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A50866	The history of the holy vvar began anno 1095, by the Christian princes of Europe against the Turks, for the recovery of the Holy Land, and continued to the year 1294. In two books. To which is added, a particular account of the present war, managed by the emperour, King of Poland, and several other princes against the Turks. By Tho. Mills, gent. Illustrated with copper-plates.	Mills, Thomas, gent.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2073; ESTC R221362	83,846	225

he had slain so many Turks And having at last concluded a Peace with the Sultans for Ten Years wherein it was agreed That all Christian Captives should be released several Forts restored and things reduced to the same state they were at the first Peace made with Frederick the Emperour He returned home with abundance of Honour Having says the Historian compelled those Infidels to offer Terms of Peace without offering them any other violence than shewing his Sword in the Scabbard without ever drawing it And indeed such was the general esteem which he obtained by his Success in this Voyage that he afterwards bid fair for the Imperial Crown of Germany Not long after the Earls return died Reinoldus Frederick's Lieutenant in Syria in whose Grave was buried all the Happiness and Glory of the Christians in Palestine For now the lawless Templars would observe no other Rule than their own Will and the inundation of the rude Tartars having maugre all opposition run over all the North of Asia and forced many Nations to forsake their ancient Habitations among whom was a certain People called Corasine who being thus unkennelled had recourse to the Sultan of Babylon desiring him to give them a place to live in The Sultan who was free enough of that which was none of his own frankly gave them all the Land that the Christians held in Syria upon condition that they would conquer it which he told them was easie to do in regard the People were few and weak and the Country rich and fruitful The Corasines being thus animated by the by the Sultan came with their Wives and Children and their whole Housholds into Syria to win Houses and Land for them there And finding the City of Jerusalem unguarded and without the least suspition of an Enemy easily surprized it and entered without resistance Many of the Christians thereupon flying out of the City with their Wives and Families took their course towards Joppa but unfortunately looking back and seeing their own Ensigns advanced on the Walls were so infatuated as to go back to the City again upon a confute that their fellows had beaten the Corasines and by those Banners invited them to return whereby they were every Mother's Child of them slain Things being brought to this pass in Syria a desperate Disease must have a desperate Remedy whereupon the Christians clapt up a hasty Peace with the two Sultans of Damascus and Cracci between whom and the Sultan of Babylon there was at that time some discord And swearing them to be faithful borrowed an Army of their Forces to assist them in taking vengeance on the Corasines Robert Patriarch of Jerusalem was the chief Commander and St. Luke's day the time agreed on for this fatal Battel which was fought on a Plain near Tyberius But the two Armies were no sooner joyned but the Turks who were placed in the front of the Battel ran over to the Enemy or at least fled through cowardize so that the Christians being over-powered in number though they made a great slaughter of their Enemies were at last utterly overthrown and most of them slain there escaping no more but Three of the Teutonick Order Eighteen Templers and Nineteen Hospitallers besides the Patriarch who says of himself That God accounting him unwortby of Martyrdom permitted him to escape among the rest The Corafines improving this Victory won all from the Christians except Tyre Ptolemais and Antioch with a few Forts So that the Christians were beaten by a beaten People who shortly after falling out with the Sultan of Babylon were by him wholly routed out so as none of their Name remained And it is very observable that all Historians both before and after this time are wholly silent concerning them whereby it seems as tho' God had created this People to punish the Christian and as soon as they had done their work annihilated them again CHAP. VII The French King's Voyage into Palestine He carries the War into Egypt again Damiata taken the second time but afterwards exchanged for King Lewis ABout two years after this overthrow Lewis the Ninth of that Name King of France arrived in Palestine to assist the Christians in recovering what they had lost That which moved him to undertake this Voyage was his recovering of a desperate fit of sickness upon the application of a Piece of the Cross He was accompanied therein besides three of his own Brothers and divers of the French Nobility by William Longspath Earl of Shrewsbury with a brave company of valiant English Soldiers When he came to Cyprus he was met by an Embassadour from a great Tartarian Prince who in vited by the fame of his Piety acquainted him with his design to embrace the Christian Religion He received and entertained the Embassadours with much affability dismissed them with liberal Gifts and by them sent as a Present to their Master a curious Tent wherein the History of the Bible was very dexteriously and richly wrought in Needle-work hoping thereby to catch his Soul in his Eyes Pictures being in that Age of Ignorance accounted Lay-mens Books tho' since they have been generally condemned as full of many damnable Errata's and never published by any Authority of the King of Heaven to be either the means or workers of Faith Thither also the Templers who were afraid of being checked by this Pious King for their debauched Lives wrote to him to accept of a Peace which the King of Egypt offered to make with the Christians But he being informed by the King of Syria that it was only a trick of the Templers to prevent his intentions of going into Syria to behold their wickedness commanded the Grand Master that from thence forward upon the price of his Head he should receive no Messages nor hold any correspondence with the Enemy resolving with himself once more to invade Egypt and make that Country the Seat of the War But having once declared his intentions and making no great haste to put it into execution Ateladine had time enough to provide against the storm by fortifying the Sea-Coast which he did for an Hundred and Eighty Miles together so that their landing was now much more difficult than when King John invaded it However Lewis being re-inforced with a new Army by Robert Duke of Burgundy and Alphonse the King's Brother set forward for Egypt and intended to land near Damiata But the Governour with a Band of resolute Mammalakes opposed it between whom and the Christians there was for some hours a fierce and bloody Fight wherein the Turks were at last overthrown and forced to fly into the Town leaving the Christians Landing-place without any other Guard but their Governour and Five Hundred of their best Soldiers whom they left dead on the place Lewis the 9th King of France Damiata was a City so strong and well fortified that the taking of it was accounted a good Task if performed by an Army within the compass of a Year But those within remembring

wherein were several Thousand Foot and Eight Horsemen only By which means they were soon after their setting out slain and routed by the Bulgarians he himself hardly escaping And Peter the Hermite having obtained the command of an Army went somewhat further to meet his own ruin for having after many difficulties crossed the Bosphorus got into Asia they found several Cities forsaken by their Turkish Inhabitants which they imagined to be the effect of their fear altho it really proceeded from their Policy and thereupon being more greedy of Gain then desirous of Honour neglected to fortifie the places which they had taken and fell to plundring and seeking after spoil whereby they themselves became an easie prey to their watchful and observing Enemies Not had Hugh who was surnamed the Great Brother to the French King any better success being also overthrown by the Bulgarians in his passage towards the Holy Land and himself taken Prisoner one Gotescall●s likewise a Scandalo●s Priest and Emmicho a certain Tyrannou● Prince near the Rhine led forth a rout of base and disorderly People who wore in deed the Badg of the Cross but served the Devil under Christs Livery killing and pillaging the Poor Jews and others as they went through Germany which made Coloman King of Hungary oppos● their passage through his Country and put most of them to the Sword Some believing those badbeginnings to have an● ill omen abandoned their former Re● solutions and returned home But other● took little or no notice of them looking upon them as necessary Physick to purge the Christian Army from the dreg● of base and ruder People CHAP. V. The Pilgrims arrive at Constantinople Besiege and take Nice and Antroachia overcome Solyman and Corboran in Fight and win the City of Jerusalem NOtwithstanding the bad success of the first adventurers many others addressed themselves to try their fortunes in this Religious War for Godfrey Duke of Bovillon having sold that Dukedom to the Bishop of Liege and the Castles of Sartensy and Monsa to the Bishop of Verdune raised a brave and well managed Army wherewith he marched through Hungary to Constantinople and so did Robert Duke of Normandy Second Son to William the Conqueror King of England Reimond Earl of Tholouse and divers more who though they set forward at several times marcht through different Countries yet they all met together at Constantinople which being then the seat of the Grecian Empire was appointed for the place of their General Rendezvous But although Alexias the Emperour pretended to be over-joyed at their arrival yet he was inwardly grieved thereat for being conscious to himself of his own guilt in deposing and cloistering up Nicephorus his Predecessor and then usurping his Imperial Dignity it was no pleasant sight for him to behold the Sea full of Ships and the Shores covered over and crouded with Souldiers fancying to himself that notwithstanding all their fair pretences of a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem to wrest the holy-land out of the Pagans Possession they only came to undermine him and designed to terminate their Pilgrimage in his destruction And that which is somewhat strange he seems to have entailed his groundless jealousies to all his Successors none where of could ever heartily reconcile themselves to this War but suspected tha● those Western Christians made a false blow at Jerusalem but intended it at Constantinople However notwithstanding his secret regret yet finding that his Guests were powerful enough to command their own welcome he entertained them with a seeming complacence and granted them passage through his Country upon Condition that whatsoever they won● Jerusalem only excepted that belonged formerly to the Grecian Empire should be restored to him in lieu whereof he covenanted to furnish them with Shipping Armour and all other warlike Provisions which he never performed but contrary to his Solemn Ingagements endeavoured to retard their generous Designs From hence they marched forward and sate down before the City of Nice formerly fam'd for the first General Council called by Constantine the Great against Arius the Heretick with as glorious an Army and as brave Commanders as ever the Sun saw The Pilgrims had a Lumbard for their Engineer and the Neighbouring Woods afford them Materials for the making many warlike Instruments wherewith they fancied they should soon make themselves Masters of the City But in regard it was strongly fortified both by Art Nature and garrisoned with a great number of well experienced and resolute Soldiers they found it more difficult than they expected But at length the Grecian Fleet blocking up the Lake Ascanius and thereby cutting off from the Besieged all hope of Relief they were forc't to surrender upon condition that the Inhabitants Lives and Goods should be indempnified whereat the Souldiers who promised themselves the Plunder of the City and were thereby frustrated of their hope shewed no small discontent Solymans Wife and young Children were made Prisoners and the City according to the former Agreement with the Grecian Emperour was delivered to Tatinus the Admiral on the behalf of Alexius his Master Having made themselves Masters o● this place and thereby flushed themselve with Victory they advance forward to the Vale of Dogorgan where Solyman who had now gotten together a grea● Army fell upon them suddenly like lightning so that there followed a fierce and Bloody Battle fought with much courage and great variety of success o● both sides Clouds of Arrows darkning the Sky were soon dissolved into Showe● of Blood The Europian Pilgrims in this Battle grapled with many disadvantages for their Enemies were three to one and Valour it self may sometimes be beate● down by multitudes The weather was extream hot and the scorchnig Sun much annoyed those Northern People whil● use had made the Pagans bodies proo● against the extremity of the heat Thei● Horses likewise unaccustomed to the bar● barous sound of the Turkish Drums wer● affrighted that they became altogethe● useless notwithstanding which the● bravely maintained their ground an● by the special Valour and Conduct 〈◊〉 ●heir undaunted Leaders gave the Infidels an absolute overthrow whereat Solyman being desperately inraged as he fled away burned all before him and the better to prop up his broken Credit gave out that he had obtained the Victory and thereby pleased himself with the thoughts of being a Conquerour though only in report From thence with invincible industry and patience they forced their passage through Vallies up Mountains and over Rivers taking in as they went the famous Cities Iconium Heraclea Tarsus ●nd conquering all the Country about Cilicia But being too much puft up with ●his great Success Heaven to cure them of the Pleurisie of Pride let them blood with the tedious and costly Siege of An●iochia which City being called Reblath by the Hebrews was built by Seleucus Nicanor and watered by the River ●rontes but inlarged by Antiochus who ●ncompassed it round with a double Wall one of square Stone and the o●er of

an unfortunate man Tho' the truth is the measuring a Princes worth by his Success is a Rule often false and always uncertain and the common Consent of all Nations will plead this in his Favour that having been once a King he ought ever to remain so But to put a sinal end to this unhappy Controversie King Richard made a pleasing Motion which rellished well to the Palate of that hungry Prince offering him the Island of Cyprus in exchange for his Kingdom of Jerusalem Which motion was willingly imbraced and the exchange actually made to the Content of both parties and the Kings of England bore the Title of King of Jerusalem in their style for many years after But in this exchange Guy had really the better Bargain in regard he bought a real Possession for an Airy Title However he lived not long to injoy it for he dyed soon after his Arrival there but his Family injoyed it for some hundred years after which it fell by some Transaction to the state of Venice and was at last wrested from them by the Turks who injoy it at this day Conrade being killed and Guy having renounced his Kingdom Henry Earl of Champaign was advanced to the Kingdom of Jerusalem by the procurement of King Richard his Uncle who to corroborate his Election by some Right of Succession married Isabella the Widow of Conrade and Daughter of Almerick King of Jerusalem he was a Prince valiant enough but in regard his Reign was short and most of it spent in a Truce he had not an opportunity to express it He took more delight in the style of Prince of Tyre then he did in that of being King of Jerusalem as accounting it more honourable to be Prince of what he had then to be called King of what he injoyed not And now the Christians promising themselves abundance of Peace and Tranquility began every where to build and to beautifie their Habitations The Templers fortified Gaza and King Richard repaired and walled Ptolemais Pomphyria Joppa and Askelon But alass this short liv'd Prosperity like an Autumn Spring came too late and was gone too soon to bring forth any mature Fruit However it was now agreed on by all parties that they should march immediately towards the City of Jerusalem which Holy and Sacred place was the mark at which they all principally Aimed And having prepared all things for the putting this resolution into Practice King Richard lead the Vant Guard of English the Duke of Burgundy Commanded in the main Body over his French and James of Avergn with his Flemings and Brabanters brought up the Rear Saladine who understood by his Spies the manner of their march Serpent like bit them by the Heels for not far from Bethlehem he violently assaulted the Rear of their Army but the English and French suddenly Wheeling about charged the Turks most furiously and Emulation formerly Poyson here proved a Cordial every Christian unanimously striving not only to Conquer their Enemies but to overcome their Friends to in the Honour of the Victory And our Royal Pilgrim in this Battel was so adventrous and fought with such invincible Courage and Resolution against those Enemies of Christianity that his Valour brought his Judgment into question in regard he was more careless of himself and exposed his Person to greater danger then beseemed the prudence of a General for having received a Wound as tho' by losing his Blood he had received a new Addition to his Strength he laid about him like a Mad-man killing divers of the Infidels with his own hands The Turks withstood the Christians force for a long time and strove hard to carry away the Honour of the Day but were at last forced to give Ground and leave the Christians in the Possession of the Victory which they obtained with little or no loss to themselves save James of Avergn who dyed here in the Bed of Honour But there were more Turks slain in this Battel then there had been in any other for forty years before And had the Christian improved this Victory and marched immediately to Jerusalem they might in all Probability have surprized it whilst the Turks were Blind-folded and in a kind of a maze at this Prodigious overthrow But the opportunity was wholly lost by the backwardness of King Richard and his English Soldiers say the French Writers whilst others impute it altogether to the Envy and Emulation of the French who rather chose to have so Glorious an Action left undone then to see it performed by the English together with the Treachery of Odo Duke of Burgundy who being more grieved for the loss of his Credit than careful to preserve a good Conscience was choaked with the shame of the sin which he had swallowed and dyed for Grief that his holding Correspondence with the Turks came to be discovered But most are of the Opinion that Richard attempted not the taking of Jerusalem because like a wise Architect he intended to build his Victories so as they might stand unshaken by securing the Country all along as he went It being Sensless and Imprudent to besiege Jerusalem an In-land City whilst the Turks were still in Possession of all the Sea-Ports and other places of Strength thereabouts Sometime after this Victory he intercepted divers Camels laden with very rich Commodities those Eastern Wars containing a great deal of Treasure in a little Room And yet of all this and of all that abundance of Wealth of England Sicily and Cyprus which he brought hither he carried nothing home save only one Gold-Ring all the rest being melted away and consumed in this hot Service He spent the Winter at Askelon and intended the following Spring to have gone to Jerusalem had not bad News out of Europe altered his resolution and put him in mind of returning home William Bishop of Ely whom he had left his Vice-Roy in England used many unsufferable Insolencies towards his Subjects So hard and difficult a thing it is for one of a mean and Contemptible Birth to personate a King without going beyond his Limits and over Acting his part And that which was yet worse his Brother John Earl of Morton had conspired with the French King to invade his Dominions Which reports and the concluding of this War a Subject not likely to answer the expence and Charge of of it especially now the Venetians Genoans Pisans and Florentines were gone away with their Fleet wisely shrinking themselves out of the Collar when they found their Necks too much Galled with their hard imployment made him desire a Peace of Saladine who thereby finding that he had all the Cords in his own hands knew well enough how to play his Game and make his best of those Exigencies wherein he knew King Richard to be plunged for he had those about him who had cunning and skill enough to read in King Richards Face what grieved and perplexed his mind and knew by his Spies every thing that was worth Observation