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A19384 Thomas Coriate traueller for the English vvits: greeting From the court of the Great Mogul, resident at the towne of Asmere, in easterne India. Coryate, Thomas, ca. 1577-1617. 1616 (1616) STC 5811; ESTC S108719 14,255 51

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Temple or in some Barbers house neere to the temple 5. Item to M. Iohn Donne the author of two most elegant Latine Bookes Pseudo martyr and Ignatij Conclaue of his abode either in the Strād or elsewhere in London I thinke you shall bee easily informed by the meanes of my friend M. L. W. 6. Item to M. Richard Martin Counsellor at his chamber in the middle Temple but in the Terme time scarce else 7. Item to M. Christopher Brooke of the city of Yorke Councellor at his chamber in Lincolnes Inne or neere it 8. Item to M. Iohn Hoskins alias Acquinoctial Pastitrust of the citie of Hereford Councellor at his chamber in the middle Temple 9. Item to M. George Garrat of whose beeing you shal vnderstand by Master Donne aforesaide 10 Item to M. VVilliam Hackwell at his chamber in Lincolnes Inne 11 Item to Master Beniamin Iohnson the Poet at his chamber at the Blacke Friars 12. Item to Maist. Iohn Bond my countreyman chiefe Secretarie vnto my Lorde Chancellour 13 Item to M. Doctor Mocket resident perhappes in my Lord of Canterburies house at Lambeth where I left him 14 Item to M. Samuel Purkas the great collector of the Lucubrations of sundry classical authors for the description of Asia Africa and America Pray commend mee vnto him and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maister Cooke by the same token that he gaue me a description of Constantinople and the Thracius Bosphorus written in Latine by a Frenchman called Petrus Gillius which Booke when I carried once in an afternoone vnder mine arme in walking betwixt our English Ambassadors house in Pera on the opposite side to Constantinople and the Flemish Ambassadors house I lost it very vnfortunately to my great griefe neuer found it againe 15 Item to M. Inigo Iones there where Maister Martin shall direct you 16 Item to M. Iohn Williams the Kings Goldat his house in Cheapside 17 Item to M. Hugh Holland at his lodging where M. Martin shall direct you 18 Item to M. Robert Bing at Yongs ordinarie neere the Exchange 19 Item to M. William Stansby the Printer of my Crudities and Crambe at his house in Thames street also to his childlesse wife 20 Item to all the Stationers in Paules Church-yard but especially those by name Mast. Norton Mast. Waterson M. Mathew Lownes M. Edward Blount and M. Barrat c. God bless thēall me too that I may one day after the finall consummation of my fastidious peregrinations in the world see and salute them all in health and welfare Per me Thomam Coryatum Odcombiensem PRay remember my verie humble dutie to my Lord Byshop of Bathe and Welles generous M. Doctor Montacute and tell his Lordship that before I returne towards the Persian court out of this Orientall India I resolue by Gods permission to write such a Letter vnto him after I haue throughly surueighed so much of this country as I meane to do as shall not bee vnworthy to bee read to the Kings most excellent Maiesty You are like to heare newes of his Lordships abode in Kings street neere VVestminster A Distich to the Traueller All our choice wits all see thou hast engrost The doubt yet rests if they or thou haue most FINIS To his Louing Mother BY this present Letter I am like to minister vnto you the occasion of two contrary matters the one of comfort the other of discomfort of comfort because I haue by the propitious assistance of the omnipotent Iehouah performed such a notable voyage of Asia the greater with purchase of great riches of experience as I doubt whether any English man this hundred yeares haue done the like hauing seene and very particularly obserued all the cheefest things in the Holy-land called in times past Palaestina as Ierusalem Samaria Nazareth Bethlehem Iericho Emaus Bethania the Dead Sea called by the Ancients Lacus Asphaltities where Sodome and Gomorrha once stood since that many famous and renowned Cities and countries Mesopotamia in the which I entred by the passage of the riuer Euphrates that watered Paradise in which the Citty of Vr where Abraham was borne both the Mediaes the higher and the lower Parthia Armenia Persia through al which I haue trauailed into the Eastern India being now at the Court of the great Mogull at a Towne called Asmere the which from Ierusalem is the distance of two thousand and seauen hundred miles and haue traced all this tedious way afoote with no small toile of bodye and discomfort because that beeing so exceeding farre from my sweet and most delicious Natiue soyle of England you will doubt perhaps how it is possible for me to returne home againe but I hope I shall quickly remoue from you that opinion of discomfort if at the least you shall conceiue any such because I would haue you know that I alwayes go safely in the company of Carauans from place to place A Carauan is a word much vsed in all Asia by which is vnderstood a great multitude of people trauelling together vpon the way with Camels Horses Mules Asses c. on which they carry Merchandizes from one country to another and Tents and Pauillions vnder which instead of houses they shelter themselues in open fields being furnished also with all necessary prouision and conuenient implements to dresse the same in which Carauans I haue euer most securely passed betwixt Ierusalem and this Towne a iourney of fifteene months and odde dayes whereof foure wanting a VVeeke spent in Aleppo and two and fiue od dayes spent in Spahan the Metropolitan Citty of Persia where the Persian King most commonly keepeth his Court the occasion of my spending of sixe moneths of the foresaide fifteene in those two Citties was to waite for an opportunity of Carauans to Trauaile withall which a traueller is not sure to finde presently when he is ready to take his iourney but must with patience expect a conuenient time and the Carauan in which I trauelled betwixt Spahan and India contained 2000. Camels 1500. horses 1000. and odde Mules 800. Asses and sixe thousand people Let this therefore deer Mother minister vnto you a strong hope of my happy returne into England Notwithstand all these lines for prouision for your Funerall I hope for to see you aliue and sound in body minde about foure yeares hence to kneele before you with effusion of teares for ioy Sweet mother pray let not this wound your heart that I say four yeares hence not before I humbly beseech you euen vpon the knees of my heart with all submissiue supplications to pardon me for my long absence for verily I haue resolued by the fauour of the supernal powers to spend 4. entire yeares more before my returne and so to make it a Pilgrimage of 7. yeares to the end I may very effectually and profitably contemplate a great part of this worldly fabricke determining by Gods special help to go from India into the countrey of Scythia now called Tartaria to