impeach and lessen the Priviledges and Trade which they enjoyed in those parts To which the Vizier answered according to their usai phrase and stile that the happy Imperial Seat where his Master resided was called the Port because it was free and open to all such who desired to take refuge and Sanctuary therein and therefore the English without just reason ought not to be excluded That the Sultan ought not to be denied that freedom of love and hatred which was common to all Mankind and that he was as well resolved to chuse and cherish his Friends as to prosecute and destroy his Enemies Whereunto the French Ambassadour urged that since it was the pleasure of the Grand Signior to admit the English that at least they should be obliged to enter Constantinople under the French Colours But the English Ambassadour replyed that his Mistress who was so potent scorned all Dependencies on other Nations and would rather abandon the Friendship of the Sultan than admit the least diminution of her own honour and embellishing his Discourses as Sagredo proceeds with the representation of that advantage and profit which the English Trade would bring to the Ottoman Empire he so ensnared the hearts of the Turks that they preferred the admittance of new Guests before the Alliance of antient Friends Since which time our Commerce and Trade with the Turk hath been in its increase and being governed by a Wise and Grave Company of Experienced Merchants hath by Gods blessing brought an inestimable Treasure and advantage to the English Nation which that it may still continue increase and flourish in all Ages and times to come is the hearty desire and Prayer of him who is a true and faithful Servant to that worthy Society and a sincere Wellwisher to his Country Farewel THE HISTORY OF Sultan Mahomet IV. THE XIII EMPEROUR OF THE TURKS Beginning in the NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN The First BOOK Anno Christi 1661. Hegeira 1072. IT was now the beginning of this Year when the Earl of Winchelsea arrived at Constantinople the first Embassadour sent abroad from His Majesty of Great Britain Charles the Second after his happy Return to the Glorious Throne of his Ancestors to Sultan Mahomet the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks it being judged fit that amongst other Alliances which were to be contracted with Foreign Princes and States this of Turkey should not be omitted but rather in the first place considered In regard that as the flourishing Estate and prosperity of England's richesse depends absolutely on her Foreign Trade so on none more particularly than on that of Turkey which consumes great quantities of her most staple and substantial Manufactures and makes returns in whatsoever Employes and gives Bread to the poor and industrious of the Nation At the arrival of this Embassadour the important affairs of this vast and still growing Empire were governed by the Great Vizier Kuperlee a person decrepit and infirm in body by reason of his great Age but of a solid and subtle judgment by Nature cruel and by Years froward which disposition was singularly well fitted to do service to his Master against the impetuous storms of the Faction of those times in which the Pashaws and Chiefs of the Souldiery as often it happens in Empires whose Body is grown too vast to be ruled by a weak Head became rich and powerful and by the long Vacations of Peace insolent and wanton for as then the Wars with Venice were carried on faintly only by sending forth an Armata of Gallies in the Spring and the preparations became rather accustomary returning with the Year and made for exercise of the Arsenal and amusement of the people than designed with any probable expectation of success or Victory proportionable to that Treasure and trouble which maintained them So that to encounter so many difficulties and predominancy of Ambition and Avarice the Prince himself being young the Fortune of his Empire had more than urgent necessity of such a rough and cruel disposition as was found in Kuperlee who so seasonably made use of it to the destruction of all such who might either endanger his Prince or himself that in two or three Years time he became Master of the Lives and Estates of the Grand Mutiniers confiscating their richesse and fortunes to the use and security of his Master having in his time put to Death thirty six thousand persons whom he proscribed in several Countries and privately strangled in the City by vertue of his absolute and uncontroulable Authority without giving the Offenders liberty of Processes or Pleas for their Lives or the solemnity of Scaffolds or applause of a Funeral Oration at the Gallows whereby to win the affections and compassions of the vulgar but went through with his bloody and tragical business without noise or rumour or knowledge almost of all the Souldiery or the people whilst the great Personages whose rapine and pride had contracted them envy and hatred from their inferiours stood confused and amased not having power to rebel nor Sanctuary to fly unto Such is the effect of an absolute and arbitrary power which is Master of times and affairs and rather fits and squares Enterprizes to Counsels than Counsels to Enterprizes Reges Hercule non liberi solum impedimentis omnibus sed Domini rerum temporumque trahunt Consiliis cuncta non sequuntur Liv. lib. 9. The Grand Signior in the mean time applauded the diligence and circumspection of his Minister and though yet trembling with the memory of late sollevations amongst the Janizaries yet being young and active addicted himself wholly to the delight of Hunting and to follow the Chace of fearful and flying Beasts whilst his Vizier so closely followed his game of bloud that he left no person considerable in the Empire who was not a Creature made by or depending on him unless the Kahyabei or Lieutenant General of the Janizaries Mortaza Pasha of Babylon now called by the Turks Bagdat and the Pasha of Magnatia Men whose bravery and generous Justice or else their Guards or Fortune had only seated beyond the reach and Sword of this Tyrant This was then the State of the Turkish Affairs amongst themselves As to Foreign and Christian Princes The Emperour the King of England the French King and the States of Holland had their Embassadours and Residents at the Ottoman Court with whom as yet passed a fair and amicable correspondence excepting with the French whose Embassadour had then lately obtained his release from Imprisonment to which he was confined contrary to the Law of Nations and the Custom of the wisest and most generous people of former Ages and compelled to return into France an Agent being there setled by the Merchants to Negotiate their Affairs the occasions and grounds whereof we have at large signified in another place which unlawful treatment of a person sacred none will much admire who considers the humour of supream Ministers that judge themselves under no restraint or
the grateful memory they still retained of the assistance against Sweden To his Most Christian Majesty Count Strozzi was employed before whose Arrival at Paris the common report and vogue was That that King resolved to contribute an effectual assistance to the Christian Cause in that present Conjuncture which pious disposition Strozzi so happily improved that he obtained from his Majesty a Grant and promise of four thousand Foot and two thousand Horse raised and payed at his own charge to be united with the Troops of the Rhinish League And farther his Majesty was so gracious herein that he published a Declaration That what person soever would serve the Emperour against the Turk his resolution and action therein should be accepted by him in the same manner as if the service were immediately tendered to himself Upon which many persons of Quality resolved upon this expedition amongst which was the Duke of Buglion the Marquis de Villeroy the Abbot of Richelieu and many other Heroes and Persons of Bravery who ventured their Lives with no other consideration than that of honour and Religion But before I pass from this Embassy give me leave to report a Complement which Count Strozzi passed upon this King which some say did savour a little too much of flattery and affectation The matter was this Count Strozzi being admitted to hiis Audience so soon as he entered into the Chamber I know not whether it was feigned or real he seemed to be struck with such an amazement and fear that for a while he was not able to pronounce a word articulate or intelligible but at length recollecting himself he began with a trembling voice to excuse this hesitation of his Speech having his Senses dissipated and his Eyes dazled with the Rays and Splendour of so much Majesty and with that as in a rapture or ecstasie broke out into an admiration of the French Monarchy the report of whose Greatness and Glory though arrived to the utmost Confines of the Universe came yet far short of that real Majesty which he saw and admired whose dreadful and mysterious Throne was sufficient to revive the dead Ashes of the Sabean Queen to prostrate herself before this new Solomon much excelling the wisdom the richess the vertue and happiness of the former And thence descending with the like sagacious obsequiousness to confute the malicious Reports of malignant tongues who envious of the harmony of Christian Spirits represented his Majesty as ill-affected to the Austrian Family whereas to the contrary he could testifie to have found that excess of Affection and admirable disposition in his Majesty towards the Emperour his Ally as rendred his Embassy abundantly happy and successful which joined to the Zeal his Majesty had towards the Christian Cause was like Friendship united to Charity and Moral Vertues made perfect by spiritual Qualifications In fine he compared his Christian Majesty to that Glorious Sun which communicating his light to the Christian World affords the most benign influence to the Catholick Climate with much better reason therefore ought Germany to participate so great a Circle of those Rays as may serve wholly to obscure and darken the dim and barbarous Light of the Ottoman Moon In sum Strozzi knew so well how to manage his Discourse and play the Oratour that he obtained considerable assistances and returned to his Master the Emperour with full Demonstrations of all obliging Terms and courteous Treatments And having thus understood what preparations are making in Christendom let us pass over into the Turks Quarters and see what is in the mean time transacting in those Dominions At this time the rumour of a Rebellion and Mutiny amongst the Great Beghs at Grand Cairo in Egypt afforded matter for trouble and consultation at the Ottoman Court for that those Beghs who have great possessions and power in that Country made seizure of Ibrahim Pasha and imprisoned him being about the expiration of his three years commonly allotted to that Government and therefore near upon departure The demands they had upon him was for no less than three thousand purses of money which according to the Cairo Account are reckoned seven hundred and fifty Dollars a purse and pretended to be taken from them against Law and Justice and that without restitution thereof they resolved not to restore him his liberty This insolence against so eminent a Pasha qualified with such absolute power in his Government and one related to the Grand Signior by marriage of his Sister compared with the late neglects and disobedience of that people who for some years had failed in the full payment of their Tribute were interpreted as evident Symptoms of disaffection and malignancy which that people entertained against the Ottoman Subjection Wherefore the Sultan immediately dispatched away the Master of his Horse to Cairo with full power to appease this Rebellion and with Lenitives to moderate the fury of the people who seemed to be too licentious and unbridled to be governed by a Musselim or Deputy Wherefore the Selictar Aga was elected Pasha and to depart with all expedition In the mean time this Messenger to make greater haste took post through Asia with thirty in his Company and in a short time arrived at Grand Cairo where with fair terms and restitution of some money from the Pasha all matters were reduced to an amicable composure only the punishment of the Chief Mutiniers with a fair Countenance deferred for a season was afterwards according to the Turkish fashion when time and opportunity presented remunerated to those factious Spirits with a severe Interest and satisfaction to Justice Not long after Ibrahim Pasha having obtained his liberty returned from his Government of Cairo to Constantinople where refreshing himself some time with the embraces of his young Sultana an Imperial Command for immediate payment of four hundred Purses of money to the Grand Signiors Treasury disturbed his delightful quiet The Pasha made a present payment of one half but desired time for the remainder either for want of that instant supply or else on hopes of ease of his Fine But the Sultan who is impatient of any delay in his Slaves which savours of obstinacy or disobedience though never so reasonable dispatched another Command enjoining present compliance and as a penalty for the late neglect raised the Demand from four hundred to six hundred Purses which if not as readily payed as required the Kimacham of Constantinople was impowred to commit him Prisoner within the four Gates of the Seraglio the fatal Prison from whence few find other Release than by Death The Pasha not being able to comply was there restrained of his Liberty and yet had the good fortune in a few days to obtain his freedom by the endeavours as some suppose of the Great Vizier who having by this Act weakened his Power and Treasure did afterwards as an instrument of his Deliverance conserve his Life and obtain for him the Government of Darbiquier where
them to march and quarter in Alsatia but before their departure the Emperour honoured Monsieur de Coligni with his Picture incircled with Diamonds and the other Officers with Gold Chains and Medals ordering the Troops not to march above ten miles a day and every third to be a day of repose and to be entertained all the way at free Quarter so as to return into France jocund and healthy as they departed thence But before they would bid adieu to those Countries the General and Officers paid their Visit to Count Nicholas Serini presenting him with a Horse Furniture and Pistols as a small Tribute to that Great Captain whose Fame was celebrated through the whole world ingenuously confessing That the rumour of his name struck more amazement and terrour in the Enemy than the Armies that actually faced them and was more instrumental in obtaining the Victory on the Banks of Rab than their weapons or courage which fought against them But not long after this worthy Heroe Serini hunting one day separated from the rest of his Attendants in the Thickets of a Wood behold on a sudden was surprized by the rushing forth of a wild Boar which raging and made furious by some Wounds he had received first struck him in the Knee with which falling to the ground the fierce Beast not giving him leisure to recover himself ganched him again in the head with his broad Tusk which proved so mortal that in a short time he expired in the Arms of one of his Pages This was the end of this valiant Captain who unconquered in many and redoubled Conflicts of his Enemies was made the prey of an ignoble Beast Such are the secret and occult Providences of Heaven which men interpret or reflect on as they are governed by prejudice or interest And so did the Turks attribute the Fall of this their Grand Adversary to the righteousness of their Religion and justness of their Cause as if he had been a person unworthy to dye by the hand of a man was condemned to be executed by that Beast which is most abominated and detested by the Turkish Rites He was a Person as mortal an Enemy to the Turks as ever Hannibal was to the Romans in Dangers most couragious in War valiant and patient of labour in Peace courteous and moderate in his Pleasures his Diet was natural rather than artificial in Bankets or Drinking Meetings after the fashion of that Country was sparing in Wine and rather abstemious than intemperate Musick and Dances were the Entertainment of the softer and effeminate Part of his Court rather than his own Pastimes whose Recreations were chiefly in the Woods and in fuch Huntings as had something in them of similitude with Martial Exercises his Judgment was profound and deep and yet his familiar Discourse facetious his Conversation obliging his humour affable and yet severe and majestick he spake much and yet well his disposition was liberal and generous especially to his Souldiers whom he never restrained or defrauded of their Booty and Prey but contented every one with a just and exact Division In short he was one of those zealous Champions of the Christian Cause who in the Chronicles of past Ages ought to be placed and numbred amongst the worthiest Heroes The Winter now approaching and a conclusion in all appearance made of the War the Vizier returned to Belgrade designing to remain there until the German Ambassadour had entered the Turkish Borders and in the mean time sent for his Mother thither pretending that in an uncertain and changeable estate the Maternal Blessing is of highest Consolation it being esteemed pious amongst the Turks for a man to die at the Feet of his Mother This Mother of his was esteemed a cunning or wise Woman by whose Charms and Incantations his Father and he were supposed long to have conserved the Office of Vizier and as my own Ears can witness the common Souldiers Discourse That his Mothers Art consisted much in Philtrums and Charms reconciling affection and friendship and had a power over the Grand Signiors Inclinations and Understanding rendring all things and actions the Vizier had performed in this War full of merit and admiration This I say was the Discourse of some common Souldiers In the month of December that Blazing-star which appeared formidable to most parts of the known World was also seen within the Turkish Empire not without a general terrour of all as prognosticating disasters of Sword Pestilence and Famine and set the Turkish Astrologers at work to find out the mystery it portended from whose Art most commonly was divined the death of some great Person in the Empire which some would have to be the Grand Signior others the Vizier others both as they desired alteration and change of Government The Grand Signior continued all this time at Adrianople taken up with an extraordinary delight and pleasure in his Court there with which his aversion to Constantinople so much increased that he could not endure so much as the name of the place and if accidentally in his Hunting as is reported he chanced to fall into the road which led thither and remembring himself thereof would immediately turn thence as one that corrects himself of some desperate errour or avoids a path which tends to an evitable destruction The Kadelescher and the other grave Judges of the Law observing this unreasonable hatred of their Prince to his Imperial Seat considered how prejudicial it was to him and his People to have a City of that renown antiquity and commodiousness of living despised and abandoned and that perhaps the Souldiery now upon their March from the War might be impatient of returning home as all the Dependents on the Divan and Personages of great Quality desired to injoy their Habitations and Gardens at Constantinople from which discontent on all sides it was concluded That there might result dangerous Seditions and Mutinies and therefore resolved and as some say also at the instigation of the Vizier to prostrate themselves before the Grand Signior and tender him their opinions and sence in that particular which they accordingly performing and assigning the Kadelescher or the Chief Justice with all humility to be their Mouth in this Petition their counsel was received with that indignation that they were chased from the Grand Signiors presence with fury and high displeasure and the Kadelescher at that moment deprived of his Office To these other extravagances the Grand Signior would have added another of a higher nature and cruelty by causelesly putting to death his Brother Solyman whom all the time of his Raign together with another Brother he had kept Prisoner in the Seraglio for now having a Son of his own he conceived it more secure to remove all competition that might be for the Government according to the example and custom of the Ottoman Princes but suffering some remorse of conscience in the thoughts of imbruing his hands in the blood of
shall be the method of your Prayers on this day of Festival After you have said Blessed be thou O Holy God then proceed and say Thou hast chosen us before all people and hast loved us and hast been delighted with us and hast humbled us more than all other Nations and hast sanctified us with thy Precepts and hast brought us near to thy Service and the Service of our King Thy Holy Great and Terrible Name thou hast published amongst us And hast given us O Lord God according to thy love times of Joy of Festivals and times of Mirth and this Day of Consolation for a solemn Convocation of Holiness for the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and first-born Sonin love through whom we commemorate our coming out of Egypt And then you shall read for your Lesson the first second and third Chapters of Deuteronomy to the seventeenth Verse appointing for the reading thereof five men in a persect and uncorrupted Bible adding thereunto the Blessings of the Morning as are prescribed for Days of Festivals And for the Lesson out of the Prophets usually read in the Synagogue every Sabbath you shall repeat the 31 th Chapter of Jeremiah to your Prayer called the Mussaf used in the Synagogue every Sabbath and solemn Festival Instead of the Sacrisice of Addition at the returning of the Bible to its place you shall read with an audible Voice and clear Sound and with holy Harmony the 95 th Psalm And at the first Praises in the morning after you have sung Psalm 91 and just before you sing Psalm 98 you shall repeat Psalm 132 but in the last Verse where it is said As for his enemies I shall clothe them with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in the place of upon himself you shall read Upon the Most High after which shall follow the 126 th Psalm and then the 113 th to the 119 th At the Consecration of the Wine upon the Vigil or Even you shall make mention of the Feast of Consolation which is the day of the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and sirst-born Son giving the Blessing as followeth Blessed be thou our God King of the World who hast made us to live and hast maintained us and hast kept us alive unto this time Upon the Eve of this Day you shall also read the 81 Psalm as also the 132 and 126 Psalms which are appointed for the Morning Praises And this Day shall be unto you for a remembrance of a solemn Day unto eternal Ages and a perpetual Testimony between me and the Sons of Israel Audite audiendo manducate bonum Besides which Order and Method of Liturgy for Solemnization of his Birth he prescribed other Rules for Divine Service and particularly published the same Indulgence and priviledge to every one who should pray at the Tomb of his Mother as if he had taken on him a Pilgrimage to pray and sacrifice at Jerusalem The Devotion of the Jews towards this pretended Messiah encreased still more and more so that not only the chief of the City went to attend and proffer their service towards him in the time of his Imprisonment but likewise decked their Synagogue with S. S. in Letters of Gold making for him on the Wall a Crown in the Circle of which was wrote the 91 Psalm at length in a fair and legible Character attributing the same Titles to Sabatai and expounding the Scriptures in the same manner in favour of his appearance as we do of our Saviour Howsoever some of the Jews remained in their Wits all this time amongst which was a certain Cocham at Smyrna one zealous of his Law and of the good and safety of his Nation and observing in what a wild manner the whole people of the Jewswas transported with the groundless belief of a Messiah leaving not only their Trades and Course of Living but publishing Prophecies of a speedy Kingdom of rescue from the tyranny of the Turk and leading the Grand Signior himself captive in Chains matters so dangerous and obnoxious to the State wherein they lived as might justly convict them of Treason and Rebellion and leave them to the mercy of that Justice which on the least jealousie and suspicion of matters of this nature uses to extirpate Families and subvert the Mansion houses of their own People much rather of the Jews onwhom the Turks would gladly take this occasion to despoil them of their Estates and condemn the whole Nation to perpetual Slavery And indeed it would have been a greater wonder than ever Sabatat shewed that the Turks took not advantage from all these extravagancies to drain the Jews of a considerable Sum of money and set their whole Race in Turkie at a Ransome had not these passages yielded them matter of pastime and been the subject of the Turks laughter and scorn supposing it a disparagement to the greatness of the Ottoman Empire to be concerned for the rumours and combustions of this despised people With these Considerations this Cocham that he might clear himself of the blood and guilt of his Countrymen and unconcerned in the common destruction went before the Kaddee and there protested against the present Doctrine declaring That he had no hand in setting up of Sabatai but was an enemy both to him and his whole Sect. This freedom of the Cocham so enraged and scandalized the Jews that they judged no Condemnation or Punishment too severe against such an Offender and Blasphemer of their Law and Holiness of the Messiah and therefore with money and presents to the Kaddee accusing him as disobedient in a Capital Nature to their Government obtained sentence against him to shave his Beard and commit him to the Gallies There wanted nothing now to the appearance of the Messiah and the Solemnity of his Coming but the presence of Elias which the Jews began to expect hourly and with that attention and earnestness that a Dream or Phantasm to every weak head was judged to be Elias it being taught and averred that he was seen in divers Forms and Shapes nor to be certainly discovered or known before the Coming of the Messiah For this Superstition is so far fixed amongst them that generally in their Families they spread a Table for Elias the Prophet to 〈◊〉 they make an invitation of poor people leaving the chief place for the Lord Elias whom they believe to be invisibly present at the Entertainment and there to eat and drink without diminution either of the Dishes or the Cup. One person amongst the Jews commanded his Wife after a Supper of this kind to leave the Cup filled with Wine and the Meat standing all Night for Elias to feast and rejoyce alone and in the morning arising early affirmed That Elias took this Banquet so kindly that in token of gratitude and acceptance he had replenished the Cup with Oyl instead of Wine It is a custom amongst the Jews on the
affront he maintained a correspondence with Sobieski giving him intelligence of all matters in the Turkish Camp how he might most easily surprize the Forces of the Pasha of Sivas and the four Generals of the Spahees of Alchabolick The Christians made use of this intelligence accordingly by making their assault on the enemy on the weakest side when the Prince having reserved his anger until an opportune Season turned his face against the Turks and with a courage agreeable to his spirit and command he entered the Tabor or Intrenchment of Chusaein Pasha and wounded him with his own hand The heat of the Fight continued fourteen hours in which none behaved himself more valiantly than did Solyman Pasha the Beglerbeg of Bosna who though he was as brave and fought as stoutly as any man could having six Horses that day killed under him he was at length forced to fly and abandon the field following Chusaein Pasha and the Pasha of Sivas and Ciddi-ogla who made better use in saving themselves of their horses heels than their own Armes But in this Flight his Horse pitching his foot into the hole of a wooden Bridg which he was to pass was there stopped until he was overtaken by a Souldier with a Hat who shot him through the Body so that continuing his flight more faintly than before he was overtaken by a Polonian Hussar who with a Lance bore him to the Ground where he was trod under foot and cut in pieces by the Enemy The other three Pashaws were wounded the Generals of the Green and Yellow Sangiacks of the Spahees were taken Prisoners and two other principal Commanders of the Spahees were killed The Zagargeebashee who commanded eighteen Chambers of Janisaries was taken prisoner the Standard of the Janisaries taken and they wholly cut in pieces and destroyed consisting of eight thousand five hundred men all the Troops and Attendants of those Pashaws with four Sangiacks of Spahees were slain upon the place which in all were computed to be about twenty five thousand men The booty taken was very considerable for besides the ordinary Baggage they took two thousand purses of money then newly brought for payment of the Souldiery and twenty five thousand Waggons of Provisions and Ammunition After this success and important Victory the Poles became Masters of the strong Fortress of Chotin and other smaller Palanchas on the Banks of the Niester making their Incursions into Moldavia as far as Jash which is the principal City of that Country And thus far was Kaplan Pasha proceeded with the Recruits of about four thousand men when the News came of the fatal Rout and the fame thereof encreasing by the fearful Relations of such as fled from the Battel alarmed the Turks with such frightful apprehensions that they retreated back again to the other side of the Danube and united themselves to the Forces of the Vizier But Chusaein Pasha though he saved his life yet could not conserve the Air of the Sultan's favour for so soon as he arrived at the Court he received an ill welcome for according to the manner of Turks who punish the ill success of a General equal to Crimes committed he was immediately put into Chains deprived of his estate and honours and sent prisoner with the attendance only of two servants unto the Castles of the Dardanelli where the disturbance and unquietness of his mind reduced him to an insirmity of Body so that being sick and without Friends or Physicians he sent to Sir John Finch his Majesties Ambassadour as he passed up the Hellespont to afford him the use and assistance of his Physician but the Ambassadour excused himself letting him know that his Retinue being passed before on another Vessel he was sorry it was not in his power to accommodate him in the manner he desired The Winter being now well entered which is very wet and cold in those Countries caused the Armies on both sides to draw into their warmer Quarters there to meditate and contrive their designs for the more active season During these Affairs the King of Poland died so that the Election of a new Prince the manner of reconciling their intestine Differences and the means to defend their Countries were Subjects of important Consideration and matters more than sufficient to employ the wisest heads of that Nation for a longer time than their common Enemy was resolved to afford them The Turk on the other side though full of revenge and anger for their last mifortune yet patiently took this loss as the paring only of his Nails that his Claws might grow the longer and was so rowsed with this blow that he summoned all the Nations of his large Empire to come in to his assistance towards which forty thousand Carts laden with Provisions were appointed to rendezvous on the Banks of the Danube towards the end of the month of March Yet in the mean time the Turks not having patience to see their perfidious Prince avail himself of his Revolt and in despight of the Ottoman Power to seat himself in his Principality of Jash were resolved to drive him thence and in order thereunto not expecting a milder season immediately dispeeded some Troops of Tartars and two thousand Spahees under the Command of a new Prince to drive him out of the Country In the mean time the Poles since their late Victory kept the Fortress of Kemenitz straitly blocked up on all sides and thereby reduced them to such a want of food and other provisions as might probably cause them to surrender before the Summer could open a way to their relief But before I conclude this Year I must not omit to acquaint the Reader that in the month of September an English Factor at Smyrna descended of good Parents and educated under a severe and religious Master one who had a reasonable Estate of his own and in good business and employment did notwithstanding in the absence of his Partner with whom he was joyned in Commission carry out of the house 215 fine Cloths belonging to several Principals of England with a considerable Sum of ready Money Jewels and things of value of which having possessed himself he went before the Kadi and there in presence of divers Officers of the City turned Turk hoping by the Priviledge of the Mahometan Law whereby no Christian testimony can pass against a Turk to appropriate unto himself that whole Estate which he had thus treacherously got into his sole custody And it being impossible for Turks to attest the Marks Numbers or know the Estates of Persons being in England he judged himself out of the reach of any Power or Art to dispossess him of his unjust and wicked acquests Howsoever the Consul did so closely pursue him both at Smyrna and at the Turkish Court that in the space of seven months he regained all the Cloth and the best part of the Money and Jewels out of his hands and in fine reduced this Renegado to so low a
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The Compleat Solicitor performing his Duty and teaching his Client to run through and manage his own business as well in his Majesties superiour Courts at Westminister as in the Mayors Court Court of Hustings and other Inferiour Courts in the City of London and elsewhere The fourth 〈◊〉 in octavo 22. Action upon the Case of Slander or a Methodical Collection of thousands of Cases in the Law of what words are Actionable and what not By William Sheapherd Esq in octavo 23. An Exact Abridgment in English of the Cases reported by Sir Francis Moor Knight with the Resolution of the Points of the Law therein by the Judges By Will. Hughes in octavo 24. The Touchstone of Wills 〈◊〉 and Administrations being a Compendium of Cases and Resolutions touching the same carefully collected out of the Ecclesiastical Civil and Canon Laws as also out of the Customs Common Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom By G. Meritan in twelves 25. A Guide for Constables Church wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyors of the High-ways Treasurers of the County-Stock Masters of the House of Correction Bayliffs of Mannours Toll-takers in Fairs c. A Treatise briefly shewing the Extent and Latitude of the several Offices with the Power of the Officers therein both by Common Law and Statute according to the several Additions and Alterations of the Law till the 22 year of His Majesties Reign The Fifth Edition Enlarged Collected by Geo. Meriton Gent. in twelves HISTORY 26. The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and the Isles adjoyning with the Shires Hundreds Citys and the Shire-towns within the Kingdom of England Divided and Described as also a Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World By John Speed with many Additions never before Extant in solio 27. The Voyages and Travels of the Duke of 〈◊〉 Ambassadors into Moscovy Tartary and Persia begun in the year 1633. and finished in 1639. containing a Compleat History of those Countries whereunto are added the Travels of Mandelslo from Persia into the East-Indies begun in 1638. and finished in 1640. The whole Illustrated with divers accurate Maps and Figures Written originally by Adam Olearius Secretary to the Emballie Englished by J. Davis The second Edition in solio 28. The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel Citizen and Secretary of Florence containing the History of Florence the Prince the Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin the Life of Castruccio Castracani the Murther of Vitelli c. by Duke Valentino the State of France the State of Germany the Discourses on Titas Livius the Art of War the Marriage of 〈◊〉 All from the true Original newly and faithfully translated into English in solio 29. I Ragguagli di Parnasso or Advertisements from Parnassus in two Centuries with the Politick Touchstone Written Originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini Englished by the Earl of 〈◊〉 in solio 30. The History of Barbadoes St. Christophers Mevis St. Vincents Antego Martinico Monserret and the rest of the Caribby Islands in all twenty eight in two Books containing the Natural and Moral History of those Islands Illustrated with divers pieces of Sculpture representing the most considerable Rarities therein described in solio 31. The History of the Affairs of Europe in this present Age but more particularly of the Republick of Venice Written in Italian by Battisla Nani Cavalier and Procurator of St. Mark Englished by Sir Robert Honywood Kt. in selio 32. The History of the Tarkish Empire from the year 1623. to the year