Fourth King of the

cuftom of thole Nothern Nations and Countries,
ihe caufe tQ ^5^1 ciiem an tor Shepherds and Herd£
JStn. men; 'and fo alfb to have reported of this
ftruibim mighty Prince, as of a Shepherds Son, orHontf
it btvt Bian himfelf; vainly meafuring his Nobility by
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the homely manner of his People and Subjects,
and not by the Honour of his Houfe, and. Heroical
Vertues, fuch as were hardly to be found
greater in any Prince of that or other former
Ages. His peaceable Father now well ftricken
in years and weary of the World, delivered up
unto him (not yet paft-fifteen years old ) the
Government of his Kingdom, joyning unto nim
two of his moft faithful Counfellors, Odmar
and ARt to affift htm in the Government of
his State ("retiring himielf unto a fblitary life, the
more it quiet to ferve God, and fo to end his
days in Peace;) which two his trufty Servants
and grave Counfellors he dearly loved whilft
they lived, and much honoured the remembrance
of them being dead. The firft proof of his
Fortune and Valour, was againft the Mufcwite,
for {boiling of a City which had put it felf under
his protection* and for entring of his Country
} and for proclaiming of War againft him;
whom he in a great Battel overthrew, having
(lain five and twenty thousand of the Jtfufco.vites
Footmen, and between fifteen and fixteen
thousand Horfemen, with the lols of fcaree
eight thoufand Horfemen, and four thoufand
Footmen of his own. After which Battel he
beholding fo many thousands of men there dead
upon the ground; was fo far from rejoycing
thereat* that turning 1 himfelf to one of his Familiars,
he lamented the condition of fuch as
commanded over great Annies, commending
his Fathers quiet courfe of Bib; accounting
him happy in feeking for reft, and the other
moft unhappy, which by the deftruction of their
own kind, fought to procure their own glory,
protecting himfelf even from his Heart to be
grieved to fee fuch fad tokens of his Victory.
Wjth this overthrow the Mufcovite difcouraged,
fent EmbafTadors to him for peace, which upon
fuch honorable Conditions as pleafed him,
to fet down, was by him granted, and fb the
Peace concluded. Now the great Cham oi Tartar
ia (his Fathers Brother) being grown old,
and out of hope of any more Children, moved
with the Fame of his Nephew, after this Victory
fent him divers Prefents, and withal offering
him his only Daughter in marriage, and with
her to proclaim him Heir apparent unto, his
Empire , as in right he was, being his Brothers
Son, and the Daughters not at ail iucceeding
in rhofe Empires. Which fb great zti offer
Tamerlane gladly accepted, and 10 the marriage
was afterwards with great Triumph at the old
Emperors Court folemnized', and he proclaimed
Heir apparent unto that great Empire. Thus
wfojtfjiiUi was Tamerlane indeed made great, being ever
Tartar v. a ^ er this marriage- by the old Emperor his Uncle,
and now his Father-in-Law, fo long as he
H lived, notably (imported, and after his death
fuccecding him aho in that fo mighty an Empire.
Yet in the mean time wanted not this
worthy Prince the envious Competitors of thefe
his lb great Honours > infbmuch, that whilft by
the advice and perfwafion of the old Emperor,
he was taking in hand to make War againft
1/ the great Kmg of China (who had as then
gon tar beyond his bounds ) and fo was now
well onwards on his way, he was by the Conspiracy
of Calix ( a man of greatelt Power and
Authority in the great Cham his Court) almoft
chruft out of his new Empire; Calix with a
right puiflant Army having already ieized upon
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the great City of Cambalu, and the Citizens alfb
generally favouring tliofe his traiterous proceedings,
as difdaining to be governed by die Za i
g-at'tan Tartar, For redrew whereof, Tamerlane
was enforced with the greatelt part of his Army
to return, and meeting with the Rebel ( who
then had in his Army fourfcore thoufand Hofte,and
an hundred thoufand Foot) in a great and
mortal Battel (wherein of the one fide and of
the other were more than fifty thoufand men
flain ) overthrew him (though not without the;
great danger of his own Perion, as being there
himfelf beaten down to the ground) took him
Prifoner, and afterwards beheaded him. Which,
ib dangerous a Rebellion, with the death of the
Traitor, and the chief of the Confpirators reprefled,
and his State in the newnefs thereof
by this Victory well confirmed, he proceeded
in his intended War againft the great King of
China; brake down the ftrong Wall, which the
Cbinoies had made four. hundred Leagues long
betwixt the Mountains, - for the repreffing of
the incur/ions of the Tartars, entred their Country,
and meeting with the King, leading after,
him three hundred and fifty thoufand Men
(whereof there were an hundred and fifty
thoufand Horfemen, and the reft on Foot J in
a great and dreadful Battel, with the flaughrer:
of fixty thoufand of his Men, overcame him,
and took him Prifoner i whom for all that he
if in-the courfe of fo great a Vietory wifely
moderating his fortune) fhortly after fet again
at liberty; yet fb, as that having before taken
from him the one half of his Kingdom, and
therein left Odmar his trufty Lieutenant,- with a
fufficient Power for the retraining of the proud
King, if he fhould again begin.to raife any new
ftirs > and withal impofed Juch other conditions
as pleafed himielf, with the yearly Tribute of
three hundred thoufand Crowns, . he well provided
for the alluring of thofe his new Conquefts;
and fb in Triumph returned with Victory
unto the old Emperor his Father-in-Law at
Cambalu, not a little glad to fee both him and
his Daughter, who had in all thofe Wars ftill accompanied
Mm. But leaving him, now thus by
Birth great, by his Fortune greater, but by his.
Vertue greatelt of all, fas able now to draw
after him almoft the whole Power of the Eaft )
let us again return thither from whence we have
for the better knowledge of him, thus with him
digrefled.
The War againft the Turkifh Sultan Bajazet
fas is aforefaid) by Tamerlane refbived upon, he
lent Axalla the great Captain to his Country
of Sachetay ( called of fome Zagat ay ) to give
beginning to the attempting of his Forces from
all parts; to the end, that with the firft of the
Spring he might fet forward for the relief of fb
many diftrefled Princes, and the abating of the
Pride of fo great and mighty a Tyrant as was
Bajazet. Now had Tamerlane procured from the
great Tartarian Emperor, his Uncle and Fatherin-
an hundred thoufand Footmen,- and
fourfcore thoufand Horfemen, hoping to have
as many more from Sachetay his own Country,
befides the Lords that for his honours fake would
accompany him in that his fb honourable an
expedition, from whom he made account alfb
of fifty thoufand men more which they would
bring .unto him, and divers other great Applies
which he expe&ed from other places alfb; wherewith
he doubted not well to perform what he
.had fo honourably determined to take in hand,
for the abating 01 the Oiboman Pride, for which
and other fash ;Kke,, he was (as he would oftentimes
fay ) by God himfelf appointed; fb taking
V 1 his