Their departure * Chief Captain or master of the Janizaries * Admiral Captain Bashawe His place Aga of the Janizaries place * Captains of the Janizaries The Kings private and awful window Ambassadors Audience * These are horsemen but of a higher rank then Spahees the word signifieth set a part or different Ambassador entertained at the Divan A thousand crowns allowed for the entertainment Master of the ceremonies His admission to the presence His kissing the kings band * The true word is Terjuman which signifieth an interpreter His departure Vesting Recompence All Ambassadors but the Venetian at the Kings charge * Ten aspers make six pence One Lord the rest slaves * This word signifieth an expeller of princes but some will have it to come of Pawd and shooh which is an expeller of injury or injustice but amongst the Turks it is used for an Emperor and they give the same title to the Emperor of Germanie calling him Nemâ—…s Pawdishawh * This is a Persian word and signifieth a man of blood or one which causeth blood but used for King Two thousand within the kings gate 11 or 1200 〈◊〉 Virgins Virgins made Turks and how Kahiyah Cadun the mother of the maids Their manner of life Chambers Beds Baths â—…ewing and chests Schooling and mistresses Recreations The Kings coming to them His choice Preparatives Bed-chamber rites Reward Sultana Queen Her allowance Other Sultanas The Queen â—…hanged Nuptial riteâ—… The Queenâ—… joynture Guard of black Eunuchs * Kuzlar Agha signifieth master of the Virgins * Barges Canvas-way The Kings daughters sisters c. Portion chest Slaves and Eunuchs * Treasury * Store Bill of dowrie Privatenesse Visitingsâ—… They are their husbands masters * A Dagger Divorce What becomes of the other women * That is 9. d. or 12. d. a day Manner of their pay * That is between 3. and 4. li. ster. a day Clothes and jewels The women servants allowance * A Pike is 〈◊〉 of a yard * Their great feast Byram-gifts Sultanas presents Frugality The daughter preferred before the mother Jewesse women Their arts Their falsedealing â—…ll successe Jews counâ—…ellors to great men Punishmentâ—… of the women by blowes By expulsion By death Prevention of lust * The word signifieth unexpert or untutored youths 6. or 700. Agiam oglans Agiam oglans are Renegados or children renouncing the Christian â—…aith How they are taken How used apparelled Election of the best Their circumcâ—…sion Schooling The rest how disposed * Milites emeriti the word is derived from Otooracks which signifieth to sit down Book and pension Agiam oglans of the Seraglio how used * Barges * Heads of the companies of Agiam oglans Oda Bashaws wages Government * These and the Oda Bashawes are of equall authority * Bustangee Bashawes steward Possibility of preferment * Barge Some Turks among them * True believers Their rooms Their Diet * Buttry Their sleeping * A word commmanding absence and retiring never uâ—…ed but for the King None may see the kings women The Janizaries are made of Agiam oglans in other Seminaries Other uses of them * This word signiâ—…ieth youths within and they are so called because they are reserved for the service of the Kings person Itchoglans Turks hardly admitted Noble captives Eunâ—…chs cruel Punishments Their number Discipline in religion and civility * Oda signifieth a chamber or room First school First lesson is silence Second reverence Third to wâ—…e and reâ—…d aâ—…d speak Turkish and say the 〈◊〉 prayers by heart Book or check-roll Second â—…hool â—…ourth lesson Rhâ—…rick Peâ—…sian Arabian and Tartarianâ—… tongues Fifth bodily exercises Third school Sixth horsmanship and activity Seventh Trades Meanly clothed whilst they are in the three first schools Punishments Closenesse Bed-chambers Sewing in leather c. They take their cognomina from Trades Tryal of Religion Fourth School Preferments Punishments cease Neatnesse Gesture Waâ—…ting Great Turks Table Exercises * A kinde of running at base on hors-back darting lances one at another Gifts Embassages â—…onferred * Moldavia Vassal Princes * Displaced or turned out of office Their going forth of the Seraglio to the chief offices * Cairo * Aleppo * Damascus * The word signifieth a familiar talker or discourser Musahib A politick course * Lord of Graecia or of Natolia Other office â—…rder in â—…ccession Presents from great persons whilst they stay Coming abroad and visitings Capee Aga visited The power of the Capee Aga * Jesters * Dumb men Discourse by signes A further use of them Mutes strangle men in the Seraglio Mutes can write White Eunuchs Four principal Eunuchs in the Seraglio The first and chiefest the Capee Aga or chamber-2 Treasurer of the house 3. Master of the wardrobe 4. The keeper of the house Capee Aghas priviledges His pension * About 3. livre. sterl. †They are called Sultanas becaâ—…se they are coyned at Constantinople where the Sultan lives they are worth about 7. s. 10. d. apieie Presents The Treasurer Treasure 240. thousand pounds ster. Outward treasury Houshold treasurers office Master of the wardrobe Busie imployment His pension * 50. s. sterl. at 20 aspars the shilling Keeper of the Seraglio His liberty * 40. s. sterl. Pension Differing priviledges 200 Eunuch in the Seraglio â—…heir gelding Their education in the four Odas Imployment Their advancement Fidelity Goods of the deâ—…eased * An officer which 〈◊〉 the esâ—…ates of the dead for the King The Bezisten a large four-square building where the best and richest wareâ—… are bought and sold No fear of pestilence Black Eunuchs Their education Kuzlar Aga Their pension Their names Negro girles Fromwhence they como Education Esteemed most for uglinesse * The Turks have no other word for a blabber lip then Areb dodack which â—…gnifieth a Moors lip Black Eunuchs priviledges Liberty limited Employment No white man may come amongst the women The Physicians visiting the sick women Strange nicenesse * Pâ—…tion or drink or sirrup Physick mean Curing in the old Seraglio The Kings sons by the Queen Mothers 〈◊〉 Circumcision solemnity Hojah or school-master The Kings daughters * The word signifieth a Kings son in the Persian tongue An Eunuch his overseer Magnesia his residence His commission Victualâ—… and cooks * Cooks The Kings kitchin and meals His sitting at meat Not carved His bread No knife nor fork Two spoons Sirrups No salt nor antepast * A Tart. Bason and Ewer His diet * Little pies * It is an Arabian word and signifieth drink of these Sherbets there are very many sorts Drinking once No words at meals according to this saying Evel tazawm anden kelawm first victuals and then words Mutes and jesters â—…is favour Dishes and covers of gold Yellow Purcelane for the Ramazan or Lent The remainders of his meat * Gentlemen waâ—…ters His sporting with his Buffons The Capee Agas dâ—…et * From one to another or from hand to hand Diet for the Oda youths Queen and Sultanas diet Queens service in copper The King with his women Snow mixed with
their several places This room standeth in a litle Court curiously adorned with many very delicate fountains and hath within it a * Sofa spread with very sumptuous Carpets of gold and of Crimson velvet embriodered with costly pearls upon which the Grand Signor sitteth and about the Chamber instead of Hangings the walls are covered with very fine white stones which having divers sorts of leaves and flowers artificially wrought and bak't upon them do make a glorious shew There is also a little room adjoyning unto it the whole inside whereof is covered with silver plate hatch'd with gold and the floor is spread with very rich Persian carpets of silk and gold There are belonging to the said rooms and lodgings of the King very fair gardens of all sorts of flowers and fruits that are to be found in those parts with many very pleasant walks enclosed with high Cypresse-trees on each side and marble fountains in such abundance that almost every walk hath two or three of them such great delight doth the Grand-Signor and all Turks in general take in them Nor indeed doth a Turk at any time shew himself to be so truly pleased and satisfied in his senses as he doth in the summer time when he is in a pleasant garden For he is no sooner come into it if it be his own or where he thinks he may be bold but he puts off his uppermost Coat and layes it aside and upon that his Turbant then turns up his sleeves and unbuttoneth himself turning his breast to the winde if there be any if not he fans himself or his servant doth it for him Again sometimes standing upon an high bank to take the fresh air holding his arms abroad as a Cormorant sitting upon a rock doth his wings in sun-shine after a storm courting the weather and sweet air calling it his soul his life and his delight ever and anon shewing some notable signes of contentment nor shall the garden during his pleasant distraction be termed other then Paradise with whose flowers he stuffs his bosom and decks his Turbant shaking his head at their sweet savors and sometimes singing a song to some pretty flower by whose name peradventure his Mistress is called and uttering words of as great joy as if at that instant she her self were there present And one bit of meat in a garden shall do him more good in his opinion then the best fare that may be else where Besides the aforesaid rooms which are very many and serve only for the kings own person there is the womens lodging which is in a manner like a Nunnery wherin the Queen the other * Sultana's and all the kings women and slaves do dwell And it hath within it all the commodity that may be of beds chambers Dining rooms * Bagno's and all other kindes of building necessary for the use and service of the women which dwell therein There are likewise divers rooms and lodgings built apart from all those aforesaid which serve both for the principal officers and those of mean degree and also for the basest sort and are so well furnished that not any want can be discerned of ought that may be thought requisite and convenient for them Amongst which there are two large buildings the one the Hazineh or private Treasury and the other the kings Wardrope These are two very handsome buildings and secure by reason of the thicknesse of their walls and strength of their iron windows they have each of them an iron door kept shut continually and that of the Hazineh sealed with the kings seal In the said Seraglio there are rooms for Prayer Baths Schools Butteries Kitchins Distilling rooms places to swim in places to run horses in places for wrestling butts to shoot at and to conclude all the commodity that may be had in a princes Palace for things of that nature At the first entrance into the Seraglio there is a very large and stately Gate in the Porch whereof there is alwayes a guard of about fifty men with their weapons by them as pieces bowes and swords Having passed this gate through which the Bashawes and other great men may passe on horseback there is a very spacious Court almost a quarter of an Italian mile in length and very nigh as much in breadth and on the left hand in the Court near unto the Gate there is a place to shelter the people and horses in rainie weather on the right hand there is an Hospitall for such as fall sick in the Seraglio in which there are all things necessary It is kept by an Eunuch who hath many servants under him to attend upon the diseased Again on the left hand there is a very large place in which they keep their Timber and Carts and such like things to have them near at hand for the use and service of the Seraglio over the which there is a great Hall where are hanged up many weapons of Antiquity as Cimitars Javelins Bowes Head-pieces Gauntlets c. which they keep to lend the Souldiers and others for to accompany the Grand Signor or the * Chief Vizir when they make any solemn entry into the City of Constantinople Having passed through the aforesaid Court there is a second Gate at which the Bashawes alight somewhat lesse then the former but more neat and costlie under which there is also a stately Porch where there is likewise a Guard of Capoochees provided with weapons as they at the first Gate are thence there is another Court lesser then the former but far more beautifull and pleasant by reason of the delicate fountains and rowes of Cypresse trees and the green grasse-plots in which the * Gazels do feed and bring forth young but in this Court the Grand Signor only excepted every one must go on foot On both sides of the said Gate there is an open Gallery underset with pillars without which the ‖ Chiaushes the †Janizaries and the * Spahees do use to stand in their severall ranks very well apparelled at such times as there is a great †Divan held for the coming of any Ambassador to kisse the Grand Signors hand In the said Court on the right hand are all the Kitchins being in number nine all which have their several offices and Larders belonging unto them The first and greatest is the Kings The second the Queens The third the Sultana's The fourth the ‖ Capee Agha's The fifth for the Divan The sixth for the * Agha's the Kings Gentlemen The seventh for the meaner sort of Servants The eighth for the Women The ninth for the under Officers of the Divan and such as attend there to do what belongeth unto them in their several places On the left side of the Court is the Kings stable of about thirty or thirty five very gallant horses which his Majestie keepeth
of worth and goodnesse brought in by the Capee Aghas means who is chief Chamberlain with the Kings consent but this happeneth but very seldom and is effected with great difficulty For the ancient institution was that the Itchoglans should alwayes be made of Christian Renegado's and captives onely of the most civil and noblest that could be found Wherefore when in the wars either by sea or land it happens that any youth is taken who is discovered to be of noble parents and comely personage or if any such voluntarily come and offer himself to become Turk as divers have done in hope of advancement he is presently markt and set apart for the Grand Signor and is so soon as he is thought capable and apprehensive instructed in matters of government being as it were ordained for great employments Now such are of very great esteem for the Turks themselves affirm that noblenesse of birth cannot but produce the most vertuous and generous spirits especially when it is seconded and accompanied with good education which is professed in the Seraglio where there is great severity used in all the orders of discipline the government of them being in the hands of masters who are white Eunuchs for the most part and very severe and cruel in all their actions insomuch that their proverb is that when one cometh out of that Seraglio and hath run through all the orders of it he is without all question the most mortified and patient man in the world For the blowes which they suffer and the fastings which are commanded them for every small fault are to be admired nay some of them are so cruelly handled that although their time of being in the Seraglio be almost expired and that they should in few years come forth to be made great men yet not being able to endure such cruelty any longer they procure to be turned out contenting themselves with the title and small pay of a Spahee or a Mutaferraka rather then be so often punished and made weary of their lives in evpectation of great preferments The number of these Itchoglans is uncertain For there are sometimes more and sometimes lesse of them but as I have heard they are commonly about a hundred the Grand Signor being very willing to entertain all such as are given him of the aforesaid quality be they never so many provided they be young when they are first brought unto him The course that is taken with them so soon as they come into the Seraglio is admirable and nothing resembling the barbarisme of Turks but beseeming men of singular vertue and discipline For they are exceeding well tutored and daily taught aswel good fashion and comely behaviour as they are instructed in the rites and ceremonies of the Mâ—…ometan law or whatsoever else may tend to the enriching of their mindes And for this purpose they have roomsâ—… which the Turks call * Odas but we may more properly in regard of the use they are put unto call them Schools of which there are four the one taking degrees from the other Now into the first they all come when they are but children where the primary precept they learn is silence then their personall postâ—…res against such time as they shall be about the king which is that they hold down their heads and look downwards with their hands before them joyned a crosse all which betokeneth singular reverence Then by a wâ—…e Eunuch who is chief over all the other masters and ushers they are set to learn to write and read to practise the Turkish tongue and are taught their prayers in the Arabian tongue by heart And in this Odâ—… they are both morning and evening so diligently followed and carefully lookt â—…to that by report it is a thing of admiration now in this first school they usâ—…ally stay about five or six years and such as are dull and hard of apprehension stay longer But by the way before I come to the next Oda I may not omit to tell you that so soon as they are given to the King before they are of the first Oda they are registred by their Turkish names in a book and the names of their native countreyes set down with them the Grand Signor allowing them a small pension of four or five aspars a day the copy of which book is also sent to the great Defterdar that every one of them may in due time that is quarterly have the aforesaid pension sent unto them From the first Oda they are removed to the second where by more learned and sufficient Tutors then the former they are taught the Persian Arabian and Tartarian tongues and take great pains in reading divers Authors that they may be the better able to speak the Turkish elegantly which cannot be done without some knowledge and good insight in those three tongues upon which the Turkish chiefly doth depend and indeed their is found a great difference between their speech and that of the vulgar sort Here also they begin to learn to wrestle to shoot in the bowe to throw the iron mace to tosse the pike to run and to handle their weapons c. And in these exercises in their severall orders and several places they spend their hours being severely punished if they shall in any wise grow negligent They spend likewise other five or six yeers in this Oda whence being become men strong and fit for any thing they are removed to the third Oda where forgetting nothing of what they learned before but greatly encreasing their knowledge they also learn to ride and how to behave themselves in the wars Moreover every one of them according as he is thought fit for it here learns a trade necessary for the service of the Kings person viz. to shave to make up a Turbant to fold up apparel handsomely to pair nails to attend at the Bagno to keep hawks and land-spaniels to be Sewers Quiries of the stable targetbearers to wait at table and the like as hereafter I shall shew so that having been in these offices a few yeers they become men able to teach others But whilst they are in these three schools they are but meanly apparelled having yearly their two vests of Cloth somewhat fine but their linnen is such as the Agiam oglans wear The punishments also which they suffer in this Oda are extream for their masters often give them an hundred blowes with a cudgel upon the soles of their feet and buttoâ—…ks insomuch that they leave them ofâ—…entimes for dead Neicher are they permitted so long as they continue in these three Odas to be familiar with any but themselves and that with great modesty too so that it is a matter of great difficulty for any strâ—…nger to speak with them or see them which if it be obtained it must be by expresse leave from the Capee Aga who causeth an
buyers of it do commonly send it to some great personages for it is extraordinary good and so artificially piled up in baskets by the * Bustangees that for the beauty of it it oftentimes proves more acceptable then a gift of greater price The furniture of the kitchens in the Seraglio as kettles caldrons pots and skillets c. are almost all of brasse and they are so neatly kept and of such a largenesse that there cannot be a braver sight of that nature insomuch that one would rather think that they stood there to be sold then that they should be so often used as they are And as for the dishes they are all of copper tinned over but so often new furbished scowred and trimmed that they being daily used it is wonderful to behold their continual brightnesse And of these dishes they have a great number but the Grand Signor sustains great losse by them For their being such a multitude of people served daily from the kitchens both within and without especially upon the four Divan dayes there are so many of them stollen that the Defterdars weighing the losse and charge of the said dishes have oftentimes been almost resolved to make them all of silver and so consign them to the custodie of the Sewers and Butlers who should from time to time give account of them and look the better to them and not to suffer every ordinary fellow to carry away his meat in them as they do in the other copper ones but finding it a thing so costly not any Defterdar as yet hath performed it nor adventured to begin onely have discoursed of it and approved of that course as a remedy to prevent their usuall pilfering The wood which is spent in the aforesaid kitchens and in all the Seraglio is an infinite number of weights for at Constantinoâ—…e the wood is all bought and sold by weight and so is almost every thing else there being for the account of the Seraglio which they call Begleek about thirty great * Caramusals which do nothing else at one season of the year but sail into the Black sea there to lade at the Kings woods It is a businesse which costeth the Grand Signor but little or nothing in respect of the worth of it For they have it for the cutting down and as for the bringing and unloading of it it requires little or no charge at all For the said Caramusals are bound to make so many returns in a year for the king and to receive no fraught and the Masters are to see it unladen at the appointed wharfe at their own costs and charges receiving only a discharge in the end from the * Stanbol Aga for that years service but no recompence at all Afterwards they may work for themselves and go whither they please till their turns come again for the year following CHAP. X. Of apparrel bedding sicknesse hospitals inheritance Kings expences recreatious his going abroad receiving of petitions of the Kings stables and Byram solemnities THe Grand Signors apparel is nothing different in fashion from other mens saving in the length of his vests and the richnesse thereof nor are his shoes plated with iron at the heels as other Turks wear them but are raced and painted like childrens shoes with knots and flowers or else they are all white The fashion of his Turbant is all one with that of the Bashawes but he wears plumes and brooches in his and so doth not any Bashawe in the Port except the Uizir Azem and that is upon the day when he makes a solemn shew at his departure for the wars As for his lodging he sleeps upon matteresses of velvet and cloth of gold in the summer in sheets of Shash embrodered with silk sown to the quilts and in the winter betwixt coverlets of Lusernes or of Sables wearing all night a * Gheje-lick or little shash on his head And when he lies alone in his own lodgings he is alwayes watched by the Pages of his chamber by two and two at a time changing their watch every three hours one of them standing at the chamber door and the other by the bed side to cover him in case the clothes should slide off and to be near hand if his Majesty should want any thing or be ill at ease In the same chamber also where he lies there are alwayes two old women that wait with burning torches in their hands which they may not put out till such time as the king is risen out of his bed now the use of these lights is for his Majestie to say over his Beads and for to pray by in case his devotion be stirred up thereto at midnight or at Temcheet namaz which is the time of prayer about two hours before day The habit of his women is much like to that of the men For they wear * Chackshirs and Buskins too and the meaner sort of them have their shoes shod with iron at the heels They likewise sleep as the men do in their linnen breeches and quilted waste-coats having thin and light ones for the summer and more thick and warm ones for the winter The Turks never have any close-stools or such like utensils in their chambers but having necessity they rise and go to the privies made in places apart where there do alwayes stand pots full of water ready that they may wash when they have done For they use no paper in that service as others do holding it not only undecent but an extraordinary absurdity for a Mussulman to put paper to so base a use seeing that both the name of God and the Mahometan Law are written upon it They all put off their Turbants when they go about that businesse and a Janizarie may by no means pisse with his * Uskuf upon his head but having done he must kisse it and so put it on again For they hold the covering of their heads to be as honourable in a manner as the head it self The several stipends which the Grand Signor alloweth to those of the Seraglio of what degree or condition soever the persons be are payed out of the outmost Hazineh and the chief Defterdar who hath a book aswel of the names of the stipendiaries as of their stipends is bound to send once in three moneths to all the Odas in several bags so much money as their pay comes to and there they share it amongst them the like he doth also by the women and the Agiamâ—…glans paying them in good money And against the Byram which is their Carneval he must send them their vests their linnen and such like necessaries of all which he never fails them For if he should disappoint them especially at that time they would so complain against the said Defterdar that it would be his utter overthrow or at the least he should be sure to lose his place such is the Grand Signors
sherbet Eight thousand pound sterl. Comsets and Cheese not used * Leiger Ambassador Order Bread of 3 sorts Meal from Bursia Quanty Constantinople Volo-wheat * Storehouses â—…uantity Pantry allowance Rice and pulse from Alexandria Spice sugar and sweet meats * Tarts Little Spice consumed Egyptian fruits Honey whence * They call them yoâ—…f ka signifying flat * The Turks call them loâ—…kma which signifieth a bit or mouthful * The Turks call it sakâ—…z Ada that is the mastick island because the mastick growes there Oil whence * Governour next in degree to a Beglerbegh Butter from Bogdania c * Boild rice * Storehouses Quantity No fresh butter Little milk eaten Yoghurd sower milk Kaymack Provision of fleâ—…h * So called because the flesh is pressed and made flat How they use it Hanged up and dried 400 Cowes great with calf spent every year to make Basturma Other flesh * Cooks Fish Fruits * Melous * Which is called yemish bazar that is the fruit market The Kings pocket-money * Agiam oglans gardiners The skullery Neatnesse Losse by piâ—…tering Wood and fuel * Ships * An officer of good account which taketh care for the cities provision The word signifieth the master of Stanboll The fashion of the Kings apparel His bedding A shash is the whole piece be it long or short of fine linnen of which the Turbant is made but the name of the stuff as we call ours lawn cambrick holland c. is Telbent whenâ—…e we falsly call that which â—…urk wears a Turbant using the â—…ame of the stuff for the thing made up whereas the true word is Saruck and the Turks themselves so call it it comes from Sarmack which signifieth to winde about or to swathe * Night-attire for the Head Two torchwomen * Breeches from the waste down to the heel Womens habit No close-stools among the men but the women ever when they go to the Haman or Bath carry them along with them No paper used at the privy * They also call it Keâ—…heh that is a Janizaries cap but Uskuf properly signisieth a hood Stipends how paid Every thrâ—… moneths Seraglio heirs Exception Beyt el mawlgee His subtilâ—…y Hospital The Kings expenses * Captains or Generals * Daggers 200000. Sultanas about 80000 pounds sterl. The Queens expenses The Vizirs gifts Mutes howling Their manner of rowing His going out by land Solacks or bowe-men Gratulations and gratifications Petitions preferred * The worlds refuge Proverb * That is the stable wharf or gate The Kings great stable * Chief master of the horse the true word is Emeer-Ahor which signifieth Lord of the stable * Horse-keepers Other stables Stallion horses His nags from Walachia Mules Publick appearing aâ—… the Byram * A Throne His honour to some His going to Sancta Sophia * Divine service * A present of the nature of a new years gift Gifts to the Grandees * Daggers * Such caps as the women wear * Girdles three dayes solemnity Fire-works and shews Presents to the King From the Bashawes From the Sultanas * Feast * Swings â—…hristians and Jews seared * In which time they drink no strong drink at all Thâ—…t iâ—… the 〈◊〉 Byram Old Seraglio Compasse Built by Mahomet the second Who are therein Woman-overseer They may marry with the Kings leave * The Mistres of the maids Conveniences thereof Hard state Jews-women Seven wives * Women-slaves Bashawes sons kept under if of royal blood Divorces What becomes of the 〈◊〉 of the divorced * To lie wiâ—…hall Slaves sold if baâ—…ren Slaves bouâ—…ht and sold in the market Manner of selling slaves Restitution if not a virgin Emeen No benefit by affinity to the king Losse by it Rites of marriage Who may be witnesses * Common prayer * New wine boiled * Aquavitae * A drink made of seed much like new mustard and is very heady â—…meers false witnesses False accusations or pretences * Or Avania Turks covetous and dangerous Force of evidence Their Religion 1 He. 2 Arab. God 3 Turk God 4 Truth 5 High Truth 6 High God 7 Creator of the world 8 Pers. God Resurrection The Trumpet Soor Seâ—…sual Paradise Hell Fate The commandment of God Charms used by the Greeks Agility in the next life Transparent Heavens Gods throne The Angels Angel Gabriel * Sea in Paradise A Tree in Paradise * This Israel they say is an angel Four Prophets and four Books 1 Moses 2 David 3 Jesus 4 Mahomet Old Law The psalms The Gospel The Alcoran Womens heaven Their opinion of Christ * Muftee This word comes from Fetha which signifieth to open in the Arab. tongue The Muftees charge * Cadees of the highest rank the word signifieth Lords â—…is disputation on the Tueâ—…day The use His power His revenue Cadeeleschers * Cadees places Cadees and their orders * Lords Naibs Books * Cadees place Priviledge Their continuanâ—…e No office during life Great Turbants Their habits * This word is derived from evel which signifieth first Sheâ—…chs Priests and Clerks Motevelee Their employment * This word is derived from Ders which signifieth a lesson Readers Prayers five times a day Upon fryday six times * Clerks Manner of calling to prayer * The words which the Muyezin useth to say in the steeple Cleannesse purifying * Unclean * Their washing before they pray is so called Awb in Persian signifieth water and Dest the hand Priest The manner of their prayers * Because Mecca is south east of Constantinople in other places it may be different Their rule in praying wheresoever they are is to direct their faces to the city Mecca and this is called by them Kibla Prayers in an unknown tongue Their gestures Their length * Friday it signifieth a day of assembling Preaching * Rebel Procession and cursing Other convocations and prayers * Holy men Sermons Sacrificing Ramazan ceremonies Lamps Priest Example of severity Puritans Beads 1 God is pure 2 God defend 3 God is great Pilgrimage Mecca Tâ—…mple Jeâ—…salem Valley of Jehoshaâ—…hat Pilgrims Circumcision The lock of Hair * True Believers Canes Hospitals Colledges Limited A ceremony at the finishing a Moschea Moscheas Magnificence Lamps No seats Mattes Sicknesse * Priest Manner of burying Garlands and boughs of oranges Women go not to burialls No Lights * Clerks Tombs of the Emperors Common tombs * Colledges * holy men professing innocency * Houses Where drink Cahve Womens Religion Women go not to church * Priests