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A50000	Newes from Tvrkie, or, A true relation of the passages of the Right Honourable Sir Tho. Bendish, baronet, Lord Ambassadour, with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople, his entertainment and reception there also, a true discourse of the unjust proceedings of Sir Sackville Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassador, and Sir Sackville Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassador, and Sir Sackviles imprisonment, and in his returne, his wretched betraying the captain of the ship and some English merchants at Alicant in Spain, to the Inquisition : lastly his commitment to the Tower of London, where now he is.	Bendish, Thomas, Sir, d. ca. 1674.	1648 (1648)	Wing L94; ESTC R105	27,909	39

my Lord arived when he sent the Agent to the Vizeere he sent a Copy of the Letter of revocation from the King inclosed in this by two of his servants reserving the Letter it selfe for his own delivery SIR OTherwise then intended I understand by my servant you have not received any satisfaction but discontent rather by my Letters in answer to yours wherein I averre the truth of my Employment hither from his Majestie with the greatest pawne I had or ever shall which had I been such in your thoughts as your Letters expressed might have borne as in my case with you it should sway sufficient Wherefore Sir being commanded by the King my Master to deliver you his Letters of revocation my selfe I detained them to fulfill his Command and the Copy of them being confident if that ingagement could not gain Credence from you the Copy could not and although I am not bound to deliver neither the one nor the other but in what time I shall thinke most convenient yet I shall not be so reserved but doe here inclosed send a Copy of the Kings Letters to you the originall whereof I came hither resolved immediatly to deliver with my own hand had not your jealousie of me together with your daily actions and high expressions taught me to be cautious of you and your proceedings and to reserve it for another place and time I as I heare you report you have any Letter from his Majestie to me of Revocation I shall take a Copy thereof kindly and returun you my thought thereof which favour from you will much oblige My Lord Your friend to serve you T.B. Pera. Constantinople 17. September 1647. WHen they remembred my Lord Ambassadours love to him he told them they were welcome as from Thomas Bendish but not as Ambassadour he opened and read them and said that the Copy he read he could not believe to be the Copy of the Kings Letter that in the very first line or two there was a double contradiction and that the whole frame stile matter and language was so unlike those of his Majesties that if the Originall was not better then the Copy he should not care a rush for it and that he could not believe Sir Thomas Bendish had any such Letter from the King of England and therefore could not receive him as Ambassadour that hee would further consider of the Letter and if hee thought convenient would send him answer by some of his owne poelpe within a day or two which he did but that being so Tedious containing nothing but false surmises and daring expressions from the businesse so that as my Lord thought it not worthy his answering so wee conceive it not convenient to trouble your patience with it in this place Now the next thing that my Lord aimes at is for a faire and sitting Audience with the Vizeere who offered him to come when he pleased but my Lord was privatly informed he intended an affront by not Vesting him My Lord at a Court then holden desires six of us might be chosen to meet constantly to advise with him When it was agreed that the best way was privately by two or three of the Merchants to found Aronomone the Vizeers Jew after much debate with him for the space of foure houres telling him except my Lord were sure of his dues he would come without a present at last he promis'd that he should be Vested with his son and at least one or two more Hereupon he sent to the Vizeere that he would visit him upon Thursday the 23. September having been just a week in town and in the mean time had neither been sent to by the Emperours Agent the French Ambassadour nor the Lord Bayliffe only the Dutch Merchants did whose Agent is not yet conformed but will see what successe wee have for Sir Sackvile Crow hath wrought all those firme to him Now was the Town full of expectation nothing talked of but our businesse On Thursday about twelve a clock with all the Merchants and my Lords retinue my Lord went to the Vizeere who being set before he came stirred not from his seat neither did my Lord mind him untill he was set as well as the Vizeere Then he spake to him to this effect that the King of England saluted him and wished him health and happinesse and had sent him his Ambassadour to keepe his Merchants and subjects from doing and suffering wrong and commanded him to indeavour to keep and uphold the Peace between the Nations and also to give thankes for the Justice the Vizeere shewed to the Merchants when the Ambassadour would have ruined them and also to desire him to send the said Ambassadour home that the King his Master hearing their Difference might judge him according to merit and while he was saying this hee presented the Kings Letters to him which he read before us to this the Vizeere replyed that the old Ambassadour had Letters and did pretend to be Ambassadour as well as his Lordship and hee knew not how to decide the businesse but must heare them both together to which my Lord answered My Lord you mistake me I come not hither to be judged neither is it for my honour to appeare here with that man which your own Lawes have judged unworthy neither may I countenance him without the just displeasure of the Grand Signieur the French Ambassadour also said the Vizeere could say something in the Cause The French Ambassadour said my Lord hath nothing to doe with our State have you a Letter to the old Ambassadour said the Vizeere from the King of England I have said my Lord which I desired to deliver him before witnesse therefore he asked him for two Chouses you shall have it said the Vizeere but give mee the Letters and I will deliver them my selfe My Lord told him hee could not for the King his Master commanded him to deliver them with his own hand then said he I will send for him hither if you doe so said my Lord I will have no Contract with him I hope those Letters will witnesse the truth of my Embassie Yes said he I believe you are the true Ambassadour but I would heare him what he can say and see the delivery of the Letters and I will soon end the businesse doe so if you will said my Lord and I will stay here till he come so hee was immediatly sent for but he excused saying he had taken physick that day but to morrow hee would come at one a clock when my Lord heard that he said My Lord doe not you by these Letters acknowledge me to be the true Ambassadour yes said he then what need you trouble your selfe further with him said my Lord upon this he knew not what to say but rose up on a sudden to be gone saying he must speak with Sir Sackvile Crow When my Lord perceived he would not Vest him hee desired him to speak one word more then he sate down again

my Lord but came no further with him then the middle of the roome where at first my Lord found him Now the next worke my Lord indeavoured was to get to be Vested by the Vizeere and obtain Audience with the Grand Signeur to this purpose he sent his Druggerman to hasten it the Vizeere alwayes after this sent him good words as that all things should bee done to his minde and wished him not to bee troubled with any thing and so protracted time from day to day All this time my Lord Crow is not idle although he keeps his house yet he employes the French Agent and the Venetians whose Druggerman Gryllo is alwayes attending upon the Vizeere and feeds him with moneys and presents to work us out the French Ambassadour talkes with the Vizeere privately and but that my Lord Crow and the Vizeere told my Lord he had to doe in the businesse my Lord would scarce have taken him for his enemy yet one day he was heard to tell the Vizeere my Lord had offered my Lord Crow 30000 l. to be gone out of the Country by which said he you may judge the truth of his Message and withall told him that the King of France his Master would be much troubled if he should change this old Ambassadour for the new and this report that my Lord would give the Lord Crow money to depart hence was not only sent to him by the Vizeeres Jew but by the Kogag which my Lord to vindicate himselfe and make appeare to the world how much hee detested such by-wayes he was forced to write this Warrant in Italian and send it down to Gallatta by two Janisaries and a Druggerman pro forma and fix one upon the Treasurers house the other upon Mr. Pearles house that all Jewes Merchants might take notice of it FOrasmuch as we are Credibly informed that there are divers false lying and scandalous Reports cast upon us that wee should by our selfe or some other person offer to treat with the man-sold Ambassadour for a certain summe of money to send him out of this Country withall saying that we had rather give money to him then to Turks We doe hereby declare that wee doe so farre abhorre all such sinister and dishonourable proceedings and speeches that wee affirme them lyers that report it and doe hereby Command and Require that no person under our charge make any Treaty with any man in our behalf letting them know that if we shall find that any such Treaty or Contract directly or indirectly be made with any person whatsoever for the worth of one a' to establish us Ambassadour in this place we are resolved and do publish that we will forthwith not only severely punish but send them off this place for if by that power that sent us hither wee cannot bee established wee are resolved rather to returne from whence wee came then by such dishonourable tearmes both to the King of England my Master and our selfe to purchace it Given at Pera d' Constantinople this 2. October 1647. Thomas Bendish And because the French Ambassadour was so busie sent him this Letter SIR I Cannot see how it is consistent with the League between the two Crowns of England and France that you a French Ambassadour should intermeddle with much lesse oppose the actions of the King of England my Master Your opposing me in my Embassie and countenancing the man-sold Ambassadours proceedings against my Authority I hope you doe it not without Commission yet mee thinks if it dare looke upon the Sunne as all which comes from Kings dare it becomes you not so secretly privately to act Know that I am ready to meet you before any Minister of State here both to heare and as occasion serves to answer what you can object against me but be confident while I am in this place I must know as befits me that power which dares oppose my Master to whom a strict account must bee rendred by him who is as farre as with honour he may My Lord Your friend to serve you T. THe Venetian Baliffe being guilty of his neglects towards my Lord and perceiving he understood of his Merchants actions his Druggermans dilligence sent by my Lords Druggerman this private Message That he hoped my Lord tooke no distast at him who is confined to his house and had no notice of his comming and that he heard my Lord tooke distast at his Merchants as actors against him if my Lord pleased to let him know who they were he would make them or would himselfe give my Lord satisfaction My Lord sent him this answer That for his own person as hee was a Prisoner he could not expect his Visit yet if he had born respect to our King or love to our Nation he would have sent a salute to him before this time having been a fortnight in this Port. As for his Merchants that should oppose him he wished him to looke to them himselfe for if he found them faulty as he believed he should he would take his time to make them repent it But for all his threats to them he knew not how lyes might worke with the Vizeere wherefore he sent to him this Arres and to divers great men about the Town that if possible it might reach the Grand Signieurs eares MY Lord I cannot out of my well-wishes to you and the good of this State but give you this timely information that the Venetians and the French doe endeavour both by moneys and all incouragements to maintain the Man-sold Ambassadour against me and that Regall power which sent me hither thereby to make a breach between this and the English Nation and so to advance their own designe which either by Peace or Warre will prove very prejudiciall to this Emperie besides the Consideration of the great Trade our Nation brings to supply the Emperie Whether you had rather have it by the hands of Enemies or Friends if they could maintain it I leave your wise consideration none obstanding that the said former Ambassadour being proved to be an oppressor the Grand Signieur deprived him from the Charge of the Embassie with his Hattesherife for which his Majestie of England with his Letters now sent by me his Ambassadour doth give him many thankes therefore From the Venetians he never heard word since nor from the French Ambassadour although he told my Lords servants he would answer him in writing but wee heare he is so troubled in mind the truth being so apparent that he cannot deny it and what title to give my Lord he cannot resolve if hee acknowledges him Lord Ambassadour he hath said the contrary to the Vizeere and so gives himselfe the lye if no Lord and he should be Confirmed he makes my Lord his enemie for ever But to our businesse whilst my Lord is thus deluded and fed with faire words all attempts are made and Traps laid how to get my Lord to compound himselfe by monies into his rights and

dues the Vizeeres Jew hath tempted us the Merchants the Kogag hath spoke to my Lords Drugerman many times that if he would not come off his businesse would never bee done My Lords Druggerman told him alwaies that my Lord would sooner lose his life then come in upon such dishonourable tearmes My Lords Drudgerman being sicke on Sunday the third of October he sent Master Juate and another Merchant to tell the Vizeere so and that he sent them to receive his Message he gave them no answer but this Bid the Druggerman come to mee on Tuesday This vexed my Lord but he was resolved to try another day on Tuesday the Druggerman went to him and then he told him plainly that he could not decide the Controversie between the two Ambassadours but must send a Chouze for England as soon as my Lord perceived he had delayed him all this time for this hee presently wrote him this Letter or Arrs and sent him the next morning My Lord I Am the first Ambassadour from England that ever presented Letters from the King and a present to a Vizeere that were returned with such dishonour as my selfe from you It becomes not mee neither came I hither to plead my own rights having Letters from so great and powerfull a King as the King of England and thousands of witnesses besides all the Merchants in these parts and hundreds of ships to maintain the Truth of this Embassie especially against such a man whom the Grand Signieur hath mansould with his Hattesherife and the Mufte declared that by your own Lawes you cannot restablish him Ambassadour And his Majesty hath discharged and you cannot believe any thing for truth hee speakes Your faire promises have of late overcome my patience I must not now be longer delayed the honour of my King and therein my own life and Reputation lye at stake wherefore if you will not honour me your selfe excuse me if I desire nay require your assistance for my speedy Audience with the Grand Signieur for to his justice do I appeale if you refuse me this then blame me not if I worke out my own addresses to the Grand Signieur my selfe although by such meanes as may be displeasing to your Lordship I desire your absolute answer for I shall trouble you no more with Messages neither need you trouble your selfe to send into England for if I shall not find that reception here which becomes the Honour of the King my Master I have ships enough attend me which shall convey mee back to Report my Entertainment As he read this he nodded severall times and when he had done called the Druggerman to him and said Did I ever deny your Lord to be a true Ambassadour I am not his enemy but must doe him courtesies to the Grand Signieur and if I doe him courtesies what shall I have for my paines The Druggerman told him that he knew my Lord would sooner lose his life then be admitted upon dishonourable tearmes Well said he Goe tell your Lord what I say and remember my kind love to him and bring mee his answer to morrow with a particular of the Grand Signieurs Present against which time my Lord had fitted this Arres for him My Lord THe Present you had from me was as large as ever was given to any of your Predecessors it was never known that a true Ambassadour made a Contract for other gifts to purchase his reception I may not I dare not Transgresse the accustomed Rules nor points of honour if I should your selfe might justly condemne me for a deceiver all the Princes in Christendome would scorne me and then how my Master would Resent it you may judge You are set in the place of Justice I require no more of you then Common justice which if I find I shall not be ingratefull Pardon me if in particular as unusuall I doe not tell you the Grand Signieurs Present in the Generall it consists of fine Cloth Velvet Sattins Gold and Silver Stuffes c. being not inferiour to any that hath been presented formerly Upon this he said looking upon the Letter what here is nothing and would have had some body gone with the Drugerman to treat with my Lord untill the Druggerman told him 't was in vain well then said he tell your Lord if hee will come to morrow I will vest him and to morrow morning will send a Chouze to know who he will have Vested and indeed was as good as his word and when my Lord came to him he was very pleasant and did Vest his Lordship and seven more the usuall custome being but five with so much chearfulnesse as all admired at it and presently told him that the Grand Signieur would be impatient untill hee were with him and asked him if he were Ready My Lord told him 't was impossible without three or foure dayes warning hee pitched on Monday and after some Debate as the urgency of the Affaires of the State the necessitie of the ships speedy comming in c. My Lord consented to it but withall made him promise him that according to the honour and dues of Ambassadours he should be entertained and feasted at the publique Druanine which he did very willingly agree unto Monday morning being come The Vizeere sent Hyssan Aga one of the principall Chouzes with two Chouzes more to attend My Lord who conducted him to the water side and upon his landing on Constantinople side the Chouze Basha with fourty two Chouzes more on horseback conducted him thence to the Vizeeres house where he stayed in his Yegays Chamber till the Vizeere sent to the Grand Signieur to tell him his Lordship was ready for Audience his Majestie sent word he would receive him at the Keske being a kind of a Banqueting-house or for Repose very stately by the water side in his Seraglio whether the Vizeere went before him and his Lordship followed with the Chouse-Bassa and fourty two Chouzes attending him besides all the Merchants and all his own Gent. and attendance no Ambassadour heretofore ever having the like he came to a gate which opened into the Garden where the Keske stood there my Lord with 18. more were Vested but none suffered to goe in but only my Lord who was led by the Chouze-Bassa on his right hand and the Bustange Bassa on the left Signieur Dominico his Secretary who carryed the Letter in a gold and silver bag led by two Chouses more and Master Vernon his Druggerman led by two other Chouzes When my Lord came within sight of the Grand Signieur they suffered him not to goe forwards but side-waies untill he came just against him hee being set upon an Ivorie and mother of Pearle Couch the seates being lined with Lusin Furres and then brought him forwards untill he came within the space of 20. paces where my Lord made a low obedience to him and the Grand Signieur which was never seen before bowed very much and saluted my Lord at which my Lord bowed very

him also all these helps and assistances necessary for the gathering and receiving his rights and consolage given to him according to the Tenor of the Imperiall Capitulations and orders and directions by us granted him as also for the recovering all other rights and duties belonging to his charge and what else that our Subjects are bound unto him and is to receive from them and this to the end that he may maintain himselfe in his Charge of Our Ambassadour with that Honour that it doth behoove and befit to Our Ambassadour so that as before is mentioned the said Ambassadour being graciously accepted by your Majesty and by vertue of Our Letters Sealed and affirmed by Us as heretofore hath been alwayes acknowledged for Our Ambassadour Now again in Confirmation thereof with these our Presents Wee doe Confirme and Ratifie him and according to the Tenor of Our Imperiall Capitulations Wee give him credit to treat and informe your Majestie in Our name touching our Confederacie with you upon which you may be pleased to give him full faith who also is to Reside there for our Legier Ambassadour with full Power and Authority to receive the duties of Consoladge and all other Rights concerning to his Place and this untill Wee shall revoke him from thence and call him before Us and in his place send another new Ambassadour with our Letters Sealed with our Royall Seale and affirmed with Our hand and untill then Wee beseech you doe not give any credit to any other Person and rather wee desire your Majestie that receiving this Our Letter to be pleased to send for him before your presence and there to invest him again in his Charge and to preserve and continue your Favour as you wonted to doe formerly Wee assuring your Majesty with our Kingly word and this our Royall Letters That all these particulars are true and just and according to our Desire Our will being also that whilest Our Ambassadour shall Reside at your Imperiall Port whatsoever he shall Declare unto you in Our name Your Majesty be pleased to give him full Credit as also what Businesse hee shall propound you in Our name to accept the same and to affect it And as we said before be pleased to give him Credit for all these Propositions that he shall advise for wee will ratifie and Confirme all And your Majesty may be sure of his integritie and faithfulnesse Written at New-Castle the 24th of September 1646. Your most Sincere and faithfull Friend CAROLUS REX My Lord YOu cannot say but with great patience I have attended your performance of the King of Englands command expressed in his Letter of Revocation to you viz. to deliver up his Seale to me together with all such Instructions informations and such other things behovefull for the good of his Subjects which are in your power or keeping and to Resigne and depart from the place and authority of his Ambassadour and no further to meddle either with the Merchants their affaires or goods to none of all which I can discerne you have yielded any obedience or performance And whereas his Majestie hath commanded me and given me Authority to require from you in his Majesties name the aforesaid Seale Instructions or informations or ought else remaining in your custodie behovefull for the good of his Merchants and also commanded me to presse your speedy returne to him By vertue of the said Authoritie and in order to his Majesties commands I doe require you to deliver up the said Seale together with all those writings and books which belongs to and are the proper goods of the Merchants in the Cancellaria into the hands of the bearers hereof and that henceforth you doe not pretend to any authoritie of Ambassadour in this place and also that you doe prepare your selfe for your speedy departure to the King of England If through your disobedience to his Majesties commands in the denying of them and the retarding your departing hence you run your selfe upon more inconveniences then I desire you must blame your selfe not me who have made your selfe uncapable of receiving that honour from me which was ever intended by Pera 18. Octob. 1647. Your friend to serve you Tho. Bendish Vera Copia Examinatur concordat cum original per nos Jo Williams Ant. Isaacson October the 19. in the morning wee delivered the originall hereof to Sir Sackvile Crow who after hee had received it retir'd into a private roome a little space and then comming to us said as followeth Tell your Master I wonder that hee hath so little manners or discretion to send me such a Letter as this I thought my answer to him at the delivery of his last would have been sufficient to have taught him more discretion but as God judge me if he will not learn better manners tell him I 'le teach him some and that I have given the King an account of the businesse already and this shall be your answer and then thrust us out of the chamber and told us that we were servants and if wee had affront put upon us we might thank our selves for bringing such a Message Jo. Williams Ant. Isaacson To his Sacred Majesty our most Gracious Soveraign The humble Petition of your Majesties Loyall and obedient Subjects the Merchants and Factors Resident in Galiata of Constantinople Humbly sheweth THat whereas for the Protection of those negotiating in these parts it hath been the Royall pleasure of your Sacred Majestie to appoint Sir Sackvile Crow your Ambassadour with the Grand Signieur these late yeares whose violent and grievous proceedings against your Petitioners by Imprisoning their persons some in chaines he intending to seize upon the Estate here at Constantinople as he had done that at Smirna in his owne name forcing us to subscribe for payment of great summes of money to him your Petitioners were notwithstanding compelled to spend fourty thousand pounds sterling to free our persons and estates from his power whom he had designed to Ruine and destruction Doe humbly implore that no misrepresented Action of your Petitioners may so farre prevaile upon your apprehension as to thinke us guilty of the least disrespect towards him as your Majesties Ambassadour but forced out of a necessity to save our selves and fortunes now Redeem'd and established to us in your Majesties Royall choyce of his successor one of such apparant trust for which your Princely care and clemency we are to praise God and as by our duty and allegiance bound for your Majesties increase of greatnesse happinesse Shall ever Pray Ionathan Dawes Richard Strode William Petre Iohn Dodington Francis Dryver William Gifford William Gibbes Iohn Ridley Iohn Erisey William Galt Marmadake Picket Maurice Evans William Osborne William Gough Thomas Berkeley William Chappell Iohn Tye Roger Fowke William Pearle Iames Modyford Robert Frampton Iohn South Giles Davis Nic. Bell. Mr. Zacharie Browne In Alicant the 21. of March 1648. THese are to acquaint you how this evening we were all taken by the Officers of the Inquisition and remain prisoners wherefore we know not nor the cause of your fathers detension But find the Commissaries and other Officers to pretend the ruine of us all Wee are not suffered to plead our cause nor is that Tribunall to expect replies your father adviseth you in what condition himselfe is and the businesse is not to be remedied otherwise then by my Lords comming on shore speedily whereupon your father and us shall be freed and you may be confident your father and his Mate and us will be freed without dispute and rest Your loving friends to serve you Richard Capell William Trevill Anthony Basset Nicholas Ieffery Thomas Iackson William Paullin Edward Landen Io. Hibbins Hen. Callamore Richard Hownsell This comming to Mr. Zacharie Browne aboard the Ship Margaret he demanded of my Lord Crow wherefore hee had caused his father Captaine Browne and his mate to be detained and imprisoned on shore who presently tooke a Bible and laying his hand thereon took a voluntary oath that he for his part knew nothing of it and that if his wise had done any thing she did it out of her love to her husband and his liberty but not by his direction yet about two dayes after he confessed to the same Master Browne charging him againe with the evill usage of his father on shore that hee did indeed give his wife order to goe to the Governour and to desire him to send for the Captaine on shore and know of him by what Authoritie he kept him his Lady and familie in his ship and whether he had any command from the King of England so to doe but 't is conceived he had forgotten his former oath Letters from Alicant of the 22. of March informe that the Margaret ariving there which ship brought Sir Sackvile Crow his Lady and family from Smirna the Lady Crow pretending to Master George Browne commander of the said ship that shee was with childe and ●o neere her time that she durst not venture to goe to England but would stay and ly in at Alicant he caused her to bee set on sh●re and himselfe went to accompany her when shee was in the Towne she presently went to the Governour and told him she was a Roman Catholike and that the Master of the ship had not only detained her by force but had also denyed her liberty of her religion whereupon the Governour sent for the Master and his chief Mate and put both them and all the English Nation there into prison and sent to the ship to demand Sir Sackvile Crow but the Masters sonne Master Zacharie Browne considering the danger the ship was in and what a trick Sir Sackvile Crow had put upon his father denyed to deliver him but presently wayed Anchor and came away but before his comming this Letter was sent him from the Collonel and Merchants FJNJS