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A Journey from Vienna to LarisTa. 25
the£b#«^, as far as ones eye can reach, with the view of and
the long Bridge of Boats, and the beautiful fruitful Country about it,
renders it molt exquisitely pleasant and delightful, and was the Royal
Seat of the Hungarian Kings and Queens, till that Solyman the Mag-
nificent, entered it with his Sons Selimus and Bajazet, on the Thir-
teenth of August, in the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Forty One,
and made a Decree that Buda ihould be from that day kept by a Gar-
rison of Turks, and the Kingdom converted into a Province of the Tur-
kiffEtwssrt. and the Queen and her young Son, be sent into the Coun-
try os Lip pa, beyond the River Tibiscus, at a little distance from Buda
or Offen : there is another Place called old Offen, conceived to be Si-
cam bria of old, where the Sicamlrian Souldiers quartered, in the
time of the Romans: and some Antiquities and Inscriptions have been
taken notice of in that place.
Over against Buda, upon the Easlern-ffoar of Danubius, Rands
the City Fefi, being Quadrangular and seated upon a Plain : and by
reason of its Wall, and the Towers of the Mofches, makes a handfom
show from Buda. It gives the name unto the County or Comi-
tatus Fefthienfis : Hungaria being divided into Counties, like England;
between this place and Buda, the handsom Bridge of Boats, is above
half a Mile long.
The habit of the Turkifb Women seemed new and slrange to me :
Breeches almost to their feet, a kind of Smock over them, and then
a long Gown with their Head-drefs, which fetches about, covering
their face, except their eyes, and makes them look like Penitents :
but it was not unpleasant unto me, as taking away the occasion of
Pride and Folly : though otherwiseit can have no good grace in a stran-
ger’s fancy.
During our Stay at Buda, we went into a Turkifb Convent, where
the Prior or Superior called julpapa, or Father of theA^/<?, with some
of his Brethren brought us into a large Room like a Chappel, and en-
tertained us with Melons and Fruit: at parting, we gratified them
with some pieces of Silver, which were kindly accepted- The Julpapa
had his Girdle or Ceinture embossed before with a whitish Stone, big-
ger than the palm of my hand, which was Galattites or Milk-ftone;
whereof they have a great opinion, because in their belief, Mahomet
turned a whole River in Arabia into this kind of Stone.
We lodged at an old Raseians house, where we were well accom-
modated ; having from it a fair Prospedt over the Danube, the long
Bridge and Fed, and a good part of the Country. Divers Turks and
fcesazChiaufes resorted unto us, where they were treated to their con¬
tent. The Mailer of the House was thought to hold secret corre-
spondence with a Francifcan Friar of Feft, and to give intelligence of
Occurrences unto the Ministers of State at Gomora,Rab,w\& Vienna; he
prevailed with me to pen a Letter in Latin and Italian-, wherein I
was not unwilling to gratifie him, because it contained nothing, be-
sides an account of some Prisoners, and the encroachment of the Ar-
menian Merchants upon the Trade.
As we were riding in the City, divers of the common Turks murmu¬
red, that we should ride, where they went on foot. But I was pleased
to see many Turks to salute Seiginor Gabriel, the Emperors Courrier, in
our Company, and to take his hand, and put it to their foreheads.
the£b#«^, as far as ones eye can reach, with the view of and
the long Bridge of Boats, and the beautiful fruitful Country about it,
renders it molt exquisitely pleasant and delightful, and was the Royal
Seat of the Hungarian Kings and Queens, till that Solyman the Mag-
nificent, entered it with his Sons Selimus and Bajazet, on the Thir-
teenth of August, in the Year One Thousand Five Hundred Forty One,
and made a Decree that Buda ihould be from that day kept by a Gar-
rison of Turks, and the Kingdom converted into a Province of the Tur-
kiffEtwssrt. and the Queen and her young Son, be sent into the Coun-
try os Lip pa, beyond the River Tibiscus, at a little distance from Buda
or Offen : there is another Place called old Offen, conceived to be Si-
cam bria of old, where the Sicamlrian Souldiers quartered, in the
time of the Romans: and some Antiquities and Inscriptions have been
taken notice of in that place.
Over against Buda, upon the Easlern-ffoar of Danubius, Rands
the City Fefi, being Quadrangular and seated upon a Plain : and by
reason of its Wall, and the Towers of the Mofches, makes a handfom
show from Buda. It gives the name unto the County or Comi-
tatus Fefthienfis : Hungaria being divided into Counties, like England;
between this place and Buda, the handsom Bridge of Boats, is above
half a Mile long.
The habit of the Turkifb Women seemed new and slrange to me :
Breeches almost to their feet, a kind of Smock over them, and then
a long Gown with their Head-drefs, which fetches about, covering
their face, except their eyes, and makes them look like Penitents :
but it was not unpleasant unto me, as taking away the occasion of
Pride and Folly : though otherwiseit can have no good grace in a stran-
ger’s fancy.
During our Stay at Buda, we went into a Turkifb Convent, where
the Prior or Superior called julpapa, or Father of theA^/<?, with some
of his Brethren brought us into a large Room like a Chappel, and en-
tertained us with Melons and Fruit: at parting, we gratified them
with some pieces of Silver, which were kindly accepted- The Julpapa
had his Girdle or Ceinture embossed before with a whitish Stone, big-
ger than the palm of my hand, which was Galattites or Milk-ftone;
whereof they have a great opinion, because in their belief, Mahomet
turned a whole River in Arabia into this kind of Stone.
We lodged at an old Raseians house, where we were well accom-
modated ; having from it a fair Prospedt over the Danube, the long
Bridge and Fed, and a good part of the Country. Divers Turks and
fcesazChiaufes resorted unto us, where they were treated to their con¬
tent. The Mailer of the House was thought to hold secret corre-
spondence with a Francifcan Friar of Feft, and to give intelligence of
Occurrences unto the Ministers of State at Gomora,Rab,w\& Vienna; he
prevailed with me to pen a Letter in Latin and Italian-, wherein I
was not unwilling to gratifie him, because it contained nothing, be-
sides an account of some Prisoners, and the encroachment of the Ar-
menian Merchants upon the Trade.
As we were riding in the City, divers of the common Turks murmu¬
red, that we should ride, where they went on foot. But I was pleased
to see many Turks to salute Seiginor Gabriel, the Emperors Courrier, in
our Company, and to take his hand, and put it to their foreheads.