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A50866	The history of the holy vvar began anno 1095, by the Christian princes of Europe against the Turks, for the recovery of the Holy Land, and continued to the year 1294. In two books. To which is added, a particular account of the present war, managed by the emperour, King of Poland, and several other princes against the Turks. By Tho. Mills, gent. Illustrated with copper-plates.	Mills, Thomas, gent.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2073; ESTC R221362	83,846	225

in the Temple of the Sepulchre leaving two Sons behind him Balder and Almerick the former being about Thirteen and the latter Eleve● years old CHAP. XIV The Reign of Baldwin the Third Of Fulche● Patriarch of Jerusalem and the insole● carriage of the Hospitallers toward him The Institution of Carmelites BAldwin the Eldest Son of Falco succeeded his Father and quickly gre● up as well in Age as in Royal Qualifications and became a most compleat and well accomplished Prince During his minority his Mother who governed all made up his want of Age with her abundant care she being a Woman in sex but of a masculine Spirit William who was last possessed of the Patriarchs Chair in Jerusalem was no great Clerk being better at Building of Castles than at Edifying the Church He built one at Askelon one at Ramula a third called Blankguard for the securing of Prisoners But having enjoyed the Dignity Fifteen years he was translated to Heaven and Fulcher Arch-Bishop of Tyre succeeded him whose old Age was much molested with the Pride and Rebellion of the Hospitallers who had then obtained from the Pope a plenary Exemption from the Jurisdiction of the Patriarch which he did the more easily grant because he hoped thereby to make himself absolute Master of all Orders and link them intirely to himself by an immediate dependence whereby he made every Covent a Castle of Rebels and armed them with Priviledges to fight their lawful Diocesan Those Hospitallers were by this means become so rude that they would without all shame Ring their Bells when the Patriarch Preached that so his Voice might not be heard and shoot Arrows into the Church to disturb him and the People in Divine Service A bundle whereof was hung up in the Church as a Monument of their monstrous Impiety Fulcher crawled to Rome when an hundred years old to complain of those outrages but the Hospitallers prevented him and bribed off the business beforehand so that the good old man was forced to return without redress whereupon they grew more insolent than ever Nor was Haymericus who succeeded Rodolphus at Antioch much quieter He instituted about the year 1160. the Order of Carmelites who pretended to an imitation of the Prophet Elias Some indeed had formerly lived dispersed about the Mount of Carmel but he gathered them into one House But although Palestine brought them forth yet England proved the most officious in nursing of them up For being first brought into it by Ralph Freshburgh in the year 1240. they were first seated at Newenden in Kent and in a little time scattered themselves all over England and lived in great pomp till dispersed by King Henry the Eighth when he demolished the Abbeys CHAP. XV. Edessa lost The Voyage of the French King and the Emperour of Germany blasted by the perfidiousness of the Graecian Emperour The Turks beaten at Meander Damascus besieged in vain ALL Empires like the swelling Sea have bounds set to them whither being once come they can rise no higher And the Kingdom of Jerusalem being now arrived at its full growth began to decline apace till at last all revolved again into the Infidels hands And the first considerable step which it made in its declension was the loss of Edessa one of the four Tetrarchies of that Kingdom and a place wherein the Christian Religion had always flourished from the time of the Apostles Which loss moved Conrade Emperour of the West and Lewis the Seventh surnamed the Young King of France by the persuasion of St. Bernard to undertake a Voyage to the Holy Land The Emperour for this design had gotten together an Army of 200000 Foot and 50000 Horse and the King near as many more For in France they sent a Dista●● and a Spindle to those that would not go● with them as upbraiding their Effeminacy and no wonder for Women themselves went in Armour to this War and had a brave Heroick Lass like another Penthesilea for their Leader who was so richly clad and befringed with Gold that she was generally known by the name of Golden Foot Conrade with his Army took his way through Graecia where Emmanuel the Emperour possessed with an hereditary fear of the Latines fortified his Cities concluding that there needed strong Banks where such a stream of people were to pass using them most treacherously and giving them a very bad welcom in hope thereby to get rid of them the sooner And to increase their misery as they lay incamped by the River Melas if it be proper to call that a River which is all Mud in Summer and all Sea in Winter it drowned many of them by its sudden and unexpected overflowing as if it had learn'd Treachery of the Graecians and conspired with them to spoil the Emperours generous Design And those of them that survived this unhappy accident were reserved for a more lingering misery the Emperour endeavouring by all imaginable ways to accomplish their Ruine as by mixing Lime with their Meal killing those who strayed from the Army holding intelligence with the Turks corrupting his Coin and giving them false Conductors who designedly led them into danger and made the way less doubtful than the Guides And no sooner had the Emperour got through all those dangers and escaped the Treachery of the Greeks but he was immediately encountred by the Hostility of the Turks who waited for them on the Banks of the River Meander which being not fordable and the Christians having neither Boat nor Bridge to convey them over the undaunted Emperour after an Exhortation to his Souldiers to follow his brave Example plunged himself into the Water and quickly reached the other Shoar where in despite of the Enemy he Landed with all his Army Whereat the affrighted Turks did as it were offer their Throats to the Christians Swords and were slain in such numbers that whole piles of dead Bones remain there for a monument of their Victory flushed with this success he marched forward to Iconium now called Cogni which he besieged in vain to the wasting and lo● of his Army The French King followed after wit● a numerous Army and drank of the sam● Cup at the Graecians hands though no● so deeply as the Emperour had done before him But at last finding that tho● who marched to Palestine by Land me with an Ocean of misery though the came not to Sea he thought it muc● safer to trust the Winds and the Wave● than the perfidious Graecians and therefore shipping himself and his Army h● arrived safe in Palestine where he wa● highly welcomed by the Prince of A●tioch Some weeks were spent in Princely Entertainments and visiting of holy Places before they entred upon action But having sufficiently recreated themselves and rested their Souldiers the Emperour and the King of France both resolve upon the Siege of Damascus accounting a smaller Town too mean a trifle for them to employ their Arms in its Conquests wherefore they immediately sate down before it and had

the Miseries of the last Siege and fearing the same Tragedy would be acted over again set fire to the Houses and in the Night saved themselves by flight whereupon the French issued in and quenching the fire saved abundance of Treasure from the fury of the flames Which Loss so discouraged Meladine that to purchase Peace with the Christians he offered to restore them the whole Kingdom of Jerusalem in as ample a manner as ever it had been enjoyed by any of their Predecessors to release all Prisoners and disburse a great Sum of Money to defray the Charge of the War But such was their Pride and Folly that they refused to accept of it unless Alexandria the best Port in all Egypt were given them as an Over-plus the Pope's Legate and Robert Earl of Artois persuading them to grant Peace upon no other terms Wherefore the Turk seeing themselves in so desperate a condition their Extremity rendered their Sword the keener and made them provide with the greater resolution to defend their Country to the utmost About this time there arose a difference between the French and the English to the great prejudice of their Proceedings And Meladine King of Egypt died likewise the same Year and left his imbroiled Kingdom to Melcchsala his Son From Damiata the French marched up towards Cairo the Governor whereof being offended with the new King promised to deliver it into their hands And having passed an arm of the River Nilus Earl Robert marched forward with a third part of the Army and suddenly assaulted the Turks in their Tents whilst the King was absent and put them to flight which Victory so lifted him up with conceit that he adventured contrary to the advice of the Master of the Templers to set on the whole Turkish Power which lay incamped not far off without staying for the rest of the Army whereby he was utterly overthrown and as he was crossing the River in his flight found Water enough to drown him tho' not to wash away the stain of rashness and cowardize from his memory and our English Earl refusing to fly died fighting in the midst of his Enemies there escaping no more but four persons to carry News of this fatal overthrow to the rest of the Army It is easier for the Reader to conceive than for my Pen to express the general grief wherewith these doleful Tydings were received by the French among whom the Plague raged so furiously that it daily swept away Thousands And to increase their sorrow several sick persons whom the King had sent down the River to Damiata were set upon by the Egyptian King and having neither Hands to fight nor Legs to run were every one either burned or drowned except Alexander Gifford an English-man whose Name and Family still remains at Chellingworth in Stafford-shire who acquainted the French with what had happened They would now have been glad of those Terms which a little before they slighted but it was too late for the Turks now scorned to treat with them The French would have had the King provided for his own safety by flying back to Damiata But he refused and resolving to live or die overcome or perish with them marched forward to the fatal place where the last Battel was fought And whilst they were astonished at the sight of their mangled fellows the Egyptian King set upon them with an infinite number of men and put them all being but few in number and those very weak to the sword except Lewis and his two Brothers whom he took Prisoners The Turks having thus slain all the French Pilgrims instantly marched up with their Ensigns to Damiata hoping thereby to surprize it which if they had done King Lewis had been for ever lost But God disappointed them for they were easily discovered notwithstanding their disguise and forced to go away without their desire The News of this sorrowful Accident coming to Europe filled every one with grief and made Henry King of England who had made great preparation to undertake the Voyage to alter his mind and imploy his Money to a better use But to return to Egypt Melechsala did not long survive this Victory being slain soon after by Tanquemine a sturdy Mammaluke who succeeded him in the Egyptian Kingdom by whom King Lewis was released in exchange for Damiata being obliged besides the surrender of the City to pay many Thousand Pounds for the releasing of Christian Captives and to make satisfaction for the Damage done in Egypt for the securing whereof he was forced to pawn to the Turks the Pyx and Host whence it is that a Wafer-Cake and a Box is always wrote in the Borders of that Tapestry which we have brought us out of Egypt as a perpetual Memorial of that Victory But tho' Lewis was set at liberty yet he got not home till four years after CHAP. VIII The Mammalukes described The Death of Frederick The Conversion of the Tartars And the extinguishing the Caliphs of Babylon Charles made King of Sicily and Jerusalem King Lewis makes a second Voyage THose Mammalukes which had now seized on the Kingdom of Egypt were the Children of Christian-Parents which were by Saladine and his Successors taught the Mahometan Superstition and instructed in all Military Discipline at several Nurseries and being found by their Valour and Courage to be the chief support of the Turkish Kings were by them advanced to the chief places of profit and trust and thereby the better enabled to pull down their raisers Which was performed during the captivity of King Lewis by Tarquemine who slew Melechsala and thinking it unfit so great a Prince should go to the grave alone sent all his Children after him And was afterwards chosen by the rest of the Mammalukes King of Egypt whereupon he by their advice and consent made several Laws which were ever afterward observed by them as irrevokable The first whereof was That the Sultan or chief of the servile Empire should not succeed by Inheritance but be chosen out of the Mammalukes The second That none should be admitted into the Order of the Mammalukes that were born either of Turkish or Jewish Parents but only such as were born Christians The third was That tho' the Sons of Mammalukes should injoy their Fathers Lands and Wealth yet they should not take upon them the Name and Honour of a Mammaluke The fourth was That the Native Egyptians should be permitted the use of no other Weapons but such wherewith they were to fight against Weeds and Till and Manure their Land There were in this Government several things worthy admiration First That of Slaves they should act the King without playing the Tyrant Secondly That they should neglect their own Children when it is common for other men to idolize them and sacrifice all that they have to their welfare Thirdly That they should not fall out in the Election of their Kings in regard they were all equal among themselves Lastly That it should indure so