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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

Religion inhabiting the City of Smyrna the Renowned where live Men and Women and Families much Peace be unto You from the Lord of Peace and from Me his beloved Son King Solomon I command you That the Ninth of the Month of Ab which according to our account answered that Year to the Month of Iune next to come you make a Day of Invitation and of great Ioy celebrating it with choice Meats and pleasing Drinks with many Candles and Lamps with Musick and Songs because it is the day of the Birth of Sabatai Sevi the High King above all the Kings of the Earth And as to matters of labour and other things of like nature do as becomes you upon a day of Festival ad●rned with your finest Garments As to your Prayers let the same Order be used as upon Festivals To converse with Christians on that day is unlawful though your Discourse be of matters indifferent all labour is forbidden but to sound Instruments is lawful This shall be the method of your Prayers on this day of Festival After you have said Blessed be thou O Holy God then proceed and say Thou hast chosen us before all People and hast loved us and hast been delighted with us and hast humbled us more than all other Nations and hast sanctified us with thy Precepts and hast brought us near to thy Service and the Service of our King. Thy Holy Great and Terrible Name thou hast published amongst us And hast given us O Lord God according to thy love times of Ioy of Festivals and times of Mirth and this Day of Consolation for a solemn Convocation of Holiness for the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and first-born Son in love through whom we commemorate our coming out of Egypt And then you shall read for your Lesson the first second and third Chapters of Deuteronomy to the Seventeenth Ve●se appointing for the reading thereof Five men in a perfect and uncorrupted Bible adding thereunto the Blessings of the Morning as are prescribed for Days of Festivals And for the Lesson out of the Prophets usually read in the Syn●g●gue every Sabbath you shall repeat the Thirty ●irst Chapter of Jeremiah to your Prayer called the Mussaf used in the Synagogue every Sabbath and solemn Festival Instead of the Sacrifice of Addition at the returning of the Bible to its place you shall read with an audible Voice and clear Sound and with h●ly Harmony t●e Ninty fifth Psalm And at the first Praises in the Morning after you have sung Psalm Ninty one and just before you sing Psalm Ninety eight you shall repeat Psalm One hundred thirty two but in the last Verse where it is said As for his enemies I shall clothe them with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in the place of upon himself you shall read Vpon the M●st High after which shall follow the One hundred twenty sixth Psalm and then the One hundred and thirteenth to the One hundred and Nineteenth At the Consecration of the Wine upon the Vigil or Even you shall make mention of the Feast of Consolation which is the Day of the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and first-b●rn Son giving the Blessing as followeth Blessed be thou our God King of the World who hast made us to live and hast maintained us and hast kept us alive unto this time Vpon the Eve of this Day you shall also read the Eighty one Psalm as also the One hundred thirty two and One hundred twenty sixth Psalms which are appointed for the Morning Praises And this Day shall be unto you for a remembranee of a solemn Day unto eternal Ages and a perpetual Testimony between me and the Sons of Israel Audite audiendo manducate bonum Besides which Order and Method of Liturgy for Solemnization of his Birth he prescribed other Rules for Divine Service and particularly published the same Indulgence and priviledge to every one who should pray at the Tomb of his Mother as if he had taken on him a Pilgrimage to pray and sacrifice at Ierusalem The Devotion of the Iews towards this pretended Messiah encreased still more and more so that not only the chief of the City went to attend and proffer their service towards him in the time of his Imprisonment but likewise decked their Synagogue with S. S. in Letters of Gold making for him on the Wall a Crown in the Circle of which was wrote the Ninety one Psalm at length in a fair and legible Character attributing the same Titles to Sabatai and expounding the Scriptures in the same manner in favour of his appearance as we do of our Saviour Howsoever some of the Iews remained in their Wits all this time amongst which was a certain Cocham at Smyrna one zealous of his Law and of the good and safety of his Nation and observing in what a wild manner the whole People of the Iews was transported with the groundless belief of a Messiah leaving not only their Trades and course of Living but publishing Prophecies of a speedy Kingdom of rescue from the tyranny of the Turk and leading the Grand Signior himself captive in Chains matters so dangerous and obnoxious to the State wherein they lived as might justly convict them of Treason and Rebellion and leave them to the mercy of that Justice which on the least jealousie and suspicion of matters of this nature uses to extirpate Families and subvert the Mansion houses of their own People much rather of the Iews on whom the Turks would gladly take this occasion to despoil them of their Estates and condemn the whole Nation to perpetual Slavery And indeed it would have been a greater wonder than ever Sabatai shewed that the Turks took not advantage from all these extravaganc●es to drain the Iews of a considerable Sum of Money and set their whole Race in Turky at a Ransome had not these passages yielded them matter of pastime and been the subject of the Turks laughter and scorn supposing it a disparagement to the greatness of the O●toman Empire to be concerned for the rumours and combustions of th●s despised People With these Considerations this Cocham that he might clear himself of the blood and guilt of his Countrymen and unconcerned in the common destruction went before the Kaddee and there protested against the present Doctrine declaring That he had no hand in setting up of Sabatai but was an enemy both to him and his whole Sect. This freedom of the Cocham so enraged and scandalized the Iews that they judged no Condemnation or Punishment too severe against such an Offender and Blasphemer of their Law and Holiness of the Messiah and therefore with Money and presents to the Kaddee accusing him as disobedient in a Capital nature to their Government obtained sentence against him to shave his Beard and commit him to the Gallies There wanted nothing now to the appearance of the Messiah and the Solemnity of his Coming

certain of his chief Counsellors and they altogether favouring the Roman Catholicks would give them of the Religion no certain Answer whereon to rest they therewith much discontented as our of hope to be by them relieved and in g●●a● fear to be by their Adversaries as Enemies ●nto ●he State oppressed layd their heads together and after good Deliberation taken what were best for them to do both for the safety of themselves their Wives Children and Religion they by a general consent of themselves appointed the fourth of May to hold a general meeting of them of the Religion in the new Court at Prague there to consult of all matters concerning the b●siness of Religion And yet in the mean time openly in Parliament protesting by the Mouth of Wentceslaus Bodouiisius a Baron of Bohemia Them to have appointed this Assembly for the Emperors good and for the common quiet of the whole Realm as also for the better informing of the Emperour of all Matters and to provide that the Emperour and the Kingdom might not through the means and perswasions of those his evil Counsellors be brought into extream Peril and Danger Immediately after the States of the Religion with all speed dispatched their Ambassadors unto King Matthias the Elector Palatine the Duke of Saxony and the Duke of Brunswick to request them by their intercession to become Mediators for them unto the Emperour for the obtaining of the free Exercise of their Religion which in all points agreed with the Confession of Augusta and which long before was exhibited unto Maximilian the Emperour and by him allowed Now in the mean time these the States of the Religion were by some for these their proceedings commended but by other some not only blamed but also accused of Rebellion against the Emperour and the State. But the matter being declared unto the Emperor he complaining unto himself of the inconsiderateness of his Counsellors to maintain his Authority caused the Parliament then in hand to be prorogued and to seem of himself to grant that which he could not well withstand commanded by a Decree that same very day to be appointed for the concluding of that Article of Religion on which the States themselves had before appointed for their Assembly to be holden in the new Court at Prague Notwithstanding which Decree many troublesome Spirits publickly set forth other their Conceits in Writing to far other purpose grievously therein reprehending the States of the Religion for that of themselves they had appointed a day for their Assembly into the new Court at Prague Which as they said was nothing else but in a rebellious manner to rise against the Laws of the Kingdom and the Authority of their lawful Prince and therefore advised them to forbear from making any such Assembly as was by them appointed Hereof arose great troubles even under the Emperours nose in Prague the chief City of Bohemia they of the Religion not daring to trust the Roman Catholicks neither they them being still ready upon every false report or vain ●urmise to go together by the ears until that the Emperour for the staying of these Troubles and the avoiding of farther danger was glad to cause it to be openly proclaimed in the new Court at Prague That his Imperial Majesty having received and understood the Apology of the States now did abrogate that his Edict published against them but a few days before and now by this his new Edict did account all the States of the Religion for his faithful and well beloved Subjects and as of them unto whom the right of the Kingdom and the King's Oath belonged as well as to all other States of the Kingdom And that he also had those the same States excused in that they for the good of his Majesty and of the whole Kingdom had appointed their Assembly in the new Court at Prague and that therefore he denounced them in so doing not in any thing to have done any thing contrary unto his Majesty And that he appointed the five and twentieth day of May for the general Assembly of Parliament to be holden in the Castle of Prague for the ending of the Article concerning Religion and the reforming of other the publick Grievances of the Common-weal yet with this proviso That the said States should safely and quietly come unto the said Parliament without entertaining of any foreign Souldiers as that his Majesty should also not by himself nor any other for pay entertain any or suffer any foreign Souldiers to come into the Kingdom Which the Emperours Edict being proclaimed the States of the Religion having made their publick Prayers and sung certain Hymns and Psalms unto the Glory of God for the good success of their business left the new Court at Prague and returned every man home to their own Houses to make themselves ready to come unto the Parliament to be holden at the appointed day But the day appointed for the Parliament being come and the Emperour still delaying the matter the States of the Religion weary of such long delays and in doubt to be therewith deluded as having not received from the Emperour any such answer as whereon to rest the third of Iune offered unto the Emperour a short writing concerning their Grief and farther purpose to this effect They had as they said expected and well hoped that regard being had not only of so many requests of so great and most noble Princes made in their behalf but even of the Emperour's promise also made unto them both in the general Assembly of the States the last year and in the late Precept of the Emperour 's also they should at length have received such answer unto their Petition concerning the free Exercise of their Religion as whereon they might have safely rested Which for that it had not been yet done they referred the doing thereof unto God and future time imputing the blame thereof not unto his Imperial Majesty but unto the unquiet and troublesome Natures of some as well the Ecclesiastical as Temporal Magistrates and Persons But forasmuch as they meant not longer to be deluded by their Enemies and much less to be defrauded of his Majesties Royal Promise which was now unto the World known they had thought good to offer and present unto his Majesty a Writing conceived in the Bohemian Tongue according unto which they desired to be secured concerning the free Exercise of their Religion most humbly requesting his Majesty to accept of the same and at length to satisfie their requests Which if it might not be granted the Emperour's Majesty having more respect unto the troublesome Clergy-men and some other his evil affected Counsellors than to the faithful States and Subjects of his Kingdom that then they would rest themselves upon the Decree made in the Assembly holden in the year 1608 and upon the last Edict of his Majesty yet with this solemn Protestation That seeing they had by certain Information understood much Warlike Preparation

Opinion began so commonly to take place as if this People res●lved never to be undeceived using the Forms and Rules for Devotion prescribed them by their Mah●m●tan Messiah Insomuch that the Cochams of Constan●●n●ple fearing the danger of this Errour might creep up and equal the former condemned the belief of Sabatai being Messiah as damnable a●d injoyned them to return to the ancient Method and Service of God upon pain of Excommunication The Stile and Tenour of the●r Letter was as followeth TO you who have the power of Priesthood and are the kn●wing learned and m●gna●imous G●vernours and Princes residing i● the City o● Smyrna may the Almighty protect you Amen for so is his will. These our Letters which we send in the midst of your Habitations are upon occasion of certain Rumours and Tumults c●me to our ears from that City of your H●linesses For there is a sort of men amongst you who fortifie themselves in their Error and say Let such an ●ne our King live and bless him in their publick S●nagogues every Sabbath day and also adjoyn Psalms and Hymns invented by that man for certain days with Rules and Methods for Prayer which ought not to be done and yet they still remain obstinate therein And now behold it is known unto you how many swelling waters have passed over our Souls for his sake for had it not been for the mercies of God which are without end and the merit of our Forefathers which hath assisted us the foot of Israel had been rased out by their enemies And yet still you continue obstinate in things which do not help but rather do mischief which God avert Turn you therefore for this is not the true way but restore the Crown to the ancient custom and use of your Forefathers and the Law and from thence do not move We command you That with your Authority under pain of Excommunication and other Penalties all those Ordinances and Prayers as well those delivered by the mouth of that man as those which he injoyned by the mouth of others be all abolished and made void and to be found no more and that they never enter more into your hearts but judge according to the ancient Commandment of your Forefathers repeating the same Lessons and Prayers every Sabbath as hath been accustomary as also the Collects for Kings Potentates and Anointed c. and bless the King Sultan Mahomet for in his dayes hath great Salvation been wrought for Israel and become not Rebels to his Kingdom which God forbid For after all this which is past the least motion will be a cause of jealousy and you will bring ruine upon your own persons and upon all which is near and dear to you wherefore abstain from this man and let not so much as his name proceed out of your mouths For know if you will not obey us herein which will be known who and what those men are who refuse to conform unto us we are resolved to prosecute them as our duty is He that doth hear and obey us may the blessing of God rest upon him These are the words of those who seek your peace and good having in Constantinople on Sunday the 5th of the month Sevat under-wrote their names Joam Tob Son of Hanania Ben Jacar Isaac Alnacagua Joseph Kazabi Menasse Barudo Kaleb Son of Samuel Eliezer Casti. Eliezer Gherson Joseph Accohen Eliezer Aluff During the time of all these transactions and passages at Constantinople Smyrna Abydos upon the Hellespont and Adrianople the Iews leaving their mercantile course and advices what prices Commodities bore and matters of Traffick stuffed their Letters for Italy and other parts with nothing but wonders and miracles wrought by their Messiah As that when the Grand Signior sent to take him he caused all the messengers immediately to die upon which other Janizaries being again sent they all fell dead with a word only from his mouth and being desired to revive them again he immediately recalled them to life but of them only such who were true Turks and not those who had denied that Faith in which they were born and had professed After this they added that he went voluntarily to Prison and though the Gates were barred and shut with strong Locks of Iron yet that Sabatai was seen to walk through the streets with a numerous attendance and when they laid shackles on his Neck and Feet they not only fell from him but were converted into Gold with which he gratified his true and faithful Believers and disciples Some Miracles also were reported of Nathan that only at the reading of the name of any particular Man or Woman he could immediately recount the story of his or her Life their sins or defaults and accordingly impose just correction and penance for them These strong reports coming thus confidently into Italy and all parts the Iews of Casal di Monferrato resolv'd to send Three persons in behalf of their Society in the nature of extraordinary Legates to Smyrna to make enquiry after the truth of all these rumours who accordingly arriving in Smyrna full of expectation and hopes intending to present themselves with great humility and submission before their Messiah and his Prophet Nathan were entertained with the sad news that Sabatai was turned Turk by which information the Character of their Embassy in a manner ceasing every one of them laying aside the formality of his Function endeavoured to lodge himself best to his own convenience But that they might return to their Brethren at home with the certain particulars of the success of these affairs they made a visit to the Brother of Sabatai who still continued to perswade them that Sabatai was notwithstanding the true Messiah that it was not he who had taken upon him the hahit and form of a Turk but his Angel or Spirit his Body being ascended into Heaven until God shall again see the season and time to restore it adding farther that an effect hereof they should see by the Prophet Nathan verifyed now every day expected who having wrought Miracles in many places would also for their consolation reveal hidden secrets unto them with which they should not only remain satisfied but astonished with this only hope of Nathan these Legates were a little comforted resolving to attend his arrival in regard they had a Letter to consign into his hands and according to their instructions were to demand of him the grounds he had for his Prophecies and what assurance he had that he was divinely inspired and how those things were revealed unto him which he had committed to Paper and dispersed to all parts of the World. At length Nathan arrived near Smyrna on Friday the 3d of March towards the Evening and on Sunday these Legats made their visit to him but Nathan upon the news of what success his Messiah met with began to grow sullen and reserved so that the Legats could scarce procure admittance to him all that they could do was to

the Algierines always amongst other Gifts present some Youths whom they have taken by Piracy the Policy herein is very obvious because the Sons of Christians will hate their Parents being educated with other Principles and Customs or coming from distant Places have contracted no acquaintance so that starting from their Schools into Government they will find no Relations or Dependences on their Interests than that of their great Master to whom they are taught and necessity compels them to be faithful In the next place these Youths must be of admirable Features and pleasing Looks well shaped in their Bodies and without any defects of Nature For it is conceived that a corrupt and sordid Soul can scarce inhabit in a serene and ingenious Aspect and I have observed not only in the Seraglio but also in the Courts of great Men their personal Attendants have been of comely lusty Youths well habited deporting themselves with singular Modesty and Respect in the presence of their Master So that when a Pascha Aga Spahee travels he is always attended with a comely Equipage followed by flourishing Youths well cloathed and mounted in great numbers that one may guess at the greatness of this Empire by the Retinue Pomp and number of Servants which accompany Persons of Quality in their Journies whereas in the parts of Christendom where I have travelled I have not observed no not in Attendance of Princes such ostentation in Servants as is amongst the Turks which is the Life and Ornament of a Court. And this was always the custom in the Eastern Countries as Q. Curtius reports Lib. 6. Quippe omnibus barbaris in corporum Majestate veneratio est magnorúmque operum non alios capaces putant quam quos eximiâ specie donare natura dignara est But these Youths before they are admitted are presented before the Grand Signior whom according to his pleasure he disposes in his Seraglio at Pera or Adrianople or his great Seraglio at Constantinople which is accounted the Imperial Seat of the Ottoman Emperors For these are the three Schools or Colledges of Education Those that are preferred to the last named are commonly marked out by special designation and are a nearer step to Degrees of Preferment and are delivered to the charge of the Capa Aga or chief of the White Eunuchs The Eunuchs have the care of these Scholars committed unto them whom they treat with an extraordinary severity for these being the Censores morum punish every slight Omission or Fault with extreme Rigour For Eunuchs are naturally cruel whether it be out of envy to the Masculine Sex which is perfect and entire or that they decline to the disposition of Women which is many times more cruel and revengeful than that of Men they will not let slip the smallest Peccadillo without its due chastisement either by blows on the soals of the Feet or long Fasting Watchings or other Penance so that he who hath run through the several Schools Orders and Degrees of the Seraglio must needs be an extraordinary mortified Man patient of all Labours Services and Injunctions which are imposed on him with a strictness beyond the discipline that Religious Novices are acquainted with in Monasteries or the severity of Capuchins or Holy Votaries But yet methinks these Men that have been used all their lives to Servitude and Subjection should have their Spirits abased and when licensed from the Seraglio to places of Trust and Government should be so acquainted how to obey as to be ignorant how to Rule and to be dazled with the Light and Liberty and overjoyed with the sense of their present Condition and past Sufferings passing from one extreme to another that they should lose their Reason and forget themselves and others But in answer hereunto the Turks affirm That none know so well how to govern as those who have learned how to obey though at first the sense of their freedom may distract them yet afterwards the Discipline Lectures and Morality in their younger Years will begin to operate and collect their scattered Senses into their due and natural places But to return from whence we have a little digressed These young Men before they are disposed into their Schools which are called Oda their Names Age Country and Parents are Registred in a Book with their allowance from the Grand Signior of four Aspers a day the Copy of this Book is sent to the Tefterdar or Lord Treasurer that so quarterly they may receive their Pension Being thus admitted they are entred into one of the two Schools that is to say into the Bojuck Oda which is the great Chamber or the less the former commonly contains 400 and the other about 200 or 250. These two Schools may be said to be of the same Form or Rank and what is taught in one is likewise in the other neither of them hath the precedency all of them equally near to Preferment Their first Lessons are Silence Reverence humble and modest Behaviour holding their Heads downwards and their Hands across before them Their Masters the Hogias instruct them in all the Rights Discipline and Superstition of the Mahometan Religion and to say their Prayers and understand them in the Arabick Language and to speak read and write Turkish perfectly Afterwards having made proficiency in the former they proceed in the study of the Persian and Arabick Tongues which may be of benefit to them if their Lot chance to call them to the Government of the Eastern parts and is a help to the Improvement of their Knowledg in the Turkish which being of it self barren is beholden to those Tongues for its copiousness and enrichment Their Cloathing is good English Cloth and Linen neither fine nor course their Diet is chiefly Rice and other wholsom Meats which become the Table of Scholars where there is nothing of superfluity as there is nothing of want Their Manners and Behaviour are strictly watched by the Eunuchs their careful Guardians so as they cannot be familiar one with another at any time without Modesty and respect to the Presence they are in If they go to perform the necessary Offices of Nature or to the Bath they are never out of the Eye of an Eunuch who will admit none of their nearest Relations to speak with them or see them unless special Licenee be obtained from the Capa Aga or chief of the Eunuchs Their Bed-chambers are long Chambers where all Night Lamps are kept burning their Beds are laid in ranks one by another upon Safrawes or Boards raised from the Ground and between every five or six lies an Eunuch so as conveniently to see or over-hear if there be any wanton or lewd behaviour or discourse amongst them When they are arrived to some proficiency and almost to Man's Estate and strength of Body fit for Manly Exercises they are trained up in handling the Lance throwing the Iron Bar drawing the Bow and throwing the Ge●i● or Dart. In all these