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A46926	The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. Shewing their honourable battels by sea and land: their tilts, justs, turnaments, for ladies: their combats with gyants, monsters and dragons: their adventures in foreign nations: their enchantments in the Holy Land: their knighthoods, prowess, and chivalry, in Europe, Africa, and Asia; with their victories against the enemies of Christ. Also the true manner and places of their deaths, being seven tragedies: and how they came to be called, the seven saints of Christendom. The first part.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1696 (1696)	Wing J800; ESTC R202613	400,947	510

to which place St. George intended to Travel not to furnish himself with any needful thing but to accomplish some Honourable Adventure whereby his worthy Deeds might be eternized in the Books of Memory So after he had descended from the top of the steepy Mountain and had Travelled into a low Ualley about some two or three Miles he approached an old and almost Ruinated Hermitage over-grown with Moss and other Weeds before the entry of this Hermitage sate an Ancient Father upon a round Stone taking the heat of the warm Sun which cast such a comfortable brightness upon the Hermit's face that his white Beard seemed to glister like Silver and his Head to exceed the whiteness of the Northern Isicles to whom after St. George had given the due Reverence that belonged unto Age he demanded the name of the Countrey and the City he Travelled to and under what King the Countrey was Governed To whom the Courteous Hermit thus replyed Most Noble Knight for so I guess you are by your Furniture and outward appearance you are now in the Confines of Barbary the City opposite before your eyes is called Tripoly remaining under the Government of Almidor the black King of Morocco in which City he now keepeth his Court attended on by as many gallant Knights as any King under the Cope of Heaven At which words the Noble Champion of England suddenly started as though he had intelligence of some baleful news which deeply discontented his Princely mind his heart was presently incens●d with a speedy Revenge and his mind so extreamly thirsted after Almidor's Tragedy that he could scarce answer again to the Hermit's words But bridling his Fury the angry Champion spake in this manner Grave Father said he through the Treachery of that Accursed King I endured seven years Imprisonment in Persia where I suffered both hunger cold and extream misery But if I had my good Sword Ascalon and my trusty Palfrey which I lest in the Egyptian Court where remains my betrothed Love the King's Daughter of Egypt I would be Avenged on the Head of Almidor were his Guard more strong than the Army of Xerxes whose multitudes drank Rivers dry Why said the Hermit Sabra the King's Daughter of Egypt is Queen of Barbary and since her Nuptials were solemnly performed in Tripoly are seven Summers fully finished Now by the honour of my Country England replied St. George the place of my Nativity and as I am a true Christian Knight these eyes of mine shall never close this undaunted heart never entertain one thought of Peace nor this unconquered hand receive one minutes rest untill I have obtained a sight of the sweet Princess for whose sake I have endured so long Imprisonment Therefore dear Father be thus ●●nd to a Travellor as to exchange thy Cloathing for this my Rich Furniture and lusty Stéed which I brought from the Souldan of Persia for in the habit of a Palmer I may enjoy the fruition of her sight without suspicion Otherwise I must néeds be constrained by Uiolence with my trusty Falchion to make way into her Princely Palace where I know she is attended on most carefully by many a Ualiant and Couragious Knight therefore courteously deliver me thy Hermit's Gown and I will give to boot with my Horse and Armour this Box of costly Iewels Which when that grave Hermit beheld he humbly thanked the Noble Champion and so with all the speed they could possible make exchanged Apparel and in this manner departed The Palmer being glad repaired to his Hermitage with St. George's Furniture and St. George in the Palmer's Apparel towards the City of Tripoly who no sooner came to the sumptuous Buildings of the Court but he espied a hundred poor Palmers kneeling at the Gate to whom St. George spake after this manner not with lofty and Heroical speeches beseeming a Princely Champion but with meek and humble words like an aged Palmer My dear Brethren said● the Champion for what intent remain you here or what expert you from this honourable Court We abide here answered the Palmers for an Alms which the Queen once a day hath given this seven years for the sake of an English Knight named St. George whom she affecteth above all the Knights of the World But when will this be given said St. George In the afternoon replied the Palmers until which time upon our bended knees we ho●rly pray for the good Fortune of that most noble English Knight Which Speeches so pleased the Ualiant-minded Champion St. George that he thought every minute a whole year till the Golden Sun had passed away the middle part of Heaven for it was but newly risen from Aurora's Bed whe●e light as yet with a shamefac'd radiant blush distained the Eastern Skie During which time the most valiant and Magnahimous Champion St. George of England one while remembring the extream misery he endured in Persia for her sake whereat he let fall many Crystal Tears from his Eyes another while thinking upon the Terrible Battel he had with a Burning Dragon in Aegypt where he Redeemed her from the Fatal Iaws of Death at last it was his chance to walk about the Court beholding the sumptuous Buildings and the curious engraven works by the atchievement of Man bestowed upon the glistring Windows where he heard to his exceeding pleasure the heavenly Uoice of his beloved Sabra descending from a Window upon the West-side of the Palace where she warbled forth this sorrowful Ditty upon her Ivory Lute Die all desires of Joy and Courtly Pleasures Die all desires of Princely Royalty Die all desires of Worldly Treasures Die all desires of stately Majesty Sith he is gone that pleased most mine Eye For whom I wish ten thousand times to die O that mine eyes might never cease to weep O that my tongue might evermore complain O that my Soul might in his Bosome sleep For whose sweet sake my Heart doth live in pain In Woe I sing with brinish Tears besprent Out worn with Grief Consum'd with Discontent In time my Sighs will dim the Heaven's fair Light Which hourly flie from my tormented Breast Except Saint George that Noble English Knight With safe return abandon my unrest Then careful cries shall end with deep annoy Exchanging weeping Tears for smiling Joy Before the Face of Heaven this Vow I make Tho unkind Friends have Wed me to their Will And Crown'd me Queen my ardent flames to slake Which in despite of them shall flourish still Bear witness Heavens and Earth what I have said For George's sake I live and die a Maid Which sorrowful Ditty being no sooner ended but she departed the Window quite from the hearing of the English Champion that stood gazing up to the Casements preparing his ears to entertain her sweet tuned Melody the second time but it was in vain whereat he grew in more perplexed passions than Aenea when he had lost his beloved Cre●sa amongst the Army of the Grecian sometimes wishing the day to

to provide for the Pagans Entertainment So after due considerations the Champions departed in company of their betrothed Ladies who chose rather to live in their Husbands Bosoms than with their misbeliving Parents Where after some few days they arrived in the spacious Bay of Portugal in which Haven they Uowed by the honour of true Knighthood to meet again within six Months ensuing there to conjovn all their Christian Armies into one Legion Upon which plighted Resolution the worthy Champions departed one from another St. George into England St. Denis into France St. James into Spain St. Anthony into Italy St. Andrew into Scotland St. Patrick into Ireland St. David into Wales Whose pleasant Banks they had not beheld in many years before Where their Entertainments were as honourable as their hearts desired But to speak of the Mustring up of Soldiers in every Christian Kingdom and what strength arrived at the appointed time in the Bay of Portugal shall be discoursed in the sequel of this History and how troublesome Wars overspread the whole Earth where the Heroical Deeds of these Noble Champions shall at large be described Also the Overthrow of many Kings and Kingdoms Ruines of Towns and Cities and the decay of many flourishing Common-weals Likewise of the bloody Tragedies of many Unchristian Princes Whereat the Heavens will mourn to see the effusion of Blood trickle from the breasts of murthered Infants the heaps of slaughtered Damsels trampled to pieces by Souldiers Horses and the streets of many a City sprinkled with the blood of Reverend Age Therefore gentle Reader accept of this my Labour with a smooth Brow and kind Countenance and my weary Muse shall never rest till I have finished the pleasant History of these Heroical Champions CHAP. XIII How the Seven Champions of Christendom arrived with all their Troops in the Bay of Portugal the number of the Christian Armies and how St. George made an Oration to the Soldiers AFter the Seven Champions of Christendom arrived in their Native Countries and by true Reports had blazed abroad to every Princes ear the bloody Resolution of the Pagans and slow the Provinces of Africa and Asia had Mustred up their Forces to the Invasion of Europe All Christian Kings then at the entreaty of the Champions appointed Mighty Armies of well approved Soldiers both by Sea and Land to intercept the Infidels wicked intention Likewise by the whole consent of Christendom the Noble and Fortunate Champion of England St. George was appointed chief General and principal Leader of the Armies and the other six Champions were Elected for his Council and chief Assistants in all Attempts that appertained either to the benefit of Christendom or the furtherance of their Fortunate Proceedings This Honourable War so fired the hearts of many youthful Gentlemen and so encouraged the minds of every common Soldier that some Mortgaged their Lands and at their own proper Charges furnished themselves some sold their Patrimonies to serve in these Honourable Wars and other some forsook Parents Kindred Wife Children Friends and Acquaintance and without constraint of Pressing offered themselves to follow so Noble a General as the Renowned Champion of England and to spend their Blood in the just Quarrel of their Native Country To be brief one might behold the Stréets of every Town and City throughout all the Dominions of Europe beautified with Troops of Soldiers which thirsted after nothing but Fame and Honour Then the joyful sound of thundring Drums and the Ecchees of silver Trumpets summoning them to Arms that followed with as much willingness as the Grecians followed Agamemn on to the woful overthrow of Troy For by that time the Christian Champions had sported themselves in the Bosome of their kind Mistresses the forward Captains taken their Courtly Pastimes and the willing Souldiers bad adieu to their Friends and Acquaintance the Sp●ing had covered the Earth with a n●w Live●y which was the appointed time the Christian Armies should meet in Portugal there to joyn their several Troops into one Legion which Promise caused the Champions to bid adieu to their Native Countrys and with all speed to ●uckle on their Furnitures to hoise up Sails where after a short time the wind with a calm and prosperous Gale cast them happily into the Bay of Portugal The first that arrived in that spacious Haven was the Noble Champion S. George with an hundred thousand Couragious English Soldiers whose forwardness bet●kened a fortunate success and their willing minds a joyful Uictory His Army set in Battel-aray seemed to countervail the number of the Macedonian Soldiers wherewith worthy Alexander Conquered the Western World his Horsemen being in number twenty thousand were armed all in black Corssets Their Launces bound about with Plates of Steel their Steeds covered with Mail three times double Their Colours were the sanguine Cross supported by a Golden Lyon His sturdy Bow-men whose Conquering grey-Goose wing in former times hath terrified the circled Earth being in number likewise twenty thousand clad all in red Mandilians with Caps of the same colour bearing thereon likewise a sanguine Cross being the true Badge and Honour of England Their Bows of the strongest Yew and their Arrows of the soundest Ash with forked heads of Steel and their Feathers bound on with green War and twisted Silk His Musqueteers being in number ten thousand their Musquets of the widest bore with Firelocks wrought by curious workmanship yet of such wonderful lightness that they required no rest at all to ease their right aiming Arms. His Caliver shot likewise ten thousand of the smaller timbred Men but yet of as Couragious minds as the tallest Soldiers in his Army His Pikes and Bills to guard the waving Ensigns thirty thousand clad all with glistring bright Armour likewise followed ten thousand labouring Pioneers if occasion served to undermine any Town or Castle to intrench Forts or Sconces or to make a Passage through Hills and Mountains as worthy Hannibal did when as he made a way for his Souldiers through the lofty Alps that divide the Countreys of Italy and Spain The next that arrived within the Bay of Portugal was the Princely-minded Champion St. David of Wales with an Army of Fifty Thousand true born Britains furnished with all Habiliments of War for so Noble and Ualiant a Service to the high Re●own of his Countrey and true Honour of his Progeny Their Armour in richness nothing inferiour to the English mens Their Colours were a Golden Cross supported by a Silver Griffin which Escutcheon signified the ancient Arms of Wales for no sooner had St. George a sight of the Ualiant Britain but he caused his Musqueteers presently to entertain them with a Uolley of Shot to express their happy and joyful welcome to Shoar which speedily they performed so couragiously with such a ratling noise as though the Firmament had burst in ●under and the Earth made eccho to their thundring Melody But no sooner were the Skies cleared from the smoak of the reaking

Powder and that St. George might at pleasure discern the Noble and Magnanimous Champion of Wales who as then rode upon a milk-white Hobby in Silver Armour guarded with a Train of Knights in purple Uestures but he greeted St. David with kind Courtesies and accompanied him to the English Tent. which they had erected close by the Port-side where for that night these two Champions remained spending the time with unspeakable pleasure And so upon the next day after St. David departed to his own Tent which he had caused to be pitched a quarter of a League from the Englsh Army The next that arrived on the fruitful Banks of Portugal was St. Patrick the Noble Champion of Ireland with an Army likewise of Fifty thousand attired after a strange and wonderful manner Their Furnitures were of the skins of Wild-beasts but yet more unpierceable than the strongest Armour of Proof They bore in their hands mighty Darts tipp'd at the end with pricking Steel which the Couragious and Ualiant Irish Soldiers by the agility of their Arms could throw a full flight shot and with forcible strength would strike three or four Inches into an Oak and with such a certain aim they would not miss the breadth of a Foot These adventurous and hardy Soldiers no sooner arrived on the Shore but the English Musqueteers gave them a Princely Entertainment and presently conducted the noble-minded Champion St. Patrick to the English Tent where the three Champions of England Wales and Ireland passed away the time with exceeding great Royalty laying down Plots how to pitch their Camps to the most disadvantage of the misbelieving Enemy and setting perfect directions which way they were best to March and such like Devices for their own safeties and the benefit of Christendom The next that Landed on the Banks of Portugal was St. Andrew the worthy Champion of Scotland with threescore thousand of well-approved Soldiers His Horse-men the old adventurous Gallowa●s clad in quilted Iack●ts with 〈◊〉 of the Turkish fashion thick and short ●earing upon their Be●●ers the Arms of Scotland which was a corner Cross supported by a 〈◊〉 Uirgin His Pikemen the s●iff and hardy Men o● 〈◊〉 which con●●nually lye upon freezing Mountains the I●● Ro●k and the Snowy Uallys his shot the light-●ooted 〈◊〉 that if occasion be can climb the highest Hill and for nimbleness in running over-go the swift-sooted Stag. These bold adventurous Scottish Men in all forwardness deserved as much Honour at the Eng●i●● Champion's hands as any other Nations before therefore he commanded his shot on their first entry on Land to give them a Noble Entertainment which they performed most Royally and also conducted St. Andrew to the English Tent where after he had given S. George the Courtesie of his Countrey departed to his Tent which was distant from the English Tent a Mile The next that arrived was St Anthony the Champion of Italy with a Band of Fourscore thousand brave Italian Souldiers mounted on warlike Coursers every Horsman attended on by a naked Negro bearing in his hand a Streamer of watchet Silk with the Arms of Italy thereon set in Gold every Footman furnished with approved Furniture in as stately a manner as the English-men who at their Landing received as Royal an Entertainment as the other Nations and likewise St. Anthony was as highly Honoured by the English Champion as any of the other Christian Knights The next that arrived was S. Denis the Uictorious Champion of France with a Band of Fourscore thousand After him Marched Dukes of twelve several Dukedoms then under the Government of the French King every one at his own proper Cost and Charges maintained two thousand Soldiers in these Christian Wars their Entertainments were as Glorious as the rest The last of the Christian Champions that arrived upon the fruitful Banks of Portugal was the Magnanimous Knight St. James of Spain with a Band likewise of Fourscore thousand with him he brought from the Spanish Mines ten Tun of Refined Gold only to maintain Soldiers in the Defence of Christendom who no sooner Landed with his Troops but the Six Champions gave him the honourable welcome of a Soldier and ordained a solemn Banquet for the general Armies whose number justly surmounted Five hundred thousand which Legious they enjoyned into one Camp-Royal and after placed their Wings and Squadrons Battel-wise chiefly by the direction of St. George being then chief General by the consent of the Christian Kings who after he had over-viewed the Christian Armies his Countenance seemed to prognosticate a Crowned Uictory and to foretell a fatal Overthrow to the misbelieving Potentates Therefore to encourage his Princely Followers to persevere in their wonted willingness pronounced this Princely Oration You Men of Europe said he and my Countrey-men whose Conquering Fortunes never yet have feared the Enemies of Christ you see we have forsook our Native Lands and committed our Destinies to the Queen of Chance not to fight in any unjust Quarrel but in the true Cause of Israel's Anointed not against Nature to climb to the Heavens as Nimro● and the Giants proffered in former time but to prevent the Invasion of Christendom the Ruine of Europe and the intended overthrow of all Christian Provinces the Bloody-minded Infidels have Mustered up Legions in numbers like blades of Grass that grow upon the flourishing Downs of Italy or the Stars of Heaven in the coldest Winters night protesting to fill our Countries with Seas of Blood to scatter our streets with mangled Limbs and convert our Glorious Cities into Flames of quenchless Fire Therefore dear Country-men live not to see our Christian Uirgins spoiled by Lustfull Rape nor dragged along our Streets like guiltless Lambs to a bloody Slaughter nor to see our harmless Ba●es with bruised brains dashed against hard Flinty stones nor to see our unlusty Age whose hair resembles silver Mines lye bleeding on the Marble Pavements but like true Christian Soldiers fight in the Quarrel of your Countries What though the Pagans be in number ten to one yet Heaven I know will fight for Christendom and cast them down before our faces like drops of April showers Be not dismayed to see them in ordered Ranks nor fear not when as you behold the streamers hovering in the waving wind when as their steeled Pikes like to a Thorny Forrest will overspread whole Countreys Thousands of them I know will have no heart to fight but flie with cowardly fear like Flocks of Shéep before the greedy Wolf I am the Leader of your noble Minds that never sought in vain nor ever entred Battel but returned with Conquest Then every one with me build upon this Princely Resolution For Christendom we Fight For Christendom we Live and D●e This Soldierlike Oration was no sooner finished but the whole Army with a general voice cried to Arms to Arms with Uictorious George of England Which Noble Resolution of the Soldiers so reioyced the English Champion and likewise encouraged the other Christian Knights

Champions ears they profered no violence to his liveless Body but in tombed him in a sumptuous Sepulchre and after that St. George took upon him the Government of Persia and there established good and Christian Laws also he gave to the other six Champions six several Kingdoms belonging to the Crown of Persia and six named them six Uiceroys or petty Kings This being done he took Trute with the World and triumphantly marched towards Christendom with the Conquest of three imperial Diadeuis that is to say of Aegypt Persia and Morocco in which Iourney he erected many stately Monuments in remembrance of his Uictories and heroical Atchievements and through every Country that they marched there flocked to them an innumerable company of Pagans that desired to follow him into Christendom and to be christened in their Faith protesting to forsake their Gods whose Worshippers were none but Tyrants and such as delighted in nothing but shedding of Blood to whose Requests St. George presently condescended not only in granting them their Dellres but also in honouring them with the favour of his princely Countenance This Courtesie of the English Champion mecited such a glistering Glory through the World that as far as ever the golden Globes of Heaven extended their Lights St. George's Honour was bruited and not only his marchless Adventures charactered in brazen Tables but his martial Exploits painted in every Temple so that the Heathen Poets 〈◊〉 Histories of his Deeds and famoused his Name among the Worthies of the World In this Princely manner marched St. George with his warlike Troops through the Teritories of A●●ica and Asia in greater Royalty then did Darius with his Persian Souldiers towards the Camp of Alexander the Great But when the Christian Champions approached the watry World and began to go aboard their Ships the Earth seemed to mourn at their farewels and the Seas to rejoyce at their presence the Waves couched as smooth as crystal I●● and the Winds blew such gentle Gales as though the Sen Gods had been the Directors of their Fleet the Dolphins danced above the Water and the lovely Mair-me●●s in multitudes lay vallying amidst the Streams making them delightful Pastime the Skies seemed to smile and the Sun to show a gliitering brightness upon the crystal Waters that the Sea seemed to be siiver Thus in great Plea●uce they passed the time away committing their Fortunes to the mercy of the Winds and the Waters who did so savourable serve them that in short time they arrived upon the Eanks of Christendom where being no sooner come on shore and past the dangers of the Seas but Saint George in presence of thousands of his Followers kneeled down on the ground and gave God praise for his happy Arrival by these words following O thou Omnipotent God of New Ierusalem we not only give thee condign Praise for our late atchieved Victories against the Enemies who by their Wickedness seek daily to pull thee from thy celestial Throne but also do render thee hearty Thanks that hast delivered us safely from the fury of the raging Seas that otherwise might have drenched us in her devouring Gulf as thou didst Pha●aoh with his golden Chariots and his invincible Legions therefore great King of Iuda under whose Name we have taken many things in hand and have atchieved so many Victories grant that these true Obligations of our thankful Hearts may be acceptable in thy sight which be no sained Ceremonies but the inward Devotions of our Souls And there withal letting a showr of Tears from their Eyes and discharging a valley of Sighs from their Breasts as a signification of the integrity of their Souls he held his peace then gave her Commandment that the Army should be discharged and every one rewarded according to his defect which within seven Weeks was performed to the honour of Christendom After this St. George earnestly requested the other six Champions that they would honour him with their presence home to his Country of England and there receive the comfort of ioyful Ease after the bloody Encounters of so many dangerous Battles This Motion of St. George not only obtained their Consents but added a for wardness to their willing Minds so incontinently they set forward towards England upon whose chalky Cliffs they in a short time arrived and after this took their Iourney towards the City of London where their Entertainments were so honourably performed as I want the Eloquence of Cicero and the Rhetorick of Calyope to describe it Thus gentle Reader hast thou heard the first of the princely Atchievements noble Adventures and honourable Lives of these renowned and worthy Champions The Second Part relates the noble Atchievements and strange Fortunes of St. George's Three Sons the Loves of many gallant Ladies the Combates and Turnaments of many valiant Knights and Tragedies of mighty Potentates Likewise the rest of the noble Adventures of the renowned Seven Champions also the manner and place of their honourable Deaths and how they came to be called the Seven Saints of Christendom FINIS The Famous HISTORY OF THE Seven Champions OF Christendom The Second Part. LIKEWISE Shewing the Princely Prowess Noble Atchievements and Strange Fortune of St. GEORGE's Three Sons the lively Sparks of Nobility The Combates and Turnaments of many Valiant Knights the Loves of many Gallant Ladies the Tragedies of Mighty Potentates ALSO The Manner and Places of the Honourable Deaths of the Seven Champions being so many Tragedies and how they came to be called the Seven Saints of CHRISTENDOM LONDON Printed by W. Onley for Ric. Chiswell M. Wotton G. Conyers and B. Waisord MDCXCVI To the Right Honourable the Lord William Howard Richard Johnson wisheth Encrease of all Prosperity AS it hath Right Honourable of late pleased your most Noble Brother in kindness to accept of this History and to grace it with a favourable Countenance so am I now enboldned to Dedicate the Second Part unto your Honour which here I humbly offer to your Lordship's Hands not because I think it a Gift worthy the Receiver but rather that it should be as it were a Witness of the Love and Duty which I bear to your Right Noble House And when it shall please you to bestow the Reading of these Discourses my humble Request is That you would think I wish your Honour as many happy Days as there be Letters contained in this History Thus praying for your Honour 's chief Happiness I remain your Honour 's in all dutiful Love To his poor Power ● I. TO THE Gentle Reader I Have finished The Second Part of the Seven Champions of Christendom for thy Delight being thereto encouraged by thy great Acceptance of my First Part. I will not boast of Eloquence nor Invention thereby to invite thy Willingness to Read only thy Courtesie must be my Buckler against the carping Malice of mocking Jesters that being worse able to do well scoff commonly at that they cannot mend censuring all things doing nothing but Monkey-like make Apish

Nations and Kingdoms the Kings of those Countries assembled together all the Forces they could make and with the greatest expedition they could use marched into the Plains of Babylon The first that came thither mas the King of Arabia attended with an Army of Twenty Thousand Men whereof Eight Thousand were mountted on Arabian Coursers being armed with Spears and Targets so swift and dexterous in their undertakings that they seldom mist of atchieving any business they went about His Pavilion was of a Uiolet colour fringed with yellow to distinguish of what Country he was of The next was the Soldan of Persia himself with an Army of Ten Thousand Horsemen and Thirty Thousand Foot of which Nine Thousand were Pioneers to level the way for the Ar●ies matching and to dig Trenches for the assaulting of any Castle or City His Pavilion was red fringed with Orange-fawny being mounted on a Hill to be the more conspicuous to the Beholders Next was the King of Egypt with Twenty-five Thousand men of which three hundred were Magicians or 〈◊〉 to charm and bew●tch the Christian Army that they might not fight His Pavilion was Blue fringed with black and was placed on the Right-hand of the King of Arabia Soon after came the great Cham of Tartary with an Army of thirty thousand men all in quilted Jackets so thick wrought that no Arrow could pierce them They were all armed with Steel Gantlets and had Swords of a hands breadth and withal so sharp that they would cut off a man at the ●●●ble with a blow His Pavilion was of a Primrose colour with a White fringe which was placed on the Left-hand of the Soldan of Persia. Next came the King of Morocco with two thousand Horsemen mounted all on Barbary Steeds armed with Skins of Stags so thick and tough that no sword could cut through them he had also ten thousand Footmen with Iron Mar●s having round balls at the end of them of four or five pound weight therewith to dash out the Christians brains His Pavilion and the Fringe thereof was all black to signifie black and dismal days to ensue He was placed next to the King of Egypt The next that arrived in the fruitful Fields of Babylon was the King of Parthia with an Army consisting of fifteen thousand men He had also an hundred Elephants carrying Towers on their backs in each of which ten men might stand and fight This King was in stature four foot higher than most men having each Limb answerable thereto so that he wore a sword of two yards in length the pummel whereof weighed twenty pound His Pavilion was of sky-colour fringed with sea-green and was placed next to the King of Morocco Next was the Emperour or Grand Signior of the Turks accompanied with ten thousand Janisaries armed with sharp Scimiters so keen they would cut a Bolt of Iron asunder He was armed in a Coat of Mail of burnisht Silver having on his head a white Turbant and a Pendant on it wherein was depictured a half Moon with this Motto still encreasing His Pavilion was green with silver and gold fringe and was placed on the Right-hand of the Soldan of Persia. After him came the Prince of Tripoly accompanied with ●ou● Gyants of a marvellous size and bigness whose names were Garion Carus Phidon and Rhapsarus those bore on their necks great knotty Oaks with which they could strike two yards déep into the ground and were most dreadful to behold He had also with him a deformed Creature called a Sagitary being half a Man and half a Horse who could run as swift as a Ship can sail having wind and weather His offensive weapon was a Bow with which he shot poysoned Arrows and was so expert therein that he could shoot to a hairs breadth This Prince of Tripoly was encamped next to the King of Parthia and had a Pavilion of a Pease blossom colour ●ringed with Murrey After him came the Count Palatine of Trebizond with fifteen hundred Cross-bow-men all armed in Stéel Corslets He had also thrée thousand men that used slings with which they would eractly hit whatever they aimed at and that at a great distance from them On his shield was painted a Griffin grasping of a Christian with this Motto siezed of his Prey His Pavilion was of an azure colour fringed with red and was placed next to the Emperour or Grand Signior of the Turks The next that appeared on the Babylonian Plains for the destruction of of the Christians was the Bassa of Aleppo who brought with him a hundred wains loaden with balls of wild-fire sulpher and certain Engines called Calthorps being little things made with four pricks of Iron of such a fashion that which way soever they be thrown one point will always strick up like a nail and these were to be thrown into the Christians Army to spoil the feet of their Horses His Pavilion was of an Iron-gray colour and was placed next to the Count Palatine of Trebizond Next was the Mamaluck of Damascus attended with six thousand Horse and six thousand Footmen He had also in his Army a deformed Monster from the shoulders downwards shaped like a man but his head and face like to that of a horse being a present sent him from the Cham of Tartary and from whom descended the horse-faced Tartar kill'd by Count Sereni This Mamalucks Pavilion was of yellow intermixed with black and fringed with red being placed next to the ●assa of Allepo Many other Kings Princes and Emperors were engaged in this enterprize whose names would be too tedious here to recite insomuch that there was assembled such an Army as made the earth to shake under the weight thereof being more in number then that of Xerxes which drank up ' whole Rivers dry as ' they went or then that of the Macedonian Alexander with which he conquered the greatest part of the World Being thus in this manner assembled together the Soldan of Persia as one of the chiefect of the Association gathered the greatest Princes and Captains to his Pavilion where he entertained them with a costly Banquet and then made unto them this following Dration Most Mighty Kings Princes and Captains of this invincible Army It is not unknown unto you what injuries and mischiefs we have received from the Christian Armies under the conduct of those persons whom they called the seven Champions of Christendom to enumerate them all in particular would make my Oration too tedious unto you I shall therefore only give you some few instances What injury did St. George the Champion of England unto Ptolomy King of Egypt by stealing away his daughter as also from Almidor King of Morocco his dearest Lady and Mistress did not the Kings Daughter of Thesialy run away from her Country by the sly insinuations of St. Denis of France as also the King of Ierusalems Daughter by the like perswasion of St. Iames of Spain what intollerable injury was it to the King of Thracia to

have his fair Daughter Kessalinde tempt'd away from her Country by the Italian Champion but much more from the Champion of Scotland to be deprived of his other six Daughters did not the Welch Champion slay the Count Palatine of Tartary in his Fathers Court besides infiuite other mischiefs losses and disgraces we have received from them all which whilst they lived we were not able to revenge but now since Death hath been so kind to take them out of the World let us pluck up our courages and manfully sight in revenge of our injuries let pity be exiled from our thoughts neither sparing old Age for their hoary head nor the tender infant for his pitiful cry let not the tears of Matrons find regard nor the wailings of Widows any respect but let all be destined to the sword that we may have a general triumph in their utter confusion This Dration was received with a general applause each one protesting their utmost endeavours for the extirpation of Christianity and never to sheath their swords till they had laid the European Cities equal with the dust and their stately Monuments in ruine like to the lofty Pyramids of Troy And now considering by experience the fatal effects of their former dis●ord in electing a General and how necessary it was to have one Commander in chief to avoid all controversie it was d●creed amongst them that si● of the chiefest should be picked forrth and out of them one to be chosen by Lot to be their General These six were the King of Arabia the King of Persia the Soldan of Babylon the King of Egypt the Emperour of the Turks and the King of Morocco The Lots being cast it fell to the share of the Soldan of Babylon to be their General the Emperour of the Turks was appointed Lieutenant General the King of Persia Major General and the King of Arabia by reason of the swiftness of his Coursers Scout-Master General Other Kings and Princes had appointed unto them several other offices according to their quality and capacity they had in the seats of War So that all things considered they seemed to be an Army invincible being for number like the Army of Xerxes which drank whole Rivers dry and for Warlike Provisions so much and plentiful as far exc●ded all numbers of Arithmetick Here will we leave this mighty Army in the Plains of Babylon and come to tell ye of the great preparations the Christians made to resist them but first we shall describe the valiant arts of St. Georges three Sons and how they hearing of this great Army intended for the ruine of Chistendom returned home to fight in defence of their Country CHAP. II. How St. George's Three Sons left England to seek Adventures in Forreign Countries how they Arrived in Sicily and killed a terrible Monster named Pongo How Urania the King of Sicily's Daughter fell in love with Sir Guy with other things which happened YOU may remember in the Second Part of this famous History we left St. Georges three Sons in the English Court where they had not continued long after their Fathers death but growing weary of idleness and being more desirous to follow the Camp of Mars then to dally with Ladies in the Court of Venus they resolved to betake themselves to ●ravel and to seek out adventures in Foreign Countries and having unparted their mind to the King they furnished themselves with all things necessary for such a journey and b●●ding the fruitful ●oyl of England 〈◊〉 they in a few weeks sailing arrived on the Coasts of Sicily where marching up higher into the Country they saw many Houses but no Inhabitants yea whole Towns of empty Houses but neither Man Woman nor Child within them which made them mistrust some grievous Pestilence had lately overspread that Country and made it desolate of Inhabitants wherefore to avoid any infection which might happen unto them they took up their lodging in the open Fields having only the star●y Firmament for their Canopy Thus sweetly reposeing on their Mother Earth they slept as soundly as if they had laid on Beds of Downe and been surrounded with Curtains of the purest Arabian Silk Thus did they sleep securely until such time as Aurora began to guild the Firmament with her bright Rayes and to usher in Phoebus golden light when suddenly they were awaked with a most horrible noise which séemed to be sent from the déep Abyss and to be able to rend the Rocks asunder where upon they suddenly buckled on their Armour and stood upon their Guard and indeed it was but high time for at that instant they saw coming towards them a most deformed Monster of an excessive bigness and terrible shape having Eyes like burning sawcers and Claws sharper than Eagles ●allons He seemed to move like a high Tower or Pyramid and with his weight to make the Earth to tremble the sight of this ugly Monster so s●artled their Horses that they would hardly endure the bit but snorting and stumping the Earth with their feet showed the dread they had of such a sight but these thrée valiant Knights in whom was sown the seeds of true magnanimity stood fearless to abide what danger soever might happen The first whom this fierce Monster made unto was the valiant Knight Sir Guy who nothing daunted at his hideous shape having put his Spear in his Rest ran furiously against him but the Monster being armed with scales far harder than brass his Spear shiver'd in a thousand pieces then drawing out his trusty Fauchion he assailed the Monster with manly stroaks who on his part was not backward in defence but bolting upright on his tail stretched forth one of his paws and with the same grasped so hard on the arm of Sir Guy that he had well near siezed on him had not Sir David at that instant come in ond with his sword cut the Monsters paw quite off leaving the claws so firmly fixt on Sir Guy's Arm that notwithstanding the goodness of his armour it was very hard to be gotten off In the mean time the valiant and renowned Knight Sir Alexander with great force sot upon the monster giving him such a blow upon the head as made him to reel who with his tail striking of Sir Alexander so wrapped the same about his horses legs that not able to stand he came over and over with the Kniht The Monster seeing him on the ground was making towards him whom Sir David met with such a lusty thrust on his breast that though it pierced not the same it laid the Monster flat on his back which was no sooner done but Sir Guy nimblp leaping from off his horse thrust his sword down the Monsters Throat who lay gasping for breath whereby he rived his heart in sunder yet notwithstanding the same the Monsters Teeth were so kéen that he bit the Knights sword intwo leaving the one half in his Throat and withal sent forth such a hideous yell as surpassed the roaring

strength that he would sieze on a wild Bull or any other Beast though never so fierce and strong At his first approach unto the Camp he was welcomed with a great shout of the Souldiers being a goodly person and having his Head adorned with a Plume of Ostrich Feathers He pitched his Camp next to the Scottish Army having a Tent of green intermixed with scarlet and richly 〈◊〉 with Gold fringe In his streamer was pourtrayed a Ki●●● hovering with a Chicken in her claws with these words T is common seen the weakest they Unto the strong become a prey Scarcely were the Irish well settled in their Tents when there arrived the like number of VVelshmen conducted by a valiant Knight damed Sir Owen of the Mountains the Son of the Renowned Champion St. David of VVales begotten on the beautiful Estrild Daughter of the King of Powis Land who had been bread up in all Warlike affairs by the appointment of his Grandfather so that for Martial Prowess he was accounted as valiant a Knight as most in Christendom He was likewise received with the usual Ceremonies by the other Captains and pitched his Lents next to the Irish. His Pavilion was of a blood red colour fringed with white signifying peace to the yielding and blood and destruction to the obstinate the words were these The doom of either Life or Death Consisteth in the Conquerours breath Next came the English Army consisting of fourscore thousand experienced Souldiers They were divided into three Battalions whereof Sir Alexander led the vaward Sir Guy the main battle and Sir David brought up the Rear Of these were twenty thousand Horsemen armed in rich Corllets of Steel to desend themselves and Lances and Darts to offend their enemies There was of the Foot thirty thousand stout Archers having Bowes of the strongest ●ew and Arrows of a full yard long headed with Steel with which they would shoot a full half mile in length Also twenty thousand Pikemen with Pikes of the strongest Ash headed with Steel as sharp as Spanish Needles to defend the Archers from the Enemies Horse and to oppose an Army in a strait passage The rest of the Army were Pioneers Waggoners Uictuallers and such others as are commonly attendant on an Army At their first landing they were entertained by the other Commanders with such a shout of joy as the Earth rang with the sound thereof and the hollow Caverns of the Hills reverberated with such an Eccho as if Jupiter had spent his thundering Artillery to welcome these English Heroes They pitched their Camp near unto the Army of the Italians Sir Guys Pavilion being of watchet embroydered with silver and fringed with gold and to distinguish it from others it was adorned with the red Cross the ancient arms of England His two Brothers were not far different in their devices and for the Motto of them all it was to this effect Armed with a just cause we fear no foe No foil nor flight much less an overthrow Divers Captains of other Nations came also in aid of the Christians Army as Sir Lando the Warlike with five thousand stout Swedish Souldiers Sir Pandrasus the Dane having in his Company a Gyant named Wonder for his unmatchless strength which was such that he would lift a weight which twelve ordinary men could hardly stir besides divers others too many to enumerate the whole sum amounting to thrée hundred thousand After they had consulted a while together it was concluded unanimously among them all that every Captain should have the command of those Souldiers he brought out of his own Country but that in difficult matters and wherein diversity of opinions might breed confusion it should be referred to Sir Guys ordering who was made Generalissimo of the whole Army And now having nothing else to do but to march against their Enemies Sir Guy to incourage them the more being all the chief of them assembled together made unto them this following Oration Fellow Souldiers and Brethren in Arms I think I shall not need many words to stir you up to Magnanimity the justness of our Cause being such as rightly considered is enough to make a coward valiant I hope you are not so forgetful that you now go to fight for your Parents your Wives your Children your Country and what should be most dear unto you the Christian Religion against Pagans Infidels and Miscreants enemies to God and goodness whose delight is only in Blood and Rapine whose trade and practice is the burning and destroying of Towns and Villages murthering of Matrons ravishing VVives and Virgins tossing of sprawling Infants on the tops of their mercyless Pikes In sum such people as act all what barbarism and cruelty prompts them to Therefore if ye are not willing to see these miseries fall upon ye be valiant and couragious and so let us willingly go on armed with a just cause and doubt not in the least but the just God will give us victory No sooner had he ended his Oration but it was received with a general Acclamation each one vowing to live and dye in such a Cause and under the conduct of such a General Being thus resolved they prepared to dislodge and having furnished themselves with store of Provision which was freely given them by the Neapolitan King Besides to the number of five hundred Waggons for carriage of their Ammunition and other necessaries they embacked in several Gallies and cutting the bring face of Neptune After about a ●ortnights prosperous Sailing they came upon the fruitful Coasts of Asia where soon they heard tidings of the Pagans Army and how they were advanced as far as Galatia within a hundred Leagues where the Christians were landed And now having brought the Armies thus near together we will look back again into Europe and shew you by what a wonderful miracle the Christians Army were 〈◊〉 with an unexpe●ted assistance CHAP. VII How the seven Champions being raised from their Graves are solved to follow the Christian Army How by Tempest they were cast upon the Coast of Thessaly The great Battle fought betwixt the Thessalians and Thracians how afterwards they went to the Christian Army and of the great battle fought betwixt the Christians and Pagans NOW notwithstanding this great preparation to withstand the Pagan Army a great fear and consternation still continued in the hearts of the people for the report of the vastness of the Pagans Army was spread abroad in each place so that it was deemed so numerous as not to be encountered withal The best remedy therefore as they thought was by Prayers to God to crave his assistance against such potent Enemies so that in every place intercessions were sent up to Heaven for succour in this origeney of time Now it so chanced that at the same time there lived in the North Country a certain Holy Hermit nam'd Sylvanus To this man it was revealed in a Dream how that the seven famous Champions were not wholly dead but that for