THE
HISTORY
OF THE
LIFE and DEATH
OF SULTAN
Solyman the Magnificent,
Emperor of the Turks,
And of his Son
MUSTAPHA.
INSCRIB’D TO
The Spectators of MUSTAPHA, aTragedy: Acted at the Theatre-Royal, inDrury-Lane.
With a Geographical Description of the Progressof the Emperor Solyman’s Armies in Hungary,Germany, and several other Parts of Europe,Asia, and Africa.
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LONDON:
Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe, in
Paternoster-Row. M.DCC.XXXIX.
THE
HISTORY
OF
Solyman the Magnificent, and
Mustapha his Son.
AS the Town has been so agreeablyentertain’d with the Tragedy ofMustapha, written by the celebratedAuthor of Eurydice, andother valuable Pieces, I think it will not beamiss to give a short Account of the Lifeand Actions of Solyman, the Father of Mustapha,mix’d with those of that unfortunate Prince,who gives Title to the Play.(2)
Solyman the Magnificent, (Father toMustapha, by a beautiful Circassian Slave,and Tzianger, by the ambitious Roxolana)was one of the most potent Princes of theOthoman Race: He was the Son of Selimus,who died in the midst of his Victories,upon the Road to Adrianople, of a Cancerin his Reins, in September 1520, whenCharles V. was Emperor of Germany, HenryVIII. King of England, Francis I. Kingof France, James V. King of Scotland,and Leo X. Pope of Rome.
At the Time of his Father’s Death,Solyman was at Magnesia(A), and receivingNotice of his Father’s Death from FerhatesBassa, only, (as Selimus his Father had formerlyattempted to poison him, fearing hisamiable Qualities) gave little Credit to theInformation: But when he received theConfirmation from Pyrrhus, and Mustapha,Bassas at Adrianople, he ventur’d to(3)Scutari(B), where he was met by the Aga ofthe Janizaries(C), and Numbers of thePeople, (yet ignorant of the Death of Selimus)from whence he was conducted overto Constantinople(D), where the Body of theJanizaries were prepar’d on