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A18071	The preachers trauels Wherein is set downe a true iournall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia. Containing a full suruew of the knigdom [sic] of Persia: and in what termes the Persian stands with the Great Turke at this day: also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there: and the estate that his brother, M. Robert Sherley liued in after his departure for Christendome. With the description of a port in the Persian gulf, commodious for our East Indian merchants; and a briefe rehearsall of some grosse absudities [sic] in the Turkish Alcoran. Penned by I.C. sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Cartwright, John, of Magdalen College, Oxford.	1611 (1611)	STC 4705; ESTC S107677	77,355	114

horses mules and cammels in another place carpets garments and felts of all sorts and in another all kind of fruits as Muske-mellons Anguries Pomegranates Pistaches Adams apples Dates Grapes and Raisons dried in the Sun In this place do sit daily twelue Sheraffes that is men to buy sell Pearle Diamonds and other pretious stones and to exchange gold siluer to turne Spanish dollers to great aduantage into Persian coyne and to change the great peeces of the Persian coyne as Abbasses Larines and such like into certain brasse monies for the poore They wil also lend vpon any pawne that with as great interest as our diuellish Brokers and Scriueners take in London Finally the strength of this Citie consisteth not in walles and bulwarkes but in the souldiers that are continually maintained in and about this Citie for out of Casbin and the villages belonging vnto the same are maintained twentie thousand souldiers on horsebacke howsoeuer in this kings fathers time were leuied but twelue thousand Two places neere to this Citie are very remarkable the one is the Citie Ardouil the other Giland Ardouil is a Citie foure daies iourney from Casbin and two from Soltania A Citie of great importance where Alexander the great did keepe his Court when he inuaded Persia. It is a towne much esteemed and regarded by reason of the sepulchers of the kings of Persia which for the most part lie there intombed and so is growne a place of their superstitious deuotion as also because it was the first place which receiued the Persian sect wherein Gi●●● the first Authour thereof did reside and raigne A sect or superstition very commodious to the Christian Commonwealth because it hath bred great contentions and warre among the Mahumetane nations which before were so vnited together by Mahomets deuice that they seemed to be more then friends and in league one with another The Author of this nouelty was as we said before one Giuni a man well descended among the Persians who contemning al worldly honour r●ches pleasure as meere vanities trifles led such an austere kind of life with such cōtinency contempt of the world as that the vulgar people began to haue the man in singular admiration for the opinion they had conceiu●d of his vpright life rare vertues The fame of thi● new Prophet as so he was accounted was growne so great in the Persian kingdome that the people without number resorted out of all parts of Persia vnto the Citie Ardouil to see the man And he the more to seduce the people being by nature inconstant and superstitious began to perswade them that the three first successours of Mahomet were vniust and vnlawfull vsurpers of that dignitie and that iust Aly Mahomets sonne in law onely ought to be named the lawfull successour that he alone ought to be called vpon in their prayers for helpe and that all honours should be giuen to him and taken from Abubacher Omar and Ottaman as from persons that were vndoubtedly damned Finally he taught them onely to receiue the writings of Aly as of others most authenticall to reiect Abuchacher Omar and Ottaman with their writings as most wicked accu●sed whō the Turks had euer and yet do honour worship as the true successors of their Prophet Mahomet and his sincere interpreters together with the aforesaid Aly whom the Persians do only acknowledge and therefore in their prayers doe commonly say Cursed be Abubachar Omar and Ottaman and God be fauorable to Aly and well pleased with him Which their difference about the true successor of their Prophet in whom was no ●ruth hath bene and yet is one of the greatest causes of the mortall warres betweene the Turkes and the Persians and not the diuers interpretation of their law as many haue written which among the Tu●ks and Persians is all one This superstition was first broached as we said by Giuni afterwards maintained by Sederdin after him by Giuni the second then by Haider Erdebil afterwards by Hysmael the great Sophy it increased wonderfully that Persia seemed to enuie the glory of Cyrus and Darius After the death of Hysmael it was maintained by King Tamas his sonne who raigned with lesse felicitie being much damnified by Solyman the Turkish Emperour After Tamas succeeded Aidere the second who raigned but certaine daies and houres and then followed Hismael the brother of Aidere who troubled all the Cities of his kingdome with manifold hurly-burlies after him Mahomet surnamed Codibanda this kings father more vnfortunate then all the rest and lastly the king that now is who by his valour hath so largely dilated the confines of his kingdome that it seemeth he hath as it were founded it anew The description of HIRCANIA THe other place neere to Casbin remarkable is the countrey of Gilan in the Prouince of Hircania very famous in antique time Sundry names are giuen vnto it by the Barbarians some call it Girgia or Corca from a certaine Citie which stood in the same others Straua from a part of this kingdome others Messandra as Minado● Mercator calles it Diargument and in ancient time Hircania so much spoken of by the Poets for the huge woods and fierce Tygers that abound there Westward this kingdome bounds vpon Media Eastward on Margiana Southward on Parthia and the Coronian mountaines and Northward on the Caspian Sea The North part of this kingdome is ful of thick woods shadowi● g●ones wherein grow diuers sorts of trees but specially C●da●s Beeches and Oakes a fit harbour and shelter for Tygers Panthe●s and Pardies which wilde beasts make the passage in those places very dangerous but neere to the Sea side it is full of pasture and very delightfull by reason of the manifold sweete springs which issue out of the mountaine neere adioyning Many principall Cities are there in this countrey as Bestan Massandran Pangiazer Bachu and Gheilan Cities of such state and condition as deserue to haue a Gouernour of the same dignitie that the Bassa is with the Turkes Concerning Bachu it is a verie ancient hauen-towne very commodious for ships to harbour in as also profitable to vent commodities by reason that Ardouil Tauris Ere 's Sumachia and Derbent ly not many daies from thence Neere vnto this towne is a verie strange and wonderfull fountaine vnder ground out of which there springeth and issueth a maruellous quantitie of blacke Oyle which serueth all the parts of Persia to burne in their houses and they vsually carrie it all ouer the countrey vpon Kine and Asses whereof you shall oftentimes meete three or foure hundred in company Gheilan and the rest stand likewise altogether in traffick Gheilan being but foure easie daies trauell from Casbin and very neere vnto the Caspian Sea A Sea that is very commodious and profitable being in length two hundred leagues and in breadth an hundred and fiftie without any issue to other Sea to the East part of this Sea ioyneth

money powred moulten gold into his mouth after he was dead Against these great Lucullus fought many battels and the Romanes were neuer able to bring them quite into subiection vntill Augustus Caesar raigned I omit for breuitie sake to write anything of Arsaces the first king of Parthia whom the Persians loued so aliue that they honoured him being dead surnaming alwaies after him the kings of Parthia Arsaces with no lesse honor and glory then the Caesars of Rome the Pharhoes and Ptolomees of Egypt or of Herodes the ninth king of Parthia who so much preuailed against the Romans or of Phraherts their tenth and last king who vnnaturally killed his aged father and put thirtie of his brethren to death and that the Parthians might haue no man left to to be nominated king after him commaunded his owne sonne to be put to death likewise or lastly how Augustus Caesar by his clemency iustice drew this bloody tyrant to submit himselfe and his kingdom vnto the Roman Monarchy ending that without warre which others could not do with warres commaunding more with a word then Antonius who sought it with blowes or Crassus that sought it with his death But leauing these matters of antiquity we return where we left The description of Cassan. AFter two daies trauell from Com we arriued at Cassan a principall Citie in Parthia very famous and rich howsoeuer Ortelius and others make no mention of it This Citie is seated in a goodly plaine and because it hath no mountaines neere it but within a daies iourney the heate is verie fastidious as great almost as it is in Ormuz the spring and haruest is sooner in this climate then in any other p●●ts of the Persi●n dominions It wanteth neither fountaines springs nor gardens but aboundeth with all necessaries what●oeuer consisting altogether in merchandize and the best trade of all the land is there being greatly frequented with all sorts of merchants especially out of India The people are very industrious and curious in all sciences but specially in weauing girdles and ●hashes in making Veluets Sattans Damasks very good Ozmuzenes and Persian carpets of a wonderfull finenesse in a word it is the very Magazeen and warehouse of all the Persian Cities for these stuffes Here may you buy all manner of drugs and spices and Turkasses with store of Pearle D●amonds and Rubies as also all so●ts of silkes as well wrought as raw I am perswaded that in one yeare there is more silke brought into Cassan then is of broad cloath brought into the Citie of London This Citie is much to be commended for the ciuill and good gouernment which is there vsed An idle person is not permitted to liue among them the child that is but sixe yeare old is set to l●bour no ill ●ule disorder or riot is there suffered F●r they haue a law among them resembling the Egyptian law which Diodorus mentioneth wherby euery person is compelled to giue his name to the Magistrates therewith declaring what kinde of life he liketh how he liueth and what art he exerciseth And if any doe tell vntruly is either well beaten on the feete or imploied in publike slau●ry The greatest annoyance that this Citie is infes●ed withall is the aboundance multitude of black Scorpions of an exceeding greatnesse which many times doe much harme if a speciall care be not had of them At this Citie Master Iohn Mildenall and my selfe parted company he trauelling to Labor in the E●st Indies and my selfe setting forwards to the great Citie of Hispaan three daies trauell distant from Cassan. The description of Hispaan THis Citie as some affirme was built by Arsaces the first King of Parthia being then called Dara But whether so or no is not much m●teriall Sure it is that in times past it was called Ecatompolis the Citie of a hundred gates and well it may keepe that name still since the huge walles of the same containe in circuit an easie daies iourney on horse backe and is become the greatest Citie in all the Persian dominions which is so much the more magnified and made populous by reason of the kings re●iance therein For there is the supreme place of iustice all matters of importance haue recourse to this place all Ambassadours of Princes and Agents of Cities make their repaire thither and such as aspire and thirst after offices and preferments runne thither amaine with emulation and disdaine at others and in a word thither are brought the reuenewes that appertaine to the crowne and there are they disposed out againe By all which meanes this Citie hath wonderfully increased and appopulated it selfe within these fiue and twentie yeares Very strong is this Citie by situation compassed about with a very great wall and watered with deepe channels of running springs conueighed into it from a part of the Coronian mountaines which are as a wal inaccessible about it On the North side is erected a strong Fort or Castle being compassed about with a wall of a thousand and seauen hundred yards and in the midst thereof is built a tower or rather a strong keepe sundrie chambers and lodgings therein but stored with little Ordonance On the West side of this Citie standeth two Seraglios the one for the King the other for his women Pallaces of great state and magnificence farre exceeding all other proud buildings of this Citie the walles glister with red marble and pargeting of diuers colous yea all the Pallace is paued with checher and tesseled worke and on the same is spread carpets wrought with silke and Gold the windowes ●f Alablaster white marble and much other spotted marble the postes and wickets of massie Iuory checkred with glistering blacke ●bony so curiously wrought in winding knots as may easier stay t●en satisfie the eyes of the wondring beholder Neere vnto this Pallace is a garden very spacious and large all flourishi●g a●d b●a●ti●ull replenished with a thousand sundry kinds of grafts ●rees and sweete smelling plants among whi●h the ●illy the Hyacinth the Gillyflower the Rose the Violet the flower-gentle and a thousand other odoriferous flowers doe ye●ld a most pleasant and delightfull sig●t to all beholders There are a thousand fountaines and a thousand brookes among them all as the father of them all a prettie riuer which with his mild course and delight●ome noise doth deuide the garden from the Kings Pallace neither is this garden so straitly lookt vnto but that both the kings souldiers and Citizens may and doe at their pleasures oftentimes on horse backe repaire thither to recreate themselues in the shadowes and walkes of those greenes And as a gard for the gate of this sumptuous Pallace the king keepeth certaine orders of souldiers wherof the most noble and the greatest in number are called Churchi which are as it were the kings Pensioners being eight thousand in number all of them deuided vnder seuerall Captaines which Captaines doe yeeld obedience to the generall Captaine called Churchi-Bassa

Valachia do groane vnder the yoke of Trukish tyranny what should I write of Hungaria that royall kingdome since in the raigne of one Turkish Emperour I meane Solyman the magnificent the number of those which were slaine and caried ●nto miserable captiuity were welnigh two hundred thousand Hungariās So spoiled harried in this kingdom by the Turks that it may welbreed an astonishmēt not only to the neighbor countries adioyning but to others further remote So that to wind vp all in a word there i● now to be seene in these Christiā countries which the great Turke possesseth nothing but triumphs ouer Christ skorners of his religion insolencies and violences against the professors extortions and oppressions vpon their goods rapines and murderings vpon the very soules of their children a case to be wailed with teares of bloud by all Christiā harts that know it hearing the onely anchor stay of th●ir soules our blessed Sauiour daily derided blasphemed by the pride of the Turks Indeed it were a small thing if the Turks extorsiōs were only on their goods labors or if the bodies and liues of those poore Christians were onely wasted and worne out in his workes and slaueries it might be suffered for goods are transitory and death the end of all wordly miseries But to be forced as those poore countries are to pay a tribute also of soules to wicked Mahomet to haue their dearest children both sonnes and daughters snatcht out of their parents bosomes to be brought vp in his impious abhominations to be imploied after they are so brought vp in murdering their fathers and mothers that begat them and in rooting out that faith wherein they were borne and baptized and which onely were able to bring their soules into happinesse This surely is a calamity insupportable and which crieth out vnto God in the heauens for reliefe I will say no more touching this matter but euen wish with the humble petition of a minde pierced with griefe to the iust Iudge of the world Redeemer of mankind and Sauiour of his people to cast downe his pitifull eyes vpon those nations to behold on the one side his triumphing fierce enemies persecuting without measure on the other his poore seruants troden downe and persecuted without helpe hope or comfort to dissolue the pride and power of the one to comfort the astonished and wasting weakenesse of the other with some hope of succour and finall deliuery To inspire the hearts of Christian Princes their neighbours compounding or laying side their endlesse and fruitlesse contentions to reuenge their quarrell against their vniust oppressors For certainly if meane Princes haue incombred the course of the great Turks conquest what would not the vnited Christian forces doe if we might but once see the glorious beames of that bright shining day appeare Which vnion the Persian king hath often and instantly sought of the Christian Princes and that within these few yeares For first as we said before he sent Sir Anthony Sherley a man very wise and valiant if hee had not beene too prodigall After him in the yeare of grace 1605. hee sent three other seuerall Ambassadors one after another viz. Zincl Chan Beg Methi Cult Beg and Ius Bassi Hassan Beg. The two first came directly to the Emperour at Prage and the other was sent vnto the French King whose Embassie was for the common good also though it wanted the wished successe And to shew the great desire that the Persian still hath to haue the pride of the great Turke abated he hath since imployed Master Robert Sherley as his Ambassadour to the same purpose Neuer did Christendome misse times of more aduantage to haue preuailed much against the Turke not onely to haue holden their owne which they doe not in Hungary but to haue recouered some good part of their losses before receiued also And indeed true it is that the time then well serued for both by reason that the great Turke was and is still troubled with warres both against his owne rebels and the Persian King in Asia most part of his forces being turned that way But what auaileth opportunitie without vnitie For howsoeuer the Persian king did instantly request of the Emperour to ioyne with him in all fr●endship and brotherly loue and to continue his warres against the great T●rke their common enemy and also promised that for his part he would neuer lay down armes vntill that enemy were brought to nought and destroyed so that the Christian Princes would on the other side likewise impugne him and though the Emperour for his part did promise to continue his warres and to raise greater forces and also by letters to exhort and incite the greatest Christian Princes Potentates to extend also their power against the common enemy yet could hee not eff●ct it neither performe any part of his promise to the Persian King For the next yeare following seeing the Hungarians reuolted from him and taking part with the Turkes and the Turks with them and finding himselfe not able with his owne power to hold the field against them much lesse to maintaine a defensiue warre and his friends allies his wonted and greatest staies then at his greatest need to faile him was glad to leaue the Persian in the field to his owne strength and to conclude a reasonable peace with Achmet the great Turke that now raigneth being no way able without the great aide of other Christian Princes to withstand the huge and dreadful power of th● Othoman Emperour VVhich be it spoken without ominous presage is to be feared wil too truly appeare and manifest it selfe whensoeuer the wars of the great Turke and his troubles in the East with the Persian be ended he shall thē again turne his victorious insulting forces this way towards the West I conclude then that those distressed parts of Christendome which are subject to the Turkish fury cannot but be much beholding both to Sir Anthony Shirley as also his brother M. Robert Shirley for this twenty years peace which is concluded betweene the Emperour the great Turke They being I dare be bold to say vnder God the onely meanes that stirred vp the Persian king to take vp armes against the great Turke and to draw by degrees the whole warre vpon his owne necke therby to free and giue a time of breathing to the champions of Iesus Christ to refresh themselues and increase their forces A peace not only well pleasing to the Emperour but to the Turke also who no sooner heard from the the Bassa of Buda that it was concluded but forth with conceiued so great●oy that with a number of Ianiz●ries and others he went from his Pallace in Constantinople in great magnificence to the Church to giue thanks therfore vnto his Prophet Mahomet spending the next day in great sport pleasure purposing from thenceforth to turne all his force power for the subduing of the Persian king

But to leaue these two great Monarches the onely enemies to the name of Christ in field each against the other I come now to my returne from those parts The returne of the Author by the way of Persia Susiana Chaldaea Assiria and Arabia HAuing tooke my leaue of Master Robert Sherley and the rest of my country-men I left them to the mercy of the king whose bountie and goodnesse by their returne hath plentifully shewed it selfe and betooke my selfe to the protection of the Almightie to bring me in saftie againe into my owne countrey being in my returne accompanied with one Signior Belchior Dios d' Croce an Armenian Portugall or Portugall Armenian and one Christophero a Greeke who were sent with letters from the gouernour of Goa to the king of Spaine but lost afterwards their liues and letters by shipwracke in the Venetian Golfe From Hispaan we spent ten daies trauell to Siras by perswasion of some Persian merchants that were bound for Aleppo with vs trauelling through the very heart of Persia it selfe paying now and then a Sha●ghee a peece to certaine villages in the way no matter of importance worth the relating till we come to the Citie it selfe The description of Persia. THis country in which Siras standeth is now called the Kingdome of Farsi but in ancient time the Kingdome of Persia a kingdome of it selfe very large and pacious confining Northwards on Media Parthia Eastward on the great desart of Caramania Westward on Susiana which Strabo maketh a part of Persia and lieth betweene Babylon and Persia as shall be declared hereafter and Southward on Ormuz and the Persian golfe containing also the great kingdome of Lar whence the best Bezar stones are brought Very famous is this countrey for that it was the first place where Elam the eldest sonne of Sem dw●lt whereby the people of this nation were a long time called Elamits as appeareth by the prophecy of Daniel who nameth it Elam as also because it was the seate of those fiue great Persian kings mentioned in the Scriptures viz. Darius Medus Cyrus Ah●shuerosh Darius Longimanus aliàs Artaxerxes and Artaxerxes the third which was that Darius whom Alexander the great ouercame For Darius Medus his acts and deeds were of so small esteeme and regard that they are not worth the writing But concerning Cyrus his sonne in law many excellent things are spoken of him for no king conquered so many kingdomes as he did Besides he was in grace and fauour with God for by Daniels instructions he was brought to confesse and acknowledge the God of Israel Of him did Esay prophesie an hundred yeares before his birth and his diligence was so great in ayding the Iewes af●er their captiuity vnto Ierusalem that he suffered them quietly to returne with wealth and treasure and commaunded all his Princes of Syria and subiects to fauour and to helpe them publishing a decree for the building vp of their temple vnto God Notwithstanding this happy and fortunate Prince was slaine by Tomyris Queene of the Massogets in Scythia who not contenting her selfe with the death of her enemy commaunded also his head to be smitten oft and throwne into a bole of mans bloud with this exprobration of his crueltie in killing her sonne Tu quidem meum vluentis in pugna victricis filium perdidisti dolo captum at ego te cruore satura●n Goe now and glut thy selfe with the bloud of men which in thy life time wouldest neuer be satisfied with bloud Next vnto him raigned Ahashuerosh whom our writers call Xerxes the Chaldeans Artaxerxes the first husband to Queene Hester whose dominion did extend it selfe from India vnto Ethiopia ouer an hundred and seauen and twenty Prouinces The goodnesse of this king was fully proued at what time the Church was miserably afflicted by proud Haman and hindered by cruell Cambyses against the decree of Cyrus for he gaue full liberty and licence vnto the Iewes to build the Temple at Ierusalem Neuerthelesse towards his latter daies he was very vnfortunate in his warres being twise ouercome both at sea and land by which vnfortunate successe he that earst while was termed the Terrour of all Nations became in so generall contempt of all his subiectes that both himselfe and his sonnes were slaine by Artabanus the traitour Next vnto him succeeded Darius Longimanus This Prince was no way behind his predecessours in pietie and deuotion towards God for he would not by any meanes change their institutions concerning religious worship but with great beneficence fauoured the Iewes For in the second yeare of his raigne the Temple at Ierusalem was finished and in the seauenth yeare Esdra● with a number in his company returned The last King was Artaxerxes the third whom they called by the name of Darius a Prince of great industrie and noblenesse of spirit yet at last was vanquished by Alexander the great and slaine by one of his owne kinsmen ending his life together with the Persian Empyre So that now by the computation of the raigne of these kings which was one hundred fortie and seauen yeares we may easily confute that malicious tergiuersation and erroneous exposition of the Iewes of the prophecy of Daniel touching the threescore and nine weekes to the comming of the Messiah The Iewes affirme that the same prophecie doth not belong to our Sauiour Christ but that it ended the day wherein the Temple was ouerthrowne by Titus and doe interprete Christ whom Daniel prophecied should be slaine after threescore and nine weekes to be Agrippa the last of the Herodians surmising peeuishly that the Messiah liueth in the wor●d inuisibly colouring their grosse errours therein by the false and lying Histories of some Greeks and ●atines who attribute two hundred yeares and aboue to the Empire of the Persian kings whereby some haue beene driuen to recken the beginning of those weekes after the time of Cyrus that they may end at the death of our Sauiour Christ. Which false Histories to make vp those yeares name more Persian kings then euer were as Cambyses to succeed his father Cyrus wheras he was but left by his father King in Persia in his expedition into Scythia according to the Persian custome mentioned by Herodotus which was that if the king went out of the countrey with an armie hee must appoint another king to abide in the countrey during his absence And so were Cambises and Darius Histaspis kings of Persia. And whereas some Persian kings had two or three names as Darius Xerxes and Artaxerxes they make so many kings whereas the Scriptures set downe but the fiue before named who raigned as we said but one hundred fortie and seauen yeares Whereupon it falleth out that whether you beginne to account the threescore and nine weekes from the first yeare of Cyrus who then determined the Iewes reduction and as the captiuitie grew at three times so the returne from the