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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58003	The present state of the Ottoman Empire containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion, their sects and heresies, their convents and religious votaries, their military discipline ... : illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture, representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks, in three books / by Paul Rycaut Esq. ...	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1668 (1668)	Wing R2413; ESTC R18075	228,446	228

Sultan Mahomet Han the present Emperour of the Turkes aged 23 yeares Anno 1666 THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Ottoman Empire Containing the MAXIMS of the TURKISH POLITIE The most material Points of the MAHOMETAN RELIGION Their SECTS and HERESIES their CONVENTS and RELIGIOUS Votaries THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE With an exact Computation of their FORCES both by LAND and SEA Illustrated with divers Pieces of Sculpture representing the variety of Habits amongst the Turks IN THREE BOOKS By PAUL RYCAUT Esq Secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea Embassador Extraordinary for his Majesty Charles the Second c. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth Emperour of the Turks LONDON Printed for John Starkey and Henry Brome at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleet-street and the Star in Little-Britain 1668. To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord ARLINGTON His Majesties Principal Secretary of State My Lord AFter five years residence at Constantinople in service of the Embassy of the Earl of Winchilsea my ever honoured Lord and this my second journey from thence by land into my own Country I judged it a point of my Duty and of my Religion too to dedicate this following Treatise as the fruits of my Travels Negotiations and leisure in those remote parts to the Noble Person of your Lordship as that Votiva Tabula which many both in ancient and in the modern times after some signal deliverance or happy arrival at their desired Port use to offer to their Gods their Saints or their Patrons And truly my Lord this Discourse treating chiefly of the Turkish Policy Government and Maxims of State seems naturally to appertain to the Patronage of your Lordship whose faculties of Wisdom and Vertue have given you the Blessing of your Princes Favour and the Reputation as well abroad as at home of an Eminent and Dexterous Minister of State It were a great Presumption in me to offer any Observations of my own in the Courts of Christian Princes to the test of your Lordships Experience and Judgment who not only is acquainted with the Customs and Manners but penetrates into the Designs and knows the Cabinet Councels of Neighbouring Principalities with whom our divided world may possibly be concerned but perhaps without disparagement to your Lordships profound Wisdom or over-value of my own abilities I may confidently draw a rude Scheme before your Lordship of the Turkish Government Policies and Customs a Subject which Travellers have rather represented to their Country-men to supply them with discourse and admiration than as a matter worthythe consideration or concernment of our Kings or our Governors It hath been the happy fortune of the Turk to be accounted barbarous and ignorant for upon this perswasion Christian Princes have laid themselves open and unguarded to their greatest danger contending together for one Palm of land whilst this puissant Enemy hath made himself master of whole Provinces and largely shared in the rich and pleasant possessions of Europe This contempt of the Turk on one side caused the Emperour to be so backward in opposing that torrent of the Ottoman Force which in the first year of the late War broke in upon him and the suspition of designs from France on the other altered the Resolutions and Councels of the Emperour for prosecution of the War which then running favourably on the Christian part was no less than with the astonishment of the whole world and of the Turks themselves on a sudden understood to be clapt up with Articles of a disadvantageous Peace admiring to see the Emperour give a stop to the current of his Victories and relinquish the Game with a lucky hand But this will seem no riddle to those who penetrate Affairs with the same judgment that your Lordship doth and consider the unfirm condition the House of Austria was in by a daily expectation of the death or fall of so main a Basis of it as the King of Spain and the division amongst the Princes of the Empire the League of the Rhine the French practices to make the Duke of Enguyen King of Poland and the extravagant demands of the French and Rhinish League for Winter quarters and places of strength not only in Hungary but also in Styria and the adjacent places and at the same time look on the Factions in Hungary and a considerable Army of French in the bowels of Germany who were supposed in those parts to have rather come with design to over-awe the next Diet and force the German Princes to elect the French King for King of the Romans than with sincere and simple intentions of opposing themselves to the Enemy of the Faith for then it will appear that the best use the Emperor could make of his good success was moderation in Victory and reconciliation with his powerful Enemy And hereupon Earl Leisle being dispatched for Extraordinary Embassador from his Imperial Majesty to the Grand Signior though the Turk was elevated with the thoughts of the necessity the Christians had of a Peace did yet so happily manage his Charge and Employment as created in the Turks an extraordinary reverence towards his Person and obtained such Honours and Treatments from them as the Turkish Court never bestowed before on the Emperors or any other Christian Embassador extorting this Complement from the great Vizier That he was more satisfied the Emperor had sent so brave and illustrious a person than if he had sought to reconcile his Affections with a hundred thousand Dollars more of Present And to do justice to this worthy Person he hath brought a reputation to the British Nation above any in our age whose vertues and industry have acquired the highest Trusts and Preferments in Forreign Parts and done the same honour to his King under whom he was born a Subject as to the present Emperor and his Ancestors under whom he is and hath alwaies been a faithful Minister having deserved so eminently for saving the whole German Empire from the Treason of Wallestein by his own single act of bravery a story notoriously known to all the world as can never in gratitude be forgot by that Nation nor want its due Record and place in the History of that Country The speculation of what is contained in this following Discourse may seem unworthy of your Lordships precious hours in regard of that notion of Barbarity with which this Empire is stiled yet the knowledge hereof will be like a Turquoise or some other Jewel set within the Rose of those many Gems of your Lordships Wisdom and Vertues This Present which I thus humbly consecrate to your Lordship may be termed barbarous as all things are which are differenced from us by diversity of Manners and Custom and are not dressed in ●●e mode and fashion of our times and Countries for we contract prejudice from ignorance and want of familiarity But your Lordship who exactly ponderates the weight of humane Actions acknowledges reason in all its habits and draws not the measures of