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A35758	A description of Candia in its ancient and modern state with an account of the siege thereof, begun by the Ottoman Emperour, in the year 1666, continued in 1667 and 1668, and surrendred the latter end of 1669 / the most part collected from private letters, during the siege, sent by one in the service of the republique.	One in the service of the republique.	1670 (1670)	Wing D1147; ESTC R10762	44,893	118

peculiar to this Island It affords also great store of Laudanum a Juyce or Gum forced with incredible labour out of a Tree called Cistus wherewith the Mountains abound 't is a soporiferous Medicine good to create Sheep if prescribed according to art The cheifest Mountain of note is Ida now Psiloriti scituate in the midst of the Island here Jupiter is fabled to be privately nurst and from hence he is called Idaeus Rivers of eminency they have few or none the principal are Nilopotamus Scasinus Epicidnus and Vivotro towards the North Populiar towards the East and Liniens towards the West but none of them are Navigable The Island is very populous insomuch that it is thought the Signiory of Venice upon a sudden occasion can raise in it sixty thousand men able to bear Arms. As to the Nature of the people they have always had the repute of able Mariners they being scituated in the midst of the Sea having very commodious Harbours and a Fish-trade so that when in those times they would tax any person for relating an incredible story they used to say Cretensis nescit pelagus meaning thereby that the thing was as improbable as for one of Crete to be no Sailer yet this Virtue or Qualification of theirs was stain'd with many notorious Vices which they yet retain among them as Malice Envy and Lying to which last they are so addicted that it grew proverbial to call a horrid Lye Cretense mendacium and this fault the Poet Epimenides did reprove in them who was Native of this Island cited by St. Paul to Titus Ch. 1. V. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cretans always lyars are Vnruly Beasts of labour spare To which may be added the Latine Proverb Cretizare cum Cretensibus To deceive the Deceiver or to be false in word and deed as also that of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. there are three Nations whose names begin with the Greek letter K worse then any other viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Cappadocians Cretans and Cilicians though some apply it to the Cities of Corinth Capua and Carthage beginning all with the same letter in that Language all which were conceiv'd very dangerous to the State of Rome Nor are the Candians at this day less sick of their old Distemper for they are as great lyars and as idle as ever they were formerly and avaricious withal being very impatient of labour not caring to attain any Science perfectly onely they are good Archers being accustom'd to shooting from their youth and herein thought more dexterous and expert then the Turks themselves As to their Civil Government according to Cluverius and Munster it was first Monarchical they being governed by Kings till Q. Metellus did reduce the Isle under his power into a Province and it remain'd under the Roman and Constantinopolitan Emperors until the Saracens did over-run it with the rest of Greece but Baldwinus Earl of Flanders and Emperour of Constantinople did confer it upon Boniface Marquess of Montferrat from whom it was purchased by the Venetians Anno 1144 at a vast rate and continued ever since under the Signiory of Venice under the name of Candia till in the year 1669 it was surrendred to the Turk As to their Ecclesiastical Politie they were first converted to the Christian Faith by St. Paul who having planted the Gospel there left the watering of it to Titus who by him was Consecrated Bishop of this Isle recompending the Churches therein to his care with power of Ordination and Ecclesiastical Censure as appears clearly by the Text which proves it belonged to him as their Bishop and not as their Evangelist onely and this manifestly apparent not onely in the Subscription of that Epistle according to the mode of writing in those days where he is stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The first Bishop of the Cretan Church but also by the concurrent Testimony of Eusebius Eccles Hist l. 3 c. 4. S. Ambros in Praesat ad Titum S. Hieron in Titum c. 1. v. 5. and in his Treatise de Scriptor Ecclesiast Theodoret. quoted by Oecumenius in Praefat. ad Ep. Tit-Oecumenius himself in Tit. 1. and lastly by Theophylact in his Preface to the same Epistle all which do in terminis call him Bishop and the Bishop of Crete agreeable to the usual sence of the word Episcopus in that age distinct from Presbyter This Church whilst wholly under the Discipline of the Greek Patriarchs was govern'd by four Archbishops and one and twenty Bishops but since their subjection to the Republique of Venice there is but one Archbishop that is of Candia the chief City and eight Bishops besides the titular Patriarch of Constantinople who hath his residence there some Prelate of the Latine Church having been always honoured with that empty Title ever since the recovery of that City from the Western Christians The Language vulgarly and generally spoken here is the Greek Tongue though Gentlemen and Merchants depending on the State of Venice speak Italian also Both the Greek and Latine are used in their Divine Offices the people generally are of the Communion of the Grecian Church yet the Latine Service is also used in many places of the Island The ground of this War between the Ottoman Emperour and the Venetian I finde in an Epistolar address to his Majesty from Venice by the hand of a Noble man of this Nation then residing there to be to this effect It hath been the design of the Turk ever since the Conquest of Rhodes and Cyprus to gain the Kingdom of Candia and that for this reason because then the Christians being destitute of all Harbours in the East he might with the greater security fall upon them in the West Anno 1645 when all Christendom was at variance Ibraim the Father of the now Turkish Monarch in the depth of a long continued peace when least expected began this War by setting upon the Venetians and gave this out as the pretended cause of this Quarrel In the former Agreement ratified and concluded between them it seems among many other Articles that the Republick had tyed themselves up to perform this was one they did engage to deny the Knights of Malta shelter in any of their Ports or Harbours Anno 1644 it fell out that the Gallies of that Order seiz'd a Sultana and took her who with three Millions of Crowns design'd a Pilgrimage to Mecha They steering homewards laden with this rich booty were compell'd by the unseasonableness of the Weather or for want of fresh water clancularly and by stealth to strike into a by-Port of Candia whence after some refreshment they return'd safely to their own Isle The next year the Turk furnisheth out a Fleet of 460 Sail great and small solemnly protesting to the Senates Ambassadors that these preparations were for the Isle of Malta but when they had past by them and steer'd a course almost as far as Sapienza they suddenly tackt about and landed sixty thousand