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<HEAD><HI>A</HI> De&s;cription of the <HI>Turks</HI> Prayers and Fa&s;ts, before they go to <HI>War</HI> with the CHRISTIANS</HEAD>
<P>THE Grand Signiour having Grounds to fear the GOD may have a De&s;ign to make u&s;e of the Rod of His Indignation, for the Cha&s;ti&s;ement of the <HI>Ottoman</HI> Empire, and the <HI>Sultan</HI> to prevents his falling together with his Subjects into the Hands of the <HI>Chri|&s;tians</HI> his Enemys, Ardently wi&s;hes that the Anger of GOD may be appaced by the means of the Proce&s;&s;ion of the great <HI>Machomet</HI> for which Rea&s;on, he &s;trictly Commands, that all and every one of his Subjects Fa&s;t twice a week, Viz. On <HI>Monday</HI> and <HI>Friday</HI> in the mo&s;t Rigorous manner, ab&s;taining from all kind of Food and Drink till the Eevening; And on the &s;aid Days, the High Prie&s;t, with his Eccle&s;ia&s;tical A&s;&s;i&s;tants are Commanded, immediatly to appear Covered with A&s;hes, and to go in Proce&s;&s;ion through the Streets with Digected counte|nances, and cry alloud in the Ears of the Inhabitants of <HI>Mecca</HI> the following words, <HI>O GOD a&s;&s;i&s;t thy People.</HI></P>
<P>THE <HI>Sultan</HI> furthermore Commands, that <HI>Machomets</HI> Coffin be carryed into a publick place, and laid upon Four Golden Columns, Sarrounded with Twelve other Coffins full of their Saints Bones, that by their means the great <HI>Machomet</HI> may not faill on his part to pacify the Anger of GOD. The great <HI>Sultan</HI> Commands likewi&s;e, that all the Strangers <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat &s;hall be in <HI>Mecca,</HI> together with the Inhabitants of that Town &s;hall Seven times walk in Proce&s;|&s;ion round that Tomb in the open Country, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rying, Houling and Groaning, and the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Prie&s;ts are on this Occa&s;ion, to Speak to the People, and Repre&s;ent to them the great mi&s;|fortunes the <HI>Ottoman</HI> Port has &s;uffered for &s;ome Years pa&s;t, and that, if they do not Repent, they will Experience, by their Ruin, the Wrath of GOD.</P>
<P>UPON the&s;e Days of Penitence and Proce&s;&s;ion all Sorts of Mu&s;ick, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Are forbidden among&s;t the <HI>Turks.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Order of Proce&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1&s;t.</HI> 600 Men barefooted covered with Sackcloath and A&s;hes, carrying in their Hands Weapons, made u&s;e of in the la&s;t War, &s;ome broken and &s;ome wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><HI>2dly.</HI> Next to them 300 Mu&s;timans, who are a &s;ort of Monks, having &s;harp cutting Knives, with which they are to make Inci&s;ions in their Bodies, crying out, Sighing and cut|ting their Brea&s;ts.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3ly,</HI> Then 6000 Men with Whips or Scourges, la&s;hing them&s;elves over their &s;houlders.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4thly.</HI> The Tomb or C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ffin of Mahomet, carryed by 30 <HI>I&s;pohia,</HI> or Turki&s;h Prie&s;ts, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">av|ing their Beards &s;hav'd and bare-headed. That Tomb is to be &s;urrounded and guarded by 300 <HI>Ba&s;haws</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">heir Shimiters drawn who have orders to kill on the &s;pot, &s;uch who &s;hall pre|&s;ume out of curi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y to look upon that Tomb, and the Bodies of &s;uch who &s;hall be killed on that account are to be thrown to the Dogs.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5thly,</HI> Fifty Turki&s;h Princes without any Ornament of Purple, bare headed, and be&s;meared, with Chri&s;tian Blood, their left Hand tyed, and dragging with their right a Hor&s;es Tail.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6thly,</HI> 3000 Jani&s;&s;aries, who in&s;tead of their Arms, are to drag after them their Bucklers, crying ou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> in a lamentable Tone, <HI>Halla; Halla, Hu.</HI></P>
<P N="7"><HI>7thly,</HI> One of the chief Viziers is to clo&s;e the Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce&s;&s;ion, riding upon an A&s;s bare headed in token of Humiliari&ocirc;s, holding in his left Hand a Turki&s;h Cap dipped in Chri&s;tian Blood, and in the right a Cane, wherewith he is to Strike his Nead, and is to deprecate the future Calamity in the&s;e Words. <HI>O great Prophet, a&s;&s;i&s;t us for obtaining the Grace of our God, that the Chri&s;tians may remain confounded.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><HI>8thly,</HI> After this they are to carry a Che&s;t full of A&s;pers or Silver Piece&s;s of Money, to be thrown among the People by a Turk appointed for that purpo&s;e, but none is to be &s;o audacious as to ri&s;e f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">om the Grownd, till the Proce&s;&s;ion is gone by, on pain of lo&s;eing his Head.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>9thly,</HI> La&s;t of all c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e an incredible Multitude of Turks, among&s;t whom are the <HI>Pomites,</HI> who are to Scratch and tear their Faces, and at every hunder Paces they are to lift up their Eyes to Heaven, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">y out, <HI>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ay Baccha, O God, as&s;i&s;t us that we may not</HI> <GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages"></P>
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