The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677 containing the reigns of the three last emperours, viz., Sultan Morat or Amurat IV, Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the XIII emperour now reigning / by Paul Rycaut, Esq. ...

THE TABLE TO THE Reign of Sultan Morat or Amurat IV.

A.

• ABassa Pasha of Erzirum his Rebel∣lion, pag. 2. he advances towards Constantinople, 9. is reconciled to the Grand Signior, 21. and made Pa∣sha of Bosna, 22. made General in the War with Poland, 44. he is strangled by command of the Grand Signior pag. 49
• Algierines infest the Seas casting off their reverence to the Sultan, 16. land at Scan∣derone and rob the ware-houses, and then set them on fire, 16, 17. infest the Gulf of Venice, 72. are blocked up by the Venetian in Valona ibid.
• Ali Pasha slain in Mesopotamia by the Per∣sian and his Army routed pag. 10
• Sultan Amurat advanced to the Throne at fourteen years of age, 3. described, ibid. his lewd debaucht life, 27, 28. like to have been killed by lightning, 31. which works some reformation in him for the present, ibid. he sends an Ambassadour into Persia, 32. A peace made with the Persians, but quickly broken, 38. several acts of his tyranny, 43. he destroys ta∣verns, ibid. makes war on the Poles, 44. sues to them for peace, 49. more acts of his cruelty, 51. forbids all houses of en∣tertainment, 52. goes in person with his Arniy into Persia, ibid. musters at Erz∣rum three hundred thousand sighting men, 57. his patience and labours, ibid. causes his two brothers Bajazet and Or∣chan to be strangled, ibid. he returns from Persia to Constantinople, 58. his aversion to Tabaco, 59. more instances of his cruelty, ibid. & 60. & 69, 70. He resolves again to march in person into Persia, pag. 68. he begins his march in May 1638. 71. the History of his march, 77, 78. the whole Army arrives before Babylon or Bagdat, 79. he takes it, 81. his braving Letter to the King of Persia, 82. he returns to Constantino∣ple, ibid. he dyes of a Feaver contracted by a dsbauch, 89. his Character ibid.
• Asac besieged and taken by the Moscovites and Cosacks pag. 65, 66

B.

• BAbylon or Bagdat taken from the Turks by the Persians in 1626. 10. the Turks laying siege to it to recover it are beaten off, ibid. likewise the second time, 15. a third time, 29. the Grand Signior himself commanding the Army takes it pag. 81
• Balsora taken by the Persian pag. 10
• Bechir Pasha of Babylon joyns with Abassa in his rebellion pag. 4
• Bethlem Gabor, vid. Gabor.
• Biram Pasha made Great Vizier, 63. is slain dt the Siege of Babylon pag. 8
• Buda, the Garrison there mutiny; but upon surrendring four of the Ring-leaders to punishment, and craving pardon, things are quieted and past by pag. 36

C.

• CAffa taken by the Tartars front the Turks, but soon restored 19, 20 Candia its General sights a Turkish Gally be∣longing to the Archipelago (mistaking it for a Pirate) commanded by Dervis Bei, which had like to have broke the peace,

• but the Venetian Ambassadour at the Port makes up the business pag. 17, 18
• Cantemir, a Tartar, makes a new Colony, 64. being driven out of it by the Tartar Han, he is strangled at Constantinople pag. 65
• Marin Capello takes the Algierine Gallies in the Port of Valona pag. 73
• Caramosauls what pag. 41.
• Count Cesi French Ambassadour at the Port pag. 51
• Chusaein the Great Vizier advances Sultan Amurat to the Throne, who soon deposes him from his Office, and afterwards cau∣ses him to be strangled, and why pag. 2, 3, 4
• Constantinople, a terrible Fire there in 1634. pag. 47
• Corban what pag. 3
• Cosacks their Boats described, 6. in them entring the Bosphorus they make great spoil on the Turkish Coasts, 7. they insest the Black Sea, 20. again more numerous∣ly, 26, 27. their Country described, 66. the ground of the war betwixt them and the Poles ibid. & 67, 68
• Cyrillus the Patriarch strangled at the false and malicious suggestions of the Jesuits against him pag. 71

D.

• DAmascus revolts to the Persian pag. 10

E.

• ELia Pasha rebels in Anatolia, but being first beaten in the field, and then be∣sieged in Magnesia, surrenders himself upon fair promises, but at his arrival at Constantinople is strangled pag. 35, 36
• The Emperour sends an Envoyé to the Port, who disputes with the English Ambassador for precedence pag. 87
• Erzirum siding with the Rebel Abassa is be∣sieged by the Turks who are beaten off, 18. but is surrendred voluntarily upon Abassa's Reconciliation pag. 21

F.

• FAcardin an Arabian Prince his History pag. 39—42
• French Ambassadour imprisoned, 36. his Interpreter impaled, pag. 37. another In∣terpreter of theirs hanged, 51. their Am∣bassadour Marcheville forcibly sent away pag. 50

G.

• GAbor Prince of Transylvania makes war on the Emperour, 7. the rea∣sons of it, ibid. & 8. He obtains aid of the Turks, 8. a Truce made, ibid. The Turks not keeping it, are in several places discomfited by the Emperour's Forces, 9. the Truce ended, being aided by Duke John of Weymar and Count Mansfelt, as also by Morteza Pasha of Buda, he sights Wallestein the Emperour's General, and routs his Army, II. whereupon a peace is made betwixt the Emperour and Prince, 12. he dyes, 23. his Character, ibid. & 24. leaving no children his Widow for a while keeps the Government, but is perswaded to resign it to Stephen Gabor, who yet keeps it not, but resigns it to George Ra∣gotski pag. 25
• Germans continue their Truce with the Turks pag. 39
• Jembeg Gheray succeeds Mehmet in the Kingdom of Tartary, 23. dispeeds sorty thousand Horse into Podolia and Russia to ravage the Country, who are intercepted by the Poles and Cosacks in their return and almost all cut off, ibid. he is treache∣rously slain, 65. Bechir Gheray his bro∣ther ordained King in his stead ibid.
• Gregorians, a great slaughter made of them by the Turk pag. 15
• Emir Gumir betrays Revan to the Turks pag. 57

H.

• HAlil Pasha made Great Vizier, 4. made General in the war with Per∣sia, 15. is recalled, ibid. is put out of his Office pag. 19

I.

• JAmbolat Ogli strangled pag. 62
• Janisaries unruly, 1, 4. they are curbed, 22. they again grow more insolent, 33, 34. but are soon tamed by the Sultan's severity pag. 35
• Jews how treated in Turkie pag. 22
• ...

• ... Illay near Babylon garrisoned by the Turks, pag. 29. retaken by assault by the Per∣sians pag. 30

L.

• LUpulo Prince of Moldavia desires the Sultan to conser the Principality of Valachia on his Son, &c. pag. 84

M.

• MArquess of Marcheville, French Am∣bassadour at the Port, for his com∣plaints against the Captain-Pasha is for∣cibly sent away pag. 51
• Matthew Prince of Valachia obtains a Vi∣ctory over Lupulo Prince of Moldavia pag. 84
• Medina taken by the Persian pag. 10
• Mehmet elected King of the Tartars by the people, overcomes his elder Brother Ghe∣rey, whom the Grand Signior would have imposed on them, 5. he defeats him a se∣cond time, though assisted by the Grand Signior pag. 19
• Mehmet, Pasha of Cairo, made Great Vi∣zier pag. 34
• The G. Mogul promises to assist the Turk, if he will break with the Persian pag. 38
• Moldavia, troubles there pag. 36
• Morat, vid. Amurat.
• Morteza Pasha of Buda joyns with the Prince of Transylvania against the Em∣perour, II. he with the Prince make peace with the Emperour pag. 12, 13
• Mosul taken by the Persian pag. 10
• Sultan Mustapha his incapacity for the Go∣vernment, 1. is deposed, 2, 3. command∣ed to be slain by Sultan Morat pag. 83

P.

• PErsia, the King enters the Turks Do∣minions with a powerful Army, 9. his success, 10. sends an Ambassadour to the Port with proposals of peace, but without effect, 15. sends another likewise without effect, 16. the Persians receive a defeat by the Turk, 26. peace made with the Turk, but quickly broke, 38. The King again sends an Ambassadour to the Port with proposals of peace, 63. who not suc∣ceeding in his errand, is sorced to ac∣company the Turkish Army into Persia, pag. 70. After the loss of Babylon they send another Ambassadour to the Port, 83. who obtains a peace pag. 84
• Poles make peace with the Turks, 29, 30. but the Turks soon break it, taking part with the Moscovites, 44. they send an Ambassadour to the Port, 45. give a great deseat to the Moscovites, who profser an advantageous and honourable peace to the Poles, which is accepted, 48. They are sued unto for peace by the Grand Signior, and at last consent, 49. the peace consir∣med by the Turk pag. 61

R.

• RAgotski elected Prince of Transylva∣nia, 25. he refuses aid from the Turks, 31. he instates one Matthias in the Principality of Valachia, and ejects one constituted by the Grand Signior, called Stridia Bei or Lord Oysters, 39. Stephen Bethlem that had been his Com∣petitor for the Principality, stirs up the Turk against him, whom he defeats in several battels, 53, 55, 56. whereby he is confirmed in the Principality, and ob∣tains also from the Port a confirmation of the same for his Son ibid.
• Revan betrayed by the Governour Emir Gumir to the Turks, 57. recovered by the Persian pag. 59

S.

• SElictar Aga who, 19. he is made Great Vizier, ibid. gains a Victory over the Persians, 26. besieges Babylon, but is beaten off, 28, 29. he returns to Constan∣tinople, and is deprived of his Office pag. 32
• Serches Pasha, vid. Selictar Aga.

T.

• TArtary, the King thereof treacherous∣ly slain pag. 65
• Tauris taken by the Turks from the Persian, 15. utterly destroyed by them pag. 58
• Pirates of Tunis infest the Seas, 16. See Algierines.

V.

• VAlona, the Venetian Admiral takes fourteen Algierine Gallies in this Port, pag. 73. which boldness the Vene∣tians are glad to make amends for to the Port pag. 86
• Van besieged by the Persian pag. 62