THE GRAND SIGNIOR'S PAYMENTS 



A.D. 



I 5 88. 



A briefe extract specifying the certaine dayly pai- 

 ments, answered quarterly in time of peace, by 

 the Grand Signior, out of his Treasurie, to the 

 Officers of his Seraglio or Court, successively 

 in degrees : collected in a yeerely totall summe, 

 as followeth. 



Or his owne diet every day, one thousand 

 and one aspers, according to a former 

 custome received from his auncestors : 

 notwithstanding that otherwise his diur- 

 nall expence is very much, and not 

 I certainly knowen, which summe maketh 

 sterling money by the yere, two thou- 

 sand, one hundred, 92. pounds, three shillings, eight 

 pence. 



The five and fourtie thousand Janizaries dispersed in 

 sundry places of his dominions, at sixe aspers the day, 

 amounteth by the yeere to five hundreth, fourescore and 

 eleven thousand, and three hundreth pounds. 



The Azamoglans, tribute children, farre surmount that 

 number, for that they are collected from among the 

 Christians, from whom betweene the yeeres of sixe and 

 twelve, they are pulled away yeerely perforce : whereof I 

 suppose those in service may be equall in number with 

 the Janizaries abovesaid, at three aspers a day, one with 

 another, which is two hundred fourescore and fifteene 

 thousand, sixe hundred and fiftie pounds. 



The five Bassas, whereof the Viceroy is supreme, at one 

 thousand aspers the day, besides their yerely revenues, 

 amounteth sterling by the yeere to ten thousand, nine 

 hundred and fiftie pounds. 



The five Beglerbegs, chiefs presidents of Greece, Hun- 

 gary and Sclavonia, being in Europe, in Natolia, and 

 Caramania of Asia, at one thousande aspers the day : 

 as also to eighteene other governours of Provinces, 

 at five hundred aspers the day, amounteth by the 



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