afflicted The Saracens draue the christians cleane out of Siria Antioch was sacked by Bodegar the Sultane Yet againe Lewes the french kinge with his thrée Sonnes sayled into Africa against the Saracens with a great power Where by his knightly prowesse he had the victorie of them and besieged Carthage but by reason of the vnholsome countrey and chaunge of ayre the pestilēce infected his Hoast wherof the king himself dyed and his sonne Iohn also and then brake vp the siege The Armenians and Scythians at Gamala a citie of Iurie were destroyed by the Saracens with the citie also The citie Tripolis was taken fiered by the Sultan of Aegipt and the Christians in most cruell wyse slayne or els caryed away captiue The cities of Tyre Sydon Tripolis and Bericus by the same Sultan were fiered rased euen with the ground Ptolomais also being afore a place of refuge for the dispearsed christians was taken without any resistance and destroyed and the very foundations digged vp The christians which fled away and for sooke the citie in their way toward Crete perished by shipwrack and were drowned And thus were the Christians vtterly chased out of syria 190 yéeres after they wan it vnder Godfrey of Bolleine The kingdome of Turkes OThoman a man of obscure byrth very ambicious growing in great wealth riches by spoyle and robberie was the first that tooke vpon him the name of Kinge of Turks He within x. yéeres space subdued to his seigniorye a great part of Bythinia other countreis about the Euxine Sea whose generation since hath wrought much mischiefe to Christendome The I le of Rhodes was won frō the Sar. by the hospitelers Alphonse King of Castile in a notable conflict ouercame the Saracens and tooke two mighty cities Othoman king of Turks dyed and after him succéeded Orchanes his Sonne the second king of that Nacion While Cantacuzen Paleologus contended for the Empire of Constantinople Orchanes by force wan the most noble citie of Prusia Orchanes in a battayle against the Tartarians for so ar the Scythians called lost the féeld and was with many of his army slaine After him succéeded Amurathes the third kinge of Turkes Amurathes through the couetousnes and treason of the Genowais lending their ships vnto him passed the streicts of Hellespont to Abydus where he conquered the cities of Philippople and Hadrianople vnto his subiection This Ammurathes inuaded Seruia and Bulgaria conquered them from the Christians and at the same tyme tooke and slue Lazarus King of Seruia Ammurathes inuading the higher Mysia was thrust into the flanke with a Dagger by one that was a faithful seruaunt to the aboue named King Lazarus whose pretence was to reuenge his maisters death of the whiche wound he dyed After Ammurathes thus slaine Baiazeth his sonne obteyned the kingdome was the fourth king of Turkes and slue his owne brother Marke Cratenique king of Bulgaria with all the nobilitie of his realme was vanquished in battayle by Baiazeth He spoyled Bosna Croacia Illyria Albania and VValachia kyllyng many thousandes of Christians being partly slaine and partly caryed into captiuitie Constantinople was afflicted and besieged fully .viij. yéeres by this vnmercifull Tyraunt the Turkish king The Lordes of England and Fraunce at the instance of the Genowayes ioyning with them made a voyage into Africa against the Saracenes and compelled them to restore and set at liberty the Christian Prisoners liuing among them and to pay 10000 Crownes The Walachians craued ayde of the Turkes against the Hungarians whom notwithstanding the Hungarians vanquished and put to flight The Christians and the Turks mette and ioyned battayle at Nicopolis vpon the. 28 day of September But the victorie fell to Baiazeth who had there 300000. stoute fighting men well appoynted wherof 60000 were horsemen The Army of the Christiās being French Hungarians was not aboue lxxx thousande among whom there were about .xx. M. Horsemen The French Capitaines were in a maner all taken Prisoners Sigismund the king of Hungarie himselfe escaped hardly by flight In this battaile were slaine of Christians 20000. and of Turkes 60000. This lamentable ouerthrowe happened throughe the discorde of the Christian Host among themselues by reason that one whyle the Frenche and another while the Hungarians claimed the first onset and the leading of the Vauntgard After this battaile the Turke retyred backe to the siege of Constantinople Tamburlane Kyng of Scythia a man of obscure byrthe and Pedagrew grew to such power that he maynteined in his Court daily attending on him a thousand and CC Horsemen This Prince inuadyng the Turkes dominions in Asia with an innumerable multitude of armed Souldiours in the confynes of Gallitia and Bithynia néere to Mount Stella gaue to the Turke a sore battaile in the which he slew of them two hundreth thousand He tooke Baiazeth the Great Turke Prisoner and kepte hym in a Cage tyed and bounde wyth golden Chaynes When so euer hee tooke Horse he caused the sayde Baiazeth to be brought out of hys Cage vsed his necke as a Styrrope and in this sorte caryed hym throughout all Asia in mockage and derysion He vanquished the Persians ouercame the Medians subdued the Armenians and spoiled all Aegypt He built a Citie and called it Marchantum wherein he kept all his Prisoners and enriched the same with the spoyles of all such Cities as he conquered It is reported in Histories that in his hoast he had an incredible nūber of thousands he vsed cōmōly to haue xij hundreth thousand vnder him in Campe. When he cam in sight of his enemies his custome was to set vp thrée sortes of Pauylions or Tentes the first was white signifying therby to his Enemyes that if at that shew they would yelde there was hope of grace and mercye at hys handes the next was redde whereby he signified bloude and flame lastly blacke which betokened vtter subuersion mercilesse hauocke of all things for their contempt The same yéere Walachia Transyluania Moldauia and all the Region beyonde the ryuer of Danowe by procurement of Stephan Vaiuoda their Captaine sediciously mutyned and stirred vprores against Sigismund Whereby all men might perceiue and vnderstande that the same Vaiuoda was the very Authour of the late discomfiture in procuring the Turkes to come thither Cyriscelebes whom some do call Calepine after that the Great Turke his father was takē prisoner and his Host vanquished by Tamburlane the Scythian King saued himself by flight tooke vpon him to be king of Turkes being the fyst from Othoman The Turkes after their king was thus taken their power daunted atchieued nothing worthy of any remēbraunce vnder this Cyriscelebes Cyriscelebes the kinge this yéere dyed leauing behind him two Sonnes Orcannes and Mahomet Orcannes throughe the great fauour of the Nobles of Thracia was appointed Successour to the Crowne béeing yet a very young man but in a conflict at Gazar not farre from the ryuer Hebrus he was slaine chiefly by the villanie of his
wounded The Maister of the Rhodes at this Siege for the Christians was the valiaunt Peter Dabuson The same yéere the Turke with a great Nauie inuaded Puell and by Acomate one of his Capitaines wanne Otronto a goodly large and populous Citie standyng vppon the Sea and put all the Inhabitauntes to the Sworde In this yeere also 6000 Turkes were slaine at the Citie Mantinea in the kingdome of Lacedemon In this yeere also this raging Helhounde Mahomet the Great Turke first of all others tooke vpon him the name of Emperour Hee wanne from the Christians two flourishing and Noble Empyres Constantinople and Trapezunce twelue Christian Kingdomes and CC. cities After which sundry conquestes he yéelded vp his blasphemous soule and payed his debt to nature to the great relaycing aswell of his enemies as of his owne people because of the horrible vnspeakeable iorueltie without respecte aswell to fréendes as foes most rigorouslye shewed Baiazeth the viij Emperour of Turkes appeasing all ciuile dissensions and domesticall discorde at home chased his brother Zizime out of all Turkiâ— and was himselfe enstalled in the Empire The same yeere Ferdinando King of Naples sent his Sonne Alphonse with an Armye who recouered from the Turkes the Citie Otronto before wonne by Mahomet Also this yéere Iohn Castriotte the Sonne of Scanderbeg assembled a power and recouered his enheritaunce that was by force taken from his father by Mahomet The same yéere also Stephan Vamoda and King Matthias wanne from the Turke the higher couÌ„trey of Mysia which now is called Bosna Baiazeth often ioyning battaile with the Sultan of Aegypt had the worse and in the ende was glad to make a league with him The Turkes inuaded and wanne Walachia 〈◊〉 Brother to this Baiazeth the Great Turke liuing an exile in Rhodes whither he fled for scare of the sayd Turke his brother was this yéere sent to Rome to Pope Innocent the viii And after a certeyne time of abode there was poysoned together with Alexander the Pope his Sonne Ferdinando king of Spaine with x. M. Horsemen and fifty thousand footemen wan from the Saracen Moores the kingdome of Granado and chased them vtterly out of that Countrey beyond the Sea. This Turke Baiazeth with a great power both by Sea and Land inuaded the Inhabitaunts of the Hils in Greece called Ceraunij and all the frée Corporacions of Epyre and them subdued to his Turkish Empyre The same yéere Matthias Kinge of Hungary conquered a strong Holde from the Turkes called Sabatrum whereby his Countrey lyued in more quietnesse and out of â—eare A mightye Armye was sent into Hungarie vnder the leading of Cadume Bassa by whom were slayne vii M. Hungarians and for testimony of this spoyle and ouerthrow géeuen to the Christians they sent many Christian mens Heades with their noses cut of and in lothsomâ— wise disfigured to Constantinople The Turks rushing into Croacia were put to flight by Maximilian The Turke warred against the Venetians spoylinge with fire and Sword the Countrey Dalmaâ—ia â—â—aryed away with him great prayes In Foriulij also he coÌ„manded aboue 4000. men to be beheaded because he coulde not cary them away with him by reason of a great deluge of the riuer there The Citie of Venice for dread of hym was in great perplexitie and feare The Turkes wanne this yéere Modona and Corona two cities of Peloponese The Citie Methon was by the Turkes wonne from the Venetians vpon S. Laurence daye Baiazeth commaunded the Byshop of that place to be beheaded in hys sight and killed the Townesmen euery one and for the most part consumed all the Houses with fire By lyke misfortune also the sayd Venetians lost Naupactum and Dyrrhachium Certayne Kings Princes of Christendome fréends and fauorers of the Venetian state ioyned their Nauye with the Venetian Fléete ouer the which Benedict Pisaure was Admirall and spoyled the Iles of Aegina and Zacynth inuaded Leucas and Cephalenia tooke the I le of Neritus at this day called Sainct Maures Ilande and reskued Nauplia The Turke greatly fearing his owne state by reason of the brute and rumour that went vpoÌ„ Elias the Prophet of Persia commaunded aboue CC. Houses in Constantinople with all the Inhabitauntes therein to be burnte This Prophet was in such credit and estimation among the People that aboue CL. thousande men leaned to his Sect and folowed after hym in Campe. His Tentes were excéeding rich and gorgeous and all thinges among them were common The same yéere the Turke entred into League and concluded peace with the king of Hungary and the Duke of Venice The King of Spaine in Mauritania Caesariensis wan Mayneport from the Saracenes The Sophie of Persia vanquished chased and slew the Turkes in Asia Grane a populous and wealthy citie of Africa this yere was wonne by the Spaniardes The Spaniardes by force of Armes conquered Bugia in Africa Zelime youngest Sonne to Baiazeth the great Turke rebelliously and most vnnaturally lay in wayt to kill his olde Father expelled him out of his kingdome in his olde dayes with all his Brothers and Kinsmen At length he caused his Brothers and their Children to be strangled and by a certayne Iew whom for that intent he had hyred he caused his sayd father to be poysoned This Zelime by the factious election of his disordered doultiours and affectionate Rakehelles was chosen and annoynted the ix Emperoure of Turkes Acomathes the brother of Zelime being ayded by the Persians warred against his Brother but Fortune so frowned on him that he was strangled Zelime concluding a peace renewinge League with the Venetians and Hungarians made sharpe Warre vppon Ismael the king of Persia him neere to a towne called Chalderan vanquished and put to flight And tooke Taurum the chiefe Citie of his kingdome somtime called Artaxata without any resistaunce or bloudshed Hee waged fresh warres against Aladule Kinge of Cappadocia and taking his chiefe Capitaine in the chase cut him shorter by the head and sent his head to Venice for a Trophée or signe of his victory This bloudy Zelime discomfited Campsor the Sultane of Aegypt with all his power and slue the Sultane hymselfe in the chase And folowing his good fortune and prosperous successe in this battayle conquered and annexed to his Empyre Alkaire and Alexandria two goodly embatteled Cities and all Aegipt beside He also wanne Damascus the large and renowmed Citie of Syria Hee made a passage or a Brydge of Shippes ouer the riuer Nilus to the intent hee might pursue and coape with Tomombey the new Sultan of Aegipt Whom by treason hee tooke and after all kindes of most cruell tormentes and spightfull contumelies commaunded hym to be hanged Charles Kinge of Spayne draue out of his Realme the Marranes which were a remnaunt of the Saracens and slue welnéere of the Barbarians .40000 Zelime the Great Turke was this yéere as he had well deserued murthered in that place where before he had moste vnnaturallye and rebelliouslye persecuted hys Father After him succéeded his Sonne
Duke of Bauaria first attained this honour and dignitie by subduing and getting the vpperhand of the LieutenauÌ„ts and Captaines of the kings Prouinces who séeing the King to bée a weake and vnwarlike man tyrannically ruled the Countrey according to their own sensual lustes for their priuate commodities Then in the raigne of Theodoricus the second the excellent dexteritie and worthy vertue of Charles Martellus second Sonne to this Pipine was in that office very conspicuous and renoumed throughout all the lande of Fraunce in so much that he was accompted and taken as the Prince of all the people At the same time was King of Aquitanie theÌ„ called Gallia Gottica one Eudo a Gothian borne whom king Roderik made ruler of the Prouince but hearing of the discomfiture of the King his Liege Lord he made himselfe king thereof This Eudo whyle Charles Martellus was busied with other warres in Germanie began to surmise certaine quarelles which brake out into open warre with the French Capitaines of the places néere adioyning to the limittes of his Territories whom going about to defend their titles rightes he afflicted with many ouerthrowes Wherfore Martellus tooke the matter in hande and warred against him And at the same time the Saracens passing the Pyrenees had taken Narbon and in it shewed all kind of outragious crueltie because they woulde by that example make the countrey afraide any more to withstande theÌ„ Wherfore Eudo considering with himselfe that he was vnable to warre at one time both with the Frankes the Saracens and for the Mugnoces a man in great fauour and estimation with the Saracens was his Sonne in law he thought it better for him to make a league amitie with the Saracens theÌ„ with the Christians Which after he had by Mugnoces meanes and friendship brought to passe looking big vpon the matter and bearing himselfe stoute by reason of the aide and succour which they sent to him he inferred much harme to the Franke Nation But when he perceaued that the Saracens fortified with their owne garrisons and kept to their owne vses al such Cities townes as they entred into he begaÌ„ when it was to late to beshrew himselfe and wishe that he had neuer attempted any such enterprise For they kept Nimes Mountpelier Auinion with all the places thereabout in their owne possession Wherevpon Eudo gathering all his power together to profligate and driue them out gaue vnto them battayle wherin he was discomfited Mugnoces by whose meanes and procurement the league and amitie was concluded greatly complayned of the iniurious dealing of Eudo in falsefying his faith infringing his promise accordingly as he had vndertakeÌ„ for him WhervpoÌ„ Abderama king of Gottalonia marching with an hoast against him besieged him in the Castle of Cerdania out wherof Mugnoces for scarcitie of water escaping fléeing into thickets and hillish places fell into the hands of another coÌ„pany of Saracens who tooke him prisoner beastly slew him and sent his head his wiues the daughter of Eudo to Abderama and thus all the traitours of their Countrey within shorte space came to a miserable end and confusion Then Abderama hauing dispatched and ridde out of the way all enemies that were to be feared on his back returned into FrauÌ„ce passed the riuer of Rhone and destroyed many places that belonged to the Christians and made such a slaughter at Arle that a heape then made of the bones of the deade carkasses remaineth there yet to this day in a place called Alies Campi TheÌ„ went he with his army against Eudo who began again to gather more strength make a new commocioÌ„ He besieged Tolose the chiefe Citie of Gallia Gottica in which siege for that the citie was very well rampyered and fortified with Ditches walles and also well stored with Engins and munitions of war and with all sorts of weapons beside a conuenient Garrison of souldiours with all other thinges necessarye theâ—e planted for defence the Saracenes receiued great losse and were well payde home especially by meanes of certayne Engyns deuised by skylfull arte of ingenious Architectes and by diuers other Stratagemes of warlyke pollicie Notwithstanding Burdeaux was then taken and sacked of the Saracenes and all the Inhabitauntes therein both man woman and childe vnmercifully slayne and manquelled and the Temples razed and laide euen with the ground Thence by the confines of Perigot beyonde the ryuer Geronde they made inroades into the Country of Xantongue and destroyed Angolisme and Blaye From thence through Limosin and Poytiers they russhed into the Countrey of Tours Where they spoyled the Churche of Sainct Martine wherein was great foyson and plenty of gyftes and offeringes that had bene geuen and bequeathed vnto it and afterward set it on fire Eudo being sore afflicted with these vnmanerly dealyngs and driuen to great extremytie by the Saracenes entred into league with Marcellus and they two with both their powers ioyned in one gaue battayle vnto Abderama before the Citie of Tours wherein they discomfited hym and all his host In this battayle there were slayne CCC lxxv thousand Saracenes and of the French no moe but .xv C. And if the night had not come vppon them ere the battayle was fully ended the whole route of the Saracenes had bene at that time vtterly destroyed For Abderama in the night season perceiuinge how the game went and what a mortall ouerthrow he had receiued had no lust to tarye and expect the hazard of the next daye but trudged as fast as he could by long iourneyes with those fewe of his companye that were left and hable to folow him to the Pyrenees entendinge from thence to retourne into Spaine leauing behinde hym in his Tents all his carriage and stuffe for a praye to his Enemies But the Nauarrians hauyng stopped the streight passages where their iourney laye killed them euery one The next day assoone as the Sonne was vp Martellus in good order marshalled his army and tooke the Féeld awaiting the commyng of his enemies But when he perfectlye vnderstoode that they were fled his Souldiours fell to the spoyle which they found in the Saracenes Campe most aboundant and plentifull After the death of Eudo Martellus added that parte of Eudo his Kingdome to his Empyre For which cause Hunold and Vaifar the sonnes of Eudo incensinge that part of Gaule called Narbonensis Prouincia containing the Countrys of Sauoye Dolphinie Prouance and Languedock to take parte with them renewed the warre afresh with Martellus And passinge ouer the riuer of Rhone with most barbarus cruelty destroyed burnt and killed man and beast makynge hauock of all Townes Villages Féelds that was in their way without sparing either age or Sexe The chief burnt of which lamentable storme and furious immanitie that part of the Allobroges now called Dolphinie specially felt before Martellus could prouide or prepare sufficient power to go against them But when he was come Visigot departed
named Cursianum From thence making an other viage with an Army vnto the Streicts of Caucasus found the same so wel defended and fortified by the Vnnes or Turkes that not daring to meddle with them he retyred back agayne And two yéeres after an other army of Saracenes whereof was Generall one Euelit the Sonne of Maunias inauaded againe the Borders of Thracia where after he had made great spoyle he retourned againe into Syria In which Prouince many thousands of Saracenes dyed of sundry diseases Neuerthelesse they abstained nothing the more from making inuasions into the Territoryes that belonged to the Romane Empire For Zulciminie with a huyge power the thyrd time pilfered and haryed Armenia and Thracia and tooke the towne called Syderonium afterward he went into Cappadocia with 60000. men and at the very same time Melike and Batal with a hundreth thousand Saracens brake the fourth time into Thracia But Leo then Emperour marchyng with an Host against them that wasted Thracia destroyed and slew them almost euery one About this time died Euelid in whose place was created Bysshop Gizit the seconde in the yéere of our Lorde 744. Who for that he saw the Romane Empire to be deuided intofactions because Constantine Copronymus the Son of Leo contended with Artabasdus for the Garland addicted and bent his whole mind to dispose and set order in the Saracenicall Empire And because the I le of Ciprus beyng then well peopled brued seditious motions and ruflynge disturbaunces he sent the whole people thereof into Syria and left the Iland without Inhabitantes And when he had raigned one yéere he deceased After him Ices obtayned the pontificate who also dying within lesse then a yéere Maruane was installed and made high Bishoppe Pipine the second bearing all thesway and rulynge all the rost in the Realme of Fraunce the Saracenes eftsoones passinge the Pyrenees were by him surprysed and taken tardy and payde so dearely for their lustinesse that so long as he lyued the neuer durste any more attempt any inuasion or pillage towarde hys land Territory or domynion for which valyance and magnanimitie the Frenchmē by the assent of Zacharie then Pope of Rome deposed Childerick to whome the crowne of Fraunce by lineall descent of inheritaunce belonged and made Pipine their King and with him annoynted as heyre Apparaunt to the Crowne his Sonne Charles who was after surnamed the Great Whom afterward doyng many things of his owne proper will and authoritie contrarye to his Fathers minde and contentment as though he had bene already very Kinge and in reall possession of the Regall Diademe King Pipine his Father exiled out of his sight and commaunded to departe out of all the limytes and boundes of his Domynion and kingdome Wherefore he not darynge to disobey the kinge his Fathers decrée and iudgement tooke with hym many of the French Nobilytie which folowed hym and went to Galasie Kinge of Toledo a Saracene borne Whiche Galasie vsed his helpe aduise and ayde in the warre whiche then he had against Marsilius Kinge of Saragoza a Saracene also as well as he In which warres Charles being Chieuetayne of all the King of Toledo his armye behaued hym selfe like a worthy Knight and many waies endamaged King Marsilius Afterwarde fallynge in loue with Galiana Daughter to the king his Master aduentured and atchieued many worthy enterprises notorious Actes for her sake namely against Bramantes an other Saracen king Who because he would haue had Galiana to his wife maugre her Parentes good wyl besieged Toledo and discomfited the Souldiours both French Saracene which serued vnder the king of Toledo tyll Charles yssuing out to recharge vpon hym coaped with him and slew him with hys own handes This hoat loue continewinge for a time at length brake out so far that vpon a certen time as that damsel for her disport and solace was walkyng in the gardens or baynes by the bankside of the riuer Tagus without the walles of the citie Toledo whiche are at this day called the Palaces of Galiana Charles no longer hable to qualefye his amorous passion stole her away and fled with her to Burdeaux wher he buylded for her a sumpteus palace as lyke in all poyntes to the paterne and situation of the princely Court of Toledo as he could gesse which palace is yet extant and called also by the name of Galiana her Palace Maruane ruling in Syria many sedicious mutines and factious partakings chaunced among the Saracenes many Tyraunts rebelliously reuoulted pretendynge title to the pontificate Whose names were Tebid Dadack and Zulciminie Whom Maruane as traytours to him pursued toke Tebid and put hym to death Zulciminie hauing an ouerthrow fled into Persia But fortune smiled fauored Dadack better then ether of the other twaine for he ioyning battayle with the Sonne of Maruane vanquished hym and discomfited his whole Hoast Albeit he could not long enioy the fruicts of this victory for within awhile after encountring with Maruane himselfe in a cruell battell was ouercome and slaine Constantine Copronymus taking occasion and conceyuing hope of future good lucke by meanes of the Saracens domestical sedition inferred warre vpon Syria wanne a great part of that Prouince Wherfore Maruane hauinge now already gotten the vpperhand of Dadack with al his Adherentes tourned his conquerous Armes to regayne Syria and it recouered to the great slaughter smart of the Christians The same yéere a litle before the Christians receiued this great ouerthrow and discomfiture at the hands of Maruane the Countrey Syria Palestina almost al Asia Thracia Grecia and Italie with many other Regions were terriblye shaken with a dreadfull Earthquake After this more ruffling and commotion kindled in Persia For Asmuline Prince and kingleader of that Sect first reised and excited by Mutar of whom we haue before made mention who affirmed Ali to be greater then Mahomet dwelling and liuing among the Corasenes a people of Persia through the counsaile instinct of one Cataban incensed and mooued all the Slaues and Peyzants of the Countrey either priuely or apertly by secrete conspiracie or by open force to quell and murther their Maisters With whose wealth the Slaues being enriched and made of great power were diuided into two factions whereof th' one were called the Caismores and th' other the Lamonites Now Asmuline being Captaine of the Lamonites subdued and cleane dispercled the Caismores Then beyng accompanyed with his Lamonites and hys Counsellour Cataban marched forth into Persia ouer which Prouince was Lieutenaunt for Maruane one Ibline who with an hoast of one C. thousand good fighting men and well appointed resisted and gaue to Asmuline battayle In which conflict the Lamonites although they were a great deale fewer in number yet hauing an indubitate confidence in the promises of Asmuline and in Cataban whom they estéemed as men holy and replenished with Propheticall inspiration fought most valiantly in so much that they discomfited Ibline and put hym to flight Beyng then
owne vncle Moses Mahomet the sixte Kyng of Turkes when his brother was thus rydde out of the way enioyed the Crowne alone This Mahomet subdued Seruia Walachia and a great part of Sclauonie Sigismund king of Hungarie in a battaile against the Turkes foughten in the fieldes of Salumbeze whyche were somtimes called Philadelphia was put to the worse and fledde Mahomet imposed gréeuous and intollerable tributes vpon the Walachians He translated the Seate royall or chiefe Citie of his Empire out of Bythinia into Thracia and gaue prerogatiue to Adrianople preferring it before Prusia He was the first king of that race that passed the ryuer of Danowe he subdued Macedonie and came as farre as the Ionian Sea. Ammurathes the seuenth King of Turkes vanquishing Mustapha the sonne of Baiazeth by force of Armes obteined his fathers kingdome This Turke made his first voyage against George the king of Seruia otherwyse called Rascia from whom after foure yeeres siege hee wanne Newmound and Scopia and myserably afflicted Synderouia The kinges ij sonnes whom he tooke in battaile he berest of their eyes and cutte of their priuie members But he maryed and tooke to wife his daughter for her rare beautie and comely personage Thessalonica a famous Citie belonging to the Seigniorie of Venice was won by the Turkes who left there no kinde of villanie and spightfull dealing agaynste the Christians vnpractyzed Amurathes besieging Belgrade in Hungarie loste 10000 of his men and was faine to retyre into his owne Countrey after he had in vayne and to his great shame continued his siege vij monthes Iohn Huniades encountred with the Turkes spoyling Hungarie and them discomfited Ladislaus king of Polonie and Hungarie sending out a power against the Turkes vnder the guydaunce leading of the same Iohn Huniades had ouer thē a noble victorie in the fieldes of Haemus and draue the Turke to such a streict that he was faine to condiscend to a peace This peace made with the Turke contrary to league and othe was violated and broken by the vnabuised procurement and exhortation of Pope Eugenius whiche breache to the Chrystians was verye pernicious and hurtful For first the Christians in the Streicts of Hellespont lost lxx Gallyes Afterward in a battaile foughtē at the féeld aboue xxx thousand of them slaine belīde a great number drowned in the Bogges In that battayle was slayne Iulian Caesarine a Cardinal Legat for the pope who came thither to procure and incense the Princes to violacion of their League and Oth and warranted them from daunger the king Vladislaus himself was ther slaine who was merueilous desirous to enterprise this War. Huniades with much adoo escaped by flight and saued himselfe The Turke could not haue brought his Nauy through the Streictes of Bosphorus in Thracia to do this mischief had not the couetous Genowayes winked at the matter and suffered them hauing in bribe and rewarde for euery Turke a péece of Golde payed vnto them Ammurathes wanne the Isthmos of Corynth and vanquished the Gréekish Garrysons together with the emperours Brother of Constantinople and ouercame with pitifull spoyle all Peloponesus The Kinge of Polonie encountred with the Turkes as they inuaded Hungary and obtayned the victory The Turkes desirous of reuenge assembled a huige power afresh and renewed Warre Wherin both parties were lamentably damnyfied loosing welnéere 800000 men betwéene them Notwithstanding the number of the Turks there slayne was farre greater then of the Christians But the Generall of the Christian Armye was there slayne and his head brought to the Kinge of Turkes In the same battayle also was slayne the sonne of the sayd King of Turkes The Hungarians vnder the leadinge of Huniades to the number of 600000 entred into the Turks Countries and ioyning battayle with them at the firste conflict they had the victorye but in the seconde they were slayne in maner euery one except 1000. or ther aboute which by flight saued themselues The great Turke besieged Croia a citie of Aemathia many Monthes but by the worthy prowesse of Scanderbeg he was defeated from his purpose and with losse of many of his men was sent away packing with a Flea in his eare Amurathes Emperoure of Turkes dyed bequeathing his Crowne and kingdome to Mahomet his Son the 8. King of Turkes Who least his Father should be buried alone without company slew at his first entraunce his owne Brother and commaunded them to be buried both in one graue The first Warre that this Mahomet tooke in hande was against Scanderbeg Besieginge Croia with lxxx thousand men but he departed away without his purpose to his great shame and reproche leauing behinde him at the sayde Siege Ballabano one of his chiefe Bassaes The famous and renowmed Citie of Athens the Vniuersitie and Nurce of all worthy Artes Disciplines was conquered and rased to the ground by this most cruel Tyrant the Turk who in some places therof digged vp the very foundacions for extreeme hatred that he bare to learning He threw all the Bookes and Monuments that he could finde into dyrtie Sinkes and filthiest places in the citie and to be put to the vilest vses that could be And if any man séemed to lament it the same partye was streight wayes put to death The Castle of Pyruaem and Munychia was also most furiously rased to the grounde This Tyraunt the xxix day of May after a continuall assault geuen thereto from the ix of Aprill afore that is to say 50. continual daies by his innumerable multytude of Turks conquered the noble citie of Constantinople to the vnspeakable hindraunce of all Christendome and high aduancement of the Turkes Domynion At the taking of this citie most horyble prophanacion of the Temples was vsed As for Imags which the Turks themselues cannot abyde in great scorne and contempte were throwne downe Among others Mahomet himself laughing at the supersticious Citezens in great be rysion gaped and laughed at the Crucifix and caused it in scornfull maner to be caryed about the Stréetes with Trumpettes and wrat vpon the head of the said Picture these wordes Hic est Christianorum Deus This is the God of the Christians Thrée dayes together he gaue leaue to his outragious Souldiours to kill spoyle and rauishe both Wyues Matrons and Maydes without any reuerence of nature The citizens some they murthered some they rosted vppon Spits some they steyed the skinnes and afterwarde hanged them vp to consume with fainyne of others they put Salt into their woundes the more to encrease theyr payne contending amonge themselues who could deuise most straungest kind of new torment insomuch that the Citie was no Citie but rather a Slaughter House or Shambles of Christian bodyes The Emperoure hymselfe being there slayn his head was pitched vpon a speare and caryed about At euery dinner and Supper some of the Emperours Cosens and Nobles of the Countrey were put to death so longe as anye remayned of that ligne Of the inferior sorte no day passed wherein he caused not to
Solyman the xii Emperour of Turkes This Solyman conquered the Citie Belgrade a moste strong Buttresse and Garrison for Christendome and wan diuers other Castles and strong Holds in Hungary He also besieged the I le of Rhodes with a Nauye of foure hundreth Sayle and a mightie multytude of men He beganne the siege in the later end of Iune and tooke it vpon Christmas day next folowing to the great shame dishonour of al christian Princes The knights of the same I le valyauntly a great while defended it often skirmisshed with hym but in th' ende after many notable ouerthrowes for want of ayde and power they yéelded Lewys Kinge of Hungarie desired by his Ambassadours aid of the Princes of Germany against the Turke inuading his Countrey and Kingdome whiche they appoynted to sende but it came to late For the Turke was already come wherefore king Lewys in his owne person leading his whole power against hym encountered with hym in battayle wherein hes was ouercome and thinking to haue saued himselfe by â—light was drowned in certayne Bogges or Fennes both Horse and man Many worthy Gentlemen in this Battayle were slayne to the great weakeninge of that noble Kingdome The chiefe Citie of the Realme called Buda was sacked and spoyled and the noble Librarie of Kinge Matthias vtterly consumed with fire The Knights of the Rhodes planted theÌ„selues against the Turkes in the I le of Malta The same yéere Solyman came agayne into Hungary besieged the second time the strong fortresse of Bude but séeing he could not according to his minde by force win it he perswaded the Defendauntes by certayne offers and conditions to yelde it into his handes From thence he marched to Vienna a noble Citie of Austrich and vppon the xxij day of September gyrded the same about with a most terrible Siege beate it with Ordinance and shooke the walles with most hydeous noyse of roaring Canons But through the courage of the defendauntes he lost many of his Souldiours and being brought into a vtter despaire of any good successe he trussed vp his trinkets and in flying maner trudged away toward his owne Countrey with all spéede that coulde be fearing least the Emperour and other Princes had folowed at heeles after him During this siege he haried great booties out of the Countrey thereabout and caryed away many thousande Prysoners He cast out young Virgins auncient Matrones starke naked and pitched little Children vpon stakes and poales In his Armie he had a hundreth and fortye thousand men whereof partly in this Siege of Vienna and partly in their flight perished for famine and colde the number of .lxxx. thousand The Citie was most valiantly defended by Philip of Bauary Earle Palatine of the Rhine brother to the Palsgraue a young Gentleman in yéeres but of noble courage with the Lord William Rogendorf and Nicolas Erle of Salme and with them onely xx M. Almeynes and two M. horsemen In his iourney through Austrich the Turke vsed vnspeakeable crueltie of some he cut of their noses some he put out their eyes of some he cut of their priuy members of women they cut their pappes Virgins they rauished and of women great with childe they rypped their bellyes and brent the children beside this all along as they went they brent Corne Trees Houses and all that was combustible to make the countrey desolate Solyman with CC.M. armed souldiours assaulted the Castle of Guntz in Hungarie geuing thereto xiiâ— terririble assaultes Which Castle was valiauntly defended by a noble Gentleman named Nicolas Iuryze At length it was surreÌ„dred vnto him not as wonne by force but as yeelded by composition The great Tâ—rke himselfe hearing that the Emperour Charles was comming agaynst him wyth lxxx thousande footemen and .30000 well appoynted horsemen of Germaines Italians and Spanyardes beside the Horsemen of Hungarie thought the Countrey woulde bée too hoate for hym to staye anye longer and therevppon fledde homewarde through the Hillishe Downes of Norica and wyth great booties retourned home wythout dooyng any thing worthye of memorie Solyman yet againe meant to haue an other flinge at Hungarie and to scourge the Kingdomes of Africa Wherevppon he sent one Corradine Barbarossa Capitayne of his Nauie into Africa against the King of Tunice Whom he draue out of his Kingdome and deposed from hys Crowne And into Hungarie he sent Lewys Gritte Bastard sonne of Andrew Grytte Duke of Venyce to expulse and dryue out thence Vaiuode But Meilane Vaiuode wynninge the Cytie of Medeuisch which the saide Lewys Grytte before had gotte into hys possession slewe both hym and all his Armie And cutte hys Children into pieces before theyr fathers eyes Charles the fifte with a great Nauie sailed into Africa and restored the king of Tunice to his Crowne againe and deliuered out of miserable captiuitie about the number of .xx. thousand Christian Prisoners The same yéere Taurus a Citie of Persia was taken by the Turke Where the Turkishe Souldiours lyuing in carelesse securitie were sodainly set vpon by Tahames king of Persia and .xx. thousande of them slayne The Persians caryed thence manye spoyles and the Great Turkes Concubines to the great shame and reproche of their Enemies Solyman assembled out of the Countreyes of Pontus Propontis C l. Gallyes lxxx Brigandines Foystes and CC. lxx other vesselles of diuers sortes wherwith he inuaded Corsica an Ile belonging to the Seigniorie of Venice and it besieged the space of .x. dayes Then setting the Suburbes on fier making great spoyle of the countrey beside killing or else taking Prisoners many of the Inhabitauntes he departed thence and wasted the I le of Zacynth and Cythera Hee conquered and layde euen with the grounde the I le of Aegina subdued Paros and make Naxos Tributarie He sent into Puell the greater and better part of his Nauie which were in number ten thousand picked footemen and M M. of his stoutest Horsemen which haryed and spoyled all the Coast of the Tyrrhene Sea. The fléete of the Emperour the Pope and Venetians ioyning together at the first through discorde and ambition of the Captaines among themselues were disseuered and scattered a sunder Inuasion and Roades were made into Styria by the Martyloys a rude sort of Peyzauntly Lurdens altogether geuen to Pylfery and Theft but by the valiantnesse of the Countrey Inhabitauntes they were repulsed The same yéere throughe Treason of Duke Calcian the Christians had an ouerthrowe at the handes of the Turkes in Sauia The Venetians entred a Truce with the Turke by paying vnto him thrée hundreth thousand Crownes and yelding vp into his handes the Townes of Neapolis and Maluasia in the borders of Macedonia The Towne of Newcastle in Dalmatia wherein was a Garryson of Spanyshe and Germaine Souldiours was this yeere conquered and sacked by the Turks and all the Inhabitauntes and Souldiours therin according to their vsuall custome put to the Sword. The Venetians all this while wynked at the matter in whom it lay to haue holpen this outrage
went vnto the Pauilion of Mustapha with the keyes of the Citie of whom at the first they were curteously enterteyned and caused to sit downe by him discoursing with them of sundrye matters and drawing them froÌ„ one tale to another till at leÌ„gth picking a surmysed quarel and specially to Sig. Bragadino sodainly commaunded them all to be pynyoned and to be layde bounde one by one in the market place and in hys presence there to be hewen in péeces As for Sig. Bragadino he first commaunded his eares to be cut of and most vilely to be stretched a long vpon the grounde while Mustapha talked and blasphemously demaunded of him where his Christ was that he helped him no better Then he led him to all the breaches of the Citie making him to carie at once two baskettes of rubbish and earth th' one on hys backe and th' other in his hand slauelyke to euery sundry battry being enforced also and commaunded to kysse the grounde as often as he passed by him After this he was ledde to the Sea side where being set in a Chayre he was wynched vp and fastened to the maineyard of a Galley and hoysed vp with a Crane so high that al the Christian Souldiours and Slaues in the Hauen alreadye shipped might behold and was afterward let downe againe and vpon the Pyllorie in the market place most cruelly fleyed quicke After which most sauage tyraÌ„nie his skinne was stuffed with Straw and hanged vpon the Bowsprit of a foyst to be caryed along the coastes of Syria that al the Port townes might behold and vnderstand who he was The Turkish Army at this Siege of all sortes were in number 200 thousande persons In 79 dayes all which time the Battry still continued 140 thousande yron pellettes were shot into the Citie numbred and séene The Christian Nauy being in number 207 Gallyes 6. Galeazes beside a great nuÌ„ber of Pynnesses and other Shippes and 20. thousande â—all Souldiours of Spayne Italy and Germanie beside the Labourers and Rowers wherof was chiefe General Don Iohn de Austria tooke the Sea at Messana from thence sayling to Coreyra so to Cephalenia séeking the Turkes where being out of Candy enformed of the miserable taking and cruell dealyng at Famagosta were further geuen to vnderstande that the Turks lay at Anker in the Gulph of VelapanÌ„t Spéeding themselues thytherward the Turkes were in a ioly ruffe marueilyng that the Christians curste so fondly hazard themselues vnto certayne death and makyng full reckenyng so to afflict and crush the Christian power at that time that they should neuer be able afterwarde to withstand theÌ„ more But they reckened before their Host and God gaue the victorie For there were taken burnt and sunk of the Turkish Gallyes Galiots and Brygandines 230. There were slayne of the Turkes 30. thousand beside a great number taken prisoners and about xiiii thousand Christians that had bene kept in lothsome captyuitie were set at libertie breaking their chaynes to be reuenged of their extréeme slauerie to helpe the Christians when the Turkishe side began to goe to wreck The chiefe brunt of this conflict was vpon the 6. day of October and lasted foure houres but the slaughter and chase continued all day from morning tyll night insomuch that the Sea séemed redd with bloud for none escaped thence aliue sauing 40. Gallyes which fled at the first beginning The Christians lost seauen Gallyes and were slayne betwéene the number of vi or vii thousande The wind and Sunne was on the backs of the Christians and full in the faces of the Turkes whiche greatlye helped them at this pinch and furthermore the Stemmes of the Turks Gallies were so high that they ouershotte our men which made them to vasten to grappling there beside a great sort of Ianyzaries and commoÌ„ Turkes their Bassa was slaine This yéere the seauenth of October the noble and valyaunt Prince Don Iohn De Austria with 105 Gallyes and 40. great Shippes was sent by Phylip King of Spayne to take and set order in the kingdome of Tunice where was great ruffling and hurly burly for the State. He therfore takyng Ship at Iauagnana had the wynd so fauorable that by noone the next day he arryued at Goletta Afterward there folowed and came to him Marcellus Auria with 29. well trimmed Foysts and the Duke of Sessia with 14. of the Popes gallyes The Turkes in Tunice for dread of his puissaunce whom to their cost not long before they had tryed fled out of Tunice some to Carauana and 400. of them to Bisana sometime called Vtica whom the Bisanes would not receiue nor succour whervpon after many hoat wordes on either party they fell together by the eares among themselues The Bisanes to be the stronger in that byckeringe vnclogged and vnchayned 150. Christian Prisoners whom the Turkes had vsed for Gallye Slaues and them furnished with Weapon and armure By whose help and meane specially the Bisanes got the vpperhande and slue many of the Turkes Which done Don Iohn hauing the goodwyl of the Townesmen sent thither Sig. Salazara the Spaniarde to take possession of the Towne and to sweare the Aâ—â—habitauntes to be true obedient Subiectes to Kinge Philip. Then landing his Army within foure miles of Tunice he sent 2500. Footemen to the citie where they found no body to resist them but onely 200 Moores in the Castle who sayde that they kept the same to the vse of Amidas their Kinge Whom Don Iohn sent Prisoner with his Wife and Children into Sicile because he had bene cause of great discorde and faction in that Countrie and dispossessing the lawfull heyres thereof had violentlye vsurped the same and procured the Turkes to come thither In whose roome be appoynted young Muleasses who sware to be true Vassall vnto Kinge Phylip and to holde his Crowne of hym by Homage whom the Citezins with a goodly peale of Ordinaunce receiued gladlye séemed to admit for their Souereigne Ouer the Castle or chiefe Fort of the Citie he appoynted Sig. Serbellane Captaine The iiij of February 200 footemen and 150 Horsemen of the Garrison of the sayd Sig. Serbellan ioyning also vnto theÌ„ for helpe 4000 Moores yssued out of their Fort and encountred with 1500 Turkes and 3000 Arabians which robbed and spoyled the goods of the Tunicians and gréeuously molested them In which conflict the false harted Moores reuolting and refusing to fight there was taken 150 Christians and two Gunnes Still the Turkes stamping and staring for rage to see the Spanyardes beare rule and authoritie in those quarters priuely in the night the 21 of Februarie surpryzed Canisum killing therein and slaying aboue a thousande persons and after they had vtterly burnt the towne euen to the Castle gate they retyred backe whence they came The Garrison in the Castle to their great griefe all thys while beholding this outragious dealing durst not once aduenture to coape with them for frare of loosing all because they were in number farre fewer their they