A.D. 



I 593- 



The ambassa- 

 dor goeth to 

 the court with 

 the present. 



The Ambass. 

 came to the 

 Seraglio. 



* All these are 

 captaines of 

 hundreds and 

 of fifties. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Present, which upon the 7 of October 1593. in this 

 maner he performed. 



The Ascension with her flags and streamers, as afore- 

 said, repaired nigh unto the place where the ambassador 

 should land to go up to the Seraglio : for you must 

 understand that all Christian ambassadors have their 

 dwelling in Pera where most Christians abide, from 

 which place, except you would go 4 or 5 miles about, 

 you cannot by land go to Constantinople, whereas by 

 Sea it is litle broder then the Thames. Our Ambas- 

 sador likewise apparelled in a sute of cloth of silver, 

 with an upper gowne of cloth of gold, accompanied with 

 7 gentlemen in costly sutes of Sattin, with 30 other of 

 his men very well apparelled, and all in one liverie of 

 sad French russet cloth gownes, at his house tooke 

 boate : at whose landing the ship discharged all her 

 ordinance, where likewise attended 2 Bassas, with 40 or 

 50 Chauses to accompany ye ambassador to the court, 

 & also horses for the ambassador & his gentlemen, 

 very richly furnished, with Turkish servants attendant 

 to take the horses when they should light. The 

 ambassador thus honorably accompanied, the Chauses 

 foremost, next his men on foote all going by two 

 and two, himselfe last with his Chause and Drugaman 

 or Interpreter, and 4 Janissaries, which he doeth 

 usually entertaine in his house to accompany him 

 continually abroad, came to the Seraglio about an 

 English mile from the water side, where first hee passed 

 a great gate into a large court (much like the space 

 before White hall gate) where he with his gentlemen 

 alighted and left their horses. From hence they passed 

 into an other stately court, being about 6 score in 

 bredth, and some 10 score yards long, with many trees 

 in it : where all the court was with great pompe set in 

 order to entertaine our ambassador. Upon the right 

 hand all the length of the court was a gallerie arched 

 over, and borne up with stone pillars, much like the 

 Roiail Exchange, where stood* most of his guard in 



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