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Chap, I of Monfieur Taver nier, i 9 $ 



THE FIFTH BOOK 

 OF THE 



PERSIAN TRAVELS 



O F 



Monsieur TAVERNIER: 



BEING 

 A Politick and Hiftorical Dcfcripticn of PERSIA: 



With the 



ROADS 



FROM 



ISPAHAN to OrMXJS, 



CHAP. I. 



The Genealogy of the Kings of Pcrfia, of the Lift Race. 



AFter that Tamerlane had extended his Conquefts into Afia, and de- 

 feated the Army of Bajaz.et, whom, he took Prifbner, together with 

 his Wife, he return'd into Pcrfia, where at that time Jiv'd a Chei\ 3 

 whofe name was Aidar, a perfon in high reputation for his Holi- 

 nefs. He was a perfon of great wit, and the firfc in the dignities of the Law, 

 which gain'd him great authority and belief among the people. He gave great 

 honour to Tamerlane, and fhew'd Eminent kindnelfesto al! the Officers cl his Ar- 

 my j in recompence whereof, Tamerlane, who was a generous Prince, and full 

 of gratitude, made a Prefent to the Cbeii^ of a great number of Captives, 

 which he brought along with him out of Turky. The Cbeik planted one part 

 of thefe Slaves about ArdcviU, and feated the other near his own refidence. 

 Now in regard he aflum'd to himfclf to be defcended in a direci line from Maho- 

 met, he cover'd his head after another manner then all the reft of the Perfians, 

 wearing a kind of flat Bonnet, growing broader and broader to the top, and fo 

 pleighted, as to make twelve Pleights of a Ruff, in honour of the twelve Pro- 

 phets. In the middle, a kind of a Pyramid about a fingers length feem'd to rife 

 out of the Bonnet, but was indeed fbw'd to it. Such a Bonnet as this the Cheik^ 

 appointed all the Slaves to wear that Tamerlane had giv'n him, and this is that 

 which at this day diftinguifhes their Succeflbrs from the other Perfians. And it 

 is the cuftom, where Kans or Governours of Provinces refide, that all the Sophies 

 both in the City and the neighbouring parts, meet in the Piaz.z,a every Friday ; 

 in the afternoon, where they pray to God for the health of the King and 

 the Kan, and for the profperity of the Kingdom ; after which the Kan fends , 



A a them, 



