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A47555	The Turkish history from the original of that nation, to the growth of the Ottoman empire with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours / by Richard Knolles ... ; with a continuation to this present year MDCLXXXVII ; whereunto is added, The present state of the Ottoman empire, by Sir Paul Rycaut ...	Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Present state of the Ottoman Empire.; Grimeston, Edward.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. History of the Turkish empire.	1687 (1687)	Wing K702; Wing R2407; Wing R2408; ESTC R3442	4,550,109	2,142

and was now come very near the same Feri-Bassa glad of his coming opposed his Army against him which Scanderbeg seeing retired a little of purpose to draw the Bassa farther from the Camp and then forthwith began to joyn battel with him The Bassa considering the small number of his Enemies and his own greater Power withdrew four thousand Horsemen out of his Army to fetch a compass about and to set upon the rereward of Scanderbegs Army hoping so to enclose him that he should never escape thence but there either to be slain or taken alive and his Army utterly defeated But the expert Captain perceiving his purpose to meet therewith left Moses to lead the main Battel and he himself with two thousand Horsemen so valiantly charged those four thousand of his Enemies before they were well departed from the rest of the Bassaes Army that they had now more cause to look to their own safety than how to circumvent others In this Conflict Feri-Bassa hand to hand as he had oft times before desired encountring with Scanderbeg was by him there slain All this while that Scanderbeg was in fight with Feri-Bassa in the right Wing of the Army and Musachy in the left Moses stood fast receiving the Assault of the Enemy without moving any thing forward expecting the success of the Wings But Scanderbeg having discomfited the right Wing and slain the General coming now in he set forward with such force and courage that the Turks not able longer to abide his force turned their backs and fled of whom many were slain in this chase though Scanderbeg doubting the great Power of his Enemy so nigh at hand durst not follow them far but sounding a Retreat put his Army again in good order for fear of some sudden Attempt from the Camp and after appointed some of the meanest of his Souldiers to take the spoil of the slain Turks When Amurath had understood what had hapned to Feri-Bassa he was so overcome with anger and melancholy that for a while he could not speak one word but after the heat was a little past he commanded certain small pieces of Ordnance which he had before used against the City to be removed into the Camp and there placed upon that side which was most in danger to the Enemy He also presently sent thither four thousand Souldiers to joyn with the remainder of Feri-Bassaes Army for defence of the Camp with strait charge that they should not issue out of the Trenches Nevertheless he himself continued the Assault of the City all that day but when night drew on and no hope appeared for him to prevail he caused a Retreat to be sounded and leaving the Assault he returned again into his Camp. At this Assault Amurath lost seven thousand Men beside many that died afterwards of their wounds but of the Garrison Souldiers were slain but seventy and ninety more hurt The terrour of the Turkish Army began now to grow in contempt throughout Epirus and Scanderbeg was in good hope that Amurath after so many Overthrows and shameful Repulses would at length raise his Siege and be gone yet he sent Spies continually to discover what was done in the Turks Camp and he himself with two thousand Souldiers would oftentimes shew himself upon the sides of the Mountains near unto Amurath his Camp of purpose to draw the Turks out that he might take them at some advantage But the old King had given Commandment upon pain of death That no man should go out of the Trenches without leave or once to speak of giving Battel or Assault so that he lay certain days in his Camp not like a King besieging of a City but more like a man besieged himself the which his still lying Scanderbeg had the more in distrust fearing greatly that he was hatching some mischief which so soon as it was ripe would violently break out Amurath considering with what evil Success he had many times assaulted the City and holding it for a great dishonour to raise his Siege and depart having done nothing worth the remembrance thought good once again to prove if it were possible to overcome the minds of the Garrison Souldiers with Gifts whom he was not able to subdue by force For which purpose he sent an Embassador unto the City offering unto the besieged and Garrison Souldiers easie Conditions of Peace with such large Gifts and Rewards as had not been heard offered to any Garrison in former time All which his magnifical Promises were lightly rejected by the common consent of all the whole Garrison prefering their faithful Loyalty before all his golden Mountains For all that Amurath was in good hope that amongst so many some would be found into whose minds his large Offers might make some Impression wherein he was not deceived For one base-minded Fellow amongst the rest corrupted with the Turks great Promises preferring his own private wealth before the welfare of his Country waiting his time had secret conference with the Turks Espials promising upon assurance of such Reward as was before by Amurath profered to find means that in few days the City should be yielded into his Power This corrupted Traytor had laid many mischievous Plots for the effecting of this horrible Treason but the first device he put in practise which of all others a man would have thought to have been of least moment served his wicked purpose in stead of all the rest All the Garrison Souldiers of Sfetigrade were of the upper Country of Dibra put into that City by Moses for their approved Valour above all the other Souldiers of Epirus But as they were men of great courage so were they exceeding superstitious both in their Religion and manner of living putting nice difference betwixt one kind of lawful Meat and other accounting some clean some unclean abhorring from that which they fondly deemed unclean with more than a Jewish Superstition choosing rather to die than to eat or drink thereof such is the strong delusion of blind Error where it hath throughly possessed the minds of men The City of Sfetigrade as is aforesaid is situate upon the top of a great high Rock as most of the Cities of Epirus now be and was then watered but with one great Well in the midst of the City which sunk deep into the Rock plentifully served both the publick and private use of the Inhabitants Into this common Well the malicious Traytor in the night time cast the foul stinking carrion Carkass of a dead Dog knowing that the conc●ited Ga●rison Souldiers of Dibra would rather indure the pains of death and starve or else yield up the City upon any condition than to drink of that polluted water In the morning when that s●●nking Carrion was espied and drawn out o● the Well the report thereof was quickly bruted in every corner of the City and that the Well was poysoned so that all the people were in manner in an uproar about the finding out of the Traytor

her warm tears which she afterwards devoureth together with the body But what to answer him unto this his catching question I know not for if I shall say As an Emperor I shall forthwith be slain by them which for that purpose have me in hold but if I say As Anthony the Monk it shall be taken as the frank confession of mine estate by them which have craftily contrived mine Overthrow as if I had not by compulsion but even of mine own free will put on this monastical habit which God knoweth was never in my thoughts Having thus said he sent them away without any other answer unto their demand but sitting down upon his bed-side said My soul return again into thy rest for the Lord hath dealt well with thee neither spoke any one word more in declaration of his grief his Tongue there staid by his singular Wisdom or else with the greatness of his grief and so against his will in silence passing over his sorrow his mind with the greatness of his Woes overcome and as it were astonished before the humors gathered into the brain could be dissolved into tears for as the Sun sending forth his moderate beams draweth unto it many exhalations and vapors but casting the same forth more plentifully doth with his immoderate heat consume the same before they can be drawn up so the moderate affections of the mind may have their griefs by words and tears expressed but such as exceed all measure and with their vehemency as it were overthrow the mind commonly make men to stand still mute and silent or if they speak at all to speak idly and nothing to the purpose as men beside themselves or in an extasie but for the resolution of the question by the Bishops demanded the devout Patriarch decreed That in the Church-Prayers he should be remembred before the Emperor his Nephew by the name of the most religious and zealous Monk Anthony which was done God wot for no good zeal to the poor blind man but the better to colour the matter with the common people as if he weary of the World had voluntarily taken upon him that silly profession Nevertheless within four days after Synadenus understanding them in every place to whisper among themselves and secretly to mutter against the hard dealing with the old Emperor who had long reigned over them and so by right was again to do if his Nephew should chance to die and that the Ecclesiastical Laws enforced no man against his will to enter into religious Orders he therewith enraged sent to him certain of his own Confederacy to exact of him an Oath in writing That he should never more after that time seek after the Empire or yet accept of the same if it were offered him neither to substitute any other which if he refused to do to put him in fear of his life and the more to terrifie him set a guard of insolent barbarous Souldiers over him for fear of whom he yielded to do whatsoever they required and so his Oath being solemnly conceived into writing another man leading his hand because he was blind he signed the same with a red Cross above and a black Cross beneath after the manner of the religious Having thus lived in darkness disgraced shut up in his Chamber as a man forsaken of the World with an unsure guard ever to attend him by the space of two years it fortuned that the 12 th of February towards night a day in the Greek-Church dedicated to the Vigil of St. Anthony whose name they had given him certain of his Friends that were suffered to have access unto him going as their manner was once in three or four days to visit him among whom was his Daughter sometime the Prince of Servia his Wife but as then a Widow and Nicephorus Gregoras Author of this History he entred with them as with his Friends into a familiar discourse of many matters wherein he so deceived the time that it was past midnight before they perceived how the time passed But the Cocks crowing he brake off the talk and bidding them farewel gave them leave to depart pleasantly saying That to morrow they would make an end of their discourse who all thereupon took their leave and departed no sign of any sickness as then appea●ing upon him and after they were gone called for meat and did eat the meat he eat was certain shell-fish for it was with them a fasting-day and he had not eat any thing after which when as he should have drunk a cup of Wine for the comforting of his old stomach and digesting of that so hard meat he drank cold water as his manner was when he felt any inward heat to drink the same immoderaly which hurtful manner of diet he then using also began by and by to feel a great pain in his stomach and so presently after became very sick falling withall into a great looseness of body so that in the space of one quarter of an hour he was glad oftentimes to arise and to go unto an homely House of Office in an inner-Chamber thereby to discharge natures burden where after many Evacuations sitting down upon an homely bed fast by and not able to recover his own Bed having as then none to help him there before it was day died after he had reigned 43 years His death was by many strange signs and accidents as it were foretold first a great Eclipse of the Sun appeared just so many days before his death as he had lived years and after that another Eclipse of the Moon and with it an Earthquake the day before he died at night being St. Anthony his even whose name his Enemies had thrust upon him at which time also the Sea with a great Tempest rising above the wonted Bounds made divers breaches in the Walls of the City towards the Sea as if it had been some violent Enemy and overflowed also divers Houses in the City Many Crosses and Pinacles were then also from the tops of Churches and other high Buildings overthrown and with them a great Pillar sometime one of the Ornaments of the City standing before the Church commonly called the Church of the forty Martyrs which being very high and below burnt and worn away with time had put many in fear as they passed by it lest it should have fallen upon them insomuch that the Emperor upon a time passing that way was requested by some of the Nobility there present to ride farther off from it for fear of falling upon him who smiling at their vain fear by chance answered O would to God I might live so long as this Pillar will stand which now falling out according to his Speech gave many of them that had heard him so say occasion to marvel His dead body was honourably buried in the Monastery of Libe which his Mother Theodora the Empress had not long before new built and his Obsequies there after the manner of that time yearly

number of Boats and other small Vessels with his Janizaries with their Harquebusies and withal hasted his Horsemen over the Bridge to relieve their Fellows distressed on the further side in which Boats the nimble Watermen used such diligence in landing of some and presently in fetching over of others that in short time they had transported divers Bands of those most ready and valiant Souldiers whose coming wonderfully comforted the Asian Souldiers even now at the last cast and ready to have given over Canoglis also the Tartar Kings Son and Selymus his Brother in Law encouraging his Horsemen to take the River with loss of some few of his men recovered the further side to the great admiration of the beholders which in that Nation was not so much to be marvelled at as they which by Troops with their Horses had oftentimes swam over the great Rivers Taurus and Volga no less dangerous than was the River Nilus Tomombeius at the same time for that he saw speedy Victory to consist in one thing especially serring his Troops together strained himself with might and main to have gained the head of the Bridge that by plucking away some few of the first Boats he might shut in his Enemies already come over and by cutting the Cables whereby the Boats were fastened to the bank all the Bridge with the Turks upon it might be born away with the force and violence of that great River whereupon rose a most cruel and deadly Fight for the resolute Mamalukes in the front of their battel fought valiantly and Mustapha well considering the danger had drawn to that place both his Ensigns and his best Souldiers so that there was fought such a fight as a matter of so great consequence required the Mamalukes plainly seeing that if they could obtain the place they should shortly after with little ado overthrow all the former Victories of their Enemies And the Turks no less ignorant that except they kept the Bridge whole they were all but lost men that were already come over and that the rest of the Army together with their Emperor so far from home and in the midst of his Enemies must of necessity shortly after run the same fortune But Mustapha well relieved by the Janizaries and the Europeian Horsemen which were now come over in great number not only received his Enemies charge but pressing upon them gained ground and by little and little inforced them to retire This is that Mustapha the Hungarian and Bajazet his Son in Law which for his own glory and perpetual fame built that notable stately and sumptuous Stone Bridge of the Spoils of this Victory over the River Stremon which at this day men passing over into Thracia wonder at as at a work beseeming the greatness of the Roman Empire Tomombeius to give a time of breathing to his Mamalukes who their Horses for weariness now fainting under them were not able longer to shew their wonted Courage and desirous by them again to prove the uttermost fortune of the battel exhorted the Moors and Arabians a while to charge the Enemy which thing they after the manner of their Fight valiantly performed and shortly after the Mamalukes having a little breathed themselves and their Horses came in afresh and renewed the battel with such fury that Selymus doubting the Victory although he was by his most faithful Counsellors perswaded to the contrary yet doubted not to adventure the Bridge and in person himself to go and relieve his distressed Souldiers who by his coming in encouraged and in the sight of their Emperor desiring every man for his part by some notable service to deserve both credit and preferment repressed the fury of the Enemy who in short time after by the coming on of certain fresh Companies of Janizaries were notably repulsed and so at length put to flight whom the Horsemen which were not in the battel pursued all the Fields over At length also the Tartarians who carried away with the force of the stream were somewhat long before they could recover the farther Bank and come to their Enemies were now come in also and with their swift Horses following the chase augmented the slaughter But Selymus above all things desirous of Tomombeius presently commanded Mustapha the great Bassa Gazelles and Cayerbeius with certain fresh Troops of light Horsemen to pursue him at the heels and if it were possible not to suffer him to escape for so long as he lived he could not assure himself of any thing he had yet gotten These vigilant Captains not unmindful of their charge following fast after him overtook him the next day at the sluce of a great deep Fen where he had a little rested himself and his Followers being then about to cut off a wooden Bridge so to have hindred the Enemies pursuit Some of his Followers being there slain and some taken he was again enforced to fly The third day when he had almost lost all his men and was come with some few into the Territory of the Secussan Prince these great Captains still eagerly pursuing him and denouncing unto the poor Country People which dwelt in Villages thereabout all Extremities and Tortures if they did not with most diligent watch and ward so keep the passages of those Marishes as that he should not possibly escape he was so beset on every side that for safegard of his life he was glad to hide himself all alone in a foul deep Marish where shortly after he the poor Sultan was by the diligent search of the Country Peasants found out hidden among the Flags and Bulrushes standing in the water up to the shoulders who delivered him miserably bound unto the Turks Shortly after he with certain Captains and other of his chief Friends taken in that Flight was brought to Caire Selymus before resolved to put him to death and the rather for the injury done to his Embassadors would not suffer him to come into his presence but commanded him to be tortured so to have caused him to have revealed the great Treasures of Campson his Predecessor which were thought to have been by him hidden in which most horrible and exquisite Torments it is reported that he with great constancy and stern countenance uttered nothing but certain deep sighs and groans overcoming with patience the Tyranny of the proud Conqueror who after that commanded him in base and ragged Apparel with his hands bound behind him as a Thief or Murderer condemned to die to be set upon a foul lean Camel and so to be carried in derision through all the publick and notable places of the City that the Egyptians might see him whom they but a little before had adored for their King by change of Fortune cast into extream misery by most shameful death to end both his life and Empire together when they had thus despightfully led him as it were in triumph and brought him to the chief Gate of the City called Basuela they there openly