italy where by the way he met Octavius Farnesius his Son in Law Alphonsus Vastius his Lieutenant by the Venetian Embassadors near to Verona and so brought to Millain where he was with great Solemnity joyfully received of the Citizens and under a Canopy of Gold brought unto the Palace he himself going in a plain black Cloke and a homely Cap in mourning wise when as the Women and vulgar People upon a curious simplicity expected to have seen so great an Emperor in his Royal Robes glistering with Gold and precious Stones and the Imperial Crown upon his Head. His heavy Countenance answerable also to his Attire was much noted as presaging the woful overthrow which was the day before received at Buda but not yet known in Italy From Millain he departed to Genoa where he was advertised by Letters from his Brother King Ferdinand of the overthrow of the Germans of the Victory of the Turks and the coming of Solyman Upon which news Vastius and Auria his two chief Commanders the one at Land the other at Sea would have perswaded him to have deferred his intended expedition for Africa until the next Spring and with such power as he had already raised in Italy and brought with him out of Germany to stay still in Italy so to make shew unto the Turks as if he would have returned and holpen his Brother and in the mean time to assure himself of his state in Italy against the French who as it was thought would be ready to take all occasion of advantage if any mishap should befal him either by the force of the Enemy or violence of Tempest But he constant in his former resolution answered them as they sat in Counsel that they had perswaded him for great reasons to stay in Italy but that he was for far greater to pass into Africk for if he should then stay in Italy it would be thought that he was for fear of the Turks fled out of Germany which disgrace could no otherwise be prevented but by the present prosecuting of his former determination for Algiers and satisfying the expectation of his Subjects of Spain and so by Sea valiantly to prove their better Fortune which had of late not so well favoured them at Land in hope that Algiers might be won before the Seas should grow rough and dangerous with Winter Tempests which if it should fall out according to his mind he would not as he said greatly care what the French could do Yet was it thought that the dissembling Friendship betwixt the French King and him would not long endure and the rather for that there was a new grudg risen betwixt them about the death of Antonius Rinuo who for certain years had lien Embassador for the French King at Constantinople to Solyman and was a few months before sent back again by him into France to the King but returning back again with new instructions from his Master for the confirmation of a further League betwixt the Turkish Sultan and him he was by certain Spaniards of the Emperors old Souldiers who had knowledge of his coming belaied upon the River Padus as he was going down to Venice so to have passed into Epirus and slain together with Caesar Fregotius or as the common report went first taken and tortured to get from him the secrets of his negotiation and afterwards slain Which report so much touched Vastius in Credit that in purgation of himself he offered the Combat to any man of like quality to himself that durst charge him with the truth thereof But many were of opinion that he was well and worthily taken away for undertaking so odious a Charge as to stir up the Turks against the Christians and to shew unto them such opportunities as might best serve their purpose by discovering unto them the Emperors Designs to the great hurt of the Christian Common-Weal But were it well or were it evil as Paulus the third of that name then Bishop of Rome meeting the Emperor at Luca as he came from Genoa could not or would determine sure it served as no small occasion to set those two great Princes again at ods whereby the wished Unity of the
down to the Sea side to kill them as they should come to Shore for the barbarous People thirsting after Christian Blood would not receive them to mercy although they were ready to yield themselves and covenanted nothing but the safegard of their lives At which their cruelty the Spaniards disdaining with their Weapons in their hands got to Shore and standing close together as desperate Men withstood them who had with their multitude quickly compassed them in round yet in despight of what that barbarous multitude without regard of humanity or Law of Arms could do they made way through the midst of them from the place where they were cast on Shore unto the very Gates of the City But seeing the Turks sally out they called unto them offering to yield themselves Prisoners to Assan without further resistance if they would assure them their lives which they were in good hope of for that he was born of Christian Parents in Sardinia and was attended upon with many Renegate Spaniards So Assan coming forth of the City gave them his Faith for their safety and beating away the Moors and Numidians courteously saved them all wisely making great account of so great a gain as would redound unto him by so many Prisoners joyned with no small commendation of his clemency in saving them Of the Germans the third part never returned home but were either lost with Shipwreck or else dead of the Sickness ensuing so great miseries The Emperor perswaded or rather overruled by Auria to avoid the violence of the Tempest sailed alongst the Coast of Africk Eastward to Buzia the Castle whereof was kept with a small Garrison of Spaniards where the Emperor landing found some fresh Victual though not much yet such as did both him and the other Noblemen no small pleasure Whilst the Emperor lay at Buzia expecting fairer Weather a great Ship of Genoa laded with Victual chanced to come into the Bay to the great rejoycing of the hungry Souldiers but such was the violence of the Tempest that her Anchors came home and she driven upon the Flats was cast away yet so as that part of the Victual driven to Shore and half spoiled with the Salt-water well relieved the encreasing want In the mean time the Emperor when he had long looked for the asswaging of the Tempest and was now out of hope of any new supply of Victual sent away Gonzaga with the Sicilian and Rhodian Gallies for the Wind before at North was now come to Northwest and put them in hope to adventure again to Sea rather than to stay there longer So although with a troublesome yet a prosperous Course they came in short time to the Port of Utica now called Farinas where Muleasses King of Tunes bountifully relieved Gonzaga and his Fleet with all kind of Victual and other necessaries From whence they afterward departed and landed all in safety at Drepanum in Sicilia The blustring Winds were now at length weary of blowing and the raging Sea became calm so that the skilful Sea-men for fear of new dangers and weary of those that were past thought it best to adventure again at Sea. Almost every hour they were reasoning in Council What Course they were for most safety best to take when some were of opinion that it was best to bear for Sardinia or Corsica and othersome would have had them to have kept alongst the Coast of Africa and so directly for Sicilia But the Wind coming fair at East the Emperor directed his Course to the Islands Baleares and from thence at length arrived at the Port of New Carthage in Spain greatly commended even of his Enemies for the wonderful courage and constancy in passing through so many extremities in such sort as if he had triumphed over the malice of fortune About this time the dissembled friendship betwixt Charles the Emperor and Francis the French King brake out into open hatred year 1542. The King first thinking himself deluded by the Emperor who had long time fed him with the vain hope of the restitution of the Duchy of Milan when as he meant nothing less and of late abused by the death of Rinco his Embassador slain by the Spaniards in passing down the River Padus as is before declared In revenge whereof he raised a great power in France and at such time as most Men thought he would have invaded Italy sent Charles his Son with the one part of his Forces into the Low-Countries which were then governed by Mary Queen of Hungary the Emperors Sister and Henry his other Son with the other part of his Forces to invade Spain both young Princes of great hope And not so contented but desirous by all means to trouble and molest the Emperor as he did in the Low-Countries by setting on the Duke of Cleve so by Antonius Polinus his Embassador a Man of great discretion he earnestly solicited Solyman the Great Turk with whom he was then in League to spoil the Borders of Spain with his Gallies at the same time that Henry his Son was besieging Perpenna in Spain For which practice he was of most Men discommended as too much favouring his own grief and especially by such as affected the Emperor But how this matter which drew upon the French King no small envy was carried in the Turks Court shall not as I hope be unto this History impertinent to declare After the death of Rinco slain by the Spaniards Francis the French King sent Antonius Polinus a Man of great dexterity his Embassador to Solyman who passing by many by-ways to Venice and so over the Gulf to Sibinicum crossing over Illyria met with Solyman in Misia as he was coming from Buda and there first offered unto him the Present sent from the King his Master for with empty hands no Man might presume to come to those barbarous Kings of the East which Present was a Cupboord of Plate curiously wrought in weight six hundred Pounds and five hundred rich Garments of all sorts of Silk and Skarlet to be bestowed upon the Bassaes and other great Courtiers Solyman after he had read the French Kings Letters and heard what he had further to say seemed to be greatly moved with the death of Rinco and promised Polinus not to be wanting unto the French King by Sea or Land to give him aid in his just Wars against Charles his Enemy for breaking of the League but forasmuch as nothing could be well determined of such matters in his Journy of so great hast he told him that as soon as he was come to Constantinople he should then have answer by his Bassaes of all his demands The Embassador above all things desired that he would send Hariadenus Barbarussa with his Fleet against the next Summer into Provence there to be received into the French Harbors and to be imployed against the Emperor as occasion should require and further That he would request the Venetians with whom he was able to
do much to joyn in League with the King his Master against Charles the Emperor whose power began now to be dreadful to their Estate Polinus was not slack in his business but all the way as he went sought to win the favour of the Bassaes still giving them one Present or other and filling their minds with the hope of greater But when they were come to Constantinople in the later end of December Solyman promising what he had before said advised Polinus to return to France with his Letters and to bring him certain word back again from the King of the determinate time and full resolution of taking those Wars in hand and that he would in the mean time send Iunusbeius his Embassador to Venice who had been there divers times before and would provide to have such a Fleet in readiness as he desired Polinus exceeding glad of that answer with great speed returned back again to the King bringing with him as Presents from Solyman two goodly Turkish Horses and a Sword richly set with Stones of great price The French King having by his Embassador received Solymans Letters and Presents and three days together discoursed with him at large of the manner of his proceeding in the Turks Court in short time after sent him back again to Solyman with full instructions both of the time and places and other circumstances of the intended War. Polinus coming to Venice found not Iunusbeius there as he had well hoped yet to lose no time in expecting his coming he with Pellâ—cerius Embassador Lieger for the French King and other of the French Faction laboured the Senators in the behalf of the King. For it was thought like enough that the Venetians still measuring all their Councils by their profit would easily consent to that League especially being requested thereunto by Solyman and put in hope to have the Port-Town Maranus delivered unto them in reward thereof which otherwise the French in whose possession it was threatned to deliver to the Turks and to make them their evil Neighbours rather than to have it taken from them by the Germans Wherefore Polinus having audience given him in the Senate notably pleaded the French Kings cause grievously lamented the death of the Embassador slain by the Spaniards and bitterly enveighed against the ambition of the Emperor who as he said aspired to the whole Monarchy of Italy not by true vertue and valour but by meer craft and deceit encroaching still upon the liberties of the Free-States and by little and little imposing upon them the Yoke of Bondage In confirmation whereof he produced many examples to them well known requesting them as ancient Friends and Confederates of the French to joyn their Forces with the Kings in which doing they should assure themselves of such reward of the undoubted Victory as they could not desire greater Whereas if they should refuse so to do and would rather sit still and look on as neuters they should undoubtedly Fortune having decided the quarrel grievously offend both and might worthily expect of the vanquished hatred and of the conqueror injury Besides that in taking up of Arms they should highly gratifie Solyman who provoked with late injuries had determined with a puissant Army to invade Hungary and at the same time to send Barbarussa with a great Fleet against the Spaniards their common Enemies for the imparting of which his designs he would shortly send unto them Iunusbeius his Embassador As for the event of the War they needed not to doubt when as they of themselves were strong enough quickly to thrust the Emperor out of the Duchy of Millan being generally hated of the people feeding his Souldiers with the spoil of the Country and and on every side beset both by Sea and Land by two of the greatest Monarchs of the World. Whereunto the Senate delaying the time for certain days that Iunusbeius might in the mean time come thither gravely answered That the amity they held with King Francis ought to be unto them an ornament but no burden the like also they held with the Emperor whom they would in no case seem to cast off although they had been by him overwraught Wherefore the Senators and all the Citizens in general were of opinion to preserve their Peace as they which in the hard times of War had endured great extremities which would hardly be recovered with long Peace But if they did once see the Ensigns displaied and the Wars begun they would then take further advice Whether it were good for them to thrust themselves into those Wars or not when as they were in League and Friendship with three of the greatest Princes of the World. In the mean time Iunusbeius arrived at Venice and was there honourably received He requested That the League before made at Constantinople by Badoerius their Embassador might by the authority of the Senate be confirmed and so commended the French Kings cause to the Senate that he requested no more but that unto that amity which they already held with the French they would joyn further courtesies the rather for that Solyman had accounted him for his Brother and had undertaken to aid him against Charles King of Spain but as to joyn in League with him or in his quarrel to take up Arms he requested nothing Which was quite beside the expectation of Polinus and Pellicerius who by urging of the matter and by telling of all had thought easily to have perswaded the Senate to have granted what they requested and therefore thought the Turk who had so coldly spoken in the cause to be some way corrupted But as it afterward appeared there was such equity and modesty in Solymans Letters who was otherwise of a proud and insolent nature that he would not as then exact any thing of them which should not stand with the good of their Estate Wherefore Polinus having in vain staied certain days at Venice was in one of their publick Gallies transported to Ragufium and from thence travelled by Land to Constantinople where he found all things more difficult than ever he dreamed of For the great Bassaes said There could no Fleet be set out that year by reason that he was come too late to sue for such a matter the Spring of the Year being now past of all other times most fit for to take in hand so long a Voyage So that Polinus was above measure vexed with care and grief that he had so evil sped and was come so out of season both at Venice and Constantinople Dixius also one of the Masters of the Rhodian Gallies was come to Constantinople to carry news into France of the coming of the Turks Fleet who told Polinus That the Kings Sons were with strong power far entred into the Low-Countries and had already invaded Spain expecting nothing more than the coming of the Turks Gallies Wherefore Polinus as it easily chanceth to Men deceived by trust reposed in any other Mens promises and
Turks fortified themselves without as strongly as the besieged had within heaving like Moles with their numerous Army of Pioneers whose lives being not valued they were wholly intent unto Mines blowing up all before them in that manner that every day they gained a pace of ground within the City So that in effect as will be seen by the Sequel this most impregnable Fort of the World was forced and taken by the Spade and Shovel and by a Crew of unarmed Labourers who understood nothing more than the Plough and Harrow So that now this Town seemed to be reduced to its utmost Crisis either of being taken or for ever freed of this malignant Enemy And indeed the Turks had so far advanced upon the Bulwark of St. Andrea that now nothing remained of it more than ruines and undigested heaps of Earth and stone in defence of which the chief Commanders applying themselves in person with all diligence the Marquess St. Andrea Montbrun was wounded by a stone in the face the Cavalier de Bret was buried in the ruines to the very Neck and with difficulty drawn out of the Earth by Assistants about him two other Cavaliers were wounded with Granadoes and the Cavalier Fuillere who carried the Standard of Malta was shot into the Eye with a Musket The Proveditor General Carnaro serving at the repair of the Breach was so wounded in the Belly by a Granado that his Bowels burst of which he died in three hours and with a piece of the â—ame Granado the Count Vignole a French Gentleman of great Valour was likewise slain And so hotly the Turks plyed this Breach that from the 28 th of May to the 2 d of Iune they sprang five Mines which brake all the Palisades of the Christians the which the Turks seconded with that fury and mettle as if they intended to win the place and make an end of their work before the arrival of the Forces expected from Christendom And this Post was now grown so dangerous and weak that the Captain-General the Marquess of Montbrun and all the chief Officers took up their Quarters at this place where his Excellency kept an open Table and the Marquess took up his Lodgings at Night that so the other Officers might have no excuse on account of attendances or orders to abandon these Quarteâ—s The Princes of Christendom all this time forgot not their besieged Brethren in Candia Pope Clement the IX pressed the most Christian King to make ready his succours in due time who had already himself prepared all things and elected the Duke of Beaufort his General of all the Forces by Sea whether of French or other Nations This Duke like a couragious and brave Prince thinking it little glory to command at Sea where the Enemy was of an inferiour and unable Force to encounter him did therefore desire Licence from his King to make tryal of his Fortune in the Field where he might evidence his Valour in the face of the Infidels and signalize his â—ame either by Death or Victory The King unwilling to hazard so worthy a person of his bloud out of his due Command in the rank of an ordinary Souldier at first denied his requests but the Pope interceding for him whose General he was with holy Arguments and devout Contemplations of Martyrdom and glory of dying for the Christian Cause at length obtained a concession from the King who of himself was flexible to so pious a request esteeming it unholy to deprive his Kinsman either of the Palm of a Martyr or the Lawrel of a Conqueror The Summer being come and all things provided the Duke ascended his Ship at Tolon a City in Provence the 6 th of Iune Nen-style with about seven thousand Land Souldiers commanded by the Duke of Navailles with the Marshals Lebret and Colbert and several other Worthies and Heroes of undaunted Courage and arrived before the Town of Candia the 19 th of the same Month having casually encountred together in the Seas on the 17 th with fourteen Sail of Venetian Ships laden with Horse and Ammunition to mount the Troops and relieve the Town which happy encounter and speedy passage seemed a happy Omen of the future success The appearance of this succour seemed to the Besieged as sent from Heaven and administred unto them new hopes and courage and the salutes passed between the Town and the Fleet with the usual Ceremonies and all the imaginable testimonies of joy and triumph No sooner were they arrived than the two Generals with other principal Officers immediately in their Shallops took the best view and survey they could of the Enemies Camp and the Condition of the Besieged in which whilst they entertained themselves they espied a small Vessel making towards them with St. Mark 's Colours in which was the famous Engineer Signior Castellano dispatched by the Captain General Morosini with an axact plat of the Town and disposition of the Turkish Camp which being particularly viewed and considered it was evident That if the Turks should make some very forcible Attempt before the new Forces could be landed as it was very probable they might they would put all in hazard of being lost wherefore the Captain General pressed to have some succours immediately supplied to be assistant in that case of extremity To which the Duke of Navailles immediately consented and landed himself that Night in person with sufficient Force to mount the Guard on the Breach of St. Andrea whose first Retrenchment was continually battered by the Turks and though there was a second Retrenchment in hand yet time being required for compleating thereof that part of the Town would be reduced to its ultimate hazard for should the Enemy spring a Mine which they feared was already formed under the present Work it would lay all open and naked without other Fortification The Duke being ashoar was received by Morosini with all demonstrations of Civility and Respect due to a personage of his Quality and Employment and with a welcome suitable to the present extremity of his Affairs all Ceremonies and Complements were soon passed over the urgency of matters not permitting them time to be long impertinent so that falling into the Discourse of the common safety it was resolved that the succours should be immediately landed which was performed with that diligence and expedition that in two days the whole Army came safe on shore excepting only some few cut short by shot from the Enemies Camp. On the 23 d. the Generals and other Officers held a Council of War amongst whom was also the Marquess of St. Andrea and did unanimously conclude that the Town was no longer tenable or to be maintained unless by some extraordinary enterprize attempted on the Enemy and by some furious Sally performed with resolution and stratagems of War in order unto which it was resolved That the 27 th should be the day of sally both with Horse and Foot and that the Fleet not to
invadeth Italy and by Achmetes his great Captain taketh Otranto 295 a. going against the Caramanian King dieth by the way at Givisen in Bythinia not without suspition of Poyson and lieth buried at Constantinople ib. b. Mahometes one of the Visier Bassa's by the mutinous Ianizaries slain 297 a. Mahometes the Son of Caytbeius with four Sultans more one after another slain by the Mamalukes 306 b. Mahometes Solymans Son disguised goeth to see his Brother Achomates 325 a. as a Sea-fairing man cometh disguised to Constantinople and so into his Fathers Court ib. a. by the commandment of his suspicious Father poysoned dieth 325 b. Mahometes Governour of Belgrade aided by the other Sanzacks maketh head against Cazzianer General of King Ferdinands Army 456 b. wisely refuseth battel offered by Cazzianer and by temporizing distresseth the Army of the Christians 458 b. troubleth the Christians in their retreat 459 b. giveth them a great overthrow 461 b. cometh to the relief of Belgrade 476 a. his vehement Oration unto Solyman to perswade him to take the Kingdom of Hungary into his own hands and so to unite it unto his own Empire 480 a. Mahomet the Tartar King with his two Sons strangled by Osman Bassa 688 a. Mahomet Bassa in despight of Sinan sent General of his Army for the relief of his Garrisons in Chars and Teflis 675 b. discomfited by the Georgians and his provision of Money and Victuals taken from him 676 b. with his discomfited Army arriveth at Teflis ib. b. his heavy Oration in the Castle of Teflis 677 a. maketh a Purse for the relief of the distressed Garrison ib. b. plotteth the death of Manucchiar the Georgian ib. b. himself in danger to have been by the Georgian slain 678 a. Mahomet the Third saluted Emperour of the Turks 741 a. murthereth his Brethren and causeth certain of his Fathers Wives and Concubines to be drowned ib. a. with much ado appeaseth the mutinous Ianizaries ib. b. sendeth Ambassadors unto the Transilvanian Prince 745 b. careful of Strigonium besieged by the Christians 747 b. perplexed 761 a. causeth the continuance of his Wars against the Emperour and the Transilvanian to be proclaimed at Constantinople 762 a. cometh to Buda with an Army of two hundred thousand men 765 b. besiegeth Agria 766 a. furiously assaulteth it ib. a. hath it yielded unto him 767 a. with Ibrahim the Great Bassa flyeth out of the battel of Karesta 768 a. by the Transilvanians and Valachians troubled in his return to Constantinople ib. b. his Ambassadour evil entreated by the Persian King 792 b. Mahomet the Grand Seignior sheweth himself to the mutinous Souldiers 810 a. with mild words seeketh to appease them ib. b. his cruelty 811 a. in danger of being deposed 812 a. causeth his eldest Son with divers others to be strangled ib. b. seeketh to pacifie the Rebels in Asia but cannot 821 a. and therefore offers Peace to the Christians ib. a. troubled in his Affairs 824 b. dieth 834 b. reasons why he was not regarded of his men of War 835 b. his Issue ib. b. the manner of his Monument at Constantinople 835 b. The Mahometan Princes of the lesser Asia oppressed by Bajazet disguised fly unto Tamerlane for relief 145 a. Malta described 737 a. invaded by the Turks 538 a. Mamalukes the beginning of their Kingdom in Aegypt 356 b. their Imperious Government in Aegypt Judaea and Syria ib. a. their Kingdom utterly subverted by Selymus 375 b. the Mamalukes in Prison at Alexandria by the commandment of Selymus murthered ib. b. Manto cruelly slain by her jealous Husband Jonuses 378 a. Man-Ogli his Letters to Ibrahim Bassa 693 a. sendeth him Presents 694 a. Manucchiar his speech to Mustapha the Visier Bassa 659 b. with his Brother Alexander by Mustapha sent to Amurath 663 b. turneth Turk and hath his elder Brothers Principality given him 666 b. in danger to have been betrayed by Mahomet Bassa 677 b. notably revengeth himself of the Treachery by the Bassa intended against him 678 a. revolteth from the Turks and doth them great harm 682 a. Marquis S. Crucis taketh one of the Turks Gallies in sight of their whole fleet 608 a. Marriage Rites with great Pomp solemnized by the Turks 907 a b. The Massagets entertained by Andronicus against the Turks spoil his Countries in Asia 104 a. in their return homeward themselves spoiled by the Catalonians and Turcopuli 106 b. Masut the Sultan of Iconium divideth his Kingdom among his three Sons 26 a. Matthias the Arch-duke the Emperours Lieutenant taketh Novigrade from the Turks 724 b. besiegeth Strigonium 726 b. raiseth his siege 729 a. shamefully put to flight by the Turks 733 a. Matthias Coruinus of a Prisoner chosen King of Hungary 269 a. at the request of the Senate taketh a great part of the Venetian Territory into his Protection against the Turks ib. a. relieveth the Vayvod of Transilvania 291 a. no less dreadful unto the Turks than was his Father Huniades 275 b. Matthias the Arch-duke cometh to Presburg 885 a. prepareth for an Expedition into Moravia 886 b. cometh to Zuame 887 a. hath the Crown of Hungary delivered unto him 889 a. departeth with his Army out of Bohemia ib. b. royally received at Vienna ib. b. crowned at Presburg 891 a. sends an Ambassador to Constantinople 913 b. Maximilian the Arch-duke sent to the Pope to crave Aid against the Turks 146 b. Maximilian chosen King of the Romans and after crowned King of Hungary 533 a. he and Solyman both desirous of Peace 560 a. he sendeth Ambaâ—sadors to Solyman 561 a. Presents given by the Ambaâ—â—adors unto the Bassa of Buda ib. b. his Ambassadors honourably received by the Turks at Constantinople 562 a. Presents given by the Ambassadors unto the Great Bassa's ib. a. Presents sent to Selymus ib. b. a homely Feast given to the Ambassadors Followers in the Turks Court 563 b. the Ambassadors brought in unto Selymus with the manner of the entertainment of them and their Followers 564 a. â— Peace concluded betwixt Maximilian and Selymus 565 a. Maximilian the Arch-duke by the Emperour his Brother appointed General of his Army in Hungary 765 a. marcheth but slowly to the relief of Agria 766 b. flieth out of the battel of Karesta 768 b. Maylat treacherously taken Prisoner by Peter the Moldavian 483 b. Meligalus a notable Traitor perswadeth Mahomet to besiege the Rhodes 291 b. his worthy death ib. b. Meledin Sultan of Egypt and Corradin Sultan of Damasco send Ambassadors for Peace to the Christian Princes at the Siege of Damiata recovereth Damiata before taken by the Christians 63 b. overthroweth the Christians and raseth Jerusalem 71 a. dieth 72 b. Meâ—eâ—hsala Sultan of Egypt overthroweth Robert Earl of Arthois the French Kings Brother 73 b. taketh Lewis the French King Prisoner and overthroweth his Army 74 b. maketh Peace with the French King and is suddenly slain by two Mamalukes ib. b. Melech the Egyptian Sultan invadeth Syria and winneth Damasco from the Tartars 80 a. Melechsares the Aegyptian Sultan determining to root out all the Christians in Syria and the Land of Palestine is by sudden death taken
hurtful Order for the Christian Common-weal The ground of the error of divers writers about the Successors of Tangrolâ—pix otherwise of them called Sadoch Peter a French Hermit goeth on pilgrimage to Jerusalem The description of Peter the Hermit The Letters of Simon Patriarch of Jerusalem and of the grand Master of the Hospitalers unto the Pope and other Christian Princes in the behalf of the oppressed Christians in Jerusalem Rome and Constantinople which was also called Nova Roma or new Rome The Council of Claremont in France An expedition agreed upon by the Council for the relief of the Christians oppressed in the Holy Land. The chief Commanders of the Christians in their expedition into the Holy Land. Godfrey Duke of Buillon and the other Christian Princes meet together at Constantinople Nice â—esieged by the Câ—ristiâ—ans A cruel battel â—â—ught betwixt the Turks and the Christians Solyman flyeth Antioch in Pisidia taken by the Christians Heraclea yielded Sultan Solyman his letters unto the Persian Sultan Axan The Christians bind themselves by Oath never to return until they had won the Holy City Antioch in Syria besieged by the Christians The description of the famous City of Antioch Antâ—och betrayed to the Christians Cassianus Governor of Antioch in flying slain The Lâ—tters of Bohemund Prince of Tarentum to his Brother Roger Prince of Apulia concerning the winning of Antâ—och Edessa in vain besieged by the Turks Corbanas the Sultans Lieutenant with a great Army cometh to recover again the City of Antioch Bohemund chosen Prince of Antioch The Plaguâ— in the Christian Army Discord arising upon emulation betwixt Bohemund and Raimund The exceeding joy of the Christians upon the first descrying of the holy City Jerusalem re-edified by the great â—mperor Aelius Adrianus A brief discouâ—se of the state and fortune oâ— the Holy City of Jerusalem from the destruction thereof under Vespasianus the Emperor and Tiâ—us his son until it was now again recovered out of the hands of tâ—e Infidels by Godfrâ—y of Buillon anâ— the other Christian Princes of the West Jerusalem besieged by the Christians The Genowaies come to the Siege A most cruel and bloody fight betwixt the Christians and the Turks in the Templâ— of Jerusalem Godfrey Duke of Buillon by the general consent of the Christian Army chosen first King of Jerusalem An hundred thousand Turks and Sarasins slain Godfrey of Buillon first Christian King of Jerusalem dieth of the Plague Baldwin Count of Edessa and Brother to Godfrey Second King of Jerusalem King Baldwin mortally wounded Ptolemaâ—s won by King Baldwin Bohemund dieth at Antioch 1111. Sidon won Baldwin Brugensis chosen King of Jerusalem Joppa besieged by the Sarasins Tyre besieged by the Christians Damasco in vain besieged by the Christians The death of Baldwin the second the third King of Jerusalem Calo Joannes the Greek Emperor seeketh in vain to have surprised the City of Antioch The deatâ— of Calo Johannes the Greek Emperor The miserable death of Fulk fourth King of Jerusalem Baldwin the third of that name fifth King of Jerusalem Conrade third Emperor of Germany taketh upon him an expedition into the Holy Land. Conrade the Emperor not suffered to enter into Constantinople The Turks with a great Army seek to stay Conrade his farther passage at the River Maeander A notable speech of Conrade the Emperor to encourage his Souldiers to adventure the River Maeander The Turks overthrown by the Christians with a wonderful slaughter Nicetas Chonlates Annali primo reium a Manuele Comneno Imperatore gestar fol. 139. Icoâ—lum in vain besieged by the Christians The honoâ—rable Expedition of Lewis the French King by the malice of the Greeks and envy of other Christian Princes of Syria frustrated and brought to nought Damasco in vain besieged by Lewis the French King. Paneada taken and sacked by the Turks Paneada again repaired by the Christians The death of King Baldwin lamented by his Enemies Discord among the Turks in the lesser Asia Masut the Sultan divideth his Kingdom amongst his three Sons Another foolish Icarus Nicetas Choniates rerum â—b imper Manuele Comneno gestar li. 3. sol 143. Unkindness betwixt the Emperor and the Sultan A great oversight of the Emperor Baldwin slain The misery of the Christians by the Turks inclused in the straits The Emperor in great perplexity The desperate resolâ—tion of the Emperor A most miserable Spectacle The Emperor in danger to have been taken valiantly defendeth himself The malapert speech of an insolent Souldier to the Emperor The great patience of the Emperor The fearful resolution of the Emperor A sharp reprâ—hension of a common Souldier unto the Emperor The Emperor returneâ—h The Emperor altogether performs not what he had promised to the Sultan Atapack with all his Army slain Andronicus aspireth Ambition covered with the zeal of the Common-weal Andronicus departeth from Oenum toward Constantinople Andronicus encampeth in sight over against Constantinople Xiphilinus sent over to Andronicus dealeth unfaithfully in doing his message The proud answer of Andronicus Contoslephanus revolteth to Andronicus Alexius in despair Alexius and his Friends apprehended A strange alteration Alexius brought to Andronicus hath his eyes put out The meeting of the Patriarch and Andronicus Andronicus passeth over the Strait Andronicus taketh upon him the Government Andronicus tyrannizeth A miserable State of a Coâ—monâ—eal Mary the Daughter of Emanuel with her Husband Caesar poysoned by Andronicus Xene the Empresâ— accused of Treason and condemned Dangerous to speak the truth to a Tyrant A wicked Council The miserable death of the Empress The slie practise of Andronicus in aspiring to the Empire Alexius deprived of of the Empire Alexius condemned Alexius the Emperor crâ—â—lly strangled An unequal Marriage Andronicus seeketh by tyranny to establish his Estate Exceeding Cruâ—lty Isaac Angelus taketh Sanctuary The people in a tumult resort unto Angelus Andronicus in vain seeketh to appease the tumultuous People Isaac Angelus by the people in a tumult saluted Emperor Andronicus â—orsaken of his flattering Favourites A strange change Andronicus the Emperor taken and brought in bonds to Angelus Andronicus the Emperor hanged up by the Heels Niceâ—as Choniates Annal. lib. 1. fol. 161. col 4. Isaac Angelus the Emperor tyranniseth Isaac the Emperor thrust from the Empire and deprived of his sight by his Brother Alexius Clizasthlan the Turks Sultan incroacheth upon the Greek Empire in the lesser Asia Clizasthlan divideth hiâ— Kingdom amongst his four Sons The Sons of Clizasthlan at variance among themselves Almericus sixth King of Jerusalem Noradin the Turk discomfited by the Christians Saladin lest in Alexandria by Saracon craveth aid Alexandria yâ—eded to Almericus Pelusium â—aken by Almeriâ—us The Sultan of Egypt under the colour of Friendship slain by Saracon How the Kingdom of Egypt first fell into the hands of the Sarasins with the notable alterations thereof Baldwin the Fourth of that Name seventh King of Hierusalem Saladin overthrown by King Baldwin The Christians dividing the Spoil overthrown by the Turks Saladin goetâ— out of
worthy such a Traitor The oration of the Gâ—eat Masâ—â—r to the rest of the Knights aâ—d Souldiers to encourage them valiantly to withstand the Turks Eight hundred Turks slain Treason against the Great Master discovered and the Traitors executed Two thousand â—ive hundred Turks slain in the Assault The resolute answer of the Great Master A fair Breach made by force of the Turks battery The Bassa raiseth his Siege Achmetes landeth his Army in Apulia near to Otranto and spoileth the Country Otranto taken by the Turks Mahomet dieth at Geivisen in Bithynia not without suspition of poison He is buried at Conâ—â—antinople The description of Mahomet The Sons of Mahomet Mustapha Bajazet and Zemes Otranto yielded by the Turks upon composition Dissention among the Turks about the Succession Bajazet comeâ—â— Conâ—â—tinople Zemes riseth against his Brother Bajazet Bajazet goeth against Zemes Achmetes made General of Bajazet his Army Zemes flyeth in into Syria Zemes his Speech to Caytbeâ—us Sultan of Egypt Catâ—â—ius the Egyptian Sultan sendeth Embâ—ssadors to Bajâ—zâ—t The King of Caramania soliciteth Zemes to take up Arms against Bajazet Zemes flieth to Sea. Zemes his Letters to his Brother Bajazet Zemes flieth to the Rhodes The description of Zemes. Aâ—hmetes his death contrivâ—d Achmetes his Son stirreth up the Ianizaries to help his Father Bajazet for fear delivereth Achmetes to the Ianizaries Achmetes slain Bajazet purposeth to destroy the Ianizaries Bajazet invaâ—eth Moldavia Mary great Princes sâ—e to the Master oâ— the Rhodes foâ— Zâ—mes Bajazet invadeth Carâ—mania Tarsus in Cilicia yieldeth to Bajazet A long and terrible battel betwixt Bajazet and the King of Caramania Achmetes being discomfited is taken Prisoner and sent to Caire A long and terrible Battel betwixt the Turks and the Mamalukes The Turks flie away by night A Peace concluded betwixt Bajazet and Caytbeius Alphonsus King of Naples and Alexander Bishop of Rome crave aid of Bajazet against Charles the French King. Bajazet sendeth Dautius his Embassador to Alexander Bishop of Rome Jo. Roverâ—us robbeth the Turks Embassadors Zemes dieth poisoned by Alexander Bishop of Rome The evil life of Caesar Borgia The death of Caesar Borgia The French King invadeth Naples Ferdinand departeth from Capua to pacifie an uprore at Naples A most resolved act of King Ferdinand Charles the Frâ—nch King received into Naples A great League made by divers Christian Princes against the French King. Ferdinand recovereth his Kingdom of Naples from the French and dieth The death of Charles the French King. The Turks invade Podolla and Rassia and in their return are for the most part lost Friuli part of the Venetian Territory spoiled by the Turks A Fight at Sea betwixt the Turks and the Venetians Lepanto yielded to the Turks Methone besieged both by Sea and Land by Bajazet Methone taken by the Turks Corone Pilus and Crisseum yieldeth to the Turks Cephalenia taken by â—he Venetians Pylos taken from the Tâ—rks and again yielded unto them Dyrrachium taken by the Turks Mytâ—lene besieged The Siege of Mytilene broken up Neritos taken by the Venetians A Peace concluded betwixt Bajazet and the Venetians Bajazet in danger to have been slain by a Dervislar or Turkish Monk. Bajazet by nature peaceable The Turks and Persians diâ—â—er not about the interpretation of their Law but about the true Successor of their great Prophet Mahomet Haider marrieth Martha the daughter of the great King Usun Cassanes Haider Erdebil secretly murdred The beginning of the Cuselbassas Hysmael his behaviour in the time of his exile Hysmael retâ—rneth into Armenia and recovereth his Inheritance Sumachia taken by Hysmael Hysmael cometh to Tauris Hysmael taketh the City of Tauris and defaced the Tomb of his Uncle Jacup Hysmael goeth against the Persian King. Elvan the Persian King slain Hysmael goth against Moratchamus Hysmael exceedingly beloved and honoured of his Subjects Chasen Chelife and Techellis invade the Turks Dominions Hysmael sends Embassadors unto the Venetians to joyn in League with them against Bajazet Orchanes and Mahometes two of Bajazet his Nephews overthrown by Techellis The battel between Caragoses and Techellis Techelliâ— besiegeth Caragoses the Viceroy in the City of Cutaie Caragoses the Viceroy with his Wives and Children taken by Techellis in the City of Cuâ—aie Bajazet sendeth Alis Bassa out of Europe against Techellis The batâ—el betwixt Alis Bassa and Techellis Chasan Câ—â—life slain Alis Bassa slain Jonuses Bassa 〈◊〉 by Bajazet General 〈◊〉 his Army against Techellis Techellis burnt at Tauris A great Earthquake at Constantinople The Children of Bajazet Mahometes disguised as a seafaring man cometh to Constantinople and so to the Court. Mahometes poysoned by Asmehemedi Asmehemedi justly rewarded for his Treachery Selymus aided by Mahometes his Father in law riseth against his Father Bajazet sendeth Embassadors to Selymus Presents given to Selymus by his Fathers Embassadors Bajazet would appoint his Successor whilst he yet lived Bajazet seekeâ—h to prefer Achomates unto the Empire Selymus marcheth with his Army toward Hadrianople Selymus his dissembling Embassage unto his Father Selymus overtaketh his Father The chief men about Bajazet secâ—etly favour Selymus and disswade him from giving him Battel Cherseogles Bassa the only great man faithful to Bajazet pâ—rswadeth him to give Battel to Selymus Bajazet's Speech to the Souldiers and Ianizaries of the Court. The common sort of the Ianizaries faithful to Bajazet desire battel The battel betwixt Bajazet and Selymus Selymus his Army discomfited The â—stiâ—ation Selymus â—â—d of his horse whereon he escaped from his Father Bajazet willing to prefer Achomates to the Empire Achomates inciteth his two Sons Amurathes and Aladin to take part with him against their Grandfather Bajazet Bajazet sendeth Embassadoâ—s â—o Achomates Achomates killeâ—h hâ—s Fatâ—ers â—mbassador Achomates proclaimed Traitor The crafty oration of the great Bassa Mustapha to Bajazet for the bringing home of Selymus Corcutus cometh to Constantinople Corcutus his oration to his Father Bajazet Bajazet comforteth Corcutus and promiseth to resign to him the Empire aâ—ter that Selymus was passed over into Asia Bajazet his crafty Speech unto his Son Selymus The crafty dissimulation of Selymus The blunt speech of Mustapha to Bajazet persuading him to resign the Empire to Selymus The resolute answer of old Bajazet to Mustapha and the other Bassaes Corcutus flyeth Selymus practiseth with Haman a Iew Bajazet his Physitian to poyson him Bajazet poysoned by the Iew. The 〈◊〉 of Bajazet Selymus causeth two of his Faâ—hers Pagis to be put to death for mourning for their Master Haman the Iew justly rewarded for his treachery Paluus Jovius Illust. virorum Elog. lib. 4. Selymus going into Asia against his Brother Achomates Selymus murthereth five of his Brothers Sons Selymus seeketh after the lives of Amurat and Aladin the Sons of Achomates his Brother Ufegâ— Bassa taken Prisoner Mustapha Bassa shamefully murthered Ufegi Bassa put to death Selymus tâ—keth the spoil of his Brother Corcutus Corcutus taken The lamentable death of Corcâ—tus Treason against Selymus discovered Sinan Bassa discomfited by Achomates
in himself at all the performance of any of those things which for fear he had with great solemnity promised as the sequel of the matter afterwards declared Amongst other things he was inforced to give unto the King his graceless Son Caesar Borgia Valentinus then one of the Cardinals in hostage for the performance of the other of his promises Which disgrace the crafty old Bishop sought to cover by gracing his Son with the title of his Legate and with him he was also enforced to deliver Zemes the Turk Bajazets Brother his honourable Prisoner who to the great profit of the Bishop and his Predecessor had remained in safe custody at Rome about the space of seven years But Zemes within three days after he was delivered to the French died at Cajeta being before his deliverance poisoned as it was thought with a powder of wonderful whiteness and pleasant taste whose power was not presently to kill but by little and little dispersing the force thereof did in short time bring most assured death which pleasant poyson Alexander the Bishop skilful in that practice corrupted by Bajazets Gold and envying so great a good unto the French had caused to be cunningly mingled with the Sugar wherewith Zemes used to temper the Water which he commonly drank His dead Body was not long after sent to Bajazet by Mustapha his Embassador who to the great contentment of his Master had thus contrived his death with the Bishop Not long after this dead Body so far brought was by the appointment of Bajazet honourably interred among his Ancestors at Prusa Caesar Borgia also the Bishops Son a little before given in hostage unto the French King deceiving his Keepers at Velitras returned again to Rome before the French King was come to Naples This wicked Imp come of an evil strain not worth the remembrance but by way of detestation the very monster of Nature if a man should well consider the course of his whole life shortly after his escape envying at the honour of Candianus his Brother who then was General over the Bishop his Fathers Forces which were at that time great when he had one time merrily supped with his said Brother with their Mother Vannotia traiterously caused him to be unawars murdred in the Streets as he was going home and his dead Body to be cast into the River of Tiber. Then casting off his Priestly Habit with his Cardinals Robes he took upon him the leading of his Fathers Army in his Brothers stead and gave himself wholly to Martial Affairs a vocation best fitting his fierce and bloody disposition and with exceeding Prodigality wherewith he exhausted his Fathers Coffers and the Treasures of the Church bound fast unto him desperate Ruffians and Souldiers especially Spaniards his Fathers Country men such as he knew fittest to serve for the execution of his most horrible devices Which manner of his proceedings although they were such as all good men detested yet the old Hypocrite his Father winked thereat fearing as it was thought to be murdred of the Viper himself when it should serve for his purpose Now when he had thus strengthned himself and that he was become a terror to all the Nobility of Rome and the Seigniories thereabout he by the advice and help of his Father who desired nothing more than to make him great first drave the most honourable Family of the Columnij out of the City and afterwards out of Latium and by most execrable Treachery poisoned or killed the honourable Personages of the great Houses of the Ursini and Caâ—tani taking to himself their Lands and Possessions With like cruelty he strangled at one time four Noblemen of the Camertes and drave Guido Feltrius out of Urbin He took the City of Pisarum from Io. Sfortia who with much difficulty escaped his bloody hands and drave the Malatestaes out of Ariminum The great Lady Katharine Sfortia he thrust out of Forum Livij and Forum Cornelij and shamefully led her in triumph through Rome And never satisfied with blood which he without measure shed he took the City of Faventia from Astor Manfredus a young Gentleman of rare perfection whom after the beastly Tyrant had most horribly abused against Nature he caused to be cruelly strangled and his dead body to be cast into Tiber. Having thus filled the measure of his iniquity and as a fretting Canker having either devoured or driven into exile most part of the Roman Nobility and purposing by the supportation of his Father to make himself Lord and Sovereign both of the City and of all Latium in the pride of his thoughts he was by the hand of the most High attached and cast down and that by such means as he least feared for being with his Father at a solemn Supper in the Vatican of purpose prepared for the destruction of certain rich Cardinals and some other honourable Citizens they were both poysoned by the fatal error of one of the Waiters who mistaking of a Flaggon gave the poisoned Wine to the accursed Bishop and his Son which was prepared for the Guests whereof the old Bishop in few days after died But his Son who had drunk the same with Water although he died not of long time after yet presently fell into such an extream sickness that he was not able to help himself or to command his desperate Followers whereof he had great store but lying sick in short time saw himself of them forsaken and two of his Enemies Pius the Third and Iulius the Second one after another sitting in his Fathers place Of which two Pius enjoyed that Pontifical Dignity but sixteen days and Iulius succeeding him caused this Caesar Borgia who of right had deserved a thousand deaths to be shut up in the Castle called Moles Adriani from whence he set him at liberty upon the delivery of certain strong Holds which were yet holden by his Garrisons After he had thus rid himself out of Iulius the Bishops hands he fled to Ostia and so by Sea to Naples where he was by the commandment of Ferdinand King of Spain apprehended by Gonsalvus the Great and transported into Spain for fear lest he being of a most troublesome Nature and much resorted unto by his old Favourites should raise some new stirs in Italy He was no sooner arrived in Spain but he was cast into Prison in the Castle of Medina where after he had lien three years he deceived his Keepers and with a Rope which he had gotten let himself down from an high Tower of the Castle and so escaping fled to the King of Navar whom he afterwards served in his Wars and was in an hot skirmish against the Kings Enemies wherein he had obtained the Victory slain with a small Shot Unworthy after so many horrible Villanies to have ended his days so honourably His dead Body was found stript and so brought unto the King upon a bad Beast as if it had been a dead Calf all naked which was by his
we shall return into Christendom A Turk which was near taking hold of these words reported them unto the Patron who presently laid hold upon the Scribe and drew from him the confession of all the Enterprise He presently sends an hundred Men towards the Gally to seise upon the four French Slaves and the Captain But these five made such a generous resistance as if the other Slaves who were for the most part Moldavians or of the Provinces which border upon the black Sea had had the Courage to fight for their Liberty without doubt the French mens Enterprise had succeeded happily But what could five Men do against an hundred yet they slew fifteen and wounded many the four French-men were all slain and the Florentine Captain was taken alive and reserved to the rigour of a cruel Death For they continued him six hours together in most violent Torments he still calling upon the holy and sacred name of Iesus Christ even to the last gasp and detesting the Errours and falshood of the Law of Mahomet This happened in October this Year A little before the Estates of the united Provinces and Count Maurice seeing the losses which the Ships of Holland suffered in the Mediterranean Sea many of them being taken by the Turkish Gallies and a great number of their men made slaves to the end they might be freed from that danger and have a safe Passage for their Ships and procure liberty for their Captives they resolved to make a League with the Turk Wherefore they sent Cornelius Hage to Constantinople who not only willingly accepted of that Embassy but performed it with such discretion as he purchased great credit and commendation to himself and much profit to the Provinces He had resolved at first to pass through Hungary but he found so many crosses and obstacles by some that were Creatures to the Pope and Spaniard as he was forced to turn out of the way and fetch a great Circuit First of all he fell into the hands of the Arch-duke Ferdinand who caused him to be examined and admonished to desist from his purpose After which he was tost at Sea and in the end having surmounted all dangers he recovered Constantinople the first of May. He had express charge from the United Estates to labour for three things The first was to treat of the deliverance of the Hollanders that were Slaves The second to make a League with the Turk And the third to obtain from him a free Navigation for the Hollanders throughout all the Seas and Ports of his Empire This Ambassador was brought to kiss the Sultan's hands and was favourably received he presented unto his Majesty in the name of the Estates of the United Provinces his Letters of Embassy with the Presents which follow Three Birds of Paradice of rare and precious Plumes wonderful goodly to behold and valued at eight hundred pound sterling two Vessels of Christal wonderful rich and beautiful four other Vessels made of Fishes Bones whereas the art seemed miraculous in the graving forty pieces of Cloth of Gold of divers colours five pieces of Silk five of Damask five of Silk watered and five plain a Staff of an Elephants Tooth graven with admirable industry a Parrat shut in a Cage of Christal so artificially done as no man could discern the entry and many fair and rich Table-cloths of Holland Cloth most part powdred with flowers to the Life and wrought in their lively colours The which the Sultan did accept with admiration All these things shew sufficiently That the Estates from the beginning or soon after have raised Handy-works as well as Traffick and Navigation to the highest point of Perfection The sixth of Iuly following the League was sworn betwixt the Othoman Emperour and the United Provinces of the Low-Countries by the which Achmat promised to cause to be set at liberty all the Hollanders that were detained slaves within his Empire That the Traffick should be free for the Hollanders Ships throughout all his Seas and Havens and moreover he granted That the Estates should have an Ambassador residing at his Port. This alliance with the Turk for the which they have so often and with little reason blamed the French hath been affected and sought by the English and Spaniards as we have said elsewhere and now by the Hollanders whose Estates proceed in all their Affairs with such weight and measure as it seems they do nothing but with great Reason and to good purpose About the end of this Year the Jews whose long Slavery throughout the World reproacheth their wretched and miserable Obstinacy received at Pera near Constantinople the weight of a furious Tempest which fell upon them stirred up against them by the malice of the Morisques Granadines chased out of Spain and retired into the Levant These having by Presents won the favour of the Cadi or Judge of the Place who was a Negro newly settled in that Charge by the Grand Visier Nassuf they obtained Power from him to thrust all the Jews out of Pera and to ruine their Synagogues This Power they executed with all violence And yet these miserable Jews durst not make their Complaints unto the Magistrate except one of their Sect which dwelt in the Isle of Chio who being then at Constantinople and supposing he had more credit than the rest went to complain to this Cadi Negro who presently caused to be given unto him five hundred Blows with a Cudgel instead of doing him Justice so dangerous a thing it is to have to do with such unjust Magistrates The Insolencies of the Morisques transported them farther for after they had expelled the Jews out of their Dwellings they threatned to do unto the Christians at Pera as much as had been done unto them in Spain and they bragged That they would seise upon their Churches and especially on that of the Franciscan Friars the which was reasonable fair for the Place But the French Ambassador having made his Complaint to the chief Visier he prohibited them to make any attempt against the Christians upon pain of rigorous Punishment This Prohibition stayed their fury but they did not forbear in all other occasions to shew the cruel Hatred they owe unto Christians so as through all the Levant in all Encounters where they came they did a thousand times more mischief than the Turks themselves At the same time the Sultan Achmat had drawn together a mighty Army to go into Transilvania he caused it to camp in Tents near unto Constantinople about his Palace called Darut Bassa whither the People of Constantinople went to walk and to see his Forces within few days after he went to Adrianople meaning from thence to proceed in his Voyage carrying with him all the chief Men of his Port except the Bassa of the Sea or Admiral who remained at Constantinople to have a care of the City And for the greater safety thereof this Bassa caused an Edict to
constant Resolution prest them on all sides there was nothing to be seen but Blood wounded or dead men but much more of the Turks side than of the Christians In the end after a Combat of four hours the Turks fainted some were taken many were slain and the Christians obtained an absolute Victory but as it could not be made without loss of their Enemies who made great resistance so there were five and fifty Christians wounded of which number De Vic a French Gentleman was one who had a Musquet shot through his Thigh going to charge a Troop of Turks which were retired into a Tower and some Gentlemen were slain among the which was young Boissierre a French Man whose Valour in this Action made them that saw him fight so generously conceive a certain hope that he would have proved a valiant Captain if Heaven had lent him longer Life The sorrow for his Death was general as well among the Italian Troops as among those of his own Nation Vernegue and Villandre two other brave French Gentlemen were also slain The dead and the wounded were carried unto their Gallies they emptied the Fort oâ— all the Artillery Munition for War and Victuals the Trophy of forty Florentines Heads was beaten down and all the Houses set on fire Agliman being thus ruined they shipped their Booty with three hundred and fifty Turkish Slaves having freed about two hundred and forty Christians which were in Irons The two Turkish Gallies were drawn out of the Port and carried away with eight other Vessels In this Triumph as the Admiral Inghirami bent his Course towards Ligorn upon the way a Turkish Caramousal came into the midst of the Fleet as into a Toil it prepared to defend it self the Patrons Gally invested it but not without loss for the Turks made so great resistance as there were above fourscore Christians hurt or slain the Earl of Candale fighting alone at the Prow of the Gallie by the Permission of the General But this Caramousal being taken and the Florentine Mariners entered it split and sunk suddenly The great Dukes Gallies encountered some other smaller Vessels the which they took and afterwards arrived happily at their Port. The twelfth of August following Octavio of Arragon General of the Gallies of Sicily by the Commandment of the Duke of Ossunna Viceroy in that Realm parted from the Haven of Palermo with eight Gallies well armed ad manned to sail into the Levant His first touch was upon the Island of Cerigo where he understood that the Admiral Bassa of the Sea was gon from Constantinople with thirty Gallies bending his Course to the Island of Negropont whereas sixty others attended him in the Haven and moreover that the Gallies of Rhodes prepared to go and joyn with him all which Naval Fleet was to fall upon Soria against the Turks Rebels Notwithstanding these News Octavio continues his Course unto the Island of Nicaria where he understood by a Greek Vessel that the Turkish Admiral meant to send twelve Gallies to Rhodes to guard certain Vessels of the Fleet which came from Alexandria by the Channel of Samos True it is that of twelve which were together when they parted two were sent by the Bey or Captain which commanded them into the Island of Chio so as there remained but ten together Octavio resolved to charge these ten causing his Fleet to row that Day and almost a whole Night as secretly as they could along the Shore of the firm Land of Natolia and at the break of day he arrived at the Cape of Corvo twenty Miles from Chio from whence he sent his long Boat to discover But in the mean time he himself espied the ten Turkish Gallies not far from him at sight whereof he ordered his Gallies for Battel with such Diligence as at Sun rising he was about the Enemies Gallies and had invested them At his first approch he discharged all his Ordnance and then with his Admiral-Gallie he joyned with the Turks Gallie which carried the Standard the Spaniards entered slew and massacred all that made resistance the Combat began at the Prow from whence they went to the Poop whereas the Bey or Commander of the ten Gallies stood whom they forced to yield In the mean time the other Gallies of Sicily charged the Turks so furiously as they took five all great Vessels carrying Lanthorns two fled towards the Land hoping to save themselves but the Turks had scarce liesure to leap to Land and to flie into the Country abandoning their Vessels to the Spaniards who pursued them the other three Gallies having gotten some advantage escaped by flight so seven only came into the Spaniards Power in the which they had a very rich Booty freeing above a thousand Christian Slaves which were at the Chain and by a strange change of Fortune putting into their Places the Turks which had inchained them Among the most remarkable of the Prisoners were the Commanders of the ten Gallies called Sinan Bey of Grigna in the Island of Cyprus the Bey of Alexandria Son to Pial Bassa who was defeated in the Battel of Lepanto by Don Iohn of Austria and some Beyes or Captains and Patrons of Gallies This Summer the Emperour Matthias being gon to an Assembly of the States at Presburg in Hungary in the mean time Sigismund Battori who had been Prince of Transilvania and so great a Terror and Scourge unto the Turks as he made Sinan Bassa having an Army of one hundred and fifty thousand Men to flie thrice within ten days from before him and would never endure the sight of him he having but forty thousand Men in his Army But afterwards being the Author of his own Misfortunes and Miseries by his inconstant Humors he came and lived a private Life at Prague and there died of an Apoplexy At the Estates of Presburg they consulted of the fortifying of their Frontier Towns and manning them with good Garrisons knowing the Infidelity of the Turks and doubting they would not observe the Truce But there was some question in the Assembly touching the Admissions of Germans into their Garrisons for that the Hungarians maintained they had a decree to the contrary and yet they could not defend themselves without the assistance of Germans but in the end it was concluded That the Germans should be admitted equally with the Hungarians into their Garrisons but all other strange Souldiers should be excluded The Turks in the mean time had burnt and spoiled many Villages in Hungary and Transilvania carried away many Christians captive and committed many other Acts of Hostility so as all Men feared a new War in Hungary but by the Providence of God it was diverted For Sultan Achmat marching toward Transilvania with a mighty Army hearing upon the way that Bethlem Gabor was acknowledged Prince under his Protection he turned head toward Constantinople But rather for the Affairs of Asia whereas the Rebels of Natolia had spoiled and burnt
that of Adrianople as was accustomary he was mounted on one of the best of his Horses and cloathed with a Coat of Mail a Casket on his Head with three Feathers adorned with Pearls and precious Stones his Sword was girt to his side with his Bow and Quiver his Beard was in a rough and neglected manner which made him appear more Fierce and Martial the Chimacam came after him accompanied with the Traitor who surrendred Revan This Festival for his return was celebrated for the space of a whole week during which time the Shops were shut the Doors and Outsides adorned with green Boughs and Paintings and by Night the Streets with Torches were made as clear as the day howsoever the People secretly murmured that the War was not prosecuted and the Advantages taken when Fortune began to smile and favour their Enterprises and that now desisting in the middle way the Work was again to be begun and all the foregoing Blood and Treasure was spent and consumed to no purpose These Murmurings of the People were not without some Ground and Cause for after the departure of the Grand Signior the Persians put themselves again into the Field and recovered the Country which they had lost and having offered a Sum of Mony to Mortesa Pasha to surrender Revan which he refusing to accept on Principles of Fidelity and Honour they prepared to lay close Siege to the Place the Janisaries were also displeased to see themselves neglected and cast out of the Guard and their Places supplied by the Bostangees nor less disgusted were the Lawyers to see several of their Judges and Kadies hanged and their Heads cut off upon pretence of Sedition and Faction His ill Humor more increased to the height of Tyranny by reason of certain twinges which he suffered of the Gout which is not usual in Persons of his Age not surpassing twenty six years and because his Physician a Jew forbid him wholly to drink Wine as poison to his Disease and Complexion he was so enraged that he drove him from his Presence with Indignation and immediately conceived such Anger and Prejudice against the whole Nation that he caused their Houses to be searched and their Jewels taken from them But what was most strange was his horrid aversion to Tobacco the taking of which by any Person whatsoever he forbid upon pain of Death which Sentence he so rigorously executed that he caused the Legs and Arms of two Men one that sold Tobacco and the other that took it to be sawed off and in that manner exposed to the view of the People he also caused two others a Man and a Woman to be impaled alive for the same Offence with a Roll of Tabaco about their Necks As the Gout caused him to be froward and ill-natur'd so more especially when ill news came from Persia he was observed to be more raving and tyrannical than ever His Army in Persia wanting Provisions disbanded Mortâ—sa Pasha Governour of Revan being killed the Souldiers rebel open the Gates and yeild themselves to the Persian for which Offence the Janisaries fearing the Justice of their Master the Grand Signior two thousand of them took up Arms in Service of the Enemy the sense hereof vexing Morat to the Soul he caused the Register of the Janisaries to be hanged and another of their principal Officers to be beheaded and strowed the Streets of Constantinople with dead Bodies some for one cause and some for another which struck the whole City with a general Dread and Consternation He often walked in the night punishing Quarrels and Disorders of the Streets and meeting two Women wandring in the dark he caused them to be cut in pieces He put his Cook to Death for not dressing his Meat well or not seasoning his Sauces according to his Palate In his Seraglio sporting with his Arms he wounded himself with a Dart in the thigh and by accident wounded the Son of Mâ—hmet the late Vizier with a Carbine-shot of which in a short time after he died The Persians having taken Revan as we have said instituted Chambers of Janisaries in that place after the Turkish fashion paying them in the same form as at Constantinople and to allure the Spahees to enter into his Service he offered to all that came in twelve Aspers a day of constant Pay and declared That their Faith and Law had no difference from the Mahometan The Grand Signior receiving these Advices with extreme indignation proclaimed his Intentions to return again into Persia and though the Design pleased not the Militia who were weary of the War yet his Power was too great to be resisted and his Humors too violent to be diverted by sober Counsels for having subjected and absolutely subdued the Insolence of the Souldiers and suppressed the Arrogance of the Lawyers and Church-men he ordered every thing according to his Arbitrary and Uncontroulable Pleasure which being rendred Extravagant and Unsupportable by reason tbat in his Cups and at the time of his Debauchery he would often take his Counsels and determine his Resolutions were notwithstanding with more patience endured upon hopes that they would not be lasting and that Excesses would accelerate his Death and the end of their Oppressions The Pasha's of greatest Note and Riches he put to Death and confiscated their Estates to his Exchequer and whereas Avarice and Cruelty were equally predominant in his Nature there was scarce a day wherein he made not some demonstration of those Dispositions The English Ambassador making some instances for the releasement of English Slaves from Captivity was forced to purchase their Liberty by giving two Russians or other Slaves in the place of one English-man He took a singular delight to sit in a Chiosk by the Sea-side and from thence to shoot at the People with his Bow and Arrows as they rowâ—d near the Banks of the Seraglio which caused the Boat-men afterwards to keep themselves at a distance from the Walls of the Seraglio And as he likewise took pleasure to go from one Garden to another on the Bosphorus so if he observed any so bold as to put forth his Head to see him pass he commonly made him pay the price of his Curiosity by a shot from his Carbine In all his Gardens and places of Pleasure his chief Recreation was Drinking in which his principal or almost sole Companions were Emir Gumir the Persian who betrayed Revan and a Venetian of the Family of Bianchi who having been taken by the Turks when he was young was placed in the Seraglio and educated in all the Learning and Customs of it and becoming as well a Proficient in Drinking as in other Vices he was made a Favourite and Companion to Morat And thus did they follow this trade of Drunkenness so constantly that the Health of the Grand Signior began to impair and at length he became so sensible of his Extravagancies that he incharged the Chimacam not to obey him after
fifth Son of Sultan Achmet born of the same Mother with Sultan Morat Educated like the other younger Sons of the Ottoman Family within the Walls of an obscure and unhappy Prison so that 't is no wonder if wanting the advantages of seeing and practising in the World he should neither have studied Men nor been experienced in the Art of Government Nor less strange is it being natural to humane Infirmity for Men who have lived under Restraint Affliction and fear of Death to become licentious and immoderate in all kind of Pleasures whensoever they pass on a sudden from the depth of Misery to some transcendent degree of Happiness and Prosperity which as I say all Men are naturally subject unto so more especially those whose Religion indulges them all kind of sensual Carnality in this Life Ibrahim was in his own Nature of a gentle and easy Temper of a large Forehead of a quick and lively Eye and ruddy Complexion and of a good Proportion in the Features of his Face but yet had something in the Air of his Countenance that promised no great Abilities of Mind And giving himself up to all kind of Effeminacy and Softness attended not unto the Government of his Affairs and therefore it was his greatest misfortune to be served by wicked and faithless Officers to whom he trusted and to whom he gave Credence wanting in himself the Talents of Wisdom and Discretion to discern their Malice The continual apprehensions that he entertained of Death during his Imprisonment had so frozen his Constitution with a strange frigidity towards Women that all the dalliance and warm Embraces of the most inflaming Ladies in the Seraglio could not in a whole Years time thaw his Coldness which was the occasion at first of that Report which spoke him to be impotent towards Women during which time he attended to his Ministers of Justice and to a management of the Affairs of his Empire which in the beginning of his Reign gained him a Credit and Reputation and raised a great expectation of his goodness and Care of his Subjects Welfare an evidence of which he gave in his Charge to the Great Vizier that he should put no Man to Death unless for Capital and Enormous Crimes But at length losing himself in Lusts and Sensualities he forsook the Helm of his Regency committing the guidance of his Empire to other Hands and as he was ignorant of War so he foolishly sported in the Calms of Peace and suffering himself to be guided only by Fortune felt the Stroke thereof in his last Unhappy Fate year 1649. THE REIGN OF Sultan MEHMET OR MAHOMET IV. THIRTEENTH EMPEROR OF THE TURKS ANNO 1649. SUltan Ibrahim perishing in this manner by the mutinous Violence of the Souldiery his Son Mehmet or Mahomet being a Child of seven Years of Age succeeded in the Throne During whose Minority which was to continue for the space of ten Years longer his Mother who was the first Sultana assisted with the Counsel of twelve Pashaws took upon her self the Regency and in the first place resolved to continue the War against the Venetians which Ibrahim intended to conclude having engaged himself far in a Treaty of Peace with the Bailo or Ambassador which resided at the Port for that Republick Whilst these Matters were transacting and Preparations making to prosecute the War the Malignant Humours of the Empire began to ferment unto that degree as affected the Body Politick at first with unnatural Heats which soon afterwards proceeded to a Feaver and then to a dangerous Convulsion The ill-affected Part was the Militia which is the Heart and Principal of the Life of that Government For the Spahees and the Janisaries being the Horse and Foot entred into a desperate Controversie The first judged it their Duty to revenge the Death of their Soveraign Sultan Ibrahim and in order thereunto demanded the Head of the Great Vizier as the Chief Author and Contriver of the Death of his Lord and Master The others being conscious to themselves of having by their Arms carried on the Conspiracy not only declared their Resolutions to defend the Vizier but owned that what he had acted was by their Order and at their Request and Instigation The Spahees being highly provoked with this Declaration swelled with Anger and Malice against the Janisaries and both sides being equally proud and rich could not bear each others Reproaches The Spahees being Men of Estates in Land looked on themselves as the Gentry and to have the greatest Share in the concernment of the Empire The Janisaries living regularly in their Chambers or Martial Colledges looked on themselves as the better Souldiers and the more formidable Party and the truth is both of them were proceeded to that height of Command and Authority in Government that had they not been suppressed by the cruel Hand and bloody Disposition of Kuperlee as shall be more largely related hereafter this Empire was then in danger of falling into as many Divisions as there were at that time Pashaws or great Captains The cause hereof proceeded from the warlike disposition of Sultan Morat who being the most Martial Man of his Age preferred none but Men of great Courage and such as had signalized their Valour by undoubted proofs And such Men as these he loaded with Honour and raised them to the highest aâ—d most eminent Charges in the Government But Morat dying soon afterwards these Great Men had time to enrich themselves during the gentle and easie Reign of Sultan Ibrahim which being seconded by the Minority of this Young Sultan their Pride knew no bounds either of Modesty towards their Commanders or Reverence towards their Sultan Hence it was that the Souldiery dividing so great a Sedition arose amongst them that at last they came to Blows resolving to decide the Controversy by the Sword. But the Quarrels of Turks amongst themselves not being commonly of long durance the Care and Vigilance of the Magistrates prevented all open defiance in the Field but yet could not so pacifie their Animosities but that several Skirmishes or Rencounters passed between them in the Streets wherein the Spahees were always worsted and at length were forced to abandon the City scarce daring for some time to own the Name of Spahee within the Walls of Constantinople These Disturbances gave the Venetians some hopes to accommodate their Peace with better Advantage but the Reply to this Proposition was more fierce and positive than ever and so ill resented that the Bailo going from his Audience was on the 27 th of April seized on and with all his Retinue clapped into Prison and Chains being sent to those Castles which are scituate on the Bosphorus in the middle way between Constantinople and the Black Sea. But this furious severity by the intercession of other Christian Ministers continued not long before the Bailo received more gentle Treatment by the Sacrifice which the Turks made unto themselves of Grillo his Interpeter who being called down from the
and would serve as a Redoubt or Out-work to the Fort in which upon all extremities they might find Sanctuary and refuge But the apprehension of the Viziers Numbers and his near approach had made that impression of fear in their minds that no safety seemed to remain unless they could see the River Mura between them and their Enemy Nor was Serini more successful in his perswasions to assault the Enemy whilst they were wearied with their March and busied in extending their Tents the other Generals being of opinion that it was too great a hazard for them alone to venture their Forces in so unequal a Combat but they ought rather to expect Montecuculi by the addition of whose Forces the lot of War would be less hazardous if not wholly certain In this manner great Enterprises have been disappointed which have wanted only resolution to make them successful Fortune being commonly favourable if not a Servant to bold and daring Spirits the disunion also of Generals hath been the overthrow of the wisest Counsels and Wars have been observed never to have thrived where the Heads of Armies have been of dissenting humors or dâ—fferent interests This timidity on the Christian part raised in that manner the spirits of the Turks that without stop or opposition passing the River Muer they arrived at Serinswar where they immediately fell to their Mattock and Spade breaking ground for their Trenches which by continued labour they so diligently attended that in Seventeen days they arrived at the very Ditch of the Fort Only whilst the Turks were transporting their Numbers over the River the generous spirit of Strozzi not enduring to see their passage so easie and open valiantly opposed himself and his small Force against the greater power of the Enemy and so resolutely performed the Action that he killed Five hundred upon the place till at length being unfortunately shot by a Musket-bullet in the Forehead he gloriously together with one Chiâ—fareas a renowned Croatian Captain ended his days in defence of his Countrey and the Christian Cause In this interim General Montecuculi arrived with his Army and was received by Count Serini with all evidences and demonstrations of respect and hearty welcome and between both passed an appearance at least of friendly correspondence But as to the present Engagement Montecuculi was of opinion That the opportunity was over slipt which should at first have been peâ—formed rather by way of surprize than open Batâ—el before the Ottoman Army had arrived to its full numbers consisting now of an hundred thousand fighting men To which reasons Serini replied That the Christian Cause and the States and Confines of the Empire were not to be maintained by men that carry their thumbs at their girdles or by Armies made resty with ease and wanton with luxury That those Armies were raised not to consume and exhaust the Revenues of their Princes and Exchequers of their States without making satisfactory amends by a valiant defence of that Interest which they owned That the Enemy had not been before that time attempted was no fault or neglect of his who under the very Walls of Kanisia resolved to give them Battel but that the other Generals supposed it more prudence and caution to protract the Engagement till his Arrival who being now happily conjoyned with them nothing ought to deter them from a glorious Attempt on the Turks who not consisting of above Thirty thousand men ill disciplined and worse armed were not able to withstand the prowess of their Veterane Army which far exceeded them in number discipline and courage These or such like expressions Serini used and to prove what he averred he dispatched a confident Person of his own who spake naturally the Turkish Language with a Letter to the German Resident then entertained under custody in the Turkish Camp to know of him the true state and number of the Turks which Messenger soon after returned with this short account Nisi memortuum velis amplius non rescribas hic vix sunt triginta millia nec illa satis electa quid vos a pugna deterret Tormenâ—a Arcis nimis in altum exploduntur Which in English is thus Unless you desire my death write not back to me again here are scarce Thirty thousand men and those ill provided what then should deter you from an Engagement The Cannon in the Castle are too high mounted or shoot over Serini gave this Letter to Montecuculi who replied That so soon as General Sporch came up with his Forces he would immediately draw up the Army into Batalia Sporch being arrived he then resolved to expect Marquess Baden and so deferred the Batâ—el from time to time until the Turks advantaging themselves by these delays had worked themselves under ground to the very Walls of the Castle At length Montecuculi entring into Serini's Fort it is not known upon what reasons of jealousie or discontent cleared Serini's Forces of the Garison and dispossessed the Governour which when Serini perceived full of anger and displeasure he quitted the Camp and retired himself to his Residence at Chiacaturno with intent to make his just Appeal and Complainâ— to the Emperor's Court. The Turks availing themselves of these delays and discontents proceeded forward in their work so that having Mined to the very Walls on the 9 th of Iune they blew up one of the half Moons at which the Defendants were so terrified that with amazement they left open one of their Sally Ports at which the Turks entring put the whole Garison into disorder consisting of 1900 fighting men so that now no safety remaining but in flight they forsook their Fort and crouding over the Bridge in confused heaps broke it down with the over-pressure of its burden by fall of which many perished in the Waters and about Three hundred and fifty which remained were cut off by the Sword this was the sate of Serini's Fort built with Art and lost by Cowardice and ill Conduct which the Year beâ—ore only with Twenty Germans and One hundred and fifty Hungarians withstood a most impetuous and fierce storm of the Enemy but now was less tenable than a Palancha tho Garisoned with 1900 Men of whom in this last Assault one alone had Courage to fire his Musket but none adventured to draw a Sword unless certain Voluntiers and French Officers whose Courage only renowned their own Deaths and served to upbraid the Cowardice of their Companions In the Fort were only found five small Field Pieces one whole Cannon a great Mortar Piece and two small ones belonging to Count Serini there were also one Mortar Piece and two small Field Pieces like to those of Serini belonging to the Emperor tho other Guns of weight or value were carried out of the Fort as being judged not long tenable and decreed to be abandoned to the Enemy Serinswar being thus taken was immediately demolished by the Vizier and razed to the Ground either because he
de deux demy ecus les ayant divisez en trois sortes des riches de moyenne condition des pauvres oté toutes les autres Impositions Ce qui â—uy ferà ramasser des tresgrandes sommes d'Argent J'envoye cellecy par la Valachie la Transylvanie je vous prie Monsieur de me faire l'honneur par le même chemin d'un petit mot de rescription Ce que j'attendray avec impatience demeurant Monsieur Votre tres humble Serviteur COLYER A Péra di Constantinople le dernier de Mars 1691. In this manner Mr. Herbert came provided to Belgrade with Instructions for prosecution of the Treaty which Sir William Hussey had begun but he soon found that the minds of the Turks were not as yet inclined to a Peace and that all his labours and endeavours would prove ineffectual whilst the Turks harkned to the Suggestions of the French who had now got so far into their good Opinion that their Interests being made the same their Counsels could not be other than sincere and their friendships of advantage and therefore it was apparent to Mr. Herbert that the Turks regarding no other Ambassador but the French resolved to take no other Methods than such as should be dictated by them The case being thus manifest struck Mr. Herbert to the heart who was a hot-spirited and a passionate man and not able to endure to see that a Frenchman which lately came from France named Monsieur Marquis de Lorain placed in the Affections of the Grand Vizier with design to thwart him in all his Negotiations he grew so impatient that his blood boyl'd within him to such a degree as Fevour'd him into a kind of Madness which joyn'd with his old Enemy the Gout he died thereof on the 31st of Iuly 1692. The death of these two Ambassadors so near the time to each other seemed as if there had been a kind of fatallity in the Treaty of Peace or that the French had by unlawful means contrived the death of these Ministers but for my part I have no belief or jealousie thereof not but that the French may be ready enough to enter into such secret Machinations where the Interest of their Monarch may be advanced but like as the Devil when he hath catched a Sinner close within his Clutches is not very hasty to bring him to his end so the French who had wholly possessed themselves of the minds and humours of the Turks had no need of having recourse to facinorous actions which were detestable to God and Man. And thus did the Marquis de Loran remain with the Vizier at Belgrade whilst the late Ambassador Monsieur de Chauteauneuf returned by order of the King into France The Campagne as we have said being ended nothing of action happened during the residence of the Vizier at Belgrade who kept himself wholly on the defensive and lest the Germans should think fit to attack his Forces which lay encampt on the other side of the Rivers near Belgrade he made two Bridges one over the Save and the other over the Danube over which upon news that the Christians were advancing he caused his Army to retreat and to pass the Bridges into the Town where their Head-quarters were kept during the Winter season and thus all Military Actions ceasing license was given to the Militia of Anatolia to return home about the 20th of October unto their own Countries the which was more readily granted in regard to the great Mutinies and Insurrection of the People in the Lesser Asia and to the Venetian Successes at Sea in the Archipelago During the whole course of this Years Actions the Venetians were unprosperous their Design upon Canea failing them which they had streightly besieged for the space of a full Month and had hopes of carrying the Place had not a Thousand French leavied for Service of the Venetians deserted and at their first landing gone over to the Turks by whose assistance the Venetians were obliged most shamefully to raise the Siege with the loss of many Men and of most of their Cannon which was the substance and sum of all their Expedition for this Year 1692. About the end whereof the Grand Seignior had two Sons born to him who were Twins the one named Ibrahim and the other Selim on which occasion great rejoycing being shown amidst thereof a dreadful fire happened at Constantinople which began at Balasa and consumed above 4000 Houses with about 2000 Shops This Fire happened in three several places of the City one of which being near the Great Mosche of Sultan Soliman one of the Menarees or Steeples thereof fell to the ground which the People interpreted for an evil Omen and Presage for the succeeding Year The Grand Vizier being returned from the War towards the end of October gave an account to the Grand Seignior of the state of the War and that he had given the Command of the Army unto Lame Husaein Pascia and odered him with 10000 men to watch the Motions of the Enemy and especially to take care of Temeswaer Anno 1693. THIS Year begins with the Death of the deposed Sultan Mahomet IV. who died of a Dropsie on the 4th a Ianuary year 1693. 1693 which had like to have produced a Peace for the great Officers of the Empire being at that time assembled together at Adrianople a Council was held in which it was debated and concluded that the present state of the Ottoman Empire was such as required a Peace Howsoever another Party prevailed excited by the French Ambassador who very liberally dispensed his Presents amongst the Military Men in whose Hands at that time remained the Balance of War and Peace the which was actuated by two different Principles the one by the Presents given by the French and by the Arrival of several French Officers Engineers Gunners Artificial Fire-workers and some Money distributed amongst the Chief Turkish Officers for carrying on the War. On the other side the Mediators as the English and Hollanders whose Business it was to procure a Peace seemed to over-act their Parts and by their Sollicitations and earnest Importunities enhansed the Price thereof and made the Turks believe that either the Emperor could not subsist without a Peace or that some Fraud lay couched under such Specious and Importunate Pressures My Lord Paget as we have said arriving at Adrianople the 31st of Ianuary and having receiv'd his first Audiences with the Grand Seignior and Vizier he had another on the 14th of March following in Company with the two Ambassadors of Holland Heemskirk and Colyer wholly relating to the Peace at which were present the Chief Officers of the Empire but nothing more was done besides reading their Credentials publickly with the Propositions and so were dismissed for that time without a final Answer telling them that they should receive the same in four or five Days but on the 18th
Pâ—sha of Temiswar Count Serini overthrows a Party of Turks and Tartars Zechâ—hyd revolts to Apafi Oseck The Bridge burned Quinque Ecclesiae taken by Serini Sigeth Besieged The Siege raised Claudiopolis yields it self to Apafi Count Pâ—ter Sâ—â—ini 〈◊〉 the Tuâ—ks in the Streights 〈…〉 The dâ—nger of Serini Serini maâ—eâ— known to the Eâ—peror his design against Kanisia Kanisia besieged The Dieâ— at Ratisbone The strength of the Christian Army Italy England Poland France Count Strozzi's Speech to the French King. Rebellion of the Beghs in Egypt Ibrahim Pasha sined and imprisoned A Dispute between the Mufti and a Shegh Predictions amongst the Turks The Grand Signiors aversion to Constantinople A small Seraglio by that name near Constantinople A Son born to the Grand Signior The Siege of Kanisia * Fifteen English Miles The 〈…〉 â—he 〈◊〉 Aâ—my 〈◊〉 Sâ—râ—zzi slain Serini's Reasons to fight with the Turks The German Residents Letter to Count Serini Montecuculi contrary to the opinion of Serini decâ—â—nes the Battel with the Turks Serini retireâ— from the Warâ— Serinsâ—â—ar taken Reflections on the disgrace of Serini Nitra tâ—ken by â—he Christians The Tâ—rks assault Soise Lewa taken The Pope recals hâ—s Forces from assistanâ—e of the Emperor The Pope supplies the Emperor with Money but not with men Count Soise marches to raise the Siege of Leventz The Turks before Lewa The Christian Army put themselves into Battalia Husaein Pasha routed and â—â—ed Refâ—ge deniâ—d them at Sâ—râ—gonium The Moldaâ—ians 〈◊〉 Valacâ—â—ans return home 〈…〉 Bâ—rcan Barcan burnt The Turks with part of their Army pass the Rab. The Rab swells with immoderate Rains. The Turks vain joy Signifies the Son of a Kul or Slave The defeat given the Turkish Army by the River Rab. Tac. lib. 1. The slâ—â—n on the Turks side Reasons why the Services of Montecuculi were accepted better than those of Serini Sedition in the Turkish Camp. Tac. in Vita Agricola The Grand Signiors hunting at Yamboli Vizier sends for the Princes of Moldavia and Valachia The Princeâ— of Moldavia and Valachia recalled to the Wars Fides Graeca or the honesty of a Greek The reasons which inclined both Parties to Peace The Hungarians oppose the Peace The Emperors Reasons for a Peace The French Army march homeward Serini's Death The Character of Sirini The Vizier sends for his Mother to Belgrade The Blazâ—ng Star. The â—ultâ—ns hatâ—ed to Coâ—sâ—antiâ—â—â—â—â— increases The Sultan seeks to destroy his Bâ—other The Vizier offers to depose the Tartar Chan. The Turkish Ambassadour departs Rumours of the People on occasion of stay of the German Ambassadour Mustapha Pasha's affectation and popularity * It is in the fashion of a Mace which the Turks wear at their Saddles The German Ambassadors Entrance Audiâ—nce given to the German Ambassador The Genoese make Peace with the Turk The Genoese received The Turks resolve to prosecute the War in Candia The G. â—iâ—nior paâ—sionately loves his Queen The Turks prepare for a War on Candia The G. Signior arrives at Constantinople Marquess Villa received into service of the Venetians The Speech of Marquis Villa to the Senate The Reasons why the German Ambassadour interposed not in behalf of Transylvania The German Ambassador's Audience with the Vizier An Ambassadour arrives from France Reflexions of the Turks on the â—mbassy of Monsieur De Ventâ—lay A strange â—â—â—idâ—nt befallen the French Captain of the Mâ—n of War. The French Embassadours second Audience The Grand Signiors Huntings The Nogay Tartar desires Lands of the Grand Signior Marquess Villa suâ—veys the Forts in Dalmatia Spalato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clâ—ssa â—â—bâ—nico * Iune * Sabatai wâ—â—te a Letter to elâ—â—t one maâ—â—ut of every Tribe The Iews â—â—rupâ—e to say the head of Israel 1662 7. Arab. Prov. Arab. Prov. The course of life which Sabatai led after he turned Mahometan The manner of exchange of the Emperors and Turks Ambassadour The â—urks medâ—tate a new War. An Engagement near Canea Marquess Villa lands at the City of Câ—ndia The Venetians incamp The Turks assault them The Turks make another assault The Venetian Camp raised TheGreat Vizier arrives at Thebes Twelve Tâ—rkis◠〈◊〉 taâ—en The Vizier passes over into Candia By the number of Coftans is to be esteemed the honour the Turks bear to one Prince above the other The Polish Ambassadours Audience The Death of the Polish Ambassadour The Revolt of the Pasha of Balsora The disposition of the Turks Camp. The Batteries raised by the Turks The â—irst Mine blown up Two Sallies made by the Christians The Captain-General disarms his Gallies Five Mines the Christians sprang Attempts of the Turks on the side of Panigra Arrival of Gallies from the Pope and Malta Chevalier d'Harcourt An Agent arrives at Candia to treat with the Vizier The Turks assault Panigra The Turks fire a dreadful Mine The Turks spring another Mine Two Mines of the Christians Four Mines and a Sally of the Christians Two Mines of the Christians One Mine of the Christians * Which is their Triumph for Victory The G. Signior sends a Messenger to bring him certain information of the state of his Camp in Candia The Winter causes all Action to cease General Barbaro and Uvertmiller departed from the Army The deaths of Secretary Giavarina and Padavino Formality in making Ianiâ—aries in these days A Fight at Sea. The success of the Turks at Sea. Captain Georgio taken by tâ—e Turks The Turks resolve to make their passage by St Andrea A Sally made by the Christians Another Sally Marquess Villa returns into Italy Causes of Marquess Villa 's departure Marquâ—ss Villa's Speech Marquess St. Andrea visits the Works Some French Gentlemen Adventurers for honour arrive at Candia The Christians overthrow a battery of the Turks A Sâ—llâ— made by the French. The Dukes of Brunswick â—nd Lunenburg sent â—orces to râ—lieve Candia Count Waldeck 〈◊〉 â—f his wouâ—dâ— A Mine of an hundred and sixty Sacks of Powder fired by the Chrians The Christians sally on the side of Sabionera Katirgi-Oglé his original and life The Turks storm three Bastions at once The Female Court sent to Constantinople The Ianisaries jealous of the safety of the Sultans Brothers The Grand Signior displeased with Tobacco An Ambassador sent from Venice French 〈◊〉 â—f 〈◊〉 sail to Constantinople The Grand Signior sends a Messenger to the French King. Sir Daniel Harvey Ambassador from his Majesty A Relation of the state of Candia toward the end of this year The story of the false Reaux or Temins The Grand Signior designs to cut off his Brothers Tac. Lib. 6. The Turks storm again the Foâ—t of St. Andrea Succours sent out of Christendom The French Fleet loose from Tolon They arrive at Candia The French Forces landed A Council of War held in Candia The order of the Christian Army to make their Sally The Christians sally at the Gate St. George The Christians fall upon the Turks The Christian Army in confusion French Officers slain The French leaue the Town The Turks make an assault A Council