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INTRODUCTION.
XXIX
" Oh, may your glories ever shine !
Always rising still more bright.
What never stops at any height
Can never decline."
In 1669 Covel was appointed as chaplain to the
ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Daniel Harvey,
by the Levant Company, and Charles 11 gave him
a dispensation to go to Constantinople and hold his
Fellowship at the same time : it runs as follows :
"Given at our Court at Dover, 19th day of May, in the 22nd
year of our reign. Our will and pleasure is that you dispense
with the absence of the said John Covel, so that he receive and
enjoy (by Himself or his assignees) all and singular the profits,
dividends, stipends, emoluments, and dues belonging to his fellow-
ship in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as
if he were actually resident in the College."
During his residence at Constantinople he wit-
nessed many important sights, notably the great
fetes at Adrianople in honour of the circumcision of
Prince Mustapha, and the marriage of the Sultan's
daughter, which were the most noted fetes of the
century in Turkey,1 and also the granting of the
capitulations during the time of the plague. The
next nine years of Covel's life were spent in travel.
In 1679 he returned to England, and immediately
afterwards took his D.D., and was chosen as
Margaret preacher of Divinity at Cambridge. In
1681 he got one of his college livings of Kegworth,
and was soon afterwards appointed as chaplain to
the Princess of Orange, and resided at the Hague.
1 Von Hammer.
XXIX
" Oh, may your glories ever shine !
Always rising still more bright.
What never stops at any height
Can never decline."
In 1669 Covel was appointed as chaplain to the
ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Daniel Harvey,
by the Levant Company, and Charles 11 gave him
a dispensation to go to Constantinople and hold his
Fellowship at the same time : it runs as follows :
"Given at our Court at Dover, 19th day of May, in the 22nd
year of our reign. Our will and pleasure is that you dispense
with the absence of the said John Covel, so that he receive and
enjoy (by Himself or his assignees) all and singular the profits,
dividends, stipends, emoluments, and dues belonging to his fellow-
ship in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as
if he were actually resident in the College."
During his residence at Constantinople he wit-
nessed many important sights, notably the great
fetes at Adrianople in honour of the circumcision of
Prince Mustapha, and the marriage of the Sultan's
daughter, which were the most noted fetes of the
century in Turkey,1 and also the granting of the
capitulations during the time of the plague. The
next nine years of Covel's life were spent in travel.
In 1679 he returned to England, and immediately
afterwards took his D.D., and was chosen as
Margaret preacher of Divinity at Cambridge. In
1681 he got one of his college livings of Kegworth,
and was soon afterwards appointed as chaplain to
the Princess of Orange, and resided at the Hague.
1 Von Hammer.