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A10526	True copies of the insolent, cruell, barbarous, and blasphemous letter lately written by the Great Turke, for denouncing of warre against the King of Poland: and of the magnanimous, and most christian answere made by the said king thereunto. With a short preface, declaring the vniust cause on which this Turkish tyrant, and faithlesse enemy of Christendome, now layeth hold to inuade it. Published in print by authoritie, the 11. of Iune. 1621; Great Turkes defiance	Ahmed I, Sultan of the Turks, 1590-1617.	1621 (1621)	STC 208; ESTC S115263	4,475	18

TRVE COPIES OF THE INSOLENT CRVELL BARBAROVS and blasphemous Letter lately written by the Great Turke for denouncing of Warre against the King of POLAND AND Of the Magnanimous and most Christian Answere made by the said King thereunto With a short Preface declaring the vniust Cause on which this Turkish Tyrant and faithlesse enemy of Christendome now layeth hold to inuade it Published in Print by Authoritie the 11. of Iune 1621. LONDON Printed for William Lee and are to be sold at his shop in Fleerstreet at the signe of the Golden Bucke neere Sargeants Iune 1621. THE PREFACE ABout the Yeere 1608. Ieremy Prince of Moldauia dying left 3. Sonnes Constantine Alexander and Bougdan the eldest of which being but 8. yeeres old the Gouernment during his Minority was by the deceased Father committed to his Vncle Simeon who dying within three or foure yeeres after Constantine the eldest sonne according to his right and supported by the Councell of his mother vndertooke the gouernment At which time there liued at Constantinople one Tomsho or Stephen who falsly pretending to bee sonne vnto Aron who had been Prince of Moldauia before Ieremy had by money and other sinister practices framed to his ends Mehemet Bassha Lieutenant to the grand Visier which is the highest Officer vnder the Turk and by falsly suggesting that Constantine refused to pay the yeerely tribute of forty thousand Chequines to the great Turke obtained from him an Army of 20000. men vnder the conduct of a Turkish Generall to expell Prince Constantine and establish himselfe in the gouernment And notwithstanding Constantine endeuored to giue all due satisfaction to this Turkish Generall and made euident the fraud and falshood of Tomsho yet hee being also corrupted by Tomsho's bribes and great promises would admit no reason Wherevpon Prince Constantine making head to defend himselfe and Country was in a Battaile ouercome taken prisoner and after seeking to escape drowned in the Riuer Niestre Tomsho after this victory being thrust into the Gouernnment indeuoring to keepe by tyranny what he had gotten by iniustice and vsurpation the Nobility attempted by armes to free themselues and their Country from his vnspeakable cruelties but with successe vnworthy their vertue for by an ouerthrow both his malice and the Countries misery increased In which disaster the greatest part of them fly into Poland the refuge of the vnfortunate Princesse with her remaining children and the Tribunall from which their country was in iustice to expect a Gouernour the Polonians hauing by ancient Articles and capitulations betweene the Turke and them to the end their Kingdome might not be preiudiced by that neighbour Prouince which though Christian was yet tributary to the Turk reserued to themselues the right and interest to name a Vaiuod or Prince ouer that Country And to this purpose the King of Poland sent an Embassadour to Constantinople whom the Great Turke contrary to the Law of Nations Turkishly answered by detaining him prisoner and euer since hath threatened that most Noble and Christian Kingdome with vtter subuersion hauing as it is probably conceiued to that end drawne all his forces out of Asia and made a greater leuy in Europe then hath beene knowne in that Empire consisting by report of foure hundred thousand men an Armie sufficient to satisfie the most couetous or religious Christian Souldier with riches or glory THE GREAT TVRKES LETTER Sultan Achmat MOST puissant and highest Emperour of the Turkes King aboue all Kings that dwell vpon the Earth a King that dwelleth on the earthly Paradise an anointed Prince and Sonne of Mahomet Prior of the earthly Paradise and keeper of the Graue of thy God Lord of the Tree of Life and of the Riuer Flisky Conquerour of the Macedonians the seede of Great Alexander Prince of the Kingdomes of Tartary Mesopotamia Media and of the Martiall Georgians Anatolia Bythinia Asia Armenia Seruia Thracia Morea Valachia Moldauia and of all warlike Hungary Soueraigne Lord and Commander of all Greece Persia both the Arabia's the most Noble Kingdome of Aegypt Tremisen and African Empire of Trabezond and the most glorious Constantinople Lord of all the white and blacke Sea and of the holy Cities Mecha and Medina shining with diuine glory Commander of all things that are to bee commanded and the strongest and mightiest Champion of the wide world a warriour appointed by Heauen in the edge of the sword a great persecuter of his enemies and of all their euill vices a most perfect Iewell of the blessed Tree the chiefest keeper of the Crucified God a Prince and Lord in whom the Mahometans trust and a great persecuter of of all Christians To Sigismund King of Poland if thou doest desire Our welfare and art Friend to vs and Our Officer Lieutenant Generall of all our forces which we will send Our Greeting But thou hast long since broken Our friendship and yet art neither ready nor fit to wage Warre or fight battell against vs. But thou hast some secret aduice and intelligence with other confederate petty Kings and their Counsellors to deliuer thee out of Our hands and our Vicegerents power wherein thou hast done vnaduisedly and indiscreetly If therfore thou thus perseuere to oppose thy selfe against vs then feare for thy death and the death of all thy people is determined Wee tell thee Wee will ouercome thee from the rising of the Sun to the going downe thereof and we will shew Our Maiesty in our own person and sight vnto the vttermost parts of the earth Our very thoughts shall be a terrour vnto thee shewing that Wee will performe all that which Wee haue herein denounced And Wee will make knowne vnto thee the powerfulnesse of our Dominions And thou O King which puttest thy trust in strong Forts Castles shalt haue experience of Our resistlesse might I will roote thee out altogether and thou shalt behold this with thine owne eyes Wherefore expect now no more friendship at my hands put not thy hope in the strength of thy walles with thy owne forces and people I will ruinate thee without any resistance I will destroy thy Cracouia in signe of triumph I will leaue there my bloudy sword that euery one shall take notice thereof and my beliefe shall bee spread throughout all thy Dominions and I will vtterly roote out the very remembrance of thy Crucified God Let thy God bee angry I care not He may thou helpe thee Thy anointed the Priests I will surely put to the plague Wolues and wilde Beasts shall sucke the brests of thy Women thou shalt leaue and forsake thy Religion which thou now hast that which remaineth of all things shall bee consumed with fire Herewith rest thou satisfied I doe not tell thee now what I will doe or meane to doe with thee vnderstand if thou wilt or canst Giuen at Our most High Port of Constantinople most strongly guarded c. THE KING OF POLAND HIS ANSVVERE SIGISMVND the third by the grace of God King of Poland Great

Duke of Lithuania Russia Prussia Masouia Samogitia Liuonia c. and Hereditarie King of the Suecians Gothes and Vandales one of the most humble seruants of the True God and of his Sonne IESVS CHRIST Crucified to Achmat chiefe Prince of Turkes Infidels soules health We haue receiued thy Letter full fraught with threats and swolne with impieties against the Maiestie of the most High God whereunto wee had not vouchsafed answere but that wee were perswaded our silence would haue been a meanes of causing thee to flatter thy selfe so much the more else had Wee neglected thee like an Arch-enemy of God as thou art Wee haue therefore thought fit in some sort to regard the Saluation of thy soule giuing thee to know that thou art no other then a meere man in thy person more weake then many of thy followers which should cause thee to remember that if it had not pleased God to ingraue in the front of such as rule a kinde of awfull Maiestie whereby their subiects are kept in obedience the good by reward the euill and peruerse by rigorous Lawes and both the one and the other by Authoritie it were impossible they should continue eminent aboue others Thou then who in thy selfe art but as other men must know that there is a Supreme Power of more might then thine which doth vphold thy estate causing thee to bee respected by thy followers This power proceeds from God most Good most Iust most Mighty who presrueth it so long as Princes humble themselues before him but if they suffer themselues to bee transported with presumption and pride he easily abateth and corrects their fury I will offer no other example to thy consideration then that of Baiazet the first one of thy Predecessors who thinking to scale Heauen with his Armie which in the iudgement of Man was vnresistable but in Gods sight most contemptible liued to see himselfe vanquished taken and imprisoned coopt vp in an iron cage wherein hee vvas in triumph drawne after the victorious Conquerour seruing him for no better then a footstoole and hauing no other food then such as was cast him like a Dogge from his Table Thinke then with thy selfe that hee that vvas so great so puissant and so terrible may haply by right of Succession haue left vnto thee as beeing descended from him the like or worse fortune if thou shalt dare to continue thy blasphemies against GOD and his Beloued Sonne Iesus Christ Crucified Thou doest mistake in thinking to lay an aspersion vpon vs by reproaching vnto vs the Crosse For Wee account it Our chiefest honour and glory by vertue vvhereof as the Emperour Constantine quelled his enemies Wee hope and assured our selues to bee defended against thy Fury Thy proud and thundering words dismay vs not our courage is more Masculine and generous then so to bee out-braued For know that wee regard not thy threats but vvith iust scorne tread vpon thy pride and laugh at thy idle terrours and in stead of thanking thee for aduertising vs before thy comming We bid thee come when thou wilt thou shalt bee receiued contrary to thy expectation Wee haue steepe Mountaines and impregnable Rockes that shall barre thee from entering into our Lands Thou shalt finde our Cities and Castles well furnished with Munition our Canons mouthes breathing furious fires our courages inuincible our blades eager and sharpe our bodies as our mindes prepared to sustaine the violence of all seasons our hearts promising nothing but victory And to dazell thine eyes the glorious Standard of the blessed Crosse shall goe before vs but aboue all the Crucified Son of the most High God shal cause his Angels to conduct vs and giue vs the victory He it is shall bee our Leader vnder whose protection wee will not feare to braue thee at thy Gates Thy miscreant troupes shall be troden vnderfoote and their bellies trampled on and by a happy victory if thou chance to escape our conquering Arme thou shalt finde thy selfe pursued vnto the most secret Dens of thy abominable Seralio thou shalt see thy Mosques laid leuell with the ground thy Muphty and other the execrable Priests of thy perfidious Mahomet made Gally-slaues all those traiterous run-a-gates whom thou doest harbor shalt thou see put to exquisite torments of all which be most assured And then shall bee set free all those poore and miserable Christians who now lie groning vnder the burthen of thy Tyrannous yoake whose wofull cryes being mounted to Heauen haue iustly excited the vengeance of God vpon thee who hath permitted thee to rise to this height of pride that thy ruine destruction may bee the more exemplar vnto after-ages To conclude thou shalt see the seruice of God re-established in Greece and Asia which thou doest now vniustly vsurpe But if it happen thee to end thy miserable life in Battell which we hope God will grant be confident that all the foresaid vengeance shall ensue vpon thy death And whiles thy wretched Soule lies broiling in the quenchlesse flames of Hell wee will lift vp our cheerefull voices and for the victory obtained ouer thee and thine sing praises vnto our God to whom be all glory for euer Know then O Infidell that we feare thee not at all and if thou beest not wilfully bent to runne headlong vnto thy owne destruction be aduised content and containe thy selfe within those bounds thou doest at this present vsurpe and if thou hast any beliefe at al that thy thrice reuerenced Prophet Mahomet could tell a truth or foretell future euents then call to minde that of those thousand yeeres which hee prescribed for the continuing of thy Sect there remaine not aboue sixe or seuen yeeres This then is the time that the yet vnsheathed Sword of the Christians affords for thy amendment that thou mightest come to the knowledge of the alone True GOD to worship him in his Sonne IESVS CHRIST wherevnto we once more exhort thee omitting all other salutation and commendation Giuen at our Castle of Posnwich c. SIGISMVND Published Iune 11. 1621.