so great a Captain that could contend with the Port and put all Asta into disturbance and in conclusion could make the same Arms serve his Master which had lately before given a check and stop to all the Ottoman Force The Vizier was the first introduced to the Royal Presence where being graciously received he was presented with a Vest of Sables and a Cemiter set with Jewels Abassa was afterwards admitted and having performed his obeisance by touching the ground with his forehead after their fashion he declared that he never was other than a faithful Vassal to the Sultan and that he had taken up Arms for his sake that he might subjugate the insolence of the Janisaries and with their blood revenge the death and sacrifice to the Ghost of his murdered Brother Osman that they might learn to reverence their Princes for the suture and learn to know how sacred the blood is of their Soveraign The Grand Signior seemed kindly to accept this Apology and as a token thereof bestowed three Vests upon him which was a treble Honour of that kind and made him Pasha of Bosna on which employment he immediately entred and though when such Offices are bestowed it is commonly the custom for that person who is invested in the Employment given to kiss the sleeve of the Grand Signior publickly by way of thanks yet lest such demonstration of Honour should ill afsect the eyes of the Janisaries and cause murmuring and repinings amongst the most envious of the Souldiery his last Audience was designed privately and his Dispatch procured in more secret and familiar manner and therefore more obliging than was usual To yield some assistance to the present growing Charges of the Empire the Vizier imposed a heavy Tax on the Christians and Jews on the first it was levied with all severity but the Jews found more favour by their Arts and secret management of Affairs for they are a people of some Authority and Power in Turkie they are cursed by particular persons but caressed by the generality they are Slaves in all Countries and yet acquire somewhat of Mastership and Propriety they are Vagabonds and yet every Country is their own they cannot buy Lands and yet daily increase their Fortunes they multiply in abundance because they all marry and are not destroyed by Wars they are great Confidents of the Turks and Enemies to the Christians In short covetousness in Constantinople is like a publick Courtisan to whom the Jews are the Panders and Ruflians The Grand Signior passing one day through the streets unhappily met with the Ambassadour of the Prince of Transylvania who because he did not immediately descend from his Horse in token of reverence he caused him and his whole Family to be imprisoned but being afterwards excused by the Chimacam to have only been a matter of inadvertency his omission was pardoned and so released from his restraint The Souldiery having for a long time been governed by a loose and gentle hand continued their licentious way of living committing many outrages on the Merchants and Inhabitants of Constantinople against which many Decrees having been published and Proclamations made without any effect or notice of the Souldiery the Vizier was unwilling to dally longer and therefore taking a Spahee and a Janisary hanged them up and cut off their Heads and with such course and method of severity he so abated the haughty stomachs of the Souldiers already mortified by the assumption of Abassa into favour that they began to yield unto Command and to behold their Rulers with an eye of respect as those which were seated in some degree above themselves for till now there was scarce a common Janisary but who thought himself to be the Creator or Elector of his General and therefore to be little inferiour to him in Power and Dignity And as this Vizier was severe towards the Souldiery so he demeaned himself with equal rigour towards the Pasha's and Grandees of the Court which though it was an humor in the Vizier at that conjuncture laudable and necessary yet it procured him such enmity as removed him at a distance and caused him to be sent into Persia to command the Army and by that means to expose him to the hazard and difficulties of doubtful success in a dangerous War The Vizier being departed the Grand Signior appeared in publick on Horse-back together with his Brother by his side an unusual sight amongst the Turks but the Queen-Mother who in absence of the Vizier ruled much commanded that it should be so the Grand Signior had this year a Son born which caused great rejoycing at Constantinople because there were few Males at that time surviving of the Ottoman Line but scarce was the Festival ended before the Child died But let us now for a while withdraw our Discourse from the Wars of Persia and look to the Actions in Poland and Transylvania Mehmet the late King of Tartary who was so displeasing to the Port as we have already related was now dead to whom succeeded a Kinsman of his called Fembeg Gheray universally pleasing and acceptable to that people This new King to demonstrate his prowess and to act something acceptable to the Port dispeeded forty thousand Horse into Podolia and Russia to sack and ravage the Country which dividing themselves into several Parties made their Incursions as far as Socal But in the mean time the Polonians and Cosacks having formed a strong Body of Horse under the Command of Stephen Chmieleskie met them at their return near to Burstinow where they gave them a total overthrow and in like manner Stanislaus Lubomiski encountred another Party and overthrow them leaving thirty thousand slain on the place and taking two thousand Prisoners amongst which was the younger Brother of the Tartar King This defeat as it was the greatest that ever was given to the Tartars so it is probable that had it been well prosecuted at that time by the Polonians they might have entred the Chersonesus Tauricus and without much opposition have put an end to that Kingdom but Sigismond King of Poland had other designs in hand such mixed Monarchies as that being better able to defend their own Dominions than to acquire or conquer others To this News ill received at Constantinople supervened the unexpected death of Bethlem Gabor unexpected I say because that though he had been long labouring under the diseases of Dropsie and Asthma yet the greatness of his Soul and activeness of his Spirit mastered for a long time his indisposition so that he seldom or never omitted his Counsels and business and to the very time of his death was meditating and contriving designs whereby to preserve his Dominions and enlarge them And indeed the Government of Transylvania required no less than such a stirring Spirit for being seated between two such powerful Monarchs as the Emperour and the Turk there was need of dexterity and courage to steer between the rocks of such opposite Interests
from his retirement and by special command of the Sultan was unwillingly restored to the Office of Vizier being best pleased with a quiet and pacifick life to which his melancholy temper had naturally disposed him In the mean time Chusaein Pasha being terrified by the sensible touches of his own conscience took his flight by way of the Black Sea and being out of the reach of Justice a Fine was set of five thousand Zechins and of Lands to the Revenue of an hundred thousand Aspers a year to be given unto him who should bring his head many of those who had sold him their friendship and favour being affrighted with this Sentence voluntarily disgorged the rewards they had received and amongst the rest the last Aga of the Janisaries who had been his Kahya or Steward for the space of three months restored eight hundred thousand Dollars as an atonement for his sin and a ransom for purchasing his own life and Office At length by force of the foregoing reward Chusaein Pasha was betrayed and taken alive and being brought to Constantinople was immediately strangled before the gate of the Divan Many were the difficulties which this young Sultan was to encounter the greatest of which was the insolence of the Janisaries who feeling themselves empty of money began to repent of the prodigal and easie remission of their Donative and in a tumultuous manner to redemand it again There was no argument or debate to be used against men of the Sword who hearkned to no other reason than their own wants and to satisfie them there was no other remedy than compliance wherefore all Officers and persons not employed in Military Affairs were forced to contribute towards a large Tax and a shameful demand was made for the Loan of thirty thousand Zechins from the four Christian Ambassadours resident at the Port that they also as Friends might yield an assisting hand towards the present urgency of Affairs so little consideration and shame have Turks to lay open the nakedness and distress of their Country even to strangers and enemies of it And indeed such was the insolence and uncontroulable power of the Souldiery that their desires and commands were Laws and their determinations Rules for their Sultan and his Subjects This humor of Usurpation and unlimited Power wearied all the Officers of the Empire and inclined them secretly to approve the cause of Abassa Pasha of Erzirum who declared and stiled himself Enemy to the Janisaries and of Bechir Pasha of Babylon who was joyned with him The Vizier also finding his power abridged by the arbitrary will of the Souldiery moved slowly and coldly into Asia where all the Force he could make consisted of no more than fifty thousand new and unexperienced men such as were uncapable to contend with a more numerous Army of veterane Souldiers to which also the Beglerbei of Anatolia joyned himself as did all other the chief Timar-Spahees who conspired together to confound and destroy the pride and government of the Janisaries The Vizier also was of the same Party and coldly at first answered the request of the Janisaries when they earnestly pressed him to lead them against Abassa their common and mortal Enemy at length being fortified with the Force of the Timar-Spahees he told them plainly That if they would go and fight he would be a Spectator of the success but would not ingage himself in a quarrel wherein the blood of Musselmen might be spilt on one side and the other by which means the Rebels in Asia took head increased in force and every day rendred them in a more formidable and dangerous posture But this was not all the trouble which ensued for the Tartars having refused that King whom the Grand Signior had appointed them to receive declared for Mehmet his Brother who was seconded by the Votes of the generality and maintained by the strongest nerve of that Nation The Vizier was unwilling to ingage in this quarrel alledging That a Civil War was the worst of evils and that it was better to coanive at a present inconvenience than in this distracted time of Affairs to pollute the Empire with the blood of Tartars who were their Brethren and of the same Religion and Alliance with them Howsoever the Divan was of another opinion and resolved to dispeed the Captain-Pasha with a Force sufficient to re-instate Gherey for so the elder Brother was called in the Government of that Kingdom but yet the Instructions given rather directed him to act with dexterity than with force supposing that the Authority of the Turks abetted with the presence of a considerable Force would create an inclination in the Tartars to obedience so soon as they discovered them to appear on their Coast. The Captain-Pasha being arrived at Caffá declared That he was sent by the Grand Signior not to exclude either one or other of the Pretenders but only to be Witness of a free and fair Election that so all Civil discord ceasing that Party might be chosen who was most pleasing to the generality of the people to which end two Standards were erected one for Gherey the elder Brother desired by the Turks and the other for Mehmet beloved of the Tartars The people in multitudes ran to the Standard of Mehmet and but few to that of Gherey which demonstrated at how mean a rate the Tartars esteemed the protection and favour of the Port. The Captain-Pasha vexed hereat denied to give his assent to the confirmation on pretence that he was first to demand the Grand Signior's pleasure but at length was perswaded by Gherey to land a Force of about eight thousand men to owne and maintain his Cause on hopes that rather than ingage against the Turks the people would condescend to Terms in his admission and favour The Tartars not being in the least dismayed hereat arrayed themselves in a warlike posture and feigning fear and flight allured the Turks to a pursuit of them until they had brought them to a place where thirty thousand Horse lay in ambush which on a sudden arising and encompassing them round had entirely destroyed them had not Salil the Brother of Mehmet given a stop to the slaughter on hopes that such a testimony of friendship would reconcile the spirits of the Turks at least might render his Brother's preferment more tolerable and grateful to the Turks In this conflict Ibrahim and Chusaein who were Viziers of the Bench the Kahya and a Capigibashe of the Seraglio were slain whose bodies were afterwards transported to Constantinople six hundred Janisaries and as many Sea-men were killed and fifteen hundred Prisoners were taken whose liberty was procured at a mean ransom for the sake of that Faith and Religion which they joyntly professed they also took thirty Pieces of Cannon and might also have become Masters of the whole Fleet consisting of thirty six Gallies had they been desirous to have prosecuted their Victory to the utmost advantage and moreover in that conjuncture of
encounter with the more favourable terms and advantage at the Port. Notwithstanding which offices of kindness Dervis Bei without farther loss of time passed up to Constantinople bringing his Gally in without Lantern shot thorough ill treated and shattered feigning himself also to be wounded related that he had lost forty four Levents and seventy seven Slaves which were killed and that all the Haratch or Tribute-money which was collected for the Grand Signiors service from the several Islands was robbed and embezled by these Candiots His complaints were aggravated by many circumstances and being assisted with the clamours of other Beys or Captains of Gallies the noise and dispute was exceeding high in the Divan urging that the Venetians were obliged to make good a loss which they had caused rather out of malice than mistake At that time Georgio Giustiniano resided at Constantinople for the most Serene Republick who to oppose the high clamours of these Complainants shewed courage and accompanied his answers with prudence and resolution which are often very convincing in the Turkish Court They alledged that the Peace was broken he answered That it would not be the first time and that they ought not to yield entire credit to the relation of persons passionate and partial in their own cause that such accidents as these were as ordinary and common in the World as cold and heat as fair and foul weather and that so soon as the errour was discovered and the Gally known not to belong to Barbary but to the Grand Signior it was punctually and entirely restored with all the excuses imaginable In short this business which had so bad an aspect at the first by the dexterity of this Minister and giving something to Dervis Bei whereby to stop his mouth the complaint ceased and all farther proceedings were superseded The Wars in Persia being unsuccessful it was proposed in Council that a Peace should be made if possible with Abassa Pasha that his demands whatsoever they were should be granted and promises given him of Honours and Preferment but the inveterate enmity and hate which the Janisaries bore him and the difficulty there was to perswade Abassa that the overtures made him were free and candid and not mixed with treachery and design were obstructions not to be obviated or overcome Wherefore Abassa keeping mutual Intelligence with the Persians and receiving assistance and succours from them was become very formidable and strong and the Town of Erzirum well fortified with Works and a numerous Garrison Howsoever the Janisaries his mortal Enemies pressing the Vizier to proceed against him at length obliged him to besiege the place which having done and closely begirt it the most forward and brave amongst the Janisaries were the first to scale the Walls but were repulsed by the valour of stout and resolute Souldiers for they knowing that there was no other safety but in their Arms and no other mercy than an ignominious death being the just reward of their Rebellion refused to give or to receive quarter wherefore they made frequent Sallies on the Enemy and as many Janisaries of them as they took Prisoners they immediately hanged about the Walls as a spectacle of horrour to their Associates This resolution and cruelty deterred the Turks from their frequent assaults and storms made upon the Town and the many Batteries and Fortifications rendred the place almost impregnable so that there seemed no other hopes to remajn but to overcome them by a long Siege and Famine but Abassa had so well provided against this danger with such plenty of provisions that the Turkish Army began to be more straitned for want of sustenance than the besieged so that becoming weary and discouraged amidst so many difficulties they raised the Siege with such disorder and haste that they left several Pieces of Cannon behind them and retiring with some confusion were charged in the Rear so that many Janisaries fell a Sacrisice to the hate and revenge of the Enemy The News of this success coming to Constantinople was ill received but the disaster thereof according to the usual custom was attributed to the Vizier who was General for which cause he was deprived of his Office and the Selictar Aga who carries the Sword before the Grand Signior was put into his place a person of a fierce bloody and cruel disposition To these new troubles were added out of Tartary For Mahomet the King of that Country exalted to the Princely Dignity as we have already declared by the favour and Election of that People though contrary to the sense and pleasure of the Port was now fallen from the good esteem which they conceived for him because he gave some hinderance to their usual Incursions on the Polonians and Cosacks out of memory and gratitude to the assistance they had contributed towards his Election for which reason being as it were famished for want of their usual depredations they refused to obey his Commands and then openly threw off their Obedience to him as their Prince The Turks who always envied this Dignity to Mahomet rejoyced to see this discord between him and his People and therefore thought it time to make use of this occasion to re-instate Gherey the elder Brother into the possession of his Kingdom whom the Turks for his better security having placed at Rhodes the usual Retirement of the Tartarian Princes dispatched a Squadron of Gallies to fetch him from thence to Constantinople where being arrived he was received with a magnificent and Princely Entertainment by the Sultan that so the Fame thereof forerunning his arrival in Tartary the people might be better prepared to concur with the Port in their acceptance of him for their King He was afterwards conducted to Caffa the Grand Signiors Town in Tartary with a strong Fleet of fifty Gallies where at his first landing he was received by Cant-Emir a rich and powerful Tartar and Chief of the Turkish Faction and by many others with great honour and solemnity with whom also a considerable Party most willingly engaged But the Cosacks of Poland and Circassians friends to Mahomet the Brother joyning their Troops to his Forces became too strong for the Turks for giving them Battle near the Inclosures of the Danube at a place called Bandet they defeated them and killed three or four thousand of their men putting all to Fire and Sword round about and entring on the Seas with their Fleet of Boats took five of the Turkish Gallies with which ill success the Tartars which took part with Cant-Emir being discouraged abandoned their Colours and fled so that Cant-Emir was forced to take Sanctuary in Caffa which being a Town belonging to the Grand Signior it was hoped that the reverence they owed to that Name would cause them to refrain all violence thereunto But the Tartars provoked by this late effusion of blood lost all respect to that Government so that besieging the Town they assaulted and took it and therein the
could not be better bestowed than upon that employment The G. Signior readily consented to this Counsel being naturally very apprehensive of danger and in his place constituted the Aga or General of the Janizaries posting him away with all speed possible to hisGovernment who did not run so fast in his Journey but that the advices of the coming of a new Pasha arrived timely the Ears of Mortaza who judging it an unequal match to contend with the whole Empire gave way to his Successour but withal kept himself so on his Guard that his adversary could not reach his Head and send it as the first-fruits and Tribute of his new Office For yielding up his Command as in an honourable manner of retreat he gave out that with his Army reported to consist of forty thousand men he was on his March to Candia but soon after his design was discovered to be otherwise for believing his own Force unable to contend with his Masters he retired with his richess and some of those most faithful to him unto his Fort on the Mountains and to the protection and Country of the King of the Curdi whose Daughter he had Married and remained in expectation of time and opportunity to take his revenge on the Vizier hoping that with time this storm would blow over and that the beams of his Princes favour would again shine upon him These Curdi are called by some Writers Cordiaei from whence the Province had the name of Gordiene bordering on Assyria the Kingdom once of Zabienus who siding with Lucullus against Tigranes King of Armenia was by Tigranes murdered with his Wife and Children These people inhabit the Mountain Amanus dividing Syria from Cilicia which by reason of the difficult access thereunto was never yet subjected to the Ottoman Yoke they are said in former times to have worshipped a black Dog and dare not speak ill of the Devil not for love but fear But some report that have lately been amongst them that they have left off that Hellish superstition and embrace a certain sort of Religion mixed with Christianity and Turcism but yet without Baptism or Circumcision In brief they are a bad sort of gross people at the best contenting themselves with little Religion addicted to bloud and Robberies These Curdi or Gordeenes being a people retired keep within their Mountains are shy in their Conversation and Discourse and afford us little subject or opportunity of knowing with any satisfaction their Religion or Manners but from such of our Country-men as have lately entertained Society with them we have this account They are seated on those Mountains as we have said before which of old were called Cordiaei or Gordiai beginning near Aleppo but running out as far as Persta they make shew of the Turkish Religion for fear but have in reality another of their own which permits them to eat Swines flesh and drink Wine as the Druses and Kalbeenes Bacon being esteemed by them a particular Cordial or Restorative for the sick The chief Country and City of those near Aleppo is called Jeumee where they have a Convent of twelve Priests with a Superiour over them and another of the like sort near Mosul or Nineveth The two Chiefs of these Monasteries meet at fixed times to consult for the good of the Common-weal Their Devotions are private in a Cave they tell us of but one Book which contains both their Law and their Rituals being asked what they thought of our Saviour they answered he was their breath and their Soul at the name of Mahomet they spit and with Nicodemus his circumspection and assurance of secrecy they declared themselves and Christians the same which they would make appear so soon as they were delivered from their fear of bondage to the Turk They say that they worship God and will not curse the Devil to which no force or power can compel them partly perhaps beeause they have heard of our Saviours Precept Bless and Curse not but rather because they hold that the Devil and his Followers shall one day be restored to their former seats of blessedness and dignity When their Priests are together and Wine brought in amongst them the Superiour makes a sign for silence and afterwards a short Admonition that Wine is the bloud of God I have heard that a Capuchin Fryer was once invited amongst them with promise to give him a sight of their Book of Rituals and being come to Jeumee was detained a Day or two in a Cave on pretence that the other Superiour of Mosul was then amongst them who being a severe person if he knew of his being there would certainly put him to Death as one who came to alter their Religion upon which suspicion the Capuchin forgetting his Curiosity fled for safety with all speed possible Their Priests are said to be grave wearing black throughout their Garments plaited or quilted the Vestures of the Commonalty are agreeable to Mountaniers whose natures are rough and boisterous addicted to bloud and Robbery the common vice of those people I have heard that the Son of a Gourdeene Widow being killed by some of that Country she assembled her nearest Kindred and required them to bring her the Windpipe of the Murderer which when they had done she together with her Friends eat it in revenge In fine their Religion may have some small Reliques of Christianity but mixt with the dregs of other Religions T is possible they may be of the Manichee Race Their opinion of the Devils Restoration was once held in part by Origen that of Wine that it is the bloud of God was the Heathenish conceit of the Egyptian Priests Their whole Nation if well united may compose an Army of thirty or forty thousand men But to return to our purpose The news of the flight of Mortaza to this ignoble Prince troubled the G. Signior who still retained some impressions of kindness to his person remembring his generosity valour and former deserts the memory of which was encreased also by the Friends of Mortaza who wanted not in the Court to represent them with some compassion arguing that his flight was not of contumacy or contempt to his Masters protection but an effect of natural preservation which worked so far on the G. Signior that he immediately sent for the Vizier to enquire of him the state and condition of Mortaza The Vizier to defend himself and make good what before he had counselled his Master aggravated his Adversaries crimes and his disobedience and flight to an inconsiderable King with which and some other light excuses and perswasions that the removal of such a person was agreeable to the present state of affairs and conducing to his own security easily pacified the mind and affections of the G. Signior but no sooner was he returned to his House but advice was given him that the Emaum of Mortaza or his Priest or Chaplain was then at Constantinople whom the Vizier immediately sent for and without any
Peace in his mouth and yet the Laurels of Conquest on his head having added so considerable a Fortress as Newhausel to the Dominions of the Empire and demolishment of Serinswar the Original cause of the War were a sufficient conviction of the evil accusations of his Adversaries and an argument irresistible when inforced by the Authority of his own Presence On the Emperours side the demand of the City of Erfurt by the Elector of Mentz situated on his Consines at a time of so much exigency as this and seconded by hopes of assistance from France and the Hans Towns on the Rhyne whereby it was probable great turbulences might result inclined the Emperour with much reason to Proposals of Peace Instructions for which being conveyed to the Resident then in the Turkish Camp from the Caesarean Court after a short Treaty the Articles were agreed and concluded as followeth First That Transylvania remain with its ancient Limits and Priviledges under the Command of Prince Michael Apasi Secondly That the Emperour of Germany have liberty to fortifie both Gutta and Nitra Thirdly That the Turks shall not alter or innovate any thing on the Confines of Hungary or any other part bordering on the Emperor Fourthly That Apasi pay six hundred thousand Dollars to the Ottoman Port for expences of the War Fifthly That all Acts of Hostility between the Emperour and the Grand Signior and their Subjects for ever cease Sixthly That the two Provinces of Zatmar and Zaboli granted to Ragotzki by his Imperial Majesty during life return again to the Emperour to which neither the Prince of Transilvania much less the Ottoman Port shall ever pretend Seventhly That the strong Castle of Zechelhyd which revolted from the Emperor be demolished in regard neither Party will relinquish his Right thereunto Eighthly That Varadin and Newhausel remain to the Turk having conquered them by force of their own Armes Ninthly That for confirmation of this Peace Ambassadours be interchangeably sent with Presents of equal value On these Terms of which none seems disadvantageous to the Christian Interest unless the fourth Article the dishonour of which seems to be covered with the name of Apafi though the score was paid by the Emperour the Peace was established and the Vizier as a beginning thereof gave liberty to many Christian Captives some whereof were of Quality and Proclamation was made through all the Confines for a Cessation of Armes Howsoever some petty matters remained undecided which were deferred until the Arrival of an extraordinary Ambassadour who was to exchange with the Turks another Ambassadour in the Month of May following and in the mean time suspension of Armes and all other Hostilities was confirmed At which News all sorts of People amongst the Turks were greatly rejoyced and the Publication thereof the more welcome by how much the more unexpected Whereby we may observe the alteration of that ancient Martial disposition which was natural to this Empire which whilst it was exercised in War grew hardy active and inured to warlike exercise but now through Idleness and want of War except the Venetian which affords the Souldiery no considerable employment their minds became resty wearied with one year and a halfs labour and dejected with the unprosperous success of one Summer But what Considerations soever the Emperour might have to conclude this Peace the Hungarians were highly dissatisfied with it because it was founded on their proper loss and that Newhausel was given for a price of the common quiet which none but themselves paid and yet all Germany enjoyed the benefit That that Town was an appendage to the Kingdom of Hungary and to which the Emperour having only the claim as they pretended of an Elective Prince could not dismember any part without consent of the States thereof and this position they maintained with that heat and fury that they declared themselves disobliged from observation of the Articles resolving to vindicate their own right in despight of all opposition whatsoever and that since the Emperour had undertaken their Protection he was bound to assert their freedom and defend their Cities even with the expence of his own Treasury and at the hazard of his own hereditary Possessions But to these exorbitant Demands the Emperours Council replyed with these following reasons and moderation That they themselves were the first Beginners and Promoters of this War That His Majesty at their instance and request condescended to protect them as Subjects not only with draining of his own Exchequer and blood of his Patrimonial Dominions but with the charge of hired and mercenary Strangers In the mean time what assistance had the Hungarians brought to this War or to their own defence What Contributions did they ever make What Forces did they ever unite in the Field by a general assent of their whole Kingdom Notwithstanding his Majesty was ready to continue the War could they themselves propose either a safe way for the maintenance of it or that the present Conjuncture did not offer honourable Conditions of a happy Composure Moreover That the King of Spain his Uncle and Father in Law being aged and decrepit leaving no other Heir than an insirm and sickly Child to support the charge and weight of all his Kingdoms it was requisite that at such a time as this he should be free from all incumbrances either to assist the Infant in Administration of the Government or to assert his own Rights if so it should please God in the Succession And that now since a Treaty was on foot for Election of a Successour to the Kingdom of Poland it was necessary for His Imperial Majesty to bear his part in that Transaction but above all it was considerable That the common Enemy being rich and powerful God had seemed to put his Victory into their hands to no other end than to improve it unto a Peace which being at this time neglected the best that could ensue would be the miseries of War which turning on the inconstant Wheel of Fortune with variety of successes is always attended with Slaughter Captivity Fire Sword and a thousand other Calamities These and such like reasons moderated and mollified the exasperate spirits of the Hungarians so that they seemed to acquiesee and be satisfied and making a Vertue of Necessity had patience where there was no other remedy The sudden News of this unexpected peace did in like manner affect the French King and the States of the Empire judging it unreasonable for them to be interested in the War and yet unconcerned in the Conclusion of the Peace Howsoever things being well represented and as well received and understood his Most Christian Majesty accepted of the Reasons as just and satisfactory In the mean time the French had a free liberty to make choice of their Winter Quarters which they fixed upon in Bohemia but their King being unwilling to burden the Country with his Souldiers for a longer time than they were serviceable to them he ordered
braving Letter to the King of Persia 82. he returns to Constantinople ibid. he dyes of a Feaver contracted by a dsbauch 89. his Character ibid. Asac besieged and taken by the Moscovites and Cosacks pag. 65 66 B. BAbylon or Bagdat taken from the Turks by the Persians in 1626. 10. the Turks laying siege to it to recover it are beaten off ibid. likewise the second time 15. a third time 29. the Grand Signior himself commanding the Army takes it pag. 81 Balsora taken by the Persian pag. 10 Bechir Pasha of Babylon joyns with Abassa in his rebellion pag. 4 Bethlem Gabor vid. Gabor Biram Pasha made Great Vizier 63. is slain dt the Siege of Babylon pag. 8 Buda the Garrison there mutiny but upon surrendring four of the Ring-leaders to punishment and craving pardon things are quieted and past by pag. 36 C. CAffa taken by the Tartars front the Turks but soon restored 19 20 Candia its General sights a Turkish Gally belonging to the Archipelago mistaking it for a Pirate commanded by Dervis Bei which had like to have broke the peace but the Venetian Ambassadour at the Port makes up the business pag. 17 18 Cantemir a Tartar makes a new Colony 64. being driven out of it by the Tartar Han he is strangled at Constantinople pag. 65 Marin Capello takes the Algierine Gallies in the Port of Valona pag. 73 Caramosauls what pag. 41. Count Cesi French Ambassadour at the Port pag. 51 Chusaein the Great Vizier advances Sultan Amurat to the Throne who soon deposes him from his Office and afterwards causes him to be strangled and why pag. 2 3 4 Constantinople a terrible Fire there in 1634. pag. 47 Corban what pag. 3 Cosacks their Boats described 6. in them entring the Bosphorus they make great spoil on the Turkish Coasts 7. they insest the Black Sea 20. again more numerously 26 27. their Country described 66. the ground of the war betwixt them and the Poles ibid. 67 68 Cyrillus the Patriarch strangled at the false and malicious suggestions of the Jesuits against him pag. 71 D. DAmascus revolts to the Persian pag. 10 E. ELia Pasha rebels in Anatolia but being first beaten in the field and then besieged in Magnesia surrenders himself upon fair promises but at his arrival at Constantinople is strangled pag. 35 36 The Emperour sends an Envoyé to the Port who disputes with the English Ambassador for precedence pag. 87 Erzirum siding with the Rebel Abassa is besieged by the Turks who are beaten off 18. but is surrendred voluntarily upon Abassa's Reconciliation pag. 21 F. FAcardin an Arabian Prince his History pag. 39 42 French Ambassadour imprisoned 36. his Interpreter impaled pag. 37. another Interpreter of theirs hanged 51. their Ambassadour Marcheville forcibly sent away pag. 50 G. GAbor Prince of Transylvania makes war on the Emperour 7. the reasons of it ibid. 8. He obtains aid of the Turks 8. a Truce made ibid. The Turks not keeping it are in several places discomfited by the Emperour's Forces 9. the Truce ended being aided by Duke John of Weymar and Count Mansfelt as also by Morteza Pasha of Buda he sights Wallestein the Emperour's General and routs his Army II. whereupon a peace is made betwixt the Emperour and Prince 12. he dyes 23. his Character ibid. 24. leaving no children his Widow for a while keeps the Government but is perswaded to resign it to Stephen Gabor who yet keeps it not but resigns it to George Ragotski pag. 25 Germans continue their Truce with the Turks pag. 39 Jembeg Gheray succeeds Mehmet in the Kingdom of Tartary 23. dispeeds sorty thousand Horse into Podolia and Russia to ravage the Country who are intercepted by the Poles and Cosacks in their return and almost all cut off ibid. he is treacherously slain 65. Bechir Gheray his brother ordained King in his stead ibid. Gregorians a great slaughter made of them by the Turk pag. 15 Emir Gumir betrays Revan to the Turks pag. 57 H. HAlil Pasha made Great Vizier 4. made General in the war with Persia 15. is recalled ibid. is put out of his Office pag. 19 I. JAmbolat Ogli strangled pag. 62 Janisaries unruly 1 4. they are curbed 22. they again grow more insolent 33 34. but are soon tamed by the Sultan's severity pag. 35 Jews how treated in Turkie pag. 22 Illay near Babylon garrisoned by the Turks pag. 29. retaken by assault by the Persians pag. 30 L. LUpulo Prince of Moldavia desires the Sultan to conser the Principality of Valachia on his Son c. pag. 84 M. MArquess of Marcheville French Ambassadour at the Port for his complaints against the Captain-Pasha is forcibly sent away pag. 51 Matthew Prince of Valachia obtains a Victory over Lupulo Prince of Moldavia pag. 84 Medina taken by the Persian pag. 10 Mehmet elected King of the Tartars by the people overcomes his elder Brother Gherey whom the Grand Signior would have imposed on them 5. he defeats him a second time though assisted by the Grand Signior pag. 19 Mehmet Pasha of Cairo made Great Vizier pag. 34 The G. Mogul promises to assist the Turk if he will break with the Persian pag. 38 Moldavia troubles there pag. 36 Morat vid. Amurat. Morteza Pasha of Buda joyns with the Prince of Transylvania against the Emperour II. he with the Prince make peace with the Emperour pag. 12 13 Mosul taken by the Persian pag. 10 Sultan Mustapha his incapacity for the Government 1. is deposed 2 3. commanded to be slain by Sultan Morat pag. 83 P. PErsia the King enters the Turks Dominions with a powerful Army 9. his success 10. sends an Ambassadour to the Port with proposals of peace but without effect 15. sends another likewise without effect 16. the Persians receive a defeat by the Turk 26. peace made with the Turk but quickly broke 38. The King again sends an Ambassadour to the Port with proposals of peace 63. who not succeeding in his errand is sorced to accompany the Turkish Army into Persia pag. 70. After the loss of Babylon they send another Ambassadour to the Port 83. who obtains a peace pag. 84 Poles make peace with the Turks 29 30. but the Turks soon break it taking part with the Moscovites 44. they send an Ambassadour to the Port 45. give a great deseat to the Moscovites who profser an advantageous and honourable peace to the Poles which is accepted 48. They are sued unto for peace by the Grand Signior and at last consent 49. the peace consirmed by the Turk pag. 61 R. RAgotski elected Prince of Transylvania 25. he refuses aid from the Turks 31. he instates one Matthias in the Principality of Valachia and ejects one constituted by the Grand Signior called Stridia Bei or Lord Oysters 39. Stephen Bethlem that had been his Competitor for the Principality stirs up the Turk against him whom he defeats in several battels 53 55 56. whereby he is confirmed in the Principality and obtains also from the Port