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A41853	The history of the war of Cyprus. Written originally in Latin. With a new map of the island.; De bello Cyprio. English	Graziani, Antonio Maria, 1537-1611.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.; Lusignano, Stefano, 1537-1590.	1687 (1687)	Wing G1628; ESTC R5120	202,605	482

Assistance of Christendom They seemed to make the same Reproach to the Pope in Respect of those sent by the Duke of Savoy and Tuscany that were incorporated into the Fleet of the Holy See. The particular of all these Debates would not deserve a place in this History were it not to shew the Spaniards Insolence and Pride who desiring to have the Advantage in every thing declar'd that this Expedition having been undertaken only in favour of the Venetians the King their Master was no further concerned in it than as having granted them his Protection The Venetians in the mean time pleased themselves with framing Difficulties on the smallest matters purposely to tire out the Pope and all those that medled in this Negotiation But there arose a new Dispute of far greater Consequence An Augmentation of the Gallies had been accorded because of the prodigious Preparations making at Constantinople but the time when they were to meet on the Coasts of Greece was not agreed on The Venetians desir'd they might be ready to fight by the Month of March affirming that the Success of this Campaign depended on their extream Diligence The Spaniards on the contrary required the whole Month of June to put their Fleet in Condition Every one murmur'd against them at Venice when Tipoli gave the Senate advice of this unjust and dangerous Proposition But the Council of Ten secretly rejoiced at it because of the Leisure given them by it to learn from their Embassadour at the Port what hopes there was of Peace and take a Resolutition suitable to the State of their Fortune They acquainted Tipoli with their secret Negotiations at Constantinople giving him order to conclude nothing at Rome to make no Relaxation of the Time by which the Fleets were required to set forth and even to refuse the Augmentation of the Gallies he had himself solicited At his declaring himself in the Assembly about this matter every one mistrusted some Intelligence between the Port and the Commonwealth These Suspicions very much cool'd their Negotiations and matters were extream slowly treated on at Rome The Council of Ten no sooner understood that Tipoli had in Obedience to their Orders perplex'd the Affairs but they commended this Ministers Dexterity as having by his Address put them in the best Condition they could desire but one amongst them rising up said Have a care Gentlemen of alienating the Confederates Minds and breaking with them before you know what to expect from the Port and on what Conditions they will grant you Peace This Discourse obliged the Council to enter into new Deliberations and fearing to see themselves expos'd on every side by being disappointed of a Peace and at the same time breaking the League they sent Orders to Tipoli to regulate the Conditions on which he had shewn himself so difficult These Contests having taken up all the Winter the Pope in fine by his Authority ordained that his Fleet and the King of Spains should meet at Messina by the end of March whence they should immediately depart to join the Venetians at Corfou That they should all sail together into Greece fight the Infidels if they met them by the way and attempt whatever their Generals should judge necessary and advantagious for the Common Cause That the Fleet should be composed of Three Hundred Gallies Forty Vessels and as many Galeasses as the Republick could set forth That the Army should consist of Threescore Thousand Men That Every Gally should carry at least an Hundred and Fifty Soldiers That they should have Four Thousand Five Hundred Horses for fear the Enemy should attack any of the Confederates by Land That no new Delay should be granted for the Departure of the Fleets That the Generals should set Sail on the day appointed with what Vessels they should have ready and that the rest should follow as soon as they should be in Condition to quit the Ports and that other things should be ordered as they were in the last Campaign The Venetians obtained farther of his Holiness That none of the Allies might withdraw his Forces from the Christian Army should even his own Territories be attackt by some declar'd Enemy All Differences being thus regulated Tipoli pressed the Assembly for the speedy setting forth Three hundred Gallies to pillage the Ottoman Islands and secure the Republicks The Spaniards not daring to oppose it because the Pope approved it answered that they must Adress themselves to Don John to whom the King of Spain had probably sent Orders about it There was at the same time a Proposal made to Gregory about exchanging of Prisoners There were sent to Rome some considerable Turks taken at the Battel of Lepanto whose Throats would have been cut in Prison had the Venetians been hearkned to at first but Pius the Fifth abhorring such Inhumanity they thought best to ransom with them several Christian Officers who had lost their Liberty in their Service for fear lest after the Conclusion of the Peace the Pope should refuse to put them into their Hands There was amongst them two Sons of Haly by a Sister of Selim's one of which dyed at Rome The Mother requested the other of Don John by such moving Letters accompanyed with such Magnificent Presents that he yielded to her Importunities her Daughter also who passed for one of the Fairest Persons in the World writ to this Prince in Terms so full of Tenderness that he esteemed it an Honour and Pleasure to himself to solicit her Brothers Liberty with the Pope who granting his Desire he sent him back to Constantinople having first treated him like the Grand Seignior's Nephew But his Holiness thought not fit to give the rest their Liberty so soon One of the Principal amongst them was Mahomet Bassa of Negro Ponte a Man whose disposition was no way rude and barbarous and who perfectly understood the Manners and Customs of the Europeans He spake Italian reasonably well and some Romans who had been at Lepanto took delight in discoursing with him about the Battel He told them that two things principally gain'd the Christians the Day to wit their great number of Musketeers whose Arms were much better in a Fight than their Darts or Arrows and the Boards set upon the sides of their Gallies in manner of Parapets with which their Soldiers being sheltered fired on the Enemy with far greater Assurance but he hoped we should not for the future have this Advantage over them since the Experiment had cost 'em dear enough One speaking to him of the Victory at Lepanto as of a Loss to the Grand Seignior far exceeding what he got by the Conquest of Cyprus He smilingly answered You have shaved our Beard and the Hair will grow again But the Venetians will never re-join to the Body of their State the Part which we have cut off Colonni visiting the Prisoners taken in this Battel commanded his Officers and Soldiers to treat them courteously and then turning to Mahomet said Learn of us to

had made himself the Tyrant of it and drove him thence for refusing the use of his Havens to the Fleet which he conducted to the Recovery of Jerusalem He sold it sometime after to the Templers whose Order was then most rich and flourishing But their Establishment in this Island having excited several Seditions they yielded their Purchace to Guy de Lusignan King of Jerusalem whom the Infidels had despoyled of his Crown Guy died two years after his Possession and left the Isle to his Brother Amaury under whose Government she was re-peopled and rendred more fertil than heretofore having drawn thither several Families of Strangers by virtue of Immunities Exemptions and Priviledges He sent a famous Embassie to Rome to obtain of the Pope the Title of King. Hugo his Son succeeded him who left his Crown to his Son Henry He was the Father of Hugo the Second who died young and without Children Another Hugo his Cousin-German Son to the Prince of Pouille and Isabella Henry's Sister was placed on the Throne as his nearest Relation and took the Sirname of Lusignan to make himself more agreeable to the Cypriots John his Son inherited his Crown and likewise left it to his Son Henry the Second This Prince being troubled with the Falling-Sickness was declared unfit to succeed and his Brother Amaury having caused him to be taken by force sent him to Aiton the King of Armenia his Brother-in-Law who shut him up in Prison This Treason remained not long unpunish'd for the Usurper was assassinated in his Bed by one of the Officers of his Chamber named Simonnet Henry was afterwards establish'd to whom succeeded Hugo his Nephew This Hugo the Third of that Name was Father of Peter who merited by his rare Valour the Sirname of Couragious This Kingdom had never been so flourishing as it was under the Reign of this brave Prince He setled a Commerce in the City of Famagusta with all the Neighbouring States which enriched his Subjects and yielded him also an infinite Treasure He set out a Fleet of Fifty Gallies with which the King of Spain and those of the Isle of Rhodes having joyned their Forces he took the City of Alexandria and carried his Conquests as far as Syria After these glorious Exploits he intended to go to Rome to pay his Respects to that See but during his Absence the Count de Rocas to whom he had left the Government of his State debauch'd the Queen his Wife and usurped the Sovereign Authority Peter advertiz'd of this on his way returns speedily to Cyprus seizeth on the Traytor and delivers him into the Hands of his Justices to be punish'd according to the Laws of the Country But his great Estate his Credit and the Protection of the Queen having corrupted his Judges he was discharged as innocent and Visconti Master of the King's Houshold his Accuser condemn'd to a perpetual Banishment This Prince being rendred furious and cruel by the unjustice of this Proceeding extended his Revenge so far as made all the Cypriots suffer He loaded 'em with Irons and condemned 'em to die on the least complaint and meanest appearance of the smallest Crime He ravish'd the Honour of their Wives and Daughters and expos'd them moreover to the Brutality of the Ministers of his Passion not suffering them to spare any To encrease the Terror and Confusion of his Subjects he caused a new Prison to be built in the most publick part of the City and forced whom he pleased of the Inhabitants of both Sexes to work at it But a couragious bold Woman animated them to a Revolt in this manner Being a Gentlewoman born and finding her self forced to serve Brick-layers and Masons held up her Coats and Shift to her knees and remained in this immodest posture in expectation of the King who was to come to see the Workmen attended by all his Court. So soon as he was over against her she let down her Coats and sate on the ground but she arose presently after he was past with such Impudence as scandalized the Beholders Every one surpriz'd with this Spectacle and being not able to guess at the Reason some ask'd her why she was not ashamed of her Nakedness save only in the presence of the King She answered coldly that she and the Women with her did not look so exactly about 'em for having seen no Man but the King she thought she should not offend against Modesty but only in regard of him These People netled by this sharp Reproach fell on the Prince and massacred him His Son named Petrin or Petrote was set up in his place This new King having done the Ambassadors of Venice and Genoa the honour to eat at his Table these Ministers could not agree about Precedency but he decided it in favour of the Venetians The Genoeses to be reveng'd of the Affront which they pretended to have received conspired against him But their Conspiracy being detected all the Genoeses about the Palace were seiz'd on who were thrown immediatly down from an high Tower on the points of the Halberts All of that Nation were used throughout the whole Island in the same manner The Republick of Genoa concern'd at this Usage declared War against the King of Cyprus and for that end set forth a Fleet of Ships under the Command of Peter Fregosa This Captain made himself Master of Famagusta being of intelligence with the Queen-Mother whose Treason reduc'd her Son to such an extremity that he consented to yield the Place to the Genoeses and pay them a yearly Tribute and for the surer Payment thereof gave Prince James his Uncle and his Cousin-Germans for Hostages His Death put his Uncle in possession of the Crown being then a Prisoner at Genoa but he demitted it into the hands of his Son John the Second otherwise Janus being thus call'd from the City of Genoa where he was born the Mamelucs made War against him and overthrew him in a Combat wherein he was taken Prisoner and thence carried into Egypt These Barbarians restor'd him not to his Liberty till they had drawn great Sums from him and engaged him to pay eight thousand Crowns yearly Tribute whereunto his Successors should be also bound for ever to the Kings of Egypt This Tribute was punctually paid and the Venetians become Masters of the Place thought themselves oblig'd to send it every year to Constantinople since the extinction of the Mamelucs from whom Selim conquered Egypt Janus had only one Son nam'd John a Prince of a weak Constitution both of Body and Mind whom the Queen his Wife govern'd at her Will Their only Daughter nam'd Charlotta was first married to a Prince of the Family of Portugal who having been poysoned she espoused Lewis Son to the Duke of Savoy He reigned not long after the Decease of John his Father-in-Law James Bastard-Brother to the Queen who was design'd for the Arch-Bishoprick of Nicosia could not suffer a Stranger to bereave him of the Crown so renouncing