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their Law both Civil and Canon ^ fome befides apply themfelves to AUrology, 
and few to other Sciences. 
The Turks They are very Amorous, but with a brutifli Love \ for they are great So- 
the^ L domites, and that is a very ordinary Vice amongfl them, which they care fo 
leii ove. conceal, that their Songs are upon no other Subjed, but upon that 
Infamous Love or Wine. They are very Covetous , and therefore their 
Friendfhip is eafily gained by Money, or Prefents -, by means of Money one 
may receive all forts of Civility from them, and there is nothing but what 
may be obtained at the Grand Signior's Court for Money : Money makes Heads 
flie off, and in fine, Money is the great T^/?/}»^» there, as well as elfewhere. 
For the common fort of People, provided you'll give them Drink enough, they 
are wholly at your fervice. Thus you have a ftiort account of the chief of 
their Manners ; we mult now fpeak of the Prince that Governs them . 
CHAP. XLV. 
Of the Grand Signior. 
The' Prince rTp H E Turks are all fubjeâ: to one fole Prince, whom they call Suhan^ and 
ot the Turks. other Nations, the Emperour of the Turks, or the Grand Signior, be- 
caufe of his great Power. This is an Hereditary Empire, and hath never 
gone out of the Ottoman Family, fince firfl it entred into it ; that Race being 
held in fuch Veneration by the Turks, that they would do any thing rather 
than to fubmit to an Emperour of another Line, in prejudice of the true 
Heirs. 
Sultan Maho- -phe Grand Signior who Reigns at prefent, is called Sulta'a Mahomet the 
m IV. his pouj.{-hof that Name, Sow to Saltan Ibrahim ; in the Year 1655. that I was at 
Confiantinofle , he was about Fifteen or Sixteen Years of Age : He feem- 
ed to' me to be of a low Stature, Tawny, and Melancholick. He hath a 
Scar on the left Cheek, which his Father made, who being on a time half 
Drunk, fell a Dancing, and having commanded his Son to come and Dance 
wouS In * with him, the little Boy made anfwer, I am not a fool to Dance : I am 3 Fool 
ill the Cheek then ( rçTplkà Sultan Ibrahim idl in rage ^ and with that gave him a flab with 
by his Fatlier his Can^iar, or Dagger, in the left Cheek, and had Killed him, if his Wives 
Sultan ibu- had not prevented it. Others fay, that it was by a Bottle he threw at him, 
he gave him that Scar. 
The Ceremo- When a Grand Signior dies then, his Son fucceeds him, and if he have no 
nyof in[^:al- Son, his Brother takes place, and pitches upon a day when he goes by Water 
ment of the f he Mofque of Toh^; which is at the bottom of the Port ; This Mofqm hath 
Grmà Signior. ^ gj-, in the middle whereof, there is a Tribunal of Marble, raifed upon 
Marble Pillars. ThQ Grand Signior mounting upon this Tribunal, the Mnfty, 
after fome Prayers, girds him with a Sword ; and that being done, hemskes 
his entry into Co-nfiantinople with Cavalcade. This Ceremony with them, is 
like the Coronation of our Kings j and he ends his Cavalcade at the Ser- 
raglio. 
The Erotheri No fooner hath he taken p^lFeffion of the Empire, but he bethinks himfelf 
of the Grand of the means to make it durable, and for that end puts all his Brothers to 
JigKforputtOjQç^j.^^ provided he himfelf have Male Children j for if he have none, 
it feldom happens that he difpatches his Brothers , for fear of depriving 
the Empire of a SuccefTor of the fame Race, and of putting an end to the 
Ottoman Family, which would be a very great lin. However Snltan^^ Ammat 
did othervvife, for without any confideration of Race or Heirs, though he 
had no Children, he put to Death all his Brothers, except Snltan Ibrahim, 
the Father of Mahomet the prefent Emperour, who was fo well hid by his 
Mother, making the cruel Prince believe that his Brother was dead, that fhe 
delivered 
