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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02743	The rarities of Turkey, gathered by one that was sold seven times a slave in the Turkish Empire, and now exposed to view for the benefit of his native countrey:.	Georgijević, Bartolomej, d. ca. 1566.	1661 (1661)	Wing D1921A; ESTC R175972	34,635	147

God who hath preserved us from such calamities and likewise hoping to encrease the number of relenting mindes and charitable dispositions My poverty and weak capacity could finde no other means to be instrumental for them Thick and dark clouds have eclipsed the warmth and comfort of the Sun from me but Be you merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful Farewel ERRATA Page Line   12. 23. for and paid read are paid 14. 16. put out Troy-weight 28. 5. for teh read the. 44. 8. Passengers read Passages 79. 1. do kill read do not kill 102. 14. for their fenars read their defenc● 117. 21. for drunk read drink 123. 8. for Rocks read Rocks Of the Rites and Ceremonies of the TURKS CHAP. I. Of their Oratories THe fabricks of their Churches are sufficiently large and sumptuous and called by the name of Meschites in which I never could perceive any sort of fancies or imageries for Idolatry is held by them the worst of abominations but onely these or one of these inscriptions following in the Arabick Language There is no God but one and Mahomet his Prophet or One Creator and Prophets equal or None is strong as God Then there is seen a great abundance of burning Lamps the whole Church whited the Pavement covered with Mattresses and on them the Ornaments of Tapestries Neer the Church is erected a Tower of great height to the top whereof the Priest ascends before the time of Prayers and with a loud voice his ears stopped with his fingers he thrice proclaims these words God True One which Clamour or Outcry for they have no Bells being heard the Nobility and all unbusied persons repair to Church as bound to that devotion Afterwards the said Priest descending prays with them and then they turn their faces towards Mecha And this he is tyed to do by his Office five times day and night But whosoever cometh to these Prayers must wash his hands his feet and privities and his head thrice sprinkled with water and these words pronounced Glory to my God Then their shooes put off and left at the Church-door they enter in some bare-footed others having new Shooes or Socks and so tenderly touch the ground Women come not into Churches as being not excis'd and for fear of disturbing mens devotions but meet apart in severed places altogether shut off from eyes and ears of men and more seldome frequent their Churches except in time of Passeover or Easter and on Fridays which days from Mahomet's Traditions for distinction and imitation they almost respect as much as Jews their Sabbaths or Christians the Lords day They pray from nine a clock at night till twelve and in their praying their bodies are ever in great motion and agitation wherewith they marvelously afflict themselves with loud cryings and fierce ejaculations so as oftentimes their strengths and spirits failing they sink unto the ground and if it happen any of them conceive her self with child she then assures her self that pregnancy proceeds from favour of the Holy Spirit and when delivered the Infants born are called Sons or Souls of the Holy Ghost This hath been related to me from their Hand-maids for I nor ever any man else were present at that spectacle At mens devotions I have been often present with my Master whose customes are in manner following in their prayers they ne'er take off their Turbants coverings of their heads but with the tops of their fingers gently touch them in token of taking them off they fall upon their knees and often kiss the ground they hold it for great wickedness to have a Christian present at their mysteries for they believe their Churches as they say to be polluted by men unwashed and that Christians use not such Lavatories Every Church in Turky hath a peculiar place for Baths and washings with lodgings for a Priest Now here the Priest ascends his Pulpit reads a piece of the Alcoran and sometimes expounds it and there preaches about two hours his Sermon ended two boyes come up to him who pronounce their prayers singing with responsals which Songs being ended the Priest with the whole People in a low voice beating upon their sides repeat these words There is but one God which for the space of half an hour they do and so depart But this manner of Prayers and Ceremonies of Preaching and singing are not done every day unless in time of Lent Festivals some Sundayes and most observe the Fridayes for religious worship Of their Lent THey keep their Lent by fasting one Month and one Week every Year but not alwayes the same for if this Year they fast out January the next they fast out February and keep on that course so as in twelve Years space they dedicate to God in lieu of tenths one Year and twelve Weeks Travellers and sick Persons are excused from present fastings but are injoyned to supply it by fasting so many dayes at other times When they fast all that Day they taste nothing not so much as Bread or Water then the Stars appearing it is lawful for them to eat of all things which are not strangled or Hoggs-flesh which they esteem as carrion most unclean Their Lent being past they observe Easter for three dayes with great solemnity anoynting the Nails of their Feet and Fingers with an Oyl which they call Chna which maker those Nails to shine like Gold and with the same they somtimes stain or colour the Hoofs and Tails of Horses This Tincture holds very long can hardly be wip'd away so as until new Nails thrust out the old they still retain that dye but Nails of the Hand by frequent washing abate in time Women do not onely anoynt the Nails but their whole Hands and Feet also with that Oyl Of their Circumcision THey Circumcise not on the eighth day as the Jews do but when the new-born arrive at the age of seven or eight yeers and be of perfect speech the mystery whereof is from the words of confession required before circumcision which are some of those sentences afore-mentioned in their Churches which they repeat and give assent thereto by holding up the Thumbe of the right-Hand The Youth is not for this mystery brought unto their church but is circumcised in his Parents House I have been often present at this solemnity which is performed in manner following first the friends are all invited to a feast sufficiently furnished with all sorts of delicate flesh lawful for them to eat and almost everywhere especially amongst the wealthier sort an Ox is killed bowelled and flawed in the body whereof they include a Sheep and in that Sheep a Hen and in her an Egge all which are entirely roasted together for the solemnity and splendor of that day Then in their Feast and time of Supper the Boy that is to be circumcised is brought to a Physitian skilful in that Art who fixing between a pair of pinchers the fore-skin of his privie Member to prevent all fear in the

discoursings he spies some dogs walking in the Church and doing something against an Altar an evil custom and to be condemned by all and asked whether it was lawful for Beasts to enter our Churches and blushing with shame not knowing how to defend this negligence of Christian Pastors I told him It was neither lawful nor seemly and desired him to conceive it a meer negligence of Officers When he heard this he commended it very much and desired me to instruct him in our Saviour's Prayer which I gave him after in the Arabian Dialect CHAP. IV. A Lamentation for loss of Christians destroyed AFflicted with an infinite and incredible sorrow most high and mighty Monarchs and Governours of Christian Commonwealths to see the sad condition and most miserable being of our Brethren under the Turkish slavery whereof some seduced from the bosome of our Church to heretical unhappiness others with civil and hostise sword slain murthered and cast to devouring Beasts others made captive to perpetual servitude and most cruelly afflicted They all by me in lamentable sobs and groanings complain O monstrous mischievous ambition of ill men and wicked covetousness of ruling How many equal souls consecrated to God's Divine Worship have you betrayed to Death and to the Devil How many Principalities and Kingdoms of great Kings and all sorts of Nobility have you destroyed How many walls of stately Towns have you demolished How many sumptuous Palaces and strong stately Castles have you levelled with the ground How many lawful Owners have you dejected from eminent Estates and quiet Conditions and banished to perpetual disconsolations And although I intend not to write the acts of Princes but to delineate the calamities and tragedies of Captives I cannot forbear remembrance of that abominable discord of the Earl of Scrvia a potent and proud Prince who agreeing a shameful foul example of a vitious ambition with the Bassa of Bosnia his neighbour-Enemy and having many Castles and strong holds upon the Turkish Confines even to the River Savus which divides Illyria from Croatia and defended all those Provinces which lye between that River and the River Dravus from Turkish violences and incursions This Earl or Lord of Servia falling into variance and some petty controversies with the Nobility of Sclavonia made friendship with the said Bassa and joyning their Armies both together invaded the Sclavonians partly at difference between themselves and partly impotent wholly destroys them and their Province with fire and sword ruining their Towns and Castles some by violence and force some by craft and treachery customary with wicked men and Turks and so totally vanquished and conquered them And after a few Months had passed this Bassa beholding the Earl's rich Provinces and neighbouring with his he took or made occasions to invade him whom at length he kill'd and so reduced all his Territories under the Turkish Government Thus this seditious Atheist Traytor to his Country and his Brethren most ignominiously lost his life for such are the Turk's rewards to whomsoever by craft policy or villanous fraud he can lay hold on or ensnare The like was done with some Noble-men of Hungary whom they reduced to miserable captivity Wherefore most Christian Monarchs the cruelties of this Tyrant ought with all industry and vigilance be both feared and prevented lest considering your fair Provinces and viewing them with a fascinating eye he finde you disagreeing and thereby infeebled he assault you on all sides not onely Candia Calabria Malta and Sicily but even Italy France Spain and Germany and prove an universal scourge and terror to all Christendome They are wise who by others harms prevent their own you are concerned when your neighbours house is fired But not to trouble you in this kinde I recommend to you most prudent Governours the correction and amendment of this great error and return to the deplorable calamities and afflictions our Brethren suffer under the yoke of Tribute in the Turk's Dominions where some with chains about their necks are dragged through sharp and spiny parts of Thracia and lesser Asia with naked feet in thirst and hunger and if by labour of long journeys diseases or other griefs they die as often happens to men of Quality and bred in ease are hurl'd strip'd in the next ditch though not half dead to the care of ravenous fowls others that is young people of either sex endure perforce the filthy lusts of their buyers and their fenars with hideous cryes and howlings of violated and vitiated people the age of six yeers not defending them others ignorant in husbandry or Mechanick Arts and literated men who are least saleable are for long time driven from Town to Town from street to street and being once sold compell'd with clubs and scourges to learn Trades and dayly employments in base businesses and grievous pains others of more robustious strength are made slaves to Gallies tied by the legs with chains and most miserably tortured whose sad calamities the power of humane wit cannot express in words And if these poor unfortunate souls could have foreknown that miserable being they 'd rarther have chosen a thousand deaths If pains of life and death were e'er commix'd together yea if to live long and many days and die every hour were ever extant it is in Turky Aegyptian servitude Babylonian banishment Assyriack captivity Roman destruction are toyes and trifles to these calamities People who live as it were in the firy Furnace of the Chaldean Hur and crying up to heaven with sighs and groans O Lord how long arise and forsake us not in the end and when oppressed and grieved beyond all hope they turn their eyes again on their own Countries likewise in captivity yet wish themselves rather slaves there then where they are their prayers are not for liberty but change of place and for that cause indifferent for death or life they turn Fugitives and some leaving their flocks in deserts their Oxen at plow expose themselves to devoration some murthering their Masters and their Children some burning their houses in revenge some run away hiding themselves in Caves and hollow Trees with fearful wants and dangers which I here forbear having given the Reader some taste thereof before And now they turn their cries to you all Christian Monarchs and Governours of Commonwealths Imploring and beseeching the Pope of Rome who should be Father of our Country and all sorts of men belonging to Christ his holy Church That they uniting all sects of men in peace and concord would labour to suppress this common enemy and restore their Brethren unto liberty Imploring and beseeching the Emperor and all Imperial Princes Dukes Cities and Nobilities to cool their hot Calentures of ambition and avarice of neighbours rights and set apart domestick quarrels call together and unite their strengths against so cruel an Usurper and hostile Enemy and labour to defend their present or else recover their lost Territories and then be assured the circumspection of the