A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. / Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex.

SECT. XXII.

Of their King the great Mogol, his discent, &c.

NOw those Mahometans and Gentiles I have named, live under the subjection of the great Mogol, which Name, or rather Title (if my information abuse me not) signifies cir∣cumcised, as himself, and the Mahometans are; and therefore for his most general title he is called the great Mogol, as the chief of the cir∣cumcised, or the chief of the circumcision.

He is lineally descended from that most fa∣mous conqueror, called in our stories Tamber∣lane, concerning whose birth and original Hi∣stories much differ, and therefore I cannot de∣termine it; but in this, all that write of him agree, that he having got together very many huge multitudes of men, made very great con∣quests in the South-East parts of the World, not onely on Bajazet the Emperour of the Turks, but also in East-India, and elsewhere; for what cannot force by multitudes do? This Tamberlane in their stories is called Amir Timur, or the great Prince and Emperor Ti∣mur, who (as they say) towards his end, either by an hurt received in his thigh, or else by an unhappy fall from his Horse, which made him

halt to his grave, was ever after that called Ti∣mur lang, or Timur the lame, from whence he is corruptly in our stories, named amberlane, the late Mogol, at whose Court we lived, was the ninth in a direct line, from that his great Ancestor.

And now that my Reader may see the great Mogol in a Portrature (which was taken from a Picture of his drawn to the life) I have caused that to be here inserted, which presents him in his dayly unvaried Habite, as he is bedeckt, and adorned with Jewels, he continually wears; for the fashion of the Habite, in which he is here presented, it is for the fashion the Habite of that whole vast Empire; so that he who strictly views this; may see the dresse of the men throughout that whole great Monarchy.

After this I have set up the Royal standard of the great Mogol, which is a Couchant Lyon shadowing part of the body of the Sun.

And after that I have caused his Imperial Signet, or great Seal to be laid down before my Readers eyes, wherein nine rounds, or Cir∣cles, are the Names and Titles of Tamberlane, and his lineal successors in Persian words, which I shall make presently to speak English, and (as I conceive) no more in English, than what is fully expressed in those original words.

This Seal (as it is here made in Persian words) the great Mogol, either in a large, or

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The Royall Signet of y^e great MOGOL.

lesser figure causeth to be put unto all Fir∣maunes, or Letters Patents, the present Kings Title put in the middle, and larger Circle that is surrounded with the rest, the impression whereof is not made in any kinde of Wax, but Ink, the Seal put in the middle of the Paper and the writing about it, which Paper there is made very large, and smooth, and good, and in divers colours, beside white, and all to write on. And the words on the Mogols Seal being imboss't, are put upon both sides of his Silver and Gold Coin, (for there is no image upon any of it.) And the like little Signets, or Seals are used by the great men of that Countrey, and so by others of inferiour rank, having their Names at length engraven on them with which they make impressions, or subscriptions by Ink put on them, to all their acts & deeds, which round Circle is their hand and Seal to.

For Timar-lang, or Tamberlane, he was famous about the year of Christ 1398. in the last year of the Reign of Richard the Se∣cond, King of England. And he the first of the Race of those great Monarchs hath a Title, which speaks thus:

1. Amir, Timur, Saheb Ceran, that is the great Conqueror, or Emperor, Timur, or Tam∣berlane, Lord possessor of the Corners, or of the four Corners of the World.

2. The second his Son was called Mirath-Sha,

the King and inheritor of Conquests, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the inheritor of his Fathers Conquests.

3. The third his Son was called Mirzae, Sultan, Mahomeds, the Prince and Comman∣der for Mahomet; or the Desender of the Ma∣hometan Religion, for this King (as it should seem) was the first Indostan Emperor that pro∣fessed Mahometisme, which Tamberlane his Grand-father was a great enemy too, & there∣fore ever strongly opposed it. But this third Monarch of that line, and all his successors since have been Mahometans.

4. The fourth his son was called Sultan Abusaid, the Prince and Father, or fountain of Beneficence.

5. The fifth his son was called Mirzee A∣mir Sheick, the Imperial Princely Lord.

6. The sixth his son was called Baba Pad∣sha, the King the Father, or the King, the Fa∣ther of his Countrey.

7. The seventh his son was called Hama∣saon Podsha, the King Invincible.

8. The eight his son was called Achabar Padsha, the great King, or Emperor that is most mighty▪ or the King most mighty.

9. The ninth his son was called Almoza∣phar, Noor, Dein, Gehangeir, Padsha, Gaze, the most warlike and most victorious King, the Light of Religion, and the Conqueror of the World.

Here are very high titles taken by Tamber∣lane and his successors, and the lower we go, the greater still they are, but the last of them swels biggest of all, calling himself amongst other phansies the Conqueror of the world, and so he conceits himself to be; As they write of Thrasyllus the Athenian, who believed that all the ships on the Sea were his own, and there∣fore he would call them, my ships, when ever he saw them floating on the waters; and thus the great Magol imagines all the Kings, Nations, and people of the world to be his Slaves and Vassals.

And therefore when the Grand Signiour, or great Turks sent an Ambassador to the great Mogol, who came unto him attended with a great train and retinue, and after when he was ready to take his leave, desired of the Mogol to know what he should say to his Master when he was returned; tell thy Master said the Mo∣gol that he is my slave, for my Ancestor Con∣quered him.

The Mogol feeds and feasts himself with this conceit, that he is Conqueror of the world, and therefore (I conceive that he was troubled upon a time, when my Lord-Ambassador, have∣ing businesse with him, and upon those terms; there is no coming unto that King empty handed without some present, or other (of which more afterward) and having at that

time nothing left, which he thought fit to give him, presented him with Mercators great book of Cosmography (which the Ambassador had brought thither for his own use) telling the Mogol that that book described the four parts of the world, and all several Countreys in them contained, the Mogol at the first seem'd to be much taken with it, desiring pre∣sently to see his own Territories, which were immediately shewen unto him, he asked where were those Countreys about them, he was told Tartaria, and Persia, as the names of the rest which confine with him, and then causing the book to be turn'd all over, and finding no more to fall to his share, but what he first ••aw, and he calling himself the Conqueror of the world, and having no greater share in it, seemed to be a little troubled, yet civily told the Ambassa∣dour that neither himself, nor any of his peo∣ple did understand the language in which that book was written, and because so, he further told him that he would not rob him of such a Jewel, and therefore returned it unto him a∣gain.

And the truth is, that the great Mogol might very well bring his action against Mer∣cator and others, who describe the world, but streighten him very much in their Maps, not al∣lowing him to be Lord & Commander of those Provinces, which properly belong unto him.

But it is true likewise that he, who hath the greatest share on the face of the earth, if it be compared with the whole world, appears not great. As it was said of the Lands of Alcibia∣des that compared with the Glob of the whole earth, they did not appear bigger than a small tittle. The Mogols Territories are more ap∣parent, large, and visible, as any one may take notice, who strictly views this affixed Map, wch is a true representation of that great Em∣pire in its large dimensions. So that although the Mogol be not master of the whole World, yet hath he a great share in it, if we consider his very large Territories, and his abundant riches, as will after more appear, whose wealth and strength makes him so potent, as that he is able, whensoever he pleaseth to make inroades upon, and to do much mischief unto any of his Neighbours, but I leave that, and come now to speak.