'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎58] (87/594)

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be began , ft ry three Months, and there-
h is Life and Dignity h= .hongk
[" his beft way to put to Death his Envyers and Compeqtor^
Ind to fee new Wars afoot, on purpofe « remove the
Sigmr from Conjiamimfl', and to keep hrmfelf ft.ll at ,h=
'^^ebegan with the Serr^/w, where he causd feveral Eu
nuchs to be flrangfd i and having In a Irak time made h.m-
felf Mailer of the Credulity and Affeftions of the Young
Prince, he perfwaded him, that to make h.mfelf Ahfolure
So.eraign of the Empire, to free himfelf ftom the Feats of
Tumult and Sedition, and prevent the Souldiety from making
the fame Attempts upon him as they had done upon hts Fa
ther the heft way would be for his Highnefs to remove from
fhe Caoital Gitv, where" the People were Mutinous, and the
, Janizanes were Mafters, and that he Ihould tjd hi.Mf „£
V all thofe Perfons that had deposd his Father, and dipp d their
Parricide Hands in his Blood. In purfuance of this Projeft
Cuperly caus'd Vely Ujfein to be ftrangl d who had
been General at Candy^ and was accompted the molt Fanious
and Valiant Captain of the Empire. Then he remov'd the
Court to Adriample, and began the Tranfylvaman War, in re
gard the War in Cdndywould have calld him too far from the
Grand Signiors Perfon, not being as yet of Age to March at
the Head of his own Armies.
This Tranfylvaman War was (hort, and honourable for
the Grand Vizier by the defeat of Prince and by
the taking of Waradin, though it coft him the Blood of the
choked Ottoman Troops, and the braveft of their Officers.
He return'd Vi&orious to , and though he had
made a Peace with the Erkperour, yet he fet himfelf to make
preparation for a new War againft him in But be
ing ready to take the Field in the Year 1 662. he dy d; yet fo
prevalent at Court as to obtain his only Son
to be admitted into his Place, though at that time he had
fcarcely attain'd to Thirty Years of Age, which was a Thing
altogether extraordinary^ and not to be parallell'd in the Hi-
ftory of the Ottoman Monarchy.
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