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A05751	The history of the imperiall estate of the grand seigneurs their habitations, liues, titles ... gouernment and tyranny. Translated out of French by E.G. S.A.; Histoire generalle du serrail, et de la cour du Grand Seigneur, Empereur des Turcs. English	Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645.; Baudier, Michel, 1589?-1645. Histoire de la cour du roy de la Chine. aut; Grimeston, Edward.	1635 (1635)	STC 1593; ESTC S101093	139,442	200

Churches The priuiledge of their Burials cost them aboue three thousand Sequins The imposition called of Virgins helpes to fill the Grand Seigneurs Cofers or his Tr● 〈…〉 vpon Maids which marrie whereof they keepe a Register if they be Turks they giue two third parts of a Sequin the Iewes pay a whole one and the Christians a Sequin and a halfe The Christians Latines are for the most part freed from the violence and oppression of these vniust taxes for they get their dependance from some Kings Embassadour or from an inferiour Prince The Albanois they of Raguse and the Geneuois pay not any thing For the payment of so many Tributes wherewith the people is opprest by the Tyrant of the Easterne Regions it is necessarie there should be many sorts of Coine mi●●● In Constantinople the great Imperiall Mint workes continually in Gold and Siluer but no man can bee admitted be a Farmer to these precious 〈◊〉 if hee be not a Grecian borne by a speciall priuiledge of the Grand Seig●eur who hath conferred this grace vpon the Gretian in consideration that the Mines of Gold and Siluer are within the 〈◊〉 of Greece wherefoure hundred men labour daily And the Master of this rich Mine is to furnish into the Serraile the first day of euery moneth in the yeare ten thousand Sequins of Gold and twentie thousand of Siluer 〈◊〉 coined the Grand Seigneur hauing so appointed that the monie which is employed in the Serrail shall bee new The said Farmer hath power to make Proclamation that whosoeuer hath any forraigne Coine hee should bring it in within three dayes and receiue the iust price vpon paine of Confiscation He hath likewise power to take the Ingots from the Mines so many as shall bee needfull for his worke The Mines which furnish most of the Gold and Siluer which is mi●●ed in the Turkish Empire in Europe are fiue in number The one is digged in Macedonia vnder the Roots of a Hill called M● 〈◊〉 and this ye●lds Gold The other which is of the same substance is opened in Bulgaria vpon the Confines of Macedonia The three of Siluer are in Greece rich and very plentiful Out of all which they draw that which Nature had wisely hidden to be conuersant among men the which doth breed 〈…〉 dissolues Friendship corrupts 〈…〉 Chastitie troubles Estates obscures M● wits rauishes li●e vnthrones reason from her seate and robe● of himselfe But to returne to this great Citie of Constantinople the Magnificences of the Princes which possesse it at this day and the riches of some 〈◊〉 or great Men of the Court haue caused aboue three hundred C●vana serrails to bee built these are great and vast places to lodge Strangers The number of this Hospitals for the poore and 〈…〉 to the number of fourescore 〈…〉 the Turkish Emperours which haue built these pound M●squees haue added them vnto their R●bric●s where they are eternall markes of their Pl● Moreouer there are 〈◊〉 Colledges for the instruction of young 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 of the Scho●lers which they call in their 〈…〉 that is to say wise Students although they be nothing lesse 〈◊〉 of them hath a Chamber for his Lodging a Carpet for his Table foure loaues by the day a proportion of Pottage and a Candle They giue them two suites of clothes yearely and they are paid out of Reuenewes of the Colledge by the Masters and Pr●ceptors which teach them who are called Soscha●i that is for the first yeare when they enter into the Colledge for to the second they adde to their entertainment an Aspre by the day which is a fift part more then a pennie afterwards they giue two three or foure Aspres by the day according to the number of yeares they haue continued With this poore pi●●ance these Turks can keep no great ordinarie vnlesse they receiue it from other places But the gaine they make in writing of Bookes for the Turkes vse no printing is not little but doth furnish their necessitie abundantly yea their Riots they goe also to houses to teach the children of men of qualitie But there is not in all Turkie more dissolute youthes then these Turkie Schollers there is no kind of villanie but they commit with all impunitie The priuiledges wherewith the Turkish Emperours haue honoured them or rather the abuse of them hath drawne them into all sorts of impudencie no man can apprehend them for any crime vnlesse their Generall be present to whom only this power is giuen It is true that the Princes presence in Constantin●ple doth restrain the insolencie of their riots But the Townes of Carama● and Na●ol● are wonderfully pesteted Amurath the third desirous by reason of some troubles which happened to know the number of such Gallants they were found to bee aboue nine thousand aswell in Greece as Natolia not reckoning those which studied in Suria Caire Arabia and else-where Another great place inuironed with wall and shut vp with good Gates doth likewise beautifie the Citie of Constantinople the Turkes call it Seracy●●a that is to say the Sellerie or the place where they make Saddles and rich Caparisons for Horses of Seruice and Pompe It is an vnspeakable pleasure for those that loue Horsemanship to see foure thousand workmen in this place labouring in their shops artificially vpon diuers Capari●ons for Horses Some 〈◊〉 great round Pearles vpon the Saddle of an Arabian Horse out of the Grand Vizirs stable Others fasten a Bitt of Gold to Reines of rich red Leather of Russia some doe fit stirrop Leathers to stirrops of Gold enricht with a great number of Turkishes of the olde Rocke Others fasten vpon a large Crouper a great number of precious stones In another place you shall see a rich Saddle cast forth a thousand flames the number of the Diamonds wherewith it is enricht make it inestimable The Bitt and stirropes of Gold couered with Diamonds the Tassels of Pearles which are at the Reines and at the Trappers of the Crouper and the other beauties of this royall Harnesse rauish the eyes of such as looke of it with admiration of their wonders and some silently perswade themselues that Fortune adorned with these precious things which depend on her meanes to goe in triumph through Constantinople to let the Turkes see that she dwels amongst them In the midst of this place there is a Mosquee built for the deuotion of these workmen and a goodly Fountaine in the same place which powres forth abundance of fresh water for their vse Two other great places likewise walled about serue for the Lodgings of the Ianizaries which are the best Footmen of the Turkish Armies the one of these places is called Eschiodolar that is to say the old habitations It is of a square forme and diuided into many small Lodgings in the which the Corporals remaine called Ayabass● which signifies the chiefe of glorie there are about a hundred and fiftie of this qualitie and either of them commands two hundred Ianizaries who dare

signe that they did tread their law and honour vnder foot There a Turkish Priest did cause them to lift vp the demonstratiue finger of the right hand in signe that they did not beleeue but one God in one person to say with a loud voice Laila ey lala alla Mehemer ●asoul alla Then they led them into c●taine Pauillions which were erected expresly at the end of the place where they were circumcised hee The number of these cast awayes was found to bee aboue foure thousand soul● These sports and triumphs being thus miserably ended the young Prince for whom they had beene made was brought into his Fathers Chamber where hee was circumcised by one of the great Men of the 〈◊〉 the p●s●re of all the Basha's His wound being cured within few dayes hee goes to take his lost leaue of the Sultans his Mother whom she shall see no more vntill hee comes to take possession of the Empire after the death of his Father if hee be the oldest or to end his life with a halter if hee be a younger brother when his ●der shall Raigne She giues him presents and the other Sultana's doe the like All the Basha's present him and the Emperour his Father appoints his Family giues him a Pra●r an Eunuch for Gouernour with many other men to serue him and sends him into As●a Sa●qua only of the Citie of the Magnesia the chiefe of Alysia as Lieutenant in that Region vnder the authoritie of a Basha who is Gouernour whilest he carries the Title hee must gouerne his Actions with prudence and modestie for if he should haue any designes of innouation by the Counsailes of some dis●ed seditious persons he should worke his owne mi● by his owne hanes The Eunuch which is the most ●pp● about him hee is bound to aduertise the Sultan his Father and the principall Basha'es of all his carriage CHAP. XIV Of the Presents they make unto the Grand Seigneur and of that which hee himself giues THe custome to giue Present vnto the Prince 〈◊〉 beene so practiced in the Turkish M●thio 〈…〉 Law of State so as it is written in the 〈…〉 Empire that all the Basha's and great men of the Port shall at certaine seasons of the yeare and at the Circumcision of the Emperours Children giue him Presents and likewise when they returne from the Gouernment of Prouinces where they haue continued some yeares in the administration of their Charges of Viceroy The Generals of Armies at the returne from their victories are bound to present gifts to the Sultan They doe it vsually in a great quantity of Vessels of gold and siluer Swords and Daggers enricht with precious stones and bowes of the like manner Plumes of Feathers with precious Iewels rich Girdles exquisite Furres and sometimes pieces of cloth of gold with Tapestries of silke and gold whereof the Princes Wardrobe is commonly well stored to supply his bounty to his Sultana's slaues and to send to forreine Princes All these men being slaues to their Master and as it were forced to these liberalities cannot when they please follow their good aduice which say that It is a noble folly to giue vnto great Men for they beleeue they oblige a man much when they receiue that which he presents The Basha's which returne from the gouernment of Egypt parting from Cair● dispose the value of the Presents into ready money and ariuing at the Serrail they sometimes present vnto the Sultan foure or fiue Millions of Liuers which is foure or fiue hundred thousand Pounds sterling The Generals of Armies doe many times practise the same liberality they are the better receiued by their Master and the glory of their magnificence flyes into the mouth of the people and they find by their great gifts that the offering of Presents pacifie both Men and Gods as they said in old time These notable summes ouer 〈◊〉 the inward Chasna which is the Princes secret treasure The Christian Patriarch giues vnto the Sultan newly crowned an honourable present which the Greekes call Pesquesian or when the Patriarch co●ers into his charge by the death or deposition of another Besides this the Turkes giue vnto the Eunuches which are familiar to the Prince many rich Presents to make them speake from them vpon all necessary occasions for the ballance doth alwayes decline on that side which is heauiest and the only meanes to gaine the affection of these gelded men is to glut their auarice which is no small labour Nassuf Bassa who ended his fortune and his life in the yeere 1614 did often say that the Eunuches of the Serrail were insatiable They doe also hold and they practize this Maxime in the Turkish Court the which is generally receiued by all men that The sweetest action of men is To take although in truth it be more generous to giue for him that is able As pleasure and griefe are naturally ioyned together haue one Temple and their Offerings are vpon the same Altar The Othoman Monarch who takes a great delight to see himselfe glutted with Presents not only by his owne subiects but also by strangers yet he sometimes finds a distaste in it As it happened to Sely●n the First whose example shall suffice in this Chapter that by its breuity wee may ease the long descriptions of the former This Prince hauing taken the Othoman Scepter his hands being yet bloudy by the death of his Brethren and Nephewes and the chiefe of his Basha●s thinking to be honoured according to the ordinary custome of his Predecessors with Presents which forreine Princes make hee saw his cruelty taxed by that which the Persian Embassadour presented vnto him who gaue him in his Masters name a great furious Lyon inaccessible alwayes fo●ing for rage and neuer made tame by any Man This present being brought Sely●n fell into a rage stamps with his foote complained that hee was wronged and sware that hee would be reuenged and demanded satisfaction from the Embassadour who being aduised and cunning couered the part which hee had played with many goodly worde Herald Sely●n that this Lion did rather represent the 〈◊〉 of his courage and that of his generosity rather than any other thing but this did not pacifie him he ch●sed him out of his Territories and gaue him to present vnto his Master many great Dogges with bloudie mussels as if hee would say they had 〈◊〉 his Lion in pieces and that in the assaults of Warre hee would intreat him in like manner Seeing then the Turkish Prince doth continually receiue Presents from others it is string he should likewise giue For it is more seemly for a King to giue then to take so his Wardrobe is vsually open to giue The Sultana's are enricht by his Presents The Mufti and his Praceptor are honoured and the Bashaes receiue and all this consists in precious stones Purses full of gold coyned Robes of cloth of Gold Plumes of Feathers Iewels rich Armes and other things of

they are reasonably exact to yeeld vnto euery man that which is due vnto him The feare of their owne ruine if they had no vertue were sufficient to make the ballance eeuen and straight For the Turkish Princes are accustomed to goe by one of their Chambers vnto a Window only shut vp with a Lattice the which lookes into the Diuan directly ouer the head of the Grand Vizir From thence he heares what is spoken and treated with the complaints of parties and the Decrees of Iudges if iniquitie doe sway the minds and mouths of those to deny vnto the weakest the reliefe which justice doth owe them against the violent oppressions of the Mighty the punishment which hee takes is very exemplary Doubtlesse as the foundations vphold a house so justice is a strong support vnto an Empire without the which it cannot long subsist Kings whose principall office is to yeeld it vnto men ought to cherish it aboue all things It doth aduance them aboue other men and makes them to raigne happily and without it violence drawes all disorders in their Estates troubles them and ruines them in the end They themselues without justice are like vnto those bodies which are troubled with the falling sicknesse whom weaknesse and paine afflicts This diuine vertue should not only be the soule of their Decree but the soule of their soule In justice they shall possesse all the other vertues for it containes them all CHAP. II. Of the Azamoglans or Children of the Tribute of base condition which serue in the Serrail and elsewhere THe Christians labour so profitably to inlarge the Turkes Empire as they not only furnish them with occasions by their wretched diuision but they also breed them vp men which in time are the most generous of their troupes the greatest in their Court and the most triumphant in Townes Christian Prouinces But in this last force and the constraint which these Barbarians vse towards them makes them more excusable than when they abandon the reason and the interests of Christianity to the blind passions of a fatall discord For they see come into their houses thoroughout all Greece or Morea and in the Countrey of Albania a troupe of the Grand Seigneurs Capigis deputed to make the exaction of the richest and the most exquisite Tribute that can be leuied in a Country the which is of men the best proportioned and enricht with the gifts of Nature There they choose the soundest the goodliest and the most actiue of all their Children out of euery three one the which they doe euery third yeere and hauing drawne together aboue two thousand they lead them to Constantinople At their arriuall they attire them all in Robes of Cloth of diuers colours they giue vnto euery one a yellow Cap of Felt like vnto a Sugar-loafe In this Equipage they are led before the Grand Vizir who being accompanied with al the other Bassa's and Ministers of the Serrail he makes choice of those that are most actiue for the war These young men are set apart and conducted into the Serrail by the Bostangibassi or chiefe of the Gardiners and a part of them distributed where they wanted Then they circumcise them being children of Christians they become yong Turks and for an inconstant fortune of the World and of the Court they lose the eternall happinesse of Heauen in the way whereof their first beliefe had directed them They cause them to learne the Turkish Tongue and if their spirits be capable of more to read and write But all indifferently are instructed to wrestle runne leape shoot dart an Azegaye and in all other Exercises which are fit for them which will make profession of Armes The rest of this goodly choice of the young Children of the Tribute is in the power of the Grand Vizir Hee doth lodge them and distribute them diuersly some are sent into the Sultans Gardens and Houses of Pleasure others are put into the Gallions and Vessels at Sea which make Voyages for the Sultana's The Patrons charge themselues and are bound to restore them when they are demanded They place a good number in Artificers shops to learne diuers trades whereof they may serue for a Squadron when they shall be Ianizaries and especially in the time of Warre The Basha's and all the great Men of the Court haue their part They are deliuered vnto them by their Names Countries Markes of their face or elsewhere and by the colour of their haire they binde themselues in writing which is contained in a Booke for that purpose to the end that if the necessitie of the Warre should force the Captaines to fill vp their companies in the place of those that are dead they may take these to that effect But most commonly they giue the rudest and grossest to these Basha's and they imploy them in their Stables Kitchins and other base Offices of their Houses They which remaine of these Azamoglans are sent into diuers Seminaries vnder the conduct of diuers Eunuches which haue the charge and take the care to breed them vp to bee one day capable to beare Armes and to serue in the Warre in qualitie of Ianizaries These Children thus placed the Grand Vizir represents them in a Booke to the Grand Seigneur This Prince assignes them an entertainment according to his pleasure and augments the pay which the great custome doth allow them which is of foure or fiue A●pres by the day besides their nourishment and apparell Hee assignes the assignation with his owne hand and sends it by the Vizar to the Testardar to the end he may be carefull to pay it according to the order Hee sees them euery three Moneths and visits them one after another calling them by their names to know the number of those which are dead and to see how they be fed and gouerned But the Azamoglans appointed for the seruice of the Serrail are imployed about base and vile things as the meanest of all those which are of the Royall Family They serue for Labourers in their buildings they imploy them in their Stables Kitchins Gardens to cut wood and to carry it to lead Dogges to the field as their Seruants and to doe whatsoeuer their Superiours command them whereof some haue charge of tens others of hundreds and these are also vnder the authoritie of the Chicaia or Steward of the Bostangibassi the toyle they vndergoe the paines they take and the miseries which they indure make them the most patient men in the World and their Masters instruct them to mortification by most rigorous courses the least fault is rewarded with fiftie blowes with a Cudgell the which are soundly set on But their basenesse is not without honour nor recompence There are charges and eminent Offices among them to the which they succeed by the order of their antiquity and their patience may make them hope and aspire to the place of a steward yea of Bostangibassi to shew that there is nothing so base