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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

His iourney lay through Phrigia and Laodicaea Chonas S. Archangel Lampis and Celenas where the head Spring of the great Meander is into whiche the Riuer rashlie then aduisedlie chopped hardilye into the same streicts hauing his battel apointed in this order folowing The Voward was led by the two Suns of Angelus Constantine whose names were Iohn and Andronicus with Macroduca Constantine and Lapardus Andronicus with their Ensignes and Bands and was marshalled in Lunare ranks or Mooned araye The right wing● was led by Baldwine King of Hierusalem and the lefte by Maurozomes Theodorus After them folowed the Drudges Skullions Woodcarters Cartes and all the other bagage and Trinketrie of the Hoast After them came the Emperoure himselfe with the maine Battaile where in was a valyaunt Crew of chosen fellowes The Rerewarde was conducted by Andronicus Contostephanus Assoone as they were entred within the Streights where there was no starting hoales nor yet elbowroome for the Hoast and the Bandes of Angelus Macroduca and Lapard ordering themselues into a thrée square battaile small before and thick behinde like vnto a wedge gaue the charge vpon the barbarous Turkes and by fine force draue them backe from the Hilles and higher places where they fought into the Mountaines and so perforce made for themselues a through passage without ani hurt or daunger But the residue of the Legions folowed after them nothing couragiouslie neither did they set their Archers in the flankes of their Battayle to gall and kéepe of the Turkish force as they should haue done neither held they their Targetts close together ouer their heades like a vault to beare of their shotte and blowes Wherefore the Turkes in thick plumps and with great violence brake out on euery side vpon them from the higher places into the lower grounde and from the bankes where before they sought into the plaine and boldely encroched still more and more vpon the Romanes till they had pearced and broken their araye And firste put●inge Baldwine his winge to flight wounded and flew many Which when Baldwine perceued with an intent to rescue and ayde his men in that distresse taking with hym a picked Troupe of expert Horsemen rushed in amonge the thickest of his Enemies Of whom he was so beset and on euery side circumuented that hee himselfe was there slaine and all his men most valyauntlye fightynge likewise there dyed This good successe set the Turkes on such a glorious hoigh that they stopped all the wayes where the Romanes should passe meaning that day so to plague the Christians that they should neuer after he hable to attempt the lyke enterprise against them for now being enclosed in those perillous Streightes and one hindring an other they wer not hable to endamage nor hurt their Enemies by any kinde of meanes but rather hindred and disturbed one an other and were cause of one an others slaughter and lamentable destruction So extreemely cooped in and pounded were they that they neither could haue any help of the Emperoure neither yet of the Rerewarde neyther coulde they goe backe or decline on any syde because the Cartes and carriage that were placed in the middle like a Bulwarke or Rampire letted them Their Horses and men were kylled lyke Shéepe and with Turkes Falchions gored and foyned through The Vallayes laye full of dead Corses the wayes stenched with grisly sightes of slaine persons the Downes couered ouer with dismembred bodies the waters of the Riuers were coloured and ranne with bloude of Men and Beastes mingled together and to be shorte such lachrimable slaughter was in this place made vpon the poore Christians that the wofulnesse thereof cannot with Penne accordinglye be expressed And beside all other outrages and vnspeakeable calamities the Turkes pitched the head of Andronicus Bataza the Emperours Nephew which had leuied an Army out of Paphlagonia and Heraclea Pontica and was sent against the Amasene Turkes in Amasia vpon a Speare poynt and caryed it before them for a mockage in derision Which heauie spectacle and daūgerous plight so vexed and inwardly gréeued Manuel that his minde was wonderfully perplexed insomuch that he was euē at his wittes ende and wist not what to doe nor which waye to tourne him But the Romane Legions in the Voward as before was declared hauing passed those pykes deadly trappes helde themselues close together and for their sauegarde senced in their Campe vpon the toppe of a little Hill very conuenient and commodious as the time then fell out for their purpose The Turkes with might and maine striued to ouerrunne and beare downe the Emperours battaile because it they mighte once throughly disperse and subdue the greatest and strongest part of the Army they thought the residue would easely and with small adoe bée vanquished like as a Serpent when the head is bruysed and crushed to powder all the other partes of the bodye which before by themselues mooued being cleane cut of do straightwayes die The Emperour fought valiauntly that day and oftentimes assayled the Turkes fiercely to driue them out of the Staightes and to open the waye for his men to passe through but perceiuing the power and force of the Turkes which fought frō the higher ground still to encrease and making his full accoumpt that whether he taried or went forwarde there was none other way for him and his company but present death he exhorted his men first of all to repose all their hope in Almightie God and next in their weapons and handes and that they should either saue their lyues by hardy blowes and valiaunt déedes or else by honest and glorious death wynne to themselues perpetuall fame and renoume for he plainely tolde them that he saw none other way for thē to escape cleare and harmelesse but by such a famous aduenture And the God would not vtterly forsake nor leaue succourlesse them that beare armour and fight in the quarel of his holy Catholique Religion for the aduauncement of his glorious name against the impious contemners and blasphemers of all religion godlines vertue and honestie so that they would prostrate thēselues before hym and with deuoute mindes crauing his diuine assistance valiantly vse the courage and power which his diuine Maiestie gaue inspired into their stomackes And although their chaunce were then to be slaine yet should they hauing a most iust cause and quarel for this their short and transitorie life gaine and winne a double life the one euerlasting and most blessed in the heauenly kingdome promised and prepared by our Lord and Sauiour Christ for all such true Christians as sincerely worship and vnfeynedly beléeue on his name but namely and specially for such as spend their bloude and life for the loue of his holy word and setting forth of his glory And y other is a perpetuall fame and a worthye memoriall in this worlde among all posteritie which would most assuredly for euer extoll celebrate this their prowesse and constancy But such as threw away their weapons should

to th' intent he might alone haue both the Authorities and roomes Thus was that most wealthye Kingdome brought vnder the obedience of the Turkes in the yeere of our Lorde 1150. Afterward Saladine as he was a man verye prudent and wise perceiuing how tenderlie and effeminately the Egiptians liued insomuch that when any invasion of foreyne hostelitie approched or were like to grow the kings were euer glad and faine to craue foreygne ayde to support and helpe them determined with himselfe to institute some kinde or order of warfare and to trayne vp a troupe of such Souldiours as should be hable at al brunts and assayes to be as a rampire or stronge Bulwarke to the whole kingdome Perceiuing therfore that the people bred and borne in the Northren quarters were both a pter and also stouter for the Warres then the Southerne borne were entred into League with certayne people inhabiting about Maeotis and Pontus called Circassians of Plinie and olde writers Zigians and bartered with them for an entercourse of Merchaindize betwéene them him namely that they should serue him of Boyes and young Striplinges at a certaine price Who beynge brought into Egipt and from their youth trayned vp in feates of chieualrie and warlyke discipline should do nothing but handsomely practise the handeling of their wepons and artilery when time required serue in warres and should haue the ordering of all honours and dignities bellicall For the Zigians are a people of nature verye fierce accustomed euen from the Cradle to abide all maner of labour hardnes and trauell inhabitinge that parts of Pontus and Meotis which is about the riuer Phasis which riuer is the bounder and méere of Colchis and the mouth of Tanais which Countrey or region containeth welnéere 500. myles These people dwell not in Cities and Townes but wander and are dispearced héere and there without any certayne habitation from Village to Village Christians they are by their profession and religion albeit they vse many rites vnlyke vnto ours their Infants as soone as they are borne yea though it he in the middest of winter they cary vnto a riuer and there washe them They are for the moste part faire of complexion and of comely stature the countrey is fenny and full of réedes whereof they doo make Houelles and Cotages to dwell in they be at continuall Warres with the Tartarians and other Nacions aboute them The Nobles and Gentlemen amonge them neuer goe but in Armour and Coates of Fence and alwayes ryde Lieuetenaunt and chiefe Captaine vnder the Emperour of Tartarians hym ouercame and tooke Prisoner in the yeere of our Lorde God. 1258. and caused Mustacene Munibila who at that tyme had that office and dignitie among the huyge and inestimable heapes of treasure and ryches which he had hoorded vp and miserably scraped together to bée famyshed After this almost for 200. yeeres space the Saracenes had no high Byshoppe till at length in Persia the lynage and ofspringe of Mahomet beganne againe to raygne in the yeere 1480. whyche how and by what sort it came to passe resteth heere to be shewed and described There was a certayne Prynce among the Persians Lorde of a Towne called Ardenel and his name was Sophi who greatly gloried and bore himselfe very loftie and high for that he was as he saide descended of the rac● and Pedagrewe of Ali the Sonne in lawe of Mahomet by Musa Cazine hys Nephewe of whom we spake in the first Booke This felowe nowe séeyng the Babylonian Caliphe to bée slayne and the contrarie faction which the Turkes maynteyned and kept to bée depressed and tryumphed ouer by the Tartarians beganne frankely and boldly to vtter hys mynde and opynion concernyng Religion And because Hoceme the Sonne of Ali from whom he made his auaunt to bée lineally descended had .xij. Sonnes therefore he willing to geue some difference and token wherby his Sectaries might be discerned and knowen from all others commaunded and ordeyned that so many as woulde embrace and folowe hys Lore and Doctrine shoulde weare a purple Rybon or Labell hanging downe from theyr wreathed Veyle which all Turkes weare aswel as they vpon their heades called Tulibante and the same in the middle to bée reysed vp into .xij. toppes or heightes wythoute the Tulibante After he was deade his sonne Guines succéeded in hys roume who for learnyng and sanctitie gotte suche estimation and fame throughout the whole Orient that the most mightie Emperoure of the Parthians named Tamburlane euen he which tooke Ba●azete the King of Turkes Prysoner leading his Army passing through Persia daygned to tourne out of his way and to visite as a man of most holy life and vnspotted sanctitie At the request of which Guines the same Tamburlane fréely deliuered out of hys captiuitie .xxx. M. Prisoners which he had taken in hys Warres and as then had with him in his Campe whom afterward Guines instructed and trained vp in hys Sect and discipline whoseseruice and helpe Secaidar his Sonne in his warres afterward vsed For he after the death of his father Guines reposing his speciall trust chiefe strength in them warred vppon the Georgians a people of Scythia beyng Christians bordering vpon his Countreyes and by their help afflicted and put them to many foyles ouerthrowes and distresses There raygned in Persia a certayne Turke named Mirza Geunda who warred wyth Hacembecke whom some doe call Assambey Kyng of the greater Armenia which is of them called Diarbeck béeyng also a Turke aswell as hée in whiche Warres Acembeck gotte the vpperhande and stewe hys enemye Mirza in Battayle and hauyng wonne Persia because hée was but of a base stocke and obscure familie and wythout Kinsmen and Allies hee meant to make and establishe the state of hys Kyngdome the surer by linking in affinylie with some puyssaunt house and thereuppon gaue hys daughter whych he begat vppon hys wife the Emperour of Trapezunte hys daughter who was a Christian in mariage vnto Secaidar After the deathe of Hacembeck succeeded Iacob Beg whyche worde signifyeth a Lorde This Iacob fearinge the great power of his Brother in lawe Secaidar partlye gotten by his new Sect and partlye by his Warres with the Georgians priuely sent ayd to his Enemies and caused him to be slaine But his two sonnes Ismahel and Solyman he committed in charge to one of his famylyer and assured Fréendes to carye and conueyghe a farre of vnto Mansor Deporna Constable of the Citie of Siracia willing and streightlie charging him to kéepe them in sure warde and custodie within the strong Castell of Zalgah which standeth vppon a high and inaccessible Rock till such time as by expresse certificate he should otherwise countremaunde him But Mansor taking remorse and pitie on them for the honor of Ali of whose auncient bloud they were deriued kepte them like Princes and vsed them most honourablie causing them to be trained vp and instructed in learninge with his owne Children And after certaine yéeres falling

partly cōsumed by fire and partly drowned in the waters insomuch that of their whole fléete which was 3000. Shippes more and lesse there escaped but only fiue This Siege lasted fully two yeeres The same yeere the Saracens thinking to recouer some of theyr former losses wyth a huyge Army entred into Spayne and spoyled all the Countrey sauing onely Gallicia Abidimar Capitaine of the Saracens in Africa sacked and spoyled Burdeaux a Citie of Fraunce and remoouing thence to Poytiers was mette withall and repressed by Charles Martellus Their Captaine and Prince Abidimar being slaine the Saracens for a while were quiet and medled not with any moe warres The Saracenes bringyng wyth them theyr wyues Children and whole Householde entred a freshe into Fraunce as thoughe they had meant there continuallye to haue dwelled and planted themselues for euer Wyth them Charles the Great ioyned Battayle hauyng the ayde of the Frenche Nation and slewe of them 380000. and loste of his owne men onely 1500 Souldiours Charles King of Fraunce by hys valiaunt Knyghthood delyuered out of the handes of the Saracens the noble Citie of Auinion whyche they had before guilefully surprized Charles restored many other Cityes to peace and libertie expulsing out the Saracens slaying Amorrheus one of their Captaines putting Athine another of their Guydes to flight The same Charles by helpe of Luitprand Kinge of Lumbardie draue and expulsed all the Saracens out of Fraunce Constantinus Copronymus Emperour of Constantinople furnished out a Nauie against the Saracenes in Aegypt The Saracens in the East were euer wynning somewhat that belonged to the Romans and layed it to theyr owne Empyre by meanes that the Romanes disagreed among themselues and bent themselues only against the French Kings Charles the Great had a noble victorie agaynst the Saracenes in Spaine Rowlande in combate ouercame a Saracen that often chalenged the Christians Through which Victorie and vpperhande he made the waye the easyer for the rest of his fréendes and Countreymen to wynne the victorie Leo the fourthe Emperour made a voyage against the Saracens in Syria Aaron Prince of Saracens wyth 300000 lyght Horsemen inuaded Nicephorus Emperour of Constantinople and made hym glad to become Tributarie and to accepte such offers as greatly mislyked and diseased hym but there was no remedy Sardinia and Corsica two Islandes were spoited by the Saracens The Saracens wanne the I le of Crete and ouercame the Gréekes in two Battayles The Saracens of Asia rushed into Palestina and they of Africa into Sicilie Boniface Countee of Corsica hauing no helpe of the Chrystians sauyng onely the Hetrurians sayled into Africa and in foure Battayles betweene Carthage and Vtica had of them the Victorie and vpperhand and so feared the Saracenes wyth the terrour of his onely name that they were faine to depart out of Sicilie and get them home to defend theyr owne Many Countreyes receyued greate damage at the handes of the Saracenes and manye Cyties for feare in euery quarter fledde and submitted themselues vnto them Saba Kynge of Moores and Capitayne of the Saracenes wasted Sicilie and all the Countrey about Crotona and tooke Tarento agaynst whom Theophilus the Emperour and the Venetian fleete stoode at resiststaunce but all in vaine The Saracenes inuadyng Hetruria and Latium spoyled and sacked Rome but before theyr retourne home the greatest parte of them perished by Shypwrecke Hauyng wasted Illyrium and Dalmatia they coasted alonge the Adrian Sea and burned Ancona a Citie of Picene after they had taken the spoyle thereof Leo the fourth Pope of Rome compelled the residue of the Saracens to packe oute of the Hauen of Ostia and strengthened all the Countrey beyonde Tyber againste them The Saracens agayne onely for bootie and spoyle brake into Italie and wasted with fire and sword all the Countrey aboute Beneuent by the Samnytes But by King Ludouick and Kinge Lotharius they were put to flight The Saracens renewed Warres with the Persians The Persians through the help of the Turkish Souldyours at that time the Turkes inhabited Mount Caucasus and were called Tartarians ouercame them Euer after from that time the Turkes neuer left Asia and not onely encroched vpon the Domynions of the Saracens but also were called by the same name as they were After the Saracenes had enioyed Sicilie xlvii yéeres they were thence cleane expulsed Charles surnamed the Thicke repulsed the Saracens breaking into Italy Nicetes one of the Capitaines of the Constantinopolitane Emperoure had a notable victorie ouer the Saracens The Saracens inuaded Puell and Calabria At Lyris a riuer of Campania the Saracens as they were spoylynge the Cities belonginge to the Romans were ouercome The Saracens breaking out of Fraxinete came as far as Aquisgrane where encountringe with the Inhabytantes they were vtterly destroyed and Sagitus theyr Capitaine slayne The Saracens spoyled Geane a Citie of Liguria and with great booties retourned into Afryca Hugh King of Italie wanne Fraxinete and burned the Nauie of the Saracens Ramyre King of Gallyce discomfited a great Armye of Saracenes in Spayne The Saracenes committing many murthers and firyngs in Calabria Puell and Lucania by the Knightlye prowesse of Alberick Marquesse of Hetruria were repressed and néere to Minturne in Campania by the Ryuer Lyris vanquished There intentes were to haue come to Rome The Saracenes by force kéeping the Mount Garganus made out of it many Roades into the Countrey néere adioyninge and burned Beneuent Otho the first Emperour of Germanes draue the Saracenes out of Italie and dispossessed them cleane out of their holde in Mount Garganus The Saracenes recouered Consentia out of the which a litle before they were throwen out by the Hungarians The I le of Crete taken from the Saracenes Otho the seconde receiued a great ouerthrowe at the handes of the Saracenes in a battayle fought with them in Calabria the Ides of Iulie with whom the Greekes had stricken a League and ioyned powers His stoutest souldiours and Capitaines being in this conflict slaine he himselfe had much a doo by flight to saue himselfe Alphonsus King of Spaine besiedging a stronge holde of the Saracens called Viseum was wounded with an Arrowe and therof dyed The Saracens deuidinge their hoast into two partes landed in Italie tooke Capua and besieged Barum The Saracenes of Asia tooke Hierusalem Henry the second Emperour of Germanes draue the Saracens out of Capua and persecuted with gréeuous Warre certayne Capitaines which fauored their side The Egiptian Caliph through the ayd of an army of Saracens and Turks which then ruled all the roast in Persia spoyled the Temple of our Lord at Hierusalem Baldwyne after .xviij. monthes Imprisonment deceyued his kéepers and escaping out of Prison retourned to his owne people Dominicus Michael Duke of Venice with a well furnished Nauie greatly annoyed the Saracenes in Syria To the Venetians for their worthy seruice and valiauntnes were graunted sundry great Priuiledges An Army of 400000 men set vpon the Christians and were encountred withall by 3000. Christians who thorow