y8 A Relation of the Ghap.XVL 



are Unbelievers, and they ought to be dejhoyed. But fome years Gnce, the Turks made it 

 appear, that they made but little account of that Standard , for HaQan y one of the BaJ- 

 fa*s, who gave the Grand Seignor fo much trouble in the year 1658. turn'd his back 

 on Mahomet s Banner, and, follow'd by his own party, compafs'd the defign he was 

 engaged in. 



A vnifsrtbtf ° ut °f tnc Grand Scignor's Chamber, there is a palTage into a great Hall, the place 

 of the Prim's appointed for the reception of the Pages who approach his Perioiv, and there isad- 

 Apptrmtnt, joyning to it a Bath, which is fill'd by three Cocks, where they wa(h themfelves, when 

 they go to their Devotions* Out of the fame Hall, there is an afcent of fome fteps, 

 which brings you to afmall Clofet, only Wainfcoted about, but well Painted, and well 

 Gilt. That Stair-cafe is alwayes cover'd with a red Cloth, the Room is open of all 

 fides, having fair Windowes, wherein Talc is us'd, inftead of Glafs i and from thence 

 you have, in a manner, the fame Profped, as from the Belvedere, built by theEmperour 

 Amurath. 



CHAP. X VI. 



Of the ordinary employments of the Grand Seignor ; The 



particular inclinations of the Emperour-Regent, Mahomet 



IV. And the prefent State of the Ottoman Family. 



The, Principal Heads. 



Some inclinations common to all the Monarchs of the Eaftern-partsl 

 Tl?e Life of the Seraglio, delicious to one /ingle per fori, and incom~ 

 modious to many. The Mahumetanes jealous obferVers of their 

 LalP. The regulated times of their publick Demotions. The 

 ordinary Employments of the Grand Seignor. How his Table is 

 ferv'd. The Sultan, Tehen obligd to go, in Ceremony, to the 

 Mbfquey. The kicked contrivances of the Moufti, to get tnony. 

 The prefent State of the Ottoman Family, An extraordinary 

 exampleof a Father and Son, Tpho -frere fuccefovely Grand Vi- 

 zirs. The pourtraiture of the Sultan- Regent, Mahomet. The 

 ancient Cuftome of the Turkifh Emperours, to live by their labour. 

 The Grand Seignor' s fubttlty , in revenging himfelf of tht 

 Moufti. 



inclinations ^T* ^ ^ Ottoman Monarchs, and generally all the Princes of Afa what reputa- 

 common to tbt tion ioever they may have gain'd, tor their valour, have alwayes been guilty 



Eajlern Mo- JL of a bent to voluptuou(hefs,and efTeminacy,and found great charms in a floth- 

 xvchs. ful kind of life. They come out of their Seraglio's as feldome as they can, 



and that only, when an indifpenlable neceflity forces them to (hew themfelves in pub- 

 lick, whether it be at the head of their Armies, or in thofe Ceremonies , wherein 

 the Law, or common Civilities, require their prefence. True it is, that fome of them 

 were not fo great lovers of retirement as others, and preferred the hardftiips of Warr, 

 the divertifements ofcHunting, before the blandilhments of cafe, and the convention 



of 



