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A01618	The ofspring of the house of Ottomanno and officers pertaining to the greate Turkes court. Whereunto is added Bartholomeus Georgieuiz Epitome, of the customes rytes, ceremonies, and religion of the Turkes: with the miserbale affliction of those Christians, whiche liue vnder their captiuitie and bondage. In the ende also is adioyned the maner hovv Mustapha, oldest sonne of Soltan Soliman, twelfth Emperour of the Turkes, was murthered by his father, in the yere of our Lorde 1553. al Englished by Hugh Goughe.	Georgijević, Bartolomej, d. ca. 1566.; Gough, Hugh, fl. 1569.	1569 (1569)	STC 11746; ESTC S108633	51,654	186

enquere of some Turke whether suche thinges are so in déede and then he shall bol●lye affirms that the Author hath spoken mere veretye and truthe ❀ Of their almes houses and vvhat meate is geuen vnto the pore THey haue hospitalles or almes houses called Imareth builded by the testamentes of their kinges in whyche places meate or foode is geuen vnto the poore and Pilgrimmes but diuersly at sondrye places Ther are whyche geue Rice named Pirrincts Tsocbà with flesh at an other place Bolghdaias whyche is made of wheat in steade of potage they adde bread also of a reasonable quantitye the drincke whyche they distribute is water But place is graunted vnto none ther to remaine alnyght or slepe for ther is a publike Charuatsaur●e wher frelye they are receiued to hospitalytye howbeit ther be assigned vnto them no beddes but they slepe vnder the couering of a house eyther in heye or strawe ❀ The maner of their sacryfice for vvhat cause they do it and hovv the beastes offred are vsed and distributed THey offer beastes in sacrifice but for the moste parte before vowed called Chorban as well in the turkyshe as arabiane language In the time of anye disease or perill they promise euery mane acording to his habilitie in certaine places to sacrifice eyther a Shepe or Oxe after that the vowed offringe is not burned like vnto a beast killed and layed on the aulter as the custome was amōg the Jewes but after that the beast is slaine the skinne head féete and fourthe parte of the flesh are geuen vnto the prest an other part to poore people and the thirde vnto their neigheboures The killers of the sacrifice doe make readye the other fragmentes for thē selues and their compaynons to féede one Neyther are they bound to performe the vow if they haue not bene deliuered from the possessed disease or peril For all thinges with them are done condytionallye I will geue if thou wilte graunt The lyke woorshyppinge of God is obserued amonge the Gretians Armenians and other realmes in Asia imitating yet y e christian religiō ¶ VVhat is assigned to be done by the Testamentes of the Turkes as vvell of menne as vvomen IF any of the circumcised dying entendeth to make a testament suche legacies for the most part are apointed their neigheboures and frendes called together eyther to fetche springes of water and bringe them before some Hospitall temple or drye place that is frequented be menne Haritsi moued with a godlye zeale Gsianitsi for their soules health Other bequethe their goodes to make captiues and bound menne frée But the women as thys kynde aboue all other is moste superstitious geue monye vnto souldyers for to kill a certaine number of christians They make account that by so doynge it will greatlye profite the health of their soules The kynges apoint temples and hospitalles to be builded and other of the nobility when their lotte is to dye ¶ Their ceremonies about the dead and maner of interrement IF a circuncised manne dyeth amonge them the men take care to make ready the dead corps if any of the female kind the women They washe cleane the coarse and wrappe in fresh and néet lyuen after that the same is caried vnto some place without the cytye for it is a heynous crime to burye in the temples The taper bearers monkes with light goe before the prestes folowe after syngynge by all the waye vntill they come vnto the place of interrement But if the disceased person were poore and nedye money gathered together is accustomed to be geuen vnto the religious people for their labour and trauell ¶ The building of ther sepulture called Tulbe and of the sacrifices done to the dead VPon the kynges sepulcher is builded a temple for their kinges are buryed in Cities the tumbe of riche and poore mene is about the height of an auter so that beastes can not leape vpon and defile the same They often resort thither in wepinge and murnynge and certaine infernall sacrifices layde on the monumente as bread fleshe chéese Egges milke and the banket continewinge by the space of nyne dayes accordynge to the Ethnicke custome it is al deuoured for the disceased soules sake eyther by Pismares and the birdes of heauen or poore people For they affirme that it is lyke acceptable vnto God that almes shoulde be offred to the brute beastes hauinge néede therof as vnto menne sins that it is geuen for y e loue of God I haue senne many whiche geuing the valewe in monye of one litle birde before kepte incloased haue cast of the same to flye awaye other to throwe bread into the riuer for fishes through the loue of God addinge that they for suche mercifulnes towardes the neadye shoulde receiue an abundante rewarde at goddes handes ¶ Of the Turkishe vvarrefare and first of the king and a part of his officers THey haue all one kynge and in their lāguage he that now raigneth of thē is called Huncher Othmanlardan Sahitsultan Suleiman which by interpretation is Salomon is emperour Prince of Turkeye of the Othomans descended whiche now hathe his first begotten sone of the age of thrée and twenty yeares or their about named Mustapha in crueltye and tyrannye passyng his predicessors often lying in waite for his father if he might by any meanes kille or cause him to bée slaine throughe gredie affection and desire to beare rule But in what sorte he was murthered by his Father it shalbe declared in the ende of this booke The kynge hath vnder him two chefe goue●nours or liuetenantes ouer Europe and Asia named Tsangiach Begler vnto the whiche are subiecte inferiour presidentes called Timargilar whose hestes doe certaine ordinarye souldyers obeye but if they be founde lingringe and slacke when they be called for expedition vnto war are punished with hāging Bassalar whiche they interpret heades are manye in number they for councell do alwayes accompanye the kinge Sulihtarlar also whyche are the garde of hys bodye are wont continewally to folowe immediatlye after his backe together with hys Capugtsibegler chamberlaines Iazitgtsibegler chauncellours Eminler exactours of tribute whyche is to witte of children and money Spahalar lyght harneysed horsemen a great route Vlachlaris postes ▪ or pursiuantes with other such like alwayes folowing the courte ¶ The estate of the Turkes peeres or nobilitie and of the possessione NOt one of the nobles doth possesse anye prouince or cytye by ryght title of inheritāce which after his death he maye leaue vnto his children heires or successours with out consente of the kynge But if a Prince or gouernour coueteth to haue certaine possessions it is graunted vnto him vpon this condition They enter in bargaine concernyng the Prince and reuenewes of those possessions The Turke doth know how many souldiers may yearely be mainteined by the profits of that prouince then y e Liuetenante is bounde to haue allwayes in readines for him that band of souldiers at all callinges otherwise he léeseth his head and

beast throughe townes villages stretes and the moste daungerous and slippery places of Thrace and the lesser Asia seuen times I haue ben sold vnto most peineful and manifolde kindes of husbandry and there constrained vnder the turkish rustical whippe and sharpe ordinances in hungar and thirst in colde and nakednes lying a brode out of house to kepe horses and fede flockes of sheepe and ●eardes to learne the arte of warrefare and exercise tylling of ground From whence taking flight and lyuinge by the mast of Okes by wilde herbes and ther bitter rootes sprinkeled with a litle salte and wandring in desertes beholdinge the north pole as my guide I haue bene enuironed with moste rauenous wilde beastes I haue moreouer on plankes of timber bound together with a corde endeuored to passe ouer the sea Hellesponte but beinge taken at length brought back againe vnto my master bound hand and foote cast prostrat on the earthe and greuosly beaten with roddes I was after cast of vnto the vnmercifull regraters of mankinde and slaughterous boutchers to be solde so that tossed with the fluddes of aduersitie by the space of thirtene yeares I haue bene forced to suffer and susteine manye miseries afflictions calamities and persecutions throughe y e loue that I bare vnto oure holye and catholyke faith But when I could not escape by that more nere way which is throughe Thrace suche tirannye greuous bondage and cruell affliction of the Infidelles flying by an other way whyche is to wit towardes the pole Antartike throught the most daungerous places and desartes of Caramania and Siria Throughe soudrie perilles on the lande And daungers straung bi seas and sande At length I came into the holy lande vnto the Fryars of Saincte Frances by Ierusalem dwelling in the mounte Sion From whence after the course of ●ne yere raised by goddes prouidence ●s it were from the dead taken out of the mouth and iawes of that rauenous and insatiable dragon and deliuered from his rackinges and tormentes I came vnto my brethren the christians ●as an vndouted messanger of their pu●nishementes that they may do worthy ●penance for ther errors and offences lest thei com into that place of tormēts and affliction that they may vnderstande also in what hatred thei ought to be whiche hinder from that moste holy and longe desired expedition the christian sworde in time to come to be the reuenger of our miseries foreshewed so many yeres sence as well by the propheticall mouthe of trewe beleuers as infidelles and predestinated to destroye and vterly subuert that kingedome of Sathan when therfore after my pergerinatiō throuh the holi land and visitinge of certayne places in the w●ste partes I had briefly noted the tragidyes of theyr crueltye and certayne other thynges whych by remayninge in the court and warrefare of of the Turkish emperour I had learned eyther by daily conuersation long vse and experience or suche as I had hearde the learned and wiser sorte of the same to rearde and rexearse or in time past mencioned and readen vnderstode to be questioned by their sagest coūcellours and committed thē to memory all in fewe wordes and faithefully written at sondry places and diuers times by peece meale I had published after with publishing when by certayne learned and well disposed men I had found them made commō dispersed into diuers languages and perceyued that they woulde be profitable expediente and after a sorte necessarie vnto the readers I gathered the whole into this one bondell and nowe brought reduced it vnto a more compendious order I offer them moste gentile and Christian reder of thee to be redden Thou therfore by the example of oure sauiour Christ which preferred the litle gifte offred by a poore widoishe woman before the riche presentes of so many Princes vouchesafe to take and accepte in good parte this simple gifte of a poore afflicted Pilgrime ❀ ❀ The Originall beginning of the Turkishe Empyre and Lineall Race of theyr Emperours vvyth the trade and Ordinaunces of theyr warres THat the Turkes are lineally descended frō the Barbarous Nation of the Scithians not onely all the auncyente Hystoryographers do witnesse but also ther maners face countenāces pryde rashenes wonderfull audacity finallye al their trade and order in fightyng doth it moste euidently declarē They sixe hundred yeres sence entring into the lesser Asia which now hath to name Natholia committed ther infinite spoilinges and robberies vntill by litle and litle they had brought subiect to their empire inheritances castels and cyties and oppressed the inhabitantes of Asia the lesser whiche hadde not bene accustomed to fightinge and warres Neyther at that time had the Turkes any certaine Prince or Kynge but rouing abrode by flockes ouerrane brought vnder their subiectiō and cruellye raygned ouer the noble countreye of al the lesser Asia But afterwarde when thre hundred thousande footmen and an hundred thousand horsmen of the Christians had assembled and gathered together vnto the moste renowmed Duke Gottfridus Bilioneus and passed ouer the Sea to possesse and inhabite the holye lande where was the sepulcher of our redemer Iesus Christe the Turkes also flocking together created one Soliman ther Captaine so made warre agaynst the Christians But after a cruell and blouddye battell they were by the sayde Christians vanquished and put to flight From this time foreward we reade not that the Turkes had any Prince vntill the yeare after Christes incarnation a thousand and thre hundred about which season at lenght Ottomannus began to wexe famous and being of great powr● and strenght was created first Emperour of the Turkes from whom al the rest as the table ensewing shall plainely declare consequently tooke ther beginninge A brefe rehersall of al the Emperours of Turkeye Otthomannus OTthomannus firste Emperour of the Turkes whiche was of the turkishe nation as it wer the grandfather from whom all the other Princes of Turkey do take their name was fortunate victorious and a very cruell tyrant He raigned eight and twentye yeares and dyed in the yeare of our Lorde a thousande thre hundred twenty and eight Oreanus OReanes secōd Emperour of the Turkes was subtil wittye he inuented sondrye sortes of instrumentes and Enginnes of warre and gouerned the Empire two twentie yeares Amurathes AMurathes the sonne of Oreanes and third Emperour of the Turkes beynge a young man was disceiful circumspect and vigilant In the yeare of Christe a thousande thre hundred thre score and thre he possessed by force of armes Adrianopolis and raygned thre and twentye yeares Baiazetus BAiazetus the first of that name forth Emperour of y e Turkes was victorious but a famous and cruell tyrant He brought in subiection to his Empire almost all Grece and was at lenghte vanquished by the most mighty Tamberlane Cyriskelebes CYriskelebes the sōne of Baiazetus and fifte Emperour of the Turkes came vnto the Empire beynge a very younge man He fought a battel with Sigismundus Emperour of Rome whiche at that

present was king of Hungarye ouercam and put him to flight in the felde called Salumbetus He dyed beinge yet of youthely yeares rained about sixe yeares Moises MOises was sixt Emperour of y e Turkes After y t he had slaine Oreanes his brothers sōne he obteined y e turkish Empire but not lōg gouerned the same For he was also murthered by Mahometus brother vnto Oreanes slaine of him before which after the death of Moises brought vnder his subiection the Empire of Turkey Mahometus MAhometus the first of that name seuenth Emperour of Turks was notable throughe his cruelty He weakened in many battells the strenght of the Walachians oppressed them He raigned fouretene yeares and dyed in the yeare from Christes incarnation a thousande foure hundred and nintene Amurathes AMurathes the seconde of this name eight Emperour of the Turkes was full of guile and cruel He first inuented and established the order of Ianitzaries of whome it shalbe spoken hereafter He raigned yeares thirty one and died in the yeare of christian health a thousand four hundred and fiftye Mahometus MAhometus of that name the second ninth Emperour of y e Turkes was bolde of great audacitye stubborne and rash He toke Constantinople in the yere from Christes incarnation a thousande four hundred fifty and thre the nine and twenty day of may and was Emperour thirty and two yeares Baiazetus BAiazetus called the second of that name tenth Emperour of y e Turkes by force of warre subdewed all Moldauia and brought it in subiection to his Empire Besides that he fought many gret and perilous battels at the whiche he was present in his owne person among his souldiers He raigned thirty and one yeares Selimus SElimus eleuenth Emperour of y e Turkes was marueilous cruel He poisoned his Father and by that meanes obteined the turkishe Empire in the yeare of our Lorde God a thousande fiue hundred and twelue Afterwarde when he had subdewed the great Sultan he sacked the most populons citye Alkairum and raigned but eight yeares at what tyme he was iustly punished for his crueltye Solymannus SOlymannus the sonne of Selimus and twelueth Emperour of the Turkes whiche reigned in our time but now is saide to be dead was for our sinnes and offences fortunate and victorious By him wer subdewed y e Grecian city Alba with Rhodes And after that he had vanquished kyng Ludouicus he adioyned also to his Empire Buda Strigonium Alba Regalis and many other cityes of Hungarye He also in the yeare of our Lorde a thousand fiuehundred twentye and nyne beseged Vienna wher from by helpe of the sone of God whom he hathe as his enemye he was driuen away In what maner the Turkes do vse to make vvarres AFter that the Turkes had vanquished the strenght powre of the Macedonians thei kept and imitated ther traininge vp of souldiers warrelike discipline and maner in gouerning althoughe in euery particuler point they agre not Wherfore ther harneis being coates of maile they ar accustomed to fight with spere shilde and swordes croked in the backe lyke our woode kniues and often times proue conquerours It is most certain that the Ianitzaries do nothing at all differ from the most picked souldiers of Macedonia by whose martiall prowes Alexander the great vanquished the inhabitantes of the Easterne partes and brought thē in subiection to his Empire They bring vp exercise and instructe them euen frō their infancye in fighting and the warres Not one amonge them doth knowe either his parentes or knisefolke They ar to saye the truth the children of christians rauished and taken awaye at sondrye robberies and spoiling conquestes whiche beyng brought into the orcharde of the turkishe Prince they practise and traine vp in warrelike feates and exercises wherby in time to come they may be haue and defend thē selues more māfully in the forefront of their battelles If any of them chaunce to dye or to bée slaine in the felde eyther at the assaute of any citie strong castell or other mightye places of defence incontinent they ordaine and substitute in ther places certaine of those so exactly exercised and instructed yong menne and by that meanes fil vp the member By reason wher of the bande of Ianitzaries whiche is is it were the fortresse and harte of all the powre and strength of the Turkes doth alwaies confinew vndeminished They haue not equal stipendes but euery one hath a pension according to his propre manlines and puisant dedes atchiued And this is the onelye cause why they proue so desperate prompt and ready to attempt all kynde of valiant actes and aduentures as of late yeares wée haue of them bene taught and certifyed not withe out oure greate grefe domage and discommodytie For euen sithens the time of Amurathes the second which first constituted the Ianitzaries and disposed them in this order we neuer reade that they loste the vniuersall and hole strenght of any generall armye but by experience haue rather knowen them to be the victours and conquerours The Turkes do mainteine kepe with suche iustice and seueritie the discipline of war the lawes and customes in battell that in this behalfe they maye seme farre to passe y e Gretiās Romains Ther neuer chaunceth amonge them eyther diuisions mutual slaughters seditions or treason For they ar fourthe with beheaded being but for a trifeling offence conuicted The turkish souldiers in many respectes do surmount the warriours of other nations First of all they readily obeye with out grudging or disdaine their Prince Captaines which is not obserued among vs. Secōdly al thoughe they be enforced with moste vrgent necessitie yet they neuer take flight but rather assaile and fight more desperatly For they fully beleue that by celestiall prouidēce it is determined at what time and after what sorte euerye mane shall ende his lyfe and dye and therfore they thinke that no misfortune may chaunce vnto them before the prefixed houre Finally in as muche as they ar endurable most patiēt a lōg space of time they can susteine thē selues with out bred or wine with only water and rice ❀ The Officers perteinning to the greate Turkes Courte and vvarres vvith the disposition of the same and diuersities of his souldiers Visier Bassae VIsier Bassae are Councellours to the turkishe Emperour For with these he accustometh to deliberate consulte of all his busines and affaires They ar in number foure and are chosen by the Emperour him selfe of the multitude of those whiche haue forsaken Christ and of Christians ar bée come Turkes yea ther haue bene founde to proue of them more worse then the Turkes thē selues Their authorytye and powre is of great estimation and they are of marueilous riches and substance Lesker Kadie LEsker Kadie are y e chefe Judges whiche determine discide be they neuer so many all contentions and controuersies of warre The one hath his seat in in Romania the other in Natolia Theire office is to declare the lawe