and five hundred Attique or Euboick Talents Crowne revenue in our summes forty hundred thousand crowns or there abouts therfore might they easily lavish out such prodigious expences Out of Indya also they yearely received three hundred and threescore Talents of gold The crowne revenue at this day is little lesse albeit the jurisdiction royall be not halfe so spatious and amounts to mighty summes Tahamas Anno Dom. 1560 received eight millions of crownes gathered from fifty Sultans who farm'd his in-comes besides an annuall present or tribute of 20000 crownes Leventhibeg a Georgian Prince never fail'd to send him and 12000 horse the Curdyes 'twixt the two Seas also eased him of payment and Abbas at this day from silk tribute and exactions receives yearely above nine millions foureteene millions and 280000 florins some say 357000 Tomans in Persian money in ours 1190000 pound sterlin And though the ground by a continued flaming of the Sun be barren in grasse trees or the like yet it hinders not that her womb is rich and uberous for besides her store of rarest marble the earth from her concave bosome oft-times discovers many rich mineralls and stones of lustre Jacynths Jasper Myneralls Chrysolites Onix Turquoises Serpentine and Granats the Pezars and Pearles than which no part of the whole world has better also no lesse valuable Of old the Persian hills have been famoused for Mynes of gold Plautus in Sticho remembers it The Persian hills he may deserve to hold Which if the proverb lie not are of gold Mereat Persarum montes qui esse aurei perhibentur c. and Varro alluding to their tempting excellencies thus The Persian mountaines nor the Lydian state Our mindes from care or zeale can seperate Non demunt animis curas ac religiones Persarum montes non divitis atria Croesi But whether they have any now or no I know not Thus having done with this of old record we the coynes at this day used Coynes the Abbassee is in our money sixteene pence Larree ten pence Mamoodee eight pence Shahee foure pence Saddee two pence Bistee two pence double Cozbeg one penny single Cozbeg one halfe penny Fluces are ten to a Cozbeg the gold coynes are Sultanyes Duraes c. but few seene all but the Cozbegs and Fluces being pure silver the other brasse and currant all o're his Monarchy I have else-where described the buildings in Persia a word of their beds and other customes Their beds are generally Cotts of two foot height Beds or foure posts strengthened with girthweb a shagg or yopangee atop of double use serving as an Vmbrella abroad at home a Coverlet in Summer their Slaves attend about them some to waft and to beget coole ayre others to scare away the Gnats and such like buzzing vermin The men account it no small shame to urine standing but call such dogs rather than Mussulmen we beleeve them they mundifie their genitors after it and to that end have Slaves every where attending them with Ewers of silver to cleanse pollution they hate to see men walk such they think mad a madder thing to see them ride tho not a stones-cast journey Their horses are of the Arabian breed bodied like Jennets Horses but farre more swift and couragious they curb their fierie mettall with sharp cutting bitts a ring of iron also helping them their bridles are long and studded with gold of such mettall are their pummell 's and stirrops their saddles are usually of velvet high close like the Morocco sort the trees are curiously painted those they borrow from the Tartar are hard and small and close sure but not so easie They are generally fat and in good liking albeit their fare be meane and slender a little bagg fill'd with barley and chopt straw hung about their heads is both livery and manger they strictly tie them to a proportion more or lesse breeding death or diseases The Mules are no lesse valuable of better service where the passage is sandy desart or mountanous Men use Horses and Asses to ride upon women never but upon Camells every Camell loaded with two Cages or Cajuaes as they call them holds two women of wood coverd with scarlet commonly low and not suffering them to stand upright but lesse grievous in that for most part all sorts sit cannot endure long standing when any mans Haram travels they are guarded with leane-fac't Eunuchs without weapons to offend women but arm'd with bowes swords to defend theÌ„ against any bold or curious opposer upon sight of any of them all travellers fly out of the way albeit they be the best men in Persia to make good the custom and to prevent such mischiefe as jealousie drawes too oft along with it enflaming there as quickly as in any other part of Asia where we will finish our domestick view and turne our eyes upon other objects their Language first next their Religion and as a farewell end all in a compendium of her Emperors I will offer you their Alphabet writ in their owne Character to which if I add somwhat of their present Language it may both shew thee the affinity it has with the Saxon in many words for from the Sacae a people neere Mount Taurus they borrow both Name and Descent and peradventure benefit the future Traveller Aleph bea tea sea Icam hea chea taul zaul. rea zea zean sheen saut zaud. ctea zcea. me kine phea caufe coffe Lom meam nuen wow Loomealephloy yea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cumque superba foret Babilon spolianda tropâ—oets English Persian GOD VVHoddaw the Sunne Afta the Moone Maw a Starre Nacosh the Sky Kabowdas a Cloud Sephyte the Earth Zameen Emperour Pot-shaw King Shaw Queene or Empresse Beggoon Prince Mirza Duke Cawn Marquesse Beglerbeg Earle Sultan Lord Beg Lady Conna Lords sonne Beg-Zedday Gentleman Awgaw Merchant Soldager Souldier Cowzel-bash Lord Ambassador Elchee-beg President Visyer Judge Cauzee or Caddi Justice Darraguod Chancellor Mordaer Constable Calentar Purveyor Mammandar a Christian Franghee a Moorish beleever Mussulman a Jew Iehewd an Armenian Armenee Persian Farsee Indian Mogull Georgian Gorgee Sarcashan Carcash Turk Tork A Church Dear a High Priest Mustaed-dini an Arch-Bishop Kalyph a Priest Mulai a holy man Hodgee a begging Fryer Abdall a Saint Meer a Prophet Emoom a Prophets son Syet Emoomzedda a holy Father Padre a Father Bobbaw a Mother Mamma Madre a Brother Broder a Sister Qhvaar a Sonne Zedda a Daughter Daughter a Boy Oglan Pissar a Girle Daughter a Mayden Whotoon a Cosen Choul a Friend Memam a Slave Colloom a Servant Marda a Foot-man Shooter a Groom Mitar-bashe a Cook Ash-pash a Butler Suffrage a Barbar Syrtrash a Physitian Hackeam a Doctresse Dayah a Mountebanck Shytan-Tabyb a Scribe Vikeel an Interpretor Callamaehé a speech or lang Zavoan a Mechanick Oastad a Man Adam a Woman Zan the Head Serry Hayre
secret 13. That the Pyree or holy fires that which Zertoost brought from heaven be ever kindled yea never extinguish till fire destroy the world And that he pray to and over it This is the true contents of the Zundavast which holy Zertoost brought from heaven Declare we now their Feasts Fasts Weddings and Burialls They are tollerated all sorts of meat but in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ' mongst whom they live refraine Beefe and Hog flesh they seldome feed together lest they might participate one anothers impurity each has his owne cap and if any of his owne Cast chance to use it hee washes it three times and forbeares it a good while after they observe six solemne Festivalls annually the first call'd Meduserum kept the 15 of Fere or February 2. Petusahan on the 26 of Sheruar or Aprill 3. Yatrum on the 26 of Mahar or May 4. Medearum on the 16 of Deh or August 5. Homespetamadum on the 30 of Spindamud or October 6. Medusan on the 11 of Adebese or December all of them in memory of the Creation and monethly benefits After each of these Feasts they eat but one small meale a day for five dayes after and whensoe're that lay men eat any flesh they bring part to their Eggaree or Temple to pacifie the Lord in that for their sustenance the lives of those good creatures are annihilated Now concerning the Fire they adore t is in memory of that Zertoost brought from heaven wherein they memorize the vestalls or rather in an apish imitation of the Jewish law the devill as neere as may be desiring to counterfeit the Law of God in the 6. of Levit. 13. where t is commanded that the fire that came from heaven should be ever burning upon the Altar and never goe out In Persia they had many Pyree of this vestall fire most of which were destroyed by Heraclius the Romane Emperour in his Warres with Kozchoes at that time Mahomet serving in his Army Some to this day are remaining having the Idolatrous Fire from 1000 yeares unextinguished In Indya also these banisht Persee have their Eggarees or Temples one of which is at Nuncery not farre from Surratt whose Fire has continued without fomenting this 200 yeares where note that this their God-fire is not composed of common combustibles as wood straw coales slates c. nor blowne by any bellowes breath of man wafting or like prophane things No t is compounded of sparks flying from a hot burning temper'd steele and kindled either by lightning from heaven by an ignis fatuus the beames from a burning glasse or such like for but such onely is proper for that their Antisbeheraun or Idoll fire But if it chance the fire have need of cherishing the Distoore and other Lay-men at 12 foot distance surround the holy Diety and after some gestures the Priests adds fewell and returning to the other people altogether worship it beseeching it that they may not onely give it due reverence but also honour solemnly all other things that resemble it as Sunne Moon Starrs and common fire which also they so divinely estimate that they hold it a most ungodly part to spet in it throw water into it or put it to any vile or unnecessary imployment but reverence wood and such things as it receives life and vigour from The Baptisme of these Heathen Idolaters is of this nature so soone as it is borne the Daroo is call'd upon who delayes not but being instructed in the precise time of his Nativity calculates his fortunes the Daroo invents the name the mother imposes it this done they all together haste to the Eggaree or Temple where the Priest puts a little pure water into the barque of a holy tree the name is Holme the place it growes in Yezd a Citie in Persia not farre from Spahawn where at this day are many of this religion who upon the mountaine Albors have a Pyree wherein is a Fire-god which has never beene extinguished they say from Gustasps time contempory with Abraham a tree Zertoost blessed and in this more memorable that it never admits of any shadow the water out of this holy rind is powred upon the Infant and a prayer made that it may be clensed from all impurity at seven yeares age it is confirmed by the Daroo and made to say his prayers o're the fire but with a cloath fastned about his head which covers his mouth and nostrils lest his sinfull breath might taint the holy Fire drinks a little water chaw's a Pomgranat leafe washes in a Tanck cloathes his naked body with a fine Shuddero or linnen reaching to his wast tyes a zone or girdle of Cushee or Camells haire about his loynes woven with Inkle of the Herboods making which hee weares ever after and after a short prayer that he may never prove an Apostate or prophane wretch but continue a Fire-worshipper eating no mans meat nor drinking no mans drink but his owne he is then blessed and held a Persee most warrantable Their Marriages in briefe are thus distinguisht into five orders 1. Shaulan or a marrying of two young children agreed on by each parents but unknown to the children the vertue being that if either die they goe to heaven 2. Chockerson a second marriage 3. Codesherahasan when the woman is her owne chooser 4. Ecksan when a dead body not being married before is married 5. Ceterson when having no sonnes he adopts his daughters son c. the Coremony this at midnight the Daroo or Priest enters the house they wed not in Churches finds the two parties to be married upon a bed together opposite to each other stands two Churchmen with Ryce in their hands the Emblem of fruitfulnesse then first one laying his fore-finger on the Brides forehead he asks if she be willing to take that man to be her Husband who saying yea the like rite and question is by the other Priest done to the man the Bridegroome makes a promise to infeoff her in a certaine number of Dynaes she replyes she and all she has is his the Priests then scatter the Ryce upon their heads and pray that they may multiply as Ryce the womans parents give the Dowry and eight dayes are spent in joviality and complement Their Funeralls are these They put the dead body into a winding sheet all the way his kindred beat themselves but in great silence till they come within 50 or 100 paces of the buriall place where the Herbood or Priest meets them observing ten foot distance attired in a yellow scarfe and a thin Turbant the Necesselars or bearers carry the corps upon an iron Beere wood is forbidden in that it is sacred to the fire to a little Shed or Furnace where so soone as some mistique Antiques are acted they hoyse it up to the top of a round stone building twelve foot high and 80 in circuit the entrance is only at the N. E. side where through a small grate or hole they
greatnesse Aben Babur Padshaw intituled prince of Maurenahar Balke and Samerchand but in the seventh yeare of his reigne is expeld his Kingdome by practise and conspiracie of Sha-Mahumed called also Sha beg chan who layd claime to the Crowne pretending hee was sonne and true heire of Aben-Mirza-hameth-cheque late Emperour being as hee said by craft stolne from his Nurse and conveighed amongst the Ouzbeag Tartars whence for some offence he had made hee fled with his lawlesse troopes enters Indya and attempts the conquest where after hee had tyrannized long time A.M. 5502. A.D. 1532. A. Heg 912. was in the yeare 1532 of the Mahometan account 912 sore against his will compell'd to trot the knotty path of inevitable destinie leaving no issue so that the Crown descended by right of Inheritance upon the eldest sonne of Aben Babur Homayon by name who suffered no small affliction by the malice and envie of Mirza Kameron his younger brother that confederated with Tzeerchan and by long practise forced him into Persia where he was royally entertained and after three moneths stay sent with great and royall succours back againe This also is remarkable the story of it is painted in Lohor palace that king Badur thirsting after the conquest of Indya disguises himselfe and thirty Noble men in his company in the habit of Kalenders or Friers as if they were upon a Rummery or pilgrimage The better by this craft to espie their advantage but being in Delly the greatest Citie of the Potan King could not so behave themselves but that Tzecander the King discovered them who pardoned them upon condition they would sweare never to attempt the conquest during either of their lives But when both were dead Homayon Baburs son entred dispossest Abram and Shec-Sha-Selym Secanders sonnes of the Diadem Howbeit Tzeerchan a brave Bengalan Prince fights against this new come Tartar foiles his Army neere Ganges forcing him into Persia where hee married the Kings sister and with her and Byram chan and two hundred horse and returnes is reseated in Delly and acknowledged King Homayon son of Babur great-grand-son of Termir-Lan or Tamberlain being re-invested with the Imperiall Title and Diadem of Indostan by meanes of Tamas the Persian King and returned triumphant by the overthrow of Tzeer-chawn the intruding King of Patan who anno dom 1550. and of the Hegira or Mahomitan account 960. died disconsolate Homayon I say after hee had committed his eldest son Abdul Fetta Gelaladin Mahomet a while after sirnamed Eckbar to the trust and care of Beyranghano chawn a discreet and valiant man being in Delly having one evening chawed too much sence confounding Opium hasting to his Orisons upon the watch-word from a high Tower suddenly he slipt downe forty steps or degrees which so bruised him that after three dayes torment he deceased leaving Achbar his son inheritor to his Greatnesse and miseries A.M. 5522. A.D. 1552. A. Hcy. 932 This hapned in the yeare of our Lord God 1552. from which time to this yeare out of our owne and Belgick fragments congested by de Laet I think it partly convenient with our other passages and observations of Indya to present these which to the observant may prove acceptable Ecbar having by help of Beyrangano-Kawn and Chawn-Channa his son dispeld some clouds caused by Abdal-Chawn was with solemnity crowned King or great Mogul in Delly after which hee bent his whole endeavours to enlarge his Territories and make knowne that he was verely the great grand son of victorious Teymerlan In the first taking full revenge of Hemow who had formerly chased Turdichan but three months after by mischance of warre comming under command of Badur chawn his head is cut off and eleuated in Delly and that Province for some time quieted then by Ally Cooclinchan he subdues Doab by some call'd Sanbal a Province surrounded by Ieminy and Ganges fruitfull and well peopled at that time Beyramgano-chan otherwise call'd Byramchan the Persian aging fast and tyred with the fopperies of this world having well discharged the trust repos'd by his old Master and finding Ecbar warie and valiant to regard the dignity of his Empire obtaines leave to spend the residue of his time at Mahomets Sepulcher in contemplation but in his Roomery in the way to Medina at Pathang in Cambaya is wounded to death by an obscure slave of his whose father he had formerly slaine so that by Abdal Radgee his son not fourteene yeares old and much sad company this great Captaine is brought back to Agray and there buried Ecbar laments his death though thought an Agent but nothing can recover him hee labours to forget it and spends some time in building the Castle at Agra formerly of mud but by him pull'd downe so altred that it scarce admits comparison through all Asia t is of durable stone polisht and so spatious that it comprehends three miles circular is built upon the pleasant banks of Shemeny circled with a strong stone wall moated and to be entred by many draw Bridges has foure brave gates many bulwarks and counterscarps to defend it Agray from Surat East seven hundred and seventy miles the Navel of Agraâ— the Moguls territories and Empresse of Indya has 28 degr 37 min. North latit is watered by Ieminy Iomanes in Pliny and Hynamanes in Poliaenus his 8 lib. Semiramidis which from Delly glides hither and commixing with Ganges flowes into the Bengalan Sea Agra was of old call'd Nagra and ere that Dionysia whence some say 't was founded by Bacchus but I beleeve it not partly in that Fettipore till of late no longer than fifty yeares agoe bore away the fame for beauty and grandeur and in that Bacchus sayes S. Augustine was contemporary with Moses in the yeare from Adam 2515 rather from the river Agranis which hence streams into Ganges as Arrian lib. de Indicis has it The shape is semilunary like London the streets long and narrow and nasty of seven miles continuance in part 't is wall'd about the ditch the remainder which too oft smels infectiously From Agra to Lahore through a delicate shade of trees are five hundred miles To Brampore one thousand to Asmeer two hundred to Surat seven hundred and seventy Radgee Rana the most potent and noble Prince of Indya at this time lost his strong and stately Castle Chyttor by treason of Zimet Padsha his substitute not content therewith till he had made many inroades into Gujurat in contempt of the Moguls forces Echar is glad of the occasion hasting with fifty thousand horse to be revenged Some months he spent in besieging it but so fruitlesly that he attempts the conquest by stratagem undermining the Fort and to the admiration and terrour of the besieged blowes it up with powder causing such a breach as himselfe and twenty thousand men immediatly entred pel-mel with such haste fury that Zimet the rebell perceiving treaty of no value gathering in one his Family consum'd himselfe and them in flames to
victory The death of these great men so afflicted the whole Armie that throwing away all hopes of conquest each man fled which way his fancie directed him Tzaitsi-chan Governour of Brodera excepted who thought it too great a blemish to his honour to turne taile having five hundred horse and three Elephants as yet lusty and couragious but what could his opppsition do when Saffin-cawn in person with his victorious troops affronted him to contend were madnesse and therefore upon intreatie yeelds and has faire quarter gives him but his example could work but little with Ma'met-Cooly his sonne for hee imagining his Father had done cowardly with forty horse and one Elephant flies to Abdul-cawn who received little joy in such an untimely expression being burthened with sorrow and disgrace but bids him do as he did flie to avoyd the swift rage and pursuit of the Enemy In the flight Motsaib-cawn is brought back to Saffin-cawn and Abdul-cawn by unexpected onsets of the Coolies and high-way roagues as also by intollerable tempests amazed beaten and discouraged hastens to Baroch next day to Surrat and after eight daies refreshment and some fresh companie to Brampore to attend Curroons command and make provision for reparation of his honour never till then so notoriously blemished BAROCH where the pole septentrionall is elevated twenty one degrees fifty five min. is a Citie of good note in the Gusarat Province Baroch distant from Surrat by Cosumbay and Periaw foure and thirtie english miles from Cambaya fifty foure from Amadavad a hundred twenty foure from Brampore two hundred and eleven or there abouts It is seated in a beneficiall soyle watered by Narvar or Nardabah a sweet and delightfull river which from the Decan mountaines commixing with the Tappee flowes through Brampore hither and at Hansot a Village eight course lower separates and makes a pretty Isle and a small houres travell thence in two streames foure miles asunder incorporates with the briny Baroch is visible by reason of her high standing a good way distant built upon the best advantages of Nature and Art both so excellently contending as makes it at first view seeme impregnable she is well peopled and with such as extract great wealth by land and water the buildings are generally submisse and low especially those below the mountaine In quondam times her royalties were more spacious as soveranizing over many Townes of quality a great way removed as Medapore seventy miles thence Radgee-pore or Brodera eighty Iownbasser thirty c. each of which now enjoy peculiar Podestates howbeit as Merchants tell us the Mogul has received hereout as annuall tax or tribute one Million two hundred and threescore thousand mammoodees or shillings in our money 'twixt Baroch and Amadavad is intombed Polly-Medinae a Mohumitan Saint excessively reputed of by the superstitious people who in way of meritorious pilgrimage flock thither loaden with chaines or stones and locking up their mouthes from speaking vanity by such penance to obtaine children health wealth or what they lust after But to our story A.D. 1622. A.H. 1002. Iangheer during these offenssive broyles resides at Fettipore and heares of Abdul-cawns presumption and Curroons new rebellions hee sleepes unquietly and can take no rest till both of them receive due punishment he calls Sultan Perwees his sonne acquaints him with his affliction gives him order to levy some forces wherewith to persecute his traiterous Brother and those out-lawed Umbraves that attended him Curroon rebells and is beaten Perwees intreating Mahobet-chan to accompany him with 50000 horse moves against Curroon by the way he imprisons Mirza-chan Abdul-chans sonne but lately to Iangheers grandchild marryed and by order is sent manacled to Ethabarchan in Agra castle to be confined whiles Abdul Azief-chan by Abdulchans deceit brought to Curroons party escapes submitts to the Mogul and is pardoned Curroon has notice of the approach of his enemies so that from Azmeer he hasts to Mandow to augment his Army with a setled determination to bid them battell Perwees followes him and pitches ten English myles from his brothers campe and next morning drawing out his men assayles him who at the first shock by mishap of Rustan chan and Berkendaschan falls back and lets the enemy possesse his trenches in a word Perwees has the day and Curroon flies to Brampore his old receptacle Ganganna noting Curroons sadnesse makes it an advantage of his treachery he perswades the Prince to send him to mediate a peace with Perwees with an intent to deliver him into his hands having precontracted with Beyrambeg and Darab-chawn to seize him who to that end had ambushed neere the river Nardebah 20000 horse but Abdul chan disswades Curroon assuring him of Ganganna's villany Ganganna escapes the conspiracy comes to light and Beyrambeg with his associate is loaden with irons placed on an Elephant and with some selected troopes leaves Brampore and flyes into Decan where by Melec Ambar glad of such confusion he is welcomed and seated in Nassier-Throm where he dictates patience his Elephants and men are sent to Daultabat till he recalled them Sultan Perwees and Mahobet-chan enter Brampore and here whither Curroon was travelled They give Iangheer notice of their good fortune and hee celebrates it with no lesse joy than as if hee had triumpht over a dangerous enemy But behold this faire Sun-shine of content is inveloped with an unexpected cloud of storme and danger I'hen Thouz an Ouzbeg Tartar of long time watching some fit occasion to forrage the Moguls Territories by Curroons unquietnesse spies it with thirty thousand horse overruns Chabul perpetrating all sorts of spoyle and mischefe Iangheer exclaimes and rages violently but so soone as hee had given vent to this his swelling passion he sends post to Zaed-cawn son to Mahobet-cawn Viceroy of Bange to retaliate him this young Gallant delaies not but with twenty thousand horse interposes 'twixt the Citie and Tartarr gives him so furious a charge that Ihen Thouz is afraid to suffer it by base flight leaving his honour halfe his men and store of wealth to Zaed-cawn and by his joviall troopes to be rifled after which they enter Tartary and as farre as Gassany burne spoyle and make havock of what they meet with returning with great wealth and many Elephants to Kabul where with all acclamations of joy they are welcomed and by Iangheer so accepted of that he sends Zaed-cawn many thanks and adds to his former troopes 5000 as an augmentation of more honor and benefit This cloud once over-blowne the Horizon appeares more glorious and Iangheer contemplates in what part to enjoy with his beloved Noor-mahall most pleasure Cassimeer at length gets the preheminence It abounds with variety of choyce sports but the progresse was long and remote from most places whence in those active times hee was to receive intelligences howbeit delight swaied him against all objections giving Curroon by that distance so faire an advantage that with all speed sending his Umbraves word to follow
One-ewch Charda or Chaharda Fourteene One-dewrt Pounzda Fifteene One-beash Shoonzda Sixteene One-alté Hawda Seventeene One-yedté Hashda Eighteene One-seckez Nouzda Nineteene One-dockoz Beest Twenty Ygarmy Yec-beest Twenty one Ygarmy beer Dota-beest Twenty two Ygarmy eckee Se-beest Twenty three Ygarmy ewch Char-beest Twenty foure Ygarmy dewrt Sounce-beest Twenty five Ygarmy beash Se Thirty  Chehel Forty  Pangoh Fifty  Phast Sixty  Haftat Seventy  Hashtat Eighty  Navat Ninety  Satt One hundred  Da hazatt or hazar One thousand  The Religion of the Persians THE Persian Religion at this day varies not from the Turks in any particle of the Alcoran and yet they account one the other Hereticks and are no lesse zealous and divided in their profession than wee and the Papalins a devision begun Anno Domini 1400 by a Syet of Ardoveil a Citie in Media the better to advance the Sophyan Title to the Crowne derived from Mortis Ally their famous predecessor cosen and sonne in law to Mahumet which Ally albeit hee had just right to sit as Kalyph at Mecca next to Mahomet yet in his despight three other men stept up before him and during their lives kept him in slaverie and withstood him These three Abuboker Omer Ozman are by the Turks most venerably accounted of but by the Persians as appeares by their cursing them in a prayer made by Syet Gunet as impostors doggs and hereticks whereby is sown such mortall hatred betwixt these two potent Monarchs that to Europs good they abominate each other with implacable hatred MAHOMET sonne of Abdar a Pagan and Emma a Jew was borne at Iathreb or Itrarip Iezrab in Postellus now Medyna in Arabia the yeere from the Creation 4544 of Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour 574 Iustinian at that time commanding the Roman Empire and Cozrhoes father to Hormizda the Persians His parents being mean and poore he was forced to serve an apprentiship and with much patience served Zayed-ben-Hartah a rich and famous Merchant who dying left his servant so good a legacie that Mahomet was thought worthy any woman in Mecca but by reason of those incessant broyles commenc't by Cozrhoe and inflamed by the Romans Traffick decayed and most men danc't to the shrill brazen sound of Bellonaes musick Mahomet amongst the rest serving for pay first with Heraclius and then the Persian not caring much who was victor so he was on the safest side by both their confusion to plot some way or other to advance himselfe both in a terrhen dignity and as a Deity nor did he erre in his prediction for what by his great estate and good fortune in the warres he soone threw off the qualitie of a common man and got a companie yea at length an Armie of so many Tattars and Arabians that he dared to assault the infeebled Christians and became victor yea by stratagem mingling with the credulous and gladded Persians upon a watch-word cut asunder and confounded the Persian Armie Which done hee blusht not to extoll himselfe to all his troops deciphering the misery of Persia and horror of Roman bondage acquainting them also with the great discord ' mongst Christians of that inhumane villanie perpetrated upon Mauritius by Phocas then Emperour his detested servant and of Pope Boniface's usurpation of the title of Universall Bishop contrary to the good will of all the World and what Pope Gregory the great had lately branded Iohn the Constantinopolitan Patriack with as the Antichrist in that sixtie six good Bishops of Rome from Lynus seven yeeres after the passion to that Pope then teaching never desired it That hee himselfe was ordained from the begining of the world to eclipse the pride of that Pope to instruct the world in a better and more plausible way than either Moses did the Jewes or Christ the Christians that hee was the Comforter promised yet sayes that he came to give his Law by the sword and not by miracles and to advance the Arabians name and dignitie above all other Kingdomes in the Universe The amazed Savages admire his boldnesse and though some thought basely of him most part hoping hee could effect his promises give credit to him and atttend his revelations But ere he could finish his new moulded work the inraged Persian suddenly steales among them and in memory of their late kindnesse retaliates them so fiercely that Mahomet to save his life posts away leaving the rest to the mercilesse furie of the Persian Mahomet with a sad heart arrives safely in Mecca Mocura and Munychiates in old writers the Arabian Metropolis but when he cals to mind his miserable estate by this last defeat being cheated of his moneys and men yea such men as hee had prepar'd to help forwards his ambition hee consumes in the meditation and by his faint-heartednesse and constant vexing had doubtlesse made Death his executioner had not Satan physicke him Some safer way he intends to take than in Mars his rugged fields so full of cost and blood-shed And therefore in the first place to solace his unquiet spirits inrich himselfe he laies seige to Chodaige or Aediga a woman of great wealth and worship by some thought Queene of Corasan whom after a few amorous assaults he won and of her begot three sonnes and foure daughters named Ebrahim Tajeb and Taher all three dying young Fatyma and Zaynab both married to Mortis Ally Om-Kalthom and Rachya wives to old Abuboker Mahomets stomack grew weak and one sort of meat begun to loath him Chodaige was stale and others fancied him he therefore purpos'd in his Law then in hatching to allow all sorts of carnall liberty and to incourage them by his example solemnly as Ben Casen a writer of his beleife sayes espoused Aysce the beloved child of his sonne in law Abubocher a child though Mahomets wife I well may call her at that time not exceeding six yeeres old yet so pliable to the delights of her wanton husband that hee calls her his best beloved and dictates a whole chapter to her praises so that for her affection to him her courtesie to others her witty conceits her skil in history and language she is intituled Mother of the Faithfull and contrarie to his tenet in his Alcoran in whose grave hoping there also to imbrace her Mahomet desired to be buried as was by old Abubocher afterwards performed His third wife was Miriam or Mamrya of whom he begot Ebrahim Cassen who at the age of six months by the arrow of grim death was directed the inevitable way of his brethren Zaynab the repudiate of Ben-Hartah Mahomets master was Mahomets fourth and last wife concubines hee had above a hundred but in any Author I find not named a Lady of singular perfection and so credulous of his feigned visions and that his epilepsie was caus'd by an Angells glory oft conferring with him that by all Mahomitans she is also named a second Mother of Mussulmen or true beleevers These his bosome friends and
may as justly tax me of neglect I will therefore but name them and reconcile some mens mistakes in misnaming these antique Kings of Persia Cyrus is the first we can deduce a true succession from For albeit they had Kings formerly of which Chederlaomer was one as wee read in Gen. and it may be the same whom the Persian Histories call Cheyomaraz father of Siamech to whom succeeded Owchange Iamshet Zoak Fraydhun Manucher Nawder Afraciab Achemenes some think Bazab Kaycohad Salemon Chozrao Lorazpes yet the succession from him is most incertaine and doubtlesse of no grandeur in that the Assyrian Monarchie begun by Nymrod sonne of Chush sonne of Cham sonne of Noah ecclipsed it and under whose command it lay for above 1300 yeares if Berosus be not counterfetted and from Belochus who deposed Sardanapal the last Assyrian Emperour of Nymrods race and Arbaces the first founder of the Median Monarchie a confederate with Belochus to Cyrus who advanced the Persians to a Monarkique greatnesse by subduing Astiages his Grand-sire transferd the Empire to the Persian as formerly the Medes had the Assyrian 260 yeares This change hapned in the yeare from Adam 3400 after the building of Rome 287 after the first Olympiad 50 and before the incarnation of our Saviour 567 c. Persia made a Monarchy by Cyrus Of Cyrus many memorable matters might be offered but I dare not enter the Labyrinth lest I wander so farre that I may chance to lose my selfe and your patience this only be remembred that this is that Cyrus of whom the Prophet Esay fore-told some hundred yeares ere he was born of him also Nabuchadnezzar prophesied beginning thus Ast ubi Medorum jus regni Mulus habebit c. That a Mule should over-runne Lydia fulfild in Craesus and subvert the Caldean Monarchie the word Mulus had relation to his mixture of bloud his mother beinga Mede his Syre a Persian Hee married Cassandana and by her had Cambyses that reigned after him Cyrus after he had ruled thirty yeares and in that time had added to his Empire Arabia Mesopotamia Syria Capadocia Phrygia Armenia c. hoped also to subject Scythia but neere the river Oxus was slaine by Tomyris the Queene of those parts of Zagathaya but upon ransome his body was delivered and convayed to Pasagard where Alexander found his Tomb but not that wealth he thought it had contained Cambyses ruled the Persian Monarchie but nine yeares of whose reigne is little to be said save that he subdued Aegipt after which he grew so luxurious and tyrannous that all men hated him his death was imputed to divine Justice for at Memphis hee committed sacriledge in the Temple of Apys or Anubys and broke the neck of that apish god set there by the idolatrous Aegyptians but at Damascus fell accidentally upon his owne weapon and dyed by it At his death seven Noble men or Magi of Persia severally contended for the Diadem for smerdis the upstart King was discovered by wanting his eares to be an impostor of which Darius sirnamed Histaspes who by the cunning of his Groome made his horse neigh next morne before the rest mounted the Throne and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or delivery of the Kingdome from the Magi from that time to Alexanders comming was annually celebrated Darius governed happily 35 yeares the last only was infortunate by that overthrow he received at Marathon by Miltiades the noble Athenian This is he who so much favoured the Jewes and Ierusalem his death was caused by losse of that battell at Marathon and that by it hee wanted Anthina's faire daughter This Darius Histasp I imagine to be the same Gustasp who first by imposture as else-where I have remembred made his people fire worshippers To Darius succeeded his son Xerxes by the Persians call'd Ardxer an infortunate Prince for howbeit he was in his time the greatest Emperour in the world and had a worls of men and wealth to obey his humours yet what by too much confidence in them and contempt of other Princes he reaped the greatest dishonour that ever befell any Prince of Persia for albeit he entred Greece with an army of 1800000 men yet could he not prevent an overthrow given him at the straits of Thermophilae by Leonidas the Spartan Generall who had not foure thousand men and by Themistocles the Admirall neere to Salamys was equally opposed and his whole Army confounded Afrer 20 yeeres rule he died and left Arta-xerxes his son his inheritor This Artaxerxes i.e. a victorious conquerour is in Persian story call'd Ard-xer-Bohaman and by Arabian writers Tama-xerxicas this is he that married Atossa or Hester the Jew in which book he is named Ahasuerus at the end of forty foure yeeres happy government he died and Art-axerxes sirnamed Muenon in his place was crowned King some insert Darius Nothus before him Artaxerxes sonne of Artaxerxes and Parisatys daughter of Cyrus ruled Persia forty and two yeeres and at the age of eighty was buried at Persepolis Artaxerxes Ochus his sonne succeeded him who also when he had governed cruelly twenty and six yeeres was hastned but by an untimely death after his Father Arses or Arsamus his sonne investing himselfe with the Persian roabs of rule and majesty Of Arses little can bee said save that he died by the hands of the Eunuch Bagoas his Fathers murderer after his Coronation foure yeere and in his place by meanes of Bagoas Darius Codomanus by Persians call'd Darab-kowcheck i.e. little Darius was saluted King him Alexander the victorious Greek orethrew in three great battells at Arbela Amanus and Granicus the last concluded his life and six yeeres reigne Anno Mundi 3640 Persia subjected by the Greeks of the Olympiad 112 of Rome 420 and before the Nativity 333 yeeres or thereabouts Alexander worthily sirnamed Great two yeeres after died at Babylon foretold by a Calan or Indian Gymnosophist in the three and thirty of his age of his rule twelve yeeres his heart was transfer'd to Alexandria his corps interd at Babylon Alexanders Legacy bequeathing the succession not to his owne issue or kin but to the Worthiest made Pyrrha's bones revive againe discord and pride and envie emulating every of his great Captaines who by this common Motto Virtus mihi Numen Ensis quern gero challenged the Empire and ceased not to lay claime till death and warres fury cut them off Seleuchus Callynicus sonne to Antiochus Theos by survivership after long stormes seeming to steare in that unruly Ocean during whose life and fifty yeers after the Greeks awed Persia Recovered by Arbaces a Parthyan till such time as Arbaces an heroyck Parthian broke that yaok of slavery asunder and for three and twenty yeeres did what was possible to revive the more than halfe dead Persians To Arbaces succeeded Methridates who ruled twenty yeeres after whom Pampasius twelve Pharnaces eight Methridatus Medus Thirteene to whom followed Phraortes call'd by the Perses Pharug-zed Artabanus call'd Ard-Bahaman Methridates
by the Persians he is sometimes call'd Emir-el memunni i.e. Prince of the feithfull By Fatyma Mahomets sole child he had Ocen or Hocem who after few months rule dyed poysoned An. Dom. 666. Heg 46. and was buried at Mosquit-Ally his Symbol as sayes the Iuchasus was Solus Deus potens Mavi soone after Hocens death slew 11 of his children the 12 escaped Musa Cherisim or Mahomet Mahodin by name from whom the Kings of Persia at this day say they are discended Mavi Lord of the Ben humian family when he stated himselfe in the Empire sent Susindus his kinsman with huge forces aginst the Grecians accordingly Suzindus beseiges Siracuse after that Byzanth but by Constantine the Roman Emperor is lastly slain and 30000 other rascall Sarazens that same yeere the Plague raged so terribly in the Mahomitan Empire that the like was never formerly amongst the rest Mavi expired aged 77 in his reign of Aegypt c. 24 his Symbol this as is reported Ignosce Precor To Mavi followed in the Empire of Persia and as Kalyph Yhezid or Iezed memorable in his veine of Poetry he it was that put the Alcoran into that bald rythme as it is now extant his venery and riot exasperated Mutar-Mavia-ben-Abdella so as at the age of 40 hee dyed having ruled 3 yeeres Mutar is quickly dethroned by Abdall-ben-Iezid a Ben-humian some are of opinion that Ocen and his 11 sons were slain by this Calyph Marvan after he had sat 9 months dispossesses him and hee by Abdalla againe But both by Aben or Abdalmelec were both both of life and Kingdome bereaved Didacus dethroned Melec Oyledore Didacus and Solyman by help of Iustinan the Emperour slew Oyledore Melec returnes from banishment and expulses Sulyman and most exactly tortured Mutarrs murtherers the Christians were the worse for this re-establisliment for he forraged Syria Armenia Thrace and in the 15 of his Empire dyed ordeyning Vbyt call'd also Vlitus and Evelyd-Miralminus in his stead this Calyph dyed of griefe that his Armies he bad sent into Spain were rebelled Zulzimyn succeeded him and him Omar-ben-Abdemazed depos'd by Yezid sonne to Melec the late Calyph Ebrahim succeeded him a Prince foole-hardy and infortunate After his death the Empire was divided 'twixt Gezid and Vvalel who with all the forces they could make invaded Europe thinking it a happy death in striviog to increase their new Religion Into Spaine went Vvalids Army led by Abdiramo Gezids part led by Sha-Rablan entred France the first had better fortune than the second they took Granada and so rooted themselves that till Ferdinand of late expulst them they there inhabited Those that entred France albeit they were incouraged by Endo Duke of Aquitayne who hated Charles Martell mortally were resisted by Martell and 30000 French Gallants Endo the West Goth upon better consideration syding with the Christians so as after long fight neere Turin a in Peidmont the Saracens were beaten and of their numberlesse company 300000 slaine July 22. 726. as Beda and others at that time living testifie the two Calyphs dyed of rage when they heard of their misfortunes Marvan was placed in their stead in whose time Hyblin his Generall purposed to invade Tartary with 100000 men but in the way was assail'd by Sophy-Salyn Saint Azmully's sonne of discent from Ally and Lamnoit the Arakosian and in that conflict was Hiblyn slaine Marvan vowes revenge and with 300000 Saracens he affronts Salyn neere Spahawn but is vanquished and 100000 of his men slain Marvan from Babylon fled to Mecca and thence into Aegipt but thither also Salyn pursues him and by his death gave an end to his inveterate enemies the Ben-Humians begun by Mavi by Marvan finished The family of Mortis-Ally or Ben-Abbas in this man begun agen to rule the Scepter of Persia An. Dom. 750. Heg 130. Abuballa a while opposed Saint Azmulli but in vain Asmulli at Cufe was made King and Chalyph of Persia This man reviv'd Mutar's tenents to the honour of Ally and disgrace of the three successours of Mahomet againe revived by Siet Gunet of Ardaveil as hereafter may be spoken of Saint Azmulli being dead his sonne Salyn is saluted King In three yeares he also dyed Abu-becr call'd Bugiaser Almansor followed him in his royalties An. 758. Heg 138 he repaired Bagdat Mahadi-Abibala succeeded him by some call'd Negmedden-Phidul Ally to whom Moses or Eladimirza father of that Amarumlus the French men prate so much of In his time viz. 798 Charlemaigne flourished and this our Isle altered its name from Brittaine to England 'Twixt this Amarumlus or Aaron King of Persia and the Christian Emperour Charles was great friendship Ambassadours and Presents were sent from either of them of which read Aeginardus his Secretarie This Aaron is thought to have dyed a Christian In his time many frantick Schollers in the sight of thousands of men threatned to flie but in the tryall from one rock to another dyed miserably Aaron after 23 yeares dyed and Mahomet his sonne reigned after him five yeares Abdalla after him who when hee had raged against the Christians and troubled the Ilands in the mediterran Seas dyed and was succeeded by Mulla-Cawn who also vext the Christians disturb'd Italy and dared Rome but he also suddenly vanished and was succeeded by these Kalyphs Vvaceck Almoto Montacer Abbas Mustead zem in whose time hapned the greatest Earthquake ever felt in Asia Almotez Moctadi-Bila Anno 875. Heg 355 Almet-Hamed Mutazed Moctifi-Byla Moctader Elhaker Ratsha Razi-bila Muctacsi Moriah Tayaha Kaderkamet and Mahomet-El-takert i. e. Gods servant in whom ended the Chalyphs of the Arabique or Persian Pedegree For then An. 1030 Heg 410 came in the Turquemen led by Tangrolipix first call'd into Persia by Mahomet the then Sultan to assist him against the Babilonians but after he had freed him from that danger desires leave to goe into Armenia to visit his kindred lately seated there and is denied an unkindnesse of such force that Mahomet ere he could appease the enraged Turk was forced to divest both life and Kingdome In him the family of Saint Asmully eclipsed till Sha-Ismael dispeld the interposing cloud and resuscitated the glory of his Ancestrie The Boyiaean Kings who begun Anno Heg 319 and ended Anno Heg 480. In the Iuchasin they are chronicled and at Shyras I have alreadie spoken concerning them The successor of Tangrolipix was Ottoman son of Ertrogul the Oguzian who in the yeare 1300 Heg 680. layd the foundation of the Turkish Empire in Europe and Asia The Turks and Tartars conquer Persia the Salghucian of the same extraction commanded Persia agrandiz'd by Togrul-beg sonne of Michael sonne of Salghucius sonne of Didacus a Turq'man Togrulbeg some say was slaine by treason his successour was Pharug-zed Masuds sonne slaine by Olo-ben-Aesolan Prince of Gasnehen to him followed Ebram-ben-Masud whose sonne Masud married the daughter of Melec-sha King of Turq'stan Masud from Coresan entred Persia with a great Armie and neere to Tabryz slew Almostarshed-bila-Caliph
Gentry by The better sort are habited in silke and a sleight sort of satten the meaner in black cloth made of cotton their coats or vests are long and quilted made to tye under the left arme after the usuall garb of Asia their sleeves are also very long and at the wrist very strait their shoes are many times of such stuffe as bee their coats and soaled with cloth or callicoes some have them richly imbroydered The greatest variety amongst them is in their head attire some knit their hayre in cawles of silk of horse-hayre some and some with fillets of gold or silver others weare high caps or felts made of fine twigs round and commixt with silk of divers colours and other-some an antick sort of hat high crown'd round one halfe without brim and tawny coloured The women are commonly modest and differ not in apparell in that a like vaile of white linnen wholly couers them shewing nothing but their polt-feet which from their infancy are straitned so as to make them alla mode many of them are maymed They tollerate Polligamy and Sodomy yea what else their lustfull idle natures can dictate to please their effeminacies They are generally crafty proud lasie jealous complementall and voluptuous Musick Poetry Painting and Stage-plaies delight them exceedingly they care not what they spend in luxury and fire-works they eat in porcellane and have their dyet in many but small dishes their meat minc't and which they take up with two sticks of bone or Jvory but some have their nailes so long as may excuse them for to touch their mouths or meat with fingers is held absurd and impious their drinck is commonly hot and by its tast and colour seemes to be such a Coho potion as they drinck in Persia they drinck oft and little The Louthya's are served on the knee and much regarded they all sit upon stooles and eat on Tables And albeit no Nation in the world is more idle and gluttenous yet are no beggars to be found there if he be young and beg the whip rewards him if old or lame or blind the Hospitall releeves him Murder they punish with death theft and adultery commonly with the strappado their Justice is severe and impartiall their prisons strong their executions beheading or starving them The Mandarins are honoured the Chyam's reverenced the King adored no Subject nor Ambassador ever sees or speaks with him save his children and Eunuchs except by petition They suffer Ambassadors or others to enter China so they bring presents of valew otherwise they suspect them as spies and no way honour them The Chynaes are curious in novelties and love to see strange Arts which they also delightfully practise few of them but has skill in some thing either in tillage making China dishes or porcellane to paint sing or play well the Mathematicks they affect the civill Laws they use not letters but Characters or Hyerogliphicks of which they have above 40000 they write neither to the right hand nor to the left as the Latin and Hebrews did but right downe and simmetrically they write with pencills made of horse hayre such as they also paint with their language is most part of monosyllables they be generally Poets and Musicians affected with Rhetorick and Divination The Schollers and Merchants in this republique are much more honoured than the Souldiers bee and some reason they have for it They are so cowardly lasie and tyrannicall No people in the world more honour their King than do the Chynaes they suppose him too glorious for them to look upon they obey his will in every thing they fill his Exchequor yeerely with above a hundred millions of crownes they call him The undaunted Emperour and great Lord of the whole World Son of the Sun and beauty of the whole Earth No people whatsoever expresse more filiall respect unto their Parents than the Chyneses do they obey them at all times and every where they do nothing to displease them they marry not without their assent their childrens Names are at their disposing they honour them bee they never so meane releeve them bee they never so poore at their death expresse all symptoms possible of their loyalty and duty and seldome mourne lesse in white linnen as did the Jewes than two or three yeeres the longer they mourne they think they the better expresse affection They arrogate all sorts of excellencies whether in Art or Science as peculiar to their Nation they think their Speech the most sweet and rhetoricall of any in the world what other people have they judge deducted and borrowed from their transcendent Notions They say they are the most ancient and immixt people in the Universe and borrow nothing of any other Nation They say they first invented Letters or Characters Guns Painting Tillage and Navigation yet in none of these for all their brags can they parallell us of Europe For their antiquity I deny not but they may have continued their plantation and without much mixture admirable if so for the Tartarrs and Siamits have oft over-runne them since the first seminary begunne by Sem in those parts yet may others in that point compare with them I might nominate the Bryttains for I regard not their Lies and Histories of such Kings as reigned or such Conquests as the Chyneses obteined long before the birth of Time a hundred thousand yeeres ago unlesse wee qualifie it by the example of the Arcadians whose yeare had but ninety dayes of the Massagers who had fifteen yeeres or of the Aegyptians who had twelve yeeres in one of ours following the course of the Moone and not the revolution of the Sunne nor regarding the Dies intercalares an error most of the Orientall Ethniques are plunged in Their letters are not so succinct as ours their Hieroglyphicks come short of the Aegyptians Their Guns are not so serviceable they have them not above a span long so that they rather resemble Pistols than Guns nor are their bore nor squaring so good as ours so strong so near so mathematicall Their painting is of good colours but their designing farre short of our invention they draw the postures filthily and shadow meanly which doubtlesse in painting makes the perfection Their husbandry is without Art or Reason the graine is good the soyle rich the Zone moderate and yet their corne is neither so various so good nor so certaine as be our Harvests Their Navigation is lame they build many ships but without beauty or service nor have they much skill in sayling their Logarithms and Mathematick instruments to take the height of the Sun by failing them their Compasse also is defective for they have but eight or twelve points at most to distinguish by nor is the Magnet till of late acquainted with them for all which they say they see with two eyes we with one and that all other people be more than purblind in sottish ignorance They delight excessively in all sorts of games and voluptuousnesse
to industrious men with which after threescore dayessaile much impatience and no lesse stirre to quiet the discontented Spaniards Columbus descried land that part call'd Guanahami but by Colon new nam'd Saint Salvador a part of Mexico very neere where Madoc had first landed a discovery no lesse joying them than as if thereby they had got the Conquest and Empire of all the world a Prize so worthy that from that yeare 1492 to this they have brought home no lesse gold and silver than all Europe enjoyed formerly Columbus died in the yeare 1506 in his fourth returne out of the Indyes But of his sorrowes afterwards and of the Spaniards ingratitude to him their pride to all the world and cruelty to the miserable Indyans thou mai'st satisfie thy selfe at large in their owne and other Histories An. Dam. 1497 Americus Vespucius a Spaniard before his Voyage into the Orient adventures South where with small toyle or studie hee found land enough but part of the Continent formerly discovered to glut his ambition howbeit as if Colon had done nothing in respect of him conceiting his endeavours more transcendently meretorious hee dares to call the whole Continent reaching almost from one Pole to another from his own name America injuriously assumed and unwisely followed by other Nations who if they had given every man his due had more reason to have called it Madocya Nova Brittania Colonia or Columba for to Noah's Dove he may be likened but we see by Epidemic assent the supercisious Spaniard has got the honour of it yea thrives better than did Bathillus the Poetastor who thought to have defranded Virgil of his elaborate Poem and some there be yet those not envious that wish his reward agreeable for they are Furtivi colores Americus you are cloathed with Magellan sailes more Southerly than Vespucius in the yeare 1519 thorow that Fretum or Strait with good reason called Magellane A hundred Others have since that laboured in the like harvest and reaped severall Epethites of honour memorizing and not unworthily their Names in fresh discoveries of Ports hills rivers rocks c. Only hee that most of all deserved it is diserted left out Madoc who sleepes in rest more happy in his lasting quiet than the bubble of vaine-glory Howbeit such as love his memory cannot passe by such living monuments of his deservings of which number I am one in the Indyes without some small Essay of their affections But I am neither able nor worthy to speake in such a subject and therfore wish a better Author who in a better method may revive him clearelier In magnis voluisse sat est Let 's homewards now for we have too farre wandred tired in a double Travell of scorching and intemperate Zones and of too great presumption in your patience S.E. Pyco E S E. Fayall E by N Gratiosa Flores E S E St George Loa dist Redituque sou singula gaeudent FINIS AN ALPHABETICALL TABLE WHEREIN THE NAMES of Men are distinguished by a different CHARACTER A ABbas King of Persia takes Candabor fol. 81. his rigour at Spahawn 160. Curtesie to the English Ambass 171. His severe Iustice 171 172 His cruelty to his sonne from 173 to 176. be conquers Larry-Ioon 187. Sheervan 200. His letter in favour of some English Gentlemen 205 described 206. depected 207. his Titles 208. paralleld with other Monarchs 209. his Revenue 225 242. domestique policie c 242 24 K. Abdalla slaine by the Portugall 315 Abdul cawn an Indian Vmbrave enters Decan 76. expulst by stratagem ib is made Vice-Roy of Kalpa and Khoor 77 destroyes the Coolyes ib. serves Sultan Currown in the warres of Decan 79. passes Bellagate ib. his sonne married to the great Moguls grand-child 81. made Generall against the Persians ib. and Governour of Goujurat 84. his Eumuch baffled 85. himselfe vanquesht by Saffy cawn 87. his sonne imprisoned 88 he takes Ioonpore 90. dissention 'twixt him and Radjè Rhyem ib. he is beaten from Elabasa ib. and at Brampore 93 forsakes Currowne 96. is disgraced 103 restored to grace againe 107 Abdulcheries Tragickend 202 Abdul-Fazel slains 71 Abubocr succeeds Maomet at Mecca 280. his young daughter marries Maomet and hee Maomets daughter 252. dyes poysoned 280. Accursed by the late Persian reformation 269 Abulghar 55 Acheen in Sumatra 298.323 Aden 31.110 Ad'smer 60 61 Aderbayan 56 57 192 Aelcama 286 Aequator 9 Aethiopia 15 Agamiae 224 Agra 59. the Castle built ib. and 62 described 60.153 Ahasuerus 167 271 Ahawaz 280 Aladules K. of Anti-Taurus slaine 288 Alborrs 186 Albuquerq 108 121 114 Alcabam Mecca 135 280 Alcanzar 266 Alexander the great 129 181 201 216 218 220 271 Alexandria 271 Aliavar 167 Amadavad 61 62 77 Amazons 11 Ambass of Persia poysons himselfe 35 Ambass of England lands in Persia 120 Ambass of the great Mogul 104 Ambass to the Persian 77 Ambass of Chynainto Persia 209 Ambass England dyes 204 Amber 332 Amboyna 321 Aminda 273 Amnadagar 67 69 79 82 Amrobant 148 Amurath the grand Seignier invades Persia 200 is forced thence ib. Anamogery 86 Ancira 277 Angels 264 Angola 910 Amewar 69 Annanas 298 Antipodes 6 Anti-Taurus 137.287 Auzar 57 Anzigui 11 Arabia 110.270 Arabique 111 Aragus flu 117.180 Ararat 151.185 Araxis 147.177.180.222 Arbaces 270.196.224 Archan 280 Ardaveil 285.292 Arecca 298 Argaric Gulph 315 Aria 281 Armagun 311.313 Armenia whence named 151 how devided 152. their religion ib. when converted 274 Aro 56 Aru 323 Artaxerxes 271.272.273 Arzan 184 Arzenion 285 Asaph 210 Ascension Ile 355 Asharaff 167.177 Assempore 86 Astiages 270.271 Assepose 148 Astra-can 179.180 Attack 98.100 Atlantiq ' Ocean 2 Atlantiades 8.15 Atlas 2.4 Atlas Maurus 223 Atropaâ—â—a 192 Augustus Caesar 271 Avicennaes birth-place 184 Aurdenagar 76 Author's sicknesse 222 Aurea Chersonesus 314 333 Auva 319.320 Aydar 286 Aygar 55 Azemia 224 Azfacher 286 Azores Iles 463 B BAb-mandel 31 Babur great Mogul 69 Babylon 216.224.271.273 Bacteria 192 Bacu 177 Badashan 58.65 Badur's Pilgrimage 58 Baezd 177 Bagdat 218. whence named 219.280.283 Balaam the Edemite 306 Balk 58.184.281.286 Balforac 110.113.290 Banda 331 Band-Ally 124 Bander Gumbrown 121 Banges 73.78 Bannians described 38. their religion from 41 to 47. opinion of the soule 122.46.303.304 Bannian tree 122 Bannaras upon Ganges 89.90 Bannarow 131 Bannasoed 73 Bantam 324 Barag 111 Barfrush-de 177.181 Barnagasso 30 Baroch 61.82.87.88 Barango 318 Baronta 210 Baruze 323.332 Bashra 280 Bassoweer 84.100 Battacala 299 Baetan 331 Batts 347 Baut 163 Baze-bacow 133.148 Bebey a Lady beats the Mogul 67. poysoned 70 Bedar 70 Behar 76 Bebat fl 69 Begun 66 69 Belgian Mount 210 Bellaguate 55 Bellizarius 76.79.94 Belochus 274 Belshazzar 270 Bemermassin 193 Bengala 331 Benjamin 63.89.90 94 99.312 Benomotapa 332 Berar 68. subjected 9 Berry 77.79.82.103 130 Berodach Baladan King of Assur 193 Beyramghano-cawn slaine 59 Bezarr 331 E'ildith 177 Bimberry high mountains in Indostant 66.74 Bindamir fl 134 Binny and Guinea 8 Bipilipatan 309 Biscay 2 Bisnagor 312 Bizabda 273 Bizanth 275.178 Bizdebode 215 Bobbaw-hodgee