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Title:  The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia.
Author: Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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escap'd the Golden Fleece. But nothing of all this would prevail with him to stay longer at Vienna. For the Peace being now concluded, he returns in∣cognito to Lauretta again, thence makes an excursion into Sicily to visit some Aliances and great kindred, which he had living there. Excessive are the Complements and Presents which he re∣ceived from the great Princes of Ger∣many and Italy in this Progress. Arriv'd in Sicily, Don Pedro d' Arragon receives and treats him in his Palace, and the whole City of Messina meet and attend him, acknowledging him of the illu∣strious house of the Cigala's, from which that Countrey had, it seems, re∣ceived many great Benefits. From Si∣cily he passes through Calabria towards Rome again, visiting divers of his Friends and Kindred in the way, and arriving at Naples has done him the same honors of the Vice-roy and Nobi∣lity there, and so by Sea imbarks for Rome, into which he now makes his publike Entry, and obtain'd Audience accordingly of Clement the IXth, before whom in a bravado he draws and flou∣rishes his dreadful Cimeter, in token of 0