brought to acquiesce in it 175. what gave occasion to the rebellion there 296. they petition to the Turks for assistance 305 I. JAnisaries the formality of making them in these days 242 Janoua in Transylvania taken by the Turks 73 Sultan Ibrahim succeeds his Brother Morat in the Throne 2. his luxurious and effeminate way of living 4 18 29. complemented by foreign Ministers 4. seized with an Apoplexy 6. has a Son born viz. Sultan Mahomet that now reigns 8. a second and a third Son 10. a fourth and a fifth 13. his lascivious fancy for a big woman 19. he falls in love with his Brothers widow but is rejected by her 30. he falls also in love with the Mufti 's daughter who is taught by her father to reject his love 31. he takes her by force but after a few days enjoyment returns her to her father 32. by the Mufti and his Accomplices he is deposed and afterwards strangled 34. his description and character 35 Ibrahim Pasha of Cairo imprisoned there by the Beghs but soon obtains his liberty 153. is deeply fined by the Grand Signior ibid. is made Pasha of Darbiquier ibid. arrives at Candia with eight hundred Spahees 245 Jerusalem a great controversie betwixt the Religious there of the Latine and Greek Churches about the holy Sepulchre 315. the possession of it adjudged by the Great Vizier to the Greeks 316 Jews strangely deluded by Sabatai Sevi the pretended Messiah in 1666. 202 204 206 207. they flock from all parts to him pag. 209. their ridiculous fancies concerning Elias 211 212. they receive a new form of Worship from Sabatai Sevi 209. but are enjoined upon his turning Turk to return unto their old method by the Cochams of Constantinople 215 Ishmael Pasha of Buda made Chimacam of Constantinople 118. killed at the great Battel upon the Rab 168 K. KAnisia besieged by Count Serini 150 the Siege raised 157 Kara Mustapha made Great Vizier 333. his kindness to Kuperlee his Predecessour's servants 334. his pride and insolence to foreign Ministers 335 Katirgi Oglé Pasha of Canea his original and life 253 Kemenius made Prince of Transylvania 78. he is routed by Ali Pasha and slain 80 Kemenitz see Caminiecz Kiosem the Queen-mother her artifice to advance her Son Ibrahim to be Emperour 1. she is imprisoned by him but by submission soon obtains her liberty 30. she consents to his being deposed 33. she with the Great Vizier and twelve Pasha's govern during Sultan Mahomet the 4 th Minority 35 Komorra where situate 136 Kul-Ogli the Grand Signior's Favourite 167. he marries the Grand Signior's eldest Daughter 321 Kuperlee the father Pasha of Damascus made Great Vizier 51. his disposition 68. he gets his son joyned with him in the Office and procures the succession therein for him 82. his Rules given to the Grand Signior 83. he dyes ibid. Kuperlee the son succeeds his father in the place of Great Vizier 83. endeavours to establish himself 88. his cruelty to the Germans of Newhausel 138. his artifice to quiet the minds of his shattered Army after their great defeat on the Rab by Montecuculi 170. he sends for his Mother to Belgrade who was esteemed a cunning woman 176. he offers to the son of the Tartar Chan to depose his father but the son accepts not the proffer 178. he returns to Adrianople to the Grand Signior 180. he arrives with his Army in the Isle of Candia 227. sits down before the city of Candia 232. his justice on some disorderly souldiers at the surrender of Candia 277. he drinks wine excessively 280. he is brought thereby into a Dropsie whereof he dyes 332. his character ibid. L. LEmnos taken by the Venetians from the Turks 52. retaken by the Turks 55 Count Leslie German Ambassadour to the Turks see Germans Levents who so called 110 Leventz or Lewa a town in Hungary taken by the Turks 143. retaken by the Germans under the command of Count Soisé 161. again besieged by the Turks but not taken 162 Lintz the Emperour removes from Vienna hither at the beginning of the Hungarian war in 1663. 141 Dukes of Lunenburg and Brunswick assist Candia with three thousand men 252 M. MAhomet IV. born 8. succeeds his Father at seven years of age 34. removes his Court to Adrianople 82. returns again to Constantinople 88. his extravagant hunting ibid. 194 280. he concerns himself about affairs of the Government 90 91. again removes his Court to Adrianople with a description of his Cavalcade 119. his aversion to Constantinople 155 177. he has a Son born 155. he seeks to destroy his Brothers 177. he passionately loves his Queen 184 281. he returns with the Great Vizier to Constantinople 186. he resides at Larissa during the Siege of Candia 241 254. his antipathy to Tabaco 255. a second attempt to destroy his Brothers 261. the news of the surrender of Candia brought to him at Negropont and how he received it 278. he resides the winter following at Salonica 280. then returns to Adrianople where he receives the Great Vizier with great respect at his return from Candia 284. a third attempt to destroy his Brothers which takes effect on the elder of the two 294. he circumcises his eldest Son and marries his eldest Daughter to Kul-Ogli 321. his Government commended 317. he returns to Constantinople 328. the reasons of it 329. he goes back to Adrianople 332 Mahomet Pasha made Great Vizier 33. he with the Mufti and other Accomplices conspire the death of Sultan Ibrahim ib. he is deposed from his Office and afterwards murdered 40 Mahomet Pasha of Aleppo marries the G. Signior's Sister 171 Mahomet Pasha of Romelia sent Ambassadour to Vienna 178. what his Presents to the Emperour were ibid. his sordid way of living at Vienna 221. his controversie with the German Ambassadour at the place of Exchange 220 Malta the gallantry of the Knights of Malta at the Siege of Candia 235. the Malteses with six Gallies take the Fleet designed for Alexandria which had on board the Kuzlir Aga with his slave and her son and all his treasure 14 Marcello a General of the Venetians slain in a Sea-fight with a Cannon-bullet but dyes a Conq erour in 1656. 52 Count de Mare killed at Candia 254 Vicenzo della Marra Governour General of the Arms of Candia killed there 28 Michael Korebut Wisnowieski elected King of Poland 297. he dyes 310 Mocenigo General of the Venetians gains a great victory at Sea over the Turks in 1651. 44. another in 1655. 49. in another his Ship blown up and himself slain 54 Prince of Moldavia revolts to the Poles 309 Francesco Molino Proveditor General to the Venetians 23. made Doge General of the Sea ib. dismissed from that charge 25 Alvisé de Molino sent Ambassadour to the Port but is transferred to the Vizier at Candia 255. after the Siege ended he passes to the Court at Adrianople 287 Marquess S. Andrea Montbrun made Governour of Candia pag. 247. his diligence in
sometimes it was necessary to joyn with one and anon with the other so Sigismond Battori Prince of Transylvania uniting his Forces with the Emperour 's in several Conflicts overthrew the Turk and kept the scale in an equal balance Gabor on the contrary inclined to the Turks and supported his Interest with the Ottoman Power following such Maxims as had been more ruinous to Christendom had he transferred them to a Son to imitate and pursue but dying without issue the Government devolved to his Princess by Vote of the States of the Country and by Confirmation of the Turk as we have already intimated Gabor knew so well how to deal and treat with the Turks that he gained an abatement of ten thousand Dollars of the annual Tribute he managed his affairs so subtilely with the Emperour that he was always invited to a Peace and accordingly made his advantage by the Treaty The other Princes of Christendom in like manner courted him and particularly the Cardinal Richelieu employed one Bornemis a Gentleman of Transylvania a Lover of the French Interest to be always about him by whose means and with the assistance of twenty thousand Crowns of yearly Pension he obliged him to make War on the Emperour at such seasons as it should be intimated unto him to be most conducing to the advantage of France At length as we have said giving way to mortality he died on the 15 th of November after he had reigned eighteen years he was a Prince of great abilities but exercised them ill to the damage of Christendom howsoever he was a Souldier of extraordinary courage and conduct having begun to manage his Sword at seventeen years of age and as it is said had been engaged in forty two several Fights His Widow Katherine Sister of the Elector of Brandenburgh rendred an account to the Port of this accident and the Grand Signior immediately returned Answer by Sulficar Aga condoling the misfortune and encouraging her to a dependence on the Port which she accepting with due resentment promised obedience to the Grand Signior and begged his Protection But the weather was too boisterous and rude for a Vessel to be navigated well under the Pilotage of a Woman for the situation of the Country between two mighty and potent Monarchs required more than a masculine mind and courage to free and defend it from the plots snares and violence with which it was as with a toile encompassed by those two great Nimrods of the East and West And though the Sultan undertook to defend his Female Ally yet the diversion of the Ottoman Arms in Persia the intestine distractions and the Minority of the Emperour were such burdens on the foundation of Empire and obstructions to great and Heroick Atchievements in behalf of the distressed Princess that all the promises made to her were unavailable and ineffectual For Stephen Bethlem a Kinsman of the deceased Prince a man conspicuous in his own Person and Estate as well as for the several Governments divided amongst his Sons and the interest he had gained in his Country procured means to convoke the States at Claudiopolis and insinuating the foregoing inconveniencies of a Female Government so prevailed with the Assembly that they perswaded the Princess to yield up her Soveraignty to Stephen Gabor as one better capacitated for Rule and Soveraignty than her self Stephen having thus obtained his intent entred into a serious Consultation with his Friends and Relations whether he should labour to confirm the Government to himself and entail it to the Family or renounce it to some other The first seemed a matter very dubious and difficult for that Bethlem Gabor his Predecessour had disobliged the principal Boyards or Barons of the Country and thereby derived an envy and hatred to all his Family his long and violent government annexed to the interest of the Turk had not only rendred his Memory odious to his own-People but likewise to the House of Austria which would be ready to continue the like prejudice and aversion to any of the same Family as it did to the last thereof For which Reasons after due and mature consideration it was resolved to offer the Government to George Ragotski a person rich in money and of great interest by reason of the Jurisdiction and Castles which he possessed in Hungary belonging to his own paternal Inheritance and in pursuance thereof they sent Stephen the second Son and Solomon a Kinsman of that Family for Ambassadours to Ragotski representing to him that they had preferred his Merit before the Interest of their own Family and therefore desired him that he would be pleased to take upon himself the Regency of the Principality The offer of Government was a savoury bait to the palate of Ragotski which he embraced with singular afsectation and contentment and was easily perswaded on this occasion to take a Journey to Varadin one of the principal Fortresses and places of consideration in that whole Province and was there received by Stephen the Ambassadour Governour of the Citadel with firing all the Cannon and with the common Joy and Festivity of the whole City But in the midst of this mirth an unexpected Messenger arrived with News that the States had with common consent elected another Prince which was Stephen Bethlem Father of the Ambassadour and Author of this Counsel Ragotski was strangely surprised with this Intelligence and the Ambassadours were put to the blush to see their Negotiations under such a shameful defeat howsoever resolving to continue constant to their first Election and to renounce the interest of their own Family they still maintained the same obsequious offices of Honour and Reverence towards Ragotski as formerly And notwithstanding the Orders received from the States to abstain from any other demonstrations of Honour to Ragotski than what were ordinary towards a private person of his Quality and Riches and that he should retire from the Confines of Transylvania to the Precincts of his own Castles yet they still persisted to execute their first Commission and so to attract people to his Party that the number thereof daily increasing it was at length agreed that the first Election not being fair the point in Controversie should be determined at Sazburg a City of Saxony The States General being assembled Ragotski accompanied his pretensions with a large effusion of Gold the most powerful and most convincing Argument imaginable to which he added That he had no design to affect the Principality had not the same been first offered to him from Stephen Gabor the Father by the hand of his Son that it was very improper for that person to offer a Dignity to another which he affected for himself that it was in the power of the Transylvanians not to have offered him the Principality but having once chosen him to it they could not without his disparagement and prejudice retract from their Election In short these considerations assisted by the interest of the Princess Dowager
and disdaining the wandring loves of Ibrahim laid her hand upon her Dagger which Sultana's and great Ladies usually wear threatning to wound him in her own defence the noise and brawling hereof being over-heard by the Queen Mother called her from her Retirements and concerned her in the Quarrel who whilst she reproved her Son for the rape he intended on his Brothers Wife gave opportunity to the Sultana to escape and so delivered her out of the hands of this Satyr But Ibrahim mad with love and fuming with disdain to be checked and opposed by his Mother Commanded her immediately to the old Seraglio where he confined her to several days Imprisonment during which time he understood in what manner she had treated his large-sized Armenian of whom we have already spoken whereof the Queen Mother being conscious submitted her self with all humility to her Son begging his favour and pardon and so well acted her part by those who carried her Addresses that she overcame quickly his easy nature and was again restored to his Grace and her Lodgings in the new Seraglio In the mean time Shecher Para travelling over all the Baths in Town to discover new delights for her Master at length had the fortune to cast her Eyes on a Daughter of the Mufti a Maid of Incomparable Beauty and features of Countenance and proportion of Body which she reported to Ibrahim so sensibly as if she her self had been in love and after she had praised every part and member of her she concluded in sum that she was the most Excellent and admirable piece that ever Nature framed The Sultan had no sooner heard the story but according to his usual custom fell most desperately in love and had immediately without farther consideration or counsel dispatched his Emissaries or without other preamble ceremony or Courtship to have fetched her to him had not the sense of the late rebuff he had received from his Brothers Wife made some impression of fear in him and the apprehension he had of the power of the Mufti created in him a certain caution and respect in the treatment of his Daughter wherefore he rather resolved to send for the Mufti with whom he treated of honourable terms concerning Marriage promising to take her into his Bosom and prefer her in honour equal to any other of his Sultana's The old Man who was tender of and doated on his Daughter knowing well the wandring humour of the Sultan in his Amours intended rather to marry her to some great Personage with whom she might be more happy than in being a Soltana for he considered that Ibrahim having already other Sons her Issue would either be Sacrificed for security of their Brothers or else spend their days in a Prison and become Grey-headed whilst they breath in a medium between Life and Death and are sad Recluses in the Grave of their unhappiness These considerations were well imprinted in the mind of the Mufti but because he durst not deny his proposal he dealt with him as Inferiours usually do with their Lords and Superiours that is he returned him thanks expressing insinite Obligations that he would vouchsafe to cast his Princely Eyes on the unworthiness of his Family however he advised him that according to the Canons of their Law of which he was the Expositor and obliged to be a severe and precise Observer it was great Impiety in a Father to impose on the affections of his Child so that though he could heartily wish that his Daughter would embrace this honour to which he would exhort her with all the earnest perswasions of a Father yet if she proved refractory thereunto it would not be becoming his power to force her and therefore hoped his Majesty would believe that in proceeding thus far he had performed that duty which became him both as a Father and a Loyal Subject Ibrahim supposing that by this Concession he had gained his design thanked and imbraced the old Man whom dismissing with plenary satisfaction he remained now with an impatient expectation and hopes of enjoyment Next Morning the Mufti returned early to the Grand Signior and having sirst sufficiently instructed his Daughter to refuse the Sultans proffers told him plainly that he had used all his paternal authority and interest with his Daughter that he might induce her to accept this mighty Fortune which cast it self upon her but that it found not that ready acceptance with her as he expected what could be the reason he knew not how to conjecture since Women are commonly irregular and unreasonable in their Affections Ibrahim being in this manner disappointed and more angry to encounter any boundary or restraint to the imperious violence of his Lusts than opposition against the puissance of his Armes dismist the Mufti with some neglect and disdain whom he resolved to treat with rigour and his Daughter with Courtship In order to the first he banished him the Court and forbad him his presence in any other place grew sullen and unsatisfied at all his administrations of Justice intending thereby to induce him to a resignation of his Office there being nothing more irksome to an ingenuous spirit than to serve and not to please On the other side he dealt with the young Lady in a different manner by the crafty and flattering insinuations of his trusty Shecher Para who so forcibly mannaged her tongue full of curious words mixed with threats representing the storms and fury of the Sultans rage and again the glory splendour and happiness of the Seraglio where she should Reign as Empress and Soveraign of the World all which she expressed with that passion and lascivious enticement as would have shaken a firmer Constancy than the Vertue of a Turkish Maid but she being well admonished by her Father remained obstinate in her denial but to quiet the importunity of this Seducer she begged her not to sollicite her Father in this request but rather that she would intercede in her behalf with the Sultan supplicating him with all humility to pardon her Childish refusal and to leave her unto her own liberty and choice and a single Life to obtain which favour from her she produced a Diamond of considerable value desiring her to accept of that from her and to become her Friend her Assistant and Protectress Shecher Para being overcome by her Maiden Modesty could no longer resist such forcible entreaties and having her Eyes obscured with the lustre of the Jewel promised to change her note and excuse her refusal with all the advantagious and compassionate terms possible and so taking her leave with a courteous farewel repaired to the Sultan to give an account of her Negotiations Ibrahim having with more doubtful fear attended the Issue of this last Conference than he did the success of his War with Venice received his Shecher Para with exceeding joy who being come in began to recount all the particulars that had passed but the sum of all was that this silly Maid was sufficiently
limits of Law either Civil or National The Venetians notwithstanding the War had two Ministers there resident the Ecc mo Capello Procurator of St. Mark a right worthy and noble person and Signior Ballarino a person vigilant and subtle who omitted no opportunities to advance his own Fortunes and with that the benefit of his Republick The Emperours Resident called Simon Renninghen a person sincere free and open hearted agreeable to the nature of the Germans had for some Years though with some difficulty continued the Peace or rather matters from breaking out into an open War the Incursions on the Frontiers and other accidents always administring occasions of discontent and complaints to both parties But that the series of this History may be continued with an even thread and clear light to the Reader we must cast back our Eyes to the Year 1657. when the Ambition of George Ragotzki Prince of Transilvania began new troubles in his own Principality and laid the Foundation of a future War between the Emperour and the Turks For now Poland was so wearied with the incessant Wars of Moscovy the inveterate Enemy of that Crown with the frequent Rebellions of the Cossacks and the invasion of the Swedes whom the traiterous Vice-Chancellour and his Adherents had invited to the spoils of their own Country that King Casimirus was reduced to the ultimate extremity of his Affairs the publick Exchequer and private Treasuries were exhausted the Villages dispeopled the Fields uncultivated Traffick and Commerce ceased nothing but Wars Robberies and confusion filled the Diurnals with News and the hearts of the Inhabitants with Sorrow and Calamities wherefore Casimir King of Poland vexed on all sides and not knowing where or how to apply a remedy dispatched his Great Chancellour Albertus Pravesmoski in Quality of Embassadour to demand assistance from Ragotzki promising in recompence thereof to adopt his Son to succeed him in that Kingdom No Message could arrive more grateful to ambitious Ragotzki who by so desired a proffer seemed to arrive the Zenith of his Prosperity which like the Land of Promise being only shewed to his Father in a long Prospective seemed now as it were by Inheritance to devolve upon his Son in order unto which many days of Treaty and Conferences were held between Ragotzki and the Polish Ministers but Ragotzki insisting on certain particulars which were not in the Power of the King or his Commissioners to grant without the approbation of a Diet the Treaty was dissolved and Ragotski remained displeased and angry pretending himself to have been deluded and slighted resolved to avenge the Affront and by his Armes gain to himself the Crown of that Kingdom so that raising a strong Army and joining himself in a Confederate League with Sweden he invaded Poland wasting all the Frontiers with Fire and Sword The Ottoman Port growing jealous of the successes of these Affairs and not so much of the Advance of Ragotski as of the growing greatness of the Swedes with whom unwillingly they would be Borderers issued an express Command That without contradiction or delay he should immediately give a stop to his March and return with his Army into Transilvania And though the Emperor of Germany and the Krim Tartar declared their dislike of his proceedings threatning to invade his Principality at home unless he retracted himself and desisted from this enterprize yet Ragotski having his understanding blinded with Ambition and the lust of Rule and Government stopped his ears to the menaces of his Enemies and the counsel of his Friends This Ragotski enjoyed a State most happy large fertile and populous in Power inferiour to few superiour to many so that he might have passed peaceably and honourably with all could his great spirit have bowed to and complied with his Potent Neighbours For on the one side the Puissant power of the Turk threatned him to whom the least Ombrages of displeasure administer occasion of War On the side of Hungary the Emperour over-awed him On the side of Valachia and Moldavia he lay open to the incursion of the Tartars So that a man might rationally expect That this Prince should have esteemed it honour enough to have conserved his own without rendring himself obnoxious to the jealousie and suspicion of his Neighbours But his great spirit was so enamoured of a Crown and so bewitched with the hopes of obtaining it that nothing seemed difficult or improbable to the acquisition of his longing desires which were the occasion of all those calamities and miseries in Hungary which afterwards ensued In contemplation of all which foreseen evils his Cesarean Majesty sent a Message to the Ottoman Port declaring against the temerity and audaciousness of Ragotski who in the mean time subdued the Fort of Bristia invaded with Fire and Sword the Province of Russia plundered Podolia and advanced as far as Camonitz a Fortress strong by Art and Nature and joining afterwards with the Swedes assisted them in the subjection of Cracovia About this time the Emperour Ferdinand the third began to send succours into Poland and to protest against the proceedings of Ragotski but being surprised by sickness soon after passed to a better life which for some time giving a stop to the assistance of Poland was interpreted by Ragotski as a happy Omen of his good Fortune But how vain and deceitful are humane hopes whose foundations are Ambition and Violence For Leopold succeeding in the place of his Father to Hungary and the Empire immediately prosecuted the design in favour of Poland and in the first place besieging Turone one of the chief Cities of Prussia taken by the Swedes forced it to a Surrender The King of Denmark also growing jealous of the encreasing greatness of the Swedes nourished by antient grudges and National Emulations took up Armes in defence of Poland and being at first flush of money gave constant pay and large donatives to mercenary Souldiers which encreased his Army drawing great numbers from the Swedish Colours so that being stoutly recruited he entered into the Enemies Countries possessed himself of the important Fort of Olme in Norway overthrew the Swedish Army at Vorgast and obtained a victory over their Flect in the Baltick Sea The Poles also themselves who at first revolted from their Prince and favoured the Swedish proceedings perceiving the Wind change and become contrary to that Party began to abandon the interest they prosessed and by degrees to return to the due obedience of their King Zerneski also the General and Lubomiski the Great Chancellour of Poland met the Swedish Forces near Cracovia where giving them Battel discomfited the whole Army killed fourteen thousand upon the place took all the Cannon and Baggage and won that day a most signal Victory Ragotski perceiving the face of things thus changed and being by Command of the Ottoman Port abandoned by his Moldavian and Walachian Forces began to turn his face towards Transilvania where now he wished himself and Army lodged in safety
his Walls For out of the Town Bells he founded his Artillery he daily wearied the Enemy with Sallies surprised one of their Batteries which most annoyed the City composed the Mutinies of the Citizens within and in short against the opinion of all he defended and maintained it in the possession and right 〈◊〉 the Emperour Claudiopolis being thus relieved the Turks stomached inwardly the disgrace and yet thought it prudence for the present to dissemble and therefore upon some addresses made for Peace from Transilvania and certain Propositions tendered by the German Resident the Vizier counterfeited his inclinations thereunto so far that he prohibited all farther Acts of Hostility upon the Frontiers Notwithstanding which the rumour at this time running of a Combination of all Christendom against the Turk with Men or Money forwarded by the endeavours of the Pope and the contrivances of Venice encreased the former jealousy and caused the Skirmishes on the Frontiers to be more hot and frequent and the Vizier being froward and cholerick and by nature jealous matters had immediately proceeded to an open rupture had not the German Resident by his Moderation and Prudence represented affairs in the smoothest guise of Peace and delayed the War rather than composed it so that this whole Summer was spent in disputes messages and debates on both sides The Vizier designing this War in his Eye and desirous to comply with the vagrant humour of his Master who was weary of his Seraglio at Constantinople resolved to transfer the Turkish Court to Adrianople so that toward the end of June they entered their Tents without the City But before they could dispose their affairs for to depart the Plague which is the Epidemical Disease of this Country and the common distemper of the Summer Season began to break forth and diffuse it self through all parts of the City that in a short time the Keyes of many Houses were brought to the Grand Signior for want of Pretenders and Heirs surviving to possess them in greater Houses of Pasha's and others where have been a hundred and fifty persons scarce five have remained alive for burial of the others what the fury of that mortality might be was best conjectured by the daily account was kept of the Corps carried out of the City by the Gate only of Adrianople which for some Weeks amounted I speak moderately to twelve or thirteen hundred a Day It being observed amongst the Turks when above a thousand in a Day are carried forth Dead by that Gate that then Prayers are to be made to Almighty God to withdraw that heavy judgment At which time the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs are likewise desired to offer up their Devotions and intercede with God for mitigation of the Pestilence and the same day in a Field called Okmaidan do all assemble though divided apart to pray against the common Calamity it not seeming vain to them that every one should call upon his God Nor did the Plague rage only in the City but the Ships and Turks Saykes were infected in parts remote on the Black Sea and the Propontis so that above a hundred Sail were reported to be lodged at several Ports for want of Seamen to navigate them home The Camp also where the Grand Signior and Vizier remained was not exempted from this common Contagion for the necessary intercourse between that and the City communicated the evil equal unto both strowing the ways with dead Bodies in that manner as represented a passage conducting to a Coemetery or Charnel house rather than to a Martial Camp or Court of a Great Emperour This mortality hastned the Grand Signior with his Army and Attendances into a better Air the Vizier was to follow a few days after but before his departure he setled and constituted his Son Chimacam or Governour of Constantinople Things in this confusion and haste not being well provided for the Grand Signiors reception at Adrianople caused him to prolong his Journey by taking a compass round by the Castles at the mouth of the Hellespont and from thence went to Dimotochum where having lingered out eight or ten days more he made a solemn entrance into Adrianople which will for some years following be discoursed in this History as the Seat of the Ottoman Empire It was now towards the Winter when this Vizier Kuperlee finding himself mature with Age and ready to fall like Autumn Fruit sent for his Son from Constantinople to bear a share with him in the Burden of the Empire This he did with the consent of the Grand Signior for he alledged that being now feeble and decayed he could not make his personal Addresses as formerly nor attend at the Court to render his Majesty an account of his Affairs and therefore had need of so trusty a Messenger as his Son to carry his advices and directions and faithfully to communicate what he should encharge to his Relation all others being on some consideration or other suspected and at least Enemies to him or to the Grand Signior The Sultan accepting the proposition and the Person had often occasions of discourse and familiarity with the Son called Ahmet who deported himself with that faith and prudence in the management of all his Affairs that the old Vizier had no great difficulty to procure a Grant of succession for him in that Office For though there were many obstacles therein as the abhorrency of the Turkish Policy from all hereditary succession in places of trust and the Youth of his Person not exceeding 32 years of Age and some emulous powerful and ancient Competitors who hated the Father Yet the old Fox had so ingratiated himself with his Master for to speak truly he had been the only instrument that had preserved him and his Empire from falling into as many Divisions as there are Pashalicks or Governments that the Grand Signior gave credit to him as to an infallible Oracle assuring him that before any other who might either pretend merit Age or Precedency his Son should be preferred to the Succession The old man acknowledged the favour with all humility and thankfulness declaring that he had now served his Majesty faithfully for the space of five years a longer proportion than commonly Viziers had managed that Office in such tempestuous and distracted times who either for their own offences or want of Providence or good Conduct have made shipwrack of their own lives and the Charge they piloted But he had lived in the worst of times when the spirits of men with discontent were enflamed round about him and threatned the ruine of their Prince and Empire and yet had reduced things to composure and to the obedience of the Ottoman Yoke that now he that was the Sultan might incline his head to rest with security and enjoy his pastimes and pleasures without being interrupted by those Conspiracies which destroyed his Father and endangered him in his years of Infancy And because the continuance of his
Security and Glory depended on the execution of certain Maximes which he had framed to himself he was chalking out to his Son such undoubted Rules and Doctrines of Government as would certainly tend to the glory and prosperity of the Empire being abundantly satisfied that his Son was faithful prudent and active But three things he particularly recommended to his Majesty 1. Never to give Ear to the Counsels and Advices of Women 2. To amass what Treasure he could possible into his Coffers though with Oppression and impoverishment of his people 3. To be continually on horse-back and keep his Armies in constant Action On the 19 th of October Kuperlee having ended his days whose Disease was Old Age and a Gangrene in his Legs his Son by Hattesheriff or the Grand Signior's Patent under his hand taking the Seal was constituted Vizier in the place of his Father to the admiration and disappointment of the graver Seniors who were discontented not only to perceive themselves neglected but that person also to supplant them who was judged uncapable of the office according to the Canon and ancient Precedents of this Government The Body of Kuperlee was transported to Constantinople where in his life time he had erected a very stately and magnificent Structure as his Monument over the Grave or Vault where he designed to be interred In his life time he had filled it with Corn which daily was distributed to the poor and being emptied after his death received his Corps over which a small Mosch was endowed with Oyl for Lamps and maintenance of certain Talismans and Softaes to make Prayers and Offerings for his Soul The Father being thus interred Ahmet his Son began to contrive his own establishment and to settle his Greatness on the foundation of his Fathers Rules of Policy from whom not to degenerate in cruelty of Nature or leave his Legacies unpaid to those he had proscribed he in the first place sacrificed the Blood of the Pasha of Magnatia to his Fathers Ghost with some other petty attendances so that the World perceived that they had changed the Vizier but not his tyranny or at least the same spirit of the Father seemed to be renewed and transmitted again into the Person of the Son But more difficult it was to obtain the like success against Mortaza the Pasha of Babylon and the Kayah-begh or Lieutenant General of the Janisaries who were long before as we have said marked out for destruction by his Father For the first was the most powerful Pasha of all Asia vigilant and active and had done and merited great rewards from his Master and particularly in decoying and cutting off the head of the Grand Rebel Asan Pasha who dared the Sultan at the Gates of his Seraglio but understanding the ill will of the house of Kuperlee against him stood always on his Guard lodging without the Walls of the City and under the protection of his Armes and Souldiers who were greatly affected to the generosity of his Person so that though many attempts were made upon him and that Officers or Executioners came from the Court openly tendring from the Sultan the Present of a Sword and Vest of Sables the usual Signals of the Ottoman Grace but privately bringing a Bow-string or a Halter yet they were all entertained at a distance and returned again with the same dissimulation they had used in their feigned Addresses In like manner the Kayah-begh an ancient prudent and experienced Commander beloved by the Souldiery and secured by the Priviledge of his Office for a Kayah-begh cannot be cut off during his Command without infringement of the honour and order of the Janisaries preserved still his Station and Command in despight of the Viziers hate and endeavours But what could not be done by mere vertue of the Absolute Power was effected under the appearance of honour and favour of the Sultan who by his Royal Commission having made him Pasha of Damascus he was at the same instant deprived of his Military Power and Priviledge and lay now naked and exposed to the Arbitrary Pleasure and will of his Adversary Nor could his prayers or tears incline the Grand Signiors mind to reverse his Order who together with the Vizier rather inforced it with the specious pretext of Favour and Grace for his former merits and with commendation of his Abilities agreeable to the importance of so considerable a Government encreased the just suspicion of Solyman for so the Kayah-begh was called not being ignorant of the Turkish Proverb A Kayah-begh is like a Fish in the Water which out of its Element immediately dies Howsoever ut finis omnium cum dominante grates agit he acknowledges the favour of his Master and gave thanks for it according to the Duty of a good Subject who ought to acquiesce in the sentence of his Prince which though never so full of severity ought to be believed and called Clemency The Vizier now hasted Solyman Pasha to depart with all expedition not allowing him above four or five days time to make preparations for so long a Journey which otherwise he would have prolonged as one like the rest of Mankind desirous to protract the thread of Life imagining that in his journey at some distance where his Death might be most obscure and least noted the Edict of the Grand Signior might overtake him and find a Grave for him in some solitary Desert or unfrequented Mountain Wherefore he made one day an Address to the Vizier under pretence of taking his last furewel and freely acquainted him with his apprehension and his fears desiring that he would deal as frankly with him in letting him know the utmost of his Fate for that now he was in his hand and was so good a Proficient in the Mahometan Religion as to oppose nothing which was his Destiny or inconsistent with the Decree of the Sultan The Vizier reverencing the Years and pitying the Condition of so worthy a Commander abased solely by his Power bid him be of good cheer assuring him of his Life so long as he acted nothing contrary unto his which he confirmed by Vows and all imaginable Protestations encouraging him to proceed forward to his Government with those cheerful Words and Assurances that Solyman Pasha taking his farewel with more ease of mind and confidence of Life departed Adrianople in three days after his delignment to the new Office But not many days Journey had he advanced into Asia before the G. Signiors and Viziers Commands over-took him altering his design for Damaseus and instead thereof ordered him a Pilgrimage unto Mecha and exile into the remote and desert parts of Arabia until he should be thought worthy to be re-called by that power which banished him In like manner some few days after the Mufti being on a Friday seated in his place in the Mosch of Sultan Selim a very noble and famous Fabrick and attending there the G. Signiors entrance that he
satisfaction of his people But by the way lingring out his time in Hunting and other Pastimes of the Woods and Fields it was the 30th of March before he made his Entry for never was Prince so great a Nimrod so unwearied a Huntsman as this never was he at quiet but continually in the Fields on Horseback rising sometimes at Midnight to ride up the Mountains that he might more early discover the Sun in the Morning by which extravagant course of life he wearied out his Court and Attendants who began to believe the amorous humour of his Father more supportable than the wandring Vagaries and restless spirit of the Son But not only were his Huntings tedious to his Court but troublesome and expensive to the whole Country which were all summoned in wheresoever he came and sometimes thirty or forty thousand men appointed to beat the Woods for three or four days carrying before them the compass of a whole days Journey about inclosing all the Game and wild Beasts within that Circuit which on the day of the Hunt the G. Signior kills and destroys with Dogs Guns or any other way with abundance of noise and confusion which pastime though lawful in it self and commendable enough in so great a Prince yet the frequent use of it was a burden and an oppression to his people whilest in the Winter they passed many cold Nights in the Woods and being unused to that hardship many of them paid for their Emperours Pastime with their own lives The G. Signior being now at Constantinople the Vizier judged not himself so well fixed in his Government but that through the malice of his powerful Enemies who were familiar to the G. Signiors Ear he was in danger to be shaken the principal of which was the Kuzlir Aga or Chief Eunuch of the Women of the Seraglio who by means of the Valede 〈◊〉 Queen Mother was ill-affected to him being both inclined to prefer some Favourites of their own for the diminution and Eclipse of the Viziers Power one whereof was the Tefterdar Pasha or Lord Treasurer placed in Office against the Viziers Approbation which the Vizier understanding made short Work with him depriving him of his Office commanded him in a few hours to quit Constantinople But the Queen Mother and Kuzlir Aga resenting this Affront to their Favourite resolved to even scores in a piece of the like nature Wherefore they obtained for the Viziers Kahya or Steward the Pashalick of Darbiquier a rich and honourable Government not for any disaffection or hatred they had unto him but only to deprive the Vizier of the Counsel and Assistance of so knowing and faithful a Servant for he was a Person who by his own Estate and Friends had raised the house of Kuperlee having in the time of his poverty and meanness lent him that Sum of Money which gave him the first Rise to his Richesse and Authority for recompence and interest of which old Kuperlee made him his Steward and shared to him his honours and prosperity in which deporting himself towards all people with the same modesty and evenness of temper which he used in his former Condition he procured no Enemies to his own person and such as hated the interest he served only wished him disobliged from it so as to be able to dispense their malice on the Vizier without concerning him in his Masters ruin This consideration moved the angry Lady and the envious Eunuch to vex their Adversary by the removal of his most faithful Creature and Servant Mahomet Kahya now Pasha of Darbiquier after a reasonable and convenient time allowed him for his preparations being very rich set forward towards his Government with a very noble and numerous Retinue having amongst the rest five hundred persons young well mounted and well armed which notwithstanding were not so strong but before they were advanced many days Journey into Asia were encountred by a greater force of bold and desperate Robbers who engaging with him killed two hundred of his people on the place rifled his Baggage and constrained the Pasha himself to fly to the next City This strange and audacious Robbery produced many Commands and Orders for seizure and suppression of Thieves in the lesser Asia And because the custom is that something must be done in compliance with the Imperial Commands many poor innocent men were taken in the Fields and Mountains and perhaps without any other Crime against them than that they were not masters of a thousand Aspers to bribethe Officers were for want thereof sent as Thieves to the Port where without further conviction or Tryal they were executed The Vizier being thus weakned by the removal of his faithfullest friend his condition was given over as desperate by the generality of the World and several appearances of troubles arising from the Eastern and Western Parts gave occasion to the Queen Mother and her Party to disparage his Abilities in the esteem of the Sultan Wherefore they exhorted him to imitate the Example of his Renowned Predecessors who made use of their Viziers only to ease them from the troublesom part of their Government but did not entirely throw off the knowledge and privity of the important Transactions and State Affairs in the whole Empire This Lesson awakened the Grand Signior a little so that he declined some days his sports abroad and exercise on horse-back and instead thereof passed much of his time in a Chiosk or Garden-house on the Wall of the Seraglio just opposite to the Viziers Gate where his chief business and concernment was to observe such as went in or came out and when at any time he espied those enter remarkable for their Attendance or difference of habit he would send to know of the Vizier what occasion drew those people thither what their business was and the like by which he gave himself that satisfaction as to believe that he had now found the true way of inspecting his Affairs and taking care of his Empire The Vizier was not unsensible from whence this humour of the Grand Signior proceeded nor ignorant what ill consequences such petty matters might produce wherefore he resolved if possible to reconcile the favour and good will of the Valede or Queen Mother but all his Addresses it seems were returned fruitless so difficult was it to appease the malice of a feminine Spirit and this malice She so ill concealed that it was often said by Turks of Quality and Judgment That the Great Viziers Mother who entertained a Familiarity with Spirits as they believed had by her Enchantments procured the Office of Vizier for her Husband and Son successively and prevailed still to preserve her Son in the favour of his Master yet could not by force of Magick get power or dominion over the Valede No Spells it seems had virtue enough to qualifie the spirit of that angry Juno Some hereupon judged that the Vizier might have thoughts to make Resignation of his Office and
they lay before the Door of the Divan with Inscriptions on them whose they were and afterwards were thrown into the Sea And thus ended this famous Mortaza who had in like cases by order of this Viziers Father been an active Executioner of other Pashaws and now included in the same Fate by means of the Son being proscribed as we have said before by Testament and the most likely of any Pasha in the Empire to stand in Competition for the Office of Vizier The Vizier upon this success began to shew a more cheerful Countenance than formerly suspecting less of danger upon removal of so suspicious an Enemy And truly it was now hard to say where in the whole Empire was a generous bold or ambitious spirit remaining who had Reputation and Authority enough to attempt a priority such havock was made by this Viziers Father of all hopeful and daring dispositions and such an Addition made to the slaughter by this man in present Office that whether mens spirits were vanquished and cowed with former Examples or that the Age really afforded not such Heroes it is hard to say None now appearing other than obsequious to this Vizier and to fear and court him The Vizier having thus successfully contrived his Establishment and security at home had time to confirm it by his Wars abroad well judging that Foreign Wars allay Civil Dissentions and the prosperity thereof doth both produce reputation and terrour of his person amongst his Enemies as well as reconcile affections and increase Authority amongst his Subjects at home Wherefore he mediated on a War against the Emperour and was glad to embrace the occasion from the late Disturbances made in Transilvania by Kemenius as we have related in the former Year But yet like a crafty Politician who looketh one way and steers another so the Vizier that he might the better lull the Germans into a sleep and apprehensions of security he dissembled his inclinations to Peace and to hearken to such propositions as were tendered him by the German Resident namely that the Fort of Serini should be demolished being built against the intention and without the knowledge or consent of his Imperial Master that the Garisons of 〈◊〉 Coloswar and other places should beremoved with other overtures and the fairest propositions imaginable which might give the Turks satisfaction and by some means or other reconcile the differences if possible To which counsel the Emperour was the rather inclinable in regard that a Treaty at that time was on foot between the French King and the Duke of Lordin for Alsatia and that the result might prove prejudicial to the Empire should he at the same time be engaged in a War against the Turk whilst as dangerous a friend as the other was an enemy crept easily into a suspected Neighbourhood But the other Christian Princes especially Rome and the Allies engaged in the Venetian Quarrel perceiving the Emperour to detract from his resolutions of War upon this suspicion endeavoured to clear him from all jealousie in reference to the French designs and for better evidence thereof had their own engagements seconded by protestations from that King not only not to molest the Empire during this War but to afsord him considerableaid and assistance both in Men and Money These Negotiations and incitements to a War encouraged the Emperour and the German Princes in that manner that whilst the Turks expected the return of the Corrier from Vienna as it were with an Olive Branch of Peace and Confirmation of all Articles which before were esteemed to be concluded and agreed the Scene was wholly changed and the Letters contained new demands and propositions and in fine made all doubtful and unsatisfactory The Turks penetrating rightly into this Affair pressed hard to have a speedy Peace or War wherefore the Reis Essendi or Secretary of State did at a private Conference with the German Minister in the name of the Grand Signior and in few words declare that three months were allotted to demolish the Fort built by the Count Serini and for coming of an extraordinary Ambassadour to consirm the Articles Notwithstanding which the G. Signior unmindful of the time and of the Conditions he had given and prefixed for peace ordered the Vizier immediately to prepare for the War declaring that he would in Person accompany him in part of his March and remove his Court to Adrianople For this being a Country Champion and plain full of Game of all sorts so drew the heart and delight of the Grand Signior that his Seraglio at Constantinople seemed as a Cage or Prison in respect of those desired Plains of Thrace His Women were no pastime or recreation to him in whose Apartments he spent little time For this excessive humour in Hunting made him daily to press the Vizier to depart for Adrianople not that he had so real a desire to the War as he had to his Game which gave occasion to that ordinary Saying amongst the Turks That the Grand Signior had left some Hares behind him at Adrianople and would return to seek them At length the Vizier not longer able to resist his importunity without his displeasure summoned a Council of all the Viziers of the Bench where also the Janisar Aga was present to consult concerning the time of their departure at which they unanimously concluded that for divers reasons it was most necessary to deferr this expedition until the next Spring First Because that three months time were already given to the Emperour for sending his Extraordinary Ambassadour Secondly Because in so short a time provisions could not be sent into those Parts for relief of the Camp Thirdly Because the Souldiers which were abroad could not have timely notice to repair to their Colours Fourthly Because many Souldiers had begun to rebuild their houses destroyed by the late Fires which by the Spring they might see finished And lastly That the Summer being now almost spent was not so fit for action as the Spring which gives new life and bloud to men as well as sap and moisture unto Vegetables These reasons being represented with all humility to the Crand Signior he seemed to rest satisfied and his heat of visiting Adrianople for the present allayed And in the mean time that the design against Germany might be the more covertly carried it was given out that the preparations were intended against the Venetian Territories in Dalmatia viz. Zara Sebenico and Cataro and Proclamation was made that all Souldiers should prepare themselves for the Wars against the next Spring In which Interim no accident intervening which might bring matters to an accommodation and better understanding the daily Skirmishes on the Frontiers made the Controversie every day more difficult to be reconciled and the breach the wider The Count Serini also proceeded in sinishing the Fortification he had lately raised near Canisia And the other Commanders of the Cesarean Army seeing the great progress of the Turks in Transilvania secured
interposition of other Countries limited the Turks March by Land and their ignorance and inability in marine Affairs rendred them uncapable to arrive those Banks of France which the Sea washes These Considerations the French Merchants having perswaded the King to be the thoughts of the Grand Signior and that he desired the continuance of the Peace and Traffick with France and as an evidence of his remorse and displeasure for the injury to Monsieur la Haye the Father his Majesty was contented in satisfaction thereof to redress this injurious transgression of the Law of Nations by some extraordinary marks of favour and honour to the Person of Monsieur la Haye the Son that so exceeding the usual method and rule of Ceremony towards this Ambassadour at his arrival the World might be convinced of the real affection and hearty desire the Grand Signior had to renew his Peace and preserve his Commerce with France This is supposed to be what the Merchants of Marseille and Lyons governed by the Interest of their Trade suggested to their King to induce him to send an Ambassadour to Constantinople For at this time Monsieur Roboli a Merchant remained only as Consul or Agent for the Affairs of Commerce Things thus represented at the French Court the King dispatched away two Gentlemen to Constantinople with Letters to the Grand Signior and Vizier and one to the Sieur Roboli the Agent declaring that if the Turk would make amends for the last Affront done to the Ambassadour by some signal notes of Honour in the abused Person of Monsieur la Haye the Son he would then condescend to confirm the Ancient League and Amity The Letters translated out of the French Tongue were as followeth To Our Dear and Well Beloved le Sieur Roboli Agent for Our Affairs at Constantinople By the King Dear and Well Beloved THE Inclination We have to continue that Amity with the Emperour of the Turks which hath remained so long between Us and Our Empires and maintain the ancient Alliances hath caused Us to write to Him and his Great Vizier to know the Entertainment and Reception that they will give to the Sieur de la Haye the Son in satisfaction of the violence exercised before on his own Person and the Person of the Sieur de la Haye the Father our Ambassadour against the Law of Nations We write to You this Letter to give you Order to conduct and present before the Vizier the Secretaries du Pressoir and Fontain which We have sent to carry him our Dispatches and return with the Answers which you shall solicite without loss of time the which you shall bring your self in case they be not agreeable to that resolution we have taken not to receive any satisfaction but in the Person of the said Sieur de la Haye the Son which is due to Us for that Insolency and Affront which hath been done them Willing also notwithstanding that before you depart you assemble the French Merchants in Constantinople together that they may chuse amongst themselves one for their Chief but if the Answers be such as We have cause to expect We approve that you remain in the Station where you are in Quality of Our Agent until the Arrival of the said Monsieur de la Haye and that you send them by the said Secretaries du Pressoir and Fontain of which you shall not fail for so is Our Pleasure Given at Paris the twentieth of January 1662. Signed LOUIS De Lomenie The King of France his Letter to the Great Vizier To the Most Illustrious and Magnificent Lord the Chief Vizier of the Sublime Port of the Grand Signior Most Illustrious and Magnificent Lord ALthough the Indignity offered to the Person of the Sieur de la Haye Venteley Our Ambassadour and to his Son which We have designed to the same Charge have touched Us as far as becomes a victorious Prince who holds the first rank over Christian Kings and who hath under his Power one of the most warlike Nations of the World Notwithstanding after being informed that the disgrace which the said Gentlemen have incurred hath proceeded rather from malice and the ill Offices of some Persons who have endeavoured to disturb by this ill Treatment of them the good Correspondence which hath been between Us than from any design on the Grand Signiors Part to offend Us and that on the contrary there continues in His will an intention to maintain the Ancient Friendship which remains between our Estates and People after so many Ages We being not desirous to estrange Our selves shall send an Embassadour in ordinary to his High Port and having cast our Eyes upon the said Sieur de la Haye the Son We are much inclined to dispatch him for this employment but as We desire to be assured of the good reception that shall be made him We give You advice of Our intentions by this Letter that according to the desire You have testified of the continuance of Our friendship and Our Ancient Alliances with His Highness shall pray God to have You Most Illustrious and Magnificent Lord in His holy and worthy protection Written at Paris the twelfth day of January 1662. LOUIS De Lomenie The King of France his Letter to the Grand Signior To the most High most Excellent most Puissant most Magnanimous and Invincible Prince the Great Emperour of the Mussulmans Sultan Mahomet in whom all Honour and Vertue abound Our most dear and perfect Friend MOST High most Excellent most Puissant most Magnanimous and Invincible Prince the Grand Signior Emperour of the Mussulmans Sultan Mahomet in whom all Honour and Vertue abound Our most dear and perfect Friend May God encrease Your Greatness and Majesty with a happy end We have not known how to impute the ill usage which hath been offered to the Person of the Sieur de la Haye our Ambassadour and to his Son designed by Us to the same employment to any causes and motions in Your Highness but rather to the Instigation of some People which would trouble that good Correspondence which hath been so long established between Us and our Empires And as we have cause to believe that Your Highness desires much to continue this friendship and good understanding upon what hath been wrote Us on Your Part and to concurr with You herein we desire much likewise to continue to maintain an Embassadour at Your High Port in place of the said Sieur de la Haye And since We have none of Our People that is more intelligent than the Sieur de la Haye the Son in what concerns the Affairs and Functions of this Embassy We have elected him for this employment to which We shall willingly dispatch him if We may be assured of the good usage and kind reception which shall be given him This is that which We expect from Your Highness reserving a more particular information to be sent by the Sieur de la Haye the Son of the good Correspondence which
his guiltless Brother conceived it more justifiable to perform the Fact by process of Law and to that end sent to the Mufti for his Fetfa or Sentence viz. That in such a case where there is a sufficient provision for continuance of the true Linage of the Ottoman Family whether it may be lawful according to their Law and ancient Presidents to take off some as superfluous Suckers that draw not only nourishment from the root but endanger also the life of the Tree But the Mufti was not so cruel or unjust as to pass this sentence but rather supplicated the Grand Signior to defer this resolution for having but one Son and that a Child which was subject to the common chances of mortality the Ottoman Family was not so sufficiently provided of Heirs that he could pass his sentence for taking away one who was so necessary a reserve and member of it with which reply the Grand Signior suffered himself to be overcome having some touches of conscience and perhaps not being naturally cruel some sense of compassion towards his innocent Brother But returning now to the Great Vizier we find him in his Winter-quarters at Belgrade where having taken an affection to the elder Son of the Tartar Chan or else having conceived some hatred or displeasure against the Father frankly proffered to depose the Father and confer the Government upon him who was the Son But it seems this young Tartar though barbarous had yet so much of filial obedience and reverence instamped on him by Nature that he modestly refused the proffer and immediately dispatched a Messenger with secret Advices to his Father The Tartar Chan received this Intelligence with great indignation and purposing to play that game in reality with the Vizier which he had passed on him only by way of overture wrote a Letter to the Pasha of Buda a man of great abilities and courage advertising him that hearing a true and worthy character of his prowess and wisdom he could not but desire to be his friend and that he might make demonstrations of his being such he prossered all the interest he had at the Ottoman Court to promote him to the supreme Office of first Vizier What Fate soever accompanied this matter either from the Confidents of the Tartars or of the Pasha the substance of the Message came to the knowledge of the Vizier who obtaining a private Commission immediately from the Grand Signior therein sent for the Pasha and without farther process or evidence of proof or accusation struck off his Head Anno Christi 1665. Hegeira 1076. THE Peace thus happily concluded with Germany was a subject of singular contentment to the people and not less readily embraced by the Grandees who hastened so much the consummation thereof that in the beginning of January one Mahomet Beigh of the Order of the Mutafaracaes who are those that attend the Services of the Divan and are of a degree somewhat above the Chaouses a man of considerable richess was designed Ambassadour for Vienna and qualified with the Title of the Pasha of Romelia In the month following being February this Ambassadour having received his Presents and Instructions departed with Orders to remain on the Frontiers until the Emperours Ambassadour met him at the place of Exchange where according to custom at the same time that one enters into the Dominions of the Emperour the other passes into those of the Grand Signior The Presents that one Emperour sends to the other are according to the ancient Canon and are to be of equal value and are commonly estimated to be an hundred thousand Dollars Those sent by the Grand Signior to the Emperour were 3 Horses with their Furniture adorned with precious Stones 12 Other led Horses of great price A Royal Tent with all the Apartments valued at eighty thousand Dollars A Royal Feather set with Jewels Ambergreese of a considerable value Bezoar-stones 20 Cods of Musk. 70 Coftans or Vests of three sorts 6 Persian Carpets 40 Very fine Turbants with other Persian Commodities of divers sorts of Linen The Spring being now well forward the time of action and the Summer at hand the Turks remained with great expectation of the German Ambassadour and with greater impatience in regard that their Ambassador had for some time continued upon the Frontiers It was now May and yet no news from Germany so that many began to doubt the reality of the Peace others reflected on the dishonour of the Grand Signior in having his Ambassadour so long on the Frontiers as if the Peace had been precarious and desired by the Turks some considered the present ill consequences in case the War should break out again for the licence was given to the greatest part of the Army to return home and all such as came as far as from Babylon Damascus and Egypt to the Frontiers in Hungary were departed and to recal these again and other Zaims and Timariots from remote parts required a considerable time of which their distress would not admit should the Christians prove deceitful in their Treaty Besides which reports were spread abroad that the French had intercepted the Ambassador in his passage about Komorra and had given an interruption to the Peace Others reported that the Ambassadour was dead in his Journey and that the Hungarians were again in Arms as wholly dissatisfied with the Peace These rumors flying about all people blamed the facility of the Great Vizier in being too credulous and confident of the faith and morality of the Christians and the Enemies of the Vizier more boldly adventured to accuse his ill management of Affairs which did not a little tickle the ambition of Mustapha Pasha then Captain Pasha and Chimacam of Adrianople supposing that all the disgraces and ill successes of the Vizier prepared a way for his ascent unto that Office And to become more popular being a man naturally of an affable and plausible carriage insinuated himself into the favour and good opinion of the Great men and principal Favourites of the Seraglio over-acting his part in some measure by condescensions unbeseeming the degree and dignity of a Chimacam being observed one day to kiss the Vest of the Kuzlir-Aga too apparent a piece of adulation and meanness in so great a Subject who in those parts represents the person of his Master These passages were not altogether unknown to the Vizier and though at a distance he could not perfectly view and discover particularly the comportment of this Chimacam yet being by conversation well acquainted with his subtle disposition guessed at his thoughts and the rest of his actions and to deal with him in the same terms wrote a Letter to the Grand Signior bewailing the ill success of the War against Venice and the ill estate and condition of the Fleet to repair which and to give courage to their men and restore the Discipline in marine Affairs the presence of the Captain-Pasha was necessary in the Fleet who had
Chusaein Pasha is made Governor of Caminiecz 300 Clissa taken by Foscolo the Venetian General 28. the Turks endeavour to regain it but are beaten off 40. it is described 196 Claudiopolis besieged by the Turks but not taken 80. yields it self to Apasi Prince of Transylvania 148 Constantinople a great plague there in 1661. 8. an Insurrection there on the account of the Grand Signior's Brothers 261 Count Coligni Commander of the French Troops in Hungary joyns Montecuculi 162. his valour at the great battel with the Turks on the Rab 169. having received honours of the Emperour he returns homewards with his Army 175 Corban the manner of it among the Turks 144 Andrea Cornaro General and Inquisitor in Candia 23. is slain in the defence of Retimo 25 Another Andrea Cornaro Captain-General of the Venetians 223. being made Proveditor General he is slain at Candia with a Granado 263 Cosacks infest the Black Seas 40 41. they infest the Tartars 122. great numbers of them carried into captivity by the Turks 315 Curdi or Cordiaei their Country described their Religion and Manners 92 93 D. DAlmatia one seat of the War betwixt the Turks and Venetians 27. after Candia was surrendred Commissioners are sent hither by the Turk and Venetian for determining the differences of the Consines 288. all the particulars adjusted and the war between the Turk and Venetian ended 291 Clipt Dollars called in by the Great Vizier 115. his Stewards Treasurer put to death for disobeying this command ibid. Dorosensko General of the Cosacks revolts to the Turks pag. 298 Dunelma or a Festival among the Turks how celebrated 144 The Dutch Resident unjustly sentenced to make satisfaction for Goods belonging to Turks on board a Dutch Vessel surprised by Venetian and Maliese Corsairs 127 E. EGypt the Government there at present rather Aristocratical than Monarchical 330 Elmas a Village in the Upper Hungary near which the German and Turkish Ambassadours use to be exchanged 220 Embrahore that Office what 333 English Trade first introduced into Turkie when 65. what befel the Nation and Trade in Turkie in the year 1662. 113. the Custom endeavoured to be raised at Aleppo and Scanderone in 1665. by the Customer 197. the Scale also threatned to be removed from Scanderone to Tripoli in Soria by the Lord Treasurer but both without effect 199. An English Factor in Smyrna designing to cheat several Principals in England of 215 fine cloths and a considerable summ of money turns Turk but without succeeding in his knavery 311 Francesco Erizzo elected by the Venetians Doge General of the Sea at the beginning of the War in Candia 23. but hindred by death from executing that Office ibid. F. FEstivals how celebrated among the Turks 318 Sir John Finch English Ambassadour at the Port 311 Count Forgatz overthrows a party of Turks making Incursions into Hungary 39. being Governour of Newhausel at the Turks invading Hungary in 1663. advising a sally is with his party routed 138 Leonardo Foscolo his success against the Turks in Dalmatia 27 28. his success in Bosna 39. he is sent into Candia with the title of Generalissimo in the room of Mocenigo pag. 43 Marquess Frangipani with others offer themselves to the Turk in 1670. 279. they find not the protection desired but are overtaken by the hand of Justice 295 296 French Ambassadour at the Port imprisoned contrary to the Law of Nations 69. that King remits an hundred thousand Crowns to Venice to assist them against the Turks 227. three French Ships of War arrive in the Hellespont 256. an Ambassadour from the Grand Signior to the French King 257. the King sends seven thousand men to the relief of Candia commanded by the Duke of Navaille c. 264. after having sussered great loss there 267 they depart 268. a French Ambassadour accompanies the Turks late Envoyé to France in his return to Constantinople with three Men of War who bear themselves very insolently at their arrival 291. what success he had in his Embassy 292. he obtains some new priviledges for his Nation 306. and licence to travel in the Turks Dominions 307 Count Fuchier General of the Artillery of the Empire killed at the great battel betwixt Montecuculi and the Turks on the Rab 168 La Fueillade with two hundred French Gentlemen Adventurers for honour and four hundred common Souldiers arrive at Candia 250. having had above half of his slain men in a desperate sally he with the remainder return home 252 G. GEnoese make peace with the Turk 182. they settle a Trade in Turkie 183. they send a new Resident who through the bad success of affairs falling into a melancholy kills himself 294. their Trade turns to very small account 325 326 Georgia some troubles there 95 Captain Georgio a famous Pirate taken by the Turks 244 Germans deluded by the Turks pretences of peace 118. their preparations for war with the Turks in 1663. pag. 135. what confusion then in their counsels 141. they send Ministers to implore aid of Christian Princes 151. their Forces in 1664. what ibid. their great inclination to peace notwithstanding their good success whence 173. a peace concluded between them and the Turks ibid. they send an Ambassadour to the Grand Signior 180. what his Presents were 181. his Embassy ended with mutual contentment 190. the controversie between him and the Turkish Ambassadour at the place of Exchange 220 Signior Giavarina sent to the Great Vizier at the Siege of Candia to make proposals of peace 235. he dyes there of the Camp-distemper 241 Grillo the Venetian Bailo's Interpreter strangled 39 Proveditor Grimani made Captain-General in the room of Capello 27. he suffered shipwrack and was drowned at the Island of Psara 28 Fanir Gumir a Persian Traitor strangled 7 H. HAmmerling slain before Quinque Ecclesiae 148 Count Harberstein slain before Quinque Ecclesiae 148 Chevalier d'Harcourt his gallantry at the Siege of Candia 234 Sir Daniel Harvey Ambassadour from his Majesty to the Port 257. has his Audience of the Grand Signior at Salonica 280. he dyes at Constantinople 〈◊〉 Hasaki the Queen-Mother takes on her the protection of her Sons 255 Monsieur la Haye the father Ambassadour at the Port imprisoned contrary to the Law of Nations 69 Monsieur la Haye the son proposed by the French King to the Grand Signior and Great Vizier to be sent Ambassadour to the Port in a Letter to each of them and the Vizier's Answer thereto 107 108 109. he arrives as Ambassadour at the Port but slightly treated at his first arrival 191 192. his first Audience 192. his second Audience 194 An Horses tail set forth at the Great Vizier's gate is the signal of the Camps motion within a month pag. 118. Husaein Pasha of Silistria marries the Great Vizier's Sister 171 Hungary the war begins there betwixt the Emperour and Turk in 1663. 135. the Hungarians unsatisfied with the peace made by the Emperour with the Turk and why 174. but through the Emperors arguments