fight whilst the Battel had wandered over the Field came to a bloody Encounter on all hands so that the slaughter grew hot and the Wings still charging each other each Nation strove by all possible means to express its Valour for in this battel fought not only French and Germans but Spaniards Italians and Switzers indifferently on either side being Mercenary Souldiers and hired for pay and especially the French for the Honour of their King who spared not at once to give command and charge the Enemy ranging through the fiercest attack as knowing that if he lost that Battel it would be hard for him to escape nor were the black Battalion of Almayns fighting on the Part of the King less diligent in charging the Switzer so that one party ingaging after another they fought in the end in all parts so that the field was in a trice covered with the bodies of the slain and so eager were they to shed blood that they minded not as yet the taking of Prisoners on either side by reason of which many men of Note were slain that might have been made Prisoners and amongst others Solice whose Horse being slain under him and he oppressed with Armour would have yielded to the Captain of the Squadron of Horse that fought on that part but a certain Spaniard envying the Horse should have the Ransom of so Noble a Prisoner bent his Harquibuss against his Brest and killed him on the Place also Tremoville an other great Captain that had in his time won many great Victories was shot upon the like account and Galeazo Sansenerino was slain in the Kings sight so that the Imperialists pressing on as having brought their whole strength into the Field many Gallant men were slain and especially of the Horse who were for the most part in the heart of the battel sustaining not only the Charge of Horse against Horse but frequently of the Foot-men who flanked them so that the shot flying like hail a great number were overwhelm'd Men and Horses strugling together for Life and many being dismounted were trampled to death so that it frequently hapned that the Front of the Battel was so barrocaded with the slain that neither Party could well advance to break into the Squadrons especially those on Horse-back and now the Switzers over-charged began to give ground in striving to restrain which the Lord Bonevet was slain and the King's Guard being miserably cut off with the shot of the Foot-men he was left almost void of Succour to the fury of the Enemy and many who loved their Lives dearer than their Honour left him and scatter'd in all parts which the King perceiving and that it was now but too apparent that the battel went against him having fought courageously and done all that could be expected from a great a Cptain he laboured to get from amongst his Enemies but being surrounded by the Horsemen of divers Nations tho' they knew not directly who he was yet supposing him a Person of Note they pressed hard upon him nor did he forget himself though he was forsaken by his Guard but continually wheeling his Horse to avoid the thickest of his Pursuers defended himself with his Sword both giving and taking divers Wounds but whilst he attempted a Bridg that passed over a Water-course or small Rivolet his Horse was thrust in with a Pike falling immediately down in which fall he was much bruised so that he bled in abundance lying at the same time with his Leg under the Horse and not able to relieve himself when one Didaco de Aebilla and John Orbieta a Biscaian coming in and not well knowing him in that Condition shook their Swords over him and willed him to yield or he was a dead man but whilst he disdained to reply or at least to discover himself Monsieur de La Motte came up who knowing the King kept off the Crowd and relieving him from the misery he lay in required him to yield himself to the Duke of Burbon whom he said was at hand but that duke having revolted from the King whose Feudetary he was he grew angry and in a chafe at his very Name fiercely replying No but call me hither Lenoy who in the end being sought for in all parts came of himself and removed the great Crowd from about the King who pressed on all sides to see him It being known throughout the field that the King was made a Prisoner the Courage of those French that yet stood to it altogether failed them so that the Imperialists crying every where Victory they fled in all parts as likewise did the Switzers that sought on the Kings side fearfully running into the River Teniso where being unskilful in swimming they were drowned in whole Troops and those that remained on shore although they threw down their Arms and begged for Life were mostly slain and all the Spoil of the Camp besides much rich Furniture of Horse and Armour taken as likewise was Henry King of Navar and a great number of the French Nobility and the Count of St. Paul lying on the Ground wounded a Spaniard cut off his Finger to take his Ring which he could not otherwise get off As for the Duke of Alanson who with a Regiment of Horse he brought during the Battel having stood a while a looker on he turned Tail and fled with those under his Command into France to tell the doleful News In this Battel fought Anno 1523 upwards of 10000 men were slain and as many wounded and taken Prisoners not reckoning those that were drowned in the River Ten. so As for the King he soon after obtained his Liberty in consideration of his quitting claim to Millain Naples and Asti as also his Superiority over Artois and Flanders paying moreover to the Emperour 120000 Crowns By this we see how Fortune deals with Kings Casting in doubtful chance all Earthly things He who an Army late in Triumph led Bereft of Power 's a woful Captive made A description of the Battel of Gabiniano fought between Philbert Prince of Orange General for the Emperour Charles the Fifth and Franaio a Captain of the Florentines Anno 1530. THE Florentines having banished the Family of the Medicâ—'s the Emperour Charles the Fifth was so far offended thereat that he caused his Forces under the Command of Philbert Prince of Orange straitly to besiege the City of Florence in Italy which being accordingly done the Citizens resolved to send for Farnaio a Captain of theirs who was abroad with some Troops on the Frontiers who by his falling into the Imperial Quarters whilst they sallied out of the City might be a means to raise the Siege and so without further delay they sent Han a chosen Messenger promising him great Rewards if he prospered therein which made him incontinently gather what Forces he could and advance with all imaginable Diligence and Secrecy yet his Approach was made known by the Imperial Espials The Prince of Orange sent to Fabrico Marmaldo and
furiously together fell both of them grievously wounded one in the Eye and the other in the Cheek and thereupon the Souldiers rushing together to their rescue great slaughter ensued for Aliprandoe's Regiment that joyned as the Advance-guard was not so suddenly re-inforced as intended which in the end being over-matched by the men at Arms made them wheel off which did not a little discourage their Fellows who suddenly coming on had their flank left open to the shot of the main battel and those Horse that wheeled off being charged upon as flyers altho the Marquess laboured to make them face about finding no place amongst the Squadrons to make their retreat good entered amongst the Ranks of the German foot which put them into great Confusion for finding their battel was behind the Ensigns they brake quite through and the French likewise pressing on got in at the breach making great slaughter especially of the hindermost of those that fled and when the Switzers who stood over-against the Italians perceived this wavering as likewise the slaughter of the Germans they likewise fell upon them with great fury neglecting the Italians with whom it was expected they would have ingaged so that they who before were hard enough put to it by the Gascoins and old Switzers who fought in their front and weakned by the breaking in of their own Horse the French Horse likewise charging them in the Rear were not able to withstand the fresh charge but their Captains being most slain and their Ensigns thrown down turned their backs and fled yet being hotly pursued they were most or them slain and amongst them divers men of great Note viz. Vulcain Son to the Earl of Furstemberg Michael Preusinger Lieutenant to Brannor Scaliger Antonya Vrste a Captain of Great Fame Hildebrand Tunnie Balthasar Chaldese James Figero Matrice Bursea Adam Brall and the Baron of Grimstein and Aliprando near dead of his Wound was found amongst the dead bodies and taken Prisoner and when the Italian foot perceived the Germans broken and dispersed and that the Horsemen had left the Field they made good their retreat and with little loss got about Midnight to Asti whither the Horsemen were gotten before them and soon after came the Marquess with his Helmet much bruised and battered and shot with a Harquibus-shot into the Knee so that the Victory was intirely left to the French. And of the 40000 that were in the Field on both sides 12000 are acounted to be slain whereupon Carignanâ— surrendred to the Duke of Haghein Thus Peimont sees the blood of Foreign Lands Reeking in Streams upon her thirsty Sands Such is the Fate where cruel War Commands A Description of the Battel of Lochen fought in Saxony between Charles the Fifth Emperour of Germany and John Fredrick Dake of Saxony on the twenty fourth of April Anno Dom. 1547. THE Emperour Charles the Fifth being displeased with divers Princes of the Empire and the mis-understanding growing daily greater they thought it the surest way to arm on all parts and stand upon their Guard which making the Emperour suppose it the best way to fight them separate he pursued John Fredrick Duke of Saxony upon his return into his own Country by such speedy marches that the Advaunt-guard of his Army attacked the Saxons before they expected they were arrived in those parts which created much Fear and Consternation yet maintaining only a kind of a flying fight till the gross battalions came up the Duke had leisure to put his Troops in Order and formed his Battel in this wise viz. He commanded the Foot-men of the Earl of Bichenlinghen in whom he reposed the greatest trust and the Horse-men of John Ponecan and Gaugulph of Eslenhen to take their Stations in the front ordering them that if they charged they should retire and avoid as much as in them lay entering into a hot dispute till the signal was given to assure them the other Battels were in a readiness then he cast 6000 foot-men into two Squadrons and supported them with 500 Horse-men riding himself from Rank to Rank to give necessary Orders and Directions for what was wanting placing another 2000 Horse as a Wing to cover the Foot on the Right side and so closing his Battel to prevent the Enemies breaking in he stood in array to expect the Event whilst the Emperour with whom was the King of Romans and the Great duke of Alva placed in the Vaunt-guard of his Army 600 Launces with 600 Hungarian Horse-men 700 Italian Horse-men and 100 Harquibusiers on Horse-back then he divided them into three Troops the Hungarians he placed on the Right wing the Germans on the left and the Italians in the middle and of the rest of the Forces he made his battel dividing it into three Squadrons of whom he committed one to the charge of the King of Romans but the others he led himself the one consisting of 700 Horse-men and the other of 1000 part Lances and part Harquibuses commanding the whole Army to advance in such order that the front might be broad and extended that so they might prevent being inclosed and thus-both Armies being in array and the Duke not perceiving it commodious to retire proceeded with a moving Oration to incourage his Men by putting them in mind of the Prowess and Valour of their Ancestors and exhorting them to fight like men for their Liberties Lives Wives Children and Country and that for his part he would not be wanting to fight or succour as occasion should require it Nor was the Emperour wanting to incourage his Souldiers to the like effect so that now there being nothing wanting but the Signal to joyn battel that was not long delayed for the Trumpets suddenly sounding the Imperial Battel moved with great swiftness but the Horse coming into dirty and slippery Ground were so mired that the Ear-guard was forced to give back till the Advaunt guard had passed it lest by pressing on they should have broken the Array and caused Confusion and Disorder to have ensued which gave the Saxons Opportunity to charge the Front before the Rear could come up insomuch that a hot and desperate fight ensued for the battel being begun in the Right-wing the Saxons poured in their shot like Hail and had made great slaughter had not the Italian and Hungarian Light-Horse-men come in and charged them in another part which for a time allay'd their fury whilst in another part the men at Arms of Naples and the German Harquibusiers sorely pressed their main battel so that the Advaunt-guard became open and began to scatter although the Duke laboured all that in him lay to keep his men in their Ranks and to admonish them with Words and Actions to do their utmost to support his Honour yet fear had so possessed them that they could not be kept in their Battels but began incontinently to disrank so that the Imperialists thrusting into their Array brought them in a short time into great Distress and Confusion whereupon
when drain'd near dry Thus our Pharsalia England's Tragedy Was Acted in a bloody Scene till Death With slaughter tir'd was almost out of breath What Lands what Kingdoms might our men have â—ane With that Bloods loss which Civil hands have drawn Such Pow'rs united as our Fields distain'd By Conquering on vast Empires might have gain'd Have overset bold Ott'mans Rising Throne And seen his Conquests far beneath their own A Description of the Battel of Bosworth-field fought between Richard the Third King of England and Henry Earl of Richmond known afterward by the Title of King Henry the Seventh c. AFter the Death of Edward the Fourth Richard Plantagenet Duke of Glocester having caused his two Nephews to be murthered usurped the Throne endeavouring to establish himself therein as he had first acquired it viz. by blood so that greatly oppressing his Subjects and especially the Nobility as also causing Queen Ann his Wife secretly to be made away that he might marry Elizabeth his Neece Daughter to his Brother King Edward the Fourth divers conspired against him and amongst the rest the Duke of Buckingham who had been the main Instrument in helping him into the Throne but raising Forces and being unsuccessful in his attempt his men flying and leaving him to shift for himself he resorted to the House of one Banister who had been his Steward and had got a good Estate under him where for a time he secured himself in disguise to attend his better fortune though it proved otherwise for King Richard seting 1000 l. upon his head the same Banister in whom he confided discovered him to the Sherif of the County who seizing upon him in the Disguise or Habit of a Gardiner carried him to Salisbury where by the Command of the King without Arraignment or Tryal he was beheaded And now by a secret Contract the Earl of Richmond being betroth'd to the Lady Elizabeth Eldest Daughter to Edward the Fourth after having escaped many Dangers beyond the Scas and his Faction being strong in England prepares with such an Army as he could well gather by the favour of the Duke of Brittany and increased by such English as fled to him for fear of the Usurper for England and landed at Milford-Haven his Retinue not exceeding 2000 but was soon increased to a far greater number by those that daily came to joyn him which made King Richard advance with his Army to oppose him and pitched his Tents at Radmore near Bosworth in Leicestershire and both Armies being drawn up in Battalia the Lord Stanly with a great Detachment kept aloof on the Hills and the King suspecting he intended to revolt from him to his Enemy sent to him to advance but he refused saying he would do it when he saw his time whereupon King Richard in a great Rage commanded his Son whom he had in Hostage for the Fathers Fidelity instantly to be beheaded but was by some of his Favorites perswaded to defer it till the Battel was over by which means the young man escaped for both Armies joyning with great fury a bloody and doubtful fight ensued so that for a long time the Scale of Victory hung in an equal poise King Richard commanding and fighting courageously in all parts but the Lord Stanly when both Armies had tried their Strengths and were weary with fighting coming in with his fresh men bore down all before him so that King Richard perceiving the Fortune of the War to go against him like a man in despair resolving not to survive it charged with great fury amongst the thickest Squadrons and having killed and beaten down many was at length over-pow'red and himself slain falling upon heaps of his Enemies his Crown was afterward found in a Hawthorn-bush and himself stripped naked was carried all bloody upon a Horse to Leicester and there buried in the Grey-Friars with much Solemnity after its being exposed two days to the People In this Battel called the Battel of Bosworth-field 6000 men on either side were slain and amongst them divers of Note And now the Earl of Richmond being Crowned in the Field marched to London and soon after solemnly married the Lady Elizabeth joyning the Houses of Lancaster and York he being the Heir of the one and she the Heiress of the other And so the Discord to soft Concord yields That with the Bones o' th' slain made white the Fields Dividing Friends in an unfriendly Jar Rending the tor'ring State with Impious War Whilst Father against Son Brothers with Brothers fight Not caring who was wrong or who was right But smeer'd with Blood in Cruelty delight Being emulous who most cou'd vent his Rage Such is the fate when Civil Arms ingage A description of the Battel of Seminara fought in the Kingdom of Naples between King Ferdinand then intituled to that Kingdom and the Great Gonsalves Caâ—tain of the Spaniards on the one part and the Lords Obignny and Persive for Charles the French King on the other part Anno 1495. CHarles the French King victorious in Italy having won many strong Places and Countries and amongst the rest the Rich and Fertile Kingdom of Naples Ferdinand in whose right it was raising an Army of Spaniards Sicilians Italians c. and entred the Provinces the French had a little before brought to their Subjection in order to recover them advancing as far as the Country of Seminara to oppose whom the Lord Obignny Governour of Calabria for the French King and the Lord Persive Governour of Bosilicula marched with their united Forces from their appointed Rendezvous at Terranova to Seminara to fight the King or besiege him in the Town who knowing nothing of their Conjunction and ignorant of their number issued out of the Town upon news of their approach to give them Battel not staying for the Troops he expected from Puglia Campagnia and Arbuzzo though Gonsalves counted the expertest Captain of his Age laboured to disswade him from fight for being in the flower of Youth and height of his Spirit he rather strove to expose his Valour than hearken to good Counsel and so having made an excellent Speech or Oration to animate the Captains and Souldiers to do their utmost he marched towards Terranova three miles along the Hills and coming to the River lodged his Foot on the left Bank and his Horse-men he stretched on the right to serve for a Wing and so continued to expect the Enemy By this time the French and Switzers came in sight and Obignny cast the latter into a firm Battalion placing the Foot raised in Calabria behind them as a Battel of Succour dividing the Squadron of Horse between them being Men at Arms and in the same order the light Horse-men and so in a square Battel they pass d the River whereupon the Spanish Horse advanced to oppose them but being hotly charged by the thick Battalion of the French in the Advaunt-guard after many of them were beaten down and slain the rest were obliged to retire by
fetching a compass in wheeling off to their main strength which much discouraged the Arragonian Footmen who at first supposed they were discomfited fled the Field leaving them to the fury of the French c. The Horse-men thus forced to retreat Obignny advanced with great speed and charged the Foot-men on the right whilst Persive did the like on the lest disordering their Horse before the Switzers came to the fight who no sooner came on but gave a furious Charge with their Pikes so that the main Batte◠of King Ferdinand being broken and disordered his Men were slain on all parts nor did the Spanish Horse come timely to their Succour nor could the King though he laboured all eh could restore the battel notwithstanding with a Troop of select Horse being his Guard he charged desperately amongst the thickest Ranks and after having broken his Launce drew his Sword and fought till he saw all manner of hopes to prevail were vain and finding in his Army nothing but flight and fearful Confusion he at the perswasion of his Favorites got clear of the Battel and fled upon a swift Horse yet by the way fell into a deep Pit with his Horse upon him but was soon relieved by John Attavillia who mounting the King upon his own Horse he thereupon escaped and himself on foot not capable of escaping was slain by the Pursuers so that he pay'd his Life to the safety of his Prince Obignny having thus with much slaughter defeated the Kings Forces and some being slain in the pursuit called back his Souldiers and encamped not far from 〈◊〉 Place of Battel upon which he was 〈…〉 by many as a Captain who 〈…〉 how to get a Victory than to 〈…〉 obtained for if the pursuit 〈…〉 few of the Kings Forces 〈…〉 had the Towns upon the Terror of this defeat failed to have surrendred upon summons but staying here the King with many of his Nobles got safe to their Ships and Gonsalves with his rallied Troops found means ot retreat to Rezo Thus by Neglect a Battel when 't was gain'd Not being unprov'd the Gen'rals Honour stain'd A Description of the Battel of Vaila or Giardda fought in Lumbardy between Lewis the Eleventh of France and the Seignory of Venice Anno 1509. UPon the Venetians making their Incroachments in Italy and other Places to impower and enrich themselves upon what appertained to others Lewis the French King aided by divers Princes marched from Millan with an Army to hinder their Proceedings and oblige them 〈◊〉 Restitution who likewise prepared to 〈…〉 him with a great Army encamp◠〈…〉 the River Adda under the 〈…〉 the Earl of Petillia their Gene◠〈…〉 D Alvina Master of the 〈…〉 were joyned George Cor◠〈…〉 Grittie Providitors who 〈…〉 the French kept in a strong Lodgment till they might find an advantageous Opportunity to draw out or decamp which made the King seize upon Vaila and Pandino that by the help of those Garrisons he might cut off their Provision and by that means the sooner to oblige them to fight nor did that Stratagem fail of its desired end for the Venetian General knowing that by that means he must come to a Battel drew out his Army on the right Bank of the River consisting of 2000 men at Arms and 20000 Foot-men besides about 4000 Light-Horsemen mostly Italians and Greeks whilst over-against them on the other Bank marched the French Army consisting of 2000 men at Arms 6000 Switzers 12000 Gascones and Italian Foot men with a considerable number of Pioneers and many Field-pieces and the Venetians being incumbred with the Bushes and Shrubs that grew on their side were forced to march slowly so that the French out-marched them placing in their Avaunt-guard 500 men at Arms and a Regiment of Switzers under the leading of Charles de' Ambroise and John James de Trivulzi which Vaunt-guard finding means to pass the River before the Venetians expected it attack'd the Rear of the Venetian Army commanded by Alvia consisting of 8000 men at Arms and almost all the best foot-men which made him to send to the Earl of Petillia who led the Vaunt-guard to inform him of the Necessity there was to fight but he returned answer that he ought to march on and shun the Enemy as much as in him lay for such was the order of the Senate yet Alvian carried away with the desire of Glory resolved with such Forces as he had to bear the brunt of the Battel rather than to be out-braved or so meanly suffer his Honour to be eclipsed whereupon placing his Foot-men with six pieces of Cannon on a little Bay made by a certain winding of a Brook which was then dry he with his great shot having disordered the French Foot furiously broke in upon them and put them into great Confusion their Horse by reason of the Vines that grew in that Place not being well able to support them so that the King seeing his men put to the worst and ready to fly hasted to their Succour with fresh Troops and by degrees drew Alvian into the Plain so that the Avaunt-guard and middle Battel had Opportunity to charge him though he wanted not Courage to make great resistance exciting them in all parts with his Hands Voice and Actions to fight courageously nor did the French when they saw their King in the Battel charge with less fury so that a bloody and doubtful fight continued though the Earl was not come up with the rest of the Forces but the Venetians having fought with singular Valour for the space of three hours and not being succoured were in the end over-powered by the number of the French Horse-men who breaking in amongst the ranks of the Foot wearied already by a stout resistance having done all that could be expected from true Valour and lost rather Strength than Courage they yet for the most part never turned their backs but either died or were taken Prisoners fighting in the Place so that had the other part of the Army succoured them they had been victorious In this Battel 8000 are reputed to be slain and 2000 taken Prisoners amongst which was Alvian and soon after most of the Places the Venetians had won surrendered the Generals Excuse was that he had Command from the Senate not to fight Thus by Neglect or a bad tim'd Command Battels are gone that ne'r can be regain'd And that which Years with Blood and Labour cost In one Ill-faughten Field few hour's hast lost A Description of the Battel of Ginghat fought in Picardy between Henry the Eighth King of England and Monsieur de Piennes General for Lewis the French King Anno 1513. KIng Henry the Eighth lying at the Siege of Turwin which he beleagured with three Camps the first commanded by himself the second by the Earl of Shrewsbury and the third by the Lord Herbert upon notice that the French Army was coming to its relief he passed over the River with a considerable part of his Army detached for
Wings of the Lithuanian Horse and placed the Foot behind the Men an Arms to support them and so riding from Rank to Rank he admonished them to do their utmost for the Honour of their King and Country and not by any Cowardize in them be a means to lose a Battel upon which depended their Lives and Liberties c. He would have proceeded but whilst he was speaking the Moscoviâ— sounded the Charge whereupon commanding the Captains in the Vaunt-guard to break in upon the Enemy with their Spears mauger their shot of Arrows each battel moved furiously and although the Arrows flew thick as Hail yet the Poles passed on though some yet but a few oâ— them were slain so that the Archers being frustrated in a trice they brought iâ— to the Sword so that the Lithuanian stretching out their Wings and theâ— straitning them made good their Archers who sorely gauled the Moscovites who being on all sides in a manner oppressed could neither give back nor brake through in the front and those that were behind still thrusting them forward break their Array bearing out side-ways upon the Wings of the Lithuanians so at one time they attacked two Incounters in divers places so that the fight being hot on all parts and the Duke finding himself over-charged sent to Command the Horse-men in Ambush to advance who soon discovered themselves and came on with horrid crys and sounds of Trumpets to be thought more dreadful in their number which the Polonian General perceiving ordered his Battel to stand firm yet Polosky a Palatine of that Kingdom turned on them a squadron of Foot-men which had not been much shaken and sustaining the first shock of their Arrows gave Command for all the Harquibusiers to fire at once and so by a swift advance came to the push of Pike and Halbert causing the Moscovite Horse-men to recoil yet their Ranks being close they could not expand themselves or travers their Ground by reason of which they were obliged to sustain the fight in that narrow compass with great slaughter so that it was a pitious sight to see Men and Horses dead lying on heaps weltering in Blood and groaning out their last whilst in that part where the General fought the Ranks of Moscovites were broken and disordered and the Right Wing of Horse almost all cut in pieces so that the middle Battel wherein was yet the Person of the Great Duke was attacked on all sides and the foremost Ranks pierced through so that he despairing to restore the fight gave back and now the Foot that had routed his Ambushment of Horse having nothing to do charged upon his Battel of Succour and entring their Ranks who had been shaken before by the Lithuanian Horse they with their Pikes and Scimiters made a miserable slaughter putting them in all parts to the rout of which the Duke having notice and how those Horse he had laid in Ambush were likewise defeated whom he scarce thought as yet to have made their attack he with a Troop of his Nobles that were his Guard retired out of the Battel and left his Men to shift for themselves making all the speed he could to escape that Ruin and Desolation into which he had brought his Army which once known nothing but flight and confusion followed whilst the Poles had the Execution of them for many Miles with great slaughter In this Battel fought on the eighth of September 13000 men were slain and many of them of Note all the Baggage and rich Pavilions with the Great Dukes Standard taken as likewise was Michael Goliza but Smolensco being strongly fortified could not be regained Thus Blood still flows thus cruel Mars still raves And Drowns the Plains with Seas of Purple Waves A Description of the Great and Memorable Battel fought in Persia near the City of Coy or Coios between Hysmael the Persian Sophi and Selymus the First of that Name Emperour of the Turks SElymus to obtain the Diadem having caused his Father Bajazet the Second to be poysoned and to secure himself in the Throne strangled his three Brethren being grieved that his two Nephews Amurath and Aladine yet lived the one by securing himself in the Persian Court and the other in that of the AEgyptian Sultan upon the former's making some Inrodes into Capadocia he took an opportunity to quarrel with Hysmael the Persian Sophy and thereupon raising an Army of 300000 Horse and Foot and under pretence of his having aided his Rebels he marched to invade his Country and so drawing his People after him over the huge Mountains of Scodrasci Moscii and Ante-Taurus he passed along the Banks of the River Euphrates holding his way Eastward till he came to the River Araxis where he found all the Country wasted and destroyed by the Persians upon which the Army began to fall into great want of many things so that the Souldiers were forced to feed upon wild Fruits when in the mean time Vsta-Ogli the Persian General approached him with an Army of 80000 Horse and whilst either Army was at some distance one from the other Hysâ—ael came in Person to his Camp and from thence sent a Heraulâ— to Selymus to know why in a Hostile manner he had entred his Country having no Title thereto to which the Turk hautily reply'd That his Grandfather his Uncle and himself had greatly endamaged the Ottoman Empire by making several Incroachments Inrodes and Invasions and aiding the Rebels in the Reigns of Mahomet Bajazet and his own yet he esteemed them not a sufficient ground of War but sought after his Enemy young Amurath his Brother's Son who had lately wasted Cappadocia whom if he would quietly and friendly deliver into his Hands he would withdraw his Forces but if he refused to gratifie him therein he would with Fire and Sword not only destroy the Confines of Armenia but the very heart of Persia Notwithstanding these promises and Threats the Persian refused to comply with his demands in delivering up the young Prince to certain Death yet for that day both Armies lay in their Trenches but the next day they drew out and each being put in Battel-Array and incouraged by moving Orations to do their utmost the bloody blast was sounded after which the Persian Horsemen came on with great Futy over-setting the Vaunt-guard and overthrowing the Asapi by heaps these are a sort of ordinary Souldiers placed by the Turks for the most part to dull the Swords of the Enemy with their Blood and often set formost in Assaults to fill up the Trenches with their dead Bodies when they besieged a Town that the Janizaries may pass the easier over them nor was that all for the Persians at the same time charged the Spahi or Turkish Horsemen in either Wing causing them in some Confusion to give Ground which Selymus perceiving and finding they would soon charge the Battel of the Janizaries in the middle of which himself remained he caused the Orders to open to the right and the
the Duke finding the Day lost used what Industry he could to make an orderly retreat into the Neighbouring Wood but by reason his Array was broken the Imperialists entered with him making great slaughter of his men and pressed so furiously upon him that although he stoutly defended himself yet at length he was taken Prisoner by Hippalito a Venetian and disarmed as likewise were a great number of his men and some prime Commanders In this Battel 2000 foot were slain as likewise 800 Horsemen and 700 wounded on the part of the Saxons but of the Germans the slain exceeded not 500 there were likewise taken 42 Ensigns with all the Plate Jewels Baggage and Furniture of the Camp though the Saxons made a kind of a marching or running fight for the space of fifteen miles in all continuing about eight hours and after this Victory all the Country of Saxony submitted to the Emperours Pleasure as soon after did most of the other Estates and Principalities that combined to withstand and oppose him Thus Saxony in her own Confines prest Through one great loss is many years distrest Labâ—ring with War till Peace at last gave rest A Description of the Memorable battel of Muscle-borough-field fought in Scotland between Edward Seimour Duke of Somerset and James Hamilton Earl of Arran Regents of England and Scotland Anno 1547. A Great difference arising between the two Nations upon the Scots refusing as it had been agreed upon in the days of Henry the Eighth to give their young Queen Mary sole Heiress to the Crown of Scotland to Edward the Sixth King of England c. The English under the leading of the Duke of Somerset and other Nobles entered that Kingdom resolving by War to prosecute them for their Obstinacy and oblige them if possible to the performance of what they without any Colour or Reason had refused whereupon on the third of September Anno 1547 the Lord Regent passed the Tweed with an Army consisting of 10000 foot of which 600 were Harquibuses 4000 men at Arms and Demilances with 2000 light Horse-men of whom 200 were Harquibusiers mounted and 1300 Pioneers the Train of Artillery consisting of fifteen great pieces besides a Fleet of sixty five Vessels whereof a great Gally and thirty four Ships were well appointed for War the rest being Victuallers and Tenders and on the ninth of September incamped within two Miles of the Scotish Army under the command of the Earl of Arran who the next Morning dislodged as likewise did the English and advanced towards each other though the former had but a bad welcome for some of the English Ships riding at Anchor in the River let flye so soon as they came within reach of their shot and killed a Captain together with twenty five Souldiers which made the Battalion of Archers commanded by the Earl of Argyle retreat nor could they be perswaded to advance which made the whole Army change the intended course by marching more Southwardly nor stayed they till they had possessed themselves of the Hill called Fauxside-Bray which made the duke of Somerset the English General send some Troops thither to secure the Hill it being of great advantage to those that possessed it and so successful was he therein that he procured in a short time several pieces of Cannon to be mounted thereon which afterward proved very serviceable in battering the Enemies Ranks and in the Emergency the Council debated on Horse-back what was to be done as not having liesure otherways to do it and came to result this viz. that the Lord Grey of Wilton Marshal of the Army and Captain General of all the Horse-men should with his band of Bulloiners and other Troops to the number of 1800 Horse-men advance to charge the Enemy in the Front whilst Sir Ralph Vane and Sir Thomas Darcy Captains of the Pentioners and Men at Arms together with the Lord Fitz-Walter and his band of Demilances to the number of 1600 should be ready to support him that so by a furious charge they might break or disorder the thick front of the Enemies Pikes and although this was a hazardous undertaking yet the Captains disputed not the Order only the Lord Grey desired the General that if he should miscarry in the Enterprize he would be good to his Wife and Children and so taking leave he advanced to meet the Scots who with no less speed came on in so thick a Wedge that it appeared very difficult if not impossible to pierce their Array for the Earl of Angues who commanded the Vaunt-guard had in his Battel 8000 Men and four or five pieces of Cannon which served as a flank on his Right and on his Left he had 400 Horse men and was supported with 10000 Highlanders and in the Rear-ward was the Earl of Huntly with 8000 Scots and 4000 Irish Archers who served as a Wing unto them both being furnished likewise with Ordnance as in the other battel nor was this all for the English had the difficulty of a great Slough or miry Ditch to struggle with in their Passage which not only obliged them to break their Ranks but mited divers of them that were not skilled in leaping yet surmounting these they came to a furious charge insomuch that although at the first onset the battel was not broken yet it swaied and gave back to Admiration so that the English gained Ground apace but the Lord Marshal finding he was not at that time capable of forcing their Ranks he made a softly retreat towards the Hill that they might disrank to follow him and he thereby have an opportunity to give a second charge before they could fall into order in which retreat he lost twenty five of his men and had divers wounded many of them Persons of Quality as the Lord Generals Son and Sir Thomas Darcy c. Nor did they fail to lay hold on the Kings Standard borne by Sir Andrew Flammock but it was so well defended that they only broke the Staff and carried away the nether end but the English Commanders having rallied their Troops and by moving Orations dissipated the fear the late slaughter occasioned and being re-inforced Peter Meucasa Captain of a Company of Harquibusiers on foot drew up in the front of the Enemies battel and was seconded by Peter Gamboa a Spanish Captain who commanded 200 Harquibusiers on Horseback who with their shot made such slaughter that the Scots durst not advance and by that means the English Archers had time to march on the Right-hand of our foot-men and feather them with their flights of Arrows and the great Ordnance playing transverse within Musquet-shot and the foot-men who had been obscured by the Horse advancing in good array the Scots began to shrink together though they were far superior to the English in number and quickly losing all Courage betook themselves to open flight their General the Earl of Arran flying foremost nor did Angues stand to it but followed with great Celerity so that the