to carrie newes home Calibeius and Cherseogles the Bassaes were in that flight both taken prisoners and afterwards presented to Caitbeius the Sultan at CAIRE with eighteene ensignes of the Turkes Sanzackes which are great men amongst them hauing euerie one of them the regiment and commaund of some one prouince or other and are in degree next vnto the Bassaes. Neither was the fortune of Baiazet his nauie at sea better than that of his armie at land for as it lay at rode vpon the coast of SYRIA at the mouth of the riuer Orontes which runneth by the famous citie of ANTIOCHIA his gallies were by tempest and rage of the sea put from their anchors and in the sight of their enemies swallowed vp of the sea or else driuen vpon the main and there with the surges of the sea beaten in peeces Baiazet not a little troubled with these losses both by sea and land at length with much adoe by his embassadours concluded a peace with the Sultan vnto whom he restored all such places as he had before taken from him for which the â—ultan deliuered vnto him Calibeius Cherseogles Achmetes and Ishender with all the rest of the â—urkes prisoners which he had in great number in his keeping â—hortly after this peace was concluded betwixt these two great and mightie princes Caitbeiâ—â— the Sultan died who of a Circassian slaue by manie degrees of honour and by the fauour of the Mamalukes his fellowes obtained the rich kingdome of Aegypt which he right worthely gouerned to his immortall praise by the space of two and twentie yeares commaunding at one time the great and rich countrey of AEGYPT with all AFFRIKE as farre as CIRENE Westward and IVDEA with a great part of ARABIA and all SYRIA vnto the great and famous riuer Euphrates Eastward In the latter end of his raigne he ouercome with the importunitie of his wife Dultibe an Arabian borne a woman of an hautie spirit joyned his sonne Mahomethes a young man of about foure and twentie yeares old with him in the fellowship of his kingdome that so possessed of it his father yet liuing hee might the better enjoy it after his death Contrarie to the custome of the Mamalukes who of long time had not vsed to haue their king by succession but by their free election Who grudging to be thus defrauded of their wonted choise immediatly after the death of Caitbeius slew Mahomethes his sonne and in a few moneths after foure mo who one after another without their good liking had aspired vnto the kingdome neither could they be contented vntill such time as that they had according to their wonted custome set vp a Sultan of their owne choise About the same time that the aforesaid peace was concluded betwixt the two great Mahometane princes Baiazet and Caitbeius Charles the French king was making great preparation against Alphonsus king of NAPLES giuing it out That after he had recouered that kingdome he would forthwith from thence inuade the Turkes dominions in GRaeCIA Which great attempt the haughtie king was induced to take in hand by the persuasion of diuers of his nobilitie but especially by the solicitation of Lodouicus Sfortia duke of MILLAN whereby the whole state of ITALIE was in short time after sore shaken and Sfortia himselfe author of those troubles at last carried away by the French miserably ended his dayes as a prisoner in FRAVNCE Alphonsus the Neapolitane king doubting the greatnesse of the French king his enemie entered into a confederation with certaine of the states of ITALIE against the French but especially with Alexander the sixt then Bishop of ROME for the beter assurance whereof he gaue his base daughter in marriage to Godfrey Borgia the Bishops sonne and made him prince of CARINVLA his other sonne Francis he entertained also in great pay to serue him in his wars And by his embassadour Pandonius Camillus lately returned out of FRANCE gaue Baiazet to vnderstand what the French king had purposed against them both requesting him to aid him with six thousand horsemen and as many foot against their common enemie promising to giue them honourable entertainement during those warres And to further the matter Alexander the great Bishop sent George Bucciarde a Ligurian skilfull in the Turkish language embassadour to Baiazet to declare vnto him with what great preparation both by sea and land the young French king desirous of honour and the enlargement of his kingdome was about to inuade NAPLES and then with what great power after he had dispatched his warres in ITALIE he purposed to passe ouer into GRaeCIA and that hee had to that end earnestly trauelled with him to haue Zemes his brother deliuered into his hands whom he desired to vse as a most fit instrument for the troubling of his state and empire by reason of his many friends yet that his Holinesse hauing the French in distrust as a proud and ambitious people as also carefull for the danger of the citie of ROME and of the state of ITALIE in generall had entered into a confederation with Alphonsus king of NAPLES with their vnited forces to withstand that proud nation both by sea and land wanting nothing more for the accomplishment thereof than mony by which onely meanes Baiazet might as hee said prouide for the safetie of his kingdome in GRECIA if he would put to his helping hand to furnish them with mony for the entertainment of souldiors for as much as the citie of ROME and the kingdome of NAPLES were the surest wals of that side of the Othoman empire if hee not altogether refusing the charge would not spare for a little cost to maintaine the warre rather in that forraine countrey than to receiue it brought home to his owne dore concluding That it were much more commodious and easie with his treasures to represse his enemie in a strange countrey a farre off than by dint of sword and plaine battell in his owne A thing by experience well knowne that they which haue neglected and set at nought remote dangers for sparing of charge haue afterwards been enforced with greater danger to receiue the same into their owne bosomes when as they were become desperat and past remedie Baiazet who both by his espials and often letters and embassadours from Alphonsus knew all this to be true gaue great thankes to the bishop by his embassador for that he sitting in so high place did so friendly and in so good time admonish him both a stranger and of a contrarie religion of things of so great consequence yet for answere hee willed him to returne againe to his master with one Dautius his embassadour who should carrie with him both money and his other secret resolutions concerning those matters Amongst other things giuen him in charge was an Epistle written in Greeke wherein the barbarous king with great cunning persuaded the bishop to poyson Zemes his brother as a man of a religion altogether contrarie to his for indeed of
this it is which is hardly to be endured that you did not so much as once grieue at our so great iniuries as you ought to haue done but sent your gratulatorie embassadours vnto the bloudie common enemie who had but euen then slaine so many of our people At length our emperour came to AVLONA to your great profit about to passe ouer into ITALIE but neither then in the arriuall of your fleet appeared the good wils of the Apulians towards you which were of you so vainly promised neither did you so much as once moue to inuade the vpper part of ITALIE so neither seruing our turne nor well fitting your owne you haue alwaies lost the occasion of the good successe of your affaires But neither then neither at any time afterwards needed we your counsell or vnited forces for the Venetians to their paine felt both our forces and our faith as for the rest warre the notable reuenger of our wrongs most happily brought to passe at such time as you of your owne voluntarie made peace with the common enemie to inuade vs and did as vnkindly as impudently as it were blow wind in his sailes But we without your helpe haue notably repressed so great assaults of our enemies when as this same Hariaden Barbarussa put to flight their fleet at AMERACIA and happily slew the spanish pirats of CASTRVM and hauing againe recouered our owne cities tooke also from them some of theirs wherefore we are bound vnto you for no desert but we had rather forget these vnkindnesses than to faile you whom we haue once receiued into our friendship For we performe our fidelitie in deeds but it is his part to regard the time to way the danger to wait occasion which will not rashly commit his actions to the hazard of fortune You are come later than you should haue done for the setting forth of our fleet for Sommer now well spent followeth the pestilent time of Autumne so that marriners cannot in conuenient time be taken vp or safely thrust into the gallies for in long sailing who would not thinke but that such a companie of saylers vsually sicke at the change of an vnacquainted ayre would be in danger of their liues who would not feare shipwracke in their returne when as this same Hariaden so great a master at sea driuen vpon the Acroceraunian rockes in the moneth of August lost so many gallies A fleet would be rigged in Winter furnished and set forward in the Spring in Sommer is safe sailing and making warre Which that it may be so done we will for the common wealth sake persuade the emperour for the nauie once lost cannot vpon the sudden be againe restored for much gold whereof the Othoman emperour wanteth no store heaped vp by many ages If thou be wise take these things in good part as friendly spoken but whether the emperor will pardon thy boldnesse or not let himselfe consider truly we haue satisfied both him and our selues in speaking to thee so plainly These things seuerely spoken by the eunuch Bassa did so much the more trouble Polinus for that they seemed to haue been sent from the mouth of Solyman himselfe who was thought to haue heard all that was said For behind the Bassaes as they sate in counsell was a window with a brasen grate and a curten drawne before it that the emperour when he pleased might vnperceiued heare the complaints and sutes of all nations and note the manners of his great counsellors whose care for the administration of justice was so much the greater for feare of his presence Yet did not Polinus for this repulse detesting the double dealing of the Bassaes so giue ouer his sute but winning by gifts the fauour of the Capiaga or chiefe porter a man euer of great authoritie in the Turks court laboured by him to be brought to the speech of Solyman himselfe who faithfully performed what he had vndertaken So the French embassadour brought by him into the secretest place of the court which few Christians had euer been and so vnto the presence of Solyman recounted vnto him how all matters had before passed and most earnestly besought him not to faile the kings expectation of the fleet he had before promised who at that present was inuading his enemies in three places Whereunto Solyman courteously and expressely answered That the opportunitie of sending out of his fleet was past not by his will which was alwaies immutable and firme but by his late comming and the time of the yeare halfe spent but promised the next Spring without doubt to send vnto the king his friend and brother twise so great a fleet as he had desired against Charles their enemie With which answere the embassadour dispatched away Dixius into FRANCE vpon whose arriuall king Francis called backe againe Henrie his eldest sonne with his armie from the siege of PERâ—ENNA in SPAINE The princes and States of GERMANIE at the request of king Ferdinand and the nobilitie of HVNGARIE about this time decreed with one consent to take vp armes against the Turks for the recouering againe of BVDA and other the lost parts of HVNGARIE For besides the dishonour done to their nation at EXEK vnder the leading of Cazzianer and againe at BVDA vnder the leading of the Lo. Rogendorff they well saw that if they did not speedily relieue the Hungarians ouerwhelmed with the calamities of the Turks forces they shovld in short time be enforced to fight for their religion children wiues and liues against the same mightie enemie at their owne doores For preuenting whereof the princes and free cities of GERMANIE set out thirtie thousand footmen and seauen thousand horsemen amongst whom was Mauritius afterwards duke of SAXONIE then a young gentleman about twentie yeares old But the Generall of these German forces was Ioachimus Marquesse of BRANDENBVRG a man more for the honour of his house than the valour of himselfe preferred to that place yet so that vnto him was joyned eight others men of great yeares and experience by whose counsell he was to be directed When they were come to VIENNA king Ferdinands power met them where beside such as were taken vp in AVSTRIA Huganot Gouernour of STIRJA came in with ten thousand horsemen Vnto these the noble men of HVNGARIE Gasper Seredius Andreas Bathor and Petrus Perenus a man of the greatest authoritie power and experience amongst the Hungarians joyned themselues with fifteene thousand horsemen whither also Paulus the third of that name then bishop of ROME sent three thousand chosen footmen out of ITALIE conducted to VIENNA by Alexander Vitellius a most famous captaine The Marquesse with this great army marched from VIENNA alongst the riuer Danubius but so softly that the Hungarian and Italian captaines said plainly That the best part of the Sommer and fittest time for warres was passed ouer in loitering and dallying out the time to no purpose especially Iacobus Medices who had long before persuaded the king to be readie
true valour ouercome craued parley and so couenanting that they might with their liues in safetie depart agreed to yeeld vp the citie which they accordingly performed The spoile of the citie was giuen to the souldiers and the gouernment thereof vnto Almericke the kings brother earle of IOPPA By this victorie great securitie was gained vnto that side of the kingdome the enemie hauing now no place left in those parts whereon to set his foot About the same time also or as some write euen at the same time together with the emperour Lewis the French king the eight of that name tooke vpon him the like expedition for the reliefe of the Christians in the Holy land who setting forward with all the chiualrie of FRANCE and accompanied with diuers other great princes with a right puissant armie came to CONSTANTINOPLE where he was by Emanuel the emperour honourably receiued with all the outward shews of faigned courtesie that could be deuised But hauing passed the strait and landed in ASIA he found nothing answerable to that the dissembling Greeke had before most largely promised And to distresse him the more was by false guides before corrupted by the emperour conducted through the most desolate and barren countries where by the way a wonderfull number of his souldiers perished of hunger and thirst many of them also being cut off in the strait and difficult passages or as they straied from the armie by the Greeks themselues appointed by the malicious emperour for that purpose Yet after many dangers passed and his armie sore wasted he came at length into SYRIA and laid siege vnto DAMASCO the royall seat of Noradin the Turkish king which he so notably impugned that the defendants were almost out of hope to be able for any long time to hold him out Neither had it otherwise hapned had not enuie the inseperable attendant of all honourable actions frustrated so great an hope for the besieged Turks being brought to great extremitie and now euen at the point to haue yeelded the citie certaine of the Christian princes of that countrey vnderstanding that the king had promised the gouernment of that so famous a citie vnto Philip earle of FLANDERS if it should be woon and secretly grudging to haue a stranger preferred before themselues corrupted also as some say with the Turks gold fraudulently persuaded the king to remooue from that part of the citie where he lay and might in fine haue taken the same vnto another far stronger where after he had lyen a great while striuing with no small extremities he was inforced for want of victuals to raise his siege and to depart And so without any thing done woorth the remembrance returned againe into FRANCE detesting the verie name of Emanuel the Greeke emperour by whose sinister dealing so notable an expedition was brought to be of none effect to the great discouraging of all other Christian princes for taking the like againe in hand Now had the state of the Christians in SYRIA for certaine yeeres after the aforesaid expeditions rested in good peace when Noradin the Turke mooued with some injuries done by the Christians vnto the Turks and Arabians who by the leaue of king Baldwin dwelt in the forrest of LYBANVS came and straightly besieged PANEADE a citie of the Christians there by vpon whom the Christians in the citie now brought vnto great extremitie made a most desperat sally and had with the Turks a sharpe and cruell fight but oppressed with the multitude enforced to retire they were so hardly pursued that the Turks together with them entred the citie and put to sword all that came in their way Neuerthelesse the greater part of the citizens by good fortune had in good time before retired themselues into the castle which was of great strength and there stood vpon their guard Of whose distresse with the taking of the citie Baldwin hearing raised a great armie so set forward to relieue thē But Noradin hearing of his comming doubtfull of his owne strength after he had takē the spoile of what he could set fire on the citi◠so departed The citizens thus deliuered repaired againe the wals of the citie the kings power still defending them Noradin with his power all the while lying close in the woods not far off still awaiting the offer of some good opportunitie to take the Christians at aduantage which shortly after fell out according to his owne desire For the king doubting no such matter but supposing him to haue been quite gone hauing at his returne sent away all his footmen followed after himselfe accompanied onely with his horsemen and they also not verie strong but as he was passing the riuer IORDAN he was suddenly set vpon by Noradin and the Turks and after a sharpe conflict ouerthrown The king himselfe with some few hardly escaped to SAPHET a towne therby most part of his nobilitie being there either slaine or taken prisoners amongst the rest Bertrand of BLANQVEFORT master of the Templars with diuers others of great name fell at that time into the enemies hands and so were carried away prisoners After this victorie Noradin strengthened with new supplies from DAMASCO came againe and besieged PANEADE in good hope that the citizens discouraged with so great an ouerthrow of the king and out of hope to be by him relieued would now either yeeld the citie or else not be able long to hold it out But the king contrarie to his expectation had in shorter time than was thought possible raised a great power and aided by the prince of ANTIOCH and the countie of TRIPOLIS was marching to the reliefe of his citie of whose approch Noradin vnderstanding although he had made diuers breaches in the wals brought the citizens almost vnto vtter despaire rise with his armie and departed And so Baldwin hauing now twice relieued the besieged citie returned also to IERVSALEM Many an hard conflict with the Turks had this young king afterwards during the fortunate time of his raigne wherein that troublesome kingdome happily flourished amidst the miscreants all which to recount were long and tedious Yet among other things it is woorth the remembrance how that Noradin the Turke then king of DAMASCO besieging SUETA a castle belonging to the kingdome of HIERUSALEM was in a set battell by Baldwin ouerthrowne and put to flight with the losse of the greatest part of his armie King Baldwin had before married Emanuell the Greeke emperours neece and now the same emperour by Guido Stephanus and Trisillus his embassadours requested to haue giuen him againe in marriage one of the kings nigh kinswomen Vnto whom the king after mature deliberation had concerning that matter offered him Matilde an honourable ladie the sister of the countie of TRIPOLIS whom the emperour refused and afterward by the consent of the king made choice of Mary the daughter of Raymund prince of ANTIOCH lately dead Which the countie of TRIPOLIS taking in euill
Bassa considering with speed assembled all his forces and so set forward to relieue them hoping to haue come vpon the Christians before they were aware of his comming But Teuffenbach vnderstanding thereof with fiue thousand chosen horsemen went out of the campe to meet him suddenly comming vpon him fearing no such thing slew fiue thousand of the Turkes put the Bassa to flight and together with the victorie obtained an exceeding rich prey Now was there no lesse expectation and hope of the winning or yeelding vp of HATWAN than was before of STRIGONIVM but according to the chance of warre it fell out otherwise For Teuffenbach hauing with continuall batterie layed the breaches faire open and made choice of such souldiors as he thought meetest for the assault was in the performing thereof so notably repulsed by the Turkes that he was glad to retire with the losse of his best and most resolute souldiors which put him out of all hope of taking the towne by force For beside the losse of these good men he had scarce so many sound men left as might suffice to furnish his garrisons for defence of those frontiers by reason that the Hungarians were almost all shrunke home and of the Germanes were left scarce two thousand Besides that he had oftentimes craued new supplies of the archduke but all in vaine for which causes he was glad to abandon two strong forts he had built before HATVVAN and to leaue the towne now brought to great extremitie Thus two notable cities which were now as it were in the hands of the Christians and by the recouerie whereof the broken state of the afflicted Christians in HVNGARIE had been much strengthened were as it were againe restored vnto the barbarous and cruell enemie Whilest the Christians thus lay at the siege of STRIGONIVM and HATVVAN the Rascians of whom we haue before spoken striuing still more and more to rid themselues from the Turkish thraldome gathered themselues togither to the number of fifteene thousand betweene BVDA and BELGRADE vnder a Generall of their owne chusing For feare of whom the Bassa of TEMESVVAR with an armie of foureteene thousand went to fortifie and victuall LIPPA doubting least it should by them be surprised but hauing done that he went for in his returne he was met with by the same Rascians and twise fought withall in one day and both times put to the worse with the losse of the greatest part of his armie After which victorie the Rascians tooke BECZKEREK a strong towne standing in a marish foure miles from BELGRADE and slew all the Turks they found therein After that they tooke a castle called OTTADT and dealt with the Turks in like manner From thence they went and besieged BECHE a castle standing vpon the riuer Tibiscus or Teise where the towne adjoyning vnto it yeelded presently but they in the castle standing a while vpon their guard offered at last to yeeld also vpon certaine conditions But the Rascians knowing that the Turkes thereabouts had conuaied into that castle the best part of their wealth and withall that it was but weakely manned would accept of no conditions but needs haue it absolutely deliuered vp to their pleasure In the meane time the old Bassa of TEMESVVAR and his sonne knowing it to tend to their dishonour to suffer this base people so to rage at their pleasure about them gathered togither 11000 Turkes and so in great hast came to relieue the besieged castle Vpon whom the Rascians turned themselues and in plaine battell ouerthrew the Bassa and so pursued the victorie that of those 11000 Turks scarcely escaped 1000 the Bassa himselfe being there slaine and with him three Sanzacks his sonne escaped by flight In this battell the Rascians tooke 18 great pieces of artillerie and not long after tooke also WERSETZA and LVTZ two strong places After which so happie successe they sent vnto the archduke Matthias for aid but especially for canoniers professing themselues now vtter enemies vnto the Turkes The Rascians also about TEMESVVAR sent word vnto the other in the campe that they would come and joyne with them And they which inhabite the countrey betweene the riuers Danubius and Tibiscus by messengers sent of purpose vnto the lord Teuffenbach the archdukes lieutenant in the vpper part of HVNGARIE offered in short time to send him ten or twelue thousand men so that he would receiue them and their countrey into the emperours protection which he easily granted them and thereof assured them by writing And to the archduke himselfe they sent also their trustie messengers requesting him to send them a Generall to lead them promising vnto him all obedience which messengers departing from them the fourteenth of Iune shortly after returned with such answere as was thought most conuenient for their present state Thus against the comming of Sinan was HVNGARIE almost all on a broile The emperour long before distrusting the Turkes purpose for warre and well considering what a difficultie it would be for him with his owne forces only to withstand so puissant an enemie as was Amurath had by his embassadours praied aid of diuers Christian princes but especially of them of the empire as those whom this warre concerned most Wherfore he after the auntient and wonted manner of his state in so common and imminent a danger appointed a generall assembly of the Princes and States of the empire to be holden at RATISâ—ONE in the latter end of Februarie which for sundrie vrgent causes was put off vntill March and againe vntill Aprill and so afterward vntill May. At which time the emperour in person himselfe with the Princes Electors and other the great States of the empire being met togither with great pompe at RATISBONE and solemnly assembled into the bishops pallace began there to sit in counsell the 2 of Iune Vnto the which Princes and States so assembled after that the emperour had first by the mouth of Phillip Countie Palatine of RHENE giuen great thanks for their so readie apparance briefly declared the cause of their assembly he himselfe after some complaint made of the Turkish infidelitie in expresse words declared vnto them how that he by his embassadour then lying at CONSTANTINOPLE had in the yeare 1591 made a league for eight years with the present Turkish Sultan Amurath which league Amurath himselfe had approued and confirmed and thereof sent him publike and solemne instruments wherein it was prouided That no hostilitie should be on either side during that time attempted And yet notwithstanding that he contrarie to his faith giuen as an hereditarie enemie of the Christians had violated this league and by sundrie incursions barbarously spoiled and wasted not HVNGARIE onely but other of his imperiall prouinces also But especially by Hassan Bassa of BOSNA who first with a strong armie besieged battered and tooke REPITZ an antient frontier castle and after that WIHITZ DRESNIK CRASSOVVITZ with other places of name And had in his dominion and
Sigismund King of Polonia his letters vnto Amurath 1003 c Simon Countie of Montfort sent by Philip the French King into the Holy land represseth the furie of the Turks and so concludeth a peace with them for ten yeares 74 k Sinan Bassa the Eunuch ouerthrowne by Achomates 503 c. restoreth Selymus his battell against Campson before almost lost 530 g. by Selymus sent before into Iudea 533 c. hath Gaza yeelded vnto him 534 g. discomfiteth Gazelles comming to haue oppressed him at Gaza 535 c. slaine in the battell at Rhodania 540 g Sinan the Iew his short answere to Barbarussa 661 b Sinan Bassa by Amurath chosen Generall for the Persian warres 951 b. relieueth Tefâ—is 954 l. looseth seuen thousand of his souldiors 955 b. derided of his own souldiors 956 g. his proud answere to Amurath 962 h. displaced and cast into exile l. againe receiued into fauour 1003 d. ouerthrowne in the vpper Hungarie 1006 h. his letters vnto the Emperor 1020 g. sent Generall of the Turks armie against the Emperour 1023 f. taketh Vesprinium 1025 c. hath Palotta yeelded vnto him d. with an armie of an hundred and fiftie thousand men commeth againe into Hungarie 1040 i. taketh Dotis S. Martins l. besiegeth Rab. 1041 b. in assaulting thereof looseth twelue thousand of his men 1044 h. by corrupting of the Gouernour hath the citie yeelded vnto him l. besiegeth Komara 1045 b. raiseth his siege and breaketh vp his armie d. craâ—tily seeketh to trie the Emperours mind concerning peace 1058 l. sent for home to the Court. 1060 l. by Sultan Mahomet appointed Generall of the warres against the Emperour 1073 b. inuadeth Valachia d. in a great battell ouerthrown by the prince of Transyluania e. in flying in danger to haue beene drowned f. with a great armie commeth againe into Valachia 1075 b. seeing the generall feare of his armie vpon the comming of the Transyluanians flieth d. for feare delayeth his comming to Constantinople vntill his peace were made and there shortly after dieth 1087 d Siseg by the Turks besieged 1022 g. notably relieued 1023 a. againe besieged and taken by the Turks 1024 l Solyman Orchanes his sonne by his father made Gouernour of Nicomedia 183 c. taketh the castle of Zembâ—nic in Europe 185 b. he the first that brought the Turks ouer into Europe with purpose there to conquer and inhabit d. taketh the castle of Maditus c. winneth Callipolis 186 g. dieth 187 a Solyman the vnfortunat Baiazet his eldest sonne by the great Bassaes set vp in his fathers slead at Hadrianople 221 b. goeth ouer with a great armie against his brother Mahomet 241 e. by pollicie taketh the castle of Prusa 242 i. besiegeth his brother in Amasia i. returneth into Europe to appease the stirres there raised by his brother Musa and recouereth Hadrianople 244 b. in his excesse regardeth not the approch of his brother Musaâ—k forsaken of his souldiors flieth l. taken prisoner is by the commaundement of his brother Musa strangled 245 a. Solyman the Eunuch Bassa dealeth treacherously with the Kings of Arabia 670 m. Solyman hardly persuaded that his father was dead 567 d. saluted Emperour by the Ianizaries f. his letters to Valerius Great Master of the Rhodes 571 b. his Oration to his men of war declaring his purpose for the besieging of the Rhodes e. he maketh great preparation for the siege 573 a. his threatening letters vnto them of the Rhodes 578 h. commeth himselfe in person to the siege 583 b. his chollericke Oration to his souldiors d. displaceth his Admirall and punisheth him like a slaue 589 a. about to haue forsaken the siege b. comforteth his discouraged soldiors persuading them with patience to continue the siege f. his letters to the Great Master and the Rhodians sent by their owne embassadours 593 d. his speech vnto the Great Master at his comming to yeeld vp the citie 598 l. he entreth into the Rhodes vpon Christmasse day in the yeare 1522. 600 i. Solyman vpon the discord of the Christian princes and disordered state of Hungarie taketh occasion to inuade that kingdome 601 b. commeth into Hungarie against King Lewes with an armie of two hundred thousand men c ouerthroweth him in battell at Mohaiz 602 k. commeth to Buda 603 a Solyman in the quarrell of King Iohn against King Ferdinand coÌ„meth into Hungarie with an armie of an hundred and fiftie thousand men 609 a. without resistance entreth into Buda and besiegeth the castle 609 d. laieth siege to Vienna 610 k. without ransome releaseth certaine Christian prisoners 612 g. looseth his great ordinance vpon the Danubius k. burieth eight thousand of his Turks in the mines l. hauing lost fourescore thousand of his Turks raiseth his siege and returneth to Buda 614 i. he restoreth the kingdome of Hungarie vnto King Iohn k. returneth himselfe to Constantinople 615 a. maketh great preparations for the subduing of the territories belonging to the house of Austria as also for the conquest of Germanie with the short time he prefined vnto himself for the performance thereof 615 c. Solyman with a mightie armie commeth againe into Hungarie 618 e. besiegeth Gunza i. his proud letters vnto Charles the Emperour and his brother King Ferdinand m. shunneth to meet with Charles the Emperour at Vienna and so turneth out of the way into Carinthia 621 a. the causes mouing him so to doe b. returneth towards Constantinople 623 d. Solyman persuaded by Abraham Bassa resolueth to goe against the Persians 649 a. commeth with his armie to Tauris f. followeth Tamas the Persian King into Sultania 650 g. his armie strangely distressed by tempest k. hath Babylon with the countries of Mesopotamia and Assyria yeelded vnto him 651 a. he ransacketh Tauris f. discouraged by the harme done him by Delymenthes giueth ouer his warres in Persia and returneth to Constantinople 653 c. he with a wonderfull charge prepareth a great fleet at Suetia agaâ—nst the Portingals in the East Indies 670 b. Solyman by the French embassador incited to inuade Italie with an armie of two hundred thousand men commeth to Aulona 671 c. sendeth Lutzis Bassa and Barbarussa with his fleet before him into Italie d. conuerteth his forces prepared for Italie against the Venetians 673 b. in danger to haue beene slaine in his tent in the middest of his armie 173 d. inuadeth Corcyra â— carrieth away aboue sixteene thousand prisoners and doth good iustice vpon such Turks as had violated their faith at Castrum 674 k. Solyman angrie with the secret confederation betwixt King Ferdinand and King Iohn 695 c. promiseth to protect the queene and her sonne 701 c. with a great armie commeth to Buda 709 b. sendeth for the young King into his campe e. courteously receiueth him 710 h. craftily surpriseth the citie of Buda i. detaineth the Nobilitie of Hungarie l. diuersly persuaded by his Bassaes for the disposing of that kingdome 711 b. he sacrificeth after the Mahometane manner in Buda 712 m. pronounceth the doome of Hungarie and conuerteth it from a kingdome into
râ—nâ—ing of the league 391 a. in danger 398 h. Scanderbeg dieth 402 m. buried at Lissa 403 a. his bones digged vp by the Turks and of them greatly honoured 404 h Scodra besieged by Solyman Bassa 411 e. relieued by Matthias king of Hungarie 412 h. a yearely fee appointed by Mahomet to one to put him daily in mind of the siege of Scodra i. Scodra the second time besieged by Mahomet the great 415 e. sore battered 418 i. the fourth time assaulted 419 e. twelue thousand Turks slaine in this last assault 420 m. most furiously the fift time assaulted by the Turks 421. by composition yeelded vnto the Turk 426 k. the Scriuano rebelleth against the Turke in Caramania and giueth Mehemet Bassa a notable ouerthrow 1134 g. in a great battell ouerthroweth him againe the next yeare with an armie of fiftie thousand Turks 1142 h. hauing ouerrun a great part of the Turks dominions in Asia dieth 1150 g. his younger brother steppeth vp in his stead and in a great battell ouerthroweth Hassan Bassa and killeth him 1150 h Selymus ambitious and of a turbulent spirit and therefore of the Ianizaries and men of warre better beloued than his other brethren 478 l. aided by Mahometes the Tartar king riseth against his aged father 479 b. coloureth his rebellious purpose with the inuasion of Hungarie 480 g. marcheth with his armie towards Hadâ—ianople 481 e. in a great battell ouerthrowne and put to flight by his father Baiazet at Tzurulum 486 h. by the persuasion of the Bassaes by his father sent for home 491 c. chosen Generall by his father to go against his rebellious brother Achomates is by and by after by the Ianizaries saluted Emperour 494 g. causeth his father to be poysoned 495 d. putteth three of his fathers pages to death for mourning for their master 496 h. bountifully rewardeth the souldiours of the Court. 499 c. murthereth fiue of his brothers sonnes 500 g. causeth Corcutus his brother to be strangled 502 h. treason intended against him discouered 503 a. craueth aid of Aladeules and the other mountaine princes against the Persians 507 c. Selymus perplex ed. 508 i. receiueth great losse in passing the riuer Euphrates 513 c. he and Hysmaell compared together 515 d. Selymus with a great armie entereth into Armenia and taketh Ciamassum a city of the Persian kings 518 k. vanquisheth Aladeules the mountaine king putteth him to death and conuerteth his kingdome into the forme of a prouince 520 l. inuadeth Hungarie 521 b. sendeth his embassadours with presents to Campson the Aegiptian Sultan 525 f. encourageth his souldiors to go against the Mamalukes 526 h. passeth the mountaine Amanus and commeth into Comagena l. in the battell of Sing a ouerthroweth the Mamalukes 530 g. in doubt least Sinan Bassa had been lost becommeth exceeding melancholie 536 k. meeteth with Sinan Bassa at Gaza 537 c. passeth the sandie desarts and meeteth with Tomombeius at Rhodanus 538 c. giueth him battell and putteth him to flight 540 m. encourageth his souldiors to the winning of Caire 544 l. fighteth a great and mortall battell with the Mamalukes in the citie of Caire 545 b. causeth the citie to be set on fire e. putteth Tomombeius and the Mamalukes to flight and so taketh the citie 546 i. his embassadors sent to Tomombeius slain by the Mamalukes 548 k. ouerthroweth Tomombeius againe at the riuer of Nilus 550 h. causeth him being taken to be tortured and put to death l. cunningly reduceth the Arabians to his obedience 553 b. purposing to turne his forces vpon the Christians is strucke in the backe with a canker 561 a. his death concealed by Ferat Bassa 567 c Selymus the second by the Ianizaries saluted Emperour 827 c. appeaseth the tumultuous Ianizaries 828 g. sendeth Cubates his embassadour to Venice to demaund Cyprus of the Senat. 841 c. rageth to haue it denied him 842 m. be inuadeth the Venetians 845 e. in his rage about to haue put to death all the Christians in his dominious 885 f. sendeth out Vluzales his Admirall with two hundred gallies against the Christians 888 l. desirous of peace concludeth the same with the Venetians 904 k. by his Bassaes taketh Guletta from the Spaniards and the citie of Tunes 915 d. dieth c. Serinus Gouernour of Sigeth 821 e. his comfortable and resolute speech vnto his souldiours 822 g. burneth the new towne not now to be longer defended and retireth into the old i. his last speech vnto his souldiors 823 d. slaine and his head sent to Countie Salma f. the Seruians in mutinie amongst themselues are with a great slaughter ouerthrowne by the Turks 192 i Seruia becommeth tributarie vnto the Turks 192. wholly yeelded vnto the Turks 356 Ssetigrade besieged by Amurath 316 l. in vaine diuers times by the Turks assaulted 319 b. by the working of a traitor Amurath hath the strong citie yeelded vp vnto him 321 f Sigismund King of Hungarie with the Christian princes his confederats with a great armie inuadeth the Turks dominions 205 b. his proud speech vpon the greatnesse of his armie d. in a great battell ouerthrowne by Baiazet at Nicopolis 206 h. hardly escapeth himselfe by flight i. Sigismund prince of Transyluania in danger by his owne subiects to haue beene betrayed vnto the Tartars 1046 l. the conspirators apprehended and executed 1047 d. giueth his subiects leaue to spoile the Turkes c. entereth into a confederation with the Emperour 1048 k. persuadeth Michaell the Vayuod of Valachia and Aaron the Palatine of Moldauia to reuolt from the Turk 1049 e. sendeth Aaron the Palatine with his wife and sonne prisoners to Prage 1062 l. marrieth Maria Christina the late Archduke Charles his daughter 1072 k. ouerthroweth thirtie thousand Turks comming as vnbidden guests to his marriage l. in a great battell ouerthroweth Sinan Bassa with his Turks 1073 e. receiueth the Zaculians into his protection and hath from them great aid 1074 m. putteth Sinan Bassa to slight 1075 d. by force taâ—keth Tergouista from the Turks f. taketh also Bucaresta 1076 i. goeth vnto the Emperour at Prage 1088 g. besiegeth Temâ—swar 1092 g. with eighteene thousand men commeth to the aid of Maximilian the Archduke going to haue relieued Agria 1096 l. doubting the power of the Turke resigneth his principalitie of Transyluania vnto the Emperour 1100 k. repenting himselfe returneth again into Transyluania and taketh vpon him the gouernment 1106 g. by his embassadours offereth againe his principalitie vnto the Emperour 1109 d. in a great battell ouerthrowne together with the Moldauian by Michaell the Vayuod of Valachia 1122 h. by the fauour of the Nobilitie recouereth his state again in Transyluania 1139 d. in battell ouerthrowne by Basta and Michaell the Vayuod flieth out of Transyluania 1140 i. by the fauor of his subiects and countenance of the Polonians recouereth againe his state 1142 g. doubting how to be able to hold it against the Imperials yeeldeth it by composition vnto Bassa the Emperours lieutenant and goeth himselfe vnto the Emperour 1143 c