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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41853	The history of the war of Cyprus. Written originally in Latin. With a new map of the island.; De bello Cyprio. English	Graziani, Antonio Maria, 1537-1611.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.; Lusignano, Stefano, 1537-1590.	1687 (1687)	Wing G1628; ESTC R5120	202,605	482

THE HISTORY of y e WAR of CYPRUS THE HISTORY OF THE WAR OF CYPRUS Written Originally in Latin. With a New Map of the Island LONDON Printed by J. Rawlins and sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1687. Licensed November 26. 1686. RO. L'ESTRANGE TO THE Right Honourable GEORGE Lord JEFFREYS Baron of WEM Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord YOur Lordship I hope will pardon the Boldness of this Dedication and permit the Presenter of it to pay that Honor and Veneration which is due from All to your Lordship's Eminent Character and most Illustrious Merits To which nothing can do greater Right than what has come from the Mouths of the late flagitious Rebels themselves who were so highly sensible of your Lordship's Wisdom and Courage in opposing their Hellish and Damnable Designs that their Principal Leaders were us'd to please themselves with nothing more than with the Thoughts and Wishes of making your Lordship a Sacrifice to their Malice and Revenge I will not attempt to speak here of what you suffer'd for your Inflexible Loyalty from a Seditious Cabal nor of our Obligations to your Auspicious Conduct which nipt the growing Faction in the Bud and stopt the Torrent of Enthusiastick Frenzy and by a bold Stroke of Justice set at Liberty those who were condemn'd unheard to a perpetual Confinement It were a Task too hard for me to undertake a particular Description of these and other Instances of your Lordship's Goodness and Courage which will be the chief Subject of the most lasting History of our Times All that I pretend to is to make some publick Acknowledgement of the just Sense I have of your Lordship's Great and Exemplary Virtues and to testifie in all Sincerity that I am My Lord Your Lordships most Obedient and humbly Devoted Servant Robert Midgley TO THE READER THE Title of this Book seems to promise but a narrow History and those that only like great Revolutions and variety of several Events which have happened in a long Sequel of Time will not perhaps be much prepossessed in its Favour The Conquest of an Island altho' honour'd with the Title of a Kingdom which was compleated in the second Campaign will appear to them too short to furnish an Historian with choice Materials But supposing the Interest which all Europe had in this Affair did not make it as indeed it did one of the most famous Accidents of the preceding Age yet the taking of Nicosia and desolation thereof being the Capital City of the Island of Cyprus the Siege and Surrender of Famagusta which capitulated not till after a four Months vigorous Resistance and the memorable Victory of Lepanto deserve the exact Care which the Bishop of Amelia has taken in Publishing them The Republick of Venice never saw her self so threatned by the Ottoman Empire as when Selim the Second form'd the Design of snatching from her this Kingdom and never Enterprize was carried on in the Divan with more dexterity and secrecy The Church then govern'd by Pope Pius the Fifth who was since Canoniz'd was at the same time attack'd by several Reformers authoriz'd by Secular Powers and the Infidels who always make advantage of the Disunion of Christians improved so favourable an opportunity to the enlargement of their Territories and Religion The Pope alarm'd by the foresight of these Misfortunes dispatch'd Nuncio's sent Legates to all the Princes of Europe and not content with these his good Endeavours set out a Fleet at his own Charge and offered to conduct it in Person for the Venetians Every Prince consented or refused to enter into the League propos'd by his Holiness according as he was interessed to break off or keep in with the Port and the Advantage he found in the Ruine or Preservation of the Republick But the Course which the King of Spain Philip the Second held is a Piece of the most refined Policy The Legate had no sooner represented him with the danger wherein the Republick lay but he undertook to send a great Force to its Assistance and gave Orders at the same time for the equipping of a considerable Fleet. All Christendom could expect no less from a Monarch who wore so many Crowns and honour'd himself with the Title of Most Catholick King. But his Design was only to merit this Title in appearance seeing the slowness which he used in making ready this Fleet and the secret Orders he gave to Requiescens Chief of the Council to Don John of Austria tended only to ruine the Republick and by this means reduce Italy under his Power The Ministers and Venetian Generals happily penetrated into the secret Designs of Philip and gave speedy Notice to their Masters The Venetians justly grieved to find how unsincerely they were dealt with made no scruple to accommodate themselves with the Turk without the participation of the Confederates altho' this was expresly forbidden by the Treaty they made with the Christian Princes It is in the summing up of this variety of Interests that our Author dives into and discovers the Intrigues and Motions of the principal Courts of Europe and we may well credit his Abilities and Faithfulness from the Part which Cardinal Commendon gives him in all these important Mysteries of State. THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST BOOK A Description of the Isle of Cyprus The Manners of its Inhabitants The Dryness of the Territory It s Abundance Malignity of Ayr. Its different Possessors Conquered by the Romans from the Kings of Egypt King Peter massacred by his Subjects The Genoeses take Famagusta Catharine Cornaro espouses King James Demits his Crown to her at his Death She retires to Venice and delivers the Kingdom into the hand of the Senate who fortifie Nicosia the Capital City of the Island Solyman the Father of five Children Selim the youngest succeeds him His Inclinations Mahomet Chief Visier Jealousie of Mustapha and Piali touching the Favour of Mahomet Selim despis'd by the Souldiers Blind Obedience of the Musulmans Vnhappy State of the Jews They retire from Spain into Portugal Their Obstinacy Selim excites the taking of the Isle of Cyprus Hospitals and Moscs built by the Sultans with the Spoyls taken from the Christians Selim designs the Conquest of Cyprus for the building of an Hospital and a Mosc Discourse of Mustapha to engage him in this Enterprize Mahomet endeavours to divert him from it He advises him to succour the Moors in Spain A great Dearth in Italy The Arsenal of Venice is burnt The Disorder which this Fire causes The Senate mistrust some Conspiracy A Jew call'd Miches is suspected The News of this Fire carried to Constantinople The Artifice of Mahomet to deceive the Venetians The Ambassador of Venice discovers this Minister's Secret. The Grand Signior sends a Denunciation of War to the Republick The Doge returns his Answer in Writing The sudden Death of Lauredon Doge of Venice Mocenigo succeeds him The Epirots treat with the Venetians

Article altho' they knew very well that such a Report might alarm the Infidels and oblige them to make Peace on advantageous Conditions to the Venetians The Senate having examin'd the Articles of the Treaty found some of them prejudicial to their Interests and blamed Soriani for not opposing with more rigor the Spaniard's Pretentions But because he was thought to lean too much to the making of a League and War they sent him John Sorantro as an Adjutant who immediatly arrived at Rome He was a rough sort of a man positive and ignorant in Business whose Carriage so sar displeased the Pope that he had like to have sent him out of Rome had he not feared Soriani might suffer for it for whom his Holiness had a particular Esteem And in effect he was a Person of great Prudence and singular Integrity and well seen for a Venetian in Matters of Religion fit for the Employ he exercised as well for his Fidelity as Experience Sorantro was no sooner setled at Rome but he grew weary with the importunate Demands of Cardinal Granvil and other Ministers of that Faction Soriani pretended himself indisposed to excuse himself from these Conferences and this Affair grew so troublesom that the Commissioners setled to regulate it began to despair of ending it Yet the Pope discouraged by no Difficulty surmounted all these Obstacles and accommodated all things but only one particular Article The Spanlards pretended the King their Master should appoint the Generalissimo of the Confederate Army forasmuch as his Catholick-Majesty contributed chiefly to the Charge of the War and the Venetians would by no means yield to this Pius V. was for Don John of Austria's being revested with this Character because he had the Honour to be Philip the Second's Brother But the Spaniards who were resolved to exclude Colonni from his Office demanded That Don John might be impowered to name a Lieutenant General to command in his absence designing to secure this second Place to Doria or else to Lewis Requiescens Brother to Zuniga The Venetians had a horrid Repugnance to this but seeing the Pope's Authority interposed they thought their Interests could not be better managed than in his Hands Whereupon Pius declared Don John should command the Army when there in Person but would hearken to no Proposition touching the choice of him who was to command in his absence seeing this Right appertained to the Sovereign Prelate Granvil and Zuniga refused this Condition saying 't was to be communicated to the King their Master The Pope who was very jealous of his Authority dispatch'd at the same time a Courier into Spain He wrote thereon to Philip in Terms so pathetick and rational that this Prince sent an Order to his Ministers to conclude the Treaty And to shew that he would be concerned in the nomination of the Person which was to command the Fleet in Don John's Absence he proposed Mark Anthony Colonni together with Requiescens and Doria and thus preserv'd the Pope's good Opinion This Prelate was so vigorous and firm in what he believed to be equitable especially when the Honour of the See was concerned that he would not buckle to the greatest Sovereign in Europe to maintain its Interests He thanked King Philip for the Deference he paid him and gave Don John the Title of Generalissimo and to Colonni the same extent of Power in his Absence Philibert Emanuel Duke of Savoy was proposed to command the Christian Army which the Venetians much desired and the Pope had no less an esteem of his Capacity but besides that this Prince esteem'd it of dangerous consequence to leave his Estates whence his Father had been driven and of which he came now from possessing himself The Spaniards could not approve that a Sovereign Prince whose Head was full of great Projects should have committed to him such a Power They raised a new Difficulty on the Design they had on Africa maintaining the League was not only made against the Turk but against all the Mahometan People The Cardinals assembled on this Affair could not forbear smiling at the Pretention and shewed the Spaniards That the King of Persia was so far from being considered as an Enemy by reason of his Religion that he ought to be earnestly solicited to enter into the Confederacy That the Christian Princes would joyn themselves to little purpose if the War were carried any where but to Greece and on the Grand Signior's Countreys The Spaniards refused again to sign the Treaty unless therein were comprehended the Conquest of the Cities of Tripoly Tunis and Algier alledging That without this Clause the People would never be brought to consent to the levying of those Taxes which were necessary for the Entertainment of their Fleet. They would also have a Promise the Infidels should not be atrack'd but the Christians ssiould keep themselves on the defensive part foreseeing the Ottoman Army would be far stronger than the Confederates and the Venetians granted this last Article as having discovered the Meaning of these Demands The Pope being tired with the length of these Contests sent Pompey Colonni into Spain a Person of large Abilities charged with Packets and Instructions and who was moreover ordered to lay open to Philip that his Ministers spoyled the Fruit of his good Intentions by the aversion which they manifestly discovered against the Republick Colonni acquitted himself so well of his Holiness's Orders that the King of Spain ordered his Ambassador to pass over all these Difficulties and conclude the so often mentioned Treaty 'T was commonly reported the Pope acquainted this Prince with the Venetians treating with the Port making use of the Fame of this League to better their Composition which was true enough for they had sent to Constantinople and secretly negotiated with the Prime Visier In fine all Matters being regulated the Pope intended to solemnize before the Foreign Ambassadors the Confederacy between the See the King of Spain and the Venetians He gave Notice of this to the Ministers of the Allies desiring them to meet him at the Vatican where he celebrated Mass having made them first sign the Treaty But before this Cardinal Granvil being come together with the Spanish Ambassador he rose up and declared the King his Master was not in a readiness to execute this Year what he promised in his Name That the Season was too far advanced to work at the Preparatives of a Fleet He afterwards demanded that the Venetians who had several Vessels ready to put to Sea should furnish his Catholick-Majesty with them they receiving Souldiers from him and Money for all the Charges of the Campaign 'T was agreed on in the first Conferences That in expecting the Conclusion of the Treaty all possible Preparations should be made for the War to prevent the loss of Time So that the Venetian Ministers enraged at this unexpected Remora detesting a Return of this Nature withdrew to confer together and brought Answer They intended to advertise the Senate