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A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

Grain Pulse Meal and Flower are sold pays Yearly into the Treasury 14 Purses of Money each Purse being worth a Thousand Six Hundred Thirty and Three Zequins The Egyptian Merchants who bring their Goods from Alcaire to sell them at Constantinople pay 24 Purses The Fraught of all Foreign Merchant Ships makes up 180 Purses of Gold I have mention'd the Value of each Purse before The Great Shambles without the City pays 32 Purses There serve in this Place 200 Butchers over whom there is a Praefect or Master without whose Consent no Man can kill any Beast unless it be in the Case of Corban Nay so great is the Authority of this Praefect that the Jews themselves are forc'd to ask his Leave to kill their Beasts after their own-Fashion The Reason why the Shambles is without the City is for Purity's Sake lest the City be polluted with Blood It is Impossible to cast up the Prodigious Revenue which arises to the Grand Signior from the Sale of Hungarian Sheep and Oxen in the 10th and 11th Moons But thou may'st comprehend that it is very Great when sometimes in one Days time there are sold 25000 Oxen and 40000 Sheep Neither is it more easie to reckon up his Incomes from the Sale of Houses Skiffs Galleys Saicks and bigger Vessels Besides it would be too tedious for one Letter What shall I say of the Tribute which the Jews and Christians pay amounting Yearly to a Prodigious Sum of Money Time Paper Ink and Human Patience it self would fail in rehearsing so many Particularities But thou may'st frame a Regular Judgment of the Immense Riches which the Grand Signior is possess'd of when thou shalt know that there is a Mint in the Imperial City where Four Hundred Men perpetually labour in coining new Money having a President or Overseer who supervises the Work who must be a Graecian by a special Privilege granted to that Nation by our Munificent Emperors because the Mines of Silver and Gold are within the Limits of the Graecian Empire So that none but Greeks are admitted to assist at this curious Artifice The President is oblig'd every New Moon to send into the Serail Ten Thousand Zequins of Gold and Twenty Thousand in Silver For such is the Pleasure of the Great Sultan that the Royal Palace should always abound with fair New Money Sage Musu assure thy self that Constantinople is the Grand Treasury Exchequer or Banque of the whole Earth Where all the Riches of the East West North and South and of the Seven Climates are refunded and laid up as in their proper Center But I have more to say in another Letter concerning this Glorious City Only Time just now gave me a Prick with the end of his Scyth to put me in Mind of an Urgent Affair not to be neglected this moment Wherefore in hast Adieu Paris 21st of the 8th Moon of the Year 1673. THE END BOOKS lately Printed for Hen. Rhodes in Fleet-street 1. MOnasticon Anglicanum or The History of the Ancient Abbies and other Monasteries Hospitals Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales With divers French Irish and Scotch Monasteries formerly relating to England Collected and Published in Latin by Sir William Dugdale Knt. late Garter King of Arms. In Three Volumes And now Epitomized in English Page by Page With Sculptures of the several Religious Habits In Folio Price 10 s. 2. The History of Father La Chaise Jesuite and Confessor to Lewis XIV the Present King of France Discovering the Secret Intriegues by him carried on as well in the Court of England as in all the Courts of Europe to advance the Great Designs of the King his Master with Letters that pass'd betwixt the Dutchess of Portsmouth Father La Chaise and the French King Made English from the French Original In 12 s. Price 2 s. 6 d. 3. An Antidote against a Careless Indifferency in Matters of Religion Being a Treatise in Opposition to those that believe That all Religions are Indifferent and that it Imports not what Men Profess Done out of French With an Introduction by Anthony Horneck D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties 4. The Present Court of Spain or The Modern Gallentry of the Spanish Nobility unfolded In several Histories And Seventy five Letters from the Enamour'd Teresa to her Beloved the Marquis of Mansera By the Ingenious Lady Author of the Memoirs and Travels into Spain Done into English by J. P. In 12 s. Price 2 s. 6 d. 5. The Triumph Royal Containing a short Account of the most Remarkable Battels Sieges Sea-fights Treaties and Famous Archievements of the Princes of the House of Nassau c. Described in the Triumphal Arches Pyramids Pictures Inscriptions at the Hague in Honour of King William III. of England c. Curiously engraven in 62 Figures in Copper Plates with their Histories In 8 vo 6. Voyages and Travels over Europe Containing all that is most Curious in that Part of the World Done out of French In Two Parts In 12 s. All Printed for Hen. Rhodes at the Star the corner of Bride-lane in Fleet-street FINIS

conspire against me they hunt me up and down like a Partridge in the Wood they closely pursue my Life The Kindnesses that I have sown spring up in Blades of bitter Ingratitude and Perfidy My Seminaries bring forth Aconite and stinking Weeds instead of pleasant Flowers and wholesome Fruits Tagot has set his Foot in all my Works That sly interloping Spirit hates to see any good Thing prosper or come to Perfection He steals behind us in all our Ways and as fast as we weave any Web of Vertue he secretly unravels it or deforms the Work with intermixing some Threads of Vice I am weary of striving against the Current of my Fate Oh! that I were as though I had never been That my Soul were drench'd in Lethe's Forgetful Waters where all Past Things are buried in Eternal Oblivion Then wou'd my Anguish be at an End Whereas I am now rowl'd about upon a Wheel of Miseries Holy Santone when thou shalt read this pity me and amidst thy Divine Ejaculations dart up Mahmut's Soul to Paradise on the Point of a strong Thought that so at least I may have a Moments Respite from my Constant Sadness Paris 27th of the 2d Moon of the Year 1667. LETTER II. To the Kaimacham THere is now some Probability of a Peace between the English and the Dutch Which will also reconcile this Crown to that of Great Britain Since the King of France engag'd in this War only on the Account of the Dutch his Allies The Advances toward this Accommodation took their Rise from the Alliance lately concluded between the States of the Vnited Provinces the King of Denmark the Duke of Brandenburgh and the Princes of Brunswick The King of England protests against the Dutch as the First Aggressors in that they had taken above Two Hundred of his Merchant-ships before he offer'd the least Act of Hostility Which the States seeming to acknowledge desire the King to appoint some Neutral Place of Treaty with them and their Allies in Order to a Peace the Security of Navigation and the Establishment of Commerce for the future Here is great Joy for the Birth of a young Princess of whom the Queen was deliver'd on the 2d of the Moon of Jannary She is call'd God's New-Years Gift to France In regard the First Day of that Moon begins the Year with the Christians And 't is common among them to send mutual Gifts and Presents to one another at that Time which they call New-Years Gifts And so it seems God Almighty has appear'd very Modisn and Complaisant in thus timing the Nativity of the Royal Babe For which they express their Thanks in Revelling Dancing Ballads and a Thousand other Vanities And these Divertisements continue to this Time it being the Nazarenes Carnaval a Season consecrated to Sport and Mirth to Liberty Buffoonry and all Manner of Comical and Ridiculous Apishness During this Time you shall see an Infinite Variety of odd Humours and mimical Actions in the open Streets according to every Man 's particular Phancy Here you shall meet with one dress'd half i' th' French and half i' th' Spanish Fashion On the left side of his Head hangs dangling down a long thick curled Peruke which reaches to his Breast whilst on the Right you see nothing but his own Hair crop'd close to his Ears A long Mustach as black as Jet graces the Right Side of his upper Lip whilst on the Left he is Beardless as a Boy of Seven Years Old And so from head to Foot he wears two contrary Garbs One walks about with Gloves upon his Feet and Shooes upon his Hands Another wears his Breeches like a Mantle on his Shoulders Here comes a Stately Coach jogging along with grave slow Pace and drawn by Six fair Horses as if some Prince or Cardinal were in it when behold there 's nothing but a silly Ass puts forth his giddy Head with flapping Ears half drunk with the jolting unaccustom'd Motion Sometimes he brays aloud and then the Rabble fall alaughing A Thousand other Fopperies there are not worth thy Knowledge For both the Noble and the Vulgar are all upon the Frolick at this Time and indulge their wanton Phancies to the Height But 't is a fatal Season for the poor Cats few of which escape the Multitude whose peculiar Pastime 't is to toss these Creatures in a Blanket till they are dead or else to tie them Two and Two together by the Tails and then they 'll bite and scratch one another to Death The Cocks also are generally great Martyrs during the Carnaval the Rabble have a Hundred Cruel Ways to murder them in Sport All their Devices are Inhumane and Bloody They did not learn these prophane Courses from Jesus or any of the Prophets or Apostles of God But they are the Reliques of Gentile Vanity in the Beginning conniv'd at by the Priests the easier to retain their Proselytes in Obedience who wou'd rather have parted with their New Religion than with their Old Barbarous Customs And thus the Pagan Fooleries were handed down to the Posterity of the Primitive Christians and were adopted into the Family of Church Traditions And Men are not more zealous for the Gospel it self than for these Ridiculous Prophanations of it So dangerous a Thing it is for Governours by a Criminal Indulgence to permit their Subjects any Liberty which interferes with the Fundamental Principles of the Law For such a Dispensation once granted passes into a Precedent which in Process of Time becomes of equal Force with the Law it self And by such preposterous Methods of winning and retaining Converts Christianity arriv'd to the height of corruption it 's now infected with Sage Minister t was for this Reason God rais'd up our Holy Prophet and gave him a new Law with Power to reform and chastise the Infidels He planted the Vndefiled Faith with Scymeter in Hand not palliating or encouraging the smallest Vicious Practice but subduing all Things by the Dint of Reason or the keen Edge of the Sword God hasten his Return for the Prevarications of this Age require it Paris 27th of the 2d Moon of the Year 1667. LETTER III. To Dgnet Oglou I Believe thou hast not forgot the Observations we us'd to make on the Religion of the Christians when we were Slaves together in Sicily How Ridiculous some of their Practices appear'd to us and yet what a Sanctity was manifest in others How much we approved the Majesty of their Publick Worship the Solemnity of their High-Mass the Gravity of their Processions And yet how great was our Disgust when we consider'd that all these Honours were perform'd to Figures and Statues of Stone Wood Silver Gold or other Materials the Creatures of the Painter or Carver We scann'd their Doctrines also which we learn'd from their Priests and Books and descanted variously on them as they were more or less conform to the Truth and to the Volume brought down from Heaven In a Word we prais'd the Good and censur'd

have Occasion to retrench such Indifferent Niceties Nay to go farther if we should neglect the stated Periods of Solemn Adoration compell'd thereto by Sickness Travelling or any other Necessity Be not disconsolate as if thou hadst been guilty of a Mortal Sin Some supererogating VVork of Charity will cancell Ten such Faults as that Or at least thou may'st look boldly in the Face of God when at another Season on thy Knees thou makest ample Compensation Or by sacred Abstinence and Fasting dispersest all the Mists and Clouds of Guilt that sate so heavy on thy Soul The Times are all alike to him who is Eternal There 's no Distinction of Day or Night with that Immortal Essence who made the Sun and Stars and is himself th' unchangeable Source of Light So if we shou'd address our Selves to Heaven without the usual Forms of Prayer or any words at all we have no Reason to be sad as if our Oraisons were Ineffectual and Unheard In the Eternal High Recess our silent Vows and softest VVhispers of the Soul Eccho as loud as the most bold and noisy Clamour of the Tongue There is a Rank of Spirits among the Rest Above on purpose made to waft the Secret Thoughts of Mortal Men to Heaven We cannot fail of Audience there when e'er we send the least Ejaculation up with firm Credentials from the Heart In a word believe my Dgnet That the Supremely Intelligent and Wise chiefly regards the Intention and Fervour of our Minds the Habitual Bent of our Souls with the Innocent and Pious Actions of our Lives He is not to be mov'd unless to Indignation by the vain Tautologies of our Verbal Oraisons the nauseating Crambe of devoutest Words common to Hypocrites and Persons of Sincerity to the most Incorrigible Sinners and the Greatest Saints The humble Silence of a Heart resign'd to Destiny is a Pacifick Sacrifice attoning for the greatest Sins attracting choicest Favours Smiles and Benedictions from the Eternal This is the Discipline of Sacred Love the Rule of perfect Life the Secret Chart of the Elect whereby they steer their Course to Paradise Which of the Prophets was a formal Beadsman to number out his Oraisons at Finger's End and offer up to God a short and vain Retail of Words in Recompence of Infinite Bounties Past and in Hopes of more to Come VVhen Mahomet was pursu'd by cruel Infidels and forc'd to make the VVilderness his Sanctuary and hide himself within the Hollow of an Aged Oak He did not seek to amuse th' Eternal with studied Forms of Speech and Humane Eloquence or tire th' Immortal Ears with a Religious long Harangue as if he thought to ensnare the General Mercy of the Holy One in Trains of Artificial and Elaborate Language or catch his more particular Indulgence in a Trap of Subtile Rhetorick The harmless Saint with Heart and Face compos'd with Self-denying Thoughts and Looks stood like a Statue in the Bless'd Asylum VVhilst gentle Rivolets of Compassionate Tears trill'd down his Cheeks His Soul was pierc'd with Sacred Pity to his Enemies He sigh'd and wish'd in short whatever Blameless Piety cou'd suggest for him and them Angels immediately carried the Prophetick Vows to Heaven His silent passionate Prayer was heard The Cruel Persecutors blinded with Impious Fury rush'd into the Desart they sp●…ad themselves abroad and rode at large One Traytor spurr'd his Horse through thickest VVebs of low entangl'd Thorns and Underwoods greedy of the Royal and Majestick Prey whilst others took the open Paths hoping to overtake the Prophet on the Flight They seem'd to swim or fly rather than ride such was the Swiftness of their Course Fierce was the Cry re-eccho'd from the Hollows of the Rocks and Valleys Mecca for the Head of Mahomet Some stumbled at the out-creeping Roots of Trees and broke a Leg or Arm by a Precipitate Fall from off their Beasts whilst others had their Eyes struck Blind by Interfering Twigs One had his Turbant rudely brush'd off and Scalp severely shav'd by broken Stumps of Boughs and Rows of Knotty Branches plac'd and bent down by Fate on Purpose to revenge th' Apostle's Cause on such a Miscreant as this Another cou'd not curb his Horse from jumping down into a deep blind Quarrey dugg i' th' midst o' th' VVood where the proud Heretick dash'd his Skull and Brains upon the Marble Pavement at the Bottom So Sensible and Vindictive are Inanimate Creatures when a Good Man a Saint a Friend of God is wrong'd The very Stocks and Stones and all the Elements are touch'd with Sacred Sympathies at such a Time The Frame of Nature feels strange tender Passions Fits and Qualms of Amorous Regard And God himself if I may so express my self is rowz'd as from a Trance and snatching up the Weapons of his Power and VVrath runs like a Champion to defend the Cause of injur'd Innocence But I forget that I am writing a Letter and therefore ought to be Brief Besides what I have said is sufficient to convince thee That I have an Idea of Religion far different from that which the Casuists whether Mussulmans or Christians would Imprint in Men's Minds If thou can'st not think as I do I condemn thee not Use thy Native Freedom but remember That tho' Men's Reasons and Opinions vary as do their Faces yet Truth is Homogeneous Uniform and ever of the same Complexion in all Ages and Nations Paris the 1st of the 2d Moon of the Year 1672. LETTER IV. To the Kaimacham THE King of France has lately made a League with the King of England VVhereupon the People by way of Proverb say That Mars and Jupiter are now in Conjunction Reflecting thereby on the different Tempers of these Two Princes The One Debonaire and Jovial Excessively addicted to VVomen and VVine yet not forgetting or declining Martial Affairs when his Honour or Interest invites him to take up Arms The Other seeming wholly taken up with the Thoughts of Conquest and enlarging his Dominions yet sparing some Time for the Enjoyment of Himself and Prosecution of his Amours However both of them now have proclaim'd Open VVar against the Hollanders by Sea and Land The King of Sweden who was before an Allie of the Dutch has of late declar'd himself a Neuter And the Bishop of Munster who is one of the Electors of the German Empire is engag'd in the French Interest Thus are some of the Princes and States in Europe divided already and God knows how far the Breach may extend in Time 'T is not altogether unworthy of Remark what different Factions there were of Late amongst the Hollanders themselves tho' a Republick pretending to greater and faster Union of Interests than what can be found in any Monarchy Yet this Commonwealth was rent into Three several Parties VVhereof One was headed by the Prince of Orange the Other by John De-Wit and the Third was compos'd of the Commons without any Chief of Note I will 〈◊〉 trouble thee with a Character of the Prince