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Abydos (Turkey) (search for this): narrative 503
tinople, accompanied with a chause, & carying certaine mandates from the grand Signior to the Bassa of Aleppo for the kinde usage of our nation in those parts, the 30 of July I tooke passage in a Turkish carmosale or shippe bound for Sidon ; and passing thorow Propontis, having Salimbria with Heraclia most pleasantly situated on the right hand, and Proconesus now called Marmora on the left, we came to Gallipoly, and so by Hellespont , betweene the two castles before named called Sestos and Abydos , famous for the passages made there both by Xerxes and great Alexander, the one into Thracia , the other into Asia, and so by the Sigean Promontory, now called Cape Janitzary, at the mouth of Hellespont upon Asia side, where Troy stood, where are yet ruines of olde walles to be seene, with two hils rising in a piramidall forme, not unlikely to be the tombs of Achilles and Ajax. From thence we sailed along, having Tenedos and Lemnos on the right hand, and the Trojan fields on the left: at
Buda (Hungary) (search for this): narrative 503
njacke masould, that is, out of office, with the other Sanjacks in office or of degree, 40000. Achmigi, that is, Adventurers, 50000. The Agha or Captaine with his Janisaries, and his Giebegies, 20000. The Beglerbeg of Graecia, with all his Sanjacks, 400000 The company of Spaheis or horsemen, 10000. The company of Silitari, 6000. The company of Sagbulve and of Solbulve both together, 8000. The Bassa of Belgrad , 80000. The Bassa of Temiswar. The Bassa of Bosna . The Bassa of Buda . The Sanjack of Gersech. Out of Asia. The Bassa of Caramania.120000. The Bassa of Laras. The Bassa of Damasco . The Bassa of Suas. The Bassa of Van or Nan. The Bassa of Usdrum. Of Tartars there be about 100000. Thus you may see that the great Turke maketh warre with no small numbers. And in anno 1597, when Sultan Mahomet himselfe went in person into Hungary , if a man may beleeve reports, he had an army of 600000. For the city of Constantinople
Naupactus (Greece) (search for this): narrative 503
so and much more ungodly (which I should have put in the first place) did they towards God: for as though they were too great, standing on foot or kneeling to serve God, they would come riding on horsebacke into the church to heare their masse: which church now is made a publike basistane or market place for the Turkes to sell commodities in: but beholde the judgement of the righteous God, who payeth the sinner measure for measure. The Turkes the yeere before the overthrowe given them at Lepanto by Don John tooke Cyprus . These mighty Nimrods fled some into holes & some into mountaines to hide themselves; whereupon the Turkes made generall proclamation, that if they would all come in and yeeld themselves, they would restore them to their former revenues and dignities: who not mistrusting the mischievous pretense of the Turkes, assembled together to make themselves knowen; whom after the Turkes had in possession, they (as the Lords executioners) put them with their wives and childre
Famagusta (Cyprus) (search for this): narrative 503
s , where the ship staying many dayes to lade cotton wooll, and other commodities, in the meane time accompanied with M. William Barret my countrey man, the master of the ship a Greeke, and others we tooke occasion to see Nicosia , the chiefe city of this Iland, which was some twenty miles from this place, which is situated at the foot of an hill : to the East is a great plaine, extending it selfe in a great length from the North to the South: it is walled about, but of no such strength as Famagusta (another city in this Iland neere the Sea side) whose walles are cut out of the maine rocke. In this city be many sumptuous and goodly buildings of stone, but uninhabited; the cause whereof doth give me just occasion to shew you of a rare judgement of God upon the owners sometime of these houses, as I was credibly informed by a Cipriot a marchant of good wealth in this city. Before it came in subjection to the Turks, while it was under the Venetians, there were many barons and noble men of
Devonshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): narrative 503
A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and Syria , begun the 21. of March 1593. and ended the 9. of August, 1595. wherein is shewed the order of delivering the second Present by Master Edward Barton her majesties Ambassador, which was sent from her Majestie to Sultan Murad Can, Emperour of Turkie. To the Worshipfull and his very loving Uncle M. Rowland Hewish Esquier, at Sand in Devonshire . SIR, considering the goodnesse of your Nature which is woont kindely to accept from a friend, even of meane things being given with a good heart, I have presumed to trouble you with the reading of this rude discourse of my travailes into Turkie, and of the deliverie of the present with such other occurrents as there happened woorthie the observation: of all which proceedings I was an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour to take mee in with him to the Grand Signior. If for lacke of time to put it in order I have not performed it so well as it ought, I crave pardon, assuring you that to
Venice (Italy) (search for this): narrative 503
o most of our nation I omitte to write of. The 27 of February I departed from Aleppo, and the fifth of March imbarked my selfe at Alexandretta in a great ship of Venice called the Nana Ferra, to come for England. The 14 we put into Salino in Cyprus , where the ship staying many dayes to lade cotton wooll, and other commodities, iword, pretending thereby to cut of all future rebellion, so that at this day is not one of the noble race knowen alive in the Iland, onely two or three remaine in Venice but of litle wealth, which in the time of the warres escaped. After we had stayed in this Iland some thirty dayes, we set saile in the foresayd shippe being about to make account, because so few doe observe all their religion aright. And thus passing the time for the space of three moneths in this sea voyage, we arrived at Venice the tenth of June: and after I had seene Padua , with other English men, I came the ordinary way over the Alpes , by Augusta , Noremberg, and so for England; wher
Thracia (search for this): narrative 503
the Southwest, by which two seas by shipping is brought great store of all maner of victuals. The city it selfe in forme representeth a triangular figure, the sea washing the walles upon two sides thereof, the other side faceth the continent of Thracia ; the grand Signiors seraglio standeth upon that point which looketh into the sea, being cut off from the city by a wall; so that ye wall of his pallace conteineth in circuit about two English miles: the seven towers spoken of before stand at anond, and Proconesus now called Marmora on the left, we came to Gallipoly, and so by Hellespont , betweene the two castles before named called Sestos and Abydos , famous for the passages made there both by Xerxes and great Alexander, the one into Thracia , the other into Asia, and so by the Sigean Promontory, now called Cape Janitzary, at the mouth of Hellespont upon Asia side, where Troy stood, where are yet ruines of olde walles to be seene, with two hils rising in a piramidall forme, not unl
Syria (Syria) (search for this): narrative 503
A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and Syria , begun the 21. of March 1593. and ended the 9. of August, 1595. wherein is shewed the order of delivering the second Present by Master Edward Barton her majesties Ambassador, which was sent from her Majestie to Sultan Murad Can, Emperour of Turkie. To the Worshipfull and his very loving Uncle M. Rowland Hewish Esquier, at Sand in Devonshire . SIR, considering the goodnesse of your Nature which is woont kindely to accept from a friend, even of meane things being given with a good heart, I have presumed to trouble you with the reading of this rude discourse of my travailes into Turkie, and of the deliverie of the present with such other occurrents as there happened woorthie the observation: of all which proceedings I was an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour to take mee in with him to the Grand Signior. If for lacke of time to put it in order I have not performed it so well as it ought, I crave pardon, assuring you that to m
Belgrade (Yugoslavia) (search for this): narrative 503
nto Hungary against the Christian Emperour. May 1594. SINAN Bassa generall, with the Sanjacke masould, that is, out of office, with the other Sanjacks in office or of degree, 40000. Achmigi, that is, Adventurers, 50000. The Agha or Captaine with his Janisaries, and his Giebegies, 20000. The Beglerbeg of Graecia, with all his Sanjacks, 400000 The company of Spaheis or horsemen, 10000. The company of Silitari, 6000. The company of Sagbulve and of Solbulve both together, 8000. The Bassa of Belgrad , 80000. The Bassa of Temiswar. The Bassa of Bosna . The Bassa of Buda . The Sanjack of Gersech. Out of Asia. The Bassa of Caramania.120000. The Bassa of Laras. The Bassa of Damasco . The Bassa of Suas. The Bassa of Van or Nan. The Bassa of Usdrum. Of Tartars there be about 100000. Thus you may see that the great Turke maketh warre with no small numbers. And in anno 1597, when Sultan Mahomet himselfe went in person into Hungary , if
Damascus (Syria) (search for this): narrative 503
taine with his Janisaries, and his Giebegies, 20000. The Beglerbeg of Graecia, with all his Sanjacks, 400000 The company of Spaheis or horsemen, 10000. The company of Silitari, 6000. The company of Sagbulve and of Solbulve both together, 8000. The Bassa of Belgrad , 80000. The Bassa of Temiswar. The Bassa of Bosna . The Bassa of Buda . The Sanjack of Gersech. Out of Asia. The Bassa of Caramania.120000. The Bassa of Laras. The Bassa of Damasco . The Bassa of Suas. The Bassa of Van or Nan. The Bassa of Usdrum. Of Tartars there be about 100000. Thus you may see that the great Turke maketh warre with no small numbers. And in anno 1597, when Sultan Mahomet himselfe went in person into Hungary , if a man may beleeve reports, he had an army of 600000. For the city of Constantinople you shall understand that it is matchable with any city in Europe, aswell in bignesse as for the pleasant situation thereof, and com modious traffi
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