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

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

of a subtle with and quick Apprehension his name was Peter Warbeck but the English in Derision after called him Perkin He understood English and some other Languages was very little known being of the meanest Birth and in extream Poverty He had Travel'd through divers Countrys like a Beggar and a Vagabond Him the Dutchess Margaret thought a sit Instrument to Counterfeit the Duke of York second Son of Edward the Fourth She hid him in her House and instructed him in the affairs of England and the particular Interests of the House of York till he perfectly understood his business Imprinting her Maxims in his memory and talking properly of them persuading all that he was the Real Prince of that Illustrious Family Persons of that Quality and Birth have an Instinct not to be described to follow the steps of their Glorious Ancestors that they may deserve the same admiration and even in this she had informed him And now she understanding that King Henry was raising Men for France to assist Francis Duke of Brittain his old Benefactor believing this a favourable occasion to set her Engins at work and cause a disturbance in England she sent Perkin privately into Ireland that so this young and well-instructed Adventurer might sow the Seeds of Rebellion amongst those unciviliz'd People who were always inclin'd to Mutiny When he Landed in Ireland he so well imploy'd his time and favour there that many of the principal Irish believed his deceit and gave him the same Honour as if he had really been what he pretended promising to Arm and follow him with all Necessaries for the War This News being spread abroad Francis the Eighth King of France invited him to his Court that he might oppose him to Henry his declared Enemy who was then ready to Land in France Perkin overjoy'd at this News believing himself Blest to enter into the Familiarity of Kings repassed the Sea and came to the French Court where he was Magnificently received and had a Train of Guards appointed him But suddenly after a Peace was concluded between France and England and the King finding him no longer useful for his Purpose dismist him the Court. Being thus disappointed of his hopes he went to the Dutchess Dowager into Flanders This Princess longed to know how he had been Received and Entertained but the disappointment sensibly afflicted her yet she Treated him as if she had never seen him before which she cunningly endeavoured to persuade being overjoy'd to see him publickly Congratulating his happy return and taking a singular pleasure to hear him tell how nearly he escaped in several Countrys which he Travell'd This she did the better to persuade the World he was the true Son of Edward the Fourth her Brother and shew'd him extraordinary Respect as likewise did the Flemish Lords on her account The Deceit being hid under so much appearance of Truth as persuaded them that he escap'd death by the particular Providence of Heaven and when he was in the Power of his Uncle Richard a faithful Servant of his Fathers had convey'd him privately beyond Sea so Rescuing him out of his cruel hands and that now he would attempt to regain the Kingdom of his Ancestors The Story of so strange an Adventure was soon spread over all the Country flying into England where it past for Truth not only among the common People but even with several of the Nobility When the News came that Richard Duke of York was alive the number of the Seditious increas'd abundantly They whose Crimes or Debts made them abscond or whose Poverty hoped advantage fled into Flanders to Perkin and soon after many of the most considerable Lords entred into the Conspiracy and believed the Impostor swayed by their own rashness or by a false persuasion that this young Man was Prince Richard Son of King Edward and having a blind affection for the House of York Others through Disgust believing themselves ill rewarded by Henry the Seventh whom they had ventured their Lives for to set him upon the Throne Many through Avarice and a desire of change were driven into this Conspiracy Thus the News of Richard Duke of Yorks being alive divided England Hopes and Fears filled the minds of all men none were exempted from Trouble each measuring his Danger or Advantage according to his Interest Fancy and particular Opinion It was an extraordinary astonishment to the King and his Friends that there should be any Man in the World who had the Impudence to invent and discourse so Pernicious an Imposture which was not only improbable but lookt impossible and under the colour of Truth concealed a most Subtle and Implacable piece of Malice which he already knew many great Men in the Kingdom had a mind to give Credit to though he dissembled his Information And he foresaw this Fable might indanger the Ruin of the State if it were not early discovered to the Nation for no other than a fictitious most wicked and dangerous Counterfeit Those who delighted in War and Trouble embrac'd these Novelties persuading themselves there was no deceit in them and that the News was all true believing they should reap both Honour and Profit by Fomenting the Hopes of their Party And this being a Point of so much Importance the Conspirators sent into Flanders to the Dutchess Dowager to know of her when she thought fit that Richard Duke of York should pass over into England that they might the sooner Advertise their Friends and have them ready to give him all necessary Assistance Sir Robert Clifford and William Barklay were deputed for this by the general Consent of the rest They gave the Dutchess Margaret an account what the Creatures and Favourers of this New Duke had agreed to do which gave her an extream pleasure She assured them all that had been advantagiously discoursed of Richard Duke of York was really so shewing them the Impostor who Counterfeited the Person of Richard to a wonder Then she extoll'd his Vertues to the Skies and made admirable Report of his Princely Inclinations which were to imitate the Actions of his glorious Ancestors When Clifford had seen the Youth he really believed him of the Blood Royal and so writ to his Correspondents in England And the better to make himself be believed he assured them he perfectly remembred his Face After the delivery of these Letters they contrived a new Motive to excite the People to favour their Party They assured them nothing could be more True than the News of Richard Duke of York and this they so cunningly spread that no Author could be produced for the Report The King perceiving these Deceits not to diminish in the Peoples minds thought hims●lf absolutely obliged to provide for the Public Safety in which his own Interest was so deeply ingaged He knew where this design was laid and understood Cliffords Secret Departure sending Officers with some chosen Men and approved Souldiers to the Sea-Coasts for the preventing any Mens Landing in or