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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10526	True copies of the insolent, cruell, barbarous, and blasphemous letter lately written by the Great Turke, for denouncing of warre against the King of Poland: and of the magnanimous, and most christian answere made by the said king thereunto. With a short preface, declaring the vniust cause on which this Turkish tyrant, and faithlesse enemy of Christendome, now layeth hold to inuade it. Published in print by authoritie, the 11. of Iune. 1621; Great Turkes defiance	Ahmed I, Sultan of the Turks, 1590-1617.	1621 (1621)	STC 208; ESTC S115263	4,475	18

TRVE COPIES OF THE INSOLENT CRVELL BARBAROVS and blasphemous Letter lately written by the Great Turke for denouncing of Warre against the King of POLAND AND Of the Magnanimous and most Christian Answere made by the said King thereunto With a short Preface declaring the vniust Cause on which this Turkish Tyrant and faithlesse enemy of Christendome now layeth hold to inuade it Published in Print by Authoritie the 11. of Iune 1621. LONDON Printed for William Lee and are to be sold at his shop in Fleerstreet at the signe of the Golden Bucke neere Sargeants Iune 1621. THE PREFACE ABout the Yeere 1608. Ieremy Prince of Moldauia dying left 3. Sonnes Constantine Alexander and Bougdan the eldest of which being but 8. yeeres old the Gouernment during his Minority was by the deceased Father committed to his Vncle Simeon who dying within three or foure yeeres after Constantine the eldest sonne according to his right and supported by the Councell of his mother vndertooke the gouernment At which time there liued at Constantinople one Tomsho or Stephen who falsly pretending to bee sonne vnto Aron who had been Prince of Moldauia before Ieremy had by money and other sinister practices framed to his ends Mehemet Bassha Lieutenant to the grand Visier which is the highest Officer vnder the Turk and by falsly suggesting that Constantine refused to pay the yeerely tribute of forty thousand Chequines to the great Turke obtained from him an Army of 20000. men vnder the conduct of a Turkish Generall to expell Prince Constantine and establish himselfe in the gouernment And notwithstanding Constantine endeuored to giue all due satisfaction to this Turkish Generall and made euident the fraud and falshood of Tomsho yet hee being also corrupted by Tomsho's bribes and great promises would admit no reason Wherevpon Prince Constantine making head to defend himselfe and Country was in a Battaile ouercome taken prisoner and after seeking to escape drowned in the Riuer Niestre Tomsho after this victory being thrust into the Gouernnment indeuoring to keepe by tyranny what he had gotten by iniustice and vsurpation the Nobility attempted by armes to free themselues and their Country from his vnspeakable cruelties but with successe vnworthy their vertue for by an ouerthrow both his malice and the Countries misery increased In which disaster the greatest part of them fly into Poland the refuge of the vnfortunate Princesse with her remaining children and the Tribunall from which their country was in iustice to expect a Gouernour the Polonians hauing by ancient Articles and capitulations betweene the Turke and them to the end their Kingdome might not be preiudiced by that neighbour Prouince which though Christian was yet tributary to the Turk reserued to themselues the right and interest to name a Vaiuod or Prince ouer that Country And to this purpose the King of Poland sent an Embassadour to Constantinople whom the Great Turke contrary to the Law of Nations Turkishly answered by detaining him prisoner and euer since hath threatened that most Noble and Christian Kingdome with vtter subuersion hauing as it is probably conceiued to that end drawne all his forces out of Asia and made a greater leuy in Europe then hath beene knowne in that Empire consisting by report of foure hundred thousand men an Armie sufficient to satisfie the most couetous or religious Christian Souldier with riches or glory THE GREAT TVRKES LETTER Sultan Achmat MOST puissant and highest Emperour of the Turkes King aboue all Kings that dwell vpon the Earth a King that dwelleth on the earthly Paradise an anointed Prince and Sonne of Mahomet Prior of the earthly Paradise and keeper of the Graue of thy God Lord of the Tree of Life and of the Riuer Flisky Conquerour of the Macedonians the seede of Great Alexander Prince of the Kingdomes of Tartary Mesopotamia Media and of the Martiall Georgians Anatolia Bythinia Asia Armenia Seruia Thracia Morea Valachia Moldauia and of all warlike Hungary Soueraigne Lord and Commander of all Greece Persia both the Arabia's the most Noble Kingdome of Aegypt Tremisen and African Empire of Trabezond and the most glorious Constantinople Lord of all the white and blacke Sea and of the holy Cities Mecha and Medina shining with diuine glory Commander of all things that are to bee commanded and the strongest and mightiest Champion of the wide world a warriour appointed by Heauen in the edge of the sword a great persecuter of his enemies and of all their euill vices a most perfect Iewell of the blessed Tree the chiefest keeper of the Crucified God a Prince and Lord in whom the Mahometans trust and a great persecuter of of all Christians To Sigismund King of Poland if thou doest desire Our welfare and art Friend to vs and Our Officer Lieutenant Generall of all our forces which we will send Our Greeting But thou hast long since broken Our friendship and yet art neither ready nor fit to wage Warre or fight battell against vs. But thou hast some secret aduice and intelligence with other confederate petty Kings and their Counsellors to deliuer thee out of Our hands and our Vicegerents power wherein thou hast done vnaduisedly and indiscreetly If therfore thou thus perseuere to oppose thy selfe against vs then feare for thy death and the death of all thy people is determined Wee tell thee Wee will ouercome thee from the rising of the Sun to the going downe thereof and we will shew Our Maiesty in our own person and sight vnto the vttermost parts of the earth Our very thoughts shall be a terrour vnto thee shewing that Wee will performe all that which Wee haue herein denounced And Wee will make knowne vnto thee the powerfulnesse of our Dominions And thou O King which puttest thy trust in strong Forts Castles shalt haue experience of Our resistlesse might I will roote thee out altogether and thou shalt behold this with thine owne eyes Wherefore expect now no more friendship at my hands put not thy hope in the strength of thy walles with thy owne forces and people I will ruinate thee without any resistance I will destroy thy Cracouia in signe of triumph I will leaue there my bloudy sword that euery one shall take notice thereof and my beliefe shall bee spread throughout all thy Dominions and I will vtterly roote out the very remembrance of thy Crucified God Let thy God bee angry I care not He may thou helpe thee Thy anointed the Priests I will surely put to the plague Wolues and wilde Beasts shall sucke the brests of thy Women thou shalt leaue and forsake thy Religion which thou now hast that which remaineth of all things shall bee consumed with fire Herewith rest thou satisfied I doe not tell thee now what I will doe or meane to doe with thee vnderstand if thou wilt or canst Giuen at Our most High Port of Constantinople most strongly guarded c. THE KING OF POLAND HIS ANSVVERE SIGISMVND the third by the grace of God King of Poland Great