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A08166	A true and faithfull relation, presented to his Maiestie and the prince, of what hath lately happened in Constantinople, concerning the death of Sultan Osman, and the setting vp of Mustafa his vncle Together with other memorable occurrents worthy of obseruation.	Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.	1622 (1622)	STC 18507.71A; ESTC S120714	11,901	36

the reuolt of his Subiects the head remaining in his hand onely a bare title and that he should shortly dye within few Moneths and lose his Kingdome but the empty name of Emperour should accompany him to his graue A second of lesse consequence in the Uizier Delauir Bassa from whom the Lord Ambassadour hauing receiued particular friendship about sixe dayes before this vprore hee went to visit and hauing no other businesse but to perswade him to stay the King from this intended Pilgrimage the Ambassadour gaue him many reasons in the present estate of their owne affayres especially the Treaty of Poland yet depending To which the Bassa replyed very grauely Then the Ambassadour vrging the feare of some tumult collected from the licentious speeches rumored in the Towne and hee was bold to deale plainely sincerely and friendly That if any such thing should happen the fault would be imputed to the Bassa as being of authoritie to perswade the King whom his qualitie and youth would excuse but all the fury would be discharged vpon the greatest Minister desiring him to consider the euent at least to take his affection in the best part The old Renard stayed a while from reply at last smiling to himselfe at the Ambassadour who perswaded him against that which was his owne counsaile hee gaue him a finall answere that there was no remedy hee durst not hazard himselfe to oppose the Kings resolution but assured him he would so order the matter as this iourney should not proceede so farre as was expected The Ambassadour concluded for himselfe desiring then that he would leaue him a particular recommendation to the Chimacham or Deputie as his friend To which he suddainely replied Trouble not your selfe nor feare I will neuer remoue so farre but that I will leaue one of my legges in this City to serue you which the poore man fulfilled for being murthered in few daies after one of his legs whole and entire was hanged in the Hippodrome the most publike place of the City Lastly in things yet to come and probably to be suspected That the Souldiours in Asia who haue now lost their hopes will not sit downe by this affront but rather will attempt some Reuenge for the death of that king who was their Martyr Or that some great Bassaes farre remoued from Court will apprehend this occasion not to obey an Vsurper set vp by treason And vpon this colour ground their owne Ambitions or that all euery where will fall into Combustion and Intestine warre For I dare not hope that God will open the eyes of Christian Princes to see the littlenesse of their owne vnciuill quarels while this mighty Monarchy inuiteth them to Concord and to diuide it as a prostituted spoile FINIS THE CONTINVATION OF THE STORY PRESENTED TO THE KINGS MAIESTY from the same Person ON Saturday euening the first of Iune following the Capiaga or Maior Domo of the Seraglio hauing receiued a secret order to remoue the brethren of osman from their lodgings and in the night to strangle them as hee was performing his command aided with a few of his Carnifices to carry away the Princes they cried out the Pages running to the noise and incouraged by the Casliaraga who had some suspition without further examination kill the Capiaga now almost euery order hauing risen against their owne head That night they sent secretly to the Ianizaries and Spahees to informe them what they had done and in the morning early hanged his body in the Hippodrome for a publike spectacle The soldiers returned in fury to Court in fauour of the Pages and demanded iustice against those that had consented to this wicked order which had made an end of all the Ottoman race only this Mustafa being left aliue who is so holy a Saint that he will not people the world with sinners nor indure any women about him The innocent King protests hee knowes nothing of this purpose and if his command were procured it was gotten by subreption and he is easily beleeued But his mother another Liuia and the new Uizier Daout Bassa who had her daughter to wife were vehemētly suspected It was a day of Diuan or Councell But these Souldiours would suffer none vntill they had an account of this treason The Vizier denies all the mother is a woman hidden in the house yet it is very likely they both were guilty to vphold and secure their owne authority It being rumoured that the Uizier determined to place Subdititiously in the roome of the elder Prince his own Son and very like him and so to gouerne Mustafa for a time and by his remoue to establish himselfe and his Race for euer But now somewhat must bee done to appease the people Therefore Daout Bassa is degraded from his office and one Huzein Bassa newly arriued from the gouernment of Cairo aduanced to his place with promise of further examination Since the fury once ouer there hath beene no great search nor discouery made I thinke the Sultanes Chequines haue quieted the matter This new Uizier a man here without friends yet very rich of a stubborne and obstinate nature reported iust in his wayes but peremptory and inflexible audax ferox prout animum intendit prauus aut industrius eadem vis one from whom almen may expect much good or much ill Begins his gouernement roughly vndertakes to punish Insolencies early and professeth a reformation or to be a Sacrifice A man fit for these times that are desperate For the worst will be that he must at last endure their furie In the meane time he procures a little awe hath restored the face of Iustice yet I am perswaded it cannot last long the Ghost of Osman will not be at rest vntill there are some parentalia made vnto him The nature of this Vizier is vnsupportable But if he preuaile and once settle he will a new change the King and lay an obligation vpon the Brethren of Osman For he will neuer thinke himselfe secure vnder a man gouerned by an insolent woman Dominandi auida And what assurance can he haue in that Prince cui non iudicium non odium est nisi indita iussa And though I cannot foresee the particulars and where the Sore will breake out yet I am sure the whole body is sicke And Princes of Christendome shall haue breath three yeeres before they shall haue cause to feare this state whose present King is mentis inops and the next in expectation a Child vnfit for action and all the great men and Souldiers decayed mutined and corrupted FINIS

that then the Armie of the Ianizaries must be kept together which could not agree with their ends Hereupon the iourney of Mecha was divulged that the King might vnder the shadow of an holy pilgrimage goe out with a small trayne and disperse those who were suspected to him And for this preparation was made but somewhat to grosely by melting of all the Plate Saddles Furniture of house Lamps of Churches and whatsoeuer could more easily bee conueyed away in metall with all the Iewels and Treasurie This gaue the first suspicion which was confirmed by diuers vnaduised words let fall from the King of disdaine against the cowardize of the Ianizaries and that hee would shortly finde himselfe souldiers that should whippe them and lastly dismissing all his houshold except some few elect the discontented obserued and betraied him Delauir Bassa kept his owne secret and in the meane time prepared by his friends in Asia 10000. about Damascus 10000. from the Coords besides those in readinesse of the Emir de Zaida and all vpon pretence of defending the borders of Persia who hauing Intelligence of some change in those parts And gaue order that all these should meete the King at Damascus where he would presently cut off his Guard and stay there vntill he had regulated his new Army and Discipline and then to returne triumphant to Constantinople and vtterly roote out the order of Ianizaries Spahees and Timariots and to exauctorate all their Captaines and officers to settle a new gouernement and to change the name of the Citty And these things succeeding hee then resolued vvith his new Souldiers to attempt the recouery of his honour in Christendome in the meane time to hold a dissembled friendship there in all parts Certainely this was a braue and well-grounded designe and of great consequence for renewing of this decayed Empire languishing vnder the insolencies of lazie slaues if God had not destroyed it It being very true that the Turkish Emperour stands at the deuotion of his owne troopes for peace or warre life or death and is in effect nothing but the Steward or Treasurer of his Ianizaries If this proiect had taken effect what euents it might haue produced by a Ciuill Warre is not easie to iudge For doubtlesse the Souldioury here would haue set vp another King and maintayned him as well as they could and this European part had beene in danger to haue beene torne away by the diuision Besides Delauir Bassa hauing the King and the Treasurie in his possession and his owne credit so great and his inclination velle imperare once discouered it may well bee thought that hee had some ends of his owne to share a part of this mighty estate If on the other side the Uizier had prooued true and faithfull the reformation and new erection of the Discipline of Warre and the increase of Treasure consequent to the dismission of the old Militia would haue beene fearefull to all Christendome But Ubiest sapiens Ubi disquisitor saeculi haius Nonne infatuauit Deus sapientiam mundi huius Perdam sapientiam sapientum vanam reddam intelligentiam intelligentium It is a great question whether is the wiser wish that these Counsels had succeeded or not for either diuision and subuersion or a new prosperity and enlargement of their Dominion had necessarily followed Some obseruations vpon this occasion will not be very impertinent to those that desire to know as well the disposition and vse as the things themselues First in the purpose of the Souldier not at all to violate or hurt the King much lesse to depose and murther him but only to take away those about him whom they thought assistants in this proiect yet the furie once on foot they proceeded by missensible steppes to the vttermost of outrage against many innocents in that businesse though otherwise obnoxious and against the Throne and life of their own Emperour vbi furor ingruat innocentes ac noxios iuxta cadere Secondly in the degrees that yet the King had not falne thus low if first he had not lost that awe reuerence which alway attendeth vpon Maiesty by vnseemely offices done by him in the streetes and Tauernes apprehending many souldiers for pettie faults like a Constable making his person common cheape and despised among them which were wont onely to be seene and feared as somewhat supra humanitatem And this he did also in hatred and disdaine of those that had in the war forsaken him And now in this last act if his own obstinacy had not plunged him into destruction but that he had softned them by a seasonable yeelding to time he had preuailed onely by time Thirdly in the order That these Mutiners hauing no head or direction kept that Reglement that they tooke oath in their fury in hot blood in the Kings yard not to dishonour spoile nor sacke the Imperiall Throne neither committed nor suffered any insolence nor violence in the Citie to the Neutrals but rather proclaimed peace and Iustice. Fourthly in the consequents that at the third daies end all was at quiet and all men in their trade as if no such thing had happened Onely the Ianizaries suffered no Diuan nor Councell vntill they had receiued a Donatiue as Guerdon of their Iniquity In which also the infinite waste of Treasure is worthy of consideration which must of necessity be exceedingly exhausted by three changes in foure yeeres and by the late warres in Persia and Poland For euery Ianizarie in the Citie absent or present whose roll is about 40000. receiue 25. Chequins gold besides Spahees Iamoglans and other orders at euery Alteration which amounts in all neere to two Millions And now these fellowes all liuing that haue tasted the sweete of prosperous mutinies haud ignari summa scelera incipi cum periculo peragi cum praemio they haue taken such a head as cannot safely be suffered on nor securely be taken off Fifthly of certaine presages that fore-ranne it being related to mee from the mouth of a Cadee inward with the King a moneth before the tumult That Osman dreamed in the night that he thought to ride a Cammell and being mounted he could not force him to goe by faire meanes nor stripes and that then he descending in a rage the body of the beast vanished and left the head in the Kings hand Who next day troubled at this fancy sent to a Learned man familiar with him for the interpretation He excused himselfe as vnfit to giue opinion in a matter of that Consequence but perswaded Osman to send to the Mofti Hee also craued pardon but withall said there was none so fit to interpret it as Mustafa the Kings vncle and now Emperour who is esteemed a holy man that hath visions and Angel-like speculations in plaine tearmes betweene a mad man and a foole The King repaires to Mustafa who briefely tells him The Cammell signifies his Empire his riding abuse in gouernment his descention his disposition the vanishing of the body