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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66798	A description of the grand signour's seraglio or Turkish emperours court [edited] by John Greaves.	Bon, Ottaviano, 1552-1623.; Withers, Robert.; Greaves, John, 1602-1652.	1653 (1653)	Wing W3214; ESTC R28395	85,011	200

some measure let them be partakers of their good fortune besides their currant pay out of the Kings Treasury of * fifteen or twenty aspars a day for the middle sort and four or five for the bafer sort the which is paid at every three moneths end without any deferring or contradiction in this manner also are the Sultana's paid viz. quarterly having for their shares from * a thousand to a thousand five hundred aspers a piece daily besides as much clothing as they will and jewels in great abundance given to them with the Kings own hands The souldiers likewise and all such of what quality soever they be as are to receive pay from the Grand Signor are paid quarterly and they call the first quarters pay Masar the second Rejedg the third Reshen and the fourth and last Lezez The women servants have besides their pay two gowns of cloth a piece yearly and a piece of fine linnen for smocks of twenty * Pikes long and a piece more fine for handkerchiefs of ten Pikes and at the * Byram one silk gown a piece and somewhat else according to the liberality of the Grand Signor who at that time above the rest hath commonly a bountiful hand toward the women giving to the Sultana's gowns with very rich furs ear-rings brooches bodkins bracelets for their arms and legs and such like set with stones of great worth of all which the King hath continually great store by reason of the unspeakable number of presents which are given unto him The Sultana's are likewise presented at such times by the Bashawes and by the Bashaws wives that by their means they may continue in grace and favour with the Grand Signor with most stately and rich gifts and with money also which indeed is more acceptable to them then any other kinde of present whatsoever For they being very covetous do hoord up and spend but sparingly abandoning all manner of prodigality in what may concern their own private purses but warily and wittily provide against disasterous times which may come upon them unawares and especially against the Kings death for then excepting the Sultana Queen who remaineth still in the Seraglio as being mother to the succeeding King all the other poor desolate Ladies loose the title of Sultana's and are immediately sent to the old Seraglio leaving behinde them their sons and daughters if they have any living in the Kings Seraglio there to be kept and brought up under the government and care of other women appointed for that service And in this case finding themselves to be wealthy they may marry with men of reasonable good quality according to the measure of their portion or estate which they possesse and the good will and good report of the mistresse of the old Seraglio on their behalf is none of the least furtherances and helps in that businesse but the Grand Signors consent must be had thereto notwithstanding who will for the most part not only be made fully acquainted with the condition of their husbands but also will know what joynture they will be content to make them if in case they should put them away without their own consents or otherwise leave them widows Thus by reason of their being turned out of the Kings Seraglio it is often seen that though the daughter of the King be married to a Bashawe yet the mother of that daughter after the Kings decease must be content with a second husband of small account far unequal and much inferiour both in title wealth and reputation to her Son in Law The Sultan's have leave of the Grand Signor that certain Jew-women may at any time come into the Seraglio unto them who being extraordinary subtill and coming in under colour of teaching them some fine and curious needle-works or to shew them the art of making waters oils and painting for their faces having once made way with the better sort of the Eunuchs which keep the gate by often feeing them for their egresse and regresse do make themselves by their crafty insinuations so familiar and so welcome to the Kings women that in a manner they prevail with them in whatsoever they shall attempt for their own ends For these are they whom the Sultana's do imploy in their private occasions carrying out whatsoever they would have sold and bringing in unto them any thing that they have a desire to buy And hence it is that all such Jew-women as frequent the Seraglio do become very rich For what they bring in they buy it cheap and sell it dear to them but on the contrary when they have jewels or the like commodities to sell for the Sultana's which are to be conveyed out by stealth they receive a reasonable price for them of strangers and then tell the simple Ladies who know not their worth and are afraid to be discovered that they sold them peradventure for the half of that which they had for them And by this means there come things of great worth out of the Seraglio to be sold abroad at easie rates yet in the end the husbands of those Jew-women have but a bad market of it For being discovered to be rich and their wealth to be gotten by deceit they oftentimes loose both goods and life too the Bashawes and Defterdars altogether aiming at such as they are thinking by that means to restore to the Grand Signor that which hath from time to time been stollen from him and the rather for that they themselves under pretence of so good a work may easily get shares in the estates of such delinquents But notwithstanding they are generally known and accounted for fraudulent and false-hearted people yet there is scarly a man of authority or esteem among the Turks and especially the Defterdars but hath a Jew for his councellor and assistant in the managing of his affairs such a good opinion they have of their sufficiency and so ready are the Jews to entertain any manner of employment so that their wives are not so great and powerful with the Sultana's but they themselves are as intimate with the Bashawes and other great ones of that rank The women of the Seraglio are punished for their faults very severely and extreamly beaten by their overseers and if they prove disobedient incorrigible and insolent they are by the Kings order and expresse command turned out and sent into the old Seraglio as being utterly rejected and cast off and the best part of what they have is taken from them but if they shall be found culpable of witchcraft or any such like abomination then they are bound hand and foot and put into a sack and in the night cast into the sea So that by all means it behoveth them to be very careful and obedient and to contain themselves within the bounds of honesty chastity and good behaviour if they mean to prosper and come to a good end Now

Their departure * Chief Captain or master of the Janizaries * Admiral Captain Bashawe His place Aga of the Janizaries place * Captains of the Janizaries The Kings private and awful window Ambassadors Audience * These are horsemen but of a higher rank then Spahees the word signifieth set a part or different Ambassador entertained at the Divan A thousand crowns allowed for the entertainment Master of the ceremonies His admission to the presence His kissing the kings band * The true word is Terjuman which signifieth an interpreter His departure Vesting Recompence All Ambassadors but the Venetian at the Kings charge * Ten aspers make six pence One Lord the rest slaves * This word signifieth an expeller of princes but some will have it to come of Pawd and shooh which is an expeller of injury or injustice but amongst the Turks it is used for an Emperor and they give the same title to the Emperor of Germanie calling him Nem●…s Pawdishawh * This is a Persian word and signifieth a man of blood or one which causeth blood but used for King Two thousand within the kings gate 11 or 1200 〈◊〉 Virgins Virgins made Turks and how Kahiyah Cadun the mother of the maids Their manner of life Chambers Beds Baths ●…ewing and chests Schooling and mistresses Recreations The Kings coming to them His choice Preparatives Bed-chamber rites Reward Sultana Queen Her allowance Other Sultanas The Queen ●…hanged Nuptial rite●… The Queen●… joynture Guard of black Eunuchs * Kuzlar Agha signifieth master of the Virgins * Barges Canvas-way The Kings daughters sisters c. Portion chest Slaves and Eunuchs * Treasury * Store Bill of dowrie Privatenesse Visitings●… They are their husbands masters * A Dagger Divorce What becomes of the other women * That is 9. d. or 12. d. a day Manner of their pay * That is between 3. and 4. li. ster. a day Clothes and jewels The women servants allowance * A Pike is 〈◊〉 of a yard * Their great feast Byram-gifts Sultanas presents Frugality The daughter preferred before the mother Jewesse women Their arts Their falsedealing ●…ll successe Jews coun●…ellors to great men Punishment●… of the women by blowes By expulsion By death Prevention of lust * The word signifieth unexpert or untutored youths 6. or 700. Agiam oglans Agiam oglans are Renegados or children renouncing the Christian ●…aith How they are taken How used apparelled Election of the best Their circumc●…sion Schooling The rest how disposed * Milites emeriti the word is derived from Otooracks which signifieth to sit down Book and pension Agiam oglans of the Seraglio how used * Barges * Heads of the companies of Agiam oglans Oda Bashaws wages Government * These and the Oda Bashawes are of equall authority * Bustangee Bashawes steward Possibility of preferment * Barge Some Turks among them * True believers Their rooms Their Diet * Buttry Their sleeping * A word commmanding absence and retiring never u●…ed but for the King None may see the kings women The Janizaries are made of Agiam oglans in other Seminaries Other uses of them * This word signi●…ieth youths within and they are so called because they are reserved for the service of the Kings person Itchoglans Turks hardly admitted Noble captives Eun●…chs cruel Punishments Their number Discipline in religion and civility * Oda signifieth a chamber or room First school First lesson is silence Second reverence Third to w●…e and re●…d a●…d speak Turkish and say the 〈◊〉 prayers by heart Book or check-roll Second ●…hool ●…ourth lesson Rh●…rick Pe●…sian Arabian and Tartarian●… tongues Fifth bodily exercises Third school Sixth horsmanship and activity Seventh Trades Meanly clothed whilst they are in the three first schools Punishments Closenesse Bed-chambers Sewing in leather c. They take their cognomina from Trades Tryal of Religion Fourth School Preferments Punishments cease Neatnesse Gesture Wa●…ting Great Turks Table Exercises * A kinde of running at base on hors-back darting lances one at another Gifts Embassages ●…onferred * Moldavia Vassal Princes * Displaced or turned out of office Their going forth of the Seraglio to the chief offices * Cairo * Aleppo * Damascus * The word signifieth a familiar talker or discourser Musahib A politick course * Lord of Graecia or of Natolia Other office ●…rder in ●…ccession Presents from great persons whilst they stay Coming abroad and visitings Capee Aga visited The power of the Capee Aga * Jesters * Dumb men Discourse by signes A further use of them Mutes strangle men in the Seraglio Mutes can write White Eunuchs Four principal Eunuchs in the Seraglio The first and chiefest the Capee Aga or chamber-2 Treasurer of the house 3. Master of the wardrobe 4. The keeper of the house Capee Aghas priviledges His pension * About 3. livre. sterl. † They are called Sultanas beca●…se they are coyned at Constantinople where the Sultan lives they are worth about 7. s. 10. d. apieie Presents The Treasurer Treasure 240. thousand pounds ster. Outward treasury Houshold treasurers office Master of the wardrobe Busie imployment His pension * 50. s. sterl. at 20 aspars the shilling Keeper of the Seraglio His liberty * 40. s. sterl. Pension Differing priviledges 200 Eunuch in the Seraglio ●…heir gelding Their education in the four Odas Imployment Their advancement Fidelity Goods of the de●…eased * An officer which 〈◊〉 the es●…ates of the dead for the King The Bezisten a large four-square building where the best and richest ware●… are bought and sold No fear of pestilence Black Eunuchs Their education Kuzlar Aga Their pension Their names Negro girles Fromwhence they como Education Esteemed most for uglinesse * The Turks have no other word for a blabber lip then Areb dodack which ●…gnifieth a Moors lip Black Eunuchs priviledges Liberty limited Employment No white man may come amongst the women The Physicians visiting the sick women Strange nicenesse * P●…tion or drink or sirrup Physick mean Curing in the old Seraglio The Kings sons by the Queen Mothers 〈◊〉 Circumcision solemnity Hojah or school-master The Kings daughters * The word signifieth a Kings son in the Persian tongue An Eunuch his overseer Magnesia his residence His commission Victual●… and cooks * Cooks The Kings kitchin and meals His sitting at meat Not carved His bread No knife nor fork Two spoons Sirrups No salt nor antepast * A Tart. Bason and Ewer His diet * Little pies * It is an Arabian word and signifieth drink of these Sherbets there are very many sorts Drinking once No words at meals according to this saying Evel tazawm anden kelawm first victuals and then words Mutes and jesters ●…is favour Dishes and covers of gold Yellow Purcelane for the Ramazan or Lent The remainders of his meat * Gentlemen wa●…ters His sporting with his Buffons The Capee Agas d●…et * From one to another or from hand to hand Diet for the Oda youths Queen and Sultanas diet Queens service in copper The King with his women Snow mixed with