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<HEAD>A PROVD AND BLASPHEMOVS CAHLLENGE Given out in denuntiation of warre, by <HI>Amurath</HI> the great Turk, again&s;t all Chri&s;tendome.</HEAD>
<P>Coming with an Army of 1600000, men.</P>
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<HEAD>Emperour of Con&s;tantinople.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Emperour of Rome.</HEAD>
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<P><HI>_WEE alone the only Monarch of the world, a great and mighty God on earth, an Invincible</HI> Cae&s;ar, <HI>King of all Kings, from the Ea&s;t unto the We&s;t, Sultan of Babilon, Soveraigne of the mo&s;t noble families of Per&s;ia, and Armenia, tryumphant victor of Ieru&s;alem, Lord po&s;&s;el|&s;or of the crucified God, &s;ubverter, and &s;worne enemy of the Chri&s;tians, and of all them that call upon the name of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>We denounce unto thee the Emperour of Rome, and to all Nations taking part with thee, unto the great Bi&s;hop al&s;o, all the Cardinalls and Bi&s;hops, to all your &s;onnes and &s;ubjects, we earne&s;tly (I &s;ay) by our Crowne and Empire, denounce unto you open warre.</P>
<P>VVe give you to under&s;tand that our purpo&s;e is, with the power of thirteen King|domes, and &s;ixteene hundred thou&s;and of men, hor&s;e and foot, with our Turks, and Turki&s;h armes, yea, with all our &s;trength and power (&s;uch as neither thou, nor any of thine hath ever yet either &s;een or heard of, much le&s;&s;e had any proofe of) to be&s;iedge you in your chiefe and metropolitane Cities; and with fire and &s;word to per&s;ecute you, and all yours, and who&s;oever &s;hall give you helpe, to burne, de&s;troy, and kill, and with the mo&s;t exqui&s;it torments wee can devi&s;e to torture unto death, and &s;light &s;uch Chri&s;tian captives, as &s;hall fall into our hands, becau&s;e we heare that you fall out among&s;t your &s;elves, therefore we will regulate you.</P>
<P>VVe will keepe you as &s;laves, and u&s;e you like doggs in continuall mi&s;ery, impaile your faire&s;t &s;onnes, and daughters upon &s;takes, and to the future &s;hame, and reproach of you and yours, we will after a mo&s;t bloody, and cruell manner, rip open your women with child, and trample their children under our feet; for we are re&s;olved to bring into our &s;ub|j<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ction you which cannot rule quietly in &s;mall Countries, and by a &s;trong hand and force of Armes to keep your King|domes from you; as al&s;o to oppre&s;&s;e, roote up, and de&s;troy, your Sees, together with the golden Scepter of Rome, and we will prove whether your crucified Ie&s;us will helpe you, and do for you as yours per&s;wade you. Beleove him &s;till and tru&s;t in him, and &s;ee how he hath holpen his me&s;&s;engers which have put their confidence in him; for we neither beeleve, neither can we endure to heare of &s;uch incomprehen&s;ible things, that he can helpe which is dead &s;o many worlds of years agoe, which could not helpe him&s;elfe, nor deliver his owne Country and Inheritance, from our power, over which we have a long time reigned.</P>
<P>The&s;e things, oh ye poore and mi&s;erable of the world, we thought good to &s;ignifie unto you that you with your Princes and Councellors may know what you have to doe, and to looke for.</P>
<P><HI>Given in our mo&s;t mighty, and Imperiall City of Con&s;tantinople, which our Ance&s;tors by force of armes tooke from yours, and having &s;laine, and taken pri&s;oners all their Citizens, re&s;erved &s;uch of their wives and children as they plea&s;ed, unto their lu&s;t, to your perpetuall infamy and &s;hame.</HI></P>
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