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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43757	The history of Isuf Bassa, captain general of the Ottoman army at the invasion of Candia	Higgons, Thomas, Sir, 1624-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1957; ESTC R34466	47,910	219

victorious and unresistible Army Otherwise expect me in the Spring with my Troops more numerous than the sands of the Sea in the bowels of thy Kingdom That shall succeed which is determined from eternity The destruction of Camels and beasts of burden had been so great in this march that there were scarce enough remaining to carry home the Baggage to Constantinople whither Amurat was now hastning to solace himself after his fatigues and to refresh his Souldiers The Sultana's and all the Ministers vied with one another who should get the richest Regalo's to present their Monarch which with those which were sent him by the Queen-Mother were in all computed at above a Million of Gold Upon the way his Majesty was seized with so violent a Head-ach that he could not stand whereupon his Physicians were sent for The next day he was taken with a trembling which at first was looked upon as the effect of a Fever but continuing they apprehended it might turn to a Palsie or Apoplexy With this he had so great a swelling in his legs that he could hardly sit on horse-back the state of his health being utterly destroyed by his excesses of Wine and Women The Sultana Favourite came before him into Constantinople with six Gallies and the Queen-Mother attended by all the Grandees went out to meet him and then he made his entry with a number of Coaches cover'd with cloth of Gold At the end of the Cavalcade Amurat himself appeared dressed in a Persian habit with two and twenty Slaves of the chief men of that Nation whom he had taken Prisoners at Babylon His treasure carried by ten Gallies was landed at the Seraglio and that which he brought home was calculated to be more than what he took out when he began his Journey Christian Princes grow rich by Peace but the Turk by War who repairs his expences out of the Avanies which he lays upon his rich Subjects and out of the Spoils of the Nations which he conquers Being now returned home the first thing he did was to shew that rage which he had so long hidden for the indignity which was done him in his absence in saving Ibrahim when he had commanded his death And therefore he gave orders that those Sultana's and all their women who had a hand in that action should be strangled leaving the unfortunate Ibrahim alive but till he had a Son born to inherit the Empire And now Amurat elated with his Victories seemed to be above Fortune and to despise all things even his own Law and his own Religion and to care neither for man nor God He put his Mufti to death which the most tyrannical of his Predecessors had never attempted laughed at all Devotion would not fast at the Ramasan but abandoning himself to all kind of dissolution one night he made so great a debauche that they were fain to carry him to bed though but a little before he had made a Vow being very sick that he would never drink Wine more and caused all the Cups and Glasses with which he had made his debauches to be broke though some of them were of Crystal of the Rock and others of Stones of great price But this last debauch put an end to all his extravagancies for being seized upon by an unintermitting Fever his Physicians were in that fear that they durst not direct any Remedies lest if they failed to give him Life they should procure their own Deaths But being pressed by the Queen-Mother and the great Ministers to do something they agreed to let him blood which had an ill effect for he died presently after in the flower of his age having lived thirty three years and reigned fifteen Amurat being dead the chief Visir with all the Grandees of the Court repaired to the Prison where Ibrahim was kept the onely surviving Prince of the Royal Family When they came to the door to salute him Emperour he suspected it an artifice of his Brother to take away his life and lifting his hands to Heaven prayed to God to preserve the King his Brother for the prosperity and glory of the Ottoman Empire But they all confirming to him with protestations the death of Amurat and the change of Ibrahims Fortune which translated him from the Grave to the Throne after some resistance he let them into his Chamber where they found him almost stifled with stench and putrefaction the Negro-woman who attended him being dead in the Room and no order taken to carry the Corpse away But still being jealous that the news which they brought him was not true he declared to the company that if it were so as they told him that God had taken to himself the Emperour his Brother he would not stir out of his Chamber till he had seen his body They seeing him resolute to comply with his pleasure fetched the Corpse of Amurat to the prison and lay'd it down before him At the sight of which Ibrahim had that horrour that he seemed to be affraid of the very carcass and not trusting to his eyes would feel with his hands if he were alive who had kept him so many years in a kind of perpetual death Nor yet satisfied with feeling the body cold and stiff he kneeled down and put his mouth to the mouth of the Corpse to try if he could perceive it breathe At last finding that great Monarch dead and unmovable who had held in motion so long a great part of the world he rose up and said these words becoming the Majesty of a free Prince There lies the greatest King and the greatest Tyrant that ever was And then walking out they cloathed him in purple and proclaimed him Emperour with loud acclamations of the Souldiers and the People And so he began his Reign auspiciously and had made his Subjects happy if he had continued as he began for he confirmed the Peace with the State of Venice entred into an allyance with France and had a fair Correspondency with all the great Potentates of Europe And to give the world an opinion of the clemency of his nature he commanded the Grand Visir that he should put no man to death but for just and urgent reason The Grand Visir thinking this mildness of Ibrahim to proceed from his simplicity began to govern as despotically as if he had been Emperour himself He removed from the Court all the great Ministers and Servants of Amurat upon pretence of giving them Governments and Charges and filled the Family of Ibrahim with his own Dependants Onely the Selectar Bassa he had not power to displace nor to employ any where else in regard of the nature of his Office which kept him always about the person of the Emperour Yet he prevailed so far with his arts and cunning that he at last got his head and so remained Arbiter of all affairs During these changes in the Court as Ibrahim one day was enjoying the pleasure of his Gardens which till then he