the midst of their Enemies and as for Belgiosa himself he strangely escaped out of the Battel and saved himself by flying to Veradin The victorious Rebel after the Battel instead of praising God sacrificed to the Devil by sending a great part of the Ensigns by him gained unto the Visier Bassa with a thousand Praises of his Glory for supporting of him in his Rebellion and vaunting much of this his Victory gave him withal to understand That he had slain above six thousand of his Enemies This Victory gotten together with the humble Submission of Botscay obtained of the Great Sultan That from thenceforth he should be stiled by the Name of the Prince of Transilvania with a farther Charge from him to do the uttermost of his endeavour for the subduing unto his Obeisance the rest of Transilvania promising plentifully to supply his Wants both with Men and Money and out of hand to send him three thousand Tartars to his Aid And indeed this was a very great and bloody Battel fought from the first break of the Day until eleven a clock at Noon but whether so many were slain there or no it cannot certainly be told for that divers of them who were said to be slain and so accounted among the dead had hid themselves in the Wood there by and some others of them by some other means escaped Death also Petsie himself had with him when he was taken two Monks whom the Souldiers in despight cut into many pieces and carried him fast bound in Chains to Derritza to be there cured of the dangerous Wounds by him in the Battel received But as for Pallas Lippa who being wounded was taken Prisoner with Petsie he was afterwards by Botscay appointed his Lieutenant General and so by his Commandment was publickly proclaimed as he which was desirous to take upon him the defence of the reformed Religion and of such as were willing to profess the same who forthwith made a general Proclamation That all they which were desirous of the liberty of Conscience and to live free from the Superstitions of the Roman Church should repair unto him as unto their Head and Chieftain ready to entertain them and to allow to every one of them five Dollars a Month for their Pay. Upon which Proclamation made a great Multitude of Men upon the sudden resorted unto him so that in a short time he had following of him ten thousand Haiducks beside a number of other of the common rascal People yea almost all the Gentlemen of the Country repairing unto him bound themselves by Oath to him and one of them to another That as they would not take up Arms to fight against the Christian Emperour so they would not submit themselves unto the Turk but only stand upon the defence of their Religion and the liberty of Conscience The Rebel Botscay thus wonderfully increased in Strength and Number beset almost all the Passages of the Country and with the Sword of Rebellion in his hand and his Souldiers following him commanded the Cities still as he went to yield unto him but hearing that Belgiosa was after the late Overthrow gone from Veradin to Cassovia where his Wife lay and being come thither to have been by the Citizens rejected who would not only not receive him into their City but turned his Wife also out of the City unto him he with a great Army coming thither took the City without resistanâ—â— the Citizens for the most part enclining unto him of which City being possessed he forthwith changed both the Religion and Civil Government thereof slew part of such as were of the Romish Religion and thrust the rest out of the City with all the Church-men took the Bishop and the Emperour's Treasurer Prisoners and so changed the whole Government of the Town up-side down The only man he stood in fear of was Belgiosa for whom he laid wait by all means he could to have taken him with a purpose to have used him most hardly if he had fallen into his hands These things thus done in Transilvania and in Hungary the Visier Bassa being about to return to Constantinople to grace that little which he had done this Year in Hungary and to avoid the suspicion of his evil Success in that Province borrowed of Botscay the rest of the Ensigns together with Petsie and other the noble Christian Captives which he had taken in the late Battel with Belgiosa which Ensigns and Prisoners he confidently afterwards caused to be presented unto the Great Sultan Achmat as taken by himself and in recompence thereof left three thousand Turks and Tartars with the Rebel to aid him in his Wars both in Transilvania and Hungary Basta the Emperour's Lieutenant in Hungary and Governour of Transilvania hearing of the Stirs and Troubles of late raised in both those Countries by Botscay and his rebellious Followers and having as he thought best set all things in order again at Strigonium marched thence with his Army being fourteen thousand strong towards Cassovia with a purpose to have suppressed the Rebellion in the upper Hungary before it should have spread farther to the endangering of the whole State of both those Countries as afterward it did Howbeit before he could come thither the Rebels after the taking of Cassovia being wonderfully increased both in Strength and Number had taken in most of the strong Towns and Places in the upper Hungary the People almost generally now favouring their Quarrel carrying with it the Face of Religion with the suppressing of the German Government both things unto them much pleasing And now hearing that Belgiosa a man of them most hated being as we said shut out of Cassovia was fled into the Castle of Zipze they by Letters required of Turson Captain of the Castle to have him delivered unto them to be according to his Deserts punished promising withal to do Turson himself no harm so that he would take part with them in the defence of their Religion and of the liberty of Conscience which if he should refuse to do yet that they would give him free liberty to depart whither he would out of his Castle and in safety to conduct him thither so that he would forthwith resolve what course he would take but if he should of this his Offer mislike also then they threatned to spoil his Country to kill his People to raze his Castle and to make himself an Example unto others Wherewith for all that he nothing moved refused to deliver unto them Belgiosa the Man whom they so much desired or yet to accept of any of their other Offers Whereupon the Rebels with great labour repairing the broken way betwixt Cassovia and the Castle and bringing certain Pieces of great Ordnance from Cassovia in great number came and straitly besieged the Castle With whose Attempts the valiant Captain nothing moved with his thundring Shot out of the Castle so welcomed them that having thereby received great harm they thought it
the setting forward of the Emperor Fredericks Son-in-Law for the recovery of his Wives Right to the Kingdom of Ierusalem which although he solemnly vowed at such time as he with all Princely Magnificence married the said Lady at Rome yet otherwise letted with troubles nearer home performed not the same untill almost seven years after all which time the Christians in Syria enjoying the fruit of the late concluded Peace for eight years lived in great rest and quietness where so leaving them until the arising of new troubles let us in the mean time return again unto the troubled affairs of the Turks Greeks and Latines at Constantinople and in the lesser Asia Henry the Second Emperor of the Latines at Constantinople after he had as is aforesaid with much ado repressed the Fury of the Bulgarians and Scythes his barbarous Enemies and so given peace to the miserable Country of Thracia died having reigned a most troublesome Reign about the space of eleven years Afteâ— whom succeeded Peter Count of Ausserre his Son-in-Law third Emperor of the Latines in Constantinople who in the beginning of his Empire willing to gratifie the Venetians and to revenge himself of Theodorus Angelus a great Prince of Epirus Competitor of his Empire besieged him in Dirrachium which strong City the said Theodorus had but a little before surprised belonging unto the Venetian Seigniory At which Siege Peter the Emperor lying was so cunningly by the wilie Greek used that a Peace was upon most honourable conditions betwixt them concluded and a familiar kind of Friendship joyned Insomuch that the Emperor at his request not well advised came unto him as his Guest who now of his Enemy became his Host entertaining him with all the formalities that feigned Friendship could devise But having him now in his power and fearing no harm regarding neither the Laws of Fidelity or Hospitality he most traiterously slew him as he was yet in the midst of his Banquet Of whose end some others yet otherwise report as that he should by the same Theodorus have been intercepted about the pleasant Woods of Tempe in Thessalia as he was travelling from Rome to Constantinople and so afterwards to have been by him cruelly put to death Of whose misfortune Tepulus Governour of Constantinople understanding for the more safety of the State in that vacancy of the Greek Empire made peace with Theodorus for five years and the Turks for two Shortly after came Robert the Son of the aforesaid unfortunate Emperor Peter with his Mother to Constantinople and there in his Fathers stead was solemnly saluted Emperor but not with much better luck than was his Faâ—her before him for shortly after his coming he took to Wife a fair young Lady the Daughter of a great rich and noble Matron of the City but before betrothed unto a gallant Gentleman a Burgundian born with whom the old Lady broke her promise and more careful of her Daughters preferment than fidelity gave her in marriage unto the new Emperor The joy of which so great an Honour was in short time converted not into a deadly heaviness but even into death it self for the young Burgundian more enraged with the wrong done him than discouraged with the greatness and power of the Emperor consorted himself with a company of lusty tall Souldiers acquainted with his purpose and awating his time when the Emperor was absent by night entred the Court with his desperate Followers and first meeting with the beautiful young Empress cut off her Nose and her Ears and afterward threw her old Mother into the Sea and so fled out of the City into the Woods and Mountains with those desperate cut-throats the ministers of his barbarous cruelty The Emperor pierced to the heart with this so great a disgrace shortly after went to Rome to what purpose was not certainly known but in returning back again through Achaia he there died leaving behind him his young Son Baldwin yet but a Child begotten by his first Wife to succeed him in the Empire who by the name of Baldwin the Second was crowned the fifth and last Emperor of the Latines in Constantinople And for because he was as yet but young and unfit for the Government he was by the consent of the Nobility affianced and afterward married unto Martha the younger Daughter of Iohn Brenne King of Ierusalem a worthy old Captain but as then Governour of Ravenna which City he being certain years before sent for out of France for that purpose by Honorius the Pope he notably defended against the Emperor Frederick his Son-in-Law but that affinity was before broken off by the death of the said Emperors Wife who now sent for out of Italy unto Constantinople had committed to his charge and protection both the Person and Empire of the young Emperor Baldwin now his Son-in-Law Which great and heavy charge he for certain years after worthily and faithfully discharged until such time as that Baldwin was himself grown able to take upon him the government Now although the Imperial City of Constantinople with the Countries of Thracia Thessalia Macedonia Achaia Peloponesus and the rest of the Provinces of Greece were all or for the most part under the Government of Baldwin the Emperor the Venetians or other the inferior Latine Princes yet were the oppressed Greeks the natural Inhabitants thereof in heart not theirs as abhorring nothing more than that their forreign government but wholly devoted to their own natural Princes Theodorus Lascaris and Alexius Comnenus the one reigning at Nice in Bithynia the other at Trapezond in Pontus both called by the Greeks Emperors and so of them generally reputed Lascaris of the two the better beloved and by far of greatest power had during the time of his Government fought many an hard Battel as is in part before declared and strongly fortified his chief Cities against the invasion of his Enemies as well the Turks as the Latines and so having as it were erected a new Empire in Asia and there reigned eighteen years died leaving behind him one Iohn Ducas Batazes that had married the fair Lady Irene his Daughter and Heir to succed him in the Greek Empire in Asia This Iohn was a man of a great Wit and Spirit and of more gravity for his years than was Theodorus his Father-in-Law never undertaking any thing before he had thereof well considered and once resolved not omitting or neglecting any thing for the performance thereof So that it was not unfitly said of the Greeks The planting of this new Empire to have required the celerity of Lascaris but the stay thereof to have been the gravity of Ducas He in the beginning of his Reign in very short time having set all things in good order greatly augmented his Legions and shooting at a fairer mark than the Empire he held even the Imperial City it self and the recovery of all Thracia and Grecia out of the hands of the Latines which could not be done
great Preparation made by Amurath had drawn into the society of this War the King of Bosna as is aforesaid with Vulcus Prince of Macedonia his Son in law who both brought unto him great Aid he had also by his Embassadors procured great Supplies from other Christian Kings and Princes out of Valachia Hungaria Croatia Sâ—lavonia Albania Bulgaria and Italy besides great numbers of other voluntary devout Christians which all assembled and met together did in number far exceed the great Army of the Turks With this Army Lazarus the Despot encamped upon the side of the River Morova the greater not far from whence stood the strong Castle of Sarkive which Alis Bassa had of late taken from Sasmenos the Bulgarian Prince standing as it were betwixt Bulgaria and Servia this Castle being now possessed of the Turks was thought by Lazarus dangerous to his Country who therefore sent one Demetrius a right valiant Captain with certain Companies of select Men to take in the same The name of this Captain Demetrius was a general terror unto the Turks for the harm he had done them so that they in the Castle hearing that he was come without further resistance yielded the same unto him Whereof Amurath understanding sent Eine and Sarutze Bassa to recover the same but Lazarus doubting that the Castle would hardly be kept in that dangerous War sent Vulcus his Son in law with twenty thousand Men to bring away all that was therein and in the City near unto it lest it should become a prey unto the greedy Turks which he accordingly did and at the same time rased both the Castle and the City before the coming of Iaxis Beg sent from Amurath to have done the same exploit which he coming thither found already done to his hand by Vulcus As Amurath was marching towards Servia Seratze and Custendil two Christian Princes his Tributaries met him with their Forces whom he caused to march before him as his Guids and passing through Custendil his Country was there refreshed with plenty of all things necessary until at length passing the River of Morova the less he drew so near to the Plains of Cossova where the Christian Army lay that he with his Son Bajazet from a little Hill took full view of the Christian Camp which was so great that it covered all those large Plains from side to side and so daunted Amurath as that returning to his Army he presently entred into a great consultation with his greatest Captains and Commanders what course to take against such a puissant Enemy These great Armies being now come so nigh together as that they might the one well descry the other Amurath had purposed the same day to have given the Christians battel but being disswaded by Eurenoses both for that it was extream hot and his Souldiers wearied with travel he rested that night The next morning as soon as it was day he put his Army in order of battel placing his Son Bajazet with Eurenoses and Eine Beg Subbassa in the right Wing his youngest Son Iacup with Sarutzâ— Bassa in the left Wing the main battel he led himself Lazarus in the mean time had also set his Army in good order giving the charge of the right Wing to Vulcus his Son in law the left Wing was led by the King of Bosna and his Sons in the main battel stood Lazarus himself the Italians Valachians Hungarians Bohemians and Bulgarians he placed in both Wings It is thought greater Armies than those two had seldem before met in Europe Lazarus as the Turkish Histories report but how truly I know not having in his Army five hundred thousand men and Amurath scarce half so many To begin the battel Amurath had drawn a thousand of his best Archers under the leading of Malcozzeus out of the right Wing of his Army and the like number of Archers out of the left under the conduct of one Mustapha which so placed on both sides of the Army as he thought best Eurenoses a man of great experience told Amurath That the Christians were for the most part well and strongly armed and shouldring close together in their charge would be like a Rock of Iron unable to be pierced but if in joyning the battel he would a little retire the Christians following upon good hope would so loose their close standing the chief part of their strength and leave an entrance for his Men. Upon which resolution Amurath commanded the Archers to give the first charge which they couragiously performed At which time the Turks Army gave ground a little which the Christians perceiving with great force assailed the left Wing of their Army and after a hard and cruel fight put the same to flight which Bajazet seeing with such fury renewed the battel that the Turks which before as men discouraged fled in the left Wing began now to turn again upon their Enemies and the Christians having as they thought already got the Victory were to begin a great battel In which bloody fight many thousands fell on both sides the brightness of the Armor and Weapons was as it had been the Lightning the multitude of Launces and other Horsemens Staves shadowed the light of the Sun Arrows and Darts fell so fast that a man would have thought they had poured down from Heaven the noise of the Instruments of War with the neighing of Horses and out-cries of Men was so terrible and great that the wild Beasts of the Mountains stood astonied therewith and the Turkish Histories to express the terror of the day vainly say that the Angels in Heaven amazed with that hideous noise for that time forgot the heavenly Hymns wherewith they always glorifie God. About noon time of the day the fortune of the Turks prevailing the Christians began to give ground and at length betook themselves to plain flight whom the Turks with all their force pursued and slew them down right without number or mercy In which battel Lazarus the Despot himself was also slain Howbeit some Histories report otherwise as that he with his Son were taken Prisoners and by and by afterwards in revenge of Amurath his death cruelly slain othersome also reporting that he died in Prison Amurath after this great Victory with some few of his chief Captains taking view of the dead bodies which without number lay on heaps in the field like Mountains a Christian Souldier sore wounded and all bloody seeing him in staggering manner arose as if it had been from death out of a heap of slain men and making towards him for want of strength fell down divers times by the way as he came as if he had been a drunken man at length drawing nigh unto him when they which guarded the Kings Person would have stayed him he was by Amurath himself commanded to come nearer supposing that he would have craved his life of him Thus the half dead Christian pressing near unto him as if he would for honour sake have kissed his
Christians besides the noise of Trumpets Drums and other instruments oâ— War with the horrible cry of the hellish Turks was so great and hideous that it seemed as if Heaven and Earth should have gon together nothing was to be heard but the very terror of the Ear nothing to be seen but death and the very instruments of death And now in this extremity a fearful cry ran through the City That without present help all would be lost at the great Gate whereupon not only they which were whole which were the fewest in number but they also which lay wounded or sick in their beds chearing up themselves with Weapons in their Hand ran with speed to the place where the danger was chusing rather there to die than to be slain in their beds Thus whilst the Christians of all sorts and from all parts of the City ran desperately to the Gate the Turks were on every side hardly pressed and in great number slain yet fresh men still coming up as if they had sprung out of the Earth the deadly â—â—ght was by them still maintained for the Turks on the one side for fear of the Tyrant laboured with might and main to win the City and the Christians on the other knowing no hope left for them if they should be overcome with no less resolution defended the same In this obstinacy of mind many fell on both sides sometimes the Turks seemed to have the better and were straitway by the Christians put to the worse Which manner of mortal Fight with doubtful event was continued most part of that day until that at length many being on both parts slain and the rest for the most part sore wounded and hurt the fury of the Assault began to asswage for the Turks now weary of that long and deadly Fight and fainting with their wounds had no great stomach to mount up the Rampiers where they saw no hope to prevail but all things threatning present death Mahomet beholding the wonderful slaughter of his men and that having done what was possible for men to do they now fought as men discouraged and in despair of Victory himself caused a Retreat to be sounded which the Turks no sooner heard but that they left the Assault and without order ran to their Tents as men half scared out of their Wits Of this Victory the Christians as they had good cause rejoyced greatly yet was this joy mingled with much sorrow and heaviness for the loss of such worthy men as were slain in that Assault many of whose bodies they were glad to gather up by piecemeal some here some there some cleaving on this Wall and some on that which they as the time would give leave honourably buried with the rest of the slain At which time also they with all diligence and expedition repaired their breaches and put all things in such readiness as if they should have presently received a fresh Assault Mahomet wonderfully grieved with the shameful dishonour and great loss he had received at the last Assault repented himself that ever he had taken the matter in hand wishing that he had never heard of the name of Scodra and in his choler and frantick rage most horribly blasphemed against God most wickedly saying That it were enough for him to have care of Heavenly things and not to cross him in his Worldly Actions in which fury he descended from the Mount and got into his Tent where he again tormented himself with his melancholy Passions by the space of two days wherein he would neither be spoke withal or admit any man to his presence Upon the third day he called a general Counsel of his Commanders and best Souldiers and thereupon openly before them all said That he was determined to give the Enemy a fresh Assault for that being weakned with so many Assaults he could not possibly be able to hold out another and therefore hoped for an easie Victory But he had no sooner so said but that all they that heard him cried out with one voice to the contrary saying That it was not by any means to be attempted for as much as his best Souldiers were already slain and the greater part of them that were left either sore wounded or brought to that weakness that they were not able to do any more service and that therefore it were better for them to kill one another or else himself to kill them one by one than to expose them to be so shamefully butchered by the Christians In this diversity of opinions Achmetes Bassa the great Champion of the Turks a man reverend and of great authority for his birth years and rare experience in Martial Affairs and one by whom Mahomet had done great matters standing up with pleasing speech calmed his furious mind and with substantial reasons perswaded him to desist from that his intended purpose and to take another surer course as followeth A notable Speech of the great Bassa Achmetes YOUR great Valour and worthy Praises invincible Emperor said he who is able to express the greatness whereof the mind of man cannot conceive and my dull Spirit but wonder at my Tongue faltereth to speak of them neither would this time serve so much as to recount them It is of all men deemed a thing of great honour most dread Soveraign when a Prince hath received a Kingdom from his Ancestors to be able in safety to keep and defend the same greater than this is it honourably to increase and augment it so left but of a small thing by worthy prowess to bring it to the highest type of worldly honour is of all other things the greatest Which most rare excellency all men worthily ascribe unto your perfection and felicity and I of all others can thereof bring the most assured testimony who have oftentimes heard it of mine Ancestors which following the Othoâ—an Princes out of Asia into Europe that your worthy Predecessors at their first coming into Europe without offence be it said possessed but a corner thereof to whom you afterward by divine appointment succeeding have adjoined so many Provinces Kingdoms and Empires as were tedious to rehearse them For who can worthily express how you have in Europe subdued Constantinople the Imperial City of the East Empire with all Thracia Achaia Grecia Peloponnesus Boeotia Thebes and the noble City of Athens the Mother and Nurse of all good Learning The Empire of Trapezond with the Emperor thereof is by you overthrown The Kingdoms of Servia and Bosna with the Princes of Peloponnesus are by you gloriously vanquished You have at your command twelve Kingdoms in Asia the lesser Pontus Bithynia Cappadocia Paphlagonia Cilicia Pamphilia Lycia Caria Lydia Phrygia Nicomedia and Nicea with the famous City of Prusa Besides these Ionia Doris Smyrna Colophon Ephesus Miletum Halicarnassus Pergamus with the Country of Taurica are under your Subjection The great Country of Armenia hath felt your force The Islands of Lesbos Chios and Euboea are parts of your
Empire What should I speak of infinite People and Nations by you most victoriously vanquished This may suffice for all That you have gained from the Christians twenty Provinces and two hundred great Cities For it were too long to rehearse the Mahometan Kings and Princes by you also vanquished In all your expeditions all things have yet given place to your fortune The ancient Monuments may now cease to extol the praises of Caesar Scipio Pyrrhus Hannibal and other Chieftains of Rome and forraign Nations for why they are all inferiour to you both for Victories and Countries subdued The Othoman Family is undoubtedly fatal for Soveraignty all the World shall in short time come under your government and all Nations shall serve you As for this Town of Scodra let it not so much grieve you worldly things as you know do ofentimes deceive our expectation in them Fortune beareth great sway Yet for this matter quiet your self for I dare gage my Faith unto your Imperial Majesty that I will in short time find means that this City shall stand at your devotion Did not I of late bring into your subjection the impregnable City of Croia which you so long desired But whereas you would now again forthwith attempt to win it by Assault I therein crave your pardon in that I cannot be of that opinion but must needs think far otherwise for to attempt War and to be overthrown is an easie matter for every one to do but to vanquish the Enemy and to carry away the Triumph that right few men know He that consulteth of such great and weighty matters ought to be free both from fury and desire both evil Counsellors The Christians of Scodra are not in my opinion to be again assaulted for in so doing you shall but lose your labour For if you could not subdue them your Army being then fresh and strong how shall you now overcome them with much fewer and they wounded weak and feeble I have viewed the whole Camp and searched every Tent and found no place no tent yea scarcely any cabin without groaning sighing weeping or wailing in every place was heaviness sorrow mourning and death it self for in the last Assault you lost thirty thousand and more of your best Souldiers many more are grievously wounded and maimed none but he carrieth about him some sign that he was there few or none there be that dare again mount the Hill to give a fresh Assault they are all so affraid and discouraged Whom when I demanded how so great a fear was come upon them and what was the cause they had so lost their wonted Courage they answered me That it was the look even the very look of them of Scodra whose Eyes did seem unto them to burn and sparkle with fire their stern and terrible countenance said they have struck this terror into us Wherefore I think it not good to give a fresh Assault with men so dismaied but rather to use policy and delay against such resolute Enemies This City of Scodra is the Eye and Head of all this Province which the Venetians have notably fortified and planted with store of Ordnance and of all things else necessary for defence thereof but especially with most valiant Souldiers of purpose chosen out of many of their Garrisons for defence of this City You have not now to do with the weak and effeminate People of Asia but with the hard and rough People of Epirus And â—ou know most mighty Emperor the strength and courage of this Nation it is now thirty years that you made War against this People and have not yet altogether subdued them and how dangerous and chargeable this War hath been unto you who knoweth not It is now six months since we came first before this City we have intrenched our selves round about it we have day and night laid hard Siege unto it we have battered it of long with eleven Canons I speak not of other smaller Pieces or Engines of War with all kinds of Shot and Fire-works and whatsoever else we could devise We have many times to our cost assaulted it what could be done by force strength or multitude of valiant men is already done in the former Assaults Nothing hath been left unattempted no policy no direction hath wanted in your Leaders neither courage in your Souldiers What should I recount the innumerable great Shot or speak of our Arrows and Darts delivered into the City as showers of Hail Did all this or any thing else we could do any thing terrifie these Defendants Were they not nay are they not still ready with great assurance and Courage at all assaies to encounter us You take a wrong course by force to constrain them they have taken upon them the defence of this place and are not thence to be removed there shall you be sure still to find them either alive or dead and what account they make of their lives you see they will sell them unto us dear for their Country and prefer an honourable death before a servile life Wherefore against men so sâ—t down policy is to be used and them whom we cannot by force subdue let us by delay and time overcome If you will win Scodra block it up build strong Forts in places convenient round about it and furnish them with good Souldiers make a bridge over Boliana with a strong Castle on either side to stop the passage which done besiege the other weaker Cities of the Venetians which are as it were the Limbs of Sâ—odra and subdue the Country round about which will be no hard matter for you to do being Master of the Field so must Scodra at length of necessity yield unto you as of late did Croia iâ—forced thereunto by Famine Thus may you in safety without slaughter of your People come to the full of your desires The wholesome Counsel of the Bassa so well pleased Mahomet himself and the rest there present that the Assault was laid aside and present order taken for the speedy execution of that which was so well by him plotted Whereupon the Bassa of Constantinople with his Forces was sent to Zabiache a City in the borders of Dalmatia standing upon the Lake of Scutary not far from Ascrivium which in few days was yielded unto him The Bassa possessed of the City thrust out all the Inhabitants and leaving therein a Garrison of Turks returned again to the Camp at Scodra At the same time the great Bassa of Asia was also sent by Mahomet against Drivasto a City also of the Venetians which when he had besieged and sore battered by the space of sixteen days the great Tyrant came thither in person himself and the next day after his coming took the City without any great resistance Such as he found upon the Walls he put to the Sword of the rest he took three hundred away with him to the Camp at Scodra and there in the face of the City caused them all to be cruelly slain of
difficulty by steep and broken ways clamber up the high Mountains as oftentimes it falleth out that both the strength of mens legs and other their wonted forces fail them most when surprised and overcome with suddain fear they desire to run and fly fastest The Turks having them in chase had the killing of them until the going down of the Sun. The Horsemen with the King upon their swift Horses well acquainted with those Rocks and rough Ways with little loss retired themselves into the further and stronger places of the Mountains Aladeules after this discomfiture finding himself in all things far inferior to his Enemy thought it best by protracting the War to weary him out wherefore as the Turks pursued him and burnt the poor Country Cottagess standing in their way he still fled from Mountain to Mountain never offering Battel or shewing himself but in places of great disadvantage and therefore Selymus fearing lest in that barren rough and unknown Country he should either want Victual or by some other means be entrapped if he should still with his whole Army follow after his strong Enemies upon the seventh day left off to pursue them any further And encamping himself in the most convenient place of that Country sent Sinan Bassa with his light Horsemen who carrying with them certain days Victuals should still at the heels follow the Enemy and with all speed and policy possible hunt after the King himself Selymus in the mean time curiously inquiring of the Country Captives after the strength of Aladeules and what means he had to maintain the War found that he had taken with him his best men both Horse and Foot and had commanded the Country People to forsake the Villages of purpose to leave all desolate to the Enemy and having surely intrenched himself upon a certain strong Rock whither he had before conveied great store of Provision was resolved not to give Battel unto his Enemies until he had drawn them into the impregnable Straits of the Mountains where their huge multitude should little avail them but to increase their own loss Another cause there was also as they said for that he feared to be betrayed by Alis Beg his Kinsman General of his Horsemen who first fled in the late Battel whose unfaithfulness and hatred might seem to proceed of a just ground for that Aladeules had in former time treacherously murthered his Father upon a jealous suspition of his aspiring to the Kingdom Selymus understanding all this caused the Captives to have their Irons struck off and instead of their Gyves lading them with Gifts and Promises sent them to Alis Beg with secret Letters and Rewards to perswade him in so fit a time to revenge his Fathers death which thing if he would perform by some notable exploit upon Aladeules he should both purchase unto himself great credit with Selymus and also the Kingdom These homely Messengers according as was given them in charge having imparted the matter to Sinan Bassa within few days had so wrought that Alis Beg whom the desire of a Kingdom together with Selymus his Rewards prickt forward to seek revenge was easily drawn to joyn hands with Selymus And when he could no other way hurt Aladeules who mistrusting all things warily looked unto himself he found the means to go over to Sinan Bassa carrying after him a great part of Aladeules his best Horsemen by whose means the rest also which remained being with Rewards corrupted one Company after another came at last all over unto the Bassa Aladeules circumvented with this unexpected Treachery which never before thought it possible that his Men should all so suddainly have forsaken him and revolted to the Turks was now glad to repose all his hope in secret flight But Sinan Bassa and Alis Beg hardly pursuing him as he fled through the Mountains hiding himself in Rocks and the thick Woods at last drew him out of a Cave being betraied by the Country Peasants Aladeules being brought to Selymus was within a few days after put to death and his head in great derision afterwards carried about through all Asia the less and afterwards by way of barbarous ostentation sent by Selymus to the Senate of Venice as a loathsome testimony of his Victory Aladeules thus dead Selymus reduced all his Kingdom to the form of a Province which he divided into three parts and after the manner of the Turkish Government appointed to every paâ—t a Sanzack yet so that Alis Beg should be chief over the rest with such Sovereignty as that he wanted nothing of a King but the name only And for the better Government of all things in that new gained Kingdom he left Sinan Bassa there all the rest of that Summer with commandment that after he had set all things in good order he should winter at Iconium and he himself with a small Train returned to Constantinople for he had heard that whilst he was busied in his Wars against Hysmael and Aladeules in Armâ—nia that the Hungarians had made divers incursions into Servia and spoiled that Country Wherefore for fear of losing Samandria which standing near to Danubius for the convenient situation thereof is reputed the Bulwark of Servia and Thracia he sent Ionuses Bassa then Governor of Bosna with eight thousand Horsemen who passing the River Savus entred into Croatia as far as Catinum and at the same time transported another Army over Danubius into Hungary to the intent that the Hungarians at one instant beset with double danger should be inforced to fear their own State and withall to shew unto the World of what Strength and Power the Othoman Emperors were Deeming it to concern much both for the present and the time to come to the daunting of the Christians if he should by his happy Attempts make it known that he could at once easily and readily maintain so many and so puissant Armies and wage so great Wars in divers parts of the World and so far distant one from another In the end of the year when he had thus with double invasion repressed the Hungarians he spent the Winter following at Hadrianople and Constantinople in making of greater preparation for War than ever he had before from the beginning of his Reign For he was advertised that the great Monarchs of the North his Neighbours namely Maximilian the Emperor Uladislaus King of Hungary and Sigismundus King of Polonia with the Princes of Germany had combined themselves together to make War upon him But after he had learned by his sure Intelligencers whom he had with great charge sent into all parts of Europe diligently to observe what was done in the Courts of those great Princes that all the great meetings of the Christian Princes proved nothing but glorious Words and sumptuous Banquets he being rid of that vain fear God so appointing turned himself and all those his wonderful preparations again toward the East to the great quiet of Christendom in general Yet lest
returned to the Fleet at Corcyra not repenting him of his journey for that he had well viewed the Straits of that Bay and all the Enemies Fleet riding at Anchor within it Upon the return of the Patriarch and relation made what he had both done and seen the great Commanders of the Christian Fleet entred into Counsel what course were best to take for their better proceeding in that great action Gonzaga the Viceroy General of the Land Forces was of opinion That it were best to land the Souldiers and great Ordnance and with all their Force to assault the Castle of Prevesa which once taken and their Ordnance there planted the Enemies Fleet might in thâ— Bay be utterly defeated for all that passage to Sea might easily be taken from them by sinking of one of the great Ships in the mouth of the Strait and by moaring there of three great Galleons full of Artillery so that if Barbarussa would desperately adventure to come out he must needs be sunk in the mouth of the Bay. Whereunto Auria replied That Gonzaga his Counsel was in words and shew glorious but to put in execution most dangerous for that first to land the Souldiers and great Artillery he said was a thing too too full of hazard and peril for it was to be thought that the Turks in Aetolia would as they had before done come with speed with their Horsemen to relieve the besieged in the Castle whose Force the Christian Footmen could hardly abide Besides that if the Fleet should by force of Weather be constrained to leave that Coast as it well might Autumn now coming fast on after the Souldiers were landed From whence should they then get Victual in the Enemies Country or what relief should they hope for if they should hap to be distressed being on every side beset with their Enemies and their Friends by Tempest driven from them Wherefore he thought it best if the Enemy could not be drawn out of the Bay to Battel to go directly into the Bay of Naupactum and to take that Town which was not greatly fortified and to ransack and spoil all the Towns even to the bottom of the Bay of Corinth Which the Grecians in the Fleet said might easily be done by taking of which course it might so fall out that Barbarussa moved with the danger of his Friends would for shame come out and joyn with them in Battel This Counsel of Auria was best liked both of Capellius and the Patriarch being far more desirous to fight with their Enemies at Sea than at Land. Auria having put in order his Fleet came to Prevesa and so to the Strait of the Bay of Ambracia where he so placed the whole Fleet which was in number two hundred and fifty Sail that it might easily of the Enemy be numbred Which sight as it was reported wonderfully troubled Barbarussa who although he was of a couragious disposition and such a man as greatly feared not either the Valour or Martial Discipline of the Christians yet was he exceedingly moved with the sight of so great a Fleet so well appointed for a greater had not of long time been seen in the Ionian Sea. So that an Eunuch of Solymans Court sent by him as Barbarussa his Companion seeing him to delay the time as a man half discouraged did with most uncivil and proud words take him up because he would not forthwith go out of the Bay and fight with the Christians which lay at the mouth thereof daring of them wherein he was not as he said to regard his own safety who as a Coward could not Endure sight of the Enemy but the honour of Solyman his Soveraign who would not take it well to have the glory of his name stained with so shameful a delay For if he were a valiant and marâ—ial man as he professed himself to be he ought never to despair of Victory and if it should so fall out that Fortune should frown upon them and not answer to their desires yet should not Solyman therefore want Captains and Souldiers better than they if they were overcome and the Woods of Pontus would afford him Timber enough to build twice so great and strong a Fleet. And for a conclusion the insolent Eunuch willed Barbarussa to beware that whilst he feared a most honourable death which was uncertain though the Battel were lost he drew not upon himself the certain danger of a most shameful death by the displeasure of Solyman At which Speech Barbarussa turning himself about to Salec one of the Arch-Pyrats a famous Seaman said unto him We must for ought that I can see most valiant and faihtful Captain adventure this Battel although it be at too much disadvantage lest haply we perish by the complaints of this barking demy-man And so presently commanded all his Fleet to weigh Anchor at the same time that Auria had hoised sail and was on his way toward the Bay of Naupactus thinking that the Enemy durst not for fear have come out of the Bay of Ambracia Auria keeping on his Course was come to Leucade when the Enemies Fleet was descried out of the top of Bondelmerius Galeon to be come out of the Bay and to make towards them keeping close by the Shore which manner of Course the crafty Turk misdoubting his own strength held of purpose that if he should chance to be overmatched by the Christians he might turn the Prow of his Gallies upon them and running the Poops aground so to land his men and great Ordnance and from Land as he might defend his Fleet accounting it a less loss if the worst should chance to lose the Gallies than the Men. Auria somewhat troubled with this suddain coming out of the Enemy as with a thing which he then least expected yet notably staid himself and commanded all the Fleet to prepare themselves to Battel and to follow his Admiral Gally Now all the Turks Fleet was come into the open Sea in such order that Barbarussa himself was in the middle Battel where his Admiral Gally was to be seen with many purple Flags and Streamers flying gallantly in the Wind on his right hand was Tabaches and Salec on the left both men of great fame every one of them having almost like number of Gallies which were in all an hundred and fifty Unto the middle Battel were joyned two Wings in such order that which way soever the Admiral turned they turning also still represented the form of a flying Eagle so that as Auria himself afterward confessed a more firm or orderly Fleet could not have been brought out by any expert Captain Before the Fleet came about twenty nimble Gallies conducted by Drogut or Dragut an Arch Pyrat famous afterwards for the great harm he did unto the Christians Capellius the Venetian Admiral came in his long Boat to Auria requesting him That he with his Gallies might give the first charge upon the Enemy to whom Auria gave great
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
ready Market caused as great Plenty and abundance of all things as could be desired On the 10th of August the Turks made a Sally into the Venetian Trenches whence happened a Skirmish but without much damage or hurt on either side nor had the Enemies Cannon done any great Execution as yet on the Christian Camp which on the 11th of August had perfected all their Batteries And to spare the Labour of the Soldiers who had already suffered much in opening Trenches and raising Batteries and Fighting Orders were given to Seignior Delfino Proveditor of the Camp to gather what Greeks he could to serve for Pioneers and that every Gally and Galleass should prepare 500 Faggots with some Pallisadoes which was readily effected And now about the 13th of this Month the Enemy began to show themselves Evening and Morning near the Venetian Trenches but attempted nothing with design as was imagined to draw their Enemies into a place which they had Undermined so that for three or four Days nothing happened of any thing considerable unless it were the bursting of a Cannon which battered the Pallisadoes of the Enemy by which the chief Gunner was killed and five others were wounded and another Cannon dismounted by a Shot from the Enemy upon the Wheel of the Carriage But on the 16th about Sun-set the Turks Attacked the Trenches of the Malteses where a very hot Skirmish began which continued for the space of an Hour until Night coming on the Turks retired with considerable Loss and of the Malteses about 15 were killed and about 20 wounded Upon which the Malteses advanced and enlarged their Works and whilst they were Fighting on that side a Detachment of 3000 Men Attacked a Fort near the Mills about a Pistol-shot from the Enemies Pallisadoes of which after some resistance they rendered themselves Masters with the Death of above 100 Turks and some wounded The loss of this place being of great importance to the Turks by Break of Day in the Morning on the 17th they fell upon it with great Numbers to recover it and surprized the Florentines and the Regiment of Atti which were the Guard placed there to defend it which being Sleeping or found in a negligent Posture the Turks returned with 150 Heads amongst which were several Cavaliers of Florence and three Captains of the Regiment and the rest quitted the Fort and fled amongst which were above 100 wounded which Action cost the Turks very little The Doge being highly enraged at this ill Success and desirous of Revenge resolved to Attack the Enemies Trenches which tho' esteemed by a Counsel of War to be a hazardous Enterprize which tho' it should succeed would cost much Blood yet the Doge nothing moved continued his Resolution to put the Attempt in execution on the 20th of August being well assured that nothing could be effected on the Town unless first they could possess and make themselves Masters of the Enemies Trenches In order unto which on the 17th the Doge with the chief Sea-Officers came ashoar to take a View and Survey the Enemies Trenches the which extended almost three Miles from the Hill to the Sea the Soldiers therein lodged securely as if they had been Buried they were very spacious and deep so that 50 could march a Breast secured by vast Oaken Beams over which were Sacks of Cotton artificially laid and the voiâ— places filled up with Earth and what damage was done hereunto by the Venetian Cannon or Bombs in the Day were by the Industry and Labour of the Turks repaired in the Night These Trenches were likewise defended by five Batteries on which 26 Pieces of Cannon were mounted and six Mortar-pieces which threw Stones at such distance as served not only to defend their own Trenches but also to offend the Venetian Camp. Whilst the Doge and principal Officers were contriving the Attack which was to be executed on the 20th The Turks on the 18th made a Sally on the Regiment of Colonel Gaspar an Athenian who was placed to guard the Aqueducts but were so bravely received by the Valour of that Colonel that they were repulsed with the loss of 150 of their Men killed on the place and 50 or 60 of the Christians amongst which was Colonel Gaspar himself being shot in the Breast with a Musket-Bullet in recompence of whose Resolute and Valiant â—ehaviour to the general Satisfaction and Applause of the whole Army the Doge bestowed the Command of the Regiment on his Brother Demetrio with an Annual Pension to his Son during his Life The Morning of the 20th being come every one prepared himself for the intended Assault on the Enemies Trenches The Marquis of Corbon with his Cavalry was the first to break in upon the Enemies Horse which he performed with such Success that he thereby opened a way for the Foot to Attack the Trenches in three several places which was executed with such resolution that neither Cannon nor Musket-shot were serviceable on this occasion for the Fight in the Trenches was so close with the Swords and Handy Blows that being intermixed one with the other the Combatants rather appeared like Gladiators than Soldiers fighting in regular Troops The Turks on one side being hard pressed began to throw away their Arms and fly but being seconded and relieved by some Troops led on by the Pasha Commander of the place who at the same time promised Rewards to the Valiant and threatned Death to the Cowardly the Fight increased and the Trenches were filled with the Bodies of Dead and dying Men. The Venetians were repulsed twice and thrice in some places But at length all the Passes towards the Mountain being forced by the Regiment of Bonometti and the Venturieri who are Soldiers of Fortune the Turks began to abandon their Posts and betake themselves to Flight and other Regiments forcing the Lines in other places filled all with Slaughter and Confusion the Horse were the first began to turn their Backs running with full Career to take refuge in the Town and to save themselves But the Infantry fared much worse for some Thousands of them being pursued by the Christians even to the Gates of the City about 500 of them were cut off and their Journey shortned Another Party of the Turks flying towards the Sea were killed by the Horse and others threw themselves headlong into the Water where some were Drowned and others killed by Vollies of Musket-shot from the Shoar so that the Sea was dyed with Blood and covered with the Garments and Bodies of Men and besides those who were killed and wounded of the Turks many Prisoners were taken This Fight continued about two Hours at the beginning of which the Turks Cannon offended much the Venetian Troops but without any disorder every one giving undoubted Proofs of his Bravery and constancy of his Resolution This Action cost the Lives of 200 Men amongst which Seignior Girolamo Garzoni was slain the
under these discouraging Circumstances the Attacks proceeded but slowly nothing being heard in the Camp but of the Death or Sickness of their great Men amongst which News was brought to the Doge that Signior Molino and Delfixo were forced to yield unto their sick Beds That the Engenier Ramagnato was killed with a Musket-shot whilst he was giving Direction about the Works in the Ditch That Signior Aurelio Marcelli was Dead of a Fever caused by his Wounds as was also Mattio Bon Patritii a Nobleman of Venice And that General Kenismark was Dead of a violent Fever having Breathed his last on the 15th of September to the great Grief and Sorrow of the whole Army but especially of his Lady Carlotta who with great Affection and Tenderness having been his Companion in all this Expedition was over-whelmed with Sorrow and confused Grief at his Death His Bowels were Interr'd the same Night with many thousands of Torches and Lights but his Body being Embalmed was afterwards designed for Strade a place in the Dutchy of Bremen there to be Interred in the Burial-place of his Ancestors The same Night two Engeniers were wounded and one killed and many common Soldiers killed and wounded by the Enemies shot from the false Bray whilst they were perfecting their Works in the Ditch And now it being the 17th of September the Florentines were the first to Demand a Dismission from the Camp and License to return home alledging that the Season of the year was far spent and the long Voyage they had to make unto their own Country The time also appointed by the Great Master of Malta unto his General for the Fleet to remain abroad being also expired Licence was demanded for their return but the Doge flattering himself with hopes of a speedy Surrender of the place persuaded that General to stay some few days longer to which he consented in expectation of taking part of that Glory which would belong to him by the Conquest of that place But it was not the Will of God that this Place should yield to the Christian Arms for that from this present time until the End of the Siege nothing but Misfortunes attended the Actions of the Venetians However The Courage and Constancy of the Generals was such as that they would not leave one Stone unturned which might tend to the Conquest of the place resolving not to desist from that Enterprize whilst any hopes appeared of becoming Masters thereof In order unto which the Doge Morosini considering with the principal Captains what was farther to be done to facilitate this Enterprize it was observed that the greatest difficulty was how to convey their Forces under the Wall for the Ditch was 30 Paces broad and washed at each end by the Sea to do which the Ingeniers found no other means than by a Traverse which was to be covered on the top and defended by Gabions filled with Earth which being considered and resolved it was put into immediate Execution all things necessary for that work being brought to the place with the Instruments for sixing the Miner to the Walls but the Waters so encreased in the Night that the Labour became much more great and the Design more difficult than was imagined they being forced to Work under the Enemies small shot by which the Engeniers Samuel Miller was killed and Renaldo Della Ruë and Antonio Captain of the Miners grievously wounded Howsoever not discouraged from the prosecution of this Design the Marquis of Câ—rbon Serjeant-General with some of his Dragoons undertook that work of the Traverse which notwithstanding found not the Success expected he being whilst he was giving direction about the Traverse wounded by a Musket-shot which passed his Lest-Thigh The Turks who were very vigilant and industrious to destroy the Work of the Traverse formed a Work in the False Bray by which they so annoyed the Labourers upon the Traverse by continual firing that it was not possible to proceed until the Enemy was droven out of the Counterscarp to perform which it was resolved to take a Bonnet which lay in the way which succeeded according to Desire But the Besieged having considered that that place was of great Importance they soon Assaulted it with such Vigour that the Venetians not being relieved by the farther advanced Line were droven out from thence with much Blood and Slaughter Thus all hopes failing of taking the Town Camillo Chigi Admiral of the Gallies of Tuscany having as we have said obtained his Discharge sailed away with his Squadron of Gallies by Night that the Turks might not observe his Departure leaving howsoever behind him two Ships and some Troops in the Service The Venetians resolving that the Turks should not remain in quiet Possession of the Bonnet attacked them again therein and drove them thence and fortified it in such manner that it would be very difficult for them to regain it Likewise a new Battery was raised of fifteen pieces of great Cannon which shot into the Houses of the Town and at the same time a Line of Communication was made for relief of the Bonnet During which Time and Actions Diseases increased in the Camp and Officers as well as common Soldiers â—ell sick by which and daily slaughters of Men in the Assaults made the Army was much diminished And tho' the Condition of the Turks in the Town was rather woâ—se than better yet their Spirits being supported by the Encouragements given by the Seraskier who promised speedily to relieve them and to send 2000 Horse into the Morea to make a Diversion they made several Sallies out of the Town which tho' not with much Advantage to themselves yet it showed a Vigour of Spirit and that they laboured not under any Fears or despairing hopes of Defence On the other side the Venetians failed not in their Industry and assiduous Projects every day in acting some Enterprize or other which might facilitate a general Assault and give that decisive blow which should put an end unto and terminate the Labours of that year But neither the Traverse nor the Batteries found the Effect desired and expected wherefore the Engenier Basignani who had long laboured under a violent Fever being now a little recovered projected a Subterranean Gallery under the Water of the Ditch to pass unto the Wall and there underneath to make a Mine which being sprang could not fail of making such a Breach as was requisite for an Assault but in the execution thereof there was found too much difficulty and almost an impossibility for the bottom of the Ditch was altogether Mâ—d for many yards deep and in sinking the Shaft to the depth required they met so much Water as wholly drowned out the Miners and put them by their Work and Basignani himself whilst he was giving Directions was shot by a Musket-Bullet in the Head which put an end to this Design which had it been practicable would yet have required more
License of Converse and Communication by the Officers of Health and next Day being the 17th of December Anchors were weighed and the Doge proceeded on his Voyage towards Venice where he arrived about the end of this Month with which the Year expiring we shall not need to describe the glorious Reception of the Doge into the Palace of St. Mark with all the Pomp and Magnificence which the Riches and fervent affection of this celebrated City and Wise Senate could confer on a Prince so famous and deserving as this And so let us proceed to the following Year Anno 1690. THUS far had the Affairs of Christendom succeeded prosperously against the Turks for tho' the Venetians had for the two last Years performed no great Feats yet the Imperial Arms under the Conduct of Prince Lewis of Baden had been Prosperous even to a Miracle but now the German Empire being furiously Attacked within the Bowels of it by the Arms of France there was a necessity to look homewards and for the several Princes to provide for their own Safety and guard their own Countries for which reason many of the German Troops being called out of Hungary the main Burden of the War fell upon the Emperor and was carried on with various Success tho' for the most part Prosperous whilst his Affairs were under the Auspicious Government of that Valiant and Renowned General Prince Lewis of Baden This Month of Ianuary began not very favourably on the Christian side for the Prince of Holstein hearing that the Turks miserably destroyed the Countries round about he marched to Prisseren with some Troops to meet them and thence not being able to spare many Forces he detached the Prince of Hanover and Colonel Strasser to relieve the Pass of Casseneck which was said to be Besieged by the Turks On the the 1st of Ianuary when they decamped from before Prisseren or Prissina their Troops consisted of 120 Foot drawn from the Regiment of Aspremont 80 of Aversperg's five Companies of Dragoons of the Prince of Hanover's Regiment eight Troops of Horse of Holstein six Troops of Horse of Hanover four Troops of Horse of the Regiment of Stirum all which did not amount unto more than 1600 Men with which they marched so diligently that the next Day they arrived near Casseneck in sight of the Enemy their Orders were not to approach too near nor advance too far until they had well observed the true strength of the Enemy and discovered whether they were so strong as had been reported Accordingly they at first posted themselves with their Backs to a Morass and planted four Field-Pieces against the Enemy who durst not Attack them in that Place but keeping within the Hills and Woods they detached 1000 Tartars into the open Fields upon sight of which Colonel Strasser quitting his Advantageous Post forced them to retreat with the Death of some of them but the Germans being now in the open Field and not able to retreat they found themselves surrounded on all sides with 30000 of the Enemy against which having sustained a Battle from Nine in the Morning till Three in the Afternoon and having spent all their Powder and Ammunition they were at last totally defeated In this Fight the Prince of Hanover Colonel Strasser Count Solari with most of the Officers and many of the Common Soldiers were killed on the Place most of the Prisoners being wounded died all their Colours Kettle-Drums c. were taken by the Enemies nevertheless 6 or 700 Men by help of the Night and of Woods and Mountains came safe to Belgrade from whence they were dispatched to their Regiments This News being brought the same Night to the Prince of Holstein unto Prissina he retreated from thence to Nissa leaving behind all the Forage and Baggage of the Regiment of Stirum On the 4th the Regiment of Piccolomini which was to joyn with Strasser having no Advice of the Defeat came near to Casseneck under the Command of Lieutenant-Colonel Count Montecelli so soon as he came in sight of the Tartars they immediately Invested him but he very prudently retreated towards a Morass over which there was a Bridge on the other side whereof he commanded a Lieutenant with 30 Horse to guard that end of the Bridge until he put himself in a Posture to fight on the other side After some time the Tartars Attacked them on both sides the Lieutenant with 30 Men defended himself for a good while until being over-powered he was relieved by two Companies sent to his Assistance and on both sides defended themselves so valiantly until Night that under shelter of the Darkness they made their Retreat the Tartars followed them with great noise for the space of an Hour but could not put them into disorder so about Midnight they arrived at Prissina which Place they found Abandoned but having refreshed themselves and their Horses there for a while they proceeded to Procopia with the loss only of about 30 Men and one Captain and some wounded their Baggage was not with them they having sent it to Poza and Novibassa which afterwards fell into the Hands of the Enemy with most of those which accompanied it the rest saved themselves in the Woods By this time Veterani who was appointed General in the Place of Piccolomini deceased arrived at Nissa from Transilvania with some Troops which being a Place open to the Attack of the Enemy and much feared they caused the Garrison and Inhabitants to work Night and Day upon the Fortifications Veterani also provided Pyrot Procopia Mustapha Palanca being Passes with all Necessaries and demolished Cossova Albania and some other little Places from whence he withdrew the Soldiers to strengthen Places of greater moment The Pass Casseneck which was Besieged wherein was a Garrison of 180 Men and before which the Turks had raised a Battery of seven Guns defended it self several Days and at length surrendred on Conditions one of which was that they should be conducted to Belgrade Whilst things were acting on this side Colonel Corbelli who commanded the Blockade of great Waradin received Advice that the Turks at Bellingesh had provided a great Number of Cattle and 100 Waggons with Provisions under a strong Convoy to be put into Waradin for relief of the City whereupon making a Detachment of 200 Horse 300 Dragoons 300 Hussars and 200 Heydukes he marched therewith towards Bellingesh but those of the Place having received early notice hereof from Waradin withdrew all their Provisions into the Castle so that the original Design of Corbelli was defeated yet not to return empty he stormed and entered the Palanca where after the Slaughter of several Turks he plundered and carried away every thing that was in it He could not Attack the Castle which was well fortified for want of Cannon and therefore having destroyed the Palanca with the Gardens thereabouts he returned back with good Booty On the 15th Tekeli with his Men and 2000
Turks were in great Confusion and Distraction not knowing which way to turn themselves sometimes it was thought necessary that the Grand Vizier should hasten to Belgrade to take the Care and Command of the scattered Troops which were now at a loss for want of a Chief Head and a Place whereunto to resort and take refuge Besides the Presence of a Vizier was esteemed of great encouragement to the broken Army and the only means to retard the Flight of those who were ready to break up their Camp and betake themselves to their own Habitations Whilst the Vizier was consulting hereof News came that the Army at Belgrade was all or for the most part dispersed that the small Number of the Janisaries which survived were resolved not to remain longer at Belgrade but were already on their March towards Adrianople in a Naked and Poor Condition without Money or Cloaths In like manner it was reported That the Spahâ—es who lately went to the War with a good Epuipage and well Mounted on Horse-back were now returning back on Foot miserably Despoiled and Poor without Money Horse or Arms Many of them who had Escaped with their Horses and Arms were passing the Dardanelli into Asia and thence travelling into their own Countries perhaps as far as Iconium Aleppo Damascus or some other more remote Countries other Spahees who had neither Horses or Arms were marching towards Adrianople there to demand the Donative which hath always been given by a New Sultan at his first Inauguration This Pretension of the Soldiery which amounted unto more than a Million stroke great Terrour into the Minds of the Chief Officers for the Exchequer being wholly empty and the Soldiery in the utmost Extremity and armed with Rage and Despair no Man knew what these Miseries might produce and the Soldiers approaching every Day nearer and nearer all People were affected with the same Consternation as if the Germans and the worst of Enemies had been at their Gates In few Days after the Aga of the Janisaries with the small remainder of his Janisaries arriving at Adrianople caused the Grand Vizier the Mufti Kadileschers who are the Lords Chief Justices together with the Prime Officers of the several Ogiacks to be convened and amongst themselves they held a long Conference At which they concluded upon several Particulars First It was resolved to Confirm and Maintain Sultan Achmet upon the Throne it being esteemed a thing unworthy of the Grandeur and Wisdom of the Sublime Port to change so suddenly and frequently the Person of their Sultans Secondly It was resolved That the Grand Seignior should Winter that Year at Adrianople Thirdly That the Mint should diligently Work Day and Night to make Silver Money for Payment of the Soldiery And Lastly It was resolved that cost what it would Great Waradin was to be Succoured and Relieved The which Resolutions especially that about Coyning Money for Payment of the Soldiery gave a stop to their Mutinies and Insurrections which were daily feared But what more sensibly consummated all the Miseries of the Turks was the want of Bread as well as of Money there having never been known in those Countries so great a Dearth of Bread as also of all sorts of other Provisions as at that time which joyned to all these Misfortunes farther News was brought That there had been another Grievous Earthquake at Smyrna And that an Express was come out of Asia That all that Country was over-run with Robbers and Murderers who were assembled in a Body near Sebaste the Ancient Nest and Nursery of Rebellion In the mean time the French Ambassador laboured by all means possible to give Heart and Courage to the Turks to continue the War assuring them That his King would the next Campaign go himself in Person to the War and continue the same as well in Winter as in Summer which would make such a Diversion in the Empire as that the Emperor should not be able to make Head nor so much as look the Ottoman Army in the Face Notwithstanding all which Assurances of the French Ambassador and Promises to furnish the Turkish Army with 30 able Ingineers the People or Rabble would give little or no Credence to all his Engagements and Assurances and scarce could the Great Men in the Government preserve him from the Violence of the Soldiery and People After the first Conference held as we have said by the Prime Officers another was called at which the Resolution to continue the War was confirmed by all there present except two Persons only namely the Kadilescher of Rumelia and the Chaimacam of Constantinople who dissented from the others being of an Opinion that a Peace was to be made by reason that the War could not longer be Maintain'd howsoever the major Party carrying it to the contrary Commands were sent by an Express into Albania to raise Forces in that Country it being agreed on all Hands that they were the best Soldiers in the Empire and had done extraordinary Service in the last Battle In like manner at this Congress great were the Complaints against Murad Ghirei Han who commanded the Forces of Tartary before Vienna and shamefully ran away the which being proved against him the Council chose another called Seffa Ghirei esteemed a good Soldier and a Valiant Man who was then at Iamboli not far distant from Adrianople and upon this Election he was immediately dispatched away to take Possession of his Government for the Grand Seignior hath a Power to Depose and Set up any Prince of the Crim Tartar provided he continues him in the right Line of Sultan Galga And for the Deposed Tartar to avoid all Disturbances and Contests he was exiled together with his Son into the Island of Rhodes and also Battir Aga who was the Chief Minister and General of the Deposed Tartar was Banished into the Island of Lemnos situate in the Archipelago After which divers Pasha's and Officers of the Army were called to this Congress by whom several Complaints were made and exhibited against certain Captains and Soldiers of the Army who in the last Battle had ill behaved themselves and Cowardly betook themselves to flight In which Accusations single Allegations were sufficient to Convict any Man and upon the sole Testimony of one Person many were proscribed and in the Night privately without Noise were strangled and in the Morning found Dead in their Beds and amongst the rest was the Kahya of the late Deceased Vizier put to Death at Belgrade upon a Suggestion that so soon as he had seen his Master Wounded he betook himself to flight and was followed by all the Pages of the Court who were well Mounted and Armed and might have done great Service had they not followed the Ignominious and Base Example of their Master The like Fate attended the Spahilar-Agasee or General of the Horse who was said to have been the first to turn his Back on the
Prusa besieged by Othoman Michael Cossi turneth Turk Alteration of Religion in the Greek Church Persecution in the Greek Church for matters of Religion Andronicus spariâ—g to maintain his Navy weakneth his Empire Immoderate bounty in great men dangerous Alexius Philanthropenus aspireth Libadarius opposeth himself against the proceedings of Philanthropenus Andronicus the Greek Emperor reposing more trust in foreign aid than in his own Subjects greatly hurteth his State. Ronzerius what he was Ronzerâ—us for want of pay spoileth the Emperors Subjects Ronzerius slain The Turks first called into Europe by the Catalonians The Turcopuli The unfortunate battel of Michael the Emperor against the Catalonians and Turks Cassandria The Catalonians shut out of Macedonia A notable stratagem of the Catalonians The Turks divided into two Factions The unfortunate battel of the Emperor Michael Paleologus with the Turks in Chersoneâ—us Thracia spoiled by the Turks Philes Paleologus requesteth of the Emperor that he might go against the Turks The Battel betwixt Philes and the Turks The Turks overthrown The causâ—s of the decay of the Greek Empire Syrgiannes his craâ—ty Seditious Speech unto young Andronicus Young Andronicus cometh secretly armed to his Grandfather Thracia revolteth unto Andronicus Articles of agreement betwixt the old Emperor and his Nephew The Greek Empire in Europe divided whilst the Grecians are at discord amongst themselves Othoman layeth the foundation of the Turks Empire and the other other Turks incroach upon them also The Island of the Rhodes was by the Knights Hospitalers recovered from the Turks in the year 1308. Andronicus the old Emperor seeketh for Counsel of the Psalter as of an heavenly Oracle and so seeketh to make peace with his Nephew Psal. 68. vers 14. A treacherous meeting The young Emperor sendeth Embassadors unto his Grandfather The Speech of the young Emperor to his Grandfathers Embassadors The Speech of the old Emperor unto the Patriarch and the rest of the Bishops and Nobility concerning the young Emperor his Nephew The Patriarch with divers of the Bishops conspire against the Emperor Thessalonica yielded unto the young Emperor Constantinople bâ—â—râ—yed unto the young Emperor The pitiful Supplication of the old Emperor to his Nephew Niphon incenseth the young Emperor against his Grandfather The old Emperor becometh blind Andronicus the old Emperor against his will made a Monk and called Anthony The notable answer of the old Emperor to the catching question of the proud Patriarch The death of the old Emperor The Turks Kingdom founded by Othoman in Asia at such time as the Greek Emperors were at variance betwixt themselves in Europe Prusa yielded unto the Turks The death of Othoman Othoman buâ—ied at Prâ—sa The wealth that Oâ—homan leâ—t unto his two Sons Orchanes and Aladin when that barbarous manner of murthering their Brethren first began among the Turkish Sultans The City of Nice with divers other Castlâ—s recovered from the Turks after the death of Othoman The Emperor wounded The City of Nice surprised by the Turks Abydus besieged by the Turks Nicomedia yielded unto Orchanes Orchanes remoueth his Court to Nice Orchanes invadeth the Country of Carasina The Country of Carasina yielded unto Orchanes The Castle of Maditus tâ—â—en by the Tâ—rks The death of Solyman Bassa Orchanes his eldest Son. The death of Orchanes Amurath succeedeth his Father Orchanes in the Turkish Kingdom Didymotichum yielded unto the Turks Hadrianople yielded unto the Turks Rhodestum surprised by the Turks Hadrianople thâ— Royal Seat of the Tâ—rkish Kings in Europe Boga taken by Amurath and recovered again and rased by the Christians Boga new built by the Turks Amurath invadeth Servia Nissa taken by the Turks Appolonia won 〈◊〉 the Turks Amurath and Aladiâ— prepare themselves for War. The death of Chairadin Bassa The great battel in the plains of Caramania betwixt Amurath and Aladin Aladin flieth to Iconium Iconium besieged by Amurath Lazarus the Despot by his Embassador craveth aid of the King of Bosna Amurath marrieth the Emperor of Constantinoples daughter The Castle of Sarkive with the City jâ—yning unto it taken by thâ— Christians and rased Lazarus slain Amurath slain Amurath buried at Prusa Bajazet invadeth Servia Servia the second time invaded by Bajazet Thessalia invaded by Bajazet Constantinople eight years besieged by Bajazet Constantinople the second time besieged by Bajazet Bajazet marrieth Despina the fair Daughter of Lazarus the Despot Temurtases Bâ—jazet his great Lieutenanâ— in Asia taken Prisoner by Aladin the younâ— King of Caramania Amasia yielded unto Bajazet Sebastia delivered to Bajazet Bajazet invadeth Isfendiar Prince of Castamona The Mahometan Princes of Asia oppressed by Bajazet disguised flie unto Tamerlane for aid Tamerlâ—ne his opinion concerning the diversity of Religions The base opinion some have concerning the Birth and Rising of Tamerlane Tamerlane honourably descended The cause why some have reported him to have been a Shepherd or Herdsman Tamerlane marrieth the Daughter and Heir of the great Cham of Tartary Prince Axalla in great credit with Tamerlane The number of Tamerlanes great Army Sebastia besieged by Tamerlane Sebastia yielded to Tamerlane A Shepherd more happy than Bajazet The Prince of Ciarcan dealeth politickly with the Forerunners of the Turks Army The great and mortal Battle betwixt Bajazet and Tamerlane The Prince of Ciarcaâ— slain The Turks overthrown Bajazet and his Son Musa taken Prisoners Bajazet 〈◊〉 bâ—sâ—e Tamerlane with his Pride Bajazet like a Beast shut up in an Iron Caâ—e Solyman set up in his Fathers steaâ— Prusa taken by â—â—â—lle Tamerlane goeth to Constantinople Tamerlane much delighted with the pleasures of Constantinople A great Battel fought betwixt the Sultan of Egypt and Tamerlane Damasco won by Tamerlane Tamerlane cometh to Jerusalem Damiata taken by Axalla Tamerlane marcheth towards Caâ—er Caier besieged by Tamerlane Caier assaulted by Tamerlane The Sultan flieth from Alexandria Tamerlane desirous to return into his Country The miserable death of Bajazet A comparison betwixt Bajazet and Tamerlane Bajazet in his Posterity more fortunate than Tammerlane Divers opinions concerning the Successors of Bajazet The true Posterity of Bajazet Mahomet Gâ—vernor of Amasia Mahomet â—â—ndâ—â—h Spies into Tamerlane his Camp. Cara Dulet slain Mahomet his 〈◊〉 to Inaâ—l Ogli the Tartar Prince Inall Ogli his answer to Mahomet Inall Ogli overthrown by Mahomet Mahomet his Speech to Tamerlanes Embassador The great power Tamerlane continâ—ally kâ—pt The death of Tamerlane The description of Tamerlane Mahomet goeth against his Brother The answer of Isa to Mahomet his Offers The body of Bajazet honourably buried at Prusa Good counsel Isa with a great army sent by his Brother Solyman into Asia against Mahomet Prusa burnt by Isa. Isa flieth into Caramanâ—a and there dieth in obscurity The Castle of Prusa besieged by Solyman Musa marrieth the Prince of Valachia his daughter Musa in the absence of Solyman received at Hadrianople as King. Musa goeth against Solyman Solyman flieth Solyman strangled by his Brother Musa This Solyman is that same whom some call Celebinus and other some Calepinus and reckon
Turks Mahomet maketh prâ—paration for the besieging of Constantinople Constantius the Emperor in vain craveth aid of the Christian Princes 1453. Vide Leonardi Chiensis Archiepiscopi Mitylen hist. de captivitate Constâ—ntinopoliâ—â—nâ— Mahomet encampeth beâ—ore Constantinople The situation of Conâ—â—antinople Constantinople built by Pausanias dâ—stroyed by Severus re-edified by Constantine the Great and now taken by Mahomet the Turk The magnificient Temple of S. Sophia The Frugality of the Turks in their private Buildings The Turks Fleet. Constantinople undermined by the Turks Seventy of the Turks Galliots brought eight miles over land by the deâ—ice of a Christian into the Haven of Constantinople A wonderful Bâ—idge made by the Turks over the Haven of Constantinople A notable fight between four of the Christians Ships and the Turks Fleet. The Citizens of Constantinople without cause murmur against the Emperor A bare shift for money Constantinople assaulted by the Turks The Christiaâ—s forsâ—ke the â—alls Conâ—â—antinople won by the Tuâ—ks Mahomet solemniseth his Feasts in Constantinople with the blood of the Grecian Nobility Pâ—ra yiâ—â—ied â—o the Turk Mahomeâ— notably dissembleth his haâ—red against Caly-Bassa Mahomet placeth his Imperial Seat at Constantinople and is worthily accounted first Emperor of the Tuâ—ks Thomas and Demetrius rebel against Mahomet and arâ— by him spoiled of part of their Dominion Mâ—homet câ—mâ—th again into Pelopoâ—nesus Demetrâ—us submitteth himself to Mahomet Peloponnesus subdued by the Turks The death of George Despot of Servia Servia yielded to the Turk Belgrade besieged The Turks Fleet overthrown by the Christians Carazias Bassa slain Belgrade assaulted by the Turks The Turks notable repulse Mahomet wounded and carried away for dead The death of the most famous Captain Huniades 1461. Usun-Cassan the Persian King sendeth Embassadors with Presents to Mahomet Mahomet invadeth Ismael Prince of Sinope Trapezond besieged by Mahomet Trapezond yâ—elded â—â—to the Tâ—â—ks The ruâ—ne of the Empirâ— oâ— Trâ—pezond Mahomet sâ—â—keth to entâ—ap Wladus Prinâ—â— of Valachia Chamuzes Bassa and the Turks Secretary hanged Mahomet himself in Person invadeth Valachia A most horrible Spectacle Two thousand of the Valachies slain The death of Wladâ—s Mitylene besieged Mitylene yâ—elded to the Turks The great Wars betwixt Mahomet and Scanderbeg are at large written by Marinus Barlecius in 13 Books De vita gestis Scanderbegâ— from whence this History is taken and were done betwixt the years 1450. and 1467. Vide Marinum Barletium lib. de vita gestis Scanderbâ—gi Debreas sent with fourteen thousand Horsemen to invade Epirus A skirmish betwixt the Christians and the Turks A Battel betwixt Scanderbeg and Debreas Debreas slain by Scanderbeg and his Army overthrown A pleasant contention betwixt Musachius and a Turk for his ransome The crafty proceeding of the Turks Messenger Moses corrupted Scanderbeg craveth aid of Alphonsus King of Napâ—es Alphonsus sâ—ndeth aid unto Scanderbeg Scanderbeg bâ—sâ—â—ngeth and disâ—resâ—eâ—h Belgrade Muscachius slain and the Epirots put to Flight Scanderbeg seeth his men slain and is not able to relieve them Scanderbeg flieth by night into Epirus Mahomet sendeth Moses with fifteen thousand select men to invade Epirus A Combat betwixt a Turk and a Christan The Battle betwixt Scanderbeg and Moses Moses contemned of the Turks Moses 〈◊〉 from Constantinople Amesa his first speech uâ—â—o Mahomet Amesa hohonourably entertained by Mahomet A notable speech of Scanderbeg unto his Captains how the Turks were to be withstood at their coming to Epirus The Epirots remove all their things out of the Country into the strong Towns before the coming of the Turks Amesa is by the Bassa created King of Epirus The Tâ—â—â—â— Camp buried in security Scanderbeg suâ—denly assaileth the Turks A notable Victory of the Christians The Speech of Amesa to Scanderbeg The answer of Scanderbeg to Amesa The death of Amesa A Peace for a year concluded betwixt Mahomet and Scanderbeg The Letters of Mahomet to Scanderbeg The answer of Scanderbeg to the former Letters of Mahomet The Letters of Mahomet to Scanderbeg for the concluding of a perpetual Peace betwixt them A Peace concluded betwixt Mahomet and Scanderbeg The notable Speech of Victâ—r Capella to peâ—swade tâ—e Venetians to take up Aâ—ms against Mahomet The Venetians take up Arms against the Turks The Venetians enter into confederation with other Christian Princes against the Turk The Letters of Maâ—omet to Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his Answer to the Letters of Mahomet Ten thousand Turks slain The Venetians attempting to win Patras receive great loss Mathias of a Prisoner chosen King of Hungary Mahomeâ— sendeth Balabanus to invadâ— Epirus Balabanuâ— goeth against Scanderbeg The Battel betwixt Balabanus and Scanderbeg Moses and other worthy Captains cruelly executed by Mahomet The Battel at Sfetigrade betwixt Balabanus and Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his Scouts traiterously flie to Balabanâ—s Jacuppe slain by Scanderbeg and his Army discomfited Mahomet cometh to the siege of Croia Scanderbeg surpriseth Ionima the Brâ—ther of Balâ—banâ—s and Hedar his Sâ—n. Scanderbeg falleth sick The death of Scanderbeg Scanderbeg huried at Lyssa The body of Scan-derbeg digged up by the Turks and of them greatly honoured Paulus Jovlus Illust viroâ—um Elog. lib. 8. Mathias King of Hungary takeâ—h the Kingdom of Bosna from the Turks Chalcis the chief City of Euboea besieged by the Turks Treason in the City Chalcis is taken by the Turks The fruitful Island of Euboea taken by the Turks The Veneâ—iâ—ns aided by King Ferdinand the Biâ—hop of Rome and the great Master of the Rhodes do the Turks great harm all alongst the coast of the lâ—sser of Asia Mahomet no less troublesome unto the Mahometan Princes than to the Christians Usun-Cassanes in a great battel overthoweth the King of Persia. Two huge Armies of the Turks and Persians in field together The death of the noble Mustapha Mahomet his eldest Son. Solyman Bassa besiegeth Scodra with an Army of eighty thousand men Matthias King of Hungary inforceth the Turks to forsake the Siege of Scodra Croia besieged by the Turk Contarenus the Venetian General slain The Turks shew themselves at the River of Sontium The Couâ—try of Frâ—ulâ— spoiled by the Turks Vid. Marinum Barletium de expug Scodrensi The poor Country People flie for fear of the Turks Two of the Turks attempting to touch the Walls of Scodra are both slain and one of their Heads sit upon the Wall. Mahomet in person himself cometh unto the siege of Scodra The order of Mahomets Camp. Mahomet purposing to give a general Assault incourageth his Captains and Souldiers thereunto The City of Scodra assaulted by the Turks the fourth time A most terrible Assault Twelve thousand Tâ—rks slain in the last Assault The Turks superstitiously reverence the new Moon Scodra again most fâ—riously assaultâ—d by the Turks The assault â—enewed again fiercely by the Turks A woful sight A doubtful Fight Lyssa taken by the Turks and the Bones of Scanderbeg digged up by them and had in great reverence A hard choice Scodra yielded unto the Turks Mahomet longeth after the Rhodes A death right