'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎203] (236/1024)

Chap. II.
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going himfelf in perfon to Mejhed in Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Iman-rez al
ready fpoken of, over which one of the Legs of Mahomets Camel hangs as a great
Relid i and upon his return relating and giving out ftrange Miracles of Iman-rez,
on purpofeto divert his Subjeds from going to Mecca- >
Among the reft of the cunning knacks that Sha-Abbas made ufe of, to know
how fquares went in his Kingdom, without truftingtoo much to his Minifters, he
oft’n difguis’d himfelf, and went about the City like an ordinary inhabitant, un
der pretence of buying and felling, making it his bufmefs todifcover whether Mer
chants us’d fatfe weights or meafures or no. , To this intent one evening going out
of his Palace in the habit of a Countryman, he went to a Bakers to buy a Man of
Bread, and thence to a Cook to buy a Man of Roll-meat, (a Man is fix Pound, fix-
teen Ounces to the Pound. J The King having bought his Bargains return’d to
Court, where he caus’d the Atbemadoulet to Weigh both the Brea 4 and the Meat
exadly* He found the Bread to want fifty*feven Drams, and the Meat forty-three.
The King feeing that, fell into a great chafe againft three or four of them that were
about him, whofe bufinefs it was to look after thofe things s but efpecially againft
the Governour of the City, whofe Belly he had caus’d to have been ript up, but
for the interceflion of certain Lords. Befides the reproaches that he threw upon
them for being fo negligent in their Employments f and for their little affedion to
thepublick good, he laid before them the injufticeof falfe weights*, and how fadly
the cheat fell upon poor men, who having great Families, and thinking to give
them eight hundred Drams of Bread, by that fraud depriv’d them of a hundred and
forty three. Then turning to the Lords that were prefent, he demanded of them,
what fort of juftice ought to be done thofe people ? When none of them daring to
open their mouths, while he was in that paftion, he commanded a great Oven to
be made in the Piazza, together with a Spit long enough to roaft a man j and that
the Oven (hould be heated all Night, and that they fhould make another fire to be
kindl’d hard by the Oven. The next morning the King caus’d the Baker and the
Cook to be apprehended, and to be led quite through the City, with two men go
ing before them, who cry’d to the people. We are going to put the Baker into a red
hot Oven made in the Piazza, where he is to be bak’d alive, for having utter’d
Bread by falfe weights *, and the Cook is to be roafted a live, for having fold meat
byfalfe weights. Thus thofe two men ferv’d for an example not only to Iftahan,
but to all the Kingdom, where every one dreaded,the fevere juftice of Sba-Abbas,
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