spoyled all the contrey and wolde not suffer the subiects of Caromano other to sowe and plowe the grounde orels to doe anye thinge in the feeldes that moughte befor their commoditie whervpon they that dwelled vpon the plaine were in suche distresse that of their owne acorde they reuolted from Caromano for the greatest number and became subiectes to Baiazithe when the springe of the yere was cōme Caromano consideringe the inclination of his people and being in feare to be forsaken of his souldiours or els to be delyuered by them into the hands of Baiazithe obtaine of the Soldane of Egipte Caribeio a man of much fame and worthines a great sume of money and also certaine bandes of Arrabianes he sent into all partes of his dominions for such ayde as there was to be had and ioyned them all with his armie and made it of as great number as he coulde and determyned to se howe fortune wolde fauour hym and rather to Hazard the battayle then to gyue place to his enemie and in tyme to be delyuered by his owne mē into the handes of his enemyes whervpon beinge furnished with all necessaries he toke the feelde and chose a place of great strengthe and apte for the seruice of horse men when Baiazithe vnderstode that the enemey was come to the feelde and in campe he sent to all his garnisones commaūdinge them to repare vnto hym wyth spede with them to bring their whole furniture and when he had taken reuewe of them he marched to the feelde and put his souldiours in battayle and then marched towarde Caromano and when he came w tin sighte of him he sent his vauntgarde toward his enemie some thinge spedyly to begyn the battayle and he in person dyd conducte the battayle and folowed the Vauntgarde he also was folowed by the rierewarde and all his bagagers and when he came where the enemies were they refused not the battayle he came towarde them in good order and ioyned with them and notwithstanding that the force of Baiazithes people was greate and that a troupe of ten thousand horsemen of his went and serred them selues and with great furie assayled the enemies perswading them selues that in the first encoūtre they woulde disorder them but the Ciliceanes recauid theyr charge with great assurance in suche sorte that there was not one of them that gaue one fote of grounde to his enemie After this when they were entremelled there began a very braue and blooddie fyghte men fell downe dead and hurte contynally on bothe sydes and their places were alwaies supplied with freshe men and in this sorte they contynued for the greatest parte of the daye with great assurance nether partie gyuinge place to the other so that it coulde not be Iudged on whiche parte the virtorye shoulde lighte for the battayle contynued doubtefull euen to the darcke night Abraham Caromano shewed that daye of what value he was for in his order he shewed him selfe a Capten of great Iudgement and afterward in his fyghte he shewed him selfe a valiante and stoute souldiour and laste of all by the prouidence of god his tyme beinge at hand seinge his people to gyue place beinge charged by a greate numbre of his enmies whose force they were not able to endnre be thruste on spedilie towardes them with his garde a good number of other of his souldiours and gaue in vp on them in suche sorte that he perced euen in to myddest of their squadrone and beinge knowen by the enemies was by thē forth with enuironed and charged on euery syde with suche furie that they slewe his horse vnder hym where vpon he was constrayned to fyghte on fote in the whiche he behaued him selfe so nobly that w t his owne hande he slewe dyuerse of those which assailed him in the ende throughe the great losse of his bloude which contynually fell from him throughe his dyuerse and sondrie woondes whiche he had receauied in the battayle not beinge able to endure anye longer fell downe deade in the place as sone as his people vnderstode of his death they were so amazed and discouraged that immediatly they dysorderid them seules and lefte the fyghte scatteringe them selues all the the feelde ouer hoped to make flighte their sauetie but being folowed by y e Turckyshe horsmen the greatest number of them were slaine and a great parte of the rest were taken on lyue and delyuered to Baiazith when he had in this sorte obtained so greate a victorie he determyned forthewith to vse the same whervpon he began to occupie the reste of Cilicia campestre and marching on ouer all the contrey the cities and fortellezes yeldyd vnto him enerie where as he came withoute makinge anye resystaunce and hauing in shorte tyme broughte vnder his obeisance all that contrey that Caromano possessed in Cilicia he deuised then with his Captaines what was beste to be done fynally it semed beste in the opinion of euery mā first or he toke in hand to passe the mounte Tauro and so to goe on to conquere that which Caromano possyd in the lesse Armenia and Capadotia to possesse the other Cilicia called Thrachea to the ende to leue no enemie behinde thē y e mought empeche them whervpō he caused to moostre and paie his men and then gaue them a litle tyme to repose that done he vnited them and sent them towarde Setalia which is a Citie in that prouince then newlye inhabited a citie of greate traffique maruelously well inhabited by meanes of the decaie of the trade that was in Delo whiche in tyme passed was a Citie of the greatest traffique of all Asia and chiefely for the great number of slaues that then were there boughte and solde which were in nūber in maner infinite wherof it grewe into prouerbe marchantes make your voyage to Delo and there vnshippe for whatsoeuer is broughte thither is redie money when the traffique of this Citie was decaied the whole traffique and trade of marchandize was put ouer into Setalia and throughe the greate repaire of marchauntes it was become the cheife and beste in habited Citie of the lesse Asia in so muche that the sea coaste all there aboute losynge his olde name is called the golfe of Setalia euen at this daye vpon the whiche golfe directly ouer againste the Isle of Cipres standeth a noble Citie and a popolouse called Scandoloro the lorde wherof beinge a Turcke borne and all wayes in doubte of them hath euer ben an enemie to y e house of Ottomano and also to Caromano and confede rate with the greate maister of Rhodes and the King of Cipres dyd preserue his state vntyll that daie standing as a newter betwene them both but whē he sawe Baiazith come vpon him withe so populouse an armie vpon the sodden Iudginge him selfe not of power to witstand his force for all the power that he was able to make did not excede the number of xx M. men on horsbacke
there were slaine of y e partie of y e Mamalukes the great Diadaro strycken with a falconete and of the Turckes partie Sinan Bassa and when the Soldane was retorned with his armys he lodged them betwene the Citie and the ryuer Nilo and determyned to supplie his armye with newe bandes and to defend him selfe and therfore sent for all the Mamalukes y t were appointed to the garde of other contreys and commaunded them to repaire to Cairo with all spede he toke oute of the Monition house of the Castle all the furniture of armour and weapon that there was and distributed it to the children of the Mamalukes and to twelue thousand slaues which they toke vp in that Citie besydes that he sent into Iudea and Arabia his Captaines to leuie and enrolle all suche horsemen and fotemen as they shoulde fynde that were trained and experimented in y e warres and for that he wolde as muche as in him was saue his people from the force of the artillerie he determyned w t all his power to assayle his enemye in the darckest of y e nighte for that he was assured that in the nyghte they coulde not well vse their artillerie withoute the slaughter of their owne people as well as of their enemyes discouering his opinion to certaine of the cheife of y e Mamalukes he prouided to put it in executioÌ„ but he coulde not vse the matter so secretly but y t amonge those fewe with whom he had debated the cause their were some traitours whiche dyd aduertize Selim therof who caused to make greate fyres withoute his campe rounde aboute it whiche made all the partes aboute the campe to be as well seen as in the myddeste of the daye and in this sorte prouided that he moughte well vse hys artillerie and then put hys armye in battayle lookinge for his enemyes Tommobeio in the nyght â–ª approched neare to the Turckes campe and when he sawe all these fires he was then assured that hys enterprise was discouered yet wolde be not so retorne but assayled his trenches in suche sorte that he entred them and synding them very well furnished be retorned agayne to his lodging froÌ„ whence he came and after that beinge enforced by the Mamalukes he was constrained to lodge within the citie and to defende it and for that he wolde prouide in euery respecte he caused with all spede to fortifye it and when he had made stronge the principall places therof he put stronge garde into them Selim as sone as he herde that the Soldane with his armie was lodged w t in the towne he marched with his armye into the towne which he moughte easyly doe for that the citie was not enuironed with walle nor rampare beinge within the Citie with his armye he foughte three dayes continually with the enemye and when he had slayne a great nuÌ„ber of them he became lorde of the greatest parte of the Citie and the Mamalukes seinge their force daily to de caie and that they were no longar able to contynue in the Citie went from thence to the ryuer Nilo and toke the boates that they founde there and passed all their armie with the Soldane ouer the ryuer into the Region Segesta which is a parte of Affrica that liethe towarde Cirene and Tomombeio for that he wolde not gyue ouer the matter sent for those Mamalukes that were appointed to grade the Citie of Alexandria and for y â— there came dayly into his campe Arabianes Affricanes and other Mores of y e prouices there abouts he began to be agayne in good hope to defende his owne whylest the matters of Cairo passed in this sorte Gazzele whome y e Soldane had sent into Thebaiade to leuie as manye bandes of both horsemen and fotemen as he coulde was coÌ„me neare to Cairo and had brought with him a gerat number of Arrabianes with their Captaines also and when he vnderstode of the losse of Cairo and that hys lorde was fied beyonde the ryuer Nilo and beinge oute of all hope of the preseruation of his countre vnder the gouernement of the Soldane seinge it paste all remedie determined to obserue time and to pronide for his safety by yelding him selfe to the victour and when he had in this sorte debated the matter with the Captaines of the Arrabianes which he had brought with him had per swaded them in that behalfe he came to the gate of Selim and required to be broughte to his presence when he came before him he fell prostrate to the grounde and ryssed his fete sainge for so muche as he had done for y â— preseruation of the Mamalukes state and of his lorde all that was possyble for him to doe and neuer brake his fait he so longe as there was any token of hope lefte for the preseruation of this same and nowe seinge his high nes possessyd of the Citie and placed in the Imperiall seate and his lorde to be fled and to haue lefte his kingdome wherfore he had determyned with him selfe no lenger to respste but trusting in his clemencie and goodnes was coÌ„me wholly to committe him selfe into his hands w t oute any maner of condition at all but to be well contentyd with all that that shoulde please his highnes to deteremyne of him Selim receuid him very corteously and willed him to be of good comforte and to assure him selfe not to wante place with him mete for a man of his worthines he caused him to be writen amonge y e reste of his chiefe Captaines appointed vnto him an honorable prouisionin lyke sorte he caused y e Captaines chiefe officiers of the Arrabianes to be broughte vnto him and gaue them very good wordes and entertained them in his ordinarie After this he vnderstode of a certaine man of Segesta which was comme to seke him of manye of the purposes of Tomombe is and howe he was contynually solycited by certaine Mores the principall and chiefe of Cairo in suche sorte as he was fully determyned to retorne thyther agayne when Selim vnderstode of these preparationes he thought good to pre uent it whervpon he determined to passe the ryuer Nilo and to seke him and to the ende that he moughte the more spedyly passe his armye and artillerie he prouided a great number of botes and fastened them to bothe the shores and then laide his bridge made of bordes and called into the Castle suche Citizens as he suspected and â—caused them to be safely kepte when Tomombe is vnder â—tode that Selim was makinge redie to passe the Nilo with his armye fearinge the inconstancie of the people and seing no way howe by flyghte he mought prolonge the warres determyned to proue what fortune wolde doe once more in battayle wherfore he thought it good to assayle the bridge and to se yf that he coulde synding his enemyes occupied in their passage ouer take them vnprouided and so to onerthrowe them whervpon he vsed greats celeritie departing
he taken by Tamerlano his sonnes fled awaye before the furie of y e victoriouse enemie who had berafte them the whole empire of the lesse Asia and when they came into Gretia they happened into the hands of the Emperour of Constantinople who preserued their liues and helde them vnder good garde and after the death of Tamerâ—ano he licensid the eldest sonne Calapino to passe into Asia wheare when he was ariued he was forthe with gratfullye receued of the people and in short time recoueryd the Empire whiche once was his fathers after that retorned into his state gouernement in Gretia from thence went against y e king of hungari who went then for aide to Charles the vi Kinge of Fraunce who graunted him a greate numbre of men at armies vnder the conducte and guide of Iohn Counte of Niuerse who afterwarde succyded his father in the gouernance and principalitie of the Duchie of Borgonie and of many other Captaines as it is some thing plainely declared alredye by vs in the Frenche Historie and in the life of the afore saide Charles the syxte also that when there were defeycted in hungarye at Mychopollye eyghte hundred Frenche launces the afore sayde Iohn with manye other noble men of Fraunce was taken prysoner for the summe of two hundred thousand ducates were set at lybertye by the afore said Calapino theÌ„ died this same Calapino left Orca his sone but Moises his brother succided him in his Kingdome who berafte Orca not only of his kingdome but also of his life but he long enioyed not that kingdom so wickedly gotten but died in shorte space after lefte his brother Mahometh to succede in his place who afterwarde made warres vpon the people of Valachia a stoute nation dwelling neare the mouth of the ryuer Danubio giuiÌ„g them many ouerthroes and consuming their contrey with continuall courses and spoiles compelled them to search appointment and to giue trybute after all this he emploied his force against certaine noble men of the Turkishe nation which dwelled in Asya and he fell to agrement with some of them and the greatest numbre of them he banished from their contreys and dominions and toke them cleane from them This Mahometh duryng hys raigne handled the christians that were hys subiects very cruelly and dyd plague them with sondrye tyranies wheÌ„ Mahometh died he left his Kingdome to Amorath his sonne who was then in Natolia vpon the fronters with an armye by the commaundement of his father for the garde therof who hearing of the death of hys father came with all spede of Calcedone to passe y e straite and so to entre into his dominions of Gretia but the Emperor of Constantinople dyd prohibite him the passage for a long season with his nauie and set Mustaffa the yongest sonne of Baiazith at libertie and also gaue hym ayde to recouer hys fathers kyngdome but when Mustaffa and Amorath were once ioyned in battayll Mustaffa with his power was sone defeicted Amorath with his armie remained there with the victorie vpon y e place and easyly possessid the dominions and kingdome of his father after that he brought his armie into Gretia and with continuall courses dyd so spoyle and impouerishe those prouinces that yet rested in the handes of the christians and lad his armie to the citie Thesalonica which was then possessyd by the Venetyanes by vertue of a graunt made vnto them by Theodoro son to Emanuell Emperor of Constantinople and toke it by force and sacked it and lefte it in maner deserte and folowing on the race of his victorie entred in to Epirro which of men of this age is called Lartha froÌ„ thence into the contreis of the people called Etolli contreis in ancient time of great power and nobilitie and at thys daye are ioyned to the gouernance of Macedonia wheÌ„ he had thus taken them he annexed them to his crown And shortly after he entred into Illiria whiche at thys daye is called Schiauonia in y e which their is contained Dalmatya Croacya and Istria with the people called Iburni he ouer ran it with exceding great spoile and destruction therof also he toke there certaine townes and caried awaye from thence an inestimable proye of men and catel And bycause among the Turkes it was lawful for one maÌ„ to haue many wiues Amorath although he had alredie a great nuÌ„ber of wiues yet he ioyned him selfe in mariage with a daughter of George Dispotto of Seruia but making smal acompte of y e band of affinitie with in short space after he entred into Seruia as an enemie with his armie but George knowing his force not sufficient to resiste the power and furie of his sonne in lawe furnished with men monition the citie of Sinderonia and left in it one of his sonnes for the defence therof and he with his wife children and familie fled in to Hungarie and caryed wyth hym a greate numbre of prestes Amorath in a shorte time became lord of al Seruia then laste of all with his armie went to Sinderonia and toke it by force and finding in it the sonne of y e dispotto he plucked out both his eies caried him prisoner with him when George had thus loste his contrey he continued in hungarie many yeres in exile tell on a time Iohn the vaiuoda which then gouerned hungarie entred iÌ„to Saruia This vaiuoda was acompted for his great Iudgement in warres one of y e most famouse captaines of Europe and had giuen to diuers of the Turkes Sauigiachi many ouerthroes and recouerid out of the hands of the said Turke a great parte of the contre of the afore named Dispotto but he restored him not to all that which he had recoueryd for some parte of it he gaue to his captaines other he helde to him selfe perswading him selfe that he had great reason so to doe coÌ„sidering that it was he that had recoueryd it and therfore thought it good to holde some part of it for him self and some for his frinds and the rather for that he knew the dispotto not worthye to be trusted for so much as as he put no difference betwene the Christian relygyon and the Mahometan and for that hys contrey laye betwene the hungarianes and y e Turks and wolde nowe enter in league with the one and then with the other and deceaue them both but nowe retorning to speke of Amorath a man truely of great power also of greate vnderstanding in warres who when he had brought vnder fote those noble men of his nation that helde anye parcell of his dominion and had reduced to his obedyence all the lesse Asia with pontho and Capadotia so that all those that dwellid in it were his excepte onely Caromano prince of Cilitia Asmabeco which gouerned in Armenia neare to the floode uphrates and the lord of Scandalaro which far beionde the citie of
determined to chose to their prince a noble man a Greke borne who pretennted title â—o it did so attempt it that they entred into warres aâ—aut it wherupon on both sides thei addressed theÌ„selues or aide to Mahometh who when he harde the matter â—horowly debated Iudged y e two brethren to haue the â—ight wherevpon he graunted them his frendshipas to â—hose that had the right on their side sent in their aide â—ertain bands of men by whose good helpe thei sone reâ—ressed the force of the Albaneses enforsed theÌ„ to dwel â—nder y e rule goueruance of Thomas Paleologo there Dispotto who agreed w t Mahometh to paye him yerely â—euentine M. ducates in this sort commended himself â—nd his state to his protection for asmuche as y e ryght was descended vnto him by the death of his brother the â—mperour he mought lawfully haue called himself emâ—erour of Gretia in the which his auÌ„cestors had coÌ„mauÌ„â—ed many yeres but fearing to offend Mahometh he abâ—tained from that title contented himselfe w t the only â—itle of the Dispotto of Morea But shortly after when â—e vnderstode that Calixto the thyrde a Spaniarde â—ucceded Nycholas the fyfte in the Romyshe seate who forthe wyth sente hys Legates and Cardynalles â—o all the Prynces of Christendome to perswade â—heym to make warres agaynste the Turckes for â—he recouerye of Gretia And also vnderstanâ—ynge the greate preparatyon that was made in â—talie for the Sea and the leauiynge of the armye in Hungarye denyed flattelye to paye anye Trybute vnto Mahometh and also ouer rashly refused his frendship and protection being deceyued in his imagination perswadiuge himselfe that forthwith the Turkes shoulde haue bene chased out of Gretia but after when he sawe the bishoppes preparation toke none effect he was enforsed with great gyftes and paiment of the tribute for two yeres before hande at one paiment to reconcile him selfe to Mahometh and to renewe the league betwene them wherevpon Mahometh dessemblynge for a tyme the iniurie that he had receyued at his hande receyued him agayne into his fauour and protection but within fewe yeres after when he perceyued himselfe to be assured in his seate in Gretia he called to mynde the foresaide rebellion and sente his armie into Peloponesso and toke the walle of Esmilia that was buylded vpon the straite called Isthmos which shutteth vp that strait of lande beynge fyue myles in breadeth stretchynge from the sea Ionio to the sea Egeo of the which seas all the rest of Morea which aunciently was called Pelâ— ponesso is enuironed And when the Turks had wonne the walle they entred into Morea and toke the citie of Corintho and made bothe the Dispotts his vassalles the one being deuided from the other and toke froÌ„ them their state and patrimonie The prouince of Peloponesso is the chiefe parte of Gretia for the commodiousnes thereof and also for the great wealth and power of the nobilitie and commons that in the olde worlds inhabited the same that piece of grounde well considered will declare it selfe to be the foundation of the Greke Empyre for as muche as in it there are manye godlye goolfes many large and great caues and promontories manye manifique and sumptuos cities and they saye that the forme of the platte therof is like vnto that of the leafe of a platane the length and breadeth therof are almost equall and from the one ende to the other it conteyneth a hundred seuentie and fyue miles and in circuite accordyng to the opinion of Pollible it conteyneth fyue hundred myles and Anthemidoro addeth vnto it fyftye miles and and we haue declared it is enuironed with two seas sauynge that piece of lande called Isthmos which confyneth vpon the seas afore sayd and containeth in lengthe v. miles nere where vnto is the noble and famous citie Corintho and their is contayned in y â— same Peloponesso nowe called Morea Achaia Messenia Licaonia nowe called Lacedemonia Largolica and Arcadia which lieth in the middeste of them but nowe retorning to the declaration of our historie beginning where we lefte when Mahometh was becomme lorde of Constantinople and beinge determined there to appoint the seate of his Empire the firste thing that he toke in hand was to amend and repare the walles of the citie and to make them defensyble also to repare the spoyled buyldings of the towne and also to furnishe it with inhabitants for that it wanted a great number by meanes of y â— great slaughter that there had ben wher vpon he caused inhabitants to come oute of all partes and gaue to them greate priuileges and liberties to vse what traffique and also what religioÌ„ they wolde wher vpon within shorte space there came thither an infinite numbre of inhabitants namely of Hebrues or Iues which were chased oute of Spaine besyde thys he vsed the custume that the princes of the easte partes of the worlde doe vse which is that when soeuer he toke anye Citie or Towne after that tyme he woulde take oute of them the chise and most noble housholdes and families with al their treasure and substance and send them to Constantinople to inhabite there he vsed the matter so that at y e tyme of his death he lefte it a Citie of great traffique and also maruelously replenished with inhabitants as sone as he was become Emperour of Constantinople he determyned in him selfe the warres against the hungarianes Iudging it a great assurance to his state of Europe yf that he mought bring to passe to subdue Hungarie and make it subiecte to him which he greatly defired consideringe the propinquitie thereof also the valiantize of y â— people he determined to prouide him of aptaines of great Iudgement and of good soul diours and to assure him in his seate of Gretia whervp on he deferred the enterprise for thre yeres and began to make warres vpon the citie of Athenes which onelye rested oute of his handes of all the prouince of Attica which Citie althoughe it were then of no great circuite ne yet anye thing in comparysson so Populouse or riche as it had ben in tyme before yet notwithstanding thei had builded a forte vpon the walles that were lefte of the ancient Temple of Minerua whiche was thoughte inprennable bnt the lorde therof which was a florentine borne and of the noble house of Acciauolli seing no waye howe to defende it for so much as he had attempted the princes of Italie in sondrie sorte for aide but all was in vaine wherupon he fel to composition w t him and agreed to delyuer him the Towne in exchauÌ„g of certaine houses and yerly rentes that y e Turcke had promised him for the maintenance of him felfe and his familie and herupon yelded the Towne to the Turcke when the Turke had recompensed him he toke froÌ„ him two of his sonnes and brought them vp in his Seraglio to serue him of the which
not depresse that desire of glorie which then was in him Althoughe some man moughte saye vnto me y ◠Caprestano cared not for his owne glorie but for the glorye of god declaringe his incomprehensyble power by aiding the Christians and gyuing them victorie by the aduise and industrie of a symple poore and vn armed freer to the whiche obiection I am content at this present to gyue place when Mahomethe had receuid this great bastonade and was retorned home it is said that he became more temperate and modeste and began to consider mannes astate and to depresse his arrogance and pride and he neuer happened afterwarde to heare anye talke of the iorney of Belgrado but it wolde put him in Cholere and make him to shake y ◠hed notwithstanding that he coulde wel dissemble his cause When Calixto was ded there succided him in his seate Enea Picolhuomini a Sienese borne whoe being desyrous to prouide for the defence of Christendome wente in person to Mantoa a citie in Lombardie where he had appointed a generall councell and at the daye appointed their came manye princes and the ambassadours of all the Christian potentates and the matter being there examined and debated for the space of eighte monethes in what sort they should make warres for the recouerie of Gretta and chasing of the enemies oute of Europe and hauing there a great nūbre of Christian princes which were verie colde in that behalfe and dyd slenderly satisfie the expectation of the pope whervpon when it was decreed that y e warres shoulde be taken in hand against the Turcke he licensed the Councell and departed towarde Rome determining to goe this iorney in person with his Nauie by the sea on thother syde Mahomethe hauinge intelligence of the greate preparation that the Byshope of Rome made determining to cut of all occasyones that mought trouble his state in Gretia and calhys enemyes thyther whervpon he sent hys armye againe into Morea aboute the yere of our saluation a thousand foure hundred and thre score and in a shorte space became lorde of the greatest parte of that contrey and hauing alredie takē the Dispotto therof dimetrio and sent him prisoner to Constantinople Thomas his elder brother being then prince of Acaia was maruelously in doubte of him selfe whervpon he toke with him oute of Acaia the hed of Saincte Andre the apostle and fled oute of his contrey into Italie with the afore sayde hed and manye other reliques of Sainctes came and presented bothe the reliques and him selfe to the pope Whoe receued the reliques and caused them to be placed with great solenpnitie in the churche of Sainte Peter prince of the Apostles in a certaine Chapell whiche he had buylded with great sumptuositie to Thomas prince of Achaia he appointed such promisiō as mought honorably maintaine his state duringe his lyfe in that same yere Mahometh went with his armie against the Emperour of Trebisonda and entred into Ponto with an exceding great Nauie and beseged Trebisonda both by sea and land and the Emperour making no great defence nether of him selfe ne yet of his citie was taken and brought on lyue to Mahometh whoe sent him prisoner to Constantinople and became not onely lord of Trebisonda but also of Sinopi the reste of the townes and cities that the Christians possessyd with in the contrey of Pontho whē he had thus done he returned with his Nauie into Gretia the yere folowing he put his Nauie againe to the sea and sent it to assaile the Isle of Mitelleme in the olde worlde called Lesbo which was possessyd at that tyme by the lorde frauneys Gattalusio a Genouese borne When he had brought his Nauie thither and landed his people in shorte tyme he toke al the fortes and townes of the Isle and then he brought his armie y e to Citie of Mitilleme wherin was the lorde of the Isle with all his power the Turckes beseged the towne bothe by sea and land in suche sorte that they of the towne coulde nether receaue into the towne men ne yet victuales then planted they theyr batteries and in shorte space made an exceding greate breache and yet they contynued it daye and night without gyuing anye tyme at all to the defendantes to repose them and after manye assaultes gyuen the defendantes were maruelously consumed by death and hurtes whervpon they assayled it rounde with al their force and in the ende entred after longe fighte the repares that the defendants had made and first became masters of the walles and then of the citie they put al the men of the towne to the sworde excepte the lorde of the Isle whom they toke prisoner they deflored all the Virgines of the towne and forced all the women of the same thei spoiled the towne of all y e riches that therein was and they lefte nothing nether sacred ne yet profane vndefiled and in this sorte they obtained an exceding riche spoyle both of treasure and prisoners of all kindes and ages which they lad with Gatalusio their lorde to Constantinople and solde them in their marcketes by companies lyke herdes of swyne for slaues a piteouse spectacle to beholde a certaine people of the Isle of Scio called Manoesy vnto whome the Isle of Scio dyd apartaine in y e right of their auncestours whoe at their owne charges wanne it notwithstanding they dyd owe sertaine homage to the citie of Genoa of the which they were citizenes when they vnderstode of the losse of Mitilene fearing leste the victoriouse Nauie should be emploied against thē thought it good to make the matter suer whervpon they sent an ambassade to Mahometh and agreed to gyue him yerely ten thousand ducates in the name of tribute and thus comitted them selues to his protection When the Venetianes vnderstode of y e taking of Morea the losse of Mitilene and Trebisonda they began to be in doubte of their Isles and townes that they possessyd in Gretia and sawe then their owne folie in that that thei had not in the begynninge aided those princes and people but suffred them to be denoured one after an other Mahometh to possesse their states and contreis whervpon they thought it better to assaile then to be assailed and therfore preuented the enemye being in good hope that the popes enterprise shoulde goe forewarde and take good effect by meanes wherof Mahometh shoulde haue ynought to doe to defende his owne dominions and contreys whervpon they put to the sea a greate Nauie of Galleys of diuers ordres of ores and manye greate shippes in whom they bestowed agreate numbre both of fotemen and horsemen Italians and so sayled on towarde the Archipelago or myddle sea when they had landed their people in Morea the fyrst thinge that they toke in hande was to make againe the walle of Esmilia and to make it as stronge as they coulde after that they marched on with their armie to y ◠citie
spoile and after that he entred into the golfe of Patrasso whiche is in Morea and there landed and beinge encountred with the Turckes that were there lefte for the garde of the conutrey he flewe two thousande vpon the place and gaue them a greate ouerthowe he toke the Castle of Vesticio fortified it and lefte in it a garnison of his people there succided pio y â— seconde Paulo the seconde a venetian borne who semed not to abandone the enterprise that his predecessor had determined against the infidels wherupon he ioyned in league with the Venetianes against y â— Turckes which had made there courses into Almaignie and had taken a waye a great proye both of men and cattell Mahometh determining alwayes to banishe the Christians oute of Gretia aboute the yere of our helthe 1470. dyd put to the sea a Nauie of 400. sayle where of they saye there were 200. gaylles and fustes and when he had embarcked a great number of horse men and fote men he sent them vnder the gouernance and coÌ„ducte of Mahometh Bassa to the seege of the citie of Calcide which standeth in the Isle that was anciently called Euboica and nowe is called Negroponte as sone as the Bassa was arriued at the Isle he landed his people and beseged the towne and planted his batteries and when the had contynued it for a longe space they had done in maner nothing for they of the towne be haued them so well that whatsoeuer breache was made in the day they made it vp in y â— nighte and rampared it in as great strengte as before wherfore it semed to Mahomethe that his enterprise toke no greate effecte and that his batteries dyd not greatly preuaile he sent for a newe supplie of men and went thyther in person and when he behelde the greate breaches that his men had made he thoughte that they mought easily enter y e towne wherupoÌ„ he embattailed all his armie and appointed certaine Colonelles with their regimentes to the assaulte and appointed to euery of them the place that he with his regyment shoulde assayle when he had thus done he called al the captaines of his armie vnto him perswadinge them with goodly wordes to shewe them selues worthie of that good opinion that he had of them and that they wolde approche the towne with purpose that dai to be victoriouse or els there to ende their liues and also he gaue vnto them the whole spoyle of the towne more ouer he promised to suche as shoulde firste enter the towne great rewardes with these exhortaciones and promises he dyd greatlye incorage his souldiours wherupoÌ„ he continued his batteries with great furie for a space with the noise wher of and with that of drommes trompettes and cornetts the aire the earth and the sea dyd tremble Mahometh gaue order that when the Colonelles of y e first assauite had continued it for a certaine time that then other Câ—lonelles with their regymentes shoulde take their place and so contynewe the assaulte by the whiche meanes he had alwayes freshe assaylantes and thus contynued he the assaulte withoute intermission two dayes two nightes and suffred not them of the towne in any wise to repose and althoughe that the Christians who were appointed to y e garde of the towne defended it with rare vertue and noble myndes and vsed their fiers artificial shotte great stones and casting speares wherwith they had flayne a great numbre of the infydels and when the infydels had twyse chased them from the breache had entred the towne the Christians serred them selues and charged them and for with chased them fort he of the towne making great slaughter of the aforesaid enemies but in the ende for asmuche as the greatest parte of the defendantes were staine and the reste being but fewe in numbre and greatly weried with the longe fyghte that they had endured and being consumed in this sorte not being a sufficient number to defende the whole circuite of the towne certaine of them repared into the market place determininge there to dye honorably with theyr swordes in their hand and such as were not of so noble a minde as they were for soke the towne among the whiche numbre was the gouernour of the Citie with manye of the cheife officers and gentle men Venetians which fled into the forte or Citadell wherupon y e Turckes entred the Citie and after a longe fyghte became lordes of the market place and them of the Citie and with inspeakable crueltie they put to death all the Italianes that they coulde laie handes on inpalinge them vpon longe stakes of others they plucked the skyn ouer their eares and some others thei cut a sonder in the middest in such sorte that all y e stretes of Negroponte were fylled with dede boddies and washed w t christian bloude and after that they toke all the inhabitants of y e towne as wel men as wemen that then were liuing and made them slaues and when they had thus done they began to sacke the towne both houses and Churches in suche sorte as they lefte nothing in the towne suche as were fled into the sorte made an appointement with him it was agreed that they shoulde departe safely with their lyues and goodes whervpon they delyuered the Castle before that anye one pece was planted against it in dede the Turcke helde not his promes with them for in dede be put them all to y e sworde And in this sorte y e famous Isle of Eboica aboute the middest of y e monethe of Iune was takeÌ„ by Mahometh and when Nicholas de Canale was retorned to Venise the Senate laid to his charge y e he had not done his duetie in that that he had not succoured Negroponte whiche he moughte haue done if he had dursâ—â— as they sayde wherupon they layde him in chaines and then condempned him to perpetuall exile created in his place their general Petro Moranigo who departed oute of the golfe with a Nauie of lx galleys xx greate shippes and sailed on towarde y e Isle spoiled and destroied all the sea coast of Gretia and Asia In those dayes the Genoueses fearinge leaste the Turcke shoulde bringe his armie to the Citie of Capha whiche standeth beyonde the straite of Bosporo vpon the sea called Eusino which at this daye is called the greater sea and seing no waie howe they mighte sende any succours thyther for somuch as the Turcke had his Castles very well furnished which he had buylded vpon both the straites and they thoughte it a matter impossyble to sende anye bandes thyther by lande considering that the iorney was great and the passage perillous throughe the contreys of so many barbarous nations and beinge in this greate extremitie there was a Constable which offerid for a certaine sume of money to goe into Caffa w t his bande which was of the numebr of 150. souldiours or there aboute vnto whome
w t al kinde of monitiō sufficiently for y e space of xviii monethes then passed on w t his armata to Valona frō thence he passed by lande to Constantinople to y ◠courte whē he had thorowlye discoursed w t his lord Mahometh determined to goe in persō into Natolia to ayde his sōne Batazith against Caromano who had alredi giuē Baiazith a great ouerthrowe destroed the greatest part of his armie his pleasure was that Acomathe shoulde goe w t him y ◠iorney entendinge to make quicke Dispatche of y e same thē to retorne into Gretia to haue good time to goe into Italie against the kinge Ferrante whē Mahometh had passed his armie īto Asia was come nere to Scutaio he fel sike of a feruent feuer w tin fewdais died it was suspected y ◠he was poisōed The thirde boke of Andre CAMBINE FLORENTINE OF THE ORIGInall of the Turckes and Empire of the house of Ottomanno MAHOMETHE DIED THE LVI YERE of his age in the xxvii yere of his raigne he lefte behinde him two sonnes the one named Gemma y e other Baiazithe The Turckishe nation beinge deuided after y e death of Mahomethe the one parte especially the nobilitie fauoring Sultan Gemma and y e Gianizaries the partie of Baiazithe and therfore immediatly vpon the death of Mahomethe the Gianizzaries marched wyth all spede to Constantinople and for somuch as Baiazithe was at that tyme in Natolia they toke a yonge sonne of his named Corcuthe when they had saluted him Emperour they bare him aboute thorowe all the citie to shewe him to the people and caused them with loude voice to crie the name of Baiazithe who aboute the middest of Maye when he was retorned to Constantinople caused him selfe to be saluted and confirmed Emperour beinge assured throughe his maniefolde rewardes and liberalitie of the fauour and ayde of y e Bascias and Gianizzaries and being in doubte of his brother Sultan Gemma He began to se his souldiours verie wel furnished and to prouide for his owne securitie Gemma departinge from the confynes of Soria where he was lefte by his father to make warres vpon the Soldane broughte his armie into the lesser Asia when he vnderstode howe y e affaires had passed in Constantinople beinge oute of hope to enioye anye parte of gretia he chaūged his purpose determined to occupie y ◠Empire of the lesse Asia whervpon he conueyd hys armie into Bithinia to the Citie Bursia which when he had fortyfied he determyned to call togyther all the rulers of the people of Asia and when he had consulted w t them to send for y e reste of his bandes that were in Asia and to vnite them with his armie Baiazithe gathered togyther all y e olde bandes of Gretia and assembled hys armie and passed them into Asia and sought his brother Gemma and mette him vpon the plaine not farre from Bursia the armies beinge renged the battaile was presented they ioyned y e fighte contynued for a longe time and after great slaughter on bothe sydes Baiazithe became master of the feelde Gemma beinge broken and abandoned of his people fled with certaine of his trustie fryndes with him to Rhodes and the great maister of y e religion fearing leste by holding of him he mought purchase the innimitie of Baiazith and so prouoke him to warres sent him wel garded with certaine shippes into Fraunce from whence afterward by commaundement of Innocentio the viii Byshoppe of Rome he was sent to Rome and beinge receauid by the Byshoppe had his lodginges appointed in the heighte of the Palace and was there for a longe tyme garded with great diligence the pope agreed with Baiazithe for a yerely pension of thirtie thousand ducates so to kepe hym garded duringe the lyfe naturall of Gemma In this meane tyme the king Ferrante being in Italie receauid Aduertysement of the death of Mahomethe and caused it to be declared to those of Ottranto offeryd them that yf they wolde delyuer into his handes the Citie he wolde sett them al safely into Gretia with all such goodes and treasure as they had there The infideles wolde in no wyse agree to this demaunde forsomuche as they knewe not whether theyr lorde was deade or noe or els for that they staied to se which of the two bretheren sholde be their lord and whether he wolde send them succours or no beinge assured that yf Acomathe were lyuing he wolde not abandone them nor breake promes with them The Duke of Calabria seinge their perseuerance in the promes to Acomathe dyd with his campe approche y e towne more neare then in the tyme of Mahomethe he durste doe he began to entrenche toward the towne and so from trenche to trenche conueyed his people to y e very bancke of the towne dyke and then planted his batteries and batterid it for certaine dayes they determyned to giue an assaulte whervpon he sawe his people furnished w t all kinde of necessaries and then deuided them into battaylones and gaue order for the beginninge and contynance of the assaulte and then commaunded the trompettes drommes and cornetts to sounde to the assaulte and thervpon began to assayle the breaches with great furie and in shorte space became lorde of them and whē they entred the towne they founde in it suche newe fortifycation as they were oute of all hope of wynning of it whervpon they retyred from the assaulte with the losse of manye of their moste valyante men after thys they attempted newe practizes and agreed with them of the towne that they shoulde safely send their messagers into Gretia to vnderstand whether Mahomethe were lyuing or no and howe the affares passed there vpon this there was a trewes taken for a certaine tyme the Captaines of Ottranto dispatched their messangers into Gretia when they came there they vnderstode y e Acomathe was in Asia and had taken parte with Gēma and Baiazithe made redie with greate celeritie to goe against thē in person where vpō they retorned to Ottranto and declared what they vnderstode of the affares of Gretia whervpon the generall with the Captaines consulted and forasmuche as they sawe the state of Turchie so deuided leadinge and mayntaining Ciuile warres among them selues and that Acomathe in whom was al their truste had declared him selfe enemie to Baiazithe and was in Asia and they being oute of hope of al succour entred againe into talke of appointement with y ◠Duke of Calabria and messagers both went and came on both sydes and at the laste with much a doe they agreed that the towne shoulde be delyueryd into the Dukes hands vpon condytion that the kyng shoulde safely set them in Gretia with al the substance and artillerie that they presently possessyd there and in this sorte the peace was made and the performances of the promes confyrmed by othe and when the kinge
after certaine conference had they determined to accepte the conditiones that were offerid vnto them beinge in good hope throughe the good opinion that they had of Baiazithe to haue them faithfully obserued whervpon they agreed and sent their messagers to him offering him the towne which Baiazith willingly accepted and obserued his promes with such faythe that they were hurte nother in person nor anye one iote of their substance then he licensyd all suche as wolde departe the towne to depart w t all their goods and to conuei it whither thei leste no man vpon paine of his life to touche them or theirs whē he had this dōe he lefte the towne well garded and furnished with all kinde of mention and necessaries and being assured y e on that syde he coulde not be molested hauing brought vnder his obedience al the coastes of the sea called Mare Pontico he made it so safe that no man coulde passe y ◠waye but by his good wyll for as muche as he possessyd all y e hauenes and ryuers that enter into y e same when he had acheuid this enterprise he retorned home warde and broughte his armie into Romania where he sent them to garnison and he with his courte tontynued in Andrinople and calling to mynde againe the enterprise of Corsu coulde in no wyse immagine howe the Venetianes shoulde vnderstande of his practize vnles it were by meanes of their Baiolo or marchantes which dwelled in Constantinople and Pera wherfore he thoughte it not for his cōmoditie to kepeas it were in his bosome his naturall enemie who moughte daylye vnderstande his practizes and gyue aduertisement therof yet wolde he not seme to touche particulerly the Venetianes leste that by meanes therof he moughte discouer what he had ment towarde Corfu whervpon he made proclamation that no forien nation moughte after a certaine day haue within anye of his dominions ether ambassadour or Consul nor anye other that shoulde haue anye publique auctoritie or Iurisdiction he laid to y e Venetianes charge that they had dealed disceitfully with him wherfore he staied them toke from them all suche goodes as they there had and thus were they there kepte manye yeres and their goodes taken from them Amonge whō the chiefe was Andre Gritti whē the peace was in this sorte broken betwene the Turcke and the Venetianes Baiazithe determyned to make warres vpon them aboute the yere of our helthe M. CCCC.lxxxxviii put his Nauie of Shippes Galleys fustes other vesselles to the sea and caused them to sayle towarde Peloponeso nowe called Morea and he in person went thyther by land with his armie and when he was entred into the Golfe of Patrasso he encamped before Lepanto anciently named Naupatto and besegyd it bothe by sea and land and in the ende obtained it vpon condition then folowed he his enterprise y e nexte yere folowing he passyd with his Nauie to Modone and besegyd it rounde they of the towne beinge well furnished with all kinde of necessaries defendyd them selues in such sorte y e they made him to consume manie monethes in vayne and beinge men of muche worthines were determyned to defend it to the vttermoste but at the lengthe they began to haue great scarcitie of victuall Antonio Grimmano then Captaine of y ◠Venetian Nauie fraughted a great shippe with corne and sent it towarde Modone when he came within syghte of the towne hauing a ful winde and a good gale therof packed on all his sayles and say led directly towarde the Turckyshe ficete which laie in his course directly betwene him and the towne came on with suche violence that none of them durste to encountre him but gaue him waye and in this sorte he passed throughe the middeste of the enemies into the hauen safely the generall of Modone seinge the shyppe safely arriued within the hauen commaunded all those of the towne to goe to the hauenes syde to vnlode the corne to bringe it into the towne when they of the towne had receaued this commaundement being very desyrous of victuall bothe inhabitantes and souldiours ran to the hauen leuīg their towne vngarded as thoughe their had no enemi neare them of which great disorder Baiazithe beinge aduertized cōmaunded his vantagarde to marche towarde the towne in all haste and he wyth the reste of his armie folowed he assayled their ripares with great furie and fyndynge them vnfurnished of defendants entred them forthewyth and became maister of them and then they toke all the places that were of anye force w t in the towne before y e they y e were at the shyppes were able to succour it when the Turckes were in this sorte become lordes of Modone and had put their garde in the market place and also vpon the bulwarkes of the towne then began they to seke all places of the towne and to cut in peces whosoeuer they mette with armour or weapon then fell they to the sacke of the towne and spoiled as wel the sacred as prophane places making men wo men and children flaues and spoyled them in excedinge miserable sorte so that they lefte nothinge to be had their were suche number of them gone into y e Citadell that they were not able to endure there but practiled an appointement and were enforced to render it hauing their lynes saued then they of the Iste of Corone which standeth righte ouer against Modone seing Modone posfessyd by the infidels beinge desyrous to saue both their lyues and goodes sent forthewith their messagers to Baiazithe offering him bothe the Citie and the Isle vp on condition that he sholde take from them nother liues nor goodes which conditiones when Baiazithe had promised to obserue they delyuered him the towne and receaued his officers and souldiours into it Baiazithe determined to continue that winter in Morea to make prouisyon for the fortyfyinge of Modone and prouyded newe inhabitantes to dwell in it and changed y e name of it naming it Tangari Verdi which in our tougne signifieth gyuen by God he appointed there a notable garnison of his souldiours and in the springe folowinge he sent one of his Bascias towarde Valona and assayled the Citie of Durazzo with xl M. men and the walles therof beinge fallen into decaie and the Citie slenderly furnished was a meane wherby he sone became lord of it And the Venetianes acordinge to their olde custume and order laide the whole faulte of the losse of Modone in Antonio Grymano Capitaine of their armata for y ◠he had not with his Nauie succoured it whervpon they sent for him to Venise cōmaundinge him to be brought in yronnes prisoner and banished him into the Isle of Proconesso from whence afterwarde he bracke came to Rome they appointed in his place Captaine general of their armata Marchio Treuesano and seing that of them selues they were not able to endure the charges of so great
warres they sent to the king Lois of Fraūce for aide who sent them oute of prouince Genoa seuen shyppes well armed and furnished and fyftene galleys with a great quantitie of artillerie also certaine thou sandes of fote men the greatest parte Guascones vnder the conducte of the lorde of Grauistence who departed from Genoa and sayled towarde y e Archipelago whiche deuideth y e lesse Asia from Gretia to ioyne with y e Venetian armata and when he came to Scio he depated from thence to Mitilene entred the hauē and landed his people immediatli proied spoiled al y e Isle finalli came and encamped before the towne which was the cheife of the Isle and assayled it with greate furie the first daye that they came before it they planted their batteryes and batterid in suche sorte that they so feared y e Turcks of the towne with their sodden assaulte y e notwithstanding there was within it a granison of greate fame of men of great experience yet they were so affraied that they sent their postes by sea and lande to Baiazithe to declare vnto him the great preparation and force of the Christianes and the furie of their batteries protesting vnto him that yf they were not spedylye reliued they shoulde not be able longe to defend it when the arryual of y e Nauie of Fraunce was commonly knowen in Constantinople y e force of y ◠nation beinge then augmented and increase so at that tyme dyd put suche feare into the whole Citie and to all the reste of Romania that y e Mahometistes beinge oute of all hope to contynue ani longer in Gretia immagined howe to prouide shyppes and other vesselles where with to flee into Asia rather then to put them selues in order to succour Mitileno wher vp on Baiazithe beinge excidingly moued with the confusion that he sawe amonge his people makinge none accompte of his astate guyrded his gowne to him came downto y e hauēnes syde where his people were sō meembarcked and others redie to enbarcke and entretyd hys people that they wolde embarcke passe on to succour Mitileno and whiles the courte contynued in this sorte makinge no prouisyon at all in effecte for their defence their is no doubte that yf the Venetianes had gone on with their Nauie vnited them w t the Nauie of Fraūce and encreased y e power of the Christans cheifely of fote men wherof the frenshe had great wante but whē they had taken Mitileno and some other one place in Gretia they shoulde haue broughte the Turckes to that passe that they paraduenture of them selues wolde haue fled into Asia and haue for saken Gretia but the Venetianes whether that it were for that they were all redyentred into practize of a peace with Baiazithe which afterwarde they concluded by y e meanes of Andre Gritti and wolde no furder procure his indignation or els that the good successe of the frenshe dyd not lyke them whervpon they in dede procided slowly in all their affares cheifely in furnishinge the frenshe Nauie with victuall and men wherof they stode in great nede and prolonged so their comming to vnite them selue◠with the frenshe that when they had contynued there for a certaine space and made so great breaches y e yf they had had men sufficient to hane gyuen the assaulte they moughte easylye haue taken the towne but when they sawe the tarying of the Venetianes and the smale haste that they made the Captaine of the frenshe beinge in great distresse of victual by meanes wherof he coulde no lenger continue there and beinge also muche offendyd with there stacknes doubted that they went aboute te betraie him and his people and had them in great suspition where vpon he embarcked his people and artillerie disolued the sege and set sayle passed the Golfe and then alonge by Scicilia and retorned with his Nauie to Genea and then be in person toke the poste and went into Fraunce when Baiazithe considerede the great peryll wherin he had ben determining no more to incure the like chiefely for that he was of nature gyuen to be quiet and not ambitious nor desirouse to enlarge the confines of his dominions whervpon he determyned to attempte the Venetianes for peace and delyuered Andre a Gritti vpō suerties for his retorne then embarcked him sent him to Venise to entreate the peace when Gritti was cōme to Venise and founde the Senate the Duke and all the commons of the Citie well inclined to peace after that he had had great conference with the Senate he receaued auctorye and commission from them to conclude the peace whervpon he retorned to Constantinople and concluded the peace vpon suche conditiones as at this daye are obserued betwene them and Baiazithe when he had in thys sorte ceased hys hostilitie he lad his lyfe in great quietnesse and spent the greatest parte of his time his courte being in Andrinople at a certaine house of his not farre from the Citie a place of great pleasure where he buylded for his commoditie maruelouse sumptuous goodly lodginges and in this sorte he passed a great pece of his tyme in great quietnes and beinge come to the age of .lx. yeres and hauinge gouerned in the Empire .xxx. yeres to the great content of all his subiectes he began lyke a wyse man to consyder that he was olde and not helthefull of bodye and that he was lyke euery daye to be surprinsed by dethe and to be taken awaye wherfore he was desirous to prouide for and establyshe his succession for the quietnes of his subiectes and to take awaye all occasyon of tumultes that moughte happen by hys deathe consyderinge that he had three sonnes of lawful yeres whome he had apointed in thre sondrye partes of Asia to gouerne vpon his confynes euery of them had vnder his charge a great armie wherfore for onely remedie and maintenance of vnitie in his Empire to the ende that throughe the discorde of his sonnes it shoulde not be deuided and consumed with Cyuyll warres for so muche as there was not a better remedie for to auoyd suche disorder then to folowe the example of Amorathe his graud father whiche was to giue ouer the gouernaunce and to prouide in his lyfe tyme for the establishement of his successyon and to appointe who shoulde succede him and to gyue ouer into his handes al power and rule and to put him in possessyon of the Empire which shoulde be an occasyon of great quietnes for so much as be being olde and syckly and not able to endure so great laboure and trauayle thoughte that the people shoulde be better gouerned by a yonger man and the other bretherin shoulde be oute of hope to attayne to the Empire whiche shoulde be all redie possessyd by meanes wherof they shoulde be enforced to obey yf that they wolde not receaue furder incommoditie and he beinge entred into a priuate lyfe
leuinge his cariage and bagage behinde him in his campe and with great spede marched towarde Andrinople to ouergette his father and he passed on with suche spede that he ouergate the rere garde of his fathers armie within l. miles of Cōstantinople and finding them in battayle withoute sendinge of heralde trompett or anye other messager deferred no tyme but charged them and began to ioyne in battaile and to laie hands aboute him when Baiazithe behelde the furie of his sonne executed cuted vpon his people as yf they had ben his naturall enemyes yet coulde he not be contented to vse his force against him but sent vnto him to perswade him to leue of his folyshe and audationes enterprise and to retorne againe to his charge but all was in vaine that he dyd for Selim was alwayes the foromoste and gaue in vpon them as yf they had ben his verye enemyes but in the ende when Baiazithe sawe that he coulde by no meanes appease him but y e still he perseuered in his beastly rage against him he layd a parte all respectes and also his fa therly loue called to him his Baftias y e Captaines and garde of his Gian izzaries and commaunded them to vse all their force possyble against Selim as against their mortall enemye for so muche as he sawe in him so great beastlines as to vse against him suche barbarique crueltie and rage which enforced him to beliue that his mother had deceaued him and breaking her faith towardes him had conceuid him by sōme adulterie whē y e Bas cias and Captaines herde these wordes of their lorde they were maruelously enflamed with Ire and Iuste indignation against Selim and toke their weapones and with suche furie charged his people that they not being able to endure their force were in one instante disordered scaterid and put to flyghte and beinge once broken euery man soughte to saue him selfe by flyghte but beinge folowed by the horsemen of Baiazithe the greatest number of them were flaine vpon the feelde and Se lim with a fewe of his trustie fryndes with him escaped throughe y e spede of their horses they stayed in no place but fled contynually daye and nyghte till they were passed Varna in Burgaria and then they went into certaine mountaines that were of great heighte tedious to clyme and there continued for a time And Baiazithe beinge full of sorowe not knowinge in what sorte he were beste to vse his sonne contynued on his iorney to Constantinople and when he came thyther and sawe y e ambition and audacitie of his sonne it caused him to cōtinue more firmely in his purpose to prouide for his successyon in his life time and to establishe one in his place and determining not to prolonge the doing therof sent to signifye to Acomathe to make him redye with all con uement spede and to come to the porte to receaue the go uernance in the whiche meane tyme Corcuthe beinge his thirde sōne whiche contynued in Magnesia to desend all those prouinces against the Soldane when he vn derstode of the rebellion of Selim againste his father whose determynation and commaundement he was well content in euery respecte to obey and was not moued at all with the commynge of Acomathe but afterwarde suspecting y e ambition and crueltie of Selim disguised him selfe and with one onely galley departed frō Magnesia and conueyd him selfe to Constantinople when he came in his fathers presence after that he had done his due reuerence vnto him desyred him that in the estabishement of Acomathe in the Empire he wolde pro uide also for his securitie puttinge him in remembrance howe that in his absence beinge a litle childe he was by the Gianizzaries placed in the Imperiall seate and of y e promes that he made vnto them in his behalfe as touchinge the successyon Baiazithe beinge excedingly wel pleased with the good wordes of his sonne dyd meruelously embrace him and wylled hym to be of good chere and gaue him a greate masse of treasure and appointed foure galleys of his to attende vpon him home and in this sorte sent him to his charge well satisfied and contented and as sone as Acomathe had receaued commaū demēt from his father he began to make great preparation for his iorney and vsed not in a matter of such importance suche celeritie as he moughte haue done but thoughte that he shoulde comme in good tyme whensoeuer that he came he made redye all suche thinges as he wolde carie with him and then rode one ordinarie iorneys towarde Europe when Baiazithe vnderstode of his comminge meaninge to receaue him honorably he made great preparation in Constantinople and put to the sea manye galleys and Palandres rychely furnished and trymmed to send into Turckie to transporte his sonne who being comme downe into Bithina was comme to Scutarie a place that standeth vpon the sea bancke nere vnto the aucient citie Calcedonia dercetly ouer against Cōstātinople y ◠which when Baiazithe vn derstode he commaunded his garde of Gianizzaries and dyuers of his Sanzachi to embarcke with their compaines and to goe to receaue Acomathe but the Captaines of the Gianizzaries not beinge wyllinge to accepte Acomathe for their lorde for that he semed vnto them in his comminge and contynnance at the porte not to be a man mete for so greate a charge besydes y ◠beinge a fatte man they thoughte him not actiue on borsbacke nor soche an one as wolde seke to enlarge his Empire and exercyse hym selfe in warres but rather woldegyue hym selfe to hys ease and to pleasures and make smale acompte of his men of warre and cheifely bycause they knewe him to be of nature scarse and not liberall and contrartlye Selim to be of nature ambitiouse not delighting so muche in anye thinge as in the exercise of weapones and rydinge of horses also they knewe him to be very liberal and bounteouse wherfore they Iudged it to be more for their commoditie to haue him to be Emperour then Acomathe and they were the more moued with it bycause they sawe thinges stande in suche tormes as they dyd at that present wher with they nothinge pleased whervpon they determyned to resyste it and soddenly rebelled made a great tumulte in the Citie and toke their weapones and ran in euery torner of the Citie and began to sacke the house of the Sadi and of two of the cheife Bascias and there went with them a great nuber of horsemen they went downe to the sea and entred into the Galleys and Palanders spoyled them of all their riches and ornementes toke awaye their sayles and helmes bycause they shoulde not be able to sayle and in this greate sturre trouble their number alwaye increased they went on to the place y ◠is called Saincte dimetrio and came to the gate and called requiringe to haue Selim sent for that he mought comme and kisse his fathers fete Baiazithe
came messagers oute of al the cities and townes of the prouince and he sate in the myddest of the market place with dyuerse graue and discrete councellours aboute him whiche he vsed alwaye when he gaue audience openly and there he herds and determyned many controuersies and when he had appointed gouernours and officers to euery towne and citie and had abolished dyuerse of the custumes of the ancient Soldanes as vniuste and intollerable to the people he dyd moderate them with newe lawes and when he had contynued in Damasco a longe tyme aboute the reforming of the countre and had well reposed his armye he then determyned in him selfe to make warres a gainst Egipte for so muche as he vnderstode that al the Mamalukes that were dispersed abrode into al the coūtres were comme to Cairo to create a newe Soldane beinge once togyther they chose Tomombeio the great Diadaro a man of great reputation and credite and of great experience and excellent in the discipline of the warres Selim being vpon the pointe of his departure sent before him to make suer the waye Sinan Bassa gaue him in commissyon to passe on to the Citie Gaza and there to tarie hym and he in person departed from Damasco with the reste of his armie and folowed and beinge desyrous to visyte that most famous temple of Ike rusalem toke with him his garde of Gianizzaries and a certaine number of his horsemen and entred into Iudea and passed on to Iherusalem and when he had visyted y e temple and other holly places of the Citie he retorned agayne to his armye the nexte waye And Sinan Bassa with his companie which was .xv. thousand horsemen hauinge ouerthrowen the Arabianes and repulsed their inuasyones whiche often tymes they had attempted against him and had made the passage free with much a doe and was comme on to Gaza which stode neare vnto the sea vpō the confynes of Egipte in y e place where men enter into the sandie deserte passinge from Iudea to Eairo and when he came before the Citie with his armye they of the Citie willinge to auoide the sacke spoyle therof gaue place to tyme and yelded y e Citie vnto him where he contynued and taried for commissyon from his lorde to directe him in those affaires As sone as Tomombeio had receaued the gouernement he determyned forth with to supplie the bandes of Mamalukes which were maruelously spoyled and consumed wherfore he caused to enrolie all their slaues y e were of lawful yeres and apte to vse armes he prouided armour and weapō for them and also horses also he had entertained in his paie a great number of Arabianes and loste no tyme but contynually prouided artillerie and Monition with all other necessaries and beinge aduertized by those of Gaza whiche dyd very well affecte the Mamalukes of the comminge of Sinan Bassa and in what sorte he lodged there The Soldane at their request de termyned to send a power to encountre him hauinge great hope in the good wyll of the Citizens whervpon he dispatched Gazele and sent him with syre thousande horses and a greate number of Arabianes and as sone as Sinan Bassa was aduertized of his comming by his bandes that he had alwaie vpon the feelde not trusting them of the Citie he determyned to goe against hym to encountre him and when he had rydden xv myles he staied at a village where he mought well lodge for that that in the vilage their was a fountaine very plen tuouse of pure watter whervpō he commaūded to lodge there and began to appointe the quartiers and before that they had done the alarme was gyuen and he was aduertized by the scoultes of his vantgarde y ◠they sawe afarre of a great duste wherfore they Iudged the enemy to be there cōming toward them Sinan Bassa had scarcely tyme to put his people in order before that Gazele was cōme with his began to assayle his vantgard and after that they had foughte a certaine space Gazele seinge his peopble ouerlaide with uumber and a rtillerie and that they began to recule and seing y ◠they of Gaza apeared not in his fauour in hope of whose ayde he had taken in hand the battayle with his sworde in his hand dyd make his waye thorowe his enemyes so retorned to Cairo with the losse of his cariage and a great number of his souldiours and when Selim was departed from Iherusalem he came to his armye and broughte them to Gaza where he founde Sinan Bassa retorned with great victorie and had put to deathe many of y e Citizens which had procured y e Soldane to send his people thyther when Selim had reposed his souldiours for a tyme in Gaza he determyned to marche on towarde Cairo and wolde not gyue the newe Soldane time to furnishe him selfe of newe bands and to put him selfe in good order wherfore he made great prouision of hogges hedes to carie watter with him and sent Sinan Bassa before him with his bandes of Europe and he folowed him alway within one dayes iorney w t his whole armye aud in this sorte passed on throughe the deserte and came neare to Cairo within fewe myles a lytle frō a villadge named Macharea where the Soldane had a garden where that most precious licour called Balsme dyd growe which is a certaine goome that distillethe throughe certaine clestes made in the barcke of y e trees in the tyme of the gathering therof by the gardeners which cut them with exceding fyne knynes made of yuorie Tommobeio determyned to tarie the enemye in y ◠village whervpon he entrenched it very stongly wyth great rampares and depe Dykes and had bent al his artillerie vpon the waye where the Turcks shoulde cōme and as sone as he herde of the comminge of the Turckishe armye he departed from Cairo with twelue thou sand Mamalukes and a great number of Arrabianes other souldiours on horsebacke and on fote and came lodged in his lodginge that was fortified for him of purpose where whē he had put his people in order he taried the comming of the enemye and as sone as Selim vnderstode of the Soldanes order he refused the waye that the Soldane had bent all his artillerie vpon and wolde not assayle hys enemye vpon the frounte of his battaile but determyned to assayle him on the flancke where he was not so well prouided whervpō he disvanded agreat nūber of shotte sent them to assayle the trenches of y ◠Soldane immediatly the Soldane marched forthe w t his people in order and there began betwene them a notable fyghte and a furious and hauing fought from the fourthe houre of the daye to the sunne goinge downe in very doubtfull sorte euen to the darcke nighte Tommabeio caused to sounde the retreicte and lefte the village and marched to Cairo and the Turckes as victoriouse entred into the Soldanes lodginges and their lodged that nighte
ducates and yf thou shouldest nowe dye not gyue order in that behalfe they shoulde be conueyd and stollen awaye were it not better that thou shoulde bestowe them vpon soÌ„me hospitale whervnto Selim answered woldest thou that I shoulde honor my selfe with the goodes of other men to bestowe them in vertuose worckes in the remembrance and commendation of me I wyl neuer doe it whervpon Perino replied sayinge what woldest thou then that there shoulde be done with them He answered that they be delyuered to them froÌ„ whom they were taken and also he called to his remembrance y â— there were thre thousaÌ„d ducates of a Florentyne sonne to one Thomaso de Aiolfo he commaunded also that they shoulde be delyuered vnto him Whervpon after that the money marchandize and sylkes that were arrested in Bursta were delyuered to the owners and he that reported this was one of them and had receaued a great quantitie againe and had brought of the same salkes to Florence two fardells this is spoken to confounde manye of our Christian princes amonge whom in the lyke case it is a very harde matter to fynde one that shal haue such remorse of conscience but nowe to our historie when Selim was in this sorte consumed with his disease in the ende of the monethe of Septem her the vere of the Christian helthe 1520. hauinge in righte yeres which was the time of his raigne brought to passe so manye maruelouse enterprises he ended his lyfe in whose place succeded Solimanno his onely soÌ„ne a yonge man of great worthines in whome their was great hope for the great modestie that was in him he was of the age of xxviii yeres and beinge in Natolia y â— newes were brought him fleing of the deathe of his father wherfore in the begynninge he was in doubte of them fearing leste it had ben fayned by the commaundement of his father wherfore he wolde not sturre at all oute of Natolia tyll suche tyme as Perino Bassa came into Natolia to him who dyd not onely assertaine him of it but also constreyned him to passe ouer into Gretia to Constantinople where as sone as he was arryued he was receaued and coronned withoute any coÌ„tradicti on at all and accepted Emperour with the vntuersall ioye and contentacion of his subiectes and in this sorte he accepted the gouernement vsing in all his determynations y â— councell of Perino Bassa whom he honored as thoughe he had ben his natural father in this meane tyme wheÌ„ the death of Selim was published in Egipte and Soria it dyd greatly moue the people of those countres and Gazelle beinge pricked with ambition perswaded him selfe that he moughte recouer both Egipte and Sorta and erecte againe y â— of state the Mamalukes acording to y â— ancient order therof vnder the Soldanes whervppon he caused the Citie of Damasco firste to rebelle and possessyd it callinge him selfe openly lord ther of and vtterly caste from him all obedience towardes y e house of Ottomanno which brute when it was sprede abrode throwe the prouince caused all the Mamalukes that were lefte which were hidden in Asia and Affrica to comme vnto him and then according to their anient custume they created him Soldane who made all preparation possyble to defende his state and gathered togyther a great number of Arrabians and of the counâ—res neare aboute him and sent his ambassadours to Cairo to desyre Carerbeio to ioyne with him to helpe to restore the Mamalukes state to his ancient libertie offering him to gyue him what parte of the domynion y â— he wolde yea to resigne vnto him his place and to make him Soldane when Carerbeio had gyuen publique audience to his ambassadours vnderstode their demauÌ„de withoute gyuing them anye answer caused his Ministers to cut them in peces hauing also proued Aleppo and dyuerse other Cities of Soria he founde none that wolde ioyne with him in this enterprise whervpon he determyned to defend him selfe as well as be moughte and leuied in all countreys suche bandes as he coulde get to serue him when the newes of the rebellion of Da masco was comme into Gretia Solimanno commaunded forthwith the Bellagarbei of Cillicia which was appointed for the garde of the lesser Asia with .xl. M. horsemen to goe thyther who entred into Soria acompained with the lieutenantes of Aleppo and of the rest of the cities of that prouince and came before Damasco with his armie in battayle he was not so sone comme before the Citie but Gazzelle hauing determyned for onely remedie to hazarde the battayle and wolde rather dye honorable w t his sworde in his hande then to be delyuered by some practize lyuinge into his enemyes hands whervpon he marched forthe of the Citie with his armie and put his people in battayle and then marched on with a noble mynde to encountre his enemye who marched also towarde him and withoute delaie ioyned in battaile and foughte for a longe tyme with greate assurance on bothe partes the vertue and discipliue of Gazzelle and of those fewe Mamalukes that were with him was such that notwithstanding they were excedingly ouerlaid w t nuÌ„ber yet for y â— space of certaine houres they so endured the force of their enemyes that they were nothing at al disordered nor gaue to their enemyes one fote of place in the end hauinge slayne a great number of their enemyes and manie of them beinge flayne also and the rest in maner all hurte beinge ouercomme with very wery nes and not able to vse their weapones Gazzelle fyndynge hym selfe enuironed by the Turckes foughte valiantly against them tyll at the laste he fell downe deade from his horse amonge them the Mamalukes beinge in the ende disordered and seynge no way by flighte howe to saue them selues determyned to dye lyke worthy men with their weapones in their hande and so foughte to y â— vttermoste in suche sorte that very fewe were taken lyuing by the enemyes As sone as Mustaffa Bassa had obtained this victorie he came forthwith w t his armie be fore the Citie the Citizens made no resystance but openned the gates and receaued the Bassa with such people as he wolde with him into the towne who entred acompanied with fewe for that he wolde not haue the Citie spoyled nor y e marchantes which were there oute of all partes of the worlde to exersyse their traffique he pardoned the Citizens and confirmed their liberties and freedomes which Selim had giuen vnto them he lodged his armye withoute the Citie and in this sorte dispatched the rest of the Mamalukes And established Soria and all y e prouinces of Egipte in perfecte peace which were wont to obey vnto Selim leuinge them vnder y e reule of Solimanno Ottomanno their lorde FINIS A COMMENTARIE OF THE WARRES OF THE TVRCKES MADE against George Scanderbeg prince of Epirro and of the victories obtained by the sayde George as well against the Emperoures
his named Sehalia `with an armie into Albania who as sone as he came thyther toke y â— Citie of Croia with the whole state of the lorde Iohn to the behofe and vse of the hostages gyuing the people to vnderstande that the greate Turcke wolde immediatly delyuer it to one of the soÌ„nes of the prince Iohn deceased but after that the Turcke performed noe one thinge y â— the Bassa had promised in his name to the people but kepte all y â— contre to his owne vse and caused three of the bretheren of Scanderbeg secretly to be poysoned and fedde him with goodly wordes keping him alwayes in good hope desyring him to haue pacience for a litle tyme and that as sone as he had dispatched certaine affares he wolde restore him to all that which was his righte to haue and he shoulde be alwaies assured of his good wyl and frynd shyppe but Scanderbeg lyke a wyse man and one that well knewe his determynation to be full of crueltie and wickednes declared him selfe to be wâ—ll contented with whatsoeuer shoulde be his good wyll and pleasure notwithstanding in wardly he was full of sorowe and heuynes and he thoughte on nothinge daye nor nighte but howe to fynde some meanes by the which he moughte bring to passe to enioye that patrimonie which was his fathers and to lyue in libertie of consciens as a Christian oughte to doe and the rather for that he was oute of hope to be delyuered by the Turcke and to be restored to his righte After these thinges when the yere was ended the Hungarianes at the requeste of the pope Eugenio assembled a mightye armye and went against the Turcke in the behalfe of the dispotto of of Seruia which when the Turcke vnderstode he gathered togyther his armye and sent the Bassa of Romania Captaine generall of the same beinge acompanied with Scanderbeg to the ende that by his helpe he moughte the more assuredly obtane victorie contrarily Scanderbeg praied to god that it wolde please him to gyue y â— Hungarianes the victorie And in the ende the two armyes metinge neare the Ryuer called Moraua ioyned in battayle And the discipline vertue of Iohn HuÌ„niade Captaine generall of the Hungarianes was suche by the helpe of god that the Turckes after a longe fyghte were disordered and put to flyghte with excedinge great flaughter and spoyle of them Scanderbeg dyd maruelously reioyse for this victorie and yet he fled amonge the Turckes tyll he came to a secrete place where he was safe froÌ„ peryll and afterwarde when it was nighte the Turckes chiefe secretarie came vnto him and said O Scanderbeg what doeste thou here thou whiche neuer was seen to flee or this tyme Scanderbeg descretly aunswering sayd that the power of man moughte not resyste the wyll of god wherfore there was no remedie but patience and when he had thus sayd he commaunded to laye handes on the Secretarie and to set yronnes vpon his legges where with be beinge excedingely amased sayd that it semyd straunge vnto him consydering his faithfull seruice alwaies and that he had neuer offendyd his lord y â— Turcke ne yet Scanderbeg then Scanderbeg smyling auÌ„swered that he helde him so for no cause but onely for that he shoulde not stele awaye and for that he shoulde make him a letter in y â— name of the Turcke to the gouernour of Croia that forthwith vpon syghte therof he shoulde delyuer the Citie to Scanderbeg as gouernour in the name of the Turcke and he wolde also that the Secretarie shoulde goe with him and he wolde gyue him greater place then that which he had with the Turcke and wolde euer esteme him for his deare frynd and brother The Secretarie aunswered with a troubled countenance that he wolde not make suche a letter for anye thinge in the worlde whervpon Scanderbeg drewe his sworde and threatned to kyll hym yf that forthe with he made not the letter whervpon he beinge excedingly affraied toke pen yncke and paper and wrote the letter accordingly as Scanderbeg gaue him instruction in the Turckishe language he coulde not deceaue him therin for Scanderbeg vnderstode well the Turckishe tonge the Arabian the Greeke and the Schiauon when this was done Scanderbeg wylled the Secretarie to goe w t him but he refused vtterly so to doe whervpon he caused him soddenly to be slayne to that ende that he shoulde not goe and declare the matter to the great Turcke and in this sorte he was preuented Then Scanderbeg with three hundred Albaneses valiante and faithefull men who had alwaies serued him and were well trayned and experimented in the warres toke his waye and rode very secretly and spedyly and in shorte tyme aryued in Albania where he founde certaine of the Turckes souldiours whom he caused very cortesly to souppe with him and after sondrie pleasante discourses asked them if that they had herde any thinge of the cause of his comming thyther who aunswered him no then he declared vnto them that for sondrie respectes the Turcke had sent him to chaunge the gouernour of Croia to supplie that place for a season whervpon they auÌ„swered al at once franckly that they were assured that he was sent for some greatter purpose then that consydering that they were well assured that the Turcke loued him as his brother and one of them offered to goe before w t the messager that he sent to certyfye the gouernour of Croia hereof wherewith Scanderbeg was well contentyd and sent them before to Croia with spede As sone as the gouernour vnderstode the Tenour of the letter he made redie to doe all that was commaunded him in that letter Afterward when Scanderbeg came into Croia becaused to take downe the Turckes enseigne and to set vp his w t the splayed Egle of sable in a feelde of gules and they cried in euery place longe maye Scanderbeg lyue and then he caused to sley all the Turckes that wolde not be baptised in foure dayes he recouered all his fathers countre and by that twenty daies were ended he had possessyd al that which the Turcke had woonne in Albania and cut in peces as as many Turckes as he found there in sorte y â— in an in staÌ„te he became prince of Albania where he had of yerly rent two hundred thousande ducates accomptinge hys salte pittes which he hade neare to Saincte Nicolo dela Pietra where Cesare the Dictator foughte that terrible battayle w t Pompeio his father in lawe Captaine generall of the Romane armye When the Albaneses were thus delyuered from the Tiran and from his wicked and cruell gouernement from the intollerable yoke of the infydelles they thancked god in euery place they cried thorowe oute longe maye oure prince Scanderbeg lyue and in fewe dayes Scanderbeg had an armye of .xv. M. Albaneses wel trained in the warres some on horsebacke and some on fote then ho apointed officers of se Iustice duely executed
Setalia doth possesse that part of Cilicia that doth face the Iste of Cipres and although that Amorath had determined in his minde y e enterprise against y e hungarianes yet he thought it good to make him selfe lord of y e rest of Gretia or at y e leaste to leaue them his frynds at hys backe wherupon he entred into Peloponesso which at this daye is called morea and from thence marched on with his armies to y e straite which beig in breddeth but fiue thousād pases doth deuide Peloponesso frō the rest of Gretia in sorte that if this distraite of y e land were cut through Peloponesso shold be Isle enufroned w t y ◠seas Egeo and Ionio there rased y e walle of Esmillia y e which in tim paste was made by the Greekes for a strengeth to their contre Cōstantainte y e dispotto who at that time possessed it seing him selfe not able to defend it dyd groe to an appointment with him and agred to giue him a certaine tribute and by that meanes made peace with him When Amorathe had thus broughte to passe the affares of Peloponesso and possessid the whole prouince of Attica and was agreed with the lord of the citie of Athenes which was aflorin tine by Birth he assembled an armie of a hundred thousands of men and so passed into hungarie being there coulde by no meanes get sufficencie of corne ne victuales for such an armie for so much as y e yere before there had fallē so much raine ī hungarie y e it had in maner vtterly distroied their corne in so much that y e inhabitāts therof were enforced to leaue y e cōtery in manye places therof to seke for reliefe in other places y e which whē he considered he cōmaūded to spoyle the contrey as much as in thē was thē retorned home w t his armie This scarcety wante of victual did at y e time saue the kingdome of Hungarie for by meanes of it Amorath was cōstrained to retorne home w t his armie to cōtēt thē selues w t y e simple spoile y e they there found Thē Eugenio y e forth of y e name Bushope of Rome vnderstādig in what peril y e cōtrey of Hūgari was sent in to Almany Iuliano Cesearino his legate dalatere Cardinall S. Agnolo to perswad y e Emperour and other princes of y e almanigne nation to ayde the king of Hūgari which Cesarino when he cam into Almagnie did earnestly desire y e Emperour to take vpon him y e defence of y e Kingdom of Hungarie against y e enemies of y e Christiā faith when he had thus done he wente into Hungarie and there by his auctoritie effectuous persuasion so moued y e people y e euery man toke his furniture weapon wolde not tarye y e aide y e was promysed thē out of Almaigne but folowed Iohn Vaiuoda their captayne marched on into Gretia vntill they came to the citie of Sophia hauinge often times occasiō to deale w t the Turkes had alwayes y e victorie of thē Vaiuoda wanne so great estimatiō in this iourney in y e which he did not onely fully execute y e office dutie of an excellēt discret Captaine but also of a valiaūt and hardie souldiour so that it was growen to a Prouerbe amonge y e Turkes y e whē y e mothers woulde appease their chyldren from crying or els w t drawe them frō any fonde desyre y e they had they would say here cōmeth Vaiuoda After this all y e Sangiachi gatherid thē selues together w t y e Lieu tenaunt of Gretia which in y e Turkishe speche is called Belagarbei they vnited theyr powers marched toward the christians w t a very puysaunt armye bothe of horse men and foote men and ioyned wyth theym in battaile but the Christians in numbre were farre in feriour to the infidels who fought for a longe time verye valiantly with the hungarianes but at the laste being ouercomme through the vertue and discipline of y e hungarianes torned their backes and flied and in thys flight were flaine a great numbre of them In this acte ofarmies y e hungarian Captaines did some what augment the victorie and wrote to frederick the Emperour declaring that they had defeicted the turkishe armie and slaine thritye thousand of them vpon the place and also taken of them a greate numbre but it semeth to me rather that to be true that the Cardinall Sainte Agnolo wrote to the pope and the Emperour which was that the number of them y ◠were slaine was vpon the pointe of syre thousand and that also they had takē ix cornets of the enemies and thus attributing the glory to God and then to Iohn the Vaiuoda whose great vnderstanding and magnanimitie he doth celebrate with maruelouse praises when the turkes were retorned home frō this defeicte thei were more afraied them hurt by meanes of a brute that ran among them that the hungarianes dyd not onely make preparation to inuade them but the Almaignes and all the princes of Christendome also wherupō they being in great doute and feare sent to the hungarianes for peace who well weing y e power of y e enemye imputed the victorie as well to good happe as to their force and were willing to auoide the danger of anye more enhaxarding their force to attempte fortune whereupon with good wil accepted the conditiones offeryd vnto them and in this sorte astablished a treues betwine them for ten yeres conditionally y e they shoulde restore againe to y e Dispotto of Seruia all such townes of his as they then helde presently in their possessyon when y e agrement was thus put in writing them were they on both partes solempnely sworne to obserue and fulfill all such articles as were notified with in the said treues and thus on both sydes they ceassed from hosti litie disolued their armies and eyther retorned to hys contrey The Cardinall who had determyned to leuye a newe armie and so to folowe the victorye was verye muche displeased with the makyng of this trewes and wrote his minde to the Pope in that behalfe who was very sorowfull when he harde of it and beynge a man fully bent to chase the Infidels out of Europe wrote agayne to hys Legate that the trewes taken betwene the Hungarians and the Turkes was of no value for so much as his consent was not in it and therefore charged him to commaunde Laodislao Kynge of Polonia who at that tyme possessed Hungarie that he shoulde breake the trewes made with the enemie and reuyue the warres for so much as he and the rest were dispensed with as touchynge theyr othe by the authoritie of the Apostolike seate then the bishop sent forth hys Legates to the rest of the Christian princes desyring them to ayde the Kyng of Hungarie in this enterprise against