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death_n	daughter_n	king_n	wife_n	4,569	5	6.4342	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27515	The history of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol together with the most considerable passages for 5 years following in that empire : to which is added, a letter to the Lord Colbert, touching the extent to Indostan, the circulation of the gold and silver of the world, to discharge it self there, as also the riches, forces, and justice of the same and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia / by Mons. F. Bernier ... English'd out of French.; Histoire de la dernière révolution des Etats du Grand Mogol. English	Bernier, François, 1620-1688.; Oldenburg, Henry, 1615?-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2044; ESTC R16888	130,833	407

the Woods I have heard the Relation three or four other manner of ways even by those persons that were upon the place Some did assure that he had been found among the dead but was not well known And I have seen a Letter of the Chief of the Dutch Factory confirming this So that 't is difficult enough to know aright what is become of him And this it is which hath administred ground to those so frequent Allarms given us afterwards at Dehli For at one time it was rumored that he was arrived at Maslipatan to joyn with the Kings of Golkonda and Visapour another time it was related for certain that he had passed in sight of Suratte with two Ships bearing the Red Colours which the King of Pegu or the King of Siam had given him by and by that he was in Persia and had been seen in Chiras and soon after in Kandahar ready to enter into the Kingdom of Caboul it self Aureng-Zebe one day said smiling that Sultan Sujah was at last become an Agy or Pilgrim And at this very day there are abundance of petsons who maintain that he is in Persia returned from Constantinople whence he is said to have brought with him much Money But that which confirms more than enough that there is no ground for any of these reports is that Letter of the Hollanders and that an Eunuch of his with whom I travelled from Bengale to Maslipatan as also the Great Master of his Artillery whom I saw in the Service of the King of Golkonda have assured me that he is no more in being though they made difficulty to say any more concerning him as also that our French Merchants that lately came out of Persia and from Hispahan when I was yet at Dehli had in those parts heard no news at all of him besides that I have heard that a while after his Defeat his Sword and Poynard had been found So that 't is credible that if he was not killed upon the place he soon dyed afterwards and was the prey of some Robbers or Tygers or Elephants of which the Forrests of that Countrey are full However it be after this last Action his whole Family was put in Prison Wives and Children where they were treated rudely enough yet some time after they were set at more liberty and they received a milder entertainment And then the King called for the eldest Daughter whom he married Whilst this was doing some Servants of Sultan Banque joyned with divers of those Mahumetans which I have mentioned went to plot another Conspiracy like the first But the day appointed for it being come one of the Conspirators being half drunk began too soon to break out Concerning this also I have heard forty different relations so that 't is very hard to know the truth of it That which is undoubted is this that the King was at length so exasperated against this unfortunate Family of Sujah that he commanded it should be quite rooted out Neither did there remain any one of it that was not put to death save that Daughter which the King had made his Wife Sultan Banque and his Brothers had their Heads cut off with blunt Axes and the Women were mured up where they dyed of hunger and misery And thus endeth this War which the lust of Reigning had kindled among those four Brothers after it had lasted five or six years from 1655 or thereabout to 1660 or 1661 which left Aureng-Zebe in the peaceable possession of this puissant Empire The End of the FIRST TOME PARTICULAR EVENTS OR The most considerable Passages after the War of 5 years or thereabout IN THE EMPIRE OF THE GREAT MOGOL Together with a LETTER CONCERNING The Extent of INDOSTAN the Circulation of the Gold and Silver at last swallow'd up there the Riches Forces Justice and the Principal Cause of the Decay of the STATES of ASIA TOM II. London Printed by William Godbid and are to be Sold by Moses Pitt 1676. PARTICULAR EVENTS OR The most considerable Passages after the War for Five Years or thereabout in the Empire of the GREAT MOGOL THe War being ended the Tartars of Usbec entertained thoughts of sending Ambassadors to Aureng-Zebe They had seen him fight in their Countrey when he was yet a young Prince Chah-Jehan having sent him to command the Succours which the Kan of Samarkand had desired of him against the Kan of Balk They had experienced his Conduct and Valour on many occasions and they consider'd with themselves that he could not but remember the Affront they did him when he was just taking Balk the Capital Town of the Enemy For the two Kans agreed together and obliged him to retreat alledging that they apprehended he might render himself Master of their whole State just as Ekbar had formerly done of the Kingdom of Kachimere Besides they had certain intelligence of all he had done in Indostan of his Battels Fortune and Advantages whence they might sufficiently estimate that though Chah-Jehan was yet living yet Aureng-Zebe was Master and the only Person that was to be owned King of the Indies Whether then they feared his just resentments or whether it was that their inbred avarice and sordidness made them hope for some considerable Present the two Kans sent to him their Ambassadors to offer him their Service and to congratulate him upon the happy beginning of his Reign Aureng-Zebe saw very well that the War being at an end this offer was out of season and that it was nothing but fear or hope as we said that had brought them Yet for all this he received them honourably and since I was present at their Audience I can relate the particulars of it with certainty They made their reverence at a considerable distance from him after the Indian custom putting thrice their hands upon their heads and as often letting them down to the ground Then they approached so near that Aureng-Zebe himself might very well have taken their Letters immediately from their hands but yet it was an Omrah that took and open'd them and gave them to him He forthwith read them with a very grave countenance and afterwards commanded there should be given to each of them an embroider'd Vest a Turbant and a Girdle of Silk in Embroidery which is that which they call Ser-apah that is an Habit from head to foot After this their Presents were call'd for which consisted in some Boxes of choice Lapis Lazulus divers Camels with long hair several gallant Horses some Camel-loads of fresh Fruit as Apples Pears Raisins and Melons for 't is chiefly Usbec that furnishes these sorts of Fruit eaten at Dehli all the Winter long and in many loads of dry Fruit as Prunes of Bokara Aprecocks Raisins without any stones that appeared and two other sorts of Raisins black and white very large and very good Aureng-Zebe was not wanting to declare how much he was satisfied with the Generosity of the Kans and much commended the beauty and rarity of the