'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.' [‎14] (563/1024)

14 A Relation of the Grand Seignors S^TaglTo''
for the Commodity which had been taken up ; and
found, that any Merchant could complain, that ever he hid lAft 4n ' cobc
any one of them All that is to be fear’d, is, that they Ihould ^
hands of then: Enemies who rob, and kill them, and particulaS f 01 e
South-hde, therc being leg (langer, towards the North. Uy 11 tll e
The forern Colds of Gold taTmfe are the Vuutes of Germany, Holland ti
andFemce .They are veryamich fought after, and they are chana’cl at fre i’;,
a half, and lometimes at fix Livers and fifteen Sols; and that is done in onl® ^
fencnng of them to the Mer, where they drive a great Trade with them ,1%
make it appear m my Relauons of the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. . Sometime fince, there h rt,, r 11
abatement made mtePucatv oiVuice, upon a difcovery of their not bein, “fT
good an alloy, as thole of Germnny. ' n 2 °i io
There will be often mention made ofPmfer ,in that Relation of the Seraelio a
Purfi implies as much as the fum of five hundred Crowns, and it is of tlxf P,
that the Grand Seignor mate hrs ordinary Prefents- But a l^feofGo d Z^l
he regales his SultanefTes, and his peculiar Favourites, amoun/s to bfteend £
op thirty thouknd Crowns. A Kize is alfo a bag of hfteen thoufand n ,
. / n a11 the Empire, there is not any Money of Copper to befeen £h'
Spieces current there mull be either of Silver or Gold- True it is that r Ww
pieces o Silver taken there of a very bafe alloy, cfpcdaUy"^ £*
ta Ryals, coin d in Poland-, and with the ailifiancc of the Jews the Baffd’s t'n their
feveral Governments, conterfeit certain forcin Coins, which are all muclniffi£
from thole which they are intended to imitate. « ncimiurent
The cafe is the fame as to Silver-Coins in as it is with thofe of Gold. Therf
aie feme com d in theCountrey, as the JJj>er, and the Parafi, which are the leal! of
tJH SSSS* s “ «K »»■< *• «t*.
An Mer is the leaft of all the Moneys, which heretofore was Worth eight Dmm
M Money, that is about two thirds of thcEngUJb Penny, as being of good Site’
and the value let upon them was after the rate of Po, for the Crown-piece. Bil l
_ the more remote Provinces, the and the Jews caufc fuch an abundance of
Mtwen^Sr” “ 5 '^ Prefent ’ a Cl ' 0W,1 'P£ ivi11 “hundred
at CalA fi lS an0thcr kInd of frtlali Money, which is worth four Jjfat, and coin’d
Grocbeis the Grown, ov Spmijh Ryal, otherwife called the Piece <f eight.
Karat-Groche is the Rix-diUar c{ Germany. '
rhfpiZtti R ‘ X v d0 h r mark ^ With the L - Von of w hich follow
of Brp V i ' i/ OUr / i f X ’ 01 tV ^ 0 !] an< d °f one Kyat ■ arid heretofore the Pieces
>Tk , fll’„ /£ Cy ’ wherewith there was a great Trade driven in
_ lot be unpli&ntTo the ReX° S ^ thcreof wlU ^
ven in the five ^ ic ^ ant ^ Marfeilks, without any fore-thought dcflgn, fentasmany
Sels-pieces. i ^ ' f3 ^ out of the Mint, as amounted to the fum of two,
flic T^m dr f d f Cro r? a r m ? n S ft fome ochet Pte of Silver-Coins, to buy
- r f / r l n fotmd thole little Pieces fo prety and lb beautiful, and were
n J of V 0 7 tak 5 n thereWltI ^ that % thought them to be the eighth
Ti n o. a *' : '’ J ’ a . . We . le content to allow a Crown, for every eight oftfem.
Ihebattorj perceiving it writ to whence he receiv’d a veiy great fum
a ? d very much thereby. If the French could have contented
themlelveswth that honeft profit, the commerceofthofe Pieces, which wasqwlRf
/i"ii ie frauds committed in the managment of it, might have continued
hand would have been very advantageous to them. The ‘Turks were un-
i ing to trade in any other kind of Money', and in the payment of the Armies,
T uldiers c °ntent, there was a neceffity of difperfing them among
MV T C ne day ; rcturnig out of Perfia into Turkey. I was perfecuted- by feveral
teT e A/ h ° r° l i d , nec , ds Eave me give them fome (fo they call te
n,? a ? d 1 could not Eave any thing to ear, for any other Money.
, fdiants we re g a i nfrs aI: t he&<L' after the rate of fifty, percent, al-
jg m Jurksy but eight of tnofe Pieces for a Crown whereas they had twelve ol
; , them