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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60582	Remarks upon the manners, religion and government of the Turks together with a survey of the seven churches of Asia, as they now lye in their ruines, and a brief description of Constantinople / by Tho. Smith ...; Epistolae duae. English	Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.	1678 (1678)	Wing S4246; ESTC R4103	118,462	352

Church dedicated to the V. Mary turned into a Mosch and so at Strigonium two years after in 1543 As Selim his Father did at Jerusalem for good success in his expedition into Egypt Every man is his own Priest and may slay his Sheep at his own House They distribute the several parts of it among the poor reserving nothing in the least to their own uses which will take off from the merit of the Sacrifice which also ceases and is rendred ineffectual if these Victims be purchased with money got dishonestly either by fraud or violence I have been assured of a Turk who was so scrupulous this way that instead of satisfying for the injustice he had been guilty of and restoring what he was wrongfully possessed of only desired an English Merchant to change such a number of Dollars for others of the same species fancying those that were got honestly in the way of industry and Merchandise would thrive better with him than those he parted with as if the money only were in fault and drew a curse after it which he fancied thus easily avoided by an exchange The Sheep thus sacrificed they fancy enter into Paradise and there graze all along the flow'ry Meadows upon the Banks of Rivers flowing with Milk and Honey Seventy days after is the Feast of little Bairam which is not observed with half the pomp and noise as the former In the intervening space the Pilgrims prepare from the farthest quarters of the Empire for their journey to wards Mecca that they may enter that City in procession the first day of this Feast In this pilgrimage all perswasins of Mahometans agree the obligation lying upon all indifferently to perform it once at least in their lives The concourse of Pilgrims is extraordinary great and for the greater pomp and shew and for better security and conveniency of travel there are places assigned confining upon the respective Countries whence they usually come where they meet first either alone or in dispersed companies such is Damascus for those of Europe and the lesser Asia Cairo for the Inhabitants of Africa Zibet a City in Arabia Felix for the people of Arabia and the Islands of the Indian Ocean and Bagdat for the Persians Vsbeck Tartars and the Subjects of the Mogul But this obligation and command is dispensable in several cases If they are employed in the necessary service of the Emperor either about his person or in the Wars or in the Government of any Province If they be sickly and so their health like to be endangered by long travel if they are poor and have not wherewithall to maintain their Families in their absence or cannot furnish themselves with necessaries for the Voyage and the like so that it is in a manner wholly left to their liberty and choice and is to be measured and directed by their convenience and interest Yet notwithstanding there is so much of merit in it and such reputation gained every one thinking himself as the more holy so the more fortunate as if they had gone to take possession and secure themselves of a particular place in Paradise that several thousands flock there continually every year and in their numbers at least out-do the Christians who live among them whose zeal and devotion carry them to visit the holy Sepulchre of Jesus in Jerusalem at the time of Easter The ceremonies are too many and too idle to be put down here minutely and in detail the chiefest and most remarkable are these which follow as they were communicated to me by a curious and learned Renegado They all afterward meet on the Mountain Arephat not far from Mecca and are there at the farthest by the ninth day of the month Dulhaggi where they sacrifice and put on their holy Covering or Blanket of which presently The Haggiler or Pilgrims put on a white woollen Coat and hang about their necks a white Stole all their other Clothes being cast off pairing their Nails cutting their Mustachios and Beards and shaving their Pubes Head and Body or washing their Body at least their Head Feet and Hands and after perfume themselves and say their prayers By this they become Muharrem or devoted and are obliged to abstain from all obscenity of language and strife even from hunting and looking after game do not dare so much as to kill a Louse or put on their other Clothes Turbants or Caps Yet they may go to a Bagno or House for shade or into a Bed Upon their entring Mecca they go strait to the first Mosch and then to the Black Stone which they foolishly imagine the Patriarch Abraham used to step upon to mount his Camel and say their prayers there and kiss it and rub their Chaplets of Beades upon it The whose remaining Ceremony consists in sacrificing Sheep in processions about the wall of the Sepulchre of Mahomet and to the neighbouring Mountain and to the Rock in which as they pretend with the like certainty are still to be seen the footsteps of that Patriarch Several in their return to make their pilgrimage compleat and more meritorious visit Jerusalem for which they preserve a great veneration the ordinary name whereby it is known and called in their discourse being Kuds or the Sanctuary or the holy City to which they add the additional titles of Sherif and Mubarek or the noble and blessed holy City Here they come to worship and say their prayers in the Mosch which is built upon the top of Mount Zion in the very place where Solomons Temple stood once the Mountain of Gods holiness and the joy of the whole Earth and still beautiful for its situation This like the Chappel at Mecca they esteem so holy that it is only lawful for a Musulman to enter into it If a Christian or Jew should but lift up the Antiport and set one step into it he profaned it and indeed the penalty of such a curiosity would be as they give out no less than death or at least they would force them upon a necessity of redeeming their life with the loss and change of their Religion Yet some Greeks have been so curious who have spoke Turkish admirably well and known all the Rites and Customs used in their Worship as to put on a Turbant and dissemble their Religion and enter boldly therein who report upon the best survey and observation they could make they could see nothing extraordinary or differing from what was in their other Churches So that it seems nothing but the holiness of the ground in which it stands derives upon it this great lustre and veneration and makes the Turks so cautious and superstitious how they admit strangers All upon their return are mighty zealous in the observations of the least punctilio's of the institutions of Mahomet and particularly abhor the very thought of Wine or any other prohibited liquor and would not drink a drop of this if it were to save their lives Some put

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when the Empire became Christian and the civil power submitted it self to the law and discipline of Christ and when the Cross which before was had in such execration was held the highest ornament of the Crown advanced in splendor and glory above what they had enjoyed in the times of Heathenism which upon a due consideration of circumstances one might have truly enough judged should have been eternal and placed almost out of all possibility of danger and ruine now turned into heaps of rubbish scarce one stone left upon another some of them utterly uninhabited and the remains of all horribly frightful and amazing I shall not here lament the sad traverses and vicissitudes of things and the usual changes and chances of mortal life or upbraid the Greeks of luxury and stupidity which have brought these horrid desolations upon their Countrey these are very useful but very mean and ordinary speculations That which affected me with the deepest anguish and most sorrowful resentment when I was upon the place and does still was and is a reflexion upon the threat made against Ephesus mentioned in the second Chapter of the Revelations of St. John who made his abode in that City and died there Remember from whence thou art fallen and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of its place except thou repent And upon a farther and more serious consideration as I sorrowfully walked through the ruines of that City especially I concluded most agreeably not only to my function but to the nature of the thing and I am confident no wise or good man who shall cast his eyes upon these loose and hasty observations will deny the conclusion to be just and true that the sad and direful calamities which have involved these Asian Churches ought to proclaim to the present flourishing Churches of Christendom as much as if an Angel were sent express from Heaven to denounce the judgment what they are to expect and what may be their case one day if they follow their evil example that their Candlestick may be removed too except they repent and do their first works and that their security lyes not so much in the strength of their frontiers and the greatness of their armies for neither of these could defend the Eastern Christians from the invasion and fury of the Saracens and Turks as in their mutual agreements and in the virtues of a Christian life A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CONSTANTINOPLE COnstantinople seems to have the advantage of most Cities in the World for situation either in respect of the pleasantness of its prospect or for security against the attaques of an enemy it being naturally fortified and might be made impregnable by art or for its narrow passage into Asia as if in all changes and revolutions of government designed by God for the chief seat of Empire and command The high hills upon which it is seated add much to the beauty and glory of it several knots of Cypress-trees appearing 〈◊〉 set upon them that to one sailing in the Propontis it looks like a City placed in the middle of a wood but in the haven it resembles a great Amphitheatre the houses like so many steps rising orderly one above another the gilded spires of the Moschs reflecting the light with great pleasure to the eye so that to all travellers it seems justly the most delightful the most admirable and most charming spectacle of nature and what would even satisfy for the tediousness and fatigues of a Sea-voyage were there nothing in it to please the fancy or curiosity besides Though it lies upon the Sea yet on both sides the passages to it are so narrow that there can be no coming at it without great difficulty The entrance to it toward the Mediterranean is by the Hellespont which is there about five miles over where is a perpetual current into the Archipelago which is strong and violent and especially when the wind is at North which blows for the most part here and at Constantinople eight or nine months of the twelve the want of a Southerly wind which is necessary to get up the channel making the passage very long and tedious Neer the two head lands the Turks have since the beginning of the war of Candia built two Castles to prevent the landing of the Venetians who before past unmolested with their ships and galleys up as high as the Dardanels In the Castle on the level within Cape Janizary anciently Promontorium Sigaeum on the Asian shore I counted six and twenty great guns in front and about sixteen on the side toward Tenedos A little above at the end of a long sand is the river Scamander Sailing directly in the middle of the stream the guns can do no great execution The Hellespont widens hence Eastward till almost at an equal distance between the Aegaean and Propontick Seas for it ends at Gallipoli you arrive at the narrowest strait being scarce three quarters of an English mile over where are two strong Castles to command the passage which the Turks call Boghashisar or the Castles in the strait or jaws of the channel but better known to the Christians by the name of the Dardanelli directly opposite to one another The Castle of Sestos on Europe side lying under a hill is triangular having twenty five guns level with the water and a Bastion at each angle in the middle an high Tower consisting of three semicircles encompassing a square fortification Abydus on the opposite shore lies in a plain the Castle square having about sixteen guns which almost touch the surface of the water On the sides are raised round Towers and in the middle an oblong work The strength of these Castles is the great security of Constantinople no ships being able to get