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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20888	The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be vnknowen of them that would attaine vnto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.; Histoire du grand Tamerlan. English	Du Bec, Jean, 1540-1610.; Mildmay, Humphrey, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 7263; ESTC S109956	178,782	270

vnder Axalla and the third vnder Calibes who shold cōduct the cariages with one part of the footmen which should bend directly towards Persia coasting the riuer Euphrates and in that space put al the coūtry there vnder the Princes obedience were he shold find nothing to stop him our army being aduanced forward which ouer-ran the same So the Emperour tooke the coast of the sea Axalla the coast of Arabia There was with the Prince 6000. horse and 100000. footmē with Axalla 40000. horse 50000 footmen Calibes had thirtie thousand horse and fiftie thousād footmē insomuch as all the earth was couered with men so as by means that good gouernmēt was obserued in our Army victuals for men was there in great plenty for the horses were many pastures Now the Soldan had alwayes Axalla following him but in the end he deuided his army where the most part of his mē forsooke him they say he retired into Arabia where our great army could not lie He often shewed himself with some 4000. horse for to hinder Axalla who hauing the smallest troupe did follow him more neare then we All the cities vpō the sea coast submitted themselues vnder the Emperors obedience as Magata Aman Tortosa Gibelleto Barut Nephthalim Damascus hauing receiued a garrison refused to opē the gates the Lord layd siege thereto This was a strong city wherinto the Soldan had put the Prince Zamadzen who indeuored to defend himselfe but we hauing planted all sorts of engines we ouerthrew much of the wal The Prince of Thanais gaue th'assalt wan the city there remaining only a castel of wonderful strēgth inuincible but there being a great multitude of mē retired into the same they died for hūger In the end being willing to yeeld the Prince would not receiue thē vnto mercy for to make thē feele what it was to hold out against him so that dying with famine they yeelded vnto his mercy were all taken prisoners or slaine so punished for their rashnesse This caused that 30. leagues off they brought vnto vs the keyes of their cities for they which did so were not any waies molested but only in paying the charges of the army This city was no sooner tak● but we turned our head directly vnto I●rusalē at such time as they did driue out the Soldans garrison The like did almost all Iudea also came to submit themselues vnto the Emperor who vsed them very graciously restored vnto them their liberty promised them for to visit the Sepulcher of Iesus Christ according to the holy customs of our law with this honour reuerence he granted vnto them whatso euer they demanded We came vnto Coracin the which citie had receiued commandement to stand firme wherin the Soldan had left a garrison of 6000. men who resolued to fight lustily but at the length the same was astonished seeing the siege layd before it that we were determined to take it hauing approched the wals they besought mercy which was granted vnto them The Prince left a garrison therein for to stop the roades that certaine Mamelues made vpon our army departing from Nasuia from whence the Prince sent a commandement vnto Calibes to besiege Cities and to set himselfe against those forces which ioyned thēselues together neare vnto him the which kept the comming of victuals frō the army In the meane time the Soldā hauing fained to draw towards Arabia he went towards Caire in Egypt opposing himselfe against vs only by small incursions spoyling continually the corne before vs endeuoring to keepe our Army from victuals but our light horsemen did presse so neare vpon them that he could not execute that hee would haue done the people also who willingly submitted them selues did hinder the waste The Emperour being come vnto Miserill he did forbid the Army to passe ouer the riuer of Iordan for to preserue that countrie from whence came great store of victuals vnto the Armie and himselfe rode vnto Ierusalem with certaine horsemen for his guard hee determined like a godly Prince to visit the Sepurcher the which is had in so great reuerence of al the natiōs and there for to make his offerings and being arriued into Ierusalem there hee was receiued of the inhabitantes he therein sought out all the antiquities of the ancient Temple would be conducted into all the places wherin Iesus Christ had preached euen as the Pilgrims do seeing the Sepulcher he gaue thereunto great plēty of riches precious gifts two things made him wōder which was that he demāding of certaine religious men where the body of their Lord was they answered in heauen at the right hand of God he asked of vs where our Prophet was placed the Cherit who was neare vnto him answered it was true and that he held the chiefest place in heauen because he was there before him and that as he was borne of heauen vnto heauen he was returned hauing there first taken the place Then kneeled he downe and euer after had his name in great reuerence and when hee was returned vnto Samarcand hee builded a most rich Church vnto his honour and wold be heard to speake dayly of his miracles And as he did visit al he came vnto the place where Iesus Christ hauing left his desciples went vp into heauen in which place there is a print of his foote he greatly wondered thereat and the story being recited vnto him of the Pilgrime who had beene rauished in spirit he accounted him very happie Axalla came thither also and all the Christians who did accompanie him hauing conducted his army vnto Tema for to set it forward into Egypt There had the Emperour newes that the Soldan gathered forces on all sides and was entred into Alexandria which is one of the chiefest Cities of Egypt All the people were verie glad to see our Prince honour the holy places but the Iewes did greatly blame him for so doing but they were a people whom the Prince misliked and called them the accursed of God Axalla gaue great gifts and honour vnto the holy Sepulcher Now the Prince did greatly honour them that were deuout and afterwards returned from thence with commandement that they should aduance forward the head of his army directly vnto Damieta the wich was reported vnto the Emperour to be in expugnable as well in respect of the Castell as for that the Soldan had put many souldiers into the same Now this is a Citie vpon the sea coast and one of the chiefest of Iudea so as the same was in great reputation for that it had held out many great sieges in so much as many did disswade the Prince frō going thither but rather for to cause his army to march higher and not inclose himselfe within a corner But the Emperour who thought nothing could hinder his good fortune would needs go thither and hauing commanded Axalla to set vpon it he caused the

of the passage ouer the riuer of Euphrates for to succour frō thence the prouinces of Egipt at such time as they should haue neede thereof and being ready to drawe straight into Armenia he receiued newes from Calibes beseeching his Maiesty to dispatch aide vnto him Presently was the Prince of Atacen sent backe againe and commanded to set forward into Egipt and the Prince in person went vnto Babylon leauing Axalla with the Auaunt-guard not to leaue the iourny into Armenia The Prince being aduised to go thither himselfe in person to the end for to bring vnto them a great astonishment and assurance in his bountie when they would trust to the same We came in eleuen daies vnto Babylon the Prince hauing receiued all those people vnder his obedience he left the great Chamberlaine at Romedat for to fortifie it and also for to command all the riuer of Euphrates euen to the Armenians He recōmended vnto him the inhabitants of Babylon who had shewed themselues verie affectioned towardes him and the which was almost wholly peopled by the Tartarians for the late Prince of Sachetay his father hauing made an enterprise thither did take the same and for the better keeping thereof he caused the Parthian Colonies to come thither who in the end were so vexed by their neighbors as well Mamelues as Persiās that they were of necessitie compelled to submit themselues vnder their Empire the affection and remembrance of their ancient originall remaining alwayes with them The Emperour for this consideration shewed them all mildnesse and vpon this occasion desired to make himselfe Lord of this countrie by this right that the late Prince his father had once conquered it by a Lieutenant generall of his called Sahali whose remēbrance was yet verie fresh for the seruices he had done vnto the Empire of Sachetay From this place the Prince returned in great hast being aduertised by Prince Axalla how the Persian Guines came to visite him in peaceable maner for to submit vnder his obedience whatsoeuer countries he held the which were not many The Emperour who did wonder at his holinesse and honoured him hauing vnderstode thus much made haste to set forward for to honour him the more for he held an opinion alwayes of him as of an holy personage in so much as the Emperour was determined for to see him for the estimation of his holinesse and religion Now vnderstanding that he came in this maner towards him he left his troupes to come softly vnder the charge of the Prince of Thanais and himselfe aduanced forward vnto Axalla who looked for the Persian Guines who presently dispatched towards him the Prince of Liseauceu and the great Chanceller for to gratifie him and to assure him of the great desire the Emperour had of his comming The Prince wondring greatly at his holie life determined to yeeld him all the honour hee could possiblie and to deuise all meanes to pleasure him So the Emperour set forward to meete with this Guines who did come in verie humble manner bringing also with him an infinite number of sundrie kinds of beasts the which he kept tame and by the which he taught men As soon as he did see the Emperout he began to make his praiers towards the heauens for the greatnesse of the health of the Emperour for the greatnesse of the religion of the Prophet excommunicating with all his power the Ottomans as enemies vnto the faithfull beleeuers The Emperor who came in great pompe was greatly astonished to see this man in such furniture as he was and as he was by nature a great wonderer at such kind of of people there was he more then euer before and being willing to gratifie him he offered him part of the enemies spoyles hee had conquered giuing vnto him fifteene or sixteene thousand prisoners to the end they might be instructed in his religion a present the which was verie acceptable vnto Guines in as much as this same did greatly help to augment also increase him causing the most part of them to conforme themselues according to his manners and opinion But as this deuout humour pleased the Emperour so diuers on the other side did reprooue the strange fashions in this Prince who through holinesse knew well how to bring so many countries vnder his obedience Now diuers blamed the Emperor for making so great account of his holines but whē I cōsider the honor reuerēce which man oweth vnto religion I am not of those which will say that a prince ought not to haue so much therof for certainly it is a thing wherof any do seldome complaine Now after all this great shewe of religion he came not vnto the Emperor for nothing but rather for two ends whereof the one was the feare he had of this army which he desired to be fauorable vnto him the other to receiue by meanes thereof increase of his affaires vnder shew of deuotion knowing the Emperor to be enclined as much as might be to godlinesse and also that he might be alwaies neare vnto the Emperors person as protector of all the countries neare vnto him the which by his meanes and intercession did submit themselues vnder the Princes greatnesse and himselfe was the first that thereunto did willingly submit all the iurisdiction he had although the Emperour made no request for the same But this humility did serue him to good purpose and to his successors also for this was his preseruation the foundation of their greatnesse so as the Prince hauing subdued all Persia excepting the citie of Tauris the which is a very great and rich citie and hauing made vnto it selfe a peculiar kind of gouernement did hinder as much as in it lay the greatnesse of Guines and a great part of the country also that was obedient vnto him and in the same was a Captaine who did commaund them called Talismahar who was throughly aduertised of the credite Guines had with the Emperor and who would not faile to solicite him for to enterprise and conquer this citie and thereof change also the gouernment and he hauing an opinion that the Emperour being desirous to returne would not busie himselfe about him if he set but a countenance of well defending of himself and so hauing taken such order he sent his Embassadors vnto the Emperour for to informe him of the vsurpations Guines had made and his purposes vnder the pretence of a fained religiō The Emperour would heare nothing of all that he sent him word But he himselfe would declare his owne reasons and would demand the auncient right his predecessors had vnto this countrie or for want thereof hee would make appeare how hurtfull the same would be vnto thē The Emperour omitted not to here them and noted verie well the meanes he might haue to make himselfe greater through these diuisions acknowledging and considering well therof he found that euery where they did abuse the same and especially that