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A50000	Newes from Tvrkie, or, A true relation of the passages of the Right Honourable Sir Tho. Bendish, baronet, Lord Ambassadour, with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople, his entertainment and reception there also, a true discourse of the unjust proceedings of Sir Sackville Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassador, and Sir Sackville Crow, former ambassadour there, against the English merchants, his contest with the present Lord Ambassador, and Sir Sackviles imprisonment, and in his returne, his wretched betraying the captain of the ship and some English merchants at Alicant in Spain, to the Inquisition : lastly his commitment to the Tower of London, where now he is.	Bendish, Thomas, Sir, d. ca. 1674.	1648 (1648)	Wing L94; ESTC R105	27,909	39

friends and greatest Custome that by forraigners are brought into the Empire These Grievances and my Lords Speech were all read over after the Kings Letter by the Grand Signieur himselfe and as my Lord was told by some of the great men hee liked them and was very much pleased at them and gave strict Command they should be redressed My Lord having done with the Grand Signieur he went through the Seraglio Garden with all his attendance to the gate where his horse stood and by the Chouze Bassa and his 42. Chouzes was attended back again to the water side and by Hassen Aga and his two Chouzes was attended home to his house After my Lord had been received with such honour and had gotten such firm footing he suffered not the Vizeere to rest but the next morning sent his Druggerman to him to thank him for his reall performance of his promise and as he had begun so he would proceed and in the first place that hee would grant his Majesties desires in sending home the Lord Crow secondly in confirming the Capitulations and let other abuses bee redressed according to the Grand Signieurs promise hereupon the Vizeere made a stop and called the Druggerman close up to him and said Have not I been as good as my word have I not done your Lord the honour befits him yet see nothing Goe tell my Lord except I see what I shall have I will not stirre one foot further Whereupon my Lord sent his Druggerman to him again to perswade him to trust to my Lords bounty but could by no means be drawn to doe more without some assurance wherefore after two or three dayes was spent and nothing could bee done my Lord sent him this Letter My Lord I Pray tell me the Cause why a week is nere past and no redresse of our Grievances if you intend that Justice should be done us which the Grand Signieur hath promised why is it delayed when it shall be required why the ships come not in what shall I reply where shall I lay the fault I can have Justice done me but had rather by your hand then anothers I pray let not your delayes make me jealous of the future performance but give accomplishment to the businesse To this after he had well perused it hee said If you hang me I will not stirre a foot further After which my Lord let his Druggerman tell him that if he performed these Conditions following Hee heard him say he would give him in way of Gratuity 20000 l. 1. That the Man-sold Ambassadour be immediately sent away in a Barke or Gally to Smyrna and there put aboard an English ship to be carried according to the King of Englands command into England 2. Secondly that the new Ambassadour now established bee brought to the publike Divan and there feasted according to the usuall honour of Ambassadours 3. That the Capitulations bee immediatly confirmed by the Grand Signieurs Hattesherife 4. That satisfaction be speedily made to the English Merchants in this Port for all those goods which were contrary to Capitulations taken from them and also that a messenger be sent to Alleppo for the Jew Customer Cachans together with his Kinsman David for to answer for contemning the Grand Signieurs Hattesherife and make satisfaction for the injury done the Merchants there 5. Fiftly That some course may be taken that all such grievances may be forthwith redressed which are mentioned in the Lord Ambassadours Complaint to the Grand Signieur These Articles the Vizeere liked and agreed they should bee performed and hee would not have an Asper untill all was done but said he I will have two Merchants bound to me that my Lord shall give me the money when all is done For this purpose two of us went having the Papers ready but being late that night could not doe it but promised the next morning so soon as they could come it should be done and so questionlesse it had but now see a most unfortunate accident that we must act our own destruction for when the Market was so starved that all the Jewes Turkes and even the Grand Signieur himselfe cryed out for the English ships to come in which my Lord would not suffer untill his Conditions were granted the Councell of Smyrna being scared with a protest which D. Edwards made to have goods out of the ships consigned to Jews at Constantinople suffered 19. Cases of Silke and seven packs of Clothes to be landed and carried up to Constantinople which at this very time so supplyed the market and stopped their mouthes that the next day when the Merchants came to seale he told them Except they would make an absolute bond without Conditions that they owed him 20000. l. he would not meddle with the businesse but bid them do what they could This unexpected mischiefe when my Lord had wrought all his ends into so fine a condition to bee on a sudden so dashed in pieces was too great a trouble to my Lord and us all for the Jewes and all people laughed at us and told the Vizeere that if he would be patient the ships would unlade themselves whether my Lord would or not so that the evill report which this bred was worse then the supply of the Market for all believed it Now what to do and which way to begin to act was no small trouble to my Lord at last my Lord resolved to try him with another Letter or Arrs as followeth My Lord I Beseech you tell me what you thinke of me whether I have so little regard of my Kings honour and my owne reputation that I can remaine in the Port where a man-sold Ambassadour is maintained and backed to affront and scorn me and that authority which the Grand Signieur and your selfe have approved as just What is it to be vested graciously accepted by the Grand Signieur and promised redresse of injuries if nothing be performed if you believe I have truth or honour in me upon my faith doe me that Justice you ought or I shall appeale to the Grand Signieur if there I find no reliefe I must with my Merchants leave the Port and Nation So this the Vizeere said well let your Lord bee patient a little while and his businesse shall be done In this smooth delatory answer was more cunning expressed then before for delayes ruine us which he knew well enough and his kind Reply tooke us from complaining against him All this while the ships lay at great charges for demereage the goods in them like to rot or receive much Damage and if they stayed out past the little Bycam the cloth would not sell this yeare besides the Merchants at a Gaze and all Trade stopped all these inconveniences being considered wee valued every day delayed at 1000. l. wherefore my Lord being much troubled because he knew not how to helpe us for delayes must not be admitted besides my Lord Crow swelled with conceipt to see us in this extremitie who being

NEWES FROM TVRKIE OR A true Relation of the passages of the Right honourable Sir Tho. Bendish Baronet Lord Ambassadour with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople his entertainment and reception there ALSO A true discourse of the unjust proceedings of Sir Sackvile Crow former Ambassadour there against the English Merchants his contest with the present Lord Ambassadour and Sir Sackviles imprisonment and in his returne his wretched betraying the Captain of the ship and some English Merchants at Alicant in Spain to the Inquisition Lastly his Commitment to the Tower of London where now he is LONDON Printed for Humphrey Blunden and are to be sold at his shop in Corn-Hill next to the Castle Taverne 1648. To the Reader SIR Sackvile Crow a quondam servant and favourite to George Duke of Buckingham was of late yeares sent over by his Majesty as Ambassadour to the Great Turke for transacting the affaires of our English Merchants in his Dominions residing Of his good or evill Deportment before our Domestique quarrels began wee have no will to inquire but shall begin our discourse from that time when our Merchants were most sensible of his injurious oppressions of them and of his Deviation from that especiall trust which was reposed in him by the King his Master for their protection and advantage At first Sir Sackvile began to burthen their goods with heavy and unaccustomed impositions which they not resenting hee to aggravate a more full mischiefe upon them imprisons their persons threatens their lives c. But well knowing these tyrannicall actions would be questioned by his Majesty the King of England and that the Merchants being men of active spirits and able performances would seeke redresse and complaine Hee most abusively pretends a new Letter from his Majesty to the great Turke dated Newcastle 24. Septemb. 1646. to assist the sayd Sir Sackvile in his further unjust proceeding against our Merchants But neither did his Majesty send any such new Letter unto the Grand Signieur or give unto the sayd Sir Sackvile Crow under his Royall Signature any other Commission so to abuse and undo his loyall subjects For His Majesty most graciously upon Complaint from the Merchants of Sir Sackviles misdemeanours revoked the Credentiall Letters formerly given unto him and newly elected and admitted as his Ambassadour unto the Grand Signieur a person of fortune and honour by name Sir Thomas Bendish Baronet The many disturbances which this worthy Gentleman encountred with at his first Arrivall in Constantinople by meanes of Sir Sackvile his disobedience to his Majesties Letter of revocation and his scandalous aspersions upon the Actions and person of the Lord Ambassadour were I say enough to have disheartened even an assured resolution and inforced a Recesse from so hazardous an employment among such rigid and harsh people as the Turkes are but his Lordship being of an invincible spirit and maturely considering how farre his Majesties and the Nations honour and welfare of the London Merchants were concerned herein by admirable resolution at last obtained the person of Sir Sackvile Crow and then shipt him for London where at present he stands committed to the Tower His Lordship since his happy investure lives amongst the Turkes in great estimation and honour equall if not superiour to any former Ambassadour continually as occasion is offered assisting the industrious Merchants betwixt whom and his Lordship there is a very amiable Compliance I might justly by way of aggravation unfold the great incivility of Sir Sackvile Crow in inciting his Lady at Alicant in Spaine as they returned for England there to complain unto the Inquisition that shee and her husband were Catholiques and inforced against their wills to become Protestants whereupon the honest Captaine and his Mate who civilly went ashore with her were detained Prisoners and so also many of our English Merchants not yet released But the discourse will best manifest the truth thereof attested by the hands of those Merchants now suffering W. L. A true Relation of the Cariage of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Bendish Barr. Lord Ambassadour with the Grand Signieur at Constantinople together with his Letters and Arres he sent abroad to severall of his Opposers in his Embassie TWo dayes before his Lordship came to Brushia for he came from Smyrna overland Mr. Lancelot the Agent sent him a Letter that hee Vizeere was cut off withall telling him that hee had sent to this new one to congratulate him in his place and did intend by his leave to visit him within three or foure dayes and Distill our Case into him with the best Oratorie he had withall telling him that he was a Rugged harsh man and not likely to favour our Cause Hereupon my Lord considering how little need the Company had of this unnecessarie charge did forthwith dispatch a Post to him with a few lines to this purpose That he would not have him upon any tearmes to make a Visit nor act in any businesse further for it was not fitting nor would be expected his Lordship being so neer the Port he told him that the distilling the Case into his head was crosse to his Lordships designe who came peremptorily to demand justice and cared not whether the Vizeere were good bad or indifferent But before this Messenger could arive him he had not only visited him with a good present but to my Lords great vexation future trouble had delivered in the Hattecherife which cost us not lesse then 40000 l. to intangle Sir Sac. Crow for the words of the Hattecherife under the Grand Signieurs hand which is as the Law of the Medes and Persians were these let the Ambassadour have no more to doe with the English Nation while this was in our hands he could never stirre against us nor durst publike ministers suffer him but just now without if not contrary to advice against my Lord should set foot on this shore our chained enemy is let loose upon him and indeed but that my Lord could not find any designe he had in it but meere want of resolution and judgement the world could never have perswaded him but that the Agent had done it on purpose for Sir Sack Crow straightwayes provides a very great present and with full attendance goes to the Vizeere the day before my Lord arrived with confidence hee should bee yested which had been re-establishment but was deceived The next day being the 16. September my Lord early in the morning having come all night by Sea in a Boat arrived here and after hee had reposed himselfe some houres went together with the Agent in his Coach attended by his Retinue and us to that house the Agent had provided for him The next day my Lord calls a Court and resolved there to send Mr. Agent to the Vizeere to demand Audience for him of the Grand Signieur and to tell him hee could not expect justice from him who had broke open the Merchats houses but three dayes bofore his comming and had taken out

my Lord arived when he sent the Agent to the Vizeere he sent a Copy of the Letter of revocation from the King inclosed in this by two of his servants reserving the Letter it selfe for his own delivery SIR OTherwise then intended I understand by my servant you have not received any satisfaction but discontent rather by my Letters in answer to yours wherein I averre the truth of my Employment hither from his Majestie with the greatest pawne I had or ever shall which had I been such in your thoughts as your Letters expressed might have borne as in my case with you it should sway sufficient Wherefore Sir being commanded by the King my Master to deliver you his Letters of revocation my selfe I detained them to fulfill his Command and the Copy of them being confident if that ingagement could not gain Credence from you the Copy could not and although I am not bound to deliver neither the one nor the other but in what time I shall thinke most convenient yet I shall not be so reserved but doe here inclosed send a Copy of the Kings Letters to you the originall whereof I came hither resolved immediatly to deliver with my own hand had not your jealousie of me together with your daily actions and high expressions taught me to be cautious of you and your proceedings and to reserve it for another place and time I as I heare you report you have any Letter from his Majestie to me of Revocation I shall take a Copy thereof kindly and returun you my thought thereof which favour from you will much oblige My Lord Your friend to serve you T.B. Pera. Constantinople 17. September 1647. WHen they remembred my Lord Ambassadours love to him he told them they were welcome as from Thomas Bendish but not as Ambassadour he opened and read them and said that the Copy he read he could not believe to be the Copy of the Kings Letter that in the very first line or two there was a double contradiction and that the whole frame stile matter and language was so unlike those of his Majesties that if the Originall was not better then the Copy he should not care a rush for it and that he could not believe Sir Thomas Bendish had any such Letter from the King of England and therefore could not receive him as Ambassadour that hee would further consider of the Letter and if hee thought convenient would send him answer by some of his owne poelpe within a day or two which he did but that being so Tedious containing nothing but false surmises and daring expressions from the businesse so that as my Lord thought it not worthy his answering so wee conceive it not convenient to trouble your patience with it in this place Now the next thing that my Lord aimes at is for a faire and sitting Audience with the Vizeere who offered him to come when he pleased but my Lord was privatly informed he intended an affront by not Vesting him My Lord at a Court then holden desires six of us might be chosen to meet constantly to advise with him When it was agreed that the best way was privately by two or three of the Merchants to found Aronomone the Vizeers Jew after much debate with him for the space of foure houres telling him except my Lord were sure of his dues he would come without a present at last he promis'd that he should be Vested with his son and at least one or two more Hereupon he sent to the Vizeere that he would visit him upon Thursday the 23. September having been just a week in town and in the mean time had neither been sent to by the Emperours Agent the French Ambassadour nor the Lord Bayliffe only the Dutch Merchants did whose Agent is not yet conformed but will see what successe wee have for Sir Sackvile Crow hath wrought all those firme to him Now was the Town full of expectation nothing talked of but our businesse On Thursday about twelve a clock with all the Merchants and my Lords retinue my Lord went to the Vizeere who being set before he came stirred not from his seat neither did my Lord mind him untill he was set as well as the Vizeere Then he spake to him to this effect that the King of England saluted him and wished him health and happinesse and had sent him his Ambassadour to keepe his Merchants and subjects from doing and suffering wrong and commanded him to indeavour to keep and uphold the Peace between the Nations and also to give thankes for the Justice the Vizeere shewed to the Merchants when the Ambassadour would have ruined them and also to desire him to send the said Ambassadour home that the King his Master hearing their Difference might judge him according to merit and while he was saying this hee presented the Kings Letters to him which he read before us to this the Vizeere replyed that the old Ambassadour had Letters and did pretend to be Ambassadour as well as his Lordship and hee knew not how to decide the businesse but must heare them both together to which my Lord answered My Lord you mistake me I come not hither to be judged neither is it for my honour to appeare here with that man which your own Lawes have judged unworthy neither may I countenance him without the just displeasure of the Grand Signieur the French Ambassadour also said the Vizeere could say something in the Cause The French Ambassadour said my Lord hath nothing to doe with our State have you a Letter to the old Ambassadour said the Vizeere from the King of England I have said my Lord which I desired to deliver him before witnesse therefore he asked him for two Chouses you shall have it said the Vizeere but give mee the Letters and I will deliver them my selfe My Lord told him hee could not for the King his Master commanded him to deliver them with his own hand then said he I will send for him hither if you doe so said my Lord I will have no Contract with him I hope those Letters will witnesse the truth of my Embassie Yes said he I believe you are the true Ambassadour but I would heare him what he can say and see the delivery of the Letters and I will soon end the businesse doe so if you will said my Lord and I will stay here till he come so hee was immediatly sent for but he excused saying he had taken physick that day but to morrow hee would come at one a clock when my Lord heard that he said My Lord doe not you by these Letters acknowledge me to be the true Ambassadour yes said he then what need you trouble your selfe further with him said my Lord upon this he knew not what to say but rose up on a sudden to be gone saying he must speak with Sir Sackvile Crow When my Lord perceived he would not Vest him hee desired him to speak one word more then he sate down again

my Lord but came no further with him then the middle of the roome where at first my Lord found him Now the next worke my Lord indeavoured was to get to be Vested by the Vizeere and obtain Audience with the Grand Signeur to this purpose he sent his Druggerman to hasten it the Vizeere alwayes after this sent him good words as that all things should bee done to his minde and wished him not to bee troubled with any thing and so protracted time from day to day All this time my Lord Crow is not idle although he keeps his house yet he employes the French Agent and the Venetians whose Druggerman Gryllo is alwayes attending upon the Vizeere and feeds him with moneys and presents to work us out the French Ambassadour talkes with the Vizeere privately and but that my Lord Crow and the Vizeere told my Lord he had to doe in the businesse my Lord would scarce have taken him for his enemy yet one day he was heard to tell the Vizeere my Lord had offered my Lord Crow 30000 l. to be gone out of the Country by which said he you may judge the truth of his Message and withall told him that the King of France his Master would be much troubled if he should change this old Ambassadour for the new and this report that my Lord would give the Lord Crow money to depart hence was not only sent to him by the Vizeeres Jew but by the Kogag which my Lord to vindicate himselfe and make appeare to the world how much hee detested such by-wayes he was forced to write this Warrant in Italian and send it down to Gallatta by two Janisaries and a Druggerman pro forma and fix one upon the Treasurers house the other upon Mr. Pearles house that all Jewes Merchants might take notice of it FOrasmuch as we are Credibly informed that there are divers false lying and scandalous Reports cast upon us that wee should by our selfe or some other person offer to treat with the man-sold Ambassadour for a certain summe of money to send him out of this Country withall saying that we had rather give money to him then to Turks We doe hereby declare that wee doe so farre abhorre all such sinister and dishonourable proceedings and speeches that wee affirme them lyers that report it and doe hereby Command and Require that no person under our charge make any Treaty with any man in our behalf letting them know that if we shall find that any such Treaty or Contract directly or indirectly be made with any person whatsoever for the worth of one a' to establish us Ambassadour in this place we are resolved and do publish that we will forthwith not only severely punish but send them off this place for if by that power that sent us hither wee cannot bee established wee are resolved rather to returne from whence wee came then by such dishonourable tearmes both to the King of England my Master and our selfe to purchace it Given at Pera d' Constantinople this 2. October 1647. Thomas Bendish And because the French Ambassadour was so busie sent him this Letter SIR I Cannot see how it is consistent with the League between the two Crowns of England and France that you a French Ambassadour should intermeddle with much lesse oppose the actions of the King of England my Master Your opposing me in my Embassie and countenancing the man-sold Ambassadours proceedings against my Authority I hope you doe it not without Commission yet mee thinks if it dare looke upon the Sunne as all which comes from Kings dare it becomes you not so secretly privately to act Know that I am ready to meet you before any Minister of State here both to heare and as occasion serves to answer what you can object against me but be confident while I am in this place I must know as befits me that power which dares oppose my Master to whom a strict account must bee rendred by him who is as farre as with honour he may My Lord Your friend to serve you T. THe Venetian Baliffe being guilty of his neglects towards my Lord and perceiving he understood of his Merchants actions his Druggermans dilligence sent by my Lords Druggerman this private Message That he hoped my Lord tooke no distast at him who is confined to his house and had no notice of his comming and that he heard my Lord tooke distast at his Merchants as actors against him if my Lord pleased to let him know who they were he would make them or would himselfe give my Lord satisfaction My Lord sent him this answer That for his own person as hee was a Prisoner he could not expect his Visit yet if he had born respect to our King or love to our Nation he would have sent a salute to him before this time having been a fortnight in this Port. As for his Merchants that should oppose him he wished him to looke to them himselfe for if he found them faulty as he believed he should he would take his time to make them repent it But for all his threats to them he knew not how lyes might worke with the Vizeere wherefore he sent to him this Arres and to divers great men about the Town that if possible it might reach the Grand Signieurs eares MY Lord I cannot out of my well-wishes to you and the good of this State but give you this timely information that the Venetians and the French doe endeavour both by moneys and all incouragements to maintain the Man-sold Ambassadour against me and that Regall power which sent me hither thereby to make a breach between this and the English Nation and so to advance their own designe which either by Peace or Warre will prove very prejudiciall to this Emperie besides the Consideration of the great Trade our Nation brings to supply the Emperie Whether you had rather have it by the hands of Enemies or Friends if they could maintain it I leave your wise consideration none obstanding that the said former Ambassadour being proved to be an oppressor the Grand Signieur deprived him from the Charge of the Embassie with his Hattesherife for which his Majestie of England with his Letters now sent by me his Ambassadour doth give him many thankes therefore From the Venetians he never heard word since nor from the French Ambassadour although he told my Lords servants he would answer him in writing but wee heare he is so troubled in mind the truth being so apparent that he cannot deny it and what title to give my Lord he cannot resolve if hee acknowledges him Lord Ambassadour he hath said the contrary to the Vizeere and so gives himselfe the lye if no Lord and he should be Confirmed he makes my Lord his enemie for ever But to our businesse whilst my Lord is thus deluded and fed with faire words all attempts are made and Traps laid how to get my Lord to compound himselfe by monies into his rights and

dues the Vizeeres Jew hath tempted us the Merchants the Kogag hath spoke to my Lords Drugerman many times that if he would not come off his businesse would never bee done My Lords Druggerman told him alwaies that my Lord would sooner lose his life then come in upon such dishonourable tearmes My Lords Drudgerman being sicke on Sunday the third of October he sent Master Juate and another Merchant to tell the Vizeere so and that he sent them to receive his Message he gave them no answer but this Bid the Druggerman come to mee on Tuesday This vexed my Lord but he was resolved to try another day on Tuesday the Druggerman went to him and then he told him plainly that he could not decide the Controversie between the two Ambassadours but must send a Chouze for England as soon as my Lord perceived he had delayed him all this time for this hee presently wrote him this Letter or Arrs and sent him the next morning My Lord I Am the first Ambassadour from England that ever presented Letters from the King and a present to a Vizeere that were returned with such dishonour as my selfe from you It becomes not mee neither came I hither to plead my own rights having Letters from so great and powerfull a King as the King of England and thousands of witnesses besides all the Merchants in these parts and hundreds of ships to maintain the Truth of this Embassie especially against such a man whom the Grand Signieur hath mansould with his Hattesherife and the Mufte declared that by your own Lawes you cannot restablish him Ambassadour And his Majesty hath discharged and you cannot believe any thing for truth hee speakes Your faire promises have of late overcome my patience I must not now be longer delayed the honour of my King and therein my own life and Reputation lye at stake wherefore if you will not honour me your selfe excuse me if I desire nay require your assistance for my speedy Audience with the Grand Signieur for to his justice do I appeale if you refuse me this then blame me not if I worke out my own addresses to the Grand Signieur my selfe although by such meanes as may be displeasing to your Lordship I desire your absolute answer for I shall trouble you no more with Messages neither need you trouble your selfe to send into England for if I shall not find that reception here which becomes the Honour of the King my Master I have ships enough attend me which shall convey mee back to Report my Entertainment As he read this he nodded severall times and when he had done called the Druggerman to him and said Did I ever deny your Lord to be a true Ambassadour I am not his enemy but must doe him courtesies to the Grand Signieur and if I doe him courtesies what shall I have for my paines The Druggerman told him that he knew my Lord would sooner lose his life then be admitted upon dishonourable tearmes Well said he Goe tell your Lord what I say and remember my kind love to him and bring mee his answer to morrow with a particular of the Grand Signieurs Present against which time my Lord had fitted this Arres for him My Lord THe Present you had from me was as large as ever was given to any of your Predecessors it was never known that a true Ambassadour made a Contract for other gifts to purchase his reception I may not I dare not Transgresse the accustomed Rules nor points of honour if I should your selfe might justly condemne me for a deceiver all the Princes in Christendome would scorne me and then how my Master would Resent it you may judge You are set in the place of Justice I require no more of you then Common justice which if I find I shall not be ingratefull Pardon me if in particular as unusuall I doe not tell you the Grand Signieurs Present in the Generall it consists of fine Cloth Velvet Sattins Gold and Silver Stuffes c. being not inferiour to any that hath been presented formerly Upon this he said looking upon the Letter what here is nothing and would have had some body gone with the Drugerman to treat with my Lord untill the Druggerman told him 't was in vain well then said he tell your Lord if hee will come to morrow I will vest him and to morrow morning will send a Chouze to know who he will have Vested and indeed was as good as his word and when my Lord came to him he was very pleasant and did Vest his Lordship and seven more the usuall custome being but five with so much chearfulnesse as all admired at it and presently told him that the Grand Signieur would be impatient untill hee were with him and asked him if he were Ready My Lord told him 't was impossible without three or foure dayes warning hee pitched on Monday and after some Debate as the urgency of the Affaires of the State the necessitie of the ships speedy comming in c. My Lord consented to it but withall made him promise him that according to the honour and dues of Ambassadours he should be entertained and feasted at the publique Druanine which he did very willingly agree unto Monday morning being come The Vizeere sent Hyssan Aga one of the principall Chouzes with two Chouzes more to attend My Lord who conducted him to the water side and upon his landing on Constantinople side the Chouze Basha with fourty two Chouzes more on horseback conducted him thence to the Vizeeres house where he stayed in his Yegays Chamber till the Vizeere sent to the Grand Signieur to tell him his Lordship was ready for Audience his Majestie sent word he would receive him at the Keske being a kind of a Banqueting-house or for Repose very stately by the water side in his Seraglio whether the Vizeere went before him and his Lordship followed with the Chouse-Bassa and fourty two Chouzes attending him besides all the Merchants and all his own Gent. and attendance no Ambassadour heretofore ever having the like he came to a gate which opened into the Garden where the Keske stood there my Lord with 18. more were Vested but none suffered to goe in but only my Lord who was led by the Chouze-Bassa on his right hand and the Bustange Bassa on the left Signieur Dominico his Secretary who carryed the Letter in a gold and silver bag led by two Chouses more and Master Vernon his Druggerman led by two other Chouzes When my Lord came within sight of the Grand Signieur they suffered him not to goe forwards but side-waies untill he came just against him hee being set upon an Ivorie and mother of Pearle Couch the seates being lined with Lusin Furres and then brought him forwards untill he came within the space of 20. paces where my Lord made a low obedience to him and the Grand Signieur which was never seen before bowed very much and saluted my Lord at which my Lord bowed very