The ofspring of the house of Ottomanno and officers pertaining to the greate Turkes court. Whereunto is added Bartholomeus Georgieuiz Epitome, of the customes rytes, ceremonies, and religion of the Turkes: with the miserbale affliction of those Christians, whiche liue vnder their captiuitie and bondage. In the ende also is adioyned the maner hovv Mustapha, oldest sonne of Soltan Soliman, twelfth Emperour of the Turkes, was murthered by his father, in the yere of our Lorde 1553. al Englished by Hugh Goughe.

❀ The Author vnto the Christian reader.

I Thought it good, most fauorable rea∣der, heare to recite certaine woordes of Scaluone speche, y^t thou mightest knowe by howe muche the Sclauone tonge, diffe∣reth from the Persian language, whiche is vsed by the Turkes. Ʋnderstand ther∣fore that it is lawfull for all men, skile∣full in that tounge, safelye to passe into Croatia Dalmatia, Russia VValachia, Ser∣uia, Boeme, & Poole althoughe throughe distance of the prouinces, they differ not alitle in certaine wordes, and pronuncia¦tion,

as the Italians frō the Spaigniar: des, and Germans from the Flemmin∣ges. Farther let not this be vnknowen to the, that the Russians and inhabitan∣tes of Seruia do vse one lāguage in their deuine seruice. For they haue foure and thirty letters, not muche vnlike those of the Grecians▪ And likewise the Croatians, but their letters differ verye muche from the other in forme▪ howbeit in number and pronunciation thei ar like. And ther∣fore it is impossible for vs, with English letters to vtter the trew pronunciation of their words. The Turkes conuersant in their kings courte, and confines of Scla••¦••ony do vse the same language.

Farevvell.