A Relation of the Chap.XVL 



are Unbelievers, and they ought to he defiroyed. But fome years fince, the Turks made it 

 appear, that they made but little account of that Standard -, for HaJJlm, one of the Baf- 

 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 

 engag'd in. 



A word further ° ut of tne Grand Seignor's Chamber, there is a paflage into a great Hall, the place 

 of the Prince's appointed for the reception of the Pages who approach his Perfon -, and there is ad- 

 Afflartmenu joyning to it a Bath, which is fill'd by three Cocks, where they wafh 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 h and from thence 

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

 Amurath. 



CHAP. X VL 



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 Eajlern-parts . 

 The Life of the Seraglio, délie tous to one fingle perfon,and incom- 

 modious to many. The Mahumetanes zealous obferVers of their 

 LariV. The regulated times of their fublick Dénotions. The 

 ordinary Employments of the Grand Seignor. How his Table is 

 ferVd. The Sultan, "tohen obligd to go, in Ceremony, to the 

 Mbfyuey. The Tricked contrivances of the Moufti, to get mony. 

 The prefent State of the Ottoman Family. An extraordinary 

 example of a Father and Son, Tttho Tbere fuccefiively Grand Vi- 

 zirs. 77;e fourtraiture of the Suit2Lti-$(egent, Mahomet. The 

 ancient Cuftomeof the Turkifli Emperour s , to live by their labour. 

 The Grand Seignor's fubtilty , in revenging himfelf of the 

 Moufci. 



TH E Ottoman Monarchs, and generally all the Princes of A fia, what reputa^ 

 tion foever they may have gain'd, for their valour, have alwayes been guilty 

 of a bent to voluptuoulhefs, and effeminacy ,and found great charms in a iloth- 

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

 and that only, when an indiipenfable neceffity 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 preferr'd the hardlhips of Warr, 

 the divertifements of Hunting, before the blandithments of eafe, and the converfation 



of 



Inclinations 

 common to the 

 Eaftern Mo- 

 narchs. 



