'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.' [‎58] (607/1024)

Heads io order’d at die lame time, which they carried uia Bag. fu '—
Heads of the Baffa’s o{ Kan ^ and Erzerom. i? ere
It is further to be oblerv’d, That when the Sentence of Death k wu r
Prir.ce againft any one, what quality foever he may be of, the rlk r J’!
. U
niakeuo
yl Prohibition
again]} floed-
ding the blood
of the Mahu-
metans who
are condemn'd
to death.
further Account of him 5 and when they fpeak of him,' treat him no nZJPt ,
they would do a Dog. The Bofiangi ,who had been commiifionated to u 1 "
two Heads to the Grand Seignor,finding himfelf weary,and indilpos’d at '^ii
in Armenia, where it was my chance to be at chat time, and haveine nllr®'
that there Was a Fmch-mza in the Inne, asked one of my Servants wherh 6 it
any wine, and Would be content to let him have any, to cheer up his S’ • “ ai1
immediately fent him fome ina large Flaggon ; whereupon haveiiig firrS 1
to come ana take a Glafs with him, which I thought it not fit to denv h 0 T
needs ftiew me, whether I would or no, the Heads of thofe two Balfjf r°S
had no great couriofky to fee. ^ 3 aiI E^I
When there is no order given for the bringing of the Head, they burv rta R t
about Mid-night, without any ceremony, and the memory of the B#/ “hS
made io much no* before, is foon extinguiih.d and laid in the duft’
moreover to be noted, That it is the Qilfome in T«%i, not to cut off die Hea/!
any one, till after they have ftrangled him, andtnatthe blood isquitecnM ■
being agatnft their Law, That the blood of a (that is, one of the ter
fu!) ihould be Ipilt, upon any occafion, but in Warr.
dff c • The e f C n “P" b L Ci f 8 ov , cr ’ h f A 1 10 brou S ht the Order for it, makesan immediaB
■ f rt 1Z a£a f f a belon 8’ d t0 the deceas’d Bajfa-, and after he has fet afide whatk
The Inventories
of the Goods
L*faith- ^ j lls ow « ufe, whether in Gold* or Jewelsjie brings theTamepaCs whS
fufy taken, had been at the precedent Council, to proceed to the Inventory of his Goods which
are afterwards,as I have laid elfewhere 3 tranfmitted to the Chambers of the Jreafurv
They who affift at the taking of that Inventory, know well enough, that mariv
things, which belong’d to the deceas’d, are embezill’d but they are fo far from re«
pining or murmuring at it, that they fign and atteft, that there was not any more
found.' They^are afraid, if they demean’d themielves otherwife, kaft that
Officer of the Seraglio, whom the Grand Seignor has, fent, and who poffibly is h
favour, fliould do them ill offices at the Court, and ipread fdme falfe report of
them 5 whence, according to the Example they have then before their eyes, might
happen, m like manner, the lofs of their Charges, and Lives.
I hey therefore think it prudence, to connive at what ever is done by that En<
voy, as being otherwife perfwaded, that he will not be difown’d by the Grand
oeignor, who is not ignorant of what’s done upon thofe occafions. Nay on the
contrary, and whatever he may have dextroufly fecured to himfelfof the Bajfds
Goods, they make him fome additional Prefents of their own, at his own de
parture from them, engaging him thereby, to fpeak well of them to the Grand
oeignor, and to the.Grant 5 Vizir, at his return to the Port. And then alfo, not
accounting what he had taken before-hand, and what Cuffom tolerates, he receives
new marks of the Liberality of Ji is Prince, who is fatisfy’d that he hasfo faithfully
executed Ins: Orders and fo he participates of what is fetdown in the Inventory,
when the Baffa s Goods ar& brought into the Seraglio.
" m ~ n So ? e ^ ffibl yv Will be apt to imagine, that this Sentence of Death pafs’d in the
Turks to 6 defe Seignor’s Letter, (hould raife Tome diffurbance and aftoniffiment in the
Death with fo j 011 0 w : T 11 ? , wbo rea ^s it, and who reading therein his own Condemnation,
trmchconftancy. knows .that it muft be immediately executed. Yet is it not apparent in his Coun
tenance^ that he is much Harried at it, he is not furpriz’d therewith, he fees that
few of his Companions efcape the fame fate, and he has difpos’d himfelf forfuch
an end, aueon as he firft took, pofleffion of his GJiarge. Bcfides, the ‘farfy have
a ftrong perfwafidn, That the Decrees of Predeffination are irrevocable, and that
at is iiHpcflible to avoid them^ which makes them look Death in the race, with
de S ree con Taney ^nd inter epity, as render them in a manner in*
- n ^le. 1 o which rcdeftion \ve may adde this, That that ready and inaphcite
obedi nee and liibmiffion of the Turks, to the Orders of their Sovereign, is rather
a prmcple of ^Religion, than' of State, which has been inftill’d into them, hy a
snoit fubtle piece of Politicks; and they believe, That, if they dye by the Com
mand of their Prince, they go fkaight into Paridife. ^