thereby he might give some jealousie to the Rebels as if he designed to make a Peace with Venice to have more power and better leisure to make his War against them This Counsel though prudently given had yet little influence on the humour of the Pasha who continued his March fortifying himself in the most advantageous Passes of the Country But what was most bold of all his actions and rendred his pardon beyond the clemency of his Soveraign was the proclaiming a Youth of twenty years of Age then with him in his Army to be the Son of Sultan Morat and consequently the lawful Heir of the Crown and that in right of him he had taken possession of a great part of Asia and was marching towards Constantinople with resolution to dispossess Sultan Mehmet and exalt this lawful and undoubted Heir on the Throne of his Ancestors This and other rumours from Persia that that King taking the advantage of these disorders was making preparations to regain Bagdat or Babylon and revenge himself of all those cruelties which the Turks had inflicted on his Subjects and Country increased the fears and cares of the chief Ministers of State Notwithstanding which Chusaein Pasha prosecuted his business no less in Candia than formerly in hopes to put an end to the War there before the end of the Summer and in order thereunto he received a Recruit of five and twenty thousand men from the Morea But the daily increase of the Pasha's Forces and his approach towards Constantinople as it was a matter of the highest consequence so it required the most prudence and caution in the management In the first place therefore by Fetfa or Resolve from the Mufti the Pasha was declared a Rebel and guilty of High Treason against the Sultan notwithstanding which a Chaous was dispatched with Letters of Pardon if now repenting of his fault he would disband his Army and return to his former obedience he should be received into grace and favour The Pasha received the Chaous with the same Ceremony and honour as if he had been an Ambassadour being willing to consider him under that Character rather than under the notion of a Pursuivant or Officer sent to affright him into his Duty and in answer to the message replyed That it was not in his power to condescend to any conditions for that since he had assumed the Cause of this Youth who was the Son of Sultan Morat concealed to that Age by his Mother for fear of the power of his Uncle he could not assent to any terms or conditions less than the Exaltation of him to the Ottoman Throne and so carrying this Young Man with him as a property whereby to cover his Rebellion with the Guise of Justice and Duty he maintained a Court for him after the Ottoman fashion and causing the Tagho or Standards to be carried before him he permitted him to give Audiences send Dispatches and to take on him all the royal marks of Empire The Army of the Pasha was by this time encreased to seventy thousand Men one Part of which he sent towards Scutari and another towards Smyrna which alarm'd all the Countries round about and gave the Grand Signior such cause of apprehension that he tryed divers means and made many propositions of honours and benefits to the Pasha whereby to allure him to obedience One while he offered to him the Government of G. Cairo but that being rejected he endeavoured to raise men in Asia to oppose the progress of his Armes of which some numbers being got into a Body and perceiving the formidable Force of the Pasha revolted and joined themselves to his Party This extremity of Affairs caused the Grand Signior not only again to proclaim the Pasha a Rebel but to give liberty to his people to destroy him and his Souldiers in any parts where they should encounter them In pursuance of which Licence a Village in Asia having killed twenty five or thirty of the Pasha's men which came thither to refresh themselves the Pasha was so enraged thereat that he caused his Souldiers to put Man Woman and Child to the sword throughout the Village And in this manner the Affairs of the Turks remained in the greatest Confusion imaginable through the whole course of this year 1658. ANNO 1659. NOR did this Year begin with better Omens of success for to the other dangers was added a report that the Persian had taken the Field with two hundred thousand Men for recovery of Bagdat or Babylon which was the Ancient Patrimony of his Forefathers so that the Grand Signior being rendred thereby more willing to agree and accommodate Affairs with the Pasha proffered to him the Government of the Province of Soria for ever paying only a yearly homage of a hundred thousand Sultanees in lieu of three hundred thousand which that Country always yielded But the Pride of the Pasha scorned a proffer of so mean a consideration having nothing less in his thoughts than the entire enjoyment of the Empire or at least to partake an equal share thereof with the Sultan Forthe hopesof the Pasha encreasing with his Army which was now grown to eighty thousand men he took up for some days his head-Quarters near the Fortress of Tocacaia within ten days March of Smyrna and thence approaching towards Constantinople the chief Ministers concluded that there was no other safety but in their Armes and that the Pasha was not to be reduced to any terms of gentleness or moderation Accordingly the Great Vizier passed into Asia with a numerous Army and speedily joined Battel with the Pasha which continued for some hours with great slaughter on one side and the other but at length the fortune of the day turned in favour of the Pasha and the Viziers Army being routed he lost all his Cannon and Baggage and he himself was forced to save himself in the neighbouring Countries where not being pursued by the Pasha he had time again to collect his torn and scattered Troops The news hereof multiplied the disorders and confusions at Constantinople to which being added the motion of the Persians and that they were to join with the Pasha as also some troubles in Transilvania caused by the unquiet spirit of Ragotski together with the ill humour of the male-contents in the City made all things appear with equal or greater danger at home than abroad Wherefore as the ultimate remedy of these imminent dangers it was resolved that the Grand Signior should go in person to the War on supposition that Reverence to his Royal Person would produce that awe on the spirits of his Subjects which was not to be effected by violence or force of Armes According to this resolution the Grand Signior passed into Asia and joining his Forces with those of the Vizier composed an Army of seventy thousand Foot and thirty thousand Horse with which marching boldly towards the Enemy the heart of the Pasha began to fail him so that calling a Council of his
conclusion of them to be ingrossed and prepared for the Imperial assent Howsoever some considerable time ran on before they were delivered out in regard that being matters of State relating to War and Peace they could not be fully granted without privity and knowledge of the Grand Vizier who was the supreme Counsellour and therefore we were forced to attend thirty five days before an Express could go and return from the Frontiers with the Answer expected which was as easily granted by the Vizier as before it was entertained by the Grand Signior On August 5. the Confirmation of the several aforesaid Articles were consigned unto my self in presence of our Lord Ambassadour by the hands of the Chimacam being my self designed in person to deliver them for which service a Frigate of His Majesties Navy attended at Smyrna so that very evening I departed and arrived at Smyrna the 15 th of August In my Journey from Adrianople to Smyrna omitting the Geography of the Countries and the pleasant view I had from the top of a Mountain between Malagra and Gallipoli from whence I could survey all the Hellespont and at the same time take a prospect of the Propontick and Ionian Seas I shall only relate two passages which befel me in this Journey not unpleasant to be remembred The first was at a small Village called Isheclé at the foot of the Mountain Ida not far from the Ancient Troy now named by the Turks Kauz-dog which signifies the Mountain of Geese the people that inhabit here are of a rude disposition great Thieves and of a wild and savage nature at my entry thereupon I was advised by those that were with me that it was necessary to take Mules to carry my Baggage through the Mountains and to press the people to convoy me to the next Government by virtue of a Command the Grand Signior had granted me for the security of my Travels so that arriving at this place by break of day I went directly with all my Attendance being about eighteen or nineteen Horse to the Kadi's House where knocking hard at the door a Servant looked out at the window and spying so great a company wholly affrighted ran to his Master and awakening him with such dreadful news he had scarce any soul or life remaining to render an answer for he was one of those who three times a day was used to take his Dose of Opium which gave him a strange kind of intoxication or drunkenness during the operation of which men have their spirits violently moved and agitated that afterwards it leaves them so wearied and languid that in the morning when they first awake they remain like dead stocks their members are benumbed and can scarce turn from one side to the other In this condition the News of new Guests surprized this Kadi when wholly feeble he called to his servant to reach him his Box of Opium of which when he had taken his usual proportion and that it began to work his life returned again to him and he began immediately to recover so that he had courage to open his Gates and receive us in when he had read the Command and found no hurt in it the man was transported with joy and Opium and was so kind chearful and of a good humour that I could not but admire at the change he told me that he lived in a barbarous Country and was forced to use that for divertisement and as a remedy of his melancholy hours I easily perceived the effect it had upon him for he seemed to me like a Bedlam in which humour he called all his Neighbours about him and after a wise consultation they provided me with two Mules and five men on foot with rusty Muskets without powder or shot to guide and guard me through the Mountains I had not travelled two miles before all my guard was stollen aside and taking advantage of the Woods and Mountains were fled from me so that I found my self with no other than my own people in an unbeaten path and a way unfrequented the man excepted who drove the Mules who for sake of his Beasts was obliged to a farther attendance We travelled in this manner through the Mountains about four hours when near a Village called Suratnée we met one of the Principal men on Horse-back carrying a flead Mutton behind him which upon examination we discovered to be carried for a Bribe to the Kadi of Isheclee that so he would be his Friend and favour him in his Cause And farther upon inquiry finding that our entertainment was likely to be mean at Suratnée we forced the Gentleman to return with us and to sell us his Mutton at the market-price and so for that time we disappointed our Kadi of his Fee or reward and being upon the rise of a Hill descending to Suratnée so that the people could see us at a distance they like true Sons of Kauz-dog forsook their habitations and fled which we perceiving posted after them and catched two of their men whom we brought under Shart or the Country-mans Oath which they account very sacred and will by no means break to be true and faithful to us to serve and not leave us for so long time as we should remain in their Village and accordingly these men were not only serviceable but diligent so soon as they discovered me to be one who would pay justly for what I took and was not a Turkish Aga or Servant of Great men who harass the people and take their service and meat on account of free Quarter the whole Village returned again from their places of Refuge amidst the Woods so that I neither wanted provisions nor attendance Another passage happened unto me of better civility and entertainment in the Plains of Pergamus where not many miles from that ancient City I arrived about six a clock in the evening at certain Tents or Cots of Shepherds being only Hurdles covered with Hair-cloth lined within with a sort of loose Felt a sufficient defence against the Sun and rain the Turks call these people Euruchs and are Shepherds who with their wives children and cattel live and inhabit where they most delight or like the Shepherds of ancient days remove their dwellings to those places where they find most plenty of water and pasture Amongst these Cots so soon as I alighted from my Horse I was received and saluted by the Aga or Chief with great humanity and kindness for so soon as he understood who I was and that I was imployed in publick Affairs he presently placed me under some neighbouring Trees and called for Carpets and Cushions to sit on which were more fine and rich than agreed with the outward appearance of men wholly unaccustomed to a City-life After some discourse had with me which I remember to have been very courteous and inquisitive of my condition and business he provided Provender for our Horses and in a short time ordered Bread and Eggs to be brought for to
active in the War passed over to the Isle of Candia resolving by strength and dint of Sword to force that strong City to obedience the main Bulwark of Christendom situated at the entrance of the Archipelago of the success of which famous Siege we shall have occasion to discourse more at large and more particularly hereafter in order unto which the Great Vizier on the last day of this Year went in Person to take a view of this City and having surveyed all sides of it apprehended that the Siege would be long and tedious and therefore returned again to Canea to take those measures which were requisite for an Enterprise of that weight and consideration In the mean time the Princes of Christendom being for the most part either in that discord amongst themselves of which the Turks have always made their advantage or else living in parts remote did not consider Candia as a Bulwark to their Dominions and therefore rendred little other assistance to the Venetians than good words and vain wishes for their success and Victory The Popes Forces only under Command of Muzeo Mattei which were in Dalmatia were transported to Candia and five hundred Foot belonging to the Grand Duke of Toscany came into their places for defence of that Country The most Christian King in return to the Embassy of Venice performed by the Cavalier Alvise Sagredo remitted to that Republick an hundred thousand Crowns and Cardinal Barberini at his expence supplied four thousand Measures of Corn. But the present Conjuncture did not seem to smile on the Venetians for all the Gallies belonging to Spain and Italy as well as those of Malta were employed in the transportation of the new Empress Margerita of Austria The Pope was infirm and distracted with his own domestick Affairs The Emperour was a young Bridegroom and besides the Diversion which a Wife gave him from Cares he apprehended that he might speedily receive some disturbance from the Princes of the Rhine and from Sweden in the Dukedom of Bremen The King of Spain was a Child of five years old labouring at the same time under a war with Portugal and threatned by the more powerful Arms of France on the pretence of Flanders Besides all which the Turks were as well in quietness amongst themselves as they were at peace with all other Princes so that we may expect that the force and power of the Ottoman Empire should now be turned like a Torrent to overwhelm this spot of land which seemed to be so scituated as well to resist the Waves of the Seas as the inundation of this mighty and Martial People Anno Christi 1667. Hegeira 1078. AT the Beginning of this year the Winter and Cold which chilled and benumbed the Earth encreased the heat and gave vigour and action to the Tartars who made such an unexpected incursion into Poland that they carried with them near a hundred thousand captived Souls as they were numbred before Jash in their return home The Polanders awakened hereat but ill advised resolved on a Treaty where there was more just cause for an open War and in order thereunto dispeeded an Ambassadour to the Sultan to expostulate the reason of this Breach of Peace and require justice and satisfaction on those his Subjects who had contrary to the Articles of Peace committed such actions and outrages of open hostility or at least that the Turk would not take upon him to abett the cause of the Tartars whilst the Polanders took just revenge for their late injuries The Ambassadour with this message put himself in a readiness and with a retinue of about two hundred and fifty persons begun his journey towards the end of April and on the second of May crossed the River Niestro which divides Poland from Moldavia where he was received by two of the Boiars or Moldavian Noblemen and thence conducted to Jash where the Prince of that Country resided The Ambassadour expected the Visit of the Prince according to Custom and Articles of Peace but the Prince being either forbidden by the Port or rather out of an ignorant stiffness and pride omitted to pass the Civilities of that Office but yet supplied the Ambassadour with plenty of Wine and Provisions which the Polanders enjoying freely dispensed perhaps more easily with other neglects and omissions which concerned formalities and ceremonies The ninth of June the Ambassadour arrived at Adrianople and thence was called to Demitochum a City about a days Journey distant where the Grand Signior for the sake of his hunting and divertisement remained under Tents as the most convenient lodging in that Season of the year the 25 th the Ambassadour had his first Audience with the Chimacam at which thirty five of his Retinue were vested with Coftans nothing passing but the usual Ceremonies and Complements The 28 th he had Audience of the Grand Signior but first made tender of his Presents as followeth A Crystal Cup in a Case of Gold adorned with Rubies and Diamonds 2 Baskets rarely woven with a very fine Rush. A Clock A Cabinet of Ebony supported with four Eagles made of Silver in which also was a Clock with a perspective Looking-Glass 2 Silver Cups of considerable bigness 2 Silver Flaggons A Gun which discharged twenty times 2 Spotted Dogs 4 Mastiffs 100 Ells of Holland These Presents preceding made way for the Ambassadours Audience at which he declared That the Commission from his Master the King of Poland was to make Complaints unto his Majesty of the grand Incursions the Tartars had made into Poland without any reason or cause of War and that therefore his Master did expect from him as from a just and vertuous Prince a permission for revenge and satisfaction of his injuries to enter Tartary without assuming it as any ground of Breach or Infringement of that Peace which he held with him or else that he would by his authority enjoin the Tartars to restore their Captives and their spoils and render them a reasonable satisfaction The Grand Signior returned no reply hereunto but referred that to be done by his Chimacam silence being esteemed some part of his Majesty and State which he seldom breaks but with few and haughty words This Ambassadour was a man of a bold and daring Spirit a fit Orator for such an Embassy had not his immoderate Covetousness the vice and folly commonly incident to Old Age much eclipsed many of those Vertues of which he was Master He was also a Man of a violent temper feavered to a madness in the height of his Choler which strangely betrayed him to many undecencies in his Language and Comportment For at his Audience with the Chimacam when he came to receive the Grand Signior's Answer his words were vented with that heat and so like to menaces that the Turks taking exception thereat returned his course Speeches with the like Dialect at which the Ambassadour swelled with that indignation and anger as became not the Moderation and Gravity of his Office
of all the Turks except two who threw themselves into the Sea preferring death before slavery In the mean time the Duke of Savoy recalled Marquess Villa who was his Subject from Candia the reasons for which was attributed to an appearance of Breach with Geneva the Switzers and the Valtelines who were his Subjects or rather to the ill Offices of those who envied his preferment being desirous to have him recalled from a place of so much honour and reputation In obedience to this revocation Marquess Villa taking his leave of General Cornaro returned from Candia as far as Zant where meeting the new Captain General Francesco Morosini and being by him assured That the Pope and Senate of Venice representing the difficulty of Affairs in Candia and the present urgency and necessity for his presence there had obtained Licence from the Duke of Savoy for his continuance in that employment upon which assurance Marquess Villa took a resolution to return again to Candia being accompanied with a strong Squadron of Vessels carrying considerable quantities both of Ammunition and Provisions The History of the famous Siege of Candia On the 27 th of April the Forces from Egypt under the Command of Messir Bey appeared in the field and on the 5 th of May N. S. the General of the Janifaries incamped on the right side of New Candia that he might better view and survey the ground near the Lazaretto At the beginning of the New Moon of this Year's May being the 〈◊〉 day of the month publick Prayers 〈◊〉 first made through the most principal places of the Empire for the success of the Ottoman Arms and so solemnly continued every Monday and Thursday for the space of a year the Great Vizier first appeared before the renowned Fortress of Candia and began the memorable Siege of that City which for the space of twenty five years preceding had been the subject to which the special care and expence of Venice and the Art of the most subtle Engineers of the World as far as humanely was possible did concur to render it the most impregnable Fortress of the Universe The Town was fortified with seven great Bastions viz. the Sabionera Vetturi Jesus Martinengo Betlem Panigra and St. Andrea these were all incompassed with a large and deep Ditch of which were the Revelin of St. Spirito the Revelin of Panigra flanked to the right with the Half-moon of Mocenigo next hereunto was the Revelin of Betlem bordering on the Work of St. Maries which to the left had the Revelin of St. Nicholas and this adjoyned to the Fortification of de Palma next whereunto was the Revelin of Priuli with the Redoubt of Crepa-cuore and over all was the Royal Fort of St. Demetrio which commanded the Work of Molino and Sabionera unto the very Sea Marquess Villa at his last return was chiefly intent to strengthen the Fortifications and repair the Out-works especially that of St. Andrea which was almost ruined and the old subterranean Traverses were so full of water and the old Galleries so high that the Enemy could easily pass under them all which he repaired and amended in a short time In confidence of gaining this strong Fortress the Turks demolished New Candia situate about two miles from the Old which the Vizier now pointed out to them as a better Seat and incouraged them to win and inhabit it so that 〈◊〉 th of May the Turks incamped over against St. Maries along the Valley of Gioffiro with the sound of their Drums and Trumpets and firing great Guns and Vollies of Muskets Their Forces at first consisted of about forty thousand fighting Men and eight thousand Pioniers but soon afterwards increased to seventy thousand and so for the most part were maintained during the Siege The first Traverses began from the side of St. Maries and were carried to the Sea the Great Vizier took his Quarters over against Panigra the Janisar-Aga against Martinengo and other Pasha's between that and Betlem On the other side the Pasha of Romelia incamped against the Lazaretto and Catirgi-Oglé Pasha of Canea against Sabionera Achmet Pasha Vizier of the Camp and Zagargibashee Major General of the Janisaries who had the reputation of old Souldiers and good Engineers were ordered to inlarge and lengthen the Traverses on the side of the Half-Moon of Mocenigo Quarters being thus assigned they raised three Batteries the first against the Bastion of Martinengo and the right side of the Work St. Maries a second against Panigra and soon after a third against the Half-moon and Bulwark of Betlem from whence they continually thundered with their great Cannons shooting Bullets of sixty ninety to an hundred and twenty pound weight Nor were the Besieged within less industrious or wise in the disposition of their Affairs for Marquess Villa took his Quarters at the entrance of the Bulwark Jesus Proveditor Barbaro at Panigra the Proveditor General of the Kingdom at Martinengo the Duke of Candia Francesco Battaglia in the Fort of Sabionera and other Officers between the Curtains of St. Andrea Betlem and Sabionera Things thus disposed on both sides many and various were the valiant Aslauts and Sallies the Traverses extraordinary the Rencounters bloody the resistance vigorous not known or recorded in any Siege before which though they can never be fully expressed or particularly denoted yet I should do injury to the ashes of those Heroick Christians who so freely entred the List and on this Theatre of the World sacrificed their lives in defence of Christendom should I not signalize some of them of divers Nations for their Prowess and Valour And here pardon me good Reader if I come short or fail in this relation where many of unparalleled Valour and Vertue dyed obscurely and unknown and the numbers of others so great that to specifie them all were to swell this Work to a larger Volume than the Book of Martyrs Here was that Martial field into which remote Nations and unconcerned descended carried thither by zeal to the Christian cause or by certain Principles of Valour and Magnanimity so that though the War bore no other denomination than of the Venetian and the Turk yet so great was the confluence of both parts of the World to this little Isle as if it had been chosen by unanimous consent for a Stage to try the Title to the Universal Empire The Town being thus beleagured on all sides but where Neptune the Spouse of Venice kept it open the Christians endeavoured first to disturb the Traverses of the Turks by a Mine of Powder which they blew up but through the neglect or little experience of the Engineer it being the first which they had fired reverted and did more hurt to themselves than to the Enemy the errour of which being observed another Fornello was fired which taking its due place and measures so affrighted the Turks as yet not acquainted with this manner and invention of War that they began at the first onset to be
of the Exchequer for false Money The occasion was this Certain Muletiers having received money from the Exchequer in Venetian Zechins and finding several of them false returned them again but could not prevail to have them changed whereupon having made their Memorial thereof they carried them to the Vizier and upon examination the Pay-master declared That he received them from the Great Ibrahim Han-ogli who being for that Cause sent for and accused was put into a fear which proved as dangerous to him as a Disease the apprehensions of Death being worse than the reality but the Great Tefterdar soon cleared him of this Accusation having attested That to his knowledge the money received from him was good and disposed on other occasions so that the whole blame lying now on the Pay-master and upon farther search more of the same stamp being found in his hands he deservedly suffered the punishment of Death the which had likewise been inflicted on another Officer of the same rank but not being found so culpable as the other he was permitted to redeem his life with forty Purses of Money or twenty thousand Dollars Thus far we have seen the gentle and smooth behaviour of the present Vizier towards the Friends Relations and Servants of the deceased and with what Acts of Justice he began his Government But behold on a sudden the face of the whole Court was changed every Officer thereof putting on a Countenance of fierceness pride and arrogance beyond the manner and custom lately practised For the Great Vizier took on himself the State and Grandeur of the Sultan the access being as difficult to him as to his Master his Kahya that of the Vizier and so every inferiour Officer advanced himself into a fancy of possessing the next and immediate Degree above him This haughty behaviour had a more particular influence on the Ministers and Representatives of Foreign Princes whose Interpreters were not admitted as formerly to private Audiences or Conferences about their Affairs but only at the Publick Divan where their Arzes or Memorials were to be preferred in the same manner as was practised by the Subjects of the Countrey and those of conquered Nations who petition for Justice The which abasement was not only cast on the Interpreters but on the Persons of the Representatives themselves an example of which we have in the French Ambassadour who coming at the time appointed to receive his Audience of the Vizier was forced to expect a long time before he could have admittance and then entering into the Chamber of Audience was rudely crouded and rushed upon by a Crew of unmannerly Chaouses who no otherwise regarded the Person of the Ambassador than if he had been one of the Grooms or Lacquies Being come to the Seat of Audience the Ambassadour observed That the Stool for the Great Vizier was set upon the Soffrá and that for Him below or at the foot of it the which being an unusual and unpractised diminution of the ancient honour given formerly to Ambassadours he ordered one of his Servants To set it again on the Soffrá equal with that of the Vizier's the which being done was again brought down by one of the Vizier's Pages and placed as before whereupon the Ambassadour seizing the Stool with his own hand carried it on the Soffrá and sate upon it which being reported to the Vizier then in his retiring Chamber he sent twice to him to remove letting him know That unless the Stool were returned into the Place appointed by him he would not appear in the Chamber of Audience Whereunto his Excellency returned this prudent Answer That the Vizier might dispose of his Chair as he pleased but not of his Person In which Interim the Chaous-bashee came in roaring out Calder Calder which is Take it away Take it away meaning the Stool at which noise the Ambassadour arising to see what the matter was had the Stool taken from under him whereat being greatly enraged he threw out of the Room in a high passion and causing the Presents which he brought to be again returned with him he mounted his Horse and departed Afterwards it was intimated unto the English Ambassadour That he might if he pleased receive Audience of the Great Vizier But his Excellency understanding in what manner the French Ambassadour had been treated excused his Going on pretence of an Indisposition of health Howsoever the Venetian Bailo and the Residents of Holland and Genoua were contented to be admitted unto Audience on those terms which the Vizier was pleased to allow And though during the time that he was Chimacam and bore other inferiour Offices and Charges of Trust his behaviour was gentle affable and civil yet I fear that now having changed his Office he will have altered his humour and that his Greatness will have encreased his Pride Avarice and Fierceness thus no man knows what another will be when he shall enter into power Dic mihi si fueris tu Leo qualis eris And as Magistratus indicat Virum so in the actions of his management the temper and constitution of this great Person will be discovered And thus having given a short Account and Character of this present Vizier his future Acts and Monuments must be the Subject of other Pens FINIS THE TABLE TO THE Reign of Sultan Morat or Amurat IV. A. ABassa Pasha of Erzirum his Rebellion pag. 2. he advances towards Constantinople 9. is reconciled to the Grand Signior 21. and made Pasha of Bosna 22. made General in the War with Poland 44. he is strangled by command of the Grand Signior pag. 49 Algierines infest the Seas casting off their reverence to the Sultan 16. land at Scanderone and rob the ware-houses and then set them on fire 16 17. infest the Gulf of Venice 72. are blocked up by the Venetian in Valona ibid. Ali Pasha slain in Mesopotamia by the Persian and his Army routed pag. 10 Sultan Amurat advanced to the Throne at fourteen years of age 3. described ibid. his lewd debaucht life 27 28. like to have been killed by lightning 31. which works some reformation in him for the present ibid. he sends an Ambassadour into Persia 32. A peace made with the Persians but quickly broken 38. several acts of his tyranny 43. he destroys taverns ibid. makes war on the Poles 44. sues to them for peace 49. more acts of his cruelty 51. forbids all houses of entertainment 52. goes in person with his Arniy into Persia ibid. musters at Erzrum three hundred thousand sighting men 57. his patience and labours ibid. causes his two brothers Bajazet and Orchan to be strangled ibid. he returns from Persia to Constantinople 58. his aversion to Tabaco 59. more instances of his cruelty ibid. 60. 69 70. He resolves again to march in person into Persia pag. 68. he begins his march in May 1638. 71. the History of his march 77 78. the whole Army arrives before Babylon or Bagdat 79. he takes it 81. his
his charge 249 Count Montecuculi Governour of Rab made a General at the beginning of the war in Hungary in 1663. 135. puts a thousand men into Newhausel 139. joins with Count Serini 158. clears Serinswar of Serini's forces ibid. repels the Great Vizier at Kemend endeavouring to pass the Rab 166. gives a second great defeat to the Turks at Chiesfalo on this River killing seventeen thousand 168. for which he is highly applauded and made Lieutenant-General of the whole Army 169. reasons why his services were more acceptable than those of Serini or Soisė ibid. Moravia spoiled by the Turks in 1663. 141 Morlacks revolt from the Turks to the Venetians 29 Girolamo Morosini Commander of the Venetian Galleasses 22. braves the Turkish Fleet 25. killed by a Musket-bullet shot through his head 27 Francesco Morosini made Captain-General for the Venetians 231. he obtains a victory over the Turks and is Knighted 243 244. he refuses a Present from the Vizier at the surrender of Candia and why 277 Gioseppo Morosini Captain of the Venetian Galleasses 237 Mortaza Pasha treacherously strangles the Pasha of Aleppo that formidable Rebel 58. for which piece of service c. being made Pasha of Babylon and removed from thence he flees to the Curdi whose Kings Daughter he had married who deliver him into the Turks hands and they strike off his head 92 94 96 Mustapha Great Vizier strangled by command of the Queen-Mother 12 Mustapha Captain-Pasha loses his head 4 Mustapha Pasha of Grand Cairo in Egypt ibid. made Pasha of Silistria 9 Mustapha Captain-Pasha made Chimacam of Adrianople 118. his affectation and popularity 179 A Mutafaraca what 178 N. NAdasti with others offer themselves to the Turk in 1670. pag. 279. they find not the protection desired but are overtaken by the hand of Justice 295 296 Bernardo Nani made Proveditor General and arrives at Candia with five hundred Foot 242. he is killed by a Musket-shot in the head 249 Count Nassaw killed in the great Battel betwixt Montecuculi and the Turks on the Rab 168 Nathan a Jew an Accomplice with Sabatai Sevi the pretended Messiah gives out himself to be Elias 202. his Letters to Sabatai Sevi and the Jews of Aleppo 203. he arrives near Smyrna 217 The Duke de Navaille Commander of the Succours from France in Candia in 1669. 264. after having lost many of his men he departs from thence 268. for which he incurs the disfavour of his Prince at his return home 269 Nehemiah Cohen a Rival of Sabatai Sevi in his Messiahship 213 Newhausel besieged by the Turks in 1663. 140. it bravely defends it self being stormed ibid. the Turks storm it a second time and are repulsed 142. it is yielded upon conditions ibid. Nitra by the cowardise of the Commander betrayed to the Turks 144. taken again by the Christians under the command of Count Soisé 160 The Nogay Tartar desires Lands of the Grand Signior for which they are fallen upon by the Krim Tartar 195 Monsieur de Nointel Ambassadour at the Port from France 291 Novigrade surrendred to the Turks 145 O. OPium its operation with the Turks 130. more fully described 283 Oseck and the Bridge adjoining to it of six or seven miles long taken by Serini and burnt 147. the Bridge is built again in forty days by the Turks 157 P. PAdavini dyes at Canea pag. 241 Count S. Paul together with la Fueillade c. arrive at Candia 250. their valour 251 Signior Pisani Proveditor General of the Kingdom killed by a Granado at Candia 239 Poles fruitlesly complain at the Port of the incursions of the Tartars 4. kill ten thousand of them returning from spoiling the countries of Moscovia 12. upon another incursion wherein the Tartars carried away an hundred thousand captives they again send an Ambassadour to the Port who being disgusted with his ill treatment falls into a Feaver and dyes 229. the Turks deliberate a war against Poland and the causes of it 296. the war breaks out in 1672. 299. the distracted condition of the Poles at this time ibid. they accept very dishonourable and disadvantageous conditions of peace ibid. refusing to pay their Tribute the war breaks out afresh 304 308. they obtain a considerable victory over the Turks 309 Possonium garrisoned 143 Psara a great part of the Venetian Fleet cast away there 28 Q. QUinque Ecclesiae stormed by Count Serini who put all the Inhabitants to the sword for their treachery and burnt the Town 148 R. RAb the Fortress the Turks seek to take it by stratagem in 1642. 9. the description of it 139 Rab the River the great defeat of the Turk by Montecuculi here 168 Ragotski Prince of Transylvania raises troubles in Hungary 11. his ambitious spirit 70. he invades Poland ibid. is beaten by Zerneski General of the Poles 71. deposes himself ibid. reassumes the Principality 72. beats the Pasha of Buda ibid. is again deposed 73. and again assumes the Principality ibid. joins battel again with the Pasha of Buda but is beaten and dyes of his wounds 74. his character ibid. Ramadam a Sangiack of Egypt taken prisoner in a Sea-sight by the Venetians and most of his Fleet consisting of twenty three Ships taken or stranded 231 Redeius made Prince of Transylvania in the stead of Ragotski 72. forced by Ragotski to relinquish his Power ibid. Count Remorantino killed at the first Siege of Candia by the Turks 28 David Retani his diligence and courage in defending Claudiopolis 81 Retimo taken by the Turks 25 Aug. Rostayne Adjutant of Marquess Villa at Candia killed with a Cannon-bullet 247 S. SAbatai Sevi the pretended Messiah of the Jews in the year 1666. 200. his parentage and education 201. his Declaration 205. he arrives at Constantinople and is cast into a Dungeon afterwards imprisoned in the Dardanelli 208. while he remains there he institutes a new method of Worship for the Jews 209. he is accused to the Chimacam of Adrianople by Nehemiah Cohen a Rival of Sabatai in the Messiahship 213. being threatned with death he turns Turk 214. his death in 1676. 219 Samozadé the Great Vizier's Secretary his ruine 126. his vast Estate ibid. Schinta assaulted by the Great Vizier but he is beaten off 144 Sebenico besieged by forty thousand Turks who were forced to raise the Siege 28. the City described 196 Seraglio at Constantinople in a great part burnt 185 Count Nicholas Serini Commander of Croatia besieges Canisia but commanded by the Emperour to raise the Siege 78. he raises a Fort on the Turks Dominions and calls it Serinswar 79. he is made General of an Army in Croatia in 1663. by the Emperour 135. his just cruelty to some Turkish prisoners 139. his fortune and conduct pag. 142. a not able instance of his valour 145. his incomparable diligence and success 147 148. he escapes a great danger 149. upon a disgust from Montecuculi he retires from the wars 158. reflections on his disgrace 159. the Presents sent him and Honours done