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The First Booke. (Book 1)
The causes that moued the Author to write this Historie.
The Originall of this warre.
The causes of the same warre.
Aidere beheaded.
Ismahel the king vseth great cruelties, publisheth a new Religion, and sprea∣deth ab••••ad a speech that he would passe into Babylonia.
Amurath resolueth to moue warre against Persia.
Periaconcona beheaded.
New stirres in Persia, wherof Vctres Bassa aduerti seth Amurath: who ther∣by is confirme in his opinion to make this warre.
Consultations at Constantinople, of the maner how to manage this warre.
Amurath will not in person go with the Armie: but choseth Mustaffa Bassa to be his Generall: who passeth to Chalcedon, and from thence to Erzi∣rum, where he mustereth and surueigheth his Armie, and then departeth for Siruan.
Mustaffa a trueth at Char•••• goeth vnder the Mountaines of Chi••lder, and there encampeth himselfe artificially.
The King of Persia sendeth Souldiers against the Turkes: and ouer them he maketh 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Sultan his Generall.
Tocomac cometh toward Chars; he findeth out his Spies, and being decei∣ued by his Spies, he doth confidently assault the Turkes.
At the first, Tocomac doth happely ouercome the Turkes, but afterwardes he was discomfited, and saued himselfe by the oportunitie of the night.
The particular of the Victorie.
Manucchiar the Georgian yeeldeth himselfe to Mustaffa, and is interteined by him.