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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57997	The history of the Turkish Empire, from the year 1623, to the year 1677 Containing the reigns of the three last emperors, viz. Sultan Morat, or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the thirteenth emperor, now reigning. By Sir Paul Rycaut, late consul of Smyrna.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610. Generall historie of the Turkes. aut; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688. History of the Turkish Empire continued. aut; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Memoirs. aut; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1687 (1687)	Wing R2407; ESTC R8667	720,857	331

from thence first thought fit to acquaint the King thereof who was pleased in person to go and see it which appearing a strange and almost a miraculous accident His Majesty commanded it to be taken out and as I am informed it is kept in his Closet And now for the better description of this Rock and for the avoiding of it Seamen may observe and take notice of it in this manner The shallow water Rocks about Ipsera or the Rock whereon we struck bore N. N. W. ½ N. from the place where we anchored on the North of Great Ipsera and lyes about half a mile from the shore The mark is the falling away of the South end of the first gray-cliff which a gall upon the foot of the high hill on which is a house there is also a white sand by the gray cliff the longest way of the Rock is N. W. and S. E. and the length not longer than the Ship the water in the shallowest part thereof is about thirteen or fourteen foot with a Northerly wind and seventeen foot or more in the deepest which is the place where we struck yet as the people of the Island report it hath six foot more with a Southerly wind so that it is not strange that our Master though he had frequented this place with the Venetian Fleet should not have knowledg of it for such a depth of water is seldom noted in Waggoners for a place of danger There is also another Rock near the Town about half a mile distant from the shore bearing N. B. E. of the Point the neat fluff point E. N. E. the Northermost point of little Ipsera N. W. B. N. the Southermost point of little Ipsera S. W. ½ W. the Southernly point of Great Ipsera S. E. 1 S. upon it there is not above four foot water We rode here until the 14th day when between one and two in the morning the wind sprang out of the W.S.W. with an easie gale with which we weighed our Anchors and put to Sea the next morning early being the 15th day we were up with the Island of Tenedos and towards Noon we entered the Hellespont with a fresh gale which was necessary to stem the strength of the current and about three a Clock we passed the Castles of Sestos and Abydos from whence came off a boat with a Druggerman and Janizaries bringing Letters from Sir Thomas Bendish then Ambassador at Constantinople congratulating the Arrival of his Excellency and soon returned again ashoar to carry the news of our entrance within the Castles On the Seventeenth Day about Noon being just Three months since the Lord Ambassador with his Family embarked we came to an Anchor near the Seven Towers from whence we gave notice to St. Thomas Bendysh of our near approach and having given Two hours space for to carry the intelligence we weighed our Anchors and stood in for the Port of Constantinople At this time a Bostangee one belonging to the Grand Signior's Garden came aboard sent by the Bostangee-bashee or Head of the Gardeners to discover and know what Ship it was of such Equipage and greatness advising us also that the Grand Signior was seated in a Chiosk or Summer-house on the corner Wall of the Seraglio Having thus our Anchor aboard with a fresh and favourablegale our Flags and Ensigns displayed and a Streamer at every Yard-arm our Guns and Wast-clothes out and being near the Wall of the Seraglio the same Bostangee came again aboard acquainting us that it was the Grand Signior's pleasure that we should rejoyce with Guns which was his expression the Ship having her Sails swelled out with a gentle Gale and the swiftness of her motion retarded by the current gave the Turks an opportunity to take a full prospect of her the decks being full of men we fired Sixty one Guns as we passed Salutation of the Seraglio and with that order that the Vessel could never appear with better advantage had she been described by the Hand of the most skilful Painter And thus we came to an Anchor on Toppennau side where Sir Thomas Bendysh came immediately aboard to congratulate the safe arrival of this new Ambassador And now here it may be enquired whether the Seraglio returned any answer to this salute by those Guns which lye under the Garden-wall of which most or all are dismounted I answer not for this having been the first Man of War or first Royal ship that ever carried up an English Ambassador to Constantinople it having been the custom formerly to have them transported thither on some goodly Merchant-ship laden with the rich Commodities of our Country a return of Guns was never demanded or expected and perhaps it was a matter not then thought of which if it had and been required it is probable in that conjuncture if ever it would have been granted both because old Kuperlee the Father then governed who was a great friend to the English and Enemy to the French whose Ambassador was then under restraint would have in meer opposition and hatred to them bestowed those honours on our Nation which at another time could not have been extorted for a great Sum of Money and so much I collect from the very words of Kuperlee who after our Lord Ambassador had made his Entrance in a more splendid manner than usual as we shall understand by the sequel he demanded of our Chief Druggerman how the French resented this treatment He answered not well but with an envious Eye as he supposed let them burst with malice replied the Vizier Of late years since the glory and greatness of France their Ambassadors have been always transported up to Constantinople in the Kings Ships Monsieur la Haye the younger came on Man of War of the Kings and a Fireship Monseur de Nointel with Two men of War and a Fireship and now lately Monsieur de Guilleragues with no less an Equipage than the former All which before they entered Constantinople made a stop about the Seven Towers capitulating first to have a re-salute from the Seraglio before they would pass their Complement to that place which being denied as a thing never practised the French Men of War have of late passed with silence without giving or receiving a salute Howsoever as things stand now I should scarce advise that English Men of War should insist upon the like for we having once done it a custom may be pretended and that may give a beginning to such a dispute which a new Ambassador ought studiously to avoid the present circumstances of France not suiting exactly with the sole Interest of Trade which is exercised by England Against the next Day being the Eighteenth The Lord Ambassador landing at Constantinople things were provided for the entrance of his Excellency and indeed with that state and handsome Equipage that neither any Embassador from England nor yet from the Emperor passed with greater Splendor and Honour than this For when his

Effendi was of the greatest Abilities and this present Vizier the most youthful and unexperienced of later Times yet it may be accounted one special mark and token of his Prudence in knowing how to elect so useful a Friend and of his Policy in procuring his sincere faithfulness towards him and making him really his own To which end he conversed much with him communicated all his thoughts freely demanded his advice received his private Entertainments and in fine was wanting in no points of affable Courtesy and Compliance whereby he might create him his own contenting for some time himself with the name of Vizier tho the other as one who best knew how to manage it enjoyed the Power The Chief Officers of the Seraglio That is of the Hazoda or Royal Chamber instigated by the Queen Mother to diminish something the Power of the Vizier put often the Grand Signior in mind as a matter agreeable to his Dignity to have a regard to his Government which caused him more frequently than his humour served to betake himself to his Choisk over against the Viziers Gate to make his usual Observations and perceiving some Christians to enter the Court with red Calpacks or Caps and yellow Shooes prohibited to Christians by orders of inferior Magistrates but never until now thought worthy the Imperal Observance immediately called for the Subashee or Constable of Constantinople and from the Window commanded him with great Fury to enter the Viziers Court and such Christians as he should find there with yellow Shooes and red Caps he should first beat and then send uncovered and barefooted home The Subashee armed with a Power in this matter as high as the Viziers entered the House without Complement or Licence and encountring first the Kapikahya's or Agents of Moldavia and Valachia negotiating the Affairs of their Prince and Country he rudely layed them down and without Respect to their Persons or Office beat them on the Feet tore off their red Stockins and Caps and sent them home with their Heads and Feet bare derided by the People The Gr. Signiors severe Prohibition of yellow shoes and red Calpacks to Christians and lamenting the Affliction of that Tyranny to which they were subjected This inhumane Treatment of Persons in a manner sacred was seconded by publick Proclamations strictly prohibiting all Christians from wearing red Caps yellow Shooes scarlet Vests and the like and Janizaries from the use of Hanjars or Daggers and silk Turbants upon pain of Death which Order was so strictly enjoyned that the Corners of every Street were furnished with Officers to observe and punish such as were found to offend The Grand Signior Rimself judged also the Execution of this Order of that importance as to deserve his own proper Care and Inspection wherefore walking abroad as his manner was in disguise with his Executione at hand encountred in the Streets an unfortunate Bridegroom an Armenian who that day on priviledge of his Espousals had adventured to dress himself with yellow leathern Soks nothing was or could have time to be pleaded in his behalf before the fatal Blow was struck which sent him to his Grave instead of his Nupital Bed. This fury continued some few days with much rigour and strict observation but afterwards growing cold again all care was neglected happening herein as commonly it doth in all things which have no other foundation than humour and fancy But this inspection into petty matters did not so much disturb the thoughts of the Vizier as did the power and greatness of Mortaza the Pasha of Babylon by the Turks called Bagdat a person of an undaunted Courage and greate Conduct whom he had hitherto suffered to live contrary to the true knowledge of his interest and the Rules his Father had left him wherefore he resolved to renew his design and attempts against his Life one I remember was in December of the past Year when in our Journey to Adrianople we met a Messenger on the way who amongst other Discourses informed us that he was then going to Bablyon for confirmation of Mortaza and as a testimony of the G. Signiors favour and good will towards him he carried him a Sword and a Vest of Sables we immediatly and that truly guessed for what Present the Sword was sent for in some Months after the Chaous-bashee or chief of the Pursuivants returned without delivery of his Present The Vizier seeks to cut of Mortaza the Pasha of Babylon For the wise Mortaza was so justly Jealous that he would not so much as admit him to his Presence but returned him again with his Sword and Sables for those who were more easy and credulous and who believe to dye by Command of the Sultan to be Martyrdom and the only Crown of all their Merits and Deserts and knowing that he could not long subsist in Opposition to so great an Enemy he contracted an Alliance by Marriage with a Daughter of one of the Gordean or Curdean Princes and in Dowry had one of the strongest Forts of those Mountains delivered into his hands The Vizier finding himself thus foiled in his occult Artifices began publickly to profess his Enmity and therefore in the first place perswaded the Grand Signior that the long continuance of Mortaza in that Government beyond the usual term so Opulent and Powerful and of a Spirit so Ambitions and Rebellious could not but prove dangerous to himself and in time give him Confidence of Competition for the whole Empire which hazard to prevent with most prudence and advantage there being a present occasion of good Soldiers for relief of Candia Mortaza and his Complices could not be better bestowed than upon that Employment The Grand Signior readily consented to his Counsel being naturally very apprehensive of Danger and in his place constituted the Aga or General of the Janizaries posting him away with all speed-possible to his Government who did not run so fast in his Journey but that the advices of the coming of a new Pasha arrived timely the Ears of Mortaza who judging it an unequal match to contend with the whole Empire gave way to his Successor but withal kept himself so on his Guard that his Adversary could not reach his Head and send it as the first-fruits and Tribute of his new Office For yielding up his command as in an honourable manner of Retreat he gave out that with his Army reported to consist of Forty thousand Men he was on his March to Candia but soon after his design was discovered to be otherwise for believing his own Force unable to contend with his Masters he retired with his richess and some of those most faithful to him unto his Fort on the Mountains and to the Protection and Country of the King of the Curdi whose Daughter he had Married and remained in Epectation of time and opportunity to take his revenge on the Vizier hoping that with time this storm would blow over and that the Beams of his