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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10859	Nevves from Aleppo A letter written to T.V. B. of D. vicar of Cockfield in Southsex· By Charles Robson Master of Artes, fellow of Qu: Col: in Oxford, and preacher to the Company of our English Merchants at Aleppo. Containing many remarkeable occurrences obserued by him in his iourney thither.	Robson, Charles, 1598-1638.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21130; ESTC S116103	8,910	22

the Christians care now vsefull to those that are most vnworthy of it the Turkes The fountaine heads are seuen miles from Aleppo where many fountaines vent thēselues by subterranean passages into 3. little lakes whence the waters being drained into a narrow stone chanell of one yard broad three deepe Hast to Aleppo And being before they come thither receiued into wodden pipes are conueied into the curious cesternes which are in the Courts of their Mos'kehs or Churches whēce either it is fetched for priuate vses or forct to wash the stinking feet of the profane Turke before they enter vnto their bawling deuotion One strange thing more there is The rubbish and filth of the City throwen out about the wals in very few yeeres hardeneth it selfe into a rocke The historicall occurances that haue happened in Turky since my comming thither are these Tripolie December last was sackt by the Emy of Sidon The Bashaw of Aleppo went to quell him of the two that had giuen the first occasion of these ciuill broyles and returned with a purchase of twentie thousand dollars from the Emy of Tripolie first for offering the Emy of Sidon some prouocation secondly for suffering this towne to bee sacked hauing fewer souldiers in pay there then the King allowed pay for At the sacking of this City many ancient Christian maniscripts were found and there burnt for no other cause but because they begune in the Arabicke tongue with In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti The French then residing at Sidon could not redeeme them though they did much endeauour it at any price There is no Article of Faith so harsh to Iewe and Turkes as this of the blessed Trinitie The grand Vizier that had beene almost a whole yeere on his way with the Army against Persia wintering at Ameet anciently Amida died December last and the Bashaw of Ameet succeeded him in the place of grande Vizier The then Bashaw of Aleppo was made Bashaw of Ameet and the Bashaw of Damascus the Bashaw of Aleppo When the King appointeth any Bashaw he sheweth him a sword and a vest the one instructing vs for warre the other for peace after this very shortly wee heard of the great Tefterdames or Lord Treasurers death The souldiers from all parts resort to the Vizier to goe against Persia but this yeere there can be nothing done God encrease the mutuall enmitie of these his obstinate enemies make these Mahumetans his instruments to bee their owne mutuall executioners We heare at this present that the Georgians haue put fifteene hundred Persians to the sword vpon this occasion the Persians according to their customes exacted woemen and children from the Georgians the chiefe of the Georgians consulted together and thinking it a fit opportunitie to breake off this cruell slauery vsed this pollicy they said that their people begun to be tumultuous they could not well know what to doe but if they would send some of their owne souldiers into some of the Georgians townes or neare them to terrifie the people then they might perswade thē to it The Persians litle suspecting their fraude sent as many neare euery great towne as they thought conuenient to strike them in a feare but the Georgians hauing resolued before what to doe vnawares issued out vpon the Persians and put them all to the sword and sent their heads to the great Vizier of the Turkes The newes is most certaine but the manner is differently related This day there came into Aleppo three Vnderheads of the followers of a rebell about Antiochia called Abasite against whom the Bashaw of Aleppo sent out an Army and had this victory but the rebell himselfe escaped with most of his segmen a kind of hireling souldiers like our cassacks in Europe We heare also from Constantinople that Smyrna hath beene sacked by another rebell in those parts called Gente●togli others say he onely came to Smyrna and taking away the chiefe Ianizaries and Spies did no hurt to the Citie These are all the newes of Turky we should be glad to heare some from England I haue not had so much as one Letter but from Master Fethplate who writeth businesse not newes since I came from England Remember my kindest salutes to your second selfe and when you write into the Countrey remember I pray you my duty to my parents my loue to your mother remember me in your prayers The Lord blesse vs all Allepo May 18. 1628. Your very louing friend CHAR ROBSON