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	Tell (William) one of the chief of the Swissers Conspiracy in 1307, having passed several times before the Cap that Grisler Governour of that Country for the Emperor Albert had put on the top of a Pike in the Publick Market Place of Altorf, that all they that came by should put off theirs, and make a low Reverence; and refusing to stoop to so mean a thing, was carried before the Governor, who condemned him to shoot an Apple from off his Sons Head with his Arrow at a good distance. Tell made Answer, that the Command was inhumane, and that he had rather dye than hazard his Child's Life: but Grisler threatning to put them both to Death, Tell ventured, and had the good Fortune to beat it off without hurting the Child. All admired the Address besides the Governor, who observing that he had another Arrow under his Doublet, asked, What he carried it for? He presently answered, It was always the Custom never to carry a Bow without two Arrows. This was not satisfactory; so Grisler pressed him to tell the Reason, with a Promise of his Life if he told the Truth; whereupon Tell confessed, that it was to kill		Tell (William) one of the chief of the Swissers Conspiracy in 1307, having passed several times before the Cap that Grisler Governour of that Country for the Emperor Albert had put on the top of a Pike in the Publick Market Place of Altorf, that all they that came by should put off theirs, and make a low Reverence; and refusing to stoop to so mean a thing, was carried before the Governor, who condemned him to shoot an Apple from off his Sons Head with his Arrow at a good distance. Tell made Answer, that the Command was inhumane, and that he had rather dye than hazard his Child's Life: but Grisler threatning to put them both to Death, Tell ventured, and had the good Fortune to beat it off without hurting the Child. All admired the Address besides the Governor, who observing that he had another Arrow under his Doublet, asked, What he carried it for? He presently answered, It was always the Custom never to carry a Bow without two Arrows. This was not satisfactory; so Grisler pressed him to tell the Reason, with a Promise of his Life if he told the Truth; whereupon Tell confessed, that it was to kill

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	<nowiki>*</nowiki> Tendue, a City and Kingdom of the Asian Tartary, bounded on the North by Great Tartary, on the East by Jupia, on the West by the Kingdom of Tangut, and on the South by China. The Prince of this Country about 1644 Conquered the Kingdom of China, and is now one of the greatest Princes in the World, his Dominions extending from Cochin China to the River Obb North-West and South-East.

	Tenedos, a small Island of the Archipelago, near Natolia, two Leagues from the ancient Troy, near the famous Promontorium Sigeum now called Cap de Jannizari. When Troy stood this Island was particularly dedicated to Apollo. The Grecians, who feigned to lose the Hopes of Taking Troy, and hid themselves in one of the Harbours of this Island the better to cover their Design, have rendred it very famous. Its Inhabitants exercised Justice with so much Severity and Rigour, that according to the Laws of Tennus its Legislator, when the Judge sat to pronounce Sentence, an Officer stood behind him with an Axe in his Hand immediately to strike either the Criminal or the False Witness. The Venetians and Genoises had a long Dispute about this Island, which is now in the Turks possession. It's considerable for its good Muscadin Wine, which is sold for a Crown a Tun: They also have abundance of Game. Its Port is shelter only for light Vessels, yet is so very advantageous, that if it belonged to the Christians they might make an Arsenal in it to command the Streights of Gallipolis, and to secure the Archipelago. This Island is 28 English Miles in Circuit, and has two strong Castles, which were both Taken by the Venetians in 1655. Grelot Voyage de Constantinople.		Tenedos, a small Island of the Archipelago, near Natolia, two Leagues from the ancient Troy, near the famous Promontorium Sigeum now called Cap de Jannizari. When Troy stood this Island was particularly dedicated to Apollo. The Grecians, who feigned to lose the Hopes of Taking Troy, and hid themselves in one of the Harbours of this Island the better to cover their Design, have rendred it very famous. Its Inhabitants exercised Justice with so much Severity and Rigour, that according to the Laws of Tennus its Legislator, when the Judge sat to pronounce Sentence, an Officer stood behind him with an Axe in his Hand immediately to strike either the Criminal or the False Witness. The Venetians and Genoises had a long Dispute about this Island, which is now in the Turks possession. It's considerable for its good Muscadin Wine, which is sold for a Crown a Tun: They also have abundance of Game. Its Port is shelter only for light Vessels, yet is so very advantageous, that if it belonged to the Christians they might make an Arsenal in it to command the Streights of Gallipolis, and to secure the Archipelago. This Island is 28 English Miles in Circuit, and has two strong Castles, which were both Taken by the Venetians in 1655. Grelot Voyage de Constantinople.
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	The Customs and Ways of the Turks are very different from ours. The Left is their Post of Honour. They Bury in the dark. When they Walk they move their Head forward before they stir a Foot. Christians keep good Tables, they but very ordinary, yet are very magnificent in the Equipage of their Horses. Christians retrench themselves in their Camps, but they not until of late. We have strait Swords, their Sabres are crooked. They neither make use of Pikes or Armour. Our Battalions are close and deep, theirs are large and take up much ground. Though it's generally thought they set no Value upon Learning, yet there are Professors at Cairo and at Constantinople that teach Astrology, Astronomy, Geometry, &c. the Arabe (which is the Language of the Learned as Latin amongst us) and the Persian. They suffer no printed Books, but have a great many Manuscripts. The Grand Signior has a very curious Library, in which it was believ'd there was a perfect Copy of Titus Livius, for which the Librarist was proffer'd considerable Sums, but he always answer'd, He could not find it. There is a Bazar or Market of Manuscript Books upon different Subjects in the Turkish, Arabian, and Persian Tongues at Constantinople; but Christians are not permitted thither, because the Turks would believe their Books profaned if sold to them. There are Historians now at this present hir'd to write the Annals of this Empire, which are already in eight great Volumes that cost 200 Crowns. M. Batz a Scotchman, who travelled four or five Years in this Country, says he bought a great many curious Books, as that of Chek Bouny an Egyptian, of the Efficacy of Divine and Humane Words, with a great number of Lines and Figures, by which this Author pretends to shew fine things; another that teaches the Speculation of this Cabalistique Science, a Turkish and Arabe Dictionary, Turkish and Persian Grammars, Alphabets of all Tongues, and Ephemerides of the Increase and Decrease of the Nile, a Treatise of Chiromancy, more curious than those of John Baptisto Porta, in which the Author pretends that the Lines of the Hands are Letters, whereof he shews the Alphabet; with several other. The same Mr. Batz assures that he saw a very ancient Astronomy-Book at Constantinople, that supposed the Use of the Needle, but did not apply it to Navigation but to other Astronomick Uses; all which shew that the Turks are not ignorant. But they apply themselves most to useful Sciences, without troubling their Heads with such as amuse the Understanding and content a vain Curiosity. J. Spon. Voyage of Italy, &c. in 1575.		The Customs and Ways of the Turks are very different from ours. The Left is their Post of Honour. They Bury in the dark. When they Walk they move their Head forward before they stir a Foot. Christians keep good Tables, they but very ordinary, yet are very magnificent in the Equipage of their Horses. Christians retrench themselves in their Camps, but they not until of late. We have strait Swords, their Sabres are crooked. They neither make use of Pikes or Armour. Our Battalions are close and deep, theirs are large and take up much ground. Though it's generally thought they set no Value upon Learning, yet there are Professors at Cairo and at Constantinople that teach Astrology, Astronomy, Geometry, &c. the Arabe (which is the Language of the Learned as Latin amongst us) and the Persian. They suffer no printed Books, but have a great many Manuscripts. The Grand Signior has a very curious Library, in which it was believ'd there was a perfect Copy of Titus Livius, for which the Librarist was proffer'd considerable Sums, but he always answer'd, He could not find it. There is a Bazar or Market of Manuscript Books upon different Subjects in the Turkish, Arabian, and Persian Tongues at Constantinople; but Christians are not permitted thither, because the Turks would believe their Books profaned if sold to them. There are Historians now at this present hir'd to write the Annals of this Empire, which are already in eight great Volumes that cost 200 Crowns. M. Batz a Scotchman, who travelled four or five Years in this Country, says he bought a great many curious Books, as that of Chek Bouny an Egyptian, of the Efficacy of Divine and Humane Words, with a great number of Lines and Figures, by which this Author pretends to shew fine things; another that teaches the Speculation of this Cabalistique Science, a Turkish and Arabe Dictionary, Turkish and Persian Grammars, Alphabets of all Tongues, and Ephemerides of the Increase and Decrease of the Nile, a Treatise of Chiromancy, more curious than those of John Baptisto Porta, in which the Author pretends that the Lines of the Hands are Letters, whereof he shews the Alphabet; with several other. The same Mr. Batz assures that he saw a very ancient Astronomy-Book at Constantinople, that supposed the Use of the Needle, but did not apply it to Navigation but to other Astronomick Uses; all which shew that the Turks are not ignorant. But they apply themselves most to useful Sciences, without troubling their Heads with such as amuse the Understanding and content a vain Curiosity. J. Spon. Voyage of Italy, &c. in 1575.

	Turky, or Empire of the Turks, comprehends many Provinces in Europe, Asia, and Africa, so that it's with Reason the Sultan is called Grand Signior; for it's observed he possesses from East to West all that lies between Belis of Gomere or the Western Extremity of the Kingdom of Algier, which is tributary to him, to Balsora, which is at the Extremity of the Persian Gulf, and is at least 800 Leagues from North to South from Caffa or Taurica Chersonesus, or rather from Tana above the Palus Meotis to Aden at the Mouth of the Red Sea or Straights of Babelmandel another Distance of 700 Leagues. In Europe he has Romelia, that comprehends Greece, Macodonia, Albania, Thrace, with the Islands of the Egean Sea, Sclavonia, where are Servia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and a part of Hungary, &c. In Asia, Natolia, Sourie or Soristan, Turcomania, Diarbech, and the three Arabies, which comprehend a great many large and fair Provinces. In Africa he has the Kingdoms of Barca and Egypt, with the States of Tunis, Alger, and Tripoli, under his Protection. The Princes of		Turky, or Empire of the Turks, comprehends many Provinces in Europe, Asia, and Africa, so that it's with Reason the Sultan is called Grand Signior; for it's observed he possesses from East to West all that lies between Belis of Gomere or the Western Extremity of the Kingdom of Algier, which is tributary to him, to Balsora, which is at the Extremity of the Persian Gulf, and is at least 800 Leagues from North to South from Caffa or Taurica Chersonesus, or rather from Tana above the Palus Meotis to Aden at the Mouth of the Red Sea or Straights of Babelmandel another Distance of 700 Leagues. In Europe he has Romelia, that comprehends Greece, Macodonia, Albania, Thrace, with the Islands of the Egean Sea, Sclavonia, where are Servia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and a part of Hungary, &c. In Asia, Natolia, Sourie or Soristan, Turcomania, Diarbech, and the three Arabies, which comprehend a great many large and fair Provinces. In Africa he has the Kingdoms of Barca and Egypt, with the States of Tunis, Alger, and Tripoli, under his Protection. The Princes of Transilvania, Moldavia, Valachia, and Commonwealth of Raguse, paid him Tribute. The Little Tartars depend on him as their Protector. Most of these Countries are fruitful, but neglected through the Laziness of the Turks and the Oppressions the Christians lye under, who chuse rather to let the Land lye un-till'd, than to cultivate it for others. It's thin of Inhabitants, an Effect of the frequent Contagion and continual Wars which consume great Numbers of Turks. These are for the most part robust and well-limb'd, their Temperance contributing much to the Strength of their Constitution; naturally more sincere and better than the Renegadoes. Though they are allowed four Wives, yet this Number is rare amongst them: It's but seldom also they repudiate their Wives. They are much accused of wicked and detestable Practices, Men with Men, and Women with their own Sex. Several have published great Lyes, in saying the Grand Signior was Proprietor of all the Land in Turky, and that Fathers cannot dispose of any in favour of their Children; for not only Turks, but the very Grecians, inherit their Parents and Relations Possessions, paying the Grand Signior only 3 per Cent. more or less upon every change of Heir. There is an Officer call'd Beit-Elmal-Emini in each Town to receive this Tribute. Their chief Merchandize is Silks, Cottons, and Oyl. They are warlike and very stout. Their Troops consist in Janizaries which are the Children of Tribute, in Spahi's which are their Horses, and in Zains and Timariots, that hold Land during Life to serve in the Army at their own Charges. The Timariots have less than the Zains, and differ as the Commanders of Maltha from the Grand Prior.

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	Transilvania, Moldavia, Valachia, and Commonwealth of Raguse, paid him Tribute. The Little Tartars depend on him as their Protector. Most of these Countries are fruitful, but neglected through the Laziness of the Turks and the Oppressions the Christians lye under, who chuse rather to let the Land lye un-till'd, than to cultivate it for others. It's thin of Inhabitants, an Effect of the frequent Contagion and continual Wars which consume great Numbers of Turks. These are for the most part robust and well-limb'd, their Temperance contributing much to the Strength of their Constitution; naturally more sincere and better than the Renegadoes. Though they are allowed four Wives, yet this Number is rare amongst them: It's but seldom also they repudiate their Wives. They are much accused of wicked and detestable Practices, Men with Men, and Women with their own Sex. Several have published great Lyes, in saying the Grand Signior was Proprietor of all the Land in Turky, and that Fathers cannot dispose of any in favour of their Children; for not only Turks, but the very Grecians, inherit their Parents and Relations Possessions, paying the Grand Signior only 3 per Cent. more or less upon every change of Heir. There is an Officer call'd Beit-Elmal-Emini in each Town to receive this Tribute. Their chief Merchandize is Silks, Cottons, and Oyl. They are warlike and very stout. Their Troops consist in Janizaries which are the Children of Tribute, in Spahi's which are their Horses, and in Zains and Timariots, that hold Land during Life to serve in the Army at their own Charges. The Timariots have less than the Zains, and differ as the Commanders of Maltha from the Grand Prior.

	Northern Turky in Europe, though it lies in the middle of the Temperate Zone, yet the Air is not pure and wholsom in all its parts, especially Hungary, which does not agree at all, or but very little, with Strangers; the Land is Hilly, and full of Mountains to the North, and Plains to the South; the Mountains have several good Mines, especially of Quicksilver, and the tops are cover'd with Forests full of wild Beasts: the Wine is delicious, especially that of Tokai in Upper Hungary: the Plains of Lower Hungary and Transilvania bear the best Wheat in Europe, and their Rivers abound so in Fish that the Country People attribute their Inundations to the great quantity of 'em. The Transilvanians and Hungarians are not so tall as the Moldavians and Valachians, but have a frightful Eye, and Fury always painted in their Faces, and are of an unreconcilable Humour, bold and barbarous: the desire of Liberty is so natural to them, that their dayly Study is how to defend themselves against the Turks. The Women are handsom enough, but generally ill clad, and Sluts. Continual Wars have rendred the Country very poor, and destroyed most of those that used to work in the Mines. They have been always Warlike, sufficiently known by what they have done under Attila, and by their putting so long a stop to the Turks Encroachments in these later Ages; and were it not for the Divisions and unhappy Quarrels of some of the chief amongst them, the Infidels had found it a very difficult matter to come into their Country. In the Imperial Hungary Popery is the swaying Religion, and the Endeavours of suppressing Calvinism, by taking away their Churches, has occasion'd the Bloody War that is still on foot. In the Mahometan Hungary, there are Turks, Greeks, Jews, Catholicks, and some few Calvinists. This Kingdom in its flourishing Days was Elective, but since Tekeli's Rebellion, and that the Emperor obtained from the States in 1687 that it should be hereditary, he has almost reconquer'd Hungary, and had push'd his Conquests as far as Belgrade, but lost this last Place in 1690.		Northern Turky in Europe, though it lies in the middle of the Temperate Zone, yet the Air is not pure and wholsom in all its parts, especially Hungary, which does not agree at all, or but very little, with Strangers; the Land is Hilly, and full of Mountains to the North, and Plains to the South; the Mountains have several good Mines, especially of Quicksilver, and the tops are cover'd with Forests full of wild Beasts: the Wine is delicious, especially that of Tokai in Upper Hungary: the Plains of Lower Hungary and Transilvania bear the best Wheat in Europe, and their Rivers abound so in Fish that the Country People attribute their Inundations to the great quantity of 'em. The Transilvanians and Hungarians are not so tall as the Moldavians and Valachians, but have a frightful Eye, and Fury always painted in their Faces, and are of an unreconcilable Humour, bold and barbarous: the desire of Liberty is so natural to them, that their dayly Study is how to defend themselves against the Turks. The Women are handsom enough, but generally ill clad, and Sluts. Continual Wars have rendred the Country very poor, and destroyed most of those that used to work in the Mines. They have been always Warlike, sufficiently known by what they have done under Attila, and by their putting so long a stop to the Turks Encroachments in these later Ages; and were it not for the Divisions and unhappy Quarrels of some of the chief amongst them, the Infidels had found it a very difficult matter to come into their Country. In the Imperial Hungary Popery is the swaying Religion, and the Endeavours of suppressing Calvinism, by taking away their Churches, has occasion'd the Bloody War that is still on foot. In the Mahometan Hungary, there are Turks, Greeks, Jews, Catholicks, and some few Calvinists. This Kingdom in its flourishing Days was Elective, but since Tekeli's Rebellion, and that the Emperor obtained from the States in 1687 that it should be hereditary, he has almost reconquer'd Hungary, and had push'd his Conquests as far as Belgrade, but lost this last Place in 1690.

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