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A52025	A new survey of the Turkish empire, history and government compleated being an exact and absolute discovery of what is worthy of knowledge or any way satisfactory to curiosity in that mighty nation : with several brass pieces lively expressing the most eminent personages concerned in this subject.	March, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.	1664 (1664)	Wing M731; ESTC R30516	151,268	306

was built by Hadrian the Emperour whose name it retains it is now the usual retreat of this Grand Signior and where at present he abides for its vicinity to his affairs in Hungary Pera by others called Galata once peopled by the Genoese as the Mart and Factory of that State taken by Mahomet in 1653. but still replenished with Christian Merchants and Artificers But above all other Constantinopolis Description of the famous City of Constantinople by Heaven erected to be the head of an Empire as the onely seat which Romans Greeks and now the Turks have chosen and reputed to be most commodiously seated not for the Government onely of the Empire but as was before generally mentioned of the whole World By its first Founders Name it was called Byzantium and after many various turns of Fortune betwixt the Persians and Spartans it setled at last under the Roman Empire by the Conquest of Severus who sacked it after three years siege for their partaking with Niger his Competitor but yet such Majesty remained in the very ruines that Herodian reports not without favour and pity thereof Mirabantur homines utrum eorum qui primi Extruxerunt vel eorum qui deinceps sunt demoliti vires essent potiores it was wondred at whether the strength of the Founders or the destroyers was greatest From this Rubbish it was reared re-edified by Constantine the Great and finished May 11.331 and endowed with the Priviledges of Rome and called for that reason Nova Roma for some short times but in memory of its raiser afterwards Constantinople It continued in this state under the Eastern Empire 1100. years and upwards till an unfortunate Constantine sirnamed Palaeologus lost it to Mahomet the Great A.D. 1453. by the base covetousness of the Citizens who would not for their own defence supply the Emperor with money It is eighteen miles in compass by which computation it is one third part bigger then London and the Suburbs it is said to contain seven hundred thousand souls and would be much more populous were it not for the plague whose Triennial mischief destroyeth multitudes it is fortified toward the Land with three strong and high walls the one higher then the other but towards the Sea with one only built with many Turrets which strongly flanker it It yields a pleasant prospect afarre off by reason of the many Groves and Gardens within it but is meanly built the Houses but two stories high some of course Stone the rest of Timber rough and ungarnished there are the in it 8000. Mosques or Churches which are beauty of the City the chief of them and worthy of remarque is that of St. Sophia which in elegancy though not in bulk exceeds all the Fabricks of the World the sides and floor flagged with Marble with a stately Porch at the entrance add hereunto the Sepulchral Mosques of the Turkish Sultans which are very sumptuous together with the Seraglio built all of white Marble round in form and crowned at the top with shining golden Spires not to omit the Mosque of Solyman the magnificent one of the present wonders of the world But Canstantinople which is seated upon seven Hills and Mountains as well as Rome is better furnished with a Port and Haven so convenient and advantagious to shipping and so commodiously seated upon the Thracian Bosphorus that Ships of all burdens and with all winds may come close to the walls the water is so deep As to the Seraglio it standeth on one of the seven Hills in the North-east quarter of the City like a Delta two Angles of it aspect the Sea which affords it a most pleasant speculation the other is joyned by a wall to the City towards which it hath one gate only the other gates are never opened but for the private pleasure of the Grand Seignior or his displeasure to be executed by the death of some of his Officers and Bashaws it contains three Courts one within another the first is open to all persons in the second sits the Divan or Courts of Justice into which no man comes on Horse-back the third is the Mansion and privacy of the Grand Seignior and his women it is three miles in circuit in which are contained many delightful Groves of Cypresses intermixed with Plains delicate Gardens Artificial Fountains Banquetting Turrets and Prospect Rooms with a most magnificent Audience-Chamber for Ambassadors floored with embroidered Velvet seamed with Pearl and other Jewels I have the longer insisted on this place because as the Mistris of the World she draws all eyes upon her and therefore it is fit to dress her in those Ornaments which she usually wears and do become her greatness Callipolis is another famous portion thereof seated on the Northen promontory of Chersonese the first City of note possessed by the Turks in Europe taken in the reign of Orchanes in 1358. from whence they easily spread their conquest over the adjacent Provinces it is the most convenient passage between Europe and Asia by reason of the safe harbour and good anchorage Next followeth MACEDON bounded on the East with the Aegaean Sea Macedon described on the West with Albania on the North with Mysia superiour and on the South with Epyrus and Achaia it is now principally divided into Thessaly a sweet and delectable Country Macedon specially so called and Migdonia by the Turks called Jamboli It is a fertile Region inclosed with Hills and near the Jonian Sea plain and woody That it was once the Empress of the East it is well known but at this day it is Turkish and without any famous Cities save in a piece of Albania In it is nothing so memorable as the Mount Athos Mount Athos or holy Mount It is seventy five miles in compass three dayes journey long and a half a days journey broad resembling the shape of a man lying with his face upward whose highest cone alwayes covered with Snow is seen thirty miles off at Sea It is exceeding fertile in Grass Fruit Oyl and Wine Long ago it was dedicated in honour of St. Basil to the Greek Caloieri and endowed with priviledges which at this day it enjoyeth by the Turks good favour● that is to say Priviledge of Greek Priest● that no man neither Graecian nor Turk may inhabit in this place except he be a Priest So that their number in these days are about six thousand dispersed into twenty four Monasteries ancient and warlike built for fear of Theeves and Pyrats although there be no such great cause In these Monasteries are many reliques which cause great concourse of people and they are stately built and richly adorned This was made a Roman province in the year of the World 3798. after the Captivity of their last King Perseus and was upon the division of that Empire to East and West consigned to the Eastern to which it continued subjected till Amurath rent in from that Dominion by taking Thessalonica it is now governed by a

to his Friends and so a child easily forgets both Christ his Parents and his Kindred that after if he chance in company with them he shall not know them No man can express by Words the Lamentations Cries Tears and grievous sighs at this distraction of Children The Father to see his Son educated in the fear of Christ torn from him and made an instrument of Satan to oppose Christ hurried from his Mother to live perpetually with strangers leaving whatsoever is dear in blood pleasing in society or loving infamiliarity with an everlasting dereliction after listed in the ranks of those the Greeks call Fatherless and Motherless yet many of these although they have denied Christ carry about them the Gospel of St. John In the beginning was the word c. in Greek or the Arabick tongue as an Amulet or preservative in their Arm-pits and with great desire they expect the Christian Sword according to some Turkish Prophecies should revenge and free them from those great afflictions and persecutions and that if Christians do it not whatever is the cause or with what mind soever hindred all very ill deserve of Christian Religion CHAP. X. A Narration of a Papists dispute with a Turk AFter I had travelled with much labour and many dangers the better parts of the world and seen many pleasant Towns and Countries as Socrates Plato and other Philosophers had diligently done at length I arrived at the famous City of Hungary Varadinum where by chance I met one Dervis Gsielebi a skilful man in the Laws of Mahomet who having dispatched his business with the Governour he very much desired conference with some Christian about Religion on either side This motion of his being published by an Interpreter and none for divers dayes appearing to encounter him in defence of the Christian cause though many Religious persons were in that Town struck mute and speechless at the courage of one Ethnick Infidel who seemed to me like Israelites that durst not adventure on one uncircumcised Goliah provoking them This I perceiving and grieving in my spirit that in such plenty of Clerks and learned men none was so well armed with Truth as durst though by Interpreters reprove the insolence of such an Heathen and fearing that so wicked and detestable a silence in so good a cause with so bad a man would betray the truth and render our Saviour Jesus Christs Opinion with him more ignominious I my self though never called to Ecclesiastical Function undertook the charge of arguing this point of Piety with him and so a prefixed day was agreed between us when multitudes of people of each Religion came as Spectators of the event The place was in a Monastery of Franciscans the day Whitson-Sunday day of Pentecost where he moved to me first this Question Where God had his being before the Heavens and Earth and therein all things else were created Which question though it seemed to me not much pertinent to our purpose yet lest he should imagine us ignorant of our great Gods universal presence I said He then was in his own being But when that seemed to him somewhat obscure and that he did not sufficiently understand it I then told him He was where he now is Which he understanding denied in the general and said Not so but that be then was in a bright Cloud Which when he earnestly affirmed I quoted Genesis for they also read the book of Moses and the Prophets and said If God were in a cloud before the Foundation of Heaven and earth then that Cloud must be created before them both and upon further argument on this point being at last convicted he would dispute no further in it but gave me leave to propound some Question to him and for solemnity of that days sake I thought fit to say something thereof and finding these words In the name of God his mercies and the Spirit of them in their Alcoran in the Arabian Tongue and Character I desired him to read them The mystery of the Holy Trinity Which when he had considered and wondred at he said Christian from whence had you this for in the beginning of all our actions we Musselmen use these three words and prefix them to every Chapter of our Alcoran when we sit down to eat when we go to prayers when we wash our hands or other parts of our bodies these words we first pronounce and these actions finished we sprinkle our heads with water and repeat these words In the Name of God his Mercies and the Spirit of them When thus he had confessed the Truth I desired to understand from him what he meant by the word Mercies who Replied He understood it literally without other signification Then I applied my self to the mystical interpretation and divided it according to Truth into three persons the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and shewed them written in the Arabick tongue And when he saw I had mentioned the Son of God he questioned How God could have a Son since according to their Law and Doctrine of Mahomet God had neither Wife nor Child To whom I answered according to my weak understanding and capacity We Christians call God the Father for his Creatures sake being the first creating Cause and sole preserver of all created who was for ever in the same Essence he now is in and will be for eternity and is the first Person in the Trinity We believe the Son who by Mahomet in the Arabick phrase is called Rahman and signifieth Mercies so changed by him to be likewise God not according to flesh for God is a spirit born of a Woman but of the Essence and substance of God omnipotent begotten by God the Father and so took humane flesh by the Holy Virgin Mary suffered for us died and was buried and according to the saying of the Prophets arose again the third day and ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father there to judge the quick and the dead to render immortal happiness to those that have faith in him and to the unfaithful everlasting punishment I then presented him a Crucifix and said Behold this now and see if Mahomet did unworthily call the Son of the Eternal God by the Name of Mercies when with Armes thus stretched forth he calls poor sinners to his embraces saying Come unto me all ye that labour and are burthened with sins and I will refresh you And to render him more capable of the Trinity I pointed to the Sun saying You have a fair similitude here As there is but one Sun that hath Form Heat and Light So there is but one God and Father who hath ●the Son and the Holy Spirt which you call Rucahim consisting of three Person equally of one substance and from eternity coexisting This comparison wrought in him a belief in God the Father his onely begotten Son and the Holy Ghost a Trinity in Unity And when he had heard my weak discourses of