Part I. Travels into //;^ L e v a n t. 8 1 
months that he was in Place, and then was made /l/^w/c'/i/. Two hours after, More changes 
him the Defterdar died. A few days after the Captain Bajha was made <^ourt, 
ManfoiU^ and declared Ba^a of ^gyp^ Ktenen Bajha was made Captain Ba^ia 
in his place, and the Seal was fent to the Bajha of <i^gypt, becaufe Egnboynn 
Bajha of Damafcus^ who had been fent for to be /^?y?fr, was fick ^ and in the 
mean time Hifouf Bajha was made Caymacam^ who three weeks after was decla- 
red Manfohl, and Kaidar Zade named in his place. 
Monday-, the Eighth of /^^)', they defired the Grand Slgnior to put out the 
ToHg againft Sedi Ahmet B^jha^ a Rebel in Afia , who made Inrodes even to ^^e^ ^#5, 
Scudaret. The Tong is a Horfes Tail faftened to the head of a Pike : It is never ^ Rehel in 
put out but in extreme neceifity, and then all the Militia mull take the Field. 
A great many Sheep were then facrificed, and on Tuefday^ the Ninth of May., 
it was put out, and planted in the firfl Court of the 5ery^^^//(7, near the Dgtbe 
Hane: But the Grand Sigmor having held Council, it was aliedged by fome, 
that they could not march againft Ahmet Bajlia without being at a vaffc Charge 
in putting all the Forces in good condition ; and it being the time when the 
V'enetians vwere coming to the Dardanelles^ they would have none to fend againft 
them, if all werefentthat way j whereupon the Grand Sigmor in a rage having 
asked, Who was the Author of putting out the To^^ ? And fome faying . that 
it was Gelep Jjfan Aga^ he was immediately put to death, with Chamht Mahomet ^^itjfolher 
j4gd^ Ponfcht Ofman Aga^ and Cara Cajch Mahomet Aga, Commiflary of the Lords put to 
Fi'lh-Markets i and the Teitg was ignominioufly put up again, a thing never death, 
done before. 
The Night following, fifty or {ixty Janiz^aries wereftrangled and caft into ^^«/î^r/ef 
the Sea, and we heard the Guns go off as faft as they threw them into the ftrangled. 
water. 
WedneJ'day, the Tenth of May, Refvan Beglerbey, oîAfia , was Beheaded 
before the Cr^îWSi^wer's Chamber. This Ce/fp (of whom we have • - 
been fpeaking j had'fairly raifed his Fortune, having in a very few days made 
above four hundred Thoufand Crowns of the Prefents which were fent him 
from all hands, and efpecially from the Grand Signior's Mother, who daily pre- 
fented him. After that Sedition, he was environed with Baflias, who with 
great fubmiffion made their court to him, but he knew not how to carry fair 
in fo great profperity. 
I thought fit to relate this Story at length, according as I received it from 
a French Renegadoe,who was prefent at all,and daily gave mean account of what 
paffed ; to ftiew how infignificant a thing the Grand Sigmor is,when the Soldiery 
is in an Infurredion. 
CHAP. LV. 
Of the Chrijlians and Jews that are Subje&s 
to the Grand Signior. 
■'3 
THE Subjeds of the Grand Signior, who are not Mn[iilmans, are either The Gnni ' 
Chriftians or Jews -, of the Chriftians, the chief are the Greeks, who ufe si'^nior's Sub« - 
the fame Habit that the Turks do, only there are fome colours which they dare i^^^. 
not wear neither on their Head, nor in their Body- Apparel j for not only 
they, but generally all who are not Turks, whether Chriftians or Jews, (Sub- 
jeds to the Grand Signior, or not j dare not wear Green on their Head, or any 
other part of their Body ; and if a Chriftian or Jew be found with the leaft bit 
of Green about him, he'll be foundly Baftonado'd, and pay Money to boot -, 
in fo great veneration is the Green colour with them. Nor dare Chriftians 
wear a Turban all white, for if he be taken with fuch an one ( whether he a white r«r- 
be a Subjed of the Grand s^g"iors or not) he muft turn Turk or die iov kn. 
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