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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

who every Moon us'd to Fast for Seven or Eight Days together So a famous German Maid was diligently observ'd and watch'd whilst she pass'd away full Seven Years Time without Meat Drink Sleep or Excrements France also boasts of another Virgin who fasted above Three Years together Such Abstinences as these are not to be put to the Account of Vertue in regard they were not the Effects of Humane Choice but the Decrees of Fate So wou'd our Abstinence be deprav'd if we shou'd only practise it as the old Gentiles did who forbore to kill or eat some certain Beasts because they held them consecrated to their Gods As the Dog to Diana the Tyger to Bacchus the Horse to Neptune the Woolf to Mars the Eagle to Jupiter the Peacock to Juno the Swan to Apollo the Dove to Venus the Owl to Minerva Nor need we abstain on the Account of the Soul's Transmigration for so we ought to forbear the Vegetable Products of the Earth as well as Animals since the Soul is Indifferent to all Bodies in its separate State But our Reason in this Point ought to take its Rise from the Fundamental Law of Nature the Original Justice of the World which teaches us Not to do that to another which we wou'd not have another do to us Now since 't is evident That no Man wou'd willingly become the Food of Beasts therefore by the same Rule he ought not to prey on them Next to this Foundation of our Abstinence we ought to build our Aims at the Perfection of our Nature which cannot be acquir'd but by Degrees We must endeavour to abate the Aliment of our Concupiscences by exhaling the superfluous and grosser Vapours of our Blood in Sacred Fasts and Oraisons Then we shou'd refresh our fainting Bodies with Food affording little Nourishment and Pleasure That so our vain Affections Appetites and Lusts may gradually die Whilst the pure Mind revives and being free from the gross Vapours arising from too much and too fatning Meats and Drinks the Films which darken'd her Sight fall off and she can better now discern the Naked Forms of Things by her own simple Intuition than before she cou'd through all the borrow'd Spectacles and other Opticks of Book-Philosophy Also she will more easily raise her self to the Contemplation and Science of Divine Eternal Things He therefore that in Earnest will apply himself to the Study of accomplish'd Sanctity must first by Fasting exhaust the Marrow from his Bones the Fatness from his Flesh the Wild and Rampant Spirits from his Nerves and then he must purge the Words and Actions of his Life from Vice When this is done the Soul becoming a pure Tabula Rasa is fit for the Impressions of Celestial Vertue Those who labour under acute Diseases run great Hazard of their Lives according to Hippocrates unless their Diet be accommodated with proportionate Regard to the Quality and Time of the Critical Fits or Paroxisms But those who are entangl'd with Vice do labour under far more dangerous Distempers than such as afflict the Body Wherefore the Prophet our Holy Law-giver like a Wise Physician appointed certain Seasons of the Year for Sacred Abstinences Fastings Pilgrimages Vigils and other Holy Exercises especially the Mighty Fast and Vigil of Ramezan wherein tho' it be not forbid to eat of Flesh after the Stars appear at Night yet none but loose and indevout Believers take that Liberty whereas the better Sort content themselves with an Ascetick Diet. The Hebrews fasted with Unleaven'd Bread and a little Salad the Christians also taste no Flesh on their prohibited Days And shall the Mussulmans be greater Libertines than these Infidels O Hebatolla how radiant is the Lustre of a Lamp when shining through a clean and fine defaecate Chrystal So does the Soul display the Rays of her Immortal Vertue round about when she inhabits in a well purifi'd chaste and almost pervious Body VVherefore it is absolutely necessary for him to attenuate his Body with perpetual Temperance and Abstinence who consecrates himself to Vertue and Devotion He will not be ensnar'd or catch'd by any Baits of Luxury or Voluptuousness not yet affrighted from his constant sober Course of Life by any Pain or thwarting Accident No Frowns or Menaces shall divert him from his Noble Purpose But he will so nourish his Body all his Life that it shall never be Surfeited or over-fill'd with Meats And such is the Magick of this Sacred Vertue That it can never be hurt much less subverted by all the Machinations of Evil Daemons or the Malicious Attempts of Men. But it proceeds from Strength to Strength and fights the Combat valiantly till having overcome at last it Triumphs for ever and receives the Palm the Crown and Chaplet of Divine Reward in Paradise Holy President pray that I may practise what I so admire and not be self-condemn'd for living contrary to my Knowledge For God neither loves a double Tongue or Heart neither delights he in Feet or Hands that are swift and nimble to do Mischief Paris 13th of the 4th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER VIII To Hamet Reis Effendi Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire NOw the Christians are in a general Consternation for Candy The Pope has sent Letters to all the Princes that are in his Communion inviting and pressing them to succour that Distress'd Island Levies are making every where and the King of France who seeks all Occasions of Glory appears the most forward of any to assist the Republick in this Fatal Juncture The Duke of Beaufort and the Chevalier de Vendosm are appointed to lead the Forces design'd for that Service They are gone to Toulon in Order to embarque The Pope has sent the Duke of Beaufort a Breve declaring him General of the Troops Ecclesiastick that are to serve in Candy and for his greater Encouragement he has sent him the Pontifical Standard In the mean while there is a Triple League concluded between the Emperour the King of Spain the King of England the King of Swedeland and the States of Holland There is great Joy in Portugal for the Birth of the Infanta who is call'd Elizabetha-Maria-Louisa She was Born the 6th of the 1st Moon and on the 18th the Empress of Germany was also deliver'd of a Daughter These Western Queens are very pregnant Not a Year passes without the Birth or Baptism of some Royal Infant This is all the News at present but to oblige thee I will say something of Italy which is esteem'd the Garden of Europe Nay Constantine Paleologus Emperor of Greece was wont to say Vnless I had been assur'd by very Learned and Holy Men that Paradise was seated in Asia I shou'd have sworn that Italy had been the Place It is most certain Italy is a delectable Country abounding in Riches and Pleasures The Eye is not satisfi'd with seeing the infinite Variety of Beauties which grace this happy Region Such is the lovely Intermixture of Hills and Valleys Groves and

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

trample on it in Disdain spreading their Armies far and wide and boasting that their Empires have no Bounds each do's but hasten to be shut up himself within a little obscure and putrid Hole not much surpassing the Limits of a Mole-Hill Great Bassa Let not the Honours and Dignities thou possessest make thee forget the Miseries to which thou art liable each Hour But remember thou art a Man Paris the 6th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER XIII To the Kaimacham HEre is arriv'd a Muta-faraca call'd Solyman Ismael with Expresses from the Grand Signior 'T was no small Refreshment to see his publick Entry which appear'd like a little Epitome of the Mussulman Grandeur and Magnificence The Young Rabble were as curious to be Spectators of this Eastern Cavalcade as the Romans were fond of beholding the Secular Plays which were exhibited but once in an Age. Nay People of all Ranks Ages and Qualities fill'd the Streets the Windows and Battlements of their Houses Some because they never saw such a fight before others despairing that they should live long enough to be Witnesses of such another Yet with all their Curiosity none but the Ministers of State are able to dive into the least Secret of his Instructions These willing communicate the Titles which the Great Arbiter of the Earth gives the French King That so not only his Subjects but Neighbouring Nations may conceive the profounder Veneration for him without penetrating the Measures he takes This is an Artifice common to all States to turn the best Side outermost only the Hollanders excepted who in the Days of their Revolt from the King of Spain cou'd not so much as put a good Face on a bad Matter But were forc'd to expose their Poverty and Nakedness as well as suffer under it addressing themselves to Elizabeth then Queen of England in the Character of The Poor Distressed States of Holland and so begging her Assistance However Solyman has faithfully imparted to me his Affairs as I have reason to believe He 's too well born and bred possesses more Reason and Wit than to amuse the Old Man in the Cassock so they call me here in the Streets who know me not by any other Character so Private is Mahmut in Paris at this Hour notwithstanding all his publick Sufferings I esteem Ismael as one fit to represent the Grand Signior's Person among better People than Infidels Yet I tell thee the French are the most refin'd of all the Western Giafers Ismael understands the Force of the Civil Laws which he learn'd from Justinian's Code and other Books For he is perfect in Greek and Latin and has bestow'd some Years in reading their Book both Prints and Manuscripts He makes a very Personable Figure being Tall Full-body'd Well-shap'd and not of an ugly Face which is enough to be said of a Man design'd for Business and not only for Love He 's never in danger of falling under Cato's Censure who seeing Two Embassadors sent from Rome to a Foreign State one of which had his Head so little that it could hardly be distinguish'd from that of an Owl and the other such a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without Stilts cry'd out Here 's an Embassy which has neither Head nor Tail And then our Muta-faraca is rich He supports the Charges of his Commission with extraordinary Munificence His House is already become the Sanctuary of all the distress'd Levantines whether Greeks Armenians or Followers of the Prophet and he speaks French as readily as a Native Yet he Dissembles his Expertness in that Language to keep up the State and Reservedness of the Ottoman Empire which disdains to condescend to any other Speech than Turkish or Arabick Besides he has the Advantage by thus artificially shutting his Ears that he can at one time both hear and be deaf understand and be ignorant of whatsoever is said by the Spies of the French King And this is no small Gift in a Man of his Character and Trust For he had need of an Angel or a Devil at 's Elbow that thinks to over-reach this Court. Above all I believe our Solyman will never be guilty of the Error committed by the Embassadors sent from Tenedos to one of the Roman Emperors I 'm sure he is not yet For those Gentlemen had seen the Death of the Emperor's Son Eleven Moons and Fourteen Days as the Story says before they knew 't was their Duty to make an Address of Condolence Or at least before they call'd it to mind for they were drown'd in the Roman Luxury So that when they came to perform that Devoir the Emperor cou'd not forbear to Scoff at them in these Terms I much lament said he the Fate of the Renowned Hector your Country-Man and Champion whom Achilles the Grecian kill'd above a Thousand Years agoe I speak this in a particular Regard to Solyman's Deportment here For when he first came to this Court he found them all in Mourning for the Death of the King's Aunt the late Queen of England and of other High Personages particularly those that were slain in the late Action at Candia whereof I have already given an Account to the Sublime Port in another Letter Without Instructions he very demurely accosted the King and told him There cou'd be no Dunalma in the Ottoman Empire for the late Success at Candia so long as the French Court were Mourners This was a sensible Touch to those that understood it and from that Moment the Grandees and Ministers of State have made a Difference in their Entertainment of this Ingenious Muta-faraca and that which they us'd to give to the Chiauses formerly sent from the Port. I can assure thee he is at the same time very Blunt and very Elegant in his Discourse There 's Fire in every word he utters to warm and refresh if they take it at a due Distance but if they approach too near he scorches their Spirits and puts them into a Choler they dare not shew They consume inwardly in their own Despight yet cannot help themselves Doubtless the King of France is the Greatest Monarch the most Powerful and Victorious Prince in Christendom the only Invincible Emperor of the Western Franks Yet he veils to our Majestick Sovereign Lord of the whole Earth And our Eunuch will not part with a Tittle of his Master's Honour or give any Advantage by an Easiness worthy of Blame in a case that may be turn'd to a Precedent He is very happy in his Repartees as thou wilt perceive by the Answer he gave to a French Lord yesterday when he ask'd him Whether he thought it not a Violation of the Civil Law for Embassadors to be Imprison'd as they often are at the Ottoman Port No says Solyman it is not where the Embassador is guilty of Treason or Crimen laesae Majestatis But if it were you French men have the least Reason to accuse us of it since we