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A04555	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Saint George of England, Saint Dennis of Fraunce, Saint Iames of Spaine, Saint Anthonie of Italie, Saint Andrew of Scotland, Saint Pattricke of Ireland, and Saint Dauid of Wales. Shewing their honorable battailes by sea and land: their tilts, iousts, and turnaments for ladies: their combats vvith giants, monsters, and dragons: their aduentures in forraine nations; their inchauntments in the holie land: their knighthoods, prowesse, and chiualrie, in Europe, Affrica, and Asia, with their victories against the enemies of Christ.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1596 (1596)	STC 14677; ESTC S109165	135,141	216

hys Court in the Cittie of Couentrie who immediatly vpon the Confession of the murther gaue this seuere iudgment against her First to be conueied to Prison there to remaine for the tearme of twelue moneths and at the end whereof to be burned like a most wicked offender yet because she was the Daughter of a King and loyall Lady to so Noble a Knight his Maiesty in mercie graunted her this fauour that if she could get any Knight at Armes before the time were expired that would be her Champion and by Combat redéeme her from the fire she should liue otherwise if her Champion were vanquished then to suffer the former Iudgement Thus haue you heard the true discourse of all things which hapned till my departure from England where I left her in Prison and since that time fiue monthes are fullie exspired Therefore most renowned Champion as you loue the life of your Ladie and wish her deliuerie make no tarriance but with all spéed post into England for I greatly feare before you ariue vppon that blessed shore the time will be finished and Sabra suffer death for want of a Champion to defend her cause This doleful discourse draue saint George with the other Knights and Champions to such an e●tasie of minde that euery one departed to their lodging Chambers with dumbe signes of sorrow being not able to speake one word where for that night they lamented the mishap of so vertuous a Lady The Egyptian King her father he abandoned the sight of all companies and repayred to the toppe of an high Tower built of Marble stone wherein hee barred himselfe fast with yron bolts so that none could come within the hearing of his lamentations then raged hee vp and downe like franticke Oedipus tearing his eyes from their naturall Celles accusing heauen of iniustice condemning earth of iniquity and accursing man for such an execrable crime one while wishing his daughters byrth hower had béene her buriall day another while that some vnlucky Plannet would descend the firmament and fall vppon his miserable head being in this extreame passion hee neuer hoped to sée his daughters countenance againe and so about midnight being a time when desperate men practise their owne destructions he cast himselfe headlong from the toppe of the Tower and broake his necke and all besprinckled the flinty pauements with his blood and braines No sooner was the night vanished and bright Phoebus entred the Zodiacke of heauen but his bruised body liueles and senseles was found by his seruants lying in the Pallace yard all to be beaten in péeces against the grounde The wofull newes of this selfe-wild murtherer they presently told to certaine Egyptian Knights who tooke his scattered limbs and carryed them to saint Georges Chamber where they found him arming himselfe for his departure towardes England But at this wofull spectackle he tooke a seconde conceited griefe in such extreame manner that it had almost cost him his life but that the Egyptian Knights gaue him many comfortable spéeches and by thē consent of many Dukes Earles Lords and Barrons with many other of the late Kings priuy Councell they el●cted him the true succéeding King of Egipt by the marriage of Ptolomies daughter which Royall proffer saint George refused not but took vpon him the Regiment of the whole Country so that for that day his iourney toward England was stayed and vppon the third day following his Coronation was appoynted which they solemnely perfourmed to the high honour of all the Christian Champions For the Egyptian Pieres caused saint George to be apparralled in Royall U●stures like a King he had on a sute of flaming greene like an Emerauld and a Mantle of scarlet very richly furd and wrought curiously with gold then the other sixe Champions lead him vp to the Kings Throane and set him in a Chayre of Ebony with pummells of siluer which stood vpon an Allablaster Elephant then came thrée of the greatest Lords in Egypt and set a Crowne of gold vpon his head then followed two Knights with a Scepter and a naked S●●●rde to signefie that he was chiefe Champion of all the R●alme and Lord of all that appertained to the Crowne of Egypt This being performed in most sumptuous and stately manner the Trumpets with other Instruments began to sound wherat the generall company with ioyfull voyces cryed all together Long liue saint George true Champion for England and King of Egypt Then was he conducted to the Royall Pallace where for ten dayes he remayned amongst his Lords and Knights spending the time in great ioy and pleasure the which béeing finished hys Ladyes distresse constrayned him to a sodaine departure therefore he left the guiding of his Lande to twelue Egyptian Lordes binding them all by oath to redeliuer it at his returne likewise charging them to interre the body of Ptolomie in a sumptuous Tombe befitting the body of so Royall a Potentate Also appoynting the sixt Champions to rayse their Tents and muster vp anewe their souldiers and with all spéede march into Persia and there by dynt of bloody warre reuenge his former iniuries vpon the cursed Soldan This change being giuen the next morning by breake of day 〈◊〉 buckled on his Armour mounted on his swift footed Stéed and had hys friends in Egipt for a season adue and so in companie of the Knight that brought him that vnluckie newes hee tooke his iournie with all spéed toward England In which trauaile we leaue him for a time Also passing ouer the spéedy prouision made by the Christian Champions in Egypt for the inuasion of Persia and returne to sorrowfull Sabra béeing in priosn awayting each minute to receaue the finall stroke of impartiall death for now had the rowling Plannets brought their yeares trauailes to an end yet Sabra had no intelligence of any Chāpion that would defend her cause therefore shee prepared her dilicate bodie to receaue her latest breath of life the time beeing come shee was brought to the place of execution whether she went as willinglie and with as much ioy as euer shée went before time vnto her marriage for she had made her humble submission to the world and vnfainedly committed her soule to God She béeing at the stake where the king was present with many thousands as wel of Noble personages as of Common people to behold this wofull Tragedie the deaths-man stripped off her Garment which was of blacke sarce●et in her snow-white smocke bound her with an Iron chaine vnto the stake then placed they round about her tender body both Pitch Turpentine and Gunpowder with other merciles things therby to make her death the more easier and her paine the shorter Which béeing ●one the King caused the Harrold to summon in the Challenger who at the sound of the Trūpet came trasing in vpon a Rone coloured Stéede without any kinde of marke and trapped with rich trappinges of gold precious stones of great price there came foorth at the Horse mouth two tuskes

in the fore●runt of the battell so aduenturously behaued them selues that they slew more Negars than a hundred of the brauest Knights in the Christian Armies At last Fortune intending to make saint Georges prowesse to shin● brighter than the rest singled out the Moroco King betwixt whom and the English Champion was a long dangerous fight But saint George so couragiouslye behaued him with his trustie sword that Almidor was constrained to yeeld 〈◊〉 his mercie The Armie of the Moores séeing their King taken prisoner presently would haue fled but that the Christians béeing the lighter of foote ouertooke them and made the greatest slaughter that euer hapned in Barberie Thus after the battell ended and the ioyfull sound of victorie rung through the Christian Armie the souldiers furnished themselues with the enemies spoyles and martched by saint Georges direction to the Cittie of Tripolie being then almost vnpeopled through the late slaughter In which Cittie after they had r●sted some few dayes and refreshed themselues with holsome food the English Champion in reuenge of his former proffered iniuries by the Moroco King gaue hys seuere sentence of death First hee commaunded a brazen cauldron to bee filled with boyling Lead and Brimstone then Almidor to be brought to the place of death by twelue of the Noblest Pieres in Barberie therein to be consumed flesh blood and bone which was duelie performed within seauen dayes following the brazen cauldron was erected by the appointment of saint George directlie in the middle of the chiefest Market place vnder which a mightie hot fire continually burned for the space of of eight and fortie houres whereby the boyling Lead and B●imstone seemed to sparckle like the fierie furnaces in hell and the heate to e●ceede the burning Ouen at Babilon Thus all thinges béeing no sooner prepared in a readines the Christian Champions present to behold the wofull spectakle but the condemned Black●more King came to the place of Execution in a shirt of the finest Indian silk his hands pinniond together with a chaine of gold his face couered with a Damske Scarfe his attendants chiefe conducters twelue Moroco Pieres clad in Sabl● gownes of Taffetie carring before him the whéele of fortune with the picture of a Usurper climbing vp with this Motto on his breast I will be king in spite of Fortune vpon the top of the whéele the picture of a Monarke vaunting with this Motto on his breast I am a King in spite of Fortune Lastly on the other side of the Wheele the picture or perfect image of a deposed Potentate falling with hys head downewards with this Motto on hys breast I haue beene a King so pleaseth Fortune which plainelie signified the chaunce of warre and the constancie of destenie hys guard was a thousand Christian souldiers holding fortune in disdaine after them attended a hundred of Moroco virgins in blacke ornaments their haire bounds vp with siluer wiers and couered with vales of black silke signifiing the sorrow of their countrie for the losse of their Soueraigne In this mournefull manner came the vnfortunate Almidor to the boyling C●ulderne which whē he beheld hys heart waxed cold and his tongue d●ueide of vtterance for a time yet at last he brake foorth into thes● earnest protestations proffering more for his life than the whole Kingdome of Barberie can performe Most mightie inuincible Champion of Christendome quoth he let my life be ransomed and thou sh●l● yearely receaue ten tunnes of ●ried gold a hundred inchs of wouen silke the which our Indian maides shall sit and spinne ●ith siluer whéeles a hundred Arguses of spices and ●efined suger shal be yearely paid thee by our Barberie 〈◊〉 a hundred waggons likewise richly laden wit● 〈◊〉 a●d Iasper stones which by our cunning Lapidisies ●hall 〈◊〉 yearelie chosen foorth and brought ●hee home to England ●o make that blessed countrie the richest land within the Dominions of Europe Likewise I will ●eliuer vp my Diadem with all my Princely dignities and in companie of these Moroco Lordes like bridled Horses drawe thée daylie in a siluer Charriot vp and downe the ser●led earth til death giues end to our liues Pilgrimage Therefore most admired Knight at Armes let these salt teares that trickle from the Conduits of my eyes obtaine one graunt of comfort at thy handes for on my bended knées I beg for life that neuer before this time did kneele to any mortallman Thou speakst in vaine replyed saint George it is not the treasures hidden in the déepest seas nor all the golden mines of rich America that can redéeme thy life thou knowest accursed Homicide thy wicked practises in the Egyptian Court where thou profferedst wrongfully to bereaue me of my life Likewise through thy treachery I end●red a long imprisonment in Persia where for seauen yeares I dranke the Channell water and suffizde my hunger with the breads of branne meale My foode the loathsome flesh of Rats and Mice and my resting place a dismall dungeon where neither sunne nor the chearefull light of heauen lent me comfort during my long continued misery For which inhumane dealing and proffered iniuries the h●auens inforceth mee to a spéedy reuenge which in this manner shall be accomplished Thou seest the Engine prepared for thy death this brazen Caldron fild with boyling lead and brimstone wherein thy cursed body shall be spéedily cast and boyled till thy detested limbs bee consumed to a watry s●bstance by this sparckling lickour therefore prepare thy selfe to entertaine the violent stroake of death and willingly byd all thy kingly dignities farewell But yet I let thée vnderstand that mercy harboreth in a Christians hart and where mercy dwels there faults are forgiuen vppon some humble penetence though thy trespasse deserues 〈◊〉 pitty but seuere punishment yet vpon these considerations I will graunt thée liberty of life First that thou wilt forsake thy false Gods Termagaunt Mahomet and Apollo which he but the vayne imaginations of man and beléeue in our true and euer liuing God vnder whose banner we Christians haue taken in hande this long warre Secondly thou shalt giue commandement that all thy barbarous Nations be christened in the faith of Christ Thirdly and lastly that thy thrée Kingdomes of Barbary Moroco India sweare true alleagance to all Christian Kings and neuer to beare Armes but in the true quarrell of Christ and his annoynted Nations These things duly obserued thy life shall be preserued and thy liberty obtayned otherwise looke for no mercy but a spéedy and most ●yr●ible death These wordes more displeased the vnchristian King of Morco than the sentence of his condemnation and in these briefe spéeches set downe his resolution Great Potentate of Europe replied Almidor by whose mightines fortune sits fettered in the chaines of power my golden Diadem and regall Scepter by constraint I must deliuer vp but before I forsake my countrie Gods I will indure a hundred deathes and before my conscience be reformed to a new faith the earth

like vnto an Elephants hys nostrelles were verie large and bigge his heade little his breast some what broad well pitcht and so ●ard that no sword were it neuer so sharpe was able to enter in thereat The Champion was called the Barron 〈◊〉 Chester a hold and hardier Knight they thought liued not then vpon the face of the whole earth he so aduanced himselfe vp downe as though hee had béene able to Encounter with a hundred Knights then the King caused the Harrold to summon in the Defendant if there were any to defend her cause both Drums and Trumpets sounded thrée seuerall times vp downe the fieldes betwixt euerie rest was full a quarter of an houre but yet no defendant did appeare therefore the King commaunded the Executioner to set the stake on fire presently At which words Sabra began to grow as pale as ashes and hir Ioyntes to tremble like to Aspen-leaues hir toung that before continewed silent began to recorde a swanlike dying tale in this manner vttered she the passion of hir heart Be witnes heauen and all you bright celestiall Angells bee witnes sun and moone the true beholders of my ●act be witnes thou cleare firmament and all the world be witnes of my innocence the blood I shed was for the sauegard of my honor and vnspotted Chastety Great God of heauen if the praiers of my vnstained heart may assaile thy mighty Maiestie or my true innocence preuaile with thy immortall power Commaund that eyther my Lorde may come to be my Champion or sad beholder of my death But if my hands were stained with blood about some wicked enterprise then heauen shew present vengeance vppon me by fire or els let the earth open deuoure my bodie vp aliue At which instance she heard the sound of a shrill and lowd horne the which S. George winded for as then hée was néere which caused the Execution a while to bee deferred At last they beheld a farre off a stately Banner wauering in the Ayre the which the Knight carried before saint George then they espied nere vnto the Banner a most valiant Armed Knight mounted vpon a cole blacke Palfray with a mightie great Launce set charged in his Rest by which sodaine approach they knewe him to bée some Champion that would defende the distressed Ladyes cause Then the King commanded the Drums and Trumpets to sound whereat the people gaue a generall sh●w● and the poore Lady halfe dead with feare began to reuiue and her blushing cheekes to be as beautefull as redde Roses dipt in milke blood mingled with snowe but when saint George approached the sight of his true and constant L●d● whom he found chayned to a stake incompassed with many instruments of death his hart so relented with griefe that he almost fell beside his horse yet remembring wherefore hée came he recalled his courage and intended to try his fortune in the Combat before he would discouer himselfe vnto his Lady And so when the Trumpets sounded deaths Alarum the two Knights set spurres to their horses made them run so fiercely that at the first encounter they shiuered both theyr Launces to their hands then rushed they together so rigorously with their bodies and Helmets that they fell downe both to the earth But saint George who was the more lustier Knight nimbly leapt vppon his féete without any hurt but the Barron of Chester lay still with his h●ad downewards casting from his mouth abundance of blood he was so mightely bruised with the fall but when he reuiued from his traunce he tooke his shield drawing out a mighty Fawchion and with a wrathfull countenance ran at saint George Now prowde Knight quoth he I sweare by all the Saints in heauen to reuenge the blood which thou hast shed and therewithall he stroke so violently vpon saint Georges shield that it cleaued quite a sunder then began he to waxe angry and tooke his sword in great wrath and gaue the Barron of Chester such a stroke that he cut away arme and shoulder and all the flesh of his side to the bare ribs and likewise cut his legge almost cleaue a sunder in the thichest place of his thigh and yet for all that the sword entred halfe a foote into the earth then fell the Barron of Chester to the ground and breathed forth this lamentable cry Nowe frowne you fatall starres eternally that did predominate at my byrth for he is slaine and vanquished that neuer st●●pt to any Knight before this day and thereuppon the blood st●pped the passage of his speech and his soule went flying to Elizium whereat the whole company reioyced and applauded saint George for the most fortunates Knight in the world then the King deliuered Sabra with his owne hands to saint George who most curteously receiued her and like a kinde Knight cast a scarlet Mantle ouer her body the which a Lady standing by bestowed vpon him yet he minding not to discouer himselfe but set her vpon his portly Stéede that presently grew prowde in carrying so rich a burthen and with his owne hands lead him by the brydle raynes so great was the ioy throughout the City that the belles rung without ceasing for thrée dayes together the Citezens thorough euery place that saint George should passe did hang forth at their windowes and on their walles cloth of gold and silke with rich Carpets Cushions and couerings of gréene veluet lay abroad in euery window the Cleargy in Copes of gold and silke met them with solemne Processions The Ladyes and beautefull Damsels strowd euery stréete where as hee past with Roses and most pleasant flowers and Crownd him with a wreath of gréene bayes in signe of his triumphant victory and Conquest In this manner went hee vnto the Kinges Pallace not known by any what he should be but that he was a Knight of a strange Country yet Sabra many times as they walked by the way desired to see his face and knowe his name in that he had aduentured so farre for her sake and that for her deliuery had vanquished the brauest knight in England Yet for all her perswasions hee kept himselfe vndiscouered till a troupe of Ladies in company of Sabra got him into a chamber richly hung with Arras cloth and there vnlaced his Beuer whose countenance when she beheld and sawe that it was her Lord and husband which had redeemed her from death shée fell into a deade sounde for very ioy But saint George sprinckled a little colde water on her face and reuiued her presently After this he gaue he● many a kinde and louing kis●e calling her the most truest and the most loyallest Lady that euer nature framed that to the very death would not loose one iote of her vnspotted honour Likewise she accounted him the truest Knight and the loyall●st husband that euer heauenly Hymen kne●● in ban●s of marriage with any woman But when the King had notice that it was saint George his Countries Champion which