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A58003	The present state of the Ottoman Empire containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion, their sects and heresies, their convents and religious votaries, their military discipline ... : illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture, representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks, in three books / by Paul Rycaut Esq. ...	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1668 (1668)	Wing R2413; ESTC R18075	228,446	228

Sultan Mahomet Han the present Emperour of the Turkes aged 23 yeares Anno 1666 THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Ottoman Empire Containing the MAXIMS of the TURKISH POLITIE The most material Points of the MAHOMETAN RELIGION Their SECTS and HERESIES their CONVENTS and RELIGIOUS Votaries THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE With an exact Computation of their FORCES both by LAND and SEA Illustrated with divers Pieces of Sculpture representing the variety of Habits amongst the Turks IN THREE BOOKS By PAUL RYCAUT Esq Secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea Embassador Extraordinary for his Majesty Charles the Second c. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth Emperour of the Turks LONDON Printed for John Starkey and Henry Brome at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleet-street and the Star in Little-Britain 1668. To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord ARLINGTON His Majesties Principal Secretary of State My Lord AFter five years residence at Constantinople in service of the Embassy of the Earl of Winchilsea my ever honoured Lord and this my second journey from thence by land into my own Country I judged it a point of my Duty and of my Religion too to dedicate this following Treatise as the fruits of my Travels Negotiations and leisure in those remote parts to the Noble Person of your Lordship as that Votiva Tabula which many both in ancient and in the modern times after some signal deliverance or happy arrival at their desired Port use to offer to their Gods their Saints or their Patrons And truly my Lord this Discourse treating chiefly of the Turkish Policy Government and Maxims of State seems naturally to appertain to the Patronage of your Lordship whose faculties of Wisdom and Vertue have given you the Blessing of your Princes Favour and the Reputation as well abroad as at home of an Eminent and Dexterous Minister of State It were a great Presumption in me to offer any Observations of my own in the Courts of Christian Princes to the test of your Lordships Experience and Judgment who not only is acquainted with the Customs and Manners but penetrates into the Designs and knows the Cabinet Councels of Neighbouring Principalities with whom our divided world may possibly be concerned but perhaps without disparagement to your Lordships profound Wisdom or over-value of my own abilities I may confidently draw a rude Scheme before your Lordship of the Turkish Government Policies and Customs a Subject which Travellers have rather represented to their Country-men to supply them with discourse and admiration than as a matter worthythe consideration or concernment of our Kings or our Governors It hath been the happy fortune of the Turk to be accounted barbarous and ignorant for upon this perswasion Christian Princes have laid themselves open and unguarded to their greatest danger contending together for one Palm of land whilst this puissant Enemy hath made himself master of whole Provinces and largely shared in the rich and pleasant possessions of Europe This contempt of the Turk on one side caused the Emperour to be so backward in opposing that torrent of the Ottoman Force which in the first year of the late War broke in upon him and the suspition of designs from France on the other altered the Resolutions and Councels of the Emperour for prosecution of the War which then running favourably on the Christian part was no less than with the astonishment of the whole world and of the Turks themselves on a sudden understood to be clapt up with Articles of a disadvantageous Peace admiring to see the Emperour give a stop to the current of his Victories and relinquish the Game with a lucky hand But this will seem no riddle to those who penetrate Affairs with the same judgment that your Lordship doth and consider the unfirm condition the House of Austria was in by a daily expectation of the death or fall of so main a Basis of it as the King of Spain and the division amongst the Princes of the Empire the League of the Rhine the French practices to make the Duke of Enguyen King of Poland and the extravagant demands of the French and Rhinish League for Winter quarters and places of strength not only in Hungary but also in Styria and the adjacent places and at the same time look on the Factions in Hungary and a considerable Army of French in the bowels of Germany who were supposed in those parts to have rather come with design to over-awe the next Diet and force the German Princes to elect the French King for King of the Romans than with sincere and simple intentions of opposing themselves to the Enemy of the Faith for then it will appear that the best use the Emperor could make of his good success was moderation in Victory and reconciliation with his powerful Enemy And hereupon Earl Leisle being dispatched for Extraordinary Embassador from his Imperial Majesty to the Grand Signior though the Turk was elevated with the thoughts of the necessity the Christians had of a Peace did yet so happily manage his Charge and Employment as created in the Turks an extraordinary reverence towards his Person and obtained such Honours and Treatments from them as the Turkish Court never bestowed before on the Emperors or any other Christian Embassador extorting this Complement from the great Vizier That he was more satisfied the Emperor had sent so brave and illustrious a person than if he had sought to reconcile his Affections with a hundred thousand Dollars more of Present And to do justice to this worthy Person he hath brought a reputation to the British Nation above any in our age whose vertues and industry have acquired the highest Trusts and Preferments in Forreign Parts and done the same honour to his King under whom he was born a Subject as to the present Emperor and his Ancestors under whom he is and hath alwaies been a faithful Minister having deserved so eminently for saving the whole German Empire from the Treason of Wallestein by his own single act of bravery a story notoriously known to all the world as can never in gratitude be forgot by that Nation nor want its due Record and place in the History of that Country The speculation of what is contained in this following Discourse may seem unworthy of your Lordships precious hours in regard of that notion of Barbarity with which this Empire is stiled yet the knowledge hereof will be like a Turquoise or some other Jewel set within the Rose of those many Gems of your Lordships Wisdom and Vertues This Present which I thus humbly consecrate to your Lordship may be termed barbarous as all things are which are differenced from us by diversity of Manners and Custom and are not dressed in ●●e mode and fashion of our times and Countries for we contract prejudice from ignorance and want of familiarity But your Lordship who exactly ponderates the weight of humane Actions acknowledges reason in all its habits and draws not the measures of

the Empire CHAP. XIII Of the Tartars and Tartar Han and in what manner they depend upon the Turks THe Tartars may very well be accounted amongst the other Princes subject to the Ottoman power I mean not the Asiatick Tartars or the Tartar of Eusbeck though so much Mahometan as to wear green Turbants and to deduce their Race from the Line of Mahomet himself for having conquered China and possessing a greater Empire then the Ottoman they are far from acknowledging any subjection or degree of inferiority to the Turk nor are all the European Tartars subjects to the Sultan for the Kalmuk and Citrahan Tatars men of strange barbarity and countenance different from all the other race of mankind though Professors of the Mahometan Religion are yet faithfully and piously obedient to the Duke of Moscovie their lawful Prince But the Precopentian Tartar which inhabits Taurica Cherfonesus now called Crim the principal City of which is Theodosia now Cafa and the Nagaentian Tartar which inhabits by the Palus Meotis between the Rivers of Volga and Tanais are the people which may be accounted amongst the subjects or at least Confederates of this Empire though only the City of Cafa of all those Dominions is immediately in Possession and Government of the Turk which in my opinion appears to be a cautionary Town and Pledge for their obedience and though the Han or Prince of that Country is elective yet he is chosen out of the true Line and confirmed by the Grand Signiors who have always taken upon them a power to depose the Father and in his place constitute the Son or next of that Linage when found remiss in affording their Auxiliary helps to the War or guilty of any dis-respect or want of duty to the Ottoman Port. This present Han which now governs called Mahomet Ghirei for that is the Surname of his Family remained during the life of his Father according to the custom of the Eldest Son of this Prince a hostage to the Turk in Janboli a Town in Thrace four dayes jurney distant from Adrianople situated on the 〈◊〉 or black Sea but from thence upon jealousie of too near a vicinity to his own Country was removed to Rhodes where he passed an obscure and melancholy life until the death of his Father and then being recalled to Constantinople had there his Sword girt on swore fealty to the Grand Signior with all other formalities performed according to their custom of regal inauguration But being setled in his Kingdom and mindful of his sufferings at Rhodes he had ever stomached the Pride of the Ottoman Emperour by which and the disswasion of the Polonians and the other neighbouring Tartars as a thing dishonourable to so ancient and powerful a people to resign the heir of their Kingdom a hostage to their neighbours this present Prince hath refused this part of subjection which the Visier Kupriuli often complained of but not being in a condition to afford a remedy unto thought it prudence to dissemble But yet these people are esteemed as Brothers or near allies with the Turk to whom for want of heirs-male in the Ottoman Line the Empire is by ancient compact to desend the expectation of which though afar off and but almost imaginary doth yet conserve the Tartar in as much observance to the Turk as the hopes of an Estate doth a young 〈◊〉 who is allured to a complaisancy and obsequiousness with the petulant humor of a Father that adopts him who is resolved never to want heirs of his own Family And thus the Tartar is as obedient as other subjects and though the Turk exercises not his power there by commands as in other places of his Dominions but treats all his business by way of Letters yet these Letters serve in the place of Waraents for the signification of the Grand Signiors pleasure and are as available as the Autogra and other formalities of the Imperial Edict are in other places in subjection to the Turk By ancient compact between this Empire and the Kingdom of Tartary it is agreed that whensoever the Grand Signior goes in person to the Wars the Tartar Han is to accompany him in person with an Army of a hundred thousand men but if the Visier or some other General be in the Field then is he only obliged to send forty or fifty thousand under the command of his Son or some principal Officer of his Kingdom who are paid and maintained out of the booty and pillage they acquire In the year 1663 the Tartar called on occasion of the War in Hungary to the assistance of the Turk they made such incursions into that Country Moravia and Silesia sacking and burning all Cities and Towns that they carried away one hundred and sixty thousand captive souls in one year which precise number I am informed from those who had received good information of the Pengik or Certificates that were given upon every head for the Tartar being an absolute free-booter makes prize of all that comes within his power and lest he should prey on the subjects of the Turk they are bound to take out attestations from certain Registers of the Names Countries and Age of their Captives lest they should deceive the Turk with the sale of those who are already their own subjects and slaves The Tartar is to the Turk as the Giacall to the Lion who hunts and finds the prey for the Lion to overcome and feed on And so the Tartar makes incursions into the neighbouring Countries round about and pass in great bodies some times ten or twelve dayes without doing the least dammage or spoil in their journey outward but as soon as they turn their 〈◊〉 home they rob spoil burn and carry all the Inhabitants of what Age or Sex soever like a torrent before them and every one of them leading three or four horses a piece on which they mount their Captives and load their prey make a running march day and night with few hours intermission for natural repose too fast for any orderly Army to overtake and any other that is not so is not able to give them Battel Such of their slaves as in the journey are wounded and infirme and not able to accompany the Camp they kill those which they bring safe into their own Country they sell to the Turks who come thither to Trade for this Merchandize which is the most profitable commodity that Tartary affords Young Boyes and Girls are rated at the highest price the latter of which being beautiful are like Jewels held at an unknown value but few of them escape the lust of the Tartars who deflower them even in the years of their very infancy This sort of people were by the ancients called Sermati and were alwayes famous for their exploits on Horse-back but heavy and ignorant of foot service which Character Tacitus gives of them Lib. 1. Hist. Omnis Sarmatum virtus quasi extra ipsos nihil ad pedestrem pugnam tam