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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19712	A notable historie of the Saracens Briefly and faithfully descrybing the originall beginning, continuaunce and successe aswell of the Saracens, as also of Turkes, Souldans, Mamalukes, Assassines, Tartarians and Sophians. With a discourse of their affaires and actes from the byrthe of Mahomet their first péeuish prophet and founder for 700 yéeres space. VVhereunto is annexed a compendious chronycle of all their yeerely exploytes, from the sayde Mahomets time tyll this present yeere of grace. 1575. Drawn out of Augustine Curio and sundry other good authours by Thomas Newton.; Sarracenicae historiae libri tres. English	Curione, Celio Augustino, 1538-1567.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1575 (1575)	STC 6129; ESTC S109154	166,412	282

A NOTABLE HIStorie of the Saracens Briefly and faithfully descrybing the originall beginning continuaunce and successe aswell of the Saracens as also of Turkes Souldans Mamalukes Assassines Tartarians and Sophians With a discourse of their Affaires and Actes from the byrthe of Mahomet their first péeuish Prophet and founder for 700 yéeres space VVherunto is annexed a Compendious Chronycle of all their yeerely exploytes from the sayde Mahomets time tyll this present yeere of grace 1575. Drawen out of Augustine Curio and sundry other good Authours by Thomas Newton Imprinted at London by William How for Abraham Veale 1575. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ¶ To the Ryghte honorable the Lorde Charles Howarde Baron of Effyngham and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter RYghte Honorable Callinge to remembrance what streict accoumpt euerie Man particularlie at the last generall Audite is enioygned to yeeld for time here bestowed I haue somewhat in discharge of my duty that waye according to the rate and measure of my small Talent traueiled to bringe to light for the benefite of my Cuntreymen this historicall Discourse of Saracens Turks and other Reprobates of the same stampe and Lyuerey in hope that the same to your Honour and others of rype iudgement thyrstinge after such needefull knowledge shall bee deemed labour and time not all together yll spent Which matter although it required the cunninge hande of a skilfuller Woorkeman for the better polisshing and bringing thereof into good frame and order yet the dilygent endeuoure of suche as doe their vttermoste seemeth in the meane whyle not to bee reiected For God bestoweth his Gifts and Benefites diuerselye some haue more and some lesse whiche although by Arythmeticall proportion they seeme very vnequall yet beinge Geometricallye examyned respected and waighed they iumpe in a most euen equalyty Herein as in a Myrrour is set down how when by whom this pestilent Generation was first set abroche what successe in their Affaires euer synce they haue had and if wee wyllnot by others harmes take warning what curtesye is to bee looked for at their hands whē and wheresoeuer they can espye any occasiō or oportunitie to put in practise their bloudy tyranny They were in deede at the first very far of from our Clyme Region and therefore the lesse to be feared but now they are euen at our doores and ready to come into our Houses yf our penitent heartes doe not the sooner procure at the mercifull handes of God an vnytie peace and concord among the Princes Potentates and People of that litle porcion of Chrystendome yet left which through diuision discord and ciuile dissention hath from time to time enticed and brought this Babylonian Nabugadnezar and turkish Pharao so neere vnder our noses The pitifull state wherof although your L. is not now to learn yet for others sake not so rype in Turkishe garboyles I know your Honour according to the wonted generositie of your noble nature wil at my hands cherefully accept as an earnest peny of my loyal heart to your L. most addicted whō I besech God with that moste vertuous and honorable Ladie your wife to blesse with all spirituall benedictions prosperous health and daylye increase of much Honour At London the xii of May. 1575. Your good Lordships most humble at Commaundment Thomas Newton The Authours Preface MAny a time and often considering and debating with my felfe the acwarde course of this changeable world among other things I haue bene greatly desyrous to know what the very chief cause should be of the subuersion and ruyne from time to time of al mightie kyngdomes And againe of the setting vp and aduancement of manie obscure persones of base degree and parentage to most high honors and dignities For when I throughly consider and call to remembrance the alteration and decay of the Romane Empire and the manifolde calamities that haue happened to noble ▪ and puyssaunt Kingdomes in times past I well see that dissolute life ambitiō and discord of Rulers amonge themselues hath from time to time bene the chief originall cause therof Insomuch that by reading out of olde Monumentes and Histories thinges long agone atchieued and done I perceaue many Empires haue ben planted and constituted many Nations subdued many Kingdomes with long continuance firmlye established and most assured peare and tranquillytie among the Communaltie conserued by temperaunce and sobrietie but chiefly and specially by ciuill concord and mutuall amytie Wherfore both reason dayly examples enforce me to think that Wealth Ritches strength and skilfull pollicie in warlyke affayres without concord and goodwyl of the people hurteth many times but profiteth almost neuer Whereas concord and beneuolence euen without wealth and rychesse be of great force and of themselues able to doo very mutch Therefore they which neglected the sauegard quietnesse and commoditie of their subiectes whereby goodwyll is both purchased and also nourished and wholy yeelded themselues to Ambition and desire of souereignty bestowing al their studies and cogitations onely to enrich and bring themselues to hye estate among their owne People desiring rather to be feared of them then of their enemies were in the end vnprofitable to themselues and pernicious to their countrey Contrarywise they that so arme themselues with the vnfayned loue and goodwyll of their owne people and subiectes that they might both be tenderly and intirelye beloued of them and also bee terrible and dreadfull to the enemy abroad those I say were thei which notably benefited both themselues and their common wealth And if we would peruse and rip vp th● auncient beginnings of al Kingdoms and throughly consider their fyrst originall wee shall finde that so many of them as long florished were by most honest Artes and wayes at the fyrst gotten and by the best orders of gouerment constituted For it is wel inough knowne that at the beginning the name of a king which alwaies was a name moste holie and venerable was geuen and attributed to those that had done best seruice and been most meritorious to their cuntrie whom the people for their common profite and vtilytie created Kinges and Soueraignes ouer them For when as the sacred worde of God was not yet amonge men acknowledged no religyon reuerenced nor any ciuill order regarded when no man tooke any respect to lawfull matrymonie or to any certaine procreation of Children and the due administratiō of iustice and lawes with the profites therof not once heard of much lesse executed when men after a brutishe sorte lyued abroad in the woods and open fieldes wholy drowned in errour and blind ignorance abusing their strength and power onely to the satisfyinge of their owne sensuall affections and beastlye lustes what mans power was so great or who was able with al the strength he had to gathertogether these sauage and rude persones lurking in woods cabines abrod into one felowship to perswade thē to be obedient conformable to his cōmandements Certes wee