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A19712	A notable historie of the Saracens Briefly and faithfully descrybing the originall beginning, continuaunce and successe aswell of the Saracens, as also of Turkes, Souldans, Mamalukes, Assassines, Tartarians and Sophians. With a discourse of their affaires and actes from the byrthe of Mahomet their first péeuish prophet and founder for 700 yéeres space. VVhereunto is annexed a compendious chronycle of all their yeerely exploytes, from the sayde Mahomets time tyll this present yeere of grace. 1575. Drawn out of Augustine Curio and sundry other good authours by Thomas Newton.; Sarracenicae historiae libri tres. English	Curione, Celio Augustino, 1538-1567.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1575 (1575)	STC 6129; ESTC S109154	166,412	282

Succession and posterytie But yet notwithstandinge all these Kinges agnized and acknowledged some of these forenamed Byshops and as euerie one fauoured thys Byshoppe or that so in hys quarrell dyd he make Warre with the Kings of the other faction Which sedicious discordes and multitude of Tyrantes so appaired weakened the power of the Saracenes that after the regiment of the aforesayde Byshoppes they so decreased and theyr force so was enféebled that at length the name of Saracenes gaue place and was almost cleane eatē vp of the Turkes and the state of their Empyre was at this time through the perturbation and burlyburly about the soueraigntie so obscured and vnknowen that no certaintie in the succession of their Empyre can be had no not among their owne writers Neuerthelesse wee obseruing the due order of tymes will as briefely as may be comprehende all such thinges as are confusedly written by diuerse Authors concerning the actes and gestes by them atchieued In the tyme that this Muamat the Sonne of Aaron ruled Assyria and Michael the Sonne in law of Nicephorus expulser of Leo out of Armenia was Emperour of Constantinople one Thomas brued a great garboyle and commotion Of whom the report and fame is tolde after two wayes Some saye he came of a very poore and base Parentage and that he lyued long tyme in much pouertie and indigence faine to get his lyuing with his handie labour and sometyme with seruile drudgerie Afterward abandoning his natiue Countrey and comming to Constantinople was retained in the seruice of an Alderman of the Citie where the gracelesse verlet so much abused himselfe with carnall lust and vicious life that he committed adultrie with his Mistresse and dubbed the Alderman his maister Knight of the common Hall. Which lewde pranke being detected and come to light Thomas partly for starke shame and ignominie and partly for feare of the paynes and punishment appoynted by Law for suche as he was fledde to the Saracenes for whose Diuelishe deuises he was as fit an Organe and Instrument as any in the worlde with whom he was had in a great credite speciallye after that his conuersation and behauiour a long tyme contynued and shewed among them for he had nowe dwelled among them .xxv. yéeres had geuen sufficient testimonie put them in an assured opiniō of his fidelitie towarde them Insomuch that renouncing and apostating his Christianitie and abiuring the holy Religion of the Christians he embraced the horrible doctrine of Mahometicall Religion And beyng by them appoynted Capitane of a competent Crew of warlike Souldiours was sent against the Christians For he had promised vnto them that if they would furnishe him out with some competent power he woulde vndertake to subdue the Romane Empyre into their handes And least the Christians should haue any mistrust diffidence in him thus working and contriuing the Toyle of their confusion or peraduenture taking him as a straunger forayner giue no credite to his wordes he named himself Constantine the sonne of Irene Which Constantine in very déede for his crabbed nature and peruerse maners his mother lōg before had bereft of both his eyes and of the Empire also and was then dead Some others there be which do affirme that this Thomas was whilome in the house of one Bardanius surnamed Turcus together with Michael and Leo. At what time soiourning at a place called Philomelium seeking by all meanes how to make himselfe Emperour he discouered his counsaile and opened the very bottome of his stomacke to a certaine Monke skilfull in the prediction of fortunes and things to come to which deuise and plat he made Leo Armenus priuie Vnto whome the Monke tolde that if he first aspired to the Empyre he should loose both hys eyes and his worldly dignitie but of them that brought hym his horse the first and second should enioy the Diademe and the thirde should bee proclaymed Emperour but not hable to compasse and throughly bring about his desired purpose he should shortly perishe and be brought to confusion The first was Leo the second Michael and the third this Thomas whom Leo the Emperour made Colonell ouer the Band of his Confederates Which Leo when Thomas vnderstoode to bée slaine by Michael he partly to reuenge the death of him through whose beneuolence goodwill he had bene promoted to diuerse dignities and partlie to ease his owne Stomacke and bringe about the effect of his malicious mynde for Michael and he coulde neuer agrée but maligned one an other euen from their Adolescencie raysed warre agaynst Michael and first found the meanes to inueigle and rayse vp the Orientall power among whom he lyued to take part wyth hym Thus he gathered together an armye not of weaklings and vnexpert Souldiours or of a fewe in number but huyge Populous and hardie of Saracenes Moores Indians Medes Persians Assyrians Armenians Chaldees Iberians Zigians Cabirians and diuerse other Nations Of whom some by compulsion accompanied hym in that Warre some for good will some in hope of spoyle and some for a rooted malice and hatred against Michael who for his froward nature and peruerse manners was generally hated of all men For Thomas although he was lame on one of his féete and a Barbarian borne yet for his gray heares and auncient age he was reputed among them venerable and worshipfull in famylier talke and conference very curteous and affable whych are the thinges that most of all wynneth the heartes of Souldiours and for bodely strength not inferiour to any He thus furnished with an armie of Saracenes to whom he had promysed the Constantinopolitane Empyre and also with a great power of Christians which ventured life limme and goods with him violently inuaded and forcibly got the possessiō of the Orient And bringing vnder his obedience the exacters of publique tributes with great statelynesse of minde folowed the chase of good fortune now seruing his turne and smyling vppon hym Within a while of a low Haskerd became a great Ruler and of a weake mungrell Pezaunt a mighty Potentate by whom all Asia was with spoiling and pillage miserably afflicted Some Cities for feare ioygned syde with him and conformed themselues to his humour Some because they would not reuolte from theyr true Liege the Emperour were spoyled and the inhabitauntes caryed awaye Captyue So that there were none in all Asia but only the Opsicians and Armenians which continued in their true allegiance For which gratuitie constant obedience the Emperour released and frankly remitted vnto thē their publique tribute called Fumariū But Thomas was so puffed vp with this successe that he presumptuously tooke vpō him the name of Emperour was crowned with the Diademe at Antioche by Iob Pastour or Bishop at that time of the Antiochene Congregatiō whom he to requite one good turne for another adopted for his Sonne and made as his fellowe and Coadiutour in the administration of the Empyre and then chaunging his owne name called himselfe Constantine

thereof to his Souldiours he ranscaked and made hauocke of the towne but as for all the Iewes which partly in the citie and partly in other places of Arabi because they being skilfull in the diuine law greatly withstood his attempts procedings he hated deadly in the ende in.xi. battailes them vtterlye vanquished and destroyed Thence retourninge to Itraripe he appointed Azeib his Lieutenant of Mecca who entred into the Citie with a great route of Arabians or Saracens For Mecca then was and yet is as well because of an opinion of great auncientie for it is thought to be builded by Ismael or else by Abraham himselfe as also for the bignesse of the Citie and resorte of people most noble and famous Then againe within the same yéere discharging the said Azeib of his office he appointed Moad the Sonne of Gadel Lieutenant of the same Citie in his roume with this commaūdement that after Mahomet his death he should desend and maintayne his lawe and diligently looke that the same should of the people be reuerently obserued and so in the meane season to minister iudgement and execution of his lawes to the Mecchyans Al things in this sort beyng set in good frame and order he remooued to Tambicum and there buylded a Temple which is to be séene at this day Thence he sent an armye vnder the conducte of Zalid and Malid two of his chiefe Captaines agaynst Alozaid the Sonne of Almathaliph King of Aliendel whom by force of armes they ouercame and made tributarie And thus all Arabia being brought in subiection he commaunded Eubocar with parte of his Hoste to go to Mecca he himself lying still at Itraripe and charged him that he should leaue neuer a mothers Sonne a liue in it nor suffer any forrayner to enter sauing only such as willingly would obey his Law and beléeue his doctrine For his meaning and entent was as afterwarde he brought it to passe that Mecca should be the Metropolitane Citie of his religiō and Empire And thus within a short space Mecca was replenished wyth none but Mahometanes And not onely Mecca but all Arabia besides as they are people by nature lyght of beléefe and newfangled embraced his pestilent errours And from that tyme all they whych yelded themselues to that Secte were called by the name of Saracens both because that errour sprong vp and was first begonne by the Saracens and also for that Mahomet persuaded them that all the promyses in the Scriptures promysed to the Séede of Abraham belonged appertayned to them Beyng puffed vp with arrogance by reason of thys good successe in hys affayres he sent Ambassades to Kinges and Princes néere adioyning aduisyng them to embrace his Religion and vnto them addressed hys letters sealed wyth a Signet of Syluer wherein were engrauen these woordes Mahomet the messanger of God namely to the Emperour of Constatinople to the King of Persia the King of Egypte and to other Princes Afterwarde he created soure Tribunes or chiefe Capitaynes in warres commonly called Admyralles whyche had euerie one vnder them many Peticapitaines and Centurions and these foure hee woulde commonly vse to call the sharpe Swordes of God and them he commaunded to goe into the foure partes of the worlde euerie one by him selfe a seuerall waye and to kyll all suche as repugned hys law There names were Ebubezer Omar Ozmen and Ali the Sonne of his vncle Salutelib vnto whom he also ioyned in mariage Fatema hys daughter in Lawe by hys first wife Of these foure Ebubezer called of some Vbequar and of some other Buback or Eubocar father in Law to Mahomet tooke hys voyage to Palestina and there layde Siege to a certayne towne called Muchea the Capitayne whereof was one Theodorus Begarius who had the rule of the towne in the behalfe and name of Caesar Who gathering together his power sodainly set vppon the Saracens with such valiaunt courage and force that many of them beyng slayne the residue lyke tall fellowes ranne away At which time 〈◊〉 thirde Ides of March Mahomet dyed in the yeere of our saluation .637 when he had raigned tenne yéeres in the house of Aissa his wife in the Citie Medina and in the very same bedde wherein he was wont to sléepe and take his rest His bodie without any Princely furniture or ceremonial solemnitie was shrined and lapped in a white Shéete thrée tymes double and so beyng chested in an yron coffin was after a homely sort buried where afterwarde his kinsfolkes and Allyes edified a sumptuous and magnificall Temple of bricke worke and arched the same wyth a vault so pargetted with Lodestones whose nature is to draw yron vnto it that the yron Coffyn wherein Mahomet his body was inclosed was drawen vp euen vnto the toppe of the Churche and there hangeth For which cause that place is yet with great deuocion and Pylgrymage worshipped of all the East They say that while he was banished his Countrey going once on Pylgrimage into Mauritania Tingintana he crossed the Seas ouer into Spaine But when he vndestoode that Bishop Isidore laide waite to haue caught him he immediatly shifted thence and conueyed himselfe away Vpon his death bed he appointed Ali his sonne in lawe to bée his Successour and the Caliph that is to saye the chiefe Prelate of hys Secte and vnto him togither with his daughter he committed the whole charge of his body But Eubocar his father in law stopped them a tyde in that matter alledging that for as much as Mahomet deceassed in his house and by his only meanes had stepped vp to such credite welth estimation and gouernment as being bolstered mainteyned and preferred by his countenance and fréendship none other by good reason was fitter to succéede then he that had béene his chiefe supporter Against whom Ali durst not once open his mouth to reply because Eubocar himselfe was a ●an of great power and also his kinsmen Omar and Ozmen tooke part with him whiche were men valiaunt and factious whose wordes would be heard and whose commaundements before his would be obeyed Who forasmuch as by good right they iudged the kingdome to appertayne vnto them being Coadiutours to Mahomet in the exployte of all his affaires had leifer haue Eubocar succéede beinge olde their nere Kinsman then Ali being young and in his lusty yéeres who might perchaunce raigne so long that no hope euer to enioy the Kingdome by the order and course of nature shoulde be left to them and also for that he was nothinge of kin vnto any of them Wherefore Eubocar was made high Bisshoppe of Mahomet his Sect who immediatly after his creation departinge out of his owne Territories with a great Armye discomfited the Roman Garrisons and retourning into Arabie with victorye dyed not without some suspition of poyson when he had raigned not fullye three yéeres and without any princely funeralles buried néere to Mahomet After him succéeded Homar who as we before shewed was his Kinsman Hesubdued Bosra the chief citie of

to th' intent he might alone haue both the Authorities and roomes Thus was that most wealthye Kingdome brought vnder the obedience of the Turkes in the yeere of our Lorde 1150. Afterward Saladine as he was a man verye prudent and wise perceiuing how tenderlie and effeminately the Egiptians liued insomuch that when any invasion of foreyne hostelitie approched or were like to grow the kings were euer glad and faine to craue foreygne ayde to support and helpe them determined with himselfe to institute some kinde or order of warfare and to trayne vp a troupe of such Souldiours as should be hable at al brunts and assayes to be as a rampire or stronge Bulwarke to the whole kingdome Perceiuing therfore that the people bred and borne in the Northren quarters were both a pter and also stouter for the Warres then the Southerne borne were entred into League with certayne people inhabiting about Maeotis and Pontus called Circassians of Plinie and olde writers Zigians and bartered with them for an entercourse of Merchaindize betwéene them him namely that they should serue him of Boyes and young Striplinges at a certaine price Who beynge brought into Egipt and from their youth trayned vp in feates of chieualrie and warlyke discipline should do nothing but handsomely practise the handeling of their wepons and artilery when time required serue in warres and should haue the ordering of all honours and dignities bellicall For the Zigians are a people of nature verye fierce accustomed euen from the Cradle to abide all maner of labour hardnes and trauell inhabitinge that parts of Pontus and Meotis which is about the riuer Phasis which riuer is the bounder and méere of Colchis and the mouth of Tanais which Countrey or region containeth welnéere 500. myles These people dwell not in Cities and Townes but wander and are dispearced héere and there without any certayne habitation from Village to Village Christians they are by their profession and religion albeit they vse many rites vnlyke vnto ours their Infants as soone as they are borne yea though it he in the middest of winter they cary vnto a riuer and there washe them They are for the moste part faire of complexion and of comely stature the countrey is fenny and full of réedes whereof they doo make Houelles and Cotages to dwell in they be at continuall Warres with the Tartarians and other Nacions aboute them The Nobles and Gentlemen amonge them neuer goe but in Armour and Coates of Fence and alwayes ryde Lieuetenaunt and chiefe Captaine vnder the Emperour of Tartarians hym ouercame and tooke Prisoner in the yeere of our Lorde God. 1258. and caused Mustacene Munibila who at that tyme had that office and dignitie among the huyge and inestimable heapes of treasure and ryches which he had hoorded vp and miserably scraped together to bée famyshed After this almost for 200. yeeres space the Saracenes had no high Byshoppe till at length in Persia the lynage and ofspringe of Mahomet beganne againe to raygne in the yeere 1480. whyche how and by what sort it came to passe resteth heere to be shewed and described There was a certayne Prynce among the Persians Lorde of a Towne called Ardenel and his name was Sophi who greatly gloried and bore himselfe very loftie and high for that he was as he saide descended of the rac● and Pedagrewe of Ali the Sonne in lawe of Mahomet by Musa Cazine hys Nephewe of whom we spake in the first Booke This felowe nowe séeyng the Babylonian Caliphe to bée slayne and the contrarie faction which the Turkes maynteyned and kept to bée depressed and tryumphed ouer by the Tartarians beganne frankely and boldly to vtter hys mynde and opynion concernyng Religion And because Hoceme the Sonne of Ali from whom he made his auaunt to bée lineally descended had .xij. Sonnes therefore he willing to geue some difference and token wherby his Sectaries might be discerned and knowen from all others commaunded and ordeyned that so many as woulde embrace and folowe hys Lore and Doctrine shoulde weare a purple Rybon or Labell hanging downe from theyr wreathed Veyle which all Turkes weare aswel as they vpon their heades called Tulibante and the same in the middle to bée reysed vp into .xij. toppes or heightes wythoute the Tulibante After he was deade his sonne Guines succéeded in hys roume who for learnyng and sanctitie gotte suche estimation and fame throughout the whole Orient that the most mightie Emperoure of the Parthians named Tamburlane euen he which tooke Ba●azete the King of Turkes Prysoner leading his Army passing through Persia daygned to tourne out of his way and to visite as a man of most holy life and vnspotted sanctitie At the request of which Guines the same Tamburlane fréely deliuered out of hys captiuitie .xxx. M. Prisoners which he had taken in hys Warres and as then had with him in his Campe whom afterward Guines instructed and trained vp in hys Sect and discipline whoseseruice and helpe Secaidar his Sonne in his warres afterward vsed For he after the death of his father Guines reposing his speciall trust chiefe strength in them warred vppon the Georgians a people of Scythia beyng Christians bordering vpon his Countreyes and by their help afflicted and put them to many foyles ouerthrowes and distresses There raygned in Persia a certayne Turke named Mirza Geunda who warred wyth Hacembecke whom some doe call Assambey Kyng of the greater Armenia which is of them called Diarbeck béeyng also a Turke aswell as hée in whiche Warres Acembeck gotte the vpperhande and stewe hys enemye Mirza in Battayle and hauyng wonne Persia because hée was but of a base stocke and obscure familie and wythout Kinsmen and Allies hee meant to make and establishe the state of hys Kyngdome the surer by linking in affinylie with some puyssaunt house and thereuppon gaue hys daughter whych he begat vppon hys wife the Emperour of Trapezunte hys daughter who was a Christian in mariage vnto Secaidar After the deathe of Hacembeck succeeded Iacob Beg whyche worde signifyeth a Lorde This Iacob fearinge the great power of his Brother in lawe Secaidar partlye gotten by his new Sect and partlye by his Warres with the Georgians priuely sent ayd to his Enemies and caused him to be slaine But his two sonnes Ismahel and Solyman he committed in charge to one of his famylyer and assured Fréendes to carye and conueyghe a farre of vnto Mansor Deporna Constable of the Citie of Siracia willing and streightlie charging him to kéepe them in sure warde and custodie within the strong Castell of Zalgah which standeth vppon a high and inaccessible Rock till such time as by expresse certificate he should otherwise countremaunde him But Mansor taking remorse and pitie on them for the honor of Ali of whose auncient bloud they were deriued kepte them like Princes and vsed them most honourablie causing them to be trained vp and instructed in learninge with his owne Children And after certaine yéeres falling