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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18071	The preachers trauels Wherein is set downe a true iournall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia. Containing a full suruew of the knigdom [sic] of Persia: and in what termes the Persian stands with the Great Turke at this day: also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there: and the estate that his brother, M. Robert Sherley liued in after his departure for Christendome. With the description of a port in the Persian gulf, commodious for our East Indian merchants; and a briefe rehearsall of some grosse absudities [sic] in the Turkish Alcoran. Penned by I.C. sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Cartwright, John, of Magdalen College, Oxford.	1611 (1611)	STC 4705; ESTC S107677	77,355	114

THE PREACHERS TRAVELS Wherein is set downe a true Iournall to the confines of the East INDIES through the great Countreyes of Syria Mesopotamia Armenia Media Hircania and Parthia With the Authors returne by the way of Persia Susiana Assiria Chaldaea and ARABIA Containing a full suruew of the Knigdom of Persia and in what termes the Persian stands with the Great Turke at this day Also a true relation of Sir ANTHONIE SHERLEYS entertainment there and the estate that his Brother M. ROBERT SHERLEY liued in after his departure for Christendome With the description of a Port in the Persian gulf commodious for our East Indian Merchants and a briefe rehearsall of some grosse absudities in the Turkish ALCORAN Penned by I. C. sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed for Thomas Thorppe and are to bee sold by Walter Burre 1611. TO THE VERTVOVS AND Worthy Knight Sir THOMAS HVNT one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace and Quorum in the Countie of Surrey I. C. wisheth all terrestriall and celestiall happinesse SIR when I consider that it is the common manner of all that write any Bookes in this age to Dedicate the same to one or other of great place I bethought me to whome I might offer these my trauels and at last resolued with my selfe none to be more fit then your Worship both in regarde of your zeale to Religion because you doe giue to diuers Congregations in this land Milke without siluer and bread without money which not many other Patrones doe as also for your loue vnto Schollers who though in this vnthankfull age of ours men wonder at vs V● pueri Iunonis auem and wee wonder againe at them because they doe so litle for vs yet my selfe and many others now of some place in the Church neuer departed discontented from you Many other respects as well publike as priuate doe naturally beare this small discourse to the very point and center of your Worships onely Patronage Concerning the matter of this discourse you shall finde in the Preface and concerning the maner there is no great matter of learning or ingenious inuention onely a simple relation of a simple truth yet somewhat there is which may happily concerne the learned and giue some satisfaction to an indifferent Reader when hee vnderstands how two of the most mightie and most warlike Princes among the Barbarians the great Turke and the Persian are now in armes one against the other stirred vp thereunto by two of our Country-men Sir Anthonie Sherley and Master Robert Sherley his brother A warre not onely like to be long and bloudie but also very commodious and of great oportunitie to the Christian Commonweale for that it doth g●aunt and giue leasure to diuers parts of Christendome to refresh themselues and to increase their forces much weakned both by the Great Turkes warres and most of all by their ciuill dissentions at home For Cortug-ogli the Turkish Pirate in his perswasiue Oration to his great Mast. Solyman The Magnificent to besiege Rhodes could say vnto him And now dread Soueraigne if it please you to vouchsafe but to looke into the matter you shall see that there is a diuine occasion by the procurement of our great Prophet Mahomet presented vnto your most sacred Maiestie for that the Christians of the West are at discorde and mortall warre among themselues And to say the truth the discords and dissentions of Christian Princes haue laide more Countreyes to the enrichment of the Great Turke then euer his bowe or Shield could haue purchased In the dayes of Mahomet the second these polluted Sarazens had gleaned out of Christendome like scattered eares of corne neglected by the owners Two hundred Cities twelue Kingdomes and two Empires and still as a canker running on before the Persian tooke the field against them they euery yeere did fret and eate into Christendome Finally I might haue added many worthy collections as well out of sacred as prophane writers that haue written of the most stately and magnificent Empire of the Medes and Persians in times past and so haue compared it with the moderne and present estate thereof which hath scarce a shadow of the antique Gouernment wherewith it was then ruled and gouerned But the matter would haue proued too long made this volume too great and therefore for those aduertisements I purpose to put them forth when God shal make me strong and able In the meane time whatsoeuer is here penned I leaue it with your Worship beseeching you to giue it entertainment And so I do most humbly take my leaue commending both your selfe your vertuous Lady and your whole family to the best mercies of the Lord Iesus From mine House in Southwarke this 18. of October Anno Dom. 1611. Your Worships to command in the Lord IOHN CARTWRIGHT Gentle Reader IT was my purpose to haue added to this Iournall some obseruations touching our Northwest Passage with many reasons to haue proued the great probabilitie thereof But I am perswaded by some friends to make stay thereof vntill the truth of the newes That it is alreadie discouered be throughly examined In the meane time moderate thy opinion of our former proceedings And though some maleuolent tongues haue especially shot out their venemous poyson against me vpon what ground they cannot iustly say when they haue beene pressed thereto y●t God is my witnesse that my Conscience is cleare either from wronging the Companie that then was or any wayes from hindring the full proceeding of that Voyage which I purpose shortly to make good vnto the world And for this small discourse if it passe currant in thy iudgement I shall thinke my sel●e to haue gained enough in lieu of all the Trauels of all the dangers perils that I haue sustained in those places THE PREACHERS TRAVELS Wherein is set downe a generall description of the most principall Kingdomes that haue beene and are at this day in ASIA the great viz. Syria Mesopotamia Armenia the great Media Hircania Parthia Persia Susiana Chaldaea Assiria and Arabia TOGETHER WITH THE MOST memorable occurrences and expeditions which the Princes of those parts haue had each against the other THE PREFACE POMPEY the Great being put to flight in the battell at Pharsalia by Iulius Caesar was desirou● to know of Cratippus the Philosopher what should be the euent of the warres betweene Caesar and himselfe demanding of him an sit Prouidentia whether the purpose decree of God were vnchangeable without alteration To whom Cratippus answered not as a Philosopher but as a true Diuine saying Fatales esse Imperiorum periodos the prouidence of God is most sure and certaine which Pompey found most true in a small time after when Caesar was created the first Emperour of the Roman Monarchy and which also shall be verified God willing in the discourse of this Iournall wherein is principally shewed how all humane affaires and the greatest Cities of renowme haue had their Periods in their greatest