'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.' [‎51] (474/594)

S o l y m a n 111. Pcrfia.
claimed, as his Grandfather is pretended to■ have been, under
the name of Sha -Sophi, fince neither the one nor the other ever
bore that Name.
That which follows after, " That theGovernour of Ifpahan,
and the principal Lords of the Court, who accompanied the
Corps of the deceafed, being arrived there, and having paid
" their accuftomed Homage, hefhew'd himfelf in publick co his
« Subjects, who teftified their joy by their loud and extraordi-
" nary Acclamations.
1 his whole Period, I fay, contains as many impertinencies as
there are words. The Governour of Ifpahan never left the
City; lo that he could not then be laid to return the next
Morning; nor was the Body of the deceafed King ever brought
thither, as being a thing that was never intended. Then for
the Lords that accompanied the Corps, the firfl that came to
the Court did not come till within twenty days after, others not
till thirty or forty. And as for the Acclamations of joy which
he mentions, I heard none but thofe of which I have already
given an account; and yet I was prefent at the whole Cere
mony, fb that no body could be a better Witnefs than my felf.
Nor did the Intelligencer know any better which of the Agents,
whether the Englif?, French, or Holland Agent had his firft Au
dience of the New King, or what Prefents they made him, of
which we fliall give an account in the feries of our Difcourfe.
Let the Reader now judge, what credit there is to be given
to Relations, which are fuppofed to have been fent to that
Country, which are only grounded upon uncertain Reports,
and Letters of Merchants and Travellers written without
judgment, who upon occafion, ipeakingof other Affairs touch
upon fomethingthat was tranfadled in that Country.
But now to return to our bufinefs. After the^Young King,
and thole that flood of each fide were returned to their Places,
the General of the Mufquetteers having whifpered fbme few
Minutes in the Kings Ear, among feveral other things of lefler
Importance, gave out thefe four principal Commands in his Ma-
jefties name.
Firfl,That both the foft and loud Mufick fiiould play in the
two Balconies upon the top of the great Building, which flands
at one end of the Palace Royal, called the/Qw/dnV,
'Place. No Nation was difpenfed with,whether 'Perfians,Indians,
Turks,Mufcovites,Europeans,or others,which wasimmediately done.
And this fame Tintamarr or Confufion of Inflruments, which
founded more like the noife of War than Mufick, lafled twenty
Ggggg 2 d^ys