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A52021	A new survey of the Turkish empire and government in a brief history deduced to this present time, and the reign of the now Grand Seignior, Mahomet the IV, the present and XIV emperor : with their laws, religion, and customs : as also an account of the siege of Newhausel.	Marsh, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.	1663 (1663)	Wing M729A; ESTC R15790	58,977	200

wholly destroys them and their Province with fire and sword ruining their Towns and Castles some by violence and force some by craft and treachery customary with wicked men and Turks and so totally vanquished and conquered them And after a few Months had passed this Bassa beholding the Earls rich Provinces and neighbouring with his he took or made occasions to invade him whom at length he kill'd and so reduced all his Territories under the Turkish Government Thus this seditious Atheist Traytor to his Country and his Brethren most ignominiously lost his life for such are the Turks rewards to whomsoever by craft policy or villanous fraud he can lay hold on or ensnare The like was done with some Noble-men of Hungary whom they reduced to miserable captivity Wherefore most Christian Monarchs the cruelties of this Tyrant ought with all industry and vigilance be both feared and prevented lest considering your fair Provinces and viewing them with a fascinating eye he find you disagreeing and thereby infeebled he assault you on all fides not only Candia Calabria Malta and Sicily but even Italy France Spain and Germany and prove an universal scourge and terrour to all Christendome They are wise who by others harms prevent their own you are concerned when your neighbors house is fired But not to trouble you in this kinde I recommend to you most prudent Governours the correction and amendment of this great errour and return to the deplorable calamities and afflictions our Brethren suffer under the yoke of Tribute in the Turks Dominions where some with chains about their necks are dragged through sharp and spiny parts of Thracia and lesser Asia with naked feet in thirst and hunger and if by labour of long journeys diseases or other griefs they die as often happens to men of Quality and bred in ease are hurled stript in the next ditch though not half dead to the care of ravenous fowls others that is young people of either sex endure perforce the filthy lusts of their buyers and their defencers with hideous cryes and howlings of violated and vitiated people the age of six years not defending them others ignorant in husbandry or Mechanick Arts and literated men who are least saleable are for long time driven from Town to Town from Street to Street and being once sold compell'd with clubs and scourges to learn Trades and daily employments in base businesses and grievous pains others of more robustious strength are made slaves to Gallies tied by the legs with chains and most miserably tortured whose sad calamities the power of humane wit cannot express in words And if these poor unfortunate souls could have foreknown that miserable being they 'd rather have chosen a thousand deaths If pains of life and death were e'er commix'd together yea if to live long and many days and die every hour were ever extant it is in Turkie Egyptian servitude Babylonian banishment Assyriack captivity Roman destruction are toyes and trifles to these calamities People who live as it were in the firy Furnace of the Chaldean Hut and crying up to heaven with sighs and groans O Lord how long arise and forsake us not in the end and when oppressed and grieved beyond all hope they turn their eyes again on their own Countries likewise in captivity yet wish themselves rather slaves there then where they are their prayers are not for liberty but change of place and for that cause indifferent for death or or life they turn Fugitives and some leaving their flocks in deserts their Oxen at plow expose themselves to devouration some murthering their Masters and their Children some burning their houses in revenge some run away hiding themselves in Caves and hollow Trees with fearful wants and dangers which I here forbear having given the Reader some taste thereof before And now they turn their cries to you all Christian Monarchs and Governours of Common-wealths Imploring and beseeching the Pope of Rome who should be Father of our Country and all sorts of men belonging to Christ his holy Church That they uniting all sects of men in peace and concord would labour to suppress this common enemy and restore their Brethren unto liberty Imploring and beseeching the Emperor and all Imperial Princes Dukes Cities and Nobility to cool their hot Calentures of ambition and avarice of neighbours rights and set apart domestick quarrels and call together and unite their strengths against so cruel an Usurper and hostile Enemy and labour to defend their present or else recover their lost Territories and then be assured the circumspection of the Spanish Souldiery the warlike fierceness of the Belgick Provinces the quick prudence of the Italian w●… the robustiousness and stoutness of the Germans will be easily perswaded by the King of Romans against this universal Enemy remembring you withal No Crown sits so gloriously on an Emperor or Princes head as that which beareth a true Title of the Peoples safety and lawful Liberties Imploring and beseeching the most Christian King of France to employ his helping and heroick Arms in safeguard according to his Title of his Christian Brethrens liberties and his own from Turkish Tyranny Imploring and beseeching the most mighty and potent Kings of England Poland Denmark Swedeland with all Republicks Cities and Corporations Christian to unite and joyn in one their strengths and powers in war against this cankered common Enemy of their Religion Crowns and Dignities Imploring and beseeching all sorts of Powers and Authorities spiritual and temporal to imploy their diligence and shew the worthiness of their callings by correction and amendment of wicked and dissolute loose livers by whom God's wrath is kindled against us and to reduce them to holy Rules of Christian Exercises in living justly soberly and religiously and so render God a true account of Stewardship and prevent the miseries have befallen others drowsie and sleeping inadvertencies Imploring and beseeching both young and old of all sects and conditions godly Christians religious and secular beloved Fathers dear Brethren respected Friends Neighbours and Companions that you all with humble face and countenance pure and sincere hearts and hands devout minds mournful voyces and weeping eyes condole grieve and lament the miseries the calamities of Turkish captives and call unto the Lord of Hosts with violence in pity to his people to avert his anger and not to give them up to the perpetual rebuke of this wicked Infidel most cruel Enemy of Christian Religion and Liberty but to inspire the mindes of Christian Kings and Governours with light of his holy Spirit to reduce them all to unity and concord against this ravenous and insatiable Dragon and grant others such success that these wretched captives their Christian Brethren may be restored to liberty in the worship and adoration of their God our Christ and onely serve him who is for ever blessed that at length the Christian World may be refreshed and eas'd from such perpetual slavery An Exhortation against the Turk I Have often

marvelled with my self most mighty Monarchs when I considered theadvantages which promise Christians victories against the Turk and yet in so many years they attempted none or failed We have Jesus Christ our God who in one only night destroyed the host of Sennacherib who drowned Pharaoh who with a maiden hand of Judith struck off the head of Holopherues and to be brief a God whose will is victory Contrary to which they have Mahomet a wicked man of life and conversation in death yet hanging in his Sepulchre without Resurrection so as there is as much difference between them as is between an ever living Son of an ever living God and a putrid carkass of a son of a mortal man that if we diligently examine the nature of each Power and Authority it would apear like dead men superiors in strength to living Now in abilities of bodies capacities and gifts of understanding we exceed them which are good strengths and fortifications against an enemy and yet we are still defeated Who is more hardy then the Hungarian more stout and robustious then the German more quick and nimble then the Frenchmen more grave and solid than the Spaniard more cautelous and prudent then the Italian more valiant and daring then the English forbearing other Nations the endowments of whose mindes are better or at least equal All these abilities seem able singly to get a victory or at least well to forward it Courage often without much force generosity of minde wisdom forecast ambition of honour and policy oft subdues an Enemy yet notwithstanding wretches as we are amongst so many victorious attributes we get no victories Then if we consider the easie preparation and great furnitures of all sorts of arms we shall appear far to exceed the Turk Guns of all sorts have been our own inventions and the divers kinds of compleat harnesses for horse and foot The Turks Persians Subjects naked or half so march forth to war they have bows we guns that is fire and thunder they have arrows which hardly pierce and Armour we Cannons which Rocks cannot withstand and yet now some Musselmen have Guns and Gunners but few and unskilful Now I pray what other kinde of people use they most in Expeditions Scythians and Thracians who have no Italian or Spanish Spirits onely a kinde of inhumane fierceness ignorance and stolidity to these are added Grecians lost men with ease and laziness Asians corrupt with luxury Aegyptians no less in minde then bodies feebled Arabians bloodless thin and parboyl'd with the Sun Who could imagine such kinde of Souldiery should subdue the great advantages and abilities of those forenamed Nations yet be it spoken with grief our Christians by these are overcome and mastered into servitude and our great Captains are forced to bear arms against us who were born and bred by Ancestors to liberty and in the mean season the Turk laughs at us and the Jew rejoyceth Now if I should consider the Laws and Institutions of Nations we shall be found abundantly superior in that respect for what is more righteous and divine then the Decalogue and holy Gospel written by Gods own Finger and his Spirit what more regular then the Canon-Law more just and equal then the Civil Law Whereas the Turks live by Direction and Dictates of the Alcoran a book of stuff as foolish as full of vanity a book of sport and mirth if pity for the seduced did not allay it though now spread abroad too much and handled amongst Christians so as it may be truly feared we shall learn other Laws or shortly loose our own and turn Turks in our minds and approbations sooner then in our bodies to their Dominion VVhat is then the cause having so many Prerogatives of hopeful War we are always beaten why are our Ensigns adorn'd with Crucifixes fearful formerly to Infidels and Devils now trampled on and slighted I shall tell you in few words and truth We have a God most great most good but alienated from us so far that according to the Prophets saying We scarce are to be named his people for why should Christ remain with us whom we have rent and corn in far more pieces then the Souldiers did his Garment by our hideous Sects Schisms and Heresies Besides his Name what of him is deap unto us The very Plow-man these times is impudent and factious the Citizen fraudulent and avaritious the Magistrate seeks retributions and rewards the Nobility is riotous and lazy the Gentry contentious and proud the Souldier beyond his pay and spoile craves nothing from the War let Scepters fall as they will he is no less grievous to friends and companions then Enemies Church-men besides pomp Ecclesiastical have little of the Church not sanctity not piety and some not fitting erudition seeking their own not Christs advancement that we may say with the Prophet All have declin'd the ways of God and are unprofitable there 's none that doth good not even one Why should we marvel then that Christ is not our Friend We therefore go to war without a God and what is more calamitous with God our adversery We carry Bibles and Crucifixes with us but the crucified by his favour converseth with our enemies our Actions therefore perish and are involv'd in losses And when one Nation fights against the Turk another is employ'd in civil wars calling to his aid Pagans Schismaticks or Hereticks more eagerly to oppose Christ others tend their home-affairs to indulge themselves in ease and voluptuousness The souldier sets not forth for Christ but money which failing soon deserts the field and turns home back again What have we then from those rich Attributes and Eulogies of Germany France England Spain and Italy when the souldier neglects both God and Honour and goes to war as to market a brothel-house or stews to exercise all rapine spoile and lewdness We have good Laws but evil manners good furniture of Arms but wicked dispositions it is our glory to fight among our selves and if we prove coward to enemies there follows little shame or punishment When do we see a Souldier quitting colours or disbanding severely handled which crimes were anciently capital and whole Legions have been decimated and tyth'd for less offences We therefore march with men few in numbers and those corrupt in manners against millions of men well disciplin'd for Turks leave their vices in their houses from whence we carry ours In their Pavilions and Tents no deliciousness Arms onely and necessary provisions in Christians all forts of Table-delicates luxury and riotousness and commonly as many light lascivious Women as Men. What wonder then if they conquer who are preserved by sobriety parsimony diligence fidelity and obedience Let them perish then who lose a field to get a prey who are oftner found amongst Whores and drunk then in good actions but 't is the fault and errour of Superiours when Subjects are not kept in due observance which if Christians were we could not be inferiour

to Turks And yet a greater fault behold Princes themselves while they contend in mutual quarrels are causes why they cannot muster equal forces against the Turk for whilst they fight and combate for some little Town or other after grievous strife conflictation and exhaustion of men and treasure they grow weak impoverished and heartless What brave Actions might those streams of Christian blood have done which civil wars most impiously have drawn out emptied and dried up But 't is too late to mourn in complaints Asia and Affrica are lost Greece extinguished Hungary desperately sick Illyria and Sclavonia joyned to the Turk Austria much enfeebled and this Plague much threatens Germany and Christianity universal and that so far that no great Prince or Monarch ought to be secure or think himself so free but that he may be forced to desend his own without invasion of his neighbours Territories whether it please or not unless they will become of Princes Servants of Free-men Slaves detained in perpetual chains or flain and murthered that their Subjects may want Captains and good Leaders Now most mighty Monarchs and high Governors for Gods cause banish from amongst you all discord and ambitious tyrannies which are the Devils instruments to maintain oppressions and impieties thereby to prolong Gods wrath upon you and restore to each Proprietor his due rights and priviledges and then as Rivers having free course haste all smoothly to the Sea and make one mighty body so your strengths united in the bond of peace would startle astonish and drown this great Tyrant Turk Which blessing on bended knees I humbly pray for and recommend unto the God of Peace And being reconcil'd among your selves if you would say as Moses said to Joshua Chuse you a man and go and fight with Amelek if you would reduce your selves to this peace and concord which is onely hopeful and put your helping hands and powers toward so greatly honourable so blessed so necessary and profitable a War against the Turk who can imagine but that ye should at least equal the number of his Souldiery if not far exceed them He is now swell'd up to the very heighth of Tyranny and hath there remained so for divers years as if expecting as if waiting an Attempt All full Seas have their ebbings all ripe fruits are quickly shaken down there wants nothing to this general and glorious work of Christian Princes but Gods blessing unanimity and an heroick courage brave and masculine For the Emperour can with easiness raise arm and muster 50000 horse and 100000 foot the like may hopefully be expected from France from Spain and Italy the yet remaining parts of Hungary and Illyria with the Provinces under the King of Romans will raise and maintain 60000. These Christian forces may make 400000 horse and foot besides the Maritime great assistances of England Denmark united Provinces Venetians Portugals and Swedes and all other Christian Commonwealths who if once unanimous and freed from jealousies and petty wretched wilful home-contentions the Turkish power could no more resist ye then Darius Alexander Xerxes Themistocles or Antiochus Judas Macchabeus and having gotten but one Victory and once passed the Danube towards Constantinople God being pleased and our lives amended these enemies of our faith would easily be trodden down All Greece and Thrace where yet great part retain the Law of Christ expect with greediness the Christian Sword and readily would revolt upon such occasion and manfully assault and fight against those Lords and Masters that have so cruelly afflicted them which circumstance alone would much hasten if not perfect a speedy victory I would to God and wish heartily most Christian Monarchs That your civil fruitless home-contentions would permit and suffer you seriously to consider and calmly to examine these offered motions you then would finde all mens wills and arms concur with yours no age no sex no conditions of men would leave your Ensigns Each Turk would have his Executioner at home his Traytor in his Tent and fugitive in the Field All Christians amongst them have contemptuous opinions of their arms and know them onely sitted for light Skirmishes and Pickerings who if their noise like shoals of clamouring Rocks affright you not they flee And whensoever it shall please God to root out from amongst us these perpetual Enemies of his faith and send them to their old lurking holes and caves and corners in Bythinia by the Christian Sword according to some of their own Prophecies or else to reduce them to the bosome of our Catholick Church no man can donbt but in short time the Emperor will be seated in his chair at Constantinople and invested in his Imperial Roman Territories The King of Romans re-established and recover Hungary and Thrace France lesser Asia England part of Egypt Spain part of Africa Italy all Shores and Banks of the Mediterranean Seas and last the Pope as a great Pastor of the Christian Church will be extol'd and magnifi'd for such an union These are the apprehensions of all Christian captives under the Turkish Tribute and even Turks themselves who have-knowledge and long acquaintance in military affairs And this my self have learned by thirteen yeers experience The Turk is valiant against a flying and flying against a valiant Enemy when therefore he by nature is fugitive impiety flyes without pursuit Let God arise and scatter all his Enemies let those that hate his Doctrine avoid his presence let them like smoak vanish and melt like wax against the fire so may all Infidels perish before the face of God and his holy Church that there may be but one Flock and one Pastor Jesus Christ the righteous Which grant Oh ever blessed Trinity and Unity God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Amen The Seraglio of the women and Sultanas of the Great SIGNOR BEfore I dismiss this Subject to satissie some Curiosities concerning this Emperours pleasures in which he satiates himself with variety conversing with his Mutes and Buffones for that it is not lawful for any body but the Vizier Bassa●s and some few others to speak to him in the same fignes and gestures and now and then riding and shooting casting a heavy Iron Mace all which he is taught to do with great exactness I will transiently speak of that then which nothing is more secret and reserved viz. His Companying with women the beautifullest those parts of the world afford the greatest excellency and perfection whereof is reputed to consist in great and broad eyes the enjoyment of women so featured being made a part of their Paradise in the world to come They which are within the third gate called the Kings gate are about two thousand persons men and women whereof the women old and young one with another what with the Kings Concubines Old women and women Servants may be about eleven or twelve hundred Now those which are kept up for their beauties are all young Virgins taken and stollen from