gh*P- n - °L M°nfieuF t a v^itl fe |S| 



going Umfelf in perfon ro AtyfaJ in Fi!g7m^eV~7h^^ L - 



ready fpoken of, over which one of the Legs of Mahumm Camel hangs L« a 

 a great Relic! : and upon his return relating and giving out (trance Miracles 

 of Imafrrez., on purpofe to divert his Subjects from going to Mecca 



Among the reit of the cunning knacks that Sha- Abbas made ufe of to know 

 how fquares went in his Kingdom, without trufting too much to his Miniitcrc 

 he oftn d.fguisd himfelf, and went about the City like an ordinary inhabi" 

 rant under pretence of buying and felling, making 'it his bufinefs to diicover 

 whether Merchants us d falfe weights or meafures or no. To this intent one evening 

 going out of his Palacein the habit of a Countryman, he went to a Bakers to buy a 

 Man of Bread, and thence to a Cook to buy a Man of Roft-meat ( a Man 

 is fix Pound, fixteen Ounces to the Pound;. The King having bought his Bar' 

 gains return'd to Court, where he caus'd the AthemadouUt to weigh both 

 the Bread and the Meat exactly. He found the Bread to want fiftv-feven 

 Drams, and the Meat forty- three. The King feeing that, fell into a great chafe 

 againft three or four of them that were about him, whofe bufinefs it was to 

 Jook after thof things 5 but especially againft the Governour of the City whofe 

 Belly he had caus'd to have been ript up, but for the interceflion of certain 

 Lords. Befides the reproaches that he threw upon them for being fo 

 negligent in their Employments 3 and for their little affeftion to the publick 

 good, he laid before them the in juft ice of falfe weights 5 and how fadly the 

 cheat fell upon poor men, who having great Families, and thinking to give 

 them eight hundred Drams of Bread, by that fraud depriv'd them of a hun- 

 dred and forty three. Then turning to the Lords that were prefenr, he de- 

 manded of them, what fort of jufliee ought to be done thofe people'? When 

 none of them daring to open their mouths, while he was in that pafTion, lie com- 

 manded a great Oven to be made in the Piaz**, together with a'Spit Jong 

 enough to roaft a man 5 and that the Oven mould be heated all night and 

 that they mould make another fire to be kindl'd hard by the Oven. The* next 

 morning the King causM the Baker and the Cook to be apprehended, and to 

 be led quite thorough the City, with two men going before them, who cry'd 

 to the people, We are going to put the Baker into a red hot Oven made in 

 the Ptaz.z*a, where he is to be bak'd alive, for having utter'd Bread by falfe 

 weights j and the Cook is to be roafted alive, for having fold meat by falfe 

 weights. Thus thofe two men ferv'd for an example not only to Ifvahan, 

 but to all the Kingdom, where every one dreaded the fevere juftice of Sha- 

 Abbas. 



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