of no force but may freely be broken because not freely made Others alledged That when Antiochia was first wonne it was offered to Alexius and he refused it so fair a tender was a paiment Others argued That that generation which made this contract was wholly dead and that the debt descended not on them to make it good But most insisted on this That Alexius kept not his covenants and assisted them not according to the agreement Indeed he called these Princes his sonnes but he disinherited them of their hopes and all their portion was in promises never payed No reason then that the knot of the agreement should hold them fast and let him loose The worst of these answers had been good enough if their swords had been as strong as the Grecian Emperours But he coming with a numerous army in few dayes overcame all Cilicia which for fourty yeares had belonged to the Prince of Antioch and then besieged the city of Antioch it self Force is the body and resolution the soul of an action both these were well tempered together in the Emperours army and the city brought to great distresse Whereupon Fulk King of Jerusalem with some other Princes fearing what wofull conclusion would follow so violent premisses made a composition between them So that Reimund did homage to the Emperour and held his principality as a vassall from him And though foure yeares after the Emperour came again into these parts yet he did not much harm pillaging was all his conquest Some yeares after he died being accidentally poisoned by one of his own arrows which he intended for the wild boar A Prince so much better to the Latines then his father Alexius as an honourable foe is above a treacherous friend His Empire he disposed to Emmanuel his sonne Chap. 22. The succession of the Turkish Kings and the Saracen Caliphs Of the unlimited power of a Souldan Some resemblance thereof anciently in the kingdome of France NO great service of moment was performed in the reigne of King Fulk because he was molested with domesticall discords and intestine warres against Paulinus Count of Tripoli and Hugh Earl of Joppa Onely Beersheba was fortified and some forts built about Askelon as an introduction to besiege it Also skirmishes were now and then fought with variety of successe against Sanguin one of the Turks great Princes And here let the reader take notice that though we have mentioned many Commanders as Auxianus Corboran Ammiravissus Tenduc Gazi Balak Dordequin Borscquin Sanguin some Turkish some Saracen yet none of these were absolute Kings though perchance in courtesie sometimes so styled by writers but were onely Generals Lieutenants accountable to their superiours the Caliphs either of Babylon or Egypt Who what they were we referre the reader to our Chronologie Caliph was the Pope as I may say of the Saracens a mixture of Priest and Prince But we need not now trouble our selves with curiosity in their successions these Caliphs being but obscure men who confined themselves to pleasures making play their work and having their constant diet on the sawce of recreation We are rather to take notice of their Generals and Captains which were the men of action For a Souldan which was but a Vice-roy with his borrowed light shineth brighter in history then the Caliph himself Yet may we justly wonder that these slothfull Caliphs should do nothing themselves and commit such unlimited power to their Souldans especially seeing too much trust is a strong tentation to make ambitious flesh and bloud disloyall Yet something may be said for the Caliph of Egypt besides that the pleasures of that countrey were sufficient to invite him to a voluptuous life First the awfull regard which the Egyptians had of their Princes gave them security to trust their officers with ample commission Secondly herein they followed an ancient custome practised by the Pharaohs anciently who gave unto Joseph so large authority as we may read in Genesis Some example also we have hereof in France about nine hundred yeares ago Childerick Theodorick Clovis Childebert Dagobert c. a chain of idle Kings well linked together gave themselves over to pleasures privately never coming abroad but onely on May-day they shewed themselves to the people riding in a chariot adorned with flowers and drawn with oxen slow cattel but good enough for so lazy luggage whilest Charles Martell and Pipin Maiors of the palace opened packets gave audience to Embassadours made warre or peace enacted and repealed laws at pleasure till afterwards from controllers of the Kings houshold they became controllers of the Kings and at last Kings themselves To return to Egypt Let none be troubled pardon a charitable digression to satisfie some scrupulous in a point of Chronologie if they find anciently more Kings of the Egyptians and longer reigning then the consent of times will allow room for for no doubt that which hath swelled the number is the counting Deputies for Kings Yea we find the holy Spirit in the same breath 1. Reg. 22.47 speak a Vice-roy to be a King and no King There was no King in Edom a Deputy was King Chap. 23. The lamentable death of King Fulk WHen Fulco had now eleven yeares with much industry and care though with little enlarging of his dominions governed the land he was slain in earnest as following his sport in hunting to the great grief of his subjects And we may heare him thus speaking his Epitaph A hare I hunted and death hunted me The more my speed was was the worse my speed For as well-mounted I away did flee Death caught and kill'd me falling from my steed Yet this mishap an happy misse I count That fell from horse that I to heaven might mount A Prince of a sweet nature and though one would have read him to be very furious by his high-coloured countenance yet his face was a good hypocrite and contra leges istius coloris saith Tyrius he was affable courteous and pitifull to all in distresse He was buried with his predecessours in the temple of the Sepulchre leaving two sonnes Baldwine who was 13 and Almerick 7 yeares old Chap. 24. The disposition of Baldwine the third The care of Queen Millesent in her sonnes minority BAldwine succeeded his father who quickly grew up as to age so in all royall accomplishments and became a most complete Prince well learned especially in historie liberall very witty and very pleasant in discourse He would often give a smart jest which would make the place both blush and bleed where it lighted Yet this was the better taken at his hands because he cherished not a cowardly wit in himself to wound men behind their backs but played on them freely to their faces yea and never refused the coin he payed them in but would be contented though a King to be the subject of a good jest and sometimes he was well-favouredly met with as the best fencer in
Emissa and Cesarea young King Baldwine lay close in Askelon not daring to adventure on so strong an enemy With whose fear Saladine encouraged dispersed his army some one way some another to forrage the countrey King Baldwine courted with this opportunity marched out privately not having past foure hundred horse with some few footmen and assaulted his secure enemies being six and twenty thousand But victory standeth as little in the number of souldiers as verity in the plurality of voices The Christians got the conquest and in great triumph returned to Jerusalem This overthrow rather madded then daunted Saladine Who therefore to recover his credit some moneths after with his Mammalukes fell like a mighty tempest upon the Christians as they were parting the spoil of a band of Turks whom they had vanquished put many to the sword the rest to flight Otto grand Master of the Templars and Hugh sonne in law to the Count of Tripoli were taken prisoners and the King himself had much ado to escape And thus both sides being well wearied with warre they were glad to refresh themselves with a short slumber of a truce solemnly concluded and their troubled estates breathed almost for the space of two yeares Which truce Saladine the more willingly embraced because of a famine in the kingdome of Damascus where it had scarce rained for five yeares together Chap. 41. The fatall jealousies betwixt the King and Reimund Earl of Tripoli BUt this so welcome a calm was troubled with domesticall discords For the Kings mother a woman of a turbulent spirit and her brother his steward accused Reimund Count of Tripoli governour of the Realm in the Kings minority as if he affected the Crown for himself which accusation this Earl could never wholly wipe off For slender and lean slanders quickly consume themselves but he that is branded with an hainous crime though false when the wound is cured his credit will be killed with the scarre Before we go further let us view this Earl Reimunds disposition and we shall find him marked to do mischief and to ruine this Realm He was sonne to Reimund grandchild to Pontius Earl of Tripoli by Cecilie the daughter of Philip King of France great-grandchild to Bertram first Earl of Tripoli great-great-grandchild to Reimund Earl of Tholose one of speciall note amongst the primitive adventurers in the Holy warre His mother was Hodiern third daughter of Baldwine the second King of Jerusalem A man whose stomach was as high as his birth and very serviceable to this State whilest the sharpnesse of his parts were used against the Turks which at last turned edge against the Christians Proud not able to digest the least wrong and though long in captivity amongst the Turks yet a very treuant in the school of affliction who never learned the lesson of patience So revengefull that he would strike his enemy though it were through the sides of religion and the Christian cause For this present accusation of treason good authours seem to be his compurgatours for this at this time though afterwards he discovered his treacherous intents And because he could not rise by his service he made his service fall by him and undid what he had done for the publick good because thereby he could not attain his private ends He commanded over the Earldome of Tripoli which was a territory of large extent wherein he was absolute Lord. And by the way we may take notice of this as one of the banes of the Kingdome of Jerusalem That the principalities of Antioch Tripoli and Edessa whilest it was Christian were branches of this Kingdome but too big for the body For the Princes thereof on each petty distast would stand on their guard as if they had been subjects out of courtesie not conscience and though they confessed they owed the King allegeance yet they would pay no more then they thought fitting themselves To return to King Baldwine This suspicion of Earl Reimund though at first but a buzze soon got a sting in the Kings head and he violently apprehended it Whereupon Reimund coming to Jerusalem was by the way commanded to stay to his great disgrace But some of the Nobility foreseeing what danger this discord might bring reconciled them with much labour However Baldwine ever after looked on this Earl with a jealous eye Jealousie if it be fire in private persons is wild-fire in Princes who seldome rase out their names whom once they have written in their black bills And as the Italian proverb is Suspicion giveth a passe-port to faith to set it on packing so this Earl finding himself suspected was never after cordially loyall smothering his treachery in this Kings life which afterwards broke forth into an open flame Chap. 42. Saladine is conquered by King Baldwine and conquereth Mesopotamia Discords about the Protectourship of Ierusalem The death and praise of Baldwine the fourth THe kingdome of Damascus being recovered of the famine Saladine having gotten his ends by the truce would now have the truce to end and breaking it as not standing with his haughty designes marched with a great army out of Egypt through Palestine to Damascus much spoiling the countrey And now having joyned the Egyptian with the Damascene forces re-entred the Holy land But young King Baldwine meeting him though but with seven hundred to twenty thousand at the village Frobolet overthrew him in a great battel and Saladine himself was glad with speedy flight to escape the danger and by long marches to get him again to Damascus Afterward he besieged Berytus both by sea land but the vigilancie and valour of King Baldwine defeated his taking of it Saladine finding such tough resistance in the Holy land thought to make a better purchase by laying out his time in Mesopotamia Wherefore passing Euphrates he wonne Charran and divers other cities and then returning in Syria besieged Aleppo the strongest place the Christians had in that countrey so fortified by nature that he had little hope to force it But treason will runne up the steepest ascent where valour it self can scarce creep and Saladine with the battery of bribes made such a breach in the loyaltie of the governour that he betrayed it unto him Thus he cometh again into the Holy land more formidable then ever before carrying an army of terrour in the mentioning of his name which drove the poore Christians all into their fenced cities As for King Baldwine the leprosie had arrested him prisoner and kept him at home Long had this Kings spirit endured this infirmity swallowing many a bitter pang with a smiling face and going upright with patient shoulders under the weight of his disease It made him put all his might to it because when he yeelded to his sicknesse he must leave off the managing of the State and he was loth to put off his royall robes before he went to bed a Crown being too good a companion for one to part with
lavish physick on him in whom he seeth faciem cadaverosam so that death hath taken possession in the sick mans countenance finding this warre to be desperate and dedecus fortitudinis they even fairly left the Holy land and came into Europe meaning to lay out their valour on some thing that would quit cost But hereof hereafter Chap. 6. Richard of England and Philip of France set forward to the Holy land The danger of the interveiws of Princes THe miseries of the Christians in Syria being reported in Europe made Richard the first King of England and Philip the second surnamed Augustus King of France to make up all private dissensions betwixt them and to unite their forces against the Turks Richard was well stored with men the bones and quickly got money the sinews of warre by a thousand Princely skills gathering so much coin as if he meant not to return because looking back would unbowe his resolution To Hugh Bishop of Duresme for his life he sold the County of Northumberland jesting he had made a new Earl of an old Bishop He sold Barwick and Roxburgh to the Scottish king for ten thousand pounds Yea he protested he would sell his citie of London if any were able to buy it rather then he would be burdensome to his subjects for money But take this as he spake it for a flourish for pretending he had lost his old he made a new seal wherewith he squeezed his subjects and left a deep impression in their purses forcing them to have all their instruments new-sealed which any wayes concerned the Crown Having now provided for himself he forgot not his younger brother John Earl of Morton who was to stay behind him an active man who if he misliked the maintenance was cut for him would make bold to carve for himself Lest therefore straitned for means he should swell into discontent King Richard gave him many Earldomes and honours to the yearly value of foure thousand marks Thus he received the golden saddle but none of the bridle of the Common-wealth honour riches were heaped upon him but no place of trust and command For the King deputed William Bishop of Ely his Viceroy choosing him for that place rather then any lay-Earl because a Coronet perchance may swell into a Crown but never a Mitre For a Clergie-mans calling made him uncapable of usurpation in his own person Thus having settled matters at home he set forth with many of our nation which either ushered or followed him Of these the prime were Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury Hubert Bishop of Salisburie Robert Earl of Leicester Ralph de Glanvile late chief Justice of England Richard de Clare Walter de Kime c. The Bishops of Duresme and Norwich though they had vowed this voyage were dispensed with by the court of Rome quae nulli deest pecuniam largienti to stay at home His navie he sent about by Spain and with a competent number took his own journey through France At Tours he took his Pilgrimes scrip and staff from the Archbishop His staff at the same time casually brake in pieces which some whose dexteritie lay in sinister interpreting all accidents construed a token of ill successe Likewise when he and the French king with their trains passed over the bridge of Lyons on the fall of the bridge this conceit was built That there would be a falling out betwixt these two Kings which accordingly came to passe their intercourse and familiaritie breeding hatred and discontent betwixt them Yea the interviews of equall Princes have ever been observed dangerous Now Princes measure their equalitie not by the extent of their dominions but by the absolutenesse of their power so that he that is supreme and independent in his own countrey counteth himself equall to any other Prince how great soever Perchance some youthfull Kings may disport and solace themselves one in anothers companie whilest as yet pleasure is all the elevation of their souls But when once they grow sensible of their own greatnesse a lesson they will quickly learn and shall never want teachers then emulation will be betwixt them because at their meeting they cannot so go in equipage but one will still be the foremost Either his person will be more proper or carriage more court-like or attendance more accomplished or attire more fashionable or some thing will either be or conceived to be more majesticall in one then the other And corrivalls in honour count themselves eclipsed by every beam of state which shineth from their competitour Wherefore the best way to keep great Princes together is to keep them asunder accommodating their businesse by Embassadours lest the meeting of their own persons part their affections Chap. 7. King Richard conquereth Sicilie and Cyprus in his passage to the Holy land AT Lyons these two Kings parted their trains and went severall wayes into Sicilie King Richard in his passage though within fifteen miles of Rome wanting forsooth either devotion or manners vouchsafed not to give his Holinesse a visit yea plainly told Octavian Bishop of Ostia the Popes Confessour that having better objects to bestow his eyes on he would not stirre a step to see the Pope Because lately without mercie he had simoniacally extorted a masse of money from the Prelates of England At Messana in Sicilie these two Kings meet again where to complete King Richards joy behold his Navie there safely arriving which with much difficultie and danger had fetched a compasse about Spain And now King Richard by his own experience grew sensible of the miseries which merchants and mariners at sea underwent being alwayes within few inches often within an hairs breadth of death Wherefore now touched with remorse of their pitifull case he resolved to revoke the law of Wracks as a law so just that it was even unjust For formerly both in England and Normandie the Crown was intituled to shipwrackt goods and the King jure gentium made heir unto them which otherwise jure naturali were conceived to be in bonis nullius pertaining to no owner But now our Richard refused to make advantage of such pitifull accidents and to strip poore mariners out of those rags of their estates which the mercie and modestie of the waves and winds had left them And therefore on the moneth of October at Messana in the presence of many Archbishops and Bishops he for ever quitted the claim to Wracks So that if any man out of the ship cometh alive to the shore the propertie of the shipwrackt goods is still preserved to the owner Yea this grant was so enlarged by our succeeding Kings that if a dogge or a cat escaped alive to land the goods still remained the owners if he claimed them within a yeare and a day Tankred at this time was King of Sicilie a bastard born and no wonder if climbing up to the throne the wrong way he shaked when he sat down Besides he was
pleased himself in the style of Prince of Tyre then King of Jerusalem as counting it more honour to be Prince of what he had then King of what he had not And now the Christians began every where to build The Templars fortified Gaza King Richard repaired and walled Ptolemais Porphyria Joppa and Askelon But alas this short prosperity like an Autumne-spring came too late and was gone too soon to bring any fruit to maturitie It was now determined they should march towards Jerusalem for all this while they had but hit the butt that Holy citie was the mark they shot at Richard led the vantguard of English Duke Odo commanded in the main battel over his French James of Avergne brought on the Flemings and Brabanters in the rere Saladine serpent-like biting the heel assaulted the rere not farre from Bethlehem when the French and English wheeling about charged the Turks most furiously Emulation formerly poyson was here a cordiall each Christian nation striving not onely to conquer their enemies but to overcome their friends in the honour of the conquest King Richard seeking to put his courage out of doubt brought his judgement into question being more prodigall of his person then beseemed a Generall One wound he received but by losing his bloud he found his spirits and laid about him like a mad-man The Christians got the victory without the losse of any of number or note save James of Avergne who here died in the bed of honour But more of the Turks wore slain then in any battel for fourtie yeares before Had the Christians presently gone to Jerusalem probably they might have surprised it whilest the Turks eyes were muffled and blindfolded in the amazement of this great overthrow But this opportunitie was lost by the backwardnesse and unwillingnesse of King Richard and the English say the French writers To crie quits with them our English authours impute it to the enviâ— of the French who would have so glorious an action rather left undone then done by the English They complain likewise ofâ— the treacherie of Odo Duke of Burgundie who more carefull of his credit then his conscience was choked with the shame of the sinne he had swallowed and died for grief when his intelligence with the Turks was made known This cannot be denied that Saladine sent term them bribes or presents both to our King and the French Duke and they received them no wonder then if neither of them herein had a good name when they traded with such familiars But most hold King Richard attempted not Jerusalem because as a wise architect he would build his victories so as they might stand securing the countrey as he went it being senselesse to besiege Jerusalem a straggling citie whilest the Turks as yet were in possession of all the sea-ports and strong forts thereabout About this time he intercepted many camels loaden with rich commoditie those Eastern wares containing much in a little And yet of all this and of all the treasures of England Sicilie and Cyprus which he brought hither King Richard carried home nothing but one gold-ring all the rest of his wealth melted away in this hot service He wintered in Askelon intending next spring to have at Jerusalem Chap. 12. The little-honourable peace King Richard made with Saladine Of the value of Reliques BUt bad news out of Europe shaked his steadiest resolutions hearing how William Bishop of Ely his Vice-roy in England used unsufferable insolencies over his subjects So hard it is for one of base parentage to personate a King without over-acting his part Also he heard how the King of France and John Earl of Morton his own brother invaded his dominions ambition the Pope in their belly dispensing with their oath to the contrary Besides he saw this warre was not a subject capable of valour to any purpose the Venetians Genoans Pisans and Florentines being gone away with their fleets wisely shrinking themselves out of the collar when they found their necks wrung with the hard imployment Hereupon he was forced first to make the motion of in plain terms to begge peace of Saladine Let Saladine now alone to winne having all the game in his own hand Well knew he how to shoot at his own ends and to take aim by the exigencies wherein he knew King Richard was plunged For he had those cunning gypsies about him who could read in King Richards face what grieved his heart and by his intelligencers was certified of every note-worthy passage in the English armie Upon these terms therefore or none beggers of peace shall never be choosers of their conditions a truce for three some say five yeares might be concluded That the Christians should demolish all places they had walled since the taking of Ptolemais which was in effect to undo what with much charge they had done But such was the tyrannie of King Richards occasions forcing him to return that he was glad to embrace those conditions he hated at his heart Thus the voyage of these two Kings begun with as great confidence of the undertakers as expectation of the beholders continued with as much courage as interchangeablenesse of successe baned with mutuall discord emulation was ended with some honour to the undertakers no profit either to them or the Christian cause Some farre-fetched deare-bought honour they got especially King Richard who eternized his memory in Asia whom if men forget horses will remember the Turks using to say to their horses when they started for fear Dost thou think King Richard is here Profit they got none losing both of them the hair of their heads in an acute disease which was more saith one then both of them got by the voyage They left the Christians in Syria in worse case then they found them as he doeth the benighted traveller a discourtesie rather then a kindnesse who lendeth him a lantern to take it away leaving him more masked then he was before And now a little to solace my self and the reader with a merry digression after much sorrow and sad stories King Richard did one thing in Palestine which was worth all the cost and pains of his journey namely He redeemed from the Turks a chest full of holy Reliques which they had gotten at the taking of Jerusalem so great as foure men could scarce carry any way And though some know no more then Esops cock how to prize these pearls let them learn the true value of them from the Romane jewellers First they must carefully distinguish between publick and private Reliques In private ones some forgery may be suspected lest quid be put for quo which made S. Augustine put in that wary parenthesis Si tamen Martyrum If so be they be the Reliques of Martyrs But as for publick ones approved by the Pope and kept in Churches such no doubt as these of King Richards were oh let no Christian be such an infidel as to stagger at the
yeelded up this citie for nothing which cost so many lives they should betray themselves to the derision of the whole world That if these perished more men might be had but no more Damiata's being a place of such importance it would alwayes be a snaffle in the mouth of the Egyptian King On the other side the friends of the distressed Christians confessed That indeed their voyage was unadvised and justly to be blamed yet worse and more inconsiderate projects have armies oft undertaken which if crowned with successe have been above censure yea have passed not onely without questioning but with commendations But this is the misery of misery that those who are most afflicted of God shall be most condemned of men Wherefore they requested them to pity their brethren and not to leave them in this forlorn estate How clamourous would their innocent bloud be in the court of Heaven to sue for revenge on those who forsook them in this distresse And grant Damiata a citie of great consequence yet cities in themselves were but dead things and men were the souls to enliven them so that those souldiers which wonne Damiata if preserved alive might haply recover as strong a citie afterwards But finding their arguments not to prevail they betook themselves to arms by force to compell the adverse party to resigne the citie King John also threatned in case they denied to surrender it to give up to Meladine Ptolemais in Syria in exchange for Damiata At last according to the agreement Damiata was restored to the Turks and the Christian armie let out of the trap wherein it was taken Meladine out of his princely goodnesse furnished them with victuals and with horses to carry their feeble persons upon And thus the Christians had the greatest blow given them without a blow given them the Egyptians obtaining their victory not by bloud but by water Chap. 28. Iohn Bren resigneth the Kingdome of Ierusalem to Frederick the second Germane Emperour THere was also concluded a peace with the Turks for eight yeares And now matters being settled as well as they might be in Syria King John took a journey to Rome where he was bountifully feasted and honourably entertained by the Pope Here it was agreed whether at the first by his voluntary offer or working of others it appeareth not that he should resigne the Kingdome of Jerusalem to Frederick the second Germane Emperour who was to marry Iole the sole daughter of King John by his first wife though by a second he had another Martha married to Robert Emperour of Constantinople so that he was father in law both to Emperour of East and West Some condemned his resignation as an unadvised act as if he had first parted from his wits who would willingly part from a Kingdome whilest others commend his discretion For first his wife was dead in whose right he held his Kingdome and thereby a doore was opened for other litigious pretenders to the Crown Secondly it was policie fugere nè fugaretur yea this was no flight but an honourable departure Well he knew the Turks power to invade and his own weaknesse to defend what was left in Syria So that finding the weight too heavy for himself he did well to lay it on stronger shoulders Thirdly before his resignation he had little more then a title and after it he had nothing lesse men having so tuned their tongues to salute him King of Jerusalem that he was so called to the day of his death Lastly what he wanted in the statelinesse of his bed he had in the soundnesse of his sleep and though his commons perchance were shorter yet he battled better on them He got now more in a twelve-moneth then in seven yeares before going from countrey to countrey And yet the farther this stone rolled the more mosse he gathered In France besides rich gifts left to himself he had the managing of sixty thousand crowns the legacie which Philip Augustus the King on his death-bed bequeathed to the Templars and the Holy warre In England he received from Henry the third many great presents though afterwards he proved but unthankfull for them In Spain he got a rich wife Beringaria the daughter of the King of Castile In Italie he tasted very largely of the Popes liberalitie and lived there in good esteem But he went off the stage without an applause because he lost himself in his last act perfidiously raising rebellions against Frederick his sonne in law at the instigation of his Holinesse Nor recovered he his credit though after he went to his sonne Robert to Constantinople and there did many good offices He died anno 1237. Chap. 29. The true character of Frederick How the history of his life is prejudiced by the partialitie of Authours on both sides THe nuptiall solemnities of Frederick with the Lady Iole were performed at Rome in the presence of the Pope with all ceremonies of majesty and Frederick promised to prosecute in person his title in Palestine within two yeares Little hope have I to content the reader in this Kings life who cannot satisfie my self writers of that age are so possessed with partiality The faction of the Guelfes and Gibellines discovereth not it self more plainly in the Camp then in the Chronicles Yea Historians turn Schoolmen in matters of fact arguing them pro con And as it is in the Fable of the man that had two wives whilest his old wife plucked out his black hairs the evidence of his youth his young one ungray-haired him that no standards of antiquity might remain they made him bald betwixt them So amongst our late writers whilest Protestants cut off the authority from all Papized writers of that age and Romanists cast away the witnesse of all Imperialized authours then living such as Urspergensis is and generally all Germanes counting them testes domesticos and therefore of no validitie betwixt them they draw all historie of that time very slender and make it almost quite nothing We will not engage our selves in their quarrels but may safely beleeve that Frederick was neither saint nor devil but man Many vertues in him his foes must commend and some vices his friends must confesse He was very learned according to the rate of that age especially for a Prince who onely baiteth at learning and maketh it not his profession to lodge in Wise he was in projecting nor were his thoughts ever so scattered with any sudden accident but he could instantly recollect himself Valiant he was and very fortunate though this tendeth more to Gods praise then his Wondrous bountifull to scholars and souldiers whose good will he enjoyed for he payed for it But this Gold had its allay of Cruelty though this was not so much bred in him as he brought to it Treasons against him were so frequent he could not be safe but must be severe nor severe without incurring the aspersion of crueltie His Pride was excessive and so was
Dukes of Austria bear Gules a Fesse Argent in memory of the valour of Leopoldus at the siege of Ptolemais whereof before The Duke of Savoy beareth Gules a Crosse Argent being the crosse of S. John of Jerusalem because his predecessours were speciall benefactours to that Order and assisted them in defending of Rhodes Queens Colledge in Cambridge to which I ow my education for my first seven yeares in that Universitie giveth for parcel of her Arms amongst many other rich Coats the Crosse of Jerusalem as being founded by Queen Margaret wife to King Henry the sixth and daughter of Renate Earl of Angiers and titular King of Sicilie and Jerusalem The noble and numerous familie of the Douglasses in Scotland whereof at this day are one Marquesse two Earls and a Vice-count give in their Arms a mans Heart ever since Robert Bruse King of Scotland bequeathed his heart to James Douglasse to carry it to Jerusalem which he accordingly performed To instance in particulars were endlesse we will onely summe them up in generals Emblemes of honour born in Coats occasioned by the Holy warre are reducible to these heads 1. Scallop-shells which may fitly for the workmanship thereof be called artificium naturae It seemeth Pilgrimes carried them constantly with them as Diogenes did his dish to drink in I find an Order of Knights called Equites Cochleares wearing belike Cockle or Scallop-shells belonging to them who had done good sea-service especially in the Holy warre and many Hollanders saith my Authour for their good service at the siege of Damiata were admitted into that Order 2. Saracens Heads It being a maxime in Heraldrie That it is more honourable to bear the head then any other part of the bodie They are commonly born either black or bloudie But if Saracens in their Arms should use Christians heads I doubt not but they would shew ten to one 3. Pilgrimes or Palmers Scrips or Bags the Arms of the worshipfull family of the Palmers in Kent 4. Pilgrimes Staves and such like other implements and accoutâ—ements belonging unto them 5. But the chiefest of all is the Crosse which though born in Arms before yet was most commonly and generally used since the Holy warre The plain Crosse or S. Georges Crosse I take to be the mother of all the rest as plain-song is much senior to any running of division Now as by transposition of a few letters a world of words are made so by the varying of this Crosse in form colour and metall ringing as it were the changes are made infinite severall Coats The Crosse of Ierusalem or five Crosses most frequently used in this warre Crosse Pâ—â—ée because the ends thereof are broad Fichée whose bottom is sharp to be fixed in the ground Wavée which those may justly wear who sailed thither through the miseries of the sea or sea of miseries Molinée because like to the rind of a mill Saltyrée or S. Andrews Crosse Florid or garlanded with flowers the Crosse crossed Besides the divers tricking or dressing as piercing voiding fimbriating ingrailing couping And in fansie and devices there is still a plus ultra insomuch that Crosses alone as they are variously disguised are enough to distinguish all the severall families of Gentlemen in England Exemplary is the Coat of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham five Scallop-shells on a plain Crosse speaking his predecessours valour in the Holy warre For Sir Nicolas de Villiers Knight followed Edward the first in his warres in the Holy land and then and there assumed this his new Coat For formerly he bore Sable three Cinquefoils Argent This Nicolas was the ancestour of the Duke of Buckingham lineally descended from the ancient familie of Villiers in Normandie then which name none more redoubted in this service For we find John de Villiers the one and twentieth Master of the Hospitallers and another Philip de Villiers Master of Rhodes under whom it was surrendred to the Turks a yeelding equall to a conquest Yet should one labour to find a mysterie in all Arms relating to the qualitie or deserts of the owners of them like Chrysippus who troubled himself with great contention to find out a Stoicall assertion of Philosophie in every fiction of the Poets he would light on a labour in vain For I beleeve be it spoken with loyaltie to all Kings of Arms and Heralds their Lieutenants in that facultie that at the first the will of the bearer was the reason of the bearing or if at their originall of assuming them there were some speciall cause yet time since hath cancelled it And as in Mythologie the morall hath often been made since the fable so a sympathie betwixt the Arms and the bearer hath sometimes been of later invention I denie not but in some Coats some probable reason may be assigned of bearing them But it is in vain to digge for mines in every ground because there is lead in Mendip hills To conclude As great is the use of Arms so this especially To preserve the memories of the dead Many a dumbe monument which through time or sacriledge hath lost his tongue the epitaph yet hath made such signes by the scutcheons about it that Antiquaries have understood who lay there entombed Chap. 25. Some offers of Christian Princes for Palestine since the end of the Holy warre by Henry the fourth of England Charles the eighth of France and Iames the fourth of Scotland AS after that the bodie of the sunne is set some shining still surviveth in the west so after this Holy warre was expired we find some straggling rayes and beams of valour offering that way ever and anon the Christian Princes having a bout with that designe To collect the severall essayes of Princes glancing on that project were a task of great pains and small profit specially some of them being umbrages and State-representations rather then realities to ingratiate Princes with their subjects or with the oratorie of so pious a project to woo money out of peoples purses or thereby to cloke and cover armies levied to other intents Besides most of these designes were abortive or aborsive rather like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant Yet to save the Readers longing we will give him a tast or two and begin with that of our Henry the fourth of England The end of the reigne of this our Henry was peaceable and prosperous For though his title was builded on a bad foundation yet it had strong buttresses most of the Nobilitie favoured and fensed it And as for the house of York it appeared not its best bloud as yet ranne in feminine veins and therefore was the lesse active Now King Henry in the sunne-shine evening of his life after a stormie day was disposed to walk abroad and take in some forrein aire He pitched his thoughts on the Holy warre for to go to Jerusalem and began to provide for the
this mark ☉ which reduceth it to the yeare it endeth in Br. standeth for Brother S. Sonne M. Moneths D. Dayes Note whilest there were Caliphs of Egypt then the Sultans were but Deputies and Lieutenants but afterwards the Mamaluke Sultans were absolute Princes acknowledging no Superiour A Chronologicall Table Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Caliphs of Syria Caliphs of Egypt 1095 URBANE the second 8 ALEXIUS COMâ—ENê° 15 HENRY the fourth 40 WILLIAM RUFUS 8 PHILIP the first 36 The Councel of Clermont foundeth the Holy Warre     MUSTETAHER 1 MUSTRAL 1 6 9 16 41 9 37 1. VOYAGE under GODFREY Duke of Bouillon     2 2 7 10 17 42 10 38 Nice wonne by the Christians     3 3 8 11 18 43 11 39 Antioch wonne by the Christians BOEMUND 1    4 4 9 M. 4 D. 18 19 44 12 40 Jerusalem wonne by the Christians 2    5 5 1100 PASCHAL the second 2 20 45 13 41 GODFREY King of Jerusalem 1 He is taken captive â—ancred manageth the State in his absence 3 BERNARD 1 1. ARNULPHUS M. 5 â— GERARD 1 6 6 1 3 21 46 HENRY the first 1 42 BALDWINE his brother 2. VOYAGE under severall Princes Prelates 1 Cesaria wonne by the Christians 4 2 II. DABERTUS He stickleth for Jerusalem to get it from the King 1 2 7 ELAMIR S. 1 2 4 22 47 2 43 Apamia Laodicea wonne by the Christians 2 5 3 2 3 8 2 3 5 23 48 3 44 3 Boemund ransomed 6 4 3 II. REIMUND le Podio 1 9 3 4 6 24 49 4 45 Ptolemais wonne by the Christians 4 He unfortunately besiegeth Charâ—as 7 5 Flieth to Antioch 4 2 10 4 5 7 25 M. 10 5 46 5 Travelleth into France 8 6 III. EBREMARUS put in by the King displaced by the Pope 1 Thence to Rome 5 3 11 5 6 8 26 HENRY the fifth 1 6 47 6 9 7 2 6 4 12 6 7 9 27 2 7 48 7 Returneth and wasteth Grecia with his navie 10 8 3 Dieth in Sicily 7 5 13 7 8 10 28 3 8 49 8 11 9 IV. GIâ—ELLINUS Archbishop of Arles 1 6 14 8 9 11 29 4 9 LEWIS the Grosse 2 Tripolis wonne by the Christians 9 BOEMUND the second S. â—et a child and living in Apulia in whose minoritie first Tancred then Roger his kinsman were Princes in trust 1 10 2 7 15 9 1110 12 30 5 10 3 Berytus Sidon wonne by the Christians 10 2 11 3 8 16 10 1 13 31 6 11 4 11 3 12 4 9 17 11 2 14 32 7 12 5 12 4 13 V. ARNULPHUS Archdeacon of Jerusalem 1 10 18 12 3 15 33 8 13 6 13 5 14 2 11 19 13 4 16 34 9 14 7 14 6 15 3 12 20 14 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Caliphs of Syria Caliphs of Egypt 1115 17 35 10 15 8 15 7 16 4 13  21 15 6 18 36 11 16 9 16 8 17 5 14  22 16 7 M. 5 D. 9 37 12 17 10 Baldwines voyages into Egypt 1. when he took Pharamia 17 9 18 He is accused for his wicked life posteth to Rome and there buyeth to be innocent 6 15  23 17 8 GELASIUS 1 D. 5. CALO JOHANNES S. 1 13 18 11 Baldwines voyages into Egypt 2. when he got his death 18 10 19 7 16  MUSTERASâ—MAD 1 18 9  2 14 19 12 BALDVVINE the second his kinsman 1 Roger fighting unadvisedly with the Turks is slain ☉ 11 20 VI. GUARIMUNDê° of Amiens 1 17 HUOâ— de Pagahis GODFRID of S. Omars 1 2 19 1120 CALIXTUS the second 2 3 15 20 13 2 12 21 2 18 2 3 20 1 3 4 16 21 14 3 13 22 3 19 3 4 21 2 4 5 17 22 15 He fighteth on disadvantage with the Turks and is taken captive 4 14 23 4 20 These first nine yeares there were but nine Templars 4 5 22 3 5 6 18 23 16 5 15 24 5 21 5 6 23 4 M. 10 D. 13 7 M. 9 24 17 He is dearly ransomed Tyre taken by the Christians 6 16 25 6 22 6 7 24 5 HONORIUS the second 2 8 LOTHARIUS the Saxon 1 25 18 Baldwine getteth so much spoil from the conquered Turks as serveth to pay his ransome 7 Boemund now of age cometh to Antioch marrieth King Baldwines daughter 17 26 7 23 7 RAâ—CHID S. afterwards deposed by the WISEMAN of the Ismaâ—lites 1 25 6 3 9 2 26 19 8 18 27 8 24 8 2 26 7 4 10 3 27 20 9 19 28 9 25 The Order of the Templars confirmed by the Pope and a Councel 9 3 27 8 5 11 4 28 21 10 20 29 VII STEPHANUS suspected to have been poysoned by the King 1 26 10  28 9 M. 2 D. 3 12 5 29 22 11 21 30 2 27 EVERARDê° master of the Templars to whom Peâ—er Cleniacensis writ a book in praise of this Order 1  29 1130 INNOCENTIUS the second 1 13 6 30 23 12 He is surprised and slain in Cilicia 22 31 VIII WILLIAM Prior of the Sepulchre 1 28 2  30 1 2 14 7 31 24 13 Alice the Relict of Boemund Princesse Regent in the minoritie of Constantia her daughter 1 32 2 29 3  31 2 3 15 8 32 25 FULK Earl of Anjou in right of Millecent his wife eldest daughter to K. Baldvvine 1 2 33 3 30 4  32 3 4 16 9 33 26 2 3 34 4 31   33 4 5 17 10 34 27 3 4 35 5 32   34 1135 6 18 11 35 28 4 5 36 6 33  MUCTAPHIL S. to Mustetaher 1 35 6 7 19 12 STEâ—HEN the Usurper 1 29 5 REIMUND Earl of Poictou in right of Constantia his wife He acknowledgeth himself vassall to the Grecian Emperour and resigneth Cilicia to him 1 RODULPHUS chosen Patriarch by the Laitie 1 7 34  2 ELHAPHIT S. In the 20 yeare of his reigne he was killed by one Nosradine Vide Tyr. lib. 18. cap. 49. Calvis in Anno 1156. 1 7 8 20 13 2 30 6 2 2 8 35  3 2 8 9 21 CONRADUS the third 1 3 LEWIS the seventh or the Younger 1 7 3 3 9 36 ROBERT of Burgundie Tyr. lib. 15 c 6 4 3 9 10 22 2 4 2 8 4 4 10 37  5 4 1140 11 23 3 5 3 9 5 5 11 38  6 5 1 12 24 4 6 4 10 6 6 12 39  7 6 2 13 M. 7 5 7 5 BALDWINE the third S. Edessa wonne by Sanguine from the Christians 1 7 ALMERICUS 1 13 40  8 7 3 M. 7
D. 8 EMANUEL Comnenus S. 1 6 8 6 2 8 2 14 41  9 8 4 CELESTINE the second M. 5 2 7 9 7 3 9 3 15 42  10 9 5 LUOIUS the second M. 11 3 8 10 8 4 10 4 9. FULCHER Archbishop of Tyre 1 43  11 10 6 EUGENIUS the third 1 4 9 11 9 5 11 5 2 44  12 11 7 2 5 10 12 10 3. VOYAGE under Coâ—â—ade the Emperour Lewis King of France 6 He honourably entertaineth the K. of Fran. Is slain in battel by Noradine Tyr. lib. 17. c. 9 12 6 3 45  13 12 8 3 6 11 13 11 Damascus besieged in vain 7 13 7 4 46  14 13 9 4 7 12 14 12 Discords betvvixt Baldvvine and his mother Millecent 8 CONSTANTIA his wâ—â— Princesse 1 8 5 47 Gaza given to the Templars to defend BERNARD de Tâ—eellape 15 14 1150 5 8 13 15 13 9 2 9 6 48  16 15 1 6 9 14 16 14 10 3 10 7 49  17 16 2 7 10 FREDERICUS Barbarossa 1 17 15 11 4 11 8 50 The Templars with BERNARD their Master through their own covetousnesse slain at Askelon ☉ 18 17 3 M. 4 D. 12 ANASTASIUS the fourth 11 2 18 16 12 5 12 The Hospitallers rebel against the Patriarch deny to pay tithes 9 51  19 18 4 M. 4 D. 24 12 3 19 17 Baldwine taketh the citie of Askelon 13 RAINOLD of Castile marrieth Constantia and is Prince in her right ☉ 1 13 10 52  20 19 1155 ADRIAN the fourth 2 13 4 HENRY the second 1 18 14 He to despite the Grecian Emperour wasteth the island Cyprus 2 Almerick cruelly tormented for speaking against Fr. Reinolds marriage 14 In vain he crawleth to Rome to complain of them 11 53 BERYLAND de Blanchfort 1 21 20 6 3 14 5 2 19 15 3 15 12 54 2 22 EIHADACH 1 7 4 15 6 3 20 16 4 16 13 III. AUGERIUS de Balben He is taken prisoner Tyr. l. 18. c. 15 3 23 These Caliphs of Egypt are very difficult to regulate by Chronologie and are ever Heteroclites either deficient or redundant in the proportion of time consenting with other Princes Hitherto we have followed Helvicus now â—dhere to Tyrius lib. 19. cap. 19. lib. 20. cap. 12. 2 8 M. 8 D. 28 16 7 4 21 17 5 17 14  PHILIP of Naples 1 24 3 9 ALEXANDER the third 1 17 8 5 22 18 6 18 X. AMALRICUS Prior of the Sepulchre 1  Afterward he renounceth his place Tyr. lib. 20. c. 24. 2 25 4 1160 2 18 9 6 23 Order of the Carmelites first begun in Syria 19 7 19 2 IIII. ARNOLDUS de Campis 26 5 1 3 19 10 7 24 20 Reinold carried captive to Aleppo 8 20 3   MUSTENIGED 1 6 2 4 20 11 8 25 21 BOEMUND the third S. to Reimund 1 He prescribeth rules to the Carmelites 21 4   2 7 3 5 21 12 9 26 ALMERICK his Br. 1 2 22 5   3 8 4 6 22 13 10 27 2 3 23 6   4 9 5 7 23 14 11 28 3 4 24 7 V. GILBERTUS Assalit Who to get Pelusium for his own Order instigated K. Almerick contrary to his oath to invade Egypt 12 Templars hanged for traytours 5 Sanar Dirgon fight for the Sultany of Egypt 10 6 8 24 15 12 29 At the instance of Sultan Saner he goeth into Egypt and driveth out Syracon 4 He is conquered and taken prisoner ransometh himself 5 25 8  OTTO de Sancto Amando one that feared neither God nor man Tyr. lib. 21. c. 29. 6 11 7 9 25 16 13 30 Cesarea-Philippi lost 5 6 26 9   7 12 8 10 26 17 14 31 Almerick contrary to his promise invadeth Egypt 6 7 27 10   8 13 9 11 27 18 15 32 7 8 28 11   9 14 1170 12 28 19 16 33 He taketh a voyage into Grecia to visit the Emperour his kinsman 8 9 29 12   MUSTEZ 1 S. 1 15 1 13 29 20 17 34 9 10 30 13 VI. CASTUS  2 16 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1172 14 30 21 18 35 10 11 31 14   3 SALADINE with his horsenace knocketh out the brains of Elhadach the last Turkish Caliph in Egypt Tyr. lib. 20. cap. 12. 3 15 31 22 19 36 11 12 32 15 VII JOBERTUS The Templars Safely kill the Embassadour of the Assasineâ— 4  4 16 32 23 20 37 BALDWINE the fourth 1 13 33 16  5  1175 17 33 24 21 38 2 14 34 17   6  6 18 34 25 22 39 William Marquesse of Montferrat marrieth Sibyll the Kings sister 3 15 35 18 VIII ROGER de Moris  7  7 19 35 26 23 40 Saladine shamefully conquered at Askelon 4 Reinold of Castile once Prince of Antioch ransomed from captivity 16 36 19   8 He getteth Damascus the whole Turkish kingdome in Syâ—ia Tyr. lib. 21. c. 6. in despite of Noradines sonne These great figures reckoÌ„ Saladines reigne of 16 yeares for so many Authours give him froÌ„ his seising of the kingdome of Damasc. But if we count his reigne from the killing of the Egyptian Caliph he began far sooner 1 8 20 36 27 24 41 5 17 37 20  ARNOLDUS de Troge Tyr. lib. 22. c. 7 9 2 9 21 37 28 25 42 Fatall jealousies betwixt the King and Reimund Prince of Tripoli for many yeares 6 18 38 21   10 3 1180 M. 11 D. 29 M. 5 ALEXIUS COMNENê° 1 29 26 PHILIP Augustus S. 1 7 Boemund by putting away Theodora his lawfull wife causeth much trouble in this State 19 39 22   NARZAI S. 1 4 1 LUCIUS the third 1 2 30 27 2 8 20 40 XI HERACLIUS Archbish. of Cesarea 1   2 5 2 2 ANDRONICUS S. 1 31 28 3 9 21 41 2   3 6 3 3 2 32 29 4 Baldwine disabled with leprosie retireth himself from managing the State 10 22 42 3   4 7 4 4 M. 11. 33 30 5 11 23 43 4  He dieth in an Embassie to the Princes in Europe 5 8 5 M. 3 D. 28 URBANE the third ISAACâ—US ANGELUS 1 34 31 6 BALDWINE the fifth after eight moneths poysoned 24 44 He travelleth into the West cometh into England consecrateth the Temple-church in LondoÌ„ returneth without any aid 5 He went with Heraclius into the West returneth GERARDUS RIDFORD 6 9 6 M. 10 D. 25 2 35 32 7 GUY de Lusignan in right of Sibyll his wife 1 25 Antioch by the Patriarch betrayed to Saladine ☉ 45 6   7 10 7 GREGORY the eighth M. 1. D. 27. 3 36 33 8 1
CONRADE Marquesse of Montferrat defendeth Tyre and is chosen King Guy taken prisoner Jerusalem won by Saladine 2 26 46 7 is slain in a battel neare Ptolemais He is taken prisoner 8 11 8 CLEMENT the third 1 4 37 34 9 2 Guy having got libertie besiegeth Ptolemais 3 27 8 IX GARNERIUS de Neapoli Syriae TERICUS Master of the Templars during Gerards durance Gerard is set at libertie and slain in the siege of Ptolemais 9 12 9 2 5 38 M. 7. RICHARD the first 1 10 3 4. VOYAGE under Frederick surnamed Barbarossa 4 28  9   10 13 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1190 3 6 HENRY the sixth S. 1 2 11 4 5. VOYAGE under Rich. of Engl. Philip of Fran 5 Antioch wonne again froÌ„ the Turks by Frederick D. of Suevia  10   HENRY a-Wal-pot 1 11 14 1 M. 2 D. 10 7 2 3 12 5 Conrade murdered in the market-place of Tyre Ptolemais taken 6   11   2 12 15 2 CELESTINE the third 2 8 3 4 13 Guy exchangeth his Kingdome of Jerusalem for Cyprus 7 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—â—yled both of Antioch Tripoli  He lived viciously and died obscurely  3 13 16 3 3 M. 7. 9 4 5 14 HENRY Earl of Champaigne 1  X. ERMEGAROUS DAPS.  4 14 SAPHADIME Br. to Saladine 1 4 4 ALEXIUS COMNENê° ANGELUS 1 5 6 15 2      5 15 2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Turkish K. of Egypt 1195 5 2 6 7 16 3     6 16 Betwixt him and Saladines soâ—nes whom at last he conquered and subdued was long warre to the great comfort and profit of the Christians 3 6 6 3 7 8 17 ALMERICK the second King also of Cyprus 1     7 17 4 7 M. 9 D. 11 4 8 9 18 6. VOYAGE under Henry Duke of Saxonie Henry the Palatine Herman Landtgrave c. winne Berytâ—â— 2     8 18 5 8 INNOCENTIUS the third 1 5 9 10 19 The Dutch men miserably killed on St Martines day 3  XII ALBERTUS succeedeth Heraclius Spond   9 19 6 9 2 6 OTHO the fourth 1 11 20 Simon Earl of Montfort cometh into Palestine and maketh a profitable peace 4     10 20 7 1200 3 7 2 JOHN his Br. 1 21 5     II. OTTO Kerpin 1 21 8 1 4 8 3 2 22 6     2 22 9 2 5 ISAACIUS again with ALEXIUS his S. 9 4 3 23 7. VOYAGE under Baldwine Earl of Flandres but by the Pope diverted against the Grecian usurping Emperour 7   XI GOTâ—RIDUS de Dnyjon  3 23 10 3 6 BALDWINE Earl of Flandres 1 5 4 24 8     4 24 11 4 7 2 6 5 25 1 INTERREGNUM of 5 years Almerick dieth of a surfet according to Marinus Sanutus 9  He perfecteth and writeth a Rule to the Carmelites Idem   5 25 12 5 8 HENRY his Br. 1 7 6 26 2 10    Leo King of Armenia restoreth to the Templars what he had violently taken from them 6 26 13 6 9 2 8 7 27 3 The Holy warre turned against the Albingenses in France 11     III. HERMANNUS Bart. 1 27 14 7 10 3 9 8 28 4 12     2 28 1 MELADINE as most compute succeedeth his father Saphadiâ—e in Egypt 15 8 11 4 10 9 29 5 Almerick for his lazinesse deposed by the Pope dieth soon after 13     3 29 2 16 9 12 5 11 10 30 JOHN BREN made King of Jerusalem by the Pope 1     4 30 3 17 1210 13 6 12 11 31 2  XIII THOMAS Aâ—â—â— Â Â IV. HERMANNUS a Salâ—za 1 31 4 18 1 14 7 13 12 32 3     2 32 5 19 2 15 8 FREDERICK the second 1 13 33 4   XII ALPHONâ—US de Portugallia  3 33 6 20 3 16 9 2 14 34 An army of children going to the Holy warre wofully perish by the way 5     4 34 7 21 4 17 10 3 15 35 6     5 35 8 22 1215 18 11 4 16 36 The great Laterane Councel to advance the Holy warre 7  He is present in the Laterane Councel to solicite the Holy warre XIII GOTHERIDUS de-la-Rat P. de Monte acuto 6 36 9 Saphadine according to M. Paris p. 404. dieth for grief that the fort nigh to Damiata was taken ☉ 23 6 M. 6 D. 9 PETER Earl of Auxerre 1 5 17 37 8. VOYAGE under Andrew King of Hungarie 8     7 37 10 24 7 HONORIUS the third 2 2 6 HENRY the third S. 1 38 9     8 38 11 25 8 3 3 7 2 39 Damiata beseiged 10    He fighteth stoutly with the rest of his Order at the taking of Damiata Mat. Paris pag. 409 419. 9 39 12 MALADINE 1 9 4 4 8 3 40 Damiata taken 11     10 40 13 2 1220 5 5 9 4 41 The Christians intrapped in water restore Damiata for their libertie and conclude an eight-yeares truce 12     11 41 14 Is wonderfully kind to the Christians half drowned in Egypt 3 1 6 ROBERT 1 10 5 42 13     12 42 15 4 2 7 2 11 6 43 14     13 43 16 5 3 8 3 12 7 He dieth 44 John Bren cometh into France and there receiveth rich legacies from Philip Augustus 15   60000 crownâ— bequeathed by the K. of Fr. to the Hospit Templars  14 44 17 6 4 9 4 13 8 LEWIS the eighth 1 16  XIIII GERALDUS  OLIVER 15 45 18 7 5 10 5 14 9 2 17   XIIII GUARINUS de Monâ—e acuto  16 TAHER S. 1 19 8 6 M. 8. 6 15 10 3 He is honourably entertained at Rome and resigneth his kingdome 18  A bitter enemy he was to Frederick the Emperour and sâ—ded with the Pope Templars against him   17 2 20 9 7 GREGORY the ninth 1 7 16 11 St LEWIS 1 FREDERICK by marriage of Iole Brens daughter 1     The Dutch
Knights under Hermannus their Master come unto Prusâ—ra yet so as many of them still remained in Syria 18 3 21 10 8 2 BALDWINE the second 1 17 12 2 2   XV. CERVIUS  19 4 22 11 9 3 2 18 13 3 9. VOYAGE under Frederick who crowned himself King of Jerusalem and concluding a ten-yeares truce returneth into Europe leaving Reinold Duke of Bavaria his Vice-Roy in Palestine 3    An inveterate enemie to Frederick whom be most spitefully and treacherously used 20  23 12 1230 4 3 19 14 4 4 The Pr. of Antioch dieth without lawfull issue    21  24 13 1 5 4 20 15 5 5   XVI BERTRANDUS de Campis  22  25 14 2 6 5 21 16 6 6 FREDERICK base S. to Fred. the Emp. is by Reinoldus Vice-roy of JerusaleÌ„ made Pr. of Antioch in spite of Henr. K. of Cyprus who claimed that place 1    23  26 15 3 7 6 22 17 7 7 2    24  27 16 4 8 7 23 18 8 8 3    25 MUâ—TENATZEâ— 28 17 1235 9 8 24 19 9 9 4    26  29 18 6 10 9 25 20 10 10 5    27  30 19 7 11 10 26 21 11 11 6    28  31 20 8 12 11 27 22 12 The former ten-yeares Truce expired Reinold concludeth another of the same term 12 7    29  32 21 9 13 12 28 23 13 10. VOYAGE under Theobald King of Navarre 13 8    30  33 22 1240 14 13 29 24 14 He is unfortunately overthrown in battel at Gaza 14 9    31  34 23 1 M. 5. CELESTINE the fourth D. 17. 14 30 25 15 11. VOYAGE under Richard Earl of Cornwall 15 10 XV. ROBERTUS  HERMANNUS Petragorinus M. Paris pag 726. V. CONRADE Landtgrave of Hassia 1  35 24 2 The See void 15 31 26 16 16 11  XVII PETRUS de Villebride  2  36 25 3 INNOCENTIUS the fourth 1 16 32 27 17 17 12    3  37 26 4 2 17 33 28 18 The Coraâ—ines conquer the Christians and sack Jerusalem 18 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 5 3 18 34 29 19 19 14  XVIII GUILIELMUS de Castello novo M. Paris pag. 836.  5  39 28 6 4 19 35 30 20 20 15    6  40 29 7 5 20 36 31 21 12. VOYAGE under S. Lewis King of France 21 The Antiochians fighting unadvisedly with the Turks are overthrown 16    7  He dieth at Damiata's taking 30 8 6 21 37 32 22 He arriveth in Cyprus there wintereth 22     8  MELECHSALA S. 1 9 7 22 38 33 23 taketh Damiata beateth the Saracens 23     9  2 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1250 8 23 INTERREGNUM of 23 yeares wherein there were many Competitours for the Empire 1 34 24 Robert Earl of Artois slain Lewis taken prisoner INTERREGNUM of 14 yeares 1  The Patriarch of Jerusalem was taken prisoner with the King of France Magdeburg Cent. 13. col 697. All the Hospitallers with their Master slain to one All the Templars with their Master slain to two 10   TARQUEMINUS 1 1 9 24 2 35 25 The Pastorells overthrown in France 2   XIX HUGO REVEL He â—ade a statute whereby women were admitted into this Order  11   2 2 10 25 3 36 26 King Lewis being ransomed cometh into Palestine recovereth and fortifieth Sidone 3 CONRADE S. to Frederick Prince of Antioch    12   3 3 11 26 4 37 27 returneth into France 4     VI. POPPO 1  MANGO perswaded by Haito K. of Armenia to tâ—rn Christian. 1 4 4 M. 5 D. 14 27 5 38 28 5     2  2  Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Dutch Knights Caliphs of Syria Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1255 ALEXANDER the fourth 2 28 6 39 29 6  XVI PANTALEON a Frenchman  3  3  6 3 29 7 40 30 7    4 MUSTEAZEM the last Caliph of Syria a covetous miser coÌ„quered by the Tartarians 1 4 MELECH otherwise called CLOTHES 7 4 30 8 41 31 8    5 2 Haalach Br. to Mango taketh the citie of Babylon 5  8 5 31 9 42 32 These 10 yeares following the Genoans fighting against the Venetians and Pisans hasten the ruine of the Christians in Palestine 9    6  6  9 6 32 10 43 33 10    7  7  1260 M. 5. D. 5 MICHAEL Palaeologus 1 11 44 34 11 Haalach the Tartarian cometh to Antioch is there kindly entertained by Prince Conrade   8  8 BENDOCDAR 1 1 URBANE the fourth 1 2 12 45 35 12  He is made Pope by the name of Urbane the fourth Platina  9  HAALACH succeedeth his Br. Mango 1 2 2 2 3 13 46 36 13    10  2 3 3 3 4 14 47 37 14    11  3 4 4 M. 1 D. 4 5 15 48 38 CHARLES Earl of Anjou by the Pope made King of Jerusalem and Siâ—ilia 1 Conrade cometh into Europe to succour Conradine his kinsman   12  ABAGA Cham his S. 1 He winneth the kingdome of Damascus from the Tartarian taketh Siphet killeth all that would not turn Mahometanes winneth Joppa 5 5 CLEMENT the fourth 1 6 16 49 39 2    VII HANNO de Sanger Hausen 1  2 6 6 2 7 17 50 40 3   XX. NICOLAUS Longar 2  3 7 7 3 8 18 51 41 4    3  4 8 8 M. 9 D. 25 9 19 52 42 5 Antioch in the absence of Conrade wonne by Bendocdar   4  5 9 9 The See void 10 20 53 43 1 HUGH King of Cyprus 13. VOYAGE under St Lewis King of France Charles of Sicilie and our Prince Edward 6    5  6 10 1270  11 21 54 44 2 Tunis taken Lewis dieth 7 BOEMUND the fourth   6
 7 11 1 GREGORY the tenth 1 12 22 55 PHILIP the Bold 1 3 Prince Edward cometh to Ptolemais 8    7  8 12 2 2 13 23 56 2 4 is desperately wounded yet recovereth 9    8  9 13 3 3 14 RODULPHê° ab Haspurg 1 EDWARD the first 1 3 5 10    9  10 14 4 4 15 2 2 4 6 11    10  11 15 Anno Dom. Popes Emper. of the East Emper. of the West Kings of England Kings of France Holy Warre Kings of Ierusalem Princes of Antioch Patriarchs of Ierusalem Mrs of Kn. Hospitallers Mrs of Kn. Templars Mrs of Dutch Knights Great ChaÌ„s of Tartary Mammaluke Sultans of Egypt 1275 M. 4 D. 10 16 3 3 5 12 The last VOYAGE under Henry Duke of Mechlenburg 7 Dieth May 11. BOEMUND the fifth S. under the tuition of the Bishop of Tortosa 1    11 12 16 6 INNOCENT the fifth M. 5. 17 4 4 6 13 8 2  XXI JOHN de Villiers  12 13 Dieth by cold gotten with swimming in Euphrates 17 7 ADRIAN the fifth M. 1 D. 7 18 5 5 7 14 MARIA DOMICELLA Princesse of Antioch resigneth her right of the Kingdome of Jerusalem to Charles 9 3    HERMANNUS the third 1 14 MELECHSAIT or MELECHSARES 1 8 JOHN the 20. M. 8 D. 8 19 6 6 8 15 10 4    2 15 2 9 NICOLAS the third M. 8. D. 29 20 7 7 9 16 11 5    3 16 3 1280 The See void 21 8 8 10 17 12 6    4 He is poysoned by the Sultan of Babylon ☉ 17 4 1 MARTINE the second 1 22 9 9 11 18 13 7    5 18 5 2 2 23 10 10 12 19 The Sicilian Vespers 14 Boemund now of age sideth against the Templars to the destruction of the Christian cause 8 About this time we find a namelesse Patiarch of Jerusalem   6 TANâ—O OR his Br. styled himself Mahomet Cham and was a great persecutour of the Christians 1 6 3 3 ANDRONICê° PALEOLOGUS 1 11 11 13 20 15 9  XXII ODO de Pinibus  7 2 7 4 4 2 12 12 14 1 CHARLES the second surnamed the Lame or the Delayer JOHN his S. 1 10    8 3 8 5 M. 1 D. 7 3 13 13 15 2 HENRY his Br. 1 11   Pâ—TER Belius a valiant souldier BURCHARDê° Schuadens 1 ARGON Cham killed his Br. Mahonet he favoureth the Christians 1 He expelleth the Carmelites out of Syria for changing their coats 9 6 HONORIUS the fourth 2 4 14 14 PHILIP the Fair. 1 3 2 12    2 2 10 7 D. 2. 5 15 15 2 4 3 LUCIE his sister married in Europe 1    3 3 11 8 NICOLAS the fourth 1 6 16 16 3 5 Tripoli Sidon lost 4 Vide Calvis in hoc anno 2  The Hospitallers winne the castle of Mergath  4 4 12 9 2 7 17 17 4 6 Berytus Tyre lost ☉ 5 3 who fled out of Ptolemais when it was besieged and was drowned in his flight It seemeth his name was drowned with him   5 RAGAITHUS his â—r a lazie voluptuous glutton ☉ 1 ELPIS or ALPHIX 1 1290 3 8 M. 9. 18 5 7 Ptolemais besieged 6 How-ever one HUGH challengeth both the title of Antioch and principalitie of Tripoli Knolls pag. 123 4  XXIII VIGILBELMUS de Villaret He is chosen governour of Ptolemais therein slain 6 CASANUS S. to Argon He was very favourable to the Christians 1 2 1 4 9 ADOLPHUS of Nassau 1 19 6 8 taken And the Latine Christians finally expelled out of Syria 7 5    Deposed 7 2 SERAPH or ARRAPHUS 1 2 M. 1 D. 14 10 2 20 7 9 8 6   JAMES Molaibergamon last master of the Templars in Syria Contiâ—â—ator belli sacri lib. 5. cap 13 17 1 CONRADê° de Fertuangen 1 3 2 3 The See void 11 3 21 8 10 9 7   2 2 4  4 CELESTINE he V. M. 5. D. 7. BONEâ—ACE the eighth 12 4 22 9 11 10 8   3 3 5  If the Reader do observe any difference betwixt our former computation in the Book and our Chronologie here let him rather rely on this latter which I take to be better perfected A Catalogue of Authours cited in this book A ADricomius De terrâ Sanctâ Paul AEMYLIUS Basileae per Sebastianum Henric-petri in fol. Albertus Aquensis Chron. Hierosol Alfonso Villeg Alphonsus de Castr. S. Ambrose Ammian Marcellin Antoninus Jo. Antonius Summontius Tho. Aquinas Arnoldus Lubecens S. Athanasius Athenaeus Aventinus S. Augustine B Sr Fr. Bacon Balaeus Barklay BARONIUS Annal. Eccl. Colon. Agrippinae 1624. Bellarmine Bernard Chr. BESOLDUS Argentinae 1536 in 12o. Bibliander Blondus Hect. Boethius Bolsecus Bonaventure Bracton Bridenbach Brietwood Brochardus Buchanan Burton Bydulph Bzorius C Cesars Comment CALVISIUS Francofurti edit 3â— 1629 in 4o. Camden Jo. Cammanus Canon Law Carew Cassanaeus Cedrenus Chemnitius Civil Law Cochlaeus Sr Edw. Coke Continuator Guil. Tyrii Continuator Matth. Paris Continuator Urspergensis Sr Rob. Cotton D Daniel P. Diaconus Mart. Dominic Dressaeus E Egnatius Erasmus Estius Jo. Euchaitensis Eulogium Chron. Eusebius F Fazellius Field FOX Acts and monuments 4. edition 1583. Otho Frisingensis Froissard Fuller G Gaguinus Gerson Godwine Goffridus Grafton Gwillam H Harding Sr Jo. Harrington Chr. HELVICUS Chron. Marpurgi 1629 in fol. Dr Heylin S. Hierome Hieronimo Roman Hospinian Rog. HOVEDEN Francofurti 1601 in fol. Hen. HUNTINGTON Francofurti 1601 in fol. I. B p Jewel Illyricus Josephus K Rich. KNOLLS Turkish Hist. 2. edition 1610 in fol. Krantzius L Lambert LAMPADIUS Mellificium Hist. Marpurgi 1617 in 4o. Livie Lindwood Lipsius Lombard Luther M Machiaviell MAGDEBURGENSES Centuriae Basileae 1624 in fol. Jo. Magnus Guil. MALMESBURIENSIS Francofurti 1601 in fol. Mantuan Marinus Sanutus Martini Chron. Mr Mead. P. Mela. Mercator Monstrell Morison Seb. Munster N Nauclerus NICETAS Choniates Apud haeredes Eustathii Vignon 1593 in 4o. Neubrigensis Theod. à Nyem Greg. Nyssen O Ovid. P Pantaleon Matth. PARIS London 1671 in fol. Jo. PAUL Perin Luthers forerunners translated by S. Leonard Lond. 1624. Pero Mexya Peter de Bloys Peter de Valle Sarnensi Peter de Vineis Pierce Plowman Pitzaeus Platina Polybius Possevine R Sr Walter Ralegh Reinerius Reineccius Dr Ridley Rivetus Claud. Rubis S An. Coc. SABELLICUS Lugduni in aedibus Nic. Petit. 1535. Sr Edw. Sandys G. Sandys Travels Scaliger Scotus Mr Selden Du Serres Socrates Sozomen Jo. Speed Statutes of Engl. Scotl. Stephanus Cypriot T Theodoret. Theophylact. Theophanes Thuanus Tremellius Hist. conc Trident. Tullie Guil. TYRIUS Basileae 1549 in fol. V Vincent Polyd. Virgil. Vitruvius Volaterran URSPERGENSIS Basileae apud Petrum Pernam 1569. W Weaver Fund mon. Dr Whitaker Dr White Z Zuerius Boxhorn A table shewing the principall things contained in this Historie A  B.
devoured the mother and wealth impaired religion Chap. 12. The qualitie and condition of those people who undertook the warre IT is not to be expected that all should be fish which is caught in a drag-net neither that all should be good and religious people who were adventurers in an action of so large a capacitie as this warre was We must in charitie allow that many of them were truly zealous and went with pious intents These were like to those of whom Bellarmine speaketh who had no fault praeter nimiam sanctitatem too much sanctitie which a learned man interpreteth too much superstition But besides these well-meaning people there went also a rabble-rout rather for companie then conscience Debters took this voyage on them as an acquittance from their debts to the defrauding of their creditours Servants counted the conditions of their service cancelled by it going away against their masters will Theeves and murderers took upon them the crosse to escape the gallows Adulterers did penance in their armour A lamentable case that the devils black guard should be Gods souldiers And no wonder if the successe was as bad as some of the adventurers especially seeing they retained their old conditions under a new climate And as if this voyage had been like to repentance never too soon nor too late for any to begin not onely green striplings unripe for warre but also decayed men to whom age had given a writ of ease became souldiers and those who at home should have waited on their own graves went farre to visit Christs sepulchre And which was more women as if they would make the tale of the Amazons truth went with weapons in mens clothes a behaviour at the best immodest and modesty being the case of chastitie it is to be feared that where the case is broken the jewel is lost This enterprise was also the mother of much non-residence many Prelates and Friars fitter to handle a pen-knife then a sword left their covents and pastorall charges to follow this businesse The totall summe of those pilgrime-souldiers amounted to three hundred thousand and some writers do double that number No doubt the Christians army had been greater if it had been lesse for the belly was too big for the head and a medley of nations did rather burden then strengthen it Besides the armie was like a cloth of many colours and more seams which seams though they were curiously drawn up for the present yet after long wearing began to be seen and at last brake out into open rents Chap. 13. The adventurers sorted according to their severall nations THe French Dutch Italian and English were the foure elementall nations whereof this army was compounded of these the French were predominant they were the cape-merchants in this adventure That nimble nation first apprehended the project and eagerly prosecuted it As their language wanteth one proper word to expresse Stand so their natures mislike a settled fixed posture and delight in motion and agitation of businesse Yea France as being then best at leisure contributed more souldiers to this warre then all Christendome besides The signall men were Hugh surnamed le Grand brother to the King of France Godfrey Duke of Bouillon Baldwine and Eustace his younger brethren Stephen Earl of Bloys father to Stephen afterwards King of England Reimund Earl of Tholouse Robert Earl of Flanders Hugh Earl of Saint-Paul Baldwine de Burge with many more besides of the Clergie Aimar Bishop of Puy and Legate to the Pope and William Bishop of Orange Germanie is slandered to have sent none to this warre at this first voyage and that other pilgrimes passing through that countrey were mocked by the Dutch and called fools for their pains It is true the Germane adventurers in number answered not the largenesse and populousnesse of their countrey for Henry the Emperour a Prince whom the Pope long hacked at and hewed him off at last being desirous to go this voyage was tied up at home with civill discords Yet we find a competencie of souldiers of that nation besides those under Godescalcus a Priest Emmicho the Rhene-grave and Count Herman their leaders But though Germanie was backward at the first yet afterwards it proved the main Atlas of the warre that nation like a heavie bell was long a raising but being got up made a loud sound Italy sent few out of her heart and middle provinces nigh Rome The Pope was loth to adventure his darlings into danger those white-boyes were to stay at home with his Holinesse their tender father Wherefore he dispensed with them for going as knowing how to use their help nearer and to greater profit Peters patrimonie must as well be looked to as Christs sepulchre But though the Pope would spend none of his own fewel he burnt the best stakes of the Emperours hedge and furthered the Imperiall partie to consume it self in this tedious warre Out of the furthermost parts of Italie Boemund Prince of Tarentum and Tancred his nephew both of the Normane seed though growing on the Apulian soyl led an army of twelve thousand men And Lombardy was also very liberall of her souldiers towards this expedition England the Popes pack-horse in that age which seldome rested in the stable when there was any work to be done sent many brave men under Robert Duke of Normandy brother to William Rufus as Beauchamp and others whose names are lost Neither surely did the Irish-mens feet stick in their bogs though we find no particular mention of their atchievements Spain had other use for her swords against the Saracens at home and therefore sent none of her men abroad As one saith The Spaniards did follow their own Holy warre a work more necessary and no lesse honourable Thus they acted the same part though not on the same stage with our Pilgrimes as being also imployed in fight against the infidels Poland had the same excuse for not much appearing clean through this warre because she lieth bordering on the Tartars in her appendant countrey of Lituania and therefore was busied in making good her frontiers Besides no wonder if Prussia Lituania and Livonia were not up in this service for it was scarce break of day with them and the sunne of the Gospel was newly if at all risen in those parts Yea Poland was so farre from sending men hither that she fetcht them from hence and afterwards implored the aid of the Teutonick order who came out of Palestine to assist her against her enemies Hungary might bring filling-stones to this building but few foundation or corner-stones and at this time had no commander of note in this action Scotland also presenteth us not with any remarkable piece of service which her men performed in all this warre It was not want of devotion which was hot enough in that cold countrey rather we may impute it to want of shipping that countrey being little powerfull at sea or which is most
as these Pilgrimes went through his countrey he did them all possible mischief still under the pretense of kindnesse What hinderer to a false helper calling the chief Captains of the army his sonnes but they found it true The more courtesie the more craft Yea this deep dissembler would put off his visard in private and professe to his friends that he delighted as much to see the Turks and these Christians in battel as to see mastiffdogs fight together and that which side soever lost yet he himself would be a gainer But when they had passed Grecia and had crossed the Bosporus otherwise called The arm of S. George entring into the dominion of the Turks they were for thirty dayes exposed a mark to their arrows And though this great multitude was never stabbed with any mortall defeat in a set battel yet they consumed away by degrees the cowardly Turks striking them when their hands were pinnioned up in the straits of unknown passages The Generalls bestrawed the countrey about with their corpses Great Hugh of France was buried at Tarsus in Cilicia Duke Guelpho at Paphos in Cyrpus Diemo the Archbishop of Saltzburg saw his own heart cut out and was martyred by the Turks at Chorazin And God saith my Authour manifested by the event that the warre was not pleasing unto him Chap. 10. Antipatris and Cesarea wonne by the Christians The variety of King Baldwines successe MEan time King Baldwine was imployed with better successe in Palestine for hitherto Joppa was the onely port the Christians had but now by the assistance of the Genoan fleet who for their pains were to have a third part of the spoil and a whole street to themselves of every city they took Baldwine wonne most considerable havens along the mid-land-sea He began with Antipatris to ransome the Christian honour which was morgaged here because Godfrey was driven away from hence And no wonder having no shipping whereas that Army which takes a strong harbour otter-like must swim at sea as well as go on ground Next he took Cesarea-Stratonis built and so named in the honour of Cesar Augustus by Herod the great who so politickly poised himself that he sat upright whilest the wheel of Fortune turned round under him Let Antony winne let Augustus winne all one to him by contrary winds he sailed to his own ends Cesarea taken Baldwine at Rhamula put the Turks to a great overthrow But see the chance of warre Few dayes after at the same place he received a great defeat by the Infidels wherein besides many others the two Stephens Earls of Burgundy and Bloys were slain This was the first great overthrow the Christians suffered in Palestine and needs must blows be grievous to them who were not used to be beaten The King was reported slain but fame deserved to be pardoned for so good a lie which for the present much disheartened the Christians a great part of the souldiers courage being wrapped up in the life of the Generall Baronius as bold as any Bethshemite to pry into the ark of Gods secrets saith This was a just punishment on Baldwine for detaining the Churches goods But to leave hidden things to God the apparent cause of his overthrow was his own rashnesse being desirous to ingrosse all the credit alone without sending for succours and supplies from his neighbours He assaulted his numerous enemies with an handfull of men and so brake himself with covetousnesse to purchase more honour then he could pay for And herein he discovered his want of judgement being indeed like an arrow well-feathered but with a blunt pile he flew swift but did not sink deep Thus his credit lay bleeding but he quickly stanched it The Pagans little suspecting to be re-incountred gave themselves over to mirth and jollity as security oftentimes maketh the sword to fall out of their hands from whom no force could wrest it when Baldwine coming on them with fresh souldiers strook them with the back-blows of an unexpected enemy which alwayes pierce the deepest routed them and put them to the light This his victory followed so suddenly after his overthrow that some mention not the overthrow at all but the victory onely as that good horseman is scarce perceived to be thrown that quickly recovereth the saddle Chap. 11. The conquest of sundry fair havens by the Christians Ptolemais c. WHilest the King was thus busied in battel Tancred Prince of Galilee was not idle but enlarged the Christian dominions with the taking of Apamea and Laodicea These cities in Celosyria were built by Antiochus and they agreed so well together that they were called sisters and as in concord so in condition they went hand in hand being now both conquered together Ptolemais next stooped to the Christian yoke so named from Ptolemeus Philometor King of Egypt a citie on the Mediterranean of a triangular form having two sides washed with the sea the third regarding the champian The Genoan galleys being 70 in number did the main service in conquering and had granted them for their reward large profits from the harbour a church to themselves jurisdiction over a fourth part of the citie This Ptolemais was afterwards the very seat of the Holy warre Let me mind the Reader of a Latine proverb Lis Ptolemaica that is A long and constant strife so called from Ptolemais a froward old woman who was never out of wrangling But may not the proverb as well be verified of this citie in which there was ninescore yeares fighting against the Turks With worse successe did Baldwine Count of Edessa and Earl Joceline besiege Charran in Mesopotamia for when it was ready to be surrendred the Christian Captains fell out amongst themselves were defeated by the Pagans and the two forenamed Earls taken prisoners This Charran is famous for Abrahams living and his father Terahs dying there And in the same place rich Crassus the Romane vomited up the sacrilegious goods he had devoured of the temple of Jerusalem and had his army overthrown Nor here may we overpasse how Boemund Prince of Antioch with a great navie spoiled the harbours of Grecia to be revenged of treacherous Alexius the Emperour Voluntaries for this service he had enough all desiring to have a lash at the dog in the manger and every mans hand itching to throw a cudgel at him who like a nut-tree must be manured by beating or else would never bear fruit yet on some conditions an agreement at last was made betwixt them To return to Palestine The next citie that felt the victorious arms of the Christians was Byblus a good haven and built by Heveus the sixth sonne of Canaan Here Adonis was anciently worshipped whose untimely death by a bore Venus so much bemoned And the fable is moralized when Lust lamenteth the losse of Beauty consumed by age Nor did Tripoli hold out long after so called
professed that she saw in a vision Christ and his Angels rejoycing For the losse of the earthly Canaan was gain to the heavenly peopling it with many inhabitants who were conquerours in their overthrow whilest they requited Christs passion and died for him who suffered for them But for the truth both of the doctrine and historie hereof none need burden their beleef farther then they please We will conclude all with Roger Hovedens witty descant on the time When Jerusalem was wonne by the Christians and afterwards when it was lost an Urbane was Pope of Rome a Frederick Emperour of Germany an Heraclius Patriarch of Jerusalem But by his leave though the first of his observations be true the second is a flat falsitie the third a foul mistake and may thus be mended It is charity to lend a crutch to a lame conceit When the Crosse was taken from the Persians Heraclius was Emperour and when it was taken from the Turks Heraclius was Patriarch Thus these curious observations like over-small watches not one of a hundred goeth true Though it cannot be denied but the same name as Henry of England one the winne-all another the lose-all in France hath often been happy and unhappy in founding and confounding of kingdomes But such nominall toyes are rags not worth a wise mans stooping to take them up The end of the second Book The Historie of the HOLY WARRE Book III. Chap. 1. Conrade of Montferrat valiantly defendeth Tyre and is chosen King IN this wofull estate stood the Christian affairs in the Holy land when Conrade Marquesse of Montferrat arrived there His worth commandeth my penne to wait on him from his own countrey till he came hither Sonne he was to Boniface Marquesse of Montferrat and had spent his youth in the service of Isaacius Angelus the Grecian Emperour This Isaacius fitter for a Priest then a Prince was alwayes bred in a private way and the confining of his body feemeth to have brought him to a pent and narrow soul. For he suffered rebells to affront him to his face never fending any army against them but commending all his cause to a company of bare-footed Friars whom he kept in his Court desiring them to pray for him and by their pious tears to quench the combustions in the Empire But our Conrade plainly told him he must use as well the weapons of the left hand as of the right meaning the sword as well as prayers And by the advice of this his Generall he quickly subdued all his enemies Which his great service found small reward onely he was graced to wear his shoes of the Imperiall fashion a low matter but there forsooth accounted an high honour But soon after Isaac was sick of this Physician who had cured his Empire If private debters care not for the company of their creditours much lesse do Princes love to see them to whom they ow themselves and their kingdome so unwelcome are courtesies to them when above their requitall Now it is an ancient policie to rid away high spirits by sending them on some plausible errand into remote parts there to seek for themselves an honourable grave To this end Isaacius by the perswasions of some spurred on Conrade free enough of himself to any noble action to go into Palestine there to support the ruinous affairs of the Christians Conrade was sensible of their plot but suffered himself to be wrought on being weary of the Grecians basenesse and came into the Holy land with a brave company of Gentlemen furnished on their own cost For a while we set him aside and return to Saladine Who by this time had taken Askelon on condition that King Guy and Gerard master of the Templars should be set at liberty Nor long after was the castle of Antioch betrayed unto him by the Patriarch and the citie scarce got with eleven moneths siege was lost in an instant with five and twenty strong towns more which attended the fortune of Antioch and many provinces thereto belonging came into the possession of the Turks Must not the Christians needs be bankrupts if they continue this trade buying deare and selling cheap gaining by inches and losing by ells With better successe those in Tripoli which citie the wife of Earl Reimund after his death delivered to the Christians defended themselves against Saladine For shame they would not forgo their shirts though they had parted with their clothes Stark-naked from shelter had the Christians been left if stripped out of Tripoli and Tyre Manfully therefore they defended themselves and Saladine having tasted of their valour in Tripoli had no mind to mend his draught but marched away to Tyre But Conrade of Montferrat who was in Tyre with his army so used the matter that Saladine was fain to flie and leave his tents behind him which were lined with much treasure And the Christians had that happinesse to squeeze that sponge which formerly was filled with their spoil They in Tyre in token of gratitude chose this Conrade King of Jerusalem swearing themselves his subjects who had kept them from being the Turks slaves To strengthen his title he married Elisa or Isabella Authours christen her with either name formerly espoused to Humfred of Thoron sister to Baldwine the fourth daughter to Almerick King of Jerusalem By this time King Guy was delivered out of prison having sworn never more to bear arms against Saladine which oath by the Clergie was adjudged void because forced from him when he was detained in prison unjustly against promise The worst was now he had gained his liberty he could not get his Kingdome Coming to Tyre they shut the gates against him owning no King but Conrade Thus to have two kings together is the way to have neither king nor kingdome But Guy following the affront as well as he might and piecing up a cloth of remnants with his broken army besieged Ptolemais The Pisanes Venetians and Florentines with their sea-succours came to assist him But this siege was Church-work and therefore went on slowly we may easier perceive it to have moved then to move especially if we return hither a twelve-moneth hence Chap. 2. The Church-story in the Holy land to the end of the warre The use and abuse of titular Bishops WE must now no longer look for a full face of a Church in the Holy land it is well if we find one cheek and an eye Though Jerusalem and Antioch were wonne by the Turks the Pope ceased not to make Patriarchs of both We will content our selves with the names of those of Jerusalem finding little else of them remarkable After Heraclius Thomas Agni was Patriarch present in the Laterane Councel under Innocent the third Geraldus succeeded him who sided with the Pope against Frederick the Emperour Albertus Patriarch in Jerusalem when the Christians lost their land in Syria He prescribed some rules to the Carmelites After him Antonie Beak
the Albingenses Three severall opinions concerning that sect POpe Innocent the third having lately learned the trick of imploying the armie of Pilgrimes in by-services began now to set up a trade thereof For two yeares after he levied a great number of them whom he sent against the Albingenses in France These were reputed hereticks whom his Holinesse intended to root out with all crueltie that good shepherd knowing no other way to bring home a wandring sheep then by worrying him to death He fully and freely promised the undertakers the self-same Pardons and Indulgences as he did to those who went to conquer the Holy land and very conscionably requested their aid onely for fourty dayes hoping to chop up these Albingenses at a bit Though herein he was deceived and they stuck in his and his successours teeth for fifty yeares together The place being nearer the service shorter the work lesse the wages the same with the voyage into Syria many entred themselves in this imployment and neglected the other We will trace this armie by their footsteps and our penne must wait on their swords And I hope that his Holinesse who absolved many of their vows from Palestine and commuted them into a journey into France will also of his goodnesse dispense with my veniall digression herein in prosecuting their actions Yea indeed I need not his dispensation being still resident on my own subject this also being styled The Holy warre The warre for the Crucifix The army of the Church the souldiers also bearing the badge of the Crosse on their coat-armour But first let us throughly examine what these Albingenses were and what they held a question that will quit the cost in studying it They were a younger house of the Waldenses and branched from them not different in doctrine but later in time and distant in place so called from the countrey Albigeois in France where they lived I find three grand different opinions of Authours concerning them First Some make them to have been very monsters in life and doctrine so that the heaviest punishment was too light for them And this is the generall voyce of most writers in that age and all Romanists in our dayes Secondly Others clean contrary hold That these Waldenses for I make them and the Albingenses synonyma as others have done were onely the true Church of God in that age whilest all others being corrupted with abominable superstition were no true Church at all These alone were Gods Virgins his Witnesses in sackcloth his Woman in the wildernesse his sealed ones his seven thousand whose knees were not suppled with the Baalisme of that age This is the expresse opinion of some strict Protestants and of some who speak it not out yet mutter it to themselves Thirdly A third sort explode this opinion as trespassing on Divine providence that God who neither slumbereth nor sleepeth should be in so long a lethargie as to suffer hell to eat up his heaven on earth for so many yeares together leaving no true Church but so small a company of such simple people They conceive that the maintainers hereof engage themselves in a labyrinth of difficulties hanging too great a weight on so slender a string in making such an handfull of men the onely Church for so long continuance More moderately therefore they hold That these Albingenses were a purer part of the Church and though guilty of some errours as there must be a dawning before the day and charged with more yet they maintained the same doctrine in ore which since Luthers time was refined So that the main body of the Church visible at this time was much in dilapidations whilest the Albingenses as an innermost chapell thereof was best in repair Let the Reader choose the probablest opinion when he hath perused the evidences of all sides which we will now produce deducing the historie of these Albingenses from their first originall Chap. 19. The beginning of the Albingenses Their dispersion persecution increase names and nick-names ABout the yeare 1160 Peter Waldo a merchant of Lyons rich in substance and learning for a lay-man was walking and talking with his friends when one of them suddenly fell down dead Which lively spectacle of mans mortality so impressed the soul of this Waldo that instantly he resolved on a strict reformation of his life Which to his power he performed translating some books of the Bible instructing such as resorted to him in godlinesse of life teaching withall That Purgatorie Masses dedication of Temples worshipping of Saints prayers for the dead were inventions of the devil and snares of avarice That Monkery was a stinking carrion the Church of Rome the whore of Babylon the Pope that Antichrist Paramount He sharply lanced the vitious ulcers of Clergie-mens lives reproving their pride and luxury Soon got he many followers both because novelty is a forcible loadstone and because he plentifully relieved his poore disciples and those that use that trade shall never want custome The Archbishop of Lyons hearing such doctrines broched as were high treason against the Triple crown ferreted Waldo and his sectaries out of Lyons and the countrey thereabouts But persecution is the bellows of their Gospel to blow every spark into a flame This their division proved their multiplication Some fled into the Alpes living there on so steep hills and in so deep holes that their enemies were afraid to climbe or dive after them Here they had the constant company of the snow And as it by the height of the hills was protected from the sun-beams so they from the scorching of persecution even to Luthers time Others fled into Picardy Flanders England Alsatia Bohemia Bulgaria Croatia Hungaria and whither not the perfume of the Popes presence not keeping this supposed vermine out of Italy it self Many of them were cruelly massacred five and thirty Burgesses of Mayence burned at Bingen in one fire eighteen at Mayence fourescore at Strassburg at the instance of the Bishop thereof But Martyrs ashes are the best compost to manure the Church for others were wonne to their opinion by beholding their constancie and patience Strange that any should fall in love with that profession whose professours were so miserable But truth hath alwayes a good face though often but bad clothes They were called by sundry names Sometimes from the places where they lived As from Albigeois Tholose Lyons Picardy Bohemia Albingenses Tholousians Lyonists Picards Bohemians Sometimes from their principall pastour As from Waldo Joseph Henry Esperon Arnold Waldenses Josephists Henricians Esperonites Arnoldists In England they were termed Lolards from Lolard their teacher not as some Friar descanteth quasi Lolium in areâ Domini It appeareth not whether they were thus called of others or called themselves But grant the latter and if any object That they seemed ashamed of Christ their first godfather who gave them the name of Christians thus to denominate themselves from their teachers I answer It is the same
village in France but by reason hereof of had widows and orphanes cursing this expidition And his Holinesse after he had made allowance for his losse of time bloud and credit found his gain de claro very small Besides such was the chance of warre and good Catholicks were so intermingled with hereticks that in sacking of cities they were slain together Whereupon the Pope resolved of a privater way which made lesse noise in the world attracted lesse envy and was more effectuall To prosecute them by way of Inquisition Hereby he might single them out by retail rooting out the tares without hurting the corn and overthrowing them by piece-meal whom he could never stagger in grosse Dominick a Spaniard was first authour hereof Well did his mother being with child of him dream that she had a dog vomiting fire in her wombe This ignivomous curre sire of the litter of Mendicant Friars called Dominicanes did bark at and deeply bite the poore Albingenses After his death Pope Honorius for his good service bestowed a Saintship on him For he dreamed he saw the Church of Rome falling and Dominick holding it up with his shoulders wherefore he canonized this Atlas of their religion The proceedings of this Inquisition were the abridgement of all cruelty turning the sword of Justice into the butchers ax But no doubt God when he maketh inquisition for bloud will one day remember this bloudy Inquisition And who can but admire at the continuance of the doctrine of the Albingenses to this day maugre all their enemies Let those privy-counsellers of Nature who can tell where swallows lie all winter and how at the spring they have a resurrection from their seeming deadnesse let those I say also inform us in what invisible sanctuaries this doctrine did lurk in spite of persecution and how it revived out of its ashes at the coming of Luther To conclude it is observed That in those parts of France where the Albingenses were most cruelly handled now the Protestants heirs to most of their tenets flourish most as in the countreys of Gascongne Daulphine and Languedoc Chap. 23. King Almerick for his lazinesse deposed by the Pope WElcome the Holy land welcome Ptolemais How shallow and almost quite dry is the stream of Pilgrimes grown here since the Pope hath drained it with so large a by-chanel into France As for Almerick the idle King of Jerusalem we find him as we left him drowning his cares constantly in wine his hands being lazier then those are printed in the margent of a book which point what others should read whilest he would neither do nor order what should be done So true was it of him what is said of another Titularis non tutelaris Rex defuit non praefuit Reipublicae And now the warre betwixt Noradine Saladines sonne and Saphradine his uncle about the sovereignty lasting nine yeares ended with Saphradines death and Noradine contented himself with the government of Aleppo whilest Saphradines two sonnes shared his dominions Coradine commanding in Damascus and Syria and Meladine in Egypt The former of these without any resistance built a fort in mount Tabor to the great annoyance of the Christians To prevent farther mischief arising from Almericks negligence the Pope who would have a finger in every Crown and a hand in this deposed him from the Kingdome This Almerick grieved to lose what he was never carefull to keep soon after died for sorrow But how doth this agree with Marinus Sanutus who maketh him to die of a surfet of gilt-heads five yeares sooner and saith there was five yeares interregnum in Palestine wherein the Christians had no King at all Chap. 24. Iohn Bren made King of Ierusalem A most promising voyage into Palestine of new Pilgrimes which remove the seat of the warre into Egypt IN the place of Almerick the Pope appointed John de Bren a private French Gentleman to be King Who to twist his title with another string married Maria Iole the sole daughter of Conrade late King of Jerusalem This John had behaved himself right valiantly amongst other Latine Princes in the voyage against the Greeks and was a most martiall man as all do witnesse Onely one calleth him imbellem hominem why I know not except he be of that humour to delight to be one of the Antipodes treading opposite to a world of writers besides In the beginning of his reigne this accident whether monstrous or miraculous fell out In France a boy for his yeares went about singing in his own tongue Iesus Lord repair our losse Restore to us thy holy Crosse. Numberlesse children ranne after him and followed the same tune their captain and chanter did set them No bolts no barres no fear of fathers or love of mothers could hold them back but they would to the Holy land to work wonders there till their merry musick had a sad close all either perishing on land or drowned by sea It was done saith my authour by the instinct of the devil who as it were desired a cordiall of childrens bloud to comfort his weak stomach long cloyed with murdering of men Soon after began the Laterane Councel under Innocent the third Wherein many things were concluded for the recovery of the Holy land as That the Crosse should every where be preached with zeal and earnestnesse to procure Pilgrimes That all tiltings in Christendome for three yeares should be forbidden that so the spears of Christians might onely be broken against Infidels That Clergie-men that went this voyage might if need were mortgage their Church-livings for three yeares to provide themselves with present necessaries That all debters during their Pilgrimage though bound by oath in conscience the strongest specialty should be dispensed with to pay no use to their creditours who if Christians by excommunications if Jews were to be forced by the secular power to remit their interest That all Priests should contribute the twentieth part of their revenues for three yeares to advance this designe And lest saith his Holinesse we should seem to lay heavy burdens on others which we will not touch with our least finger we assigne a ship at our own cost to carry our Pilgrimes of the citie of Rome and disburse for the present what can be spared from our necessary expenses to the summe of thirty thousand pounds to further the project and for three yeares to come we and our brethren the Cardinals of Rome will fully pay the tenth of our Church-profits Hereupon next spring a numerous armie set forward to Palestine conducted by Pelagius the Popes Legate Andrew King of Hungarie who having washed himself in the river of Jordan would stay no longer but instantly returned home the three Electorall Archbishops with those of Liege Wirtzburg Bamberg Strassburg Paris c. Lewis Duke of Bavaria Leopold of Austria a navie of our English besides Florentines Genoans and many other nations The autumne they spent in the
the very ruines as thirsty of revenge killing those that ruined them Serapha evened all to the ground and lest the Christians should ever after land here demolished all buildings the Turks holding this position That the best way to be rid of such vermine is to shave the hair clean off and to destroy all places wherein they may nestle themselves Some say he plowed the ground whereon the city stood and sowed it with corn but an eye-witnesse affirmeth that still there remain magnificent ruines seeming rather wholly to consist of divers conjoyned castles then any way intermingled with private dwellings No fewer then an hundred thousand Latine Christians all that were left in Syria fled at this time into Cyprus It is strange what is reported That above five hundred matrones and virgins of noble bloud standing upon the shore of Ptolemais and having all their richest jewels with them cried out with lamentable voice and profered to any mariner that would undertake safely to land them any-where all their wealth for his hire and also that he should choose any one of them for his wife Then a certain mariner came and transporting them all freely safely landed them in Cyprus nor by any enquiry could it after be known when he was sought for to receive his hire who this mariner was nor whither he went The Hospitallers for haste were fain to leave their treasure behind them and hide it in a vault which being made known from time to time to their successours was fetched from thence by the galleys of Malta about three hundred yeares afterwards Henry King of Cyprus to his great cost and greater commendation gave free entertainment to all Pilgrimes that fled hither till such time as they could be transported to their own countreys and thanks was all the shot expected of these guests at their departure Thus after an hundred ninety and foure yeares ended the Holy warre for continuance the longest for money spent the costliest for bloudshed the cruellest for pretenses the most pious for the true intent the most politick the world ever saw And at this day the Turks to spare the Christians their pains of coming so long a journey to Palestine have done them the unwelcome courtesie to come more then half the way to give them a meeting The end of the fourth Book A Supplement of the Historie of the HOLY WARRE Book V. Chap. 1. The executing of the Templars in France MY task is done Whatsoever remaineth is voluntary over-measure onely to hemme the end of our historie that it ravel not out As to shew What became of the Templars the Teutonick Order and the Hospitallers What were the hindrances of this warre What nation best deserved in it What offers were afterwards made to recover Jerusalem By how many challengers that title at this day is claimed What is the present strength of Jerusalem What hope to regain it with some other passages which offer attendance on these principall heads Know then Some nineteen yeares after the Christians had lost all in Palestine the Templars by the cruel deed of Pope Clement the fifth and foul fact of Philip the Fair King of France were finally exstirpated out of all Christendome The historie thereof is but in twilight not clearly delivered but darkened with many doubts and difficulties We must pick out letters and syllables here and there as well as we may all which put together spell thus much Pope Clement having long sojourned in France had received many reall courtesies from Philip the King yea he owed little lesse then himself to him At last Philip requested of him a boon great enough for a King to ask and a Pope to grant namely all the lands of the Knights Templars through France forfeited by reason of their horrible heresies and licentious living The Pope was willing to gratifie him in some good proportion for his favours received as thankfulnesse is alwayes the badge of a good nature and therefore being thus long the Kings guest he gave him the Templars lands and goods to pay for his entertainment On a sudden all the Templars in France they clapt into prison wisely catching those Lions in a net which had they been fairly hunted to death would have made their part good with all the dogs in France Damnable sinnes were laid to their charge as sacrificing of men to an idol they worshipped rosting of a Templars bastard and drinking his bloud spitting upon the crosse of Christ conspiring with Turks and Saracens against Christianitie Sodomie bestialitie with many other villanies out of the rode of humane corruption and as farre from mans nature as Gods law Well the Templars thus shut in prison their crimes were half-proved The sole witnesse against them was one of their own Order a notorious malefactour who at the same time being in prison and to suffer for his own offenses condemned by the Master of their Order sought to prove his own innocency by charging all his own Order to be guiltie And his case standing thus he must either kill or be killed die or put others to death he would be sure to provide water enough to drive the mill and swore most heartily to whatsoever was objected against the Order Besides the Templars being brought upon the rack confessed the accusations to be true wherewith they were charged Hereupon all the Templars through France were most cruelly burned to death at a stake with James the grand Master of their Order Chap. 2. Arguments produced on either side both for the innocencie and guiltinesse of the Templars THere is scarce a harder question in later historie then this Whether the Templars justly or unjustly were condemned to suffer On the one side it is dangerous to affirm they were innocent because condemned by the Pope infallible in matters of such consequence This bugbear affrighteth many and maketh their hands shake when they write hereof If they should say the Templars were burned wrongfully they may be fetched over the coals themselves for charging his Holinesse so deeply yea hereby they bring so much innocent bloud on the Popes head as is enough to drown him Some therefore in this matter know little and dare speak lesse for fear of after-claps Secondly some who suspect that one eye of the Church may be dimme yet hold that both the eyes the Pope and generall Councel together cannot be deceived Now the Councel of Vienne countenanced the exstirpation of the Templars determined the dissolution of their Order and adjudged their lands to be conferred on the Knights-Hospitallers Men ought then to be well advised how they condemn a generall Councel to be accessorie post factum to the murder of so many men For all this those who dare not hollow do whisper on the other side accounting the Templars not malefactours but martyrs First because the witnesse was unsufficient a malefactour against his Judge and secondly they bring tortured men against themselves Yea there want not those that
Ch. ABaga maketh cowards valiant 4 32 Abbeys how and why suppressed in England 5 6 7 8 Adamites against their will 3 20 Albingenses three opinions concerning them  18 their originall persecution nick-names  19 defended from crimes objected  20 commended by their adversaries  ibid. Alexius Emp. his treachery 1 15 causeth the Christians overthrow 2 9 his death and epitaph  14 Alexius Angelus the younger a princely begger 3 17 Almerick K. of Ierusalem his character 2 33 he helpeth the Sultan of Egypt  36 invadeth Egypt against promise  37 his death  ibid. Almerick the second 3 16 deposed for lazinesse  23 Almerick Patriarch of Antioch 2 26 Almerick Patriarch of Ierusalem  34 Andronicus a bad practiser of S. Paul 3 3 Antioch wonne by the Christians 1 17 betrayed by the Patr. to Saladine 3 1 recovered by the Duke of Suevia  4 finally lost to the Sultan of Egypt 4 26 Apostasie of many Christians in Europe upon K. Lewis captivity  17 Arms of Gentlemen deserved in this warre 5 23 Arnulphus the firebrand-Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 2 8 15 Assasines their strange commonweal  34 B BAldwine K. of Ierus his nature 2 7 be wins Antipatris Cesarea  10 his two voyages into Egypt his death  13 Baldwine the second chosen King  14 he is taken prisoner ransomed  17 he renounceth the world dieth  18 Baldwine the third his character 2 24 discord betwixt him his mother  31 he winneth Ascalon  32 his death and commendation  ibid. Baldwine the fourth  38 he conquereth Saladine  40 42 he is arrested with leprosie his death and praise  ibid. Baldwine the fifth poisoned by his mother  43 Baldwine Earl of Flanders Emperour of Constantinople 3 17 Theodore Balsamon how cousened 2 44 Battels at or neare Dogargan 1 16 Battels at or neare Antioch  17 Battels at or neare Askelon 2 3 Battels at or neare Rhamula  10 Battels at or neare Meander  28 Battels at or neare Tiberias  45 Battels at or neare Ptolemais 3 5 Battels at or neare Bethlehem  11 Battels at or neare Moret in France  22 Battels at or neare Gaza 4 7 Battels at or neare Tiberias  10 Battels at or neare Manzor in Egypt  15 Battels at or neare Manzor again  16 Bendocdar Sultan of Egypt 4 26 32 Bernard Patriarch of Antioch 2 2 An apologie for S. Bernard 2 30 Biblianders wild fansie 1 10 Bishops numerous in Palestine 2 2 Boemund prince of Antioch 1 17 he is taken prisoner 2 3 he wasteth Grecia  11 Boemund the second  18 Boemund the third  36 C  B. Ch. CAliphs their voluptuousnesse 2 22 36 Calo-Iohannes Grecian Emper.  21 Carmelites their originall luxury and banishment  26 Carthage described 4 27 Chalices in England why of latten 3 13 Charatux one of the wisest men in the world  4 Charles Earl of Anjou K. of Ierusal 4 25 he dieth for grief  31 Charles the second surnamed the Delayer  ibid. Children marching to Ierusalem wofully perish 3 24 Choermines their obscure originall 4 9 and finall suppression  10 Clerks no fit Captains 2 9 5 14 Clermont Councel 1 8 Climate how it altereth health 5 15 Conferences betwixt opposite parties in religion never succeed 3 21 Conrade Emperour of Germanie his unfortunate voyage 2 27 he conquereth the Turks  28 Conrade of Montferrat K. of Ierus 3 1 he is miserably slain  10 Conversions of Pagans hindred by Christians badnesse 2 34 4 12 how it must orderly and solemnly be done  22 Edmund Crouchback not crooked  26 D  B. Ch. DAbertus Patriarch of Ierusal 2 2 he scuffleth with the Kings for that city dies in banishment  5 7 8 Damascus described  29 in vain besieged by the Christians  ibid. Damiata twice taken by the Christians and twice surrendred 3 25 27 4 13 18 Danish service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Drunkennesse wofully punished 3 16 A Duell declined 2 1 Duells forbidden by S t Lewis 4 27 E EBremarus Patriarch of Ierusal 2 8 Prince Edward his voyage 4 26 he is desperately wounded and recovereth  29 Elianor Qu. of France playeth false with her husband 2 28 Elianor wife to Prince Edward her unexampled love to her husband 4 26 Elhadach Caliph of Egypt 2 36 Emmanuel Emperour of Greece  27 Engines before guns 1 24 English service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Equality of undertakers ruineth this Holy warre  13 Eustace refuseth the kingdome 2 14 F  B. Ch. FAith-breaking the cause of the Christians overthrow 2 37 5 11 Fames incredible swiftnesse 1 8 The strength of imaginarie Fear 3 5 Forts make some countreys weaker 3 4 Franks how ancient in the East 5 21 Fred. Barbarossa his unhappy voyage 3 3 his wofull drowning  4 Frederick the second K. of Ierusalem his disposition 3 29 4 20 his grapplings with the Pope 3 30 4 1 his death and posteritie  20 French service in this warre 1 13 5 21 Fulcher Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 25 Fulk King of Ierusalem  19 23 G GAlilee described 1 19 Genoans atchievements in this warre 2 10 Germane service in this warre 1 13 5 21 Germane Nobility numerous  ibid. S t George 1 17 Gibellines and Guelfes 4 1 Godfrey King of Ierusalem 2 1 his vertuous vice  ibid. his death  6 a Goose carried by the Pilgrimes to Ierusalem 1 10 Greek Church rent from the Latine 4 4 on what occasion  ibid. wherein it dissenteth  5 what charitably is to be thought of them  ibid. what hope of reconcilement  6 Guarimand Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 15 Guy King of Ierusalem  43 he is taken prisoner  45 he exchangeth his Kingdome for Cyprus 3 10 H  B. Ch. HAalon Cham of Tartarie 4 22 26 Helen no Ostleresse 1 4 Henry E. of Champaigne K. of Ierus 3 11 his wofull death  15 Henry Earl of Mechlenburgh his long captivity late deliverance 4 30 Henry the fourth K. of England his intended voyage to Ierusalem 5 24 Heraclius the vitious Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 39 Holy fraud 1 17 Holy warre arguments for it 1 9 arguments against it  10 unlikely again to be set on foot 5 27 Hugh King of Ierusalem and Cyprus 4 25 I JAmes IV K. of Scotland hath some intentions for Ierusalem 5 24 Ianizaries their present insolencie 5 29 Ierusalem destroyed by Titus 1 1 rebuilt by Adrian  2 largely described  23 wonne by the Christians under Godfrey  24 lost to Saladine 2 46 recovered by Frederick the Emp. 3 31 finally wonne by the Choermines 4 9 her present estate at this day 5 26 Iews their wofull present condition 1 3 the hindrance of their conversion  ibid. Interviews of Princes dangerous 3 6 Iohn Bren K. of
Ierusalem  24 his discords with the Legate  ibid. he resigneth his kingdome  28 Irish service in this warre 5 23 Isaacius Angelus Emp. of Constant. 3 1 Italian service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Iudea described 1 21 K  B. Ch. KIng for Deputie in Eastern tongues 2 2 Three faults in the Kingdome of Ierusalem which hindred the strength of it 5 18 Knights-Hospitallers their originall 2 4 they degenerate through wealth into luxury  ibid. they rebell against the Patriarch about tithes  25 brawl with the Templars 4 8 flit from Cypr ' by Rhodes to Malta 5 5 the manner of their suppression in England  6 7 in vain restored by Qu. Mary  8 Knights-Templars instituted 2 16 many slain through their own covetousnesse  32 they become rich and proud 4 8 their treachery hindereth the Holy warre 5 17 they are finally exstirpated out of Christendome  1 arguments for and against their innocency with a moderate way betwixt them  2 3 Knights Teutonicks their institution 2 16 they are honoured with a grand Master 3 5 they come into Prussia their service there 5 4 Knights of the Sepulchre 5 27 L LAterane Councel 3 24 Length of the journey hindrance of this warre 5 13 Leopoldus Duke of Austr his valour 3 8 Leprosie 5 15 Lewis the Young K. of France his wofull journey 2 27 28 S t Lewis his voyage to Palestine 4 11 he wintereth in Cyprus  12 lands in Egypt winnes Damiata  13 is conquered and taken captive  16 dearly ransomed  18 S t Lewis his second voyage 4 26 he besiegeth Tunis  27 his death and praise  ibid. M  B. Ch. MAhometanisme the cause why it is so spreading 1 6 Mammalukes their originall 2 40 their miraculous Empire 4 19 Maronites their tenents and reconcilement to Rome 2 39 Meladine King of Egypt his bounty to the Christians 3 27 why not loved of his subjects 4 14 his death  ibid. Melechsala his son King of Egypt  ibid. Melechsaites Sultan of Egypt  32 Mercenary souldiers dangerous 2 35 yet how well qualified they may be usefull  ibid. Miracles of this warre examined and ranked into foure sorts viz. 1 not done 2 falsely done 3 done by Nature 4 done by Satan 5 10 N NIce besieged and taken by the Christians 1 16 Nilus his wonders and nature 2 13 Northern armies may prosper in the South 5 15 Norvegian service 1 13 5 22 Numbers numberlesse slain in these warres  20 What Numbers competent in an army  19 Numbers of Asian armies what we may conceive of them  ibid. O OBservation of Rog. Hoveden confuted 2 46 Offers at Palestine since the end of the warre 5 24 Office of the Virgin why instituted 1 8 Owls why honoured by the Tartarians 4 2 P  B. Ch. PAlestine in generall described 1 18 Pastorells in France slain 4 21 Pelagius the Legate 3 24 Peter the Hermite his character 1 8 he proves himself but an hypocrite  ibid. Peter K. of Aragon a favourer of the Albingenses slain in battel 3 22 Philip Augustus K. of France his voyage to Palestine and unseasonable return  6 Pilgrimages proved unlawfull 5 9 The Popes private profits by the Holy warre 1 11 he the principall cause of the ill successe 5 12 Polands service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Ptolemais wonne by the Christians 2 11 regained by Saladine  45 after three yeares siege recovered by the Christians 3 8 finally taken by Sultan Scrapha 4 33 Q QValitie of the adventurers in this warre 1 12 R REd sea why so called 2 13 Reformation why Rome is averse from it 4 4 Reimund Earl of Tripoli his discords with Baldwine 2 41 his apostasie to Saladine  45 his suspicious death  ibid. Relicks how to be valued 3 12 why so many before death Renounced the world 2 18 Richard K. of England his voyage to Palestine 3 6 he taketh Sicily and Cyprus in his passage  7 vanquisheth Salad in a set battel  11 in his return he is taken prisoner in Austria and ransomed  13 Richard Earl of Cornwall his voyage to Palestine 4 8 Robert D. of Normandie his valour 1 16 he refuseth the Kingdome of Ierusalem and thriveth not after 2 1 Rodulphus chosen unexpectedly Emperour of Germanie 4 30 sendeth supplies to Syria  ibid. Rodulphus the unhappie Patriarch of Antioch 2 20 S  B. Ch. SAcriledge 5 17 Saladine killeth the Caliph of Egypt 2 37 succeeds in Egypt and Damascus  ibid. conquereth Guy  45 taketh Ierusalem and all Syria  46 his commendations and death 3 14 Scholars without experience no good Generalls 3 24 Scottish service in this warre 1 13 5 23 Sea and land-service compared 4 24 Simon Earl of Montfort concludeth a truce in Syria 3 16 chosen captain against the Albingenses  22 is killed by a woman  ibid. Sidon described wonne by the Christians 2 12 lost to the Sultan of Egypt 4 32 Spanish service in this warre 1 13 5 22 Stephen Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 15 Superstition tainting this whole war 5 9 Suspected souldiers in armies where to be placed 4 10 Sultans their large commissions 2 22 Sweden appeareth not in the Holy warre 1 13 T TArtaria described 1 7 4 2 Tartars their name and nature  ibid. when first known to the world  converted to Christianitie  22 their relapse to Paganisme  26 the occasion  ibid.  B. Ch. Theobald King of Navarre his unhappie voyage 4 7 Titular Bishops their use and abuse 3 2 Pretenders of Titles to the Kingdome of Ierusalem 5 29 Tunis described besieged 4 27 taken by the Christians  28 Turks whence descended 1 7 their large strides into Asia  ibid. harder to be converted then Tartars 4 2 Turkish Empire its greatnesse strength and welfare the weaknesse and defects of it what hopes of its approching ruine 5 30 Tyle Colupp a notable cheater 4 20 Tyre described 2 12 taken by the Christians  17 valiantly defended by Conrade 3 1 wonne by Sultan Alphir 4 32 V  B. Ch. VEnetians performance in this warre 2 17 their bloudie sea-battel with the Genoans 4 24 Vitiousnesse of the Pilgrimes which went to Palestine 1 12 5 16 W WAfer-cake why wrought in the borders of all Egyptian tapestrie 4 18 Welsh service in this warre 5 23 William Patriarch of Ierusalem 2 25 William Landt-grave of Hesse his fictitious voyage to Ierusalem confuted 5 26 Women warriours 1 12 2 27 Wracks first quitted by the Kings of England to their subjects 3 7 FINIS Mart. 13. 1638. Imprimatur Cantabrigiae per Thomam Buck. RA. BROWNRIGG Procan SAM WARD THO. BAINBRIGG THO. BACHCROFTS Anno Dom. 34. 72. * Iosephus lib. 7. belli Iud. Gr. c. 45. Lat. c. 17. * Exod. 12.13 * Adricom is Actis Apost fol. 282. credo ex Hegesipp◠* Suetonius in Tit◠Euseb. Eccl.