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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88889	Nevves from Turkie, or, A true relation of the passages of the Right Honourable Sir Tho. Bendish, baronet, Lord Ambassadour, with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople, his entertainment and reception there. Also, a true discourse of the unjust proceedings of Sir Sackville Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassadour, and Sir Sackviles imprisonment, and in his returne, his betraying the captain of the ship and some English merchants at Alicant in Spain, to the Inquisition; lastly his commitment to the Tower of London, where now he is.	W. L.; Bendish, Thomas, Sir, d. ca. 1674.	1648 (1648)	Wing L93; Thomason E441_10*	27,891	39

the middle of the roome where at first my Lord found him Now the next worke my Lord indeavoured was to get to be Vested by the Vizeere and obtain Audience with the Grand Signeur to this purpose he sent his Druggerman to hasten it the Vizeere alwayes after this sent him good words as that all things should bee done to his minde and wished him not to bee troubled with any thing and so protracted time from day to day All this time my Lord Crow is not idle although he keeps his house yet he employes the French Agent and the Venetians whose Druggerman Gryllo is alwayes attending upon the Vizeere and feeds him with moneys and presents to work us out the French Ambssadour talkes with the Vizeere privately and but that my Lord Crow and the Vizeere told my Lord he had to doe in the businesse my Lord would scarce have taken him for his enemy yet one day he was heard to tell the Vizeere my Lord had offered my Lord Crow 30000 l. to be gone out of the Country by which said he you may judge the truth of his Message and withall told him that the King of France his Master would be much troubled if he should change this old Ambassadour for the new and this report that my Lord would give the Lord Crow money to depart hence was not only sent to him by the Vizeeres Jew but by the Kogag which my Lord to vindicate himselfe and make appeare to the world how much hee detested such by-wayes he was forced to write this Warrant in Italian and send it down to Gallatta by two Janisaries and a Druggerman pro forme and fix one upon the Treasurers house the other upon Mr. Pearles house that all Jewes Merchants might take notice of it FOrasmuch as we are Credibly informed that there are divers false lying and scandalous Reports cast upon us that wee should by our felse or some other person offer to treat with the man-sold Ambassadour for a certain summe of money to send him out of this Country withall saying that we had rather give money to him then to Turks We doe hereby declare that wee doe so farre abhorre all such sinister and dishonourable proceedings and speeches that wee affirme them lyers that report it and doe hereby Command and Require that no person under our charge make any Treaty with any man in our behalf letting them know that if we shall find that any such Treaty or Contract directly or indirectly be made with any person whatsoever for the worth of one a' to establish us Ambassadour in this place we are resolved and do publish that we will forthwith not only severely punish but send them off this place for if by that power that sent us hither wee cannot bee established wee are resolved rather to returne from whence wee came then by such dishonourable tearmes both to the King of England my Master and our selfe to purchace it Given at Pera d' Constantinople this 2. October 1647. Thomas Bendish And because the French Ambassadour was so busie sent him this Letter SIR I Cannot see how it is consistent with the League between the two Crowns of England and France that you a French Ambassadour should intermeddle with much lesse oppose the actions of the King of England my Master Your opposing me in my Embassie and countenancing the man-sold Ambassadours proceedings against my Authority I hope you doe it not without Commission yet mee thinks if it dare looke upon the Sunne as all which comes from Kings dare it becomes you not so secretly privately to act Know that I am ready to meet you before any Minister of State here both to heare and as occasion serves to answer what you can object against me but be confident while I am in this place I must know as befits me that power which dares oppose my Master to whom a strict account must bee rendred by him who is as farre as with honour he may My Lord Your friend to serve you T. THe Venetian Baliffe being guilty of his neglects towards my Lord and perceiving he understood of his Merchants actions his Druggermans dilligence sent by my Lords Druggerman this private Message That he hoped my Lord tooke no distast at him who is confined to his house and had no notice of his comming and that he heard my Lord tooke distast at his Merchants as actors against him if my Lord pleased to let him know who they were he would make them or would himselfe give my Lord satisfaction My Lord sent him this answer That for his own person as hee was a Prisoner he could not expect his Visit yet if he had born respect to our King or love to our Nation he would have sent a salute to him before this time having been a fortnight in this Port. As for his Merchants that should oppose him he wished him to looke to them himselfe for if he found them faulty as he believed he should he would take his time to make them repent it But for all his threats to them he knew not how lyes might worke with the Vizeere wherefore he sent to him this Arres and to divers great men about the Town that if possible it might reach the Grand Signieurs eares MY Lord I cannot out of my well-wishes to you and the good of this State but give you this timely information that the Venetians and the French doe endeavour both by moneys and all incouragements to maintain the Man-sold Ambassadour against me and that Regall power which sent me hither thereby to make a breach between this and the English Nation and so to advance their own designe which either by Peace or Warre will prove very prejudiciall to this Emperie besides the Consideration of the great Trade our Nation brings to supply the Emperie Whether you had rather have it by the hands of Enemies or Friends if they could maintain it I leave your wise consideration none obstanding that the said former Ambassadour being proved to be an oppressor the Grand Signieur deprived him from the Charge of the Embassie with his Hattesherife for which his Majestie of England with his Letters now sent by me his Ambassadour doth give him many thankes therefore From the Venetians he never heard word since nor from the French Ambassadour although he told my Lords servants he would answer him in writing but wee heare he is so troubled in mind the truth being so apparent that he cannot deny it and what title to give my Lord he cannot resolve if hee acknowledges him Lord Ambassadour he hath said the contrary to the Vizeere and so gives himselfe the lye if no Lord and he should be Confirmed he makes my Lord his enemie for ever But to our businesse whilst my Lord is thus deluded and fed with faire words all attempts are made and Traps laid how to get my Lord to compound himselfe by monies into his rights and dues the Vizeeres Jew hath tempted

sent a Copy of the Letter of revocation from the King inclosed in this by two of his servants reserving the Letter it selfe for his own delivery SIR OTherwise then intended I understand by my servant you have not received any satisfaction but discontent rather by my Letters in answer to yours wherein I averre the truth of my Employment hither from his Majestie with the greatest pawne I had or ever shall which had I been such in your thoughts as your Letters expressed might have borne as in my case with you it should sway sufficient Wherefore Sir being commanded by the King my Master to deliver you his Letters of revocation my selfe I detained them to fulfill his Command and the Copy of them being confident if that ingagement could not gain Credence from you the Copy could not And although I am not bound to deliver neither the one nor the other but in what time I shall thinke most convenient yet I shall not be so reserved but doe here inclosed send a Copy of the Kings Letters to you the originall whereof I came hither resolved immediatly to deliver with my own hand had not your jealousie of me together with your daily actions and high expressions taught me to be cautious of you and your proceedings and to reserve it for another place and time I as If heare you report you have any Letter from his Majestie to me of Revocation I shall take a Copy thereof kindly and return you my thought thereof which favour from you will much oblige My Lord Your friend to serve you T.B. Perad ' Constantinople 17. September 1647. WHen they remembred my Lord Ambassadors love to him he told them they were welcome as from Sir Thomas Bendish but not as Ambassadour he opened and read them and said that the Copy he read he could not believe to be the Copy of the Kings Letter that in the very first line or two there was a double contradiction and that the whole frame stile matter and language was so unlike those of his Majesties that if the Originall was not better then the Copy he should not care a rush for it and that he could not believe Sir Thomas Bendish had any such Letter from the King of England and therefore could not receive him as Ambassadour that hee would further consider of the Letter and if hee thought convenient would send him answer by some of his owne poeple within a day or two which he did but that being so Tedious containing nothing but false surmises and daring expressions from the businesse so that as my Lord thought it not worthy his answering so wee conceive it not convenient to trouble your patience with it in this 〈◊〉 Now the next thing that my Lord aimes at is for a faire and fitting Audience with the Vizeere who offered him to come when he pleased but my Lord was privatly informed he intended an astront by not Vesting him My Lord at a Court then holden desires six of us might be chosen to meet constantly to advise with him When it was agreed that the best way was ptivately by two or three of the Merchants to sound Aronomone the Vizeers Jew after much debate with him for the space of foure houres telling him except my Lord were sure of his dues he would come without a present at last he promis'd that he should be Vested with his son and at least one or two more Hereupon he sent to the Vizeere that he would visit him upon Thursday the 23. September having been just a week in town and in the mean time had neither been sent to by the Emperours Agent the French Ambassadour nor the Lord Baylisfe only the Dutch Merchants did whose Agent is not yet confirmed but will see what successe wee have for Sir Sackvile Crow hath wrought all these firme to him Now was the Town full of expectation nothing talked of but our businesse On Thursday about twelve a clock with all the Merchants and my Lords retinue my Lord went to the Vizeere who being set before he came stirred not from his seat neither did my Lord mind him untill he was set as well as the Vizeere Then he spake to him to this effect that the King of England saluted him and wished him health and happinesse and had sent him his Ambassadour to keepe his Merchants and subjects from doing and suffering wrong and commanded him to indeavour to keep and uphold the Peace between the Nations and also to give thankes for the Justice the Vizeere shewed to the Merchants when the Ambassadour would have ruined them and also to desire him to send the said Ambassadour home that the King his Master hearing their Difference might judge him according to merit and while he was saying this hee presented the Kings Letters to him which he read before us to this the Vizeere replyed that the old Ambassadour had Letters and did pretend to be Ambassadour as well as his Lordship and hee knew not how to decide the businesse but must heare them both together to which my Lord answered My Lord you mistake me I come not hither to be judged neither is it for my honour to appeare here with that man which your own Lawes have judged unworthy neither may I countenance him without the just displeasure of the Grand Signieur the French Ambassadour also said the Vizeere could say something in the Cause The French Ambassadour said my Lord hath nothing to doe with our State have you a Letter to the old Ambassadour said the Vizeere from the King of England I have said my Lord which I desired to deliver him before witnesse therefore he asked him for two Chouses you shall have it said the Vizeere but give mee the Letters and I will deliver them my selfe My Lord told him hee could not for the King his Master commanded him to deliver them with his own hand then said he I will send for him hither if you doe so said my Lord I will have no Contract with him I hope those Letters will witnesse the truth of my Embassie Yes said he I believe you are the true Ambassadour but I would heare him what he can say and see the delivery of the Letters and I will soon end the businesse doe so if you will said my Lord and I will stay here till he come so hee was immediatly sent for but he excused saying he had taken physick that day but to morrow hee would come at one a clock when my Lord heard that he said My Lord doe not you by these Letters acknowledge me to be the true Ambassadour yes said he then what need you trouble your selfe further with him said my Lord upon this he knew not what to say but rose up on a sudden to be gone saying he must speak with Sir Sackvile Crow When my Lord perceived he would not Vest him hee desired him to speak one word more then he sate down again and my Lord spake My Lord you seem to be