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A12119	Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his trauels into Persia The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as embassadour to the princes of Christendome, the cause of his disapointment therein, with his aduice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley, also, a true relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now King of Persia, with his great conquests, whereby he hath inlarged his dominions. Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley, and recommended to his brother, Sr. Robert Sherley, being now in prosecution of the like honourable imployment.	Sherley, Anthony, Sir, 1565-1635?	1613 (1613)	STC 22424; ESTC S117262	94,560	148

reading or experience it hath beene a good and necessarie vse to set downe the nature of the people treated of in what sort they might be or were temperately gouerned and how much was learned of the Princes and great mens disposition iudgement and skill in ruling by which course they which obserued it were accounted wise and prudent vnderstāders of the times places which they conuersed in so in this time of greater corruption where all contrarie examples not seen nor knowne by vs may breed a wonder by that rarenesse of others vertues and by that a detestation of our owne familiar vices which giue few amongst vs the wisedome to make a true distinction of honestie from dishonestie that which is iustly profitable from that which is vniustly harmefull by which meanes may be gathered more and better profit by other mens foraine experience then those examples in which they are daily exercised But as such a fashion of declaration will be of the best sort of vse so I am not ignorant with how little delight and credit it will be accompanied For to relate the situation of of countries the variable euents of the acts of great Princes and Captaines these do detaine and reuiue as it were the minds of the readers I speake onely of a good intention tossed with the tempests first of many desperate calamities then with many potent oppositions the iustice wisedome temperance liberalitie valour mercifulnesse and generality of all excellent vertues in a Prince esteemed by vs barbarous and yet indeed fit to be a patterne and mirrour to some of ours who haue Christ in our mouthes and not the least of his Saints in our hearts Besides the varietie of his fortunes disposition bridled and brought to a good inclination by the force of his wisedome and goodnesse and true experience of the power of fortune in which discourse there is no alteration of matter the subiect being euer the person of the king and his excelling vertues which I had rather speake of to point out by them the happinesse of his state then to see a farre off the miseries of some of ours swimming in blood full of cruell commandement continuall accusations false frendships the ruine of innocents implacable factions and pernicious ends of things contrarie to that which ought to be with vs of a better profession and is with those which we despise But to returne to my purpose Mahomet-Aga being arriued at the Court and refreshed some small time the day of his audience was honoured with all the Princes of the kings Court and my selfe being too weake through my long sicknesse the king commanded that my brother should be present also where after a magnificent oration of his Masters potencie in all conditions of force he told the king that he was sent to admonish him to remain constant in the truce with his Master to require restitution of those Courdines which without licence had abandoned their possessions in his Masters Prouinces and contrarie to the tearmes of amity were intertained by him That his Master also demanded the restitution of Corassa● to the former gouernment in the alteration of which though he knew his greatnesse and Maiestie violated yet he could yeeld so much from what he ought to do to the king of Persias years and heat of valour that hee would content himselfe with that satisfaction Then he aduised him to force his nature and couer this vaine glimmering of fortune with iudgement and good counsell which euer would aduise him to maintaine and preserue his estate rather with warie then violent counsels This his Master demanded of him to obliterate by the facile granting of it all greater iniuries wished his Maiestie to consider well of the demand the condition of the demander and his owne Denials euer to such Potentates being receiued for maine offences that it was euer a wise determination to yeeld to the authoritie of time and necessitie and to auoid by that good iudgement vrgent perils and sinister conditions nothing being a more secure repaire then to strike satle against insupportable tempests it many times happening that the too great valour of men vsed with too great confidence is ●itterly persecuted and sometimes oppressed with an vnhappie course of fortune against the current of which when once through error it breaketh ●orth no humane force or wit can make any resistance And because all men for the most part are blind in discerning the iudgement of good or ill counsels from their end celebrating them when they prosper with a false argument from the successe his Maiestie should giue a great example of true wisedome not to be so much ouerborne with the present delight or future hopes extracted from those first prosperous successes as not to be able to lift vp his eyes to see the clouds which he had raised by some of them which if they were not preuented would break forth into extreme tempests To conclude he said that his Maiestie must be so farre from thinking to weaken his Maister by cunning and by artifice and so to keepe his Armes farre from him that he must resolue such courses to be seruile and to execute apparantly and presently onely princely and like himselfe so that eyther he must proue himselfe a friend or declare himself an enemie The first would merit any priuate grace which should be no sooner deserued then attained the other would giue glory and honour to the victor euer deare and honest to the winner precipitious and shamefull to the looser And not speaking of the inuinciblenesse of his Master God himselfe would iudge the first vniust infringer of an amitie sworne to his great name The King without any thing mouing from his accustomed grauitie tempering the iustice of his indignation with the true magnanimitie of his minde answered him to this effect That as the greatnesse of riches and treasure were oftentimes pernicious to Princes so were abundance of men and largenesse of dominions to such as were too weake to gouerne them therefore that extolling the magnificency of his Master which might breed wonder and terrour in those who were not capable of greatnesse was no mouer of him to decline from any part of that which belonged to his owne greatnesse He had receiued the Courdines oppressed by the tyrannie of cruel ministers into his protection and as their comming to him proceeded of their owne will so their returne from him should be voluntarie and not through his constraint Corasan he had iustly taken from an vsurper and would restore the lawfull Prince who should receiue the benefit from his munificence and not from any point of the Turks instance But wherefore should he be bound to giue a stricter account of his actions to the Turke then became equall Princes to aske the one of the other as though the lawes of ruling had but one moderator before whose tribunall they should be all presented Tauris belonged to his predecessors so did Sicruan so did Dierbech

out at the port for iustice and the ambition of other competitors for so great a place and so large a breach already made to enter into honour by the time ran so far in length that the peace brake between the Emperour the Turke and the warres reuiued in Hungary so that the age of the king of Persia his being broken with those first troubles and suspition of intestine answering iust to the desire of the Turke there was a truce concluded betweene those two potentates vpon no other condition But that each should be contented with that they had The eldest son of the king remained at the Court of his father administring all that which his fathers defect of light vnabled him to doe Abas the second sonne twelue yeares of age vnder the gouernment of Tutors held the prouince of Yasde and as Courts are full of rumors and suspition neuer wanteth in Princes especially which haue such imperfections as they are cōpelled to take knowledge of the vertues of Abas by which he bound to him the hearts of his prouincials spred themselues further and so to the Court where they were increased to such a condition as altered the father brothers reioycing in them to an opinion that his winning of the affections of the people proceeded not from any other worthinesse but artifice which had the intent of it stretching to the Crowne which tooke such hold in the f●thers mind worne with age and griefe and sore with his late misfortunes that hee resolued secretly his death The newes of which being brought to Abas speedily by the meanes of secret friends not onely to himselfe but to his Gouernors which as they were the greatest of the state so they were not vnfriended in the Court being so farre from any such designe that he had no sort of prouision at hand to defend himselfe he fled to the king of Corasan a countrey of the Tartars limiting vpon the east of Persia euer infestu o us to that state not more in their owne disposition being a people giuen to spoile vnquiet and which cannot liue in rest then through their depēdance vpon the Turke whose religion they professe which the Persians do not but much altered and whose petnionaries they were by which they were bound in all seasons when the Turke was tied to the Christians wars to diuert the Persian from looking to the commodity of such a time besides on occasions the Turke vsed to transport great forces of them ouer the Caspian sea into Siruana and from thence passed them into Hungary either the longer way by land or the shorter by sea ouer Negropont To this king Abas was exceeding welcome and cherished and honored like his owne sonne Shortly after the flight the father died and Sultan Hamzire Mirza his sonne succeeded him who renued the truce with the Turke through the necessity which he had to vse the most which his strength and power could yeeld him to suppresse a great rebellion of the Turcomans whom at the last he so brake with diuers battels and all other sort of afflictions that they deliuered him vp their Princes and then themselues Their Princes he beheaded and of them slue twenty thousand of the ablest for the warres assuring his peace with them by their extremest ruine and as he was by all reports a most braue warlike Prince hauing pacified his owne state and desirous to recouer not onely what was freshly lost but all which was formerly taken from the Sophies kingdome by the power of the Ottomans vnited all his thoughts and all his Councels to that one great end which all finished with his life ending it selfe by treason of his Princes not without perswasion of the Turke when he had fit yeares mind and courage and meanes ioined with ocasiō to haue made himselfe the greatest Prince of many ages all which though they made his death miserable yet the manner was more miserable being vilely slaine by his Barber retiring halfe drunke from a banquet to which he was prouoked by the conspirators which presently parted the state between them euery man making himselfe absolute Prince of those prouinces which they had in gouernment and parting the royall treasure amongst them for their reciprocall maintenance disposed themselues vnitely to resist the comming in of Abas whom notwithstanding they did not much feare hauing promise of the Turke that he should be detained in Corassan where he was refuged knowing that he had neither men nor money nor years to giue him any incoragement to attempt against them who had soone confirmed themselues both with giuing good satisfaction to the people and with liberality to the Souldiary and their entrance into the state being without opposition and so without offence made the foundation both more sure and more facile The Turkes Councell also was exceeding good for his ends for hauing dissipated the vnite power of that great dominion into so many branches which though he knew could continue together to maintaine their wrong against the true kings right yet that their owne ambitions in short time would stirre them to debate amongst themselues by which as he was out of doubt of perill during the trauels of his warres so he was assured that at his conuenient occasion either by their owne quarrels or by his power they should be all subiected to him Abas in the meane time whose iust Title made him king assured himselfe that both the murder of his brother and this parting of the state had the Turkes counsell concurring with those Princes impiety and not doubting but the king of Corasan was also perswaded to deteine him resolued notwithstāding by his necessity began to deale boldly with him for his assistance against his rebels laying before him how preiuditiall the example was to all Princes and most to him who was chiefe of all those Tartar Princes rather by their voluntary election then his states surpassing them in power that as ambitions were vnlimited generally so were they euer most in those which had most power to vse them largely that all the states of the Tartars were held by great Princes and absolute which had obeyed him so long rather because they would then they could do no other If this rebellion of naturall subiects proceeded to a happy course much more would they bee animated to do the like which were Lords and no subiects besides though the counsell of the Turke had not palesated it selfe openly yet in all iudgement it might be perceiued that he had onely raised this as a Pageant to fill the world with gazing whilest hee fitted his designes to impatronize himselfe of the state which if he should do how terrible a neighbour he would be to the King of Corassan he submitted to his wise consideration For himselfe that he had bin so bound to him in his first calamity that without other re asons he did not doubt but the same royall and generous spirit which moued him then to take compassion of him

would also moue him to the like now And the more hauing greater hopes of meanes for a gratefull acknowledgement from him which hee which had the management so long of his disposition could not doubt of and if he had begun to perswade him with other reasons hee did it rather in the duty of a true friend to lay before him his owne interest then in any diffidence of his free inclination to his good Whereupon the king of Corasan though pre-occupied by the Turke yet desirous to bee his friend a farre off and also doubting the successe of Abas neither hauing yeares nor experience nor friends In fine beeing destitute of all reasonable hope not to moue the Turks displeasure vpon such a disaduantagious condition was notwithstanding contented to see whether something might be moued by such a helpe as should not appeare to giuen by him but rather voluntary followers of Abas his fortune hee gaue him three thousand horse onely to put him in possession of that state which by his vertue and fortune is growne now so great that it hath deuoured all the states of the Tartars extended it selfe so farre as Cabull to the East the Arabian gulfe downe to Ballsarack on the South within three dayes iourney of Babylon on the West and to Tauris on the North embracing the whole circumference of the Caspian sea vnto Astracan which is the vttermost of the Moscouites Dominion and Seruane of the Turkes which lyeth vpon that sea an Empire so great so populous so aboundant that as it may compare with most of the greatest that euer were so is it terrible to the Turkes which is the greatest that now is though I doe thinke verily That in Asia the Persian hath as great an extent of Territories as the Turke and better inhabited better gouerned and in better obedience and affection I am sure he hath With this small troope the King of Persia guided by his infinite Royall courage entred Persia. But as those which are wicked are euer so well instructed in the Art of their profession that they neuer want instruments in themselues to deuise and in others to act those counsels which must euer bee waking to maintaine what they haue gotten by their sceleratenesse So their Spyes hastened with such diligence to giue those Rebels notice of their Kings beeing on foote that the next of them to him had time to arme great forces and incountred him in a Prouince called Sistane and though his inuincible spirit without any sparke of feare made him aduenture to fight vpon so vn-equall termes as was three thousand against twenty thousand hee found by his experience that Maiesty and right is nothing without power to beare them vp and that no exquisite vigour of the minde can resist the violence of sinister fortune nor oppression of many hands Yet did fortune so much care for so great vertue that shee gaue him way to escape to to the Mountaines all the rest of the small troupe being cut in peeces This victory assured the Rebels as they thought from all further danger supposing that these small forces were all which then their King could or hereafter should bee able to lead against them Imagining that the King of Corrasan if hee would haue succored him indeed that hee would neuer haue cast a way those few to increase the strength of their foundation and to diminish the others reputation which is so effectuall in a not well confirmed Princes first actions especially in a Prince who must come to his right by his vertue and fortune But the King of Persia whose owne minde euer comforted him with a stedfast assurance of his greatnesse to which hee is now growne hauing recouered the Mountaines liued amongst the Heardes-men for three months vnknowne changing continually from place to place without any certaine abode accompanied onely with ten or twelue followers which were of his first Gouernours and other yong Gentlemen brought vp with him from his child-hood But being now no longer able to temporize with his great desire resoluing to proue the last and the vttermost of his fortune and remembring how much loue and affection those of Yasd had shewed towards him in the time of his gouerning them and how much he had truely deserued of them determined to shew himselfe in that Prouince and proue what effect the Maiesty of his person the iustice of his cause and former obligation would worke in them which though it were a foundation proued euer false almost by all experiences The peoples affections euer raising mens hopes and ruining their persons Yet it proued otherwise with this King who was no sooner certaine knowne in those parts but numbers of people came flocking to him armed and appointed for the wars in such sort that before any prouision could bee made against him this being an accident so farre remoued from all sort of suspition he had a power together too strong to be easily suppressed which was no sooner heard by Ferrat Can a great Prince and discontented with the alteration of the gouernement to whose share none of that partition had falne his fortune being such that at the time of the other Kings death he had none of the Prouinces to administer and they were parted onely betweene them which held them he I say with his brother and a company of some ten thousand came and ioyned themselues to the forces of the King Neither were the men so welcome as that Ferrat Can being a wise Prince and a great Souldier grew a party and such as the King also stood in need of Neither did the King loose any sort of opportunity but hearing of the Assembly which certaine of the Princes were making in the neerest Prouinces vnto him with all speed fell vpon them and ouer-throwing them followed them as farre as Casbin In the meane time those of Shyras Asphaan Cassan assisted by the Kings of Gheylan and Mazandran gather mighty forces the Turkes armed at Tauris and the Prince of Hamadan hauing called in a strength of the Courdiues to his assistance was marching also towards Casbin So that the King was likely to be so inclosed with all these Armies that his first victory would rather haue proued a snare to his intrapment then important as he hoped to the some of his affaires Whence he resolued to helpe with Art that which he was much too weake to accomplish by strength Wherefore he leaueth Ferrat Can in Casbin with some fiue thousand men accompanied with Zulpher his brother and himselfe with the rest of his power marched towards the Can of Hamadane Ferrat Can according to the deliberation taken betweene the King and him thewed himselfe altered from the Kings part writeth to the Rebels which were all in a grosse aduanced as farre as the mid-way betweene Cassan and Casbin and offereth not onely to ioyne that strength which hee had with them but to mutine the Kings army which was lodged in the Mountaines towards Hammadane in a shew

in a reposed state from so many tempests which had contrarily moued it as well as to make due and confident prouisions for his intended warres First then he called vnto him to Casbin all gouernors all administrators of Iustice whosoeuer had occupyed those functions during the vsurped rule of the Cans through all his prouinces with the kinsmen friends and children of the said Cans besides that all men of power as Mirzaes Cans Sultans and Beagues which are principall Titles of Dukes Princes and Lords should repaire thither without excuse of age sicknesse or any other pretence whatsoeuer which being done he appointed new Gouernors and Officers of all sorts he cleared all his prouinces for three yeares from paying any tribute-custome or any other ordinary or extraordinary exaction whatsoeuer His chiefe Viseire he made one Haldenbeague a wise man excellently seene in all affaires of great experience but such a one as was onely his creature without friends or power him hee commanded to passe through all his prouinces accompanied with the Xa-Hammadaga who is as it were Knight Marshall to cleare them from vagabonds robbers and seditious persons Ologonlie which had followed him in all his aduersity a man of great worthinesse he made bearer of his great Seale which is an office there liker the Lord priuy Seale then Chancellor The place of the Viseire comprehending in it the office of Chancellor and high Treasurer him he also aduanced to the dignity of a Can. Bastana an ancient approued man both for fidelity and other worthinesse he made principall Aga of his house which is as great Chamberlaine Curtchibasschie Captaine of his Guard which is a general-ship of twelue thousand shot who attend at the Port by turnes two hundred and fifty euery quarter except when the King goeth to the warres that they are all bound to be present Ferrat Can hee made his Generall Thus hauing wisely and prouidently placed through all his estates those who must be most assured to him their fortunes depending onely vpon him hauing no more strength nor authority in themselues then they receiued from him and hauing all the great ones in his Army with him or such of them as could not bee able to follow him either by their few or many yeares or sickenesse so securely left at Casbin that they could not by themselues or any other moue any innouation And moreouer hauing dispatched all those and keeping their persons with him which had any obligation to the former Cans secured by that meanes as much as the counsell of any man could secure him from perill at home hauing called Oliuer di Can from Hamadan and appoynted him a successor for that Gouernement with ten thousand new men hee set himselfe forward to his enterprize with his old Troopes and great part of his rebelled Army with no greater courage and counsell then fortune for those men which were remitted by him to Gheylan and Mazandran as those which had beene somewhat exercised in the warres hauing with some more adioined vnto them the guard of the straights from which the maine Army of the Kings was some foure leagues remoued remembring the benefite of the King better then their faith to their Princes at the very sight of the first Troopes retired themselues from the places left to their confidence in charge which aduantage being followed by Ferrat with the Alarum giuen fell so iustly vpon that Army that what with the vnexpected terror of the straights abandoning and their being surprised in disorder the Army was facily broken with the death of two of the Kings and an infinite slaughter of people which had beene much greater if the woods had not couered them from the fury of their enemies The greatest of those kings hauing escaped with much difficulty accompanied euer with the terror of the perill from which he had escaped neuer ended his flight vntill hee came into Seruane and from thence went to Constantinople to desire succour from the Turke where he yet liueth The other which remained being but one without any great difficulty or alteration of fortune was suppressed The Countrey being first spoiled and ransomed at a great rate which they might well beare by reason of their great riches which they had gathered together through a long peace and the Kings Army excellently well satisfied he dispatched instantly Embassadours to the Turke the Georgians and his old friend the King of Corassan to giue them an account of this new victory not doubting but as it would bee exceeding pleasant to some so it would bee as bitter to others and leauing Ferrat Can to gouerne the Countrey and Oliuer Dibeague as his assistant but to bee commanded by him hee returned himselfe full of glory and great victory into Persia disposing himselfe to reduce his state to that excellent forme of gouernment which now it hath First then after his arriuall in Casbin hauing heard by his Viseire the relation of Xa-Hammadaga of some who had not onely spoyled the Subiects in their substances but the country of all orders iust forme of gouernement which now it hath and giuen them by that meanes more matter of dis-vnion then vnion insomuch that they were ful of theeues of vagabonds of factions such like insolencies he iudged it fit to reduce it the more peaceable and obedient to giue it in those cases a good condition of gouernment Whereupon he presently dispatched that Xa-hammadaga a terrible and resolute person with full power and authority for the reformation of those disorders who in short time though with most terrible examples reduced all the Prouinces to a vnite tranquility with mighty reputation Whilst hee was busied in that administration the King to shew that it was necessity that counselled to giue him that excessiue authority and to preserue it from being odious to himselfe appointed in the chiefe city of euery Prouince a Gouernour elected of those of most valour to him he ioyned two Iudges of criminall and ciuill causes a Treasurer two Secretaries with an excellent president and two Aduocates generall for the causes both particular and generall of the whole Prouince Besides the particular Aduocate of euery Citty which should be resident in that Metropolis These determined all causes within themselues of those Prouinces in which they had the administration and because they should neither be burthensome to the Prouinces nor corrupted in paritializing the King paid them their stipend enioyning them vpon paine of life to take no other sort of reward And because such things and causes might fall out as by reason of the importance of them or appellations of the parties might be brought before himselfe because hee would euer know what he did and be continually informed not onely of the generall state of the Prouinces but of their particular administration hee ordained Posts once euery weeks from all parts to bring all sort of relations to the Court for which cause also hee willed that one of the two generall

Aduocates should euer be resident there who receiuing those relations presenteth them to the Viseire and hee to the King The Viseire sitteth euery morning in counsell about the generall state of all the Kings Prouinces accompanied with the Kings Councell Aduocates resident and the Secretaries of State there are all matters heard and the opinions of the Councell written by the Secretaries of State then after dinner the Councell or such a part of them as the King will admit present those papers of which the King pricketh those hee will haue proceed the rest are cancelled which being done the Councell retire them againe to the Viseirs and then determine of the particular businesse of the Kings house The King himselfe euery Wednesday sitteth in the Councell publikely accompanied with all those of his Councell and the fore-said Aduocates thither come a floud of all sorts of people rich and poore and of all Nations without distinction and speake freely to the King in their owne cases and deliuer euery one his owne seuerall Bill which the King receiueth pricketh some and reiecteth other to be better informed of The Secretaries of State presently record in the Kings Booke those which he hath pricked with all other acts then by him enacted the which booke is carried by a Gentleman of the Chamber into his Chamber where it euer remaineth and woe bee to his Viseire if after the King hath pricked Bill or Supplication it bee againe brought the second time When he goeth abroad to take the aire or to passe the time in any exercise the poorest creature in the world may giue him his Supplication which hee receiueth readeth and causeth to bee registred and one request or complaint is not ordinarily brought him twise and though these bee great waies wise waies and iust waies to tye vnto him the hearts of any people yet the nature of those is so vile in themselues that they are no more nor longer good then they are by a strong and wisely-tempered hand made so The Countrey not being inhabited by those nobly-disposed Persians of which there are but a few and those few are as they euer were But being mightily wasted by the inundation of Tamberlaine and Ismael afterward making himselfe the head of a Faction against the Ottomans and by that reason forced to re-people his Countrey to giue himselfe strength of men against so potent an Aduersary calling in Tartars Turcomans Courdines and of all scum of Nations which though they now liue in a better countrey yet haue not changed their bad natures though as I said so carefull and true Princely a regard of the King for the establishment of good and iust orders for the gouernement of this Countrey in equity generall security and tranquility had beene of sufficient ability to haue bound the hearts of people vnto him Yet knowing what his were and to leaue no meanes vnacted which might both assure them more and himselfe with them because he knew that their owne dispositions which were euill would neuer rightly iudge of the cause of many rigorous examples that had passed which by that fault in them had ingendred him hatred amongst them to purge their minds from that sickenesse and gaine them the more confidently hee determined to shew that if there were any cruell act brought forth it did not grow from himselfe but from necessity Wherfore hee displaced by little finding particular occasions daily against some or other all the whole Tymarri of his estate as though from them had growne all such disorders as had corrupted the whole gouernment sending new ones and a great part of them Gheylaners to their possessions with more limited authority and more fauourable to the people the old ones part he casherd part he distributed in Gheylan and Mazandran which he had new conquered so that by that Art the people began to rest exceeding well satisfied and himselfe the more secured those which succeeded them being bound to his fortune and those which were remoued also being disposed in the new conquered Prouinces which they were bound to maintaine in security for their owne fortunes which depended onely vpon their preseruing them for the King When all these things were done and the King began to thinke himselfe throughly established for a long time both from intrinsicke and extrinsicke dangers The Turkes forces being so occupied in the warres of Hungary that hee had no leasure to looke to his increasing the Tartarres of Corrasan his friendes by the old hospitality which hee had receiued from their King and if not his friends yet cold enemies such as would bee long resoluing before they would attempt any thing to his preiudice There fell out a new occasion to trouble both the peace of his minde and Countrey if it had not beene preuented with great dexterity celerity and fortune For Ferrat Can not regarding his benefites done to the King knowing too well his owne worthinesse and attributing vnto that the successes of all the kings fortunes and for so great causes not being able to limit his mind within any compasse of satisfaction not resting contented with the place of Generall nor Gouernment of Gheylan nor with the honour to be called the Kings Father but despising that Haldenbeague should bee Viseire and not himselfe all which had giuen the king all began to take counsell to innouate and alter things with the Bassaes of Seruan and Tauris So dangerous are too great benefites from a subiect to a Prince both for themselues and the Prince when they haue their minds only capable of merit and nothing of duty These practises of his were most dangerous for which hee did more assure himselfe to haue layd a strong foundation for the discontentment of those Timari which the King had sent into his Gouernement and so had they beene questionlesse if Oliuer di-Can through his true zeale to his Maisters seruice and perhappes a little enuy at the others greatnesse had not made him so watchfully diligent that hauing gathered his intentions by very momentuall circumstances hee gaue the King from time to time notice of them which at the first were negligently receiued and rather taken as matter of emulation then truth But when those very same aduertisements euer continued and Oliuer di Can was not at all terrified from sending of them neither by the kings neglecting them nor rebuke and that Mahomet Shefia was also secretly arriued in the Court with more particular and certaine aduice that the Bassa of Seruan had sent a great summe of money to Ferrat which was receiued on a certaine day and in a certaine place The king hereupon presently sent Xa-Tamascoolibeague his chiefe fauourite to will Ferrat Can for very important affaires for the determining of which his presence was requisite to repaire to the Court which hee excused through his indisposition which he said to bee such that he could not possibly trauell so that persisting in that deniall when Xa-Tamas Coolibeague perceiued that he would not be

euer so ready against his State in all occasions especially now that his Maiesties vertue and fortune ministred to the Turkes will too great maine causes First to stop the course of his too fast rising greatnesse which hee could by no reason willingly suffer Then to recouer his reputation which his Maiesty had taken from him by assubiecting the Tartars which were vnder his protection And if with both these hee saw his subiects also fall from him to his Maiesty in so great troopes it might bee a mighty effectuall working-reason to hasten him to a conclusion vpon indifferent tearmes of those warres in Hungary his Maiesty being much more dangerous vnto him not onely through his power the reputation of his late victories and such a floud of fortune ioyned to his great vertue and wisdome but also by the symbolizing of religiō which would more facilitate an entry into his state then the sword when there should grow no more mutation in the maine points of gouernement lawes nor orders but the person of the Prince onely The obstinate warres and resistances of the progresse of the one and the other betweene the Turkes and the Christians grew from the maine alterations of all Lawes Orders and forme of gouernment with the vtter ruine of the conquered being so diuerse in all those and more in the principall point of religion by which he was euermore assured of vs generally infestuous to the very apprehension of his Subiects But his Maiesty from whom there was none of these generall dangers was questionlesse the more perticularly feared by him And euer hee that is feared wrongeth his iudgement if hee liue into great and carelesse security I concluded it would please his Maiesty to pardon me that I said so much that if I had erred it was in my iudgement not in my zealous affection vnto him neither had I presumed to looke into such high matters if his Maiesty by his discourse had not directed my sight which if it had bene amisse his Maiesties benignity and great wisedome could pardon the fault for the true affection which caused it He answered that he was so far from mis-liking my liberty of speech that he thanked me for it desiring me to continue it For Princes said hee are indeed more then men when they find faithfull friends which will freely aduise them and lesse them men when they are without such the brightnesse of their greatnesse so dimming their sight that they haue much more neede of helpe then priuate men who being conuersant in all things gather experience of euery thing which a Prince cannot haue Nature onely bringing forth a man his perfection following by his owne vertue learning and experience the two first a Prince might haue the last hardly and euer vnperfect Which made him euer carefully desire such friends as might minister a faithfull helpe to that defect but because we are now in iourney we shall leaue those things for a more reposed time to be spoken of at Hisphaan where we shall haue leasure enough both to deliberate and resolue of some good things and with that called some other who entertained him with discourses of Hunting and Hauking in which he is much delighted and vseth them with great magnificence Neuer going to any of those sports but that he carrieth forth aboue fiue hundred dogges and as many Hauks nothing rising before him but it is game For flies he hath sparrowes for Birds Hobbies and Marlins for the greatest sort some Hawke or other and for Roe-deare Eagles hee hath particular Agaes for his Hawkes and Dogges and other Officers to them a great number The next day I singled out Oliuer Di-Can with whom after a few complements I communicated the Kings discourse with me of his first troubles and latter fortunes extolling his Maiesty as it was fit and besides giuing the greatest honour to himselfe without flattery that I could deuise then I told him of my answere to the King and on purpose I said I feared that it might turne to my harme being newly planted in the Kings fauour subiect to the enuy of the Court and wanting a tongue to speake for my selfe and that to entermeddle in so great and perrilous matters it could not choose but awake some couered malice to take occasion to worke me some damage But my confidence was such first in the Heroycke minde of the King himselfe then in the generous disposition of his excellency that I should bee protected from perill for this fault as I would preserue my selfe with more cautel heereafter Hee answered me that the Kings affection vnto me was such that no man durst lift vp a thought against me which the Court knew well For himselfe as he knew not the conditions of our Courts so I might mistake those of theirs if enuy bare so great a sway with vs wee had lighter Princes and men of more presumption In this Court there was not a Gentleman but the King the rest were shadowes which moued with his body But in this which I had said to the King if I had entended it to moue him to warre in so fit a time against the Turke I had done well and assured mee that both he and Xa-Tamas-Coolibeague would with all their powers concurre with me to bring it to an essentiall deliberation though said he there be three dogges Haldenbeague Bastan-Aga and Courtchy Bassa that will mainely oppose themselues against it yet in the conscience of my duty which I owe to his Maiesty I assure my selfe that there is no secure way either for the preseruation of his person or state but that Therefore since you haue begunne in so happy an houre to breake the Ice of so great and so good an enterprise follow it without feare since God will prosper your good intention in it and we will second you with all the strength and industry which wee haue This was all which I desired to be assured of some friend especially such a one as might haue both opinion and credite of wisedome and fauour with the King For being a stranger if I had vndertaken the bearing of so weighty a businesse my selfe alone I should hardly haue escaped the being ouer-weighed with it knowing that the best propositions haue euer oppositions mens humours neuer concurring all to one end and the nature of men being alwaies opposite to a strangers aduancement Which since it must proceed in such a place from a speciall act of his owne vertue which could neuer be produced without a subiect to worke by the next way to wash away insensibly such a growing reputation was to keep me from any other meanes of establishment then bare Fauor which as it is very transitory in priuate men so is it much more in Princes the volubility of whose natures maketh them easily glutted and most mutable in their kinds of satisfaction and if once I had declined in the height of my fortune I knew there was no bayting place ●etweene mediocrity and precipitation so

good deliberations in their many points must be grounded vpon the example of the past the experience of the present and the iudgement of the future and the Turk hath been euer heauie to my State in long p●ssed and late pass●d times and is now by some accidents partly proceeding from himself partly from others in all liklihood easie to be perpetually assured which point of time that giueth so good an occasion if it be let passe may giue him power for a mind he can nor will neuer want to be vntollerable againe hereafter or if not vntolerable at the least dangerous We haue two great powers of our mindes the one a wise power of vnderstanding by which we penetrate into the knowledge of things the other a strong power of resoluing by which we execute things well vnderstood and now that we haue iudged of all we must resolue of somewhat and of that which is probabliest best Therefore our necessitie our honour and our iustice calling vs against the Turke and since wi●h all these concurreth so good an opportunitie he must be the maine end of which we will determine and because to prepare vs to that end amongst many other circumstances the sending to the Princes Christian hath beene intimated as one of the most necessarie we shall do well in the generall good vse which we must make of this interposition of time to doe also that For though it be true that their interesses will euer make such a proposition acceptable yet where there is a proffer of such a condition as beareth with it a kinde of Obligation as it is of mere honourable fashion for vs so it addeth grace and reputation and more strength to it or any such like purpose For neither will I relie so much vpon my owne power or fortune or the present benefite which I meane to bestow vpon these of Corasan that I will forget I haue offended them and to arme my selfe with all the best aduise I can against the sinister working of any fortune Neither will I so much preiudicate the opinion which I desire the world without vaine ostentation should hold of me my ministers as that my enterprises should not haue a way giuen them by the wisest best weighed counsell and perfect concurrence made betweene my fortune well iudging of my counsell and all proper occasions As for Mirza Antonio for so he euer called mee what he is to mee vou all must know and my estimation of him which I ass●re my selfe to be grounded vpon a good and true iudgement since he hath beene the first and onely propounder of the manifest point of all other which doth or may concerne mee most So for that matter of sending in which there is more diuersitie of opinions about the forme of circumstance then essentiall matter of substance I will remit it to his fidelitie and true affection to me to dispose as hee shall in those two great works in a noble minde finde meetest for my honour and conuenient certainest for the effecting Yet this must I tell you and him which hath not yet beene thought of That a great Prince as I am must receiue a deniall for an iniury and I had rather not know them at all then with knowing them to be also offended by them though this I say also that he cannot be iudged to haue authoritie to command their wils therfore must be blamelesse in all except in the lightnesse of his imagination vpon which slender occasion he ought not for the credite of his own iudgement to haue formed a Counsell Before I could frame one word of reply he rose and hauing talked a little while alone with Xathmascolibeague he called my interpreter and held him some quarter of an houre in a very earnest speech which was to command him as he afterwards told me not to let me know what his Viseire had said against me but charged him to animate me to loue his people and also to confirme in all he could my affection well-hearted intention to his own seruice After he was retired the Viseire came vnto me and hauing saluted me with a goodly fashion of courtesie he began to desire me not to be offended that his being curious of his Maiesties good had stirred in him so violent a desire that through it he had mistaken me and the true aspect of my ends But as there was euer a good remedie for all knowne errors and especially for the most accelerated so there should be in his towards me all the best and carefull seruice which he might possibly doe vnto me And though I stood in need of little helpe to put forward the kings affection towardes me yet hee assured me that in all due and fit opportunities he would not be wanting to performe the vttermost part of a true friend in that o● any thing else which might protend my good I did make all the shew I could to beleeue him commended his zeale to his king and withall desired him to haue a constant opinion that my good intention to his seruice also might misl●ad my iudgement of some things but the truth of my heart neuer Therefore I desired him that if I did erre also in such a point it would please him to correct me as a father and not to oppose against the rising of my fortune as an enemie since I knew my hopes to be of small time or expectation if they must wrestle with his power and wisedome also that I knew his vertue too great to enuie a man which could not grow at all but vnder him and that I knew a good desert of my selfe towardes him in the conscience of my most affectionate respectiue disposition which would neuer faile to make very perfect demonstrations of it selfe vnto him in all worthy occasions which should eyther offer themselues or he should command And so were parted with a mutuall shew of great satisfaction which I know now of vs both had That night Cou●chi Bassa arriued at the Court and next day as the king told me accompanied with the Viseir Bastan Aga perswaded him again not against making him readie for the war against the Turke if he should be counselled vnto it by any good aduantage or forced by the Christians peace with him but because his Maiestie was almost determined that way to vse all the best meanes first to weaken him without shewing himselfe purposely an actor in it And that was to be done by encouraging his rebels and by breaking as much as he could the trade and commerce into his dominions which subministred vnto him both the sinewes of his warre and those also which did bind the bodie of his state together That Mombarecke which held of his Maiestie the principalitie of Sustane of the Turke Giziwr and the deserts from Balsaracke to Damasco with the lest conuenence of his Maiestie would continue his Armes against the Turke and make all those passages so infestuous that neyther Bagdet