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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35607	The Conduct and character of Count Nicholas Serini, Protestant Generalissimo of the auxiliaries in Hungary ... with his parallels Scanderbeg & Tamberlain : interwoven with the principal passages of the Christians and Turks discipline and success, since the infidels first invasion of Europe, in the year 1313.	O. C.	1664 (1664)	Wing C90; ESTC R6470	61,211	180

wherein the Venetians opposed him by reason of an agreement made between them and the Lady Bosse the mother of the deceased party Notwithstanding which Scanderbeg claimed that there being no Will he ought to succeed Zachary who was murthered by Lech Dulagin the Son of the Lord of Saint Paul and seemed to have the best title as lawful heir to the Estate But after a great contestation they resolved the sword should decide the qu●rrel on both sides wherewith he pressed them so hard although he abated very much of the rigor he exe●cised towards the Infidels and Turks that the Venetians had no other expedient but to desire a Peace with him which yet they would not conclude but upon their own conditions though they were reduced to such extremity as that if Scanderbeg had not condescended they had in all likelihood been destroyed but he considering That the vertue valour and magnanimity of a valiant warrior appears not in being cruel to an enemy chose rather to mitigate the appetite of revenge by mildness and kind usage and therefore yeilded freely to forgo that which of right belonged unto him although it was never his custom to quit any thing to I●fidels as appeared clea●ly in the encounter with the Tyrant Sebalie who besieged Bellegrade where he defeated four an● twenty thousand Turkes Several other of Castriot's p●ow●ss●s against the 〈◊〉 took six thousand prisoners and set at liberty four thousand Christians who were detained by t●e Bashaws M●●se● Assambeg Isaac and Sinam-beg and put to death more than fifty thousand of his enemies and almost as many more two years after under the command of the Bashaw Ballabam These and the like valorous exploits pleased so well the most part of the Christian Princes that they were thereby provoked to take up Arms against Mahomet and Pope Pius piously moved seeing the affections of this noble Captain to the utter extirpation of the Infidels stirred up all Christian Kings Princes and Potentates to Arm themselves against the Turk and knowing that there could not be an abler Captain Geo Castriot created chief of the Christian League against the Turk chosen to that purpose then Scanderbeg to curb and tame the Barbarians elected and named him the Captain of the League with promise to make him King not onely of all Albania or Epire but also of Macedoni● which ho●y un●er●●●ing was interrupted by the death of ●ius and Pope Paul the second although our Albanian King travelled since to Rome to summon the Pope to joyn in a design so profitable for the safety and enlargement of Christendome Finally finding himself f●u●●rate of the succors he expected f●●m the Kings and Princes on this ●●●e he went to L●ssa upon the River of Cliro to con●ult of the Occurrences of the war with the Deputy Prove●dor of Ve●ice where he was seized on by a deadly Feaver and feeling himself strucken by death he made his will and recommended his little son John his Geo Cast●iot created Citizen of Venice wealth and Country to the care of the State of Venice who in remembrance and gratitude for the advantagious peace he had freely granted them created him and his posterity after they had casted lots with an universal consent to be Citizens of Venice A few dayes after he departed hence to the other world in the 63 d. year of his age and four and twentieth of his Reign for he began his Reign the eight and twentieth day of Novemb. in the year 1443. an● dyed in the year 1467. his body was interred in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Lissa with great Pomp and Magnificence Castriot's death and bu●ial whose bones rested enclosed in this place in peace until Mahomet came into Epire some four years after to assault Scutari So great a reverence saith Paulus ●ovins had the Turks themselves of this Heroick persons valour and conduct that after his death having made themselves masters of all Epire at last seized upon his Sepulchre at Alesha which having found they worshipped and adored it pulling out his dead ●ones which they carried about them thinking themselves invincible safe in battle Several notable exploits done by Castriot if at their going to fight they had the least piece of a relique of this invincible Captain hung at their neck in gold or silver and indeed his actions are incredible As that wild Savage Bull of an extraordinary fury and greatness committing a thousand spoyls and murthers in the Country of his Sister Mamiza whose ne●k he quite cut through with one ●low of his S●imiter on horseback That monstrous Boar of Apoville which had wounded ●o many of King Ferd●nana's Courtiers which bea● he ass●ulted in the same manner and with like dexte●i●y he cut off his head in the open Field before the King as they were a hunting And it is also reported of him that after the encamping of Ballaban before Cr●ye there being brought to him chained and fast bound together Jonima and Heder the brother and Nephew of Ballaban their sight putting him in remembrance of the cruelties acted through Ballaban's occasion upon the person of Moyses and his companions put him in such a vehement passion of anger against them that he had no patience to suffer others to fall on them but in great fury fell on them himself and at one blow hewed them both through the body with his Scimiter which was a Damasked one of an excellent goodnesse two of which he always wore in one Scabbard both which were often broken or spoiled in one B●ttel And Mahomet having heard of the excellency of such a sword which would cut asunder Ganders Helmets and other strong Armour as they were once in a T●eaty sent to desire it for a present an● the Sultan causing tryal to be made thereof by the best Arms of the Court and the strongest and no such miracles proceeding from it as was boasted of he thereupon caused it to be retu●n●● to Scanderbeg saying That ●e g●ve him no thanks for such a present when he could buy as good and a better for his money and that he would no longer believe that which was reported of it Put Scanderbeg having made more extraordinary proofs thereof in the presence of t●e Messenger sent him word That the vertue was not altogether in the Sword but in the Arm which he reserved to himself which he employed against his enemies And though I do not much value the Prodigies and observations which many men as it were adore at some Nativities yet will I not conceal A prodigie which happened at Castriot 's birth what was prognosticated of the glory that should accompany this famous person his Mother dreaming as soon as he was conceived that she had brought fo●th a Serpent of that bigness that it covered almost all Epire and stretching out its head upon the Dominions of the Turk it swallowed them up with its bloody throat dipping his Tail in the Sea that looks towards the