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A52021	A new survey of the Turkish empire and government in a brief history deduced to this present time, and the reign of the now Grand Seignior, Mahomet the IV, the present and XIV emperor : with their laws, religion, and customs : as also an account of the siege of Newhausel.	Marsh, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.	1663 (1663)	Wing M729A; ESTC R15790	58,977	200

wholly destroys them and their Province with fire and sword ruining their Towns and Castles some by violence and force some by craft and treachery customary with wicked men and Turks and so totally vanquished and conquered them And after a few Months had passed this Bassa beholding the Earls rich Provinces and neighbouring with his he took or made occasions to invade him whom at length he kill'd and so reduced all his Territories under the Turkish Government Thus this seditious Atheist Traytor to his Country and his Brethren most ignominiously lost his life for such are the Turks rewards to whomsoever by craft policy or villanous fraud he can lay hold on or ensnare The like was done with some Noble-men of Hungary whom they reduced to miserable captivity Wherefore most Christian Monarchs the cruelties of this Tyrant ought with all industry and vigilance be both feared and prevented lest considering your fair Provinces and viewing them with a fascinating eye he find you disagreeing and thereby infeebled he assault you on all fides not only Candia Calabria Malta and Sicily but even Italy France Spain and Germany and prove an universal scourge and terrour to all Christendome They are wise who by others harms prevent their own you are concerned when your neighbors house is fired But not to trouble you in this kinde I recommend to you most prudent Governours the correction and amendment of this great errour and return to the deplorable calamities and afflictions our Brethren suffer under the yoke of Tribute in the Turks Dominions where some with chains about their necks are dragged through sharp and spiny parts of Thracia and lesser Asia with naked feet in thirst and hunger and if by labour of long journeys diseases or other griefs they die as often happens to men of Quality and bred in ease are hurled stript in the next ditch though not half dead to the care of ravenous fowls others that is young people of either sex endure perforce the filthy lusts of their buyers and their defencers with hideous cryes and howlings of violated and vitiated people the age of six years not defending them others ignorant in husbandry or Mechanick Arts and literated men who are least saleable are for long time driven from Town to Town from Street to Street and being once sold compell'd with clubs and scourges to learn Trades and daily employments in base businesses and grievous pains others of more robustious strength are made slaves to Gallies tied by the legs with chains and most miserably tortured whose sad calamities the power of humane wit cannot express in words And if these poor unfortunate souls could have foreknown that miserable being they 'd rather have chosen a thousand deaths If pains of life and death were e'er commix'd together yea if to live long and many days and die every hour were ever extant it is in Turkie Egyptian servitude Babylonian banishment Assyriack captivity Roman destruction are toyes and trifles to these calamities People who live as it were in the firy Furnace of the Chaldean Hut and crying up to heaven with sighs and groans O Lord how long arise and forsake us not in the end and when oppressed and grieved beyond all hope they turn their eyes again on their own Countries likewise in captivity yet wish themselves rather slaves there then where they are their prayers are not for liberty but change of place and for that cause indifferent for death or or life they turn Fugitives and some leaving their flocks in deserts their Oxen at plow expose themselves to devouration some murthering their Masters and their Children some burning their houses in revenge some run away hiding themselves in Caves and hollow Trees with fearful wants and dangers which I here forbear having given the Reader some taste thereof before And now they turn their cries to you all Christian Monarchs and Governours of Common-wealths Imploring and beseeching the Pope of Rome who should be Father of our Country and all sorts of men belonging to Christ his holy Church That they uniting all sects of men in peace and concord would labour to suppress this common enemy and restore their Brethren unto liberty Imploring and beseeching the Emperor and all Imperial Princes Dukes Cities and Nobility to cool their hot Calentures of ambition and avarice of neighbours rights and set apart domestick quarrels and call together and unite their strengths against so cruel an Usurper and hostile Enemy and labour to defend their present or else recover their lost Territories and then be assured the circumspection of the Spanish Souldiery the warlike fierceness of the Belgick Provinces the quick prudence of the Italian w●… the robustiousness and stoutness of the Germans will be easily perswaded by the King of Romans against this universal Enemy remembring you withal No Crown sits so gloriously on an Emperor or Princes head as that which beareth a true Title of the Peoples safety and lawful Liberties Imploring and beseeching the most Christian King of France to employ his helping and heroick Arms in safeguard according to his Title of his Christian Brethrens liberties and his own from Turkish Tyranny Imploring and beseeching the most mighty and potent Kings of England Poland Denmark Swedeland with all Republicks Cities and Corporations Christian to unite and joyn in one their strengths and powers in war against this cankered common Enemy of their Religion Crowns and Dignities Imploring and beseeching all sorts of Powers and Authorities spiritual and temporal to imploy their diligence and shew the worthiness of their callings by correction and amendment of wicked and dissolute loose livers by whom God's wrath is kindled against us and to reduce them to holy Rules of Christian Exercises in living justly soberly and religiously and so render God a true account of Stewardship and prevent the miseries have befallen others drowsie and sleeping inadvertencies Imploring and beseeching both young and old of all sects and conditions godly Christians religious and secular beloved Fathers dear Brethren respected Friends Neighbours and Companions that you all with humble face and countenance pure and sincere hearts and hands devout minds mournful voyces and weeping eyes condole grieve and lament the miseries the calamities of Turkish captives and call unto the Lord of Hosts with violence in pity to his people to avert his anger and not to give them up to the perpetual rebuke of this wicked Infidel most cruel Enemy of Christian Religion and Liberty but to inspire the mindes of Christian Kings and Governours with light of his holy Spirit to reduce them all to unity and concord against this ravenous and insatiable Dragon and grant others such success that these wretched captives their Christian Brethren may be restored to liberty in the worship and adoration of their God our Christ and onely serve him who is for ever blessed that at length the Christian World may be refreshed and eas'd from such perpetual slavery An Exhortation against the Turk I Have often

is not there as some affirm but onely an imaginary form in the Wall of the Church expressing the lineament of a body which is often kissed and so they return home again Such lying follies for miracles these Insidels are possessed with concerning Mahomet and divers others so ridiculous as I omit for modesties sake yet must advise the Reader if he please to interrogate any Turk therein and he will finde I have spoke nothing but meer Truth Of their Alms. The Alcoran obligeth men to Alms as meritorious and much pleasing God and saith The contrary comes from the Devil They have Hospitals for poor travellers built by the Wills and Legacies of their Kings where they have meat in different manners some allow Rice with flesh others prepare Wheat-bread and water to drink but for rest or Lodgings there is no place allowed yet there are some few publick receptacles where they are received without charge or other bedding then Straw or Hay but they repose under a good Roof Of their Sacrifice Their Offerings or Oblations are for the most part upon promise or vows in sicknesses or other dangers and then they kill an Ox or a Sheep according to their abilities and promise to sacrifice it in some certain place This Offering is not burnt or placed on an Altar after the custome of the Jews but the beast being killed the skin head and feet and a fourth part of the flesh is given to the Priest another part to the poor a third to neighbours and the remainder they keep for themselves and friends to rejoyce withal Neither are they tied to perform these vows unless they escape the disease or danger for which they intended them all things with them being conditional I give you if you give me And the like is observed by the Greeks Armenians and other Asiatick people even of the Christian Faith Of their Wills and Legacies If any of their Musselmen make a Will their Legacies are given before Friends or Neighbours and they are commonly for cutting Water-courses for conveying Springs from some remote places to Hospitals Churches or dry habitations and that for Piety sake and their souls benefit Others give money to free bond-men out of thraldom But Women for the most as most superstitious bequeath their gifts to Souldiers for a certain slaughter of Christians which they conceive to be greatly beneficial for their Souls The Legacies of their Kings are for the building of Hospitals Churches and so likewise are those of eminent and great personages Ceremonies of the Dead When any of their Musselmen die men take the Funeral-care of men and women of women They wash the departed body very clean and wrap it in fine linen then they carry it out of Town into some remote place for they hold it sinful to bury in their Churches First Friends of the deceased and Priests meet and go in progress certain Monks bearing wax Candles then follow some of their Priests singing till they come to the Grave shaking their heads and often turning round fall down with giddiness as in a trance The better sort have their Graves lined with Boards at bottom and at sides and covered with Boards on which they throw the Earth and strow sometimes the seeds of Flowers thereon Great men and Bassa's have peculiar Chappels for themselves and Kindred The poor are buried by high-ways or in open fields If the deceased be of poor ability there is then money gathered for satisfaction of labour for those religious Men which is offered in the Streets Of the edifice of a Sepulchre called Tulbe Over this stately Tomb being Prince-like there is erected a goodly Temple wherein their Kings are buried in the City with great magnificence Both rich and meaner have an Altar built of such an heighth as Beasts cannot annoy or pollute it with any foulness thither with lamentations and weepings they often return and spread upon the monument sacrifices of meats bread flesh cheese egges milk This Solemnity or Funeral-supper continues for nine days after the parties burial according to the Heathen manner for the soul of the departed and it is left to be eaten by the Poor by Ants or Fowls of the Air. They say It equally pleaseth God to give Alms to Beasts that want as men when they are given for God's sake I have seen many buy Birds in cages at good values onely to set them at liberty and see them flye away others throw Bread into Rivers for Fishes and that for the love of God saying That such charity towards the needy doth obtain a great reward from Heaven Concerning War The Turks have all one Emperour or King of the Race of Ottoman who hath next to himself in Authority two Sangiachs or Viceroys chief Governours th' one of Europe th' other of Asia and these have under them Lieutenants of lesser quality who command the ordinary Souldiery and if they fail being call'd to any expedition are presently punished with death He hath others always following him as Councellors Guardians of his body ever neer him Chamberlains Chancellors and Exactors of Tribute for monies and young people with certain numbers of light-horse Messengers and divers others that continually follow the Court. His greatest strength is in his Slaves Children for the most part torn from Christian Parents with Tribute-Children bred and educated in several Seraglio's Captives taken in War and Renegado's Of these some are trained up and serve on horse who have a double stipend to the Foot and alwayes ready at command in stables keeping four hundred horse together The great body of Foot-Souldiery are the Janizaries all commanded by a Chief called their Aga a person of mighty trust and like importance who hath under him divers inferiour Commanders and have Seraglio's apart Of these and Auxiliary Forces the Turk can draw three hundred thousand to the Field A great part of these Janizaries attend the Court Ambassadors houses and protect all Christian Inhabitants and Travellers for rewards and are faithful in those imployments Their Standard in the Field is an Horse-taile tied upon a pole an Emblem of their first barbarity and rudeness His strength at Sea is not considerable consisting most in Gallies and those not equal to some Italian Princes nor hath he many for want of Slaves whom he imploys more for Land-services The best of Shipping is under the Bassa's of Algier and Tunis whom he manageth with much policy sometime as Rebels and sometime as good Subjects to his best advantage against Christians for if they complain of loss the Turk then says He cannot rule them If th' other do the like he 'll take treble damages The Condition of Noblemen There is not any of those great Personages that possess by right of inheritance any Province City or real Estate to derive unto his Children or Successors without consent of the King If any of their Dukes or Princes desire possessions it must be with this condition the