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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30685	The four epistles of A.G. Busbequius concerning his embassy into Turkey being remarks upon the religion, customs, riches, strength and government of that people : as also a description of their chief cities, and places of trade and commerce : to which is added, his advice how to manage war against the Turks / done into English.; Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor. English	Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B6219; ESTC R14352	216,533	438

the wide World Lord of the White and Black Sea and of the Holy City Mecha Shining with the Splendor of God and of the City Medina and of the Holy and Chast City of Jerusalem King of the Noble Kingdom of Egypt Lord of Jonia and of the Cities of Athens Senate of the Holy Temple of God Zabilon and Bassio Retham and Magodin the Seat and Throne of the great King Nashin Reta and Lord of the Island of Algeus and Prince of the Kingdoms of Tartary Mesopotamia and of the Medes Georgians and all Greece of Moria and Anatoria of Asia Armenia Valakia Moldavia and Emperor of all Hungary With many other Kingdoms and Dominions the Thrice Great Emperor Sultan Solyman the son of the Great Emperor Selin Who hath Power from God to bridle all People and Ability to open the Bars and Gates of all Cities and Forts All the ends of the Earth none excepted are put into my Powerful Hands The Lord of the East from the Land of Tsin unto the Borders of Africa whom God hath made strong by the Edge of the Sword Amongst whose Powerful Kingdoms Cesars inexpugnable Castle is accounted one of the ieast and the Empire of Alexander the Great was but small in respect of my Hereditary Dominions the Valour of the whole World and the Vertue of the Firmament is with me Seeing King Ferdinand who art the Powerful Lord of all Christianity and the Elect Vessel of the Powerful Christian Faith Created and Chosen Emperor of the Romans and of Bohemia of the Vandals Croats and many other Countries King and Ruler Seeing I say that awhile since you sent your Chosen Counsellor and Ambassador Augerius a Busbeck to our Court the Refuge of Princes and the Throne of Grace to them that desired it with Letters of Friendship to renew the Ancient Peace and Contract of Amity between us Which Letters were Dated in the Year from the Prophet Jesus upon whom and upon our Prophet Mahomet be the Light and Peace of God 1562. the First Day of June Desiring of us to grant the Truce for Eight Years during which Time no Cities Countries or Forts of his should be Molested by our Arms but his People should live in secure Tranquility c. To which Request we answer That such a Truce firm Concord and Friendship shall be continued between Vs for Eight Years on these Conditions First That Urinis should send Yearly to our Court as a Pledge of the Truce 30000 Hungarian Duckats together with the Remainder due for Two Years past● and for that we Promise that we will not Interpose in any Offices either of Friendship or of Enmity as to the Hereditary Dominions of the Son of King John whether Situate in Upper Hungary or in the further Part of the Teise all of which belong to Vs by Right of War Moreover the Son of the said King John during this Eight Years Truce shall be Oblig'd to be Obedient to Vs not to undertake any War against You or to M●lest your Subjects with Fire and Sword● not to exact any Money or drive any Prey from Them And we likewise do Promise That we will take no Occasion to destroy your People by Fire or Sword but will devoutly observe this Eight Years Peace and Concord Moreover Balaski Michael and Nicholas Bathol and some Others shall be included in the same Conditions of Peace and shall be subject to you and the Son of King John And if any of yours or if his Subjects have taken away any Goods or Lordships in time of War from whence new Dissentions may arise Our Will and Pleasure be That such Matters shall be put off undetermin'd until the Time of this Truce shall be Expir'd And if perhaps new Controversies shall hereafter arise between us upon the account of our Mutual Jurisdiction which cannot be compos'd Let each of us keep their own without any Contention or Strife Moreover some Towns Situate on the Da●ow and Tatta may remain as they now do so that the Soldiers in the Garrison of Tatta shall have no Right to Infest the Villages upon the Danow Moreover If from this time of Peace any of your Nobles have some of my Subject Prisoners they shall set them free without Ransom that so this Peace and Concord shall be more firmly kept All and every of these we will and faithfully Promise that they shall be duly Observ'd till the end of the Eight Years aforesaid And for that purpose we have caus'd these Letters of Confederation to be Publish'd from the Court of Our Magnificence and have also taken Care that a Copy of these Letters together with my Edict thereupon should be sent to all the Commanders and Officers of all my Forces both by Land and Sea to be faithfully observed by them The Condition of this Truce shall Comprehend our true Vayvords of Valachia and Moldavia and that none of your Hungarians Croats Sclavonians or others should be molested or troubled by any of Mine on any pretence whatsoever But if some of yours making Inrodes from your Castles shall Plunder some of ours they shall be ●ound to make Restitution and if any Fugitives of ours shall carry away their Master's Gold or other Goods and seek shelter from you the Goods are to be restor'd and the Fugitives punish'd in Terrorem for the Goods of Fugitives belong to their Masters The like is to ●e done if your Fugitives fly to us Moreover It shall be lawful for your Commander to Fortifie Towns and Castles upon the Borders of Hungary and to Import Victuals and Arms but not beyond their own Bounds None of your Subjects in Hungary or elsewhere shall be carried away Prisoners during this Truce if they be they shall be presently Releas'd Besides if any Ambassadors and Christian Princes shall Reside at our Court for the dispatch of Business they shall have free Leave to walk up and down to go and come And moreover shall be handsomly Assisted by Interpreters to declare their Errands and if by reason of the Co●s●●e● of each other Countries some Differences do arise between our Subjects those Disputes shall be Determin'd by discreet Persons chosen on both Sides that the Causers of those Disputes shall be punished as Truce-Breakers Moreover We forbid Duels on the Borders of both our Countries And we desire that this Truce and every Article hereof may be publickly Read in your Dominions and Command given that they be Obediently kept We have Promis'd the same before and your Ambassador lately sent desir'd it in your Name and humbly besought us that this Peace may be firm and establish'd by Imperial Oaths and by these Letters of Credence as if we Our Selves had been present And therefore I send these Letters of Peace to you that your Commanders and Soldiers may be bound to Observe them as long as they shall not Act contrary thereunto so long these Articles of Peace be Confirm'd between us In Testimony whereof I Swear by the True and Living

it be never so great or Rich a Man the Commonalty of them live in Huts and Cottages the Nobles are for handsome Orchards Gardens and Baths but as for their Houses tho' the Numerousness of their Families require large ones yet they have no handsome Gate-houses or Porches belonging to them nor Court-Yards nor any thing else Magnificent or worthy of any Admiration Herein they resemble the Hungarians for except Buda and perhaps Presburgh there is scarce any City in Hungary that you can call well-built This Custom I suppose they derived from their Ancestors for they being a People given to Camp-discipline and therein trained did not care a rush for building great Houses but looked upon their Towns only as Temporary Habitations which they were about to leave Moreover whilst I was at Buda I was very much taken with the sight of a strange kind of Fountain that is without the Gate of the Town in the way leading to Constantinople the Water whereof at top was boyling hot and yet in the bottom there were Fishes playing up and down so that you would think they must needs be throughly boyled before you could take them out 'T was the 7 th of December before the Bassa was so well recovered as to admit me to his Presence and then after I had sweetned him with some Presents I made my Complaint to him of the Insolency and Ravagings of the Turkish Soldiers and demanded Restitution of what they had wrongfully taken away contrary to the express Articles of the Truce made and which he himself in his Letter to Ferdinand had promised him satisfaction for if he pleased to send an Envoy to Buda But he like a cunning Gamester made as many Complaints of the Injuries and Losses They had sustained by Our Soldiers And as for his Promise to restore the Places they had wrongfully seized and taken away from the Emperor he eluded it by sheltring himself under this Dilemma Either I made a Promise or I did not if I made no Promise then you can demand nothing of me If I did make a Promise I know Sir you are a Person of that Understanding as not to conceive that I can or will perform it for I am sent hither by my Master to enlarge not to diminish the Bounds of his Empire so that I must by no means make his condition worse than it was 't is my Master's Business Sir not Mine what you have to say on this Head pray propound it to him when you come to Constantinople To be short Sir you know I am but newly recovered and therefore am not in a condition to maintain any further Discourse When this course Complement was put upon me I thought 't was time to be gone neither could I get any thing else from him only a Truce till the Grand Seignior's mind was known I observed that when I was introduced to the Bassa they observed the old Roman Custom of crying aloud Welcom Welcom and so wishing an happy Issue to my Negotiation I observed also that the Turks count the Left Hand to be most Honourable in some particular Cases the reason they give is because the Sword is worn on that side and he that is on the Right Hand has as it were the Command of the Sword of him that is at his Left whereas his Own is free Matters being thus composed at Buda as well as we could my Companion Palinai returned to the Emperor but I for my part shipp'd my Horses Coaches and all my Family on some Vessels prepared for me on the Danow and so passed down the Stream to Belgrade this was a shorter Cut and also more secure for my Journy by Land to Belgrade would at that time have cost me at least 12 Days especially having such a deal of heavy Baggage with me and besides we had been in danger to be Robb'd by the Heyduc's so the Hungarians call a sort of plundering Thieves and Robbers But upon the Water there was no fear at all of them and besides we compassed our Journy in 5 Days The Vessel in which I was was drawn along by a lesser Pinnace in which there were 24 Oars the other Vessels had but two large Oars apiece The Mariners rowed Night and Day without any intermission excepting only a few Hours that the poor Souls borrow'd to sleep and eat in In my Passage down the River I could not but observe the venturousness not to say temerity of the Turks who were not afraid to sail on in the mistiest Weather in the darkest Night and when the Wind blew very hard too and besides there were many Water mills with several Trunks and Boughs of Trees hanging over the Banks which made our Passage very dangerous so that some times our Vessel by the boisterousness of the Wind was driven to the Bank and there dash'd against old stumps of Trees hanging over so that it was like to split this is certain that she lost some Planks out of her Hulk which made a terrible crack and noise when they were loosed therefrom This noise awak'd me leaping out of my Bed I advis'd the Mariners to be more cautio●s they lift up their Voices and gave me no other Answer than Alaure i. e. God will help and so I might go to Bed again if I would Tho' We sped pretty well yet I am apt to believe that at one time or other such dangerous Sayling will be fatal to some Passengers In our Passage I saw Tolna a handsome Town in Hungary I cannot forbear to mention it because there we had very good White-wine and besides the Inhabitants were very courteous to us Moreover we passed in sight of the Castle of Walpot seated on an Hill and of other Castles and Towns besides we saw also where the River Drave on the one side and the Tibiscus or Taise on the other made their Influx into the Danow As for Belgrade it self it is seated at the confluence of the Save and the Danow the old City is built in the extreme Angle of the Promontory the Building is old it is fortified with many Towers and a double Wall Two parts of it are wash'd by the Save and the Danow but on that part where it is joyned to the Land it hath a very strong Castle on high Ground consisting of many lofty Turrets made of square Stone before you come into the City there is a vast company of Buildings and very large Suburbs wherein several Nations do inhabit viz. ●Turks Greeks Iews Hungarians Dalmatians and many others For you must know that ordinarily over all the Turkish Dominions the Suburbs are larger than the Towns but take them both together they give the resemblance of large Cities 'T was at this Town that I first met with some ancient Coins wherein as you know I take a great delight and my Physician aforesaid Dr. Quacquelben fitted me to an Hair as we say for he was as much addicted to those Studies as my self I found a great many