An appendix to Holwel's Catastrophe mundi being an astrological discourse of the rise, growth and continuation of the Othoman family : with the nativities of the present French king, emperors of Germany and Turky, all truly rectifyed, and astrologically handled : also, what progress this present emperor of Turky shall make upon Europe in this intended war with the House of Austria : where unto is added a supplement of the judgment of comet / by John Holwel ...

CHAP. I. Of the Rise of the Nation of the Turks, and under what Constellation they had their Beginning.

THE Turks were a sort of People called Scythians, that left their Native Country in the Year of our Lord 844: under the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the fiery Sign Leo and did seat them selves in Armenia after a Rude manner, until Tangrolipix was sent by the Turks with 3000 Men to the aid of Mahomet the Sul∣tan of Persia: and in a year or two after he was chosen himself (by the Souldiers) Sultan of Persia in the Year of our Re∣demption 1030: this was under a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Taurus: Tangrolipix was chosen Sultan of Persia three years after the Conjunction it self: the next time that Saturn and Jupiter made their Conjunction in Taurus the Turks had a great War with the Christians: Jerusalem is taken by the latter, and Godfrey Duke of Bullon made King thereof by consent of the Christian Army; and when Saturn and Jupiter made their last Conjunction in the Earthy Triplicity, Viz. Virgo: Jerusalem was again Re-taken by Saladin the Sultan of the Turks, and under the same Conjunction, Viz. In the year 1202 the Turks were drove out of Persia by the Tar∣tars, and were forced to settle their Kingdom in lesser Asia, at Sebastia and Ivontum: and when Saturn and Jupiter made the first Conjunction in Libra after their en••tance in the Airy Tri∣plicity, the Turks were driven out of Aegypt by the Mamilukes

in the year 1250 five years after the Conjunction, and they set up a Kingdom of themselves, which Kingdom continu∣ed for the space of 267 years; at which time they were (Viz. in the year 1517, and nine years after the sixth Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Selymus the victorious Emperour of the Turks) overthrown, and the Kingdom of Aegypt, with all Syria and the Land of Pa∣lestine brought into the Form of Provinces, united unto the Turks Empire. At the same time that the Turks King∣dom was Founded by Tangropipix in Persia, was also another Kingdom of theirs at the City of Machan, but nothing compa∣parable to the other either in Glory or Power. At the time of the Turks being driven out of Persia by the Tar∣tar, one Solyman Reigned at Maehan, and was also driven out of his Kingdom: this Solyman was not of the same Fa∣mily of Tangropipix, but was of the Oguzian Tribe, this Soly∣man and his Oguzian Turks wandred till they came to Eu∣phrates, where Solyman, by endeavouring to find a Passage, was there drowned; he left behind him four Sons, Sencur, Teken Jundogdis, and Ertogrul, the Father of Othoman the Founder of the Turks Empire that now is, and Dunder. This Dunder and his Brother Ertogrule, with four hundred Families, stayed by the River, at a Place called Pasin-Ovasi, while the other two Brethren and the rest of the Turks passed the River, and return∣ed again into Persia: this Ertogrul having three Sons, Viz. Jundus, Serugatius and Othoman, sent his second Son Serugatius to Aladin, to desire him to let him have a Corner of his Coun∣try that wanted Peopling to rest in; which Request was grant∣ed, and after a short time, for some good Service that this Er∣togrul had done the Sultan Aladin, gave him and his Turks a Country Village called Sugata, in the greater Phrygia, and so continued these Turks for a small time, still increasing, until Ertogrul, after he had Governed the Oguzian Families 52 years, dyed in the Year of our Lord 1289: after whose Death the Oguzian Turks chose Othoman to be their Governour; as may be seen by any who please to peruse the Turkish History.