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A57506	The history of infamous impostors, or, The lives & actions of several notorious counterfeits who from the most abject and meanest of the people, have usurped the titles of emperours, kings, and princes / written by the Sr. J.B. de Ricoles ... ; and now done into English.; Imposteurs insignes. English	Rocoles, Jean-Baptiste de, 1620-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1766; ESTC R6847	75,558	204

in his Place the absent Voldemar whom they believed was dead They knew that Lewis bore a mighty Hatred to the House of Ascagne the two Electors of that Family Rodolph Duke of Saxony and Voldemar the First having opposed his Election declaring for Frederick of Austria his Rival in the Empire in the year 1313 at the Diet of Franckfort Voldemar the First starving Nicholaas Booch his Envoy in Prison for falsifying his Letters of Procuration razing out the Name of Frederick to insert that of Lewis contrary to his Master's Intention and Pleasure All these Considerations make me reasonably conclude they either thought him Living and had some News of him or were perswaded the Emperour Lewis only gave his Son the Administration of the Marquisate and Electorate of Brandenbourg till he returned or his Death was better confirmed It is almost impossible he should die in a strange Country and tell no Body who he was as likewise that the Emperour Lewis of Bavaria should send no Messengers to be assured of the Place and Circumstances of his Death when it would have saved him so much Trouble and secured so rich a Prize How many Examples are there of Princes who have quitted their Country thro' the same Motives that Voldemar did William Duke of Guienne and Earl of Portou whose eldest Daughter and Heiress Elenor was repudiated by Lewis the Seventh King of France called the Young and Married to Hen y the S cond King of England in the year 1152 also of the Old Blood of the Earls of Anjou which Lady became the occasion of most cruel Wars between those Martial Nations while her Father went on Pilgrimage to St. James of Galicia feigning himself Dead he in the mean time travelling like a miserable unknown Wretch about the World that he might exercise those rude Pennances for his Crimes after his Death being made a Saint to eternize his Memory Fiacre Son of Eugenius the Fourth King of Scotland lived a Hermite unknown to all near Meaux in France chusing a Spade before a Scepter Him also they made a Saint Julius Sabinus an Illustrious Gaul near Langres who boasted that he was descended from Julius Caesar and in the time of the Civil War between Vitellius Otho and Vespasian caused himself to be proclaimed Emperour by several Legions but having the worst in Fight lived Nine Years in a ●ave with his dearly beloved Wife Eponina where in the greatest Extremity to Poverty he had several Children by her but could not so conceal himself to avoyd Death by the Cruelty of the Emperour Vespasian who destroyed him with his Wife and Children The Proverb says Ill gotten Goods are soon lost Which was verisied in the Posterity of Lewis of Bavaria Marquis of Brandenbourg for neither He nor his two Brothers Lewis the Roman nor Otho ever possest it quietly but were constrain'd to abandon it to the Emperour Charles the 4th Thus as Carion concludes in the Fifth Book of his Chronicle the Bavarians were deprived of this Electorate and Marquisate of Brandenbourg by the same Deceits which they had used to frustrate the Princes of Anhalt after the Absence and Death of Voldemar who were justly the next Heirs CHAP. XI THE False Mustapha SON of BAJAZET The First of that Name Emperor of the Turks THere 's none can be so ignorant in History as not to have heard of Tamberlain Emperour of the Tartars and of the Victory he gain'd over Bajazet the First of that Name Emperor of the Turks In the Turkish Annals these two Monarchs are called the one Temir Can and the other Gilderum Can. The Title Can which signifies King or Lord being commonly used to any other Tartar Prince or Turkish Lord. But the Name of Tamberlain or Tamerland was given him because he was Lame which Land expresses in the Persian Tongue Some called him Temir Cuthlus signifying in the Tartarian Language a Fortunate Sword His Sirnames were The Terrour and Desolation of the East Terror Clades Orientis He also stiled himself the Wrath of God or the Instrument of his Indignation As for Bajazet he was Named Gilderum or as others say Hildrim which in the Language of the Tartars signifies the Terrour of Thunder and Lightning The Greeks called him Lelapa that is a Violent Torrent The Imposture of this False Mustapha who called himself the true Son of Bajazet certainly believed to have been killed in this great Battle where his Father was defeated and made a Prisoner obliges me to look backward and tell you of Bajazet with the Subject and Circumstances of the War Bajazet was a most Cruel and Bloody Parricide being the First who taught the Princes of his Family to Imbrew their Hands in the Blood of their nearest Relations he causing his Brother Jacup or Jacob to be strangled whom Paulus Jovius calls Solyman His Ambition was so great that without having any right but the sharper Scymitar he drove many Soveraign Princes out of their Countrys As Techrin Prince of Erzingue or Erzrum in the Greater Armenia whom some call Scander and make him King also of Armenia together with the Prince of Germian the Duzinon or Lord of Adem and others sadly experimented He had also much Afflicted Constantinople and made great Devastations in the Countrys of Emanuel Emperour of the East These expelled Princes being thus cruelly used went in Person to implore the Protection of Tamberlain against the Tyranny and Injustice of Bajazet The same Greek Emperour groaning under the severe Yoak of this Tyrant paying him Three Hundred Thousand Crowns Tribute every Year Tres myriadas Auriorum as Carion has it in his Chronicle was constrained to surrender up the City of Philadelphia to him which the Tyrant had so often Besieged in vain giving him also Hostages and being Obliged to furnish such number of Souldiers for his Wars this made him also send Ambassadours to represent his miserable condition Axalla the bravest of Tamberlain's Generals was a Christian of Genoese Extraction born at Copha in Taurica Chersonesus which was then a City and Collony under the Dominion of that State of Genoa This generous Man endeavoured also by his entreaties to perswade his Master to re-establish these Persecuted Princes and beat down the Pride and Insolenc● of Bajazet Tamberlain was pleased to hear him express what Glory it would be to his Reputation if he should deliver the Emperour of Constantinople and the other Princes from so unjust a Tyranny The Tartar was so sensibly touched with their Misfortunes that he dispatched away a Herald to require Justice on their behalf from Bajazet at the same time sending a very Rich Vest which is always by them presented from a Superior to an Inferior This so enraged the Turk that a War was soon declared Bajazet bringing an Army of Eight Hundred Thousand Men into the Field Paulus Jovius says a Million where in a bloody Fight he was absolutely defeated and taken Prisoner The Turkish Annals mention not the numbers of either Army only

Priests of Cahors as Guaguin Relates of the most Pions he could find hoping for that quality they would be well received by his Brother King Gontran he gave them his Letters written on Tablets cover'd with Wax and Directed to the chief Men of France These Priests were surprized by Gontrans People who understood by the Contents and the Confession of the Bearers what Gondoalds Thoughts and Correspondence intended He left not off for this misfortune but persisted in his indeavours to gain the kindness of Gontran He sent Ambassadors to him carrying Olive Branches that with the Symbole of Peace they might pass every where and get admittance Being brought to his Presence after he had demanded their Names and Country they made this Speech We are come towards your Majesty from Gondoald the Son of Clotaire who with Justice demands a part of his Inheritance which if your Majesty refuse he is resolved to do himself Right by force of Arms He has already a numerous Army in Guienne and Childebert will joyn him with considerable Troops Gontran was so displeased with their Discourse that he violated the Law of Nations ignominiously using the Ambassadors causing them to be tied with their Bellies to two Horses and whipt through the Streets The Persons of Ambassadors have always been Sacred they came desiring Peace and carryed the Symbole of it The Renowned Aeneas received the first marks of Friendship in Italy Jamque Oratores aderant ex urbe Latina Velati ramis Oliae Antiquity allowed none but the Gods to use it and their right devolved to Kings who are their Images for which reason as a Note of Dignity it was called Jus Regium The Injuries received by Ambassadors have ever been esteemed done to the Persons that sent them all Nations agreeing to Revenge a common injury Si Civis Pulsatus actio est Injuriarum si Magistratus Majestatis si Legatus bello Jure gentium agitur It is no wonder after this Procedure of Gontrans if they both made War with the extremity of violence Paulus Aemilius in an excellent Stile writes of the dismal Examples of Wars Domestick and Forreign Civil Wars filling the minds of Men with Distractions But Gontran soon delivered his Subjects from those Alarms by adopting Childebert for his Heir who was a Young Ambitious Prince desirous to augment his Dominion The Good Old man had no Children Legitimate nor natural so chose this way to make him depend in hopes of the Succession Gontran called an Assembly or Parliament to Celebrate this Solemn Action of Adopting his Nephew Childebert the better to seperate his Interest from Gondoald I can hardly believe what Guaguin the same Author that writes the cruel affront done to Gondoalds Ambassadors reports which is that he made them be brought into this Assembly and shew their Commissions as they had done to him already where they owned and confirmed the Truth of a Report had been discoursed before which was that Gondoald had robbed the Princess Rigonde Daughter of the Deceased King Chilperic taking away her Money and Jewels as she went to her new Husband in Spain And that some of Childeberts Courtiers were in the Action who absconded from the Assembly on that Occasion However Gontran proceeded to effect what he intended Adopting his Nephew Childebert and using certain ceremonies presenting the point of a Lance to his Breast giving him advice to make his Kingdom Flourish and at the same time Restoring those Towns and Places his Uncle Chilperic had taken from him The Allies of Gondoald Didier Momol Landase Valden and Sagittaire Bishop of Gap a Turbulent Man who had been Banisht from his Diocess being Informed of the Agreement between the Uncle and the Nephew and knowing that by this Adoption he would quit the Interest of Gondoald resolved all to do so at the same time Yet his unhappiness made him not loose Courage he retired to Comminges beyond the River of Dordogne caressing the Citizens Living Familiarly with them and making great Protestations of Friendship he perswaded them to carry all their Riches into the Castle for fear of loosing them if the Town were Besieged but the Castle he esteemed Impregnable Sometime after making them believe that the Enemy was near he caused them to take Arms opening the Gates and incouraging them to make a Sally but as soon as they were gone he shut them out driving their Bishop after them because he was of the contrary Party The Lords of whom we spoke still kept fair with him though they intended to leave him they had not yet broken all measures This place was so strongly sci●uated and so well provided of all things that Gontran dispaired to take it by force and therefore had recourse to an Artifice he perswaded the Queen Brunechilde Mother-in-Law of Childebert whom he had newly Adopted to write to Gondoald as if she were still for his Interest advising him to leave that Place and strengthen himself in Bourdeaux which was the Metropolis of a great Country and had an excellent Harbour perswading him to carry his Treasure with him Gondoald was deceived by her whom he believed advised him heartily It was a strange oversight to trust a Woman and of so ill Fame However he sent his Equipage with his Money and other Treasure to Bourdeaux But the Men whom Gontran had laid in Ambush beyond the River Gironde eased his Mules of their Burthen and carrying off this Rich Booty rejoyn'd the Army which Marched strait to Comminges Landegesille General of Gontrans Army Invented a sort of Chariots covered with large Oziers which defended those that digged Mines for the better taking the Town they also cut down great quantities of Wood in the Forrest there abouts and endeavoured to fill the Ditch The Besieged on the other side with Boats great Stones Pitch and Firebrands endeavouring to burn the Wood and hurt the Besiegers These attacks taking small effect Landegesille Tryed another way to accomplish his Designe he desired to speak with Momol and giving him a Friendly reproof for quitting the Service and interests of King Gontran to assist Gondoald assured him if he would cause the Town to fall into the Power of the King his Master he would for certain liberally acknowledge that Service and pardon all that was past Momol desired time to consider this Proposal and declared it to the Bishop Sagittaire Landase and Valden his intimate Friends shewing them the eminent danger they were in if the place should fall by force into the Power of Gontran and that therefore they ought to think of their safety They all gave attention to Momol's advice and followed it Resolving to fire a Church and while the People should run to quench it take that opportunity to deliver one of the Gates and receive Landegesille into the Town They made Carulfe their confident who was one of the richest Citizens there and their Landlord After this Resolution taken and the Day pitched upon on which the Church was to be

Satisfaction And now his Senses were charmed with the Sound of War-like Musick as well as with the softer Concerts of his Wedding Courriers were sent into England to observe what Preparations were making for Resistance But all being quiet the Scotch Army with their King at the Head entred Northumberland where they pillaged burnt ravished and killed sparing neither Age nor Sex behaving themselves without Humanity Till the Soldiers laden with Plunder refused to March further pretending no English joyned them The Counterfeit Richard one day hearing the Crys of the poor plunder'd English seemed much afflicted saying Oh! how wretched am I and my Heart as hard as Steel not to be troubled at the Misery of my People Intreating the King to prevent the Cruelty of the Soldiers and not suffer them to destroy his unhappy Country feigning great Commiseration and Tenderness Who answered him very coldly He might concern himself with his own Affairs and not with other Mens calling England his Country and People where none came to his Assistance though a War was undertaken for his Cause So chiding this Mock-King's Dissimulation and changing from that time his Respect to him Neglecting and contemning him when he found neither his Actions nor the Event of things correspond with his former Promises King Henry prepared to meet and repell the Scotch-Men at the News of this their Cruelty and Infidelity when the Lords on the Marches informed him of their Retreat They having done the best they could by Intrenching Fortifying themselves with an Intent as they did by their frequent Allarms and Skirmishes to wast and tire out the Enemy Just before this Advice he Summons a Parliament at London where several good Laws were made for the Publick Safety But Money being the Sinews of War they concluded on the Methods of raising it Giles Lord Dawbeney who was General of the Army had Orders to begin his March for the Frontiers of Scotland But he had scarce set forward when the Cornish Men took up Arms alledging for their Pretence great Taxes laid on them as they said for an Inconsiderable Scotch-War which was ended already when indeed it was but just begun And then their Barren Land and hard Labour of Mineing making them Incapable to pay them Thomas Flammock a Country-Lawyer and Michael Joseph a Farrier two bold Fellows being at the Head of the Rebels they Marched toward London and demanded the Heads of John Morton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Sir Reynald Bray both Privy-Counsellors And at Wells they were Joyned by James Twichet Lord Awdley and some other Gentlemen King Henry considering these Troubles should be first appeased recalled the Lord Dawbency with his Army sending Thomas Howard Earl of Surry in his stead a most experienced Souldier To whom he had given his Life and Liberty after the Famous Battle of Bosworth-Field which he had won of Richard the Usurper afterwards honouring him with the Office of Lord High Treasurer of England upon the Death of John Lord Dinham This Earls Commands were to raise what Men he could about the County of Durham and oppose the Incursions of the Scots till Giles Lord Dawbeney should have Dissipated and Chastized the Rebels of Cornwall and Joyn'd him with his Army Polydore Virgil Names the Lords and the Gentlemen who met the Royal Army commanded by Dawbeney increasing it with their Tennants About this time Charles the 8 th of France sent an Ambassador to give the King an Account of his Conquering the Kingdom of Naples and to renew his Allyance with England Henry sent some Lords to meet them so soon as he knew they were arrived at Calais and also to amuse them at Dover that they might not understand the Revolt in the West till it was supprest in which he was exactly obey'd In the mean time the Rebels decamped from Wells Marched to Salisbury and so to Canterbury hoping those People would Joyn with them but they were much deceived for they found them Armed and ready to oppose them being Commanded by George Earl of Kent and John Lord Brook with Fifteen or Sixteen other Lords The Resolution and Fidelity of these Men so astonisht the Rebels Army that many abandoned them Running from their Camp in the Night But they were too far advanced for a Retreat so continued their March to Black-Heath near London where they drew up themselves in Order to a Battle upon the Hill Thither the King sent Henry Bourcheir Earl of Essex Edmund dela Pool Earl of Suffolk Sir Richard Thomas and Sir Humphrey Stanly all Great Souldiers with detached Parties to encompass them and hinder their Flight whilst he March't streight to charge them with Dawbeney followed by the best Men of his Army Commanding Sir Richard Thomas to attack them at the same time from his Post which was so vigourously executed that notwithstanding all their resistance the Rebels were broken and lost Two Thousand Men besides vast Numbers of Prisoners the King missing but Three Hundred He pardon'd those wretched People only making their Chiefs Examples among whom was the Lord Audley who was drawn from Newgate to Tower-Hill and there beheaded Thomas Flammock and Michael Joseph were Hanged and Quarter'd and their Heads and Limbs set up in London and several places of Cornwall for the Terror and Example of others They admired the Constancy of Michael the Smith who contented himself that he should always be talked of A Deo says Polydore Medios ac insimos viros perinde ut Summos Gloriae cupiditas incendit The Scotch King taking Advantage by these Disorders entred the County of Durham giving his Men all manner of Licence With some of his Troops he Besieged Norham a Castle of Great Importance on those Frontiers into which Richard Fox the Vigilant Bishop of Durham had put a strong Garrison and well fortified the Place having foreseen the Siege He then advertised Thomas Earl of Surry who had already raised a considerable Army in Yorkshire and hearing the distress that Norham was in he Marched with all speed having a Great number of Gentlemen and Knights with him and a Body of near Twenty Thousand Men besides a considerable Fleet at Sea King James informed of his Advancing being within Two Days March Hastily raised his Siege and retired into Scotland where he was followed by the Earl who being in the Enemies Country plundred all he could and took several Towns But having no opportunity to furnish himself with Provisions he returned into the County of Durham During the War about this time Peter Hyalas a wise and prudent Man came Ambassador and Mediator from Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain a most Incomparable Princess King Henry appointed for his Ambassador Richard Bishop of Durham who was near the Place of Treaty where they met the King of Scotlands Privy Counsellors and treated of the Conditions of Peace The greatest difficulty arose concerning Perkin Warbeck Henry Positively persisting to have him delivered up as being the Disturber of his Kingdoms Peace and the