1570 Edition | Book 6 | Page 936 
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1. Introduction2. Persecution of Lollards in Norwich diocese3. Paul Craw and Thomas of Rennes4. Council of Basel [I]5. Council of Basel [II]6. Richard Whiche7. Eleanor Cobham8. Humphrey of Gloucester and Cardinal Beaufort9. Invention of Printing10. Fall of Constantinople11. Reginald Peacock12. Eugenius IV to Sixtus IV13. Richard of York14. Wars of Roses15. John Goose and George of Clarence16. Holy Roman Emperors and Hussite Wars17. John de Wesalia and Sixtus IV18. Edward V and Richard III19. Maximilian I and Julius II20. History of the Turks to Sulieman I21. Sulieman I22. Turkish captives23. Ottoman dominions24. Biblical prophecy and the Turks25. Persecution of Lollards26. Ecclesiastical laws27. Proud primacy of the Popes
K. Henry. 7. A Table of the Turkes storye.
fielde of our men, of whō 2000. were slaine in the chase. Accon at lēgth was got of the Christians. K. Richard gotte Cyprus. The ij. kynges fell at strife. Philip retyred home without any good doing. King Richard layd siege to Hierusalem, but in vayne, and so returnyng homeward was taken nere to Vienna in Austria, after he had taken truce before with the Soldan, vpon such conditiō as pleased him. And thys good spede had the Popes, sendyng out agaynst the Turkes. | |
| MarginaliaTransubstantiation. An. 1215. There was an other Coūcell hol den at Rome, by pope Innocent 3. where was enacted a new article of our fayth for transubstantiatiō of bread & wine, to be tur- ned into the body & bloud of our sauiour. In this Coūcell also great excitation was made by þe pope, & great preparatiō was throughe all Christendome, to set forward for recoue- ry of the holy land. A mighty armie was col- lected of dukes, lordes, knightes, byshops and prelates, that if Gods blessing had gone with them, they might haue gone through out all Asia and India. | |
An. 1219. The Christians after 18. mo- nethes siege, got a certain towne in Ægypt called Damiata, or Elipolis, wt much a do, but not much to þe purpose. For afterward as the Christian armie of þe popes sending, went about to besiege the Citie Cayrus or Babylon, the Sultan throughe his subtile trayne so intrapped and inclosed them with in the daunger of Nilus, that they were con streyned to render agayne the Citie Da- miata, with their prisoners, and all the fur- niture therof, as they found it, into the Sol- dans hand, and glad so with their lyues to passe forward to Tyrus. an. 1221. | |
| MarginaliaVid. supr. pag. 389. In the meane time the Ægyptian Turke caused the Citie of Hierusalem to be rased, that it should serue to no vse to the Christi- ans. What great thing els was done in that viage, it doth not greatly appeare in stories. Albeit Fridericus the 2. Emperour was not vnfruitfully there occupyed, and much more might haue done, had it not bene for the violence and persecution of the Byshop of Rome agaynst him 
CloseNote that Foxe here, as elsewhere, blames the failure of the Crusades on the Papacy. forced to take truce with the Sultan for ten yeares, and so returned. After which things done, not many yeares after, at length the last Citie of all belonging to the Christians, whiche was Ptolomais or Akers, was al- so taken from them by the Sultane, so that nowe the Christians had not one foote left in all Asia. | |
| MarginaliaTartarians. Porta Caspiæ. An. 1203. Thus þe Christians beyng dryuē out of Asia by the Sultans & Turkes, yet the sayd Turkes and Sultanes dyd not long en- ioye their victory: For eftsones þe Lord stir- red vp agaynst them the Tartarians,
CloseI.e., the Mongols. This passage describes the Mongol invasions of the Near East in 1258-1260. breakyng into Asia by þe portes of Caspius, subdued diuers partes of Asia, namely a- bout Comana, Colchis, Iberia, Albania, &c. These Tartariās, as they had got many captiues in their warres: so for gayne vsed to shyppe them ouer customably to Alexan- dria in Ægypt to be solde: whiche seruaūtes and captiues Melechsala the great Sultan was glad to bie, to serue him in his warres. Whiche captiues and seruaunts after they |
| MarginaliaSaladinus stocke in Ægypt ceaseth. had continued a certeine space in Ægypte, and through their valiaunt seruice, grew in fauour and estimation with þe sayd Melech- sala, and beganne more to increase in num- ber and strength: at length they slue hym, and tooke to them selues the name and kyng dome of the Sultan.
CloseThis is a garbled account of the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in 1250 and the establishment of the Mamluk caliphs in Egypt. stocke of Saracon and Saladinus afore men cioned, whiche continued in Ægypte about the space as is sayd of. | 100. yeares. |
| MarginaliaMamaluchi in Ægypt. An. 1240. After þe death of Melechsala, the army of these foresaid rascals and captiues, set vp to them selues a kyng of their own cō pany, whom they called Turquemenius. Who to fill vp the number of their compa- ny that it should not diminishe, diuised this order, to get or to bye Christen mens chil- dren, taken young from their parentes, and the mothers lappe: whom they vsed so to bryng vp to make them to renye Christ, and to be circumcised, and instructed in Mahu- metes law, & afterward to be trained in the feates of warre, and these were called Ma- maluchi. Among whom this was their or- der, that none might be aduaunced to bee kyng, but out of their owne number, or els chosen by them: neither that any should be made knightes or horsemen, but onely the children of Christians, whiche should denye Christ before, called Mamaluchi. Also it was among them prouided, that to this dig- nitie neither Saracens nor Iewes should be admitted. Item, that the succession thereof should not descende to the children and of- spryng of these Mamaluchi. Also, that the succession of the crowne shoulde not des- cende to the children of the foresayd Sul- tans, but should go by voyce and election. The Tartariās with Turquemenius their kyng, aboute this tyme obteyned Turquia, that is, Asia Minor, from the Turkes, and within ij. yeares after, preuailyng agaynst the Turkes, expelled them from their kyng- dome, and so continued these Mamaluchi reignyng ouer Ægypt and a greate parte of Asia, till the tyme of Tomumbeius their last kyng, whiche was destroyed and hanged at the gates of Memphis, by Ze- limus þe Turke, father to this Solymannus, as in his story is declared
CloseSee 1570, p. 885, 1576, p. 722 and 1583, p. 747. Mamaluchi continued the space of. | 260. yeares.MarginaliaVid. supra. pag. 885. |
An. 1245. These Tartarians raungyng through þe countreyes of þe Georgians, & all Armenia, came as farre as Iconiū, which was thē the Imperiall Citie of the Turkes. An. 1289.
CloseThese cities were captured in 1291. lon got frō the Christians Tripolis, Tyrus, Sidon, and Berithus in Syria. An. 1291. Lastly, Ptoloniais, which also is called Akers, was surprised by þe sayd Sol- dan, rased and cast down to þe ground, & all the Christians therin (which were not ma- ny lefte) were slayne. And this was the last Citie which the Christians had in Asia: So that now the Christians haue not one foote (as is sayd before) left in all Asia. Thus the Ægyptian Soldans, and the Tartariās reig- ned & raunged ouer the most part of Asia, aboue þe Turkes, till the reigne of Ortomā- nus the great Turke, about þe space of. | 80. yeares. |
¶ And thus haue ye the whole discourse of þe Turkish storie, with their names, countreys, townes, dominions,
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