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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60582	Remarks upon the manners, religion and government of the Turks together with a survey of the seven churches of Asia, as they now lye in their ruines, and a brief description of Constantinople / by Tho. Smith ...; Epistolae duae. English	Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.	1678 (1678)	Wing S4246; ESTC R4103	118,462	352

●●primatur 〈…〉 ane R. P. D. Hen. Epis 〈…〉 a Sacris Dom. ●●●7 REMARKS Upon the MANNERS RELIGION And GOVERNMENT Of the TURKS Together with A Survey of the SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA As they now lye in their Ruines AND A Brief Description of CONSTANTINOPLE By Tho. Smith B. D. and Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College Oxon. London Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard M. DC.LXX.VIII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Joseph Williamson KNIGHT ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES Principal Secretaries of STATE AND Of his most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL These Observations of Travels in Turkey are humbly presented by the AUTHOR His HONOVRS CHAPLAIN TO THE READER IT had been a matter of no great difficulty to have presented you instead of this short Essay with a large Volume if I had either affected or designed when I first took my pen in hand to have written a full history of the Religion Manners and Government of the Turks or had tho●ght fit to have stuffed these M●moires with accompts of things trivial and common which have been said too often already and which are to be met with in every little Relation But I was not in the least tempted to such a piece of vanity and ostentation and indeed I thought it very much beneath ●ne to do this especially when I reflected I was writing Letters to an Excellent Person who by his studies and travels and many honourable employments both at home and in forrain parts had acquired a perfect knowledge of the state of affairs not only of Christendom but also of all other remoter Countries and who deserved to be treated with greater respect and ceremony by me especially that owe the opportunity I gained of travelling into the Levant to his most obliging and effectual recommendation So that brevity was my choice and I was oftentimes more sollicitous and concerned to consider what not then what to write That I have done what I proposed to my self and have made good my pretensions neither my fears nor my modesty will permit me to be over-confident But I have this I will not say to justifie but to excuse at least my presumption and forwardness that if I had known these things to have been satisfactorily accompted for by others I should not have troubled either my self or you These accompts which upon my return home to Oxon I published there in Latine I am in a manner necessitated to translate into English tho with some few enlargements to prevent the doing of it by another which I had just reason to apprehend For a worthy person who has often condescended to this kind of drudgery for the publick benefit was so just and civil as to ask my leave to do it which I did not think fit to grant but whether for the better or the worse I must not say If the thread of a Church-man be perceived to run through the whole Relation I hope this will be so far from being a just exception or prejudice to it that it may gain some little credit and reputation with you upon that accompt if not the performance the design at least I easily perswade my self will not be disallowed It is not only to gratifie your curiosity but to serve you in better and nobler ends whereof this is the chiefest that being more and more convinced by such kind of relations of the brutish ignorance and horrid barbarousness of the Turks and of the dotages and follies of their worship you may the more thankfully and seriously reflect upon that most blessed and merciful providence which has cast your lot in Christendom and in a Countrey especially where the Christian Doctrine is profest in its primitive purity and integrity and where civility and learning and all ingenuous Arts flourish and are in their heigth and perfection The accompt of my voyage to the Churches of Asia all but the begining and end I wrote in Smyrna out of my Diary for the satisfaction of my fellow-travellers who were pleased to demand Copies of me And I hope what I have done in this kind will not in the least hinder any of those worthy and ingenious persons who have made the same tour before or since from publishing their Journals this argument being capable of continual enlargements especially in the matter of Inscriptions This would be of very great advantage to learning of which there cannot possibly be a greater proof than in those marbles which were brought out of Greece and the lesser Asia at the expence of that great man Thomas Earl of Arundel and which by the most generous favour of the illustrious Henry Earl of Norwich and Earl Marshal now serve to adorn the area about the Theater at Oxon and especially the Parian marble which contains the most famous Epochas of the ancient Greeks by the help of which many difficulties in History and Chronology have been cleared as Mr. Selden Mr. Lydiat the right Reverend and most profoundly learned the present Lord Bishop of Chester the most accomplisht Sir John Marsham and Mr. Prideaux the learned Publisher of the Marmora Oxoniensia have shewn in several instances And of what great use several other inscriptions are for the adjusting and settling the accompts of time and rectifying the Fasti Consulares will better appear when the Reverend and most judiciously learned Doctor William Lloyd Dean of Bangor shall think fit to publish those things of this kind which he has been pleased to shew me in his Collections An incredible number of marbles still remain behind in those parts and others are continually dug up the erecting of these having been formerly the pride and gallantry of the Greeks and what might be purchased upon no very hard terms if some excellent persons would be at the expence of enriching their Countrey with the spoils of the East I have often lamented the misfortune which drove me from Hierapolis after the short stay of two or three hours where I believe I could have employed my self for a week or fortnight to very good purpose and that neither my necessary attendance npon the Ambassador and the Nation nor my small stock of money afterward when I was at liberty would permit me to travel to Nice Nicomedia Ancyra Iconium and several other places where I heard were numerous and famous ruines but especially to Monte Santo as they call Mount Athos to look after Greek Manuscripts But I hope other Travellers will be more fortunate and better encouraged than I have been and will one day make the world happy with their discoveries and receive the reward of their generous adventures and undertakings when God shall restore them to their native Countrey Lastly I have added a short description of Constantinople which I readily acknowledge to be far from accurate and perfect not designing in the least when I was upon the place to have done any such thing and therefore I contented my self only to put down some short notices to relieve my memory I soon