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<P>The Great Turkes LETTER, SENT VNTO THE PRINCE OF <HI>TRANSIL&V;ANIA.</HI> Containing many impious, and un|heard of Bla&s;phemies, again&s;t our Savi|our CHRIST; and fearefull threatnings <HI>again&s;t all Chri&s;tendome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tran&s;lated out of the</HI> French <HI>Copy Printed in</HI> PARIS. And Re-printed here according to <HI>Order.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by T. FORCET, 1645.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED>_IBRAHIM <HI>the Sonne of the mo&s;t famous, and most re|nouned of the Empe|rours, Son of GOD, Emperor of the</HI> Turks, <HI>of</HI> Greece, Ma|cedonia, <HI>and</HI> Moldavia; <HI>King in</HI> Sa|maria, Anglian, <HI>and of the Great and little</HI> Egypt, <HI>King of all the Inhabi|tants of the Earth, and of the earthly Paradice, a Con&s;ecrated Prince, pre&s;er|ver of the Cities of</HI> Hungaria, <HI>Provo&s;t of the earthly Paradice, Keeper of the Sepulcher of thy God, Lord of all the
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 8 -->Emperours in this World, who are from the</HI> Ea&s;t <HI>to the</HI> We&s;t, <HI>King of all Kings, Lord of the Tree of life, Conquerour of</HI> Melonia, Anglian, <HI>Of the City of</HI> Por|cheviz. <HI>Great Per&s;ecuter of the Chri|&s;tians, and of all the wicked, the joy of the flouri&s;hing Tree. Provost, and Keeper of thy Crucified God; The Lord and hopes of the</HI> Pagans.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>_LET Our Greeting be given to the Prince of <HI>Tran&s;ilvania,</HI> if thou doe&s;t de&s;ire it: &amp; if thou art our friend, and of our Magi&s;trate al&s;o, unto whom we have given great Power.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Thou ha&s;t a while &s;ince violated, and per&s;ecuted Our friend&s;hip; though we have given thee no cau&s;e thereof; neither by Warre, nor by Battell: So that thou ha&s;t taken a &s;ecret coun&s;ell with other Kings and thy Coun&s;ellors, to free thee from our Power: in which thou ha&s;t done indi&s;creetly. And
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 8 -->therefore, Thou, and thy people ought to feare, &amp; mu&s;t expect nothing el&s;e, but death, which thou ha&s;t prepared unto thy &s;elfe. For, I tell thee, that I will get a victory upon thee, &amp; pur&s;ue thee from the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> to the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> and I will make my Maje&s;tie knovvn as fart as the end of the World. My de&s;ignes &s;hall be manife&s;ted unto thee, to thy owne ill for|tune: Which I let thee know, and I will have thee to acknowledge my great Power. And fora&s;much as thou putte&s;t thy tru&s;t in &s;ome Townes, and Ca&s;tles, I will de&s;troy, &amp; ruinat all thou can&s;t behold with thy eyes: and it is in vaine for thee, either to expect any more amitie from Us, or to put any con|fidence in thy Walles. For I will de&s;troy thee with thy owne people without any hin|derance I will plunder thee, and leave a me|morie of my bloudy &s;word after me in the Countrey. That this thing may be known, and manife&s;ted to every one. I will moreover plant my owne Religion effectually therein, and de&s;troy for ever thy Crucified God: who&s;e wrath I feare not, and he cannot afloord you
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 9 -->any &s;uccour to free you from my hands. I will be&s;ides this couple thy Sacred Prie&s;ts to Plowes: and make Dogs, and the wild bea&s;ts to &s;ucke the brea&s;ts of women. Thou &s;halt doe well and wi&s;ely to leave the Reli|gion thou ha&s;t; For, othervvi&s;e, I vvill have you all burnt. Be thou &s;atisfied vvith vvhat I &s;ay unto thee for this time. Thou mai&s;t un|der&s;tand me (if thou vvilt) &s;o far as I declare thee my Word, and intent again&s;t thee.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jbrahim, Hottoman, Trapetan.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>THe&s;e words ought to make us tremble: no, not tremble, but encourage us: not encourage us, but provoke our ju&s;t wrath, to avenge the outrage and injury done to God, and his Son <HI>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> our Savi|our; by that <HI>Barbarian,</HI> who &s;cornes Chri&s;ts power, and &s;eemes to challenge him to a comb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">te. Shall we not be &s;tirred through the example of our Prede|ce&s;&s;ours? That Gyant, that <HI>Goliah,</HI> is already at the gates of <HI>Tran&s;ilvania,</HI> to pa&s;&s;e from thence into <HI>Hun|garia.</HI></P>
<P>He is in per&s;on, and hath &s;ent his Army out of <HI>An|drinopolis,</HI> to thunder upon his neighbours. What hopes can <HI>Germany</HI> have, when hee hath conquered tho&s;e Countries? And who doubteth, but that hee will fall upon us, if <HI>Germany</HI> be once reduced under
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 9 -->his power? But one may &s;ay, that he hath great and va&s;te Countries to gaine, before he can come &s;o farre. But &s;hall we not take pitie of our brethren that are <HI>Chri&s;tians?</HI> Shall we be &s;o ba&s;e as to let that <HI>Infidel</HI> in|vade the Empire of the <HI>we&s;t,</HI> as he hath done that of the <HI>Ea&s;t?</HI> Shall our hearts be &s;o frozen, as not to bee kindled with the zeale of avenging the injurie done to the Divine Maje&s;tie of God? Shall wee leave &s;o &s;hamfull a memory of us unto Po&s;terity, as that they may accu&s;e us, That wee were not able to keepe the depo&s;ite, which our Ance&s;tors had left us? Let us then die like Chri&s;tians, Let us &s;pend our lives for the defence of his cau&s;e that dyed for us. God will di|rect our hands in the day of battell, and will make our Armies to pro&s;per: So that one &s;hall pur&s;ue ten, ten an hundred, an hundred a thou&s;and, and a thou|&s;and &s;hall pur&s;ue ten thou&s;and.</P>
<P>You may have read in my <HI>Exchange Intelligencer,</HI> that the <HI>Grand Signor</HI> had a de&s;igne upon the I&s;le of <HI>Maltha:</HI> but I have not as yet related unto you the occa&s;ion, which had moved him to entertaine &s;uch a de&s;igne. I will impart it unto you now.</P>
<P>There was a <HI>Ru&s;sia</HI> Gentlewoman, who did waite upon one of the <HI>Grand Signors Sultane&s;&s;e</HI> of a rare beauty, and of extraordinary parts. He fell in love with the Gentlewoman, and got a &s;onne by her. The <HI>Sultane&s;s</HI> grew Jealous, for the extraordinary favours the <HI>Rus&s;ia</HI> Gentlewoman did receive from the <HI>Grand Signor,</HI> and above all the re&s;t her owne Mi&s;tri&s;&s;e. So that they did all con&s;pire again&s;t her life, and did give her Poy&s;on: which being not &s;trong enough could
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 -->not make &s;o &s;oone an end of her, as they did expect. The Grand <HI>Signor</HI> took the Gentlewomans langui&s;h|ing &s;ickne&s;&s;e unto heart: and was exceedingly grieved to &s;ee that her young Babe was in danger of his life as well as the Mother. Hee therefore &s;ent them in Pilgrigmage unto <HI>Mequa,</HI> to his fal&s;e Prophets Tombe, both to be healed, and the Child to be Cir|cumci&s;ed there. The Knights of <HI>Maltha</HI> mett with them upon the Sea, while&s;t they were a going to <HI>Mahumets Sepulchre,</HI> tooke and carried them both Pri&s;oners into <HI>Maltha.</HI> Whereupon, the <HI>Grand Signor</HI> demanded Coun&s;ell of his <HI>Mufty,</HI> or high Prie&s;ts, to know what hee was to doe in that bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e. The <HI>Mufty,</HI> who doe alwaies give his Coun|&s;els and An&s;wers, according as he knowes which way the <HI>Grand Signor</HI> is inclined. Coun&s;elled him, that &s;ince his Love, and his Sonne were taken by the <HI>Malte&s;i,</HI> in an Ho&s;tile way, he was to &s;et them at li|berty by force of Armes. We that are Chri&s;tians, doe u&s;e to pay a ran&s;ome for our brethren; to redeem them from under the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> &s;lavery.</P>
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