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A17733	Tvvo very notable commentaries the one of the originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno, written by Andrewe Cambine, and thother of the warres of the Turcke against George Scanderbeg, prince of Epiro, and of the great victories obteyned by the sayd George, aswell against the Emperour of Turkie, as other princes, and of his other rare force and vertues, worthye of memorye, translated oute of Italian into Englishe by Iohn Shute.; Della origine de Turchi et imperio delli Ottomani. English	Cambini, Andrea, d. 1527.; Shute, John, fl. 1562-1573.	1562 (1562)	STC 4470; ESTC S107293	198,882	250

lesser for that he commaunded them before hand to flee with their goods and cattell into places of force and securitie so that the Turckes founde them selues greatly deceaued and abused the same nighte they lodged vpō the syde of the ryuer called Mathia and rested them as thoughe they had ben at home in their countrey but Scanderbeg enemye of all sluggishenes the daye folowinge aboute nonne came with his 7. thousand horsemē to a mountaine whiche ioyned to the plaine where they encamped then with certaine of his Captaines went vp to the toppe of the hill to consyder and beholde in what strengthe his enemyes dyd lye and whether he moughte haue anye occasyon to assayle them vpon the sudden When Scanderbeg was vpon the heighte of the mountaine he sawe the Turckes lying withoute garde vnder the trees in shodowe and in their tentes for it was in the hotest tyme of the sommer and in the myddest of the daye wherfore he departed from the mountaine and went to horse with all his souldiours and began to ryde in greate hast towarde the Turckes met with their scoute and slewe them immediatly al sauing one who with the spede of his horse escaped to y e campe crying in this sorte Scanderbeg is bere Scanderbeg is here But Scāderbeg in person folowed him and coulde not ouergett him for that he had so muche groūde before him at the first Then Scāderbeg cōmaunded to sownde the alarme with all suche instrumentes as they had and then gaue in vpon them with suche force vnprouided as they were that in the fyrst charge he put them in suche disorder and flyghte as was meruelouse to se so that he slewe of them there 30. thousād vpon the place and all y e euer y e Sangiacho Amesabeg neuewe to Scanderbeg rebelle against him coulde doe or saye coulde not staye them from ronning awaye wherfore in the ende thys same Amesabeg with Mesithebeg bothe Sangiachi w t 500. Turckes moe were taken prisoners and Isaach the Bassa with suche scatered Turckes as were lyuing fled and was folowed for a certaine tyme and great execution done vpon his people After this Scanderbeh deuided the spoyle to his souldiours acording to his acustumed order there were slayne of his souidiours 60. This done he retorned to his confynes and made acourse into the countre of his enemies and sacaged it burned a greate parte therof and retorned into his countre with an exceding great boutie safely gaue thancks to God for his great victorie The Turcke rested not for this but sent newe bands to garde his confynes with two other Captaines y e one of them was named Hannebeg and the other Sinanbeg with expressed commaundement not to deale with Scanderbeg nor to enter his countre onles they receaued frō him other commissyon and this he dyd for that he sawe he coulde not ouercome Scanderbeg and therfore he determyned to proue yf he moughte preuayle against some other princes wherfore he toke in hand fyrst the enterprise against the Imperiall Citie of Constantinople in shorte tyme toke it flewe the Emperour therof with an infinite number of Citizens and other Christians then conquered al his state in the yere 1453. After this he went against the afore named Dispotto of Seruia a prince of great welthe possessinge a maruelous masse of golde and siluer by meane of certaine mines that he had not withstandinge he chased him oute of his countre in the yere 1459. After this he went against the kinge of Bossina and toke him caused him to be sawed a sonder in the middest and toke his state Then Scanderbeg beholdinge the great prosperitie of his enemye in the preiudice and subuersion of the Catholique faithe threating also to take the countres of dyuerse Christian princes determined to goe and encoūtre with the two Captaines aforesayd In this meane tyme the ambassadours of the pope Pio the. 2. and of the kinge Ferrante kinge of Puglia and of Scicile passed the Fero and went to Scanderbeg saying moste noble prince we gyue thyne excellentie to vnderstande in the behalfe of oure lordes and Masters that the Duke Iohn sōne to the king Renato of Fraūce is comme with a great power of Frenshe men into the kingdome of Sicille against your deare frinde the king Ferrante and there are reuolted against the kinge takinge parte with the aforesayde Duke the princes of Taranto and Bossano with the greatest part of the nobilitie of that kingdome and he hathe entertained in his paie y e Coūtie Iames Piocinino with all his regiment so that his armie is very great and stronge and he hath alredie conquered the whole kingdome sauinge onelye Napls Capua Auersa Gaieta Troia and Barletta where the king is nowe straitely beseeged and in daunger to be taken and the power of the pope and y e kinge can not passe ouer to succour him wherfore the popes hollynes and oure kinge also desyre your highnes in most ernest wise that it maie please you to comme into Puglia in his fauour and when the ambassadours had this sayde they presented vnto him the popes bulles w t the kinges letters wherin there was conteyned y e lyke of that which they had declared by mouthe Then Scanderbeg beinge greatly affected towardes the popes hollynes and the holly catholique churche of Rome and for that also he was entred into great fryndshippe with the kinge Alfonso father to Ferrante fermer and tributarie to the aforesayde Byshoppe he determyned to ayde him with all his power possyble and so after great entertainemēt made to the ambassadours he licensed them in very cortese sorte and forthe w t sent one of his chiefe Captaines his Nephewe named Cairo Stroisio a man of great vnderstandinge and worthines with 500. chosen horsemen who passed the sea and landed in that parte of the countre that yet helde for the kinge Ferrante where he dyd great good by meanes of his worthines In the meane ty●e Scanderbeg made a treues forone yere with the T●●cke by meanes wherof he had as good oportunitie as he coulde haue wyshed for so muche as shortely before the ariuale of the ambassadours aforesayd there came a messager from y e Turcke to demaūde peace of Scanderbeg but he was departed w toute graūt therof for he was fully determyned to deale with the Turckes Captaines that laie vpon the confynes but as sone as he vnderstode of this he sent his curreuers after the ambassadour and caused him to retorne and then concluded the aforesaid trewse After this he committed his state into the handes of his welbeloued wife and others his most faithful frinds and appointed to defend them a worthie Captaie with sufficient number of souldiours and when he had hired a greate number of shyppes and galleys and other vesselles for y e sea he caused his armie to embarcke in them beinge well furnished of horses and coursers of greate price and with aboundance of virtuall

of Corintho and besegid it bothe by sea and land when Mahomethe was aduertized of the arriualle of the venetianes and of the great daunger that Corintho was in he put his Nauie to the sea and embarqued his armie gyuinge them commission to haste with all celeritie toward Corintho as sone as the infidele armie was landed in Morea they assailed forth with the walle of Esmilia and laide their batteries to it whervpon the Christianes not beinge able to stande to the defence therof gaue it ouer to the enemies and retired to their campe the which as sone as the Turckes Captaines espied they forthe with cut throughe the walle and entred marching on with their armie towarde the enemie who refused not y e battayle but marched also towarde them and withoute delaie ioined with them in battaile which contynuinge for the space of certaine houres was bothe terrible bloddie and in the ende the Christianes being werie and not able to endure the force of the Turckes whoe contynually supplied y ● fighte with freshe and reposed squadrones in the place of the weried and spoyled began to retire toward the sea thincking to saue them selues by fleing to their Nauie and brake their order and being folowed by the Turckes horsemen were slaine and taken in great numbre and loste also their artillerie munition and cariadge and in this sort was the sege of Corintho raised and then with great triumphe retorned the infidels to Constantinople leading with them the Christian prisoners enchayned as sone as they were there arriued they caused a great number of them with great crueltie to be cut in peces in the market place the reste they lad with them lyke flockes of shepe throughe the Townes of Asia solde them for slaues in euery place y ● they passed by The Venetianes beinge greatly discoraged throughe this defeicte and fearing that they had procured to them the Turcks indignation by y ● meanes of the soodden warres which they had made vpon him wherupon they addressed them forth with to the pope ● sent their Oratours to Rome to desire and solicite th● pope with greate instance to make warres vpon th● Turcke and to haste the iorney into Asia declaring v● to him that if he deferred the tyme Mahometh shoulde haue good commoditie to take all the townes in Greti● that were in the possession of the Christians and cheifely those that were vpon the sea coaste by meanes wher of they shoulde not be able to maintaine any Nauie vp on that coaste hauinge no hauens nor goolfes at their commaundemente the Byshoppe althoughe he knewe that to be true which they said being very sorie to consider the peryl wherin they were dyd put them in good hope that he wolde acomplishe their request althoughe in dede he sawe no meanes howe to doe it for that he coulde get no aide from beyonde the mountaines for as much as the case eas such that after that the councell of Mantoa was licensyd all Europe was fylled with diuision and priuate innimities and regarded not at al the good determination of y e generall enterprise against the infidels agreed vpō at Mantoa for in Almanie there was warres betwene the Duke of Bauera and the Saxons and ether parte employed their frindes and by that meane drewe to them the greatest parte of Almanie The Emperour pretending to succide in the roiall seate of Hungarie his Nephewe Laodislao kinge therof wolde not endure that the king Mathias should possesse it wherfore he emploied all his force against y ● Hungarianes The Frenshe kinge beinge much offendyd with the pope for that he crowned and admitted to the seate Royall of Pulia the kinge Ferdinando a bastarde sonne of the king Alsonso not regrading at al the righte that the kinge Renato of Angio his cosen had to the afore saide kingdome dyd not onelye refuse to send aide to this generall enterprise but threatned the pope continually to send his armie into Pulia The Inglishe men whiche were neuer wonte to fayle in anye enterprise agaist the enemies of the Christian faithe being sore vexed with Ciuile warres hauinge two kinges liuing at once which soughte no meanes but onely howe the one mought chase the other oute of the realme the people beinge deuided y e one parte fauoring henry their auncient kinge the whiche by Edward Duke of yorke was chased oute of the Realme the other sorte soughte ●o maintaine the partie of kinge Edwarde vnto whom y e Duke of Burgonie gaue aide and Loise the Frenshe kinge aided the kinge henry whose sonne with y ● counte of warwicke entred England gaue battaile to kinge Edward In Spaine the citie of Burcelona in the con●rey of Catalonia reuolted against their prince the king Iohn of Arragone kinge of Nauarre and were ayded maintained against him by the kinge of Castilia on the other syde the Frenshe kinge gaue ayde to the kinge Iohn of Nauarre to recouer againe his righte who was encamped before the citie with his power and for y ● that god wolde not that anye parte of Europe shoulde be at quiete he sturred vp in Fraunce the Duke Iohn sonne to the king Renato of Angio who passed into y ● kinge●ome of Naples with a greate Nauie of Galleys shippes and while he was there he so practized that he diui●ed the whole force of Italie the one parte therof fauo●ing the house of Angio and the other parte the house of Aragone so that in those warres all the nobilitie of y ● kingdome as men oute of their wittes deuided them selues into sondrie factiones not onely they of the kingdome but of all the states of Itali● The Venetianes Genoueses with diuerse other princes fauored the par●ie of the Duke Iohn The pope and the Duke of Myl●ane discouered them selues in the fauour of y ● king Fer●ante and sent him diuers bandes bothe of horsemen ●otemē The florentines althoughe generally they were ●nclyned to fauour the Frenshe partie by meanes of ● league made betwene the house of Angio and them and were bounde to the kinge Renato yet notwithstanding being gouerned by the appetite of their rules they were perswaded that it was not good for them to take parte in so gerat warres and to enter into newe charges but to stande as newtres but in dede they showed ●hem selues fryndes to the house of Aragone whervpon forthwith they cassed many of their bandes with the lorde Simonetto one of their chiefe conductours and permitted them to serue the kinge ferrante thus secretly they ayded the partie of Arragone wherupon the pope beinge empeched by meanes of these emotions determined to defer the purposed enterprise against the Turcke vntyll suche tyme as the deuisiones and tumultes of Europe and chiefly those of Italie were appeased wherupon he departed from Siena rteorned to Rome purposing to acquiet and redresse the temporall state of his church which was maruelously disordered shaken by

and then he caused them to set saile and in shorte space he arriued at Ragusio and he with certaine with him landed there and was by the chiefe of that place honorably receaued And when they had a longe tyme talked together he wente to the churche to heare seruice and then toke his leaue and went aborde and set sayle hauinge a prosperouse wynde in shorte tyme approched neare to Barletta when the Duke Iohn and the countie Iames and the rest of the nobilitie sawe so manye sayles they Iudged Scanderbeg to be there for it was bruted that Scanderbeg wolde comme and ayde the kinge whervpon they raysed their campe and went to encampe at a certaine place from thence farre of In this meane tyme Scanderbeg landed and the kinge forthewith went oute of Barletta and came and embraced Scanderbeg weping for ioye gyuinge thanckes to God and then to him for so great cortesie and grace after this Scanderbeg caused to vnshippe his furniture to comforte the king and all the rest of his people and the nexte morowe he rode into the countre whiche had rebelled against the kinge aforesayde and broughte from thence and exceding great proie of cattell of all sortes and draue it to Barletta and for the space of all that daye there was made great ioye in hope of victorie and the morninge folowing he made an oration to his souldiours in forme as foloweth My deare frinds the cause of oure being here as nowe is to ayde and succour the kinge Ferrante oure frynde whom in one momente by godes helpe we haue delyuered from a perillous sege hithervnto w toute drawing oure swordes wherfore to make an ende of this enterprise it is nedefull to vse oure weapones very skylfully and to kepe very good order in suche sorte as the kinge maye recouer the countre that he hathe loste whiche thinge can not be done withoute gyuing battayle fyghtinge the same with great assurance and in maruelouse perfecte and stronge order but I thincke not that you wyll doe otherwise here in Italie then you haue done in Albania against the Turcks and other oure enemies notwithstandinge this maye not be vnaduisedly taken in hande forsomuche as these the kinges enemyes are Italianes and Frenshe men and are armed suerly euen from the hed to the fote hauinge launces of great force and stockes bothe stronge and wel piercinge wherfore yf we shoulde stande fyrmly and receaue their charge they wolde handle vs very rudely and we shoulde be able smally to anoie them for that oure armour is slender in comparyson of thers we were Iackes of mayle Targes longe and slender launces and althoughe that oure swordes and Scymytaries be heuy and that some of them wyll cut anye kynde of yron yet all thys is in maner nothinge consyderinge that their number dothe farre excede ours and they be men of greater vertue and force then are the Turckes wherfore with suche enemies it behoueth vs to deale discretly and valiantly puttinge oure truste in God to obtaine victorie acording as we are acustmed to doe wherfore it behoueth you to obserue this order thorowly that I shall nowe gyue you we wyll goe and seke these the kinges enemyes and when we shall fynde them we wyll withoute delaye offer to charge them yf they wyll offer to countrecharge vs we wyll then seme to rone awaye and after y e wyll torne suddenly vpon them for when they haue folowed vs a lytle tyme they wylbe sone wery for they can endure no great trauayle for they are loded with heuy armour and their horses are great and heuye and wylbe sone wery but we are able to endure to the ende of anye trauayle and then wyll we with oure swordes Scymytars and Mases so beate them aboute the heddes that we wyll enforce them to fall from their horses halfe dod and vsing the matter in this sorte there is no doubte but that we shall obtaine the victorie truethe it is for that they are baptized it greueth me muche but there is no remedie for euery man is bounde to defende him selfe we haue the ryghte on oure syde and the popes blessing and grace who is lord of the whole worlde both in spirituall and temporall matters for that he is Christes lieutenante wherfore I praie you and also commaunde you that euery man enforce him selfe more nowe then euer he dyd to doe well for that we are in a strange coū trey and are enforced to obtaine this victorie for the glorye of God and the welthe and cōmoditie of oure frindes and for oure owne honor and to the losse and dishonor of oure enemies The nexte morning folowinge Scanderbeg w t hys souldiours went with great assurance to se the kynges enemies and he attempted a scaramothe to se the maner of his enemyes and in what order they fought but they behaued them selues valiantly for a longe tyme and in the ende they wered werye and there were xxx of them ftayne and xx taken prisoners and of those of Scanderbeg there were only iiii hurte in this sorte Scāderbeg retorned victoriously to Barletta The nexte daye folowing in the morning Scanderbeg retorned againe to the enemyes determyninge to fyghte with them all that day and the nighte folowing he deuided his armie into thre squadrones y e one of them he wolde leave in person the other he comitted to y e conducte of Moises a notable Captaine of his and the other he gaue in charge to the countie Gintrizza his most valiante Nephewe and he presented these thre squadrones and assayled the enemye in thre sondrye places at once and the battayle continued all that daye and in the ende the enemyes wered wery wherfore that most subtile countie Iames determyned to fynde a remedie for that most eminent peryll wherin he was and therfore wente forthe of his squadrone and with a lowde voyce called sayinge most noble prince Scanderbeg maye it please the that I maye safely comme to speake with thyne excellentie of matters that shall in no wyse displease the Scanderbeg aunswered that he shoulde goe and comme safe vpon his faythe then the countie replyed requiring him that it moughte please him to comme forthe of his squadrone and he wolde doe the lyke to the ende y ● they mighte talke together from their companies whervpō Scanderbeg withoute anye difficultie went forthe from his squadrone acompanied with a fewe souldiours and when he came neare where the countie was he caused his souldiours to staie a parte from him then Iames sayde my lorde oure talke wyll require some tyme wherfore maye it please your highnes that for this daye the battayle cease and that commaundement be so gyuen to bothe the armies Scanderbeg was well contentyd then the countie was very glade and began to talke of peace and amitie bothe to the honor of the kinge Ferrante and also to the honor of Scanderbeg And as they were thus talkinge Moyses and Gintrizza two of hys