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A65019	The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta in which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described, in familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano : whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies.; Viaggi. Parte 3. English	Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.; Havers, G. (George); Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Terry, Edward, 1590-1660. Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's voyage.	1665 (1665)	Wing V48; ESTC R10032	493,750	487

of the King should be disobeyed Thus forgetting Nature rather than Subjection And this tye of theirs I say upon the Kings favour makes all his Subjects most servile flatterers for they will commend any of his actions though they be nothing but cruelty so any of his speeches though nothing but folly And when the King sits and speaks to any of his people publickly there is not a word falls from him that is not written by some Scriveners or Scribes that stand round about him In the year 1618. when we lived at that Court there appeared at once in the moneth of November in their Hemisphear two great Blazing-stars the one of them North the other South which unusual sight appeared there for the space of one moneth One of those strange Comets in the North appeared like a long blazing-torch or Launce fired at the upper end the other in the South was round like a pot boiling out fire The Mogol consulted with his flattering Astrologers who spake of these Comets unto the King as Daniel sometimes did of Nebuchadnezzars dream Dan. 4. 19. My Lord the dream is to them that hate thee and the interpretation thereof unto thine enemies For his Astrologers told him that he needed not trouble himself with the thought thereof for it concerned other places and people not him nor his But not long after this their season of Rain before spoken of which was never known to fail till then failed them and this caused such a famine and mortality in the South parts of his Empire that it did very much unpeople it and in the Northern part thereof whither the Mogol then repaired his third Son Sultan Caroom raised and kept together very great forces and stood upon his guard and would not disband till his Father had delivered his eldest Son Sultan Coobseroo into his hands And how when he had him in his power he used him you shall after hear In the mean time take one admirable example of a very gross flatterer but a great Favorite of that King who was noted above others of that Nation to be a great neglecter of God believing it Religion enough to please the Mogol his Master This man was a Souldier of an approved valour But upon a time he sitting in dalliance with one of his women she pluckt an hair from his breast which grew about his Nipple in wantonness without the least thought of doing him hurt But the little wound that small and unparalle'd instrument of death made presently began to fester and in short time after became a Canker incurable in fine when he saw that he must needs dye he uttered these words which are worth the remembring of all that shall ever hear them saying Who would not have thought but that I who have been so long bred a Souldier should have dyed in the face of mine Enemy either by a Sword or a Launce or an Arrow or a Bullet or by some such instrument of death But now though too late I am forc'd to confess that there is a great God above whose Majesty I have ever despised that needs no bigger Launce than an hair to kill an Atheist or a despiser of his Majesty And so desiring that those his last words might be told unto the King his Master he died The Mogol never advanceth any but he gives him a new name and theis of some pretty signification as Pharoah did unto Ioseph when he made him great in his Court Gen. 41. 45. The new names I say that the Mogol gives unto those he advances and favours are significant As Asaph Chan The gathering or rich Lord whose Sister the Mogol married and she was his most beloved Wife and her Brothers marvellous great riches answered his name for he died worth many Millions as I have been credibly informed the greatest Subject I believe for wealth that ever the World had So another of the Mogols Grandees was called Mahobet-Chan The beloved Lord. Another Chan-Iahan The Lord of my heart Another Chan-Allaam The Lord of the World Another Chan-Channa The Lord of Lords He called his chief Physician Mocrob-Chan The Lord of my health and many other names like these his Grandees had which at my being there belonged to his most numerous Court And further for their Titles of honour there all the Kings Children are called Sultans or Princes his Daughters Sultana's or Princesses the next title is Nabob equivalent to a Duke the next Channa a double Lord or Earl the next Chan a Lord. So Meirsa signifies a Knight that hath been a General or Commander in the Wars Umbra a Captain Hadde a Cavalier or Souldier on horse-back who have all allowed them means by the King as before proportionable for the supports of their Honours and Titles and Names His Officers of State are his Treasurers which receive his revenues in his several Provinces and take care for the payment of his great Pensions which when they are due are paid without any delay There his chief Eunuchs which command the rest of them take care for the ordering of his House and are Stewards and Controulers of it his Secretaries the Masters of his Elephants and the Masters of his Tents are other of his great Officers and so are the keepers of his Ward-robe who are entrusted with his Plate and Jewels To these I may add those which take care of his Customs for Goods brought into his Empire as for commodities carried thence But these are not many because his Sea-ports are but few The Customs paid in his Ports are not high that strangers of all Nations may have the greater encouragement to Trade there with him But as he expects money from all strangers that Trade there So it is a fault he will not pardon as before for any to carry any quantity of silver thence He hath other Officers that spread over his Empire to exact monies out of all the labours of that people who make the curious manufactures So that like a great Tree he receives nourishment from every even the least Roots that grow under his shadow and therefore though his Pensions are exceeding great as before they are nothing comparable to his much greater revenues By reason of that Countries immoderate heat our English-cloath is not fit to make Habits for that people that of it which is sold there is most of it for colour Red and this they imploy for the most part to make coverings for their Elephants and Horses and to cover their Coaches the King himself taking a very great part thereof whose payments are very good only the Merchant must get the hands of some of his chief Officers to his Bill appointed for such dispatches which are obtained as soon as desired And this the King doth to prevent the abuses of particular and single persons And now that I may present my Reader with the further glory of this great King I shall lead him where he may take a view SECTION XXVII Of the Mogols Leskar or Camp

to speak of the said Body in the presence of the Mariners lest I should be troubled with the vain Auguries they are wont to conceive about carrying such things in case I had been to go with them That after I was landed upon the first more precise demand concerning my goods I forth-with declar'd it plainly and afterwards us'd all diligence in opening the Cotton to the Wind and Sun as those that had frequently visited me could testifie The Knights remain'd satisfi'd with my Answer and also with my proceeding which was not so bad as at first they apprehended Then they view'd the Coffin and caus'd the Physitian to consider it asking me Questions concerning all the particulars relating to it which done they consulted apart amongst themselves what to do and the result was That if I meant to have a clear and full Bill of Health I must be contented to let the Coffin be open'd and air'd not onely outwardly as had been already done but also what was within it otherwise they would let the Coffin alone as it was but could not give me a full Bill of Health whence perhaps I might meet with more trouble in other places Wherefore they desir'd me to consider of the business for they left me to my choice I remain'd in some suspence and took time to think of it as they courteously offer'd me and so they departed without giving me Prattick or resolving upon any thing On one side I was unwilling to open the Coffin because it was secure and could not be open'd without spoyling both it and perhaps what was within it and having brought it so far with me with so much diligence onely to keep it intire and sound I was very loath to lose my pass'd pains On the other side to go from Malta without a good Bill of Health and so incur a greater trouble else-where was no safe course Wherefore I recurr'd to the wonted favour of my Lord the Inquisitor giving him account in a Letter how the case stood and earnestly entreating him to find some little shift how the Knights might be contented without opening or spoyling the Coffin to make me a good Bill which might serve me else-where for which purpose I urg'd him with many good Reasons The Inquisitor according to his accustom'd courtesie undertook the business and I remain'd in the same House without Prattick expecting the issue November the two and twentieth Early in the Morning we saw the Gallies of Malta already in the Port being return'd the Night preceding with some provision of Corn but not much The Council required of me a punctual Relation of the time place and manner of my Wife's Death which I accordingly sent them in writing attested by the Journal of my Travels my Book of Expences and a Latine Treatise of the Countries subject to the modern Empire of Persia from which Books wherein mention is made thereof I extracted the said Relation It was read in the Council and they being satisfi'd with it at length sent in the evening to give me Prattick causing us first to swear that we knew not of any dead of the Pestilence in any place where we had been nor yet in our Ship Which truth we swore to whereupon they granted us Prattick and promis'd us a good Bill of Health at our departure November the three and twentieth In the Morning my Lord the Inquisitor sent to congratulate with me for my Prattick and to invite me to dine with him After dinner I went with his Secretary to the new City call'd La Valletta and there in the Palace I did Reverence to the most Serene Grand Master call'd Frat ' Antonio de Paula a French-man who receiv'd me with much courtesie and offer'd me his utmost favour both in order to my departure or any other occasion After which I accompany'd his Highness to Vespers in the Church of S. Iohn together with all the other Knights and back again to the Palace and after much conversation with the Commendator Brancaccio at night I return'd to my own House waving the favor of my Lord the Inquisitor who invited me to lodg in his because I would not leave my own people alone November the four and twentieth I din'd with my Lord the Inquisitor according to his invitation and in the Evening accompany'd the Grand Master to the Church of S. Catherine where because the said Saint is their Patroness and her Church is us'd for the Italian Tongue the Knights of Italy solemniz'd a Festival November the five and twentieth I went to hear Mass in the new City at the said Church where I saw the Relique of the said Saint's Ring wherewith she was marry'd by our Saviour 't is a Gold Ring of very plain antique and coarse work having a green stone which probably is an Emerald a stone in those times much in request but whether it be ill pollish'd or be decay'd by time 't is a great Table for a Ring but appears no very fair Jewel of it self December the second Two Gallies of Malta being ready to depart from Messina I would not lose so good an opportunity of passing the channel securely but having gotten my Bill of Health ready wherein though they mention'd my wife's Body which I carry'd yet they made it to my satisfaction and full enough to prevent trouble else-where and dispatcht all things that needed in the Evening I put all my goods aboard the Galley Santa Maria whereof Sig Gio. Francesco Geronimo Salvago a Genouese was Captain But because it departed not this night I repair'd to lodg at the House of my Lord the Inquisitor and left the Women in that of Sig Don Francesco Ciantar our Friend and Patron of the Benefice and House del Salvadore December the third In the Evening we all went aboard the above-said Galley after we had taken leave of the Inquisitor and all other Friends with many Complements and demonstrations of true kindness a little before mid-night we set sail being accommodated with the other Galley call'd S. Iohn and four Ships of the Order laden with Flax all which went under the mand of our Captain December the fourth This Morning we found that we had already pass'd the channel and were come to Capo Passaro which is the ancient Promontory Pachinum Before dinner we enter'd the Port of Syracuse where Sig Fra Marcantonio Pericontato Receiver of the Order of Malta came presently to our Galley to visit the Captain and take his Letters and Orders of business By this Knight without making my self known to him I understood that my great Friend Monsignor Paolo Faraone Bishop of Syracuse being lately return'd from a visitation was now in the City of which I was very joyful through the great desire I had to see him Wherefore after dinner I went ashore as all others did and with Sig Frate Antonietto Costa a Roman presently repair'd to his Palace to visit him But understanding he was saying the Office and would not