Fourth King of the

Ba/afcet, Fomft
performed. After long Siege,, the Citizens feeing
Jhe Country aboutthem utterly wafted, and them-
(elves unable longer to indure, and out of all
hope of rdieE yielded their City 1 unto the plealure
of Boja&et. It is written by fbme, that tflis
famous Ciry was not befieged without the confeht
of the Emperor of Conjhnmoik', a(jfboiling
the Coflrftry before ffffa ^he tye'nt 1 .
Where 'rite Vayvod toifeprefs" his Wrj&Vniet *r
flam; fb that at laft fee" Was glad", to. file* for
Peace, which ti& ootaifted, by wbmtftirf^ Unafclf
to Bajazet, and yisl&iig td pay turn a yearly
Tribute.
Whiift Zajazei Was thus W^ffi$}(j$& Theflilia
lieWs was brought unto* him,, That' t'hei 'OrlrruuE invaded
Of the Weft with a Fleet of Callj|s did great h Bajaharm
alongft the Coafts of his j&dmuudns in zct "
•A/ia. In revenge whefec , rj he entered' with lxis
Army into TbeJJaly, dettroyihg all the Country
unto TbeJJalonica; in which expedition he took
J the City of Neapotts in Greece, and fodnmna in t/d£-
I folia, and after that returned into Afa, where he
fjient that Winter.
In the beginning of the next Spring, he with
a great Power palled the Strait of Cattipolis to
Hadrianofkj, intending to have invade'd Hunga­
ry. But as he was upon the way, it chanced
that a Conftantinopolitah Spy was by the Turks
intercepted, with Letters from the Greek Emperor
to the King of Hungary, giving hini
Warning both of the Turks preparation and
coming. By which Spy Bajazet alfo.'underftood
of another Mefieriger before le/it into tiitngary
for like purpofe. Whereupon Temundfes /then
, his great Lieutenant in Europe) penwadeu him
i to defift -from his intended Wars in Hungary,
and to befiege the Imperial City of Constantinople,
as a thing of more honour, arid Jefs" dan­
ger; the City'being already f as fie u^I, ancj;
as iff truth it was) lurrounded wit'rTtl^e Tiiriim,
Provinces; bringing in Philadelphia ( but a few
years before won ) for example of,the like exploit.
Of whole Couhiel Bajazet. liking well,
returned With his Army, and fliortly after came
Peace with him as it pleafed him to grant' it. and fate down therewith before Conjtantinsple,
As Baj'a was making this expedition' into ' I laying hard Siege thereunto, firft by Lahdi and;
Caramania, another young Mahometan Prince, after by Sea, with his Gallies feht from CaBt-s
the Son of Prince Germ tan, came unto him jolts. Whicli hard Siege conphued (as moft con/Ianwith
one of his chief Councillors, and were Hiftories report) the fpace or eight years» in tinople
both by him lent Pri(bners over the Strait to which long time he drave the Emperor Ema-. ii£j>tyears^
the Caftle of Ipfala, where they lay in durance nuel Paleologus to that Strait, that he was glad g^fl^
many years after. Thus Bajazet having op- to leave his City, and himfelf in perlbn to crave
prefled and wronged moft of the Mahometan ' Aid of Wehcejldus the German Emperor, and
Princes, the Succeflbrs of Sultan Aladin in the Charles the Sixth the, French King, and other
lefler Afia, at laft returned, again himfelf in Chjiftiarr 'Princes alio. At which time the Citriumph
to Prufa.
| tizens were at length brought
The Prince of Mentefa, who "for fear of Saj'a"
%et was fled out of his Country, as is aforefaid,
had* new incited Cutrun Bajazet; Prince
of Caflamona, with a great power to invade
that fide of Bajazet his Kingdom which bordered
upon Mm. Which Bajazet undemanding-,
gathered a great Army to go againft this Mahometan
Prince. At which very time the Vayvod
of Walacbia, hearing of Bajazet his troubles in
Afla, with a ftrong Army palled over Danubim
into thole pans of Serbia and Bulgaria that
were by the Turks as then pofleffecf; where
he lpoiled the Country, and flew great numbers
of the Turks i making Mahometan Saints
and Martyrs by heaps; for fb the Turks account
all them whom the Chriftians kill in their
War; which done, he-retired back again into
V'dacbia, carrying with him alio many of the
Turks Prifonere. Bajazet' thus at once invaded
both in- 40* and Burt*?; deferred Ms Wars
purpofed againft the Prince of Puma; until a
more convenient time, converting- his Forces
againft the VaUekims. Wherefore paffing over
the Strait to Hadrianpk,h&&nt his-Army from
1 to fuch extre-
! miry, that they were even at the point to have
; yielded up the City > and happily had fb done,
had not Sigifntund King of Hungary (affifted
1
with a great Army of the French, arid other
voluntary Chriftians alrnoit out of every part'
of Chrifrendom, to the number of an hundred
and thirty thoufand, under'the leading of John
\ Count of Nivers, and after Duke of Burgundy )
[ for the relief of the befieged Emperor, palled
over Datiutfius into the Turkifh Dominions i
and thero'having recovered ^W/zw, 'with certain
other ftrolig Holds in Bulgaria, laid Siege to 2v7-
•cobolst; out of which "City the Turks oftentimes
fallied, arid gave him many an hot sJUraufh*
It is-reported, That the young King SigjfmmU
beholding the greatnefs of his Army, in his
great jollity hearing of the coming of the Turks
Army, fliould proudly fay, What need we to fear
the Turk, who need not at all to fear /he falling
of the Heavens ? which if they Jhomd fall, yet were
we able with our Spears and Haldberts to hold
them up front falling upon us. But Bajaz,et underftanding
what Spoil the Hungarian King, had
^) rfladcin "his'late gained 'Countries? arid of the
Siege