of Eber sonne of Sem travelled but that in Susiana or Chusiana where Havilah sonne of Chus sonne of Cham son of Noah planted his Colony before he descended into Aethiopia or Afrique Or if that will not content we may distend it to make Mount Taurus a wall unto it East and North and that Euphrates Tygris Araxes or Gozan if you please and Indus watered it a sufficient extendure and in the adolescencie of the world fruitfull and delicious The Author's sicknesse I cannot choose a better place to seat your patience than here to make my selfe your object After the death of some noble Gentlemen my course came next though not to die yet to put my feet into the grave Whether I had got cold on Taurus by sucking in the refrigerating ayre denudating my heating body or that I play'd the Epicure too largely on delicate fruits or that diversity of Meridians or so long quaffing variety of waters I know not some or all of these by Gods divine appointment overcame me and forced me into such a violent diffentery that in twelve dayes I had a thousand bloudy stooles and for forty dayes longer time was ore-charg'd with such cruelty that some can witnesse I dare say never poore man was more enfeebled I wanted not the help of the Kings best Physitians they did mee little good I tooke what they prescribed dry Rice Pomgranad pills Barberries Sloes in broth and a hundred other things and gave them what so ere they craved so that it was hard to judge whether my spirits or gold decayed faster In this excreame misery I was forced to travell 300 miles hanging upon a Camel Morod that great Aesculapius seeing I would rather die than part with any more mony for whē it was gone I knew not where to borrow Merchants were strangers to mee and I had above sixteene thousand miles home to goe round Afrique hee limited my life to but five dayes existence but he that sits on high and accounts all humane knowledge meere folly in foure twenty houres after miraculously prov'd this famous Oraculizer a compleat lyer I had then attending mee an Armenian call'd Magar and a Hecate of Tartary to whom I daily gave for salary eight peace many Succuby's shee implored fore against my will but finding they had no power to bewitch me whether to accilerate Morods sentence or whether to possesse my linnen and apparell of which I had good plenty I know not but she resolv'd to poyson me For knowing wine was strictly forbidden me shee presents me in an Agony of thirst a Violl full of old strong intoxicating wine which relisht curiously and I powred downe without wit or measure but as it had beene so much ophium it quickly banisht my vitall sences and put mee for foure and twenty houres into a deadly trance and in that time had not a friend resisted I had beene buried But by Gods great mercie this desperate Potion recovered me For after I had disgorg'd abundantly I fell into a sound sleepe not having done so a moneth formerly the people admiring such a recovery so that by benefit of that little rest and binding quality of the wine I grew every day better and stronger but my desperate Doctresse whiles my other servant wept over mee like an old Hagg opened my Truncks and robd me of all my linnen and some moneys I would not pursue her for then she had died for it I will therfore say with David 71 Psal O! what troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turne and refresh mee yea and broughtest me from the deeps of the earth againe Observations concerning the Persian Empire HItherto wee have beene practicall let mee now draw your eyes to theorize in generall the severall properties and fashions of this great Empire whose Monarchs have from the Infancie of Time either swayd the Scepter of the world or adorn'd their browes with a Dyadem of braver lustre than any other Kings of Asia and first speake wee by what severall Nomenclations Persia has beene call'd than which no other Kingdome in the Universe has beene more variable In Nymrods dayes that Monster of the world 't was called Chusa Severall names of Pesia from Chus sonne of Cham sonne of Noah who removed his Colony thence into Arabia and after into Aethyopia or Africk In Chedorlaomars reigne contemporary with Abraham it was named Elam from Elam sonne of Sem sonne of Noah and brother if prophane Authors say true to Madai or Atlas Maurus sonnes of Iaphet sonne of Noah From him the people were called Elamitae and Elamae names much used amongst the Antients The next it varied to is Persia whether from Perseus Ioves sonne by Danae daughter to Acrisius or from analogie with the Chaldee tongue implying a horses hoofe a hooked nose or a division I will not argue But the Greeks not content with any of them intitled it Panchaya and Cephoēne in memory of their Countryman Cepheus after King of part of Aethiope brother of Cadmus Agenor's famous children This same Cepheus was father of Andromeda wife to Perseus parents of Perses the renowned Archer living in the world before the building of Rome twelve hundred and seventy yeares Gog and Magog some have also named her and Magusaea too but from whence arising needs no interpreter Such time as Achemaenes son to Aegeus King of Athens ruled it got an Achemaenian denomination as Lucan Herodotus Suidas Cedrenus and others have it after which race it was new named Arsaca from Arsaces the Heroick Parthian not long after the Incarnation Artea after that by the Inhabitants importing a noble Country and from whence many brave Princes assumed names as Artaxerxes Artabanus Artaphernes Artaspes c. The Tartars in their over-running a great part of Asia nam'd it Chorsoria as Solynus notes The Arabians Anno Dom. 598 such time as Mahomet grew notorious call'd it Saracaenia in memory of their descent and doctrine Azaemia some call it by the Turks in envie to Siet Gunet and his decadence from the Alcorannish Doctors Etnizaria and Agamia since when they have added those of Chuba Shaw-Izmaelia Saic-Aideria Curasaeniae and some such as proceeding from particular malice are unworthy our taking notice of or to be inserted in the roll of memory Let mee now give you the effigies of her present standing which if I faile to pourtray exactly I will willingly incur some blame so you will copy it in a better posture The derivative and severall names of Persia I have already drawne the Provinces at this day obeying that famous Diadem and how called I shall first essay her bulk next and then her fashions Thus rancked Persia Parthia Medya Hyrcania Bactria Sogdiana Evergeta Aria Drangiana Margiana Paropamisa Carmania Gedrosia Susiana Arabia Caldaea Meso-potamia Armenia Iberia and Mengrellia twenty noble Kingdomes of old at this day under the stroke of the Persian Scepter are thus new named Parse Provinces of Persia how now named Arac Shervan
before hee had nominated Vlacuk-cawn for Emperour who proved of another spirit his best delight being to dance in Armour to Bellonaes Trumpe and to defend his owne in despight of all his adversaries by his owne vertue without secundary props or other allyances he first quiets his domestick broyles composing peace at home then magnifies his excellencies in forraine parts in circling and adding to the lustre of his dyadem Babylon a great part of Arabia and in Syria Aleppo and Damascus all which during his life he kept in subjection and loyalty and ruled with much magnificence to the yeer 1270. when by the extremity of his disease finding death at hand hee calls his 3 sonnes afore him exhorts them to unity divides his lands among them dyes and at Meragah 15 farsangs from Tauris was solemnly buried Habkay-cawn the eldest had the provinces of Hyerac Mozendram and Korazan comprehending Medya Parthya Hyrcania Bactria and Sogdiana To Hya-Shawmet Aro Adarbayon part of Armenia and Iberia comprizing Salmas Coy Nazivan Maraga and Merent Cities of quality To Tawdon-cawn the Seigniories of Dyarbec and Rabaion or Mesopotamia part of Syria and what was made fruitfull by Euphrates and Tygris And to his sons by another venture Nicador-oglan and Targahe-cawn he gave money portions Habkay-cawn that yeere dyed at Hamadan in Persia and made protector to his sonne Nycador-Oglan A.M. 5245. A.D. 1275. A. Heg 655. who so long and with such delight represented the young King that by a divellish art and ambition he sent him to an untimely grave and establishes himselfe by name of Hameth-cawn but all his raigne is so pursued by divine vengeance that in the yeere 1275 he dyes mad and is buried at Cashan in his place came the right heire from banishment Argon-cawn who by the people is joyfully welcommed and at his Coronation assumes the name Tangador-habkay zedda sonne to Habkay-cawn This man swayed the Scepter 5 yeeres with much tyranny not only massacring Nycadors sons and alliances but amongst the Innocent bath'd his sword in blood so that hee became hatefull to his owne and stimulated the Parthian to revenge by whom in a battell hee is overcome and by Argon-chan upbraided with his cruelty yea to compensate the like measure is cruelly tormented his belly ript open and his guts given to the doggs To Tangador the inveterate Enemie of all Christians succeeds his brother Giviatoc-chan who in the fourth yeare of his reigne perisht by Balduc-chan his Uncle who also after five yeares rule died issue-lesse Badu sonne of Targahe youngest sonne to Vlacuk-chan by assent of all that Nation succeeding in the throne of greatnesse whose affections he answered with so much respect clemency and care that never any before him was more belov'd and honored howbeit when he openly profest himselfe to be a Christian the peoples regard drew back and many treasons fomented by Satan were hatched against him so that at last he was slaine or rather martyr'd by Gazun-chan Cozen to Tangador who had small cause to bragge of his treachery or time to surfet of his glory for by the permissive hand of God in Cazbyn when he lest suspected treason hee is wounded to death by his owne houshold-servants Anno 1305 and of the Hegira 685 and lay long time unburied His brother Aliaptu Abuzayd or Mahumet ben Argon by many attempts and shewes of valour purchased the restlesse Diadem to whom followed Hoharo-mirza or Abusaid Bahador-chan anno 1337 who consumed his life in venerous exercises so that for want of issue the Kingdome became a Theater of many troubles no lesse than 30 at one time contending for the Soveraignty whereby the distressed people were compelled to look for help from home And none more safe to trust to than the Lord of Samerchand Tamberlayne much famoused for his justice and victories against the Sarmatique Tartar Praecopense and Chynaeses Him they invocate by many presents of their love and a letter fill'd with hideous complaints describing their miseries the confusion of their Kingdome and insufferable pride of the thirty competitors The Scythic Emperour promises his best ayde and with fifty thousand horse forthwith enters Persia without doing any hurt save against the Tyrants all whom he persecuted with such fury that in three moneths by the industry of the Inhabitants they are all taken and made to quaffe their farewell in the bitter cup of tormenting Death for which the people urged Tamberlayne to accept the Diadem and to establish it by all meanes possible in his posterity But after seven and twenty yeeres most honourable and succesfull government in that time captivating the great Turk Bajazet whom hee brought away in an iron Cage subduing all Asia yea in eight yeares conquering more Kingdomes and Provinces than the Romans did in eight hundred this Monarch of the Asiatique world is subjected by imperious Death intombed anno 1405 of the Heg 785. at Anzar in Cathayo leaving his sonnes and grand children to inherit his victories Ioon-gwyr Hameth-cheque Myramsha and Mirza-sharock by some call'd Soutochio and Letrochio of which Ioon gwir died three yeares before his father in Palestine leaving two sonnes Mamet Sultan and Pyr-Mahomet which Pir Mahomet was by his Grandsire placed in Gaznehen and Industan where he ruled till Pir Ally slew him villanously Hameth Chec was slaine in Laurestan some say in his fathers last combat with Bajazet Myramsha the third sonne was slaine in battell anno 1480 by Chara-Issuff the Turkoman in Aderbayon but left issue Sultan Mahumed from whom the great Mogul is descended and Mirza-Sharoc the youngest of Tamerlans sonnes surviving the other held most parts of the Empire till dying in the yeare 1447 he left Aberdayon or part of Media to Mirza Ioonsha sonne of Kara-Issuf the Turk new entred Persia Whiles Miramsha's issue preserve the splendour and magnificence of the Tartarian Emperour Myramsha by some call'd Allan-Chan left issue as is said Mahumet call'd Aben Mirza Sultan Mahomet who died anno 1453 leaving to his sonne Barchan at his Coronation new named Mirza Sultan Abuzaed many rich and spatious Provinces as Badashon Gaznehen Cabul Sistan Kerman Chorazan and Khoemuz all which were not sufficient by bribe not force to secure him against the incensed Persian who having endured much affliction for triall of conquest at last Ioonsha with Acen Ally his sonne grand sonne to Kara Issuff were beaten downe and Vsan Cassan call'd also Acembeg Lord of the White Sheepe governed Vnder this Vsan Cassan an Arminian the people fall upon Sultan Abusaid and in a pitcht field vanquish him and eighty thousand men himselfe slaine three hundred Elephants taken and all his Countries ransacked yet by reason of many discords amongst the Persians they revived and set Abusaids sonne upon the Throne by name of Aben Mirza hameth cheque whose foure and twenty yeares were spent in sweet ease and plenty At 's death his Empire descends anno 1493 upon his brothers sonne Babur Mirza named upon the addition of his
EUROPA SOME YEARES TRAVELS INTO AFRICA ASIA the Great Especially Describing the Famous Empires of PERSIA and INDUSTANT As also Divers other Kingdoms in the Orientall INDIES and I'les Adjacent By Tho Herbert Esq LONDON Printed by R Br. for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop 1638 W. M. sculp PAR MER. Pawb yn ŷ Arver PAR TERRE SOME YEARES TRAVELS INTO DIVERS PARTS OF ASIA and AFRIQUE Describing especially the two famous Empires the Persian and great Mogull weaved with the History of these later Times As also many rich and spatious Kingdomes in the Orientall INDIA and other parts of ASIA Together with the adjacent Iles. Severally relating the Religion Language Qualities Customes Habit Descent Fashions and other Observations touching them With a revivall of the first Discoverer of AMERICA Revised and Enlarged by the Author Segniùs irritant Animos demissa per Aures Quam quae sunt Oculis Subjecta fidelibus Quae Ipse sibi praebet Spectator Horat. SHALT LABOR FOR THOV PEACE PLENTIE LONDON Printed by R. Bip. for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop 1638. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE PHILIP Earle of Pembroke and Mountgomery Baron Herbert of Caerdiff ' and Sherland Lord Parr and Ross ' of Kendall Lord Fitz-Hugh Marmyon and Saint Quintin Lord Chamberlain of his MAIESTIES most honourable Houshold Lord Lieftenant of Kent Wiltes c. Lord Warden of the Stanneries in Corn-Wales and Devon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his MAIESTIES most honourable Privie Councell MY LORD HAving past the Pikes I take new courage to come on againe One blow more and I have done Ten to one it lights on my owne pate but if my head stand free my hand shall not bee guilty of more Intrusion No more pressure to the Presse the Crowd is too strong already and I will get out by Head and Shoulders rather than faile Your Lordships word may passe for me and I dare not break it Greatnesse hath a great stroak over Men but Goodnesse a greater Men choosing to obey for Love rather than Feare In both you have a strong Interest and in both sorts of Men they have taken Possession and like Twyns grow up together Quam bene conveniunt And may their residence be as immovable as your Constancy to Good yea may the Title of plain Dealing and honest Man bee the worst Reproach Malice or double Dealing can fix upon your Name and Memory who have gained much honour and ease too in Court and Country by that excellent Dialect and generall Beliefe The Dedication like a fayre Frontispice to a meane House or a beautifull Signe to an ill Lodging hath tempted Travellers to look in and make some stay But I feare to have used my Readers as my Host the Guests that set a mark on the Doore to passe by and call in no more T is my feare only which being begot of Modesty may serve to invite the best and most ingenious Company To please all is my Desire but my Choice a few taking the bigger Number to be the lesser in Vertue and swollen only with a timpany of Wind and Water The Boat is in your Lordships hand which steares as you direct it Yours is the greatest Interest you are our Chiefe yours is the leading Iudgement do but approve the Mark is hit and you make many Followers Which is the Request of Your Lordships humblest Servant Tho. Herbert To his vertuous Kinsman THO. HERBERT Esquire WHat is' t the Love thou bear'st the Southern Clyme Or Care to instruct us That the second time Thou ingagest Fame Or is' t thy Love to pay Thanks to mild censures or thy Friends to obay Or to Inlarge or deck thy Mayden lines Like to a Nurse whose eyes on th'Infant shines Which of them all or all it be 'T is well Who threats good-will imparts a part of hell CH. HERBERT Nobili suo amico THO. HERBERTO armigero APpulit Eôis Herbertus sospes ab Oris Vicit immensi mille periclâ Maris Non tulit hinc secum piper aurum balsama gemmos Costum aloen myrrham cinnama thura crocum Rettulit hic Mores HominûmqueViator Vrbes Regna habitus lingvas praelia jura deos Divite ne post hac quaeras è Perside gazas Anglia nunc Anglis Persia tota domi est AR. IONSTONUS Med. Reg. Descriptio decoris reciproci inter Arborem Nobilem seu Familiam de Herbert Authorem vere ramum ejusdem arboris seu Familiae NIl tantum decorat ramum quam nobilis arbor Florentem ramum sic Decus Arbor habet MAR. BELWOOD Dr. Med. Amico suo nobilissimo THO. HERBERTO armigero VRbes quod varias solers vidisset Vlisses Et Mores hominûm clarus honore fuit Sola inter Phrygiam licet errans Hesperiamque Littora lustrasset per duo lustra Maris Tuspatia ut saperes immensa emensus es Orbis Herberte inque Salo gnaviter inque Solo. Comperta unde tibi nova multa mira Brittannis Candidus impertis veridicusque tuis Fallacem hoc Ithacum superasque peritia rerum Quod tua candori sit fideique comes WALT. O-QVIN Armig. To the Reader HEre thou at greater Ease than hee Mayst behold what hee did see Thou participates his gaines But he alone reserves the paines He traded not with luker sotted He went for knowledge and he got it Then thank the Author thanks is light Who hath presented to thy sight Seas Lands Men Beasts Fishes and Birds The rarest that the World affoords THO. Lord FAYRFAX Baron of Cameron TRAVELS BEGUN Anno 1626. DESCRIBING DIVERS parts of Africk and Asia the Great but principally the two famous Monarchies the Mogull and Persian THE FIRST BOOK ALL things are the more The Induction most things the better for Addition In honour and wealth no fault is found with encrease full meales full pleasures too brim-full have no guard upon them The fuller the better If the husbandry bestowed upon this Book hath improv'd the soile since you view'd it last the Lyme was yours and charge of bringing the spreading only belongs to mee as your day-labourer To improve on your incouragement is for your credit my delight both our benefits The gale you late so favourably lent me spred my affection and againe lancht me into another Ocean And Turpe mihi abire domo vacuumque redire est I know my new Relations must endure the touch yea and the handling too So should all Books But in this Age it fares with Books as with French toyes faire to the eyes well coverd with your empty Gallants who take the people with the out-side bravery Give me good Lynings My minde is like my habit plaine and my expressions I hope so too If my new thoughts have added to your bottom I know you will unwinde gently for feare of ravelling and tie a knot where the thread breaks But if I have made no Topographic mistakes I feare no other deviations The first the fruits of
Delly of many times could do against it notwithstanding all which Martasa after much danger of ambushments in that thick Wood seventy miles broad and trouble in passing his men over high and fearfull rocks lay eight months before it and then in despight of their best defence entred it and subjected it to the Mogul though he lived not three months after to meditate his victory Which when Iangheer heard with a mixture of joy and sorrow he leaves Cassemeer and removes to Lahore where Sultan Cushrooe the true idea of misery is by perswasion of the Queene and Assaph-cawn taken from Cawn-Iehan and put to Curroon to be his keeper At that time Iangheer affected his sonne Curroon beyond measure imagining no honour too much no command too great for so brave a Prince so hopefull a warrior so that little knowing what would follow hee gives him the charge of forty thousand horse and attended by Godjea-Abdul-Hussan and other great Umbraves hastens him to the conquest of Decan and to spoyle the Kingdomes of Gulcunda and Visiapore for omitting their annuall Tribute of three pound weight of Diamonds This yeare 1619 of Maho. 1029 Abdul-Azies-cawn succeeds Bador-cawn the Ouzbeg in his command of Candahar Cawn-Iehan is made Leifetenant of Mult'an and Buchor Sultan Perwees of Pathan and Radgee Bertsingh Bondela and Abdul-cawn Governours of Kalpi are commanded to raise some forces and follow Sultan Curroon into Decan Sultan Currowne by this time having leavied his forces A.D. 1619. A. Heg 999 and made all ready for his enterprize upon Decan first commands all men to intitle him Sha-Iehan or King of Hearts then with his whole Army in goodly equipage travels to Brampore the Rendezvous and whither Abdul-cawn and Radgee Bertzingh according to command come and wait upon him with Thedder-cawn his Cosen and many other Rashpootes of quality Curroon for by that name wee can best remember him swelling beyond measure to see himselfe Generall of so brave an Army dallyes not but with all speed gives order to Abdul cawn Lala-Ragee Bertzingh Abdul-Hassen and many other Umbraves to begin the Warre with Melec-Amber and that he the residue would follow them Mirza Mackey and Shadour-cawn march to Gulcunda against Cotobel Melec and Ma'met Tacky to Visiapore against Adel-cawn either to receive by force or faire meanes the accustomed tribute due to the Dyadem of Iudustant Abdul-cawn in the first place to effect his Commission Bellagate passes on without any let to Bellagate a fastidious mountaine twixt Cunca and Decan and for ought I know may be Hippocura in Ptolomy Curroon bringing up the other part of the Army at fifteene miles distance to succour the Van on all occasions the King of Decan at all advantages seekes to intercept them opponing in many petty skirmishes but Abdul-cawn formerly acquainted with his rodomontadoes passes on burning and spoyling what they met withall not resting till they came to Kerki the Kings best house which they levelled with the ground inriching themselves with store of prey and treasure Kerki reducing Berar and Chandys into subjection and forcing composition from all the Country as far as Amnadagar and Tribute from the Kings of Gulcunda and Visiapore Iangheer is over joyed with so much good Fortune and to relish it the better solaces himselfe in his sonne Perwees Gardens beyond the river Ethaman Dowlet Queene Normals Father dyed at that time his great estate is by the King given to his daughter and Assaph-cawn but his Office is confer'd upon Godgee Abdul Hossen Curroon also who sate as Emperour in his owne ambition with a greedy eye respects the Diadem but perceives his imprisoned Brother interposing in the way but such is the violence and magicke of pride and tyranny that it runs on not caring how though masqued with never so much deformity he feignes himselfe sick his disease is horrible nothing can recover him save his eldest Brothers death Ganganna is of his infernall councell who applauds his humour and promises his recovery he presently acquaints some Mancebdars in the exployt of all which rascall troope Reza or Rajea Bandor a very villain is quickest of apprehension and least scrupulous Curroon as if he knew nothing is conveighed out of Brampore to better his health whiles that incarnate Divell at an unseasonable houre in the night knocks at Goushroo's chamber A.D. 1620. A. heg 1000. who as awakened out of a fearfull dream starts up and demands his errant the villain replyes he came from the Mogul his Father with order for his delivery The miserable Prince affrighted with his Ravens voyce and suspecting treason desires him to stay till the morne the villain without further parlee perceiving no entrance by entreaty breaks open his doore grapples with the amazed Prince gets him downe and strangles him that done he layes him in his bed locks the doore and trots away as if the Prince dyed of some imposthume and hee had done nothing Curroon has quick newes of his Brothers death and inwardly rejoyces but ere Sun-rise his afflicted wife Cawn Azems daughter goes to visit him where finding him speechlesse and by his contus'd face murdered never did poore wretch shed more teares or shew more passion by tearing her faire hayre deforming her sweet face so fiercely so amazedly that her Father and all his family heare her and see it to their griefe and admiration But when they see the cause also they wonder not none of them forbearing to expresse their sorrow after severall modes without moderation All Brampore rings of this Treason suspects the author and curses him but Curroon cloath'd with deceipt comes thither falls upon the corps and expresses so much sorrow that many durst have sworne that he was innocent After two dayes ceremony they bury him and Curroon writes his Father word of his brothers sudden death concealing the occasion Iangheer weeps and afterwards growes mad with rage suspecting some violence but not knowing upon the sudden how to discover it he feeds upon melancholy and discontent writes back a letter of reproofe and threats to Curroon and his Umbraves swearing revenge when they least suspected it commands the body to be digd up and brought with solemne state to Elabasse where hee interres him in his Mothers monument sends for Chan Asem and his afflicted daughter comforts them and takes them for his constant companions to Sultan Bullochy or B'lochy his grandson sonne to Prince Gushrooe he intailes the Imperiall Crowne gives him the command of ten thousand horse and by Chan Asem his Grandsire of the blood royall of Tartary to be educated Curroon by his Fathers love to Sultan Bullochy perceives himselfe disregarded and thenceforth not caring to please him flies out into rebellion And Abdul-chan winding his aymes without leave taking forsakes the Army and packs to Kalpi to his government but by the Mogull who was still desirous to continue the Decan warres is rebuked and made to returne Yet ere long he is revoked for at
these parts his father and grand-father being Dukes afore him and which is no lesse admirable is priviledg'd from degradation by oath from Abbas upon this occasion Aliculican his father was victorious in many pitcht battells against Turk and Tartar adding no small lustre to Mahomet Codobandaes Diadem most memorably when by command of Amurath the sawcy Basha of Rhyvan with fifteene hundred musquets breath'd defiance against Morad the Chielfall governor in Armenia for daring to side with Ismael in that famous overthrow they gave the insolent Turks Anno 1514 in the Calderan plains Morad thus suddenly assaulted sends a timerous excuse which rather inrages the Bassa implacable till Morad had glutted his greedie appetite with burnisht gold two thousand pound commanding him thence to Nassivan old Artaxata by that time hungry againe Alicolichan Shaw Mahomets Lieftenant in Georgia rates Morad vows to make the Turk to eat cold Iron meat the Basha car'd not for but by Ally-culicans fierce charge with a gallant troop of six thousand horse made him returne his bribe and flie as if the Devill had beene in his guts without more prating over Anti Taurus calld Mezis Taur scarce thinking himselfe safe in any place whiles the valiant Georgian extracted a treble summe from Morad for his levity returning a triumphant victor to the Court recompenced with the Sheraz Dukedome and his sonne after him who has prov'd no lesse fortunate in Sha Abbas his field-services having quieted Georgia subdued Larr part of Arabia Diarbec Ormus All which it seemes is now forgotten the young Sha-Soffy first cutting off his sonnes head the young Beglerbeg and when the great Duke was singing to himselfe Tutum me copia fecit Anno 1632 had such another trick serv'd him his greatnesse pressing him to destruction But though he be dead his banquet and respect to us must not bee forgotten Ingrato homine terra pejus nil creat sayes Ausonius At our being here he had absented himselfe of purpose and albeit Sir Robert Sherley took the paines to ride to him and tell him his error hee answered It was no dishonour for any man his Master excepted to stay his leasure but if our Lord Ambassador had had his guard and other furniture wee had gone away without his Licence After six dayes attendance his Greatnesse was pleasd to visit Sheraz followed by two thousand horse most unmanerly took his ease two dayes after without any respect or note taking of the Ambassador At length he sent a gentleman to bid him come and visit him returning with this answer hee was weary having come a great journey and that his businesse was to see his Master hee knew not him The Duke storms to be so slighted but durst not affront him knowing the King had commanded his whole Kingdome to honour and bid him heartily welcome so after some pause sent word he meant next day to visit him but faild in his promise his sonne the Beglerbeg eighteene yeere old being sent to excuse him Next day our Ambassador sent word by Shoc-Ally-beg to the Dukes sonne his visit should be retaliated Emangoly-cawn is angry no more respect was had of him wondring what kind of people wee were since his owne in a sort adored him But see how subtilly they intrapt him for he was no sooner alighted at the Dukes Pallace but by Shoc-Ally-beg is welcomed and by him ushered our Lord knew not whither into a long gallery rich in beauties plate carpets and other furniture where like a Statua the Duke himselfe at the very end sat crosse-legd not moving one jot till the Ambassador was at him when as if he had beene afrighted hee skipt up and bad him welcome vouchsafeing also upon knowledge that we were gentlemen to imbrace us and provide us a banquet So after two houres merriment departed invited to returne next day to a more solemne welcome Next day being come wee were ushered by a Sultan thorw two great courts into a rich and stately banqueting house a large open roome supported with twenty richly guilded pillars the roofe imbost with flaming gold the ground spread with rich carpets of silke and gold a state at one end of crimson satten thick imbroydered with pearles and gold under which hee was to in-throne himselfe one side most excellently depicted his Ormus Trophyes no cost no Art left out to do it to the life their incamping upon the shoare their assaults scaladoes and entrance the massacre of the Ormousians some beheaded some cheyn'd some their heads serving for girdles as also the English ships and sea skirmishes without whose help it never had beene gained and the like so well painted Velutsi revera pugnent feriant vitentque Moventes Arma Vâ—ri As seem'd indeed Men armd to fight ward strike till each man bleed And when the greene and crimson scaenes of silke were drawne from this Apollo wee lookt into a great square court which at this occasion was round beset with the prime men of the City and into another court where I think I told five hundred Plebeyans invited to illustrate the Dukes magnificence Before the proud Duke meant to display his radiance my Lord Ambassador was seated on the left side of the state you may note if you please that all Asia over the left hand as the sword hand is most honorable upon the other side sat the discontented Prince of Tartary at my Lords left hand was seated the Beglerbeg and next him the captive King of Ormus Next to the Tartar Prince sat Threbis-cawn a disconsolate Prince of Georgia a brave warrior a constant Christian opposite to the state Sir Robert seated himselfe and with us were placed the two Princes of Ormus and some Sultans The rest of the great banquetting roome was fild with men of especiall note Sultans rich Merchants and Cooselbashaes young Ganimeds arrayed in cloth of gold went up and downe with flagons of pure gold to powre out wine to such as noded for it upon the carpets were spread fine coloured pintado Table cloaths forty ells long broad thin pancakes six one upon another served for trenchers neere which were scattered wodden spoons whose handles were almost a yard long the spoone it selfe so thick so wide as requir'd a right spatious mouth for entertainment The feast begins it was compounded of a hundred sorts of pelo and candid dried meats as also of Dates Peares and Peaches curiously conserved such I took best notice of I meane as pleasd me best were Iaacks Myrabolans Duroyens Pistachoes Almonds Apricocks Quinces Cherries and the rest I leave to the confectioner to inquire after It seemes we are so infatuated with our banquet and wine that the Duke is not taken notice of pray pardon he is not yet come that when our bellies are full our eyes may have the better leisure to surveigh his greatnesse The feast being ended the vulgar multitude strove to rend the sky with Yough Ally-Whoddaw-Bashat i.e. Ally and God bee thanked the Eccho was as
Moheia rather from fish a calumny had three sonnes Ally Hushan Achmet Ally sirnm'd Abenhassen had no issue his father and he were both buried in Sheraz An. Dom. 940 heg 320. Hussan by death of his elder brother was Lord of Parc Hery Hierac and Corasan Acmet had Kerman and Macron To Hussan succeeded a stranger Zedday-Mohee by name brought in by Mustapha the Babylonian Calyph to whom succeeded Eyna-duddaule that had no issue So Rocnadaul Hussans sonne got possession of his fathers seigniories and dyed Anno Domini 980. heg 360. dividing first his crowne lands amongst his three sonnes Sherfa-daule Shamsdaules and Bahao-daules The eldest had Shyraztan Larestan and Kerman the second Hierac and Diarbec the youngest had Gerioom and Taburstan Sherfadaule dyed issules Anno Dom. 990. heg 370. the second brother inherited but the envie of traitors gave him small joy for hee was buried not long after his Coronation whereby the seigniory came to Bahao-daules the youngest sonne of King Rocknadaule Bahaodaule governed twelve yeeres very succesfully and at 's death commanded his eldest son Sultandaule to succeed him this Prince was train'd up in field exercises from his cradle and by his valour much inlarged his Empire yet could not defend himselfe from Hocem Masharafdaule his restlesse brother till by agreement the Kingdome was divided to Sultandaule Farsistan and Aywaz to Hocen Hyerakeyn At that time Gelalâ—daul their brother was invested with the Caliph-ship of Bagdat Anno Domini 1021. heg 401. and Sultan-daul at last dyes and is Anno Domini 1025. buried in Shyraz with great solemnity Abdul-cawn his sonne ruled after him but perceives the Crowne to totter yea to fall off by the unnaturall practises of Syarfuddaul call'd also Abul-favar his traiterous Uncle forced thereby to fly to Gelaladaul his other Uncle the late made Kaliph who is glad of this occasion having long lookt with a squint eye of ambition upon his Nephews Diadem but dissembing it with a brave Army he descends from Bagdat and with ease dethrones Abul-favar but mounts himselfe into the throne to Abdul-cawns amazement who to save his life flies into Arabia whiles Mahomet Gaznehy from Hindostant falls upon Ayrac and Shervan but is repeld most shamefully into Sablestan Parc at that instant being miserably trod under-foot by the Turquemen and Deylamans ere long Abul-favor gets so highly into the Calyphs favour that hee is confirmed in his former title but in the way death cut off his claime leaving Abdul-cawn the banisht Prince his right who upon this faire advantage returnes and is joyfully welcomed but surfetting of too much joy hee lived not long after it for commending his body to the earth he gave the royalty to Aben-melec-Rahim his sonne who dyed Anno Domini 1054. heg 434. without issue and in whom after a race of fifteene Kings took end the Moheyan pedegree To him succeeded Abumansor who pretended himselfe true sonne of Gelaladaul the Caliph he took to wife Danta daughter of Toshalbeg and dyed after five yeeres greatnesse in Kermoen and lyes buried at Hurkawn not farre from Iasquis he had five sonnes by that Lady Abumansorphulad-sotun Chozroe-pheruz Abu-becr Abuzeddai and Aboally-kay-kozrao Abumansor inlarged Shyraz and did his best to make it strong and beautifull but whiles he busied his fancie at home he looks not abroad such time his ambitious brother Cosroe-pheruz gripes him and takes unjust possession of his Territories but revenge pursues him for being invited to Bagdat to see his sick grandsire Toshalbeg for his cruelty to his brother he is put into a loathsome prison where famine and stench made an end of him But this could not terrifie Abuzedday the fourth brother from intruding into Abumansors right albeit his injured brother had escaped and gathered a resolute Army who so stoutly stood his friends that Zedday is slaine and his associates banished It seemes Abumansor was borne to an iron destiny unable at his second returne to safegard himselfe from Fazele his Liefetenant that unawares detrudes him into a deadly prison adorning his rascall browes with his Masters Diadem Aboally will none of that he takes a happy advantage and pulls it from Fazel's brows and crownes him with one better becomming Traitors of flaming iron Aboally after hee had soveraniz'd seven yeeres is arrested by grim death Anno Domini 1100. heg 480. and for want of issue the Scepter falls to Mahummed Abutalip Togrulbeg sonne of Michael sonne of Salgucius sonne of Didacus a Turqueman In the Salgucian family it continued till Mahummed Abul-casen dyed Anno Domini 1220. heg 600. without any issue A race of Tattarrs followed led by Cingis-cawn Lord of Ketoa-kotan Maurenahar and Gaznehen Almostansor-bila-Mansor then sitting Caliph of Mecca and Bagdat To Cingis-cawn who dyed Anno Domini 1228. heg 608. followed Tuki-cawn and Chagatay-cawn from Chagatay-cawn descended Tamberlan whose issue now rule Hindustant After the Tartars the Turks a fresh planted here led by Chara-Mohummed An. Dom. 1415. Heg 795. a Karakula guspan or black sheepe as they call themselves banisht Anno Dom. 1470. Heg 850. by Acen-beg call'd also Vsan-cassan an Armenian Christian whose grandson Alvan was the last white sheepe or Acorlu-guspan shorne mortally by Izmael-Sophy his ambitious kinsman An. 1504. Heg 884. This Izmael was great Grandfather to Abbas now Persian King of the Ben-Ally or Sophian Genealogie Let us now what pace you please to Perse-polis not much out of the road but were it a thousand times further it merits our paines to view it being indeed the only bravo Antique-Monument not in Persia alone but through all the Orient PERSEPOLIS first call'd Elamis from Elam sonne of Sem sonne of Noah was built enlarg'd rather by Sosarmus a Median Dynast third from Arbaces that put a period by death of Sardanapalus to the Assyrian Monarchy begun by Belus Nymrod and Iupiter and in a glorious succession of one and forty Emperours commanding the world till Arbaces subjected Babylon By Cambyses sonne to Cyrus the magnificent it was most beautified and from him to Darius Codomanus continued Empresse of Asia two hundred thirty yeares in a line of thirteen Monarchs till Alexander by conquest of all Asia made prostrate also this glorious Citie betrayed by Teredates and demolisht by vehement perswasion of Thais an Athenian harlot who in revenge of Xerxe's expedition into Greece never gave over exasperating the giddy Macedonian till shee saw it flaming an act so unworthy Alexander as hee sought to quench it with his teares A Citie so excellent that Quintus Curtius and Diodorus Siculus intitle it the richest and most lovely Citie under the Sunne A high and stately Tower it had circled with a triple Wall sixteene cubits high the first adorn'd with battlements the second was two and thirty the third of threescore cubits high of delicate polisht Marble entred by many gates of burnisht brasse To the East rose amiably a hill of foure Akers in which in stately Mausoleums were intombed the Monarchs of the world Many rare
attribute so properly Is not Soffee-Sultan-mirza a Prince his sonne on whom can he more justly conferre his love in whom should vertue rather dwell where can there be a better center poore Prince the path he treads to adde lustre to his Fathers Diadem to do his Country good to be accounted commendable betrayes his steps and intices him to an affrighting precipice the more he labours to delight his Father it serves as fuell to an unjust jealousie the more hee dignifies his countries honour the more applause the people crowne him with and Abbas feares his popularity yea so farre cherishes dishonourable thoughts so much degenerates from paternall piety that without all pitty or regard of justice which makes Kings more beautifull and glorious than when circled with a Tyrants sparkling Diadem hee ruminates his speedy destruction During these his cabinet machinations the harmelesse Prince brandishes his steele in proud Arabia but after many conquests himselfe becomes captivated An Arabian Princesse of good report great beauty in such bodies usually are impaled the fairest soules and other excellent indowments fettered him but by his bravery and worth quickly redeem'd himselfe and vanquisht her Such magick has love such magnetick power is in vertue By this Lady he had in few yeeres two children Soffy and Fatyma no lesse loved by their Syre than beloved doated on by the Grandsyre Abbas a strange affection to distinguish so unnaturally to separate where nature had so strongly joyned to hate the graft and have the fruit endeared to him But that his hate might flow more currantly and lesse suspected hee lookes one way and shoots another seekes to inrage by abusing him hee lov'd most dearly Magar an Arab the Princes Tutor a sober faithfull and valiant servant Abbas calls for him and in leiu of applause or rewarding him for his sonnes noble education he lends him a sterne frowne accuses him of pride and charges him that hee had bewitcht the Prince with base ambition Magar sees not the venome prepared for him and therefore in an humble but confident excuse seekes to quiet him but the better hee apologuiz'd in his owne behalfe and the clearer hee made the Mirzaes loyalty appeare the more hee exasperates the King the higher his rage inflamed so that first hee amazes him with a volley of rigorous defamations and in that maze gives the signe a dreadfull signe for forthwith the Capigies break out and strangle him An unparaleld barbarisme an act so unbeseeming that famous King as amongst the common sort to this day it is not credited but Fames brazen shrill-mouth'd Trump sounds it abroad and ere long the Prince then in action against the Tartar has notice of his Syres injustice hee leaves the Camp and after many signalls of sorrow beseeches the King hee may know the reason of it who flashes him this thundring reason for thy rebellion he calls heaven to witnesse his integrity and obedience but Abbas provokes him further to intrap and have some colour to satisfie the world in his destruction The Prince madded with heat and passion imagines hee saw Magar a strangling and in that extasie unsheaths his sword vowing to rescue him the King sorrowes not at his distraction but at this advantage upon some faire termes disarming him calls him into another roome and pretending he was not very well goes out commanding seven big-bon'd villanies deafe and dumbe through a trap doore to issue upon him arm'd with bloody minds and deadly bow-strings their habit and weapons bewray their cruelty they needed no other interpretors the Prince admires the cause and if oratory or other submissive signes of entreaty could have gotten remorse or delay from these hell-hounds but till he knew the ground of this unnaturall project he had affoorded it but assured they were inexorable with an incomparable rage and suddennesse he flies upon them now one then another receiving such horrid blowes that ere they could fasten on him or insnare him with their ghastly twanging bowstrings hee sent three of them to the Divell and long time defended himselfe offending those blood-hounds with admirable courage and dexterity insomuch that had hee mastered any weapon hee had doubtlesse saved himselfe but wanting it his breath failed and longer his valour could not nourish him for facile est vincere non repugnantem so that at last thay fastened their noozes on him who now was as a dead man for all which the villains had triumpht in his further tortures had not the King prevented it commanding them to pinnion him and before hee could recover his sences to draw a flaming steele afore his eyes and so to blind him forbidding him the sight of what hee loved ever after wife babes friends soldiers or Magars carcasse And by this impiety Asia lost her fairest jewell Persia her Crown of honour and Mars his darling The losse of so brave a Prince is quickly rumord All Persia mourns and in many threnodies sing his farewell his Army swells with passion but seeing no remedy by a forced silence murmur their imprecations the Prince when he perceived his undoing the eye of reason lent him such a sight falls frantick hee curses his birth his fame his loyalty his cruell parent and by many contumatious threats vowes his destruction but vana sine viribus ira he findes his revenge impossible but at that conceit roares hidiously and is not to be comforted till Suliman-mirza Curchiki-cawn and other his kinsmen and quondam favorits flockt about him and by their miserable examples dictated patience for none there but in some measure had swolne big with the Kings infusion in their times and by like jealousie were crusht downe mutilated and damnd to perpetuall imprisonment In those discontented times Abbas kept his Orb moving like another Saturn now he imagines his Crowne fixt closely to his head his seat steddy every way free from stormes and other accidentall causes that might disturb his quiet he swum hourely in an ocean of delight and relisht it but nothing so much inchanted him as young Fatyma no other Syren was melodious in song or delicate in feature save pretty Fatyma if any stood in feare he is pacified by Fatyma Court and Kingdome admired his love but joyed at it for by this Lady they found a way to expell his rage and how to pleasure him the prisoners also by this Fatyma got some livelyhood for want of which they were oft times welnigh famished none but shee daring to mediate and thus by this good infant gained they what formerly they pined for food and comfort But what joy findes the blinded Prince since hee cannot participate revenge delights him more that word as musick pleases the infernall fancie of this melancholy Mirza not caring how detestable so Abbas suffered The Divell inspires new rage and blowes the coales of more than cruell assassination for albeit he loved Fatima yet hearing how his Father doated on her that begets his hate yea hatches the innocents confusion Oh! in him
come and by that turn'd the fortune of the day eclips'd by that interposition and made to dy there in an honourable conquest the cheife Captain Arezbeg unhorst imprisoned and at Sumachy most basely hang'd to give the terrified Tattars fresh incouragement Sumachy or Shamaky as some call it has North latitude 39 degrees a frontier Town it is Medya Armenia and Hyrcania parting there it was founded by Shamuc-Zeddaule An. Dom. 990. Heg 370. and from whom peradventure it was named It has foure thousand families the houses are low little gracefull seated in a pleasant plain or valley to the Notth and West allowing a delightfull prospect Anno Domini 1566. Heg 946. her last Native King Obdolow-cawn dyed and his sonne Syrvan-Shaw was forced to inroll himselfe a Tributary to Shaw-Abbas In this Towne is a Tower of heads rais'd by the insolent Turq's such as is in Spahawn and which the old knave Mustapha made be erected But to returne Mahomet Codobanda has quick newes of the shamefull death Arez-beg had suffred He sorrowes for the losse of so brave a man is sick of revenge and intreats his couragious sonne Emyr-Hamzè-Mirza the wonder of his time to recompence that villany who most cheerefully with twelve thousand men hasts out of Casbyn and in nineteene dayes presents his men in the face of Abdulchery and his Tattars flashing such pannique feare amongst them that after two houres fight hee rowts his Armie and with much shame and losse forces them away to seek more shelter that done he enters Erez and massacres the Turkish Garrisons Caytas the Bassa hee made to imitate Arezbeg in the grizely play of Death he recovered also two hundred peeces of Artillery those very same his Grandsire Tamas had lost to the grand Signieur Solyman he stayes not there but hearing where the Tartars had re-incampt with his speedy Army he re-encounters them cut most of them in peeces whereby the birds of the ayre might more easily prey upon their carcasses Abdulchery by fortune of warre was unhorst by the gallant Prince and sent captive to Ere 's where the Begun or Queene mother lay during which Osman and his Turks enter Sumachy without resistance but the Persian Prince hasts thither and with such furie that amazed Osman takes th' advantage of the night and stole away leaving Sumachy to the Princes mercy who for her perfidy made a fire of her houses and seem'd to quench it with blood of the Inhabitants Returning back to Erez he forces his Mother and he youthfull Tartar to follow him to Casbyn where he was received with Epiciniaes and songs of joy and triumph Osman in the interim sculks in Derbent whither we will take the paines to follow him DERBENT is a strong and famous Port Town upon the Caspian sea viewing from her loftie Tarrasses the Armenian and Hyrcan Territories Ararat and the sea knowne to our predecessors by many names as Alexandria from the great Macedonian who built many Townes and gave them his name Morcosa Demyrcapi and now Derbent memorable in her best passage from Armenia major Medya c. into Mosendram Gheylan Shervan Tartary c. it is removed one hundred and twenty miles from Sumachy from Bildih 180. it elevates the North Pole one and forty degrees fifteene minutes and admits three miles compasse and better is circled with a strong high and usefull stone wall the houses Hummums and Churches are but meanly beautifull such rage the Prince Emir-Hamze shewed here Anno 1568. Heg 948. such time as he unkenneld with smoke and flame Osman Bassa and his Turkish varlets and made the Inhabitants feele the temper of his biting sword the houses the fire of his wrath an object of his justice of their levity and rebellion In Derbent the strong Castle Kastow is most observable pleasant and every way advantagious that wall also which runnes thence to Tephlys in Georgia built by Alexander the great upon like occasion Offa drew his ditch to terminate the valiant Brittans call'd also Caucasiae vel Iberiae portae is one of the wonders of Asia but at this day moath-eaten by iron tooth'd Time and warres inconsiderate furie returne againe Abdul-chery and the Queen-mother by this are so linkt in Cupyds chains that the Tattar finds himselfe double fettered but after much parlee and fight they tooke truce and grew so co-united that the Sultans in Casbyn took notice of it but neither regarding her Majestie nor his youth forgetting also that the King intended to make him his sonne in law no dishonour being the great Cams brother all these neglected they broke in at such an unluckie time as they were acting some inchastity a sight so odious to the jealous Sultans that they first made him an Eunuch and after that slew them both concluding so Anno Heg 958. the end and tryumphs of the Praecopensian Tartar After some stay in Cazbeen our Ambassador to swiften his dispatch visited the Load-starre of Persia the grand Favorite Mahomet Ally-beg who entertain'd him with a loftie look and wisht him to trust his secrets to his Cabinet wherein the mysteries of the whole state was lockt the King shewing himselfe unwilling to be further troubled The Ambassadour might in any other place than Persia have return'd him the Lye but perceiving no remedy and desiring to haste home imparted so much as hee saw necessarie Touching Sir Robert Sherley hee was to expect no other satisfaction his enemie was dead and at the Caspian sea the King had sufficiently honoured him but to speak truly the Pot-shaugh had then no affection to him when by reason of his age hee was disabled to doe him further service adding but out of an Enemies mouth that all his Ambassies and messages to the Princes of Christendome were frivolous and counterfeit But when our Ambassadour objected he was in person there to justifie his authority that he had the Kings Letter of credence to testifie sign'd and stampt by the Shaugh himselfe and that it had beene a ridiculous presumption in Sherley to have dared to contest with Abbas to his face if hee had beene an Impostor the Favorite had not wherewith to answer save that so our Ambassador pleas'd to lend him that Phirman Sir Robert Sherley had brought in his defence hee would returne it him next day with his Masters speach concerning it A vexation it must needs be to my Lord Ambassadour to treat in this uncivill sort by a malicious proxy necessitie forced it Three dayes passed ere Mahomet-Ally-beg would vouchsafe to returne the Letter or give that satisfaction he had promised at length he came and told the Ambassadour that the King had lookt upon it had denied it to be his and in a great rage had burnt it wishing Sir Robert Sherley would depart his Kingdome because old and as hee thought troublesom It was in vaine to chalenge the pragmatique Pagan in point of honour nor knew he any recourse by justice to ease himselfe We all were verily perswaded he
encreasing from eight persons those that issued from the Ark upon Ararat in Armenia This building was hastned by five hundred thousand men in few yeares raising it from its basis which was nine miles about to above five thousand paces into the skie whence Ovid fabled his Giants warres Affectasseferunt regnum Coeleste Gyantâ—s Altaque congestos struxisse ad sydera Montes The heavens look't pale with wonder to be behold With what attempts and rage Giants bold Sought to affront the gods by raising high Mount upon mount to inhabit in the skie intending no doubt to peepe into heaven But hee that sits above and accounts the best of mans power and policie but meere weaknesse and folly not only distracted their designe but severed them into seventie Companies sending them seventie wayes to better imployments from one tongue the Hebrew Goropius dreamt it was Dutch ordaining seventy other Languages But though the Tower of Babel stood for ever unfinished albeit Alexander the great by some months labour in vaine of 100000 men made to desist by strange diseases and affrights thought to have finisht it the Citie notwithstanding swell'd to a prodigious greatnesse and though Arphaxad sonne of Sem sonne of Noah begun to inhabit in this vale of Shynaear yet Nimrod sonne of Cush or Iupiter Belus sonne of Cam or Iupiter Hamon the accursed sonne of Noah wrested it from his other kindred yea behaved himselfe so proudly amongst his brethren that to gratifie his memorie they deified him by name of Sudormyn by the Romans converted into Saturne Nimrod lived six and fiftie yeares after the beginning of Babell hee at last gave way to Death and was buried I know not where some say at this place some say at Persepolis Idolatrie was soone hatcht in the world Nimrods successours strove to make their hellish progenitors earthly gods for after Ninus his sonne had erected many Temples to put his Grandsires Images in he attracted infinit people to inhabit there by whose labours hee not only agrandiz'd this Citie but by their helps grew to tyrannize in the world and to augment his Empire whence he is accounted the first that incroacht on others rights to satiate his ambition and as he is named the first Emperour of the earth so none died so miserably for his wife Semiramys detruded him into prison where shee made him die a hatefull death such as became a monster The Virago Queene sat confidently at the helme and steered through an Ocean of stormes and miraculous passages till burning in flames of lust in stead of embraces hersonne Nynias thought Amraphel and Mars to revenge his Fathers death slew her but by that murder became mad and in that frenzie marched against King Cancasus Iaphets great grand-son and subdued him howbeit he himselfe was so serv'd by Abraham such time as he rescued his Nephew Lot captivated by Arioch Tydal and Chedorlaomer Semyramis to eternize her memorie fought many brave Combats and return'd oft times victorious she subjected many Kings subjugated many Provinces built many famous Castles Cities and Gardens the ruines of some of them are in Medya to this houre remaining Wee will confine her into Babylon where shee erected two inimitable Pallaces one was at the East end th'orher at the West the first extended thirty the other sixty furlongs both were immured with walls of stupendious height and architecture but excelling those she built another in the heart or center of Babylon which she dedicated to Cush or Iupiter Belus the shape whereof was of foure equilateralls or sides from every angle were one thousand in all foure thousand paces 't was circled with a thick and towring wall entred by foure gates of polisht brasse in midst was elevated a strong and stately Tower upon which eight other Towers rose one upon another farre above the middle region whence from a continued serenity of the sky the Priests or Caldaean Astrologers precisely markt the planetary motions and if possible to heare their rowling harmony for being above the clouds they delighted to regard the exact light and magnitude of the Starres their heliacall acronicall matutine and vespertine motions rising and falling Apollo's progresse the constellations aspects influences and the like and at the top of all a Turret inricht with three great golden Images or Statuas representing Iupiter Ops and Iuno i. e. her father in law her husband Ninny and her selfe continuing there in divine esteeme for many ages and whereto sayes Herodatus in way of sacrifice was yeerly consumed a hundred thousand Talents in franc-incense till Cyrus An. Mun. 3432. by drayning Euphrates into other channells entred this Epitomè of the world and ransackt her bravery But I have not spoken all Semyramis also circled this gallant City with a wall which in after ages was call'd a wonder some say Nabuchadonozar made it but an ancient Poet sings otherwise Semyramis built Persian Babylon Persarum statuit Babylona Semyramis Vrbem The circuit of which Wall was after Solynus threescore miles English or as hee reckons it foure hundred and eighty furlongs Diodorus Siculus computes three hundred and sixty five each day in the yeere chalenging a furlong Quintus Curtius numbers three hundred fifty and eight differing in his Arithmetic but seven furlongs The compasse I admire at but am amazed at the height and spissitude two hundred cubits high it was and fifty cubits thick so thick and spacious that at the top six Chariots might take the ayre driving together abrest not one before another Nynus and Semyramis begun it bravely yet Nabuchadnezzer and Nytocris his wife daughter of Aliattes beautified it in a stupid admiration crying out Is not this great Babel that I have built a boast so much offending the sacred Majesty of God that hee rent the Kingdome from that proud Assyrian and made him a companion for beasts and birds to the astonishment of all such Atheists Cyrus by one battell at Borsippa prostrated it and wreathed his Persian brow with that Monarchic Dyadem Anno Mundi 3432 seventeen yeeres after the captivity of Iudah and Israel by Nabuzaradan his Liefetenant five hundred and fifty two yeeres before the birth of our Saviour after which it was often vassaled Seventy nine yeeres after Anno Mundi 3511 Artaxerxes Longimanus ruling Persia the Prophet Ezdras went hence to rebuild the Temple at Ierusalem and thirteene yeeres after that was seconded by Nehemiah from Shushan The victorious Macedonian conquered it Anno Mun. 3633 at which time as Aristotle reports one part of the City knew not in three dayes after that the enemy had entred it a vast bignesse but easily credited if Pausanias in Assyr say true Babylon omnium quas unquam Sol aspexit Vrbium maxima c. either to parallell it with Ierusalem destroyed by Vespatian in their solemne sacrifices in which times the people multiplyed or rather to fulfill that prophesie 51 Ieremiah 31 One Post shall runne to meet another to shew the King of Babylon that his
may as justly tax me of neglect I will therefore but name them and reconcile some mens mistakes in misnaming these antique Kings of Persia Cyrus is the first we can deduce a true succession from For albeit they had Kings formerly of which Chederlaomer was one as wee read in Gen. and it may be the same whom the Persian Histories call Cheyomaraz father of Siamech to whom succeeded Owchange Iamshet Zoak Fraydhun Manucher Nawder Afraciab Achemenes some think Bazab Kaycohad Salemon Chozrao Lorazpes yet the succession from him is most incertaine and doubtlesse of no grandeur in that the Assyrian Monarchie begun by Nymrod sonne of Chush sonne of Cham sonne of Noah ecclipsed it and under whose command it lay for above 1300 yeares if Berosus be not counterfetted and from Belochus who deposed Sardanapal the last Assyrian Emperour of Nymrods race and Arbaces the first founder of the Median Monarchie a confederate with Belochus to Cyrus who advanced the Persians to a Monarkique greatnesse by subduing Astiages his Grand-sire transferd the Empire to the Persian as formerly the Medes had the Assyrian 260 yeares This change hapned in the yeare from Adam 3400 after the building of Rome 287 after the first Olympiad 50 and before the incarnation of our Saviour 567 c. Persia made a Monarchy by Cyrus Of Cyrus many memorable matters might be offered but I dare not enter the Labyrinth lest I wander so farre that I may chance to lose my selfe and your patience this only be remembred that this is that Cyrus of whom the Prophet Esay fore-told some hundred yeares ere he was born of him also Nabuchadnezzar prophesied beginning thus Ast ubi Medorum jus regni Mulus habebit c. That a Mule should over-runne Lydia fulfild in Craesus and subvert the Caldean Monarchie the word Mulus had relation to his mixture of bloud his mother beinga Mede his Syre a Persian Hee married Cassandana and by her had Cambyses that reigned after him Cyrus after he had ruled thirty yeares and in that time had added to his Empire Arabia Mesopotamia Syria Capadocia Phrygia Armenia c. hoped also to subject Scythia but neere the river Oxus was slaine by Tomyris the Queene of those parts of Zagathaya but upon ransome his body was delivered and convayed to Pasagard where Alexander found his Tomb but not that wealth he thought it had contained Cambyses ruled the Persian Monarchie but nine yeares of whose reigne is little to be said save that he subdued Aegipt after which he grew so luxurious and tyrannous that all men hated him his death was imputed to divine Justice for at Memphis hee committed sacriledge in the Temple of Apys or Anubys and broke the neck of that apish god set there by the idolatrous Aegyptians but at Damascus fell accidentally upon his owne weapon and dyed by it At his death seven Noble men or Magi of Persia severally contended for the Diadem for smerdis the upstart King was discovered by wanting his eares to be an impostor of which Darius sirnamed Histaspes who by the cunning of his Groome made his horse neigh next morne before the rest mounted the Throne and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or delivery of the Kingdome from the Magi from that time to Alexanders comming was annually celebrated Darius governed happily 35 yeares the last only was infortunate by that overthrow he received at Marathon by Miltiades the noble Athenian This is he who so much favoured the Jewes and Ierusalem his death was caused by losse of that battell at Marathon and that by it hee wanted Anthina's faire daughter This Darius Histasp I imagine to be the same Gustasp who first by imposture as else-where I have remembred made his people fire worshippers To Darius succeeded his son Xerxes by the Persians call'd Ardxer an infortunate Prince for howbeit he was in his time the greatest Emperour in the world and had a worls of men and wealth to obey his humours yet what by too much confidence in them and contempt of other Princes he reaped the greatest dishonour that ever befell any Prince of Persia for albeit he entred Greece with an army of 1800000 men yet could he not prevent an overthrow given him at the straits of Thermophilae by Leonidas the Spartan Generall who had not foure thousand men and by Themistocles the Admirall neere to Salamys was equally opposed and his whole Army confounded Afrer 20 yeeres rule he died and left Arta-xerxes his son his inheritor This Artaxerxes i.e. a victorious conquerour is in Persian story call'd Ard-xer-Bohaman and by Arabian writers Tama-xerxicas this is he that married Atossa or Hester the Jew in which book he is named Ahasuerus at the end of forty foure yeeres happy government he died and Art-axerxes sirnamed Muenon in his place was crowned King some insert Darius Nothus before him Artaxerxes sonne of Artaxerxes and Parisatys daughter of Cyrus ruled Persia forty and two yeeres and at the age of eighty was buried at Persepolis Artaxerxes Ochus his sonne succeeded him who also when he had governed cruelly twenty and six yeeres was hastned but by an untimely death after his Father Arses or Arsamus his sonne investing himselfe with the Persian roabs of rule and majesty Of Arses little can bee said save that he died by the hands of the Eunuch Bagoas his Fathers murderer after his Coronation foure yeere and in his place by meanes of Bagoas Darius Codomanus by Persians call'd Darab-kowcheck i.e. little Darius was saluted King him Alexander the victorious Greek orethrew in three great battells at Arbela Amanus and Granicus the last concluded his life and six yeeres reigne Anno Mundi 3640 Persia subjected by the Greeks of the Olympiad 112 of Rome 420 and before the Nativity 333 yeeres or thereabouts Alexander worthily sirnamed Great two yeeres after died at Babylon foretold by a Calan or Indian Gymnosophist in the three and thirty of his age of his rule twelve yeeres his heart was transfer'd to Alexandria his corps interd at Babylon Alexanders Legacy bequeathing the succession not to his owne issue or kin but to the Worthiest made Pyrrha's bones revive againe discord and pride and envie emulating every of his great Captaines who by this common Motto Virtus mihi Numen Ensis quern gero challenged the Empire and ceased not to lay claime till death and warres fury cut them off Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership after long stormes seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean during whose life and fifty yeers after the Greeks awed Persia Recovered by Arbaces a Parthyan till such time as Arbaces an heroyck Parthian broke that yaok of slavery asunder and for three and twenty yeeres did what was possible to revive the more than halfe dead Persians To Arbaces succeeded Methridates who ruled twenty yeeres after whom Pampasius twelve Pharnaces eight Methridatus Medus Thirteene to whom followed Phraortes call'd by the Perses Pharug-zed Artabanus call'd Ard-Bahaman Methridates
and godly Constantine witnesseth The honour of the first Christian European discoverie we owe to Laurentius sonne of the brave Almeyda the Portugall Generall about the yeare 1500 not altering the name from what the Natives named it Which though Hayton 300 yeares agoe and Barrius by many sophisticated Notions borrowed from the braines of Corsalus and Varryer will have to be Tabroban we will grant it so when by Epedemick assent hee can prove Peru to be Ophyr To speake of the Time present The I le is over-runne with stinking weeds of cursed Heythenisme Here grow those heaps of Errors which we see Of all uncleannesse and Idolatrie Hic errorum cumulus hic omnis spurcitia Hic infoelix populus gaudet Idolatria Scarce any Village or Mount without its inanimate Pagod which being divers in shape are therefore diversified in that they relish the divers pallats of divers men Witnesse that infamous Apis Hanimant or Apes-tooth-god so highly so generally resorted to by millions of Indians till Constantine the late Goan Viceroy landed 500 men spoil'd Columbo and tooke away that simple Idoll and in his zeale burnt it refusing 300000 Duckets which the Zeylonians profferd to redeeme that their helplesse Pagod Unwisely refused in that a craftie Bannyan produced such another protesting it the same was beleev'd by the Jogues the Priests thereby exceedingly enriching himselfe and joying not a little these credulous Zelonyans They have many other Cacodaemons horrible and ugly The more deformed the more exact Idaeas of Devills the more venerable A notable one is that not farre from Mattacala conspicuous in its standing an Idoll of great bulk and Antiquity Of which the Singales and Jogues Cronography That many yeares agoe one Iohna their King nourisht a ridiculous and impious conceit of this Diabolo as a foolish and senselesse Idoll But loe the Jogues by the Devills craft so wrought that upon a solemne day as Iohna entred he beheld the Pagod to breath out fire and furie his eyes colour'd with rage and the Semiter in his hand wrathfully bent against him the amazed King cryes out for help accuses his infidelity confesses it a perfect Devill and having well satisfied for his errour is reconcil'd and ever after a zealous Idolater The place where this grand Pagotha stands is invelloped with a cloud of Armes and as sedulously guarded Good reason too The Time shall come when sea when land when all The heavens vast moving regions burning shall Consume and to their ancient Chaos fall Esse quoque in Fatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo Tellus correptaque regia coeli Ardeat Et Mundi moles operosa laborer Verily beleeving that so soone as this tott'ring Idoll falls the finall ruine and overture of the whole world by fire or other wayes shall immediately come after Upon Columbo's high peake a place deerely bought by the covetous Portugall is also shew'd and seene and credited the vestigiating or footsteps of old Adam here beleeve them if you can borne and buried Here also for a little money and much paines you may see a Lake of sale water and because salt upon so high a hill said to be no other water but the very teares which Eve shed a hundred yeares together for the murther of righteous Abell A Cabala how strange soever it seeme to mee and you yet Frier Oderic of Friuli Anno 1300 a contemporary and fellow Traveller and Figmentor with our Sir Iohn not onely beleeves it but perswades us to a like credulity A word now of the soyle It abounds with sundry sorts of aromatique spices but in most plenty with Cinnamon and thence by Ptolomy and Strabo is call'd Cinnamomifera regio Cynamon Cinnamon is a pretious bark The Trâ—… is straigbt and low the branches no way ruinous but growing in a comâ—…posture It resembles the Olive tree in height with which it co-operatâ—s towards perfection The leaves are not unlike the Bay and Orenge The blossoms are exactly white fragrant beautifull The fruit is globous hard and by reason of Apollos constant kisses darkly coloured It is apparelld with a thick rynd or barke which in Summer when it may best discover its virgin nakednesse t is disroabed of and by the churlish Pesant cut in many small peeces arefied by th'imbracing Sonne and so gathered I might here also present you many other rarities this noble I le abounds with Orenges Dates Coquos Ananas Plantans and Mastick which Tom Coriat will not beleeve growes any where save in Syo Elephants Buffolos Cowes Sheepe Hogs c. Smaragd Rubies Ambergrice and the like But I rather desire to please thee by naming them And with this that all put together seem'd so magicall and dazeling in the eyes of the avaritious Lusitanian that Almeyda in despight of her united Heptarchy landed here Anno Dom. 1506 fortified and forced for Emannuel his King a prety Tribute an Annall tax of 250000 pound weight of their best Cinnamon which Sousa begun to lode away the third yeare after But the King more rich than crafty to shew how little hee regarded the losse of so much uselesse barks of Trees and I know no other reason to set a better edge upon the monstrous appetite of the leane faced Portugall invites them to see him walk upon a Tarrass arrayed in an imbrodered coat thick powderd with gold Smaragds Pearle and Diamond all together darting out rayes of a most wonderfull delight and luster to which albeit Phoebus did his best to encrease the splendour yet as if that wanted glory 500 Flambeauxes were put is flames to make this miserable Prince seeme able to strike men dead with his dazeling glory But it rather was as Balme to the heart and as a Corpo Santo to the devouring admirers For forthwith Silveira built a brave and well-defended Castle there under promise to ayd them against the Mallabar but it was rather to be his Jewell keeper for in small time they so pursued the feeble King that they became Ravishers of what he had and by a forced nakednesse learnt him a future better way of politique braverie From Zeloom let us hoise saile for some eminent Ports and marittim parts of Indya Lorded by many black but daring Pagans the Mogull of whom in the first part wee have treated who has swallow'd up and incircled within his owne Diadem many great and noble Kingdomes the rest being the Decan Samoreen or Mallabar Narsingan Pegu Syam and others of whom we will briefly glance at As of the chiefest Iles vicinating this we last landed at As Sumatra the Iavae Borneo Celebes Moluccoes Bandae Amboyna Phillippinae c. And first of the coast of Chormandel Of Chormandel THe coast of Chormandel Catigardamna in Ptolomy stretches from Cape Comryn under 7 degr minutes odd North as farre as the great and famous gulph of Bengala receiving both the heads of holy Ganges the Ocean bellowing upon these well knowne Townes of Trade Negapatan Meliapore both famous for intombing S.
of farre greater extent and power fifty yeeres ago till the Syamite pluckt forceably from her Dyadem many brave and wealthy Seigniories howbeit she is yet commandresse of many Ilands Monym Barongo Nogomello Duradura Cocos c. Pegu by Castaldus supposed that old City Triglipton in Ptolomy has Artique elevation 16 degrees 40 minutes a Citie walld with good stone beautified with many Turrets and parrapets and to issue out and enter in shewes foure faire Gates and twelve posternes prettily built and made more safe by that deep Moat or Trench fild with Crocodiles that circumvolves her the streets are not many but large and broad they are and seldome crooking afore every doore the houses are all low growes a pleasant tree whose fruit and wholsome shade makes them double usefull It is divided into two the new Towne and the old the old is most great and best inhabited The Varellaes or Temples and Sudatories are observable each Varella farcinated with ugly but guilded Idolls that at Dogonnee is not a little memorable for structure and ornament out-braving any other in the Orient the wildernesse about it and antick superstition might chalenge a copious description which I forbeare having other things to denotate This Kingdom is full of al earthly delights blessings of Nature Gold Silver Lead Iron also Smaragds Topaz Rubies Saphyres Garnats Emralds Espinells and Cats-eyes as also Ryce Caravances long Pepper Sugar Benoyn Musk Gum-lack Cotton Callicoes and what else a reasonable man can lust after But all these if they were centuplied are not able to make them truly happy wanting the true pearle that which the godly Merchant bought though to obtaine it he sold all his fraile wealth and possessions for albeit the holy Apostle Saint Thomas brought them blessed tidings of salvation yet they quickly lost the true light delighting to this day in obscure and loathed sinnes the Kyacks fild with base Idolatry insomuch that father Bomferrus an old Franciscan after foure tedious yeeres labour to reduce them to some knowledge of the Church of Rome came home desiring rather as did S. Anthony to preach among piggs than such a swinish generation The truth is they beleeve they know not what and Quaenam est ista simplicitas neseire quod credas sayes Hierom against the Luciferians yet some what if all be true he tells us wee gather from his observation that they beleeve the world consisting of Heaven Sea and Earth had foure Creations and for impiety was foure times destroyed by Fire by Wind by Water and by Earthquakes each Age or World governed by a severall tutelarie Numen or God miserable only in this that he was transitory and not omnipotent nor immortall they reckon that the last destruction of the world death of their last God was thirty thousand yeeres ago and that in Plato's great yeere all shall once more suffer a chaos They imagine a great Lord omniscient omnipotent and immortall lives and rules in Heaven but they do not worship him in that Satan tels them he desires it not they beleeve a revivification of the body after death and co-union with the soule and Bomferrus beleeves it confesse a three-fold receptacle of soules departed Nashac Nishac and Schua Heaven Hell and Purgatory by which that holy Frier convinces us of more ignorance than these Pagans but wee beleeve it never the sooner since the Devill is their instructer yea who dictates their profession Their habit is thin and fine it differs little from that they have in Industant and Syam but in this they varie they weare no beards they dye their teeth black in that Dogs teeth are white whom they hate to imitate they also cut and pluck their flesh to become braver than other Nations I have told you the best of Pegu the worst is also memorable In lesse than a hundred yeeres ago the Peguan Monark was farre more powerfull and formidable than at this present his Dyadem then sparkled with a gallent lustre twelve wealthy Kingdomes at that time acknowledged Pegu their Soveraigne Some of those Provinces are well knowne to us as Syam Auva Kavelan Barmaw Iangomer Tangram Cablan Lawran Meliotalk c. out of which hee yeerely extracted as tribute-money two Millions of crownes and had a Million of men to serve him at all occasions but this hardly could content him for by a two losty conceit of his Monachick greatnesse he grew efflated and to contemne others as too base to fix his eyes upon Tyranny succeeded his pride and decadence or destruction of his Empire Tyranny for the Auvan King when he found no priviledge by being Uncle to the Emperour of Pegu nor that he was his loyall subject he swells with rage and breaks asunder his silver yoak of hated servitude howeit ere hee could ripen his designes the Peguan has notice and so suddenly arrests him that in amazement he acknowleges his fault and begs his mercy but the Peguan King forthwith beheads him and to terrifie others by his example makes no difference 'twixt nocent and innocent his wife his children and forty other whom he most respected concomitating the miserable Auvan King in that sad Tragedy It was terrible Justice no doubt but rather exasperated others to new rebellions the most incenst and greatest in power was the Siam King who seeing his owne incertaine standing any occasion breeding jealousie and the least jealousie bringing death from his conquerour hee suddenly breaks out and with all the forces he could make by money or promises ere the Peguan was return'd from Auva in short time enters Pegu and apparantly made knowne his high rebellion the Peguan threatens terrible things and to effect them opposes the Siamite with an Armie of nine hundred thousand fighting men but that world of men could not contrarie the decree of a more powerfull King for such was the confused haste he made precipitated by furie such the hate his crueltie had defam'd him with and such the affright his uncles Malus Genius as Caesars did Brutus every where opposed him with that in three houres fight his monstrous multitude turne raile and willingly yeeld themselves a prey to the inraged axe of war chosing rather to dy than any way to increase the Paguan's pride so as the Siamite triumphs the Peguan hastens back to raise more men to trie a second fortune The Siamite not willing to ingage himselfe too far returnes the Peguan is almost there as soone as he all the way burning and destroying all he met with the Siam King armes himselfe with the Foxes skin he refused to fight not that he feared but that he knew an easier way whereby to assure his conquest the Pegu darts many fiery defiances calls him rebell coward and what not not dreaming of his stratagems for ere hee could leave his trenches the swift and mighty river Suhan Mean some call it sweld desperately broke ore her bancks and flasht so violent into the Peguan army that for want of boates and others