which is a point of Law resolved by the Mufti who is the Mouth or Oracle thereof viz. That the G. Signior being called to account is obliged to appear before the Justice the Sultan in high disdain tore the Paper threatning the Head of the Mufti but it was now too late he having already sufficiently fortified himself with the power and strength of his Rebellious Companions This Fetfa was immediately seconded by another of a higher nature which declared that whosoever obeyed not the Law of God was not a true Mussulman or Believer and though that person were the Emperour himself yet being become by his filthy actions a Kafir or Infidel was ipso facto fallen from his Throne and no farther capable of Authority and Government This Fetfa being seen by Ibrahim he tore it in pieces Commanding the G. Vizier instantly to put the Mufti to Death as guilty of Treason against his Prince but having now lost his Authority his Commands were not longer regarded nor any reverence had of his person For the Janizaries being again assembled about five a Clock in the Afternoon came with their usual tumult to the Gates of the Seraglio And now Sultan Ibrahim losing all Courage at this third attempt fled into the Armes of his Mother begging her assistance and protection She being a bold and subtle Woman employed all her Rhetorick and Eloquence to perswade the Souldiery not to offer violence to the person of their Lord and Master promising that he should relinquish the Government and retire himself with a Guard into his old Lodgings Ibrahim comforted a little that he should save his Life shrunk himself willingly into his old Shell wherein he had so long conserved his Life In the mean time the Conspirators taking forth his eldest Son Sultan Mahomet set him on the Throne of his Father and planting the Sargouch or Imperial Feathers on his Head saluted him for Emperour with loud Acclamations Ibrahim continued his Imprisonment for some days with great patience but at length growing desperate and furious often beat his Head against the Wall until at length he was on the 17th strangled by four Mutes In this manner Sultan Ibrahim ended his Days which puts me in mind of the saying of a wiser and a better King than he That there is little distance between the Prisons and the Graves of Princes And this Example made a great Officer understand how King Charles the Glorious Martyr was put to Death For he I think it was the Great Vizier falling into discourse with the Chief English Interpreter at Constantinople not then calling to mind the Fate of Sultan Ibrahim demanded How and when King Charles was put to Death Sure said he Your King must have no Power or your People must be more Rebellious and Mutinous than other Nations of the World who durst commit an act so horrid and vile as this See said he How our Emperour is revered and observed and how submissive and obedient half the World is to the nod of our Great Monarch To which the Interpreter replyed that to recount unto him the History and occasion of this prodigious fact would be too long and tedious for him to hear but that the time it happened was some Months after the Death or Murder of Sultan Ibrahim which was an Item sufficient to give him a perfect understanding of what he required Sultan Ibrahim having in this manner ended his Dayes the Government was committed into the hands of the G. Vizier and the old Queen Mother which is she whom we call Kiosem in the Ottoman State and of 12. Pashaws who were to manage all Affairs with supream Power during the Minority of Sultan Mahomet who now Reigns Ibrahim was the sifth Son of Sultan Achmet born of the same Mother with Sultan Morat Educated like the other younger Sons of the Ottoman Family within the Walls of an obscure and unhappy Prison so that 't is no wonder if wanting the advantages of seeing and practising in the World he should neither have studied Men nor been experienced in the Art of Government Nor less strange is it being natural to humane insirmity for men who have lived under restraint afsliction and fear of Death to become licentious and immoderate in all kind of pleasures whensoever they pass on a sudden from the depth of misery to some transcendent degree of happiness and prosperity which as I say all men are naturally subject unto so more especially those whose Religion indulges them all kind of sensual Carnality in this Life Ibrahim was in his own nature of a gentle and easy temper of a large Forehead of a quick and lively Eye and ruddy Complexion and of a good proportion in the Features of his Face but yet had something in the air of his Countenance that promised no great abilities of mind And giving himself up to all kind of Effeminacy and softness attended not unto the Government of his Affairs and therefore it was his greatest misfortune to be served by wicked and faithless Officers to whom he trusted and to whom he gave credence wanting in himself the talents of wisdom and discretion to discern their malice The continual apprehensions that he entertained of Death during his Imprisonment had so frozen his constitution with a strange frigidity towards Women that all the dalliance and warm embraces of the most inflaming Ladies in the Seraglio could not in a whole Years time thaw his coldness which was the occasion at sirst of that report which spoke him to be impotent towards Women during which time he attended to his Ministers of Justice and to a management of the affairs of his Empire which in the beginning of his Reign gained him a credit and reputation and raised a great expectation of his goodness and care of his Subjects welfare an evidence of which he gave in his Charge to the Great Vizier that he should put no Man to Death unless for Capital and enormous Crimes But at length losing himself in Lusts and Sensualities he forsook the Helm of his Regency committing the guidance of his Empire to other hands and as he was ignorant of War so he foolishly sported in the calms of Peace and suffering himself to be guided only by Fortune felt the stroke thereof in his last Unhappy Fate Sultan MAHOMET the 4 th the Present Emperour of the Turkes When I an Infant in my Cradle Lay And Call'd Th' Ottinan Scepter for to Sway My Troopes Reuolt Seditions Men Incline To Rage and need a Stronger Head Then Mine But as my yeares So doth my power increase My Warres Succeed and Trumphs Neuer Cease By Christian Discords Help't my Mighty State Growes great Still Liuing I attend my Fate THE REIGN OF Sultan Mehmet OR MAHOMET IV. THIRTEENTH EMPEROUR OF THE TURKS ANNO 1649. SUltan Ibrahim perishing in this manner by the mutinous violence of the Souldiery his Son Mehmet or Mahomet being a Child of seven years of Age succeeded in the Throne During whose Minority
to join Battel at which firmness of resolution the Turks being a little startled became willing to avoid the sight and to creep under the shelter of the point of Babiers which locks in one of the Bayes between the Castles and the Mouth of the Dardanelli But the Wind on a sudden turning favourable for the Venetians the Prior of Rochelle with his Squadron and Mocenigo with three Ships under his Command made up towards the Castles with design to cut the Turks off from their Retreat the others valiantly assailed the Turks who defending themselves like those whose chief security consists in their Arms there ensued a most miserable slaughter on one side and the other at length the success of Victory happened to the Venetians who were animated by the couragious Example of their General Marcello though he having Boarded and become Master of a great Ship called a Soltana with the Gally which attended her was shot in the thigh with a Cannon Bullet and thereby gained the glory to die Conquering and Triumphant After whose Death the Proveditor taking upon him the Command of the Fleet prosecuted the Victory so close that excepting 14. Gallies which escaped with the Captain Pasha and 4. Gallies of the Beyes all the whole Fleet was either taken sunk or burnt The Venetians not being able to Man all the Vessels that they had taken set many of them on fire in the Night excepting only 12. Gallies 4. Ships and 2. Galleasses which they reserved for a demonstration or evidence of their Victory With this glorious success 5000. poor Christians obtained their freedom and had their Chains and Shackles knocked off What number the Turks might have lost is uncertain but as to the Venetians it is reported that besides their General there were not above 300. Men in all killed and wounded The Venetians being encouraged by this success attacked the Island of Tenedos and in the space of four days became Masters of it as also in a short time afterwards of Stalimene antiently called Lemnos the which shameful losses and overthrow so irritated the mind of the G. Signior that he gave Orders to carry the War into Dalmatia intending the next Summer to go thither in person and in the mean time Commanded by the Pasha of Bosna that the City of Ragusa should be put into a readiness to receive his Troops being judged a convenient place for the Seat and Magazine of Arms for those Countries But the poor Republick greatly apprehending this misfortune than which there could be no greater mischief nor ruine to their Country dispatched certain Deputies with their yearly Tribute to the Port with instructions that in the way thither they should supplicate the Pasha to intercede with the G. Signior in their behalf representing to his Majesty that they paying their annual Tribute for protection ought not in justice to be exposed to the licentiousness of an Army which their little Territories were not capable to receive nor provide with convenient Quarters at which Message the Pasha being highly incensed answered rudely and imprisoned them threatning to strangle them in case their Government did not obey the Commands of the Sultan ANNO 1657. BUT the Chief Ministers at the Port taking into their consideration the present State of Affairs that the City of Constantinople was full of discontents the Persian on one side and Moscovite on the other ready to invade divers parts of the Empire that there were designs to depose the G. Signior and set one of his Brothers on the Throne besides a multitude of other dangers the resolution of the Courts removal and of the G. Signiors March into Dalmatia was suspended his presence and authority being esteemed most requisite in such a Conjuncture of troubles at the heart and center of his Empire After which the appearance of the G. Signior in publick was less frequent for that he might hasten the departure of the Spahees and Janisaries for Candia he deferred his Journy to Adrianople for some time but they being averse to this War refused to march until first they had received all Arrears which were due to them the which audacious proposal so inconsed the G. Signior that he caused the heads of two of the most forward Mutineers to be cut off in his presence This unseasonable rigour rather provoked the spirits of discontented men than abated them and the continual prizes which the Venetians made on the Turks and stoppage of provisions which did usually supply Constantinople from the Archipelago raised the price of Bread and of all Victuals in that populous City so that the people murmured and exclaimed as if they had been reduced to their last extremity The G. Vizier considering that the loss of Tenedos was the cause of all these inconveniences promised the Inhabitants of Constantinople that he would regain it in a short time in order to which he set forth a very numerous Fleet to besiege that Fortress but contrary Winds and bad weather forced them into a Neighbouring Port where they attended the Conjunction of the Beyes Gallies with them The General of the Venetians having received advice hereof put to Sea that he might hinder these two Fleets from joining and was no sooner in the Channel of Scio than that he met with 10. Sail of Barbary men of War convoying a great number of Saiques and other Vessels of which 14. were laden with provisions carrying also with them 200 thousand Crowns which was the Tribute of Rhodes these the Venetians assailed with such Courage and success that they burnt the ten Ships and many of the Saiques killed a thousand Turks took 400. Prisoners delivered 300. Christians with the loss only of 100. killed and 300. wounded This and other losses augmented the discontents at Constantinople so that the G. Vizier to hold up the spirits of the people resolved to go in person to Tencdos and accordingly Equipped a Fleet of 18. Ships 30. Gallies 10. Galleasses with an innumerable Company of Saiques and other Vessels whereon he Embarked 20. thousand Horse and 80. thousand Foot with which Army the Vizier sailed out of the Dardanelli on the 17th of July having first received intelligence that Mocenigo was not returned from the Morea where he had been for some time in chase of certain Ships Howsoever the Turks found not the passage so clear but that they encountred with a Squadron of 18. Sail of Men of War under the Command of Signior Bembo the which seeming an inconsiderable number to the Turks they assailed them with undoubted hopes of Victory The Admiral and Vice-Admiral of the Turks with five other great Ships charged the Venetian Admiral who defended himself so bravely that for three hours they lay Board and Board the rest of the Turkish Fleet assailed the other part of their Enemies Fleet so close that the Fight became terrible and bloody both for one and the other until at length the Turks being worsted were put to flight and in the pursuit a
〈◊〉 lest the crowd of his Disciples and such who would press to follow him should endanger him in the eyes of the Turks who already began to be scandalized at the Reports and Prophecies concerning his Person But though Sabatai took few into the Vessel with him yet multitudes of Jews travelled over land to meet him again at Constantinople on whom all their Eyes and expectations were intent The Wind proving Northerly as commonly it is in the Hellespont and Propontis Sabatai was thirty nine days in his Voyage and yet the Vessel not arrived So little power had this Messiah over the Sea and Winds In which time the News fore-running to Constantinople that the Jews Messiah was near all that people prepared to receive him with the same joy and impatience as was expressed in other parts where he arrived The Great Vizier then also at Constantinople being not yet departed on his expedition for Candia having heard some rumours of this Man and the disorder and madness he had raised amongst the Jews sent two Boats whilst the Saik was detained by contrary Winds with Commands to bring him up Prisoner to the Port where accordingly Sabatai being come was committed to the most loathsome and darkest Dungeon in the Town there to remain in farther expectation of the Viziers Sentence The Jews were not at all discouraged at this ill Treatment of their Prophet but rather confirmed in their belief of him as being an accomplishment of the Prophecy of those things which ought to precede his Glory and Dominion which Consideration induced the Chiefest Persons amongst the Jews to make their Visits and Addresses to him with the same Ceremony and Respect in the Dungeon as they would have done had he then sate exalted on the sublime Throne of Judah Several of them with one Anacago by name a Man of great esteem amongst the Jews attended a whole day before him with their Eyes cast down their Bodies bending forward and hands cross'd before them which are postures of humility and service in the Eastern Parts the undecency of the place and present subjection not having in the least abated their high thoughts and reverence towards his person For the Jews in Constantinople were become as mad and distracted as they were in other places all Trade and Traffick forbidden and those who owed money in no manner careful how to satisfie it Amongst which wild Crew some were indebted to our Merchants at Galata who not knowing the way to receive their money partly for their interest and partly for curiosity thought fit to visit this Sabatai complaining That such particular Jews upon his Coming took upon them the boldness to defraud them of their right and desired he would be pleased to signifie to those his Subjects his pleasure to have satisfaction given Whereupon Sabatai with much affectation took pen and paper and wrote to this effect To you of the Nation of the Jews who expect the appearance of the Messiah and the salvation of Israel Peace without end Whereas we are informed That you are indebted to several of the English Nation It seemeth right to us to enorder you to make satisfaction to these your just Debts which if you refuse to do and not obey us herein know you that then you are not to enter with us into our Joys and Dominions In this manner Sabatai Sevi remained a Prisoner at Constantinople for the space of two Months at the end of which the Vizier having designed his expedition for Candia and considering the rumour and disturbance the Presence of Sabatai had made already at Constantinople thought it not secure to suffer him to remain in the Imperial City whilst both the Grand Signior and himself were absent and therefore changed his Prison to the Dardanelli otherwise called the Castle of Abydos being on the Europe side of the Hellespont opposite to Sestos places famous in Greek Poetry This removal of Sabatai from a worse Prison to one of a better Air confirmed the Jews with greater confidence of his being the Messiah supposing that had it been in the power of the Vizier or other Officers of the Turks to have destroyed his Person they would never have permitted him to live unto that time in regard their Maximes enforce them to quit all jealousies and suspicions of ruine to their State by the death of the Party feared which much rather they ought to execute on Sabatai who had not only declared himself the King of Israel but also by Prophecies published fatal things to the Grand Signior and his Kingdoms With this Consideration and others preceeding the Jews flocked in great numbers to the Castle where he was imprisoned not only from the Neighbouring Parts but also from Poland Germany Ligorn Venice Amsterdam and other places where the Jews reside on all whom as a reward of the expence and labours of their Pilgrimage Sabatai bestowed plenty of his Benedictions promising encrease of their Store and enlargement of possessions in the Holy Land So great was the confluence of the Jews to this place that the Turks thought it requisite to make their advantage thereof and so not only raised the price of their Provisions Lodgings and other necessaries but also denied to admit any to the presence of Sabatai unless for money setting the price sometimes at five sometimes at ten Dollars or more or less according as they guessed at the abilities and zeal of the Person by which gain and advantage to the Turks no Complaints or Advices were carried to Adrianople either of the Concourse or Arguments amongst the Jews in that place but rather all Civilities and Liberties indulged unto them which served as a farther Argument to ensnare this poor People in the belief of their Messiah During this time of Consinement Sabatai had leisure to compose and institute a new Method of Worship for the Jews and principally the manner of the Celebration of the day of his Nativity which he prescribed in this manner BRethren and my People Men of my Religion inhabiting the City of Smyrna the Renowned where live Men and Women and Fantilies much Peace be unto You from the Lord of Peace and from Me his beloved Son King Solomon I command you That the ninth of the Month of Ab which according to our account answered that year to the Month of June next to come you make a Day of Invitation and of great Joy celebrating it with choise Meats and pleasing Drinks with many Candles and Lamps with Musick and Songs because it is the day of the Birth of Sabatai Sevi the High King above all the Kings of the Earth And as to matters of labour and other things of like nature do as becomes you upon a day of Festival adorned with your finest Garments As to your Prayers let the same Order be used as upon Festivals To converse with Christians on that day is unlawful though your Discourse be of matters indifferent all labour is forbidden but to sound Instruments is lawful This
the Camp But now the News of the designed return of the Grand Signior to his ancient Seat filled all places with joy and triumph especially at Constantinople which was not more satisfied with the consideration of the benefit and advantage it was likely to receive by the Royal Presence than that those suspicious and jealousies which formerly possessed the mind of the Sultan with a prejudice against this place did seem now to vanish and that he reassumed a confidence of his Royal City equal to that love and esteem which his Ancestors had of it so that the humour which then possessed Constantinople appeared like that of London at our Kings Restauration all joy even to transport for this unexspected Return the people in the streets congratulating their mutual happiness thanked God that they had lived to see that happy day and blessed hour The occasion of this unexspected and sudden resolution caused many roving guesses and opinations of the reasons of it Some said a Dream which the Grand Signior had and which gave great disturbance to his thoughts until he resolved for Constantinople Others said the revolt and troubles at Cairo of which we shall presently have occasion to discourse and some added certain Commotions at Bagdat or Babylon some reported that Xeriff of Mecha wrote him a Letter that he could not acknowledge him the Head and Protector of the Mussulmin Faith so long as he had abandoned his Imperial City and lived in the mountains and unknown places Others said that the Janisaries and Militia murmured and that his Coming to Constantinople was forced and not to be avoided and that the Sultan being now out of love with Adrianople had cursed it and sworn never more to set foot in it having ordered the Materials sent for the building of the Great Seraglio at Adrianople to be stopped on the way and returned back again At this rate all the World talked and discoursed joy and hopes made the people fancy every thing according to their wishes The Grand Signior being approached near to Constantinople fixed himself in his Camp in the Fields near a small Seraglio of his own called Daout Basha from whence the people for many days expected that he should according to the Custom of his Ancestors make a solemn Entry instead whereof he made some Sallies with a small Company through the Streets as it were incognito taking his pastime on the Water and on the sides of the Bosphorus in his Gallies and Boats but most commonly frequented his Palace of Scutari on the Asian side where with much delight and confidence he lodged and reposed his Court but made no solemn Entry through the City nor frequented his great Seraglio where though he might perhaps dine and pass certain hours yet he slept not one Night there of which the people took especial notice and thereby received consirmation of the jealousie their Soveraign had of them to their extraordinary grief and dissatisfaction however it was some contentment to the people and renown unto the City to have their Emperour so near though it was rumoured as if the Court towards the approach of Winter intended again to return unto Adrianople In the mean time the Grand Signior took his chief delight and divertisement on the Water passing in his Gallies and Pleasure-Boats up the Bosphorus to the mouth of the Black Sea and thence returning much frequented the Gardens and Houses of Delight upon the Banks of the River and visiting all places a Country House called Therapea belonging to the Dutch Resident received the honour of his Presence which he liked so well that he took it from the Proprietor and conferred it without any consideration of money on one of his Courtiers giving out a Proclamation That no Christian Minister should possess any Seat or Habitation on the side of the Bosphorus A strange thing and what is not to be paralleled in any part of the World About the beginning of this Year the Captain Pasha died and Zaid Ahmet Pasha-ogli then at the Camp succeeded him his Father was a famous Man and in the same Charge but cut off by old Kuperlee Soon after Ibrahim Pasha General of the Army at Kemenitz likewise died and his Office was conferred on Ibrahim Pasha that was Pasha of Candia of whom we have had often occasion to speak being a great friend to the English Nation The Great Vizier also was not far remote from the Consines of Death being now fallen by reason of immoderate drinking of Wine and chiefly of hot Cinamon Waters into a formed Dropsie and Jaundice In the preceding year we touched on the removal of the Tefterdar or Treasurer from his Office to the Government of Grand Cairo and the reasons for it which though it might be a preferment being the richest and most important Charge of the Empire to which the esteem the Sultan had of his parts and abilities might probably advance him yet the imploying of him at a distance so remote was certainly an effect of some displeasure whereby he or his Favourites judged him a Person not sit to remain longer near the Royal Presence Wherefore having commenced his Journey as before mentioned he arrived at Grand Cairo where he had not long continued before he began according to the natural acuteness of his mind and hugstering manner to pierce with a narrow inspection into all Affairs of that Government and particularly into the Revenue and Treasure of the Country contriving with himself by what means the disorders might be corrected and the Revenue and Tribute improved for he had an excellent Genius or Spirit in the matters of Money nothing in advantage of Interest could ever escape him so that he began to lay a new foundation in all proceedings he would not be contented with the old Taxes and Impositions and where he found Lands improved or the Customs augmented he would put in for a share of the Benefits and would reform every thing wherein he judged his Master to have been abused But though he was acute and sharp-sighted in such matters as these yet he wanted experience in the Government of Egypt for the great Beghs of this Country being alarmed with these innovations began to stand upon their Guard and to enter into private Consultations in what manner to oppose themselves to this new way of Government which looked like slavery and designs of bringing them into servitude and a subjection unknown to them and their Fore-fathers For indeed the Government of Egypt if well considered is rather Aristocratical than Monarchical for though they acknowledge the Sultan to be their Head and accept his Pasha for Ruler and pay a yearly Tribute yet the Beghs which are great Lords in their respective Countries carry the sway and Dominion in all other matters and will endure nothing which savours of oppression or innovation so that these persons grown jealous by the proceedings of the new Pasha flew into open Sedition and immediately to Arms with force
a confirmation of the same for his Son ibid. Revan betrayed by the Governour Emir Gumir to the Turks 57. recovered by the Persian pag. 59 S. SElictar Aga who 19. he is made Great Vizier ibid. gains a Victory over the Persians 26. besieges Babylon but is beaten off 28 29. he returns to Constantinople and is deprived of his Office pag. 32 Serches Pasha vid. Selictar Aga. T. TArtary the King thereof treacherously slain pag. 65 Tauris taken by the Turks from the Persian 15. utterly destroyed by them pag. 58 Pirates of Tunis infest the Seas 16. See Algierines V. VAlona the Venetian Admiral takes fourteen Algierine Gallies in this Port pag. 73. which boldness the Venetians are glad to make amends for to the Port pag. 86 Van besieged by the Persian pag. 62 THE TABLE TO THE Reigns of Sultan Ibrahim and Sultan Mabomet A. ABermont the Captain of the French Man of War whereon Monsieur de la Haye arrived at Constantinople incurs great danger of his life and wherefore Page 193 Achmet Great Vizier deprived of his Office and strangled 33 Aleppo the Merchants thereof more subject to troublesom Avania's than others and an instance given 116 Alexandria a Plague there 11. the Alexandrian Fleet encountred by the Venetians 101. taken by the Malteses in 1673. 304 Algierines make complaints at the Port of the English Fleet commanded by the Earl of Sandwich but find no encouragement 87. they make a peace with the English 113. the Articles signed by the Grand Signior 129. they are carried by the Author to Algier with a relation of two pleasant passages in his journey ibid. 130 131. they except against an Article of the Peace and send a Letter to his Majesty whereupon the War breaks out asresh 133 134. the inconstancy of their Government 133 Colonel Anand an English-man and one Stefano Cordili made Plenipotentiaries to treat with the Great Vizier about the surrender of Candia 273 Michael Apasi constituted Prince of Transylvania by the Turks 80. his Letter to the Earl of Winchelsea English Ambassadour at the Port 98. he is beloved of his people 146 Asac besieged by the Turks in the year 1641. but not taken 6 7. again besieged in 1642. and then taken being abandoned by the Inhabitants 9. After it had been sacked by the Moscovite in 1674. the Turk rebuilds it 313 Asan Pasha of Aleppo rebels and marches towards Constantinople 56. he joins battel with the Great Vizier and discomfits him 57. he is treacherously strangled by Mortaza Pasha 58 Asan Aga the Mosayp or Favourite his story 123 Austria spoiled by the Turks in 1663. 141 B. BAkockza taken by Count Serini 147 Ballarino Secretary to Signior Capello the Venetian Bailo supplies his Office 50. his sorrowsul Letter to Senator Nicolo Contarini 102. his Character 103. he is suspected by the Turks to use Sorcery 121 Balsora its Pasha rebels in 1667. and is forced to slee into Persia 230 Baltagibashee what 124 Cardinal Barbarini bestows a pension of eight hundred Crowns a mon h upon Count Serini 160. he supplies the 〈◊〉 with four thousand measures of corn in their Wars in Candia pag. 228 Barcan taken by Count Soisé and burnt 166 Girolamo Bataglia and Francesco Bataglia Proveditors General both killed at the Siege of Candia 249 Duke de Beaufort the Popes General at Sea desires of the King of France his natural Prince leave to try his fortune by Land at the Siege of Candia 263. he is killed there 267 Beker Pasha of Rhodes strangles the Pasha of Cyprus 11. made Captain Pasha 12. put to death by order of the G. Signior 15 Belgrade here the Great Vizier had his Winter-quarters the sirst year of the Hungarian war in 1663. 145. resides there the second winter after the peace made 176 Signior Bembo obtains a Victory over the Turks at Sea 54 Sir Tho. Bendish Ambassadour at the Port his Expedient for obtaining redress of wrongs offered to the Merchants 18. he opposes the forcing of English Ships into the Turks service against Candia but without effect 40 Berclay made Prince of Transylvania 73. the Transylvanians depose him 78 Berzenche taken by Count Serini 147 A Blazing-star seen in most parts of the known world in 1664. and particularly in Turkie with their opinion what it portended 177 Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg assist Candia with three thousand men 252 C. CAiro a Rebellion of the great Beghs there 153. another 330 Caminiecz taken by the Turks in eleven days 300. blocked up the Poles 311. but the Siege raised by the Turks 313 Candia the Isle how it became the possession of Venice 23. what the occasion of the Turks making war against it 13. the beginning of the war 20. The Turks Sea and Land-forces at first employed in it what 21. what the preparations of tho Venetians 22. The Turks land in this Isle pag. 24. what supplies the Venetians had towards this war from Christendom 25 Candia the City first besieged in 1647. by the Turks who were then forced to raise the Siege 28. besieged a second time in 1650. and again beaten off 41. 〈◊〉 a third time when the Turks losing three thousand men at one assault again drew off 43. this war carried on fainlly by the Turks for several years 85. prosecuted asresh in 1666. 221. what aid the Venetians then had from Christian Princes 227. the Fortisications of the Town described and what Quarters were possessed by the Besiegers and Besieged 332. the History of the Siege continued uninterruptedly from 232 to 254. and from 262 to 277. its Duke killed 253. large succours sent thither from France 263. the Garrison makes a notable sally but with bad success 266. French Officers slain in this sally 267. the French depart 268. a Council held to consider of the state of the Town 270. the result of the Council to enter into a Treaty with the Vizier 273. the conditions of peace 274. the Town delivered to the Turks 277. an account of the number of the slain on both sides the batteries storms sallies c. 276. what a sad spectacle of desolation at its surrender 278 Canea taken by the Turks 25. they land here forty thousand fighting men 26 Antonio Capello Commander of the Venetian Gallies 23 Gio. Capello made Doge General of the Sea 25. what his Armata ibid. Signior Capello Bailo at the Port imprisoned 45. his ill usage casts him into a deep melancholy 48. his Commission taken from him 50. he dyes at Constantinople but his Corps conveyed to Venice 104 Casimir King of Poland resigns his Crown and how affairs then stood there 297 Chirfaleas a couragious Captain 145. is slain near Serinswar 158 Chusaein Pasha General of the Turks in Candia 39. is made Great Vizier but to reside still in Candia 42. is discharged from the Office of Great Vizier 47. is put to death by the Great Vizier Kuperlee pag. 58 Chusaein Pasha of Buda besieges Leventz 162. is routed by Count Soise 164 Another
Government was assailed on all sides both at home and abroad Various were the Counsels and Proposals in what manner to proceed in times of such emergency First it was resolved to proclaim a War both against the King of Persia and the Rebels in Asia and that whosoever took of the Grand Signior Pay from one Asper a day to a higher value should be in readiness to serve in the War upon penalty of losing his Estate of being accounted a Rebel and his wife and children sold for Slaves But the more sober and moderate sort judged it policy to take off Abassa by sending him a general Pardon with a concession of all his demands upon condition that he should turn his Arms upon the King of Persia who was the common Enemy of their Country and Religion but the Janisaries would by no means assent to this agreement with a person to whom they bore a more inveterate hatred than to the Persian himself as he did also to the Janisaries For that he might better justifie his pretence of revenge he declared That being one day in a Mosch at his Prayers the murdered Osman appeared to him and taking him by the hand said My faithful Mussulman since thou art the most generous of all my Slaves I command thee to revenge my death with the blood of sixty thousand Janisaries and Spahees good Fortune shall accompany thy Arms and Victory shall crown thy labours During these intrigues and difficulties of reconciliation Abassa spoiled the Lesser Asia and the Persian King conquered the City and Province of Bagdat or Babylon took Kur Asan Pasha an old Souldier Prisoner possessed himself of Mosul and Leska on the Persian Sea and meeting no considerable opposition he divided his Army into four parts The first was dispeeded into Mesopotamia commanded by the King himself The second made Incursions into Palestine The third infested the Coast of the Black Sea and the fourth marched towards Mecha with hope and design of sharing all the parts of the Eastern Empire Ali Pasha who opposed the King in Mesopotamia was slain and his Army wholly defeated so that the Province became a prey to the Enemy the success in Palestine was equally fortunate by the revolt of Damascus a place of great riches and importance the Coast of the Black Sea was grievously infested and a Port taken near to Trapezond and little opposition being made at Balsora the Town was taken by that Army in their March towards Mecha and the parts of the Red Sea where they rendered themselves Masters of Medina the City of their Prophet Mahomet To repair these losses and to encounter numbers so strong and valiant in all parts the Vizier was dispeeded with a powerful Force to the Town of Bagdat but by reason of Mutinies and Tumults amongst the Souldiery matters found not the success expected and the Garrison making valiant and vigorous Sallies against the imbecillity of the Turkish Souldiery which were always most obstinate and stout to oppose their own Commanders obtained an advantage in every Attempt by which discouragement many forsaking their Colours the Siege was raised with dishonour and the interest of the Turk impaired and almost irreparably lost in those Provinces This News arrived at Constantinople that the Camp was risen and fled by night that they were forced to burn their Tents and Provisions and to break their great Artillery and cast them into the Euphrates that the miseries in the Army had been such by Famine and Pestilence and want of all Provisions and Ammunition that the like was never known that the Vizier had beheaded three of his Pasha's that so he might cast the whole blame upon them and that now retreating with his Army into the Turkish Dominions the Persians pursued them in the Rear and for ten days did execution on them making the best use they could of their Victory which relation silled the hearts of all people with sadness and disordered the Counsels with confusion The cause of which ill success according to custom being imputed to the General he was deprived of his Office and sacrificed to the fury of the Janisaries These troubles were increased at Constantinople by the Addresses which the Prince of Transylvania made unto the Port by his Kapi-Kahya or Agent representing to the Grand Signior That he wanting Heirs Male to succeed him in his Principality the States at a Diet had with common consent elected his Lady for his Successour and therefore desired consirmation from the Port in excuse of her Sex he alledged the urgent necessity of the present times which perswaded rather to admit of the Government of a Woman than that his Principality should for want of an Heir fall into the hands of the powerful Family of Austria To make good this demand Duke John of Weymar and Count Mansfelt arrived in Silistria to whom the Prince of Transylvania joyned his Troops and Morteza Pasha of Buda wrote to the Port that he was marching towards Valz to meet the Prince and confer with him concerning these designs The Emperours Resident at Constantinople greatly exclaimed against these proceedings which something troubled the Counsels of the Turks who in that conjuncture were unwilling to give beginnings to a new War so that besides fair words they promised to write such Letters to the Pasha of Buda as should give a stop to the Investiture of the Princess but to say truly the Instructions given were in such ambiguous terms that they in essect lest the whole matter to the discretion of Morteza to act as he judged most agreeable to the state of Affairs on the Frontiers and security of the present Peace Thus did the Turkish Court seek to ward off the blow of a War with Germany and yet secretly nourished and encouraged it by giving Orders to the Pasha of Buda to take up his Winter-quarters with the Prince of Transylvania and to follow his directions but yet so to govern matters with caution as not to engage too far on uncertain grounds or doubtful hazard but to embrace Propositions of Peace if offered with honour and security In prosecution of these Rules Morteza observing that Weymar and Mansfelt having united their Forces with Gabor had formed a considerable Army and were able to sight with Wallestein General of the Imperialists joyned also his Forces to theirs judging it a prudent and politick design to wage a War at the blood and expence of others With these encouragements and with the favour of a good opportunity the Confederates fell upon the Army of Wallestein near the River Gran who not being able to withstand their force and fury was put to flight and pursued in the Rear with great slaughter and endeavouring to pass the River on two Bridges of Boats were closely followed by the Princes Forces who gaining the pass put the whole Army into great amazement and resolved to pursue them to the Gates of Presburg or Vienna Notwithstanding this success the Prince of Transylvania
of his languishing condition like a true Penitent made many protestations and vows against it forbidding the accursed poison to be received within the Walls of the Seraglio howsoever his kind heart could not possibly withstand the temptation of a Banquet to which his Pot-companions did sometimes invite him amongst which the Great Vizier would not be wanting also to please and cajol the humor of his Master with the liquor that he loved But his chief and constant Camerades in drinking were his Persian Favourite and Mustapha Pasha of Bosna one educated in the Seraglio promoted to the place of Selictar Aga to whom he gave the stately Palace of Ibrahim Pasha on the Hippodrome together with his eldest Daughter in Marriage These two stout Sons of Bacchus perswaded the Grand Signior to appoint one solemn Drinking-day in time of the Biram which is the great Festival of the Year and introduced by their Prophet in imitation of our Easter Morat being at this time possessed with the spirit of debauchery accepted the motion and invited the two Drunkards to dinner with him The Persian provoked his pleasure of drinking by salt Meats and by peppered and spiced Dishes the sort of Wine they most used was a sweet Malvoisia sometimes twisted and encouraged with the strong Waters called Rosa Solis of which they sucked so long and with such excess that falling under the force of it they were insensibly carried away to their several beds This dissolute repast became fatal to the Grand Signior for a fire being kindled in his veins and bowels he fell into a violent and continued Feaver The Physicians being called were fearful to administer Remedies lest proving unsuccessful their lives should pay for the ineffectual operation at length they agreed to let him blood but this hastened his death For he died the fourth day of his Feaver being the 8 th of February in the seventeenth year of his Reign and the one and thirtieth of his Age having ruled in the height of all disorders and irregular excesses which his youthful years enabled him to support With his death all his thoughts and designs of making War against Christendom perished having sworn after his return from Persia to reduce all his neighbouring Countries to the Mahometan Law He was of a most cruel and implacable disposition having amongst his other Acts of Tyranny imbrued his hands in the blood of his two Brothers Orchan and Bajazet as also strangled his Uncle Mustapha whose innocent weakness had been sufficient to secure his life against any but the most horrid Monster of humane Tyranny He left no Son for though he had divers they died in their infancy notwithstanding which his Kindred were so detested by him that he envied the descendence of Monarchy on his Brother Ibrahim who was preserved by a strange providence from his fury often saying that he wished that he might be the last of the Ottoman Line that the Empire of that Family might end with him and devolve unto the Tartar He was certainly the most absolute Prince that ever swayed the Ottoman Empire but of no Religion seldom fasting in the month of Ramasan contemning and laughing at the Santones and others of their Religious Orders He was very inquisitive into all Actions of the City for which he maintained his Spies and oftentimes took his rules and measures from discourses of people concerning his Government He was a great Dissembler ready active and revengeful covetous to extremity having left fifteen millions of Gold in his Treasury which was empty when he entred upon the Soveraignty In short he was so bad that he had scarce any allay of Vertue being so great a Tyrant that at length he became his own Assasinate and fell unlamented by all but the two Companions of his bestial excess The End of Sultan Morat's Life Sultan IBRAHIM Emperour of the Turkes Anno Dom. 1640 I That of Ottman Blood Remain Alone Call'd From a Prison to ascend a Throne My Silly Mind I Bend to Soft Delights Hating th'unpleasant thoughts of Nauall Fights Till Mad With Wanton Loues I Fall at First Slaue to My Owne Then to My Peoples Lust THE REIGN OF Sultan Ibrahim TWELFTH EMPEROUR OF THE TURKS Sultan Amurath or Morat after a Feaver of eight days continuance caused by an excess of Debauchery in Wine having on the eighth of February 1640. according to the New-Style expired his last Breath His Mother called Kiosem comforted her self with the thoughts that her Son Sultan Ibrahim still lived and was the sole Surviver and undoubted Heir of the Ottoman Family to whose Succession that She might make the more facile and undisturbed Entrance She consulted with all the Viziers requesting their consent and assistance in the lawful promotion of her remaining Son to the Throne of his Ancestors For She had understood that Morat who always abhorred the ill-shaped Body and weaker mind of his Brother envied him the Dignity of the Ottoman Scepter and therefore had bequeathed the Succession to the Tartar having in the heat of a Debauch and fumes of his Wine compelled his Pashas to swear to the performance of his Testament Wherefore the Queen assembling them together with gentle words desired them to remember That Ibrahim was the lawful Heir and their true Emperour that the Tartar Han was a Stranger odious to the Souldiery and not beloved by the People that an alteration of this nature could never be contrived and executed without danger to the Actors and that they to whom She assured the continuance of the same Honours and Offices in reward of their constant Allegiance would be in hazard of losing all by the coming of a Foreign Prince who having Confidents of his own to prefer and grand necessities to satisfie would make bold even with Estates and Provinces to prefer his Favourites his Kindred and Country-men and establish the firmness of his Government on their ruine Yet setting aside those considerations touching their own safety and interest She promised That if they would reach out their hands unto her Son for to lift him unto the Throne he should acknowledge his Empire from them and accordingly love tender and esteem such faithful Subjects The Viziers after some reflections on the tye and obligation which Sultan Morat had caused them to make to him declared and published it to be unlawful and void protesting that they were resolved to maintain inviolable the Allegiance they owed unto Sultan Ibrahim descended from the Ottoman-bloud which they reverenced and adored with an awe equal to the religious esteem which their Forefathers had of it and therefore with one voice they cryed out Let Sultan Ibrahim live Herewith the Council breaking up the Viziers accompanied with all the Officers and Attendants of the Seraglio went with Shouts and loud Acclamations to the Prison of Ibrahim to salute him Emperour for he poor Prince had now for four years remained a sad Recluse in a dark room where he had received neither light
sensible of the honour of being a Soltana of being Courted by his Majesty of the joyes delights and glory of the Seraglio but that when she reflected how that she was to bring forth Children to die by untimely Deaths and to end their Days by poison or the Bow-string or at least to live miserable lives separated from Mankind and immured within Walls and Intombed whilst they breathed she could not but tremble with some horrour and judge that all the blandishments of Worldly Fortune were but a transient Paradise which could not possibly recompence or out-weigh the sense and tenderness she conceived for the misery of her unfortunate Off-spring Howsoever she so couched her Discourse that she gave Ibrahim some hopes to overcome at length by which she appeased a little his fury and despair and extracted some Jewels and Gifts in reward of her past labour and encouragement for her future service In this manner Ibrahim had patience awhile expecting something farther from the industry of Shecher Para but finding no effect of all his expectations and gentleness at length resolved to break through all considerations of respect either to the Father as the Mouth and Oracle of the Law or to the simple and foolish innocence of the Maid and therefore ordered the Great Vizier to cause a Watch to be set on the Girl either going in or coming out of the Bath and without farther Ceremony to bring her unto him This Order being executed accordingly and the Maid hurried to the Seraglio Ibrahim possessed and enjoyed her for some days but with those tears reluctancy and sullenness as took off from the edge and appetite of enjoyment so that he returned her back again with scorn and contempt unto her Father who at first dissembled the injury with the same Countenance as he did before when he was interdicted the Sultan's presence suppressing his revenge like a concealed fire which bursts out afterwards with more violent Flames But though the sense of obedience and duty towards his Prince allayed much of the choler he conceived against him for the Rape of his Daughter yet he knew not how to pardon the Great Vizier whom he termed no other than a Ruffian or Pandor the Minister of his Masters Lusts and not of his Laws and of Justice Thus full of indignation he applyed himself and made his complaint unto one Mahomet Pasha a principal Member of the Divan one of great wisdom and practice in the conduct of affairs and one with whom he had a particular Friendship and intimacy Nor less interest had he with Janisar Aga or General of the Janizaries to both whom with tears in his Eyes and with such words as the sense of his injuries suggested he railed at the Vizier and aggravated the Ravishment of his Daughter with all the circumstances of Villany and Violence These two Friends heard the story with a sensible remorse and immediately concluded that for the honour and security of the Empire it was necessary to depose Sultan Ibrahim and for the same reason to cut off the first Vizier agreeing amongst themselves that Mahomet Pasha should receive the Seal and the Office To effect which they deemed it necessary to draw the Queen Mother into the Conspiracy being a Woman of great Authority and having as it were the Reins of Government in her hands by reason of the weak judgment of her Son But because it was difficult to perswade the tenderness of a Mother to the ruine of her Son the Wise Mufti resolved first to sound her inclinations and disposition towards this design and being well informed of her fierce Circassian nature and the jealousy and anger she conceived against Shecher Para obtained Licence to be heard by her as if he would beg her intercession with her Son in his behalf and being admitted to discourse with her he thereby plainly discovered her most inverterate hatred and displeasure against her Son not only for this but for many other actions of like nature This discovery which the Queen had made gave him the boldness to propose the confinement again of Ibrahim to his old Prison not that he should be absolutely laid aside and deposed but only corrected awhile and being put in remembrance of his past condition might be taught wisdom and instructed for the future what moderation and justice Sultans are obliged to exercise in the administration of Government and so subtlely did he insinuate his discourse that the Queen Mother assented to the proposal and that the Seal should be conferred on Mahomet Pasha for she had conceived an irreconcileable hatred against Achmet the G. Vizier by whose counsel she was sent to the old Seraglio and was united in Confederacy with the detested Shecher Para. The Mufti greatly satisfied to have gained so considerable a Conspirator to the party communicated the whole business with the Progress of it to the two Kadileschers or Lord Chief Justices of Romelia and Anatolia who approveing thereof and promising their utmost assistance the 7th of August was the Day appointed for the Insurrection of the Janizaries who being all in a readiness on that day went in a tumultuary way to call the Mufti the Kadileschers and other Officers and Ministers of the Law whom they seemingly forced to accompany them to the presence of the G. Signior of whom they demanded that the present Vizier Achmet should be deprived of his Office and that Mahomet Pasha should be constituted in his place The G. Signior at first refused their demand but being perswaded by his Mother that it was necessary to content the Militia in that tumult he consented thereunto and having called Achmet he took from him the Seal and conferred it on Mahomet Pasha and therewith the Office of G. Vizier Achmet trembling at the consequences hereof resolved to commit himself to the mercy of the Mufti and therefore hastned to his House to attend his return hoping to find him his Protector under whose shadow and roof he fled for Sanctuary The Souldiery having thus obtained the first-fruits of their Insurrection accompanied the Mufti unto his home where finding the deposed Vizier Achmet the Janisar Aga immediately Commanded him out of Doors from whence he had no sooner drawn his Foot than that he was seized upon and strangled and his Body thrown before the Gate of the new Mosch The next day being the 8th of August 1648. the Janizaries again arising in the like tumult as before came to demand of the Mufti whether that according to their Law Sultan Ibrahim as a Fool and a Tyrant and unsit for Government ought not to be deposed To which the Mufti giving answer in the affirmative sent to cite Sultan Ibrahim the day following to appear in the Divan to administer Justice to his Souldiers and Subjects who expected it from him But Ibrahim supposing that he had sufficiently satisfied the Souldiery by putting the Vizier out of Office laughed at the summons which the Mufti made him which being seconded by a Fetfa
expeditions had raised so that the Army both Horse and Foot began to transport themselves as fast as was possible to the other side but the multitudes crouded over in that disorder and hast that three or four thousand men had scarce passed the River before the Bridge was so broken and shattered that some time was necessarily required to repair it before the rest of the Army durst adventure to follow their Companions The Approach of the Turkish Army alarmed all that side of Hungary but especially the Inhabitants of Newhausel who observing the Turks to bend their Course that way plainly foresaw the Storm of War to be breaking on them the News also of the fall of the Bridge and thereby the Separation of about four thousand Turks from the Body of the Army was brought in by the Country people who forsaking their Villages fled for succour to the stronger Fortress of Newhausel Hereupon Forcatz the Governour of Newhausel a valiant and experienced Souldier though esteemed by the Turks unfortunate taking this Alarm judged that this occasion of cutting off that part of the Turkish Army which had past the River was in no wise to be omitted and therefore assembled a Council of War which consisted of all the principal Officers and Commanders of the Garison amongst which was Colonel Volter that commanded the four thousand men lately sent to reinforce the Town he declared that his opinion was Immediately to make a Sally on that part of the Turkish Army which had already passed the River before the Bridge was repaired for Transportation of the others which endeavours by Gods Assistance succeeding well might not only discourage the Enemy but be a means to divert them from their present design upon their City This Advice though he pressed with heat of Argument and violence of Speech yet could it not prevail with the rest of the Council which seemed wholly averse thereunto especially Volter who declared That his Commission was not to fight in the Field but to conserve himself within the Walls for maintenance of his Garison Some days passed in this Dispute whilst Forcatz growing more eager and hot on this design used opprobrious Terms and expressions of infamy towards the other Officers accusing all such of Cowardice and Treason who refused to concurr with him in this Enterprize and advantage on the Enemy which Heaven seemed to reach out to them for their Deliverance if their wisedom and courage afforded them only will and grace to lay hold on the opportunity These sharp words and resolution of the Governour provoked the minds of the Officers to a condescension and thereupon about eight thousand men of Choice and approved Souldiers well armed with stout hearts and hard Iron not suffering themselves to be upbraided with such reproach in the silence of the Night under the Conduct of Forcatz their own Commander Volter remaining in the Town took their way towards the Turkish Camp and being armed with Firelocks marched with all privacy without lighted Matches or sound of Drum or Trumpet But whilst the foregoing Dispute lasted the Turks had transported the gross of their Army over the River and then lay on her Banks resting securely under their Pavillions The Christians approaching near the Turkish Camp with the first twilight and dawning of the Morning perceiving the Enemy unprovided but not discovering their Force dealt at first onset their shot most plentifully amongst them and proceeding amidst the thickest cutting shooting killing and making havock of all before them The amazed Turks having many of their Companions brought to their last sleep before themselves were throughly awake and some flying before they discovered the reason or the danger an Alarm was given by the confused murmur of Allah Allah and that the Christians were upon them reached the farthest Quarters of the Turkish Army which immediately put themselves into Battalia and order of fighting whilst this handful of Germans proceeded forwards dealing their blows amongst their Enemies cutting the Cords of the Tents and destroying all before them But by this time the Turks having put themselves into a posture of Defence the Horse and Foot came marching in a Body extending their Wings in the form of a half Moon so as to enclose this small number and on all sides to assail them The Germans seeing this formidable sight approach and no safety in flight encouraged each other to sell their Lives at as dear a rate as they could all hopes of escape seeming desperate they fought with that courage and obstinacy as amazed the Turks and yielded not until their Spirits fainted with labour and their Swords were blunted by the Bodies of their Enemies The Count Forcatz hardly escaped but by the help of his Horse with some few others fled to Newhausel which unwillingly received him wishing that the rashness of his Counsels had only proved his own destruction and not involved so many brave and innocent Souldiers who were only unfortunate for being over-powered by his command and perswasions The rest overwhelmed with multitudes yielded for though they behaved themselves beyond the power and courage of men yet the numbers of the Enemy prevailed at length over these Christian Champions whose Gallantry was more eminent and conspicuous in being subdued than the Glory of their Enemies in the Victory In this Skirmish few escaped amongst which four hundred Gentlemen were slain and about eighteen hundred Prisoners reported to be taken a bad Omen at the beginning of this War This Rout being given the Turks triumphed in Blood and success and returned with their Captives and Trophies back to Strigonium where the Vizier mounting a Throne of State and Majesty treated these valiant Souldiers not like men of War or Captives taken in open Field but as a Judge condemned them to dye by the hand of the Hang-man or Executioner passing a formal Sentence of Death upon them as if they had been Thieves or Assasinates arrested by the hand of Justice The Sentence being passed and the Turkish Army drawn up these valiant Christians were ranked in order and sile to dye who had so lately with Swords in their hands ranged themselves in Battle against their Enemy and so soon as the Executioners fell to their work and the horrid Massacre was begun the Guns were fired and the whole Camp resounded with barbarous Musick and shouts In the mean while the most superstitious amongst them triumphed that God was now destroying the Infidels manifesting the truth of their Prophet and doing his own work not unlike the assertions and doctrines of those Pretenders to Religion who have always hallowed and excused their cruelties with the Name of God and sanctified the blood they have shed by making their Enemies Amalekites and by pretence of false Lights and Prophecies countenanced their most impious Sacriledge in Gods Churches and Invasions of their Neighbours Rights The merciless Executioners had proceeded to bereave of life about thirteen or fourteen hundred persons the Vizier standing a
the full he took a Journey to Adrianople and there informed the chief Ministers of State and Officers of the Court who by reason of the gain the Turks made of their Prisoner at the Castle on the Hellespont heard nothing of all this concourse of people and Prophecies of the Revolt of the Jews from their obedience to the Grand Signior And taking likewise to his Counsel some certain discontented and unbelieving Cochams who being zealous for their Nation and jealous of the ill consequences of this long continued and increasing madness took liberty to inform the Chimacam who was Deputy of the Great Vizier then at Candia that the Jew Prisoner at the Castle called Sabatai Sevi was a lewd person and one who endeavoured to debauch the minds of the Jews and divert them from their honest course of livelihood and obedience to the Grand Signior and that therefore it was necessary to clear the World of so factious and dangerous a Spirit The Chimacam being thus informed could do no less than acquaint the Grand Signior with all the particulars of this mans condition course of life and Doctrine which were no sooner understood but a Chaouse or Messenger was immediately dispatched to bring up Sabatai Sevi to Adrianople The Chaouse executed his Commission after the Turkish fashion in haste bringing Sabatai in a few days to Adrianople without farther excuse or ceremony not affording him an hours space to take a solemn farewel of his Followers and Adorers who now were come to the vertical point of all their hopes and expectations The Grand Signior having by this time received divers informations of the madness of the Jews and the pretences of Sabatai grew big with desire and expectation to see him so that he no sooner arrived at Adrianople but the same hour he was brought before the Grand Signior Sabatai appeared much dejected and failing of that courage which he shewed in the Synagogue And being demanded several questions in Turkish by the Grand Signior he would not trust so far to the vertue of his Messiahship as to deliver himself in the Turkish Language but desired a Doctor of Physick who had from a Jew turned Turk to be his Interpreter which was granted to him but not without reflection of the standers-by that had he been the Messiah and Son of God as he formerly pretended his Tongue would have been loosed into Eloquence and perfection of Languages But the Grand Signior would not be put off without a Miracle and it must be one of his own chusing which was that Sabatai should be stripped naked and set as a mark to his dextrous Archers if the arrows passed not his body but that his flesh and skin was proof like Armour then he would believe him to be the Messiah and the person whom God had designed to those Dominions and Greatness he pretended But now Sabatai not having faith enough to stand to so sharp a tryal renounced all his Title to Kingdoms and Governments alledging that he was an ordinary Cocham and Jew as others were and had nothing of priviledge and vertue above the rest The Grand Signior notwithstanding not wholly satisfied with this plain confession declared That having given publick scandal to the Professors of the Mahometan Religion and done dishonour to his Soveraign Authority by pretending to withdraw from him so considerable a portion as the Land of Palestine his Treason and Crime could not be expiated without becoming a Mahometan Convert which if he refused to do the Stake was ready at the Gate of the Seraglio to impale him Sabatai being now reduced to his last game and extremity not being in the least doubtful what to do for to dye for what he was assured was false was against Nature and the death of a mad man replied with much chearfulness that he was contented to turn Turk and that it was not of force but of choice having been a long time desirous of so glorious a profession he esteemed himself much honoured that he had an opportunity to owne it first in the presence of the Grand Signior And here was the Non plus ultra of all the bluster and noise of this vain Impostour And now the Reader may pause a while and contemplate the strange point of consternation shame and silence to which the Jews were reduced when they understood how speedily their hopes were vanished and how poorly and ignominiously all their fancies and promises of a new Kingdom their Pageantry and Offices for Devotion were past like a tale or a midnights dream And all this was concluded and the Jews sunk on a sudden and fallen flat in their hopes without so much as a line of comfort or excuse from Sabatai more than in general to all the Brethren that now they should apply themselves to their callings and services of God as formerly for that matters relating to him were finished and the sentence past The News of Sabatai turning Turk and of the Messiah to a Mahometan quickly filled all parts of Turkie the Jews were strangely surprised at it and ashamed of their casiness of belief of the arguments with which they had perswaded others and of the Proselytes they had made in their own Families Abroad they became the common derision of the Towns where they inhabited the Boys houted after them coining a new word at Smyrna Poustai which every one seeing a Jew with a finger pointed out would pronounce with scorn and contempt so that this deceived people for a long time after remained with confusion silence and dejection of spirit And yet most of them affirm That Sabatai is not turned Turk but his shadow only remains on Earth and walks with a white head and in the habit of a Mahometan but that his body and soul are taken into Heaven there to reside until the time appointed for accomplishment of these Wonders and this opinion began so commonly to take place as if this people resolved never to be undeceived using the Forms and Rules for Devotion prescribed them by their Mahometan Messiah Insomuch that the Cochams of Constantinople fearing the danger of this Errour might creep up and equal the former condemned the belief of Sabatai being Messiah as damnable and injoyned them to return to the ancient Method and Service of God upon pain of Excommunication The Stile and Tenour of their Letter was as followeth To you who have the power of Priesthood and are the knowing learned and magnanimous Governours and Princes residing in the City of Smyrna may the Almighty protect you Amen for so is his will These our Letters which we send in the midst of your Habitations are upon occasion of certain Rumors and Tumults come to our ears from that City of your Holinesses For there is a sort of men amongst you who fortifie themselves in their Errour and say Let such an one our King live and bless him in their publick Synagogues every Sabbath day and also adjoyn Psalms and Hymns invented by that man
this for the present astonished the Turks and gave a stop to the farther proceedings of this Assault This proof gave an evident Conviction to the Grand Signior's Inquisitor of the strength of the place and difficulty of the Work and having been an Eye-witness of all returned with dismal Stories of a cruel War reporting perhaps and it was related in the parts of Christendom That this was a place where blood was spilt day and night where Gallant Men had forgot to sleep living in perpetual labours enured to intolerable sufferings and hourly dangers there being none secure either in the Church in the house or in the street for Granadoes rained Cannons thundred Arrows flew with stones like a Tempest so that there was none in that place but who quartered on the Brink of the Grave It now grew towards Winter and yet the Vizier thought of no other Quarters than his Trenches judging that if he should quit his station the labours and progress of the former Summer would be lost and the Work to be again begun in the Spring Wherefore resolving to keep his Works provided all conveyances to carry away the Water and sheds to cast off the Rain and warmer Tents for the Souldiery which yet could not so artificially be contrived but that the Camp was full of mire and dirt tedious and troublesome to Man and Beast and the Quarters of the Souldiery so damp between their Banks of Earth as caused Catarrhs Fluxes Feavers and other Camp Diseases with much mortality It was now the dead of Winter and yet Martial Exploits were as frequent as they had been in Summer and though the great rains and flouds of water extinguished the fires and made as it were a cessation of Armes and of all acts of hostility yet this interval of calmness and tranquillity the Christians made use of to repair the Palisade of S t Andrea and the Lines of Communication within the Ditch And because the main Bulwark was also shaken and in some danger all the Chiorma or Slaves of the Gallies were commanded ashoar to labour in the reparation and to make aninward retrenchment which in short time with admirable diligence was perfected and on all sides compleated The Turks in the mean time carried their Traverses forward as much as they could for they were now entered into the very Ditch of the Town and because there was no possibility to work in the Mines by reason that the Galleries were filled with water they attended wholly to employ their great Guns and fire Granadoes so that they raised a new Battery near the Work of Mocenigo which began to batter the lower parts of S t Andrea and raised another Battery on the ruines of the Revelin of Panigra which being lower ground could not much prejudice the main Bulwark The Sultan satisfied with the Relation given by his Messenger concerning the progress his Vizier had made upon the Town and of the hopes there was in time to gain it encouraged him with a Letter of Praise accompanied with a Sword and Vest of Sables the magnificent Signals of the Sultans favour And now besides the Force of Fire-Arms the Turks made use of Arrows shot into the Town carrying papers written in Italian and French perswading the Souldiers to fly to their Camp where they should receive civil treatment and a secure refuge which gave that encouragement to those wearied with the labours of the Siege and hard usage that many of them made Tryal of the Turks entertainment and escaping out of the Works fled to the Enemies Camp where they were cloathed received Conduct Mony and were permitted Licence to embark themselves for what place they pleased About this time the Proveditor General Barbaro and the Licutenant General of the Artillery Uvertmiller having obtained licence from the Senate returned to Venice the first was displeased that Marquess Villa should take the precedence of him and the other because his opinion of making a general Sally of all the Garrison on the Enemy was not followed but rejected by the Council of War as a design pernicious and over-hazardous for that the fighting with an Enemy more numerous than themselves fortified in their Redoubts and Works and hidden under ground in inextricable Labyrinths was an Enterprise so rash that no man wishing well to the Garrison and of sound judgment ought to advise The Turks having in this Campagne fixed themselves well in a formal Siege and gained ground and many advantages on the Christians of which the destruction of the Work of Panigra was none of the least the Vizier supposed it a seasonable time to enter into a Treaty by the hand of the Secretary Giavarina who was there entertained for that purpose but he falling sick of the Camp-distemper dyed in a short time whose death was soon after followed by that of Signior Padavino who finished his days at Caned the Plate Money and Houshold-stuff of both were carefully inventored and by the justice of the Vizier duly accounted for and administred to the Venetians The Instruments of Treaty being thus taken away the Captain-Pasha was dispatched to Constantinople carrying with him four thousand wounded and sick men and a Letter to the Grand Signior and Divan signifying his resolutions to win the place or dye under the Walls of it and to that end desired them to send him such Recruits of men and supply of Provisions as were requisite He complained of the cowardise of those to whom they had incharged the Convoys that he wanted both Powder and Bullet for default of which they could neither ply their great Guns nor go forward in their Mines that bread was so dear that no price could be set to it that his Souldiers by slaughter and sickness did daily diminish so that his Army was reduced to twenty three thousand Foot seven hundred Horse and two thousand Pioniers and in fine concluded with urgent instances to have Recruits of all dispeeded to him without which it was impossible to gain the Town or save himself Hereupon Recruits came from all parts both of Men Ammunition and Provisions especially from the Frontiers or adjacent places which by such vast evacuations were almost dispeopled more particularly in Albania and Castelnuovo extraordinary Preparations were making both of Men Horse and Camels and a report was spread that the Grand Signior intended to pass over in Person to Candia but this was soon disproved by his residence at Larissa where he remained to render assistance more easily and receive advices more speedily than could be performed at Adrianople Great quantities of Corn were also sent from divers places particularly from Smyrna where English French and Dutch Ships were taken up for that service to the prejudice of the Trade and damage of the concerned some of which Vessels were taken in their passago to Candia whilst others arrived in safety through the negligence as was supposed of the Commanders at Sea And indeed the Turks plyed their business with
the Earth by Assistants about him two other Cavaliers were wounded with Granadoes and the Cavalier Feuillere who carried the Standard of Malta was shot into the Eye with a Musket The Proveditor General Corndro serving at the repair of the Breach was so wounded in the Belly by a Granado that his Bowels burst of which he died in three hours and with a piece of the same Granado the Count Vignole a French Gentleman of great Valour was likewise slain And so hotly the Turks plyed this Breach that from the 28 th of May to the 2 d of June they sprang five Mines which brake all the Palisades of the Christians the which the Turks seconded with that fury and mettle as if they intended to win the place and make an end of their work before the arrival of the Forces expected from Christendom And this Post was now grown so dangerous and weak that the Captain General the Marquess of Montbrun and all the chief Officers took up their Quarters at this place where his Excellency kept an open Table and the Marquess took up his Lodgings at Night that so the other Officers might have no excuse on account of attendances or orders to abandon these Quarters The Princes of Christendom all this time forgot not their besieged Brethren in Candia Popo Clement the IX pressed the most Christian King to make ready his succours in due time who had already himself prepared all things and elected the Duke of Beaufort his General of all the Forces by Sea whether of French or other Nations This Duke like a couragious and brave Prince thinking it little glory to command at Sea where the Enemy was of an inferiour and unable Force to encounter him did therefore desire Licence from his King to make tryal of his Fortune in the Field where he might evidence his Valour in the face of the Infidels and signalize his Fame either by Death or Victory The King unwilling to hazard so worthy a person of his bloud out of his due Command in the rank of an ordinary Souldier at first denied his requests but the Pope interceding for him whose General he was with holy Arguments and devout Contemplations of Martyrdom and Glory of dying for the Christian Cause at length obtained a concession from the King who of himself was flexible to so pious a request esteeming it unholy to deprive his Kinsman either of the Palm of a Martyr or the Lawrel of a Conqueror The Summer being come and all things provided the Duke ascended his Ship at Tolon a City in Provence the 6 th of June New-style with about seven thousand Land Souldiers commanded by the Duke of Navaille with the Marshals Lebret and Golbert and several other Worthies and Heroes of undaunted Courage and arrived before the Town of Candia the 19 th of the same Month having casually encountred together in the Seas on the 17 th with fourteen Sail of Venetian Ships laden with Horse and Ammunition to mount the Troops and relieve the Town which happy encounter and speedy passage seemed a happy Omen of the future success The appearance of this succour seemed to the Besieged as sent from Heaven and administred unto them new hopes and courage and the salutes passed between the Town and the Fleet with the usual Ceremonies and all the imaginable testimonies of joy and triumph No sooner were they arrived than the two Generals with other principal Officers immediately in their Shallops took the best view and survey they could of the Enemies Camp and the Condition of the Besieged in which whilst they entertained themselves they espied a small Vessel making towards them with S t Mark 's Colours in which was the famous Engineer Signior Castellano dispatched by the Captain General Morosini with an exact plat of the Town and disposition of the Turkish Camp which being particularly viewed and considered it was evident That if the Turks should make some very forcible Attempt before the new Forces could be landed as it was very probable they might they would put all in hazard of being lost wherefore the Captain General pressed to have some succours immediately supplied to be assistant in that case of extremity To which the Duke of Navailles immediately consented and landed himself that Night in person with sufficient Force to mount the Guard on the Breach of S t Andrea whose first Retrenchment was continually battered by the Turks and though there was a second Retrenchment in hand yet time being required for compleating thereof that part of the Town would be reduced to its ultimate hazard for should the Enemy spring a Mine which they feared was already formed under the present Work it would lay all open and naked without other Fortification The Duke being ashoar was received by Morosini with all demonstrations of Civility and Respect due to a personage of his Quality and Employment and with a welcome suitable to the present extremity of his Affairs all Ceremonies and Complements were soon passed over the urgency of matters not permitting them time to be long impertinent so that falling into the Discourse of the common safety it was resolved that the succours should be immediately landed which was performed with that diligence and expedition that in two days the whole Army came safe on shore excepting only some few cut short by shot from the Enemies Camp On the 23 d the Generals and other Officers held a Council of War amongst whom was also the Marquess of S t Andrea and did unanimously conclude that the Town was no longer tenable or to be maintained unless by some extraordinary enterprize attempted on the Enemy and by some furious Sally performed with resolution and stratagems of War in order unto which it was resolved That the 27 th should be the day of sally both with Horse and Foot and that the Fleet not to lose their part in this action should play with their great Guns on that side of the Turkish Army which lay incamped on the Quarters of St. Andrea All the Forces were landed on the 26 th and the whole night following was spent in preparations for the next days sally the Army being drawn up made four Batalions the first called the Admirals commanded by the Sieurs Martel Vandre and Gravier the second was the Vice-Admirals commanded by the Sieurs de la Mothe and Planta the third was the Rere-Admirals under Command of Chevalier de Bouillion Gabaret and the Chevalier Dailly the fourth was the Batalion of the Sieur d'Almeras commanded under him by the Sieurs Panetier de la Rogue Fontier Bitault and the Chevalier de Nemond and on the left hand of these aforesaid Batalions the Guards of the Duke of Beaufort were disposed The Duke of Beaufort unwilling to be a Spectator in this glorious Action without bearing a part in his own person after he had given order to the Fleet to accost the shore on the side of St. Andrea as near
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A brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrakes the famous Stroker and divers of the strange Cures by him lately performed Written by himself to the Honourable Robert Boyle in quarto FINIS * Avack in Turkish signifies a Foot Amurat installed * Which is a dispensing of Mutton to the Poor * The chief City of the Krim Tartar * Gherey the name of the Family The form of Cosacks Boats Bethlem Gabor desires assistance against the Emperour The Siege raised at Bagdat and the Turks overthrown Duke of 〈◊〉 and Count Mansfelt joyn with the Prince of Transylvania The Emperours Army deseated Peace concluded between the Emperour and Gabor Another Expedition into Persia. Proposition made by the Persian for a Peace Rejected by the Turk The Pirates of Tunis and Algier trouble the Seas A Fight at Sea by mistake Proposals of Accommodation with Abassa Erzirum besieged The Siege raised New troubles from Tartary The Janisaries mutiny They consent to treat with Abassa Abassa reconciled to the Grand Sigmot The Vizier and Abassa make their Entry into Constantinople The Jews at Constantinople how treated The Tartars overthrown by the Polanders The death of Bethlem Gabor The Widow of Bethlem Gabor perswaded to quit her Government The Principality offered to Ragotski Ragotski chosen Prince A Victory gained by the Turks over the Persians The difficulty of sending men into Persia. The Cosacks trouble the Turks The disorders in the Ottoman State The Vizier prepares to besiege Bagdat The Siege The Siege raised The Poles and Turks make Peace The Cosacks and Tartars compared Troubles in Hungary The G. Signior affrighted with Lightning Illay retaken from the Turks The Vizier deprived of his Office Mutiny of the Spahees joyned with the Janisaries The Vizier strangled by order of the Grand Signior Rebellion in Anatolia Mutinies at Buda Troubles in Moldavia The French Interpreter empaled The Peace made with Persia and speedily broken Perswasions for a War against the Emperour A Peace made between the Emperour and the Grand Signior Preparations of War made against Emir Facardin A Fight of the whole Turkish Fleet against two English Ships The Son of Facardin overthrown and is strangled * A sort of Vessel or Ship so called by the Turks Morat exercises several acts of Tyranny Morat destroys the Taverns Hangs a Venetian Merchant The Turks make War on the Poles A Fight between the Turks and the Poles An Ambassadour sent to the G. Signior from Poland Several mischiefs by water and fire A terrible fire at Constantinople Reasons for a War with Poland The Victory which the Poles obtained 〈◊〉 the Moscovites They make a Peace The Turk sends an Ambassadour into Poland to desire a Peace Abassa strangled Articles of Peace agreed between the Poles and the Turks A difference between the French Ambassadour and the Captain-Pasha The French Druggerman hanged The Sicur Marcheville forcibly sent away Acts of cruelty The G. Signior returns to Scutari The G. Signior resolves to go to Persia in person Bethlem renews his complaints to the Grand Signior His reasons to be re-inslated The Turks send an Army into Transylvania Ragotski implores aid from the Emperour It is debated in Council The Emperour resuses succour to Ragotski Ragotski obtains succours under-hand The Turks enter Transylvania They fight with Cornis are overthrown Peace is made Morat at Erzrum The Grand Signiors patience and labours Revan betrayed and surrendred by Emir Gumir Rejoycing and a Festival kept for it at Constantinople The Turks enter farther into Persia. Tauris destroyed Festival for return of the G. Signior His aversion to Tabaco Revan regained by the Persian The Grand Signiors severity and cruelty Disturbances in Poland and Hungary The Turks confirm the Peace with Poland Send Forces against Ragotski Mutiny in the Turkish Army Van befieged by the Persians Fifteen thousand Turks killed in an Ambush Mutiny of the Souldiers A new Vizier sent to the Army A Persian Ambassadour sent to the Grand Signior Troubles in the lesser Tartary Cantemir makes a new Colony He is overthrown by the Tartar Han. Cantemir put to death The King of Tartary killed Beehir Gherey ordained King of Tartary Asac besieged Is taken by the Cosacks The cause of the Civil War between the Poles and Cosacks The Cosacks Country described Preparations for the War in Persis The extravagant pleasures and cruelties of Morat The March of the Turkish Army Cyrillus the Patriarch strangled The Pirates of Algier and Tunis insest the Gulf of Venice capello blocks up the Pirates in Valona He assaults them in the Port. The 〈◊〉 angry at this News
Residents Letter to Count Serini Montecuculi contrary to the opinion of Serini declines the Battle with the Turks 〈◊〉 retires from the Wars 〈◊〉 taken Reflections on the disgrace of Serini 〈◊〉 taken by 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 The Turks assault Soisi Lewa taken The Pope recals his Forces from assistance of the Emperour The Pope supplies the Emperour with money but not with men Count Soisé marches to raise the Siege of Leventz The Turks before Lewa The Christian Army put themselves into Battalia Husaein Pasha routed und tied Resuge denied them at Strigonium The Moldavians and Valachians return home Soisé assaults Barcan Farcan burnt The Turks with part of their Army pass the Rab. The Rab swells with immoderate Rains The Turks vain joy Signifies the Son of a Kul or Slave The defeat given the Turkish Army by the 〈◊〉 Rab. Tae lib. 1. The slain on the Turks side Reasons why the Services of Montecuculi were accepted better than those of Serini Sedition in the Turkish Camp Tae in Vitâ Agricol e. The Grand Signiors hunting at Yamboli Vizier sends for the Princes of Moldavia and Valachia The Princes of Moldavia and Valachia recalled to the Wars Fides Graeca or the honesty of a Greek The reasons which inclined both Parties to Peace The Hungarians oppose the Peace The Emperors Reasons for a Peace The French Army march homeward Serini's Death The Character of Serini The Vizier sends for his Mother to Belgrade The Blazing-star The Sultans hatred to Constantinople increases The Sultan seeks to destroy his Brother The Vizier offers to depose the Tartar Chan. The Turkish Ambassadour departs Rumors of the People on occasion of stay of the German Ambassadour Mustapha 〈◊〉 affectation and popularity * It is in the fashion of a Mace which the Turks wear at their Saddles The German Ambassadours Entrance Audience given to the German Ambassadour The Genoese make Peace with the Turk The Genoese received The Turks resolve to prosecute the War in Candia The Grand Signior passionately loves his Queen The Seraglio at Constantinople set on fire The Turks prepare for a War on Candia The Grand Signior arrives at Constantinople Marquess Villa received into service of the Venetians The Speech of Marquis Villa to the Senate The German Ambassadour's last Audience with the Grand Signior The Reasons why the German Ambassador interposed notin behalf of Transylvania The German Ambassadour's Audience with the Vizier An Ambassadour arrives srom France Reflexions of the Turks on the Embassy of Monsieur De Ventelay A strange accident befallen the French Captain of the Man of War The French Embassadours second Audience The Grand Signiors Huntings The Nogay Tartar desires Lands of the Grand Signior Marquess Villa surveys the Forts in Dalmatia Spalato Curzola Cataro and Perasto Clissa Sibenico June * Sabatai wrote a Letter to elect one man out of every Tribe The Jews scruple to say the head of Israel Arab. Prov. Arab. Prov. The course of life which Sabatai led after he turned Mahometan The manner of exchange of the Emperours and Turks Ambassadours The Turks meditate a new War An Engagement near Canea Marquess Villa lands at the City of Candia The 〈◊〉 incamp The Turks assault them The Turks make another assault The Venetian Camp raised The Great Vizier arrives at Thebes Twelve Turkish Vessels taken The Vizier passes over into Candia By the number of Costans is to be esteemed the honour the Turks bear to one Prince above the other The Polish Ambassadours Audience The Death of the Polish Ambassadour The Revolt of the Pasha of Balsora The disposition of the Turks Camp The Batteries raised by the Turks The first Mine blown up Two Sallies made by the Christians The Captain-General disarms his Gallies Five Mines the Christians sprang Attempts of the Turks on the side of Panigra Arrival of Gallies from the Pope and Malta Chevalier d'Harcourt An Agent arrives at Candia to treat with the Vizier The Turks assault Panigra The Turks fire a dreadsul Mine The Turks spring another Mine Two Mines of the Christians Four Mines and a Sally of the Christians Two Mines of the Christians One Mine of the Christians * Which is their Triumph for Victory The G. Signior sends a Messenger to bring him certain information of the State of his Camp in Candia The Winter causes all action to cease General Barbaro and Uvertmiller depart from the Army The deaths of Secretary Giavarina and Padavino Formality in making sanisaries in these days A Fight at Sea The success of the Turks at Sea Captain Giorgio taken by the Turks The Turks resolve to make their passage by St 〈◊〉 A Sally made by the Christians Another Sally Marquess Viils returns into Italy Causes of Marquess Villa's departure Marquess Villa's Speech Marquess St. Andrea visits the Works Some French Gentlemen Adventurers for honour arrive at Candia The Christians overthrow a battery of the Turks A Sally made by the French The Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg sent Forces to relieve Candia Count Waldeck dyes of his wound A Mine of an hundred and sixty Sacks of Powder fired by the Christians The Christians sally on the side of Sabionera Katirgi-Oglé his original and life The Turks 〈◊〉 three Bastions at once The Female Court sent to Constantinople The Janisaries jealous of the safety of the Sultans Brothers The Gran. Signior displeased with Tabaco An Ambassadour sent from Venice 〈◊〉 Ships 〈◊〉 War sail to Constantinople The Gr. Signior sends a Messenger to the French King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambassadour from his Maiesty A Relation of the state of Candia toward the end of this year The story of the false Reaux or Temins The Grand Signior designs to cut off his Brothers Tac. Lib. 6. The Turks storm again the Fort of St. Andrea Succours sem out of Christendom The French Fleet loose from Tolon They arrive at Candia The French Forces landed A Council of War held in Candia The order of the Christian Army to make their Saily The Christians sally at the Gate St. George The Christians fall upon the Turks The Christian Army in consusion French Officers slain The French leave the Town The Turks make an assault A Council held for to consider of the state of Candia Result of the Council The Conditions of Peace The War began in April 1645. Candia delivered The News brought to the Grand Signior at Negropont The Venetians at Suda Serini and the Nobles of Hungary offer themselves to the Turk The G. Signior returns to Salonica and hunts Sir Daniel Harvey his Majesties Ambassadour hath his Audience of the Grand Signior The G. Signior delights solely in his Queen The Vizier takes a survey of the whole Isle of Candia The Vizier departs from Candia and arrives at Scio. The Great Vizier persuaded to drink wine The Souldiers ' and other Turks drink Wine to excess A digression about Opium Wine forbidden in all parts of the Grand Signiors Dominions The Command against Wine The Venetian Ambassador at the Port. Commissioners appointed for determining the differences of the Confines in Dalmatia The difference about Verpogly Mamut Pasha dyes A new 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Sultan Orchan put to death by his Brother A new Resident sent from Genoua The Conspiracy of Serini Frangipani and Nadasti The Turks deliberate of a War The Causes of the War with Poland The unseasonable Address of the 〈◊〉 Ambassadour The Alexandrian Fleet taken by the Malteses The Poles refuse to pay their promised Tribute The Rebels in Hungary renew their Petition to the Turks for assistance The rage of the Turks against Poland The French Ambassadour obtains licence to travel The Turks resolve on a war against Poland The Poles pass the Niester The Prince of Valachia carried by his own Souldiers to the Poles The Prince of Moldavia revolts The Turks overthrow Chusaein Pasha imprisoned The King of Poland dies A Journy into Tartary Kemenitz relieved Mahomet Pasha sent with a Fleet of Gallies into the Arches The Turks secure their Conquest The difference between the Latines and Greeks at Jerusalem The happy state of the Ottoman Court. The great Festivals in what manner celebrated at the Turkish Court. The manner of the Marriage of the Grand Signior's Daughter The Tefterdar put out of his Ossice Ways for ralsing Money The Chimacam of 〈◊〉 his Steward cut off The Trade of 〈◊〉 A Besasteen and new Custom-house and a Royal Chan built at Smyrna The G. Signior returns to Constantinople Conjectures concerning the reasons of the Grand Signiors return to Constantinople The People in Egypt rebel against their new Pasha The History of Soltana Sporcha The Grand Signior returns again to Adrianople The Death of the Great Vizier Achmet His Character Kara Mustapha made Vizier Alterations with the new Vizier