the dead Turks head shewing little wit in his owne and the Prince was highly displeased that the monument of his valour should be stained with anothers crueltie It is storied how Elenor his Lady sucked all the poyson out of his wounds without doing any harm to her self So sovereign a medicine is a womans tongue anointed with the vertue of loving affection Pitie it is so pretty a story should not be true with all the miracles in Lovers Legends and sure he shall get himself no credit who undertaketh to confute a passage so sounding to the honour of the sex Yet can it not stand with what others have written How the Physician who was to dresse his wounds spake to the Lord Edmund and the Lord John Voysie to take away Lady Elenor out of the Princes presence lest her pitie should be cruell towards him in not suffering his sores to be searched to the quick And though she cried out and wrung her hands Madame said they be contented it is better that one woman should weep a little while then that all the Realme of England should lament a great season And so they conducted her out of the place And the Prince by the benefit of physick good attendance and an antidote the Master of the Templars gave him shewed himself on horse-back whole and well within fifteen dayes after The Admirall of Joppa hearing of his recoverie utterly disavowed that he had any hand in the treacherie as none will willingly father unsucceeding villany True it is he was truly sorrowfull whether because Edward was so bad or no worse wounded he knoweth that knoweth hearts Some wholly acquit him herein and conceive this mischief proceeded from Simon Earl of Montforts hatred to our Prince who bearing him and all his kindred an old grudge for doing some conceived wrong to his father in very deed nothing but justice to a rebell hired as they think this Assasine to murder him as a little before for the same quarrell he had served Henry sonne to Richard King of the Romanes and our Edwards cousin germane at Viterbo in Italy It is much this Simon living in France should contrive this Princes death in Palestine but malice hath long arms and can take men off at great distance Yea this addeth to the cunning of the engineer to work unseen and the further from him the blow is given the lesse is he himself suspected Whosoever plotted God prevented it and the Christians there would have revenged it but Edward would not suffer them In all haste they would have marched and fallen on the Turks had not he disswaded them because then many Christians unarmed and in small companies were gone to visit the Sepulchre all whose throats had then probably been cut before their return Eighteen moneths he stayed at Ptolemais and then came back through Italy without doing any extraordinarie matter in Palestine What musick can one string make when all the rest are broken what could Edward do alone when those Princes fell back on whom the project most relied Lewis and Charles were the main undertakers Edward entertained but as an adventurer and sharer and so he furnished himself accordingly with competent forces to succour others but not to subsist of themselves But as too often where the principal miscarrieth the second and sureties must lie at the stake to make the debt good so in their default he valiantly went forward though having in all but thirteen ships and some thousands of men too many for a plain Prince to visit with and too few for a great one to warre with and performed what lay within the compasse of his power In a word his coming to Ptolemais and assisting them there was like a cordiall given to a dying man which doth piece out his life or death rather a few grones and as many gasps the longers By this time Henry his aged father being dead his lamp not quenched but going out for want of oil the English Nobilitie came as farre as the Alpes in Savoy to wait on Edward in his return Leave we him then to be attended home by them to receive the Crown to which no lesse his vertues then birth entitled him Since the Conquest he was the first King of his name and the first that settled the Law and State deserving the style of Englands Justinian and that freed this Kingdome from the wardship of the Peers shewing himself in all his actions after capable to command not the realm onely but the whole world Chap. 30. Rodulphus the Emperours voyage to Palestine hindred The Duke of Mechlenburg his captivitie and inlargement BEfore Edwards departure Hugh King of Jerusalem and Cyprus concluded a peace to our Princes small liking with the Mammaluke Sultan of Egypt to hold onely in and near Ptolemais whereby the Christians had some breathing-time But that which now possessed all mens thoughts and talk in Syria was the expectation of Rodulphus to come thither with a great armie who after two and twentie yeares interregnum was chosen Emperour of Germany This Rodulphus was a mean Earl of Haspurg Frederick the last Emperour was his godfather who little thought that having so many sons of his own his god-son should next succeed him and lived in a private way But now the Empire refusing her rich suiters married this Earl without any portion onely for pure love A preferment beyond his expectation not above his deserts For Germany had many bigger lights none brighter Pope Gregory the tenth would not ratifie his election but on this condition That he should in person march with an armie to Palestine And though this was but an old policie To send the Emperours far away that so he might command in chief in their absence yet his Holinesse did so turn and dresse this third-bare plot with specious pretenses of piety that it passed for new and fresh especially to those that beheld it at distance But Rodulphus could not be spared out of Germany being there imployed in civil discords The knees of the Dutch Princes were too stiff to do him homage till he softned them by degrees And indeed he was not provided for the Holy warre and wanted a stock of his own to drive so costly a trade having no paternall lands considerable no bottom to begin on though through his thrift and providence he first laid the foundation of the Austrian familie Yet somewhat to answer expectation he sent Henry Duke of Mechlenburg with competent forces into Palestine Who coming to Ptolemais made many notable incursions into the countrey about Damasco with fire and sword destroying all as he went and carrying thence many rich booties till at last he was circumvented taken prisoner by the Mammalukes Twenty six yeares he lived in captivity keeping his conscience free all the while At last the Sultan of Egypt a renegado Germane who formerly had been engineer to this Dukes father set him at liberty together with
situation thereof is very uneven rising into hils and sinking into dales the lively embleme of the fortunes of the place sometimes advanced with prosperitie sometimes depressed in misery Once it was well compacted and built as a citie that is at unitie in it self but now distracted from it self the suspicious houses as if afraid to be infected with more miserie then they have alreadie by contiguousnesse to others keep off at a distance having many waste places betwixt them not one fair street in the whole citie It hath a castle built as it is thought by the Pisans tolerably fortified Good guard is kept about the citie and no Christians with weapons suffered to enter But the deepest ditch to defend Jerusalem from the Western Christians is the remotenesse of it and the strongest wall to fence it is the Turkish Empire compassing it round about Poor it must needs be having no considerable commoditie to vent except a few beads of Holy earth which they pay too deare for that have them for the ferching There is in the citie a covent of Franciscans to whom Christians repair for protection during their remaining in the citie The Padre Guardian appointeth these Pilgrimes a Friar who sheweth them all the monuments about the citie Scarce a great stone which beareth the brow of reverend antiquitie that passeth without a peculiar legend upon it But every vault under ground hath in it a deep mysterie indeed Pilgrimes must follow the Friar with their bodies and belief and take heed how they give tradition the lie though she tell one never so boldly The survey finished they must pay the Guardian both for their victuals and their welcome and gratifie his good words and looks otherwise if they forget it he will be so bold as to remember them The Guardian farmeth the Sepulchre of the Turk at a yearly rent and the Turks which reap no benefit by Christs death receive much profit by his buriall and not content with their yearly rent squeez the Friars here on all occasions making them pay large summes for little offenses The other subsistence which the Friars here have is from the benevolence of the Pope and other bountifull benefactours in Europe Nor getteth the Padre Guardian a little by his fees of making Knights of the Sepulchre of which Order I find some hundred yeares since Sr John Chamond of Lancels in Cornwall to have been dubbed Knight But I believe no good English subject at this day will take that honour if offered him both because at their creation they are to swear loyaltie to the Pope and King of Spain and because honours conferred by forrein Potentates are not here in England acknowledged neither in their style nor precedency except given by courtesie Witnesse that famous case of the Count Arundel of Wardour and Queen Elisabeths peremptory resolve That her sheep should be branded with no strangers mark but her own The land about it as Authours generally agree is barren Yet Brochard a Monk who lived here some two hundred yeares since commendeth it to be very fruitfull Sure he had better eyes to see more then other men could or else by a Synecdoche he imputeth the fertilitie of parcels to the whole countrey But it is as false a consequence as on the other side to conclude from the basenesse of Bagshot-heath the barrennesse of all the Kingdome of England We may rather believe that since the fall of the Jews from Gods favour the once-supernaturall fertilitie of the land is taken away and the naturall strength thereof much abated and impaired Chap. 28. Whether it be probable that this Holy warre will ever hereafter be set on foot again THus we state the question Whether this Holy warre I mean for the winning of the citie of Jerusalem and recovering of Palestine will probably ever hereafter be projected and acted again We may believe this tragedie came off so ill the last acting that it will not be brought on the stage the second time 1. The Pope will never offer to give motion to it as knowing it unlikely to succeed Policies of this nature are like sleights of hand to be shewed but once lest what is admired at first be derided afterwards 2. Princes are grown more cunning and will not bite at a bait so stale so often breathed on The Popes ends in this warre are now plainly smelt out which though prettie and pleasing at first yet Princes are not now like the native Indians to be cozened with glasse and gaudie toyes The loadstone to draw their affection now out of non-age must present it self necessary profitable and probable to be effected 3. There is a more needfull work nearer hand to resist the Turks invasion in Europe Heark how the Grecians call unto us as once the man in the vision did to S. Paul Come over into Macedonia and help us Yea look on the Popes projects of the last Edition and we shall find the businesse of the Sepulchre buried in silence and the Holy warre running in another chanel against the Turks in Christendome 4 Lastly who is not sensible with sorrow of the dissensions better suiting with my prayers then my penne wherewith Christian Princes at this day are rent in sunder wounds so wide that onely Heavens chirurgerie can heal them Till which time no hope of a Holy warre against the generall and common foe of our Religion We may safely conclude that the regaining of Jerusalem and the Holy land from the Turks may better be placed amongst our desires then our hopes as improbable ever to come to passe except the Platonick yeare turning the wheel of all actions round about bring the spoke of this Holy warre back again Chap. 29. Of the many Pretenders of titles to the Kingdome of Ierusalem NO Kingdome in the world is challenged at this day by such an armie of Kings as this of Jerusalem It is sooner told what Princes of Europe do not then what do lay claim to it they be so many Take their names as I find them in the Catalogue of Stephen a Cypriot 1. The Emperours of the East 2 The Patriarchs of Ierusalem 3 The Lusignans Kings of Cyprus 4 Emfred Prince of Thorone 5 Conrade de la-Rame Marquesse of Montferrat 6 The Kings of England 7 His Holinesse 8 The Kings of Naples 9 The Princes of Antioch 10 The Counts of Brienne 11 The Kings of Armenia 12 The Kings of Hungarie 13 The Kings of Aragon 14 The Dukes of Anjou 15 The Dukes of Loraine 16 Lewis the eleventh King of France 17 The Dukes of Bourbon 18 The Dukes of Savoy 19 Iames de Lusigna base sonne to the King of Cyprus 20 Charles de Lusigna sonne to the Prince of Galilee 21 The State of Genoa 22 The Marquesse of Montferrat 23 The Count of la-Vall 24 The Arch Duke of Nize 25 The Sultan of Egypt 26 The Emperour of the Turks It seemeth by the naming of Lewis â—he eleventh and James
errour and cause of their overthrow For though those souldiers who mean to be false will never be made faithfull in what place soever they be bestowed yet may they be made lesse dangerous if cast into the body or main battel of the army whence they have no such scope to fling out and to take advantage of place to do mischief as they have either in the front or wings thereof Thus in Cesars time Crassus an experienced Generall under him being to bid the Gauls battel auxiliares copias quibus ad pugnam non multùm confidebat in mediam aciem collocavit that so being hemmend in before and behind they might be ingaged to fight manfully without starting away And to instance in later times our Richard the third who though he usurped the Crown had as none will deny a true title both to prowesse and martiall policie marching to Bosworth placed suspected persons whose bodies were with him and hearts with Earl Henry in the midst and those whom he most trusted before behind and on every side The battel being joyned the Turks ranne over to the other side though some braved them onely with cowardlinesse not treachery and that they fled from the battel but not fell to the enemies The Christians manfully stood to it and though over-powred in number made a great slaughter of their enemies till at last they were quite overthrown Of the Teutonick Order escaped but three of three hundred Templars but eighteen of two hundred Hospitallers but nineteen The patriarch to use his own words whom God reputed unworthy of martyrdome saved himself by flight with a few others And this great overthrow to omit lesse partner-causes is chiefly imputed to the Templars former so often breaking the truce with the Sultan of Babylon Thus were the Christians conquered by the Corasines and beaten by a beaten nation Palestine being wonne by those who could not keep their own countrey Improving this victorie they left nothing to the Christians but Tyre Ptolemais and Antioch with some few forts Soon after these Corasines elated herewith fell out with the Sultan himself who in anger rooted out their nation so that none of their name remained Yea all writers are silent of them both before this time and ever after as if God at this very instant had created this people to punish Christians which service performed they were annihilated again Chap. 11. Lewis the ninth setteth forward against the Turks The occasion of his journey and his attendants SOme two years after Lewis the ninth of that name King of France came to assist the Christians The occasion of his voyage this He had been visited with a desperate sicknesse insomuch that all art cried craven as unable to help him and the Physicians resigned him to Divines to begin with him where they ended They also gave him over and for a while he lay in a trance not the least breath brought news of any life left in him Then Blanch the Queen-mother and Queen of mothers for her care of her sonne and his Kingdome applied a piece of the Crosse unto him Thereat whether thereby let others dispute he revived and recovered and thereupon was Croised and in thankfulnesse bound himself with a vow to sail to the Holy land But his Nobility disswaded him from that designe The dangers were certain the successe would be doubtfull of so long a journey his own Kingdome would be left desolate and many mischiefs unseen as yet would appear in his absence Besides his vow was made in his sicknesse whilest reason was scarce as yet in the peaceable possession of his mind because of the remnant-dregs of his disease It might also be dispensed with by the Pope yea his deserts did challenge so much from his Holinesse King Lewis as perswaded hereat laid down the Crosse to the great comfort and contentment of all the beholders But then altering his countenance he required the Crosse should be restored to him again and vowed to eat no bread untill he was recognized with the Pilgrimes badge And because his vow should suffer no diminution or abatement from his disease now no longer Lewis the sick but Lewis the sound undertook the holy Warre His Nobles seeing him too stiff to be unbent and counting it a kind of sacrilegious counsel to disswade him from so pious a work left him to his own resolutions There went along with him his two brothers Charles Earl of Anjou Robert Earl of Artois his own Queen and their Ladies Odo the Popes Legate Hugh Duke of Burgundie William Earl of Flanders Hugh Earl of St. Paul and William Longspath Earl of Sarisbury with a band of valiant English men who went without licence from Henry King of England For in those dayes this doctrine went currant That their Princes leave was rather of complement then essentiall to their voyage as if the band of this holy Warre was an acquitance from all others Our Henry displeased at this Earls departure for his disobedience deprived him of his Earldome and castle of Sarisbury not suffering that sheep to grase in his pasture which would not own him for his shepherd William also sonne to this Earl smarting for his fathers fault never enjoyed that honour And though King Henry himself being a Prince of more devotion then policie did most affectionately tender this Holy cause yet he used this necessary severity towards this Earl at this time first because it would weaken his land thus to be dispeopled of martiall men secondly his subjects forwardnesse might be interpreted a secret check of his own backwardnesse in that warre thirdly the sucking in of forrein aire did wean people from their naturall Prince and did insensibly usher into their hearts an alienation from their own Sovereigne and a dependence on the King of France lastly he had some thoughts on that voyage himself and reserved such prime Peers to attend on his own person thither The Pope gave to this King Lewis his charges the tenth of the Clergies revenues through France for three years and the King imployed the Popes collectours to gather it knowing those leaches were the best suckers Hereupon the states of the Clergy were shaved as bare as their crowns and a poore Priest who had but twenty shillings annuall pension was forced to pay two yearly to the King And this by my Authour is made the cause of his following ill successe there being much extortion used by his under-officers No wonder then if the wings of that army did quickly flag having so heavy a weight of curses hanging upon them And though money be the sinews of warre yet ill-gotten money like gouty sinews rather paineth then strengtheneth True it is that this pious King was no way guilty thereof but such as were under him and oftentimes the head doth ach for the ill vapours of the stomach He himself most princely caused to be proclaimed through his realm If any merchant
or other had been at any time injured by the Kings exactours either by oppression or borrowing of money let him bring forth his bill shewing how and wherein and he should be recompensed How this was performed we find not but it was a good lenitive plaister to asswage the peoples pain for the present Having at Lyons took his leave of the Pope and a blessing from him he marched towards Avignon Where some of the city wronged his souldiers especially with foul language Wherefore his Nobles desired him that he would besiege the citie the rather because it was suspected that therein his father was poysoned To whom Lewis most Christianly I come not out of France to revenge my own quarrels or those of my father or mother but injuries offered to Jesus Christ. Hence he went without delay to his navie and committed himself to the sea Chap. 12. Lewis arriveth in Cyprus The conversion of the Tartarians hindred The treachery of the Templars SAiling forward with a prosperous wind he safely arrived in Cyprus where Alexius Lusignan King of the Island entertained him according to the stateliest hospitality Here the pestilence one of the ready attendants on great armies began to rage And though a French writer saith it was minax magâ—s quà m funesta yet we find in others that two hundred and fourty Gentlemen of note died by force of the infection Hither came the Embassadours from a great Tartarian Prince but surely not from Cham himself invited by the fame of King Lewis his piety professing to him That he had renounced his Paganisme and embraced Christianity and that he intended to send messengers to Pope Innocent to be further instructed in his religion But some Christians which were in Tartary disswaded him from so doing lest the Tartarians coming to Rome should behold the dissolutenesse of mens lives there and so refuse to suck the milk of sweet doctrine from so sowre and bitter nipples besmeared about with bad and scandalous conversation Yea never could the Christian religion be shewed to Pagans at any time on more disadvantages Grecians and Latines were at deadly feud amongst the Latines Guelfes and Gibellines sought to ruine each other Humility was every-where preached and pride practised They perswaded others to labour for heaven and fell out about earth themselves Their lives were contrary to their doctrines and their doctrines one to another But as for these Embassadours King Lewis received them very courteously dismissing them with bounteous gifts And by them he sent to their master a Tenâ— wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously dâ—picted in needle-work hoping thus to catch his soul in his eyes and both in that glorious present Pictures being then accounted lay-mens books though since of many condemned as full of errata's and never set forth by authority from the King of heaven to be means or workers of faith Whilest Lewis stayed in Cyprus the Templars in the Holy land began to have his greatnesse in suspicion This Order as both the other of Hospitallers and Teutonicks though mown down to the bare roots at the last unfortunate battel yet now in three years space sprung up as populous as ever before their other brethren which lived in their severall Covents and Commandries over all Europe having now refurnished the houses in Palestine Now these Templars were loth King Lewis should come to Ptolemais though they counterfeited he should be very welcome there They formerly there had commanded in chief without controll and were unwilling having long sat in the saddle now to dismount and hold the stirrup to another Besides they would not have so neat and cleanly a guest see their slutrish houses fearing Lewis his piety would shame their dissolutenesse being one so godly in his conversation that by the preaching in his life he had converted many Saracens yea perchance he being a strict Disciplinarian would punish their vicious manners Wherefore they wrote to him out of Syria to accept of a peace with the Sultan of Egypt now offered and to proceed no further in warre against him The French King whose heart was ever open to any fair agreement and shut against any dishonourable suspicions had entertained the motion had not the King of Cyprus being more studied in the Templars treacheries better instructed him For he told him this was but a trick of their great Master who under-hand had sent to the Sultan and procured him to profer this peace onely for their own private ends for to divert the King from coming amongst them Lewis though the mildest and most patient of Princes yet not a drone which wanted the sting of anger commanded the Master of the Templars upon the price of his head thenceforward to receive no Embassage nor keep any intelligence with their enemy and resolved with himself to invade Egypt Chap. 13. The wise preparations of the Egyptians The valour of the French at their landing Damiata wonnâ— BUt he stood so long in aiming that the bird saw him and had leisure to flie away and Meladine the Egyptian King to provide himself to make resistance Last time some thirty years before when the Christians under John Bren invaded Egypt they were not impeached in their arrivall but suffered to land without any opposition But Meladine now was sensible of the discommodity in permitting his â—oes safely to come on shore For first they wasted and spoiled the countrey the provision about them Secondly opportunity was given to male contents and ill-disposed persons to flie to the enemy Lastly he found it most policy to keep the enemy off at arms end and to close at the last and not to adventure his Kingdome on the single die of a battel but rather to set it on a chance that so he might have the more play for it Wherefore he resolved to strengthen his maritime places and not suffer them to land though also herein he met with many difficulties For as nothing was more certain then that Lewis would set on Egypt so nothing more uncertain and because it was unknown at what time or place he would come all times and places were provided for This exhausted a masse of treasure to keep in pay so many souldiers for many moneths together But it is no time to dispute about unnecessary thirft when a whole Kingdome is brought into question to be subdued And because the landing-places in Egypt are of great disadvantage to the defendants yielding them no shelter from the fury of their enemies artillery being all open places and plain the shores there being not shod against the sea with huge high rocks as they are in some other countreys because the land is low and level Meladine was forced to fortifie welnigh an hundred and eighty miles along the sea-side and what Nature had left bare Art put the more clothes on and by using of great industry such as by Tully is fitly termed horribilis industria in
nation being most punctuall and criticall in their military postures But being come near it was plain for any to read Turk in their beards and complexions so that they departed without having what they deâ—ired Chap. 17. The wofull impression which the ill successe of the French wrought on the Christians in Europe SOme made more hast then good speed bad news being the worst ware a ship can be fraught with to sail into France with the sad tidings of this overthrow These intelligencers Blanch the Queen-mother and Regent of France rewarded with the gallows and my Authour doubteth not to pronounce them all Martyrs But let them be contented with the coroneâ— of their own innocence though without the crown of Martyrdome that honour alone belonging to such as suffer death for fundamentall points of religion But so great an eclipse could not long be kept from the eyes of the world and this doleful and dismall news was sounded and seconded from every side Then was there a generall lamentation over all Christendome chiefly in France where all were so sorrowfull that any mirth was counted profanenesse Many bounded not themselves within the banks of grief but brake out into blasphemy both in France and elsewhere taxing Justice it self of being unjust and not content to admire what they could not conceive condemned Gods proceedings herein to be against right because above their reason Fools because they could not conquer on earth did quarrel with heaven This bad breath though it came but from the teeth of some yet proceeded from the corrupted lungs of others some spake but out of present passion but others even out of inbred Atheisme Many who before were but luke warme in religion now turned stark cold In Venice and some others cities of Italy the inhâ—bitants whereof Matthew Paris calleth semichristianâ—s but half-Christians though this his harsh appellation wanteth three parts of charity began wholly to tend to apostasie And now for a crutch to stay their reeling faith it was high time for the Clergy to ply the pulpits They perswaded those Rachels who in this voyage had lost any children and would not be comforted that their children were in a most blessed condition They emptied all their boxes of their colours of rhetotorick there with to paint out the happinesse of their estate which they enjoyed in heaven They pieced out their Sermons with reporting of Miracles How William Earl of Sarisbury appeared to his mother and assured her that he reigned most glorious in heaven She presently forgot her grief for losing her sonne for joy that she had found a Saint yea a Martyr This was their constant custome When any in Europe wept for the losse of their friends in this warre their tears were instantly dried up with some hot miracle that was reported them Wherewith the silly people were well pleased as babes of clouts are good enough to keep children from crying About this time many thousands of the English were resolved for the Holy warre and would needs have been gone had not the King strictly guarded his ports and kept his Kingdome from running away out of doores The King promised he would go with them and hereupon got a masse of mony from them for this journey Some say that he never intended it and that this onely was a trick to stroke the skittish cow to get down her milk His stubborn subjects said that they would tarry for his company till midsummer and no longer Thus they weighed out their obedience with their own scales and the King stood to their allowance But hearing of this sorrowfull accident both Prince and people altered their resolution who had come too late to help the French in their distresse and too soon to bring themselves into the same misery Chap. 18. King Lewis exchanged for Damiata stayeth some years at Ptolemais BUt to return to Egypt where King Lewis was kept prisoner by Melechsala who often felt his disposition about the resigning of Damiata but found that to hear of death was more welcome musick unto him But see here a sudden alteration One Tarqueminus a sturdy Mammaluke with another of that society killed Melechsala in the very heighth of his victorious happinesse and succeeded him in the Egyptian Kingdome This Tarquemine came in with an intent to send Lewis the same way Which poor Prince was onely armed with innocence and Majestie and yet his bare person defended his person from that cruel attempt such an awfull impression did his very presence saith my Authour strike into him who would have stricken him But we may rather think that the city of Damiata was King Lewis his corslet and that all the towres and walls of that place fenced him Tarquemnius reserving his person as an equivalent ransome thereby to redeem that royall citie Now Lewis had changed his Lord but not his lamentable condition continuing still a prisoner At last he was restored to his liberty on condition that the Christians should surrender Damiata and he also pay back to the Turks many thousand pounds both for ransome of Christian captives and in satisfaction of the vastations they had committed in Egypt Lewis for security of this money pawned to the Turk the Pyx and Host that is the body of Christ transsubstantiated in the Eucharist as his chiefest jewel which he should be most carefull to redeem Hence in perpetuall memory of this conquest we may see a Wafer-cake and a box alwayes wrought in the borders of that tapestry which is brought out of Egypt Note by the way That the Turks were most unreasonable in their rates of ransoming souldiers and in all other their pecuniary demands For their own countrey being near to the fountain of gold and silver they made as if it flowed as plentifully in other places measuring the wealth of other lands by their own and asking as much for a private mans ransome as would drain a Princes purse in these Western parts Thus was Damiata restored again to the Turks and the Christians punctually performed their promises though the false Miscreant on the other side set not half the captives free killed all the sick persons whom by promise he should relieve and contrary to the agreement suffered not any Christian to transport any of his goods out of Egypt Hence Lewis sailed to Ptolemais where he lived in a miserable case being forsaken of his brothers subjects friends and the Pope himself His brothers Alphonse and Charles though sent into France to solicite his suit and to advance his ransome with speed yet being arrived forgot the affliction of Joseph and the King was as farre from their mind as their sight Wherefore God justly visited Alphonse with an incurable disease His subjects though furious at first in bemoning him yet the fit past complained not so much for him as on him charging him for ill managing the matters in Egypt by his cowardlinesse and indiscretion His friends the Pisans and Genoans reviled him
there and such was the secrecie of the contrivance of the businesse that the storm fell upon them before they saw it and all the crannies were so closely stopped that none could steal a glimpse of the mischief intended against them In Germany they found some mercy and milder dealing for Hugh Wildgrave coming with twenty of his Order all in armour into a Council of Dutch Bishops who intended to execute the sentence of the Pope upon them there protested his innocencie and appealed to the next Pope who should succeed Clement as to his competent judge Hereupon their lives were spared onely they were forced to renounce the name of Templars and to enter themselves into other Orders chiefly of Hospitallers and Teutonicks on whom their lands were bestowed We will conclude all with that resolution of a brace of Spanish writers who make this epilogue to this wofull tragedie Concerning these Templars whether they were guiltie or not let us suspend our censure till the day of judgement and then and no sooner shall we certainly be informed therein Chap. 4. Of the Teutonick Order When they left Palestine and on what conditions they were entertained in Prussia Their Order at last dissolved FRequent mention hath been formerly made of the Teutonick Order or that of Dutch Knights who behaved themselves right valiantly clean through the holy Warre And which foundeth much to their honour they cannot be touched either for treason or faction but were both loyall and peaceable in the whole service But at last they perceived that by the course of the cards they must needs rise losers if they continued the warre in the Holy land and even resolved to abandon it It happened at the same time that Conrade Duke of Mazovia offered them most honourable conditions namely the enjoying of Prussia on condition they would defend it against the Infidels which annoyed it Indeed the fratres gladiferi or sword-bearing brothers brave slashing lads undertook that task but finding either their arms too weak or swords too blunt to strike through their enemies they imployed the aid of and conjoyned themselves to this Teutonick Order Hereupon in the yeare of our Lord 1239 Hermannus de Saltza fourth Master of these Dutch Knights came with most of his Order into Prussia yet so that he left a competent number of them still in Palestine which continued and did good service there even to the taking of Ptolemais But the greater number of the Dutch Knights in Prussia did knight-service against the Tartarians and were Christendomes best bank against the inundations of those barbarous people By their endeavours the Prussians which before were but heathen-Christians were wholly converted many a brave citie builded specially Marienburg where formerly a great oak stood who would think so many beautifull buildings would spring out of the root of one tree and those countreys of Prussia and Livonia which formerly were the course list are now become the rich fringe of Europe At last the Prussians grew weary of the tyrannous oppression of those Dutch knights as appeareth by the grievances they presented and applied themselves to Casimire King of Poland He took to task Lewis Erlinfuse the Master of their Order and so ordered him that whereas before he pleaded himself to be a free Prince of the Empire hereafter he should acknowledge the King of Poland for his Lord and Master The successours to this Lewis fretted against this agreement as prejudicial to them They could do no lesse then complain and could do little more for the King of Poland in spite of their resistance held them to their agreements Albert of the house of Brandenburg was the last grand Master of this Order and first Duke of Prussia He breake the vow of their Order losing his virginitie to keep his chastitie and married Dorothie daughter to the King of Denmark The other Teutonicks protested against him and chose Gualther Croneberg in his roome Yea Albert was proscribed in a Diet in Germanie and his goods confiscated but the proscription never executed the Emperour of Germanie being the same time employed in matters of greater moment which more nearly concerned himself And thus in this Albert for ought we can find to the contrarie the Teutonick Order had its end and was quite dissolved Chap. 5. The severall flittings of the Knights-Hospitallers from Cyprus by Rhodes Nice Syracuse to Malta WE must now wait on the Hospitallers to their lodgings and we have done We left them driven from Ptolemais and landed at Cyprus where King Henry courteously entertained them But a friends house is no home Hence therefore they were conveyed to their severall Alberges in Europe But such active spirits could not long be idle such running streams would not end in a standing pond Wherefore they used all their own strength and improved their interest with all their benefactours to furnish out a fleet Which done under Fulk de Villeret their grand Master they wonne the Island of Rhodes from the Turks eighteen yeares after Ptolemais was lost and there seated themselves Besides Rhodes they also enjoyed these five adjacent Islands saith my Authour Nicoria Episcopia Iolli Limonia and Sirana places so small that consulting with maps will not find them out enough almost to make us think with Tertullian of Delos that once there were such Islands which at this day are quite vanished away Two hundred and fourteen yeares to the terrour of the Turks comfort of the Christians and their own immortall fame they maintained this Island and secured the seas for the passage of Pilgrimes to Jerusalem till at last in the yeare 1523 after six moneths siege they surrendred the citie to their own honour and shame of other Christians who sent them no succour in season Yet changing their place they kept their resolution to be honourably imployed Hence they sailed to Nice in Piemont a city lying opposite to Africa from whence the Moores and Saracens much infested Christendome Wherefore Charles Duke of Savoy bestowed that citie upon them to defend it counting the courtesie rather done to him then by him that they would accept it Afterwards they perceived it was more needfull to stop the Turks invasions then their pillagings They had lately wonne Buda and as it was thought would quickly stride over the Adriatick sea and have at Italie Wherefore the Hospitallers left Nice and planted themselves at Syracuse in Sicilie Where they right valiantly behaved themselves in defending that countrey But Charles the fifth a politick Prince though he saw their help was usefull yet desired not much to have them live in his own countrey He liked their neighbourhood better then their presence to have them rather neare then in his Kingdome Wherefore he appointed them the Island of Malta to keep for themselves their grand Maister onely paying yearly to the King of Spain a Falcon in acknowledgement they held it from him Loth were the Hospitallers to leave Sicilie that Paradise of pleasure and
the portraiture of a dead man lying on his shroud the most artificially cut in stone saith my Authour that ever man beheld Others had rent assigned them of 200l 80l l 60l l 50l l 20l l 10l l according to their severall qualities and deserts At the same time justs and tornaments were held at Westminster wherein the challengers against all comers were Sr John Dudly Sr Thomas Seymore Sr Thomas Poinings Sr George Carew Knights Anthonie Kingstone and Richard Cromwell Esquires To each of whom for reward of their valour the King gave a hundred markes of yearely revenues and a house to dwell in to them and their heires out of the lands belonging to these Hospitallers And at this time many had Danae's happinesse to have golden showres rained into their bosomes These Abbey-lands though skittish mares to some have given good milk to others Which is produced as an argument That if they prove unsuccessefull to any it is the users default no inherencie of a curse in the things themselves But let one keep an exact Register of lands and mark their motions how they ebbe and flow betwixt buyers and sellers and surely he will say with the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this is most sure Let land be held in never so good a tenure it will never be held by an unthrift The Hospitallers Priory-church was preserved from down-pulling all the dayes of King Henry the eighth but in the third yeare of King Edward the sixth with the bell-towre a piece of curious workmanship graven gilt and enamelled it was undermined and blown up with gunpowder and the stone imployed in building the Lord Protectours house in the Strand Thus as chirurgeons in cutting off a gangrened leg alwayes cut it off above the joynt even where the flesh is whole and sound so belike for fear of further infection to banish Monkerie for ever they rased the structures and harmlesse buildings of Priories which otherwise in themselves were void of any offence They feared if Abbeys were onely left in a swound the Pope would soon get hot water to recover them To prevent which they killed them and killed them again overturning the very foundation of the houses infringing altering and transferring the lands that they might never be reduced to their own propertie Some outrages were committed in the manner of these dissolutions Many manuscripts guilty of no other superstition then red letters in the front were condemned to the fire and here a principall key of antiquitie was lost to the great prejudice of posteritie But in sudden alterations it is not to be expected that all things be done by the square and compasse Chap. 8. Queen Mary setteth up the Hospitallers again They are again deposed by Queen Elisabeth QUeen Mary a Princesse more zealous then politick attempted to restore Abbeys to their pristine estate and former glory And though certain of her counsellers objected that the state of her Kingdome and dignity thereof and her Crown imperiall could not honourably be furnished and maintained without the possession of Abbey-land yet she frankly restored resigned and confirmed by Parliament all ecclesiasticall revenues which by the authority of that high Court in the dayes of her Father were annexed to the Crown protesting she set more by her salvation then by ten Kingdomes But the Nobilitie followed not her example They had eaten up the Abbey-lands and now after twenty yeares possession digested and turned them into good bloud in their estates they were loth therefore to emptie their veins again and the forwardest Romanist was backward enough in this costly piece of devotion However out of her own liberalitie she set up two or three bankrupt Covents as Sion and Westminster and gave them stock to trade with The Knights also of S. John of Jerusalem she reseated in their place and Sr Thomas Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was the first and last Lord Prior after their restitution For their nests were plucked down before they were warm in them by the coming in of Queen Elisabeth To conclude in the founders of religious houses were some good intents mixt with superstitious ends amongst the Religious persons themselves some pietie more loosnesse and lazinesse in the confounders of those houses some detestation of the vices of Friars more desire of the wealth of Friaries in God all just all righteous in permitting the badnesse and causing the destruction of these numerous Fraternities Chap. 9. Observations on the Holy warre The horrible superstition therein WE have finished the story of the Holy warre And now I conceive my indentures are cancelled and I discharged from the strict service and ties of an Historian so that it may be lawfull for me to take more libertie and to make some observations on what hath been past Before I go further I must deplore the worlds losse of that worthy work which the Lord Verulam left unfinished concerning the Holy warre an excellent piece and alas it is but a piece so that in a pardonable discontent we may almost wish that either it had been more wholly to have satisfied our hunger or lesse not at all to have raised our appetite It was begun not in an historicall but in a politick way not reporting the Holy warre past with the Turks but advising how to manage it in the future And no doubt if he had perfected the work it would have proved worthy the Authour But since any have been deterred from finishing the same as ashamed to add mud-walls and a thatched roof to so fair a foundation of hewen and polished stone From that Authour we may borrow this distinction That three things are necessary to make an invasive warre lawfull the lawfullnesse of the jurisdiction the merit of the cause and the orderly and lawfull prosecution of the cause Let us apply it to our present purpose in this Holy warre For the first two Whether the jurisdiction the Christians pretended over the Turks dominions was lawfull or not and Whether this warre was not onely operae but vitae pretium worth the losing so many lives we referre the reader to what hath been said in the first Book Onely it will not be amisse to adde a storie or two out of an Authour of good account When Charles the sixth was King of France the Duke of Bourbon sailed over into Africa with a great armie there to fight against the Saracens The Saracen Prince sent an herald to know of him the cause of his coming The Duke answered it was to revenge the death of Christ the Sonne of God and true Prophet whom they had unjustly crucified The Saracens sent back again their messenger to demonstrate their innocencie how they were not Saracens but Jews which put Christ to death and therefore that the Christians if posteritie should be punished for their predecessours fault should rather revenge themselves on the Jews which lived amongst them Another relateth that in the yeare of our Lord 1453
too fast when once past seventie and growing ten yeares in a twelve-moneth are presently fourscore yea within a yeare or two after climbe up to an hundred So it is in relating the number of souldiers if they exceed threescore and ten thousand then adrotunditatem numeri they are hoised up to an hundred and then fiftie thousand more cast in for advantage Not to speak of the facil mistake in figures One telleth at the first voyage of Pilgrimes there went forth six hundred thousand another counteth three hundred thousand slain at the last taking of Ptolemais their glib pens making no more reckoning of men then of pinnes We perchance may do justly in imitating the unjust steward setting down in the bill of our belief but fifty for every hundred Nor is it any Paradox but what will abide the touch That competent forces of able and well-appointed and well-disciplined souldiers under an experienced Generall are farre more usefull then such an unwieldie multitude Little loadstones will in proportion attract a greater quantitie of steel then those which be farre greater because their poles are nearer together and so their virtue more united So shall we find braver atchievements by moderate armies then by such portentous and extravagant numbers I never read of any miracle done by the statue of S. Christopher in Paris though he be rather of a mountainlike then manlike bignesse Yea such immoderate great armies are subject to great inconveniences 1. They are not so easily manageable and the commands of their Generall cool and lose some virtue in passing so long a journey through so many 2. It is improbable that so many thousands can be heaped together but the armie will be very heterogeneous patched up of different people unsuiting in their maners which must needs occasion much cumbrance 3. These crowds of souldiers may hinder one another in their service as many at the same time pressing out at a wicket 4. Victuals for so many mouthes will not easily be provided the provisions of a countrey serving them but a meal they must fast afterwards 5. Lastly such great numbers though this I must confesse is onely per accidens yet often incident beget carelessenesse and confidence in them as if they would not thank God for their victories but conceive it a due debt owed to their multitudes This hath induced some to the opinion to maintain That a competent able armie of thirtie thousand which number Gongaza that brave Generall did pitch on as sufficient and complete need not fear upon a paritie in all other respects any company whatsoever to come against them such are enough being as good as a feast and farre better then a surfeit Chap. 20. Of the numberlesse Christians which lost their lives in this service XErxes viewing his armie consisting of more then a million from an high place all at a sight is said to weep at the thought That within an hundred yeares all those would be mowed down with death But what man could behold without flouds of teares if presented to him at one view the infinites of people which lost their lives in this action In the first voyage went forth as the most conscionable counters report three hundred thousand Of these we can make the reader but spend-thrifts accounts All is gone without shewing the particulars For after the taking of Jerusalem this armie was drawn so low that Godfrey being to fight with Ammiravissus the Egyptian and bringing forth his whole strength had but twelve hundred horse and nine thousand foot left him At the second setting forth of two hundred and fiftie thousand led hither by Hugh brother to the King of France and sundrie other Bishops not a thousand came into Palestine In the third voyage Conrade the Emperour led forth no fewer then two hundred thousand foot and fiftie thousand horse nor was the armie of King Lewis of France farre inferiour Of whom such as returned make no noise as not considerable in number At the fourth setting forth Frederick Barbarossa counted an hundred and fiftie thousand souldiers in his armie Of whom when they came to Ptolemais no more then eighteen hundred armed men remained Fifthly what numbers were carried forth by our Richard the first and Philip of France I find not specified no doubt they did bear proportion to the greatnesse of the undertakers All which at their return were consumed to a very small companie To omit severall other intermediate actions of many Princes who went forth with armies and scarce came home with families King Lewis carried forth two and thirty thousand Of which onely six thousand came home as their own writers report who tell their tale as it may best found for the credit of their countrey whilest others count eightie thousand to have lost their lives in that voyage yea some reckon no sewer then and hundred thousand common men besides seven Counts to have died in Cyprus of the plague At his second voyage to Tunis of an hundred and twentie ships which lay at anchor at Trape in Sicily there were no more saved then the mariners of one onely French ship and the thirteen ships of our Prince Edward all the rest with men armour and munition did miserably perish But enough of this dolefull subject If young Physicians with the first fee for their practise are to purchase a new church-yard Pope Urbane the second might well have bought some ground for graves when he first perswaded this bloudie project whereby he made all Jerusalem Golgotha a place for seulls and all the Holy land Aceldama a field of bloud Chap. 21. The throne of Deserts What nation merited most praise in this warre And first of the French and Dutch service therein AS in the first book we welcomed each severall nation when they first entred into this service so it is good manners now to take our solemn farewell of them at their going out and to examine which of them deserved most commendation for their valour in this warre And herein me thinketh the distinction usuall in some Colledges of Founders By founders and Benefactours may properly take place The Founders of this Holy warre are the French the By-founders the Dutch English and Italian the Benefactours according to the different degrees of bountie the Spanish Polish Danish Scots and all other people of Europe The French I make the Founders for these reasons First because they began the action first Secondly France in proportion sent most adventurs Some voyages were all of French and all voyages were of some French Yea French men were so frequent at Jerusalem That at this day all Western Europeans there are called Franks as once I conceived and perchance not without companie in my errour because so many French men came thither in the Holy warre Since I am converted from that false opinion having found that two hundred yeares before the Holy warre was dreamed of namely in the time of Constantine
Princes took this brasse for gold without touching it But the best engine which gave this puppet his motion was a bruit constantly buzzed That Frederick was not dead For Princes the manner of whole deaths hath been private and obscure fame commonly conjureth again out of their graves and they walk abroad in the tongues and brains of many who affirm and believe them to be still alive But the world soon suifeted of this cheaters forgerie and this glow-worm when brought into the light shined no more but at Nantes was burnt to ashes by Rodulphus the Emperour After Fredericks death there was an interregnum for three and twenty yeares in the Empire of Germany True it is that of some William Earl of Holland one without a beard not valour was nominated Emperour The Spirituall electours chose Richard brother to our King Henry the third And as in Cornwall he got much coin so Germany gave him a bottomlesse bag to put it in A third party named Alphonse King of Castile an admirable Mathematician But the ointment of his name is marred with the dead flie of his Atheisticall speech That if he had been in Gods stead he could have framed the world better then now it is Notwithstanding the best Dutch writers make an interregnum as counting the Empire still a widdow and all these rather her suiters then any her husband In like manner also in Palestine there was not any King for fourteen years after Fredericks death The right indeed lay in Conrade Duke of Suevia Fredericks sonne by Iole daughter to John Bren King of Jerusalem But he was so imployed in defending himself in Sicily against Mauâ—ted his base brother who soon after dispatched him out of the way that he had no leisure to prosecute his title to the fragments of his Kingdome of Jerusalem Chap. 21. The Pastorells killed in France King Lewis returned home GO we back to King Lewis who all this while stayed in Palestine busying himself partly in building and fencing of Sidon and Cesarea partly in composing discords betwixt the Pisans and Genoans even proceeding to threaten them into agreement But these armed men little cared for his naked menacing He being also an excellent religious Antiquary and Critick on holy monuments much employed himself in redeeming of old sacred places from the tyranny of time and oblivion Mean time in his Kingdome of France happened this strange accident An Hungarian pesant who is said to have been an apostate to Mahomet and well learned gathered together many thousands of people pretending they had intelligence from heaven to march to the Holy land These took on them the name and habit of Pastorelli poore shepherds in imitation belike as the Devil is Gods ape of those in the Gospel who were warned by Angels in a vision to go to Bethlehem Being to shape their course into Palestine they went into France shewing they had a vertigo in their heads mistaking the West for the East or else that like vagabonds they were never out of their way The Holy Lamb was their ensigne but their actions neither holy nor lambe-like They pillaged and killed the poor Jews as they went an unhappy nation whose heads lie pat for every ones hands to hit and their legges so stand in mens way that few can go by them without spurning at them Where they wanted Jews they made Jews of Christians especially if they were rich using them with all cruelty But at last near Burdeaux threescore thousand of them were slain and the rest dispersed A rhymer of that age or in courtesie call him a Poet made this Epitaph on them M semel bis C LI conjungere disce Duxit Pastorum saeva Megaera chorum Learn to put together well What M C C L I do spell When some devilish fiend in France Did teach the Shepherds how to dance By this time Lewis in Syria had stayed out the death and buriall of all his hopes to receive succour from his own countrey Long expecting in vain that France should come to him he at last returned to it The greatnesse of the burden he bore made him to go the faster and being loaden with debts to his Italian creditours he secretly hasted home Where safely arriving besides loyaltie to their Prince love to a stranger was enough to make him welcome Chap. 22. The conversion of the Tartarians Haalon conquereth Persia and extinguisheth the Caliphs of Babylon LEwis is gone and left the Christians in Syria in a wofull condition without hope of amendment Now can any good come out of Tartary Can the Northern wind blow a comfortable warmth Yea see a strange vicissitude of things Haito the Christian King of Armenia had travelled to Mango the Cham of Tartary to communicate to him the present danger of the Tâ—rks and to consult of a remedy He shewed how if order were not taken with them in time they would over-runne all Asia Let him not count that he lay out of their rode because of his remote situation For what is the way wanderers will not trace He might expect onely this courtesie to be last devoured In conclusion Haito prevailed so farre with this Pagan that he not onely promised his assistance but also was baptised and took the Christian religion on him So also did his whole countrey by his example and Christianity being the Court-fashion none would be out of it Never since the time of Constantine the Great did the devill at once lose a greater morsel or was there made a more hopefull accession to the Faith Understand we this conversion of Tartary though Authours predicate it universally of that whole countrey onely of Cathaia the Eastern and most refined part of that Empire For Cannibals were still in the North who needed first to be converted to reason and to be made men before they could become Christians Also at this same time we find a swarm of Western Tartarian heathens forraging Poland So it seemeth so vast was the Empire that it was still night in the West though it was day in the Eastern part thereof Now whether the conversion of these Tartarians was solemnly deliberately and methodically wrought by preaching first those things wherein the light of Nature concurreth with Faith then those wherein humane reason is no foe but standeth neuter such as are merely of Faith leaving the issue of all to God whose oratory onely can perswade souls or whether which is more probable it was but tumultuously done many on a sudden rather snatching then embracing religion we will not dispute Sure it is that Mango sent Haalon his brother who is said to have married a wife an excellent Christian and descended from the Wise-men who came to see our Saviour with a great army to suppresse the Turks and assist the Christians It seemeth his army rid post for falling into Persia he conquered it sooner then one can well travell it in half
Martine his servant that he who so long had shared of his miserie might also partake of his happinesse No sooner had this Duke put to sea but he was again taken by pirates and the Sultan out of pitie to this distressed Prince and out of scorn that fortune should frustrate and defeat his reall courtesie set him free again At last he came safely home and was there welcomed with asmuch wonder as joy his subjects conceiving his return a resurrection having buried him in their thoughts long before Here he found two counterfeits who pretended themselves to be this Duke and on that title challenged lodging with Anastasia his Lady But the one of them had a softer bedfellow provided him a pool of water wherein he was drowned the other was made a bonefire of to solemnize the joy of the Dukes return Chap. 31. Charles King of Ierusalem His intentions in Syria stopped by the Sicilian Vespers His death and sonnes succession BY this time Charles King of Jerusalem and Sicily had made great preparations for the Holy war And to make his claim to the Kingdome of Jerusalem the stronger he bought also the title of Maria Domicella Princesse of Antioch which pretended aright to the same He sent also Roger the Count of S. Severine as his Vice-roy to Ptolemais where he was honourably received in despite of Hugh King of Cyprus by the especial favour of Albertine Morisine the Venetian Consul there And now his navie was reported to be readie and that by the way he had a project upon Michael Paleologus the Emperour of Greece Whē all his intentions were suddenly blasted it so happening that on Easter day as the bell tolled to Even-song all the throats of the Frenchmen in Sicily were cut in a moment by the natives thereof and that Island won by Peter King of Aragon The grand contriver of this massacre was one Jacobus Prochyta a Physician and I dare say he killed more in an houre then he cured all his life-time Those that condemn the Sicilians herein cannot excuse the French such formerly had been their pride lust covetousnesse and crueltie to the people of that Island putting them causelesly to exquisite torture so that an ordinary hanging was counted an extraordinarie favour But the secrecie of contriving this slaughter of the French was little lesse then miraculous that so many knowing it none should discover it like cunning dogs barking in triumph after they had bitten not before to give any warning Hence grew the proverb of the Sicilian Vespers though their Even-song was nothing to the English Mattens intended in the Gunpowder-Treason Mean time King Charles was at Rome beholding the making of Cardinals when this doleful news was brought unto him and struck him to the heart He survived a year or two longer but dull and melancholick living as it were without life and died at last having reigned King of Jerusalem twentie year A Prince which had tasted of various successe fortune for a while smiling on him and at last laughing at him His son Charles succeded him in the Kingdome of Naples and in the title of Jerusalem He was surnamed Cunctator Delayer not in the same sense as Fabius the Shield of Rome was so called he onely stayed till opportunitie was come our Charles till it was passed I find nothing memorable of him except this That offended with the Templars in Palestine for taking part against him with the King of Cyprus he seised on their lands and confiscated all their goods they had in Naples or any other part of his dominions How ever let him have room in the catalogue of our Kings of Jerusalem For as high hills near the sea-side though otherwise never so base and barren ground yet will serve to be sea-marks for the direction of mariners so this Charles together with Hugh John and Henry Kings of Cyprus pretending also to Jerusalem though we reade nothing remarkable of them will become the front of a page and serve to divide and distinguish times and to parcell the historie the better to our apprehension As for the bare anatomie of their reigne for we find it not fleshed with any historie with the dates of their beginnings and endings we shall present it to the reader hereafter in our Chronologie Chap. 32. The succession of the Mammaluke Princes in Egypt Alphir taketh Tripoli and Tyre The wofull estate of Ptolemais BUt whilest these titular Kings slept the Mammaluke Princes were vigilant to infest the reliques of the Christians in Palestine Which Princes succession we will adventure to set down nor are we discouraged with the difficulties which encounter us herein The hardnesse in the story of the Mammalukes proceedeth as we conceive from one of these causes First the State is not written directly but by reflexion not storied by any constant writer of their own but in snaps and parcels as the Chroniclers of neighbouring Christian countreyes have catched at them Secondly out of a popular errour their chief Captains by reason of their large authoritie passe for absolute Kings Thirdly the same King hath many names and the same name by translation in sundrie languages is strangely disguised How-ever we will use our best conjectures in these uncertainties and a dimme candle is better then no light Bendocdar or Bandodacar otherwise Melechdaet was the last Egyptian Prince we mentioned A dangerous man to the Christians but that Abaga the Tartarian took him to task and kept him in continuall imployment This Abaga had a prettie trick to make cowards valiant causing them that ranne away from the battell ever after to wear womens clothes Bendocdar died at Damascus of a wound he received in Armenia or as some say by cold in swimming over Euphrates Elpis succeeded him his sonne say some but the Mammalukes laws forbid that except his extraordinary worth was his facultie and dispenied with him ad succedendum patri But who knoweth not that the Eastern tongue speaketh nephewes and kinsmen to be sonnes Some wholly omit him enough to make us suspect that he was onely some Deputy clapped in to stop up the vacancie till Melechsaites was chosen Melechsaites called by Marinus Melechmessor wonne the strong castle of Mergath from the Hospitallers He much loved and was very bountifull to the Carmelites who lived dispersed in Syria but afterwards he banished them out of his countrey because they altered their habit and wore white coats at the appointment of Pope Honorius the Turks being generally enemies to innovations and loving constancy in old customes Nor was this any mishap but an advantage to the Carmelites to lose their dwellings in Syria and gain better in Europe where they planted themselves in the fattest places So that he who knoweth not to choose good ground let him find out an house of the Carmelites a mark that faileth not for his direction Alphir was next to Melechsaites otherwise called Elsi He perceiving that now or never was the time
reckon Saladines reigne of 16 yeares for so many Authours give him from his seifing of the kingdome of Damase But if we count his reigne from the killing of the Egyptian Caliph he began far sooner 4 20 40 XI HERACLIUS Archbish. of Cesarea 1    2 5 21 41 2    3 6 22 42 3  He dieth in an Embassie to the Princes in Europe  4 7 23 43 4  GERARDUS RIDFORD  5 8 24 44 He travelleth into the West cometh into England consecrateth the Temple church in London and returneth without any aid 5 He went with Heraclius into the West returneth   6 9 25 45 6    7 10 26 Antioch by the Patriaâ—ch betrayed to Saladine Θ 46 7 Is slain in a battel neare Prolemais He is taken prisoner TERICUS Master of the Templars during Gerards durance Gerad is set at liberty and slain in the siege of Prolemais  8 11 27 8 IX GARNERIUS de Neapoli Syriae  Mrs of Dutch Knights HENRY a Walpot 9 12 28  9    10 13 Antioch wonne again from the Turks by Frederick D. of Suevia  10   1 11 14   11   2 12 15 The time of Boemunds death is as uncertain as who was his Successour onely we find from this time forward the same Princes but without name or certain date â—lyled both of Antioch and Tripoli  He lived viciously and died obscurely  3 13 16   X. ERMEGAR DUS DAPS.  4 14 SAPHADINE Br. to Saladine 1      5 15 2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre and Kings of Ierusalem 1195 5 2 6 7 16 3 6 6 3 7 8 17 ALMERICK the second King also of Cyprus 6. VOYAGE under Henry Duke of Saxonie 1 7 M. 9. D. 11. 4 8 9 18 Henry the Palatine Heâ—man Landâ—grave c. winne Berytus 2 8 INNOCENTIUS the third 1 5 9 10 19 The Dutch-men miserably killed on S. Martines day 3 9 2 6 OTHO the fourth 1 11 20 Simon Earl of Montfort cometh into Palestine and maketh a profitable peace 4 1200 3 7 2 JOHN his Br. 1 21 5 1 4 8 3 2 22 6 2 5 ISAACIUS again with ALEXIUS his S. BALDWINE Earl of Flandres 9 4 3 23 7. VOYAGE under Baldwine Earl of Flandres but by the Pope diverted against the Grecian usurping Emperour 7 3 6 1 5 4 24 8 4 7 2 6 5 25 1 INTERREGNUM of â— years Almerick dieâ—h of a surfer according to Marinus Sanutus 9 5 8 HENRY his Br. 1 7 6 26 2 10 6 9 2 8 7 27 3 The Holy warre turned against the Albin genses in France 11 7 10 3 9 8 28 4 12 8 11 4 10 9 29 5 Almerick for his lazinesse deposed by the Pope dieth soon after 13 9 12 5 11 10 30 JOHNBREN made King of Jerusalem by the Pope 1 1210 13 6 12 11 31 2 1 14 7 13 12 32 3 2 15 8 FREDERICK the second 1 13 33 4 3 16 9 2 14 34 An army of children going to the Holy warre wofully perish by the way 5 4 17 10 3 15 35 6 Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusaleâ— Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Turkish Kings of Egypt     6 16 Betwixt him and Saladines sonnes whom at last he conquered and subdued was long warre to the great comfort and profit of the Christians 3     7 17 4     8 18 5  XII ALBERTUS succeedeth Heraclius Spond   9 19 6     10 20 7     II. OTTO a-Kerpin 1 21 8     2 22 9   XI GOTFRIDUâ— de Denyjon  3 23 10     4 24 11  He perfecteth and writeth a Rule to the Carmelites Idem   5 25 12    Leo King of Armenia restoreth to the Templars what he had violently taken from them 6 26 13     III. HERMANNUS Bart. 1 27 14     2 28 1 MELADINE as most compute succeedeth his father Saphadine in Egypt 15     3 29 2 16     4 30 3 17  XIII THOMAS AGNI   IV. HERMANNUS a Saltza 1 31 4 18     2 32 5 19   XII ALPHONSUS de Portugallia  3 33 6 20     4 34 7 21     5 35 8 22 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre and Kings of Ierusalem 1215 18 11 4 16 36 The great Laterane Council to advance the Holy warre 7 6 M. 6 D. 9 PETER Earl of Auxerre 1 5 17 37 8. VOYAGE under Andrew King of Hungarie 8 7 HONORIUS the third 2 2 6 HENRY the third â— 1 38 9 8 3 3 7 2 39 Damiata besieged 10 9 4 4 8 3 40 Damiata taken 11 1220 5 5 9 4 41 The Christians intrapped in water restore Damiata for their libertie and conclude an eight-yeares truce 12 1 6 ROBERT 1 10 5 42 13 2 7 2 11 6 43 14 3 8 3 12 7 He dâ—eth 44 John Bren cometh into France and there receiveth rich legacies from Philip Augustus 15 4 9 4 13 8 LEWIS the eighth 1 16 5 10 5 14 9 2 17 6 M. 8. 6 15 10 3 He is honourably entertained at Rome and resigneth his kingdome 18 7 GREGORY the ninth 1 7 16 11 St LEWIS 1 FREDERICK by marriage of â—ole Brens daughter 1 8 2 BALDWINE the second 1 17 12 2 2 9 â— 2 18 13 3 9. VOYAGE under Frederiâ—k who crowned himself King of Jerusalem and concluding a ten-yeares truce returneth into Europe leaving Reynold Duke of Bavaria his Vice-Roy in Palestine 3 1230 4 3 19 14 4 4 1 5 4 20 15 5 5 2 6 5 21 16 6 6 3 7 6 22 17 7 7 4 8 7 23 18 8 8 Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusaleâ— Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Master of Dutch Kn. Caliphs of Syria Turkish Kings of Egypt  He is present in the Laterane Council to solicite the Holy warre XIII GOTHERIDUS de-la-Rat P. de Monte acuto 6 36 9 23     7 37 10 24     8 38 11 Saphadine according to M. Parâ—â— p. 404. dieth for grief that the â—orâ— nigh to Dâ—miata was taken Θ 25           He fighteth stoutly with the rest of his Order at the taking of Damiata Mat. Paris pag. 409 419. 9 39 12 MELADINE 1     10 40 13 2     11 41 14 Is wonderfully kind to the Christians half-drowned in Egypt 3 Â
   12 42 15 4     13 43 16 5   60000 crowns bequeathed by the K. of Fr. to the Hospit and Templars  14 44 17 6  XIIII GERALDUS XIIII GUARENUS de Monte acuto OLIVER 15 45 18 7     16 TAHER S. 1 19 8  A bitter enemy he was to Frederick the Emperour and sided with the Pope and Templars against him   17 2 20 9     The 〈◊〉 Kâ—ighâ—s under Hermannus their Master come into Prussia yet so as many of them still remained in Syria 18 3 21 10     19 4 22 11    An inveterate enemie to Frederick whom he most spitefully and treacherously used 20  23 12 The Pr. of Antioch dieth without lawfull issue    21  24 13   XVI BERTRANDUS de Campis  22  25 14 FREDERICK base S. to Fred. the Emp. is by Reinoldus Vice-â—oy of Jerurusalem made Pr. of Antioch in spite of Henr. K. of Cyprus who claimed that place 1    23  26 15 2    24  27 16 3    25 MUSTENATZER 28 17 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre and Kings of Ierusalem 1235 9 8 24 19 9 9 6 10 9 25 20 10 10 7 11 10 26 21 11 11 8 12 11 27 22 12 The former ten-years Truce expired Reinold concludeth another of the same term 12 9 13 12 28 23 13 10. VOYAGE under Theobald King of Navarre 13 1240 14 13 29 24 14 He is unfortunately overthrown in battel at Gaza 14 1 M. 5. CELESTINE the â—ouâ—th 14 30 25 15 11. VOYAGE under Richard Earl of Cornwall 15 2 D. 17. The See void 15 31 26 16 16 3 INNOCEâ—TIUS the fourth 1 16 32 27 17 17 4 2 17 33 28 18 The Corasines conquer the Christians and sack Jerusalem 18 5 3 18 34 29 19 19 6 4 19 35 30 20 20 7 5 20 36 31 21 12. VOYAGE under S. Lewis King of France 21 8 6 21 37 32 22 He arriveth in Cyprus and there wintereth 22 9 7 22 38 33 23 taketh Damiata beateth the Saracens 23 1250 8 23 INTERRâ—GNUM of 23 years wherein there were many Competiours for the Empire 1 34 24 Robert Earl of Artois slain Lewis taken prisoner INTERREGNUM of 14 years 1 1 9 24 2 35 25 The Pastorells overthrown in France 2 2 10 25 3 36 26 King Lewis being ransomed cometh into Palestine recovereth and fortifieth Sidon 3 3 11 26 4 37 27 returneth into France 4 4 M. 5. D. 14. 27 5 38 28 5 Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Kn. Caliphs of Syria  Turkish Kâ— of Egypt 4    26   29 18 5    27   30 19 6    28   31 20 7    29   32 21 8    30   33 22 9    31   34 23 10 X V. ROBERTUS  HERMANNUS Peâ—ragorinus M. Pariâ— pag. 726. V. CONRADE Landâ—grave of Hassia 1   35 24 11  XVII PETRUS de Villebride  2   36 25 12    3   37 26 13 He was in the battel against the Corasines as appeareth in M. Paris where he writeth a bemoning letter taken captive by the Corasines M. Paris pag. 833. All the Templars slain to eighteen the Hospitallers to nineteen the Dutch Knights to three 4   38 27 14    5   39 28 15    6   40 29 The Antiochians fighting unadvisedly with the Turks are overthrown 16    7   he dieth at Damiata's taking 30     8   MELECHSALA 1     9   Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 2  The Paâ—â—iarch of Jeâ—usalem was taken prisoner with the King of France Magdeburg Ceâ— 13. Col. 697. All the Hospitallers with their Master slain to one All the Templars with their Master slain to two 10   TARQUEMINUS 1 CONRADE â— to Frederick Prince of Antioch  XIX HUGO REVEL He made a stature whereby women were admitted into this Order  11   2     12  Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary 3     VI. POPPO 1  MANGO perswaded by Haito K. of Armenia to turn Christian. 1 4     2  2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre and Kings of Ierusalem 1255 ALEXANDER the fourth 2 28 6 39 29 6 6 3 29 7 40 30 7 7 4 30 8 41 31 8 8 5 31 9 42 32 These 10 yeares following the Genoans fighting against the Venetians and Pisans baâ—â—en the ruine of the Christians in Paleâ—tine 9 9 6 32 10 43 33 10 1260 M. 5. D. 5. MICHAEL Palaeologus 1 11 44 34 11 1 URBANE the fourth 1 2 12 45 35 12 2 2 3 13 46 36 13 3 3 4 14 47 37 14 4 M. 1. D. 4. 5 15 48 38 CHARLES Earl of Anjou by the Pope made King of Jerusalem and Sicilie 1 5 CLEMENT the fourth 1 6 16 49 39 2 6 2 7 17 50 40 3 7 3 8 18 51 41 4 8 M. 9. D. 25. 9 19 52 42 1 HUGH King of Cyprus 1â— VOYAGE under St Lewis King of France 5 9 The See void 10 20 53 43 6 1270  11 21 54 44 2 Charles of Sicilie and our Prince Edward Tunis taken Lewis dieth 7 1 GREGORY the tenth 1 12 22 55 PHILIP the Bold 1 3 Prince Edward cometh to Pâ—olemais 8 2 2 13 23 56 2 4 is desperately wounded yet recovereth 9 3 3 14 RODULPHUS ab Haspurg 1 EDWARD the first 1 3 5 10 4 4 15 2 2 4 6 11 Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Masters of Dutch Kn. Caliphs of Syria Great Chaâ—s of Tatary Mammaluke Sultuns of Egypt  XVI PANTALEON a Frenchman  3  3     4 MUSTEAZEM the last Caliph of Syria a covetous miser conquered by the Tartarians 2 4 MELECH otherwise called CLOTHES    5  5     6  Haalach Brâ—o Mango taketh the citie of Babylon 6     7  7  Haalach the Tartarian cometh to Antioch is there kindly entertained by Prince Conrade   8  8 BENDOCDAR 1  He is made Pope by the name of Urbane the fourth Platina  9  HAALAâ—H succeedeth his Br. Mango 1 2    10  2 3    11  3 4 Conrade cometh into Europe to succour Contadine his kinsman   12  ABAGA Cham his S. 1 He winneth the kingdome