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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07915	A vaunting, daring, and a menacing letter, sent from Sultan Morat the great Turke, from his court at Constantinople, by his embassadour Gobam, to Vladisllaus King of Poland, &c. Which letter was sent to the Christian King, since the truce concluded betweene the Turke and the Persian in March last; as by many copies whereof, may appeare, as it was sent out of Poland. Wherein he declares himselfe a mortall enemy to the said Christian King, threatning to invade his kingdomes and territories, with all manner of hostility. Whereunto is annexed a briefe relation of the Turkish present strength, both of horse and foote: with al the victories the Turkes have prevailed against the Christians these last three hundred yeares. As also what glorious victories the Christians have wonne against the Turkes, till this present yeare. 1638. Published by authority	Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640.	1638 (1638)	STC 18286; ESTC S102874	14,115	30

be able to count like a huge Mountaine shall over-top thee like a raging Torrent overturne thee and like a violent Inundation overwhelme thee with mercilesse plundering robbing spoyling wasting and burning both thy Countrey and people Then shalt thou know with great feare and dread my force and power nay all thy Adherents and Confederates be they whom they will in number never so many shall quake and tremble at my dreadfull and just indignation It is not thy Kingdome of Poland thy Principality of Lithuania thy Russes Goths and Vandails nor any of thy Countries and Dominions which thou patst so much unstable security and confidence in with all their best defences for themselves or opposition of us that altogether shall be able for the space of one Moneth to endure the force of my might and power The swelling Seas shall shrinke under the burthen and weight of our unparalell'd Shipping when our Navy Royall and Tryumphant shall gloriously shew it selfe upon the vast Ocean namely our Gallyes Gallyasses Argosies Friggots and Brigandines when they shew themselves on the Seas the land shall admire and the wilde beasts of the Forrests shall shake and fearefully runne into obscure holes dennes and cavernes of the earth when they doe heare the terrible report of our thundring Ordnance discharged And what wilt thou doe then thou petty King with thy poore and weak Bands and Troopes or handfuls of men when thou shalt behold my great and powerfull Armies which shall cover thy Countries Thou makest a ●a●nting shew and art seemingly-confident in thy ever-weening opinion that thou canst consume and destroy the great Waspe with a small Gnat Know thou that our strength and terrour doth reach and extend further than our ample Dominions for our Imperiall commanding name is dreadfull and famous through the whole World or Vniversall Globe of the Earth from the rising of the Sunne to the setting of the same Wee purpose with the edges of our sharpe and well-tempered Semiters to loppe and mow downe thy ambition and to ruinate the ostentatious pride of thee and thy Countrey And we assure thee that it is meere folly for thee to expect any Peace Truce or League with us after wee have once set footing in thy Territories for our holy Prophet Mahomet is highly offended at our so long Clemency in forbearing and suffring thee in thy ungodly and wilfull actions Therefore we will come to Craconia thy Metropolis and chiefe Citty in Poland in the strength of which place thou puttest much confidence and where as we are lately certified thou hast built a holy Sepulchre in imitation of that which we have in possession in the sacred City of Jerusalem upon which thou dost likewise rely but that neither can nor shall helpe thee for we will raze and overthrow your Temples Churches and Chappels and convert them into Turkish Moskies for the service of our holy Prophet and those whom our force and fury doe not demolish and confound wee will turne into Stables where our Horses and Cammels shall live and be housed with rack and manger Thus we the great God of the World determine to doe these fore-threatned misteries thou must expect and it is not thy Crucified God in whom thou puttest thy confidence that shall helpe thee for we purpose that when our sword is once drawne not to sheath it again till we have made a finall conquest of Christendome or utter extirped and chased them from or neare any parts of our Dominions Sent by our trusty Servant and Embassadour in the Ides of the Moneth of March Anno 1637. THus may the Reader perceive in what thundering manner and ostentatious boasting this great and and sea Leviathan threatneth to overthrow and devoure the Polonian King but that manner of insulting and vaine-glorious writing from the Turke to Christian Princes is no newes in these dayes of ours for if any man will but looke into the famous and well written Turkish History now newly printed by Master Adam Islip in the 300 Page hee may reade how the Turk Amurath the sixth King of the Turkes writes to Scanderbeg or George Castriot the sonne of Iohn Castriot King of Albania or Epirus Also if you looke into the 1024 Page of the aforesaid booke you may read of a braving Letter farre surpassing this here before mentioned sent from Amurath the third Emperour of the Turkes to Rodolphus the second Emperour of Germany where in that place may be seene the most impious and blasphemous threatnings that ever Heathen Infidell or Atheisticall Barbarian hath belched or vomited against either God or man But for a proud Letter indeed looke in the 789 Page and there you may read the Master-piece of a vaunting title which Soliman the Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes sent to Ferdinand the Emperour of Germany in the yeare 1561. there you may perceive that the Stiles and Titles which the Turke gives himselfe would of it selfe fill halfe a Pamphlet in proclamation Print But Christian Princes who doe acknowledge that they doe hold their Crownes and Scepters from and under God and his sonne Christ Iesus are more strongly fortifi'd with heavenly Faith and Majestical courage than to be sear'd or afrighted with Bugge-beare words or farre-fetch'd large embost and embroydered Stiles or Titles And for one instance of the just Titles of a Prince who was indeede in his greatest Stile but an Arch-Duke of Austria yet in reall repetitions of the Signiories over which he was lawfull Lord and possessor he was in his time Equivalent that was then reigning in the whole Christian World He lived in the yeare 1494 and his Titles were as followeth The many just and ample Stiles and Titles of Phillip Duke of Burgundy Philip by the grace of God Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Lothier Brabant Stiria Carinthia Lemburgh Lupenburgh and Guelders Earle of Hauspergh Flanders Arthoys Burgoigne Ferrets and Kiburgh Palatine of Henault Holland Zealand Namure and Zutphen Marquesse of the Holy Empire and of Burgan Lantsgrave of Elsaten Lord of Windesmarke Portevan Salines and Macklin Although the repetition of this great Christian Princes Title may seeme somewhat impertinent yet it may be taken as tollerable because in a good measure it shews that there hath beene are and will be Kings and Princes in Christendome that can vye Titles and dare wage Warre with the Turke and first I will a little demonstrate the Turkish power and after declare how hee hath beene often foyled and beaten Otheman the first King of the Turkes wonne many Castles and Territories from the Christians in Greece as Cara Chisar Chalce Belezuge Jarchisar Nice Neapolis Prusa or Burusa This Othoman overcame the valiant Grecian Emperour Michael in the Countrey of Thrace in an unfortunate mortall Battell After that Othoman in another Battell in Chersonesus overcame the Christian Emperour and conquer'd and plundred almost all Thracia with many other places of strength which he wonne from the Christians Othoman Reigned in the yeere of