encreasing from eight persons those that issued from the Ark upon Ararat in Armenia This building was hastned by five hundred thousand men in few yeares raising it from its basis which was nine miles about to above five thousand paces into the skie whence Ovid fabled his Giants warres Affectasseferunt regnum Coeleste Gyantâ—s Altaque congestos struxisse ad sydera Montes The heavens look't pale with wonder to be behold With what attempts and rage Giants bold Sought to affront the gods by raising high Mount upon mount to inhabit in the skie intending no doubt to peepe into heaven But hee that sits above and accounts the best of mans power and policie but meere weaknesse and folly not only distracted their designe but severed them into seventie Companies sending them seventie wayes to better imployments from one tongue the Hebrew Goropius dreamt it was Dutch ordaining seventy other Languages But though the Tower of Babel stood for ever unfinished albeit Alexander the great by some months labour in vaine of 100000 men made to desist by strange diseases and affrights thought to have finisht it the Citie notwithstanding swell'd to a prodigious greatnesse and though Arphaxad sonne of Sem sonne of Noah begun to inhabit in this vale of Shynaear yet Nimrod sonne of Cush or Iupiter Belus sonne of Cam or Iupiter Hamon the accursed sonne of Noah wrested it from his other kindred yea behaved himselfe so proudly amongst his brethren that to gratifie his memorie they deified him by name of Sudormyn by the Romans converted into Saturne Nimrod lived six and fiftie yeares after the beginning of Babell hee at last gave way to Death and was buried I know not where some say at this place some say at Persepolis Idolatrie was soone hatcht in the world Nimrods successours strove to make their hellish progenitors earthly gods for after Ninus his sonne had erected many Temples to put his Grandsires Images in he attracted infinit people to inhabit there by whose labours hee not only agrandiz'd this Citie but by their helps grew to tyrannize in the world and to augment his Empire whence he is accounted the first that incroacht on others rights to satiate his ambition and as he is named the first Emperour of the earth so none died so miserably for his wife Semiramys detruded him into prison where shee made him die a hatefull death such as became a monster The Virago Queene sat confidently at the helme and steered through an Ocean of stormes and miraculous passages till burning in flames of lust in stead of embraces hersonne Nynias thought Amraphel and Mars to revenge his Fathers death slew her but by that murder became mad and in that frenzie marched against King Cancasus Iaphets great grand-son and subdued him howbeit he himselfe was so serv'd by Abraham such time as he rescued his Nephew Lot captivated by Arioch Tydal and Chedorlaomer Semyramis to eternize her memorie fought many brave Combats and return'd oft times victorious she subjected many Kings subjugated many Provinces built many famous Castles Cities and Gardens the ruines of some of them are in Medya to this houre remaining Wee will confine her into Babylon where shee erected two inimitable Pallaces one was at the East end th'orher at the West the first extended thirty the other sixty furlongs both were immured with walls of stupendious height and architecture but excelling those she built another in the heart or center of Babylon which she dedicated to Cush or Iupiter Belus the shape whereof was of foure equilateralls or sides from every angle were one thousand in all foure thousand paces 't was circled with a thick and towring wall entred by foure gates of polisht brasse in midst was elevated a strong and stately Tower upon which eight other Towers rose one upon another farre above the middle region whence from a continued serenity of the sky the Priests or Caldaean Astrologers precisely markt the planetary motions and if possible to heare their rowling harmony for being above the clouds they delighted to regard the exact light and magnitude of the Starres their heliacall acronicall matutine and vespertine motions rising and falling Apollo's progresse the constellations aspects influences and the like and at the top of all a Turret inricht with three great golden Images or Statuas representing Iupiter Ops and Iuno i. e. her father in law her husband Ninny and her selfe continuing there in divine esteeme for many ages and whereto sayes Herodatus in way of sacrifice was yeerly consumed a hundred thousand Talents in franc-incense till Cyrus An. Mun. 3432. by drayning Euphrates into other channells entred this Epitomè of the world and ransackt her bravery But I have not spoken all Semyramis also circled this gallant City with a wall which in after ages was call'd a wonder some say Nabuchadonozar made it but an ancient Poet sings otherwise Semyramis built Persian Babylon Persarum statuit Babylona Semyramis Vrbem The circuit of which Wall was after Solynus threescore miles English or as hee reckons it foure hundred and eighty furlongs Diodorus Siculus computes three hundred and sixty five each day in the yeere chalenging a furlong Quintus Curtius numbers three hundred fifty and eight differing in his Arithmetic but seven furlongs The compasse I admire at but am amazed at the height and spissitude two hundred cubits high it was and fifty cubits thick so thick and spacious that at the top six Chariots might take the ayre driving together abrest not one before another Nynus and Semyramis begun it bravely yet Nabuchadnezzer and Nytocris his wife daughter of Aliattes beautified it in a stupid admiration crying out Is not this great Babel that I have built a boast so much offending the sacred Majesty of God that hee rent the Kingdome from that proud Assyrian and made him a companion for beasts and birds to the astonishment of all such Atheists Cyrus by one battell at Borsippa prostrated it and wreathed his Persian brow with that Monarchic Dyadem Anno Mundi 3432 seventeen yeeres after the captivity of Iudah and Israel by Nabuzaradan his Liefetenant five hundred and fifty two yeeres before the birth of our Saviour after which it was often vassaled Seventy nine yeeres after Anno Mundi 3511 Artaxerxes Longimanus ruling Persia the Prophet Ezdras went hence to rebuild the Temple at Ierusalem and thirteene yeeres after that was seconded by Nehemiah from Shushan The victorious Macedonian conquered it Anno Mun. 3633 at which time as Aristotle reports one part of the City knew not in three dayes after that the enemy had entred it a vast bignesse but easily credited if Pausanias in Assyr say true Babylon omnium quas unquam Sol aspexit Vrbium maxima c. either to parallell it with Ierusalem destroyed by Vespatian in their solemne sacrifices in which times the people multiplyed or rather to fulfill that prophesie 51 Ieremiah 31 One Post shall runne to meet another to shew the King of Babylon that his
333.335 Farghan 184.286 Farrabaut 177.178 Fatima's Sepulcher 212 Fayall 363 Faza 134 Fettipore 60.62.73.90 Ferro 3 Firando 333 Fitz-Herbert 16 Florida 355 Flores 364 Flying fishes 32 Flemmish Iles 363 Forte-Ventura 5 French K. Charles the great sends Ambassadors into Persia 283 Frons Africae 8 Funeralls of the Canarians 4 Of the Anzigui 11 Of the Soldaniaes 17 Of the Bannians 45 Of the Persees 53 Of the Gowers 162 Of the Persians 237 Of the Indians 309 Of the Kormandelians 313 Of the Iapans 335 Of the Chyneses 339 G GAcheen 125 Gambra not Ophyr 314 Gandetzin in Decan 70 Ganganna an Indian Vmbraw sides with Sultan Curroon 84. his deceit deceives him 88. is imprisoned 90. hee and his family are put in chaines and sent to Agra 91. sorrowes the death of his children 92. exasperates the great Mogul against Mahobet-cawn 95. is made Generall of the Queenes Army 101. dyes and is buried 103 Ganges fl 59.60.99.222.229.309.316 Gardon-Achow 148 Gassany in Tartary 89 Gazacot 277 Gaznehen 56 57 58 281 184 284 286 Gentfro 76 Georgian man and woman 151 Georgian Tragedy contracted 290 by stratagem revenge themselves upon the Persians 291 Ghabor 129 Ghanotts and Ghastanpore 69 Gheer 167 Ghelac 184.192 Ghezz 165 Ghezzimeer 104 Ghillolo 330 Ghylan 192.286.290 Giach a fruit 297 Goa 33.67.299.303 Goga 82 Gomera 3 Gorgades 355 Goujurat 61.90 Gouro 90 Gowers in Parthia 162.186 Goyeome 131 Gozan 129 Gratiosa 363 Greecy 324 Guadez 224 Guiana 355 Gulcuzda 67.68.70.79.89.93.299.312 Gulph of Arabia 31 Of Bengala 309 Of Argarica 315 Of Persia 110 Gumbazalello 148 212 Gumbrown in Persia 120 121 Gundavee 34 295 Gunet of descent from Mortis Ally 284 by Tamberlains respect to him dares broach his roformation 268 be marries the K. of Armeniaes daughter 285 conquers Tripizond and is murdered ibid Gurgee 152 H HAbyn fl 180 Haloen 152 Halvary 166 Hamadan 56 197 Hambyer 84 Hanimant the Apes-tooth-god burnt 307 Hansot 87 Harran 192 Hassar taken 69 94 Heaven and Hell in the Alcoran 263 265 Hecatompylon not Spahawn but Coom 154 212 Hegira 253 Hemoometzar 215 Heraclius the Rom. Emp. prosecutes the warres of Persia 276 hee vanquishes Cosrhoes and burnes his Idols 277 his great courage 278. reduces the holy Crosse to Ierusalem 279 dyes and is succeeded by Constantine 281 Herbert's Mount 14 Hery 184 Hesperidae 8 Hiblin slaine 283 Hiero 3 Hieropolis 276 Hispaniola not Ophyr 314 History of the Mogulls 54 Of the Persians 269 Hodge-Nazar the Armenian Prince 150 Homayon the great Mogull his sudden death 59 Hony-shaw 136 Hormisda King of Persia rages against the Christians who beat his army 275 disgraces Baramis his Generall but looses by it ib. in a vision a sees 12 Turrets and in them the overture of Persia 279 Hydero fl 177 Hyerac 56.286 Hyrcania whence named 177. habit of the inhabitants 178 I IAarown 129.280 Iackatra 324.325 Iackalls 14.124 Iacup Vsan Cassans sonne envies his brother in lawes good fortune 285. gets him murdred and his children 285 one of them miraculously is saved who kills Iacup in his fathers revenge ib. Iamahoy 316 Iambee 323.324 Iambulus 323 Iamshet 146 Iangheer rebells against his father Ecbar 69. is pardoned 70 breakes out againe 71. and is againe pardoned ib. crownd great Mogul ib. in danger of conspirators 74. suffers his grandsonnes to bee baptized at Agra 75. marries faire Noor-mahal ib. curses his sonne Perwees for losing the conquest of Decan 77. sends Mahobet-cawn thither and an Ambass to Abbas K. of Persia ib. laments the death of his eldest sonne Curseroo 80. comforts his sad widow and entailes the Crowne upon Bullochy his sonne ib. loses Candahor 81. rejoyces at his victory over his youngest son Curroon 84. captivated by Mahobet-cawn 98. escapes 100. much troubled at his sonne Perwees his death 102. receives a famous Tartar Ambass 104 dyes 105. and is royally buried ib. Iangomar 319 Iapan 312.333 Iaparra 324 Iasques 113.114 Iathryb 110 Iava 312.324.325 Iazirey 290 Idolatry of the Africans 9.17 Of the Angolases 10 Of the Madagascars 22 Of the Mohelians 28 Of the Banuyans 40 Of the Indians 88 Of the Persees 48.52 Of the Mallubarrs 302 Of the Gowers 162.186 Of the Persians 251 Of the Cormandelians 309.310 Of the Zoylonians 306 Of the Siamites 317 Of the Iaponians 333 Of the Narsingans 313 Of the Iavans 325 Of the Chyneses 341 Iehun fl 180 Ieloor 64 Ielphi 150.151.161 Iengapore 106 Iemina-Bahrim 110 Iemini fl 59.60.61.71 Ierusalem 211.270.274.277.279 Ilment fl 180 Imaus 185 Imbum 110 Indus fl 66.109.222.224 Ioanna 25 Ioonbasser 82.88 Ioonpore 60.61.90 Iortan 324 Irack 280.224 Iudgement in the Alcoran 265 Iupiter Babylonicus 193 Iupiter Belus 217 Iulian the Apostats death in Persia 273 Izmael-Sophy his birth and pedegree 284. revenges his fathers death 285 flies into Arzenion ib. returnes and is crowned Persian King 286. mortally hates Turks and Iewes 286. vexes the Tartars ib. chases the Turks 287. recovers Bagdat ib. dyes 289. and is succeeded by Tahamas his sonne ib K KAblai-cawn 56 Kablan 319 Kaboncara 177 Kabul 58.78.83 Kalpi and Khoor 77.79.90 Kalsistan 224 Kanchri 86 Kandahor 66.224.290 Kapper bemizz 85 Karizath 177 Katighan 90.99 Kavilan 319 Kavise 86 Kazz 184 Kazeron 148 Keldhan 224 Kennaugh 286 Kerman 56.286.290 Kerchy 76.77.94 Kerry 86 Kholeat-pherusky 286 Ketoa-Kotan 55.56 Khoemus 58 King Iames King Charles Mounts 16 Kings of Industant 55 Of Ormus 115 Of Lar 126 Of Shyraz 141 Of Persia 269 Kishmy Castle 113.114 Korasan 56.184.281 Kostac in Moghestan 113.114 Kufe why so named 280. the buriall place of Mortis-Ally ib. and where the Persian Kings are crowned ib. and 282 L LAbatacca 331 Lackary 215 Lacknoon 60.69 Lael-Cooly slaine 76 Lael-Sod 84 Lahore 68 La Gomera 3 Lampon 323 Lancerota 3 Lantore 331 Language of the Savages at the Cape of Good Hope 18 Of the Mohelians 27 Of the Arabians 111 Of the Persians 245 Of the Malayans 326 La Palma 3 Larr 126.127.128.129.280.290 Larack 113.114.115 Larry-Ioon 165.178.183 Latyr fl 74 Lawran 319 Lazarrs 274 Laztan-de 125 Leventhibeg Tribute 242 Lignum Alloes 332 Loore-Bander 108 Lopez Gonzaloo 8 Luconia 333 M MAcassar 329 Machan 330 Machma 333 Macron 113.224.286 Madagascar 20 21 22 23 Madaera 3 Madoc ap Owen Gwineth discovers America 355 Magadoxa 23.30.332 Magellan 362 Magi 134 213 Mahobet-cawn is made keeper to Prince Gushroo eldest sonne to the Mogul 74. fights with Ranna Radgee 75. is call'd home ib. goes Generall into Decan 77. returnes with victory and is made Governour of Brampore ib. of Cabul and Banges 78. he defeats Sultan Curroons Army at Delly 83. and at Mando 88. he relieves Elabass and imprisons can Canna 90. vanquishes Currown 91. pursues him to Patan 92. in discontent leaves the Army goes to Rantampore 95 griev'd by Normall the Empresse 96 his son in law is basely abused by Normall ib. the Lescar 97. takes the Mogul and Normahal prisoners 98. affrights Currown 99. receives great sums from his son out of Bengalae ib. sorrowes the death of Prince
the Sea of Edom the Hebrewes call it Zuph or Saph or Mare Algosum from Sea weeds or Sargassoes here abounding Some Mare Elanixicum from Aelana a neighbouring Port and Towne and others the Gulph of Mecca and Arabia fictitious Thevet calls it Zocoroph Bohar Colzun the Arabs Zahara some and others Brachia a Sea most memorable for the miraculous passage Almighty God gave Moses and the Israelites neere the Sues of old Arsinoe and for Solomons fleet at Ezion Geber or Moha thence setting out for the gold of Ophyr To returne when the Portugalls had got Socotora and a hundred other places in India and Araby Albuquerque their Golias by much adoe anno 1520 took Aden boasting that he was then sole Emperour of India Qua victa saith Osorius putabat Indiae Imperium fore sempiternum Humanum est errare or else Albuquerk might be blemished for in few yeares they not only lost this but many other Forts of greater consequence in India October 18 we had the wind pretty faire Our observation that day being 17 degrees our longitude 19 from Mohelia the wind less'ned and weather grew flaming hot no Stove or Sudatory exceeding it it made us very faint yet having past through as bad it seemed lesse torment to us But Mahomet the Persian Merchant whose father Hodgee Suare died in London the yeare before could hold out no longer a Feaver drawing him through the path of death Mahomet converted a happy man if throwing away the raggs of Mawmetry hee roab'd his soule with true faith in Christ they say he call'd upon him twice happy man if unfaignedly At his putting into the Sea the Captain honour'd his funeral with the sky rending clamour of foure Culverin shot leaving his carcasse to the mercy of the Sea and Fish a sure treasurie till the resurrection The seventeenth of November to our comfort we descried terra ter ex optata the coast of India in fifteene degrees latitude and 32 of longitude the ill weather having driven us to Lee-ward many leagues that very place where Goa Barigaza of old is seated the bravest best defended Citie in the Orient the Magazeen refuge seat of Justice of the insolent and gold-thirsty Portugall The Citie is not visible to such as Navigate in the Ocean being built three houres journey within the land in Tilsoare an I le of 30 miles circuit surrounded by a river streaming from the mighty mountaine Bellaguate Goa is compast with a strong and beautifull wall proud in her aspiring Turrets dreadfull in many sorts of tormenting Cannons her strength and beauty begun from the Decan Emperours Zabaym and Idalcan Goa from whom anno 1509 Albuquerque conquer'd it but agrandiz'd from the Lusitanian the great Buzzar or Market is in center of the Towne richly built pleasant and capacious The other streets are after the Indian mode narrow and nasty the buildings in generall are spatious and comly dark within tarrassed and sutable to the seasons 't is watered with a delicious streame which by benevolence of the ayre refreshes the fields forcing Flora to dismantle the gardens be also fill'd with variety of sweet and eye-pleasing flowers the whole I le abounds with grasse corne groves cattell fruits and such sence ravishing delights a reasonable man can require above 20 little Townes are seene in this 30 miles compasse In Goa is nothing more observable than the fortifications the Viceroy and Archbishops Pallaces and the Churches Field peeces here are numbred above 300 the Pallaces are strong of good stone furnisht within with rich Arras and painting the Churches of best rank are that dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mother of God in which is kept the bones and skull of Saint Thomas the Apostle holy Reliques brought 50 yeares agoe from Meliapore by Emanuel Frias at command of Iohn successour to Emanuel Kings of Portugall St. Pauls St. Dominie St. Katherine St. Savior and others in which are prest downe the bones of restlesse Albuquerque buried in the yeare 1516 of d' Acugnia of Don Francisco and that late canonized Chyna St. Francis Shyvier the Navarrean Jesuit who died anno 1552. 4 December aged 55 and rubricated by Pope Gregory 15. 12 March 1622 when many more were Sainted We hasted hence towards Swally judging the worst past the Indian shoare all our way in view us and the sea every where 20 leagues from land anchorable But sure all peace comes from above and mans heart abounds with vanity for upon a sudden the element grew dreadfull the wind to rore the sea sublime and wrathfull for three dayes space raging incessantly with such fury that we verily beleeved a Tuffon or Herocane was begun a Tempest of 30 dayes continuance so terrible that houses and trees are like dust afore it many great ships having beene blowne a shoare and shattered once in nine yeares it uses to thunder among them presag'd by birds and beasts who three or foure dayes before it bluster cry out and runne under ground for shelter as if an overture of all the world were ensuing But praised be God wee were deceived we mist a Tuffon but not a second disadventure this storme forcing a Mallabar Junck a Pirat in view of us our Ordnance could not reach them though the longest Saker we had vomited the fire of defiance at them whereby we were forced in way of honour to chase her with Barges mann'd with fifty Musquetiers But Vela damus quamvis remige Navis eat We made too much haste in boarding her being entertain'd with such store of Fire-works and Granados a volley of cruell shafts in a word we were opposed with so much desperate courage that after small hurt to them wee retreated with shame the better halfe slaine hurt and scalded our ships all the while being made an unwilling Theater of this Affront the wind forbidding them to retaliate The 22 of November the wind abated and wee found ground at forty fadomes many Snakes swimming about our ships which with the waters changing colour assured us we were neere the shoare the last storme had puzled us and soone after we discerned land in 19 degrees 35 minutes latitude and 29 in longitude which by its towring height we knew to be Dabul and then St. Iohn de vacas a Towne subject to the Portugall at the South end especially mounting in an ambitious piramid of Natures work named Saint Valentin's peake the land continuing high from thence to Gundavee a hill six leagues short of Swalley road a round hillock and bay of importance unto Mariners St. John The seven and twentieth day of November we hal'd an Indian piscadoro abord us never was Antick better habited he told us of many enemies but we were fearelesse after long toyle tiding up with streame anchors every sixt houre weighing and dropping in short time we got to Choul and then against Daman a lovely towne lorded by the Portugalls and conspicuous to passengers at the North end it has a Castle large strong and daring the
materiall is good white chalky stone flanckt with Ordnance and mounted high to play at advantage At the South end we perceived a faire Church with white battlements a top the houses of like stone strong and beautifull 3 other Temples affoording joy and pleasure to the heart and eye The nine and twentieth day we got neere the barre at Swalley and there cast Anchor because wee perceiv'd 13 saile of great ships and knew not whether they were friends or enemies the last day of November we adventured over the Barre 'twixt two boas in 4 fadome water a hundred paces asunder set there to manifest the passage either side without being very dangerous the Ships at Anchor proved our friends 6 English and 7 Dutch the most of them 1000 Tunne those of our Nation were good men of Warre The Palsgrave Exchange the William the Blessing c. each of which to do them right feasted our Lord Ambassadors with hearty welcome we rode in 5 fadome others in 9 twixt the sholds and continent The same day we came to an Anchor in Swalley roade Nogdi-Ally-beg the Persian Ambassador Sir Robert Sherley's Antagonist dyed having desperately poisoned himselfe for 4 dayes eating only Ophium the Mary where he dyed gave him eleven great Ordnance whose thundring Ecchoes solemniz'd his carrying ashoare his sonne Ebrahim-chan got him conveighed to Surrat 10 miles thence where they intombed him not a stones cast from Tom Coryats grave knowne but by two poore stones Tom. Coryats grave there resting till the resurrection Doubtlesse Nogdibeg had a guilty conscience hee had very basely misbehav'd himselfe in England and feared the extreame rigour of Abbas a just but too severe Master at no time to bee jested with in money matters or reputation so as neither his past good service alliance at Court skill in armes nor brave aspect could animate his defence assured of most horrid torture Other mens sufferings upon lesse cause made his seeme more unpardonable in the yeere 1612. a Persian Ambassador at Constantinople for assenting to such Articles 'twixt his Master and the Grand Seignior as seem'd advantagious to him but odious to the Persian Monarck was upon his returne beheaded at Cazbyn by command of his inraged Master the conditions were indeed dishonourable That the Prince of Persia should arrogate no other Title but Bashaw of Tauris that the Persian should pay tribute for Gheylan yeerly 400 bal's of silk that the Cadi of Tauris should bee of the Turkes Election c. which Abbas kickt back to Achmat with great indignation Tamas-coolibeg also came into his mind who dyed miserably tho once second in Persia upon spleene ill grounded by the King and of Turkish barbarisme not a few exemplaries Ebrahim Bassa Cycala Synon Bassa and Nassuf each of them in their times sitting at the Sterne guiding as they listed the Turkish greatnesse yet ere death cald for them they were cald for by precipitating ends such as made the remembrance of their passed glory relish the sowrer more deformed and Nogdibeg as we heard the King protest if he had not prevented it should first have beene hackt in peeces and then in the open market place burnt with dogs turds a perfume not fetcht from Arabia a staine indeleble branding with shame all his posterity Returne we to the roade againe Swalley road is from the Aequator 20 degrees and six and fifty min. North Swally road westerly variation 16. degrees and a halfe longit from Mohelia 28 degr at a low ebbe it resembles an I le beyond the sands Goga is easily discovered The first of December with some Pe-unes or black foot-boyes who can pratle some English we rode to Surat our Chariot drawn by 2 Buffolls who by practise are nimble in their trot and well managed we past thorow Swalley Town Batty famous for good Toddy Damkee to Surat Surat is the chiefe factory of the East India Marchants the station of their President at that time one Master Wyld was in that office a modest understanding Gentleman to whose kind respect I owe acknowledgement and in whose house the English house we had tidings of Sultan Curroon's Coronation at Agra Anno 1627. whose history we will prosecute after we have view'd the Towne which may well challenge a particular description SVRRAT perhaps so cald by the Surae whom Pliny places here is that old Muziris named by Ptol. if my judgement deceive me not nor am I ignorant Choul and Onor are imagin'd it by Molelius and Ramusius a Town at this day great famous rich populous nor ayre nor soyle agree with strangers the one inflamed by the torridnesse of the Zone the other sandy and sulphureous the Artick Pole is here elevated one and twenty degrees three min. subject in Iune to become Nadyr to the burning Sunne thence to September the clouds showring continually an insalubrious moysture the wind and thunder so commixing that no place in the world seemes more unhealthy all the other 8 moneths either parching or freezing Surat is accounted the third best Towne in the Gujurat Kingdome Amadavad Cambaya excelling her from the first removed foure from the other two good dayes journey all now adding lustre to the Moguls rich replendent Diadem Whether Gusurat comply with the Greekidiom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from Gezurat in Arabick an Ile I question not a Province it is so usefull to the Mogull that his annuall tribute out of this one shire amounts as Marchants say to 150 Tunne of gold Surat is at this day not very strong neither in scite nor Ordnance a 100. yeere agoe Antonio Siverio a Portuguise with 200 men enter'd it sackt and burnt it a 1000 would now find it a hard enterprise It was after that subjected to Ecbar Anno Dom. 1566. of the Hegira 946. by valour of Chan Azem whose care defeated the confederacy of Mirza-chan Hussan Mirza Mahomet Chan Goga and other conspirators Surat is now in a quiet government watered with a sweet river named Tappee or Tindy as broad as the Thames at Windsor which arising out of the Decan Mountaines glides thorow Brampore 220 miles distant thence and in many Maeanders runnes by Surat and after 20 miles playing to and fro a league from Swalley road wanders into the Indian Ocean 'T is circled with a mud-wall a Castle of stone is strongly built at the South-West side the river washing it planted with great Ordnance and other shot awed by a Garrison who make dainty to admit a stranger to see their fortifications or parapets The West opens into the Buzzar thorow a faire gate of stone where toll-gatherers are ever ready to search and exact sound tribute for the great Mogull their Master the Medon is of no great beauty nor do the shops give splendor the crafty Banuyan desiring rather to be rich indeed then so accounted The houses are indifferently beautifull some are of carv'd wood others of bricks dryed in the Sunne the English and Dutch houses at the
of which he had given moneys and command upon condition he would ratifie it and in no sort imagine them rebells or conspirators he was ready to obey if not he would take his owne courses Ecbar resends him a tart message and Selim to demonstate his neglect and boldnesse posts to Elabasse where he commands all sorts of Coine of gold silver and brasse to be stamp't with his owne name and motto yea to vexe the old man more affrights Anarkala his fathers wife whom he sirnamed Pomegranad and sent him of his new stampt mony a crime so strange so audaciously odious that the inraged Father curses him vowes reward and with speed acquaints his Chancellour Abdul Fazel with it who first moderates his Masters passion and then with all convenient haste accompanied with three hundred horse followes the post to do some service but Sha Shelim having intelligence how all this passed desirous to anticipate so sure an enemy he writes to Radgee Bersingh Lord of Soor thorow whose countrey hee needs must passe promising him a gratuity and the command of five thousand horse so hee would lay in wait for Abdul and send him his head the Radgee promises his best performance and with a thousand horse and three thousand foot lurks neere Gwaler and such time poore Abdul Fazel suspectlesse of any villany passes by Radgee falls upon him and notwithstanding the great advantage he had for three houres the fight was hotly continued but ore-pressing them with men and troops in the end his company were most part slaine and Abdul himselfe after twelve deep wounds taken and beheaded Selim receives it joyfully but Ecbar who loved him deerly becomes so passionate and sorrowfull that for three dayes he conceald himselfe and would not a long time after be comforted but like waves see another horror afflicting him newes of his other sonne Sha Danyel kild in the same Citty of the same disease Morad was formerly hereat he afflicts his decaying body immeasurably cryes and sighes and vowes upon Chanchanna revenge for not better regarding him who comes to purge himselfe but for some time is not admitted to Ecbars presence till by mediation of others and so returnes to Decan with an augmentation of power and dignity But the sorrow hee suffers in his rebellious sonne cooles his courage and inflames his passion some way he must tread to bring home or destroy him by perswasion or warre but feares both his sonne is so hardned and safegarded somewhat he must doe and therefore first as a King he rides against him with thirty thousand horse but by his mothers death is recalled whose body when he had most sumptuously interred in Delly in King Homayon her husbands Sepulcher he resolves to proceed against Sha Selym but his minde alters hee feares his sonne 's singular courage and way in fight and as a Father tries once more what perswasion can operate he dictates a pathetique letter mixt of love and anger reproving perswading diswading promising pardon and puts him in mind he was or should be at least his joy and comfort he had no mo sonnes nor grand children Myrad Zedda once the Princes Tutor or Schoolemaster carries it who so forceably penetrates the yeelding conceits and nature of Sha Selym that forthwith taking Perwees his little sonne along he leaves Halabassa passes Semena and after two dayes more the Wizard allowing the day fortunate with all his Umbraves he arrives in Agray and by Mortoza-Kawn is brought to Ecbars presence then in the Guzel-Chan who blushing to eye him so leads him into the Mahael or private lodging where forgetting his promise remembring the dances Selym had led him into such a rage that rapt him that The Prince submits after he had flasht terrour into his heart by the sparkling fury of his eyes and thunder struck him with a storme of mighty words with his fist he struck him so hard so oft upon the mouth that Selym throwing himselfe down requests his Father at once to punish him showes him his brest the sword and hand ready to it But Ecbar by this surfetting of choller intends no such sacrifice but commanding him to arise derides him and termes him Asse and Foole that commanding seventy thousand able men would so doltishly forsake them to trust the sugred and deceitfull promises of a reconciled Enemie That said he brings him forth againe and sends him back to prison giving all the Vmbraves his associates like welcome Radgee Batso excepted who wiser than the rest escaped By this imprisonment Sha Selym contrary to his custome abstaines foure twenty houres from Opium which next day Ecbar himselfe gave him and the third day by intercession of his Ladyes and Concubines is freed and sent to his owne home where he behav'd himselfe very orderly in princely sort each day visiting Ecbar till by some old mens malitious surmises he is restrain'd againe and the Mogull exasperated But the folly of his unnaturall and ill grounded rancour is not destinate against that object the jealousie of his braine throwing it upon Mirza Gashaw the Viceroy of Tutta's sonne for speaking one word by Ecbar ill taken and interpreted No recantation will satisfie his life must pay it the Kings Physitian is commanded to prepare two Pills of like shape but contrary operation Gashaw is trusted with them and brings them Ecbar The great Mogul poysons himself who imagining by a private mark hee knew the right one bids Gasha swallow one and himselfe the other Gasha ignorant of any deceit by chance devoures the best and Ecbar is poysoned too soone too late the miserable Mogul perceives his mischance repents his choller and for shame concealing the cause after foureteene dayes violent torment and trialls to expell the poyson yeelds up his ghost and having victoriously reigned five and twenty yeares in the 73 yeare of his age is by all his Umbraves with all possible state and solemnity in Tzekander three course from Agra in a new begun Monument buried and Sha Selym though a while resisted by Radgee Mansingh and Chan Asem who in vain endeavoured to make his sonne Cushroo Mogull Sha-Selym crowned great Mogull nominated by Ecbar as they alledged with such ceremony as was requisite is crowned by name of Iangheer King In the yeare of our Lord God 1604. and of Mahomet 984. We are now to present you upon the Asiatique stage various Scaenes compos'd of a miscelany of subjects excellent and remarkable A.D. 1604. A.H. 984. Iangheer so now we call him by mediation of Morteza Chan Cooly Mametchan and others receives Sultan Coshroe or Gushrow his late competitor and sonne into favour and to begin his greatnesse in the good will of his people receives Cham Asem and Radgee into grace againe But Cushrooe struck by his own guilt suspects his pardon counterfeit and entreats by letter Hussanbeg Viceroy of Cabul his old friend to meet him neere Fettypore with some Forces that by his love and care he might
at request of Assaph-cawn took his eldest son Gushroo from Anna-Rha-Radia Chan Iehan delivering him to Curroon who finding him a stumbling block to the Imperiall Crowne by Radgee Bandor gets him removed at that same time were committed to that Fratricide Sha Hossen and Ethymor sonnes to D' haen Shaw his brother who died of drink at Brampore whom because hee saw towardly and apt to revenge their Fathers untimely death hee was desirous to send them in that bloody bath to sudden destruction but he durst not perpetrate such apparant butchery perceaving all mens eyes and expectations after them and the death of their Father and Uncle not a little murmured at so that he had no other way to prevent their power and anticipate their claime unto the Empire but by getting them instructed in the faith of our blessed Saviour Christ and to bee baptized by that trick out of the Alchoran making them incapable of so great an earthly Monarchy but heyres of a better for virtus locum habet inter astra After this he ever led them with him to keep them the strictlier till such time as he was vanquisht at Elabas by Rustan-cawn for then Ethamore escapes to Perwees and thence to Labore where his Vncle entertaines him gladly and marries him to B'har Bannoo Begem his daughter and at Curroons next flight from Brampore Hussen also flies to Radgee Rustang and thence to his brother where hee lived safely and more honoured Mahobet-cawn at his Castle at Rantampore practizing to digest his affronts with patience receives a peremptorie command from Iangheer Normal I might say to yeeld up his house to the Queene A.M. 5595. A.D. 1625. A.H. 1005. who had given the keeping of it to Bacher-cawn his enemy and that hee should pack into Orixa to his sonne the Lieftenant there The message is so tart and sent to one then whom none more impatient of injuries that hee returnes his Master the Mogul this reply he was ready as a thousand times formerly to spend his life and goods to do him service but would never stoope to the lure of his inveterate enemies he was ready to account the reason but upon condition hee might bee free from the tallons of his rammage foes whom he saw ready to prey upon him with this answer the Post returnes with newes also that Abdul-cawn either weary of such vagaries or that hee saw the winde of Curroons good fortune averse or doubting his former envie might undo him for some of these Abdul cawn leaves Curroons party or all flies from Curroon and by Cown Iehan at Brampore with Perwees is joyfully welcomed Iangheer wonders at Mahobet-cawns presumption but Mahobet no lesse admires his ingratitude But after much perswasion of his kindred friends about him hee assumes fresh courage and attended by five thousand voluntary Rashboots issues from his Castle and through Rassanwer journeyes to Lahore resolving to make his owne defence to Iangheer then removing to Kabul or dy in doing it The Queene and Assaph-cawn have notice of his intent but fearing his force and that if hee had any private discourse with Iangheer hee would re-ingratiate himselfe they make the Mogull set to his seale to what they had indited the command being that Mahobet should come in person attended only with some few of his choyce friends to cleare his infamy but hee smels their craft and in his place sends his sonne in law to make his excuse and to treat upon surer tearmes than if he had gone in person with a willing heart this young Gallant undertakes it and at his first entrance into the Lescar without ever seeing the Mogul hee is made to dismount his Elephant by the Queenes order is disroabed of his bravery and clad in nasty ragges is after that most miserably chabuck't or beat upon the soles of his feet with canes or rattans bare-headed the greatest shame possible set backward upon a carrion Iade with kettle-Drums led through the Army and made a scoffe to all that rascall multitude overjoyed they had this good occasion to manifest their hate upon the Idea of Mahobet-cawn and to delight the Empresse Mahobet-cawn is quickly certified of his sons disgrace and that Iangheer knew it not he questions not who the whole Country blaming Normall and Ganganna for such barbarisme in it hee sees their hate and his owne misery if he had harkened to their oaths for safety to come weakly accompanied and now more than ever discovering the Queenes ambition to advance her sonne and Assaph-cawn Curroon guarding themselves with a constant Army of thirty thousand horse violently seazing the Moguls treasure and in all affaires abusing his authority and greatnesse with other indignities apparant to all the Empire he incourages himselfe not regarding the hatefull epethite they branded him with in their Proclamation his innocency to Iangheer and zeale to Bullochy next heire undoubted to the Crowne re-animating him so that after he had sent his old Master the Mogul a short but pithy Apologie of his contempt and portrayed the villany they offered his sonne he surveighs his Army gives strict command to offer no violence to Iangheer or his Tent and with twenty thousand valiant Rashboots passes on to finde out Normalls Army and the Lescar at that time consisting of above 50000 men by accident part at that instant went by led by Eradet-cawn and the residue passed the river Phat conducted by Godgee Abdul Hussan in hope to finde Mahobets Army unprepared but in vaine for that experienced warrior knew hee should want no stratagems to destroy him and therefore slept the Lions sleepe with the eyes of prevention alwayes open and now finding the advantage his gives the word unto his Camp and with an undaunted heart charges Eradet first and circles his troops with such speed and order that in lesse than two houres ere Abdul Hussan got over all his men hee not only disordered but slew above six thousand men filling the residue with such feare that each fled for his owne safety but unluckily the flood without mercy swollowed most of them both dangers equally so confounding them that with gastly lookes and loud outcries such as escaped made knowne the horror of their conflict so that the other part of Normalls Army stood still till by Assaph-cawn Abdul Hussen and other Umbraves they are cheered up and prepare to encounter the rebells who with Mahobet their Generall were come in front and with victory in their foreheads regarding neither their greatnesse nor multitude rush couragiously on their adversaries for five houres giving and receiving blowes each side equally heated with rage and inflamed with desire of conquest The Queenes Army were fresh and excellently fitted but by the overthrow of Eradet their companion not a little amazed Mahobets men though come from farre yet of a more warlike constitution and led by a second Mars were hopefull of mighty gaine and glory so that in the end Normalls side gave back well
may as justly tax me of neglect I will therefore but name them and reconcile some mens mistakes in misnaming these antique Kings of Persia Cyrus is the first we can deduce a true succession from For albeit they had Kings formerly of which Chederlaomer was one as wee read in Gen. and it may be the same whom the Persian Histories call Cheyomaraz father of Siamech to whom succeeded Owchange Iamshet Zoak Fraydhun Manucher Nawder Afraciab Achemenes some think Bazab Kaycohad Salemon Chozrao Lorazpes yet the succession from him is most incertaine and doubtlesse of no grandeur in that the Assyrian Monarchie begun by Nymrod sonne of Chush sonne of Cham sonne of Noah ecclipsed it and under whose command it lay for above 1300 yeares if Berosus be not counterfetted and from Belochus who deposed Sardanapal the last Assyrian Emperour of Nymrods race and Arbaces the first founder of the Median Monarchie a confederate with Belochus to Cyrus who advanced the Persians to a Monarkique greatnesse by subduing Astiages his Grand-sire transferd the Empire to the Persian as formerly the Medes had the Assyrian 260 yeares This change hapned in the yeare from Adam 3400 after the building of Rome 287 after the first Olympiad 50 and before the incarnation of our Saviour 567 c. Persia made a Monarchy by Cyrus Of Cyrus many memorable matters might be offered but I dare not enter the Labyrinth lest I wander so farre that I may chance to lose my selfe and your patience this only be remembred that this is that Cyrus of whom the Prophet Esay fore-told some hundred yeares ere he was born of him also Nabuchadnezzar prophesied beginning thus Ast ubi Medorum jus regni Mulus habebit c. That a Mule should over-runne Lydia fulfild in Craesus and subvert the Caldean Monarchie the word Mulus had relation to his mixture of bloud his mother beinga Mede his Syre a Persian Hee married Cassandana and by her had Cambyses that reigned after him Cyrus after he had ruled thirty yeares and in that time had added to his Empire Arabia Mesopotamia Syria Capadocia Phrygia Armenia c. hoped also to subject Scythia but neere the river Oxus was slaine by Tomyris the Queene of those parts of Zagathaya but upon ransome his body was delivered and convayed to Pasagard where Alexander found his Tomb but not that wealth he thought it had contained Cambyses ruled the Persian Monarchie but nine yeares of whose reigne is little to be said save that he subdued Aegipt after which he grew so luxurious and tyrannous that all men hated him his death was imputed to divine Justice for at Memphis hee committed sacriledge in the Temple of Apys or Anubys and broke the neck of that apish god set there by the idolatrous Aegyptians but at Damascus fell accidentally upon his owne weapon and dyed by it At his death seven Noble men or Magi of Persia severally contended for the Diadem for smerdis the upstart King was discovered by wanting his eares to be an impostor of which Darius sirnamed Histaspes who by the cunning of his Groome made his horse neigh next morne before the rest mounted the Throne and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or delivery of the Kingdome from the Magi from that time to Alexanders comming was annually celebrated Darius governed happily 35 yeares the last only was infortunate by that overthrow he received at Marathon by Miltiades the noble Athenian This is he who so much favoured the Jewes and Ierusalem his death was caused by losse of that battell at Marathon and that by it hee wanted Anthina's faire daughter This Darius Histasp I imagine to be the same Gustasp who first by imposture as else-where I have remembred made his people fire worshippers To Darius succeeded his son Xerxes by the Persians call'd Ardxer an infortunate Prince for howbeit he was in his time the greatest Emperour in the world and had a worls of men and wealth to obey his humours yet what by too much confidence in them and contempt of other Princes he reaped the greatest dishonour that ever befell any Prince of Persia for albeit he entred Greece with an army of 1800000 men yet could he not prevent an overthrow given him at the straits of Thermophilae by Leonidas the Spartan Generall who had not foure thousand men and by Themistocles the Admirall neere to Salamys was equally opposed and his whole Army confounded Afrer 20 yeeres rule he died and left Arta-xerxes his son his inheritor This Artaxerxes i.e. a victorious conquerour is in Persian story call'd Ard-xer-Bohaman and by Arabian writers Tama-xerxicas this is he that married Atossa or Hester the Jew in which book he is named Ahasuerus at the end of forty foure yeeres happy government he died and Art-axerxes sirnamed Muenon in his place was crowned King some insert Darius Nothus before him Artaxerxes sonne of Artaxerxes and Parisatys daughter of Cyrus ruled Persia forty and two yeeres and at the age of eighty was buried at Persepolis Artaxerxes Ochus his sonne succeeded him who also when he had governed cruelly twenty and six yeeres was hastned but by an untimely death after his Father Arses or Arsamus his sonne investing himselfe with the Persian roabs of rule and majesty Of Arses little can bee said save that he died by the hands of the Eunuch Bagoas his Fathers murderer after his Coronation foure yeere and in his place by meanes of Bagoas Darius Codomanus by Persians call'd Darab-kowcheck i.e. little Darius was saluted King him Alexander the victorious Greek orethrew in three great battells at Arbela Amanus and Granicus the last concluded his life and six yeeres reigne Anno Mundi 3640 Persia subjected by the Greeks of the Olympiad 112 of Rome 420 and before the Nativity 333 yeeres or thereabouts Alexander worthily sirnamed Great two yeeres after died at Babylon foretold by a Calan or Indian Gymnosophist in the three and thirty of his age of his rule twelve yeeres his heart was transfer'd to Alexandria his corps interd at Babylon Alexanders Legacy bequeathing the succession not to his owne issue or kin but to the Worthiest made Pyrrha's bones revive againe discord and pride and envie emulating every of his great Captaines who by this common Motto Virtus mihi Numen Ensis quern gero challenged the Empire and ceased not to lay claime till death and warres fury cut them off Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership after long stormes seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean during whose life and fifty yeers after the Greeks awed Persia Recovered by Arbaces a Parthyan till such time as Arbaces an heroyck Parthian broke that yaok of slavery asunder and for three and twenty yeeres did what was possible to revive the more than halfe dead Persians To Arbaces succeeded Methridates who ruled twenty yeeres after whom Pampasius twelve Pharnaces eight Methridatus Medus Thirteene to whom followed Phraortes call'd by the Perses Pharug-zed Artabanus call'd Ard-Bahaman Methridates
by the Persians he is sometimes call'd Emir-el memunni i.e. Prince of the feithfull By Fatyma Mahomets sole child he had Ocen or Hocem who after few months rule dyed poysoned An. Dom. 666. Heg 46. and was buried at Mosquit-Ally his Symbol as sayes the Iuchasus was Solus Deus potens Mavi soone after Hocens death slew 11 of his children the 12 escaped Musa Cherisim or Mahomet Mahodin by name from whom the Kings of Persia at this day say they are discended Mavi Lord of the Ben humian family when he stated himselfe in the Empire sent Susindus his kinsman with huge forces aginst the Grecians accordingly Suzindus beseiges Siracuse after that Byzanth but by Constantine the Roman Emperor is lastly slain and 30000 other rascall Sarazens that same yeere the Plague raged so terribly in the Mahomitan Empire that the like was never formerly amongst the rest Mavi expired aged 77 in his reign of Aegypt c. 24 his Symbol this as is reported Ignosce Precor To Mavi followed in the Empire of Persia and as Kalyph Yhezid or Iezed memorable in his veine of Poetry he it was that put the Alcoran into that bald rythme as it is now extant his venery and riot exasperated Mutar-Mavia-ben-Abdella so as at the age of 40 hee dyed having ruled 3 yeeres Mutar is quickly dethroned by Abdall-ben-Iezid a Ben-humian some are of opinion that Ocen and his 11 sons were slain by this Calyph Marvan after he had sat 9 months dispossesses him and hee by Abdalla againe But both by Aben or Abdalmelec were both both of life and Kingdome bereaved Didacus dethroned Melec Oyledore Didacus and Solyman by help of Iustinan the Emperour slew Oyledore Melec returnes from banishment and expulses Sulyman and most exactly tortured Mutarrs murtherers the Christians were the worse for this re-establisliment for he forraged Syria Armenia Thrace and in the 15 of his Empire dyed ordeyning Vbyt call'd also Vlitus and Evelyd-Miralminus in his stead this Calyph dyed of griefe that his Armies he bad sent into Spain were rebelled Zulzimyn succeeded him and him Omar-ben-Abdemazed depos'd by Yezid sonne to Melec the late Calyph Ebrahim succeeded him a Prince foole-hardy and infortunate After his death the Empire was divided 'twixt Gezid and Vvalel who with all the forces they could make invaded Europe thinking it a happy death in striviog to increase their new Religion Into Spaine went Vvalids Army led by Abdiramo Gezids part led by Sha-Rablan entred France the first had better fortune than the second they took Granada and so rooted themselves that till Ferdinand of late expulst them they there inhabited Those that entred France albeit they were incouraged by Endo Duke of Aquitayne who hated Charles Martell mortally were resisted by Martell and 30000 French Gallants Endo the West Goth upon better consideration syding with the Christians so as after long fight neere Turin a in Peidmont the Saracens were beaten and of their numberlesse company 300000 slaine July 22. 726. as Beda and others at that time living testifie the two Calyphs dyed of rage when they heard of their misfortunes Marvan was placed in their stead in whose time Hyblin his Generall purposed to invade Tartary with 100000 men but in the way was assail'd by Sophy-Salyn Saint Azmully's sonne of discent from Ally and Lamnoit the Arakosian and in that conflict was Hiblyn slaine Marvan vowes revenge and with 300000 Saracens he affronts Salyn neere Spahawn but is vanquished and 100000 of his men slain Marvan from Babylon fled to Mecca and thence into Aegipt but thither also Salyn pursues him and by his death gave an end to his inveterate enemies the Ben-Humians begun by Mavi by Marvan finished The family of Mortis-Ally or Ben-Abbas in this man begun agen to rule the Scepter of Persia An. Dom. 750. Heg 130. Abuballa a while opposed Saint Azmulli but in vain Asmulli at Cufe was made King and Chalyph of Persia This man reviv'd Mutar's tenents to the honour of Ally and disgrace of the three successours of Mahomet againe revived by Siet Gunet of Ardaveil as hereafter may be spoken of Saint Azmulli being dead his sonne Salyn is saluted King In three yeares he also dyed Abu-becr call'd Bugiaser Almansor followed him in his royalties An. 758. Heg 138 he repaired Bagdat Mahadi-Abibala succeeded him by some call'd Negmedden-Phidul Ally to whom Moses or Eladimirza father of that Amarumlus the French men prate so much of In his time viz. 798 Charlemaigne flourished and this our Isle altered its name from Brittaine to England 'Twixt this Amarumlus or Aaron King of Persia and the Christian Emperour Charles was great friendship Ambassadours and Presents were sent from either of them of which read Aeginardus his Secretarie This Aaron is thought to have dyed a Christian In his time many frantick Schollers in the sight of thousands of men threatned to flie but in the tryall from one rock to another dyed miserably Aaron after 23 yeares dyed and Mahomet his sonne reigned after him five yeares Abdalla after him who when hee had raged against the Christians and troubled the Ilands in the mediterran Seas dyed and was succeeded by Mulla-Cawn who also vext the Christians disturb'd Italy and dared Rome but he also suddenly vanished and was succeeded by these Kalyphs Vvaceck Almoto Montacer Abbas Mustead zem in whose time hapned the greatest Earthquake ever felt in Asia Almotez Moctadi-Bila Anno 875. Heg 355 Almet-Hamed Mutazed Moctifi-Byla Moctader Elhaker Ratsha Razi-bila Muctacsi Moriah Tayaha Kaderkamet and Mahomet-El-takert i. e. Gods servant in whom ended the Chalyphs of the Arabique or Persian Pedegree For then An. 1030 Heg 410 came in the Turquemen led by Tangrolipix first call'd into Persia by Mahomet the then Sultan to assist him against the Babilonians but after he had freed him from that danger desires leave to goe into Armenia to visit his kindred lately seated there and is denied an unkindnesse of such force that Mahomet ere he could appease the enraged Turk was forced to divest both life and Kingdome In him the family of Saint Asmully eclipsed till Sha-Ismael dispeld the interposing cloud and resuscitated the glory of his Ancestrie The Boyiaean Kings who begun Anno Heg 319 and ended Anno Heg 480. In the Iuchasin they are chronicled and at Shyras I have alreadie spoken concerning them The successor of Tangrolipix was Ottoman son of Ertrogul the Oguzian who in the yeare 1300 Heg 680. layd the foundation of the Turkish Empire in Europe and Asia The Turks and Tartars conquer Persia the Salghucian of the same extraction commanded Persia agrandiz'd by Togrul-beg sonne of Michael sonne of Salghucius sonne of Didacus a Turq'man Togrulbeg some say was slaine by treason his successour was Pharug-zed Masuds sonne slaine by Olo-ben-Aesolan Prince of Gasnehen to him followed Ebram-ben-Masud whose sonne Masud married the daughter of Melec-sha King of Turq'stan Masud from Coresan entred Persia with a great Armie and neere to Tabryz slew Almostarshed-bila-Caliph
Tamas-coolibeg Mozendram by Ferrat-chan Candahar and by Lolla-beg and Emangloy-cawn Larr Cusistan Carman Macron and part of Iazirey or Arabia yea to this last over-throw at Babylon he gave successively to Mahomet 3 Acmat Osman Mustapha and Amurath all of them Grand Seigniors above 20 other severall over-throwes most of which the Turks conceale and thence it is that we have them not recorded in our Turkish Histories About this time Abbas became inraged against the Georgians and upon this occasion Scander lake King of Georgia a Countrey confyning palus Meotis 'twixt the Euxin and Caspian seas by a Sarcashiâ—n Lady had 3 hopefull sonnes Scander-cawn Thre-beg and Constandell all borne Chistians but for preferment the two last named became Bosarmen or circumcised Thre-beg serv'd the Turk Constandell the Persian Constandell was naturally deforned but of such an active spirit that his bodily imperfections were not noted yet his hatefull ambition rendred him more than monstrous It hapned that Abbas vowed some revenge upon the Turk and to that end gave order to Ally-cawn to trouble them Constandell perceives the occasion right to attempt his hellish resolutions and therefore after long suit got to be joyned in Commission with the Persian Generall Through Georgia they go where Costandell under a pretext of Duty visits his sad Parents who upon his protest that his Apostasy was counterfeit joyfully welcomed him but forgetting that and all other tyes of Nature next night at a solemn banquet caus'd them to be murdered and till the Georgians saluted him by the name of King perpetrated all sorts of villanies possible But how secure soere hee stood in his owne fancie the dreadfull Justice of an impartiall God retaliated him the rest of his life proving to this hellish Assassinate infinitly miserable for first neere Sumachan Cycala's sonne the Turkish Generall wounded him in the arme and by that forfeited the victory to the Persian That same night he was also assaulted in his tent by his inraged Country-men who in his place for at the first alarme he escaped cut a Catamite in peeces his accursed bed-fellow and albeit hee so farre exasperated the Persian to revenge that he brought the whole Army into Georgia resolving there to act unparellel'd tragedies yet was hee over-reacht in his stratagems for upon parlee with the Queen his late brothers wife he was shot to death at a private signall given by that Amazon to some Musqueteers ambushed of purpose 'twixt both the Armies A just punishment for such a viper For can there be a punishment more fit Than he should die that first invented it Nec enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artisicis arte petire sua But Abbas glad of all advantages to spoyle and conquer takes the affront as done in his despight in that Constandell was his subject and a Mahometan and therefore studies their destruction but such good reasons Ally-cawn gave him to the contrary that hee alters his first intents and seekes by conferring his best love upon young Temerisk their Infant King to oblige their affection and accordingly returned him into Georgia royally attended yea made him bee crowned King in Georgia with all ceremony requirable But long these Halcyon dayes endured not for the Grand Seniors Ambassador at Spahawn laboured by all wayes how to seperate this their Union by deceit effected it First wispering in Temerisks eares that Abbas hated him and then made Abbas beleeve that Temerisk was an undoubted creature of the Grand Seniors so that upon Temerisks deniall to come to Abbas he enters Georgia with 30000 horse where Lolla-beg at his Masters command made fire and sword equally tyrannicall Temerisk was forced to the Turk from whom he got such forces that hee re-entred Georgia and slew the Persique Garrisons yea forraged beyond Tephlys into Medya which so inraged Abbas that from Mosendram he issued with a greater Army than formerly and in Georgia made a more terrible execution firing their Churches houses and Mulberry-trees destroying their silk-wormes and massacring young and old without mercy But so soone as Abbas was gone Temerisk re-possessed his desolate Countrey and by a stratagem of Morad-cawns in some sort requited the Persian for Morad like another Zopyrus deformes his face flies to Cazbyn and is welcomed pretends that Temerisk had so mutilated him and that hee resolved to betray him to the Persian Abhas beleeves him and sends 12 famous Dukes and an Army along with him but being upon the Georgian Confines and knowing that the Persians were fearelesse of danger he issues at midnight from his owne quarter upon them with 500 voluntary Georgians whom hee had appointed should accidentally proffer their services with such hideous clamours that 11 of those Dukes and 700 men were slaine the rest so terribly affrighted that they rather chose to dye any other death than hazard any more adventures amongst those Christians Since which Abbas by meditation of his Cosel-bashaws who are most of them Georgians has firmed a sure friendship with the Georgians If I should but memorise his severall victories against the Tartar Georgian Mogull and Arabian It would be enough to make a Book voluminous But I promised to weave no circumstances for if that could have beene accepted of I had here also spoke his journey and warres of Armenia and his tragick acts against his own children which in regard I have elsewhere glanced at I have here pretermitted purposely this only be remembred That Sha-Abbas dyed Anno Domini 1628. Heg 1008. aged 70 having ruled the Persian Empire 43 yeeres and was buried part at Cazbyn part at Ardaveel in the Chappell where are intombed his famous and warlike Progenitors And albeit in the infancy of his reigne he had beene Tyrannicall yet such was the Majesty of his aspect his courage policy wisdome good fortune in all his wars that never any Prince before him was better beloved and every way by all Symptoms of Duty and respect more honoured His Care to administer Justice his Zeale to Strangers whom he ever much regarded and gave all safety and priviledges to it beeing his usuall phrase that Strangers added especially to the lustre of his Court more than any Domestiq ' magnificence his Labour to increase Commerce with other Nations his Incouragement to Souldiers his Indulgence to Merchants of his owne Nation and in a word his great Knowledge in History and Philosophy not only made him to bee adored by his owne but admired at by Travellers especially when with him they compared other Emperours and Princes of Asia who suck with delight their native ignorance and thence it was that Abbas went to his grave with such generall lamentation as made it known that he was their Father Protector and Emperour In his place was Sha-Soffy Abbas his Grand-sonne saluted King whose fathers death and his brothers I have elsewhere remembred Of Sha-Soffy I will say little save that since his being King albeit very young hee has vanquisht the Turks 4 times
equally co-operates towards a generation of wind and raine in his progresse unto either Tropick Experience the Mistresse of Knowledge taught it us we found it so for from the South many gusts and stormes assailed us Ovid in his 4 lib. de Ponto is of Aristotles opinion to be granted in our Hemispheare Hic oritur Boreas Oraeque domesticus huic est et sumit vires à propiore loco At Notus adverso tepidus qui spirat ab Axe est procul et rarus languidiorque venit Rough Boreas our Domestique ruleth here And takes his vigour from a place more neere But the mild South from adverse Quarter sent Comes farre blowes gently and more impotent After threescore and ten dayes further saile wee came in view of Saint Helena so long were wee with faire winds 'twixt that I le and the Mauritius a very little Ile and strangely founded The spatious Ocean bellowes on every side so fretfully as it might feare an inundation had not the extraordinarie height but chiefly a Supreame providence which hath set the Sea its bounds safe-guarded it It has no neighbour Iles neither great nor small but seemes equally removed from those two famous Ports Rio Grandi and Cape Negro the one in Brazelia th' other in Congo in America the first in Africk the last both in one elevation and in the same parallel with Saint Helena from that in America distant above 400 leagues from this in Africk 300. But let us a shoare and search what she aboundeth in Of Helena SAINT HELENA is an I le was in-nominate till Iohn de Nova gave it one in the yeare after th'incarnation of our Saviour Christ 1502 and so named for that he discovered it in this returne from India to Lisbon the third of May a day consecrated to the memory of Helena the Empresse She that first found the Crosse she that was the most religious of Ladies in her time she that was mother to the first Christian Emperour great Constantine both of them glorious to the world Brittans both both bright Jems of this our Nation St. Helena is removed South from the Aequator sixteene degrees has longitude from the utmost promontory of South Africk two and twenty degrees the needle varies there five degrees and thirteene minutes From the lands end of England is distant 1500 leagues or 4500 English miles From the Cape of Good hope 580 leagues or 1740 miles From Madagascar 1000 leagues or 3000 miles From Surat 2200 leagues or 6600 miles And from Bantam in Iava 2300 leagues or 6900 miles or thereabouts The I le has this front in that Bay which takes name from the Chappell nigh which we anchored St Helena The I le is hard to be ascended not that the passage is craggie but precipitious the Sailers Proverb of it is A man may choose whither he will break his heart going up or his neck in comming down a merry jeast but let them choose it Once up no place yeelds a more delightfull object It is even and plaine above swelling no where to a deformed rising cloath'd with sweet grasse long and curious every where it gives a large prospect and horizon into the Ocean The Springs above are sweet but below are brackish the reason is they participate in their drilling discent of the salt hills through which it cuts a passage salt both by their owne composition and the salt breath the Sea perpetually evaporates There are but two rivolets in that I le the one bubbles down into the Chappell th' other into the Lemmon Vallyes They take their names frō a Lemon tree whence it arises and an old Chappell built at the very bottome by the Spaniard Anno 1571 and delapidated by the Dutch a place once intended for Gods glory but by malice of rude man made ruinous and a prophane nest of uncleane avarice The ruines of a little Towne demolisht lately shew themselves and serve to testifie a like Fate makes men and Villages dye Death and destruction makes both mortall and miserable Some say the Spanish King subverted it in that it became an unlawfull Magazein of Sea-mens Traffick turning and returning out of both the Indyes thereby losing his tribute in too apparent measure It is but lately made sociable the world is but beginning there no Monuments no Antique rarities are there found You see all if you looke upon the shatterd ribs of an old weather beaten Carrique and some broken peeces of great Ordnance left there against the Owners good liking and serve now in stead of Anchors The I le is desolate of reasonable Inhabitants Hoggs and Goats dwell there they agree well-favouredly and multiply in mighty numbers happy in their ease and safety till ships arrive there to banish hunger wee got also other good refreshment Phesants Powts Quailes Henns Partrich and which were as acceptable divers sorts of grasse roots Wood-sorrell three-leav'd-grasse Basil Parsly Mints Spinage Fennel Annys Radish Mustard-seed Tobacco and some others which by a willing hand directed by an ingenious eye may soone be gathered brought hither and here sowne by Fernandus Lupius an honest Portugall in the yeare of our Lord 1509. whose Country-men at this day dare hardly land there to over-see their Seminary or owne their labours lest the English or Hollander in the churlish language of a Cannon question them Anno 1588 Candish our Country-man landed here in his circum-navigating the earth I name him in this respect he reports he found here store of Lemmons Orenges Pomgranads Pomcitrons Figgs Dates c. but now are none of these fruits growing there that I could see or heare of a Lemmon tree excepted to conclude here wee buried in the old Chappell our honest Captaine Andrew Evans his deaths wound as I have told you was given him by a fish at the Mauritius Saint Hellena was a pleasant place but bad for us to stay too long in after six dayes commorance wee paid our reckning in a hearty Farwell and by benefit of a happy gale cut swiftly the yeelding billowes in a Northwest course whereby on the sixteenth of October wee made our selves Nadyr to the Sunne at that time in his Progresse towards the Antartique Tropick our latitude was 13 deg and 13 min the third day after that we got sight of Ascention I le nam'd so by Iohn de Nova in the yeare 1502 't is removed South from the Equinoctiall Circle seven degrees 40 minutes in circuit it is 30 English miles from St. Hellens Ile removed seven hundred and twenty little in it save wood and water observable On the seven and twentieth day we crost under the Aequator whence to nine degrees North latitude wee were pesterd with continuall Tornathes a variable weather compos'd of lowd blasts stinking showers and terrible thunders The eleventh of November we were parallel to Cape de Verd and with the GORGADES Isles famoused by antient Poets who say that the three Gorgons Medusa Stenia and Euryale the daughters of of King
youth and haste came abortive into your hands and fail'd not of respective welcome Yet in so cold so nipping a Zone more cloathing may be accepted of and which I have woven with some toyle but very willingly hoping it may discover more maturity I formerly obeyed my friends who thought the first too short this then may prove the happier since I have laboured to give them a ready acknowledgement Let my errors therefore reflect on them and impale me in your favour for peradventure I may give boldnesse to your Factors to fetch exotique rarities in a new division of the world and in assuring their Barques to bring you home what may prove worthy your sight and mony But this lucky gale will suffer no longer complement The relation of our Sea-voyage is first enjoyned me 1626. VPon Good-Friday we took ship at Dover having six great well-man'd ships along with us In few houres coasting close by the I le of Wight call'd so from Gwydh a Brittish word signifying seene at distance Vectis in Pliny Vecta in Eutropius where a sudden and violent gust assaulted us which after an houres rage spent it selfe and blew us the third day double solemniz'd by being the feasts of Mother and Sonne upon the Lizards point or lands end of England the utmost promontory of Cornwall and from whence to the extreamest cape of Afrique wee compute our longitude and not from the Azores the first Meridian The wind blew faire so as the seven and twentieth day wee entred the Spanish Ocean the coast of Biscay neighbouring us Ere long we descried seven tall ships whom reputing enemies we bore up to speake with but they proved friends Hollanders out of the Levant who drunk our healths as they past by a roring Culverin and we vomited out a like eccho of thunder plowing up the liquid Seas in merrinesse till the nine and twentieth day made us the sport of Danger dancing upon the raging billowes Aeolus from his iron whistle blustering melancholly tunes a good while heaven and sea seeming undivided To which Tune Horace Od. 3. lib. 1. Illi robur et aes triplex circa pectus erat qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem Primus nèc timuit praecipitem Africum Decertantem Aquilonibus nèc tristes hyadas nèc rabiem Noti A heart of brasse that man had sure Who in a Barque durst first endure The raging waves not valuing life Midst fierce South-west and North winds strife The Hyads who clouds seldome want Nor blustring South his sprite could dant Violence has no permanence in thirty houres the quarell 'twixt wind and sea was ended and joy in a serene sky reanimated us so as wee ended March in chase of a Turkish Pirat whom with top-gallant top-sailes we pursued 6 houres but to our griefe he out-sailed us The first of April we cut our passage into the vast Atlantick Ocean by Arabs call'd Magribana as saith Marmolius Atlantic Ocean nam'd from Atlas Maurus brother to the star-gazer Prometheus from whom two famous Mounts one in Mauritania th' other in Lybia are denominate Long we had not been in these seas but another Barbarian Sally man of Warre came up to us sculking all night in hope to board the first hee saw divided at day break we found the villaine who loath to parlee in fire and shot fled amaine and left us who swum so well that the third of April at Titans first blush we got sight of Porto Santo a holy Port call'd Cerne in Ptolomy commanded by the superstitious Spaniard and of Madaera or I le of Wood from the Canaries 300 miles the first discovered by Perestrellus anno 1419. 5398 undiscovered given him upon condition he would people it which he found difficult the Conies in such numbers resisting and undermining him The other the same yeere by Gonzalvo Zarco from incouragement of Henry sonne to King Iohn the first of Portugall The holy Port has five and twenty miles compasse notable in Wheat Ry Rice Oxen Sheep Bores Conies Sanguis Draconûm Fruits Flowers and Grapes at 8 leagues distance thus respecting us Porto Sancto The sixt of Aprill we had 27 degrees and a halfe at that instant descrying the Iles Canariae of old fortunate in name though not in quality undiscover'd till the yeare 1328 accidentally by one Machan or Marcham an English man from whose relation Lewes de Cerdezo two yeare after sail'd thither and by consent of his King Pedro of Arragon had liberty of conquest and benefit but long enjoyed neither Iohn 2. the Castilian King Anno 1405 extruding him From whom also Ventacurtius a French man snatches them but by Iohn de Betancour a well-descended Gentleman kinsman to Bracamonté the French Admirall is dispossest Anno 1417 shipping 10000 voluntiers by whose valour and constancie he subdued five of the Iles La Palma La Gomera Lanzarota Ferro and Fortéventura an atchievement honourable yet such vexation possest the ambitious Gaule that Canarie masterd him as made him entertaine death with an uselesse complement his Nephew Menaldus left heire to what he had got and has added his misfortunes Myndus a haughty Bishop incensing the Castilian King by whose greatnesse Menaldus is forced thence glad of some composition pay'd him by Don Barba the Bishops kinsman But see variety Barba repents the purchase and for small profit assignes his Title to Don Fernando Perazzo whose brain taking like infection growes weary of his toile and for other imployment parts with his claime to the Prince of Castile from whom 't was torne by Don Henrico Infant of Spaine to this day constant to Spanish servitude These Iles perhaps the same Ptolomy and Mela call Deorum currus are from the Morocco or Lybian continent 20 leagues from Spaine 200. six commonly numbred Cadamastus ten three by speculation by old Authors Ptolomy Pliny Strabo and others Canaria Capraria Nivaria Iunonia Ombrian or Pluvialia Aprosita or fracta lancea and as Martian adds Casperia or Fortunata At this day thus Canaria La-palma Teneriffa Lancaerota Hierro La Gomera and Fortéventura A word of what they were and are They knew no God but Nature were ignorant of the use of fire shaved with flint stones gave their children to be nurst by Goats cultured the earth with hornes of Oxen abhominated the slaughter of beasts For how can they be good Who dare each day imbrue their hands in blood Like beasts us'd women in common No meum tuum Lust and carelesnesse so vailing them that little difference was 'twixt them and their cattell Sylva domus erat cibus herba cubilia frondes The Woods their dwelling was the herbes their Diet And on the leaves and boughes they slept in quiet Some glimmering they had of superstition having alwayes two Kings one alive one dead The dead they wash and erect him in a Cave a staffe in one hand a payle of milk and wine set by him to support and help him in his Travell At this day are Spanish Christians
dumb signes in most things adore toward the Sunne honor Angels observe a Munday Sabbath abstaine from second marriages some from the first affect white garments loath coughing spitting and the like forbeare swearing and blasphemy shun pleasures drink water beleeve the transmigration of mens soules into beasts offer inanimate sacrifices deny the bodies resurrectiō hate to touch a pot or cup with their mouth but rather powre the liquor in at a good distance reverence Elders eat nor drink with men of other religions use washings much touch no uncleane thing and many other in nothing differing with the Pithagoreans as may be gathered out of Iosephus Suydas Philo Laertius and other writers Having tyred out your patience with this Sect for variety sake turne wee to another sort of Gentiles in Surrat Guzzurat the Persees a people descended out of Persia banisht hither to avoid Mahomitry circumcision upon the death of valiant Iezdgird the Persian King Anno Dom. 635. or thereabouts whose life and doctrine as it is gathered from the Daroo or Priests of this sect by Master Lord a worthy Minister for some yeeres resident in the Factory of Surat I will epitomize that we may move after this repose onward in our travailes Religion of the Persaes Into India I say these Persees came such time as Omar the second Chaliph after Mabumet had subjected Persia in 5 Iuncks from Iasquez sayling to Surrat where after some treaty with the Raieas and Bannyans they got entertainment and leave to exercise their owne religion A religion deduced from the raigne of Gustaph King of Persia Anno Mundi 3500 and before our Saviours Incarnation 500 yeeres written in their Zundavastaw or law Booke in this manner Such time as Gustasp the 14 King of Persia from Kuyomarraz by some thought Naah swayed the Imperiall Scepter of that famous Monarchy It chanced that Espintaman and Dodoo two poore people man and wife Chynaes by nation lived long together in a good report but without Fortunes blessings in estate or children howbeit at Dodooes earnest request a sonne was given her who in his conception promised by some rare and fearfull dreames the mother hatched great matters not only to the astonishment of his simple parents but amazement of the China King who out of jealousie and disposition to credit any report sought to prevent all events by killing or poysoning him but to shew a superior power swayes us and never misses to accomplish its designes tho by man never so much oppugned nothing could do him harme for fearing his parents ruine and to ease the King of his feares they all consent to give China a farewell and seek a securer abode in a region more remote and where they might more freely meditate Farre they travelled saw many rare things past over many great rivers on foot for Zertoost so was this young prophet named turned them by a trick that he had into solid Ice and after thawed them at his pleasure and many rare adventures found all which are to be left out in that religion is the marke we shoot at not staying long in any place till they arrived in Persia where they rested and intended to settle Zertoost as all good men use to doe spent most of his time in meditation and on a time especially observing the disorder of mens living sorrow overcame him and a desire to reforme them totally possessed him but finding the place he was in not solitary enough or fit for revelations away he goes not resting till he came into a dark valley surrounded and obscured by two lofty mountaines there he ingeminates his silent murmures with dejected eyes erected hands and knees bended when loe a glorious Angell whose face was more coruscant than the Sunne salutes him thus Hayle Zertoost a man of God what wouldst thou he strait answers The presence of God to receive his will to instruct my nation his prayer is granted his body purged his eyes sealed till being past the Element of fire and higher orbes he is presented afore the supreame Majesty arrayed with such refulgent glory that till he had Angells eyes put into his head he could not gaze on such a daz'ling excellency there he received his lawes no place but heaven will serve to fetch Philosophy as Laertius writes of Socrates uttered by the Almighty whose words were incompast with flames of fire such lawes such secrets as some of them are not fit to be promulgated Being upon his departure he desires of God that he might live so long as the world indured that in that protract hee might the easier make all people on the earth imbrace his doctrine God pitties his simplicity and in a mirrour shewes him the alteration of times the villany of Lucifer the misery of man and many other rarities such as quite altred his first desires so that when he had worshipped he takes his Zundavastaw or Book in 's left hand and some celestiall Fire in 's right and by Bahaman Vmshauspan the foresaid Angell who cleft the Ayre with his golden wings is set downe in that same valley where the spirit found him Zertoost by this time a man of great experience armes himselfe against all disasters and temptations and bidding his Hermitage farewell travells homeward to publish his law and joy his too long afflicted parents Satan who all this while lookt asquint at Zertoosts determinations intends to seduce him and after a short excuse for his rude intrusion protests himselfe his unfained friend assuring him the Angell had deluded him that God hated his novell indeavors that if he had loved him he had not so soone so willingly parted with him that his denying him to live till the day of doome argued Gods neglect of him that his travaile to reclaime the world was in vaine mens minds so doated upon freedome and vanity that his booke was stuft with lies and in publishing it great shame and perill should betide him that his fire was a mercilesse Element rediculous and of small use in those hot regions And in conclusion if he would reject these and depend on him hee would furnish him with all delights honours and pleasures possible give him power to do strange things whereby hee should bee worshipped for a God which if he refused he was a foole and unworthy his charity Zertoost soone saw that tempter was no better nor worse than Lucifer he bad him avoid and call to mind to his addition of terror how by his ambitious impiety he had lost heaven and how meere malice made him desirous to draw all other into like damnation he also told him how that booke he so scoft at should condemne him that fire torture him and all such black mouth'd lyers and detracters as himselfe whereat the Fiend was horribly affrighted and left him the divell is no sooner gone but on goes Zertoost and at length arrived where he found his parents who you doubt not of received him gladly to whom he imparted his passed
Delly of many times could do against it notwithstanding all which Martasa after much danger of ambushments in that thick Wood seventy miles broad and trouble in passing his men over high and fearfull rocks lay eight months before it and then in despight of their best defence entred it and subjected it to the Mogul though he lived not three months after to meditate his victory Which when Iangheer heard with a mixture of joy and sorrow he leaves Cassemeer and removes to Lahore where Sultan Cushrooe the true idea of misery is by perswasion of the Queene and Assaph-cawn taken from Cawn-Iehan and put to Curroon to be his keeper At that time Iangheer affected his sonne Curroon beyond measure imagining no honour too much no command too great for so brave a Prince so hopefull a warrior so that little knowing what would follow hee gives him the charge of forty thousand horse and attended by Godjea-Abdul-Hussan and other great Umbraves hastens him to the conquest of Decan and to spoyle the Kingdomes of Gulcunda and Visiapore for omitting their annuall Tribute of three pound weight of Diamonds This yeare 1619 of Maho. 1029 Abdul-Azies-cawn succeeds Bador-cawn the Ouzbeg in his command of Candahar Cawn-Iehan is made Leifetenant of Mult'an and Buchor Sultan Perwees of Pathan and Radgee Bertsingh Bondela and Abdul-cawn Governours of Kalpi are commanded to raise some forces and follow Sultan Curroon into Decan Sultan Currowne by this time having leavied his forces A.D. 1619. A. Heg 999 and made all ready for his enterprize upon Decan first commands all men to intitle him Sha-Iehan or King of Hearts then with his whole Army in goodly equipage travels to Brampore the Rendezvous and whither Abdul-cawn and Radgee Bertzingh according to command come and wait upon him with Thedder-cawn his Cosen and many other Rashpootes of quality Curroon for by that name wee can best remember him swelling beyond measure to see himselfe Generall of so brave an Army dallyes not but with all speed gives order to Abdul cawn Lala-Ragee Bertzingh Abdul-Hassen and many other Umbraves to begin the Warre with Melec-Amber and that he the residue would follow them Mirza Mackey and Shadour-cawn march to Gulcunda against Cotobel Melec and Ma'met Tacky to Visiapore against Adel-cawn either to receive by force or faire meanes the accustomed tribute due to the Dyadem of Iudustant Abdul-cawn in the first place to effect his Commission Bellagate passes on without any let to Bellagate a fastidious mountaine twixt Cunca and Decan and for ought I know may be Hippocura in Ptolomy Curroon bringing up the other part of the Army at fifteene miles distance to succour the Van on all occasions the King of Decan at all advantages seekes to intercept them opponing in many petty skirmishes but Abdul-cawn formerly acquainted with his rodomontadoes passes on burning and spoyling what they met withall not resting till they came to Kerki the Kings best house which they levelled with the ground inriching themselves with store of prey and treasure Kerki reducing Berar and Chandys into subjection and forcing composition from all the Country as far as Amnadagar and Tribute from the Kings of Gulcunda and Visiapore Iangheer is over joyed with so much good Fortune and to relish it the better solaces himselfe in his sonne Perwees Gardens beyond the river Ethaman Dowlet Queene Normals Father dyed at that time his great estate is by the King given to his daughter and Assaph-cawn but his Office is confer'd upon Godgee Abdul Hossen Curroon also who sate as Emperour in his owne ambition with a greedy eye respects the Diadem but perceives his imprisoned Brother interposing in the way but such is the violence and magicke of pride and tyranny that it runs on not caring how though masqued with never so much deformity he feignes himselfe sick his disease is horrible nothing can recover him save his eldest Brothers death Ganganna is of his infernall councell who applauds his humour and promises his recovery he presently acquaints some Mancebdars in the exployt of all which rascall troope Reza or Rajea Bandor a very villain is quickest of apprehension and least scrupulous Curroon as if he knew nothing is conveighed out of Brampore to better his health whiles that incarnate Divell at an unseasonable houre in the night knocks at Goushroo's chamber A.D. 1620. A. heg 1000. who as awakened out of a fearfull dream starts up and demands his errant the villain replyes he came from the Mogul his Father with order for his delivery The miserable Prince affrighted with his Ravens voyce and suspecting treason desires him to stay till the morne the villain without further parlee perceiving no entrance by entreaty breaks open his doore grapples with the amazed Prince gets him downe and strangles him that done he layes him in his bed locks the doore and trots away as if the Prince dyed of some imposthume and hee had done nothing Curroon has quick newes of his Brothers death and inwardly rejoyces but ere Sun-rise his afflicted wife Cawn Azems daughter goes to visit him where finding him speechlesse and by his contus'd face murdered never did poore wretch shed more teares or shew more passion by tearing her faire hayre deforming her sweet face so fiercely so amazedly that her Father and all his family heare her and see it to their griefe and admiration But when they see the cause also they wonder not none of them forbearing to expresse their sorrow after severall modes without moderation All Brampore rings of this Treason suspects the author and curses him but Curroon cloath'd with deceipt comes thither falls upon the corps and expresses so much sorrow that many durst have sworne that he was innocent After two dayes ceremony they bury him and Curroon writes his Father word of his brothers sudden death concealing the occasion Iangheer weeps and afterwards growes mad with rage suspecting some violence but not knowing upon the sudden how to discover it he feeds upon melancholy and discontent writes back a letter of reproofe and threats to Curroon and his Umbraves swearing revenge when they least suspected it commands the body to be digd up and brought with solemne state to Elabasse where hee interres him in his Mothers monument sends for Chan Asem and his afflicted daughter comforts them and takes them for his constant companions to Sultan Bullochy or B'lochy his grandson sonne to Prince Gushrooe he intailes the Imperiall Crowne gives him the command of ten thousand horse and by Chan Asem his Grandsire of the blood royall of Tartary to be educated Curroon by his Fathers love to Sultan Bullochy perceives himselfe disregarded and thenceforth not caring to please him flies out into rebellion And Abdul-chan winding his aymes without leave taking forsakes the Army and packs to Kalpi to his government but by the Mogull who was still desirous to continue the Decan warres is rebuked and made to returne Yet ere long he is revoked for at
as if the conquest were easie and no way doubled of But the two Eunuchs keepe close in their defended Sconces whiles Radgee Bickermanse at Curroons intreaty begins the churlish play followed by Byrambeg Rustanchan Wazir-chan and Darab whose onset tho it was full of gallant force and fury yet Ethabar-Chan desirous to sacrifice his best endeavours to expresse his loyalty retaliates such entertainment that after three houres triall having lost five hundred men without any prevailing they retreat well beaten and ashamed so that converting their power upon a more hopefull way they draw back and fall a rifling the houses of such Vmbraves as were likely to have booty Byrambeg begins with the house of Mirza Abdull Chan Azems sonne but finds such hot and unexpected welcome that hee was forc't out not without amazement Howbeit Radgee Bickermanse entred with better fortune Assaph-chans which in this tumult found no exception out of which they drew twenty leck of roopees Rustan-chan out of Lascar-chans 16 leck and Darab from Nouradyn Cooly's ten In all about threescore leck of roopees after which base theft as if they had done wonders with great triumph they returned to Fettipore Curroon after three weekes stay about Fettipore finding it impossible by force or subtilty to obtain the treasure and no more prey in those parts resolves to march back and give his Father battell whom hee heard from Assaph-chawn was comming To which end after double allowance to each souldier and protestations of his kind remembrances hee retreats towards Delly in five dayes attaining Pherrybaud ten course from Delly at such time as Iangheer with his Army pitcht three course from the Towne and seven from Curroons trenches Very early next morne Curroon longing to graspe the Diadem commands Radgee Byckermanse to begin the fight with eight thousand horse against whom Iangheer the great Mogull opposes Mahobet-chan Abdul-Chan Ethabar chan Assaph-cawn Godgee Abdel Hussan Zadoc-chan Immirza Mamet Radgee Bertsingh Tzeer-chan Seberdeest-chan and other principall Vmbraves by advice of Mahobet-chan dividing the whole Army into three One part to himselfe and Radgee Bertsingh a second to Sultan Sheryar his yongest sonne and Mahomet-chan the third to Abdul-chan and Zadoc-chawn to all whom hee used many perswasions to fight bravely and with discretion as against exquisite warriours most of which had beene in many conflicts yet such was the justice of the cause each mans particular interest that he knew they needed no exasperating Then to each Commander as they were entring combat he sent some small token of his zeale as remembrances of his love and ingagements upon his victory of great preferment Zaber-deest-chan in the first place carrying Abdulchan his Masters present by mischance falls among five hundred light horse of Curroons and perishes Bickermanse with his large troop of horse charges Bertsingh and the Moguls quarter so furiously that many parted with their lives to expresse their loyalty Whiles Ganganna and Curroon enter pelmell against Mahobet-cawn and Rustan-cawn with T'sossally upon Abdul-cawn all which were Captaines of such valour and experience and the armies on either side so irritate for honour and benefit that for three houres the battell continued with rage each part fighting so bravely that no advantage could be discovered till victory at last inclines to Curroon when Radjea Byckermanse after a terrible slaughter of the Moguls squadron in despight of his guard enters sternly dyde in blood Iangheers royall Tent and arrested him as his prisoner but he had scarcely meditated the greatnesse and excellency of his prize when grim death directs the battle axe of a Mancebdar then in presence Radjea Bickermanse slaine which fell so sore so sure that downe hee fell with a curse breathing out his unwilling soule and such terror into the hearts of his followers that without any remembrance of their conquest they all fled and gave the Moguls part fresh advantage to re-inforce the victory Curroon amazedly perceives upon the sudden his overthrow and by and by has the reason of it He does all hee can to alter their cowardize he perswades threats opposes and cries aloud that he was living yea a hundred Captaines as good as Byckermanse were in the Army but in vaine for such was their preposterous feare and disorder that he sees it impossible to revoke them so that vollying one a thousand curses expressing all symptomes of rage and frenzie he rides to and fro not knowing whither he had better here put a period by his death to all future misfortune or to fly and hope for better afterwards at last by Ganganna's advice he hasts away but leaves his men and treasure to the mercy of his enemies and after long and swift flight with few of his freinds attaines the desolate and high Mountaines of Mewat in whose solitary rocks hee ruminates his misery and the justice of God upon his high rebellion Sultan Perwees with a glad heart meets his victorious Father at Balzol after which the Seralios are freed and the Castle gates opened as fearlesse of any more opposall And now the old Mogul cheeres up his late drooping spirits and solaces himselfe with Noormal the light of his eyes and the best object of his devotion his delight and jocundities gave a faire occasion to Assaph-cawn and Ganganna to mediate a reconciliation for Curroon and which the old man also inclined to so that from Asmeer letters of peace and pardon are dispacht unto the rebellious Prince who reads them with no small joy and prepares for his submission with Ganganna Abdul cawn Darab cawn Beyram beg and other Umbraves of quality hee descends the Mountaines of Mewat and through Bassawer Hambyer and Lael-sod unable to forbeare piltring all the way at last hee came to Azmeer Curroon it pardoned but rebells afresh where he throws himselfe at 's Fathers feet and upon his repentance and oath never more to fly out is pardoned but his submission as by the sequell appeared counterfeit and upon this occasion So soone as Rajea Bickermanse was slaine Curroon in his place made Abdul-cawn Governor of Gusurat Amadavad and Cambaya Abdul-cawn though glad of so high preferment delays his journey both in regard of his desire to see Curroon freed from his troubles and to enjoy the command and gain he every day got in Curroons depredations and obteyning leave to stay a while he sends his Eunuch Baffadur-cawn as his deputy to represent his person and to prepare things the better against his comming The Eunuch in good equipage travels thither-ward and by the inhabitants of Amadabat is received with much state and ceremonie but beholding himselfe mounted so high incircled with such rayes of Majesty roabed with so much honour his former vassalage is forgotten and his genius so transcendently efflated with pride and ambition that he beholds his equals with disdaine and anger his inferiors with a squint and supercilious eye of scorne and tyranny yet such as knew his feathers were but borrowed and that
his desteny and chardges so furiously and so close that in despight he mounts the wall and is so bravely backt by his owne regiment that in small tyme he takes the principall cittadell or fortresse and on many parts of the wall florisht his colours in signe of victory and as a call to Abdulchan to to second him but Abdul poysoned with envy to see a Merchants sonne possessor of so much glory forbeares to succor him so that this heroick Captaine too farre ingaged is assayled by Rustan Atset-chan and fresh troopes so long and with such egernesse that all his company are cut in peeces and Mahomet struck dangerously in his eye yea after as much proofe of dexterity and valour as was possible is taken and imprisoned In this base sort the second tyme has Abdul-chan forfetted Curroon the victory yet keepes the knowledge in his owne breast and goes unpunished whiles Sultan Perwees and Mahobet-chan continue their quest and receiving notice of the siege of Brampore they hast thither with chan Alen Radjea Stertsing and a great Army of Rashpoots but Curroon premonished seeing no good likely to bee done arises and falls towards Bellaguate in the way attempting vainely Hasser but missing it redelivers Rantas also into his enemies hands and once more visits Melec Amber at Rerki in Decan cloathed in his old sad habit of misfortune Hasser five courses from Brampore as you passe to Agray the strongest and in all advantages the best defended Castle through Chandis is built upon the top of a most high and precipitious Mountaine wall'd by Nature and capable to feed and lodge forty thousand horse within are springs of wholsome water by vertue whereof the people are infinitly inriched the earth also is excellently fruitfull in hearbs and corne and what else is requirable for defence or pleasure upon all sides are mounted great Ordinance of brasse about six hundred here placed by the last King of Gusurat but one discommodity is commixed making all the other delights relish unseasonably Wormes ingendring in the legges and thighs of such as drinke the water but lately noted and which only gave Ecbar conquest of this Castle otherwise inexpugnable Iangheer the great Mogul rejoyces at the severall victories his son Perwees and Mahobet-cawn are crowned with and to expresse how well hee took it observing the valour loyalty of Ganna-zied-cawn lately made Viceroy of Kabul calls him to Court expresses his good will in variety of complements and more then so addes five thousand horse to his command and under seale makes him Governour of Bengala of all the Provinces of Indostan most famous rich and populous Bengala is a Province in India spacious noble and fruitfull peopled with Mahometans and Idolaters addict to Mars and Merchandize reasonable in shape and colour well cloathed extreamly lustfull jealous crafty and suspicious the ground is redundant in good Townes Castles fruits flowers corn c. mellowed by Ganges which in two great branches flowes thorow her and 200 miles asunder at 23 degrees commixes with the Ocean Normal and Assaph-cawn cast a squint eye upon Ganna-zied-cawns new glory wishing fit occasion to eclipse it and only for that he was son to Mahobet no other reason caused it they are no trewands in the schoole of mischiefe and in the first place to plot more mischievously and affront Mahobet whose miseries are now broaching they get the old Mogul to command Mahobet without delay to send Ganganna the Captaine unto Agra Meza-Arebdestoa-cawn one of Normals creatures delivers the message and Mahobet loth to shew any example of disobedience though he knew langheer abused and this a meere plot of his confusion lets him go who forth with begins to chatter and spit his utmost malice against Mahobet exhibiting many false complaints and incensing as much as possible the old Mogul against his innocent Champion that hee had most unjustly put to death his sonne and others of his kindred out of malice yea after he had voluntarily left Curroon to serve in the Kings Armie These accusations wrought somewhat in the credulous jealousie and weaknesse of the old Mogul but more when from the seeds of haste and distrust sown by Ganna in the heart of Perwee by his letter he intreats his Father to call Mahobet a detractor of his glory and ambtious to ingulph the Monarchy This so confirmes the Mogul that without more dispute or memory of his former services he beleeves Gangannas reports no longer malicious but presently condemnes him of pride and ingratitude gives his command to Cawn Iehan and commands him home to receive his deservings Frau de perit virtus Mahobet admires the villany of Ganganna and Noormall and thinkes by the purity of his owne conscience it is impossible his Master should really beleeve such imputations till remembring his dotage upon Normal and her inveterate spleen hee grants it but resolves to take another course till time might delucidate his innocency and therefore as his love and dutie bound him hee goes to Prince Perwees to bid farewell but when hee perceived him so strangely altered so coy and stately it welnigh struck him dead with sorrow and amazement an excellent sympathy and union till Ganganna dissolv'd it having beene till then betwixt 'em so that with a sad heart and tormented eyes he leaves the Camp but carries along with him the hearts and courages of all the Army From Brampore hee goes many guesse but none no not himselfe knowes whither his fortune led him at length by advice of his best friends that assured him if hee went to Court hee should at least bee branded with the name of Traytor hee travels to his Castle of Rantampore resolving to purge his honour by letter and proofe to Iangheer and to safegard himselfe from the spite of Normal and all his enemies The discord of Peiwees Mahobet and Normal sounds sweetly in Curroons eares hoping by the confusion of them all to ground stedfastly his owne ambitious practises and perceiving his old Father so taken with fantasmes and apparitions of love he resolves to practise deceit and in the Moguls weaknesse to fix the strength of his conspiracies he presents him by Godgee Iehan a crafty man and Tutor to his two sonnes a letter neatly pend but dictating nothing save hypocrisie and submission hee knew also the greedy appetite of his Father after gold and rarities and therefore addes a pishcash of rare coignes a hundred choise Elephants and some portraits hee borrowed from the Portugals They are all well taken his sonnes respected and word is sent him from Assaph-cawn of hopes to re-ingraft him In the meane time Madoffer-cawn at Lahore receives the government or Provostship of Agra from Cassem-cawns pride who was placed there upon his marriage which Movissan-begem sister to the Queen but is so impatiently digested by that ambitious woman that shee ceast not till she had got him re-established Six yeares past viz. 1618. and of the Heg 998. I told you how Iangheer
cloudy and his motion whirles into a malignant Orbe by the disconsolate Newes hee receives from Brampore of his beloved sonnes death His eyes grow dim his heart turnes leady and all conceits of pleasure relish unsavourie when the departure of Perwees objects it selfe and those hopes and comforts he had in him seeme fantasticall Goushroo and Sha Daniel are dead Perwees is now no more Sha Ethimore and Hussen his grand children made Christians Bullochy is a child Sheriare a foole and Curroon the very eye-sore of his conceptions a rebell wilde proud greedy treacherous and deceitfull himselfe was old and at his death the Empire subject to innovation or domestick consumption in these and such like dolorous cogitations Iangheer spends the weary minutes of his life till death ultima poena as they call it summons him in few moneths after to the resignation of his life and Empire Whiles Maehobet Chawn chawes the afflicting newes also of Prince Perwees his death 'Twixt whom forgetting Gangannas trechery was most exact friendship and sympathie He sees in him the privation of all his joyes the hopes he had in his suceession annihilated and the ambition of Normall and Assaph Cawn suspected to have poysoned him ingendring to a monstrous height so that bidding farewell to the world and all other society and imployments he contracts himselfe to privacie and solitude Mahobet-cawn turnes Eremite feeding upon contemplation of what had past and the lubricity of terrestriall pleasures vaine-glory and other vanities he forsakes his strong and delightfull Castle Rantampore and through Zialor comes to Radgee Zirmol and under licence fixes at Zirmol where hee anchorites But Curroones ayre swells with Chymaeraes now more than ever affecting the Empire none but children interposing him hee knew his Fathers affection was easily recovered and Assaph Kawn his restlesse projector carefull to state him in the chaire of Majesty so that arm'd with confidence and accompanied with forty Elephants and fifteene hundred horsemen he leaves Baker Chytor Tutta and through Tesel Chobager and Ecclisser comes to Masser Thormet in Decan where Melec receives him with all joy and adds to his troopes foure thousand horse with promise of forty thousand more to assist him upon any good occasion CHYTOR in mid-way 'twixt Brampore and Adsmeer is yet a Citie justly clayming precedencie for antiquity amongst all the Cities of Indya It was formerly called Taxila and that Metropolis whence King Porus issued against great Alexander Ranna Radgee Mardoot lineally descended from him of late yeeres and till by intreaty of Sultan Curroon Anno 1614. he came to Agra and in slight sort did some obeysance here soveraignizing and in Oodipore The Citie is at this day but meanly beautifull three miles in compasse not a third part of what was formerly Time and war have furrow'd her not onely disroabing her of her bravery in buildings where men inhabited but in huge Temples of Idolatry the ruines of above a hundred once lofty in fastidious Turrets to this day remaining of stone strong good white and well polisht rare and observable now inhabited by Storks Owles Batts and like birds of whom the superstitious people have no small esteeme and veneration the North pole is elevated in that place twenty five degrees This Province is bounded by Cambaya on the South by Chandys on the North by Berar East and on the West the Ocean returne we to our History Ganganna Gannaoa dies selfe conceited by his late honour and imployment against Mahobet-cawn whom hee verily thought had left the society of men for feare of him resolves to ferret him but in the mid'st of his bravadoes and hopes is arrested by grim death and his carkasse conveighed to Delly to be intombed amongst his great Ancestors At that time Iacont-cawn an Umbrave of great wealth honour and experience commanding eight thousand horse to serve Curroon by many affronts without cause put upon him by Mirzaladin Melecks sonne is inflamed with rage and flies to Chan Iehan Generall of Prince Perwee's Army at Brampore who receives him with joy and by his exaspiration with foure hundred Elephants and forty thousand horse make haste to Bellagate the widdow and child of Sultan Perwees being committed to the care of Lescarcawn where they use all extremities of warre spoyling burning and captiviting all they had a minde to and by rare chance Abdul cawn disgrac't intercepting some letters from Godgee Hessary they discover Abdul-cawn whom some call Abdulla-cawn the weathercock of those times his intent to turne from the Kings party and retvtue to Curroon hee is convicted his estate confiscate his honour reverst himselfe manacled cald the darling of inconstancy and upon an Elephant in disgracefull sort from the Army sent to Brampore where by Lascar-cawn hee is imprisoned This done they enter Decan with all speed and pierce most fortunatly into the mid'st of Melecks Kingdome doing what they pleased without opposition so that after six weekes hostility they returne loaden with abundance of wealth and over-joyed with their easie victory But when they thought themselves most sure Melec presents himselfe in an advantagious place with eighty thousand men incircling them on the one side the stupendious hills on the other so that surrounded with amazement and clad with black ragges of discontent they incamp not daring to hazard the fight or by stratagem break out to hazard their deliverance but in that miserable sort are lockt up the Decan at on time offending them till by famine finding no pleasure in their riches where no meat on sure tearmes was to bee purchased they were constrained to parle and submit assured only of their lives stript out of all their wealth and bravery returning with more shame than they had honour formerly Iangheer the great Mogull has advertisement of this variable successe but knowes not how to alter it nor cares hee much the death of Perwees so possesses him yet Normall ceases not to pursue her revenge against Mahobet and finding him so hard to be dealt withall begins will Channa-zeid-cawn his valiant sonne whom sheere calls home and places Mocrib-cawn in his command over five thousand horse and twelve thousand men but he had small joy of his greatnes for in lesse than three weekes being there by accident sailing over Ganges the boat is over-turned he drowned and Fedi-cawn is made Viceroy of Bengala and Malacca after him during which Iangheer being at Lahore an Ambassador Ziet Borka by name arrives with presents and commends from the King of Maurenahar or Manauwer accompanied with the only Oracle and wonder of his time Hodgee-Abdulradgee brother to Chojea Callaun admired by all and resorted to by many sorts of Tartars from Bochar Tuza Balck Samerchand Gaznahen and other parts none of which came empty-handed so that in small time this Monck was comparable in riches with most Potentates of Asia Hee is brought into Lahore with incredible joy and admiration all the Umbraves of the Court Assaph-cawn excepted attending him
Emanuel his Master suffering Zedfadin to enjoy the Title and a pension of fifteene hundred crownes but all command to himselfe himselfe de facto King and lastly by Emangoly-chan the Arch-Duke of Shyraz by help of the English it was taken An. 1622 and by them delapidat and depopulated Let us view it as it was and is The Altitude of the pole here is 27 degrees and though it be without the torrid zone yet what by the sulphur of the earth and oblique reflex of the burning Sun for foure moneths from May to September no place in the world is more hot or scalding it is the custome here to sleep in beds of rayne water which is not very coole neither all day naked the City had a faire Bazzar many Churches and Frieries brave Magazeens stately houses and as gallant a castle as any other in Orient the castle is yet in good strength and repayre the rest levelled with the ground of which I cannot say Nunc seges ubi Troja fuit the soile being uncapable of corne or other graine at that end against Dozar and the great Bannyan tree in the continent the City was built where the sea is so narrow that a Cannon may easily spit over the whole I le exceeds not fifteene myles compasse it is the most barren ground in the world neither tree nor spring of good water could we find in it It has salt silver shining sand and mineralls of sulphur has nothing else worth the looking on And yet from the advantagious standing the laborious Portugal made it the staple and glory of the world secured indeed by many naturall props on all sides commanding Iles and townes to furnish her Larac Azgillia of old Kishmy by some cald Quexome or Broict Keys or Queys Ile Angen Andreve or de los pasharos Kargh Baharem Icara in Pliny Dozaro Iasques and Kostack in Margastan now Mogestan vicinating them So as to the eye of man no place could be more offensive and defensive garrisons of Portugalls ever lying in these Ilands and yet when the God of Nature had decreed a ruine it could not be withstood but was in some regard miraculously effected and at such a tyme as they least suspected it But to doe her all the favour I can let us remember such Princes as have honourd her Sha-Mahomet is the first I find who in the 80 yeare of the Heg Of Christ 700 left his seat at Aman in Arabia and sat downe at Calciat upon the shoare but disliking it removed to Costac in Mogestan six and twenty leagues from Iasques and there built a city which he cald Ormuz and from whence part of Arabia took name to him succceded Soliman to him Izachan to who Mahobet 2 Shawran-shaw who bequeathed the crowne to his Nephew Emer-sha-bedin-Molong whose daughter and heire married Seyfadin Aben-Ezer sonne to Ally-shaw Lord of Keys Iland the crown they wanting issue then came to Sha-Bedin Mahomet his cozen to whom followed Rocnadin Mamut Hamets son who dying An. Dom. 1278 left the rule to his Infant sonne Seidfadin-Nocerat who was slaine by his brother Morad or Masad eleaven yeares after and he forc't to flie into Kermaen by his brothers servant Mir Bahadin Mir Bahadin Ayaz or Ben-Seyfin Ben-Cabadin is forced to flie unable to resist the Turks Morad brought against him so with many of his friends such as hated the Tyrant removed to Kishny but not liking the place rises thence and sits down at this I le Gerun or wood where he built fortified and from the others name namd it Ormuz in the yeare 1312 of the Heg 692 and to him a man of noble extraction Emir-Azadin-gurdan-shaw to him his sonne Mabare-zadin-babron-sha a brave Prince but fell by the axe of treachery Mir-sha-Bedin-Issuff stroke him with who also fell by the late Princes youngest brother Mirza-Codbadin was he cald infortunately banisht by his cozen Melec-Nozamedin at whose death Cobadin returnd and swayd the Ormousian Scepter and at his death left all to Paca-Turansha a victorious Prince yet by death An. 1488 conquered to him Mozad-sha Bedin to him Salger-sha to him Shawez and to him Safadin or Zedfadin 2 subdued by Albuquerq An. 1507 and by him cruelly strangled Nordino Codjeature and De lam-sha attempted the soverainty but Mahomet the right heire was crowned King he dying his sonne Seyd-Mahomet-sha was called King who Anno 1622 was subdued by the English and Persians and at this day lives a prisoner at Shyraz The Persian now is soveraine The particular Acts and passages in taking this famous Citie is thus for some mens better satisfaction remembred At command of Shaw Abbas the Persian Monarch Emangoly-chawn chiefe Lord and Governour of those Territories that conjoyne the gulph of Persia descends with nine thousand men at such a time as he was confident to meet the English Fleet resolv'd to further them in revenge of those many tyrannies they had endured by the braving Portugall The Conditions betwixt them under hand and seale were these 1. The Castle of Ormus in case it were won with all the Ordnance and Amunition to accrue to the English 2. The Persians were to build another Castle in the I le at their owne cost when and where they pleased 3. The spoile to be equally devided 4. The Christian prisoners to be disposed of by the English the Pagans by the Persians 5. The Persians to allow for halfe the charges of victualls wages shott powder c. 6. And the English to be custome free in Bander-gum-broon for ever The Captaines of best note in the Pagan Army under the Duke of Shyraz were Alliculybeg Pollotbeg Shakulibeg Shareearee Mahomet Sultan and Alybeg King of the Port these with the rest of their Army encamped before Bander-gom-broon and two dayes after viz. the twentieth of Ianuary 1622. with small difficulty became Masters of the Port. Upon which the Duke and the English Captaines Weddall Blyth and Woodcock agreed upon an immediate battery and instantly played upon the Castle with a dozen peeces of Cannon for five houres but gave them small hopes of sudden conquest yet that neither pusillanimity nor doubt might be seene amongst them the ninth of February the English transported three thousand Persians in two Frigots lately taken and two hundred Persian Boats good for little other service these so soone as they were landed having formerly made Sconces or Trenches for their men and Bulwarks for the great Ordnance to play on very furiously they made towards Ormus thinking to meet no great opposall but the Portugalls though they let them land and passe quietly into the Towne with equall resolution stopt the current of their fury at first encounter from their barracadoes defended with shott and pike slaying above three hundred and with their Ordnance beat them back with more haste and amazednesse than their approach had courage in this disorder a Flancker by mischance was blowne up but the warre continued little hurt accruing to either party till the 24 of February on
too high in a lustfull bravado petitiond the King for help her good man proving too weak to conquer her a dangerous impudence the King finds it to reflect upon himselfe old at that time and Master of foure thousand Concubines he promises her a present satisfaction he calls his Physitians and when Phlebotomy was held too meane a remedy they give an Assinego an ophiat lustfull potion which inrages the beast who by a forced connexion basely glutted her but in the end banisht her life also A needy souldier drawes up a catalogue of his good services and closes it in want humbly intreating favour and some stipend from his god of warre for such and such good services In bello non bis peccatur for for his saucinesse he is almost drubd with many terrible bastinadoes on the soles of his feet to death and imitating Pyso the cruell Judge in Seneca lib. 1. c. 16. examines who it was that writ it the Clarke apologizes the King quarrells at his scurvie writing and that hee should never write worse makes his hand to bee cut off giving the poore wretch just cause to ingeminate Oh! quam vellem nescirem literas Two needy knaves were brought into the Divan and condemn'd for stealing many grievous tants the Pot-shaw leveld at them assuring them they deserved death for daring to come so neere his Court so lousie and so ragged they confesse they therefore stole to wrap themselves in better cloathing Abbas is not satisfied with any reason hee commands two new vests bee brought and to apparell them but winding sheets had beene more proper for the executioner forthwith drag'd them away and upon two sticks most cruelly stak'd them upon their fundaments Such and such other was his inhumane pastime during our stay at the Caspian sea enough on such a subject by the foot of Hercules the whole body is discerned for if I should summe up his variety of tortures his men men-eating hags of hell his caniball hounds his Capigi and their death twanging bowstrings his ripping mens guts and the like what could be the effect but an odious remembrance and such is the hard-heartednesse of Mahomitans a wicked people for cruell inventions the tender mercies of the wicked are cruelties a good man is mercifull to his beast but nor beast nor men are here commiserated And albeit nothing be more commendable in Princes than Justice for it is that that makes them gods yet clemency is no lesse honourable Tully a heathen could affirme it in his oration to Caesar for the life of Lygarius Thy clemency O Caesar is most excellent yea more honourable than thy other vertues Fortune hath made thee great Nature advanc't thee higher in thy inclination unto mercy Nor can they well bee separated A Prince exalted above others in dignity and Title is tyed to an impartiall way neither hating nor fearing any but rewarding and punishing as cause requireth without which contempt or confusion followeth But to these of Abbas I cannot give the glorious Attribute of Justice since if the punishment exceed the fault it then degenerates into cruelty a vice odious to God the Father and fountaine of mercy to men by imitating their deformities conceiting any Act though never so unnaturall if moulded after such a pattern good and commendable And heathen Potentates swerving from the rule of divine Justice pamper the corrupt habit and disposition of their minds out of a monstrous appetite and opinion that they are above all law and may every way inebriate their lust by sportfull tyranny such were the inhumane games in the Roman Amphytheators such was the barbarisme Xerxes as Xenophon notes practiz'd on Masistes his brother other Satrapaes such in Dejoces father to Phraortes who utterly exterminated the Persian generosity such in most Mahumedans at this day governing I cannot chuse but adde the miserable Tragedy of his sonne the memory whereof is recent through most of Asia Abbas by divers Paramours had divers children many of which hee educated with great cost care and experience Of most hope fame and vertue where Ismael Sophy-mirza Codobanda-Sultan and Emangoly foure brave young Princes the two first begot on Gordina daughter of Simon-cawn the later two of Martha daughter of Scander-mirza both Georgians both Christians the first Lady was brought thence by Kurchiki-cawn the other by Shaw-Tamas-Coolibeg both Persians both favorites all of them so deare to Abbas that it seemed hee then had got the Elixar of earthly happinesse his wives were so incomparably beautifull his favorites so exactly faithfull his sonnes so lively the characters of his person policy and courage reciprocally joying the aged King and overjoying the warlike Persians But it is commonly observed that as the most excellent things fade perish and alter soonest so this admirable candor and perfection in these youthfull Princes quickly vanished Saturn acting it Ismael when by reason of his innate delight in Armes and many quick signes of magnanimity the Asiatick world gazed and admired him in a black infernall cloud of poyson went down to an untimely grave at nineteene in the Meridian of his splendor Soffy-mirza dogd by a like adverse destiny though elevated at first for revealing a conspiracy was in the end at equall yeeres throwne downe and crusht to death after the dumb Capigi had got a hatefull victory meere jealosie in the King commanding it Emanguly ere his popular applause could hatch his ruine upon conference with a witch that hee saw by the Almuten of his nativity short life attended him growes fearfull of his Syres inconstancy and in a deep disconsolate melancholy evaporates his sad spirits leaving the expectation of hazard and soveraignty to Codobanda Sultan sirnamed Soffee who made wise by his brothers miseries so exquisitly behaved himselfe in duty to his King in a pleasing distance to the people that Abbas doates the people celebrate and an uncontroulable good Fortune seemes to dandle him Affability bounty loyalty courage and experience in Armes at home abroad the Persian Monarchy Turk Arab Mogul and Tartar admiring fearing and commending him in severall Eulogies and acclamations his owne left nothing unsaid or uninvented that might honour him his enemies without giving their thoughts the lye could not but idolize him who for all that not like our common spirits efflated by every vulgar breath upon every act deifie themselves and conceit all great additions of honour under their merits stood immovable sorry he grew so popular modestly chiding them for flattery condemned himselfe of hypocrisy by suffring his victories to bee so guilded since what he had or did was but a reflex of his Fathers vertue which he doubted might suffer an eclipse by his accumulations Oh! how execrable is this marrow fretting scab of jealousie and envie it converts that reason which only makes us Men without any regard of justice into brutishnesse yea to exceed in cruelty the most unreasonable most violent creatures Is not Abbas a King a Father does clemency belong to any
the third and sonne to Selym that arch-Atheist and Emperour of Turq's who call'd himselfe God of the Earth and commander of the whole World squinted still upon the Easterne Monarchs and found none a greater eye-sore and rub to his conquests than Mahomet and Persia many attempts he made to subject it but of no force the happy influence of destiny so safeguarded it Nature it selfe laboured to oppugne that rebell of Nature But let us first look back to see what stormes were rais'd what incantations ingendred ere he could make the tottering Dyadem sit close Tamas-Shaw sonne to Ismael-Sophy the Jewes reputed Messias till by the just hand of God they found him crueller than Tytus by a Georgian Lady they are the rarest in the Orient had twelve sonnes Mahomet Ismael Aydar-cawn Solyman Emangoly Mamut-Ally Mustapha Ally-cawn Amet-cawn Ebrahym Hamze and Izma-cawn the daughters are seldom reckned yet one of them a Virago Periacon-Conna by name plaid her part and rather than do as other women spin or bee imprisoned shee chose to practice Armes and to revive the infamy yea in every thing to imitate Semyramis King Tamas was scarce dead hastned some thinke before his time when Ayder his third sonne took advantage of his brethrens absence Mahomet he jeered at as unworthy the crowne by reason of his imperfection hee could not see to fight to discerne to governe Ismael was abroad upon some imployment and therefore Periacon-Conna encouraging he graspt the Scepter and impald his browes with his Fathers Diadem his brothers right his owne confusion for he had not swayed full foure dayes when Sahamel-cawn his insinuating Uncle most audatiously struck off the crowne and to adde presumption made the losse of his head satisfie his too hasty ambition Zenall-cawn his friend grumbles at it but had not power to question him Periacon-Conna finding her ingagement past to Ayder shewes her selfe a right woman in her constancy for without any revenge of Ayders death or sorrowing to his grave she transfers her love to Ismael who by her foot-post has notice of his brothers ill-end and favour of the Sultans towards him Ambition lends him wings so that he quickly arrives at Casbyn and by men of note is joyfully welcomed by the monster multitude saluted King His conscience accuses him of intrusion but checks him not to make such a construction as Law and Nature required from him he resolves to rule and to cut off such rubbs as made the way unsafe to mount upon his brothers had no title to it I meane none but Mahomet yet the name affrights him 8 innocent Princes were slaine to quench his infernall inflammation regarding neither grace his Fathers soule the perfume of that name the name of Tyrant justice nor the peoples mutability who by that cruelty begun to hate him and to wish the right heyre in his lawfull royalties Mahomet also begins to stirre if not for the crowne at least to free himselfe from his brothers blood-thirstinesse but he no sooner practis'd to bee active when the people ground their loyalty and affection on him and in great troopes flock about him vowing to have him King in Casbyn or in the attemp to sacrifice themselves Whiles Ismael growes odious to God and Man for seeing the vulgar sort and others fall away in a high contempt of them and to ruine all he confederates with the Turq intending to betray the honor of his crowne and to shade himselfe under their greatnesse yea to vex his owne and to ingratiate the Turks the more apostatizes proclaiming the error of the Persian reformation crying out that Ally was no body compared to Mahomets three successors and the like frantick impostures which how subtlely so ere hee cloakt his tricks deceived him for one night a dismall night to him his sister weather-cock and foure inraged Sultans Chalyle Emyr Mohummed and Curchy-cawn entred his bed-chamber in womens apparell where Ismael thinking to coole his lascivious appetite was by those Amazons strangled in a cord of silke foming out his infected spirit unable to resist the fury of those conspirators and disheartned when hee saw his sister one of them Casbyn was clouded with shame and amazement but cleares up when Mahomet enters circled with the refulgent Diadem Periacon-conna dreames not of an account but Mahomet acquainted with her turbulent and variable nature commands Salmasmirza to arrest her with the axe of death which accordingly hee executes and sends her Gorgons head the hayre dishevelling upon a speares poynt as a symboll of his obedience unto the King her complices upon the terrour of this posting for their lives into Georgia some unto Babylon Ecce patrem Nati perimunt Natosque parentes Matuaque armati coëunt in vulnera fratres Thus children slay their Syres parents their brood Armd brethren brethen wound in deadly fewd Amurath the Grand-seignior heares by Vstref-beg an Armenian Traytor of Izmaels catastrophe in whose revenge he so colour'd it to make Mahomet neglected he forages the Persian Territores ordering Mustapha the Bashaw with a hundred thousand men to perpetrate their utmost rage which he greedily obeyes till Sultan Tokomac the Persian Generall affronts him face to face and examines him with such fury in the Calderan plains famous for many memorable conflicts that Mustapha is forced thence in despight of his bravadoes a shamed that 20000 could not only bandy but beat downe his Army consisting of five times his number Six and thirty thousand Turks there breath'd their last and eight thousand Persians Anno Domini 1578. Heg 958 of whose heads the bragging Turk made a Bulwark thinking it would bee a scar-crow to the Persian who retaliated them in a more terrible measure that yeere by the valour of Arez-beg and Emanculy-cawn thirty thousand other Turks parting with their heads as they past the Conac in Hyrcania to erect a higher Trophy to their victory praying Mustapha and his Master to come no more unsent for lest they gave them such another harsh welcome wondring they had so soone forgot the famous overthrow King Tamas gave Solyman and Ebrahim-bassa three and forty yeeres since by a handfull of Coosel-bashaes and the assistance of a divine hand scattering as wind does clouds three hundred and fourescore thousand men Mustapha gives his reply in a grim look wishing hee could do more than hee was able But Mahomet is not yet secure for the Tattars allyed to the Turk in revenge upon Mosendram violate and commit all kinds of rage and turpitude hoping when they had joynd with Osman-bassa left by Mustapha to over-runne all Medya without opposall but they reckned without their host for Arez beg with ten thousand gallant Persians surprise the Tattars with such haste and dexterity that they routed a great part of the Army and had return'd crown'd with a most happy conquest had not Abdel-chery the Generall us'd a stratagem who with some selected companies entring upon the backs of the halfe tyred Persians by great clamours made them beleeve Osman was
his idiom Miramur periisse homines monumenta fatescunt Interitus saxis nominibus que venit Why wonder we that People die since Monuments decay Yea flinty Stones with mens great Names Deaths tyranies obay To see old Shushan is neither unworthy our labour nor out of our way SHVSHAN is every where famoused It was one of the three royall Pallaces the Medyan Monarchs so much gloried in Babylon Shushan and Ecbatan built by Darius sonne of Histaspis Anno Mundi 3444. as Pliny has it in his 6 lib. c. 28. Some say Laomedan built it such time as Thola judged Israel Others make Cyrus Lord of Pisogard from Pison a branch of Hiddekel or Tigris to bee the Architect in memory of his good successe obteyned in that very place against Astiages the Median Emperour It is spoken of in the 1. ch of Hester That there Ahashuerus An. Mun. 3500. feasted his Liefetenants over a hundred twenty and seven Provinces a hundred and eighty dayes with great cost and triumph Nehemiah and Daniel also remember it to bee in Elam Persia and notwithstanding the many mutations and miseries it had from many avaritious Tyrants yet was it able to smile upon Alexander when hee extracted thence to pay his Soldats and fill his bags with fifty thousand Talents in Bullyon and nine Millions in coyned Gold and well may bee since Cassiodore in his 7. lib. 15. Epist reports for truth that Memnon sonne to Tithon and reckned by some first founder so gloried in his work that hee cemented the stones with gold which made Aristagoras cry out to his men of warre that if they could but master it each poore knave there might then compare with Iove for riches and bravery Some wrangle about the name Shushan and its signification Athenaeus interprets it from her plenty in Lillyes but whence hee fetcht it I cannot tell the Arabic nor Persian have no such meaning as well I may say from Suzan or Shuzan in the Persic tongue a needle or a glasse-bottle But such Synonimaes may not carry it I rather beleeve it is derived from Chus Noahs grand-sonne Susiana from him call'd Chusiana and at this day not much discrepant in the name they call it by Chusistan More probable in that Chus Cams sonne planted a Colony here ere hee journeyed into Arabia and Aethiopia a mistake made the Septuagints imagine Nyle one of those foure streaming from Paradise his sonnes also here-abouts inhabiting Nymrod in Chaldaea Seba in Arabia Havilah in Indya Raamah in Carmania c. Let us dow into Shushan At this day t is called Valdac not farre from the Gulph watered by Chozes or Choaspes which arising from the Jaaroonian Mountains streames hither very pleasantly in many meanders circum-giring and not far from Balsorac Doridatis of old participates with the brackish Gulph of Persia where also Euphrates call'd Phrat and Almacher from Libanus some say from Mount Abas in Armenia say others and Tigris now call'd Diglat and Hiddechel from Taurus or Pariedrus rather imbowell themselves A river of such account which the Persian Emperours that no water but Choaspes no bread but from Assos in Phrygia no wine but the Chalyhonian in Syria no salt but what they had from Memphis in Aegipt could please their pallats Daniel calls it Vlai Pliny Eulaeus an anti-stream glides to Persepolis Shushan was in compasse 120 stades or furlongs so Strabo Policletus numbers 200 above twenty miles English The wall about it quadrangular In building walls houses Temples and the like resembling Babylon From whence Ecbatan it had aequidistancie five hundred short miles Valdac had some forme and beauty till Moses sirnamed Askar Omars kinsman Anno Dom. 641. Heg 21 depopulated it It has now a resemblance of Moful or Ninivie nothing but ruines covering her Of which and other such once noble Cities I may say with King David Psalm 46 Come and behold the works of the Lord what desolations he hath made in all the earth And that we are so neere the old locall place of Paradise let me glance a little into it PARADISE or the terrestriall Garden of Eden Hogea-del-Holan the Indians name it Gan-Eden the Hebre wes call it wherein God placed Adam is much controverted and where it was as much doubted of some making it an Allegorie others a locall place Strange it is to confider the variety Some say it was in the middle Region of the ayre whence they will draw the foure great streames that water Paradise Some place it in the mountaines of the Moone in Aethyop whence Nilus springs othersome in the circle of the Moone some others under the circle and that thence the foure rivers flow gliding under many large deepe Seas and so into Paradise Some think the 4 rivers signifie 4 cardinall vertues the word Paradise a metaphor of delight mans fall the banishment the torryd Zone the fierie sword and such other fanatick fancies as made the brain-sick Hermians and Seleucians sweare there never was a Paradise whose phantasmaes I value not in that the more judicious affirme there was varying meerely in the place Some and those well read imagine it was ten miles about the Province Mesopotamia the precise place Eden to this retaining both name and memory St. Augustine judges it was in the happy Arabia Amongst the Tartars dreames Goropius in Holland hee might have said Vnder the N. pole thinks Postellus In Syria Beroaldus Vpon the banks of Tygris sayes Xenophon Every where before Adam sinned thinks Ortelius Some say it comprehended Meso-potamia Armenia Mount Taurus incircling Shynaar holding afterwards Selencia and Babylon Others carry it further as that it included Nilus and Gangas a too great limit for a Garden six thousand miles distant Nyle arising from Zair in Afrique empties it selfe into the mid-land Sea Ganges from Imaus in Scythia into the Gangetick Sine or Bengalan Ocean The Inhabitants in Ceyloon say Paradise was there and shew Adams footsteps Eves teares c. Some say Aegipt Syria and Iudaea that the tree of knowledge grew on Mount Calvary the second Adam suffering in the same place the first Adam had offended Some dreame it is in a mountaine above the skie where none are but Enoch and Elias We can ascend no higher without troubling our understandings The best is this That Nyle nor Ganges had no being there the Septuagints mistake arising from their suppostion that Pison was Ganges and Gihon Nyle Mesopotamia no doubt was East from Arabia where Moses the Prince and first that ever wrote History compleated his Pentateuch And as questionlesse the Garden of Eden was watered with Euphrates and Tygris who in their severall fluxes one from Libanus th' other from Ararat or Taurus part themselves into foure branches Pison one streaming to Piso-gard in Persia Gibon th' other commixing with Choaspes both runne into the Gulph at Balsora For whereas 't is said Pison compasses the land of Hevilah we must not imagine it that Havilah in Indya whither Havilah sonne of Ioctan sonne
excellencie of the Alfurcan from his blasphemous lie that he was so long in the sixt heaven call'd Alahal where this Anthropomorphite sayes hee had the honour to shake hands with the Almighty which he sayes were 70 times colder than Ice and that being upon th' earth to make the people credit him he commanded the Moone to descend halfe of which he put into his own sleeve and the other halfe serv'd as a zone or girdle to Mortis Ally and to their like amazement after so rare a complement peec't it and placed it in the same Orbe whence first he drew it During this Ramdam all the day long they abstaine from all sorts of viands or refection he being counted the veriest heretique in the world dare ryot it But Don Phoebus is no sooner inveloped with his dark mantle the earths interposition and Dame Cynthia arrayed with brightnesse in their Hemisphere then they gormundize and let loose the reines of their unbridled appetite Epicurising in all kindes of delights to be invented or pleasures possible Prosper's saying That to fast from sinne is the best fast is here ridiculous So soone as the nine and twentieth day is past for though the Alcoran command forty yet by those of the late reformation it was limited to one Moone they begin the Byram as we doe Easter and continue their merriment and sports till the third day be ended the two dayes after the Byram are commonly call'd Chutsi-baaram Char-bahram or Byram The last houre of the last festivall many vow a zealous pilgrimage to their Prophets Sepulchre not magnetically attracted nor intombed in an iron coffin as some report but laid under a faire marble polisht and ingraved with Arabique sentences out of the Elesalem But in the way wallow in all kind of swinish turpitude villany and lothsomnesse yet no where persecuted being palliated with a Pilgrims coat and hypocritique sanctity The Buccarie they solemnize in November or Chodad-maw by Turks Silcade by Arabs Rabiel owl in commemoration of the Ram sacrificed by Abraham such time as Izmael they say should have beene killed Many other Festivalls they celebrate The Oud Hussan Nowrouz Imamy Caddyer-Ally Iedt-Ousant Auwpatsian the Sophyan the Roses Daffadillies c. The Oud-Hussan is from Hocem or Hussan soone of Ally slaine with eleven of his sonnes by Mavi the Chalyph Lord of Damascus and Nephew to Ozman A Festivall begun by Syet Gunet followed by Aydar and commanded by Sha-Izmael as a Triumph against the Ben-Humyans who tho they thought to have extirpt Ally's root yet by divine providence St. Azmully brancht secretly Anno Hegirae 90. and from him this Siet of Ardoveil reviver of the Sophian dignitie For the Syet not onely sleighted the Turkish opinion of Mahomets three successours Abubocher and the rest but cursed all such as honor them yea and foure other great Hodgees or Doctors of the Alcoran contemporarie friends and helpers of Mahomet those foure if I be not deceiv'd whom Mahomet in a feare for his presumption beholding God in Paradize wip't from the sweat of his brow and by divine myracle metamorphiz'd into foure learned men thus named Achmet Sembelim Abu-hamet Melec-zeddah and Sheck Vaffaim a tenet so offensive and exasperating to the Turks that of late the Muphti condemning an innocent Persian swore a great oath he thought it a better act and a more meritorious sacrifice to kill one Persian than seventy Christians But to our Storie All agree that Hussan was slaine trecherously by Chuse a slave to Mnavi Mavi was an Actor they therefore punish him yearely though rotten 1000 yeares since First framing a deformed Image his face blackt his nose pierc't with a Dart and clad in straw which done they hurrie it through the streets in a hurly-burly of thousands of people who when they have dragd it enough within the City hale it to some rising hill without wher to all mens view they elevate this supposed living Caytiffe The Caddy bawles out a pathetique Oration to this purpose That after much search Ally had directed them where to apprehend this Traytor unworthy the least pittie or procrastination this being that same villaine who slew Hussan and his sons Ceresin only escaping that every good man is bound in conscience to curse him yea to help to torment him in the vilest manner possible In shew of joy and assent they unanimously sing Epicinia a song of victorie and crie aloud Yough Ally yea strive to rend the clouds with their ceaselesse clamours At a set time they cease roring and fire is given to a trayne of Gunpowder which sets divers squibs a fire and at length dissipates and blowes up the detested Syrian by a hideous noise making the ayre eccho at his smokie Funerall Hussans ghost now sleepes quietly each Persian commends one anothers zeal haste home spend that night in merriment The Nowrouz is in imitation of our New-yeares day but they begin after the old manner in March such time as Phoebus in his equall shine to either Pole makes the Aequinoctium A festivall of jovialitie for one prayer preying upon varietie of wanton pleasures the Talismanni piping now to Bacchus Ceres and Madam Venus For I have observ'd that in manie parts for 11 months in the yeare we could see verie few women and those vailed but impossible in the streets or gardens to converse with anie without danger yet these twelve dayes of the Nowrouz all places were full of them yea their naked faces openly discovered frisking in amorous postures and drawing the eye by a forced Magique Gifts also and reciprocall presents are retorted up down with garments of silk gold horses fruits and piscashes of other sorts nothing but riding the great horse drinking cock-fighting fortune-telling singing courting and the like observed to the last minute of that Festivall The Imamy has some dependance on the Buckaree This a Camell that a Ram that for Ismael this for Mahomet In November the Meccan Protomist sends a sanctified Camell by an adopted sonne sometimes naturall who is welcom'd to Spahawn by many thousand Mussulmen who shew th'extream of joy for so holy a Present After they have tried tired their voices the Hodgee from an exalted place acquaints them with the cause of his long journey perswades them to a thankfull remembrance and blesses them The zealous multitude without anie respect of men or danger throng about the Beast who is no sooner in the field where Death arrests him but that they fall upon him and pluck off his haires with an admirable dexteritie keeping them as sanctimonious reliques praevalent against sudden death though manie die in the assault and thousands returne maymed hunger thirst povertie and the like After which the tormented Camell is by the Hodgee againe signed for a sacrifice The Darroguode first transfixes his Javelin The Visier beheads him and gives it the King The carkasse is torne peece-meale by the foole-hardie multitude so greedie to obtaine this charme of long life and plentie
that immortalitie and the place where meat and drinke is needlesse oft praecipitates them The Caddier Ally is for Ally's victorie over the three old Caytiffs of Mecca by death not Ally conquered and his joy in heaven which after some threnodies many prayers are muttered songs chanted and almes bestowed the King being at most charge the greatest honor reflecting him The Iedt Ousant is from a Cabala that Housant was lost in a terrible great wildernesse where thirst killed him Nine dayes they wander up and downe shaving all that while neither head nor beard nor seeming joyfull incessantly crying out Hussan Hussan in a melancholy note so long so fiercely that many can neither howle longer nor for a moneths space recover their voyces The tenth day they find an imaginarie Hussan that Nunquemque satis quaesitus Adonis whom they eccho forth in Stentorian clamors till they bring him to his grave where they let him sleepe quietly till the next yeares zeale fetch him out Semper enim perdunt semper inveniunt and force him againe to concomitate their merry devotion The Auwptpatsion or Owdt-baptsion is from Mahomets baptisme by cursed Sergius and seemes to deride our customes to make their circumcision lovelier A rascall troop of circumcis'd Mahomitans assemble and after the Darroguod has put a period to his rustick Oration promiscuously besprinkle one anothers faces then soile their flesh with durt and filth the great ones many times to please the King acting among them Lastly they cleanse themselves with purer water supposing all contaminated deformitie washt off and their bodies wholsomer The Sophian is a solemnitie of fasting feasting and praying for the prosperitie of their King of the Sophian pedegree The feast of Roses and Daffadillies is begun by a Procession of holy men at the first budding of those sweet flowers and for thirtie dayes is celebrated with all manner of sports and recreations to be imagined continued from the great feasts of the old famous Monarchs of Persia tents in abundance men women boyes girles with Armes musick songs dances and such as may revive the Olympick memories 6 Com. Reverence thy Parents Which how ill they performe many Tragick stories daily informe us of 7 Com. Cursed be the slayer This is so well practis'd in Persia that what by rigour of the Lawes and what from this one may travell in any place at any time without all danger and although they be generally Martialists and affect much wine yet I never saw any quarrell nor strife amongst them 8 Com. Do so to Others as thou wouldest Others should do to thee From whence they are humane and curteous but bribery is lately crept amongst them and deceit too too easily discerned The Alcorar is a miscellany of other prodigious things It tracts in the 33 that Dagial or Shytan i. e. the Devill shall be saved by Mahomet in the 72 Azoara that all Elgehenni or infernall ghosts shall after I know not how many yeares bee freed The other Azoaraes of his Kurrawn are of Arithmetick fights dangers truth falshood tyranny warre peace prophesie c. The 85 Azoara treats of the Zodiac the 90 of the Sunne the 91 92 93 of the Moon of night of morn the 113 of the Firmament but is Philosophy of such coursenesse that I may well say Discum potius quam Philosophum for how can it well be otherwise since in his 17 Azoara hee confesses that hee could neither read nor write but that all his learning was super-naturall In one chapter hee is bold to say that Solomon was a great Magician and that hee learnt it from Marot and Arot two great black Devills with more reason we may say that Mahomet was skild in that infernall wisdome if halfe of those miracles bee true hee records of himselfe one is this In a great assembly of Arabian Pagans he pointed at the Moone with his thumb and long finger it seemes it knew his mind for the Moone immediatly clove asunder and in two peeces fell upon the hill of Mecca on which hee at that time stood Mahomet with a peece of his linsey-wolsey coat patcht it and made it whole againe and after it had also say the Persians circumvolved Mortis Ally in way of imbrace or complement it re-ascended and from that day became the badge or coat armour of all Bosarmen In another hee assures his Proselites that Mecca Medina and Ierusalem be holy Cities built by Adam in Paradize but fram'd in heaven thence it is that Ierusalem is by Turks as well as Christians honoured foure Cities sprung out of hell at the birth of Mahomet at which time all Idolls fell and Lucifer was throwne into hell so deep into that abisse as hee was some yeeres ere he could get up againe the names of those devillish Townes are as pleases Mahomet to say Elmedin in Caldea Antioch in Syria Vastat in Aegypt and Eh-beram in Armenia Places it seemes which had refused him and his learned Doctrine But lend your eares a while and listen to the most serious subject of his Alcoran In the 47 Azoara he records hiâ— pilgrimage into the highest heavens where he saw rare things and thence brought a certain description of the severall Spheares Heavens Hells and Paradises as also of Angells and Saints of judgement the resurrection joy and paine c. of which I will afford you a compendium for Mussulmen to beleeve for us to laugh at One eve as Mahomet was sporting privatly in 's chamber at Mecca with Aysce his young wife Gabryel Seraphyel the Persians call him the same that fosterd Mahomet and Ally three yeares and was peradventure such a Malus Genius as haunted Brutus in a flash of fire entred their bed-chamber and saluted Mahomet with this message Haile thou beloved man I come to fetch thee the God whom thou so zealously worshippest desires to see thee at his owne station Mahomet rejoyces and going to mount upon the Angells wings of which hee had seventy pâ—ire is hindred he asks which way he should take towards heaven the Angel shewes him a huge Asse Albarack by name and bids him mount upon him which Mahomet essaying could not doe till hee had prayed for him From Mecca hee posted in the twinckling of an eye for Barack at foure steps had done it to Hierusalem there the Angell dismounted him and took him into his owne protection In few minutes Mahomet ascended heaven and was let in by Gabryel the Porter there From one heaven to another is a travell of five hundred yeares howbeit The Heaven Mahomet glanc't through the seven in a moment In all which Orbs hee saw many strange things but first take notice what mettall the Orbs are made of The first is of refined silver and wherein all the glittering starres are fixt with chains of burnisht brasse in this heaven he saw a Cock so great that standing upon the Moon his cox-comb reacht into the imperiall heaven many millions of miles altitude every
3 and then Herodes slaine by Phraortes his cruell sonne At this time Crassus the rich and famous Roman was slaine and twenty thousand Romans at Carrhas by the Parthians a foule blemish to the Romans till soone after Ventidius Mark Anthonies Liefetenant purged it by a new victory in which Pacorus the Kings sonne was by that valiant Roman slaine and the Empire acknowledged Augustus Caesar over them who deposed the Paricide and made another Phraortes King in his roome At this time was ecchoed the golden song Pacem te poscimus omnes a time most fit to entertaine the Prince of Peace Christ Jesus our Saviour who as then became flesh and dwelt amongst the sonnes of sinfull men To Phraortes 2 succeeds these severall Dynasts of Pathia Orodes or Daridaeus Vonones Tereditates the last of the Arsacidae slaine treacherously by Artabanus to whom these Bardanis Goterys Vonones 2 Vologeses Artabnus 2 Pacorus Chozroes Phamaspates Vologeses 2 Velogeses 3 and lastly Artabanus vanquisht by Caracalla by Macrinus slaine Howbeit in him the hopes of Persia slept not but rather joyed at the farwell of that strange race Redacted by the Persian for upon that advantage the Empire seeming distracted 'twixt two severall affections one Artaxerxes Chobad before but to speed the better he assumes this pleasing name steps forth and with a Majestick grace modestly chides his Country-men for their sloth and faint-heartednesse and that now or never the occasion was offered of reviving their name and redacting the Persian Empire to her former freedome and lustre the people admire the man and by his name doubt not that bee was a true Persian so as with an uoanim assent they crowne his temples with the Dyadem and resolve under him to dye or to dispell that cloud of bondage which the Parthian had so long wrapt them in For three dayes the fight continued twixt those two neighbour the stake was freedome and Monarchie at length the Persian has the victory and Artabanus the Parthyan King by his death pat this late triumphant Empire into bondage After that he vanquisht the Roman Emperour Alexander Severus but in the 15 yeare of his reigne is himselfe by imparriall death vanquished An. Dom. 243 Sapores his sonne begun to reigne And here Teixera may be taxed who assures us that Artaxerxes late named or as they call him Ardkhyrbabba-cawn i.e. Father and Lord to men of warre reigned contemporarie with Caesar Augustus This same Sapores is by the Persians call'd Shaw-Pot by Teixera Scbabur by Schicard Xahur-Xabulketaph or Dbul Aktaf a Prince sufficiently couragious but basely cruell He over-ranne Syria Cilicia Mesopotamia Capadocia Armenia c. but returned with many curses for his crueltie and had next yeare beene retaliated by Gordianus the Roman had not this Emperour dyed by the hands of Philippus a rebell that slew him at Ctesiphon But which efflated Sapores above the rest was the rare overthrow he gave two yeares after to Licinius Vilerianus sirnamed Colobus Roman Emperor who after he had inhumanly triumphed ovet St. Lawrence thousands of other Christians whom he made Martyrs or witnesses in an open field Sapores vanquisht him betray'd some say by Macrinus his Liefetenant and to his dying day made that proud Roman his footstoole to mount upon verifying the old said Saw Superbos sequitur ultor a tergo Deus After he had tyrannised twenty yeeres hee dyed Anno Domini 273 and before the Hegira or Mussulmanish accompt 347. To Sapores followed Ormisda Cherman-sha say the Persians who at the end of thirteene months dyed and Vararanes for three yeeres till death prevented succeeded him to him Narses Tesdgird say the Persians who after sixteene yeeres rule died also and left to inherit his sonne Vararanes 2 cognominated Seganese by Persians calld Baharan who in the first quarter followed the common fate Narses a stranger succeeding him This Narses made bitteer warre with the Armenians and Mesopotamians at which Galerius stormed but his being the Roman Emperor could not dant Narses nor privilage him from being beaten yet in the second conflict is victor and Narses for griefe and shame burnes himselfe after he had eight yeers ruled Persia Misdates his sonne reighned seven yeere after his fathers death to whom followed Sapores an Anti-Christian for the Romans did not rage more furiously against the Christians in the lesser Asia than did this Tyrant in the great he was a posthumus and the crowne set upon his mothers belly even before his birth acknowledging him their soveraigne hee was the Romans inplacable enemy by no threats no bribes no reasons to be pacified he fired Nisibis not valuing that Bacchus was there borne and suckled after which in his owne Dominions he martyrd as Ecclesiastick writers report from the yeere 337 to 347 above thirty thousand Christian for in those dayes those eastern parts were most part Christians the names of many of those noble Martyrs you have in Sozimen he also affronted but with bad successe Constantius the Roman Emperour who dyed of griefe so soone as hee heard what cruelties Sapor had perpetrated upon the Citisens of Singara Bizabda Aminda Bombyca c. Mopsicrive a Towne under mount Taurus in huming him No better luck had that malicious Apostat Iulian who when he had done his worst against the Christians endeavored the subversion of Persia but most strangly he is peirced with a Persian dart in the night and expires with a tandem vicisti Galileë and in his place Iovanian with the joyfull cry of all his Camp Omnes sumus Christiani was saluted Emperour of the Romans He could do but little good against the Persians and therefore returnes towards Constaninople but in the way is arrested by grim death after hee had beene but eight months Emperor Sapores about that time also sighed out his affrighted ghost at the age and reigne of seventy one Anno Mundi 4350 Anno Domini 380. and Artaxerxes his brother ruled after him who dyed in the 11 yeare of his reigne Sapores followed him after five Varanes sirnamed Cermizat him after 10 yeares and to him succeeded Yezdgyrd a constant friend unto the Romans and as Socrates Scolast reports a Christian converted by Maruthas Bishop of Mesopotamia sent into Persia to that end by Pope Innocent and Theodosius the Emperor The Persian Stories say he apostatized who can tell the truth of it this is certaine that in the 20 yeare of his reigne Anno Dom. 426 hee dyed and that Varanes 4 or Baharan inherited his royalties By all Writers this Prince is taxed for his perfidie lust and crueltie especially against the Christians In their defence Theodorus junior sends Artaburus with a gallant Annie Vararanaes diffiding in his owne requests ayd from Alamandurus a Saracen whose Armies when they met were so many that they covered the earth for many miles with their innumerable numbers At Babylon both meet but ere the battell begun such a pannique feare struck the Pagans that they fled amazedly by
land some perisht but Euphrates without any pittie ingulpht 100000 of those miscreants and by that losse he Persian King is heart-broken after he had tyrannized 20 yeares and another Vararan 5 of that name placed in his stead hee tooke truce with Martianus the Emperour and after 17 yeeres left both life and crowne Perozes succeeded him call'd Pheruz by the Persians a Prince more rash than valiant in the 20 yeere of his reigne the warres of Scythia made an end of him Valens or Belax and Ialas was then chosen King he ruled 4 yeeres to him Cabades call'd also Chobad and Canades dethron'd by Lambases in the 11 yeere of his greatnesse which Lambases or Blases was also deposed by the Nobles of Persia in the 4 yeere for that hee had set forth an Edict that all women should be us'd in common and Canades is re-established but at last through his too much curtesy to his vile brother is made blind and the other mounts the Throne againe At this time great warres commenced 'twixt the Roman and Persians the Persian storming that at their perswasion Zatus sonneto Gurgenus King of the Lazarrs a part of Colchos or Mengrellya had received Baptisme at Constantinople Iustyn the Emperour witnessing for him at the Font. After that this Persian Tyrant had full gorg'd himselfe with the slaughter of many thousands of the Lazarrs and Armenians Death summons him to an unwilling accompt after 30 yeeres tumultuous reigne and Cozrhoe his son they call him Chezir is solemnly crowned the Persian King About this time the Roman Monarchy in the West took end Chozrhoe of all the Tyrants of Persia was most wicked and desperate hee first concluded peace for 110 yeeres with Iustinian the Roman Emperour but quickly broke it and to the utmost of his power inraged them 't would bee endlesse to speak his restlesse motion his barbarisme his hypocrisy In meere malice he put to death his brother Balax and Aspebides his aged Uncle the people murmur at him and to be even with them he commands them to follow him into Syria where hee ingages their valour and at Palmyria is beaten soundly but so exasperated that he ransacks Barrhosa Antioch Selucia Apamea and other parts in Phoenicia also hee gluts his mischiefe there hee forced Euphemia a Christian Lady and of her begot Hormisda who succeeded him hee also there compelled the chast Nymnhs of Daphné to offer incense to him as to a Deity and for their kindnesse ravisht them He consumed the great and stately Temple dedicated to St. Michael the Arch-Angell and accompted it no sacriledge to rob other Churches hee besieged Sergiropolis but is forced thence dishonourably he attempts the spoile of Ierusalem but hearing that Bellisarius in his time the most rich and wretchedly poore of men was approaching hee renues his league with the Romans but purposes not long to keepe it for next yeere hee forrages Armenia and Phoenicia Anno Dom. 556 Iustyn the Roman Emperour enters Mengrellia and by death of Nachorages the Persian Generall got a happy victory Cozrhoë next yeere assauts Edissa but fruitlessely for at Sagarthon that yeere the Christians vanquisht him An. Domini 574 he commands Artabanus or Adaarmanes with a great Army to enter the lesser Asia accordingly they spoyle Syria and unpeople Antioch in Iberia also and Armenia they entred with no lesse voracity At this time Armenia received the Christian Faith and the Romans have cōplaints sent them of Cezrhoes his cruelty Iustin sends Tiberius elected Caesar to quiet him His Army was great and consisted of many Nations French Italians Peonians Illirians Misians Massagets Isauriaus c. towards Armenia he marches to meet with Cosrhoé Cesarïa the Cappadocian Metropolis he soone mastered and after long toyle comes in view of the Enemie The Persians were strong and lustie The signall of battell was no sooner given but each man in a wrathfull posture hastned to vent their furie Cosrhoe by a sigh presages his overthrow but doubts it more when when Cursé a Scythian that led the right wing of the battell entred with rare courage into the body of the Pagan Armie and mastred all the Persian-baggages but the losse of that fight did not so much grieve him as that his Fire-god was falne into the hands of his scoffing Enemies Many night stratagems he invented to recover it but all to no purpose so that seeing it past recoverie it broke his heart at Ctesiphon after hee had reigned 48 yeares leaving this report behind him that to the Christians he was cruell to the Greeks perfidious to the Persians lustfull and tyrannicall In his place his sonne Hormisda Ormous by the Persians hee is call'd was crowned Monarch of Persia Anno Dom. 580 of the world 4550 His eight yeares rule was troublesome For in his 3 yeare Mauritius son in law and Liefetenant to Tiberius and also Emperour afterwards hammered the face of Persia he ranged where hee pleasd and did what listed him albeit to prevent it Tama Cosrhoé Adaarman Alamandure and Theodorique did what they could to hinder him Anno Dom. 589 Philippicus with some Roman Legions entred Persia especially to comfort the poore Christians who were threatned by the Magicians to be slaine all of them that yeare by myracle Cardarigas the Persian Generall supposes they were forced thither by a fate uncontroleable but the event prov'd such as in sted of the Christians above 30000 Persians were slaine by the great valour the great Captaines Philippcus Heraclius and Vitylian manifested amongst the superstitious who depended upon some supernaturall helps so long that Nature no whit defended them Barames a noble Persian by hap escaped but not a second disadventure for Hormisda grew so madded at his late overthrow that hee forces Barames to weare womens apparell and with a Distaffe in 's hand to disport the insulting multitude but this jeere cost him deerely for Barames flies into such parts as loved him and inceases Byndois a potent Persian against the King by whose confederacie they raise so great an Armie and passe to Shyraz so privatly that ere many knew of their approach they enter the Citie and imprison the King yea that same day crowne his sonne Chozroes King the barbarous Traytors executed their wrath upon the Queen her children whom most cruelly they sawed asunder at which Hormisda expresses all the simtoms of an inraged man his son cannot comfort him because his beloved wife was irrevocable Cosrhoes in passion commands some villaines to temper him whose crueltie prov'd such as drubd the wretched King to death an act so infernally devillish that all Persia cursed him Vpon their mutterings he growes tyrannicall but Barames that had mounted him wich the same hand thinks to pull him downe the King acquainted wich his intent commands this and that man to raise some force to punish him but into such hate was he growne that none would obey him whereby to save his life he flies with Cesarca his wife to Byzanth his
his conquest of Trepizond by the Greeks there I know not Since then many have called the Kings of Persia Sophy's but I see no proper reason for it since Ismaels sonne grand great grand sons Kings of Persia never continued that name till this that now reignes whose name indeed is Soffee but casuall Ismael the second of his reigne subjected Shervan and Gheylan Parc Hyerac and Cusistan Kerman Macron and as farre as Iasques Coom Coom was commonly his Winter rendezvous The fourth yeare by Elyas-beg he purposed to infest the Tartars but Elias through neglect was vanquisht in the way by Ocebeg-Geholy Lord of Chalat-Pherusky who at Ismaels approach fortifies his Castle but is forced out by flux and famine hee and fifty of his best men slaine and the rest pardoned Which done he hasts back to Yezd hearing that Mahomet had besieged it he quickly rais'd the siege and burned Mahomet And after hee had compounded some differences 'twixt himselfe and Morod-sha brother to Alvan Anno Dom. 1507. Heg 887 hee journeyed to Shyraz where he was solemnly crowned but next day put to death 30000 men such as were either guilty of his Fathers death or had taken part with Morod against him That yeare he hastened into Mosendram and repuls'd the Tartarrs albeit he had not above 20000 horse and Vlu-chan and his were above 300000. And to retaliate them he billited his men that Winter in Taron but so soone as the weather permitted hee entred Tuzz intending to spoile Samarchand But hearing of Sultan Ocen's death and that Shac-beg-chawn an Ouz-beg had usurped the Crowne of Corasan in the behalfe of ther injur'd Princes Ocens sonnes he entered Corasan and in a long fought battell 'twixt him and the Rhumestans slew Sha-beg-cawn 30000 Tattars and made Acen-Ally be crowned King upon condition that at his death it should hold of the Persian Dyadem That Summer he passed Oxus and slew Chamsylba the Maurenahar King sackt the strong Castle Ael-kama depopulated Dargan Farghwan Azfaker and many other strong holds in T'sogd Kennough Gaznehen Maurenaher Rhumestan Turq'stan farre beyond Balk the Ouz-beghian Metropolis and returning he sackt Tuzz Sakalkand Sikamest c. sufficiently retaliating what his own Nation had formerly suffered from the Black-sheep of that vargant Country and when he had fully glutted himsefe amongst the Tartarrs came joyfully back to Coom where he was received with all symptoms of joy possible to be expressed Next sommer he went into D'arbeg against the Turks who so soone as they had heard of Ismaels doings in Tartary entred Bagdat and exprest their utmost villanie there calling them Raffadins or Schismaticks and cutting off the noses and thumbs of many hundred Persians In their revenge Ismael affronts them with 50000 horse and in despight of what Carigy and Ally-Bashaw could do upon the bancks of Tygris he gave the Turks an overthow and that yeere seconds it by another he gave the Beglerbeg of Anatolia whereat Bajazeth stormes but Ismael to exasperate him took a Swine into his Court and names it Bajazeth madding the Grand-Senior and his Ambassador but joying the Persians to see the excellent courage of their Emperour At this time also Tekelles a favorite to Ismaels father Aydar to propagate the Reformation leads 20000 men into Trepisond whither the Armenians flockt in such abundance that that Syet entred Turquy with 200000 men as farre as Iconium in Lycaonia where hee vanquisht Mahomet and Orcan the 2 youthfull Nephews of Bajazeth Carogozes the Bassa of Asia also he triumpht over sackt Cutay and in the plaines of Ancira put to flight Ally-Bassa and his innumerable company yea had Ismael taken the advantage to have backt him he had prov'd another Tamberlain but wanting his countenance and other necessaries Ionuses Bassa neere to Anti-Taurus conquered him and which was no lesse miserable that famous Captain doing some violence to a Carravan he met with by the way is at this entring Casbyn apprehended and by Ismaels command burned Anno Domini 1511. Heg 891. Ismael recovered Bagdat Barrhyeck-beg the Sultan betraying it and opening a posterne where-through the Persians entred Mahomet Bassa being forced to flie to save his life That yeere hee entertained Lemius the Portugall Agent at Cashan who was led into the Army by Mirza Abucaca the field Marshall the which Lemius reported to Albuquerq that Ismael had 350000 Paviilions pitcht there and in the field 130000 men That yeere Bajazeth was poysonned by a Jew and in his Place Selym his younger son made Emperor of Turquy That yeere Morad sonne to Sultan Ac'mat Bajazeths eldest sonne fled to Ismael fot safety and Aladyn his brother to Campson Gaurus Sultan of Aegypt where both were welcomed Selym prepares to fetch them thence but Ismael irritates his vexation and incourages Morad with 10000 horse promising to second him by Vstref-oglan with 20000 more to forrage Turquy accordingly Morad past through Armenia the lesse and in Cappadocia shewed himselfe an adversarie Chendemus with great forces opposes him who upon notice of his Uncles approach fell back to Vstref and both of them to Anti-Taurus where Aladules quietly suffered him to passe the Mountaines into Armenia whither they knew ere-long the Grand-Senior would hunt after them Selym commands his whole forces to follow him into Persia Chendemus for diswading him slaine but Ebrahim Bass's advice after long march into Armenia he got where in the Calderan plains was fought 'twixt the Turk and Persian a most memorable battell Ismael with 30000 Persians for 16 houres maintaining the fight with Selymus and 300000 Turks and where if the Turquish Artillery bad not disordered and affrighted the Persian horse the Persian had gloriously triumphed but as it was for one Persian 10 Turks were slaine and neither of them obtained conquest the horror of it such that the Turkish Annalls call that dayes fight The day of Doom Anno Domini 1515. Heg 895 Selym returnd with new forces into Armenia but by the way strangled Aladeules be Mountanous King Ismael leaves Synal-beg to pursue his conquest of Mosendram and with 30000 horse attended Selym at Tabriz but Selym diverts his first thoughts and at an unexpected houre enters Aegypt and by the slaughter of the Sultan Campson betrayed by Cajerbeg Sultan of Aleppo conquered it and gave end to that order of Mamalucks which from Sultan Saladyne who lived Anno Heg 896. had continued with much fame and excellencie Tomambeyus sought to have restored it but Selym made his life the price of it Anno Domini 1514. Hegaria 894. Sha-Tamas was born who succeeded Ismael in the Empire in 5 yeeres after he had also Hel-cawn Som-Mirza and Bacram-cawn some call them Elias Sormiza and Barhon-cawn An. Dom. 1520. Salym the Turkish Emperour dyed and was succeeded by Solyman Anno Domini 1525. Heg 965. Ismael also dyed in the 40 of his age and his reigne 20 yeeres Ismael's foure soones did what they could to ruine the Empire by one anothers ruine Hel-cawn especially who to effect
from the religion they suckt from their cradle amongst Panyms from that rule of Nature Use others as thou would'st others should use thee The Christians in these parts differ in some things from us and the Papacie yet retaine many principles of the Orthodox and Catholick doctrine Le ts enter their Temples Their Churches are low and but poorely furnished their vassalage will reach no further whether from their subjection or that so the Temples of their bodies bee replenisht with vertue the excellency of buildings conferre not holinesse I know not neat they are and sweetly kept matted without seats and insteed of Images have some select and usefull texts of holy Writ obviously writ or painted They assemble and haste to Church each Lords day with great alacrity at their entring they shut their eyes and contemplate the holinesse of the place the exercise they come about and their owne unworthinesse as they kneele they look towards the Altar or Table neere which the Bishop or Preist is seated whom they salute with a low and humble reverence who returnes his blessing by the up-lifting of his hands and eyes at a set houre they begin prayers above two houres seldome continuing first they have a short generall confession which they follow the Priest in and assent in an unanim Amen then followes an Exposition of some part or text of holy Scripture during which their attention dejected lookes and silence is admirable they sing an hymne and at parting out of Church re-salute the Minister who ceases not till all be gone out to elate his hands and blesse them When they are come home they read a chapter in either Testament both which they suppose they have incorrupt after the Originalls and translated for them by Saint Thomas the Apostle and patron of the Orient they have it also in the Chaldy but none save the Clergie understand it every first Sonday in the Month the Priest reads a Sermon out of an old Homily writ as they say by the Apostle or some of his Disciples they Baptise commonly at the 40 day if the Parents do no sooner desire it they first signe the Infant on the forehead with the Crosse and then wash it all over with water the Sacrament of the Lords holy Supper they administer in both kinds the Communicants receive it reverently kneeling they observe two dayes strict preparation during which they eat no flesh revell not accompanie with no women in the Church they confesse their sinnes and demerits with great reluctancy They marry as wee do the Clergie marry but once the Layety but twice widdowes if they marry before the yeere be expired after which their husbands dyed are ill reported of and hazard their joyncture none save for adultery have lycence to part till death sever them In sicknesse the Priest is sent for to comfort them and to give the Eucharist if it bee heartily desired that done they take farwell of their wife and children and all others and so rid themselves of carnall distractions which too oft hinder the desired meditation of the misery of worldlings and by a holy contemplation of the ineffable joyes of heaven strive to mitigate the pangs of their disease yea the grim aspect of approaching Death and the survivers rather joy than mourne as they solemnize his funeral they first wash then wrap the Corps in clean linnen a few selected friends concomitate it to the grave wherein they place it looking not East but West towards Ierusalem five dayes after that they visit his Family They feast and fast as we their Lent or abstinence from flesh and the like begins each spring and is strictly observed fortie dayes without banquet or bravery their yeare is Soli-genian our three cheefe Feastivalls they celebrate in July they commemorate the martyrdome of Saint Thomas they have many Patriarchs or Protomists the cheife resides at a house built upon a high mountaine nine miles from Cranganor Since the Portugalls traded Indya they have shaven their heads the Layicks pay Decimae or Tythes willingly they affect justice truth peace humility obedience c. and acknowledge Saint Thomas some the Eunuch of Arabia converted by Philip their Tutelary Saint and Patron They beleeve no Purgatory May 7 we had 8 degrees and ere Sunne-set darted our eyes upon that high mountaine commonly called Brin Iohn i. e. the Mount of Iohn and revives the British Antiquity Next day we had 7 degrees 30 minutes variation 14 degrees than which that famous Promontory of East-India extends no further towards the Aequator Next day wee sailed by the Maldyvae Iles memoriz'd by Pyrard de Laval who lived there and reports that the King there styles himselfe Emperour of thirteene Provinces and 12000 Ilands most and least any King in the world is owner of Neere these are other Iles Candu Nicubar and Sumbrero by name in the view of Zeyloon and Sumatra to which place and many other I must guide your patience of Zeyloon ZEyloon or Ceylon one of those five Iles Ptolomy calls Barussae was not innominate to the Antients By Ptolomy cald Panigarensis since him in Arab. Authors Sisuara Tenarisis and Nanigeris At this day Zeyloon by us Chingall by the inhabitants an I le spatious rich and famous severed from the Asiatick continent by a small sea not forty Leagues over It is limitted from 8 to 11 deg of latit North the length is about 70 leagues breadth 40 and circuit 250 or thereabouts an I le famous in some old conjectures as that Paradise was here that K. Salomon had hence his obrize gold or gold of Ophyr but I beleeve neither in regard most writers fix the ruines of the one in Mesopotamia and the other rather in Pegu Iava those wealthy places The most memorable is this That Meleck or Melchior Pyramal King of this Iland is thought one of those wise-men premonisht by that prophesy of Balaam the Edomite in Num. 24. 17. that brought as to a King a Priest a Prophet Gold Frank-insence and Myrrh unto our blessed Saviour foretold also by the Persian Sybill and by a new made Starre guided by the finger of God miraculously directed and who at his returne made knowne the mystery of Gods Incarnation for mans redemption by his laborious teaching made many Proselites some to this day by tradition memorising him and reteining somewhat of Christian knowledge though the greatest part bee Apostats and drunk with abominable demonomy and superstition But whether Melchyor returned upon Saint Thomas his arrivall and with the other two came into Europe and whether those three buried in Cullen be fictitious or no it is not pertinent to a Travellers curiosity to insist upon But this is obvious in History That Candaces Noble Eunuch baptised by Philip left her service to preach Christ whom very fruitfully he made knowne to many parts of Araby and sundry Iles as Socotora this and Tabrobane or Sumatra as Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre in the dayes of the great
Bartholmew and S. Thomas Polycat Armagun Narsinga Mestipatan Bipilipatan and other places where of old the Assacani whence the Assassinates are placed by Strabo and Narsinga I take to be Magoza NEGAPATAN i.e. a Towne upon the river Negay has 12 deg latitude North odd minutes hot and unwholsome both in regard the wind and raines are for the better part of the yeare high and unseasonable The Towne has good water and Fruits well relisht cooling and nutritive notwithstanding the people are much vexed with Fevers Fluxes and other Diseases The people be blackish blockish and unapt for studie or exercise Heat which here predominates debelitates their appetite and invites them to too much ease the Mother of luxurie a small thin but very fine Shuddery or vaile of Lawne is drawne afore their secret parts their head also has a small wreath the rest is exposed to view and weather They want no gold stones of value nor such things as the Merchant covets but they prize them as we doe Trifles Any religion is tolerable so that some praise Mahomet some a Dog others a Crocodile and some love senselesse Pagods The Banyan wives here have more freedome to burn themselves to ashes at the Funerall of their husbands than where the Moores have command so that in this Coast the custome is usuall Their Marriages require the first place They are various the most Novell being that a Priest a Cow and the two Lovers go together to the water side where the Bramyn mutters a prayer of smal matter to some purpose which finisht in order and Symmetry they linck hands and have the Cowes tayle commixt as a holy testimony on all together the Bramin powres his hallowed Oyle and forces the beast into the river whereinto shee goes willingly yea so farre till they be to the middle in water nor returnes she nor doe they disunite till Neptune fright her but being on shore they untie holding that conjunction sacred and powerfull ever after Their Epithalamy is sung let 's heare their Funeralls when Death has cut in two their Union shee conceits her selfe a loathed carkasse to live after him shee roabs her tender body with a transparent Lawne her armes leggs and thighes are fettered with wanton chaines of love her eares nose and fingers adorn'd with Pearles and precious stones one hand holds choise of flowers th' other a Ball Embleams of immortall Paradise She goes attended with a mighty company some for love most for Novelty The Priest all the way describes the rare joyes she is going to she grants a modest smile trips on and upon sight of the flame seemes transported beyond measure she sees the carcasse of her Husband layd upon a pyle of pretious wood and when the fire begins to embrace him like a mad Lover shee bids Farwell to her Parents children and friends and willingly incorporates her selfe with fire which quickly makes them one and nothing nothing extant save fame flame and ashes Of which the Poët thus of old Et câ—rtamen habent lethi quae viva sâ—quatur conjugium pudor est non licuisse mori Ardent victrices praebent pectora flammae imponuntque suis ora perusta viris They strive to die and who best speed can make They blush grim Death so slowly to o'retake The Conquerors burn their brests yeeld to the fire And to their husbands their burnt lips aspire Some refuse to burne but are forced to shave and live as Monsters a punishment justly given they were growne so audiciously wanton that upon any distaste the liver of their abused husbands could but satisfie their lustfull boldnesse acted by venome till by Parliament this course was taken to avoyd the danger Grosse Idolatry Such is the miserable vassalage the old red Dragon cheyns this wretched people in who are so farre from commiserating their owne woe that they invent many tragick tricks of devotion to destroy themselves and to agrandize their idolatry They have a massy copper guilded Pagod mounted upon a triumphant Chariot moved by eight mighty wheeles over-laid with pure gold the Ascent is spatious and easie by many steps on which are placed upon a solemne day the Priests and many sober girles who to inrich the Divell poore knave prostitute their bodies to the libidinous flame of wicked men Oh ignis infernalis luxuria fond zeale of such besotted Parents to destinate their pretty children from a miserable infancy to the old age of hellish devotion the procession followes not unlike the Thensa us'd by the superstitious Romans or that by idolatry of the Danes reported by Ditmarus and Dado their writers happy is that man rich and poore great and base can fasten a hand to draw the Charriot yea they account them happiest who out of a frantick zeale temetariously throw their naked bodies in the way that by the ponderousnesse of the Devill and his Charriot their wretched bodies may be crusht in peeces by that thought Martyrs not knowing that their mortall silly soules flie into the fry of an endlesse flame yea more infandum such is the stupid folly of these men that they perswade their fanatique daughters to become base strumpets to please their fancy and inrich their Pagods insomuch as it is a great wonder to see so many girles at such immaturity so impudently delighted with filthy men Quid juvat durum proverare Fatum Omnis haec vaga turba libet ad manes Faciâ—tque inertivela Cocyto What helps it thus to haste your destiny In such post-haste since all this wretched fry Shall with full sayle to hell through Cocyt fly From Negapatan goe we for Meliapore MELIAPORE is a Town on the Coast of Kormandel elevating the Artick Pole 13 degr 20 min. both old and famous first call'd Calamina then Melange Meliapore after that and now S. Thomas by reason that in this place he suffered martyrdome The Towne is at this day small and poore under Moorish command and yeelds little for Trade save Cotton ware and such Commodities howbeit is exalted in her memory This was the last place where the Apostle preached after hee had converted Persia Hyrcania Bactria Sogdiana and many parts of Indya yea and many Proselites were here who embraced his soule saving doctrine and those not of the basest sort for Sygamus himselfe Emperour of this Coast was baptized and by his example other of the Nobles Howbeit the Devill so wrought by Gods permission that some apost atizd and inraged the multitude so that in a common furie they both suffered the one was shot to death the other brayned and both crowned with glorious martyrdome thirty yeares after our Saviours passion And however Abdias Babylonicus who writ that after their deaths they appeared and preached againe their former doctrine may seeme doubtfull this is certaine that in Memory of their cruell ingatitude the divine justice hath marked their posterities as some Jewes say the Tribe of Benjamin are to this day who of all others were most fierce against
our Saviour of the Tribe of David and Iudah so these have one leg as big againe in the calfe as is the other Notwithstanding the peoples rage the two noble Martyrs had each his sepulcher and to this day was a receptory of many native and other holy Christians till about fiftie yeares since their skulls and bones were brought a way and as holy relicks at this day kept in the Virgins church in Ioa by command of Iohn 3 of Portugal who sent Emanuel Frias guided by Alphonsus Sousae to that purpose Many strange reports I could give yee out of Spanish reporters But I am not enjoyned to beleeve them What is very observable and with warrant I may That in the yeare of our Lord God 883 as Malmsbury Glor. Wigorn. and others justifie Syghelmus a devout Bishop of Shirborne in Dorsetshyre encoraged by Alfred a holy English King travelled to this place in pilgrimage with Alms and Offrings yea and return'd home in nine yeares with great joy rarities and experience bought by incredible patience cost and danger after which the place was very famous I read also that in the yeare of our Lord 1277 Myrangee an Atheist conquerd Narsinga and beyond this City a man full of rapine and other impietie yea so basely opinionated of this relique and Tradition that havihg one yeare abundance of ryce and other graine and roome enough to hoord it in in a contemning way and bravery no place would please him to put it save the holy Chappell where prayers were incessantly made by many religious Christians They intreat him to refraine by all submissive meanes but it spurs him on to a greater height of profanenesse yea is infinitely glad it vexes them by this supposing himselfe to be thought a God a Devill rather and to be worshipped But see Gods power and favour in it that night in an affrighting dreame or vision he sees the old Apostle approaching him in wrathfull and discontented way threatning to punish him for his ungodlinesse and with an Iron whip proffers to lash the relenting King who suddenly is a waked and as soone beseeching the Christians to pray for him helping himselfe to purge the house of God and satisfying for his sacriledge A Miracle not a little joying the sad minded Christians Polycat in 14 deg Armagun Caleture Tarnassery and Petipoly are in our way hence to Narsinga and Meslipotan but by reason they are but lately become factoryes of English Merchants and differ in customes colour and other things little from Narsinga wee will passe thence to other descriptions Of Narsinga NARSlNGA is a Noble part of India where some would have Chormandell to terminate but I like it not Narsinga is famous all over Asia confined by Mallabar Gulcunda Bengala Baracura of old and the Ocean The King so rich that he despises his Neighbours so powerfull in Men Armes and Ammunition that hee values neither Mogul Decan Samoryn nor Peguan His Kingdomes are defended by loyall slaves and many naturall advantages full of all things requisite for use and pleasure as faire Townes strong Forts pleasant fields and choisest Mineralls abounding in rivers hills dales corne cattell fruit c. so that with good cause he is reputed as absolute a Monark as any other in India The Bannyans swarm like Locusts here the Bramyns are no where more reputed of the Temples indeed in their structures boast of no great bravery but are proud within reteyning many rich and massy Idolls shaped and commanded by the Devil for his service and their devotion BISNAGAR Modura of old Arcati saies Castaldus is the second Citie in Narsinga for grandeur and braverie being circled with a wall of foure miles compasse and as well fortefied well built and no lesse wealthy Some Churches it has remarkable for shape ornament but in their gentilisme base and immodest yea unworthy the relation The Port or Haven is good to anchor in the Citie well frequented by European ships and Iunks from Malacca Pegu Cambogia Cochyu-Chyna Chyna Iapan Phyllippinae the Moluccae Borneo Iava Sumatra Zeiloon and many parts of India Arabia Persia and like places When any Traveller comes to his Court he shall have fitting entertainment and is many times invited by the King the better to shew his fine cloaths which to shew ourselves thankfull we will report to other nations being thick set with stones and gems of infinite valew and wonderfull lustre which when he is roabed with for the resemblance they have with the Son which they worship he is adored his Court is full of Majesty his guard being a thousand pensioners he affects poligamy and therefore writes himselfe husband of a thousand women many of them having him all his life in such esteeme that at his Death they make his flaming Grave their consuming Sepulcher MESVLIPATAN commonly pronounc't by contraction Mestipatan is subject to the Gulcundan King and removed from the Equinoctiall 16 degr and a halfe North seated in the skirt of the Bengalan Ocean The whole province admits a mixture of severall Idolatries in most parts the Saracius and Bannyans being the greatest number Mahomet was blasted among them by a Colony of Persians conducted hither in the 28 yeare of the Aegyra and of our account 648 by Abdall Ben Hemyr a man of no smal reckoning with Ozman the then Calyph of Babylon Mecca since when their off-spring have here inhabited The town it selfe cannot be famosed either for bulk beauty or pleasure 50 yeares agoe by a raging mortality and Famin being well nigh depopulated The streets are few and narrow the houses low and unfurnished the fields and gardens parcht by flaming Phaeton which here rages from March to Iuly from thence to November the wind and raine as incessantly disturbing them so as of twelve months they have but foure from November to March salubrious and moderate howbeit by reason of the English residence here of late trafficking for callicoes rice and the like it begins to flourish and is not to be doubted unlesse the unquiet and deceitfull humour of the people distaste the English and force their removall to adjacent places as Armagun and Polycat where they may sit downe with more ease lesse charge and choyser merchandizes Hence remove your chast eyes and eares to an unchast Towne though Casta by name a Towne infamous in cursed demonomy and wantonnesse The Mosques have Idols in them shewing art in sculpture very commendable but hatefull in the stinck of their devotion The common shapes of Pagods here resemble beastly Priapus and Pan as is described by Servius in Aegloc 2 Virgil having great eyes flat nose wide mouth foure great hornes a long beard shaped like beames or radiance of he Sun clawes for hands and crooked legd all over deformed Nil sine Numine is old Here we see Nil nisi Numen The Devill pleasing them in varietie and not caring how nor in what shape it be so he be served Some imagins a cow above all creatures
Gentry by The better sort are habited in silke and a sleight sort of satten the meaner in black cloth made of cotton their coats or vests are long and quilted made to tye under the left arme after the usuall garb of Asia their sleeves are also very long and at the wrist very strait their shoes are many times of such stuffe as bee their coats and soaled with cloth or callicoes some have them richly imbroydered The greatest variety amongst them is in their head attire some knit their hayre in cawles of silk of horse-hayre some and some with fillets of gold or silver others weare high caps or felts made of fine twigs round and commixt with silk of divers colours and other-some an antick sort of hat high crown'd round one halfe without brim and tawny coloured The women are commonly modest and differ not in apparell in that a like vaile of white linnen wholly couers them shewing nothing but their polt-feet which from their infancy are straitned so as to make them alla mode many of them are maymed They tollerate Polligamy and Sodomy yea what else their lustfull idle natures can dictate to please their effeminacies They are generally crafty proud lasie jealous complementall and voluptuous Musick Poetry Painting and Stage-plaies delight them exceedingly they care not what they spend in luxury and fire-works they eat in porcellane and have their dyet in many but small dishes their meat minc't and which they take up with two sticks of bone or Jvory but some have their nailes so long as may excuse them for to touch their mouths or meat with fingers is held absurd and impious their drinck is commonly hot and by its tast and colour seemes to be such a Coho potion as they drinck in Persia they drinck oft and little The Louthya's are served on the knee and much regarded they all sit upon stooles and eat on Tables And albeit no Nation in the world is more idle and gluttenous yet are no beggars to be found there if he be young and beg the whip rewards him if old or lame or blind the Hospitall releeves him Murder they punish with death theft and adultery commonly with the strappado their Justice is severe and impartiall their prisons strong their executions beheading or starving them The Mandarins are honoured the Chyam's reverenced the King adored no Subject nor Ambassador ever sees or speaks with him save his children and Eunuchs except by petition They suffer Ambassadors or others to enter China so they bring presents of valew otherwise they suspect them as spies and no way honour them The Chynaes are curious in novelties and love to see strange Arts which they also delightfully practise few of them but has skill in some thing either in tillage making China dishes or porcellane to paint sing or play well the Mathematicks they affect the civill Laws they use not letters but Characters or Hyerogliphicks of which they have above 40000 they write neither to the right hand nor to the left as the Latin and Hebrews did but right downe and simmetrically they write with pencills made of horse hayre such as they also paint with their language is most part of monosyllables they be generally Poets and Musicians affected with Rhetorick and Divination The Schollers and Merchants in this republique are much more honoured than the Souldiers bee and some reason they have for it They are so cowardly lasie and tyrannicall No people in the world more honour their King than do the Chynaes they suppose him too glorious for them to look upon they obey his will in every thing they fill his Exchequor yeerely with above a hundred millions of crownes they call him The undaunted Emperour and great Lord of the whole World Son of the Sun and beauty of the whole Earth No people whatsoever expresse more filiall respect unto their Parents than the Chyneses do they obey them at all times and every where they do nothing to displease them they marry not without their assent their childrens Names are at their disposing they honour them bee they never so meane releeve them bee they never so poore at their death expresse all symptoms possible of their loyalty and duty and seldome mourne lesse in white linnen as did the Jewes than two or three yeeres the longer they mourne they think they the better expresse affection They arrogate all sorts of excellencies whether in Art or Science as peculiar to their Nation they think their Speech the most sweet and rhetoricall of any in the world what other people have they judge deducted and borrowed from their transcendent Notions They say they are the most ancient and immixt people in the Universe and borrow nothing of any other Nation They say they first invented Letters or Characters Guns Painting Tillage and Navigation yet in none of these for all their brags can they parallell us of Europe For their antiquity I deny not but they may have continued their plantation and without much mixture admirable if so for the Tartarrs and Siamits have oft over-runne them since the first seminary begunne by Sem in those parts yet may others in that point compare with them I might nominate the Bryttains for I regard not their Lies and Histories of such Kings as reigned or such Conquests as the Chyneses obteined long before the birth of Time a hundred thousand yeeres ago unlesse wee qualifie it by the example of the Arcadians whose yeare had but ninety dayes of the Massagers who had fifteen yeeres or of the Aegyptians who had twelve yeeres in one of ours following the course of the Moone and not the revolution of the Sunne nor regarding the Dies intercalares an error most of the Orientall Ethniques are plunged in Their letters are not so succinct as ours their Hieroglyphicks come short of the Aegyptians Their Guns are not so serviceable they have them not above a span long so that they rather resemble Pistols than Guns nor are their bore nor squaring so good as ours so strong so near so mathematicall Their painting is of good colours but their designing farre short of our invention they draw the postures filthily and shadow meanly which doubtlesse in painting makes the perfection Their husbandry is without Art or Reason the graine is good the soyle rich the Zone moderate and yet their corne is neither so various so good nor so certaine as be our Harvests Their Navigation is lame they build many ships but without beauty or service nor have they much skill in sayling their Logarithms and Mathematick instruments to take the height of the Sun by failing them their Compasse also is defective for they have but eight or twelve points at most to distinguish by nor is the Magnet till of late acquainted with them for all which they say they see with two eyes we with one and that all other people be more than purblind in sottish ignorance They delight excessively in all sorts of games and voluptuousnesse
Perwees 102. is persecuted by the Empresse 104. flyes to Ranna Radjee ib. is perswaded to serve Currown 105. who receives him joyfully ib. he marches with Currown to Agra 107 and at his Coronation is advanced ib. Mahomet-Ally-begs Iustice at Cazbyn 198. his discourse touching Sir Robert Sherley 22. his barbarisme to the Lady 204. his originall 206. his great estate and power ibid. Mahomet Codobanda King of Persia in danger to have bin slaine 289. flies into Georgia ib. returnes 199. is crowned King ib. commands his sister to be beheaded 200. the miserable end of his children 289 Mahomet his birth breeding 251. serves Heraclius the Rom. Emp. ib. and 278. compiles his Alcoran 252. marries divers women ib. is expulst Mecca 253. dyes and at Medina is buried ib. his law 254. his Sectar as 267 Malacca 298.312.314.315.324 Maldivae 306 Mallabar 299 300 Mallabars drowned 299 Malva 55 Manancabo 323 Mandoa 77 82.86 Mandow 82.215 Mangolore 296.299 Mangerelpore 82 Manicongo 9.209 Mannatee 26 Map of Madagascar 21 Of the Persian Empire 149 Of Hircania 180 Of India intra Gangem 300 Of India extra Gangem 321 Of the Manritius 342 Maqueron 280.290 Mardash 147 Marrah 323 Martavan 320.322 Martiropolis 276 Mascarenas 351 Mattacala 307 Mattaran 324 Maurenahor 55.58.184.224.281.286 Maurenahar King slaine 286 Mauritius 342 Mavi Lord of Damascus persecutes Ally 281. over-runnes Aegypt and the Rhodes 281. beaten by Ally sends Susindus against the Christians 282. massacres 11. of Ally's grandsons and dyes of the plague ib. Mayo 8 Mazaeras fl 177.180.69 Meacco 333.335 Mecca 110.253.259.262.267.280 Mecpore 69 Media 192 Medapore 82.88.92 Medina Talnabi 110.253.262.267.280 Melec Amber crownd K. of Decan 67. hee fights with the Mogulls Army ib. expells them by craft 76. by force 93. receives Curroon ib. gives his men liberty 99 Melec Bahamans Tragick end 187 Meliapore 309.310 Meliotalck 319 Mengrellia 153.274 Meragah 56 Merent 56 Mesopotamia 222.270 Mesulipatan 89.311.312 Methridates 271 Mewat 84 Meyottey 25 Mexico 359 Midan in Spahawn 157 Mindano 333 Miscarroon 215 Mocrib-cawn drownd 103 Mogulls pedegree 55. Empire 54. coigne 38. revenue ib. Moffa 118 Mohack 132 Moghestan 113 Mohelia 26 Molthan 90 Moluccoes 312.330.331 Mombassa 30.332 Momodabat 86 Monomotapa 9 Moneths how severally named 112 Montingue 299 Monym 318 Mouzoon 9 Mortis-Ally marries Fatyma 212. is by Mahomet nominated Calyph 251. put by by Abubocr 280. persecuted by Omar ib. saluted K. 281. slaine by Mavi ib. buried 282. his Emblem ib. Siet Gunet revives him 268. the Kings of Persia at this day from him descended 265 Mosquet-Ally 111 Mosquet-Zulzimen 148 Mount Taurus 183.185 Mount Taurus conquered 187 Moyechaw 132 Moyeore 149 Moyeown 147 Mozambique 23.24.332 Mozendram 56.177.224.290 Municpore 90 Multhan 90 Muscat 109 Musk-cat 322 Musk 332 N NAbandycen 148 Nabuchadnezzar 193.217 Nagor 107 Naysarie 82 Nahodabegs rare bracelet 318 Nancery 52 Nantam 336 Narsinga 299.309.311.312 Narsinga-patan 309 Narvar fl 87 Nassor Thormet 88.102 Natave 215 Nayro 301 Nazareil 215 Nazivan 56 Necanpore 106 Negapatan 309 Nekaw 167 Nerebede fl 69 Nero-roade 331 Nicubar 306 Nogomallo 318 Normahalls first husband slaine 74. secondly married to the greas Mogul 75. her hate to Mahobet-cawns sonne 94. to Mahobet-cawn ib. imprisoned by Mahobet 98 released ib. fights with Mahobet-cawn 99 scoulds at Assaph-cawn 101 intercepts Mahobets treasure ib. labours to disgrace his sonne 103 affrighted at Mahobets journey to Currowne 105 sorrowes her husbands death ib. labours to make her son King 106 vanquisht by Sultan Bullochy and pordonod ib. her son slaine 107 she and her daughter imprisoned by Sultan Currown ibid. Nossaseres 329 Nova 191 Nowbengan 148 Nutmegs 33 Nycaphtac 184 Nylus fl 4 222 Nimrod 134 193 216 269 270 Nynus 193 217 Nyriaed 86 Nyshapore 184 Nyzabur 281 O OB-crawn fl 69 Obsell fl 177 180 Ob-ygarmy 164 Ocem 285 Ocen-beg Gelohy slaine 286 Odjea 92 361 Ogg 55 Ogorlu 283 Ogtai-cawn 56 O-jone 147 Olympus 4 Omoall 177 182 Omar or Homer succeeds Abubocr at Mecca 280 he persecutes Ally and is slaine by treason ib. is accursed by the late Persian reformation 269 Onnepore 82 Onor 299 Ophyr 306 314 Orders of Mahomitans 267 Orcan 287 Orenges 297 Orfaza 109 Oringaw 333 Orixae 64 65 89 90 96 Ormus how called 113 when first planted 114 her Kings 115 ruined by the English and Persians 116 118 Osacca 333 Osman succeeds Homer at Meccae 280 subdues divers parts of Africk 281 regulates the Alcoran and is poysoned ib. accursed by the Persians 289 Osman Bassa vanquisht 289 Oudepore 75 77 82 Ourmanghel 125 Oxus fl 180 184 270 286 Ouzbeg Tartar 65 89 184 286 P PAcem 323 Paddar fl 69 Palamban 324 Pantado birds 19 Paquin 336 337 Paradise the severall conjectures about it 221 where placed 222 what the Persians think of it 266 Parthia 149 164 Pasagard 270 Patania 315 Patan 65 Pathan 63 90 99 Pathang 59 63 79 82 Pedyr 323 Pegu 312 314 316 318 322 Pengab 55 69 Pengran of Bantam 324 Penguin 13 Pepper 325 Peria-Conconna Princesse of Persia her masculin spirit 198 makes Aydar her younger brother King 199 by her eldest brothers command she is slain 199 Periaw 87 Periscow 166 177 Perissophoon 210 Persees in India 48 their Idolatry 49 Persia her severall names 223 subjected by the Assyrians and Medes 270 by the Greeks 271 recovers freedom 272 conquered by the Arabians 280 by the Turks and Tartars 284 and by the Armenians ib. gets her liberty againe 285 and at this day is victorious 290 Persians depicted 123 162 207 229. described 226 their habit 227 Armes 228 coat-Armour 230 supâ—rstition and forces 233 exercises ib. Mathematicks 234 disposition 235 circumsicion 236 marriages 237 burialls 238 reverence to their Kings 208 239 Dyet ib. 242 revenue of the Crowne ib. myneralls 243 language 245 Religion 251 Monarchs 269 Idolatry of old 277 Persepolis described 143 ruines depicted 145 272. Persian Ambass poysons himselfe 35 Persian Court 169 Peru not Ophyr 314 Perwees sonne to the great Mogul has victory over his brother Currowns armie 83. and at Mando chases him 88. arrives at Elabasse 90. relieves Brampore 93. fights with Currown 91. wounded but victorious ibid. falls out with Mahobet-cawn 95. dyes at Brampore 102. lamented by Mahobet and Iangheer ibid. Pesepoly 311 Phasis fl 167 Pheruzabat 148 Phillippinae Iles 312 333 Piramall 306 Pilae Caspianae vel Semeramidis 167 Persides vel Susianae 129 Cancasiae vel Iberiae 201 Plantains 28 Policat 311.313 Poligundy 323 Polisanga fl 337 Porto Santo 3 Pourmandell 75.77 Prage 65.96 Prester Iohn 30.209 Priaman 323.332 Primero 23 24 Puloveen and Pulway 331 Pully-Potshaw 132 Purop 65.89 Pyco 363 Pyree of the Persians 52.186 burnt by Heraclius 277.278 Pyson 222 Q QVabutimo 360 Quiloa 23 Quinzay 336 337 Queene of Persia baptized 276 Queene Nannangalla 28 R RAbayon 56 Racan or Arrachan 320 Radgeè Cottz 74 Radgee Mahal 74.89.92 Radjee Rana Mardout loses Chyttor 60 submits to Iangheer 77. dyes grieved ibid. Radjeè Ranna 102 Radjepore 88.106.107
easily perceived had three some six women about them wrapt in linnen the curiosity or rashnesse rather might have cost me deerely the penalty being no lesse than to shoot an Arrow into his braines that dares to doe it The Carravans lodge here exceeds the Mosque the men in this Towne are proud the women lovely both are curious in novelties but the jealousie of the men confines the temper of the weaker sexes yet by that little they adventured at we might see Vetitis rebus gliscit voluntas One Zenal-chan is the Sultan of this Citie a man of no worth in our opinion he had been Ambassador from Shaw-Abbas to Rodulph the second German Emperour but his late imployment his favour with Abbas his wealth his vexation for Nogdi-beg his Cozen made him so proud so discourteous that albeit the Ambassadour sent to visit him hee return'd no thanks he took no notice of his being there The pole Artick is elevated in Tyroan thirty five degrees forty minutes fourescore in longitude From Tyroan we rode to a Village call'd Charah a base inhospitable place it affoorded us no sustenance but torment so much as the scalding sands and frying Sunne could operate as in too great measure we had experience of From hence to Taurys is two dayes riding The Carravans-raw is thus shaped Carravan-raw TAVRYS the late Median Metropolis takes name from that prodigious mountaine Taurus under which t is builded The Turk and Perse call it Taberyz in the worlds adolescencie 't was known by other names of Achmetha as I read in Ezra after that of Echatana spoken of in the Apocrypha of Amatha also as Cortestan and Cordina others have called her by analogie some have placed her in Syria from a Citie Egbatan converted into Epiphania by Antiochus The primier founder of this noble Citie is Arphaxad as we find in Iudiths History Anno Domini 3290. some say Dejoces predicessor to that valiant Phraortes who flourisht in the yeare of the world 3300 the sixt Dynast of Medya after Arbaces who begun it from Adam 3146. It was agrandiz'd not built as Pliny dreamt of by Seluchus 300 yeares after who at that time begun to build Seleucya 200 pharsangs thence to eclipse the pride of mighty Babylon Such time as shee was called Ecbaton she was farre greater than at this present It was fifteene Italian miles about sayes Strabo The walls were strong and stately seventy cubits high and fifty broad beautified with many loftie Turrets and battlements within were numbred many great and excellent Pallaces that which Daniel built the Mausoleum afterwards of the Median Kings was most magnificent and which remained undemolisht in Iosephus his time and some whiles after That built by Darius was no lesse memorable most part whereof was of Cedar wood the roofe studded and plaited with burnisht gold of both which nothing now remaines save memory and ashes I can hardly say memorie since it is become a question whether Tauryz be old Ecbatan and whether it be in Media or no. If to be under Baronta Diodorus Polybius and Ptolomy call it Orontes if to be in 36 degrees 50 minutes if to have the ruines of Tobyas his grave if to be the buriall place of Kings if to be the Metropolis time out of mind if to be the Citie from Ierusalem N. E. foure hundred forsangs can make it Ecbatan or if the authority of Ananias Petrus de la valle Leunclavius Teixera and of Ortelius will serve let it then be Ecbatan and in Medya Ptolomy's conceit of Tabryz mistaken in the Tau a Gamma printed erroniously for it to be in Assyria by Cedrenus in Armenia by Chalcondyles in Persia by Niger in Pers-Armenia or by Paulus Venetus in Parthya what were these conjectures but from the Monarchique Arch-Titles as Assyrian Armenian or Parthyan as they swayed then and chiefly from the mistake how Armenia is devided part of Armenia major extending South of Araxis into Atropatia a part of Medya and from whence the name Pers-Armeniae is compounded for by Abulfeda Vlughbeg and others the latitude of Taurys complies with Ecbatan At this day Tabryz is great and well peopled traded to from farre albeit it keepes a Garrison It is compast with a mud wall five miles about the houses are flat a top their materiall Sunne-dried Bricks the Buzzar large the Gardens lovely that to the South-East planted by King Tamas was famous but the Turks horses have lately grazed there It wants water in the greatest measure yet of that is not wholy destitute What it lacks in that fire and flame supplies it the Sunne warres rage and civill broyles having more than sufficiently parched her To passe by the mutations of the Empire the Turks first passage six hundred yeares since Tamberlayns rage and the like remember we those two deadly factions the Envicaydarlai and Namidlai for three hundred yeares persecuting one another with implacable wrath drawing into their quarrell nine other Provinces who grew so hatefull amongst themselves that not only this Citie but Medya Armenia were therby half depopulated the Gibelyns nor Roses outmatched them They made an easie entrance to any invader Selym the grand Signieur first espies it and to become an eye-sore to Tamas sonne of Izmael their inveterate Adversarie sends a Bashaw who ransackt it Anno Dom. 1514. Heg 894. without much resistance And Anno 1530. Solyman seconded it with so much furie that it flam'd many dayes the insatiate Turks pillaging without mercie and turning topsie-turvie all they met with and into a Chaos those elaborat walks and gardens Shaw-Tahmas so much gloried in It reviv'd againe and againe is made prostrate to Ebrahim Bassa's luxurie sent by Solyman at the villanous instigation of Vlemus a Persian Traytor and brother in law to the King At which time Anno 1534. Heg 914. the greedie Turks new ransackt it But Anno Dom. 1585. Heg 965. it groaned under most affliction when Ozman the wrathfull Bassa and slave to Amurat the third subdued it and perpetrated all sorts of hostile crueltie till thirtie yeares after by that incomparable Pagan Prince Emyr-hamze-myrza elder brother to Shaw Abbas it was regained rebuilt and fortified against the future insolence of those Barbarians Taurys is distant from Cazbyn seven dayes easie journey from the Mare Caspium as many from Araz six from Derbent eight from Spahawn seventeene from Shyraz thirty from Ormus fifty and from Babylon thirty Next night we made our Manzeill at Sangurrabaut a Town consisting of an hundred Cottages In this place we buried a civill Gentleman Mr. Welflit our comrade under a broad spreading Chenoar tree and fixt a brazen scrole over him which spoke his Name and Nation Mors tua non careat fletu linquamus amicis Maerorem ut celebrent funera cum lachrymis We have deplor'd thy death th' insuing yeares Thy kin shall pay thee Tribute with their teares Next night we slept in the open fields under a bespangled Canopie the Firmament and next in Shaw-De i.e.
the Kings Towne his Purgatorie rather if a conspiracie of loose scalding sand the burning Sun and filthie Cottages can make one the houses there differ nothing in shape nor closenesse from Ovens the people all day bake themselves in them a people so discourteous that our miserie nothing afflicted them from that hatefull Towne we hasted and next night got into Casbyn CAZBYN or Kazvyn after the lisp of Persia is that same City known to the ancient Topo-graphers by name of Arsacia from Arsaces the valiant Persian Anno Mundi 3720. from whom the ensuing Kings were stil'd Arsacidae two hundred and fifty yeeres before the th'incarnation of our Savior Christ and is accounted the first that made Medya an Empire in despight of proud Seleuchus son to the great Monarch of Syria Antiochus sirnamed Theos By command of Nycanor it was afterwards call'd Europus and lost that name too when it bended under the next conquest It is likely this was that Rages a City in Medya as appeares in Tobit whither the Angell went from Ecbatan to receive the ten Talents of our money two thousand pounds Tobias was to have from Gabael sonne to Gabrias his kinsman I am not ignorant that some imagine Edissa in Mesopotamia to be it but that is most unlikely for then what businesse had they from Ninivy to go to Ecbatan in the way no doubt or not farre deviat to Rages a contrary way leading to Edissa twixt Tigris and Euphrates besides it is said in the Apocrypha that Rages was in Medya Edissa is not and no part of Medya is neerer than a thousand miles from the holy City but Edissa not five hundred Whence the word Cazbyn is fetcht I could not learne I suppose from Cowz-van i.e. a vale of barley as Sheir-van a plain of milke c. or from King Cazvan as they call Acembeg the Armenian or that it is the relict of Casbira an old City in Strabo placed here for if I should deduce it from Chazbi as the 70 Interpreters translate it in Gen. 38.5 it would relish of too much antiquity The signification of Exile is unknown by interpretation or occasion to the inhabitants except the broacher of that conceit had recourse to the idiom of the old Parthians The North pole is in this famous City elevated 36 deg and 15 min. long 85 degrees 30 minutes by King Tamas sonne of Ismael made the Metrolis of this Monarchy the better to affront the intruding Ottomans the Kingdome it stands in is Medya the Province Sheirvan that part call'd Deylan from Tabryz a hundred and eighty miles from Hamadan the sepulture of Queen Ester Mordecay a hundred ten from Sultany the residence of six Sultans ninety from Ardavyl the Seigniory of the Abasians eighty from Gheylan seventy from Farabaut two hundred from Samarchand five hundred from Ormus eight hundred from Babilon five hundred from Ierusalem a thousand from Spahawn two hundred and seventy from Shyraz foure hundred and ninety from Kandahar five hundred and fifty miles English or thereupon It is at this day for multitude of buildings and inhabitants the chiefe in Medya and equall for other grandeur to any other City in the Persian Empire Spawhawn excepted It is seated in a faire even plaine no hill of note in thirty miles compasse overlooking her a champaigne yeelding graine and grapes but little wood saw I growing any where It has a small streame flowing from Abonda Baronta of old which gives the thirsty drink and mellowes the gardens from whence by its refreshment and the peoples industry they have abundance of fruits and roots and in varieties I think the reason why wee saw no great rivers in any place is from their forcing it into many sluces to bring it by subterranian passages to such Townes as have none but by derivative in so much that if Indus Euphrates and Ganges were amongst them I meane where the Country is most peopled doubtlesse they would make them kisse the sea in five hundred ostiums or branches Such fruits as I remember were Grapes Orenges Lymes Lemons Pomcytrons Musk and water Mellons Plums Cherryes Peaches Apricocks Figgs Gooseberries Peares Apples Pistachoes Filberds Hasel-Nuts Wallnuts Almonds and excellent Pomgranads Dates but such as came from Laristan Casbyn is circled with a complementall wall of no force in any adversity the compasse is about 7 miles the families are twenty thousand people about two hundred thousand nourisht by the Ayre and a few roots and rice such dyet as best complies with such torrid regions The Buzzars here are large and pleasant but inferiour to some about her The Mydan is uniform and beautifull the Kings Pallace and Haram are nigh the great Market low of raw-bricks varnisht after the notion of Paynim painting in blew red and yellow tinctures commixt with Arabiq knots letters azure gold the windowes are spatious trellized and neatly carved within of usuall splendor neere his gate is a great Tanck or Magazyn of water made at the common charge at our being here The Hummums or sweating places are many resplendent in the azure pargetting and tyling wherewith they are ceruleated the vulgar buildings content the inhabitants but to a busie eye yeeld small wonder or amazement the gardens are best to view and smell to but compared with those in Spahawn and Shyraz prove but ordinary and lesse fruitfull The Mosq's or superstitious houses are not two thirds so many as Iohn of Persia computed long ago above six hundred Nor those so fastidious in Pyramidall aspirings nor curious in Architecture nor inside glory as in many lesser Towns obeying Mahomet I cannot inlarge her praises save that in Spring and Autumne I beleeve it may be a temperate and inticing climat but Sommer and Winter are extreame in contraries Apollo frying them with his oblique flaming glances and Hyems no lesse benumming them with his icycles Here we met the Pot-shaw again who got into Casbyn two dayes afore us At which time forty Cammells entred loaden with Tobacco out of Indya the owners and drivers being ignorant that any such prohibition had gone out to forbid the using it the King sometimes commanding and restrayning three or foure times every yeere to shew his Monarchic power and as the humor taketh him an ill spirit directed them for Mamet-Ally-beg the pernitious Favorite wanting his piscash it seemes exasperates Abbas and he forth-with payes the men unwelcome wages commanding an Officer to crop off their eares and to benose them offering to his angry Justice the forty Cammells burthen of Tutoon or Tobacco by making a great deep hole the pipe which being inflam'd in a black vapor gave the Citizens gratis two whole dayes and nights infernall incense Let me give you somewhat to memorise Casbyn wherein have been acted many Tragick scenes in their times very terrible Mahomet the purblind King of Persia and Syre to Shaw-Abbas of himselfe was peaceable and mercifull but could rest never the quieter for such a temper Morad