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A06425	The beginning, continuance, and decay of estates vvherein are handled many notable questions concerning the establishment of empires and monarchies. Written in French by R. de Lusing, L. of Alymes: and translated into English by I.F.; De la naissance, durée et cheute des estats. English	Lucinge, René de, sieur des Alymes, 1553-ca. 1615.; Finet, John, Sir, 1571-1641.	1606 (1606)	STC 16897; ESTC S107708	113,193	176

the first without respect to any This is the reason that there hath neuer beene knowen any popular rebellion in his estate 2 The port of the great Turke as they tearme it as who would say his courte and gard consisteth chiesely and ordinarily of foure thousand horse distributed into foure companies to wit the Spahioglani who are in al a thousand besides their seruants which march not in their rancke but apart and of these euery one hath seauen or eight These range themselues on the right hand of their Lord wheresoeuer he become and the Solastri equall in place and authority on the left These two sortes are accounted as children of the great Turke and are nourished and brought vp in the Sarraglio at his charge as hath beene said and there trained vp in all exercises of armes After these march the companies of the Vlifezgi Charipici inferiour to the other in rancke and authority Those on the right hand these on the left either consisting of a thousand horse And wheresoeuer the great Turke goe they neuer forsake him These foure thousand horse together with twelue thousand Ianizzars are the strength and gard of the person and port of the Turke with these forces he is alwaies able to hold in awe and subiection a city more populous then Constantinople and not stand in feare of any attempt against his person 3 In other places of his Empire he bestowes other great numbers of the Ianizzars to be assistant to the Gouernors and Bassas besides the succours they are to haue of such horse and foote as those are bound to furnish on whom the Turke hath at other times bestowed such arable lands as haue beene conquered by armes whence he draweth one man or more as the necessity of his affaires requireth and according as is the value of what they possesse These are called Mozzellini Such as are tied to this contribution may be compared to the Feudataries of our Prince towards whose seruice they are to finde a light horse or musket and some of them two more or lesse according to the imperiall institutions of such fees and tenures as so binde them After all those we haue named march the Alcanzi or Aconizij as a man would say Aduenturers which haue no wages are appointed to march a daies iourny before the campe pilling harrowing and hauocking all before them whereof they are to answeare the fift parte clcere to the great Turke of these there are thirty thousand besides them there are the Azapi of meane quality but such as serue his turne for Gally-slaues mariners and pioners to intrench fill vp ditches raise engines and perform other such like seruill offices their number is 40000. Ouer and aboue these vnder two Beglerbees or Lientenants generall the one in Europe the other in Asia he hath neere an hundred thousand horse in ordinary intertainment The Beglerby of Grecia or Europ which is as much to say as Prince of all Princes hath his place of residency at Sophia a towne of Seruia That of Asia abideth at Culhea a towne of Galatia Each of these hath vnder his obedience many Sangiacks as much as to say sherifes or bailifs the very children of the great Turke which gouerne in the Prouinces where they command are bound to obey them This great multitude of horsemen are so well mounted and armed as none can chuse or wish a more fit or direct meanes then their ordinary strength to hinder all popular reuolts or rebellions be they neuer so great That which hapned to Gazeles after the death of Selim doth sufficiently approue it he thought to stirre against Soliman and to moue Syria to rebell but he was preuented by that mighty power which Soliman found euen then in a readinesse wherewith he ouerthrew him These ordinary prouisions of war are the more terrible and effectual in regard that all the people of his obedience are intirely disarmed of whatsoeuer offensiue weapons 4 The Romans obserued this custome to distribute diuers of their legions about the frontiers of Germany alongst the Rhene and Danowb to the same end and purpose as the Turke entertaineth his horse But it seemeth that he proceedeth therein more discreetly then did the Romans for they kept all their forces together in one place and vnder one Generall of whom depended the absolute command of the armies whence it fell out that to accommodate themselues they ouerthrew the houses of particular men ruined and famished the countrey as well by the hauocke they made which alwaies attendeth so great a multitude as by their large prouisions most necessary for an armie The other prouinces farre distant were exempt from this oppression yet not from contribution but those which sustained the armie were so ouerburdened as their miserie incited them to rebell and shake off their obedience But contrariwise the Turke which disperseth his horse and foote into diuers Prouinces vnder the command of sixtie and six Sangiacks draweth not after him such disorder or ill satisfaction as did the Romans Their great assemblie in one place was cause of seditions debates mutinies and other mischiefes most difficult to be preuented They did not perceiue how this manner of proceeding was a means that the Souldiers grew too much to affect their Captaines and that the Captaines found themselues by them enabled to attempt as they often did many things to the preiudice of the Empire And in very deed it oftentimes hapned that their armies made choice of their General for Emperour in despite of the Senatours authoritie either in regard of the valour they knew to be in them or of some pecuniarie corrupting their affections which the Senate could not remedy And in trueth it was a very easie matter for the Generall so farre from home and holding his forces vnited in one body to practise the Colonels and the Colonels to bargaine and buie the harts and affections of the Souldiers by them to possesse the Empire so as sometime the armie of Spaine chose their Generall Emperour and at the same time that of Germany theirs whereof we haue many examples as also of the calamities and miseries which did thence accrew to the Estate and subiects 5 It is an inconuenience whereto the Turke cannot be subiect for keeping his troups and armies so spread abroad and disperst they haue not the meanes to mutinie especially being in no place ouer strong nor yet grow to affect their Beglerbyes or Gouernours whom they seldome see or repaire to much lesse can the Beglerbee in his owne behalfe easily winne or entice the hearts of the Sangiacks or affections of the Souldiers as he might well doe if the troupes were alwais together in time of peace and abroad in one and the same prouince CHAP. VI. How the Turke represseth the power of the great men of his estate 1 The authoritie of a Prince if his vertue be not eminent aboue all the great men of his kingdome is by their vertue obscured whence groweth the

seed or any parcell of them The troubles and dissentions which heresies haue brought in amongst the Christians serue him for examples he seeth such histories daily verified he is very well informed of them and turneth them to the best vse beyond the experience his predecessors haue had of such fruites as spring from a new interpretation of their law Harduclles in a very small space wan such credit amongst that barbarous people that by means of a certaine new interpretation of the points of their sect he busied all Asia where he sowed so many troubles as he well neere indangered the whole estate of Baiazet the second 5 But that which maketh the law of this cursed race more durable is that the Emperour himselfe obserueth it with that deuotion honoreth it with that reuerence embraceth it with that religion and preserueth it in that credit and authority as it is hard to imagine a man more deuout and affected towards it 6 Againe the misery and vexations that the Turks depriued of all other light but that their mother sense affordeth them beholde other nations dispersed thorow their dominions and of a contrary beleefe to indure wholy weddeth their dull soules to this false doctrine neither is there that misery which that vile Mahometane race make not all those to suffer who embrace not their religion but aboue all the Christians CHAP. II. Of the direct dependency of the Turkes subiects vpon their Soueraigne 1 Subiects must haue their eies chiefly vpon their Soueraigne 2 Tyrants strength and guard of strangers 3 The absolute authority of the Ottomans 4 The Princes seuour the subiects safetie 5 His subiects exact obedience and the cause thereof 6 Rebllions whence procceding 1 THe best cement that can be made to giue long continuance to an estate is to worke so as that the subiects of whatsoeuer qualitie or condition they be may haue alwaies neede of him that is their Commander to the end they may immediatly depend vpon him and reuerence him but because it is hard to bring all the world to this passe especially in a great monarchy those at the least are to be drawen to it as farfoorth as is possible who should be the sinewes and supporters of the Princes power 2 This moued such Tyrants as durst not assure themselues of such people as they had subdued to haue about them Captaines Souldiours and seruants which were strangers and had neither kinsfolkes nor friendes in that country but relied absolutely vpon them This heeretofore was the maner of the Soldans of Egypt and though they be courses so violent barbarous and vnworthy of Christian Princes as they should neuer be set before them yet may they somewaies aduantage them in the consideration of their ends and aime of their intentions applying them and appropriating them so far forth as Christian policy and the interest of faith may permit 3 Now then we will deliuer what vse the Turke in these times makes of them He to establish his Empire and amplifie his greatnesse and authority intitleth himselfe not only Prince and Monarch of his estates but Lord also and peaceable Master of the persons habilities goods houses and possessions of his vastals neither is there inheritance or succession so assured be it neuer so lawfull but it dependeth of the disposition and free wil of the Turke so as if any aske of his subiects whose house it is wherein he dwelleth and to whom belongeth the land he tilleth he makes no other answeare but that they are the great Turks his Master moreouer they all tearme themselues slaues of their Prince whence followeth that they can not any waie maintaine the quiet possession of their goods nor account of any thing as of their owne but by his especiall fauour Much more if they aime at raising themselues to any eminent place of honour they are to beg it of the magnificence and pleasure of their Prince meanes which serue to curbe those barbarous people yet to be reiected of Christians and abhorred of lawfull Princes who receiue and hold their monarchies of the hand of God There are more honest precepts to be giuen whereby they may purchase and preserue the loue and obedience of their people without vsing such cruelties and tyrannies But because the argument propounded requireth that I relate the meanes this barbarons race hath obserued to become great and that I am fallen into that matter I will continue it yet not as approuing any such course or as indeuoring to set them downe by them to forme a receiuable example or to induce Christian Princes to make them their paterne of gouerning their estates 4 By this former discourse then we haue deliuered how the Turkes subiects haue neede of him some to preserue what they haue gotten others to attaine to dignities and places of honour And in a word their being and life depending indifferently vpon the Prince their principall care is to winne his fauour 5 Thi● dependency fortifieth it selfe increaseth by the obedience and gouernment of great personages imploied by the Turke in his seruice and fashioned by himselfe to this end who are from their infancy brought vp at the Princes charge and instructed euery one according as hee is naturally inclined either in the excercises of armes or any other laborious trade so as such not knowing other father or benefactor then their soueraigne from whom they receiue both goods and honours neuer thinke of kindred or friends neither haue they any touch of bloud or naturall alliance dedicating their body minde and whole deuotion to the only goood of their masters affaires whose creatures they acknowledge themselues to be to whatsoeuer degree of honour they be preferred neither is it in their power to amasse other wealth then that which is rawght them by the hands of the great Turke To make it more plaine to the Reader who these are they are the Spachi Spachioglani and Ianizzars in these consisteth the strength and guard of the Turkish Empire I hold it not amisse to discouer in a word as by the way what is the forme and condition of these bandes and companies so to deliuer a more cleare vnderstanding of their manner and power The Spachi and Spachioglani are horse men whereof there are a thousand in number which march at the right hand of their Lord. The Selactari or Soluptari are other thousand horse which accompany the great Turke on the left hand when he marcheth as the Spaihioglani on the right of these two companies are chosen the Gouernours of Prouinces and vpon these according to their merit the Turke bestoweth his daughters in mariage The Vlufezgi are other thousand which march after the aboue named who in part are called out of the bands of Ianizzars as men noted for their especiall valour or they are such as haue beene slaues and for their notable seruice performed toward their masters or for hauing saued the life of some Bassa or Beglerbee in the wars attaine to this degree of