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A47555	The Turkish history from the original of that nation, to the growth of the Ottoman empire with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours / by Richard Knolles ... ; with a continuation to this present year MDCLXXXVII ; whereunto is added, The present state of the Ottoman empire, by Sir Paul Rycaut ...	Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Present state of the Ottoman Empire.; Grimeston, Edward.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. History of the Turkish empire.	1687 (1687)	Wing K702; Wing R2407; Wing R2408; ESTC R3442	4,550,109	2,142

out in Barbary betwixt Muley Xequy King of Fez and Muley Sidan his younger Brother both Mahometans in which War the younger forced the elder to flie his Country and to come and crave Aid from Philip King of Spain But the unfortunate loss of Don Sebastian King of Portugal was a good President for the Spaniard not to trust in barbarous Kings without good assurance He treated with the Barbarian and promised him Succours with an hundred thousand Duckats to return to Alarache a place which held for him where by Money or other Practises he should draw unto him as many Souldiers as he could and that for the safety of the Succours that he should give him he should put Alarache or Arrache into his Hands This Arrache is a strong Town in the Realm of Fez in the Province of Algar seated upon the Ocean at the Mouth of the River of Lucus whereon part of it is built and the other part upon the Ocean It hath a goodly Port and hard to take for that it is defended by a Fort in the which the Kings of Fez do usually entertain a Garison of three hundred light Horse and three hundred Harquebusiers for that the Portugals and Castilians hold in a manner all the Sea Towns of the Provinces of Habat and Erif where they have great Garisons This Province is from the River of Nocor along the Mediterranean Sea unto the straight of Gibralter the other is upon the Ocean from the said straight unto the River Lucus in the which the King of Spain holdeth at this day the strong Towns of Tanger Arzilla and others According to the former accord the Barbarian returned to Arrache with his Money in one of the King of Spain's Ships to whom in a short time repaired many of his Friends and Servants The Spaniard in the mean time having prepared a Fleet of a great number of Gallies and Ships and embarqued ten thousand Souldiers therein he gave the command thereof unto the Ma●quess of Saint Germaine who arrived on the twentieth of November in the Evening at the Port of Arrache and there rode at Anchor all the Night The next day in the Morning the Marquess calling all the Captains to a Council imparting unto them his Design for to force Arrache in case that the Moorish King did not keep his Promise they gave him assurance that they would carry themselves like unto brave and valiant Souldiers But see what happened The King of Fez having no means to go from his word seeing the Spaniard so strong as he might well force it many of his Followers and People fearing to fall under the Power of Spain they would have abandoned him but having the Governour of the Castle at his Devotion he thrust out the Garison and delivered the Keys himself unto the Marquess of Saint Germain Upon the first bruit that the Spaniards were entred into the Castle all the Inhabitants ran to Arms and thinking to resist them after that many of them had ended their days valiantly during three hours Combat they were forced to yield unto the Marquess who presently planted the Cross and Arms of Castile upon all the Towers and Steeples Thus this strong Town which the Castilians and Portugals had so long desired and whereby the Inhabitants received a great ruine is in the end fallen under the Domination of their King. The News of this Exploit being brought into Spain pleased the King much and the People made bone-fires for joy these are the Alterations of times The Moors in old time were wont to over-run Spain and now the Spaniards take their Pleasures in Mauritania About the end of this year News came to Constantinople of the great Wars which had been between the Uncle and the Nephew by the death of the Great Cham of the Tartars the Son who during his Fathers Life time had continued at Constantinople as an Hostage and was now sent back into his Country by the Sultan Achmat thinking to enjoy his Fathers Estate his Uncle Brother to the deceased Cham practised to seize upon the Crown but either of them having drawn an Army of 60000 Men together in the end they joyned battel whereas after the slaughter of 40000 Men upon the place the Son had the Victory and by that means obtained the Crown of Tartaria I will conclude this year 1610 with the Relation of a particular Business to shew the greedy desire of the Turks to get by any unjust means whatsoever and their Infidelity and Falshood to say and swear any thing for Bribes Some years before one Master Willoughby an English Gentleman having rigged up a Ship for war into the Levant he came into Algier in Barbary to sell his prize where at that time one Solyman Catania was Bassa This Ship was suddenly seised on and rifled by the command of this Bassa upon no other Subject but that the Bassa pretended this Ship had burnt a Caramousal of his which in truth the Bassa himself had caused to be set on Fire that under colour thereof he might seise upon the Ship and Goods Master Willoughby went to Constantinople and there made his complaint to Sir Henry Lilloe then Ambassador for the English but yet could get no satisfaction whereupon he returned into England and obtained Letters from his Majesty to the Grand Seignior and to Sir Thomas Glover then Ambassador residing at Constantinople which having received he went presently to the Chimacham who was Lieutenant to Murath Bassa the Grand Visier he being then imployed in the Wars against the Persian The Chimacham having read these Letters would not suffer them to be delivered to the Grand Seignior promising to do Justice upon Solyman Catania whom he discharged from his Place and sent for him to Constantinople who being come and called in question he denied the Fact Master Willoughby having no certain proof of his loss suborned one Ofish Bassa a Turk who had been at Mecha and was therefore held a very holy man who set a Brother of his to procure false Witnesses upon promise to have the tenth part of what should be recovered The Witnesses being ready to swear to his Assertion Solyman Catania hearing their Oath compounded with Master Willoughby and gave him four or five thousand Dollars so the business ended Which shews the Corruption of the Turks and that the holiest of them for Money will not stick to bear false Witness and take false Oaths This year 1610 the City of Constantinople was wonderfully afflicted with the Plague the which dispersed it self over all and crept into the Grand Seignior's Seraglio wherein one of his Sons died of that Infection whereupon the Grand Seignior was forced to retire for his safety and to pa●s the remainder of the Summer in his Palace or Seraglio of Darut Bassa about a League and a half distant from the City this violent Contagion did so rage in Constantinople for the space of five Months as there were numbred two

strangle them as he was performing his Command aided with a few of his Carnifices to carry away the Princes they cried out the Pages running to the noise and incouraged by the Casliaraga who had some Suspition without further Examination killed the Capiaga now almost every Order having risen against their own Head. That Night they sent secretly to the Janizaries and Spahies to inform them what they had done and in the Mor●ing early hanged his Body in the Hippodrome for a publick spectacle The Souldiers returned in Fury to the Court in favour of the Pages and demanded Justice against those that had consented to this wicked order which had made an end of all the Ottoman race only this Mustapha being left alive who was so holy a Saint that he would not People the World with Sinners nor endure any Woman near him The innocent King protested he knew nothing of this purpose and if such command were procured it was gotten by subreption and he was easily believed But his Mother another Livia and the new Visier Daout Bassa who had her Daughter to Wife were vehemently suspected It was a day of Divan or Council but the Souldiers would suffer none until they had an account of this Treason The Visier denied all the Mother was a Woman and hidden in the House yet it is very likely they both were guilty to uphold and secure their own Authority it being rumoured that the Visier determined to place subditiously in the room of the Elder Prince his own Son and very like him and so to govern Mustapha for a time and by his remove to establish himself and his race for ever But now somewhat must be done to appease the People therefore Daout Bassa was degraded from his Office and one Huzein Bassa newly arrived from the Government of Cairo advanced to his place with promise of further Examination But the fury once over there was no great search nor discovery made for perhaps the Sultans Chequines quieted the matter The new Visier was a man without Friends yet very rich of a stubborn and obstinate Nature reported just in his ways but peremptory and unflexible Audax ferox ac prout animum intendit pravus aut industrius eadem vi one from whom all men might expect much good or much ill he begun his Government roughly and undertook to punish Insolencies early and professed a Reformation or to be a Sacrifice A man fit for those times that were desperate for the worst was that he must at last endure their Fury In the mean time he procured a little awe and restored the face of Justice yet it was thought it could not last long the Ghost of Osman would not be at rest until there were some Parentalia made unto him The Nature of the Visier was unsupportable but if he prevailed and were once setled he resolved anew to change the King and lay on Obligation upon the Brethren of Osman for he did never think himself secure under a man governed by an insolent Woman dominandi avida desirous to rule And what assurance could he have in that Prince in whom there was neither Judgment nor Hatred but as it was infused And though the particulars could not be foreseen nor where the sore would break out yet the whole body was sick their King being mentis inops an Ideot and the next in expectation a Child unfit for Action and all the great Men and Souldiers decay'd mutined and corrupted In the mean time the Duke of Sbarasky came near unto the Borders of the Turkish Empire and ignorant of those great changes which had hapned sent a Servant with a Letter to the dead Visier Delauir Bassa with whom only the Poles had treaty The contents were That the King of Poland had sent him to conclude a Peace upon such Conditions as were agreed upon by the Visier and the Commissioners of Poland signed on both parts but that it was reported upon the Death of the Grand Seignior that the new Government was varied from some of them and that he had no other Instructions to treat anew but if he would give his word to the English Ambassador that there was no alteration in the intents of Peace he was ready to set forward on his Journey This Letter received by the new Visier was Greek to him who was lately come from Cairo and understood no article nor piece of the business which was so secretly carried by Delauir Bassa that Sultan Osman and he being dead there was no man had so much as a Copy or knew the substance of that agreement so that the Visier giving good Words ashamed to confess his Ignorance promised all things but knew not what to write in particular answer and therefore was at a stand The Messenger nevertheless importuned a dispatch the which he had in general terms and so returned again to the Duke his Master upon the Confines With this Nuntio the Duke wrote to Sir Thomas Roe and being very doubtful to intangle himself in this unsetled Government desired him both to counsel him and to tell the Visier that he would not advance unless he might receive such assurance of safety and publick Faith as that he might engage his credit to him hoping thereby to have both assistance and witness in all his proceeding Which gave the Visier occasion to intreat the English Ambassador both to promise for the good usage of the Duke and to hasten him and also to inform himself by him of the substance of the Treaty of Chotyn which being by him undertaken it turned to the great advantage of both especially of the Peace it self The seventeenth of Iune in the Morning the Prince Coreskie one of the Lords of Poland taken Prisoner in the late War recommended by his Majesty of Great Britain who had formerly made an escape from the Turks Captivity was strangled in the Prison after two years of durance This put all into murmure and deep consideration for what politick end this should be done even when they themselves desired a Peace with the Pole and yet did that which might utterly break the same but it seemed they were at that time either carried with a brutish Fury or that the Prince was betrayed from home by intimation that his remuant Nature would never suffer the Peace long to continue between the Crown of Poland and the Grand Seignior The Visier who caused this Polack Prince to be strangled upon some spleen towards the Aga or chief Captain of the Janizaries took this occasion to cast the fault on him and to cashiere him and sent him to the Islands to be strangled and gave order to murder some other Bassaes and Officers and that way being made to depose the Emperour Mustapha to set up Morat the Child and Brother of Osman many being of his party Whereupon the Souldiers rose all in Arms at the Seraglio taking the alarm at the medling with their Aga rescued their Captain and the rest and

which he assured him to be no better but that if he thought it good he might bring them to such order and agreement as he would himself Upon whose perswasion calling in the Governour Vallier after he had rigorously reproved his rashness said unto him That forasmuch as he had once given his word if he would pay the charges of the Army he was content to let them go with Bag and Baggage otherwise he would discharge but two hundred Whereat the Governour greatly moved answered That that was not according to his last promise unto the Knights before sent But when he saw it would be no better he requested him that he might again return to the Castle to know the minds of the rest which the false Bassa would by no means grant but only permitted him to send back the Knight that he had brought with him to make report of these hard News to the besieged as for the Governour he was sent to the Gallies with Irons on his Heels When they of the Castle understood what had passed betwixt the Bassa and the Governour they began exceedingly to fear the mischief then at hand yet took no other resolution but to return the said Knight to the Bassa to know whether they should expect from him no better answer Who as soon as he was come before him the Captain of the Castle was brought in of whom the Bassa asked Which of the two he would chuse either to pay the expences of the Army or else both he and all the rest to remain his Prisoners Whereunto the Governour answered That a Slave had no other authority than that which by his Master was given him and that having lost besides his liberty the power to command if any thing were yet reserved in him could not counsel him to command others to agree unto any thing but that which was concluded with them which were before sent Which thing the Bassa hearing for fear that such a resolute answer should come to the knowledge of the besieged and cause them to become desperate having taken counsel with his other Captains he took the Governour by the Hand and with a smiling and dissembling Countenance told him That he would without any doubt let them depart as he had promised and that therefore without fearing any thing he should cause them all to come out of the Castle But the Governour because he had been before deceived would not trust to his word but said unto him That he might command him that was come from the Castle for that he knew they would now do never a whit the more for him So the Bassa turning towards the other Knight commanded him forthwith to go unto them in the Castle and to cause them to come forth swearing again as before by the Head of his great Lord and his own That they should all be delivered and set at liberty according to the conventions first agreed upon Which the Knight believing went to report to them this good news which they received with such joy that without further care or consideration of their mishap so near they ran in haste with their Wives Children and best Moveables striving who should first get out But they were no sooner issued but they were by the Enemies spoiled of all they had and taken Prisoners part of the Knights were sent to the Gallies and the rest to the Bassa Who being by the Governour put in remembrance of his Faith twice given answered That there was no Faith to be kept with Dogs and that they had first violated their Oath with his great Lord unto whom at the giving over of the Rhodes they had as he said sworn never more to bear Arms against the Turks The Castle was forthwith taken and spoiled and about two hundred Moors of that Country that had served the Knights cut in pieces and thereupon a great Peal of Ordnance discharged with great cries and shouts in sign of their Victory Thus the strong Castle and ancient City of Tripolis in Barbary was delivered unto the Turks the fifteenth day of August in the year 1551. Whilst the Bassa lay at this Siege the Lord of Arramont who had many years lien Embassador from Francis the French King at Constantinople and was now sent again by Henry the Second came to the Turks Camp being requested so to do by the great Master of the Rhodes to have disswaded the Bassa from that Siege wherein he nothing prevailed Yet now grieved to see how the faithless Turk contrary to his Oath most villanously intreated the Governour and the other Knights lying at his feet as Men half desperate was so bold as to put him in mind of his promise confirmed by his Oath which if he would not keep that yet at the least according to his own voluntary offer he would release two hundred of them but he excused himself as before saying That no Faith was to be kept with Dogs which had first broken their own Faith. Yet afterwards he condescended that two hundred of the eldest and such as were most unfit for service amongst whom was comprehended the Governour and certain other old Knights should be set at liberty who were forthwith sent aboord the French Embassadors Gallies and by him transported to Malta where they were but hardly welcome for that they had so cowardly surrendred a place which they might much longer have defended The next day after the Castle was delivered which was the sixteenth of August the proud Bassa for joy of this Victory made a solemn Dinner whereunto he invited the French Embassador and Vallier the late Governour which they refused not to come unto in hope to recover some more Prisoners This great Feast for the more Magnificence was kept in the Castle-Ditch against the Breach where were set up two stately Pavillions the one for the Bassa and the other for the Embassador and his Company where he was honourably Feasted with wonderful plenty both of Flesh and Fish and good Wines which they had found in the Castle which service was done with Musick of divers sorts and Officers in number above a hundred apparelled for most part in long Gowns of fine Cloth of Gold Tuffed or Fringed and the other of Velvet or Damask The Bassa was no sooner set down but all the Ordnance of the Fleet were discharged with such a noise and thundring that it seemed the Heavens and Skies did shake The Table being taken up the Embassador and the late Governour Vallier entred into the Pavillion of the Bassa and beside the two hundred Men which he had promised obtained twenty more upon the Embassadors promise That he should for them cause to be released thirty Turks taken at Malta at the landing of the Army there The Turks having in their hands an ancient Gunner of the Castle called Iohn de Chabas born in Daulphine to the end that this triumphant Feast should not be unfurnished of some cruel sacrifice of the Christian Blood