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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42320	An account of a late voyage to Athens containing the estate both ancient and modern of that famous city, and of the present empire of the Turks, the life of the now Sultan Mahomet the IV, with the Ministry of the Grand Vizier Coprogli Achmet Pacha : also the most remarkable passages in the Turkish camp at the siege of Candia and divers other particularities of the affairs of the port / by Monsieur de La Gvillatiere, a French gentleman ; now Englished.; Athènes ancienne et nouvelle et l'estat présent de l'empire des Turcs. English	Guillet de Saint-Georges, Georges, 1625-1705.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2218; ESTC R13895	179,653	425

of Cavalry never ●ised but upon extraordinary necessity and ●ivided into four Squadrons One carries White and Red Colours another White and ●ellow the third Green and the fourth White under the Titles of Houlefigi Solk ●●uleifi Solk Hourebak and Sak Kourebak We could not find the least convenience to convey either our old or young people to the Camp all the Islanders being retired to the Mountains with their Cattel so that we were glad to make use of our feet Upon our left hand we left Policastro standing upon a Rock on the Shore and passed a small River called Armiro to Cazal de Gangra which we found burned down to the ground We heard the thundring of the Canon and though till within half a league of Gangra we had passed pretty well without any dismal conceptions of the War yet then we began to understand better and had no need of direction in our way to the Leaguer We could easily gues● where it was by the thick smoke that was raised by springing the Mines about the Fort of St. Andrew which was directly before us the Grand Vizer's Quarters was just in our way Then it was I began to fancy my self in Turky and to prepare my self to behold the splendour of the Ottoman Court and the terrour of the East ● and doubtless the whole force of the Ottoman Empire was assembled in that siege ●● would have been in vain either at Constantinople Adrianople or Larissa it self to hav● sought the soul that acted this great body The absoluteness of the Grand Vizer th● courage of his Troops and the gravity of his Counsel might well pass for the Grandeur of the whole Empire It is here therefore I must take the liberty to give a general character of their present State and particularly of their great General who commands it for 't is not possible to think of Candia but the Turks and their whole Government will immediately occur to our reflexion To give a deeper impression of the greatness of this Prince we cannot proceed better than by considering the number and quality of the persons who tremble at his displeasure apply it if you please to the immense Power of the Sultan when he makes any great preparation Malta trembles Spain is fearful for his Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily the Venetian anxious for what he holds in Greece Dalmatia and Friul the Germans apprehensive for what remains to them in Hungary Poland is alarmed and the consternation passes on as far as Moscovie and not resting there expands its self to the Christian Princes in Gonrgistan and Mingrelie Persia Arabia the Abissins are all in confusion whilst neither Man nor Woman nor Beast in all this vast Tract but looks out for refuge till they be certain whither his great Force is intended A strange torrent that runs with that rapidity from Spain to Persia from Germany to Aethiopia Vienna in Austria and Tartach near the Kingdom of Aden are become Neighbours and what say you of two of his Neighbours that have alwayes been at more than thirteen hundred leagues distance you have not often heard of such prodigious vicinity And yet for all this there being nothing so strange as the destiny of the Sultans who in this latter Age have governed this puissant Empire it will not be impertinent to explain it by the History of Mahomet the fourth the present Emperour Sultan Achmet Grandfather to this Mahomet IV died in the year 1617. and left five Sons Osman Amurath Orcan Bajazet and Ibrahim Of these five Brothers four were strangled and two of them after they were Emperours that is to say Osman and Ibrahim Osman succeeded to the Empire 1617 and was cut off by his Rebelliou● Subjects in the year 1621. Amurath succeeded him for the Reign of his Uncle Mustapha is reckoned for nothing and having taken Bagdat commonly called Babylon was the only person of the five tha● died a natural death Orcan and Bajazet were murdered by him according to the barbarous policy of those Emperours and yet as bloody as he was he spared Ibrahim looking upon him as a weak person and by consequence not dangerous Amurath dying upon his debauches in 1640. Ibrahim Father to Mahomet IV was advanced to the Throne and his destiny attending till he was Emperour before it would suffer him to fall left him over to the cruelty of his Janizaries who in a Mutiny strangled him in the midst of Constantinople in the year 1648. His Son Mahomet IV being but seven years old was received to the Crown and is the present Emperour 1669. having had in his Family three Uncles and his own Father strangled Ibrahim though plunged in the delights of the Seraglio more than any of his Predecessors formed his design against Christendom in the year 1644 being provoked by the Chevalier de Bois-Baudran a French-man who was at that time at Sea in a ship of Malta and happened to intercept a great Gallion which the Sultan had sent for Aegypt laden with very rïch Presents intended for Meccha There were also several Turkish Women of Quality and a young Boy that many believed was Ibrahim's Son The Boy was Christened in Malta 1656 and in 1658 took upon himself the habit of a Jacobin under the name of Dominik Othoman The noise of this loss alarmed Ibrahim in his Seraglio and incensed him so highly that the next year he fell upon Canea How formidable then ought the ambition and puissance of the Turks be when the softest and most effeminate of their Princes durst undertake so dangerous a War upon so small an occasion Ibrahim died four years after he had begun that War and left four Sons and several Daughters His Sons were Mahomet IV Soliman Bajazet and Orcan These four Princes were by three several Women Sultan Mahomet's Mother is alive at this day and called in honour Validè Sultan which is as much as to say the Sultanness Dowager Bajazet and Orcan are by another and their Mother is likewise alive but the Mother of Soliman is dead Soliman is second by birth a hopeful Prince and Bajazet as forward as he which recommends them highly to the Janizaries Orcan is of another genius more addicted to Piety and Religion and therefore as the Turks say good for nothing but a Priest but 't is possible his dulness and devotion is but a pretence to keep him from strangling by taking away all suspicion from the Emperour or rather from the Grand Vizer who Governs all at present and whose interest it is not to endure any active or turbulent Princes lest they should eclipse and perhaps ruine his Fortune Mahomet IV. has a scar in his face which scar he received from his Father the last year of his Reign and the occasion was thus This young Prince was brought up in the Seraglio among the she-slaves where till they are about twelve years old the Chez-adde are generally brought up Chez-adde is the name given to all the Sultan's Sons whilst their