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
Son of Cant-Emir whom they cut in pieces the Father escaping in a disguise from the City The News hereof arriving at Constantinople was greatly displeasing and caused many serious Debates and Consultations thereupon the wisest and most sober of the Council was for dissembling the matter and with their usual dextcrity to suffer what they could not remedy for that it was by no means advisable in the present conjuncture of Affairs to proceed unto an open rupture with the Tartars fearing lest the Christians Persians and other Enemies should make a benesit of this occasion and joyning with a Nation so strong in Horse should dangerously press upon the Empire and force them to the ultimate extremity of affairs Wherefore an Envoyé Extraordinary was sent to the Tartars who covering the inward sentiments of regret and anger which the Sultan conceived for the late disgrace seemed to wonder at the cause and reason of the last Engagement as if it had been acted without the knowledge or order of the Grand Signior and thus with gentle terms insinuating that the Surrender of Cassa would be very acceptable to the Port and that which would atone for all miscarriages and be such an offering of pacisication as would reconcile all past differences and restore a perfect correspondence between the Sultan and them the Tartars readily assented to the demand upon condition that the Turks should impose no other King upon them than him whom by general consent they had elected for their Prince Though differences were thus concluded with the Tartars yet the Cosacks continued still their enmities entring the Black Sea with eighty Saicks which they so infested that the Turks could for that year avail themselves little of their Navigation in those Seas so that the Turks to curb these insolencies gave Orders to build two Forts at the mouth of the Black Sea the Polish Ambassadour made complaint hereof and protested against it as an Act contrary to the Capitulations of Peace but the Turks esteem little of the air of Bravadoes whilst they are not accompanied with something else more solid than their own levity But the grand Concernments which busied the thoughts of the Turks was the Rebellion of Abassa and the War in Persia the management of which was the charge and care of the Selictar Aga lately made Vizier called Serches Pasha His Head-quarters were at the beginning of this year taken up at Iconium called by the Turks Conie and Abassa was encamped at Kaisaria against whom the Vizier marched and being nearly approached the Janisaries earnestly urged that Battle might be given the Enemy but the Vizier having received Instructions not to engage if possible but rather to enter into a Treaty and to propose terms of Accommodation delayed the time and with various excuses eluded the present premures of the Janisaries at which they became so angry that they slew into an open Mutiny cutting the Cords of his Tents stoning him and wounding him in the head by which open violence the Vizier being compelled to make known his Orders he assembled the chief Commanders of the Spahees and Janisaries giving them to understand that the Grand Signiors pleasure was to make up the difference with Abassa as the only means to conclude an intestine and unnatural War and to be able to withstand the Persians and regain the Country and reputation which the Turks had lost This Proposition seemed plausible to the Commanders at the General Assembly and more especially because it was the pleasure and injunction of the Grand Signior but more difficult it was to incline the rough and obstinate minds of the Janisaries to a resolution so different to their natures and so contrary to that revenge which they had deeply rooted in their hearts and sworn to execute howsoever the perswasions which the Officers used to their inferiour Souldiers putting them in memory of the blood of their Companions and how destructive the continuance of such a War must necessarily prove for the future by those large essusions of blood hwich they must expect farther to make were so prevalent upon them that at length they condescended to a Treaty and to receive Abassa for a Friend and a Fellow-Souldier Abassa at first suspecting some treachery refused to give a private meeting to the Vizier but the Vizier giving his Brother the Beglerbegh of Caramania and the Pasha of Anatolia for Hostages the day and place for a Conference was appointed where both Parties meeting Articles were agreed that Abassa should still continue to be Pasha of Erzirum his Son Pasha of Bosra his Kahya or Lieutenant to be Pasha of Maraseh all which were places on the Confines of Persia a general Act of Pardon and Anmestie was to be given to Abassa and his whole Army and the Articles sworn unto in the most solemn manner by the Vizier and confirmed in the publick Camp of the Janisaries who also promised to maintain this word and promise of the Vizier to all which the Grand Signior gave his Hand and affixed his Royal Signature A Reconciliation being in this manner compleated the City of Erzirum resigned it self to the Obedience of the Grand Signior and the Army of Abassa was employed on the Confines of Persia and converted against the Enemy The Vizier also was appointed to proceed on the same Enterprise but his Army was so ill provided of all necessaries that he made his excuse and refused to march forward but on the contrary he returned to Constantinople in company with Abassa where with many demonstrations of friendship and respect he was conducted to the presence of the Grand Signior to receive Honour and the reward of his penitence and return to obedience The approach of these two great Personages near to Constantinople made much noise and rumor in the City some blamed the weakness of the Government for accepting an Enemy unto favour and that the crowning of his Rebellion with rewards was to encourage others in the like practices The Vizier was also murmured against for leaving the Army and the War contrary to the Royal Command by such as were emulous of his Greatness but as envy is converted into veneration and ceases as smoke doth when it is blown up by the flame of success and glory so those who were emulous of these persons submitted to all obsequious offices towards them and dissembling their malice went to meet them as far as Scutari that they might add to their Train and Equipage and help at the Solemnity of their Entrance All people now cast their eyes on the Vizier and Abassa as the two great men of this Age the first was esteemed for his dexterous and successful management in bringing over Abassa to his submission and obedience for though he was not famed much for his great Feats of Arms yet this Reconciliation of Abassa was accounted a Master-piece of Policy and better service than a Victory Abassa also drew the eyes of the people who crowded to see
Plea or Endictment struck off his Head and threw his Body into the Sea on pretence that he was sent thither as a Spy for his Master and to give Intelligence and a beginning to Rebellion These were his colours and allegations for his deserved Death for Governours though never so wicked and so absolute and that have no need to render any other cause to the World of their actions than their own will yet esteem it necessary to act under the specious guise of justice and in the good opinion of the multitude The Aga of Babylon encountred the same Fortune for Mortaza giving place he thought it sit for himself to do the like resolving for Constantinople but being intercepted in his Journey by the new Pasha his Head was struck off and his Journey shortned But that which again renewed the trouble and fears of the Vizier was a report that the late Kahya-begh degraded at Adrianople was secretly returned to the City and lived concealed giving such Orders to the Janizaries as tended to Mutiny and Insurrection and that the pretences and reports of his being gone to Damascus and thence in his holy Pilgrimage to Mecha were but all false stories to conceal his Residence at Constantinople This set the Vizier all on fire and made him tremble with the thoughts of it wherefore search was made for him day and night but not found for in reality he was gone on his designed Journey only it was the misfortune of his Kahya or Steward as before it was of Mortaza's Emaum to fall into the Viziers hands who being beaten to confess where his Master was died afterwards of the blows But notwithstanding that Mortaza was fled yet the Vizier laid not aside his fears and thoughts concerning him not knowing how soon he might be recalled home and seated in his place of which various Examples are extant in Turkish History And therefore he sent orders to Mahomet Pasha his late Kahya now Pasha of Darbiquier as General with the knowledge and consent of the Grand Signior and to the Pashaws of Aleppo Erzirum and others near adjacent to prepare and assemble what Force was necessary to constrain the King of the Curdi to surrender Mortaza into their hands But whilst these matters were in agitation some unexpected troubles in Georgia diverted their Armes and held them for some time in suspense not knowing what the issue might be The Original and Ground thereof was this After Sultan Solyman had taken Erzirum it was agreed in the Capitulations between the Turks and Persians that of the seven Provinces of Georgia anciently called Iberia but now as supposed to have received the Denomination from St. George the Cappadocian Martyr there had in great esteem and reverence three should be tributaries to the Turk and three to the Persian all governed by Achic-bash as head and supreme Prince to whom the seventh should also be subjected without acknowledgment to either In payment of which tribute they continued most willingly lest for default thereof the importation of Salt of which their Provinces afford none should be hindred either from the Turkish or Persian Dominion And now it happened that Achic-bash dying his Wife married again who to gratifie her new Lover was contented to have the eyes of her Son put out who was the lawful Heir to the Government This Fact was so hainously received by the Princes of the three Provinces under the Persian that with common consent they elected one to succeed Achic-bash and extorted the power out of the hands of the Amorous Traitour The Princes of the three Provinces under the Turk alarm'd hereat made insurrection resolving rather than any Foreigner to set up one of the Kindred of Achic-bash which the Persian Provinces better understanding approved likewise and for confirmation and maintenance of their choice assembled an Army of threescore thousand men The Pashaws tending towards Curdi were surprized in their March with the news of these disturbances in Georgia and not rightly apprehending the causes of these sudden commotions gave an arrest to the progress of their Armes inclining towards the Parts of Georgia to be in a readiness to suppress all designs against the Ottoman Dominions so that the thoughts of War against the Curdi was for some time laid aside The news of these troubles did also alarm the Port with which also came a report That six hundred Tents of the Kuzilbashees which are the best sort of Persian Horsemen were pitched nigh the Consines of the Grand Signiors Territories so that Orders were dispatched to the aforesaid Pashaws to watch the motion and issue of those Affairs but those storms blowing over by the establishment of Achic-bash the Turkish Forces proceeded on their first design against Mortaza marching to the pass of the Country of the Curdi which is very steep asperous and rough The whole Kingdom being as it were one Mountain of dangerous and difficult access hath hitherto preserved the Inhabitants from the Ottoman Subjection The entrance thereunto being strong by Nature is also fortified with several Castles the chief of which possessed by Mortaza is called Zizri and the people thereabouts Zezidi The Turkish Army being arrived at this pass Mahomet the Pasha of Darbiquier appointed General as we have said before ordered five hundred of his select men to enter within the pass which the Curdi perceiving with little opposition put to slight being so commanded by the General The unadvised Curdi cagerly pursuing the enemy left the pass naked and undefended supposing their whole victory and success to consist in the Rout of those few whereupon the Turkish Army wisely possessed the pass and got between the Curdi and their place of Retreat and laying the Siege to the Castle required them either to surrender themselves or else Mortaza and his Complices into their hands The Curdi perceiving themselves thus hardly beset and in a manner defrauded their Garison which possessed the pass without the Confines the enemey gotten possession of the Gate which opened to their Countrey their Castles besieged and in danger to be gained and an inlet made to an Inundation by their Enemies caused them to request a three days truce for Consultation which being granted they began to consider whether it were better to hazard the welfare of their Country in a dangerous War of which the Turks having already compassed the passage had made half the Conquest or to surrender up Mortaza to his own King one in whom they had no part no interest nor relation The latter counsel was most generally pleasing wherefore they seized Mortaza promising at first to conduct him through the Mountains to the Persians but afterwards being on horse-back and about a mile distant from the Camp they bound his hands behind him and with his Steward the Master of his Horse and a Page delivered him into the hands of the Turks who immediately struck off their heads and sent them to Constantinople where for three or four days
into Peace and that gentleness and generosity might have the same effect upon them as it had upon Saul when David had his life at his mercy and yet spared him according to which counsels of the Court Montecuculi squaring every particular of his motions and thereunto adding success mounted on the wings of Fame and had his Glory celebrated without diminutions but the hot and zealous temper of Serini which Souldier-like understood nothing but down-right blows knew not how to use that moderation and caution which the Imperial Court judged an ingredient so requisite to the prudent management of the present War that he was esteemed uncapable of command who had not discretion enough to practise it and this was the true reason that Serini was discountenanced and that his Command was taken from him and that his Appeal to the Court was without redress howsoever in regard that the Fame he had won carried him high in the esteem of all Christendom he was entertained with hopes and fair promises and even after the very Battle of Rab nothing was more commonly discoursed than the giving Nicholas Serini a command independent of any other General but in the end it proved nothing but vain Proposals to humor the fancy of Serini himself 〈◊〉 to satisfie the World which admired a person so qualified and deserving as he should be made a subject of so much disgrace and neglect With this News the Turks remained greatly ashamed and dejected having but two days before demonstrated excesses of joy congratulated the happy News one to the other and after their manner sent Presents abroad derided the Christians upon the News exprobriated them with a thousand injuries and applauded their own Vertue Valour and the righteousness of their Cause and Religion but on a sudden Intelligence coming contrary to their expectations such a dampness fell upon their spirits that for some days there was a deep silence of all News at Constantinople they that the day before sought for Christians to communicate to them the Miracles of their Victory now avoided their Company ashamed of their too forward joy and the liberty they had taken to contemn and deride the low condition of the Christian Camp And now the ill News not being able longer to be concealed Prayers and Humiliation were appointed publickly to be made at all the great Moschs of Constantinople and Adrianople where all Emaums with their young Scholars were commanded to resort and sing certain Prayers appointed for such occasions The minds of the Souldiery after this defeat were very much discomposed tending more to sedition than obedience Every one took licence to speak loudly and openly his opinion that the War was commenced upon unjust and unlawful grounds That the total Eclipse of the Moon which portends always misfortunes to the Turks should have caused more caution in the Commanders in ingaging the Armies this year until the malignancy of that Influence had been over-passed All generally accused the first Vizier as the Author and ill Manager of the War Iniquissima bellorum conditio est prospera omnes sibi vendicant adversa uni imputantur and calling to mind the solemn Oath with which Sultan Solyman confirmed his Capitulations with the Emperour particularly vowing never to pass the Rab or place where the Turks received their defeat without a solid and reasonable ground of War concluded that this Invasion was a violation of the Vow and an injury to the sacred Memory of that fortunate Sultan and therefore that all Enterprises and Attempts of this War would be fatal and destructive to the Mussulmen or Believers and the end dishonourable to the Empire This opinion was rooted with much superstition and strength of fancy in the minds of the Vulgar and the rumorsin the Camp that the Vizier upon a false Alarm of the approach of the Enemy towards his Quarters had commanded the Army to retreat administred fury and courage to the Christians and fear and amazement to his own from which errour and timidity was occasioned that slaughter which ensued on which discourses and reports dangerous discontents daily increasing in the hearts of the souldiery it is thought they would have vented their passion and revenge on their General had he not at a publick Assembly of all the Heads and Commanders of the Army cleared himself freely by charging the miscarriage of all upon the Grand Signior having acted nothing but with Authority of the Imperial Command promising with as much speed as honour and safety would permit by agreement and composition of Peace to bring the War to a conclusion And this contrivance and art was that as is supposed which for the present secured his life for the Souldiery were greatly terrified and possessed with a dread of the Christians and amazement upon every Alarm For the old and experienced Commanders and Veterane Souldiers were either destroyed by the secret Proscriptions of the Vizier Kuperlee or slain in the Engagements of this Year and the Asian Spahees and other Souldiers having wives and children and possessions to look after were grown poor and desired nothing more than in peace and quietness to return to their homes so that nothing could come more grateful to this Camp no largesses or donatives could pacifie the minds of the Souldiery more than the promises and expectations of a Peace The Sultan during these disturbances and misfortunes was preparing for a hunting Journey to an obscure Village called Yamboli about three or four days travel from Adrianople designing to drive all those vast Woods along the Black Sea for Game where he had a small ruinous Seraglio The Queen-Mother the Chimacam with all the Court were to accompany him The Equipage and Pomp he went in perswaded many that the design of that Journey was grounded on other causes of Policy than what were generally penetrated some conceived that the Vizier contrived his Journey thither to divert him from opportunities of receiving Intelligence from Spahees and others of the true state of the Camp and management of Affairs others judged it might be to avoid in that obscure place the mutinous seditions of the Souldiery On what consideration soever it might be the Grand Signior having spent some time abroad returned again to Adrianople with all his Retinue without doing any thing more important than killing great numbers of wild Beasts and ennobling those Wildernesses and Woods about Yamboli with the same of his renowned Hunting Keblelee Pasha being slain as we have said before Scrinswar who was Husband to the Viziers Sister the Vizier bestowed the Widow on Husaein Pasha of Silistria And much about the same time the Grand Signior considering that his own Sister by the death of her old Husband Ishmael Pasha slain in the last Battle led a single life conferred her in Marriage upon the old Mahomet Pasha whom before we have related to have been Kahya to the Vizier late Pasha of Darbiquier and now of Aleppo who as an Honour charged with a weight
of the near approach of the Excellentissimo Alvise de Molino Ambassadour from the Venetian Republick with propositions of peace But the Turks before they would admit the Embassy or the person which brought it to a nearer approach than a Days Journey from the Court would be resolved first whether he brought with him the Keys of Candia To which it was replied by the Interpreter That he was not able to give them satisfaction in that particular being but a mean and ordinary servant to whom the Secrets of State and resolutions of great men were not committed his Office being only to render faithfully the words and sence of his Masters and not to enter into the private thoughts and Cabinet of their Counsels To which the Chimacam proudly and barbarously made answer Go tell thy Master that unless he brings the Keys of Candia thy head shall pay for it And that he presume not in person to approach nearer unto this Court So the Ambassadour remained at a distance for some weeks and at length was transferred over to the Vizier at Candia who being more ready to hearken to propositions in hopes by some overture or other to hook in Candia gave an easie Audience to the Ambassadour and controverted several Articles and Propositions with all freedom and patience So that on the Venetians part the Surrender of Suda was offered and a Sum of money in compensation of the War The Vizier on the other side would be contented with nothing less than the Surrender of Candia and in lieu thereof to grant a Licence to rebuild Paleo-Castro an ancient Fortress But the Fortress it self of Candia being the prize and aim of both nothing could be concluded without that so that the Ambassadour in fine declared plainly That the City of Candia was maintained and defended by the Armes of Foreign Princes without whose consent it could not be resigned all the rest of the Island should be the reward of their bloud and labour only Candia was capable of no Conditions but what were imposed on it by force of Armes The Vizier whose honour could be salved and the glory of the Ottoman Empire maintained at no other rate than the subjection of Candia would hearken to no other terms or proposals so that the Treaty broke off and the Ambassadour returned to Canea there to remain until farther Overtures of an Accommodation should present It was now towards the depth of Winter when three men of War and a Fire-Ship sent by the most Christian King steered up the Hellespont with words and boastings as full of Wind as their Sails and being arrived at Constantinople vaunting of their Force as if sufficient to subdue the Turkish Dominions they uttered certain rumours that they were come to revenge the late affront offered to their Merchants to cause that money to be repaid which in late and frequent Avanias had been extorted from their Nation and to renew their Capitulations with more advantageous terms As namely That their Customs from 5 be reduced to 3 per Cent. as the English Dutch and Genoeses pay That their King be treated by the Sultan with the equal Presents and Gifts according to the Custom used with the Emperour and that at all times interchangeably Ambassadours be sent to reside in each others Dominions with other propositions which seemed as extravagant to the Turks as they appeared to others vain and to have no foundation but in the report of the Vulgar But that which was reported by the most judicious concerning these Ships was That his most Christian Majesty being made to understand perfectly the affronts put on his Nation by the Turks and not fully satisfied as is supposed with the respect they had shown to his Ambassador at Constantinople made it the chief Design of his Ships to withdraw him from thence supposing it a less diminution to his honour to have the person of his Agent subjected to affronts than of his Ambassadour to which it was imagined he might be obnoxious in consideration of those great supplies which were in the following year designed for Candia In what manner soever the Turks deemed of this appearance of Men of War to hector and brave them at their Imperial City they did yet for the present cunningly dissemble the matter giving the French fair words and what plenty of Provisions their occasions did require In what manner this Affair was transacted I shall not adventure to relate nor is it well or certainly known Yet not long after came Orders for the Ambassadour to repair to the Court at Larissa and that until the Grand Signior's pleasure was farther known the Ships of War were to be detained The Commander in chief called Monsieur d' Almeras was not a little trou bled to have his Ships thus embargued and labouring in his thoughts between the time limited in his Instructions by his Master and the restraint by the Turks he once bravely resolved to hazard his passage through the Castles but protracting the execution thereof from day to day even until the end of April at length Licence came for their departure and Orders to repair unto Vola near Larissa there to take an Ambassadour or Agent or Envoyé from the Sultan to their King For it seems the Vizier had intimated to the Grand Signior That it was not time to disgust the French King and to bring him under the notion of a declared and publick Enemy or at least to irritate him so far as might provoke him to send greater Forces than perhaps he designed the next year for Candia and that he ought to comply with the present conjuncture and salve that up for a time which he might afterwards open at his pleasure This counsel seeming reasonable to the Grand Signior and agreeable to the present necessity he ordered as I was credibly informed a thousand Dollars only to adorn his Ambassadour so pitifully do the Turks esteem of Christian Princes and so highly do they value themselves as if a Message from them would be reverenced in Christendom as a favour though brought by a Porter or a Slave But the French Ambassadour considering this allowance too mean a provision for a person qualified to appear before his Master did as it is said out of his own Purse and generous Soul contribute a far greater Sum with two Vests of Sables towards his better Equipage In this manner the Sultan dissembling an appearance of good correspondence with his Christian Majesty dispatched away his Envoyé on the Ships of War being a Person in quality of a Mutafaraca one of the same degree with a Chaous to expostulate with the King concerning several Particulars and especially his Reasons for sending for his Ambassadour without sending another according to ancient custom to supply his Office wondering much at this sudden alteration of friendship without any cause given on the Ottoman side and with these smooth and fair words the Turks imagined they might charm the Spirit of the
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
Nation Englished by G. Havers in two Volumes in solio 63. A Treatise of the Sibyls giving an account of the Names and Numbers of them of their Qualities the Form and Matter of their Verses and of their Books Written in French by David Blondel Englished by J. Davis in solio 64. A Justification of the late War against the United Netherland in two Parts illustrated with several Sculptures by Henry Stubbs in quarto 65. Reliquiae Wottonianae or a Collection of Lives Letters Poems with Characters of sundry personages and other incomparable pieces of Language and Art also additional Letters to several persons not besore Printed By Sir Henry Wotton Knight the third Edition with large Additions in octavo 66. The Compleat Gentleman or Directions for the Education of Youth as to their Breeding at home and Travelling abroad In two Treatises by J. Gailhard Gent. who hath been Tutor abroad to several of the Nobility and Gentry in Octavo 67. The Temperate Man or the right Way of Preserving Lise and Health together with Soundness of the Senses Judgment and Memory unto an extream Old Age. In three Treatises The first written by the learned 〈◊〉 Lessius The second by Lodowick Cornaro a Noble Gentleman of Venice The third by a famous Italian faithfully Englished in twelves 68. The Golden Cals in which is handled the most rare and incomparable wonder of Nature in transmuting Metals viz. how the entire substance of Lead was in one moment transmuted into Gold Obrizon with an exceeding small Particle of the true Philosophers Stone at the Hague in the year 1666. Written in Latin by John Frederick Helvetius Doctor of Medicine at the Hagut and faithfully Englished in twelves 69. Accidence commenc'd Grammar and supplied with sussicient Rules or a new and easy method for the learning of the Latin Tongue The Author John Milton in twelves 70. The Rules of Civility or certain ways of Deportment observed in France amongst all persons of Quality upon several occasions saithsully Englished in Twelves 71. The Art of Complaisance or the means to oblige in Conservation in twelves 72. A Letter from a Gentleman of the Romish Religion to his Brother a person of Quality of the same Religion perswading him to go to Church and take those Oaths the Law directs proving the lawfulness thereof by Arguments not disagreeable to Doctrines of the Roman Church in quarto 73. A brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrakes the famous Stroker and divers of the strange Cures by him lately performed Written by himself to the Honourable Robert Boyle in quarto FINIS * Avack in Turkish signifies a Foot Amurat installed * Which is a dispensing of Mutton to the Poor * The chief City of the Krim Tartar * Gherey the name of the Family The form of Cosacks Boats Bethlem Gabor desires assistance against the Emperour The Siege raised at Bagdat and the Turks overthrown Duke of 〈◊〉 and Count Mansfelt joyn with the Prince of Transylvania The Emperours Army deseated Peace concluded between the Emperour and Gabor Another Expedition into Persia. Proposition made by the Persian for a Peace Rejected by the Turk The Pirates of Tunis and Algier trouble the Seas A Fight at Sea by mistake Proposals of Accommodation with Abassa Erzirum besieged The Siege raised New troubles from Tartary The Janisaries mutiny They consent to treat with Abassa Abassa reconciled to the Grand Sigmot The Vizier and Abassa make their Entry into Constantinople The Jews at Constantinople how treated The Tartars overthrown by the Polanders The death of Bethlem Gabor The Widow of Bethlem Gabor perswaded to quit her Government The Principality offered to Ragotski Ragotski chosen Prince A Victory gained by the Turks over the Persians The difficulty of sending men into Persia. The Cosacks trouble the Turks The disorders in the Ottoman State The Vizier prepares to besiege Bagdat The Siege The Siege raised The Poles and Turks make Peace The Cosacks and Tartars compared Troubles in Hungary The G. Signior affrighted with Lightning Illay retaken from the Turks The Vizier deprived of his Office Mutiny of the Spahees joyned with the Janisaries The Vizier strangled by order of the Grand Signior Rebellion in Anatolia Mutinies at Buda Troubles in Moldavia The French Interpreter empaled The Peace made with Persia and speedily broken Perswasions for a War against the Emperour A Peace made between the Emperour and the Grand Signior Preparations of War made against Emir Facardin A Fight of the whole Turkish Fleet against two English Ships The Son of Facardin overthrown and is strangled * A sort of Vessel or Ship so called by the Turks Morat exercises several acts of Tyranny Morat destroys the Taverns Hangs a Venetian Merchant The Turks make War on the Poles A Fight between the Turks and the Poles An Ambassadour sent to the G. Signior from Poland Several mischiefs by water and fire A terrible fire at Constantinople Reasons for a War with Poland The Victory which the Poles obtained 〈◊〉 the Moscovites They make a Peace The Turk sends an Ambassadour into Poland to desire a Peace Abassa strangled Articles of Peace agreed between the Poles and the Turks A difference between the French Ambassadour and the Captain-Pasha The French Druggerman hanged The Sicur Marcheville forcibly sent away Acts of cruelty The G. Signior returns to Scutari The G. Signior resolves to go to Persia in person Bethlem renews his complaints to the Grand Signior His reasons to be re-inslated The Turks send an Army into Transylvania Ragotski implores aid from the Emperour It is debated in Council The Emperour resuses succour to Ragotski Ragotski obtains succours under-hand The Turks enter Transylvania They fight with Cornis are overthrown Peace is made Morat at Erzrum The Grand Signiors patience and labours Revan betrayed and surrendred by Emir Gumir Rejoycing and a Festival kept for it at Constantinople The Turks enter farther into Persia. Tauris destroyed Festival for return of the G. Signior His aversion to Tabaco Revan regained by the Persian The Grand Signiors severity and cruelty Disturbances in Poland and Hungary The Turks confirm the Peace with Poland Send Forces against Ragotski Mutiny in the Turkish Army Van befieged by the Persians Fifteen thousand Turks killed in an Ambush Mutiny of the Souldiers A new Vizier sent to the Army A Persian Ambassadour sent to the Grand Signior Troubles in the lesser Tartary Cantemir makes a new Colony He is overthrown by the Tartar Han. Cantemir put to death The King of Tartary killed Beehir Gherey ordained King of Tartary Asac besieged Is taken by the Cosacks The cause of the Civil War between the Poles and Cosacks The Cosacks Country described Preparations for the War in Persis The extravagant pleasures and cruelties of Morat The March of the Turkish Army Cyrillus the Patriarch strangled The Pirates of Algier and Tunis insest the Gulf of Venice capello blocks up the Pirates in Valona He assaults them in the Port. The 〈◊〉 angry at this News
Residents Letter to Count Serini Montecuculi contrary to the opinion of Serini declines the Battle with the Turks 〈◊〉 retires from the Wars 〈◊〉 taken Reflections on the disgrace of Serini 〈◊〉 taken by 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 The Turks assault Soisi Lewa taken The Pope recals his Forces from assistance of the Emperour The Pope supplies the Emperour with money but not with men Count Soisé marches to raise the Siege of Leventz The Turks before Lewa The Christian Army put themselves into Battalia Husaein Pasha routed und tied Resuge denied them at Strigonium The Moldavians and Valachians return home Soisé assaults Barcan Farcan burnt The Turks with part of their Army pass the Rab. The Rab swells with immoderate Rains The Turks vain joy Signifies the Son of a Kul or Slave The defeat given the Turkish Army by the 〈◊〉 Rab. Tae lib. 1. The slain on the Turks side Reasons why the Services of Montecuculi were accepted better than those of Serini Sedition in the Turkish Camp Tae in Vitâ Agricol e. The Grand Signiors hunting at Yamboli Vizier sends for the Princes of Moldavia and Valachia The Princes of Moldavia and Valachia recalled to the Wars Fides Graeca or the honesty of a Greek The reasons which inclined both Parties to Peace The Hungarians oppose the Peace The Emperors Reasons for a Peace The French Army march homeward Serini's Death The Character of Serini The Vizier sends for his Mother to Belgrade The Blazing-star The Sultans hatred to Constantinople increases The Sultan seeks to destroy his Brother The Vizier offers to depose the Tartar Chan. The Turkish Ambassadour departs Rumors of the People on occasion of stay of the German Ambassadour Mustapha 〈◊〉 affectation and popularity * It is in the fashion of a Mace which the Turks wear at their Saddles The German Ambassadours Entrance Audience given to the German Ambassadour The Genoese make Peace with the Turk The Genoese received The Turks resolve to prosecute the War in Candia The Grand Signior passionately loves his Queen The Seraglio at Constantinople set on fire The Turks prepare for a War on Candia The Grand Signior arrives at Constantinople Marquess Villa received into service of the Venetians The Speech of Marquis Villa to the Senate The German Ambassadour's last Audience with the Grand Signior The Reasons why the German Ambassador interposed notin behalf of Transylvania The German Ambassadour's Audience with the Vizier An Ambassadour arrives srom France Reflexions of the Turks on the Embassy of Monsieur De Ventelay A strange accident befallen the French Captain of the Man of War The French Embassadours second Audience The Grand Signiors Huntings The Nogay Tartar desires Lands of the Grand Signior Marquess Villa surveys the Forts in Dalmatia Spalato Curzola Cataro and Perasto Clissa Sibenico June * Sabatai wrote a Letter to elect one man out of every Tribe The Jews scruple to say the head of Israel Arab. Prov. Arab. Prov. The course of life which Sabatai led after he turned Mahometan The manner of exchange of the Emperours and Turks Ambassadours The Turks meditate a new War An Engagement near Canea Marquess Villa lands at the City of Candia The 〈◊〉 incamp The Turks assault them The Turks make another assault The Venetian Camp raised The Great Vizier arrives at Thebes Twelve Turkish Vessels taken The Vizier passes over into Candia By the number of Costans is to be esteemed the honour the Turks bear to one Prince above the other The Polish Ambassadours Audience The Death of the Polish Ambassadour The Revolt of the Pasha of Balsora The disposition of the Turks Camp The Batteries raised by the Turks The first Mine blown up Two Sallies made by the Christians The Captain-General disarms his Gallies Five Mines the Christians sprang Attempts of the Turks on the side of Panigra Arrival of Gallies from the Pope and Malta Chevalier d'Harcourt An Agent arrives at Candia to treat with the Vizier The Turks assault Panigra The Turks fire a dreadsul Mine The Turks spring another Mine Two Mines of the Christians Four Mines and a Sally of the Christians Two Mines of the Christians One Mine of the Christians * Which is their Triumph for Victory The G. Signior sends a Messenger to bring him certain information of the State of his Camp in Candia The Winter causes all action to cease General Barbaro and Uvertmiller depart from the Army The deaths of Secretary Giavarina and Padavino Formality in making sanisaries in these days A Fight at Sea The success of the Turks at Sea Captain Giorgio taken by the Turks The Turks resolve to make their passage by St 〈◊〉 A Sally made by the Christians Another Sally Marquess Viils returns into Italy Causes of Marquess Villa's departure Marquess Villa's Speech Marquess St. Andrea visits the Works Some French Gentlemen Adventurers for honour arrive at Candia The Christians overthrow a battery of the Turks A Sally made by the French The Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg sent Forces to relieve Candia Count Waldeck dyes of his wound A Mine of an hundred and sixty Sacks of Powder fired by the Christians The Christians sally on the side of Sabionera Katirgi-Oglé his original and life The Turks 〈◊〉 three Bastions at once The Female Court sent to Constantinople The Janisaries jealous of the safety of the Sultans Brothers The Gran. Signior displeased with Tabaco An Ambassadour sent from Venice 〈◊〉 Ships 〈◊〉 War sail to Constantinople The Gr. Signior sends a Messenger to the French King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambassadour from his Maiesty A Relation of the state of Candia toward the end of this year The story of the false Reaux or Temins The Grand Signior designs to cut off his Brothers Tac. Lib. 6. The Turks storm again the Fort of St. Andrea Succours sem out of Christendom The French Fleet loose from Tolon They arrive at Candia The French Forces landed A Council of War held in Candia The order of the Christian Army to make their Saily The Christians sally at the Gate St. George The Christians fall upon the Turks The Christian Army in consusion French Officers slain The French leave the Town The Turks make an assault A Council held for to consider of the state of Candia Result of the Council The Conditions of Peace The War began in April 1645. Candia delivered The News brought to the Grand Signior at Negropont The Venetians at Suda Serini and the Nobles of Hungary offer themselves to the Turk The G. Signior returns to Salonica and hunts Sir Daniel Harvey his Majesties Ambassadour hath his Audience of the Grand Signior The G. Signior delights solely in his Queen The Vizier takes a survey of the whole Isle of Candia The Vizier departs from Candia and arrives at Scio. The Great Vizier persuaded to drink wine The Souldiers ' and other Turks drink Wine to excess A digression about Opium Wine forbidden in all parts of the Grand Signiors Dominions The Command against Wine The Venetian Ambassador at the Port. Commissioners appointed for determining the differences of the Confines in Dalmatia The difference about Verpogly Mamut Pasha dyes A new 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Sultan Orchan put to death by his Brother A new Resident sent from Genoua The Conspiracy of Serini Frangipani and Nadasti The Turks deliberate of a War The Causes of the War with Poland The unseasonable Address of the 〈◊〉 Ambassadour The Alexandrian Fleet taken by the Malteses The Poles refuse to pay their promised Tribute The Rebels in Hungary renew their Petition to the Turks for assistance The rage of the Turks against Poland The French Ambassadour obtains licence to travel The Turks resolve on a war against Poland The Poles pass the Niester The Prince of Valachia carried by his own Souldiers to the Poles The Prince of Moldavia revolts The Turks overthrow Chusaein Pasha imprisoned The King of Poland dies A Journy into Tartary Kemenitz relieved Mahomet Pasha sent with a Fleet of Gallies into the Arches The Turks secure their Conquest The difference between the Latines and Greeks at Jerusalem The happy state of the Ottoman Court. The great Festivals in what manner celebrated at the Turkish Court. The manner of the Marriage of the Grand Signior's Daughter The Tefterdar put out of his Ossice Ways for ralsing Money The Chimacam of 〈◊〉 his Steward cut off The Trade of 〈◊〉 A Besasteen and new Custom-house and a Royal Chan built at Smyrna The G. Signior returns to Constantinople Conjectures concerning the reasons of the Grand Signiors return to Constantinople The People in Egypt rebel against their new Pasha The History of Soltana Sporcha The Grand Signior returns again to Adrianople The Death of the Great Vizier Achmet His Character Kara Mustapha made Vizier Alterations with the new Vizier