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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

us the Merchants the Kogag hath spoke to my Lords Drugerman many times that if he would not come off his businesse would never bee done My Lords Druggerman told him alwaies that my Lord would sooner lose his life then come in upon such dishonourable tearmes My Lords Drudgerman being sicke on Sunday the third of October he sent Master Juate and another Merchant to tell the Vizeere so and that he sent them to receive his Message he gave them no answer but this Bid the Druggerman come to mee on Tuesday This vexed my Lord but he was resolved to try another day on Tuesday the Druggerman went to him and then he told him plainly that he could not decide the Controversie between the two Ambassadours but must send a Chouze for England as soon as my Lord perceived he had delayed him all this time for this hee presently wrote him this Letter or Arrs and sent him the next morning My Lord I Am the first Ambassadour from England that ever presented Letters from the King and a present to a Vizeere that were returned with such dishonour as my selfe from you It becomes not mee neither came I hither to plead my own rights having Letters from so great and powerfull a King as the King of England and thousands of witnesses besides all the Merchants in these parts and hundreds of ships to maintain the Truth of this Embassie especially against such a man whom the Grand Signieur hath mansould with his Hattesherife and the Muste declared that by your own Lawes you cannot restablish him Ambassadour And his Majesty hath discharged and you cannot believe any thing for truth hee speakes Your faire promises have of late overcome my patience I must not now be longer delayed the honour of my King and therein my own life and Reputation lye at stake wherefore if you will not honour me your selfe excuse me if I desire nay require your assistance for my speedy Audience with the Grand Signieur for to his justice do I appeale if you refuse me this then blame me not if I worke out my own addresses to the Grand Signieur my selfe although by such meanes as may be displeasing to your Lordship I desire your absolute answer for I shall trouble you no more with Messages neither need you trouble your selfe to send into England for if I shall not find that reception here which becomes the Honour of the King my Master I have ships enough attend me which shall convey mee back to Report my Entertainment As he read this he nodded severall times and when he had done called the Druggerman to him and said Did I ever deny your Lord to be a true Ambassadour I am not his enemy but must doe him courtesies to the Grand Signieur and if I doe him courtesies what shall I have for my paines The Druggerman told him that he knew my Lord would sooner lose his life then be admitted upon dishonourable tearmes Well said he Goe tell your Lord what I say and remember my kind love to him and bring mee his answer to morrow with a particular of the Grand Signieurs Present against which time my Lord had fitted this Arres for him My Lord THe Present you had from me was as large as ever was given to any of your Predecessors it was never known that a true Ambassadour made a Contract for other gifts to purchase his reception I may not I dare not Transgresse the accustomed Rules nor points of honour if I should your selfe might justly condemne me for a deceiver all the Princes in Christendome would scorne me and then how my Master would Resent it you may judge You are set in the place of Justice I require no more of you then Common justice which if I find I shall not be ingratefull Pardon me if in particular as unusuall I doe not tell you the Grand Signieurs Present in the Generall it consists of fine Cloth Velvet Sattins Gold and Silver Stuffes c. being not inferiour to any that hath been presented formerly Upon this he said looking upon the Letter what here is nothing and would have had some body gone with the Drugerman to treat with my Lord untill the Druggerman told him 't was in vain well then said he tell your Lord if hee will come to morrow I will vest him and to morrow morning will send a Chouze to know who he will have Vested and indeed was as good as his word and when my Lord came to him he was very pleasant and did Vest his Lordship and seven more the usuall custome being but five with so much chearfulnesse as all admired at it and presently told him that the Grand Signieur would be impatient untill hee were with him and asked him if he were Ready My Lord told him 't was impossible without three or foure dayes warning hee pitched on Monday and after some Debate as the urgency of the Affaires of the State the necessitie of the ships speedy comming in c. My Lord consented to it but withall made him promise him that according to the honour and dues of Ambassadours he should be entertained and feasted at the publique Druanine which he did very willingly agree unto Monday morning being come The Vizeere sent Hyssan Aga one of the principall Chouzes with two Chouzes more to attend My Lord who conducted him to the water side and upon his landing on Constantinople side the Chouze Basha with fourty two Chouzes more on horseback conducted him thence to the Vizeeres house where he stayed in his Yegays Chamber till the Vizeere sent to the Grand Signieur to tell him his Lordship was ready for Audience his Majestie sent word he would receive him at the Keske being a kind of a Banqueting-house or for Repose very stately by the water side in his Seraglio whether the Vizeere went before him and his Lordship followed with the Chouse-Bassa and fourty two Chouzes attending him besides all the Merchants and all his own Gent. and attendance no Ambassadour heretofore ever having the like he came to a gate which opened into the Garden where the Keske stood there my Lord with 18. more were Vested but none suffered to goe in but only my Lord who was led by the Chouze-Bassa on his right hand and the Bustange Bassa on the left Signieur Dominico his Secretary who carryed the Letter in a gold and silver bag led by two Chouses more and Master Vernon his Druggerman led by two other Chouzes When my Lord came within sight of the Grand Signieur they suffered him not to goe forwards but side-waies untill he came just against him hee being set upon an Ivorie and mother of Pearle Couch the seates being lined with Lusin Furres and then brought him forwards untill he came within the space of 20. paces where my Lord made a low obedience to him and the Grand Signieur which was never seen before bowed very much and saluted my Lord at which my Lord bowed very low again After Dominico had

that by forraigners are brought into the Empire These Grievances and my Lords Speech were all read over after the Kings Letter by the Grand Signieur himselfe and as my Lord was told by some of the great men hee liked them and was very much pleased at them and gave strict Command they should be redressed My Lord having done with the Grand Signieur he went through the Seraglio Garden with all his attendance to the gate where his horse stood and by the Chouze Bassa and his 42. Chouzes was attended back again to the water side and by Hassen Aga and his two Chouzes was attended home to his house After my Lord had been received with such honour and had gotten such firm footing he suffered not the Vizeere to rest but the next morning sent his Druggerman to him to thank him for his reall performance of his promise and as he had begun so he would proceed and in the first place that hee would grant his Majesties desires in sending home the Lord Craw secondly in confirming the Capitulations and let other abuses bee redressed according to the Grand Signieurs promise hereupon the Vizeere made a stop and called the Druggerman close up to him and said Have not I been as good as my word have I not done your Lord the honour befits him yet see nothing Goe tell my Lord except I see what I shall have I will not stirre one foot further Whereupon my Lord sent his Druggerman to him again to perswade him to trust to my Lords bounty but could by no means be drawn to doe more without some assurance wherefore after two or three dayes was spent and nothing could bee done my Lord sent him this Letter My Lord I Pray tell me the Cause why a week is nere past and no redresse of our Grievances if you intend that Justice should be done us which the Grand Signieur hath promised why is it delayed when it shall be required why the ships come not in what shall I reply where shall I lay the fault I can have Justice done me but had rather by your hand then anothers I pray let not your delayes make me jealous of the future performance but give accomplishment to the businesse To this after he had well perused it hee said If you hang me I will not stirre a foot further After which my Lord let his Druggerman tell him that if he performed these Conditions following Hee heard him say he would give him in way of Gratuity 20000 l. 1. That the Man-sold Ambassadour be immediately sent away in a Barke or Gally to Smyrna and there put aboard an English ship to be carried according to the King of Englands command into England 2. Secondly that the new Ambassadour now established bee brought to the publike Divan and there feasted according to the usuall honour of Ambassadours 3. That the Capitulations bee immediatly confirmed by the Grand Signieurs Hattesherife 4. That satisfaction be speedily made to the English Merchants in this Port for all those goods which were contrary to Capitulations taken from them and also that a messenger be sent to Alleppo for the Jew Customer Cacham together with his Kinsman David for to answer for contemning the Grand Signieurs Hattesherife and make satisfaction for the injury done the Merchants there 5. Fiftly That some course may be taken that all such grievances may be forthwith redressed which are mentioned in the Lord Ambassadours Complaint to the Grand Signieur These Articles the Vizeere liked and agreed they should bee performed and hee would not have an Asper untill all was done but said he I will have two Merchants bound to me that my Lord shall give me the money when all is done For this purpose two of us went having the Papers ready but being late that night could not doe it but promised the next morning so soon as they could come it should be done and so questionlesse it had but now see a most unfortunate accident that we must act our own destruction for when the Market was so starved that all the Jewes Turkes and even the Grand Signieur himselfe cryed out for the English ships to come in which my Lord would not suffer untill his Conditions were granted the Councell of Smyrna being scared with a protest which D. Edwards made to have goods out of the ships consigned to Jews at Constantinople suffered 19. Cases of Silke and seven packs of Clothes to be landed and carried up to Constantinople which at this very time so supplyed the market and stopped their mouthes that the next day when the Merchants came to seale he told them Except they would make an absolute bond without Conditions that they owed him 20000. l. he would not meddle with the businesse but bid them do what they could This unexpected mischiefe when my Lord had wrought all his ends into so fine a condition to bee on a sudden so dashed in pieces was too great a trouble to my Lord and us all for the Jewes and all people laughed at us and told the Vizeere that if he would be patient the ships would unlade themselves whether my Lord would or not so that the evill report which this bred was worse then the supply of the Market for all believed it Now what to do and which way to begin to act was no small trouble to my Lord at last my Lord resolved to try him with another Letter or Arrs as followeth My Lord I Beseech you tell me what you thinke of me whether I have so little regard of my Kings honour and my owne reputation that I can remaine in the Port where a man-sold Ambassadour is maintained and backed to affront and scorn me and that authority which the Grand Signieur and your selfe have approved as just What is it to be vested graciously accepted by the Grand Signieur and promised redresse of injuries if nothing be performed if you believe I have truth or honour in me upon my faith doe me that Justice you ought or I shall appeale to the Grand Signieur if there I find no reliefe I must with my Merchants leave the Port and Nation So this the Vizeere said well let your Lord bee patient a little while and his businesse shall be done In this smooth delatory answer was more cunning expressed then before for delayes ruine us which he knew well enough and his kind Reply tooke us from complaining against him All this while the ships lay at great charges for demereage the goods in them like to rot or receive much Damage and if they stayed out past the little Bycam the cloth would not sell this yeare besides the Merchants at a Gaze and all Trade stopped all these inconveniences being considered wee valued every day delayed at 1000. l. wherefore my Lord being much troubled because he knew not how to helpe us for delayes must not be admitted besides my Lord Crow swelled with conceipt to see us in this extremitie who being summoned by my