Fourth King of the

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Orchanes, Second King of the Turks.
it length awake out of their dead fleep; who of
late hath loft unto the fame Enemy, not the Cattle
Of Zembenic, or the City of Callipolu, bat whole
danger of the Turks laid in ambufh; .where his
men were all {lain, and himlelf taken and brought
before his own Caftle, and had there his head pre* .
Kingdoms* as Hungary and Cyprus, and are ftill lently ftruck oft*; whereupon the Caftle was forth­
fair in the way; I toy no more tor grief, and forewith by them that were therein (having now loft
boding of evil fortune. But again to our purpofe; their Captain ) furrendred, and Cbaxa Hi-Beg, a
Solyman having made this prosperous entrance into valiant Captain of the Turks, placed therein;
Europe, and there got ftrong footing, by fpeedy who from thence never ceafeuto trouble the
Meilengers certified his Father what he had done, Country, even to the Walls of Dydimoticbum, as
and that it was expedient for him with all Ipeed did Solyman alio out of CaUipolis.
to fend unto him a great liipply of men of War, as Thus in the ipace of one year the Turks got
well for the lure defence and keeping of thole ftrong footing in Europe, pofleffing divers Caftles
Caftles and Forts by him already gotten, as for the and Towns , with the Country about them,
fiiBther invasion of the Country. This menage which Solyman gave in reward unto his Captains
was wonderful welcome waoOrcbatnsjnd where­ and Souldiers, as appeareth by the Graves and
as many Families of the Sarafms at that preient Tombs of Ezes-Beg and Fazjl-Beg, the two which
were come into the Country csi Carafina, to poflefi firft came over into Europe, which are there yet
the Dwellings and Places of them, which in hope well known.
to better their Eftate were before gon over into About this time it fortuned, that as this Martial the dutb
Europe; all the&Sara/ms he commanded to pais over Prince Solyman was for his difport hawking in the ofSoiyinto
Europe likewife; which they did accordingly, Fields of Bolayre on Europe fide, galloping in to his
lea ting themfelves for a time in the Country near
to CalUpolv. In the mean time Solyman omitted no
opportunity to enter further into the Country,
winning fmall Forts and Holds, and ftill peopling
the lame with his Turks. And on the other fide,
they of Carafina paffed over into Europe, placing
themfelves as it were in a new World. For which
cauie, and for the great defire they had to extend
the Turkifh Dominion and Religion, they refilled
no pains of War •> & that all things at that time
profpered with the Turks, and went backward
with the Chiifbans.
In the time of theie Wars,not far from CaUipolis
was a little Caftle called Congere,the Captain whereof
was by a Greek name called Colo Johannes, a
valiant and painful man; this Captain continually
molefted and troubled the Turks which lay on that
fide of CaUipolis, under the leading o( Ez.es-Beg, many
of whom he flew and took Pr3bners,as he could
find them at any advantage. Solyman much angred
herewith, by crafty and fecret Elpials learned a
certain time when he was gone out of his Caftle
to do fome exploit upon the Turks. Whereupon he
prelenrly io belet the Caftle with Souldiers, that
he could by no means return thither, but he muft
firft fall into their hands > and for more affurance
placed .others alio in by-ways, left he Ihould by
any ways elcape. The Captain ignorant of all this,
profecuted his enterprife,and having taken a Turk
Prilbner, thinking to return to his Caftle, was
nattily purlued by Faz.il-Beg •> for which caule
making the more hafte, he uiddenly fell into the
anBan »
Falcon, was with his Horle overthrown ma ditch, j,,-, ,/"»*
of which Fall he being lore bruifed, fliortly after SQM.
died. The news of his death being brought to Or-lb dietb
ebanes his Father, gave unto him (then being lick) *f ° rch ?"
juft occafion of great lbrrow; €0 that within two ncs *
months after he died alio, being fourfcore years
old, when he hadraigned thereof 31 years; and
died about the year of our Lord 1559. Some
FJHftories report otherwife, both of his death, and
of the time wherein he lived; as that he Ihould be
flam in a Battel againft the Tartars» or as others
write, with an Arrow at the Siege of Prufa, in
the year of our Lord 1249, But Joannes Leunclatrius
in his Hiftory colleded out of the Turks
own Chronicles ( whom we follow as mod probable)
reporteth it as before.
This Orchanes was wife,courteous,and bountiful,
more ingenious than his Father in deviling wavlike
Engins. He built divers Princely Churches,
AJbbies,Colledges,and Cells, and was in his lupeiv
ititious Religion very zealous; in & much that
he appointed Penlions to all liich as could in the
Church lay the Book of Mahomets Law by heart;
and appointed competent maintenance for all
Judges of his Courts, became they Ihould not
take any thing in reward of his Subjects, for the
perverting^ of Juftice. He greatly inlarged his
Kingdom in Afia, and not content to be inclofed
with the Seas of Euxinum and HeUtfpontus, let
faft footing in Europe, which lome attribute to his
Son Amur at h. He was to the Chriftians always a
moft mortal Enemy, and £> died.
FINIS.
fAndronicus Paleologus
•Of the E*fi< the younger.
^ I John Paleologus.
f'Emperors.
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