‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎471] (492/508)

A Voyage ^ E A S T-I N 13 I A, &C. q.yi
ftirred up his Fathers high difpleafure againft him, refolved to
break that ancient cuftom 5 and therefore often in his lifetime
protefted 3 that not he, but his Grand-child Sultan Co obfuriroo^
whom he alwayes kept in his Court, (hould fucceed him in
that Empire.
And now 5 by the way, the manner of that Achahar sha
his death (as they rep'ort it \n India) is worthy obfervation.
That wicked King was wont often to give unto fome of his
Nobles ( whom upon fecret difplealure he meant to deftroy )
Pills prepared with Poyfon that, that ftiould prefently put them
into incurable difcales. But the laft time he went about to pra-
dife that bloody Treachery, he dyed himfelf by his own inftru-
ment of death: for then having tWo Pills in his Hand, theone
very likethe other , the one Cordial [or himfelf, the other Corro-
five, for one of his Grandees he meant to purge, and flattering
him with many proffers of Courtefie before he gave him the
Fill, that he might fwallow it down the better 5 at laft having
held them both in the palm of his Hand long, by a miftake took
the poyfohed Pill himfelf, and ga^him the other, which Pill
put the King immediately into a mortal flux of blood, which in
few dayes put an end to his life in his City Laborei
Neque enim lexjuffior ulla eU^
6>uam neck artifices arte per ireJua.
■ tq wbvol . t aru 1 ! i Q » 30 iS ■ :
Achahar sha thus dead, Sultan Coohfurroo his Grand-Child,
then aged about twenty years, todk his opportunity at thefirft
bound, abd afcended the Regal Throne at Ij abort ^ where bya-
general Acclamation of that very great^ and populous City he
was pronounced, and acknowledged Ring. His Father (^ ie
UxcMogol) was thus acknowledged at Agra. Two great Ar
mies were prefently^ levied, and met together to decide the
Controverfie ; and the generality of the people within that Em'
pu c. thinking it meet that the Father (hould be King before t e
Son, clave by far more to him then to his Son, by which means
Sultan Coohfurroo was defeated and taken Prifoner, and a very
great many of young Gallants with him, whereof his Father im
mediately after caufed to be impaled, or put u pon Stakes (t at
moft cruel and tormenting death) eight hundred in twofeveral
ranks in one day, without the City Lahore and then carried his
Son mofl: difgracefully through them, bidding htm to MMthe
men in whom he trujied. His Son told him, that he (hould have
ferv'd him fo, and fpared the other, who did nothing mt
a ft ion but upon his Command 5 his Father rep}e , ,
could ferve him fo prefently (if he fo pleafed)^ h .s Son w. d and
defiredhim foto do, telling his Father that he had no icy at
to live, after the beholding of fo many gallant men dead. Not
withll.mding, the Ring fpared his Life, caftinghifflinto Pnfo^
where his Eyes were fealed up, ( by something p w hich