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prince_n	duke_n	earl_n	palatine_n	3,317	5	13.5289	5	false

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A07915	A vaunting, daring, and a menacing letter, sent from Sultan Morat the great Turke, from his court at Constantinople, by his embassadour Gobam, to Vladisllaus King of Poland, &c. Which letter was sent to the Christian King, since the truce concluded betweene the Turke and the Persian in March last; as by many copies whereof, may appeare, as it was sent out of Poland. Wherein he declares himselfe a mortall enemy to the said Christian King, threatning to invade his kingdomes and territories, with all manner of hostility. Whereunto is annexed a briefe relation of the Turkish present strength, both of horse and foote: with al the victories the Turkes have prevailed against the Christians these last three hundred yeares. As also what glorious victories the Christians have wonne against the Turkes, till this present yeare. 1638. Published by authority	Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640.	1638 (1638)	STC 18286; ESTC S102874	14,115	30

be able to count like a huge Mountaine shall over-top thee like a raging Torrent overturne thee and like a violent Inundation overwhelme thee with mercilesse plundering robbing spoyling wasting and burning both thy Countrey and people Then shalt thou know with great feare and dread my force and power nay all thy Adherents and Confederates be they whom they will in number never so many shall quake and tremble at my dreadfull and just indignation It is not thy Kingdome of Poland thy Principality of Lithuania thy Russes Goths and Vandails nor any of thy Countries and Dominions which thou patst so much unstable security and confidence in with all their best defences for themselves or opposition of us that altogether shall be able for the space of one Moneth to endure the force of my might and power The swelling Seas shall shrinke under the burthen and weight of our unparalell'd Shipping when our Navy Royall and Tryumphant shall gloriously shew it selfe upon the vast Ocean namely our Gallyes Gallyasses Argosies Friggots and Brigandines when they shew themselves on the Seas the land shall admire and the wilde beasts of the Forrests shall shake and fearefully runne into obscure holes dennes and cavernes of the earth when they doe heare the terrible report of our thundring Ordnance discharged And what wilt thou doe then thou petty King with thy poore and weak Bands and Troopes or handfuls of men when thou shalt behold my great and powerfull Armies which shall cover thy Countries Thou makest a ●a●nting shew and art seemingly-confident in thy ever-weening opinion that thou canst consume and destroy the great Waspe with a small Gnat Know thou that our strength and terrour doth reach and extend further than our ample Dominions for our Imperiall commanding name is dreadfull and famous through the whole World or Vniversall Globe of the Earth from the rising of the Sunne to the setting of the same Wee purpose with the edges of our sharpe and well-tempered Semiters to loppe and mow downe thy ambition and to ruinate the ostentatious pride of thee and thy Countrey And we assure thee that it is meere folly for thee to expect any Peace Truce or League with us after wee have once set footing in thy Territories for our holy Prophet Mahomet is highly offended at our so long Clemency in forbearing and suffring thee in thy ungodly and wilfull actions Therefore we will come to Craconia thy Metropolis and chiefe Citty in Poland in the strength of which place thou puttest much confidence and where as we are lately certified thou hast built a holy Sepulchre in imitation of that which we have in possession in the sacred City of Jerusalem upon which thou dost likewise rely but that neither can nor shall helpe thee for we will raze and overthrow your Temples Churches and Chappels and convert them into Turkish Moskies for the service of our holy Prophet and those whom our force and fury doe not demolish and confound wee will turne into Stables where our Horses and Cammels shall live and be housed with rack and manger Thus we the great God of the World determine to doe these fore-threatned misteries thou must expect and it is not thy Crucified God in whom thou puttest thy confidence that shall helpe thee for we purpose that when our sword is once drawne not to sheath it again till we have made a finall conquest of Christendome or utter extirped and chased them from or neare any parts of our Dominions Sent by our trusty Servant and Embassadour in the Ides of the Moneth of March Anno 1637. THus may the Reader perceive in what thundering manner and ostentatious boasting this great and and sea Leviathan threatneth to overthrow and devoure the Polonian King but that manner of insulting and vaine-glorious writing from the Turke to Christian Princes is no newes in these dayes of ours for if any man will but looke into the famous and well written Turkish History now newly printed by Master Adam Islip in the 300 Page hee may reade how the Turk Amurath the sixth King of the Turkes writes to Scanderbeg or George Castriot the sonne of Iohn Castriot King of Albania or Epirus Also if you looke into the 1024 Page of the aforesaid booke you may read of a braving Letter farre surpassing this here before mentioned sent from Amurath the third Emperour of the Turkes to Rodolphus the second Emperour of Germany where in that place may be seene the most impious and blasphemous threatnings that ever Heathen Infidell or Atheisticall Barbarian hath belched or vomited against either God or man But for a proud Letter indeed looke in the 789 Page and there you may read the Master-piece of a vaunting title which Soliman the Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes sent to Ferdinand the Emperour of Germany in the yeare 1561. there you may perceive that the Stiles and Titles which the Turke gives himselfe would of it selfe fill halfe a Pamphlet in proclamation Print But Christian Princes who doe acknowledge that they doe hold their Crownes and Scepters from and under God and his sonne Christ Iesus are more strongly fortifi'd with heavenly Faith and Majestical courage than to be sear'd or afrighted with Bugge-beare words or farre-fetch'd large embost and embroydered Stiles or Titles And for one instance of the just Titles of a Prince who was indeede in his greatest Stile but an Arch-Duke of Austria yet in reall repetitions of the Signiories over which he was lawfull Lord and possessor he was in his time Equivalent that was then reigning in the whole Christian World He lived in the yeare 1494 and his Titles were as followeth The many just and ample Stiles and Titles of Phillip Duke of Burgundy Philip by the grace of God Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Lothier Brabant Stiria Carinthia Lemburgh Lupenburgh and Guelders Earle of Hauspergh Flanders Arthoys Burgoigne Ferrets and Kiburgh Palatine of Henault Holland Zealand Namure and Zutphen Marquesse of the Holy Empire and of Burgan Lantsgrave of Elsaten Lord of Windesmarke Portevan Salines and Macklin Although the repetition of this great Christian Princes Title may seeme somewhat impertinent yet it may be taken as tollerable because in a good measure it shews that there hath beene are and will be Kings and Princes in Christendome that can vye Titles and dare wage Warre with the Turke and first I will a little demonstrate the Turkish power and after declare how hee hath beene often foyled and beaten Otheman the first King of the Turkes wonne many Castles and Territories from the Christians in Greece as Cara Chisar Chalce Belezuge Jarchisar Nice Neapolis Prusa or Burusa This Othoman overcame the valiant Grecian Emperour Michael in the Countrey of Thrace in an unfortunate mortall Battell After that Othoman in another Battell in Chersonesus overcame the Christian Emperour and conquer'd and plundred almost all Thracia with many other places of strength which he wonne from the Christians Othoman Reigned in the yeere of

two Turkes to goe into his Kingdome and to bee turned Christians because under that faire pretence they should worke some meanes to poyson him which Turks were baptised their treachery disclos'd and Scanderbeg preserved and the Traitors executed The Turkish Tyrant perceiving that all his forces and policies prevailed not against this most glorious happy and fortunate Prince after which damnable plot and auspicious escape Scanderbeg encountered with Iovima a brother to Ballabanus and Hedar his sonne and after a bloody bickering he tooke them and many more prisoners and following his Victory he slew Ballabanus the Turkish Generall his old Fugitive and Renegado enemy but for the number of the slaine it is not mentioned And last of all in the yeare 1466 Mahomet with another huge armie entred Epirus with no better successe than before he had so that after the expence of much Treasure and many men lost he was glad to retire home againe to Constantinople and within short time after the most illustrious Prince Scanderbeg dyed of a Feaver so that his miscreant enemies could not boast that they overcame came him or were the death of him but God under whose Banner he had many times couragiously fought was so gracious unto him as to take him from this transitory life by a Naturall death After the decease of Scanderbeg Mathias King of Hungria the sonne of that famous Huniades before named was another Goad in the side of the proud Turk for he wonne from him the Kingdome of Bosna and a great part of the Principality of Servia both which he joyned to the Kingdome of Hungaria he was as fearefull a bug-Beare to the Turkes as either Scanderbeg or his father Huniades were before him he slew Isa a great Commander under Mahomet with 30000 common Souldiers and others the Turkes were a 100000 strong but the Christians were not one quarter of that number yet that Heroick Prince by the assistance of God got that glorious victory with the losse of 8000 of his souldiers Selimus the first had his hands so full with the Persians Egyptians Arabians and other of those Eastern and Mahometan Nations that as is said before he troubled not the Christians not they did not win or lose much by him His sonne Soliman the Magnisicent besieged Gunza a weake Towne on the borders of Austria and Steirmarke with 500000 men and 3000 Peeces of Brasse Ordnance but after one Moneths siege and thirteene fierce assaults he was faine to raise his Campe with the losse of a great number of his men and leave Gunza untaken In the yeare 1529 Soliman the Magnificent came in person to besiege the City of Vienna in Austria which City may well be called the Bulwarke of Christendome The Turkes beleagured it with 300000 men which City was so valiantly defended that after many assaults breaches minings and most furious batteries Soliman was glad to leave the Siege with the losse of 80000. of his Turkes and many Horses with much Powder Shot and Ammunition spent and all to little or small purpose After that in the yeere 1565 he sent Mustapha Bassa with an Army of 30000. Horse and Foote and Piall Bassa with a Fleete containing 180. Ships and Gallies to mvade the Isle of Malta the Turkes being also ayded by the King of Algiers with 2200. men 10. Galliots and 7. Gallies besides 13. Gallyes and 10. Galliots with 1600. men under the command of Bragut a famous Pirat and after twelve most furious and bloody assaults by the Turkes by Sea and Land the Island Cities and Castles of St. Elmo St. Angelo and St. Michael being bravely defended by the Christians sixe Moneths Mustapha was forced with shame to leave● Malta he having lost in that expedition 24000. men The whole Island of Malta is but 20. Miles in length and 12. in bredth where it is broadest and of the Knights of the Order Gentlemen Priests Souldiers Mariners with all other men Inhabitants as Artificers and the like they were not all in number above 12000 to repulse and withstand so great a power as the Turkes were but Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos In the yeare 1571 Selimus the second sent out a mighty Navy of Ships Galleys Frigots and Brigandines with a purpose to iuvade and over-runne Christendome Against whom many Christian Princes joyned in a noble Confederacy namely the Pope the King of Spaine the Viceroy of Naples the Dukes of Florence Savoy the Dukes of mantua Vrbin and Ferara the Galleyes of Malta and Sicilia the Venetian Galleyes and the Forces and personall service of the valiant Alexander Ferveze Prince of Parma These Christian Worthies with their Fleete united the chiefe and generall Commander then being Dow John of Austria the second sonne to Charles the fifth Emperour a Prince of but twenty foure yeeres of age but of an Heroick and invincible courage and after a most fierce and bloody battell many houres continued the Turkes were beaten 161. of their alleyes taken more than 40. sunke and fired their Admirall Hali Bassa slaine with 32000. of his Turkes many brave Commanders taken prisoners and 2956. of common men also taken a great number of Christians released from slavery who were free'd being chain'd to row in the Gallies Also 404. Peeces of Brasse Ordnance were taken This glorious Battell was fought neare the Gulph of Lepanto the 7. of October in the yeare 1471 in which famous Sea-fight there fell on the Christian side of Commanders and others 7579. men Lepanto was in ancient time a faire City of the Venetians it was called Naupactum it standeth in Morea or Peloponessus it was wonne from the Christians by Scander Bassa Generall to Bajazet the second Anno 1449. Selimus the second the sonne of Soliman is spoken of before and Amurath his sonne that succeeded him had so much to doe with the Persian and other Asian Princes so that the Christians were not troubled with him to any purpose but onely with menaces and threatnings In the yeare 1596. Mahomet the third was beaten by Mathias the Arch-duke neare Agria in Hungaria the Turkes Emperour fled with Ibrahim his great Bassa and in that fight 60000. Turkes and 20000. Christians Thus may any reasonable Reader perceive that the Turke hath received many overthrows from the Christians and with small numbers have repulsed and beaten their multitudes in despight of their boasting and blasphemous threats and Letters FINIS