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A30685	The four epistles of A.G. Busbequius concerning his embassy into Turkey being remarks upon the religion, customs, riches, strength and government of that people : as also a description of their chief cities, and places of trade and commerce : to which is added, his advice how to manage war against the Turks / done into English.; Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor. English	Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing B6219; ESTC R14352	216,533	438

THE FOUR EPISTLES OF A. G. BUSBEQUIUS Concerning his EMBASSY INTO TURKEY Being Remarks upon the Religion Customs Riches Strength and Government of that People As also a Description of their Chief Cities and Places of Trade and Commerce To which is added His Advice how to Manage War against the Turks Done into English LONDON Printed for I. Taylor at the Ship and I. Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard 1694. To the Right Honorable POWLETT St. JOHN EARL of BOLINGBROOKE And Baron of St. Iohn of Bletsoe My Lord THE Translator of this ingenious and most useful Piece not surviving to see it publish'd upon Perusal of the Copy I found the excellent Performance and Merit of the Work did not only deserve just Care of the Impression but also some Eminent Person to Recommend its Appearance in the World I embrac'd the Opportunity I had often wish'd of expressing in some measure my Respect and Zeal for your Lordship wherein I do but Comply with all Admirers of true Worth and Honour Every Body will allow that a better Guardian could not be Chosen for this posthumous Offspring and your Lordship will easily pardon my imploring your Protection of an Orphan The Historical Part of this Treatise is so Iust and Exact and the Remarques in it discover so much of Observation Experience and Iudgment that it seem'd a proper Offering for your Lordship's Acceptance who are particularly happy in a sensible and just manner of Thinking Nor has your Lordships Felicity Terminated in a true Discerning of Things you have reduc'd your Sentiments to Practice and prov'd the Iustness of your Notions by a singular and constant Regularity in your Life You have hereby brought an Accession of Reputation to the memory of your Noble Ancestors by preserving each Virtue of theirs with its utmost Lustre even in a vicious Age. You continue to convince the World that Temperance and Conversation Management and Liberality are consistent Virtues Prudence Iustice and Charity have carry'd an Ascendant in the whole Course of your Actions You have not only been happy in having early made Choice of a good Principle to direct you but in a constant Adherence to its Dictates You were from hence instructed to express upon all Occasions a Hearty and Noble Concern for your Country which is the true and ancient Test of English Worth and I must do our Country the Right to say they are highly sensible of it as appears by that worthy and just Character which is universally given of my Lord Bolingbrooke Your Relations and Friends have the next share in your Kindness and among the latter I may truly Rank all Persons of Merit You have declin'd no Opportunity of Obliging any Man of Desert and through your whole Life have not given Occasion to make so much as One Man your Enemy Wherefore I am safe in what I have said of your Lordship and the World will only forgive my saying so little in consideration of that Modesty which is Conspicuous amongst your Other Virtues Wherefore I shall only beg Pardon for surprising you with this Address and Permission to subscribe my self among the rest of your Admirers My Lord Your Lordships most devoted Humble Servant N. TATE The Four EPISTLES OF Augerius Gislenius Busbequius Concerning his Embassy into TVRKY EPISTLE I. SIR AS I promised you at parting to give you a full Account of my Journy to Constantinople so I shall now make good my Word and I hope with Advantage too For I shall also acquaint you with my Adventures in my Travel to Amasia as well as That to Constantinople the former being less used and consequently far less known than the later My design herein is to allow you a part of the Solace of what happened pleasurable to me for so the ancient Friendship betwixt us obliges me to appropriate no Joy to my self but to communicate the same to you but as for what happen'd incommodious to me as in so long and tedious a Journey some things must needs do those I take to my self neither would I have you concern'd in them at all for the Danger being now past the more grievous they were to suffer the more pleasant will they be even to my self to remember and commit to Writing You are not ignorant that when I returned from England after the Solemnization of the Marriage of King Philip and Queen Mary at which I was present as an Attendant in the Train of his Excellency Don Pedro Lassus who on that occasion was sent thither as an honorary Embassador by Ferdinand King of the Romans my most gracious Lord I say you are not ignorant how the said King Ferdinand by his Letters summoned me to this Journy I received his Commands by Letter when I was at Lisle on the 3d of November and I made no longer stay than to visit Busbec only to take my leave of my Father and Friends but taking Tornay in my way I hastned to Brussels where I met the aforesaid Don Lassus who spurred me on to the Voyage shewing me the King's Letters to him too commanding him to press me forward So that I immediately took Horse and made what haste I could to Vienna My Journy thither was very troublesome both by reason of my unaccustomedness to ride upon such inconvenient Horses as I could then get and also because the Season of the Year was not fit for Travel the Weather being tempestuous the Ways dirty and the Days short so that I was forced to borrow a great part of the Night and to pass through uncouth and almost unfrequented Ways in the dark not without the great hazard of my Life Assoon as ever I came to Vienna I was introduced into the Presence of King Ferdinand by his Secretary of State the Heer Iohn Vander Aa That Prince received me with the respect he used to shew to those Persons of whose Probity and Faithfulness he hath conceived a great Opinion He was pleased to entertain me with a large Discourse what Advantages he had promised to himself from me and how much it concerned him that I should undertake this Embassy and that speedily too for he had solemnly promised the Bassa of Buda That the Envoy he was to send should be in Buda without fail about the beginning of December next and for his part he was unwilling the Turks should take any advantage to break their Agreement upon pretence that he had failed in performing of his There were but 12 Days to the time prescribed a space little enough to prepare for a short Journy much less for so long and tedious a one and yet some of those ten Days were to be cut off too by a Journy which the King commanded me to make to Comora to visit Iohn Maria Malvezius for the King my Master thought it very advisable for me who had then but little Acquaintance in the Turkish Affairs to consult that experienced Person and to be informed by him ore tenus of the Manners

Children and Family He is extreamly Courteous to all his Subjects as if they were under his particular Care and Himself the Father of so vast a Family What poor Man hath ever desired his help in vain Who is there that hath not experienced his Liberality He thinks that Day lost wherein he hath not done some Good to some body As he is Beneficent to all so he is singular kind to his Domesticks not a Man of them can say that ever he was neglected by them He knows their way of Life the Deserts yea and the very Names even of the meanest of them Tho' he be so great a Prince yet he counts it not below himself at convenient Opportunity to warn the Negligent and put them in mind of their Duty and if they mend their Manners to reward them accordingly So that they depart from him rather as from a Father than a Master 'T is also his Guise his Custom when he hath been angry with his Servants for some Days when upon his Amendment he hath pardon'd him the memory of the Injury is quite forgotten he esteems them as much as he did before He Administers Justice with great Equity and that to himself as well as others for he thinks it unreasonable to prescribe Laws to others and break them himself or to punish them in others which he allows in himself His passions are conquer'd and confin'd within the Rule of Reason his Life is free from Hate he knows not how to be Angry nor to reproach others there is no Man living that ever heard him Backbite though they were none of his Friends He never speaks rudely of any Man and his Speech is alway honourable concerning them in their absence Probity is safe under his Guardianship but malice force fraud Evil and bad Manners are exterminated Offences and wickednesses duly punish'd The old Romans had Censors of Manners impos'd upon them to retain the People in their Duty but here ther is no need of any Censor the Life of the Prince is Censors enough he is an Example to all what they should fly and what they should follow Good and learned Men which may profit the Commonwealth he highly esteems with these he is Conversant and laying aside His Majesty Treats them Friendly as his Equals yea He Emulates their Vertues without respect whether they were Paternal and Hereditary or gotten by their own Industry With these he spends the little time he had ●eft from Publick Business These are the Persons highly Esteem'd by him as judging it a Publick Benefit to restore due Honour unto Vertue He himself being curious by Nature and desirous to know something worthy of a Man has always some Questions to propound the Learned and sometimes he interposes some witty Querks of his own to the Admiration of his Hearers Thus he hath got a considerable Stock of Learning so that you can hardly question him in any thing but he can give you some account thereof He is skilful in many Tongues first in the Spanish which is his Mother's Tongue next in the French German Latin and Italian He can Express himself pretty handsomly in the Latin yet not so but that sometimes he breaks Priscian's Head a Fault blame-worthy in a Grammarian but allowable in an Emperor What I have said of him all Men living know to be true but perhaps some impute this as a Defect that he is not so much given to Alms nor is not a Military Person For say they the Turks carry all in Hungary and we don't Help nor Relieve them as we ought we should have Fought them not Languages and joyn'd Armies in the Field that it might be known whom Providence would have to bear Rule I confess this Objection savours of Darkness more than of Prudence and therefore let me fetch the Matter a little higher I am of this Opinion That the Genius of Emperors is to be judg'd of rather by their Councils than by their Fortunes or Events and that by those Councils the Times our own Strength the Nature and Power of our Enemies is to be Regulated If a Common Enemy well known to us and Famous for no Victory should Invade our Borders 't were Cowardice not to oppose them if we have Force enough But if the Enemy be such who seem sent as a Scourge from God such was Atala of old Tamarlane in the Days of our Forefathers and the Ottoman Princes in our Age Whom nothing can withstand who lays all waste before him to Oppose such an Enemy with small and new levied Forces would not be only Rash but even Madness it self Solyman comes terrible I say by his own and his Ancestor's Successes He Invades Hungary with 20000 Horse he draws near to Austria and threatens the rest of Germany his Troops are fetch'd from the very Confines of Persia his Army is furnish'd with many Nations each of the Three known Parts of the World Conspire therein for our Destruction He like Lightning strikes down all before him with his battering Army of the Terror of his Name he roars and Hovers in our Borders striving to break in sometimes here sometimes there Some Nations of old when they have been threatned with such and such Potent Enemies have left their Native Country and have sought out other Habitations To be unmoved in small Dangers is but a mean kind of Praise but not to be Terrify'd by the coming of so great an Enemy who has laid Waste so many bordering Kingdoms seems to me an Herodian kind of Constancy Amidst these Dangers Ferdinand Heroically abides in the same Place he deserts not his Station but being of an unconquer'd Spirit abides in the same Seat and State He could wish his Forces were sufficient to put all to the hazard of a Battel and that nothing of Madness were imputable to him upon that account but Prudence doth moderate his generous Efforts He sees with what a great Hazard of his Faithful Subjects and the Ruine of all Christendom and unsuccessful Battel will be fought and that the Publick should pay for his Rashness is very unwilling he considers how unequal the Combat would be between 25 or 30000 Foot with a small number of Horse and 200000 supported with a veterate Body of Foot what Hopes there may be of Success in that Case the Example of former Times and the Blood-shed at Nicapolis and at Varna and the Fields of Mohach as yet white with the Bones of Christians slain there do sufficiently inform us 'T is the part of a foolish Commander without duly weighing his own and the Enemies Strength to rush into Battel where his Loss can be only excus'd with an unwise I had not thought 'T is all in all what the Enemy is with whom we are to cope wherein if you will not believe yet you may believe the gravest Author that ever wrote of Military Affairs such was Cesar he counted it a Happiness to Lucull●s and to Pompey that they had to do with a sloathful