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A07559	The history of the vvarres betvveene the Turkes and the Persians. Written in Italian by Iohn-Thomas Minadoi, and translated into English by Abraham Hartvvell. Containing the description of all such matters, as pertaine to the religion, to the forces to the gouernement, and to the countries of the kingdome of the Persians. Together with the argument of euery booke, & a new geographicall mappe of all those territories. A table contayning a declaration aswell of diuerse new and barbarous names and termes vsed in this history, as also how they were called in auncient times. And last of all, a letter of the authors, wherein is discoursed, what cittie it was in the old time, which is now called Tauris, and is so often mentioned in this history; Historia della guerra fra Turchi, et Persiana. English	Minadoi, Giovanni Tommaso, 1545-1618.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.; Whitwell, Charles, engraver.	1595 (1595)	STC 17943; ESTC S122232	286,033	442

and to the Esahul aforenamed Among all the reuenues that are gathered out of the Citties subiect to Casbin the greatest were alwaies payed out of Tauris Cassan Hispahan all Citties of great traffike where the marchandise of Europe all Asia doo arriue And these are the reuenues of this Crowne The expenses briefely are these The threescore and ten Sultanes that serue in the gouernement of the subiect Citties are payed in ready money out of the Chamber of Casbin with a stipend of three thousand foure thousand or fiue thousand Cecchins a peece The two thousand Curchi that remaine to be paide for their attendance who haue no landes assigned to them for their pay as the foure thousand abouenamed haue doe also receiue their ordinary wages out of the kinges Chamber from a hundred threescore to two hundred Cecchins a man From thence also are defraied the stipends for the magistracyes of the Iudges not onely of Casbin but of all the whole empire all the Treasurers likewise Wherof some haue a thousand some fiue hundred and some a thousand and fiue hundred Cecchins yearely The Garnisons of certayne Fortes as of Elegie neere to Nassiuan Guuergi-Chalassi Cahaca-Calassi and such like consisting some of a thousand and fiue hundred persons some of a thousand and some of fiue hundred are payed with these Reuenewes and euery Souldier of them receiues for his pay fiue Cecchins a moneth little more or lesse I do not heere reckon the expenses that go out for the pay of other base Offices of his household of the Queene of the Prince of his Children of the Temples called their Moschees of the buildinges of the gardens and such like and so I leaue you to make an accompt how much remaineth ouer and aboue for the king to put vp in his purse yearely And now hauing respect to the order of those thinges which I propounded to my selfe to treate-of there resteth nothing els but onely briefely to consider the occasions whereby it is come to passe that a kingdom so meruelously encreased is so suddenly decreased and decaied And we think the principall occasions therof were three The first because the enemy did in very short space waxe verie strong and mightie by the great conquestes that he made both by sea and by land by meanes whereof it fell out that those calamities and assaultes wherewith Persia was at sondry tymes dyuersly afflicted and trauelled did alwaies proue very grieuous and mortall vnto it The second because the empyre of Persia had no fenced citties that were able to hold out or maintaine themselues and if there were any as Van was one it was because they knew not how to fynd the meanes either to maintayne or to recouer themselues And who knoweth not that the country lying open without any resistance not onely the huge forces of the Turke but also farre lesse forces had beene able to worke these mischeefes yea and farre greater then these are The third is the conquest of all Artes that the Turke hath made in the winning and subduing of so many christian citties which are replenished with al kind of diligent study arte By which conquests the Turke hath not onely learned to vse his wonted and natiue weapons after a more mortall and deadly manner but also hath inuented new to the great astonishment te●rour of his enemy who hath not onely neglected to make vse of forraine instructions and to learne the true meanes to encrease his owne forces but as it were contemning all other mens wittes hath thought himselfe alone able to teach and instruct others And this is that haultinesse and ambitious conceite of the Persian who in this present misery of his owne vaunteth braggeth of great matters though all the world can see nothing but most vnhappy euentes in all his warres The fourth is the concord and celerity of the Turke whereby he hath attempted whatsoeuer he would and hath obtayned whatsoeuer he attempted yea and oftentimes before the Persians could take their Armour he hath taken their countryes The fifte which is the roote and fosterer of all the rest hath alwayes beene the discord and dissention in the kingdom of Persia and the keeping aliue of so many brethren or nephewes of the king at once and not onely the keping of them aliue but also the maintaining of them in authority in gouernement and in maiesty For hereby it came to passe that all counselles and execution of counsailes were diuided Armies weakened Captaines minds suspended and inclyning to dyuers parties to be briefe there followed a meere confusion of all thinges It is in deed a barbarous and inhumaine thing for one brother to dye his crowne Scepter with the bloud of another and oftentymes of so many of his breethren and out of all doubt it is a very harde and cruell position that a man shall not be able to rule without the making away of his deerest frendes But yet on the other syde it cannot bee but too much negligence and lenity to permit that breethren and children being of speciall ambition waxen ouer proude in their owne conceytes by reason of their princely gouernementes and authorities should stirre-vp armes one against another and in the meane while scarce leaue any meanes for the poore king to scape with his life who being by his owne bloud made euen as it were a rebell to the honour and quyet of the kingdome must needes reduce his empire into a most vnhappy state Both these kyndes of gouernementes are in extremities and therefore infected with vice and barbarisme and not to be exercised by any man And although Cornelius Tacitus saith that Great enterpryses which are recompensed with the proffit and safety of the Commonwealth may haue some iniquity or vnlawfulnesse in them notwithstanding euery Christian prince ought by all meanes to auoide them and to establish the quyetnesse of his kingdome neither with too great cruelty nor with excessiue lenity in which two poyntes all the Barbarian kinges doo ordniarily offend I had heere made an end of this booke had there not beene brought vnto me certaine bookes some written in French and some in the Latin tongue some with the tytle of commentaries and some of an History vnder the names of dyuers Authours more Poeticall then Historicall as faras I can gather in which bookes hauing found many wantes aswell concerning matters of the Persian and Turkish opinions about their lying religion as also touching the recognition of certaine auncient citties the tymes wherein things haue happened the actions themselues the voyages of the armies and many other particularities I thought it my dutye to admonishe all those that after this our age shall happen to reade those bookes and this history that they walke verye circumspectly in reading such writings And especially let them take great heed that they doo not belieue these things following namely That the Turkes follow Aly and the Persians follow Omar and

persons departeth in the latter ende of August from Erzirum Mustaffa the Georgian ioy neth with Mahamet at Archelech The Georgians and the Persians send to defie the Turkes and to bid them to battell Mahamet the Bassa refuseth the Battell The Turkes passe ouer the riuer and are assaulted by their enemies and shamefullie discomsited The Turkes being so discomfited retire themselues to Teflis Mahamet the Bassa maketh a publike oration to his souldiers at Teflis Mahamet leauieth a taske among his souldiers and so departeth A disorder in the departure among the Curdi At Altunchala a counterfeit Counsel-house called to betray Mustaffa who woundeth the Lieutenant of Mahamet the Bassa of Caraemit and Mamet himselfe Amurah being angry at these misfortunes reproueth the Bassas of his court for their improuidence and follie and particularlie findeth himselfe grieued with Sinan who maketh a proud and an arrogant answer to the king Whereupon he is banished from the Court and Sciaus the Bassa sonne in law to the King is chosen chiefe Visier in the roome of Sinan THE FIFTH BOOKE SInan remayned at Chars eight dayes during which time hee surueighed againe all his souldiers al his corn thē set himself on his way towards Tomanis with resolution there to build a Fort as I told you before He passed by Archelech and left behind him Peruana Giol Triala and in the end arriued at Tomanis where a litle before he came thither was arriued also the Capigilarchechaiasi from the Court bringing with him the seal and the writ wherby the king had named him to be chiefe Visier For which good newes all the Bassas in the army shewed great signes of reioycing At Tomanis he consulted with al his chief Bassas touching his designment for the Fort that was to be made and euery one of them deliuered diuers Models of it but none of them all could be put in execution by reason of the raine which fel so largely so aboundantly and so continually that the souldiers had neither leasure nor meanes to employ themselues in that work and especially because Sinan did greatly fear that the enemy taking the oportunity of this rain of the strait and of the building might peraduenture assault the armie and finding it out of order in ill plight might greatlie endommage it This raine continued falling for the space of eight daies in all which time neither did beame of the Sun break out nor the skie cleare Howbeit waxing at the last somewhat lightsome Sinan determined to remooue from thence and to cary onwards his succours to Teflis Assoone as the Army was raised and presently after they had passed the strait of Tomanis Talogli the Aga or Captaine of the Ianizzaries of Damasco and Homar the Sangiacco or Lord of Saffetto who had alwaies hetherto kept company together in the Army because they were neighbors whiles they dwelt at Saffetto and Damasco had now also determined to go togither to seeke their fortune For they had receiued priuie intelligence that hard by a little out of the way there was good store of corne and cattel and thereupon they resolued to fetch in that booty And so gathering together a company of souldiers to the nūber of two thousand who were all very desirous of some refreshing because they were insome necessity for corne they went out for this pray But Simon-Chan who hauing aduertised the Persians of the departure of Sinan from Chars and ioyned himself vnto them had withdrawne himselfe to follow the Army a far off and had diuided his souldiers into such places where there was either corne or water or any such like thing that might allure the Turkes to scatter themselues from the Campe Assoon as he was aware of them that they had carelesly run out to lay hold on this desired booty being accompanied with his owne people a fewe other Persians he fel vpon thē hewed thē al to peeces scarle leauing the Aga of the Ianizzaries any leasure to fly who being ayded by the swiftnes of his horse or whether hee were in the front marching before al the rest I know not put himselfe to flight and so scaped with his life In so much as the Sangiacco aboue named and all the rest were there slaine and in brief there escaped nor one but only the foresaid Aga. Sinan pursued on his iourney in the space of two daies came to Teflis where presently he gathered together all the chief of his Army calling also into the Diuano the Capilarche●a●asi he began to take order that euery man vpon his oath should depose the truth touching the greatnes of that cuntry And all this was but onely to make it euidently appeare that the information which Mustaffa had giuen to the king that Teflis was a citie lik to Damasco was vtterly vntrue for that Teflis was but a small peece of ground containing but a few houses and few inhabitants in them and not only vnequal to Damasco but also vnworthy in any sort to be compared vnto it for that it did far surpasse Teflis in all things aswel for riches and bignes as for multitude of people At the same time also he distributed his treasure and the suecors which he brought among the souldiers of the sort comforting them with good speeches with lustie liuely promises of great matters And foramuch as all the souldiers there made great complaints against the Bassa that was their Captain in the fortresse Sinan caused an information or as the Turks cal it a Teflis to be framed against him hauing found him guilty that he had conuerted the souldiers pay to his own vse he condemned him in restitution thereof and discharging him immediatly frō his office he did substitute in his place Giusuf Bey one of the Georgian Lordes who for the ancient enmity between him and Simon had yeelded him self to the Turks was by them so welcommed that Sinan trusted him with the oustody of that fort which with so many dangers had bene maintained and defended till that day When this was done Sinan departed frō thence with al his army while he was vpon his departure ther arriued Embassadors from Leuentogli lord of Zaghen of whom we haue oftentimes made mentiō before who wer very wel welcom to Sinan especially for that aswel by their relation as also by the testimony of the souldiers of Teflis thēselues he had bin certified how much good Leuentogli had done vnto thē by sending to the fort vittails money whatsoeuer els he had that might be commodious for them in that their continual necessity Which in trueth was so great that it was an occasion of spreaidng abroad a general fame whereby it was reported that the said Fort was yeelded by the Turks to the Georgiani yea and the rumor of it passed euen into Italy But it was all false For notwithstanding so great penurie of all things and so great a