Moheia rather from fish a calumny had three sonnes Ally Hushan Achmet Ally sirnm'd Abenhassen had no issue his father and he were both buried in Sheraz An. Dom. 940 heg 320. Hussan by death of his elder brother was Lord of Parc Hery Hierac and Corasan Acmet had Kerman and Macron To Hussan succeeded a stranger Zedday-Mohee by name brought in by Mustapha the Babylonian Calyph to whom succeeded Eyna-duddaule that had no issue So Rocnadaul Hussans sonne got possession of his fathers seigniories and dyed Anno Domini 980. heg 360. dividing first his crowne lands amongst his three sonnes Sherfa-daule Shamsdaules and Bahao-daules The eldest had Shyraztan Larestan and Kerman the second Hierac and Diarbec the youngest had Gerioom and Taburstan Sherfadaule dyed issules Anno Dom. 990. heg 370. the second brother inherited but the envie of traitors gave him small joy for hee was buried not long after his Coronation whereby the seigniory came to Bahao-daules the youngest sonne of King Rocknadaule Bahaodaule governed twelve yeeres very succesfully and at 's death commanded his eldest son Sultandaule to succeed him this Prince was train'd up in field exercises from his cradle and by his valour much inlarged his Empire yet could not defend himselfe from Hocem Masharafdaule his restlesse brother till by agreement the Kingdome was divided to Sultandaule Farsistan and Aywaz to Hocen Hyerakeyn At that time Gelalâ—daul their brother was invested with the Caliph-ship of Bagdat Anno Domini 1021. heg 401. and Sultan-daul at last dyes and is Anno Domini 1025. buried in Shyraz with great solemnity Abdul-cawn his sonne ruled after him but perceives the Crowne to totter yea to fall off by the unnaturall practises of Syarfuddaul call'd also Abul-favar his traiterous Uncle forced thereby to fly to Gelaladaul his other Uncle the late made Kaliph who is glad of this occasion having long lookt with a squint eye of ambition upon his Nephews Diadem but dissembing it with a brave Army he descends from Bagdat and with ease dethrones Abul-favar but mounts himselfe into the throne to Abdul-cawns amazement who to save his life flies into Arabia whiles Mahomet Gaznehy from Hindostant falls upon Ayrac and Shervan but is repeld most shamefully into Sablestan Parc at that instant being miserably trod under-foot by the Turquemen and Deylamans ere long Abul-favor gets so highly into the Calyphs favour that hee is confirmed in his former title but in the way death cut off his claime leaving Abdul-cawn the banisht Prince his right who upon this faire advantage returnes and is joyfully welcomed but surfetting of too much joy hee lived not long after it for commending his body to the earth he gave the royalty to Aben-melec-Rahim his sonne who dyed Anno Domini 1054. heg 434. without issue and in whom after a race of fifteene Kings took end the Moheyan pedegree To him succeeded Abumansor who pretended himselfe true sonne of Gelaladaul the Caliph he took to wife Danta daughter of Toshalbeg and dyed after five yeeres greatnesse in Kermoen and lyes buried at Hurkawn not farre from Iasquis he had five sonnes by that Lady Abumansorphulad-sotun Chozroe-pheruz Abu-becr Abuzeddai and Aboally-kay-kozrao Abumansor inlarged Shyraz and did his best to make it strong and beautifull but whiles he busied his fancie at home he looks not abroad such time his ambitious brother Cosroe-pheruz gripes him and takes unjust possession of his Territories but revenge pursues him for being invited to Bagdat to see his sick grandsire Toshalbeg for his cruelty to his brother he is put into a loathsome prison where famine and stench made an end of him But this could not terrifie Abuzedday the fourth brother from intruding into Abumansors right albeit his injured brother had escaped and gathered a resolute Army who so stoutly stood his friends that Zedday is slaine and his associates banished It seemes Abumansor was borne to an iron destiny unable at his second returne to safegard himselfe from Fazele his Liefetenant that unawares detrudes him into a deadly prison adorning his rascall browes with his Masters Diadem Aboally will none of that he takes a happy advantage and pulls it from Fazel's brows and crownes him with one better becomming Traitors of flaming iron Aboally after hee had soveraniz'd seven yeeres is arrested by grim death Anno Domini 1100. heg 480. and for want of issue the Scepter falls to Mahummed Abutalip Togrulbeg sonne of Michael sonne of Salgucius sonne of Didacus a Turqueman In the Salgucian family it continued till Mahummed Abul-casen dyed Anno Domini 1220. heg 600. without any issue A race of Tattarrs followed led by Cingis-cawn Lord of Ketoa-kotan Maurenahar and Gaznehen Almostansor-bila-Mansor then sitting Caliph of Mecca and Bagdat To Cingis-cawn who dyed Anno Domini 1228. heg 608. followed Tuki-cawn and Chagatay-cawn from Chagatay-cawn descended Tamberlan whose issue now rule Hindustant After the Tartars the Turks a fresh planted here led by Chara-Mohummed An. Dom. 1415. Heg 795. a Karakula guspan or black sheepe as they call themselves banisht Anno Dom. 1470. Heg 850. by Acen-beg call'd also Vsan-cassan an Armenian Christian whose grandson Alvan was the last white sheepe or Acorlu-guspan shorne mortally by Izmael-Sophy his ambitious kinsman An. 1504. Heg 884. This Izmael was great Grandfather to Abbas now Persian King of the Ben-Ally or Sophian Genealogie Let us now what pace you please to Perse-polis not much out of the road but were it a thousand times further it merits our paines to view it being indeed the only bravo Antique-Monument not in Persia alone but through all the Orient PERSEPOLIS first call'd Elamis from Elam sonne of Sem sonne of Noah was built enlarg'd rather by Sosarmus a Median Dynast third from Arbaces that put a period by death of Sardanapalus to the Assyrian Monarchy begun by Belus Nymrod and Iupiter and in a glorious succession of one and forty Emperours commanding the world till Arbaces subjected Babylon By Cambyses sonne to Cyrus the magnificent it was most beautified and from him to Darius Codomanus continued Empresse of Asia two hundred thirty yeares in a line of thirteen Monarchs till Alexander by conquest of all Asia made prostrate also this glorious Citie betrayed by Teredates and demolisht by vehement perswasion of Thais an Athenian harlot who in revenge of Xerxe's expedition into Greece never gave over exasperating the giddy Macedonian till shee saw it flaming an act so unworthy Alexander as hee sought to quench it with his teares A Citie so excellent that Quintus Curtius and Diodorus Siculus intitle it the richest and most lovely Citie under the Sunne A high and stately Tower it had circled with a triple Wall sixteene cubits high the first adorn'd with battlements the second was two and thirty the third of threescore cubits high of delicate polisht Marble entred by many gates of burnisht brasse To the East rose amiably a hill of foure Akers in which in stately Mausoleums were intombed the Monarchs of the world Many rare
greatnesse Aben Babur Padshaw intituled prince of Maurenahar Balke and Samerchand but in the seventh yeare of his reigne is expeld his Kingdome by practise and conspiracie of Sha-Mahumed called also Sha beg chan who layd claime to the Crowne pretending hee was sonne and true heire of Aben-Mirza-hameth-cheque late Emperour being as hee said by craft stolne from his Nurse and conveighed amongst the Ouzbeag Tartars whence for some offence he had made hee fled with his lawlesse troopes enters Indya and attempts the conquest where after hee had tyrannized long time A.M. 5502. A.D. 1532. A. Heg 912. was in the yeare 1532 of the Mahometan account 912 sore against his will compell'd to trot the knotty path of inevitable destinie leaving no issue so that the Crown descended by right of Inheritance upon the eldest sonne of Aben Babur Homayon by name who suffered no small affliction by the malice and envie of Mirza Kameron his younger brother that confederated with Tzeerchan and by long practise forced him into Persia where he was royally entertained and after three moneths stay sent with great and royall succours back againe This also is remarkable the story of it is painted in Lohor palace that king Badur thirsting after the conquest of Indya disguises himselfe and thirty Noble men in his company in the habit of Kalenders or Friers as if they were upon a Rummery or pilgrimage The better by this craft to espie their advantage but being in Delly the greatest Citie of the Potan King could not so behave themselves but that Tzecander the King discovered them who pardoned them upon condition they would sweare never to attempt the conquest during either of their lives But when both were dead Homayon Baburs son entred dispossest Abram and Shec-Sha-Selym Secanders sonnes of the Diadem Howbeit Tzeerchan a brave Bengalan Prince fights against this new come Tartar foiles his Army neere Ganges forcing him into Persia where hee married the Kings sister and with her and Byram chan and two hundred horse and returnes is reseated in Delly and acknowledged King Homayon son of Babur great-grand-son of Termir-Lan or Tamberlain being re-invested with the Imperiall Title and Diadem of Indostan by meanes of Tamas the Persian King and returned triumphant by the overthrow of Tzeer-chawn the intruding King of Patan who anno dom 1550. and of the Hegira or Mahomitan account 960. died disconsolate Homayon I say after hee had committed his eldest son Abdul Fetta Gelaladin Mahomet a while after sirnamed Eckbar to the trust and care of Beyranghano chawn a discreet and valiant man being in Delly having one evening chawed too much sence confounding Opium hasting to his Orisons upon the watch-word from a high Tower suddenly he slipt downe forty steps or degrees which so bruised him that after three dayes torment he deceased leaving Achbar his son inheritor to his Greatnesse and miseries A.M. 5522. A.D. 1552. A. Hcy. 932 This hapned in the yeare of our Lord God 1552. from which time to this yeare out of our owne and Belgick fragments congested by de Laet I think it partly convenient with our other passages and observations of Indya to present these which to the observant may prove acceptable Ecbar having by help of Beyrangano-Kawn and Chawn-Channa his son dispeld some clouds caused by Abdal-Chawn was with solemnity crowned King or great Mogul in Delly after which hee bent his whole endeavours to enlarge his Territories and make knowne that he was verely the great grand son of victorious Teymerlan In the first taking full revenge of Hemow who had formerly chased Turdichan but three months after by mischance of warre comming under command of Badur chawn his head is cut off and eleuated in Delly and that Province for some time quieted then by Ally Cooclinchan he subdues Doab by some call'd Sanbal a Province surrounded by Ieminy and Ganges fruitfull and well peopled at that time Beyramgano-chan otherwise call'd Byramchan the Persian aging fast and tyred with the fopperies of this world having well discharged the trust repos'd by his old Master and finding Ecbar warie and valiant to regard the dignity of his Empire obtaines leave to spend the residue of his time at Mahomets Sepulcher in contemplation but in his Roomery in the way to Medina at Pathang in Cambaya is wounded to death by an obscure slave of his whose father he had formerly slaine so that by Abdal Radgee his son not fourteene yeares old and much sad company this great Captaine is brought back to Agray and there buried Ecbar laments his death though thought an Agent but nothing can recover him hee labours to forget it and spends some time in building the Castle at Agra formerly of mud but by him pull'd downe so altred that it scarce admits comparison through all Asia t is of durable stone polisht and so spatious that it comprehends three miles circular is built upon the pleasant banks of Shemeny circled with a strong stone wall moated and to be entred by many draw Bridges has foure brave gates many bulwarks and counterscarps to defend it Agray from Surat East seven hundred and seventy miles the Navel of Agraâ— the Moguls territories and Empresse of Indya has 28 degr 37 min. North latit is watered by Ieminy Iomanes in Pliny and Hynamanes in Poliaenus his 8 lib. Semiramidis which from Delly glides hither and commixing with Ganges flowes into the Bengalan Sea Agra was of old call'd Nagra and ere that Dionysia whence some say 't was founded by Bacchus but I beleeve it not partly in that Fettipore till of late no longer than fifty yeares agoe bore away the fame for beauty and grandeur and in that Bacchus sayes S. Augustine was contemporary with Moses in the yeare from Adam 2515 rather from the river Agranis which hence streams into Ganges as Arrian lib. de Indicis has it The shape is semilunary like London the streets long and narrow and nasty of seven miles continuance in part 't is wall'd about the ditch the remainder which too oft smels infectiously From Agra to Lahore through a delicate shade of trees are five hundred miles To Brampore one thousand to Asmeer two hundred to Surat seven hundred and seventy Radgee Rana the most potent and noble Prince of Indya at this time lost his strong and stately Castle Chyttor by treason of Zimet Padsha his substitute not content therewith till he had made many inroades into Gujurat in contempt of the Moguls forces Echar is glad of the occasion hasting with fifty thousand horse to be revenged Some months he spent in besieging it but so fruitlesly that he attempts the conquest by stratagem undermining the Fort and to the admiration and terrour of the besieged blowes it up with powder causing such a breach as himselfe and twenty thousand men immediatly entred pel-mel with such haste fury that Zimet the rebell perceiving treaty of no value gathering in one his Family consum'd himselfe and them in flames to
of which he had given moneys and command upon condition he would ratifie it and in no sort imagine them rebells or conspirators he was ready to obey if not he would take his owne courses Ecbar resends him a tart message and Selim to demonstate his neglect and boldnesse posts to Elabasse where he commands all sorts of Coine of gold silver and brasse to be stamp't with his owne name and motto yea to vexe the old man more affrights Anarkala his fathers wife whom he sirnamed Pomegranad and sent him of his new stampt mony a crime so strange so audaciously odious that the inraged Father curses him vowes reward and with speed acquaints his Chancellour Abdul Fazel with it who first moderates his Masters passion and then with all convenient haste accompanied with three hundred horse followes the post to do some service but Sha Shelim having intelligence how all this passed desirous to anticipate so sure an enemy he writes to Radgee Bersingh Lord of Soor thorow whose countrey hee needs must passe promising him a gratuity and the command of five thousand horse so hee would lay in wait for Abdul and send him his head the Radgee promises his best performance and with a thousand horse and three thousand foot lurks neere Gwaler and such time poore Abdul Fazel suspectlesse of any villany passes by Radgee falls upon him and notwithstanding the great advantage he had for three houres the fight was hotly continued but ore-pressing them with men and troops in the end his company were most part slaine and Abdul himselfe after twelve deep wounds taken and beheaded Selim receives it joyfully but Ecbar who loved him deerly becomes so passionate and sorrowfull that for three dayes he conceald himselfe and would not a long time after be comforted but like waves see another horror afflicting him newes of his other sonne Sha Danyel kild in the same Citty of the same disease Morad was formerly hereat he afflicts his decaying body immeasurably cryes and sighes and vowes upon Chanchanna revenge for not better regarding him who comes to purge himselfe but for some time is not admitted to Ecbars presence till by mediation of others and so returnes to Decan with an augmentation of power and dignity But the sorrow hee suffers in his rebellious sonne cooles his courage and inflames his passion some way he must tread to bring home or destroy him by perswasion or warre but feares both his sonne is so hardned and safegarded somewhat he must doe and therefore first as a King he rides against him with thirty thousand horse but by his mothers death is recalled whose body when he had most sumptuously interred in Delly in King Homayon her husbands Sepulcher he resolves to proceed against Sha Selym but his minde alters hee feares his sonne 's singular courage and way in fight and as a Father tries once more what perswasion can operate he dictates a pathetique letter mixt of love and anger reproving perswading diswading promising pardon and puts him in mind he was or should be at least his joy and comfort he had no mo sonnes nor grand children Myrad Zedda once the Princes Tutor or Schoolemaster carries it who so forceably penetrates the yeelding conceits and nature of Sha Selym that forthwith taking Perwees his little sonne along he leaves Halabassa passes Semena and after two dayes more the Wizard allowing the day fortunate with all his Umbraves he arrives in Agray and by Mortoza-Kawn is brought to Ecbars presence then in the Guzel-Chan who blushing to eye him so leads him into the Mahael or private lodging where forgetting his promise remembring the dances Selym had led him into such a rage that rapt him that The Prince submits after he had flasht terrour into his heart by the sparkling fury of his eyes and thunder struck him with a storme of mighty words with his fist he struck him so hard so oft upon the mouth that Selym throwing himselfe down requests his Father at once to punish him showes him his brest the sword and hand ready to it But Ecbar by this surfetting of choller intends no such sacrifice but commanding him to arise derides him and termes him Asse and Foole that commanding seventy thousand able men would so doltishly forsake them to trust the sugred and deceitfull promises of a reconciled Enemie That said he brings him forth againe and sends him back to prison giving all the Vmbraves his associates like welcome Radgee Batso excepted who wiser than the rest escaped By this imprisonment Sha Selym contrary to his custome abstaines foure twenty houres from Opium which next day Ecbar himselfe gave him and the third day by intercession of his Ladyes and Concubines is freed and sent to his owne home where he behav'd himselfe very orderly in princely sort each day visiting Ecbar till by some old mens malitious surmises he is restrain'd againe and the Mogull exasperated But the folly of his unnaturall and ill grounded rancour is not destinate against that object the jealousie of his braine throwing it upon Mirza Gashaw the Viceroy of Tutta's sonne for speaking one word by Ecbar ill taken and interpreted No recantation will satisfie his life must pay it the Kings Physitian is commanded to prepare two Pills of like shape but contrary operation Gashaw is trusted with them and brings them Ecbar The great Mogul poysons himself who imagining by a private mark hee knew the right one bids Gasha swallow one and himselfe the other Gasha ignorant of any deceit by chance devoures the best and Ecbar is poysoned too soone too late the miserable Mogul perceives his mischance repents his choller and for shame concealing the cause after foureteene dayes violent torment and trialls to expell the poyson yeelds up his ghost and having victoriously reigned five and twenty yeares in the 73 yeare of his age is by all his Umbraves with all possible state and solemnity in Tzekander three course from Agra in a new begun Monument buried and Sha Selym though a while resisted by Radgee Mansingh and Chan Asem who in vain endeavoured to make his sonne Cushroo Mogull Sha-Selym crowned great Mogull nominated by Ecbar as they alledged with such ceremony as was requisite is crowned by name of Iangheer King In the yeare of our Lord God 1604. and of Mahomet 984. We are now to present you upon the Asiatique stage various Scaenes compos'd of a miscelany of subjects excellent and remarkable A.D. 1604. A.H. 984. Iangheer so now we call him by mediation of Morteza Chan Cooly Mametchan and others receives Sultan Coshroe or Gushrow his late competitor and sonne into favour and to begin his greatnesse in the good will of his people receives Cham Asem and Radgee into grace againe But Cushrooe struck by his own guilt suspects his pardon counterfeit and entreats by letter Hussanbeg Viceroy of Cabul his old friend to meet him neere Fettypore with some Forces that by his love and care he might
3 and then Herodes slaine by Phraortes his cruell sonne At this time Crassus the rich and famous Roman was slaine and twenty thousand Romans at Carrhas by the Parthians a foule blemish to the Romans till soone after Ventidius Mark Anthonies Liefetenant purged it by a new victory in which Pacorus the Kings sonne was by that valiant Roman slaine and the Empire acknowledged Augustus Caesar over them who deposed the Paricide and made another Phraortes King in his roome At this time was ecchoed the golden song Pacem te poscimus omnes a time most fit to entertaine the Prince of Peace Christ Jesus our Saviour who as then became flesh and dwelt amongst the sonnes of sinfull men To Phraortes 2 succeeds these severall Dynasts of Pathia Orodes or Daridaeus Vonones Tereditates the last of the Arsacidae slaine treacherously by Artabanus to whom these Bardanis Goterys Vonones 2 Vologeses Artabnus 2 Pacorus Chozroes Phamaspates Vologeses 2 Velogeses 3 and lastly Artabanus vanquisht by Caracalla by Macrinus slaine Howbeit in him the hopes of Persia slept not but rather joyed at the farwell of that strange race Redacted by the Persian for upon that advantage the Empire seeming distracted 'twixt two severall affections one Artaxerxes Chobad before but to speed the better he assumes this pleasing name steps forth and with a Majestick grace modestly chides his Country-men for their sloth and faint-heartednesse and that now or never the occasion was offered of reviving their name and redacting the Persian Empire to her former freedome and lustre the people admire the man and by his name doubt not that bee was a true Persian so as with an uoanim assent they crowne his temples with the Dyadem and resolve under him to dye or to dispell that cloud of bondage which the Parthian had so long wrapt them in For three dayes the fight continued twixt those two neighbour the stake was freedome and Monarchie at length the Persian has the victory and Artabanus the Parthyan King by his death pat this late triumphant Empire into bondage After that he vanquisht the Roman Emperour Alexander Severus but in the 15 yeare of his reigne is himselfe by imparriall death vanquished An. Dom. 243 Sapores his sonne begun to reigne And here Teixera may be taxed who assures us that Artaxerxes late named or as they call him Ardkhyrbabba-cawn i.e. Father and Lord to men of warre reigned contemporarie with Caesar Augustus This same Sapores is by the Persians call'd Shaw-Pot by Teixera Scbabur by Schicard Xahur-Xabulketaph or Dbul Aktaf a Prince sufficiently couragious but basely cruell He over-ranne Syria Cilicia Mesopotamia Capadocia Armenia c. but returned with many curses for his crueltie and had next yeare beene retaliated by Gordianus the Roman had not this Emperour dyed by the hands of Philippus a rebell that slew him at Ctesiphon But which efflated Sapores above the rest was the rare overthrow he gave two yeares after to Licinius Vilerianus sirnamed Colobus Roman Emperor who after he had inhumanly triumphed ovet St. Lawrence thousands of other Christians whom he made Martyrs or witnesses in an open field Sapores vanquisht him betray'd some say by Macrinus his Liefetenant and to his dying day made that proud Roman his footstoole to mount upon verifying the old said Saw Superbos sequitur ultor a tergo Deus After he had tyrannised twenty yeeres hee dyed Anno Domini 273 and before the Hegira or Mussulmanish accompt 347. To Sapores followed Ormisda Cherman-sha say the Persians who at the end of thirteene months dyed and Vararanes for three yeeres till death prevented succeeded him to him Narses Tesdgird say the Persians who after sixteene yeeres rule died also and left to inherit his sonne Vararanes 2 cognominated Seganese by Persians calld Baharan who in the first quarter followed the common fate Narses a stranger succeeding him This Narses made bitteer warre with the Armenians and Mesopotamians at which Galerius stormed but his being the Roman Emperor could not dant Narses nor privilage him from being beaten yet in the second conflict is victor and Narses for griefe and shame burnes himselfe after he had eight yeers ruled Persia Misdates his sonne reighned seven yeere after his fathers death to whom followed Sapores an Anti-Christian for the Romans did not rage more furiously against the Christians in the lesser Asia than did this Tyrant in the great he was a posthumus and the crowne set upon his mothers belly even before his birth acknowledging him their soveraigne hee was the Romans inplacable enemy by no threats no bribes no reasons to be pacified he fired Nisibis not valuing that Bacchus was there borne and suckled after which in his owne Dominions he martyrd as Ecclesiastick writers report from the yeere 337 to 347 above thirty thousand Christian for in those dayes those eastern parts were most part Christians the names of many of those noble Martyrs you have in Sozimen he also affronted but with bad successe Constantius the Roman Emperour who dyed of griefe so soone as hee heard what cruelties Sapor had perpetrated upon the Citisens of Singara Bizabda Aminda Bombyca c. Mopsicrive a Towne under mount Taurus in huming him No better luck had that malicious Apostat Iulian who when he had done his worst against the Christians endeavored the subversion of Persia but most strangly he is peirced with a Persian dart in the night and expires with a tandem vicisti Galileë and in his place Iovanian with the joyfull cry of all his Camp Omnes sumus Christiani was saluted Emperour of the Romans He could do but little good against the Persians and therefore returnes towards Constaninople but in the way is arrested by grim death after hee had beene but eight months Emperor Sapores about that time also sighed out his affrighted ghost at the age and reigne of seventy one Anno Mundi 4350 Anno Domini 380. and Artaxerxes his brother ruled after him who dyed in the 11 yeare of his reigne Sapores followed him after five Varanes sirnamed Cermizat him after 10 yeares and to him succeeded Yezdgyrd a constant friend unto the Romans and as Socrates Scolast reports a Christian converted by Maruthas Bishop of Mesopotamia sent into Persia to that end by Pope Innocent and Theodosius the Emperor The Persian Stories say he apostatized who can tell the truth of it this is certaine that in the 20 yeare of his reigne Anno Dom. 426 hee dyed and that Varanes 4 or Baharan inherited his royalties By all Writers this Prince is taxed for his perfidie lust and crueltie especially against the Christians In their defence Theodorus junior sends Artaburus with a gallant Annie Vararanaes diffiding in his owne requests ayd from Alamandurus a Saracen whose Armies when they met were so many that they covered the earth for many miles with their innumerable numbers At Babylon both meet but ere the battell begun such a pannique feare struck the Pagans that they fled amazedly by
land some perisht but Euphrates without any pittie ingulpht 100000 of those miscreants and by that losse he Persian King is heart-broken after he had tyrannized 20 yeares and another Vararan 5 of that name placed in his stead hee tooke truce with Martianus the Emperour and after 17 yeeres left both life and crowne Perozes succeeded him call'd Pheruz by the Persians a Prince more rash than valiant in the 20 yeere of his reigne the warres of Scythia made an end of him Valens or Belax and Ialas was then chosen King he ruled 4 yeeres to him Cabades call'd also Chobad and Canades dethron'd by Lambases in the 11 yeere of his greatnesse which Lambases or Blases was also deposed by the Nobles of Persia in the 4 yeere for that hee had set forth an Edict that all women should be us'd in common and Canades is re-established but at last through his too much curtesy to his vile brother is made blind and the other mounts the Throne againe At this time great warres commenced 'twixt the Roman and Persians the Persian storming that at their perswasion Zatus sonneto Gurgenus King of the Lazarrs a part of Colchos or Mengrellya had received Baptisme at Constantinople Iustyn the Emperour witnessing for him at the Font. After that this Persian Tyrant had full gorg'd himselfe with the slaughter of many thousands of the Lazarrs and Armenians Death summons him to an unwilling accompt after 30 yeeres tumultuous reigne and Cozrhoe his son they call him Chezir is solemnly crowned the Persian King About this time the Roman Monarchy in the West took end Chozrhoe of all the Tyrants of Persia was most wicked and desperate hee first concluded peace for 110 yeeres with Iustinian the Roman Emperour but quickly broke it and to the utmost of his power inraged them 't would bee endlesse to speak his restlesse motion his barbarisme his hypocrisy In meere malice he put to death his brother Balax and Aspebides his aged Uncle the people murmur at him and to be even with them he commands them to follow him into Syria where hee ingages their valour and at Palmyria is beaten soundly but so exasperated that he ransacks Barrhosa Antioch Selucia Apamea and other parts in Phoenicia also hee gluts his mischiefe there hee forced Euphemia a Christian Lady and of her begot Hormisda who succeeded him hee also there compelled the chast Nymnhs of Daphné to offer incense to him as to a Deity and for their kindnesse ravisht them He consumed the great and stately Temple dedicated to St. Michael the Arch-Angell and accompted it no sacriledge to rob other Churches hee besieged Sergiropolis but is forced thence dishonourably he attempts the spoile of Ierusalem but hearing that Bellisarius in his time the most rich and wretchedly poore of men was approaching hee renues his league with the Romans but purposes not long to keepe it for next yeere hee forrages Armenia and Phoenicia Anno Dom. 556 Iustyn the Roman Emperour enters Mengrellia and by death of Nachorages the Persian Generall got a happy victory Cozrhoë next yeere assauts Edissa but fruitlessely for at Sagarthon that yeere the Christians vanquisht him An. Domini 574 he commands Artabanus or Adaarmanes with a great Army to enter the lesser Asia accordingly they spoyle Syria and unpeople Antioch in Iberia also and Armenia they entred with no lesse voracity At this time Armenia received the Christian Faith and the Romans have cōplaints sent them of Cezrhoes his cruelty Iustin sends Tiberius elected Caesar to quiet him His Army was great and consisted of many Nations French Italians Peonians Illirians Misians Massagets Isauriaus c. towards Armenia he marches to meet with Cosrhoé Cesarïa the Cappadocian Metropolis he soone mastered and after long toyle comes in view of the Enemie The Persians were strong and lustie The signall of battell was no sooner given but each man in a wrathfull posture hastned to vent their furie Cosrhoe by a sigh presages his overthrow but doubts it more when when Cursé a Scythian that led the right wing of the battell entred with rare courage into the body of the Pagan Armie and mastred all the Persian-baggages but the losse of that fight did not so much grieve him as that his Fire-god was falne into the hands of his scoffing Enemies Many night stratagems he invented to recover it but all to no purpose so that seeing it past recoverie it broke his heart at Ctesiphon after hee had reigned 48 yeares leaving this report behind him that to the Christians he was cruell to the Greeks perfidious to the Persians lustfull and tyrannicall In his place his sonne Hormisda Ormous by the Persians hee is call'd was crowned Monarch of Persia Anno Dom. 580 of the world 4550 His eight yeares rule was troublesome For in his 3 yeare Mauritius son in law and Liefetenant to Tiberius and also Emperour afterwards hammered the face of Persia he ranged where hee pleasd and did what listed him albeit to prevent it Tama Cosrhoé Adaarman Alamandure and Theodorique did what they could to hinder him Anno Dom. 589 Philippicus with some Roman Legions entred Persia especially to comfort the poore Christians who were threatned by the Magicians to be slaine all of them that yeare by myracle Cardarigas the Persian Generall supposes they were forced thither by a fate uncontroleable but the event prov'd such as in sted of the Christians above 30000 Persians were slaine by the great valour the great Captaines Philippcus Heraclius and Vitylian manifested amongst the superstitious who depended upon some supernaturall helps so long that Nature no whit defended them Barames a noble Persian by hap escaped but not a second disadventure for Hormisda grew so madded at his late overthrow that hee forces Barames to weare womens apparell and with a Distaffe in 's hand to disport the insulting multitude but this jeere cost him deerely for Barames flies into such parts as loved him and inceases Byndois a potent Persian against the King by whose confederacie they raise so great an Armie and passe to Shyraz so privatly that ere many knew of their approach they enter the Citie and imprison the King yea that same day crowne his sonne Chozroes King the barbarous Traytors executed their wrath upon the Queen her children whom most cruelly they sawed asunder at which Hormisda expresses all the simtoms of an inraged man his son cannot comfort him because his beloved wife was irrevocable Cosrhoes in passion commands some villaines to temper him whose crueltie prov'd such as drubd the wretched King to death an act so infernally devillish that all Persia cursed him Vpon their mutterings he growes tyrannicall but Barames that had mounted him wich the same hand thinks to pull him downe the King acquainted wich his intent commands this and that man to raise some force to punish him but into such hate was he growne that none would obey him whereby to save his life he flies with Cesarca his wife to Byzanth his
his conquest of Trepizond by the Greeks there I know not Since then many have called the Kings of Persia Sophy's but I see no proper reason for it since Ismaels sonne grand great grand sons Kings of Persia never continued that name till this that now reignes whose name indeed is Soffee but casuall Ismael the second of his reigne subjected Shervan and Gheylan Parc Hyerac and Cusistan Kerman Macron and as farre as Iasques Coom Coom was commonly his Winter rendezvous The fourth yeare by Elyas-beg he purposed to infest the Tartars but Elias through neglect was vanquisht in the way by Ocebeg-Geholy Lord of Chalat-Pherusky who at Ismaels approach fortifies his Castle but is forced out by flux and famine hee and fifty of his best men slaine and the rest pardoned Which done he hasts back to Yezd hearing that Mahomet had besieged it he quickly rais'd the siege and burned Mahomet And after hee had compounded some differences 'twixt himselfe and Morod-sha brother to Alvan Anno Dom. 1507. Heg 887 hee journeyed to Shyraz where he was solemnly crowned but next day put to death 30000 men such as were either guilty of his Fathers death or had taken part with Morod against him That yeare he hastened into Mosendram and repuls'd the Tartarrs albeit he had not above 20000 horse and Vlu-chan and his were above 300000. And to retaliate them he billited his men that Winter in Taron but so soone as the weather permitted hee entred Tuzz intending to spoile Samarchand But hearing of Sultan Ocen's death and that Shac-beg-chawn an Ouz-beg had usurped the Crowne of Corasan in the behalfe of ther injur'd Princes Ocens sonnes he entered Corasan and in a long fought battell 'twixt him and the Rhumestans slew Sha-beg-cawn 30000 Tattars and made Acen-Ally be crowned King upon condition that at his death it should hold of the Persian Dyadem That Summer he passed Oxus and slew Chamsylba the Maurenahar King sackt the strong Castle Ael-kama depopulated Dargan Farghwan Azfaker and many other strong holds in T'sogd Kennough Gaznehen Maurenaher Rhumestan Turq'stan farre beyond Balk the Ouz-beghian Metropolis and returning he sackt Tuzz Sakalkand Sikamest c. sufficiently retaliating what his own Nation had formerly suffered from the Black-sheep of that vargant Country and when he had fully glutted himsefe amongst the Tartarrs came joyfully back to Coom where he was received with all symptoms of joy possible to be expressed Next sommer he went into D'arbeg against the Turks who so soone as they had heard of Ismaels doings in Tartary entred Bagdat and exprest their utmost villanie there calling them Raffadins or Schismaticks and cutting off the noses and thumbs of many hundred Persians In their revenge Ismael affronts them with 50000 horse and in despight of what Carigy and Ally-Bashaw could do upon the bancks of Tygris he gave the Turks an overthow and that yeere seconds it by another he gave the Beglerbeg of Anatolia whereat Bajazeth stormes but Ismael to exasperate him took a Swine into his Court and names it Bajazeth madding the Grand-Senior and his Ambassador but joying the Persians to see the excellent courage of their Emperour At this time also Tekelles a favorite to Ismaels father Aydar to propagate the Reformation leads 20000 men into Trepisond whither the Armenians flockt in such abundance that that Syet entred Turquy with 200000 men as farre as Iconium in Lycaonia where hee vanquisht Mahomet and Orcan the 2 youthfull Nephews of Bajazeth Carogozes the Bassa of Asia also he triumpht over sackt Cutay and in the plaines of Ancira put to flight Ally-Bassa and his innumerable company yea had Ismael taken the advantage to have backt him he had prov'd another Tamberlain but wanting his countenance and other necessaries Ionuses Bassa neere to Anti-Taurus conquered him and which was no lesse miserable that famous Captain doing some violence to a Carravan he met with by the way is at this entring Casbyn apprehended and by Ismaels command burned Anno Domini 1511. Heg 891. Ismael recovered Bagdat Barrhyeck-beg the Sultan betraying it and opening a posterne where-through the Persians entred Mahomet Bassa being forced to flie to save his life That yeere hee entertained Lemius the Portugall Agent at Cashan who was led into the Army by Mirza Abucaca the field Marshall the which Lemius reported to Albuquerq that Ismael had 350000 Paviilions pitcht there and in the field 130000 men That yeere Bajazeth was poysonned by a Jew and in his Place Selym his younger son made Emperor of Turquy That yeere Morad sonne to Sultan Ac'mat Bajazeths eldest sonne fled to Ismael fot safety and Aladyn his brother to Campson Gaurus Sultan of Aegypt where both were welcomed Selym prepares to fetch them thence but Ismael irritates his vexation and incourages Morad with 10000 horse promising to second him by Vstref-oglan with 20000 more to forrage Turquy accordingly Morad past through Armenia the lesse and in Cappadocia shewed himselfe an adversarie Chendemus with great forces opposes him who upon notice of his Uncles approach fell back to Vstref and both of them to Anti-Taurus where Aladules quietly suffered him to passe the Mountaines into Armenia whither they knew ere-long the Grand-Senior would hunt after them Selym commands his whole forces to follow him into Persia Chendemus for diswading him slaine but Ebrahim Bass's advice after long march into Armenia he got where in the Calderan plains was fought 'twixt the Turk and Persian a most memorable battell Ismael with 30000 Persians for 16 houres maintaining the fight with Selymus and 300000 Turks and where if the Turquish Artillery bad not disordered and affrighted the Persian horse the Persian had gloriously triumphed but as it was for one Persian 10 Turks were slaine and neither of them obtained conquest the horror of it such that the Turkish Annalls call that dayes fight The day of Doom Anno Domini 1515. Heg 895 Selym returnd with new forces into Armenia but by the way strangled Aladeules be Mountanous King Ismael leaves Synal-beg to pursue his conquest of Mosendram and with 30000 horse attended Selym at Tabriz but Selym diverts his first thoughts and at an unexpected houre enters Aegypt and by the slaughter of the Sultan Campson betrayed by Cajerbeg Sultan of Aleppo conquered it and gave end to that order of Mamalucks which from Sultan Saladyne who lived Anno Heg 896. had continued with much fame and excellencie Tomambeyus sought to have restored it but Selym made his life the price of it Anno Domini 1514. Hegaria 894. Sha-Tamas was born who succeeded Ismael in the Empire in 5 yeeres after he had also Hel-cawn Som-Mirza and Bacram-cawn some call them Elias Sormiza and Barhon-cawn An. Dom. 1520. Salym the Turkish Emperour dyed and was succeeded by Solyman Anno Domini 1525. Heg 965. Ismael also dyed in the 40 of his age and his reigne 20 yeeres Ismael's foure soones did what they could to ruine the Empire by one anothers ruine Hel-cawn especially who to effect
132 Bochar 184 Bombyca 273 Bonavista 8 Bonay 101 Booby 11 Borneo 312.314.324.331 Bowbentalow 86 Boyall 148 Brachmans antiquity 40 Brama 316.319.320 Brampore 60.67.70.93.82 Brin-Iohn 299.305 Brodera 86.87.88.107 Buccary 90 Buckor 79 90 Buldat 215 Bullochy eldest sonne to Prince Curseroo imprisoned 98. relieved 100. crownd Emperour of Insdustant 105. murdered at Lahore 107 Bandama fl 177 C CAlajate 109 Calamba wood 297 Calderan plaines 137.287 Caleture 311 Callamina 310 Callicut 299. described 302 Calpi 69 Campbaleck 56 Cambalu 337 Cambaya 59.61.82.103.108 Cambogiae 312.316.333 Cambyna 329 Cambyses 270 Camelion 23 Campson Gaurus 109 Canaria 3.4 Cananore 299 Candaces Eunuch 306 Candahor 81. besieged 134. 224.290 Candu 306 Cangra taken 78 Canoo 29 Cantam 336 Can Assem goes Ambass from India to Persia 77. bravely intertained ib. Capessa 276 Cape Comory 108.299.308 Cape of good Hope 12. to 19 Cape de Agvilbas 19 Cape falso 19.14 Cape Roma 21 Caepe Rozelgate 109.113 Cape Verd 8 Cape Palmas 8 Carraculia 152 Carcash 224 Carravans raw depicted 194 Cashan 213 Caspian Sea 180 Caspia 177 Caspian straits 165 Cassimeer conquered 65. described 66.89.78.90 Casson 177 Casta 313 Castle Iland 25 Cathaya 337 Cattatingae 323 Caucasus 55.66.185 Cazbyn 196 Celebes 329 Cesarca Queene of Persia baptiez'd 276 Chacoporo 177.181 Chandis 68.103 Chara 194 Chatighan 90 Chedorlaomar 217.233.269 Chery 69 Chersam 69 Chesel fl 180 Chilmanor 144.146 Chiulpha 137 China 312.306 pride of their Kings 209.299 Chiraef 143 Chirigin 324 Choul 34.67 108.295.296.299 Christians in Socotorae 31 in Persia 152 in India 304 Chrysoborca 65 Chytor 60.102 Constandel-cawns villany 290.291 Cingis-cawn his birth and fortunes 55.56 Cinnamon 308 Civit 332 Cloves 330 Co-Araxes 147 Coat-armour of Persia 230 Cuaspes fl 222 Cocos 29.318 Colchis 152.167 Columbo 307 Columbus 361 Colume of headsin Spahawn 161 Commeshaw 148 Coome described 212 that it was Hecatompylon rather than Spahawn ibid. Conny I le 12 Congo 352 Conio 330 Corasan 55 58 183 184 281. Carca fl 177 Connack 177 Cormandell 65 308 312 345 Corranda 215 Corbet and Corryn ibid Corea 333 Coriats error 132. his grave 35 Corvo 364 Costack 113 Cosumbay 87 Cotton 325 Coughton 132 Cawrestan 125.280 Cowlam 299.303 Cozrhoe King of Persia 192. his Titles 208 Cozrhoes a Tyrant of Persia breakes faith with the Christians 274. ravishes a Christian Lady and the Nymphs of Daphne ib spoiles Armenia ib. is vanquished by the Christians 275. Cozrhoes King of Persia a parricide flies to Bizanth 275. is reseated by meanes of the Chr. Emp. 276. he and his Court are baptized ib. he apostatises ib. takes the Crosse from Ierusalem 277 is beaten by the Rom. Emp. who burnes his Idols ib. his 3 Armies are confounded 278. he dyes desperately 279 Crassus vanquisht by the Parthians 211 Cranganor 299 Crater 333 Crocodile 323 Ctesiphon 275.279 Cuface 111 Cumber 331 Cuncam 56.290 Curiate 111 Curroon youngest son to Sha Selim late great Mogul to make his Nephewes incapable of the Crowne makes them be christned 75. hee changes his name 79. is made Generall against the Decans ib. subjects Berar and Chandis 79. rec Tribute from the King of Galcunda ib. his ambitious desigues 80. rebells 81. indeavours to rob his Fathers Exchequer but is frustrated ib. fights with his fathers Army at Delly ib. is vanquisht by Mahobet-cawn 83. flies to Mew at 84. by Assaph cawns means is pardoned but rebells againe ib. is beat by his brother Sultan Perwees at Mando and flies into Decan 88. be forrages Bengala Purop and beyond Ganges 89. escapes a great danger 90. he takes Rantas and Tzinner ib. is wounded and his army put to flight 91. flies to Potan 92. to Gulcunda 93. to Decan ib. besieges Brampore 93 flies into Decan 94. hearing that his father was imprisoned he marches to Asmeer and is banisht Agra 99. expulst Tutta ib. again flies into Decan 102. receives joyfully Mahobet-cawn 105. under whose conduct hee speeds to Agray and challenges the Crowne 106 by foule murther obtaines it and alters his Name to Sultan-Sha Bedin Maomet c. ib. Ambass salute him ib. plague famin and rebellion pursue him 108. his corronation celebrated by the English at Surat 108 Curricurre depicted 314 Curseroon or Gushroo sonne to the great Mogul aimes at the Crown 72. is pardoned but flies away ib. is beaten 73. flies to Labor ib. taken and imprisoned 74. his miseries 73. lookt to by Assaph-cawn and cawn lehan 78. murdered 80. much lamented ib. Cuscuzar 148 Cusistan 56.290 Cut-bobbau 132.133 Cyrapolis Cyrus King of Persia 134.270 Cyrus fl 177.180 D DAbul 34.67.295.299 Dabys 335 Daeck 77 Damky 35 Damarcana 111 Damiadee fl 69 Dâ—moan 183. described 192 Dâ—mon 34 67.295 Danda-Radjeporee 108.299 Darghan 286 Darius Medus 193 Darius Nothus Codomanus 271 Daultabat 76. 88. 93 Dayta 106 Deacow 129.133 Decan 55 67 68.70 299 Decans vanquisht by the Mogul 67. beaten againe 76. they recover their losses 93. and beat the Moguls Lescar 103 Debaca 89 Degardoo 133 148 Delly 58 60 68 99. Delphius 24 Demyr Cape 179 De-Moxalbeg 148 Derbent 177 196 described 201 Deylan 192 D'hast 55 Dia and Daru 323 Diarbec 56 208 224 287 290 Digarroys 23 341 343 Dilemon 281 Dilementhes 288 Diu 108 Diul 82 Doab 59 Dodo's 347 Dover 2 Drake 8 Duradura 318 Duroyen 298 Duz-gun 125 E EAst India 34 Ecbarr crowned great Mogul 59. conquers Doab ib. goes on a Rummery or Pilgrimage to Asmeer 61. Subjects Bengala Kantam-pore and Patan 63. divers Kings doe him homage 65. hee conquers Casmeer 66. and Hassarr 69. pardons the insolence of his sonne Sha Selym 70. afflicted with the death of his two sonnes Amurath and Dhaen-sha 67 71. buries his mother 71. beats his rebellious sonne 72. unhappily poysoned ib. Ecclissar 102 Ecmeazin 152 Edissa 276 Ehberam in Armenia 262 Elabass built 65.89 besieg'd 90. Elam 223 Elcandifia 280 Elephant 322 Elmedin in Caldea 262 Elsheer sacke by Ben Abi-Vakez 280 Eltarch 111 Emangoly-cawn Arch-duke of Shyraz triumphs over Ormus 115. and Lar 126. his Titles 136. Acts 137 pride ib. he feasts the English Ambassador 139. his revenue ib. visits the Ambass 140. is beheaded 206 Emir-Hamze-Mirza sonne to King Maomet Codabanda vanquishes both Turks and Tartars 201. enters Casbyn in triumph ib. his valour and many victories 289 is poysoned 290 English Ambassador lands in Persia 120. entertained by the Sultan of Gumbroon 121. feasted at Shyraz 138. gallantly welcommed at Spahawn 150. hee visits the Prince of Armenia 151 has his audience at the Caspian Sea 168. injur'd by Maomet Ally-begg 202. discontented ib. at Cazbyn dyes and is solemnly buried 204 Englands Forrest 343.351 Eneon Edwall sonnes of Owen Gwyned saile with Madoc their brother into Mexico 356 Erez 177 289 Earles of Cumberland 5 364 Of Pembroke 364 Of Essex ibid Escar-Mecron 280 Estacher 148 Etamon Dowlet accused by his slave and disgraced 74 by his daughters high advancement he is pardoned restored 75. and buried 80 Etnizaria 224 Euphrates fl 56.217.218.221.222.278.282 F FAlcata
the Empresse of all the Ilands in the Vniverse MADAGASCAR so called by the Natives by Ptolomy Menuthyas by M. Paulus Venetus Magaster by Thevetus Albagra by Marcator Do Cerne both unwisely by Tristan d' Acuna the Portuguise who discovered it Anno Dom. 1508. Saint Lawrence that day he first veiwed it howbeit I find great difference in Spanish writers about the first that landed here Some saying that Emanuel Telezo de Menezes anchor'd here two yeere before d' Acuna and Osorius in his 4. lib. de vitae Emanuelis reg port fo 140. saies that Fernando Suario and Roderigo Frierio two Marriners in two Ships returning from India to Lisbon Anno 1506. accidentally fell upon this I le and suffered from the trechery of the savage inhabitants and that in honor of Lawrence sonne of Almeida the Admirall and Commander of all the Forts in India from his name named it but in his 5. book fol. 162. that D' Acuna named it Let us now a shoare our observation may prove more consequentious Madagascar that name sounds best is questionlesse the greatest Iland in the world accounting its extent from Cape Roma in the South to point Saint Sebastian from 16 to six and twenty degrees the North end parralelling Cuama in Quiloa a famous part of the Africk continent and to the South the great River of Magnice in 26 degrees in length a thousand English miles some report 1200. in breadth in some part 230. Osorius numbers 400. and a hundred where 't is narrowest full of Townes People Mineralls Beasts Wood Water and what 's requirable Such Marittim townes and ports as be knowne to us are these Roma Augustine Antabosta St. Iacobo Matatana Angoda Ferendo Fermoso Anton-gill and Iungomar the 2. last almost opposite Augustine under the South Tropick and Anton-gill upon the East side affoord best anchoring the first we usually ride in passing to Surat the other home bound is best as Sir Iames Lancaster Anno 1600. made proofe of in 8. fadom water in the bottome of the Bay a small I le behind them to sea ozie ground the place good for victualling ayre quick and healthfull Howbeit the Dutch at this place 2. moneths formerly through distempers lost 200. men of agues and fluxes the variation at Augustine Bay is 16. degrees The whole I le is Tetrarchicall 4. severall Kings swaying their Ebony Scepters in each Toparchy jealous each of one anothers greatnesse The Sea townes are infected with Mahometisme the Mediterran are eclips'd in black Idolatry Nature has given them lawes murder being punisht by death adultery with publique shame and theft with banishment Fishing delights them more than tillage Thetis is better accounted of then Ceres yet I rather think their ignorance in agriculture so disposes it The people are generally strong couragious and proper the male sort from their infancy practising the rude postures of Mars cover their naked bodies with long and massie Targets their right hand brandishing a long neat pike or lance of Ebony barb'd with iron kept as bright as silver and which they know how to use and jaculate as excellently as any people in the Universe they are black at no time shading their bodies from the parching Sunne rather delight to rub and annoint all over with grease and tallow proud to see their flesh shine the stinck never offending them their haire is black and long and curled the length is an especiall ornament a few leaves plaited about their waists elsewhere naked their eares are bor'd and wide enough pincking and cutting the flesh is here also in fashion whiles the better sex seeke prey abroad the women therein like themselves keep constant home and spin bigamy is tolerated they affect copulation very early the youth scarce knowing 12. the maiden 10. yeeres in the world the name Virginity They are delighted with sports and novelties hunting hawking fishing of which the I le affoords variety and dancing in Maeanders winding beating and clapping their breasts and hands their feete spurning the yeelding fands forcing the spectators further of during which the women with savage harmony modulate with hands and eyes observing an exact measure equall if not exceed the men in their more laborious treadings They know not letters Arts are burdensome to idle savages they compleat that jeere of Sophocles Nihil scire nil jucundius howbeit necessity has taught them some parts of the rudiments of Arithmetick the number 10. limits their invention Isso 1. Tone 2. Tello 3. Effad 4. Fruto 5. Woubla 6. Sidda 7. Fonlo 8. Malo 9. Nel 10. The earth is rich in myneralls and merquisate Gold Silver and as Edoard Lopezo Iron and Copper but by hearing the cruelty and avarice of the Portugall prohibit the use and digging it contenting themselves rather with usefull hearbs and graine of which they have great store than by the Magique of gold and pearle to allure the hearts of greedy men a vice the Portugall is more branded with than any other Nation Nec Babylonis opes Lydae nec pondera gazae Indorumque dapes Saerumque Arabumque potentes Divitias mallim cum paupertate pudica Intemerata mori quam famam impendere vitae Not Croesus wealth nor Babels vast command India Arabia nor of Saeres land Can speake me rich or happy if with them I throw away my more price worthy fame But if you will buy any thing the I le affoords I think the I le it selfe you must furnish you with Agats Helitropians Iasper and which they value more than all the Dyamonds and pearles in India with long red Cornelian beades of which they are so proud that the owner be it King or subject is oft dethroned spoyled for it one string able to put them all in a cumbustion bracelets copper chaines bells and babies are valuable also here and for which or one bead of cornelion you shall have in exchange Sheep big tail'd like those in Syria and Persia Beeves and Buffoles big-bond fat and Camel-backt Camells Antilopes red Deere Leopards Pards Goats Milk Hens Egges Wheat Barley Rice and Cuscus with what fruit yon like Orenges Lemons Lymes Pomcitrons Plantans Sugercanes Ginger Toddy Cocoes c. Nor are the Lyzards Camelion and Salamanders to bee lost in oblivion The Camelion the hyeroglyphic of a dissembler take thus from Alciat She alwayes gapes she eates the slender Ayre Changing her lookes she varies colours rare Even so the Flatterer applauding feeds Clawing his Princes most opprobrious deeds Semper hiat semper tenuem qua vescitur Auram Et mutat faciem varios sumitque colores Sic adulator populari vescitur Aura Et solum Mores imitatur principis atros The Salamander is in shape not much unlike extreame cold by nature from whence like Ice she can long time indure the fire yea if little extinguish flames The Salamander endures fire without danger Seu Salamandra potens Nullisque ob noxia flammis commonly obscuring themselves in moyst and umbragious places seene against stormes
materiall is good white chalky stone flanckt with Ordnance and mounted high to play at advantage At the South end we perceived a faire Church with white battlements a top the houses of like stone strong and beautifull 3 other Temples affoording joy and pleasure to the heart and eye The nine and twentieth day we got neere the barre at Swalley and there cast Anchor because wee perceiv'd 13 saile of great ships and knew not whether they were friends or enemies the last day of November we adventured over the Barre 'twixt two boas in 4 fadome water a hundred paces asunder set there to manifest the passage either side without being very dangerous the Ships at Anchor proved our friends 6 English and 7 Dutch the most of them 1000 Tunne those of our Nation were good men of Warre The Palsgrave Exchange the William the Blessing c. each of which to do them right feasted our Lord Ambassadors with hearty welcome we rode in 5 fadome others in 9 twixt the sholds and continent The same day we came to an Anchor in Swalley roade Nogdi-Ally-beg the Persian Ambassador Sir Robert Sherley's Antagonist dyed having desperately poisoned himselfe for 4 dayes eating only Ophium the Mary where he dyed gave him eleven great Ordnance whose thundring Ecchoes solemniz'd his carrying ashoare his sonne Ebrahim-chan got him conveighed to Surrat 10 miles thence where they intombed him not a stones cast from Tom Coryats grave knowne but by two poore stones Tom. Coryats grave there resting till the resurrection Doubtlesse Nogdibeg had a guilty conscience hee had very basely misbehav'd himselfe in England and feared the extreame rigour of Abbas a just but too severe Master at no time to bee jested with in money matters or reputation so as neither his past good service alliance at Court skill in armes nor brave aspect could animate his defence assured of most horrid torture Other mens sufferings upon lesse cause made his seeme more unpardonable in the yeere 1612. a Persian Ambassador at Constantinople for assenting to such Articles 'twixt his Master and the Grand Seignior as seem'd advantagious to him but odious to the Persian Monarck was upon his returne beheaded at Cazbyn by command of his inraged Master the conditions were indeed dishonourable That the Prince of Persia should arrogate no other Title but Bashaw of Tauris that the Persian should pay tribute for Gheylan yeerly 400 bal's of silk that the Cadi of Tauris should bee of the Turkes Election c. which Abbas kickt back to Achmat with great indignation Tamas-coolibeg also came into his mind who dyed miserably tho once second in Persia upon spleene ill grounded by the King and of Turkish barbarisme not a few exemplaries Ebrahim Bassa Cycala Synon Bassa and Nassuf each of them in their times sitting at the Sterne guiding as they listed the Turkish greatnesse yet ere death cald for them they were cald for by precipitating ends such as made the remembrance of their passed glory relish the sowrer more deformed and Nogdibeg as we heard the King protest if he had not prevented it should first have beene hackt in peeces and then in the open market place burnt with dogs turds a perfume not fetcht from Arabia a staine indeleble branding with shame all his posterity Returne we to the roade againe Swalley road is from the Aequator 20 degrees and six and fifty min. North Swally road westerly variation 16. degrees and a halfe longit from Mohelia 28 degr at a low ebbe it resembles an I le beyond the sands Goga is easily discovered The first of December with some Pe-unes or black foot-boyes who can pratle some English we rode to Surat our Chariot drawn by 2 Buffolls who by practise are nimble in their trot and well managed we past thorow Swalley Town Batty famous for good Toddy Damkee to Surat Surat is the chiefe factory of the East India Marchants the station of their President at that time one Master Wyld was in that office a modest understanding Gentleman to whose kind respect I owe acknowledgement and in whose house the English house we had tidings of Sultan Curroon's Coronation at Agra Anno 1627. whose history we will prosecute after we have view'd the Towne which may well challenge a particular description SVRRAT perhaps so cald by the Surae whom Pliny places here is that old Muziris named by Ptol. if my judgement deceive me not nor am I ignorant Choul and Onor are imagin'd it by Molelius and Ramusius a Town at this day great famous rich populous nor ayre nor soyle agree with strangers the one inflamed by the torridnesse of the Zone the other sandy and sulphureous the Artick Pole is here elevated one and twenty degrees three min. subject in Iune to become Nadyr to the burning Sunne thence to September the clouds showring continually an insalubrious moysture the wind and thunder so commixing that no place in the world seemes more unhealthy all the other 8 moneths either parching or freezing Surat is accounted the third best Towne in the Gujurat Kingdome Amadavad Cambaya excelling her from the first removed foure from the other two good dayes journey all now adding lustre to the Moguls rich replendent Diadem Whether Gusurat comply with the Greekidiom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from Gezurat in Arabick an Ile I question not a Province it is so usefull to the Mogull that his annuall tribute out of this one shire amounts as Marchants say to 150 Tunne of gold Surat is at this day not very strong neither in scite nor Ordnance a 100. yeere agoe Antonio Siverio a Portuguise with 200 men enter'd it sackt and burnt it a 1000 would now find it a hard enterprise It was after that subjected to Ecbar Anno Dom. 1566. of the Hegira 946. by valour of Chan Azem whose care defeated the confederacy of Mirza-chan Hussan Mirza Mahomet Chan Goga and other conspirators Surat is now in a quiet government watered with a sweet river named Tappee or Tindy as broad as the Thames at Windsor which arising out of the Decan Mountaines glides thorow Brampore 220 miles distant thence and in many Maeanders runnes by Surat and after 20 miles playing to and fro a league from Swalley road wanders into the Indian Ocean 'T is circled with a mud-wall a Castle of stone is strongly built at the South-West side the river washing it planted with great Ordnance and other shot awed by a Garrison who make dainty to admit a stranger to see their fortifications or parapets The West opens into the Buzzar thorow a faire gate of stone where toll-gatherers are ever ready to search and exact sound tribute for the great Mogull their Master the Medon is of no great beauty nor do the shops give splendor the crafty Banuyan desiring rather to be rich indeed then so accounted The houses are indifferently beautifull some are of carv'd wood others of bricks dryed in the Sunne the English and Dutch houses at the
in imitation of those recorded by the Prophet Amos 6.10 or in way of pitty and piety lest the enemy should offer it villany or if buried it would stink an improper thing in a Bannyan and so putrifie the grasse and make Kine unhealthy besides out of their carcasses would issue wormes who would starve when the dead body was consumed a sinne unpardonable The Braminy or Priests to speake in common are of 82 Casts or Tribes the Vertaes are of higher note and fewer their habit is a girdle of an Antilops skinne tied about their middle a thong of the same hide from the necke to the left arme and elsewhere naked some of them weare a threefold thred from the right shoulder to the left arme as a badge of their profession and in memory of the 3 sonnes of the second creation The Cutteries are more prophane men of warre shedders of blood flesh-eaters and libidinous they are for the greater part called Rajas or Kings have six and thirty Casts among themselves from some of which none of them but is descended of these are the Tribes of Dodepuchaes some Chawah some Solenkees some Vaggelaes and some Paramors of long times owners of Indostant till Aladin a patan King of Delly wrested Guzzarat from them and since then most is taken away by the issue of Tamerlange at this day they call themselves Rashpootes or sonnes of Kings and live lawlesse to the Moores the chiefe of which at this day are Rana Radgee Mardout Radga Surmul-gee Raia Berumshaw Mahobet-chan Radia Barmulgee Radgea Ramnagar Radgea Iooh ' Iessingh Tzettersing and Mansuigh c. The Shudderyes or Bannyans are Merchants and contrary to their name which significs harmlesse are the most crafty people throughout India Full of flegmatick feare and superstition they are indeed very mercifull grieving to see other people so hard-hearted to feed upon fish flesh Raddish and such things as have life or any resemblance They will not kill a Louse Flea or Kakaroch or the like for 1000 pound but contrariwise buy their liberty of such Saylers as of necessity must crush them yea they have Hospitalls for old lame sick or starved creatures birds beasts Cats Rats or the like and have no worse men to oversee them than the Pushelans the greatest and best respected sorts of Brammins of all Casts whatsoever they are of Pythagora's doctrinating not only in beleeving the Metempsychosis of the soule of each man into a beast as for example the soule of a drunkard and Epicure into a Swine the lustfull and incestuous into Goats and Dogs the dissemblers into Apes Crocodiles and Foxes the lazie into Beares the wrathfull into Tygers the proud into Lyons the bloud thirsty into Wolves Ounces Snakes the perjur'd into Toads and the like but the soules of good men abstemious pittifull and courteous into Kine Buffalaes Sheepe Storks Doves Turtles c. An opinion memoriz'd by Ovid 15 Metamor Heu quantum scelus est in viscere viscera condi Congestoque Avidum pinguescere corpore corpus Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto Parcite vaticinor cognatas caedenefanda Exturbare Animas nec sanguine sanguis alatur Flesh fed with flesh oh what impiety Thy greedy corps with corps to fat thereby One living thing to live by others death Oh spare I warne you to disturbe the breath Of kinsmen by fool-slaughter for your blood With others blood to feed is no wayes good The last Sect or Cast of Gentiles are the Wises a name albeit derived from Wise the youngest sonne of Pourous and Parcootee yet in their tongue properly signifying a labouring man these be of two sorts the Wise and Coolee the first agreeing with the Bannyan in abstinence the other not forbearing to eat any manducable creature the purer sort are subdevided into 36 Casts or Families The conclusion is that all these 4 Casts in time grew so impious and unthankfull that God commanded Ruddery to command a blast of wind to sweep away this wretched generation which accordingly he did that tempest raging so violently that the mountaines and rocks were hurled to and fro like dust or tennis-balls the seas out of their course yea Ganges out of her holy channell wherein all save a few honest men and women left to replenish perished this was the second confusion Soone after God gave them a King propagate from the seed of the Bramyns cald Ducerat who begat Ram a King so famous for piety and high attempts that to this day his name is exceedingly honoured so that when they say Ram Rame 't is as if they should say all good betide you But to shew the imbecillity of mans nature his weak condition and frailty in processe of time the world again grew abominable and treacherous so that Ruddery commands the earth to open and swallow down quick those ungodly wretches a few excepted who the third time peopled the earth with humane inhabitants and then as Bremaw had formerly Vistney the mediator of mercy ascended into heaven leaving cruell Ruddery to over rule this age of Iron at the end of which he also shall be rapt into paradise these 4 ages they call Curtain Duauper Tetrajoo and Kolee Touching the last Iudgement they hold it shall be more dreadfull than the other the Moone to look blood red the Sunne to shed his light like purling brimstone an universall flashing of fire with loudest thundring then a flammy rednesse will orespread the heavens and the 4 Elements of which the world consists shall maintaine a dreadfull fight so long so fiercely one against another that at last all shall be revolved into a dark confusion the soules of such as were good men Ruddery will transport to heaven the wicked perish but the bodies of both rise no more being too incredulous of the resurrection Now albeit these people in a continued series of wilfulnesse and ignorance beleeve that their Shaster or Cabala was immediately from God yet that it is wholly grounded upon tradition and parched out of many Histories Iewish and Gentilisme I have already shewed what is in imitation of the holy Scripture and from the rule and practise of other Nations and we may adde that their burning the dead is borrowed from the 6 of Amos 10. their marriage after death from Cerinthus and Marcyon old hereticks who used to baptize after death in case they were not pre-baptiz'd the thred tripartite hung about their neck is a misterious denotation of the Trinity rice and painting in their forehead is not only as a symbole of Baptisme but in imitation of the Starre Rempham fixed in the brow of the Idoll Moloch or of Iul. Caesar who had one in his forehead as an embleme of immortality And also let us see in how many things they concurre with the rules of Pythagoras to this day famous among them These Bramins or Bannyans in their schooles and other places affect silence for 5 yeeres are not suffered to speake in the Schooles understand one another by
conveigh the carcasse into a common Monument the good men into one the bad into another t is flat above wholy open plaistered with smooth white loame hard and smooth like that of Paris in the midst thereof is a hole descending to the bottome made to let in the putrifaction issuing from the melted bodies which are there-upon layd naked in two rowes exposed to the Sunnes flaming rage and mercilesse appetite of ravening Vultures who commonly are fed by these carcases tearing the raw flesh asunder and deforming it in an ugly sort so that the abominable stink of those unburied bodies in some places 300 is so loathsome and strong that did not a desire to see strange sights allure a Traveller they would prove worse seene than spoken of Nor doe the Persees delight that any stranger should goe op to view them The Buriall place of the Persees in India The History of the great Mogull LEt us now into Industan and by the best helps and enquiries we can make weave the variable History of the great Mogulls their pedegree their descent from Tartary their severall conquests and successe in Indya with other most remarkable occurrents hapning there these last 50 yeares also the description of such Cities Provinces and Forts as either enrich or support that glorious Empire the knowing which may peradventure I doubt it not finde gratious acceptance amongst the more ingenuous who know that man is the compendium of the world and admirable in his Designes which yet are crost by the awfull finger of God when men intend that which thwarts his providence Nor can you lend your eares to any nobler part of the Universe which for spatiousnesse abundance of faire Townes numberlesse Inhabitants infinite treasure mines food and all sorts of Merchandizes exceeds all Kings and Potentates in the Mahometan world his vast but well compacted Monarchy extending East and West to the Bengalan Gulph and Indian Ocean The South to the Decan and Mallabar North and North West to the Maurenahar Tartar and Persian 2600 miles some wayes 5000 in cicuit in which he has 38 large Provinces rich and containing the rest are Gujurat where we now are Malva Pengab Bengala and part of Decanee Ariacae in Ptol. together comprehending 30 large Cities 3000 wall'd Towns and such Castles as for Naturall defences seeme impregnable his yearely revenue is ordinarily accounted 50 crow of roopees each crow is a hundred leck a leck is a hundred thousand roopees a roopee is 2 s. 3 pence somtimes 2 s. six pence Howbeit out of this prodigious rent goes yearely many great payments to his Leiftenants of Provinces and Vmbraves of Townes and Forts having also in continuall pay three hundred thousand Horse and 2000 Elephants fed with Donna or Poulse boil'd with Butter and unrefined Sugar to these onely his Fiscall or Treasurer yearely giving out above forty millions of crownes his continuall warres are no lesse chargeable The pedigree of these Mogulls is thus upon their owne seales blazoned 1. Aben-Emyr-Temir-Saheb-Queran i.e. Tamberlane great Prince of the foure quarters of the world 2. Aben-Miram-Sha 3. Aben Mirza Sultan Mohummed 4. Aben Sultan Abusaid 5. Aben mirza-Emir-sha 6. Aben Baber-potshaugh 7. Aben Homayon potshaw 8 Aben Ecbar cald also Abdul fetta ghelaladyn Mahumed Achbar 9. Shaw Selim or Aben Almozapher Nordin Iangheer potshaugh Gazi 10. Sultan Curroon or Shaw Iehan now cald Sultan potshaugh Bedin Mohumet They have a larger genealogy from Cingis-chan a Prince of Tartary whom some have feigned sonne of Babur sonne of Portan of Philcan of Phonama of Bizanbeg of Shaw-dub-chan of Tomincan of Bubacan sonne of Buzamer all of them brave men as story warrants us Cingis-chan as Haithon and others say his contemporaries was at first by profession a Vulcan or Black-smith by condition a good honest simple man but the influence of heaven new moulded him in little time in stead of his hammer putting into his hands the Globe and Scepter his ambitious thoughts begun from the frequent incouragements a man in white Armour mounted upon a white phantasma gave him promising his helpe and stimulating his courage tells the vision to some chiefe hoords or cantons who give credit to his destiny and make him their generall he shewes quickly how his grosse mettall was refined by a better fire with a troop of Mogli one of the 7 hoords marching South subduing as farre as mount Belgian part of Imaus at this day cald Nigrakott and Copizat by the Indians there the sea stopt his carriere but he prostrates himselfe and 9 times over fumbles out his prayers the effect followes the hill clove asunder the sea parts in two and yeelds them 9 foot safe passage but being upon the continent he hammers out his way with rusty iron doing such marvellous feates of Armes as to a good faith seemes wonderfull I shall as briefly as may be trace his posterity to Tamberlane for from his grand-sonnes we must borrow our maine history Cingis-chan King of the South-East Tartar after some victories against the Russe and Tartarrs dyed at Ketoa kotan A.M. 1596. A. D 1228. Heg 608. An. 1228. of the Hegira 608. having divided amongst his 4 sons what was his by birth or conquest To Tusha-chan he gave the provinces royall of D'hast Kapecha Rhoz ' and Abulgharr to Chagatay-cawn Maurenahar Aygor and Chorazan to Ogg part of Bactria and Caucasus to Tuli-chan his Jewells and Treasure Tusha or Tuxichan dyed two yeeres after his father Kagathay dyed in the yeere 1242 both of them without issue whereby their Seigniories discended upon Ogg ' or Ogtay-chawn who in all his affaires at home and abroad really prov'd himselfe the sonne of Cingis-chan compelling all the Persian Monarchy as farre as Babylon to acknowledge him their soveraigne but in the yeere 1252 was conquered by death followed the fate of his predecessors commended his Monarchy to his infant sonne Gayuc-chan and him to be ordered by the care and providence of Minchonna his wife but in the third yeer impartiall death cald him also away and gave Manchu-cawn sonne to Tuli-cawn youngest Tetrarch advantage to claime the soveraignty of all by right of surviving succession This young Prince by such an accident mounted to the Imperiall greatnesse perceives the eyes of all about him inflam'd with envy and threatning his expulsion inraged by the villany of some that whisperd out his guilt in the last infants death so that albeit hee was armd with integrity and a just Title he contracts for his defence with some confining potentates and gave them the honour and command of severall provinces of his Empire upon condition they would hold of him in chiefe and be ready upon all occasions to defend him To Rablay-cawn he gave Ketoachotan and the royall City Cambaleck to Vlakuc-cawn his brother Persia Chusistan and Cherman and to Chun-cawn Gaznehen but ere hee had occasion to try the malice and inconstancy of his men or chance of warre death summond him away Anno 1260 but not
before hee had nominated Vlacuk-cawn for Emperour who proved of another spirit his best delight being to dance in Armour to Bellonaes Trumpe and to defend his owne in despight of all his adversaries by his owne vertue without secundary props or other allyances he first quiets his domestick broyles composing peace at home then magnifies his excellencies in forraine parts in circling and adding to the lustre of his dyadem Babylon a great part of Arabia and in Syria Aleppo and Damascus all which during his life he kept in subjection and loyalty and ruled with much magnificence to the yeer 1270. when by the extremity of his disease finding death at hand hee calls his 3 sonnes afore him exhorts them to unity divides his lands among them dyes and at Meragah 15 farsangs from Tauris was solemnly buried Habkay-cawn the eldest had the provinces of Hyerac Mozendram and Korazan comprehending Medya Parthya Hyrcania Bactria and Sogdiana To Hya-Shawmet Aro Adarbayon part of Armenia and Iberia comprizing Salmas Coy Nazivan Maraga and Merent Cities of quality To Tawdon-cawn the Seigniories of Dyarbec and Rabaion or Mesopotamia part of Syria and what was made fruitfull by Euphrates and Tygris And to his sons by another venture Nicador-oglan and Targahe-cawn he gave money portions Habkay-cawn that yeere dyed at Hamadan in Persia and made protector to his sonne Nycador-Oglan A.M. 5245. A.D. 1275. A. Heg 655. who so long and with such delight represented the young King that by a divellish art and ambition he sent him to an untimely grave and establishes himselfe by name of Hameth-cawn but all his raigne is so pursued by divine vengeance that in the yeere 1275 he dyes mad and is buried at Cashan in his place came the right heire from banishment Argon-cawn who by the people is joyfully welcommed and at his Coronation assumes the name Tangador-habkay zedda sonne to Habkay-cawn This man swayed the Scepter 5 yeeres with much tyranny not only massacring Nycadors sons and alliances but amongst the Innocent bath'd his sword in blood so that hee became hatefull to his owne and stimulated the Parthian to revenge by whom in a battell hee is overcome and by Argon-chan upbraided with his cruelty yea to compensate the like measure is cruelly tormented his belly ript open and his guts given to the doggs To Tangador the inveterate Enemie of all Christians succeeds his brother Giviatoc-chan who in the fourth yeare of his reigne perisht by Balduc-chan his Uncle who also after five yeares rule died issue-lesse Badu sonne of Targahe youngest sonne to Vlacuk-chan by assent of all that Nation succeeding in the throne of greatnesse whose affections he answered with so much respect clemency and care that never any before him was more belov'd and honored howbeit when he openly profest himselfe to be a Christian the peoples regard drew back and many treasons fomented by Satan were hatched against him so that at last he was slaine or rather martyr'd by Gazun-chan Cozen to Tangador who had small cause to bragge of his treachery or time to surfet of his glory for by the permissive hand of God in Cazbyn when he lest suspected treason hee is wounded to death by his owne houshold-servants Anno 1305 and of the Hegira 685 and lay long time unburied His brother Aliaptu Abuzayd or Mahumet ben Argon by many attempts and shewes of valour purchased the restlesse Diadem to whom followed Hoharo-mirza or Abusaid Bahador-chan anno 1337 who consumed his life in venerous exercises so that for want of issue the Kingdome became a Theater of many troubles no lesse than 30 at one time contending for the Soveraignty whereby the distressed people were compelled to look for help from home And none more safe to trust to than the Lord of Samerchand Tamberlayne much famoused for his justice and victories against the Sarmatique Tartar Praecopense and Chynaeses Him they invocate by many presents of their love and a letter fill'd with hideous complaints describing their miseries the confusion of their Kingdome and insufferable pride of the thirty competitors The Scythic Emperour promises his best ayde and with fifty thousand horse forthwith enters Persia without doing any hurt save against the Tyrants all whom he persecuted with such fury that in three moneths by the industry of the Inhabitants they are all taken and made to quaffe their farewell in the bitter cup of tormenting Death for which the people urged Tamberlayne to accept the Diadem and to establish it by all meanes possible in his posterity But after seven and twenty yeeres most honourable and succesfull government in that time captivating the great Turk Bajazet whom hee brought away in an iron Cage subduing all Asia yea in eight yeares conquering more Kingdomes and Provinces than the Romans did in eight hundred this Monarch of the Asiatique world is subjected by imperious Death intombed anno 1405 of the Heg 785. at Anzar in Cathayo leaving his sonnes and grand children to inherit his victories Ioon-gwyr Hameth-cheque Myramsha and Mirza-sharock by some call'd Soutochio and Letrochio of which Ioon gwir died three yeares before his father in Palestine leaving two sonnes Mamet Sultan and Pyr-Mahomet which Pir Mahomet was by his Grandsire placed in Gaznehen and Industan where he ruled till Pir Ally slew him villanously Hameth Chec was slaine in Laurestan some say in his fathers last combat with Bajazet Myramsha the third sonne was slaine in battell anno 1480 by Chara-Issuff the Turkoman in Aderbayon but left issue Sultan Mahumed from whom the great Mogul is descended and Mirza-Sharoc the youngest of Tamerlans sonnes surviving the other held most parts of the Empire till dying in the yeare 1447 he left Aberdayon or part of Media to Mirza Ioonsha sonne of Kara-Issuf the Turk new entred Persia Whiles Miramsha's issue preserve the splendour and magnificence of the Tartarian Emperour Myramsha by some call'd Allan-Chan left issue as is said Mahumet call'd Aben Mirza Sultan Mahomet who died anno 1453 leaving to his sonne Barchan at his Coronation new named Mirza Sultan Abuzaed many rich and spatious Provinces as Badashon Gaznehen Cabul Sistan Kerman Chorazan and Khoemuz all which were not sufficient by bribe not force to secure him against the incensed Persian who having endured much affliction for triall of conquest at last Ioonsha with Acen Ally his sonne grand sonne to Kara Issuff were beaten downe and Vsan Cassan call'd also Acembeg Lord of the White Sheepe governed Vnder this Vsan Cassan an Arminian the people fall upon Sultan Abusaid and in a pitcht field vanquish him and eighty thousand men himselfe slaine three hundred Elephants taken and all his Countries ransacked yet by reason of many discords amongst the Persians they revived and set Abusaids sonne upon the Throne by name of Aben Mirza hameth cheque whose foure and twenty yeares were spent in sweet ease and plenty At 's death his Empire descends anno 1493 upon his brothers sonne Babur Mirza named upon the addition of his
Castle Ieloore is by Gidney-cawn an Apostat Mahometan betrayed to the Mogull tho to his own brothers confusion Ieloor taken The fame thereof afflicts many Princes of the Rajeas each of them labouring to conserve their owne against this overspreading Tartar some couragiously defie his greatnesse of which ranck is Roop Mathii a Lady both faire and valiant her face was fitter to subdue Mars then any Javelin yet she confides more in her lance than in her beauty so that cheering up her obedient troopes very bravely she spoiles the Mogulls dominions but in the midst of her boast and hopes shee is affronted by Adam-cawn a hard-hearted warriour who with his regiment so furiously opposed her that most of her Pattans were slaine and her selfe tho shee might have lived to prevent shame and inchastity by poison gave over being Masoffer-cawn also this yeere 1588 of the Hegira 968 conspires against Ecbar in Guzurat first he strangles Gotobdas Mamet-cawn the Kings Viceroy in Amadabat and some Ombraves then seizes upon all the Forts advantageous places for the bettering his villanous rebellion but by Abdall Radgee Beirangana-cawns sonne is vanquisht and fearing to obtaine pardon destroyed himselfe as did the late nam'd Amazon The report of whose death was no sooner bruited but the fame also of Mirza Mahomet Hackim brother to Ecbar his death occasions Ecbar to assure himselfe of Cabul which during Hackims life was impossible but using with all kind respect his wives and children yea giving Chabec-cawn Hametbeg and Mamet Maxuen-cawn his best Vmbraves large wages and command in Mesulipatan Orixa and other places at the same time Zebbar-cawn late President of Kabul and ovated for his victory that yeere against Maxuen-cawn Bama-cawn and other rebells in Bengala is made Viceroy of that Province and Radzia Thormiel cald to Fettipore such time as Radgee Ramgiend Lord of Bando a Province adjoyning to Agra redundant onely in sand and stones by perswasion of Radgee Bhyrmiel presents himselfe to Ecbar at Fettipore and inrolls his countrey as a member of the Mogulls Seigniory by whose example many other petty Gentile Kings came and submitted unto Ecbar and yeerely as a symbol of their love and acknowledgement of subjection present him their daughters to bee his concubines to the Mogull a gratefull tribute and for their better satisfaction to court them in at Praije an 110 course from Agra Chrysoborca in Pliny advances a triumphant pallace upon a promontory where Ieminy empties her selfe into Ganges the materiall is hard stone fram'd pollisht with great beauty calls it Elabasse in nothing more observable Elabass builded then a deep dark cave in which are preserv'd as holy relicks divers deformed Pagotha's rediculously supposed Babba Adam Mamma Evah Seth Enosh and Methuselah whom they affirme were created and lived here and to whom from all parts of India resort innumerable Bannyans for benediction first purifying themselves in Ganges reputed holy and no doubt excellent for we find that a pint of Ganges water weighes lesse by an ounce then any other water and shaving off all haire as uncleane excrements and without them meritorious the whole is surrounded with a triple wall the first of quadrated red stones and highest the inmost of white retaining an Obeliske fifty cubits high and as many under ground to make it durable fixt there it may be by proud Alexander In this which many Potan Kings formerly in vaine attempted by reason of the rivers the King spent a myriad and two hundred thousand of roopees Here also they shew a holy Tree which many Potan Kings have sought to eradicate and destroy but never could prevaile in it Neere Elabasse also is worth our seeing the stately Tombe which Iangheer built for his first wife Raja Mamisenghs sister who poison'd her selfe upon the report of her sonne Sultan Gushroes rebellion The Mogulls affaires succeeding thus fortunately no clouds no tumults appearing Ecbar broaches new Chymeraes and fancies the intire conquest of Purop Patan Chormandel yea of all Bengala to the South and to stretch his Empire North as farre as Tartary to further which he heares that Abdul-cawn sonne and heire to Skander-chan King of Maurenahar part of Tartary was comming to Fettipore to visit him he prevents the most part of his journey meets him at Lahore where he was with much ceremony entertained but after small stay departed home againe Newes being brought King Achbar that Mirsa Sharoph in Badaxan had beene miserably abused by the Ouzbeg Tattars the King resolves their punishment but as more considerable bends towards Orixa that he might at once lord it over Ganges At Atteck he orders his Army to Radjea Byrmiel he gave one part to Iehan-cawn another to himselfe the third Byrmiel leads the Van ' and outstripping the Army falls furiously upon the Patanians who by th' incouragement of Zel-Ally receive them with no lesse fury but answer blow for blow so long so bravely that Byrmiel is beaten downe with most part of his inconsiderate Army Ecbar by such as fled heares the tragedy and inflam'd with desire of conquest and revenge hastens upon them and with such order and force that Zel-Ally and Turkoft are discomfited fifteene thousand slaine and Bengala subjected the conquest of Kandahor is next recorded for hearing of a great variance twixt the two Princes Hussan and Rustan sonnes of Mirza Beyram the Kandahor Governour and the Persian he consederates with the two young men and sends Chabeec-cawn with five thousand horse who at midnight are let in by the two brethren and the Citty made a vassall of Ecbars greatnesse but in short time Abas the Persian King reducted it from the Indian Ecbars Ambition growes endlesse so he can overcome he cares not how nor where he conquers for hearing of the old King of Maurenahars death hee covets to become his successor First to espie their strength and winne black hearted fauters to his intentions hee sends Tzedder-cawn and Hackeem-cawn to work it who under pretence of comforting Abdul-cawn play their parts and at the yeeres end returne well doctrinated the great Mogull reserves the practice for himselfe but perceiving Cassimeer interposing and not under him sends Ally Mirza in Ambassie to Iustoff-cawn a fearefull King that if hee would with his sonne forthwith come to Lahore and do homage to him he should re-accept his seniory and his best power at all times to defend him if he would referre it to the chance of warre he would dethrone and make him a perpetuall slave and his son a stranger The Casmirian King affrighted at it goes instantly to Ecbar and confirmes his vassalage but Iacob-cawn his sonne not able any longer to dissemble flies home and is so followed by such as loved him that he expells the Indians out of the Citty and is acknowledged King but his Halcyon dayes are of small continuance for Ecbar stormes and accilerates Ally Mirza and Cassem-cawn with thirty thousand horse to fetter him they chase him not daring
wall are pictur'd sundry stories and pastimes viz. Iangheer otherwise call'd Sha Selym croslegd upon a rich carpet under a stately Throne or State his sonnes Perwees on the right hand with Curroon and Tymoret his brothers D' han-Shaw and Sha Morad about him Emirza Sheriff Can Asoms elder brother of such wealth and pride that having above a hundred Concubines he clad them daily and each night tearing them off buried them in the ground where they rotted Mirza Rustan once King of Candahor Can Channa Rajea Manisengh Can Asam Asaph Chan and Radgee Iugonath at whose death his wives sister Nephew and seven other friends burnt themselves with him for complement sake in the fire And on the left hand Rajea Bousing fly-skarer Rajea Randas sword-bearer Mocrib-Chan Parasite Radjea Rodorow rebell Radgees Ransingh Mansingh Bersingh Bossou c. In another Goozelchan and neere the former is painted the Mogull under a state croslegd upon the dores the Images of the Crucifix of the blessed virgin Mother In another the Kings Progenitors of whom Babur thirty Nobles in the habit of Pilgrim Kalenders c. The Province wherein Lahore is seated is called Pangab or rather from the Persian word Panch-ob or five waters watered with Ravee Behat Ob-Chan Wihy and Synde or Sindar increased by Paddar and Damiadee by Ptolomy and old Hydrographers call'd Acesines Cophys Hidaspes Zaradras and Rhuadeb or Hispalis In a word no Province of Indya out-vyes it for pleasure and riches nor any part of the East for a continued shade of Ashy trees from hence to Agra five hundred miles distance whose spreading growth and verdure lenifie the scorching flames of Titans motion each eight miles a faire and convenient Saray or Lodge built for Travellers to repose in To our story Ecbar now at Agra resolves in person to prosecute the warres in Decan Anno 1597. of the Heg 977 he sets out towards Brampore but contrary to his expectation so soone as he had past the river Nerebede hee perceives Badursha a couragious Radgee to fortifie Hasser a strong Castle against him the Mogul likes not to leave so violent an Enemy behind him but resolves to take it by force or famine Hasser is three Castles in one Hasser Chotzan and Commerghar the last mounted high and so defended by Nature as is made impregnable to force it is impossible therefore Ecbar resolves to famish them and halfe a yeere to that end he sits afore it which the Radgee within seeing repents his folly and upon request to have life and goods granted him resignes and followes the Camp or Leskar which goes on joyfully till such time as newes is brought how Sha-Selym and Tzebhaer-Cawn with the residue afore-named going against Radgea Rana Mardout in Assmeer The Prince rebells Tzebhaer dies of poyson some thought which alters the Princes progresse for he forthwith seizes upon Tzebhaers treasure amounting to a crow or ten lack of roopes therewith purchases the mercenary affection of so many souldiers that to Agra he returnes resolved to thrust his Father out of his Throne and Empire Ecbar is so amated with this unlucky rebellion that what with feare of his sonnes popularity and what to leave Decan unconquered his heart palpetates he droopes and becomes hatefull to his owne imaginations till Abdul Gazel rouses him and by infusing wholsome encouragement not onely revives but exasperates his revenge to an immediate action whereupon turning his back of Amnadagar with halfe his Army his sonne Sha D'haen Abdul Fezel Chan-Channa Badur-Shaw and other Vmbraves prosecuting Decan hee speeds towards Agra whither Shaw-Selym got before him in hope to ransack his treasury but missing his ayme marches back by Rehen and Annewar and at twelve dayes end came to El-Habasse having already subjected Bahaer Syaupore Chalpy Lacknoo Mekpore Chera Gastanpore Ghanoots Chersam Berage and other Townes and Provinces in all putting Captains of his owne choosing The King now at Agra is sensible of his sonnes conspiracie and wishes all were well againe his letters first attempt it discovering the shame and danger he was in the curse of Mahomet and deprivation of birth-right promising pardon with such perswasions of small force with Shaw-Selym who doating upon his owne exorbitancies derides the Messenger and ere long ore-runnes the Empire to Bengala hoping but in vaine the Viceroy there Radgee Mansing would side with him In this interim his other sonne Prince D'haen or D'haenyel with his Vmbraves and Army enter Decan come first to Gandetzin a Castle in the scite favoured by Nature and by Art of man made impregnable Herein the distressed Lady with all her Nobles and force had pent themselves stored with victualls for two yeares siege and provided of all sorts of warlique instruments Notwithstanding all which the dice of Warre and Fate so ordering it in the seventh moneth they forced it depriving many of their lives all of their wealth and liberty Madam Bebey only rather than suffer any indignity chose to give her selfe by poyson the period of misery But her Magazein of gold and silver came to the Conquerour who giving that in charge to Abdul Gazel and Chanchanna the Castle he trusted to Godgee Byckmirz and without opposall reconquering the Counties Berar and Gandes receiving some acknowledgement from the faint-hearted Kings of Gulcunda and Visiapore loaden with triumph and joy he returnes to Brampore most victorious Brampore BRAMPORE or Barampur Baramatis in Ptolomy or Bracman-pore as my notion prompts me of old at this day a Seminary of Bramans Iogues Calans or Gimnosophs whose Academy about this place is recorded by Porphyrius and Ptolomy is in Artick elevation twenty eight degr three min. From Surat East two hundred and twenty miles from Asmer foure hundred and twenty from Agray one thousand the Province is Chandish or Sanda where watered by Tapee or Tynde the river Surat it becomes fruitfull and pleasant elsewhere barren unwholsome scortching sandy and pernitious the Citty is low and in an unhealthy plaine very spatious but by Bannyans most inhabited the streets are many and narrow the houses not high and but meanly beautifull the North East end it has a Castle upon the flood large and defensive in the river an artificiall Elephant to skilfully shaped that by the Bannyans 'tis adored by others admired in times past here resided the Decan Kings but by the Mogul now beaten from it Chan-Channa's gardens and water devises calld Loll-baut two courses thence are worthy a Travellers commendation Ecbar is no sooner possest how fortunately his sonne Danyel proceeds Southward but Godgee Iehan presents him a penetentiall letter from Sha Selim his rebellious sonne in the contrary quarter After a little stay hee returnes with the Mogulls answer wherein was his assured pardon so hee would dismisse his Army and aske forgivenesse His ungratious sonne returnes this deriding reply that having an Army of seventy thousand horse and many brave men at armes to most
fly away assured if he stay'd long at Court of death or blinding by his Zantell the letter is speedily delivered him who as readily obeyes the disconsolate Prince with three thousand horse posting to Achbar-pore from Agra foure and twenty courses whither the Prince escaping in the twy-light from Court comes follow'd by five hundred young Gallants and altogether hasten towards Lahore Iangheer has immediate notice of his sonnes flight and resenting how dangerous it might prove charges Godgee Melec Allybeg Captaine of the Guard with such force as was about him to pursue Cushroo and bring him back for which he should want no acknowledgement The Cutwall with three hundred horse rides after him and Mortaza-Chan with fifteene hundred horse all night posts after Godgee yea after both Iangheer himselfe perswaded to it by Mirza Vmbrave with fifty Elephants and eight thousand men so that the poore Prince was every way pursued yet such was the haste Hassanbeg made afore them that none of the three came neere him by fifteene courses yea though all the way they spoiled the Villages and made havock of all they could prey upon and in the ninth day attain'd Lahore but intending to enter the Castle are kept out by Ebrahim Chan the Governour premonisht of the Princes flight and which was worse by Sayet Chan three course from the Citie and in his way to Bange the place of his government making as if hee would joyne with him upon the river is imprisoned but by bribe escaping returnes to Hussan and receiving there a guilded bait brought by Zalaladen Hassen that the King passing by all offences had assigned him the Provinces of Cabul and Banasoed with which seeming not contented desires the addition of Zerhynd all being but to dally and allure his stay till Iangheer came to catch him Yet the Prince is not so simple but that hee discovers his Fathers subtilties so that after three weekes vaine attempt to sack the Castle he forsakes the Citie and with twenty thousand horse moves back againe with a full determination to bid Iangheer battell It happened that hee pitcht one night where Mortosa-Kawn with six hundred horse hearing of Gushrooes comming was ambushed without any parlee Mortosa falls upon him but such was the premeditated care Hussan had of the place and fight that in two houres space their Enemies were shrewdly beaten and Sha-Chelyal the Captaine slaine so that had not Godgee Meleck with the Kings standard entred proclaiming with great out-cries that the great Mogull was at hand the Kings side had wholly perished but of such terrour was the Kings approach past Sultanpore that Abdul Rajea the Princes Ensigne-bearer most basely threw it away and fled and by his dastardly example all the Army most of them being by the rustick time-serving people chast and knockt downe and all the baggage seized on The King in memory of this deliverance and victory erects there at Tziekerry i.e. a place of hunting a stately Castle and new names the place which I have formerly described Fettipore that is a Paradise Fettipore if the water had bin good Fettipore by this time had triumphed over all the Cities in Indya 't is wall'd about and to the N.N.W. discovers a lake or fish-pond five miles over The N.E. has a faire Buzzar five hundred paces long and well paved built on all sides with pleasant Mansions at one end is the Moguls house and a Mohol most excellently framed the other side is glorious in a Mosque ascended by thirty steps barr'd with a brave gate in all so observable that it is scarce equall'd throughout Indya the top is full of Piramyds the court within six times bigger than the Royall Exchange in London singularly paved with free stone the Iles are large and paved the columns of one stone high beautifull and affronting this gate is a most sumptuous Monument covered with paint and Oyster pearle shells proud in the Kalender there buried The miserable Prince accompanied with Hassenbeg Abdul-Radgee and Chan Badashaw scarce lookes behind him till they attaine Lahore where Radgee stayes but Sultan Gushroo with Badasha crosse the Ravee and labour to arrive with safety at Rantas a Castle inexpugnable but bad fortune followes them for passing the river Tzenob by the trecherous watermen they are brought into the power of Cassem-chawns sonnes then besieging the Castle who without delay mercy speedily convay them to Iangheer by that time past Latir a floud seven dayes travell thence The King overjoyed with this good hap returns to Lahore and by the way puts to death many Vmbraves the Princes followers The Prince was committed to the custody of Zemanaebeg called after Mahobet-chan i. e. beloved Lord Hassenbeg Bedasha and Abdul Radgee are first publiquely disgrac't and then imprisoned Whether some Noblemen reputed Iangheer tyrannicall or that they thought Gushroo had better title to the Empire or that meere envie caused it is uncertaine but one of these so wrought that one night some prime men of quality watching the Prince agreed upon a conspiracie to take away the Mogulls life upon the high mountaines as he passed to Cabul and to place Gushroo in his roome the Traytors were Mirza Cherieff brother of Assaph chan Mirza Mouradyn his Cozen Mirza Petulla Mirza Shaffenbeg Hollabeg and Murdoph-chan Iangheer suspecting no treachery passes on but by good fortune is so attended that they could by no meanes effect their villany In the interim Ethaman Doulet the Treasurer is accus'd by one of his slaves to have converted to his owne use and for th'incouragement of Traytors 500000 roopees out of the Mogulls Treasury that and the newes of Cheer Affenchan Ethaman Doulets sonne in law his trecherous murther of Cotopdy Mamet-chan Goga Liefetenant of Bengala neere Radgee Mahal albeit Affenchann the Turk therefore was also slaine by Gessadine and Kisswer-Chawn brother and sonne to the Liefetenant his Mother and Wife most basely abused yet these reflected so much upon Doulet that he is not only put from his place but also his estate confiscated and himselfe in Dianet-Chans house to his owne great griefe and the astonishment of all Industan imprisoned But greater was Iangheers feare and choler when by the open and resolute defiance of Godgee Vehes hee is acquainted with the late named conspiracie by men of power such as he never injured and as had relation to be neere him in all occasions he is much confounded at it but by Myrza Vmbraves advice throwes off all abject feare and without more dispute or delay commands them all to execution onely Ethaman Danlet at the request of his Keeper is pardoned upon promise of 200000 roopees to the King and him for his life but led back to prison most disgracefully After which he returnes from Cabul unto Lahore and in the way remembring the danger he had escaped and that Gushroo his sonne was partly causer he commands his sonnes eyes by juice of Aeck to be forsetted but the poyson is more mercifull leaving
him hee forsakes Decan and through Gulcunda and Orixa speeds into Bangala yea with foure thousand horse and three hundred Elephants passes the solitary deserts and so suddenly presents his forces afore Dehaka that Abrahim-cawn governing that Province blasted with amazement flies away first to Bannaras then to Meslipatan and knowes not where to rest securely whiles Curroon smiles at it without stay or let commands his treasure with mony and faire words so bewitching most of the Umbraves of that fruitfull Country that they immediatly came to do him service with horse mony armory Overjoyed with such good hap this daring Prince breaks into Purop flashing as to the other such terrour into the eyes and heart of Makolidischan the Governour that without any show of manhood or pollicie hee posts to Elabass to acquaint Rustan the Captaine with his danger by whom in stead of thanks he is soundly rated and for his cowardize imprisoned Curroon heares of it but so long as hee continues prosperous hee regards no mans misery but rather by such increases his activity passing his Army over Ganges he aymes at Kerry not doubting of the conquest but by the way at Radgee Mahal is with such fury assaulted by Ebraim-chan by this time reincouraged and here ambuscadoed with six thousand horse that little wanted of foiling him had not Abdul-chan behind with best part of his Army hastily brought up his troope and by 3 houres skirmish recovered him after three thousand were slaine of Curroons party and foure thousand of Ebrahims who also lost his life by his too great avarice amongst his men and out of too much appetite to regaine his honour so lately blemished Curroone rubricates this in the Kalendar of his greatest dangers and deliverances it teaches him to travell with more care and vigilancie but disswades not from the prosecuting his unjust designes spoiling robbing all that wealthy Province and entring as Conquerour Tanda and all Gouro Banaras Chatighan and all such Townes in Orixa and Bengala as resisted him preying upon their gold and jewels acting many unchastities and forcing their oaths and hostages to become his subjects thence to Pathan whither Radgee Vslem with five thousand horse and twenty thousand foot came to serve him Perwees heares of Curroons extravagancies and intends to curb him he commits Brampore to Rustan-chan and Laskar-kawn and with 50000 horse aymes with long toyle at Elebasse and entring Lala Bersinghs territories Lala meets him with 7000 horse and gives him a Present of 3 leck of roopees Iangheer lest hee should surfet of delight at Cassmeer entertaines the newes of his sonne Curroons fresh outbreaking as also of Ebrahims death and sad discomfiture but fearing his vagrant sonne might grow too potent if too long suffered in his exorbitancies hee rowses himselfe and forthwith commands Chan Iehan out of Molthan and Buckarr to raise some Companies and to hasten into Gousurat with the tribute of those Provinces to advance a brave Army and joyne with Perwees against the Rebells Chan-Iehan being come to Fettipore he there loyters and as long at Agra wraps himselfe in idlenesse forgetfull of the Mogulls command the Princes need and his owne honour yet Rustan Captaine of Elabas shewes himselfe of better temper for having imprisoned Mokolidaschan for his feare he thenceforth labours to fortifie his Castle with men money and provision which when Curroon heard hee alters his intent and drawes his forces against Rantas a strong defenced Castle which by Syet Monbark is yeelded upon small treaty hee also assaults Tzinner which tho a while well kept by Hastibeg is in the end delivered after this Abdulchan forces Iangheer-Coolighan Captaine of Bonarce to Elabas and Wazer-Chan to Ioonpore and other Townes whereout they drew abundance of treasure and hearing of his brothers approach with Mahobet-chan to forfet prevention he intreats Abdulchan Radgee Rhiem and Byram-chan to try their fortune against Elabasse by Rustan-chan so strongly defended they obey him and with all haste besiege it and next day assault it with utmost fury but by Rustan are as bravely beat off and forced to retreat with shame and danger In that action the seed of so much emulation and spleene kindled twixt Abdul and Radgee Rhiem as was not quencht in long tyme and without both destructions Sultan Perwees and Mahobet-chan hasten if posssible to be at Elabas ere the rebells rose from before it they passe Backery and Municpore but Abdul-chan hyes thence over Ganges and at Bonarce or Banaras joyne with Curroons army Ghan-Ganna imprisoned Ganganna banckrupt in credit with Curroon and Abdul-chan had not beene long in Perwees army but by Mohobet-chans command for some unworthy plots is imprisoned which a servant of his M'hia Fehiem by name took so impatiently that he consorts with 500 men and ambushes twixt their passage to Kalpin and Lala's country by force attempting his Lords delivery his good will was much and good but the successe bad and bitter for Mahobet-chan fearelesse of such a scarecrow in small space slew him and his rash society Ganganna thenceforth is more strickly look't to his estate confiscated his wife and son and family are upon Elephants sent slaves to Agra whiles Perwees Mahobet and the Army arrive at Elabas where by valiant and faithfull Rustan-chan they are welcomd and lodged in the castle with much pompe and joyfull entertainment Mahobet-chawn is impatient of stay till he could come to grapple with Curroones Army who by that tyme had assembled a great company allured by the magick of his gold and tempting language to runne a bold hazard with him to the gates of Death neere Thonec 15 myles from Banaras they pitch their camps in view of one another either side resolv'd with the utmost of valor and policy to purchase victory Ganges that great rich and deified river which say the Bannyans issues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head a whiles forbad them restrayning eithers fury save what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice Beyrambeg began the play with 4000 horse and forraged towards Elabas but is by Mamet Shawma met upon Shawezi's bancks where his men were discomfited himselfe slaine and his head severed Mahobet-chan interprets this as a good Omen to the battell inflamd with courage he drawes out his troopes but knowes not how without apparant perill to passe his men over Ganges till by a Native he is directed to a safe ford where he got over luckily he gives his company some incouragement and delayes not to affront Curroon to his face Curroon willing rather to lose life than swallow such an indignity orders his campe and desires Radgee Rhiem with his Elephants to answer him this couragious Captaine most gladly undertakes it and gives Mahobet so hot a charge yea with his warlick Elephants so disordred him that had Abdul-chan or Derra-chan seconded him as was appoynted Curroon had easily obtaind a glorious victory but they swelling with envy against this brave man
his desteny and chardges so furiously and so close that in despight he mounts the wall and is so bravely backt by his owne regiment that in small tyme he takes the principall cittadell or fortresse and on many parts of the wall florisht his colours in signe of victory and as a call to Abdulchan to to second him but Abdul poysoned with envy to see a Merchants sonne possessor of so much glory forbeares to succor him so that this heroick Captaine too farre ingaged is assayled by Rustan Atset-chan and fresh troopes so long and with such egernesse that all his company are cut in peeces and Mahomet struck dangerously in his eye yea after as much proofe of dexterity and valour as was possible is taken and imprisoned In this base sort the second tyme has Abdul-chan forfetted Curroon the victory yet keepes the knowledge in his owne breast and goes unpunished whiles Sultan Perwees and Mahobet-chan continue their quest and receiving notice of the siege of Brampore they hast thither with chan Alen Radjea Stertsing and a great Army of Rashpoots but Curroon premonished seeing no good likely to bee done arises and falls towards Bellaguate in the way attempting vainely Hasser but missing it redelivers Rantas also into his enemies hands and once more visits Melec Amber at Rerki in Decan cloathed in his old sad habit of misfortune Hasser five courses from Brampore as you passe to Agray the strongest and in all advantages the best defended Castle through Chandis is built upon the top of a most high and precipitious Mountaine wall'd by Nature and capable to feed and lodge forty thousand horse within are springs of wholsome water by vertue whereof the people are infinitly inriched the earth also is excellently fruitfull in hearbs and corne and what else is requirable for defence or pleasure upon all sides are mounted great Ordinance of brasse about six hundred here placed by the last King of Gusurat but one discommodity is commixed making all the other delights relish unseasonably Wormes ingendring in the legges and thighs of such as drinke the water but lately noted and which only gave Ecbar conquest of this Castle otherwise inexpugnable Iangheer the great Mogul rejoyces at the severall victories his son Perwees and Mahobet-cawn are crowned with and to expresse how well hee took it observing the valour loyalty of Ganna-zied-cawn lately made Viceroy of Kabul calls him to Court expresses his good will in variety of complements and more then so addes five thousand horse to his command and under seale makes him Governour of Bengala of all the Provinces of Indostan most famous rich and populous Bengala is a Province in India spacious noble and fruitfull peopled with Mahometans and Idolaters addict to Mars and Merchandize reasonable in shape and colour well cloathed extreamly lustfull jealous crafty and suspicious the ground is redundant in good Townes Castles fruits flowers corn c. mellowed by Ganges which in two great branches flowes thorow her and 200 miles asunder at 23 degrees commixes with the Ocean Normal and Assaph-cawn cast a squint eye upon Ganna-zied-cawns new glory wishing fit occasion to eclipse it and only for that he was son to Mahobet no other reason caused it they are no trewands in the schoole of mischiefe and in the first place to plot more mischievously and affront Mahobet whose miseries are now broaching they get the old Mogul to command Mahobet without delay to send Ganganna the Captaine unto Agra Meza-Arebdestoa-cawn one of Normals creatures delivers the message and Mahobet loth to shew any example of disobedience though he knew langheer abused and this a meere plot of his confusion lets him go who forth with begins to chatter and spit his utmost malice against Mahobet exhibiting many false complaints and incensing as much as possible the old Mogul against his innocent Champion that hee had most unjustly put to death his sonne and others of his kindred out of malice yea after he had voluntarily left Curroon to serve in the Kings Armie These accusations wrought somewhat in the credulous jealousie and weaknesse of the old Mogul but more when from the seeds of haste and distrust sown by Ganna in the heart of Perwee by his letter he intreats his Father to call Mahobet a detractor of his glory and ambtious to ingulph the Monarchy This so confirmes the Mogul that without more dispute or memory of his former services he beleeves Gangannas reports no longer malicious but presently condemnes him of pride and ingratitude gives his command to Cawn Iehan and commands him home to receive his deservings Frau de perit virtus Mahobet admires the villany of Ganganna and Noormall and thinkes by the purity of his owne conscience it is impossible his Master should really beleeve such imputations till remembring his dotage upon Normal and her inveterate spleen hee grants it but resolves to take another course till time might delucidate his innocency and therefore as his love and dutie bound him hee goes to Prince Perwees to bid farewell but when hee perceived him so strangely altered so coy and stately it welnigh struck him dead with sorrow and amazement an excellent sympathy and union till Ganganna dissolv'd it having beene till then betwixt 'em so that with a sad heart and tormented eyes he leaves the Camp but carries along with him the hearts and courages of all the Army From Brampore hee goes many guesse but none no not himselfe knowes whither his fortune led him at length by advice of his best friends that assured him if hee went to Court hee should at least bee branded with the name of Traytor hee travels to his Castle of Rantampore resolving to purge his honour by letter and proofe to Iangheer and to safegard himselfe from the spite of Normal and all his enemies The discord of Peiwees Mahobet and Normal sounds sweetly in Curroons eares hoping by the confusion of them all to ground stedfastly his owne ambitious practises and perceiving his old Father so taken with fantasmes and apparitions of love he resolves to practise deceit and in the Moguls weaknesse to fix the strength of his conspiracies he presents him by Godgee Iehan a crafty man and Tutor to his two sonnes a letter neatly pend but dictating nothing save hypocrisie and submission hee knew also the greedy appetite of his Father after gold and rarities and therefore addes a pishcash of rare coignes a hundred choise Elephants and some portraits hee borrowed from the Portugals They are all well taken his sonnes respected and word is sent him from Assaph-cawn of hopes to re-ingraft him In the meane time Madoffer-cawn at Lahore receives the government or Provostship of Agra from Cassem-cawns pride who was placed there upon his marriage which Movissan-begem sister to the Queen but is so impatiently digested by that ambitious woman that shee ceast not till she had got him re-established Six yeares past viz. 1618. and of the Heg 998. I told you how Iangheer
beaten and unable any longer to abide the heavie strokes of their Iron adversaries Assaph-cawn flies up and downe like a distracted man upbraiding intreating and using all meanes possible to re-incourage them but feare had slaine them the Rashboots swords had flasht too much terror amongst them to revive againe so that with a sad heart upon his Arabian Courser he flies away with Mirza Abontila his sonne to a Castle not farre distant thence but by accident are espied and chased by Mirsa Byrewer Mahobets third sonne and are forced out and shackled in silver fetters are also brought to Attack and there kept whiles Mahobet-cawn and his Army galloping in the Aire of good fortune beat downe the Queenes forces at that time more willing to die than fight so that without more let they proclaime themselves Lords of India and prey upon infinite riches of all sorts in the Lescar now scattered and triumphed over The old Mogul not scared with Belloma brazen noyse and clangot was found sleeping yea luld in Morpheus golden bed till by Mahobet-cawn hee is awaked and assured of his welfare upon a stately Elephant they conveighed him to Attack leaving slaine behind him twelve thousand men and many Umbraves of note Mirza Cassem Radgee Doola Abdul-Gallec Abdul Samet Mirchan Godgee Shawarchan and others and taken prisoners Iangheer Queene Normall Assaph-cawn Mirza Abontila his son Sultan Bullochy Sultan Sheriar Sha Ethimore Sha Hossen Eradet-cawn Mokendaschan Mocrib-cawn and Molena Mahomet all which to the amazement of the world are led prisoners to Kabull to expect the pleasure of their conquerour Now is Mahobet-cawn elevated upon the majestick chariot of command and glory yet resolves in no sort to derogate from the splendor of his Master his only aime being to cleare his honour from scandall and to retaliate his enemies what in his friends hee had formerly suffered Normall now clouded with shame and misery is brought forth and by the monster multitude exclaimed on so that by assent of Mahobet and many other Umbraves she is censur'd to be beheaded Not till then did shee perceive the thorny path shee had too long walked in nor meditated upon the mutability of Fortune nor till then could she frame her ambitious heart to feare or servitude But seeing no remedy she armes her selfe with patience and craves a farewell of her Lord to whom after much ado she is admitted where she prostrates her selfe cloathed in so much sorrow repentance that Iangheer melts into compassion and intreats Mahobet for her freedome The request seemes grievous unto Mahobet but loath in any thing to discontent him or shew disloyalty hee condiscends Normall is pardoned and set at liberty and becomes more inraged by this his lenity and complement the residue of the royall prisoners are used with all respect and noblenesse Eradet and Molena Mahomet excepted who by too much rigor are inraged and Molena died Zadoc-cawn sped best for before the fight upon some occasion iarring with his brother Assph-cawn he fled to Mahobet and is for his service made Viceroy of Lahore and Cassem-cawn by mediation of Moweza-begem his wife sister to the Queene restored to his government of Agray and Madaffor-cawn displaced so that now Mahobet swayes Indus'tan till by vicissitude of time hee decayes and all things are redacted to better order and existence Curroon is at this time in Decan lurking till hee might espie some good advantage to recover his lost fame and once more shake off the dishonourable Title of a Rebellious exile but when newes is brought him from Assaph-cawn of the almost incredible change the Empire had and with what a dismall vayle it was then inveloped his Father and Fatherinlaw being in such base subjection Sultan Bulloch and Prince Daniels sonnes imprisoned and his owne two sonnes with Godghee Iehan their governour brought also to Mahobet tyme-serving Madoffer-chan to abide his mercy He disputes not what Mahobet meant but what had hapned so that exasperated with a thousand fancies he gives Melec Amber many thanks and with Radgee Rhyem's sonne and 12000 horse he passes under leave Rana's territories and at last comes to Asmeer intending suddenly to surprize Agra and proclayme himselfe King but his designe by Radgees sudden death is prevented halfe his company forsaking him whereat doubting some treachery in the Asmerians into such hate his robbing and other disorders had brought him and that Mahobet-chan had sent some force against him and Sultan Perwees also had ambusht for him he makes haste to Tatta hoping upon conquest thereof to command the river Indus and Cambaya at his incamping afore it the Captaine Xeriph-Melec sends him word he had order to keep him out and that if he attempted it he should receive the entertainment of an enemy He sends him word back againe he was sonne unto his King Melec confesses it and a rebell Curroon regreets him he came to defie Mahobet-chan and to bring deliverance to his father Melec answers rather by all their confusions to graspe the Dyadem Curroon sees his fickle standing and deplores his folly but by Derra-chan is incouraged after which he assaults the Citty in great bravery but is beat off next day returning with more rage Melec forsakes the fort issues upon them kills Derra-chan and 300 men and forces Curroon to his old shift to flie to Delly but finding no welcome there hasts with his chaffed troopes to Baker twixt Lahore and the sea to breath a while DELLY is the name of a City and Province of late belonging to the Potan Kings but at this day is under the Imperiall crown of Industant the citty now in being is antient large and pretty beautifull such appearing in that variety of antick Monuments and Tombes of above 20 Kings and great ones there inhumed admired by Travellers and adored by infinite troopes of superstitious Indians Not a little famous also in that Piramyd three myles distant in old Delly where lies buried King Homayon grandfather to Iangheer by frame and inscription speaking Alexander at what tyme as now Delly was the Mausoleum of many Potentates new Delly is wald about but with small security is watred by part of Ieminy over which we enter upon a twelfve archt bridge which from a little spring in these mountaines drills to Agra and after a great increase in many meanders at Prage flowes into Ganges and with her runnes in two mouthes 200 myles asunder into the Bengalan gulfe at 22 degrees of North latitude Melec Amber so soone as Curroon was parted to get affection from Perwees also gives liberty without treaty or ransome to Laskar-chan Ebrehem-Hossen and Mirza Manout-sher and with a convoy leaves them at Brampore The same moneth Mahobet-chan received 26 leck of roopees from Channazeid-chan his sonne vice-roy of Bengala which he extracted as annuall rent out of Pattana Soughtar Banaras Sonargan and Chatigan rich and well peopled Citties upon Ganges as also out of Sondiva an isle 20 leagues from Catigan than which is none more
cloudy and his motion whirles into a malignant Orbe by the disconsolate Newes hee receives from Brampore of his beloved sonnes death His eyes grow dim his heart turnes leady and all conceits of pleasure relish unsavourie when the departure of Perwees objects it selfe and those hopes and comforts he had in him seeme fantasticall Goushroo and Sha Daniel are dead Perwees is now no more Sha Ethimore and Hussen his grand children made Christians Bullochy is a child Sheriare a foole and Curroon the very eye-sore of his conceptions a rebell wilde proud greedy treacherous and deceitfull himselfe was old and at his death the Empire subject to innovation or domestick consumption in these and such like dolorous cogitations Iangheer spends the weary minutes of his life till death ultima poena as they call it summons him in few moneths after to the resignation of his life and Empire Whiles Maehobet Chawn chawes the afflicting newes also of Prince Perwees his death 'Twixt whom forgetting Gangannas trechery was most exact friendship and sympathie He sees in him the privation of all his joyes the hopes he had in his suceession annihilated and the ambition of Normall and Assaph Cawn suspected to have poysoned him ingendring to a monstrous height so that bidding farewell to the world and all other society and imployments he contracts himselfe to privacie and solitude Mahobet-cawn turnes Eremite feeding upon contemplation of what had past and the lubricity of terrestriall pleasures vaine-glory and other vanities he forsakes his strong and delightfull Castle Rantampore and through Zialor comes to Radgee Zirmol and under licence fixes at Zirmol where hee anchorites But Curroones ayre swells with Chymaeraes now more than ever affecting the Empire none but children interposing him hee knew his Fathers affection was easily recovered and Assaph Kawn his restlesse projector carefull to state him in the chaire of Majesty so that arm'd with confidence and accompanied with forty Elephants and fifteene hundred horsemen he leaves Baker Chytor Tutta and through Tesel Chobager and Ecclisser comes to Masser Thormet in Decan where Melec receives him with all joy and adds to his troopes foure thousand horse with promise of forty thousand more to assist him upon any good occasion CHYTOR in mid-way 'twixt Brampore and Adsmeer is yet a Citie justly clayming precedencie for antiquity amongst all the Cities of Indya It was formerly called Taxila and that Metropolis whence King Porus issued against great Alexander Ranna Radgee Mardoot lineally descended from him of late yeeres and till by intreaty of Sultan Curroon Anno 1614. he came to Agra and in slight sort did some obeysance here soveraignizing and in Oodipore The Citie is at this day but meanly beautifull three miles in compasse not a third part of what was formerly Time and war have furrow'd her not onely disroabing her of her bravery in buildings where men inhabited but in huge Temples of Idolatry the ruines of above a hundred once lofty in fastidious Turrets to this day remaining of stone strong good white and well polisht rare and observable now inhabited by Storks Owles Batts and like birds of whom the superstitious people have no small esteeme and veneration the North pole is elevated in that place twenty five degrees This Province is bounded by Cambaya on the South by Chandys on the North by Berar East and on the West the Ocean returne we to our History Ganganna Gannaoa dies selfe conceited by his late honour and imployment against Mahobet-cawn whom hee verily thought had left the society of men for feare of him resolves to ferret him but in the mid'st of his bravadoes and hopes is arrested by grim death and his carkasse conveighed to Delly to be intombed amongst his great Ancestors At that time Iacont-cawn an Umbrave of great wealth honour and experience commanding eight thousand horse to serve Curroon by many affronts without cause put upon him by Mirzaladin Melecks sonne is inflamed with rage and flies to Chan Iehan Generall of Prince Perwee's Army at Brampore who receives him with joy and by his exaspiration with foure hundred Elephants and forty thousand horse make haste to Bellagate the widdow and child of Sultan Perwees being committed to the care of Lescarcawn where they use all extremities of warre spoyling burning and captiviting all they had a minde to and by rare chance Abdul cawn disgrac't intercepting some letters from Godgee Hessary they discover Abdul-cawn whom some call Abdulla-cawn the weathercock of those times his intent to turne from the Kings party and retvtue to Curroon hee is convicted his estate confiscate his honour reverst himselfe manacled cald the darling of inconstancy and upon an Elephant in disgracefull sort from the Army sent to Brampore where by Lascar-cawn hee is imprisoned This done they enter Decan with all speed and pierce most fortunatly into the mid'st of Melecks Kingdome doing what they pleased without opposition so that after six weekes hostility they returne loaden with abundance of wealth and over-joyed with their easie victory But when they thought themselves most sure Melec presents himselfe in an advantagious place with eighty thousand men incircling them on the one side the stupendious hills on the other so that surrounded with amazement and clad with black ragges of discontent they incamp not daring to hazard the fight or by stratagem break out to hazard their deliverance but in that miserable sort are lockt up the Decan at on time offending them till by famine finding no pleasure in their riches where no meat on sure tearmes was to bee purchased they were constrained to parle and submit assured only of their lives stript out of all their wealth and bravery returning with more shame than they had honour formerly Iangheer the great Mogull has advertisement of this variable successe but knowes not how to alter it nor cares hee much the death of Perwees so possesses him yet Normall ceases not to pursue her revenge against Mahobet and finding him so hard to be dealt withall begins will Channa-zeid-cawn his valiant sonne whom sheere calls home and places Mocrib-cawn in his command over five thousand horse and twelve thousand men but he had small joy of his greatnes for in lesse than three weekes being there by accident sailing over Ganges the boat is over-turned he drowned and Fedi-cawn is made Viceroy of Bengala and Malacca after him during which Iangheer being at Lahore an Ambassador Ziet Borka by name arrives with presents and commends from the King of Maurenahar or Manauwer accompanied with the only Oracle and wonder of his time Hodgee-Abdulradgee brother to Chojea Callaun admired by all and resorted to by many sorts of Tartars from Bochar Tuza Balck Samerchand Gaznahen and other parts none of which came empty-handed so that in small time this Monck was comparable in riches with most Potentates of Asia Hee is brought into Lahore with incredible joy and admiration all the Umbraves of the Court Assaph-cawn excepted attending him
985. of ours 1605 by a stratagem Emangoli-cawn Duke of Shyraz overthrew him by to satiate the hungry ambition of Abbas his Master and which is rare considering the great poverty of his Country for the Kings part loaded away with treasure seven hundred Cammells The captiv'd King Ebrahim had his life and a noble pension promist him hee enjoyed them but awhile an unexpected sword of death betraying his hopes without which the Dyadem sat not right upon the head of Shaw-Abbas the soveraigne Nine dayes we staid in Larr a shame it were if in so long time we had noted nothing Lar is from Gumbroon seven small dayes riding from Shyraz foureteene from Babylon twenty a very poore Towne it is as being parcht with the scalding Sun defaced by rage of warre and thrown down by many fearfull Earth-quakes Anno Domini 1400 it shook terribly and made five hundred houses prostrate to its Tiranny Anno 1593. of their account 973. she boasted of five thousand houses but see how vain is the pride of man that very yeere the earth sweld with such a dreadfull tympany that in venting it selfe it made all Larr to quake and in fine would not be supprest but by the weight of three thousand houses turned topsi-turvie quashing to death three thousand men in their destruction The old Castle also on the East side of the Towne it owes its foundation to Georgean Melec though built atop a solid rock groand in a like affrighting downfall and to me it seemed strange a City so strongly so surely founded should be so subject to such unnaturall commotions Whither it be as Democritus dreamt from the gaping Sun-torne earth quaffing in too greedily too much water and like a glutted drunkard overcharging her caverns vomits it up in a forcible and discontented motion or whether as Aristotle teaches from vapors ingendred in the bowels of the earth and loth to bee imprisoned in a wrong orb rends its passage by a viperous horrid motion or whether from subterranean fires the ayre inflamed upon sulphur or such exuberances of nature I dare not conclude but leave such theories to those that study Meteors Let us therefore see what Larr now is Larr the Metropolis of this Province is not wald about in that Art is needlesse the lofty rocks on East and North so naturally defend her besides a brave Castle at the North quarter mounted upon an imperious hill not only threatens an enemy but awes the Towne in a frownig posture the ascent is narrow and steep the Castle of good stone the walls are furnisht with usefull battlements whereon are mounted twelve brasse cannon pedroes and two basilisks the spoiles of Ormus within the Castle wall are raisd a hundred houses stored with men most part soldatts who have there a gallant Armory able to furnish with Lance Bow and Gun three thousand men it is a fort without of a stately frame within is no lesse commendable the Buzzar is also a gallant fabrick the materiall is good chalkie stone long strong and beautifull a quadrant I cannot call it the sides are so unequall t is cover'd atop archt and in piazza sort a kinde of Burse wherein each shop showes ware of severall qualities the Alley from North to South is 170 of my paces from East to West a hundred and sixty the ovall in center is about a hundred and ninty a building to speak of the Asiaticks in some hundreds of miles scarce to be parrelled Neere this Buzzar are coyned the Larrees a famous sort of money shap'd like a long Date stone the Kings name stampt upon pure silver in our money valuing ten pence The Mosques here bee not many one especiall Mosque or Deer it has round either shadowing out Aeternity or from a patterne of the Alcaba the holy Temple in Mecca whose shape they say Abraham had from heaven in some part varnisht with Arabick letters and painted knots garnisht in other parts with Mosaick fancies t is low and without glasse windowes wodden trellizes excellently cut after their invention supplying them the entrance is through a brazen gate neer which is hung a Mirrour whether to admire their tallow faces in or internal deformities I know not some lamps it also has for use and ornament some Prophets rest their bones here take one for all Emeer-Ally-zedday-ameer a long-namd-long-bon'd if his grave bee right long since rotten Prophet the older Prophet the fresher profit zeale and charity oft times worship antiquity but how can I credit them that he was a Mahometan they say if that will not please they sweare hee died a thousand five hundred yeeres ago six hundred yeeres before Mahomet and yet a Mussulman their faith admits no questions nor answers or if it did wee will not trouble it For I see variety of good fruit close by to which I have a better appetite here are the fairest Dates Dactills in Latin from their finger like shape Orenges Lemons Pomcitrons you find in Persia if those will not please you buy here at easie rates Goats Hens Rice Rach and Aquavitae but for their water wee drest our meat with it the people drink it they call it Ob-baroon which in the language of Persia signifies rain-water but with farre more reason I may call it Aqua-Mortis death seeming to bubble in it A base qualified water it is whether that their Tancks or Magazeens are ill made or nastily kept and by that the water is corrupted or whether the raine of it selfe is insalubrious and loathsome I cannot tell but both it may bee makes it so bad as it is so unsapory so ill to the gust as worse water for taste and especially for property can scarce be relished as little of it came in my belly as could be borrowed from extremity of thirst and I suppose I had good reason to forbeare it for it causes Catarrhs breeds sore eyes ulcerates the guts and which is more terrible than the raest it ingenders small long worms in the legges of such as use to drink it and which sort of vermin is not more loathsome to look upon than painfull to the itching disease of them that breed 'em by no potion no unguent to bee remedied they have no other way to destroy them save by rowling them about a pin or peg not unlike the treble of a Theorbo the most danger being this that if in the screwing the worme chance to break it makes them very dolefull Musick for it endangers the leg apt to gangreen and but by lancing hardly curable The water is the naturall cause of this strange malady and seemes to mee to bring the venome from the region where t is generated for commonly the clouds here at Larr are undigested as in the Tornadoes I have formerly spoken of and unagitated by the wind Nor do the clouds distill their raine in drops as is usuall in colder regions but in whole and violent irruptions dangerous both in the fall and no lesse hurtfull in the using
for fruit all so greene so sweet so pleasant as may well be term'd a compendium of sense-ravishing delights or King Abbas his Paradise Monuments should come now to our description Monuments but I found few to feed my eyes upon Rustans Tomb must be one two miles from Spahawn behind the Garden wee last spoke of a Tomb scarce discern'd by shape but by the Gowers Cabala preserv'd from Oblivion To see it wee foot it to the very top of an Imperious Mount where is only a hollow Cave whether cut by Art or Nature scarce discernable His grave is here his Image at a place neere Shyraz from his gigantive shape ingraven of old in a black-marble precipitious mountaine Noctae or Nogdi Rustan a brave Cavalier such time as Artaxerxes Queen Hesters husband wore that Diadem A.D. 3500. but envie the heyre of perdition so burnt in the wrathfull heart of his unnaturall brother Shawgad that when Rustan was hot in chase he fell into a dreadfull pit cover'd with boughes as if it had hatcht no danger but in prosecuting his hate was also slaine by a Dart Rustan flung up to retaliate him Such was the end of valiant Rustan of whom the Gowers the old Persians fable more than we of Bellyanis or Ogero the Dane Neere which and neerer the Citie is Darius or rather Xerxes mount a rising hillock and whence Xerxes viewd the innumerable Army he had in that large Plain weeping upon a meditation that in so few yeeres none should be living a Notion true and sooner than he predicted for what by Themistocles ashore and Leonidas at sea at Salamys and Thermopilae his huge Armie melted away and quickly became numerous Not farre thence ride we to the Acroceraunian hills I meane not those of Epire knowne to Ptolomy hard and loftie Through which bold daring Abbas is forcing passage though he effect it not under twenty yeeres and by th' incessant toyle of 40000 somtimes 200000 men to invite a sweet river to Spahawn that runnes contentedly to it selfe fifty miles thence and is by this I beleeve effected which when it is may well compare with that old wonder intended by vaine-glorious Nero 'twixt Ostia and Avernus now call'd Licola Within Spahawn I found none save that Columne or Pillar of heads of men and beasts erected as a Trophy of the Kings oath and as a Monument of the peoples levity At the base t is twenty foot round and threescore high or there-abouts for to my shame I confesse it I forgot to measure it The occasion this of erecting it Anno 1500. Heg 880. such time as Tamas shaw ruled Persia and Guinza added to the lustre of that Diadem this Citie surfetting with luxurie for Vbi uber ibi tuber sayes Apuleius refus'd not only to contribute reasonably to the Kings occasions at that time troubled with Turk and Tattar but most audatiously with stood his desired entrance a rebellion so insufferable as made him sweare a revenge scarce to be paralleld With fury he assaults in rage enters firing a great part and in all hostile severity pillaging each house and to conclude regarding neither the outcries of old men weak women nor innocent children in two dayes be made headlesse 300000 of those late Spahawnians and from Tamberlan's rigid example at Damascus erects a Trophy this pillar of their heads as a memoriall of their basenes En quò discordia cives perduxit miseros Another followes The Piller of Heades in Spaâ—â—awne Ielphey is the last part wee propos'd concerning this great Citie the scite resembles Pera to Constantinople or Southwark to London the river Syndery interposing T is call'd a Suburb as be Gower-abaut Abbas-ebaut Chanzabaut Azenabaut and Cheigh-Saban Though indeed they are peopled with men of one religion admitting very little mixture Ielphy is govern'd by a peculiar Podestate an Armenian Prince Hodge Nazar by name indeed a Christian Merchant hee and his enjoy freedome of conscience but for mony matters are at the disposition of the avaritious King In Ielphea nam'd from another of that name in Armenia old Ariaramnes I beleeve mentioned by Tortelius the people are numbred ten thousand in Azenabaut foure thousand families Ielphè is by some writ Golfa and Chiulfa but I think I have better hit our Dialect The Jelphelyns are habited like the Persians but differ in face most of these and the Georgians having brighter haire and more modest eyes than the Mahomitans They are generally Merchants and to say truly but Factors for the King who exacts an account at their death and inherits their posessions They professe Christianity taught them erroniously by Iacobus the Syrian Monothelite They have two Protomists one here in Ielphey th' other resides somtimes at Sib neere Tharsus other-times at Ecmeasin not farre from Rivan or Ervan Their religion I have already spoken of An Old Inhabitant of Persia. We entred Spahawn the tenth of April and on May day departed thence for the Court then at Asharaff in Mozendram about foure hundred English miles distant North. Our first nights journey was to Reegue or Reig an houres riding from Spahawne Thence-forward we made by reason of the intollerable heat pale Cynthia and Arcturus our night guides all day refreshing in the Carravans-raws good resting places if gnats forbid it not From Reigue we travell'd to Sardahan sixteene English miles next nght we made Whomg our Manzeil being seven and twenty miles from Sardahan Next night to Towgebawt a house and garden of the Kings for beauty add sweetnesse comparable to any other in Parthya the more observable being seated in a barren cursed sandie soile champaigne and terrible to inhabit in But The blushing Rose growes here the Violet And Parthyan Mirtle in choise order set Hic rosa purpureo crescit rubicunda colore Et Viole omne genus hic est Parthyca mirtus for five hundred paces it every way gives a series of all sorts of Persian fruits and flowers Pomgranads Peaches Apricocks Plums Apples Peares Cherries Chesnuts Damask red and white Roses and other flowers innumerable fructified by a crystall rivolet intermixt with many delicate naturall and artificiall Grottoes Labyrinths Meanders and Volliers with Sudatories or Hummums of good stone pav'd with choise white Marble the Mohull or Summer Lodge bragging of a dozen chambers delicate in view rich in gold imbosments and proud in th'Architect all safeguarded from sand and stealth by a defensive wall that hinders save in one rising hillock in midst of the six descents the affrighting sight of the circumvolving Wildernesse Who calls himselfe a Traveller must not imagine pleasure his Object 't is paine and miserie must entertaine him oftnest Otherwise I could have lull'd my selfe in this last Paradise but on wee must and try the difference From Tawgebagh wee got next night to Bawt six farsangs or 18 miles distant nothing memorable save an old Castle in the way which by Cynthia's palenesse we could hardly discover From Bawt wee got by break of day to
them The place is fruitfull and blest in present prosperity and antick greatnesse the ruines compleating the report of her being once Metropolis the houses at this day are not builded in the meanest fashion glorying above the rest in an old but strong and stately Castle second to none about her which besides the well composed Architecture affoording no small pleasure to the eye is observable in a deep trench fild with water of good defence against the pilfering and rodomantadoes of the adjoyning Taurisians commendable also in some sweet gardens usefull and delectable within the Towne and neere the Castle is a famous Mosque honoured by foure hundred and foure and forty Princes and Prophets of that Kingdome intombed there whose Sepulchers raise admiration in the beholders that especially of Meer Agowmadeen is famous to whose shrine are daily offered serious devotion As I entred I found twenty reverent and well apparelled Arabians in a round close by the Princes Dormitory with each an Arabic Alcoran before him out of which with great modesty and good musick they chanted a dolefull requiem to his ghost in which they were so serious that notwithstanding I came suddenly amongst them and in such a habit as others admired they sung on and in a Dorick sweetnesse continued till they had finisht that their Threnody which ended they arose and bad me heartily welcome readily poynting out the rarities of their Temple Thence I went to the river side over which upon a Bridge we rode the night before hoping to shade my selfe from outrageous Phaeton under some Poplars there abounding but quickly left the place againe for 7 or eight beautious but not bashful Damosells like so many Dorids sprung suddenly out from the water to admire my cloaths never regarding they were naked some my hat my hayre others other-some thought my spurres an antick I wondred no lesse at their immodesty and left them with a frowne dictating their base carriage and my impatience And till by inquiry I saw it came from a greedy novelty I thought them Layesians but it seem'd I erred for when the men such time as Phoebus mounts in his meridian go to sleep the women then enjoy the river and coole their heat in both kinds too much abounding there Their habit is only a smock of transparent lawne wrought at hands neck and skirt with an imbroydery of silk and gold the men are cloathed like the other Hyrcanians From Omoall we travelled to Larry-Iohn or Ioon I cannot tell if that Ionaca in Ptolomy thirty miles thence at which place the Kingdome of Hyrcania takes end and Mount Taurus or Taur-achow beginning Taurus sayes Dion Alexan. Totius Orbis terrarum maximus sic dictus quod instar Tauri elato capite incedit c. But Eustathius thus Veteres omnia grandia robusta Tauros vocavere c. Our journey lay sometimes through inhospitable straits other times over most stupendious hills the bredth from one side to another about fifty English miles from Omoall to Damoan the length fifteene hundred towring in a hedge of hills from Armenia to the furthest part of Indya and after two dayes painfull climbing got so high that wee might see the middle region under us and we involved in chill exhalations Taurus Mons omnium maximus sayes Aristotle yet the sublime height did not disaminate us as did the danger of descending the path was so uneven and craggy yea the rocks so unskilfully cut out for a passage that great heed must be taken in the treading or a terrible precipice into a bottomlesse lake indangers us in one hill for three miles together the way was carved by some unskilfull workman in the mid-part of a most horrible aspiring perpendicular Mountaine the lane in some places a yard in some but halfe a yard in breadth so as if by accident two horsemen meet I could not see how both could have safe passage nor is it higher than ones head if mounted a wretched passage for whiles I was sometimes looking at the wonderfull height above us and anon casting my sight downwards into that dark Abisse a rock bending ill-favoredly into the narrow way struck me such a blow as for a great while I was astonied and happily delivered from a downfall a rock demanding an uncivell tribute from all carelesse passengers At length wee got safe out of that formidable path of death into the broad and lofty Mountaines from whence the lying Greekes beheld Prometheus sonne of Iapeth by Asia his wife and brother to Atlas cheyned to these rocks his heart gnawed by a Vultur for daring though Pallas helpt him up to steale celestiall flames from Apollo's Chariot wheeles to inspire life into his Images The mythology is this from these high Mountaines Prometheus first studied and observed the firmamentall motion the acronicall rising and setting of the Stars and other bodies celestiall the causes of Meteors eclipses and other hidden rarities of nature Hence Pyrrha's stones are fabled Saturn's reigne The birds of Taurus Promeths theevish veine Hinc lapides Pyrrhae jactos Saturnia regna Caucasiasque refert volucres furtumque Promethei Hence also let us view from this highest Tarrasse of the world North East and fix our dim sight upon Corason Corazon I take for that old writers intitled Coraxi in Pliny Corziana in Procopius Corasphy in Ptolomy Chorasmia in Athaeneus vicinating the Seres part of Sogdiana the one of Aria the other famous in silk and delicate wooll by Lucan memorized Quid Nemora Aethyopum molli canentia lana Velleraque ut foliis despectant tenua Seres What Aethiops woods made white with tendrest wooll Or Seres leaves which scorns soft fleece to pull Tzetza thus in their commendations Seres atque Tochares the first seat of the Turks or Turqu'stans gentes prope Iudiam texturas pulcherrimas texentes omnium quae praeciosiores antiquis temporibus Iberes occidentales now Georgia Coraxi now Corazon similiter texturas pulcherrimas lana operianur c. Nunc autem abuteus ut multi dixeram illud ex Thebis ex Sericis non ignarus ut alli c. Whereby it seemes though silke in the Latin is from the Seres yet they had it from the Iberians and they from Aegypt so likewise now Hyrcania is most excellent Sydonius Apollinarius also thus Assyrius gemmas Ser vellera thura Sabaeus Assur yeelds gems wooll Seres Saby fumes Corazon included twixt 36 and 40 degrees is divided into three large Provinces Hery Farghan and Tocharistan i.e. Aria Paropamisa Tocharia all at this day adding lustre to the Persian Diadem Of Hery and Farghan I have elsewhere spoken Tocharistan or Turquestan is a member of the Ouzbeg-Tartar in 40 degrees adjoyning Gaznehen and S'marcand Townes of note there are Tuz in 38 degrees the birth-place of Nazarradyn the great Mathematician Commentator upon Euclyde Nishapore Sarkas Gelack c. extending from this part of Taurus to the river Nycaphtac of old call'd Oxus the Terminus to the ambitious Persians subdivided into
come and by that turn'd the fortune of the day eclips'd by that interposition and made to dy there in an honourable conquest the cheife Captain Arezbeg unhorst imprisoned and at Sumachy most basely hang'd to give the terrified Tattars fresh incouragement Sumachy or Shamaky as some call it has North latitude 39 degrees a frontier Town it is Medya Armenia and Hyrcania parting there it was founded by Shamuc-Zeddaule An. Dom. 990. Heg 370. and from whom peradventure it was named It has foure thousand families the houses are low little gracefull seated in a pleasant plain or valley to the Notth and West allowing a delightfull prospect Anno Domini 1566. Heg 946. her last Native King Obdolow-cawn dyed and his sonne Syrvan-Shaw was forced to inroll himselfe a Tributary to Shaw-Abbas In this Towne is a Tower of heads rais'd by the insolent Turq's such as is in Spahawn and which the old knave Mustapha made be erected But to returne Mahomet Codobanda has quick newes of the shamefull death Arez-beg had suffred He sorrowes for the losse of so brave a man is sick of revenge and intreats his couragious sonne Emyr-Hamzè-Mirza the wonder of his time to recompence that villany who most cheerefully with twelve thousand men hasts out of Casbyn and in nineteene dayes presents his men in the face of Abdulchery and his Tattars flashing such pannique feare amongst them that after two houres fight hee rowts his Armie and with much shame and losse forces them away to seek more shelter that done he enters Erez and massacres the Turkish Garrisons Caytas the Bassa hee made to imitate Arezbeg in the grizely play of Death he recovered also two hundred peeces of Artillery those very same his Grandsire Tamas had lost to the grand Signieur Solyman he stayes not there but hearing where the Tartars had re-incampt with his speedy Army he re-encounters them cut most of them in peeces whereby the birds of the ayre might more easily prey upon their carcasses Abdulchery by fortune of warre was unhorst by the gallant Prince and sent captive to Ere 's where the Begun or Queene mother lay during which Osman and his Turks enter Sumachy without resistance but the Persian Prince hasts thither and with such furie that amazed Osman takes th' advantage of the night and stole away leaving Sumachy to the Princes mercy who for her perfidy made a fire of her houses and seem'd to quench it with blood of the Inhabitants Returning back to Erez he forces his Mother and he youthfull Tartar to follow him to Casbyn where he was received with Epiciniaes and songs of joy and triumph Osman in the interim sculks in Derbent whither we will take the paines to follow him DERBENT is a strong and famous Port Town upon the Caspian sea viewing from her loftie Tarrasses the Armenian and Hyrcan Territories Ararat and the sea knowne to our predecessors by many names as Alexandria from the great Macedonian who built many Townes and gave them his name Morcosa Demyrcapi and now Derbent memorable in her best passage from Armenia major Medya c. into Mosendram Gheylan Shervan Tartary c. it is removed one hundred and twenty miles from Sumachy from Bildih 180. it elevates the North Pole one and forty degrees fifteene minutes and admits three miles compasse and better is circled with a strong high and usefull stone wall the houses Hummums and Churches are but meanly beautifull such rage the Prince Emir-Hamze shewed here Anno 1568. Heg 948. such time as he unkenneld with smoke and flame Osman Bassa and his Turkish varlets and made the Inhabitants feele the temper of his biting sword the houses the fire of his wrath an object of his justice of their levity and rebellion In Derbent the strong Castle Kastow is most observable pleasant and every way advantagious that wall also which runnes thence to Tephlys in Georgia built by Alexander the great upon like occasion Offa drew his ditch to terminate the valiant Brittans call'd also Caucasiae vel Iberiae portae is one of the wonders of Asia but at this day moath-eaten by iron tooth'd Time and warres inconsiderate furie returne againe Abdul-chery and the Queen-mother by this are so linkt in Cupyds chains that the Tattar finds himselfe double fettered but after much parlee and fight they tooke truce and grew so co-united that the Sultans in Casbyn took notice of it but neither regarding her Majestie nor his youth forgetting also that the King intended to make him his sonne in law no dishonour being the great Cams brother all these neglected they broke in at such an unluckie time as they were acting some inchastity a sight so odious to the jealous Sultans that they first made him an Eunuch and after that slew them both concluding so Anno Heg 958. the end and tryumphs of the Praecopensian Tartar After some stay in Cazbeen our Ambassador to swiften his dispatch visited the Load-starre of Persia the grand Favorite Mahomet Ally-beg who entertain'd him with a loftie look and wisht him to trust his secrets to his Cabinet wherein the mysteries of the whole state was lockt the King shewing himselfe unwilling to be further troubled The Ambassadour might in any other place than Persia have return'd him the Lye but perceiving no remedy and desiring to haste home imparted so much as hee saw necessarie Touching Sir Robert Sherley hee was to expect no other satisfaction his enemie was dead and at the Caspian sea the King had sufficiently honoured him but to speak truly the Pot-shaugh had then no affection to him when by reason of his age hee was disabled to doe him further service adding but out of an Enemies mouth that all his Ambassies and messages to the Princes of Christendome were frivolous and counterfeit But when our Ambassadour objected he was in person there to justifie his authority that he had the Kings Letter of credence to testifie sign'd and stampt by the Shaugh himselfe and that it had beene a ridiculous presumption in Sherley to have dared to contest with Abbas to his face if hee had beene an Impostor the Favorite had not wherewith to answer save that so our Ambassador pleas'd to lend him that Phirman Sir Robert Sherley had brought in his defence hee would returne it him next day with his Masters speach concerning it A vexation it must needs be to my Lord Ambassadour to treat in this uncivill sort by a malicious proxy necessitie forced it Three dayes passed ere Mahomet-Ally-beg would vouchsafe to returne the Letter or give that satisfaction he had promised at length he came and told the Ambassadour that the King had lookt upon it had denied it to be his and in a great rage had burnt it wishing Sir Robert Sherley would depart his Kingdome because old and as hee thought troublesom It was in vaine to chalenge the pragmatique Pagan in point of honour nor knew he any recourse by justice to ease himselfe We all were verily perswaded he
their Priests assisted the holy ceremonie his horse which was led before had a black velvet Saddle on his back his Coffin wee covered with a crimson satten quilt black they account not of lyned with purple Taffata upon the horse were lay'd his Bible Sword and Hatt Mr. Hedges Mr. Stodoart Mr. Emmery Mr. Molam Dick th'Interpreter and such others of his followers as were healthy attended the Corps Doctor Goch a reverent Gentleman buried him where hee rests peaceably till the resurrection And although his singular vertue and memorie cannot perish evehit ad Aethera virtus yet I wish with all my heart hee had a Monument some more eminent memoriall He was I assure you vivum omnis virtutis exemplar and I wish I could better expresse my love than by decking his herse with this impolisht Epicaedium Lo Noble Cotton far from home hath found A resting place in the Assyrian ground His countries Love his Duty to his King So far a willing heart from home did bring Harden thy tendernesse no danger feare The way to heaven alike is every where En procul a patriis situs est Cottonius oris Anglus in Assyria contmulatus humo prestitit haec Patriae jussisque potentibus almi Principis obsequiis officiosus amor Excute mollitiem quicunque pericula lentus Causaris Coelo par fit ubique via Wee have small joy to stay here any longer three Ambassadors wee have buried and though the Pot-shaugh seeme to pitty us for as an assurance of his kind respect he sent each of us two long coats or vests of cloth of gold yet hee may call himselfe a miserable man that hangs his welfare upon the smiles of Persia We are ready to be gone but cannot go till Mahomet-Ally-beg blow us away and we danc'd long attendance ere he would give us a Phirman for our safe travell and that Letter we desired from the Persian King to our most gracious Soveraign At length we got it wrapt up in a peece of cloth of gold fastned with a silken string and sealed with a stamp of Arabic letters after the mode of Asia Our Phirman or Pasport of safety sealed with a stamp of letters in Inck take thus interpreted THe high and mighty Starre whose Head is covered with the Sunne whose Motion is comparable to the highest Fyrmament whose Imperiall Majesty is come from Asharaph and hath dispatched the Lord Ambassador of the English King c. The Command of the great King is this That his Followers bee conducted from our Pallace of Casbyn to Saway and by the Daraguod of Saway to the City of Coom and by the Sultan of Coom to the City of Cashan c. Through all my Territories faile not my command I also command them a safe and peaceable travell From Casbyn POT-SHAVV ABBAS August An. Dom. 1628. Asfendermed-maw Hegira 1008. So after thirty dayes stay in Cazbyn about the midst of July wee departed But ere we go farre let us bid farewell to Mahomet-Ally-beg our small friend and according to his worth let others know him His birth-place is Parthia from Parah to fructifie his Almuten was calculated the aspects found happy If from a Costermonger to bee next the King may be call'd happy and in him the matchavillyan motto was approved a dram of good fortune is better than a pound of vertue In that happy minute of all minutes Abbas by accident cast his eye upon him a magick infusion it had it seemes for from the Apple-basket he is roab'd in gold and quickly made the Magnet of Persia his yeerely revenue at our being there I heard by many men estimated a hundred and forty thousand pounds sterlin and well may bee not any Mirza Cawn Sultan nor Beglerbeg that depended upon the Pot-shaughs smiles but in an awfull complement made him their Anchor by some annuall piscash bribe or other his presence was very comly and taking of a sweet countenance made amiable by many complementall smiles hee is of a big full body large eyes and nose and huge mustachoes was at this time aged forty a third part of which hee had beene Fortunes minion But no sooner was old Abbas by bold death struck from the helme of Persia and young Soffy his Grand-sonne made the royall Stear-man but his supercilious glances grew humbled yea his dazeling splendor eclipst in the setting of his Master becomes quickly darkned his late pride and avarice heaped all mens contempt upon him in so much as none now but dares to brand him with becoming Epethites yea his estate so vast that it threatned to presse him to eternal cōfusion Of all others the Shyrazian Dynast darted him frowns of death but non semper feriet quodcunque minabitur arcus a black mist of unexpected destruction fuming from young Soffees browes of the right pedegree sends poore Emangoly to an untimely grave and the Beglerbeg his gallant sonne to beare him company neither to be descended of loyall and Princely Syres to have Abbas his oath of safety to be Protector of Persia during the nonage of the Infant King to have famoused the crown by many heroick services nor to bee Emangoly-cawn could repell the deadly shaft of jealosie but in the Meridian of his course and glory in the extreame of his hopes and when so long a farewell was least thought on hee and his are hewed downe prophesied of by that Satyric Poet. Ad generum Cereris sine caede vulnere pauci discendunt Tyranni his great pride his infamous cruelty at Ormus and Arabia crying out for justice against him Whiles Mahomet-Ally-beg shakes off his raggs of discontent and a fresh ingratiates himselfe at this day moving in a spheare of content and purest mettall A word of Shaugh-Abbas also Abbas the Persian Emperour was of low stature a Gyant in policy his aspect quick his eyes small and flaming and without any palpebrae or hayre over them he had a low forehead a high and hawked nose a sharp chin and after the mode of Persia beardlesse his mustachoes were exceeding long and thick and turned downwards He was born in the yeere of Mahomet 938 King of Hery 50 yeeres Emperour of Persia c 43 dyed aged 70 in the yeere of our accompt 1628 of their Aera 1008 in Cazbeen His heart his bowells his carcasse were parted and buried in Ally-Mosched neere Cufa in Cazbyn in Ardaveel at Coom some say few know the certainty Abbas King of Persia The Easterne Monarchs at this day continue the custome of their antient predicessors who from time to time delighted more in Epethites of vertue than in any Titles of Kingdomes or Provinces They accounted it an effeminate vain-glory to stuffe their letters or when they sent their Ambassadors abroad to forraine Potentates to guild their greatnesse by accumulation of Names and in which respect the German Emperor got little in that late Letter he sent to Abbas the beginning of which was so fild with Titles and members of his Empire that
encreasing from eight persons those that issued from the Ark upon Ararat in Armenia This building was hastned by five hundred thousand men in few yeares raising it from its basis which was nine miles about to above five thousand paces into the skie whence Ovid fabled his Giants warres Affectasseferunt regnum Coeleste Gyantâ—s Altaque congestos struxisse ad sydera Montes The heavens look't pale with wonder to be behold With what attempts and rage Giants bold Sought to affront the gods by raising high Mount upon mount to inhabit in the skie intending no doubt to peepe into heaven But hee that sits above and accounts the best of mans power and policie but meere weaknesse and folly not only distracted their designe but severed them into seventie Companies sending them seventie wayes to better imployments from one tongue the Hebrew Goropius dreamt it was Dutch ordaining seventy other Languages But though the Tower of Babel stood for ever unfinished albeit Alexander the great by some months labour in vaine of 100000 men made to desist by strange diseases and affrights thought to have finisht it the Citie notwithstanding swell'd to a prodigious greatnesse and though Arphaxad sonne of Sem sonne of Noah begun to inhabit in this vale of Shynaear yet Nimrod sonne of Cush or Iupiter Belus sonne of Cam or Iupiter Hamon the accursed sonne of Noah wrested it from his other kindred yea behaved himselfe so proudly amongst his brethren that to gratifie his memorie they deified him by name of Sudormyn by the Romans converted into Saturne Nimrod lived six and fiftie yeares after the beginning of Babell hee at last gave way to Death and was buried I know not where some say at this place some say at Persepolis Idolatrie was soone hatcht in the world Nimrods successours strove to make their hellish progenitors earthly gods for after Ninus his sonne had erected many Temples to put his Grandsires Images in he attracted infinit people to inhabit there by whose labours hee not only agrandiz'd this Citie but by their helps grew to tyrannize in the world and to augment his Empire whence he is accounted the first that incroacht on others rights to satiate his ambition and as he is named the first Emperour of the earth so none died so miserably for his wife Semiramys detruded him into prison where shee made him die a hatefull death such as became a monster The Virago Queene sat confidently at the helme and steered through an Ocean of stormes and miraculous passages till burning in flames of lust in stead of embraces hersonne Nynias thought Amraphel and Mars to revenge his Fathers death slew her but by that murder became mad and in that frenzie marched against King Cancasus Iaphets great grand-son and subdued him howbeit he himselfe was so serv'd by Abraham such time as he rescued his Nephew Lot captivated by Arioch Tydal and Chedorlaomer Semyramis to eternize her memorie fought many brave Combats and return'd oft times victorious she subjected many Kings subjugated many Provinces built many famous Castles Cities and Gardens the ruines of some of them are in Medya to this houre remaining Wee will confine her into Babylon where shee erected two inimitable Pallaces one was at the East end th'orher at the West the first extended thirty the other sixty furlongs both were immured with walls of stupendious height and architecture but excelling those she built another in the heart or center of Babylon which she dedicated to Cush or Iupiter Belus the shape whereof was of foure equilateralls or sides from every angle were one thousand in all foure thousand paces 't was circled with a thick and towring wall entred by foure gates of polisht brasse in midst was elevated a strong and stately Tower upon which eight other Towers rose one upon another farre above the middle region whence from a continued serenity of the sky the Priests or Caldaean Astrologers precisely markt the planetary motions and if possible to heare their rowling harmony for being above the clouds they delighted to regard the exact light and magnitude of the Starres their heliacall acronicall matutine and vespertine motions rising and falling Apollo's progresse the constellations aspects influences and the like and at the top of all a Turret inricht with three great golden Images or Statuas representing Iupiter Ops and Iuno i. e. her father in law her husband Ninny and her selfe continuing there in divine esteeme for many ages and whereto sayes Herodatus in way of sacrifice was yeerly consumed a hundred thousand Talents in franc-incense till Cyrus An. Mun. 3432. by drayning Euphrates into other channells entred this Epitomè of the world and ransackt her bravery But I have not spoken all Semyramis also circled this gallant City with a wall which in after ages was call'd a wonder some say Nabuchadonozar made it but an ancient Poet sings otherwise Semyramis built Persian Babylon Persarum statuit Babylona Semyramis Vrbem The circuit of which Wall was after Solynus threescore miles English or as hee reckons it foure hundred and eighty furlongs Diodorus Siculus computes three hundred and sixty five each day in the yeere chalenging a furlong Quintus Curtius numbers three hundred fifty and eight differing in his Arithmetic but seven furlongs The compasse I admire at but am amazed at the height and spissitude two hundred cubits high it was and fifty cubits thick so thick and spacious that at the top six Chariots might take the ayre driving together abrest not one before another Nynus and Semyramis begun it bravely yet Nabuchadnezzer and Nytocris his wife daughter of Aliattes beautified it in a stupid admiration crying out Is not this great Babel that I have built a boast so much offending the sacred Majesty of God that hee rent the Kingdome from that proud Assyrian and made him a companion for beasts and birds to the astonishment of all such Atheists Cyrus by one battell at Borsippa prostrated it and wreathed his Persian brow with that Monarchic Dyadem Anno Mundi 3432 seventeen yeeres after the captivity of Iudah and Israel by Nabuzaradan his Liefetenant five hundred and fifty two yeeres before the birth of our Saviour after which it was often vassaled Seventy nine yeeres after Anno Mundi 3511 Artaxerxes Longimanus ruling Persia the Prophet Ezdras went hence to rebuild the Temple at Ierusalem and thirteene yeeres after that was seconded by Nehemiah from Shushan The victorious Macedonian conquered it Anno Mun. 3633 at which time as Aristotle reports one part of the City knew not in three dayes after that the enemy had entred it a vast bignesse but easily credited if Pausanias in Assyr say true Babylon omnium quas unquam Sol aspexit Vrbium maxima c. either to parallell it with Ierusalem destroyed by Vespatian in their solemne sacrifices in which times the people multiplyed or rather to fulfill that prophesie 51 Ieremiah 31 One Post shall runne to meet another to shew the King of Babylon that his
his idiom Miramur periisse homines monumenta fatescunt Interitus saxis nominibus que venit Why wonder we that People die since Monuments decay Yea flinty Stones with mens great Names Deaths tyranies obay To see old Shushan is neither unworthy our labour nor out of our way SHVSHAN is every where famoused It was one of the three royall Pallaces the Medyan Monarchs so much gloried in Babylon Shushan and Ecbatan built by Darius sonne of Histaspis Anno Mundi 3444. as Pliny has it in his 6 lib. c. 28. Some say Laomedan built it such time as Thola judged Israel Others make Cyrus Lord of Pisogard from Pison a branch of Hiddekel or Tigris to bee the Architect in memory of his good successe obteyned in that very place against Astiages the Median Emperour It is spoken of in the 1. ch of Hester That there Ahashuerus An. Mun. 3500. feasted his Liefetenants over a hundred twenty and seven Provinces a hundred and eighty dayes with great cost and triumph Nehemiah and Daniel also remember it to bee in Elam Persia and notwithstanding the many mutations and miseries it had from many avaritious Tyrants yet was it able to smile upon Alexander when hee extracted thence to pay his Soldats and fill his bags with fifty thousand Talents in Bullyon and nine Millions in coyned Gold and well may bee since Cassiodore in his 7. lib. 15. Epist reports for truth that Memnon sonne to Tithon and reckned by some first founder so gloried in his work that hee cemented the stones with gold which made Aristagoras cry out to his men of warre that if they could but master it each poore knave there might then compare with Iove for riches and bravery Some wrangle about the name Shushan and its signification Athenaeus interprets it from her plenty in Lillyes but whence hee fetcht it I cannot tell the Arabic nor Persian have no such meaning as well I may say from Suzan or Shuzan in the Persic tongue a needle or a glasse-bottle But such Synonimaes may not carry it I rather beleeve it is derived from Chus Noahs grand-sonne Susiana from him call'd Chusiana and at this day not much discrepant in the name they call it by Chusistan More probable in that Chus Cams sonne planted a Colony here ere hee journeyed into Arabia and Aethiopia a mistake made the Septuagints imagine Nyle one of those foure streaming from Paradise his sonnes also here-abouts inhabiting Nymrod in Chaldaea Seba in Arabia Havilah in Indya Raamah in Carmania c. Let us dow into Shushan At this day t is called Valdac not farre from the Gulph watered by Chozes or Choaspes which arising from the Jaaroonian Mountains streames hither very pleasantly in many meanders circum-giring and not far from Balsorac Doridatis of old participates with the brackish Gulph of Persia where also Euphrates call'd Phrat and Almacher from Libanus some say from Mount Abas in Armenia say others and Tigris now call'd Diglat and Hiddechel from Taurus or Pariedrus rather imbowell themselves A river of such account which the Persian Emperours that no water but Choaspes no bread but from Assos in Phrygia no wine but the Chalyhonian in Syria no salt but what they had from Memphis in Aegipt could please their pallats Daniel calls it Vlai Pliny Eulaeus an anti-stream glides to Persepolis Shushan was in compasse 120 stades or furlongs so Strabo Policletus numbers 200 above twenty miles English The wall about it quadrangular In building walls houses Temples and the like resembling Babylon From whence Ecbatan it had aequidistancie five hundred short miles Valdac had some forme and beauty till Moses sirnamed Askar Omars kinsman Anno Dom. 641. Heg 21 depopulated it It has now a resemblance of Moful or Ninivie nothing but ruines covering her Of which and other such once noble Cities I may say with King David Psalm 46 Come and behold the works of the Lord what desolations he hath made in all the earth And that we are so neere the old locall place of Paradise let me glance a little into it PARADISE or the terrestriall Garden of Eden Hogea-del-Holan the Indians name it Gan-Eden the Hebre wes call it wherein God placed Adam is much controverted and where it was as much doubted of some making it an Allegorie others a locall place Strange it is to confider the variety Some say it was in the middle Region of the ayre whence they will draw the foure great streames that water Paradise Some place it in the mountaines of the Moone in Aethyop whence Nilus springs othersome in the circle of the Moone some others under the circle and that thence the foure rivers flow gliding under many large deepe Seas and so into Paradise Some think the 4 rivers signifie 4 cardinall vertues the word Paradise a metaphor of delight mans fall the banishment the torryd Zone the fierie sword and such other fanatick fancies as made the brain-sick Hermians and Seleucians sweare there never was a Paradise whose phantasmaes I value not in that the more judicious affirme there was varying meerely in the place Some and those well read imagine it was ten miles about the Province Mesopotamia the precise place Eden to this retaining both name and memory St. Augustine judges it was in the happy Arabia Amongst the Tartars dreames Goropius in Holland hee might have said Vnder the N. pole thinks Postellus In Syria Beroaldus Vpon the banks of Tygris sayes Xenophon Every where before Adam sinned thinks Ortelius Some say it comprehended Meso-potamia Armenia Mount Taurus incircling Shynaar holding afterwards Selencia and Babylon Others carry it further as that it included Nilus and Gangas a too great limit for a Garden six thousand miles distant Nyle arising from Zair in Afrique empties it selfe into the mid-land Sea Ganges from Imaus in Scythia into the Gangetick Sine or Bengalan Ocean The Inhabitants in Ceyloon say Paradise was there and shew Adams footsteps Eves teares c. Some say Aegipt Syria and Iudaea that the tree of knowledge grew on Mount Calvary the second Adam suffering in the same place the first Adam had offended Some dreame it is in a mountaine above the skie where none are but Enoch and Elias We can ascend no higher without troubling our understandings The best is this That Nyle nor Ganges had no being there the Septuagints mistake arising from their suppostion that Pison was Ganges and Gihon Nyle Mesopotamia no doubt was East from Arabia where Moses the Prince and first that ever wrote History compleated his Pentateuch And as questionlesse the Garden of Eden was watered with Euphrates and Tygris who in their severall fluxes one from Libanus th' other from Ararat or Taurus part themselves into foure branches Pison one streaming to Piso-gard in Persia Gibon th' other commixing with Choaspes both runne into the Gulph at Balsora For whereas 't is said Pison compasses the land of Hevilah we must not imagine it that Havilah in Indya whither Havilah sonne of Ioctan sonne
may as justly tax me of neglect I will therefore but name them and reconcile some mens mistakes in misnaming these antique Kings of Persia Cyrus is the first we can deduce a true succession from For albeit they had Kings formerly of which Chederlaomer was one as wee read in Gen. and it may be the same whom the Persian Histories call Cheyomaraz father of Siamech to whom succeeded Owchange Iamshet Zoak Fraydhun Manucher Nawder Afraciab Achemenes some think Bazab Kaycohad Salemon Chozrao Lorazpes yet the succession from him is most incertaine and doubtlesse of no grandeur in that the Assyrian Monarchie begun by Nymrod sonne of Chush sonne of Cham sonne of Noah ecclipsed it and under whose command it lay for above 1300 yeares if Berosus be not counterfetted and from Belochus who deposed Sardanapal the last Assyrian Emperour of Nymrods race and Arbaces the first founder of the Median Monarchie a confederate with Belochus to Cyrus who advanced the Persians to a Monarkique greatnesse by subduing Astiages his Grand-sire transferd the Empire to the Persian as formerly the Medes had the Assyrian 260 yeares This change hapned in the yeare from Adam 3400 after the building of Rome 287 after the first Olympiad 50 and before the incarnation of our Saviour 567 c. Persia made a Monarchy by Cyrus Of Cyrus many memorable matters might be offered but I dare not enter the Labyrinth lest I wander so farre that I may chance to lose my selfe and your patience this only be remembred that this is that Cyrus of whom the Prophet Esay fore-told some hundred yeares ere he was born of him also Nabuchadnezzar prophesied beginning thus Ast ubi Medorum jus regni Mulus habebit c. That a Mule should over-runne Lydia fulfild in Craesus and subvert the Caldean Monarchie the word Mulus had relation to his mixture of bloud his mother beinga Mede his Syre a Persian Hee married Cassandana and by her had Cambyses that reigned after him Cyrus after he had ruled thirty yeares and in that time had added to his Empire Arabia Mesopotamia Syria Capadocia Phrygia Armenia c. hoped also to subject Scythia but neere the river Oxus was slaine by Tomyris the Queene of those parts of Zagathaya but upon ransome his body was delivered and convayed to Pasagard where Alexander found his Tomb but not that wealth he thought it had contained Cambyses ruled the Persian Monarchie but nine yeares of whose reigne is little to be said save that he subdued Aegipt after which he grew so luxurious and tyrannous that all men hated him his death was imputed to divine Justice for at Memphis hee committed sacriledge in the Temple of Apys or Anubys and broke the neck of that apish god set there by the idolatrous Aegyptians but at Damascus fell accidentally upon his owne weapon and dyed by it At his death seven Noble men or Magi of Persia severally contended for the Diadem for smerdis the upstart King was discovered by wanting his eares to be an impostor of which Darius sirnamed Histaspes who by the cunning of his Groome made his horse neigh next morne before the rest mounted the Throne and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or delivery of the Kingdome from the Magi from that time to Alexanders comming was annually celebrated Darius governed happily 35 yeares the last only was infortunate by that overthrow he received at Marathon by Miltiades the noble Athenian This is he who so much favoured the Jewes and Ierusalem his death was caused by losse of that battell at Marathon and that by it hee wanted Anthina's faire daughter This Darius Histasp I imagine to be the same Gustasp who first by imposture as else-where I have remembred made his people fire worshippers To Darius succeeded his son Xerxes by the Persians call'd Ardxer an infortunate Prince for howbeit he was in his time the greatest Emperour in the world and had a worls of men and wealth to obey his humours yet what by too much confidence in them and contempt of other Princes he reaped the greatest dishonour that ever befell any Prince of Persia for albeit he entred Greece with an army of 1800000 men yet could he not prevent an overthrow given him at the straits of Thermophilae by Leonidas the Spartan Generall who had not foure thousand men and by Themistocles the Admirall neere to Salamys was equally opposed and his whole Army confounded Afrer 20 yeeres rule he died and left Arta-xerxes his son his inheritor This Artaxerxes i.e. a victorious conquerour is in Persian story call'd Ard-xer-Bohaman and by Arabian writers Tama-xerxicas this is he that married Atossa or Hester the Jew in which book he is named Ahasuerus at the end of forty foure yeeres happy government he died and Art-axerxes sirnamed Muenon in his place was crowned King some insert Darius Nothus before him Artaxerxes sonne of Artaxerxes and Parisatys daughter of Cyrus ruled Persia forty and two yeeres and at the age of eighty was buried at Persepolis Artaxerxes Ochus his sonne succeeded him who also when he had governed cruelly twenty and six yeeres was hastned but by an untimely death after his Father Arses or Arsamus his sonne investing himselfe with the Persian roabs of rule and majesty Of Arses little can bee said save that he died by the hands of the Eunuch Bagoas his Fathers murderer after his Coronation foure yeere and in his place by meanes of Bagoas Darius Codomanus by Persians call'd Darab-kowcheck i.e. little Darius was saluted King him Alexander the victorious Greek orethrew in three great battells at Arbela Amanus and Granicus the last concluded his life and six yeeres reigne Anno Mundi 3640 Persia subjected by the Greeks of the Olympiad 112 of Rome 420 and before the Nativity 333 yeeres or thereabouts Alexander worthily sirnamed Great two yeeres after died at Babylon foretold by a Calan or Indian Gymnosophist in the three and thirty of his age of his rule twelve yeeres his heart was transfer'd to Alexandria his corps interd at Babylon Alexanders Legacy bequeathing the succession not to his owne issue or kin but to the Worthiest made Pyrrha's bones revive againe discord and pride and envie emulating every of his great Captaines who by this common Motto Virtus mihi Numen Ensis quern gero challenged the Empire and ceased not to lay claime till death and warres fury cut them off Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership after long stormes seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean during whose life and fifty yeers after the Greeks awed Persia Recovered by Arbaces a Parthyan till such time as Arbaces an heroyck Parthian broke that yaok of slavery asunder and for three and twenty yeeres did what was possible to revive the more than halfe dead Persians To Arbaces succeeded Methridates who ruled twenty yeeres after whom Pampasius twelve Pharnaces eight Methridatus Medus Thirteene to whom followed Phraortes call'd by the Perses Pharug-zed Artabanus call'd Ard-Bahaman Methridates
it syded with the Turkish Emperour Vlembeg also who had married their sister laboured it But albeit Solyman did his best by his owne forces and by their treasons yet such was his ill luck that excepting Babylon and Tabryz they got nothing but sad experience for Tamas upon notice of the Turkish entry leaves Kazien Bassa and Corasan which he then had beseiged and hasts to Cashyn the Turks so soone as they had rifled Tabryz retreat but are so assailed in the rear by Delementhes still as they marched that they could not preuent the losse of 40 Cannon 3 Sansacks 800 Janisaries and of Asaps or common men above 20000 a victorie so plausible that to this day upon the 3 and 10 of Ardabehish or October t is with many signalls of joy solemnized 4 yeeres after as Morod had done to Ismael so Bajazet Solymans sonne fled to Tamas to save his life willing to part with his hopes of a Monarchy his rebellions and injuries to his father and brother had beene many and notable so as Hassan Bassa comes to Casbyn and upon assuring Tamas that Bajazeth came purposely to kill him that infortunate Prince was by that old villaine strangled and his 4 sonnes also Homer Morad Selymus and Mahomet Solyman next yeere enters Persia with 150000 men Tamas affrighted with their great ordnance hyres 5000 Portugalls from Ormus and Indya who brought 20 Cannon along with them and by whose helps the Turks were vanquished That yeere Tamas eatf ed the Ouz begs country and retorned victorious and next into Cabul whence he thought to have gone to Lahore but upon newes that Mustapha Solymans eldest sonne and brother to Bajazeth lately at Casbyn strangled was fled from his Father to him from succour he returnes and welcomes him willing any way to agrandize discord amonst the Ottomans Solyman in person with 80000 men followes him in every place hee came that loved the Persian perpetrating all sort of savage cruelty At Erez Tamas fought with Solyman but with worse successe than formerly neere Bagdat for 1000 Persians were slaine and 20000 Turks but by their numbers the Persians were forced to leave the field which when Mustapha saw fled to his Father and beseeches for Roxalana his Mothers sake pardon but it would not be his Father forthwith made him to be strangled Anno Domini 1576. Heg 956. King Tamas dyed at Cazbyn aged 68 having reigned 50 yeeres and left his eldest sonne Mahomet to succeed him hee had in all 12 sonnes and 3 daughters Maomet Ismael Aydar Sulyman Emangoly Morad Mustapha Ally Hamed Ebrahim Hamzé and Izma cawn Ismael during his stay at Cohac complots with Peria-Conconna and Sahamal-can by whose help hee strangled Aydar and beheaded 8 other of his brethren hopefull also to meet with Mahomet who being fled to Georgia finds such friends that ere long he returned with 12000 horse Curds and Georgians by whose service and the valour of Leventhybeg he arrives at Spahawn where he had newes of Ismaels death slain in his bed by Periaconconna and 4 Sultans who entred habited like women An. Dom. 1577. The same yeere that Ismael was thus slain Peria-Concanna was also made away by Salmas-Mirza at the command of Mahomet Mahomet call'd Codobanda by the Turks had many sonnes Ismael Mustapha Mir-can Guynet Sophy c. Ismael was famisht to death Caykahe Castle neere Tabriz by meanes of Massombeg the favorite the rest of his sonnes dyed untimely He had also 3 sonnes begot of Ioon-Conna Princesse of Heri and Corassan Emyr-Hamzé mirza Sultan Aydar and Abbas Emyr-hamze-mirza was the most famous active and beloved Prince that ever to this day lived in Persia When he commanded they thought nothing impossible the Turks the Indyan the Arab and Tartar feared him with 40000 horse hee vanquisht 200000 Turks neere Van and cleared Armenia of those Locusts After that with 30000 Persians and Ouzbeghians hee over-threw them at Erez and obteyned a most glorious victory Two yeeres after Anno Domini 1580. Heg 960 at Bagdat he beat the Turks at that time of Persians being slaine 10000 but of Turks 70000. Next yeere he opposed the Tartar neere to Sumachy and slew 20000 of their men and that same month of the Turks led by Mustapha Bassa 100000 but with losse of above 40000 of his owne men An. Dom 1584. Heg 964. neere Van againe he slew above 20000 Turks and with his own hands slew the Sultan of Caramit the Generall the Basha of Trebizond and 5 Sanzacks At Sancazan the insuing spring he also beat Osman the Basha who dyed to think of it and slew above 23000 other Turks At Tephlis he vanquisht Sycala the famous Basha and slew 30000 of his Turks the Prince losing 9000 Persians but by that victory regained Tabriz Babylon and all other such places as King Tamas had Anno Domini 1537. Heg 917 lost to Solyman Next yeere he took Derbent from the Turk and neere to Tephlys with 20000 horse scattered and slew 80000 Turks so dismall to Amurath that rather than see his face Mustapha by voluntary poyson at the age of 78 gave up the ghost and Acmat the renouned Ennuch resolv'd to beg rather than to see Persia againe But Synon Bassa was so puft up with his late conquests at Cyprus Malta and Aegypt that he threatens his payment and to that end with 100000 men he entred Georgia sackt Tephlys and in Shervan did many mischiefes but plague and famine puisuing him the Prince of Persia ere the Tartar could joyne with Synon bad him battell at Carse in the Turq'men confines and beat him but two dayes after lost 5000 men more and was forced back to Trepizond But at length what enemies abroad could not effect at home his brother Abbas perpetrated by poyson insomuch as in the vigor of his age and hopes of further conquest this gallant Prince goes down not aged 30 and of such force with purblind Mahomet that in few dayes after hee expired An. Dom. 1585. Heg 965. after 8 yeeres reigne and at Ardaveel by his father was some part buried Abbas had much adoe to quiet the distemper of the Persians such hate they bore him for his cruelty At Casbyn hee found most welcome they had considered the other two were irrevocable that it concerned them to have some expert man to defend them from the Turk who almost every day from Tabriz affronted them Spahawn indeed paid deerely for her rebellion The first yeere of his reigne Amurath the Turkish Emperour sent his Ambassador to Abbas to command him If he desired peace to send him his sonne Ismael as a hostage the Ambassador had better have stayed at home for albeit hee escaped with his life yet hee was miserably bastinadoed Enraged by that message hee besieged Tabriz and easily forced the Turks thence as also out of Van and all Armenia two yeeres after he beat them out of Balsorac and Bagdat yea made Dyarbec and Iaziry too hot for them By Curchiki-can he subdued Ghey-lan by
Tamas-coolibeg Mozendram by Ferrat-chan Candahar and by Lolla-beg and Emangloy-cawn Larr Cusistan Carman Macron and part of Iazirey or Arabia yea to this last over-throw at Babylon he gave successively to Mahomet 3 Acmat Osman Mustapha and Amurath all of them Grand Seigniors above 20 other severall over-throwes most of which the Turks conceale and thence it is that we have them not recorded in our Turkish Histories About this time Abbas became inraged against the Georgians and upon this occasion Scander lake King of Georgia a Countrey confyning palus Meotis 'twixt the Euxin and Caspian seas by a Sarcashiâ—n Lady had 3 hopefull sonnes Scander-cawn Thre-beg and Constandell all borne Chistians but for preferment the two last named became Bosarmen or circumcised Thre-beg serv'd the Turk Constandell the Persian Constandell was naturally deforned but of such an active spirit that his bodily imperfections were not noted yet his hatefull ambition rendred him more than monstrous It hapned that Abbas vowed some revenge upon the Turk and to that end gave order to Ally-cawn to trouble them Constandell perceives the occasion right to attempt his hellish resolutions and therefore after long suit got to be joyned in Commission with the Persian Generall Through Georgia they go where Costandell under a pretext of Duty visits his sad Parents who upon his protest that his Apostasy was counterfeit joyfully welcomed him but forgetting that and all other tyes of Nature next night at a solemn banquet caus'd them to be murdered and till the Georgians saluted him by the name of King perpetrated all sorts of villanies possible But how secure soere hee stood in his owne fancie the dreadfull Justice of an impartiall God retaliated him the rest of his life proving to this hellish Assassinate infinitly miserable for first neere Sumachan Cycala's sonne the Turkish Generall wounded him in the arme and by that forfeited the victory to the Persian That same night he was also assaulted in his tent by his inraged Country-men who in his place for at the first alarme he escaped cut a Catamite in peeces his accursed bed-fellow and albeit hee so farre exasperated the Persian to revenge that he brought the whole Army into Georgia resolving there to act unparellel'd tragedies yet was hee over-reacht in his stratagems for upon parlee with the Queen his late brothers wife he was shot to death at a private signall given by that Amazon to some Musqueteers ambushed of purpose 'twixt both the Armies A just punishment for such a viper For can there be a punishment more fit Than he should die that first invented it Nec enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artisicis arte petire sua But Abbas glad of all advantages to spoyle and conquer takes the affront as done in his despight in that Constandell was his subject and a Mahometan and therefore studies their destruction but such good reasons Ally-cawn gave him to the contrary that hee alters his first intents and seekes by conferring his best love upon young Temerisk their Infant King to oblige their affection and accordingly returned him into Georgia royally attended yea made him bee crowned King in Georgia with all ceremony requirable But long these Halcyon dayes endured not for the Grand Seniors Ambassador at Spahawn laboured by all wayes how to seperate this their Union by deceit effected it First wispering in Temerisks eares that Abbas hated him and then made Abbas beleeve that Temerisk was an undoubted creature of the Grand Seniors so that upon Temerisks deniall to come to Abbas he enters Georgia with 30000 horse where Lolla-beg at his Masters command made fire and sword equally tyrannicall Temerisk was forced to the Turk from whom he got such forces that hee re-entred Georgia and slew the Persique Garrisons yea forraged beyond Tephlys into Medya which so inraged Abbas that from Mosendram he issued with a greater Army than formerly and in Georgia made a more terrible execution firing their Churches houses and Mulberry-trees destroying their silk-wormes and massacring young and old without mercy But so soone as Abbas was gone Temerisk re-possessed his desolate Countrey and by a stratagem of Morad-cawns in some sort requited the Persian for Morad like another Zopyrus deformes his face flies to Cazbyn and is welcomed pretends that Temerisk had so mutilated him and that hee resolved to betray him to the Persian Abhas beleeves him and sends 12 famous Dukes and an Army along with him but being upon the Georgian Confines and knowing that the Persians were fearelesse of danger he issues at midnight from his owne quarter upon them with 500 voluntary Georgians whom hee had appointed should accidentally proffer their services with such hideous clamours that 11 of those Dukes and 700 men were slaine the rest so terribly affrighted that they rather chose to dye any other death than hazard any more adventures amongst those Christians Since which Abbas by meditation of his Cosel-bashaws who are most of them Georgians has firmed a sure friendship with the Georgians If I should but memorise his severall victories against the Tartar Georgian Mogull and Arabian It would be enough to make a Book voluminous But I promised to weave no circumstances for if that could have beene accepted of I had here also spoke his journey and warres of Armenia and his tragick acts against his own children which in regard I have elsewhere glanced at I have here pretermitted purposely this only be remembred That Sha-Abbas dyed Anno Domini 1628. Heg 1008. aged 70 having ruled the Persian Empire 43 yeeres and was buried part at Cazbyn part at Ardaveel in the Chappell where are intombed his famous and warlike Progenitors And albeit in the infancy of his reigne he had beene Tyrannicall yet such was the Majesty of his aspect his courage policy wisdome good fortune in all his wars that never any Prince before him was better beloved and every way by all Symptoms of Duty and respect more honoured His Care to administer Justice his Zeale to Strangers whom he ever much regarded and gave all safety and priviledges to it beeing his usuall phrase that Strangers added especially to the lustre of his Court more than any Domestiq ' magnificence his Labour to increase Commerce with other Nations his Incouragement to Souldiers his Indulgence to Merchants of his owne Nation and in a word his great Knowledge in History and Philosophy not only made him to bee adored by his owne but admired at by Travellers especially when with him they compared other Emperours and Princes of Asia who suck with delight their native ignorance and thence it was that Abbas went to his grave with such generall lamentation as made it known that he was their Father Protector and Emperour In his place was Sha-Soffy Abbas his Grand-sonne saluted King whose fathers death and his brothers I have elsewhere remembred Of Sha-Soffy I will say little save that since his being King albeit very young hee has vanquisht the Turks 4 times
of farre greater extent and power fifty yeeres ago till the Syamite pluckt forceably from her Dyadem many brave and wealthy Seigniories howbeit she is yet commandresse of many Ilands Monym Barongo Nogomello Duradura Cocos c. Pegu by Castaldus supposed that old City Triglipton in Ptolomy has Artique elevation 16 degrees 40 minutes a Citie walld with good stone beautified with many Turrets and parrapets and to issue out and enter in shewes foure faire Gates and twelve posternes prettily built and made more safe by that deep Moat or Trench fild with Crocodiles that circumvolves her the streets are not many but large and broad they are and seldome crooking afore every doore the houses are all low growes a pleasant tree whose fruit and wholsome shade makes them double usefull It is divided into two the new Towne and the old the old is most great and best inhabited The Varellaes or Temples and Sudatories are observable each Varella farcinated with ugly but guilded Idolls that at Dogonnee is not a little memorable for structure and ornament out-braving any other in the Orient the wildernesse about it and antick superstition might chalenge a copious description which I forbeare having other things to denotate This Kingdom is full of al earthly delights blessings of Nature Gold Silver Lead Iron also Smaragds Topaz Rubies Saphyres Garnats Emralds Espinells and Cats-eyes as also Ryce Caravances long Pepper Sugar Benoyn Musk Gum-lack Cotton Callicoes and what else a reasonable man can lust after But all these if they were centuplied are not able to make them truly happy wanting the true pearle that which the godly Merchant bought though to obtaine it he sold all his fraile wealth and possessions for albeit the holy Apostle Saint Thomas brought them blessed tidings of salvation yet they quickly lost the true light delighting to this day in obscure and loathed sinnes the Kyacks fild with base Idolatry insomuch that father Bomferrus an old Franciscan after foure tedious yeeres labour to reduce them to some knowledge of the Church of Rome came home desiring rather as did S. Anthony to preach among piggs than such a swinish generation The truth is they beleeve they know not what and Quaenam est ista simplicitas neseire quod credas sayes Hierom against the Luciferians yet some what if all be true he tells us wee gather from his observation that they beleeve the world consisting of Heaven Sea and Earth had foure Creations and for impiety was foure times destroyed by Fire by Wind by Water and by Earthquakes each Age or World governed by a severall tutelarie Numen or God miserable only in this that he was transitory and not omnipotent nor immortall they reckon that the last destruction of the world death of their last God was thirty thousand yeeres ago and that in Plato's great yeere all shall once more suffer a chaos They imagine a great Lord omniscient omnipotent and immortall lives and rules in Heaven but they do not worship him in that Satan tels them he desires it not they beleeve a revivification of the body after death and co-union with the soule and Bomferrus beleeves it confesse a three-fold receptacle of soules departed Nashac Nishac and Schua Heaven Hell and Purgatory by which that holy Frier convinces us of more ignorance than these Pagans but wee beleeve it never the sooner since the Devill is their instructer yea who dictates their profession Their habit is thin and fine it differs little from that they have in Industant and Syam but in this they varie they weare no beards they dye their teeth black in that Dogs teeth are white whom they hate to imitate they also cut and pluck their flesh to become braver than other Nations I have told you the best of Pegu the worst is also memorable In lesse than a hundred yeeres ago the Peguan Monark was farre more powerfull and formidable than at this present his Dyadem then sparkled with a gallent lustre twelve wealthy Kingdomes at that time acknowledged Pegu their Soveraigne Some of those Provinces are well knowne to us as Syam Auva Kavelan Barmaw Iangomer Tangram Cablan Lawran Meliotalk c. out of which hee yeerely extracted as tribute-money two Millions of crownes and had a Million of men to serve him at all occasions but this hardly could content him for by a two losty conceit of his Monachick greatnesse he grew efflated and to contemne others as too base to fix his eyes upon Tyranny succeeded his pride and decadence or destruction of his Empire Tyranny for the Auvan King when he found no priviledge by being Uncle to the Emperour of Pegu nor that he was his loyall subject he swells with rage and breaks asunder his silver yoak of hated servitude howeit ere hee could ripen his designes the Peguan has notice and so suddenly arrests him that in amazement he acknowleges his fault and begs his mercy but the Peguan King forthwith beheads him and to terrifie others by his example makes no difference 'twixt nocent and innocent his wife his children and forty other whom he most respected concomitating the miserable Auvan King in that sad Tragedy It was terrible Justice no doubt but rather exasperated others to new rebellions the most incenst and greatest in power was the Siam King who seeing his owne incertaine standing any occasion breeding jealousie and the least jealousie bringing death from his conquerour hee suddenly breaks out and with all the forces he could make by money or promises ere the Peguan was return'd from Auva in short time enters Pegu and apparantly made knowne his high rebellion the Peguan threatens terrible things and to effect them opposes the Siamite with an Armie of nine hundred thousand fighting men but that world of men could not contrarie the decree of a more powerfull King for such was the confused haste he made precipitated by furie such the hate his crueltie had defam'd him with and such the affright his uncles Malus Genius as Caesars did Brutus every where opposed him with that in three houres fight his monstrous multitude turne raile and willingly yeeld themselves a prey to the inraged axe of war chosing rather to dy than any way to increase the Paguan's pride so as the Siamite triumphs the Peguan hastens back to raise more men to trie a second fortune The Siamite not willing to ingage himselfe too far returnes the Peguan is almost there as soone as he all the way burning and destroying all he met with the Siam King armes himselfe with the Foxes skin he refused to fight not that he feared but that he knew an easier way whereby to assure his conquest the Pegu darts many fiery defiances calls him rebell coward and what not not dreaming of his stratagems for ere hee could leave his trenches the swift and mighty river Suhan Mean some call it sweld desperately broke ore her bancks and flasht so violent into the Peguan army that for want of boates and others
with a parti-coloured plad or mantle falling no longer than the knees and are impatient if any offer to touch their heads The ordinary food had here not at easie rates is ryce wheat pinange betele ophium goates egs hens coquos plaintains jacks and rack-a-pee so cald 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which drunck immoderately accilerates Death but temperately exhilirates the heart cures fluxes kill wormes and helps digestion To conclude Whence this great and noble I le is called Iava I confesse my ignorance I dare not say from Iavan Iaphets sonne grandson of Noah in that most agree he planted Greece But by reason his own brother Tharsis peopled these parts why might he not from his brothers name to eternize his memory borrow the denomination Nothing else save Pepper presents itselfe in this I le worthy our nothing Pepper is sowne Pepper and in the growth supported by poles or canes about which it entwines and duplicates with many embraces till by maturity it gets the shape and strength of a bushy round and pleasant tree The pepper hangs foure inches in length and one about in many clusters each yeelding fifty or sixtie cornes full round and fragrant the smooth is best accounted of The Cotton more common in Persia and Guzurat is no lesse memorable and usefull The tree is slender streight a yard high and like a bryer Cotter at the top it expands into many severall branches each charg'd with many balls or cods conteining the Bumbast or Cotton the shape is round and equall in bignesse to a Walnut at maturity the cod opens discloses her treasure but being cropt is put in an entire heap and with flayles or such like usefull though churlish instruments is forced out and by the enriched owner cheerefully gathered The Malayan Tongue sounds well and may prove harmony to the ingenious observer in these parts no lesse musicall epedemic than is with us and others the Latine Arabique and Sclavonian English Malay A King Rutgee a Nobleman Oran-kay a Lord Kay a Priest Cadda a Merchant Phetor an Interpreter Iorbissa a Man Oran a Woman Tadon Paran-poan a Child Buda a Boy Catsion a Youth Monda a Father Babba a Mother Mamma a Brother Addal-Ally a Sister Adda-paparas an Uncle Niana a Friend Marty-lowty a Stranger Oran-Leya a Chirurgian Goething an Iron-Smith Goada An Elephant Catgha an Oxe Cambi Alomba a Goat Carbow a Sheep Domba a Dog Hangbé a Bird Borron a Hen Ayam a Duck Bebeé a Musk-Cat Catto-Dalgalia a Sow Sabi Sieleng a Fish Ican a Water-Pot Laude a Herb Oberbedil Lancuos a Musk-Nut Palla a Ship Capel Iunck a Boat Praw Paca-sura a Coat Nasse a Needle Naroen a Custome Negry a Rope Tali a Stone Batu a Ring Chinsim a Wimble Alforees a Shooe Apon a Sword Ita. Padang a Dagger Cryze a Knife Pieson a Javelin Tomba a Sheild Salvack a Gun Bedyl Pitsil a barrell of a Gun Sombo-bedyl a looking-Glasse Sarmi a Glasse Lora a Lamp Pulita a warme thing Penas a Cap or TurbaÌ„t Caya a marriage maker Coemodo a Command T'suyka a Yeare Tauwa a Day Aris a Book Nimoda Kitab a Bed Bantell a good Day Tabea a Royall of 8 Serpi a Christian Vrangby All Samoanga The Head Capell Coar Hayre Ramboyet Eares Talinga Eyes Martic Eye-broowes Alys Nose Irotdon Neck Goulon Lips Lambider Tongue Ilat Teeth Auton Beard Tianga Back Balacca Shoulder Baon Arme Backeyen Hand Tangan Finger Iary-laree Belly Penot Blood Darno Privie part Perot Tâ—igh Backy Legg Gula Foot Bhackhyé Toe Ghoumo Fire Api Ayre Baya Water Eyer Earth Zam the Sea Chay Gold Maz. Cabo Silver Peca Salorca Brasse Temba Copper Tambagle Lead Tyma Iron Negle Money Sarfi Scarlet Facca lata-miera Death Mattu Merchandise Bayick Dimana Melancholy Chinta Silke Sabuck Paper Cartas Quills Cazamp Inck Mangsi a Book Khytab Nymoda Wine Aracca Vinegar T'suka Strong Water Pinangha Bread Sagu Boyld Ryce Braas Fruit Tacat Drink Larnick Sugar Gula Salt Garram Matary Oyle Nuagia Flesh Lalyer Fish Ivack Crabs Horrae Plates Pienig Pepper Lada Sihang Ginger Alia Mace Bengo Cloves Chocho Sianck Cynomon Cajumayns Aloes Garro Tamarind Assa Ryce Braas Parce Nuts Calappen Palla Sweet Gums Daringo Sweet Spices Dingyn Plantaines Gardang Cocos Calapa Mustard Sajani Egges Teloor Woe Saya Better Parma Great Bazaer Sweet Manys Heavie Brat Strong Cras Needles Calvenetten Baggs Corni Hard Wax Caju-lacca Friendship Pondarra I Manyr Thou Pakanera Hee Itowen Wee Dep Yee Pachaneras They Itowe Shee Dya Sunday Ion-maheet to Day Mari Yesterday Bulmari the other Day Bulmari-dula Early Pagi Night Malam to Morrow Ysouck What say you Abba-catta Is he not here Beef What 's done Bigimana Well done Soosa Where is it Manauten Bring it back Combali Now Bacabaren How much Barappe itu Give place Lalan Require it Minta Regard Nanthy Let passe Ganga Neare hand Gila We will go Maree Leave it Iangemast I have Ada It is found Botonvum It is Dalan I will bring it Addadizano I see Green I thank you Terimacaché I understand not Tan or tyedae-taw I care Tage I have not Tyeda-da I desire not Tyeda-maw I am sick Bite-secata To eat Macan To remember Engat To stretch out Dusta To beat one another Baccalayo To ashame Malon To choose Damare To pay Chiny To give Bering To buy Bilby To live Iagava To poyson Ampo To observe Doduer To be silent Dyem To gaine Menang To destroy Ilan To cover the head Kocodang To arise Passai To burne Baccar To kill Benue To spin Tuedda To sell Iouwall To do Bretcon To sweare Sempa To help Touloug To us Quia-bota To let blood Bewaeng-darner To question Betangia To know Kyunall To dye Bantaren Take it Ambell Not good Tiedae-Bayck Sloth Checo Give thanks Tarima Casse Farewell Tingal One Satu Two Dua Three Tiga Foure Enpat Five Lyma Six Nam Seven Toufiou Eight De lappan Nine Sambalan Ten Sapola Eleven Sabalas Twelve Dua-balas Thirteene Tiga balas Foureteene Enpat-balas Fifteene Lyma balas Sixteene Nam-balas Seventeene Toufiou-balas Eighteene De lappan-balas Nineteene Sambalam-balas Twenty Dua-pola Twenty one Dua-pola-satu Twenty two Dua pola-dua Twenty three Dua pola-tiga Twenty foure Dua pola-enpat Twenty five Dua pola-lyma We must yet to sea and think us not a little happy that we land so safely 〈◊〉 the Celebes not out of our way to our intended places Our course from Iava hither is North-East from Bantam two hundred leagues or thereabouts Of the Celebes CELEBES by some is cald Makasser I le from her best Citie so called a place for quantitie and quality no way despicable stretching from the Equator 6 degrees South ovall formed two hundred miles long at lest well peopled but with bad people no place ingendring greater Demonomists well agreeing with the old name Ptol. gave them Anthropophagorum regio Mahomet is not unknowne among them but by him a malo in pejus for though he teach them there is one and but one God yet seeing Iesus Christ is unknowne there what does this their
deg the best Townes and Ports of strength and trade are Meacco Ozacca Tenze Fyrando Fuccate or Falcate Sacay Cratez Tenkeday Oringaw Vosuquis Machma c. Of these Meacco a mediterran City is call'd the Metroplis Surunga next and next it Ozacca honoured with the Court somtimes till of late viz. 1615. a rebellious fire subverted and incinerated not it only but many other Townes in that wealthy Province Meacco is as big as Florence but not so beautifull proud in a sweet and spatious river in many low but comly houses and memorable in abundance of stately Temples or Fotiquees full of guilded Mannad'as or Idolls to which above all other Nations the Japonians are most addicted the Jesuits industries seminaries there producing small growth instead of a happy harvest reaping scorne and catholique apostasre Neither their grave aspect nor subtte sophistry neither their many miracles there nor their collegiat bravery having that force to make them thought other than feditious vain-glorious and avaricious such is the reward of Hipocrisie in shew seeming desirous to do others good in truth ayming at their universality gaine and hope of Conquest The government is Monarchicall above threescore petty Kings do homage and prostrate their massy Coronets to be encircled and to illustrate the Emperiall Diadem from whose frowne a punishment and affliction worse than common death usually is darted such is his power his awe such their vassalage their opinion of their Governors The Country is most part mountanous but full of floods trees corne grasse and mineralls every way presents Villages swarming with heithen Inhabitants the North and East parts of Iapan are lesse peopled than the South and West and those much more savage and barbarous cruell trecherous idle lascivious and awed by no Law nor any way industrious The old Roman way of execution is here usually suffered they fasten malefactors to Crosses with foure nailes whether in hate to the Jesuits or of Antique custome I am not certaine but sure it is the punishment is full of torture and ignominious the Civill Japonians are vallant curteous complementall and great affectors of novelties but beyond measure jealous crafty and revengefull if injured yea divelish if exasperated They would but cannot deny themselves discended out of China banisht upon a heedlesse rebellion six hundred yeeres ago in memory of which they hate one another mortally no quarter being given to either Nation at any time nor cease the Ilanders to rob and piratize the Chyneses at all advantages at home also in their prayers abhominating them and in all complements and ceremonies varying from one another to expatiate their wrath and unnaturall distempers In any slight suspect or accusation the very children are so jealous of their reputations that in case you lose a trifle and say to one of them syrrah I beleeve you have stolen it without any pause the boy will immediatly cut off a joynt from one finger or another and say Sir if you say true I wish my finger may never heale againe murder theft treason and adultery are punisht with death either crucified or beheadded with a Cuttan an Indian sword which slices easily Towns of note and strength are Ozacca 80 leagues from Bungo a Port Towne of good note and neare the Sea strong and beautifull in nothing more famous nor observable than in the royall Castle varnished tyled and burnisht over with flaming gold rich and majesticall form'd of the best shape of excellent stone the walls every where twenty foot thick finely fram'd well polisht curiously cemented pleasant and durable circled with deep trenches full of water and for entrance and defence shewes above a dozen iron Gatest and drawing Bridges It has formerly succoured many Kings and secur'd them from the pursuit and heat of Rebels in this as memorable 't was of late yeeres made the prison of Goja-zamma Prince of Tanzey and eldest Sonne of Tiquazamma the late victorious Emperour whose Father Faxiba-zamma subjected all the petty Princes of Iapan and made them by oath and pledge agnise him and his their Soveraignes Coja-zamma upon his Fathers sudden death was as suddenly seiz'd upon by Ogosho-zamma one of the three Protectors and by him compelled to betroath his daughter and for portion was if thrust and for ever damned to this hatefull Prison Against Ozacca on the other side the river is seated Sucay a Towne well traded to by Christians Edoo is well wall'd and peopled 15 leagues thence is Oringoo a Towne affording good refreshment and excellent harbouring or anchorage Fyrando 300 leagues thence to coast thither is a Chersonesse and elevates the Artick Pole 33 degrees 30 minutes var. East 2 degrees 50 minutes where and at Fuccate the English had a residence or factory Fucate or Fulcate is pretty sweet Towne well watered and ownes a strong and defensive Castle or Fortresse a Forrest of loftie Pines and spreading Sycomores for three miles space environs it with other Groves of force against the scorching Sun delightfull to the eye yea more gratefull than any other object but which renders them ingrate and basely idolatrous under those greene trees and in many small but richly tyl'd Temples or Fotiques they adore Pan and Priapus yea Satan himselfe in his ugliest resemblances for where the Country is most inhabited and garnisht with most variety of trees grasse corne c. as 'twixt Edoo and Suringa there are erected most Fotiques there the people are most idolatrous In Meacco are 70 Temples wherein they number 3333 Chamaetirae or little guilded Devils to which they give divine respect they call them Mannadaes But more notable than the rest is that in Meacco not unlike the Rhodyan Colossus huge wonderfull This was built by Tyco-zamma and without much paine and cost was not finished 't is of Oricalke or guilded Copper its posture is fitting in a Chaire 70 foot high and 80 broad his head is capable to support fifteene men who may stand together without preasing his thumb is forty inches about and his other limbs proportionable This is the grand Pagotha the other are Dii minores or of lesse adoration No lesse notable is the Monument adjoyning in a Cloister within the principall Fotique of Meacco where are gallantly interred but to their ignominie the eares noses of 3000 Coreans a base theevish people vicinating infesting the Japonians At Dabys is another Mannada no lesse infamous and resorted to this Devill or Molech is of concave copper vast thick and double guilded its height is foure and twenty foot and would be more but that they have form'd it kneeling his buttocks resting upon his leggs after the usuall mode of the Easterne Pagans his armes are safe stretcht to the utmost and at solemne times is inflam'd within and sacrific'd unto by offering him a child which in 's embraces is fride to death in an infernall torture But of more note is another at Tenchedy East thence where Sathan visibly playes th'Impostor The Fotique is of rare
333.335 Farghan 184.286 Farrabaut 177.178 Fatima's Sepulcher 212 Fayall 363 Faza 134 Fettipore 60.62.73.90 Ferro 3 Firando 333 Fitz-Herbert 16 Florida 355 Flores 364 Flying fishes 32 Flemmish Iles 363 Forte-Ventura 5 French K. Charles the great sends Ambassadors into Persia 283 Frons Africae 8 Funeralls of the Canarians 4 Of the Anzigui 11 Of the Soldaniaes 17 Of the Bannians 45 Of the Persees 53 Of the Gowers 162 Of the Persians 237 Of the Indians 309 Of the Kormandelians 313 Of the Iapans 335 Of the Chyneses 339 G GAcheen 125 Gambra not Ophyr 314 Gandetzin in Decan 70 Ganganna an Indian Vmbraw sides with Sultan Curroon 84. his deceit deceives him 88. is imprisoned 90. hee and his family are put in chaines and sent to Agra 91. sorrowes the death of his children 92. exasperates the great Mogul against Mahobet-cawn 95. is made Generall of the Queenes Army 101. dyes and is buried 103 Ganges fl 59.60.99.222.229.309.316 Gardon-Achow 148 Gassany in Tartary 89 Gazacot 277 Gaznehen 56 57 58 281 184 284 286 Gentfro 76 Georgian man and woman 151 Georgian Tragedy contracted 290 by stratagem revenge themselves upon the Persians 291 Ghabor 129 Ghanotts and Ghastanpore 69 Gheer 167 Ghelac 184.192 Ghezz 165 Ghezzimeer 104 Ghillolo 330 Ghylan 192.286.290 Giach a fruit 297 Goa 33.67.299.303 Goga 82 Gomera 3 Gorgades 355 Goujurat 61.90 Gouro 90 Gowers in Parthia 162.186 Goyeome 131 Gozan 129 Gratiosa 363 Greecy 324 Guadez 224 Guiana 355 Gulcuzda 67.68.70.79.89.93.299.312 Gulph of Arabia 31 Of Bengala 309 Of Argarica 315 Of Persia 110 Gumbazalello 148 212 Gumbrown in Persia 120 121 Gundavee 34 295 Gunet of descent from Mortis Ally 284 by Tamberlains respect to him dares broach his roformation 268 be marries the K. of Armeniaes daughter 285 conquers Tripizond and is murdered ibid Gurgee 152 H HAbyn fl 180 Haloen 152 Halvary 166 Hamadan 56 197 Hambyer 84 Hanimant the Apes-tooth-god burnt 307 Hansot 87 Harran 192 Hassar taken 69 94 Heaven and Hell in the Alcoran 263 265 Hecatompylon not Spahawn but Coom 154 212 Hegira 253 Hemoometzar 215 Heraclius the Rom. Emp. prosecutes the warres of Persia 276 hee vanquishes Cosrhoes and burnes his Idols 277 his great courage 278. reduces the holy Crosse to Ierusalem 279 dyes and is succeeded by Constantine 281 Herbert's Mount 14 Hery 184 Hesperidae 8 Hiblin slaine 283 Hiero 3 Hieropolis 276 Hispaniola not Ophyr 314 History of the Mogulls 54 Of the Persians 269 Hodge-Nazar the Armenian Prince 150 Homayon the great Mogull his sudden death 59 Hony-shaw 136 Hormisda King of Persia rages against the Christians who beat his army 275 disgraces Baramis his Generall but looses by it ib. in a vision a sees 12 Turrets and in them the overture of Persia 279 Hydero fl 177 Hyerac 56.286 Hyrcania whence named 177. habit of the inhabitants 178 I IAarown 129.280 Iackatra 324.325 Iackalls 14.124 Iacup Vsan Cassans sonne envies his brother in lawes good fortune 285. gets him murdred and his children 285 one of them miraculously is saved who kills Iacup in his fathers revenge ib. Iamahoy 316 Iambee 323.324 Iambulus 323 Iamshet 146 Iangheer rebells against his father Ecbar 69. is pardoned 70 breakes out againe 71. and is againe pardoned ib. crownd great Mogul ib. in danger of conspirators 74. suffers his grandsonnes to bee baptized at Agra 75. marries faire Noor-mahal ib. curses his sonne Perwees for losing the conquest of Decan 77. sends Mahobet-cawn thither and an Ambass to Abbas K. of Persia ib. laments the death of his eldest sonne Curseroo 80. comforts his sad widow and entailes the Crowne upon Bullochy his sonne ib. loses Candahor 81. rejoyces at his victory over his youngest son Curroon 84. captivated by Mahobet-cawn 98. escapes 100. much troubled at his sonne Perwees his death 102. receives a famous Tartar Ambass 104 dyes 105. and is royally buried ib. Iangomar 319 Iapan 312.333 Iaparra 324 Iasques 113.114 Iathryb 110 Iava 312.324.325 Iazirey 290 Idolatry of the Africans 9.17 Of the Angolases 10 Of the Madagascars 22 Of the Mohelians 28 Of the Banuyans 40 Of the Indians 88 Of the Persees 48.52 Of the Mallubarrs 302 Of the Gowers 162.186 Of the Persians 251 Of the Cormandelians 309.310 Of the Zoylonians 306 Of the Siamites 317 Of the Iaponians 333 Of the Narsingans 313 Of the Iavans 325 Of the Chyneses 341 Iehun fl 180 Ieloor 64 Ielphi 150.151.161 Iengapore 106 Iemina-Bahrim 110 Iemini fl 59.60.61.71 Ierusalem 211.270.274.277.279 Ilment fl 180 Imaus 185 Imbum 110 Indus fl 66.109.222.224 Ioanna 25 Ioonbasser 82.88 Ioonpore 60.61.90 Iortan 324 Irack 280.224 Iudgement in the Alcoran 265 Iupiter Babylonicus 193 Iupiter Belus 217 Iulian the Apostats death in Persia 273 Izmael-Sophy his birth and pedegree 284. revenges his fathers death 285 flies into Arzenion ib. returnes and is crowned Persian King 286. mortally hates Turks and Iewes 286. vexes the Tartars ib. chases the Turks 287. recovers Bagdat ib. dyes 289. and is succeeded by Tahamas his sonne ib K KAblai-cawn 56 Kablan 319 Kaboncara 177 Kabul 58.78.83 Kalpi and Khoor 77.79.90 Kalsistan 224 Kanchri 86 Kandahor 66.224.290 Kapper bemizz 85 Karizath 177 Katighan 90.99 Kavilan 319 Kavise 86 Kazz 184 Kazeron 148 Keldhan 224 Kennaugh 286 Kerman 56.286.290 Kerchy 76.77.94 Kerry 86 Kholeat-pherusky 286 Ketoa-Kotan 55.56 Khoemus 58 King Iames King Charles Mounts 16 Kings of Industant 55 Of Ormus 115 Of Lar 126 Of Shyraz 141 Of Persia 269 Kishmy Castle 113.114 Korasan 56.184.281 Kostac in Moghestan 113.114 Kufe why so named 280. the buriall place of Mortis-Ally ib. and where the Persian Kings are crowned ib. and 282 L LAbatacca 331 Lackary 215 Lacknoon 60.69 Lael-Cooly slaine 76 Lael-Sod 84 Lahore 68 La Gomera 3 Lampon 323 Lancerota 3 Lantore 331 Language of the Savages at the Cape of Good Hope 18 Of the Mohelians 27 Of the Arabians 111 Of the Persians 245 Of the Malayans 326 La Palma 3 Larr 126.127.128.129.280.290 Larack 113.114.115 Larry-Ioon 165.178.183 Latyr fl 74 Lawran 319 Lazarrs 274 Laztan-de 125 Leventhibeg Tribute 242 Lignum Alloes 332 Loore-Bander 108 Lopez Gonzaloo 8 Luconia 333 M MAcassar 329 Machan 330 Machma 333 Macron 113.224.286 Madagascar 20 21 22 23 Madaera 3 Madoc ap Owen Gwineth discovers America 355 Magadoxa 23.30.332 Magellan 362 Magi 134 213 Mahobet-cawn is made keeper to Prince Gushroo eldest sonne to the Mogul 74. fights with Ranna Radgee 75. is call'd home ib. goes Generall into Decan 77. returnes with victory and is made Governour of Brampore ib. of Cabul and Banges 78. he defeats Sultan Curroons Army at Delly 83. and at Mando 88. he relieves Elabass and imprisons can Canna 90. vanquishes Currown 91. pursues him to Patan 92. in discontent leaves the Army goes to Rantampore 95 griev'd by Normall the Empresse 96 his son in law is basely abused by Normall ib. the Lescar 97. takes the Mogul and Normahal prisoners 98. affrights Currown 99. receives great sums from his son out of Bengalae ib. sorrowes the death of Prince
Perwees 102. is persecuted by the Empresse 104. flyes to Ranna Radjee ib. is perswaded to serve Currown 105. who receives him joyfully ib. he marches with Currown to Agra 107 and at his Coronation is advanced ib. Mahomet-Ally-begs Iustice at Cazbyn 198. his discourse touching Sir Robert Sherley 22. his barbarisme to the Lady 204. his originall 206. his great estate and power ibid. Mahomet Codobanda King of Persia in danger to have bin slaine 289. flies into Georgia ib. returnes 199. is crowned King ib. commands his sister to be beheaded 200. the miserable end of his children 289 Mahomet his birth breeding 251. serves Heraclius the Rom. Emp. ib. and 278. compiles his Alcoran 252. marries divers women ib. is expulst Mecca 253. dyes and at Medina is buried ib. his law 254. his Sectar as 267 Malacca 298.312.314.315.324 Maldivae 306 Mallabar 299 300 Mallabars drowned 299 Malva 55 Manancabo 323 Mandoa 77 82.86 Mandow 82.215 Mangolore 296.299 Mangerelpore 82 Manicongo 9.209 Mannatee 26 Map of Madagascar 21 Of the Persian Empire 149 Of Hircania 180 Of India intra Gangem 300 Of India extra Gangem 321 Of the Manritius 342 Maqueron 280.290 Mardash 147 Marrah 323 Martavan 320.322 Martiropolis 276 Mascarenas 351 Mattacala 307 Mattaran 324 Maurenahor 55.58.184.224.281.286 Maurenahar King slaine 286 Mauritius 342 Mavi Lord of Damascus persecutes Ally 281. over-runnes Aegypt and the Rhodes 281. beaten by Ally sends Susindus against the Christians 282. massacres 11. of Ally's grandsons and dyes of the plague ib. Mayo 8 Mazaeras fl 177.180.69 Meacco 333.335 Mecca 110.253.259.262.267.280 Mecpore 69 Media 192 Medapore 82.88.92 Medina Talnabi 110.253.262.267.280 Melec Amber crownd K. of Decan 67. hee fights with the Mogulls Army ib. expells them by craft 76. by force 93. receives Curroon ib. gives his men liberty 99 Melec Bahamans Tragick end 187 Meliapore 309.310 Meliotalck 319 Mengrellia 153.274 Meragah 56 Merent 56 Mesopotamia 222.270 Mesulipatan 89.311.312 Methridates 271 Mewat 84 Meyottey 25 Mexico 359 Midan in Spahawn 157 Mindano 333 Miscarroon 215 Mocrib-cawn drownd 103 Mogulls pedegree 55. Empire 54. coigne 38. revenue ib. Moffa 118 Mohack 132 Moghestan 113 Mohelia 26 Molthan 90 Moluccoes 312.330.331 Mombassa 30.332 Momodabat 86 Monomotapa 9 Moneths how severally named 112 Montingue 299 Monym 318 Mouzoon 9 Mortis-Ally marries Fatyma 212. is by Mahomet nominated Calyph 251. put by by Abubocr 280. persecuted by Omar ib. saluted K. 281. slaine by Mavi ib. buried 282. his Emblem ib. Siet Gunet revives him 268. the Kings of Persia at this day from him descended 265 Mosquet-Ally 111 Mosquet-Zulzimen 148 Mount Taurus 183.185 Mount Taurus conquered 187 Moyechaw 132 Moyeore 149 Moyeown 147 Mozambique 23.24.332 Mozendram 56.177.224.290 Municpore 90 Multhan 90 Muscat 109 Musk-cat 322 Musk 332 N NAbandycen 148 Nabuchadnezzar 193.217 Nagor 107 Naysarie 82 Nahodabegs rare bracelet 318 Nancery 52 Nantam 336 Narsinga 299.309.311.312 Narsinga-patan 309 Narvar fl 87 Nassor Thormet 88.102 Natave 215 Nayro 301 Nazareil 215 Nazivan 56 Necanpore 106 Negapatan 309 Nekaw 167 Nerebede fl 69 Nero-roade 331 Nicubar 306 Nogomallo 318 Normahalls first husband slaine 74. secondly married to the greas Mogul 75. her hate to Mahobet-cawns sonne 94. to Mahobet-cawn ib. imprisoned by Mahobet 98 released ib. fights with Mahobet-cawn 99 scoulds at Assaph-cawn 101 intercepts Mahobets treasure ib. labours to disgrace his sonne 103 affrighted at Mahobets journey to Currowne 105 sorrowes her husbands death ib. labours to make her son King 106 vanquisht by Sultan Bullochy and pordonod ib. her son slaine 107 she and her daughter imprisoned by Sultan Currown ibid. Nossaseres 329 Nova 191 Nowbengan 148 Nutmegs 33 Nycaphtac 184 Nylus fl 4 222 Nimrod 134 193 216 269 270 Nynus 193 217 Nyriaed 86 Nyshapore 184 Nyzabur 281 O OB-crawn fl 69 Obsell fl 177 180 Ob-ygarmy 164 Ocem 285 Ocen-beg Gelohy slaine 286 Odjea 92 361 Ogg 55 Ogorlu 283 Ogtai-cawn 56 O-jone 147 Olympus 4 Omoall 177 182 Omar or Homer succeeds Abubocr at Mecca 280 he persecutes Ally and is slaine by treason ib. is accursed by the late Persian reformation 269 Onnepore 82 Onor 299 Ophyr 306 314 Orders of Mahomitans 267 Orcan 287 Orenges 297 Orfaza 109 Oringaw 333 Orixae 64 65 89 90 96 Ormus how called 113 when first planted 114 her Kings 115 ruined by the English and Persians 116 118 Osacca 333 Osman succeeds Homer at Meccae 280 subdues divers parts of Africk 281 regulates the Alcoran and is poysoned ib. accursed by the Persians 289 Osman Bassa vanquisht 289 Oudepore 75 77 82 Ourmanghel 125 Oxus fl 180 184 270 286 Ouzbeg Tartar 65 89 184 286 P PAcem 323 Paddar fl 69 Palamban 324 Pantado birds 19 Paquin 336 337 Paradise the severall conjectures about it 221 where placed 222 what the Persians think of it 266 Parthia 149 164 Pasagard 270 Patania 315 Patan 65 Pathan 63 90 99 Pathang 59 63 79 82 Pedyr 323 Pegu 312 314 316 318 322 Pengab 55 69 Pengran of Bantam 324 Penguin 13 Pepper 325 Peria-Conconna Princesse of Persia her masculin spirit 198 makes Aydar her younger brother King 199 by her eldest brothers command she is slain 199 Periaw 87 Periscow 166 177 Perissophoon 210 Persees in India 48 their Idolatry 49 Persia her severall names 223 subjected by the Assyrians and Medes 270 by the Greeks 271 recovers freedom 272 conquered by the Arabians 280 by the Turks and Tartars 284 and by the Armenians ib. gets her liberty againe 285 and at this day is victorious 290 Persians depicted 123 162 207 229. described 226 their habit 227 Armes 228 coat-Armour 230 supâ—rstition and forces 233 exercises ib. Mathematicks 234 disposition 235 circumsicion 236 marriages 237 burialls 238 reverence to their Kings 208 239 Dyet ib. 242 revenue of the Crowne ib. myneralls 243 language 245 Religion 251 Monarchs 269 Idolatry of old 277 Persepolis described 143 ruines depicted 145 272. Persian Ambass poysons himselfe 35 Persian Court 169 Peru not Ophyr 314 Perwees sonne to the great Mogul has victory over his brother Currowns armie 83. and at Mando chases him 88. arrives at Elabasse 90. relieves Brampore 93. fights with Currown 91. wounded but victorious ibid. falls out with Mahobet-cawn 95. dyes at Brampore 102. lamented by Mahobet and Iangheer ibid. Pesepoly 311 Phasis fl 167 Pheruzabat 148 Phillippinae Iles 312 333 Piramall 306 Pilae Caspianae vel Semeramidis 167 Persides vel Susianae 129 Cancasiae vel Iberiae 201 Plantains 28 Policat 311.313 Poligundy 323 Polisanga fl 337 Porto Santo 3 Pourmandell 75.77 Prage 65.96 Prester Iohn 30.209 Priaman 323.332 Primero 23 24 Puloveen and Pulway 331 Pully-Potshaw 132 Purop 65.89 Pyco 363 Pyree of the Persians 52.186 burnt by Heraclius 277.278 Pyson 222 Q QVabutimo 360 Quiloa 23 Quinzay 336 337 Queene of Persia baptized 276 Queene Nannangalla 28 R RAbayon 56 Racan or Arrachan 320 Radgeè Cottz 74 Radgee Mahal 74.89.92 Radjee Rana Mardout loses Chyttor 60 submits to Iangheer 77. dyes grieved ibid. Radjeè Ranna 102 Radjepore 88.106.107
excellencie of the Alfurcan from his blasphemous lie that he was so long in the sixt heaven call'd Alahal where this Anthropomorphite sayes hee had the honour to shake hands with the Almighty which he sayes were 70 times colder than Ice and that being upon th' earth to make the people credit him he commanded the Moone to descend halfe of which he put into his own sleeve and the other halfe serv'd as a zone or girdle to Mortis Ally and to their like amazement after so rare a complement peec't it and placed it in the same Orbe whence first he drew it During this Ramdam all the day long they abstaine from all sorts of viands or refection he being counted the veriest heretique in the world dare ryot it But Don Phoebus is no sooner inveloped with his dark mantle the earths interposition and Dame Cynthia arrayed with brightnesse in their Hemisphere then they gormundize and let loose the reines of their unbridled appetite Epicurising in all kindes of delights to be invented or pleasures possible Prosper's saying That to fast from sinne is the best fast is here ridiculous So soone as the nine and twentieth day is past for though the Alcoran command forty yet by those of the late reformation it was limited to one Moone they begin the Byram as we doe Easter and continue their merriment and sports till the third day be ended the two dayes after the Byram are commonly call'd Chutsi-baaram Char-bahram or Byram The last houre of the last festivall many vow a zealous pilgrimage to their Prophets Sepulchre not magnetically attracted nor intombed in an iron coffin as some report but laid under a faire marble polisht and ingraved with Arabique sentences out of the Elesalem But in the way wallow in all kind of swinish turpitude villany and lothsomnesse yet no where persecuted being palliated with a Pilgrims coat and hypocritique sanctity The Buccarie they solemnize in November or Chodad-maw by Turks Silcade by Arabs Rabiel owl in commemoration of the Ram sacrificed by Abraham such time as Izmael they say should have beene killed Many other Festivalls they celebrate The Oud Hussan Nowrouz Imamy Caddyer-Ally Iedt-Ousant Auwpatsian the Sophyan the Roses Daffadillies c. The Oud-Hussan is from Hocem or Hussan soone of Ally slaine with eleven of his sonnes by Mavi the Chalyph Lord of Damascus and Nephew to Ozman A Festivall begun by Syet Gunet followed by Aydar and commanded by Sha-Izmael as a Triumph against the Ben-Humyans who tho they thought to have extirpt Ally's root yet by divine providence St. Azmully brancht secretly Anno Hegirae 90. and from him this Siet of Ardoveil reviver of the Sophian dignitie For the Syet not onely sleighted the Turkish opinion of Mahomets three successours Abubocher and the rest but cursed all such as honor them yea and foure other great Hodgees or Doctors of the Alcoran contemporarie friends and helpers of Mahomet those foure if I be not deceiv'd whom Mahomet in a feare for his presumption beholding God in Paradize wip't from the sweat of his brow and by divine myracle metamorphiz'd into foure learned men thus named Achmet Sembelim Abu-hamet Melec-zeddah and Sheck Vaffaim a tenet so offensive and exasperating to the Turks that of late the Muphti condemning an innocent Persian swore a great oath he thought it a better act and a more meritorious sacrifice to kill one Persian than seventy Christians But to our Storie All agree that Hussan was slaine trecherously by Chuse a slave to Mnavi Mavi was an Actor they therefore punish him yearely though rotten 1000 yeares since First framing a deformed Image his face blackt his nose pierc't with a Dart and clad in straw which done they hurrie it through the streets in a hurly-burly of thousands of people who when they have dragd it enough within the City hale it to some rising hill without wher to all mens view they elevate this supposed living Caytiffe The Caddy bawles out a pathetique Oration to this purpose That after much search Ally had directed them where to apprehend this Traytor unworthy the least pittie or procrastination this being that same villaine who slew Hussan and his sons Ceresin only escaping that every good man is bound in conscience to curse him yea to help to torment him in the vilest manner possible In shew of joy and assent they unanimously sing Epicinia a song of victorie and crie aloud Yough Ally yea strive to rend the clouds with their ceaselesse clamours At a set time they cease roring and fire is given to a trayne of Gunpowder which sets divers squibs a fire and at length dissipates and blowes up the detested Syrian by a hideous noise making the ayre eccho at his smokie Funerall Hussans ghost now sleepes quietly each Persian commends one anothers zeal haste home spend that night in merriment The Nowrouz is in imitation of our New-yeares day but they begin after the old manner in March such time as Phoebus in his equall shine to either Pole makes the Aequinoctium A festivall of jovialitie for one prayer preying upon varietie of wanton pleasures the Talismanni piping now to Bacchus Ceres and Madam Venus For I have observ'd that in manie parts for 11 months in the yeare we could see verie few women and those vailed but impossible in the streets or gardens to converse with anie without danger yet these twelve dayes of the Nowrouz all places were full of them yea their naked faces openly discovered frisking in amorous postures and drawing the eye by a forced Magique Gifts also and reciprocall presents are retorted up down with garments of silk gold horses fruits and piscashes of other sorts nothing but riding the great horse drinking cock-fighting fortune-telling singing courting and the like observed to the last minute of that Festivall The Imamy has some dependance on the Buckaree This a Camell that a Ram that for Ismael this for Mahomet In November the Meccan Protomist sends a sanctified Camell by an adopted sonne sometimes naturall who is welcom'd to Spahawn by many thousand Mussulmen who shew th'extream of joy for so holy a Present After they have tried tired their voices the Hodgee from an exalted place acquaints them with the cause of his long journey perswades them to a thankfull remembrance and blesses them The zealous multitude without anie respect of men or danger throng about the Beast who is no sooner in the field where Death arrests him but that they fall upon him and pluck off his haires with an admirable dexteritie keeping them as sanctimonious reliques praevalent against sudden death though manie die in the assault and thousands returne maymed hunger thirst povertie and the like After which the tormented Camell is by the Hodgee againe signed for a sacrifice The Darroguode first transfixes his Javelin The Visier beheads him and gives it the King The carkasse is torne peece-meale by the foole-hardie multitude so greedie to obtaine this charme of long life and plentie
that immortalitie and the place where meat and drinke is needlesse oft praecipitates them The Caddier Ally is for Ally's victorie over the three old Caytiffs of Mecca by death not Ally conquered and his joy in heaven which after some threnodies many prayers are muttered songs chanted and almes bestowed the King being at most charge the greatest honor reflecting him The Iedt Ousant is from a Cabala that Housant was lost in a terrible great wildernesse where thirst killed him Nine dayes they wander up and downe shaving all that while neither head nor beard nor seeming joyfull incessantly crying out Hussan Hussan in a melancholy note so long so fiercely that many can neither howle longer nor for a moneths space recover their voyces The tenth day they find an imaginarie Hussan that Nunquemque satis quaesitus Adonis whom they eccho forth in Stentorian clamors till they bring him to his grave where they let him sleepe quietly till the next yeares zeale fetch him out Semper enim perdunt semper inveniunt and force him againe to concomitate their merry devotion The Auwptpatsion or Owdt-baptsion is from Mahomets baptisme by cursed Sergius and seemes to deride our customes to make their circumcision lovelier A rascall troop of circumcis'd Mahomitans assemble and after the Darroguod has put a period to his rustick Oration promiscuously besprinkle one anothers faces then soile their flesh with durt and filth the great ones many times to please the King acting among them Lastly they cleanse themselves with purer water supposing all contaminated deformitie washt off and their bodies wholsomer The Sophian is a solemnitie of fasting feasting and praying for the prosperitie of their King of the Sophian pedegree The feast of Roses and Daffadillies is begun by a Procession of holy men at the first budding of those sweet flowers and for thirtie dayes is celebrated with all manner of sports and recreations to be imagined continued from the great feasts of the old famous Monarchs of Persia tents in abundance men women boyes girles with Armes musick songs dances and such as may revive the Olympick memories 6 Com. Reverence thy Parents Which how ill they performe many Tragick stories daily informe us of 7 Com. Cursed be the slayer This is so well practis'd in Persia that what by rigour of the Lawes and what from this one may travell in any place at any time without all danger and although they be generally Martialists and affect much wine yet I never saw any quarrell nor strife amongst them 8 Com. Do so to Others as thou wouldest Others should do to thee From whence they are humane and curteous but bribery is lately crept amongst them and deceit too too easily discerned The Alcorar is a miscellany of other prodigious things It tracts in the 33 that Dagial or Shytan i. e. the Devill shall be saved by Mahomet in the 72 Azoara that all Elgehenni or infernall ghosts shall after I know not how many yeares bee freed The other Azoaraes of his Kurrawn are of Arithmetick fights dangers truth falshood tyranny warre peace prophesie c. The 85 Azoara treats of the Zodiac the 90 of the Sunne the 91 92 93 of the Moon of night of morn the 113 of the Firmament but is Philosophy of such coursenesse that I may well say Discum potius quam Philosophum for how can it well be otherwise since in his 17 Azoara hee confesses that hee could neither read nor write but that all his learning was super-naturall In one chapter hee is bold to say that Solomon was a great Magician and that hee learnt it from Marot and Arot two great black Devills with more reason we may say that Mahomet was skild in that infernall wisdome if halfe of those miracles bee true hee records of himselfe one is this In a great assembly of Arabian Pagans he pointed at the Moone with his thumb and long finger it seemes it knew his mind for the Moone immediatly clove asunder and in two peeces fell upon the hill of Mecca on which hee at that time stood Mahomet with a peece of his linsey-wolsey coat patcht it and made it whole againe and after it had also say the Persians circumvolved Mortis Ally in way of imbrace or complement it re-ascended and from that day became the badge or coat armour of all Bosarmen In another hee assures his Proselites that Mecca Medina and Ierusalem be holy Cities built by Adam in Paradize but fram'd in heaven thence it is that Ierusalem is by Turks as well as Christians honoured foure Cities sprung out of hell at the birth of Mahomet at which time all Idolls fell and Lucifer was throwne into hell so deep into that abisse as hee was some yeeres ere he could get up againe the names of those devillish Townes are as pleases Mahomet to say Elmedin in Caldea Antioch in Syria Vastat in Aegypt and Eh-beram in Armenia Places it seemes which had refused him and his learned Doctrine But lend your eares a while and listen to the most serious subject of his Alcoran In the 47 Azoara he records hiâ— pilgrimage into the highest heavens where he saw rare things and thence brought a certain description of the severall Spheares Heavens Hells and Paradises as also of Angells and Saints of judgement the resurrection joy and paine c. of which I will afford you a compendium for Mussulmen to beleeve for us to laugh at One eve as Mahomet was sporting privatly in 's chamber at Mecca with Aysce his young wife Gabryel Seraphyel the Persians call him the same that fosterd Mahomet and Ally three yeares and was peradventure such a Malus Genius as haunted Brutus in a flash of fire entred their bed-chamber and saluted Mahomet with this message Haile thou beloved man I come to fetch thee the God whom thou so zealously worshippest desires to see thee at his owne station Mahomet rejoyces and going to mount upon the Angells wings of which hee had seventy pâ—ire is hindred he asks which way he should take towards heaven the Angel shewes him a huge Asse Albarack by name and bids him mount upon him which Mahomet essaying could not doe till hee had prayed for him From Mecca hee posted in the twinckling of an eye for Barack at foure steps had done it to Hierusalem there the Angell dismounted him and took him into his owne protection In few minutes Mahomet ascended heaven and was let in by Gabryel the Porter there From one heaven to another is a travell of five hundred yeares howbeit The Heaven Mahomet glanc't through the seven in a moment In all which Orbs hee saw many strange things but first take notice what mettall the Orbs are made of The first is of refined silver and wherein all the glittering starres are fixt with chains of burnisht brasse in this heaven he saw a Cock so great that standing upon the Moon his cox-comb reacht into the imperiall heaven many millions of miles altitude every