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ment of the Weft: upon which vain prefiimtion they aflumed 
alfo the title of Koj^oKpdTo^^^ or Emperours oi the World, as if they 
had been the true Succeflbrs of u4u^ujlm , and the Weftern Em- 
perors, Ufurpers, whom they called by way of contempt and in- 
dignation, P^;^«',Reges, as ^ Luitprandiis informs us in the accompt 
of his Ambaffy to Nicephoriis Thocas, and afforded the people of 
Italy no other title than that of s Longobards ov Lombards. 
The prefeat Greeks call all the Weftern Chriftians ^cLT^vol or 
(p^dlyoi Latins or Franks, theTurks only making ufe of the latter, 
when they fpeak civilly of us, and calling Chrijiendome fhreur 
Jqjian, in the prefent Gr«?^/^ (ppjyce. The T^r^ now as proudly 
call Conjiantinople Alem pena, or the refuge of the World ; where 
indeed feems to be a medly of alt or moft nations of three parts 
of it, and of all iteligions, which are allowed to be publickly 
profeft and exercifed every where throughout the Empire , ex- 
cept t\\^Terfian, For they look upon it as a corruption of, 
and deviation from the rules and doftrioe of M^/;<?/?2^t, thek 
great falfe prophet, and therefore abfolutely forbid it, as re- 
pugnant to, and deftrudive of the dod:rineof life and falvatir 
on, as they fpeak. And accordingly they condemn with all ima- 
ginable fury the Profeffors of it, who pretend to follow All, as 
Sectaries and Apoftates, and entertain worfe opinions of them, 
then of Chrijiians or "jews or Infidels, The 'Perfians are not behind 
hand with them in their hatred and difreiped:, deriding tlien^ 
asgrofsand ftupid , and looking upon them as little lets them 
barbarousj intereft and zeal for their feveral tenents heightn- 
ing their differences fo much , that in time of War they 
deftroy one anothers Mofcbs. I remember , that there wa^^ ^ 
great difcourfe in Conjlantinoph among the Turks concerning; 
an impudent hot-headed P^r//^;?, who publickly in the new^ 
Mofch built by the Mother of the prefent Emperour, afferted! 
that All was equal to Mahoniet, But it feems he very luckily^ 
made his efcape out of their hands, at which the Prieiteaad the^ 
more zealous T^/r^^j- were very much fcandalized. 
The Greeks have twenty fix Churches within the walls of the 
r Pag. U4, i,^, iji. S ^^K' 139^ ^ 
Y y z Gjity- 
