'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.' [‎101] (524/594)

S O l y M a n III. King Pci fla.
they found to amount to vaft Sums; of which neverthelefs,
out of mcer pity they took no more then eight Thoufand To-
mans, or thirty thoufand pounds: The reft was left 'em upon
their pleading that what lecmdto be theirs, belong'd to Mer
chants that liv d itj the Indies. As for the three perfons that
carri d the Letters and Portraitures, and the Painter, they were
drubbd with a wicncls; nor were they releasd till their
Feet were fwell'd as big as their Heads with the violence of the
blows.
At the lame time Sha-"Maava^I\aan, Prince Governour of
Georgia, lent his Son to the Court of Tcrfm to defire the King to
beftow upon him the Employment ot or grand Pro-
voft of Ifpahan, which appertain d to him of right, according
to former agreements between the Kings of fer/M, and the
Princes of Georgia. To which demand his Majefty was very
umVilling to condelcend, becaufe he had already given away
the Place : but his Minifters of State acknowledging the juftnels
of his claim, Ipake fo effedually to the King, that the
gian was invefted in the Employment, and I\elb-Haly-'Bek was
order d to refign, who was recompens d with an Employment
altogether as confiderable.
For the better underftanding of which paffage we muft ob-
ferve, that when Hahas the Great became the Mailer of
(which he obtain'd rather by flight then by force by thole inares
into which he drew poor Temura^-Jyaan, who was the laft King
of Georgia ; he propos'd to him great advantages, provided he
would lubmit himfelf to his Empire, and acknowledge his So
vereignty ,• and among the reft that the Employment of Grand
Provoft of Ifpahan fhould for the future belong to one of the
Children of the Prince of Georgia, and that it fhould delcend
by inheritance to his Succelfors to perpetuity. Which has been
faithfully all along oblerv'd to this time, and the Son of the
Prince of Georgia always holds that Employment.
A third Vacancy was alio Hippli'd, that is to lay, the Go
vernment of Shamaky, which encompafles one part of the
Southern Media, and another of Hyrcania. And this was givn
to Sepher l^ouli JQtan, or the Princely Slave of the Armies.
It became vacant by the Death of Negef-i\outt-I\aan, one of the
braveft Lords of Terjia, generous and ftout, who by his Re-
lolution and Courage had rais'd himlelf to that high Dignity.
The European Merchants trading in Jewels haveolten tafted of
his generous Liberality; for he did not only latisfie 'em for
their Jewels, but carrefs'd 'em with Habits, Prefents, and good
Chear. During