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

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

so much sattin or fine cloth as will make each of them a pair of Chackshirs or breeches after their fashion down to the heels and ruffled in the small of the leg as our boots are neverthelesse these Oda Bashawes are all under command of the Kahiyah who is the Bustangee Bashawes steward now the Bustangee Bashawe himself hath daily about three hundred aspars pay for he is their patron judge and protector And as any Turk whatsoever may be known of what degree he is by the bignesse and making up of the Turbant which he wears or by some other tokens which they observe in their habit so to the end that the Oda Bashawes and * Bulook Bashawes may be known from the common sort of Agiam oglans they wear broad silken girdles of divers colours about their middles and are allowed a larger stipend who by authority given them from the * Kahiyah do bring the underlings to such an extraordinary subjection and sufferance by their often beating them upon the least misdemeanour that they do not onely not refuse all manner of pains taking but patiently undergo whatsoever is done unto them They have their terms and prerogatives amongst themselves preceding or succeeding one another according to the length of time which they have spent in the Seraglio so that in processe of time if they still continue there and are not sent out upon other occasions they may aspire to the degree of chief steward to the Bustangee Bashawe or of Bustangee Bashawe himself which is a very eminent place for he hath the keeping of all the Grand Signors garden houses and steers the Kings * Kaik and weareth a Turbant upon his head in the Seraglio although he were but lately an Agiam oglan as the rest are and did wear one of the aforesaid felt caps who also if he be in grace with the King as commonly every Bustangee Bashawe is may rise to greater dignities as to be captain Bashawe Bashawe of Cairo Damascus Aleppo c. Nay sometimes to be Vizir Azem These Agiam-oglans are not altogether debarred from liberty and going abroad but may upon good occasion be licensed to go whither they please although at the first they are strictly lookt unto and the Bustangee Bashawe alwayes takes with him good store of them when by his Majesties order he is sent to put some great man to death the which is commonly done by the hands of four or five of the chiefest and strongest of the said Agiam oglans There are sometimes naturall born Turks brought in amongst them but indeed very seldom by means made to the Bustangee Bashawe who therein doth greatly pleasure such poor folks as are willing to be rid of their children but it must be first made known to the Grand Signor and done with his consent For the natural born Turks are not held to be of so brave spirits and fit for service as the other and for divers other respects best known to themselves as the encreasing the number of * Mussulmen and the like they do not willingly admit of any but Christians children Their rooms bagnoes and kitchins are joyned to the walls of the Seraglio without divided severally and equally for each company of them and built for the more commodity of such offices and services as the said Agiam oglans are appointed for And as for their diet they order it as they please having flesh and pulse for their pottage their bread also and every thing for their food is delivered unto them daily from the * Keeler and the dressing of it left to themselves Now for that many of them lie near the sea side they take good store of fish part of which they sell and reserve the rest for their own eating They sleep alwayes in their clothes putting off onely their uppermost coa●… and their shoes according to the ordinary custom of the poorer sort of Turks between a couple of rugs in the winter and thin blankets in the summer They never see the King unlesse it be when he passeth through the gardens or when he taketh boat or else when he goeth a hunting for he makes them serve instead of hounds to finde out his game but when his Majestie will be in the gardens to take his pleasure and make pastime with his concubines then all the Agiam oglans being warned by an Eunuch who crieth aloud * Helvet do presently get out with all speed at the gates by the sea side where they may w●…lk upon the banks and causeys but must not dare to go in again until the King and his women be departed For there may none come neer nor be in sight of them but himself and his black Eunuchs nay if any other should but attempt by some trick in creeping into some private corner to see the women and should be discovered he should be put to death immediately Every one therefore so soon as they hear Helvet cried runs out of sight as far as they can to be free from all fear and suspition Now of this rank of Agiam oglans which are in the Kings Seraglio they never make Janizaries as they do of those which are brought up in the other Seraglios and Seminaries and of such as are lent to divers of the Kings subjects as trades-men masters of ships and the like and to the Bashawes but his Majesties turn being served of these he bestowes them upon his gentlemen Aghas when he employes them abroad in some principal government that they may be faithful assistants unto them in their businesses and that in time they themselves may become men of worth as often they do if by their diligence and fidelity they prove to be men of good desert The Grand Signor likewise maketh great use of them when he intendeth a journey to any place as when he goeth to the wars or any whither else far from Constantinople for the pitching of his tents for removing and carrying of chests and baskets and many other such like services as must be done at those times for which imployments the King never takes with him lesse then three or four hundred of them CHAP. VI Of the Kings * Itchoglans their severe discipline and education in four subordinate Schools and of their after advancements IT now remaineth that I say somewhat of the Grand Signors Itchoglans which are youths kept also in the Seraglio but in far better fashion then the Agiam oglans and are for the King and countreys service brought up in learning in the knowledge of the laws and in military exercises that they may in time be made able to perform those things which belong to the government of the whole Empire And albeit for the most part these are Christian captives and Renegado's yet there are some natural born Turks amongst them which must be youths of very comely aspect and their outsides must promise a great deal