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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

himselfe a most excellent horseman and cunning archer V●ually euery morning he visiteth his stables of great horses and according to an old custome of the Persian kings the souldiers of his court before mentioned doe receiue horses at his hands as he is in place and degree And these their horses are of singular vertue equall with those of the old time which as Strabo writeth were accustomed to be fed and brought vp in Armeniae for the kings vse They are wonderfull swift in course fierce in battell long breathed and very docible when they are vnsadled thy are gentle and milde but when they are armed they are warlike hardie and manageable euen at the pleasure of the rider And I haue seene of them sold for a thousand and somtimes a thousand and sixe hundred duckates a peece After he hath viewed his horses he passeth into his Armory certaine buildings neere vnto his Pallace where are made very strong Curiasses or Corselets headpeeces targets most of them able to keepe out the shot of an arquebusier and much more to daunt the force of a dart Heere also the king furnisheth his souldiers not only with Curiasses headpeeces and targets but with bowes and arrowes pouldrones and gantlets and with launces made of good ash armed at both ends with Scimatars shirts of maile most finely soundly tempered wherewith both themselues and their horses are defended in time of warre By this time hauing spent most of the forenoone he returneth againe into his pallace and there remains till three of the clocke in the afternoone at which time he makes his entry into the A●-Maidan which is the great market place or high streete of Hispaan round about this place are erected certaine high scaffolds where the multitude do sit to behold the warlike exercises performed by the King and his courtiers as their running and leaping their shooting with bowes and arrowes at a marke both aboue and beneath their playing at tennis all which they performe on horsebacke with diuers mo● too long to write of In this place also is to be seene seuerall times in the yeare the pleasant sight of fireworks of banquets of musickes of wrastlings and of whatsoeuer triumphes else is there to be shewed for the declaration of the ioy of this people Besides the King very often in this place in the presence of the Princes and Peeres of the Realme will giue iudgement in diuers causes much like vnto the ancient kings of France who vsed ordinarily to heare the complaints of their subiects but of late yeares the more the pitie they haue committed this businesse vnto the consciences of subordinate officers hearing by other mens eares and seeing by other mens eyes well nigh concerning all their affaires which course the Persian King holdeth neither good nor cōfortable for the people nor yet by any means to further Iustice. And certainly where such carelesnes doth enter into the maiesty of kings the estate of the Realme cannot chuse but be weakned the maiesty royal imbased so that in the end it might be shewed the people haue not refused to rise against the person of the king somtimes to murder him To be briefe in the execution of iustice he is very seuere a● well to the greatest as to the meanest not sparing as might be shewed to hang vp his chiefe Cuddi or Iudges when he shal perceiue how that vpon bribes fauour they delay the suits of his subiects against the cle●re manifest truth imitating herein Cambises who cōmanded Sisamnes●kin ●kin for giuing an vniust sentence to be flead off and couered the iudgement seat th●rewith appointing also his son to iudge in his place to the end that by sight thereof all other iudges might be warned to be iust and vpright And I haue seene him many times alight from his horse onely to doe iustice to a poore bodie Besides he punisheth theft manslaughter so seuerely that in an age a man shall not heare eyther of the one or of the other which kind of seuerity were very needfull for some parts of Christendome I will not say for England though we haue faulted therein but for France especially where within ten years sixe thousand gentlemen haue bene slaine as it appears by the kings pardons So that since king Abas came vnto the crowne ful twenty yeares vpwards the Persian Empire hath florished in sacred and redoubted laws the people demeaning themselues after the best manner they can aboundance of collections coming plentifully in the rents of his chamber were increased more then euer they were in his Grandfather Tamas his time armes artes and sciences doe wonderfully prosper and are very highly esteemed To this great Monarch came Sir Anthony Sherley Knight with sixe and twentie followers all gallantly mounted and richly furnished whose entert●inment was so great that the Persians did admire that the king should vouchsafe such high fauour to a meere stranger without desert or triall of his worth Of whose bounty the world may iudge since within three daies after his first arriuall the king sent him fortie horses furnished with saddles and very rich trappings foure of them fit for the proper vse of any Prince twelue Cammels for carriage together with sixe Mules foure and twentie carpets most of them rich and faire three tents or pauilions with all other necessaries of house and lastly sixe men laden with siluer Sundry times Sir Anthonie had audience of the king wherein he declared first with what perfidious dealing and with what greedinesse and pride the Turkish Emperours haue alwaies set vpon the Christians and that being discharged of the warre with them he would of all likelihood set vpon the Persians hauing the selfe same quarrell vnto the Persians that he hath vnto the Christians viz. an ardent and insatiable desire of soueraignty a sufficient motiue for the greedie Turke to repute euery king the richer that he is the more his enemie After that he set forth to the full the prowesse of the Christians the wonderfull preparation that they could make both at Sea and land perswading the king with all his power to inuade the Turke then altogether busied in the warres of Hungarie and to recouer againe such parts of his kingdome as his predecessors had lost Warres he said were more happily managed abroad then at home that since his maiestie alone is able to withstand the Turkes whole force and power he needed not now to doubt of the most prosperous successe the Christian Princes by his meanes ioyning with him He told the King further that he was much vnmindfull of his former losses and wrongs if he thought he ioyned an assured peace which he should finde to be nothing else but a deferring of one war vnto more cruel times and that the Turke if he should ouerrunne Hungary would forthwith turne his victorious armes vpon him and his kingdome the end of one warre as he said was but

that all those Countries were theirs which lay along the Riuer from the Mountaine Taurus vnto the desart of Arabia The description of MESOPOTAMIA BEing ouer the aforesaid Riuer we arriued at Bi r and entred into the famous Prouince of Mesopotamia which North-wards bounds on a part of Armenia the Great where the Altar of Hercules stood South-ward on the desart of Arabia Eastward on Assiria and Westward on Armenia the lesse The Hebrewes were wont to call this Kingdome Aram Nearot Syria amongst the Riuers as the Iewes doe at this day The Greeks call it Mesopotamia because it lyeth betweene two great Riuers which watered Paradise Euphrates and Tygris The Turkes doe call it Diarbech This Prouince of it selfe is most fruitfull but by the Turkish warres much ruinated and wasted neuerthelesse there are some Cities of great importance The description of Bir. BI r called by Ptolomey Barsina is an ancient City but very ruinous It is very famous for the situation being built on the side of an high craggy mountaine hauing the Riuer Euphrates running close vnder the walles therof and a most delightfull valley yeelding abundance of graine and other necessary prouision But because this towne is not much esteemed by the Turks but left open to the fury of euery enemy I will be sparing to speake thereof and so passe to the rest The description of Orpha ABout two daies iourney from this vnrespected towne we came to Orpha a City of great account and estimation which many suppose to haue beene the famous City Edessa which Seleucus the next King after Alexander the Great built For hauing conquered Asia and Syria Functius reporteth that he beganne to build townes and Cities as Antioch Laodicea Seleucia Apamia B●rouea Pellum and Edessa and they are not deceiued because that as yet there remaineth certaine monuments of Baldewine in Latin letters who after his brother Godfrey was possessed of Ierusalem is reported to haue taken Edessa and there raigned The aire of this City is very healthfull the Countrey fruitfull only wood excepted and therefore in steede thereof they burne the dung of Camels and other beasts dryed in the Sunne This City is built foure-square the West part standing on the side of a rocky mountayne and the East part trendeth into a spacious valley replenished with vineyards orchards and gardens the walles are very strong furnished with great store of artillery and containe in circuit three English miles and for the gallantnes of the site it was once reckoned the Metropoliticall seate of Mesopotamia howsoeuer it is now translated to Caramida or Caraemit There is in this City a fountaine full of fishes so vsed to hand that they will receiue any sustenance that shall be offered vnto them both Iewes Armenians and Turkes reported vnto vs that this fountaine was Iacobs-well and that here hee serued his Vncle Laban twise seauen yeares for faire and beautifull Rachel The gates of this City were much battered a little before our comming by Eliazgee the Scriuano and the rebels his followers The successe whereof so much tormented the haughty minde of Mahomet the Turkish Emperor as that it would scarce suffer him to thinke of any thing else For the rebell growing stronger and stronger by reason of the great numbers which he allured with the sw●ete name of liberty hope of prey or the good entertainement by him giuen daylie more and more resorted vnto his camp had ouer-runne a great part of the Turkes Dominion in Asia the lesse and in these parts putting all to fire and sword that stoode in his way ransacking also diuers walled and fenced Cities by the way as he went this City bearing a share in that misery for being entred into the City hee drew the citizens to a composition of fifty thousand Chekens and so departed A rebellion not only dangerous to the great Turke but also very commodious and of great oportunity to the Christian commonweale and to the Persian himselfe if at that time they had taken vp armes together Memorable also is this City then called Carras for the great battell which was fought before it betweene the Romans and the Parthians when Marcus Crassus was Generall on the one side and Surena on the other side who ioyning both their armies together there was fought a most mortall and deadly battell For there might a man haue seene a miserable and lamentable sight of the ouerthrowne Romans which were so tortured and tormented with the Parthians arrow●s that some shewed vnto their Captains their hands fast nailed to their Targets some their feete shot through and nailed to the ground some their bodies stuc●e full of forked arrowes and some wounded with speares and pikes in such cruell manner that the m●st part of t●● G●ntlemen of Rome slue t●●mselues for Publius Crassus himselfe commanded one of his Gentlemen to kill him whose h●ad after was cut off by the enemy and s●nt to his Father for a present the Fathers fortune being no better then his Sonnes for his head was cut off as his Sons was and twenty thousand Romans of great account slaine besides a great number carried captiues into Parthia Plutarch affirmeth that the Parthians so triumphed of this victory in their feasts and plaies that they made rimes and iests of both Crassus heads At this City hauing paid our custome which is a Dollor on a summe of goods our Carauan was licenced to depart and at our ordinary houre which was three of the clocke in the afternoone we set forward towards the auncient City Amida now called Caramida or Caraemit fiue dayes iourney from Orpha trauailing sometimes ouer rough and craggy mountaines and sometimes through most delightfull plaines and vallyes amongst which there is one of note enuironed about with a pale of mountaines in such wise that there is but one entry and passage In the midst whereof wee beheld the ruines of a great Fortresse built as the Countrey people report by Aladeules a mountaine King who much annoyed Selymus the first and his army in his expedition against Ismael the Persian King This plaine is very pleasant to the eye by reason of the faire meadowes and brookes wherewith the same doth plentifully abound In this place did Aladeules build diuers houses of pleasures causing the same to be inhabited with the fairest young men and women that could be found so that when he had surprised any young man he brought him to this Fortresse and gaue vnto him a drinke which should cause him to sleepe so soundly that he should so remaine a long space as though he had beene dead Then would he cause him to be carried into this valley amongst his beautifull women and to bee cloathed in rich apparell so that awaking out of his trance hee should finde himselfe another man and as though hee came into a new world Forthwith he was entertained with all kinds of pleasures which youth and lust could desire and this continued so long as one whole

money powred moulten gold into his mouth after he was dead Against these great Lucullus fought many battels and the Romanes were neuer able to bring them quite into subiection vntill Augustus Caesar raigned I omit for breuitie sake to write anything of Arsaces the first king of Parthia whom the Persians loued so aliue that they honoured him being dead surnaming alwaies after him the kings of Parthia Arsaces with no lesse honor and glory then the Caesars of Rome the Pharhoes and Ptolomees of Egypt or of Herodes the ninth king of Parthia who so much preuailed against the Romans or of Phraherts their tenth and last king who vnnaturally killed his aged father and put thirtie of his brethren to death and that the Parthians might haue no man left to to be nominated king after him commaunded his owne sonne to be put to death likewise or lastly how Augustus Caesar by his clemency iustice drew this bloody tyrant to submit himselfe and his kingdom vnto the Roman Monarchy ending that without warre which others could not do with warres commaunding more with a word then Antonius who sought it with blowes or Crassus that sought it with his death But leauing these matters of antiquity we return where we left The description of Cassan. AFter two daies trauell from Com we arriued at Cassan a principall Citie in Parthia very famous and rich howsoeuer Ortelius and others make no mention of it This Citie is seated in a goodly plaine and because it hath no mountaines neere it but within a daies iourney the heate is verie fastidious as great almost as it is in Ormuz the spring and haruest is sooner in this climate then in any other p●●ts of the Persi●n dominions It wanteth neither fountaines springs nor gardens but aboundeth with all necessaries what●oeuer consisting altogether in merchandize and the best trade of all the land is there being greatly frequented with all sorts of merchants especially out of India The people are very industrious and curious in all sciences but specially in weauing girdles and ●hashes in making Veluets Sattans Damasks very good Ozmuzenes and Persian carpets of a wonderfull finenesse in a word it is the very Magazeen and warehouse of all the Persian Cities for these stuffes Here may you buy all manner of drugs and spices and Turkasses with store of Pearle D●amonds and Rubies as also all so●ts of silkes as well wrought as raw I am perswaded that in one yeare there is more silke brought into Cassan then is of broad cloath brought into the Citie of London This Citie is much to be commended for the ciuill and good gouernment which is there vsed An idle person is not permitted to liue among them the child that is but sixe yeare old is set to l●bour no ill ●ule disorder or riot is there suffered F●r they haue a law among them resembling the Egyptian law which Diodorus mentioneth wherby euery person is compelled to giue his name to the Magistrates therewith declaring what kinde of life he liketh how he liueth and what art he exerciseth And if any doe tell vntruly is either well beaten on the feete or imploied in publike slau●ry The greatest annoyance that this Citie is infes●ed withall is the aboundance multitude of black Scorpions of an exceeding greatnesse which many times doe much harme if a speciall care be not had of them At this Citie Master Iohn Mildenall and my selfe parted company he trauelling to Labor in the E●st Indies and my selfe setting forwards to the great Citie of Hispaan three daies trauell distant from Cassan. The description of Hispaan THis Citie as some affirme was built by Arsaces the first King of Parthia being then called Dara But whether so or no is not much m●teriall Sure it is that in times past it was called Ecatompolis the Citie of a hundred gates and well it may keepe that name still since the huge walles of the same containe in circuit an easie daies iourney on horse backe and is become the greatest Citie in all the Persian dominions which is so much the more magnified and made populous by reason of the kings re●iance therein For there is the supreme place of iustice all matters of importance haue recourse to this place all Ambassadours of Princes and Agents of Cities make their repaire thither and such as aspire and thirst after offices and preferments runne thither amaine with emulation and disdaine at others and in a word thither are brought the reuenewes that appertaine to the crowne and there are they disposed out againe By all which meanes this Citie hath wonderfully increased and appopulated it selfe within these fiue and twentie yeares Very strong is this Citie by situation compassed about with a very great wall and watered with deepe channels of running springs conueighed into it from a part of the Coronian mountaines which are as a wal inaccessible about it On the North side is erected a strong Fort or Castle being compassed about with a wall of a thousand and seauen hundred yards and in the midst thereof is built a tower or rather a strong keepe sundrie chambers and lodgings therein but stored with little Ordonance On the West side of this Citie standeth two Seraglios the one for the King the other for his women Pallaces of great state and magnificence farre exceeding all other proud buildings of this Citie the walles glister with red marble and pargeting of diuers colous yea all the Pallace is paued with checher and tesseled worke and on the same is spread carpets wrought with silke and Gold the windowes ●f Alablaster white marble and much other spotted marble the postes and wickets of massie Iuory checkred with glistering blacke ●bony so curiously wrought in winding knots as may easier stay t●en satisfie the eyes of the wondring beholder Neere vnto this Pallace is a garden very spacious and large all flourishi●g a●d b●a●ti●ull replenished with a thousand sundry kinds of grafts ●rees and sweete smelling plants among whi●h the ●illy the Hyacinth the Gillyflower the Rose the Violet the flower-gentle and a thousand other odoriferous flowers doe ye●ld a most pleasant and delightfull sig●t to all beholders There are a thousand fountaines and a thousand brookes among them all as the father of them all a prettie riuer which with his mild course and delight●ome noise doth deuide the garden from the Kings Pallace neither is this garden so straitly lookt vnto but that both the kings souldiers and Citizens may and doe at their pleasures oftentimes on horse backe repaire thither to recreate themselues in the shadowes and walkes of those greenes And as a gard for the gate of this sumptuous Pallace the king keepeth certaine orders of souldiers wherof the most noble and the greatest in number are called Churchi which are as it were the kings Pensioners being eight thousand in number all of them deuided vnder seuerall Captaines which Captaines doe yeeld obedience to the generall Captaine called Churchi-Bassa

and oppression where little iustice is to bee found being so farre from Constantinople Whereas Batan standeth in such a Countrey as is full of peace and tranquilitie hauing a most iust and vpright Prince the onely true stay of traffike Lord of the same whose onely care and endeuour is to maintaine and vpholde the trade of Merchandize But to leaue these thinges to the Merchants wee come now to the Kingdome of Assiria The description of ASSIRIA FRom Siras hauing spent eight daies trauell and better we entered into the Prouince of Susiana now called Cu●estan but in old time Assiria The bounds of this Countrey Northwards is on the South part of Armenia Eastward on a part of Persia Westward on Mesopotamia and Southward on a part of the Persian Golfe which part is 〈◊〉 of fennes and marish bogges without either port or hauen The climate in that part is exceeding hote and very much infested with bituminous matter which both spoiles the growth of trees and corrupt the waters whereby it comes to passe that the people are not long liu'de And howsoeuer this countrey was that land wherein the first Monarchie was setled so that many excellent things might be spoken of it yet since it hath endured so many mutations and changes by the outrage of armies that it hath lost her ancient name I will be sparing to write thereof least I should write many things rather fabulous then true and therefore laying aside the danger of lying I will passe vnto those townes and ruines which I haue seene The description of Susa. TRauelling two daies farther from the entrance into this Kingdome wee rested at Valdac once the the great Citie Susa but now verie ruinous It was first built by Tythonus and his sonne Memnon but inlarged by Darius the sonne of Histaspis In the building whereof Memnon was so exceeding prodigall that as Cassiodorus writeth he ioyned the stones together with gold It was once one of the regal Cities of the Kings of Persia and was so rich that Aristag●ras did in this maner cheere vp the harts of his souldiers when they came to besiege it Hanc vos vrbem si animose ceperitis iam cum Ioue de diuitijs licet certetis If you can winne this Citie couragious souldiers you may striue with Iupiter himselfe for riches which Alexander had good experience of when he found fiftie thousand talents in wedges of gold besides siluer and great store of coyne Behold saith Q. Curtius that in an houre which many kings had heaped together for posteritie falleth now into the hands of a stranger In a word such was the beautie and delectablenesse thereof for situation that they called it Susa which then in the Persian tongue signifyeth a Lilly but now it is called Valdac of the pouertie of the place Close by this ruinous towne swimmeth the famous Riuer Choaspes which after many turnings and windings through the countrey of Susiana dischargeth it selfe in the Persian Golfe The water of this riuer is very delicate to the tast so that it is no meruaile though the Persian and Parthiā kings in times past would by their good wils drink of no other water For which purpose they had vessels of gold and siluer to carry the same after them whensoeuer they eyther did ride in prograce or goe to the warres Xerxes as Varr● relateth being on a time exceeding thirstie caused proclamation to be made throughou● his campe that if any soldier had any water of Choaspes left he should be well rewarded And it so fell out that a small quantitie was found which though it was exceeding muddie by reason of carriage yet that mightie Prince dranke freely of it Of such account was ●his riuer in ancient time Hauing passed ouer this riuer we set forward towards Mosul a very antient towne in this countrey sixe dayes iourney from Valdas and so pitched on the bankes of the riuer Tigris Here in these plaines of Assiria and on the bankes of Tigris and in the region of Eden was Nineuie built by Nimrod but finished by Ninus It is agreed by all prophane writers and confirmed by the Scriptures that this citty exceeded all other citties in circuit and answerable magnificence For it seemes by the ruinous foundation which I throughly viewed that it was built with foure sides but not equall or square for the two longer sides had each of them as we geffe an hundreth and fifty furlongs the two shorter sides ninty furlongs which amounteth to foure hundred and eighty furlongs of ground which makes threescore miles accounting eight furlongs to an Italian mile The walles whereof were an hundreth foote vpright and had such a breadth as three Chariots might passe on the rampire in front these walles were garnished with a thousand and fiue hundr●th towers which gaue exceeding beauty to the rest and a strength no lesse admirable for the nature of those times Here it was that Ninus raigned who after he had maistred Bactria and subiected vnto his Empire al those regions betweene it and the Mediterranean sea and Hellespont Asia the lesse excepted finished the worke of Nin●uie he left the world i● the yeare thereof 2019. after he had reigned two and fifty yeares After him succeeded Semiramis his wife a Lady of great prowesse and vertue who in this citty buried him so honourably and in such a sumptuous tombe that it was the onely patterne which Artemesia the Queene of Caria made for her husband Mausolus and accounted for the rarenesse thereof one of the seauen wonders of the world Vpon the Pillars whereof was set this Epitaph Mihi pat●r Belus Iupiter Auus Saturnus Babilonicus proauus Chus Saturnus Aethiops Abauus Saturnus Aegiptus Atauus Coelus Phoenix Ogyges repeating the pedegree of Ninus to be the son of Belus the sonne of Nimrod the sonne of Chus the son of Cham and the sonne of Noah Now as the Monarchie of the Assyrians began by Ninus which lasted for the space of a thousand and two hundred yeares and some adde fortie yeares more so it ended in Sardanapalus that beastly Epicure who finding his forces too weake to fight against the power of Arbaces and Belochus his two Lieutenant● the one in Media and the other in Babylon retired out of the field to his pallace in Niniuie and there caused an huge fire to be made into which hee cast himselfe and all his riches herein onely playing the man Such was the effeminate wantonnes of this King that he consumed whole daies in the nurcerie among his concubines sparing no time from incontinent exercises As appeares by the Epitaph which liuing he commanded to be written on his tomb Ede Bibe Lude Eate Drinke Play Which Epitaph Aristotle chancing to find stayed and read the first part thereof and smiling said A man wold thinke this writing fitter to be fixed to the graue of an oxe then written vpon the tombe of a Prince And hauing perused