Fourth King of the

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Bajazct
inv'adecb
Servia.
The L I F E of
BAJAZET,
« The Firft of that N A M E,
The FOURTH and moft UNFORTUNATE
Kins of thelTurks.
B4]4X*ty or as the Turks call him, Bdajit\
of his violent andfierce Nature iimamed
Gildermpv lightning, iucceeded his-Far
ther Amurath in the Turkifh Kingdom,
I -- his younger Brother Jacup being Aran"
gled immediatly after bis Fathers death, as is before
declared. He in the firft year of his Reign
invaded Servia, and there befieged Craiova, a
City of the pefpors > whereunto the Silver Mines
of Serum (not the leaft caufe of that War} belonged.
Which City was yielded unto him, upon
condition, That the Chriftian Inhabitants might
with Life and Liberty depart. Who 'were no
iponer gon out of the City, but that by bis
commandment, they. were all -moft cruelly flain
by his men of War, for that purpofe fent out
after them. At this time he alio won Ufcupia,
with divers other Caftles in the Country near
unto Cratova.
Sigifimmd at the fame time King of Hungary (a
young Prince of great hope, and Brother to Wencejlaw,
then Emperor or the Weft ) advertiied
from the 'Servian* his Allies and Confederates,
of'theie proud proceedings of ~B'aJdz,et;' by his
Embafiadors fent of purpofe, requefted him,
That as he was a juft Prince, ana wiflied to
live in quiet with his own, to defift from, doing
of fuch open wrong, and from invading
of fuch Countries of his Friends, and Con&dtf-.
rates, as be had no right in. Which Embafladors
fb fent, Bajazet detained without anfver,
until fuch time as he had overran, a great part of
the pefpot his Country, and therein donejwiiat|
he thought good. Then calling the laid Embafladors
unto rum into one of the ftr0ng.Towns|
which he had in every corner filled with ibis
own Souldiers, told them that they might there
lee,, that lias Right both unto that Town and the
reft by him taken, was good enough, &r. as
much as the very Walls acknowledged the iame;!
And fo giving them leave to depart, willed diem
lb to tell their Mailer. Which his proud anfwer,
fc$ the fame Embafladors reported unto the
young King, no lefs troubled him, than if open
War had by diem been denounced unto him,
feeing the Tyrant (as it fhould. ieem) pretended
Right unto wha'tfbever he could by force get >
li^rertheleS, being hirafelf not yet weir ietled in,
his Kingdom, and in doubt of the contrary
Faction (that altogether liked not of hislS-j
lection into Bungay for their King J he was
I glad at that time to put it up, and fp to hold hkrt>
I fclf content.
The next year, Bajaz-et by'Ferifet-Beg, took gerrja tbe
the City of l r idma, with many other RxoajL fttaitimt
Towns and Caftles in Servia, and afterwards intdiibf
returned to Hadrianoph. But whilft that he that B *' azct * *
raged in Europe, the Caramanian King invaded
I and fpoiled the Frontiers of his Countries in
Afia\ which although hfc was not then at leiiure,
he forgot not afterwards to revenge to
1 the -full. At the feme rime Enrtmfes, Lord Goj
'vernor of the Marches of his Kingdom in £cn
pope towards Gtecia, departing from Serai ( where H
he then lay; took the* City of Sitm in Thejk
\ folia. And Fertfes-Btg, not content to have H
taken Viding fas is aforelaid). pafled over the
great River of Danubim, and grievoufly fpoiled
Vdacbia\ from whence he returned loden with.
.a; great Prey. This was the firft rime (that I
read of) that the Turks ever pafled over
the River Danubiw. At this rime alio Jegides '
Bajfa entred the Kingdom of Bofna, from
whence he carried a great number of Caprives
to Hadriample, where Bajazet fpent that
Winter.
In the beginning of the next Spring Bajazet
pafled over Hellejpontta to Vrufa, where he
I built' a fair Mahometan Temple, with a Col*
l&dge," and an Alms-Houfe -, which works finiihed,
he returned again info Europe, and built a
Monaftery at Madrianople 3 and fo returned again,
into AJia\ leaving Temurtafes, Begler-Beg ( or his
[Viceroy) in Hadrianoph. After he was come
into Afia, he laid Siege tjo the ftrong City of
Philadelphia in, lydia, which' was at that rime pukfcj.
the. ~only n Cfty iin the lejHer Afia, yet hold en phia beby'the
Chriftiaijs in the midft of the Mabome- Rigid by
tan Princes; foa now was the Greek Emperor " J i azet «
by tlje Qtl>pmoif[ Kings.,and. the odier- Turks
quite driven eut of the \effar jAfia. In the bc-
. ginning of this Siege, Bajazct gave ftrait rcommandment
to hs Souldiers, That, they fhall not
apoilr Qp.-huFj^any thing! in the Country belonging'
to'die Citizens i i hoping by fuch feigned
courtefie to make triem the more willing
[ to yield, themfelves untoi his Obedience. But
djfappqinted of his expectation, and finding
them refolded to hold it out unto the laft, he #
: for^wirJi gave out contrary commandment, not
to fpare any thing they could waft or deftroy
which was accordingly by his greedy Souldiers
H performed.
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