Printers mistake in Tyrius where he hath four and twenty years assigned him more then the consent of time will allow Chap. 33. King Almerick his disposition ALmerick brother to King Baldwine Earl of Joppa and Askelon succeeded to the Crown But before his coronation he was enjoyned by the Popes Legate and by the Patriarch of Jerusalem to dis-misse Agnes his wife daughter to Joceline the younger Count of Edessa because she was his cousin in the fourth degree with this reservation that the two children he had by her Baldwine and Sibyll should be accounted legitimate and capable of their fathers possessions A Prince of excellent parts of a most happy memory wherein also his brother Baldwine was eminent though Fulk their father was wonderfully forgetfull so true is the maxime Pure per sonalia non propagantur Parents entail neither their personall defects nor perfections on their posterity solid judgement quick apprehension but of a bad utterance which made him use words onely as a shield when he was urged and pressed to speak otherwise he preferred to be silent and declined popularity more then his brother Baldwine affected it Very thrifty he was and though Tully saith Dici hominem frugi non multum habet laudis in Rege yet moderate frugality is both laudable and necessary in a King But our Almerick went somewhat too farre and was a little poore in admiring of riches laying great taxations on the holy places to their utter impoverishing Yet was he not mastered by his purse but made it his vassall and spared no money on a just occasion He never received accusation against any of his officers and never reckoned with them count it as you please carelessenesse or noble confidence because he would not teach them to be dishonest by suspecting them Nor is it the last and least part of his praise that William Archbishop of Tyre so often mentioned wrote the Holy warre at his instance Once he angred the good Archbishop with this question How the resurrection of the body may be proved by reason Hereat the good Prelate was much displeased as counting it a dangerous question wherewith one removeth a foundation-stone in Divinity though with intent to lay it in the place again But the King presently protested That he demanded it not out of any diffidence in himself about that article but in case one should meet with a sturdy man who as too many now-a-dayes would not trust faith on her single bond except he have reason joyned for security with her Hereupon the Archbishop alledged many strong arguments to prove it and both rested well satisfied Chap. 34. Ecclesiasticall businesse A Sultan of Iconium and the master of the Assasines desired to be christened The Common-wealth of the Assasines described IN the Church of Jerusalem we find Almerick still Patriarch A Frenchman born but little fit for the place to which he was preferred by the favour of Sibyll Countesse of Flanders the Kings sister Mean time the Church needed a Salick law to forbid distaffs to meddle with mitres and neither to be nor to make Patriarchs But the most remarkable Church-matter in this Kings reign was the clandestine christening of a Sultan of Iconium And more of his courtiers might have followed him but that his Embassadours being at Rome were offended there with the vitiousnesse of Christians lives which made them to exclaim How can fresh and salt water flow from the same fountain This hath made many Pagans to step back which had one foot in our Church when they have seen Christians believe so well and live so ill breaking the Commandments against the Creed Not long after the great master of the Assasines was really disposed to receive our religion and to this end sent an Embassadour to King Almerick which Embassadour was treacherously slain by one of the Templars The King demanded this murderer of the master of the Templars that justice might passe upon him But the master proudly answered That he had already enjoyned him penance and had directed to send him to the Pope but stoutly refused to surrender him to the King This cruel murder imbittered the Assasines more desperately against the Christians These Assasines were a precise sect of Mahometans and had in them the very spirits of that poysonous superstition They had some six cities and were about fourty thousand in number living near Antaradus in Syria Over these was a chief master Hell it self cannot subsist without a Beelzebub so much order there is in the place of confusion whom they called The Old man of the mountains At his command they would refuse no pain or perill but stab any Prince whom he appointed out to death scorning not to find hands for his tongue to perform what he enjoyned At this day there are none of them exstant except revived by the Jesuits for sure Ignatius Loyola the lame father of blind obedience fetched his platform hence being all as it seems slain by the Tartarians Anno 1257. But no tears need be shed at their funeralls yea pity it is that any pity should be lavished upon them whose whole government was an engine built against humane society worthy to be fired by all men the body of their State being a very monstrosity and a grievance of mankind Chap. 35. Dargan and Sanar two Egyptian Lords contending about the Sultanie Sanar calleth in the Turks to help him Of the danger of mercenary souldiers yet how well qualified they may be serviceable EGypt was a stage whereon the most remarkable passages in the reign of King Almerick were acted It will be necessary therefore to premise somewhat concerning the estate of that Kingdome at this time Whilest the Turks thus lorded it in Syria and the lesser Asia the Saracen Caliph commanded in Egypt under whom two great Lords Dargan and Sanar fell out about the Sultanie or Vice-royship of that land But Sanar fearing he should be worsted by Dargan sued to Noradine King of the Turks at Damascus for aid who sent him an army of Turks under the command of Syracon an experienced Captain against Sultan Dargan So Dargan and Sanar met and fought The victory was Dargans but he enjoyed it not long being shortly after slain by treachery whereby Sanar recovered the Sultans place Mean time how strange was the voluptuous lethargy of the Caliph Elhadach to pursue his private pleasures whilest his Vice-royes thus fought under his nose and imployed forrein succours yet he never regarded it as if the tottering of his Kingdome had rocked him fast asleep Nor was he moved with that which followed and more nearly concerned him For Syracon the Turkish Captain whom Sanar had gotten to come into Egypt would not be intreated to go home again but seized on the city of Belbis fortified it and there attended the arrivall of more Turks from Damascus for the conquest of Egypt Which afterwards they performed the land being never completely cleared
whereof they gave for their Seal Two men riding on one horse And hence it was that if the Turks took any of them prisoners their constant â—ansome was a Sword and a Belt it being conceived that their poor state could stretch to no higher price But after their order was confirmed by Pope Honorius by the intreaty of Stephen the Patriarch of Jerusalem who appointed them to wear a White garment to which Eugeâ—ius the third added a Red crosse on their breast they grew wonderfully rich by the bounty of severall Patrons Yea the King and Patriarch of Jerusalem 〈◊〉 this infant-order so long in their laps till it brake their knees it grew so heavie at last and these ungratefull Templars did pluck out the feathers of those wings which hatched and brooded them From Alms-men they turned Lords and though very valiant at first for they were sworn rather to dye then to flie afterwards lazinesse withered their arms and swelled their bellies They laughed at the rules of their first Institution as at the swadling-clothes of their infancie neglecting the Patriarch and counting themselves too old to be whipped with the rod of his discipline till partly their vitiousnesse and partly their wealth caused their finall extirpation as God willing shall be shewed hereafter At the same time began the Teutonick order consisting onely of Dutch-men well descended living at Jerusalem in an house which one of that nation bequeathed to his countreymen that came thither on pilgrimage In the yeare 1190 their order was honoured with a great Master whereof the first was Henry a-Walpot and they had an habit assigned them to wear Black Crosses on White robes They were to fight in the defence of Christianity against Pagans But we shall meet with them more largely in the following story Chap. 17. The Christians variety of successe Tyre taken by the assistance of the Venetians IT is worth the Readers marking how this Kings reign was checquered with variety of fortune For first Roger Prince of Antioch or rather guardian in the minority of young Boemund went forth with greater courage then discretion whereunto his successe was answerable being conquered and killed by the Turks But Baldwine on the 14 of August following forced the Turks to a restitution of their victory and with a small army gave them a great overthrow in spite of Gazi their boasting Generall To qualifie the Christians joy for this good successe Joceline unadvisedly fighting with Balak a petty King of the Turks was conquered and taken prisoner and King Baldwine coming to deliver him was also taken himself for which he might thank his own rashnesse For it had been his best work to have done nothing for a while till the Venetian succours which were not farre off had come to him and not presently to adventure all to the hazard of a battel Yet the Christians hands were not bound in the Kings captivity For Eustace Grenier chosen Vice-roy whilest the King was in durance stoutly defended the countrey and Count Joceline which had escaped out of prison fighting again with Balak at Hircapolis routed his army and killed him with his own hands But the main piece of service was the taking of Tyre which was done under the conduct of Guarimund the Patriarch of Jerusalem but chiefly by the help of the Venetian navie which Michael their Duke brought who for their pains were to have a third part of the city to themselves Tyre had in it store of men and munition but famine increasing against whose arrows there is no armour of proof it was yielded on honourable terms And though perhaps hunger shortly would have made the Turks digest courser conditions yet the Christians were loth to anger their enemies valour into desperatenesse Next year the King returned home having been eighteen moneths a prisoner being to pay for his ransome an hundred thousand Michaelets and for security he left his daughter in pawn But he payed the Turks with their own money or which was as good coin with the money of the Saracens vanquishing Borsâ—quin their Captain at Antiochia and not long after he conquered Dordequin another great Commander of them at Damascus To correct the ranknesse of the Christians pride for this good successe Damascus was afterward by them unfortunately besieged Heaven discharged against them thunder-ordinance arrows of lightning small shot of hail whereby they being miserably wasted were forced to depart And this affliction was increased when Boemund the young Prince of Antioch one of great hope and much lamented was defeated and slain Authours impute these mishaps to the Christians pride and relying on their own strength which never is more untrusty then when most trusted True it was God often gave them great victories when they defended themselves in great straits Hereupon they turned their thankfulnesse into presumption grew at last from defending themselves to dare their enemies on disadvantages to their often overthrow for God will not unmake his miracles by making them common And may not this also be counted some cause of their ill successe That they alwayes imputed their victories to the materiall Crosse which was carried before them So that Christ his glory after his ascension suffered again on the Crosse by their superstition Chap. 18. The death of Baldwine the second KIng Baldwine a little before his death renounced the world and took on him a religious habit This was the fashion of many Princes in that age though they did it for divers ends Some thought to make amends for their disordered lives by entring into some holy order at their deaths Others having surfeited of the worlds vanity fasted from it when they could eat no more because of the impotency of their bodies Others being crossed by the world by some misfortune sought to crosse the world again in renouncing of it These like furious gamesters threw up their cards not out of dislike of gaming but of their game and they were rather discontented to live then contented to dye But we must believe that Baldwine did it out of true devotion to ripen himself for heaven because he was piously affected from his youth so that all his life was religiously tuned though it made the sweetest musick in the close He died not long after on the 22 of August in the 13 year of his reign and was buried with his predecessours in the temple of the Sepulchre By Morphe a Grecian Lady his wife he had four daughters whereof Millesent was the eldest the second Alice married to young Boemund Prince of Antioch the third Hodiern wife to Reimund Prince of Tripoli and Mete the youngest Abbesse of Bethanie Chap. 19. Of Fulco the fourth King of Ierusalem FUlco Earl of Tours Main and Anjou coming some three years before on pilgrimage to Jerusalem there took in marriage Millesent the Kings daughter He had assigned to him the city of Tyre and some other princely accommodations for his present
title against home-bred foes had no leisure to make any effectual resistance against forrein enemies Nor did the death of Cutlu-Muses their King any whit prejudicethe Tuâ—kish proceedings for Solyman his sonne succeeded him a Prince no lesse famous for his clemency then his conquests as victory to generous minds is onely an inducement to moderation In this case under the tyranny of the Turks stood Asia the lesse and though there were many Christians in every city yet these being disarmed had no other weapons then those of the Primitive Church tears and prayers But now these Western Pilgrimes arriving there besiege the city of Nice with an army as glorious as ever the sunne beheld This city was equally beholden to nature and art for her strength and was formerly famous for the first generall Council called there by Constantine against Arius wherein were assembled 318. Bishops The Pilgrimes had a Lombard for their engineer the neighbouring wood afforded them materials whereof they made many warlike instruments and hoped speedily to conquer the city But breathed deer are not so quickly caught The Turks within being experienced souldiers defeated their enterprises And here one might have seen art promising her self the victory and suddenly meeting with counter-art which mastered her The lake Ascanius whereon the city stood having an out-let into the sea much advantaged the besieged whereby they fetchâ— victualls from the countrey till at last that passage was locked up by the Grecian fleet Soon after the city was surrendred on composition that the inhabitants lives and goods should be untouched whereat the souldiers who hitherto hoped for the spoyl now seeing themselves spoiled of their hope shewed no small discontentment Solymans wife and young children were taken prisoners and the city according to the agreement was delivered to Tatinus the Grecian Admirall in behalf of Alexius his master From hence the Christians set forward to the vale of Dogorgan when behold Solyman with all his might fell upon them and there followed a cruel battel fought with much courage and variety of successe A cloud of arrows darkned the skie which was quickly dissolved into a showre of bloud The Christians had many disadvantages For their enemies were three to one valour it self may be pressed to death under the weight of multitude The season was unseasonable the scorching of the sunne much annoying these northern people whilest the Turks had bodies of proof against the heat Besides the Christians horses affrighted with the barbarous sounds of the Turkish drummes were altogether unserviceable However they bravely maintained their fight by the speciall valour and wisdome of their leaders amongst whom Boemund and Hugh brother to the King of France deserved high commendations till at last finding themselves overmatched they began to guard their heads with their heels and fairly ran away When in came Robert the Normane in the very opportunity of opportunity Much he encouraged them with his words more with his valour slaying three principall Turks with his own hands This sight so inspired the Christians that coming in on fresh they obtained a most glorious victory Two thousand on their side were slain whereof William the brother of Tancred Godfrey de Mont and Robert of Paris were of speciall note But farre greater was the slaughter of their enemies especially after that Godfrey of Bouillon who had been absent all the battel came in with his army yet they wanted a hammer to drive the victory home to the head having no horses to make the pursuit Solyman flying away burned all as he went and to prop up his credit gave it out that he had gotten the day pleasing himself to be a conquerour in report This great battel was fought July the first though some make it many dayes after Yea so great is the variety of Historians in their dates that every one may seem to have a severall clock of time which they set faster or slower at their own pleasure but as long as they agree in the main we need not be much moved with their petty dissensions Chap. 17. The siege and taking of Antiochia Corboran overcome in fight of Christs spear and of holy fraud FRom hence with invincible industry and patience they bored a passage through valleys up mountains over rivers taking as they went the famous cities Iconium Heraclea Tarsus and conquering all the countrey of Cilicia This good successe much puffed them up God therefore to cure them of the pleurisie of pride did let them bloud with the long and costly siege of Antiochia This city watered by the river Orontes and called Reblath of the Hebrews was built by Seleucus Nicanor and enlarged by Antiochus Compassed it was with a double wall one of square stone the other of brick strengthened with 460 towers and had a castle on the East rather to be admired then assaulted Here the professours of our faith were first named Christians and here S. Peter first sate Bishop whose fair Church was a Patriarchall seat for many hundred years after Before this city the Pilgrimes army incamped and strongly besieged it but the Turks within manfully defending themselves under Auxianus their captain frustrated their hopes of taking it by force The siege grew long and victuals short in the Christians camp and now Peter the Hermite being brought to the touch-stone discovered what base metall he was of ran away with some other of good note and were fetcht back again and bound with a new oath to prosecute the warre At last one within the city though Authours agree neither of his name nor religion some making him a Turk others a Christian Some calling him Pyrrhus some Hemirpherrus others Emipher in the dead of the night betrayed the city to Boemund The Christians issuing in and exasperated with the length of the fiege so remembred what they had suffered that they forgot what they had to do killing promiscuously Christian citizens with Turks Thus passions like heavie bodies down steep hills once in motion move themselves and know no ground but the bottom Antiochia thus taken was offered to Alexius the Emperour but he refused it suspecting some deceit in the tender as bad men measure other mens minds by the crooked rule of their own Hereupon it was bestowed on Boemund though this place dearly purchased was not long quietly possessed For Corboran the Turkish Generall came with a vast army of Persian forces and besieged the Christians in the City so that they were brought into a great strait betwixt death and death hunger within and their foes without Many secretly stole away whereat the rest were no whit discomfited counting the losse of cowards to be gain to an army At last they generally resolved rather to lose their lives by whole-sale on the point of the sword then to retail them out by famine which is the worst of tyrants and murdereth men in state whilest they die in not dying It did not a little
encourage them that they found in the church of S. Peter that lance wherewith our Saviours body was pierced They highly prized this military relique of Christ as if by wounding of him it had got virtue to wound his enemies and counted it a pawn of certain victory Whether this spear was truly found or whether it was but invented to cozen men with we will not dispute However it wrought much with these Pilgrimes for conceit oftentimes doth things above conceit especially when the imagination apprehendeth something founded in religion Marching forth in severall armies they manfully fell upon their enemies and being armed with despair to escape they sought to fell their lives at the dearest rate Valour doth swell when it is crushed betwixt extremities and then oftentimes goeth beyond her self in her atchievements This day by Gods blessing on their courage they got a noble conquest Some saw S. George in the aire with an army of white horses fighting for them but these no doubt did look through the spectacles of fansie And yet though we should reject this apparition we need not play the Origens with the story of S. George and change all the literall sense into an allegory of Christ and his Church for it is improbable that our English nation amongst so many Saints that were would choose one that was not to be their patrone especially seeing the world in that age had rather a glut then famine of Saints And here let me advertise the Reader once for all not to expect that I should set down those many miracles where with Authours who write this warre so lard their stories that it will choke the belief of any discreet man to swallow them As the intent of these writers was pious to gain credit and converts to the Christian faith so the prosecuting of their project must be condemned in thinking to grace the Gospel in reporting such absurd falsities But let us know that heaven hath a pillorie whereon Fraus pia her self shall be punished and rather let us leave religion to her native plainnesse then hang her ears with counterfeit pearls The pride of the Turks being abated in this battel and an 100000 of them being slain the Christians grew mightily insolent and forgot to return to God the honour of the victory Whereupon followed a great mortality and 50000 died in few dayes whether this proceeded from the climate the bodies of Europe not being friends with the aire of Asia till use by degrees reconcileth them or whether it was caused by their intemperance for after long fasting they would not measure their stomachs by the standard of physick and dieting themselves till nature by degrees could digest the meat but by surfeiting digged their graves with their own teeth And now we are come to the skirts and borders of Palestine Wherefore as Heralds use to blazon the field before they meddle with the charge so let us describe the land before we relate the actions done therein If in bowling they must needs throw wide which know not the green or alley whereon they play much more must they misse the truth in story who are unacquainted with that countrey whereon the discourse proceedeth Briefly therefore of the Holy land as not intending to make a large and wide description of so short and narrow a countrey Chap. 18. A Pisgah-sight or short survey of Palestine in generall and how it might maintain 1300000 men PAlestine is bounded on the North with mount Libanus West with the mid-land-sea South with the wildernesse of Paran parting it from Egypt and East with the mountains of Gilead and the river of Arnon To give it the most favourable dimensions From the foot of Libanus to Beersheba North and South may be allowed 210 miles and from Ramoth-gilead to Endor East and West seventy which is the constant breadth of the countrey In which compasse in Davids time were maintained thirteen hundred thousand men besides women children and impotent persons and yet the tribes of Benjamin and Levi were not reckoned True this must needs be for truth hath said it Yet is it wonderfull For though the united Provinces in the Low-countreys maintain as many people in as little a plot of ground yet they feed not on home-bred food but have Poland for their granary the British ocean for their fish-pond High-Germany for their wine-cellar and by the benefit of their harbours unlock the store-houses of all other countreys It fared not thus with the Jews whose own countrey fed them all And yet the seeming impossibility of so many kept in so small a land will be abated if we consider these particulars 1. People in those hot countreys had not so hot appetites for the quantity of the meat eaten nor gluttonous palates for the variety of it 2. The countrey rising and falling into hills and vales gained many acres of ground whereof no notice is taken in a map for therein all things presented are conceived to be in plano And so the land was farre roomthier then the scale of miles doth make it 3. They had pasturage to feed their cattel in in out-countreys beyond Palestine Thus the tribe of Reuben grased their cattel east-ward even to the river Euphrates 4. Lastly the soyl was transcendently fruitfull as appeareth by that great bunch of grapes carried by two men For though many a man hath not been able to bear wine it is much that one should be loaden with one cluster of grapes If any object against the fruitfulnesse of this countrey That there were many wildernesses therein as those of Maon Ziph Carmel Gibeon Judah and these must needs cut large thongs out of so narrow a hide it is answered That these wildernesses took up no great space as probably being no bigger then our least forrests in England As for the greater deserts we must not conceive them to lie wholly waste but that they were but thinly inhabited for we find fix cities with their villages in the wildernesse of Judah Principall commodities of this countrey were 1. Balm which wholly failed not long after our Saviours passion whether because the type was to cease when the truth was come or because that land was unworthy to have so sovereign bodily physick grow in her where the Physician of the soul was put to death 2. Honey and that either distilled by bees those little chymists and the pasture they fed on was never a whit the barer for their biting or else rained down from heaven as that which Jonathan tasted when his sweet meat had like to have had sowre sauce and to have cost him his life Besides these milk oyl nuts almonds dates figs olives So that we may boldly say no countrey had better sauce and better meat having fowl fish in sea lakes and rivers flesh of sheep goats bucks and kine Mines of gold and silver with pearls and precious stones Judea rather had not then wanted either because God
and yet might they be Gods sheep being forced to flee into woods Fourthly likewise they were called Sicars that is Cut-purses Fifthly Fraterculi that is Shifters Sixthly Insabbatae that is Observers of no Sabbath Seventhly Pasagenes that is Wanderers As also Arians Manicheans Adamites how justly will appear afterwards Yea scarce was there an arrow in all the quiver of malice which was not shot at them Chap. 20. The Albingenses their answer confessing some denying most crimes laid to their charge Commendations their adversaries give them COme we now to the full and foul indictment wherewith these Albingenses are charged That they gave no reverence to holy places rejected the baptisme of infants held that temporall power was grounded in grace that it was a meritorious work to persecute the Priests of Rome and their subjects with the Adamites they went naked an affront to nature with the Manicheans they made two first causes God of good the devil of evil held community of all things even of wives amongst them were sorcerers and conjurers pretending to command the devil when they most obeyed him guilty of incest buggery and more unnaturall sins whereby men as it were run backward to hell No whit affrighted with this terrible accusation many late writers dare by their advocates to defend them though confessing them guilty of some of these but not in so high and hainous a manner as they are accused True it is because most of that age ranne riot in adoring of Churches as if some inherent sanctity was seeled to their roof or plaistered to their walls yea such as might more ingratiate with God the persons and prayers of people there assembled the Waldenfes out of that old errour not yet worn out That the best way to straighten what is crooked is to over-bow it denied Churches that relative holinesse and fit reverence due unto them Baptisme of infants they refused not though Saint Bernard taking it rather from the rebound then first rise chargeth them therewith but onely deferred it till it might be administred by one of their own Ministers their tender consciences not digesting the Popish baptisme where clear water by Gods ordinance was by mans additions made a salve or plaister That dominion was founded in grace seemeth to be their very opinion Yea it hangeth as yet in the Schools on the file and is not taken off as a thing disputable finding many favourers But grant it a great errour for wicked men shall be arraigned before God not as usurpers but as tyrants not for not having right but not right using the creatures yet herein they proceeded not so far as the Papists now-a-dayes to unthrone and depose excommunicated Princes So that they who do most have least cause to accuse them That they spoke too homely and coursely of the Romish Priests inveighing too bitterly and uncharitably against them condemning all for some may per chance be proved And no wonder if they speak ill of those from whom they felt ill But take their speeches herein as the words of men upon the rack forced from them by the extremity of cruel usage In these errours the Albingenses hope to find favour if men consider First the ignorance of the age they lived in It is no news to stumble in the dark Secondly the frailty that squire of the body attending on mans nature yea he shall be immortall who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault Thirdly the errours themselves which are rather in the out-limbs then vitalls of religion And it may be conceived they might have been reclaimed if used with gentle means not catechised with fire and fagot it being a true rule That mens consciences are more moved with leading then dragging or drawing But the sting of the indictment is still behind in the tail or end thereof charging them with such hainous errours in doctrine and vices in life All which the patrones for the defendants deny and defie as coined out of the mint of their enemies malice It will be objected If denying the fact might serve the turn we should have no male factours This therefore is but a poore plea barely to deny when that such clouds of witnesses are against them And grant they have a few stragling writers or some sleeping records which may seem to acquit them what are one or two men though suppose them giants against a whole army To this I find it answered for the Albingenses That it hath been the constant practice of the Romish writers alwayes to defame those that differ from them especially if they handle too roughly the Noli me tangere of the Popes supremacy In later times what aspersions as false as foul have Cochleus and Bolsecus laid on Luther and Calvine Now how fearlesse will they be â—osteal at midnight who dare thus rob men of their good name at noon-day When such Authours as these lie with a witnesse yea with many witnesses who could disprove them no wonder if they take liberty falsely to accuse the Albingenses conceiving themselves out of the reach of confutation writing in such an age when all the Counsel is on their own side being plaintiffs and none assigned for the defendants Secondly I find they produce the authenticall copies such as are above their enemies calumnies of the Catechismes Apologies Remonstrances of these Albingenses wherein the distilled doctrine of the Protestants is delivered free from Manicheisme or any other heresie fathered upon them Thirdly their enemies slanders plainly appear in some particulars which justly shaketh the credit of the whole accusation For whereas they are charged with the Adamites willingly to haue gone naked we find them rather nudati then nudi forced thereunto by the Popes Legate Who being about to take the city of Carcassone in France where these people most swarmed he would not grant them their lives but on this condition That both males and females should go forth and passe by his army stark-naked Argued it not a very foul stomach in him who could feed his eies with contentment on such a sight which otherwise would more deeply have wounded the modesty of the beholder then of the doers who did it by compulsion See now how justly these innocents are charged As well may the Israelites be blamed for cruelty to themselves in putting out their own eies when they were commanded to do it by the merciless Ammonite Lastly they are cleared by the testimonies of their very enemies and who knoweth not but such a witnesse is equivalent to a generall consent For those who when bemadded with anger most rave and rage against them yet per lucida intervalla in their cold bloud when their words are indicted from their judgements not passions do most sufficiently acquit them from these accusations Reinerius a Jacobine Monk and a cruel inquisitour of the Waldenses testified That they lived justly before men and believed all things well of God and held all the
not be content with their arms full they might perchance return with their hands empty But the Legate would no wayes consent alledging this voyage was undertaken not onely for the recovery of Palestine but for the exstirpation of the Mahometane superstition And herein no doubt he followed the instructions of his master whose end in this warre was That this warre should have no end but be alwayes in doing though never done He knew it was dangerous to stop an issue which had been long open and would in no case close up this vent of people by concluding a finall peace Besides an old prophesie â— That a Spaniard should win Jerusalem and work wonders in those parts made Pelagius that countrey-man more zealous herein Coradine angry his profer was refused beat down the walls of Jerusalem and all the beautiful buildings therein save the tower of David and the temple of the Sepulchre Not long after Damiata having been besieged one year and seven moneths was taken without resistance a plague and famine had made such a vastation therein The Christians entred with an intent to kill all but their anger soon melted into pity beholding the city all bestrawed with corpses The sight was bad and the sent was worse for the dead killed the living Yea Gods sword had left their sword no work Of â— three-score and ten thousand but three thousand remained who had their lives pardoned on condition to cleanse the city which imployed them a quarter of a year Hence the Christians marched and took the city of Tanis and soon after the Pope substituted â— John de Columna a Cardinall Legate in the place of Pelagius Chap. 26. New discords betwixt the King and the Legate They march up to besiege Cairo GReat was the spoil they found in Damiata wherein as in strong barred chests the merchants of Egypt and India had locked up their treasure A full yeare the Christians stayed here contented to make this Inne their home Here arose new discords betwixt the King and the new Legate who by virtue of his Legation challenged Damiata for his Holinesse which by publik agreement was formerly assigned to the King Bren in anger returned to Ptolemais both to puff out his discontents in private and to teach the Christians his worth by wanting him For presently they found themselves at a losse neither could they stand still without disgrace nor go on without danger The Legate commanded them to march up but they had too much spirit to be ruled by a Spirituall man and swore not to stirâ—e a step except the King was with them Messengers therefore were sent to Ptolemais to fetch him They found him of a steelie nature once through hot long in cooling yet by promising him he should have his own desires they over-perswaded him not to strave an armie by feeding his own humours Scarce after eight moneths absence was he returned to Damiata but new divisions were betwixt them the Legate perswaded the armie to march up and besiege Cairo he promised if they would obey him they should quickly command all Egypt by present invading it Let defenders lie at a close game and offer no play Delayes are a safe shield to save but celerity the best I word to winne a countrey Thus Alexander conquered the world before it could bethink it self to make resistance And thus God now opened them a doore of victorie except they would barre it up with their own idlenesse But the King advised to return into Syria That Cairo was difficult to take and impossible to keep That the ground whereon they went was as treacherous as the people against whom they fought That better now to retire with honour then hereafter flie with shame That none but an empirick in warre will deny but that more true valour is in an orderly well grounded retreat then in a furious rash invasion But the Legate used an inartificiall argument drawn from the authority of his place thundering excommunication against those that would not march forward And now needs must they go when he driveth them The crafty Egyptians of whom it is true what is said of the Parthians Their flight is more to be feared then their fight ran away counterfeiting cowardlinesse The Christians triumphed hereat as if the silly fish should rejoyce that he had caught the fisherman when he had swallowed his bait The Legate hugged himself in his own happinesse that he had given so successefull advice And now see how the garland of their victory proved the halter to strangle them Chap. 27. The miserable case of the drowned Christians in Egypt Damiata surrendred in ransome of their lives EGypt is a low level countrey except some few advantages which the Egyptians had fortified for themselves Through the midst of the land ran the river Nilus whose stream they had so bridled with banks and sluces that they could keep it to be their own servant and make it their enemies master at pleasure The Christians confidently marched on and the Turks perceiving the game was come within the toil pierced their banks and unmuzzling the river let it runne open mouth upon them yet so that at first they drowned them up but to the middle reserving their lives for a further purpose thereby in exchange to recover Damiata and their countreys liberty See here the land of Egypt turned in an instant into the Egyptian sea See an army of sixty thousand as the neck of one man stretched on the block and waiting the fatall stroke Many cursed the Legate and their own rashnesse that they should follow the counsel of a gowned man all whose experience was clasped in a book rather then the advice of experienced captains But too late repentance because it soweth not in season reapeth nothing but unavoidable miserie Meladine King of Egypt seeing the constancy and patience of the Christians was moved with compassion towards them He had of himself strong inclinations to Christianity wearie of Mahometanisme and willing to break that prison but for watchfull jaylers about him He proferred the Christians their lives on condition they would quit the countrey and restore Damiata They accepted the conditions and sent messengers to Damiata to prepare them for the surrendring of it But they within the citie being themselves safe on shore tyrannized on their poore brethren in shipwrack pretending That this armie of Pilgrimes deserved no pity who had invited this misfortune on themselves by their own rashnesse That if they yielded up this citie for nothing which cost so many lives they should betray themselves to the derision of the whole world That if these perished more men might be had but no more Damiata's being a place of such importance it would alwayes be a snaffle in the mouth of the Egyptian King On the other side the friends of the distressed Christians confessed That indeed their voyage was unadvised and justly to be blamed yet worse and more inconsiderate projects have armies oft
torment then generous spirits who are for the enduring of honourable danger and speedie death but not provided for torment which they are not acquainted with neither is it the proper object of valour Again it is produced in their behalf that being burned at the stake they denied it at their death though formerly they had confessed it and whose charitie if not stark-blind will not be so tender-eyed as to believe that they would not breath out their soul with a lie and wilfully contract a new guilt in that very instant wherein they were to be arraigned before the Judge of heaven A Templar being to be burned at Burdeaux and seeing the Pope and King Philip looking out at a window cried unto them Clement thou cruell Tyrant seeing there is no higher amongst mortall men to whom I should appeal for my unjust death I cite thee together with King Philip to the tribunall of Christ the just Judge who redeemed me there both to appear within one yeare and a day where I will lay open my cause and justice shall be done without any by-respect In like manner James grand Master of the Templars though by piece-meal he was tortured to death craved pardon of God and those of his Order that forced by extremitie of pain on the rack and allured with hope of life he had accused them of such damnable sinnes whereof they were innocent Moreover the people with their suffrage acquitted them happie was he that could get an handfull of their ashes into his bosome as the Relique of pious martyrs to preserve Indeed little heed is to be given to peoples humours whose judgement is nothing but prejudice and passion and commonly envie all in prosperitie pitie all in adversitie though often both undeservedly And we may believe that the beholding of the Templars torments when they were burned wrought in the people first a commiserating of their persons and so by degrees a justifying of their cause However vulgus non semper errat aliquando elìgit and though it matters little for the gales of a private mans fancie yet it is something when the wind bloweth from all corners And true it is they were generally cryed up for innocents Lastly Pope Clement and King Philip were within the time prefixed summoned by death to answer to God for what they had done And though it is bad to be busie with Gods secrets yet an argment drawn from the event especially when it goeth in company with others as it is not much to be depended on so it is not wholly to be neglected Besides King Philip missed of his expectation and the morsell fell besides his mouth for the lands of the Templars which were first granted to him as a portion for his youngest sonne were afterwards by the Council of Vienne bestowed on the Knights-Hospitallers Chap. 3. A moderate way what is to be conceived of the suppression of the Templars BEtwixt the two extremities of those that count these Templars either Malefactours or Martyrs some find a middle way whose verdict we will parcell into these severall particulars 1. No doubt there were many novices and punies amongst them newly admitted into their Order which if at all were little guiltie for none can be fledge in wickednesse at their first hatching To these much mercy belonged The punishing of others might have been an admonition to them and crueltie it was where there were degrees of offenses to inflict the same punishment and to put all of them to death 2. Surely many of them were most hainous offenders Not to speak what they deserved from God who needeth not pick a quarrel with man but alwayes hath a just controversie with him they are accounted notorious transgressours of humane laws yet perchance if the same candle had been lighted to search as much dust and dirt might have been found in other Orders 3. They are conceived in generall to be guiltlesse and innocent from those damnable sinnes wherewith they were charged Which hainous offenses were laid against them either because men out of modestie and holy horrour should be ashamed and afraid to dive deep in searching the ground-work and bottome of these accusations but rather take them to be true on the credit of the accusers or that the world might the more easily be induced to believe the crimes objected to be true as conceiving otherwise none would be so devilish as to lay such devilish offenses to their charge or lastly if the crimes were not believed in the totall summe yet if credited in some competent portion the least particular should be enough to do the deed and to make them odious in the world 4. The chief cause of their ruine was their extraordinary wealth They were feared of many envied of more loved of none As Naboths vineyard was the chiefest ground for his blasphemie and as in England Sr John Cornwall Lord Fanhop said merrily That not he but his stately house at Ampthill in Bedford-shire was guiltie of high treason so certainly their welath was the principall evidence against them and cause of their overthrow It is quarrell and cause enough to bring a sheep that is fat to the shambles We may believe King Philip would never have tooke away their lives if he might have took their lands without putting them to death but the mischief was he could not get the hony unlesse he burnt the bees Some will say The Hospitallers had great yea greater revenues nineteen thousand Mannors to the Templars nine thousand yet none envied their wealth It is true but then they busied themselves in defending of Christendome maintaining the Island of Rhodes against the Turks as the Teutonick order defended Pruss-land against the Tartarian the world therefore never grudged them great wages who did good work These were accounted necessary members of Christendome the Templars esteemed but a superfluous wenne they lay at rack and manger and did nothing who had they betook themselves to any honourable employment to take the Turks to task either in Europe or Asia their happinesse had been lesse repined at and their overthrow more lamented And certain it is that this their idlenesse disposed them for other vices as standing waters are most subject to putrifie I heare one bird sing a different note from all the rest in the wood namely that what specious shews soever were pretended the true cause of their ruine was that they began to desert the Pope and adhere to the Emperour If this was true no doubt they were deeply guiltie and deserved the hard measure they suffered Sure I am how-ever at this time they might turn edge they had formerly been true blades for his Holinesse All Europe followed the copie that France had set them Here in England King Edward the second of that name suppressed the Order and put them to death So by vertue of a writ sent from him to Sir John Wogan Lord chief Justice in Ireland were they served
Iune 29. †Nicetas Choniates in fiâ—e vitae Andronici †In the first chapter of this book †Nicetas Choniates in Isaaciâ— lib. 2. pag. 436. †Baronius Annal. Aug. 25. 1190 Mar. 28. May 19. †Amilius in Phil. Augusto pag. 178 179. †Barklay Bellum in Anglia non senescit †Lib. 4. cap. 13. Iune 21. †Aemylius in Phil. 2. pag. 175. 1188 †Fuga imaginario metu oâ—ta Sabell Enn. 9. lâ—b 5. pag. 377. †Munster dâ— Germania lib. 3. pag. 778. †Matthew Paris Rich. 1. pag. 207. †Martinus in Richardâ— 1. †Speed in Richard the first †Matthew Paris â—n â—ichardo 1 pag. 2â—7 †Roger Hoveden in Richardâ— 1 pag. 666. †Idem ibidem †Hâ—vedeâ— iâ— Rich. 1. pag. 668. Matth. Tarisâ—n eodem pag. 213. †BractoÌ„n lib. 2. cap. 5. †Quietum clamavit Wreck c. Roger Hoveden in Rich. 1. pag. 678. †Sir Ed. Coke vâ—l 6. fol. 107 1191 †Chemnitius ex Weselo Exam. â—onc Trid. tract De Indulg †Pantal. De illustribus Germaniae part 2. pag. 201. Iune 8. †Matth. Paris in anno 1191. Iuly 13. †Roger Hoveden in Rich. 1. p. 696. †Fox Martyrol pag. 245 †Hoveden in Rich. 1. pag. 694. †P. Aemilius in Philippâ— Augustâ— p. 174. But Matthew Paris saith but 26 â— Iuly 31. †Matthew Paris p. 220. †Speed out of Hoveden in Rich. 1. †Matth. Paris in Richardâ— 1. p. 219. Apr. 27. * Roger Hoveden in Rich. 1. p. 716. saith on the Calends of May but Sabellicus putteth it sooner †Aemylius in Phil. Augusto p. 179. †Reger Hoveden in Rich. 1. p. 685. 1192 Sept. Calvisius †Sabell Enn. 9. lib. 5. pag. 378. †P. Aemyl in Phil. Augusto p. 180. †P. Aemyl ibidem †Matth. Paris in Rich. 1. p 216. †P. Aemyl pag. 181. Excepto hoc annulo nudus inâ—psque * P. Aemyl p. 181. Tanto duorum regum conatu nihil actum †Daniel p. 100. †Matth. Paris in Rich. 1. p. 222. †In lib. De oper Mon. â— 28. †Bellarm. De Reliq cap. 4. †Annal. Eccl. in anno 226. Octo. 8. Dec. 20. Dec. 20. †Matth. Paris in Rich. 1. †Lindwood lib. 1. De summâ— Tri. fol. 6. †Eulogium â— Chronicle cited by Fox Martyrol in Rich. 1. †Epist. 57. †Speed in Rich 1. 1193 Febr. 16. †Sabell Enn. 9. lib. 5. p. 378 †Ioan Euchaitâ—nsis jampridem Eâ—oniae Graecâ— editus †Sabell Enn. 9. l. 5. p. 378 1194 1196 †Continuator Ursp. in anno 1196. Et M. Paris in codem 1197 * â—rsp Chron. in anno 1197. pag. 304. * Vrsp. ut prius * Baron Annal Eccl. iâ— anno 1197. * Pantal. De vi illustr Germ. in vitâ— S. Martini * Knolls Turk Hist. pag. 74. * Magdeburgenses Cent. 12. cap. 1â— sub finem 1198 * Knolls ut priâ—s 1199 1202 * Nicetas * Blondus l. 6. Decad. 2. p. 270. 1203 Iuly 17. 1204 Apr. 21. * In libello cuâ—titulus Status Constantinopolis Sect. 1. p 637. * Servorum hic diâ—s est Lips lib. 1. Satur. cap. 2. Apr. 24. crowned May 16. 1206 * Io. Paul Perin De Albing lib. 1. cap. 1. * Dr. Field of the Church lib. 3. cap. 8. We acknowledge them viz. Wickliff Husse Hierome of Prague c. to have been the woâ—â—y servants of God and holy Martyrs Confessours suffering in the cause of Christ against Antichrist yet do we not think that the Church of God was found onely in them * Dr. White in his Reply to Fisher pag. 104. 105. The Waldenses maintained the same doctrine in substance with the modern Protestants * Matth. Paris in Hen. 3. in anno 12 13. * Io. Paul Perin Hist. Waldens l. 1. c. 3. * Reinerius fol. 22. art 32. * Claudius Rubis History of Lyons pag. 269. * In his 66. â—â—omily on the Canticles * Bishop Iewcl Apol. part 1. chap. 2. divis 1 Waldo and the rest for ought we know and I believe setting mâ—lice aside for ought you know were godly men Their greatest errour was that they complained of the dissolute and viâ—â—ous lives of the Clergy * In vita Lutheri * In vita Calvini * Solidly confuted by D. Whitaker De notis Ecclisiae cap. 15. Out of Melanâ—hthon Sleidan Gryneus Beza eye-witnesses †So witnesseth Peter De valle Sarnensi being himself a Monk and lately printed anno 1615 in Paris See Rivet On Genesis pag. 138. †Cited by Fox in his Martyrâ—l p. 232. †Thuanus tom 2. lib. 27. pag. 15. †Idem tom 10. lib. 6. pag. 188. †Tom. 2. lib. 27. pag. 16. †Acts 5. 38 39. †In his preface to his Retractat * Io. Paul Periâ— De Albing lib. 1. cap. 2. See the substance of this following story in Io. Paul Perin lib. 1. cap. 6. deinâ—eps 1210 1212 1118 * See Cambd. in Lâ—icester-shire * Also in Worcester-shire * Periâ— Of the Albingen ses lib. 2. c. 4. * Martyrol in vita Dominici * Psal. 9. 12. * Of Chilperick King of France * A fish called Aurata or Aurella 1209 * Theod. à Niein De privileg imper cap. De Expedit Hicrosol 1213 * Matth. Paris in anno 1213 pag. 324. Prâ—iâ—igio diabolico penitus infatuati 1215 * Centuriâ—t Cent. 13. cap. 9. 1216 Nov. 1217 1218 Iuly 9. * Matth. Paris in Ioan. pag. 401. * Munster * Illis tamen deliciis carere maluâ—ssent Matth. Paris pag. 405. Aug. 24. 1219 Febr. * P. Aemyl pag. 201. * Magdeburg Cent 13. cap. 16. col 692. Nov. 5. * P. Aemil. pag. 203. * Magdeburg pag. 693. 1220 * P. Aemyl pag. 205. * P. Aemyl in Phil. 2. pag. 205. * Matth. Paris pag. 617. * Blondus Fazellus c. for the Pope Ursperg Petrus de Vineis till corrupted with bribes c. for the Emperour Matth. Paris a moderate man whom we follow most 1227 * Pantal. De viris illustr Germ. part â— pag. 121. * Praetet gentis morem Egnatius Mar. 19. Sept. 13. 1228 Aug. 11. * Centuriat * Centuriat * Matth. Paris in anno 1229. pag. 480. 1229 * Matth. Paris in anno 1229. pag. 479. * Idem ibidem Anno Dom. 1229 * Sr Iohn Harington 1232 * Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 16. †See Mercators Maps * See Brierwoods Enquiries chap. 13. * Sabâ—ll Enn. 9. lib. 6. pag. 391 †Vide Eras. Adag in Noctua volat * Magdâ—burg Cent. 13. cap. 2. Sed ex Vincâ—nt lib. 31. cap. 51. 1203. 1205. 1216. 1221. 1238. 1237 * Matth. Paris in anno 1237. pag. 622. * Matth. Paris in anno 1â—37 pag. 622. * Idem pag. 614. Sr Edw. Sâ—nd Relig. of the West pag. 233. 234. * Bonavent 1. Sent. dist 11. art 1. quest 1. Scotus 1. Sent. dist 1. quaest 1. Th. Aquin. part 1. quaest 36. art 2. * In his third book Of the Church chap. 5 *
Estius dist 12. §. 2. * Possevin in Apparatu sacro Rutheni See Brierwoods Enquiries chap. 18. * Sr Edw. Sand. West Relig. pag. 100. * Idem pag. 242. 1238 * Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 16. Decennales inducias nuper denu ò confirm ârat * Iidem ibidem 1239 * Matth. Paris pag. 670. 1240 Oct. 11. * Cambden in Cornwall * Matth. Paris in Heâ— 3. pag. 719. * Idem pag. 729. * Called anciently Arabia Petraea Tyrius lib. 21. cap. 5. 1241 * Matth. Paris pag. 765. * Cambden in Cornwall Matth. Paris pag. 851. 1244 * Matth. Paris pag. 835. * In his letter to Richard of Cornwall * Caes. lib. 3. De bello Gallico * Graft in Riâ—h 3. fol. 102. †Matth. Paris pag. 834. * Matth. Paris pag. 475. * Except any make them to be Chorasmii a people placed by Athâ—naeus in the East of Parthia 1245 * Matth. Paris pag. 880. Et P. Aemyl in D. Ludov. pag. 214. * Fox Martyrolog pag 293. * Camden in Wiltshire 1246 * Matth. Paris in anno 1246. pag. 943. Fox Matyrolog pag. 292. * Matth. Paris pag. 995. 1248 Aug. 25. Sept. 20. * P. Aemyl in Ludâ—v 9. pag. 2â—5 * P. Aemyl ut priús 1249 * P. Aemyl pag. 216. * Knolls Turk hist. pag. 102. Iune 4. * P. Aemyl pag. 216. 5. 9. * Matth. Paris pag. 1047. Knolls Turk Hist. 1250 Matth. Paris pag. 1049. * Matth. Paris pag. 1060. * Erimus credo hodie ubi non audebis caudam equi mei attingere Idem ibid. Apr. 5. * Quos Martyres credimus esse manifestos Matth. Paris pag. 1059. * Ut priús * Matth. Paris pag. 1051. * Du Serres in the life of Lewis the 9. * Matth. Paris pag. 1091. * Matth. Paris pag. 1091. * S â— Tristram a Knight long before See Carew in Cornwall fol. 61. * Book 2. chap. 40. * Knolls Turk Hist. pag. 107. * Bzovius anno 1250. § 14. * Falsum ex ejus temporis hominum testimonio eâ—â—e convinciâ—ur Pantal. in Fred. 2â— Dec. 13. As others 26. * Others say a falconers or a physicians See Munster De Italia lib. 2. pag. 235. Gathered out of Lampad Mellif hist. part 3. pag. 306. * Calvisius anno 1285. ex Spang Et Pantal. in Rodulpho Caesare 1251 * Matth. Paris pag. 1094. * Magdeburg Gem. 13. cap. 16. col 698. 1253 Apr. 25. Marinus Sanutus Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 16. col 699. 1254 * Calvisius ex Hist. Pol. in anno 1259. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. thanasius 1255 * Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 2. pag. 5. * So Knolls Turk Hist. pag. 112. The Magdeburgenses say lesse Semestri spatio Cent. 13. cap. 16. col 699. 1256 * Magdeburg Knolls ut prius 1258 * Calvisius in anno 1158. ex Bizarâ— 1260 * So saith Blondus Decad 2. lib. 8. pag. 308. But if we consult with Tyrius lib. 10. cap. 28. the Genoans and not the Venetians wonne Ptolemais * Lâ—co priùs citato * Platina in Urban iv 1265 * Besoldus De reg Sicil. pag. 645. 649. * See these conditions at large five and twenty in number out of Io. Anton. Summâ—nt cited in Besoldus pag. 647. * Platina in Clem. iv Neve Imperium Romanum etiam ultrò oblatum acciperet * Calvifius in anno 1269. ex Marino Sanuto 1269 Sept. 27. 1261 * Calvisius ex Marino Sanuto in anno 1260. 1262 * Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 16. col 699. 1268 * Harding chap. 147. * Vincents Discoveries of Brooks errours Tit. Lancaster 1270 1270 * Sr. Walter Ralegh hist. part 1. lib. 5. cap. 3. * Alfâ—nso Villeg in the life of S. Lewis * Continuat Matth. Paris in anno 1273. 1271 1271 * Continuas Matth. Paris in anno 1272 pag. 1345. 1272 * Speed in Edward the first * See Fox Martyrolog pag. 337. * P. Aemyl in D. Ludovico pag. 227. * Continuat Matth. Paris in anno 1272. pag. 1347. * Sr. Robert Cotton in his Henry iii. * Marinus Sanutus 1273 * Pantal. De illustr Germ. part 2. in vita Rodulphi 1275 * Pantal. De illustr Germ. part 2. pag. 245. 1282 1284 * Vide Calvisium in anno 1227. Magdeburg Cent. 13. * Magdeburg Cent. 13. cap. 16. Col. 701. 1285 1289 1290 1291 * Lampad Mellif bist part 3. pag. 313. * Sand. Trav. pag. 204. * Lampad pag. 312. * Sand. Trav. pag. 204. Anno Dom. 1310 * Sabellicus Enn. 9. lib. 7. Platina in vita Clem. V. 1310 * Hospin de orig Mon. cap. 18. fol. 193. * P. Aemylim in Philippo Pulchro 1301 1310 * Urspergens Paralip fol. 368. Antonius tit 21. cap. 1. §. 3â— * Camdens Brit. in Bedfordshire * Jacob. Stephanus De jurisdictione lib. 4. cap. 10. §. 18. 1311 * Hospin De orig Mon. cap. 18. fol. 193. * Hicronima Romano De la republica Christ. lib. 7. cap. 6. Et Pero Mexya De la silva de varia lettion lib. 2. cap. 5. * Hospin De orig Mon. cap. 17. fol. 190. * Acts 28. 4. * Mr. Gr. Gibs of S. Perrot Dorset * Cassanaem part 9. considerat 4. * Statut. in 27â— Henr. viii * Parlam Anno 320. Henr. viii * Weaver Mon. pag. 114. 1540 May 7 ' * Idem pag. 430. stow * Parlam Anno 2â— 3â— Phil. Mariae * Chap. 9. and 10. * Froissard lib. 4. cap. 18 19. * Monstrell lib. 3. cap. 68. * Epist. seu Orat. de iis qui adeunt Hierosol Edit Gr. Lat. Parisils 1615. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * M. Paris in anno 1099. * Idem * M. Paris * Roger Hoveden in anno 1187. * Nauclcrus Gen. 42. * Chron. Pruten * Spondanus in anno 1291. * Miraeula si piâ—a utilitate aut necessitate careant de facto suspecta sunt rejicienda Gerson Psal. 15. * M. Paris pag. 1047. Huic pacis formae ex Papae mandato rebellis erat Legatus frontosè contradicens c. * Dist. 40. can Si â—apa suae fraternae salutis negligens * Book 2. chap. 9 27. * Lib. 3â— * M. Paris pag. 197. * Totum vulgus tam casti quà m incesti adulteri homicidae perjuri praedones Albertus Aqueusis Chron. Hierosol lib. 1. cap. 2. Besoldus pag. 101. ex Brochardo Malefactor deprehensus homicida latro fur incestuosus adulter fornicator timet à judice condignam poenam transfretat in terram Sanctam * Especially in the end of King Almericks life * Tyrius lib. 19. cap. 11. * Annal. Ecclesiast in anno 1100 1104. * Malmesb. lib. 4. pag. 133. Sexagies surely a mistake for sexies centum millia * Lamp Mellific hist. pag. 313. 1095 Tyrius lib. 9. cap. 12. 1099 Ursperg in Chron. pag. 239. * P. Aemyl in Phil. Aug. pag. 175. * Knolls Turk hist. pag. 106. * Magdeburg Cent. 13. col 606. * Fox in Martyrol in Hen. 3. pag. 337. * Vide M. Solden on Polyelbion pag. 150. * SaÌ„ndy Travels pag. 229. Tyrius lib. 10 cap. 28. lib. 12. cap. 25. 1147 * Munst. Cosmog in Polon * 1. Sam. 30. 24. * Vide Calvisium in anno 1145. Io. Magnum Hist. Goth. lib. 19. cap. 10. * Baroniâ—s in anno 1189. * Lib. cap. â—3 * Buchan in Guilielmo Senjore * Hect. Boeth Third book of Majest cap. 18. Lambert Peramb Kent * w. Malms lib. 4. pag. 133. * Cambden in Pembr 1147 * Pantal. De illustr Germ. part 2. pag. 201. * Hospin De orig Mon. cap. 17. fol. 190. * Camden in his descript of Cludisdale * Zuerius Boxborn his Apologie for the Holland shipping * Guill in his Heraldrie * Burton in Leicestershire * Hospin De orig Monin Ioan. * Dr. Ridly View of the Civil law § 5. pag. 100. * Lord Verulam in his Henry vii pag. 87. * Luke 2. 26. * L. Verulam in Henry vii * Buchanan in the life of Iames iiii * Camdens Remains * Centuriatores pag. totius operis penult 1298 * Psal. 122. 3. * Bydulph pag. 117. * Sandys Travels pag. 158. * Carew in his survey of Cornwall pag. 118. * Bydulph pag. 119. * Camdens Elisabeth in anno 2 96. * Deterra Sancta part 2. cap. 1. * Acts 16. 9. * Matth. 1. 16. * Sabcllicus Ennead 9. lib. 5. pag. 378. * In his Proeme fol. 5. * Institut lib. 1. tit 8. §. 1. * Knolls Hist. Turk pag. 123. * Sr. Edwin Sandys View of the West world pag. 137. * Centur iatores Cent. 13. cap. 16. col 692. * Heylin Microcos in Palestine * Knolls in his descrip of the greatnesse of the Turkish Empire * Knolls * Anno 1131. Helvicus giveth Baldwine the second sixteen yeares but herein he is deceived as also in allowing King Fulk but eight We according to the consent of the best Authours have given the former thirteen the latter ten * 1156. This catalogue of the Masters of the Hospitallers I find in Hospinian De origine Monachatûs It seemeth strange this Nestor Rodulphus should govern his Order 54 yeares yet it appeareth to be so if we compare Tyrius lib. 14. cap. 6. * That Antioch was betrayed by a Patriarch is plain by Sabellicus but whether Almericus was this traytour-Patriarch or whether it was done by the Grecian Antipatriarch is uncertain Here we cease that columne as despairing to continue their succession any longer *** 1192. Here is a subject for industrie to deserve well in filling up the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Masters of the Templars from the death of Geraâ—d till the yeare 1215 whose names we cannot find ** 1193 Hitherto the succession of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem is accurately collected out of Tyrius The Order of those which follow is not so authentick being catcht as we might out of severall Authours * 1230. Severall Authours assigne severall dates wherein the Dutch Knights came into Prussia Perchance they came in severall parcels Their succession I had out of Pantaleon Munster and the Centurists Quaere whether these Masters of the Dutch Knights in Prussia had also command over those of their Order in Syria * 1245 Here we are at another losse for the names of the Templars and will be thankfull to those which will help us to them * For in the ninth yeare of his reigne he winneth the city of Jerusalem and restoreth it to the Eastern Christians who soon after lose it to the Sultan of Egypt
you be but bare continuers of your Honour you deceive both the desires and hopes of your friends Good is not good when proceeding from them from whom farre better is expected Your youthfull vertues are so promising that you cannot come off in your riper age with credit without performing what may redound to the advancing of the honour of your family and without building your houses one storie higher in the English Historie Now know next Religion there is nothing accomplisheth a man more then Learning Learning in a Lord is as a diamond in gold And if you fear to hurt your tender hands with thornie School-questions there is no danger in meddling with History which is a velvet-study recreation-work VVhat a pitie is it to see a proper Gentleman to have such a crick in his neck that he cannot look backward yet no better is he who cannot see behind him the actions which long since were performed History maketh a yong man to be old without either wrinkles or gray hairs priviledging him with the experience of age without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof Yea it not onely maketh things past present but inableth one to make a rationall conjecture of things to come For this world affordeth no new accidents but in the same sense wherein we call it a new Moon which is the old one in another shape and yet no other then what had been formerly Old actions return again furbished over with some new and different circumstances Now amongst all particular histories I may say none is more generall then this of the Holy warre which now I present to your Honours Some will condemn me for an ill husband in lavishing two Noble Patrones in one book whereas one of them might have served to have patronized many volumes But first I did it in the weak expression of my thankfulness unto you being deeply indebted to you both and I thought it dishonestie to pay all to one creditour and none to another and therefore conceived it best to share my estate joyntly betwixt you as farre forth as it would extend Secondly considering the weaknesse of this VVork now being to walk abroad in the world I thought it must be led by both arms and needed a double supporter And now I am sure this Holy warre which was unhappie heretofore when acted will be happie hereafter now written and related because dedicated to your Honours So resteth Broad-windsor March 6. 1639. Your Honours in all service THO. FULLER To the Reader IN this work I can challenge nothing to my self but the composing of it The materialls were found to my hand which if any Historian will make let him not be commended forwit but shamed for falshood If every where I have not charged the margin with the Authours names it is either because the storie is authour for itself I mean generally received or to avoyd the often citing of the same place Where I could not go abroad myself there I have taken air at the window and have cited Authours on others citations yet so that the stream may direct to the fountain If the Reader may reap in few houres what cost me more moneths just cause have I to rejoyce and he I hope none to complain Thus may the faults of this book redound to my self the profit to others the glory to God To his worthily dear friend THOMAS FVLLER B. D. upon his excellent work the HOLY WARRE PEace is thy Calling friend thy Title Warre What doth thy Title with thy Calling jarre The Holy warre this makes the wonder cease An holy warre becomes a man of peace Tasso be silent my friend speaks his Storie Hath robb'd thy poeme of its long liv'd glorie So rich his vein his lines of so high state Thou canst not feigne so well as he relate Godfrey first entred on this warre to free His Saviours Tombe from Turks captivitie And too too meanly of himself he deems If thus he his Redeemer not redeems A glorious end â—sppanâ— did he fear to 〈◊〉 In losing life to gain Christs Sepâ—lchre But I dare say were Godfrey now alive Godfrey who by thy penne must needs survive He would again act o're his noble toil Doing such deeds as should the former foil If for no other reason yet to be Deliver'd unto time and fame by thee Nor would he fear in such exploits to bleed Then to regain a Tombe now not to need ROBERT GOMERSALL Vicar of Thorncombe in Devon OF this our Authours book I 'll say but this For that is praise ample enough 'T is his Nor all the Muses Nor Apollo's layes Can sing his worth be his own lines his bayes ROBERT TYRLING On Mr FULLERS Historie of the HOLY WARRE THen Christians rest secure ye need not band Henceforth in Holy leagues for th' Holy land To conquer and recover 't from the Turk 'T is done already FVLLERS learned work And penne more honour to the cause doth bring Then did great Godfrey or our Lion-King Ierusalem with darknesse long beset Captiv'd to time more then to Mahomet Inthrall'd to silence and oblivion A bondage worse then that of Babylon Is now redeem'd Lo by this sacred Story How she revives into her ancient glory Look how her bury'd pinnacles 'gin to peep Out of their venerable dust and sleep See how the Temple and the Sepulchre Wak'd with the trumpet of this Holy warre From their own grave and ruines do resent A resurrection by this monument Stay Pilgrimes stay wander not hence so farre Set up your rest here in this Holy warre Here you may visit and adore the Shrine For which so many Saints in arms combine Behold the Zealous squadrons how they stand Arm'd with devotion for the Holy land They 'll take you if not it while ye admire Their zeal your love will kindle at this fire Thus learned FVLLER a full conquest makes Triumphs o're time and mens affections takes Captive both it and them his historie Me thinks is not a Warre but victorie Where every line does crown such strength it bears The Authour Laureate and a trophey rears JAMES DUPORT B. D. T. C. To his worthy and learned friend Mr THO. FULLER upon his excellently composed Historie of the HOLY WARRE CAptain of Arts in this thy Holy warre My Muse desires to be thy â—rumpeter In thy just praise to spend a blast or two For this is all that she poore thing can do Peter the Hermite like an angrie owl Would needâ— go fight all armed in his cowl What had the Holy man nought else to do But thus to lose his bloud and credit too Seeking to winne Christs Sepulchre God wâ—t He found his own This was the ground he got Except he got more ground when he one day Besiâ—ging Antioch fiercely ran away Much wiser was the Pope At home he stay'd And made the world believe he wept and prai'd Mean while behold the fruit of feigned tears He sets the world together by the ears His head serves him
whil'st others use their hands Whil'st Princes lose their lives he gets their lands To winne the Holy land what need Kings roam The Pope can make an Holy land at home By making it his own Then for a fashion 'T is said to come by Constantines donation For all this Fox-craft I have leave I hope To think my friend farre wiser then the Pope And Hermite both He deals in Holy warres Not as a stickler in those fruitlesse jarres But a composer rather Hence this book Whereon whil'st I with greedie eyes do look Me thinks I travel through the Holy land Viewing the sacred objects on each hand Here mounts me thinks like Olivet brave sense There flows a Iordan of pure eloquence A temple rich in ornament I find Presented here to my admiring mind Strange force of Art The ruin'd Holy citie Breeds admiration in me now not pitie To testifie her liking here my Muse Makes solemn Vows as Holy Pilgrimes use I vow dear Friend the Holy warre is here Farre better writ then ever fought elsewhere Thousands have fought and died But all this while I vow there nothing triumphs but thy style Thy wit hath vanquisht Barbarisme more Then ever Godfrey's valour did before Might I but choose I rather would by farre Be authour of thy Book then of that Warre Let others fight I vow to reade thy works Prizing thy ink before the bloud of Turks J. BOOTH B. D. C. C. C. On the Title of this book HOw comes stern Warre to be accounted holy By nature fierce complexion melancholy I 'll tell you how Sh' has been at Rome of late And gain'd an indulgence to expiate Her massacres and by the Popes command Shâ— has been a Pilgrime to the Holy land VVhere freeing Christians by a sacred plot She for her pains this Epithet hath got H. ATKINS NOr need Ierusalem that holy mother Envie old Trâ—y since she has found another To write her battels and her warres rehearse In prose as elegant as Homers verse Let Sueton's name august as Caesars be Curtius more worlds then Alexander see Let Joseph in his countreys siege survive And Phenix-like in his own ashes thrive Thy work great FVLLER will out-live their glory And make thy memory sacred as thy Storie Thy stile is clear and white thy very name Speaks purenesse and addes lustre to the frame All men could wish nay long the world would jarre So thou 'dst be pleas'd to write compose the Warre H. HUTTON M. A. C. Jes. To my friend Mr THOMAS FULLER on his book The Holy warre VVHile of thy book I speak Friend I 'll think on Thy Iordan for my purest Helicon And for bifork'd Parnassus I will set My phansie on the sacred Olivet 'T is holy ground which now my measur'd feet Must tread on then as in due right 't is meet Let them be bare and plain for quainter art May sacrifice to thee without a heart And while it praiseth this thy work may preach His glory rather then thy merits reach Here Reader thou may'st judge and well compare Who most in madnesse Iew or Romane share This not so blind yet in the clearest day Does stumble still on stocks on stones on clay The other will in bright and highest noon Choose still to walk by glimmering light oâ—th ' Moon Here thou mai'st represented see the fight Between our earthly Flesh and heavenly Sp'rit Lo how the Turk doth drive with flaming sword Salvation from him and Gods holy word As once the angel did rebellious vice With Adam force from blessed paradise And this in style diamond-like doth shine Which firmest parts and clearest do combine And o're the sad ground of the Iewish storie As light embroiderie explaies its glorie The temple rais'd and ruin'd seems more high In his strong phrase then when it kiss'd the skie And as the Viper by those pretious tears Which Phaethon bemon'd of Amber wears A rich though fatall coat so here inclos'd With words so rare so splendent so compos'd Ev'n Mahomet has found a tombe which shall Last when the fainting Loadstone lets him fall HENRY VINTENER To his old friend Mr FULLER I Love no warres I love no jarres Nor strifes fire May discords cease Let 's live in peace This I desire If it must be VVarres we must see So Fates conspire May we not feel The force of stâ—el This I desire But in thy book When I do look And it admire Let Warre be there But Peace elswhere This I desire THO. JACKSON To his worthy Friend Mr THOMAS FULLER on his book The Holy warre THere 's not a storie Friend in thy book told But 's a jewel each line a thread of gold Though Warre sound harsh and doth our minds affright Yet cloth'd in well-wrought language 't doth delight Such is thy gilded phrase I joy to reade In thee massacres and to see men bleed Oft have I seen in hangings on a wall The ruines of great Troy and Priams fall A storie in it self so full of woe 'T would make the Grecian weep that was the foe But being wrought in arras and made gay With rich embroiderie 't makes th' beholder say I like it well This flame that scarre is good And then commend this wound that stream of bloud Things in themselves distastefull are by art Made pleasant and do much delight the heart Such is thy book Though it of bloud relate And horrid Warre whose very name we hate Yet clad in arras-language and thy phrase Doth not affright but with delight amaze And with such power upon our senses seise That 't makes Warre dreadfull in it self to please WILLIAM JOHNSON Q. Coll. To his dear friend Mr. FULLER VVE need not now those zealous Vâ—t'ries meet Or pilgrimes turn but on our verses feet Thy quill hath wing'd the earth the Holy land Doth visit us commanded by thy hand If envie make thy labours prove thy losse No marvel if a Croisade wear the Crosse. CLEMENT BRETTON Sidn Coll. The History of the HOLY VVARRE Book I. Chap. 1. The destruction of the city and temple of Ierusalem by the Romanes under the conduct of Titus WHen the Jews had made the full measure of their sinnes runne over by putting to death the Lord of life Gods judgements as they deserved and our Saviour foretold quickly overtook them for a mighty army of the Romanes besieged and 〈◊〉 the city of Jerusalem wherein by fire famine sword civil discord and forreign force eleven hundred thousand were put to death An incredible number it seemeth yet it cometh within the compasse of our belief if we consider that the siege began at the time of the Passeover when in a manner all Judea was inclosed in Jerusalem all private synagogues doing then their duties to the mother-temple so that the city then had more guests then inhabitants Thus the Passeover first instituted by God in mercy to save the Israelites from death was now used by him in justice to hasten their destruction
articles contained in the Creed onely they blasphemed the Romish Church and hated it Claudius de Seissell Archbishop of Turin confesseth as touching their life and manners they were sound and unreproveable without scandall amongst men giving themselves to their power to the observation of the commandments of God King Lewis the twelfth of France being throughly informed of the faith and life of the Waldenses in his time bound it with an oath That they were better men then he or his people The same King having killed many of those poore people and having called the place where they lived Vallis meretricia for their painted and dissembled piety upon better instructions changed the name calling it from himself The vale of Lewis William de Belai Lieutenant of Piemont gave this commendation of the Merindolites a sprig which some hundred years after sprouted from the Waldenses That they were a laborious people averse from suits bountifull to the poore duly paying their Princes tributes and Lords dues serving God with daily prayers and shewing forth much innocency in manners Thuanus one that writeth truth with a steady hand jogged neither by Romanists nor Huguenots thus charactereth the Con-waldenses a stemme of that stock we speak of They used raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes the foure fect whereof served instead of buttons all equall in poverty having no beggars amongst them their diet on deer and milk yet was there scarce any amongst them but could read and write handsomely understand the Bible and sing psalms scarce a boy but could presently or by heart give an account of his faith Tribute they payed very religiously c. More might be added but I end with Gamaliels words If this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God yè cannot overthrow it It argueth the goodnesse of their cause in that all their enemies cruelty unwise to think to spoil the growth of chamomill by trampling on it could never suppresse them but they continued till the dayes of Luther when this morning-starre willingly surrendred his place to him a brighter sun But enough of their life and manners And if any condemn me for superfluity herein I guard my self with S. Austines shield Non est multiloquium quando necessaria diâ—untur quant alibet sermonum multitudine ac prolixitate dicantur Chap. 21. The Holy armie advance against the Albingenses The cities of Besier and Carcassone taken POpe Innocent the third having now gathered together an army of one hundred thousand Pilgrimes set forwards for the finall exstirpation of the poor Albingenses The best champions for his Holinesse herein were the Duke of Burgundy the Earls of Nevers St. Paul Auxerre Geneva Poictiers with Simon Earl of Montfort Oâ— the Clergie Milo the Popes Leâ—gate The Archbishops of Sens Rovan the Bishops of Clermont Nevers Lisieux Bayeux Charters with divers others every Bishop with the Pilgrimes of his jurisdiction To whom the Pope promised Paradise in heaven but not one peny on earth Their work was to destroy the Albingenses which were in great numbers in Daulphine Province Narbonne Tholouse and other parts of France Their Commission also extended to the rooting out of all their friends and favourers whether detected or onely suspected such as were Reimund Earl of Tholose Reimund Earl of Foyx the Vicecount of Besiers Gaston Lord of Berne the Earl of Bigorre the Lady of la Vaur with divers others See here a new gate to heaven never opened before for men to cut their way thither through the throats of their innocent brethren Behold the holy Ghost who once came down in the form of a Dove now counterfeited in the shape of a Vulture But we must not forget how just before the warre began the Pope pretending to reclaim them by reasons to the Church of Rome To which end he gave order for a disputation with them The parties place and time were agreed on who where when they should dispute but in fine nothing was effected Yea who ever knew conferences in so great oppositions to ripen kindly and bring any fruit to perfection For many come rather for faction then satisfaction resolving to carry home the same opinions they brought with them An upright moderatour will scarce be found who bangeth not to one side The place will be subject to suspicion and hinder liberty Boldnesse and readinesse of speech with most though not most judicious auditours will bear away the bell from solidity of arguments The passages in the disputing will pe partially reported and both sides will brag of the conquest so that the rent will be made worse and more spirits conjured up then allayed But now words ended in blows the Pope onely entertaining them in conferences that in the mean time he might prepare his great armies more suddenly to suppresse them The first peice of service his souldiers performed was in sacking the city of Besiers and burrough of Carcassone In which many Catholicks stedfast in the Romish faith did dwel and promiscuously were slain with the Albingenses yea Priests themselves were cut in pieces in their priestly ornaments and under the banner of the Crosse So that the swallowing of their foes made their friends also go down glib through their throats without danger of choking As for the city of Carcassone which was not far from the burrough to the inhabitants thereof those immodest conditions were propounded whereof formerly which they refused and God better provided for them For whilest the city was besieged they escaped out by the benefit of a vault under ground and so shifted abroad for themselves Chap. 22. Simon Earl of Montfort chosen Captain of the Holy warre He conquereth the King of Aragon prevaileth against the Albingenses and at last is killed by a woman HItherto this warre was managed by the Popes Legate but now it was concluded that a secular captain should be adjoyned to him in whose person the chief command should reside over Martiall affairs and for his pains by the Popes donation he was to enjoy all countreys that should be conquered from the Albingenses or their favourers The place was offered to the Duke of Burgundy who refused it saying He had lands and Lordships enow of his own without spoiling others of their goods It was waved also by the Earls of St. Paul and Nevers whether out of conscience or policie because though the Pope gave them the bears skin they must first kill and flay him themselves At last Simon of Montfort nigh Paris accepted of it swearing to vex the Lords enemies And for a breakfast to begin with he was seised of the Vicecounty of Besiers proceeding from hence to take many castles and cities One grand inconvenience attended on this army of Pilgrimes For when their quarantine or fourty dayes service was expited the term the Pope set them to merit Paradise in they would not stay one whit longer Like post-horses they would runne to their