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B02743 The rarities of Turkey, gathered by one that was sold seven times a slave in the Turkish Empire, and now exposed to view for the benefit of his native countrey:. Georgijević, Bartolomej, d. ca. 1566. 1661 (1661) Wing D1921A; ESTC R175972 34,635 147

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Spanish Souldiery the warlike fierceness of the Belgicke Provinces the quick prudence of the Italian wits the robustiousness and stoutness of the Germans will be easily perswaded by the King of Romans against this universal Enemy remembring you withal No Crown sits so gloriously on an Emperour or Princes head as that which beareth a true Title of the Peoples safety and lawful Liberties Imploring and beseeching the most Christian King of France to employ his helping and heroick Arms in safeguard according to his Title of his Christian Brethrens liberties and his own from Turkish Tyranny Imploring and beseeching the most mighty and potent Kings of England Poland Denmark Swedeland with all Republicks Cities and Corporations Christian to unite and joyne in one their strengths and powers in war against this cankered common Enemy of their Religion Crowns and Dignities Imploring and beseeching all sorts of Powers and Authorities spiritual and temporal to imploy their diligence and shew the worthiness of their callings by correction and amendment of wicked and dissolute loose livers by whom God's wrath is kindled against us and to reduce them to holy Rules of Christian Exercises in living justly soberly and religiously and so render God a true account of Stewardship and prevent the miseries have befallen others drowsie and sleeping inadvertencies Imploring and beseeching both young and old of all sects and conditions godly Christians religious and secular beloved Fathers dear Brethren respected Friends Neighbours and Companions That you all with humble face and countenance pure and sincere hearts and hands devout mindes mournfull voyces and weeping eyes condole grieve and lament the miseries the calamities of Turkish captives and call unto the Lord of Hosts with violence in pity to his people to avert his anger and not to give them up to the perpetual rebuke of this wicked Infidel most cruel Enemy of Christian Religion and Liberty but to inspire the mindes of Christian Kings and Governours with light of his holy Spirit to reduce them all to unity and concord against this ravenous and insatiable Dragon and grant others such success that these wretched captives their Christian Brethren may be restored to liberty in the worship and adoration of their God our Christ and onely serve him who is for ever blessed that at length the Christian World may be refreshed and eas'd from such perpetual slavery CHAP. V. An Exhortation against the TURK I Have often marvelled with my self most mighty Monarchs when I considered the advātages which promise Christians victories against the Turk and yet inso many yeers they attempted none or failed We have Jesus Christ our God who in one onely night destroyed the host of Sennacherib who drowned Pharaoh who with a maiden hand of Judith struck off th● head of H●l●phernes and to be 〈…〉 a God whose will is victory Con●●ary to which they have a Mahomet a wicked man of life conversation in death yet hanging in his Sepulchre without Resurrection so as there is as much difference between them as is between an ever living Son of an ever living God and a putrid carkass of a son of a mortal man that if we diligently examine the nature of each Power and Authority it would apear like dead men superiors in strength to living Now in abilities of bodies capacities and gifts of understanding we exceed them which are good strengths and fortifications against an enemy and yet we are still defeated Who is more hardy then the Hungarian more stout and robustious then the German more quick and nimble then the Frenchmen more grave and solid then the Spaniard more cautelous and prudent then the Italian more valiant and daring then the English forbearing other Nations the endowments of whose mindes are better or at least equal All these abilities seem able singly to get a victory or at least well to forward it Courage often without much force generosity of minde wisdom forecast ambition of honour and policy oft subdues an Enemy yet notwithstanding wretches as we are amongst so many victorious attributes we get no victories Then if we consider the easie preparation great furnitures of all sorts of arms we shall appear far to exceed the Turk Guns of all sorts have bin our own inventions and the divers kindes of compleat harnesses for horse and foot The Turks Persians Subjects naked or half so march forth to war they have bows we guns that is fire and thunder they have arrows which hardly pierce an Armour we Cannons which Rocks cannot withstand and yet now some Mussel-men have Guns and Gunners but few and unskilful Now I pray what other kinde of people use they most in Expeditions Scythians and Thracians who have no Italian or Spanish Spirits onely a kinde of inhumane fierceness ignorance and stolidity to these are added Grecians lost men with ease and laziness Asians corrupt with luxury Aegyptians no less in minde then bodies feebled Arabians bloodless thin and parboyl'd with the Sun Who could imagine such-kinde of Souldiery should subdue the great advantages and abilities of those fore named Nations yet be it spoken with grief our Christians by these are overcome and mastered into servitude and our great Captains are forced to bear arms against us who were born and bred by Ancestors to liberty and in the mean season the Turk laughs at us and the Jew rejoyceth Now if I shall consider the Laws and Institutions of Nations we shall be found abundantly superiour in that respect for what is more righteous and divine then the Decalogue and holy Gospel written by God's own Finger and his Spirit what more regular then the Canon-Law more just and equal then the civil Law Whereas the Turks live by Direction Dictates of the Alcoran a book of stuff as foolish as full of vanity a book of sport and mirth if pity for the seduced did not allay it though now spread abroad too much and handled amongst Christians so as it may be truely feared we shall learn other Laws or shortly lose our own and turn Turks in our mindes and approbations sooner then in our bodies to their Dominion What is then the cause having so many prerogatives of hopeful war we are alwayes beaten why are our Ensigns adorn'd with Crucifixes fearful formerly to infidels and devils now trampled on frighted I shall tell you in few words and truth We have a God most great most good but alienated from us so far that according to the Prophets saying We scarce are to be named his people for why should Christ remain with us whom we have rent and torn in far more pieces then the Souldiers did his Garment by our hideous Sects Schismes and Heresies Besides his Name what of him is dear unto us The very Plow man these times is impudent and factious the Citizen fraudulent and avaritious the Magistrate seeks retributions and rewards the Nobility is riotous and lazy the Gentry contentious and proud the Souldier beyond his pay and spoil craves nothing from
onely to set them at liberty and see them flye away others throw Bread into Rivers for Fishes and that for the love of God saying That such charity towards the needy doth obtain a great reward from Heaven Concerning War THe Turks have all one Emperor or King of the Race of Ottoman who hath next to himself in Authority two Sangiachs or Viceroys chief Governours th' one of Europe th' other of Asia and these have under them Lieutenants of lesser quality who command the ordinary Souldiery and if they fail being call'd to any expedition are presently punished with death He hath others always following him as Councellors Guardians of his body ever neer him chamberlains chancellors exactors of tribute for monies and young people with certain numbers of light-horse messengers divers others that continually follow the court His greatest strength is in his Slaves Children for the most part torn from Christian Parents with Tribute-Children bred and educated in several Seraglio's Captives taken in War and Renegado's Of these some are trained up and serve on horse who have a double stipend to the Foot and alwayes ready at command in stables keeping four hundred horse together The great body of Foot-Souldiery are the Janizaries all commanded by a Chief called their Aga a person of mighty trust and like importance who hath under him divers inferiour Commanders and have Seraglio's apart Of these and Auxiliary Forces the Turk can draw three hundred thousand to the Field A great part of these Janizaries attend the Court Ambassadors houses and protect all Christian Inhabitants and Travellers for rewards and are faithful in those imployments Their Standard in the Field is an Horse-Tail tied upon a pole an Emblem of their first barbarity and rudeness His strength at Sea is not considerable consisting most in Gallies and those not equal to some Italian Princes nor hath he many for want of Slaves whom he imployes more for Land-services The best of Shipping is under the Bassa's of Algier and Tunis whom he manageth with much policy sometime as Rebels and sometime as good Subjects to his best advantage against Christians for if they complain of loss the Turk then sayes He cannot rule them If th' other do the like he 'll take treble damages The Condition of Neblemen THere is not any of those great Personages that possess by right of inheritance any Province City or real Estate to derive unto his Children or Successors without consent of the King If any of their Dukes or Princes desire possessions it must be with this condition the value of the Place or Territory is first considered and the Revenues thereof whereby the Turk apportioneth what number of Souldiers that can annually maintain then the Lord is enjoyned alwayes to keep in readiness that number for any his commands and in default his head is lost nothing can excuse his presence in any commanded place but known want of health and sickness And whensoever it please the Turk to ease him of this benefit it 's at his liberty but if not deprived he enjoyes it during life after death if his Successors will observe the fame conditions they are often admitted if not 't is then disposed to others And if it happen any one of these great ones have occasion to speak unto their King with eyes fixed on the ground they dare not look him in the face Of Bassa's who may be called Counsellors Chancellors or Secretaries THese for the most part are all Eunuchs castrated when Youths and bred in Seraglio's for attendants on the Turkish Concubines and of later yeers some of them as I was informed being a Slave to a great Man in Constantinople are cut so close the body that they often die by th' incision and if live they ever after use small pipes for discharging their water such is their cruel jealousie introduced as 't was said by an Emperour that perceived a Gelding leap a Mare These Bassa's are of greatest esteem with the Turk next to the Sangiachs and they are almost all that are preferred to that dignity Children of Christian Parents violently taken from them and none of them although he hath to Wife a Daughter of a Turk as Hurstan Bassa had can enjoy a Parish Castle or Village by inheritance but if he be promoted to any dignity or possessions he enjoyes it till his death or so long as the Turk pleaseth Each Bassa hath a Court of Justice in the Province he commandeth from whence appeals are to the King or great Mufty whose sentence is concluding and immoveable The obedience of Turks to the King NOne of their Janizaries or great Captains have license to wear Swords or other Arms within the Cities unless the King go forth his Palace for Devotion sake or Hunting And where there are Magistrates or Governours of Towns Porters carry with them staves or clubs and finding any quarrellings or offerings at injuries they presently punish them with those instruments and no man speaking to them dares look them in the face but falling on the earth kiss their feet with eyes to the ground and speak as to themselves And whensoever they send forth Messengers with Letters to Governours Cities or Provinces whose horse grows faint by journeying this Messenger hath full authority to dis-horse whom ere he meets and meeting none he turns into the next Town or Village and repairs to the chief Officer and if he presently provides him not an horse he 's hang'd before his door and for this cause many make use of asses rather then keep horse And when this Messenger shall come to whom he was sent he is most honourably received his Letters kissed with great humility and their Contents answered with incredible celerity and quick dispatch No Princes dare contradict one sillable therein None dare as here rebel all men live in such awful fear and trembling Tortures and present death depending on his will The Turkish strength how diminished THe Emperour distributes in some equality all Provinces to his Noblemen but with condition that such a Souldiery shall be continually maintained by him with the Revenues of that Province both in time of Peace and War A Souldier killed is not loss to him unless the Province likewise be lost as for example The Turk hath now four hundred Souldiers whereof one hundred is maintained by Hungary now if he lose Hungary those Souldiers are lost if he lose no Province he loseth nothing for he can raise more in their rooms as Church-Officers or benefits easily finde in vancancies Successors The condition of Chazilars THese are stout Souldiers and excellently versed in military affairs who in their first encounters break their Lances without other Armour then a Sword Lance and Target using it as we do with Coat of Fence and Helmet the Lance being broke they use the Sword and fight valiantly alwayes aiming at the head or hands and think it ignominious to thurst at their adversary or an horse with point of Sword