that did this Cobelitz vnto Amurath The dead bodie of Amurath was presently with all secrecie conueied into his tent by the Basâ—aes and captaines present at his death whether Baiazet was also brought with an ensigne before him as the successour in his fathers kingdome His younger brother Iacup surnamed Zelebi or the noble yet ignorant of that had hapned was by the great Bassaes sent for as from his father who casting no perill but comming into his fathers tent was there presently by them strangled by the commaundement of Baiazet as most histories report howbeit the Turkes annales charge him not therwith This was the beginning of the most vnnaturall and inhumane custome euer since holden for a most wholesome and good policie amongst the Turkish kings and emperours in the beginning of their raigne most cruelly to massacre their brethren and neerest kinsmen so at once to rid themselues of all feare of their competitors This Amurath was in his superstition more zealous than any other of the Turkish kings a man of great courage and in all his attempts fortunat he made greater slaughter of his enemies than both his father and grandfather his kingdome in ASIA hee greatly enlarged by the sword mariage and purchase and vsing the discord and cowardise of the Grecian princes to his profit subdued a great part of THRACIA called ROMANIA with the territories thereto adjoyning leauing vnto the emperour of CONSTANTINOPLE little or nothing more in THRACIA than the imperiall citie it selfe with the bare name of an emperour almost without an empire he wan a great part of BULGARIA and entred into SERUIA BOSNA and MACEDONIA he was liberall and withall seuere of his subjects both beloued feared a man of verie few words and one that could dissemble deeply He was slaine when hee was threescore eight yeares old and had thereof raigned thirtie one in the yeare of our Lord 1390. His dead bodie was by Baiazet conuaied into ASIA and there royally buried at PRUSA in a faire chappell at the West end of the citie neere vnto the Bathes there where vpon his tombe lieth his souldiours cloake with a little Turkish tulipant much differing from those great turbants which the Turkes now weare Neere vnto the same tombe are placed three launces with three horse tailes fastened at the vpper end of them which he vsed as guidons in his wars a thing in antient time not strange There standeth a castle with a tombe made in remembrance of him in the plaines of COSSOUA where he was slaine and his entrailes buried which giueth occasion for some to report that hee was there also himselfe enterred FINIS Christian princes of the same time with Amurath the first Emperours Of the East Iohn Palaeologus 1354. 30. Andronicus Palaeologus 1384. 3. Emanuell Palaeologus 1387. 30. Of the West Charles the fourth 1346. 32. Wenceslaus son to Charles king of Bohemia 1378. 22. Kings Of England Edward the third 1327. 50. Richard the second 1377. 23. Of Fraunce Iohn Valois 1350. 14. Charles the fifth 1364. 16. Charles the sixt surnamed The welbeloued 1381. 42. Of Scotland Dauid Bruce 1341. 29. Robert Stuart 1370. Bishops of Rome Innocent the VI. 1354. 10. Vrban the V. 1364. 8. Gregorie the II. 1372. 7. Vrban the VI. 1378. 11. BAIAZET BAIAZETTHES PRIMVS QVARTVA TVRCORVM REX ANNO 1390 Fulminis in morem celeri rapit agmina motu Baizethes fidei pacis impatiens Regni Hadrianopolim sedes sibi legit vt esset Posset vt Europae iungere regna suis. Constantinopolim gemina obsidione fatigat Iam Graetas vana spe sibi spondet opes Cum Tamburlano praebet sua terga catenis Vinctus in cauea probra pudenda subit Prowd Baiazet most false of faith and loathing blessed peace His warlike troupes like lightening to shake he doth not cease Of HADRIANOPLE he makes choice for his imperiall seat That EVROPS kingdomes he might joyne vnto his empire great CONSTANTINOPLE he distrest twice with straight siege and long And vainly thought to haue possest the Graecians wealth by wrong But ouercome by Tamberlane fast bound in fetters sure Trod vnder foot and cloas'd in cage great shame did there indure THE LIFE OF BAIAZET THE FIRST OF THAT NAME THE FOVRTH AND MOST VNFORTVNAT KING OF THE TVRKES BAiazet or as the Turks call him Baiasit of his violent and fierce nature surnamed Gilderun or lightening succeeded his father Amurath in the Turkish kingdome his younger brother Iacup being strangled immediatly after his fathers death as is before declared He in the first yeare of his raign inuaded SERVIA and there besieged CRATOVA a citie of the Despots whereunto the siluer mines of SERVIA not the least cause of that warre belonged Which citie was yeelded vnto him vpon condition That the Christian inhabitants might with life and libertie depart Who were no sooner gone out of the cittie but that by his commaundement they were all most cruelly slaine by his men of warre for that purpose sent out after them At this time hee also woon VSCUPIA with diuers other castles in the countrey neere vnto CRATOVA Sigismund at the same time king of HUNGARIE a yong prince of great hope and brother to Wenceslaus then emperour of the West aduertised from the Seruians his allies and confederats of these proud proceedings of Baiazet by his embassadours sent of purpose requested him That as he was a just prince and wished to liue in quiet with his owne to desist from doing of such open wrong and from inuading of such countries of his friends and confederats as he had no right in Which embassadours so sent Baiazet detained without answere vntill such time as he had ouerrun a great part of the Despot his country and therein done what he thought good Then calling the said embassadours vnto him into one of the strong townes which hee had in euerie corner filled with his owne souldiours told them that they might there see that his right both vnto that towne and the rest by him taken was good inough for as much as the verie wals acknowledged the same and so giuing them leaue to depart willed them so to tell their master Which his proud answere by the same embassadors reported vnto the yong king no lesse troubled him than if open warre had by them been denounced vnto him seeing the tyrant as should seeme pretending right vnto whatsoeuer hee could by force get neuerthelesse being himselfe not yet well setled in his kingdome and in doubt of the contrarie faction that altogether liked not of his election into HUNGARIE for their king he was glad at that time to put it vp and so to hold himselfe content The next yeare Baiazet by Ferises Beg tooke the citie of VIDINA with many other strong townes and castles in SERVIA and afterwards returned to HADRIANOPLE But whilest that hee thus raged in EUROPE the Caramanian king inuaded and spoiled the frontiers of his countries in ASIA which although he was not then at
speedily transported ouer the riuer and making no stay in the citie joyned themselues with Huniades then lying without the wals of the citie Who notably strengthned with this new supply assailed the Turkes trenches as if he would euen presently haue entered their campe at which his presumption the proud tyrant neuer before so braued disdaining went out of his trenches and valiantly encountring him beat him backe againe to the great ordinance from whence he was againe by the Christians driuen to his trenches Which manner of doubtfull and dreadfull fight was on both sides notably maintained vntill the day was almost spent victorie with indifferent wings houering now ouer the one side now ouer the other In these hote skirmishes and conflicts Chasanes captaine of the Ianizaries with many other valiant men were slaine And Mahomet himselfe performing the part as well of a couragious souldiour as of a worthy chieftaine was sore wounded vnder his left pappe so that he was taken vp for dead and so carried into his pauilion to the great discomfiture of his whole army But comming againe vnto himselfe and considering that he had in that siege lost his whole fleet his great ordinance with most part of his best souldiors and yet in no possibilitie of the towne secretly in the night arose with his army and with great silence shamefully departed still looking behind him when the Hungarians should haue pursued him into SERVIA or haue troubled him vpon his way towards CONSTANTINOPLE At this siege beside many of his best captaines and chiefe commanders were slaine fortie thousand of his best souldiours The losse that he there sustained was so great and so stucke in his mind that euer after during his life when he had occasion to speake of that siege he would shake his head and sigh deeply and many times wish That he had neuer seene that citie whereat both he and his father had receiued so great dishonour Many were of opinion that if Huniades had there had his horsmen on that side of Danubius to haue presently pursued the fearfull enemy that the whole army of the Turkes might haue there been ouerthrown This notable victorie was obtained against the Turke the sixt of August in the yeare of our Lord 1456. Shortly after this most valiant and renowmed captaine Huniades worthy of immortall praise died of hurt taken in these warres or as some others write of the plague which was then rife in HVNGARIE who when he felt himselfe in danger of death desired to receiue the sacrament before his departure and would in any case sicke as he was be carried to the Church to receiue the same saying That it was not fit that the Lord should come to the house of his seruant but the seruant rather to go to the house of his Lord and master He was the first Christian captaine that shewed the Turkes were to be ouercome and obtained more great victories against them than any one of the Christian princes before him He was vnto that barbarous people a great terror and with the spoile of them beautified his countrey and now dying was by the Hungarians honourably buried at ALâ—A IVLIA in S. Stephens church his death being greatly lamented of all good men of that age Mahomet the Turkish emperour no lesse desirous to extend his empire with the glorie of his name by sea than by land shortly after the taking of CONSTANTINOPLE put a great fleet to sea wherewith he surprised diuers Islands in the AEGEVM and hardly besieged the cittie of the RHODES At which time Calixtus the third then bishop of ROME aided by the Genowaies for the grudge they bare against the Turkes for the taking of PERA put to sea a fleet of sixteene tall ships and gallies well appointed vnder the conduct of Lodouicus patriarch of AQVILIA who with that fleet scoured the seas and recouered againe from the Turkes the Island of LEMNOS with diuers other small Islands thereabout and encountering with the Turkes fleet neere vnto the Island of the RHODES at a place called the Burrow of S. Paule discomfited them sunke and tooke diuers of their gallies and forced them to forsake the RHODES After which victorie at sea hee for the space of three yeares with his gallies at his pleasure spoiled the frontiers of the Turks dominions all alongst the sea coast of the lesser ASIA and wonderfully terrified the effeminate people of those countries and so at length returned home carrying away with him many prisoners and much rich spoile After that Mahomet was thus shamefully driuen from the siege of BELGRADE and his fleet at sea discomfited as is before declared hee began with great diligence to make new preparation against the next Spring to subdue the Isles of the AEGEVM especially those which lay neare vnto PELOPONESVS But whilest he was busie in these cogitations in the meane time embassadours from Vsun-Cassanes the great Persian king arriued at CONSTANTINOPLE with diuerse rich presents sent to him from the said king Where among other things they presented vnto him a paire of playing tables wherein the men and dice were of great and rich precious stones of inestimable worth and the workmanship nothing inferiour to the matter which the embassadours for ostentation said That Vsun-Cassanes found in the treasures of the Persian king whom he had but a little before slaine and bereft of his kingdome and had there beene left long before by the mightie conquerour Tamerlane Together with these presents they deliuered their embassage the effect whereof was That those two mightie princes might joyne and liue together in amitie and that whereas Dauid the emperor of TRAPEZONDE had promised to pay vnto Mahomet a yearely tribute enforced thereunto by George his lieutenant in ASIA he should not now looke for any such thing for as much as that empire after the death of the emperour then liuing should of right belong vnto Vsun-Cassanes in right of his wife who was the daughter of Calo-Ioannes the elder brother of Dauid the emperour then liuing And further requiring him from that time not to trouble or molest the said emperour his friend and neere alliance so should hee find him his faithfull and kind confederat otherwise it was as they said in his choice to draw vpon himselfe the heauie displeasure of a most mightie enemie Mahomet before enuying at the rising of the Persian king and now disdaining such peremptorie requests little differing from proud commaunds in great choller dismissed the embassadours with this short answere That he would ere long be in ASIA himselfe in person to teach Vsan-Cassanes what to request of a greater than himselfe This vnkindnesse was the beginning and ground of the mortall wars which afterwards ensued between these two then the greatest princes of the East as shall be hereafter more at large declared The embassadours being departed and Mahomets fleet of an hundred and fiftie saile readie to put to sea hee altered his former determination for the
lamented but hardly or neuer remedied vntill that afterwards led with a more earnest desire to know the strange and fatall mutations by this barbarous nation in former time brought vpon a great part of the world as also so much as I might to see so great a terrour of the present time and in what tearmes it standeth with the rest I had with long search and much labour mixt with some pleasure and mine owne reasonable contentment passed through the whole melancholie course of their tragicall Historie yet without purpose euer to haue commended the same or any part thereof vnto the remembrance of posteritie as deeming it an argument of too high a reach and fitter for some more happie wit better furnished with such helpes both of nature and art as are of necessitie requisit for the vndertaking of so great a charge than was my selfe of many thousands the meanest Not vnmindâ—ull also of that which the Poet keeping decorum saith in like case though farre lesse matter of himselfe Cum canerem reges praelia Cynthius aurem Vellit admonuit Pastorem Tittere pingues Pascere oportet oues deductum ducere carmen When I did sing of mightie kings or els of bloudie warre Apollo pluckt me by the eare and said I went too farre Beseemes a shepheard Titterus his fatlings for to feed And for to fit his rurall song vnto his slender reed Besides that so many difficulties euen at the first presented themselues vnto my view as that to ouercome the same if I should take the labour in hand seemed to me almost impossible for beside the sea and world of matter I was to passe through requiring both great labour and time full of the most rare example â—oth of the letter and worse fortune in men of all sort and condition yeelding more pleasure vnto the reader than facilitie to the writer I saw not any among so many as had taken this argument in hand whom I might as a sure guide or loadstarre long follow in the course of this so great an Historie many right worthie and learned men whose memorie my soule honoureth contenting themselues to haue with their learned pennes enrolled in the records of neuer-dying fame some one great expedition or action some another as in their times they â—ell out yea the Turkish Histories and Chronicles themselues from whom the greatest light for the continuation of the Historie was in reason to haue beene expected being in the declaration of their owne aâ—â—aires according to their barbarous manner so sparing and short as that they may of right be accounted rather short rude notes than iust Histories rather pointing things out than declaring the same and that with such obscurâ—tie by changing the auntient and vsuall names as well of whole kingdomes countries and prouinces as of cities townes riuers mountaines and other places yea and oftentimes of men themselues into other strange and barbarous names of their owne deuising in such sort as might well stay an intentiue reader and depriue him of the pleasure together with the profit he might otherwise expect by the reading thereof whereunto to giue order perspicuitie and light would require no small trauell and paine Not to speake in the meane time of the diuersitie of the reports in the course of the whole Historie such as is oftentimes most hard if not altogether impossible to reconcile Notwithstanding all which difficulties with many others more proper vnto my selfe hauing with long labour and diligent search passed through the course of the whole Historie and so in some reasonable sort satisfied my selfe therein I thought it not amisse as well for the worthinesse of the matter as for the zeale I beare vnto the Christian common-weale and for the satisfying also of some others my good friends much desirous of the same to make proofe if out of the dispersed workes of many right worthie men I could set downe one orderly and continuat Historie of this so mightie an Empire with the great and fatall mutation or rather subuersion of many right strong and flourishing kingdomes and states the proper worke of all mightie rising Empires still encreasing by the fall of others wherewith this proud monarchie hath alreadie daunted a great part of the world being so many and so strange as that moe or more wonderfull were not euer to be seene in any of the greatest monarchies of auntient time or memorie and so together and as it were vnder one view and at one shew to lay open vnto the Christian Reader what I was glad to seeke for out of the defused labours of many a worke so long and laborious as might well haue deterred a right resolute and constant mind from the vndertaking thereof being as yet to my knowledge not vndergone or performed by any wherein among such varietie or more truly to say contrarietie of writers I contented not my selfe as a blind man led by his guide happily of no better sight than himselfe to tread the steps of this or that one man going for a while before me and by and by leauing me againe stumbling in the darke but out of the learned and faithfull workes of many according to my simple iudgement to make choice of that was most probable still supplying with the perfections of the better what I found wanting or defectiue in the weaker propounding vnto my selfe no other marke to aime at than the very truth of the Historie as that which is it selfe of power to giue life vnto the dead letter and to couer the faults escaped in the homely penning or compiling thereof Which the better to performe I collected so much of the Historie as possibly I could out of the writings of such as were themselues present and as it were eye-witnesses of the greatest part of that they writ and so as of all others best able most like also to haue left vnto vs the very truth Such is the greatest part of so much of the Historie of the Greeke Empire as I haue for the better vnderstanding of the rising of the Turkes in this Historie set downe gathered out of the doings of Nicetas Choniates Nicephorus Gregoras and Laonicus Chalcocondiles all writing such things as they themselues saw or were for most part in their time and neere vnto them done Such are the wonderfull and almost incredible warres betwixt old Amurath the second and his foster child the fortunat prince of Epirus of the Turks commanly called Scanderbeg and by that wayward tirant at his death together with his kingdome deliuered as it were by inheritance vnto his sonne the great and cruell Sultan Mahomet all written by Marinus Baâ—letius himselfe an Epirot and in all those troublesome times then liuing in Scodra a citie of the Venetians ioyning vpon Epirus Such is the wofull captiuitie of the imperiall citie of Constantinople with the miserable death of the Greeke Emperour Constantinus Palaeologus and the fatall ruine of the Greeke Empire written by Leonardus Chiensis Archbishop
sword man woman and child and amongst them also many of the Christians the furious souldiers taking of them no knowledge Great wealth was there found but small store of victuals Casstanus the late gouernour flying out of the citie to saue himselfe in wandring through the mountaines fell into the hands of the Christian Armenians who lately thrust out of IERVSALEM were fled thither for refuge by whom he was there slaine In the citie were slaine about ten thousand persons Thus was the famous citie of ANTIOCH which the Turks had long before by famine taken from the Christians againe recouered the third day of Iune in the yeere of our Lord God 1098. The poore oppressed Christians in IERVSALEM hearing of this so notable a victorie gaue secret thanks vnto God therefore and began to lift vp their heads in hope that their deliuerie was now at hand Of this victorie the princes of the armie by speedie messengers and letters certified their friends in all countries so that in short time the fame thereof had filled a great part of the world Amongst others Bohemund prince of TARENTVM vnto whom the citie was deliuered sent the joyfull newes thereof vnto Roger his brother prince of APVLIA whose letters as the most certaine witnesses of the historie before reported I thought it not amisse here to set downe I suppose you to haue vnderstood by the letters of your sonne Tancred both of the great feare of some of vs and the battels which we haue of late with our great glorie fought But concerning the truce and the proceeding of the whole action I had rather you should be certified by my letters than the letters of others King Cassianus had required a time of truce during which our soldiers had free recourse into the citie without danger vntill that by the death of Vollo a Frenchman slaine by the enemie the truce was broken But whilst it yet seemed an hard matter to winne the citie one Pyrâ—hus a citizen of ANTIOCH of great authoritie and much deuoted vnto me had conference with me concerning the yeelding vp of the citie yet vpon condition That the gouernment thereof should be committed to me in whom he had reposed an especiall trust I conferred of the whole matter with the princes and great commanders of the armie and easily obtained that the gouernment of the citie was by their generall consent alotted vnto me So our armie entring by a gate opened by Pyrrhus tooke the citie Within a few daies after the towne ARETVM was by vs assaulted but not without some losse and danger to our person by reason of a wound I there receiued I assure you much of the valour of your sonne Tancred of whom I and the whole armie make such account and reckoning as is to be made of a most valiant and resolute generall Farewell from ANTIOCH Whilst the Christians thus lay at the siege of ANTIOCH Corbanas the Persian Sultan his lieutenant with a great armie besieged EDESSA with purpose after the taking thereof to haue relieued the citie of ANTIOCH But this citie being notably defended by Baldwin left there of purpose with a strong garrison for the defence thereof the Turke fearing in the meane time to loose ANTIOCH the safest refuge of the Turks in all those parts rise with his armie and set forward against the Christians where by the way it was his fortune to meet with Sansadolus Cassianus his sonne but lately fled from ANTIOCH by whom he vnderstood of the losse of the citie and by what meanes the same was most like to be againe recouered vpon which hope Corbanas with his mightie armie kept on his way with a full resolution to set all vpon the fortune of a battell Whose comming much troubled the Christians for that although they were possessed of the citie yet was the castell still holden by the Turks Neuerthelesse leauing the earle of THOLOVS in the citie with a competent power for the keeping in of them in the castell they tooke the field with the whole strength of the armie and so in order of battell expected the comming of their enemies who couragiously comming on as men before resolued to fight joyned with them a most terrible and bloodie battell Neither were they in the citie in the mean time idle for that the Turks in the castell hauing receiued in vnto them certaine supplies from Corbanas sallied out vpon them that were left for the safegard of the citie and had with them a cruell conflict Thus both within the citie and without was to be seene a most dreadfull fight of resolute men with great slaughter on both sides yet after long fight and much effusion of blood the fortune of the Christians preuailing the Turks began to giue ground and afterwards betooke themselues to plaine flight whom the Christians hardly pursuing made of them a woonderfull slaughter In this battell were slaine of the Turks aboue an hundred thousand and of the Christians about foure thousand two hundred There was also taken a great prey for besides horses and other beasts for burden were taken also fiue thousand camels with their lading The next day being the 28 of Iune the castell was by the Turks now dispairing of releife yeelded vp vnto the Christians ANTIOCH thus taken Hugh the French kings brother surnamed the Great was sent from the rest of the princes to CONSTANTINOPLE to haue deliuered the citie vnto Alexius the emperour according to the agreement before made But he guiltie in conscience of his owne foule dealing with them vnto whom he had sent no reliefe at all during the long and hard siege of ANTIOCH neither performed any thing of that he had further promised and therefore knowing himselfe hated of them had in distrust so great an offer of the princes so euill deserued and therefore refused to accept thereof Whereupon Bohemund by the generall consent of the whole armie was chosen prince or as some call him king of ANTIOCH After this long siege and want of victuals ensued a great plague in the armie of the Christians the Autumne following whereof it is reported fiftie thousand men to haue died and amongst them many of great account But the mortalitie ceasing the Christians in Nouember following by force tooke RVGIA and ALBARIA two cities about two daies journey from ANTIOCH where dissention arising betwixt Bohemund Raimond who of all others only enuied at his preferment vnto the principalitie of ANTIOCH Bohemund for the common causes sake gaue way vnto his aduersarie retired with his soldiers backe againe to ANTIOCH after whom followed the duke Godfrey and the earle of FLANDERS with their regiments The rest of the princes wintred some at RVGIA some at ALBARIA from whence Raimund made sundrie light expeditions further into the enemies countrey But the spring approching the Christian princes with all their power tooke the field againe Bohemund with them that remained with him departing from ANTIOCH besieged TORTOSA
Christians in number about seuentie thousand retired as a man afraid into such places as he thought best farther off which the Legat seeing as one not acquainted with the feats of war rejoyced greatly as if the victorie had beene alreadie more than halfe gained commending vnto the heauens them that he saw couragiously marching forward saying That fortune alwaies fauoured the valiant and that vnto cowards all things fell still out to the woorst By the way the Christians ceized vpon a bridge which the enemie had made ouer the NILE and cut in peeces such companies as were left for the keeping thereof So marching on they drew neere vnto CAIRE and there in the sight of that great and 〈◊〉 citie encamped where running vp and downe the more to terrifie them of the citie prouoked them to battell vpbraiding vnto them their lazines their cowardise and sloth brauing them 〈◊〉 they were men to come out Yet for all that they would not so do but keeping themselues 〈◊〉 and couert within the citie let them alone to brag and boast at their owne pleasure This 〈◊〉 coâ—â—â—nued long of purpose protracted still from day to day by them of the citie and the grâ—at opinion the Christians had of their owne valour with the small regard they had of their enemies made them so proud and carelesse that they remembred no more to take good care of the warre of their dutie their watch or their sentinels their confidence was in their owne valour and good fortune not considering or remembring that they were come into AEGYPT and that they had put themselues within the trenches sallies channels and cuts of a deceitfull riuer which not only brought victuals vnto their enemies but also fortified them who by how much they were the lesâ—e valiant and lesse vnderstood of the art of war the more they vsed of craft and subtiltie for the preseruing of themselues So the craftie enemies drew the Christians out at length abusing them with many delaies and deceits making semblance of great feare to make themselues the lesse to be feared and more contemptible in their doings to the end that they knowing the passages and straights of the countrey and reseruing themselues vnto the occasions and aduantages both of the time and of their enemies might circumuent them and entrap them at such time as they least feared any such matter The Christians at all aduenture had encamped themselues in a low ground within the banks and causies of that fennie countrey vnder the couert thereof thinking themselues safe as in their tenches against all sudden sallies or attempts of their enemies But these places wherein they lay were soft and duâ—tie for so much as the countrey people vsed at their pleasure to water them by channels sluces out of the riuer of NILE which now pluckt vp and opened the riuer began to rise and ouerflow all Then too late they perceiued themselues taken as in a grin without power to defend themselues or to make any resistance or by any other meanes to shew their valour So the riuer still arising and ouerflowing gaue vnto the Turks and Aegyptians good hope of their wars and of a victorie more desired than hoped for ouer a warlike and victorious people All the ground where the Christians lay encamped was couered with water so high that the victuals were corrupted and no place left for a man to stand or lie drie in Now at the same time the Aegyptians had taken the high places with the passages vpon the wals and banks in that drowned countrey to the intent that the Christians should not be able to retire or to saue themselues out of the bogs and marishes couered ouer with water So was their rash valour and presumptuous confidence in themselues exposed vnto the enemies shot and furie and when they would by force haue defended themselues their hardinesse was ouercome by the craftie subtiltie of the weak enemie Then began euery man to crie out against Pelagius the Legat accusing condemning and railing at him the king himselfe they blamed not for that he had done his dutie in dissuading of this expedition and was contrarie to his good liking himselfe drawn into this warre the charge whereof he had not without great intreatie taken vpon him neither might he with his credit well complaine of this misfortune least in so doing he might seeme to haue had no comfort in himselfe But as for the Legate what counsell could he then giue what counsell could hee then take for himselfe They of VENICE PISA and GENUA left at DAMIATA were indeed strong at sea but how could they come to relieue him at CAIRE And how or by what forces could the Christians breake out of the banks and sluces of the cuts and channels which winding in and out with a thousand inextricable turnings inclosed them beset also on euery side with the victorious enemie After they had been thus coupt vp and enuironed with the waters three daies you might haue seene the poore soldiers in euery place fall downe dead for want of food and sleepe and so perrish in the water the like miserable kind of death the rest were also in short time after to expect other helpe was there none but to yeeld vnto necessitie and to accept of such conditions as it should please the proud enemie to propound Now the Sultan desired not so much their liues as the libertie of his countrey and therefore required to haue the citie of DAMIATA againe restored vnto him and all things else in such sort as was before the besieging thereof and so the Christians without more adoe to depart his countrey Hard conditions if a man respect the hope whereupon the Christians had vndertaken this war and were so come into AEGYPT with the toyle by them there endured but vnto him that will but enter into the consideration of mens affaires and especially in martiall matters it will seeme but an accident to be yeelded vnto the like whereof hath oftentimes hapned vnto the greatest men of the world These conditions such as they were were by the distressed Christians accepted of But when they were brought to DAMIATA and there propounded vnto the Christians there left a great contention began to arise among them Some said that they would not accept of them or surrender the towne which being kept would be a stay for all the affaires of the Christians in the East and a most commodious place for them to haue recourse vnto but being restored and lost carried away with it all the hope of the Christians and that therefore it were better to indure all extremities than to receiue such dishonourable and hurtfull a peace Others of the contrarie opinion said That they ought not to forsake them that were in danger before CAIRE nor to expose them vnto the butcherie but to haue a Christian compassion of so many thousands of soules as there lay distressed seeing they might bee saued by the surrendrie of that one
Orchanes made lord and gouernour of PRUSA after he had remooued his court to NICE And the castle of CHARA-CHIZAR with the seignorie thereto belonging he gaue to his cosin Artemuâ—e the sonne of his vncle Iundus There was at this time in Orchanes court a noble yong gentleman called Turson-beg the son of Charasis king of CHARASIA by whose persuasion Orchanes in person himselfe with a strong armie made an expedition into that countrey for that his fathers subjects after the death of the king his father denied their obedience to his elder brother wishing rather to haue Turson for their soueraigne In whose behalfe Orchanes taking that journey surprised by the way many castles and townes to his owne vse Orchanes was no sooner entred the countrey of CHARASIA but Tursons elder brother fled to PERGAMUM whither the Turks shortly pursued him Where Turson desirous to speake with his brother vnwarily approching the citie was wounded with an arrow shot from the wals and there slaine With whose death Orchanes was so greatly offended that he threatened to destroy the whole countrey with fire and sword if they did not by a day prefixed 〈◊〉 submit themselues to his mercie The people terrefied with this proclamation of so 〈…〉 alreadie in armes yeelded themselues vnto his subjection The kings sonne also 〈…〉 into PERGAMUM vpon reasonable conditions yeelded himselfe vnto Orchanes who 〈◊〉 him to PRUSA where after he had there liued two yeares died of the plague after whose death Orchanes made his son Solyman prince of CARASINA Neither is this taking in of the countrey of CARASINA to be accounted a small conquest one of the greatest houses of the Turks the successors of the Iconian Sultan Aladin now thereby taking end and their dominions which were not small as containing almost all LYDIA with some good parts of MISIA TROAS and the lesser PHRIGIA now vnited vnto the Othoman kingdome Orchanes vpon his returne for the good successe of this journey built a church and monasterie at PRUSA placing therein religious men with all diligence sought for out of all his kingdome of which religious the Turks write many fables better worth the smiling at than the serious reporting Hitherto the kingdome of Othoman and Orchanes his sonne was contained within the bounds of the lesser ASIA which the Turks call ANATOLIA Now it resteth to be shewed vpon what occasion Orchanes or rather his sonne Solyman Bassâ— as it were fatally with a small power first passed ouer HELLESPONTUS into EUROPE where they and their successors haue by little and little so enlarged their dominions that they haue now long ago quite ouerthrowne the Grecian empire with many other great kingdoms are at this present a terrour to all Christian princes bordering vpon them to the perpetuall infamie of the Greeks who for want of courage and busied with ciuile discord neuer sought in time to impeach their greatnesse Orchanes hauing now so augmented his kingdome that he might from many parts therof out of ASIA take view of the pleasant borders of EUROPE from whence he was excluded only by the narrow sea of HELLESPONTUS and continually incited with the vnsatiable and restlesse desire of soueraignetie began to deuise how he might possibly passe that strait sea and set foot into EUROPE another part of the world Which his conceit one day he imparted to his sonne Solyman who presently answered his father That if it would please him to giue him leaue he would not doubt to passe the strait of HELLESPONTUS and in time to plant the Mahometane religion in those countries of EUROPE possessed by the Christians Which answer of Solyman much pleased his father who gaue him leaue to depart into his countrey and in that matter to proceed further as he thought best and as occasion should best serue Solyman taking leaue of his father tooke his journey into CARASINA where riding vp and downe the country as it had bin for his pleasure only he made his way to the place where it is thought the famous citie of TROY sometime stood where yet as the Turks and some others say are to be seene the woonderfull ruines of that vnfortunate citie by the sea side In this place Solyman stood still a great while as it were in a studie forecasting as it seemed some great matter without speking one word to any of his followers When one of his chiefetains called Ezes-beg to put him out of his deep thoughts boldly said vnto him My lord and great soueraigne what strange thing is this that you are so deepely drowned in these your melancholy thoughts vndoubtedly it is some great matter that you are studying vpon Truth it is said Solyman for I was thinking how it were possible to passe ouer this sea of HELLESPONTUS into the borders of EUROPE and to take view of that countrey and so to returne vndiscouered If this bee the matter said Ezes-beg joyning vnto him one Fazil-Beg a man of no lesse valour than himselfe wee two will by the power of God performe â—nto you this enterprise Then was Solyman desirous to know of them about what place they would passe ouer which they well knowing the sea coast shewed him not far off Wherfore Solyman giuing them leaue they departed and shortly after making a little boat or rather as some suppose a raffe passed ouer HELLESPONTUS by night and arriued in EUROPE side neere vnto â— castle of the Turkes called ZEMENIC or ZEMBENIC but of the Greekes Coiridocastron that is to say The hogs castle not farre from SESTUS where going ashore they tooke prisoner a Greeke in a vineyard neere vnto the castle whom they finding to bee a good sensible fellow without delay put him into their boat or raffe and returning backe againe presented him to Solyman This Christian captiue Solyman entertained courteously giuing him great gifts and rich apparrell to discouer vnto him the estate of his countrey and in fine learned of him a meanes â—o take the castle of ZEMBENIC before the Christians should thereof be aware For atchieuement whereof certaine boats were speedily made readie by Solyman commaundement and he with eightie chosen souldiors easily passed ouer in them by night with their Christian guide the Greeke for in that place the strait betwixt ASIA and EUROPE is not past an Italian mile ouer This guide brought Solyman directly to the aforesaid castle where was a great dunghill so high that from the top thereof Solyman with his souldiors easily got into the castle which they woon without any great resistance for it was then haruest time and most part of the people were in the vineyards or treading out of their corne all night as the vse of those countries is Solyman thus possessed of the castle of ZEMBENIC vsed no extremitie against the inhabitants thereof seeking rather by courtesie to gaine their good wils than by extremitie to force them to his yet such gentlemen as he tooke with some others also of the better sort hee sent by shipping
than a Iewish superstition chusing rather to die than to eat or drinke thereof such is the strong delusion of blind errour where it hath throughly possessed the minds of men The cittie of SFETIGRADE as is aforesaid is situat vpon the top of a great high rocke as most of the cities of EPIRVS now be and was then watered but with one great well in the middest of the cittie which sunke deepe into the rocke plentifully serued both the publicke and priuat vse of the inhabitants Into this common well the malicious traitour in the night time cast the foule stinking carion carkas of a dead dog knowing that the conceited garrison souldiors of DYBRA would rather indure the paines of death and starue or els yeeld vp the citie vpon any condition than to drinke of that polluted water In the morning when the stinking carrion was espied and drawne out of the well the report thereof was quickly bruted in euery corner of the citie and that the well was poysoned so that all the people were in manner in an vprore about the finding out of the traitor The citizens were exceeding sorrie for that had happened but the garrison soldiors detested that loathsome and vncleane water as they accounted it more than the Turkish seruitude protesting that they would rather perish with thirst than drinke thereof Whereupon some of them desired to set fire vpon the citie and whilest they had yet strength to breake through the enemies campe or there manfully to die And they which thought best of the matter requested That the cittie might be yeelded vp for now they discouraged with a superstitious vanitie could be content to hearken to the former conditions of peace yea they were readie ynough of themselues to sue vnto Amurath for peace though it had beene vpon harder tearmes The Gouernour troubled with that had happened and astonied to see so great an alteration in the minds of his souldiours vpon so small occasion could not tell whether hee might thinke it to proceed of a superstitious conceit or of some secret compact made with Amurath But the better to pacifie the matter hee came into the market place and there in the hearing of all the garrison with many effectuall reasons exhorted them to continue faithfull vnto their prince and countrey in that honourable seruice and in a matter of so great conseqence to make small reckoning to vse that water which would easily in short time be brought againe to the wonted puritie and cleanenesse And to persuade them the rather he went presently to the well himselfe and in the sight of them all drunke a greater draught of the water whose example the cittizens following dranke likewise But when it was offered to the captaines and souldiors of the garrison they all refused to tast thereof as if it had been a most loathsome thing or rather some deadly poyson and with great instance cried vnto the Gouernour to giue vp the citie for which cause many thought they were corrupted by Amurath his great promises Howbeit none of that garrison except that one traitour did euer afterwards reuolt vnto the Turkish king or yet appeared any thing the richer for any gift receiued whereby such suspition might be confirmed When the Gouernour saw that the obstinate minds of the garrison were not to be mooued with any persuasion or reward whereof hee spared not to make large promise nor by any other meanes which he could deuise hee called vnto him his cheefe captaines with the best sort of the citizens resolued with them full sore against his will to yeeld vp the citie to Amurath vpon such conditions as they themselues there agreed vpon which were That it should be lawfull for all the captaines and souldiors to depart in safetie with their armour and all other things and that so many of the citizens as would stay might there still dwell in the citie in such sort as they had done before vnder the gouernment of Scanderbeg the rest that listed not to remaine there still might at their pleasure with bag and baggage depart whether they would Glad was Amurath when this offer was made vnto him and graunted them all that was desired sauing that hee would not consent that the citizens should continue in the citie yet was he content that they should liue vnder him as they had before done quietly enjoying all their possessions but to build their houses without the wals of the citie which condition some accepted and some forsaking all went to Scanderbeg When all was throughly agreed vpon the keyes of the gates were deliuered to Amurath and the Gouernor with the captaines and all the garrison souldiors suffered quietly to passe through the Turkish campe as the king had promised Howbeit Mahomet the sonne of Amurath a prince of a cruell disposition earnestly persuaded his father to haue broken his faith and to haue put them all to the sword saying it was one of their prophet Mahomets cheefe commaundements to vse all crueltie for the destruction of the Christians But the old king would not therein hearken vnto his sonne saying That he which was desirous to be great amongst men must either be indeed faithfull of his word and promise or at leastwise seeme so to be thereby to gaine the minds of the people who naturally abhorre the gouernment of a faithlesse and cruell prince The traitor which corrupted the water remained still in the citie and was by Amurath rewarded with three rich suites of apparell and fiftie thousand Aspers and had giuen vnto him besides a yearely pension of two thousand duckats But short was the joy the traitour had of this euill gotten goods for after he had a few daies vainely triumphed in the middest of Amurath his fauours he was suddenly gone and neuer afterwards seene or heard tell of being secretly made away as was supposed by the commandement of Amurath whose noble heart could not but detest the traitour although the treason serued well his purpose Amurath entring into SFETIGRADE caused the wals to be foorthwith repaired and placed one thousand two hundred Ianizaries in garrison there And raising his campe the first of September departed out of EPIRVS hauing lost thirtie thousand of his Turks at the siege of SFETIGRADE much greeued in mind for all that that hee could not vanquish the enemie whom he came of purpose to subdue In his returne the viceroy of ASIA marched before him with the Asian souldiors in the rereward followed the viceroy of EVROPE with his Europeian souldiors in the middest was Amurath himselfe compassed about with his Ianizaries and other souldiours of the court Scanderbeg vnderstanding of Amurath his departure followed speedily with eight thousand horsemen and three thousand foot and taking the aduantage of the thicke woods and mountaine straits to him well knowne wherby that great armie was to passe oftentimes skirmished with the Turks charging thē sometime in the vaward sometime in the rereward sometime on the one side
old king who in hope of preferment had long wished for the gouernment of the yong prince were glad to see him set vpon his fathers seat And the vulgar people neuer constant but in vnconstancie and alwaies fawning vpon the present exceedingly rejoyced in their young king The Ianizaries also at the same time according to their accustomed manner tooke the spoile of the Christians and Iewes that dwelt amongst them and easily obtained pardon for the same whereupon he was by the same Ianizaries and the other souldiors of the Court with great triumph saluted king Which approbation of these men of warre is vnto the Turkish kings a greater assurance for the possession of their kingdome than to be borne the eldest sonne of the king as in the processe of this Historie shall appeare so great is the power of these masterfull slaues in promoting to the kingdome which soeuer of the kings sonnes they most fauour without much regard whether he be the eldest or not This young tyrant was no sooner possessed of his fathers kingdome but that hee forgetting the lawes of nature was presently in person himselfe about to haue murthered with his owne hands his youngest brother then but eighteene moneths old begotten on the daughter of Spoâ—derbeius Which vnnaturall part Moses one of his Bassaes and a man greatly in his fauour perceiuing requested him not to imbrue his owne hands in the blood of his brother but rather to commit the execution thereof to some other which thing Mahomet commaunded him the author of that counsell foorthwith to doe So Moses taking the child from the nurse strangled it with pouring water downe the throat thereof The young ladie vnderstanding of the death of her child as a woman whom furie had made past feare came and in her rage reuiled the tyrant to his face shamefully vpbraiding him for his inhumane crueltie When Mahomet to appease her furie requested her to be content for that it stood with the policie of his state and willed her for her better contentment to aske whatsoeuer she pleased and she should forthwith haue it But she desiring nothing more than in some sort to be reuenged desired to haue Moses the executioner of her sonne deliuered vnto her bound which when she had obtained she presently strucke him into the breast with a knife crying in vaine vpon his vnthankfull master for helpe and proceeding in her cruell execution cut an hole in his right side and by peecemeale cut out his liues and cast it to the dogs to eat At the same time also he caused another of his brethren committed by his father to the keeping of Caly Bassa and now by him betrayed into his hands to be likewise murthered Thus beginning his tyrannous raigne with the bloodie execution of them that were in blood nearest vnto him and whom of all others he ought to haue defended he presently after began to frame a new forme of a commonweale by abrogating and altering the old lawes and customes and publishing of new better fitting his owne humour and more commodious for himselfe imposing also new taxes and subsidies vpon his subjects neuer before heard of thereby to increase his treasures and satisfie his auaritious desire which amongst many other his vices so much raigned in him as that he was thought ouersparing vnto himselfe as well in his apparrell as in his diet And proceeding farther hee called vnto straight account all the great officers of his kingdome of whom some he put to death and confiscated their goods others he put to great fines or quite remooued them from their offices In like manner hee dealt also with his great Bassaes admitting many false and surmised accusations against them whereby to bring them within his danger where little mercie was to be looked for By which meanes hee became no lesse terrible vnto his subjects than he was afterward vnto his enemies and so was of them exceedingly feared but more hated Amongst other things hee much misliked in his court the excessiue number of faulconers and huntsmen which was growne so great by the immoderat delight which his predecessors tooke in the pleasures of the field that there were continually maintained of the kings charge seuen thousand faulconers and not many fewer huntsmen saying That he would not be so much a foole as to maintaine such a multitude of men to attend vpon so meere a vanitie And therefore tooke order that from thenceforth there should bee allowance made for fiue hundred faulconers onely and one hundred huntsmen the rest he appointed to serue as souldiors in his warres At the same time also he entered into league with Constantinus Palaeologus the emperour of CONSTANTINOPLE and the other princes of GRECIA as also with the Despot of SERVIA his grandfather by the mothers side as some will haue it howbeit some others write that the Despot his daughter Amurath his wife was but his mother in law whom hee vnder the colour of friendship sent backe againe vnto her father after the death of Amurath still allowing her a princely dowrie But if shee were not his mother as like ynough it is that shee was not much more happie was she that she neuer groned for so gracelesse a sonne Whilest Mahomet was thus occupied about his ciuile affaires Ibrahim king of CARAMANIA who long before had married Amurath his sister and yet for all that had as his ancestors had before him alwaies enuied the prosperous successe of the Othoman kings tooke occasion in the first yeare of Mahomet his raigne with fire and sword to inuade his dominions in ASIA Which thing when Mahomet vnderstood he displaced Isa his lieutenant in ASIA as a man not sufficient to manage so great warres and appointed Isaack Bassa in his roome a most valiant man of warre vpon whom not long before he had vpon speciall fauour bestowed in mariage the fair daughter of Sponderbeius one of his fathers wiues of whom we haue before spoken This great Bassa passing ouer into ASIA raised a great armie After whom followed Mahomet in person himselfe with a greater out of EVROPE and hauing all his forces together entered with great hostilitie into CARAMANIA But the Caramanian king perceiuing himselfe vnable to withstand so puissant an enemie fled into the strength of the great mountaines and by his embassadours offered vnto Mahomet such reasonable conditions of peace as that hee was content to accept thereof Which after they had by solemne oath on both parts confirmed Mahomet returned with his armie to PRVSA but when he was come thither the Ianizaries presuming that they might be bold with the young king putting themselues in order of battaile came with great insolencie demaunded of him a donatiue or largious as a reward of their good seruice done With which so great presumption Mahomet was inwardly chafed but for so much as they were his best souldiors and alreadie in armes he wisely dissembled his anger for the present hauing a little
gally who generally grieued to see him so great a commaunder to let slip so faire an opportunitieâ— But he fearing to come any neerer came to an anchor and moued not neither gaue any signe of comfort or reliefe to the besieged Which thing the Turkish king quickly perceiuing and therwith encouraged hauing now in diuers places beaten downe the wals and made them sauâ—table brought on his men to the breaches promising them the spoile of the citie with many other great rewards and hie preferments according to their particuler deserts whereof he said he would himselfe be an eye-witnesse Hereupon the Turkes gaue a most fierce and furious assault which the defendants with inuincible courage receiued and made such slaughter of them that the ditches were filled and the breaches made vp with the bodies of the dead Turkes But such was the number of that populous armie the greatest strength of the Turkes that the liuing little felt the losse of the dead Mahomet continually sending in new supplies of fresh men in steed of them that were slaine or wounded So that one could no sooner fall but two or three slept vp in his roome and so successiuely as if new men had sprong out of the bodies of the dead Twise they had euen woon the breaches and were both times with wonderfull slaughter beaten out againe This deadly and dreadfull assault was maintained a whole day and a night without intermission At length the defendants being for the most part slaine or wounded and the rest wearied with long fight and vnable to defend the towne now assaulted almost round retired from the breaches into the market place and there like resolute men sold their liues at a decre price vnto the Turkes Amongst the slaine Christians were found the dead bodies of manie notable women who seeing the ruine of the citie chose rather to die with their friends in defence thereof than aliue to fall into the hands of their barbarous enemies Mahomet being now become lord of the citie and hauing lost fortie thousand of his Turks in that siege in reuenge thereof caused all the men that were found in the citie aliue to be put to most cruell death especially the Italians vpon whom he shewed his tyrannie with most exquisit and horrible torments Paulus Ericus gouernour of the citie with a few others who with him were fled into the castle without resistance deliuered the same vnto him vpon his faithfull promise that they might in safetie depart but after that he had got them into his power the perfidious tyrant without regard commaunded them all to bee cruelly murthered The gouernours daughter a maiden of incomparable beautie was amongst the rest taken prisoner and for her rare perfection by them that tooke her presented to Mahomet as the mirrour of beautie The barbarous tyrant greedie of so faire a prey sought first by flattering words and faire persuasion to induce her to consent to his desire but when hee could not so preuaile he fell into an other vaine and began to shew himselfe in his owne nature threatning her with death torture and force worse than death it selfe if shee would not otherwise yeeld vnto his appetite Whereunto the constant virgin worthie eternall fame answered so resolutely and so contrarie to the tyrants expectation that hee being therewith enraged commaunded her to bee presently slaine The horrible and monstrous crueltie with the filthie outrages by that beastly and barbarous people committed at the taking of that cittie passeth all credit CHALCIS thus woon the rest of that fruitfull island without farther resistance yeelded vnto the Turkish slauerie vnder which it yet groaneth This calamitie happened to the Venetian state or rather to say truely to the generall hurt of the Christian common-wealâ— in the yeare of our redemption 1470. Canalis the Venetian Admirall who all the time of the siege had in the sight of the cittie lien at anchor as a looker on fearing now that the cittie was lost to bee set vpon by the Turkes fleet hoised saile and laded with dishonour returned in hast vnto VENICE where hee was by the commaundement of the Senat committed to prison and afterward with all his family exiled to VTINVM Shortly after when Mahomet was departed with his armie out of EVBoeA and his fleet returned to CONSTANTINOPLE the Venetians with their gallies attempted to haue vpon the sudden surprised the cittie a little before lost But Mahomet had therein left so strong a garrison that when the Venetians had landed their men they were againe enforced to retire to their gallies and to forsake their island CHALCIS thus lost with all the island of EVBoeA the Venetians chose Petrus Mocenicus a valiant and discreet gentleman Admirall of their fleet instead of Canalis and by their embassadours sollicited Sixtus the fourth of that name then bishop of ROME and Ferdinand king of NAPLES with Lewis king of CYPRVS and the grand master of the RHODES to joyne their forces together with theirs against the great and common enemie which thing all the aforesaid Christian princes promised them to doe And the more to entangle the Turke they at the same time sent Caterinus Zenus their embassadour with rich presents vnto Alymbeius Vsâ—n-Cassanes the great king of PERSIA to incite him on that side against the Turke in which negotiation Zenus so well behaued himselfe that the next yeare following that great king tooke vp armes against Mahomet and had with him mortall warres as shall be in conuenient place hereafter declared Mahomet not ignorant of these proceedings of the Venetians and that they did what they might to stirre vp as many enemies as they could and to bring him if it were possible into hatred with the whole world and well knowing how much he had offended the minds of the Christian princes with the crueltie he had of late vsed against them of CHALCIS thought it not best as then further to prouoke them and so happily to bring all at once about his eares but for a season to lie still at CONSTANTINOPLE as if he had beene desirous now to liue in peace not meaning further harme hoping therby that although he concluded no peace with any of them which indeed he was not desirous of yet that tract of time might mitigate the hainousnesse of the fact and coole the heat of their displeasure whereby it came to passe as hee wished that nothing worth the speaking of was that yeare attempted against him And because the Persian king was the man of whom he stood most in doubt hee sought by his embassadours to pacifie him and to withdraw him from the league of the Christians requesting him if it were for nothing els but for the communitie of the Mahometane religion wherein they well agreed and were thereby the professed enemies of the Christians to withdraw his hand and in their cause to cease to take vp armes vrging now for that it so stood with his purpose the zeale of religion whereas
citie sent such as he thought good to CONSTANTINOPLE and commaunded the rest vpon paine of death not to depart thence or to conuay away from thence any part of their substance In short time after the whole countrey of TAVRICA CHERSONESVS yeelded vnto the Turkish obeisance At which time also the Tartar princes namely the Precopenses and Destenses terrified with the greatnesse of the Turke cowardly yeelded themselues as tributaries vnto him euer since which time they haue liued a most seruile and troublesome life subject to euerie commaund of the Othoman emperours for whom they haue done great seruice manie times in their warres against the Persians the Polonians the Hungarians Transyluanians and Germains as in the processe of this historie well appeareth and as the aforesaid nations their neighbours with others also farther off haue euen of late to their great losse felt Although the Venetians had in these late warres lost the great and fertile island of EVBoeA with the strong citie of CHALCIS the surest harbour for their gallies yet held they still diuers strong townes and commodious hauens by the sea coast both within PELOPONESVS and without as METHONE CORONE TENARVS NAVPACTVM and others which standing as it were in the bosome of his empire Mahomet sore longed after And therfore to satisfie his ambitious desire sent Solyman the great Bassa of EVROPE with a strong fleet into PELOPONESVS who entring the gulfe of CORINTH at his first comming laied siege to NAVPACTVM now called LEPANTO a citie standing in the gulfe of CORINTH in the countrey of OZOLae neere vnto LOCRIS ouer-against PELOPONESVS Antonius Laurettanus for his late good seruice done in defending of SCODRA made Admirall for the Venetians came with speed to NAVPACTVM and in despight of the enemie so furnished the citie both with men and whatsoeuer else was needfull that the Bassa now out of hope to win the citie rise vpon the sudden with his armie and in a great furie departed after he had lien there foure moneths In this fret returning towards CONSTANTINOPLE he put certaine companies of his men to shoare in the island of LEMNOS in hope to haue vpon the sudden surprised the citie COCCINVM but as they were about to haue entred they were contrarie to their expectation manfully resisted by such Christians as by chance were next the gate Where the notable courage of Marulla a maiden of that citie was much commended who seeing her father slaine in the gate tooke vp the weapons that lay by him and like a fierce Amazon notably reuenged his death desperatly fighting in defence of her countrey with those few which were there at the first and so kept the Turkes out vntill the rest of the citizens mooued with the alarum came to the gate and forced them not without some losse to retire againe to their gallies Not long after Laurettanus came thither with his fleet but before his comming the Bassa was departed thence for CONSTANTINOPLE hauing in this expedition done nothing that was expected at his hands Mâ—homet after the death of Scanderbeg ceased not from time to time by one of his great captaines or other to inuade EPIRVS and the other parts of ALBANIA and so gaining sometime one part and sometime another had subdued most part thereof And about this time his armie lay at the siege of CROIA for reliefe whereof the Venetians in whose protection it was sent Franciscus Contarenus a noble gentleman their lieutenant with such forces as were sufficient for the raising of the siege He finding the Turkes in the plaine of TIRANNA gaue them battell which for a great while stood doubtfull at length victorie enclining to the Venetians the Turks began to flie after whom the Venetians made no great pursuit but contented to haue put them to flight tooke their tents with such forts as they had raised against the citie Thus whilest the Venetians thinke themselues in sure possession of the victorie and out of feare of their enemies they were through their owne too much securitie by and by themselues ouerthrowne For whilest the common souldiours hauing their minds more set vpon the spoile than vpon the pursuit of the enemie the battell as yet scarce ended scatter themselues and the captaines were consulting whither they should lodge that night which began then to approach in the enemies tents or not in the middest of their consultation the Turkes hauing perceiued their disorder suddenly returned againe vpon them and without great resistance ouerthrew them and put them to flight In which flight a thousand of them fell amongst whom Contarenus the Generall and diuers others of good place and calling were slaine also This ouerthrow the Venetians tooke a great deale better than that which shortly after followed in the confines of ITALY at the riuer of Sontium Mahomet hauing conquered a great part of ALâ—ANIA and daily encroching vpon the Christians made diuers incursions into the countries of DALMATIA HISTRIA and CARNIOLA yea and sometime went so farre that he with his Turkes entred into the prouince of FRIVLI called in auntient time FORVM IVLII a part of the Venetian seigniorie and so carried away with them manie prisoners with much spoile For remedie whereof the Venetians with exceeding charge and wonderfull labour fortified alongst the riuer of Sontium from GORITIA to the fens of AQVILEA the space of twelue miles and there built two forts wherein they continually kept strong garrisons for the defence of the countrey Whereby the countrey people thinking themselues now in safetie began to fall into securitie the daungerous sicknesse of all common weales neglecting by their carefull watch to foresee a farre off the enemies comming as they had before vsed It fortuned at this time that Asa-beg whom some call Marbecke one of the Turkes great captaines vpon the sudden when no such things was feared came and shewed himselfe in an euening vpon the farther side of the riuer of Sontium with a thousand horsemen vpon the sight of whom an alarum was raised in both forts and euerie man put himselfe in readinesse as if they should euen presently haue joyned battell But it was so nie night as that nothing could as then be done yet the Venetian garrisons joyning themselues togither watcht all that night in armes There was at that time in both these forts three thousand horsemen and some few companies of footmen all vnder the commaund of Hieronimus Nowell Countie of VERONA a famous captaine of that time who with the rest of the captaines resolued if hee could to keepe the Turkes from passing the riuer if not then to giue them battell Marbecke Generall of the Turkes armie taking good view of the place in the night time secretly conuaied a thousand of his best souldiors ouer the riuer foure miles off in such a place as the Venetians feared least deeming it impossible for anie man there to haue passed ouer These men he appointed to lie close in ambush behind a great hill in
to bee heard of But these good parts were in him obscured with most horrible and notorious vices for why he was altogether irreligious and of all others most perâ—idious ambitious aboue measure and in nothing more delighted than in blood insomuch that it is probably gathered that hee was in his time the death of eight hundred thousand men craft couetousnesse and dissimulation were in him accounted for tollerable faults in comparison of his greater vices In his loue was no assurance and his least displeasure was death so that hee liued feared of all men and died lamented of none He had issue three sonnes Mustapha dead before him as is before declared Baiazet and Gemes or rather Zemes of some called Zizimus competitor of the empire with his elder brother whom hee exceedingly troubled in the beginning of his raigne so that he could not well attend any other thing but him which oportunitie by God himselfe no doubt offered for the safegard of ITALIE Alphonsus duke of CALABRIA king Ferdinand his eldest son taking hold vpon with all the power he could make in ITALIE besieged the Turks in OTRANTO with whom he had many sharpe skirmishes wherein he lost diuers of his great captaines and commaunders as the countie Iulio de Aquaiua Loys de Capua and the countie Iulio de Pisa with others and was still by the strong garrison of the Turks put to the worse vntill such time as being strengthened with aid out of SPAINE and PORTINGALE but especially with certaine companies of most valiant souldiours sent from Matthias Coruinus out of HVNGARIE whose forces the Turks most feared he began to cut them short and straitly besieged the citie both by sea and land vntill at length the besieged Turkes hearing of the death of their great emperour and now hardly pressed with the dangers of a strait siege no longer expecting the returne of Achmetes their Generall then readie to haue come to their rescue with fiue and twentie thousand soldiors yeelded vp the citie vnto the duke vpon composition before made That they might with bag and baggage in safetie depart thence which they did after they had to the great terror of all ITALIE holden that strong citie by the space of a yeare And so was that rich countrey rather by the mercie of God in taking away the great tyrant preserued than by the strength or policie of the inhabitants which was then in great danger to haue for euer giuen place vnto the power of the great tyrant had he longer liued yea and after his death to the power of Baiazet his sonne had he not by domesticall troubles been enforced to turne himselfe another way and as it were to neglect in time to releeue his distressed garrison in OTRANTO as shall hereafter be declared FINIS Christian princes of the same time with Mahomet the Great Emperours Of the East Constantinus Palaeologus last Christian emperor of Constantinople 1444. 8. Of the West Frederick the third Archduke of Austria 1440. 54. Kings Of England Henrie the sixt 1422. 39. Edward the fourth 1460. 22. Of Fraunce Charles the seuenth 1423. 38. Lewis the eleuenth 1461. 22. Of Scotland Iames the second 1437. 24. Iames the third 1460. 29. Bishops of Rome Nicholas the V. 1437. 8. Calixtus the III. 1455. 3. Pius the II. 1458. 6. Paulus the II. 1464. 7. Xystus the IIII. 1471. 13. BAIAZET BAIASETHES II TVRCARVM IMPERATOR SECUNDUS FLORVIT AN o 1481 Arma manu quatiunt fratres hostilia regnum Hinc Baiazethes Zizimus inde petit Baizethes rerum potitur Rhodon inde Quiritum Zizimus extrema moenia sorte petit Sustinet bello varias pace procellas Baizethes foelix miser inter opes Iam senio tremulus fert bella domestica regno Agnato eiectus dira venena bibit Like earthborne brethren Baiazet and Zizimus in armes Seeke for the Turkish empire great the one by th' others harmes Vntill that Baiazet preuail'd and Zizimus was faine To flie to RHODES from thence to ROME whereas he caught his baine Great stormes endured Baiazet in peace and bloudie broiles A man both happie and accurst amongst his richest spoiles But now forworne with trembling age and ciuile discord new Thrust from his empire by his sonne died poisoned by a Iew. THE LIFE OF BAIAZET SECOND OF THAT NAME AND SECOND EMPEROVR OF THE TVRKES VPon the death of Mahomet the late emperour great troubles began to arise about the succession in the Turkish empire some of the Bassaes and great captaines seeking to place Baiazet the eldest sonne of Mahomet in the empire and others with no lesse deuotion labouring to preferre Zemes or Gemes otherwise called Zizimus Baiazet his younger brother By occasion whereof there arose two great and mightie factions which in few daies grew to such heat that manie great tumults and hoat skirmishes were made in diuers places of the imperiall cittie betwixt the fauourites of both factions and great slaughter committed In these broiles the prowd Ianizaries for an old grudge slew Mahomethes one of the foure great Bassaes a man by whose graue counsell most of the waightie affaires of the Turkish empire had beene managed during the raigne of the late emperour And proceeding farther in their accustomed insolencie spoiled all the Christians and Iewes which dwelt amongst them of all their wealth and substance at which time the rich merchants and citizens of CONSTANTINOPLE which were naturall Turkes themselues escaped not their rauening hands but became vnto them a prey and spoile also The other three Bassaes of the court Isaack Mesithes and Achmetes lately returned from the winning of HYDRVNTVM in ITAâ—IE although they secretly maligned and enuied one at the greatnesse of an other yet to appease these so dangerous troubles and to assure their owne estates joyned hands togither and by their great authoritie and multitude of followers and fauourites found meanes that Corcutus one of the younger sonnes of Baiazet a young prince of eighteene yeares old was as it were by generall consent of the nobilitie and souldiours saluted emperour and with great triumph and solemnitie placed in the imperiall seat In whose name the aforesaid Bassaes at their pleasure disposed of all things little or nothing regarding either Baiazet or Zemes then both absent the one at AMASIA and the other at ICONIVM in LYCAONIA for the jealous Turkish kings neuer suffer their sonnes to liue in court neere vnto them after they be growne to yeares of discretion but send them to gouerne their prouinces farre off where they are also vnder the commaund of the emperours lieutenants generall in ASIA or EVRORE and may not depart from their charge without great danger not so much as to visit their father without his expresse leaue and commandement So jealous are those tyrants yea euen of their owne sonnes Baiazet and Zemes hearing of the death of their father and of the troubles in the imperiall citie hasted thitherward with all speed where Baiazet being the
through ROME And neuer satisfied with bloud which he without measure shed he tooke the citie of FAVENTIA from Astor Manfredus a young gentleman of rare perfection whom after the beastly tyrant had most horribly abused against nature he caused to be cruelly strangled and his dead bodie to be cast into Tiber. Hauing thus filled the measure of his iniquitie and as a fretting canker hauing either deuoured or driuen into exile most part of the Roman nobilitie and purposing by the supportation of his father to make himselfe lord and soueraigne both of the citie and of all LATIVM in the pride of his thoughts he was by the hand of the most highest attached and cast downe and that by such meanes as he least feared For being with his father at a solemn supper in the Vaticane of purpose prepared for the destruction of certaine rich Cardinals and some other honourable citizens they were both poisoned by the fatall errour of one of the waiters who mistaking of a flagon gaue the poisoned wine to the accursed bishop and his sonne which was prepared for the guests whereof the old bishop in few daies after died But his sonne who had drunke the same more delaied with water although he died not of long time after yet presently fell into such an extreame sickenesse that he was not able to helpe himselfe or to commaund his desperat followers whereof he had great store but lying sicke in short time saw himselfe of them forsaken and two of his enemies Pius the Third and Iulius the Second one after another sitting in his fathers place Of which two Pius enjoyed that pontificall dignitie but sixteene daies and Iulius succeeding him caused this Caesar Borgia who of right had deserued a thousand deaths to bee shut vp in the castle called MOâ—ES ADRIANI from whence he set him at libertie vpon the deliuerie of certaine strong holds which were yet holden by his garrisons After he had thus rid himselfe out of Iulius the bishops hands he fled to OSTIA and so by sea to NAPLES where he was by the commaundement of Ferdinand king of SPAINE apprehended by Consaluus the Great and transported into SPAINE for feare least he being of a most troublesome nature and much resorted vnto by his old fauourits should raise some new stirs in ITALIE He was no sooner arriued in SPAINE but he was cast into prison in the castle of MEDINA where after he had lien three yeares he deceiued his keepers and with a roape which he had gotten let himselfe downe from an high tower of the castle and so escaping fled to the king of NAVARRE whom he afterwards serued in his wars and was in an hoat skirmish against the kings enemies wherin he had obtained the victorie slaine with a small shot Vnworthy after so manie horrible villanies to haue ended his daies so honorably His dead bodie was found stript and so brought vnto the king vpon a bad beast as if it had been a dead calfe all naked which was by his commandement honourably buried at PAMPILONA But to returne againe from whence we haue something too long with this troublesome body gone astray The French king hauing thus lost both his great hostages Zemes the Turke by death and the Cardinall Borgia by escape held on his journey towards NAPLES and with wonderfull successe preuailed as hee went all places yeelding vnto him without any great resistance Alphonsus seeing himselfe destitute of such aid as he had in vaine requested both of the Turkish emperour and of the Venetians and now almost beset with his mightie enemy to whom so manie strong places had in shorter time been deliuered than anie man had before imagined and withall considering with himselfe how that he had lost the hearts of his subjects the strongest defence of princes for that most of the nobilitie and especially the Neapolitans hated him for his too much seueritie in punishing the offenders in the late rebellion wherein the princes of SARNE and SALERNE were chiefe and the common people were no lesse offended with the grieuous and heauie exactions required of them for the maintenance of these warres insomuch that their murmuring speeches came oftentimes to his owne hearing as oftentimes it falleth out That the hatred of the subjects against their princes which hath for feare of long time beene dissembled during their prosperitie more frankly and fiercely breaketh out in their declining estate For these causes Alphonsus fearing to be forsaken of his people as a man in despaire with aboundance of tears openly in the sight of all the Neapolitans resigned his kingdome of NAPLES vnto his sonne Ferdinand when as he had as yet scarcely raigned one whole yeare after the death of Ferdinand his father and with foure gallies passed ouer to MAZEREA a citie of CICILIA His son Ferdinand a prince of rare perfection and singularly graced with all the vertues of true nobilitie and thereto deerely beloued of all the people was to the wonderfull contentment of the Neapolitans with great joy and acclamations saluted king and so hauing performed all the ceremonies belonging to his coronation returned presently to his armie By this time the French king with all his forces was entered farre into the kingdome of NAPLES and hauing taken by assault certaine cities which trusted too much to their owne strength strucke such a generall terrour into the minds of the Neapolitanes that they thought no place now strong ynough to abide his batteries or power sufficient to encounter his forces Ferdinand the young king with his armie had taken the straits of the forrest of S. Germane thereby to impeach the further passage of the French king But whilest he was there busied he was suddenly aduertised that Fabritius Columna with a great power of Frenchmen had by the Appenines broken into CAMPANIA and so was marching towards him wherefore doubting to bee shut vp betwixt two strong armies of the enemies he retired speedily to CAPVA a strong citie situat vpon the riuer Vulturnus purposing there by meanes of that deepe riuer to stay the French from passing farther But whilest hee lay there newes was brought vnto him That all the cittie of NAPLES was in an vprore and that the citizens were all vp in armes as men in doubt which way to turne themselues Ferdinand not a little troubled with these bad newes commended the charge of his armie and the defence of the citie of CAPVA to his cheefe captaines and rid himselfe in post backe againe to NAPLES It is a strange thing to tell what a suddaine alteration ensued vpon his arriuall there for suddenly all the tumult was appeased euery man laied downe his armes and welcommed him with a generall gratulation for he was a man of a great and an inuincible courage and of so comely a personage as might easily win the hearts of his subjects insomuch that when he earnestly requested them that they would not traiterously betray him vnto his barbarous cruell enemies being
peeces and plentie of victuals which he brought with him for feare of want in that bare countrey Techellis terrified with his comming hauing of late receiued no aid from Hysmaell the Persian king and wanting also great artillerie and besides that seeing his souldiors greatly both deminished and discouraged with the late battaile at OLYGA determined not vpon so great disaduantage to meet his enemie in the plaine field but to keepe the rough mountaine and thicke woods hoping that if he could be able any time to keepe those strong places hee should either receiue some aid from Hysmaell or by the heat of the Turkes leaders take them at some notable aduantage In the meane time many notable skirmishes passed betwixt the souldiors on both sides for the Turkes fetching a compasse oftentimes about the mountaines and seeking for the best passages by the easie rising of the hils came to skirmish with their enemies and Techellis his souldiors on the other side sallying many times out of the woods and abrupt places of the mountaines valiantly assailed the Turkes After they had a long time in this sort as if it had beene in disport rather proued their forces one vpon another than done any great matter the Turkes prying into euery corner at length perceiued two wayes whereby their whole armie with ensignes displayed might without any great difficultie bee brought vnto the top of the mountaine and so into their enemies strength The Bassa hauing well viewed and considered the places caused the Ianizaries at one instant to march vp to the mountaine by one of the aforesaid wayes and the rest of his armie by the other who with soft pace climing vp the steepe mountaines with their targuets defended themselues as well as they could against their enemies darts and shot For Techellis his souldiours hauing before taken the high mountaines and places of aduauntage cast downe vpon the Turkes great stones and shot without number as if it had beene out of some strong forts But the Turkes bending certaine small field peeces against the places which most annoied them easily draue them from their standings the harquebusiers still following their ensignes shrouded close vnder the targuetiers and deliuering their deadly shot as showers of raine vpon their enemies Whose desperat approch Techellis perceiuing caused a retreat to be sounded and with all his armie retired farther off into the higher mountaines and rougher woods The night following perceiuing that by the euill successe of the former skirmish he had lost a great part of his credit and strength he with great silence forsooke the woods and passing quite ouer the mountaines fled into ARMENIA then part of the Persian kingdome Neither did the Turkes perceiue their departure vntill it was light day and that their scouts entring the thicke woods and finding the enemies baggage with some wounded souldiors not able to flie brought newes vnto the Bassa of the enemies departure and of his speedie flight into ARMENIA Which thing when hee by them which were taken vnderstood to be certainely true fretting and chafing like a mad man that hee had not presently vpon the enemies retreat beset the wood round he sent his horsemen forthwith to pursue them but all in vaine for Techellis was by direct and knowne wayes gone into ARMENIA Some few straglers not able to make so much hast as the rest were ouertaken by the Turkes horsemen and brought backe to the Bassa Techellis thus put to flight Ionuses caused strait inquisition to be made through all the cities of the lesser ASIA for all such as had professed the Persian religion and them whom he found to haue borne armes in the late rebellion hee caused to be put to death with most exquisit torments the rest to be burnt in their foreheads with an hot yron thereby for euer to be knowne whom together with the kinsfolkes and friends of them that were executed or fled with Techellis he caused to be transported into EVROPE and to be dispersed through MACEDONIA EPIRVS and PELOPONESVS for feare least if Techellis now fled into the Persian kingdome should from thence returne with new forces they should also againe repaire vnto him and raise a new rebellion This was the beginning course and ending of one of the most dangerous rebellions that euer troubled the Turkish empire wherein all or at leastwise the greatest part of their dominions in ASIA might haue been easily surprised by the Persian king if he would thoroughly haue prosecuted the occasion and opportunitie then offered The remainder of Techellis his followers flying into PERSIA by the way lighting vpon a Carauan of merchants laden with silkes and other rich merchandise tooke the spoile thereof for which outrage comming to TAVRIS the captaines were all by the commandement of Hysmaell executed and Techellis himselfe to the terrour of others burnt aliue The next yeare which was the yeare 1509 the fourteenth day of September chanced a great and terrible earthquake in the citie of CONSTANTINOPLE and the countries thereabouts by the violence whereof a great part of the wals of that imperiall citie with manie stately buildings both publike and priuat were quite ouerthrowne and thirteene thousand people ouerwhelmed and slaine The terrour whereof was so great that the people generally forsooke their houses and lay abroad in the fields yea Baiazet himselfe then verie aged and sore troubled with the gout for feare thereof remoued from CONSTANTINOPLE to HADRIANOPLE but finding himselfe in no more safetie than before he left the citie and lay abroad in the fields in his tent This earthquake endured by the space of eighteene daies or as the Turkes histories report of a moneth with verie little intermission which was then accounted ominous as portending the miserable calamities which shortly after happened in the Othoman family After this earthquake ensued a great plague wherewith the citie was grieuously visited and for the most part vnpeopled But after that the earthquake was ceased and the mortalitie assuaged Baiazet caused the imperiall citie to be with all speed repaired and to that purpose gaue out commissions into all parts of his dominion for the taking vp of workmen so that there were at once in worke eightie thousand workmen who in most beautifull manner in the space of foure moneths againe repaired the ruines of that great citie Baiazet had by his manie wiues eight sonnes and six daughters which liued to be men and women growne and the sonnes all gouernours in diuers prouinces of his large empire whom the Turkish histories reckon vp in this order Abdullah Zelebi Alem Schach Tzihan Schach Achmet Machmut Corcut Selim and Muhamet Yet Antonius Vtrius a Genoway who long time liued in Baiazet his court and as he of himselfe writeth waited in his chamber at the time of his death reckoning vp the sons of Baiazet maketh mention but of these six Sciemscia Alemscia Achomates Mahometes Selymus and Corcutus naming the forenamed by names something differing from the
could by pollicie bring that to passe which he was otherwise with great danger to attempt by force Wherefore faining himselfe to be extreame sicke he sent embassadours to Alis requesting him as a friend to vouchsafe to come vnto him being at the point of death vnto whom he had many things of importance from the great emperour to impart and would if he should die leaue with him all his charge vntill Solyman should otherwise dispose thereof Alis who from his youth had alwaies honoured the Turkish emperours and faithfully serued them mistrusting no harme came to the Bassa accompanied with his foure sonnes whom the faithlesse Bassa without regard of infamie caused presently to be put to death with their father and so reducing all that countrey into the manner of a prouince vnder Solymans obeisance came to him with twentie thousand men about the time that the citie of the RHODES was yeelded vp This is the faithlesse dealing of the Turks not with the Christians onely but with them of their owne superstition also vsing it as no small pollicie vtterly to extinguish the nobilitie in all countries subject to their seruile tyrannie Solyman after he had thus subdued the RHODES and disposed of the Island as he liked best returning to CONSTANTINOPLE brake vp his armie and for the space of three yeares after followed his pleasure not doing any thing worthie of remembrance During which time and many yeares after the rich and flourishing countrey of ITALIE sometime mistres of the world was miserably afflicted and rent in peeces by Charles the fift then emperour and Francis the French king the one enuying vnto the other the glorie of the empireâ—punc and he not content therwith seeking with immoderat ambition to make himselfe lord of all ITALIE most of the other Christian princes and states being at the same time either by the one or by the other drawn into the fellowship of that warre to the great trouble and sore weakening of the Christian common-weale Whereupon Solyman waiting all occasions that might serue for the enlarging of his empire and annoying of the Christians thought it now a fit time for him to set his foot into HVNGARIE whereinto he had alreadie laied open a way by the taking of BELGRADE He knew right well that Lewes then king of HVNGARIE was but yong altogether vnacquainted with the warres commaunding ouer his headstrong subjects especially his rich prelates and nobilitie no otherwise than pleased themselues being himselfe rather by them altogether ouerruled Besides that he was in good hope that the other Christian princes neere vnto him either carried away with regard of their owne estate would not or els before vnto himselfe by league fast bound could not affoord vnto him any great aid or succour The Germanes hee knew would make small hast vnto such warres as should yeeld them much danger and but small pay As for the princes of the house of AVSTRIA Charles the emperour and Ferdinand his brother although they were joined vnto the young king with the neerest bonds of alliance Lewes hauing married Marie their youngest sister and Ferdinand Anne king Lewes his sister yet was there as he thought small helpe to be expected from them Charles hauing his hands full in ITALIE and Ferdinand altogether carefull of himselfe And that Sigismund king of POLONIA would for the young kings sake breake the antient league he had with the Turkish emperors he could hardly be persuaded As for other Christian princes farther off he stood not in any great doubt Thus hauing with himselfe singled out this young prince the Hungarian king whom he had in his greedie mind alreadie deuoured he set forward from CONSTANTINOPLE and was come on his way as far as SOPHIA in SERVIA with a mightie armie of two hundred thousand men before that the Hungarians had any knowledge of his comming so blind sencelesse was that state which now sleeping in securitie had long before lost those eyes which euer watcht and neuer spared cost or paines to keepe the same in safetie in stead of whom were others come in place sharpe of sight and too too prouident for that concerned their owne aduancement but blind as beetils in foreseeing this great and common danger wherewith they were shortly after all quite ouerwhelmed vntill it was now brought home vnto their owne dores The yong king of himselfe but weake by reason of his youthfull yeares and nothing strengthened by them for whom he had most done and should haue beene his greatest stay was wonderfully dismayed with the fame of the approch of so mightie an enemie yet the better to withstand him he sent embassadors with all speed vnto the Christian princes his neighbors requesting their aid against the common enemie but all in vaine In the meane time after the auntient manner of his countrey he gaue out generall summons for the assembly of his counsell for the warres whether his great stipendarie prelates of dutie bound to appeare came with their troupes of euill appointed horsemen and not halfe full who also deliuered in lesse summes of money by farre than of right they should haue done towards the maintenance of the charge of that common war And the temporall nobilitie forgetting the warlike discipline of their famous ancestors as fresh water souldiors which had neuer seene the Turkish emperour in his strength and but little acquainted with some light skirmishes or small inuasions in their vaine brauerie made light account of the Turkes proudly vaunting That although they were in number but few yet they would easily ouerthrow the great numbers of them if euer they came to handâ—e strokes But aboue all the rest one Paulus Tomoreus archbishop of COLOSSA sometimes a Minorite who had before been in diuers light skirmishes against the Turks with great insolencie did so confidently brag and boast of the victorie he vainely dreamed of that in his sermons vnto the souldiours and in open talke with the nobilitie if he could haue done so much as he vaunted of it should seeme that he himselfe had been ynough to haue ouerthrowne the Turks whole armie But when all the kings armie was assembled and a generall moster taken there was hardly found fiue and twentie thousand men in all horse and foot So that the foolish hardinesse of Tomoreus and others so forwards to giue the Turks battell was of most wise men disliked The old souldiors and men of great experience said plainely That it was meere follie and madnesse with such a handfull of men to giue battell vnto the enemie who would bring eight times so many moe into the field as they were Wherefore some wished that the young king should be withdrawne from the imminent danger amongst whom Stephanus Verbetius a noble captaine of all the rest best acquainted with the Turkish warres gaue counsell that the person of the yong king should for the safetie of the common state whatsoeuer should happen be kept out of
waded ouer in which time Cazzianer entred oftentimes into counsell with the other captaines what course to hold for the better proceeding in that warre Where diuers men were of diuers opinions some said it were best to leaue EXEK and to besiege a castle of the enemies thereby called VILLACH others more wearie than the rest were of opinion That it were better there to stay vntill the rest of the aid and the victuall which they dayly expected were come But the greater number which also preuailed vrged the first determination of going directly to the enemie at EXEK for that longer delay would but breed further danger and there was in the campe as they said both strength and victuall sufficient for the obtaining of the victorie if they would make an end of their needlesse consultations and not protract the warre vntill Winter were come on whereby they did nothing els but cause the souldiors to thinke that they were afraid to meet the enemie and secretly to steale away backe againe into their countries Whereas if they would like resolute men march on forward against the enemie who at other times trusting most vnto his multitudes and now hauing no great power would neuer abide the sight of the Christian armie bringing with it so much artillerie but would forthwith forsake the place and neuer shew his face for as much as the Christian men at arms would as they said easily breake thorow and ouerthrow the naked Turkish horsemen if they durst abide the field The young soldiors who as yet had neuer made proofe of the Turks manner of fight did with such cheerefulnesse like of this resolution that they thought two dayes staying a long delay of so readie and easie a victorie Wherefore it was resolued vpon presently to set forward and therupon the armie was mustered where vpon view taken there was found to be ten thousand horsemen for diuers troupes of Germans were come to the campe after the time of the first setting forward of the armie a more gallant companie of horsemen both for the strength of their horses and goodly furniture of the men had seldome been seene in an armie so suddenly raised But the footmen selected out of all the prouinces was greatly deminished being now in number scarce eight thousand strong for many were sicke in the campe others wearie of the long journy lingering behind were stolne away and generally all they which were left moyled with dirt and myre by reason of the deepenesse of the rotten way wet thorow with raine and almost statued with cold and therto pincht with hunger were thought scarce able to endure the hardnesse of the present war After that commaundement was giuen That euery souldior should carrie with him three dayes victuall and proclamation made That no man should vpon pain of death take any Turke prisoner although he yeelded himselfe or charge himselfe with any spoile before the battell were fully ended for as much as the captaines would afterwards deuide the spoile of the enemie amongst the souldiors This proclamation thus made thorow the campe they set forward towards EXEK the third day they came to a certaine valley about three miles from EXEK where they encamped The next day a companie of Turkes shewed themselues which was by the great ordinance repulsed The day following the enemie sallied out of the towne and skirmished oftentimes with the Christians in which skirmishes many were slaine on both sides but moe wounded of the Christians for that the Turkes had pollitickely mingled certaine Ianizaries harquebusâ—ers and archers with their horsemen who vsed to that manner of fight sore gauled the Christian horsemen For which cause the Generall forbad all such light skirmishes as purposing to keepe his strength whole against the generall day of battell commaunding his cannoniers so to place the great ordinance as might most annoy the enemie if he should shew himselfe by troupes within the danger of the shot which was so well performed that the Turkes sallying forth receiued thereby great hurt the deadly shot flying thorow the middest of their companies The same day Symon bishop of ZAGRAâ—IA came into the campe with his horsemen and a certaine prouision of victuall whereby the feare of the want before conceiued was well eased Mahometes perceiuing that the Christians were not longer to be drawne to those harmefull skirmishes but that he must bring his men in danger of the great shot to annoy them by another meanes sent many small boats manned with harquebusiers and small pieces of ordinance into the lake neere vnto the campe so to keepe the Christians from watering there and with those small pieces shot oftentimes into the campe Neere vnto the valley where the Christians lay was a hill whereupon stood a village wherein were placed certaine companies of Turks to skirmish as occasion should serue with the Christians for displacing of whom the whole armie was put in order of battell and the great artillerie bent vpon them that they should not with their light skirmishes after the manner of the Turkish fight trouble the order of the armie Which thing the Turks perceiuing and that they were not able to hold the place set fire on the towne and so retired to EXEK The Christians keeping on their march came to the top of the hill from whence they might see EXEK stand about two miles off in a faire plaine neere vnto the banke of Dranus all which low ground betwixt the hill and EXEK was so subject to the castle that it was thought a matter too full of danger to attempt that way to batter the castle and to expose the armie to the ineuitable furie of the enemies shot Wherefore descrying a rising ground on the further side of the citie equall with the top of the wals they thought it best to remoue their campe thither and on that side to plant their batterie against the citie But to come to that place was thought a matter of no small trouble for they must set a compasse three miles on the right hand thorow a forrest by a foule and troublesome way before they could come to the place they desired for the armie was not so great as to besiege the citie round wherein were not as is reported aboue sixteen thousand men neither was there such store of victuals in the campe but that the armie was like soone to feele the want thereof without a continuall supplie whch would hardly be had the enemie still besetting euery passage and with their light horsemen scouring about all the countrey of purpose to keepe them from victuall For which cause some were of opinion That it were best for them there to stay where they were vntill such time as both more aid and better store of victuals were come vnto them but others of contrary mind said the enemie was but barely stored with victuall himselfe and therefore could not long hold out which they said they vnderstood by certaine Christian fugitiues and that
were many noble gentlemen of great account which might haue done their countrey good seruice had they been in time imploied Sommer now almost halfe spent and the plague well ceased the Venetian Admirall wearie of expecting of the comming of Auria the Spanish Admirall gathering togither his fleet which he had before dispersed to auoid the infection sailed to CORCYRA where he met with Venerius another of the Venetian commaunders who there staied for him hauing but a little before taken from the Turks CESTRIA now called SVPPOTO a town vpon the sea coast ouer against CORCYRA The whole fleet of the Venetians being assembled togither was an hundred and seauenteene saile amongst which were twelue great gâ—leasses but all too weake to giue battell to the Turkes as being themselues stronger in shipping than in men Neuerthelesse the Admirall sorie and wearie to see the spoile of the Venetian territorie and moued with the distresse of the besieged in NICOSIA rather than for any hope he had with that strength to doe any good against the Turkes fleet departed from CORCYRA towards CRETE and the twelfth of August landed at SVDA a port of that island In the latter end of this moneth Columnius the Popes Admirall and Auria Admirall for the king of SPAINE arriued there also whom the Venetian Admirall welcomed with great joy and triumph The whole fleet of the confederaâ— princes now at length met togither consisted of an hundred ninetie two gallies and twelue galeasses beside victualers and other small vessels laded with munition and other necessarie prouision for the fleet Of these gallies the Pope had set forth twelue the king of SPAINE fortie two the rest with the galeasses were the Venetians In this fleet were embarked thirteene thousand six hundred threescore souldiors of whom the Pope sent eleuen hundred the king of SPAINE three thousand nine hundred and the Venetians eight thousand six hundred and sixtie These three great commaunders entring into counsell what course to take in their proceedings in this warre after long discourse too and fro at length by the persuasion of Zanius the Venetian Admirall resolued to go directly for CYPRVS and to giue the Turkes battell in hope thereby to raise them from the siege of NICOSIA About the middest of September this great fleet furnished with all things needfull for such an expedition loosed from CRETE and with a faire gale of wind set forward for CYPRVS in all their course keeping such order as if they should presently haue met with the enemie In the middest of these troubles died Petrus Loredanus duke of VENICE leauing the rest of the care of that warre to Aloysius Mocenicus who succeeded him in the dukedome Whilest the Christians thus slowly proceed in their so waightie affaires Mustapha in the meane time laied hard siege to NICOSIA and diuiding his armie into foure parts assaulted foure of the bulwarks of the citie with greater force than at any time before from the beginning of the siege The assault was both long and terrible furie and the verie sight of the warlike Generall who was there a present witnesse and beholder of euerie mans forwardnesse or cowarddise a matter of great moment besides their naturall fiercenesse carried the Turkes headlong without any perill or danger And on the other side the greatnesse of the danger the feare to loose both life and libertie with the hope of reliefe encouraged the defendants to dare any thing so that the Turks could not approach the wals or mount the scaling ladders but they were presently slaine or togither with the ladders throwne to the ground Many of the Turkes were there slain but especially such as were most forward and of the defendants were also more lost than stood with the safetie of so small a number and for as much as few or none escaped out of that fight vnwounded the poore defendants were brought vnto a small number Many skilfull men were of opinion that the citie might haue been that day taken if the assault had by the Bassa been longer maintained by bringing still on fresh men but such was his losse as that he was glad for that time to giue ouer the assault and so with dishonour to retire After this assault it was by some of the captaines thought good that they should whilest they were yet of some reasonable strength in the citie sallie forth vpon the enemie so to make shew that they had yet some good hope in themselues and withall by so sudden an eruption to performe something vpon the secure enemie Of which motion Dandulus the Gouernour in no case liked as loath by such a dangerous peece of seruice to deminish the number of the defendants and so to giue the enemie an easier meanes to take the citie Yet seeing all the captaines generally of another mind he yeelded vnto their desire So in the hotest time of the day when as the Turkes least thought that the Christians would haue sallied out certaine Italian companies vnder the conduct of Caesar Plouianus of VICENTIA and Albertus Scotus issued out by the gate that leadeth to FAMAGVSTA and vpon the sudden brake into the enemies trenches where they found the Turks some playing some sleeping but fearing nothing lesse than that the Christians whom they daily braued durst to haue aduentured to come forth At the first entrance the Italians preuailed and brought a great feare vpon that quarter of the Turks armie and slew many But when the Turks awaked with the alarum came running in on euery side the Italians oppressed with the multitude were glad to retire in which retreat diuers of them were slaine and amongst them their two leaders Caesar and Albertus so that this sallie serued to no other purpose than to weaken the defendants themselues and to cause the Turkes to keepe better watch and ward afterward against such sudden eruptions All hope of long defending the citie now almost lost and that the defendants could hardly stand vpon the wals or shew their heads without present danger they for want of better counsell rather than for any hope of good successe sent out certaine scouts men skilfull of the wayes and passages of the countrey whom they had for great reward enduced to vndertake the matter to craue aid of the countrey people that were in great multitude fled into thâ— safetie of the mountaines and to tell them that if they came not in time to their releefe their wiues and children whom they had before sent into the citie must needs in short time fall into the enemies hand or perish with hunger but these messengers were by the vigilant enemie intercepted and in the sight of the besieged tortured to death About the same time diuers letters were shot with arrows into the citie to persuade the besieged Christians to yeeld themselues for that in so doing they should find the Bassa a mild mercifull conquerour whereas otherwise if they should by wilfull holding out delay his victorie
with continuall snowes leauing on his left hand MEDIA IBERIA and CHOLCHIS and on the right hand the famous riuers of Tanais and Volga euen at his first entrance vnto the shores of the Euxine sea he was by the abouenamed twelue thousand Tartarians being apparrelled like theeues that lie vpon those wayes suddenly assailed and fought withall But like as an huge rocke lying open to tempests and waues standing fast and vnmoueable in it selfe resisteth the thunderings and rushings of the great and fearefull billowes so stood Osman fast and firme and couragiously sustained this trecherous assault turning the bold countenances of his resolute souldiors against the rebellious multitude of those traiterous squadrons who as is their manner in the beginning vsed great force but finding so stout resistance in those few whom they had thought with their onely lookes and shoutings to haue put to flight they began at length to quaile Which Osman quickly perceiuing couragiously forced vpon them and in a very short space and with a very small losse of his owne put those Tartarians to flight killing a number of them and also taking many of them prisoners by whom Osman was afterwards informed as the truth was that their king for feare that he had conceiued least when he came to CONSTANTINOPLE he would procure his destruction from Amurath had sent this armie to seeke his death Of which treason Osman caused a perfect processe to be made together with the depositions of the Tartarian prisoners which he sent the shortest way he could deuise to Amurath at CONSTANTINOPLE with letters declaring all that had passed enflaming him to reuenge so grieuous an injurie and so wicked a practise Amurath receiuing these aduertisements from Osman according to the necessitie of the matter tooke order that Vluzales his Admirall with certaine gallies well appointed should passe ouer to CAFFA to fetch Osman and withall to carrie with him Islan a brother of the Tartar kings commaunding Osman by letters that he should to the terrour of others put to death the treacherous king and place his brother in his roume This Tartar king was one of those mightie princes who basely yeelding to the Othoman power led vnder them a most vile and troublesome life as their tributaries and vassals alwayes at commaund whose yonger brother Islan presuming of the sufficiencie of himselfe and the fauour of the people going to CONSTANTINOPLE became a suter vnto the Turkish emperor to haue his eldest brother thrust out of his kingdome as a man for his euill gouernment hated of his subjects and to be placed himselfe in his roume Which his sute was so crossed by the embassadours of the king his brother who spared for no cost in the behalfe of their master that the ambitious youth was sent from the Turks Court to ICONIVM and there clapt fast vp in prison where apparrelled like an Eremit he led his life altogether conformable to his miserie with such a kind of externall innocencie as if he had beene void of all hope or ambitious desire of a kingdome but rather like a forlorne and vnhappie wretch with vaine affliction and impious deuotion to prepare himselfe to a laudable and honourable death But whilest he thus liued sequestred from all worldly cogitations vpon the discouerie of the king his brothers rebellion he was in more than post hast sent for to CONSTANTINOPLE and put into the gallies bound for CAFFA with letters to Osman of the tenor aforesaid Now in the meane time Osman had by cunning meanes got into his hands this Tartar king being as is reported betrayed by his owne counsellours corrupted with the Turkes gold whom with his two sonnes Osman vpon the receit of the aforesaid letters from Amurath caused to be presently strangled with a bowstring and Islan his younger brother to be saluted king in his place yet as vassale to Amurath This shamefull death the vsuall reward of the Turkish friendship was thought justly to haue happened vnto this Tartar king for that he not long before supported by Amurath had most vnnaturally deposed his aged father from that kingdome just vengeance now prosecuting his so great disloyaltie Osman embarking himselfe in the forenamed gallies at the port of CAFFA passing ouer the Euxine sea and entering into the Thracian Bosphorus arriued at CONSTANTINOPLE where he was receiued with great pompe and singular significations of good loue But with most euident and expresse kinds of joy was he saluted by Amurath himselfe when by his owne speech and presence he declared vnto him euery particularitie of the matters that had happened in his long and important voiage and in liuely manner represented vnto him the perils and trauels that he had passed and the conquests that he had made in SIRVAN After all which discourses Amurath who longed after nothing more than to see the Persian king somewhat brideled and the famous citie of TAVRIS brought vnder his own subjection began to enter into conference with Osman about that enterprise and in the end would needs throughly know of him what issue he could promise him of this his desire and in what sort by his aduice and counsell the forces should be employed and the armies disposed for the subduing of that citie which ouerall the nations of the world was so famous and so great an honour to the Persian kingdome To all which demaunds his answere and resolution was That for so much as the matters of GEORGIA were now well setled the trecherous passages by the new built forts assured and the prouince of SIRVAN vnder his obedience established there was now no cause why he should any longer foreslow so famous an enterprise but by the conquest of TAVRIS erecting of a fort in that proud citie to bring a terrour vpon all PERSIA and to raise a glorious renowne of so mightie a conquest among the nations of EVROPE for the accomplishment whereof he thought that either the same armie or at the most a very little greater would suffice so that it were raised of the best and choisest souldiors By reason of one of the letters which Sciaus Bassa had written to the late Tartar king and by the instigation of the young Sultan Mahomets mother jealous of the neere alliance of the great Bassa with her husband as prejudiciall and dangerous to her sonne Amurath had in the open Diuano depriued the said Sciaus from the office of the cheefe Visier and hardly pardoning him his life at the intercession of his wife being his sister had banished him the Court so that he liued afterwards about CALCEDON vpon the borders of ASIA not far from CONSTANTINOPLE in a close pallace he had there built for his owne pleasure in whose roume he appointed Osman to be cheefe Visier and to honour him the more nominated him the Generall of his armie against the Persians Such power hath vertue that euen from the very scum of the rascall sort and out of the rusticall rout of
many forced reasons and excuses Why they should surcease from meeting with the Turks and Emanguli as yet vtterly ignorant of the wicked purposes and mischieuous treacherie of Aliculi suffered himselfe to be misse-led by him also By the delayes and negligence of these two Persian captaines the Turkish Generall tooke leisure without any losse or hinderance at all to arriue at TAVRIS and to put the desired succours into the fort at what time the Persian prince by good hap had got knowledge of the treacherie of Aliculi and of the designements which many of the Sultans had lately contriued for the betraying of him aliue into the hands of the Turkish Generall Of which suspition he being greatly afraid durst not onely not trust himselfe to performe those battels that he had before determined to haue performed but quite abandoning this noble and honourable enterprise wholly employed all his care and studie for the safetie of his own person and so left the triumph of the matter in the power of the Turkes And thus those great hopes and expectations which the Persians had conceiued of great exploits to haue beene done against the enemie did not onely prooue vaine and come to no good issue but contrariwise by this discouerie were conuerted into most strange disturbances and all PERSIA thereby endured sundrie alterations and reuolutions of most important consequences For both Aliculi Chan and his complices were pursued by the prince as rebels and traitours and also Abas Mirize of HERI was manifestly discouered for a wicked and treacherous contriuer of his brothers death whereby the common mischiefes were encreased more than euer they were before and the publicke calamities yeelded greater hopes vnto the Turkes than they had euer before conceiued in all the course of these warres When Ferat had thus relieued them in the castle of TAVRIS leauing for the custodie therof Giaffer the Bassa with his former companies he returned towards ERZIRVM hauing first caused a fort to be erected at CVRCHIVE TAVRIS a place neere vnto TAVRIS another at COY and the third at CVM in euery one of which forts he left a conuenient number of souldiors with all things necessarie and sufficient for their maintenance and defence of the places they were to keepe He sent also succours to the fort at TEâ—LIS in GEORGIA which they had long expected and now most joyfully receiued But the Persian prince hauing hunted Aliculi Chan out of the quarters of TAVRIS thought himselfe now wholly deliuered from the great feare of treason and rebellion wherein he of late liued and therfore in as great hast as he could put himselfe on his journey towards GENGE in which place hauing gathered together a good number of souldiors he determined to remoue thence to intercept the succours that were by the Turkes to be brought to TEFLIS Now he had alwayes found Emanguli Chan to be both faithfull and wise and in him he reposed an assured confidence for performing any enterprise that he had in hand and communicated with him euery deuice that he had conceiued in these wars And therefore he made head and joyned with him and lodging most familiarly in his citie he stayed there for the setting in order and disposing of his foresaid designement being very desirous not to let such an oportunitie to ouerslip without signification vnto the world of some notable noueltie which might be correspondent to the fame that of matters passed and performed the yeare before was now spread and published abroad ouer all the world But when he was euen at the very fairest to haue put this his desire in execution and least of all feared any treacherie or treason vpon a sudden in the night time as he slept vpon a pallet he was miserably strucken through the bodie by an Eunuch of his that attended vpon him and so the most resplendent and bright lustre that euer shined in PERSIA was vtterly extinguished What was the occasion thereof and who procured his death diuers and sundrie are the opinions of men Some thinke that his brother Abas Mirize of HERI who had before conspired to haue had him betrayed into the hands of the Turkish Generall had now by force of money and gifts enduced the wicked Eunuch thereunto Others deemed it not to haue beene done without the priuitie of his father as more desirous to preferre Abas Mirize his other sonne vnto the kingdome Diuers others doe diuersly reason of the matter so that to affirme of a certainetie that thus or thus the death of so worthie a prince was procured were great rashnesse and therefore we leaue it with the further processe of the Persian state vnto the further discouerie of Time the auntient mother of truth Notwithstanding the league betwixt the Christian emperour Rodolph the second and Amurath the Great Turke many sharpe skirmishes oftentimes fell out betwixt the Christians and the Turkes vpon the frontiers of their territories and dominions especially in HVNGARIE CROATIA and STIRIA as now in the latter end of this yeare 1586 in the month of December the Turkes after their insolent manner making an inrode into the borders of CROATIA receiued a notable ouerthrow by the Christians being in number much fewer where amongst others the Bassa of BOSNA with his brother was slaine whose head with certaine prisoners was sent to VIENNA to Ernestus Archduke of AVSTRIA the emperours brother This Bassa of BOSNA and his brother slaine in this conflict as we haue said are reported to haue beene the sonnes of Muhamet the late great Visier by one of the daughters of Selymus the second Amurath his sister For diuers yeares following Amurath did no great matter worth the remembrance contenting himselfe as it should seeme with that he had alreadie got from the Persians and holding his league in some reasonable sort with the Christians yet not so but that many a bloudie broile tending at last euen to the breach of the league passed betwixt the Turkes and the Christians which for the continuation of the historie we will briefely set downe as they are vnto vs by the writers of our time reported In Februarie the yeare following which was the yeare 1587 the Christians prouoked by the often outrages of the Turkes setting vpon the castle of KOPPAN not farre from the lake of BALATON being then frozen by good fortune surprised it There was at that time in the castle three of the Turkes Sanzackes and about a thousand Turkes of whom an hundred and ninetie of the better sort with seuentie women besides diuers of the meaner sort fell into the hands of the Christians the rest sauing themselues by flight or by creeping into secret corners An hundred horses for seruice were there taken also and so much bootie as was esteemed to be worth fortie thousand duckats Of the three Sanzackes that were there present Alis Sanzacke of KOPPAN was taken and brought first to VIENNA and afterward presented to the emperour Another of them standing vpon
so great a worke shall be brought to passe but he in whose deepe counsels all these great reuolutions of empires and kingdomes are from eternitie shut vp who at his pleasure shall in due time by such meanes as he seeth best accomplish the same to the vnspeakeable comfort of his poore afflicted flocke in one place or other still in danger to bee by this roaring lyon deuoured Which worke of so great wonder he for his sonne our Sauiour Christ his sake the glorie of his name and comfort of many thousand oppressed Christians fed with the bread of carefulnesse amidst the furnace of tribulation in mercie hasten that we with them and they with vs all as members of one bodie may continually sing Vnto him be all honour and praise world without end FINIS A TABLE OR INDEX POINTING vnto all the most notable things in the Historie of the Turkes before written wherein such directorie letters as are set without numbers are to be still referred to the next number of the page precedent AAron Vayuod of Moldauia suspected by the Transyluanian prince to haue intelligence with the Turke with his wife and sonne sent prisoners vnto Prage 1062 l Abas Mirize by the practise of Mirize Salmas brought into suspition with Mahomet his father the Persian king 946 i. by his embassadours purgeth himselfe of the supposed treason 964 g Abdilcheraie with his Tartars commeth into Siruan 838 k. taketh Ares Chan. 939 a. spoileth Genge is himselfe ouerthrowne and taken prisoner by the Persian prince 940 g. beloued of the Persian queene k. slaine in the Court. 941 a Abedin Bassa with a great armie sent by Amurath to reuenge the death of Mesites spoileth Valachia and so entereth into Transyluania 271 a. encourageth his Turkes 273 b. in a great and mortall battell ouerthrowne by Huniades at Vascape 274 l Abraham otherwise called Pyramet last king of Caramania slaine by Baiazet 447 b Abraham Bassa his description 645 f. his bringing vp in Court 646 g. his great credit with Solyman i. he persuadeth him to make warre vpon the Persians 647. â— maligned by Solymans mother and Roxolana 649 b. sent before by Solyman with an armie into Syria c. hath the citie of Tauris yeelded vnto him d. in disgrace with Solyman 653 f. shamefully murthered in the Court by the commaundement of Solyman 654 h Abydus surprised by the Turks 183 a Acanzij what they be 415 b Achmetes Bassa Gouernour of Cyprus slaine by the Ianizaries 979 b Achmetes the great Bassa his notable speech to Mahomet to dissuade him from any more assaulting of Scodra 423â— landeth with his armie in Apulia 432 i. by Baiazet made Generall of his armie against his brother Zâ—â—es 438. l. his death contriued by Isaack Bassa 443. b. in danger to haue beene put to death deliuered by the Ianizaries 444. h. suddenly slaine k. Achmetes Bassa with his armie ouerthrowne by the Mamalukes taken and sent prisoner vnto Caytâ—eius at Caire 448 i Achomates polliticke and valiant but too much giuen to pleasure 478 k. discontented 487â— threateneeh the Cadelescher sent vnto him by his father 488 g. entereth with his sonnes into rebellion h. killeth his fathers embassador proclaimed traitor 489 f secretly fauoured by diuers great men in Selymus his armie 503â— ouerthrowne in battell taken and by the commaundement of his brother Selymus strangled 504 i Achomates the great Bassa appeaseth the souldiors vp in armes for the vnworthie death of Mustapha 764 h. his miserable end 765. c. Agria in vaine besieged by the Turkes 756 k. yeelded vnto Mahomet the third 1096 h Aladin the sonne of Kei-Husreu of the Selzuccian familie driuen out of Persia ceisâ—th vpon Cilicia 76 l Aladin his modestie about the deuision of his father Othomans inheritance and goods with his brother Orchanes 179 d. Aladin the Caramanian king hanged 208 m. Aladin Amurath his eldest sonne slaine with a fall from his horse 289 d Alba Regalis yeelded to king Ferdinand 700 l. besieged by Solyman 740 i. the lake and ditches with incredible labour filled vp by the Tarkes l. the suburbes woon 741 c. the miserable slaughter of the Christians in their flight d. yeelded vnto Solyman 742 g besieged by duke Mercurie 1134 l the suburbes of the citie surprised by lord Rusworm 1135 d. the citie taken by the Christians 1136 g. besieged by the Turkes 1144 l. terribly assaulted 1145. woon by the Turkes d. Aladeules his kingdome 519 a. the battell betwixt him and Selymus â— he flieth into the mountaines 520 g. taken by Sinan Bassa and brought to Selymus is put to death l. his head sent to Venice for a present and his kingdome brought into the forme of a prouince m. Albuchomar discouereth vnto Selymus the power of Tomombeius and the treason intended by them of Caire 547â— Aleppo in Syria betrayed and taken from the Christians by Saladin Sultan of Damasco 61 a. by the Tartars taken from the Turkes and by them sacked and rased 113 d. by Cayerbeius the traitour deliuered to Selymus 530 l Alessandro the Georgian submitteth himselfe vnto Mustapha 933 c Alexius the great president of Constantinople committed to prison 45 f. his eyes put out by the commaundement of Andronicus 46â— Alexius Comnenus otherwise called Porphyrogenitus succeedeth his father Emanuel in the Empire 43 b. by the practise of Andronicus is depriued of the Empire and strangled 50 b Alexius the young prince craueth aid of Philip the Emperour and the Latine princes against his vncle the vsurper 77 a. commeth to the armie of the Christian princes going towards the holy land 78 g. arriueth with a great fleet of the Latines before Constantinople l. taketh land and after an hot skirmish forceth the old tirant Alexius to flie out of the citie 79 c. seeketh to bring the Latines again into the citie 80 k. is betrayed and strangled by Murzufle l. Alexius Philanthropenus by Andronicus the Emperour made Gouernour of the frontiers of his empire in Asia against the Turkes 147 e. aspireth 148 i. betrayed hath his eyes put out 149 a Alexius Strategopulus with a smal power sent into Grecia by the Emperour Michaell Palaeologus by the treason of two Greekes taketh the citie of Constantinople from the Latines 115 d Algiers described 720 g. in vaine besieged by Charles the Emperour h. Aliculi Chan taken 944 l. in hope of libertie conducteth Hassan Bassa through the straight passages of Georgia 945 b. cast in prison at Erzirum d. escapeth from Ferrat 972 m. by the Persian king to the great discontentment of the Turcomans made Gouernour of Tauris 937 c. killeth the Bassa of Maras doth the Turkes great harme and so flieth from Tauris 991 c. conspireth with Abas Mirize against the Persian prince 1000 h. being by the prince sent against the Turkes performeth nothing 1001 c Alis Bassa with a great armie ouerthrowne by Scanderbeg 288 k Alis Bassa sent by Baiazet with an armie out of Europe against Techellis slain 474 l. Alis Beg and his foure sonnes
Osman the Visier Bassa commaundeth the Turks great armie after his death in the returne thereof from Tauris 995 c. dischargeth the armie at Van. 996 h. afraid to giue aid to Giaffer Bassa at Tauris 998 l. restoreth the battell before lost at Karesta 1098. with a great fleet commeth to see his mother the ladie Lucretia at Messina 1107 b. Columnius the Popes Admirall interposeth himselfe as a mediatour betwixt Don Iohn and Venerius the Venetian Admirall and so well appeaseth the matter 874 g Comparison betwixt Baiazet and Tamerlan 227 c Confederation hard to trust vpon 840 h Conrade Marques of Montferrat slaine by two desperat ruffians 71 d Conrade the third Emperour of Germanie taketh vpon him an expedition into the Holy land 31 c. cannot be suffered to enter into Constantinople but is treacherously dealt withall by the Greeke Emperour 32. with a notable speech encourageth his souldiours to aduenture the riuer Meander 33 a. with a great slaughter ouerthroweth the Turks 34 g. besiegeth Iconium and so returneth h. Constantine prince of Bulgaria with the Tartars inuade the territories of Palaeologus the Greeke Emperour and spoileth Thracia 117 b Constantine the Despot sent by the old Emperour Andronicus his brother against young Andronicus his nephew 163 a. taken prisoner at Thessalonica and miserably vsed f. Constantine the Greeke Emperour in vain craueth aid of the other Christian princes 340 h. at the winning of Constantinople by the Turks troden to death 347 b Constantinople built by Pausanias destroied by Seuerus reedified by Constantine the Great 341 a. how seated 340 a. taken and spoiled by the Latines 83 a. recouered from the Latines by Alexius Strategopulus 115 d betraied vnto the young Emperour Andronicus 171 d. in vaine besieged by Amurath the second 257 f. again besieged by Mahomet the great 340 k. assaulted by the Turks 346 k. woon 347 c Contarenus the Venetian Admirall slain 413 e. Corcutus saluted Emperour before his father Baiazet 437 d. kindly resigneth the Empire to his father 438 g. giuen to the studie of Philosophie and therefore not beloued of the Ianizaries 478 k. commeth to Constantinople 491 d. his notable speech vnto his father to persuade him to resigne vnto him the Empire before the comming of his brother Selymus 491â— comforted by his father and put in hope of the Empire 492 m. flieth to Magnesia 495 a. sought after by Selymus hideth himselfe in a caue 501 f. is found and taken 522 g. by the commaundement of Selymus strangled h. Cortug-Ogli the pyrat persuadeth Solyman to besiege the Rhodes 570 g Corone Pylus and Crisseum cities of Peloponesus belonging to the Venetians yeelded vnto the Turke 460 h Corone besieged by the Turks 627 f. relieued by Auria 629 d. abandoned and forsaken by the Spaniards 631 c. Cornâ—a and Serbellio two auntient Spanish captaines persuade the giuing of battell vnto the Turkes at Lepanto 872 i. Costly dishes 745 d Cowardise punished 1093 e Crete described 868 h Croia besieged by Amurath the second 323 b. in vaine assaulted 324 k. besieged by Mahomet the great 400 i relieued 401 c. againe besieged by Mahomet 402 h. the third time besieged 413 d. yeelded to the Turks 417 a. Cubates Selymus his embassadour commeth to Venice 839 f. but homely entertained there 840 f. his speech in the Senat of Venice k. for feare of the people secretly conueied away 842 g Curzola forsaken by the men defended by women 869 c Cusahin Bassa of Caramania riseth vp in rebellion against Mahomet the third 1114 k. ouerthroweth the Sanzackes sent to haue oppressed him l. at the comming of Mehemet the Visier Bassa sent against him flieth 1115 b. forsaken of his followers is taken and tortured to death at Constantinople d. the Cuselbassas when and how they begun amongst the Turks 465 f Cyprus described 843 b. how that kingdome came to the Venetians e. taken from them by Selymus the second 867 f. Cyrene yeelded vnto the Turks 852 i Czarnieuiche corrupted giueth the Turks passage ouer the Danubius into Valachia 911 d. reuolteth vnto the Turks 912 k D DAmasco betraied to Saladin Sultan of Aegipt 58 m. taken and sacked by the Tartars 113â— yeelded to Selymus 532 m Damiata and the description therof 89 a. taken by the Christians being before vnpeopled by the plague 92 m Dandulus Admirall of the Venetian fleet 85 a. Dauid and Alexius Comneni nephewes to Andronicus the Emperour erect vnto themselues a new Empire in Trapezonde 84 l Dauid the last Emperour of Trapezonde put to death by Mahomet the Great and that Empire subuerted 36 m Daut Chan for his good seruice rewarded by Amurath the third 996 i Dearth in the Turks armie at Triala 970 h. Debreas slaine and his armie ouerthrown by Scanderbeg 367 c Dedesinit the Georgian widdow with her sonne Alexander submit themselues to Mustapha the great Bassa 937 e Delimenthes with fiue thousand Persians pursueth the Turks armie 652 k. assaileth their campe by night and maketh of them a great slaughter m. Demetrius submitteth himselfe vnto Mahomet the Great 355 b Demetrius the Rhodian traitour slaine 329 a. Desdrot Gouernour of Stellusa to the terrour of the Turks in Sfetigrade before their faces executed 287 a Didymotichum yeelded vnto the Turks 189 c. Diogenes the Emperour discomfiteth the Turks 8 h. himselfe by the treason of Iohn Ducas by them againe ouerthrowne 9 c. taken prisoner 10 g. honourably vsed by the Turks Sultan h. ouerthrowne and taken prisoner by Andronicus hath his eyes put out whereof he dieth m. Dissention among the Turks about the succession after the death of Mahomet the Great 437 b Dissention betwixt Don Iohn and Venerius the Venetian Admirall 873 e Dium a castle of the Venetians in the East Indies in vaine assaulted by the Turks 670 l Doganes Aga of the Ianizaries whipt and displaced 339 b Dotis taken by the Turks 1099 c Dragut a most famous pyrat of the Turks by Auria driuen out of the citie of Africa in the kingdome of Tunes 752 i. commeth to the siege of Malta 797 b. his souldiors enforced shamefully to retire 799 a. slaine 801 h. Dracula Vayuod of Valachia dissuadeth king Vladislaus from farther proceeding in his wars against Amurath 205â— aideth him with his sonne and foure thousand horse 296 h. his last farwell vnto the king i. the Drusian people what they are 982 i. Dulcignâ— Antiuari and Budua strong towns of the Venetians vpon the coasts of Epirus and Dalmatia yelded to the Turke 869 a the duke of Muscouie his letters and presents sent vnto the Emperor 1071 a. Duke Mercurie Generall of the Emperors forces in the lower Hungarie commeth in vaine to relieue Canisia 1131â— in retiring looseth three thousand of his men with certaine pieces of great ordinance and his baggage 1132 g. besiegeth Alba Regalis 1134 m. winneth it 1135 f. enforceth Assan the Turks Generall with the losse of six thousand of his Turks to retire 1136 l. Dyrrhachium now called Durazo taken by the Turks 461
a prouince of his Empire 713 a. his proud answer vnto King Ferdinand his embassadours 714 k. he returneth to Constantinople 715 b. sendeth his fleet by Barbarussa his Admirall to aid the French King against the Emperour 734 k. Solyman with a great armie commeth againe into Hungarie 736 g. taketh Strigonium 738. entereth into the citie and there setteth vp the Mahometane superstition m. winneth Alba Regalis 742 h. returneth to Constantinople k. by the instigation of Dragut the pyrat sendeth out Sinan Bassa with a great fleet to reuenge the wrong done vnto him by Auria 752 l. Solyman amorous of Rozolana 757 c. manumiseth her 758 h. marrieth her l. by her persuaded resolueth to put to death his eldest sonne the noble Mustapha 761 d. goeth himselfe with a great armie into Asia to kill his sonne e. sendeth for Mustapha who comming is cruelly strangled in his sight 763 c. his stout speech vnto the Ianizaries vp in arms for the vnworthie death of Mustapha 764 k. he glad to yeeld vnto the Ianizaries m. Solyman desirous with as little stirre as might be to appease the grudges betwixt his two sonnes Selymus and Baiazet sendeth Partau and Mehemet two of his Visier Bassaes to bring them to the prouinces by him appointed for them 773 d. maketh preparation against Baiazet and sendeth aid to Selymus e. for countenancing of Selymus goeth himselfe in person with his armie ouer into Asia 776 l. dissembleth with Baiazet 778 g. seeketh to stop his flight into Persia deceiued of his purpose procureth to haue him and his foure sonnes strangled in prison in Persia. 791 d. Solyman by his embassadour Abraham Stroiza confirmeth his league with Ferdinand the Emperor for eight yeares 789 b. his proud letters vnto the Emperour Ferdinand c. his presents sent vnto the Emperour 791 d. he maketh preparation against the knights of Malta 793 a. his Oration vnto his captaines for the inuasion of Malta b. his fleet arriueth at Malta 795 a. with shame returneth 817 c. Solyman purposing now the seuenth time himselfe in person to inuade Hungarie causeth a bridge of a mile long with incredible labor to be made ouer the great riuer Sauus and the deepe fennes toward Sigeth 821. besiegeth Sigeth e. commeth himselfe with a great power into the campe 822 h. winneth the old towne l. falleth sicke and dieth of the bloudie flix at Quinque Ecclaesiae 822 m. his death by Muhamet Bassa concealed and the siege continued 813 a. his bodie with great solemnitie by his sonne Selymus buried at Constantinople 828 h the Spaniards reioycing at the ouerthrow of the Italians by Salec are themselues foyled by Tabacces 658 m Stellusa with Desdrot the Gouernor therof deliuered to Scanderbeg 285 f Stephen Rozwan in stead of Aaron by the Transyluanian prince placed Vayuod of Moldania 1062 l. thrust out by Zamoschie Chancelour of Polonia 1080 g. taken prisoner and put to death 1081 a Stephen Vayuod of Transyluania vpon the commendation of Amurath chosen King of Polonia 921 a Stiria forraged by the Turks 1132 Strigonium in vaine besieged by King Iohn 616 k. besieged by Solyman 736 i. diuers times by the Turks in vaine assaulted c. the strength therof by a fugitiue Christian discouered d. yeelded vnto the Turke 738 h. besieged by the Christians 1033 c. fiue times in vain assaulted with the losse of fiue thousand men 1034 l. the siege by Matthias the Archduke giuen ouer 1037 d. besieged by countie Mansfelt 1065 b. twice in vaine assaulted e. the lower towne taken 1070 g. yeelded vnto the Archduke Matthias 1072 h Suguta by Sultan Aladin giuen to Ertogrul 134 k Sumachia taken by Osman Bassa 936 b recouered by the Persian prince 940 i Swartzenburg by two Italian prisoners flying out of Rab is informed of the state of the towne 1102 g. consulteth with the lord Palsi h. surpriseth that strong town 1103 b. in vain attempteth to haue surprised Buda 1110â— commeth to Pappa to appease the French and Wallons there in mutinie 1117 a. besiegeth the towne 1118. slaine i. Syrgiannes appointed by Andronicus the Emperor to obserue the doings of yong Andronicus his nephew trecherously discouereth the same vnto him 159 c. cunningly coloureth his treason 160 b contemned of the yonger Andronicus reuolteth again vnto his grandfather 162 l. apprehended imprisoned and his house rased 164 l T TAmas the Persian King hearing of the comming of Solyman to Tauris flieth into Hircania 651 d. in feare of Baiazet killeth his followers and imprisoneth him with his sonnes 780 l. sendeth embassadors with presents to Solyman 781 a. the cause why he would not by any meanes let Baiazet goe out of his hands d. his answere vnto the Venetian embassadour persuading him to take vp armes against the Turke 862 k Tamerlan his reasonable and modest answer vnto the other Mahometane princes crauing his aid against Baiazet 210 k. in their behalfe sendeth embassadours with presents to Baiazet l. prouoked by the proud answer of Baiazet the sollicitation of the oppressed princes and the persuasion of Axalla resolueth to make war vpoÌ„ him 211 b his honourable parentage and auncestours 212 i. the causes why some report him to haue beene a shepheard or heardsman k. he himselfe not delighted in bloud m. marrieth the daughter and heire of the Great Cham of Tartarie the ground of his greatnes 213 a. setteth forward against Baiazet 214 k. his great campe still like vnto a well gouerned citie 215 b. the number of his great armie â— he taketh Sebastia and burieth all the people quicke 216 h. staieth the comming of Baiazet 217 a. disposeth of the order of his battell 218 k fighteth a great and mortall battell with Baiazet 219 b. taking him prisoner causeth him like a wild beast to be shut vp in an yron cage 220 m. refuseth the Empire of Constantinople offered him by Emanuell the Emperors embassadors 221 e. goeth priuatly himselfe to Constantinople 222 i. much delighted with the situation and pleasures of that citie k. spoileth the Turks dominions in Asia l. restoreth vnto the poore Mahometaâ—e princes oppressed by Baiazet all their auntient inheritances 223 b. in a great battell ouerthroweth the Sultan of Aegipt neere vnto Aleppo c. winneth Damasco d. commeth to Ierusalem f. taketh Damiata 224 h. assaulteth Cairâ— 225 a driueth the Sultan out of Caire d. pursueth him to Alexandria 226 g. chaseth him into Lybia h leaueth Calibes to gouerne the countries of Aegipt and Syria l. conquereth Mesopotamia and Babylon with the kingdome of Persia. 227 a. returneth to Samarcand b. the great power he continually kept 235 c. his death e. Tangrolipix the Turke sent to aid the Persian Sultan 4 g. by consent of the souldiours chosen Sultan of Persia. l. first Sultan of the Turks m. hauing slaine Pisasiris Caliph of Babylon in battell ioyneth his dominions vnto his owne 5 b. inuadeth the Greeke Emperours dominions f. putteth to death his brother Habramie 6 i Tancred created prince of Galliley winneth Apamea and Laodicea 25
c. after the death of young Bohemund created King of Antioch 26 i Tarsus in Cilicia yeelded vnto Baiazet 446 m. Tartar Han his letters vnto the King of Polonia 1083 c Tauris yeelded to Selymus 512 c. who contrarie to his promise exacteth a great summe of money from the Taurisians and so departeth 513 a. sacked by Solyman 651 f. taken by the Turks 991 d. hath a new castle therin built by the Turks in six and thirtie daies 992 i. miserably spoiled l. Taurica Cheâ—sonesuâ— with the Tartars Precopenses and Dâ—steâ—ces subdued by the Turks 412 m Techellis inuadeth the Turks dominions 469 c. ouerthroweth Orchanes and Mahometes Baiazet his nephewes 471. discomfiteth Caragoses the Viceroy of Natolia 472 i. killeth Alis Bassa 474 l. flieth into Armenia 475â— robbeth a Carauan of marchants and therefore burnt at Tauris 476 h. Temeswar taken by the Turks 756 g Temurtases Baiazet his lieutenant in Asia taken prisoner by Aladin the young King of Caramania 208 k. againe set at libertie hangeth the Caramanian King m. Teufenbach taketh Sabatska 1026 k. winneth Filek 1027 c. besiegeth Hatwan 1032 g. ouerthroweth the Bassa of Buda h. giueth the same Bassa a second ouerthrow 1037 f Theobald King of Nauarre maketh an vnfortunat expedition into the Holy land 99 f. with Lewis the French King goeth against the Moores 118 k. in his returne dieth of the plague in Sicilia l. Theodorus Lascaris flieth into Bythinia and possessing himselfe of many countries taketh vpon him the name of the Greeke Emperour at Nice 84 l. he killeth Iatâ—atines the Turkish SultaÌ„ 87 c Theodorus Lascaris son to Iohn Batases chosen Emperour 108 m. aideth the Sultan of Iconium 109. c. falleth sicke and dieth 110 g Theupulus Earle of Paphos vnworthily hanged by the faithlesse Bassa Mustapha 867 d Thracia spoiled by the Turks 156 g Tomombeius by the generall consent of the Mamalukes chosen Sultan of Aegipt 533 d. maketh great preparation against the Turks and seeketh to entrap them 538 g. his deuices discouered i. he fighteth a great battell with Selymus and is put to the worse 540 m. raiseth new forces at Caire 541 c. fortifieth Caire 542 k. fighteth a great battell in the citie 545 b. ouercome flieth 546 h. driuen out of Caire raiseth new forces in Segesta 547 d. distresseth the Turks in passing the bridge made ouer Nilus 549 b. giueth anotable attempt to haue gained the bridge f. repulsed and put to flight 550 i. taken and brought to Selymus l. tortured and shamefully put to death m. Trapezond yeelded to Mahomet the Great 360 k. Transyluania giuen by Solyman to the child King Iohn his sonne 716 l Tripolis in Barbarie besieged by Sinan Bassa 753 a. battered b. the weakest places thereof and â—ittest to be battered by a fugitiue Christian discouered to the Turks d. vpon hard conditions yeelded to the proud and faithlesse Bassa 755 d Tunes besieged by Lewis the French king 119 a. yeelded to Charles the Emperour 667 c. by him vpon an easie tribute againe restored to Mulcasses 669 d. againe yeelded to the Turks 915 d. Turks their originall beginning diuersly reported 1 c. discended from the Scythians 2 b. the causes why they left their auntient and naturall seats in Scythia to seeke for other in countries more Southerly 2 l. where they first seated themselues in Asia after their departure out of Scythia 3 b. their first kingdome erected in Persia by Tangrolipix their first Sultan 4 l. the Turks first called into Europe by the Catalonians 152 g. they differ not from the Persian about the interpretation of their law but about the true successor of their false prophet Mahomet only 462 i. Turqueminus chosen Sultan of Aegipt 106 h. Tzihanger refuseth the noble Mustapha his brothers wealth treasure offered him by his father Solyman and for sorrow killeth himselfe 763 e V VAlachia when first spoiled by the Turks 204 g. inuaded by Mahomet the Great 362 g. oppressed by the Turks 1050 h. in great troubles 1143 d Valmes fortified by Mahomet the Great 402 g. Valetta the Grand master of Malta aduertised of Solymans purpose for the inuasion of him his knights 793 f. his effectuall speech vnto his knights 794 g. his great preparation against the Turks comming k. his whole strength 796 g. he certifieth Garzias of Toledo Viceroy of Sicilia of his estate l. sendeth a new supplie into the castle S. Elmo twice before assaulted by the Turks 798 g. disappointed of a supplie to haue beene brought him by his owne gallies h. his letters to Garzias the Viceroy of Sicilia 800 g. he sendeth three of his knights to know the state of them in the castle S. Elmo 801 e. encourageth his souldiors after the losse of the castle 803 c. his Christianlike letters to the Gouernor of the citie of Melita â— his resolute answere to the messengers sent vnto him from the great Bassa 804 i. he receiueth a small supply from Sicilia 805 f. maketh hard shift to send newes of his distresse to the Viceroy of Sicilia 808 l. his comfortable speech vnto his souldiors at such time as the Turks were entered the new citie 814 h. his great carefulnesse 817 e. his letters to the Grand Prior of Almaine concerning the manner of the Turks proceedings in the siege of Malta 818 g Venerius the Venetian Admirall and Barbadicus their prouiditor persuade the rest of the Christian confederats to giue battell vnto the Turks at Lepanto 871 d. comming to the reliefe of Don Iohn is encountered by Partau Bassa 879 a. in danger b. at the request of the Spaniards displaced but not disgraced 887 e the Venetians with a great fleet spoile the coasts of Lycia Pamphilia and Cilicia 19 a. in the deuision of the Greeke Empire amongst the Latines had for their share all the rich islands of the Aegeum and Ionian with the famous island of Candie or Crete 84 h. enter into confederation with other Christian princes against the Turke 389 e. they with their confederates doe the Turks great harme 407 d. receiue a great ouerthrow from the Turks at the riuer of Sontium 414 k. their marchants in Syria imprisoned by Campson Gauruâ— the Aegiptian Sultan 471 b. their Senatours diuersly affected towards the confederation with the Emperour and the French King against Solyman 693 d. they refuse to yeeld vp Cyprus vnto Selymus demanding the same 841 e. make great preparation for their own defence and craue aid of the other Christian princes 842 k. what princes promised them aid l. wearie of the delaies and crosse dealing of the Spaniards their confederats conclude a peace with Selymus without their knowledge 904 k. Veradinum besieged by the Turks 1106 h relieued by the lord Basta l. Vesprinium taken by the Turks 1025 c Vfegi Bassa taken prisoner 500 l. put to death 501 b Vicegrâ—de taken by the Christians 1072 i Victor Capella with a notable speech persuadeth the Venetians to take vp arms against Mahomet the Great 387 a Vienna by Solyman
besieged 610 k. badly fortified 611 a the wals blown vp 612 m. thrice assaulted f. worthily defended 614 g. Solyman glad to forsake the siege i. Villerius chosen Great Master of the Rhodes 569 d. his letters to Solyman 571 d. his carefull prouision for defence of his citie 573 b. 575 e. his notable speech vnto the Rhodians 576 g. his worthie commendation 581. in vain craueth aid of the Christian princes b. recouereth the Spanish bulwarke taken by the Turks 588 g. his resolute opinion concerning Solymans demaund for the yeelding vp of the Rhodes 594 g. his answere vnto Solyman offering vnto him most honourable entertainement 599 b. he departeth from the Rhodes with his knights vpon New yeares day 600 g Vladislaus King of Polonia chosen also King of Hungarie 262 i. sendeth embassadours vnto Amurath lying at the siege of Belgrade 263 e. goeth himselfe in person against the Turks 277 b. taketh Sophia c. spoileth Bulgaria d. highly commendeth Huniades for his good seruice 278 i. enâ—orced with the difficultie of the passage of the mountaine Hemus retireth with his army 279 b. by the persuasion of Huniades and others retireth and in vaine seeketh to haue opened the mountaine passage 281 d. in his retreat much troubled with the Turks 282 b. in great triumph returneth to Buda m. vpon most honourable conditions concludeth a peace with Amurath for ten yeares 289 b. by solemne oath confirmeth the league he had made with Amurath c. absolued of that his oath by Iulian the Cardinall of S. Angell resolueth for the prosecution of his wars against the Turke 292 i. by his embassadours and letters craueth aid of Scanderbeg 293 a. setteth forward against the Turks 295 e. fighteth the great and vnfortunat battell at Varna 297 b. it there himselfe slaine 298 h Vlâ—zales in the battell of Lepanto taketh twelue of the Venetian gallies 882 i. seeing the rest of the Turks fleet discomfited flieth himselfe m. is by Selymus the next yeare sent out with two hundred gallies against the Venetians and their confederats 888 l. meaning nothing lesse maketh shew of battell 892 h. cunningly retireth i. flieth from Nauarinum into the bay of Modon 895 c. returneth with his weake fleet to Constantinople 902 m Vranacontes by Scanderbeg appointed Gouernour of Croia against the comming of Amurath 322 l. with chearfull speech encourageth his souldiors e. reiecteth Amurath his presents and threateneth the Bassa by whom they were sent 329 d Vstres Bassa of Van inciteth Amurath to make warre against the Persians 925 a. by Amurath commaunded to begin the warre which he readily performeth 926 h Vsun-Cassanes the Persian King sendeth embassadours with presents to Mahomet the Great 359 b. marieth Despina the daughter of Calo Ioannes Emperour of Trapezond 409 b. in a great battell ouerthroweth Zenza the Persian king and killeth Cariasuphus his sonne the last of the posteritie of the mightie Tamerlan 409 g. in a great battell ouerthrowne by Mahomet the Great 410 l. his death 411 a W WAlpo trecherously yeelded vnto the Turks and the traitours iustly rewarded 736 h Warres by Amurath the third proclaimed against the Emperour Rodolph 123 f Waswood an old Ianizarie his presumptuous speech vnto Mahomet the great Sultan 1063 b. taken out of prison by the rest of the Ianizaries e. Water deare sold. 665 b Wâ—hitz the metropoliticall citie of Croatia taken by the Turks 1015 e William King of Sicilia inuadeth the tyrant Andronicus his dominions taketh the citie of Dyrrhachium passeth through Macedonia and spoileth the countrey meeteth with his fleet at Thessalonica which be also taketh by force and spoileth 51 b William Long-Espie Earle of Sarisburie with a band of tall souldiours goeth into the Holy land 102 l. his stout answere vnto Earle Robert the French Kings brother 104 k. valiantly fighting is slaine 105 a Wladus prince of Valachia putteth Mahomet the Great in feare 362 k. Wladus cruell m. dieth in battell against the Turks 363 e Wine for a space running down the streets of Constantinople as if it had beene water after a shower of raine 1142 l Wolfgangus Hoder vpon the Danubius doth good seruice against the Turks 612 k. X XAycuâ— paymaster of the Rhodes entrapped by the Turks and sent prisoner to be tortured at Constantinople 575 c Xene the faire Empresse the young Emperour Alexius his mother maliciously accused of treason and so wrongfully condemned 407 f. by the commaundement of Andronicus strangled in prison and so poorely buried 48 k. Xiphilinus by Alexius sent ouer to Andronicus dealeth vnfaithfully in his message 45 c Y YOland daughter to king Iohn crowned queene of Ierusalem and after by her father giuen in marriage to Fredericke the Emperour 96 g Z ZAcharias Groppa fighteth a combat with Ahemaze a Turke 373 a Zachell Moises the Transyluanian princes lieutenant in battell ouerthrowne by Basta 1143 c. flieth vnto the Turks 1145 e. Zacynthus Neritus and Cephalenia taken by Achmetes Bassa 426 l Zamoschie the great Chancellor of Polonia staieth the Tartars from the inuading of Moldauia 1079 c. inuadeth Moldauia himselfe 1080 g. his letters vnto Clement the Pope that now is in defence of himselfe and of that he had done in Moldauia 1084 k. driueth Michaell the Vayuod out of Valachia placeth another in his stead 1128 b Zanius the Venetian Admirall with a fleet of an hundred and seuenteene saile commeth to Corcyra 849 b. he with the confederats setteth forwards towards Cyprus d. vpon the foule disagreement of the great commaunders returneth 853 e. discharged of his office and sent in bonds to Venice 854 b Zembenic castle the place where the Turks first began to settle themselues in Europe 185 b Zemes riseth in rebellion against his elder brother Baiazeâ— 438 h. ouerthrowne in battell by his brother flieth to Cayâ—beius the SultaÌ„ of Aegipt 439 b. he with the Caramanian King goeth against his brother Baiazet 441 b. flieth to sea 442 g. deliuered vnto Pope Innocent the eight 446 h. by Pope Alexander deliuered to Charles the French King 452 h. dieth within three daies after being before by the Pope poysoned as is supposed i. his dead bodie sent to Constantinople and honorably afterwards buried at Prusa 452 k. Zenza the Persian king in a great battell ouerthrowne and slaine by Vsun-Cassanes 409 e Zerbi island inuaded by the Christian fleet set forth for the recouerie of the citie of Tripolis in Barbarie 783 e. the castle of Zerbâ— yeelded vnto the Spaniards f. a great part of the Christian fleet oppressed at Zerbi by the sudden comming of Piall Bassa the Turks Admirall 784 m. the castle of Zerbi besieged by the Turke 785 b. yeelded vnto the Turks d. the Turks in triumph returne with victorie to Constantinople 786 g Zingis passing ouer the mountaines Caucasus and Taurus conquereth the Turks dominions 75 c Zoganus Bassa by the deuice of a wicked Christian bringeth seuentie of the Turks gallies eight miles ouerland into the hauen of Constantinople 343 f. persuadeth Mahomet to
themselues in Europe Prusa yeelded vnto the Turks The death of Othoman Othoman 〈◊〉 at Prusa The wealth that Othoman left vnto his two sonnes Orchanes and Aladin When that barbarous manner of murthering their brethâ—eâ— first began among the Turkish Sultans The city of Nice with diuers other castles recouered from the Turks after the death of Othoman The emperour wounded The city of Nice surprised by the Turks Abydus besieged by the Turks Nicomedia yeelded vnto Orchanes Orchanes remoueth his court to Nice Orchanes inuadeth the country of Carasiâ—a The countrey of Carasina yeelded vnto Orchanes The castle of Maditus taken by the Turks Calipolis taken by the Turkes The death of Solyman Bassa Orchanes his eldest sonne The death of Orchanes * Lazarum Seruiae principeâ— Lazarâ—â— Despot of 〈◊〉 Amurath succeedeth his father Orchanes in the Turkish kingdome Didymotichum yeelded vnto the Turks Hadrianople yeelded vnto the Turks Rhâ—destum surâ—â—ised by the Turks Hadrianople the royall seaâ— of the Turkish kings in Europe Boga taken by Amurath and recouered again and rased by the Christians Boga new buâ—â—â— by â—he Turks Amurath inâ—â—deth Seruia Nissa taken by the Turks Appolonia woon by the Turks Amurath and Aladin prepare themselues for waâ—â—e The death of Chairadin Bassa The great battaile in the plaines of Caramania betwixt Amurath and Aladin Aladin flyeth to Iconium Iconium besieged by Amurath Lazarus the Despot by his embassadour craueth ayd of the king of Bozna Amurath maried the emperour of Constantinople his daughter The castle of Sarkiuâ— with the citie ioining vnto it taken by the Christians and rased Lazarus slaine Amurath slain Amurath burâ—â—ed at Prusa Phi. Lonicer Hist. Tur. li. 1. Baiazet iâ—â—adeth Seruia Seruia the second time inuaded by Baiazet â—â—â—ladelâ—hia 〈◊〉 by Baiazet Thessaâ—â—a inâ—â—ded by Baiaâ—et Constantinople eight yeares besieged by Baiazeâ— Constantinople the second time besieged by Baiazet Baiazet 〈◊〉 Despina the faire daughter of Lazarus the Despot Temurtaseâ— Baiazet his great 〈◊〉 â—enant in Asia taken prisoner by Alaâ—â—â— the young 〈◊〉 of Caâ—amaniâ— Amasia yeelded vnto Baiazet Sebastia deliuered to Baiazet Baiazet inuadeth Isfendiar prince of Castamona The Mahometan princes of Asia oppressed by Baiazet disguâ—sed flye vnto Tamerlane for aid Tamerlane his opinion concerning the diuersitie of religions The base opinion some haue concerning the birth and rising of Tamerlane Tamerlane honorably dâ—sceÌ„ded The cause why some haue reported him to haue been a shepheard or heardsman Tamerlane marrieth the daughter and heire of the great Chaeâ—â— of Tartariâ— Prince Axalla in great credit with Tamerlane The number of Tamerlane his great armie Sebastia besieged by Tamerlane Sebastia yeelded to Tamerlane A shepheard more happie than Baiazet The prince of Ciarcan dealeth politickly with the forerunners of the Turks armie The great and mortall battaile betwixt Baiazet and Tamerlane The prince of Ciarcan sâ—aâ—ne The Turks ouerthrowne Baiazet and his sonne Musa taken prisoners Baiazet brought before Tamerlane with his pride Baiazet like a beast shut vp in an iron cage Solyman set â—p in his fathers sâ—ead Prusa taken by Axalla Tamerlane goeth to Constantinople Tamerlan much deâ—ighted with the pâ—easures of Constantinople A great battell fought betwixt the Sultan of Aegypt and Tamberlane Damasco woon by Tamerlane Tamerlane commeth to Ierusalem Damiata taken by Axalla Tamerlane marchâ—th towards Caâ—er Caler bâ—sieged by Tamerlane Caier assaulted by Tamerlane The Sultan flieth from Alexandria Tamerlane desirous to returne into his country The misâ—rablâ— death oâ— Baiazet A comparison betwixt Baiazet and Tamerlane Baiazet in his posteâ—â—â—ie more fâ—rtunat than Tamerlane Phil. Lonicer Hist. Turc lib. 1. Diuers opinions concerning the successours of Baiazet The true posterâ—tie of Baiazet Mahomet Gouernor of Amasia Mahomet sendeth spies into Tamerlane his campe Cara Dulet slaine Mahomet his letters to Inall Ogli the Tartar pince Inall Ogli his answere to Mahomet Inall Ogli ouerthrowne by Mahomet Mahomet his speech to Tamerlans embassador The great power Tamerlane continually kept The death of Tamerlane The discription of Tamerlane Paulus Iouius Illust. virorum Elog. lib. 1. pag. 97. Mahomet goeth against his brother Isa. The answâ—re of Isa to Mahomet his oâ—â—ers The bodie of Baiazet honourabâ—y 〈◊〉 at Prusa Good counsell Isa with a great armie sent by his brother Solyman into Asia against Mahomet Prusa burnt by Isa. Isa â—lieth into Caramania and there dieth in obscuritie The castle of â—rusa besieged 〈◊〉 Solyman Musa marieth the prince of Valachia his daughter Musa in the absence of Solyman receiâ—ed at Hadrianople as king Musa goeth against Soâ—yman Solyman flyeth Solyman strangled by his brother Musa This Solyman is that same whom some call Celebinus and other-some Calepinus and reckon him for the fift king of the Turks The battaile betwixt the two brethren Mahomet and Musa Mahomet his letters vnto the prince Dulgader Ogli his father in law The answere of prince Dâ—lgader Ogli to Mahomet Hadrianople besieged by Mahomet Musa his cheefe captaines reuolt to Mahomet Musa taken Musa strangled 1415. Prusa burnt by the Caramanian king 1416 Mahomet inuadeth the Caramanian king 1417 Valachia tributarie to the Turke Burgluzes slain Bedredin hanged Mahomet dieth at Hadrianople The death of Mahomet cunningly concealed from the Ianizaries by the tâ—ree great Bassaes. Phil. Lonicer Hist. Turc lib. 1. Murat is the same that we caâ—â— Desiderius Mustapha the supposed sonne of Baiazet raiseth rebellion against Amurath Mustapha â—lyetâ— Mustapha hâ—â—ged Two Asapi sold by a Ianizarie for a sheepes head Constantinople in vain besieged by Amurath Mustapha betraied strangled Eiuases-Bassa 〈◊〉 put out The king of Caramania slaine Thessalonica besieged Thessalonica takeÌ„ by Amurath Plague among the Turks Hungarie spoiled by Amurath Amurath contrary to his faith inuadeth Seruia and subdueth it Vladislaus accepteth of the kingdome offered Belgrade besieged of the Turkâ— Belgrade in vain assaulted The notable speech of Amurathâ—â—â—ncourage 〈◊〉 souldiors to the assault of Belgrade Belgrade notably defended by the Christians Amurath his answerâ— to the embassadours 1440 Transiluania inuaded and spoiled by Mesites Bassa Huniades flieth Huniades the bishop of Alba-Iula entrapped by the Turks A great battell betwixt Mesites and Huniades Great reioicing for the victorie The speech of an old Turke in deliuering the present vnto the king Valachia grieuouslâ— spoiled by the Turks The most Christian speech of Huniades to encourage his souldiours against the Turks A cruell barrell betwixt Huniades and Abedin Bassa The Turks â—lie The effectuall speech of Iulian the Popes legate in the parlâ—ment to persuade the warre The pitifull comâ—â—â—â—â— of the Desâ—ot of tâ—e crueltiâ— of the Turks persuadâ—â—â— the Hunâ—â—â—ians to take the warre against them in hand Sophia taken Huniades with ten thousand horsemen assaâ—leth the Turks by night The meeting of Vladislaus and Huniades after the victorie The Hungarianâ— inforced with the diffâ—cultie of the passage of the mountaine Hemus retire A great battell betwixt Huniades the Bassa Carambey The Turks ouerthrowne and Carambry taken prisoner Scanderbeg reuâ—lteth from the Turks
Vladislaus seâ—keth in value to open the passage of the mountainâ— Hemus The Hungarians much troubled in passiâ—g a thicke â—ood Vladislaus honorably receiued at Buda Scanderbeg wisely dissembleth his desire for the deliuerse of himselfe and his countrey Scanderbeg commeth with his armâ—â— to Petrelâ—a Petrella yeelded vnto Scanderbeg Petra-Alba yeelded Stellusa yeelded by the garrison A notable speech of a common soldior to the rest of his fâ—llowes for the holding out of the citie against Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his short answere to the souldiors speech Desdrot gouernour of Stellusa executed Macedonia spotâ—ed by Scanderbeg Alis Bassa with an armie of forty thousand sent against Scanderbeg The battell betwixt Alis Bassa and Scanderbeg A great slaughter of the Turks Amurath in dispâ—â—e Amurath by thâ— persuasion of Cali Bassa seeketh for peace of king Vladislaus The capitulatâ—ons of the ten yeares peace concluded betwixt Vladislaus and Amurath Amurath inuâ—deth Caramania The â—unning speech wherwith Iulian the Cardinal perâ—â—adeth 〈◊〉 Vladislaus to breake the leaguâ—â—e had before made with Amurath Iulian the Cardinall absolueth king Vladislaus and the â—ect from their oath before giuen to Amurath The letters of king Vladislaus to Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his answere by letters vnto king Vladislaus King Vladislaus setteth forward against the Turks Dracula aâ—â—eth Vâ—adâ—slaus with his sonne and 4000 horse His last farewell vnto the king The great battell of Varna fought betweene king Vladislaus and Amurath Amurath prayeth vnto Christ. A cruell fight Amurath in danger King Vladislaus slaine Huniades flyeth Amurath to perform his vow resigneth his kingdome to his sonne Mahomet which he in short time after taketh again vpon him The comparison betwixt Huniades and Scanderbeg The sullen and craftie letters of Amurath to Scanderbeg The resolute answere of Scanderbeg to Amurath his letters Amurath 〈…〉 Sâ—anderbeg Scanderbeg his valiant resolution for the assaulting of Mustapha in his camp Peloponnesus made tributarie vnto the Turke 1446 Baiazet borne Huniades in the minoritie of the king chosen Gouernor of all the kingdome of Hungarie 1448 Huniades goeth against the Turks The false Despot giueth Amurath knowledge both of Huniades his comming and of his strength The omynous speech of an old woman The notable speech of Huniadâ—s to 〈…〉 against the Tuâ—ks The great baâ—â—aile of Cossoâ—â— fought betwixt Amurath and Huniades three daies together The battaile begun againe the second day Huniades encourageth his souldiors The battaile againe begâ—n the third day Huniades flieth The number of the Turks and Christians slain in the battaile of Cossoua Huniades taken prisâ—ner noâ— by the Dâ—spot 1449 The Despot inuaded by Amurath craueth aid of Huniades Amurath his graue letters of aduertisement to Mustapha concerning his going againe into Epirus The sâ—eech of Caragusa the Tuâ—ke to Manessi Manessi his stout answere to Caragusa The battaile betwixt Scanderbeg and Mustapha Mustapha ranâ—somed Thâ— lamentable 〈◊〉 of the â—â—â—ke ciâ—izenâ— out of Croia Scanderbeg commeth to Sfetigrade The effectuall speech of Scanderbeg vnto the souldiors and citizens of Sfetigrade to encourage theÌ„ against the comming of Amurath A notable â—tratageme of Scanderbeg for the intrapping of his enemies 1449 Amurath commeth to Sfetigrade with his armie The resolute answere of Perlat the Gouernor vnto the Bassa Sfetigrade assaulted The Turkes 〈…〉 The Ianizaries desperatly attempt to surprise the citie The Ianizaries repulsed Scanderbeg commeth to trouble the assault and 〈◊〉 met with by Feri-Bassa Amurath by greâ—â— pâ—â—miseâ— seeketh to corrupt the garrison of Sfetigrade A traitor â—orrupted with Amurath his Lâ—â—ge pâ—omises conspireth to betray the citie The carkas of a dead dog cast by the traitor into the common 〈◊〉 that serued the citie The Gouernor in vaine seeketh to peâ—suaâ—e the garrison sâ—uldiors to drinâ—e of the water of the well A traitoâ—â—orthâ—ly rewarded according to his treason 1450 Amurath assembleth againe his army at Hadrianople Croia baâ—â—red The cheerefull speech of Vranacontes the Gouernour to encourage his soldiours Croia assaulted Scanderbeg in danger Mahomet thinking to deceiue Scanderbeg is himselfe by him deceiued The Turkes retire Amurath seeketh to vndermine Croia The craftie speech of the Bassa sent from Amurath to corrupt the Gouernour and to persuade the â—â—â—hers to yeeld vp the cittie Vranacontes reiecteth Amurath his presents and threatenâ—th the Bassa Croia againe in vaine assaulteâ—â— The last speech and admonition of Amurath vnto his sonne Mahomet vpon his death bed Amurath his death Amurath an example of the vaâ—itie of worldly honour Amurath buried at Prusa A great poliâ—â—â— Amurath his disposition The sonnes of Amuraâ—h Paulus Iouius Illust virorum Elog. lib. 3. 1450 Mahomet of no religion Mahomet murdereth his brethren A cruell reuenge of an angrie woman Mahomet reformeth the Turkish coÌ„monweale 1451 Mahomet goeth against the king of Caramania Mentesia subdued by the Turks 1452 Mahomet maketh preparation for the besieging of Constantinople Constantinus the emperor in vaine craueth aid of the Christian princes 1453 Vide â—â—onardi Châ—ensis Archiepiscopi Miâ—â—len hist. dâ— captiuitate Con lantinopolitana Mahomet encamâ—eth before Constantinople The situation of Constantinople Constantinople built by Pausanâ—as destroyed by Seuerus reedified by Constantine the Great and now taken by Mahomet the Turke The magnificent temple of S. Sophia The frugalitie of the Turkes in their pâ—iuat buildâ—â—gâ— The Turks flâ—et Constantinople vndermined by the Turks Seuentie of the Turks galliots brought eight miles ouerland by the deuice of a Christian into the hauen of Constantinople A wonderfull bridge made by the Turks ouer the hauen of Constantinople A notable fight betweene four of the Christians ships and the Turks flâ—et The citizens of Constantinople without cause murmure against the emperour A bare shift for money Constantinople assaulted by the Turks Mahomet renueth the assault The Christians forsake the 〈◊〉 Constantinople woon by the Turkes Mahomet solemniseth his feastâ— in Constantinople with the bloâ—d of the Grecian nobilitie Pera yeelded to the Turke Mahomet notably dissembleth his hatred against Caly Bassa Mahomet placeth his imperiall seat at Constantinople and is worthely accounted first Emperor of the Turks 1454 Thomas and Demetrius rebell against Mahomet and are by him spoiled of part of their dominion Mahomet commeth againe into Peâ—â—ponesus Demetrius submitteth himselfe to Mahomet Peloponesus subdued by the Turks The death of George Despot of Seruia Serâ—ia yeelded to the Turke Belgrade besieged The Turks fleet ouerthrown by the Christians Carazies Bassa slaine Belgrade assaulted by the Turks The Turks notably repulsed The death of the most famous captaine Huniades 1461 Vsun Cassan the Persian king sendeth embassadours with presents to Mahomet Mahomet inuadeth Ismael prince of Sinope Trapezond besieged by Mahomet Trapezond yeelded vnto the Turks The ruine of the empire of Trapezond 1462 Mahomet seeketh to entrap Wladus prince of Valachia Chamuzes Bassa and the Turkes secretarie haÌ„ged Mahomet himselfe in person inuadeth Valachia A most horrible spectacle Two thousand of the Valachies slaine The death of Wladus 1462 Mitylene besieged Mitylene yeelded to
the Turkâ— 1464 The great 〈◊〉 betwixt Mâ—homâ—t and Scanderbeg are at large written by Marinus Barletius in 13 books De vita gestis Scanderbegi from whence this Historie is taken and wâ—re done betwixt the yeares 1450 and 1467. Vide Marinum Barâ—etium lib. de vita gestis Scanderbegi Debreas sent with 14000 horsemen tâ— inuade Epirus A skirmish betwixt the Christians and the Turks The battell betwixt Scanderbeg Debreas Debreas slain by Scanderbeg and his armie ouerthrowne A pleasant contention betwixt Musachius and a Turke for his ransome The craftie procâ—eding of the Turâ—â— messenger Moses corrupteâ— Scanderbeg crâ—ueth aid of Alphonsus king of Naples Alphonsus sendeth aid vnto Scanderbeg Scanderbeg besiegeth and â—istresseth Belgrad Musachius slain and the Epirots put to â—â—ight Scanderbeg seeth his men slain and is not able to releeue them Scanderbeg flieth by night into Epirus Mahomet sendeth Moses with fifteene thousand seiâ—ct men to inuade Epirus A combat betwixt a Turke and a Christianâ— The battell betwixt Scanderbeg and Moses Moses contemned of the Turkâ— Moses flieth from Constantinople Amesa his first speech vnto Mahomet Amesa honourablâ— entertained by Mahomet A notable speech of Scanderbeg vnto his captainâ— how the Turks were to be withstood aâ— their comming into Epâ—uâ— The Eâ—iroâ—s remoâ—e all their 〈◊〉 â—ut of the 〈◊〉 into the 〈…〉 Turks Amesa is by the Bassa created king of Epirus The Turks camp 〈…〉 Scanderbeg suddenly assaileth the Turkes A notable victorie of the Christians The sâ—eeâ—h of Amâ—sa to Scanderbeg The answere of Scanderbeg to Amesa The death of Amesa A peace for a yeare concluded betwixt Mahomet and Scanderbeg The letters of Scanderbeg to Mahomet The answere of Scanderbeg to the former letters of Mahomet The letters of Mahomet to Scanderbeg for the concluding of a perpetuall peace betwixt them A peace câ—â—cludâ—d betwixt Maâ—omet and Scanâ—erbeg The notable speech of Victor Capella to persuade the Venetians to take vp armes against Mahomet The Venetians take vp armes against the Turk The Venetians enter into confederation with other Christian princes against the Turke The letters of Mahomet to Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his answere to the letters of Mahomet Ten thousand Turkes slaiâ—â— The Venetianâ— attempting to win Patras receiue great losse 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 â—hosâ—n king of Hungaâ—â—e Mahomet sendeth Balabanus to inuade Epirus Balabanus goeth against Scanderbeg The battell betâ—ixt Balabanus and Scanderbeg Moses and other 〈◊〉 captaines cruellâ— exâ—cuted by Mahâ—met The battell of Sfetigrade betwixt Balabanus and Scanderbeg Scanderbeg his 〈◊〉 traiâ—â—â—â—â—ly flâ—e to Balabanus Iacup slaine by Scanderbeg and his armie discomfited 1463 Mahomet commeth to the siege of Croia Scanderbeg surpriseth Ionima the brother of Balabanus and Hedar his sonne 1466 Scanâ—erbeg falleth siâ—ke The death of Scanderbeg Scanderbeg buried at Lyssa The bodie of Scanderbeg digged vp by the Turkes and of them greatly honoured Mathias king of 〈…〉 â—ingdome of 〈◊〉 from the Turke 1470 Chalcis the chiâ—fe citie of Euboea besieged by the Turkâ— Treason in the citie Chalcis taken by the Turkes The fruitfull island of Euboea taâ—en by the Turkes 1471 1472 The Venetianâ— aided by king Ferdinand the bishop of Rome and the great master of the Rhodes doe the Turks great harme all alongst the coast of the lesser Asia 1473 Mahomet no 〈◊〉 troublesome vnto the Mahometaâ—e princes than to the Christian Vsun-Cassanes in a great battell ouerthroweth the Persian king 1474 Two huge armies of the Turkâ— and Persians in 〈◊〉 together The death of the noble Mustapha Mahomet his eldest sonnâ— 1475 Solâ—man Bassa besiegeth Scodra with an armie of eightie thousand men Mattâ—ias â—ing of Huâ—gaâ—ie 〈◊〉 the Turks to â—orsake the siâ—ge of Scodra 1476 1477 Croia besieged by the Turke Contarenus the Venetian Generall slaine The Turkâ— shâ—w themselues at the riuer of Sontium The countrey of Friuli spoiled by the Turkes 1478 1479 Vide Marinum Barletium de expug Scodrensi The poore countrey people flie for feare of the Turks Two oâ— the Turkâ— attempting to touch the wals of 〈◊〉 are both slâ—ine and one of their heads set vp vpon the wal Mahomet in person himselfe commeth vnto the siege of Scodra The order of Mahomets campe Mahomet purposing to giue a generall assault encourageth his captaines and soldiors therunto The cittie of Scodra assaulted by the Turks the fourth time A most terrible assault Twelue thousand Turkes slaine in the last assault The Turkâ— superstitiously reuerence the new Moone Scodra againe most furiously assaulted by the Turkes The assault fiercely againe renued by the Turks A wofull sight A doubtfull fight A notable speech of the great Bassa Achmetes Lyssa taken by the Turks and the bones of Scanderbeg dâ—gged vp by them and had in great reuerence A hard choice Scodra yeelded vnto the Turks 1480 Mahomet longeth after the Rhodes A death right worthy such a traitour The oration of the Great Master to the rest of the knights and souldiors to encourage them valiantly to with sâ—and the Turks Eight hundred Turks slaine Treason against the great Master dâ—scâ—â—ered and the traitours executed Two thousand fiue hundred Turks slaine in the assault The resolute answer of the great Master A faire breâ—â—h made by force of the Turkes batterie The Bassa raiseth his siege Achmetes landâ—th his army in Apulia neere to Otranto and spoileth the countrey Otranto taken by the Turkes 1481 Mahomet dieth at Geiuisen in Bythinia not without suspition of poyson He is buried aâ— Constantinople The description of Mahomet The sonnes of Mahomet Mustapha Baiazet and Zemes. Otranto yeelded vp by the Turks vpon composition Phil. Loâ—icer Turc Hist. lib. 1. Dissention amoÌ„g the Turks about the succesâ—ion Baiazet commeth to Constantinople Zemes riseth against his brother Baiazet Bâ—iazet gâ—eth agaâ—â—sâ— Zemes. Achmetes made Generall of Baiazet his armie Zemes flieth into Syria 1482 Zemes his speech vnto Caytbeius Sultan of Aegypt Caytbeius the Aegiptian Sultan sendeth embassadors to Baiazet 1483 The king of Caramania solliciâ—eâ—h Zemes toâ—â— take vp armès against Baiazet Zemes flieth tâ— sea Zemes his letters to his brother Baiazet Zemes flieth to the Rhodes The description of Zemes. 1484 Achmetes his death contriued Achmetes his son stirreth vp the Ianizaries to help his father Baiazet for feare deliuereth Achmeâ—es to the Ianizaâ—ies Achmetes slaine 1485 Baiazet purposeth to destroy the Ianizaries Baiazet inuadeth Moldauia Many great princes sue to the Master of the Rhodes for Zemes. 1486 Baiazet inuadeth Caramania Tarsus in Cilicia yeelded to Baiazet A long and terrible battell betwixt Baiazet and the king of Caramanâ—a 1487 1488 Achmetes Bassa discomâ—iâ—ed and taken prisoner and sent to Caiâ—e 1489 A long and terrible battell betweene tâ—e Turks and the Mamalukes The Turks flie away by nighâ— 1492 A peace concluded betwixt Baiazet and Caitbeius Alphonsus king of Naples and Alexander Bishop of Rome craue aâ—d of Baiazet against Charles the French king Baiazet sendeth Dautius his embassadour to Alexander bishop of Rome Io. Rouereus robbeth the Turkes embassadour 1495 Zemes dieth
poisoned by Alexander bishop of Rome The euill life of Caesar Borgia The death of Caesar Borgia The French king inuadeth Naples Ferdinand departeth from Capâ—a to pacifie an vprore at Naples A most resolute fact of king Ferdinand Charles the French king receiued into Naples A great league made by dâ—uâ—rs Christian princeâ— agaiâ—st the French king Ferdinand recouereth his kingdome of Naples from the French and dieth The death of Charles the French king 1496 1497 The Turkes inuade Podolia Russia and in their returne are for most part lost 1498 1499 Friuly part of the Venetian territorie spoiled by the Turkes Fight at sea betwixt the Turkâ— and the Venetians Lepanto yeelded to the Turks 1500 Methone besieged both by sea and land by Baiazet Methone taken by the Turks Corone Pylus and Crisseum yeelâ—ed to the Turks 1501 Cephalenia taken by the Venetianâ— Pylos taken from the Turks and againe yeelded vnto them Dyrrachium taken by the Turkâ— Mytilâ—ne besiâ—ged The siege of Mytilene broken vp 1502 Nâ—ritos taken by the Venetians 1503 A peace concluded betwixt Baiazet and the Venetians Baiazet in danger to haue beene slaine by a Deruislar or Turkish monke Baiazet by nature peaceable The Turks and Persians differ not about the interpretation of their 〈◊〉 but about the true successor of their great prophet Mahomet Haider marrieth Maâ—tha the daâ—ghter of the great king Vsun-Cassanes Haider Erdebil sâ—cretly murdred The beginning of the Cuselbassas Hysmaell his behauiour in the time of his exile Hysmaell returneth iâ—to Armenia and recouereth his inheritance Sumaâ—hia taken by Hysmaell Hysmaell commeth to Tauris Hysmaell taketh the citie of Tauris and defaceth the tombe of his vncle Iacup Hysmaell goeth against the Persian king Eluan the Persian king slaine Hysmaell goeth against Moratchâ—mus Hysmaell exceedingly beloued and honoured of his subiects 1508 Chasan Chelife and Techellis inuade the Turkeâ— dominions â—â—smaell sendeth â—mbassadors vnto the Venetianâ— to â—oyne in league with them against Baiazet Orchanes and Mahometes two of Baiazet his nephewes ouerthrowne by Techellis The battell betweene Caragoses and Techellâ—s Techellis besiegeth Caragoses the Viceroy in the citie of Cuâ—aie Caragoses the viceroy with his wiues and children taken by Techellis in the citie of Cutaie Baiazet sendeth Alis Bassa against Techellis out of Europe The battell betwixt Alis Bassa and Techellis Chasan Chelife slaine Alis Bassa slain Ionuses Bassa sent by Baiazet Generall of his armie against Techellis Techellis burnt at Tauris 1509 A great earthquake at Constantinople The children of Baiazet Mahometes disguised as a seafaring man commeth to Constantinople and so to the court Mahometes poisoned by Asmehemedi Asmehemedi iuâ—â—ly rewarded for his treacherie 1511 Selymus aided by Mahometes his father in law riseth against his father Baiazet sendeth embassadours to Selymus Presents giuen to Selymus by his fathers embassadours Baiazet would appoint his successour whilest he yet liued Baiazet seeketh to preâ—er Achomates to the â—mpire Selymus marcheth with his armie towards Hadrianople Selymus his dissembling embassage vnto his father Selymuâ— ouertaketh his father The cheefe men about Baiazet secretly fauour Selymus and dissuade him from giuing him battaile Cherseogles Bassa the only great man faithfull to Baiazet persuadeth him to giue battel to Selymus The speech of Baiazet to the Ianizaries and souldiours of the court The common sort of the Ianizaries faithfull to Baiazet desire battell The battell betwixt Baiazet and Selymus Selymus his armie put to flight The estimation Selymus had of his horse wheron he escaped from his father Baiazet willing to preâ—er Achomates to the empire Achomates inciteth his two sons 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 to take part with him against their grandfather 〈◊〉 1512 Baiazet sendeâ—h embassadors to Achomates Achomates kiâ—leth his fathers embassadours Achomates proclaimed traitor The craftie oratiâ—n of the great Bâ—ssa Mustapha to Baiazet for the bringing home of Selymus Corcutus commâ—th to Constantinople Corcutus his Oration vnto his father Baiazet Baiazet comâ—â—â—â—eth Corcutus and promisâ—th to reâ—igne to him the empire afâ—er that Selymus a as passed euer into Asia The craftie speech of Baiazet vnto his sonne Selymus The craftie dissimulation of Selymus The blunt speech of Mustapha to â—aâ—azet persuading â—im to resigne the empire to Selymus The resolute answere of old Baiazet to Mustapha and the other Bâ—ssaes Corcutus 〈◊〉 Selymus practiseth with Hamoâ— a Iew Baiazet his phisition to poyson him Baiazet poysoned by the Iâ—â— The death of Baiazet Selymus causeth 〈◊〉 of his fathers pages to bee put to death for mourning for their master Hamoâ— the Iew â—â—stly rewarded for his trecherie Paulus Iouius Illust virorum Elog. lib. 4. Phil. Loâ—icer Turâ— Hist. lib. 1. 1512 Selymus goeth into Asia against his brother Achomates Selymus mâ—rthereth fiue of his brothers sonis 1513 Selymus seeketh aâ—â—â—r the liues of Amurat and Aladin the sons of Achomates his brother Vfegi Bassa taken prisoner Mustapha Bassa shamefully murthered Vfegi Bassa pâ—â— to death Selymus taketh the spoile of his brother Corcutus taken The lamentable death of 〈◊〉 Treason against Selymus discouered Sinan Bassa dâ—â—comfited by Achomates Selymus with his armie passeth oâ—er the riuer Achomates Evangled Amurat and Aladin the sonâ— of Achomates â—lie the one into Persia anâ— the other into Aegipt 1514 Amurat spoileth Capadocia Selymus resolueth to inuade the Persian Câ—â—â—demus Bassa 〈…〉 from going â—â—ther against the Persians Chendemus Bassa by the commaundement of Selymâ—â— slaine Selymus sendeth out his scouts who returne with bad newes Selymus passeth 〈◊〉 Araxes Hysmael sendeth an herauld to Selymus Selymus his answere vnto Hysmael The order of Selymus his battell Hysmaell with thirtie thousand Persians giueth battell to Selymus with three hundred thousand Turkes The great and mortall battaile between Selymus and Hysmaell Vsta-ogli slainâ— The terrour of the battell betweene Selymus and Hysmaell The Persian tents taken by the Turkes The Ianizaries in mutinie agaâ—â—â—t Selymus Selymus in passing the riuer Euphrates receiueth great losse Selymus câ—â—â—meth to Amâ—sia The former historie as it is reported by Io. Ant. Maenauinus a Genoway present at the doing thereof Selymus and Hysmaell compared togither Hysmaell maiesticall Selymus tyrannicall Hâ—smaell courteouâ— Selymus Chuâ—lish The Persians better horsemen than the Turkâ— The cause why Hysmaell came with so small an armie against Selymus The countries subâ—ect to Hysmaell 1515 Selymus with a new armie enâ—â—eth into Armenia Aladeuleâ— hiâ— kingdome Selymus assaileth Alâ—dâ—ulâ—s Aladâ—ules flieth into the mountaines Aladâ—ules taken and in ougâ—t 〈…〉 tâ— put to death Selymus inuadâ—th Hungarâ—â— 1516 Selymus goeth to Iconium The causes mooâ—ing Campson to fall out with Selymus The Order of the Mamalukes The imperioâ—s gouernment of the Mamalukes in Aegypt Iudea and Syria The beginning of the Gouernment of the Mamalukes in Aegypt The moderat and happie gouernment of Campson Campson his answere to the imbassadours of Selymus Selymus conuerteth his forces from the Persians against Campson Selymus encourageth his souldiours to go against the Mamalukes The wholsome counsell of Gazelles for protracting the warre
Sâ—rigonium The Turks repulsed thrise at the assault of thâ— breach A fugitiuâ— Christian discouereth the strength and state of the citiâ— to the Turks â—alamanca goeth 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 parley with the Turks about the yeelding vp of the same Strigonium yeelded to the Turks by Liscanus the Spaniard Liscanus the couetous Spaniard merrily stript of all his wealth by Halis captaine of the Ianizaries Solyman entreth into Strigonium and there setteth vp the Mahometane superstition A cowardly captaine worthâ—ly rewarded Solyman goeth to Alba Regaliâ— The description of Alba Regalâ—â— The citisens of Alba will not suffer the citie 〈◊〉 be destroyed The Turks with incredible labour fill vp the ditches and lake and by plaine force assault the bulwarke of the subâ—rbes towards 〈◊〉 A notable act of an Hungâ—â—iaâ— woman The suburbes of Alba Regalâ—â— wâ—on by the Turkes The miserable slaughter of the flying Christianâ— Embassadourâ— senâ— to Solyman to entreat vpon conditions for the yeelding of the citie Solyman entreth into Alba Regalis Solyman causeth the chiefe citisens of Alba Regalis to be slaine Solyman returneth to Constantinople Nice in Prouincâ— besieged by the French and the Turkes The citisens craue parley and aâ—ter yeeld the citie The castle besieged Barbarussa in his rage threateneth to lay handâ— on Polinus and to returne forthwith to Constantinople The Turkes and French giue ouer the siegâ— of the castle of Nice and set â—ire on the citie Barbarussa derided by the Turks captaines His answere to their â—aunâ—s Muleasses fearing the coÌ„ming of Barbarussa departeth from Tunes into Italy to craue aid of Charles the emperour Costly dishes Amida riseth against Muleasses his father and vsurpeth the kingdome of Tunes Muleasses returneth into Affrick to Guletta Amida thruâ—â— out of Tunes Amida returneth and possesseth the kingdome Muleasses going to Tuneâ— by the way ouerthrowne Lofredius slaine Muleasses taken Amida put out his fathers and brethrens eies Touarres senâ—â—â—h for Abdamâ—â—â—ch Amida his elder brother Abdamelech by policie obtaineth the kingdome of Tunes Abdamelech dieth and Mahometes his sonne is chosen king in his place Muleasses at the request of Touarrâ—â— is sent to Guletta Amida recouereth the kingdome of Tunes and taketh sharp reuenge vpon his enemies Muleasses disdaineth to kisse the Popes foot 1544 Barbarussa his letters to Apolanus Gouernour of Elba Appianus glad to deliuer the captiue whom Barbarussa required Sinan the Iew dieth for ioy Barbarussa in his returne toward Constantinople dâ—th much harm vpon the coast of Italie Barbarussa arriueth at Constantinople Mahomet Solymans eldest son dieth The death of thâ— famous piraâ— Barbarussa Vastius dieth 1548 1549 Van yeelded to the Turkes Imirza murthered in prison Solyman returneth to Constantinople 1550 Dragut a famous pirat of the Turkâ— possesseth certaine cities in Affricke 1551 Malta attempted by the Turks The Turks fleet arriueth at Tripolis in Barbaris Tripolis battered by the Turks Hard conditions offered by the Bassa in the besieged More easie conditions offered by the Bassa which he consumeth by hiâ—oath The warie ansâ—â—re of the Gouernour to the Bassa The castle yeelded The shamelesse answere of the faithlesse Bassa to the French embassadour The Turks triumph for the winning of Tripolis A shamefull cruâ—â—â—ie of the Turks Temesware and Zolnok taken by the Turks George bishop of Veradium murdered in his owne house 1552 Agria besieged by the Turks The Turks giue ouer the siege of Agria 1553 Mustapha Solyman eldest sonâ—e in great estimation with the people Solyman becommeth amorous of Roxolana Mustaphâ— sent to gouerne Caramania The mallice of Roxolana against Mustapha Roxolana conspireth with Rustan Bassa her sonne in law against Mustapha Roxolana â—aineth her selfe religious Solyman manumiseth Roxolana Solyman sendeth for Roxolana She excuseth her selfe and refuseth to come Solyman marrieth Roxolana Roxolana plotteth the confusion of Mustapha Rustan the great Bassa furthereth the deuises of Roxolana Mustapha in danger to haue been poisoned by Roxolana Roxolana and Rustan together put Solyman in feare of his sonne Mustapha Solyman sendeth Rustan Bassa with an armie to take Mustapha The malicious deuice of Rustan Solyman goeth himselfe with an armie to kill his sonne He sendeth for Mustapha Mustapha perplexed in mind His talke with his doctor Mustapha commeth to his fathers campe The exceeding tâ—â—cherie of Rustan against Mustapha The melâ—ncholie dreame of Mustaâ—ha in comming to his father Mustapha commeth to his fathers tent Mustapha most crâ—elly strangled in his fathers sight Mahomet Mustaphaes sonne strangled also Solyman offereth to Tzihanger all Mustaphaes treasure and wealth Tzihanger for sorrow killeth himselfe A bloudie tumult betwixt the souldiors of Solyman and Mustapha The tumult appeased by Achomat bassa The Ianizaries vp in aâ—mâ—â— against Solâ—man â—or the vnworthy death of Mustapha The sâ—out speech of Solyman to the Ianizaries The fâ—â—rce answerâ— of the Ianizaries to Solyman Solyman yeeldeth vnto the Ianizaries Rustan disgraced by Solyman flieth to Constantinople The miserable end of Achomates the great Bassa 1554 1555 1556 Zigeth besieged by the Bassa of Buda A terrible assault 〈◊〉 notably â—efended Solymanâ— letter to the Pope in behalfe of the Iews marchants * The ninth of Marâ—h An. 1556 Haly Bassa besiegeth Zigeth againe Haly Bassa ouerthrowne Henry the French king solliciteth Solyman to inuade the king of Spaine his territories The Guise lord Grand Prior in France admirall of Malta taketh certaine of the Turkes gallies Solyman in nothing more vnfortunat than in the proofe of his children Baiazet Solymanâ— younger sonne seeketh to aspire vnto the empire A counterseit Mustapha set vp to make a head of rebellion The craftie dealing of the supposed Mustapha to deceiue the people Solyman angrie with the Sanzackes for not suppressing the supposed Mustapha sendeth Partau the great Bassa against him Mustapha and his companions drowned by night Roxolana intreaâ—eth Solyman for Baiazet her yonger sonne and obtaineth his pardon Baiazet goeth to his father in feare Roxolana comforteth her sonne Baiazet Solyman reproueth Baiazet of disloialtie and afterward parâ—â—neth him Baiazet returneth to his charge Solyman admonisheth Baiazet of his dutie Solyman remooueth his two sons further asunder Baiazet vnwilling to goe to Amasia seeketh delayes Solyman to be sure that his two sonnes should go to their appointed prouinces sendeth Partau and Mehemet two of the Visiâ—â— Bassaâ—s to see them brought thither Baiazeâ— sendeth Partau Bassa backe againe to his father Solyman maketh preparation against Baiazes and sendeth aid to Selymus The Ianizaries vnwilling to goâ— against Baiazet Baiazet his message to his father requesting him not to intermedle betwixt him and his brother Selymâ—â— departeth toward Iconium Baiazet sâ—aieth at Ancyra and there raiseth his forces The description of Selymus Baiazet and his quarrell generally fauoured of the souldiors Baiazet hiâ— purpose Baiazet goeth against his brother The battell betweene Baiazet and Selymus Fortie thousand Turkes slaine Baiazet goeth to Amasia Augerius Busbequius epist. 3. legationis Turâ—â—â—ae The order of the Turkes campe The opinion â—he Turkes haue of them that diâ—
as much as Christian which some misâ—aking call this Miâ—hael also by the name of Iohn Michael by Amuraâ—h created Vayuod of Valachia Alexander strangled aâ— Constantinople Michael the Vayuod of Valachia reuolteth from the Turkes * The Turkâ— call all them that are disâ—eâ—ded of the slocke of their Prophet Mahomet by the name of Emirs or Lordâ— The Cadelâ—sher with all the Turke his followers slaine Phlocz spoiled by the Vayâ—od Hersowâ— taken Silistria 〈◊〉 Amurath diâ—tâ— 1595 Mahomet salutâ—â— Emperour of the Turks He murthereth his brethren The Ianizaries in a tumult The tumult appeased The Ianizaries againe in an vproâ—e Diuerâ— fortunate rodeâ— made by the Christians vpon the Turkâ— The emperours â—mbassadoâ—r dieth in prison at Belgrade The Bassaâ—s subtill demaundâ— answered with like The Turkes embassadours sent vnto the Polonian king slaine in Valachia The plague and famine among the Turkes Michael Vaiuod of Valachia doth the Turkes great harme The notable armie of the Christians and from whence iâ— was raised Ferat Bassa ouerthrowne in Valachia Mahomet sendeth embassadors to the prince of Transylvania The presumptuous speech of one Waswood an old Ianizarie to Mahomet the great Sultan The armie of the Christians â—â—â—stered aâ— Altenburg The vigilant carefulnesse of Countie Mansfeld Dotis besieged by the Christians An obstinaâ— Turke Countie Mansfeld remoueth with the armie from Dotis to Strigonium The Christians repulsed Mahomet carefull of Strigonium The higher citie of Strigonium battered by the Christians Gokara taken by the Christians A skirmish betwixt the Turks and the Christians A cruell battell betwixt the Chrisâ—â—ans and the Turkes before Strigonium The Turks ouerthrowne The message sent by the lord Palfi to the Gouernor of Strigonium The resolute answere of the old Gouernor to the message sent him by Paâ—â—i The loxer towne 〈◊〉 by the Câ—ristians Countie Mansfeld dâ—eth at Komara The coppie of the great dukes letters vnto the emperour Alis-Beg the old Gouernour of Sâ—â—igonium slain with a great shot Strigonium yeelded vnto the Christians The castle of Vicegrade taken by the Christians Lippa taken by the Transyluanians Ferat Bassa sent for to Constantinople and there strangled Sinan Bassa sent in Ferats stâ—ad A moâ—tall battell betwixt Sinan and the Transâ—luanian prince The Turks ouerthrowne Sinan in flying like to be drowned The Turks ouerthrowne in Croatia Petrinia taken by the Christians The prince taketh a view of his armie Sinan Bassa by a bridge made of boats passeth ouer Danubius into Valachia Hassan Bassa taken The â—ruitfulnesse of Valachia and Moldauâ—a Bucaresta taken by the prince Sinan fliâ—â—â— ouer Danubiâ—â— The Prince returneth with victorie to Alba Iulia. The opinion Sinan Bassa had of the Transyluanian Ienna yeelded to the Transyluanians Mahomet calleth in the Tartars â—o inuade Moldauia The reasons pretended by the Chancelour for the inuasion of Moldauia The late chosen Vayuod openeth threâ— waies vnto the Turkes and Tartars into Transyluania The Popes letters vnto the king of Polonia to dissuade him from inuading the prince The coppie of the letters of the Tartar vnto the king of Polonia The Presents ofâ—ered by the Tartar embassadour to the king of Polonia Zamoschie the great Chancelor his letters vnto Clement the Pope that noâ— is * viz to become tributarie vnto the Turks Sinan Bassa sent for to Constantinople His death Mahomet perplexed 1596 The Siculi rebell against the prince The Bassa of â—emeswar slaine and a great booâ—ie taken Warres proclaimed in Constantinople against the emperour the Transyluanian prince Six hundred of the garrison souldiors of Lippâ— slaine by the Turkes Lippa besieged by the Turkes and Tartars Plenia a towne of the Turkes sacked by the Christians Clissa lately surprised by the Christians lost againe to the Turkes Sombock taken by the lord Palâ—i Temeswar besieged by the Transyluanian prince The prince raiseth his siege Vacia abâ—â—doned of the Turkes is taken by the Christians Hatwan besieged by the Christians Cowardise punished Hatwan woon by the Christians Extreame cruchiâ— Mahomeâ— the greaâ— Sultan coÌ„meth to Buda with an armie of two hundred thousand Agria Agria besieged by Mahomeâ— A bulwarke twelue times assaulted in 〈◊〉 daies The old castle taken Agria yeelded vnto the Turkes Petrinia besieged by the Turkes Petrinia relieued A great and long skirmish betwixt the Turks and the Christians Ten â—housand Turks passe the riuer and are â—ogeâ—her with the Tarâ—ars put â—o flight The Christians iâ— seeking too greedily after the â—potle oâ—erthrowne and discomfited Twentie thousand Christians slaine and threescore thousand Turks Vacia besieged by the Bassa of Buda Pappa taken by the Christians Dotis taken by the Turks Michael the Vayuod yeeldeth his obeisance vnto the Turke and yet refuseth to aid him against the Christians 1598 A great tribute The prince of Transyluania â—esigneth his countrey vnto the Emperour Michael the Vaiuod submitteth himselfe with his people vnto the Emperours protection Two Italian prisoners flying out of Rab discouer the state of the towne to the lord Swartzenburg The notable speech of the lord Palfi vnto his souldiâ—rs Rab surprised by the Christians Two of the Turkâ— Bassaâ—s slaine A great bootle A great tumult betweene the Ianizaries and the Spahi Buda besieged by the Christians The Christians depart from the siege of Buda Veradinum besieged by the Turks A new supply put into Veradi 〈◊〉 by â—â—sta Nicopoliâ— sacked and burnâ— by thâ— Vayuod 1599 The Turkes againe spoiled by the Vayuod Buda distressed The Turks embassadour taken for a spie and imprisoned as Vienna Sigismund yeeldeth his countrey of Transyluania vnto the Cardinall Bathâ—r hiâ— cousin The Bassa of Buda taken prisoner The Turks ouerthrowne and the Bassa of Bosna slaine The Turkes râ—ceiâ—e a notable ouerthrow vpon the riuer of Danubius The Turkes 〈◊〉 feare forsake the citie 〈◊〉 Buda and flie into thâ— castle The Christians vpon the approach of the Turkes great armie retire A parley for peace Michael the Vayâ—od with a grâ—at armie entreth into Tranâ—yâ—uania A teâ—rible battell bâ—twixt the Vaâ—uod and thâ— Cardinall The Cardinals head sent for a present vnto the emperour The Turks great armie of it selfe dâ—ssolâ—ed Cusahin Bassa of Câ—ramania riseth â—p in rebellion against the great Sultan Mehemet one of the Visier Bassaes sent againsâ— the râ—bell Cusahin the rebell taken and tortured to death at CoÌ„stantinople 1600 The emperour maketh prouision against the Turkâ— The death of tâ—e lord Palfi The Frenchmen and Wallons mutinie in Pappa Pappa offeâ—ed vnto the Turkes by the mutiners A most wicked fact The lord Swartzeâ—burg slaine Pappa abandoned by the mutiniers An horrible exâ—â—cution Two Bassaes of Sigeth slaine one after another Iâ—la surprised and burnâ— by the free Haiduckes The gouernment of Transyluania by the emperour confirmed vnto Michael the Vayuod Michael the Vayuod goeth against Sigismund Bathor and the Vayuoâ— of Moldauia Sigismund and the Moldauian ouerthrowne by Michael the Vayuod Moldauia subdued by Michael Michael tâ—rannizeth in Transylvania The Transyluanians rebell Basta taketh part with the Transyluanians against
〈…〉 citie The 〈…〉 in an vproâ—e Murzuâ—â—e attempteth to burne the Venetian fleet Murzufle encourageth his souldiers Constantinople hardly besieged Constantinople set on fire Nicetas Choniates annalâ—um fol. 180. 1204 The Greeke empire diuided amongst the Latines The beginning of the empire of 〈◊〉 by the Comneni Hadrianople besieged by the Emperour Baldwin 1206 Henry second emperour of the Latines in Constantinopleâ— Antioch besieged by Iathatines Iathatines the Sultan slaine by Theodorus Lascaris the Greeke emperour Iohn Brenne by Innocentius the Pope appointed king of Hierusalem 1209 Corradin and Meledin deuide their fathers kingdome betwixt them The situation of Damiata in Aegypt A desperat act of a Christian. Damiata in vain assaulted A faire offer euill refused Succours sent vnto the besieged Dâ—â—â—ata without resistance 〈◊〉 by the Châ—â—stians Dâ—amaâ—a 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 1221 1222 Pelagius the Legat persuadeth the princeâ— of the Christian armie to proceed for the conquest of Aegypt The miserie of the Christians in the drowned land The death of â—enry emperour â—â— Constantinople Peter emperour Robert emperor of CoÌ„stantinople An horrible â—utrage committed vpon the person of an empresse Baldwin the lasâ— emperour of the Latines in Constantinople Iohn Batazes made empeâ—or of the Greekes in Asia Plentie ensuing of peace An imperiall â—â—owne bought with egge mony 1227 1228 1229 Fredericke the emperor crowned king of Hierusalem 1230 The vnfortunat expedition of the king of Nauarrâ— into the Holy land The Christians by persuasion of the 〈…〉 their leâ—gue with the Turkeâ— 1234 Hierusalem taken and rased by the Turks 1248 King Lewis setteth forward toward the Holy land 1249 The citizens of Damiata set fire vpon the citie and ran away by the light A faire 〈◊〉 sondly refused Earle Robert in flying drowned The earle of Salisburie valiaÌ„tly sighting slaâ—â—â— The gouernor of Caire apprehended The beginning of the Mamalukes and their kingdome The ruine of the Turkâ— kingdome in Aegypt The emperour in 〈◊〉 with Marcesina Marcesina the emperâ—â—r 〈…〉 of the church Thâ—odorus Lasâ—â—â—â— chosen emperoâ—r The death of Theodorus the Greeke emperor Enuie in Couâ—â— Muzalo traitâ—â—rously murdered in the church Michael Paleologus aspireth Michaell Paleologus crowned emperor by Arsenius the Patriarch 1260 Haalon the Tartar sent with a great armie against the Turks Aleppo rased by the Tartars Damasco woon The Aegyptian Sultan inuadeth Siria Antioch taken from the Christians 1261 Paleologus the Gâ—eâ—ke emperor taketh possession oâ— the citie of Constantinopleâ— Paleologus â—ealous of his estate Paleologus causeth the yong emperours eyes to be put out Iathatines dieth in exile 1270 Carthage besieged by K. Lewis Caâ—thage woon The Christian princes returning from Tunes suffer shipwracke vpon the coast of Sicilia 1271 Prince Edward 〈…〉 Prince Edward wounded 1273 Rodolph the emperour taketh vpon him the Crosse. Henry the prince taken prisoner sent to Caire 1289 Tripolis won and rased by Elpis the Aegyptian Sultan Sydon and Berythus rased Tyre yeelded The miserable estate of a citie about to perish 1291 Ptolemais besâ—eged Ptolemais in vaine assaulted by the Sultan Cassanes the Tartar intâ—adeth Syria Hierusalem takeÌ„ and repaired by Cassanes The description of Cassaâ—es The citie of Hierusalem with all Syria againe recouered by the Aegyptian Sultan 1300 The death of Mesoot and Cei-Cubades The Turks kingdome rent in sunder by themselues The Turks Anarchie Caramania Saruchania Carasia Aidinia Bolli Mendesia Othoman 〈…〉 familie Phi. Lonicerus hist. Turc lib. 1. All worldly things subiect to change The greatest kingdomes haue in time taken end and so come to naught Solyman Sultan of Machan forsaketh his kingdome for â—â—are of the Tartars Romania Asiatica The sonnes of Solyman and their first aduentures The Christians of Cara-Chisar fall ouâ— with the Turks Small things in time of trouble yeeld vnto the wise great content Othoman â—â—â—orous of Malhatun a countrey maid A â—olly common vnto â—â—uers No friendship in â—oue Othoman besieged in danger for his loue The Oguzian Turks in doubt of whom to makâ— choice for their Gouernour The castle of Chalâ—e surprised by 〈◊〉 The Christians 〈◊〉 of the 〈…〉 Othomâ—n consulteth with his brother 〈◊〉 what 〈◊〉 to take for the oppresing of the Christians 〈◊〉 neighbours Othoman 〈◊〉 in order his 〈◊〉 commonweale Michael Cossi inuiteth Othoman to the maâ—â—age of his daughter The captaine of Belizuga â—â—â—acherously seeking the death of Othoman is by him himselfe slaine Othoman by adminiâ—â—ration of iustice strengtheneth his gouernment The â—ity of Nice besiâ—ged by Othoman 1300 Neapolis the first regall citiâ— of the Othoman kingâ— Prusa besâ—â—geâ— by Othoman Michael Cossi turneth Turke Alteration of Religion in the Greeke Church Persecution in the Greeke Church for matters of Religion Immoderat bountie in great men dangerous Alexiâ—s Philanthropenus aspireth Libadarius opposeth himselfe against the proceâ—â—iâ—gâ— of Philanthropenus Andronicus the Greeke emperor reposing moâ—e â—ust 〈…〉 his owne subiects greatly hurteth his state Ronzerius what he was 〈◊〉 for want oâ— pay spoileth the emperors subiects Ronzerius 〈◊〉 The Turks first called into Europe by the Catalonians The Turcopuli The vnfortunat battell of Michael the emperour against the Catalonians and Turks Cassandâ—â—â— The Catalonians shut out of Macedonia The Turks 〈…〉 two faâ—tâ—â—ns The vnfortuâ—at battell of the emperour Michael Paleologus with the Turks in Chersonesâ—â—s Thracia spoiled by the Turks Philes Paleologus requesteth of the emperour that he might goe against the Turks The battell betwixt Philes and the Turks The Turks ouerthrowne The causes of the decay of the Greeke empire Syrgiannes his craâ—tie sediâ—iouâ— speech vnto yoong Andronicus 〈◊〉 Andronicus commeth secretâ—y armed vnto his grandfatâ—â—r Thracia reuolâ—eth vnto Andronicus Articles of agreemeÌ„t betwixt the old emperour and his nephew The Greeke empire in Europe deuided Whilest the Greekes are at discord among thâ—selues Othoman layeth the foundation of the Turks empire and the other Turks encroch vpon them also The Island of the Rhodes was by the knights Hospitalers recouered from the Turks in the yeare 1308. Andronicus the old emperor seeketh for counsell of the Psalter as of an heauenly Oracle and so seeketh to make peace with his nephew Psal. 68. vers 14. A treacherous meeting The yong emperour sendeth embassadours vnto his grandfather The speech of the yong emperor vnto his grandfathers embassadors The speech of the old emperor â—nto the Patâ—â—arâ—h and the rest of the bishâ—ps 〈…〉 the young emperour his â—ephew The Patriarch with diuers of the bishops conspire against the old emperour Thessalonica yeelded vnto the yong emperour Constantinople betraied vnto the young emperour The pitifull supplication of the old emperour vnto his nephew Niphon incenseth the yoong emperor against his grandfather The old emperor beâ—â—meth blind Andronicus the old emperour against hâ—â— will mâ—de a Monke and called Anthonie The notable answere of the old emperour to the catching question of the proud Patriarch The death of the oâ—d emperour The Turks kingdome founded by Othoman in Asia at such time as the Greeke emperors were as variance betwixt