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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 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 LONDON Printed for I. Taylor at the Ship and I. Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard 1694. To the Right Honorable POWLETT St. JOHN EARL of BOLINGBROOKE And Baron of St. Iohn of Bletsoe My Lord THE Translator of this ingenious and most useful Piece not surviving to see it publish'd upon Perusal of the Copy I found the excellent Performance and Merit of the Work did not only deserve just Care of the Impression but also some Eminent Person to Recommend its Appearance in the World I embrac'd the Opportunity I had often wish'd of expressing in some measure my Respect and Zeal for your Lordship wherein I do but Comply with all Admirers of true Worth and Honour Every Body will allow that a better Guardian could not be Chosen for this posthumous Offspring and your Lordship will easily pardon my imploring your Protection of an Orphan The Historical Part of this Treatise is so Iust and Exact and the Remarques in it discover so much of Observation Experience and Iudgment that it seem'd a proper Offering for your Lordship's Acceptance who are particularly happy in a sensible and just manner of Thinking Nor has your Lordships Felicity Terminated in a true Discerning of Things you have reduc'd your Sentiments to Practice and prov'd the Iustness of your Notions by a singular and constant Regularity in your Life You have hereby brought an Accession of Reputation to the memory of your Noble Ancestors by preserving each Virtue of theirs with its utmost Lustre even in a vicious Age. You continue to convince the World that Temperance and Conversation Management and Liberality are consistent Virtues Prudence Iustice and Charity have carry'd an Ascendant in the whole Course of your Actions You have not only been happy in having early made Choice of a good Principle to direct you but in a constant Adherence to its Dictates You were from hence instructed to express upon all Occasions a Hearty and Noble Concern for your Country which is the true and ancient Test of English Worth and I must do our Country the Right to say they are highly sensible of it as appears by that worthy and just Character which is universally given of my Lord Bolingbrooke Your Relations and Friends have the next share in your Kindness and among the latter I may truly Rank all Persons of Merit You have declin'd no Opportunity of Obliging any Man of Desert and through your whole Life have not given Occasion to make so much as One Man your Enemy Wherefore I am safe in what I have said of your Lordship and the World will only forgive my saying so little in consideration of that Modesty which is Conspicuous amongst your Other Virtues Wherefore I shall only beg Pardon for surprising you with this Address and Permission to subscribe my self among the rest of your Admirers My Lord Your Lordships most devoted Humble Servant N. TATE The Four EPISTLES OF Augerius Gislenius Busbequius Concerning his Embassy into TVRKY EPISTLE I. SIR AS I promised you at parting to give you a full Account of my Journy to Constantinople so I shall now make good my Word and I hope with Advantage too For I shall also acquaint you with my Adventures in my Travel to Amasia as well as That to Constantinople the former being less used and consequently far less known than the later My design herein is to allow you a part of the Solace of what happened pleasurable to me for so the ancient Friendship betwixt us obliges me to appropriate no Joy to my self but to communicate the same to you but as for what happen'd incommodious to me as in so long and tedious a Journey some things must needs do those I take to my self neither would I have you concern'd in them at all for the Danger being now past the more grievous they were to suffer the more pleasant will they be even to my self to remember and commit to Writing You are not ignorant that when I returned from England after the Solemnization of the Marriage of King Philip and Queen Mary at which I was present as an Attendant in the Train of his Excellency Don Pedro Lassus who on that occasion was sent thither as an honorary Embassador by Ferdinand King of the Romans my most gracious Lord I say you are not ignorant how the said King Ferdinand by his Letters summoned me to this Journy I received his Commands by Letter when I was at Lisle on the 3d of November and I made no longer stay than to visit Busbec only to take my leave of my Father and Friends but taking Tornay in my way I hastned to Brussels where I met the aforesaid Don Lassus who spurred me on to the Voyage shewing me the King's Letters to him too commanding him to press me forward So that I immediately took Horse and made what haste I could to Vienna My Journy thither was very troublesome both by reason of my unaccustomedness to ride upon such inconvenient Horses as I could then get and also because the Season of the Year was not fit for Travel the Weather being tempestuous the Ways dirty and the Days short so that I was forced to borrow a great part of the Night and to pass through uncouth and almost unfrequented Ways in the dark not without the great hazard of my Life Assoon as ever I came to Vienna I was introduced into the Presence of King Ferdinand by his Secretary of State the Heer Iohn Vander Aa That Prince received me with the respect he used to shew to those Persons of whose Probity and Faithfulness he hath conceived a great Opinion He was pleased to entertain me with a large Discourse what Advantages he had promised to himself from me and how much it concerned him that I should undertake this Embassy and that speedily too for he had solemnly promised the Bassa of Buda That the Envoy he was to send should be in Buda without fail about the beginning of December next and for his part he was unwilling the Turks should take any advantage to break their Agreement upon pretence that he had failed in performing of his There were but 12 Days to the time prescribed a space little enough to prepare for a short Journy much less for so long and tedious a one and yet some of those ten Days were to be cut off too by a Journy which the King commanded me to make to Comora to visit Iohn Maria Malvezius for the King my Master thought it very advisable for me who had then but little Acquaintance in the Turkish Affairs to consult that experienced Person and to be informed by him ore tenus of the Manners