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PREACHER'S TRAVELS;
Wherein is ſet down

A True JOURNAL to the Confines of the Eaſt

Indies, through the great Countries of Syria,
MESOPOTAMIA, ARMENIA, MEDIA, HYRCANIA,
and PARTHIA :
WITH

TheAUTHOR's Return by theWay of Persia , SUSIANA,

ASSYRIA, CHALDÆA and ARABIA.
CONTAINING,

A full SURVEY of the Kingdom of PERSIA; and in

what Terms the Perſian ſtands with the Great- Turk, at
this Day
ALSO
A true Relation of Sir ANTHONY SHERLEY's Entertainment
there ; and the Eſtate that his Brother, Mr. Robert Sherley, lived in , after
his Departure for Chriſtendom .
WITH

The Deſcription of aa Port in the PerhanGulph, commodious for our Eaſt

Indian Merchants : and a brief Rehearſal of ſome groſs Abſurdities in the
Turkija ALCORAN.

Penned by J. C. ſometime Student in Magdalen -College, in Oxford.

 To the virtuous and worthy Knight, Sir Thomas HUNT, one of his Majeſty's
Juſtices of the Peace, and Qyorum, in the County of Surry, J.C. wiſh
ethall terreſtrial and celeſtial Happineſs.
SIR,
HEN I conſider that it is the common manner of all, that write any

W books in this age, to dedicate the fame to one or other of great place, I
bethought me, to whom I might offer theſe my travels ; and at laſt re
ſolved with myſelf, none to be more fit than your worſhip ; both in regard of your
zeal to religion (becauſe you do give to divers congregations in this land, milk with
out filver, and bread without money, which not many other patrons do ;) as alſo for
your love unto ſcholars, who though in this unthankful age of ours, men wonder at
us, ut pueri Junonis avem ; and we wonder again at them , becauſe they do ſo little
for us ; yet myſelf, and many others now, of ſome place in the church, never de
parted diſcontented from you. Many other reſpects, as well publick as private, do
naturally bear this ſmall diſcourſe to the very point and centre of your worſhip’s only
patronage.
Concerning the matter of this diſcourſe, you ſhall find in the prefacesand con
cerning themanner, there is no greatmatter of learning or ingenious invention'; only
a fimple relation of aa fimple truth ; yet fomewhat there is, which may happily con
cern the learned, and give ſome fatisfaction to an indifferent reader, when he under
ſtands, how two of the moft mighty and moſt warlike princes among the Barbarians,
the Great Turk and the Perſian, are now in arms one againſt the other ; ſtirred up
thereunto by two of our countrymen, Sir Anthony Sherley, and Mr. Robert Sberley
his brother.
A war not only like to be long and bloody, but alſo very commodious, and of
great opportunity to the chriſtian commonweal; for that it doth grant and give lei
ſureto diyers parts of Chriſtendom to refreſh themſelves, andto increaſe theirforces,
much weakened, both by the Great Turk's wars ; and moſt of all by their civil dil
fentions at home. ' For Cortug-ogli, che Turkiſh pirate, in his perſwaſive oration to
his great maſter Solyman the magnificent, to beliege Rhodes, could ſay unto him,
“ And now , dread Sovereign, if it pleaſe you to vouchſafe but to look into the matter,
you ſhall ſee that there is a divine occaſion, by the procurement of ourgreat pro
“ phet Mabomet, preſented unto your moſt ſacred majeſty, for that the chriſtians of
“ the weſt are at difcord and mortal war among themſelves .” And to fay the truth ,
the diſcords and diffentions of chriſtian princes have laid more countries to the enrich
ment of the Great Turk, than ever his bow or ſhield could have purchaſed . In the
days of Mahomet the ſecond, theſe polluted Saracens had gleanedout ofChriſtendom ,
like ſcattered ears of corn , neglected by the owners, two hundred cities, twelve king
doms, and two empires, and itill as a canker running on, before the Perſian took the
field againſt them , they every year did fret and eat into Chriſtendom .
Finally, I might have added many worthy collections,as well out of facred as pro
phane writers, that have written of the moſt itately and magnificent empire of the
Medes and Perſians in times paſt, and ſo have compared it , with the modern and
preſent ſtate thereof; which hath ſcarce aa ſhadow of the antique government, where
with it was then ruled and governed . But the matter would have proved too long,
and made this volume too great: and therefore, for thoſe advertiſements, I purpoſe to
put them forth , when God ſhall make me ſtrong and able. In the mean time, what
Toeveris herepenned , I leave itwithyour worſhip, beſecching you to give it enter
tainment." And ſo I do moſt humbly take my leave, commending both yourſelf,
your virtuous lady, and your whole family to the beſt mercies of thelord Jeſus.
From my houſe in Southwark, this eighteenth of October, Anno Domini, One thou
fandſix hundred and eleyen.
Your worfoip's to command in the Lord,
JOHN CARTWRIGHT .
Gentle READER ,
IT was mypurpoſe to have added tothis journal, fome obſervations touching our
north-weſt paſſage ; with many reaſons to have proved the greatprobability there
of. But I amperſwaded by ſome friends to makeſtay thereof, until the truth of the
news: That it is already diſcovered, be thoroughly examined. In the mean time
moderate thy opinion of our former proceedings. And though ſome malevolent
tongues have eſpecially ſhot out their venomous poiſon againſt me, upon what
ground they cannot juſtly ſay, when they have been preſſed thereto ; yet God is my
witneſs, that my conſcience is clear, either from wronging the company that then
was, or any ways from hindering the full proceeding of that voyage, which I pur
poſe ſhortly to make good unto the world. And for this ſmall diſcourſe, if it paſs
current in thy judgment, I ſhall think myſelf to have gained enough, in lieu of all
the travels, of allthe dangers and perils, that I have ſuſtained in thoſe places,
 T H E

PREACHER'S TRAVELS ;

Wherein is ſet down a general Deſcription of the

moſt principal Kingdoms, that have been, and are at this
Day in Asia the Great, viz. Syria, Meſopotamia, Armenia,
the Great, Medin, Hyrcania,Parthia, Perfia, Sufiana, Chala
dea, Allyria, and Arabia : Together with the moſt memo
rable Occurrences and Expeditions, which the Princes of
thoſe Parts have had each againſt the other.

The P R E F A Ć E.
OMPEY the great being put to fight in the battle at Pharſalia, by Julius
P event of the wars between Ceſar and himſelf, demanding ,of him, Anfit provi
dentia ? Whether the purpoſe and decree of God were unchangeable without altera
tion ? To whomCratippus anſwered n, ot as a philoſopher, butasa true divine, fay
ing, Fatales eſſe'imperiorum periodos, The providence of God is moſt ſure and certain
which Pompey found moſt true, in a ſmall time after, when Cæfar was created the
firſt emperor of the Roman monarchy ; and which alſo ſhall be verified (God willing )
in the diſcourſe of this journal ; wherein is principally ſhewed , how all human af
fairs, and the greateſtcities of renown have had their periods in their greateſt per
fections ; to which, though they have aſcended gradatim , yet they have forthwith
fallen into a retrograde of declination , till they have been brought to the loweſt de
gree which miſery can allot : So true is that of Seneca :

Nulla fors longa, dolor & voluptas

Invicem cedunt : brevior voluptas,
Ima permutat brevis hora fummis :
Nemo confidat nimium ſecundis.
Nemo defperet meliora lapfis.
No chance is long, for grief and eke delight,
By courſe give place, pleaſure hath ſhorterflight,
An hour but ſhort, that preſently doth end,
Doth make the loweſt things aloft aſcend :
Let none too much truſt in a proſperous ſtate.
Let none deſpair, but hope for better fate.
For in this ſmall diſcourſe we ſhall ſee how unavoidable deſtruction doth always at
tend on the ſucceſſion of greatneſs, and advancement on the poſterity of miſery ; as
alſo the lacking of many cities, the depopulating of the greateſt countries, the de
poſing of princes, and high deſcended families of their lives, together with their
crowns and kingdoms ; and that in fo ſhort a time, as never the like was executed The cau ..
in the antique world . Two reaſons have moved me to ſet down this journal ; the ſes that
one, for that I have not yet ſeen any that hath made aa fulldeſcription of theſe parts, muchorte
as they are at this day, which I hope ſhall be performed by myſelf, who ſpent much writethis
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Romans with their bows and arrows, as country , wholly inhabited by the Cur
before is declared. This rude people are dies, being fivedays journey from Carae
ofa goodly ſtature, and well proportion'd, mit, and three days journey from Bitcliſh,
and do never go abroad without their called by the country people Manuſcute, Manuſcuts.
arms, as bows and arrows, ſcymetar and This town is ſeated in a moſt fertile and
buckler ; yea , and at ſuch time, when fruitful valley between two mountains, a
a man for age is ready to go down to his bounding with paſture and cattle : and a
grave. They do adore and worſhip the bout a mile from it, is an hoſpital dedi
devil, to the end he may not hurt them cated to St. John the Baptiſt ; which is,
or their cattle, and very cruelare they to much viſited , as well by Turks as Chri.
the
all ſorts of Chriſtians; in which regard, ſtians,who ſuperſtitiouſly affirm , thatwho
the country which they inhabit is at this ſoever will beſtow either a ſheep, kid , or
ch The Cur. day termed Terra Diaboli, the land of ſome piece of money , to relieve the poor
dies wor. the devil. They participate much of the of that place, ſhall not only proſper in
ſhippers
ofthe nature of the Arabians, and are asinfa- his journey, but obtain forgiveneſs of all
Devil , mous in their Ladrocinies and robberies as his lins. To the governor of this village
the Arabians themſelves. They live un- we paid for our cuſtom a ſhaughoe, on a
der the commandment of the Great Turk, ſum of goods, and ſo were diſmiſſed. The
but with much freedom and liberty : For next day following we paſſed over many
Selymus the ſecond, having a greatmul- craggy and ſteepmountains ; and at the
titude of them in his army againſt the laſt reſted ourſelves and wearied beaſts on
Perſians, they did him little ſervice, per- the bank of Euphrates ; being the utmoſt Euphrates.
forming no more than what well pleaſed bounds on thisſide of Meſopotamia, and
themſelves. This thieviſh company did fo entered the day following, onthe bor
ſundry times arreſt our caravan, affirming, ders of Armeniathe Great; which is by
that theirprince had ſent for a dollar on ſome diſtinctly dividedinto three parts;
a ſum of goods, without the payment the north part whereof, being but little, is
whereof (being five ſeveral times demand. called Georgia; the middle part Turco
ed) we ſhould not paſs through their name ; and
mania of the third part by the proper
Armenia .
country .
One village of note is there in this

es
The DESCRIPTION OF ARMENIA.
Theories ARMENIA
Armians
wascompanions
nius (one of the founded byArme- fing through
of Ja- called Iberia, the
nearGeorgian
unto the country,
Caſpian then
fea
Son; who won the Golden Fieece at Colchos :) firſt ſeized upon this part of Armenia,
for after Jaſon was dead , Armenius having and that with ſo ſtrong a hand , that it
EK gathered together a great multitude of is by their poſterity yet holden at this
people, and wandering up and down the day, and of them called Turcomania ;
country, in the end, he founded the of all other, the moſt true progeny of the
town of Armenia , near unto the moun- Turks. Theſe Turcomanes of a long time
tains, out of which the river Tygris ſpring- under their divers leaders, in the manner
eth ; conſtituting many good and whole of their living, moſt reſembling their an
ſome laws, whereby from time to time, ceſtors, did roam up and downwith their
the country of Armenia was governed by families, and heads of cattle, after the .
kings of their own nation , until ſuch manner of the Scythian Nomades, their
time, as the houſe of the Ottomans ſub- countrymen , without certain places of a
ducd the ſame. bode ; yet at great unity amongſt them
The Turks It is now called Turcomanic, and was felves, as not having much to loſe, or
firſt came the firſt ſeat of the Turks, after their firſt wherefore to ſtrive. This people did not
out of Scy.coming out of cythia ; who left their na- only notably defend this country, thus by
thia, and tural feats in that cold and bare country , them at firſt poſſeſſed ; but ſtill incroach
feated
them to ſeek themſelves others, in more plea- ed farther and farther, and gaining by o;
ſelves in ſant and temperate countries, more ſou- ther men's harms, became at length
Armenia,. therly ; ſtirredup , no doubt, by the hands dreadful unto their neighbours, and of
of the Almighty , who being the author ſome fame alſo farther off. Whereunto
of all kingdoms upon earth , as well of the effeminate cowardiſe of thoſe delicate
thoſe which he hath appointed as ſcour- people of Afia, with whom they had to
ges wherewith to puniſh the world, as o- do, gave no leſs furtherance than their
thers more bleſſed. This people thus own valour ; being, nevertheleſs, an hardy
ſtirred up, and by the Caſpian ports paf- rough people, though not much skillful,
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or train'd up in the feats of war. But “ Some of this nation affirmed unto us, that
to leave the Turcomanes for a while, we the chiefeft cauſe of their great liberty in
will return where we left. the Ottoman kingdom is, for that certain
This country of Armenia hath for its of their kings bare great affection and
utmoſt bounds northward ,Colchos, Iberia, love unto Mahomet their lewd prophet, in
and Albania ;; all which are now called regard whereof Mahomet did recommend
by the Tartars Comania. Colchos was them as his kind friends to his ſucceſſors,
that famous province, ſo much ſpoken of who ever ſince have permitted the poor
by the poets, for the fable of Medea and Armenians to live amongſt them. But
Jaſon, and the Golden Fleece : The in- the true reaſon is, for that they are very
habitants now are called Mengrellians, a laboriousin tranſporting merchandize from
nation molt barbarous and ſavage, ſelling one city to another , by which means,
their fons and daughters to the Turks for through the cuſtomswhich are paid in
little or nothing. Iberia is now called every city, the coffers of the Grand
Georgia, and Albania,Zuiria : Weſtward Signor are wonderfully enrich’d. Unto
it confronts upon Eupbrates and Armenia which doth well agree that ſcoffing taunt
the leſs : Southward on Meſopotamia, with which Abbas now king of Perſia did throw
that which the Curdies inhabit : And eaſt- upon an Armenian, who being deſirous to
ward on the river Araxis, which water- forſake the Chriſtian faith , and to em
eth the ſouth part of Armenia, and almoſt brace the wicked and filthy ſuperſtition
divideth from Georgia . of the Perſians, upon hope of reward
and preferment, the king did not only
A Deſcription of the people of Arme- rebuke his tepedity and coldneſs in his
religion, but ſent him away with this
nia, as they are at this day. ſcornful reproof ; That an Armenian now
was good for nought, fave as a camel to
A T our firſtentrance into this country, tranſport merchandize from one city to
we travelled through a goodly, large, and another : implying that howſoever in an
ſpacious plain, compaſs’d about with a tient times they had been warlike and
row of high mountains, where were ma- couragious, yet now they were become
ny villages, wholly inhabited by Arme- Buffelloes and Pultrones, altogether unfit
nians ; a people very induſtrous in all for martial affairs.
kind of labour: their women very skil- This people have two patriarchs, to menians
The Ar
ful and active in ſhooting, and managing whom they give the name of univerſal : governed
any ſort of weapon , like the fierce Ama- the one keepeth his ſeat in the city of bytwo pa
zons in antient time ; and the women at Sis in Caramania, not far from Thar- triarchs.
this day, which inhabit the mountain at ſus : the other in the monaſtery of Ec
Xatach in Perfia. Their families are ve- meazin , near unto the city Ervan in this
ry great ; for, both ſons, nephews, and country. Under theſe two patriarchs are
nieces do dwell under one roof, having all eighteen monaſteries full fraught with
their ſubſtance in common : And when friars of their religion ; and four and
the father dieth , the eldeſt ſon doth go- twenty biſhopricks. The maintenance
vern the reſt ; all ſubmitting themſelves allow'd in times paft unto each of theſe
under his regiment. But when the eldeſt two patriarchs was a maidin an houſe ;
ſon dieth , the government doth not paſs each patriarch having under him twenty
to his ſons, but to the eldeſt brother, thouſand houſholds : But now that large
And if it chance to fall out, that all the benevolence the great Turk hath ſeiz'd
brethren do die, then the government into his own hands, as if the cythe of the
doth belong to the eldeſt ſon of the eldeſt church were fitter for his unſatiable deſire ;
brother, and ſo from one to another. In than for theſe poor, miſerable, and de
their diet and cloathing, they are all fed ſpiſed church -men : and therefore now
and cloathed alike, living in all peace and they are conſtrained to live on the alms of
tranquility, grounded on true love and the people, going continually in viſita
honeſt ſimplicity tion from one city to another, carrying
The Ar- Todiſcourſehow populous this nation their wives and whole family with them
menians is at this day, is needleſs, ſince they in- The people of this nation have retain’d The rell.
gion of
zie na habit both in Armenia the greater, and amongſt them the Chriſtian faith, as it is the Armes
puloauspora
tion . Armenia the leſs; as alſo in Cilicia, Bi . thought from the time of the apoſtles : nians is
tbinia, Syria, Meſopotamia and Perſia. but at this day it is ſpotted with many ſpotted
Beſides the principal cities of the Turkiſh abſurdities.. They hold with the church with ma.
ру abſure
empire be much appopulated with them , of Rome in the uſe of the croſs, affirming dities.
as Bruſa, Angori, Irabiſonda, Alexandria, it to be meritorious if they make the ſame
Grand Caire, Conftantinople, Caffa, Aleppo, with two fingers, as the Papiſts uſe ; but
Orpha, Cara-emit, Van, and Yulpha. idle and vain if with one finger as the Ja
cobites.
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About a mile diſtant from this town is ſituation, ſerving for paffage only out of
the ruins of an old caſtle, once eſteemed Tartaria into Perſia , and out of Perhia
to be one of the ſtrongeſt caſtles in the into Tartaria, receiving thoſe that travel
world , and was beſieged by Alexander to and fro , not as merchants and men of
the great, a long time before he could win commerce, but as pallengers and travel
it. And a little further off, was a Nun- lers , and to ſpeak in a word, it is feated
nery moſt fumptuouſly builded, wherein in a very neceffary place asthe caſe ſtand
was buried as they told us) the body of eth ,, by reaſon thatit is in the ports of the
Ameleke Canna the king's daughter, who Caſpian ſea , but not profitable unto itſelf :
New herſelf witha knife, for that her fa- much like as it is in the paſſages of the
therwould have forced her (ſhe profeſſing Alps, where though the Frenchmen,
chaſtity) to have married with aprince of Switzers, Dutchmen , and Italians, do con
Tartary : upon which occaſion the vir- tinually paſs by them ; yet was there ne-.
gins of this country do reſort hither once ver found a mean city, much leſs any
a year to lament her death. This city is city of ſtate and importance,
diſtant from the Caſpian ſea with camels About four days journey from Suma- Sechi.
ſeven days journey ; and from Derbent fix chia, is Sechi, which alſo at the ſame time
. days journey : it was in the year 1578, as Sumachia offer’d themſelves to Muſta
yielded up to Muſtapha the general of the pha, as vaffals and ſubjects to the Turks,
turkiſh army, without reſiſtance, who who all were gladly entertain'd of him ,
preſently did furprize the city, intreating and ſome of the chief of them apparelled
all the inhabitants in friendly manner, in filk and gold , and honour'd with great
without doing or ſuffering any outrageto magnificence,
be done upon them ; but for this their in- tection promiſedandunto
in the end hadall pro
them . Here alſo
fidelity in voluntary yielding themſelves ftandeth the city Eres, moſt fruitfully Eres made
follow the religion of the Turks, when water'd with the river Araxis and Cyrus, Mamoda
as they were not induced thereunto by any andhathyielded in times paſt great ſtore an ſilks.
The Per- neceſſity ; Emirhamze eldeſt ſon of Ma- of thoſe fine white ſilks, commonly term
fian prince bomet Codibanda king of Perſia, coming
puniſheth
ed by the merchants Mamodæan filks,
the inha with his army into Servan, did with great whereof at this day, there is not to be
bitants of cruelty puniſh the miſerable and unfor- found, no not a very ſmall quantity, by rea
Sumachia tunate commons of this city, making ſon of the monſtrous ruin and overthrows,
with di- their houſes even with the ground, de- that have happen'd in theſe countries,
vers kinds ſtroying both the old and new wallsthere- partly by the armies of thegreat Turk,,
and deaths of, and bringing the whole land to nought, and partly by the army of the Perſians,
that ſometimes was ſo deſired a retreat of which ſtill hath ſucceeded one another, in
the Turks, their cruel incurſions and bloody invaſions.
Derbent Six days journey from this city lyeth For after the people of Sechi and Eres had
builded by Derbent ; this city hath fundry names yielded themſelves voluntarily without
Alexander given unto it by writers : fometimes it is any reſiſtance unto Muſtapha's great Amu
the great. called Derbent, becauſe it is in figure rat, general ; Emirhamze, the Perſian
narrow and long ; and ſometimes De prince , came upon them with his army,
mir -Capi, becauſe there were the iron- as upon rebels, to inflict deferv'd puniſh
gates, that were ſometimes the en- ment. In effecting of which his purpoſe
trance into Scythia ; and ſometimes Alex- he ſpared neither fex, nor age, nor any
andria ; becauſe it was firſt erected by conditions : but though the perſons were
Alexander the great, when he warred a. unequal, yet was the puniſhment equal to
The great gainſt the Medesand Perſians ; at which all, carrying away with him the two
wallwhich
Alexander
time alſo he made a wall of a wonderful hundredpieces of artillery, that were left
Pulit meer
be . heighth and thickneſs, which extended in the fort by Muftapha, and preſently
tween Dey. itſelf from this city, to a city in Armenia , fent them to Casbin to his father.
bentand called Teflis, belonging to the Georgians. There is alſo, in this kingdom , an
Icftis. moltlechief
And though it be now raſed and decay'd, other city, that bordereth upon the Geor- Araf the
yet the foundation remainech : and itwas gians, called Araſſe , being themoſt chief and opu
made to this purpoſe, that the inhabitants and opulent city in the trade of merchan- lent city
of that country , newly conquered by Alex- dize , partly by the abundant growth of in the
trade of
ander, ſhould not lightly Aye, nor their filk , there nouriſhed, partly by other merchan
enemies eaſily invade them . This city good and neceffary commodities, there dize that
is feated upon an high hill, and builded growing, and there brought ; as rough is in all Se
all offree-Itone much after our buildings, and ſmooth galles, cotton, wool, alloml ; ravia,
being very high and thick : nevertheleſs beſides all kinds of ſpices and drugs, and
it never grew great nor famous, and even diamonds and rubies, and other ſtones
in theſe days, there is no reckoning made brought out of the Eaſt- Indies : but the
of it : and the reaſon is, becauſe of the principal commodity is raw filk of all
forts