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A51903	The eighth and last volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565EA; ESTC R35024	164,847	384

greatest Office and Dignity in the Kingdom next to that of the Soveraignty it self Others were made Marshals Dukes and Peers of France Generals of the French Armies Vice-Roys of Tributary Provinces and Kingdoms All the Scots in general were had in high Honour and Esteem at the French Court and enjoy'd the same Rights and Immunities as the very Natives themselves by the special Grant of Henry II. But with this Condition that they should persevere in their Fidelity and Friendship to the French And that the French who dwelt in any Part of Scotland should enjoy the same Rights and Privileges as the Natives of the Country The Parliament of Paris subscrib'd to this Grant and it was confirm'd by Henry IV. about the year 1599. Likewise Charles XI confirmed to the Scotch Merchants all those Privileges and Immunities which their Ancestors had enjoy'd That they should be free from all Exactions Imposts and Customs which are usually paid for Merchandises As to the Original Rise of the Scotch Guards about the French King's Person I will tell thee as briefly as I can Louis who acquir'd the Title of Saint for Warring in Person against the Mussulmans when he march'd towards Palestine appointed Four and Twenty Scotch Soldiers to have the Guard of his Person Night and Day Charles V. augmented their Number to Seventy Six yet still reserving this Honour for the First Four and Twenty That they should have the Command of the Rest Thus the Custody of the King's Body remain'd with the Scots for the space of Seventy Years and upwards But Charles VII being willing to oblige the French appointed a Guard of them to be about his Person under one Standard Lewis X. added another Standard and Francis I. adjoyned a Third Yet without entrenching on the Prerogatives of the Twenty Four Scots which they still enjoy'd by Right of Antiquity and Prescription as also by the Sanction of St. Louis for whom the French profess a great Veneration These Twenty Four Scots kept the Keys of the Royal Palace after Sun-set They alone guarded the King when he was in the Temple at Mass They alone carried the King when the Laws of the Land and the Ceremonies of State requir'd him to be carried on Men's Shoulders They guarded the Ships when the King went by Water And to them were the Keys of every Town deliverd through which the King pass'd in his Travels by Land with many other singular Honours But after the Death of Henry II. when the Eurl of Montgomery the last Commander of the Scotch Guards was remov'd from his Office and a French Officer plac'd over them in his stead that Command always fell into the Hands of French-men who by degrees substituting those of their own Nation in the Room of the Scots who died it came to pass at length that there remain'd but a very few Scots in the Guards and those were bereft of all their ancient Privileges Pardon this tedious Digression Great Patriarch of the Faithful since it contains some curious Memoirs in it and I naturally fell into it by speaking of the Scots who are very Numerous in Paris to this Day and from whom I learn'd the foregoing Character of their Murder'd Archbishop who was the Prime Patriarch of all the Land his Ordinary Title being Archbishop of St. Andrews This great and highest Ecclesiastical Dignity was given him by the present King of England at his Return from a Twelve Years Exile as a Debt to his Great Abilities and a Reward of his Merits and Services in labouring might and main to effect the King's Restauration From the Moment that he acquir'd this Honour such as were equally Enemies to the Government of King's and Bishops persecuted him with Slanders and Invectives The Streets swarm'd with Libels against him and Mens Tongues were as busie as their Pens in Railing at him because he was resolved to endeavour his utmost that Episcopacy might be restor'd in Scotland as it was in England though it had been subverted in both Nations during the Vsurpation of Oliver the Tyrant 'T was this drew upon him the Malice and Revenge of the Seditious and they spar'd not in Publick to threaten his Death Nay some Years before he was murder'd one of these Furioso's shot at him in the open Streets of Edinburgh but miss'd him Then the Seditious publish'd Libels wherein they gloried in the Attempt and were only sorry that it took not Effect They also Prophesied that he should die a Violent Death and it was easie for them to presage this which they were resolv'd to execute themselves Accordingly in the 3d. and 4th Moons of this Year they were ready to give the Fatal Blow but his Watchfulness prevented them However on the 3d. of the Moon of May as he was Travelling with his Eldest Daughter in his Coach with Two or Three Servants attending him he was set upon at Mid-day by Nine of these Religious Ruffians who having first wounded his beloved Daughter to enhaunce his dying Grief then hack'd and hew'd him in a Butcherly and Barbarous Manner till at length they left him Dead on the Spot Venerable Cadilesquer I pray God defend thee from Popular Envy Malice and Revenge from the Wounds given by the Pens of Libellers and the Tongues of the Spightful But above all I pray Heaven Guard thee from being Massacred by Religious Assassines and Bloody Zealots Paris 17th of the 9th Moon of the Year 1679. LETTER XI To Hebatolla Mir Argun Superior of the Derviches at Cogni in Natolia DOubltess there never was any Creature form'd of Flesh and Blood comparable to the Messias No Mortal like the Son of Mary Jesus was replenish'd with all the Natural Excellencies and Perfections of the Universe I am not so profane or presumptuous as to think or say any Thing in Contempt of Mahomot though I take the Liberty to Celebrate the high Praises of the WORD incarnate the First-Born and most Illustrious of all Beings on this Side the Eternal Father The Holy Ghost it self comes behind him When the Everlasting Intellect had from Indeterminate Ages lain dreaming on the soft and downy Bed of CHAOS or the First Matter In the Grand Cabin of uncircumcised Darkness and envelop'd with the shady Curtains of Old Old NIGHT When he had tumbl'd toss'd and rowl'd from side to side When he had stretch'd his Endless Limbs for Ease to seek one Corner of the Infinite Expanse where he might abate the Sempiternal Heat of Love At last he fix'd his Foot upon the cool Idea of this World of ours Then sprang the WORD from the allfertile WOMB The Melancholy sad Abyss rejoyc'd for in the WORD was Light and Life which darting through the Eternal Heap of Sluggish and unactive MATTER with Divine Chymistry first drew an Extract of the purest Parts which form'd the Firmament Next rose the Sun the Moon and Stars and then the grosser Elements with all their different Productions These are the Generations of the Universe when God made