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<P>A Di&s;cour&s;e <HI>of the bloody and cruell</HI> Battaile, of late lo&s;te by <HI>the great Turke</HI> Sultan Selim.</P>
<P><HI>And al&s;o of the taking of <HI>the &s;trong Towne of</HI></HI> Seruan, <HI>with the number there &s;laine and taken, and the great &s;tore of Artil|lery &amp; munitions of warre lo&s;t in the taking of the &s;aide Towne.</HI></P>
<P>1579.</P>
<P>Tran&s;lated out of French <HI>into Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>&para; <HI>Imprinted at London at</HI> the three Cranes in the Vintree <HI>by Thomas Daw&s;on.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; Of the bloodie and <HI>cruell Battaile, new|ly</HI> lo&s;te by the great <HI>Turke Sultan Selim.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT is nowe long time pa&s;t, that betwene the linage of the <HI>Otto|mans,</HI> being the Progenitours of the <HI>Turkes,</HI> &amp; the kinges of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> called <HI>Sophi,</HI> Monarches parting betweene them al|mo&s;t all <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and much in <HI>Africke,</HI> the war doth endure, which hath begun from the time of <HI>D'V&s;unca&s;&s;an</HI> (or as other doe cal <HI>A&s;&s;embey</HI>) &s;ucce&s;&s;or of <HI>Tamer|lan,</HI> who being ba&s;e of degree, made him lord of the mo&s;t part of the <HI>Orent,</HI> in the yeere of our Lorde God, 1400. ha|uing ouercome <HI>Baiazet</HI> King of <HI>Turkie.</HI> This <HI>V&s;unca&s;&s;an</HI> (I &s;ay) hauing &s;ucce|ded to the &s;aide <HI>Tamerlan,</HI> in the Mo|narchie of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> hath alwaies warred with the <HI>Turkes</HI> (euen as al&s;o
<PB REF="3"> haue done, the <HI>Sophies</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;ours.) He toke to wife the daughter of the Em|perour of <HI>Trapezunt,</HI> the which did helpe him greatly in his warres, but not &s;o happily, but that he lo&s;t his Empire.</P>
<P>The <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> not hauing at that time the v&s;age of the Cannon, as the <HI>Turkes</HI> had, although the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> is more va|liant, yet nothing re&s;i&s;teth again&s;t &s;uche thu~der claps. His &s;ucce&s;&s;ours afterward vntill this day, haue alwaies quarelled with the <HI>Trapezuntain,</HI> by rea&s;on wher|of they haue ouercome the landes of the great <HI>Turke</HI> in diuers places: And they doeing the like vnto them, but not &s;o fu|riou&s;ly as they haue doone, after they dyd vnder&s;tande of the death of the king of <HI>Portugal</HI> their confederate, &s;ince the time of the fore&s;aide <HI>V&s;unca&s;&s;an,</HI> who fir&s;t made league with the <HI>Agentes</HI> of the &s;aide King of <HI>Portugall</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Turke,</HI> and the petie kinges of <HI>Africke</HI> his &s;ubiectes: Becau&s;e that <HI>I&s;maell</HI> (father of him that nowe is <HI>Sophi</HI>) died about the yeere 1557. although hee hath had notable victories again&s;t <HI>Sul|tan
<PB REF="3" MS="y"> Selim,</HI> notwith&s;tanding, hee lo&s;te <HI>Me&s;opotamia</HI> and <HI>Chaldea</HI> with the Towne of <HI>Tauris,</HI> a Holde of great im|portance, which cau&s;ed the &s;ame <HI>Sophi</HI> nowe raigning to make aliaunce with the king of the <HI>Ethiopians,</HI> and to renew the &s;ame with the king of <HI>Portugall,</HI> fea|ring that the <HI>Turke</HI> woulde hinder him on that &s;ide, on the which he is weake&s;t.</P>
<P>For the&s;e rea&s;ons, and for to hinder the <HI>Turke</HI> in other places, hath he newly rai&s;ed an armie of <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> and other na|tions, to the number of one hundred and three&s;core thou&s;and, cho&s;en men, very ex|pert in armes, and conducted them before the Towne of <HI>Seruan</HI> in the bor|ders of <HI>Me&s;opotamia,</HI> harde by the ri|uer of <HI>Tegil,</HI> a &s;trong place, and the which made vppon him many Roades and robberies in his lande: whereof the great <HI>Turke</HI> being aduerti&s;ed, di&s;|patched immediatly eight <HI>Ba&s;&s;haes</HI> for to encounter with him, and rai&s;e the &s;iege, cau&s;ing full foure&s;core thou&s;ande men to returne, which he di&s;patched to|wardes <HI>Africke,</HI> and cau&s;ed more to be
<PB REF="4"> taken vp in his lande beyonde the mount <HI>Ca&s;pie</HI> (borderers or fronterers, of tho&s;e of the <HI>Sophies</HI>) &s;o that he cau&s;ed his ar|mie to be a&s;&s;embled, beyng almo&s;t to the number of two hundred thou&s;ande men.</P>
<P>In the meane time the <HI>Sophi,</HI> ende|uoured him &s;elfe furiou&s;ly to batter this place, and giueth vpon the &s;ame manye a&s;&s;aultes: but tho&s;e within being aduer|ti&s;ed of the &s;uccour, which was neere them, had &s;uch good courage, and ordered &s;o their affaires, that altogeather they re|&s;i&s;ted couragiou&s;ly, and as this Hold was a border of y^e enimie, &s;o was it furni&s;hed with good men, hauing no want of any munitions of warre, and &s;pecially of Pouder, Firewoorkes, Cannons and Harquebu&s;hers, and being but a while pa&s;t, &s;ince tho&s;e munitions had been &s;ent thither, to inuade the lande of the <HI>So|phie.</HI> The army of the <HI>Turke</HI> did ariue there, about the moneth of December la&s;t: The which the <HI>Sophie</HI> vnder&s;tan|ding, made ha&s;te to cau&s;e an other a&s;&s;ault to be giue~ again&s;t tho&s;e of y^e towne: but in the meane time he was &s;o wel prouided of
<PB REF="4" MS="y"> wit, that he cau&s;ed his campe to be &s;et in battel aray, fearing lea&s;t y^e <HI>Turke</HI> would inuade him, for to cau&s;e the a&s;&s;aulte to be interrupted: This being concluded by the enimie, entending to put his purpo&s;e in execution, without regarding that the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> (be&s;ides they be &s;uch valiant, fu|rious, and vigilant warriers, as any o|thers in <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> but &s;uch, as men may com|pare them with the be&s;t, I dare &s;ay, of <HI>Europe</HI> and <HI>Africa</HI>) were fre&s;he and lu|&s;tie: And the <HI>Turkes,</HI> weery of the long way and great iournies which they had made, for to come in time to &s;uccour this place, came and a&s;&s;ailed very furiou&s;ly the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> which they thought were all bent to the a&s;&s;ault, and their campe, with|out any order of battaile: But they found the co~trary of that which they hoped for, not knowing that the <HI>Sophi</HI> was a|ware of it, attending them with a&s;&s;u|rance, &amp; were receiued &s;peedily, and that with &s;uch furie, that at the meeting of this fir&s;t encounter, the hor&s;e men of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> which &s;taied for no other thing, did repul&s;e them a great way of
<PB REF="5"> with part of their artillerie which had turned again&s;t the enimie. In litle time they made &s;uche &s;laughter, that the <HI>Turkes</HI> being con&s;trained to turne their bridle, were almo&s;t all in the fliyng away &amp; in this encounter de&s;troied, &amp; lo&s;t more then thirtie thou&s;ande men, with. xxv. fielde peeces, and about twelue double Cannons.</P>
<P>The Turkes &s;eeing them&s;elues to be &s;o beaten backe with &s;uch a lo&s;&s;e, for all that did not let fal their courage, but with the exhortation and good conduct of a <HI>Ba&s;&s;ha,</HI> named <HI>Ochali Zaleth;</HI> gathered them&s;elues againe, and came verie furi|riou&s;ly to re&s;i&s;t the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> the which in this recharge, had not &s;o good a bargaine with the enemies the <HI>Turkes,</HI> as they had before: and if it had not bene their artilla|rie, the which played at plea&s;ure, they &s;hould haue had a great lo&s;&s;e of their men, becau&s;e that <HI>Ochali Zaleth</HI> had &s;ette a|gain&s;t them all the force of the Turki&s;h Harquebu&s;hers, the which did great da|mage in the hor&s;emen of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> vn|til that after hauing fought long time, did
<PB REF="5" MS="y"> arriue for the &s;uccour of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> a|bout fourtie thou&s;and footmen, who &s;taied a great whil the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Harquebu&s;her, and vntill that the <HI>Sophie</HI> in proper per|&s;on with great force of hor&s;men, arriuing to the battaile did furiou&s;ly enter among the <HI>Turkes,</HI> who with y^e dexteritie, force, and good experience of his hor&s;men, did breake all the &s;ayde <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Harquebu|&s;hers which were their &s;trength, and then did put all their armie to flight: &s;o that almo&s;te of two hundreth thou&s;ande, of them, without any account of the Bag|gage, there were &s;aued but about fourtie thou&s;and with the &s;aid <HI>Ba&s;sha.</HI> And if the night had not been, which made an end of the battaile, there would &s;cant haue been any, that &s;hould haue caried newes hereof.</P>
<P>In the meane time, while&s;t the bat|tel did endure, the <HI>Sophie</HI> cau&s;ed alwaies the a&s;&s;ault to bee continued, fearing the comming out of tho&s;e of the towne, which on the next day after, knowing the ouer|throw of their &s;uccour, as the a&s;&s;ault &s;huld haue recommenced early in the morning, they did put a certaine &s;igne vppon the
<PB REF="6"> walles to parle: but for all this the <HI>Per&s;i|ans</HI> did not leaue to marche to the a&s;&s;ault, where neuertheles they were couragiou&s;|ly receiued, &amp; tho&s;e of the towne did de|fend them &s;elues more than an houre &amp; a halfe. And by that time the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> bee|ing refre&s;hed of other bandes, entred in, whereas they v&s;ed great cruelties, and taking none to mercie, they onely pre&s;er|ued him that was gouernour of the town, whom they keepe captiue.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e the <HI>Sophie</HI> ten monethes pa&s;t had lo&s;t &s;euen and thirtie ve&s;&s;els in the parties of <HI>Affrica,</HI> he hath cau&s;ed to be re&s;erued about ten thou&s;and captiues, for to &s;erue him&s;elfe withall in other ve&s;&s;els, whiche hee meaneth readily to arme a|gain&s;t the <HI>Turke.</HI></P>
<P>There is founde more then two hun|dreth Cannons for battrie, and about fiue hu~dreth light peeces, with full eight thou&s;and cadges of powder, &s;o that be&s;ide the pillage of the &s;ouldiours onely the munitions of warre beeing within this place, are e&s;teemed at more then &s;ixe mil|lions of Duccates, There is al&s;o armour
<PB REF="6"> well able to arme an&punc; hundreth thou&s;ande men of warre, which the great <HI>Turke</HI> had cau&s;ed to bee caried thither, for to enter this Sommer with great power vpon the lande of the <HI>Sophie.</HI></P>
<P>This great lo&s;&s;e beeing come to his knowledge, he tooke &s;uch griefe thereat, that they thought he woulde haue died of &s;orrow: and the brute came to <HI>Venice</HI> that he was dead, neuerthele&s;&s;e he is nowe in health.</P>
<P>All the chiefe which returned from the &s;aid battaile, haue all by his expre&s;&s;e com|maundement beene beheaded, yea, the &s;elfe &s;ame <HI>Ochali Ba&s;sha.</HI> Of the other &s;euen <HI>Ba&s;shats,</HI> fiue were killed, and the two others are pri&s;oners, the one whereof is &s;ore hurt.</P>
<P>The <HI>Sophi</HI> had all the artillarie and munitions of warre, with al the baggage of the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> campe of an ine&s;timable value: and men doe beleeue, that &s;ince the raigne of <HI>Sultan Selim,</HI> in what&s;oeuer place it was, he neuer receiued &s;uch a lo&s;&s;e</P>
<P>And of &s;uch a victorie the Chri&s;tians ought to render thanks to our good God,
<PB REF="7"> the which doeth imparte and giue vnto vs his graces, according as wee neede, weakening and dimini&s;hing the meanes of the enimy of his holy faith &amp; Chri&s;tian religion, who~ with al &s;uch like helhounds he could di&s;patch in le&s;&s;e then the twinck|ling of an eye, if his will were &s;uch, but the occa&s;ions of this are to vs vnknowne.</P>
<P>And if &s;uch a victorie hath not beene obteined in <HI>Europe,</HI> or in <HI>Affricke,</HI> nee|rer vnto vs, yet the more is God to bee pray&s;ed for: becau&s;e anie victorie cannot be obteined, but there is lo&s;&s;e as well on the &s;ide of the victorer, as of the &s;ame that is vanqui&s;hed.</P>
<P>And in the meane while the <HI>Turkes,</HI> be &s;o much weaker for to a&s;&s;ail vs on this &s;ide (as they had well thought to haue come this Summer againe, to the I&s;le of <HI>Malta</HI>) hauing lo&s;te &s;o great number&punc; of men in this battaile, as that of one hu~dred and three&s;core thou&s;and remaine deade vpon the place, which is no maruaile. for &s;uch Monarchies may prepare in a little time, an armie of an hundred or two hun|dred thou&s;and men.</P>
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<P>And he that &s;hall &s;ee what <HI>Diodorus Siculus</HI> doth wi&s;ely write, &s;hall finde, that when <HI>Xerxes</HI> came to inuade <HI>Graecia,</HI> when as <HI>Leonidas</HI> King of <HI>Sparta</HI> (with few men) re&s;i&s;ted him at the &s;traights of <HI>Thermopylae,</HI> he had more then one Mil|lion of armed men.</P>
<P>In the battail which <HI>Ladi&s;laus</HI> king of <HI>Panonnie</HI> had again&s;t <HI>Amurat</HI> Empe|rour of the <HI>Turkes,</HI> there were kilde of the &s;ide of the <HI>Turkes</HI> (though they did gaine the battail) foure hu~dred thou&s;and, wherof <HI>Sabellicus</HI> is a faithfull witne&s;&s;e vnto vs.</P>
<P>The great <HI>Alexander</HI> &s;lue one Mil|lion of men, in the bloody battaile again&s;t <HI>Darius.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cyrus</HI> King of the <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> lo&s;t a|gain&s;t the <HI>Scythians</HI> al his armie wherin were two hundreth thou&s;and men, &amp; that which therein is found &s;traunge (is this) that there was not one &s;aued for to tel the newes.</P>
<P>Therefore it is not to be wondered at that the <HI>Sultan</HI> hath lo&s;te in one onely en|counter &s;o many men: for if in times pa&s;t when Gunnes were not v&s;ed, there did
<PB REF="8"> peri&s;h in one Iorney &s;o great quantitie of men, what will it be nowe, when with one only &s;troke of Artillery, men are &s;eue to vani&s;h like &s;nowe in the Sun, and that again&s;t &s;uch a diuili&s;h inuention there is nothing able to make re&s;i&s;tance?</P>
<P>The <HI>Sophi</HI> hath onely lo&s;t fortie thou|&s;and men, a&s;well in the battaile as in the a&s;&s;aults which he hath giuen again&s;t tho&s;e of the towne, hauing a great de&s;ire to fol|lowe his good fortune, the which might let or hinder the pretence of that enemie to Chri&s;tianitie. <HI>Sultan Selim</HI> then fir&s;t beganne to rai&s;e vppe an armie by Sea for to de&s;cend into <HI>Africa,</HI> but it is beleeued, that hauing to deale with &s;uche an enemie as the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> and his confe|derates, hee &s;hall haue inough to doe for to reuenge him again&s;t their forces, con|&s;idering that the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> do v&s;e the Can|nons a&s;well as the <HI>Turkes;</HI> adding there|vnto that the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> are more &s;touter and couragious in warre. And it might wel be applyed which the <HI>Hebrewes</HI> or <HI>Iewes</HI> doe affirme of the Monarchie of <HI>Turkes,</HI> the which (&s;ay they) ought to
<PB REF="8" MS="y"> take end at the fifteenth Lord the whiche is <HI>Selim,</HI> reigning at this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>A famous A&s;trologian of <HI>Armenica,</HI> &s;aide vnto <HI>Soliman,</HI> that the raigne of the hou&s;e of the <HI>Ottoman</HI> &s;houlde ends in his per&s;onne, to the which he an&s;wea|red: Not in me, but in my &s;ucce&s;&s;our, of the which the <HI>Turkes</HI> are in great doubt, according to a prophe&s;ie which they haue &s;aying, <HI>Our Empire &s;hall come, a king|dome &s;hall take it, figured by a red ap|ple.</HI> And if the &s;woorde of the Chri&s;tians doe not ri&s;e vntill the twelfth yeer he &s;hal po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e it, after which time, &s;hal appeare the &s;woorde of the Chri&s;tians, which &s;hal put to flight the <HI>Turke,</HI> and yf vntill the &s;euenth yeere, the Chri&s;tians doe not re|couer the red apple figured for <HI>Con&s;tan|tinople,</HI> the which &s;euen yeeres, are to be accounted for &s;euentie yeeres, for they meane one yeere for ten, at the ende of twelue yeeres, the &s;worde of the Chri&s;ti|ans &s;hall cha&s;e the <HI>Turkes,</HI> taking the be|ginning of the twelfth yeere, at the taking of <HI>Con&s;tantinople.</HI> Which was in the yeere. 1453. in the moneth of May. The
<PB REF="9"> end of which twelue yeeres, in which the &s;woorde of the Chri&s;tians ought to cha&s;e the <HI>Turke,</HI> &s;hall come iu&s;tly in the yeere 1570. taking as is &s;aide, &s;euentie for all the tenth part of &s;euentie.</P>
<P>GOD graunt that the Chri&s;tian Princes being wel ioined togeather may recouer the Orientall Empire, and ther|in plant the holy Catholike faith, in the meane time, that this barbarous catife &s;halbe occupied in other cau&s;es. So be it.</P>
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