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A89620	Bellum Tartaricum, or The conquest of the great and most renowned empire of China, by the invasion of the Tartars, who in these last seven years, have wholy subdued that vast empire. Together with a map of the provinces, and chief cities of the countries, for the better understanding of the story. / Written originally in Latine by Martin Martinius, present in the country at most of the passages herein related, and now faithfully translated into English.; De bello Tartarico historia. English	Martini, Martino, 1614-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing M858; Thomason E1499_2; ESTC R208642	67,043	251

both to Country King and the Emperour of China But this Counsel pleased the Tartar and therefore he sent a Vice-Roy with a potent Army The Tartars are brought into Corea to which the Coreans shewed the waies and guided them through all the passages who falling upon the Chineses Armie which suspecting nothing was divided and many stragling up and down the Countrie made a huge Carnage amongst them But when Maovenlungus percieved they were Tartars he presently made head and gathered a Body of an Armie together and vigorously opposed all those sharp assaults But yet at length he was forced to yield the Field and therefore leaving a Regiment or two to hold the Enemie in action whilst his Army retreated he fled to his Ships and to the Island which he had Fortified The Tartars were vexed and grieved both to see their victory so bloody and also that Maovenlungus whom they chiefly aimed at had escaped with most of his Army and therefore enraged with Anger they fell upon the Corean Traitors and killed every man which action the King of Tartary much condemned and then turning their wrath to the four Northern Provinces which border upon Tartary Corea wasted they wasted and destroyed them all in a moment In the mean time the King of Corea gathered an Army to resist the Tartars and Maovenlungus also having recruited his Forces came into Corea to revenge the received loss The victorious Tartars were come within seven Leagues of the principallest City of all Corea But finding the King to have taken the Straights and Passages of the Mountains which lead unto it they desperatly resolved to force their passage The Battel was hardly begun but Maovenlungus after a long march falls in upon their rear and the Tartars finding themselves encompassed before and behind nor any means to escape but by dint of Sword fought most desperatelie sustaining the shock of two Armies And such a Battel was fought as China never saw for it is strange to write yet very true of the three Armies none was victorious but all in a manner destroyed The Fight and slaughter of 3 Armies Of the Tartarian Armie fifty thousand were found wanting The Corean Armie lost seventy thousand and few or none escaped of the Chineses Armie For their Quarter being most commodious for the Tartars flight they there made their most vigorous Charges and so forced their way towards their own Countrie So as none of them all gained the field or could prosecute the course of a Victorie Yet the King of Corea made a shift to rallie so many together again as to take possession of those his Countries which the Tartarians by their flight had left desolate But the Tartars after all the losses ceased not to make frequent inrodes into the Country of Leaotung The Eastern part of Leoatung is under the Tartar and took all the Oriental part of it From thence they made incursions into the other part and carried away great Preys and Booties But they were alwaies so beaten and so defeated as they could never fix a constant habitation For by this time were arrived seven excellent Gunners from the Portugese quarters The Portugese send succour which both by themselves and by teaching the Chineses advanced infinitly the King of China his Affairs especially where that Christian Vice-Roy called Sun Ignatius Commander in chief of whose affairs we shall say somthing hereafter In this conjuncture of affairs the Emperour Zungchinius sent a new Commander called Yvenus into Leaotung A crafty Commander of the China Army with a new Armie and full power to conclude a Peace with the Tartars if they would admit it For the disorders of the times had caused so many needy persons Theevs and Cut-throats that the Emperour grew more anxious how to suppress this great domestick Enemie which seemed to aim at the Kingdoms ruin than he was of the Tartarian Forces This Yvenus was a crafty and subtill wit most eloquent both in speaking and writing who by politick discourses drawn from the nature of this war had wrought so much not only upon the Emperours mind but also upon all the Councill that they esteemed what he concluded as a Law to be observed Wherefore the Chineses put all their confidence in him nor had they been frustrated of their hopes had not this wicked man been more wedded to his own interest and love of Riches than to the publick good fidelitie to his Prince For first he received of the Tartars a vast Summe of gold which wrought so much upon him as that having invited to a Banquet that most Valorous and Faithfull Champion Maovenlungus Maovenlungus poisoned whom the Tartars only feared he there poisoned that great Commander After this he made a most ignominious and shamefull Peace with the Tartars condescending to all that those that fed him with Riches could desire But when the Emperour had perused the Treatie he presently found his Plenipotentiarian had sold him and therefore refused to ratifie or confirm the Articles What should Yvenus act in this exigent That he might force the Emperour to admit them he peswaded the Tartars in the year 1630. to enter China by another Country than that which was committed to his charge promising them for his part he would no way hinder their progresse by his Army The Tartars knew that his avarice had so potent an Ascendent over him as that they need to fear no hurt from him and upon that Confidence admitted of his Counsell Wherefore being secure from all assaults from any Enemie behind them they entered the Province of Peking and besieged the Kings Court The Kings Court besieged Insomuch that his Councel perswaded him to leave the Imperial City and retire to the Southern Provinces but he protested he would rather die than quit the Northern quarters and not only so but he forbid any to depart the Court or Town besieged In the mean time the Tartars make many fierce affaults and as often were valiantly beaten back with great loss and Carnage Yvenus was called to resist the Tartars for as yet his Traiterous Complots were not discovered And lest he should discover his Treason he comes with his Armie neer the very Walls which were of so vast an extent as both the Chinese and Tartars Armie might perfectly be discerned though betwixt them there was a great Intervall But though Yvenus was under the Emperours eye yet he acted little for his only aim was to return home laden with Riches he never desisted to perswade the Emperour to admit his conditions of Peace So that the Emperour finding him evidently to be a Traitor disclosing his intention to none of his Councell nor Governors sends to invite him to a privat Councel of war giving also order that he should be admitted into the Citie by the Walls lest if any Gate should be open the Tartar being so neer might press in upon them but indeed he ordered the business in this manner

from any but from the young installd Emperour Xunchius To which Constancy the King Kuintus Uncle to the Emperour prudently yielded lest he should exasperate the minds of many and raise greater troubles in the Empire than would advance his Family But I cannot doubt but the death of Amavangus must needs trouble the Tartarian Empire and bring all their affairs into great disturbance for they will hardly find a Man so beloved feared and expert in all Military Discipline and Government as he in effect shewed himself to be but time will teach us what will become of all for since his death we have no certainty of any relation now let us turn the threed of our discourse as I promised here above and consider the fortune and success of the other Great Brigand called Changhienchungus to let the Reader understand how the Tartars did invade not onely the Mediterranean and Oriental parts but also the Occidental Quarters of that vast Kingdom But before I begin to speak of this monster of nature Changhienchungus a cruel Tyrant I must ingenuously confess I am both ashamed and also touched with a kind of horrour to declare his villanies both in respect they seem to exceed all belief and therefore I may perchance be held to write Fables as also it is not handsome to make reflections on such Subjects yet I may sincerely protest that I have in my hands a long relation of all his Acts written by two Religious persons who were then in the Province of Suchuen to exercise their Functions which Country was the Theater of all his Brutalities which I shall relate and because I judge these two persons to be of an incorrupted a Faith I judge therefore that a mortal Man might arrive to this pitch of wickedness and inhuman Cruelty I therefore gathered out of that relation what I here relate which is nothing else but a vast Mass of such abhominable Cruelty as I doubt not even the most mildest Reader will take the Authour to be no Man but some horrid wild Beast or rather if no more execrable name occurs some Devill transvested in our humane Nature This monster like a wild Bear entred into divers Provinces filling all with Rapin Death Fire and Sword with all other imaginable miseries for he had a mind to destroy all that so he might have no enemies or leave any alive that might revolt from him but onely content himself with his own Souldiers and often times he spared not these But the Province of Suchuen where he usurped the Title of a King was the chief Theater of his barbarous Cruelty for after he had afflicted and vexed the Provinces of Huquang and Honan and part of that of Nanking and Kiangsi he entred the Province of Suchuen in the year MDCXLIV and having taken the principal City called Chingtu in the heat of his fury he killed a King of the Tamingian race which here had established his Court as he hath done also to seve● other Grandees of the same Family He kils divers Princes These were the Preludes of the Tragical Acts whose Scenses I go about briefly to describe that so Europe may see what a horrid and execrable thing an unbridled and armed cruelty appears to be when it furiously rageth in the darkness of Infidelity This Brigand had certain violent and suddain buttads of furious cruelty and maxims drawn from the very bowels of vengeance it self for if he were never so little offended by another or suspected another to be offended with him he presently commanded such to be massacred and having nothing in his mouth but murder and death he often for one single Mans fault destroy'd all the Family respecting neither Children For one offending he puts to death nor Women with Child nay many times he cut off the whole Street where the offender dwelled involving in the Slaughter as well the innocents as nocents It happened once he sent a Man Post into the Country of Xensi who being glad he was got out of the Tyrants hands would not return to revenge this imaginary injury he destroyed all the Quarter of the City in which he dwelt and thought he much bridled his fierceness that he did not wholy extinguish all the City To this I adde another unhumane Act about his Hangman whom it seems he loved above the rest because he was Crueller than the rest when this Man was dead of his Disease he caused the Physician who had given him Physick to be killed and not content with this he Sacrifised one hundred more of that Profession to the Ghost of his deceased Officer He was affable and sweet towards his Souldiers he played banquetted and feasted with them conversing familiarly with them and when they had performed any Military Action with honour and valour he gave them precious gifts of Silks and moneys but yet many times he commanded some of them to be cruelly put to death before him especially such as were of the Province of Suchuen where he reigned whom he intirely hated them because he thought they did not rejoyce in his Royal dignity Insomuch as he hardly ever did any publick Action His hatred to the people of Suchuen which though it begun like a Comedy yet had not in fine the sad Catastrophie of a Tragedy for if walking out he did but espie a Souldier ill clad or whose manner of Gate or walking was not so vigorous or Masculine as he desired he presently commanded him to be killed He once gave a Souldier a piece of Silk who complained to his fellows of the pooreness of the piece and being over-heard by a spye of which he had a great number who presently acquainted him with what was said he presently commanded him He cuts off a Legion for one Mans fault and this whole Legion which were of two thousand Men to be all Massacred He had in his Royal City some six hundred Prefects or Judges He kils many City Officers and men belonging to the Law and such as managed the principal Offices and in three years space there was hardly twenty left having put all the rest to several deaths for very slight causes He caused a Sergeant Major which the Chineses call Pingpu to be flead alive for having granted leave to a China Philosopher without special order to retire a little to his Country House And whereas he had five hundred Eunuchs taken from the Princes of the Tamingean Family And he killed also the Eunuchs after he had put their Lords to death he commanded all these to be cruelly put to death onely because one of them had presumed to stile him not by the Title of a King but by the bare name of the Theef Changhienchungus as if he then were no Theef Nor did he spare the Heathenish Priests who sacrifised to their Idols These sort of men before he came into this Country having feigned many crimes against the Priests which Preached the Faith of Christ had raised a bitter