Part IL Travels into the Levant 
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Next day about nine of the Clock at Night, the Company of Confeftio- jhe proceffi- 
ners marched in the fame Order as the Shoe makers had done, fàve that at"- onof theCon- 
tcr the Quire of Mufick, there came two men who carried each upon their tectioners. 
heads a Caftle of very lovely Sweat-meats but after their fafiiion ; then came 
the Divan, carried by feveral men, on which there was a little Boy ftanding 
upright, with his A.pron about him, and before him a round Box on a Table 
full of Sweet-meats, who whilft the reft roared out like Devils, chanted with 
all his might the fongs of the trade. 
Half an hour after, came the Company of Gold -Spinners, they were all The proceiîi. 
itx goodly Apparel ; and upon their little Divan, two little Boys fitting at on of Goid- 
the two ends, the one blew the Bellows to melt the Gold, and the other ^i"""^^'^- 
(pun it. Sometime after came the Weavers, who upon their portable D 'lvan Yhe proce/Ti- 
had a Loom, and a little Boy working at it. Then pafled the Bakers, moft on of the 
of them all dawbed with Flower, and their portable Divan was ftuck all Weavers, 
round with Ears of Corn; on which a little Boy kneeded Dough in a tray that ^'^^ proce/fi- 
ftood before him. The laft who came that Night were the Taylers, in the j^^^!^ ^ e a- 
fame order the others did ; but many of their Company were covered all jhe procefli- 
over iixih Furs, having alfo fticks like fools baubles covered in the fame on of the 
manner, and their Divan (on which was a little Boy a fewing, ) was edged all Taylers. 
round with Furs. 
The firffc Trade that marched the fifth night, was the Dyers, which made The proceffi- 
one of the fineft Shews. After fomelittleBoys wearing horns on their Heads, on of the 
came about an hundred men covered with Tygres skins or Coats of Mail ; '^>'^''^- 
they carried Muskets on their Shoulders, Swords and Targets by their fides, 
and Wax-tapers in their hands,; and roared and danced like Fools ; then 
came three Quires of Mufick confiftingof the ancienteftof the company, who 
finging with all their force and dancing, at leaft with their heads, faid the 
Fatah for the Grand Signior before the great Khan : After that appeared the 
Divan carried by fome men, on which were fpread feveral pieces of ftuff 
dyed red; and in the middle there was a little Boy, who finging as loud as 
he could, took a white Cloath by the two Corners, and fpreading it out be- 
fore all the Spectators, dipt it intoa great Pale ftanding before him, and im- 
mediately pulled it out all red; he wrung it, and then fpread it abroad. I 
was furprized at firft, and fo were all the reft, to fee that the Cloath had ta- 
ken the dye fo foon ; but I fancy that he left it in the Pale, and pulled out 
another already dyed, however it was nimbly done : That Divan was fol- 
lowed by another, whereon a Boy knocked blew Stuffs, to make the water 
come out of them. 
To this company fucceeded the Curriers or Turkey Leather-drelîèrs, who The Curriers, 
had a great many Youths marching before them attired with Goats horns of 
feveral Colours, four or five foot long ; they were followed by feveral Chil- 
dren, all clad in Turkey-leather, and then marched the Militia, the Old men 
and the Divan, on which were two little Boys one of which dyed the Lea- 
ther red, and fpread it upon the rails, and the other frnoothing it with a 
little Rowling pin, ftretched it out upon a bigger. 
After this trade, came the Grocers, or fome fuch trade ; for they fell Oyl, Grocers. 
Olives, Fruit and the like Commodities, The Divan was adorned with 
Apples and other forts of fruit hanging round it, and below there were feveral ■ i 
Baskets filled with various things ; in the middle ftood a little Boy, holding a 
pair of Scales in one hand, into one of which he put a handfull of fruit, which 
afterwards he threw among the People, fometimes finall Nuts, and fbmetimes 
Dates, Apples and other Fruit. 
The fourth Company was the Cap-makers both for Men and Women ; niafcers 
thefe had no Divan, but after the old men came feveral Boys, attired with 
very long Horns, fome of Velvet, whereof they make mens Caps, and o- 
thers of Cloath of Gold of which they make thofeof the Women; fome a- 
gain wore Caps, from which hung behind long fleeves of the fame fluff, and 
fèven or eight men amongft them were cloathed all over with the fame fluffs, 
fome in fafhion of a Chafulle, and others in the manner of Cappes, much like 
to thofe which the Boys of the Quire of Nofire Dame in Paris wear, but that 
thefe drew into a point on the fmall of the back, and all were attired 
with 
