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CHAP. XIX. Mustapha the first of that Name Ninth Em∣perour of the Turks his Life and Actions.
AChmat being dead Mustapha his Brother, (the First that had been saved alive since the foun∣dation of the Ottoman Empire) succeeded him by his appointment, his Children of which Os∣man was the Eldest being too weak to sway the Scepter of so mighty an Empire. So that this Mu∣stapha, brought from a straight Prison every day ex∣pecting Death, now advanced to a Throne to rule the East, forgeting his former devout Life, began to Tyrannize over his Subjects more then his Pre∣decessors; which caused him to be hated of many, especially for that he imprisoned the French Ambas∣sador and his servants, breaking thereby the Law of Nations; upon pretence that they had been instru∣mental in the escape of Prince Coreskie out of the Black Tower, who by the assistance of a Greek Priest descended from the top thereof, on a rople Ladder drawn up by a bottom of Packthred brought in a Pie to the said Prince by the Ambassadors Se∣cretary, though contrary to his knowledge, with the Prince likewise escaped one Rigaut a French Cap∣tain, who by the assistance of the said Priest, disgui∣sed in Priestly Vestments for that purpose prepared, got passage into Italy, notwithstanding all the Ports were beset with their pursuers. Nor was the Am∣bassador only imprisoned but his servants and him∣self